Defaulting Underwriters (a) If, on any Delivery Date, any Underwriter defaults in its obligations to purchase the Units that it has agreed to purchase under this Agreement, the remaining non-defaulting Underwriters may in their discretion arrange for the purchase of such Units by the non-defaulting Underwriters or other persons satisfactory to the Company on the terms contained in this Agreement. If, within 36 hours after any such default by any Underwriter, the non-defaulting Underwriters do not arrange for the purchase of such Units, then the Company shall be entitled to a further period of 36 hours within which to procure other persons satisfactory to the non-defaulting Underwriters to purchase such Units on such terms. In the event that within the respective prescribed periods, the non-defaulting Underwriters notify the Company that they have so arranged for the purchase of such Units, or the Company notifies the non-defaulting Underwriters that it has so arranged for the purchase of such Units, either the non-defaulting Underwriters or the Company may postpone such Delivery Date for up to seven full business days in order to effect any changes that in the opinion of counsel for the Company or counsel for the Underwriters may be necessary in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or in any other document or arrangement, and the Company agrees to promptly prepare any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or in any such other document or arrangement that effects any such changes. As used in this Agreement, the term “Underwriter” includes, for all purposes of this Agreement unless the context requires otherwise, any party not listed in Schedule I hereto that, pursuant to this Section 9, purchases Units that a defaulting Underwriter agreed but failed to purchase.
(b) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Units of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the non-defaulting Underwriters and the Company as provided in Section 9(a), the total number of Units that remains unpurchased does not exceed one-eleventh of the total number of Units, then the Company shall have the right to require each non-defaulting Underwriter to purchase the total number of Units that such Underwriter agreed to purchase hereunder plus such Underwriter’s pro rata share (based on the total number of Units that such Underwriter agreed to purchase hereunder) of the Units of such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters for which such arrangements have not been made; provided that the non-defaulting Underwriters shall not be obligated to purchase more than 110% of the total number of Units that it agreed to purchase on such Delivery Date pursuant to the terms of Section 2.
(c) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Units of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the non-defaulting Underwriters and the Company as provided in Section 9(a), the total number of Units that remains unpurchased exceeds one-eleventh of the total number of Units, or if the Company shall not exercise the right described in Section 9(b), then this Agreement shall terminate without liability on the part of the non-defaulting Underwriters. Any termination of this Agreement pursuant to this Section 9 shall be without liability on the part of the Company, except that the Company will continue to be liable for the payment of expenses as set forth in Sections 6 and 11 and except that the provisions of Section 8 shall not terminate and shall remain in effect.
(d) Nothing contained herein shall relieve a defaulting Underwriter of any liability it may have to the Company or any non-defaulting Underwriter for damages caused by its default.
Defaulting Underwriter (a) If, on the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, any Underwriter defaults on its obligation to purchase the Shares that it has agreed to purchase hereunder on such date, the non-defaulting Underwriters may in their discretion arrange for the purchase of such Shares by other persons satisfactory to the Company on the terms contained in this Agreement. If, within 36 hours after any such default by any Underwriter, the non-defaulting Underwriters do not arrange for the purchase of such Shares, then the Company shall be entitled to a further period of 36 hours within which to procure other persons satisfactory to the non-defaulting Underwriters to purchase such Shares on such terms. If other persons become obligated or agree to purchase the Shares of a defaulting Underwriter, either the non-defaulting Underwriters or the Company may postpone the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, for up to five full business days in order to effect any changes that in the opinion of counsel for the Company or counsel for the Underwriters may be necessary in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or in any other document or arrangement, and the Company agrees to promptly prepare any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus that effects any such changes. As used in this Agreement, the term “Underwriter” includes, for all purposes of this Agreement unless the context otherwise requires, any person not listed in Schedule 1 hereto that, pursuant to this Section 10, purchases Shares that a defaulting Underwriter agreed but failed to purchase.
(b) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Shares of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the non-defaulting Underwriters and the Company as provided in paragraph (a) above, the aggregate number of Shares that remain unpurchased on the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, does not exceed one-eleventh of the aggregate number of Shares to be purchased on such date, then the Company shall have the right to require each non-defaulting Underwriter to purchase the number of Shares that such Underwriter agreed to purchase hereunder on such date plus such Underwriter’s pro rata share (based on the number of Shares that such Underwriter agreed to purchase on such date) of the Shares of such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters for which such arrangements have not been made.
(c) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Shares of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the non-defaulting Underwriters and the Company as provided in paragraph (a) above, the aggregate number of Shares that remain unpurchased on the Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, exceeds one-eleventh of the aggregate amount of Shares to be purchased on such date, or if the Company shall not exercise the right described in paragraph (b) above, then this Agreement or, with respect to any Additional Closing Date, the obligation of the Underwriters to purchase Shares on the Additional Closing Date shall terminate without liability on the part of the non-defaulting Underwriters. Any termination of this Agreement pursuant to this Section 10 shall be without liability on the part of the Company, except that the Company will continue to be liable for the payment of expenses as set forth in Section 11 hereof and except that the provisions of Section 7 hereof shall not terminate and shall remain in effect.
(d) Nothing contained herein shall relieve a defaulting Underwriter of any liability it may have to the Company or any non-defaulting Underwriter for damages caused by its default.
Termination of the Obligations of the Underwriters The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase the Notes on the Closing Date shall be terminable by the Representatives by written notice delivered to the Issuer and the Company if at any time on or before the Closing Date (a) trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange shall have been suspended or materially limited, or there shall have been any setting of minimum prices for trading on such exchange, (b) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities in New York or Virginia shall have been declared by any of Federal, New York state or Virginia state authorities, (c) there shall have occurred any material outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other calamity or crisis, the effect of which on the financial markets of the United States is such as to make it, in the Representatives’ reasonable judgment, impracticable to market the Notes on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus or (d) any change or any development involving a prospective change, materially and adversely affecting (i) the Trust Assets taken as a whole or (ii) the business or properties of the Issuer, the Company or the Seller occurs, which, in the Representatives’ reasonable judgment, in the case of either clause (i) or (ii), makes it impracticable or inadvisable to market the Notes on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus. Upon such notice being given, the parties to this Agreement shall (except for the liability of the Issuer, the Company and the Seller under Section 9 and Section 10 of this Agreement and the liability of each Underwriter under Section 17 of this Agreement) be released and discharged from their respective obligations under this Agreement.
Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriter The obligations of the Underwriter to purchase the Securities shall be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company and the Selling Stockholders contained herein as of the Applicable Time and the Closing Date, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company and the Selling Stockholders made in any certificates pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company and the Selling Stockholders of their respective obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:
(a) The Final Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, shall have been filed with the Commission in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b); and any material required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act, shall have been filed with the Commission within the applicable time periods prescribed for such filings by Rule 433; and no stop order suspending the effectiveness 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 Faegre ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, counsel for the Company, to have furnished to the Underwriter their opinion, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriter, to the effect that:
(i) the Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and conduct its business as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus;
(ii) the Company has an outstanding capitalization as set forth in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (except for subsequent issuances, if any, pursuant to dividend reinvestment or director or employee stock purchase or benefit plans or pursuant to the exercise of options and except for repurchases in connection with open market repurchase plans);
(iii) the Securities being sold hereunder by the Selling Stockholders have been duly and validly authorized and issued and are fully paid and nonassessable;
(iv) this Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company;
(v) the statements in each of the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus under the captions “Description of Common Stock,” “Important Provisions of Our Governing Documents and Delaware Law”, “Risk Factors—Anti-takeover provisions in our organizational documents could delay or prevent a change of control” and “Risk Factors—Our Restated By-Laws designate certain Delaware courts as the sole and exclusive forum for certain types of actions and proceedings that may be initiated by our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers or other employees”, insofar as such statements constitute a summary of the legal matters, documents or proceedings referred to therein, fairly present and summarize, in all material respects, the matters referred to therein.
(vi) neither the sale of the Securities by the Selling Stockholders to the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement, nor the consummation by the Company of the transactions herein contemplated nor the fulfillment by the Company of the terms hereof will conflict with, result in a breach or violation of, or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or its subsidiaries pursuant to (A) the charter or by-laws of the Company or (B) any applicable federal or Indiana statute, law, rule, regulation or the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “Covered Laws”), or, to such counsel’s knowledge, any judgment, order or decree applicable to the Company or its subsidiaries of any federal, Delaware or Indiana court, regulatory body, administrative agency, governmental body or other authority having jurisdiction over the Company or its subsidiaries or any of its or their properties, which conflict, breach, violation, lien, charge or encumbrance, in the case of clause (B), would, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or affect the validity of the Securities or the legal authority of the Company to comply with the Securities or this Agreement;
(vii) no consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any court or any such regulatory authority or other governmental body in the United States having jurisdiction under the Covered Laws over the Company is required to be obtained or made by the Company for the sale of the Securities by the Selling Stockholders to the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement or the consummation by the Company of the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement nor compliance by the Company with the applicable provisions thereof, except such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders, registrations or qualifications as may be required by the securities or Blue Sky laws of the various states, the Act and the securities laws of any jurisdiction outside the United States in which the Securities are offered;
(viii) the Company is not an “investment company” or an entity controlled by an “investment company” as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended;
(ix) the Registration Statement became effective under the Act upon filing with the Commission; any required filing of the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus and the Final Prospectus, and any supplements thereto, pursuant to Rule 424(b) has been made in the manner and within the time period required by rule 424(b); to the knowledge of such counsel, 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 threatened; and
(x) the Registration Statement and the Final Prospectus (other than the documents incorporated by reference therein, the financial statements and other financial and statistical information contained therein, as to which such counsel need express no opinion) comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Act and the rules thereunder. Such counsel shall also state that that nothing has come to their attention that caused them to believe that (i) the Registration Statement, on the Effective Date, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, (ii) the Disclosure Package, as amended or supplemented at the Applicable Time, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading or (iii) the Final Prospectus, as of its date and on the Closing Date, included or includes any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading (in each case, other than the financial statements and other financial information contained therein, as to which such counsel need express no belief). In rendering such opinion, such counsel may rely (A) as to matters involving the application of laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of New York, the corporate law of the State of Delaware or the Federal laws of the United States, to the extent they deem proper and as specified in such opinion, upon the opinion of other counsel of good standing whom they believe to be reliable and who are satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriter and (B) as to matters of fact, to the extent they deem proper, on certificates of responsible officers of the Company and public officials. References to the Final Prospectus in this paragraph (b) shall also include any supplements thereto at the Closing Date.
(c) The Company shall have requested and caused its General Counsel, ▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇, to have furnished to the Underwriter his opinion dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriter to the effect that:
(i) the Company is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except where the failure to so qualify or to be in good standing would not have a Material Adverse Effect;
(ii) each Significant Subsidiary has been duly incorporated or organized and is validly existing in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, with power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and conduct its business as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus; each Significant Subsidiary is duly qualified to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except where the failure to so qualify or to be in good standing would not result in a Material Adverse Effect;
(iii) except as otherwise disclosed in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, all of the issued and outstanding capital stock or other equity interest of each Significant Subsidiary has been duly authorized and validly issued, is fully paid and non-assessable and (except for shares necessary to qualify directors or to maintain any minimum number of shareholders required by law) is owned by the Company, directly or through subsidiaries, free and clear of any security interest, mortgage, pledge, lien, encumbrance, claim or equity;
(iv) neither the sale of the Securities by the Selling Stockholders to the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement, nor the consummation by the Company of the transactions herein contemplated nor the fulfillment by the Company of the terms hereof will conflict with, result in a breach or violation of, or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or its subsidiaries pursuant to (A) the charter or by-laws of any Significant Subsidiary or (B) the terms of any indenture, contract, lease, mortgage, deed of trust, note agreement, loan agreement or other financial agreement, obligation, condition, covenant or instrument to which the Company or its subsidiaries is a party or bound or to which its or their property is subject, which such conflict, breach, violation, lien, charge or encumbrance, in the case of clause (B), would, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or affect the validity of the Securities or the legal authority of the Company to comply with this Agreement;
(v) there is no pending or, to the knowledge of such counsel, threatened action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or its or their property, of a character required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement which is not adequately disclosed in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, and, to the knowledge of such counsel, there is no franchise, contract or other document of a character required to be described in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or Final Prospectus, or to be filed as an exhibit thereto, which is not described or filed as required;
(vi) the documents incorporated by reference in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, when they became effective or were filed with the Commission, as the case may be, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Act or the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, and none of such documents 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; and
(vii) all descriptions in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus of contracts and other documents to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party are accurate in all material respects; and to the best of such counsel’s knowledge, there are no contracts, indentures, mortgages, loan agreements, notes, leases or other instruments required to be described or referred to in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus other than those described or referred to therein.
(d) The Selling Stockholders shall have requested and caused ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, counsel for the Selling Stockholders, to have furnished to the Underwriter their opinion dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriter, to the effect that:
(i) each of the Selling Stockholders listed on Schedule IV (the “Domestic Selling Stockholders”) is validly existing and, to the extent such concept exists in the relevant jurisdiction, in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization;
(ii) the execution and delivery of the Underwriting Agreement have been duly authorized by each of the Domestic Selling Stockholders, and the Underwriting Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by each Selling Stockholder;
(iii) assuming that (a) DTC is a “clearing corporation” as defined in Section 8-102(a)(5) of the UCC, and (b) the Underwriter acquires its interest in the Securities it has purchased without notice of any adverse claim (within the meaning of Section 8-105 of the UCC), the Underwriter that has purchased Securities from the Selling Stockholders delivered on the date hereof to DTC, made payment therefor pursuant to the Agreement and has had such Securities credited to a securities account of the Underwriter maintained with DTC will have acquired a securities entitlement (within the meaning of Section 8-102(a)(17) of the UCC) to such Securities, and no action based on an adverse claim may be asserted against the Underwriter with respect to such security entitlement; and
(iv) the sale of the Securities by the Selling Stockholders to the Underwriter pursuant to the Agreement does not, and the performance by the Selling Stockholders of their obligations in the Agreement will not, (a) require any consent, approval, authorization, registration or qualification of or with any governmental authority of the United States or the State of New York or pursuant to the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act or the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act, in each case, that in such counsel’s experience normally would be applicable to general business entities with respect to such sale or performance, except such as have been obtained or effected under the Act and the Exchange Act (but such counsel need not express any opinion relating to any state securities or Blue Sky laws), or (b) result in a violation of the organizational documents of any Domestic Selling Stockholder, or (c) result in a violation of any United States federal or New York State law or published rule or regulation thereunder or the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act or Delaware Limited Liability Company Act that in such counsel’s experience normally would be applicable to general business entities with respect to such sale or performance (but such counsel need not express any opinion relating to the United States federal securities laws or any state securities or Blue Sky laws).
(e) The Selling Stockholders shall have requested and caused ▇▇▇▇▇▇ and Calder, counsel for ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ BMET Investors Offshore Holdings, L.P., and GS Capital Partners VI Offshore Fund, L.P., certain of the Selling Stockholders, to have furnished to the Underwriter their opinions dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriter, in the forms reasonably acceptable to the Underwriter.
(f) The Selling Stockholders shall have requested and caused P+P Pöllath + Partners, counsel for GS Capital Partners VI Gmbh & Co. KG, a Selling Stockholder, to have furnished to the Underwriter their opinion dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriter, in a form reasonably acceptable t
Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriters The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Notes will be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company, the Issuer and the Seller herein as of the date hereof and the Closing Date, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company, the Issuer and the Seller made pursuant to the provisions thereof, to the performance by the Company, the Issuer and the Seller in all material respects of their obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions precedent:
(a) The Representatives shall have received, with respect to the Company, a certificate, dated the Closing Date, of an authorized officer of the Company in which such officer, to the best of his or her knowledge after reasonable investigation, shall state that (i) the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the Company has complied in all material respects with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or before the Closing Date, (iii) the Registration Statement has been declared and remains effective, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are threatened by the Commission, and (iv) since the Time of Sale, there has been no material adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company’s business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Preliminary Prospectus (references to the Preliminary Prospectus in this clause include any supplements thereto).
(b) The Representatives shall have received, with respect to the Seller, a certificate, dated the Closing Date, of an authorized officer of the Seller in which such officer, to the best of his or her knowledge after reasonable investigation, shall state that (i) the representations and warranties of the Seller in this Agreement are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Closing Date, (ii) the Seller has complied in all material respects with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or before the Closing Date, and (iii) since the Time of Sale, there has been no material adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise) of the Seller’s credit card business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Preliminary Prospectus (references to the Preliminary Prospectus in this clause include any amendments and supplements thereto).
(c) The Representatives shall have received an opinion of the general counsel, deputy general counsel, chief counsel for transactions, or senior associate general counsel of Capital One Bank (USA), National Association, or such other legal counsel that Capital One Bank (USA), National Association may choose (provided that such legal counsel is acceptable to the Representatives), dated the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives and their counsel, to the effect that:
(i) Capital One Bank (USA), National Association is a national banking association under the laws of the United States, and the Bank has, in all material respects, the power to own its assets and operate its business as described in the Disclosure Materials, and the Bank had at all relevant times and now has, the power to acquire, own and service the Receivables.
(ii) The Seller has the power to execute and deliver each of the Program Agreements to which it is a party, and to consummate the transactions set forth herein and therein.
(iii) Each of the Program Agreements to which the Seller is a party has been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Seller and has been duly executed and delivered by the Seller.
(iv) Each of the Program Agreements to which the Company is a party has been duly authorized by all necessary limited liability company action on the part of the Company and has been duly executed and delivered by the Company and when the Collateral Certificate has been authenticated and delivered in accordance with the terms of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Collateral Certificate will be duly and validly issued and outstanding and will be entitled to the benefits of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
(v) No consent, approval, authorization or order of, or filing with, any United States governmental agency or authority or any United States federal court is required on the part of the Seller under United States federal law for the consummation of the transactions set forth in the Program Agreements to which it is a party, except such as have been obtained or made and such as may be required under state securities or Blue Sky laws except for such filings as may be required to perfect the security interest in the Receivables pursuant to the Receivables Purchase Agreement or the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
(vi) No consent, approval, authorization or order of, or filing with, any United States governmental agency or authority or any United States federal court is required on the part of the Company under United States federal law for the consummation of the transactions set forth in the Program Agreements to which it is a party, except such as have been obtained or made and such as may be required under state securities or Blue Sky laws and except for such filings as may be required to perfect the security interest in the Receivables pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement or the Collateral pursuant to the Indenture.
(vii) Neither the execution and delivery by each of the Seller and the Company, as applicable, of the Program Agreements to which it is a party, or the performance by each of the Seller and the Company of its obligations thereunder, nor the transfer by the Seller of the Receivables and its interest in any related Funds Collateral to the Company or the transfer by the Company of the Receivables and its interest in any related Funds Collateral to the Issuer, result in a material violation of any of the terms of (i) the applicable organizational documents of the Bank or the Company, each as amended, or (ii) any rule, order (known to us), statute or regulation, to the extent the foregoing relate to United States federal law, of any United States court, regulatory body, or administrative or governmental agency having jurisdiction over the Seller or the Company, as applicable, or result in a material breach of any of the terms of or constitute a default under the terms of any material indenture or other material agreement or instrument known to us to which the Seller or the Company is a party; provided, however, that no opinion is expressed with respect to any state securities or Blue Sky laws.
(viii) Except as otherwise disclosed in the Preliminary Prospectus or the Registration Statement, to the knowledge of such counsel, there are no actions, proceedings or investigations pending, or threatened in writing, before any court, administrative agency or other tribunal (A) asserting the invalidity of the Program Agreements, (B) seeking to prevent the issuance of the Collateral Certificate or the Notes or the consummation of any of the transactions set forth by the Program Agreements, which if adversely determined would materially and adversely affect the Collateral Certificate or the holders of the Notes, or the validity or enforceability of, the Program Agreements, or (C) seeking adversely to affect the United States federal income tax attributes of the Notes as described in the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus under the headings “Prospectus Summary – Federal Income Tax Consequences” and “Federal Income Tax Consequences.”
(d) The Representatives shall have received an opinion or opinions of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, special counsel for the Company and the Seller, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives and their counsel, to the effect that:
(i) Each of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Asset Representations Review Agreement, the Transfer Agreement and the Receivables Purchase Agreement constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company and the Seller under the laws of the State of New York, enforceable against the Company and the Seller in accordance with its terms.
(ii) The sale and delivery of the Notes in the manner contemplated by this Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement do not require (A) the qualification of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement under the Trust Indenture Act, or (B) the registration of the Master Trust or the Issuer under the 1940 Act. Such opinion shall specify one or more exclusions or exemptions from registration under the 1940 Act (other than Section 3(c)(1) or 3(c)(7) thereof) upon which the Master Trust or the Issuer, as applicable, is relying (although other statutory or regulatory exclusions or exemptions may be available).
(iii) The Indenture has been qualified under the Trust Indenture Act.
(iv) The Collateral Certificate, when executed and authenticated in accordance with the terms of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, will be duly and validly issued and outstanding and will be entitled to the benefits of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
(v) Each of this Agreement, the applicable Terms Agreement, the Receivables Purchase Agreement, the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Indenture, the Asset Representations Review Agreement, the Collateral Certificate and the Notes conform in all material respects to the descriptions thereof contained in the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus.
(vi) The statements in the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus under the headings “Federal Income Tax Consequences” and “ Prospectus Summary – Federal Income Tax Consequences” (to the extent relating to federal income tax consequences), to the extent they constitute matters of law or legal conclusions with respect thereto, have been reviewed by such counsel and are correct in all material respects.
(vii) The statements in the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus under the headings “Certain Legal Aspects of the Receivables” and “Benefit Plan Investors,” to the extent they constitute matters of law or legal conclusions with respect thereto, have been reviewed by such counsel and are correct in all material respects.
(viii) To the extent New York law is applicable, the Indenture constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Issuer under the law of the State of New York, enforceable against the Issuer in accordance with its terms.
(ix) When the Notes have been duly executed and delivered by the Issuer, authenticated by the Indenture Trustee in accordance with the Indenture and delivered and paid for by the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement, the holder of record of any Note will be entitled to the benefits afforded by the Indenture, and the Notes will constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Issuer enforceable against the Issuer in accordance with their terms.
(x) In the event the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation were to be appointed as conservator or receiver for the Bank pursuant to Section 11(c) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, as amended, in a matter properly briefed and presented to a federal court with jurisdiction over such conservatorship or receivership, the court, exercising reasonable judgment after full consideration of all relevant factors in a properly presented and argued case, would hold that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation could not (A) reclaim, recover or recharacterize as property of the Bank or the receivership the assets that have been transferred by the Bank to the Company pursuant to the Receivables Purchase Agreement or (B) avoid the Receivables Purchase Agreement. Such counsel shall also state that they have participated in conferences with representatives of the Seller, the Company and the Issuer and their accountants, and representatives of the Underwriters and their counsel concerning the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, the Ratings Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus and have considered the matters required to be stated therein and the matters stated therein, although they are not independently verifying the accuracy, completeness or fairness of such statements (except as stated in paragraphs (vi) and (vii) above). Based upon and subject to the foregoing, nothing has come to such counsel’s attention to cause such counsel to believe that the Registration Statement, when taken together with the Ratings Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (excluding any exhibits filed therewith), at the time it became effective, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or that the Preliminary Prospectus, when taken together with the Ratings Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as of the Time of Sale, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted 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, or that the Prospectus, when taken together with the Ratings Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as of its date or as of the date of such opinion, contained or contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading (it being understood that such counsel has not been requested to and does not make any comment in this paragraph with respect to the financial statements, supporting schedules and other financial or statistical information contained in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, when taken together with the Ratings Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus or, in the case of the Preliminary Prospectus, the omission of pricing and price-dependent information, which information shall of necessity appear only in the final Prospectus). In rendering such opinion, counsel may (x) as to matters involving the application of laws other than the laws of any jurisdiction other than New York and the United States of America, assume the conformity of such laws with the laws of New York and (y) rely as to matters of fact, to the extent deemed proper and as stated therein, on certificates of responsible officers of the Seller and the Company and public officials (references to the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus in this clause include any amendments or supplements thereto).
(e) The Representatives shall have received an opinion or opinions of McGuireWoods LLP, Virginia counsel to the Seller and the Company, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives and their counsel:
(i) With respect to the perfection of the Company’s interest in the Receivables, the perfection of the Master Trust Trustee’s interest in the Receivables and the Collateral Certificate and certain other matters relating to any applicable credit enhancement.
(ii) With respect to certain Virginia tax consequences relating to the issuance of the Notes.
(iii) To the effect that the Company is a limited liability company duly organized and in existence under the laws of Virginia and the Company has, in all material respects, the limited liability company power to own its assets and operate its business as described in the Disclosure Materials, and had at all relevant times, and now has, the limited liability company power to acquire and own the Receivables and its interest in any Collateral Certificate transferred or proposed to be transferred to the Issuer as described in the Disclosure Materials.
(iv) To the effect that the Company had at all relevant time, and now has, the limited liability company power to execute, deliver and perform the terms and provisions of each Program Agreement to which it is a party.
(v) To the effect that no consent, approval or authorization of, or filing with, any Virginia governmental agency or authority or any Virginia court is required on the part of the Seller under applicable Virginia