Power of Board of Trustees to Change Provisions Relating to Shares Notwithstanding any other provision of this Declaration of Trust to the contrary, and without limiting the power of the Board of Trustees to amend the Declaration of Trust as provided elsewhere herein, the Board of Trustees shall have the power to amend this Declaration of Trust, at any time and from time to time, in such manner as the Board of Trustees may determine in their sole discretion, without the need for Shareholder action, so as to add to, delete, replace or otherwise modify any provisions relating to the Shares contained in this Declaration of Trust, provided that before adopting any such amendment without Shareholder approval the Board of Trustees shall determine that it is consistent with the fair and equitable treatment of all Shareholders and that Shareholder approval is not required by the 1940 Act or other applicable federal law. If Shares have been issued, Shareholder approval shall be required to adopt any amendments to this Declaration of Trust which would adversely affect to a material degree the rights and preferences of the Shares of any Series (or class) or to increase or decrease the par value of the Shares of any Series (or class).
OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF WARRANT CERTIFICATES
OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF WARRANT CERTIFICATES
Other Provisions Relating to Rights of Holders of Warrants 7.1 No Rights as Stockholder. A Warrant does not entitle the Registered Holder thereof to any of the rights of a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to receive dividends, or other distributions, exercise any preemptive rights to vote or to consent or to receive notice as stockholders in respect of the meetings of stockholders or the election of directors of the Company or any other matter.
OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF WARRANT CERTIFICATES 3.1 No Rights as Warrant Securityholder Conferred by Warrants or Warrant Certificates. No Warrant Certificate or Warrant evidenced thereby shall entitle the holder thereof to any of the rights of a holder of Warrant Securities, including, without limitation, the right to receive the payment of dividends or distributions, if any, on the Warrant Securities or to exercise any voting rights, except to the extent expressly set forth in this Agreement or the applicable Warrant Certificate.
Other Provisions Relating to Rights of Holders of Rights SECTION 3.01. No Rights as Holders of Common Stock Conferred by Rights. No Right shall entitle the holder thereof to any of the rights of a holder of Common Stock, including, without limitation, the right to receive dividends, if any, or payments upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation or to exercise voting rights, if any.
Provisions Relating to Dividend Disbursing Agency A. Service Company will, at the expense of Fund, provide a special form of check containing the imprint of any device or other matter desired by Fund. Said checks must, however, be of a form and size convenient for use by Service Company.
B. If Fund wants to include additional printed matter, financial statements, etc., with the dividend checks, the same will be furnished to Service Company within a reasonable time prior to the date of mailing of the dividend checks, at the expense of Fund.
C. If Fund wants its distributions mailed in any special form of envelopes, sufficient supply of the same will be furnished to Service Company but the size and form of said envelopes will be subject to the approval of Service Company. If stamped envelopes are used, they must be furnished by Fund; or, if postage stamps are to be affixed to the envelopes, the stamps or the cash necessary for such stamps must be furnished by Fund.
D. Service Company will maintain one or more deposit accounts as Agent for Fund, into which the funds for payment of dividends, distributions, redemptions or other disbursements provided for hereunder will be deposited, and against which checks will be drawn.
Special Provisions Relating to the Holders of Subordinated Units (a) Except with respect to the right to vote on or approve matters requiring the vote or approval of a percentage of the holders of Outstanding Common Units and the right to participate in allocations of income, gain, loss and deduction and distributions made with respect to Common Units, the holder of a Subordinated Unit shall have all of the rights and obligations of a Unitholder holding Common Units hereunder; provided, however, that immediately upon the conversion of Subordinated Units into Common Units pursuant to Section 5.7, the Unitholder holding a Subordinated Unit shall possess all of the rights and obligations of a Unitholder holding Common Units hereunder with respect to such converted Subordinated Units, including the right to vote as a Common Unitholder and the right to participate in allocations of income, gain, loss and deduction and distributions made with respect to Common Units; provided, however, that such converted Subordinated Units shall remain subject to the provisions of Sections 5.5(c)(ii), 6.1(d)(x)(A), 6.7(b) and 6.7(c).
(b) A Unitholder shall not be permitted to transfer a Subordinated Unit or a Subordinated Unit that has converted into a Common Unit pursuant to Section 5.7 (other than a transfer to an Affiliate) if the remaining balance in the transferring Unitholder’s Capital Account with respect to the retained Subordinated Units or Retained Converted Subordinated Units would be negative after giving effect to the allocation under Section 5.5(c)(ii)(B).
(c) The holder of a Common Unit that has resulted from the conversion of a Subordinated Unit pursuant to Section 5.7 or Section 11.4 shall not be issued a Common Unit Certificate pursuant to Section 4.1 (if the Common Units are represented by Certificates) and shall not be permitted to transfer such Common Unit to a Person that is not an Affiliate of the holder until such time as the General Partner determines, based on advice of counsel, that each such Common Unit should have, as a substantive matter, like intrinsic economic and federal income tax characteristics, in all material respects, to the intrinsic economic and federal income tax characteristics of an Initial Common Unit. In connection with the condition imposed by this Section 6.7(c), the General Partner may take whatever steps are required to provide economic uniformity to such Common Units in preparation for a transfer of such Common Units, including the application of Sections 5.5(c)(ii), 6.1(d)(x) and 6.7(b); provided, however, that no such steps may be taken that would have a material adverse effect on the Unitholders holding Common Units.
Provisions Relating to Securitization (a) For so long as an initial Holder or an Affiliate of an initial Holder (an “Initial Holder”) is the owner of a Note, such Initial Holder shall have the right, subject to the terms of the Mortgage Loan Documents, to cause the Borrower to execute amended and restated notes or additional notes (in either case “New Notes”) reallocating the principal of the Note or Notes held by such Initial Holder among other New Notes; reducing the Interest Rates of such New Notes or severing the Note held by such Initial Holder into one or more further “component” notes in the aggregate principal amount equal to the then outstanding principal balance of such Note, provided that (i) the aggregate principal balance of such New Notes following such amendments is no greater than the principal balance of the related Note prior to such amendments, (ii) all New Notes continue to have the same interest rate as the related Note prior to such amendments, (iii) all New Notes pay pro rata and on a pari passu basis and such reallocated or component notes shall be automatically subject to the terms of this Agreement and (iv) the Initial Note Holder holding the New Notes shall notify the other Holders and the parties to the PSAs in writing of such modified allocations and principal amounts. In connection with the foregoing, (1) the Master Servicer is hereby authorized to execute amendments to the Loan Agreement and this Agreement (or to amend and restate the Loan Agreement and this Agreement) on behalf of any or all of the Holders solely for the purpose of reflecting such reallocation of principal or such severing of such Note, (2) if any Note is severed into “component” notes, such component notes shall each have their same rights as the respective original Note (except that with respect to Note A-1, only one component may be designated as the Lead Note) and (3) the definition of the term “Securitization” and all of the related defined terms may be amended (and new terms added, as necessary) to reflect the New Notes.
(b) Each Lead Note Holder shall cause the Lead Securitization Servicing Agreement to provide that (and, to the extent such provisions are not included in the Lead Securitization Servicing Agreement they shall be deemed incorporated therein and made a part thereof):
(i) the applicable Master Servicer and Trustee for such Securitization shall be required to notify the master servicer, special servicer and trustee of each other Securitization of the amount of any P&I Advance it has made with respect to the Lead Note or Property Advance it has made within two Business Days of making such advance; and
(ii) if the Master Servicer determines that a proposed P&I Advance or Property Advance, if made, or any outstanding P&I Advance or Property Advance previously made, would be, or is, as applicable, a Nonrecoverable Advance, the Master Servicer shall provide the servicers under any other PSA written notice of such determination, together with supporting evidence for such determination, within 2 Business Days after such determination was made.
(iii) the Master Servicer shall remit all payments received (or advanced) with respect to each Non-Lead Note, net of the Servicing Fee payable with respect to such Note and any other Excluded Amount, to the Holder of such Note on or prior to the related Master Servicer Remittance Date (as defined herein);
(iv) with respect to each other Note that is held by a Securitization, the Master Servicer agrees to deliver (and the Special Servicer agrees to deliver to the Master Servicer for delivery) to each of the respective Non-Lead Note Holders or, if such Non-Lead Note is securitized, the respective Non-Lead Master Servicers, all reports required to be delivered by the Master Servicer to the Trustee (and by the Special Servicer to the Master Servicer) under the Lead Securitization Servicing Agreement (which shall include all reports constituting the CREFC Investor Reporting Package) pursuant to the terms of the Lead Securitization Servicing Agreement on the earlier of (x) the date such reports are required to be delivered to such Trustee and (y) the Master Servicer Remittance Date (but in no event less than 2 Business Days after the Mortgage Loan due date); including such information in the Master Servicer’s possession as is reasonably necessary for each such Non-Lead Master Servicer to determine the recoverability of P&I Advances;
(v) the Master Servicer shall provide (and the Special Servicer agrees to deliver to the Master Servicer to provide) to each Non-Lead Note Holder all documents, certificates, instruments, notices, reports, operating statements, rent rolls and other information regarding the Mortgage Loan provided to any other party to the Lead Securitization Servicing Agreement or to the Controlling Class Representative (or analogous term) as such term is defined in the Lead Securitization Servicing Agreement, at the time provided to such other party;
(vi) the servicing duties of each of the Master Servicer and Special Servicer under the Lead Securitization Servicing Agreement shall include the duty to service the Mortgage Loan and all of the Notes on behalf of the Holders (including the respective Trustees and related Certificateholders) in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Agreement and the Lead Securitization Servicing Agreement and the Servicing Standard;
(vii) The Non-Lead Note Holders shall be entitled to the same indemnity with respect to the Mortgage Loan as the Lead Note Holder is provided with respect to the Mortgage Loan under the Lead Securitization Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer, any primary servicer, the Special Servicer and the trustee, the certificate administrator and operating advisor under the Lead Securitization Servicing Agreement shall be required to indemnify each “certification party” and the depositors of each other Securitization to the same extent that they indemnify the Lead Securitization “certification party” and depositor for their failure to deliver the items in clause (viii) below in a timely manner and for any Deficient Exchange Act Deliverable (as defined in the Lead Securitization Servicing Agreement or any similar term thereto) regarding, and delivered by or on behalf of, such party;
(viii) (a) the Master Servicer, any primary servicer, the Special Servicer and the Lead Securitization Trustee, certificate administrator or other party acting as custodian for the Lead Securitization shall be required to (1) deliver (and shall be required to cause each other servicer and servicing function participant (within the meaning of Items 1123 and 1122, respectively, of Regulation AB) retained or engaged by it to deliver), in a timely manner, the reports, certifications, compliance statements, accountants’ assessments and attestations, information to be included in reports (including, without limitation, Form 15G, Form 10K, Form 10D, Form 8K), and other materials specified in each of the other PSAs as the parties to the applicable Securitization may require in order to comply with their obligations under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (including Rule 15Ga-1), as amended, and Regulation AB, and any other applicable law, and (2) to the extent applicable, to cooperate with any depositor in an other Securitization in responding to comments from the Commission regarding any
