EXECUTION COPY
XXXXX WHOLE LOAN HOME EQUITY TRUST 2003-D
Issuer
AND
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Indenture Trustee
INDENTURE
Dated as of November 25, 2003
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HOME EQUITY LOAN-BACKED NOTES, SERIES 2003-D
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I Definitions................................................................................1
Section 1.01. Definitions.......................................................................1
Section 1.02. Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.................................2
Section 1.03. Rules of Construction.............................................................2
Section 1.04. Calculations of Interest..........................................................3
ARTICLE II Original Issuance of Notes.................................................................3
Section 2.01. Form..............................................................................3
Section 2.02. Execution, Authentication and Delivery............................................3
ARTICLE III Covenants..................................................................................4
Section 3.01. Collection of Payments with Respect to Loans......................................4
Section 3.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency...................................................4
Section 3.03. Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust; Paying Agent..............................4
Section 3.04. Existence.........................................................................5
Section 3.05. Payment of Principal and Interest; Defaulted Interest.............................6
Section 3.06. Protection of Trust Estate.......................................................10
Section 3.07. Opinions as to Trust Estate......................................................10
Section 3.08. Performance of Obligations; Servicing Agreement..................................11
Section 3.09. Negative Covenants...............................................................11
Section 3.10. Annual Statement as to Compliance................................................12
Section 3.11. Representations and Warranties Concerning the Loans..............................12
Section 3.12. Assignee of Record of the Loans..................................................12
Section 3.13. Investment Company...............................................................12
Section 3.14. Servicer as Agent and Bailee of the Indenture Trustee............................13
Section 3.15. Issuer May Consolidate, etc......................................................13
Section 3.16. Successor or Transferee..........................................................14
Section 3.17. No Other Business................................................................15
Section 3.18. No Borrowing.....................................................................15
Section 3.19. Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities................................15
Section 3.20. Capital Expenditures.............................................................15
Section 3.21. Owner Trustee Not Liable for Certificates or Related Documents...................15
Section 3.22. Restricted Payments..............................................................16
Section 3.23. Notice of Events of Default......................................................16
Section 3.24. Further Instruments and Acts.....................................................16
Section 3.25. Statements to Noteholders........................................................16
Section 3.26. Allocation of Realized Losses....................................................17
Section 3.27. Determination of the LIBOR Rate..................................................17
Section 3.28. Liquidation on Final Maturity Date...............................................18
Section 3.29. No Recourse......................................................................18
Section 3.30. Basis Risk Reserve Fund..........................................................18
Section 3.31. Additional Representations.......................................................19
ARTICLE IV The Notes; Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture........................................20
Section 4.01. The Notes........................................................................20
Section 4.02. Registration of and Limitations on Transfer and Exchange of Notes;
Appointment of Certificate Registrar.............................................20
Section 4.03. Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Lost or Stolen Notes.......................................21
Section 4.04. Persons Deemed Owners............................................................22
Section 4.05. Cancellation.....................................................................22
Section 4.06. Book-Entry Notes.................................................................23
Section 4.07. Notices to Depository............................................................23
Section 4.08. Definitive Notes.................................................................23
Section 4.09. Tax Treatment....................................................................24
Section 4.10. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture..........................................24
Section 4.11. Application of Trust Money.......................................................25
Section 4.12. Repayment of Monies Held by Paying Agent.........................................25
Section 4.13. Temporary Notes..................................................................25
ARTICLE V Default and Remedies......................................................................26
Section 5.01. Events of Default................................................................26
Section 5.02. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment...............................26
Section 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture Trustee........27
Section 5.04. Remedies; Priorities.............................................................29
Section 5.05. Optional Preservation of the Trust Estate........................................30
Section 5.06. Limitation of Suits..............................................................31
Section 5.07. Unconditional Rights of Noteholders to Receive Principal and Interest............31
Section 5.08. Restoration of Rights and Remedies...............................................31
Section 5.09. Rights and Remedies Cumulative...................................................32
Section 5.10. Delay or Omission Not a Waiver...................................................32
Section 5.11. Control by Noteholders...........................................................32
Section 5.12. Waiver of Past Defaults..........................................................32
Section 5.13. Undertaking for Costs............................................................33
Section 5.14. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.................................................33
Section 5.15. Sale of Trust Estate.............................................................33
Section 5.16. Action on Notes..................................................................35
ARTICLE VI The Indenture Trustee.....................................................................35
Section 6.01. Duties of Indenture Trustee......................................................35
Section 6.02. Rights of Indenture Trustee......................................................36
Section 6.03. Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee...........................................37
Section 6.04. Indenture Trustee's Disclaimer...................................................37
Section 6.05. Notice of Event of Default.......................................................37
Section 6.06. Reports by Indenture Trustee to Holders..........................................37
Section 6.07. Compensation and Indemnity.......................................................37
Section 6.08. Replacement of Indenture Trustee.................................................38
Section 6.09. Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger............................................39
Section 6.10. Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture Trustee................39
Section 6.11. Eligibility; Disqualification....................................................40
Section 6.12. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer.................................41
Section 6.13. Representations and Warranties...................................................41
Section 6.14. Directions to Indenture Trustee..................................................41
Section 6.15. Compliance with Withholding-Requirements.........................................42
Section 6.16. Periodic Filings.................................................................42
ARTICLE VII Noteholders' Lists and Reports............................................................43
Section 7.01. Issuer To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of Noteholders...........43
Section 7.02. Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders.......................43
Section 7.03. Reports by Issuer................................................................44
Section 7.04. Reports by Indenture Trustee.....................................................44
ARTICLE VIII Accounts, Disbursements and Releases......................................................45
Section 8.01. Collection of Money..............................................................45
Section 8.02. Trust Accounts...................................................................45
Section 8.03. Officer's Certificate............................................................45
Section 8.04. Termination Upon Payment to Noteholders..........................................45
Section 8.05. Release of Trust Estate..........................................................46
Section 8.06. Surrender of Notes Upon Final Payment............................................46
ARTICLE IX Supplemental Indentures...................................................................46
Section 9.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders...........................46
Section 9.02. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Noteholders..............................48
Section 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.............................................49
Section 9.04. Effect of Supplemental Indenture.................................................49
Section 9.05. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act..............................................50
Section 9.06. Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures....................................50
Section 9.07. Supplemental Indentures Affecting the Servicer...................................50
ARTICLE X Miscellaneous.............................................................................50
Section 10.01. Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc........................................50
Section 10.02. Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee.................................52
Section 10.03. Acts of Noteholders..............................................................53
Section 10.04. Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Issuer and Rating Agencies..................53
Section 10.05. Notices to Noteholders; Xxxxxx...................................................54
Section 10.06. Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions..........................................54
Section 10.07. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act................................................54
Section 10.08. Effect of Headings...............................................................55
Section 10.09. Successors and Assigns...........................................................55
Section 10.10. Separability.....................................................................55
Section 10.11. Benefits of Indenture............................................................55
Section 10.12. Legal Holidays...................................................................55
Section 10.13. GOVERNING LAW....................................................................55
Section 10.14. Counterparts.....................................................................55
Section 10.15. Recording of Indenture...........................................................55
Section 10.16. Issuer Obligation................................................................55
Section 10.17. No Petition......................................................................56
Section 10.18. Optional Termination............................................................56
Section 10.19. Inspection.......................................................................57
Section 10.20. Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee.........................................57
EXHIBITS
Exhibit A-1 Form of Class A Notes
Exhibit A-2 Form of Class A-IO Notes
Exhibit A-3 Form of Class M Notes
Exhibit A-4 Form of Class B Notes
Appendix A Definitions
This Indenture, dated as of November 25, 2003, between Xxxxx Whole Loan
Home Equity Trust 2003-D, a Delaware statutory trust, as Issuer (the "Issuer"),
and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association organized
under the laws of the United States, and any successor thereto, as Indenture
Trustee (the "Indenture Trustee"),
WITNESSETH THAT:
Each party hereto agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party
and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Issuer's Home Equity
Loan-Backed Notes, Series 2003-D, Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-3, Class A-IO,
Class M-1, Class M-2, Class B-1 and Class B-2 (collectively, the "Notes").
GRANTING CLAUSE
The Issuer hereby Grants to the Indenture Trustee, all of the Issuer's
right, title and interest, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in, to, and
under the following: (a) the Loans, and all monies due or to become due
thereunder; (b) the Payment Account and the Basis Risk Reserve Fund, and all
funds on deposit or credited thereto from time to time and all proceeds thereof;
(c) the Capitalized Interest Account, and all funds on deposit or credited
thereto from time to time (other than any income thereon), and the Pre-Funding
Account, and all funds on deposit or credited thereto from time to time; (d) all
hazard insurance policies; (e) all present and future claims, demands, causes
and choses in action in respect of any or all of the foregoing and all payments
on or under, and all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in respect of,
any or all of the foregoing and all payments on or under, and all proceeds of
every kind and nature whatsoever in the conversion thereof, voluntary or
involuntary, into cash or other liquid property, all cash proceeds, accounts,
accounts receivable, notes, drafts, acceptances, checks, deposit accounts,
rights to payment of any and every kind, and other forms of obligations and
receivables, instruments and other property which at any time constitute all or
part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the foregoing; (f) all
accounts, chattel paper, deposit accounts, documents, general intangibles,
goods, instruments, investment property, letter-of-credit rights, letters of
credit, money, and oil, gas, and other minerals, consisting of, arising from, or
relating to, any of the foregoing; and (g) all proceeds of the foregoing
(collectively, the "Trust Estate" or the "Collateral"). The foregoing Grant is
made in trust to secure the payment of principal of and interest on, and any
other amounts owing in respect of, the Notes, equally and ratably without
prejudice, priority or distinction, and to secure compliance with the provisions
of this Indenture, all as provided in this Indenture.
The Indenture Trustee acknowledges such Xxxxx, accepts the trust under
this Indenture in accordance with the provisions hereof and agrees to perform
its duties as Indenture Trustee as required herein.
ARTICLE I
Definitions
Section 1.01. Definitions. For all purposes of this Indenture, except as
otherwise expressly provided herein or unless the context otherwise requires,
capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned
to such terms in the Definitions attached hereto as Appendix A which is
incorporated by reference herein. All other capitalized terms used herein shall
have the meanings specified herein.
Section 1.02. Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act. Whenever
this Indenture refers to a provision of the Trust Indenture Act (the "TIA"), the
provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The
following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"indenture securities" means the Notes.
"indenture security holder" means a Noteholder.
"indenture to be qualified" means this Indenture.
"indenture trustee" or "institutional trustee" means the Indenture
Trustee.
"obligor" on the indenture securities means the Issuer and any
other obligor on the indenture
securities.
All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA,
defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by Commission rule have
the meaning assigned to them by such definitions.
Section 1.03. Rules of Construction. Unless the context otherwise requires:
(i) a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(ii) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as in effect from time
to time;
(iii) "or" includes "and/or";
(iv) "including" means including without limitation;
(v) words in the singular include the plural and words in the plural include the
singular;
(vi) the term "proceeds" has the meaning ascribed thereto in the UCC; and
(vii) any agreement, instrument or statute defined or referred to herein or in
any instrument or certificate delivered in connection herewith means such
agreement, instrument or statute as from time to time amended, modified or
supplemented and includes (in the case of agreements or instruments) references
to all attachments thereto and instruments incorporated therein; references to a
Person are also to its permitted successors and assigns.
Section 1.04. Calculations of Interest. All calculations of interest on the
Class A Notes (other than the Class A-IO Notes), Class M Notes and Class B Notes
(other than the Class B-2 Notes) shall be made on the basis of the actual number
of days in the Accrual Period and a year assumed to consist of 360 days. All
calculations of interest on the Class A-IO Notes and Class B-2 Notes shall be
made on the basis of the thirty days in the Accrual Period and a year assumed to
consist of 360 days. All dollar amounts calculated hereunder shall be rounded to
the nearest xxxxx with one-half of one xxxxx being rounded up.
ARTICLE II
Original Issuance of Notes
Section 2.01. Form. The Notes, together with the Indenture Trustee's
certificate of authentication, shall be in substantially the form set forth in
Exhibits A-1, A-2, A-3 and A-4, with such appropriate insertions, omissions,
substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this
Indenture and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification
and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may, consistently herewith,
be determined by the officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their
execution of the Notes. Any portion of the text of any Note may be set forth on
the reverse thereof, with an appropriate reference thereto on the face of the
Note.
The Notes shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or engraved or
produced by any combination of these methods (with or without steel engraved
borders), all as determined by the Authorized Officers executing such Notes, as
evidenced by their execution of such Notes.
The terms of the Notes set forth in Exhibits A-1, A-2, A-3 and A-4 are
part of the terms of this Indenture.
Section 2.02. Execution, Authentication and Delivery. The Notes shall be
executed on behalf of the Issuer by any of its Authorized Officers. The
signature of any such Authorized Officer on the Notes may be manual or
facsimile.
Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signature of individuals who were
at any time Authorized Officers of the Issuer shall bind the Issuer,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or did not hold
such offices at the date of such Notes.
The Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver Notes for original
issue in an aggregate initial principal amount of $199,807,202, upon receipt of
an Issuer Request containing instructions to do so.
Each Class of Notes shall be dated the date of its authentication. The
Book-Entry Notes shall be issuable in book entry format and shall be issuable in
minimum Initial Note Balances or Initial Class A-IO Notional Amount, as
applicable, of $25,000 and in integral multiples of $1 in excess thereof.
No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be
valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Note a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
executed by the Indenture Trustee by the manual signature of one of its
authorized signatories, and such certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive
evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and
delivered hereunder.
ARTICLE III
Covenants
Section 3.01. Collection of Payments with Respect to Loans. The Indenture
Trustee shall establish and maintain with itself the Payment Account in which
the Indenture Trustee shall, subject to the terms of this paragraph, deposit, on
the same day as it is received from the Servicer, each remittance received by
the Indenture Trustee with respect to the Loans. The Indenture Trustee shall
make all payments of principal and interest on the Notes, subject to Section
3.03, as provided in Section 3.05 from monies on deposit in the Payment Account.
Section 3.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Issuer will maintain in
the City of New York, an office or agency where, subject to satisfaction of
conditions set forth herein, Notes may be surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange, and where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in
respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Issuer hereby
initially appoints the Indenture Trustee to serve as its agent for the foregoing
purposes. If at any time the Issuer shall fail to maintain any such office or
agency or shall fail to furnish the Indenture Trustee with the address thereof,
such surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate
Trust Office, and the Issuer hereby appoints the Indenture Trustee as its agent
to receive all such surrenders, notices and demands.
Section 3.03. Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust; Paying Agent.
(a) As provided in Section 3.01, all payments of amounts due and payable with
respect to any Notes that are to be made from amounts withdrawn from the Payment
Account pursuant to Section 3.01 shall be made on behalf of the Issuer by the
Indenture Trustee or by the Paying Agent, and no amounts so withdrawn from the
Payment Account for payments of Notes shall be paid over to the Issuer except as
provided in this Section 3.03. The Issuer hereby appoints the Indenture Trustee
to act as initial Paying Agent hereunder.
The Issuer will cause each Paying Agent other than the Indenture
Trustee to execute and deliver to the Indenture Trustee an instrument in which
such Paying Agent shall agree with the Indenture Trustee (and if the Indenture
Trustee acts as Paying Agent it hereby so agrees), subject to the provisions of
this Section 3.03, that such Paying Agent will:
(i) hold all sums held by it for the payment of amounts due with respect to
the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto
until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of
as herein provided and pay such sums to such Persons as herein
provided;
(ii) give the Indenture Trustee written notice of any default by the Issuer
of which it has actual knowledge in the making of any payment required
to be made with respect to the Notes;
(iii) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the
written request of the Indenture Trustee, forthwith pay to the
Indenture Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent;
(iv) immediately resign as Paying Agent and forthwith pay to the Indenture
Trustee all sums held by it in trust for the payment of Notes if at any
time it ceases to meet the standards required to be met by a Paying
Agent at the time of its appointment;
(v) comply with all requirements of the Code with respect to the
withholding from any payments made by it on any Notes of any applicable
withholding taxes imposed thereon and with respect to any applicable
reporting requirements in connection therewith; and
(vi) deliver to the Indenture Trustee a copy of the Servicing Certificate
prepared with respect to each Payment Date by the Servicer pursuant to
Section 4.01 of the Servicing Agreement.
The Issuer may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, by Issuer
Request direct any Paying Agent to pay to the Indenture Trustee all sums held in
trust by such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Indenture Trustee upon
the same trusts as those upon which the sums were held by such Paying Agent; and
upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Indenture Trustee, such Paying
Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money.
Subject to applicable laws with respect to escheat of funds, any money
held by the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the payment of
any amount due with respect to any Note and remaining unclaimed for one year
after such amount has become due and payable shall be discharged from such trust
and be paid to the Issuer upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee or any Paying
Agent (as applicable) of an Issuer Request containing instructions to do so; and
the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look
only to the Issuer for payment thereof (but only to the extent of the amounts so
paid to the Issuer), and all liability of the Indenture Trustee or such Paying
Agent with respect to such trust money shall thereupon cease; provided, however,
that the Indenture Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make
any such payment, shall at the expense and direction of the Issuer cause to be
published once, in an Authorized Newspaper, notice that such money remains
unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than
30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money
then remaining will be paid to the Issuer. The Indenture Trustee may also adopt
and employ, at the expense and direction of the Issuer, any other reasonable
means of notification of such payment (including, but not limited to, mailing
notice of such payment to Noteholders whose Notes have been called but have not
been surrendered for redemption or whose right to or interest in monies due and
payable but not claimed is determinable from the records of the Indenture
Trustee or of any Paying Agent, at the last address of record for each such
Noteholder).
Section 3.04. Existence. The Issuer will keep in full effect its existence,
rights and franchises as a statutory trust under the laws of the State of
Delaware (unless it becomes, or any successor Issuer hereunder is or becomes,
organized under the laws of any other state or of the United States of America,
in which case the Issuer will keep in full effect its existence, rights and
franchises under the laws of such other jurisdiction) and will obtain and
preserve its qualification to do business in each jurisdiction in which such
qualification is or shall be necessary to protect the validity and
enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes, the Loans and each other instrument
or agreement included in the Trust Estate.
Section 3.05. Payment of Principal and Interest; Defaulted Interest.
(a) On each Payment Date from amounts on deposit in the
Payment Account (after payment of the amounts
described in Section 6.07 and including any amounts
transferred to the Payment Account from the
Pre-Funding Account and/or the Capitalized Interest
Account pursuant to Section 3 of the Loan Purchase
Agreement), the Paying Agent shall pay to the
Noteholders, the Certificate Paying Agent, on behalf
of the Certificateholders, and to other Persons the
Remittance Amount, in the order of priority set
forth in this Section 3.05.
(b) On each Payment Date, payments shall be made from
the Remittance Amount in the following priority, in
each case to the extent of the then remaining
Remittance Amount:
(i) first, to the Class A Notes, pro rata, Current
Interest and any Carryforward Interest for such
Class for such Payment Date;
(ii) second, to the Class M-1 Notes, Current Interest and
any Carryforward Interest for such Class and such
Payment Date;
(iii) third, to the Class M-2 Notes, Current Interest and
any Carryforward Interest for such Class and such
Payment Date;
(iv) fourth, to the Class B-1 Notes, Current Interest and
any Carryforward Interest for such Class and such
Payment Date and
(v) fifth, to the Class B-2 Notes, Current Interest and
any Carryforward Interest for such Class and such
Payment Date.
(c) On each Payment Date that is prior to the Stepdown
Date, or if a Trigger Event has occurred and is
continuing, the remaining Remittance Amount after
payments made pursuant to Section 3.05(b) above, not
to exceed the Principal Payment Amount, shall be
distributed in the following order of priority:
(i) first, concurrently, (i) the Class A-1 Principal
Payment Amount will be distributed to the Class A-1
Notes, until the Class Principal Balance thereof has
been reduced to zero, and (ii) the Class A-2/3
Principal Payment Amount will be distributed
sequentially to the Class A-2 Notes and Class A-3
Notes, in that order, in each case until the Class
Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero;
(ii) second, to the Class M-1 Notes, until the Class
Principal Balance of such Class has been reduced to
zero;
(iii) third, to the Class M-2 Notes, until the Class
Principal Balance of such Class has been reduced to
zero;
(iv) fourth, to the Class B-1 Notes, until the Class
Principal Balance of such Class has been reduced to
zero; and
(v) fifth, to the Class B-2 Notes, until the Class
Principal Balance of such Class has been reduced to
zero.
(d) On each Payment Date, on or after the Stepdown Date
and provided that no Trigger Event has occurred and
is continuing, the remaining Remittance Amount after
payments made pursuant to Section 3.05(b) and (c)
above, not to exceed the Principal Payment Amount,
shall be distributed as follows:
(i) first, concurrently, (i) the Class A-1 Senior
Principal Payment Amount will be distributed to the
Class A-1 Notes, until the Class Principal Balance
thereof has been reduced to zero, and (ii) the Class
A-2/3 Senior Principal Payment Amount will be
distributed sequentially to the Class A-2 Notes and
Class A-3 Notes, in that order, in each case until
the Class Principal Balance thereof has been reduced
to zero;
(ii) second, to the Class M-1 Notes, the Class M-1
Principal Payment Amount for such payment date,
until the Class Principal Balance of such Class has
been reduced to zero;
(iii) third, to the Class M-2 Notes, the Class M-2
Principal Payment Amount for such payment date,
until the Class Principal Balance of such Class has
been reduced to zero;
(iv) fourth, to the Class B-1 Notes, the Class B-1
Principal Payment Amount for such payment date,
until the Class Principal Balance of such Class has
been reduced to zero; and
(v) fifth, to the Class B-2 Notes, the Class B-2
Principal Payment Amount for such payment date,
until the Class Principal Balance of such Class has
been reduced to zero.
(e) On each Payment Date, the Monthly Excess Cashflow
shall be distributed in the following order of
priority:
(i) on the first Payment Date, to the Certificate Paying
Agent, 100% of the Monthly Excess Cashflow;
(ii) (A) on each Payment Date prior to the Stepdown Date,
or if a Trigger Event has occurred and is
continuing, the amount of any Overcollateralization
Deficiency shall be distributed in the following
order of priority:
(1) first, concurrently, (i) the Class A-1 Monthly
Excess Cashflow Payment Amount will be distributed
to the Class A-1 Notes, until the Class Principal
Balance thereof has been reduced to zero, and (ii)
the Class A-2/3 Monthly Excess Cashflow Payment
Amount will be distributed sequentially to the Class
A-2 Notes and Class A-3 Notes, in that order, in
each case until the Class Principal Balance thereof
has been reduced to zero;
(2) second, to the Class M-1 Notes, until the Class Principal
Balance of such Class has been reduced to zero;
(3) third, to the Class M-2 Notes, until the Class Principal
Balance of such Class has been reduced to zero;
(4) fourth, to the Class B-1 Notes, until the Class
Principal Balance of such Class has been reduced to
zero; and
(5) fifth, to the Class B-2 Notes, until the Class Principal
Balance of such Class has been reduced to zero.
(B) On each Payment Date on or after the Stepdown
Date and provided that no Trigger Event has occurred and
is continuing, to make any principal payments required to
be made on such Payment Date pursuant to Section 3.05(d),
after giving effect to the payment of the Principal
Payment Amount for such date, in accordance with the
priorities set forth therein but without regard to the
limitation of such payments in the aggregate to the
Principal Payment Amount;
(iii) to the Class M-1 Notes, any Deferred Amount for such Class;
(iv) to the Class M-2 Notes, any Deferred Amount for such Class;
(v) to the Class B-1 Notes, any Deferred Amount for such Class;
(vi) to the Class B-2 Notes, any Deferred Amount for such Class;
(vii) to the Class A Notes, pro rata, any applicable Basis Risk Shortfall
Amounts for such Class;
(viii) to the Class M-1 Notes, any applicable Basis Risk Shortfall Amounts for
such Class;
(ix) to the Class M-2 Notes, any applicable Basis Risk Shortfall Amounts for
such Class;
(x) to the Class B-1 Notes, any applicable Basis Risk Shortfall Amounts for
such Class;
(xi) to the Class B-2 Notes, any applicable Basis Risk Shortfall Amounts for
such Class;
(xii) to the Basis Risk Reserve Fund, an amount equal to the Required Basis
Risk Reserve Fund Deposit;
(xiii) to the Indenture Trustee, any Trustee Additional Expenses and any
amounts owing to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 6.07 and the
Owner Trustee pursuant to Article VII of the Owner Trust Agreement, in
each case remaining unpaid;
(xiv) to the Certificate Paying Agent, 100% of the remaining Monthly Excess
Cashflow.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if on any payment date the
Overcollateralization Amount and the Class Principal Balances of the Class B
Notes and Class M Notes have been reduced to zero and the Class A Notes are
still outstanding, amounts payable pursuant to clauses (c)(1), (d)(i) and
(e)(ii)(1) above will be paid to the holders of the Class A Notes, pro rata,
based on each such Class's related Class Principal Balance relative to the
aggregate Class Principal Balances of the Class A Notes, until the Class
Principal Balances thereof have been reduced to zero.
(f) On each Payment Date, the Certificate Paying Agent shall deposit in the
Certificate Distribution Account all amounts it received pursuant to this
Section 3.05 for the purpose of reimbursing the Owner Trustee with respect to
certain amounts and distributing such funds to the Certificateholder.
(g) The amounts paid to Noteholders shall be paid to the Notes in accordance
with the applicable percentage as set forth in paragraph (h) below. Any
installment of interest or principal, if any, payable on any Note that is
punctually paid or duly provided for by the Issuer on the applicable Payment
Date shall, if such Noteholder holds Notes of an aggregate initial Note Balance
of at least $1,000,000, be paid to each Noteholder of record on the preceding
Record Date, by wire transfer to an account specified in writing by such
Noteholder reasonably satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee as of the preceding
Record Date or in all other cases or if no such instructions have been delivered
to the Indenture Trustee, by check to such Noteholder mailed to such
Noteholder's address as it appears in the Note Register the amount required to
be distributed to such Noteholder on such Payment Date pursuant to such
Noteholder's Notes; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee shall not pay
to such Noteholders any amount required to be withheld from a payment to such
Noteholder by the Code.
(h) The principal of each Note shall be due and payable in full on the Final
Scheduled Payment Date for such Note as provided in the related form of Note set
forth in Exhibits A-1, A-2, A-3 and A-4. All principal payments on the Notes
shall be made to the Noteholders entitled thereto in accordance with the
Percentage Interests represented by such Notes. The Class A-IO Notes are not
entitled to payments of principal. The Indenture Trustee shall notify the Person
in whose name a Note is registered at the close of business on the Record Date
relating to the Payment Date immediately preceding the Final Scheduled Payment
Date or other final Payment Date. Such notice shall be mailed or transmitted by
facsimile no later than five Business Days prior to such Final Scheduled Payment
Date or other final Payment Date and shall specify that payment of the principal
amount and any interest due with respect to such Note at the Final Scheduled
Payment Date or other final Payment Date will be payable only upon presentation
and surrender of such Note and shall specify the place where such Note may be
presented and surrendered for such final payment.
Section 3.06. Protection of Trust Estate.
(a) As and when requested by the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer will from
time to time authorize, execute and deliver all such supplements and
amendments hereto and all such financing statements, continuation
statements, instruments of further assurance and other instruments, and
will take such other action necessary or advisable to:
(i) maintain or preserve the lien and security interest (and the priority
thereof) of this Indenture or carry out more effectively the purposes
hereof;
(ii) perfect, publish notice of or protect the validity of any Grant made or
to be made by this Indenture; or
(iii) cause the Trust Estate to enforce any of the Loans;
(iv) preserve and defend title to the Trust Estate and the rights of the
Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders in such Trust Estate against the
claims of all persons and parties.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee
shall not remove any portion of the Trust Estate that consists of
money, an instrument, tangible chattel paper, a negotiable document, a
certificated security, or goods, or is evidenced by an instrument,
certificate or other writing from the jurisdiction in which it was held
at the date of the most recent Opinion of Counsel delivered pursuant to
Section 3.07 (or from the jurisdiction in which it was held as
described in the Opinion of Counsel delivered at the Closing Date
pursuant to Section 3.07(a), if no Opinion of Counsel has yet been
delivered pursuant to Section 3.07(b)) unless the Indenture Trustee
shall have first received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the
lien and security interest created by this Indenture with respect to
such property will continue to be maintained after giving effect to
such action or actions.
The Issuer hereby designates the Indenture Trustee its agent and
attorney-in-fact to execute any instrument required to be executed pursuant to
this Section 3.06.
Section 3.07. Opinions as to Trust Estate.
(a) On the Closing Date, the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee and
the Owner Trustee an Opinion of Counsel at the expense of the Issuer either
stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, such action has been taken with
respect to the recording and filing of this Indenture, any indentures
supplemental hereto, and any other requisite documents, and with respect to the
filing of any financing statements and continuation statements, as are necessary
to perfect the lien and security interest in the Initial Loans and reciting the
details of such action, or stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no such
action is necessary to perfect such lien and security interest.
(b) On or before December 31st in each calendar year, beginning in 2003, the
Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel at the
expense of the Issuer either stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, such
action has been taken with respect to the recording, filing, rerecording and
re-filing of this Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto and any other
requisite documents and with respect to the filing of any financing statements
and continuation statements as is necessary to maintain the lien and security
interest in the Loans and reciting the details of such action or stating that in
the opinion of such counsel no such action is necessary to maintain such lien
and security interest. Such Opinion of Counsel shall also describe the
recording, filing, re-recording and re-filing of this Indenture, any indentures
supplemental hereto and any other requisite documents and the filing of any
financing statements and continuation statements that will, in the opinion of
such counsel, be required to maintain the lien and security interest in the
Loans until December 31 in the following calendar year.
Section 3.08. Performance of Obligations; Servicing Agreement.
(a) The Issuer will punctually perform and observe all of its obligations and
agreements contained in this Indenture, the Basic Documents and in the
instruments and agreements included in the Trust Estate.
(b) The Issuer may contract with other Persons to assist it in performing its
duties under this Indenture, and any performance of such duties by a Person
identified to the Indenture Trustee in an Officer's Certificate of the Issuer
shall constitute performance of its duties under this Indenture.
(c) The Issuer will not take any action or permit any action to be taken by
others which would release any Person from any of such Person's covenants or
obligations under any of the documents relating to the Loans or under any
instrument included in the Trust Estate, or which would result in the amendment,
hypothecation, subordination, termination or discharge of, or impair the
validity or effectiveness of, any of the documents relating to the Loans or any
such instrument, except such actions as the Servicer is expressly permitted to
take in the Servicing Agreement.
Section 3.09. Negative Covenants. So long as any Notes are Outstanding,
the Issuer shall not:
(i) except as expressly permitted by this Indenture, sell, transfer,
exchange or otherwise dispose of the Trust Estate, unless directed to
do so by the Indenture Trustee;
(ii) claim any credit on, or make any deduction from the principal or
interest payable in respect of, the Notes (other than amounts properly
withheld from such payments under the Code) or assert any claim against
any present or former Noteholder by reason of the payment of the taxes
levied or assessed upon any part of the Trust Estate;
(iii) (A) permit the validity or effectiveness of this Indenture to be
impaired, or permit the lien of this Indenture to be amended, hypothecated,
subordinated, terminated or discharged, or permit any Person to be released
from any covenants or obligations with respect to the Notes under this
Indenture except as may be expressly permitted hereby, (B) permit
any lien, charge, excise, claim, security interest, mortgage or other
encumbrance (other than the lien of this Indenture) to be created on
or extend to or otherwise arise upon or burden the Trust Estate or
any part thereof or any interest therein or the proceeds thereof
or (C) permit the lien of this Indenture not to constitute a valid
first priority security interest in the Trust Estate; or
(iv) waive or impair, or fail to assert rights under, the Loan Purchase
Agreement or in any Basic Document, if any such action would materially
and adversely affect the interests of the Noteholders.
Section 3.10. Annual Statement as to Compliance. The Issuer will deliver
to the Indenture Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the
Issuer (commencing with the fiscal year 2004), an Officer's Certificate stating,
as to the Authorized Officer signing such Officer's Certificate, that:
(i) a review of the activities of the Issuer during such year and of its
performance under this Indenture and the Owner Trust Agreement has been
made under such Authorized Officer's supervision; and
(ii) to the best of such Authorized Officer's knowledge, based on such
review, the Issuer has complied with all conditions and covenants under
this Indenture and the provisions of the Owner Trust Agreement
throughout such year, or, if there has been a default in its compliance
with any such condition or covenant, specifying each such default known
to such Authorized Officer and the nature and status thereof.
Section 3.11. Representations and Warranties Concerning the Loans. The Indenture
Trustee, as the holder of a security interest in the Loans, has the benefit of
the representations and warranties made by the Seller in the Loan Purchase
Agreement concerning the Loans and the right to enforce the remedies against the
Seller provided in such Loan Purchase Agreement to the same extent as though
such representations and warranties were made directly to the Indenture Trustee.
Section 3.12. Assignee of Record of the Loans. The Issuer hereby directs
and authorizes the Indenture Trustee to hold record title to the Loans by being
named as payee in the endorsements of the Mortgage Notes and assignee in any
Assignments of Mortgage required to be recorded under the terms of the Loan
Purchase Agreement. Except as expressly provided in the Loan Purchase Agreement
or in the Servicing Agreement with respect to any specific Loan, the Indenture
Trustee shall not execute any endorsement or assignment or otherwise release or
transfer such record title to any of the Loans until such time as the remaining
Trust may be released pursuant to Section 8.05(b). The Indenture Trustee's
holding of such record title shall in all respects be subject to its fiduciary
obligations to the Noteholders hereunder.
Section 3.13. Investment Company. The Issuer shall not become an "investment
company" or under the "control" of an "investment company" as such terms are
defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (or any successor or
amendatory statute), and the rules and regulations thereunder (taking into
account not only the general definition of the term "investment company" but
also any available exceptions to such general definition); provided, however,
that the Issuer shall be in compliance with this Section 3.13 if it shall have
obtained an order exempting it from regulation as an "investment company" so
long as it is in compliance with the conditions imposed in such order.
Section 3.14. Servicer as Agent and Bailee of the Indenture Trustee. Solely
for purposes of perfection under Article 9 of the UCC or other similar applicable
law, rule or regulation, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee hereby
acknowledges that the Servicer is acting as agent and bailee of the Indenture
Trustee in holding amounts (a) on deposit in the Custodial Account pursuant to
Section 3.02 of the Servicing Agreement that are allocable to the Loans, as well
as its agent and bailee in holding any Related Documents released to the
Servicer pursuant to Section 3.06(c) of the Servicing Agreement, and any other
items constituting a part of the Trust Estate which from time to time come into
the possession of the Servicer. It is intended that, by the Servicer's
acceptance of such agency pursuant to Section 3.02 of the Servicing Agreement,
the Indenture Trustee will have a perfected security interest in such Related
Documents, such monies and such other items for purposes of Article 9 of the
UCC.
Section 3.15. Issuer May Consolidate, etc.
(a) The Issuer shall not consolidate or merge with or into any other
Person, unless:
(i) the Person (if other than the Issuer) formed by or surviving such
consolidation or merger shall be a Person organized and existing under
the laws of the United States of America or any state or the District
of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental
hereto, executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in form
reasonably satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the due and punctual
payment of the principal of and interest on all Notes and to the
Certificate Paying Agent, on behalf of the Certificateholders and the
performance or observance of every agreement and covenant of this
Indenture on the part of the Issuer to be performed or observed, all as
provided herein;
(ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(iii) the Rating Agencies shall have notified the Issuer that such
transaction shall not cause the rating of any of the Notes to be
reduced, suspended or withdrawn or to be considered by either Rating
Agency to be below investment grade;
(iv) the Issuer shall have received an Opinion of Counsel (and shall have
delivered copies thereof to the Indenture Trustee) to the effect that
such transaction will not have any material adverse tax consequence to
the Issuer, any Noteholder or any Certificateholder;
(v) any action that is necessary to maintain the lien and security interest
created by this Indenture, and the perfection and priority thereof,
shall have been taken; and
(vi) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officer's
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such
consolidation or merger and such supplemental indenture comply with
this Section 3.15 and that all conditions precedent herein provided for
relating to such transaction have been complied with (including any
filing required by the Exchange Act).
(b) The Issuer shall not convey or transfer its properties or assets,
including those included in the Trust Estate as an entirety or substantially as
an entirety, to any Person, unless:
(i) the Person that acquires by conveyance or transfer the properties
and assets of the Issuer the conveyance or transfer of which is hereby
restricted shall (A) be a United States citizen or a Person organized
and existing under the laws of the United States of America or any
state, (B) expressly assumes, by an indenture supplemental hereto,
executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in form satisfactory to
the Indenture Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal
of and interest on all Notes and the performance or observance of every
agreement and covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Issuer to
be performed or observed, all as provided herein, (C) expressly agrees
by means of such supplemental indenture that all right, title and
interest so conveyed or transferred shall be subject and subordinate
to the rights of Noteholders, (D) unless otherwise provided in such
supplemental indenture, expressly agrees to indemnify, defend and hold
harmless the Issuer against and from any loss, Liability or expense
arising under or related to this Indenture and the Notes and (E) expressly
agrees by means of such supplemental indenture that such Person (or
if a group of Persons, then one specified Person) shall make all filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (and any other appropriate
Person) required by the Exchange Act in connection with the Notes;
(ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(iii) the Rating Agencies shall have notified the Issuer (with a copy to the
Indenture Trustee) that such transaction shall not cause the rating of
the Notes or the Certificates to be reduced, suspended or withdrawn;
(iv) the Issuer shall have received an Opinion of Counsel (and shall have
delivered copies thereof to the Indenture Trustee) to the effect that
such transaction will not have any material adverse tax consequence to
the Issuer or any Noteholder;
(v) any action that is necessary to maintain the lien and security interest
created by this Indenture, and the perfection and priority thereof,
shall have been taken; and
(vi) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officer's
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such conveyance
or transfer and such supplemental indenture comply with this Article
III and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to
such transaction have been complied with (including any filing required
by the Exchange Act).
Section 3.16. Successor or Transferee.
(a) Upon any consolidation or merger of the Issuer in accordance with Section
3.15(a), the Person formed by or surviving such consolidation or merger (if
other than the Issuer) shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may
exercise every right and power of, the Issuer under this Indenture with the same
effect as if such Person had been named as the Issuer herein.
(b) Upon a conveyance or transfer of all the assets and properties of
the Issuer pursuant to Section 3.15(b), the Issuer will be released from every
covenant and agreement of this Indenture to be observed or performed on the part
of the Issuer with respect to the Notes immediately upon the delivery of written
notice to the Indenture Trustee of such conveyance or transfer.
Section 3.17. No Other Business. The Issuer shall not engage in any business
other than financing, purchasing, owning and selling and managing the Loans and
the issuance of the Notes and Certificates in the manner contemplated by this
Indenture and the Basic Documents and all activities incidental thereto.
Section 3.18. No Borrowing. Except as contemplated by the Indenture or the
Basic Documents, the Issuer shall not issue, incur, assume, guarantee or otherwise
become liable, directly or indirectly, for any indebtedness except for the
Notes.
Section 3.19. Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities. Except as
contemplated by this Indenture or the Basic Documents, the Issuer shall not make
any loan or advance or credit to, or guarantee (directly or indirectly or by an
instrument having the effect of assuring another's payment or performance on any
obligation or capability of so doing or otherwise), endorse or otherwise become
contingently liable, directly or indirectly, in connection with the obligations,
stocks or dividends of, or own, purchase, repurchase or acquire (or agree
contingently to do so) any stock, obligations, assets or securities of, or any
other interest in, or make any capital contribution to, any other Person.
Section 3.20. Capital Expenditures. The Issuer shall not make any expenditure
(by long-term or operating lease or otherwise) for capital assets (either realty
or personalty).
Section 3.21. Owner Trustee Not Liable for Certificates or Related Documents.
The recitals contained herein shall not be taken as the statements of the Owner
Trustee, and the Owner Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness
thereof. The Owner Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or
sufficiency of this Indenture, of any Basic Document or of the Certificate
(other than the signatures of the Owner Trustee on the Certificate) or the
Notes, or of any Related Documents. The Owner Trustee shall at no time have any
responsibility or liability with respect to the sufficiency of the Owner Trust
Estate or its ability to generate the payments to be distributed to the
Certificateholder under the Owner Trust Agreement or the Noteholders under this
Indenture, including, the compliance by the Depositor or the Seller with any
warranty or representation made under any Basic Document or in any related
document or the accuracy of any such warranty or representation, or any action
of the Certificate Paying Agent, the Certificate Registrar or the Indenture
Trustee taken in the name of the Owner Trustee other than any such action taken
at the direction of the Owner Trustee.
Section 3.22. Restricted Payments. The Issuer shall not, directly or indirectly,
(i) pay any dividend or make any distribution (by reduction of capital or
otherwise), whether in cash, property, securities or a combination thereof, to
the Owner Trustee or any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or
otherwise with respect to any ownership or equity interest or security in or of
the Issuer, (ii) redeem, purchase, retire or otherwise acquire for value any
such ownership or equity interest or security or (iii) set aside or otherwise
segregate any amounts for any such purpose; provided, however, that the Issuer
may make, or cause to be made, (x) distributions to the Owner Trustee and the
Certificateholder as contemplated by, and to the extent funds are available for
such purpose under the Owner Trust Agreement and (y) payments to the Servicer
pursuant to the terms of the Servicing Agreement. The Issuer shall not, directly
or indirectly, make payments to or distributions from the Custodial Account
except in accordance with this Indenture and the Basic Documents.
Section 3.23. Notice of Events of Default. The Issuer shall give the Indenture
Trustee and the Rating Agencies prompt written notice of each Event of Default
hereunder and under the Owner Trust Agreement.
Section 3.24. Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Indenture
Trustee, the Issuer will authorize, execute and deliver such further instruments
and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out
more effectively the purpose of this Indenture.
Section 3.25. Statements to Noteholders. On each Payment Date, the Indenture
Trustee and the Certificate Registrar shall make available on its website at
"xxx.xxxxxx.xxx/xxx" to each Noteholder and Certificateholder, respectively, the
Servicing Certificate delivered to it, on the Business Day following the related
Determination Date pursuant to Section 4.01 of the Servicing Agreement, together
with a monthly statement setting forth the following information:
(i) the amount of such distribution as principal to the Noteholders;
(ii) the amount of such distribution as interest to the Noteholders, separately
stating the portion thereof in respect of overdue accrued interest;
(iii) the Class Principal Balance or Notional Amount, as applicable, after
giving effect to the distribution of principal on such Payment Date;
(iv) the Certificate Distribution Amount immediately following such Payment
Date;
(v) the Overcollateralization Amount and the Targeted Overcollateralization
Amount immediately following such Payment Date and, based upon the information
prepared by the Servicer, whether a Trigger Event has occurred and is
continuing;
(vi) the balance of the Pre-Funding Account, the Basis Risk Reserve Fund and the
Capitalized Interest Account as of the end of the preceding Prepayment Period;
and
(vii) the related Basis Risk Shortfall for each Class of Class A, Class M and
Class B Notes on each Payment Date.
The Indenture Trustee will also make the monthly statements to
Noteholders and Certificateholders available each month via the Indenture
Trustee's website. The Indenture Trustee's website can be accessed at
"xxx.xxxxxx.xxx/xxx" or at such other site as the Indenture Trustee may
designate from time to time.
Section 3.26. Allocation of Realized Losses. On any Payment Date in which
the Overcollateralization Amount has been reduced to zero, and an Applied Loss
Amount exists, such Applied Loss Amount shall be allocated in the following
priority:
(a) first, the Class Principal Balance of the Class B-2 Notes shall be reduced,
until the Class Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero;
(b) second, the Class Principal Balance of the Class B-1 Notes shall be reduced,
until the Class Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero;
(c) third, the Class Principal Balance of the Class M-2 Notes shall be reduced,
until the Class Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero; and
(d) fourth, the Class Principal Balance of the Class M-1 Notes shall be reduced,
until the Class Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero.
The Class Principal Balance of the Class A Notes will not be so reduced
and will continue to receive Current Interest thereon in accordance with Section
3.05(b).
Section 3.27. Determination of the LIBOR Rate. On each LIBOR Rate Adjustment
Date, LIBOR shall be established by the Indenture Trustee and as to any Accrual
Period, LIBOR will equal the rate for United States dollar deposits for one
month which appears on the Dow Xxxxx Telerate Screen Page 3750 as of 11:00 A M ,
London time, on that LIBOR rate adjustment date. Dow Xxxxx Telerate Screen Page
3750 means the display designated as page 3750 on the Telerate Service or any
other page as may replace page 3750 on that service for the purpose of
displaying London interbank offered rates of major banks. If the rate does not
appear on that page or any other page as may replace that page on that service,
or if the service is no longer offered, any other service for displaying LIBOR
or comparable rates as may be selected by the Indenture Trustee after
consultation with the Servicer, the rate will be the reference bank rate.
The Reference Bank Rate will be determined on the basis of the rates at
which deposits in the U.S. Dollars are offered by the reference banks, which
shall be three major banks that are engaged in transactions in the London
interbank market, selected by the Indenture Trustee after consultation with the
Servicer. The Reference Bank Rate will be determined as of 11:00 A.M., London
time, on the LIBOR Rate Adjustment Date on the basis of rates offered by the
Reference Banks to prime banks in the London interbank market for a period of
one month in amounts approximately equal to the aggregate Class Principal
Balance of the Class A-1, Class A-2, Class M and Class B Notes. The Indenture
Trustee will request the principal London office of each of the Reference Banks
to provide a quotation of its rate. If at least two quotations are provided, the
rate will be the arithmetic mean of the quotations. If on that date fewer than
two quotations are provided as requested, the rate will be the arithmetic mean
of the rates quoted by one or more major banks in New York City, selected by the
Indenture Trustee after consultation with the Servicer, as of 11:00 A.M., New
York City time, on that date for loans in U.S. Dollars to leading European banks
for a period of one month in amounts approximately equal to the aggregate Class
Principal Balance of the Class A-1, Class A-2, Class M and Class B Notes. If no
quotations can be obtained, the rate will be LIBOR for the prior Payment Date;
provided however, if, under the priorities listed previously in this paragraph,
LIBOR for a Payment Date would be based on LIBOR for the previous Payment Date
for the third consecutive Payment Date, the Indenture Trustee after consultation
with the Servicer shall select an alternative comparable index over which the
Indenture Trustee has no control, used for determining one-month Eurodollar
lending rates that is calculated and published or otherwise made available by an
independent party.
The establishment of LIBOR by the Indenture Trustee and the Indenture
Trustee's subsequent calculation of the Note Interest Rate applicable to the
Class A-1, Class A-2, Class M and Class B Notes for the relevant Accrual Period,
in the absence of manifest error, will be final and binding.
Section 3.28. Liquidation on Final Maturity Date. On the Final Maturity Date,
if the Securities are not paid in full on or prior to the Final Maturity Date, the
Indenture Trustee shall take full account of the assets and liabilities of the
Issuer, shall liquidate the assets, in a commercially reasonable manner and on
commercially reasonable terms, as promptly as is consistent with obtaining the
fair value thereof and in accordance with Section 5.15, and shall apply and
distribute the proceeds therefrom in the order of priority described in Section
3.05(b), (c), (d) and (e).
Section 3.29. No Recourse. Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default under
the Notes, this Indenture or the other Basic Documents, Noteholders shall have
recourse only to the Collateral and all proceeds thereof, as and to the extent
provided herein, and no recourse shall be had by such Noteholders against the
Issuer or its other assets or properties.
Section 3.30. Basis Risk Reserve Fund.
(a) On the Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee shall establish
and maintain in its name, in trust, the Basis Risk Reserve Fund titled "U.S.
Bank National Association, as Indenture Trustee, for the benefit of the
Securityholders and the Certificate Paying Agent pursuant to the Indenture,
dated as of November 25, 2003, between Xxxxx Whole Loan Home Equity Trust 2003-D
and U.S. Bank National Association." The Basis Risk Reserve Fund shall be an
Eligible Account, and funds on deposit therein shall be held separate and apart
from, and shall not be commingled with, any other moneys, including without
limitation, other moneys held by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this
Agreement.
(b) On each Payment Date, the Indenture Trustee shall transfer
from the Payment Account to the Basis Risk Reserve Fund pursuant to Section
3.05(e)(xi) the Required Basis Risk Reserve Fund Deposit. Amounts on deposit in
the Basis Risk Reserve Fund shall be withdrawn by the Indenture Trustee in
connection with any Payment Date to fund the amounts required to be distributed
to holders of the Notes (other than the Class A-IO Notes) pursuant to Section
3.05(e)(vi) through 3.05(e)(x), in that order of priority, to the extent that
the Monthly Excess Cashflow on such date is insufficient to make such payments.
On any Payment Date, any amounts on deposit in the Basis Risk Reserve Fund in
excess of $25,000 shall be distributed pursuant to Section 3.05(e)(xii). Funds
in the Basis Risk Reserve Fund may be invested by the Indenture Trustee, at the
direction of the Certificateholders, in Permitted Investments maturing on or
prior to the next succeeding Payment Date. Any net investment earnings on such
amounts shall be distributed pursuant to Section 3.05(e)(xii). In the absence of
such written direction, all funds in the Basis Risk Reserve Fund shall remain
uninvested. The Indenture Trustee shall have no liability for losses on
investments in Permitted Investments made pursuant to this Section 3.30(b)
(other than as obligor on any such investments). Upon termination of the
Indenture, any amounts remaining in the Basis Risk Reserve Fund shall be
distributed pursuant to Section 3.05(e)(vi), (vii), (viii), (ix) and (xii), in
that order of priority.
Section 3.31. Additional Representations. The Issuer hereby represents
and warrants to the Indenture Trustee that as of the Closing Date:
(a) This Indenture creates a valid and continuing security interest (as defined
in the applicable UCC) in the Mortgage Notes in favor of the Indenture Trustee,
which security interest is prior to all other Liens (except as expressly
permitted otherwise in this Indenture), and is enforceable as such as against
creditors of and purchasers from the Issuer.
(b) The Mortgage Notes constitute "instruments" within the meaning of the
applicable UCC.
(c) The Issuer owns and has good and marketable title to the Mortgage Notes free
and clear of any Lien of any Person.
(d) The original executed copy of each Mortgage Note (except for any Mortgage
Note with respect to which a Lost Note Affidavit has been delivered to the
Custodian) has been delivered to the Custodian.
(e) The Issuer has received a written acknowledgment from the Custodian that the
Custodian is acting solely as agent of the Indenture Trustee.
(f) Other than the security interest granted to the Indenture Trustee pursuant
to this Indenture, the Issuer has not pledged, assigned, sold, granted a
security interest in, or otherwise conveyed any of the Mortgage Notes. The
Issuer has not authorized the filing of and is not aware of any financing
statements against the Issuer that include a description of collateral covering
the Mortgage Notes other than any financing statement relating to the security
interest granted to the Indenture Trustee hereunder or any security interest
that has been terminated. The Issuer is not aware of any judgment or tax lien
filings against the Issuer.
(g) None of the Mortgage Notes has any marks or notations indicating that they
have been pledged, assigned or otherwise conveyed to any Person other than the
Indenture Trustee, except for (i) any endorsements that are part of a complete
chain of endorsements from the originator of the Mortgage Note to the Indenture
Trustee, and (ii) any marks or notations pertaining to Liens that have been
terminated or released.
ARTICLE IV
The Notes; Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture
Section 4.01. The Notes. The Book-Entry Notes shall be registered in the
name of a nominee designated by the Depository. Beneficial Owners will hold security
entitlements to the Book-Entry Notes through the book-entry facilities of the
Depository in minimum Initial Note Balances or Initial Class A-IO Notional
Amount, as applicable, of $25,000 and integral multiples of $1 in excess
thereof.
The Indenture Trustee may for all purposes (including the making of
payments due on the Book-Entry Notes) deal with the Depository as the authorized
representative of the Beneficial Owners with respect to the Book-Entry Notes for
the purposes of exercising the rights of Holders of Book-Entry Notes hereunder.
Except as provided in the next succeeding paragraph of this Section 4.01, the
rights of Beneficial Owners with respect to the Book-Entry Notes shall be
limited to those established by law and agreements between such Beneficial
Owners and the Depository and Depository Participants. Except as provided in
Section 4.08, Beneficial Owners shall not be entitled to definitive certificates
for the Book-Entry Notes as to which they are the Beneficial Owners. Requests
and directions from, and votes of, the Depository as Holder of the Book-Entry
Notes shall not be deemed inconsistent if they are made with respect to
different Beneficial Owners. The Indenture Trustee may establish a reasonable
record date in connection with solicitations of consents from or voting by
Holders of the Book-Entry Notes and give notice to the Depository of such record
date. Without the consent of the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, no Book-Entry
Note may be transferred by the Depository except to a successor Depository that
agrees to hold such Book-Entry Note for the account of the Beneficial Owners.
In the event the Depository Trust Company resigns or is removed as
Depository, the Indenture Trustee with the approval of the Issuer may appoint a
successor Depository. If no successor Depository has been appointed within 30
days of the effective date of the Depository's resignation or removal, each
Beneficial Owner shall be entitled to certificates representing the Book-Entry
Notes to which it has a security entitlement in the manner prescribed in Section
4.08.
The Notes shall, on original issue, be executed on behalf of the Issuer
by the Owner Trustee, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner
Trustee, authenticated and delivered by the Indenture Trustee to or upon the
order of the Issuer.
Section 4.02. Registration of and Limitations on Transfer and Exchange of Notes;
Appointment of Certificate Registrar. The Issuer shall cause to be kept at the
Indenture Trustee's Corporate Trust Office a Note Register in which, subject to
such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Note Registrar shall
provide for the registration of Notes and of transfers and exchanges of Notes as
herein provided.
Each purchaser of a Note, by its acceptance of the Note, shall be
deemed to have represented that the acquisition of such Note by the purchaser
does not constitute or give rise to a prohibited transaction under Section 406
of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, for which no statutory, regulatory or
administrative exemption is available.
Subject to the restrictions and limitations set forth below, upon
surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the Corporate Trust
Office, the Issuer shall execute and the Note Registrar shall authenticate and
deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more
new Notes of the same Class in authorized initial Note Balances or initial
Notional Amounts, as applicable, evidencing the same aggregate Percentage
Interests.
Subject to the foregoing, at the option of the Noteholders, Notes may
be exchanged for other Notes of the same Class and of like tenor, in authorized
initial Note Balances or initial Notional Amounts, as applicable, evidencing the
same aggregate Percentage Interests upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged
at the Corporate Trust Office of the Note Registrar. Whenever any Notes are so
surrendered for exchange, the Indenture Trustee shall execute and the Note
Registrar shall authenticate and deliver the Notes which the Noteholder making
the exchange is entitled to receive. Each Note presented or surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange shall (if so required by the Note
Registrar) be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Note Registrar duly executed by,
the Holder thereof or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing with
such signature guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the
requirements of the Note Registrar, which requirements include membership or
participation in the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP") or
such other "signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Note
Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Notes delivered upon any such
transfer or exchange will evidence the same obligations, and will be entitled to
the same rights and privileges, as the Notes surrendered.
No service charge shall be imposed for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Notes, but the Note Registrar shall require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes.
All Notes surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall
be canceled by the Note Registrar and delivered to the Indenture Trustee for
subsequent destruction.
The Issuer hereby appoints the Indenture Trustee as Certificate
Registrar to keep at its Corporate Trust Office a Certificate Register pursuant
to Section 3.05 of the Owner Trust Agreement in which, subject to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Certificate Registrar shall
provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges
thereof pursuant to Section 3.09 of the Owner Trust Agreement. The Indenture
Trustee hereby accepts such appointment.
Section 4.03. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes. If (i) any mutilated
Note is surrendered to the Indenture Trustee, or the Indenture Trustee receives
evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note, and
(ii) in the case of a destroyed, lost or stolen note, there is delivered to the
Indenture Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by it to hold
the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee harmless, then, in the absence of notice to
the Issuer, the Note Registrar or the Indenture Trustee that such Note has been
acquired by a protected purchaser, and provided that the requirements of Section
8-405 of the UCC are met, the Issuer shall execute, and upon its request the
Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of
any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a replacement Note of the
same Class; provided, however, that if any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note,
but not a mutilated Note, shall have become or within seven days shall be due
and payable, instead of issuing a replacement Note, the Issuer may pay such
destroyed, lost or stolen Note when so due or payable without surrender thereof.
If, after the delivery of such replacement Note or payment of a destroyed, lost
or stolen Note pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, a protected
purchaser of the original Note in lieu of which such replacement Note was issued
presents for payment such original Note, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee
shall be entitled to recover such replacement Note (or such payment) from the
Person to whom it was delivered or any Person taking such replacement Note from
such Person to whom such replacement Note was delivered or any assignee of such
Person, except a protected purchaser, and shall be entitled to recover upon the
security or indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost
or expense incurred by the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee in connection
therewith.
Upon the issuance of any replacement Note under this Section 4.03, the
Issuer may require the payment by the Holder of such Note of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation
thereto and any other reasonable expenses (including the fees and expenses of
the Indenture Trustee) connected therewith.
Every replacement Note issued pursuant to this Section 4.03 in
replacement of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an
original additional contractual obligation of the Issuer, whether or not the
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be at any time enforceable by
anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and
proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section 4.03 are exclusive and shall preclude
(to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the
replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes.
Section 4.04. Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentment for registration
of transfer of any Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the
Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name any Note is
registered (as of the day of determination) as the owner of such Note for the
purpose of receiving payments of principal of and interest, if any, on such Note
and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note be overdue, and
neither the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee nor any agent of the Issuer or the
Indenture Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
Section 4.05. Cancellation. All Notes surrendered for payment, registration of
transfer, exchange or redemption shall, if surrendered to any Person other than
the Indenture Trustee, be delivered to the Indenture Trustee and shall be
promptly canceled by the Indenture Trustee. The Issuer may at any time deliver
to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation any Notes previously authenticated and
delivered hereunder which the Issuer may have acquired in any manner whatsoever,
and all Notes so delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Indenture Trustee.
No Notes shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Notes canceled
as provided in this Section 4.05, except as expressly permitted by this
Indenture. All canceled Notes may be held or disposed of by the Indenture
Trustee in accordance with its standard retention or disposal policy as in
effect at the time unless the Issuer shall direct by an Issuer Request that they
be destroyed or returned to it; provided however, that such Issuer Request is
timely and the Notes have not been previously disposed of by the Indenture
Trustee.
Section 4.06. Book-Entry Notes. The Notes, upon original issuance, will be
issued in the form of typewritten Notes constituting the Book-Entry Notes, to be
delivered to The Depository Trust Company, the initial Depository, by, or on
behalf of, the Issuer. The Notes shall initially be registered on the Note
Register in the name of Cede & Co., the nominee of the initial Depository, and
no Beneficial Owner will receive a Definitive Note representing such Beneficial
Owner's security entitlement to such Book-Entry Note, except as provided in
Section 4.08. Unless and until definitive, fully registered Notes (the
"Definitive Notes") have been issued to Beneficial Owners pursuant to Section
4.08:
(i) the provisions of this Section 4.06 shall be in full force and effect;
(ii) the Note Registrar and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to deal
with the Depository for all purposes of this Indenture (including the
payment of principal of and interest on the Notes and the giving of
instructions or directions hereunder) as the sole holder of the Notes,
and shall have no obligation to the Beneficial Owners;
(iii) to the extent that the provisions of this Section 4.06 conflict with
any other provisions of this Indenture, the provisions of this Section
4.06 shall control;
(iv) the rights of Beneficial Owners shall be exercised only through the
Depository and shall be limited to those established by law and
agreements between such Beneficial Owners and the Depository and/or the
Depository Participants. Unless and until Definitive Notes are issued
pursuant to Section 4.08, the initial Depository will make book-entry
transfers among the Depository Participants and receive and transmit
payments of principal of and interest on the Notes to such Depository
Participants; and
(v) whenever this Indenture requires or permits actions to be taken based
upon instructions or directions of Holders of Notes evidencing a
specified percentage of the Note Balances of the Notes, the Depository
shall be deemed to represent such percentage only to the extent that it
has received instructions to such effect from Beneficial Owners and/or
Depository Participants owning or representing, respectively, such
required percentage of the security entitlements to the Book-Entry
Notes and has delivered such instructions to the Indenture Trustee.
Section 4.07. Notices to Depository. Whenever a notice or other communication
to the Noteholders is required under this Indenture, unless and until Definitive
Notes shall have been issued to Beneficial Owners pursuant to Section 4.08, the
Indenture Trustee shall give all such notices and communications specified
herein to be given to Noteholders to the Depository, and shall have no
obligation to the Beneficial Owners.
Section 4.08. Definitive Notes. If (i) the Issuer determines that the Depository
is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its responsibilities with
respect to the Notes and the Indenture Trustee is unable to locate a qualified
successor, (ii) the Issuer elects to terminate the book-entry system through the
Depository or (iii) after the occurrence of an Event of Default, Holders of the
Notes representing security entitlements to at least a majority of the Note
Balances of the Notes advise the Depository (with a copy to the Indenture
Trustee) in writing that the continuation of a book-entry system through the
Depository is no longer in the best interests of the Beneficial Owners, then the
Depository shall notify all Beneficial Owners and the Indenture Trustee of the
occurrence of any such event and of the availability of Definitive Notes to
Beneficial Owners. Upon surrender to the Indenture Trustee of the typewritten
Notes constituting the Book-Entry Notes by the Depository, accompanied by
registration instructions, the Issuer shall execute and the Indenture Trustee
shall authenticate the Definitive Notes in accordance with the instructions of
the Depository. None of the Issuer, the Note Registrar or the Indenture Trustee
shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may
conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such instructions.
Upon the issuance of Definitive Notes, the Indenture Trustee shall recognize the
Holders of the Definitive Notes as Noteholders.
Section 4.09. Tax Treatment. The Issuer has entered into this Indenture,
and the Notes will be issued, with the intention that, for federal, state and local
income, single business and franchise tax purposes, the Notes will be treated as
indebtedness for purposes of such taxes. The Issuer, by entering into this
Indenture, and each Noteholder, by its acceptance of its Note (and each
Beneficial Owner by its acceptance of a security entitlement to the applicable
Book-Entry Note), agree to treat the Notes for federal, state and local income,
single business and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness for purposes of such
taxes. However, in the event the Issuer is treated as a partnership, then the
Administrator pursuant to the Administration Agreement shall, for federal income
tax information and reporting purposes, treat the Issuer as a partnership and
will file such tax returns relating to a partnership (including the partnership
information return on IRS Form 1065). All of the parties hereto and each
Noteholder agrees to appoint the Administrator as agent to the "tax matters
person" for federal income tax purposes, if necessary.
Section 4.10. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture shall
cease to be of further effect with respect to the Notes except as to (i) rights
of registration of transfer and exchange, (ii) substitution of mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Notes, (iii) rights of Noteholders to receive payments
of principal thereof and interest thereon, (iv) Sections 3.03, 3.04, 3.06, 3.09,
3.13, 3.15, 3.16 and the last paragraph of Section 4.02, (v) the rights,
obligations and immunities of the Indenture Trustee hereunder (including the
rights of the Indenture Trustee under Section 6.07 and the obligations of the
Indenture Trustee under Section 4.11) and (vi) the rights of Noteholders as
beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property so deposited with the
Indenture Trustee payable to all or any of them, and the Indenture Trustee, on
demand of and at the expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the
Notes, when:
(A) either:
(1) each Class of Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than
(i) Notes that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been
replaced or paid as provided in Section 4.03 and (ii) Notes for whose
payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and
held in trust by the Issuer and thereafter repaid to the Issuer or
discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 3.03) have been
delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation; or
(2) each Class of Notes not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee
for cancellation:
a. have become due and payable,
b. will become due and payable within one year, or
c. have been declared immediately due and payable pursuant to Section
5.02.
and the Issuer, in the case of a. or b. above, has irrevocably
deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Indenture
Trustee cash or direct obligations of or obligations guaranteed by the
United States of America (which will mature prior to the date such
amounts are payable), in trust for such purpose, in an amount
sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Notes
then outstanding not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee for
cancellation when due on the Final Scheduled Payment Date;
(B) the Issuer has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable
hereunder by the Issuer (including amounts payable to the Indenture
Trustee); and
(C) the Issuer has delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officer's
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each meeting the applicable
requirements of Section 10.01, each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture have been complied with and, if the Opinion
of Counsel relates to a deposit made in connection with Section
4.10(A)(2)b. above, such opinion shall further be to the effect that
such deposit will not have any material adverse tax consequences to the
Issuer, any Noteholders or any Certificateholders.
Section 4.11. Application of Trust Money. All monies deposited with the
Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 4.10 hereof shall be held in trust and
applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Notes and this
Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent or
Certificate Paying Agent, as the Indenture Trustee may determine, to the
Securityholders, of all sums due and to become due thereon for principal and
interest; but such monies need not be segregated from other funds except to the
extent required herein or required by law.
Section 4.12. Repayment of Monies Held by Paying Agent. In connection with the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes, all
monies then held by any Person other than the Indenture Trustee under the
provisions of this Indenture with respect to such Notes shall, upon demand of
the Issuer, be paid to the Indenture Trustee to be held and applied according to
Section 3.05 and thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all further
liability with respect to such monies.
Section 4.13. Temporary Notes. Pending the preparation of any Definitive Notes,
the Issuer may execute and upon its written direction, the Indenture Trustee may
authenticate and make available for delivery, temporary Notes that are printed,
lithographed, typewritten, photocopied or otherwise produced, in any
denomination, substantially of the tenor of the Definitive Notes in lieu of
which they are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions,
substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such Notes may
determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.
If temporary Notes are issued, the Issuer will cause Definitive Notes
to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of the
Definitive Notes, the temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for Definitive Notes
upon surrender of the temporary Notes at the office or agency of the Indenture
Trustee, without charge to the Noteholder. Upon surrender for cancellation of
any one or more temporary Notes, the Issuer shall execute and the Indenture
Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in exchange
therefor, Definitive Notes of authorized denominations and of like tenor and
aggregate principal amount. Until so exchanged, such temporary Notes shall in
all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as Definitive
Notes.
ARTICLE V
Default and Remedies
Section 5.01. Events of Default. The Issuer shall deliver to the Indenture
Trustee, within five days after learning of the occurrence any event which with
the giving of notice and the lapse of time would become an Event of Default
under clause (iii) of the definition of "Event of Default" written notice in the
form of an Officer's Certificate of its status and what action the Issuer is
taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.
Section 5.02. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. If an
Event of Default should occur and be continuing, then and in every such case the
Indenture Trustee may, and upon the request of the Holders of Notes representing
not less than a majority of the Voting Rights of all Notes, the Indenture
Trustee shall, declare the Notes to be immediately due and payable, by a notice
in writing to the Issuer (and to the Indenture Trustee if given by Noteholders),
and upon any such declaration the unpaid principal amount of each Class of
Notes, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon through the date of
acceleration, shall become immediately due and payable.
At any time after such declaration of acceleration of maturity with
respect to an Event of Default has been made and before a judgment or decree for
payment of the money due has been obtained by the Indenture Trustee as
hereinafter in this Article V provided, the Holders of Notes representing a
majority of the Voting Rights of all Notes, by written notice to the Issuer and
the Indenture Trustee may in writing waive the related Event of Default and
rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if
(i) the Issuer has paid or deposited with the Indenture Trustee a sum sufficient
to pay:
(A) all payments of principal of and interest on the
Notes and all other amounts that would then be due hereunder
or upon the Notes if the Event of Default giving rise to such
acceleration had not occurred; and
(B) all sums paid by the Indenture Trustee hereunder
and the reasonable compensation, expenses and disbursements of
the Indenture Trustee and its agents and counsel; and
(ii) all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the principal of
the Notes that has become due solely by such acceleration, have been
cured or waived as provided in Section 5.12.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any
right consequent thereto.
Section 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Indenture Trustee.
(a) The Issuer covenants that if a default occurs in the payment of (i) any
interest on any Note when the same becomes due and payable, and such
default continues for a period of five days, or (ii) the principal of
or any installment of the principal of any Note when the same becomes
due and payable, the Issuer shall, upon demand of the Indenture
Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Noteholders, the whole
amount then due and payable on the Notes for principal and interest,
with interest upon the overdue principal, and in addition thereto such
further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses
of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses and
disbursements of the Indenture Trustee and its agents and counsel.
(b) In case the Issuer shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts upon such
demand, the Indenture Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an
express trust, subject to the provisions of Section 10.17 hereof may
institute a Proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and
unpaid, and may prosecute such Proceeding to judgment or final decree,
and may enforce the same against the Issuer or other obligor upon the
Notes and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of
the Issuer or other obligor upon the Notes, wherever situated, the
monies adjudged or decreed to be payable.
(c) If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee
subject to the provisions of Section 10.17 hereof may, as more
particularly provided in Section 5.04, in its discretion, proceed to
protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Noteholders, by
such appropriate Proceedings as the Indenture Trustee shall deem most
effective to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the
specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or
in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any
other proper remedy or legal or equitable right vested in the Indenture
Trustee by this Indenture or by law.
(d) In case there shall be pending, relative to the Issuer or any other
obligor upon the Notes or any Person having or claiming an ownership
interest in the Trust Estate, Proceedings under Title 11 of the United
States Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar law, or in case a receiver, assignee or
trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or
similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of
the Issuer or its property or such other obligor or Person, or in case
of any other comparable judicial Proceedings relative to the Issuer or
other obligor upon the Notes, or to the creditors or property of the
Issuer or such other obligor, the Indenture Trustee, irrespective of
whether the principal of any Notes shall then be due and payable as
therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of
whether the Indenture Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to
the provisions of this Section, shall be entitled and empowered, by
intervention in such Proceedings or otherwise:
(i) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal
and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Notes and to file such
other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to
have the claims of the Indenture Trustee (including any claim for
reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor
Indenture Trustee, and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel,
and for reimbursement of all expenses and liabilities incurred, by the
Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee, except as a
result of negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith) and of the
Noteholders allowed in such Proceedings;
(ii) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on behalf
of the Noteholders in any election of a trustee, a standby trustee or
Person performing similar functions in any such Proceedings;
(iii) to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and to distribute all amounts received
with respect to the claims of the Noteholders and of the Indenture
Trustee on their behalf; and
(iv) to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be
necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Indenture
Trustee or the Noteholders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative
to the Issuer, its creditors and its property;
and any trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official in
any such Proceeding is hereby authorized by each of such Noteholders to make
payments to the Indenture Trustee, and, in the event that the Indenture Trustee
shall consent to the making of payments directly to such Noteholders, to pay to
the Indenture Trustee such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable
compensation to the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor Indenture Trustee and
their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and
liabilities incurred, by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture
Trustee except as a result of negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith.
(e) Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Indenture Trustee
to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of any
Noteholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition
affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the
Indenture Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Noteholder in any such
proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee in
bankruptcy or similar Person.
(f) All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or under
any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Indenture Trustee without the
possession of any of the Notes or the production thereof in any trial or other
Proceedings relative thereto, and any such action or proceedings instituted by
the Indenture Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express
trust, and any recovery of judgment, subject to the payment of the expenses,
disbursements and compensation of the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor
Indenture Trustee and their respective agents and attorneys, shall be for the
ratable benefit of the Noteholders.
(g) In any Proceedings brought by the Indenture Trustee (and also any
Proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to
which the Indenture Trustee shall be a party), the Indenture Trustee shall be
held to represent all the Noteholders, and it shall not be necessary to make any
Noteholder a party to any such Proceedings.
Section 5.04. Remedies; Priorities.
(a) If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the
Indenture Trustee subject to the provisions of Section 10.17 hereof may
do one or more of the following (subject to Section 5.05):
(i) institute Proceedings in its own name and as trustee of an express
trust for the collection of all amounts then payable on the Notes or
under this Indenture with respect thereto, whether by declaration or
otherwise, enforce any judgment obtained, and collect from the Issuer
and any other obligor upon such Notes monies adjudged due;
(ii) institute Proceedings from time to time for the complete or partial
foreclosure of this Indenture with respect to the Trust Estate;
(iii) exercise any remedies of a secured party under the UCC and take any
other appropriate action to protect and enforce the rights and remedies
of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders;
(iv) refrain from selling the Trust Estate (unless otherwise directed by a
majority of Noteholders) and continue to apply all amounts received
thereon to payments on the Notes in accordance with Section 3.05; and
(v) sell the Trust Estate or any portion thereof or rights or interest
therein, at one or more public or private sales called and conducted in
any manner permitted by law.
provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee must sell or otherwise liquidate
the Trust Estate following an Event of Default, if (i) the Holders of the Notes
representing not less than a majority of the Voting Rights of all of the Notes
direct the Indenture Trustee to sell or otherwise liquidate the Trust Estate or
(ii) the Indenture Trustee determines that the Loans will not continue to
provide sufficient funds for (A) the payment of expenses under this Indenture
and (B) the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes as they would have
become due if the Notes had not been declared due and payable. In determining
such sufficiency or insufficiency with respect to clause (A) and (B), the
Indenture Trustee may, but need not, obtain and rely upon an opinion of an
Independent investment banking or accounting firm of national reputation as to
the feasibility of such proposed action and as to the sufficiency of the Trust
Estate for such purpose. Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as a Servicing
Default has not occurred, any Sale of the Trust Estate shall be made subject to
the continued servicing of the Loans by the Servicer as provided in the
Servicing Agreement.
(b) If the Indenture Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to
this Article V, it shall pay out the money or property in the following order:
FIRST: to the Indenture Trustee for amounts due and unpaid under
Section 6.07 and to the Owner Trustee for amounts due and unpaid
under Article VII of the Owner Trust Agreement;
SECOND: to the Class A-1, Class A-2 and Class A-IO
Noteholders, pro rata, the amount of any Current Interest and
any Carryforward Interest and ,with respect to the Class A-1
Notes and Class A-2 Notes, any applicable Basis Risk
Shortfall, and further, with respect to the Class A-1 Notes,
as principal until the Class Principal Balance of such Class
has been reduced to zero and then to the Class A-2 Notes until
the Class Principal Balance of such Class has been reduced to
zero;
THIRD: to the Class M-1 Noteholders, the amount of any Current
Interest and any Carryforward Interest, any applicable
Deferred Amounts, any applicable Basis Risk Shortfall and
further as principal until the Class Principal Balance of such
Class has been reduced to zero;
FOURTH: to the Class M-2 Noteholders, the amount of any
Current Interest and any Carryforward Interest, any applicable
Deferred Amounts, any applicable Basis Risk Carryforward
Amounts, and further as principal until the Class Principal
Balance of such Class has been reduced to zero;
FIFTH: to the Class B-1 Noteholders, the amount of any Current
Interest and any Carryforward Interest, any applicable
Deferred Amounts, any applicable Basis Risk Shortfall, and
further as principal until the Class Principal Balance of such
Class has been reduced to zero;
SIXTH: to the Class B-2 Noteholders, the amount of any Current
Interest and any Carryforward Interest, any applicable
Deferred Amounts, any applicable Basis Risk Shortfall, and
further as principal until the Class Principal Balance of such
Class has been reduced to zero; and
SEVENTH: to the payment of the remainder, if any to the Certificate
Paying Agent on behalf of the Issuer or to any other person legally
entitled thereto.
The Indenture Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any
payment to Noteholders pursuant to this Section 5.04. At least 15 days before
such record date, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to each Noteholder a notice
that states the record date, the payment date and the amount to be paid.
Section 5.05. Optional Preservation of the Trust Estate. If the Notes have
been declared to be due and payable under Section 5.02 following an Event of Default
and such declaration and its consequences have not been rescinded and annulled,
the Indenture Trustee shall, unless otherwise directed to by a majority of the
Voting Rights of the Notes, elect to take and maintain possession of the Trust
Estate. It is the desire of the parties hereto and the Noteholders that there be
at all times sufficient funds for the payment of principal of and interest on
the Notes and other obligations of the Issuer.
Section 5.06. Limitation of Suits. No Noteholder shall have any right to
institute any Proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture,
or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy
hereunder, unless and subject to the provisions of Section 10.17 hereof:
(i) such Noteholder has previously given written notice to the Indenture
Trustee of a continuing Event of Default;
(ii) the Holders of not less than 25% of the Voting Rights of the Notes have
made written request to the Indenture Trustee to institute such
Proceeding in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as
Indenture Trustee hereunder;
(iii) such Noteholder or Noteholders have offered to the Indenture Trustee
reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be
incurred in complying with such request;
(iv) the Indenture Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute such
Proceedings; and
(v) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to
the Indenture Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a
majority of the Note Balances of the Notes.
It is understood and intended that no one or more Noteholders shall have any
right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of
this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other
Noteholder or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any
other Noteholder or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the
manner herein provided.
In the event the Indenture Trustee shall receive conflicting or
inconsistent requests and indemnity from two or more groups of Holders of Notes,
each representing less than a majority of the Voting Rights of the Notes, the
Indenture Trustee in its sole discretion may determine what action, if any,
shall be taken, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture.
Section 5.07. Unconditional Rights of Noteholders to Receive Principal and
Interest. Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture each
Noteholders shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to
receive payment of the principal of, and interest, on such Note on or after the
respective due dates thereof expressed in such Note or in this Indenture and to
institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not
be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
Section 5.08. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Indenture Trustee
or any Noteholder has instituted any Proceeding to enforce any right or remedy
under this Indenture and such Proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for
any reason or has been determined adversely to the Indenture Trustee or to such
Noteholder, then and in every such case the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and
the Noteholders shall, subject to any determination in such Proceeding, be
restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and
thereafter all rights and remedies of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders
shall continue as though no such Proceeding had been instituted.
Section 5.09. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. No right or remedy herein
conferred upon or reserved to the Indenture Trustee or to the Noteholders is
intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and
remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to
every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law
or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy
hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or
employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
Section 5.10. Delay or Omission Not a Waiver. No delay or omission of the
Indenture Trustee or any Noteholder to exercise any right or remedy accruing
upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a
waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and
remedy given by this Article V or by law to the Indenture Trustee or to the
Noteholders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed
expedient, by the Indenture Trustee or by the Noteholders, as the case may be.
Section 5.11. Control by Noteholders. The Holders of a majority of the
Voting Rights of Notes shall have the right to direct the time, method and place
of conducting any Proceeding for any remedy available to the Indenture Trustee with
respect to the Notes or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Indenture
Trustee; provided that:
(i) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with
this Indenture;
(ii) subject to the express terms of Section 5.04, any direction to the
Indenture Trustee to sell or liquidate the Trust Estate shall be by
Holders of Notes representing not less than a majority of the Voting
Rights of Notes;
(iii) if the conditions set forth in Section 5.05 have been satisfied and the
Indenture Trustee is required to retain the Trust Estate pursuant to
such Section, then any direction to the Indenture Trustee by Holders of
Notes representing less than a majority of the Voting Rights of Notes
to sell or liquidate the Trust Estate shall be of no force and effect;
and
(iv) the Indenture Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Indenture Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction.
Notwithstanding the rights of Noteholders set forth in this Section, subject to
Section 6.01, the Indenture Trustee need not take any action that it determines
might involve it in liability or might materially adversely affect the rights of
any Noteholders not consenting to such action.
Section 5.12. Waiver of Past Defaults. Prior to the declaration of the
acceleration of the maturity of the Notes as provided in Section 5.02, the
Holders of Notes of not less than a majority of the Voting Rights of the Notes
may waive any past Event of Default and its consequences except an Event of
Default (a) with respect to payment of principal of or interest on any of the
Notes or (b) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which cannot be
modified or amended without the consent of each Noteholder. In the case of any
such waiver, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders shall be
restored to their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively; but no
such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Event of Default or impair
any right consequent thereto.
Upon any such waiver, any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be
deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, for every purpose of this
Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Event of
Default or impair any right consequent thereto.
Section 5.13. Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree,
and each Noteholder by such Noteholder's acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have
agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the
enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against
the Indenture Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as
Indenture Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an
undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its
discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees,
against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and
good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the
provisions of this Section 5.13 shall not apply to (a) any suit instituted by
the Indenture Trustee, (b) any suit instituted by any Noteholder, or group of
Noteholders, in each case holding in the aggregate more than 10% of the Voting
Rights of the Notes or (c) any suit instituted by any Noteholder for the
enforcement of the payment of principal of or interest on any Note on or after
the respective due dates expressed in such Note and in this Indenture.
Section 5.14. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Issuer covenants (to the
extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or
plead or in any manner whatsoever, claim or take the benefit or advantage of,
any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in
force, that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and
the Issuer (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives
all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it shall not
hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the
Indenture Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power
as though no such law had been enacted.
Section 5.15. Sale of Trust Estate.
(a) The power to effect any sale or other disposition (a "Sale") of any portion
of the Trust Estate pursuant to Section 5.04 is expressly subject to the
provisions of Section 5.05 and this Section 5.15. The power to effect any such
Sale shall not be exhausted by any one or more Sales as to any portion of the
Trust Estate remaining unsold, but shall continue unimpaired until the entire
Trust Estate shall have been sold or all amounts payable on the Notes and under
this Indenture shall have been paid. The Indenture Trustee may from time to time
postpone any public Sale by public announcement made at the time and place of
such Sale. The Indenture Trustee hereby expressly waives its right to any amount
fixed by law as compensation for any Sale.
(b) The Indenture Trustee shall not in any private Sale sell the Trust
Estate, or any portion thereof, unless:
(1) all Noteholders consent to or direct the Indenture Trustee
to make, such Sale, or
(2) the proceeds of such Sale would be not less than the
entire amount which would be payable to the Noteholders under the Notes and the
Certificateholder under the Certificate, in full payment thereof in accordance
with Section 5.02, on the Payment Date next succeeding the date of such Sale.
The purchase by the Indenture Trustee of all or any portion of the Trust Estate
at a private Sale shall not be deemed a Sale or other disposition thereof for
purposes of this Section 5.15(b).
(c) Unless the Securityholders have otherwise consented or directed the
Indenture Trustee, the Indenture Trustee will not sell at any public Sale all or
any portion of the Trust Estate at which a minimum bid equal to or greater than
the amount described in paragraph (2) of subsection (b) of this Section 5.15 has
not been established by the Indenture Trustee and no Person bids an amount equal
to or greater than such amount.
(d) In connection with a Sale of all or any portion of the Trust Estate:
(1) any Noteholder may bid for and purchase the property
offered for sale, and upon compliance with the terms of sale may hold, retain
and possess and dispose of such property, without further accountability, and
may, in paying the purchase money therefor, deliver any Notes or claims for
interest thereon in lieu of cash up to the amount which shall, upon distribution
of the net proceeds of such sale, be payable thereon, and such Notes, in case
the amounts so payable thereon shall be less than the amount due thereon, shall
be returned to the Holders thereof after being appropriately stamped to show
such partial payment;
(2) the Indenture Trustee may bid for and acquire the property
offered for Sale in connection with any Sale thereof, and, subject to any
requirements of, and to the extent permitted by, applicable law in connection
therewith, may purchase all or any portion of the Trust Estate in a private
sale, and, in lieu of paying cash therefor, may make settlement for the purchase
price by crediting the gross Sale price against the sum of (A) the amount which
would be distributable to the Securityholders as a result of such Sale in
accordance with Section 5.04(b) on the Payment Date next succeeding the date of
such Sale and (B) the expenses of the Sale and of any Proceedings in connection
therewith which are reimbursable to it, without being required to produce the
Notes in order to complete any such Sale or in order for the net Sale price to
be credited against such Notes, and any property so acquired by the Indenture
Trustee shall be held and dealt with by it in accordance with the provisions of
this Indenture;
(3) the Indenture Trustee shall execute and deliver an
appropriate instrument of conveyance transferring its interest in any portion of
the Trust Estate in connection with a Sale thereof;
(4) the Indenture Trustee is hereby irrevocably appointed the
agent and attorney-in-fact of the Issuer to transfer and convey its interest in
any portion of the Trust Estate in connection with a Sale thereof, and to take
all action necessary to effect such Sale; and
(5) no purchaser or transferee at such a Sale shall be bound
to ascertain the Indenture Trustee's authority, inquire into the satisfaction of
any conditions precedent or see to the application of any monies.
Section 5.16. Action on Notes. The Indenture Trustee's right to seek and
recover judgment on the Notes or under this Indenture shall not be affected by
the seeking, obtaining or application of any other relief under or with respect
to this Indenture. Neither the lien of this Indenture nor any rights or remedies
of the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders shall be impaired by the recovery of
any judgment by the Indenture Trustee against the Issuer or by the levy of any
execution under such judgment upon any portion of the Trust Estate or upon any
of the assets of the Issuer. Any money or property collected by the Indenture
Trustee shall be applied in accordance with Section 5.04(b).
ARTICLE VI
The Indenture Trustee
Section 6.01. Duties of Indenture Trustee.
(a) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee
shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the
same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent person would
exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person's own
affairs.
(b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(i) the Indenture Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such
duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no implied
covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the
Indenture Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Indenture Trustee may
conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the
correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or
opinions furnished to the Indenture Trustee and conforming to the
requirements of this Indenture; however, the Indenture Trustee shall
examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they
conform to the requirements of this Indenture.
(c) The Indenture Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its
own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful
misconduct, except that:
(i) this paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this
Section 6.01;
(ii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made in good faith by a Responsible Officer unless it is proved that
the Indenture Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent
facts; and
(iii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it
takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction
received by it pursuant to Section 5.11 which it is entitled to receive
under any of the Basic Documents.
(d) The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money
received by it except as the Indenture Trustee may agree in writing with the
Issuer.
(e) Money held in trust by the Indenture Trustee need not be segregated
from other funds except to the extent required by law or the terms of this
Indenture or the Owner Trust Agreement.
(f) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Indenture Trustee
to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial liability in the
performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its
rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds to believe that repayment
of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not
reasonably assured to it.
(g) Every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or
affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Indenture Trustee
shall be subject to the provisions of this Section and to the provisions of the
TIA.
(h) With respect to each Payment Date, on the Business Day following
the related Determination Date, the Indenture Trustee shall forward or cause to
be forwarded by mail, or other mutually agreed-upon method, to the Servicer, a
statement setting forth, to the extent applicable, during the Pre-Funding
Period, the Pre-Funded Amount as of such Payment Date and any transfers of funds
in connection therewith.
(i) The Indenture Trustee hereby accepts appointment as Certificate
Paying Agent under the Owner Trust Agreement and agrees to be bound by the
provisions of the Owner Trust Agreement relating to the Certificate Paying
Agent.
Section 6.02. Rights of Indenture Trustee.
(a) The Indenture Trustee may rely on any document believed by it to be genuine
and to have been signed or presented by the proper person. The Indenture Trustee
need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document.
(b) Before the Indenture Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may
require an Officer's Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel. The Indenture Trustee
shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in
reliance on an Officer's Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.
(c) The Indenture Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through
agents or attorneys or a custodian or nominee, and the Indenture Trustee shall
not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of, or for the
supervision of, any such agent, attorney, custodian or nominee appointed with
due care by it hereunder.
(d) The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes
or omits to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or within its
rights or powers; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee's conduct does
not constitute willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith.
(e) The Indenture Trustee may consult with counsel, and the advice or
opinion of counsel with respect to legal matters relating to this Indenture and
the Notes shall be full and complete authorization and protection from liability
in respect to any action taken, omitted or suffered by it hereunder in good
faith and in accordance with the advice or opinion of such counsel.
Section 6.03. Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee. The Indenture Trustee
in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes
and may otherwise deal with the Issuer or its Affiliates with the same rights it
would have if it were not Indenture Trustee. Any Note Registrar, co-registrar or
co-paying agent may do the same with like rights. However, the Indenture Trustee
must comply with Sections 6.11 and 6.12.
Section 6.04. Indenture Trustee's Disclaimer. The Indenture Trustee shall
not be (i) responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy
of this Indenture, the Owner Trust Agreement or the Notes, (ii) accountable for
the Issuer's use of the proceeds from the Notes or (iii) responsible for any
statement of the Issuer or any other Person in the Indenture, the Owner Trust
Agreement or in any document issued in connection with the sale of the Notes or
in the Notes other than the Indenture Trustee's certificate of authentication.
Section 6.05. Notice of Event of Default. The Indenture Trustee shall mail
to each Noteholder notice of an Event of Default of which a Responsible Officer of
the Indenture Trustee has actual knowledge within the later of 90 days after it
occurs and 90 days after such Responsible Officer's knowledge thereof. Except in
the case of an Event of Default in payment of principal of or interest on any
Note, the Indenture Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as a
committee of its Responsible Officers in good faith determines that withholding
the notice is in the interests of Noteholders.
Section 6.06. Reports by Indenture Trustee to Holders. The Indenture Trustee
shall deliver to each Noteholder such information with respect to the Notes as
may be required to enable such holder to prepare its federal and state income
tax returns including without limitation Form 1099, to the extent such form is
required by law. In addition, upon the Issuer's written request, the Indenture
Trustee shall promptly furnish information reasonably requested by the Issuer
with respect to the Notes that is reasonably available to the Indenture Trustee
to enable the Issuer to perform its federal and state income tax reporting
obligations.
Section 6.07. Compensation and Indemnity. The Indenture Trustee, as compensation
for its activities hereunder, shall be entitled to withdraw from the Payment
Account on each Payment Date prior to making distributions pursuant to Section
3.05 the Trustee Fee for such Payment Date. The Indenture Trustee shall be
indemnified by the Seller in accordance with Section 4(b) of the Administration
Agreement, and all amounts owing to the Indenture Trustee hereunder in excess of
such amount shall be paid solely as provided in Section 3.05 hereof (subject to
the priorities set forth therein). The Indenture Trustee's compensation shall
not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. The
Issuer shall reimburse the Indenture Trustee for all Trustee Additional
Expenses, in addition to the compensation for its services. The Issuer shall
indemnify the Indenture Trustee against any and all loss, liability or expense
(including attorneys' fees) incurred by it in connection with the administration
of this trust and the performance of its duties hereunder. The Indenture Trustee
shall notify the Issuer promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity.
Failure by the Indenture Trustee to so notify the Issuer shall not relieve the
Issuer of its obligations hereunder. The Issuer shall defend any such claim, and
the Indenture Trustee may have separate counsel and the Issuer shall pay the
reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel. The Issuer is not obligated to
reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss, liability or expense
incurred by the Indenture Trustee through the Indenture Trustee's own willful
misconduct, negligence or bad faith.
The Issuer's payment obligations to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
this Section 6.07 shall survive the discharge of this Indenture. When the
Indenture Trustee incurs expenses after the occurrence of an Event of Default
with respect to the Issuer, the expenses are intended to constitute expenses of
administration under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other applicable
federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law.
Section 6.08. Replacement of Indenture Trustee. No resignation or removal
of the Indenture Trustee and no appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee shall
become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Indenture
Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.08. No termination of the Indenture Trustee
without cause will be effective unless the costs and expenses of such Indenture
Trustee have been reimbursed to the Indenture Trustee in connection with such
removal. The Indenture Trustee may resign at any time by so notifying the
Issuer. The Holders of a majority of Note Balances of the Notes may remove the
Indenture Trustee by so notifying the Indenture Trustee and may appoint a
successor Indenture Trustee. The Issuer shall remove the Indenture Trustee if
(i) the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11;
(ii) the Indenture Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent;
(iii) a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the Indenture Trustee
or its property; or
(iv) the Indenture Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of acting.
If the Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists
in the office of the Indenture Trustee for any reason (the Indenture Trustee in
such event being referred to herein as the retiring Indenture Trustee), the
Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor Indenture Trustee. In addition, the
Indenture Trustee will resign to avoid being directly or indirectly controlled
by the Issuer.
A successor Indenture Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its
appointment to the retiring Indenture Trustee and to the Issuer. Thereupon, the
resignation or removal of the retiring Indenture Trustee shall become effective,
and the successor Indenture Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties
of the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture. The successor Indenture Trustee
shall mail a notice of its succession to Noteholders. The retiring Indenture
Trustee shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Indenture Trustee to
the successor Indenture Trustee.
If a successor Indenture Trustee does not take office within 60 days
after the retiring Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring
Indenture Trustee, the Issuer or the Holders of a majority of Note Balances of
the Notes may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment
of a successor Indenture Trustee.
If the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11, any
Noteholder may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of
the Indenture Trustee and the appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee.
Notwithstanding the replacement of the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
this Section, the Issuer's obligations under Section 6.07 shall continue for the
benefit of the retiring Indenture Trustee.
Section 6.09. Successor Indenture Trustee by Xxxxxx. If the Indenture Trustee
consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially
all its corporate trust business or assets to, another corporation or banking
association, the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation without any
further act shall be the successor Indenture Trustee; provided, that such
corporation or banking association shall be otherwise qualified and eligible
under Section 6.11. The Indenture Trustee shall provide the Rating Agencies
written notice of any such transaction after the Closing Date.
In case at the time such successor or successors by merger, conversion
or consolidation to the Indenture Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by
this Indenture any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered,
any such successor to the Indenture Trustee may adopt the certificate of
authentication of any predecessor trustee, and deliver such Notes so
authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been
authenticated, any successor to the Indenture Trustee may authenticate such
Notes either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the
successor to the Indenture Trustee; and in all such cases such certificates
shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Notes or in this Indenture
provided that the certificate of the Indenture Trustee shall have.
Section 6.10. Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture Trustee.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, at any time, for the
purpose of meeting any legal requirement of any jurisdiction in which any part
of the Trust Estate may at the time be located, the Indenture Trustee shall have
the power and may execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more
Persons to act as a co-trustee or co-trustees, or separate trustee or separate
trustees, of all or any part of the Trust Estate, and to vest in such Person or
Persons, in such capacity and for the benefit of the Noteholders, such title to
the Trust Estate, or any part thereof, and, subject to the other provisions of
this Section, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the
Indenture Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. No co-trustee or separate
trustee hereunder shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a
successor trustee under Section 6.11 and no notice to Noteholders of the
appointment of any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required under
Section 6.08 hereof.
(b) Every separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent
permitted by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and
conditions:
(i) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed upon
the Indenture Trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised
or performed by the Indenture Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee
jointly (it being understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee
is not authorized to act separately without the Indenture Trustee
joining in such act), except to the extent that under any law of any
jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be performed
the Indenture Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform
such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties and
obligations (including the holding of title to the Trust Estate or any
portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed
singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction
of the Indenture Trustee;
(ii) no trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any act or
omission of any other trustee hereunder; and
(iii) the Indenture Trustee may at any time accept the resignation of or
remove any separate trustee or co-trustee.
(c) Any notice, request or other writing given to the Indenture Trustee
shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and
co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument
appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement and
the conditions of this Article VI. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon
its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or
property specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the
Indenture Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the
provisions of this Indenture, specifically including every provision of this
Indenture relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording
protection to, the Indenture Trustee. Every such instrument shall be filed with
the Indenture Trustee.
(d) Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time constitute the
Indenture Trustee, its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority,
to the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of
this Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or
co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of
its estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be
exercised by the Indenture Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the
appointment of a new or successor trustee.
Section 6.11. Eligibility; Disqualification. The Indenture Trustee shall
at all times satisfy the requirements of TIA ss.310(a). The Indenture Trustee shall
have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 as set forth in its
most recent published annual report of condition and it or its parent shall have
a long-term debt rating of A2 or better by Xxxxx'x. The Indenture Trustee shall
comply with TIA ss.310(b), including the optional provision permitted by the
second sentence of TIA ss.310(b)(9); provided, however, that there shall be
excluded from the operation of TIA ss.310(b)(1) any indenture or indentures
under which other securities of the Issuer are outstanding if the requirements
for such exclusion set forth in TIA ss.310(b)(1) are met.
Section 6.12. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer. The Indenture
Trustee shall comply with TIA ss.311(a), excluding any creditor relationship
listed in TIA ss.311(b). An Indenture Trustee who has resigned or been removed
shall be subject to TIA ss.311(a) to the extent indicated therein.
Section 6.13. Representations and Warranties. The Indenture Trustee
hereby represents that:
(a) The Indenture Trustee is duly organized, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of the United States with power and authority to own its
properties and to conduct its business as such properties are currently owned
and such business is presently conducted.
(b) The Indenture Trustee has the power and authority to execute and deliver
this Indenture and to carry out its terms; and the execution, delivery and
performance of this Indenture have been duly authorized by the Indenture Trustee
by all necessary corporate action.
(c) The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Indenture and the
fulfillment of the terms hereof do not conflict with, result in any breach of
any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or
lapse of time) a default under, the articles of association or bylaws of the
Indenture Trustee or any agreement or other instrument to which the Indenture
Trustee is a party or by which it is bound which conflict or breach would have a
materially adverse impact on the ability of the Indenture Trustee to perform its
obligations under the Basic Documents to which it is a party.
(d) To the Indenture Trustee's best knowledge, there are no proceedings or
investigations pending or threatened before any court, regulatory body,
administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction
over the Indenture Trustee or its properties: (i) asserting the invalidity of
this Indenture, (ii) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of the
transactions contemplated by this Indenture or (iii) seeking any determination
or ruling that might materially and adversely affect the performance by the
Indenture Trustee of its obligations under, or the validity or enforceability
of, this Indenture.
(e) The Indenture Trustee does not have notice of any adverse claim (as such
term is defined in Article 8 of the UCC) with respect to the Loans.
Section 6.14. Directions to Indenture Trustee. The Indenture Trustee
is hereby directed:
(a) to accept the grant of a security interest in the Trust Estate and hold the
assets of the Trust in trust for the Noteholders;
(b) to authenticate and deliver the Notes substantially in the form prescribed
by Exhibits A-1, A-2, A-3 and A-4 in accordance with the terms of this
Indenture; and
(c) to take all other actions as shall be required to be taken by the terms of
this Indenture.
Section 6.15. Compliance with Withholding-Requirements. Notwithstanding any
other provision of this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee shall comply with all
federal withholding requirements respecting payments to Noteholders of interest
that the Indenture Trustee reasonably believes are applicable under the Code.
The consent of Noteholders shall not be required for such withholding.
Section 6.16. Periodic Filings.
(a) The Indenture Trustee shall reasonably cooperate with the Depositor in
connection with the Issuer's compliance with the reporting requirements under
the Exchange Act. The Indenture Trustee shall prepare on behalf of the Depositor
any Forms 8-K and 10-K customary for similar securities as required by the
Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, and the
Depositor shall sign and the Indenture Trustee shall file (via XXXXX) such Forms
8-K and 10-K on behalf of the Depositor. The Depositor hereby grants to the
Indenture Trustee a limited power of attorney to execute and file each such
document on behalf of the Depositor. Such power of attorney shall continue until
the earlier of (i) receipt by the Indenture Trustee from the Depositor of
written termination of such power of attorney and (ii) the dissolution of the
Issuer.
(b) Each Form 8-K shall be filed by the Indenture Trustee within 15 days after
each Distribution Date, with a copy of the statement to the Certificateholders
for such Distribution Date as an exhibit thereto. Prior to March 31st of each
year (or such earlier date as may be required by the Exchange Act and the rules
and regulations of the Commission), the Indenture Trustee shall file a Form
10-K, in substance as required by applicable law or applicable Commission
staff's interpretations. Such Form 10-K shall include as exhibits, the annual
statement of compliance described under Section 3.10 of the Servicing Agreement
and the annual servicing report described under Section 3.11 of the Servicing
Agreement, to the extent such reports have been timely delivered to the
Indenture Trustee. If they are not so timely delivered, the Indenture Trustee
shall file an amended Form 10-K including such documents as exhibits promptly
after they are delivered to the Indenture Trustee. The Indenture Trustee shall
have no liability with respect to (a) any failure to properly or timely prepare
or file such periodic reports resulting from or relating to the Indenture
Trustee's inability or failure to obtain any information not resulting from its
own negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith, or (b) any inaccuracy in such
periodic reports resulting from incorrect information provided to the Indenture
Trustee by the Servicer. The Form 10-K shall also include a certification in the
form attached hereto as Exhibit B (the "Depositor Certification"), which shall
be signed by the senior officer of the Depositor in charge of securitization and
furnished to the Indenture Trustee at least 5 Business Days prior to the date on
which the Form 10-K is required to be filed.
(c) The Indenture Trustee shall sign a certification in the form attached hereto
as Exhibit C (the "Indenture Trustee Certification") for the benefit of the
Depositor and its officers, directors and affiliates regarding certain aspects
of items 1 through 3 of the Depositor Certification. In addition, the Indenture
Trustee shall, subject to the provisions of Sections 6.01 and 6.02 hereof,
indemnify and hold harmless the Depositor and its officers, directors and
affiliates from and against any losses, damages, penalties, fines, forfeitures,
reasonable and necessary legal fees and related costs, judgments and other costs
and expenses arising out of or based upon a breach of the Indenture Trustee's
obligations under this Section 6.16 or any inaccuracy made in the Indenture
Trustee Certification. If the indemnification provided for herein is unavailable
or insufficient to hold harmless such Persons, then the Indenture Trustee shall
contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Persons as a result of the
losses, claims, damages or liabilities of such Persons in such proportion as is
appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the Depositor on the one hand and
the Indenture Trustee on the other. The Indenture Trustee acknowledges that the
Depositor is relying on the Indenture Trustee's performance of its obligations
under this Section 6.16 in order to perform its obligations under Section
6.16(b) above.
(d) If the Commission issues additional interpretative guidance or promulgates
additional rules or regulations, or if other changes in applicable law occur,
that would require the reporting arrangements, or the allocation of
responsibilities with respect thereto, described in this Section 6.16, to be
conducted differently than as described, the Depositor and the Indenture Trustee
will reasonably cooperate to amend the provisions of this Section 6.16 in order
to comply with such amended reporting requirements and such amendment of this
Section 6.16. Any such amendment shall be made in accordance with Section 9.01
without the consent of the Certificateholders, and may result in a change in the
reports filed by the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Issuer under the
Exchange Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Depositor and the Indenture
Trustee shall not be obligated to enter into any amendment pursuant to this
Section 6.12 that adversely affects its obligations and immunities under this
Indenture.
(e) Upon any filing with the Commission, the Indenture Trustee shall promptly
deliver to the Depositor a copy of any executed report, statement or
information.
(f) Prior to January 31 of the first year in which the Indenture Trustee is able
to do so under applicable law, the Indenture Trustee shall file a Form 15D
Suspension Notification with respect to the Issuer.
ARTICLE VII
Noteholders' Lists and Reports
Section 7.01. Issuer To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of
Noteholders. The Issuer will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Indenture
Trustee (a) not more than five days after each Record Date, a list, in such form
as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of
the Noteholders as of such Record Date and, (b) at such other times as the
Indenture Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after receipt by the
Issuer of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not
more than 10 days prior to the time such list is furnished; provided, however,
that so long as the Indenture Trustee is the Note Registrar, no such list shall
be required to be furnished.
Section 7.02. Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders.
(a) The Indenture Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, the names and addresses of the Noteholders contained in the most
recent list furnished to the Indenture Trustee as provided in Section 7.01 and
the names and addresses of Noteholders received by the Indenture Trustee in its
capacity as Note Registrar. The Indenture Trustee may destroy any list furnished
to it as provided in such Section 7.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) Noteholders may communicate pursuant to TIA ss. 312(b) with other
Noteholders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the
Notes.
(c) The Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar shall have
the protection of TIA ss. 312(c).
Section 7.03. Reports by Issuer.
(a) The Issuer shall:
(i) file with the Indenture Trustee, within 15 days after the Issuer is
required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual
reports and the information, documents and other reports (or copies of
such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time
to time by rules and regulations prescribe) that the Issuer may be
required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
the Exchange Act;
(ii) file with the Indenture Trustee, and the Commission in accordance with
rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission
such additional information, documents and reports with respect to
compliance by the Issuer with the conditions and covenants of this
Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules and
regulations; and
(iii) supply to the Indenture Trustee (and the Indenture Trustee shall
transmit by mail to all Noteholders described in TIA ss. 313(c) such
summaries of any information, documents and reports required to be
filed by the Issuer pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) of this Section
7.03(a) and by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by
the Commission.
(b) Unless the Issuer otherwise determines, the fiscal year of
the Issuer shall end on December 31 of each year.
Section 7.04. Reports by Indenture Trustee. If required by TIA ss.313(a),
within 60 days after each January 1 beginning with January 1, 2004, the Indenture
Trustee shall mail to each Noteholder as required by TIA ss.313(c) a brief
report dated as of such date that complies with TIA ss.313(a). The Indenture
Trustee also shall comply with TIA ss.313(b).
A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Noteholders shall
be filed by the Indenture Trustee with the Commission and each stock exchange,
if any, on which the Notes are listed. The Issuer shall notify the Indenture
Trustee if and when the Notes are listed on any stock exchange.
ARTICLE VIII
Accounts, Disbursements and Releases
Section 8.01. Collection of Money. Except as otherwise expressly provided
herein, the Indenture Trustee may demand payment or delivery of, and shall
receive and collect, directly and without intervention or assistance of any
fiscal agent or other intermediary, all money and other property payable to or
receivable by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Indenture. The Indenture
Trustee shall apply all such money received by it as provided in this Indenture.
Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, if any default occurs
in the making of any payment or performance under any agreement or instrument
that is part of the Trust Estate, the Indenture Trustee may take such action as
may be appropriate to enforce such payment or performance, including the
institution and prosecution of appropriate Proceedings. Any such action shall be
without prejudice to any right to claim a Default or Event of Default under this
Indenture and any right to proceed thereafter as provided in Article V.
Section 8.02. Trust Accounts.
(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee shall establish and
maintain, in the name of the Indenture Trustee, for the benefit of the
Noteholders and the Certificate Paying Agent, on behalf of the
Certificateholder, the Payment Account as provided in Section 3.01 of this
Indenture, the Pre-Funding Account as provided in Section 3(a) of the Loan
Purchase Agreement and the Capitalized Interest Account as provided in Section
3(d) of the Loan Purchase Agreement.
(b) All monies deposited from time to time in the Payment Account
pursuant to the Servicing Agreement and all deposits therein pursuant to this
Indenture are for the benefit of the Noteholders and the Certificate Paying
Agent, on behalf of the Certificateholder.
(c) Amounts on deposit in the Payment Account shall be held uninvested.
(d) On each Payment Date, the Indenture Trustee shall distribute all
amounts on deposit in the Payment Account to Noteholders in respect of the Notes
and in its capacity as Certificate Paying Agent to the Certificateholder in the
order of priority set forth in Section 3.05 (except as otherwise provided in
Section 5.04(b)).
Section 8.03. Officer's Certificate. The Indenture Trustee shall receive at
least seven days notice when requested by the Issuer to take any action pursuant
to Section 8.05(a), accompanied by copies of any instruments to be executed, and
the Indenture Trustee shall also require, as a condition to such action, an
Opinion of Counsel, in form and substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee,
stating the legal effect of any such action, outlining the steps required to
complete the same, and concluding that all conditions precedent to the taking of
such action have been complied with.
Section 8.04. Termination Upon Payment to Noteholders. This Indenture and
the respective obligations and responsibilities of the Issuer and the Indenture
Trustee created hereby shall terminate upon the payment to the Noteholders, the
Certificate Paying Agent (on behalf of the Certificateholder) and the Indenture
Trustee of all amounts required to be distributed pursuant to Article III;
provided, however, that in no event shall the trust created hereby continue
beyond the expiration of 21 years from the death of the survivor of the
descendants of Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, the late ambassador of the United States to
the Court of St. James's, living on the date hereof.
Section 8.05. Release of Trust Estate.
(a) Subject to the payment of its fees and expenses, the Indenture Trustee may,
and when required by the provisions of this Indenture shall, execute instruments
to release property from the lien of this Indenture, or convey the Indenture
Trustee's interest in the same, in a manner and under circumstances that are not
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture. No party relying upon an
instrument executed by the Indenture Trustee as provided in Article VIII
hereunder shall be bound to ascertain the Indenture Trustee's authority, inquire
into the satisfaction of any conditions precedent, or see to the application of
any monies.
(b) The Indenture Trustee shall, at such time as (i) there are no Notes
Outstanding and (ii) all sums due the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this
Indenture have been paid, release any remaining portion of the Trust Estate that
secured the Notes from the lien of this Indenture.
Section 8.06. Surrender of Notes Upon Final Payment. By acceptance of any
Note, the Holder thereof agrees to surrender such Note to the Indenture Trustee
promptly, prior to such Noteholder's receipt of the final payment thereon.
ARTICLE IX
Supplemental Indentures
Section 9.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders.
(a) Without the consent of the any Noteholders but with prior notice to the
Rating Agencies, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized
by an Issuer Request, at any time and from time to time, may enter into
one or more indentures supplemental hereto (which shall conform to the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as in force at the date of the
execution thereof), in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, for
any of the following purposes:
(i) to correct or amplify the description of any property at any time
subject to the lien of this Indenture, or better to assure, convey and
confirm unto the Indenture Trustee any property subject or required to
be subjected to the lien of this Indenture, or to subject to the lien
of this Indenture additional property;
(ii) to evidence the succession, in compliance with the applicable
provisions hereof, of another person to the Issuer, and the assumption
by any such successor of the covenants of the Issuer herein and in the
Notes contained;
(iii) to add to the covenants of the Issuer, for the benefit of the
Noteholders, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon
the Issuer;
(iv) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property to or with
the Indenture Trustee;
(v) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein or
in any supplemental indenture that may be inconsistent with any other
provision herein or in any supplemental indenture;
(vi) to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions
arising under this Indenture or in any supplemental indenture;
provided, that such action shall not materially and adversely affect
the interests of the Noteholders;
(vii) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of the appointment hereunder
by a successor trustee with respect to the Notes and to add to or
change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to
facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one
trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Article VI; or
(viii) to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of this Indenture to such
extent as shall be necessary to effect the qualification of this
Indenture under the TIA or under any similar federal statute hereafter
enacted and to add to this Indenture such other provisions as may be
expressly required by the TIA;
provided, however, that no such indenture supplements shall be entered into
unless the Indenture Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel that
entering into such indenture supplement is permitted hereunder and will not (A)
have any material adverse tax consequences to the Noteholders and (B) adversely
affect in any material respect the interests of the Certificateholder.
The Indenture Trustee is hereby authorized to join in the execution of
any such supplemental indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements
and stipulations that may be therein contained.
(b) The Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer
Request, may, also without the consent of any of the Noteholders but with prior
notice to the Rating Agencies, enter into an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to, or changing in
any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of, this Indenture or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders under this Indenture;
provided, however, that such action shall, as evidence by an Opinion of Counsel,
be permitted hereunder and shall not, as evidenced by such Opinion of Counsel,
(i) adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Noteholder or
(ii) cause the Issuer to be subject to an entity level tax.
(c) The Issuer and the Indenture Trustee shall, as directed by the
Holders of not less than 100% of the Certificate Percentage Interests, enter
into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of providing
for the issuance of one or more additional Classes of Notes entitled to payments
derived solely from all or a portion of the payments to which the Certificates
issued on the Closing Date pursuant to the Owner Trust Agreement are entitled;
provided, however, that such action shall as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel,
be permitted hereunder and shall not as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, (i)
adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any existing
Noteholder or (ii) cause the Issuer to be subject to an entity level tax. Each
such Class of Notes shall be a non-recourse obligation of the Issuer and shall
be entitled to interest and principal in such amounts, and to such security for
the repayment thereof, as shall be specified in such amendment or amendments.
Promptly after the execution by the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee of any
amendments pursuant to this Section or the creation of a new Indenture and the
issuance of the related Class or Classes of Notes, the Issuer shall require the
Indenture Trustee to give notice to the Noteholders and the Rating Agencies
setting forth in general terms the substance of the provisions of such
amendment. Any failure of the Indenture Trustee to provide such notice as is
required under this paragraph, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any
way impair or affect the validity of such amendment or any Class of Notes issued
pursuant thereto.
Section 9.02. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Noteholders. The Issuer
and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Request, also may, with
prior notice to the Rating Agencies and with the consent of the Holders of not
less than a majority of the Voting Rights of the Notes affected thereby, by Act
of Noteholders delivered to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, enter into an
indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any
provisions to, or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions
of, this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of
the Notes under this Indenture; provided however, that no such supplemental
indenture shall, without the consent of each Noteholder of each Note affected
thereby:
(a) change the date of payment of any installment of principal of or interest on
any Note, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the interest rate thereon,
change the provisions of this Indenture relating to the application of
collections on, or the proceeds of the sale of, the Trust Estate to payment of
principal of or interest on the Notes, or change any place of payment where, or
the coin or currency in which, any Note or the interest thereon is payable, or
impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of the provisions of this
Indenture requiring the application of funds available therefor, as provided in
Article V, to the payment of any such amount due on the Notes on or after the
respective due dates thereof;
(b) reduce the percentage of the Note Balances of the Notes, the consent of the
Holders of which is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent
of the Holders of which is required for any waiver of compliance with certain
provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their
consequences provided for in this Indenture;
(c) modify or alter the provisions of the exception in the definition of the
term "Outstanding";
(d) reduce the percentage of the Note Balances of the Notes required to direct
the Indenture Trustee to direct the Issuer to sell or liquidate the Trust Estate
pursuant to Section 5.04;
(e) modify any provision of this Section 9.02 except to increase any percentage
specified herein or to provide that certain additional provisions of this
Indenture or the Basic Documents cannot be modified or waived without the
consent of each Noteholder affected thereby;
(f) modify any of the provisions of this Indenture in such manner as to affect
the calculation of the amount of any payment of interest or principal due on any
Note on any Payment Date (including the calculation of any of the individual
components of such calculation); or
(g) permit the creation of any lien ranking prior to or on a parity with the
lien of this Indenture with respect to any part of the Trust Estate or, except
as otherwise permitted or contemplated herein, terminate the lien of this
Indenture on any property at any time subject hereto or deprive any Noteholder
of the security provided by the lien of this Indenture; and provided, further,
that such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, cause the
Issuer to be subject to an entity level tax.
and provided, further, that no such indenture supplements shall be entered into
unless the Indenture Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel that
entering into such indenture supplement is permitted hereunder and will not
adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the Certificateholder.
The Indenture Trustee may in its discretion determine whether or not
any Notes would be affected by any supplemental indenture and any such
determination shall be conclusive upon the Holders of all Notes, whether
theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder. The Indenture
Trustee shall not be liable for any such determination made in good faith.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Noteholders under this Section
9.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but
it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
Promptly after the execution by the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee of
any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Section 9.02, the Indenture Trustee
shall mail to Noteholders to which such amendment or supplemental indenture
relates a notice setting forth in general terms the substance of such
supplemental indenture. Any failure of the Indenture Trustee to mail such
notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect
the validity of any such supplemental indenture.
Section 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In executing, or permitting
the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this
Article IX or the modification thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture,
the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and subject to Sections 6.01
and 6.02, shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel
stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or
permitted by this Indenture. The Indenture Trustee may, but shall not be
obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture that affects the
Indenture Trustee's own rights, duties, liabilities or immunities under this
Indenture or otherwise.
Section 9.04. Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Upon the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this Indenture shall
be and shall be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith with
respect to the Notes affected thereby, and the respective rights, limitations of
rights, obligations, duties, liabilities and immunities under this Indenture of
the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer and the Noteholders shall thereafter be
determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such
modifications and amendments, and all the terms and conditions of any such
supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and
conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.
Section 9.05. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. Every amendment of this
Indenture and every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article IX
shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect
so long as this Indenture shall then be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 9.06. Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures. Notes authenticated
and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this
Article IX may, and if required by the Indenture Trustee shall, bear a notation
in form approved by the Indenture Trustee as to any matter provided for in such
supplemental indenture. If the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee shall so
determine, new Notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Indenture
Trustee and the Issuer, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and
executed by the Issuer and authenticated and delivered by the Indenture Trustee
in exchange for Outstanding Notes.
Section 9.07. Supplemental Indentures Affecting the Servicer. Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Article IX, no supplemental indenture shall be
executed that would materially and adversely affect the interests of the
Servicer described under Sections 3.22 or 10.18 hereunder without the consent of
the Servicer.
ARTICLE X
Miscellaneous
Section 10.01. Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc.
(a) Upon any application or request by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee to
take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Issuer shall furnish
to the Indenture Trustee (i) an Officer's Certificate stating that all
conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the
proposed action have been complied with and (ii) an Opinion of Counsel stating
that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have
been complied with, except that, in the case of any such application or request
as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any
provision of this Indenture, no additional certificate or opinion need be
furnished.
Every Officer's Certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with
a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:
(i) a statement that each signatory of such Officer's Certificate or opinion has
read or has caused to be read such covenant or condition and the definitions
herein relating thereto;
(ii) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
certificate or opinion are based;
(iii) a statement that, in the opinion of each such signatory, such signatory
has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable such
signatory to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or
condition has been complied with;
(iv) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such signatory, such
condition or covenant has been complied with; and
(v) if the signatory to such Certificate or Opinion is required to be
Independent, the statement required by the definition of the term "Independent
Certificate".
(b) (i) Prior to the deposit of any Collateral or other property or
securities with the Indenture Trustee that is to be made the basis for the
release of any property or securities subject to the lien of this Indenture, the
Issuer shall, in addition to any obligation imposed in Section 10.01(a) or
elsewhere in this Indenture, furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer's
Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each person signing such
certificate as to the fair value (within 90 days of such deposit) to the Issuer
of the Collateral or other property or securities to be so deposited.
(ii) Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the
Indenture Trustee an Officer's Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of
any signatory thereof as to the matters described in clause (i) above, the
Issuer shall also deliver to the Indenture Trustee an Independent Certificate as
to the same matters, if the fair value to the Issuer of the securities to be so
deposited and of all other such securities made the basis of any such withdrawal
or release since the commencement of the then-current fiscal year of the Issuer,
as set forth in the certificates delivered pursuant to clause (i) above and this
clause (ii), is 10% or more of the Note Balances of the Notes, but such a
certificate need not be furnished with respect to any securities so deposited,
if the fair value thereof to the Issuer as set forth in the related Officer's
Certificate is less than $25,000 or less than one percent of the Note Balances
of the Notes.
(iii) Whenever any property or securities are to be released
from the lien of this Indenture, the Issuer shall also furnish to the Indenture
Trustee an Officer's Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each
person signing such certificate as to the fair value (within 90 days of such
release) of the property or securities proposed to be released and stating that
in the opinion of such person the proposed release will not impair the security
under this Indenture in contravention of the provisions hereof.
(iv) Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the
Indenture Trustee an Officer's Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of
any signer thereof as to the matters described in clause (iii) above, the Issuer
shall also furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Independent Certificate as to the
same matters if the fair value of the property or securities and of all other
property, other than property as contemplated by clause (v) below or securities
released from the lien of this Indenture since the commencement of the
then-current calendar year, as set forth in the certificates required by clause
(iii) above and this clause (iv), equals 10% or more of the Note Balances of the
Notes, but such certificate need not be furnished in the case of any release of
property or securities if the fair value thereof as set forth in the related
Officer's Certificate is less than $25,000 or less than one percent of the then
Note Balances of the Notes.
(v) Notwithstanding any provision of this Indenture, the
Issuer may, without compliance with the requirements of the other provisions of
this Section 10.01, (A) collect, sell or otherwise dispose of the Loans as and
to the extent permitted or required by the Basic Documents or (B) make cash
payments out of the Payment Account as and to the extent permitted or required
by the Basic Documents, so long as the Issuer shall deliver to the Indenture
Trustee every six months, commencing January 1, 2003, an Officer's Certificate
of the Issuer stating that all the dispositions of Collateral described in
clauses (A) or (B) above that occurred during the preceding six calendar months
were in the ordinary course of the Issuer's business and that the proceeds
thereof were applied in accordance with the Basic Documents.
Section 10.02. Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee. In any
case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion
of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified
by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so
certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or
give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons
as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to
such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an Authorized Officer of the Issuer may
be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion
of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the
exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or
representations with respect to the matters upon which such officer's
certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate of an
Authorized Officer or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to
factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an
officer or officers of the Seller, the Depositor or the Issuer, stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Seller, the Depositor or the Issuer, unless such counsel knows, or in the
exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or
representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
Whenever in this Indenture, in connection with any application or
certificate or report to the Indenture Trustee, it is provided that the Issuer
shall deliver any document as a condition of the granting of such application,
or as evidence of the Issuer's compliance with any term hereof, it is intended
that the truth and accuracy, at the time of the granting of such application or
at the effective date of such certificate or report (as the case may be), of the
facts and opinions stated in such document shall in such case be conditions
precedent to the right of the Issuer to have such application granted or to the
sufficiency of such certificate or report. The foregoing shall not, however, be
construed to affect the Indenture Trustee's right to rely upon the truth and
accuracy of any statement or opinion contained in any such document as provided
in Article VI.
Section 10.03. Acts of Noteholders.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Noteholders may
be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar
tenor signed by such Noteholders in person or by agents duly appointed in
writing; and except as herein otherwise expressly provided such action shall
become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the
Indenture Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Issuer.
Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced
thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act of Noteholders" signing
such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of
a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this
Indenture and (subject to Section 6.01) conclusive in favor of the Indenture
Trustee and the Issuer, if made in the manner provided in this Section 10.03.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved in any manner that the Indenture Trustee
deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Notes shall be proved by the Note Registrar.
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action by any Noteholder shall bind the Holder of every Note
issued upon the registration thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof,
in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Indenture
Trustee or the Issuer in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such
action is made upon such Note.
Section 10.04. Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Issuer and Rating Agencies.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or Act of Noteholders or other documents provided or permitted by this
Indenture shall be in writing and if such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Noteholders
is to be made upon, given or furnished to or filed with:
(i) the Indenture Trustee by any Noteholder or by the Issuer, it shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or
filed in writing to or with the Indenture Trustee at the Corporate
Trust Office. The Indenture Trustee shall promptly transmit any notice
received by it from the Noteholders to the Issuer, or
(ii) the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or by any Noteholder, it shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder if in writing and mailed
first-class, postage prepaid to the Issuer addressed to: Xxxxx Whole
Loan Home Equity Trust 2003-D, in care of the Owner Trustee, as set
forth in the Owner Trust Agreement, or at any other address previously
furnished in writing to the Indenture Trustee by the Issuer. The Issuer
shall promptly transmit any notice received by it from the Noteholders
to the Indenture Trustee.
Notices required to be given to the Rating Agencies by the Issuer or
the Indenture Trustee shall be in writing, personally delivered or mailed by
certified mail, return receipt requested, to (i) in the case of Moody's, at the
following address: Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc., ABS Monitoring Department,
00 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Residential Mortgage
Surveillance Group and (ii) in the case of Standard & Poor's, at the following
address: Standard & Poor's, 00 Xxxxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000,
Attention: Asset Backed Surveillance Department; or as to each of the foregoing,
at such other address as shall be designated by written notice to the other
parties.
Section 10.05. Notices to Noteholders; Waiver. Where this Indenture provides
for notice to Noteholders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given
(unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed,
first-class, postage prepaid to each Noteholder affected by such event, at such
Person's address as it appears on the Note Register, not later than the latest
date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such
notice. In any case where notice to Noteholders is given by mail, neither the
failure to mail such notice nor any defect in any notice so mailed to any
particular Noteholder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect
to other Noteholders, and any notice that is mailed in the manner herein
provided shall conclusively be presumed to have been duly given regardless of
whether such notice is in fact actually received.
Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may
be waived in writing by any Person entitled to receive such notice, either
before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such
notice. Waivers of notice by Noteholders shall be filed with the Indenture
Trustee but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of
any action taken in reliance upon such a waiver.
In case, by reason of the suspension of regular mail service as a
result of a strike, work stoppage or similar activity, it shall be impractical
to mail notice of any event to Noteholders when such notice is required to be
given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any manner of giving
such notice as shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to
be a sufficient giving of such notice.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to the Rating Agencies,
failure to give such notice shall not affect any other rights or obligations
created hereunder, and shall not under any circumstance constitute an Event of
Default.
Section 10.06. Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions. Notwithstanding any
provision of this Indenture or any of the Notes to the contrary, the Issuer may
enter into any agreement with any Noteholder providing for a method of payment,
or notice by the Indenture Trustee to such Noteholder, that is different from
the methods provided for in this Indenture for such payments or notices. The
Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee a copy of each such agreement and
the Indenture Trustee shall cause payments to be made and notices to be given in
accordance with such agreements.
Section 10.07. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any provision hereof
limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof that is required to
be included in this Indenture by any of the provisions of the Trust Indenture
Act, such required provision shall control.
The provisions of TIA ss.ss.310 through 317 that impose duties on any
Person (including the provisions automatically deemed included herein unless
expressly excluded by this Indenture) are a part of and govern this Indenture,
whether or not physically contained herein.
Section 10.08. Effect of Headings. The Article and Section headings
herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 10.09. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in this
Indenture and the Notes by the Issuer shall bind its successors and assigns,
whether so expressed or not. All agreements of the Indenture Trustee in this
Indenture shall bind its successors, co-trustees and agents.
Section 10.10. Separability. In case any provision in this Indenture or
in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality,
and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected
or impaired thereby.
Section 10.11. Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in the
Notes, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto
and their successors hereunder, and the Noteholders and any other party secured
hereunder, and any other Person with an ownership interest in any part of the
Trust Estate, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under
this Indenture.
Section 10.12. Legal Holidays. In any case where the date on which any payment
is due shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of
the Notes or this Indenture) payment need not be made on such date, but may be
made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if
made on the date on which nominally due, and no interest shall accrue for the
period from and after any such nominal date.
Section 10.13. GOVERNING LAW. THIS INDENTURE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW
PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER
SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
Section 10.14. Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in any number
of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but
all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
Section 10.15. Recording of Indenture. If this Indenture is subject to recording
in any appropriate public recording offices, such recording is to be effected by
the Issuer and at its expense accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel (which may be
counsel to the Indenture Trustee or any other counsel reasonably acceptable to
the Indenture Trustee) to the effect that such recording is necessary either for
the protection of the Noteholders or any other Person secured hereunder or for
the enforcement of any right or remedy granted to the Indenture Trustee under
this Indenture.
Section 10.16. Issuer Obligation. No recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or
the Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under this Indenture or any certificate or
other writing delivered in connection herewith or therewith, against (i) the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, (ii) any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner,
beneficiary, agent, officer, director, employee or agent of the Indenture
Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, any holder of a
beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or
of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its
individual capacity, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed (it
being understood that the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee have no such
obligations in their individual capacity). For all purposes of this Indenture,
in the performance of any duties or obligations of the Issuer hereunder, the
Owner Trustee shall be subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the terms
and provisions of Article VI, VII and VIII of the Owner Trust Agreement.
Section 10.17. No Petition. The Indenture Trustee, by entering into this
Indenture, and each Noteholder, by accepting a Note, hereby covenant and agree
that they will not at any time prior to the day one year and one day after the
date this Indenture terminates institute against the Depositor or the Issuer, or
join in any institution against the Depositor or the Issuer of, any bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other
proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law
in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, this Indenture or any
of the Basic Documents.
Section 10.18. Optional Termination.
(a) The Holders of a majority of the Class CE-2 Certificates shall have the
right, but not the obligation, to purchase from the Issuer all of the assets of
the Trust Estate at a price equal to the Termination Price on or after the first
Payment Date on which an Optional Termination is permitted as described in
Section 10.18(c) below.
(b) If the Holders of a majority of the Class CE-2 Certificates do not exercise
their option pursuant to 10.18(a) above on any Payment Date on which an Optional
Termination is permitted as described in Section 10.18(c) below, then the
Servicer shall have the right, but not the obligation, to purchase from the
Issuer all of the assets of the Trust Estate at a price equal to the Termination
Price; provided, however that the Servicer shall not be allowed to exercise such
option unless the Termination Price equals or exceeds the sum of (a) the
aggregate Class Principal Balance of each Class of Notes immediately prior to
the Payment Date on which such purchase occurs, (b) the aggregate of any Applied
Loss Amounts on the Notes remaining unpaid immediately prior to the Payment Date
on which such purchase occurs, (c) the aggregate of the Current Interest on the
Notes for the Payment Date on which such purchase occurs, (d) the aggregate of
any Carryforward Interest on the Notes for the Payment Date on which such
purchase occurs and (e) any unpaid amounts owed to the Indenture Trustee or the
Owner Trustee.
(c) The right of the Holders of a majority of the Class CE-2 Certificates or the
Servicer, as applicable, to purchase the assets of the Issuer pursuant to
10.18(a) or (b) above on any Payment Date is conditioned upon the Aggregate Loan
Balance (after applying payments received in the related Collection Period) as
of such Payment Date being less than ten percent of the Aggregate Loan Balance
as of the Cut-off Date. If such right is exercised, the Holders of a majority of
the Class CE-2 Certificates or the Servicer, as applicable, shall deposit the
applicable Termination Price with the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 4.10
hereof and, upon the receipt of such deposit, the Indenture Trustee or Custodian
shall release to the designee appointed by the Holders of a majority of the
Class CE-2 Certificates or the Servicer, as applicable, the files pertaining to
the Loans being purchased. The Holders of a majority of the Class CE-2
Certificates or the Servicer, as applicable, at their expense, shall prepare and
deliver to the Indenture Trustee for execution, at the time the Loans are to be
released to the Holders of a majority of the Class CE-2 Certificates or the
Servicer, as applicable, appropriate documents assigning each such Loan from the
Indenture Trustee and the Issuer to the Holders of a majority of the Class CE-2
Certificates or the Servicer, as applicable. If the Optional Termination is
pursuant to Section 10.18(a) above, the Holders of a majority of the Class CE-2
Certificates shall give the Indenture Trustee and the Servicer not less than
fifteen Business Days' prior written notice of the Payment Date on which the
Holders of a majority of the Class CE-2 Certificates anticipates that the final
distribution will be made to Noteholders. If the Holders of a majority of the
Class CE-2 Certificates do not give such notice with respect to any Payment
Date, then if the Servicer exercises its Optional Termination pursuant to
Section 10.18(b) above, the Servicer shall give the Indenture Trustee no more
than fourteen and not less than seven Business Days' prior written notice of the
Payment Date on which the Servicer anticipates that the final distribution will
be made to Securityholders. Notice of any termination, specifying the
anticipated Final Scheduled Payment Date or other Payment Date (which shall be a
date that would otherwise be a Payment Date) upon which the Noteholders may
surrender their Notes and/or the Certificateholders may surrender their
Certificates to the Indenture Trustee (if so required by the terms hereof) for
payment of the final distribution and cancellation, shall be given promptly by
the Indenture Trustee specifying: (i) the anticipated Final Scheduled Payment
Date or other Payment Date upon which final payment of the Notes and/or
Certificates is anticipated to be made upon presentation and surrender of Notes
and/or Certificates at the office or agency of the Indenture Trustee therein
designated; and (ii) the amount of any such final payment, if known.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of the Depositor, the Seller or any
Affiliate of either the Depositor or the Seller shall have any right to purchase
from the Issuer all of the assets of the Trust Estate pursuant to this Section,
regardless of such entity's ownership of the Certificates.
Section 10.19. Inspection. The Issuer agrees that, on reasonable prior notice,
it shall permit any representative of the Indenture Trustee, during the Issuer's
normal business hours, to examine all the books of account, records, reports and
other papers of the Issuer, to make copies and extracts therefrom, to cause such
books to be audited by Independent certified public accountants, and to discuss
the Issuer's affairs, finances and accounts with the Issuer's officers,
employees, and Independent certified public accountants, all at such reasonable
times and as often as may be reasonably requested. The Indenture Trustee shall
and shall cause its representatives to hold in confidence all such information
except to the extent disclosure may be required by law (and all reasonable
applications for confidential treatment are unavailing) and except to the extent
that the Indenture Trustee may reasonably determine that such disclosure is
consistent with its obligations hereunder.
Section 10.20. Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary herein, this Indenture has been executed and delivered
by Wilmington Trust Company, not individually or personally, but solely as Owner
Trustee of Xxxxx Whole Loan Home Equity Trust 2003-D, in the exercise of the
powers and authority conferred and vested in it, (b) each of the
representations, undertakings and agreements herein made on the part of the
Issuer is made and intended not as personal representations, undertakings and
agreements by Wilmington Trust Company, but is made and intended for the purpose
for binding only the Issuer, (c) nothing herein contained shall be construed as
creating any liability on Wilmington Trust Company, individually or personally,
to perform any covenant either expressed or implied contained herein, all such
liability, if any, being expressly waived by the parties hereto and by any
Person claiming by, through or under the parties hereto and (d) under no
circumstances shall Wilmington Trust Company be personally liable for the
payment of any indebtedness or expenses of the Issuer or be liable for the
breach or failure of any obligation, representation, warranty or covenant made
or undertaken by the Issuer under this Indenture or any other related documents.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee have caused
their names to be signed hereto by their respective officers thereunto duly
authorized, all as of the day and year first above written.
XXXXX WHOLE LOAN HOME EQUITY
TRUST 2003-D, as Issuer
By: Wilmington Trust Company, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
By:___________________________________________________________
Name:
Title:
U.S. BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, as Indenture
Trustee
By:___________________________________________________________
Name:
Title:
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION hereby accepts the appointment as Paying Agent
pursuant to Section 3.03 hereof and as Note Registrar pursuant to Section 4.02
hereof.
By:________________________________
Name:
Title:
CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON MORTGAGE ACCEPTANCE
CORP. hereby acknowledges and agrees to the
provisions set forth in Section 6.16
By:________________________________
Name:
Title:
STATE OF ______________ )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF ____________)
On this ____ day of November, 2003, before me personally appeared
___________________ to me known, who being by me duly sworn, did depose and say,
that he is the _________________ of Wilmington Trust Company, one of the
companies described in and which executed the above instrument; and that he
signed his name thereto by like order.
________________________________________
Notary Public
STATE OF ILLINOIS )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF COOK )
On this ____ day of November, 2003, before me personally appeared
________________ to me known, who being by me duly sworn, did depose and say,
that she is the __________________ of U.S. Bank National Association, one of the
corporations described in and which executed the above instrument; that she
knows the seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to said instrument is
such corporate seal; that it was so affixed by order of the Board of Directors
of said corporation; and that he signed his name thereto by like order.
_______________________________________
Notary Public
NOTARIAL SEAL
EXHIBIT A-1
FORM OF CLASS A NOTES
UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS
AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS
REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY
AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR
TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY
TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON
IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST
HEREIN.
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH
HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME
MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
THIS NOTE DOES NOT REPRESENT AN INTEREST IN OR OBLIGATION OF THE
SELLER, THE DEPOSITOR, THE SERVICER, THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE, THE OWNER TRUSTEE OR
ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE AFFILIATES, EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN THE
INDENTURE OR THE BASIC DOCUMENTS.
XXXXX WHOLE LOAN HOME EQUITY TRUST 2003-D
Home Equity Loan-Backed Notes, Series 2003-D
Class A-[ ] Principal Amount: $[ ]
Registered
No. 1 Percentage Interest: 100%
CUSIP NO. Note Interest Rate: Variable
Xxxxx Whole Loan Home Equity Trust 2003-D, a statutory trust duly
organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred
to as the "Issuer"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO.
or registered assigns, the principal sum of $[__________], payable on each Payment
Date in an amount equal to the Percentage Interest specified above of the
aggregate amount, if any, payable from the Payment Account in respect of
principal and interest on the Class A-[ ] Notes pursuant to Section 3.05 of the
Indenture dated as of November 25, 2002 (the "Indenture") between the Issuer, as
issuer, and U.S. Bank National Association, as indenture trustee (the "Indenture
Trustee"); provided, however, that the entire unpaid principal amount of
this Note shall be due and payable on the Final Scheduled Payment Date, to the
extent not previously paid on a prior Payment Date. Capitalized terms used but not
defined herein are defined in Appendix A of the Indenture.
Pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, a distribution will be made on
the twenty-fifth day of each month, or, if any such date is not a Business Day,
then the next Business Day.(the "Payment Date"), commencing as described in the
Indenture, to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of
business on the last day (or if such last day is not a Business Day, the
Business Day immediately preceding such last day) related Accrual Period, or, in
the case of the first Payment Date, November 28, 2003, from the Remittance
Amount in an amount equal to the product of the Percentage Interest evidenced by
this Notes and the amount of interest and principal, if any required to be
distributed to Holders of Class A-[_] Notes on such Payment Date.
Interest will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days in
each Accrual Period and a year assumed to consist of 360 days.
Principal of and Interest on this Note are payable in such coin or
currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal
tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Issuer
with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and payable on
this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by
the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this Note
shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture, or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose.
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer,
designated as its Home Equity Loan-Backed Notes, Series 2003-D, all issued under
the Indenture, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto
reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and
obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders.
The Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture.
The Notes are and will be equally and ratably secured by the collateral
pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture.
The entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and
payable in full on the Final Scheduled Payment Date pursuant to the Indenture,
to the extent not previously paid on a prior Payment Date. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, then
the Indenture Trustee or the holders of Notes representing not less than a
majority of the Voting Rights of all Notes may declare the Notes to be
immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.02 of the
Indenture.
Payments of interest on this Note due and payable on each Payment Date,
together with the installment of principal, if any, to the extent not in full
payment of this Note, shall be made by check mailed to the Person whose name
appears as the Registered Holder of this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes)
on the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date, except
that with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of the
nominee of the Depository Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.),
payments will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the
account designated by such nominee. Such checks shall be mailed to the Person
entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note
Register as of the applicable Record Date without requiring that this Note be
submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal amount of this
Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) effected by any payments made on any
Payment Date shall be binding upon all future holders of this Note and of any
Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be available,
as provided in the Indenture, for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid
principal amount of this Note on a Payment Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in
the name of and on behalf of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the
Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date with respect to the preceding
Payment Date by notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such Payment
Date, and the amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon
presentation and surrender of this Note at the address specified in such notice
of final payment.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations set
forth therein, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register
upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the Corporate Trust
Office, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in
form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the holder hereof
or such holder's attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature
guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of
the Note Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in
the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such other
"signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Note Registrar in
addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and thereupon one or more new Notes
in authorized denominations and in the same aggregate principal amount will be
issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service charge will be
charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this Note, but the Note
Registrar shall require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of
transfer or exchange of this Note.
Each Holder or Beneficial Owner of a Note, by acceptance of a Note, or,
in the case of a Beneficial Owner of a Note, a security entitlement to a Note,
covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with
respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Seller, the
Servicer, the Depositor or the Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under the
Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith,
against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual
capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any
partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, any holder of
a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee
or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in
its individual capacity, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed.
Each Holder or Beneficial Owner of a Note, by acceptance of a Note or,
in the case of a Beneficial Owner of a Note, a security entitlement to a Note,
covenants and agrees by accepting the benefits of the Indenture that such Holder
or Beneficial Owner of a Note will not prior to the day that is one year and one
day after the date this Indenture terminates, institute against the Issuer or
the Depositor, or join in any institution against the Issuer or the Depositor
of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation
proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law
in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the Indenture or the
Basic Documents.
Each Holder or Beneficial Owner of this Note, by acceptance of this
Note or a security entitlement thereto, represents that its acquisition of the
Note does not constitute or give rise to a prohibited transaction under Section
406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, for which no statutory, regulatory or
administrative exemption is available.
The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Note is issued with
the intention that, for federal, state and local income, single business and
franchise tax purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness of the Issuer.
Each holder of a Note, by acceptance of a Note (and each Beneficial Owner of a
Note by acceptance of a security entitlement to a Note), agrees to treat the
Notes for federal, state and local income, single business and franchise tax
purposes as indebtedness of the Issuer.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note,
the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture
Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered (as of the
day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the
Indenture) as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall
be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee and the rights of the holders of the Notes
under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee with the
consent of the holders of Notes representing a majority of the Voting Rights of
all Notes at the time Outstanding and with prior notice to the Rating Agencies.
The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the holders of Notes
representing specified percentages of the Voting Rights of all Notes, on behalf
of the holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the Issuer with certain
provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and
their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the holder of this Note (or
any one of more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such
holder and upon all future holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether
or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note. The Indenture
also permits the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain
terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of the
Noteholders but with prior notice to the Rating Agencies.
The term "Issuer" as used in this Note includes any successor or the
Issuer under the Indenture.
The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain circumstances,
to merge or consolidate, subject to the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the
Noteholders.
The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as
provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.
This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the
laws of the State of New York, without reference to its conflict of law
provisions and the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and
thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or
of the Indenture shall alter or impair, the obligation of the Issuer, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at
the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as expressly
provided in the Basic Documents, none of U.S. Bank National Association, in its
individual capacity, Wilmington Trust Company, in its individual capacity, any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, or any of their respective
partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, employees or successors or
assigns shall be personally liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of them
for, the payment of principal of or interest on this Note or performance of, or
omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or indemnifications
contained in the Indenture. The holder of this Note by its acceptance hereof
agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case of
an Event of Default under the Indenture, the holder shall have no claim against
any of the foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided,
however, that nothing contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to,
and enforcement against, the assets of the Issuer for any and all liabilities,
obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this Note.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this Note to be duly
executed.
XXXXX WHOLE LOAN HOME EQUITY
TRUST 2003-D
By WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
Dated:
By ____________________________________________________
Authorized Signatory
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes referred to in the within mentioned Indenture.
U.S. BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, not in its
individual capacity but
solely as Indenture Trustee
Dated:
By ____________________________________________________
Authorized Signatory
ASSIGNMENT
Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee:
-----------------------------------------------------
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfer
unto ___________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
(name and address of assignee)
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and
appoints _______________________________________________________________________
___________________, attorney, to transfer said Note on the books kept for
registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:_______________________ *
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Signature Guaranteed:
*/
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_______________________________
* NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name
of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in
every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever.
Such signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible grantor institution"
meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, which requirements include
membership or participation in STAMP or such other "signature guarantee
program" as may be determined by the Note Registrar in addition to, or
in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended.
EXHIBIT A-2
FORM OF CLASS A-IO NOTES
UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS
AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS
REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY
AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR
TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY
TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON
IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST
HEREIN.
THIS NOTE DOES NOT REPRESENT AN INTEREST IN OR OBLIGATION OF THE
SELLER, THE DEPOSITOR, THE SERVICER, THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE, THE OWNER TRUSTEE OR
ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE AFFILIATES, EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN THE
INDENTURE OR THE BASIC DOCUMENTS.
INTEREST ON THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN.
THE OUTSTANDING NOTIONAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE
AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
.
XXXXX WHOLE LOAN HOME EQUITY TRUST 2003-D
Home Equity Loan-Backed Notes, Series 2003-D
Class A-IO Notional Amount: $[ ]
Registered
No. 1 Percentage Interest: 100%
CUSIP NO. Note Interest Rate:
Xxxxx Whole Loan Home Equity Trust 2003-D, a statutory trust duly
organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred
to as the "Issuer"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO.
or its registered assigns, interest on this Note at the Note Rate (as described
below), payable on each Payment Date in an amount equal to the pro rata portion
allocable hereto (based on the Initial Notional Amount specified above and the
Initial Notional Amount of all Class A-IO Notes), if any, payable from the
Payment Account in respect of the Class IO Notes (the "Notes") pursuant to
Section 3.05 of the indenture dated as of November 25, 2003 (the "Indenture"),
between the Issuer and U.S. Bank National Association, as Indenture trustee (the
"Indenture Trustee"). Capitalized terms used herein that are not otherwise
defined shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in Appendix A to the Indenture.
The Class IO Notes are not entitled to payments of principal.
Pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, a distribution will be made on
the twenty-fifth day of each month, or, if any such date is not a Business Day,
then the next Business Day.(the "Payment Date"), commencing as described in the
Indenture, to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of
business on the last day immediately preceding such Payment Date, from the
Remittance Amount in an amount equal to the product of the Percentage Interest
evidenced by this Notes and the amount of interest, if any required to be
distributed to Holders of Class A-IO Notes on such Payment Date.
Interest will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days in
each Accrual Period and a year assumed to consist of 360 days. Interest on this
Note shall be calculated on the Notional Amount, which may be reduced from time
to time, and will be paid in the manner specified herein.
Payments on this Note are payable in such coin or currency of the
United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment
of public and private debts.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by
the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this Note
shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture, or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose.
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer,
designated as its Home Equity Loan-Backed Notes, Series 2003-D, all issued under
the Indenture, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto
reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and
obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders.
The Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture.
The Notes are and will be equally and ratably secured by the collateral
pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture.
Any amount payable on any Note that is punctually paid or duly provided
for by the Issuer on the applicable Payment Date shall be paid to the related
Noteholder on the preceding Record Date, by wire transfer to an account
specified in writing by such Noteholder reasonably satisfactory to the Indenture
Trustee as of the preceding Record Date or, if no such instructions have been
delivered to the Indenture Trustee, by check or money order to such Noteholder
mailed to such Noteholder's address as it appears in the Note Register, the
amount required to be distributed to such Noteholder on such Payment Date
pursuant to such Noteholder's Notes; provided, however, that the Indenture
Trustee shall not pay to such Noteholder any amount required to be withheld from
a payment to such Noteholder by the Code. Any reduction in the Principal Amount
specified above (or any one or more predecessor Notes) effected by any payments
made on any Payment Date shall be binding upon all future Noteholders of this
Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in
exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations set
forth therein, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register
upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the Corporate Trust
Office of the Indenture Trustee, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly
executed by, the Noteholder hereof or such Noteholder's attorney duly authorized
in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor
institution" meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, which requirements
include membership or participation in the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion
Program ("STAMP") or such other "signature guarantee program" as may be
determined by the Note Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP,
all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and
thereupon one or more new Notes in authorized denominations and in the same
aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees. No service charge will be charged for any registration of transfer
or exchange of this Note, but the Note Registrar shall require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of this Note.
Each Holder or Beneficial Owner of a Note, by its acceptance of a Note,
or, in the case of a Beneficial Owner of a Note, a security entitlement to a
Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee,
the Sellers, the Servicer, the Depositor or the Indenture Trustee on the Notes
or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in
its individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer
or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee
of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, any
holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the
Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the
Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, except as any such Person may have
expressly agreed.
Each Holder or Beneficial Owner of a Note, by its acceptance of a Note
or, in the case of a Beneficial Owner of a Note, a security entitlement to a
Note, covenants and agrees by accepting the benefits of the Indenture that such
Holder or Beneficial Owner will not at any time institute against the Issuer or
the Depositor, or join in any institution against the Issuer or the Depositor
of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation
proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law
in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the Indenture or the
other Basic Documents.
Each Holder or Beneficial Owner of this Note, by acceptance of this
Note or a security entitlement thereto, represents that its acquisition of the
Note does not constitute or give rise to a prohibited transaction under Section
406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, for which no statutory, regulatory or
administrative exemption is available.
The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Note is issued with
the intention that, for federal, state and local income, single business and
franchise tax purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness of the Issuer.
Each holder of a Note, by acceptance of a Note (and each Beneficial Owner of a
Note by acceptance of a security entitlement to a Note), agrees to treat the
Notes for federal, state and local income, single business and franchise tax
purposes as indebtedness of the Issuer.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note,
the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture
Trustee may treat the Person in the name of which this Note is registered (as of
the day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the
Indenture) as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall
be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee and the rights of the Noteholders under the
Indenture at any time by the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee with the consent
of holders of the Notes representing a majority of the aggregate Voting Rights
of all Notes then Outstanding and with prior notice to the Rating Agencies. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the holders of Notes representing
specified percentages of the Voting Rights of all Notes, on behalf of the
holders of all Notes, to waive compliance by the Issuer with certain provisions
of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their
consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the holder of this Note (or any one
of more predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Noteholder
and upon all future holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether
or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note. The Indenture
also permits the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain
terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of the
holders of the Notes issued thereunder but with prior notice to the Rating
Agencies and the Enhancer.
The term "Issuer" as used in this Note includes any successor or the
Issuer under the Indenture.
The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain circumstances,
to merge or consolidate, subject to the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the
Noteholders.
The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as
provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.
This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the
laws of the State of New York, without reference to its conflicts of law
provisions, and the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder
and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or
of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay interest on this Note at the times, place and
rate, and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as expressly
provided in the Basic Documents, none of U.S. Bank National Association in its
individual capacity, Wilmington Trust Company in its individual capacity, any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, or any of their respective
partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, employees or successors or
assigns shall be personally liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of them
for, the payment of interest on this Note or the performance of, or the failure
to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or indemnifications contained in
the Indenture. The holder of this Note, by its acceptance hereof, agrees that,
except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case of an Event of
Default under the Indenture, such Noteholder shall have no claim against any of
the foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however,
that nothing contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to, and
enforcement against, the assets of the Issuer for any and all liabilities,
obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this Note.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this Note to be duly
executed.
XXXXX WHOLE LOAN HOME EQUITY
TRUST 2003-D
By WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
Dated:
By ___________________________________________________________
Authorized Signatory
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes referred to in the within mentioned Indenture.
U.S. BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, not in its
individual capacity but
solely as Indenture Trustee
Dated:
By _______________________________________________
Authorized Signatory
ASSIGNMENT
Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee:
-----------------------------------------------------
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfer unto
(name and address of assignee)
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and
appoints ___________________, attorney, to transfer said Note on the books kept for
registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:_______________________ *
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Signature Guaranteed:
*/
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______________________
* NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name
of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in
every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever.
Such signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible grantor institution"
meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, which requirements include
membership or participation in STAMP or such other "signature guarantee
program" as may be determined by the Note Registrar in addition to, or in
substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended.
EXHIBIT A-3
FORM OF CLASS M NOTES
UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS
AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS
REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED
BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO.
OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC),
ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON
IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST
HEREIN.
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH
HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME
MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
THIS NOTE DOES NOT REPRESENT AN INTEREST IN OR OBLIGATION OF THE
SELLER, THE DEPOSITOR, THE SERVICER, THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE, THE OWNER TRUSTEE OR
ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE AFFILIATES, EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN THE
INDENTURE OR THE BASIC DOCUMENTS.
XXXXX WHOLE LOAN HOME EQUITY TRUST 2003-D
Home Equity Loan-Backed Notes, Series 2003-D
Class M-[___] Principal Amount: $[__________]
Registered
No. 1 Percentage Interest: 100%
CUSIP NO. Note Interest Rate: Variable
Xxxxx Whole Loan Home Equity Trust 2003-D, a statutory trust duly
organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred
to as the "Issuer"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO.
or registered assigns, the principal sum of $[______________], payable on each
Payment Date in an amount equal to the Percentage Interest specified above of
the aggregate amount, if any, payable from the Payment Account in respect of
principal on the Class M-[___] Notes pursuant to Section 3.05 of the Indenture
dated as of November 25, 2003 (the "Indenture") between the Issuer, as Issuer,
and U.S. Bank National Association, as indenture trustee (the "Indenture
Trustee"); provided, however, that the entire unpaid principal amount of
this Note shall be due and payable on the Final Scheduled Payment Date, to the
extent not previously paid on a prior Payment Date. Capitalized terms used but not
defined herein are defined in Appendix A of the Indenture.
Pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, a distribution will be made on
the twenty-fifth day of each month, or, if any such date is not a Business Day,
then the next Business Day.(the "Payment Date"), commencing as described in the
Indenture, to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of
business on the last day (or if such last day is not a Business Day, the
Business Day immediately preceding such last day) related Accrual Period, or, in
the case of the first Payment Date, November 28, 2003, from the Remittance
Amount in an amount equal to the product of the Percentage Interest evidenced by
this Notes and the amount of interest and principal, if any required to be
distributed to Holders of Class M-[_] Notes on such Payment Date.
Interest will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days in
each Accrual Period and a year assumed to consist of 360 days.
Principal of and Interest on this Note are payable in such coin or
currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal
tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Issuer
with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and payable on
this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by
the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this Note
shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture, or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose.
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer,
designated as its Home Equity Loan-Backed Notes, Series 2003-D, all issued under
the Indenture, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto
reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and
obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders.
The Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture.
The Notes are and will be equally and ratably secured by the collateral
pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture.
The entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and
payable in full on the Final Scheduled Payment Date pursuant to the Indenture,
to the extent not previously paid on a prior Payment Date. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, then
the Indenture Trustee or the holders of Notes representing not less than a
majority of the Voting Rights of all Notes may declare the Notes to be
immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.02 of the
Indenture.
Payments of interest on this Note due and payable on each Payment Date,
together with the installment of principal, if any, to the extent not in full
payment of this Note, shall be made by check mailed to the Person whose name
appears as the Registered Holder of this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes)
on the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date, except
that with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of the
nominee of the Depository Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.),
payments will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the
account designated by such nominee. Such checks shall be mailed to the Person
entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note
Register as of the applicable Record Date without requiring that this Note be
submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal amount of this
Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) effected by any payments made on any
Payment Date shall be binding upon all future holders of this Note and of any
Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be available,
as provided in the Indenture, for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid
principal amount of this Note on a Payment Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in
the name of and on behalf of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the
Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date with respect to the preceding
Payment Date by notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such Payment
Date, and the amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon
presentation and surrender of this Note at the address specified in such notice
of final payment.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations set
forth therein, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register
upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the Corporate Trust
Office, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in
form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the holder hereof
or such holder's attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature
guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of
the Note Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in
the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such other
"signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Note Registrar in
addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and thereupon one or more new Notes
in authorized denominations and in the same aggregate principal amount will be
issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service charge will be
charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this Note, but the Note
Registrar shall require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of
transfer or exchange of this Note.
Each Holder or Beneficial Owner of a Note, by acceptance of a Note, or,
in the case of a Beneficial Owner of a Note, a security entitlement to a Note,
covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with
respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Seller, the
Servicer, the Depositor or the Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under the
Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith,
against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual
capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any
partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, any holder of
a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee
or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in
its individual capacity, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed.
Each Holder or Beneficial Owner of a Note, by acceptance of a Note or,
in the case of a Beneficial Owner of a Note, a security entitlement to a Note,
covenants and agrees by accepting the benefits of the Indenture that such Holder
or Beneficial Owner of a Note will not prior to the day that is one year and one
day after the date this Indenture terminates, institute against the Issuer or
the Depositor, or join in any institution against the Issuer or the Depositor
of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation
proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law
in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the Indenture or the
Basic Documents.
Each Holder or Beneficial Owner of this Note, by acceptance of this
Note or a security entitlement thereto, represents that its acquisition of the
Note does not constitute or give rise to a prohibited transaction under Section
406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, for which no statutory, regulatory or
administrative exemption is available.
The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Note is issued with
the intention that, for federal, state and local income, single business and
franchise tax purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness of the Issuer.
Each holder of a Note, by acceptance of a Note (and each Beneficial Owner of a
Note by acceptance of a security entitlement to a Note), agrees to treat the
Notes for federal, state and local income, single business and franchise tax
purposes as indebtedness of the Issuer.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note,
the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture
Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered (as of the
day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the
Indenture) as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall
be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee and the rights of the holders of the Notes
under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee with the
consent of the holders of Notes representing a majority of the Voting Rights of
all Notes at the time Outstanding and with prior notice to the Rating Agencies.
The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the holders of Notes
representing specified percentages of the Voting Rights of all Notes, on behalf
of the holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the Issuer with certain
provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and
their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the holder of this Note (or
any one of more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such
holder and upon all future holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether
or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note. The Indenture
also permits the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain
terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of the
Noteholders but with prior notice to the Rating Agencies.
The term "Issuer" as used in this Note includes any successor or the
Issuer under the Indenture.
The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain circumstances,
to merge or consolidate, subject to the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the
Noteholders.
The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as
provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.
This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the
laws of the State of New York, without reference to its conflict of law
provisions and the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and
thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or
of the Indenture shall alter or impair, the obligation of the Issuer, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at
the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as expressly
provided in the Basic Documents, none of U.S. Bank National Association, in its
individual capacity, Wilmington Trust Company, in its individual capacity, any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, or any of their respective
partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, employees or successors or
assigns shall be personally liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of them
for, the payment of principal of or interest on this Note or performance of, or
omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or indemnifications
contained in the Indenture. The holder of this Note by its acceptance hereof
agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case of
an Event of Default under the Indenture, the holder shall have no claim against
any of the foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided,
however, that nothing contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to,
and enforcement against, the assets of the Issuer for any and all liabilities,
obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this Note.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this Note to be duly
executed.
XXXXX WHOLE LOAN HOME EQUITY
TRUST 2003-D
By WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
Dated:
By ________________________________________________
Authorized Signatory
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes referred to in the within mentioned Indenture.
U.S. BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, not in its
individual capacity but
solely as Indenture Trustee
Dated:
By ________________________________________________
Authorized Signatory
ASSIGNMENT
Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee:
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfer
unto ___________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
(name and address of assignee)
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and
appoints _______________________________________________________________________
___________________, attorney, to transfer said Note on the books kept for
registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:_______________________ *
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Signature Guaranteed:
*/
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_______________________
* NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name
of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in
every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever.
Such signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible grantor institution"
meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, which requirements include
membership or participation in STAMP or such other "signature guarantee
program" as may be determined by the Note Registrar in addition to, or in
substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended.
EXHIBIT A-4
FORM OF CLASS B NOTES
UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS
AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS
REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED
BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO.
OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC),
ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON
IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST
HEREIN.
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH
HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME
MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
THIS NOTE DOES NOT REPRESENT AN INTEREST IN OR OBLIGATION OF THE
SELLER, THE DEPOSITOR, THE SERVICER, THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE, THE OWNER TRUSTEE OR
ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE AFFILIATES, EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN THE
INDENTURE OR THE BASIC DOCUMENTS.
XXXXX WHOLE LOAN HOME EQUITY TRUST 2003-X
Xxxxx Whole Loan Home Equity Trust 2003-D
Class B-[ ] Principal Amount: $[____________]
Registered
No. 1 Percentage Interest: 100%
CUSIP NO. Note Interest Rate: Variable
Xxxxx Whole Loan Home Equity Trust 2003-D, a statutory trust duly
organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred
to as the "Issuer"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO.
or registered assigns, the principal sum of $[____________], payable on each
Payment Date in an amount equal to the Percentage Interest specified above of
the aggregate amount, if any, payable from the Payment Account in respect of
principal on the Class B-[ ] Notes pursuant to Section 3.05 of the Indenture
dated as of November 25, 2003 (the "Indenture") between the Issuer, as issuer,
and U.S. Bank National Association, as indenture trustee (the "Indenture
Trustee"); provided, however, that the entire unpaid principal amount of this
Note shall be due and payable on the Final Scheduled Payment Date, to the extent
not previously paid on a prior Payment Date. Capitalized terms used but not
defined herein are defined in Appendix A of the Indenture.
Pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, a distribution will be made on
the twenty-fifth day of each month, or, if any such date is not a Business Day,
then the next Business Day.(the "Payment Date"), commencing as described in the
Indenture, to the Person in whose name this Note is registered [at the close of
business on the last day (or if such last day is not a Business Day, the
Business Day immediately preceding such last day) related Accrual Period, or, in
the case of the first Payment Date, November 28, 2003,] [on the last day of the
month preceding such Payment Date] from the Remittance Amount in an amount equal
to the product of the Percentage Interest evidenced by this Notes and the amount
of interest and principal, if any required to be distributed to Holders of Class
B-[_] Notes on such Payment Date.
Interest will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days in
each Accrual Period and a year assumed to consist of 360 days.
Principal of and Interest on this Note are payable in such coin or
currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal
tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Issuer
with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and payable on
this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by
the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this Note
shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture, or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose.
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer,
designated as its Home Equity Loan-Backed Notes, Series 2003-D, all issued under
the Indenture, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto
reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and
obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders.
The Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture.
The Notes are and will be equally and ratably secured by the collateral
pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture.
The entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and
payable in full on the Final Scheduled Payment Date pursuant to the Indenture,
to the extent not previously paid on a prior Payment Date. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, then
the Indenture Trustee or the holders of Notes representing not less than a
majority of the Voting Rights of all Notes may declare the Notes to be
immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.02 of the
Indenture.
Payments of interest on this Note due and payable on each Payment Date,
together with the installment of principal, if any, to the extent not in full
payment of this Note, shall be made by check mailed to the Person whose name
appears as the Registered Holder of this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes)
on the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date, except
that with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of the
nominee of the Depository Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.),
payments will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the
account designated by such nominee. Such checks shall be mailed to the Person
entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note
Register as of the applicable Record Date without requiring that this Note be
submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal amount of this
Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) effected by any payments made on any
Payment Date shall be binding upon all future holders of this Note and of any
Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be available,
as provided in the Indenture, for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid
principal amount of this Note on a Payment Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in
the name of and on behalf of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the
Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date with respect to the preceding
such Payment Date by notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such
Payment Date, and the amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon
presentation and surrender of this Note at the address specified in such notice
of final payment.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations set
forth therein, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register
upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the Corporate Trust
Office, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in
form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the holder hereof
or such holder's attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature
guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of
the Note Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in
the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such other
"signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Note Registrar in
addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and thereupon one or more new Notes
in authorized denominations and in the same aggregate principal amount will be
issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service charge will be
charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this Note, but the Note
Registrar shall require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of
transfer or exchange of this Note.
Each Holder or Beneficial Owner of a Note, by acceptance of a Note, or,
in the case of a Beneficial Owner of a Note, a security entitlement to a Note,
covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with
respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Seller, the
Servicer, the Depositor or the Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under the
Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith,
against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual
capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any
partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, any holder of
a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee
or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in
its individual capacity, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed.
Each Holder or Beneficial Owner of a Note, by acceptance of a Note or,
in the case of a Beneficial Owner of a Note, a security entitlement to a Note,
covenants and agrees by accepting the benefits of the Indenture that such Holder
or Beneficial Owner of a Note will not prior to the day that is one year and one
day after the date this Indenture terminates, institute against the Issuer or
the Depositor, or join in any institution against the Issuer or the Depositor
of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation
proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law
in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the Indenture or the
Basic Documents.
Each Holder or Beneficial Owner of this Note, by acceptance of this
Note or a security entitlement thereto, represents that its acquisition of the
Note does not constitute or give rise to a prohibited transaction under Section
406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, for which no statutory, regulatory or
administrative exemption is available.
The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Note is issued with
the intention that, for federal, state and local income, single business and
franchise tax purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness of the Issuer.
Each holder of a Note, by acceptance of a Note (and each Beneficial Owner of a
Note by acceptance of a security entitlement to a Note), agrees to treat the
Notes for federal, state and local income, single business and franchise tax
purposes as indebtedness of the Issuer.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note,
the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture
Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered (as of the
day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the
Indenture) as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall
be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee and the rights of the holders of the Notes
under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee with the
consent of the holders of Notes representing a majority of the Voting Rights of
all Notes at the time Outstanding and with prior notice to the Rating Agencies.
The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the holders of Notes
representing specified percentages of the Voting Rights of all Notes, on behalf
of the holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the Issuer with certain
provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and
their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the holder of this Note (or
any one of more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such
holder and upon all future holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether
or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note. The Indenture
also permits the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain
terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of the
Noteholders but with prior notice to the Rating Agencies.
The term "Issuer" as used in this Note includes any successor or the
Issuer under the Indenture.
The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain circumstances,
to merge or consolidate, subject to the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the
Noteholders.
The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as
provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.
This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the
laws of the State of New York, without reference to its conflict of law
provisions and the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and
thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or
of the Indenture shall alter or impair, the obligation of the Issuer, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at
the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as expressly
provided in the Basic Documents, none of U.S. Bank National Association, in its
individual capacity, Wilmington Trust Company, in its individual capacity, any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, or any of their respective
partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, employees or successors or
assigns shall be personally liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of them
for, the payment of principal of or interest on this Note or performance of, or
omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or indemnifications
contained in the Indenture. The holder of this Note by its acceptance hereof
agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case of
an Event of Default under the Indenture, the holder shall have no claim against
any of the foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided,
however, that nothing contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to,
and enforcement against, the assets of the Issuer for any and all liabilities,
obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this Note.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this Note to be duly
executed.
XXXXX WHOLE LOAN HOME EQUITY
TRUST 2003-D
By WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
Dated:
By ________________________________________________
Authorized Signatory
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes referred to in the within mentioned Indenture.
U.S. BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, not in its
individual capacity but
solely as Indenture Trustee
Dated:
By ________________________________________________
Authorized Signatory
ASSIGNMENT
Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee:
-----------------------------------------------------
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfer
unto ___________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
(name and address of assignee)
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and
appoints _______________________________________________________________________
___________________, attorney, to transfer said Note on the books kept for
registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:_______________________ *
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Signature Guaranteed:
*/
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___________________________
* NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name
of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in
every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever.
Such signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible grantor institution"
meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, which requirements include
membership or participation in STAMP or such other "signature guarantee
program" as may be determined by the Note Registrar in addition to, or
in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended.
EXHIBIT B
FORM OF DEPOSITOR CERTIFICATION
Re: Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Acceptance Corp.
Xxxxx Whole Loan Home Equity Trust 2003-D
Home Equity Loan-Backed Notes, Series 2003-D
I, __________________________, certify that:
1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K, and all
reports on Form 8-K containing distribution and servicing reports filed in
respect of periods included in the year covered by this annual report, of Xxxxx
Whole Loan Home Equity Trust 2003-D (the "Trust");
2. Based on my knowledge, the information in these reports,
taken as a whole, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or
omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of
the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading as of
the last day of the period covered by this annual report;
3. Based on my knowledge, the distribution information
required to be prepared by the Indenture Trustee based upon the servicing
information required to be provided by the Servicer under the Servicing
Agreement is included in these reports;
4. I am responsible for reviewing the activities performed by
the Servicer under the Servicing Agreement and based upon the review required
under the Servicing Agreement, and except as disclosed in the report, the
Servicer has fulfilled its obligations under the Servicing Agreement; and
5. I have disclosed to the Depositor's certified public
accountants all significant deficiencies relating to the Servicer's compliance
with the minimum servicing standards in accordance with a review conducted in
compliance with the Uniform Single Attestation Program for Mortgage Bankers or
similar standard as set forth in the Servicing Agreement.
Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meanings
ascribed to them in Appendix A to the Indenture, dated as of November 25, 2003
(the "Indenture"), among the Trust and U.S. Bank National Association, as
indenture trustee.
CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON MORTGAGE ACCEPTANCE CORP.
By:
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Name:
Title:
Date:
EXHIBIT C
FORM OF INDENTURE TRUSTEE CERTIFICATION
Re: Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Acceptance Corp.
Xxxxx Whole Loan Home Equity Trust 2003-D
Home Equity Loan-Backed Notes, Series 2003-D
I, ___________________________, am a [title] of U.S. Bank National
Association (in its capacity as indenture trustee for the above-referenced
notes, the "Indenture Trustee"), and in such capacity hereby certify to Credit
Suisse First Boston Mortgage Acceptance Corp. (the "Depositor"), and its
officers, directors and affiliates, and with the knowledge and intent that they
will rely upon this certification, that:
1. I have reviewed the annual report on Form 10-K for the
fiscal year [___], and all reports on Form 8-K containing Monthly Statements
filed in respect of periods included in the year covered by that annual report,
of the Depositor relating to the above-referenced trust;
2. Subject to paragraph 4 hereof, based on my knowledge, the
Distribution Information in the Monthly Statements, taken as a whole, does not
contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which
such statements were made, not misleading as of the last day of the period
covered by that annual report; and
3. Based on my knowledge, the Distribution Information
required to be provided by the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture is included
in these reports.
4. In compiling the Distribution Information and making the
foregoing certifications, the Indenture Trustee has relied upon information
furnished to it by the Servicer under the Servicing Agreement. The Indenture
Trustee shall have no responsibility or liability for any inaccuracy in all
reports on Form 8-K resulting from information received from the Servicer unless
such inaccuracy is due to the Indenture Trustee's own negligence, willful
misconduct or bad faith.
For purposes of this Certificate, the following terms shall have the
meanings ascribed below:
"Distribution Information" shall mean that information calculated
and reported by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Sections 3.25 and 6.16 of the
Indenture.
"Monthly Statements" shall mean the monthly statements prepared
by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 3.25 of the Indenture.
Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meanings
ascribed to them in Appendix A to the Indenture, dated as of November 25, 2003
(the "Indenture"), between the Xxxxx Whole Loan Home Equity Trust 2003-D and the
Indenture Trustee.
U.S. BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, as Indenture
Trustee
By:
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Name:
Title:
Date: