Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriter. The several obligations of each Underwriter named in any Terms Agreement to purchase and pay for the Certificates will be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Depositor as of the date hereof, the date of the applicable Terms Agreement and the applicable Closing Date, to the accuracy of the statements made in any officers’ certificates (each an “Officer’s Certificate”) pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Depositor of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions precedent: (a) At the time the applicable Terms Agreement is executed, Deloitte & Touche LLP and/or any other firm of certified independent public accountants acceptable to you shall have furnished to you a letter, addressed to you, and in form and substance satisfactory to you in all respects, stating in effect that using the assumptions and methodology used by the Depositor, all of which shall be described in such letter or the Prospectus Supplement, they have recalculated such numbers, percentages and weighted average lives set forth in the Prospectus Supplement as you may reasonably request, compared the results of their calculations to the corresponding items in the Prospectus Supplement, and found each such number, percentage, and weighted average life set forth in the Prospectus Supplement to be in agreement with the results of such calculations. To the extent historical financial delinquency or related information is included with respect to one or more master servicers, such letter or letters shall also relate to such information. (b) At the Closing Date, Deloitte & Touche LLP and/or any other firm of certified independent public accountants acceptable to you shall have furnished to you a letter, addressed to you, and in form and substance satisfactory to you in all respects, relating to the extent such information is not covered in the letter or letters provided pursuant to clause (a)(i), to a portion of the information set forth on the Mortgage Loan Schedule attached to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the characteristics of the mortgage loans, as presented in the Prospectus Supplement or the Form 8-K relating thereto, or if a letter relating to the same information is provided to the Trustee, indicating that you are entitled to rely upon its letter to the Trustee. (c) Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there shall not have been any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the business or properties of the Depositor or any of its affiliates the effect of which, in any case, is, in your judgment, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the Offering or the delivery of the Certificates as contemplated by the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. All actions required to be taken and all filings required to be made by the Depositor under the Act and the Exchange Act prior to the sale of the Certificates shall have been duly taken or made; and prior to the applicable Closing Date, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted, or to the knowledge of the Depositor or you, shall be contemplated by the Commission or by any authority administering any state securities or Blue Sky law. (d) Unless otherwise specified in any applicable Terms Agreement for a Series, the Certificates shall be rated in one of the four highest grades by one or more nationally recognized statistical rating agencies specified in said Terms Agreement. (e) You shall have received the opinion of counsel for the Depositor, dated the applicable Closing Date, substantially to the effect set forth in Exhibit B attached hereto. (f) Each opinion also shall relate to such other matters as may be specified in the related Terms Agreement or as to which you reasonably may request. In rendering any such opinion, counsel for the Depositor may rely on certificates of responsible officers of the Depositor, the Trustee, and public officials or, as to matters of law other than New York or Federal law, on opinions of other counsel (copies of which opinions shall be delivered to you), provided that, in cases of opinions of other counsel, counsel for the Depositor shall include in its opinion a statement of its belief that both it and you are justified in relying on such opinions. (g) You shall have received from counsel for the Depositor a letter, dated as of the Closing Date, stating that you may rely on the opinions delivered by such firm under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and to the rating agency or agencies rating the Certificates as if such opinions were addressed directly to you (copies of which opinions shall be delivered to you). (h) You shall have received from counsel for the Underwriters, if such counsel is different from counsel to the Depositor, such opinion or opinions, dated as of the Closing Date, with respect to the validity of the Certificates, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and other related matters as the Underwriters may require, and the Depositor shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they may have requested from it for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters. (i) You shall have received Officer’s Certificates signed by such of the principal executive, financial and accounting officers of the Depositor as you may request, dated as of the Closing Date, in which such officers, to the best of their knowledge after reasonable investigation, shall state that the representations and warranties of the Depositor in this Agreement are true and correct; that the Depositor has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Date; that no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are contemplated; that, subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Prospectus, and except as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus, there has not been any material adverse change in the general affairs, business, key personnel, capitalization, financial condition or results of operations of the Depositor; that except as otherwise stated in the Prospectus, there are no material actions, suits or proceedings pending before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or, to their knowledge, threatened, affecting the Depositor or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; and that attached thereto are true and correct copies of a letter or letters from the one or more nationally recognized statistical rating agencies specified in the applicable Terms Agreement confirming that, unless otherwise specified in said Terms Agreement, the Certificates have been rated in one of the four highest grades by each of such agencies and that such rating has not been lowered since the date of such letter. The Depositor will furnish you with such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and documents as you reasonably request. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 6 shall not have been fulfilled in all material respects with respect to a particular Offering when and as provided in this Agreement and the related Terms Agreement, or if any of the opinions and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement and the related Terms Agreement shall not be in all material respects reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to you, this Agreement (with respect to the related Offering) and the related Terms Agreement and all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder (with respect to the related Offering) and thereunder may be canceled at, or at any time prior to, the related Closing Date by the Underwriters. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Depositor in writing, or by telephone or telegraph confirmed in writing.
Appears in 44 contracts
Sources: Underwriting Agreement (Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I Trust 2007-Ac2), Underwriting Agreement (Bear Stearns Mortgage Funding Trust 2007-Sl2), Underwriting Agreement (Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I Trust 2007-Aq2)
Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriter. The several obligations of each Underwriter named in any Terms Agreement to purchase and pay for the Certificates will be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Depositor as of the date hereof, the date of the applicable Terms Agreement and the applicable Closing Date, to the accuracy of the statements made in any officers’ certificates (each an “Officer’s Certificate”) pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Depositor of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions precedent:
(a) At the time the applicable Terms Agreement is executed, Deloitte & Touche LLP and/or any other firm of certified independent public accountants acceptable to you shall have furnished to you a letter, addressed to you, and in form and substance satisfactory to you in all respects, stating in effect that using the assumptions and methodology used by the Depositor, all of which shall be described in such letter or the Prospectus Supplement, they have recalculated such numbers, percentages and weighted average lives set forth in the Prospectus Supplement as you may reasonably request, compared the results of their calculations to the corresponding items in the Prospectus Supplement, and found each such number, percentage, and weighted average life set forth in the Prospectus Supplement to be in agreement with the results of such calculations. To the extent historical financial delinquency or related information is included with respect to one or more master servicers, such letter or letters shall also relate to such information.
(b) At the Closing Date, Deloitte & Touche LLP and/or any other firm of certified independent public accountants acceptable to you shall have furnished to you a letter, addressed to you, and in form and substance satisfactory to you in all respects, relating to the extent such information is not covered in the letter or letters provided pursuant to clause (a)(i), to a portion of the information set forth on the Mortgage Loan Schedule attached to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the characteristics of the mortgage loans, as presented in the Prospectus Supplement or the Form 8-K relating thereto, or if a letter relating to the same information is provided to the Trustee, indicating that you are entitled to rely upon its letter to the Trustee.
(c) Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there shall not have been any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the business or properties of the Depositor or any of its affiliates the effect of which, in any case, is, in your judgment, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the Offering or the delivery of the Certificates as contemplated by the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. All actions required to be taken and all filings required to be made by the Depositor under the Act and the Exchange Act prior to the sale of the Certificates shall have been duly taken or made; and prior to the applicable Closing Date, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted, or to the knowledge of the Depositor or you, shall be contemplated by the Commission or by any authority administering any state securities or Blue Sky law.
(d) Unless otherwise specified in any applicable Terms Agreement for a Series, the Certificates shall be rated in one of the four highest grades by one or more nationally recognized statistical rating agencies specified in said Terms Agreement.
(e) You shall have received the opinion of counsel for the Depositor, dated the applicable Closing Date, substantially to the effect set forth in Exhibit B attached hereto.
(f) Each opinion also shall relate to such other matters as may be specified in the related Terms Agreement or as to which you reasonably may request. In rendering any such opinion, counsel for the Depositor may rely on certificates of responsible officers of the Depositor, the Trustee, and public officials or, as to matters of law other than New York or Federal law, on opinions of other counsel (copies of which opinions shall be delivered to you), provided that, in cases of opinions of other counsel, counsel for the Depositor shall include in its opinion a statement of its belief that both it and you are justified in relying on such opinions.
(g) You shall have received from counsel for the Depositor a letter, dated as of the Closing Date, stating that you may rely on the opinions delivered by such firm under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and to the rating agency or agencies rating the Certificates as if such opinions were addressed directly to you (copies of which opinions shall be delivered to you).
(h) You shall have received from counsel for the Underwriters, if such counsel is different from counsel to the Depositor, such opinion or opinions, dated as of the Closing Date, with respect to the validity of the Certificates, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and other related matters as the Underwriters may require, and the Depositor shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they may have requested from it for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(i) You shall have received Officer’s Certificates signed by such of the principal executive, financial and accounting officers of the Depositor as you may request, dated as of the Closing Date, in which such officers, to the best of their knowledge after reasonable investigation, shall state that the representations and warranties of the Depositor in this Agreement are true and correct; that the Depositor has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Date; that no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are contemplated; that, subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Prospectus, and except as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus, there has not been any material adverse change in the general affairs, business, key personnel, capitalization, financial condition or results of operations of the Depositor; that except as otherwise stated in the Prospectus, there are no material actions, suits or proceedings pending before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or, to their knowledge, threatened, affecting the Depositor or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; and that attached thereto are true and correct copies of a letter or letters from the one or more nationally recognized statistical rating agencies specified in the applicable Terms Agreement confirming that, unless otherwise specified in said Terms Agreement, the Certificates have been rated in one of the four highest grades by each of such agencies and that such rating has not been lowered since the date of such letter. The Depositor will furnish you with such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and documents as you reasonably request. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 6 shall not have been fulfilled in all material respects with respect to a particular Offering when and as provided in this Agreement and the related Terms Agreement, or if any of the opinions and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement and the related Terms Agreement shall not be in all material respects reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to you, this Agreement (with respect to the related Offering) and the related Terms Agreement and all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder (with respect to the related Offering) and thereunder may be canceled at, or at any time prior to, the related Closing Date by the Underwriters. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Depositor in writing, or by telephone or telegraph confirmed in writing.
Appears in 15 contracts
Sources: Underwriting Agreement (Prime Mortgage Trust 2006-1), Underwriting Agreement (Bear Stearns ARM Trust 2007-5), Underwriting Agreement (Bear Stearns ARM Trust 2006-2)
Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriter. The several obligations obligation of each the Underwriter named in any Terms Agreement to purchase and pay for the Offered Certificates will shall be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Depositor Company contained herein as of the date hereof, as of the date of the applicable Terms Agreement effectiveness of any amendment to the Registration Statement filed prior to the Closing Date (including the filing of any document incorporated by reference therein) and as of the applicable Closing Date, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company made in any officers’ certificates (each an “Officer’s Certificate”) delivered pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Depositor Company of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions precedentconditions:
(a) At The Underwriter shall have received from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (i) a letter, dated the time the applicable Terms Agreement is executeddate hereof, Deloitte & Touche LLP and/or any other firm of certified confirming that they are independent public accountants acceptable to you shall have furnished to you a letter, addressed to you, within the meaning of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder and otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to you in all respects, stating in effect that using the assumptions Underwriter and methodology used counsel to the Underwriter and (ii) if requested by the DepositorUnderwriter, all of which shall be described a letter dated the Closing Date, updating the letter referred to in such letter or the Prospectus Supplementclause (i) above, they have recalculated such numbers, percentages in form and weighted average lives set forth in the Prospectus Supplement as you may substance reasonably request, compared the results of their calculations satisfactory to the corresponding items in Underwriter and counsel for the Prospectus Supplement, and found each such number, percentage, and weighted average life set forth in the Prospectus Supplement to be in agreement with the results of such calculations. To the extent historical financial delinquency or related information is included with respect to one or more master servicers, such letter or letters shall also relate to such informationUnderwriter.
(b) At the Closing Date, Deloitte & Touche LLP and/or any other firm of certified independent public accountants acceptable to you shall have furnished to you a letter, addressed to you, and in form and substance satisfactory to you in all respects, relating to the extent such information is not covered in the letter or letters provided pursuant to clause (a)(i), to a portion of the information set forth on the Mortgage Loan Schedule attached to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the characteristics of the mortgage loans, as presented in the Prospectus Supplement or the Form 8-K relating thereto, or if a letter relating to the same information is provided to the Trustee, indicating that you are entitled to rely upon its letter to the Trustee.
(c) Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there shall not have been any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the business or properties of the Depositor or any of its affiliates the effect of which, in any case, is, in your judgment, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the Offering or the delivery of the Certificates as contemplated by the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. All actions required to be taken and all filings required to be made by the Depositor Company under the Act and the Exchange Act prior to the sale of the Offered Certificates shall have been duly taken or and made; . At and prior to the applicable Closing Date, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted, or to the knowledge of the Depositor Company or youthe Underwriter, shall be have been contemplated by the Commission Commission.
(c) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, there shall not have occurred (i) any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting particularly the business or properties of the Company or the Servicer which, in the reasonable judgment of the Underwriter, materially impairs the investment quality of the Offered Certificates; (ii) any downgrading in the rating of the Servicer by any authority administering "nationally recognized statistical rating organization" (as such term is defined for purposes of Rule 436(g) under the Act), or any state public announcement that any such organization has under surveillance or review its rating of the Servicer (other than an announcement with positive implications of a possible upgrading, and no implication of a possible downgrading, of such rating); (iii) any suspension or limitation of trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange, or Blue Sky lawany setting of minimum prices for trading on such exchange; (iv) any banking moratorium declared by federal, North Carolina or New York authorities; or (v) any outbreak or escalation of major hostilities in which the United States is involved, any declaration of war by Congress or any other substantial national or international calamity or emergency if, in the reasonable judgment of the Underwriter, the effects of any such outbreak, escalation, declaration, calamity or emergency makes it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with completion of the sale of and payment for the Offered Certificates.
(d) Unless otherwise specified in any applicable Terms Agreement for a Series, the Certificates shall be rated in one of the four highest grades by one or more nationally recognized statistical rating agencies specified in said Terms Agreement.
(e) You The Underwriter shall have received the opinion of counsel for the Depositor, a certificate dated the applicable Closing Date, substantially to the effect set forth in Exhibit B attached hereto.
(f) Each opinion also shall relate to such other matters as may be specified in the related Terms Agreement or as to which you reasonably may request. In rendering any such opinion, counsel for the Depositor may rely on certificates Date of responsible officers an executive officer of the Depositor, the Trustee, and public officials or, as to matters of law other than New York or Federal law, on opinions of other counsel (copies of which opinions shall be delivered to you), provided that, in cases of opinions of other counsel, counsel for the Depositor shall include in its opinion a statement of its belief that both it and you are justified in relying on such opinions.
(g) You shall have received from counsel for the Depositor a letter, dated as of the Closing Date, stating that you may rely on the opinions delivered by such firm under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and to the rating agency or agencies rating the Certificates as if such opinions were addressed directly to you (copies of which opinions shall be delivered to you).
(h) You shall have received from counsel for the Underwriters, if such counsel is different from counsel to the Depositor, such opinion or opinions, dated as of the Closing Date, with respect to the validity of the Certificates, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and other related matters as the Underwriters may require, and the Depositor shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they may have requested from it for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(i) You shall have received Officer’s Certificates signed by such of the principal executive, financial and accounting officers of the Depositor as you may request, dated as of the Closing Date, Company in which such officersofficer shall state that, to the best of their such officer's knowledge after reasonable investigationinspection, shall state that (i) the representations and warranties of the Depositor Company contained in this Agreement the Basic Documents are true and correct; that correct with the Depositor same force and effect as if made on the Closing Date and (ii) the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date; that no stop order suspending .
(e) The Underwriter shall have received an opinion of counsel for the effectiveness Company, which may be an opinion of in-house counsel to the Company, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriter and counsel for the Underwriter.
(f) The Underwriter shall have received a certificate of an executive officer of BANA, dated as of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are contemplated; Closing Date, to the effect that, subsequent to the respective dates as ▇▇▇▇ of which information is given such officer's knowledge, (i) the representations and warranties contained in the Prospectus, and except as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus, there has not been any material adverse change in the general affairs, business, key personnel, capitalization, financial condition or results of operations of the Depositor; that except as otherwise stated in the Prospectus, there are no material actions, suits or proceedings pending before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or, to their knowledge, threatened, affecting the Depositor or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; and that attached thereto Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement are true and correct with the same force and effect as though made on and as of the Closing Date and (ii) such officer has reviewed the Final Prospectus as amended or supplemented to the Closing Date and nothing has come to such officer's attention that would lead such officer to believe that the Final Prospectus as amended or supplemented, insofar as it relates to BANA or the Mortgage Loans originated or acquired by BANA, contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(g) The Underwriter shall have received an opinion of counsel for BANA, which may be an opinion of in-house counsel to BANA, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactor▇ ▇▇ the Underwriter and counsel for the Underwriter.
(h) The Underwriter shall have received an opinion of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, special counsel to the Compa▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ opinion ▇▇▇ rel▇ ▇▇, and assume the accuracy of, the opinions described in paragraphs (e) and (g) above, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriter and counsel for the Underwriter.
(i) The Underwriter shall have received copies of any opinions of counsel for the Company that the Company is required to deliver to any Rating Agency. Any such opinions shall be dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriter or accompanied by reliance letters addressed to the Underwriter.
(j) The Underwriter shall have received from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, special counsel for the Underwriter, a letter or letters from l▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇d the one or more nationally recognized statistical rating agencies specified ▇losing Date with respect to the Final Prospectus, substantially to the effect that nothing has come to such counsel's attention in the applicable Terms course of its review of the Final Prospectus which causes it to believe that the Final Prospectus, as of the date of the Prospectus Supplement or the Closing Date, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; it being understood that such counsel need not express any view as to any information incorporated by reference in the Final Prospectus or as to the adequacy or accuracy of the financial, numerical, statistical or quantitative information included in the Final Prospectus.
(k) The Underwriter shall have received an opinion of reasonably acceptable counsel to the Trustee, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriter and counsel for the Underwriter.
(l) On or before the Closing Date, the Underwriter shall have received evidence satisfactory to it that each class of Offered Certificates has been given the ratings set forth on Schedule I hereto.
(m) At the Closing Date, the Certificates and the Pooling Agreement confirming thatwill conform in all material respects to the descriptions thereof contained in the Final Prospectus.
(n) The Underwriter shall not have discovered and disclosed to the Company on or prior to the Closing Date that the Registration Statement or the Final Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto contains an untrue statement of a fact or omits to state a fact which, unless otherwise specified in said Terms the opinion of counsel to the Underwriter, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(o) All corporate proceedings and other legal matters relating to the authorization, form and validity of this Agreement, the Certificates Pooling Agreement, the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, the Certificates, the Registration Statement and the Final Prospectus, and all other legal matters relating to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, shall be reasonably satisfactory in all respects to counsel for the Underwriter, and the Company shall have been rated in one of the four highest grades by each of furnished to such agencies counsel all documents and information that they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such rating has not been lowered since the date of such lettermatters. The Depositor Company will furnish you with provide or cause to be provided to the Underwriter such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and documents as you the Underwriter may reasonably request. All opinions, letters, evidence and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriter. If any of the conditions condition specified in this Section 6 shall not have been fulfilled in all material respects with respect to a particular Offering when and as provided in this Agreement and the related Terms Agreement, or if any of the opinions and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement and the related Terms Agreement shall not required to be in all material respects reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to youfulfilled, this Agreement (with respect may be terminated by the Underwriter by notice to the related Offering) and the related Terms Agreement and all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder (with respect to the related Offering) and thereunder may be canceled at, or Company at any time at or prior toto the Closing Date, the related Closing Date by the Underwriters. Notice of and such cancellation termination shall be given without liability of any party to the Depositor any other party except as provided in writing, or by telephone or telegraph confirmed in writingSection 7.
Appears in 11 contracts
Sources: Underwriting Agreement (Banc of America Alternative Loan Trust 2006-1), Underwriting Agreement (Banc of America Alternative Loan Trust 2006-7), Underwriting Agreement (Banc of America Mortgage 2006-3 Trust)
Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriter. The several obligations obligation of each the Underwriter named in any Terms Agreement to purchase and pay for the Offered Certificates will shall be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Depositor Company contained herein as of the date hereof, as of the date of the applicable Terms Agreement effectiveness of any amendment to the Registration Statement filed prior to the Closing Date (including the filing of any document incorporated by reference therein) and as of the applicable Closing Date, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company made in any officers’ certificates (each an “Officer’s Certificate”) delivered pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Depositor Company of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions precedentconditions:
(a) At The Underwriter shall have received from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (i) a letter, dated the time the applicable Terms Agreement is executeddate hereof, Deloitte & Touche LLP and/or any other firm of certified confirming that they are independent public accountants acceptable to you shall have furnished to you a letter, addressed to you, within the meaning of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder and otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to you in all respects, stating in effect that using the assumptions Underwriter and methodology used counsel to the Underwriter and (ii) if requested by the DepositorUnderwriter, all of which shall be described a letter dated the Closing Date, updating the letter referred to in such letter or the Prospectus Supplementclause (i) above, they have recalculated such numbers, percentages in form and weighted average lives set forth in the Prospectus Supplement as you may substance reasonably request, compared the results of their calculations satisfactory to the corresponding items in Underwriter and counsel for the Prospectus Supplement, and found each such number, percentage, and weighted average life set forth in the Prospectus Supplement to be in agreement with the results of such calculations. To the extent historical financial delinquency or related information is included with respect to one or more master servicers, such letter or letters shall also relate to such informationUnderwriter.
(b) At the Closing Date, Deloitte & Touche LLP and/or any other firm of certified independent public accountants acceptable to you shall have furnished to you a letter, addressed to you, and in form and substance satisfactory to you in all respects, relating to the extent such information is not covered in the letter or letters provided pursuant to clause (a)(i), to a portion of the information set forth on the Mortgage Loan Schedule attached to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the characteristics of the mortgage loans, as presented in the Prospectus Supplement or the Form 8-K relating thereto, or if a letter relating to the same information is provided to the Trustee, indicating that you are entitled to rely upon its letter to the Trustee.
(c) Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there shall not have been any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the business or properties of the Depositor or any of its affiliates the effect of which, in any case, is, in your judgment, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the Offering or the delivery of the Certificates as contemplated by the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. All actions required to be taken and all filings required to be made by the Depositor Company under the Act and the Exchange Act prior to the sale of the Offered Certificates shall have been duly taken or and made; . At and prior to the applicable Closing Date, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted, or to the knowledge of the Depositor Company or youthe Underwriter, shall be have been contemplated by the Commission Commission.
(c) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, there shall not have occurred (i) any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting particularly the business or properties of the Company or the Servicer which, in the reasonable judgment of the Underwriter, materially impairs the investment quality of the Offered Certificates; (ii) any downgrading in the rating of the Servicer by any authority administering "nationally recognized statistical rating organization" (as such term is defined for purposes of Rule 436(g) under the Act), or any state public announcement that any such organization has under surveillance or review its rating of the Servicer (other than an announcement with positive implications of a possible upgrading, and no implication of a possible downgrading, of such rating); (iii) any suspension or limitation of trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange, or Blue Sky lawany setting of minimum prices for trading on such exchange; (iv) any banking moratorium declared by federal, North Carolina or New York authorities; or (v) any outbreak or escalation of major hostilities in which the United States is involved, any declaration of war by Congress or any other substantial national or international calamity or emergency if, in the reasonable judgment of the Underwriter, the effects of any such outbreak, escalation, declaration, calamity or emergency makes it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with completion of the sale of and payment for the Offered Certificates.
(d) Unless otherwise specified in any applicable Terms Agreement for a Series, the Certificates shall be rated in one of the four highest grades by one or more nationally recognized statistical rating agencies specified in said Terms Agreement.
(e) You The Underwriter shall have received the opinion of counsel for the Depositor, a certificate dated the applicable Closing Date, substantially to the effect set forth in Exhibit B attached hereto.
(f) Each opinion also shall relate to such other matters as may be specified in the related Terms Agreement or as to which you reasonably may request. In rendering any such opinion, counsel for the Depositor may rely on certificates Date of responsible officers an executive officer of the Depositor, the Trustee, and public officials or, as to matters of law other than New York or Federal law, on opinions of other counsel (copies of which opinions shall be delivered to you), provided that, in cases of opinions of other counsel, counsel for the Depositor shall include in its opinion a statement of its belief that both it and you are justified in relying on such opinions.
(g) You shall have received from counsel for the Depositor a letter, dated as of the Closing Date, stating that you may rely on the opinions delivered by such firm under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and to the rating agency or agencies rating the Certificates as if such opinions were addressed directly to you (copies of which opinions shall be delivered to you).
(h) You shall have received from counsel for the Underwriters, if such counsel is different from counsel to the Depositor, such opinion or opinions, dated as of the Closing Date, with respect to the validity of the Certificates, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and other related matters as the Underwriters may require, and the Depositor shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they may have requested from it for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(i) You shall have received Officer’s Certificates signed by such of the principal executive, financial and accounting officers of the Depositor as you may request, dated as of the Closing Date, Company in which such officersofficer shall state that, to the best of their such officer's knowledge after reasonable investigationinspection, shall state that (i) the representations and warranties of the Depositor Company contained in this Agreement the Basic Documents are true and correct; that correct with the Depositor same force and effect as if made on the Closing Date and (ii) the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date; that no stop order suspending the effectiveness .
(e) The Underwriter shall have received a certificate of an executive officer of BANA, dated as of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are contemplated; Closing Date, to the effect that, subsequent to the respective dates as ▇▇▇▇ of which information is given such officer's knowledge, (i) the representations and warranties contained in the Prospectus, and except as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus, there has not been any material adverse change in the general affairs, business, key personnel, capitalization, financial condition or results of operations of the Depositor; that except as otherwise stated in the Prospectus, there are no material actions, suits or proceedings pending before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or, to their knowledge, threatened, affecting the Depositor or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; and that attached thereto Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement are true and correct with the same force and effect as though made on and as of the Closing Date and (ii) such officer has reviewed the Final Prospectus as amended or supplemented to the Closing Date and nothing has come to such officer's attention that would lead such officer to believe that the Final Prospectus as amended or supplemented, insofar as it relates to BANA or the Mortgage Loans originated or acquired by BANA, contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(f) The Underwriter shall have received an opinion of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, special counsel to the Compa▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ the Clos▇▇▇ Dat▇, ▇n form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriter and counsel for the Underwriter.
(g) The Underwriter shall have received copies of any opinions of counsel for the Company that the Company is required to deliver to any Rating Agency. Any such opinions shall be dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriter or accompanied by reliance letters addressed to the Underwriter.
(h) The Underwriter shall have received from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, special counsel for the Underwriter, a letter or letters from l▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇d the one or more nationally recognized statistical rating agencies specified ▇losing Date with respect to the Final Prospectus, substantially to the effect that nothing has come to such counsel's attention in the applicable Terms course of its review of the Final Prospectus which causes it to believe that the Final Prospectus, as of the date of the Prospectus Supplement or the Closing Date, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; it being understood that such counsel need not express any view as to any information incorporated by reference in the Final Prospectus or as to the adequacy or accuracy of the financial, numerical, statistical or quantitative information included in the Final Prospectus.
(i) The Underwriter shall have received an opinion of reasonably acceptable counsel to the Trustee, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriter and counsel for the Underwriter.
(j) On or before the Closing Date, the Underwriter shall have received evidence satisfactory to it that each class of Offered Certificates has been given the ratings set forth on Schedule I hereto.
(k) At the Closing Date, the Certificates and the Pooling Agreement confirming thatwill conform in all material respects to the descriptions thereof contained in the Final Prospectus.
(l) The Underwriter shall not have discovered and disclosed to the Company on or prior to the Closing Date that the Registration Statement or the Final Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto contains an untrue statement of a fact or omits to state a fact which, unless otherwise specified in said Terms the opinion of counsel to the Underwriter, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(m) All corporate proceedings and other legal matters relating to the authorization, form and validity of this Agreement, the Certificates Pooling Agreement, the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, the Certificates, the Registration Statement and the Final Prospectus, and all other legal matters relating to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, shall be reasonably satisfactory in all respects to counsel for the Underwriter, and the Company shall have been rated in one of the four highest grades by each of furnished to such agencies counsel all documents and information that they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such rating has not been lowered since the date of such lettermatters. The Depositor Company will furnish you with provide or cause to be provided to the Underwriter such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and documents as you the Underwriter may reasonably request. All opinions, letters, evidence and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriter. If any of the conditions condition specified in this Section 6 shall not have been fulfilled in all material respects with respect to a particular Offering when and as provided in this Agreement and the related Terms Agreement, or if any of the opinions and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement and the related Terms Agreement shall not required to be in all material respects reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to youfulfilled, this Agreement (with respect may be terminated by the Underwriter by notice to the related Offering) and the related Terms Agreement and all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder (with respect to the related Offering) and thereunder may be canceled at, or Company at any time at or prior toto the Closing Date, the related Closing Date by the Underwriters. Notice of and such cancellation termination shall be given without liability of any party to the Depositor any other party except as provided in writing, or by telephone or telegraph confirmed in writingSection 7.
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Sources: Underwriting Agreement (Banc of America Mortgage 2007-3 Trust), Underwriting Agreement (Banc of America Alternative Loan Trust 2007-1), Underwriting Agreement (Banc of America Mortgage 2007-2 Trust)
Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriter. The several obligations obligation of each the Underwriter named in any Terms Agreement to purchase accept delivery of and pay for the Certificates will Bonds on the Closing Date shall be subject subject, at the option of the Underwriter, to the accuracy in all material respects of the representations and warranties on the part of the Depositor as of the date hereof, the date of the applicable Terms Agreement and the applicable Closing DateCommunity Facilities District contained herein, to the accuracy in all material respects of the statements of the officers and other officials of the Community Facilities District made in any officers’ certificates (each an “Officer’s Certificate”) or other documents furnished pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Depositor of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions precedent:
(a) At the time the applicable Terms Agreement is executed, Deloitte & Touche LLP and/or any other firm of certified independent public accountants acceptable to you shall have furnished to you a letter, addressed to you, and in form and substance satisfactory to you in all respects, stating in effect that using the assumptions and methodology used by the Depositor, all of which shall be described in such letter or the Prospectus Supplement, they have recalculated such numbers, percentages and weighted average lives set forth in the Prospectus Supplement as you may reasonably request, compared the results Community Facilities District of their calculations to the corresponding items in the Prospectus Supplement, and found each such number, percentage, and weighted average life set forth in the Prospectus Supplement to be in agreement with the results of such calculations. To the extent historical financial delinquency or related information is included with respect to one or more master servicers, such letter or letters shall also relate to such information.
(b) At the Closing Date, Deloitte & Touche LLP and/or any other firm of certified independent public accountants acceptable to you shall have furnished to you a letter, addressed to you, and in form and substance satisfactory to you in all respects, relating to the extent such information is not covered in the letter or letters provided pursuant to clause (a)(i), to a portion of the information set forth on the Mortgage Loan Schedule attached to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the characteristics of the mortgage loans, as presented in the Prospectus Supplement or the Form 8-K relating thereto, or if a letter relating to the same information is provided to the Trustee, indicating that you are entitled to rely upon its letter to the Trustee.
(c) Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there shall not have been any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the business or properties of the Depositor or any of its affiliates the effect of which, in any case, is, in your judgment, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the Offering or the delivery of the Certificates as contemplated by the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. All actions required to be taken and all filings required to be made by the Depositor under the Act and the Exchange Act prior to the sale of the Certificates shall have been duly taken or made; and prior to the applicable Closing Date, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted, or to the knowledge of the Depositor or you, shall be contemplated by the Commission or by any authority administering any state securities or Blue Sky law.
(d) Unless otherwise specified in any applicable Terms Agreement for a Series, the Certificates shall be rated in one of the four highest grades by one or more nationally recognized statistical rating agencies specified in said Terms Agreement.
(e) You shall have received the opinion of counsel for the Depositor, dated the applicable Closing Date, substantially to the effect set forth in Exhibit B attached hereto.
(f) Each opinion also shall relate to such other matters as may be specified in the related Terms Agreement or as to which you reasonably may request. In rendering any such opinion, counsel for the Depositor may rely on certificates of responsible officers of the Depositor, the Trustee, and public officials or, as to matters of law other than New York or Federal law, on opinions of other counsel (copies of which opinions shall be delivered to you), provided that, in cases of opinions of other counsel, counsel for the Depositor shall include in its opinion a statement of its belief that both it and you are justified in relying on such opinions.
(g) You shall have received from counsel for the Depositor a letter, dated as of the Closing Date, stating that you may rely on the opinions delivered by such firm under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and to the rating agency or agencies rating the Certificates as if such opinions were addressed directly to you (copies of which opinions shall be delivered to you).
(h) You shall have received from counsel for the Underwriters, if such counsel is different from counsel to the Depositor, such opinion or opinions, dated as of the Closing Date, with respect to the validity of the Certificates, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and other related matters as the Underwriters may require, and the Depositor shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they may have requested from it for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(i) You shall have received Officer’s Certificates signed by such of the principal executive, financial and accounting officers of the Depositor as you may request, dated as of the Closing Date, in which such officers, to the best of their knowledge after reasonable investigation, shall state that the representations and warranties of the Depositor in this Agreement are true and correct; that the Depositor has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part obligations to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date and to the following additional conditions:
A. At the Closing Date; that no stop order suspending , the effectiveness Community Facilities District Resolutions and the Community Facilities District Documents shall be in full force and effect, and shall not have been amended, modified or supplemented, except as may have been agreed to in writing by the Underwriter, and there shall have been taken in connection therewith, with the issuance of the Registration Bonds, and with the transactions contemplated thereby, all such actions as, in the opinion of Bond Counsel, shall be necessary and appropriate.
B. At the Closing Date, except as described in the Preliminary Official Statement, the City shall not be, in any respect material to the transactions referred to herein or contemplated hereby, in breach of or in default under, any law or administrative rule or regulation of the State, the United States of America, or of any department, division, agency or instrumentality of either thereof, or under any applicable court or administrative decree or order, or under any loan agreement, note, resolution, indenture, contract, agreement or other instrument to which the City is a party or is otherwise subject or bound, and the performance of the conditions precedent to be performed hereunder will not conflict with or constitute a breach of or default under any applicable law or administrative rule or regulation of the State, the United States of America, or of any department, division, agency or instrumentality of either thereof, or under any applicable court or administrative decree or order, or under any loan agreement, note, resolution, indenture, contract, agreement or other instrument to which the City is a party or is otherwise subject or bound, in any manner which would materially and adversely affect the performance of the conditions precedent to be performed by the City hereunder.
C. At the Closing Date, except as described in the Preliminary Official Statement, the Community Facilities District shall not be, in any respect material to the transactions referred to herein or contemplated hereby, in breach of or in default under, any law or administrative rule or regulation of the State, the United States of America, or of any department, division, agency or instrumentality of either thereof, or under any applicable court or administrative decree or order, or under any loan agreement, note, resolution, indenture, contract, agreement or other instrument to which the Community Facilities District is a party or is otherwise subject or bound, and the performance by the Community Facilities District of its obligations under the Bonds, the Community Facilities District Resolutions, the Indenture, and any other instruments contemplated by any of such documents, and compliance with the provisions of each thereof, or the performance of the conditions precedent to be performed hereunder, will not conflict with or constitute a breach of or default under any applicable law or administrative rule or regulation of the State, the United States of America, or of any department, division, agency or instrumentality of either thereof, or under any applicable court or administrative decree or order, or under any loan agreement, note, resolution, indenture, contract, agreement or other instrument to which the Community Facilities District is a party or is otherwise subject or bound, in any manner which would materially and adversely affect the performance by the Community Facilities District of its obligations under the Indenture, the Bonds or the performance of the conditions precedent to be performed by the Community Facilities District hereunder.
D. The information contained in the Official Statement has been issued is, as of the Closing Date and no proceedings as of the date of any supplement or amendment thereto pursuant hereto, true and correct in all material respects and does not, as of the Closing Date or as of the date of any supplement or amendment thereto, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
E. Between the date hereof and the Closing Date, the market price or marketability, at the initial offering prices set forth on the cover page of the Official Statement, of the Bonds or the ability of the Underwriter to enforce contracts for that purpose the sale of the Bonds, shall not have been instituted or are contemplated; thatmaterially adversely affected, subsequent in the judgment of the Underwriter (evidenced by a written notice to the respective dates Community Facilities District terminating the obligation of the Underwriter to accept delivery of and pay for the Bonds), by reason of any of the following:
1. Legislation introduced in or enacted (or resolution passed) by the Congress of the United States of America or recommended to the Congress by the President of the United States, the Department of the Treasury, the Internal Revenue Service, or any member of Congress, or favorably reported for passage to either House of Congress by any committee of such House to which such legislation had been referred for consideration, or a decision rendered by a court established under Article III of the Constitution of the United States of America or by the Tax Court of the United States of America, or an order, ruling, regulation (final, temporary or proposed), press release or other form of notice issued or made by or on behalf of the Treasury Department of the United States of America or the Internal Revenue Service, with the purpose or effect, directly or indirectly, of imposing federal income taxation upon such interest as would be received by any owners of the Bonds beyond the extent to which such interest is subject to taxation as of which the date hereof; or
2. Legislation introduced in or enacted (or resolution passed) by the Congress or an order, decree or injunction issued by any court of competent jurisdiction, or an order, ruling, regulation (final, temporary or proposed), press release or other form of notice issued or made by or on behalf of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), or any other governmental agency having jurisdiction of the subject matter, to the effect that obligations of the general character of the Bonds, including any or all underlying arrangements, are not exempt from registration under or other requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or that the Indenture is not exempt from qualification under or other requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “Trust Indenture Act”), or that the issuance, offering or sale of obligations of the general character of the Bonds, including any or all underlying arrangements, as contemplated hereby or by the Official Statement or otherwise is or would be in violation of the federal securities laws as amended and then in effect; or
3. A general suspension of trading on the New York Stock Exchange or other major exchange shall be in force, or minimum or maximum prices for trading shall have been fixed and be in force, or maximum ranges for prices for securities shall have been required and be in force on any such exchange, whether by virtue of determination by that exchange or by order of the SEC or any other governmental authority having jurisdiction; or
4. The introduction, proposal or enactment of any amendment to the federal or State Constitution or any action by any federal or State court, legislative body, regulatory body or other authority materially adversely affecting the tax status of the Community Facilities District, its property, income, securities (or interest thereon), the validity or enforceability of Special Taxes, or the ability of the Community Facilities District to issue the Bonds as contemplated by the Indenture and the Official Statement; or
5. Any event occurring, or information is given becoming known which, in the Prospectusjudgment of the Underwriter, and except makes untrue in any material respect any statement or information contained in the Preliminary Official Statement or in the Official Statement, or has the effect that the Preliminary Official Statement or the Official Statement contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; or
6. Any national securities exchange, the Comptroller of the Currency, or any other governmental authority, shall impose as set forth to the Bonds, or obligations of the general character of the Bonds, any material restrictions not now in force, or increase materially those now in force, with respect to the extension of credit by, or the charge to the net capital requirements of, the Underwriter; or
7. There shall have occurred (1) an outbreak or escalation of hostilities or the declaration by the United States of a national emergency or war or (2) any other calamity or crisis in the financial markets of the United States or elsewhere or the escalation of such calamity or crisis; or
8. Except as disclosed in or contemplated in by the ProspectusOfficial Statement, there has not been any material adverse change in the general affairs, business, key personnel, capitalization, financial condition or results of operations affairs of the DepositorCity or Community Facilities District shall have occurred; or
9. Any event or circumstance shall exist that except as otherwise stated either makes untrue or incorrect in any material respect any statement or information in the ProspectusOfficial Statement (other than any statement provided by the Underwriter) or is not reflected in the Official Statement but should be reflected therein in order to make the statements therein, there are no in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading and, in either such event, the Community Facilities District refuses to permit the Official Statement to be supplemented to supply such statement or information, or the effect of the Official Statement as so supplemented is to materially adversely affect the market price or marketability of the Bonds or the ability of the Underwriters to enforce contracts for the sale of the Bonds; or
10. A general banking moratorium shall have been declared by federal or State authorities having jurisdiction and be in force; or
11. A material actionsdisruption in securities settlement, suits payment or proceedings pending before clearance services affecting the Bonds shall have occurred; or
12. Any new restriction on transactions in securities materially affecting the market for securities (including the imposition of any limitation on interest rates) or the extension of credit by, or a charge to the net capital requirements of, underwriters shall have been established by the New York Stock Exchange, the SEC, any other federal or State agency or the Congress of the United States, or by Executive Order; or
13. A decision by a court of the United States shall be rendered, or a stop order, release, regulation or no-action letter by or on behalf of the SEC or any other governmental agency, authority agency having jurisdiction of the subject matter shall have been issued or body ormade, to their knowledgethe effect that the issuance, threatenedoffering or sale of the Bonds, affecting including the Depositor or the transactions underlying obligations as contemplated by this Agreement; and that attached thereto are true and correct copies Purchase Agreement or by the Official Statement, or any document relating to the issuance, offering or sale of a letter the Bonds, is or letters from would be in violation of any provision of the one or more nationally recognized statistical rating agencies specified in federal securities laws at the applicable Terms Agreement confirming thatClosing Date, unless otherwise specified in said Terms Agreementincluding the Securities Act, the Certificates Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and the Trust Indenture Act; or
14. Any proceeding shall have been rated commenced or be threatened in one writing by the SEC against the City or the Community Facilities District; or
15. The commencement of any Action as described in items (i) through (iv) of Section 2(M) hereof.
F. At or prior to the Closing Date, the Underwriter shall have received a counterpart original or certified copy of the four highest grades by following documents, in each of such agencies and that such rating has not been lowered since the date of such letter. The Depositor will furnish you with such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and documents as you reasonably request. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 6 shall not have been fulfilled in all material respects with respect to a particular Offering when and as provided in this Agreement and the related Terms Agreement, or if any of the opinions and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement and the related Terms Agreement shall not be in all material respects reasonably case satisfactory in form and substance to youthe Underwriter:
1. The Official Statement, this Agreement (executed on behalf of the Community Facilities District by an authorized officer;
2. The Indenture, duly executed and delivered by the Community Facilities District and the Trustee;
3. The Community Facilities District Resolutions and the Community Facilities District Documents and the Formation Documents, together with respect a certificate dated as of the Closing Date of the City Clerk to the related Offering) effect that the Community Facilities District Resolutions are true, correct and complete copies of the related Terms Agreement ones duly adopted by the City Council;
4. The Continuing Disclosure Certificate executed and all delivered by the Community Facilities District;
5. An unqualified approving opinion of Bond Counsel for the Bonds, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Community Facilities District, to the effect that the Bonds are the valid, legal and binding obligations of the Underwriters hereunder (with respect Community Facilities District and that the interest thereon is excluded from gross income for federal income tax purposes and exempt from personal income taxes of the State, in substantially the form included as an appendix to the related Offering) Official Statement, together with a letter of Bond Counsel, dated the Closing Date and thereunder addressed to the Underwriter, to the effect that such opinion addressed to the Community Facilities District may be canceled atrelied upon by the Underwriter to the same extent as if such opinion was addressed to it;
6. A supplemental opinion or opinions of Bond Counsel, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriter, to the effect that:
(i) this Purchase Agreement and the Continuing Disclosure Certificate have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Community Facilities District and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the other parties thereto, as applicable, constitute the legal, valid and binding agreement of the Community Facilities District and are enforceable in accordance with their terms, except to the extent that enforceability may be limited by moratorium, bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency or at any time prior toother similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally or by the exercise of judicial discretion in accordance with general principles of equity or otherwise in appropriate cases and by limitations on legal remedies against public agencies in the State;
(ii) the Bonds are not subject to the registration requirements of the Securities Act, and the Indenture is exempt from qualification under the Trust Indenture Act;
(iii) the information contained in the Official Statement on the cover and under the captions “THE BONDS” (other than the caption “Debt Service Schedule”), “SOURCES OF PAYMENT FOR THE BONDS,” “TAX MATTERS” and “LEGAL MATTERS” and in Appendices B and D to the Official Statement, are accurate insofar as such statements purport to summarize certain provisions of the Bonds, the related Indenture and Bond Counsel’s final approving opinion.
7. The letter of Disclosure Counsel, dated the Closing Date by the Underwriters. Notice of such cancellation shall be given and addressed to the Depositor Community Facilities District and to the Underwriter, to the effect that, without having undertaken to determine independently the accuracy or completeness of the statements contained in writingthe Official Statement, but on the basis of their participation in conferences with representatives of the Community Facilities District, the Special Tax Consultant and others, and their examination of certain documents, nothing has come to their attention which has led them to believe that the Preliminary Official Statement as of its date and the Official Statement as of its date and as of the Closing Date contained or by telephone contains any untrue statement of a material fact or telegraph confirmed omits to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in writing.light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading (e
Appears in 3 contracts
Sources: Bond Purchase Agreement, Bond Purchase Agreement, Bond Purchase Agreement
Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriter. The several obligations of each the Underwriter named in any Terms Agreement to purchase the Underwritten Securities and pay for the Certificates will Option Securities, as the case may be, shall be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Depositor Company contained herein as of the date hereofExecution Time, the Closing Date and any settlement date of the applicable Terms Agreement and the applicable Closing Datepursuant to Section 3 hereof, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company made in any officers’ certificates (each an “Officer’s Certificate”) pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Depositor Company of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions precedentconditions:
(a) At The Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, have been filed in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b); and no stop order suspending the applicable Terms Agreement is executedeffectiveness of the Registration Statement or any notice objecting to its use shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted or threatened.
(b) The Company shall have requested and caused L▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, Deloitte & Touche LLP and/or any other firm of certified independent public accountants counsel for the Company, to have furnished to the Underwriter its opinions and negative assurance letter, each dated the Closing Date or settlement date (as applicable) and addressed to the Underwriter, in a form reasonably acceptable to you the Underwriter.
(c) The Company shall have requested and caused Ogier (Cayman) LLP, Cayman Islands counsel for the Company, to have furnished to the Underwriter its opinions, dated the Closing Date and any settlement date, as applicable, and addressed to the Underwriter, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Underwriter.
(d) The Underwriter shall have received from White & Case LLP, counsel for the Underwriter, such opinion or opinions and negative assurance letter, each dated the Closing Date or settlement date (as applicable) and addressed to the Underwriter, with respect to the issuance and sale of the Securities, the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus, the Prospectus (together with any supplement thereto) and other related matters as the Underwriter may reasonably require, and the Company shall have furnished to you such counsel such documents as they request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(e) The Company shall have furnished to the Underwriter a lettercertificate of the Company, addressed signed by the Chief Executive Officer and the principal financial or accounting officer of the Company, dated the Closing Date or settlement date (as applicable), to youthe effect that the signers of such certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement, each Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, and this Agreement and that:
i. the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct on and as of the Closing Date or settlement date (as applicable) with the same effect as if made on the Closing Date or settlement date (as applicable) and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Date or settlement date (as applicable);
ii. no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any notice objecting to its use has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened; and
iii. since the date of the most recent financial statements included in the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there has been no Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated by the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(f) The Company shall have furnished to the Underwriter a certificate signed by a director or officer of the Company, dated the Closing Date or settlement date (as applicable), certifying (i) that the Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association is true and complete, has not been modified and is in full force and effect, (ii) that the resolutions relating to the Offering contemplated by this agreement are in full force and effect and have not been modified, (iii) copies of all correspondence between the Company or its counsel and the Commission, and (iv) as to the incumbency of the officers of the Company. The documents referred to in such certificate shall be attached to such certificate.
(g) The Company shall have requested and caused W▇▇▇▇▇ to have furnished to the Underwriter, at the Execution Time and at the Closing Date or settlement date (as applicable), letters, dated respectively as of the Execution Time and as of the Closing Date or settlement date (as applicable), in form and substance satisfactory to you in all respectsthe Underwriter, confirming that they are a registered public accounting firm that is independent with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Act and the Exchange Act and the applicable rules and regulations adopted by the Commission thereunder and that they have performed a review of the audited financial statements of the Company for the period from March 6, 2025 (inception) through March 7, 2025, provided, however, that the cutoff date shall not be more than two business days prior to such Execution Time or Closing Date or settlement date, as applicable, and stating in effect that using that:
i. in their opinion the assumptions audited financial statements, the unaudited financial statements and methodology used any financial statement schedules included in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus and reported on by them comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Act and the related rules and regulations adopted by the Depositor, all Commission; and
ii. they have performed certain other specified procedures as a result of which shall be described in such letter they determined that certain information of an accounting, financial or statistical nature (which is limited to accounting, financial or statistical information derived from the Prospectus Supplement, they have recalculated such numbers, percentages and weighted average lives general accounting records of the Company) set forth in the Registration Statement, the Statutory Prospectus Supplement as you may reasonably requestand the Prospectus, compared the results of their calculations to the corresponding items in the Prospectus Supplement, and found each such number, percentage, and weighted average life set forth in the Prospectus Supplement to be in agreement with the results of such calculations. To the extent historical financial delinquency or related information is included with respect to one or more master servicers, such letter or letters shall also relate to such information.
(b) At the Closing Date, Deloitte & Touche LLP and/or any other firm of certified independent public accountants acceptable to you shall have furnished to you a letter, addressed to you, and in form and substance satisfactory to you in all respects, relating to the extent such information is not covered in the letter or letters provided pursuant to clause (a)(i), to a portion of including the information set forth on under the Mortgage Loan Schedule attached captions “Dilution” and “Capitalization” in the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus, agrees with the accounting records of the Company, excluding any questions of legal interpretation. References to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and Prospectus in this paragraph (f) include any supplement thereto at the characteristics date of the mortgage loans, as presented in the Prospectus Supplement or the Form 8-K relating thereto, or if a letter relating to the same information is provided to the Trustee, indicating that you are entitled to rely upon its letter to the Trusteeletter.
(ch) Subsequent to the respective Execution Time or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof), the Statutory Prospectus and the ProspectusProspectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change or decrease specified in the letter or letters referred to in paragraph (f) of this Section 6 or any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the business earnings, business, management, properties, assets, rights, operations, condition (financial or properties otherwise) or prospects of the Depositor Company, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus (exclusive of any of its affiliates supplement thereto) the effect of which, in any casecase referred to in clause (i) or (ii) above, is, in your judgmentthe sole judgment of the Underwriter, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the Offering offering or the delivery of the Certificates Securities as contemplated by the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof), the Statutory Prospectus and the Prospectus. All actions required Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(i) Prior to the Closing Date or settlement date (as applicable), the Company shall have furnished to the Underwriter such further information, certificates and documents as the Underwriter may reasonably request.
(j) FINRA shall not have raised any objection with respect to the fairness or reasonableness of the underwriting or other arrangements of the transactions contemplated hereby.
(k) The Securities shall be duly listed subject to notice of issuance on Nasdaq, satisfactory evidence of which shall have been provided to the Underwriter.
(l) On the Effective Date, the Company shall have delivered to the Underwriter executed copies of the Trust Agreement, the Warrant Agreement, the Securities Subscription Agreement, the Unit Subscription Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement, the Letter Agreement and the Administrative Services Agreement.
(m) [Intentionally omitted.]
(n) At least one Business Day prior to the Closing Date or settlement date (as applicable), the Company shall have caused the applicable purchase price for the Private Placement Units to be taken and all filings required to be made by deposited into the Depositor under the Act and the Exchange Act prior to Trust Account.
(o) No order preventing or suspending the sale of the Certificates shall have been duly taken or made; and prior Units in any jurisdiction designated by the Underwriter pursuant to the applicable Closing Date, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement Section 5(ii) hereof shall have been issued as of the Closing Date or settlement date (as applicable), and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted, instituted or to the knowledge of the Depositor or you, shall be contemplated by the Commission or by any authority administering any state securities or Blue Sky law.
(d) Unless otherwise specified in any applicable Terms Agreement for a Series, the Certificates shall be rated in one of the four highest grades by one or more nationally recognized statistical rating agencies specified in said Terms Agreement.
(e) You shall have received the opinion of counsel for the Depositor, dated the applicable Closing Date, substantially to the effect set forth in Exhibit B attached hereto.
(f) Each opinion also shall relate to such other matters as may be specified in the related Terms Agreement or as to which you reasonably may request. In rendering any such opinion, counsel for the Depositor may rely on certificates of responsible officers of the Depositor, the Trustee, and public officials or, as to matters of law other than New York or Federal law, on opinions of other counsel (copies of which opinions shall be delivered to you), provided that, in cases of opinions of other counsel, counsel for the Depositor shall include in its opinion a statement of its belief that both it and you are justified in relying on such opinions.
(g) You shall have received from counsel for the Depositor a letter, dated as of the Closing Date, stating that you may rely on the opinions delivered by such firm under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and to the rating agency or agencies rating the Certificates as if such opinions were addressed directly to you (copies of which opinions shall be delivered to you).
(h) You shall have received from counsel for the Underwriters, if such counsel is different from counsel to the Depositor, such opinion or opinions, dated as of the Closing Date, with respect to the validity of the Certificates, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and other related matters as the Underwriters may require, and the Depositor shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they may have requested from it for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(i) You shall have received Officer’s Certificates signed by such of the principal executive, financial and accounting officers of the Depositor as you may request, dated as of the Closing Date, in which such officers, to the best of their knowledge after reasonable investigation, shall state that the representations and warranties of the Depositor in this Agreement are true and correct; that the Depositor has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Date; that no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are contemplated; that, subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Prospectus, and except as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus, there has not been any material adverse change in the general affairs, business, key personnel, capitalization, financial condition or results of operations of the Depositor; that except as otherwise stated in the Prospectus, there are no material actions, suits or proceedings pending before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or, to their knowledge, threatened, affecting the Depositor or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; and that attached thereto are true and correct copies of a letter or letters from the one or more nationally recognized statistical rating agencies specified in the applicable Terms Agreement confirming that, unless otherwise specified in said Terms Agreement, the Certificates have been rated in one of the four highest grades by each of such agencies and that such rating has not been lowered since the date of such letter. The Depositor will furnish you with such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and documents as you reasonably request. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 6 shall not have been fulfilled in all material respects with respect to a particular Offering when and as provided in this Agreement and the related Terms Agreement, or if any of the opinions and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement and the related Terms Agreement shall not be in all material respects reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to youthe Underwriter and counsel for the Underwriter, this Agreement (with respect to the related Offering) and the related Terms Agreement and all obligations of the Underwriters Underwriter hereunder (with respect to the related Offering) and thereunder may be canceled at, or at any time prior to, the related Closing Date by the UnderwritersUnderwriter. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Depositor Company in writing, writing or by telephone or telegraph facsimile confirmed in writing. The documents required to be delivered by this Section 6 shall be delivered at the office of White & Case LLP, counsel for the Underwriter, at 5▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ #▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Attention: D▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, unless otherwise indicated herein, on the Closing Date or settlement date (as applicable).
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Sources: Underwriting Agreement (Perimeter Acquisition Corp. I), Underwriting Agreement (Perimeter Acquisition Corp. I), Underwriting Agreement (Perimeter Acquisition Corp. I)
Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriter. The several obligations of each Underwriter named in any Terms Agreement to purchase and pay for the Certificates will be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Depositor as of the date hereof, the date of the applicable Terms Agreement and the applicable Closing Date, to the accuracy of the statements made in any officers’ ' certificates (each an “"Officer’s 's Certificate”") pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Depositor of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions precedent:
(a) At the time the applicable Terms Agreement is executed, Deloitte & Touche LLP [____________] and/or any other firm of certified independent public accountants acceptable to you shall have furnished to you a letter, addressed to you, and in form and substance satisfactory to you in all respects, stating in effect that using the assumptions and methodology used by the Depositor, all of which shall be described in such letter or the Prospectus Supplement, they have recalculated such numbers, percentages and weighted average lives set forth in the Prospectus Supplement as you may reasonably request, compared the results of their calculations to the corresponding items in the Prospectus Supplement, and found each such number, percentage, and weighted average life set forth in the Prospectus Supplement to be in agreement with the results of such calculations. To the extent historical financial delinquency or related information is included with respect to one or more master servicers, such letter or letters shall also relate to such information.
(b) At the Closing Date, Deloitte & Touche LLP [____________] and/or any other firm of certified independent public accountants acceptable to you shall have furnished to you a letter, addressed to you, and in form and substance satisfactory to you in all respects, relating to the extent such information is not covered in the letter or letters provided pursuant to clause (a)(i), to a portion of the information set forth on the Mortgage Loan Schedule attached to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the characteristics of the mortgage loans, as presented in the Prospectus Supplement or the Form 8-K relating thereto, or if a letter relating to the same information is provided to the Trustee, indicating that you are entitled to rely upon its letter to the Trustee.
(c) Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there shall not have been any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the business or properties of the Depositor or any of its affiliates the effect of which, in any case, is, in your judgment, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the Offering or the delivery of the Certificates as contemplated by the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. All actions required to be taken and all filings required to be made by the Depositor under the Act and the Exchange Act prior to the sale of the Certificates shall have been duly taken or made; and prior to the applicable Closing Date, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted, or to the knowledge of the Depositor or you, shall be contemplated by the Commission or by any authority administering any state securities or Blue Sky law.
(d) Unless otherwise specified in any applicable Terms Agreement for a Series, the Certificates shall be rated in one of the four highest grades by one or more nationally recognized statistical rating agencies specified in said Terms Agreement.
(e) You shall have received the opinion of counsel for the Depositor, dated the applicable Closing Date, substantially to the effect set forth in Exhibit B attached hereto.
(f) Each opinion also shall relate to such other matters as may be specified in the related Terms Agreement or as to which you reasonably may request. In rendering any such opinion, counsel for the Depositor may rely on certificates of responsible officers of the Depositor, the Trustee, and public officials or, as to matters of law other than New York or Federal law, on opinions of other counsel (copies of which opinions shall be delivered to you), provided that, in cases of opinions of other counsel, counsel for the Depositor shall include in its opinion a statement of its belief that both it and you are justified in relying on such opinions.
(g) You shall have received from counsel for the Depositor a letter, dated as of the Closing Date, stating that you may rely on the opinions delivered by such firm under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and to the rating agency or agencies rating the Certificates as if such opinions were addressed directly to you (copies of which opinions shall be delivered to you).
(h) You shall have received from counsel for the Underwriters, if such counsel is different from counsel to the Depositor, such opinion or opinions, dated as of the Closing Date, with respect to the validity of the Certificates, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and other related matters as the Underwriters may require, and the Depositor shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they may have requested from it for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(i) You shall have received Officer’s 's Certificates signed by such of the principal executive, financial and accounting officers of the Depositor as you may request, dated as of the Closing Date, in which such officers, to the best of their knowledge after reasonable investigation, shall state that the representations and warranties of the Depositor in this Agreement are true and correct; that the Depositor has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Date; that no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are contemplated; that, subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Prospectus, and except as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus, there has not been any material adverse change in the general affairs, business, key personnel, capitalization, financial condition or results of operations of the Depositor; that except as otherwise stated in the Prospectus, there are no material actions, suits or proceedings pending before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or, to their knowledge, threatened, affecting the Depositor or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; and that attached thereto are true and correct copies of a letter or letters from the one or more nationally recognized statistical rating agencies specified in the applicable Terms Agreement confirming that, unless otherwise specified in said Terms Agreement, the Certificates have been rated in one of the four highest grades by each of such agencies and that such rating has not been lowered since the date of such letter. The Depositor will furnish you with such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and documents as you reasonably request. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 6 shall not have been fulfilled in all material respects with respect to a particular Offering when and as provided in this Agreement and the related Terms Agreement, or if any of the opinions and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement and the related Terms Agreement shall not be in all material respects reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to you, this Agreement (with respect to the related Offering) and the related Terms Agreement and all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder (with respect to the related Offering) and thereunder may be canceled at, or at any time prior to, the related Closing Date by the Underwriters. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Depositor in writing, or by telephone or telegraph confirmed in writing.
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Sources: Underwriting Agreement (Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC), Underwriting Agreement (Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC)
Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriter. The several obligations of each the Underwriter named in any Terms Agreement to purchase and pay for the Certificates subject to this Agreement will be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Depositor as of the date hereof, the date of the applicable Terms Agreement and the applicable Closing Delivery Date, to the accuracy of the statements made in any officers’ certificates (each an “Officer’s Certificate”) pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Depositor in all material respects of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions precedent:
(a) At Each of the time obligations of the applicable Terms Agreement is executed, Deloitte & Touche LLP and/or any other firm Depositor and the Seller required to be performed by it on or prior to the Delivery Date pursuant to the terms of certified independent public accountants acceptable to you the relevant Operative Agreements shall have furnished to you been duly performed and complied with and all of the representations and warranties of the Depositor and the Seller under any of the Operative Agreements shall be true and correct as of the Delivery Date or as of another date specified therein and no event shall have occurred which, with notice or the passage of time, would constitute a letter, addressed to youdefault under any of such Operative Agreements, and in form and substance satisfactory the Underwriter shall have received certificates to you in all respectsthe effect of the foregoing, stating in effect that using the assumptions and methodology used each signed by an authorized officer of the Depositor, all of which shall be described in such letter or the Prospectus Supplement, they have recalculated such numbers, percentages and weighted average lives set forth in the Prospectus Supplement as you may reasonably request, compared the results of their calculations to the corresponding items in the Prospectus Supplement, and found each such number, percentage, and weighted average life set forth in the Prospectus Supplement to be in agreement with the results of such calculations. To the extent historical financial delinquency or related information is included with respect to one or more master servicers, such letter or letters shall also relate to such information.
(b) At the Closing Date, Deloitte & Touche LLP and/or any other firm of certified independent public accountants acceptable to you The Underwriter shall have furnished to you a letter, addressed to you, and received letters dated the Delivery Date in form and substance satisfactory to you in all respects, relating reasonably acceptable to the extent such Underwriter and its counsel, prepared by independent certified public accountants, (i) regarding the numerical and statistical information is not covered in the letter or letters provided pursuant to clause (a)(i), to a portion of the information set forth on the Mortgage Loan Schedule attached to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the characteristics of the mortgage loans, as presented including Static Pool Information contained in the Prospectus Supplement or other than the Form 8-K relating theretonumerical and statistical information referred to in Section 7(c) hereof, or if a letter and (ii) relating to certain agreed upon procedures as specified by the same information is provided to the Trustee, indicating that you are entitled to rely upon its letter to the TrusteeUnderwriter.
(c) Subsequent The Underwriter shall have received letters dated the Delivery Date, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the respective dates Underwriter and its counsel, prepared by independent certified public accountants, regarding the numerical and statistical information contained in the Time of Sale Offering Document, including Static Pool Information. In addition, the Underwriter shall have received confirmation from independent certified public accountants, that no material pool characteristic (as agreed upon by the Depositor and the Underwriter) of the actual asset pool as of which information is given the Delivery Dates differs by 5% or more (other than as a result of the pool assets converting into cash in accordance with their terms) from the description of the asset pool in the Registration Statement Prospectus Supplement relating to the Certificates filed with the Commission.
(d) The Underwriter shall have received letters (i) dated the Delivery Date with respect to the Prospectus Supplement and (ii) dated the date of any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus with respect to any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, there shall not have been any changein form and substance acceptable to the Underwriter and its counsel, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the business or properties prepared by independent certified public accountants of the Depositor or Servicers, regarding the numerical and statistical information contained in the Prospectus and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus regarding the Servicers’ respective servicing portfolios.
(e) The Underwriter shall have received the requested number of its affiliates the effect of which, in any case, is, in your judgment, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the Offering or the delivery copies of the Certificates as contemplated by Prospectus for the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. Certificates.
(f) All actions required to be taken and all filings required to be made by the Depositor under the Act and the Exchange Act prior to the sale of the Certificates shall have been duly taken or made; and prior to the applicable Closing Delivery Date, the Underwriter shall have received confirmation of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted, or to the knowledge of the Depositor or youthe Underwriter, shall be contemplated by the Commission or by any authority administering any state securities or Blue Sky lawCommission.
(dg) Unless otherwise specified in any applicable Terms The Certificates subject to this Agreement for a Series, and offered by means of the Certificates Registration Statement shall be rated by the applicable rating agencies at the time of issuance as set forth in one of the four highest grades by Pricing Supplement.
(h) The Underwriter shall have received one or more nationally recognized statistical rating agencies specified in said Terms Agreement.
(e) You shall have received the opinion opinions of counsel for the Depositor, dated the applicable Closing Delivery Date, substantially to the effect set forth in Exhibit B attached hereto.that:
(fi) The Depositor has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation and is in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction or its formation or organization. The Depositor has the corporate power and authority to own its assets and to conduct its business as described in the Prospectus and to enter into and perform its obligations under the Operative Agreements to which it is a party;
(ii) Each opinion also shall relate to such other matters as may be specified in of the related Terms Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement or as to which you reasonably may request. In rendering any such opinionand the Pooling and Servicing Agreement has been duly authorized, counsel for executed and delivered by the Depositor may rely on certificates of responsible officers and each constitutes a valid and binding agreement of the Depositor, the Trustee, and public officials or, as to matters of law other than New York or Federal law, on opinions of other counsel (copies of which opinions shall be delivered to you), provided that, in cases of opinions of other counsel, counsel for enforceable against the Depositor shall include in accordance with its opinion a statement of its belief that both it and you are justified in relying on such opinions.terms;
(giii) You shall have received from counsel for When duly authenticated by the Depositor a letter, dated as Trustee in accordance with the terms of the Closing Date, stating that you may rely on the opinions delivered by such firm under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and delivered against payment of the purchase price therefor pursuant to this Underwriting Agreement, the Certificates will be entitled to the rating agency or agencies rating benefits of the Certificates as if such opinions were addressed directly to you (copies of which opinions shall be delivered to you).Pooling and Servicing Agreement and enforceable in accordance with their terms;
(hiv) You shall Each of the Operative Agreements to which it is a party has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Depositor;
(v) The execution and delivery by the Depositor of each of the Underwriting Agreement, the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the performance by the Depositor of its obligations thereunder each in accordance with its terms, do not conflict with the certificate of incorporation or by-laws of the Depositor;
(vi) At the date hereof, the Issuing Entity is not required to be registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended;
(vii) [RESERVED];
(viii) The Registration Statement has been declared effective under the Act; the Base Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement have received from counsel for each been filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the UnderwritersRules and Regulations in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b); and, if such counsel is different from counsel to the Depositorbest of our knowledge, such opinion or opinions, dated as no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Closing Date, Registration Statement has been issued under the Act and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or threatened by the Commission;
(ix) Any Free Writing Prospectus required to be filed by the Depositor with respect the Commission (other than those Free Writing Prospectuses containing Issuer Information prepared by the Underwriter that the Underwriter fails to the validity deliver) has been filed pursuant to Rule 433 of the Certificates, Rules and Regulations in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 433;
(x) The Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in the Approved Offering Materials (in each case other related matters than (A) the financial statements, schedules, tables and other financial and statistical data included or incorporated by reference therein or omitted therefrom and (B) any documents incorporated by reference, as to which such counsel need not express an opinion), as of their respective effective or issue dates, as the Underwriters case may requirebe, each appeared on its face to be appropriately responsive in all material respects to the applicable requirements of the Act and the Rules and Regulations;
(xi) In the event that the related Prospectus Supplement and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus included in the Approved Offering Materials disclose that any class of Certificates constitute “mortgage-related securities” within the meaning of Section 3(a)(41) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, that such class so qualifies assuming that it is rated by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization in one of its two highest rating categories, for so long as it is so rated;
(xii) The information in the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Offering Document under the captions “Description of the Certificates,” “The Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the Master Loan Sale and Servicing Agreement” to the extent that it constitutes a summary of certain provisions of the Certificates, the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, and the Depositor shall have furnished to Pooling and Servicing Agreement has been reviewed by such counsel and is correct in all material respects; the statements contained under the caption “ERISA Considerations,” insofar as such documents statements describe certain provisions of federal statutes and regulations, have been reviewed by such counsel, and such statements fairly describe such provisions and regulations; and the statements contained under the caption “Federal Income Tax Consequences,” insofar as they may have requested from it for the purpose such statements constitute conclusions of enabling them to pass upon such matters.law, are true and correct in all material respects as set forth therein;
(xiii) [RESERVED];
(i) You The Underwriter shall have received Officerone or more opinions of counsel for each Seller, dated the Delivery Date, substantially to the effect that:
(i) The Seller has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation and is in good standing under the laws of the State of New York. The Seller has the organizational power and authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as such properties are presently owned and such business is presently conducted. The Seller has the corporate power and authority to acquire and own the Mortgage Loans.
(ii) The Seller has the corporate power and authority to (A) execute and deliver the Operative Agreements, (B) perform its obligations under and consummate the transactions provided for in the Operative Agreements, and (C) transfer its rights, title and interests in, to and under the related Mortgage Loans to the Depositor on the terms and conditions provided in the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement.
(iii) The Seller has the corporate power and authority to (A) execute and deliver the related Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, (B) perform its obligations under and consummate the transactions provided for in the related Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, and (C) transfer its rights, title and interests in, to and under the related Mortgage Loans to the Depositor on the terms and conditions provided in the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement.
(iv) Each of the Operative Agreements has been duly authorized and executed by a duly authorized officer of the Seller.
(v) The transfer and sale by the Seller of the related Mortgage Loans to the Depositor pursuant to the related Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, the compliance by the Seller with the provisions of the related Operative Agreements and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the related Operative Agreements and the fulfillment of the terms thereof will not violate or breach any of the terms and provisions of the articles of incorporation or bylaws of the Seller.
(vi) No authorization, approval, or other action by, and no notice to or filing with any court, governmental authority or regulatory body is required for the due execution, delivery and performance by the Seller of the related Operative Agreements.
(vii) Each of the related Operative Agreements constitutes the valid and binding obligation of the Seller enforceable against the Seller in accordance with its terms.
(viii) To our knowledge, there is no legal or governmental action, investigation or proceeding pending or threatened against the Seller (a) asserting the invalidity of any of the Operative Agreements, (b) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of the transactions provided for in the Operative Agreements, or (c) that would materially and adversely affect the ability of the Seller to perform its obligations under, or the validity or enforceability with respect to the Seller of, any of the Operative Agreements.
(j) The Underwriter shall have received one or more opinions of counsel to the Depositor substantially to the effect that the transfer of all of the right, title and interest in and to the Mortgage Loans from the related Seller to the Depositor and from the Depositor to the Trustee on behalf of the Issuing Entity in each case, constitutes a “true sale” for bankruptcy purposes and with respect to the “non-consolidation” in a bankruptcy proceeding of the related Seller and the Depositor.
(k) The Underwriter shall have received a statement of counsel to the Depositor substantially to the effect that nothing has come to such counsel’s Certificates attention that would lead them to believe that the Registration Statement (at the time it became effective), the Prospectus or the Prospectus Supplement (in both cases, as of the date of the Prospectus Supplement and as of the Delivery Date), the Time of Sale Offering Document (as of the Time of Sale) or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (as of the date of the Issuer Free Writing Prospectus) (other than the financial and statistical information or information contained therein, as to which such counsel need not express an opinion) contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(l) The Underwriter shall have received an opinion of counsel to the Securities Administrator, Subservicer, Custodian and Trustee, dated the Delivery Date, and in the form agreed to on or prior to the Delivery Date.
(m) The Underwriter shall have received opinions of counsel to the Master Servicer, each Servicer and each Subservicer, dated the Delivery Date, and in the form agreed to on or prior to the Delivery Date.
(n) The Underwriter shall have received opinions of counsel to any provider of any derivative instrument documented under the ISDA master agreement, and an opinion of counsel to any credit support provider or guarantor relating to such derivative instrument, dated the Delivery Date, and in the form agreed to on or prior to the Delivery Date.
(o) The Underwriter shall have received opinions of counsel to any credit enhancement provider relating to the Certificates, dated the Delivery Date, and in the form agreed to on or prior to the Delivery Date.
(p) The Underwriter shall have received a certificate or certificates signed by such of the principal executive, financial and accounting officers each of the Sellers, the Servicer and the Depositor as you the Underwriter may request, dated as of the Closing applicable Delivery Date, in which such officers, to the best of their knowledge after reasonable investigation, shall state that with respect to each such party, as applicable, (i) the representations and warranties of the Depositor such party in this Underwriting Agreement and in any applicable Operative Agreement are true and correct; that the Depositor (ii) such party has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Delivery Date; that (iii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are contemplated; that, subsequent (iv) the information contained in the Prospectus relating to the respective dates Sellers, the Servicer and the Depositor, as of which information is given in the Prospectusapplicable, and except as set forth or contemplated in relating to the ProspectusMortgage Loans, there has not been any material adverse change in the general affairs, business, key personnel, capitalization, financial condition or results of operations of the Depositor; that except as otherwise stated in the Prospectus, there are no material actions, suits or proceedings pending before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or, to their knowledge, threatened, affecting the Depositor or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; and that attached thereto are is true and correct copies of a letter or letters from the one or more nationally recognized statistical rating agencies specified in the applicable Terms Agreement confirming that, unless otherwise specified in said Terms Agreement, the Certificates have been rated in one of the four highest grades by each of such agencies and that such rating has not been lowered since the date of such letter. The Depositor will furnish you with such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and documents as you reasonably request. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 6 shall not have been fulfilled accurate in all material respects with respect and nothing has come to his or her attention that that would lead such officer to believe that the Prospectus contains any untrue statement of material fact or omits to state a particular Offering when and as provided in this Agreement and material fact necessary to make the related Terms Agreement, or if any of the opinions and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement and the related Terms Agreement shall statements therein not be in all material respects reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to you, this Agreement (with respect to the related Offering) and the related Terms Agreement and all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder (with respect to the related Offering) and thereunder may be canceled at, or at any time prior to, the related Closing Date by the Underwriters. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Depositor in writing, or by telephone or telegraph confirmed in writing.misleading;
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Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriter. The several obligations obligation of each the Underwriter named in any Terms Agreement to purchase accept delivery of and pay for the Certificates will Bonds on the Closing Date shall be subject subject, at the option of the Underwriter, to the accuracy in all material respects of the representations and warranties on the part of the Depositor as of the date hereof, the date of the applicable Terms Agreement and the applicable Closing DateCommunity Facilities District contained herein, to the accuracy in all material respects of the statements of the officers and other officials of the Community Facilities District made in any officers’ certificates (each an “Officer’s Certificate”) or other documents furnished pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Depositor of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions precedent:
(a) At the time the applicable Terms Agreement is executed, Deloitte & Touche LLP and/or any other firm of certified independent public accountants acceptable to you shall have furnished to you a letter, addressed to you, and in form and substance satisfactory to you in all respects, stating in effect that using the assumptions and methodology used by the Depositor, all of which shall be described in such letter or the Prospectus Supplement, they have recalculated such numbers, percentages and weighted average lives set forth in the Prospectus Supplement as you may reasonably request, compared the results Community Facilities District of their calculations to the corresponding items in the Prospectus Supplement, and found each such number, percentage, and weighted average life set forth in the Prospectus Supplement to be in agreement with the results of such calculations. To the extent historical financial delinquency or related information is included with respect to one or more master servicers, such letter or letters shall also relate to such information.
(b) At the Closing Date, Deloitte & Touche LLP and/or any other firm of certified independent public accountants acceptable to you shall have furnished to you a letter, addressed to you, and in form and substance satisfactory to you in all respects, relating to the extent such information is not covered in the letter or letters provided pursuant to clause (a)(i), to a portion of the information set forth on the Mortgage Loan Schedule attached to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the characteristics of the mortgage loans, as presented in the Prospectus Supplement or the Form 8-K relating thereto, or if a letter relating to the same information is provided to the Trustee, indicating that you are entitled to rely upon its letter to the Trustee.
(c) Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there shall not have been any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the business or properties of the Depositor or any of its affiliates the effect of which, in any case, is, in your judgment, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the Offering or the delivery of the Certificates as contemplated by the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. All actions required to be taken and all filings required to be made by the Depositor under the Act and the Exchange Act prior to the sale of the Certificates shall have been duly taken or made; and prior to the applicable Closing Date, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted, or to the knowledge of the Depositor or you, shall be contemplated by the Commission or by any authority administering any state securities or Blue Sky law.
(d) Unless otherwise specified in any applicable Terms Agreement for a Series, the Certificates shall be rated in one of the four highest grades by one or more nationally recognized statistical rating agencies specified in said Terms Agreement.
(e) You shall have received the opinion of counsel for the Depositor, dated the applicable Closing Date, substantially to the effect set forth in Exhibit B attached hereto.
(f) Each opinion also shall relate to such other matters as may be specified in the related Terms Agreement or as to which you reasonably may request. In rendering any such opinion, counsel for the Depositor may rely on certificates of responsible officers of the Depositor, the Trustee, and public officials or, as to matters of law other than New York or Federal law, on opinions of other counsel (copies of which opinions shall be delivered to you), provided that, in cases of opinions of other counsel, counsel for the Depositor shall include in its opinion a statement of its belief that both it and you are justified in relying on such opinions.
(g) You shall have received from counsel for the Depositor a letter, dated as of the Closing Date, stating that you may rely on the opinions delivered by such firm under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and to the rating agency or agencies rating the Certificates as if such opinions were addressed directly to you (copies of which opinions shall be delivered to you).
(h) You shall have received from counsel for the Underwriters, if such counsel is different from counsel to the Depositor, such opinion or opinions, dated as of the Closing Date, with respect to the validity of the Certificates, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and other related matters as the Underwriters may require, and the Depositor shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they may have requested from it for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(i) You shall have received Officer’s Certificates signed by such of the principal executive, financial and accounting officers of the Depositor as you may request, dated as of the Closing Date, in which such officers, to the best of their knowledge after reasonable investigation, shall state that the representations and warranties of the Depositor in this Agreement are true and correct; that the Depositor has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part obligations to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date; that no stop order suspending , and in reliance upon the effectiveness representations and covenants of the Registration Statement has been issued Developer contained in the certificate(s) delivered as of the Closing Date, and no proceedings for that purpose to the following additional conditions:
A. At the Closing Date, the Community Facilities District Resolutions and the Community Facilities District Documents shall be in full force and effect, and shall not have been instituted amended, modified or are contemplated; thatsupplemented, subsequent except as may have been agreed to in writing by the Underwriter, and there shall have been taken in connection therewith, with the issuance of the Bonds and with the Bonds, and with the transactions contemplated thereby, and by this Purchase Agreement, all such actions as, in the opinion of Bond Counsel, shall be necessary and appropriate.
B. At the Closing Date, except as described in the Preliminary Official Statement, the City shall not be, in any respect material to the respective dates transactions referred to herein or contemplated hereby, in breach of or in default under, any law or administrative rule or regulation of the State, the United States of America, or of any department, division, agency or instrumentality of either thereof, or under any applicable court or administrative decree or order, or under any loan agreement, note, resolution, indenture, contract, agreement or other instrument to which the City is a party or is otherwise subject or bound, and the performance of the conditions precedent to be performed hereunder will not conflict with or constitute a breach of or default under any applicable law or administrative rule or regulation of the State, the United States of America, or of any department, division, agency or instrumentality of either thereof, or under any applicable court or administrative decree or order, or under any loan agreement, note, resolution, indenture, contract, agreement or other instrument to which the City is a party or is otherwise subject or bound, in any manner which would materially and adversely affect the performance of the conditions precedent to be performed by the City hereunder.
C. At the Closing Date, except as described in the Preliminary Official Statement, the Community Facilities District shall not be, in any respect material to the transactions referred to herein or contemplated hereby, in breach of or in default under, any law or administrative rule or regulation of the State, the United States of America, or of any department, division, agency or instrumentality of either thereof, or under any applicable court or administrative decree or order, or under any loan agreement, note, resolution, indenture, contract, agreement or other instrument to which the Community Facilities District is a party or is otherwise subject or bound, and the performance by the Community Facilities District of its obligations under the Bonds, the Community Facilities District Resolutions, the Community Facilities District Documents, and any other instruments contemplated by any of such documents, and compliance with the provisions of each thereof, or the performance of the conditions precedent to be performed hereunder, will not conflict with or constitute a breach of or default under any applicable law or administrative rule or regulation of the State, the United States of America, or of any department, division, agency or instrumentality of either thereof, or under any applicable court or administrative decree or order, or under any loan agreement, note, resolution, indenture, contract, agreement or other instrument to which the Community Facilities District is a party or is otherwise subject or bound, in any manner which would materially and adversely affect the performance by the Community Facilities District of its obligations under the Community Facilities District Documents or the performance of the conditions precedent to be performed by the Community Facilities District hereunder.
D. The information contained in the Official Statement is, as of which information is given the Closing Date and as of the date of any supplement or amendment thereto pursuant hereto, true and correct in all material respects and does not, as of the Closing Date or as of the date of any supplement or amendment thereto, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the Prospectuslight of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
E. Between the date hereof and except as the Closing Date, the market price or marketability, at the initial offering prices set forth on the cover page of the Official Statement, of the Bonds or the ability of the Underwriter to enforce contracts for the sale of the Bonds, shall not have been materially adversely affected, in the reasonable judgment of the Underwriter (evidenced by a written notice to the Community Facilities District terminating the obligation of the Underwriter to accept delivery of and pay for the Bonds), by reason of any of the following:
1. Legislation introduced in or enacted (or resolution passed) by the Congress of the United States of America or recommended to the Congress by the President of the United States, the Department of the Treasury, the Internal Revenue Service, or any member of Congress, or favorably reported for passage to either House of Congress by any committee of such House to which such legislation had been referred for consideration, or a decision rendered by a court established under Article III of the Constitution of the United States of America or by the Tax Court of the United States of America, or an order, ruling, regulation (final, temporary or proposed), press release or other form of notice issued or made by or on behalf of the Treasury Department of the United States of America or the Internal Revenue Service, with the purpose or effect, directly or indirectly, of imposing federal income taxation upon such interest as would be received by any owners of the Bonds beyond the extent to which such interest is subject to taxation as of the date hereof;
2. Legislation introduced in or enacted (or resolution passed) by the Congress or an order, decree or injunction issued by any court of competent jurisdiction, or an order, ruling, regulation (final, temporary or proposed), press release or other form of notice issued or made by or on behalf of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), or any other governmental agency having jurisdiction of the subject matter, to the effect that obligations of the general character of the Bonds, including any or all underlying arrangements, are not exempt from registration under or other requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or that the Indenture is not exempt from qualification under or other requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, or that the issuance, offering or sale of obligations of the general character of the Bonds, including any or all underlying arrangements, as contemplated hereby or by the Official Statement or otherwise is or would be in violation of the federal securities laws as amended and then in effect;
3. A general suspension of trading on the New York Stock Exchange or other major exchange shall be in force, or minimum or maximum prices for trading shall have been fixed and be in force, or maximum ranges for prices for securities shall have been required and be in force on any such exchange, whether by virtue of determination by that exchange or by order of the SEC or any other governmental authority having jurisdiction;
4. The introduction, proposal or enactment of any amendment to the federal or California Constitution or any action by any federal or California court, legislative body, regulatory body or other authority materially adversely affecting the tax status of the Community Facilities District, its property, income, securities (or interest thereon), the validity or enforceability of Special Taxes, or the ability of the Community Facilities District to construct or acquire the improvements as contemplated by the Formation Documents, the Community Facilities District Documents or the Official Statement or the right of any owner of the property within the Community Facilities District to develop such property in the manner described in the Official Statement, or the ability of the Community Facilities District to issue the Bonds as contemplated by the Indenture and the Official Statement;
5. There shall have occurred (1) an outbreak or escalation of hostilities or the declaration by the United States of a national emergency or war, (2) any other calamity or crisis in the financial markets of the United States or elsewhere, or (3) the sovereign debt rating of the United States is downgraded by any major credit rating agency or a payment default occurs on United States Treasury obligations;
6. Except as disclosed in or contemplated in by the ProspectusOfficial Statement, there has not been any material adverse change in the general affairs, business, key personnel, capitalization, financial condition or results of operations affairs of the Depositor; City or Community Facilities District shall have occurred;
7. Any event or circumstance shall exist that except as otherwise stated either makes untrue or incorrect in any material respect any statement or information in the ProspectusOfficial Statement (other than any statement provided by the Underwriter) or is not reflected in the Official Statement but should be reflected therein in order to make the statements therein, there are no in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading and, in either such event, the City or the Community Facilities District refuses to permit the Official Statement to be supplemented to supply such statement or information, or the effect of the Official Statement as so supplemented is to materially adversely affect the market price or marketability of the Bonds or the ability of the Underwriter to enforce contracts for the sale of the Bonds;
8. A general banking moratorium shall have been declared by federal or State authorities having jurisdiction and be in force;
9. A material actionsdisruption in securities settlement, suits payment or proceedings pending before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or, to their knowledge, threatened, clearance services affecting the Depositor Bonds shall have occurred;
10. Any new restriction on transactions in securities materially affecting the market for securities (including the imposition of any limitation on interest rates) or the transactions contemplated extension of credit by, or a charge to the net capital requirements of, underwriters shall have been established by this Agreement; and that attached thereto are true and correct copies of a letter or letters from the one or more nationally recognized statistical rating agencies specified in the applicable Terms Agreement confirming that, unless otherwise specified in said Terms Agreementany national securities exchange, the Certificates Comptroller of the Currency, , the SEC, any other federal or State agency or the Congress of the United States, or by Executive Order;
11. Any proceeding shall have been rated commenced or be threatened in one writing by the Securities and Exchange Commission against the City or the Community Facilities District; or
12. The commencement of any Action.
F. At or prior to the Closing Date, the Underwriter shall have received a counterpart original or certified copy of the four highest grades by following documents, in each of such agencies and that such rating has not been lowered since the date of such letter. The Depositor will furnish you with such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and documents as you reasonably request. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 6 shall not have been fulfilled in all material respects with respect to a particular Offering when and as provided in this Agreement and the related Terms Agreement, or if any of the opinions and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement and the related Terms Agreement shall not be in all material respects reasonably case satisfactory in form and substance to youthe Underwriter:
1. The Official Statement, this Agreement (executed on behalf of the Community Facilities District by an authorized officer;
2. The Community Facilities District Documents, each duly executed and delivered by the respective parties thereto, with respect only such amendments, modifications or supplements as may have been agreed to in writing by the Underwriter;
3. The Community Facilities District Resolutions and the Formation Documents, and the Community Facilities District Documents, together with a certificate dated as of the Closing Date of the City Clerk to the related Offering) effect that resolutions and documents are true, correct and complete copies of the related Terms Agreement ones duly adopted by the City Council;
4. An unqualified approving opinion for the Bonds, dated the Closing Date and all addressed to the Community Facilities District, of Bond Counsel, to the effect that the Bonds are the valid, legal and binding obligations of the Underwriters hereunder (with respect Community Facilities District and that the interest thereon is excluded from gross income for federal income tax purposes and exempt from personal income taxes of the State, in substantially the form included as Appendix C to the related Offering) Official Statement, together with a letter of Bond Counsel, dated the Closing Date and thereunder addressed to the Underwriter and the Trustee, to the effect that such opinion addressed to the Community Facilities District may be canceled atrelied upon by the Underwriter and the Trustee to the same extent as if such opinion was addressed to it;
5. A supplemental opinion or opinions of Bond Counsel dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriter to the effect that:
(i) this Purchase Agreement and the Continuing Disclosure Certificate have been duly executed and delivered by the Community Facilities District and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the other parties thereto, constitute the valid and binding obligations of the Community Facilities District, except to the extent that enforceability may be limited by moratorium, bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency or at other similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally or by the exercise of judicial discretion in accordance with general principles of equity or otherwise in appropriate cases and by limitations on legal remedies against public agencies in the State;
(ii) the Bonds are not subject to the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Indenture is exempt from qualification under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended; and
(iii) the statements contained in the Official Statement under the captions “INTRODUCTION – Source of Payment for the Bonds,” “INTRODUCTION – Description of the Bonds,” “INTRODUCTION – Tax Exemption,” “INTRODUCTION – Parity Bonds for Refunding Purposes Only,” “THE BONDS,” “SOURCES OF PAYMENT FOR THE BONDS,” (except information under the caption “– Special Taxes” as to which no opinion is expressed), “TAX EXEMPTION,” Appendix C – “FORM OF OPINION OF BOND COUNSEL” and Appendix F – “SUMMARY OF THE INDENTURE,” excluding any time prior tomaterial that may be treated as included under such captions by cross-reference or reference to other documents or sources, insofar as such statements expressly summarize certain provisions of the Indenture and Bond Counsel’s final approving opinion, are accurate in all material respects.
6. A letter, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriter, of Disclosure Counsel, to the effect that such counsel is not passing upon and has not undertaken to determine independently or to verify the accuracy or completeness of the statements contained in the Preliminary Official Statement or in the Official Statement, and is, therefore, unable to make any representation to the Underwriter in that regard, but on the basis of its participation in conferences with representatives of the City, the City Attorney, as issuer’s counsel (“Issuer’s Counsel”), Bond Counsel, the appraisal of the taxable properties within the Community Facilities District with a date of value as of February 9, 2024 (the “Appraisal Report”), prepared by ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ & Associates, Inc. (the “Appraiser”), Empire Economics, Inc., Special District Financing & Administration, LLC (the “Special Tax Consultant”), the Municipal Advisor, representatives of the Underwriter and others, during which conferences the content of the Preliminary Official Statement and the Official Statement and related Closing Date by matters were discussed, and its examination of certain documents, and, in reliance thereon and based on the Underwriters. Notice information made available to it in its role as Disclosure Counsel and its understanding of such cancellation shall be given applicable law, Disclosure Counsel advises the Underwriter as a matter of fact, but not opinion, that no information has come to the Depositor attention of the attorneys in writing, or by telephone or telegraph confirmed in writing.the firm working on such matter which has led them to believe that the Prelimi
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Sources: Bond Purchase Agreement
Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriter. The several obligations of each Underwriter named in any Terms Agreement to purchase and pay for the Certificates will be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Depositor as of the date hereof, the date of the applicable Terms Agreement and the applicable Closing Date, to the accuracy of the statements made in any officers’ ' certificates (each an “"Officer’s 's Certificate”") pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Depositor of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions precedent:
(a) At the time the applicable Terms Agreement is executed, Deloitte & Touche LLP [__________] and/or any other firm of certified independent public accountants acceptable to you shall have furnished to you a letter, addressed to you, and in form and substance satisfactory to you in all respects, stating in effect that using the assumptions and methodology used by the Depositor, all of which shall be described in such letter or the Prospectus Supplement, they have recalculated such numbers, percentages and weighted average lives set forth in the Prospectus Supplement as you may reasonably request, compared the results of their calculations to the corresponding items in the Prospectus Supplement, and found each such number, percentage, and weighted average life set forth in the Prospectus Supplement to be in agreement with the results of such calculations. To the extent historical financial delinquency or related information is included with respect to one or more master servicers, such letter or letters shall also relate to such information.
(b) At the Closing Date, Deloitte & Touche LLP [__________] and/or any other firm of certified independent public accountants acceptable to you shall have furnished to you a letter, addressed to you, and in form and substance satisfactory to you in all respects, relating to the extent such information is not covered in the letter or letters provided pursuant to clause (a)(i), to a portion of the information set forth on the Mortgage Loan Schedule attached to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the characteristics of the mortgage loans, as presented in the Prospectus Supplement or the Form 8-K relating thereto, or if a letter relating to the same information is provided to the Trustee, indicating that you are entitled to rely upon its letter to the Trustee.
(c) Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there shall not have been any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the business or properties of the Depositor or any of its affiliates the effect of which, in any case, is, in your judgment, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the Offering or the delivery of the Certificates as contemplated by the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. All actions required to be taken and all filings required to be made by the Depositor under the Act and the Exchange Act prior to the sale of the Certificates shall have been duly taken or made; and prior to the applicable Closing Date, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted, or to the knowledge of the Depositor or you, shall be contemplated by the Commission or by any authority administering any state securities or Blue Sky law.
(d) Unless otherwise specified in any applicable Terms Agreement for a Series, the Certificates shall be rated in one of the four highest grades by one or more nationally recognized statistical rating agencies specified in said Terms Agreement.
(e) You shall have received the opinion of counsel for the Depositor, dated the applicable Closing Date, substantially to the effect set forth in Exhibit B attached hereto.
(f) Each opinion also shall relate to such other matters as may be specified in the related Terms Agreement or as to which you reasonably may request. In rendering any such opinion, counsel for the Depositor may rely on certificates of responsible officers of the Depositor, the Trustee, and public officials or, as to matters of law other than New York or Federal law, on opinions of other counsel (copies of which opinions shall be delivered to you), provided that, in cases of opinions of other counsel, counsel for the Depositor shall include in its opinion a statement of its belief that both it and you are justified in relying on such opinions.
(g) You shall have received from counsel for the Depositor a letter, dated as of the Closing Date, stating that you may rely on the opinions delivered by such firm under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and to the rating agency or agencies rating the Certificates as if such opinions were addressed directly to you (copies of which opinions shall be delivered to you).
(h) You shall have received from counsel for the Underwriters, if such counsel is different from counsel to the Depositor, such opinion or opinions, dated as of the Closing Date, with respect to the validity of the Certificates, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and other related matters as the Underwriters may require, and the Depositor shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they may have requested from it for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(i) You shall have received Officer’s 's Certificates signed by such of the principal executive, financial and accounting officers of the Depositor as you may request, dated as of the Closing Date, in which such officers, to the best of their knowledge after reasonable investigation, shall state that the representations and warranties of the Depositor in this Agreement are true and correct; that the Depositor has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Date; that no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are contemplated; that, subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Prospectus, and except as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus, there has not been any material adverse change in the general affairs, business, key personnel, capitalization, financial condition or results of operations of the Depositor; that except as otherwise stated in the Prospectus, there are no material actions, suits or proceedings pending before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or, to their knowledge, threatened, affecting the Depositor or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; and that attached thereto are true and correct copies of a letter or letters from the one or more nationally recognized statistical rating agencies specified in the applicable Terms Agreement confirming that, unless otherwise specified in said Terms Agreement, the Certificates have been rated in one of the four highest grades by each of such agencies and that such rating has not been lowered since the date of such letter. The Depositor will furnish you with such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and documents as you reasonably request. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 6 shall not have been fulfilled in all material respects with respect to a particular Offering when and as provided in this Agreement and the related Terms Agreement, or if any of the opinions and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement and the related Terms Agreement shall not be in all material respects reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to you, this Agreement (with respect to the related Offering) and the related Terms Agreement and all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder (with respect to the related Offering) and thereunder may be canceled at, or at any time prior to, the related Closing Date by the Underwriters. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Depositor in writing, or by telephone or telegraph confirmed in writing.
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Sources: Underwriting Agreement (Structured Asset Mortgage Investments Ii Inc)