INDENTURE by and between ADS CLO 2 LLC Issuer and U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Trustee Dated as of August 12, 2025

Exhibit 10.2

EXECUTION VERSION

INDENTURE

by and between

ADS CLO 2 LLC

Issuer

and

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

Trustee

Dated as of August 12, 2025

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INDENTURE, dated as of August 12, 2025, between ADS CLO 2 LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Issuer”) and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee (herein, together with its permitted successors and assigns in the trusts hereunder, the “Trustee”).

PRELIMINARY STATEMENT

The Issuer is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Indenture to provide for the Notes issuable as provided in this Indenture. Except as otherwise provided herein, all covenants and agreements made by the Issuer herein are for the benefit and security of the Secured Parties. The Issuer and the Trustee are entering into this Indenture for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged.

All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Issuer in accordance with the agreement’s terms have been done.

GRANTING CLAUSES

The Issuer hereby Grants to the Trustee, for the benefit and security of the Holders of the Secured Notes, the Trustee, the Collateral Manager, each Hedge Counterparty (if any), the Custodian and the Collateral Administrator (collectively, the “Secured Parties”), all of the Issuer’s right, title and interest in, to and under, in each case, whether now owned or existing on the Closing Date, or hereafter acquired or arising, all accounts, chattel paper, deposit accounts, financial assets, general intangibles, instruments, investment property, letter–of–credit rights and other supporting obligations relating to the foregoing (in each case as defined in the UCC) and all other property owned by the Issuer. Such Grants include, without limitation, the following assets:

(a) the Collateral Obligations which the Issuer causes to be Delivered to the Trustee (directly or through an intermediary or custodian) herewith and all payments thereon or with respect thereto, and all Collateral Obligations which are Delivered to the Trustee in the future pursuant to the terms hereof and all payments thereon or with respect thereto;

(b) each of the Accounts, and any Eligible Investments purchased with funds on deposit in any of the Accounts, and all income from the investment of funds therein;

(c) subject to the rights of the Hedge Counterparty therein, each Hedge Counterparty Collateral Account, and any Eligible Investments purchased with funds on deposit therein, and all income from the investment of funds therein;

(d) the Collateral Management Agreement as set forth in Article XV, the Hedge Agreements, the LLC Agreement, the Master Loan Sale Agreement and the Collateral Administration Agreement;

(e) all Cash or Money Delivered to the Trustee (or its custodian) from any source for the benefit of the Secured Parties or the Issuer;

(f) any other property otherwise Delivered to the Trustee by or on behalf of the Issuer (whether or not constituting Collateral Obligations or Eligible Investments);

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(g) any Equity Securities received by the Issuer and any proceeds from ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇; and

(h) all proceeds with respect to the foregoing;

provided that, such Grants shall not include the U.S.$250 transaction fee paid to the Issuer in consideration of the issuance of the Notes or any Margin Stock held by the Issuer (but shall include any proceeds of Margin Stock) (collectively, the “Excepted Property”) (the assets referred to above, excluding the Excepted Property, are collectively referred to as the “Assets”).

The above Grant is made to secure the Secured Notes and certain other amounts payable by the Issuer as described herein. Except as set forth in the Priority of Payments and Article XIII, the Secured Notes are secured by the Grant equally and ratably without prejudice, priority or distinction between any Secured Note and any other Secured Note by reason of difference in time of issuance or otherwise. The Grant is made to secure, in accordance with the priorities set forth in the Priority of Payments and Article XIII, (i) the payment of all amounts due on the Secured Notes in accordance with their terms, (ii) the payment of all other sums (other than in respect of the Subordinated Notes) payable under this Indenture, (iii) the payment of amounts owing by the Issuer under the Collateral Management Agreement, the Securities Account Control Agreement, the Master Loan Sale Agreement and the Collateral Administration Agreement and (iv) compliance with the provisions of this Indenture, all as provided in this Indenture (the “Secured Obligations”). The foregoing Grant shall, for the purpose of determining the property subject to the lien of this Indenture, be deemed to include any securities and any investments granted to the Trustee by or on behalf of the Issuer, whether or not such securities or investments satisfy the criteria set forth in the definitions of “Collateral Obligation” or “Eligible Investments”, as the case may be.

The Trustee acknowledges such ▇▇▇▇▇, accepts the trusts hereunder in accordance with the provisions hereof, and agrees to perform the duties herein in accordance with the terms hereof.

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

Section 1.1 Definitions. Except as otherwise specified herein or as the context may otherwise require, the following terms have the respective meanings set forth below for all purposes of this Indenture, and the definitions of such terms are equally applicable both to the singular and plural forms of such terms and to the masculine, feminine and neuter genders of such terms. The word “including” shall mean “including without limitation.” All references in this Indenture to designated “Articles”, “Sections”, “subsections” and other subdivisions are to the designated articles, sections, sub-sections and other subdivisions of this Indenture. The words “herein”, “hereof”, “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular article, section, subsection or other subdivision.

“Accountants’ Effective Date Comparison AUP Report”: The meaning specified in Section 7.18(c).

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“Accountants’ Effective Date Recalculation AUP Report”: The meaning specified in Section 7.18(c).

“Accountants’ Report”: An agreed-upon procedures report, as specified in Section 7.18(c), of the firm or firms appointed by the Issuer pursuant to Section 10.7(a).

“Accounts”: (i) the Payment Account, (ii) the Collection Account, (iii) the Ramp-Up Account, (iv) the Revolver Funding Account, (v) the Expense Reserve Account, (vi) the Interest Reserve Account, (vii) the Custodial Account, (viii) each Hedge Counterparty Collateral Account and (ix) the Supplemental Reserve Account.

“Act” and “Act of Holders”: The meanings specified in Section 14.2.

“Additional Junior Securities”: Additional securities of any one or more new classes that are subordinated to the existing Secured Notes (or to the most junior class of securities of the Issuer issued pursuant to this Indenture (other than the Subordinated Notes), if any class of securities issued pursuant to this Indenture other than the Secured Notes or Subordinated Notes is then Outstanding).

“Adjusted Class Break-even Default Rate”: The rate equal to (a)(i) the Class Break-even Default Rate multiplied by (ii)(x) the Target Initial Par Amount divided by (y) the Collateral Principal Amount plus the S&P Collateral Value of all Defaulted Obligations plus (b)(i)(x) the Collateral Principal Amount plus the S&P Collateral Value of all Defaulted Obligations minus (y) the Target Initial Par Amount, divided by (ii)(x) the Collateral Principal Amount plus the S&P Collateral Value of all Defaulted Obligations multiplied by (y) 1 minus the Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate, as such term is defined in this Section 1.1.

“Adjusted Collateral Principal Amount”: As of any date of determination:

(a) the Aggregate Principal Balance of the Collateral Obligations (other than Long-Dated Obligations, Defaulted Obligations, Discount Obligations and Deferring Obligations); plus

(b) unpaid Principal Financed Accrued Interest (other than in respect of Defaulted Obligations); plus

(c) without duplication, the amounts on deposit in the Accounts (including Eligible Investments therein) representing Principal Proceeds; plus

(d) the lesser of (i) the S&P Collateral Value of all Defaulted Obligations and Deferring Obligations and (ii) the ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Collateral Value of all Defaulted Obligations and Deferring Obligations; provided that, the S&P Collateral Value and the ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Collateral Value will be zero for any Defaulted Obligation which the Issuer has owned for more than three years after its default date; plus

(e) with respect to Long-Dated Obligations, 0% of the Aggregate Principal Balance of such Collateral Obligations; plus

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(f) the aggregate, for each Discount Obligation, of the product of the (I) purchase price (expressed as a percentage of par) (excluding accrued interest and any syndication or upfront fees paid to the Issuer, but including, at the discretion of the Collateral Manager, the amount of any related transaction costs (including assignment fees) paid by the Issuer to the seller of the Collateral Obligation or its agent) and (II) Principal Balance of such Discount Obligation, excluding accrued interest; minus

(g) the Excess Triple-C Adjustment Amount;

provided that, (x) on and after the Effective Date, any Select Closing Date Participations that are not elevated to an assignment prior to the Effective Date will be deemed to have a Principal Balance for purposes of this definition equal to the lesser of (i) the S&P Collateral Value or (ii) the ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Collateral Value thereof, until the date on which such Select Closing Date Participation is elevated to an assignment to the Issuer or no longer constitutes a Select Closing Date Participation and (y) with respect to any Collateral Obligation that satisfies more than one of the definitions of Defaulted Obligation, Discount Obligation, Deferring Obligation, Long-Dated Obligation, any Select Closing Date Participation or any asset that falls into the Excess Triple-C Adjustment Amount, such Collateral Obligation shall, for the purposes of this definition, be treated as belonging to the category of Collateral Obligations which results in the lowest Adjusted Collateral Principal Amount on any date of determination.

“Adjusted ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Matrix Test Input”: The meaning set forth in Schedule 6 hereto.

“Adjusted Weighted Average ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating Factor”: The meaning set forth in Schedule 6 hereto.

“Administrative Expense Cap”: An amount equal on any Payment Date (when taken together with any Administrative Expenses paid pursuant to the Priority of Payments during the period since the preceding Payment Date other than Administrative Expenses paid pursuant to the Partial Redemption Priority of Payments or in the case of the first Payment Date, the period since the Closing Date), to the sum of (a) 0.03% per annum (prorated for the related Interest Accrual Period on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) of the Fee Basis Amount on the related Determination Date and (b) U.S.$250,000 per annum (prorated for the related Interest Accrual Period on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months); provided that (1) in respect of any Payment Date after the third Payment Date following the Closing Date, if the aggregate amount of Administrative Expenses paid pursuant to the Priority of Payments (including any excess applied in accordance with this proviso) on the three immediately preceding Payment Dates and during the related Collection Periods is less than the stated Administrative Expense Cap (without regard to any excess applied in accordance with this proviso) in the aggregate for such three preceding Payment Dates, then the excess may be applied to the Administrative Expense Cap with respect to the then-current Payment Date; and (2) in respect of the third Payment Date following the Closing Date, such excess amount shall be calculated based on the Payment Dates preceding such Payment Date.

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“Administrative Expenses”: The fees, expenses (including indemnities) and other amounts due or accrued with respect to any Payment Date (including, with respect to any Payment Date, any such amounts that were due and not paid on any prior Payment Date in accordance with the Priority of Payments) and payable in the following order by the Issuer: first, to the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.7 and the other provisions of this Indenture, second, to the Securities Intermediary, the Custodian, the Bank and U.S. Bank National Association in each of their other capacities under the Transaction Documents, including as Collateral Administrator pursuant to the Collateral Administration Agreement, third, on a pro rata basis, the following amounts (excluding indemnities) to the following parties:

(i) the Independent accountants, agents (other than the Collateral Manager) and counsel of the Issuer for fees and expenses;

(ii) the Rating Agencies for fees and expenses (including any annual fee, amendment fees and surveillance fees) in connection with any rating of any Class of Secured Notes or in connection with the rating of (or provision of credit estimates in respect of) any Collateral Obligations;

(iii) the Collateral Manager under this Indenture and the Collateral Management Agreement, including without limitation any costs or fees in connection with satisfying the Securitization Laws, amounts owed in connection with the preparation and delivery of the documents delivered pursuant to or in connection with this Indenture and the Notes, reasonable expenses of the Collateral Manager (including fees for its accountants, agents and counsel) incurred in connection with the purchase or sale of any Collateral Obligations, any costs or fees in connection with satisfying the U.S. Risk Retention Rules, any other expenses incurred in connection with the Collateral Obligations and amounts payable pursuant to the Collateral Management Agreement but excluding the Collateral Management Fee;

(iv) the Independent Manager of the Issuer for fees and expenses;

(v) the Independent Review Party (as defined in the Collateral Management Agreement) for fees and expenses; and

(vi) any other Person in respect of any other fees or expenses permitted under this Indenture and the documents delivered pursuant to or in connection with this Indenture (including, without limitation, the payment of all legal and other fees and expenses incurred in connection with the purchase or sale of any Collateral Obligations and any other expenses incurred in connection with the Collateral Obligations) and the Notes, including but not limited to, amounts owed to the Issuer pursuant to Section 7.1, any amounts due in respect of the listing of any Notes on any stock exchange or trading system, any listing fees, any fees and expenses incurred in connection with the establishment and expenses related to complying with FATCA;

and fifth, on a pro rata basis, indemnities payable to any Person pursuant to any Transaction Document or the Warehouse Credit Agreement; provided that, (x) amounts (other than subsequently discovered indemnification obligations) due in respect of actions taken on or before the Closing Date shall not be payable as Administrative Expenses but shall be payable only from the Expense Reserve Account pursuant to Section 10.3(d) and (y) for the avoidance of doubt, amounts that are expressly payable to any Person under the Priority of Payments in respect of an amount that is stated to be payable as an amount other than as Administrative Expenses (including, without limitation, interest, principal and distributions in respect of the Notes) shall not constitute Administrative Expenses.

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“ADS”: Apollo Debt Solutions BDC, a statutory trust formed under the laws of the State of Delaware.

“Affected Class”: Any Class of Secured Notes (voting separately by Class) that, as a result of the occurrence of a Tax Event described in the definition of “Tax Redemption,” has not received 100% of the aggregate amount of principal and interest that would otherwise be due and payable to such Class (assuming for this purpose, that interest on any Class of Deferrable Notes is not deferrable) on any Payment Date.

“Affiliate”: With respect to a Person, (i) any other Person who, directly or indirectly, is in control of, or controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person or (ii) any other Person who is a director, Officer, employee or general partner (a) of such Person, (b) of any subsidiary or parent company of such Person or (c) of any Person described in clause (i) above; provided that, funds managed by Affiliates of the Collateral Manager shall be excluded from the definition hereof. For the purposes of this definition, “control” of a Person shall mean the power, direct or indirect, (x) to vote more than 50% of the securities having ordinary voting power for the election of directors of such Person or (y) to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person whether by contract or otherwise. For purposes of this definition, Obligors in respect of Collateral Obligations shall be deemed not to be Affiliates if they have distinct corporate family ratings and/or distinct issuer credit ratings.

“Agent Members”: Members of, or participants in, DTC, Euroclear or Clearstream.

“Aggregate Coupon”: As of any Measurement Date, the sum of the products obtained by multiplying, in the case of each Fixed Rate Obligation (including, for any Deferrable Obligation and any Partial Deferrable Obligation, only the required current cash pay interest required by the Underlying Instruments thereon), (i) the stated coupon on such Collateral Obligation expressed as a percentage and (ii) the Principal Balance of such Collateral Obligation.

“Aggregate Excess Funded Spread”: As of any Measurement Date, the amount obtained by multiplying: (i) the Benchmark applicable to the Secured Notes during the Interest Accrual Period in which such Measurement Date occurs; by (ii) the amount (not less than zero) equal to (a) the Aggregate Principal Balance of the Collateral Obligations (excluding (x) for any Deferring Obligation, any interest that has been deferred and capitalized thereon and (y) for the avoidance of doubt, the Principal Balance of any Defaulted Obligation) as of such Measurement Date minus (b) the Target Initial Par Amount.

“Aggregate Funded Spread”: As of any Measurement Date, the sum of, for each Floating Rate Obligation (including, for any Deferrable Obligation and any Partial Deferrable Obligation, only the required current cash pay interest required by the Underlying Instruments thereon and excluding the unfunded portion of any Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation and Revolving Collateral Obligation):

(a) if such Floating Rate Obligation bears interest at a spread over a floating rate index that is the same index used to calculate the Benchmark of the Floating Rate Notes, (i)

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the stated interest rate spread on such Collateral Obligation above such index (including, if applicable, any credit spread adjustment) multiplied by (ii) the Principal Balance of such Collateral Obligation (excluding the unfunded portion of any Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation or Revolving Collateral Obligation); provided that, for purposes of this definition, the interest rate spread will be deemed to be, with respect to any Floating Rate Obligation that has a base rate floor, (i) the stated interest rate spread plus, (ii) if positive, (x) the floor value minus (y) the Benchmark as in effect with respect to the Floating Rate Notes for the current Interest Accrual Period; and

(b) if such Floating Rate Obligation bears interest at a spread over an index other than a floating rate index that is the same index used to calculate the Benchmark of the Floating Rate Notes, (i) the excess of the sum of such spread (including, if applicable, any credit spread adjustment) and such index (for the avoidance of doubt, including any applicable floor) over the Benchmark as in effect with respect to the Floating Rate Notes for the current Interest Accrual Period (which spread or excess may be expressed as a negative percentage) multiplied by (ii) the Principal Balance of each such Collateral Obligation (excluding the unfunded portion of any Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation or Revolving Collateral Obligation).

“Aggregate Outstanding Amount”: With respect to any (i) Secured Notes as of any date, the aggregate unpaid principal amount of such Secured Notes Outstanding and (ii) Subordinated Notes as of any date, the initial aggregate principal amount of such Subordinated Notes Outstanding.

“Aggregate Principal Balance”: When used with respect to all or a portion of the Collateral Obligations or the Assets, the sum of the Principal Balances of all or of such portion of the Collateral Obligations or Assets, respectively.

“Aggregate Risk Adjusted Par Amount”: The amount specified below for the applicable Interest Accrual Period (listed sequentially, starting with the Interest Accrual Period commencing on the Closing Date):

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“Aggregate Unfunded Spread”: As of any Measurement Date, the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (i) for each Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation and Revolving Collateral Obligation (other than Defaulted Obligations), the related commitment fee then in effect as of such date and (ii) the undrawn commitments of each such Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation and Revolving Collateral Obligation as of such date.

“Alternative Method”: The meaning specified in Section 7.17(h).

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“Apollo Credit”: Apollo Credit Management, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

“Apollo Global Securities”: Apollo Global Securities, LLC.

“Approved Index List”: The nationally recognized indices specified in Schedule 1 hereto as amended from time to time by the Collateral Manager to include additional nationally recognized indices with prior notice of any amendment to ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ and S&P and a copy of any such amended Approved Index List to the Collateral Administrator.

“Approved Tax Counsel”: Each of ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP; Linklaters LLP; ▇▇▇▇, Gotshal & ▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇ LLP; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Chance US LLP; White & Case LLP; Freshfields Bruckhaus ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ US LLP; ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ LLP; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP; Milbank LLP; A&O Shearman LLP; ▇▇▇▇▇▇ & Bird LLP; and ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP.

“Asset Quality Matrix”: The meaning set forth in Schedule 6 hereto.

“Assets”: The meaning assigned in the Granting Clauses hereof.

“Assigned ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating”: The publicly available rating, unpublished monitored rating or the estimated rating expressly assigned to a debt obligation (or facility) by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ that addresses the full amount of the principal and interest promised; provided that, so long as the Issuer (or the Collateral Manager on its behalf) applies for a new estimated rating, or renewal of an estimated rating, in a timely manner and provides the information required to obtain such estimate or renewal, as applicable, then pending receipt of such estimate or renewal, as applicable, (A) in the case of a request for a new estimated rating, (i) for a period of 90 days, such debt obligation will have a ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating of “B3” for purposes of this definition if the Collateral Manager certifies to the Trustee that the Collateral Manager believes that such estimated rating will be at least “B3” and (ii) thereafter, such debt obligation will have a ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating of “Caa3” or (B) in the case of a request for a renewal of an estimated rating following a material deterioration in the creditworthiness of the Obligor or a specified amendment, the Issuer will continue using the previous estimated rating assigned by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ until such time as (x) ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ renews such estimated rating or assigns a new estimated rating for such debt obligation and (y) the criteria specified in clause (A) in connection with an annual request for a renewal of an estimated rating becomes applicable in respect of such debt obligation.

“Assumed Reinvestment Rate”: The Benchmark with respect to the Floating Rate Notes (as determined on the most recent Interest Determination Date relating to an Interest Accrual Period beginning on a Payment Date or the Closing Date) minus 0.20% per annum; provided that, the Assumed Reinvestment Rate shall not be less than 0%.

“Authenticating Agent”: With respect to the Notes or a Class of the Notes, the Person designated by the Trustee to authenticate such Notes on behalf of the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.14.

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“Authorized Officer”: With respect to the Issuer, any Officer or any other Person who is authorized to act for the Issuer in matters relating to, and binding upon, the Issuer. With respect to the Collateral Manager, any Officer, employee, member or agent of the Collateral Manager who is authorized to act for the Collateral Manager in matters relating to, and binding upon, the Collateral Manager with respect to the subject matter of the request, certificate or order in question. With respect to the Collateral Administrator, any president, vice president, assistant vice president, officer, employee, partner or agent within the corporate trust group (or any successor group of the Collateral Administrator) who is authorized to act for the Collateral Administrator in matters relating to, and binding upon, the Collateral Administrator and who has direct responsibility for the administration of the Collateral Administration Agreement, or to whom any matter arising hereunder is referred because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the subject matter of the request, certificate or order in question. With respect to the Trustee or any other bank or trust company acting as trustee of an express trust or as custodian, a Bank Officer. With respect to any Authenticating Agent, any Officer of such Authenticating Agent who is authorized to authenticate the Notes. Each party may receive and accept a certification of the authority of any other party as conclusive evidence of the authority of any person to act, and such certification may be considered as in full force and effect until receipt by such other party of written notice to the contrary.

“Balance”: On any date, with respect to Cash or Eligible Investments in any Account, the aggregate of the (i) current balance of any Cash, demand deposits, time deposits, certificates of deposit and federal funds; (ii) principal amount of interest-bearing corporate and government securities, money market accounts and repurchase obligations; and (iii) purchase price (but not greater than the face amount) of non-interest-bearing government and corporate securities and commercial paper.

“Bank”: U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, a national banking association (including any organization or entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association), in its individual capacity and not as Trustee, or any successor thereto (which shall include any successor Trustee pursuant to Section 6.11 hereof).

“Bank Officer”: When used with respect to the Trustee, any president, vice president, assistant vice president or officer within the Corporate Trust Office (or any successor group of the Trustee) including any officer to whom any corporate trust matter is referred at the Corporate Trust Office because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and, in each case, having direct responsibility for the administration of this transaction.

“Banking Entity Closing Date Participations”: Any Participation Interest acquired by the Issuer pursuant to the Banking Entity Master Participation Agreements.

“Banking Entity Master Participation Agreements”: Any Master Participation Agreement(s) identified by the Collateral Manager as such in the Officer’s certificate delivered pursuant to Section 3.1(vi).

“Bankruptcy Law”: The federal Bankruptcy Code, Title 11 of the United States Code and any successor statute or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy law or similar law.

“Bankruptcy Subordination Agreement”: The meaning specified in Section 5.4(d)(ii).

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“Benchmark”: With respect to the Floating Rate Notes, initially, the Term SOFR Rate; provided, that if the Term SOFR Rate or the then-current Benchmark is unavailable (and is not expected to be available within the following year) or is no longer reported, as determined by the Collateral Manager on any date of determination, then upon written notice from the Collateral Manager to the Issuer, the Calculation Agent, the Collateral Administrator, the Trustee and the Holders, then “Benchmark” means the Benchmark Replacement Rate for all purposes relating to the Floating Rate Notes in respect of such determination on such date and all determinations on all subsequent dates; provided, further, that with respect to any Class of Floating Rate Notes, the Benchmark will be no less than zero. With respect to any Collateral Obligation, when used in the context of such Collateral Obligation, “Benchmark” or “Benchmark-based index” means the London interbank offered rate, the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR or the applicable benchmark rate currently in effect for such floating rate Collateral Obligation and determined in accordance with the related Underlying Instrument.

“Benchmark Floor Obligation”: As of any date of determination, a Floating Rate Obligation (a) the interest in respect of which is paid based on the Benchmark and (b) that provides that such Benchmark is (in effect) calculated as the greater of (i) a specified “floor” rate per annum and (ii) the Benchmark for the applicable interest period for such Collateral Obligation.

“Benchmark Replacement Rate”: As determined by the Collateral Manager in its commercially reasonable discretion, either (x) the quarterly pay reference rate recognized or acknowledged as being the industry standard replacement rate for leveraged loans (which recognition may be in the form of a press release, a member announcement, member advice, letter, protocol, publication of standard terms or otherwise) by the Loan Syndications and Trading Association^® or the Relevant Governmental Body or (y) the quarterly pay reference rate (other than the London interbank offered rate) that is used in calculating the interest rate of either (A) at least 50% of the Collateral Obligations (by par amount) or (B) 50% of the floating rate notes priced or issued in new issue collateralized loan obligation transactions in the past three months, as determined by the Collateral Manager as of the first day of the Interest Accrual Period during which such determination is made, in each case, together with a modifier which is either (A) recognized or acknowledged as being the industry standard by the Loan Syndications and Trading Association^® or the Relevant Governmental Body, or (B) consented to by a Majority of the Controlling Class, and applied to a reference rate to the extent necessary to cause such rate to be comparable to the three-month Term SOFR Rate or any other then-applicable Benchmark, which may include an addition to or subtraction from such unadjusted rate; provided, that, to the extent the Benchmark Replacement Rate is used as the Benchmark, such Benchmark Replacement Rate with respect to any Class of Floating Rate Notes shall be no less than zero.

“Benefit Plan Investor”: A benefit plan investor (as defined in 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101 and Section 3(42) of ERISA), which includes an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, a plan that is subject to Section 4975 of the Code or an entity whose underlying assets include “plan assets” by reason of any such employee benefit plan’s or plan’s investment in the entity.

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“Bid Disqualification Condition”: As determined in good faith by the Trustee, (1) either (x) such dealer is ineligible to accept assignment or transfer of such Collateral Obligation or (y) such dealer would not, through the exercise of its commercially reasonable efforts, be able to obtain any consent required under any agreement or instrument governing or otherwise relating to such Collateral Obligation to the assignment or transfer of such Collateral Obligation to it; or (2) such firm bid is not bona fide, including, without limitation, due to (x) the insolvency of the dealer or (y) the inability, failure or refusal of the dealer to settle the purchase of such Collateral Obligation or otherwise settle transactions in the relevant market or perform its obligations generally.

“Bond”: Any fixed or floating rate debt obligation that is not a Loan or an interest therein.

“Bridge Loan”: Any loan or other obligation that (x) is incurred in connection with a merger, acquisition, consolidation, or sale of all or substantially all of the assets of a Person or similar transaction and (y) by its terms, is required to be repaid within one year of the incurrence thereof with proceeds from additional borrowings or other refinancings (it being understood that any such loan or debt security that has a nominal maturity date of one year or less from the incurrence thereof but has a term-out or other provision whereby (automatically or at the sole option of the Obligor thereof) the maturity of the indebtedness thereunder may be extended to a later date is not a Bridge Loan).

“Business Day”: Any day other than (i) a Saturday or a Sunday or (ii) a day on which commercial banks are authorized or required by applicable law, regulation or executive order to close in New York, New York or in the city in which the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee is located (which initially shall be Boston, Massachusetts) or, for any final payment of principal, in the relevant place of presentation.

“Caa Collateral Obligation”: A Collateral Obligation (other than a Defaulted Obligation or a Deferring Obligation) with a ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating of “Caa1” or lower.

“Calculation Agent”: The meaning specified in Section 7.16.

“Cash”: Such funds denominated in currency of the United States of America as at the time shall be legal tender for payment of all public and private debts, including funds standing to the credit of an Account.

“CCC Collateral Obligation”: A Collateral Obligation (other than a Defaulted Obligation or a Deferring Obligation) with an S&P Rating of “CCC+” or lower.

“CEA”: The United States Commodity Exchange Act of 1936, as amended.

“Certificate of Authentication”: The meaning specified in Section 2.1.

“Certificated Note”: A Certificated Secured Note or a Certificated Subordinated Note.

“Certificated Secured Note”: The meaning specified in Section 2.2(b)(iii).

“Certificated Security”: The meaning specified in Section 8-102(a)(4) of the UCC.

“Certificated Subordinated Note”: The meaning specified in Section 2.2(b)(iii).

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“CFR”: With respect to an Obligor of a Collateral Obligation, if such Obligor has a corporate family rating by Moody’s, then such corporate family rating; provided that, if such Obligor does not have a corporate family rating by Moody’s but any entity in the Obligor’s corporate family does have a corporate family rating, then the CFR is such corporate family rating.

“Chapter 11”: Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.

“Class”: In the case of (a) the Secured Notes, all of the Secured Notes having the same Interest Rate, Stated Maturity and designation and (b) the Subordinated Notes, all of the Subordinated Notes.

“Class A Coverage Tests”: The Overcollateralization Ratio Test and the Interest Coverage Test, each as applied with respect to the Class A Notes.

“Class A Notes”: The Class A-1 Notes and the Class A-2 Notes, collectively.

“Class A-1 Notes”: The Class A-1 Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes issued pursuant to this Indenture and having the characteristics specified in Section 2.3.

“Class A-2 Notes”: The Class A-2 Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes issued pursuant to this Indenture and having the characteristics specified in Section 2.3.

“Class B Coverage Tests”: The Overcollateralization Ratio Test and the Interest Coverage Test, each as applied with respect to the Class B Notes.

“Class B Notes”: The Class B Senior Secured Deferrable Floating Rate Notes issued pursuant to this Indenture and having the characteristics specified in Section 2.3.

“Class Break-even Default Rate”: With respect to the Highest Ranking Class:

(I) during any S&P CDO Formula Election Period, the rate equal to (a) 0.232737 plus (b) the product of (▇) ▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇ and (y) the Weighted Average Floating Spread plus (c) the product of (▇) ▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇ and (y) the Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate, as such term is defined in this Section 1.1; or

(II) during any S&P CDO Monitor Election Period, the maximum percentage of defaults, at any time, that the Current Portfolio or the Proposed Portfolio, as applicable, can sustain, determined through application of the S&P CDO Monitor, which, after giving effect to S&P’s assumptions on recoveries, defaults and timing and to the Priority of Payments, will result in sufficient funds remaining for the payment of such Class or Classes of Notes in full. After any S&P CDO Monitor Election Date, S&P will provide the Collateral Manager with the Class Break-even Default Rates for each S&P CDO Monitor input file based upon the Weighted Average Floating Spread and the Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate to be associated with such S&P CDO Monitor input file as selected by the Collateral Manager from Section 2 of Schedule 4 or any other Weighted Average Floating Spread and Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate selected by the Collateral Manager from time to time.

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“Class Default Differential”: With respect to the Highest Ranking Class, the rate calculated by subtracting the Class Scenario Default Rate at such time for such Class of Notes from (x) during any S&P CDO Formula Election Period, the Adjusted Class Break-even Default Rate or (y) during any S&P CDO Monitor Election Period, the Class Break-even Default Rate, in each case, for such Class of Notes at such time.

“Class Scenario Default Rate”: With respect to the Highest Ranking Class:

(I) during any S&P CDO Formula Election Period, the rate at such time equal to (a) 0.247621 plus (b) the quotient of (x) the S&P Weighted Average Rating Factor divided by (y) 9162.65 minus (c) the quotient of (x) the Default Rate Dispersion divided by (y) 16757.2 minus (d) the quotient of (x) the Obligor Diversity Measure divided by (y) 7677.8 minus (e) the quotient of (x) the Industry Diversity Measure divided by (y) 2177.56 minus (f) the quotient of (x) the Regional Diversity Measure divided by (y) 34.0948 plus (g) the quotient of (x) the S&P Weighted Average Life divided by (y) 27.3896; or

(II) during any S&P CDO Monitor Election Period, an estimate of the cumulative default rate for the Current Portfolio or the Proposed Portfolio, as applicable, consistent with S&P’s initial rating of such Class of Notes, determined by the Collateral Manager (which determination shall be made solely by application of the S&P CDO Monitor at such time).

“Class C Coverage Tests”: The Overcollateralization Ratio Test and the Interest Coverage Test, each as applied with respect to the Class C Notes.

“Class C Notes”: The Class C Secured Deferrable Floating Rate Notes issued pursuant to this Indenture and having the characteristics specified in Section 2.3.

“Clean-Up Call Redemption”: The meaning specified in Section 9.2(a).

“Clearing Agency”: An organization registered as a “clearing agency” pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act.

“Clearing Corporation”: (i) Clearstream, (ii) DTC, (iii) Euroclear and (iv) any entity included within the meaning of “clearing corporation” under Section 8-102(a)(5) of the UCC.

“Clearing Corporation Security”: Securities which are in the custody of or maintained on the books of a Clearing Corporation or a nominee subject to the control of a Clearing Corporation and, if they are Certificated Securities in registered form, properly endorsed to or registered in the name of the Clearing Corporation or such nominee.

“Clearstream”: Clearstream Banking, société anonyme, a corporation organized under the laws of the Duchy of Luxembourg or any successor clearing corporation.

“Closing Date”: August 12, 2025.

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“Closing Date Participations”: (i) Any Warehouse SPV Closing Date Participation acquired pursuant to a Warehouse SPV Master Participation Agreement and (ii) any Banking Entity Closing Date Participation acquired pursuant to a Banking Entity Master Participation Agreement with a counterparty having a rating from ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ of “Baa3” or higher and a rating from S&P of “BBB” or higher on the applicable date of determination.

“Co-Placement Agent”: Apollo Global Securities, LLC, in its capacity as co-placement agent under the Purchase and Placement Agreement, and together with the Initial Purchaser, the “Placement Agents”.

“Code”: The United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

“Collateral Administration Agreement”: An agreement dated as of the Closing Date, among the Issuer, the Collateral Manager and the Collateral Administrator, as amended from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.

“Collateral Administrator”: U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, in its capacity as collateral administrator under the Collateral Administration Agreement, and any successor thereto.

“Collateral Interest Amount”: As of any date of determination, without duplication, the aggregate amount of Interest Proceeds that has been received or that is expected to be received (other than Interest Proceeds expected to be received from Defaulted Obligations and Deferring Obligations, but including Interest Proceeds actually received from Defaulted Obligations and Deferring Obligations), in each case during the Collection Period in which such date of determination occurs (or after such Collection Period but on or prior to the related Payment Date if such Interest Proceeds would be treated as Interest Proceeds with respect to such Collection Period).

“Collateral Management Agreement”: The agreement dated as of the Closing Date, between the Issuer and ADS relating to the management of the Collateral Obligations and the other Assets by ADS, as amended from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.

“Collateral Management Fee”: The fee payable to the Collateral Manager in arrears on each Payment Date (prorated for the related Interest Accrual Period) pursuant to Section 8(a) of the Collateral Management Agreement and Section 11.1, in an amount equal to (i) for so long as ADS is the Collateral Manager, 0.00% per annum (calculated on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed in the applicable Collection Period) of the Fee Basis Amount or (ii) if ADS is no longer the Collateral Manager, 0.15% per annum (calculated on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed in the applicable Collection Period) of the Fee Basis Amount, in each case, at the beginning of the Collection Period relating to such Payment Date; provided that, the Collateral Management Fee payable on any Payment Date shall not include any such fee (or any portion thereof) that has been waived or deferred by the Collateral Manager pursuant to Section 8(b) of the Collateral Management Agreement no later than the Determination Date immediately prior to such Payment Date; provided, further, that no deferred Collateral Management Fee that the Collateral Manager has elected to subsequently receive may be paid on a Payment Date on which the payment of such deferred amount would cause the deferral or non-payment of interest on any Class of Secured Notes.

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“Collateral Manager”: ADS, until a successor Person shall have become the Collateral Manager pursuant to the provisions of the Collateral Management Agreement, and thereafter “Collateral Manager” shall mean such successor Person.

“Collateral Manager Securities”: Any Notes owned by the Collateral Manager, an Affiliate thereof, or any account, fund, client or portfolio established and controlled by the Collateral Manager or an Affiliate thereof or for which the Collateral Manager or an Affiliate thereof acts as the investment adviser or with respect to which the Collateral Manager or an Affiliate thereof exercises discretionary control.

“Collateral Obligation”: A Senior Secured Loan, Second Lien Loan, Unsecured Loan or Permitted Non-Loan Asset acquired by way of a purchase or assignment (or a Participation Interest in any of the foregoing), pledged by the Issuer to the Trustee that as of the date the Collateral Manager commits on behalf of the Issuer to make such purchase:

(i) is U.S. Dollar denominated and is neither convertible by the Obligor thereof into, nor payable in, any other currency;

(ii) is not a lease (including a finance lease);

(iii) provides for a fixed amount of principal payable in Cash on scheduled payment dates and/or at maturity and does not by its terms provide for earlier amortization or prepayment at a price of less than par;

(iv) does not constitute Margin Stock;

(v) gives rise only to payments that are not subject to withholding taxes or other similar taxes (other than any taxes imposed pursuant to FATCA or withholding or other similar taxes on commitment fees or similar fees or fees that by their nature are commitment fees or similar fees, or amendment fees, waiver fees, consent fees or extension fees) unless the related Obligor is required to make “gross-up” payments that ensure that the net amount actually received by the Issuer (after payment of all such taxes) will equal the full amount that the Issuer would have received had no such taxes been imposed;

(vi) is not a debt obligation whose repayment is subject to substantial non-credit related risk as determined by the Collateral Manager;

(vii) except for Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligations and Revolving Collateral Obligations, is not an obligation pursuant to which any future advances or payments to the Obligor thereof may be required to be made by the Issuer;

(viii) will not require the Issuer or the pool of Assets to be registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act;

(ix) is not the subject of an Offer of exchange, or tender by its Obligor or issuer, for Cash, securities or any other type of consideration other than (A) a Permitted Offer or (B) an exchange offer in which a loan or a security that is not registered under the Securities Act is exchanged for a loan or a security that has substantially identical terms (except for transfer restrictions) but is registered under the Securities Act or a loan or a security that would otherwise qualify for purchase under the Investment Criteria described herein;

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(x) other than in the case of a Fixed Rate Obligation, accrues interest at a floating rate determined by reference to (A) the Dollar prime rate, federal funds rate or the Benchmark or (B) a similar interbank offered rate, commercial deposit rate or any other then-customary index;

(xi) if it is a “registration-required obligation” as defined in Section 163(f)(2)(A) of the Code, it is Registered;

(xii) is not an interest in a grantor trust;

(xiii) is not an Equity Security or by its terms convertible into or exchangeable for an Equity Security and does not include an attached equity warrant or similar interest;

(xiv) is able to be pledged to the Trustee pursuant to its Underlying Instruments;

(xv) does not pay interest less frequently than semi-annually (other than a Purchased Defaulted Obligation);

(xvi) is issued by (A) an Obligor Domiciled in the United States, Canada, a Group I Country, a Group II Country, a Group III Country or a Tax Jurisdiction or (B) any other Non-Emerging Market Obligor;

(xvii) if a Partial Deferrable Obligation, is not currently in default with respect to the portion of the interest due thereon to be paid in cash on each payment date with respect thereto (other than a Purchased Defaulted Obligation);

(xviii) has a ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating and an S&P Rating;

(xix) has an S&P Rating that is at least “CCC-” or a ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating that is at least “Caa3” (in each case, other than a Purchased Defaulted Obligation);

(xx) does not have (A) an “f”, “p”, “t” or “sf” subscript assigned by S&P or (B) an “sf” subscript assigned by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇;

(xxi) is purchased at a purchase price not less than the Minimum Price;

(xxii) if it is a Participation Interest (other than Closing Date Participations and SPE Participations), the ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Counterparty Criteria are satisfied with respect to the acquisition thereof; and

(xxiii) is not:

(A) a Defaulted Obligation (other than a Purchased Defaulted Obligation or a Loan received in exchange for a Defaulted Obligation or portion thereof in connection with an insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization, debt restructuring or workout of the obligor thereof);

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(B) a Small Obligor Loan or a Long-Dated Obligation;

(C) a Credit Risk Obligation (other than a Purchased Defaulted Obligation or a Loan received in exchange for a Defaulted Obligation or portion thereof in connection with an insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization, debt restructuring or workout of the obligor thereof);

(D) a Synthetic Security;

(E) an Interest Only Obligation, a Step-Up Obligation or a Step-Down Obligation;

(F) a Structured Finance Obligation;

(G) an obligation of a Portfolio Company;

(H) a Bridge Loan, a letter of credit or a Zero Coupon Bond; or

(I) if committed to be acquired prior to the satisfaction of the Controlling Class Condition, a Non-Recourse Obligation.

“Collateral Principal Amount”: As of any date of determination, the sum of (a) the Aggregate Principal Balance of the Collateral Obligations (other than Defaulted Obligations), including, for the avoidance of doubt, any undrawn commitments that have not been irrevocably reduced or withdrawn with respect to Revolving Collateral Obligations and Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligations, (b) without duplication, the amounts on deposit in any Account (including Eligible Investments therein but excluding amounts on deposit in the Revolver Funding Account to the extent of the unfunded funding obligations under all Revolving Collateral Obligations and Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligations included in the Assets on such date) representing Principal Proceeds and (c) unpaid Principal Financed Accrued Interest (other than in respect of Defaulted Obligations).

“Collateral Quality Test”: The following tests, collectively, calculated in each case as required by Section 1.3 herein:

(i) the Minimum Floating Spread Test;

(ii) the Minimum Weighted Average Coupon Test;

(iii) the Maximum ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating Factor Test;

(iv) the ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Diversity Test;

(v) the Minimum Weighted Average ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Recovery Rate Test;

(vi) the Weighted Average Life Test;

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(vii) the ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Matrix Test; and

(viii) the S&P CDO Monitor Test.

“Collection Account”: The account established pursuant to Section 10.2 which consists of the Principal Collection Subaccount and the Interest Collection Subaccount.

“Collection Period”: (i) With respect to the first Payment Date following the Closing Date, the period commencing on the Closing Date and ending at the close of business on the fifth Business Day prior to the first Payment Date following the Closing Date; and (ii) with respect to any other Payment Date, the period commencing on the day immediately following the prior Collection Period and ending (a) in the case of the final Collection Period preceding the latest Stated Maturity of any Class of Secured Notes, on the day of such Stated Maturity, (b) in the case of the final Collection Period preceding an Optional Redemption or Tax Redemption in whole of the Secured Notes, unless otherwise directed by the Collateral Manager in its sole discretion by written notice (which may be by email) to the Trustee, the day preceding the Redemption Date (except that (A) to the extent Sale Proceeds to be applied in connection with an Optional Redemption by Sale Proceeds or Tax Redemption, as applicable, are received on the related Redemption Date, the Collateral Manager may designate that such Sale Proceeds will be deemed to have been received by the Issuer during the related Collection Period and (B) any Refinancing Proceeds received on the Redemption Date will be deemed to have been received by the Issuer during the related Collection Period) and (c) in any other case (including with respect to any Payment Date on which no Secured Notes are Outstanding), at the close of business on the fifth Business Day prior to such Payment Date.

“Companies Act”: The meaning specified in the definition of “Bankruptcy Law.”

“Concentration Limitations”: Limitations satisfied on any Measurement Date on or after the Effective Date if, in the aggregate, the Collateral Obligations owned (or solely in relation to making pro forma calculations in relation to a proposed purchase of a Collateral Obligation, after giving effect to that purchase) by the Issuer comply with all of the requirements set forth below (or solely in relation to making pro forma calculations in relation to a proposed purchase after the Effective Date, if not in compliance, the relevant requirements must be maintained or improved) after giving effect to the purchase, calculated in each case as required by Section 1.3 herein:

(i) (A) prior to the satisfaction of the Controlling Class Condition, not less than 96.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Senior Secured Loans and Eligible Investments; and (B) following the satisfaction of the Controlling Class Condition, not less than 92.5% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Senior Secured Loans and Eligible Investments;

(ii) (A) prior to the satisfaction of the Controlling Class Condition, not more than 4.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Second Lien Loans, Unsecured Loans and Permitted Non-Loan Assets and (B) following the satisfaction of the Controlling Class Condition, not more than 7.5% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Second Lien Loans, Unsecured Loans and Permitted Non-Loan Assets; provided that not more than:

(A) (1) prior to the satisfaction of the Controlling Class Condition, 4.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Permitted Non-Loan Assets and (2) following the satisfaction of the Controlling Class Condition, 5.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Permitted Non-Loan Assets; and

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(B) 2.5% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of High Yield Bonds;

(iii) not more than 2.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of obligations issued by a single Obligor and its Affiliates, except that, without duplication, obligations (other than DIP Collateral Obligations) issued by up to five Obligors and their respective Affiliates may each constitute up to 2.5% of the Collateral Principal Amount; provided that, with respect to any Obligor and its Affiliates, not more than 1.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Collateral Obligations of such Obligor and its Affiliates that are not Senior Secured Loans; provided further that, for the purposes hereof, one Obligor will not be considered an Affiliate of another Obligor solely because both are controlled by the same financial sponsor;

(iv) not more than 2.5% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Current Pay Obligations;

(v) not more than 7.5% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Caa Collateral Obligations;

(vi) not more than 7.5% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of CCC Collateral Obligations;

(vii) not more than 5.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Fixed Rate Obligations;

(viii) not more than 5.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of DIP Collateral Obligations and not more than 2.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of DIP Collateral Obligations issued by a single Obligor;

(ix) not more than 5.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist, in the aggregate, of unfunded commitments under Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligations and unfunded and funded commitments under Revolving Collateral Obligations;

(x) not more than 10.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Participation Interests (other than Closing Date Participations and SPE Participations);

(xi) (a) all of the Collateral Obligations must be issued by Non-Emerging Market Obligors; and (b) no more than the percentage listed below of the Collateral Principal Amount may be issued by Obligors Domiciled in the country or countries set forth opposite such percentage:

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(xii) not more than 10.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Collateral Obligations that are issued by Obligors that belong to any single S&P Industry Classification, except that (x) one S&P Industry Classification may represent up to 15.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount and (y) one S&P Industry Classification may represent up to 12.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount;

(xiii) not more than 5.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Collateral Obligations that pay interest less frequently than quarterly and on the same quarterly schedule;

(xiv) not more than 0.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Deferrable Obligations;

(xv) (a) prior to satisfaction of the Controlling Class Condition, not more than 1.5% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Partial Deferrable Obligations and (b) following satisfaction of the Controlling Class Condition, not more than 2.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Partial Deferrable Obligations;

(xvi) not more than 55.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Cov-Lite Loans;

(xvii) not more than 5.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Medium Obligor Loans;

(xviii) not more than 25.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Discount Obligations;

(xix) not more than 10.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Collateral Obligations with a ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating derived from an S&P Rating as provided in clauses (b)(1) or (2) of the definition of “▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Derived Rating”;

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(xx) not more than 0.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Collateral Obligations which do not satisfy the Sustainability Investment Criteria; and

(xxi) the Third Party Credit Exposure may not exceed 20.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount and the Third Party Credit Exposure Limits may not be exceeded.

“Confidential Information”: The meaning specified in Section 14.15(b).

“Contribution”: The meaning specified in Section 11.1(h).

“Contribution Acceptance Notice”: The meaning specified in Section 11.1(h).

“Contribution Deadline”: The meaning specified in Section 11.1(h).

“Contribution Repayment Amount”: With respect to any Contributor, the portion of any Contribution made by such Contributor pursuant to Section 11.1(h) not yet repaid (together with the specified rate of return applicable to such Contribution and any additional amounts owing to such Contributor pursuant to the calculation method set forth in the related Notice of Contribution), which amounts shall be repaid to such Contributor in accordance with the Priority of Payments.

“Contributor”: Each Person that elects to make a Contribution and whose Contribution is accepted (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any beneficial owner of Subordinated Notes that participates in a Contribution), in each case, in accordance with Section 11.1(h).

“Controlling Class”: The Class A-1 Notes so long as any Class A-1 Notes are Outstanding; then the Class A-2 Notes so long as any Class A-2 Notes are Outstanding; then the Class B Notes so long as any Class B Notes are Outstanding; then the Class C Notes so long as any Class C Notes are Outstanding; and then the Subordinated Notes.

“Controlling Class Condition”: A condition that is satisfied if either (a) all of the Class A-1 Notes issued on the Closing Date have been redeemed, refinanced or repaid in full or (b) with respect to any event or action that is conditioned upon or otherwise subject to the satisfaction of the Controlling Class Condition, a Majority of the Class A-1 Notes has consented in writing to such event or action.

“Corporate Trust Office”: The designated corporate trust office of the Trustee at which this Indenture is administered, currently located at (a) for Note transfer purposes and for presentment and surrender of the Notes for final payment thereon, U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇. ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇, Attention: Bondholder Services – EP-MN-WS2N, Reference: ADS CLO 1 LLC, and (b) for all other purposes, U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, Global Corporate Trust, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Attention: Global Corporate Trust – ADS CLO 1 LLC, e-mail ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇@▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇@▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇, or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders, the Collateral Manager and the Issuer or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Trustee.

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“Cov-Lite Loan”: A Collateral Obligation that is an interest in a Senior Secured Loan, the Underlying Instruments for which do not (i) contain any financial covenants or (ii) require the borrower thereunder to comply with any Maintenance Covenant (regardless of whether compliance with one or more Incurrence Covenants is otherwise required by such Underlying Instruments); provided that, a Loan which either contains a cross-default or cross-acceleration provision to, or is pari passu with, another Loan of the underlying Obligor that requires the underlying Obligor to comply with a Maintenance Covenant shall be deemed not to be a Cov-Lite Loan. For the avoidance of doubt a Loan that is capable of being described in clause (i) or (ii) above only (x) until the expiration of a certain period of time after the initial issuance thereof or (y) for so long as there is no funded balance in respect thereof, in each case as set forth in the related Underlying Instruments, shall be deemed not to be a Cov-Lite Loan.

“Coverage Tests”: The Overcollateralization Ratio Test and the Interest Coverage Test, each as applied to each specified Class or Classes of Secured Notes.

“Covered Audit Adjustment”: The meaning specified in Section 7.17(h).

“Credit Improved Criteria”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation, the occurrence of any of the following:

(a) the issuer of such Collateral Obligation has shown improved financial results since the published financial reports first produced after it was purchased by the Issuer;

(b) the Obligor of such Collateral Obligation since the date on which such Collateral Obligation was purchased by the Issuer has raised significant equity capital or has raised other capital that has improved the liquidity or credit standing of such Obligor;

(c) such Collateral Obligation has been upgraded or put on a watch list for possible upgrade by any rating agency since the date on which such Collateral Obligation was acquired by the Issuer;

(d) the proceeds received with respect to its disposition (excluding such proceeds that constitute Interest Proceeds) of such Collateral Obligation would be at least 101.0% of its purchase price;

(e) if such Collateral Obligation is a Loan, the price of such Loan has changed during the period from the date on which it was acquired by the Issuer to the proposed sale date by a percentage either at least 0.50% more positive, or 0.50% less negative, as the case may be, than the percentage change in the average price of any index specified on the Approved Index List selected by the Collateral Manager over the same period;

(f) if such Collateral Obligation is a Loan or a floating rate note, the price of such Loan or floating rate note changed during the period from the date on which it was acquired by the Issuer to the date of determination by a percentage either at least 0.50% more positive, or at least 0.50% less negative, as the case may be, than the percentage change in any index specified on the Approved Index List selected by the Collateral Manager over the same period;

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(g) if such Collateral Obligation is a Senior Secured Bond, the Market Value of such Senior Secured Bond is at risk of changing since the date of its acquisition by a percentage either at least 1.00% more positive or at least 1.00% less negative, as the case may be, than the percentage change in the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ US High Yield Master II Constrained Index, Bloomberg ticker HUC0 (or such other index as the Collateral Manager selects and provides notice to each Rating Agency (so long as such Rating Agency is then rating a Class of Secured Notes)) over the same period, as determined by the Collateral Manager;

(h) if such Collateral Obligation is a Loan or a floating rate note, the spread over the applicable reference rate for such Collateral Obligation has been decreased in accordance with the underlying Collateral Obligation since the date of acquisition by (1) 0.25% or more (in the case of a Collateral Obligation with a spread (prior to such decrease) less than or equal to 2.00%), (2) 0.375% or more (in the case of a Collateral Obligation with a spread (prior to such decrease) greater than 2.00% but less than or equal to 4.00%) or (3) 0.50% or more (in the case of a Collateral Obligation with a spread (prior to such decrease) greater than 4.00%) due, in each case, to an improvement in the related Obligor’s financial ratios or financial results; or

(i) with respect to Fixed Rate Obligations, there has been a decrease in the difference between its yield compared to the yield on the relevant United States Treasury security of more than 7.5% since the date of purchase.

“Credit Improved Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation which, in the Collateral Manager’s reasonable commercial judgment (which may be, but need not be, based on one or more of the Credit Improved Criteria and which judgment shall not be called into question as a result of subsequent events), has significantly improved in credit quality after it was acquired by the Issuer; provided that, during a Restricted Trading Period and prior to satisfaction of the Controlling Class Condition, one of clauses (c) through (i) of the definition of Credit Improved Criteria must have occurred for a Collateral Obligation to qualify as a Credit Improved Obligation.

“Credit Risk Criteria”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation, the occurrence of any of the following:

(a) such Collateral Obligation has been downgraded or put on a watch list for possible downgrade or on negative outlook by any rating agency since the date on which such Collateral Obligation was acquired by the Issuer;

(b) if such Collateral Obligation is a Loan, the price of such Loan has changed during the period from the date on which it was acquired by the Issuer to the proposed sale date by a percentage either at least 0.50% more negative, or at least 0.50% less positive, as the case may be, than the percentage change in the average price of any index specified on the Approved Index List selected by the Collateral Manager over the same period;

(c) if such Collateral Obligation is a Loan or a Senior Secured Bond, the Market Value of such Collateral Obligation has decreased by at least 1.00% of the price paid by the Issuer for such Collateral Obligation;

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(d) if such Collateral Obligation is a Senior Secured Bond, the Market Value of such Senior Secured Bond is at risk of changing since its date of acquisition by a percentage either at least 1.00% more negative or at least 1.00% less positive, as the case may be, than the percentage change in the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ US High Yield Master II Constrained Index, Bloomberg ticker HUC0 (or such other index as the Collateral Manager selects and provides notice to each Rating Agency (so long as such Rating Agency is then rating a Class of Secured Notes)) over the same period, as determined by the Collateral Manager;

(e) if such Collateral Obligation is a Loan or a floating rate note, the spread over the applicable reference rate for such Collateral Obligation has been increased in accordance with the underlying Collateral Obligation since the date of acquisition by (1) 0.25% or more (in the case of a Collateral Obligation with a spread (prior to such increase) less than or equal to 2.00%), (2) 0.375% or more (in the case of a Collateral Obligation with a spread (prior to such increase) greater than 2.00% but less than or equal to 4.00%) or (3) 0.50% or more (in the case of a Collateral Obligation with a spread (prior to such increase) greater than 4.00%) due, in each case, to a deterioration in the related Obligor’s financial ratios or financial results; or

(f) with respect to Fixed Rate Obligations, an increase since the date of purchase of more than 7.5% in the difference between the yield on such Collateral Obligation and the yield on the relevant United States Treasury security.

“Credit Risk Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation that, in the Collateral Manager’s reasonable commercial judgment (which may be, but need not be, based on one or more of the Credit Risk Criteria and which judgment shall not be called into question as a result of subsequent events), has a significant risk of declining in credit quality or price.

“CRS”: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information – Common Reporting Standard, together with any implementing legislation, rules, regulations and guidance notes made pursuant to such law.

“Current Pay Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation (other than a DIP Collateral Obligation) that would otherwise be treated as a Defaulted Obligation but as to which no payments are due and payable that are unpaid and with respect to which the Collateral Manager has certified to the Trustee (with a copy to the Collateral Administrator) in writing that it believes, in its reasonable business judgment, that (a) the issuer or Obligor of such Collateral Obligation will continue to make all scheduled payments thereon and will pay the principal thereof by maturity or as otherwise contractually due, (b) if the issuer or Obligor is subject to a bankruptcy Proceeding, it has been the subject of an order of a bankruptcy court that permits it to make the scheduled payments on such Collateral Obligation, which for the avoidance of doubt would include any bankruptcy court order for adequate protection payments, and such scheduled payments due thereunder have been paid in Cash when due, (c) so long as any Secured Notes are then rated by S&P, such Collateral Obligation satisfies the S&P Additional Current Pay Criteria, and (d) so long as any Secured Notes are then rated by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇, (A) the Collateral Obligation has a ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating of at least “Caa1” and a Market Value of at least 80% of its par value or (B) the Collateral Obligation has a ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating of “Caa2” and its Market Value is at least 85% of its par value (Market Value being determined, solely for the purposes of clause (c), without taking into consideration clause (iii) of the definition of the term “Market Value”).

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“Current Portfolio”: At any time, the portfolio of Collateral Obligations, Cash and Eligible Investments representing Principal Proceeds (determined in accordance with Section 1.3 to the extent applicable) then held by the Issuer.

“Custodial Account”: The custodial account established pursuant to Section 10.3(b).

“Custodian”: The meaning specified in the first sentence of Section 3.3(a) with respect to items of collateral referred to therein, and each entity with which an Account is maintained, as the context may require, each of which shall be a Securities Intermediary.

“Cut-Off Date”: Each date on or after the Closing Date on which a Collateral Obligation is transferred to the Issuer.

“Daisy Chain Letter”: A duly executed tax-related certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit F.

“Default”: Any Event of Default or any occurrence that is, or with notice or the lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default.

“Default Rate Dispersion”: As of any Measurement Date, the number obtained by (a) summing the products for each Collateral Obligation (other than Defaulted Obligations) of (i) the absolute value of (x) the S&P Rating Factor of such Collateral Obligation minus (y) the S&P Weighted Average Rating Factor multiplied by (ii) the outstanding principal balance at such time of such Collateral Obligation and (b) dividing such sum by the Aggregate Principal Balance on such date of all Collateral Obligations (other than Defaulted Obligations).

“Defaulted Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation included in the Assets as to which:

(a) a default as to the payment of principal and/or interest has occurred and is continuing with respect to such Collateral Obligation (without regard to any grace period applicable thereto, or waiver or forbearance thereof, after the passage (in the case of a default that in the Collateral Manager’s judgment, as certified to the Trustee in writing, is not due to credit-related causes) of five Business Days or seven days, whichever is greater, but in no case beyond the passage of any grace period applicable thereto);

(b) a default known to a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Manager as to the payment of principal and/or interest has occurred and is continuing on another debt obligation of the same issuer or Obligor which is senior or pari passu in right of payment to such Collateral Obligation (without regard to any grace period applicable thereto, or waiver or forbearance thereof, after the passage (in the case of a default that in the Collateral Manager’s judgment, as certified to the Trustee in writing, is not due to credit-related causes) of five Business Days or seven days, whichever is greater, but in no case beyond the passage of any grace period applicable thereto; provided that, both the Collateral Obligation and such other debt obligation are full recourse obligations of the applicable issuer or Obligor and secured by the same collateral);

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(c) the issuer or Obligor or others have instituted Proceedings to have the issuer or Obligor adjudicated as bankrupt or insolvent or placed into receivership and such Proceedings have not been stayed or dismissed or such issuer or Obligor has filed for protection under Chapter 11;

(d) a default with respect to which the Collateral Manager has received notice or a Responsible Officer has actual knowledge that a default has occurred under the Underlying Instruments and any applicable grace period has expired and the holders of such Collateral Obligation have accelerated the repayment of the Collateral Obligation (but only until such acceleration has been rescinded) in the manner provided in the Underlying Instrument;

(e) the Collateral Manager has in its reasonable commercial judgment otherwise declared such debt obligation to be a “Defaulted Obligation” and such declaration has not been rescinded;

(f) such Collateral Obligation is a Participation Interest with respect to which the Selling Institution has defaulted in any respect in the performance of any of its payment obligations under the Participation Interest;

(g) (i) such Collateral Obligation has an S&P Rating of “SD” or “CC” or lower or (ii) the Obligor on such Collateral Obligation has a “probability of default” rating assigned by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ of “D” or “LD”;

(h) (i) such Collateral Obligation is pari passu or subordinate in right of payment as to the payment of principal and/or interest to another debt obligation of the same issuer or Obligor which has an S&P Rating of “SD” or “CC” or lower or (ii) the Obligor on such Collateral Obligation has a “probability of default” rating assigned by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ of “D” or “LD”; provided that, both the Collateral Obligation and such other debt obligation are full recourse obligations of the applicable issuer or Obligor or secured by the same collateral; or

(i) such Collateral Obligation is a Participation Interest in a loan (x) that would, if such loan were a Collateral Obligation, constitute a “Defaulted Obligation” or (y) with respect to which the Selling Institution has an S&P Rating of “SD” or “CC” or lower or had such rating before such rating was withdrawn or such Selling Institution has a “probability of default” rating assigned by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ of “D” or “LD”;

provided that, (x) a Collateral Obligation shall not constitute a Defaulted Obligation pursuant to clauses (b), (c) and (g) through (i) above if such Collateral Obligation (or, in the case of a Participation Interest, the underlying Senior Secured Loan) is a Current Pay Obligation (provided that, the Aggregate Principal Balance of Current Pay Obligations exceeding 5.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount will be treated as Defaulted Obligations), (y) a Collateral Obligation shall not constitute a Defaulted Obligation if such Collateral Obligation (or, in the case of a Participation Interest, the underlying Senior Secured Loan) is a DIP Collateral Obligation (other than a DIP Collateral Obligation that has an S&P Rating of “SD” or “CC” or lower) and (z) for the avoidance of doubt, for purposes of the determination of the “probability of default” rating assigned by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇, if (i) the issuer or Obligor of any Collateral Obligation (or, in the case of clause (i) above, any Selling Institution) was a debtor under Chapter 11, during which time such issuer, Obligor or Selling Institution, as applicable, had a “probability of default” rating of “D” or “LD” from ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ and (ii) such issuer, Obligor or Selling Institution, as applicable, is no longer a debtor under Chapter 11, then, for so long as ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ has not assigned a new “probability of default” rating, such issuer, Obligor or Selling Institution, as applicable, shall be deemed to have no “probability of default” rating assigned by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇.

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Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the contrary, the Collateral Manager shall give the Trustee prompt written notice should any Collateral Obligation become a Defaulted Obligation. Until so notified or until a Bank Officer of the Trustee obtains actual knowledge that a Collateral Obligation has become a Defaulted Obligation, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have any notice or knowledge that a Collateral Obligation has become a Defaulted Obligation.

“Deferrable Notes”: The Notes specified as “Interest Deferrable” in Section 2.3.

“Deferrable Obligation”: A Collateral Obligation (excluding a Partial Deferrable Obligation) that by its terms permits the deferral or capitalization of payment of accrued, unpaid interest.

“Deferred Interest”: With respect to the Deferrable Notes, the meaning specified in Section 2.7(a).

“Deferring Obligation”: A Deferrable Obligation or obligation deemed to be a Partial Deferrable Obligation pursuant to the proviso in the definition thereof, in each case, that is deferring the payment of the current cash pay interest due thereon and has been so deferring the payment of such interest due thereon (i) with respect to Collateral Obligations that have an S&P Rating of at least “BBB-” or a ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating of at least “Baa3”, for the shorter of two consecutive accrual periods or one year, and (ii) with respect to Collateral Obligations that have an S&P Rating of “BB+” or below or a ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating of Ba1” or below, for the shorter of one accrual period or six consecutive months, which deferred capitalized interest has not, as of the date of determination, been paid in Cash.

“Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation”: A Collateral Obligation that (a) requires the Issuer to make one or more future advances to the borrower under the Underlying Instruments relating thereto, (b) specifies a maximum amount that can be borrowed on one or more fixed borrowing dates, and (c) does not permit the re-borrowing of any amount previously repaid by the borrower thereunder; but any such Collateral Obligation will be a Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation only until all commitments by the Issuer to make advances to the borrower expire or are terminated or are reduced to zero.

“Deliver” or “Delivered” or “Delivery”: The taking of the following steps:

(i) in the case of each Certificated Security (other than a Clearing Corporation Security), Instrument and Participation Interest in which the underlying loan is represented by an Instrument,

(A) causing the delivery of such Certificated Security or Instrument to the Custodian by registering the same in the name of the Custodian or its Affiliated nominee or by endorsing the same to the Custodian or in blank;

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(B) causing the Custodian to indicate continuously on its books and records that such Certificated Security or Instrument is credited to the applicable Account; and

(C) causing the Custodian to maintain continuous possession of such Certificated Security or Instrument;

(ii) in the case of each Uncertificated Security (other than a Clearing Corporation Security),

(A) causing such Uncertificated Security to be continuously registered on the books of the issuer thereof to the Custodian; and

(B) causing the Custodian to indicate continuously on its books and records that such Uncertificated Security is credited to the applicable Account;

(iii) in the case of each Clearing Corporation Security,

(A) causing the relevant Clearing Corporation to credit such Clearing Corporation Security to the securities account of the Custodian, and

(B) causing the Custodian to indicate continuously on its books and records that such Clearing Corporation Security is credited to the applicable Account;

(iv) in the case of each security issued or guaranteed by the United States of America or agency or instrumentality thereof and that is maintained in book-entry records of a Federal Reserve Bank (“FRB”) (each such security, a “Government Security”),

(A) causing the creation of a Security Entitlement to such Government Security by the credit of such Government Security to the securities account of the Custodian at such FRB, and

(B) causing the Custodian to indicate continuously on its books and records that such Government Security is credited to the applicable Account;

(v) in the case of each Security Entitlement not governed by clauses (i) through (iv) above,

(A) causing a Securities Intermediary (x) to indicate on its books and records that the underlying Financial Asset has been credited to the Custodian’s securities account, (y) to receive a Financial Asset from a Securities Intermediary or acquiring the underlying Financial Asset for a Securities Intermediary, and in either case, accepting it for credit to the Custodian’s securities account or (z) to become obligated under other law, regulation or rule to credit the underlying Financial Asset to a Securities Intermediary’s securities account,

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(B) causing such Securities Intermediary to make entries on its books and records continuously identifying such Security Entitlement as belonging to the Custodian and continuously indicating on its books and records that such Security Entitlement is credited to the Custodian’s securities account, and

(C) causing the Custodian to indicate continuously on its books and records that such Security Entitlement (or all rights and property of the Custodian representing such Security Entitlement) is credited to the applicable Account;

(vi) in the case of Cash or Money,

(A) causing the delivery of such Cash or Money to the Trustee for credit to the applicable Account or to the Custodian,

(B) if delivered to the Custodian, causing the Custodian to treat such Cash or Money as a Financial Asset maintained by such Custodian for credit to the applicable Account in accordance with the provisions of Article 8 of the UCC or causing the Custodian to deposit such Cash or Money to a deposit account over which the Custodian has control (within the meaning of Section 9-104 of the UCC), and

(C) causing the Custodian to indicate continuously on its books and records that such Cash or Money is credited to the applicable Account; and

(vii) in the case of each general intangible (including any Participation Interest in which neither the Participation Interest nor the underlying loan is represented by an Instrument), and

(A) causing the filing of a Financing Statement in the office of the Secretary of State of Delaware.

In addition, the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer will obtain any and all consents required by the Underlying Instruments relating to any general intangibles for the transfer of ownership and/or pledge hereunder (except to the extent that the requirement for such consent is rendered ineffective under Section 9-406 of the UCC).

“Determination Date”: The last day of each Collection Period.

“DIP Collateral Obligation”: A loan made to a debtor-in-possession pursuant to Section 364 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code having the priority allowed by either Section 364(c) or 364(d) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and fully secured by senior liens.

“Discount Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation that is not a Swapped Non-Discount Obligation and that the Collateral Manager determines:

(i) in the case of a Collateral Obligation that is a Senior Secured Loan, is acquired by the Issuer for a purchase price that is lower than 80% of the Principal Balance of such Collateral Obligation (or, if such interest has a ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating below “B3” such interest

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is acquired by the Issuer for a purchase price of less than 85% of its Principal Balance); provided that, such Collateral Obligation shall cease to be a Discount Obligation at such time as the Market Value (expressed as a percentage of par) of such Collateral Obligation, as determined for any period of 30 consecutive days since the acquisition by the Issuer of such Collateral Obligation, equals or exceeds 90% of the Principal Balance of such Collateral Obligation; or

(ii) in the case of any other Collateral Obligation, is acquired by the Issuer for a purchase price of lower than 75% of the Principal Balance of such Collateral Obligation (or, if such interest has a ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating below “B3” such interest is acquired by the Issuer for a purchase price of less than 80% of its Principal Balance); provided that, such Collateral Obligation shall cease to be a Discount Obligation at such time as the Market Value (expressed as a percentage of par) of such Collateral Obligation, as determined for any period of 30 consecutive days since the acquisition by the Issuer of such Collateral Obligation, equals or exceeds 85% of the Principal Balance of such Collateral Obligation;

provided that, if such interest is a Revolving Collateral Obligation, and there exists an outstanding non-revolving loan to its Obligor ranking pari passu with such Revolving Collateral Obligation and secured by substantially the same collateral as such Revolving Collateral Obligation (a “Related Term Loan”), in determining whether such Revolving Collateral Obligation is and continues to be a Discount Obligation, the price of the Related Term Loan, and not of the Revolving Collateral Obligation, shall be referenced.

“Distribution Amount”: The meaning specified in Section 11.1(h).

“Distribution Report”: The meaning specified in Section 10.5(b).

“Diversity Score”: A single number that indicates collateral concentration in terms of both issuer and industry concentration, calculated as set forth in Schedule 8 hereto.

“Dollar”, “U.S.$” or “$”: A dollar or other equivalent unit in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time shall be legal tender for all debts, public and private.

“Domicile” or “Domiciled”: With respect to any issuer of, or Obligor with respect to, a Collateral Obligation:

(a) except as provided in clause (b) or clause (c) below, its country of organization;

(b) if it is organized in a Tax Jurisdiction, each of such jurisdiction and the country in which, in the Collateral Manager’s good faith estimate, a substantial portion of its operations are located or from which a substantial portion of its revenue is derived, in each case directly or through subsidiaries (which shall be any jurisdiction and country known at the time of designation by the Collateral Manager to be the source of the majority of revenues, if any, of such issuer or Obligor); or

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(c) if its payment obligations in respect of such Collateral Obligation are guaranteed by a Person that is organized in the United States or Canada, then the United States or Canada; provided that, such guarantee (x) satisfies the Domicile Guarantee Criteria or (y) satisfies the ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating Condition.

“Domicile Guarantee Criteria”: The following criteria: (i) the guarantee is one of payment and not of collection; (ii) the guarantee provides that the guarantor agrees to pay the guaranteed obligations on the date due and waives demand, notice and marshalling of assets; (iii) the guarantee provides that the guarantor’s right to terminate or amend the guarantee is appropriately restricted; (iv) the guarantee is unconditional, irrespective of value, genuineness, validity, or enforceability of the guaranteed obligations; (v) the guarantee provides that the guarantor waives any other circumstance or condition that would normally release a guarantor from its obligations; (vi) the guarantor also waives the right of set-off and counterclaim; and (vii) the guarantee provides that it reinstates if any guaranteed payment made by the primary Obligor is recaptured as a result of the primary Obligor’s bankruptcy or insolvency.

“Draft Securitization RTS”: The Draft Regulatory Technical Standards specifying requirements for originators, sponsors and original lenders relating to risk retention, published by the EBA on 31 July 2018.

“DTC”: The Depository Trust Company, its nominees and their respective successors.

“Due Date”: Each date on which any payment is due on an Asset in accordance with its terms.

“EBA”: The European Banking Authority (including any successor or replacement agency or authority).

“EC Ineligible Asset”: An asset acquired pursuant to Section 10.2(h) that (at the time of purchase) is not eligible for purchase as a Collateral Obligation; provided that, for so long as any Class of Secured Notes then Outstanding is rated by S&P, for purposes of this definition any such asset that satisfies the definition of “Collateral Obligation” only after giving effect to the carveouts therein for a Loan acquired in connection with an insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization, debt restructuring or workout shall be deemed to be an “EC Ineligible Asset”; provided further that all such assets shall remain “EC Ineligible Assets” until such asset meets the definition of “Collateral Obligation” without giving effect to such carveouts.

“Effective Date”: The earlier to occur of (i) one month before the second Payment Date and (ii) the first date on which the Collateral Manager certifies to the Trustee and the Collateral Administrator that the Target Initial Par Condition has been satisfied.

“Effective Date Interest Deposit Restriction”: A restriction that shall be satisfied if (a) the Specified Tested Items are satisfied, (b) the sum of the deposits from the Ramp-Up Account and the Principal Collection Subaccount into the Interest Collection Subaccount as Interest Proceeds does not exceed 1.0% of the Target Initial Par Amount and (c) after giving effect to such deposit, the Adjusted Collateral Principal Amount will be greater than (or equal to) the Target Initial Par Amount.

“Effective Date ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Condition”: The meaning set forth in Schedule 6 hereto.

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“Effective Date Report”: The meaning specified in Section 7.18(c).

“Effective Date Requirements”: The requirements set forth in Section 7.18(c) clauses (i) through (iii).

“Effective Date Special Redemption”: The meaning specified in Section 9.6.

“EIOPA”: The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (including any successor or replacement organization thereto).

“Electing Holder”: The meaning specified in Section 9.7(b).

“Election to Retain”: The meaning specified in Section 9.7(b).

“Eligible Intermediary”: A Securities Intermediary that satisfies, mutatis mutandis, the ratings and capitalization requirements set out in Section 10.1(a).

“Eligible Investment Required Ratings”: If such obligation (a)(i) has both a long-term and a short-term credit rating from ▇▇▇▇▇’▇, such ratings are “Aa3” or higher (not on credit watch for possible downgrade) and “P-1” (not on credit watch for possible downgrade), respectively, (ii) has only a long-term credit rating from ▇▇▇▇▇’▇, such rating is “Aaa” (not on credit watch for possible downgrade) and (iii) has only a short-term credit rating from ▇▇▇▇▇’▇, such rating is “P-1” (not on credit watch for possible downgrade) and (b)(i) has a short-term credit rating of at least “A-1” from S&P and, in the case of any obligation or security with a maturity of greater than 60 days, a long term credit rating of at least “AA-” by S&P.

“Eligible Investments”: Either Cash or any Dollar investment that, at the time it is Delivered (directly or through an intermediary or custodian), (x) matures not later than the earlier of (A) the date that is 60 days after the date of Delivery thereof and (B) the Business Day immediately preceding the Payment Date immediately following the date of Delivery thereof, and (y) is one or more of the following obligations:

(i) direct Registered obligations of, and Registered obligations the timely payment of principal and interest on which is fully and expressly guaranteed by, the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality of the United States of America whose obligations are expressly backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America that satisfy the Eligible Investment Required Ratings at the time of such investment or contractual commitment providing for such investment;

(ii) demand and time deposits in, certificates of deposit of, trust accounts with, bankers’ acceptances issued by, or federal funds sold by any depository institution or trust company organized under the laws of the United States of America (including the Bank or an Affiliate thereof) or any state thereof and subject to supervision and examination by federal and/or state banking authorities, in each case payable within 183 days after issuance, so long as the commercial paper and/or the debt obligations of such depository institution or trust company (or, in the case of the principal depository institution in a holding company system, the commercial paper or debt obligations of such holding company (provided that such holding company guarantees such investment issued by such principal depository institution pursuant to a guarantee that complies with each Rating Agency’s then-current criteria with respect to guarantees)) at the time of such investment or contractual commitment providing for such investment has the Eligible Investment Required Ratings; and

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(iii) registered money market funds that have, at all times, credit ratings of “Aaa-mf” by Moody’s and “AAAm” by S&P;

provided that, (1) Eligible Investments purchased with funds in the Accounts shall be held until maturity except as otherwise specifically provided herein and shall include only such obligations that mature (or are putable at par to the issuer thereof) no later than the Business Day prior to the next Payment Date unless such Eligible Investments are issued by the Bank or an Affiliate thereof, in which event such Eligible Investments may mature on such Payment Date; and (2) none of the foregoing obligations shall constitute Eligible Investments if (a) such obligation has an “f,” “p,” “t” or “sf” subscript assigned by S&P and ▇▇▇▇▇’▇, as applicable, (b) all, or substantially all, of the remaining amounts payable thereunder consist of interest and not principal payments, (c) payments with respect to such obligations or proceeds of disposition are subject to withholding taxes by any jurisdiction (other than any taxes imposed pursuant to FATCA) unless the payor is required to make “gross-up payments” that cover the full amount of any such withholding tax on an after-tax basis, (d) such obligation is secured by real property, (e) such obligation is purchased at a price greater than 100% of the principal or face amount thereof, (f) such obligation is the subject of an Offer, (g) in the Collateral Manager’s judgment, such obligation is subject to material non-credit related risks or (h) such obligation is a Structured Finance Obligation. Eligible Investments may include, without limitation, those investments issued by or made with U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association or the Bank or for which the Bank or an Affiliate of the Bank provides services and receives compensation; provided, further, that such investments meet the foregoing requirements of this definition.

“Eligible SPE Issuer”: Any CLO or other special purpose entity acting as a counterparty to the Issuer with respect to Participation Interest(s) (x) meeting ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ and S&P’s then-applicable criteria for bankruptcy remoteness, as applicable; provided that, Moody’s and S&P has been provided notice from the Issuer (or the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer) of any such Eligible SPE Issuer; and/or (y) for which the Global Rating Agency Condition is satisfied with respect to the proposed transaction.

“Enforcement Event”: The meaning specified in Section 11.1(a)(iii).

“Equity Security”: Any security that by its terms does not provide for periodic payments of interest at a stated interest rate and repayment of principal at a stated maturity and any other security or other debt obligation that is not eligible for purchase by the Issuer as a Collateral Obligation and is not an Eligible Investment (provided that a Loan received in exchange for a Defaulted Obligation or portion thereof in connection with an insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization, debt restructuring or workout of the Obligor thereof, which meets the definition of Collateral Obligation only as a result of the carve-outs set forth in clause (xxiii)(A) and/or (xxiii)(C) thereof, shall be deemed to be a Defaulted Obligation); it being understood that, except as set forth in Section 10.2(h), Equity Securities may not be purchased by the Issuer but may be received by the Issuer in exchange for a Collateral Obligation or a portion thereof in connection with an insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization, debt restructuring or workout of the issuer or Obligor thereof.

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“ERISA”: The United States Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.

“ERISA-Restricted Notes”: The Subordinated Notes.

“ESMA”: The European Securities and Markets Authority (including any successor or replacement organization thereto).

“ESRA”: The meaning specified in Section 1.3(v).

“EU Securitization Regulation”: Regulation (EU) 2017/2402, including any implementing regulation, technical standards and official guidance related thereto.

“Euroclear”: Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V., as operator of the Euroclear System.

“European Supervisory Authorities”: Together, the EBA, ▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇.

“Event of Default”: The meaning specified in Section 5.1.

“Excepted Property”: The meaning assigned in the Granting Clauses hereof.

“Excess Additional Junior Notes”: The meaning specified in Section 2.13(a)(vi).

“Excess Closing Date Participations”: As of any date of determination the Closing Date Participations (or portion thereof) with the Aggregate Principal Balance exceeding 20.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount; provided that, in determining which of the Closing Date Participations (or portion thereof) shall be included as the Excess Closing Date Participations, the Closing Date Participations that will result in the largest haircut to the Adjusted Collateral Principal Amount shall be deemed to constitute Excess Closing Date Participations.

“Excess Triple-C Adjustment Amount”: As of any date of determination, an amount equal to the excess, if any, of:

(a) the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations included in the Triple-C Excess; over

(b) the sum of the Market Values of all Collateral Obligations included in the Triple-C Excess.

“Excess Weighted Average Coupon”: (i) A percentage equal as of any Measurement Date to a number obtained by multiplying (a) the excess, if any, of the Weighted Average Coupon over the Minimum Weighted Average Coupon by (b) the number obtained by dividing the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Fixed Rate Obligations by the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Floating Rate Obligations or (ii) a percentage designated by the Collateral Manager that is lower than the percentage calculated pursuant to clause (i).

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“Excess Weighted Average Floating Spread”: (i) A percentage equal as of any Measurement Date to a number obtained by multiplying (a) the excess, if any, of the Weighted Average Floating Spread over the Minimum Floating Spread by (b) the number obtained by dividing the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Floating Rate Obligations by the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Fixed Rate Obligations or (ii) a percentage designated by the Collateral Manager that is lower than the percentage calculated pursuant to clause (i).

“Exchange Act”: The United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

“Exchange Transaction”: The meaning specified in Section 12.2(b).

“Exchanged Defaulted Obligation”: The meaning specified in Section 12.2(b).

“Exercise Notice”: The meaning specified in Section 9.7(c).

“Expense Reserve Account”: The account established pursuant to Section 10.3(d).

“FATCA”: Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code and the Treasury Regulations (and any notices, guidance or official pronouncements) promulgated thereunder, any agreement entered into pursuant thereto, any law implementing an intergovernmental agreement or approach thereto, or any analogous provision of non-U.S. law.

“Federal Reserve Board”: The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

“Fee Basis Amount”: As of any date of determination, the sum of (a) the Collateral Principal Amount, (b) the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Defaulted Obligations and (c) the aggregate amount of all Principal Financed Accrued Interest.

“Fiduciary”: The meaning specified in Section 2.5(i).

“Financial Asset”: The meaning specified in Section 8-102(a)(9) of the UCC.

“Financing Statements”: The meaning specified in Section 9-102(a)(39) of the UCC.

“Firm Bid”: With respect to a Collateral Obligation, a binding, irrevocable bid for value for such Collateral Obligation from a dealer or the Collateral Manager pursuant to Section 5.5(c) to purchase such Collateral Obligation, which bid shall not be subject to a Bid Disqualification Condition.

“First Interest Determination End Date”: October 15, 2025.

“First-Lien Last-Out Loan”: A senior secured Loan that, prior to a default with respect to such Loan, is entitled to receive payments pari passu with other senior secured Loans of the same Obligor, but following a default becomes fully subordinated to other senior secured Loans of the same Obligor and is not entitled to any payments until such other senior secured Loans are paid in full.

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“Fitch”: Fitch Ratings, Inc. and any successor in interest; provided that if Fitch is no longer rating any of the Secured Notes at the request of the Issuer, references to it hereunder and the other Transaction Documents shall be inapplicable and shall have no force or effect.

“Fitch Rating”: The meaning specified in Schedule 9 hereto.

“Fixed Rate Notes”: Any Note that accrues interest at a fixed rate for so long as such Note accrues interest at a fixed rate.

“Fixed Rate Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation that bears a fixed rate of interest.

“Floating Rate Notes”: Any Note that accrues interest at a floating rate for so long as such Note accrues interest at a floating rate.

“Floating Rate Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation that bears a floating rate of interest.

“GAAP”: The meaning specified in Section 6.3(j).

“Global Note”: Any Global Secured Note or Global Subordinated Note.

“Global Rating Agency Condition”: With respect to any action taken or to be taken by or on behalf of the Issuer, satisfaction of the ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating Condition (to the extent applicable) and the S&P Rating Condition (to the extent applicable).

“Global Secured Note”: Any Regulation S Global Secured Note or Rule 144A Global Secured Note.

“Global Subordinated Note”: Any Rule 144A Global Subordinated Note.

“Grant” or “Granted”: To grant, bargain, sell, convey, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge, create and grant a security interest in and right of setoff against, deposit, set over and confirm. A Grant of the Assets, or of any other instrument, shall include all rights, powers and options (but none of the obligations) of the granting party thereunder, including, the immediate continuing right to claim for, collect, receive and receipt for principal and interest payments in respect of the Assets, and all other Monies payable thereunder, to give and receive notices and other communications, to make waivers or other agreements, to exercise all rights and options, to bring Proceedings in the name of the granting party or otherwise, and generally to do and receive anything that the granting party is or may be entitled to do or receive thereunder or with respect thereto.

“Group I Country”: The Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom (and any other additional countries as may be notified by Moody’s to the Collateral Manager or identified by Moody’s as such in a press release, written criteria or other public announcement from time to time or as may be identified by the Collateral Manager subject to satisfaction of the ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating Condition).

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“Group II Country”: Germany, Ireland, Sweden and Switzerland (and any other additional countries as may be notified by Moody’s to the Collateral Manager or identified by Moody’s as such in a press release, written criteria or other public announcement from time to time or as may be identified by the Collateral Manager subject to satisfaction of the ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating Condition).

“Group III Country”: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Norway (and any other additional countries as may be notified by Moody’s to the Collateral Manager or identified by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ as such in a press release, written criteria or other public announcement from time to time or as may be identified by the Collateral Manager subject to satisfaction of the ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating Condition).

“Hedge Agreement”: Any interest rate swap, floor and/or cap agreements, including without limitation one or more interest rate basis swap agreements, or foreign exchange agreements, as applicable, between the Issuer and any Hedge Counterparty, as amended from time to time, and any replacement agreement entered into pursuant to this Indenture.

“Hedge Counterparty”: Any one or more institutions entering into or guaranteeing a Hedge Agreement with the Issuer that satisfies the Required Hedge Counterparty Rating that has entered into a Hedge Agreement with the Issuer, including any permitted assignee or successor under the Hedge Agreements.

“Hedge Counterparty Collateral Account”: The account established pursuant to Section 10.3(f).

“High Yield Bond”: Any assignment of or other interest in a publicly issued or privately placed debt obligation of a corporation or other entity (other than a loan, a Senior Secured Bond or a Senior Secured Note).

“Highest Ranking Class”: The Class or Classes of Secured Notes that rank higher in right of payment than each other Class of Secured Notes in the Note Payment Sequence so long as such Class is Outstanding and rated by S&P. With respect to such determination, Pari Passu Classes will be considered the same Class.

“Holder”: With respect to any Note, the Person whose name appears on the Register as the registered holder of such Note.

“Holder Notice”: The meaning specified in Section 14.4(b).

“IAI”: A Person that is an “accredited investor” within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) of Regulation D under the Securities Act or any entity in which all of the equity owners come within such paragraphs.

“IAI/QP”: Any Person that, at the time of its acquisition, purported acquisition or proposed acquisition of Notes is both an IAI (and not a Qualified Institutional Buyer) and a Qualified Purchaser (or a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity (other than a trust, except as otherwise agreed to by the Issuer), each shareholder, partner, member or other equity owner of which is a Qualified Purchaser).

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“Incurrence Covenant”: A covenant by any borrower to comply with one or more financial covenants only upon the occurrence of certain actions of the borrower, including a debt issuance, dividend payment, share purchase, merger, amalgamation, acquisition or divestiture, unless, as of any date of determination, such action was taken or such event has occurred, in each case the effect of which causes such covenant to meet the criteria of a Maintenance Covenant.

“Indenture”: This instrument as originally executed and, if from time to time supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof, as so supplemented or amended.

“Independent”: As to any Person, any other Person (including, in the case of an accountant or lawyer, a firm of accountants or lawyers, and any member thereof, or an investment bank and any member thereof) who (i) does not have and is not committed to acquire any material direct or any material indirect financial interest in such Person or in any Affiliate of such Person, and (ii) is not connected with such Person as an Officer, employee, promoter, underwriter, voting trustee, partner, director or Person performing similar functions. “Independent,” when used with respect to any accountant, may include an accountant who audits the books of such Person if in addition to satisfying the criteria set forth above the accountant is independent with respect to such Person within the meaning of Rule 101 of the Code of Professional Conduct of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. For purposes of this definition, no manager or director of any Person will fail to be Independent solely because such Person acts as an independent manager or independent director thereof or of any such Person’s Affiliates.

Whenever any Independent Person’s opinion or certificate is to be furnished to the Trustee, such opinion or certificate shall state that the signer has read this definition and that the signer is Independent within the meaning hereof.

Any pricing service, certified public accountant or legal counsel that is required to be Independent of another Person under this Indenture must satisfy the criteria above with respect to the Issuer, the Collateral Manager and their Affiliates.

“Independent Manager”: A natural person who, (A) for the five-year period prior to his or her appointment as Independent Manager, has not been, and during the continuation of his or her service as Independent Manager is not: (i) an employee, director, stockholder, member, manager, partner, trustee or officer or direct or indirect legal or beneficial owner (or a person who controls, whether directly, indirectly, or otherwise any of the foregoing) of the Issuer or any of its respective Affiliates (other than his or her service as a special member, independent manager, independent trustee or such other similar function of the Issuer or other Affiliates that are structured to be “bankruptcy remote”); (ii) a customer, consultant, creditor, contractor or supplier (or a person who controls, whether directly, indirectly, or otherwise any of the foregoing) of the Issuer or any of its respective Affiliates (other than his or her service as a special member, independent manager, independent trustee or such other similar function of the Issuer); (iii) any member of the immediate family of a person described in clause (i) or (ii) above (other than with respect to clause (i) or (ii) relating to his or her service as (y) an Independent Manager of the Issuer or (z) an independent manager of any Affiliate of the Issuer which is a bankruptcy remote limited purpose entity), and (B) has, (i) prior experience as an Independent Manager for a corporation or limited liability company whose charter documents required the unanimous consent of all Independent Manager thereof before such entity could consent to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it or could file a petition seeking relief under any applicable federal or state law relating to bankruptcy and (ii) at least three years of employment experience with one or more entities that provide, in the ordinary course of their respective businesses, advisory, management or placement services to issuers of securitization or structured finance instruments, agreements or securities.

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“Index Maturity”: With respect to any Class of Secured Notes, the period indicated with respect to such Class in Section 2.3.

“Industry Diversity Measure”: As of any Measurement Date, the number obtained by dividing (a) 1 by (b) the sum of the squares of the quotients, for each S&P Industry Classification, obtained by dividing (i) the Aggregate Principal Balance at such time of all Collateral Obligations (other than Defaulted Obligations) issued by Obligors that belong to such S&P Industry Classification by (ii) the Aggregate Principal Balance at such time of all Collateral Obligations (other than Defaulted Obligations).

“Information”: S&P’s “Credit FAQ: Anatomy Of A Credit Estimate: What It Means And How We Do It?” dated January 2021 and any other available information S&P reasonably requests in order to produce a credit estimate for a particular asset.

“Information Agent”: The meaning specified in Section 7.20(b).

“Initial Interest Coverage Test Date”: The Determination Date relating to the second Payment Date after the Closing Date.

“Initial Purchaser”: BofA Securities, Inc., in its capacity as initial purchaser under the Purchase and Placement Agreement.

“Initial Rating”: With respect to the Secured Notes, the rating or ratings, if any, indicated in Section 2.3.

“Initial Target Rating”: With respect to the Secured Notes issued on the Closing Date, the ratings of ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ and S&P, as applicable, in the table below:

“Instrument”: The meaning specified in Section 9-102(a)(47) of the UCC.

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“Interest Accrual Period”: With respect to each Class of Secured Notes (i) with respect to the initial Payment Date following the Closing Date, the period from and including the Closing Date to but excluding such Payment Date; (ii) with respect to the initial Payment Date following a Refinancing upon a redemption of the Secured Notes in whole that occurs on a Business Day that is not otherwise a Payment Date, the period from and including the related Redemption Date to but excluding such Payment Date; and (iii) with respect to each other Payment Date (or, with respect to any Class that is paid in full on an Interim Payment Date or redeemed on a Partial Redemption Date or a Re-Pricing Date, such Interim Payment Date, Redemption Date or Re-Pricing Date, as applicable), the period from and including the immediately preceding Payment Date to but excluding such Payment Date (or Interim Payment Date, Redemption Date or Re-Pricing Date, as applicable) until the principal of such Class is paid or made available for payment. For the purposes of determining any Interest Accrual Period in the case of any Fixed Rate Notes, the Payment Date shall be assumed to be the 15^th day of the relevant month (irrespective of whether such day is a Business Day).

“Interest Collection Subaccount”: The meaning specified in Section 10.2(a).

“Interest Coverage Ratio”: For any designated Class or Classes of Secured Notes, as of any date of determination, the percentage derived from the following equation: (A – B) / C, where:

For purposes of this definition, (i) the Class A-1 and the Class A-2 Notes will be treated as one Class.

“Interest Coverage Test”: A test that is satisfied with respect to any designated Class or Classes of Secured Notes as of any date of determination on, or subsequent to, the Initial Interest Coverage Test Date, if (i) the Interest Coverage Ratio for such Class or Classes on such date is at least equal to the Required Interest Coverage Ratio for such Class or Classes or (ii) such Class or Classes of Secured Notes are no longer Outstanding.

“Interest Determination Date”: With respect to (a) the first Interest Accrual Period following the Closing Date, (i) for the period from the Closing Date to the First Interest Determination End Date, the second U.S. Government Securities Business Day preceding the Closing Date and (ii) for the period from the First Interest Determination End Date to the first Payment Date after the Closing Date, the second U.S. Government Securities Business Day preceding the First Interest Determination End Date, and (b) each Interest Accrual Period thereafter, the second U.S. Government Securities Business Day preceding the first day of such Interest Accrual Period.

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“Interest Only Obligation”: Any obligation or security that does not provide in the related Underlying Instruments for the payment or repayment or a stated principal amount in one or more installments on or prior to its stated maturity.

“Interest Proceeds”: With respect to any Collection Period or Determination Date, without duplication, the sum of:

(i) all payments of interest (other than any interest due on any Partial Deferrable Obligation that has been deferred or capitalized at the time of acquisition) and delayed compensation (representing compensation for delayed settlement) received in Cash by the Issuer during the related Collection Period on the Collateral Obligations and Eligible Investments, including the accrued interest received in connection with a sale thereof during the related Collection Period, less any such amount that represents Principal Financed Accrued Interest;

(ii) all principal and interest payments received by the Issuer during the related Collection Period on Eligible Investments purchased with Interest Proceeds;

(iii) unless otherwise designated as Principal Proceeds by the Collateral Manager, all amendment and waiver fees, late payment fees, ticking fees and other fees received by the Issuer during the related Collection Period, except for those in connection with (a) the lengthening of the maturity of the related Collateral Obligation solely if, after such a lengthening, the Weighted Average Life Test is not satisfied or (b) the reduction of the par of the related Collateral Obligation, as determined by the Collateral Manager with notice to the Trustee and the Collateral Administrator;

(iv) commitment fees and other similar fees received by the Issuer during such Collection Period in respect of Revolving Collateral Obligations and Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligations;

(v) any payment received with respect to any Hedge Agreement other than (a) an upfront payment received upon entering into such Hedge Agreement or (b) a payment received as a result of the termination of any Hedge Agreement (net of any amounts due and payable by the Issuer to the related Hedge Counterparty in connection with such termination) to the extent not used by the Issuer to enter into a new or replacement Hedge Agreement (for purposes of this subclause (v), any such payment received or to be received on or before 10:00 a.m. New York time on the last day of the Collection Period in respect of such Payment Date will be deemed received in respect of the preceding Collection Period and included in the calculation of Interest Proceeds received in such Collection Period);

(vi) amounts deposited in the Collection Account from the Expense Reserve Account that are designated as Interest Proceeds in the sole discretion of the Collateral Manager pursuant to this Indenture in respect of the related Determination Date;

(vii) any funds transferred from (A) the Ramp-Up Account to the Interest Collection Subaccount pursuant to Section 10.3(c) and (B) the Principal Collection Subaccount to the Interest Collection Subaccount pursuant to Section 10.2(g)(ii);

(viii) [Reserved];

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(ix) any amounts deposited in the Interest Collection Subaccount from the Supplemental Reserve Account at the direction of the Collateral Manager pursuant to Section 10.3(e); and

(x) any amounts deposited in the Collection Account from the Interest Reserve Account that are designated as Interest Proceeds in the sole discretion of the Collateral Manager pursuant to Section 10.3(g);

provided that, (i) any amounts received in respect of any Defaulted Obligation will constitute Principal Proceeds (and not Interest Proceeds) until the aggregate of all collections in respect of such Defaulted Obligation since it became a Defaulted Obligation equals the outstanding principal balance of such Collateral Obligation at the time it became a Defaulted Obligation, (ii) the portion of any prepayment of a Collateral Obligation that is above the par amount of such Collateral Obligation will constitute Principal Proceeds (and not Interest Proceeds) and (iii) any amounts received in respect of any EC Ineligible Asset acquired pursuant to Section 10.2(h) or any Equity Security acquired by the Issuer in connection with the insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization, restructuring or workout of a Collateral Obligation or Equity Security included in the Assets, or the Obligor thereof, will constitute Principal Proceeds (and not Interest Proceeds). Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the Collateral Manager’s sole discretion (to be exercised on or before the related Determination Date), Interest Proceeds in any Collection Period may be classified as Principal Proceeds provided that such designation would not result in an interest deferral on any Class of Secured Notes.

“Interest Rate”: With respect to each Class of Secured Notes, (i) the per annum stated interest rate payable on such Class with respect to each Interest Accrual Period specified in Section 2.3 and (ii) with respect to any Class of Re-Pricing Eligible Notes, upon the occurrence of a Re-Pricing with respect to such Class (if such Class constitutes a Class of Re-Pricing Eligible Notes), the applicable Re-Pricing Rate.

“Interest Reserve Account”: The account established pursuant to Section 10.3(g).

“Interest Reserve Amount”: The amount specified in the Issuer Order delivered pursuant to Section 3.1(xi).

“Interim Determination Date”: The tenth Business Day prior to each Interim Payment Date.

“Interim Payment Date”: The meaning specified in Section 10.2(f).

“Interpolated Period”: The Interest Accrual Period (i) beginning on the Closing Date to but excluding the First Interest Determination End Date and (ii) beginning on the date of any Refinancing upon a redemption of the Secured Notes in whole that occurs on a Business Day that is not otherwise a Payment Date to but excluding the following Payment Date.

“Investment Company Act”: The United States Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended from time to time.

“Investment Criteria”: The criteria specified in Section 12.2.

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“Investment Criteria Adjusted Balance”: With respect to each Collateral Obligation, the Principal Balance of such Collateral Obligation; provided that, for all purposes the Investment Criteria Adjusted Balance of any:

(i) Deferring Obligation will be the lower of (i) the S&P Collateral Value of such Deferring Obligation and (ii) the ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Collateral Value of such Deferring Obligation;

(ii) Discount Obligation will be the product of the (x) purchase price (expressed as a percentage of par) and (y) Principal Balance of such Discount Obligation; and

(iii) Triple-C Collateral Obligation included in the Triple-C Excess will be the Market Value of such Collateral Obligation;

provided, further, that the Investment Criteria Adjusted Balance for any Collateral Obligation that satisfies more than one of the definitions of Deferring Obligation, Discount Obligation or is included in the Triple-C Excess will be the lowest amount determined pursuant to clauses (i), (ii) and (iii).

“Investor Consent Period”: The meaning specified in Section 8.4(a).

“IRS”: United States Internal Revenue Service.

“Issuer”: The Person named as such on the first page of this Indenture until a successor Person shall have become the Issuer pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Issuer” shall mean such successor Person.

“Issuer Order” and “Issuer Request”: A written order or request (which may be a standing order or request) dated and signed in the name of the Issuer or by an Authorized Officer of the Issuer or by the Collateral Manager by an Authorized Officer thereof, on behalf of the Issuer. For the avoidance of doubt, an order or request provided in an email or other electronic communication by an Authorized Officer of the Issuer or by an Authorized Officer of the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer shall constitute an Issuer Order, unless the Trustee otherwise requests that such Issuer Order be in writing.

“Issuer’s Website”: The meaning specified in Section 7.20(a).

“Junior Class”: With respect to a particular Class of Notes, each Class of Notes that is subordinated to such Class, as indicated in Section 2.3.

“Junior Notes Redemption Date”: The meaning specified in Section 9.4(g).

“Junior Redeemed Notes”: The meaning specified in Section 9.4(g).

“Last Closing Event”: As of any date of determination, the later of (x) the Closing Date or (y) the most recent date upon which the Secured Notes were refinanced in whole (but not in part).

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“Leveraged Loan Index”: With respect to (a) an obligation that is a Loan, The Daily Morningstar/LSTA U.S. Leveraged Loan Index, Bloomberg ticker SPBDALB, and (b) an obligation that is a not a Loan, The ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ US High Yield Master II Constrained Index, Bloomberg ticker HUC0, and in each case, any successor index thereto or any comparable U.S. leveraged loan or bond index (as applicable) reasonably designated by the Collateral Manager and provides notice of to the Rating Agencies.

“LLC Agreement”: The Second Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of the Issuer dated as of the Closing Date between the U.S. Retention Holder, as sole member, ADS, as designated manager and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, as independent manager, as amended, restated, waived or supplemented from time to time.

“Loan”: Any obligation for the payment or repayment of borrowed money that is documented by a term loan agreement, revolving loan agreement or other similar credit agreement.

“Long-Dated Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation with a maturity later than the earliest Stated Maturity of the Secured Notes.

“Maintenance Covenant”: A covenant by any borrower to comply with one or more financial covenants during each reporting period, whether or not such borrower has taken any specified action; provided that, a covenant that otherwise satisfies the definition hereof and only applies when amounts are outstanding under the related loan shall be a Maintenance Covenant.

“Majority”: With respect to any Class or Classes of Notes, the Holders of more than 50% of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Notes of such Class or Classes.

“Mandatory Redemption”: A redemption of the Notes in accordance with Section 9.1.

“Mandatory Tender”: The meaning specified in Section 9.7.

“Margin Stock”: “Margin Stock” as defined under Regulation U issued by the Federal Reserve Board, including any debt security which is by its terms convertible into “Margin Stock.”

“Market Value”: With respect to any Senior Secured Bonds, Senior Secured Notes, loans or other assets, the amount (determined by the Collateral Manager) equal to the product of the principal amount thereof and the price (excluding, in the case of Senior Secured Bonds, any accrued and unpaid interest thereon) determined in the following manner:

(i) (A) in the case of a loan only, the bid price determined by the Loan Pricing Corporation, LoanX Inc., Bloomberg L.P. or Markit Group Limited or (B) in the case of a Bond only, the bid price determined by Interactive Data Corporation or NASD’s TRACE or, in either case, or any other nationally recognized loan or bond pricing service selected by the Collateral Manager with notice to the Rating Agencies (in each case, only for so long as any Secured Notes rated by it remain Outstanding); or

(ii) if the price described in clause (i) is not available,

(1) the average of the bid prices determined by three broker-dealers active in the trading of such asset that are Independent from each other and the Issuer and the Collateral Manager;

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(2) if only two such bids can be obtained, the lower of the bid prices of such two bids; or

(3) if only one such bid can be obtained, and such bid was obtained from a Qualified Broker/Dealer, such bid; provided that, the Aggregate Principal Balance of Collateral Obligations held by the Issuer at any one time with Market Values determined pursuant to this clause (ii)(3) may not exceed 5% of the Collateral Principal Amount; or

(iii) if a price or such bid described in clause (i) or (ii) is not available, then the Market Value of an asset will be the lower of (x) the higher of (A) the lower of such asset’s (i) ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Recovery Rate and (ii) S&P Recovery Rate and (B) 70% of the notional amount of such asset and (y) the price at which the Collateral Manager reasonably believes such asset could be sold in the market within 30 days, as certified by the Collateral Manager to the Trustee and determined by the Collateral Manager consistent with the manner in which it would determine the market value of an asset for purposes of other funds or accounts managed by it; provided that, if the Collateral Manager is not a Registered Investment Adviser, the Market Value of any such asset may not be determined in accordance with this clause (iii) for more than 30 days; or

(iv) if the Market Value of an asset is not determined in accordance with clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above, then such Market Value shall be deemed to be zero until such determination is made in accordance with clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above.

“Master Loan Sale Agreement”: The master loan sale agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, among the Issuer, the U.S. Retention Holder and the Transferor, relating to the sale of Collateral Obligations from the Transferor to the U.S. Retention Holder, and the U.S. Retention Holder to the Issuer from time to time, as may be amended from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.

“Master Participation Agreements”: The Warehouse SPV Master Participation Agreements and the Banking Entity Master Participation Agreements.

“Maturity”: With respect to any Notes, the date on which the unpaid principal of such Note becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.

“Maturity Amendment”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation, any waiver, modification, amendment or variance that would extend the stated maturity date of such Collateral Obligation. For the avoidance of doubt, a waiver, modification, amendment or variance that would extend the stated maturity date of the credit facility of which a Collateral Obligation is part, but would not extend the stated maturity date of the Collateral Obligation held by the Issuer, does not constitute a Maturity Amendment.

“Maximum ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating Factor Test”: A test that will be satisfied on any Measurement Date if the Adjusted Weighted Average ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating Factor of the Collateral Obligations is less than or equal to the lower of (x) the sum of (i) the number set forth in the Asset Quality Matrix at the intersection of the applicable “row/column combination” chosen by the Collateral Manager (or interpolating between two adjacent rows and/or two adjacent columns, as applicable) as set forth in Section 7.18(g) plus (ii) the ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Weighted Average Recovery Adjustment and (y) 3300.

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“Measurement Date”: (i) Any day on which a purchase of a Collateral Obligation occurs, (ii) any Determination Date, (iii) the date as of which the information in any Monthly Report is calculated, (iv) with five Business Days prior written notice, any Business Day requested by either Rating Agency then rating any Class of Outstanding Notes and (v) the Effective Date.

“Medium Obligor Loan”: Any Collateral Obligation (i) where the total potential indebtedness of the relevant Obligor under all of its outstanding loan agreements, indentures and other Underlying Instruments is less than U.S.$250,000,000 and (ii) that is not a Small Obligor Loan (it being understood, and as a clarification only, that any principal payments made in respect of such loan agreements, indentures and other Underlying Instruments shall not be taken into account for purposes of this definition). For the avoidance of doubt, if a Collateral Obligation is determined not to be a Medium Obligor Loan at the time the Issuer commits to acquire such obligation, it shall not thereafter be deemed to be a Medium Obligor Loan.

“Merging Entity”: The meaning specified in Section 7.10.

“Minimum Denominations”: The meaning specified in Section 2.3.

“Minimum Floating Spread”: The number set forth in the column entitled “Minimum Weighted Average Spread” in the Asset Quality Matrix based upon the applicable “row/column combination” chosen by the Collateral Manager (or interpolating between two adjacent rows and/or two adjacent columns, as applicable) in accordance with Section 7.18(h), reduced by the ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Weighted Average Recovery Adjustment; provided that, the Minimum Floating Spread shall in no event be lower than 2.05%.

“Minimum Floating Spread Test”: A test that is satisfied on any Measurement Date if the Weighted Average Floating Spread plus the Excess Weighted Average Coupon equals or exceeds the Minimum Floating Spread.

“Minimum Price”: With respect to the purchase of a Collateral Obligation, a price equal to 60% of the par value thereof.

“Minimum Weighted Average Coupon”: (i) If any of the Collateral Obligations are Fixed Rate Obligations, 7.25% and (ii) otherwise, 0%.

“Minimum Weighted Average Coupon Test”: A test that is satisfied on any Measurement Date if the Weighted Average Coupon plus the Excess Weighted Average Floating Spread equals or exceeds the Minimum Weighted Average Coupon.

“Minimum Weighted Average ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Recovery Rate Test”: The meaning set forth in Schedule 6 hereto.

“Money”: The meaning specified in Section 1-201(24) of the UCC.

“Monthly Report”: The meaning specified in Section 10.5(a).

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“Monthly Report Commencement Date”: The meaning specified in Section 10.5(a).

“Monthly Report Determination Date”: The meaning specified in Section 10.5(a).

“▇▇▇▇▇’▇”: ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Investors Service and any successor thereto; provided that, if Moody’s is no longer rating any Class of Secured Notes at the request of the Issuer, references to it hereunder for all purposes of this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents shall be inapplicable and shall have no force or effect.

“▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Collateral Value”: The meaning set forth in Schedule 6 hereto.

“▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Counterparty Criteria”: The meaning set forth in Schedule 6 hereto.

“▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Default Probability Rating”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation, the rating determined pursuant to Schedule 3 hereto (or such other schedule provided by the Collateral Manager (in its sole discretion) to the Issuer, the Trustee and the Collateral Administrator based on ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ criteria as may be published from time to time).

“▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Derived Rating”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation whose ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating or ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Default Probability Rating cannot otherwise be determined pursuant to the definitions thereof, the rating determined for such Collateral Obligation as set forth in Schedule 3 hereto (or such other schedule provided by the Collateral Manager (in its sole discretion) to the Issuer, the Trustee and the Collateral Administrator based on ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ criteria as may be published from time to time).

“▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Diversity Test”: A test that will be satisfied on any Measurement Date if the Diversity Score (rounded to the nearest whole number) equals or exceeds the number set forth in the column entitled “Minimum Diversity Score” in the Asset Quality Matrix based upon the applicable “row/column combination” chosen by the Collateral Manager (or interpolating between two adjacent rows and/or two adjacent columns, as applicable) in accordance with Section 7.18(h).

“▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Industry Classification”: The meaning set forth on Schedule 6 hereto.

“▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Matrix Test”: The meaning set forth on Schedule 6 hereto.

“▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation, the rating determined pursuant to Schedule 3 hereto (or such other schedule provided by the Collateral Manager (in its sole discretion) to the Issuer, the Trustee and the Collateral Administrator based on Moody’s criteria as may be published from time to time).

“▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating Condition”: The meaning set forth on Schedule 6 hereto.

“▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating Factor”: For each Collateral Obligation, as of any Measurement Date, the number set forth in the table below opposite the ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Default Probability Rating of such Collateral Obligation.

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For purposes of the Maximum ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating Factor Test, any Collateral Obligation issued or guaranteed by the United States government or any agency or instrumentality thereof is assigned a ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Default Probability Rating equal to the then-current ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ rating of the direct obligations of the United States government.

“▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Recovery Amount”: The meaning set forth in Schedule 6 hereto.

“▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Recovery Rate”: The meaning set forth on Schedule 6 hereto.

“▇▇▇▇▇’▇ RiskCalc Calculation”: The meaning set forth on Schedule 6 hereto.

“▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Weighted Average Recovery Adjustment”: The meaning set forth on Schedule 6 hereto.

“Net Exposure Amount”: As of the applicable Cut-Off Date, with respect to any Collateral Obligation which is a Revolving Collateral Obligation or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation, the lesser of (i) the aggregate amount of the then unfunded funding obligations thereunder and (ii) the amount necessary to cause, on the applicable Cut-Off Date with respect to such Collateral Obligation, the amount of funds on deposit in the Revolver Funding Account to be at least equal to the sum of the unfunded funding obligations under all Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligations and Revolving Collateral Obligations then included in the Assets.

“Net Purchased Loan Balance”: As of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) the sum of (i) the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations conveyed by the U.S. Retention Holder to the Issuer prior to such date, calculated as of the respective Cut-Off Dates of such Collateral Obligations, and (ii) the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations acquired by the Issuer other than from the U.S. Retention Holder prior to such date minus (b) the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations repurchased by the Transferor prior to such date.

“Non-Call Period”: The period from the Closing Date to but excluding July 15, 2027.

“Non-Consent to Supplemental Indenture Form”: The meaning specified in Section 8.4.

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“Non-Consenting Holder”: Any Holder that has (a) delivered (via its DTC custodian or for any Certificated Notes, on behalf of itself) a properly completed and executed Non-Consent to Supplemental Indenture Form pursuant to Section 8.4 within the applicable Investor Consent Period (or with respect to a standing instruction under Section 8.4(c) and the first proviso to the first sentence of Section 8.4(a) on or after the Closing Date) in which such Holder indicates it does not consent to any such proposed supplemental indenture under Section 8.2, or (b) provided in writing that it does not consent to a proposed supplemental indenture within the applicable Investor Consent Period.

“Non-Consenting Holder Confirmation”: The meaning specified in Section 8.4(g).

“Non-Consenting Holder Liquidity Offering Event”: An event that shall occur, at the sole direction of the Issuer (or the Collateral Manager on its behalf), if, in connection with an amendment or supplemental indenture pursuant to Section 8.2, the Issuer (or the Collateral Manager on its behalf) requires any Non-Consenting Holder to sell their Notes to one or more transferees (which transferees may be identified by the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer) at a price equal to, with respect to the Secured Notes, the applicable Redemption Price.

“Non-Consenting Holder Register”: The meaning specified in Section 8.4(e).

“Non-Consenting Holder Registrar”: The meaning specified in Section 8.4(e).

“Non-Consenting Holder Registrar Certificate”: The meaning specified in Section 8.4(f).

“Non-Electing Holder”: The meaning specified in Section 9.7(b).

“Non-Emerging Market Obligor”: An Obligor that is Domiciled in (x) any country that has a country ceiling for foreign currency bonds of at least “Aa2” by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ or (y) without duplication, the United States.

“Non-Permitted ERISA Holder”: The meaning specified in Section 2.11(d).

“Non-Permitted Holder”: The meaning specified in Section 2.11(b).

“Non-Recourse Obligation”: An obligation that falls into any one of the following types of specialized lending, except any obligation that is assigned both a CFR by Moody’s and a rating by S&P pursuant to clause (i)(a) of the definition of S&P Rating:

(1) Project finance: a method of funding in which the lender looks primarily to the revenues generated by a single project, both as the source of repayment and as security for the exposure. Repayment depends primarily on the project’s cash flow and on the collateral value of the project’s assets, such as power plants, chemical processing plants, mines, transportation infrastructure, environment, and telecommunications infrastructure.

(2) Object finance: a method of funding the acquisition of physical assets (e.g., ships, aircraft, satellites, railcars, and fleetings) where the repayment of the exposure is dependent on the cash flows generated by the specific assets that have been financed and pledged or assigned to the lender. A primary source of these cash flows might be rental or lease contracts with one or several third parties.

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(3) Commodities finance: a structured short-term lending to finance reserves, inventories, or receivables of exchange-traded commodities (e.g., crude oil, metals, or crops), where the exposure will be repaid from the proceeds of the sale of the commodity and the borrower has no independent capacity to repay the exposure. This is the case when the borrower has no other activities and no other material assets on its balance sheet.

(4) Income-producing real estate: a method of providing funding to real estate (such as, office buildings to let, retail space, multifamily residential buildings, industrial or warehouse space, and hotels) where the prospects for repayment and recovery on the exposure depend primarily on the cash flows generated by the asset. The primary source of these cash flows would generally be lease or rental payments or the sale of the asset.

(5) High-volatility commercial real estate: a financing any of the land acquisition, development and construction phases for properties of those types in such jurisdictions, where the source of repayment at origination of the exposure is either the future uncertain sale of property or cash flows whose source of repayment is substantially uncertain (e.g. the property has not yet been leased to the occupancy rate prevailing in that geographic market for that type of commercial real estate).

Notwithstanding the foregoing, an obligation that falls into any one of the foregoing types of specialized lending obligation shall not constitute a Non-Recourse Obligation if it (i) is acquired by the Issuer on or prior to the Closing Date pursuant to the Master Participation Agreements and (ii) is assigned both a CFR by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ and a rating by S&P pursuant to clause (i)(a) of the definition of S&P Rating.

“Normalizing Factor”: The meaning set forth in Schedule 6 hereto.

“Note Interest Amount”: With respect to any Class of Secured Notes and any Payment Date, the amount of interest for the related Interest Accrual Period payable in respect of each U.S.$100,000 Outstanding principal amount of such Class of Secured Notes.

“Note Payment Sequence”: The application, in accordance with the Priority of Payments, of Interest Proceeds or Principal Proceeds, as applicable, in the following order:

(i) to the payment of accrued and unpaid interest (including any defaulted interest and interest thereon) on the Class A-1 Notes until such amount has been paid in full;

(ii) to the payment of principal of the Class A-1 Notes until the Class A-1 Notes have been paid in full;

(iii) to the payment of accrued and unpaid interest (including any defaulted interest and interest thereon) on the Class A-2 Notes, until such amount has been paid in full;

(iv) to the payment of principal of the Class A-2 Notes until the Class A-2 Notes have been paid in full;

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(v) (1) first, to the payment of any accrued and unpaid interest (excluding Deferred Interest but including interest on Deferred Interest) on the Class B Notes and (2) second, to the payment of any Deferred Interest on the Class B Notes, in each case, until such amounts have been paid in full;

(vi) to the payment of principal of the Class B Notes until the Class B Notes have been paid in full;

(vii) (1) first, to the payment of any accrued and unpaid interest (excluding Deferred Interest but including interest on Deferred Interest) on the Class C Notes and (2) second, to the payment of any Deferred Interest on the Class C Notes, in each case, until such amounts have been paid in full;

(viii) to the payment of principal of the Class C Notes until the Class C Notes have been paid in full.

“Noteholder”: With respect to any Note, the Person whose name appears on the Register as the registered holder of such Note.

“Notes”: The Secured Notes and the Subordinated Notes authorized by, and authenticated and delivered under, this Indenture (as specified in Section 2.3) including, for the avoidance of doubt, any notes issued pursuant to Section 2.13.

“Notice of Contribution”: The written notice delivered by a Notifying Contributor in connection with each proposed Contribution or a beneficial owner of Subordinated Notes that elects to participate in a Contribution, as applicable, in accordance with Section 11.1(h), in each case in the form of Exhibit E-1 hereto, which shall contain the following information: (i) information evidencing such Person’s beneficial ownership of Notes, if applicable, (ii) the amount of such proposed Contribution or participation in such proposed Contribution, as applicable, (iii) such Person’s contact information, (iv) solely in the case of the Notifying Contributor, the rate of return applicable to such proposed Contribution and (v) payment instructions for the payment of the related Contribution Repayment Amount (together with any information reasonably requested by the Trustee or the Paying Agent).

“Notifying Contributor”: The meaning specified in Section 11.1(h).

“Obligor”: The issuer of a Senior Secured Bond or a Senior Secured Note, the obligor of a Loan or Senior Secured Note, or guarantor under a Loan.

“Offer”: The meaning specified in Section 10.6(c).

“Offering”: The offering of any Notes pursuant to the relevant Offering Memorandum.

“Offering Memorandum”: The offering memorandum relating to the offer and sale of the Notes dated July 31, 2025, including any supplements thereto.

“Officer”: With respect to the Issuer any limited liability company, any managing member or manager thereof or any person to whom the rights and powers of management thereof are delegated in accordance with the limited liability company agreement of such limited liability company.

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“Offset Funding”: The meaning specified in Section 2.13(d).

“offshore transaction”: The meaning specified in Regulation S.

“Operational Arrangements”: The meaning specified in Section 9.7.

“Opinion of Counsel”: A written opinion addressed to the Trustee and, if required by the terms hereof, each Rating Agency (or upon which such Rating Agency is permitted to rely), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee (and, if so addressed, each Rating Agency), of an attorney admitted to practice, or a nationally or internationally recognized and reputable law firm one or more of the partners of which are admitted to practice, before the highest court of any State of the United States or the State of Delaware, which attorney or law firm, as the case may be, may, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, be counsel for the Issuer and which attorney or law firm, as the case may be, shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee. Whenever an Opinion of Counsel is required hereunder, such Opinion of Counsel may rely on opinions of other counsel who are so admitted and so satisfactory, which opinions of other counsel shall accompany such Opinion of Counsel and shall be addressed to the Trustee (and, if required by the terms hereof, each Rating Agency) or shall state that the Trustee (and, if required by the terms hereof, each Rating Agency) shall be entitled to rely thereon.

“Optional Redemption”: A redemption of the Notes in accordance with Section 9.2.

“Other Plan Law”: Any state, local, other federal or non-U.S. laws or regulations that are substantially similar to the prohibited transaction provisions of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code.

“Outstanding”: With respect to any Notes or the Notes of any specified Class, as of any date of determination, all of the Notes or all of the Notes of such Class, as the case may be, theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:

(i) Notes theretofore canceled by the Registrar or delivered to the Registrar for cancellation in accordance with the terms of Section 2.9;

(ii) Notes or portions thereof for whose payment or redemption funds in the necessary amount have been theretofore irrevocably deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the Holders of such Notes pursuant to Section 4.1(a)(i)(2); provided that, if such Notes or portions thereof are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;

(iii) Notes in exchange for or in lieu of which other Notes have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, unless proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that any such Notes are held by a “protected purchaser” (within the meaning of Section 8-303 of the UCC); and

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(iv) Notes alleged to have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen for which replacement Notes have been issued as provided in Section 2.6;

provided that, in determining whether the Holders of the requisite Aggregate Outstanding Amount have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, (a) (x) Notes owned by the Issuer will be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding and (y) (only in the case of a vote on (i) the removal of the Collateral Manager for “cause” and (ii) the waiver of any event constituting “cause”) Collateral Manager Securities will be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Notes that a Bank Officer of the Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded; provided that, for purposes of this sentence, email notice from the Collateral Manager to a Bank Officer of the Trustee regarding such ownership shall constitute actual knowledge and (b) Notes so owned that have been pledged in good faith shall be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Notes and that the pledgee is not one of the Persons specified above.

“Overcollateralization Ratio”: With respect to any specified Class or Classes of Secured Notes as of any date of determination, the percentage derived from: (i) the Adjusted Collateral Principal Amount on such date divided by (ii) the sum of (A) the Aggregate Outstanding Amount on such date of the Secured Notes of such Class or Classes and each Priority Class of Secured Notes plus (B) the aggregate outstanding and unpaid Deferred Interest (if any) with respect to such Class or Classes and each Priority Class of Secured Notes. For this purpose, (i) the Class A-1 and the Class A-2 Notes will be treated as one Class.

“Overcollateralization Ratio Test”: A test that is satisfied with respect to any designated Class or Classes of Secured Notes as of any date of determination on which such test is applicable if (i) the Overcollateralization Ratio for such Class or Classes on such date is at least equal to the Required Overcollateralization Ratio for such Class or Classes or (ii) such Class or Classes of Secured Notes is no longer Outstanding.

“Pari Passu Class”: With respect to any specified Class of Notes, each Class of Notes, if any, that ranks pari passu with such Class, as indicated in Section 2.3. For the avoidance of doubt, except as otherwise expressly set forth herein, Pari Passu Classes shall be considered separate Classes for all purposes hereunder.

“Partial Deferrable Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation with respect to which under the related Underlying Instruments (i) a portion of the interest due thereon is required to be paid in cash on each payment date therefor and is not permitted to be deferred or capitalized (which portion will at least be equal to the applicable index with respect to which interest on such Collateral Obligation is calculated (or, in the case of a fixed rate Collateral Obligation, at least equal to the forward swap rate for a designated maturity equal to the scheduled maturity of such Collateral Obligation)) and (ii) the issuer thereof or Obligor thereon may defer or capitalize the remaining portion of the interest due thereon; provided, however, that a restructured Collateral Obligation or a new Collateral Obligation, in each case, received in connection with an insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization, debt restructuring or workout of the obligor thereof that, after such restructuring or receipt thereof (as applicable), either (i) permits the deferral of all interest or (ii) has a current cash pay interest rate lower than required by clause (i) or (ii) of this definition may be deemed a Partial Deferrable Obligation by the Collateral Manager in its sole discretion.

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“Partial Redemption Date”: Any Business Day on which a Refinancing in part by Class occurs.

“Partial Redemption Interest Proceeds”: In connection with a Refinancing of the Secured Notes in part by Class on a Partial Redemption Date that is not a Payment Date, Interest Proceeds in an amount equal to the sum of (a) the lesser of (i) the amount of accrued interest on the Classes being refinanced and (ii) the amount the Collateral Manager reasonably determines would have been available for distribution under the Priority of Payments for the payment of accrued interest on the Classes being refinanced on the next subsequent Payment Date if such Notes had not been refinanced plus (b) the amount the Collateral Manager reasonably determines would have been available for distribution under the Priority of Payments for the payment of Administrative Expenses on the next subsequent Payment Date.

“Partial Redemption Priority of Payments”: The meaning specified in Section 11.1(a)(iv).

“Participation Interest”: A participation interest in a Loan originated by a bank or financial institution that, at the time of acquisition, or the Issuer’s commitment to acquire the same, satisfies each of the following criteria: (i) such participation would constitute a Collateral Obligation were it acquired directly, (ii) the Selling Institution is a lender on the loan, (iii) the aggregate participation in the loan granted by such Selling Institution to any one or more participants does not exceed the principal amount or commitment with respect to which the Selling Institution is a lender under such loan, (iv) such participation does not grant, in the aggregate, to the participant in such participation a greater interest than the Selling Institution holds in the loan or commitment that is the subject of the participation, (v) the entire purchase price for such participation is paid in full (without the benefit of financing from the Selling Institution or its Affiliates) at the time of the Issuer’s acquisition (or, to the extent of a participation in the unfunded commitment under a Revolving Collateral Obligation or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation, at the time of the funding of such loan), (vi) the participation provides the participant all of the economic benefit and risk of the whole or part of the loan or commitment that is the subject of the loan participation and (vii) such participation is documented under a Loan Syndications and Trading Association, Loan Market Association or similar agreement standard for loan participation transactions among institutional market participants. For the avoidance of doubt, a Participation Interest shall not include a sub-participation interest in any loan.

“Partner”: Any Person that is a holder or beneficial owner of a Subordinated Note (or an interest therein) or that is otherwise a “partner” in the Issuer within the meaning of the Code.

“Partnership Representative”: The meaning specified in Section 7.17(g).

“Partnership Tax Audit Rules”: The meaning specified in Section 7.17(h).

“Paying Agent”: Any Person authorized by the Issuer to pay the principal of or interest on any Notes on behalf of the Issuer as specified in Section 7.2.

“Payment Account”: The payment account established pursuant to Section 10.3(a).

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“Payment Date”: The 15th day of January, April, July and October of each year (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day), commencing in January 2026 and any Redemption Date (other than a Partial Redemption Date or a Re-Pricing Date that occurs on a Business Day that is not otherwise a Payment Date), except that at any time that there are no Secured Notes Outstanding, Payment Dates shall be on such dates as determined by the Collateral Manager in its sole discretion (with five (5) Business Days prior notice to the Trustee).

“PBGC”: The United States Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

“Permitted RIC Distribution”: Distributions to ADS to the extent (when added to any other distributions received by ADS on the Subordinated Notes) required to allow ADS to make sufficient distributions to qualify as a regulated investment company within the meaning of Section 851 of the Code and to otherwise eliminate federal or state income or excise taxes payable by ADS in or with respect to any taxable year of ADS (or any calendar year, as relevant); provided that (A) the amount of any such payments made in or with respect to any such taxable year (or calendar year, as relevant) of ADS (when added to any other distributions received by ADS on the Subordinated Notes) shall not exceed 102% of the amounts that the Issuer would have been required to distribute to ADS to: (i) allow the Issuer to satisfy the minimum distribution requirements that would be imposed by Section 852(a) of the Code (or any successor thereto) to maintain its eligibility to be taxed as a regulated investment company for any such taxable year, (ii) reduce to zero for any such taxable year the Issuer’s liability for federal income taxes imposed on (x) its investment company taxable income pursuant to Section 852(b)(1) of the Code (or any successor thereto) or (y) its net capital gain pursuant to Section 852(b)(3) of the Code (or any successor thereto), and (iii) reduce to zero the Issuer’s liability for federal excise taxes for any such calendar year imposed pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code (or any successor thereto), in the case of each of (i), (ii) or (iii), calculated assuming that the Issuer had qualified to be taxed as a “regulated investment company” under the Code and (B) amounts may be distributed pursuant to this definition only from Interest Proceeds to the extent available in the Collection Account and only so long as (v) all Coverage Tests are satisfied immediately prior to and immediately after giving effect to such Permitted RIC Distribution, (w) the Issuer reasonably expects all Coverage Tests to be satisfied on the immediately succeeding Payment Date, after giving effect to such Permitted RIC Distribution, (y) after giving effect on a pro forma basis to the application of Interest Proceeds to the payment of Permitted RIC Distributions and taking into account scheduled distributions that are expected to be received prior to the next Payment Date, sufficient Interest Proceeds will be available on the next Payment Date to pay in full all amounts due on all Classes of Secured Notes pursuant to Section 11.1(a)(i), (y) the Collateral Manager gives at least one (1) Business Day’s prior written notice thereof to the Trustee and the Collateral Administrator and (z) the Issuer and the Collateral Manager confirm in writing (which may be by email) to the Trustee and the Collateral Administrator that the conditions to a Permitted RIC Distribution set forth herein are satisfied.

“Permitted Liens”: With respect to the Assets: (i) security interests, liens and other encumbrances created pursuant to the Transaction Documents, (ii) security interests, liens and other encumbrances in favor of the Trustee created pursuant to this Indenture and (iii) security interests, liens and other encumbrances, if any, which have priority over first priority perfected security interests in the Collateral Obligations or any portion thereof under the UCC or any other applicable law.

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“Permitted Non-Loan Asset”: A Senior Secured Bond, High Yield Bond, and/or Senior Secured Note.

“Permitted Offer”: An Offer (i) pursuant to the terms of which the offeror offers to acquire a debt obligation (including a Collateral Obligation) in exchange for consideration consisting of (x) Cash in an amount equal to or greater than the full face amount of the debt obligation being exchanged plus any accrued and unpaid interest or (y) other debt obligations that rank pari passu or senior to the debt obligation being exchanged which have a face amount equal to or greater than the full face amount of the debt obligation being exchanged and are eligible to be Collateral Obligations plus any accrued and unpaid interest in Cash and (ii) as to which the Collateral Manager has determined in its reasonable commercial judgment that the offeror has sufficient access to financing to consummate the Offer.

“Permitted Use”: With respect to any amount on deposit in the Supplemental Reserve Account or any Contribution, any of the following uses: (i) the transfer of the applicable portion of such amount to the Interest Collection Subaccount for application as Interest Proceeds; (ii) the transfer of the applicable portion of such amount to the Principal Collection Subaccount for application as Principal Proceeds; (iii) the transfer of the applicable portion of such amount to pay any costs or expenses associated with a Refinancing, a Re-Pricing, an additional issuance of Notes or an amendment; (iv) the repurchase of Secured Notes of any Class through a tender offer, in the open market, or in privately negotiated transaction(s) in each case, subject to applicable law and in accordance with Section 2.9(b); (v) solely with respect to the proceeds of any Additional Junior Securities issued pursuant to Section 2.13, the distribution of such amount directly to the Holders of the Subordinated Notes on the date of the issuance of such Additional Junior Securities (or such later date selected by the Collateral Manager and consented to by a Majority of the Subordinated Notes) (any such distribution, an “Additional Issuance Payment”); and (vi) the transfer of the applicable portion of such amount to pay any costs or expenses associated with an Exchange Transaction.

“Person”: An individual, corporation (including a business trust), partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, association, joint stock company, statutory trust, trust (including any beneficiary thereof), unincorporated association or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

“Portfolio Company”: Any company that is controlled by the Collateral Manager, an Affiliate thereof, or an account, fund, client or portfolio established and controlled by the Collateral Manager or an Affiliate thereof (it being understood that, for the avoidance of doubt, from and after the Closing Date, Apollo Credit shall be deemed to be an Affiliate of the Collateral Manager solely for the purposes of this definition for so long as Apollo Credit or any of its Affiliates acts as investment manager to the Collateral Manager).

“Post-Reinvestment Collateral Obligation”: After the end of the Reinvestment Period, (i) a Collateral Obligation which has prepaid, whether by tender, redemption prior to the stated maturity thereof, exchange or other prepayment or (ii) any Credit Risk Obligation which is sold by the Issuer.

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“Post-Reinvestment Principal Proceeds”: Principal Proceeds received from Post-Reinvestment Collateral Obligations.

“Principal Balance”: Subject to Section 1.3, with respect to (a) any Asset other than a Revolving Collateral Obligation, Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation or Swapped Non-Discount Obligation, as of any date of determination, the outstanding principal amount of such Asset (excluding any capitalized interest), (b) any Revolving Collateral Obligation or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation, as of any date of determination, the outstanding principal amount of such Revolving Collateral Obligation or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation (excluding any capitalized interest), plus (except as expressly set forth in this Indenture) any undrawn commitments that have not been irrevocably reduced or withdrawn with respect to such Revolving Collateral Obligation or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation and (c) any Swapped Non-Discount Obligation, as of any date of determination, the outstanding principal amount of such Swapped Non-Discount Obligation multiplied by 1.00 minus the greater of (x) zero and (y) the difference of (i) the sale price of the Sold Collateral Obligation (expressed as percentage of par) minus (ii) the purchase price of such Swapped Non-Discount Obligation (expressed as a percentage of par); provided that, for all purposes, the Principal Balance of (1) any Equity Security or interest only strip shall be deemed to be zero and (2) any Defaulted Obligation that is not sold or terminated within three years after the date on which such obligation becomes a Defaulted Obligation shall be deemed to be zero.

“Principal Collection Subaccount”: The meaning specified in Section 10.2(a).

“Principal Financed Accrued Interest”: With respect to (i) the Collateral Obligations owned or purchased by the Issuer on or prior to the Closing Date, an amount of Interest Proceeds directed by the Collateral Manager to be deposited directly into the Collection Account as Principal Proceeds up to an amount set forth in a written certificate of the Collateral Manager to be delivered to the Trustee on the Closing Date, (ii) any Collateral Obligation acquired by the Issuer in connection with the Closing Date, an amount of Interest Proceeds directed by the Collateral Manager to be deposited directly into the Collection Account as Principal Proceeds up to an amount set forth in a written certificate of the Collateral Manager to be delivered to the Trustee (with a copy to each of the Placement Agents) on the Closing Date and (iii) any other Collateral Obligation purchased after the Closing Date, the amount of Principal Proceeds, if any, applied towards the purchase of accrued interest on such Collateral Obligation.

“Principal Proceeds”: With respect to any Collection Period or Determination Date, all amounts received by the Issuer during the related Collection Period that do not constitute Interest Proceeds and any other amounts that have been designated as Principal Proceeds pursuant to the terms of this Indenture; provided that, Contributions deposited into the Supplemental Reserve Account shall not constitute Principal Proceeds until designated as such pursuant to Section 10.3(e). For the avoidance of doubt, Principal Proceeds shall not include any Excepted Property (but shall include the proceeds of any Margin Stock).

“Priority Class”: With respect to any specified Class of Notes, each Class of Notes that ranks senior to such Class, as indicated in Section 2.3.

“Priority of Payments”: The meaning specified in Section 11.1(a).

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“Priority Termination Event”: The meaning specified in the relevant Hedge Agreement, which may include, without limitation, the occurrence of (i) the Issuer’s failure to make required payments or deliveries pursuant to a Hedge Agreement with respect to which the Issuer is the sole “Defaulting Party” (as defined in the relevant Hedge Agreement), (ii) the occurrence of certain events of bankruptcy, dissolution or insolvency with respect to the Issuer with respect to which the Issuer is the sole “Defaulting Party” (as defined in the relevant Hedge Agreement), (iii) the liquidation of the Assets due to an Event of Default under this Indenture or (iv) a change in law after the Closing Date which makes it unlawful for the Issuer to perform its obligations under a Hedge Agreement.

“Proceeding”: Any suit in equity, action at law or other judicial or administrative proceeding.

“Process Agent”: The meaning specified in Section 7.2.

“Proposed Portfolio”: The portfolio of Collateral Obligations and Eligible Investments resulting from the proposed purchase, sale, maturity or other disposition of a Collateral Obligation or a proposed reinvestment in an additional Collateral Obligation, as the case may be.

“Purchase and Placement Agreement”: The note purchase and placement agreement dated as of the Closing Date among the Issuer, the Initial Purchaser and the Co-Placement Agent in respect of the Notes (other than the Subordinated Notes).

“Purchased Defaulted Obligation”: The meaning specified in Section 12.2(b).

“QEF”: The meaning specified in Section 7.17(m).

“QIB/QP”: Any Person that, at the time of its acquisition, purported acquisition or proposed acquisition of Notes is both a Qualified Institutional Buyer and a Qualified Purchaser (or a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity (other than a trust, except as otherwise agreed to by the Issuer), each shareholder, partner, member or other equity owner of which is a Qualified Purchaser).

“Qualified Broker/Dealer”: Any of Bank of America/▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇; The Bank of Montreal; The Bank of New York Mellon; Barclays Bank plc; BNP Paribas Securities Corp.; Broadpoint Securities; Credit Agricole CIB; Citibank, N.A.; Credit Agricole S.A.; Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce; Deutsche Bank AG; Dresdner Bank AG; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ & Co.; HSBC Bank; Imperial Capital LLC; ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Securities LLC; Lloyds TSB Bank; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Lynch, Pierce, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇ Incorporated; Mizuho Securities USA LLC; ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & Co.; Natixis; Northern Trust Company; Royal Bank of Canada; The Royal Bank of Scotland plc; Société Generale; The Toronto-Dominion Bank; UBS AG; U.S. Bank National Association; and ▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank, National Association.

“Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB”: The meaning specified in Rule 144A under the Securities Act.

“Qualified Purchaser”: The meaning specified in Section 2(a)(51) of the Investment Company Act and Rule 2a51-1, 2a51-2 or 2a51-3 under the Investment Company Act.

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“Ramp-Up Account”: The account established pursuant to Section 10.3(c).

“Rating Agency”: Each of ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ (for so long as any Class of Secured Notes is rated by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇) and S&P (for so long as any Class of Secured Notes is rated by S&P).

“Re-Priced Class”: The meaning specified in Section 9.7(a).

“Re-Pricing”: The meaning specified in Section 9.7(a).

“Re-Pricing Date”: The meaning specified in Section 9.7(b).

“Re-Pricing Eligible Notes”: The Notes specified as “Re-Pricing Eligible” in Section 2.3.

“Re-Pricing Intermediary”: The meaning specified in Section 9.7(a).

“Re-Pricing, Mandatory Tender and Election to Retain Announcement”: The meaning specified in Section 9.7.

“Re-Pricing Proceeds”: Partial Redemption Interest Proceeds and the proceeds of Re-Pricing Replacement Notes.

“Re-Pricing Rate”: The meaning specified in Section 9.7(b).

“Re-Pricing Redemption”: In connection with a Re-Pricing, the redemption of the Notes of any Re-Priced Class held by Non-Electing Holders. For the avoidance of doubt, the Mandatory Tender and transfer of Notes held by Non-Electing Holders shall not constitute a Re-Pricing Redemption.

“Re-Pricing Replacement Notes”: Notes issued in connection with a Re-Pricing that have terms identical to the Re-Priced Class (after giving effect to the Re-Pricing).

“Record Date”: With respect to the Notes, the date 15 days prior to the applicable Payment Date or Interim Payment Date, as applicable.

“Recovery Par Value Test”: A test that is satisfied, with respect to any date of determination, if the Overcollateralization Ratio Test with respect to the Class C Notes is satisfied.

“Recovery Rate Modifier Matrix”: The meaning set forth in Schedule 6 hereto.

“Redemption Date”: Any Business Day specified for any redemption of Notes pursuant to Article IX.

“Redemption Price”: (a) For each Secured Note to be redeemed or re-priced (x) 100% of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of such Secured Note, plus (y) accrued and unpaid interest thereon (including defaulted interest and interest thereon and, in the case of a Deferrable Note, Deferred Interest and interest on any accrued and unpaid Deferred Interest) to the Redemption Date or Re-Pricing Date, as applicable, and (b) for each Subordinated Note, its proportional share (based on the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of such Subordinated Note) of the amount of the proceeds of the Assets remaining after giving effect to the Optional Redemption or Tax

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Redemption of the Secured Notes in whole or after all of the Secured Notes have been repaid in full and all expenses (including all Collateral Management Fees and Administrative Expenses) of the Issuer; provided that, in connection with any Tax Redemption or Optional Redemption of the Secured Notes, Holders of 100% of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of any Class of Secured Notes may elect to receive less than 100% of the Redemption Price that would otherwise be payable to the Holders of such Class of Secured Notes.

“Refinancing”: The incurrence of a loan or an issuance of replacement securities, whose terms in each case will be negotiated by the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer, from one or more financial institutions or purchasers to refinance the Notes in connection with an Optional Redemption.

“Refinancing Obligation”: Each loan or replacement security issued in connection with a Refinancing.

“Refinancing Proceeds”: The Cash proceeds from a Refinancing.

“Regional Diversity Measure”: As of any date of determination, the number obtained by dividing (a) 1 by (b) the sum of the squares of the quotients, for each S&P region classification (as determined by the Collateral Manager in accordance with S&P’s then-current ratings criteria), obtained by dividing (i) the Aggregate Principal Balance at such time of all Collateral Obligations (other than Defaulted Obligations) issued by Obligors that belong to such S&P region classification by (ii) the Aggregate Principal Balance at such time of all Collateral Obligations (other than Defaulted Obligations).

“Register” and “Registrar”: The respective meanings specified in Section 2.5(a).

“Registered”: In “registered form” for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

“Registered Investment Adviser”: A Person duly registered as an investment adviser in accordance with and pursuant to Section 203 of the Advisers Act and any wholly-owned subsidiary thereof.

“Regulation S”: Regulation S, as amended, under the Securities Act.

“Regulation S Global Notes”: The Regulation S Global Secured Notes.

“Regulation S Global Secured Note”: The meaning specified in Section 2.2(b)(i).

“Reinvestment Period”: The period from and including the Closing Date to and including the earliest of (i) the Payment Date in July 2030, (ii) the date of the acceleration of the Maturity of any Class of Secured Notes pursuant to Section 5.2, (iii) the Reinvestment Special Redemption Notice Date relating to the occurrence of a Reinvestment Special Redemption and (iv) the date that ADS or Apollo Credit (or any Affiliate of ADS or Apollo Credit) is removed as Collateral Manager pursuant to the terms of the Collateral Management Agreement.

“Reinvestment Special Redemption”: The meaning specified in Section 9.6.

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“Reinvestment Special Redemption Notice Date”: The meaning specified in Section 9.6.

“Reinvestment Target Par Balance”: The result of (I) prior to the satisfaction of the Controlling Class Condition, the Target Initial Par Amount as reduced by any reduction in the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Notes and (II) following the satisfaction of the Controlling Class Condition, (a) the Target Initial Par Amount as reduced by any reduction in the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Notes minus (b) solely for the purposes of the definition of “Restricted Trading Period,” the Aggregate Risk Adjusted Par Amount.

“Relevant Governmental Body”: The Federal Reserve Board and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve Board and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or any successor thereto.

“Repurchased Notes”: The meaning specified in Section 2.9(b).

“Required Hedge Counterparty Rating”: With respect to any Hedge Counterparty, the ratings threshold set by the criteria of each Rating Agency in effect at the time of execution of the related Hedge Agreement.

“Required Interest Coverage Ratio”: With respect to a specified Class or Classes of Secured Notes and the related Interest Coverage Ratio, as of any date of determination, the applicable percentage indicated below opposite such specified Class or Classes:

“Required Overcollateralization Ratio”: With respect to a specified Class or Classes of Secured Notes and the related Overcollateralization Ratio, as of any date of determination, the applicable percentage indicated below opposite such specified Class or Classes:

“Responsible Officer”: The meaning specified in Section 14.3(a)(iv).

“Restricted Trading Period”: The period during which (i) the ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ rating of the Class A-1 Notes is withdrawn (and not reinstated) or is one or more sub-categories below its Initial Target Rating, (ii) the S&P rating of the Class A-1 Notes or the Class A-1 Notes is withdrawn (and not reinstated) or is one or more sub-categories below its Initial Target Rating, (iii) prior to the satisfaction of the Controlling Class Condition, the S&P rating of the Class A-2 Notes, the Class B Notes or the Class C Notes is withdrawn (and not reinstated) or is two or more sub-categories

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below its Initial Target Rating or (iv) following satisfaction of the Controlling Class Condition, (x) the S&P rating of the Class A-2 Notes or the Class B Notes is withdrawn (and not reinstated) or is two or more sub-categories below its Initial Target Rating or (y) the S&P rating of the Class C Notes is withdrawn (and not reinstated) or is three or more sub-categories below its Initial Target Rating; provided that, such period will not be a Restricted Trading Period (a) if, after giving effect to any sale (and any related reinvestment) or purchase of the relevant Collateral Obligations, (x) the Adjusted Collateral Principal Amount (excluding the Collateral Obligation being sold but including any related reinvestment) will be at least equal to the Reinvestment Target Par Balance, (y) the Maximum ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating Factor Test is satisfied and (z) each Coverage Test is satisfied or (b) upon the direction of the Issuer with the consent of a Majority of the Controlling Class; provided, further, that no Restricted Trading Period shall restrict any purchase of a Collateral Obligation entered into by the Issuer at a time when a Restricted Trading Period is not in effect, regardless of whether such purchase has settled. Any rating of a Class of Secured Notes withdrawn as a result of the repayment in full of such Class shall not be considered to be withdrawn for the purposes of this definition.

“Resolutions”: With respect to the Issuer, a resolution or written consent of the designated manager of the Issuer.

“Revolver Funding Account”: The account established pursuant to Section 10.3(h).

“Revolving Collateral Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation (other than a Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation) that is a loan (including, without limitation, revolving loans, including funded and unfunded portions of revolving credit lines, unfunded commitments under specific facilities and other similar loans and investments) that by its terms may require one or more future advances to be made to the borrower by the Issuer; provided that, any such Collateral Obligation will be a Revolving Collateral Obligation only until all commitments to make advances to the borrower expire or are terminated or irrevocably reduced to zero.

“Risk Retention Issuance”: The meaning specified in Section 2.13(e).

“Rule 144A”: Rule 144A, as amended, under the Securities Act.

“Rule 144A Global Notes”: The Rule 144A Global Secured Notes and the Rule 144A Global Subordinated Notes.

“Rule 144A Global Secured Notes”: The meaning specified in Section 2.2(b)(ii).

“Rule 144A Global Subordinated Note”: The meaning specified in Section 2.2(b)(ii).

“Rule 144A Information”: The meaning specified in Section 7.15.

“Rule 17g-5”: The meaning specified in Section 7.20(a).

“S&P”: S&P Global Ratings, an S&P Global business, and any successor or successors thereto.

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“S&P Additional Current Pay Criteria”: Criteria satisfied with respect to any Collateral Obligation (other than a DIP Collateral Obligation) if either (i) the issuer of such Collateral Obligation has made an S&P Distressed Exchange Offer and the Collateral Obligation is already held by the Issuer and is subject to the S&P Distressed Exchange Offer and ranks equal to or higher in priority than the obligation subject to the S&P Distressed Exchange Offer, or (ii) such Collateral Obligation has a Market Value of at least 80% of its par value (Market Value being determined, solely for purposes of this clause (ii), without taking into consideration clause (iii) of the definition of the term “Market Value”).

“S&P CDO Formula Election Date”: The date designated by the Collateral Manager upon at least five Business Days’ prior written notice to S&P, the Trustee and the Collateral Administrator as the date on which the Issuer will cease to utilize the S&P CDO Monitor in determining compliance with the S&P CDO Monitor Test; provided that an S&P CDO Formula Election Date may only occur once.

“S&P CDO Formula Election Period”: Any date on and after an S&P CDO Formula Election Date.

“S&P CDO Monitor”: The dynamic, analytical computer model developed by S&P used to calculate the default frequency in terms of the amount of debt assumed to default as a percentage of the original principal amount of the Collateral Obligations consistent with a specified benchmark rating level based upon certain assumptions (including the applicable Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate) and S&P’s proprietary corporate default studies, as may be amended by S&P from time to time upon notice to the Issuer, the Trustee, the Collateral Manager and the Collateral Administrator. The model is available at ▇▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇. Each S&P CDO Monitor will be chosen by the Collateral Manager and associated with either (x) a Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate and a Weighted Average Floating Spread from Section 2 of Schedule 4 or (y) a Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate and a Weighted Average Floating Spread confirmed by S&P; provided that as of any Measurement Date the Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate for the Highest Ranking Class equals or exceeds the Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate for such Class chosen by the Collateral Manager and the Weighted Average Floating Spread equals or exceeds the Weighted Average Floating Spread chosen by the Collateral Manager.

“S&P CDO Monitor Benchmarks”: The S&P Weighted Average Rating Factor, the Default Rate Dispersion, the Obligor Diversity Measure, the Industry Diversity Measure, the Regional Diversity Measure and the S&P Weighted Average Life.

“S&P CDO Monitor Election Date”: The meaning specified in Section 7.18(a).

“S&P CDO Monitor Election Period”: Any date on and after an S&P CDO Monitor Election Date so long as no S&P CDO Formula Election Date has occurred since such S&P CDO Monitor Election Date.

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“S&P CDO Monitor Test”: A test that will be satisfied on any Measurement Date (and, during any S&P CDO Monitor Election Period, following receipt by the Collateral Manager of the Class Break-even Default Rates for each S&P CDO Monitor input file (in accordance with the definition of “Class Break-even Default Rate”)) if, after giving effect to the sale of a Collateral Obligation or the purchase of a Collateral Obligation, the Class Default Differential of the Proposed Portfolio with respect to the Highest Ranking Class is positive. The S&P CDO Monitor Test will be considered to be improved if the Class Default Differential of the Proposed Portfolio with respect to the Highest Ranking Class is greater than the corresponding Class Default Differential of the Current Portfolio. During an S&P CDO Monitor Formula Election Period, in connection with the Effective Date, the S&P Effective Date Adjustments will apply.

“S&P Collateral Value”: With respect to any Defaulted Obligation or Deferring Obligation, the lesser of (i) the S&P Recovery Amount of such Defaulted Obligation or Deferring Obligation, as of the relevant Measurement Date and (ii) the Market Value of such Defaulted Obligation or Deferring Obligation as of the relevant Measurement Date.

“S&P Effective Date Adjustments” means, in connection with determining whether the S&P CDO Monitor Test is satisfied in connection with the Effective Date if an S&P CDO Monitor Formula Election Date has occurred, the following adjustments will apply: (i) in calculating the Weighted Average Floating Spread, the Aggregate Funded Spread will be calculated by assuming that any Benchmark Floor Obligation bears interest at a rate equal to the stated interest rate spread over the Benchmark for such Benchmark Floor Obligation and (ii) in calculating the Adjusted Class Break-even Default Rate, the Collateral Principal Amount will exclude Principal Proceeds on deposit in the Principal Collection Subaccount and the Ramp-Up Account that are permitted to be designated as Interest Proceeds prior to the second Payment Date.

“S&P Effective Date Condition”: A condition satisfied in connection with the Effective Date if the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer certifies to S&P that (a) the Effective Date Requirements have been satisfied, (b) the S&P CDO Monitor Test is satisfied, (c) the Effective Date Accountants’ Report delivered to the Trustee in connection with the Effective Date does not indicate a failure of any of the Specified Tested Items, and (e) the Issuer or the Collateral Administrator on behalf of the Issuer has provided to S&P the Effective Date Report.

“S&P Distressed Exchange Offer”: An offer by the issuer of a Collateral Obligation to exchange one or more of its outstanding debt obligations for a different debt obligation or to repurchase one or more of its outstanding debt obligations for cash, or any combination thereof; provided that, an offer by such issuer to exchange unregistered debt obligations for registered debt obligations shall not be considered an S&P Distressed Exchange Offer.

“S&P Industry Classification”: The S&P industry classifications set forth in Schedule 3 hereto, and such industry classifications shall be updated at the option of the Collateral Manager (which may be via email) if S&P publishes revised industry classifications.

“S&P Issue Rating”: With respect to a Collateral Obligation that (i) is publicly rated by S&P, such public rating or (ii) is not publicly rated by S&P, the applicable S&P Rating.

“S&P Rating”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation, the rating determined pursuant to Schedule 5 hereto (or such other schedule provided by S&P to the Issuer, the Trustee, the Collateral Administrator and the Collateral Manager).

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“S&P Rating”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation, the rating determined pursuant to Schedule 4 hereto (or such other schedule provided by S&P to the Issuer, the Trustee, the Collateral Administrator and the Collateral Manager).

“S&P Rating Condition”: With respect to any action taken or to be taken by or on behalf of the Issuer, a condition that is satisfied if S&P has confirmed in writing (including by means of electronic message, facsimile transmission, press release or posting to its internet website) to the Issuer, the Trustee, the Collateral Administrator and the Collateral Manager (unless in the form of a press release or posted to its internet website that does not require the Issuer and the Trustee to be identified as addressees) that no immediate withdrawal or reduction with respect to its then-current rating by S&P of any Class of Notes will occur as a result of such action; provided that the S&P Rating Condition will be deemed to be satisfied if no Class of Notes then Outstanding is rated by S&P; provided further that such rating condition shall be deemed inapplicable with respect to such event or circumstance if (i) S&P has given notice to the effect that it will no longer review events or circumstances of the type requiring satisfaction of the S&P Rating Condition for purposes of evaluating whether to confirm the then-current ratings (or initial ratings) of obligations rated by S&P; or (ii) S&P has communicated to the Issuer, the Collateral Manager or the Trustee (or their counsel) that it will not review such event or circumstance for purposes of evaluating whether to confirm the then-current ratings (or Initial Ratings) of the Notes then rated by S&P.

“S&P Rating Factor”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation, the number set forth in the table below for the S&P Rating of such Collateral Obligation (or such other tables provided by S&P to the Issuer, the Trustee, the Collateral Administrator and the Collateral Manager).

“S&P Recovery Amount”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation, an amount equal to: (a) the applicable S&P Recovery Rate multiplied by (b) the Principal Balance of such Collateral Obligation.

“S&P Recovery Rate”: With respect to a Collateral Obligation, the recovery rate set forth in Section 1 of Schedule 4 using the initial rating of the Highest Ranking Class at the time of determination.

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“S&P Recovery Rating”: With respect to a Collateral Obligation for which an S&P Recovery Rate is being determined, the “Recovery Rating” assigned by S&P to such Collateral Obligation based upon the tables set forth in Schedule 4 hereto.

“S&P Weighted Average Life”: As of any date of determination with respect to all Collateral Obligations other than Defaulted Obligations, the number of years following such date obtained by dividing (a) the sum of the products of (i) the number of years (rounded to the nearest one-hundredth thereof) from such date of determination to the stated maturity of each such Collateral Obligation multiplied by (ii) the Principal Balance of such Collateral Obligation by (b) the Aggregate Principal Balance at such time of all Collateral Obligations other than Defaulted Obligations.

“S&P Weighted Average Rating Factor”: The number determined by (a) summing the products of (i) the Principal Balance of each Collateral Obligation (excluding Defaulted Obligations and Equity Securities) multiplied by (ii) the S&P Rating Factor of such Collateral Obligation; and (b) dividing such sum by the Principal Balance of all such Collateral Obligations.

“Sale”: The meaning specified in Section 5.17.

“Sale Proceeds”: All proceeds (excluding accrued interest, if any) received with respect to Assets as a result of sales of such Assets in accordance with Article XII and the termination of any Hedge Agreement in each case, net of any reasonable expenses incurred by the Collateral Manager and net of any amounts due and payable by the Issuer to the related Hedge Counterparty in connection with such termination, the Collateral Administrator or the Trustee (other than amounts payable as Administrative Expenses) in connection with such sales. Sale Proceeds will include Principal Financed Accrued Interest received in respect of such sale. For the avoidance of doubt, and without duplication, Sale Proceeds shall include an amount (not less than zero) equal to (x) amounts on deposit in the Principal Collection Subaccount plus (y) amounts (if any) expected to be received in connection with the sales of obligations the Issuer has committed to sell but have not settled minus (z) amounts (if any) expected to be necessary to fund obligations the Issuer has committed to purchase but have not settled.

“Scheduled Distribution”: With respect to any Asset, for each Due Date, the scheduled payment of principal and/or interest due on such Due Date with respect to such Asset, determined in accordance with the assumptions specified in Section 1.3.

“Second Lien Loan”: Any First-Lien Last-Out Loan or any assignment of or Participation Interest in or other interest in a Loan (other than a Senior Secured Loan) that (i) is not (and that by its terms is not permitted to become) subordinate in right of payment to any other obligation of the Obligor of the loan other than a Senior Secured Loan with respect to the liquidation of such Obligor or the collateral for such loan and (ii) is secured by a valid second priority perfected security interest or lien in, to or on specified collateral securing the Obligor’s obligations under the loan, the value of which is adequate (in the commercially reasonable judgment of the Collateral Manager) to repay the loan in accordance with its terms and to repay all other loans of equal or higher seniority secured by a lien or security interest in the same collateral, which security interest or lien is not subordinate to the security interest or lien securing any other debt for borrowed money other than a Senior Secured Loan on such specified collateral.

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“Section 13 Banking Entity”: An entity that, as of the relevant record date established by the Issuer in connection with a supplemental indenture, (i) is defined as a “banking entity” under the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Rule regulations (Section __.2(c)), (ii) provides written certification that it is a “banking entity” under the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Rule as of such record date to the Issuer and the Trustee, and (iii) certifies in writing the Class or Classes of Notes held or beneficially owned by such entity and identifies the name of the holder on the Register as of such record date and the Aggregate Outstanding Amount thereof (on which certification the Issuer, the Collateral Manager and the Trustee may rely). Any holder that does not provide such certification in connection with a supplemental indenture will be deemed for purposes of such supplemental indenture not to be a Section 13 Banking Entity. If no entity provides such certification, then no Section 13 Banking Entities will be deemed to exist for purposes of any required consent or action under the Transaction Documents.

“Secured Noteholders”: The Holders of the Secured Notes.

“Secured Notes”: The Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class B Notes and the Class C Notes.

“Secured Obligations”: The meaning specified in the Granting Clauses.

“Secured Parties”: The meaning specified in the Granting Clauses.

“Securities Account Control Agreement”: The Securities Account Control Agreement dated as of the Closing Date among the Issuer, the Trustee and U.S. Bank National Association, as securities intermediary, as amended from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.

“Securities Act”: The United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

“Securities Intermediary”: As defined in Section 8-102(a)(14) of the UCC.

“Securitization Laws”: The requirements contained in the Securitization Regulation, together with any implementing regulation and official guidance related thereto and any guidelines or other materials published by the European Central Bank (or any successor or replacement agency or authority) or the European Supervisory Authorities (jointly or individually) in relation thereto and any delegated regulations or technical standards of the European Commission, or in the UK in relation thereto (including the final enacted form of the Draft Securitization RTS and in each case including any amendments, replacements or successors thereto).

“Securitization Regulation”: Collectively, the EU Securitization Regulation and the UK Securitization Regulation together, in each case as applicable, with any technical standards or implementing instruments adopted by the European Commission or in the UK in relation thereto and guidelines and other materials published by the FCA, the European Banking Authority or the European Securities and Markets Authority.

“Security Entitlement”: The meaning specified in Section 8-102(a)(17) of the UCC.

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“Select Closing Date Participations”: Without duplication, (i) any Banking Entity Closing Date Participation acquired pursuant to a Banking Entity Master Participation Agreement with (A) a counterparty having a rating (x) from S&P of “BBB-” or lower on the applicable date of determination (for the avoidance of doubt, any such Banking Entity Closing Date Participation shall cease to satisfy this clause (A)(x) as of any date of determination that such counterparty has and continues to have a rating from S&P of “BBB” or higher) and (y) from ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ of “Baa3” or lower on the applicable date of determination (for the avoidance of doubt, any such Banking Entity Closing Date Participation shall cease to satisfy this clause (A)(y) as of any date of determination that such counterparty has and continues to have a rating from ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ of “Baa2” or higher) and/or (B) a counterparty having both (x) (1) a rating from S&P of “A-” or lower on the applicable date of determination (for the avoidance of doubt, any such Banking Entity Closing Date Participation shall cease to satisfy this clause (x)(1) as of any date of determination that sch counterparty has and continues to have a rating from S&P of “A” or higher) and (2) a rating from ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ of “A3” or lower on the applicable date of determination (for the avoidance of doubt, any such Banking Entity Closing Date Participation shall cease to satisfy this clause (x)(2) as of any date of determination that such counterparty has and continues to have a rating from ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ of “A2” or higher) and (y) Closing Date Participations under such Banking Entity Master Participation Agreement are in excess of 5.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount on such date of determination and (ii) any Excess Closing Date Participations; provided that, at no time shall any Warehouse SPV Closing Date Participation constitute a Select Closing Date Participation or an Excess Closing Date Participation.

“Selling Institution”: The entity obligated to make payments to the Issuer under the terms of a Participation Interest, which entity either (i) is a collateralized loan obligation vehicle (a “CLO”), (ii) an SPE or (iii) if not a CLO or an SPE, (x) if rated by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇, must have from ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ a short-term rating of “P-1” and a long-term rating of “A2” (and not on watch for possible downgrade) or a long-term rating of “A1” or, if no short-term rating exists, a long-term rating of not lower than “Aa3” and (y) if rated by S&P, must have a short-term issuer default rating of “A-1” and a long-term issuer default rating of “A” or, if no short-term rating exists, a long-term issuer default rating of not lower than “A.”

“Senior Secured Bond”: A debt security (that is not a loan) that is (a) issued by a corporation, limited liability company, partnership or trust and (b) is secured by a valid first-priority perfected security interest or lien in, to or on specified collateral securing the Obligor’s obligations under the Bond.

“Senior Secured Loan”: Any assignment of or Participation Interest in a Loan (other than a First-Lien Last-Out Loan) that: (a) is not (and cannot by its terms become) subordinate in right of payment to any other obligation of the Obligor of the Loan (other than with respect to liquidation, trade claims, capitalized leases or similar obligations); (b) is secured by a valid first-priority perfected security interest or lien in, to or on specified collateral securing the Obligor’s obligations under the Loan; and (c) the value of the collateral securing the Loan at the time of purchase together with other attributes of the Obligor (including, without limitation, its general financial condition, ability to generate cash flow available for debt service and other demands for that cash flow) is adequate (in the commercially reasonable judgment of the Collateral Manager) to repay the Loan in accordance with its terms and to repay all other Loans of equal seniority secured by a first lien or security interest in the same collateral.

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“Senior Secured Note”: Any corporate note that (a) is secured by the pledge of collateral and has the most senior pre-petition priority (including pari passu with other obligations of the obligor, but subject to any super priority lien imposed by operation of law, such as, but not limited to, any tax liens, and liquidation preferences with respect to pledged collateral, and any Senior Secured Loan) in any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency, moratorium or liquidation proceedings and (b) is not (and cannot by its terms become) subordinate in right of payment to any other obligation of the Obligor of the Senior Secured Note (other than with respect to liquidation, trade claims, capitalized leases or similar obligations). For the avoidance of doubt, the term Senior Secured Note shall not include Senior Secured Loans.

“SIFMA Website”: The internet website of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, currently located at ▇▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇/▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇/▇▇▇▇▇▇▇/▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, or such successor website as identified by the Collateral Manager to the Trustee and the Calculation Agent.

“Similar Law”: Any federal, state, local, non-U.S. or other law or regulation that could cause the underlying assets of the Issuer to be treated as assets of the investor in any Note (or any interest therein) by virtue of its interest and thereby subject the Issuer or the Collateral Manager (or other Persons responsible for the investment and operation of the Issuer’s assets) to Other Plan Law.

“Small Obligor Loan”: Any obligation of a single Obligor where the total potential indebtedness of such Obligor under all of its loan agreements, indentures and other Underlying Instruments is less than U.S.$150,000,000 (it being understood, and as a clarification only, that any principal payments made in respect of such loan agreements, indentures and other Underlying Instruments shall not be taken into account for purposes of this definition).

“SOFR”: With respect to any day, the secured overnight financing rate published for such day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as the administrator of the benchmark, (or a successor administrator) on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s website.

“SPE”: Any CLO or other special purpose entity meeting S&P’s and, so long as Moody’s is rating any Secured Notes, ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ then-applicable criteria for bankruptcy remoteness.

“SPE Participation”: Any Participation Interest acquired pursuant to a participation agreement which counterparty satisfies the criteria under (a) either clause (a)(i) or (a)(ii) of the definition of “Third Party Credit Exposure Limits” (or any other participation agreement for which the S&P Rating Condition is satisfied) and (b) so long as ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ is rating any Secured Notes, clause (a)(i) or (a)(ii) of the definition of “▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Counterparty Criteria” (or any other participation agreement for which the ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating Condition is satisfied); provided that so long as Moody’s is rating any Secured Notes, the Issuer may not enter into any SPE Participation unless the ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating Condition has been satisfied.

“Special Redemption”: The meaning specified in Section 9.6.

“Special Redemption Amount”: The meaning specified in Section 9.6.

“Special Redemption Date”: The meaning specified in Section 9.6.

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“Specified Event”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation that is the subject of a rating estimate or is a private or confidential rating by S&P, the occurrence of any of the following events:

(a) any failure of the Obligor thereunder to pay interest on or principal of such Collateral Obligation when due and payable;

(b) the rescheduling of the payment of principal of or interest on such Collateral Obligation or any other obligations for borrowed money of such Obligor;

(c) the restructuring of any of the debt thereunder (including proposed debt);

(d) any significant sales or acquisitions of assets by the Obligor;

(e) the breach of any covenant of such Collateral Obligation or the reasonable determination by the Collateral Manager that there is a greater than 50% chance that a covenant would be breached in the next six months;

(f) the operating profit or cash flows of the Obligor being more than 20% lower than the Obligor’s expected results;

(g) the reduction or increase in the Cash interest rate payable by the Obligor thereunder (excluding any increase in an interest rate arising by operation of a default or penalty interest clause under a Collateral Obligation);

(h) the extension of the stated maturity date of such Collateral Obligation; or

(i) the addition of payment-in-kind terms.

“Standby Directed Investment”: Initially, Blackrock T-Fund (Ticker: TSTXX; CUSIP: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ (which investment is, for the avoidance of doubt, an Eligible Investment); provided that, the Issuer, or the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer, may by written notice to the Trustee change the Standby Directed Investment to any other Eligible Investment of the type described in clause (ii) of the definition of “Eligible Investments” maturing not later than the earlier of (i) 30 days after the date of such investment (unless putable at par to the issuer thereof) or (ii) the Business Day immediately preceding the next Payment Date (or such shorter maturities expressly provided herein).

“Stated Maturity”: With respect to the Notes of any Class, the date specified as such in Section 2.3.

“Step-Down Obligation”: An obligation or security (other than a DIP Collateral Obligation and/or a Bridge Loan) which by the terms of the related Underlying Instruments provides for a decrease in the per annum interest rate on such obligation or security (other than by reason of any change in the applicable index or benchmark rate used to determine such interest rate) or in the spread over the applicable index or benchmark rate, solely as a function of the passage of time; provided that, an obligation or security providing for payment of a constant rate of interest at all times after the date of acquisition by the Issuer shall not constitute a Step-Down Obligation.

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“Step-Up Obligation”: An obligation or security (other than a DIP Collateral Obligation and/or a Bridge Loan) which by the terms of the related Underlying Instruments provides for an increase in the per annum interest rate on such obligation or security, or in the spread over the applicable index or benchmark rate, solely as a function of the passage of time; provided that, an obligation or security providing for payment of a constant rate of interest at all times after the date of acquisition by the Issuer shall not constitute a Step-Up Obligation.

“Structured Finance Obligation”: Any obligation issued by a special purpose vehicle and secured directly by, referenced to, or representing ownership of, a pool of receivables or other financial assets of any Obligor, including collateralized debt obligations and mortgage-backed securities.

“Subordinated Notes”: The subordinated notes issued pursuant to this Indenture and having the characteristics specified in Section 2.3.

“Subsequent Delivery Date”: The settlement date with respect to the Issuer’s acquisition of a Collateral Obligation to be pledged to the Trustee after the Closing Date.

“Substitute Obligations”: The meaning specified in Section 12.2(a)(ii).

“Successor Entity”: The meaning specified in Section 7.10.

“Supermajority”: With respect to (a) any Class or Classes of Notes, the Holders of more than 66-2/3% of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Notes of such Class or Classes, and (b) the Section 13 Banking Entities (voting together as a single class), the Holders of more than 66-2/3% of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of Notes held by Section 13 Banking Entities.

“Supplemental Indenture Record Date”: With respect to a proposed supplemental indenture, the date that the applicable notice required to be posted or delivered to Holders, as applicable, by the Trustee is actually posted to the Trustee Website.

“Supplemental Reserve Account”: The account established pursuant to Section 10.3(e).

“Sustainability Alignment Criteria”: Criteria satisfied with respect to an obligor unless a majority of its revenues are generated from:

(i) the obligor’s thermal coal based power generation;

(ii) the obligor’s thermal coal mining or extraction;

(iii) the obligor’s thermal coal transportation and development of related infrastructure

(iv) the obligor’s Artic oil or gas production (whether onshore or offshore production);

(v) the obligor’s development of nuclear weapon programs;

(vi) the obligor’s production of controversial weapons (including antipersonnel landmines, cluster weapons, chemical and biological weapons, depleted uranium, nuclear weapons, and white phosphorus) and any products which are prohibited under applicable international treaties or conventions;

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(vii) the obligor’s non-sustainable palm oil productions and which does not have a Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO) label; and

(viii) the obligor’s activities which involve controversial practices with respect to land use and biodiversity that are assessed as having very severe impacts on biodiversity and land use or which have a high negative impact on fragile ecosystems.

“Sustainability Integration Due Diligence Procedures”: Any due diligence performed by the Collateral Manager, in its sole and absolute discretion, prior to the Issuer (or the Collateral Manager on its behalf) entering into a binding commitment to purchase a Collateral Obligation, which may (but is not required to) include any of the following:

(a) a review of any due diligence materials available to prospective investors of the relevant obligor to the extent that such materials are reasonably available to the Collateral Manager;

(b) attendance at investor presentations and/or conducting meetings with the management team of the relevant obligor;

(c) examining publicly available third-party information sources concerning the activities of the proposed obligor and/or requesting information from the relevant obligor or its representatives;

(d) reviewing any relevant research undertaken by the Collateral Manager’s research team; and/or

(e) production of an Sustainability risk assessment.

“Sustainability Investment Criteria”: With respect to an obligation, (a) the Collateral Manager (in its sole and absolute discretion, based on the information in the Collateral Manager’s possession at such time and which determination may not be called into question at a later date) has determined (having undertaken the applicable Sustainability Integration Due Diligence Procedures) the obligor thereof satisfied the Sustainability Alignment Criteria as of the date of the binding commitment to purchase such obligation or the obligor either (i) is taking steps which are likely to result in compliance with the Sustainability Alignment Criteria, or (ii) undertakes certain activities, whether in relation to the issuance of the obligation, or in the normal course of the obligor’s business, that target positive environmental and social objectives and (b) the Collateral Manager entered into a binding commitment to acquire such obligation while incorporating (in the process of entering into such commitment) investment guidelines and processes that are consistent (as determined in its sole discretion) with the following, to the extent deemed applicable by the Collateral Manager in its sole and absolute discretion: (i) the UN Principles for Responsible Investment; (ii) the UN Global Compact Principles; and (iii) the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.

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“Swapped Non-Discount Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation that would otherwise be considered a Discount Obligation, but that is purchased with the proceeds of a sale of a Collateral Obligation that was not a Discount Obligation at the time of its purchase (the “Sold Collateral Obligation”), and will not be considered a Discount Obligation so long as such purchased Collateral Obligation (a) is purchased or committed to be purchased within 10 Business Days of such sale, (b) prior to satisfaction of the Controlling Class Condition, is purchased at a price (as a percentage of par) equal to or greater than the sale price of the Sold Collateral Obligation, (c) has a ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating equal to or higher than the ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating of the Sold Collateral Obligation and (d) is purchased at a price not less than the Minimum Price; provided that, (x) to the extent the Aggregate Principal Balance of Swapped Non-Discount Obligations exceeds 5.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount at any time of determination, such excess will not constitute Swapped Non-Discount Obligations and (y) without duplication, to the extent the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Swapped Non-Discount Obligations acquired by the Issuer after the Last Closing Event exceeds 10.0% of the Target Initial Par Amount, such excess will not constitute Swapped Non-Discount Obligations; provided further that, such Collateral Obligation will cease to be a Swapped Non-Discount Obligation at such time as such Swapped Non-Discount Obligation would no longer otherwise be considered a Discount Obligation.

“Synthetic Security”: A security or swap transaction, other than a Participation Interest, that has payments associated with either payments of interest on and/or principal of a reference obligation or the credit performance of a reference obligation.

“Target Initial Par Amount”: U.S.$500,000,000 plus such additional amount approved subject to satisfaction of the Global Rating Agency Condition in connection with an issuance of additional Notes pursuant to Section 2.13.

“Target Initial Par Condition”: A condition satisfied as of the Effective Date if the Aggregate Principal Balance of Collateral Obligations (i) that are held by the Issuer and (ii) of which the Issuer has committed to purchase on such date, together with the amount of any proceeds of prepayments, maturities or redemptions of Collateral Obligations purchased by the Issuer prior to such date (other than any such proceeds that have been reinvested (or committed to be reinvested) in Collateral Obligations by the Issuer as of the Effective Date) and including, for the avoidance of doubt, any Principal Financed Accrued Interest, will equal or exceed the Target Initial Par Amount; provided that for purposes of this definition, any Collateral Obligation that becomes a Defaulted Obligation prior to the Effective Date shall be treated as having a Principal Balance equal to the lesser of its (i) ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Collateral Value or (ii) S&P Collateral Value.

“Tax”: Any tax, levy, impost, duty, withholding deduction, charge or assessment of any nature (including interest, penalties and additions thereto) imposed by any governmental taxing authority.

“Tax Advice”: Written advice (including email) of an Approved Tax Counsel or an opinion of other nationally recognized tax counsel experienced in such matters.

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“Tax Event”: An event that will occur if (i) any Obligor is, or on the next scheduled payment date under any Collateral Obligation or Eligible Investment, will be, required to deduct or withhold from any payment to the Issuer for or on account of any tax for whatever reason and such Obligor is not required to pay to the Issuer such additional amount as is necessary to ensure that the net amount actually received by the Issuer (after payment of all taxes, whether assessed against such Obligor or the Issuer) equals the full amount that the Issuer would have received had no such taxes been imposed, (ii) any jurisdiction imposes or will impose tax on the net income or profits of the Issuer, (iii) the Issuer is or will be required to deduct or withhold from any payment to any counterparty for or on account of any tax and the Issuer is obligated to make a gross up payment (or otherwise pay additional amounts) to the counterparty, or (iv) a Hedge Counterparty is or will be required to deduct or withhold from any payment under a Hedge Agreement for or on account of any tax for whatever reason and such Hedge Counterparty is not required to pay to the Issuer such additional amount as is necessary to ensure that the net amount actually received by the Issuer (after payment of all taxes, whether assessed against such Hedge Counterparty or the Issuer) will equal the full amount that the Issuer would have received had no such taxes been imposed, and, in any such case described in (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv) above, the aggregate amount of all such taxes imposed on payments to the Issuer and not “grossed up”, taxes imposed on the net income or profits of the Issuer, or of the “gross up payments” required to be made by the Issuer, exceeds $1,000,000 during the Collection Period in which such event occurs.

“Tax Jurisdiction”: The Bahamas, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Jersey, Singapore, Curacao, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Islands, Mauritius, Saint Maarten or the U.S. Virgin Islands and any other tax advantaged jurisdiction as may be designated by the Collateral Manager with notice to the Rating Agencies.

“Tax Redemption”: The meaning specified in Section 9.3(a).

“Term SOFR Administrator”: CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited, or a successor administrator of the Term SOFR Reference Rate selected by the Collateral Manager with notice to the Trustee and the Collateral Administrator.

“Term SOFR Rate”: The Term SOFR Reference Rate for the Index Maturity, as such rate is published by the Term SOFR Administrator (in each case rounded to the nearest 0.00001%); provided that if as of 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on any Interest Determination Date the Term SOFR Reference Rate for the Index Maturity has not been published by the Term SOFR Administrator, then the Term SOFR Rate will be (x) the Term SOFR Reference Rate for the Index Maturity as published by the Term SOFR Administrator on the first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day for which such Term SOFR Reference Rate for the Index Maturity was published by the Term SOFR Administrator so long as such first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day is not more than five Business Days prior to such Interest Determination Date or (y) if the Term SOFR Reference Rate cannot be determined in accordance with clause (x) of this proviso, the Term SOFR Rate shall be the Term SOFR Reference Rate as determined on the previous Interest Determination Date.

“Term SOFR Reference Rate”: The forward-looking term rate based on SOFR.

“Third Party Credit Exposure”: As of any date of determination, the Principal Balance of each Collateral Obligation that consists of a Participation Interest (other than any Closing Date Participations and SPE Participations).

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“Third Party Credit Exposure Limits”: The limits that shall be satisfied if (a) the Third Party Credit Exposure is with a counterparty that is (i) a CLO or another SPE rated by S&P at any time since its closing date and with respect to which no material amendment has been made to the related indenture or other applicable credit facility document since S&P provided such rating or (ii) an Eligible SPE Issuer, (b) the Participation Interest is a Closing Date Participation (other than an Excess Closing Date Participation) or an SPE Participation or (c) the Third Party Credit Exposure with counterparties having the ratings below from S&P do not exceed the percentage of the Collateral Principal Amount specified below:

provided that, a Selling Institution having an S&P credit rating of “A” must also have a short-term S&P rating of “A-1” otherwise its Aggregate Percentage Limit and Individual Percentage Limit shall be 0%.

“Trading Plan”: The meaning specified in Section 12.2(c).

“Trading Plan Period”: The meaning specified in Section 12.2(c).

“Transaction Documents”: This Indenture, the Securities Account Control Agreement, the Collateral Management Agreement, the Collateral Administration Agreement, the LLC Agreement, the Master Participation Agreements, the Master Loan Sale Agreement and the Purchase and Placement Agreement.

“Transaction Parties”: The Issuer, the Collateral Manager, the U.S. Retention Holder, the Transferor, the Trustee, the Collateral Administrator, the Administrator and the Placement Agents.

“Transfer Agent”: The Person or Persons, which may be the Issuer, authorized by the Issuer to exchange or register the transfer of Notes.

“Transfer Deposit Amount”: On any date of determination with respect to any Collateral Obligation, an amount equal to the sum of the outstanding principal balance of such Collateral Obligation, together with accrued interest thereon through such date of determination, and in connection with any Collateral Obligation which is a Revolving Collateral Obligation or a Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation, an amount equal to the Net Exposure Amount thereof as of the applicable Cut-Off Date.

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“Transferor”: ADS, in its capacity as transferor pursuant to the Master Loan Sale Agreement.

“Treasury Regulations”: The regulations promulgated under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

“Triple-C Collateral Obligations”: The CCC Collateral Obligations and/or the Caa Collateral Obligations, as the context requires.

“Triple-C Excess”: An amount equal to the greater of: (i) the excess of the outstanding Principal Balance of all Caa Collateral Obligations over an amount equal to 7.5% of the Collateral Principal Amount as of the current Determination Date; and (ii) the excess of the outstanding Principal Balance of all CCC Collateral Obligations over an amount equal to 7.5% of the Collateral Principal Amount as of the current Determination Date; provided that, in determining which of the Triple-C Collateral Obligations shall be included in the Triple-C Excess, the Triple-C Collateral Obligations with the lowest Market Value (assuming that such Market Value is expressed as a percentage of the Principal Balance of such Collateral Obligations as of such Determination Date) shall be deemed to constitute such Triple-C Excess.

“Trustee”: As defined in the first sentence of this Indenture and any successor thereto.

“Trustee Website”: A password-protected internet website created in connection with the transaction contemplated hereby and maintained by the Trustee, which shall initially be located at ▇▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇.

“UCC”: The Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York or, if different, the political subdivision of the United States that governs the perfection of the relevant security interest, in either case as amended from time to time.

“UK Securitization Regulation”: The securitisation regulation enacted in the UK by virtue of the operation of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, as amended by the Securitisation (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (SI 2019/660), including any implementing regulation, secondary legislation, technical and official guidance relating thereto.

“Uncertificated Security”: The meaning specified in Section 8-102(a)(18) of the UCC.

“Underlying Instrument”: The indenture or other agreement pursuant to which an Asset has been issued or created and each other agreement that governs the terms of or secures the obligations represented by such Asset or of which the holders of such Asset are the beneficiaries.

“Unregistered Securities”: The meaning specified in Section 5.17(c).

“Unsaleable Assets”: (a) (i) A Defaulted Obligation, (ii) an Equity Security or (iii) an obligation received in connection with an Offer, in a restructuring or plan of reorganization with respect to the Obligor, in each case, in respect of which the Issuer has not received a payment in Cash during the preceding 12 months or (b) any Collateral Obligation or Eligible Investment identified in an officer’s certificate of the Collateral Manager as having a Market Value of less than U.S.$1,000, in the case of each of (a) and (b) with respect to which the Collateral Manager certifies to the Trustee that (x) it has made commercially reasonable efforts to dispose of such obligation for at least 90 days and (y) in its commercially reasonable judgment such obligation is not expected to be saleable in the foreseeable future.

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“Unsecured Loan”: An unsecured Loan obligation of any corporation, partnership or trust.

“U.S. Government Securities Business Day”: Any day except for (a) a Saturday, (b) a Sunday or (c) a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in United States government securities as indicated on the SIFMA Website.

“U.S. person”: The meaning specified in Regulation S.

“U.S. Retention Holder”: On the Closing Date, ADS CLO 2 Depositor LLC, a limited liability company formed under the laws of the State of Delaware, as a “majority-owned affiliate” of the “sponsor” of this transaction (as such term is defined in the U.S. Risk Retention Rules in effect on the Closing Date), and thereafter any successor, assignee or transferee thereof or any Person permitted under the U.S. Risk Retention Rules to hold an “eligible horizontal residual interest” for purposes of the U.S. Risk Retention Rules.

“U.S. Risk Retention Rules”: The federal interagency credit risk retention rules, codified at 17 C.F.R. Part 246.

“U.S. Tax Person”: A “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.

“▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Rule”: Section 13 of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended from time to time, and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder.

“Warehouse Credit Agreement”: The credit agreement, dated as of March 25, 2025, among the Issuer, as borrower, the Collateral Manager, Bank of America, N.A., as lender and each subordinated investor from time to time party thereto, as amended from time to time.

“Warehouse SPV Closing Date Participations”: Any Participation Interest acquired by the Issuer pursuant to the Warehouse SPV Master Participation Agreements.

“Warehouse SPV Master Participation Agreements”: Any Master Participation Agreement(s) identified by the Collateral Manager as such in the Officer’s certificate delivered pursuant to Section 3.1(vi).

“Weighted Average Coupon”: As of any Measurement Date, the number obtained by dividing:

(a) the amount equal to the Aggregate Coupon; by

(b) an amount equal to the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Fixed Rate Obligations as of such Measurement Date, in each case, excluding, for any Deferrable Obligation and any Partial Deferrable Obligation, any interest that has been deferred and capitalized thereon.

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“Weighted Average Floating Spread”: As of any Measurement Date, the number obtained by dividing: (a) an amount equal to (i) the Aggregate Funded Spread plus (ii) the Aggregate Unfunded Spread plus (iii) (for all purposes other than with respect to the S&P CDO Monitor Test) the Aggregate Excess Funded Spread by (b) an amount equal to the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Floating Rate Obligations as of such Measurement Date in each case, excluding, for any Deferrable Obligation and any Partial Deferrable Obligation, any interest that has been deferred and capitalized thereon.

“Weighted Average Life”: As of any Measurement Date with respect to all Collateral Obligations other than Defaulted Obligations, the number of years following such date obtained by summing the products obtained by multiplying:

(a) (i) the Average Life at such time of each such Collateral Obligation by (ii) the Principal Balance of such Collateral Obligation

and dividing such sum by:

(b) the Aggregate Principal Balance at such time of all Collateral Obligations other than Defaulted Obligations.

For the purposes of the foregoing, the “Average Life” is, on any Measurement Date with respect to any Collateral Obligation, the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the sum of the products of (a) the number of years (rounded to the nearest one hundredth thereof) from such Measurement Date to the respective dates of each successive Scheduled Distribution of principal of such Collateral Obligation and (b) the respective amounts of principal of such Scheduled Distributions by (ii) the sum of all successive Scheduled Distributions of principal on such Collateral Obligation.

“Weighted Average Life Test”: A test satisfied on any Measurement Date if the Weighted Average Life as of such date is less than or equal to the value in the column entitled “Weighted Average Life Value” in the table below corresponding to the immediately preceding Payment Date.

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“Weighted Average ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating Factor”: The number (rounded up to the nearest whole number) determined by:

(a) summing the products of (i) the Principal Balance of each Collateral Obligation (excluding Equity Securities) multiplied by (ii) the ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating Factor of such Collateral Obligation and

(b) dividing such sum by the Principal Balance of all such Collateral Obligations.

“Weighted Average ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Recovery Rate”: The meaning set forth on Schedule 6 hereto.

“Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate”: As of any Measurement Date, the number, expressed as a percentage and determined for the Highest Ranking Class, obtained by summing the products obtained by multiplying the Principal Balance of each Collateral Obligation by its corresponding recovery rate as determined in accordance with Schedule 4 hereto, dividing such sum by the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations, and rounding to the nearest tenth of a percent.

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“Zero Coupon Bond”: Any debt security that by its terms (a) does not bear interest for all or part of the remaining period that it is outstanding, (b) provides for periodic payments of interest in Cash less frequently than semi-annually or (c) pays interest only at its stated maturity.

Section 1.2 Usage of Terms. With respect to all terms in this Indenture, the singular includes the plural and the plural the singular; words importing any gender include the other genders; references to “writing” include printing, typing, lithography and other means of reproducing words in a visible form; references to agreements and other contractual instruments include all amendments, modifications and supplements thereto or any changes therein entered into in accordance with their respective terms and not prohibited by this Indenture; references to Persons include their permitted successors and assigns.

Section 1.3 Assumptions as to Assets. In connection with all calculations required to be made pursuant to this Indenture with respect to Scheduled Distributions on any Asset, or any payments on any other assets included in the Assets, with respect to the sale of and reinvestment in Collateral Obligations, and with respect to the income that can be earned on Scheduled Distributions on such Assets and on any other amounts that may be received for deposit in the Accounts, the provisions set forth in this Section 1.3 shall be applied. The provisions of this Section 1.3 shall be applicable to any determination or calculation that is covered by this Section 1.3, whether or not reference is specifically made to Section 1.3, unless some other method of calculation or determination is expressly specified in the particular provision.

(a) All calculations with respect to Scheduled Distributions on the Assets shall be made on the basis of information as to the terms of each such Asset and upon reports of payments, if any, received on such Asset that are furnished by or on behalf of the Obligor of such Asset and, to the extent they are not manifestly in error, such information or reports may be conclusively relied upon in making such calculations, and any determination of the Weighted Average Life with respect to any Collateral Obligation shall be made by the Collateral Manager using the assumption that such Collateral Obligation will not default or be disposed of.

(b) For purposes of calculating the Coverage Tests, except as otherwise specified in the Coverage Tests, such calculations will not include scheduled interest and principal payments on Defaulted Obligations unless or until such payments are actually made.

(c) For each Collection Period and as of any Determination Date, the Scheduled Distribution on any Asset (including Current Pay Obligations and DIP Collateral Obligations but excluding Defaulted Obligations, which, except as otherwise provided herein, shall be assumed to have Scheduled Distributions of zero, except to the extent any payments have actually been received) shall be the sum of (i) the total amount of payments and collections to be received during such Collection Period in respect of such Asset (including the proceeds of the sale of such Asset received and, in the case of sales which have not yet settled, to be received during the Collection Period and not reinvested in additional Collateral Obligations or Eligible Investments or retained in the Collection Account for subsequent reinvestment pursuant to Section 12.2) that, if received as scheduled, will be available in the Collection Account at the end of the Collection Period and (ii) any such amounts received by the Issuer on or before such Determination Date that were not disbursed on or before such Determination Date.

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(d) Each Scheduled Distribution receivable with respect to an Asset shall be assumed to be received on the applicable Due Date, and each such Scheduled Distribution shall be assumed to be immediately deposited in the Collection Account to earn interest at the Assumed Reinvestment Rate. All such funds shall be assumed to continue to earn interest until the date on which they are required to be available in the Collection Account for application, in accordance with the terms hereof, to payments of principal of or interest on or make distributions on the Notes or other amounts payable pursuant to this Indenture. For purposes of the applicable determinations required by Article XI, Article XII and the definition of “Interest Coverage Ratio” with respect to any specified Class or Classes of Secured Notes, the expected interest on the Secured Notes and Floating Rate Obligations will be calculated using the then current interest rates applicable thereto.

(e) References in Section 11.1(a) to calculations made on a “pro forma basis” shall mean such calculations after giving effect to all payments, in accordance with the Priority of Payments described herein, that precede (in priority of payment) or include the clause in which such calculation is made.

(f) For purposes of calculating all Concentration Limitations, in both the numerator and the denominator of any component of the Concentration Limitations, Defaulted Obligations and Equity Securities will be treated as having a Principal Balance equal to zero.

(g) If the Issuer (or the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer) is notified by the administrative agent or other withholding agent or otherwise for the syndicate of lenders in respect of any Revolving Collateral Obligation or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation that any amounts associated therewith are subject to withholding tax imposed by any jurisdiction, the applicable Collateral Quality Test, the Coverage Tests shall be calculated thereafter net of the full amount of such withholding tax unless the related Obligor is required to make “gross-up” payments to the Issuer that cover the full amount of any such withholding tax on an after-tax basis pursuant to the Underlying Instruments with respect thereto.

(h) Except where expressly referenced herein for inclusion in such calculations, Defaulted Obligations will not be included in the calculation of the Collateral Quality Test.

(i) For the purposes of calculating compliance with each of the Concentration Limitations all calculations will be rounded to the nearest 0.1%. All other calculations, unless otherwise set forth herein or the context otherwise requires, shall be rounded to the nearest ten-thousandth if expressed as a percentage, and to the nearest one-hundredth if expressed otherwise.

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(j) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture to the contrary, all monetary calculations under this Indenture shall be in Dollars.

(k) To the extent of any ambiguity in the interpretation of any definition or term contained in this Indenture or to the extent more than one methodology can be used to make any of the determinations or calculations set forth herein, the Collateral Administrator shall request direction from the Collateral Manager as to the interpretation and/or methodology to be used, and the Collateral Administrator and the Trustee shall be entitled to conclusively rely thereon without any responsibility or liability therefor.

(l) For purposes of calculating compliance with any tests under this Indenture, the trade date (and not the settlement date) with respect to any acquisition or disposition of a Collateral Obligation or Eligible Investment shall be used to determine whether and when such acquisition or disposition has occurred.

(m) [Reserved].

(n) For all purposes when determining the Concentration Limitations, the Collateral Quality Test, the Collateral Principal Amount and the Coverage Tests (but excluding for purposes of the calculation of the Aggregate Funded Spread), the Principal Balance of (x) an EC Ineligible Asset shall be treated as that of an Equity Security and (y) a Revolving Collateral Obligation or a Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation will include all unfunded commitments that have not been irrevocably reduced or withdrawn.

(o) If a Collateral Obligation included in the Assets would be deemed a Current Pay Obligation but for the applicable percentage limitation in the proviso to clause (x) of the proviso to the definition of “Defaulted Obligation”, then the Current Pay Obligations with the lowest Market Value (assuming that such Market Value is expressed as a percentage of the Principal Balance of such Current Pay Obligation as of the date of determination) will be deemed Defaulted Obligations. Each such Defaulted Obligation will be treated as a Defaulted Obligation for all purposes until such time as the Aggregate Principal Balance of Current Pay Obligations would not exceed, on a pro forma basis including such Defaulted Obligation, the applicable percentage of the Collateral Principal Amount.

(p) For purposes of calculating the Collateral Quality Test, DIP Collateral Obligations shall be treated as having an S&P Recovery Rate equal to the S&P Recovery Rate for Senior Secured Loans.

(q) [Reserved].

(r) For purposes of calculating the Sale Proceeds of a Collateral Obligation in sale transactions, Sale Proceeds will include any Principal Financed Accrued Interest received in respect of such sale.

(s) At the direction of the Collateral Manager, Interest Proceeds received by the Issuer following the Closing Date up to the first Payment Date following the Effective Date up to an amount specified in the certification set forth in clause (i) of the definition of Principal Financed Accrued Interest may be deposited directly to the Collection Account as Principal Proceeds.

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(t) All calculations related to Maturity Amendments (and definitions related to Maturity Amendments and Section 12.2(d) that would otherwise be calculated cumulatively) and the Investment Criteria (and definitions related to the Investment Criteria and Section 12.2 that would otherwise be calculated cumulatively) will be reset at zero on the date on which all Classes of Secured Notes (or any Refinancing Obligations with an equivalent rating) have been subject to a Refinancing in whole.

(u) For purposes of calculating the Weighted Average Floating Spread or Weighted Average Coupon, a Step-Up Obligation, a Step-Down Obligation, and any DIP Collateral Obligation or Bridge Loan that provides for an increase or decrease in the interest rate or spread over the applicable index or benchmark solely as the result of the passage of time, will be treated as having the then current per annum interest rate or spread over the applicable index or benchmark rate.

(v) Any reference to “execute”, “executed”, “sign”, “signed”, “signature” or any other like term hereunder shall include execution by electronic signature (including, without limitation, any .pdf file, .jpeg file, or any other electronic or image file, or any “electronic signature” as defined under the U.S. Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (“E-SIGN”) or the New York Electronic Signatures and Records Act (“ESRA”), which includes any electronic signature provided using Orbit, Adobe Sign, DocuSign, or any other similar platform identified by the Issuer and reasonably available at no undue burden or expense to the Trustee), except to the extent the Trustee requests otherwise. Any such electronic signatures shall be valid, effective and legally binding as if such electronic signatures were handwritten signatures and shall be deemed to have been duly and validly delivered for all purposes hereunder.

(w) To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law and subject to the standard of care under the Collateral Management Agreement and the legal, contractual and fiduciary duties owed by the Collateral Manager, including the duty to act in the best interest of the Issuer, whenever in this Indenture or any other Transaction Document the Collateral Manager is permitted or required to make a decision in its “sole discretion,” “reasonable discretion” or “discretion” or under a grant of similar authority or latitude, the Collateral Manager shall be entitled to consider such interests and factors as it desires, including its own interests, and shall have no duty or obligation to give any consideration to any interest of or factors affecting any other Person. The intent of granting authority to act in its “discretion” to the Collateral Manager is that no other party’s express consent is required to be obtained by the Collateral Manager when acting pursuant to such grant of authority under this Indenture; provided that any action taken pursuant to such grant of discretion is consistent with the legal, contractual and fiduciary duties owed by the Collateral Manager. Subject to the Collateral Management Agreement and applicable law, if any questions should arise with respect to the operation of the Issuer that are not specifically provided for in this Indenture, or with respect to the interpretation of this Indenture, the Collateral Manager is authorized to make a final determination in its sole discretion with respect to any such question, and its determination and interpretation so made shall be final and binding on all parties.

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(x) For purposes of clause (i) of the Concentration Limitations, a Senior Secured Note shall be deemed to be a Senior Secured Loan if such Senior Secured Note, (A) if it were a loan, would meet the definition of Senior Secured Loan and (B) has a ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Default Probability Rating that is not lower than such obligor’s ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating.

ARTICLE II

THE NOTES

Section 2.1 Forms Generally. The Notes and the Trustee’s or Authenticating Agent’s certificate of authentication thereon (the “Certificate of Authentication”) shall be in substantially the forms required by this Article II, with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon, as may be consistent herewith, determined by the Authorized Officers of the Issuer executing such Notes as evidenced by their execution of such Notes. Any portion of the text of any Note may be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an appropriate reference thereto on the face of the Note.

Section 2.2 Forms of Notes. (a) The forms of the Notes, including the forms of the Certificated Notes and the Global Notes, shall be as set forth in the applicable part of Exhibit A hereto.

(b) The Notes.

(i) Except as set forth below, the Notes of each Class sold to Persons who are not U.S. persons in offshore transactions in reliance on Regulation S and either (x) a Qualified Purchasers or (y) an entities owned exclusively by Qualified Purchasers shall each be issued initially in the form of one permanent Global Secured Note per Class in definitive, fully registered form without interest coupons substantially in the applicable form attached as, in the case of the Secured Notes, Exhibit A-1 hereto (each, a “Regulation S Global Secured Note”) and shall be deposited on behalf of the subscribers for such Notes represented thereby with the Trustee as custodian for, and registered in the name of a nominee of DTC, the respective accounts of Euroclear and Clearstream, duly executed by the Issuer and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided.

(ii) Except as set forth below, each Note sold to Persons that are QIB/QPs shall each be issued initially in the form of one permanent Global Note per Class in definitive, fully registered form without interest coupons substantially in the applicable form attached as, in the case of the Secured Notes, Exhibit A-1 (each, a “Rule 144A Global Secured Note”), in the case of the Subordinated Notes, Exhibit A-2 (each a “Rule 144A Global Subordinated Note”) and shall be deposited on behalf of the subscribers for such Notes represented thereby with the Trustee as custodian, and registered in the name of a nominee of DTC, duly executed by the Issuer and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided.

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(iii) Each Note sold to Persons that are QIB/QPs that elect, at the time of the acquisition, purported acquisition or proposed acquisition by such Person of such Note, to have their Notes issued in the form of definitive, fully registered notes without coupons substantially in the applicable form attached as, in the case of the Secured Notes, Exhibit A-1 hereto (each, a “Certificated Secured Note”), in the case of the Subordinated Notes, Exhibit A-2 hereto (each, a “Certificated Subordinated Note”) shall be registered in the name of the beneficial owner of such Secured Note or a nominee thereof, duly executed by the Issue and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided; provided that, except with respect to any issuance of Certificated Subordinated Notes to an IAI/QP, the Issuer has consented to any issuance of Certificated Subordinated Notes on or after the Closing Date.

(iv) Each Note sold to Persons that are IAI/QPs shall be issued in the form of a Certificated Note and shall be registered in the name of the beneficial owner of such Note or a nominee thereof, duly executed by the Issuer and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided.

(v) The aggregate principal amount of the Global Notes may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee or DTC or its nominee, as the case may be, as hereinafter provided.

(c) Book Entry Provisions. This Section 2.2(c) shall apply only to Global Notes deposited with or on behalf of DTC.

The provisions of the “Operating Procedures of the Euroclear System” of Euroclear and the “Terms and Conditions Governing Use of Participants” of Clearstream, respectively, will be applicable to the Global Notes insofar as interests in such Global Notes are held by the Agent Members of Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be.

Agent Members shall have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Notes held on their behalf by the Trustee, as custodian for DTC and DTC may be treated by the Issuer, the Trustee, and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee as the absolute owner of such Note for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Issuer, the Trustee, or any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee, from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by DTC or impair, as between DTC and its Agent Members, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of a Holder of any Note.

Global Notes and Certificated Notes of any Class may have the same identifying number (e.g., CUSIPs).

Section 2.3 Authorized Amount; Stated Maturity; Denominations. The aggregate principal amount of Secured Notes and Subordinated Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture shall be U.S.$502,100,000 in aggregate principal amount of Notes (except for (i) Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Notes pursuant to Section 2.5, Section 2.6 or Section 8.6 or (ii) additional securities issued in accordance with Sections 2.13 and 3.2).

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Such Notes shall be divided into the Classes having the designations, original principal amounts and other characteristics as follows:

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(x) The Secured Notes shall be issued in minimum denominations of U.S.$250,000 and (y) the Subordinated Notes shall be issued in minimum denominations of U.S.$800,000, and, in each case, integral multiples of U.S.$1.00 in excess thereof (the “Minimum Denominations”). The Notes shall only be transferred or resold in compliance with the terms of this Indenture.

Section 2.4 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating. The Notes shall be executed on behalf of the Issuer by one of its respective Authorized Officers. The signature of such Authorized Officer on the Notes may be manual, facsimile or electronic.

Notes bearing the manual, facsimile or electronic signatures of individuals who were at any time the Authorized Officers of the Issuer, shall bind the Issuer, notwithstanding the fact that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or did not hold such offices at the date of issuance of such Notes.

At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Issuer may deliver Notes executed by the Issuer to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent for authentication and the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent, upon Issuer Order, shall authenticate and deliver such Notes as provided in this Indenture and not otherwise.

Each Note authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent upon Issuer Order on the Closing Date shall be dated as of the Closing Date. All other Notes that are authenticated after the Closing Date for any other purpose under this Indenture shall be dated the date of their authentication.

Notes issued upon transfer, exchange or replacement of other Notes shall be issued in authorized denominations reflecting the original Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Notes so transferred, exchanged or replaced, but shall represent only the then-current Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Notes so transferred, exchanged or replaced. If any Note is divided into more than one Note in accordance with this Article II, the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of such Note shall be proportionately divided among the Notes delivered in exchange therefor and shall be deemed to be the original Aggregate Outstanding Amount of such subsequently issued Notes.

No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Note a Certificate of Authentication, substantially in the form provided for herein, executed by the Trustee or by the Authenticating Agent by the manual signature of one of their authorized signatories, and such Certificate of Authentication upon any Note shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.

Section 2.5 Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange. (a) The Issuer shall cause the Notes to be registered and shall cause to be kept a register (the “Register”) at the office of the Trustee in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer shall provide for the registration of Notes and the registration of transfers of Notes. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed registrar (the “Registrar”) for the purpose of registering Notes and transfers of such Notes with respect to the Register maintained in the United States as herein provided. Upon any resignation or removal of the Registrar, the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor or, in the absence of such appointment, assume the duties of Registrar.

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If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuer as Registrar, the Issuer will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of a Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the Register, and the Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof and the Trustee shall have the right to rely upon a certificate executed on behalf of the Registrar by an Officer thereof as to the names and addresses of the Holders of the Notes and the principal or face amounts and numbers of such Notes. Upon written request at any time the Registrar shall provide to the Issuer, the Collateral Manager, any beneficial owner of a Note who provides the Trustee with a certification substantially in the form of Exhibit C or any Holder of a Certificated Note a current list of Holders (and their holdings) as reflected in the Register, and at the Issuer’s expense, a list of participants in DTC holding positions in the Notes. In addition and upon written request at any time, the Registrar shall provide to the Issuer, the Collateral Manager, any beneficial owner of a Note who provides the Trustee with a certification substantially in the form of Exhibit C or any Holder of a Certificated Note any information the Registrar actually possesses regarding the name and contact information of any beneficial owner of any Note (and its holdings); provided that, such information shall include at least (A) any such information contained in any beneficial owners’ certifications, substantially in the form of Exhibit C, that the Trustee has received from beneficial owners of Notes and (B) any other forms or information submitted to the Trustee in connection with such beneficial owner’s interest, the Holder of such beneficial owner’s interest or other Persons being granted access to the Trustee Website; provided, further, that the Trustee shall make no representation and give no warranties as to the accuracy or correctness of any information so provided.

Subject to this Section 2.5, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Notes at the office or agency of the Issuer to be maintained as provided in Section 7.2, the Issuer shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes of any authorized denomination and of a like aggregate principal or face amount.

At the option of the Holder, Notes may be exchanged for Notes of like terms, in any authorized denominations and of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Note is surrendered for exchange, the Issuer shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Notes that the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

All Notes issued and authenticated upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuer evidencing the same debt (to the extent they evidence debt), and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Registrar duly executed by the Holder thereof or such ▇▇▇▇▇▇’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with (if required by the Registrar) signature guarantee by an eligible guarantor institution meeting the requirements of the Registrar (which requirements may include membership or participation in a signature guarantee program acceptable to the Registrar).

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No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith. The Trustee shall be permitted to request such evidence reasonably satisfactory to it documenting the identity and/or signatures of the transferor and transferee. In addition, when permitted under this Indenture, the Issuer, the Trustee and the Collateral Manager shall be entitled to rely conclusively upon any certificate of ownership provided to the Trustee by a beneficial owner of a Note (including a beneficial ownership certificate or a certificate in the form of Exhibit C) and/or other forms of reasonable evidence of such ownership as to the names and addresses of such beneficial owner and the Classes, principal amounts and CUSIP numbers of Notes beneficially owned thereby. At any time, upon request of the Issuer, the Collateral Manager, the Initial Purchaser or the Co-Placement Agent, the Trustee shall provide such requesting Person a copy of each beneficial ownership certificate that the Trustee has received; provided, however, the Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to verify information with respect to such beneficial ownership certificate or certificate in the form of Exhibit C and shall only be required to retain copies of such documents presented to it.

(b) No Note may be sold or transferred (including, without limitation, by pledge or hypothecation) unless such sale or transfer is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, is exempt from the registration requirements under applicable state securities laws and will not cause the Issuer to become subject to the requirement that it register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act.

(c) No transfer of an ERISA-Restricted Note (or any interest therein) will be effective, and the Trustee will not recognize any such transfer, if it is a transfer to a Benefit Plan Investor. The Issuer and the Trustee shall be entitled to rely exclusively upon the information set forth on the face of the transfer certificates received pursuant to the terms of this Section 2.5 and only Notes that a Bank Officer of the Trustee actually knows to be so held shall be so disregarded.

(d) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, except as provided in Section 2.5(c), the Trustee shall not be responsible for ascertaining whether any transfer complies with, or for otherwise monitoring or determining compliance with, the registration provisions of or any exemptions from the Securities Act, applicable state securities laws or the applicable laws of any other jurisdiction, ERISA, the Code, the Investment Company Act, or the terms hereof; provided that, if a certificate is specifically required by the terms of this Section 2.5 to be provided to the Trustee by a purchaser or by a prospective transferor or transferee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to receive and examine the same to determine whether or not the certificate substantially conforms on its face to the applicable requirements of this Indenture and shall promptly notify the party delivering the same if such certificate does not comply with such terms.

(e) For so long as any of the Notes are Outstanding, the Issuer shall not issue or permit the transfer of any ordinary shares of the Issuer to U.S. persons.

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(f) Transfers of Global Notes shall only be made in accordance with Section 2.2(b) and this Section 2.5(f).

(i) Rule 144A Global Secured Note to Regulation S Global Secured Note. If a holder of a beneficial interest in a Rule 144A Global Secured Note deposited with DTC wishes at any time to exchange its interest in such Rule 144A Global Secured Note for an interest in the corresponding Regulation S Global Secured Note, or to transfer its interest in such Rule 144A Global Secured Note to a Person who wishes to take delivery thereof in the form of an interest in the corresponding Regulation S Global Secured Note, such holder (provided that, such holder (or, in the case of a transfer, the transferee) is not a U.S. person and is acquiring such interest in an offshore transaction) may, subject to the immediately succeeding sentence and the rules and procedures of DTC, exchange or transfer, or cause the exchange or transfer of, such interest for an equivalent beneficial interest in the corresponding Regulation S Global Secured Note. Upon receipt by the Registrar of (A) instructions given in accordance with DTC’s procedures from an Agent Member directing the Registrar to credit or cause to be credited a beneficial interest in the corresponding Regulation S Global Secured Note, but not less than the Minimum Denomination applicable to such holder’s Notes, in an amount equal to the beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Secured Note to be exchanged or transferred, (B) a written order given in accordance with DTC’s procedures containing information regarding the participant account of DTC and the Euroclear or Clearstream account to be credited with such increase and (C) a certificate in the form of Exhibit B-1 attached hereto given by the holder of such beneficial interest stating that the exchange or transfer of such interest has been made in compliance with the transfer restrictions applicable to the Global Notes, including that the holder or the transferee, as applicable, is not a U.S. person, and in an offshore transaction pursuant to and in accordance with Regulation S, and either (x) a Qualified Purchaser or (y) an entity owned exclusively by Qualified Purchasers then the Registrar shall approve the instructions at DTC to reduce the principal amount of the applicable Rule 144A Global Secured Note and to increase the principal amount of the Regulation S Global Secured Note by the aggregate principal amount of the beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Secured Note to be exchanged or transferred, and to credit or cause to be credited to the securities account of the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in the corresponding Regulation S Global Secured Note equal to the reduction in the principal amount of the Rule 144A Global Secured Note.

(ii) Regulation S Global Note to Rule 144A Global Note. If a holder of a beneficial interest in a Regulation S Global Note deposited with DTC wishes at any time to exchange its interest in such Regulation S Global Note for an interest in the corresponding Rule 144A Global Note or to transfer its interest in such Regulation S Global Note to a Person who wishes to take delivery thereof in the form of an interest in the corresponding Rule 144A Global Note, such holder may, subject to the immediately succeeding sentence and the rules and procedures of Euroclear, Clearstream and/or DTC, as the case may be, exchange or transfer, or cause the exchange or transfer of, such interest for an equivalent beneficial interest in the corresponding Rule 144A Global Note. Upon receipt by the Registrar of (A) instructions from Euroclear, Clearstream and/or DTC, as the case may be, directing the Registrar to cause to be credited a beneficial interest in the corresponding Rule 144A Global Note in an amount equal to the beneficial interest in such

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Regulation S Global Note, but not less than the Minimum Denomination applicable to such holder’s Notes to be exchanged or transferred, such instructions to contain information regarding the participant account with DTC to be credited with such increase and (B) a certificate in the form of Exhibit B-3 attached hereto given by the holder of such beneficial interest and stating, among other things, that, in the case of a transfer, the Person transferring such interest in such Regulation S Global Note reasonably believes that the Person acquiring such interest in a Rule 144A Global Note is a Qualified Institutional Buyer and either (x) a Qualified Purchaser or (y) an entity owned exclusively by Qualified Purchasers and is obtaining such beneficial interest in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A and in accordance with any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States or any other jurisdiction, then the Registrar will approve the instructions at DTC to reduce, or cause to be reduced, the Regulation S Global Note by the aggregate principal amount of the beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note to be transferred or exchanged and the Registrar shall instruct DTC, concurrently with such reduction, to credit or cause to be credited to the securities account of the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in the corresponding Rule 144A Global Note equal to the reduction in the principal amount of the Regulation S Global Note.

(iii) Global Note to Certificated Note. Subject to Section 2.10(a), if a holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Note deposited with DTC wishes at any time to transfer its interest in such Global Note to a Person who wishes to take delivery thereof in the form of a corresponding Certificated Note, such holder may, subject to the immediately succeeding sentence and the rules and procedures of Euroclear, Clearstream and/or DTC, as the case may be, transfer, or cause the transfer of, such interest for a Certificated Note; provided that, except with respect to transfers of Subordinated Notes to an IAI/QP, the Issuer has consented to any issuance of Certificated Subordinated Notes in connection with such transfer. Upon receipt by the Registrar of (A) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit B-2 or Exhibit B-4, as applicable, attached hereto executed by the transferee and (B) appropriate instructions from DTC, if required, the Registrar will approve the instructions at DTC to reduce, or cause to be reduced, the Global Note by the aggregate principal amount of the beneficial interest in the Global Note to be transferred, record the transfer in the Register in accordance with Section 2.5(a) and upon execution by the Issuer and authentication and delivery by the Trustee, one or more corresponding Certificated Notes, registered in the names specified in the instructions described in clause (B) above, in principal amounts designated by the transferee (the aggregate of such principal amounts being equal to the aggregate principal amount of the interest in such Global Note transferred by the transferor), and in authorized denominations.

(g) Transfers of Certificated Notes shall only be made in accordance with Section 2.2(b) and this Section 2.5(g).

(i) Certificated Notes to Global Notes. If a Holder of a Certificated Note wishes at any time to exchange its interest in a Certificated Note for an interest in the corresponding Rule 144A Global Note or a Regulation S Global Secured Note or to transfer such Certificated Note to a Person who wishes to take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in a corresponding Global Note, such Holder may, subject to the immediately succeeding sentence and the rules and procedures of Euroclear, Clearstream

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and/or DTC, as the case may be, exchange or transfer, or cause the exchange or transfer of, such Certificated Note for a beneficial interest in a corresponding Global Note. Upon receipt by the Registrar of (A) a Holder’s Certificated Note properly endorsed for assignment to the transferee, (B) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit B-1 or Exhibit B-3 (as applicable) executed by the transferor, (C) instructions given in accordance with Euroclear, Clearstream or DTC’s procedures, as the case may be, from an Agent Member to instruct DTC to cause to be credited a beneficial interest in the applicable Global Notes in an amount equal to the Certificated Notes to be transferred or exchanged, and (D) a written order given in accordance with DTC’s procedures containing information regarding the participant’s account at DTC and/or Euroclear or Clearstream to be credited with such increase, the Registrar shall cancel such Certificated Note in accordance with Section 2.9, record the transfer in the Register in accordance with Section 2.5(a) and approve the instructions at DTC, concurrently with such cancellation, to credit or cause to be credited to the securities account of the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in the corresponding Global Note equal to the principal amount of the Certificated Note transferred or exchanged.

(ii) Certificated Notes to Certificated Notes. If a Holder of a Certificated Note wishes at any time to exchange its interest in such Certificated Note for one or more other Certificated Notes of the same Class or wishes to transfer such Certificated Note, such Holder may do so in accordance with this Section 2.5(g)(ii). Upon receipt by the Registrar of (A) a Holder’s Certificated Note properly endorsed for assignment to the transferee, and (B) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit B-2 or Exhibit B-4, as applicable, attached hereto executed by the transferee, the Registrar shall cancel such Certificated Note in accordance with Section 2.9, record the transfer in the Register in accordance with Section 2.5(a) and upon execution by the Issuer and authentication and delivery by the Trustee, deliver one or more Certificated Notes bearing the same designation as the Certificated Note endorsed for transfer, registered in the names specified in the assignment described in clause (A) above, in principal amounts designated by the transferee (the aggregate of such principal amounts being equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Certificated Note surrendered by the transferor), and in authorized denominations; provided that, except with respect to transfers of Subordinated Notes to an IAI/QP, the Issuer has consented to any issuance of Certificated Subordinated Notes in connection with such transfer.

(h) If Notes are issued upon the transfer, exchange or replacement of Notes bearing the applicable legends set forth in the applicable part of Exhibit A hereto, and if a request is made to remove any such applicable legend on such Notes, the Notes so issued shall bear such applicable legend unless there is delivered to the Trustee and the Issuer such satisfactory evidence, which may include an Opinion of Counsel acceptable to them, as may be reasonably required by the Issuer (and which shall by its terms permit reliance by the Trustee), to the effect that neither such applicable legend nor the restrictions on transfer set forth therein are required to ensure that transfers thereof comply with the provisions of the Securities Act, the Investment Company Act, ERISA or the Code. Upon provision of such satisfactory evidence, the Trustee or its Authenticating Agent, at the written direction of the Issuer shall, after due execution by the Issuer authenticate and deliver Notes that do not bear such applicable legend.

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(i) Each Person who becomes a beneficial owner of Notes represented by an interest in a Global Note will be deemed to have represented and agreed (or, in certain cases, will be required to represent and agree) as follows (except as may be expressly agreed in writing among a purchaser, the Issuer, the Placement Agents, in the case of a purchaser purchasing as part of the initial Offering):

(i) In connection with the purchase of such Notes: (A) none of the Transaction Parties or any of their respective Affiliates is acting as a fiduciary or financial or investment adviser for such beneficial owner; (B) such beneficial owner is not relying, and will not rely (for purposes of making any investment decision or otherwise), upon any written or oral advice, counsel or representations of the Transaction Parties or any of their respective Affiliates other than any statements in the final Offering Memorandum for such Notes, and such beneficial owner has read and understands such final Offering Memorandum for such Notes (including, without limitation, the descriptions herein of the structure of the transaction in which the Notes are being issued and the risks to purchasers of the Notes); (C) such beneficial owner has consulted with its own legal, regulatory, tax, business, investment, financial and accounting advisors to the extent it has deemed necessary and has made its own investment decisions (including decisions regarding the suitability of any transaction pursuant to this Indenture) based upon its own judgment and upon any advice from such advisors as it has deemed necessary and not upon any view expressed by the Transaction Parties or any of their respective Affiliates; (D) such beneficial owner is either (1) (in the case of a beneficial owner of an interest in a Rule 144A Global Note) both (a) a Qualified Institutional Buyer that purchases such Notes in reliance on the exemption from Securities Act registration provided by Rule 144A thereunder that is neither a dealer described in paragraph (a)(1)(ii) of Rule 144A which owns and invests on a discretionary basis less than U.S.$25,000,000 in securities of issuers that are not affiliated Persons of the dealer nor a plan referred to in paragraph (a)(1)(i)(D) or (a)(1)(i)(E) of Rule 144A under the Securities Act or a trust fund referred to in paragraph (a)(1)(i)(F) of Rule 144A under the Securities Act that holds the assets of such a plan, if investment decisions with respect to the plan are made by the beneficiaries of the plan, except with respect to investment decisions made solely by the fiduciary, trustee or sponsor of such plan and (b) a Qualified Purchaser or an entity owned exclusively by Qualified Purchasers or (2) (in the case of a beneficial owner of an interest in a Regulation S Global Note) (a) not a “U.S. person” and is acquiring the Notes in an offshore transaction (as defined in Regulation S) in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Regulation S and (b) a Qualified Purchaser or an entity owned exclusively by Qualified Purchasers; (E) such beneficial owner is acquiring its interest in such Notes as principal solely for its own account for investment and not with a view to the resale, distribution or other disposition thereof in violation of the Securities Act; (F) such beneficial owner was not formed for the purpose of investing in such Notes; (G) such beneficial owner understands that the Issuer may receive a list of participants holding interests in the Notes from one or more book-entry depositories; (H) such beneficial owner will hold and transfer at least the Minimum Denomination of such Notes; (I) such beneficial owner is a sophisticated investor and is purchasing the Notes with a full understanding of all of the terms, conditions and risks thereof, and is capable of and willing to assume those risks; (J) such beneficial owner will provide notice of the relevant transfer restrictions to subsequent transferees; (K) none of the Transaction Parties or any of their respective Affiliates has

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given it (directly or indirectly through any other Person) any assurance, guarantee or representation whatsoever as to the expected or projected success, profitability, return, performance, result, effect, consequence or benefit (including legal, regulatory, tax, financial, accounting or otherwise) of the Notes or of this Indenture; (L) the beneficial owner has determined that the rates, prices or amounts and other terms of the purchase and sale of the Notes reflect those in the relevant market for similar transactions; (M) the beneficial owner is not a (x) partnership, (y) common trust fund or (z) special trust, pension, profit sharing or other retirement trust fund or plan in which the partners, beneficiaries or participants may designate the particular investments to be made; (N) the beneficial owner agrees that it will not hold any Notes for the benefit of any other Person, that it will at all times be the sole beneficial owner of the Notes for purposes of the Investment Company Act and all other purposes and that the beneficial owner will not sell participation interests in the Notes or enter into any other arrangement pursuant to which any other Person will be entitled to a beneficial interest in the distributions on the Notes; and (O) such beneficial owner understands that the Notes are illiquid and it is prepared to hold the Notes until their maturity.

(ii) (A) With respect to a Secured Note or any interest therein, (x) if such Person is, or is acting on behalf of, a Benefit Plan Investor, its acquisition, holding and disposition of such interest do not and will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, and (y) if such Person is a governmental, church, non-U.S. or other plan which is subject to any Other Plan Law, such Person’s acquisition, holding and disposition of such Secured Note do not and will not constitute or result in a non-exempt violation of any such Other Plan Law.

(B) With respect to a Secured Note or any interest therein purchased by a Benefit Plan Investor, each beneficial owner will be deemed to represent, warrant and agree on each day on which such beneficial owner acquires such Note or interest therein through and including the date on which it disposes of such Note or interest therein that (i) that none of the Transaction Parties has provided or will provide any investment advice within the meaning of Section 3(21) of ERISA to the Benefit Plan Investor, or to any fiduciary or other person investing the assets of the Benefit Plan Investor (“Fiduciary”), in connection with its acquisition of the Notes, and (ii) the Fiduciary is exercising its own independent judgment in evaluating the investment of the Notes.

(C) With respect to the ERISA-Restricted Notes on each day from the date on which such beneficial owner acquires its interest in such ERISA-Restricted Notes through and including the date on which such beneficial owner disposes of its interest in such ERISA-Restricted Notes, (a) it is not, and is not acting on behalf of, a Benefit Plan Investor and (b) if it is a governmental, church, non-U.S. or other plan, (I) it is not, and for so long as it holds such ERISA-Restricted Notes or interest therein will not be, subject to Similar Law and (II) its acquisition, holding and disposition of such ERISA-Restricted Notes do not and will not constitute or result in a non-exempt violation of any Other Plan Law.

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(iii) Such beneficial owner understands that such Notes are being offered only in a transaction not involving any public offering in the United States within the meaning of the Securities Act, such Notes have not been and will not be registered or qualified under the Securities Act or any state securities laws, and, if in the future such beneficial owner decides to reoffer, resell, pledge or otherwise transfer such Notes, such Notes may be reoffered, resold, pledged or otherwise transferred only in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and the legend on such Notes. Such beneficial owner acknowledges that no representation has been made as to the availability of any exemption under the Securities Act or any state securities laws for resale of such Notes. Such beneficial owner understands that the Issuer has not been registered under the Investment Company Act, and that the Issuer is excepted from registration as such by virtue of Section 3(c)(7) of the Investment Company Act.

(iv) Such beneficial owner is aware that, except as otherwise provided in this Indenture, any Notes being sold to it in reliance on Regulation S will be represented by one or more Regulation S Global Notes and that beneficial interests therein may be held only through DTC for the respective accounts of Euroclear or Clearstream.

(v) Such beneficial owner will provide notice to each Person to whom it proposes to transfer any interest in the Notes of the transfer restrictions and representations set forth in this Section 2.5 and Section 2.12, including the exhibits referenced herein.

(vi) Such beneficial owner agrees to be subject to the Bankruptcy Subordination Agreement.

(vii) Such beneficial owner will not, at any time, offer to buy or offer to sell the Notes by any form of general solicitation or advertising, including, but not limited to, any advertisement, article, notice or other communication published in any newspaper, magazine or similar medium or broadcast over television or radio or seminar or meeting whose attendees have been invited by general solicitations or advertising.

(viii) Each Person who becomes an owner of a beneficial interest in a Certificated Note will be required to make representations and agreements substantially similar to those set forth in Exhibit B-2 or Exhibit B-4, as applicable. Each Person who becomes an owner of a beneficial interest in any ERISA-Restricted Notes shall be deemed to have represented that they are not a Benefit Plan Investor. Each Person who purchases an interest in a Global Subordinated Note from the Issuer as part of the initial Offering will be required to make representations and agreements substantially similar to those set forth in Exhibit B-4. Each Person who becomes an owner of a Certificated Subordinated Note (including a transfer of an interest in a Global Subordinated Note to a transferee acquiring a Subordinated Note in certificated form) will be required to make the representations and agreements set forth in Exhibit B-4. Each Person who becomes an owner of a Subordinated Note on the Closing Date will be required to provide the Issuer with a representation letter containing representations substantially similar to those set forth in Exhibit B-4 hereto, as well as other agreements and indemnities.

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(ix) To the best of such beneficial owner’s knowledge, none of: (a) such beneficial owner; (b) any Person controlling or controlled by such beneficial owner; (c) if such beneficial owner is a privately held entity, any Person having a beneficial interest in such beneficial owner; (d) any Person having a beneficial interest in the Notes; or (e) any Person for whom such beneficial owner is acting as agent or nominee in connection with its investment in the Notes is a country, territory, individual or entity named on any United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) list of prohibited countries, territories, Persons, or is a Person prohibited under the OFAC programs that prohibit dealing with individuals or entities in certain countries regardless of whether such individuals or entities appear on the OFAC lists.

(x) Any funds used by such beneficial owner to purchase the Notes are not directly or indirectly derived from activities that may contravene applicable laws and regulations, including anti-money laundering laws and regulations.

(xi) [Reserved].

(xii) Such beneficial owner consents to delivery by the Trustee to the Issuer and the Collateral Manager of (A) any information contained in any beneficial owners’ certifications, substantially in the form of Exhibit C, that the Trustee has received from such beneficial owners and (B) any other forms or information submitted to the Trustee in connection with such beneficial owner’s interest, the Holder of such beneficial owner’s interest or other Persons being granted access to the Trustee Website.

(xiii) Such beneficial owner understands that the Issuer may, if the Notes held by such beneficial owner are issued in the form of Certificated Notes, except in relation to certain categories of institutional investors, require a detailed verification of its identity and the source of the payment used by it for purchasing the Notes. The laws of other major financial centers may impose similar obligations upon the Issuer.

(j) Any purported transfer of a Note not in accordance with this Section 2.5 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever.

(k) The Registrar, the Trustee and the Issuer shall be entitled to conclusively rely on the information set forth on the face of any transferor and transferee certificate delivered pursuant to this Section 2.5 and shall be able to presume conclusively the continuing accuracy thereof, in each case without further inquiry or investigation. Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the contrary, the Trustee shall not be required to obtain any certificate specifically required by the terms of this Section 2.5 if the Trustee is not notified of or in a position to know of any transfer requiring such a certificate to be presented by the proposed transferor or transferee.

(l) For the avoidance of doubt, notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the contrary either the Initial Purchaser or the Co-Placement Agent may hold a position in a Regulation S Global Note prior to the distribution of the applicable Notes represented by such position.

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(m) Neither the Trustee nor the Registrar shall be liable for any delay in the delivery of directions from DTC and may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected in relying on, such direction as to the names of the beneficial owners in whose names such Certificated Notes shall be registered or as to delivery instructions for such Certificated Notes.

Section 2.6 Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Note. If (a) any mutilated or defaced Note is surrendered to a Transfer Agent or if there shall be delivered to the Issuer, the Trustee and the relevant Transfer Agent evidence to their reasonable satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note, and (b) there is delivered to the Issuer, the Trustee and such Transfer Agent such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Issuer, the Trustee or such Transfer Agent that such Note has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Issuer shall execute and, upon Issuer Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder, in lieu of any such mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a new Note, of like tenor (including the same date of issuance) and equal principal or face amount, registered in the same manner, dated the date of its authentication, bearing interest from the date to which interest has been paid on the mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Note and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

If, after delivery of such new Note, a protected purchaser of the predecessor Note presents for payment, transfer or exchange such predecessor Note, the Issuer, the Transfer Agent and the Trustee shall be entitled to recover such new Note from the Person to whom it was delivered or any Person taking therefrom, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Issuer, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent in connection therewith.

In case any such mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Note has become due and payable, the Issuer in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Note pay such Note without requiring surrender thereof except that any mutilated or defaced Note shall be surrendered.

Upon the issuance of any new Note under this Section 2.6, the Issuer may require the payment by the Holder thereof of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.

Every new Note issued pursuant to this Section 2.6 in lieu of any mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Issuer and such new Note shall be entitled, subject to the second paragraph of this Section 2.6, to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes of the same Class duly issued hereunder.

The provisions of this Section 2.6 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes.

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Section 2.7 Payment of Principal and Interest and Other Amounts; Principal and Interest Rights Preserved. (a) The Secured Notes of each Class shall accrue interest during each Interest Accrual Period at the applicable Interest Rate and such interest will be payable in arrears on each Payment Date, subject to Section 10.2(f), each Interim Payment Date and each Redemption Date that is not a Payment Date and, following an Enforcement Event, any other date fixed by the Trustee on the Aggregate Outstanding Amount thereof on the first day of the related Interest Accrual Period (after giving effect to payments of principal thereof on such date), except as otherwise set forth below. Payment of interest on each Class of Secured Notes (and payments of available Interest Proceeds to the Holders of Subordinated Notes) will be subordinated to the payment of interest on each related Priority Class as provided in Section 11.1. So long as any Priority Class of Secured Notes is Outstanding with respect to the Deferrable Notes, any payment of interest due on the Deferrable Notes, respectively, which is not available to be paid (“Deferred Interest”) in accordance with the Priority of Payments on any Payment Date shall not be considered “due and payable” for the purposes of Section 5.1(a) (and the failure to pay such interest shall not be an Event of Default), but will be deferred and will bear interest at the Interest Rate for such Class of Secured Notes until the earliest of (i) the Payment Date on which funds are available to pay such Deferred Interest in accordance with the Priority of Payments, (ii) the Redemption Date with respect to such Class of Secured Notes, (iii) the Interim Payment Date on which accrued and unpaid interest of such Class is paid pursuant to Section 10.2(f) and (iv) the Stated Maturity of such Class of Secured Notes. Regardless of whether any Priority Class of Secured Notes is Outstanding with respect to the Deferrable Notes, to the extent that funds are not available on any Payment Date (other than the Redemption Date with respect to, or Stated Maturity of, such Class of Secured Notes) to pay previously accrued Deferred Interest, such previously accrued Deferred Interest will not be due and payable on such Payment Date and any failure to pay such previously accrued Deferred Interest on such Payment Date will not be an Event of Default. Interest will cease to accrue on each Secured Note, or in the case of a partial repayment, on such repaid part, from the date of repayment. To the extent lawful and enforceable, interest on any interest that is not paid when due on any Class A-1 Notes, or Class A-2 Notes or, if no Class A-1 Notes or Class A-2 Notes are Outstanding, any Class B Notes or, if no Class B Notes are Outstanding, any Class C Notes shall accrue at the Interest Rate for such Class until paid as provided herein.

(b) The principal of each Secured Note of each Class matures at par and is due and payable on the date of the Stated Maturity for such Class, unless such principal has been previously repaid or unless the unpaid principal of such Secured Note becomes due and payable at an earlier date by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the payment of principal of each Class of Secured Notes (and payments of available Principal Proceeds to the Holders of the Subordinated Notes) may only occur in accordance with the Priority of Payments or on an Interim Payment Date pursuant to Section 10.2(f). Payments of principal on any Class of Secured Notes (and distributions of available Principal Proceeds to the Holders of the Subordinated Notes) which are not paid, in accordance with the Priority of Payments, on any Payment Date (other than the Payment Date which is the Stated Maturity of such Class of Secured Notes or any Redemption Date), because of insufficient funds therefor shall not be considered “due and payable” for purposes of Section 5.1(a) until the Payment Date on which such principal may be paid in accordance with the Priority of Payments or all Priority Classes with respect to such Class have been paid in full.

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(c) Principal payments on the Notes will be made in accordance with the Priority of Payments and Article IX and, on an Interim Payment Date pursuant to Section 10.2(f).

(d) As a condition to the payment of any amounts on any Note without the imposition of withholding or back-up withholding tax, any Paying Agent (including the Trustee serving in such capacity) shall require certification acceptable to it to enable it to determine its duties and liabilities, or such certification as the Issuer or any Paying Agent shall request to enable such party to determine its duties and liabilities, with respect to any taxes or other charges that they may be required to deduct or withhold from payments in respect of such Note under any present or future law or regulation of the United States and any other applicable jurisdiction, or any present or future law or regulation of any political subdivision thereof or taxing authority therein or to comply with any reporting or other requirements under any such law or regulation. The Issuer shall not be obligated to pay any additional amounts to the Holders or beneficial owners of the Notes as a result of deduction or withholding for any present or future taxes, duties, assessments or governmental charges with respect to the Notes. Nothing herein shall be construed to obligate the Paying Agent to determine the duties or liabilities of the Issuer or any other paying agent with respect to any tax certification or withholding requirements, or any tax certification or withholding requirements of any jurisdiction, political subdivision or taxing authority outside the United States.

(e) Payments in respect of interest on and principal of any Secured Note and any payment with respect to any Subordinated Note shall be made by the Trustee in Dollars to DTC or its designee with respect to a Global Note and to the Holder or its nominee with respect to a Certificated Note, by wire transfer, as directed by the Holder, in immediately available funds to a Dollar account maintained by DTC or its nominee with respect to a Global Note, and to the Holder or its nominee with respect to a Certificated Note; provided that, (1) in the case of a Certificated Note, the Holder thereof shall have provided written wiring instructions to the Trustee on or before the related Record Date and (2) if appropriate instructions for any such wire transfer are not received by the related Record Date, then such payment shall be made by check drawn on a U.S. bank mailed to the address of the Holder specified in the Register. Upon final payment due on the Maturity of a Note, the Holder thereof shall present and surrender such Note at the Corporate Trust Office or at the office of any Paying Agent on or prior to such Maturity; provided that, if the Trustee and the Issuer shall have been furnished such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless and an undertaking thereafter to surrender such certificate, then, in the absence of notice to the Issuer or the Trustee that the applicable Note has been acquired by a protected purchaser, such final payment shall be made without presentation or surrender. Neither the Issuer, the Trustee, the Collateral Manager, nor any Paying Agent will have any responsibility or liability for any aspects of the records maintained by DTC, Euroclear, Clearstream or any of the Agent Members relating to or for payments made thereby on account of beneficial interests in a Global Note. In the case where any final payment of principal and interest is to be made on any Secured Note (other

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than on the Stated Maturity thereof) or any final payment is to be made on any Subordinated Note, the Trustee, in the name and at the expense of the Issuer shall prior to the date on which such payment is to be made, mail (by first class mail, postage prepaid) to the Persons entitled thereto at their addresses appearing on the Register a notice which shall specify the date on which such payment will be made, the amount of such payment per U.S.$1,000 original principal amount of Secured Notes or original principal amount of Subordinated Notes and the place where such Notes may be presented and surrendered for such payment.

(f) Payments of principal to Holders of the Secured Notes of each Class shall be made in the proportion that the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Secured Notes of such Class registered in the name of each such Holder on the applicable Record Date bears to the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Secured Notes of such Class on such Record Date. Payments to the Holders of the Subordinated Notes from Interest Proceeds and Principal Proceeds shall be made in the proportion that the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Subordinated Notes registered in the name of each such Holder on the applicable Record Date bears to the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Subordinated Notes on such Record Date.

(g) Interest accrued with respect to the Floating Rate Notes shall be calculated on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in the applicable Interest Accrual Period divided by 360. Interest accrued with respect to any Fixed Rate Notes shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.

(h) All reductions in the principal amount of a Note (or one or more predecessor Notes) effected by payments of installments of principal made on any Payment Date, Interim Payment Date or Redemption Date shall be binding upon all future Holders of such Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, whether or not such payment is noted on such Note.

(i) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the obligations of the Issuer arising from time to time and at any time under the Notes and this Indenture are limited recourse obligations of the Issuer payable solely from the Assets available at such time and following realization of the Assets, and application of the proceeds thereof in accordance with this Indenture, all obligations of and any remaining claims against the Issuer hereunder or in connection herewith after such realization shall be extinguished and shall not thereafter revive. No recourse shall be had against any Officer, director, manager, member, employee, shareholder, authorized person, organizer or incorporator of the Issuer, the Collateral Manager, the U.S. Retention Holder or their respective Affiliates, successors or assigns for any amounts payable under the Notes or this Indenture. It is understood that the foregoing provisions of this paragraph (i) shall not (i) prevent recourse to the Assets for the sums due or to become due under any security, instrument or agreement which is part of the Assets or (ii) constitute a waiver, release or discharge of any indebtedness or obligation evidenced by the Notes (to the extent they evidence debt) or secured by this Indenture until such Assets have been realized. It is further understood that the foregoing provisions of this paragraph (i) shall not limit the right of any Person to name the Issuer as a party defendant in any Proceeding or in the exercise of any other remedy under the Notes or this Indenture, so long as no judgment in the nature of a deficiency judgment or seeking personal liability shall be asked for or (if obtained) enforced against any such Person. The Subordinated Notes are not secured hereunder.

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(j) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.7, each Note delivered under this Indenture and upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Note shall carry the rights to unpaid interest and principal (or other applicable amount) that were carried by such other Note.

Section 2.8 Persons Deemed Owners. The Issuer, the Trustee, and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee shall treat as the owner of each Note the Person in whose name such Note is registered on the Register on the applicable Record Date for the purpose of receiving payments of principal of and interest on such Note and on any other date for all other purposes whatsoever (whether or not such Note is overdue), and none of the Issuer, the Trustee or any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

Section 2.9 Cancellation; Issuer Purchases. (a) All Notes surrendered for payment, registration of transfer, exchange or redemption, or mutilated, defaced or deemed lost or stolen, shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee and may not be reissued or resold. Except as provided in Section 2.9(b), no Note may be surrendered (including in connection with any abandonment, donation, gift, contribution or other event or circumstance) except for payment as provided herein, or for registration of transfer, exchange or redemption, or for replacement in connection with any Note mutilated, defaced or deemed lost or stolen. Any Notes surrendered for cancellation as permitted by this Section 2.9 shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee. No Notes shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Notes canceled as provided in this Section 2.9, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Notes held by the Trustee shall be destroyed or held by the Trustee in accordance with its standard retention policy unless the Issuer shall direct by an Issuer Order received prior to destruction that they be returned to it. Except as permitted under Section 2.9(b), the Issuer may not purchase any of the Notes.

(b) In addition to a cancellation pursuant to Section 2.9(a), the Issuer may, (x) apply any amount on deposit in the Supplemental Reserve Account, as set forth in Section 10.3(e) to acquire Secured Notes (or beneficial interests therein) and/or (y) apply any amount on deposit in the Principal Collection Subaccount, as set forth in Section 10.2(c) to acquire Secured Notes (or beneficial interests therein) in each case, in sequential order of priority and in accordance with applicable law (any such Secured Notes, “Repurchased Notes”). In addition, the following additional requirements shall apply to the acquisition of Repurchased Notes from Principal Proceeds on deposit in the Principal Collection Subaccount pursuant to Section 2.9 (b)(y):

(i) any offer for such purchase must be extended to all Holders of Secured Notes of such Class, to the extent reasonably practicable, in such amounts as are necessary to preserve their pro rata holdings of such Class (provided that no such Holder shall be obligated to accept any such offer);

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(ii) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on the date of such offer or such acquisition;

(iii) each Coverage Test is satisfied, or if not satisfied immediately before giving effect to such acquisition, is maintained or improved immediately after giving effect to such acquisition;

(iv) to the extent that Sale Proceeds are used to consummate the acquisition by the Issuer of any such Repurchased Notes, each requirement or test, as the case may be, of the Concentration Limitations and the Collateral Quality Tests will be satisfied, maintained or improved after giving effect to such acquisition of Repurchased Notes; and

(v) the purchase price of such Repurchased Notes must be equal to or less than par.

Any such Repurchased Notes will be delivered (at the direction of the Issuer (or the Collateral Manager on its behalf)) to the Trustee for cancellation. All Repurchased Notes will be promptly canceled by the Trustee at the direction of the Issuer (or the Collateral Manager on its behalf) and may not be reissued or resold and such Repurchased Notes will no longer be treated as Outstanding under this Indenture for any purpose (including, without limitation, for purposes of calculating any Coverage Test). The Issuer shall provide notice of its purchase of any Repurchased Notes to ▇▇▇▇▇’▇.

Section 2.10 DTC Ceases to Be Depository. (a) A Global Note deposited with DTC pursuant to Section 2.2 shall be transferred in the form of a corresponding Certificated Note to the beneficial owners thereof only if (A) such transfer complies with Section 2.5 and (B) (x) (i) DTC notifies the Issuer that it is unwilling or unable to continue as depository for such Global Note or (ii) DTC ceases to be a Clearing Agency registered under the Exchange Act and, in each case, a successor depository is not appointed by the Issuer within 90 days after such event or (y) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and such transfer is requested by any beneficial owner of an interest in such Global Note.

(b) Any Global Note that is transferable in the form of a corresponding Certificated Note to the beneficial owner thereof pursuant to this Section 2.10 shall be surrendered by DTC to the Corporate Trust Office to be so transferred, in whole or from time to time in part, without charge, and the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, upon such transfer of each portion of such Global Note, an equal aggregate principal amount of definitive physical certificates (pursuant to the instructions of DTC) in authorized denominations. Any Certificated Note delivered in exchange for an interest in a Global Note shall, except as otherwise provided by Section 2.5, bear the legends set forth in the applicable Exhibit A and shall be subject to the transfer restrictions referred to in such legends.

(c) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (b) of this Section 2.10, the Holder of a Global Note may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including Agent Members and Persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action which such Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the Notes.

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(d) In the event of the occurrence of any of the events specified in clause (a) of this Section 2.10, the Issuer will promptly make available to the Trustee a reasonable supply of Certificated Notes.

If Certificated Notes are not so issued by the Issuer to such beneficial owners of interests in Global Notes as required by subsection (a) of this Section 2.10, the Issuer expressly acknowledges that the beneficial owners shall be entitled to pursue any remedy that the Holders of a Global Note would be entitled to pursue in accordance with Article V (but only to the extent of such beneficial owner’s interest in the Global Note) as if corresponding Certificated Notes had been issued; provided that, the Trustee shall be entitled to rely upon any certificate of ownership provided by such beneficial owners (including a certificate in the form of Exhibit C) and/or other forms of reasonable evidence of such ownership. In addition, the beneficial owners of interest in Global Notes may provide (and the Trustee may receive and rely on) consents to the Trustee that the Holders of a Global Note would be entitled to provide in accordance with this Indenture (but only to the extent of such beneficial owner’s interest in the Global Note, as applicable).

Neither the Trustee nor the Registrar shall be liable for any delay in the delivery of directions from DTC and may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected in relying on, such direction as to the names of the beneficial owners in whose names such Certificated Notes shall be registered or as to delivery instructions for such Certificated Notes.

Section 2.11 Non-Permitted Holders. (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary elsewhere in this Indenture, any transfer of a beneficial interest in any Note to a U.S. person that is not a QIB/QP (or, solely in the case of any Note issued in the form of a Certificated Note, an IAI/QP) shall be null and void and any such purported transfer of which the Issuer or the Trustee shall have notice may be disregarded by the Issuer and the Trustee for all purposes. In addition, the acquisition of Notes by a Non-Permitted ERISA Holder shall be null and void ab initio.

(b) If any U.S. person that is not a QIB/QP (or, in the case of any Note issued in the form of a Certificated Note, an IAI/QP) shall become the Holder or beneficial owner of an interest in a Note (any such Person, a “Non-Permitted Holder”), the Issuer (or the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer) shall, promptly after discovery that such Person is a Non-Permitted Holder by the Issuer or the Trustee send notice to such Non-Permitted Holder demanding that such Non-Permitted Holder transfer its interest in the Notes, as applicable, held by such Person to a Person that is not a Non-Permitted Holder within 30 days after the date of such notice. If such Non-Permitted Holder fails to so transfer such Notes, as applicable, the Issuer or the Collateral Manager acting for the Issuer shall have the right, without further notice to the Non-Permitted Holder, to sell such Notes or interest in such Notes, as applicable, to a purchaser selected by the Issuer that is not a Non-Permitted Holder on such terms as the Issuer may choose. The Issuer, or the Collateral Manager acting on behalf of the Issuer, may select the purchaser by soliciting one or more bids from one or more brokers or other market professionals that regularly deal in securities similar to the Notes and sell such Notes to the highest such bidder; provided that, the Collateral Manager, its Affiliates and accounts, funds, clients or portfolios established and controlled by the Collateral Manager shall be entitled to bid in any such sale. However, the Issuer or the Collateral Manager may select a purchaser by any other means determined by

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it in its sole discretion. The Holder of each Note, the Non-Permitted Holder and each other Person in the chain of title from the Holder to the Non-Permitted Holder, by its acceptance of an interest in the Notes, as applicable, agrees to cooperate with the Issuer and the Trustee to effectuate such transfers. The proceeds of such sale, net of any commissions, expenses and taxes due in connection with such sale shall be remitted to the Non-Permitted Holder. The terms and conditions of any sale under this sub-section shall be determined in the sole discretion of the Issuer, and none of the Issuer, the Trustee or the Collateral Manager shall be liable to any Person having an interest in the Notes, as applicable, sold as a result of any such sale or the exercise of such discretion.

(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary elsewhere in this Indenture, any transfer of a beneficial interest in any Note to a Person who has made an ERISA-related representation required by Section 2.5 that is subsequently shown to be false or misleading shall be null and void and any such purported transfer of which the Issuer or the Trustee shall have notice may be disregarded by the Issuer and the Trustee for all purposes.

(d) If any Person shall become the beneficial owner of an interest in any Note who has made or is deemed to have made a prohibited transaction, Benefit Plan Investor, Similar Law, Other Plan Law or other ERISA representation required by Section 2.5 that is subsequently shown to be false or misleading (any such Person a “Non-Permitted ERISA Holder”), the Issuer (or the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer) shall, promptly after discovery that such Person is a Non-Permitted ERISA Holder by the Issuer send notice to such Non-Permitted ERISA Holder demanding that such Non-Permitted ERISA Holder transfer its interest in such Notes, as applicable, to a Person that is not a Non-Permitted ERISA Holder within 10 days after the date of such notice. If such Non-Permitted ERISA Holder fails to so transfer such Notes, as applicable, the Issuer shall have the right, without further notice to the Non-Permitted ERISA Holder, to sell such Notes or interest in such Notes to a purchaser selected by the Issuer that is not a Non-Permitted ERISA Holder on such terms as the Issuer may choose. The Issuer may select the purchaser by soliciting one or more bids from one or more brokers or other market professionals that regularly deal in securities similar to the Notes and sell such Notes, as applicable, to the highest such bidder; provided that, the Collateral Manager, its Affiliates and accounts, funds, clients or portfolios established and controlled by the Collateral Manager shall be entitled to bid in any such sale (but only if such bidding entity is not a Non-Permitted ERISA Holder and such bid or resulting acquisition would not result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a non-exempt violation of Other Plan Law). However, the Issuer may select a purchaser by any other means determined by it in its sole discretion. The Holder of each Note, the Non-Permitted ERISA Holder and each other Person in the chain of title from the holder to the Non-Permitted ERISA Holder, by its acceptance of an interest in the Notes, agrees to cooperate with the Issuer and the Trustee to effect such transfers. The proceeds of such sale, net of any commissions, expenses and taxes due in connection with such sale shall be remitted to the Non-Permitted ERISA Holder. The terms and conditions of any sale under this subsection shall be determined in the sole discretion of the Issuer, and none of the Issuer, the Trustee or the Collateral Manager shall be liable to any Person having an interest in the Notes, as applicable, sold as a result of any such sale or the exercise of such discretion.

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Section 2.12 Tax Treatment; Tax Certifications.

(a) Each Holder of a Note (including, for purposes of this Section 2.12, a beneficial owner of an interest in a Note) shall treat the Secured Notes as indebtedness, and the Subordinated Notes as equity, for U.S. federal, state and local income and franchise tax purposes, except as otherwise required by law.

(b) Each Holder of a Note acknowledges and agrees that the failure to provide the Issuer and the Trustee (or any of their agents) with the properly completed and signed tax certifications (generally, in the case of U.S. federal income tax, an IRS Form W-9 (or applicable successor form) in the case of a person that is a U.S. Tax Person or the appropriate IRS Form W-8 (or applicable successor form) in the case of a person that is not a U.S. Tax Person) may result in withholding from payments in respect of the Note, including U.S. federal withholding or back-up withholding.

(c) Each Holder of a Note agrees to provide the Issuer and any relevant intermediary with any information or documentation that is required under FATCA or that the Issuer or relevant intermediary deems appropriate to enable the Issuer or relevant intermediary to determine their duties and liabilities with respect to any taxes they may be required to withhold pursuant to FATCA in respect of such Note. In addition, each Holder of such Notes (or any interest therein) acknowledges that the Issuer has the right under this Indenture to withhold on any holder or any beneficial owner of an interest in a Note that fails to comply with ▇▇▇▇▇.

(d) Each Holder of a Secured Note, if it is not a U.S. Tax Person, represents that either (a) it is not (i) a bank (or an entity affiliated with a bank) extending credit pursuant to a loan agreement entered into in the ordinary course of its trade or business (within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code), (ii) a “10-percent shareholder” with respect to the Issuer (or, for so long as the equity is held by a single holder, such holder of the equity) within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3) or Section 881(c)(3)(D) of the Code, or (iii) a “controlled foreign corporation” that is related to the Issuer (or, for so long as the equity is held by a single holder, such holder of the equity) within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code; (b) it is a person that is eligible for benefits under an income tax treaty with the United States that eliminates U.S. federal income taxation of U.S. source interest not attributable to a permanent establishment in the United States; or (c) it has provided an IRS Form W-8ECI representing that all payments received or to be received by it on the Notes are effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business in the United States.

(e) Each Holder of a Secured Note, if it is not a U.S. Tax Person, represents and acknowledges that it is not and will not become a member of an “expanded group” (within the meaning of the regulations issued under Section 385 of the Code) that includes a domestic corporation (as determined for U.S. federal income tax purposes) if either (i) the Issuer is an entity disregarded as separate from such domestic corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (ii) the Issuer is a “controlled partnership” (within the meaning of the regulations) with respect to such expanded group or an entity disregarded as separate from such controlled partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

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(f) Each Holder of a Subordinated Note represents, acknowledges and agrees that (i) it is and will be a U.S. Tax Person, (ii) it will provide the Issuer and the Trustee (and any of their agents) with a correct, complete and properly executed IRS Form W-9 (or applicable successor form) and (iii) if it fails to provide the Issuer and the Trustee (and any of their agents) with the properly completed and signed tax certifications specified above, the acquisition of its interest in such Note shall be void ab initio.

(g) Each Holder of a Subordinated Note represents, acknowledges, and agrees that: (i) such Note may not be acquired or owned by any person that is classified for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust unless (A) (1) except where such person owns 100% of the Outstanding Subordinated Notes, none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in such person have or ever will have more than 40% of the value of its interest in such person attributable to the aggregate interest of such person in the combined value of the Subordinated Notes and any other equity interests in the Issuer, and (2) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving the investment of such person in any Subordinated Note or any other equity interests in the Issuer to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100-partner limitation of Treasury Regulations Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) or (B) such person obtains Tax Advice that such transfer will not cause the Issuer to be treated as a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation; (ii) such Note may not be acquired, and no Holder of a Subordinated Note may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of (“Transfer”) such Note or cause such Note (or any interest therein) to be marketed, (A) on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and Treasury Regulations Section 1.7704-1(b), including without limitation, an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations or (B) if such acquisition or Transfer would cause the combined number of holders of Subordinated Notes and any other equity interests in the Issuer to be more than 90; (iii) it will not participate in the creation or other transfer of any financial instrument or contract the value of which is determined in whole or in part by reference to the Issuer (including the amount of distributions by the Issuer, the value of the Issuer’s assets, or the results of the Issuer’s operations or the Subordinated Notes); and (iv) any Transfer of a Subordinated Note that would violate any of the three preceding paragraphs above or otherwise cause the Issuer to be unable to rely on the “private placement” safe harbor of Treasury Regulations Section 1.7704-1(h) will be void and of no force or effect, and it will not transfer any interest in such Note to any person that does not agree to be bound by the three preceding paragraphs above or by this paragraph.

(h) Each Holder of a Subordinated Note held in the form of a Global Note acknowledges and agrees that (i) such Note may not be transferred unless the transferee shall have furnished the Issuer and the Trustee a fully executed Daisy Chain Letter, (ii) any transfer made in violation of the foregoing shall be void ab initio and (iii) prior to any transfer of such Global Note to any person (“Subsequent Transferee”), the Holder shall notify the Subsequent Transferee of the Subsequent Transferee’s obligation to furnish a Daisy Chain Letter to the Trustee and the Issuer

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(i) Each Holder a Subordinated Note agrees that, prior to any transfer of such Note, it shall deliver to the transferee a properly completed certificate, in a form reasonably acceptable to the transferee and the Trustee, stating, under penalty of perjury, the transferor’s United States taxpayer identification number and that the transferor is not a foreign person within the meaning of Section 1446(f)(2) of the Code (such certificate, a “Non-Foreign Status Certificate”). Each Holder of a Subordinated Note acknowledges that the failure to provide a Non-Foreign Status Certificate to the transferee may result in withholding on the amount realized on its disposition of such Note.

(j) Each Holder of a Subordinated Note acknowledges and agrees that it will take any and all actions, and to furnish any and all information, requested by the Issuer in order to permit the Issuer to minimize any tax liability that would otherwise be imposed on the Issuer under Section 6225 of the Code, or any successor provision, including (if requested by the Issuer) by (i) filing amended tax returns to take into account any adjustment to the amount of any item of income, gain, loss, deduction, or credit of such Holder or beneficial owner, or of any person’s distributive share thereof, and (ii) providing the Issuer with any information necessary for the Issuer to (x) establish the amount of any tax liability resulting from any such adjustment and (y) elect (in accordance with Section 6226 of the Code, or any successor provision) for each Holder or beneficial owner to take any such adjustment into account directly. To the fullest extent permitted by law, each Holder and beneficial owner of a Subordinated Note hereby agrees to indemnify the Issuer for the Holder’s or beneficial owner’s allocable share of any applicable tax liability of any type whatsoever (including any liability for penalties, additions to tax or interest) attributable to such Holder’s or beneficial owner’s share of the income of the Issuer or attributable to distributions to such Holder or beneficial owner. This paragraph (j) shall survive the termination of any Holder’s or beneficial owner’s interest in its Subordinated Note.

(k) Each Holder of a Subordinated Note acknowledges and agrees that, for so long as the Issuer is disregarded as separate from it for U.S. federal income tax purposes, a Note may not be transferred by such ▇▇▇▇▇▇ (except to a person that is disregarded as separate from such Holder for U.S. federal income tax purposes), unless it has received Tax Advice to the effect that such transfer will not result in the Issuer becoming classified as an association taxable as a corporation or as a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and will not cause the Issuer to be subject to U.S. federal income tax on a net basis.

(l) Each Holder of a Subordinated Note acknowledge and agrees that, for so long as there are two or more Holders of the Subordinated Notes, a Holder may not acquire Subordinated Notes if such acquisition would cause such Holder to hold 100% of the Outstanding Subordinated Notes.

(m) Each Holder of a Subordinated Note acknowledges and agrees that, it shall not transfer any Note (except to a person that is disregarded as separate from it for U.S. federal income tax purposes) if at any time prior to such transfer the Issuer was disregarded as separate from such Holder for U.S. federal income tax purposes, unless it shall have received Tax Advice to the effect that, immediately following such transfer, such Note and other outstanding Notes of the same Class (other than any Notes that it holds immediately after such transfer) will be fungible for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

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(n) Each Holder of a Note agrees that it will indemnify the Issuer, the Trustee and their respective agents from any and all damages, cost and expenses (including any amount of taxes, fees, interest, additions to tax, or penalties) resulting from the failure by it to comply with its obligations under the Note and that such indemnification will continue with respect to any period during which such holder held a Note, notwithstanding it ceasing to be a Holder of the Note.

Section 2.13 Additional Issuance. (a) At any time during the Reinvestment Period (or, (i) in the case of an issuance of Subordinated Notes or Additional Junior Securities, after the Reinvestment Period) or (ii) or, in the case of a Risk Retention Issuance only, during or after the Reinvestment Period), the Issuer may (x) issue and sell additional securities of any one or more new classes of Additional Junior Securities and/or (y) issue and sell additional securities of any one or more existing Classes (as applicable, in accordance with this Section 2.13); provided that, other than in connection with a Risk Retention Issuance, the following conditions are met:

(i) (A) the Collateral Manager consents to such issuance; (B) such issuance is consented to by a Majority of the Subordinated Notes; provided that, the consent specified in this subclause (B) shall not be required with respect to any additional issuance if such additional issuance is effected, in the sole discretion of the Collateral Manager, in order to permit the Collateral Manager to comply with the Securitization Laws or the U.S. Risk Retention Rules; (C) the reasonable fees, costs, charges and expenses incurred in connection with such additional issuance have been paid or will be adequately provided for from (1) the additional issuance and (2) any amounts on deposit in, or reasonably expected to be deposited into, the Expense Reserve Account or the Supplemental Reserve Account that are designated to pay fees, costs, charges and expenses incurred in connection with such additional issuance (except for expenses owed to Persons that the Collateral Manager informs the Trustee will be paid solely as Administrative Expenses payable in accordance with the Priority of Payments); and (D) such issuance is consented to by a Majority of the Class A-1 Notes; provided that, the consent specified in clause (D) above shall not be required with respect to any additional issuance that (1) is solely an additional issuance of Additional Junior Securities and/or Subordinated Notes or (2) (x) is effected, in the sole discretion of the Collateral Manager, in order to permit the Collateral Manager to comply with the Securitization Laws or the U.S. Risk Retention Rules and (y) is not an additional issuance of Class A-1 Notes that, once issued and when aggregated with all prior additional issuances of Class A-1 Notes, shall exceed 6% of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Class A-1 Notes on the Closing Date;

(ii) in the case of additional securities of any one or more existing Classes (other than the Subordinated Notes), the aggregate principal amount of Secured Notes of such Class issued in all additional issuances with respect to such Class may not exceed 100% of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Secured Notes of such Class on the Closing Date;

(iii) in the case of additional securities of any one or more existing Classes, the terms of the securities issued must be identical to the respective terms of previously issued Notes of the applicable Class (except that the interest due on additional Secured Notes will accrue from the issue date of such additional Secured Notes and the interest rate and price of such Notes do not have to be identical to those of the initial Notes of that Class);

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(iv) in the case of additional securities of any one or more existing Classes, unless only additional Subordinated Notes are being issued, additional securities of all Junior Classes and Pari Passu Classes (relative to the most senior Class of Notes in the Note Payment Sequence being issued) must be issued and such issuance of additional securities must be proportional across all Classes; provided that, the principal amount of Subordinated Notes issued in any such issuance may exceed the proportion otherwise applicable to the Subordinated Notes;

(v) in the case of additional securities of any one or more existing Classes, unless only additional Subordinated Notes are being issued, the Global Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied; provided that, in the case of an additional issuance of Additional Junior Securities, each Rating Agency shall be notified of such issuance;

(vi) (A) the proceeds of any additional securities (net of fees and expenses incurred in connection with such issuance) shall not be treated as Refinancing Proceeds and such proceeds shall be treated as Principal Proceeds and used to purchase additional Collateral Obligations (during the Reinvestment Period), to invest in Eligible Investments or to apply pursuant to the Priority of Payments; and (B) the net proceeds from the issuance of any Additional Junior Securities or any additional Subordinated Notes in each case, in excess of the amount (if any) required to cause the condition set forth in clause vii) below to be satisfied (such excess Subordinated Notes and Additional Junior Securities, as determined by the Collateral Manager, “Excess Additional Junior Notes”), may be deposited into the Supplemental Reserve Account at the direction of the Collateral Manager and applied for any Permitted Use;

(vii) in the case of an issuance of additional Secured Notes, after giving effect to such issuance, the Overcollateralization Ratio applicable to the most junior Class of Secured Notes issued on the Last Closing Event shall be not lower than the Overcollateralization Ratio with respect to such Class of Notes as of the Last Closing Event; provided that, for purposes of this clause, clause (i) of the definition of “Overcollateralization Ratio” shall be deemed to refer to the Target Initial Par Amount as of such date;

(viii) Tax Advice will be delivered to the Issuer (with a copy to the Trustee), in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Manager, to the effect that (A) any additional Class A-1 Notes, Class A-2 Notes, Class B Notes or Class C Notes will be treated as debt for U.S. federal income tax purposes; provided that the Tax Advice described in this Section 2.13(a)(viii)(A) will not be required with respect to any additional Notes that bear a different CUSIP number (or equivalent identifier) from the Notes of the same Class that are Outstanding at the time of the additional issuance, and (B) such additional issuance will not cause the Issuer to be subject to U.S. federal income tax with respect to its net income;

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(ix) an Officer’s certificate of the Issuer shall be delivered to the Trustee certifying that all conditions precedent applicable to the issuance of such additional securities under this Indenture, including those requirements set forth in this Section 2.13(a), have been satisfied; and

(x) the additional securities will be issued in a manner that allows the Issuer to accurately provide the tax information relating to original issue discount of the additional Notes.

(b) Except with respect to any additional Notes issued in connection with an Optional Redemption by Refinancing in whole, any additional securities of an existing Class issued as described above will, to the extent reasonably practicable, be offered first to Holders of that Class in such amounts as are necessary to preserve their pro rata holdings of Notes of such Class. Any Additional Junior Securities issued as described above will, to the extent reasonably practicable, be offered first to Holders of Subordinated Notes in the same proportions as their holdings of the Subordinated Notes.

(c) Upon satisfaction of the foregoing conditions and the applicable conditions set forth in Article VIII, the Issuer may execute a supplemental indenture pursuant to Section 8.1(xii) herein to reflect the terms of such additional issuance, including, for the avoidance of doubt, any amendments that are necessary or helpful in order to maintain a rating on any existing Class of Secured Notes or to obtain a rating on or successfully place or sell any Additional Junior Securities; provided that, the Issuer may also issue additional notes in connection with a Refinancing, which issuance will not be subject to Section 2.13(a) but will be subject only to Section 9.2.

(d) Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.13 to the contrary, at the written direction of a Majority of the Subordinated Notes (with the consent of the Collateral Manager) delivered to the Issuer (with a copy to the Trustee), in lieu of the Holders of the Subordinated Notes receiving an Additional Issuance Payment in respect of the issuance of any Additional Junior Securities, a Majority of the Subordinated Notes may direct that the obligation of the Holder(s) of the applicable Additional Junior Securities to fund their pro rata portion of the applicable purchase price thereof shall be offset by application of any monies to be received by the Holders of the Subordinated Notes on the applicable issuance date as an Additional Issuance Payment without the exchange of funds (an “Offset Funding”). In the event an Offset Funding occurs, any obligation of the Holder(s) of the applicable Additional Junior Securities to fund their purchase price thereof and any obligation of the Issuer to make an Additional Issuance Payment shall be deemed satisfied. To the extent an Offset Funding and/or Additional Issuance Payment is to be designated in connection with an additional issuance of Excess Additional Junior Notes, the proceeds of any such issuance shall be first deposited into the Supplemental Reserve Account until such other designation or payment is made in accordance with this Indenture. Each Holder (or beneficial owner) of Subordinated Notes shall cooperate with the Issuer (or the Trustee on its behalf) to effect an Offset Funding or an Additional Issuance Payment, including by providing any necessary instructions to DTC. The Trustee shall be entitled to receive and rely upon instructions of the Issuer (or the Collateral Manager on its behalf) in connection with effecting an Offset Funding or Additional Issuance Payment, including in respect of any determination of the purchase price in respect of any Excess Additional Junior Notes.

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(e) In the sole discretion of the Collateral Manager, in order to permit the Collateral Manager or the U.S. Retention Holder to comply with the U.S. Risk Retention Rules, the Collateral Manager may, with notice to the Rating Agencies, direct the Issuer to issue additional Notes, which shall not be subject to the conditions above (such an issuance, a “Risk Retention Issuance”).

ARTICLE III

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

Section 3.1 Conditions to Issuance of Notes on Closing Date. The Notes to be issued on the Closing Date may be executed by the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee for authentication and thereupon the same shall be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee upon Issuer Order and upon receipt by the Trustee of the following:

(i) Officers’ Certificate of the Issuer Regarding Corporate Matters. An Officer’s certificate of the Issuer (A) evidencing the authorization by Resolutions of the execution and delivery of this Indenture, and in the case of the Issuer, the Collateral Management Agreement, the Master Participation Agreements, the Master Loan Sale Agreement, the Collateral Administration Agreement, the Purchase and Placement Agreement and related Transaction Documents and in each case the execution, authentication and (with respect to the Issuer only) delivery of the Notes applied for by it and specifying the Stated Maturity, principal amount and Interest Rate of each Class of Secured Notes to be authenticated and delivered and the Stated Maturity and face amount of the Subordinated Notes to be delivered and (B) certifying that (1) the attached copy of the Resolutions is a true and complete copy thereof, (2) such resolutions have not been rescinded and are in full force and effect on and as of the Closing Date and (3) the Officers authorized to execute and deliver such documents hold the offices and have the signatures indicated thereon.

(ii) Governmental Approvals. From the Issuer either (A) a certificate of the Issuer or other official document evidencing the due authorization, approval or consent of any governmental body or bodies, at the time having jurisdiction in the premises, together with an Opinion of Counsel of the Issuer that no other authorization, approval or consent of any governmental body is required for the valid issuance of the Notes or (B) an Opinion of Counsel of the Issuer that no such authorization, approval or consent of any governmental body is required for the valid issuance of such Notes except as has been given.

(iii) U.S. Counsel Opinions. Opinions of (A) Dechert LLP, U.S. counsel to the Issuer, U.S. Retention Holder and the Collateral Manager, (B) ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ & Finger, P.A., special Delaware counsel to the Issuer and (C) ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, counsel to the Trustee and the Collateral Administrator.

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(iv) Officers’ Certificate of the Issuer Regarding Indenture. An Officer’s certificate of the Issuer stating that, to the best of the signing Officer’s knowledge, the Issuer is not in default under this Indenture and that the issuance of the Notes applied for by it will not result in a default or a breach of any of the terms, conditions or provisions of, or constitute a default under, its organizational documents, any indenture or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it is bound, or any order of any court or administrative agency entered in any Proceeding to which it is a party or by which it may be bound or to which it may be subject; that all conditions precedent provided in this Indenture relating to the authentication and delivery of the Notes applied for by it have been complied with; and that all expenses due or accrued with respect to the Offering of such Notes or relating to actions taken on or in connection with the Closing Date have been paid or reserves therefor have been made. The Officer’s certificate of the Issuer shall also state that all of its representations and warranties contained herein are true and correct as of the Closing Date.

(v) Transaction Documents. An executed counterpart of this Indenture, the Securities Account Control Agreement, the Collateral Management Agreement, the Collateral Administration Agreement and any Master Participation Agreement.

(vi) Certificate of the Collateral Manager. An Officer’s certificate of the Collateral Manager, dated as of the Closing Date:

(A) to the effect that, in the case of (x) each Collateral Obligation to be Delivered on the Closing Date, immediately prior to the Delivery thereof on the Closing Date, it satisfies the definition of “Collateral Obligation” and (y) each Collateral Obligation that the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer committed to purchase on or prior to the Closing Date, upon the acquisition thereof, it satisfied or will satisfy the requirements of the definition of “Collateral Obligation”;

(B) setting forth the Aggregate Principal Balance of the Collateral Obligations that the Issuer has purchased or entered into binding commitments to purchase on or prior to the Closing Date; and

(C) setting out, if applicable, any Warehouse SPV Master Participation Agreements and/or Banking Entity Master Participation Agreements applicable to the Issuer and any loan assets acquired thereunder which will be deemed to constitute Collateral Obligations pursuant to the proviso at the end of the definition of such term.

(vii) Grant of Collateral Obligations. The Grant pursuant to the Granting Clauses of this Indenture of all of the Issuer’s right, title and interest in and to the Collateral Obligations pledged to the Trustee for inclusion in the Assets on the Closing Date shall be effective, and Delivery of such Collateral Obligations (including any promissory note and all other Underlying Instruments related thereto to the extent received by the Issuer) as contemplated by Section 3.3 shall have been effected.

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(viii) Certificate of the Issuer Regarding Assets. A certificate of an Authorized Officer of the Issuer, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that:

(A) in the case of each Collateral Obligation pledged to the Trustee for inclusion in the Assets, on the Closing Date and immediately prior to the Delivery thereof (or immediately after Delivery thereof, in the case of clause (V)(ii) below) on the Closing Date:

(I) the Issuer is the owner of such Collateral Obligation free and clear of any liens, claims or encumbrances of any nature whatsoever except for (i) those which are being released on the Closing Date, (ii) those Granted pursuant to this Indenture and (iii) any other Permitted Liens;

(II) the Issuer has acquired its ownership in such Collateral Obligation in good faith without notice of any adverse claim, except as described in clause (I) above;

(III) the Issuer has not assigned, pledged or otherwise encumbered any interest in such Collateral Obligation (or, if any such interest has been assigned, pledged or otherwise encumbered, it has been released) other than interests Granted pursuant to this Indenture;

(IV) the Issuer has full right to Grant a security interest in and assign and pledge such Collateral Obligation to the Trustee;

(V) (i) based on the certificate of the Collateral Manager delivered pursuant to Section 3.1(vi), each Collateral Obligation included in the Assets satisfies the requirements of the definition of “Collateral Obligation” and (ii) the requirements of Section 3.1(vii) have been satisfied; and

(VI) upon Grant by the Issuer, the Trustee has a first priority perfected security interest in the Collateral Obligations and other Assets, except as permitted by this Indenture; and

(B) based on the certificate of the Collateral Manager delivered pursuant to Section 3.1(vi), the Aggregate Principal Balance of the Collateral Obligations that the Issuer has purchased or entered into binding commitments to purchase on or prior to the Closing Date is not less than the amount set forth in the certificate of the Collateral Manager delivered pursuant to Section 3.1(vi).

(ix) Rating Letters. An Officer’s certificate of the Issuer to the effect that it has received a letter provided by each Rating Agency, as applicable, and confirming that each Class of Secured Notes has been assigned a rating no lower than the applicable Initial Rating and that such ratings are in effect on the Closing Date.

(x) Accounts. Evidence of the establishment of each of the Accounts.

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(xi) Issuer Order for Deposit of Funds into Accounts. An Issuer Order signed in the name of the Issuer by an Authorized Officer of the Issuer, dated as of the Closing Date, authorizing the deposit of (A) the amounts specified in such Issuer Order from the proceeds of the issuance of the Notes into the applicable Accounts for use pursuant to Section 10.3 and (B) the Interest Reserve Amount into the Interest Reserve Account for use pursuant to Section 10.3(g).

(xii) [Reserved].

(xiii) Other Documents. Such other documents as the Trustee may reasonably require; provided that nothing in this clause (xiii) shall imply or impose a duty on the part of the Trustee to require any other documents.

The Trustee shall be entitled to assume the genuineness of each certificate, instrument, report, opinion and other document described in or delivered pursuant to this Section 3.1, and to assume the genuineness and due authorization of each signature appearing thereon.

Section 3.2 Conditions to Additional Issuance. Any additional securities to be issued in accordance with Section 2.13 may be executed by the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee for authentication and thereupon the same shall be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee upon Issuer Order (setting forth registration, delivery and authentication instructions) and, except in the case of an additional issuance in accordance with the proviso in Section 2.13(c), upon receipt by the Trustee of the following:

(a) Officers’ Certificate of the Issuer Regarding Corporate Matters. An Officer’s certificate of the Issuer (i) evidencing the authorization by Resolutions of the execution, authentication and (with respect to the Issuer only) delivery of the Notes applied for by it and specifying the Stated Maturity, principal amount and Interest Rate (if applicable) of the securities to be authenticated and delivered and (ii) certifying that (A) the attached copy of the Resolutions is a true and complete copy thereof, (B) such Resolutions have not been rescinded and is in full force and effect on and as of the date of issuance and (C) the Officers authorized to execute and deliver such documents hold the offices and have the signatures indicated thereon.

(b) Governmental Approvals. From each of the Issuer either (i) a certificate of such Issuer or other official document evidencing the due authorization, approval or consent of any governmental body or bodies, at the time having jurisdiction in the premises, together with an Opinion of Counsel of such Issuer that no other authorization, approval or consent of any governmental body is required for the valid issuance of the additional notes or (ii) an Opinion of Counsel of such Issuer that no such authorization, approval or consent of any governmental body is required for the valid issuance of such additional notes except as has been given.

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(c) Officers’ Certificate of Issuer Regarding Indenture. An Officer’s certificate of each of the Issuer stating that, to the best of the signing Officer’s knowledge, the Issuer is not in default under this Indenture and that the issuance of the additional securities applied for by it will not result in a default or a breach of any of the terms, conditions or provisions of, or constitute a default under, its organizational documents, any indenture or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it is bound, or any order of any court or administrative agency entered in any Proceeding to which it is a party or by which it may be bound or to which it may be subject; that the provisions of Section 2.13 and all conditions precedent provided in this Indenture relating to the authentication and delivery of the additional securities applied for by it have been complied with; and that all expenses due or accrued with respect to the offering of such notes or relating to actions taken on or in connection with the additional issuance have been paid or reserves therefor have been made. The Officer’s certificate of the Issuer shall also state that all of its representations and warranties contained herein are true and correct as of the date of additional issuance.

(d) Supplemental Indenture. A fully executed counterpart of the supplemental indenture making such changes to this Indenture as shall be necessary to permit such additional issuance.

(e) Rating Agency Notice. Evidence that notice shall have been provided to each Rating Agency.

(f) Issuer Order for Deposit of Funds into Accounts. An Issuer Order signed in the name of the Issuer by an Authorized Officer of the Issuer, dated as of the date of the additional issuance, authorizing the deposit of the net proceeds of the issuance into the Principal Collection Subaccount and/or the Supplemental Reserve Account (as applicable) for use pursuant to Section 10.2.

(g) Evidence of Required Consents. A certificate of the Collateral Manager consenting to such issuance, and, if applicable, satisfactory evidence of the consent of a Majority of the Subordinated Notes and a Majority of the Class A-1 Notes, as applicable, to such issuance (which may be in the form of an Officer’s certificate of the Issuer).

(h) Other Documents. Such other documents as the Trustee may reasonably require; provided that, nothing in this clause (h) shall imply or impose a duty on the part of the Trustee to require any other documents.

The Trustee shall be entitled to assume the genuineness of each certificate, instrument, report, opinion and other document described in or delivered pursuant to this Section 3.2, and to assume the genuineness and due authorization of each signature appearing thereon.

Section 3.3 Custodianship; Delivery of Collateral Obligations and Eligible Investments. (a) The Collateral Manager, on behalf of the Issuer, shall deliver or cause to be delivered to a custodian appointed by the Issuer, which shall be a Securities Intermediary (the “Custodian”), all Assets in accordance with the definition of “Deliver.” Initially, the Custodian shall be the Trustee. Any successor custodian, other than the Trustee, shall be an Eligible Intermediary that is a Securities Intermediary. Subject to the limited right to relocate Assets as provided in Section 7.5(b), the Trustee or the Custodian, as applicable, shall hold (i) all Collateral Obligations, Eligible Investments, Cash and other investments purchased in

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accordance with this Indenture and (ii) any other property of the Issuer otherwise Delivered to the Trustee or the Custodian, as applicable, by or on behalf of the Issuer, in the relevant Account established and maintained pursuant to Article X, as to which in each case the Issuer and the Trustee shall have entered into the Securities Account Control Agreement with the Custodian providing, inter alia, that the establishment and maintenance of such Account will be governed by the law of the State of New York or the law of another jurisdiction satisfactory to the Issuer and the Trustee.

(b) Each time that the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer directs or causes the acquisition of any Collateral Obligation, Eligible Investment or other investment, the Collateral Manager (on behalf of the Issuer) shall, if the Collateral Obligation, Eligible Investment or other investment is required to be, but has not already been, transferred to the relevant Account, cause the Collateral Obligation, Eligible Investment or other investment to be Delivered to the Custodian to be held in the Custodial Account (or in the case of any such investment that is not a Collateral Obligation, in the Account in which the funds used to purchase the investment are held in accordance with Article X) for the benefit of the Trustee in accordance with this Indenture. The security interest of the Trustee in the funds or other property used in connection with the acquisition shall, immediately and without further action on the part of the Trustee, be released. The security interest of the Trustee shall nevertheless come into existence and continue in the Collateral Obligation, Eligible Investment or other investment so acquired, including all interests of the Issuer in any contracts related to and proceeds of such Collateral Obligation, Eligible Investment or other investment.

ARTICLE IV

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

Section 4.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture shall be discharged and shall cease to be of further effect except as to (x) in the case of a discharge of this Indenture in accordance with clause (a) or (b) below, (i) the rights, obligations and immunities of the Trustee hereunder, (ii) the rights, obligations and immunities of the Collateral Manager hereunder and under the Collateral Management Agreement, (iii) the rights, obligations and immunities of the Collateral Administrator under the Collateral Administration Agreement and (iv) the rights of Holders as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property deposited with the Trustee and payable to all or any of them and (y) solely in the case of a discharge of this Indenture in accordance with clause (a) below, (i) rights of registration of transfer and exchange, (ii) substitution of mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes and (iii) rights of Holders to receive payments of principal thereof and interest thereon (and, in either case, the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture) when either:

(a) the following conditions are satisfied:

(i) either:

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(1) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered to Holders (other than (A) Notes which have been mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.6 and (B) Notes for whose payment Money has theretofore irrevocably been deposited in trust and thereafter repaid to the Issuer or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 7.3) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

(2) all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation (A) have become due and payable, or (B) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or (C) are to be called for redemption pursuant to Article IX under an arrangement satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Issuer pursuant to Section 9.4 and the Issuer has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee, in trust for such purpose, Cash or non-callable direct obligations of the United States of America; provided that, the obligations are entitled to the full faith and credit of the United States of America or are debt obligations which are rated “Aaa” by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ and “AAA” by S&P, in an amount sufficient, as verified by a firm of Independent certified public accountants which are nationally recognized, to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Notes which have become due and payable), or to their Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be, and shall have Granted to the Trustee a valid perfected security interest in such Eligible Investment that is of first priority or free of any adverse claim, as applicable, and shall have furnished an Opinion of Counsel with respect thereto, it being understood that the requirements of this clause (a)(i)(2)(C) may be satisfied as set forth in Section 5.7;

(ii) the Issuer has paid or caused to be paid all other sums then due and payable hereunder (including, without limitation, any amounts then due and payable pursuant to the Collateral Administration Agreement and the Collateral Management Agreement, in each case, without regard to the Administrative Expense Cap) by the Issuer and no other amounts are scheduled to be due and payable by the Issuer, it being understood that the requirements of this clause (ii) may be satisfied as set forth in Section 5.7; and

(iii) the Issuer has delivered to the Trustee, Officers’ certificates from the Collateral Manager and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with; or

(b) there are no pledged Collateral Obligations that remain subject to the lien of this Indenture, all of the Assets have been realized and the proceeds thereof have been distributed in accordance with the terms of this Indenture (including the Priority of Payments) and there has been delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s certificate of the Collateral Manager stating that it has determined in its discretion that the Issuer’s affairs have been wound up.

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In connection with delivery by the Issuer of the Officer’s certificate referred to in clause (a)(iii) above, the Trustee will confirm to the Issuer that to the best of its knowledge (i) there are no pledged Collateral Obligations that remain subject to the lien of this Indenture and (ii) no funds remain on deposit in any of the Accounts (or such funds are being held in trust for the benefit of the Secured Parties). The Trustee may consult and rely upon any information provided by the Issuer or the Collateral Manager in connection herewith. Upon the discharge of this Indenture, the Trustee shall provide such certifications to the Issuer as may be reasonably required by the Issuer in order for the liquidation of the Issuer to be completed.

In connection with a discharge pursuant to Section 4.1(a)(i)(2), the Trustee shall notify all Holders of Outstanding Notes that (i) there are no pledged Collateral Obligations that remain subject to the lien of this Indenture and (ii) all proceeds thereof have been distributed in accordance with the terms of this Indenture (including the Priority of Payments) or are otherwise held in trust by the Trustee for such purpose. The Trustee may consult and rely upon any information provided by the Issuer or the Collateral Manager in connection herewith.

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the rights and obligations of the Issuer, the Trustee, the Collateral Manager and, if applicable, the Holders, as the case may be, under Sections 2.7, 4.2, 5.4(d), 5.9, 5.18, 6.1, 6.3, 6.6, 6.7, 7.1, 7.3, 13.1 and 14.16 shall survive.

Section 4.2 Application of Trust Money. All Cash and obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.1 shall be held in trust and applied by it in accordance with the provisions of the Notes and this Indenture, including, without limitation, the Priority of Payments, to the payment of principal and interest (or other amounts with respect to the Subordinated Notes), either directly (in the case of the Secured Notes) or through any Paying Agent, as the Trustee may determine; and such Cash and obligations shall be held in a segregated account identified as being held for the benefit of the Secured Parties that satisfies the requirements set forth in Section 10.1.

Section 4.3 Repayment of Monies Held by Paying Agent. In connection with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes, all Monies then held by any Paying Agent other than the Trustee under the provisions of this Indenture shall, upon demand of the Issuer, be paid to the Trustee to be held and applied pursuant to Section 7.3 and in accordance with the Priority of Payments and thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such Monies.

ARTICLE V

REMEDIES

Section 5.1 Events of Default. “Event of Default”, wherever used herein, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):

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(a) a default in the payment, when due and payable, of (i) any interest on any Class A-1 Note or Class A-2 Note or, if there are no Class A-1 Notes or Class A-2 Notes Outstanding, any Secured Notes comprising the Controlling Class at such time and, in each case, the continuation of any such default for five Business Days, or (ii) any principal of, or interest or Deferred Interest on any Secured Note at its Stated Maturity or any Redemption Price in respect of any Secured Note on any Redemption Date; provided that, in the case of a failure to disburse due to an administrative error or omission by the Collateral Manager, Trustee or any Paying Agent, such failure continues for five Business Days after a Bank Officer of the Trustee receives written notice or has actual knowledge of such administrative error or omission; provided, further, that the failure to effectuate any Optional Redemption or Tax Redemption for which notice is withdrawn in accordance with this Indenture or, in the case of an Optional Redemption with respect to which a Refinancing fails, will not constitute an Event of Default;

(b) the failure on any Payment Date to disburse amounts available in the Payment Account in excess of (i) $10,000, in the case of any amounts due and payable in respect of (A) any principal of, or interest (or Deferred Interest, or any accrued and unpaid interest on such Deferred Interest) on, or any Redemption Price in respect of, any Secured Note or (B) taxes, governmental fees, filing and registration fees owing by the Issuer or (ii) $25,000, in all other cases, in each case in accordance with the Priority of Payments and continuation of such failure for a period of five Business Days; provided that, in the case of a failure to disburse due to an administrative error or omission by the Trustee or any Paying Agent, such failure continues for five Business Days after a Bank Officer of the Trustee receives written notice or has actual knowledge of such administrative error or omission;

(c) either the Issuer or the Assets becomes an investment company required to be registered under the Investment Company Act and that status continues for 45 days;

(d) except as otherwise provided in this Section 5.1, a default in a material respect in the performance by, or breach in a material respect of any material covenant of, the Issuer under this Indenture (it being understood, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, that any failure to meet any Concentration Limitation, any Collateral Quality Test or any Coverage Test is not an Event of Default and any failure to satisfy the requirements of Section 7.18 is not an Event of Default), or the failure of any material representation or warranty of the Issuer made in this Indenture or in any certificate or other writing delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith to be correct in each case in all material respects when the same shall have been made, and the continuation of such default, breach or failure for a period of 30 days after notice to the Issuer and the Collateral Manager by registered or certified mail or overnight courier, by the Trustee, the Issuer or the Collateral Manager, or to the Issuer, the Collateral Manager and the Trustee by a Majority of the Controlling Class, specifying such default, breach or failure and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; provided that, if the Issuer (as notified to the Trustee by the Collateral Manager in writing) has commenced curing such default, breach or failure during the 30-day period specified above, such default, breach or failure shall not constitute an Event of Default under this clause (d) unless it continues for a period of 60 days (rather than, and not in addition to, such 30-day

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period specified above) after notice to the Issuer and the Collateral Manager by registered or certified mail or overnight courier, by the Trustee, the Issuer or the Collateral Manager, or to the Issuer, the Collateral Manager and the Trustee by a Majority of the Controlling Class, specifying such default, breach or failure and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder;

(e) the entry of a decree or order by a court having competent jurisdiction adjudging the Issuer as bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Issuer under the Bankruptcy Law or any other applicable law, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, provisional liquidator, assignee, or sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Issuer or of any substantial part of its property, respectively, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, respectively, and the continuance of any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days;

(f) the institution by the Issuer of Proceedings to have the Issuer adjudicated as bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent of the Issuer to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency Proceedings against the Issuer or the filing by the Issuer of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under the Bankruptcy Law or any other similar applicable law, or the consent by the Issuer to the filing of any such petition or to the appointment in a Proceeding of a receiver, liquidator, provisional liquidator, assignee, trustee or sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Issuer or of any substantial part of its property, respectively, or the making by the Issuer of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by the Issuer in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking of any action by the Issuer in furtherance of any such action or the shareholders of the Issuer passing a resolution to have the Issuer wound up on a voluntary basis; or

(g) on any Measurement Date after the Effective Date, failure of the percentage equivalent of a fraction, (i) the numerator of which is equal to (1) the Collateral Principal Amount plus (2) the aggregate Market Value of all Defaulted Obligations on such date and (ii) the denominator of which is equal to the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Class A-1 Notes, to equal or exceed 102.5%.

Upon obtaining actual knowledge of the occurrence of an Event of Default, each of (i) the Issuer, (ii) the Trustee and (iii) a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Manager shall notify each other. Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default known to a Bank Officer of the Trustee, the Trustee shall, not later than three Business Days thereafter, notify the Noteholders (as their names appear on the Register), each Paying Agent, the Collateral Manager and the Issuer and, subject to Section 14.3(c), the Issuer shall notify each of the Rating Agencies of such Event of Default in writing (unless such Event of Default has been waived as provided in Section 5.14).

Section 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. (a) If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(e) or (f)), the Trustee may, and shall, upon the written direction of a Majority of the Controlling Class, by notice to the Issuer, the Issuer (subject to Section 14.3(c), which notice the Issuer shall provide to each Rating Agency) and a Responsible Officer of the Collateral

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Manager, declare the principal of all the Secured Notes to be immediately due and payable, and upon any such declaration such principal, together with all accrued and unpaid interest thereon (including any Deferred Interest), and other amounts payable hereunder, shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(e) or (f) occurs, all unpaid principal, together with all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, of all the Secured Notes, and other amounts payable thereunder and hereunder, shall automatically become due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.

(b) At any time after such a declaration of acceleration of maturity has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the Money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter provided in this Article V, a Majority of the Controlling Class by written notice to the Issuer (subject to Section 14.3(c), which notice the Issuer shall provide to each Rating Agency) and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:

(i) The Issuer has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay:

(A) all unpaid installments of interest and principal then due on the Secured Notes (other than any principal amounts due to the occurrence of an acceleration);

(B) to the extent that the payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon any Deferred Interest at the applicable Interest Rate; and

(C) all unpaid taxes and Administrative Expenses of the Issuer and other sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder or by the Collateral Administrator under the Collateral Administration Agreement or hereunder, accrued and unpaid Collateral Management Fees and any other amounts then payable by the Issuer hereunder prior to such Administrative Expenses and such Collateral Management Fees; and

(ii) It has been determined that all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the interest on or principal of the Secured Notes that has become due solely by such acceleration, have (A) been cured, and a Majority of the Controlling Class by written notice to the Trustee has agreed with such determination (which agreement shall not be unreasonably withheld), or (B) been waived as provided in Section 5.14.

No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

Section 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee. The Issuer covenants that if a default shall occur in respect of the payment of any principal of or interest when due and payable on any Secured Note, the Issuer will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holder of such Secured Note, the whole amount, if any, then due and payable on such Secured Note for principal and interest with interest upon the overdue principal and, to the extent that payments of such interest shall be legally enforceable, upon overdue installments of interest, at the applicable Interest Rate, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee and its agents and counsel.

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If the Issuer fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may, and shall, subject to the terms of this Indenture (including Section 6.3(e)) upon written direction of a Majority of the Controlling Class, institute a Proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such Proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same against the Issuer or any other obligor upon the Secured Notes and collect the Monies adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the Assets.

If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion, and shall, subject to the terms of this Indenture (including Section 6.3(e)) upon written direction of a Majority of the Controlling Class, proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Secured Parties by such appropriate Proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual (if no such direction is received by the Trustee) or as the Trustee may be directed by a Majority of the Controlling Class, to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy or legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law.

In case there shall be pending Proceedings relative to the Issuer or any other obligor upon the Secured Notes under the Bankruptcy Law or any other applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, provisional liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Issuer or its respective property or such other obligor or its property, or in case of any other comparable Proceedings relative to the Issuer or other obligor upon the Secured Notes, or the creditors or property of the Issuer or such other obligor, the Trustee, regardless of whether the principal of any Secured Note shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and regardless of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.3, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such Proceedings or otherwise:

(a) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Secured Notes upon direction by a Majority of the Controlling Class and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of all reasonable expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, except as a result of negligence or bad faith) and of the Secured Noteholders allowed in any Proceedings relative to the Issuer or other obligor upon the Secured Notes or to the creditors or property of the Issuer or such other obligor;

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(b) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on behalf of the Secured Noteholders upon the direction of a Majority of the Controlling Class, in any election of a trustee or a standby trustee in arrangement, reorganization, liquidation or other bankruptcy or insolvency Proceedings or Person performing similar functions in comparable Proceedings; and

(c) to collect and receive any Monies or other property payable to or deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute all amounts received with respect to the claims of the Holders and of the Trustee on their behalf; and any trustee, receiver or liquidator, provisional liquidator, custodian or other similar official is hereby authorized by each of the Secured Noteholders to make payments to the Trustee, and, if the Trustee shall consent to the making of payments directly to the Secured Noteholders to pay to the Trustee such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Trustee, each predecessor Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other reasonable expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee except as a result of negligence or bad faith.

Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of any Secured Noteholders, any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Secured Notes or any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Secured Noteholders, as applicable, in any such Proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar Person.

In any Proceedings brought by the Trustee on behalf of the Holders of the Secured Notes (and any such Proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the Trustee shall be a party), the Trustee shall be held to represent all the Holders of the Secured Notes.

Notwithstanding anything in this Section 5.3 to the contrary, the Trustee may not sell or liquidate the Assets or institute Proceedings in furtherance thereof pursuant to this Section 5.3 except according to the provisions specified in Section 5.5(a).

Section 5.4 Remedies. (a) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, and the Secured Notes have been declared due and payable and such declaration and its consequences have not been rescinded and annulled, the Issuer agrees that the Trustee may, and shall, subject to the terms of this Indenture (including Section 6.3(e)), upon written direction of a Majority of the Controlling Class, to the extent permitted by applicable law, exercise one or more of the following rights, privileges and remedies:

(i) institute Proceedings for the collection of all amounts then payable on the Secured Notes or otherwise payable under this Indenture, whether by declaration or otherwise, enforce any judgment obtained, and collect from the Assets any Monies adjudged due;

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(ii) sell or cause the sale of all or a portion of the Assets or rights or interests therein, at one or more public or private sales called and conducted in any manner permitted by law and in accordance with Section 5.17;

(iii) institute Proceedings from time to time for the complete or partial foreclosure of this Indenture with respect to the Assets;

(iv) exercise any remedies of a secured party under the UCC and take any other appropriate action to protect and enforce the rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders of the Secured Notes hereunder (including exercising all rights of the Trustee under the Securities Account Control Agreement); and

(v) exercise any other rights and remedies that may be available at law or in equity;

provided that, the Trustee may not sell or liquidate the Assets or institute Proceedings in furtherance thereof pursuant to this Section 5.4 except according to the provisions of Section 5.5(a).

The Trustee may, but need not, obtain and rely upon an opinion of an Independent investment banking firm of national reputation (the cost of which shall be payable as an Administrative Expense) in structuring and distributing securities similar to the Secured Notes, which may be the Placement Agents or other appropriate advisor, as to the feasibility of any action proposed to be taken in accordance with this Section 5.4 and as to the sufficiency of the proceeds and other amounts receivable with respect to the Assets to make the required payments of principal of and interest on the Secured Notes which opinion shall be conclusive evidence as to such feasibility or sufficiency.

(b) If an Event of Default as described in Section 5.1(d) shall have occurred and be continuing the Trustee may, and at the direction of a Majority of the Controlling Class shall, subject to the terms of this Indenture (including Section 6.3(e)), institute a Proceeding solely to compel performance of the covenant or agreement or to cure the representation or warranty, the breach of which gave rise to the Event of Default under such Section, and enforce any equitable decree or order arising from such Proceeding.

(c) Upon any sale, whether made under the power of sale hereby given or by virtue of judicial Proceedings, any Secured Party may bid for and purchase the Assets or any part thereof and, upon compliance with the terms of sale, may hold, retain, possess or dispose of such property in its or their own absolute right without accountability. Any Holder bidding at such sale may, in payment of the purchase price, deliver to the Trustee for surrender and cancellation any of the Notes owned by such Holder in lieu of Cash equal to the amount which would, upon distribution of the net proceeds of such sale, be payable on the Notes so delivered by such ▇▇▇▇▇▇ (taking into account the Class of such Notes, the Priority of Payments and Article XIII).

Upon any sale, whether made under the power of sale hereby given or by virtue of judicial Proceedings, the receipt of the Trustee, or of the Officer making a sale under judicial Proceedings, shall be a sufficient discharge to the purchaser or purchasers at any sale for its or their purchase Money, and such purchaser or purchasers shall not be obliged to see to the application thereof.

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Any such sale, whether under any power of sale hereby given or by virtue of judicial Proceedings, shall bind the Issuer, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes, shall operate to divest all right, title and interest whatsoever, either at law or in equity, of each of them in and to the property sold, and shall be a perpetual bar, both at law and in equity, against each of them and their successors and assigns, and against any and all Persons claiming through or under them.

(d) (i) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, none of the Trustee, the Secured Parties or the Holders or beneficial owners of the Notes may, prior to the date which is one year (or if longer, any applicable preference period) and one day after the payment in full of all Notes, institute (or, in the case of the Trustee, cause the share trustee of the Issuer under the declaration of trust, to institute) against, or join any other Person in instituting against, the Issuer any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency, winding up, moratorium, provisional liquidation or liquidation Proceedings, or other Proceedings under U.S. federal or state bankruptcy or similar laws. Furthermore, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Independent Manager will not institute against the Issuer any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency, winding up, moratorium, provisional liquidation or liquidation Proceedings, or other Proceedings for so long as the Secured Notes are outstanding. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Article V, in the event that any Proceeding described in the immediately preceding sentence is commenced against the Issuer, the Issuer, subject to the availability of funds as described in the immediately following sentence, will promptly object to the institution of any such Proceeding against it and take all necessary or advisable steps to cause the dismissal of any such Proceeding (including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, to timely file an answer and any other appropriate pleading objecting to (i) the institution of any Proceeding to have the Issuer adjudicated as bankrupt or insolvent or (ii) the filing of any petition seeking relief, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition or in respect of the Issuer under applicable bankruptcy law or any other applicable law). The reasonable fees, costs, charges and expenses incurred by the Issuer (including reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses) in connection with taking any such action will be paid as Administrative Expenses. Any Person who acquires a beneficial interest in a Note shall be deemed to have accepted and agreed to the foregoing restrictions.

(ii) In the event one or more Holders or beneficial owners of Secured Notes institutes, or joins in the institution of, a Proceeding described in clause (i) above against the Issuer in violation of the prohibition described above, such Holder(s) or beneficial owner(s) will be deemed to acknowledge and agree that any claim that such Holder(s) or beneficial owner(s) have against the Issuer or with respect to any Assets (including any proceeds thereof) shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Priority of Payments, be fully subordinate in right of payment to the claims of each Holder and beneficial owner of any Secured Note that does not seek to cause any such filing, with such subordination being effective until each Secured Note held by each Holder or beneficial owners of any Secured Note that does not seek to cause any such filing is paid in full in accordance with the Priority of Payments (after giving effect to such subordination). The terms described in the immediately preceding sentence are referred to herein as the

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“Bankruptcy Subordination Agreement.” The Bankruptcy Subordination Agreement is intended to constitute a “subordination agreement” within the meaning of Section 510(a) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code (Title 11 of the United States Code, as amended from time to time (or any successor statute)). The Trustee shall be entitled to rely upon an Issuer Order with respect to the payment of any amounts payable to Holders, which amounts are subordinated pursuant to this Section 5.4(d)(ii).

(iii) Nothing in this Section 5.4 shall preclude, or be deemed to stop, the Trustee (i) from taking any action prior to the expiration of the aforementioned period in (A) any case or Proceeding voluntarily filed or commenced by the Issuer or (B) any involuntary insolvency Proceeding filed or commenced by a Person other than the Trustee, or (ii) from commencing against the Issuer or any of its respective properties any legal action which is not a bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency, moratorium or liquidation Proceeding.

In addition, nothing in this Section 5.4 shall preclude, or be deemed to stop, any Holder or beneficial owner of Notes (1) from taking any action prior to the expiration of the aforementioned one year (or, if longer, the applicable preference period then in effect) and one day period in (A) any case or Proceeding voluntarily filed or commenced by the Issuer (other than such a filing or commencement caused or directed by such Holder or beneficial owner) or (B) any involuntary insolvency Proceeding which such Holder or beneficial owner did not institute or commence or join in the institution or commencement of (or cause or direct any other Person to institute or commence), or (2) from filing proofs of claim in any Proceeding voluntarily filed or commenced by the Issuer (other than such a filing or commencement caused or directed by such Holder or beneficial owner) or any involuntary insolvency Proceeding which such Holder or beneficial owner did not institute or commence or join in the institution or commencement of (or cause or direct any other Person to institute or commence).

(iv) The restrictions described in clause (i) of this Section 5.4(d) are a material inducement for each Holder and beneficial owner of the Notes to acquire such Notes and for the Issuer and the Collateral Manager to enter into this Indenture and the other applicable Transaction Documents and are an essential term of this Indenture. Any Holder or beneficial owner of Notes or the Issuer may seek and obtain specific performance of such restrictions (including injunctive relief), including, without limitation, in any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency, moratorium or liquidation Proceedings, or other Proceedings under United States federal or state bankruptcy law or similar laws.

Section 5.5 Optional Preservation of Assets. (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, if an Event of Default shall have occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall retain the Assets securing the Secured Notes intact, collect and cause the collection of the proceeds thereof and make and apply all payments and deposits and maintain all accounts in respect of the Assets and the Notes in accordance with the Priority of Payments and the provisions of Article X, Article XII and Article XIII unless:

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(i) the Trustee, pursuant to Section 5.5(d), determines that the anticipated proceeds of a sale or liquidation of the Assets (after deducting the reasonable expenses of such sale or liquidation) would be sufficient to discharge in full the amounts then due (or, in the case of interest, accrued) and unpaid on the Secured Notes for principal and interest (including accrued and unpaid Deferred Interest), and all other amounts that, pursuant to the Priority of Payments, are required to be paid prior to such payments on such Secured Notes (including any amounts due and owing as Administrative Expenses (without regard to the Administrative Expense Cap), any due and unpaid Collateral Management Fees and amounts payable to any Hedge Counterparty pursuant to an early termination (or partial early termination) of such Hedge Agreement as a result of a Priority Termination Event), and a Majority of the Controlling Class agrees with such determination;

(ii) in the case of an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(a) due to failure to pay principal or interest on the Class A-1 Notes or Section 5.1(g), a Majority of the Controlling Class, so long as the Controlling Class consists of the Class A-1 Notes (and, for the avoidance of doubt, no other Class of Secured Notes, regardless of whether any such other Class subsequently becomes the Controlling Class), directs the sale and liquidation of the Assets (without regard to whether another Event of Default has occurred prior to, contemporaneously with or subsequent to such Event of Default);

(iii) in the case of an Event of Default specified in clauses (a) (other than due to failure to pay principal or interest on the Class A-1 Notes), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) of the definition of such term, a Supermajority (or, in the case of the Class A-1 Notes, a Majority) of each Class of Secured Notes (voting separately by Class) directs the sale and liquidation of the Assets; or

(iv) if only Subordinated Notes are then Outstanding, a Majority of the Subordinated Notes directs the sale and liquidation of the Assets.

So long as such Event of Default is continuing, any such retention pursuant to this Section 5.5(a) may be rescinded at any time when the conditions specified in clause (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv) exist; provided that, upon commencement of any liquidation proceeding pursuant to this Section 5.5(a), the Trustee shall provide notice to each Rating Agency.

(b) Nothing contained in Section 5.5(a) shall be construed to require the Trustee to sell the Assets securing the Secured Notes if the conditions set forth in clause (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv) of Section 5.5(a) are not satisfied. Nothing contained in Section 5.5(a) shall be construed to require the Trustee to preserve the Assets securing the Secured Notes if prohibited by applicable law.

(c) Prior to the sale of any Collateral Obligation in connection with Section 5.5(a) and subject to the right of the Controlling Class to postpone such sale under Section 5.17 or otherwise cancel such sale in accordance with this Article V or under law, the Trustee will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify the Collateral Manager of its intent to sell any Collateral Obligation in accordance with this Article V. Prior to the Trustee accepting any bid in respect of such a sale of a Collateral Obligation, the Collateral Manager shall have the right, by giving notice to the Trustee within three hours after the Trustee has notified the Collateral Manager of the bid proposed to be accepted by the Trustee, to submit (on its behalf or on behalf of funds or accounts managed by the Collateral Manager) and the Trustee shall accept, a Firm Bid to purchase such Collateral Obligation on the same terms and conditions applicable to the potential purchaser.

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(d) In determining whether the condition specified in Section 5.5(a)(i) exists, the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts to obtain, with the cooperation of the Collateral Manager, bid prices with respect to each Loan contained in the Assets from two nationally recognized dealers (as specified by the Collateral Manager in writing) at the time making a market therein and shall compute the anticipated proceeds of sale or liquidation on the basis of the lower of such bid prices for each such Loan. In the event that the Trustee, with the cooperation of the Collateral Manager, is only able to obtain bid prices with respect to a Loan contained in the Assets from one nationally recognized dealer at the time making a market therein, the Trustee shall compute the anticipated proceeds of sale or liquidation on the basis of such one bid price for such security. In addition, for the purposes of determining issues relating to the execution of a sale or liquidation of the Assets and the execution of a sale or other liquidation thereof in connection with a determination whether the condition specified in Section 5.5(a)(i) exists, the Trustee may retain and rely on an opinion of an Independent investment banking firm, or other appropriate advisor, of national reputation (the cost of which shall be payable as an Administrative Expense).

The Trustee shall deliver to the Noteholders and the Collateral Manager a report stating the results of any determination required pursuant to Section 5.5(a)(i) no later than 10 days after such determination is made. The Trustee shall make the determinations required by Section 5.5(a)(i) at the written request of a Majority of the Controlling Class at any time during which the Trustee retains the Assets pursuant to Section 5.5(a)(i); provided that, any such request made more frequently than once in any 90 day period shall be at the expense of such requesting party or parties.

Section 5.6 Trustee May Enforce Claims without Possession of Notes. All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or under any of the Secured Notes may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Secured Notes or the production thereof in any trial or other Proceeding relating thereto, and any such action or Proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall be applied as set forth in Section 5.7.

Section 5.7 Application of Money Collected. Any Money collected by the Trustee with respect to the Notes pursuant to this Article V and any Money that may then be held or thereafter received by the Trustee with respect to the Notes hereunder shall be applied, subject to Section 13.1 and in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.1(a)(iii), at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee. Upon the final distribution of all proceeds of any liquidation of the Collateral Obligations, Equity Securities and the Eligible Investments effected hereunder, the provisions of Section 4.1(a)(i) and (a)(ii) shall be deemed satisfied for the purposes of discharging this Indenture pursuant to Article IV.

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Section 5.8 Limitation on Suits. No Holder or beneficial owner of any Note shall have any right to institute any Proceedings, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture or the Notes, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:

(a) such Holder or beneficial owner has previously given to the Trustee written notice of an Event of Default;

(b) the Holders or beneficial owners of not less than a Majority of the Controlling Class shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute Proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder and such Holder or Holders or beneficial owners have provided the Trustee indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;

(c) the Trustee, for 30 days after its receipt of such notice, request and provision of such indemnity, has failed to institute any such Proceeding; and

(d) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 30-day period by a Majority of the Controlling Class; it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders or beneficial owners of Notes shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing itself of, any provision of this Indenture or the Notes to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders or beneficial owners of Notes of the same Class or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders or beneficial owners of the Notes of the same Class or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein and therein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all the Holders or beneficial owners of Notes of the same Class subject to and in accordance with Section 13.1 and the Priority of Payments.

In the event the Trustee shall receive conflicting or inconsistent requests and indemnity pursuant to this Section 5.8 from two or more groups of Holders or beneficial owners of the Controlling Class, each representing less than a Majority of the Controlling Class, the Trustee shall act in accordance with the request specified by the group of Holders or beneficial owners with the greatest percentage of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture. If all such groups represent the same percentage, the Trustee, in its sole discretion, may determine what action, if any, shall be taken.

Section 5.9 Unconditional Rights of Secured Noteholders to Receive Principal and Interest. Subject to Section 2.7(i), but notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the Holder of any Secured Note shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and interest on such Secured Note, as such principal, interest and other amounts become due and payable in accordance with the Priority of Payments and Section 13.1, as the case may be, and, subject to the provisions of Section 5.4(d) and Section 5.8, to institute Proceedings for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder. Holders of Secured Notes ranking junior to Notes still Outstanding shall have no right to institute Proceedings for the enforcement of any such payment until such time as no Secured Note ranking senior to such Secured Note remains Outstanding, which right shall be subject to the provisions of Section 5.4(d) and Section 5.8, and shall not be impaired without the consent of any such Holder.

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Section 5.10 Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Trustee or any Noteholder has instituted any Proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such Proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Noteholder, then and in every such case the Issuer, the Trustee and the Noteholder shall, subject to any determination in such Proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Noteholder shall continue as though no such Proceeding had been instituted.

Section 5.11 Rights and Remedies Cumulative. No right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Noteholders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

Section 5.12 Delay or Omission Not Waiver. No delay or omission of the Trustee or any Holder of Secured Notes to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein or of a subsequent Event of Default. Every right and remedy given by this Article V or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders of the Secured Notes may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders of the Secured Notes.

Section 5.13 Control by Majority of Controlling Class. A Majority of the Controlling Class shall have the right following the occurrence, and during the continuance of, an Event of Default to cause the institution of and direct the time, method and place of conducting any Proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee under this Indenture; provided that:

(a) such direction shall not conflict with any rule of law or with any express provision of this Indenture;

(b) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction; provided that, subject to Section 6.1, the Trustee need not take any action that it determines might involve it in liability or expense (unless the Trustee has received the indemnity as set forth in (c) below);

(c) the Trustee shall have been provided with indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it; and

(d) notwithstanding the foregoing, any direction to the Trustee to undertake a Sale of the Assets shall be by the Holders or beneficial owners of Notes representing the requisite percentage of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of Notes and Class(es) thereof, as applicable, specified in Section 5.4 and/or Section 5.5.

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Section 5.14 Waiver of Past Defaults. Prior to the time a judgment or decree for payment of the Money due has been obtained by the Trustee, as provided in this Article V, a Majority of the Controlling Class may on behalf of the Holders and beneficial owners of all the Notes waive any past Default or Event of Default and its consequences, except a Default:

(a) in the payment of the principal of any Secured Note when due and payable (which may be waived only with the consent of the Holder or beneficial owner of such Secured Note);

(b) in the payment of interest on any Secured Note when due and payable (which may be waived only with the consent of the Holder or beneficial owner of such Secured Note); or

(c) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof that under Section 8.2 cannot be modified or amended without the waiver or consent of the Holder or beneficial owner of each Outstanding Note materially and adversely affected thereby (which may be waived only with the consent of each such Holder or beneficial owner).

In the case of any such waiver, the Issuer, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereto. The Trustee shall promptly give written notice of any such waiver to a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Manager, the Issuer (and, subject to Section 14.3(c), the Issuer shall provide such notice to each Rating Agency (if then providing a rating on any Class of Secured Notes)) and each Holder. Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture.

Section 5.15 Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder and beneficial owner of any Note by such ▇▇▇▇▇▇’s or beneficial owner’s acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section 5.15 shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Noteholder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or interest on any Note on or after the applicable Stated Maturity of the Secured Notes (or, in the case of any redemption whose failure to pay would constitute an Event of Default, on or after the applicable Redemption Date).

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Section 5.16 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Issuer covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law or any valuation, appraisement, redemption or marshalling law or rights, in each case wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants, the performance of or any remedies under this Indenture; and the Issuer (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waive all benefit or advantage of any such law or rights, and covenant that they will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted or rights created.

Section 5.17 Sale of Assets. (a) The power to effect any sale (a “Sale”) of any portion of the Assets pursuant to Sections 5.4 and 5.5 shall not be exhausted by any one or more Sales as to any portion of such Assets remaining unsold, but shall continue unimpaired until the entire Assets shall have been sold or all amounts secured by the Assets shall have been paid. The Trustee may upon notice to the Holders and a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Manager, and shall, upon direction of a Majority of the Controlling Class, from time to time postpone any Sale by public announcement made at the time and place of such Sale. The Trustee hereby expressly waives its rights to any amount fixed by law as compensation for any Sale; provided that, the Trustee shall be authorized to deduct the reasonable costs, charges and expenses (including reasonable and documented fees and expenses of its attorneys and agents) incurred by it in connection with such Sale from the proceeds thereof notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6.7 or other applicable terms hereof.

(b) The Trustee and the Collateral Manager (and/or any of its Affiliates) may bid for and acquire any portion of the Assets in connection with a public Sale thereof (including, in the case of the Collateral Manager or an Affiliate thereof, pursuant to Section 5.5(c)), and the Trustee may pay all or part of the purchase price by crediting against amounts owing on the Secured Notes in the case of the Assets or other amounts secured by the Assets, all or part of the net proceeds of such Sale after deducting the reasonable costs, charges and expenses (including reasonable and documented fees and expenses of its attorneys and agents) incurred by the Trustee in connection with such Sale notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6.7 or other applicable terms hereof. The Secured Notes do not need to be produced in order to complete any such Sale, or in order for the net proceeds of such Sale to be credited against amounts owing on the Notes. The Trustee may hold, lease, operate, manage or otherwise deal with any property so acquired in any manner permitted by law in accordance with this Indenture.

(c) If any portion of the Assets consists of securities issued without registration under the Securities Act (“Unregistered Securities”), the Trustee may seek an Opinion of Counsel, or, if no such Opinion of Counsel can be obtained and with the consent of a Majority of the Controlling Class, seek a no action position from the Securities and Exchange Commission or any other relevant federal or State regulatory authorities, regarding the legality of a public or private Sale of such Unregistered Securities.

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(d) The Trustee shall execute and deliver an appropriate instrument of conveyance transferring its interest in any portion of the Assets in connection with a Sale thereof, without recourse, representation or warranty. In addition, the Trustee is hereby irrevocably appointed the agent and attorney in fact of the Issuer to transfer and convey its interest in any portion of the Assets in connection with a Sale thereof, and to take all action necessary to effect such Sale. No purchaser or transferee at such a sale shall be bound to ascertain the Trustee’s authority, to inquire into the satisfaction of any conditions precedent or see to the application of any Monies.

(e) The Trustee shall provide notice to the Holders of the Notes as soon as reasonably practicable of any public Sale, and the Holders of the Notes and the Collateral Manager (and each of their Affiliates) shall be permitted to participate in any such public Sale to the extent permitted by applicable law and to the extent such Holders or the Collateral Manager (or their Affiliates), as applicable, meet any applicable eligibility requirements with respect to such Sale.

Section 5.18 Action on the Notes. The Trustee’s right to seek and recover judgment on the Notes or under this Indenture shall not be affected by the seeking or obtaining of or application for any other relief under or with respect to this Indenture. Neither the lien of this Indenture nor any rights or remedies of the Trustee or the Holders shall be impaired by the recovery of any judgment by the Trustee against the Issuer or by the levy of any execution under such judgment upon any portion of the Assets or upon any of the assets of the Issuer.

ARTICLE VI

THE TRUSTEE

Section 6.1 Certain Duties and Responsibilities. (a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default known to the Trustee:

(i) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and

(ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; provided that, in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they substantially conform to the requirements of this Indenture and shall promptly, but in any event within three Business Days in the case of an Officer’s certificate furnished by the Collateral Manager, notify the party delivering the same if such certificate or opinion does not conform. If a corrected form shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 15 days after such notice from the Trustee, the Trustee shall so notify the Noteholders.

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(b) In case an Event of Default actually known to a Trust Officer of the Trustee has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall, prior to the receipt of directions, if any, from a Majority of the Controlling Class, or such other percentage as permitted by this Indenture, exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs.

(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:

(i) this subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of subsection (a) of this Section 6.1;

(ii) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Bank Officer, unless it shall be proven that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;

(iii) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Issuer or the Collateral Manager in accordance with this Indenture and/or a Majority (or such other percentage as may be required or permitted by the terms hereof) of the Controlling Class (or other Class if required or permitted by the terms hereof), relating to the time, method and place of conducting any Proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture;

(iv) no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial or other liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers contemplated hereunder, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity satisfactory to it against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it; and

(v) in no event shall the Trustee (or the Bank or any Affiliate thereof acting in any capacity) be liable for special, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damage (including diminution in value or lost profits) even if the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such damages and regardless of such action.

(d) For all purposes under this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice or knowledge of any Default or Event of Default described in Sections 5.1(c), (d), (e), or (f) unless a Bank Officer assigned to and working in the Corporate Trust Office has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice (which notice may be delivered via email in the form of a signed .pdf) of any event which is in fact such an Event of Default or Default is received by a Bank Officer of the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office, and such notice references the Notes generally, the Issuer or this Indenture. For purposes of determining the Trustee’s responsibility and liability hereunder, whenever reference is made in this Indenture to such an Event of Default or a Default, such reference shall be construed to refer only to such an Event of Default or Default of which the Trustee is deemed to have notice as described in this Section 6.1 and Section 6.3.

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(e) Not later than one Business Day after the Trustee receives (i) notice of assignment pursuant to Section 13(d) of the Collateral Management Agreement, (ii) a Termination Notice (as defined in the Collateral Management Agreement) or a Statement of Cause (as defined in the Collateral Management Agreement) pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Collateral Management Agreement or (iii) a notice from the Collateral Manager pursuant to Section 14(b) of the Collateral Management Agreement, the Trustee shall forward a copy of such notice to the Holders (as their names appear in the Register).

(f) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 6.1.

(g) For all purposes under this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice or knowledge of any Tax Event unless it receives written notice of the occurrence of a Tax Event from the Collateral Manager.

Section 6.2 Notice of Event of Default. Promptly (and in no event later than three Business Days) after the occurrence of any Event of Default actually known to a Bank Officer of the Trustee or after any declaration of acceleration has been made or delivered to the Trustee pursuant to Section 5.2, the Trustee shall transmit by mail or e-mail to a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Manager, the Issuer (and, subject to Section 14.3(c), the Issuer shall provide such notice to each Rating Agency and all Holders, as their names and addresses appear on the Register, notice of any Event of Default hereunder known to the Trustee, unless such Event of Default shall have been cured or waived.

Section 6.3 Certain Rights of Trustee. Except as otherwise provided in Section 6.1:

(a) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, note or other paper, electronic communication or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties. Any electronically signed document delivered via email from a person purporting to be an Authorized Officer shall be considered signed or executed by such Authorized Officer on behalf of the applicable Person. The Trustee shall have no duty to inquire into or investigate the authenticity or authorization of any such electronic signature and shall be entitled to conclusively rely on any such electronic signature without any liability with respect thereto;

(b) any request or direction of the Issuer mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Issuer Request or Issuer Order, as the case may be;

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(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall (i) deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, request and rely upon an Officer’s certificate or Issuer Order or (ii) be required to determine the value of any Assets or funds hereunder or the cash flows projected to be received therefrom, the Trustee may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely on reports of nationally recognized accountants (which may or may not be the Independent accountants appointed by the Issuer pursuant to Section 10.9), investment bankers or other persons qualified to provide the information required to make such determination, including nationally recognized dealers in securities of the type being valued, securities quotation services, loan pricing services and loan valuation agents;

(d) as a condition to the taking or omitting of any action by it hereunder, the Trustee may consult with counsel and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;

(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise or to honor any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have provided to the Trustee security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses (including reasonable fees and expenses of agents, experts and attorneys) and liabilities which might reasonably be incurred by it in complying with such request or direction;

(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, note or other paper, electronic communication or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may, and upon the written direction of a Majority of the Controlling Class or of a Rating Agency shall (subject to the right hereunder to be reasonably satisfactorily indemnified for associated expense and liability), make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit or as it shall be directed, and the Trustee shall be entitled, on reasonable prior written notice to the Issuer and a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Manager, to examine the books and records relating to the Notes and the Assets, personally or by agent or attorney, during the Issuers’ or the Collateral Manager’s normal business hours; provided that, the Trustee shall, and shall cause its agents to, hold in confidence all such information, except (i) to the extent disclosure may be required by law or by any regulatory, administrative or governmental authority and (ii) to the extent that the Trustee, in its sole discretion, may determine that such disclosure is consistent with its obligations hereunder; provided, further, that the Trustee may disclose on a confidential basis any such information to its agents, attorneys and auditors in connection with the performance of its responsibilities hereunder;

(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys; provided that, the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent appointed or attorney appointed, with due care by it hereunder;

(h) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith that it reasonably believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers hereunder, including actions or omissions to act at the direction of the Collateral Manager;

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(i) nothing herein shall be construed to impose an obligation on the part of the Trustee to monitor, recalculate, evaluate or verify or independently determine the accuracy of any report, certificate or information received from the Issuer or Collateral Manager (unless and except to the extent otherwise expressly set forth herein);

(j) to the extent any defined term hereunder, or any calculation required to be made or determined by the Trustee hereunder, is dependent upon or defined by reference to generally accepted accounting principles (as in effect in the United States) (“GAAP”), the Trustee shall be entitled to request and receive (and rely upon) instruction from the Issuer or the accountants identified in any Accountants’ Report (and in the absence of its receipt of timely instruction therefrom, shall be entitled to obtain from an Independent accountant at the expense of the Issuer) as to the application of GAAP in such connection, in any instance;

(k) [Reserved];

(l) the Trustee shall not be liable for the actions or omissions of, or any inaccuracies in the records of, the Collateral Manager, the Issuer, any Paying Agent (other than the Trustee), a Custodian, DTC, Euroclear, Clearstream, or any other Clearing Agency or depository and without limiting the foregoing, the Trustee shall not be under any obligation to monitor, evaluate or verify compliance by the Collateral Manager with the terms hereof or of the Collateral Management Agreement, or to verify or independently determine the accuracy of information received by the Trustee from the Collateral Manager (or from any selling institution, agent bank, trustee or similar source) with respect to the Assets;

(m) notwithstanding any term hereof (or any term of the UCC that might otherwise be construed to be applicable to a “securities intermediary” as defined in the UCC) to the contrary, none of the Trustee, the Custodian, the Securities Intermediary or the Bank in any other capacity hereunder or any other Transaction Document shall be under a duty or obligation in connection with the acquisition or Grant by the Issuer to the Trustee of any item constituting the Assets to evaluate the sufficiency of the documents or instruments delivered to it by or on behalf of the Issuer in connection with its Grant or otherwise, or in that regard to examine any Underlying Instrument, in each case, in order to determine compliance with applicable requirements of and restrictions on transfer in respect of such Assets;

(n) in the event the Bank or an Affiliate is also acting in the capacity of Paying Agent, Collateral Administrator, Registrar, Transfer Agent, Custodian, Calculation Agent or Securities Intermediary, or in any other capacity hereunder or any other related document, the rights, protections, benefits, immunities and indemnities afforded to the Trustee pursuant to this Article VI shall also be afforded to the Bank (or an Affiliate) acting in such capacities; provided that, such rights, protections, benefits, immunities and indemnities shall be in addition to any rights, immunities and indemnities provided in the Collateral Administration Agreement, the Securities Account Control Agreement or any other documents to which the Bank or an Affiliate in such capacity is a party; provided further, however, that the foregoing shall not be construed to impose upon any such period any of the duties or standard\ of care (including without limitation any duties of a prudent person) of the Trustee;

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(o) any permissive right of the Trustee to take or refrain from taking actions enumerated in this Indenture shall not be construed as a duty;

(p) the Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the execution of this Indenture or otherwise;

(q) the Trustee shall not be responsible for delays or failures in performance resulting from circumstances beyond its control (such circumstances include but are not limited to acts of God, strikes, lockouts, riots, acts of war, terrorism, loss or malfunctions of utilities, computer (hardware or software) or communications services, any act or provision of any present or future law or regulation or governmental authority, accidents, labor disputes, disease, epidemic, pandemic, quarantine, national emergency or the unavailability of the Federal Reserve Bank wire or telex or other wire or communication facility);

(r) the order to comply with laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions, including, without limitation, those relating to the funding of terrorist activities and money laundering, including Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, (“Applicable Law”), the Bank (in all of its capacities hereunder and in any related document) is required to obtain, verify, record and update certain information relating to individuals and entities which maintain a business relationship with the Bank. Accordingly, each of the parties agrees to provide to the Bank upon its request from time to time such identifying information and documentation as may be available for such party in order to enable the Bank to comply with Applicable Law. The Trustee may also ask for formation documents such as articles of incorporation, an offering memorandum, or other identifying documents to be provided;

(s) in the extent not inconsistent herewith, the rights, protections, immunities and indemnities afforded to the Trustee pursuant to this Indenture also shall be afforded to the Bank in each of its capacities and also to the Collateral Administrator; provided that, with respect to the Collateral Administrator, such rights, immunities and indemnities shall be in addition to any rights, immunities and indemnities provided in the Collateral Administration Agreement;

(t) to making or disposing of any investment permitted by this Indenture, the Trustee is authorized to deal with itself (in its individual capacity) or with any one or more of its Affiliates, in each case on an arm’s-length basis, whether it or such Affiliate is acting as a subagent of the Trustee or for any third party or dealing as principal for its own account. If otherwise qualified, obligations of the Bank or any of its Affiliates shall qualify as Eligible Investments hereunder;

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(u) in Trustee or its Affiliates are permitted to receive additional compensation that could be deemed to be in the Trustee’s economic self-interest for (i) serving as investment adviser, administrator, shareholder, servicing agent, custodian or subcustodian with respect to certain of the Eligible Investments, (ii) using Affiliates to effect transactions in certain Eligible Investments and (iii) effecting transactions in certain Eligible Investments. Such compensation is not payable or reimbursable under Section 6.7 of this Indenture;

(v) the Trustee shall have no duty (i) to see to any recording, filing, or depositing of this Indenture or any supplemental indenture or any financing statement or continuation statement evidencing a security interest, or to see to the maintenance of any such recording, filing or depositing or to any rerecording, refiling or redepositing of any thereof or (ii) to maintain any insurance;

(w) notwithstanding any term hereof to the contrary, the Trustee shall be under no obligation in connection with the Grant by the Issuer to the Trustee of any item constituting the trust estate created under this Indenture or otherwise, or in that regard to examine any Asset, in order to determine compliance with applicable requirements of and restrictions on transfer of any Asset and neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Administrator shall have any obligation to determine: (i) if a Collateral Obligation, Eligible Investment, Equity Security or Workout Loan meets the criteria specified in the definition thereof, or, in any case, otherwise is eligible for receipt, purchase or sale under this Indenture, (ii) whether the conditions specified in the definition of “Delivered” have been complied with, or (iii) whether a Tax Event has occurred;

(x) in no event shall the Bank (in any of its capacities) have any responsibility to monitor or enforce compliance with, or be charged with knowledge of the U.S. Risk Retention Rules (or any other risk retention rules), nor will the Bank be responsible for monitoring, confirming or enforcing any U.S. Risk Retention Rules (or any other risk retention rules applicable to the transaction), and nor shall it be liable to any investor or any other party whatsoever for any violation of such U.S. Risk Retention Rules (or any other risk retention rules);

(y) the Trustee shall be authorized, at the request of the Collateral Manager, to accept directions or otherwise enter into agreements regarding the remittance of fees owing to the Collateral Manager;

(z) unless the Trustee receives written notice of an error or omission related to financial information or disbursements provided to Holders within 90 days of Holders’ receipt of the same, the Trustee shall have no liability in connection with such and, absent direction by the requisite percentage of Holders entitled to direct the Trustee, no further obligations in connection thereof; and

(aa) the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice or knowledge of any matter unless a Bank Officer has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice hereof is received by a Bank Officer of the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office and such notice references the Notes generally, the Issuer or this Indenture. Whenever reference is made herein to a Default or an Event of Default such reference shall, insofar as determining any liability on the part of the Trustee is concerned, be construed to refer only to a Default or an Event of Default of which the Trustee is deemed to have knowledge in accordance with this paragraph;

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Section 6.4 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Notes. The recitals contained herein and in the Notes, other than the Certificate of Authentication thereon, shall be taken as the statements of the Issuer; and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture (except as may be made with respect to the validity of the Trustee’s obligations hereunder), the Assets or the Notes. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Issuer of the Notes or the proceeds thereof or any Money paid to the Issuer pursuant to the provisions hereof.

Section 6.5 May Hold Notes. The Bank, its Affiliates, the Trustee, any Paying Agent, the Registrar or any other agent of the Issuer, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Issuer or any of their Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar or such other agent.

Section 6.6 Money Held by the Trustee. Money held by the Trustee hereunder shall be held for the benefit of the Secured Parties to the extent required herein. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any Money received by it hereunder except to the extent of income or other gain on investments which are deposits in or certificates of deposit of the Bank or an Affiliate in its commercial capacity and income or other gain actually received by the Trustee on Eligible Investments.

Section 6.7 Compensation and Reimbursement. (a) The Issuer agrees:

(i) to pay the Trustee, the Bank (without duplications) and U.S. Bank National Association in each of their capacities under the Transaction Documents on each Payment Date reasonable compensation, as set forth in a separate fee schedule, for all services rendered by the Trustee, the Bank and U.S. Bank National Association in each of its other capacities hereunder and under the Transaction Documents (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);

(ii) to pay or reimburse the Trustee, the Bank and U.S. Bank National Association in each of their capacities hereunder in a timely manner upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by them in accordance with any provision of this Indenture or other Transaction Document (including, without limitation, securities transaction charges and the reasonable compensation and expenses and disbursements of its agents and legal counsel and of any accounting firm or investment banking firm employed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 5.4, 5.5, 6.3(c) or 10.7, except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith) but with respect to securities transaction charges, only to the extent any such charges have not been waived during a Collection Period due to the Trustee’s receipt of a payment from a financial institution with respect to certain Eligible Investments, as specified by the Collateral Manager;

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(iii) to indemnify the Trustee, the Bank and U.S. Bank National Association (in each of its respective capacities hereunder and the other Transaction Documents) and their officers, directors, employees and agents for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability or expense (including reasonable fees and expenses of attorneys and experts) incurred without negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith on their part, arising out of or in connection the acceptance, enforcement or administration of this Indenture or other Transaction Documents or the performance of their duties in each of their respective capacities under this Indenture and other Transaction Documents, including the costs and expenses of defending themselves (including reasonable attorney’s fees and costs) against any claim (whether brought by or involving the Issuer or any third party) or liability in connection with the administration, exercise or performance of any of their powers or duties hereunder and under any other agreement or instrument related hereto and of enforcing this Indenture or other Transaction Document and any indemnification rights hereunder or thereunder; and

(iv) to pay the Trustee reasonable additional compensation together with its expenses (including reasonable counsel fees) for any collection or enforcement action taken pursuant to Section 6.13 or Article V, respectively.

(b) The Trustee shall receive amounts pursuant to this Section 6.7 and any other amounts payable to it under this Indenture or in any of the Transaction Documents to which the Trustee is a party only as provided in Sections 11.1(a)(i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) but only to the extent that funds are available for the payment thereof. Subject to Section 6.9, the Trustee shall continue to serve as Trustee under this Indenture notwithstanding the fact that the Trustee shall not have received amounts due it hereunder; provided that, nothing herein shall impair or affect the Trustee’s rights under Section 6.9. No direction by the Noteholders shall affect the right of the Trustee to collect amounts owed to it under this Indenture. If on any date when a fee or an expense shall be payable to the Trustee pursuant to this Indenture insufficient funds are available for the payment thereof, any portion of a fee or an expense not so paid shall be deferred and payable on such later date on which a fee or an expense shall be payable and sufficient funds are available therefor.

(c) The Trustee hereby agrees not to cause the filing of a petition in bankruptcy for the non-payment to the Trustee of any amounts provided by this Section 6.7 until at least one year, or if longer the applicable preference period then in effect, and one day after the payment in full of all Notes issued under this Indenture.

(d) The Issuer’s payment obligations to the Trustee under this Section 6.7 shall be secured by the lien of this Indenture payable in accordance with the Priority of Payments, and shall survive the discharge of this Indenture and the resignation or removal of the Trustee. When the Trustee incurs expenses after the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default under Section 5.1(e) or Section 5.1(f), the expenses are intended to constitute expenses of administration under the Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law.

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Section 6.8 Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility. There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be an organization or entity organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America or of any state thereof, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at least U.S.$200,000,000, subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority, having a counterparty risk assessment of at least “Baa1(cr)” by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ and having a credit rating of at least “BBB+” by S&P and having an office within the United States; provided, that if the Trustee, or its successor’s ratings at any time are below the minimum rating or combine capital and surplus requirements as set forth in this sentence, the Trustee may retain its eligibility if it obtains or has obtained (i) a confirmation from the Rating Agencies that the Rating Agencies’ then-current rating of the Notes will not be downgraded or withdrawn by reason of the Trustee’s rating or capitalization or (ii) a written waiver or other written acknowledgement (which may be evidenced by an exchange of electronic messages or facsimiles) from such Rating Agency that it will not review the Rating Agency’s then-current rating of the Notes in such circumstances. If such organization or entity publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 6.8, the combined capital and surplus of such organization or entity shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent published report of condition. Subject to the provisions of the preceding sentence, if at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6.8, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article VI.

Section 6.9 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor. (a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article VI shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee under Section 6.10.

(b) The Trustee may resign at any time by giving not less than 30 days’ written notice thereof to the Issuer (and, subject to Section 14.3(c), the Issuer shall provide notice to each Rating Agency), the Collateral Manager and the Holders of the Notes. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor trustee or trustees satisfying the requirements of Section 6.8 by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by an Authorized Officer of the Issuer, one copy of which shall be delivered to the Trustee so resigning and one copy to the successor Trustee or Trustees, together with a copy to each Holder and the Collateral Manager; provided that, such successor Trustee shall be appointed only upon the written consent of a Majority of the Secured Notes of each Class (voting separately by Class) or, at any time when an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, by an Act of a Majority of the Controlling Class. If no successor Trustee shall have been appointed and an instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee or any Holder, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee satisfying the requirements of Section 6.8.

(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time by Act of a Majority of each Class of Notes (voting separately by Class) or, at any time when an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing by an Act of a Majority of the Controlling Class, delivered to the Trustee and to the Issuer.

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(d) If at any time:

(i) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.8 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Issuer or by any Holder; or

(ii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged as bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver or liquidator of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation;

then, in any such case (subject to Section 6.9(a)), (A) the Issuer, by Issuer Order, may remove the Trustee, or (B) subject to Section 5.15, any Holder may, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee.

(e) If the Trustee shall be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of the Trustee for any reason (other than resignation), the Issuer, by Issuer Order, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee. If the Issuer shall fail to appoint a successor Trustee within 30 days after such removal or incapability or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee may be appointed by a Majority of the Controlling Class by written instrument delivered to the Issuer and the retiring Trustee. The successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment, become the successor Trustee and supersede any successor Trustee proposed by the Issuer. If no successor Trustee shall have been so appointed by the Issuer or a Majority of the Controlling Class and shall have accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter provided, subject to Section 5.15, any Holder may, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

(f) The Issuer shall give prompt notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee and each appointment of a successor Trustee by mailing written notice of such event by first class mail, postage prepaid, to the Collateral Manager, subject to Section 14.3(c) each Rating Agency and to the Holders of the Notes as their names and addresses appear in the Register. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust Office. If the Issuer fails to mail such notice within ten days after acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee, the successor Trustee shall cause, subject to Section 14.3(c), such notice to be given at the expense of the Issuer.

(g) Any resignation or removal of the Trustee under this Section 6.9 shall be an effective resignation or removal of the Bank in all capacities under this Indenture.

Section 6.10 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor. Every successor Trustee appointed hereunder shall meet the requirements of Section 6.8 and shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Issuer and the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment and making representations and warranties set forth in Section 6.17 and Section 6.18. Upon delivery of the required instruments, the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or

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conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts, duties and obligations of the retiring Trustee; but, on request of the Issuer or a Majority of any Class of Secured Notes or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges then unpaid, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee, and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and Money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder. Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Issuer shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts.

Section 6.11 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business of Trustee. Any organization or entity into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any organization or entity resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any organization or entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided that, such organization or entity shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article VI, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any of the Notes has been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Notes so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Notes.

Section 6.12 Co-Trustees. At any time or times, for the purpose of meeting the legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Assets may at the time be located, the Issuer and the Trustee shall have power to appoint one or more Persons to act as co-trustee (subject to such Person satisfying the eligibility requirements set forth in Section 6.8 and providing prior notice to each Rating Agency), jointly with the Trustee, of all or any part of the Assets, with the power to file such proofs of claim and take such other actions pursuant to Section 5.6 herein and to make such claims and enforce such rights of action on behalf of the Holders, as such Holders themselves may have the right to do, subject to the other provisions of this Section 6.12.

The Issuer shall join with the Trustee in the execution, delivery and performance of all instruments and agreements necessary or proper to appoint a co-trustee. If the Issuer does not join in such appointment within 15 days after the receipt by them of a request to do so, the Trustee shall have the power to make such appointment.

Should any written instrument from the Issuer be required by any co-trustee so appointed, more fully confirming to such co-trustee such property, title, right or power, any and all such instruments shall, on request, be executed, acknowledged and delivered by the Issuer. The Issuer agrees to pay, to the extent funds are available therefor under Section 11.1(a)(i)(A), for any reasonable fees and expenses in connection with such appointment.

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Every co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law, but to such extent only, be appointed subject to the following terms:

(a) the Notes shall be authenticated and delivered and all rights, powers, duties and obligations hereunder in respect of the custody of securities, ▇▇▇▇ and other personal property held by, or required to be deposited or pledged with, the Trustee hereunder, shall be exercised solely by the Trustee;

(b) the rights, powers, duties and obligations hereby conferred or imposed upon the Trustee in respect of any property covered by the appointment of a co-trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Trustee or by the Trustee and such co-trustee jointly as shall be provided in the instrument appointing such co-trustee;

(c) the Trustee at any time, by an instrument in writing executed by it, with the concurrence of the Issuer evidenced by an Issuer Order, may accept the resignation of or remove any co-trustee appointed under this Section 6.12, and in case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall have the power to accept the resignation of, or remove, any such co-trustee without the concurrence of the Issuer. A successor to any co-trustee so resigned or removed may be appointed in the manner provided in this Section 6.12;

(d) no co-trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of the Trustee hereunder;

(e) the Trustee shall not be liable by reason of any act or omission of a co-trustee; and

(f) any Act of Holders delivered to the Trustee shall be deemed to have been delivered to each co-trustee.

Subject to Section 14.3(c), the Issuer shall notify each Rating Agency of the appointment of a co-trustee hereunder.

Section 6.13 Certain Duties of Trustee Related to Delayed Payment of Proceeds. If the Trustee shall not have received a payment with respect to any Asset on its Due Date, (a) the Trustee shall promptly notify the Issuer and the Collateral Manager in writing and (b) unless within three Business Days (or the end of the applicable grace period for such payment, if any) after such notice (x) such payment shall have been received by the Trustee or (y) the Issuer, in its absolute discretion (but only to the extent permitted by Section 10.2(a)), shall have made provision for such payment satisfactory to the Trustee in accordance with Section 10.2(a), the Trustee shall, not later than the Business Day immediately following the last day of such period and in any case upon request by the Collateral Manager, request the Obligor or issuer of such Asset, the trustee under the related Underlying Instrument or paying agent designated by either of them, as the case may be, to make such payment not later than three Business Days after the date of such request. If such payment is not made within such time period, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of clause (iv) of Section 6.1(c), shall take such action as the Collateral Manager shall direct. Any such action shall be without prejudice to any right to claim a Default or Event of Default under this Indenture. If the Issuer or the Collateral Manager requests a release of an Asset and/or

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delivers an additional Collateral Obligation in connection with any such action under the Collateral Management Agreement, such release and/or substitution shall be subject to Section 10.6 and Article XII, as the case may be. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, the Trustee shall deliver to the Issuer or its designee any payment with respect to any Asset or any additional Collateral Obligation received after the Due Date thereof to the extent the Issuer previously made provisions for such payment satisfactory to the Trustee in accordance with this Section 6.13 and such payment shall not be deemed part of the Assets.

Section 6.14 Authenticating Agents. Upon the request of the Issuer, the Trustee shall, and if the Trustee so chooses the Trustee may, appoint one or more Authenticating Agents with power to act on its behalf and subject to its direction in the authentication of Notes in connection with issuance, transfers and exchanges under Sections 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.13 and 8.6, as fully to all intents and purposes as though each such Authenticating Agent had been expressly authorized by such Sections to authenticate such Notes. For all purposes of this Indenture, the authentication of Notes by an Authenticating Agent pursuant to this Section 6.14 shall be deemed to be the authentication of Notes by the Trustee.

Any corporation into which any Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, consolidation or conversion to which any Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate trust business of any Authenticating Agent, shall be the successor of such Authenticating Agent hereunder, without the execution or filing of any further act on the part of the parties hereto or such Authenticating Agent or such successor corporation.

Any Authenticating Agent may at any time resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee and the Issuer. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of any Authenticating Agent by giving written notice of termination to such Authenticating Agent and the Issuer. Upon receiving such notice of resignation or upon such a termination, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of the Issuer, promptly appoint a successor Authenticating Agent and shall give written notice of such appointment to the Issuer.

Unless the Authenticating Agent is also the same entity as the Trustee, the Issuer agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services, and reimbursement for its reasonable expenses relating thereto as an Administrative Expense. The provisions of Sections 2.8, 6.4 and 6.5 shall be applicable to any Authenticating Agent.

Section 6.15 Withholding. If any withholding tax is imposed by applicable law or in connection with FATCA on the Issuer’s payment (or allocations of income) under the Notes, such tax shall reduce the amount otherwise distributable to the relevant Holder. The Trustee and any other Paying Agent are hereby authorized and directed to retain from amounts otherwise distributable to any Holder sufficient funds for the payment of any such tax that is legally owed or required to be withheld by the Issuer, including in connection with FATCA, (but such authorization shall not prevent the Trustee, Custodian or any such other Paying Agent from contesting any such tax in appropriate Proceedings and withholding payment of such tax, if permitted by law, pending the outcome of such Proceedings) and to timely remit such amounts to the appropriate taxing authority. The amount of any withholding tax imposed with respect to any Note shall be treated as Cash distributed to the

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relevant Holder at the time it is withheld by the Trustee or any other Paying Agent. If there is a reasonable possibility that withholding is required by applicable law, including in connection with FATCA, with respect to a distribution, the Trustee or such other Paying Agent may, in its sole discretion, withhold such amounts in accordance with this Section 6.15. If any Holder or beneficial owner wishes to apply for a refund of any such withholding tax, the Trustee or such other Paying Agent shall reasonably cooperate with such Person in providing readily available information so long as such Person agrees to reimburse the Trustee or such Paying Agent for any out-of-pocket expenses incurred. Nothing herein shall impose an obligation on the part of the Trustee or any other Paying Agent to determine the amount of any tax or withholding obligation on the part of the Issuer or in respect of the Notes.

Section 6.16 Representative for Secured Noteholders Only; Agent for Each Other Secured Party. With respect to the security interest created hereunder, the delivery of any item of Asset to the Trustee (or Custodian on its behalf) is to the Trustee as representative of the Secured Noteholders and agent for each other Secured Party. In furtherance of the foregoing, the possession by the Trustee of any Asset, the endorsement to or registration in the name of the Trustee of any Asset are all undertaken by the Trustee in its capacity as representative of the Secured Noteholders, and agent for each other Secured Party.

Section 6.17 Representations and Warranties of the Bank. The Bank hereby represents and warrants as follows:

(a) Organization. The Bank has been duly organized and is validly existing as a national banking association with trust powers under the laws of the United States and has the power to conduct its business and affairs as a trustee, paying agent, registrar, transfer agent and calculation agent.

(b) Authorization; Binding Obligations. The Bank has the corporate power and authority to perform the duties and obligations of Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar, Transfer Agent and Calculation Agent under this Indenture. The Bank has taken all necessary corporate action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of this Indenture, and all of the documents required to be executed by the Bank pursuant hereto. This Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Bank and constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Bank enforceable in accordance with its terms subject, as to enforcement, (i) to the effect of bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting generally the enforcement of creditors’ rights as such laws would apply in the event of any bankruptcy, receivership, insolvency or similar event applicable to the Bank and (ii) to general equitable principles (whether enforcement is considered in a Proceeding at law or in equity).

(c) Eligibility. The Bank is eligible under Section 6.8 to serve as Trustee hereunder.

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(d) No Conflict. Neither the execution, delivery and performance of this Indenture, nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Indenture, (i) is prohibited by, or requires the Bank to obtain any consent, authorization, approval or registration under, any law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ, injunction or decree that is binding upon the Bank or any of its properties or assets, or (ii) will violate any provision of, result in any default or acceleration of any obligations under, result in the creation or imposition of any lien pursuant to, or require any consent under, any material agreement to which the Bank is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.

ARTICLE VII

COVENANTS

Section 7.1 Payment of Principal and Interest. The Issuer will duly and punctually pay the principal of and interest on the Secured Notes, in accordance with the terms of such Secured Notes and this Indenture pursuant to the Priority of Payments. The Issuer will, to the extent funds are available pursuant to the Priority of Payments, duly and punctually pay all required distributions on the Subordinated Notes, in accordance with this Indenture.

Amounts properly withheld under the Code or other applicable law or in connection with FATCA by any Person from a payment under a Note shall be considered as having been paid by the Issuer to the relevant Holder for all purposes of this Indenture.

Section 7.2 Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Issuer hereby appoints the Trustee as a Paying Agent for payments on the Notes and the Issuer hereby appoints the Trustee as Transfer Agent at its applicable Corporate Trust Office, as the Issuers’ agent where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Issuer hereby appoints Corporation Service Company (the “Process Agent”), as their agent upon whom process or demands may be served in any action arising out of or based on this Indenture or the transactions contemplated hereby.

The Issuer may at any time and from time to time vary or terminate the appointment of any such agent or appoint any additional agents for any or all of such purposes; provided that, (x) the Issuer will maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or agency where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in respect of such Notes and this Indenture may be served and, subject to any laws or regulations applicable thereto, an office or agency outside of the United States where Notes may be presented for payment; and (y) no Paying Agent shall be appointed in a jurisdiction which subjects payments on the Notes to withholding tax in excess of any withholding tax imposed on such payments immediately before the appointment. The Issuer shall at all times maintain a duplicate copy of the Register at the Corporate Trust Office. The Issuer shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee, each Rating Agency and the Holders of the appointment or termination of any such agent and of the location and any change in the location of any such office or agency.

If at any time the Issuer shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or outside the United States, or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, presentations and surrenders may be made (subject to the limitations described in the preceding paragraph) at and notices and demands may be served on the Issuer, and Notes may be presented and surrendered for payment to the appropriate Paying Agent at its main office, and the Issuer hereby appoints the same as their agent to receive such respective presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.

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Section 7.3 Money for Note Payments to be Held in Trust. All payments of amounts due and payable with respect to any Notes that are to be made from amounts withdrawn from the Payment Account shall be made on behalf of the Issuer by the Trustee or a Paying Agent with respect to payments on the Notes.

When the Issuer shall have a Paying Agent that is not also the Registrar, they shall furnish, or cause the Registrar to furnish, no later than the fifth day after each Record Date a list, if necessary, in such form as such Paying Agent may reasonably request, of the names and addresses of the Holders and of the certificate numbers of individual Notes held by each such Holder.

Whenever the Issuer shall have a Paying Agent other than the Trustee, they shall, on or before the Business Day preceding each Payment Date and any Redemption Date, as the case may be, direct the Trustee to deposit on such Payment Date or such Redemption Date, as the case may be, with such Paying Agent, if necessary, an aggregate sum sufficient to pay the amounts then becoming due (to the extent funds are then available for such purpose in the Payment Account), such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Issuer shall promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act. Any Monies deposited with a Paying Agent (other than the Trustee) in excess of an amount sufficient to pay the amounts then becoming due on the Notes with respect to which such deposit was made shall be paid over by such Paying Agent to the Trustee for application in accordance with Article X.

The initial Paying Agent shall be as set forth in Section 7.2. Any additional or successor Paying Agents (other than a successor to the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.11) shall be appointed by Issuer Order with written notice thereof to the Trustee; provided that, so long as the Notes of any Class are rated by a Rating Agency, with respect to any additional or successor Paying Agent (other than a successor to the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.11), such Paying Agent (x) has (1) a long-term counterparty risk assessment of “A1(cr)” or higher by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ or a short-term counterparty risk assessment of “P-1(cr)” by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ or (2) the ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Rating Condition is satisfied and (y) has a long-term debt rating of “A+” or higher by S&P or a short-term debt rating of “A 1” by S&P. If such successor Paying Agent ceases to satisfy the requirements set forth in the immediately preceding sentence, the Issuer shall promptly remove such Paying Agent and appoint a successor Paying Agent. The Issuer shall not appoint any Paying Agent that is not, at the time of such appointment, a depository institution or trust company subject to supervision and examination by federal and/or state banking authorities. The Issuer shall cause each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee and if the Trustee acts as Paying Agent, it hereby so agrees, subject to the provisions of this Section 7.3, that such Paying Agent will:

(a) allocate all sums received for payment to the Holders of Notes for which it acts as Paying Agent on each Payment Date and any Redemption Date among such Holders in the proportion specified in the applicable Distribution Report to the extent permitted by applicable law;

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(b) hold all sums held by it for the payment of amounts due with respect to the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and pay such sums to such Persons as herein provided;

(c) if such Paying Agent is not the Trustee, immediately resign as a Paying Agent and forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held by it in trust for the payment of Notes if at any time it ceases to meet the standards set forth above required to be met by a Paying Agent at the time of its appointment;

(d) if such Paying Agent is not the Trustee, immediately give the Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in the making of any payment required to be made; and

(e) if such Paying Agent is not the Trustee, during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent.

The Issuer may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Issuer Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Issuer or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee (or the Custodian on its behalf) upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Issuer or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such Money.

Except as otherwise required by applicable law, any Money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for any payment on any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after such amount has become due and payable shall be paid to the Issuer; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Issuer for payment of such amounts (but only to the extent of the amounts so paid to the Issuer) and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust Money shall thereupon cease. The Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such release of payment, may, but shall not be required to, adopt and employ, at the expense of the Issuer any reasonable means of notification of such release of payment, including, but not limited to, mailing notice of such release to Holders whose Notes have been called but have not been surrendered for redemption or whose right to or interest in Monies due and payable but not claimed is determinable from the records of any Paying Agent, at the last address of record of each such Holder.

Section 7.4 Existence of Issuer. (a) The Issuer shall, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, maintain in full force and effect its existence and rights as a limited liability company formed under the laws of the State of Delaware and shall obtain and preserve its qualification to do business as a foreign corporation or company, as applicable, in each jurisdiction in which such qualifications are or shall be necessary to protect the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes or any of the Assets; provided that, the Issuer shall be entitled to change its jurisdiction of organization from the State of Delaware to any other jurisdiction reasonably selected by the Issuer at the direction of the Collateral Manager so long as (i) the Issuer has received a legal opinion (upon which

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the Trustee may conclusively rely) to the effect that such change is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders, (ii) written notice of such change shall have been given to the Trustee and, subject to Section 14.3(c), each Rating Agency by the Issuer, which notice shall be promptly forwarded by the Trustee to the Holders and the Collateral Manager and (iii) on or prior to the 15^th Business Day following receipt of such notice the Trustee shall not have received written notice from a Majority of the Controlling Class objecting to such change.

(b) The Issuer (i) shall ensure that all organizational or other formalities regarding its existence are followed and (ii) shall not have any employees (other than its members to the extent they are employees). The Issuer shall not take any action, or conduct its affairs in a manner, that is likely to result in its separate existence being ignored or in its assets and liabilities being substantively consolidated with any other Person in a bankruptcy, reorganization or other insolvency proceeding. Without limiting the foregoing, (A) the Issuer shall not have any subsidiaries; (B) (x) the Issuer shall not (1) except as contemplated by the Collateral Management Agreement or the LLC Agreement, engage in any transaction with any shareholder that would constitute a conflict of interest or (2) pay dividends other than in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the LLC Agreement and (y) the Issuer shall (1) maintain books and records separate from any other Person, (2) maintain its accounts separate from those of any other Person, (3) not commingle its assets with those of any other Person, (4) conduct its own business in its own name, (5) maintain separate financial statements, (6) pay its own liabilities out of its own funds, (7) maintain an arm’s length relationship with its Affiliates, (8) use separate stationery, invoices and checks, (9) hold itself out as a separate Person, (10) correct any known misunderstanding regarding its separate identity and (11) have at least one manager that is Independent of the Collateral Manager.

Section 7.5 Protection of Assets. (a) The Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer will cause the taking of such action within the Collateral Manager’s control as is reasonably necessary in order to maintain the perfection and priority of the security interest of the Trustee in the Assets; provided that, the Collateral Manager shall be entitled to rely on any Opinion of Counsel delivered pursuant to Section 7.6 and any Opinion of Counsel with respect to the same subject matter delivered pursuant to Section 3.1(iii) to determine what actions are reasonably necessary, and shall be fully protected in so relying on such an Opinion of Counsel, unless the Collateral Manager has actual knowledge that the procedures described in any such Opinion of Counsel are no longer adequate to maintain such perfection and priority. The Issuer shall from time to time execute and deliver all such supplements and amendments hereto and file or authorize the filing of all such Financing Statements, continuation statements, instruments of further assurance and other instruments, and shall take such other action as may be necessary or advisable or desirable to secure the rights and remedies of the Holders of the Secured Notes hereunder and to:

(i) Grant more effectively all or any portion of the Assets;

(ii) maintain, preserve and perfect any Grant made or to be made by this Indenture including, without limitation, the first priority nature of the lien or carry out more effectively the purposes hereof;

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(iii) perfect, publish notice of or protect the validity of any Grant made or to be made by this Indenture (including, without limitation, any and all actions necessary or desirable as a result of changes in law or regulations);

(iv) enforce any of the Assets or other instruments or property included in the Assets;

(v) preserve and defend title to the Assets and the rights therein of the Trustee and the Holders of the Secured Notes in the Assets against the claims of all Persons and parties; or

(vi) pay or cause to be paid any and all taxes levied or assessed upon all or any part of the Assets.

The Issuer hereby designates the Trustee as its agent and attorney in fact to prepare and file and hereby authorizes the filing of any Financing Statement, continuation statement and all other instruments, and take all other actions, required pursuant to this Section 7.5. Such designation shall not impose upon the Trustee, or release or diminish, the Issuer’s and the Collateral Manager’s obligations under this Section 7.5. The Issuer further authorizes and shall cause the Issuer’s United States counsel to file without the Issuer’s signature a Financing Statement that names the Issuer as debtor and the Trustee, on behalf of the Secured Parties, as secured party and that describes “all assets of the debtor now owned or hereafter acquired, other than “Excepted Property”” (and that defines “Excepted Property” in accordance with its definition herein) as the Assets in which the Trustee has a Grant.

(b) The Trustee shall not, except in accordance with Section 5.5, Section 10.6(a), (b) and (c) or Section 12.1, as applicable, permit the removal of any portion of the Assets or transfer any such Assets from the Account to which it is credited, or cause or permit any change in the Delivery made pursuant to Section 3.3 with respect to any Assets, if, after giving effect thereto, the jurisdiction governing the perfection of the Trustee’s security interest in such Assets is different from the jurisdiction governing the perfection at the time of delivery of the most recent Opinion of Counsel pursuant to Section 7.6 (or, if no Opinion of Counsel has yet been delivered pursuant to Section 7.6, the Opinion of Counsel delivered on the Closing Date pursuant to Section 3.1(iii)) unless the Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the lien and security interest created by this Indenture with respect to such property and the priority thereof will continue to be maintained after giving effect to such action or actions.

Section 7.6 Opinions as to Assets. Within the six month period preceding the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date (and every five years thereafter), the Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee, S&P and ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ an Opinion of Counsel relating to the security interest granted by the Issuer to the Trustee, stating that, as of the date of such Opinion of Counsel, the lien and security interest created by this Indenture with respect to the Assets remain in effect and is perfected and that no further action (other than as specified in such opinion) needs to be taken to ensure the continued effectiveness and perfection of such lien over the next five years.

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Section 7.7 Performance of Obligations. (a) The Issuer shall not take any action, and will use its best efforts not to permit any action to be taken by others, that would release any Person from any of such Person’s covenants or obligations under any instrument included in the Assets, except in the case of enforcement action taken with respect to any Defaulted Obligation in accordance with the provisions hereof and actions by the Collateral Manager under the Collateral Management Agreement and in conformity with this Indenture or as otherwise required hereby.

(b) The Issuer shall notify the Rating Agencies within 10 Business Days after it has received notice from any Noteholder or the Issuer of any material breach of any Transaction Document, following any applicable cure period for such breach.

Section 7.8 Negative Covenants. (a) The Issuer will not, in each case from and after the Closing Date:

(i) sell, transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of, or pledge, mortgage, hypothecate or otherwise encumber (or permit such to occur or suffer such to exist), any part of the Assets or any Margin Stock, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture and the Collateral Management Agreement;

(ii) claim any credit on, make any deduction from, or dispute the enforceability of payment of the principal or interest payable (or any other amount) in respect of the Notes (other than amounts withheld or deducted in accordance with the Code or other applicable jurisdiction);

(iii) (A) incur or assume or guarantee any indebtedness, other than the Notes, this Indenture and the transactions contemplated hereby or (B) (1) issue any additional Class of securities except in accordance with Section 2.13 and 3.2 or (2) issue any additional ordinary shares;

(iv) (A) permit the validity or effectiveness of this Indenture or any Grant hereunder to be impaired, or permit the lien of this Indenture to be amended, hypothecated, subordinated, terminated or discharged, or permit any Person to be released from any covenants or obligations with respect to this Indenture or the Notes except as may be permitted hereby or by the Collateral Management Agreement, (B) except as permitted by this Indenture, permit any lien, charge, adverse claim, security interest, mortgage or other encumbrance (other than the lien of this Indenture) to be created on or extend to or otherwise arise upon or burden any part of the Assets or any Margin Stock, any interest therein or the proceeds thereof, or (C) except as permitted by this Indenture, take any action that would permit the lien of this Indenture not to constitute a valid first priority security interest in the Assets or any Margin Stock;

(v) amend the Collateral Management Agreement except pursuant to the terms thereof and Article XV;

(vi) dissolve or liquidate in whole or in part, except as permitted hereunder or required by applicable law;

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(vii) pay any distributions other than in accordance with the Priority of Payments;

(viii) permit the formation of any subsidiaries;

(ix) conduct business under any name other than its own;

(x) have any employees (other than directors or managers to the extent they are employees);

(xi) elect to be classified as an association taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes;

(xii) sell, transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of Assets, or enter into an agreement or commitment to do so or enter into or engage in any business with respect to any part of the Assets, except as expressly permitted by both this Indenture and the Collateral Management Agreement; or

(xiii) fail to maintain an independent manager under the Issuer’s limited liability company agreement.

(b) The Issuer shall not be party to any agreements without including customary “non-petition” and “limited recourse” provisions therein (and shall not amend or eliminate such provisions in any agreement to which it is party), except for any agreements related to the purchase and sale of any Collateral Obligations or Eligible Investments which contain customary (as determined by the Collateral Manager in its sole discretion) purchase or sale terms or which are documented using customary (as determined by the Collateral Manager in its sole discretion) loan trading documentation.

Section 7.9 Statement as to Compliance. At least once annually, and commencing in the year following the Closing Date, or immediately if there has been a Default under this Indenture and prior to the issuance of any additional notes pursuant to Section 2.13, the Issuer, subject to Section 14.3(c), shall deliver to each Rating Agency, the Trustee and the Collateral Manager (to be forwarded by the Trustee to each Holder making a written request therefor) an Officer’s certificate of the Issuer that, having made reasonable inquiries of the Collateral Manager, and to the best of the knowledge, information and belief of the Issuer, there did not exist, as at a date not more than five days prior to the date of such certificate, nor had there existed at any time prior thereto since the date of the last certificate (if any), any Default hereunder or, if such Default did then exist or had existed, specifying the same and the nature and status thereof, including actions undertaken to remedy the same, and that the Issuer has complied with all of its obligations under this Indenture or, if such is not the case, specifying those obligations with which it has not complied.