TERMS, CONDITIONS AND COVENANTS In consideration of the Purchase Price, each of VL Funding and the VL Funding Eligible Lender Trustee hereby sells to each of Funding and the Interim Eligible Lender Trustee for the benefit of Funding the entire right, title and interest of VL Funding and the VL Funding Eligible Lender Trustee in the Loans accepted for purchase, subject to all the terms and conditions of the Purchase Agreement Master Securitization Terms Number 1000 (the “Master Terms”) and any amendments thereto, incorporated herein by reference, among VL Funding, the VL Funding Eligible Lender Trustee, Funding, the Servicer and the Interim Eligible Lender Trustee. The Initial Payment for the Initial Loans shall be specified in a certificate to be delivered on and dated the Closing Date. This document shall constitute the Initial Purchase Agreement referred to in the Master Terms and, except as modified herein, each term used herein shall have the same meaning as in the Master Terms. All references in the Master Terms to Loans, Eligible Loans, Initial Loans or Purchased Loans, as applicable, shall be deemed to refer to the Loans governed by this Initial Purchase Agreement. VL Funding hereby makes all the representations and warranties set forth in Sections 5(A) and (B) of the Master Terms regarding the Initial Loans described in the Initial ▇▇▇▇ of Sale and the related Loan Transmittal Summary Form, as of the Closing Date. Each of VL Funding and the VL Funding Eligible Lender Trustee for the benefit of VL Funding authorizes the Interim Eligible Lender Trustee for the benefit of Funding to use a copy of the Initial ▇▇▇▇ of Sale, including the Loan Transmittal Summary Form attached to the Initial ▇▇▇▇ of Sale (in lieu of OE Form 1074), as official notification to the applicable Guarantors of assignment to the Interim Eligible Lender Trustee on behalf of Funding of the Initial Loans purchased pursuant hereto on the Closing Date. The parties hereto intend that the transfer of Purchased Loans described in the Initial ▇▇▇▇ of Sale and related Loan Transmittal Summary Form be, and be construed as, a valid sale of such Purchased Loans. However, in the event that notwithstanding the intention of the parties, such transfer is deemed to be a transfer for security, then each of VL Funding and the VL Funding Eligible Lender Trustee hereby grants to Funding and the Interim Eligible Lender Trustee for the benefit of Funding a first priority security interest in and to all Purchased Loans described in the Initial ▇▇▇▇ of Sale and related Loan Transmittal Summary Form to secure a loan in an amount equal to the Purchase Price of such Purchased Loans.