Depositor CREDIT SUISSE SECURITIES (USA) LLC, Underlying Certificate Seller and THE BANK OF NEW YORK, Trustee, Securities Intermediary and Bank TRUST AGREEMENT Dated as of December 26, 2007 CWALT, Inc. Alternative Loan Trust Resecuritization 2008-1R...
Exhibit
99.1
EXECUTION
COPY
CWALT,
INC.,
Depositor
CREDIT
SUISSE SECURITIES (USA) LLC,
Underlying
Certificate Seller
and
THE
BANK
OF NEW YORK,
Trustee,
Securities Intermediary and Bank
_______________________________
Dated
as
of December 26, 2007
_______________________________
CWALT,
Inc.
Resecuritization
Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2008-1R
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Page
ARTICLE
I DEFINITIONS
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6
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Section
1.01
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Defined
Terms.
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6
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Section
1.02
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Certain
Interpretive
Principles.
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22
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ARTICLE
II CONVEYANCE OF THE DEPOSITED UNDERLYING CERTIFICATES; ORIGINAL ISSUANCE
OF
CERTIFICATES
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23
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Section
2.01
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Conveyance
of the
Deposited Underlying Certificates.
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23
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Section
2.02
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Acceptance
by
Trustee.
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24
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Section
2.03
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Representations
and
Warranties of the Underlying Certificate
Seller.
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24
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Section
2.04
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Representations
and
Warranties of the Depositor.
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26
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Section
2.05
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Issuance
of
Certificates.
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28
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Section
2.06
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REMIC
Matters.
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28
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Section
2.07
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Presentation
for
Transfer.
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28
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ARTICLE
III ADMINISTRATION OF THE TRUST FUND; PAYMENTS AND REPORTS TO
CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
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29
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Section
3.01
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Defaults
by the
Underlying Trusts.
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29
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Section
3.02
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Distribution
Account
and Securities Account.
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29
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Section
3.03
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Permitted
Withdrawals
From the Distribution Account.
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30
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Section
3.04
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Distributions.
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31
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Section
3.05
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[Reserved].
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32
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Section
3.06
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Allocation
of Realized
Losses.
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32
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Section
3.07
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Determination
of
Pass-Through Rates for LIBOR Certificates.
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33
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Section
3.08
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Monthly
Statements to
Certificateholders.
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35
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Section
3.09
|
Reports
of the
Trustee; Distribution Account.
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35
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Section
3.10
|
Access
to Certain
Documentation and Information.
|
35
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Section
3.11
|
Annual
Statement as to
Compliance.
|
35
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ARTICLE
IV THE CERTIFICATES
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37
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|
Section
4.01
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The
Certificates.
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37
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Section
4.02
|
Certificate
Register;
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of
Certificates.
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37
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Section
4.03
|
Mutilated,
Destroyed,
Lost or Stolen Certificates.
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41
|
Section
4.04
|
Persons
Deemed
Owners.
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42
|
Section
4.05
|
Access
to List of
Certificateholders’ Names and Addresses.
|
42
|
Section
4.06
|
Maintenance
of Office
or Agency.
|
42
|
Section
4.07
|
Depositable
and
Exchangeable Certificates.
|
42
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ARTICLE
V CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
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45
|
|
Section
5.01
|
Duties
of
Trustee.
|
45
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Section
5.02
|
Certain
Matters
Affecting the Trustee.
|
45
|
Section
5.03
|
Trustee
Not Liable for
Certificates or Deposited Underlying
Certificates.
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47
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Section
5.04
|
Trustee
May Own
Certificates.
|
47
|
Section
5.05
|
Trustee’s
Fees and
Expenses.
|
47
|
Section
5.06
|
Indemnification
of the
Trustee.
|
47
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Section
5.07
|
Eligibility
Requirements for Trustee.
|
47
|
Section
5.08
|
Resignation
and
Removal of Trustee.
|
48
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Section
5.09
|
Successor
Trustee.
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49
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Section
5.10
|
Merger
or
Consolidation of Trustee.
|
49
|
Section
5.11
|
Appointment
of
Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee.
|
50
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Section
5.12
|
Tax
Matters.
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51
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ARTICLE
VI THE DEPOSITOR
|
54
|
Section
6.01
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Liability
of the
Depositor.
|
54
|
Section
6.02
|
Merger,
Consolidation
or Conversion of the Depositor.
|
54
|
Section
6.03
|
Limitation
on
Liability of the Depositor and Others.
|
54
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ARTICLE
VII TERMINATION
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55
|
|
Section
7.01
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Termination.
|
55
|
Section
7.02
|
Final
Distribution on
the Certificates.
|
55
|
Section
7.03
|
Additional
Termination
Requirements.
|
56
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ARTICLE
VIII MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
|
58
|
|
Section
8.01
|
Amendment.
|
58
|
Section
8.02
|
Action
Under and
Conflicts With an Underlying Agreement.
|
59
|
Section
8.03
|
Recordation
of
Agreement.
|
60
|
Section
8.04
|
Certain
REMIC
Matters.
|
60
|
Section
8.05
|
Limitation
on Rights
of Certificateholders.
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60
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Section
8.06
|
Governing
Law.
|
61
|
Section
8.07
|
Notices.
|
61
|
Section
8.08
|
Severability
of
Provisions.
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61
|
Section
8.09
|
Successors
and
Assigns.
|
62
|
Section
8.10
|
Article
and Section
Headings.
|
62
|
Section
8.11
|
Certificates
Nonassessable and Fully Paid.
|
62
|
Section
8.12
|
Protection
of
Assets.
|
62
|
ARTICLE
IX EXCHANGE ACT REPORTING
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63
|
|
Section
9.01
|
Filing
Obligations.
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63
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Section
9.02
|
Form
10-D
Filings.
|
63
|
Section
9.03
|
Form
8-K
Filings.
|
64
|
Section
9.04
|
Form
10-K
Filings.
|
64
|
Section
9.05
|
Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Certification.
|
65
|
Section
9.06
|
Form
15
Filing.
|
65
|
Section
9.07
|
Report
on Assessment
of Compliance and Attestation.
|
65
|
Section
9.08
|
Use
of
Subcontractors.
|
66
|
Section
9.09
|
Amendments.
|
67
|
Section
9.10
|
Reconciliation
of
Accounts.
|
67
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Schedule
I List of Deposited Underlying Certificates and Underlying
Agreements
|
|
Schedule
II [Reserved]
|
|
Schedule
III Available Exchanges of Depositable Certificates for Exchangeable
Certificates
|
|
Exhibit
A - Form of Senior Certificate or Exchangeable Certificate
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A-1
|
Exhibit
B – [Reserved]
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B-1
|
Exhibit
C - Form of Residual Certificate
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C-1
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Exhibit
D - Form of Reverse of Certificate
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D-1
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Exhibit
E - Form of Transferor Affidavit
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E-1
|
Exhibit
F - Form of Transfer Affidavit for the Class A-R
Certificate
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F-1
|
Exhibit
G - Form of Monthly Statement
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F-1
|
Exhibit
H - Form of Performance Certification
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H-1
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Exhibit
I - Form of Servicing Criteria to be Addressed in
Assessment
|
|
of
Compliance Statement
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I-1
|
Exhibit
J - List of Item 1119 Parties
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J-1
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Exhibit
K - Form of Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Certification
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K-1
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Exhibit
L - Form of Item 1123 Certificate
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L-1
|
TRUST
AGREEMENT, dated as of December 26, 2007, by and among CWALT, Inc., as depositor
(the “Depositor”), Credit Suisse (USA) LLC, as underlying certificate seller
(the “Underlying Certificate Seller”), and The Bank of New York, as trustee (the
“Trustee”) and in its capacities as Securities Intermediary and as Bank (each as
defined below).
W
I T N E S S E T
H:
WHEREAS,
the Depositor, the Underlying Certificate Seller and the Trustee desire to
enter
into a trust agreement dated as of the date hereof (the “Trust Agreement”);
and
WHEREAS,
the Underlying Certificate Seller has transferred its interests in and to the
Deposited Underlying Certificates (as defined herein) to the Depositor pursuant
to a xxxx of sale executed by the Underlying Certificate Seller in favor of
the
Depositor;
NOW
THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained, the
parties hereto agree as follows:
PRELIMINARY
STATEMENT
The
Depositor is the owner of the Trust Fund that is hereby conveyed to the Trustee
in return for the Certificates. For federal income tax purposes, the
Trustee shall treat the Trust Fund as consisting of a trust (the “ES Trust”)
beneath which is one real estate mortgage investment conduit (the “Master
REMIC”) and shall make all elections as necessary for such
treatment. The Master REMIC will hold all the assets of the Trust
Fund and will issue several classes of uncertificated Master REMIC
Interests. The Class A-R Interest is hereby designated as the
residual interest in the Master REMIC and each other Master REMIC Interest
is
hereby designated as a regular interest in the Master REMIC. The
“latest possible maturity date,” for federal income tax purposes, of all REMIC
regular interests created hereby will be the Latest Possible Maturity
Date.
The
ES
Trust shall hold the MR-A-R Interest, all Master REMIC regular interests and
shall issue the Certificates. Each Certificate, other than the Class
A-R Certificate, will represent ownership of one or more of the Master REMIC
regular interests held by the ES Trust. The Class A-R Certificate
will represent ownership of the MR-A-R Interest, which is the sole Class of
REMIC residual interest in the Master REMIC.
For
federal income tax purposes the Trustee shall treat the ES Trust as a Grantor
Trust and shall treat each Holder of an ES Trust Certificate as the owner of
the
individual, underlying assets represented by such ES Trust
Certificate. In addition, to the fullest extent possible, ownership
of an ES Trust Certificate shall be treated as direct ownership of the
individual, underlying assets represented by such ES Trust Certificate for
federal income tax reporting purposes. The ES Trust will not form
part of any REMIC.
The
following table sets forth characteristics of the ES Trust Certificates,
together with the minimum denominations and integral multiples in excess thereof
in which such Classes shall be issuable (except that one Residual Certificate
representing the Tax Matters Person Certificate may be issued in a different
amount):
Class
Designation
|
Initial
Maximum
Class
Certificate
Balance
|
Pass-
Through
Rate
(per
annum)
|
Minimum
Denomination
|
Integral
Multiples
in
Excess of
Minimum
|
Possible
Classes
of
Master
REMIC
Interests
Represented
(4)
|
||||||||||||
Class
1-A-1
|
$ | 69,855,000 | (1 | ) | $ | 25,000.00 | $ | 1.00 |
MR-1-A-1
|
||||||||
Class
1-A-2
|
$ | 4,807,817 | (1 | ) | $ | 25,000.00 | $ | 1.00 |
MR-1-A-2
|
||||||||
Class
2-A-1
|
$ | 37,729,000 | 6.00 | % | $ | 25,000.00 | $ | 1.00 |
MR-2-A-1
|
||||||||
Class
2-A-2
|
$ | 3,255,377 | 6.00 | % | $ | 25,000.00 | $ | 1.00 |
MR-2-A-2
|
||||||||
Class
2-A-3
|
$ | 40,984,377 | 6.00 | % | $ | 25,000.00 | $ | 1.00 |
XX-0-X-0,
XX-0-X-0
|
||||||||
Class
A-R (2)
|
$ | 100 | 6.00 | % | (3 | ) | (3 | ) |
N/A
|
|
(1)
|
The
Pass-Through Rate for this Class of Certificates for the Interest
Accrual
Period for any Distribution Date will be a per annum rate of LIBOR
plus
0.47%, subject to a maximum and minimum Pass-Through Rate of 7.00%
and
0.47% per annum, respectively. The Pass-Through Rate for this Class
of
Certificates for the Interest Accrual Period for the first Distribution
Date is 5.335% per annum.
|
(2)
|
The
Class A-R Certificate evidences the sole Class of residual interest
in the
Master REMIC.
|
(3)
|
The
Class A-R Certificate shall be issued as two separate certificates,
one
with an initial Certificate Balance of $99.99 and the Tax Matters
Person
Certificate with an initial Certificate Balance of $0.01.
|
(4)
|
See
Schedule III for information regarding the combinations of the Depositable
Certificates and Exchangeable Certificates related to these uncertificated
Master REMIC Interests.
|
It
is not
intended that the Class A-R Certificates be entitled to any cash flow pursuant
to this Agreement except as provided in Section 3.04(b)(1)(i) and Section
3.04(b)(2)(A) hereunder, (that is, its entitlement to $100 plus interest thereon
in the waterfall).
2
The
following table specifies the class designation, interest rate, and principal
amount for each class of Master REMIC Interest:
Master
REMIC
Interest
|
Initial
Principal
Balance
|
Interest
Rate
|
Possible
Corresponding
ES
Trust
Certificates
|
|||||||
MR-1-A-1
|
$ | 69,855,000 | (1 | ) | 0-X-0 | |||||
XX-0-X-0
|
$ | 4,807,817 | (1 | ) | 0-X-0 | |||||
XX-0-X-0
|
$ | 37,729,000 | 6.00 | % | 0-X-0, 0-X-0 | |||||
XX-0-X-0
|
$ | 3,255,377 | 6.00 | % | 0-X-0, 0-X-0 | |||||
XX-X-X
|
(2 | ) | (2 | ) | N/A |
(1)
|
The
MR-1-A-1 and MR-1-A-2 Master REMIC Interests will bear interest during
each Interest Accrual Period at a per annum rate of LIBOR plus 0.47%,
subject to a maximum and minimum interest rate of 7.00% and 0.47%
per
annum, respectively.
|
(2)
|
The
Class MTR-A-R Master REMIC Interest represents the sole Class of
residual
interest in the Master REMIC.
|
3
(3)
|
Set
forth below are designations of Classes of Certificates to the categories
used herein:
|
Accretion
Directed
Certificates
|
None.
|
Accrual
Certificates
|
None.
|
Accrual
Components
|
None.
|
Book-Entry
Certificates
|
All
Classes of Certificates other than the Physical Certificates.
|
Component
Certificates
|
None.
|
Components
|
For
purposes of calculating distributions, the Component Certificates
will be
comprised of multiple payment components having the designations,
Initial
Component Balances and Pass-Through Rates set forth
below:
|
Designation
|
Initial
Component
Balance
|
Pass-Through
Rate
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Delay
Certificates
|
All
interest-bearing Classes of Certificates other than the Non-Delay
Certificates, if any.
|
Depositable
Certificates
|
Class
2-A-1 and Class 2-A-2 Certificates.
|
ERISA-Restricted
Certificates
|
Residual
Certificates; and any Certificate of a Class that ceases to satisfy
the
applicable rating requirement under the Underwriter’s
Exemption.
|
Exchangeable
Certificates
|
Class
2-A-3 Certificates.
|
Floating
Rate
Certificates
|
Class
1-A-1 and Class 1-A-2 Certificates.
|
Inverse
Floating Rate
Certificates.
|
None.
|
COFI
Certificates
|
None.
|
LIBOR
Certificates
|
Floating
Rate and Inverse Floating Rate Certificates.
|
4
Non-Delay
Certificates
|
LIBOR
Certificates.
|
Notional
Amount
Certificates
|
None.
|
Notional
Amount Components
|
None.
|
Offered
Certificates
|
All
Classes of Certificates.
|
Physical
Certificates
|
Residual
Certificates.
|
Planned
Principal
Classes
|
None.
|
Planned
Principal Components
|
None.
|
Principal
Only
Certificates
|
None.
|
Rating
Agencies
|
S&P
and Fitch.
|
Regular
Certificates
|
All
Classes of Certificates other than the Residual Certificates.
|
Residual
Certificates
|
Class
A-R Certificate.
|
Scheduled
Principal
Classes
|
None.
|
Senior
Certificates
|
Class
1-A-1, Class 1-A-2, Class 2-A-1, Class 2-A-2 and Class A-R
Certificates.
|
Subordinated
Certificates
|
None.
|
Targeted
Principal
Classes
|
None.
|
Targeted
Principal
Components
|
None.
|
Underwriter
|
Credit
Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
|
With
respect to any of the foregoing designations as to which the corresponding
reference is “None,” all defined terms and provisions herein relating solely to
such designations shall be of no force or effect, and any calculations herein
incorporating references to such designations shall be interpreted without
reference to such designations and amounts. Defined terms and
provisions herein relating to statistical rating agencies not designated above
as Rating Agencies shall be of no force or effect.
5
ARTICLE
I
DEFINITIONS
Section
1.01 Defined
Terms. Whenever used in this Agreement, the following words
and phrases, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following
meanings:
Account: The
Distribution Account, Exchangeable Certificates Distribution Account, Securities
Account or any other account related to the Trust Fund.
Accretion
Directed
Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Accretion
Direction
Rule: Not applicable.
Accrual
Amount: With respect to any Class of Accrual Certificates
and any Distribution Date prior to the Accrual Termination Date, the amount
allocable to interest on such Class of Accrual Certificates with respect to
such Distribution Date pursuant to Section 3.04(a)(ii) or Section 3.04(b)(ii),
as applicable.
Accrual
Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Accrual
Components: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Accrual
Termination
Date: Not applicable.
Additional
Designated
Information: As defined in Section 9.02.
Aggregate
Planned
Balance: With respect to any group of Planned Principal
Classes or Components and any Distribution Date, the amount set forth for such
group for such Distribution Date in Schedule II hereto.
Aggregate
Targeted
Balance: With respect to any group of Targeted Principal
Classes or Components and any Distribution Date, the amount set forth for such
group for such Distribution Date in Schedule II hereto.
Agreement: This
Trust Agreement and all amendments hereof and supplements hereto.
Allocated
Underlying Net
Interest Shortfalls: As to any Distribution Date, the
Underlying Net Interest Shortfalls allocated to a class of Deposited Underlying
Certificates in accordance with the related Underlying Agreement in connection
with distributions thereon for such Distribution Date.
Allocated
Underlying Net
Prepayment Interest Shortfalls: As to any Distribution Date,
the Underlying Net Prepayment Interest Shortfalls allocated to a class of
Deposited Underlying Certificates in accordance with the related Underlying
Agreement in connection with distributions thereon for such Distribution
Date.
Allocated
Underlying
Realized Losses: As to any Distribution Date, the Underlying
Realized Losses allocated to a class of Deposited Underlying Certificates in
accordance with the related Underlying Agreement in connection with
distributions thereon for such Distribution Date.
6
Available
Interest
Funds: As to any Distribution Date and class of Deposited
Underlying Certificates, the aggregate of all previously undistributed amounts
received by the Trustee on or prior to such Distribution Date as distributions
of interest on such class of Deposited Underlying Certificates.
Available
Principal
Funds: As to any Distribution Date and class of Deposited Underlying
Certificates, the aggregate of all previously undistributed amounts received
by
the Trustee on or prior to such Distribution Date as distributions of principal
on such class of Deposited Underlying Certificates, reduced by the sum of
expenses and liabilities reimbursable to the Depositor pursuant to Section
6.03
hereof and any taxes and related expenses imposed on the Trust Fund to be paid
from amounts otherwise distributable to Certificateholders pursuant to Section
5.12 hereof (in each case, that have not been previously paid by a reduction
of
such Available Principal Funds).
Bank:
As defined in
Section 3.02.
Book-Entry
Certificate: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Business
Day: Any day
other than (i) a Saturday or a Sunday, or (ii) a day on which banking
institutions in the City of New York, New York, or the State of California
or
the city in which the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee is located are
authorized or obligated by law or executive order to be closed.
Capitalized
Interest
Account: Not applicable.
Certificate: Any
one of the Certificates executed by the Trustee substantially in the forms
attached hereto as exhibits.
Certificate
Balance: With respect to any Certificate at any date, the
maximum dollar amount of principal to which the Holder thereof is then entitled
hereunder, such amount being equal to the Denomination thereof (A) plus any
related Underlying Subsequent Recoveries added to the Certificate Balance of
such Certificate pursuant to Section 3.04, and (B) minus the sum of (i) all
distributions of principal previously made with respect thereto and (ii) all
related Underlying Realized Losses allocated thereto and, all other reductions
in Certificate Balance (including the pro rata portion of certain expenses
and
liabilities reimbursable to the Depositor pursuant to Section 3.03(b) and any
taxes and related expenses imposed on the Trust Fund paid pursuant to Section
3.03(c)) previously allocated thereto pursuant to Section 3.06.
Certificate
Group: The Group 1 Certificates or the Group 2 Certificates,
as applicable.
Certificateholder
or
Holder: The person in whose name a Certificate is registered
in the Certificate Register, except that, solely for the purpose of giving
any
consent pursuant to this Agreement, any Certificate registered in the name
of
the Depositor or any affiliate of the Depositor shall be deemed not to be
Outstanding and the Percentage Interest evidenced thereby shall not be taken
into account in determining whether the requisite amount of Percentage
7
Interests
necessary to effect such consent has been obtained; provided, however,
that if any
such Person (including the Depositor) owns 100% of the Percentage Interests
evidenced by a Class of Certificates, such Certificates shall be deemed to
be
Outstanding for purposes of any provision hereof that requires the consent
of
the Holders of Certificates of a particular Class as a condition to the taking
of any action hereunder. The Trustee is entitled to rely conclusively
on a certification of the Depositor or any affiliate of the Depositor in
determining which Certificates are registered in the name of an affiliate of
the
Depositor.
Certificate
Owner:
With respect to a Book-Entry Certificate, the Person who is the beneficial
owner
of such Book-Entry Certificate. For the purposes of this Agreement,
in order for a Certificate Owner to enforce any rights hereunder, it shall
first
have to provide evidence of its beneficial ownership in a Certificate that
is
reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee or the Depositor, as
applicable.
Certificate
Register: The register maintained pursuant to Section
4.02(a).
Certification
Party: As defined in Section 9.05.
Certifying
Party: As defined in Section 9.05.
Class: All
Certificates bearing the same Class designation as set forth in the Preliminary
Statement.
Class
A-R
Certificate: Collectively, the single Certificate and the Tax
Matters Person Certificate, in each case executed and countersigned by the
Trustee.
Class
Certificate
Balance: With respect to any Class and as to any date of
determination, the aggregate of the Certificate Balances of all Certificates
of
such Class as of such date.
Class
Interest
Shortfall: As to any Distribution Date and Class, the amount
by which the amount described in clause (i) of the definition of Class Optimal
Interest Distribution Amount for such Class exceeds the amount of interest
actually distributed on such Class on such Distribution Date pursuant to such
clause (i).
Class
Optimal Interest
Distribution Amount: With respect to any Distribution Date and
interest bearing Class or, with respect to any interest bearing component,
the
sum of (i) one month’s interest accrued during the related Interest Accrual
Period at the Pass-Through Rate for such Class on the related Class Certificate
Balance, Component Balance, Notional Amount or Component Notional Amount, as
applicable, immediately prior to such Distribution Date, subject to reduction
as
provided in 3.04(e) and (ii) any Class Unpaid Interest Amounts for such Class
or
Component.
Class
Unpaid Interest
Amounts: As to any Distribution Date and Class of interest
bearing Certificates, the amount by which the aggregate Class Interest
Shortfalls for such Class on prior Distribution Dates exceeds the amount
distributed on such Class on prior Distribution Dates pursuant to clause (ii)
of
the definition of Class Optimal Interest Distribution Amount.
Closing
Date: January 18, 2008.
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Code:
The Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, including any successor or amendatory
provisions.
Combination
Group: The Class or Classes of Depositable Certificates and
the related Class or Classes of Exchangeable Certificates included within any
particular “Combination” specified in Schedule III.
Commission: The
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Component
Balance: With respect to any Component and any Distribution
Date, the Initial Component Balance thereof on the Closing Date, (A) plus any
related Underlying Subsequent Recoveries added to the Component Balance of
such
Component pursuant to Section 3.04, (B) minus the sum of all amounts applied
in
reduction of the principal balance of such Component and related Underlying
Realized Losses allocated thereto on previous Distribution Dates.
Component
Certificates: Not applicable.
Component
Notional
Amount: Not applicable.
Corporate
Trust
Office: The designated office of the Trustee in the State of New York at
which at any particular time its corporate trust business with respect to this
Agreement shall be administered, which office at the date of the execution
of
this Agreement is located at 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 0X, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
(Attn: Resecuritization Group, CWALT, Inc. Series 2008-1R,
facsimile no. (000) 000-0000/9), and which is the address to which notices
to
and correspondence with the Trustee should be directed.
Corresponding
Classes of
Certificates: Not applicable.
Delivery:
When used
with respect to any Distribution Account Property or Securities Account Property
means delivery of such Distribution Account Property or Securities Account
Property, as applicable, as follows (terms used in the following provisions
that
are not otherwise defined are used as defined in Article 8 of the
UCC):
(1)
in the case of each certificated security (other than a clearing corporation
security (as defined below)) or instrument, by:
(A)
the delivery of such certificated security or instrument to the Securities
Intermediary registered in the name of the Securities Intermediary or its
affiliated nominee or endorsed to the Securities Intermediary or in
blank,
(B)
the Securities Intermediary continuously indicating by book-entry that such
certificated security or instrument is credited to the Securities Account,
and
(C)
the Securities Intermediary maintaining continuous possession of such
certificated security or instrument in the State of New York;
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(2)
in the case of each uncertificated security (other than a clearing corporation
security), by causing:
(A)
such uncertificated security to be continuously registered on the books of
the
issuer thereof to the Securities Intermediary, and
(B)
the Securities Intermediary continuously indicating by book-entry that such
uncertificated security is credited to the Securities Account;
(3)
in the case of each security in the custody of or maintained on the books of
a
clearing corporation or its nominee (a “clearing corporation security”), by
causing:
(A)
the relevant clearing corporation to credit such clearing corporation security
to the securities account of the Securities Intermediary, and
(B)
the Securities Intermediary continuously indicating by book-entry that such
clearing corporation security is credited to the Securities
Account;
(4)
in the case of each security issued or guaranteed by the United States of
America or agency or instrumentality thereof and that is maintained in
book-entry records of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (“FRBNY”) (each such
security, a “government security”), by causing:
(A)
the creation of a security entitlement to such government security by the credit
of such government security to the securities account of the Securities
Intermediary at the FRBNY, and
(B)
the Securities Intermediary continuously indicating by book-entry that such
government security is credited to the Securities Account;
(5)
in the case of each security entitlement not governed by clauses (1)
through (4) above, by:
(A)
causing a securities intermediary (x) to indicate by book-entry that the
underlying “financial asset” (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(9) of the UCC)
has been credited to be the Securities Intermediary’s securities account,
(y) to receive a financial asset from the Securities Intermediary or
acquiring the underlying financial asset for the Securities Intermediary, and
in
either case, accepting it for credit to the Securities Intermediary’s securities
account or (z) to become obligated under other law, regulation or rule
to credit the underlying financial asset to the Security Intermediary’s
securities account,
(B)
the making by such securities intermediary of entries on its books and records
continuously identifying such security entitlement as belonging to the
Securities Intermediary and continuously indicating by book-entry that such
securities entitlement is credited to the Securities Intermediary’s securities
account, and
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(C)
the Securities Intermediary continuously indicating by book-entry that such
security entitlement (or all rights and property of the Securities Intermediary
representing such securities entitlement) is credited to the Securities Account;
and
(6)
in the case of cash or money, by:
(A)
the delivery of such cash or money to the Bank, and
(B)
the Bank’s continuously crediting such cash or money to the Distribution
Account.
Denomination: With
respect to each Certificate, the amount set forth on the face thereof as the
“Initial Certificate Balance of this Certificate” or the “Initial Notional
Amount of this Certificate” or, if neither of the foregoing, the Percentage
Interest appearing on the face thereof.
Depositable
Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Deposited
Underlying
Certificates: As set forth on Schedule I hereto.
Depositor: CWALT,
Inc., a Delaware corporation, or its successors in interest.
Depository: The
Depository Trust Company, or any successor Depository hereafter
named. The nominee of the initial Depository for purposes of
registering those Certificates that are to be Book-Entry Certificates is Cede
& Co. The Depository shall at all times be a “clearing
corporation” as defined in Section 8-102(a)(5) of the Uniform Commercial Code of
the State of New York and a “clearing agency” registered pursuant to the
provisions of Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
Depository
Participant: A broker, dealer, bank or other financial
institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Depository effects
book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the
Depository.
Definitive
Certificate: Any definitive, fully registered
Certificate.
Delay
Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Distribution
Account:
The separate Eligible Account created and maintained by the Trustee pursuant
to
Section 3.02 in the name of the Trustee for the benefit of the
Certificateholders and designated “The Bank of New York in trust for registered
holders of Alternative Loan Trust Resecuritization 2008-1R, Resecuritization
Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2008-1R.” Funds in, and other
property credited to, the Distribution Account shall be held in trust for the
Certificateholders for the uses and purposes set forth in this
Agreement.
Distribution
Account
Property: The Distribution Account, all amounts, investments
and other property held from time to time in the Distribution Account, and
all
proceeds of the foregoing.
Distribution
Date: The same day as each Underlying Distribution
Date.
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XXXXX: The
Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval
system.
Eligible
Account: Any of (i) an account or accounts maintained with a
federal or state chartered depository institution or trust company the
short-term unsecured debt obligations of which (or, in the case of a depository
institution or trust company that does not have the requisite ratings and is
the
principal subsidiary of a holding company, the debt obligations of such holding
company) have (a) the highest short-term ratings of Moody’s or Fitch and (b) (1)
if such Eligible Account is not a Pre-Funding Account or a Capitalized Interest
Account, one of the two highest short-term ratings of S&P (or, if such
entity does not have a short-term rating from S&P, the long-term unsecured
and unsubordinated debt obligations of such entity have a rating from S&P of
at least “BBB+”) and (2) if such Eligible Account is a Pre-Funding Account or a
Capitalized Interest Account, the highest short-term ratings of S&P (or, if
such entity does not have a short-term rating from S&P, the long-term
unsecured and unsubordinated debt obligations of such entity have a rating
from
S&P of at least “A+”) (ii) a segregated trust account or accounts maintained
with the corporate trust department of a federal or state chartered depository
institution subject to regulations regarding fiduciary funds on deposit similar
to Title 12 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter I, Part 9, Section
9.10(b), which has corporate trust powers, acting in its fiduciary capacity
or
(iii) any other account acceptable to each Rating Agency. Eligible
Accounts may bear interest, and may include, if otherwise qualified under this
definition, accounts maintained with the Trustee. In the event that
the federal or state chartered depository institution or trust company
maintaining an Eligible Account described in clause (i) above no longer
satisfies the credit rating of S&P set forth in clause (i)(b)(1) above then
the Person responsible for establishing such Eligible Account shall cause any
amounts on deposit therein to be moved to another federal or state chartered
depository institution or trust company satisfying such credit rating of S&P
within 30 calendar days. In the event that the federal or state
chartered depository institution or trust company maintaining an Eligible
Account described in clause (i) above no longer satisfies the credit rating
of
S&P set forth in clause (i)(b)(2) above then the Person responsible for
establishing such Eligible Account shall cause any amounts on deposit therein
to
be moved to another federal or state chartered depository institution or trust
company satisfying such credit rating of S&P within 60 calendar
days.
ERISA: The
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.
ERISA-Qualifying
Underwriting: A best efforts or firm commitment underwriting
or private placement that meets the requirements of an Underwriter’s
Exemption.
ERISA-Restricted
Certificate: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
ES
Trust: The separate trust created under this Agreement
pursuant to Section 4.07(a).
ES
Trust
Certificate: Any Class of Certificates issued by the ES Trust
and representing beneficial ownership of one or more uncertificated Master
REMIC
Interests held by such ES Trust.
Exchange
Act: The
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations
promulgated thereunder.
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Exchange
Act
Reports: Any
reports on Form 10-D, Form 8-K and Form 10-K required to by filed by the
Depositor with respect to the Trust Fund under the Exchange
Act.
Exchange
Date: As defined in Section
4.07(e).
Exchange
Fee: As defined
in Section 4.07(e).
Exchangeable
Certificates: As
specified in the
Preliminary Statement.
Exchangeable
Certificates Distribution Account: The separate Eligible
Account created and maintained by the Trustee on behalf of the ES Trust pursuant
to Section 4.07(a)
in the name of the Trustee for
the benefit of the Holders of the Exchangeable Certificates and designated
“The
Bank of New York in trust for registered Holders of Alternative Loan Trust
2008-1R, Mortgage
Pass-Through Certificates,
Series 2008-1R.” Funds in the Exchangeable
Certificates Distribution Account shall be held in trust for the
Certificateholders for the uses and purposes set forth in this
Agreement.
Fitch: Fitch,
Inc., or any successor thereto. If Fitch is designated as a Rating
Agency in the Preliminary Statement, the address for notices to Fitch shall
be
Fitch, Inc., Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention:
Residential Pass-Through Monitoring, or such other address as Fitch may
hereafter furnish to the Depositor.
Form
10-D Disclosure
Item: With respect to any Person, any material litigation or
governmental proceedings pending against such Person, or against any of the
Trust Fund, the Depositor, the Trustee or any co-trustee, if such Person has
actual knowledge thereof.
Form
10-K Disclosure
Item: With respect to any Person, (a) any Form 10-D Disclosure
Item and (b) any affiliations or relationships between such Person and any
Item
1119 Party.
Grantor
Trust: A trust described in section 671 of the Code, the items
of income, deductions and credits of which must be included in computing the
taxable income and credits of the person treated as the owner of such trust
(either the grantor or other person designated under the Code).
Group
1
Certificates: Collectively, the Class 1-A-1 and Class 1-A-2
Certificates.
Group
1 Deposited Underlying
Certificates: A 33.91% percentage interest in the Alternative
Loan Trust 2007-18CB, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-18CB,
Class 1-A-2 Certificates.
Group
1 Underlying
Agreement: The Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated as of
June 1, 2007, among CWALT, Inc., as depositor, Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.,
as
seller, Park Granada LLC, as a seller, Park Monaco Inc., as a seller, Park
Sienna LLC, as a seller, Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP, as master
servicer, and The Bank of New York, as trustee, related to Alternative Loan
Trust 2007-18CB, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-18CB, as it
may
be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance
with its terms.
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Group
2
Certificates: Collectively, the Class 2-A-1, Class 2-A-2 and
Class A-R Certificates.
Group
2 Deposited Underlying
Certificates: A 100.00% percentage interest in the Alternative
Loan Trust 2007-19, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-19, Class
1-A-20 Certificates.
Group
2 Underlying
Agreement: The Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated as of
June 1, 2007, among CWALT, Inc., as depositor, Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.,
as
seller, Park Granada LLC, as a seller Park Monaco Inc., as a seller, Park Sienna
LLC, as a seller, Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP, as master servicer,
and
The Bank of New York, as trustee, related to Alternative Loan Trust 2007-19,
Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-19, as it may be amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with its
terms.
Initial
Class Certificate
Balance: With respect to each Class of Certificates, the Class
Certificate Balance of such Class on the Closing Date.
Initial
LIBOR
Rate: 4.865% per annum.
Interest
Accrual
Period: With respect to each Class of Delay Certificates, its
corresponding Master REMIC Regular Interest and any Distribution Date, the
calendar month prior to the month of such Distribution Date. With
respect to any Class of Non-Delay Certificates, its corresponding Master REMIC
Regular Interest and any Distribution Date, the one month period commencing
on
the 25th day of the month preceding the month in which such Distribution Date
occurs and ending on the 24th day of the month in which such Distribution Date
occurs.
Interest
Determination
Date: Not applicable.
Interest
Rate: Not applicable.
Investment
Company
Act: The Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended.
Item
1119
Party: The Depositor, any Underlying Certificate Seller, the
Trustee and any other material transaction party, as identified in Exhibit
J
hereto, as updated pursuant to Section 9.04.
Latest
Possible Maturity
Date: The “Latest Possible Maturity Date” as defined in each
Underlying Agreement.
LIBOR: The
London interbank offered rate for one-month United States dollar deposits
calculated in the manner described in Section 3.07.
LIBOR
Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
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Limited
Exchange Act
Reporting Obligations: The obligations of the Trustee under
Section 3.11(b), Section 5.10 and Section 5.08 with respect to notice and
information to be provided to the Depositor and Article 9 (except Section
9.07(a)(i) and (ii)).
Majority
in
Interest: As to any Class of Certificates, the Holders of
Certificates of such Class evidencing, in the aggregate, at least 51% of the
Percentage Interests evidenced by all Certificates of such Class.
Master
REMIC: As described in the Preliminary Statement.
Moody’s: Xxxxx’x
Investors Service, Inc., or any successor thereto. If Xxxxx’x is
designated as a Rating Agency in the Preliminary Statement, the address for
notices to Moody’s shall be Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc., 00 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Residential Pass-Through Monitoring, or
such other address as Moody’s may hereafter furnish to the
Depositor.
MR-A-R
Interest: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Non-Delay
Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Notional
Amount: Not applicable.
Notional
Amount
Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Officers’
Certificate: A certificate in the case of the Depositor,
signed by the Chairman of the Board, the Vice Chairman of the Board, the
President, a Managing Director, a Vice President (however denominated), an
Assistant Vice President, the Treasurer, the Secretary, or one of the Assistant
Treasurers or Assistant Secretaries of the Depositor.
Opinion
of
Counsel: A written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for
the Depositor, including, in-house counsel, reasonably acceptable to the
Trustee; provided, however,
that with
respect to the interpretation or application of the REMIC Provisions, such
counsel must (i) in fact be independent of the Depositor, (ii) not have any
direct financial interest in the Depositor or in any affiliate thereof, and
(iii) not be connected with the Depositor as an officer, employee, promoter,
underwriter, trustee, partner, director or person performing similar
functions.
Ownership
Interest: As to any Residual Certificate, any ownership
interest in such Certificate including any interest in such Certificate as
the
Holder thereof and any other interest therein, whether direct or indirect,
legal
or beneficial.
Outstanding: With
respect to the Certificates as of any date of determination, all Certificates
theretofore executed and authenticated under this Agreement except:
(i) Certificates
theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation; and
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(ii) Certificates
in exchange for which or in lieu of which other Certificates have been executed
and delivered by the Trustee pursuant to this Agreement.
Pass-Through
Rate: For any interest bearing Class of Certificates or
Component, the per annum rate set forth or calculated in the manner described
in
the Preliminary Statement.
Percentage
Interest: As to any Certificate, the percentage interest
evidenced thereby in distributions required to be made on the related Class,
such percentage interest being set forth on the face thereof or equal to the
percentage obtained by dividing the Denomination of such Certificate by the
aggregate of the Denominations of all Certificates of the same
Class.
Performance
Certification: As defined in Section 9.05.
Permitted
Transferee: Any Person other than (i) the United States, any
State or political subdivision thereof, or any agency or instrumentality of
any
of the foregoing, (ii) a foreign government, International Organization or
any
agency or instrumentality of either of the foregoing, (iii) an organization
(except certain farmers’ cooperatives described in Section 521 of the Code)
which is exempt from tax imposed by Chapter 1 of the Code (including the tax
imposed by Section 511 of the Code on unrelated business taxable income) on
any
excess inclusions (as defined in Section 860E(c)(l) of the Code) with respect
to
any Residual Certificate, (iv) rural electric and telephone cooperatives
described in section 1381(a)(2)(C) of the Code, (v) an “electing
large partnership” as defined in Section 775 of the Code, (vi) a Person that is
not a citizen or resident of the United States, a corporation, partnership,
or
other entity created or organized in or under the laws of the United States,
any
State thereof or the District of Columbia, or an estate or trust whose income
from sources without the United States is includible in gross income for United
States federal income tax purposes regardless of its connection with the conduct
of a trade or business within the United States or a trust if a court within
the
United States is able to exercise primary supervision over the administration
of
the trust and one or more United States persons have the authority to control
all substantial decisions of the trust unless such Person has furnished the
transferor and the Trustee with a duly completed Internal Revenue Service Form
W-8ECI or any applicable successor form, and (vii) any other Person so
designated by the Trustee based upon an Opinion of Counsel that the Transfer
of
an Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate to such Person may cause any
REMIC hereunder to fail to qualify as a REMIC at any time that the Certificates
are Outstanding. The terms “United States,” “State” and
“International Organization” shall have the meanings set forth in Section 7701
of the Code or successor provisions. A corporation will not be
treated as an instrumentality of the United States or of any State or political
subdivision thereof for these purposes if all of its activities are subject
to
tax and, with the exception of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation,
a
majority of its board of directors is not selected by such government
unit.
Person: Any
individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company,
association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government, or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
Physical
Certificate: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
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Plan: An
“employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA that is subject to
Title I of ERISA, a “plan” as defined in Section 4975 of the Code that is
subject to Section 4975 of the Code, or any Person investing on behalf of or
with plan assets (as defined in 29 CFR §2510.3-101 or otherwise under ERISA) of
such an employee benefit plan or plan.
Planned
Balance: With respect to any group of Planned Principal
Classes or Components in the aggregate and any Distribution Date appearing
in
Schedule II hereto, the Aggregate Planned Balance for such group and
Distribution Date. With respect to any other Planned Principal Class
or Component and any Distribution Date appearing in Schedule II hereto, the
applicable amount appearing opposite such Distribution Date for such Class
or
Component.
Planned
Principal
Class: As specified in the Preliminary Statement.
Pre-Funding
Account:
Not applicable.
Prospectus: The
prospectus dated July 27, 2007 generally relating to mortgage pass-through
certificates to be sold by the Depositor.
Prospectus
Supplement: The prospectus supplement, dated January 17, 2008,
to the Prospectus, relating to the Offered Certificates.
Purchase
Price: The fair market value of each class of Deposited
Underlying Certificates as determined based on any market quotes for identical
Deposited Underlying Certificates not deposited under this Agreement (if
available) or other securities regularly used to determine fair market value,
but no less than the principal balance of such Deposited Underlying Certificates
immediately prior to the Distribution Date of such repurchase plus unpaid
interest thereon due on or prior to the Distribution Date of such repurchase
(it
being understood that all distributions made on such Deposited Underlying
Certificates up to immediately prior to the Distribution Date of such repurchase
shall be property of the Trust Fund).
Rating
Agency: Each of the Rating Agencies specified in the
Preliminary Statement. If any such organization or a successor is no
longer in existence, “Rating Agency” shall be such nationally recognized
statistical rating organization, or other comparable Person, identified as
a
rating agency under the Underwriter’s Exemption, as is designated by the
Depositor, notice of which designation shall be given to the
Trustee. References herein to a given rating category of a Rating
Agency shall mean such rating category without giving effect to any
modifiers.
Record
Date: With respect to the first Distribution Date, the Closing
Date. With respect to each other Distribution Date, the last day of
the calendar month preceding the month in which such Distribution Date
occurs.
Reference
Bank: As defined in Section 3.07 hereof.
Regular
Certificates: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Regular
Interest: A “regular interest” (as defined in Section
860G(a)(1) of the Code) in any REMIC described in the Preliminary
Statement.
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Regulation
AB: Subpart 229.1100 – Asset Backed Securities (Regulation
AB), 17 C.F.R. §§229.1100-229.1123, as such may be amended from time to time,
and subject to such clarification and interpretation as have been provided
by
the Commission in the adopting release (Asset-Backed Securities, Securities
Act
Release No. 33-8518, 70 Fed. Reg. 1,506, 1,531 (Jan. 7, 2005)) or by the staff
of the Commission, or as may be provided by the Commission or its staff from
time to time.
REMIC: A
“real estate mortgage investment conduit” within the meaning of section 860D of
the Code.
REMIC
Change of
Law: Any proposed, temporary or final regulation, revenue
ruling, revenue procedure or other official announcement or interpretation
relating to REMICs and the REMIC Provisions issued after the Closing
Date.
REMIC
Provisions: Provisions of the federal income tax law relating
to real estate mortgage investment conduits, which appear at sections 860A
through 860G of Subchapter M of Chapter 1 of the Code, and related provisions,
and regulations promulgated thereunder, as the foregoing may be in effect from
time to time as well as provisions of applicable state laws.
Reportable
Event: Any event required to be reported on Form 8-K and, in
any event, the following:
(a)
entry into a definitive agreement related to the Trust Fund, the Certificates,
or Underlying Deposited Certificates, or an amendment to a Transaction Document,
even if the Depositor is not a party to such agreement (e.g., a servicing
agreement with a servicer contemplated by Item 1108(a)(3) of Regulation
AB);
(b)
termination of a Transaction Document (other than by expiration of the agreement
on its stated termination date or as a result of all parties completing their
obligations under such agreement), even if the Depositor is not a party to
such
agreement; (e.g., a servicing agreement with a servicer contemplated by Item
1108(a)(3) of Regulation AB);
(c)
with respect to the Trustee only, if the Trustee becomes aware of any bankruptcy
or receivership with respect to the Underlying Certificate Seller, the
Depositor, any enhancement or support provider contemplated by Items 1114(b)
or
1115 of Regulation AB, or any other material party contemplated by Item
1101(d)(1) of Regulation AB;
(d)
with respect to the Trustee and the Depositor, the occurrence of an early
amortization, performance trigger or other event, including an Event of Default
under this Agreement;
(e)
the resignation, removal, replacement, substitution of the Trustee;
(f)
[Reserved]; and
(g)
with respect to the Trustee and the Depositor, a required distribution to
Holders of the Certificates is not made as of the required Distribution Date
under this Agreement.
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Reporting
Subcontractor: With respect to the Trustee, any Subcontractor
determined by such Person pursuant to Section 11.08(b) to be “participating in
the servicing function” within the meaning of Item 1122 of Regulation
AB. References to a Reporting Subcontractor shall refer only to the
Subcontractor of such Person and shall not refer to Subcontractors
generally.
Residual
Certificates: As described in the Preliminary
Statement.
Responsible
Officer: When used with respect to the Trustee, any Vice
President, any Assistant Vice President, the Secretary, any Assistant Secretary,
any Trust Officer or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing
functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers
and
also to whom, with respect to a particular matter, such matter is referred
because of such officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular
subject.
Rule
3a-7: Rule 3a-7
of the Investment Company Act, as then in effect (or any successor
rule).
Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Certification: As defined in Section 7.05.
Securities
Account: As defined in Section 3.02 hereof.
Securities
Account
Property: The Securities Account, all amounts, investments and
other property held from time to time in the Securities Account, including
the
Deposited Underlying Certificates, and all proceeds of the
foregoing.
Securities
Intermediary: As defined in Section 3.02(b)
hereof.
Servicing
Criteria: The “servicing criteria” set forth in Item 1122(d)
of Regulation AB.
S&P: Standard
& Poor’s, a division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies, Inc. If
S&P is designated as a Rating Agency in the Preliminary Statement, the
address for notices to S&P shall be Standard & Poor’s, 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Mortgage Surveillance Monitoring, or such
other address as S&P may hereafter furnish to the Depositor.
Shift
Percentage: Not applicable.
SR-A-R
Interest: Not applicable.
Startup
Day: The Closing Date.
Subcontractor: Any
vendor, subcontractor or other Person that is not responsible for the overall
servicing (as “servicing” is commonly understood by participants in the
mortgage-backed securities market) of Underlying Mortgage Loans but performs
one
or more discrete functions identified in Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB with
respect to Underlying Mortgage Loans under the direction or authority of the
Trustee.
Subsidiary
REMIC: Not applicable.
Subsidiary
REMIC
Interest: Not applicable.
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Subsidiary
REMIC Regular
Interest: Not applicable.
Targeted
Balance: With respect to any group of Targeted Principal
Classes or Components in the aggregate and any Distribution Date appearing
in
Schedule II hereto, the Aggregate Targeted Balance for such group and
Distribution Date. With respect to any other Targeted Principal Class
or Component and any Distribution Date appearing in Schedule II hereto, the
applicable amount appearing opposite such Distribution Date for such Class
or
Component.
Targeted
Principal
Classes: As specified in the Preliminary
Statement.
Tax
Matters
Person: The person designated as “tax matters person” in the
manner provided under Treasury regulation § 1.860F-4(d) and Treasury regulation
§ 301.6231(a)(7)1. Initially, the Tax Matters Person shall be the
Trustee.
Tax
Matters Person
Certificate: The Class A-R Certificate with a Denomination of
$0.01.
Transaction
Documents: This Agreement and any other document or agreement
entered into in connection with the Trust Fund, the Certificates or the
Underlying Deposited Certificates.
Transfer: Any
direct or indirect transfer or sale of any Ownership Interest in a Residual
Certificate.
Transfer
Affidavit: A certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit
F annexed hereto.
Transferor
Affidavit: A certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit
E hereto.
Trustee: The
Bank of New York and its successors and, if a successor trustee is appointed
hereunder, such successor.
Trust
Fund: The corpus of the trust created by this Agreement and
evidenced by the Certificates, consisting of: (A) the Deposited Underlying
Certificates, (B) all distributions thereon due to the holders of the Deposited
Underlying Certificates after December 26, 2007 under the terms thereof, (C)
the
Distribution Account, the Securities Account and the Exchangeable Certificates
Distribution Account, (D) all investment property, deposit accounts, accounts,
general intangibles, money, instruments, documents and other property evidencing
any and all of the foregoing, and (E) all proceeds of any and all of the
foregoing. For the avoidance of doubt, the ES Trust and the Master
REMIC and the assets held or deemed held thereby shall constitute a part of
the
Trust Fund.
UCC: The
Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York.
Underlying
Agreement: The Group 1 Underlying Agreement or Group 2
Underlying Agreement, as applicable.
Underlying
Certificate
Account: “Certificate Account” as defined in each Underlying
Agreement.
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Underlying
Certificate
Seller: Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, a limited
liability company organized under the laws of the State of Delaware, or its
successors in interest.
Underlying
Debt Service
Reductions: “Debt Service Reductions” as defined in each
Underlying Agreement.
Underlying
Distribution
Date: “Distribution Date” as defined in each Underlying
Agreement.
Underlying
Event of
Default: “Event of Default” as defined in each Underlying
Agreement.
Underlying
Liquidated
Mortgage Loan: “Liquidated Mortgage Loan” as defined in each
Underlying Agreement.
Underlying
Master
Servicer: Countrywide Home Loans Servicing L.P.
Underlying
Net Interest
Shortfalls: “Net Interest Shortfalls” as defined in each
Underlying Agreement.
Underlying
Net Prepayment
Interest Shortfalls: “Net Prepayment Interest Shortfalls” as
defined in each Underlying Agreement.
Underlying
Realized
Losses: “Realized Losses” as defined in each Underlying
Agreement.
Underlying
Relief Act
Reductions: “Relief Act Reductions” as defined in each
Underlying Agreement.
Underlying
Senior Credit
Support Depletion Date: “Senior Credit Support Depletion Date”
as defined in each Underlying Agreement.
Underlying
Subsequent
Recoveries: “Subsequent Recoveries” as defined in each
Underlying Agreement.
Underlying
Trust: “Trust Fund” as defined in each Underlying
Agreement.
Underlying
Trustee: “Trustee” as defined in each Underlying
Agreement.
Underwriter’s
Exemption: Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2007-5, 72 Fed.
Reg. 13130 (2007), as amended (or any successor thereto), or any substantially
similar administrative exemption granted by the U.S. Department of
Labor.
Voting
Rights: The portion of the voting rights of all of the
Certificates that is allocated to any Certificate. As of any date of
determination, (a) 1% of all Voting Rights shall be allocated to each Class
of
Senior Certificates that is a Class of Notional Amount Certificates, if any,
and
(b) the remaining Voting Rights (or 100% of the Voting Rights if there is no
such Class of Senior Certificates) shall be allocated to the remaining Classes
of Senior Certificates in proportion to the
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Class
Certificate Balance of each such Class. Each Class of Exchangeable
Certificates will be allocated a proportionate share of the Voting Rights
allocated to the related Class or Classes of Depositable Certificates that
have
been surrendered as provided in Section 4.07(e). Voting Rights
allocated to a Class of Certificates will be allocated among the Holders of
the
Certificates of that Class in accordance with their respective Percentage
Interests.
Section
1.02 Certain Interpretive
Principles.
All
terms
defined in this Agreement shall have the defined meanings when used in any
certificate, agreement or other document delivered pursuant hereto unless
otherwise defined therein. For purposes of this Agreement and all
such certificates and other documents, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) accounting terms not otherwise defined in this Agreement, and accounting
terms partly defined in this Agreement to the extent not defined, shall have
the
respective meanings given to them under generally accepted accounting
principles; (b) the words “hereof,” “herein” and “hereunder” and words of
similar import refer to this Agreement (or the certificate, agreement or other
document in which they are used) as a whole and not to any particular provision
of this Agreement (or such certificate, agreement or document); (c) references
to any Section, Schedule or Exhibit are references to Sections, Schedules and
Exhibits in or to this Agreement, and references to any paragraph, subsection,
clause or other subdivision within any Section or definition refer to such
paragraph, subsection, clause or other subdivision of such Section or
definition; (d) the term “including” means “including without limitation”; (e)
references to any law or regulation refer to that law or regulation as amended
from time to time and include any successor law or regulation; (f) references
to
any agreement refer to that agreement as amended from time to time; and (g)
references to any Person include that Person’s permitted successors and
assigns.
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ARTICLE
II
CONVEYANCE
OF THE DEPOSITED UNDERLYING CERTIFICATES;
ORIGINAL
ISSUANCE OF
CERTIFICATES
Section
2.01 Conveyance of the
Deposited
Underlying Certificates. The Depositor, concurrently with the
execution and delivery hereof, does hereby transfer, convey, sell and assign
to
the Trustee, on behalf of the Holders of the Certificates, without recourse,
all
the right, title and interest of the Depositor in and to the Deposited
Underlying Certificates with appropriate endorsements and other documentation
sufficient under the applicable Underlying Agreement to transfer each such
Deposited Underlying Certificate to the Trustee, including all distributions
thereon due after December 26, 2007, and all proceeds of the
foregoing. Each of the Underlying Certificate Seller and the
Depositor severally agrees to transfer to the Trustee (by wire transfer of
immediately available funds), any amounts it receives in respect of the
Deposited Underlying Certificates due thereon after December 26, 2007 on the
same day it receives such funds.
The
transfer of the Deposited Underlying Certificates and all other assets
constituting the Trust Fund is absolute and is intended by the parties hereto
as
a sale. The Underlying Certificate Seller hereby confirms that it has
caused the beneficial ownership interest in the Deposited Underlying
Certificates to be registered with a Depository Participant or an indirect
participant in the Depository in the name of the Securities Intermediary for
the
benefit of the Trustee on behalf of the Certificateholders.
The
Securities Intermediary hereby confirms to the Trustee that (i) the Deposited
Underlying Certificates have been confirmed by the Depository to have been
delivered to the Trustee (on behalf of the Certificateholders), subject to
no
other interests, and held with the Securities Intermediary, as a Depository
Participant, in book-entry form, and (ii) the Securities Intermediary is holding
such Deposited Underlying Certificate for the account of the Trustee, on behalf
of the Certificateholders. The Trustee hereby acknowledges the
receipt by it and the Securities Intermediary of the Deposited Underlying
Certificates and the other documents and instruments referenced above, in good
faith and without actual notice of any adverse claim, and declares that it
holds
and will hold the Deposited Underlying Certificates and the other documents
and
instruments, and that it holds and will continuously hold all other assets
in
the Trust Fund, in each case, in the State of New York, in trust for the
exclusive use and benefit of all present and future
Certificateholders. The Trustee shall not permit the Deposited
Underlying Certificates or any other asset constituting the Trust Fund to be
subjected to any lien, claim or encumbrance arising by, through or under the
Trustee or any person claiming by, through or under the Trustee. The
Depositor agrees to provide to the Trustee all documents required for the
transfer to the Trustee of the Deposited Underlying Certificates.
It
is
intended that the conveyance of the Deposited Underlying Certificates by the
Depositor to the Trustee as provided in this Section be, and be construed as,
a
sale of the Deposited Underlying Certificates by the Depositor to the Trustee
for the benefit of the Certificateholders. It is, further, not
intended that such conveyance be deemed a pledge of the
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Deposited
Underlying Certificates by the Depositor to the Trustee to secure a debt or
other obligation of the Depositor. However, in the event that the
Deposited Underlying Certificates are held to be the property of the Depositor,
or if for any reason this Agreement is held or deemed to create a security
interest in the Deposited Underlying Certificates, then it is intended that
this
Agreement shall also be deemed to be a security agreement within the meaning
of
Articles 8 and 9 of the UCC and the corresponding articles of the Uniform
Commercial Code of any other applicable jurisdiction; and the Depositor hereby
grants to the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders a security
interest in all of the Depositor’s right, title and interest, whether now owned
or existing or hereafter acquired or arising, in and to the Trust
Fund. The Depositor and the Trustee, at the Depositor’s direction and
expense, shall, to the extent consistent with this Agreement, take such actions
as may be necessary to ensure that, if this Agreement were deemed to create
a
security interest in the Deposited Underlying Certificates and other assets
constituting the Trust Fund described above, such security interest would be
deemed to be a perfected security interest of first priority under applicable
law and will be maintained as such throughout the term of the
Agreement.
Section
2.02 Acceptance by
Trustee. The Trustee hereby confirms that it has confirmation
from BNY, in its capacity as Securities Intermediary for the Trustee that (i)
the Deposited Underlying Certificates in book-entry form have been confirmed
by
the Depository to have been delivered to the Trustee, subject to no other
interests, and held in the Securities Intermediary in book-entry form, as a
participant in the Depository and (ii) the Securities Intermediary is holding
such Deposited Underlying Certificates in book-entry form for the account of
the
Trustee, as owner of the Deposited Underlying Certificates in its capacity
as
trustee for the Certificateholders. The Trustee declares that it
shall hold ownership interest in the Deposited Underlying Certificates in trust
and shall hold all proceeds of any of the foregoing and all other rights, titles
or interests of the Trustee in any asset included in the Trust Fund from time
to
time in trust, upon the terms herein set forth, for the use and benefit of
all
present and future Certificateholders. The Trustee agrees, for the
benefit of Certificateholders, to confirm that the class designation and
original principal balance with respect to the Deposited Underlying Certificates
conform to the information set forth on Schedule I on the Closing
Date.
Section
2.03 Representations
and
Warranties of the Underlying Certificate Seller. The
Underlying Certificate Seller hereby represents and warrants to the Depositor
and the Trustee
(a)
With respect to the Deposited Underlying Certificates as of the Closing Date
as
follows:
(i)
prior to the transfer of the Deposited Underlying Certificates to the Depositor,
the Underlying Certificate Seller was the sole owner of the Deposited Underlying
Certificates free and clear of any lien, pledge, charge or encumbrance of any
kind;
(ii) the
Underlying Certificate Seller has not assigned any interest in the Deposited
Underlying Certificates or any distributions thereon, except as contemplated
herein;
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(iii) the
crediting of the Deposited Underlying Certificates to the Securities Account
is
sufficient to effect the transfer of all right, title and interest in the
Deposited Underlying Certificates to the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.01 hereof
free and clear of any lien, pledge, charge or encumbrance of any
kind;
(iv) the
Deposited Underlying Certificates constitute a “securities entitlement” within
the meaning of the UCC;
(v) the
Underlying Certificate Seller is not aware of any default or event of default
under, or breach of any terms of, the applicable Underlying Agreement or the
Deposited Underlying Certificates; and
(vi) the
information set forth on Schedule I to this Agreement is true and correct as
of
the Closing Date; and
(vii) the
Underlying Certificate Seller has duly authorized the crediting of the Deposited
Underlying Certificates to the Securities Account.
The
representations and warranties set forth in this Section 2.03(a) shall survive
the transfer and assignment of the Deposited Underlying Certificates by the
Depositor to the Trustee up to and including the Distribution Date in January
2008. Upon discovery by the Underlying Certificate Seller, the
Depositor or a Responsible Officer of the Trustee of a breach of any of the
foregoing representations and warranties with respect to a Deposited Underlying
Certificate which materially and adversely affects the interests of the related
Certificateholders in such Deposited Underlying Certificates, the Underlying
Certificate Seller, the Depositor or the Trustee shall give prompt written
notice to the other parties and to the related Certificateholders. If
such notice is given or received on or prior to the Distribution Date in January
2008, the Underlying Certificate Seller shall cure such breach in all material
respects or, if such breach cannot be cured, the Underlying Certificate Seller
shall repurchase the Deposited Underlying Certificates from the Trustee on
the
Distribution Date immediately following the date on which the Underlying
Certificate Seller is so directed by Holders of a Majority in Interest of the
related Class or Classes of Regular Certificates. Any such repurchase
of the Deposited Underlying Certificates by the Underlying Certificate Seller
shall be accomplished on the Distribution Date of repurchase, by the payment
on
the Business Day prior to such Distribution Date by the Underlying Certificate
Seller to the Trustee of an amount equal to the applicable Purchase
Price. The payment of the applicable Purchase Price shall be
considered a prepayment in full of such Deposited Underlying Certificates and
shall be delivered to the Trustee for deposit in the Distribution Account in
accordance with the provisions of Section 3.02 hereof. Upon such
deposit into such Distribution Account, the repurchased Deposited Underlying
Certificates shall be released to the Underlying Certificate Seller, and the
Trustee and the Depositor shall execute and deliver such instruments of transfer
or assignment, in each case without recourse, as shall be reasonably requested
and provided by the Underlying Certificate Seller to vest in the Underlying
Certificate Seller, or its designee or assignee, title to the Deposited
Underlying Certificates repurchased pursuant hereto. The obligation
of the Underlying Certificate Seller to cure such breach of representations
and
warranties or effect such repurchase of the Deposited Underlying Certificates
shall constitute the sole remedy respecting such breach available to
Certificateholders or the Trustee on behalf of Certificateholders.
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(b)
With respect to the Underlying Certificate Seller:
(i)
The Underlying Certificate Seller is a limited liability company duly formed,
validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware
with full power and authority to execute, deliver and perform this
Agreement.
(ii) This
Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Underlying
Certificate Seller and constitutes the legal, valid and binding agreement of
the
Underlying Certificate Seller, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except
as enforcement hereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium or other similar laws now or hereafter in effect relating to or
affecting creditors’ rights generally or by general principles of equity,
regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in
equity or at law.
(iii) Neither
the execution nor the delivery of this Agreement nor the issuance, delivery
and
sale of the Certificates, nor the consummation of any other of the transactions
contemplated herein nor the fulfillment of the terms of this Agreement or the
Certificates will result in the breach of any term or provision of the
certificate of formation or the limited liability company agreement of the
Underlying Certificate Seller or resolutions of the Underlying Certificate
Seller or conflict with, result in a breach, violation or acceleration of or
constitute a default under, the terms of any material indenture or other
agreement or instrument to which the Underlying Certificate Seller is a party
or
by which it is bound, or any statute, order or regulation applicable to the
Underlying Certificate Seller of any court, regulatory body, administrative
agency or governmental body having jurisdiction over the Underlying Certificate
Seller.
(iv) There
are no actions or proceedings against, or investigations of, the Underlying
Certificate Seller pending, or, to the knowledge of the Underlying Certificate
Seller, threatened, before any court, administrative agency or other tribunal
(A) asserting the invalidity of this Agreement or the Certificates, (B) seeking
to prevent the issuance of the Certificates or the consummation of any of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, or (C) which might materially
and
adversely affect the validity or enforceability of this Agreement or the
Certificates.
It
is
understood and agreed that the representations and warranties set forth in
this
Section 2.03(b) shall survive delivery of the Trust Fund to the
Trustee. Upon discovery by the Underlying Certificate Seller, the
Depositor or a Responsible Officer of the Trustee of a breach of any of the
foregoing representations and warranties which breach materially and adversely
affects the interests of the Certificateholders, the party discovering such
breach shall give prompt written notice to the other parties and to the Rating
Agencies.
Section
2.04 Representations
and
Warranties of the Depositor. The Depositor hereby represents
and warrants to the Trustee as of the Closing Date as follows:
(i)
The Depositor is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of the State of Delaware with full power and authority
to execute, deliver and perform this Agreement.
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(ii)
This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Depositor
and constitutes the legal, valid and binding agreement of the Depositor,
enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement hereof may
be
limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar
laws now or hereafter in effect relating to or affecting creditors’ rights
generally or by general principles of equity, regardless of whether such
enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.
(iii) Neither
the execution nor the delivery of this Agreement nor the issuance, delivery
and
sale of the Certificates, nor the consummation of any other of the transactions
contemplated herein nor the fulfillment of the terms of this Agreement or the
Certificates will result in the breach of any term or provision of the charter
or by-laws of the Depositor or conflict with, result in a breach, violation
or
acceleration of or constitute a default under, the terms of any material
indenture or other agreement or instrument to which the Depositor is a party
or
by which it is bound, or any statute, order or regulation applicable to the
Depositor of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or governmental
body having jurisdiction over the Depositor.
(iv) There
are no actions or proceedings against, or investigations of, the Depositor
pending, or, to the knowledge of the Depositor, threatened, before any court,
administrative agency or other tribunal (A) asserting the invalidity of this
Agreement or the Certificates, (B) seeking to prevent the issuance of the
Certificates or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by
this
Agreement, or (C) which might materially and adversely affect the validity
or
enforceability of this Agreement or the Certificates.
(v)
This Agreement creates a valid and continuing security interest in the Deposited
Underlying Certificates in favor of the Trustee, on behalf of the Trust Fund,
which security interest is prior to all other liens and is enforceable as such
as against creditors and purchasers from the Depositor.
(vi) Immediately
before the assignment of the Deposited Underlying Certificates to the Trustee,
the Depositor had good and marketable title to such Deposited Underlying
Certificates free and clear of any lien, claim, encumbrance of any Person.
The
Depositor has received all consents and approvals required by the terms of
the
Deposited Underlying Certificates to the transfer to the Trustee of its interest
and rights in the Deposited Underlying Certificates.
(vii) The
Distribution Account constitutes a “deposit account” (as defined in Section
9-102(a)(29) of the UCC). The Securities Account constitutes a “securities
account” (as defined in Section 8-501(a) of the UCC). The Deposited Underlying
Certificates have been credited to the Securities Account. The
Securities Intermediary has agreed to treat all assets credited to the
Securities Account as “financial assets” (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(9) of
the UCC).
(viii) This
Agreement is an agreement pursuant to which the Securities Intermediary or
the
Bank, as the case may be, has agreed to comply with all instructions
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or
directions originated by the Trustee relating to the Distribution Account and
the Securities Account without further consent by the Depositor.
(ix)
Other than the security interest granted to the Trustee pursuant to this
Agreement, the Depositor has not pledged, assigned, sold, granted a security
interest in, or otherwise conveyed any of the Deposited Underlying Certificates.
The Depositor has not authorized the filing of and is not aware of any financing
statements against the Depositor that include a description of the collateral
covering the Deposited Underlying Certificates. The Depositor is not aware
of
any judgment or tax lien filings against the Depositor.
(x)
The Depositor is not aware of any default or event of default under, or breach
of any terms of, the Underlying Agreements or the Deposited Underlying
Certificates.
(xi)
Neither the Distribution Account nor the Securities Account is in the name
of
any person other than the Trustee. The Depositor has not consented to the
compliance by the Securities Intermediary of the Securities Account with
entitlement orders of any person other than the Trustee.
It
is
understood and agreed that the representations and warranties set forth in
this
Section 2.04 shall survive delivery of the Trust Fund to the
Trustee. Upon discovery by the Depositor or a Responsible Officer of
the Trustee of a breach of any of the foregoing representations and warranties
which breach materially and adversely affects the interests of the
Certificateholders, the party discovering such breach shall give prompt written
notice to the other party and to the Rating Agencies.
The
parties to this Agreement shall not waive any of the representations set forth
in clauses (v) and (vii) through (xi) in this Section 2.04 without obtaining
a
confirmation of the then-current ratings of the Certificates.
Section
2.05 Issuance of
Certificates. The Trustee acknowledges the receipt by it of
the Deposited Underlying Certificates and concurrently with such receipt, the
Trustee has duly executed, countersigned and delivered, to or upon the order
of
the Depositor, the Certificates in authorized denominations and registered
in
such names as the Depositor has directed in writing.
Section
2.06 REMIC
Matters. The Preliminary Statement sets forth the designations
and “latest possible maturity date” for federal income tax purposes of all
interests created hereby. The “Startup Day” for purposes of the REMIC
Provisions shall be the Closing Date. The “tax matters person” with
respect to each REMIC hereunder shall be the Trustee and the Trustee shall
hold
the Tax Matters Person Certificate. Each REMIC’s fiscal year shall be
the calendar year.
Section
2.07 Presentation for
Transfer. On the Closing Date, the Underlying Certificate
Seller, the Depositor and/or the Trustee (as appropriate) shall present the
documents described in Section 2.01 for registration of transfer of the
Deposited Underlying Certificates to the Trustee, pursuant to the requirements
under each Underlying Agreement.
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ARTICLE
III
ADMINISTRATION
OF THE TRUST FUND;
PAYMENTS
AND REPORTS TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
Section
3.01 Defaults by the
Underlying
Trusts. In connection with its receipt of any distribution on
the Deposited Underlying Certificates on any Distribution Date, if (i) the
amount of any distribution varies from the amount due thereon pursuant to the
terms of the applicable Underlying Agreement, (ii) the Trustee shall not have
received a distribution by the close of business on such Distribution Date,
or
(iii) a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall gain actual knowledge of any
default under the applicable Underlying Agreement, the Trustee shall promptly
notify the Depositor, the Underlying Certificate Seller and the
Certificateholders, and shall, subject to the provisions of Article V hereof,
pursue such remedies as may be available to it as holder of such Deposited
Underlying Certificates in accordance with the terms of the applicable
Underlying Agreement.
Section
3.02 Distribution Account
and
Securities Account. (a) The Trustee, for the benefit of the
Certificateholders, shall establish and maintain an account (the “Distribution
Account”) at the Bank, which shall be an Eligible Account, entitled “CWALT
2008-1R Distribution Account.” The Distribution Account shall be maintained as a
“deposit account” (as defined in Section 9-102(a)(29) of the UCC), bearing a
designation clearly indicating that the account and all funds deposited in
it
are held for the exclusive benefit of the Certificateholders. All
amounts on deposit in the Distribution Account shall remain
uninvested. The Bank of New York (“BNY”) hereby confirms the
following with respect to the Distribution Account: (A) the Distribution Account
shall be established and maintained as a “deposit account” (as defined in
Section 9-102(a)(29) of the UCC), (B) BNY is an organization engaged in the
business of banking and is acting in such capacity (in such capacity, the
“Bank”) in maintaining the Distribution Account and (C) the Trustee is the
Bank’s sole “customer” (within the meaning of Section 9-104 of the UCC) with
respect to the Distribution Account (other than the Securities
Account). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary and for the
avoidance of doubt, if at any time the Bank shall receive any instructions
originated by the Trustee directing the disposition of funds in the Distribution
Account, the Bank shall comply with such instructions without further consent
by
the Depositor, the Underlying Certificate Seller or any other
Person. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the Bank’s
“jurisdiction” (within the meaning of Section 9-304 of the UCC) is the State of
New York.
The
Distribution Account Property shall be Delivered to the Securities Intermediary
in accordance with the definition of “Delivery.”
(b)
By the date of this Agreement, (A) the Trustee shall establish an account (the
“Securities Account”) which shall be established and maintained as a “securities
account” as defined in Section 8-501 of the UCC to which financial assets are or
may be credited, entitled “CWALT 2008-1R Securities Account” and BNY shall act
in the capacity of a “securities intermediary” as defined in Section
8-102(a)(14) of the UCC (in such capacity, the “Securities Intermediary”) with
respect to the Securities Account, and (B) the Securities Intermediary shall
treat the Trustee as the sole “entitlement holder” (within the meaning of
Section 8-102(a)(7) of
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the
UCC)
of the Securities Account and the sole Person entitled to exercise the rights
that comprise any financial asset credited to the Securities
Account.
The
Securities Account Property, including the Deposited Underlying Certificates,
shall be Delivered to the Securities Intermediary in accordance with the
definition of “Delivery.”
(c)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary and for the avoidance of doubt, if
at
any time the Securities Intermediary shall receive any notifications or
entitlement orders from the Trustee directing it to transfer or redeem any
financial asset or other property relating to the Securities Account, the
Securities Intermediary shall comply with such notification or other entitlement
order without further consent by the Depositor or any other Person.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the Securities Intermediary’s
jurisdiction (as defined in Section 8-110(e) of the UCC) shall be the State
of
New York.
(d)
The Trustee shall upon receipt deposit in the Distribution Account the following
payments and collections in respect of the Deposited Underlying
Certificates:
(i)
all distributions due and received on the Deposited Underlying Certificates
after December 26, 2007; and
(ii)
any amount required to be deposited in the Distribution Account pursuant to
Section 2.03(a) hereof in connection with the repurchase of a Deposited
Underlying Certificate by the Underlying Certificate Seller.
(e)
Upon a determination by the Trustee that the final distribution shall be made
in
respect of a Deposited Underlying Certificate, the Trustee shall take such
steps
as may be necessary in connection with the final payment thereon in accordance
with the terms and conditions of the applicable Underlying Agreement. The
Trustee shall promptly deposit in the Distribution Account the final
distribution received upon presentment and surrender of the affected Deposited
Underlying Certificate.
(f)
The Depositor shall give notice to the Trustee, the Underlying Certificate
Seller and each Rating Agency of any proposed change of the location of the
Distribution Account or the Securities Account prior to any change
thereof.
(g)
If the Bank or the Securities Intermediary has or subsequently obtains by
agreement, operation of law, or otherwise a security interest in the
Distribution Account or the Securities Account, each of the Bank and the
Securities Intermediary hereby agrees that the security interest shall be
subordinate to the security interest of the Trustee for the benefit of the
Certificateholders.
Section
3.03 Permitted Withdrawals
From
the Distribution Account. The Trustee may from time to time
withdraw funds from the Distribution Account for the following
purposes:
(a)
to make payments to Certificateholders in the amounts and in the manner provided
in Section 3.04;
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(b)
to reimburse the Depositor for expenses incurred by and reimbursable to the
Depositor with respect to each REMIC hereunder pursuant to Section
6.03;
(c)
to pay any taxes imposed upon each REMIC hereunder, as provided in Section
5.12;
and
(d)
to clear and terminate the Distribution Account upon the termination of the
Trust Fund.
Section
3.04 Distributions.
(a)
(1) On each
Distribution Date, the Trustee shall withdraw from the Distribution Account
the
Available Interest Funds from the Group 1 Deposited Underlying Certificates
for
such Distribution Date and apply such funds to the distributions of interest
on
the Group 1 Certificates, in the following order:
(i)
concurrently to each Class of Group 1 Certificates, an amount equal to the
related Class Optimal Interest Distribution Amount for each such Class of
Certificates, any shortfall being allocated pro rata among such Classes based
on
their respective Class Optimal Interest Distribution Amounts before reductions
for such shortfalls; and
(ii)
[Reserved].
(2)
On each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall withdraw from the Distribution
Account the Available Principal Funds from the Group 1 Deposited Underlying
Certificates for such Distribution Date and apply such funds to distributions
in
respect of principal on the Group 1 Certificates, concurrently, to the Class
1-A-1 and Class 1-A-2 Certificates, pro rata, until their respective Class
Certificate Balances are reduced to zero.
(b)
(1) On each
Distribution Date, the Trustee shall withdraw from the Distribution Account
the
Available Interest Funds from the Group 2 Deposited Underlying Certificates
for
such Distribution Date and apply such funds to the distributions of interest
on
the Group 2 Certificates, in the following order:
(i)
concurrently to each Class of Group 2 Certificates, an amount equal to the
related Class Optimal Interest Distribution Amount for each such Class of
Certificates, any shortfall being allocated pro rata among such Classes based
on
their respective Class Optimal Interest Distribution Amounts before reductions
for such shortfalls; and
(ii)
[Reserved].
(2)
On each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall withdraw from the Distribution
Account the Available Principal Funds from the Group 2 Deposited Underlying
Certificates for such Distribution Date and apply such funds to distributions
in
respect of principal on the Group 2 Certificates, in the following
order:
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(A)
to the Class A-R Certificates, until its Class Certificate Balance is reduced
to
zero; and
(B)
concurrently, to the Class 1-A-1 and Class 1-A-2 Certificates, pro rata, until
their respective Class Certificate Balances are reduced to zero.
If
any
Class of Depositable Certificates has been surrendered to the Trustee for
Exchangeable Certificates, the Trustee, as holder of such surrendered
Depositable Certificates, shall deposit any amounts distributable to such Class
of Depositable Certificates in this Section 3.04(b) into the Exchangeable
Certificates Distribution Account and shall distribute such amounts to the
Holders of the related Class of Exchangeable Certificates pursuant to Section
4.07(b).
(c)
[Reserved].
(d)
On each Distribution Date, the amount referred to in clause (i) of the
definition of Class Optimal Interest Distribution Amount for each Class of
Certificates for such Distribution Date shall be reduced by such Class’s pro
rata share (based on interest then due and payable to such Class) of the related
Allocated Underlying Net Interest Shortfalls for such Distribution
Date.
(e)
If Underlying Subsequent Recoveries have been received with respect to an
Underlying Liquidated Mortgage Loan and are applied to increase the Class
Certificate Balance of the related Deposited Underlying Certificates, that
amount will be applied pro rata to increase the Class Certificate Balance of
each Class of Certificates in the related Certificate Group to which Realized
Losses have been allocated, but in each case by not more than the amount of
related Underlying Realized Losses previously allocated to that Class of
Certificates pursuant to Section 3.06. Holders of such Certificates will not
be
entitled to any payment in respect of the Class Optimal Interest Distribution
Amount on the amount of such increases for any Interest Accrual Period preceding
the Distribution Date on which such increase occurs. Any such increases shall
be
applied pro rata to the Certificate Balance of each Certificate of such
Class.
Section
3.05 [Reserved].
Section
3.06 Allocation of Realized
Losses.
(a)
On or prior to the beginning of the second Business Day prior to each
Distribution Date, the Trustee shall determine the total amount of Allocated
Underlying Realized Losses with respect to each class of Deposited Underlying
Certificates for such Distribution Date. The Trustee shall make such
determination on the basis of amounts on deposit in each Underlying Certificate
Account (which Underlying Certificate Accounts it holds as Underlying Trustee)
or on the basis of the agreement referred to in the last sentence of Section
5.07.
(b)
Allocated Underlying Realized Losses on the Group 1 Deposited Underlying
Certificates with respect to any Distribution Date shall be allocated
sequentially, to the Class 1-A-2 and Class 1-A-1 Certificates, in that order,
until their respective Class Certificate Balances are reduced to zero. Allocated
Underlying Realized Losses on the Group 2 Deposited Underlying Certificates
with
respect to any Distribution Date shall be allocated sequentially, to
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the
Class
2-A-2 and Class 2-A-1 Certificates, in that order, until their respective Class
Certificate Balances are reduced to zero.
(c)
Any Allocated Underlying Realized Loss allocated to a Class of Certificates
or
any reduction in the Class Certificate Balance of a Class of Certificates
pursuant to Section 3.06(b) above shall be allocated among the Certificates
of
such Class in proportion to their respective Certificate Balances.
(d)
Any allocation of Allocated Underlying Realized Losses to a Certificate or
any
reduction in the Certificate Balance of a Certificate, pursuant to Section
3.06(a) above shall be accomplished by reducing the Certificate Balance thereof
immediately following the distributions made on the related Distribution Date
in
accordance with the definition of “Certificate Balance.”
Section
3.07 Determination of
Pass-Through Rates for LIBOR Certificates.
(a)
On each Interest Determination Date so long as any Certificates that have a
Pass-Through Rate calculated by reference to LIBOR are outstanding, the Trustee
will determine LIBOR on the basis of the British Bankers’ Association (“BBA”)
“Interest Settlement Rate” for one-month deposits in U.S. dollars as quoted on
the Bloomberg Terminal as of each LIBOR Determination Date.
(b)
If on any Interest Determination Date, LIBOR cannot be determined as provided
in
paragraph (A) of this Section 4.08, the Trustee shall either (i) request each
Reference Bank to inform the Trustee of the quotation offered by its principal
London office for making one-month United States dollar deposits in leading
banks in the London interbank market, as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such
Interest Determination Date or (ii) in lieu of making any such request, rely
on
such Reference Bank quotations that appear at such time on the Reuters Screen
LIBO Page (as defined in the International Swap Dealers Association Inc. Code
of
Standard Wording, Assumptions and Provisions for Swaps, 1986 Edition), to the
extent available. LIBOR for the next Interest Accrual Period will be established
by the Trustee on each interest Determination Date as follows:
(i)
If on any Interest Determination Date two or more Reference Banks provide such
offered quotations, LIBOR for the next applicable Interest Accrual Period shall
be the arithmetic mean of such offered quotations (rounding such arithmetic
mean
upwards if necessary to the nearest whole multiple of 1/32%).
(ii)
If on any Interest Determination Date only one or none of the Reference Banks
provides such offered quotations, LIBOR for the next Interest Accrual Period
shall be whichever is the higher of (i) LIBOR as determined on the previous
Interest Determination Date or (ii) the Reserve Interest Rate. The “Reserve
Interest Rate” shall be the rate per annum which the Trustee determines to be
either (i) the arithmetic mean (rounded upwards if necessary to the nearest
whole multiple of 1/32%) of the one-month United States dollar lending rates
that New York City banks selected by the Trustee are quoting, on the relevant
Interest Determination Date, to the principal London offices of at least two
of
the Reference Banks to which such quotations are, in the opinion of the
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Trustee,
being so made, or (ii) in the event that the Trustee can determine no such
arithmetic mean, the lowest one-month United States dollar lending rate which
New York City banks selected by the Trustee are quoting on such Interest
Determination Date to leading European banks.
(iii)
If on any Interest Determination Date the Trustee is required but is unable
to
determine the Reserve Interest Rate in the manner provided in paragraph (b)
above, LIBOR for the related Classes of Certificates shall be LIBOR as
determined on the preceding applicable Interest Determination Date. If on the
initial LIBOR Determination Date the Trustee is required but unable to determine
LIBOR in the manner provided above, LIBOR for the next Interest Accrual Period
will be the Initial LIBOR Rate.
Until
all
of the LIBOR Certificates are paid in full, the Trustee will at all times retain
at least four Reference Banks for the purpose of determining LIBOR with respect
to each Interest Determination Date. The Underlying Certificate
Seller initially shall designate the Reference Banks. Each “Reference
Bank” shall be a leading bank engaged in transactions in Eurodollar deposits in
the international Eurocurrency market, shall not control, be controlled by,
or
be under common control with, the Trustee and shall have an established place
of
business in London. If any such Reference Bank should be unwilling or
unable to act as such or if the Underlying Certificate Seller should terminate
its appointment as Reference Bank, the Trustee shall promptly appoint or cause
to be appointed another Reference Bank. The Trustee shall have no
liability or responsibility to any Person for (i) the selection of any Reference
Bank for purposes of determining LIBOR or (ii) any inability to retain at least
four Reference Banks which is caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable
control.
(c)
The Pass-Through Rate for each Class of Certificates, which has a Pass-Through
Rate that is calculated by reference to LIBOR, for each Interest Accrual Period
shall be determined by the Trustee on each Interest Determination Date so long
as the Class Certificate Balance of any such Class is greater than zero, on
the
basis of LIBOR and the respective formulae appearing in footnotes corresponding
to the LIBOR Certificates in the table relating to the Certificates in the
Preliminary Statement.
In
determining LIBOR, any Pass-Through Rate for the LIBOR Certificates, any
Interest Settlement Rate, or any Reserve Interest Rate, the Trustee may
conclusively rely and shall be protected in relying upon the offered quotations
(whether written, oral or on the Dow Xxxxx Markets) from the BBA designated
banks, the Reference Banks or the New York City banks as to LIBOR, the Interest
Settlement Rate or the Reserve Interest Rate, as appropriate, in effect from
time to time. The Trustee shall not have any liability or
responsibility to any Person for (i) the Trustee’s selection of New York City
banks for purposes of determining any Reserve Interest Rate or (ii) its
inability, following a good-faith reasonable effort, to obtain such quotations
from, the BBA designated banks, the Reference Banks or the New York City banks
or to determine such arithmetic mean, all as provided for in this Section
3.07.
The
establishment of LIBOR and each Pass-Through Rate for the LIBOR Certificates
by
the Trustee shall (in the absence of manifest error) be final, conclusive and
binding upon each Holder of a Certificate and the Trustee.
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Section
3.08 Monthly Statements
to
Certificateholders. Concurrently with each distribution on a
Distribution Date, the Trustee will forward by electronic delivery to each
Rating Agency and make available to Certificateholders on the Trustee’s website
(xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx) a statement generally setting forth the
information contained in Exhibit G hereto. Such statement shall also
indicate whether any exchanges of Exchangeable Certificates or Depositable
Certificates have occurred since the immediately preceding Distribution Date
and, if applicable, the Class designation, Class Certificate Balance or Notional
Amount and Pass-Through Rate of any Classes of Certificates that were received
by a Certificateholder as a result of such exchange as well as any Underlying
Net Prepayment Interest Shortfalls and Underlying Realized Losses allocated
to
such Certificates as a result of such exchange.
In
addition, the Trustee will make available to Certificateholders on its website
copies of the statements received by the Trustee as the holder of the Deposited
Underlying Certificates on behalf of the Trust Fund.
Certificateholders
and other parties that are unable to use the Trustee’s website are entitled to
have paper copies of these statements mailed to them via first class mail by
contacting the Trustee and indicating such.
Within
a
reasonable period of time after the end of each calendar year, the Trustee
will
prepare and deliver to each person who at any time during the previous calendar
year was a Certificateholder of record a statement containing the information
required to satisfy any requirements of the Code, the REMIC Provisions and
regulations thereunder as from time to time are in force. For
purposes of this Section 3.08, the Trustee’s duties are limited to the extent
that adequate information is reasonably available to the Trustee as described
herein.
Section
3.09 Reports of the Trustee;
Distribution Account. Upon written request of a
Certificateholder or Certificate Owner and at the expense of such
Certificateholder or Certificate Owner, the Trustee shall make available to
Certificateholders or Certificate Owners within 15 days after the date of
receipt of such request a statement setting forth the status of the Distribution
Account as of the close of business on the last day of the calendar month
immediately preceding such request, and showing, for the period covered by
such
statement, the aggregate of deposits into and withdrawals from the Distribution
Account.
Section
3.10 Access to Certain
Documentation and Information. The Trustee shall provide the
related Certificateholders or Certificate Owners with access to a copy of each
report, if any, received by it as holder of the Deposited Underlying
Certificates under an Underlying Agreement. The Trustee shall also
provide the Depositor and the Underlying Certificate Seller with access to
any
such report and to all written reports, documents and records required to be
maintained by the Trustee in respect of its duties hereunder. Such
access shall be afforded without charge but only upon reasonable request
evidenced by prior written notice received by the Trustee two Business Days
prior to the date of such proposed access and during normal business hours
at
offices designated by the Trustee.
Section
3.11 Annual Statement
as to
Compliance.
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The
Trustee shall deliver to the Depositor on or before March 15 of each year,
commencing with its 2009 fiscal year, an Officer’s Certificate substantially in
the form of Exhibit L stating, as to the signer thereof, that (i) a review
of
the activities of the Trustee during the preceding calendar year (or applicable
portion thereof) and of the performance of the Trustee under this Agreement
has
been made under such officer’s supervision and (ii) to the best of such
officer’s knowledge, based on such review, the Trustee has fulfilled all its
obligations under this Agreement in all material respects throughout such year
(or applicable portion thereof), or, if there has been a failure to fulfill
any
such obligation in any material respect, specifying each such failure known
to
such officer and the nature and status thereof.
The
Trustee shall cause each Subcontractor, if any, to deliver to the Depositor
and
the Trustee on or before March 15 of each year, commencing with its 2009 fiscal
year, an Officer’s Certificate stating, as to the signer thereof, that (i) a
review of the activities of such Subcontractor during the preceding calendar
year (or applicable portion thereof) and of the performance of the Subcontractor
under the applicable agreement, has been made under such officer’s supervision
and (ii) to the best of such officer’s knowledge, based on such review, such
Subcontractor has fulfilled all its obligations under the applicable agreement,
in all material respects throughout such year (or applicable portion thereof),
or, if there has been a failure to fulfill any such obligation in any material
respect, specifying each such failure known to such officer and the nature
and
status thereof.
The
Trustee shall forward a copy of each such statement to each Rating
Agency.
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ARTICLE
IV
THE
CERTIFICATES
Section
4.01 The
Certificates.
The
Certificates shall be substantially in the forms attached hereto as
exhibits. The Certificates shall be issuable in registered form, in
the minimum denominations, integral multiples in excess thereof (except that
one
Certificate in each Class may be issued in a different amount which must be
in
excess of the applicable minimum denomination) and aggregate denominations
per
Class set forth in the Preliminary Statement.
Subject
to Section 7.01 hereof respecting the final distribution on the Certificates,
on
each Distribution Date the Trustee shall make distributions to each
Certificateholder of record on the preceding Record Date either (x) by wire
transfer in immediately available funds to the account of such holder at a
bank
or other entity having appropriate facilities therefor, if (i) such Holder
has
so notified the Trustee at least five Business Days prior to the related Record
Date and (ii) such Holder shall hold (A) a Notional Amount Certificate, (B)
100%
of the Class Certificate Balance of any Class of Certificates or
(C) Certificates of any Class with aggregate principal Denominations of not
less than $1,000,000 or (y) by check mailed by first class mail to such
Certificateholder at the address of such holder appearing in the Certificate
Register.
The
Certificates shall be executed by manual or facsimile signature on behalf of
the
Trust by an authorized officer of the Trustee. Certificates bearing
the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were, at the time when
such signatures were affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Trustee shall
bind the Trustee, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have
ceased to be so authorized prior to the countersignature and delivery of such
Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of such
Certificate. No Certificate shall be entitled to any benefit under
this Agreement, or be valid for any purpose, unless countersigned by the Trustee
by manual signature, and such countersignature upon any Certificate shall be
conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Certificate has been
duly
executed and delivered hereunder. All Certificates shall be dated the
date of their countersignature. On the Closing Date, the Trustee
shall countersign the Certificates to be issued at the direction of the
Depositor, or any affiliate thereof.
The
Depositor shall provide, or cause to be provided, to the Trustee on a continuous
basis, an adequate inventory of Certificates to facilitate
transfers.
Section
4.02 Certificate Register;
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates.
(a)
The Trustee shall maintain, or cause to be maintained in accordance with the
provisions of Section 4.06 hereof, a Certificate Register for the Trust Fund
in
which, subject to the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) below and to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Trustee shall provide for the
registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates
as
herein provided. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any
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Certificate,
the Trustee shall execute and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee
or transferees, one or more new Certificates of the same Class and aggregate
Percentage Interest.
At
the
option of a Certificateholder, Certificates may be exchanged for other
Certificates of the same Class in authorized denominations and evidencing the
same aggregate Percentage Interest upon surrender of the Certificates to be
exchanged at the office or agency of the Trustee. Whenever any
Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Trustee shall execute,
authenticate, and deliver the Certificates which the Certificateholder making
the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Certificate presented or
surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by
a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed
by the holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No
service charge to the Certificateholders shall be made for any registration
of
transfer or exchange of Certificates, but payment of a sum sufficient to cover
any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any
transfer or exchange of Certificates may be required.
All
Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be
cancelled and subsequently destroyed by the Trustee in accordance with the
Trustee’s customary procedures.
(b)
[Reserved].
(c)
No transfer of an ERISA-Restricted Certificate shall be made unless the Trustee
shall have received either (i) a representation from the transferee of such
Certificate acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee
(in the event such Certificate is a Residual Certificate such requirement is
satisfied only by the Trustee’s receipt of a Representation Letter from the
Transferee substantially in the form of Exhibit F to the effect that (x) such
transferee is not a Plan or (y) in the case of a Certificate that is an
ERISA-Restricted Certificate and that has been the subject of an
ERISA-Qualifying Underwriting, a representation that the transferee is an
insurance company which is purchasing such Certificate with funds contained
in
an “insurance company general account” (as such term is defined in Section V(e)
of Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60 (“PTCE 95-60”)) and that the
purchase and holding of such Certificate satisfy the requirements for exemptive
relief under Sections I and III of PTCE 95-60 or (ii) in the case of any
ERISA-Restricted Certificate presented for registration in the name of a Plan,
an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to the Trustee, which Opinion of Counsel
shall not be an expense of either the Trustee or the Trust Fund, addressed
to
the Trustee to the effect that the purchase and holding of such ERISA-Restricted
Certificate will not result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section
406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and will not subject the Trustee to
any
obligation in addition to those expressly undertaken in this Agreement or to
any
liability. For purposes of the preceding sentence, with respect to an
ERISA-Restricted Certificate that is not a Residual Certificate, in the event
the representation letter or opinion of counsel referred to in the preceding
sentence is not so furnished, none of the representations in clause (i), as
appropriate, shall be deemed to have been made to the Trustee by the
transferee’s (including an initial acquiror’s) acceptance of the
ERISA-Restricted Certificates. Notwithstanding anything else to the
contrary herein, any purported transfer of an ERISA-Restricted Certificate
to or
on behalf of a Plan without the delivery to the Trustee of an Opinion of Counsel
satisfactory to the Trustee as described above shall be void and of no
effect.
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To
the
extent permitted under applicable law (including, but not limited to, ERISA),
the Trustee shall be under no liability to any Person for any registration
of or
transfer of any ERISA-Restricted Certificate that is in fact not permitted
by
this Section 4.02(c) or for making any payments due on such Certificate to
the
Holder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such Holder under
the
provisions of this Agreement so long as the transfer was registered by the
Trustee in accordance with the foregoing requirements.
(d)
Each Person who has or who acquires any Ownership Interest in a Residual
Certificate shall be deemed by the acceptance or acquisition of such Ownership
Interest to have agreed to be bound by the following provisions, and the rights
of each Person acquiring any Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate are
expressly subject to the following provisions:
(i)
Each Person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest in a Residual
Certificate shall be a Permitted Transferee and shall promptly notify the
Trustee of any change or impending change in its status as a Permitted
Transferee.
(ii) Except
in connection with (i) the registration of the Tax Matters Person Certificate
in
the name of the Trustee or (ii) any registration in the name of, or transfer
of
a Residual Certificate to, an affiliate of the Depositor or the Underlying
Certificate Seller (either directly or through a nominee) in connection with
the
initial issuance of the Certificates, no Ownership Interest in a Residual
Certificate may be registered on the Closing Date or thereafter transferred,
and
the Trustee shall not register the Transfer of any Residual Certificate unless
the Trustee shall have been furnished with an affidavit (a “Transfer Affidavit”)
of the initial owner or the proposed transferee in the form attached hereto
as
Exhibit F.
(iii) Each
Person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate
shall agree (A) to obtain a Transfer Affidavit from any other Person to whom
such Person attempts to Transfer its Ownership Interest in a Residual
Certificate, (B) to obtain a Transfer Affidavit from any Person for whom such
Person is acting as nominee, trustee or agent in connection with any Transfer
of
a Residual Certificate and (C) not to Transfer its Ownership Interest in a
Residual Certificate or to cause the Transfer of an Ownership Interest in a
Residual Certificate to any other Person if it has actual knowledge that such
Person is not a Permitted Transferee and to provide to the Trustee a certificate
substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit E stating that it has
no
knowledge that such Person is not a Permitted Transferee.
(iv) Any
attempted or purported Transfer of any Ownership Interest in a Residual
Certificate in violation of the provisions of this Section 4.02(d) shall be
absolutely null and void and shall vest no rights in the purported Transferee.
If any purported transferee shall become a Holder of a Residual Certificate
in
violation of the provisions of this Section 4.02(d), then the last preceding
Permitted Transferee shall be restored to all rights as Holder thereof
retroactive to the date of registration of Transfer of such Residual
Certificate. The Trustee shall be under no liability to any Person for any
registration of Transfer of a Residual Certificate that is in fact not permitted
by Section 4.02(c) and this Section 4.02(d) or for making any payments due
on
such Certificate to the Holder thereof or taking any other action with respect
to such Holder under the
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provisions
of this Agreement so long as the Transfer was registered after receipt of the
related Transfer Affidavit and Transferor Certificate. The Trustee shall be
entitled but not obligated to recover from any Holder of a Residual Certificate
that was in fact not a Permitted Transferee at the time it became a Holder
or,
at such subsequent time as it became other than a Permitted Transferee, all
payments made on such Residual Certificate at and after either such time. Any
such payments so recovered by the Trustee shall be paid and delivered by the
Trustee to the last preceding Permitted Transferee of such
Certificate.
(v) The
Depositor shall use its best efforts to make available, upon receipt of written
request from the Trustee, all information necessary to compute any tax imposed
under Section 860E(e) of the Code as a result of a Transfer of an Ownership
Interest in a Residual Certificate to any Holder who is not a Permitted
Transferee.
The
restrictions on Transfers of a Residual Certificate set forth in this Section
4.02(d) shall cease to apply (and the applicable portions of the legend on
a
Residual Certificate may be deleted) with respect to Transfers occurring after
delivery to the Trustee of an Opinion of Counsel, which Opinion of Counsel
shall
not be an expense of the Trust Fund, the Trustee, the Underlying Certificate
Seller or the Depositor, to the effect that the elimination of such restrictions
will not cause each REMIC hereunder to fail to qualify as a REMIC at any time
that the Certificates are outstanding or result in the imposition of any tax
on
the Trust Fund, a Certificateholder or another Person. Each Person
holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate hereby
consents to any amendment of this Agreement which, based on an Opinion of
Counsel furnished to the Trustee, is reasonably necessary (a) to ensure that
the
record ownership of, or any beneficial interest in, a Residual Certificate
is
not transferred, directly or indirectly, to a Person that is not a Permitted
Transferee and (b) to provide for a means to compel the Transfer of a Residual
Certificate which is held by a Person that is not a Permitted Transferee to
a
Holder that is a Permitted Transferee.
(e)
The preparation and delivery of all certificates and opinions referred to above
in this Section 4.02(e) in connection with transfer shall be at the expense
of
the parties to such transfers.
(f)
Except as provided below, the Book-Entry Certificates shall at all times remain
registered in the name of the Depository or its nominee and at all times: (i)
registration of the Certificates may not be transferred by the Trustee except
to
another Depository; (ii) the Depository shall maintain book-entry records with
respect to the Certificate Owners and with respect to ownership and transfers
of
such Book-Entry Certificates; (iii) ownership and transfers of registration
of
the Book-Entry Certificates on the books of the Depository shall be governed
by
applicable rules established by the Depository; (iv) the Depository may collect
its usual and customary fees, charges and expenses from its Depository
Participants; (v) the Trustee shall deal with the Depository, Depository
Participants and indirect participating firms as representatives of the
Certificate Owners of the Book-Entry Certificates for purposes of exercising
the
rights of holders under this Agreement, and requests and directions for and
votes of such representatives shall not be deemed to be inconsistent if they
are
made with respect to different Certificate Owners; and (vi) the Trustee may
rely
and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by the
Depository with respect to its Depository Participants and furnished by the
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Depository
Participants with respect to indirect participating firms and persons shown
on
the books of such indirect participating firms as direct or indirect Certificate
Owners.
All
transfers by Certificate Owners of Book-Entry Certificates shall be made in
accordance with the procedures established by the Depository Participant or
brokerage firm representing such Certificate Owner. Each Depository
Participant shall only transfer Book-Entry Certificates of Certificate Owners
it
represents or of brokerage firms for which it acts as agent in accordance with
the Depository’s normal procedures.
If
(x)
(i) the Depository or the Depositor advises the Trustee in writing that the
Depository is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its
responsibilities as Depository, and (ii) the Trustee or the Depositor is unable
to locate a qualified successor or (y) after the occurrence of an Underlying
Event of Default, the Certificate Owners representing at least 51% of the
aggregate Class Certificate Balance of the related Book-Entry Certificates
together advise the Trustee and the Depository through the Depository
Participants in writing that continuation of the book-entry system through
the
Depository is no longer in the best interests of the Certificate Owners, the
Trustee shall notify all such Certificate Owners, through the Depository, of
the
occurrence of any such event and of the availability of definitive,
fully-registered Certificates (the “Definitive Certificates”) to such
Certificate Owners requesting the same. Upon surrender to the Trustee
of the related Class of Certificates by the Depository, accompanied by the
instructions from the Depository for registration, the Trustee shall issue
the
Definitive Certificates. Neither the Depositor nor the Trustee shall
be liable for any delay in delivery of such instruction and each may
conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such
instructions. The Depositor shall provide the Trustee with an
adequate inventory of certificates to facilitate the issuance and transfer
of
Definitive Certificates. Upon the issuance of Definitive Certificates
all references herein to obligations imposed upon or to be performed by the
Depository shall be deemed to be imposed upon and performed by the Trustee,
to
the extent applicable with respect to such Definitive Certificates and the
Trustee shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive Certificates as
Certificateholders hereunder; provided that the Trustee shall not by virtue
of
its assumption of such obligations become liable to any party for any act or
failure to act of the Depository.
Section
4.03 Mutilated, Destroyed,
Lost
or Stolen Certificates.
If
(a)
any mutilated Certificate is surrendered to the Trustee, or the Trustee receives
evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any
Certificate and (b) there is delivered to the Depositor and the Trustee such
security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless,
then, in the absence of notice to the Trustee that such Certificate has been
acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Trustee shall execute, countersign and
deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost
or
stolen Certificate, a new Certificate of like Class, tenor and Percentage
Interest. In connection with the issuance of any new Certificate
under this Section 4.03, the Trustee may require the payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation
thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee)
connected therewith. Any replacement Certificate issued pursuant to
this Section 4.03 shall constitute complete and indefeasible evidence of
ownership, as if originally issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed
Certificate shall be found at any time.
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Section
4.04 Persons Deemed
Owners.
The
Depositor, the Trustee and any agent of the Depositor or the Trustee may treat
the Person in whose name any Certificate is registered as the owner of such
Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions as provided in this
Agreement and for all other purposes whatsoever, and neither the Depositor,
the
Trustee nor any agent of the Depositor or the Trustee shall be affected by
any
notice to the contrary.
Section
4.05 Access to List of
Certificateholders’ Names and Addresses.
If
three
or more Certificateholders and/or Certificate Owners (a) request such
information in writing from the Trustee, (b) state that such Certificateholders
and/or Certificate Owners desire to communicate with other Certificateholders
and/or Certificate Owners with respect to their rights under this Agreement
or
under the Certificates, and (c) provide a copy of the communication which such
Certificateholders and/or Certificate Owners propose to transmit, or if the
Depositor shall request such information in writing from the Trustee, then
the
Trustee shall, within ten Business Days after the receipt of such request,
provide the Depositor or such Certificateholders and/or Certificate Owners
at
such recipients’ expense the most recent list of the Certificateholders of such
Trust Fund held by the Trustee, if any. The Depositor and every
Certificateholder and/or Certificate Owner, by receiving and holding a
Certificate or beneficial interest therein, agree that the Trustee shall not
be
held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to
the
list of the Certificateholders hereunder, regardless of the source from which
such information was derived.
Section
4.06 Maintenance of Office
or
Agency. The Trustee will maintain or cause to be maintained at
its expense an office or offices or agency or agencies in New York City where
Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange. The Trustee initially designates its Corporate Trust Office
for such purposes. The Trustee will give prompt written notice to the
Certificateholders of any change in such location of any such office or
agency.
Section
4.07 Depositable and
Exchangeable
Certificates.
(a)
On the Closing Date, there is hereby established a separate trust (the “ES
Trust”), which shall be a Grantor Trust for federal income tax
purposes. The ES Trust shall be maintained by the Trustee in its
name, for the benefit of the Holders of the Certificates. The assets
of the ES Trust shall consist of the uncertificated Master REMIC Interests,
which have been placed in the ES Trust through the efforts of the
Underwriter. The Master REMIC Interests in the ES Trust shall be held
by the Trustee. On the Closing Date, the ES Trust shall issue the
several Classes of Certificates. Each Class of Exchangeable
Certificates shall be issued on the Closing Date with a Class Certificate
Balance of zero. Upon the sale of the Certificates on the Closing
Date, the Exchangeable Certificates shall be placed with the Trustee through
the
efforts of the Underwriter to be held to facilitate the exchange of Depositable
and Exchangeable Certificates on and after the Closing Date. Among
the Depositable and Exchangeable Certificates, the beneficial interest of the
uncertificated Master REMIC Interests shall be represented by the related
Depositable Certificates until such Depositable Certificates have been exchanged
for Exchangeable Certificates, at which time, such Exchangeable Certificates
shall represent those uncertificated Master REMIC Interests.
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The
Trustee, as trustee of the ES Trust, shall establish and maintain, on behalf
of
the Holders of the Exchangeable Certificates, the Exchangeable Certificates
Distribution Account. All funds on deposit in the Exchangeable
Certificates Distribution Account shall be held separate and apart from, and
shall not be commingled with, any other moneys, including without limitation,
other moneys held by the Trustee pursuant to this Agreement.
On
each
Distribution Date, the Trustee, as holder of any surrendered Depositable
Certificates, shall deposit in the Exchangeable Certificates Distribution
Account any amounts distributable to the surrendered Depositable Certificates
pursuant to Section 3.04. For the avoidance of doubt, if on any
Distribution Date no Classes of Depositable Certificates have been surrendered
or if all Classes of Exchangeable Certificates have been exchanged for
Depositable Certificates according to Section 4.07(e), then no amounts will
be
deposited in the Exchangeable Certificates Deposit Account on such Distribution
Date.
On
each
Distribution Date, the Trustee shall make withdrawals from the Exchangeable
Certificates Distribution Account to make distributions to the Classes of
Exchangeable Certificates then entitled to distributions pursuant to Section
4.07(b).
Funds
in
the Exchangeable Certificates Distribution Account shall remain
uninvested.
(b)
On each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall withdraw funds on deposit in the
Exchangeable Certificates Distribution Account on deposit therein from
distributions to the surrendered Depositable Certificates for such Distribution
Date and distribute such amount to the Holders of each related Class of
Exchangeable Certificates. Amounts related to interest distributed to the
surrendered Depositable Certificates shall be distributed as interest to the
related Class or Classes of Exchangeable Certificates pursuant to Section
3.04(b)(2). All distributions of principal to the Exchangeable Certificates
shall be made pro rata among the Classes of Exchangeable Certificates within
each Combination Group unless specifically provided for otherwise in Schedule
III. All distributions that are made with respect to a particular Class of
Exchangeable Certificates shall be made pro rata among all Certificates of
such
Class in proportion to their respective Class Certificate Balances or Notional
Amounts.
In
addition, the Trustee may from time to time make withdrawals from the
Exchangeable Certificates Distribution Account for the following
purposes:
(i)
to withdraw any amount deposited in the Exchangeable Certificates Distribution
Account and not required to be deposited therein; and
(ii) to
clear and terminate the Exchangeable Certificates Distribution Account upon
the
termination of this Agreement.
(c) On
each Distribution Date on which a Class of Exchangeable Certificates shall
be
entitled to receive distributions pursuant to Section 4.07(b), such Class shall
be allocated a proportionate share of the Underlying Net Prepayment Interest
Shortfalls, the interest portion of any Underlying Debt Service Reductions
and
Underlying Relief Act Reductions allocable to the Classes of Depositable
Certificates in the related Combination Group.
(d)
On each Distribution Date on which a Class of Exchangeable Certificates shall
be
entitled to receive distributions pursuant to Section 4.07(b), such Class shall
be allocated a
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proportionate
share of the Underlying Realized Losses allocable to the Classes of Depositable
Certificates in the related Combination Group.
(e)
Upon the presentation and surrender of the Depositable Certificates, the Holder
thereof transfers, assigns, sets over and otherwise conveys to the Trustee
of
the ES Trust, all of such Holder’s right, title and interest in and to such
Depositable Certificates, including all payments of interest thereon received
after the month of the exchange. The Trustee on behalf of the ES
Trust shall furnish written acknowledgement to the Holder of such surrendered
Certificate of the transfer and assignment to it of such Depositable
Certificates.
At
the
request of the Holder of a Class or Classes of Depositable Certificates, and
upon the surrender of such Depositable Certificates, the Trustee shall deliver
such Exchangeable Certificates as set forth in such Combination Group in the
respective Denominations determined based on the proportion that the initial
Class Certificate Balance or initial Notional Amounts of such Exchangeable
Certificates bear to the initial Class Certificate Balances of the Depositable
Certificates, as set forth in Schedule III, which shall represent in the
aggregate, the entire beneficial ownership of the Master REMIC Interests related
to such surrendered Certificates. In addition, at the request of the
Holder of a Class or Classes of Exchangeable Certificates, and upon the
surrender of such Exchangeable Certificates, the Trustee shall exchange such
Exchangeable Certificates for another Class or Classes of Exchangeable
Certificates or the related surrendered Depositable Certificates, as set forth
in Schedule III. There shall be no limitation on the number of
exchanges authorized pursuant to this Section 4.07.
Holders
may exchange their Certificates according to this Section 4.07(e) by (i)
providing notice to the Trustee no later than three (3) Business Days prior
to
the date on which the Holder wishes to make such exchange (the “Exchange Date”),
which Exchange Date is subject to the Trustee’s approval and shall not be the
first or last Business Day of the month, (ii) remitting the Exchange Fee, as
determined in the next paragraph, to the Trustee and (iii) remitting the
beneficial interest in the Depositable Certificates or the Exchangeable
Certificates, as applicable, to the Trustee. Any such notice to the
Trustee (A) may be provided to the Trustee by email at xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
or
by telephone at (000) 000-0000, (B) must include (i) the Certificateholder’s
letterhead, (ii) a medallion stamp guarantee or be signed by an authorized
signatory and be presented with an incumbency certificate and (iii) set forth
the following information: (a) the CUSIP number of both the Certificates to
be
exchanged and the Certificates to be received, (b) the outstanding Class
Certificate Balance or Notional Amount and the initial Class Certificate Balance
or initial Notional Amount of the Certificates to be exchanged, (c) the
Certificateholder’s DTC participant number and (d) the proposed Exchange Date,
and (C) is irrevocable beginning on the second Business Day prior to the
Exchange Date. Such exchange will be completed by the Trustee upon
the receipt by the Trustee of the Exchange Fee and the beneficial interest
in
the Depositable Certificates or the Exchangeable Certificates, as
applicable.
The
preparation of all Certificates referred to in this Section 4.07(e) in
connection with an exchange shall be at the expense of the parties to such
exchanges. For each exchange, the Certificateholder must pay the
Trustee a fee (the “Exchange Fee”) equal to 1/32 of 1% of the current Class
Certificate Balance of the Certificates to be exchanged but in no event shall
the fee be less than $2,000 or greater than $25,000.
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ARTICLE
V
CONCERNING
THE TRUSTEE
Section
5.01 Duties of
Trustee.
The
Trustee shall undertake to perform such duties and only such duties as are
specifically set forth in this Agreement.
The
Trustee, upon receipt of all resolutions, certificates, statements, opinions,
reports, documents, orders or other instruments furnished to the Trustee that
are specifically required to be furnished pursuant to any provision of this
Agreement shall examine them to determine whether they are in the form required
by this Agreement; provided, however,
that the
Trustee shall not be responsible for the accuracy or content of any such
resolution, certificate, statement, opinion, report, document, order or other
instrument.
No
provision of this Agreement shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from
liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or
its
own willful misconduct; provided, however,
that:
(i)
the duties and obligations of the Trustee shall be determined solely by the
express provisions of this Agreement, the Trustee shall not be liable except
for
the performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth
in
this Agreement, no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this
Agreement against the Trustee and the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to
the
truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein,
upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to
the
requirements of this Agreement which it believed in good faith to be genuine
and
to have been duly executed by the proper authorities respecting any matters
arising hereunder;
(ii) the
Trustee shall not be liable for an error of judgment made in good faith by
a
Responsible Officer or Responsible Officers of the Trustee, unless it shall
be
finally proven that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent
facts; and
(iii) the
Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken, suffered or
omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of
Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than 25% of the Voting Rights of
Certificates relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding
for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power
conferred upon the Trustee under this Agreement.
Section
5.02 Certain Matters
Affecting
the Trustee. Except as otherwise provided in Section
5.01:
(i)
the Trustee may request and rely upon and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, Officers’ Certificate, certificate
of auditors or any other certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
notice, request, consent, order, appraisal, bond or other paper or document
believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or
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presented
by the proper party or parties and the Trustee shall have no responsibility
to
ascertain or confirm the genuineness of any signature of any such party or
parties;
(ii) the
Trustee may consult with counsel, financial advisers or accountants and the
advice of any such counsel, financial advisers or accountants and any Opinion
of
Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect
of
any action taken or suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in
accordance with such Opinion of Counsel;
(iii) the
Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it
in
good faith and believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or
rights or powers conferred upon it by this Agreement;
(iv) the
Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters
stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond or other paper or document,
unless requested in writing so to do by Holders of Certificates entitled to
not
less than 25% of the Voting Rights evidenced by each Class of Senior
Certificates;
(v) the
Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties
hereunder either directly or by or through agents, accountants or
attorneys;
(vi) the
Trustee shall not be required to risk or expend its own funds or otherwise
incur
any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the
exercise of any of its rights or powers hereunder if it shall have reasonable
grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against
such risk or liability is not assured to it;
(vii) the
Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the trusts, rights
or
powers vested in it by this Agreement or to institute, conduct or defend any
litigation hereunder or in relation hereto at the request, order or direction
of
any of the Certificateholders, pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement,
unless such Certificateholders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable
security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses
and liabilities which may be incurred therein or thereby;
(viii) whenever
in the administration of this Agreement the Trustee shall deem it desirable
that
a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any
action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically
prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, conclusively rely
upon
an Officers’ Certificate; and
(ix) the
Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any breach by the Underlying
Certificate Seller of any representation, warranty or covenant or any default
or
event of default unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual
knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact such
a
default or breach is received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office
of
the Trustee, and such notice references the Certificates and this
Agreement.
All
rights of action under this Agreement or under any of the Certificates,
enforceable by the Trustee, may be enforced by it without the possession of
any
of such Certificates, or the production thereof at the trial or other proceeding
relating thereto, and any such suit, action or
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proceeding
instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its name for the benefit of all
the Holders of such Certificates, subject to the provisions of this
Agreement.
Section
5.03 Trustee Not Liable
for
Certificates or Deposited Underlying Certificates. The
recitals contained herein and in the Certificates shall be taken as the
statements of the Depositor or the Underlying Certificate Seller, as the case
may be, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their
correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity
or sufficiency of this Agreement or of the Certificates or of any Deposited
Underlying Certificates or related document other than with respect
to the Trustee’s execution and counter-signature of the
Certificates. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or
application by the Depositor or the Underlying Certificate Seller of any funds
paid to the Depositor or the Underlying Certificate Seller in respect of the
Deposited Underlying Certificates.
Section
5.04 Trustee May Own
Certificates. The Trustee in its individual or any other
capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Certificates with the same rights
as
it would have if it were not the Trustee.
Section
5.05 Trustee’s Fees and
Expenses. The Trustee acknowledges that on the Closing Date it
will receive as compensation for all services rendered by it in the execution
of
the trusts hereby created and in the exercise and performance of any of the
powers and duties hereunder and for reimbursement of certain expenses
(including, for the first sixteen tax years of the Trust Fund, REMIC tax
preparation expenses), payment of a mutually agreed upon one time fee from
the
Underlying Certificate Seller. In the event of the resignation or
removal of the Trustee pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, such Trustee
will transfer, deliver and otherwise convey a pro rated portion of such payment
to the successor Trustee as compensation to the successor trustee.
Section
5.06 Indemnification
of the
Trustee. The Underlying Certificate Seller hereby covenants
and agrees to indemnify the Trustee and any director, officer, employee, or
agent of the Trustee for and to hold them harmless against, any and all losses,
liabilities, damages, claims or expenses arising out of or in connection with
the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder (including,
without limitation, any losses, liabilities, damages, claims or expenses arising
from the failure of the Underlying Certificate Seller to perform its obligations
in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement or of defending itself
against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance
of
any powers or duties hereunder), other than those resulting from the negligence
or bad faith in the performance of any of the Trustee’s duties hereunder or by
reason of reckless disregard of the Trustee’s obligations and duties hereunder;
provided, however,
that the
Underlying Certificate Seller will not indemnify the Trustee, in its capacity
as
Underlying Trustee of an Underlying Trust, for any loss, liability or expense
incurred by the Underlying Trustee in connection with that Underlying
Trust. Such indemnification shall survive the termination of this
Agreement and the Trust Fund created hereby or the resignation or removal of
the
Trustee pursuant to the terms hereof.
Section
5.07 Eligibility Requirements
for
Trustee. The Trustee hereunder shall at all times be a
corporation or association organized and doing business under the laws of a
state or the United States of America, authorized under such laws to exercise
corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at least
$50,000,000, subject to supervision or
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examination
by federal or state authority and with a credit rating which would not cause
either of the Rating Agencies to reduce or withdraw their respective then
current ratings of the Certificates (or having provided such security from
time
to time as is sufficient to avoid such reduction as evidenced in writing by
each
rating agency). If such corporation or association publishes reports
of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the
aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this
Section 5.07 the combined capital and surplus of such corporation or association
shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its
most
recent report of condition so published. In case at any time the
Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this
Section 5.07, the Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the
effect specified in Section 5.08 hereof. The entity serving as
Trustee may have normal banking and trust relationships with the Depositor
and
its affiliates and with the Underlying Certificate Seller and its affiliates;
provided, however,
that such
entity cannot be an affiliate of the Depositor or the Underlying Certificate
Seller. The Trustee hereunder shall at all times be the same Person
as the Underlying Trustee or shall have an agreement with the Underlying Trustee
to have access to the information relating to the Underlying Certificate Account
in order to enable the Trustee to perform its duties under Section
3.06(a).
Section
5.08 Resignation and
Removal of
Trustee.
The
Trustee may at any time resign and be discharged from the trusts hereby created
by giving written notice of resignation to the Depositor, the Underlying
Certificate Seller and each Rating Agency not less than 60 days before the
date
specified in such notice when, subject to Section 5.09, such resignation is
to
take effect, and acceptance by a successor trustee in accordance with Section
5.09 meeting the qualifications set forth in Section 5.07. If no
successor trustee meeting such qualifications shall have been so appointed
and
have accepted appointment within 30 days after the giving of such notice or
resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee.
As
a
condition to the effectiveness of any such resignation, at least 15 calendar
days prior to the effective date of such resignation, the Trustee shall provide
(x) written notice to the Depositor of any successor pursuant to this Section
and (y) in writing and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Depositor, all information reasonably requested by the Depositor in order to
comply with its reporting obligation under Item 6.02 of Form 8-K with respect
to
the resignation of the Trustee.
If
at any
time (i) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of Section 5.07 hereof and shall fail to resign after written request
thereto by the Depositor, (ii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting,
or
shall be adjudged as bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Trustee or
of
its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or
control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, (iii) a tax is imposed with respect
to the Trust Fund by any state in which the Trustee or the Trust Fund is located
and the imposition of such tax would be avoided by the appointment of a
different trustee or (iv) during the period that the Depositor is required
to
file Exchange Act Reports with respect to the Trust Fund, the Trustee fails
to
comply with its obligations under this Agreement, including the preceding
paragraph, Section 5.09 or Article IX and such failure is not remedied within
the lesser of 10 calendar days or such period in which the
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applicable
Exchange Act Report can be filed timely (without taking into account any
extensions), then, in the case of clauses (i) through (iii), the Depositor
or
the Master Servicer, or in the case of clause (iv), the Depositor, may remove
the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in
triplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee,
one
copy of which shall be delivered to the Master Servicer and one copy of which
shall be delivered to the successor trustee.
The
Holders of Certificates entitled to at least 51% of the Voting Rights evidenced
by the Senior Certificates may at any time remove the Trustee and appoint a
successor trustee by written instrument or instruments, in triplicate, signed
by
such Holders or their attorneys-in-fact duly authorized, one complete set of
which instruments shall be delivered by the successor Trustee to the Depositor,
one complete set to the Trustee so removed and one complete set to the successor
so appointed, together with a written description of the basis of such
removal. Notice of any removal of the Trustee shall be given to each
Rating Agency and the Underlying Certificate Seller by the successor
trustee.
Any
resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor trustee
pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 5.08 shall become effective
upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as provided in Section
5.09 hereof.
Section
5.09 Successor
Trustee.
Any
successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 5.08 hereof shall execute,
acknowledge and deliver to the Depositor and to its predecessor trustee and
the
Depositor an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder and thereupon
the
resignation or removal of the predecessor trustee shall become effective and
such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall
become fully vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of
its
predecessor hereunder, with the like effect as if originally named as trustee
herein. The Depositor and the predecessor trustee shall execute and deliver
such
instruments and do such other things as may reasonably be required for more
fully and certainly vesting and confirming in the successor trustee all such
rights, powers, duties, and obligations.
No
successor trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this Section 5.09
unless at the time of such acceptance such successor trustee shall be eligible
under the provisions of Section 5.07 hereof, its appointment shall not adversely
affect the then current rating of the Certificates and such successor trustee
has provided to the Depositor in writing and in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Depositor, all information reasonably requested by the
Depositor in order to comply with its reporting obligation under Item 6.02
of
Form 8-K with respect to a replacement Trustee.
Upon
acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee as provided in this Section
5.09, the Depositor shall mail notice of the succession of such trustee
hereunder to all Holders of Certificates. If the Depositor fails to
mail such notice within 10 days after acceptance of appointment by the successor
trustee, the successor trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the
expense of the Depositor.
Section
5.10 Merger or Consolidation
of
Trustee.
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Any
corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which
it
may be consolidated or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion
or
consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation
succeeding to the business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee
hereunder, provided that such corporation shall be eligible under the provisions
of Section 5.07 hereof without the execution or filing of any paper or further
act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary
notwithstanding.
As
a
condition to the effectiveness of any merger or consolidation, at least 15
calendar days prior to the effective date of any merger or consolidation of
the
Trustee, the Trustee shall provide (x) written notice to the Depositor of any
successor pursuant to this Section and (y) in writing and in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Depositor, all information reasonably requested
by the Depositor in order to comply with its reporting obligation under Item
6.02 of Form 8-K with respect to a replacement Trustee.
Section
5.11 Appointment of Co-Trustee
or
Separate Trustee.
Notwithstanding
any other provisions of this Agreement, at any time, for the purpose of meeting
any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Trust Fund
at the time be located, the Depositor and the Trustee acting jointly shall
have
the power and shall execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more
Persons approved by the Trustee to act as co-trustee or co-trustees jointly
with
the Trustee, or separate trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part of
the
Trust Fund, and to vest in such Person or Persons, in such capacity and for
the
benefit of the Certificateholders, such title to the Trust Fund or any part
thereof, whichever is applicable, and, subject to the other provisions of this
Section 5.11, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the
Depositor and the Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. If the
Depositor shall not have joined in such appointment within 15 days after the
receipt by it of a request to do so, the Trustee alone shall have the power
to
make such appointment. No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder
shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor trustee under
Section 5.07 and no notice to Certificateholders of the appointment of any
co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required under Section
5.09.
Every
separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law, be
appointed and act subject to the following provisions and
conditions:
(i)
To the extent necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 5.11, all
rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed upon the Trustee
shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Trustee
and
such separate trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being understood that such
separate trustee or co-trustee is not authorized to act separately without
the
Trustee joining in such act), except to the extent that under any law of any
jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be performed (whether
as
Trustee hereunder or as successor to the Depositor hereunder), the Trustee
shall
be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such
rights, powers, duties and obligations (including the holding of title to the
applicable Trust Fund or any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall
be
exercised and performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but
solely at the direction of the Trustee;
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(ii) No
trustee hereunder shall be held personally liable by reason of any act or
omission of any other trustee hereunder and such appointment shall not, and
shall not be deemed to, constitute any such separate trustee or co-trustee
as
agent of the Trustee; and
(iii) The
Trustee may at any time accept the resignation of or remove any separate trustee
or co-trustee.
Any
notice, request or other writing given to the Trustee shall be deemed to have
been given to each of the separate trustees and co-trustees, when and as
effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument appointing
any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement and the
conditions of this Article V. Each separate trustee and co-trustee,
upon its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates
or
property specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the
Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions
of this Agreement, specifically including every provision of this Agreement
relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection
to, the Trustee. Every such instrument shall be filed with the
Trustee and a copy thereof given to the Depositor.
Any
separate trustee or co-trustee may, at any time, constitute the Trustee its
agent or attorney-in-fact, with full power and authority, to the extent not
prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of this Agreement
on
its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or co-trustee shall die,
become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its estates,
properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the
Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or
successor trustee.
Section
5.12 Tax
Matters.
It
is
intended that the assets with respect to which any REMIC election is to be
made,
as set forth in the Preliminary Statement, shall constitute, and that the
conduct of matters relating to such assets shall be such as to qualify such
assets as, a “real estate mortgage investment conduit” as defined in and in
accordance with the REMIC Provisions. In furtherance of such
intention, the Trustee covenants and agrees that it shall act as agent (and
the
Trustee is hereby appointed to act as agent) on behalf of any such REMIC and
that in such capacity it shall: (a) prepare and file, or cause to be
prepared and filed, in a timely manner, a U.S. Real Estate Mortgage Investment
Conduit Income Tax Return (Form 1066 or any successor form adopted by the
Internal Revenue Service) and prepare and file or cause to be prepared and
filed
with the Internal Revenue Service and applicable state or local tax authorities
income tax or information returns for each taxable year with respect to any
such
REMIC, containing such information and at the times and in the manner as may
be
required by the Code or state or local tax laws, regulations, or rules, and
furnish or cause to be furnished to Certificateholders the schedules, statements
or information at such times and in such manner as may be required thereby;
(b)
within thirty days of the Closing Date, furnish or cause to be furnished to
the
Internal Revenue Service, on Forms 8811 or as otherwise may be required by
the
Code, the name, title, address, and telephone number of the person that the
holders of the Certificates may contact for tax information relating thereto,
together with such additional information as may be required by such Form,
and
update such information at the time or times in the manner required by the
Code;
(c) make or cause to be made elections that such assets be treated as a REMIC
on
the federal tax return for its first
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taxable
year (and, if necessary, under applicable state law); (d) prepare and forward,
or cause to be prepared and forwarded, to the Certificateholders and to the
Internal Revenue Service and, if necessary, state tax authorities, all
information returns and reports as and when required to be provided to them
in
accordance with the REMIC Provisions, including without limitation, the
calculation of any original issue discount using the Prepayment Assumption;
(e)
provide information necessary for the computation of tax imposed on the transfer
of a Residual Certificate to a Person that is not a Permitted Transferee, or
an
agent (including a broker, nominee or other middleman) of a Non-Permitted
Transferee, or a pass-through entity in which a Non-Permitted Transferee is
the
record holder of an interest (the reasonable cost of computing and furnishing
such information may be charged to the Person liable for such tax); (f) to
the
extent that they are under its control conduct matters relating to such assets
at all times that any Certificates are outstanding so as to maintain the status
as a REMIC under the REMIC Provisions; (g) not knowingly or intentionally take
any action or omit to take any action that would cause the termination of the
tax status of any REMIC; (h) pay, from the sources specified in the third
paragraph of this Section 5.12, the amount of any federal or state tax,
including prohibited transaction taxes as described below, imposed on any such
REMIC prior to its termination when and as the same shall be due and payable
(but such obligation shall not prevent the Trustee or any other appropriate
Person from contesting any such tax in appropriate proceedings and shall not
prevent the Trustee from withholding payment of such tax, if permitted by law,
pending the outcome of such proceedings); (i) ensure that federal, state or
local income tax or information returns shall be signed by the Trustee or such
other person as may be required to sign such returns by the Code or state or
local laws, regulations or rules; (j) maintain records relating to any such
REMIC, including but not limited to the income, expenses, assets and liabilities
thereof and the fair market value and adjusted basis of the assets determined
at
such intervals as may be required by the Code, as may be necessary to prepare
the foregoing returns, schedules, statements or information; and (k) as and
when
necessary and appropriate, represent any such REMIC in any administrative or
judicial proceedings relating to an examination or audit by any governmental
taxing authority, request an administrative adjustment as to any taxable year
of
any such REMIC, enter into settlement agreements with any governmental taxing
agency, extend any statute of limitations relating to any tax item of any such
REMIC, and otherwise act on behalf of any such REMIC in relation to any tax
matter or controversy involving it.
In
order
to enable the Trustee to perform its duties as set forth herein, the Depositor
and the Underlying Certificate Seller shall provide, or cause to be provided,
to
the Trustee within ten (10) days after the Closing Date all information or
data
that the Trustee requests in writing and determines to be relevant for tax
purposes to the valuations and offering prices of the Certificates, including,
without limitation, the price, yield, prepayment assumption and projected cash
flows of the Certificates and the Deposited Underlying
Certificates. Thereafter, the Depositor and the Underlying
Certificate Seller shall provide to the Trustee promptly upon written request
therefor, any such additional information or data that the Trustee may, from
time to time, reasonably request in order to enable the Trustee to perform
its
duties as set forth herein. The Underlying Certificate Seller hereby
indemnifies the Trustee for any losses, liabilities, damages, claims or expenses
of the Trustee arising from any errors or miscalculations of the Trustee that
result from any failure of the Depositor or the Underlying Certificate Seller
to
provide, or to cause to be provided, accurate information or data to the Trustee
on a timely basis.
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In
the
event that any tax is imposed on “prohibited transactions” of any REMIC
hereunder as defined in Section 860F(a)(2) of the Code, on the “net income from
foreclosure property” of any REMIC hereunder as defined in Section 860G(c) of
the Code, on any contribution to such REMIC after the Startup Day pursuant
to
Section 860G(d) of the Code, or any other tax is imposed, including, without
limitation, any minimum tax imposed upon the REMIC hereunder pursuant to
Sections 23153 and 24874 of the California Revenue and Taxation Code, if not
paid as otherwise provided for herein, such tax shall be paid by (i) the
Trustee, if any such other tax arises out of or results from a breach by the
Trustee of any of its obligations under this Agreement, (ii) the Depositor,
in
the case of any such minimum tax, or if such tax arises out of or results from
a
breach by the Depositor of any of its obligations under this Agreement, (iii)
the Underlying Certificate Seller, if any such tax arises out of or results
from
the Underlying Certificate Seller’s obligation to repurchase the Deposited
Underlying Certificates pursuant to Section 2.03 or (iv) in all other cases,
or
in the event that the Trustee, the Depositor or the Underlying Certificate
Seller fails to honor its obligations under the preceding clauses (i), (ii)
or
(iii), any such tax will be paid with amounts otherwise to be distributed to
the
Certificateholders, as provided in Section 3.03.
For
federal income tax purposes the Trustee shall treat the ES Trust as a Grantor
Trust and shall treat each Holder of an ES Trust Certificate as the owner of
the
individual, underlying assets represented by such ES Trust
Certificate. In addition, to the fullest extent possible, ownership
of an ES Trust Certificate shall be treated as direct ownership of the
individual, underlying assets represented by such ES Trust Certificate for
federal income tax reporting purposes.
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ARTICLE
VI
THE
DEPOSITOR
Section
6.01 Liability of the
Depositor. The Depositor shall be liable in accordance
herewith only to the extent of the obligations specifically imposed upon and
undertaken by the Depositor herein.
Section
6.02 Merger, Consolidation
or
Conversion of the Depositor. The Depositor will keep in full
effect its existence, rights and franchises as a corporation under the laws
of
the United States or under the laws of one of the states thereof and will each
obtain and preserve its qualification to do business as a foreign corporation
in
each jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be necessary to
protect the validity and enforceability of this Agreement to perform its duties
under this Agreement.
Any
Person into which the Depositor may be merged or consolidated, or any Person
resulting from any merger or consolidation to which the Depositor shall be
a
party, or any person succeeding to the business of the Depositor, shall be
the
successor of the Depositor hereunder, without the execution or filing of any
paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything
herein to the contrary notwithstanding.
Section
6.03 Limitation on Liability
of
the Depositor and Others. None of the Depositor, or any of the
directors, officers, employees or agents of the Depositor shall be under any
liability to the Certificateholders for any action taken or for refraining
from
the taking of any action in good faith pursuant to this Agreement, or for errors
in judgment; provided, however,
that this
provision shall not protect the Depositor or any such Person against any breach
of representations or warranties made by it herein or protect the Depositor
or
any such Person from any liability which would otherwise be imposed by reasons
of willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence in the performance of
duties or by reason of reckless disregard of obligations and duties
hereunder. The Depositor and any director, officer, employee or agent
of the Depositor may rely in good faith on any document of any kind prima facie
properly
executed and submitted by any Person respecting any matters arising
hereunder. The Depositor and any director, officer, employee or agent
of the Depositor shall be indemnified by the Trust Fund and held harmless
against any loss, liability or expense incurred in connection with any audit,
controversy or judicial proceeding relating to a governmental taxing authority
or any legal action relating to this Agreement or the Certificates, other than
any loss, liability or expense incurred by reason of willful misfeasance, bad
faith or gross negligence in the performance of duties hereunder or by reason
of
reckless disregard of obligations and duties hereunder. The
Depositor, shall be under no obligation to appear in, prosecute or defend any
legal action that is not incidental to its respective duties hereunder and
which
in its opinion may involve it in any expense or liability; provided, however,
that the
Depositor may in its discretion undertake any such action that it may deem
necessary or desirable in respect of this Agreement and the rights and duties
of
the parties hereto and interests of the Trustee and the Certificateholders
hereunder. In such event, the legal expenses and costs of such action
and any liability resulting therefrom shall be expenses, costs and liabilities
of the Trust Fund, and the Depositor shall be entitled to be reimbursed therefor
out of the Distribution Account.
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ARTICLE
VII
TERMINATION
Section
7.01 Termination.
Subject
to Section 7.03, the obligations and responsibilities of the Depositor, the
Underlying Certificate Seller and the Trustee created hereby with respect to
the
Trust Fund shall terminate upon the later of (i) a termination of each of the
Underlying Trusts pursuant to Article IX of each Underlying Agreement, (ii)
the
receipt of the final distribution to be made on the Deposited Underlying
Certificates in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Underlying
Agreements and (iii) the distribution to Certificateholders of all amounts
required to be distributed to them pursuant to this Agreement. In no
event shall the trusts created hereby continue beyond the earlier of (i) the
expiration of 21 years from the death of the survivor of the descendants of
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, the late Ambassador of the United States to the Court of
St.
James’s, living on the date hereof and (ii) the Latest Possible Maturity
Date.
The
ES
Trust shall terminate automatically upon termination of the Trust
Fund.
Section
7.02 Final Distribution
on the
Certificates.
If
the
Trustee receives notice that an Underlying Trust is to be terminated in
accordance with the terms of the related Underlying Agreement, notice shall
be
given by the Trustee to the related Certificateholders as promptly as
practicable thereafter.
Notice
of
any termination of an Underlying Trust, specifying the Distribution Date on
which the related Certificateholders may surrender their Certificates for
payment of the final distribution and cancellation, shall be given promptly
by
the Trustee by letter to such Certificateholders mailed not earlier than the
10th day and no later than the 15th day of the month next preceding the month
of
such final distribution and not later than as promptly practicable after the
Trustee receives notice that the Underlying Trust is to be terminated in
accordance with the terms of the related Underlying Agreement. Any
such notice shall specify (a) the Distribution Date upon which final
distribution on the related Certificates will be made upon presentation and
surrender of such Certificates at the office therein designated, (b) the amount
of such final distribution, (c) the location of the office or agency at which
such presentation and surrender must be made, and (d) that the Record Date
otherwise applicable to such Distribution Date is not applicable, distributions
being made only upon presentation and surrender of such Certificates at the
office therein specified. The Trustee will also give such notice to
each Rating Agency at the time such notice is given to
Certificateholders.
Upon
the
final distribution with respect to the Trust Fund, the Trustee shall promptly
release to the Holder of the Class A-R Certificate the Deposited Underlying
Certificates.
Upon
presentation and surrender of Certificates in a Certificate Group for payment
of
the final distribution and cancellation, the Trustee shall cause to be
distributed to the Certificateholders of each Class in that Certificate Group,
in the order set forth in Section 3.04 hereof, on the final Distribution Date
in
proportion to their respective Percentage Interests, with
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respect
to Certificateholders of the same Class, an amount equal to (i) as to each
Class
of Regular Certificates, the Certificate Balance thereof plus accrued interest
thereon (or on their Notional Amount, if applicable) in the case of an interest
bearing Certificate and (ii) as to the Residual Certificates, the amount, if
any, which remains on deposit in the Distribution Account with respect to the
related Deposited Underlying Certificates (other than the amounts retained
to
meet claims) after application pursuant to clause (i)
above. Notwithstanding the reduction of the Class Certificate Balance
of any Class of Certificates to zero, such Class will be outstanding hereunder
(solely for the purpose of receiving distributions and not for any other
purpose) until the termination of the respective obligations and
responsibilities of the Depositor, the Underlying Certificate Seller, and the
Trustee hereunder in accordance with Article VII.
In
the
event that any affected Certificateholders shall not surrender Certificates
for
cancellation within six months after the date specified in the above mentioned
written notice, the Trustee shall give a second written notice to the remaining
Certificateholders to surrender their Certificates for cancellation and receive
the final distribution with respect thereto. If within six months
after the second notice all the applicable Certificates shall not have been
surrendered for cancellation, the Trustee may take appropriate steps, or may
appoint an agent to take appropriate steps, to contact the remaining
Certificateholders concerning surrender of their Certificates, and the cost
thereof shall be paid out of the funds and other assets which remain a part
of
the Trust Fund. If within one year after the second notice all such
Certificates shall not have been surrendered for cancellation, the Class A-R
Certificateholder shall be entitled to all unclaimed funds and other assets
in
respect thereof which remain subject hereto.
Section
7.03 Additional Termination
Requirements.
(a)
Upon the receipt of the final distribution to be made on the remaining class
of
Deposited Underlying Certificates in accordance with the terms and conditions
of
the related Underlying Agreement, the Holder of the Class A-R Certificate shall
cause the Trust Fund to be terminated in accordance with the following
additional requirements, unless the Trustee has been supplied with an Opinion
of
Counsel, at the expense of the Holder of the Class A-R Certificate, to the
effect that the failure to comply with the requirements of this Section 7.03
will not (i) result in the imposition of taxes on “prohibited transactions” on
any REMIC as defined in section 860F of the Code, or (ii) cause any REMIC to
fail to qualify as a REMIC at any time that any Certificates are
outstanding:
(1)
Upon receipt of the notice given pursuant to such Underlying Agreement, but
in
no event later than 90 days prior to the final related Underlying Distribution
Date set forth in the notice given by the Master Servicer in accordance with
the
terms of such Underlying Agreement, the Trustee shall prepare, at the expense
of
the “tax matters person,” and adopt a plan of complete liquidation within the
meaning of section 860F(a)(4) of the Code which, as evidenced by an Opinion
of
Counsel (which opinion shall not be an expense of the Trustee or the Tax Matters
Person), meets the requirements of a qualified liquidation; and
(2)
Within 90 days after the time of adoption of such a plan of complete
liquidation, the Trustee shall sell all of the assets of the Trust Fund to
the
Holder of the Class A-R Certificate for cash in accordance with Section
7.01.
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(b)
The Trustee as agent for any REMIC created hereunder hereby agrees to adopt
and
sign such a plan of complete liquidation upon the written request of the Holder
of the Class A-R Certificate, and the receipt of the Opinion of Counsel referred
to in Section 7.03(a)(1) and to take such other action in connection therewith
as may be reasonably requested by the Holder of the Class A-R
Certificate.
(c)
By their acceptance of the Certificates, the Holders thereof hereby authorize
the Holder of the Class A-R Certificate to prepare and the Trustee to adopt
and
sign a plan of complete liquidation.
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ARTICLE
VIII
MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS
Section
8.01 Amendment. This
Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Depositor and the Trustee
without the consent of any of the Certificateholders (i) to cure any ambiguity
or mistake; (ii) to correct any defective provision herein or to supplement
any
provision herein which may be inconsistent with any other provision herein;
(iii) to conform this Agreement to the Prospectus and Prospectus Supplement
provided to investors in connection with the initial offering of the
Certificates; (iv) to add to the duties of the Depositor; (v) to modify, alter,
amend, add, or to rescind any of the terms or provisions contained in this
Agreement to comply with any rules or regulations promulgated by the Securities
and Exchange Commission from time to time; (vi) to add any other provisions
with
respect to matters or questions arising hereunder; or (vii) to modify, alter,
amend, add to or rescind any of the terms or provisions contained in this
Agreement; provided, that any action pursuant to clauses (vi) or (vii) above
shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel (which Opinion of Counsel
shall
not be an expense of the Trustee or the Trust Fund), adversely affect in any
material respect the interests of any Certificateholder; provided, however,
that the
amendment shall not be deemed to adversely affect in any material respect the
interests of the Certificateholders if the Person requesting the amendment
obtains a letter from each Rating Agency stating that the amendment would not
result in the downgrading or withdrawal of the respective ratings then assigned
to the Certificates; it being understood and agreed that any such letter in
and
of itself will not represent a determination as to the materiality of any such
amendment and will represent a determination only as to the credit issues
affecting any such rating. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no
amendment that significantly changes the permitted activities of the Trust
created by this Agreement may be made without the consent of a Majority in
Interest of each Class of Certificates affected by such
amendment. Each party to this Agreement hereby agrees that it will
cooperate with each other party in amending this Agreement pursuant to clause
(v) above. The Trustee and the Depositor also may at any time and
from time to time amend this Agreement without the consent of the
Certificateholders to modify, eliminate or add to any of its provisions to
such
extent as shall be necessary or helpful to (i) maintain the qualification of
any
REMIC as a REMIC under the Code, (ii) avoid or minimize the risk of the
imposition of any tax on any REMIC pursuant to the Code that would be a claim
at
any time prior to the final redemption of the Certificates or (iii) comply
with
any other requirements of the Code, provided that the Trustee has been provided
an Opinion of Counsel, which opinion shall be an expense of the party requesting
such opinion but in any case shall not be an expense of the Trustee or the Trust
Fund, to the effect that such action is necessary or helpful to, as applicable,
(i) maintain such qualification, (ii) avoid or minimize the risk of the
imposition of such a tax or (iii) comply with any such requirements of the
Code.
This
Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the Depositor and the Trustee
with the consent of the Underlying Certificate Seller (which will not be
unreasonably withheld) and the consent of the Holders of a Majority in Interest
of each Class of Certificates affected thereby for the purpose of adding any
provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions
of
this Agreement or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of
Certificates; provided, however,
that no such
amendment shall (i) reduce in any manner the
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amount
of, or delay the timing of, payments required to be distributed on any
Certificate without the consent of the Holder of such Certificate, (ii)
adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the Holders of any
Class of Certificates in a manner other than as described in (i), without the
consent of the Holders of Certificates of such Class evidencing, as to such
Class, Percentage Interests aggregating 66 2/3% or (iii) reduce the aforesaid
percentages of Certificates the Holders of which are required to consent to
any
such amendment, without the consent of the Holders of all such Certificates
then
outstanding.
Any
amendment made pursuant to either of the preceding two paragraphs that
materially and adversely affects the rights of the Underlying Certificate Seller
shall not be made without the prior written consent of the Underlying
Certificate Seller.
Notwithstanding
any contrary provision of this Agreement, the Trustee shall not consent to
any
amendment to this Agreement unless it shall have first received an Opinion
of
Counsel, which opinion shall not be an expense of the Trustee or the Trust
Fund,
to the effect that such amendment will not cause the imposition of any tax
on
any REMIC or the Certificateholders or cause any REMIC to fail to qualify as
a
REMIC at any time that any Certificates are outstanding.
Promptly
after the execution of any amendment to this Agreement requiring the consent
of
Certificateholders, the Trustee shall furnish written notification of the
substance or a copy of such amendment to each Certificateholder and each Rating
Agency.
It
shall
not be necessary for the consent of Certificateholders under this Section to
approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, but it shall be
sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. The
manner of obtaining such consents and of evidencing the authorization of the
execution thereof by Certificateholders shall be subject to such reasonable
regulations as the Trustee may prescribe.
Nothing
in this Agreement shall require the Trustee to enter into an amendment without
receiving an Opinion of Counsel (which Opinion shall not be an expense of the
Trustee or the Trust Fund) satisfactory to the Trustee that (i) such amendment
is permitted and is not prohibited by this Agreement and that all requirements
for amending this Agreement have been complied with; and (ii) either (A)
the amendment does not adversely affect in any material respect the interests
of
any Certificateholder or (B) the conclusion set forth in the immediately
preceding clause (A) is not required to be reached pursuant to this Section
8.01.
Section
8.02 Action Under and
Conflicts
With an Underlying Agreement. Subject to the terms hereof, in
the event that there shall be any matters arising under an Underlying Agreement
which require the vote or direction of the holders of the related Deposited
Underlying Certificates, the Trustee, as holder of such Deposited Underlying
Certificates, shall vote the Deposited Underlying Certificates in accordance
with instructions received from Holders of a Majority in Interest of the related
Class of Regular Certificates. In the absence of any such
instructions, the Trustee shall not vote; provided, however,
that,
notwithstanding the absence of such instructions, in the event a required
distribution pursuant to an Underlying Agreement shall not have been made,
the
Trustee shall, subject to the provisions of Article V hereof, pursue such
remedies as may be available to it as holder of the related Deposited Underlying
Certificates in accordance with the terms of such Underlying
Agreement.
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Section
8.03 Recordation of
Agreement. This Agreement (or an abstract hereof, if
acceptable by the applicable recording office) is subject to recordation in
all
appropriate public offices for real property records in all the counties or
other comparable jurisdiction in which any or all of the properties subject
to
the underlying mortgages are situated, and in any other appropriate public
recording office or elsewhere, such recordation to be effected by the Depositor
at its expense but only upon direction by the Trustee accompanied by an Opinion
of Counsel to the effect that such recordation materially and beneficially
affects the interests of the Certificateholders.
For
the
purpose of facilitating the recordation of this Agreement as herein provided
and
for other purposes, this Agreement may be executed simultaneously in any number
of counterparts, each of which counterparts shall be deemed to be an original,
and such counterparts shall constitute but one and the same
instrument.
Section
8.04 Certain REMIC
Matters. The Depositor, upon request, shall promptly furnish
the Trustee with all such information as may be reasonably required in
connection with the Trustee’s preparation of all Tax Returns of each REMIC
hereunder or to enable the Trustee to respond to reasonable requests for
information made by related Certificateholders in connection with tax
matters.
Section
8.05 Limitation on Rights
of
Certificateholders. The death or incapacity of any
Certificateholder shall not operate to terminate this Agreement or the trust
created hereby, nor entitle such Certificateholder’s legal representative or
heirs to claim an accounting or to take any action or commence any proceeding
in
any court for a petition or winding up of the trust created hereby, or otherwise
affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto or any
of
them.
No
Certificateholder shall have any right to vote (except as provided herein)
or in
any manner otherwise control the operation and management of the Trust Fund,
or
the obligations of the parties hereto, nor shall anything herein set forth
or
contained in the terms of the Certificates be construed so as to constitute
the
Certificateholders from time to time as partners or members of an association;
nor shall any Certificateholder be under any liability to any third party by
reason of any action taken by the parties to this Agreement pursuant to any
provision hereof.
No
Certificateholder shall have any right by virtue or by availing itself of any
provisions of this Agreement to institute any suit, action or proceeding in
equity or at law upon or under or with respect to this Agreement, unless there
shall have been a failure to pay amounts due under this Agreement to the
Certificateholders and the Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than
25%
of the Voting Rights evidenced by the Certificates shall also have made written
request to the Trustee to institute such action, suit or proceeding in its
own
name as Trustee hereunder and shall have offered to the Trustee such reasonable
indemnity as it may require against the costs, expenses, and liabilities to
be
incurred therein or thereby, and the Trustee, for 60 days after its receipt
of
such notice, request and offer of indemnity shall have neglected or refused
to
institute any such action, suit or proceeding; it being understood and intended,
and being expressly covenanted by each Certificateholder with every other
Certificateholder and the Trustee, that no one or more Holders of Certificates
shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue or by availing itself
or
themselves of any provisions of this Agreement to affect, disturb or prejudice
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the
rights of the Holders of any other of the Certificates, or to obtain or seek
to
obtain priority over or preference to any other such Holder or to enforce any
right under this Agreement, except in the manner herein provided and for the
common benefit of all Certificateholders. For the protection and
enforcement of the provisions of this Section 8.05, each and every
Certificateholder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be
given either at law or in equity.
Section
8.06 Governing
Law. THIS
AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE SUBSTANTIVE
LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO AGREEMENTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED
IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE
PARTIES HERETO AND THE
CERTIFICATEHOLDERS SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH
LAWS.
Section
8.07 Notices. a) The
Trustee shall use its best efforts to promptly provide notice to each Rating
Agency with respect to each of the following of which it has actual
knowledge:
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Any
material change or amendment to this Agreement;
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2.
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The
resignation or termination of the Trustee and the appointment of
any
successor;
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3.
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The
repurchase of the Deposited Underlying Certificates pursuant to Section
2.03;
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4.
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The
final payment to Certificateholders; and
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5.
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Any
rating action involving the Deposited Underlying Certificates, which
notice shall be made by first-class mail within two Business Days
after
the Trustee gains actual knowledge thereof.
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In
addition, the Trustee shall promptly furnish to each Rating Agency and the
Underlying Certificate Seller copies of each report to Certificateholders
described in Section 3.08.
All
demands, notices and directions hereunder shall be in writing and shall be
deemed effective when delivered to: (i) in the case of the Depositor,
CWALT, Inc., 0000 Xxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000,
Attention: Structured Finance, and a copy to CWALT, Inc., 0000 Xxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: General Counsel, (ii) in the
case of the Underlying Certificate Seller, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC,
00 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Legal and (iii) in
the
case of the Trustee, The Bank of New York, 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 0X, Xxx Xxxx,
Xxx
Xxxx 00000, Attention: Corporate Trust – Resecuritization Unit, or
such other address as may hereafter be furnished by any party to the
others. Any notice required or permitted to be mailed to a
Certificateholder shall be given by first class mail, postage prepaid, at the
address of such Holder as shown in the Certificate Register; any notice so
mailed within the time prescribed in this Agreement shall be conclusively
presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Certificateholder receives
such notice.
Section
8.08 Severability of
Provisions. If any one or more of the covenants, agreements,
provisions or terms of this Agreement shall be for any reason whatsoever
held
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invalid,
then such covenants, agreements, provisions or terms shall be deemed severable
from the remaining covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement
and shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of the other
provisions of this Agreement or of the Certificates or the rights of the Holders
thereof.
Section
8.09 Successors and
Assigns. The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding
upon and inure to the benefit of the respective successors and assigns of the
parties hereto, and all such provisions shall inure to the benefit of the
Certificateholders.
Section
8.10 Article and Section
Headings. The article and section headings herein are for
convenience of reference only, and shall not limit or otherwise affect the
meaning hereof.
Section
8.11 Certificates Nonassessable
and Fully Paid. It is the intention of the Depositor that
Certificateholders shall not be personally liable for obligations of the Trust
Fund, that the interests in the Trust Fund represented by the Certificates
shall
be nonassessable for any reason whatsoever, and that the Certificates, upon
due
authentication thereof by the Trustee pursuant to this Agreement, are and shall
be deemed fully paid.
Section
8.12 Protection of
Assets.
(a)
Except for transactions and activities entered into in connection with the
securitization that is the subject of this Agreement, the Trust Fund created
by
this Agreement is not authorized and has no power to:
(i)
borrow money or issue debt;
(ii) merge
with another entity, reorganize, liquidate or sell assets; or
(iii) engage
in any business or activities.
(b)
Each party to this Agreement agrees that it will not file an involuntary
bankruptcy petition against the Trustee or the Trust Fund or initiate any other
form of insolvency proceeding until the date that is one year and one day after
the Certificates have been paid.
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ARTICLE
IX
EXCHANGE
ACT REPORTING
Section
9.01 Filing
Obligations.
The
Trustee and Underlying Certificate Seller shall reasonably cooperate with the
Depositor in connection with the satisfaction of the Depositor’s reporting
requirements under the Exchange Act with respect to the Trust
Fund. In addition to the information specified below, if so requested
by the Depositor for the purpose of satisfying its reporting obligation under
the Exchange Act, the Trustee and Underlying Certificate Seller shall provide
the Depositor with (a) such information which is available to such Person
without unreasonable effort or expense and within such timeframe as may be
reasonably requested by the Depositor to comply with the Depositor’s reporting
obligations under the Exchange Act and (b) to the extent such Person is a party
(and the Depositor is not a party) to any agreement or amendment required to
be
filed, copies of such agreement or amendment in XXXXX-compatible
form.
Section
9.02 Form
10-D
Filings.
(a)
In accordance with the Exchange Act, the Trustee shall prepare for filing and
file within 15 days after each Distribution Date (subject to permitted
extensions under the Exchange Act) with the Commission with respect to the
Trust
Fund, a Form 10-D with copies of the Monthly Statement and, to the extent
delivered to the Trustee, no later than 10 days following the Distribution
Date,
such other information identified by the Depositor, in writing, to be filed
with
the Commission (such other information, the “Additional Designated
Information”). If the Depositor directs that any Additional
Designated Information is to be filed with any Form 10-D, the Depositor shall
specify the Item on Form 10-D to which such information is responsive and,
with
respect to any Exhibit to be filed on Form 10-D, the Exhibit
number. Any information to be filed on Form 10-D shall be delivered
to the Trustee in XXXXX-compatible form or as otherwise agreed upon by the
Trustee and the Depositor, at the Depositor’s expense, and any necessary
conversion to XXXXX-compatible format will be at the Depositor’s
expense. At the reasonable request of, and in accordance with the
reasonable directions of, the Depositor, subject to the two preceding sentences,
the Trustee shall prepare for filing and file an amendment to any Form 10-D
previously filed with the Commission with respect to the Trust
Fund. The Depositor shall sign the Form 10-D filed on behalf of the
Trust Fund.
(b)
No later than each Distribution Date, the Trustee shall notify the Depositor
of
any Form 10-D Disclosure Item, together with a description of any such Form
10-D
Disclosure Item in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Depositor.
In
addition to such information as the Trustee is obligated to provide pursuant
to
other provisions of this Agreement, if so requested by the Depositor, the
Trustee shall provide such information, which is available to the Trustee,
without unreasonable effort or expense regarding the performance of the
Deposited Underlying Certificates as is reasonably required to facilitate
preparation of distribution reports in accordance with Item 1121 of Regulation
AB. Such information shall be provided concurrently with the delivering of
the
Monthly Statement, commencing with the first such report due not less than
five
Business Days following such request.
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(c)
The Trustee shall not have any responsibility to file any items (other than
those generated by it) that have not been received in a format suitable (or
readily convertible into a format suitable) for electronic filing via the XXXXX
system and shall not have any responsibility to convert any such items to such
format (other than those items generated by it or that are readily convertible
to such format). The Trustee shall have no liability to the Certificateholders,
the Trust Fund or the Depositor with respect to any failure to properly prepare
or file any of Form 10-D to the extent that such failure is not the result
of
any negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct on its part.
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Section
9.03
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Form
8-K
Filings.
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The
Trustee shall prepare and file on behalf of the Trust Fund any Form 8-K required
by the Exchange Act. Each Form 8-K must be signed by the
Trustee. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Depositor, but in no
event later than one (1) Business Day after its occurrence, of any Reportable
Event of which it has actual knowledge. Each Person shall be deemed
to have actual knowledge of any such event to the extent that it relates to
such
Person or any action or failure to act by such Person.
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Section
9.04
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Form
10-K
Filings.
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Prior
to
March 30th of each year, commencing in 2009 (or such earlier date as may be
required by the Exchange Act), the Depositor shall prepare and file on behalf
of
the Trust Fund a Form 10-K, in form and substance as required by the Exchange
Act. A senior officer in charge of the securitization of the
Depositor shall sign each Form 10-K filed on behalf of the Trust
Fund. Such Form 10-K shall include as exhibits each (i) annual
compliance statement described under Section 3.11, (ii) annual report on
assessments of compliance with servicing criteria described under Section 9.07
and (iii) accountant’s report described under Section 9.07. Each Form
10-K shall also include any Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Certification required to be included
therewith, as described in Section 9.05.
If
the
Item 1119 Parties listed on Exhibit J have changed since the Closing Date,
no
later than March 1 of each year, the Depositor shall provide the Trustee with
an
updated Exhibit J setting forth the Item 1119 Parties. No later than
March 15 of each year, commencing in 2008, the Trustee shall notify the
Depositor of any Form 10-K Disclosure Item, together with a description of
any
such Form 10-K Disclosure Item in form and substance reasonably acceptable
to
the Depositor. Additionally, the Trustee shall provide, and shall
cause each Reporting Subcontractor retained by the Trustee to provide, the
following information no later than March 15 of each year in which a Form 10-K
is required to be filed on behalf of the Trust Fund: (i) if such Person’s report
on assessment of compliance with the servicing criteria described under Section
9.07 or related registered public accounting firm attestation report described
under Section 9.07 identifies any material instance of noncompliance,
notification of such instance of noncompliance and (ii) if any such Person’s
report on assessment of compliance with the servicing criteria or related
registered public accounting firm attestation report is not provided to be
filed
as an exhibit to such Form 10-K, information detailing the explanation why
such
report is not included.
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Section
9.05
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Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Certification.
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Each
Form
10-K shall include a certification (the “Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Certification”) required by Rules 13a-14(d) and 15d-14(d) under the
Exchange Act (pursuant to Section 302 of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 and
the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder (including
any interpretations thereof by the Commission’s staff)) substantially in the
form of Exhibit K. No later than March 15 of each year, beginning in
2009, the Trustee shall cause each Reporting Subcontractor to provide to the
Person who signs the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Certification (the “Certifying Person”) a
certification (each, a “Performance
Certification”), in the form attached hereto as Exhibit H, on which the
Certifying Person, the entity for which the Certifying Person acts as an
officer, and such entity’s officers, directors and Affiliates (collectively with
the Certifying Person, “Certification
Parties”) can reasonably rely. The senior officer in charge of
the securitization of the Depositor shall serve as the Certifying Person on
behalf of the Trust Fund. Neither the Trustee nor the Depositor will
request delivery of a certification under this clause unless the Depositor
is
required under the Exchange Act to file an annual report on Form 10-K with
respect to the Trust Fund. In the event that prior to the filing date
of the Form 10-K in March of each year, the Trustee or the Depositor has actual
knowledge of information material to the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Certification, the
Trustee or the Depositor, as the case may be, shall promptly notify the
Depositor. The respective parties hereto agree to cooperate with all
reasonable requests made by any Certifying Person or Certification Party in
connection with such Person’s attempt to conduct any due diligence that such
Person reasonably believes to be appropriate in order to allow it to deliver
any
Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Certification or portion thereof with respect to the Trust
Fund.
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Section
9.06
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Form
15
Filing.
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Prior
to
January 30 of the first year in which the Depositor is able to do so under
applicable law, the Depositor shall file a Form 15 relating to the automatic
suspension of reporting in respect of the Trust Fund under the Exchange
Act.
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Section
9.07
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Report
on Assessment
of Compliance and
Attestation.
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(a)
On or before March 15 of each calendar year, commencing in 2009:
(1)
the Trustee shall deliver to the Depositor a report (in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Depositor) regarding the Trustee’s assessment of
compliance with the Servicing Criteria during the immediately preceding calendar
year, as required under Rules 13a-18 and 15d-18 of the Exchange Act and Item
1122 of Regulation AB. Such report shall be signed by an authorized
officer of such Person and shall address each of the Servicing Criteria
specified on a certification substantially in the form of Exhibit I hereto
delivered to the Depositor concurrently with the execution of this
Agreement. To the extent any of the Servicing Criteria are not
applicable to such Person, with respect to asset-backed securities transactions
taken as a whole involving such Person and that are backed by the same asset
type backing the Certificates, such report shall include such a statement to
that effect. The Depositor, and each of its respective officers and
directors shall be entitled to rely on upon each such servicing criteria
assessment.
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(2)
The Trustee shall deliver to the Depositor a report of a registered public
accounting firm reasonably acceptable to the Depositor that attests to, and
reports on, the assessment of compliance made by the Trustee and delivered
pursuant to the preceding paragraphs. Such attestation shall be in accordance
with Rules 1-02(a)(3) and 2-02(g) of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act
and
the Exchange Act, including, without limitation that in the event that an
overall opinion cannot be expressed, such registered public accounting firm
shall state in such report why it was unable to express such an opinion. Such
report must be available for general use and not contain restricted use
language. To the extent any of the Servicing Criteria are not applicable to
the
Trustee, with respect to asset-backed securities transactions taken as a whole
involving the Trustee and that are backed by the same asset type backing the
Certificates, such report shall include such a statement that that
effect.
(3)
The Trustee shall cause each Reporting Subcontractor to deliver to the Depositor
an assessment of compliance and accountant’s attestation as and when provided in
paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 9.07.
(4)
The Trustee shall execute (and cause each Reporting Subcontractor to execute)
a
reliance certificate to enable the Certification Parties to rely upon each
(i)
annual compliance statement provided pursuant to Section 3.11, (ii) annual
report on assessments of compliance with servicing criteria provided pursuant
to
this Section 9.07 and (iii) accountant’s report provided pursuant to this
Section 9.07 and shall include a certification that each such annual compliance
statement or report discloses any deficiencies or defaults described to the
registered public accountants of such Person to enable such accountants to
render the certificates provided for in this Section 9.07.
(b)
In the event that the Trustee or Reporting Subcontractor is terminated or
resigns during the term of this Agreement, such Person shall provide documents
and information required by this Section 9.07 with respect to the period of
time
it was subject to this Agreement or provided services with respect to the Trust
Fund, the Certificates or the Deposited Underlying Certificates.
(c)
An assessment of compliance provided by a Subcontractor pursuant to Section
9.07(a)(3) need not address any elements of the Servicing Criteria other than
those specified by the Trustee, as applicable, pursuant to Section
9.07(a)(1).
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Section
9.08
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Use
of
Subcontractors.
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It
shall
not be necessary for the Trustee to seek the consent of the Depositor or any
other party hereto to the utilization of any Subcontractor. The
Trustee shall promptly upon request provide to the Depositor (or any designee
of
the Depositor, such as the administrator) a written description (in form and
substance satisfactory to the Depositor) of the role and function of each
Subcontractor utilized by such Person, specifying (i) the identity of each
such
Subcontractor, (ii) which (if any) of such Subcontractors are “participating in
the servicing function” within the meaning of Item 1122 of Regulation AB, and
(iii) which elements of the
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Servicing
Criteria will be addressed in assessments of compliance provided by each
Subcontractor identified pursuant to clause (ii) of this paragraph.
As
a
condition to the utilization of any Subcontractor determined to be a Reporting
Subcontractor, the Trustee shall cause any such Subcontractor used by the
Trustee for the benefit of the Depositor to comply with the provisions of
Sections 9.07 and 9.09 of this Agreement to the same extent as if such
Subcontractor were the Trustee (except with respect to preparing and filing
any
Exchange Act Reports or as the Certifying Person). The Trustee shall
be responsible for obtaining from each Subcontractor and delivering to the
Depositor any assessment of compliance and attestation required to be delivered
by such Subcontractor under Section 9.05 and Section 9.07, in each case as
and
when required to be delivered.
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Section
9.09
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Amendments.
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In
the
event the parties to this Agreement desire to further clarify or amend any
provision of this Article IX, this Agreement shall be amended to reflect the
new
agreement between the parties covering matters in this Article IX pursuant
to
Section 8.01, which amendment shall not require any Opinion of Counsel or Rating
Agency confirmations or the consent of any Certificateholder.
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Section
9.10
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Reconciliation
of
Accounts.
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Any
reconciliation of Accounts performed by any party hereto, or any Subcontractor
shall be prepared no later than 45 calendar days after the bank statement cutoff
date.
*
*
*
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the Depositor, the Underlying Certificate Seller and the
Trustee have caused their names to be signed hereto by their respective officers
thereunto duly authorized, all as of the day and year first above
written.
CWALT,
INC.,
as
Depositor
By:
/s/ Xxxxxx
Xxxxx
Name:
Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Title:
Executive Vice President
THE
BANK OF NEW YORK,
not in its individual capacity,
but solely as Trustee
By:
/s/ Xxxxx
Xxxxxx
Name:
Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Title:
Assistant Vice President
CREDIT
SUISSE SECURITIES (USA) LLC,
as Underlying Certificate Seller
By:
/s/ Xxxxx
Xxxxxx
Name:
Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Title:
Director
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SCHEDULE
I
LIST
OF DEPOSITED UNDERLYING CERTIFICATES AND THE RELATED UNDERLYING
AGREEMENT
DEPOSITED
UNDERLYING
CERTIFICATES
|
CLASS
CERTIFICATE
BALANCES
AS OF
DECEMBER
26, 2007(1)
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UNDERLYING
AGREEMENT
|
||
33.91%
interest in the Alternative Loan Trust 2007-18CB, Mortgage Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 2006-18CB, Class 1-A-2 Certificates.
|
Class
1-A-2 Certificates: $220,172,136.01
|
Pooling
and Servicing Agreement, dated as of June 1, 2007 among CWALT, Inc.,
as
depositor, Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., as a seller, Park Granada,
LLC,
as a seller, Park Monaco, Inc., as a seller, Park Sienna LLC, as
a seller,
Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP, as master servicer, and The
Bank of
New York, as trustee.
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||
100.00%
interest in the Alternative Loan Trust 2007-19, Mortgage Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 2006-19, Class 1-A-20 Certificates.
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Class
1-A-20 Certificates: $40,984,477.89
|
Pooling
and Servicing Agreement, dated as of June 1, 2007 among CWALT, Inc.,
as
depositor, Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., as a seller, Park Granada,
LLC,
as a seller, Park Monaco, Inc., as a seller, Park Sienna LLC, as
a seller,
Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP, as master servicer, and The
Bank of
New York, as trustee.
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||
__________
|
||||
(1) After
giving effect to distributions made on such
date.
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S-I-1
SCHEDULE
II
Principal
Balances Schedule
[Reserved]
S-II-1
SCHEDULE
III
AVAILABLE
EXCHANGES OF DEPOSITABLE CERTIFICATES FOR EXCHANGEABLE CERTIFICATES(1)(2)
Classes
of Depositable Certificates
|
Related
Classes of Exchangeable Certificates
|
||||||
Classes
of Depositable Certificates
|
Maximum
Original
Certificate
Balance
|
Pass-
Through
Rate
|
Classes
of Exchangeable Certificates
|
Maximum
Original
Certificate Balance
|
Pass-Through
Rate
|
||
Recombination
1
|
|||||||
Class
2-A-1
|
$37,729,000
|
6.00%
|
Class
2-A-3
|
$40,984,377
|
6.00%
|
||
Class
2-A-2
|
$3,255,377
|
6.00%
|
|||||
_________
(1)
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Depositable
Certificates and Exchangeable Certificates may be exchanged only
in the
proportions shown in this Annex A. In any exchange, the relative
proportions of the Depositable Certificates to be delivered (or,
if
applicable, received) in such exchange will equal the proportions
reflected by the outstanding Class Certificate Balances of the related
Depositable Certificates at the time of exchange.
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(2)
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If,
as a result of a proposed exchange, a Certificateholder would hold
a
Depositable Certificate or Exchangeable Certificate of a Class in
an
amount less than the applicable minimum denomination for that Class,
the
Certificateholder will be unable to effect the proposed exchange.
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S-III-1
EXHIBIT
A
[FORM
OF
SENIOR OR EXCHANGEABLE CERTIFICATE]
[UNLESS
THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY
TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR
REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED
IS
REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED
BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE &
CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
OF
DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY
OR TO
ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO.,
HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.]
[SOLELY
FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, THIS CERTIFICATE IS A “REGULAR INTEREST”
IN A “REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CONDUIT,” AS THOSE TERMS ARE DEFINED,
RESPECTIVELY, IN SECTIONS 860G AND 860D OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986,
AS
AMENDED (THE “CODE”).]
[UNTIL
THIS CERTIFICATE HAS BEEN THE
SUBJECT OF AN ERISA-QUALIFYING UNDERWRITING, NEITHER THIS CERTIFICATE NOR
ANY
INTEREST HEREIN MAY BE TRANSFERRED UNLESS THE TRANSFEREE DELIVERS TO THE
TRUSTEE
EITHER (A) A REPRESENTATION LETTER TO THE EFFECT THAT SUCH TRANSFEREE IS
NOT,
AND IS NOT INVESTING ASSETS OF, AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN SUBJECT TO
THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME
SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”), OR A PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO
SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE, OR (B) AN OPINION OF COUNSEL IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE
PROVISIONS OF THE AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN. SUCH REPRESENTATION
SHALL BE DEEMED TO
HAVE BEEN MADE TO THE TRUSTEE BY THE TRANSFEREE’S ACCEPTANCE OF A CERTIFICATE OF
THIS CLASS AND BY A BENEFICIAL OWNER’S ACCEPTANCE OF ITS INTEREST IN A
CERTIFICATE OF THIS CLASS.NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING
ELSE TO THE
CONTRARY HEREIN, UNTIL THIS CERTIFICATE HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF AN
ERISA-QUALIFYING UNDERWRITING, ANY PURPORTED TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE
TO, OR TO A PERSON INVESTING ASSETS OF, AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN SUBJECT
TO
ERISA OR A PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE WITHOUT
THE
OPINION OF COUNSEL SATISFACTORY TO THE TRUSTEE AS DESCRIBED ABOVE SHALL BE
VOID
AND OF NO EFFECT.]
A-1
Certificate
No.
|
:
|
|
Cut-off
Date
|
:
|
December
26,
2007
|
First
Distribution
Date
|
:
|
January
25,
2008
|
Initial
Certificate
Balance
|
||
of
this
Certificate
|
||
(“Denomination”)
|
:
|
$[ ]
|
Initial
Certificate
Balance
|
|
|
of
all
Certificates
|
|
|
of
this Class
|
:
|
$[ ]
|
CUSIP
|
:
|
[ ]
|
Interest
Rate
|
:
|
[ ]%
|
Maturity
Date
|
:
|
August
25,
2037
|
CWALT,
INC.
Resecuritization
Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 2008-1R
Class
[ ]
evidencing
a percentage interest in the distributions allocable to the Certificates
of the
above-referenced Class with respect to a Trust Fund consisting primarily
of the
Deposited Underlying Certificates.
CWALT,
Inc., as
Depositor
Principal
in respect of this Certificate is distributable monthly as set forth
herein. Accordingly, the Certificate Balance at any time may be less
than the Certificate Balance as set forth herein. This Certificate
does not evidence an obligation of, or an interest in, and is not guaranteed
by
the Depositor, the Underlying Certificate Seller or the Trustee referred
to
below or any of their respective affiliates. Neither this Certificate
nor the Deposited Underlying Certificates are guaranteed or insured by any
governmental agency or instrumentality.
This
certifies that [___________] is the registered owner of the Percentage Interest
evidenced by this Certificate (obtained by dividing the denomination of this
Certificate by the aggregate Initial Certificate Balance of all Certificates
of
the Class to which this Certificate belongs) in certain monthly distributions
with respect to a Trust Fund consisting primarily of the
A-2
Deposited
Underlying Certificates deposited by CWALT, Inc. (the
“Depositor”). The Trust Fund was created pursuant to a Trust
Agreement dated as of the Cut-off Date specified above (the “Agreement”) among
the Depositor, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, as underlying certificate
seller (the “Underlying Certificate Seller”), and The Bank of New York, as
trustee, securities intermediary and bank (the “Trustee”). To the
extent not defined herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the meanings
assigned in the Agreement. This Certificate is issued under and is
subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Agreement, to which
Agreement the Holder of this Certificate by virtue of the acceptance hereof
assents and by which such Holder is bound.
[Until
this certificate has been the
subject of an ERISA-Qualifying Underwriting, no transfer of a Certificate
of
this Class shall be made unless the Trustee shall have received either (i)
a
representation letter from the transferee of such Certificate, acceptable
to and
in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee, to the effect that such
transferee is not an employee benefit plan subject to Section 406 of ERISA
or a
plan or arrangement subject to Section 4975 of the Code, or a person acting
on
behalf of or investing plan assets of any such benefit plan or arrangement,
which representation letter shall not be an expense of the Trustee or the
Trust
Fund, or (ii) in the case of any such Certificate presented
for registration
in the name of an employee benefit plan subject to ERISA or a
plan or arrangement subject to Section
4975 of the Code
(or
comparable provisions of any
subsequent enactments), a trustee of any such benefit plan or arrangement
or any
other person acting on behalf of any such benefit plan or arrangement,
an Opinion of Counsel
satisfactory to the Trustee to the effect that the purchase and holding of
such
Certificate will not result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under
Section
406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, and will not subject the Trustee
to
any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Agreement, which Opinion
of Counsel shall not be an expense of the Trustee or the Trust
Fund. Unless the
transferee delivers the Opinion of Counsel described above, such representation
shall be deemed to have been made to the Trustee by the Transferee’s acceptance
of a Certificate of this Class and by a beneficial owner’s acceptance of its
interest in a Certificate of this Class. Notwithstanding anything
else to the contrary herein, until such certificate has been the subject
of an
ERISA-Qualifying Underwriting, any purported transfer of a Certificate of
this
Class to, or to a person investing assets of, an employee benefit plan subject
to ERISA or a plan or arrangement subject to Section 4975 of the Code without
the opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Trustee as described above shall
be
void and of no effect.]
Reference
is hereby made to the further provisions of this Certificate set forth on
the
reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the
same
effect as if set forth at this place.
This
Certificate shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Agreement or be
valid
for any purpose unless manually countersigned by an authorized signatory
of the
Trustee.
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A-3
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to be duly
executed.
Dated: January
___,
0000
XXX
XXXX XX XXX XXXX,
as
Trustee
By
______________________
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Countersigned:
By
____________________________
Authorized
Signatory
of
THE
BANK OF NEW
YORK,
as
Trustee
A-4
EXHIBIT
B
[Reserved]
B-1
EXHIBIT
C
[FORM
OF
RESIDUAL CERTIFICATE]
SOLELY
FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, THIS CERTIFICATE IS A “RESIDUAL INTEREST”
IN A “REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CONDUIT,” AS THOSE TERMS ARE DEFINED,
RESPECTIVELY, IN SECTIONS 860G AND 860D OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986,
AS
AMENDED (THE “CODE”).
NEITHER
THIS CERTIFICATE NOR ANY INTEREST HEREIN MAY BE TRANSFERRED UNLESS THE PROPOSED
TRANSFEREE DELIVERS TO THE TRUSTEE A TRANSFER AFFIDAVIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE
PROVISIONS OF THE AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN.
[THIS
CERTIFICATE REPRESENTS THE “TAX MATTERS PERSON RESIDUAL INTEREST” ISSUED UNDER
THE TRUST AGREEMENT REFERRED TO BELOW AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED TO ANY PERSON
EXCEPT IN CONNECTION WITH THE ASSUMPTION BY THE TRANSFEREE OF THE DUTIES
OF THE
SERVICER UNDER SUCH AGREEMENT.]
NEITHER
THIS CERTIFICATE NOR ANY INTEREST HEREIN MAY BE TRANSFERRED UNLESS THE
TRANSFEREE DELIVERS TO THE TRUSTEE EITHER A REPRESENTATION LETTER TO THE
EFFECT
THAT SUCH TRANSFEREE IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN SUBJECT TO THE EMPLOYEE
RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED, OR A PLAN SUBJECT TO
SECTION
4975 OF THE CODE, OR A PERSON INVESTING ON BEHALF OF OR WITH PLAN ASSETS
OF SUCH
A PLAN, OR, IF THIS CERTIFICATE HAS BEEN SUBJECT TO AN ERISA-QUALIFYING
UNDERWRITING, THAT SUCH TRANSFEREE IS AN INSURANCE COMPANY WHICH IS PURCHASING
CERTIFICATES WITH FUNDS CONTAINED IN AN "INSURANCE COMPANY GENERAL ACCOUNTS"
AS
SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN SECTION V(e) OF PROHIBITED TRANSACTION CLASS EXEMPTION
95-60 ("PTCE 95-60"), AND THE PURCHASE AND HOLDING OF SUCH CERTIFICATES ARE
COVERED UNDER SECTIONS I AND III OF PTCE 95-60 OR AN OPINION OF COUNSEL IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE AGREEMENT REFERRED TO
HEREIN. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING ELSE TO THE CONTRARY HEREIN, ANY
PURPORTED TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE TO OR ON BEHALF OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT
PLAN SUBJECT TO ERISA OR TO THE CODE WITHOUT THE OPINION OF COUNSEL SATISFACTORY
TO THE TRUSTEE AS DESCRIBED ABOVE SHALL BE VOID AND OF NO EFFECT.
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Certificate
No.
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[ ]
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Cut-off
Date
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:
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December
26,
2007
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First
Distribution
Date
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:
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January
25,
2008
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Initial
Certificate
Balance
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of
this
Certificate
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(“Denomination”)
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:
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$[ ]
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Initial
Certificate
Balance
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||
of
all
Certificates
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of
this Class
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:
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$[ ]
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CUSIP
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:
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[ ]
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Interest
Rate
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:
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[ ]%
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Maturity
Date
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:
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August
25,
2037
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CWALT,
INC.
Resecuritization
Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 2008-1R
Class
A-R
evidencing
a percentage interest in the distributions allocable to the Certificates
of the
above-referenced Class with respect to a Trust Fund consisting primarily
of the
Deposited Underlying Certificates.
CWALT,
Inc., as
Depositor
Principal
in respect of this Certificate is distributable monthly as set forth
herein. Accordingly, the Certificate Balance at any time may be less
than the Certificate Balance as set forth herein. This Certificate
does not evidence an obligation of, or an interest in, and is not guaranteed
by
the Depositor, the Underlying Certificate Seller or the Trustee referred
to
below or any of their respective affiliates. Neither this Certificate
nor the Deposited Underlying Certificates are guaranteed or insured by any
governmental agency or instrumentality.
This
certifies that [_________________] is the registered owner of the Percentage
Interest evidenced by this Certificate (obtained by dividing the denomination
of
this Certificate by the aggregate Initial Certificate Balance of all
Certificates of the Class to which this Certificate belongs) in certain monthly
distributions with respect to a Trust Fund consisting
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primarily
of the Deposited Underlying Certificates deposited by CWALT, Inc. (the
“Depositor”). The Trust Fund was created pursuant to a Trust
Agreement dated as of the Cut-off Date specified above (the “Agreement”) among
the Depositor, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, as underlying certificate
seller (the “Underlying Certificate Seller”), and The Bank of New York, as
trustee, securities intermediary and bank (the “Trustee”). To the
extent not defined herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the meanings
assigned in the Agreement. This Certificate is issued under and is
subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Agreement, to which
Agreement the Holder of this Certificate by virtue of the acceptance hereof
assents and by which such Holder is bound.
Any
distribution of the proceeds of any remaining assets of the Trust Fund will
be
made only upon presentment and surrender of this Class A-R Certificate at
the
Corporate Trust Office or the office or agency maintained by the Trustee
in New
York, New York.
No
transfer of a Class A-R Certificate shall be made unless the Trustee shall
have
received either (i) a representation letter from the transferee of such
Certificate, acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the
Trustee, to the effect that such transferee is not an employee benefit plan
subject to Section 406 of ERISA or a plan or arrangement subject to Section
4975
of the Code, or a person acting on behalf of or investing plan assets of
any
such benefit plan or arrangement, which representation letter shall not be
an
expense of the Trustee or the Depositor, (ii) if such certificate has been
the
subject of an ERISA-Qualifying Underwriting and the transferee is an insurance
company, a representation that the transferee is purchasing such Certificate
with funds contained in an “insurance company general account” (as such term is
defined in Section V(e) of Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60 (“PTCE
95-60”)) and that the purchase and holding of such Certificate satisfy the
requirements for exemptive relief under Sections I and III of PTCE 95-60,
or
(iii) in the case of any such Certificate presented for registration in the
name
of an employee benefit plan subject to ERISA or a plan or arrangement subject
to
Section 4975 of the Code (or comparable provisions of any subsequent
enactments), a trustee of any such benefit plan or arrangement or any other
person acting on behalf of any such benefit plan or arrangement, an Opinion
of
Counsel satisfactory to the Trustee and the Depositor to the effect that
the
purchase and holding of such Certificate will not result in a prohibited
transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, and will
not
subject the Trustee or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those
undertaken in the Agreement, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense
of
the Trustee or the Depositor. Notwithstanding anything else to the
contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Class A-R Certificate to or
on
behalf of an employee benefit plan subject to ERISA or a plan or arrangement
subject to Section 4975 of the Code without the opinion of counsel satisfactory
to the Trustee as described above shall be void and of no effect.
C-3
Reference
is hereby made to the further provisions of this Certificate set forth on
the
reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the
same
effect as if set forth at this place.
This
Certificate shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Agreement or be
valid
for any purpose unless manually countersigned by an authorized signatory
of the
Trustee.
* * *
C-4
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trustee has caused this Certificate to be duly
executed.
Dated: January
___,
0000
XXX
XXXX XX XXX XXXX,
as
Trustee
By
______________________
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Countersigned:
By
____________________________
Authorized
Signatory
of
THE
BANK OF NEW
YORK,
as
Trustee
C-5
EXHIBIT
D
[FORM
OF
REVERSE OF CERTIFICATE]
CWALT,
INC.
Resecuritization
Pass-Through
Certificates, Series 2008-1R
This
Certificate is one of a duly authorized issue of Certificates designated
as
CWALT, Inc. Resecuritization Pass-Through Certificates, of the Series specified
on the face hereof (herein collectively called the “Certificates”), and
representing a beneficial ownership interest in the Trust Fund created by
the
Agreement.
The
Certificates are limited in right of payment to certain distributions in
respect
of the Deposited Underlying Certificates, all as more specifically set forth
in
the Agreement. The Certificateholder, by its acceptance of this
Certificate, agrees that it will look solely to the funds on deposit in the
Distribution Account for payment hereunder and that the Trustee is not liable
to
the Certificateholders for any amount payable under this Certificate or the
Agreement or, except as expressly provided in the Agreement, subject to any
liability under the Agreement.
This
Certificate does not purport to summarize the Agreement and reference is
made to
the Agreement for the interests, rights and limitations of rights, benefits,
obligations and duties evidenced thereby, and the rights, duties and immunities
of the Trustee.
Pursuant
to the terms of the Agreement, a distribution will be made on the 25th day
of
each month or, if such day is not a Business Day, the Business Day immediately
following (the “Distribution Date”), commencing on the first Distribution Date
specified on the face hereof, to the Person in whose name this Certificate
is
registered at the close of business on the applicable Record Date in an amount
equal to the product of the Percentage Interest evidenced by this Certificate
and the amount required to be distributed to Holders of Certificates of the
Class to which this Certificate belongs on such Distribution Date pursuant
to
the Agreement. The Record Date applicable to the first Distribution
Date is January __, 2008 and to each other Distribution Date is the last
Business Day of the month next preceding the month of such Distribution
Date.
Distributions
on this Certificate shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available
funds to the account of the Holder hereof at a bank or other entity having
appropriate facilities therefor, if such Certificateholder shall have so
notified the Trustee in writing at least five Business Days prior to the
related
Record Date and such Certificateholder shall satisfy the conditions to receive
such form of payment set forth in the Agreement, or, if not, by check mailed
by
first class mail to the address of such Certificateholder appearing in the
Certificate Register. The final distribution on each Certificate will
be made in like manner, but only upon presentment and surrender of such
Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office or such other location specified
in
the notice to Certificateholders of such final distribution.
D-1
The
Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein provided, the amendment
thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Trustee
and
the rights of the Certificateholders under the Agreement at any time by the
Depositor, the Underlying Certificate Seller and the Trustee with the consent
of
the Holders of Certificates affected by such amendment evidencing the requisite
Percentage Interest, as provided in the Agreement. Any such consent
by the Holder of this Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such
Holder
and upon all future Holders of this Certificate and of any Certificate issued
upon the transfer hereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu hereof whether
or
not notation of such consent is made upon this Certificate. The
Agreement also permits the amendment thereof, in certain limited circumstances,
without the consent of the Holders of any of the Certificates.
As
provided in the Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set
forth,
the transfer of this Certificate is registrable in the Certificate Register
of
the Trustee upon surrender of this Certificate for registration of transfer
at
the Corporate Trust Office or the office or agency maintained by the Trustee
in
New York, New York, accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by
the
holder hereof or such holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and
thereupon one or more new Certificates of the same Class in authorized
denominations and evidencing the same aggregate Percentage Interest in the
Trust
Fund will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The
Certificates are issuable only as registered Certificates without coupons
in
denominations specified in the Agreement. As provided in the
Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Certificates
are
exchangeable for new Certificates of the same Class in authorized denominations
and evidencing the same aggregate Percentage Interest, as requested by the
Holder surrendering the same.
No
service charge will be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange,
but the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax
or
other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
The
Depositor and the Trustee and any agent of the Depositor or the Trustee may
treat the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered as the owner
hereof for all purposes, and neither the Depositor, the Trustee, nor any
such
agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
The
obligations and responsibilities created by the Agreement will terminate
upon
the later of the maturity or other liquidation of the Deposited Underlying
Certificates or the disposition of all property in respect thereof and the
distribution to Certificateholders of all amounts required to be distributed
pursuant to the Agreement. In no event, however, will the trust
created by the Agreement continue beyond the expiration of 21 years from
the
death of the last survivor of the descendants living at the date of the
Agreement of a certain person named in the Agreement.
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Any
term
used herein that is defined in the Agreement shall have the meaning assigned
in
the Agreement, and nothing herein shall be deemed inconsistent with that
meaning.
D-3
ASSIGNMENT
FOR
VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s)
unto
__________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Please
print or typewrite name and address including postal zip code of
assignee)
the
Percentage Interest evidenced by the within Certificate and hereby
authorizes the transfer of registration of such Percentage Interest
to
assignee on the Certificate Register of the Trust Fund.
I
(We) further direct the Trustee to issue a new Certificate of a like
denomination and Class, to the above named assignee and deliver such
Certificate to the following address:
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dated:
______________________________________
Signature
by
or on behalf of assignor
DISTRIBUTION
INSTRUCTIONS
The
assignee should include the following for purposes of
distribution:
Distributions
shall be made, by wire transfer or otherwise, in immediately available
funds
to, _______________________________________________________________,
for
the account of
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________,
account
number ________________________, or, if mailed by check, to
___________________________________________________________________________________.
Applicable
statements should be mailed to
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________,
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
This
information is provided by
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________,
the
assignee named above, or
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________,
as
its
agent.
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D-4
STATE
OF
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)
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COUNTY
OF
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)
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On
the
_____day of ___________________, 20__ before me, a notary public in and for
said
State, personally appeared _____________________________________, known to
me
who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he executed the foregoing
instrument.
______________________________________
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Notary
Public
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[NOTARIAL
SEAL]
D-5
EXHIBIT
E
[FORM
OF] TRANSFEROR’S
AFFIDAVIT
_______________________
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Date
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CWALT,
Inc.
0000
Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: [ ]
The
Bank of New York
000
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx,
0X
Xxx
Xxxx, Xxx
Xxxx 00000
Attention: Resecuritization
Group
CWALT,
Inc. Series
2008-1R
Re:
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CWALT,
Inc.
Resecuritization
Pass-Through Certificates, Series
2008-1R
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Ladies
and
Gentlemen:
In
connection with our disposition of the Class A-R Certificate issued pursuant
to
the Trust Agreement dated as of December 26, 2007 among CWALT, Inc., as
depositor, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, as underlying certificate seller,
and The Bank of New York, as trustee, we certify that to the extent we are
disposing of a Class A-R Certificate, we have no knowledge the Transferee is
not
a Permitted Transferee.
Very
truly yours,
__________________________________
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Print
Name of
Transferor
By:
__________________________________
Authorized
Officer
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E-1
EXHIBIT
F
[FORM
OF] TRANSFER
AFFIDAVIT
CWALT,
Inc.
Resecuritization
Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2008-1R
STATE
OF
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ss.:
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COUNTY
OF
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)
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The
undersigned, being first duly sworn,
deposes and says as follows:
1
The undersigned is an officer of ,
the proposed Transferee of an Ownership Interest in a Class A-R Certificate
(the
“Certificate”) issued pursuant to the Trust Agreement, (the “Agreement”) dated
as of December 26, 2007 among CWALT, Inc., as depositor (the “Depositor”),
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, as underlying certificate seller, and The
Bank of New York, as trustee. Capitalized terms used, but not defined herein
or
in Exhibit 1 hereto, shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the
Agreement. The Transferee has authorized the undersigned to make this
affidavit on behalf of the Transferee.
2
The Transferee is, as of the date hereof, and will be, as of the date of the
Transfer, a Permitted Transferee. The Transferee will endeavor to remain a
Permitted Transferee for so long as it retains its Ownership Interest in the
Certificate. The Transferee is acquiring its Ownership Interest in the
Certificate for its own account.
3
The Transferee has been advised of, and understands that (i) a tax will be
imposed on Transfers of the Certificate to Persons that are not Permitted
Transferees; (ii) such tax will be imposed on the transferor, or, if such
Transfer is through an agent (which includes a broker, nominee or middleman)
for
a Person that is not a Permitted Transferee, on the agent; and (iii) the Person
otherwise liable for the tax shall be relieved of liability for the tax if
the
subsequent Transferee furnished to such Person an affidavit that such subsequent
Transferee is a Permitted Transferee and, at the time of Transfer, such Person
does not have actual knowledge that the affidavit is false.
4
The Transferee has been advised of, and understands that a tax will be imposed
on a “pass-through entity” holding the Certificate if at any time during the
taxable year of the pass-through entity a Person that is not a Permitted
Transferee is the record holder of an interest in such entity. The
Transferee understands that such tax will not be imposed for any period with
respect to which the record holder furnishes to the pass-through entity an
affidavit that such record holder is a Permitted Transferee and the pass-through
entity does not have actual knowledge that such affidavit is
false. (For this purpose, a “pass-through entity” includes a
regulated investment company, a real estate investment trust or common trust
fund, a
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partnership,
trust or estate, and certain cooperatives and, except as may be provided in
Treasury Regulations, persons holding interests in pass-through entities as
a
nominee for another Person.)
5
The Transferee has reviewed the provisions of Section 4.02(d) of the Agreement
(attached hereto as Exhibit 2 and incorporated herein by reference) and
understands the legal consequences of the acquisition of an Ownership Interest
in the Certificate including, without limitation, the restrictions on subsequent
Transfers and the provisions regarding voiding the Transfer and mandatory sales.
The Transferee expressly agrees to be bound by and to abide by the provisions
of
Section 4.02(d) of the Agreement and the restrictions noted on the face of
the
Certificate. The Transferee understands and agrees that any breach of any of
the
representations included herein shall render the Transfer to the Transferee
contemplated hereby null and void.
6
The Transferee agrees to require a Transfer Affidavit from any Person to whom
the Transferee attempts to Transfer its Ownership Interest in the Certificate,
and in connection with any Transfer by a Person for whom the Transferee is
acting as nominee, trustee or agent, and the Transferee will not Transfer its
Ownership Interest or cause any Ownership Interest to be Transferred to any
Person that the Transferee knows is not a Permitted Transferee. In connection
with any such Transfer by the Transferee, the Transferee agrees to deliver
to
the Trustee a certificate substantially in the form set forth as Exhibit J
to
the Agreement (a “Transferor Certificate”) to the effect that such Transferee
has no actual knowledge that the Person to which the Transfer is to be made
is
not a Permitted Transferee.
7
The Transferee does not have the intention to impede the assessment or
collection of any tax legally required to be paid with respect to the
Certificate.
8
The Transferee’s taxpayer identification number is .
9
The Transferee is a U.S. Person as defined in Code section 7701(a)(30) and,
unless the Transferor (or any subsequent transferor) expressly waives such
requirement, will not cause income from the Certificate to be attributable
to a
foreign permanent establishment or fixed base (within the meaning of an
applicable income tax treaty) of the Transferee or another U.S.
taxpayer.
10 The
Transferee is aware that the Class A-R Certificates may be “noneconomic residual
interests” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.860E-1(c) and
that the transferor of a noneconomic residual interest will remain liable for
any taxes due with respect to the income on such residual interest, unless
no
significant purpose of the transfer was to impede the assessment or collection
of tax. In addition, as the Holder of a noneconomic residual
interest, the Transferee may incur tax liabilities in excess of any cash flows
generated by the interest and the Transferee hereby represents that it intends
to pay taxes associated with holding the residual interest as they become
due.
11
The
Transferee has provided financial statements or other financial information
requested by the Transferor in connection with the transfer of the Certificate
to permit the Transferor to assess the financial capability of the Transferee
to
pay such taxes. The Transferee
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historically
has paid its debts as they have come due and intends to pay its debts as they
come due in the future.
12 Either
(i) the Transferee is not an employee benefit plan subject to Section 406 of
ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, nor a person acting on behalf of any such
plan or using the assets of such plan to effect such acquisition, or, (ii)
if
the Class A-R Certificate has been subject to an ERISA-Qualifying underwriting,
the source of funds for the purchase of such Class A-R Certificate is an
“insurance company general account” within the meaning of Prohibited Transaction
Class Exemption 95-60 (PTCE 95-60”), 60 Fed. Reg. 35925 (July 12, 1995), and the
terms and conditions of Sections I and III of PTCE 95-60 are applicable to
the
acquisition and holding of such Class A-R Certificate.
13
Unless
the Transferor (or any subsequent transferor) expressly waives such requirement,
the Transferee (and any subsequent transferee) certifies (or will certify),
respectively, that the transfer satisfies either the “Asset Test” imposed by
Treasury Regulation §1.860E-1(c)(5) or the “Formula Test” imposed by Treasury
Regulation § 1.860E-1(c)(7).
* * *
F-3
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the Transferee has
caused this instrument to be executed on its behalf by its duly authorized
officer, this ___ day of _______________, 20__.
__________________________________
PRINT
NAME OF
TRANSFEREE
By:
_______________________________
Name:
Title:
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[Corporate
Seal]
ATTEST:
_____________________________
[Assistant]
Secretary
Personally
appeared before me the
above-named
, known or proved to
me to
be the same person who executed the foregoing instrument and to be the
of
the Transferee, and acknowledged that
he executed the same as his free act and deed and the free act and deed of
the
Transferee.
Subscribed
and sworn before me this
day of
, 20 .
__________________________________
NOTARY
PUBLIC
My
Commission expires
the
___
day of ____________,
20__
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WAIVER
OF REQUIREMENT THAT TRANSFEREE
CERTIFIES TRANSFER OF CERTIFICATE SATISFIES CERTAIN REGULATORY “SAFE
HARBORS”
The
Transferor hereby waives the
requirement that the Transferee certify that the transfer of the Certificate
satisfies either the “Asset Test” imposed by Treasury Regulation §
1.860E-1(c)(5) or the “Formula Test” imposed by Treasury Regulation §
1.860E-1(c)(7).
CWALT,
INC.
By:
__________________________________
Title:
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Name:
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EXHIBIT
1
to
EXHIBIT
F
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Certain
Definitions
“Asset
Test”: A transfer satisfies the
Asset Test if: (i) At
the time of
the transfer, and at the close of each of the transferee's two fiscal years
preceding the transferee's fiscal year of transfer, the transferee's gross
assets for financial reporting purposes exceed $100 million and its net assets
for financial reporting purposes exceed $10 million. The gross assets and net
assets of a transferee do not include any obligation of any “related person” or
any other asset if a principal purpose for holding or acquiring the other asset
is to permit the transferee to satisfy such monetary
conditions; (ii)
The
transferee
must be an “eligible corporation” and must agree in writing that any subsequent
transfer of the interest will be to another eligible corporation in a
transaction that satisfies paragraphs 9 through 11 of this Transfer Affidavit
and the Asset Test. A transfer fails to meet the Asset Test if the transferor
knows, or has reason to know, that the transferee will not honor the
restrictions on subsequent transfers of the Certificate; and
(iii) A
reasonable person would not conclude,
based on the facts and circumstances known to the transferor on or before the
date of the transfer, that the taxes associated with the Certificate will not
be
paid. The consideration given to the transferee to acquire the Certificate
is
only one factor to be considered, but the transferor will be deemed to know
that
the transferee cannot or will not pay if the amount of consideration is so
low
compared to the liabilities assumed that a reasonable person would conclude
that
the taxes associated with holding the Certificate will not be
paid. For purposes of applying the Asset Test, (i) an “eligible
corporation” means any
domestic C corporation (as defined in section 1361(a)(2) of the Code) other
than (A)
a
corporation
which is exempt from, or is not subject to, tax under section 11 of the Code,
(B)
an
entity
described in section 851(a) or 856(a) of the Code, (C)
A
REMIC, or (D)
an
organization
to which part I of subchapter T of chapter 1 of subtitle A of the Code applies;
(ii)
a
“related
person” is any person that (A)
bears
a
relationship to the transferee enumerated in section 267(b) or 707(b)(1) of
the
Code, using “20 percent” instead of “50 percent” where it appears under the
provisions, or (B)
is
under common
control (within the meaning of section 52(a) and (b)) with the transferee.
“Formula
Test”: A transfer satisfies the
formula test if the present value of the anticipated tax liabilities associated
with holding the Certificate does not exceed the sum of (i)
the
present
value of any consideration given to the transferee to acquire the Certificate;
(ii)
the
present
value of the expected future distributions on the Certificate; and (iii)
the
present value of the anticipated tax
savings associated with holding the Certificate as the issuing REMIC generates
losses. For
purposes of
applying the Formula Test: (i) The
transferee
is assumed to pay tax at a rate equal to the highest rate of tax specified
in
section 11(b)(1) of the Code. If the transferee has been subject to the
alternative minimum tax under section 55 of the Code in the preceding two years
and will compute its taxable income in the current taxable year using the
alternative minimum tax rate, then the tax rate specified in section 55(b)(1)(B)
of the Code may be used in lieu of the highest rate specified in section
11(b)(1) of the Code; (ii)
The
transfer
must satisfy paragraph 9 of the Transfer Affidavit; and (iii)
Present
values are computed using a
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discount
rate equal to the Federal
short-term rate prescribed by section 1274(d) of the Code for the month of
the
transfer and the compounding period used by the taxpayer.
“Ownership
Interest”: As to
any Certificate, any ownership interest in such Certificate, including any
interest in such Certificate as the Holder thereof and any other interest
therein, whether direct or indirect, legal or beneficial.
“Permitted
Transferee”: Any
Person other than (i) the United States, any State or political subdivision
thereof, or any agency or instrumentality of any of the foregoing, (ii) a
foreign government, International Organization or any agency or instrumentality
of either of the foregoing, (iii) an organization (except certain farmers’
cooperatives described in section 521 of the Code) that is exempt from tax
imposed by Chapter 1 of the Code (including the tax imposed by section 511
of
the Code on unrelated business taxable income) on any excess inclusions (as
defined in section 860E(c)(1) of the Code) with respect to any Class A-R
Certificate, (iv) rural electric and telephone cooperatives described in section
1381(a)(2)(C) of the Code, (v) an “electing large partnership” as defined in
section 775 of the Code, (vi) a Person that is not a citizen or resident of
the
United States, a corporation, partnership, or other entity (treated as a
corporation or a partnership for federal income tax purposes) created or
organized in or under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the
District of Columbia, or an estate whose income from sources without the United
States is includible in gross income for United States federal income tax
purposes regardless of its connection with the conduct of a trade or business
within the United States, or a trust if a court within the United States is
able
to exercise primary supervision over the administration of the trust and one
or
more United States persons have authority to control all substantial decisions
of the trustor unless such Person has furnished the transferor and the Trustee
with a duly completed Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI, and (vii) any other
Person so designated by the Trustee based upon an Opinion of Counsel that the
Transfer of an Ownership Interest in a Class A-R Certificate to such Person
may
cause any REMIC formed under the Agreement to fail to qualify as a REMIC at
any
time that any Certificates are Outstanding. The terms “United
States,” “State” and “International Organization” shall have the meanings set
forth in section 7701 of the Code or successor provisions. A
corporation will not be treated as an instrumentality of the United States
or of
any State or political subdivision thereof for these purposes if all of its
activities are subject to tax and, with the exception of the Federal Home Loan
Mortgage Corporation, a majority of its board of directors is not selected
by
such government unit.
“Person”: Any
individual,
corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, bank, joint
stock company, trust (including any beneficiary thereof), unincorporated
organization or government or any agency or political subdivision
thereof.
“Transfer”: Any
direct or indirect transfer or sale of any Ownership Interest in a Certificate,
including the acquisition of a Certificate by the Depositor.
“Transferee”: Any
Person who is acquiring by Transfer any Ownership Interest in a
Certificate.
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EXHIBIT
2
to
EXHIBIT
F
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Section
4.02(d)of
the
Agreement
(d)
Each Person who has or who acquires any Ownership Interest in a Residual
Certificate shall be deemed by the acceptance or acquisition of such Ownership
Interest to have agreed to be bound by the following provisions, and the rights
of each Person acquiring any Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate are
expressly subject to the following provisions:
(1) Each
Person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate
shall be a Permitted Transferee and shall promptly notify the Trustee of any
change or impending change in its status as a Permitted Transferee.
(2) Except
in connection with (i) the registration of the Tax Matters Person Certificate
in
the name of the Trustee or (ii) any registration in the name of, or transfer
of
a Class A-R Certificate to, an affiliate of the Depositor (either directly
or
through a nominee) in connection with the initial issuance of the Certificates,
no Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate may be registered on the Closing
Date or thereafter transferred, and the Trustee shall not register the Transfer
of any Residual Certificate unless the Trustee shall have been furnished with
an
affidavit (a “Transfer Affidavit”) of the initial owner or the proposed
transferee in the form attached hereto as Exhibit F.
(3) Each
Person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest in a Residual Certificate
shall agree (A) to obtain a Transfer Affidavit from any other Person to whom
such Person attempts to Transfer its Ownership Interest in a Residual
Certificate, (B) to obtain a Transfer Affidavit from any Person for whom such
Person is acting as nominee, trustee or agent in connection with any Transfer
of
a Residual Certificate and (C) not to Transfer its Ownership Interest in a
Residual Certificate or to cause the Transfer of an Ownership Interest in a
Residual Certificate to any other Person if it has actual knowledge that such
Person is not a Permitted Transferee.
(4) Any
attempted or purported Transfer of any Ownership Interest in a Residual
Certificate in violation of the provisions of this Section 4.02(d) shall be
absolutely null and void and shall vest no rights in the purported Transferee.
If any purported transferee shall become a Holder of a Residual Certificate
in
violation of the provisions of this Section 4.02(d), then the last preceding
Permitted Transferee shall be restored to all rights as Holder thereof
retroactive to the date of registration of Transfer of such
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Residual
Certificate. The Trustee shall be under no liability to any Person for any
registration of Transfer of a Residual Certificate that is in fact not permitted
by Section 4.02(c) and this Section 4.02(d) or for making any payments due
on
such Certificate to the Holder thereof or taking any other action with respect
to such Holder under the provisions of this Agreement so long as the Transfer
was registered after receipt of the related Transfer Affidavit and Transferor
Certificate. The Trustee shall be entitled but not obligated to recover from
any
Holder of a Residual Certificate that was in fact not a Permitted Transferee
at
the time it became a Holder or, at such subsequent time as it became other
than
a Permitted Transferee, all payments made on such Residual Certificate at and
after either such time. Any such payments so recovered by the Trustee shall
be
paid and delivered by the Trustee to the last preceding Permitted Transferee
of
such Certificate.
(5) The
Depositor shall use its best efforts to make available, upon receipt of written
request from the Trustee, all information necessary to compute any tax imposed
under Section 860E(e) of the Code as a result of a Transfer of an Ownership
Interest in a Residual Certificate to any Holder who is not a Permitted
Transferee.
The
restrictions on Transfers of a Residual Certificate set forth in this Section
4.02(d) shall cease to apply (and the applicable portions of the legend on
a
Residual Certificate may be deleted) with respect to Transfers occurring after
delivery to the Trustee of an Opinion of Counsel, which Opinion of Counsel
shall
not be an expense of the Trust Fund, the Trustee, the Underlying Certificate
Seller or the Depositor, to the effect that the elimination of such restrictions
will not cause any constituent REMIC of any REMIC formed hereunder to fail
to
qualify as a REMIC at any time that the Certificates are outstanding or result
in the imposition of any tax on the Trust Fund, a Certificateholder or another
Person. Each Person holding or acquiring any Ownership Interest in a
Residual Certificate hereby consents to any amendment of this Agreement which,
based on an Opinion of Counsel furnished to the Trustee, is reasonably necessary
(a) to ensure that the record ownership of, or any beneficial interest in,
a
Residual Certificate is not transferred, directly or indirectly, to a Person
that is not a Permitted Transferee and (b) to provide for a means to compel
the
Transfer of a Residual Certificate which is held by a Person that is not a
Permitted Transferee to a Holder that is a Permitted Transferee.
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EXHIBIT
G
MONTHLY
STATEMENT
[On
file with
Trustee]
G-1
EXHIBIT
H
[FORM
OF] PERFORMANCE
CERTIFICATION
[On
file with
Trustee]
H-1
EXHIBIT
I
[FORM
OF]
SERVICING
CRITERIA TO BE ADDRESSED
IN
ASSESSMENT
OF COMPLIANCE
STATEMENT
The
assessment of compliance to be
delivered by Trustee shall address, at a minimum, the criteria identified as
below as “Applicable Servicing Criteria”:
Servicing
Criteria
|
Applicable
Servicing
Criteria
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Reference
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Criteria
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General
Servicing
Considerations
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1122(d)(1)(i)
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Policies
and procedures are
instituted to monitor any performance or other triggers and events
of
default in accordance with the transaction
agreements.
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1122(d)(1)(ii)
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If
any material servicing
activities are outsourced to third parties, policies and procedures
are
instituted to monitor the third party’s performance and compliance with
such servicing activities.
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1122(d)(1)(iii)
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Any
requirements in the
transaction agreements to maintain a back-up servicer for the mortgage
loans are maintained.
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1122(d)(1)(iv)
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A
fidelity bond and errors and
omissions policy is in effect on the party participating in the servicing
function throughout the reporting period in the amount of coverage
required by and otherwise in accordance with the terms of the transaction
agreements.
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Cash
Collection and
Administration
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1122(d)(2)(i)
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Payments
on mortgage loans are
deposited into the appropriate custodial bank accounts and related
bank
clearing accounts no more than two business days following receipt,
or
such other number of days specified in the transaction
agreements.
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1122(d)(2)(ii)
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Disbursements
made via wire
transfer on behalf of an obligor or to an investor are made only
by
authorized personnel.
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Servicing
Criteria
|
Applicable
Servicing
Criteria
|
|
Reference
|
Criteria
|
|
1122(d)(2)(iii)
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Advances
of funds or guarantees
regarding collections, cash flows or distributions, and any interest
or
other fees charged for such advances, are made, reviewed and approved
as
specified in the transaction agreements.
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1122(d)(2)(iv)
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The
related accounts for the
transaction, such as cash reserve accounts or accounts established
as a
form of overcollateralization, are separately maintained (e.g., with
respect to commingling of cash) as set forth in the transaction
agreements.
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1122(d)(2)(v)
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Each
custodial account is
maintained at a federally insured depository institution as set forth
in
the transaction agreements. For purposes of this criterion, “federally
insured depository institution” with respect to a foreign financial
institution means a foreign financial institution that meets the
requirements of Rule 13k-1(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange
Act.
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1122(d)(2)(vi)
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Unissued
checks are safeguarded so
as to prevent unauthorized access.
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1122(d)(2)(vii)
|
Reconciliations
are prepared on a
monthly basis for all asset-backed securities related bank accounts,
including custodial accounts and related bank clearing accounts.
These
reconciliations are (A) mathematically accurate; (B) prepared within
30
calendar days after the bank statement cutoff date, or such other
number
of days specified in the transaction agreements; (C) reviewed and
approved
by someone other than the person who prepared the reconciliation;
and (D)
contain explanations for reconciling items. These reconciling items
are
resolved within 90 calendar days of their original identification,
or such
other number of days specified in the transaction
agreements.
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I-2
Servicing
Criteria
|
Applicable
Servicing
Criteria
|
|
Reference
|
Criteria
|
Investor
Remittances and
Reporting
|
1122(d)(3)(i)
|
Reports
to investors, including
those to be filed with the Commission, are maintained in accordance
with
the transaction agreements and applicable Commission requirements.
Specifically, such reports (A) are prepared in accordance with timeframes
and other terms set forth in the transaction agreements; (B) provide
information calculated in accordance with the terms specified in
the
transaction agreements; (C) are filed with the Commission as required
by
its rules and regulations; and (D) agree with investors’ or the trustee’s
records as to the total unpaid principal balance and number of mortgage
loans serviced by the Servicer.
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1122(d)(3)(ii)
|
Amounts
due to investors are
allocated and remitted in accordance with timeframes, distribution
priority and other terms set forth in the transaction
agreements.
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1122(d)(3)(iii)
|
Disbursements
made to an investor
are posted within two business days to the Servicer’s investor records, or
such other number of days specified in the transaction
agreements.
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1122(d)(3)(iv)
|
Amounts
remitted to investors per
the investor reports agree with cancelled checks, or other form of
payment, or custodial bank statements.
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Pool
Asset
Administration
|
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1122(d)(4)(i)
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Collateral
or security on mortgage
loans is maintained as required by the transaction agreements or
related
mortgage loan documents.
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1122(d)(4)(ii)
|
Mortgage
loan and related
documents are safeguarded as required by the transaction
agreements.
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1122(d)(4)(iii)
|
Any
additions, removals or
substitutions to the asset pool are made, reviewed and approved
in
accordance with any conditions or requirements in the transaction
agreements.
|
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Servicing
Criteria
|
Applicable
Servicing
Criteria
|
|
Reference
|
Criteria
|
1122(d)(4)(iv)
|
Payments
on mortgage loans,
including any payoffs, made in accordance with the related mortgage
loan
documents are posted to the Servicer’s obligor records maintained no more
than two business days after receipt, or such other number of days
specified in the transaction agreements, and allocated to principal,
interest or other items (e.g., escrow) in accordance with the related
mortgage loan documents.
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1122(d)(4)(v)
|
The
Servicer’s records regarding
the mortgage loans agree with the Servicer’s records with respect to an
obligor’s unpaid principal balance.
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1122(d)(4)(vi)
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Changes
with respect to the terms
or status of an obligor's mortgage loans (e.g., loan modifications
or
re-agings) are made, reviewed and approved by authorized personnel
in
accordance with the transaction agreements and related pool asset
documents.
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1122(d)(4)(vii)
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Loss
mitigation or recovery
actions (e.g., forbearance plans, modifications and deeds in lieu
of
foreclosure, foreclosures and repossessions, as applicable) are initiated,
conducted and concluded in accordance with the timeframes or other
requirements established by the transaction
agreements.
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1122(d)(4)(viii)
|
Records
documenting collection
efforts are maintained during the period a mortgage loan is delinquent
in
accordance with the transaction agreements. Such records are maintained
on
at least a monthly basis, or such other period specified in the
transaction agreements, and describe the entity’s activities in monitoring
delinquent mortgage loans including, for example, phone calls, letters
and
payment rescheduling plans in cases where delinquency is deemed temporary
(e.g., illness or unemployment).
|
|
1122(d)(4)(ix)
|
Adjustments
to interest rates or
rates of return for mortgage loans with variable rates are computed
based
on the related mortgage loan documents.
|
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Servicing
Criteria
|
Applicable
Servicing
Criteria
|
|
Reference
|
Criteria
|
|
1122(d)(4)(x)
|
Regarding
any funds held in trust
for an obligor (such as escrow accounts): (A) such funds are analyzed,
in
accordance with the obligor’s mortgage loan documents, on at least an
annual basis, or such other period specified in the transaction
agreements; (B) interest on such funds is paid, or credited, to obligors
in accordance with applicable mortgage loan documents and state laws;
and
(C) such funds are returned to the obligor within 30 calendar days
of full
repayment of the related mortgage loans, or such other number of
days
specified in the transaction agreements.
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|
1122(d)(4)(xi)
|
Payments
made on behalf of an
obligor (such as tax or insurance payments) are made on or before
the
related penalty or expiration dates, as indicated on the appropriate
bills
or notices for such payments, provided that such support has been
received
by the servicer at least 30 calendar days prior to these dates, or
such
other number of days specified in the transaction
agreements.
|
|
1122(d)(4)(xii)
|
Any
late payment penalties in
connection with any payment to be made on behalf of an obligor are
paid
from the servicer’s funds and not charged to the obligor, unless the late
payment was due to the obligor’s error or omission.
|
|
1122(d)(4)(xiii)
|
Disbursements
made on behalf of an
obligor are posted within two business days to the obligor’s records
maintained by the servicer, or such other number of days specified
in the
transaction agreements.
|
|
1122(d)(4)(xiv)
|
Delinquencies,
charge-offs and
uncollectible accounts are recognized and recorded in accordance
with the
transaction agreements.
|
|
1122(d)(4)(xv)
|
Any
external enhancement or other
support, identified in Item 1114(a)(1) through (3) or Item 1115 of
Regulation AB, is maintained as set forth in the transaction
agreements.
|
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[NAME
OF TRUSTEE] [NAME OF
CO-TRUSTEE]
Date:
_________________________
By:
________________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT
J
[FORM
OF]
LIST OF ITEM 1119 PARTIES
ALTERNATIVE
LOAN TRUST RESECURITIZATION 200_-__
RESECURITIZATION
PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES,
Series
200_-__
[Date]
Party
|
Contact
Information
|
J-1
EXHIBIT
K
FORM
OF
XXXXXXXX-XXXXX CERTIFICATION
I,
[ ],
certify that:
1. I
have
reviewed this report on Form 10-K and all reports on Form 10-D required to
be
filed in respect of the period covered by this report on Form 10-K of
Alternative Loan Trust Resecuritization 0000-0X (xxx "Xxxxxxxx Xxx periodic
reports");
In
giving
the certifications above, I have reasonably relied on information provided
to me
by the following unaffiliated parties: The Bank of New York, as
Trustee.
Date:
March [ ], 2008
/s/
[ ]
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[Name]
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||
[Title]
|
K-1
EXHIBIT
L
[FORM
OF] ITEM 1123
CERTIFICATION
THE
BANK OF NEW YORK
OFFICERS’
CERTIFICATE
ANNUAL
STATEMENT OF THE
TRUSTEE
CWALT,
INC.
ALTERNATIVE
LOAN TRUST RESECURITIZATION
200_-___R,
RESECURITIZATION
PASS-THROUGH
CERTIFICATES, SERIES 200_-__R
The
undersigned does hereby certify that the undersigned is an officer of The Bank
of New York (the “Trustee”), and does hereby further certify pursuant to Section
3.11 of the Trust Agreement for the above-captioned Series (the “Agreement”)
that:
(i)
A review of the activities of the Trustee during the preceding calendar year
and
of the performance of the Trustee under the Agreement has been made under my
supervision; and
(ii)
To the best of my knowledge, based on such review, the Trustee has fulfilled
all
of its obligations under the Agreement in all material respects throughout
such
calendar year.
____________________
Dated:
______________
Name:
Title:
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