EXHIBIT 4.1
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ MORTGAGE INVESTORS TRUST, SERIES 2005-2
Issuer,
▇▇▇▇▇ FARGO BANK, N.A.
Securities Administrator
and
HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Indenture Trustee
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INDENTURE
Dated as of August 31, 2005
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MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section Page
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.01 Definitions............................................................... 2
Section 1.02 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act......................... 2
Section 1.03 Rules of Construction..................................................... 2
ARTICLE II
ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF NOTES
Section 2.01 Form...................................................................... 4
Section 2.02 Execution, Authentication and Delivery.................................... 4
ARTICLE III
COVENANTS
Section 3.01 Payment Account........................................................... 5
Section 3.02 Existence................................................................. 5
Section 3.03 Payment of Principal and Interest......................................... 5
Section 3.04 Protection of Trust Estate................................................ 9
Section 3.05 Opinions as to Trust Estate............................................... 10
Section 3.06 Performance of Obligations................................................ 10
Section 3.07 Negative Covenants........................................................ 11
Section 3.08 Annual Statement as to Compliance......................................... 11
Section 3.09 [Reserved]................................................................ 11
Section 3.10 Representations and Warranties Concerning the Mortgage Loans.............. 11
Section 3.11 Investment Company Act.................................................... 12
Section 3.12 Issuer May Consolidate, etc............................................... 12
Section 3.13 Successor or Transferee................................................... 14
Section 3.14 No Other Business......................................................... 14
Section 3.15 No Borrowing.............................................................. 14
Section 3.16 Guarantees, Loans, Monthly Advances and Other Liabilities................. 14
Section 3.17 Capital Expenditures...................................................... 14
Section 3.18 Determination of Note Index............................................... 14
Section 3.19 Restricted Payments....................................................... 15
Section 3.20 Notice of Events of Default............................................... 15
Section 3.21 Further Instruments and Acts.............................................. 15
Section 3.22 Reserved.................................................................. 16
Section 3.23 Certain Representations Regarding the Trust Estate........................ 16
Section 3.24 Allocation of Realized Losses............................................. 16
Section 3.25 Permitted Withdrawals and Transfers from the Payment Account.............. 18
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ARTICLE IV
THE NOTES; SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE
Section 4.01 The Notes................................................................. 21
Section 4.02 Registration of and Limitations on Transfer and Exchange of Notes;
Appointment of Note Registrar and Certificate Registrar................... 21
Section 4.03 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes................................ 24
Section 4.04 Persons Deemed Owners..................................................... 24
Section 4.05 Cancellation.............................................................. 25
Section 4.06 Form of Notes............................................................. 25
Section 4.07 Notices to Depository..................................................... 26
Section 4.08 Definitive Notes.......................................................... 26
Section 4.09 Tax Treatment............................................................. 27
Section 4.10 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture................................... 27
Section 4.11 Application of Trust Money................................................ 28
Section 4.12 [Reserved]................................................................ 28
Section 4.13 Repayment of Monies Held by Paying Agent.................................. 28
Section 4.14 Temporary Notes........................................................... 28
Section 4.15 Representation Regarding ERISA............................................ 29
ARTICLE V
DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
Section 5.01 Events of Default......................................................... 31
Section 5.02 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment........................ 31
Section 5.03 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture
Trustee................................................................... 32
Section 5.04 Remedies; Priorities...................................................... 34
Section 5.05 Optional Preservation of the Trust Estate................................. 35
Section 5.06 Limitation of Suits....................................................... 35
Section 5.07 Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal and Interest..... 36
Section 5.08 Restoration of Rights and Remedies........................................ 36
Section 5.09 Rights and Remedies Cumulative............................................ 37
Section 5.10 Delay or Omission Not a Waiver............................................ 37
Section 5.11 Control By Noteholders.................................................... 37
Section 5.12 Waiver of Past Defaults................................................... 37
Section 5.13 Undertaking for Costs..................................................... 38
Section 5.14 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.......................................... 38
Section 5.15 Sale of Trust Estate...................................................... 38
Section 5.16 Action on Notes........................................................... 40
ARTICLE VI
THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR
Section 6.01 Duties of Indenture Trustee and Securities Administrator.................. 41
Section 6.02 Rights of Indenture Trustee and Securities Administrator.................. 42
Section 6.03 Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee.................................... 44
Section 6.04 [Reserved]................................................................ 44
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Section 6.05 Indenture Trustee's and Securities Administrator's Disclaimer............. 45
Section 6.06 Notice of Event of Default................................................ 45
Section 6.07 Reports to Holders and Tax Administration................................. 45
Section 6.08 Compensation.............................................................. 45
Section 6.09 Replacement of Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator......... 46
Section 6.10 Successor Indenture Trustee and Securities Administrator by ▇▇▇▇▇▇........ 47
Section 6.11 Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture Trustee......... 47
Section 6.12 Eligibility; Disqualification............................................. 48
Section 6.13 [Reserved]................................................................ 49
Section 6.14 Representations and Warranties............................................ 49
Section 6.15 Directions to Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator.......... 49
Section 6.16 The Agents................................................................ 49
ARTICLE VII
NOTEHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS
Section 7.01 Issuer To Furnish Securities Administrator Trustee Names and Addresses
of Noteholders ........................................................... 50
Section 7.02 Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders................ 50
Section 7.03 Financial Information..................................................... 50
Section 7.04 Statements to Noteholders................................................. 50
ARTICLE VIII
ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES
Section 8.01 Collection of Money....................................................... 53
Section 8.02 Officer's Certificate..................................................... 53
Section 8.03 Termination Upon Distribution to Noteholders.............................. 53
Section 8.04 Release of Trust Estate................................................... 53
Section 8.05 Surrender of Notes Upon Final Payment..................................... 54
Section 8.06 Optional Redemption of the Mortgage Loans................................. 54
ARTICLE IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 9.01 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders.................... 55
Section 9.02 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Noteholders....................... 56
Section 9.03 Execution of Supplemental Indentures...................................... 58
Section 9.04 Effect of Supplemental Indenture.......................................... 58
Section 9.05 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act....................................... 58
Section 9.06 Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures............................. 58
ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 10.01 Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc................................. 59
Section 10.02 Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee.......................... 60
Section 10.03 Acts of Noteholders....................................................... 61
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Section 10.04 Notices etc., to Indenture Trustee Issuer, Securities Administrator and
Rating Agencies .......................................................... 61
Section 10.05 Notices to Noteholders; Waiver............................................ 62
Section 10.06 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act......................................... 63
Section 10.07 Effect of Headings........................................................ 63
Section 10.08 Successors and Assigns.................................................... 63
Section 10.09 Separability.............................................................. 63
Section 10.10 Legal Holidays............................................................ 63
Section 10.11 GOVERNING LAW............................................................. 63
Section 10.12 Counterparts.............................................................. 63
Section 10.13 Recording of Indenture.................................................... 63
Section 10.14 Issuer Obligation......................................................... 63
Section 10.15 No Petition............................................................... 63
Section 10.16 Inspection................................................................ 63
EXHIBITS
Exhibit A-1 -- Form of Class A Notes
Exhibit A-2 -- Form of Class X Notes
Exhibit A-3 -- Form of Class M Notes and Class B Notes
Exhibit B -- Mortgage Loan Schedule
Exhibit C -- Form of Rule 144A Investment Representation Letter
Exhibit D -- Form of Transferee Letter
Exhibit E -- Form of Transferor Certificate
Exhibit F -- Form of Transferee Letter (REIT)
Exhibit G -- Form of Transferor Letter
Exhibit H -- Form of Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement
Exhibit I -- Tax Transfer Certificate
Appendix A -- Definitions
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RECONCILIATION AND TIE BETWEEN TRUST INDENTURE
ACT OF 1939 AND INDENTURE PROVISIONS*
Act Section Indenture Section
Indenture
Trust Indenture Act Section Section
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310(a)(1) 6.11
(a)(2)............................................... 6.11
(a)(3)............................................... 6.10
(a)(4)............................................... Not Applicable
(a)(5)............................................... 6.11
(b).................................................. 6.08, 6.11
(c).................................................. Not Applicable
311(a)...................................................... 6.12
(b).................................................. 6.12
(c).................................................. Not Applicable
312(a)...................................................... 7.01, 7.02(a)
(b).................................................. 7.02(b)
(c).................................................. 7.02(c)
313(a)...................................................... Not Applicable
(b).................................................. Not Applicable
(c).................................................. Not Applicable
(d).................................................. Not Applicable
314(a)...................................................... 3.10
(b).................................................. 3.07
(c)(1)............................................... 8.05(c), 10.01(a)
(c)(2)............................................... 8.05(c), 10.01(a)
(c)(3)............................................... Not Applicable
(d)(1)............................................... 8.05(c), 10.01(b)
(d)(2)............................................... 8.05(c), 10.01(b)
(d)(3)............................................... 8.05(c), 10.01(b)
(e).................................................. 10.01(a)
315(a)...................................................... 6.01(b)
(b).................................................. 6.05
(c).................................................. 6.01(a)
(d).................................................. 6.01(c)
(d)(1)............................................... 6.01(c)
(d)(2)............................................... 6.01(c)
(d)(3)............................................... 6.01(c)
(e).................................................. 5.13
316(a)(1)(A)................................................ 5.11
316(a)(1)(B)................................................ 5.12
316(a)(2)................................................... Not Applicable
316(b)...................................................... 5.07
317(a)(1)................................................... 5.04
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Indenture
Trust Indenture Act Section Section
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317(a)(2)................................................... 5.03(d)
317(b)...................................................... 3.03(a)(i)
318(a)...................................................... 10.07
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This Indenture, dated as of August 31, 2005, is entered into among ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage Investors Trust, Series 2005-2, a Delaware statutory trust, as
Issuer (the "Issuer"), ▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank, N.A., as Securities Administrator (the
"Securities Administrator") and HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as
Indenture Trustee (the "Indenture Trustee").
WITNESSETH THAT:
Each party hereto agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and
for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Issuer's Mortgage-Backed
Notes, Series MLCC 2005-2 (the "Notes").
GRANTING CLAUSE
The Issuer hereby Grants to the Indenture Trustee at the Closing Date, as
trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, all of the Issuer's right,
title and interest in and to, whether now existing or hereafter created, (a) the
Mortgage Loans and all proceeds thereof and all rights under the Related
Documents; (b) all funds on deposit from time to time in the Master Servicer
Collection Account, excluding any investment income from such funds; (c) all
funds on deposit from time to time in the Payment Account and all proceeds
thereof; (d) any REO Property; (e) all rights under (I) the Mortgage Loan
Purchase Agreement as assigned to the Issuer, to the extent provided in Section
2.03(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, (II) the Required Insurance
Policies and any amounts paid or payable by the insurer under any Insurance
Policy (to the extent the mortgagee has a claim thereto) and (III) the rights
with respect to the Servicing Agreements, each as assigned to the Issuer by the
related Assignment Agreement; and (f) all present and future claims, demands,
causes and choses in action in respect of any or all of the foregoing and all
payments on or under, and all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in
respect of, any or all of the foregoing and all payments on or under, and all
proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in the conversion thereof,
voluntary or involuntary, into cash or other liquid property, all cash proceeds,
accounts, accounts receivable, notes, drafts, acceptances, checks, deposit
accounts, rights to payment of any and every kind, and other forms of
obligations and receivables, instruments and other property which at any time
constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the
foregoing (collectively, the "Trust Estate" or the "Collateral").
The foregoing Grant is made in trust to secure the payment of principal of
and interest on, and any other amounts owing in respect of, the Notes, subject
to the priority set forth herein, and to secure compliance with the provisions
of this Indenture, all as provided in this Indenture.
The Indenture Trustee, as trustee on behalf of the Holders of the Notes,
acknowledges such ▇▇▇▇▇, accepts the trust under this Indenture in accordance
with the provisions hereof and each of the Indenture Trustee and the Securities
Administrator agree to perform their respective duties as Indenture Trustee and
Securities Administrator as required herein.
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.01 Definitions. For all purposes of this Indenture, except as
otherwise expressly provided herein or unless the context otherwise requires,
capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned
to such terms in the Definitions attached hereto as Appendix A which is
incorporated by reference herein. All other capitalized terms used herein shall
have the meanings specified herein.
Section 1.02 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act. Whenever
this Indenture refers to a provision of the Trust Indenture Act (the "TIA"), the
provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The
following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"indenture securities" means the Notes.
"indenture security holder" means a Noteholder.
"indenture to be qualified" means this Indenture.
"indenture trustee" or "institutional trustee" means the Indenture
Trustee.
"obligor" on the indenture securities means the Issuer and any other
obligor on the indenture securities.
All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA,
defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by Commission rules have
the meanings assigned to them by such definitions.
Section 1.03 Rules of Construction. Unless the context otherwise requires:
(i) a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(ii) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning
assigned to it in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as in
effect from time to time;
(iii) "or" is not exclusive;
(iv) "including" means including without limitation;
(v) words in the singular include the plural and words in the
plural include the singular; and
(vi) any agreement, instrument or statute defined or referred to
herein or in any instrument or certificate delivered in connection herewith
means such agreement, instrument or statute as from time to time amended,
modified or supplemented and includes (in the case of
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agreements or instruments) references to all attachments thereto and instruments
incorporated therein; references to a Person are also to its permitted
successors and assigns.
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ARTICLE II
ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF NOTES
Section 2.01 Form. The Class 1-A, Class 2-A, Class 3-A, Class X, Class
M-1, Class M-2, Class M-3, Class B-1, Class B-2 and Class B-3 Notes, together
with the Securities Administrator's certificate of authentication, shall be in
substantially the form set forth in Exhibits A-1, A-2 and A-3 to this Indenture,
respectively, with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and
other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture.
The Notes shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or engraved or
produced by any combination of these methods (with or without steel engraved
borders).
The terms of the Notes set forth in Exhibits A-1, A-2 and A-3 to this
Indenture are part of the terms of this Indenture.
Section 2.02 Execution, Authentication and Delivery. The Notes shall be
executed on behalf of the Issuer by any of its Authorized Officers. The
signature of any such Authorized Officer on the Notes may be manual or
facsimile.
Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signature of individuals who were at
any time Authorized Officers of the Issuer shall bind the Issuer,
notwithstanding 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 such Notes.
The Securities Administrator shall upon Issuer Request authenticate and
deliver each Class of Notes for original issue in an aggregate initial principal
amount equal to the Initial Note Principal Balance or Initial Notional Amount,
as applicable, for such Class of Notes.
Each of the Notes shall be dated the date of its authentication. The Class
1-A, Class 2-A and Class 3-A Notes shall be issuable as registered Notes in
book-entry form and the Notes shall be issuable in the minimum initial Note
Principal Balances of $100,000 and in integral multiples of $1 in excess
thereof. The Class X Notes shall be issuable as registered Notes in physical
form and the Notes shall be issuable in the minimum initial Notional Amount of
$100,000 and in integral multiples of $1 in excess thereof. The Class M-1, Class
M-2, Class M-3, Class B-1, Class B-2 and Class B-3 Notes shall be issuable as
registered Notes in physical form and the Notes shall be issuable in the minimum
initial Note Principal Balances or Notional Amounts, as applicable, of $100,000
and in integral multiples of $1 in excess thereof.
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
Securities Administrator by the manual signature of one of its authorized
signatories, and such certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive evidence,
and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and delivered
hereunder.
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ARTICLE III
COVENANTS
Section 3.01 Payment Account. (a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the
Issuer shall cause the Securities Administrator to establish and maintain, in
the name of the Securities Administrator, for the benefit of the Noteholders and
the Certificate Paying Agent, on behalf of the Certificateholder, the Payment
Account.
(b) The Securities Administrator shall, subject to the terms of this
paragraph, deposit in the Payment Account, on the same day as it is received
from the Master Servicer, each remittance received by the Securities
Administrator on each Payment Date. On each Payment Date, the Securities
Administrator shall distribute all amounts on deposit in the Payment Account
(other than amounts payable to the Holder of the Trust Certificates) to
Noteholders in respect of the Notes, and in its capacity as Certificate Paying
Agent, to the Certificateholder in the order of priority set forth in Section
3.03 (except as otherwise provided in Section 5.04(b)).
(c) All monies deposited from time to time in the Payment Account
pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement and all deposits therein pursuant
to this Indenture are for the benefit of the Noteholders and the Certificate
Paying Agent, on behalf of the Certificateholder.
Section 3.02 Existence. The Issuer will keep in full effect its existence,
rights and franchises as a statutory trust under the laws of the State of
Delaware (unless it becomes, or any successor Issuer hereunder is or becomes,
organized under the laws of any other state or of the United States of America,
in which case the Issuer will keep in full effect its existence, rights and
franchises under the laws of such other jurisdiction) and will obtain and
preserve its qualification to do business in each jurisdiction in which such
qualification is or shall be necessary to protect the validity and
enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes and each other instrument or
agreement included in the Trust Estate.
Section 3.03 Payment of Principal and Interest. (a) On each Payment Date,
and to the extent of the funds in the Payment Account available therefor, the
Group I Available Funds, Group II Available Funds and Group III Available Funds
will be distributed by the Securities Administrator as follows:
(I) On each Payment Date, the Group I Available Funds for such Payment Date
shall be distributed as follows:
(A) first, from the Group I Interest Funds, to the Class 1-A Notes, the
Accrued Note Interest for such Class for such Payment Date (subject
to Net Interest Shortfalls allocated to such Class);
(B) second, from the remaining Group I Interest Funds, to the Class 1-A
Notes, any Accrued Note Interest thereon remaining undistributed
from any previous Payment Dates, with accrued interest thereon;
(C) third, from the Group I Principal Funds, to the Class 1-A Notes, in
reduction of the Note Principal Balance thereof, the Senior Optimal
Principal Amount for such
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Class for such Payment Date, until the Note Principal Balance
thereof has been reduced to zero; and
(D) fourth, from the remaining Group I Interest Funds, to the Class 1-A
Notes, in an amount equal to any Basis Risk Shortfall Carryover
Amounts on such Class for such Payment Date.
(II) On each Payment Date, the Group II Available Funds for such Payment Date
shall be distributed as follows:
(A) first, from Group II Interest Funds, to the Class 2-A Notes, the
Accrued Note Interest for such Class for such Payment Date (subject
to Net Interest Shortfalls allocated to such Class);
(B) second, from the remaining Group II Interest Funds, to the Class 2-A
Notes, any Accrued Note Interest thereon remaining undistributed
from any previous Payment Dates, with accrued interest thereon;
(C) third, from the Group II Principal Funds, to the Class 2-A Notes, in
reduction of the Note Principal Balance thereof, the Senior Optimal
Principal Amount for such Class for such Payment Date, until the
Note Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero; and
(D) fourth, from the remaining Group II Interest Funds, to the Class 2-A
Notes, in an amount equal to any Basis Risk Shortfall Carryover
Amounts on such Class for such Payment Date.
(III) On each Payment Date, the Group III Available Funds for such Payment Date
shall be distributed as follows:
(A) first, from Group III Interest Funds, to the Class 3-A Notes, the
Accrued Note Interest for such Class for such Payment Date (subject
to Net Interest Shortfalls allocated to such Class);
(B) second, from the remaining Group III Interest Funds, to the Class
3-A Notes, any Accrued Note Interest thereon remaining undistributed
from any previous Payment Dates, with accrued interest thereon;
(C) third, from the Group III Principal Funds, to the Class 3-A Notes,
in reduction of the Note Principal Balance thereof, the Senior
Optimal Principal Amount for such Class for such Payment Date, until
the Note Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero; and
(D) fourth, from the remaining Group III Interest Funds, to the Class
3-A Notes, in an amount equal to any Basis Risk Shortfall Carryover
Amounts on such Class for such Payment Date.
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(IV) On each Payment Date, the Group I Available Funds, Group II Available
Funds and Group III Available Funds remaining after the payments made in
clauses (I) and (II) for such Payment Date shall be distributed as
follows:
(A) first, from any remaining Interest Funds, to the Class X Notes, in
an amount equal to the Accrued Note Interest on such Class for such
Payment Date (subject to Net Interest Shortfalls allocated to such
Class);
(B) second, sequentially to the Class M-1, Class M-2, Class M-3, Class
B-1, Class B-2 and Class B-3 Notes, in that order, up to an amount
equal to and in the following order with respect to each such Class:
(a) the Accrued Note Interest thereon for such Payment Date (subject
to Net Interest Shortfalls allocated to such Class) to the extent of
any remaining Interest Funds; (b) any Accrued Note Interest thereon
remaining undistributed from previous Payment Dates, with accrued
interest thereon, to the extent of any remaining Interest Funds; and
(c) such Class's Allocable Share of the Subordinate Optimal
Principal Amount for such Payment Date, in each case to the extent
of any remaining Principal Funds and until the Note Principal
Balance thereof has been reduced to zero; and
(C) third, to the Certificate Paying Agent for distribution to the Trust
Certificates as set forth in the Trust Agreement.
(b) On each Payment Date prior to the Cross-Over Date but after the
reduction of the Note Principal Balance of all of the Senior Notes of a Note
Group to zero, the remaining Class or Classes of Senior Notes in the remaining
Note Group will be entitled to receive in reduction of their Notes Principal
Balances, pro rata based upon their Note Principal Balances immediately prior to
such Payment Date, in addition to any Principal Prepayments related to such
remaining Senior Notes' respective Loan Group allocated to such Senior Notes,
100% of the Principal Prepayments on any Mortgage Loan in the Loan Group
relating to the Class or Classes of Senior Notes of the fully repaid Note Group;
provided, however, that if (A) the weighted average of the Subordinate
Percentages on such Payment Date equals or exceeds two times the initial
weighted average of the Subordinate Percentages and (B) the aggregate Scheduled
Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans delinquent 60 days or more (including
for this purpose any such Mortgage Loans in foreclosure and bankruptcy and
Mortgage Loans with respect to which the related Mortgaged Property has been
acquired by the Trust), averaged over the last six months, as a percentage of
the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Subordinate Notes does not exceed
50%, then the additional allocation of Principal Prepayments to the Senior Notes
in accordance with this clause (b) will not be made and 100% of the Principal
Prepayments on any Mortgage Loan in the Loan Group relating to the fully repaid
Class or Classes of Senior Notes will be allocated to the Subordinate Notes.
(c) If on any Payment Date on which the aggregate Note Principal Balance
of Senior Notes in a Note Group would be greater than the aggregate Scheduled
Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in the related Loan Group and any
Subordinate Notes are still outstanding, in each case after giving effect to
distributions to be made on such Payment Date, (A) 100% of amounts otherwise
allocable to the Subordinate Notes in respect of principal will be distributed
to such Class or Classes of Senior Notes in reduction of the Note Principal
Balances thereof, until the aggregate Note Principal Balance of such Class or
Classes of Senior Notes is an
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amount equal to the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans
in the related Loan Group, and (B) the Accrued Note Interest otherwise allocable
to the Subordinate Notes on such Payment Date will be reduced, if necessary, and
distributed to such Class or Classes of Senior Notes in an amount equal to the
Accrued Note Interest for such Payment Date on the excess of (x) the aggregate
Note Principal Balance of such Class or Classes of Senior Notes over (y) the
aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in the related Loan
Group. Any such reduction in the Accrued Note Interest on the Subordinate Notes
will be allocated to such Subordinate Notes commencing with the Class of
Subordinate Notes with the lowest payment priority.
(d) No Accrued Note Interest will be payable with respect to any Class
of Notes after the Payment Date on which the Note Principal Balance or Notional
Amount of such Note has been reduced to zero.
(e) If on any Payment Date the Interest Funds for the Senior Notes in
any Note Group is less than the Accrued Note Interest on the related Senior
Notes for such Payment Date prior to reduction for Net Interest Shortfalls and
the interest portion of Realized Losses, the shortfall will be allocated among
the holders of each Class of Senior Notes in such Note Group in proportion to
the respective amounts of Accrued Note Interest that would have been allocated
thereto in the absence of such Net Interest Shortfalls and/or Realized Losses
for such Payment Date. In addition, the amount of any interest shortfalls will
constitute unpaid Accrued Note Interest and will be distributable to holders of
the Notes of the related Classes entitled to such amounts on subsequent Payment
Dates, to the extent of the applicable Available Funds after current interest
distributions as required herein. Any such amounts so carried forward will bear
interest. Shortfalls in interest payments will not be offset by a reduction in
the servicing compensation of the Master Servicer or otherwise, except to the
extent of applicable Compensating Interest Payments.
(f) Each distribution with respect to a Book-Entry Note shall be paid to
the Depository, as Holder thereof, and the Depository shall be responsible for
crediting the amount of such distribution to the accounts of its Depository
Participants in accordance with its normal procedures. Each Depository
Participant shall be responsible for disbursing such distribution to the Note
Owners that it represents and to each indirect participating brokerage firm (a
"brokerage firm" or "indirect participating firm") for which it acts as agent.
Each brokerage firm shall be responsible for disbursing funds to the Note Owners
that it represents. None of the Securities Administrator, the Note Registrar,
the Paying Agent, the Depositor or the Master Servicer shall have any
responsibility therefor.
(g) On each Payment Date, the Certificate Paying Agent shall deposit in
the Certificate Distribution Account all amounts it received pursuant to this
Section 3.03 for the purpose of distributing such funds to the
Certificateholders. The Certificate Paying Agent shall make distributions to the
Certificateholders under the Trust Agreement as directed by the Securities
Administrator hereunder.
(h) Any installment of interest or principal, if any, payable on any
Note that is punctually paid or duly provided for by the Issuer on the
applicable Payment Date shall, if such Holder shall have so requested at least
five Business Days prior to the related Record Date, be paid to each Holder of
record on the preceding Record Date, by wire transfer to an account
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specified in writing by such Holder as of the preceding Record Date or in all
other cases or if no such instructions have been delivered to the Securities
Administrator, by check to such Noteholder mailed to such Holder's address as it
appears in the Note Register in the amount required to be distributed to such
Holder on such Payment Date pursuant to such Holder's Notes; provided, however,
that the Securities Administrator shall not pay to such Holders any amount
required to be withheld from a payment to such Holder by the Code.
(i) The Note Principal Balance of each Note shall be due and payable in
full on the Final Scheduled Payment Date for such Note as provided in the forms
of Note set forth in Exhibits A-1, A-2 and A-3 to this Indenture. All principal
payments on the Notes shall be made to the Noteholders entitled thereto in
accordance with the Percentage Interests represented by such Notes. Upon notice
to the Securities Administrator by the Issuer, the Securities Administrator
shall notify the Person in whose name a Note is registered at the close of
business on the Record Date preceding the Final Scheduled Payment Date or other
final Payment Date (including any final Payment Date resulting from any
redemption pursuant to Section 8.06 hereof). Such notice shall to the extent
practicable be mailed no later than five Business Days prior to such Final
Scheduled Payment Date or other final Payment Date and shall specify that
payment of the principal amount and any interest due with respect to such Note
at the Final Scheduled Payment Date or other final Payment Date will be payable
only upon presentation and surrender of such Note and shall specify the place
where such Note may be presented and surrendered for such final payment. No
interest shall accrue on the Notes on or after the Final Scheduled Payment Date
or any such other final Payment Date.
Section 3.04 Protection of Trust Estate. (a) The Issuer will from time to
time prepare, execute and deliver all such supplements and amendments hereto and
all such financing statements, continuation statements, instruments of further
assurance and other instruments, and will take such other action necessary or
advisable to:
(i) maintain or preserve the lien and security interest (and the
priority thereof) of this Indenture or carry out more effectively the purposes
hereof;
(ii) perfect, publish notice of or protect the validity of any
Grant made or to be made by this Indenture;
(iii) cause the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee to enforce any of
the rights to the Mortgage Loans; or
(iv) preserve and defend title to the Trust Estate and the rights
of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders in such Trust Estate against the
claims of all persons and parties.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in this Indenture, the Indenture
Trustee shall not remove or permit the Custodian to remove any portion of the
Trust Estate that consists of money or is evidenced by an instrument,
certificate or other writing from the jurisdiction in which it was held at the
date of the most recent Opinion of Counsel delivered pursuant to Section 3.05
hereof (or from the jurisdiction in which it was held as described in the
Opinion of Counsel delivered on the Closing Date pursuant to Section 3.05(a)
hereof, if no Opinion of Counsel has yet been delivered pursuant to Section
3.05(b) hereof), unless the Indenture Trustee shall have first received an
Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the lien and security
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interest created by this Indenture with respect to such property will continue
to be maintained after giving effect to such action or actions.
The Issuer hereby designates the Indenture Trustee its agent and
attorney-in-fact to sign any financing statement, continuation statement or
other instrument required to be signed pursuant to this Section 3.04 upon the
Issuer's preparation thereof and delivery to the Indenture Trustee.
Section 3.05 Opinions as to Trust Estate. (a) On the Closing Date, the
Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee an Opinion
of Counsel either stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, such action has
been taken with respect to the recording and filing of this Indenture, any
indentures supplemental hereto, and any other requisite documents, and with
respect to the execution and filing of any financing statements and continuation
statements, as are necessary to perfect and make effective the lien and first
priority security interest in the Collateral and reciting the details of such
action, or stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no such action is
necessary to make such lien and first priority security interest effective.
(b) On or before December 31st in each calendar year, beginning in 2005,
the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel at the
expense of the Issuer either stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, such
action has been taken with respect to the recording, filing, rerecording and
refiling of this Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto and any other
requisite documents and with respect to the execution and filing of any
financing statements and continuation statements as is necessary to maintain the
lien and security interest in the Collateral and reciting the details of such
action or stating that in the opinion of such counsel no such action is
necessary to maintain such lien and security interest. Such Opinion of Counsel
shall also describe the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of this
Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto and any other requisite documents
and the execution and filing of any financing statements and continuation
statements that will, in the opinion of such counsel, be required to maintain
the lien and security interest in the Collateral until December 31 in the
following calendar year.
Section 3.06 Performance of Obligations. (a) The Issuer will punctually
perform and observe all of its obligations and agreements contained in this
Indenture, the Basic Documents and in the instruments and agreements included in
the Trust Estate.
(b) The Issuer may contract with other Persons to assist it in
performing its duties under this Indenture, and any performance of such duties
by a Person identified to the Indenture Trustee in an Officer's Certificate of
the Issuer shall be deemed to be action taken by the Issuer.
(c) The Issuer will not take any action or permit any action to be taken
by others which would release any Person from any of such Person's covenants or
obligations under any of the documents relating to the Mortgage Loans or under
any instrument included in the Trust Estate, or which would result in the
amendment, hypothecation, subordination, termination or discharge of, or impair
the validity or effectiveness of, any of the documents relating to the Mortgage
Loans or any such instrument, except such actions as the Master Servicer is
expressly permitted to take in the Servicing Agreement.
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(d) The Issuer may retain an administrator and may enter into contracts
with other Persons for the performance of the Issuer's obligations hereunder,
and performance of such obligations by such Persons shall be deemed to be
performance of such obligations by the Issuer.
Section 3.07 Negative Covenants. So long as any Notes are
Outstanding, the Issuer shall not:
(i) except as expressly permitted by this Indenture, sell,
transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of the Trust Estate.
(ii) claim any credit on, or make any deduction from the principal
or interest payable in respect of, the Notes (other than amounts properly
withheld from such payments under the Code) or assert any claim against any
present or former Noteholder, by reason of the payment of the taxes levied or
assessed upon any part of the Trust Estate;
(iii) (A) permit the validity or effectiveness of this Indenture 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 the Notes under this Indenture
except as may be expressly permitted hereby, (B) permit any lien, charge,
excise, 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 the Trust Estate or any part thereof or any interest therein or the
proceeds thereof or (C) permit the lien of this Indenture not to constitute a
valid first priority security interest in the Trust Estate; or
(iv) waive or impair, or fail to assert rights under, the Mortgage
Loans, or impair or cause to be impaired the Issuer's interest in the Mortgage
Loans, the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement or in any Basic Document, if any
such action would materially and adversely affect the interests of the
Noteholders.
Section 3.08 Annual Statement as to Compliance. The Issuer will deliver to
the Indenture Trustee, by March 1 of each year commencing with the calendar year
2006, an Officer's Certificate stating, as to the Authorized Officer signing
such Officer's Certificate, that:
(i) a review of the activities of the Issuer during the previous
calendar year and of its performance under this Indenture and the Trust
Agreement has been made under such Authorized Officer's supervision; and
(ii) to the best of such Authorized Officer's knowledge, based on
such review, the Issuer has complied with all conditions and covenants under
this Indenture and the provisions of the Trust Agreement throughout such year,
or, if there has been a default in its compliance with any such condition or
covenant, specifying each such default known to such Authorized Officer and the
nature and status thereof.
Section 3.09 [Reserved].
Section 3.10 Representations and Warranties Concerning the Mortgage Loans.
The Indenture Trustee, as pledgee of the Mortgage Loans, has the benefit of the
representations and
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warranties made by the Seller in the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement concerning
the Mortgage Loans and the right to enforce the remedies against the Seller
provided in such Section 5 or Section 7 to the same extent as though such
representations and warranties were made directly to the Indenture Trustee. If a
Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee has actual knowledge of any breach
of any representation or warranty made by the Seller in the Mortgage Loan
Purchase Agreement, the Indenture Trustee shall promptly notify the Seller of
such finding and of the Seller's obligation to cure such defect or repurchase or
substitute for the related Mortgage Loan.
Section 3.11 Investment Company Act. The Issuer shall not become an
"investment company" or be under the "control" of an "investment company" as
such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (or any
successor or amendatory statute), and the rules and regulations thereunder
(taking into account not only the general definition of the term "investment
company" but also any available exceptions to such general definition);
provided, however, that the Issuer shall be in compliance with this Section 3.11
if it shall have obtained an order exempting it from regulation as an
"investment company" so long as it is in compliance with the conditions imposed
in such order.
Section 3.12 Issuer May Consolidate, etc. (a) The Issuer shall not
consolidate or merge with or into any other Person, unless:
(i) the Person (if other than the Issuer) formed by or surviving
such consolidation or merger shall be a Person organized and existing under the
laws of the United States of America or any state or the District of Columbia
and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and
delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in form reasonably satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest
on all Notes, and all amounts payable to the Indenture Trustee and the
Securities Administrator, the payment to the Certificate Paying Agent of all
amounts due to the Certificateholders, and the performance or observance of
every agreement and covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Issuer to be
performed or observed, all as provided herein;
(ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(iii) each of the Rating Agencies shall have notified the Issuer
that such transaction shall not cause the rating of the Notes to be reduced,
qualified, suspended or withdrawn or to be considered by either Rating Agency to
be below investment grade;
(iv) the Issuer shall have received an Opinion of Counsel (and
shall have delivered a copy thereof to the Indenture Trustee and the Securities
Administrator) to the effect that such transaction will not (A) result in a
"substantial modification" of the Class 1-A, Class 2-A or Class 3-A Notes or any
other Classes of Notes with respect to which a "will be debt" opinion has been
rendered by nationally recognized tax counsel and furnished to the Securities
Administrator under Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3, or adversely affect
the indebtedness status of such Notes, and (B) cause the Trust to be subject to
an entity level tax for federal income tax purposes;
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(v) any action that is necessary to maintain the lien and security
interest created by this Indenture shall have been taken;
(vi) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee an
Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such
consolidation or merger and such supplemental indenture comply with this Article
III and that all conditions precedent herein provided for or relating to such
transaction have been complied with (including any filing required by the
Exchange Act), and that such supplemental indenture is enforceable.
(b) The Issuer shall not convey or transfer any of its properties or
assets, including those included in the Trust Estate, to any Person, unless:
(i) the Person that acquires by conveyance or transfer the
properties and assets of the Issuer, the conveyance or transfer of which is
hereby restricted, shall (A) be a United States citizen or a Person organized
and existing under the laws of the United States of America or any state
thereof, (B) expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and
delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Indenture
Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all
Notes and the performance or observance of every agreement and covenant of this
Indenture on the part of the Issuer to be performed or observed, all as provided
herein, (C) expressly agree by means of such supplemental indenture that all
right, title and interest so conveyed or transferred shall be subject and
subordinate to the rights of the Holders of the Notes, (D) unless otherwise
provided in such supplemental indenture, expressly agree to indemnify, defend
and hold harmless the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee against and from any
loss, liability or expense arising under or related to this Indenture and the
Notes and (E) expressly agree by means of such supplemental indenture that such
Person (or if a group of Persons, then one specified Person) shall make all
filings with the Commission (and any other appropriate Person) required by the
Exchange Act in connection with the Notes;
(ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(iii) each of the Rating Agencies shall have notified the Issuer
that such transaction shall not cause the ratings of the Notes to be reduced,
qualified, suspended or withdrawn;
(iv) the Issuer shall have received an Opinion of Counsel (and
shall have delivered a copy thereof to the Indenture Trustee) to the effect that
such transaction will not (A) result in a "substantial modification" of the
Class 1-A, Class 2-A or Class 3-A Notes or any other Classes of Notes with
respect to which a "will be debt" opinion has been rendered by nationally
recognized tax counsel and furnished to the Securities Administrator under
Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3, or adversely affect the indebtedness
status of such Notes and (B) cause the Trust to be subject to an entity level
tax for federal income tax purposes;
(v) any action that is necessary to maintain the lien and security
interest created by this Indenture shall have been taken;
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(vi) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee an
Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such
conveyance or transfer and such supplemental indenture comply with this Article
III and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such
transaction have been complied with (including any filing required by the
Exchange Act).
Section 3.13 Successor or Transferee. (a) Upon any consolidation or merger
of the Issuer in accordance with Section 3.12(a), the Person formed by or
surviving such consolidation or merger (if other than the Issuer) shall,
following the Issuer's satisfaction of all of the conditions precedent set forth
therein with respect thereto, succeed to, and be substituted for, and may
exercise every right and power of, the Issuer under this Indenture with the same
effect as if such Person had been named as the Issuer herein.
(b) Upon a conveyance or transfer of all the assets and properties of
the Issuer pursuant to Section 3.12(b), the Issuer, following its satisfaction
of all of the conditions precedent set forth herein with respect thereto, will
be released from every covenant and agreement of this Indenture to be observed
or performed on the part of the Issuer with respect to the Notes immediately
upon the delivery of written notice to the Indenture Trustee of such conveyance
or transfer.
Section 3.14 No Other Business. The Issuer shall not engage in any
business other than as set forth with respect thereto in the Trust Agreement and
other than financing, purchasing, owning and selling and managing the Mortgage
Loans and the issuance of the Certificates in the manner contemplated by this
Indenture and the Basic Documents and all activities incidental thereto.
Section 3.15 No Borrowing. The Issuer shall not issue, incur, assume,
guarantee or otherwise become liable, directly or indirectly, for any
indebtedness except for the Notes under this Indenture.
Section 3.16 Guarantees, Loans, Monthly Advances and Other Liabilities.
Except as contemplated by this Indenture or the Basic Documents, the Issuer
shall not make any loan or advance or credit to, or guarantee (directly or
indirectly or by an instrument having the effect of assuring another's payment
or performance on any obligation or capability of so doing or otherwise),
endorse or otherwise become contingently liable, directly or indirectly, in
connection with the obligations, stocks or dividends of, or own, purchase,
repurchase or acquire (or agree contingently to do so) any stock, obligations,
assets or securities of, or any other interest in, or make any capital
contribution to, any other Person.
Section 3.17 Capital Expenditures. The Issuer shall not make any
expenditure (by long-term or operating lease or otherwise) for capital assets
(either realty or personalty).
Section 3.18 Determination of Note Index.
On each Interest Determination Date, the Securities Administrator will
determine the Six-Month LIBOR Note Index for the Class 1-A Notes and the
One-Month LIBOR Note Index for the Class 3-A Notes. The Six-Month LIBOR Note
Index and the One-Month LIBOR Note Index will be based on the London interbank
offered rate for six-month and one-month United States
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dollar deposits, respectively, as such rates appear on the Telerate Screen Page
3750, as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such Interest Determination Date. If the
rate for the Six-Month LIBOR Note Index or One-Month LIBOR Note Index does not
appear or is not available on Telerate Screen Page 3750, the Six-Month LIBOR
Note Index or One-Month LIBOR Note Index for the related Interest Accrual Period
will be established by the Securities Administrator as follows:
(a) If on such Interest Determination Date two or more Reference Banks
provide such offered quotations, the Six-Month LIBOR Note Index and the
One-Month LIBOR Note Index for the related Interest Accrual Period shall be the
arithmetic mean of such offered quotations (rounded upwards if necessary to the
nearest whole multiple of 0.0625%).
(b) If on such Interest Determination Date fewer than two Reference
Banks provide such offered quotations, the Six-Month LIBOR Note Index and the
One-Month LIBOR Note Index for the related Interest Accrual Period shall be the
higher of (x) the Six-Month LIBOR Note Index or the One-Month LIBOR Note Index
as determined on the previous Interest Determination Date and (y) the Reserve
Interest Rate.
On each Interest Determination Date, the Securities Administrator will
determine the One-Year U.S. Treasury Note Index for the next Interest Accrual
Period for the Class 2-A Notes.
The One-Year U.S. Treasury Note Index will be based on the weekly average
yield on U.S. Treasury securities adjusted to a constant maturity of one year as
reported in the Release on the related Interest Determination Date or, if not so
available, as most recently available immediately prior to such Interest
Determination Date.
The establishment of the Six-Month LIBOR, the One-Month LIBOR and the
One-Year U.S. Treasury Note Index on each Interest Determination Date by the
Securities Administrator and the Securities Administrator's calculation of the
rate of interest applicable to the related Class of Notes for the related
Interest Accrual Period shall (in the absence of manifest error) be final and
binding.
Section 3.19 Restricted Payments. The Issuer shall not, directly or
indirectly, (i) pay any dividend or make any distribution (by reduction of
capital or otherwise), whether in cash, property, securities or a combination
thereof, to the Owner Trustee or any owner of a beneficial interest in the
Issuer or otherwise with respect to any ownership or equity interest or security
in or of the Issuer, (ii) redeem, purchase, retire or otherwise acquire for
value any such ownership or equity interest or security or (iii) set aside or
otherwise segregate any amounts for any such purpose; provided, however, that
the Issuer may make, or cause to be made, (x) distributions and payments to the
Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator, the Master
Servicer, the Servicer, the Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Paying Agent,
the Noteholders and the Certificateholders as contemplated by, and to the extent
funds are available for such purpose under this Indenture and the Basic
Documents and (y) payments to the Master Servicer and the Servicer pursuant to
the terms of the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Servicing Agreements. The
Issuer will not, directly or indirectly, make payments to or distributions from
the Master Servicer Collection Account or the Payment Account except in
accordance with this Indenture and the Basic Documents.
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Section 3.20 Notice of Events of Default. The Issuer shall give the
Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator and each Rating Agency prompt
written notice of each Event of Default hereunder.
Section 3.21 Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Indenture
Trustee, the Issuer will execute and deliver such further instruments and do
such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more
effectively the purpose of this Indenture.
Section 3.22 [Reserved].
Section 3.23 Certain Representations Regarding the Trust Estate.
(a) With respect to that portion of the Collateral described in clauses
(a) through (c) of the definition of Trust Estate, the Issuer represents to the
Indenture Trustee that:
(i) This Indenture creates a valid and continuing security
interest (as defined in the applicable UCC) in the Collateral in favor of the
Indenture Trustee, which security interest is prior to all other liens, and is
enforceable as such as against creditors of and purchasers from the Issuer.
(ii) The Collateral constitutes "deposit accounts," "instruments"
or "certificated securities," as applicable within the meaning of the applicable
UCC.
(iii) The Issuer owns and has good and marketable title to the
Collateral, free and clear of any lien, claim or encumbrance of any Person.
(iv) The Issuer has caused or will have caused, within ten days of
the Closing Date, the filing of all appropriate financing statements in the
proper filing office in the appropriate jurisdictions under applicable law in
order to perfect the security interest in the Collateral granted to the
Indenture Trustee hereunder.
(v) Other than the security interest granted to the Indenture
Trustee pursuant to this Indenture, the Issuer has not pledged, assigned, sold,
granted a security interest in, or otherwise conveyed any of the Collateral. The
Issuer has not authorized the filing of and is not aware of any financing
statements against the Issuer that include a description of collateral covering
the Collateral other than any financing statement relating to the security
interest granted to the Indenture Trustee hereunder or that has been terminated.
(vi) The Collateral is not in the name of any Person other than the
Issuer or the Indenture Trustee. The Issuer has in its possession all original
copies of the security certificates that constitute or evidence the Collateral.
The security certificates that constitute or evidence the Collateral do not have
any marks or notations indicating that they have been pledged, assigned or
otherwise conveyed to any Person other than the Indenture Trustee. The Issuer
has not consented to the bank maintaining the Collateral to comply with
instructions of any Person other than the Indenture Trustee.
Section 3.24 Allocation of Realized Losses. (a) On or prior to each
Payment Date, the Master Servicer shall determine, based solely on information
provided to it by the related
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Servicer the amount of any Realized Loss in respect of each Mortgage Loan that
occurred during the immediately preceding calendar month.
(b) With respect to any Notes on any Payment Date, the principal portion
of each Realized Loss on a Mortgage Loan shall be allocated as follows:
first, to the Class B-3 Notes until the Note Principal Balance thereof has
been reduced to zero;
second, to the Class B-2 Notes until the Note Principal Balance thereof
has been reduced to zero;
third, to the Class B-1 Notes until the Note Principal Balance thereof has
been reduced to zero;
fourth, to the Class M-3 Notes until the Note Principal Balance thereof
has been reduced to zero;
fifth, to the Class M-2 Notes until the Note Principal Balance thereof has
been reduced to zero;
sixth, to the Class M-1 Notes until the Note Principal Balance thereof has
been reduced to zero;
seventh, to the Class X Notes until its interest entitlement with respect
to the related Payment Date has been reduced to zero; and
eighth, with respect to the principal portion of Realized Losses on the
Mortgage Loans in Loan Group I, to the Class 1-A Notes until the Note Principal
Balance thereof has been reduced to zero; with respect to the principal portion
of Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans in Loan Group II to the Class 2-A Notes
until the Note Principal Balance thereof has been reduced to zero; and with
respect to the principal portion of Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans in
Loan Group III to the Class 3-A Notes until the Note Principal Balance thereof
has been reduced to zero.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing clause (b), no such allocation of any
Realized Loss shall be made on a Payment Date to any Class or Classes of Notes
to the extent that such allocation would result in the reduction of the
aggregate Note Principal Balance of all of the Classes of Notes as of such
Payment Date, after giving effect to all distributions and prior allocations of
Realized Losses on such date, to an amount less than the aggregate Scheduled
Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans as of the related Due Date (such
limitation, the "Loss Allocation Limitation").
(d) The principal portion of any Realized Losses allocated to a Class of
Notes shall be allocated among the Notes of such Class (other than the Class X
Notes) in proportion to their respective Note Principal Balances. Any allocation
of Realized Losses shall be accomplished by reducing the Note Principal Balance
of the Notes on the related Payment Date.
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(e) Realized Losses shall be allocated on the Payment Date in the month
following the month in which such loss was incurred and, in the case of the
principal portion thereof, after giving effect to distributions made on such
Payment Date.
(f) On each Payment Date, the Securities Administrator shall determine
the Subordinate Writedown Amount. Any such Subordinate Writedown Amount shall
effect a corresponding reduction in the Note Principal Balance of (i) with
respect to the Subordinate Writedown Amount, if prior to the Cross-Over Date,
the Class B-3, Class B-2, Class B-1, Class M-3, Class M-2 and Class M-1 Notes,
in that order, and (iii) from and after the Cross-Over Date, to the Senior
Notes, in accordance with priorities set forth in clause (b) above, in each
case, on such Payment Date after giving effect to distributions made on such
Payment Date.
(g) The interest portion of any Realized Losses with respect to the
Mortgage Loans occurring on or prior to the Cross-Over Date will be borne
sequentially to the Class B-3, Class B-2, Class B-1, Class M-3, Class M-2, Class
M-1 and Class X Notes, in that order. Once the aggregate Note Principal Balance
or Notional Amount, as applicable, of the Subordinate Notes have been reduced to
zero, the interest portion of Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans in Loan
Group I will be allocated to the Class 1-A Notes, the interest portion of
Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans in Loan Group II will be allocated to the
Class 2-A Notes, and the interest portion of Realized Losses on the Mortgage
Loans in Loan Group III will be allocated to the Class 3-A Notes, in each case
in reduction Accrued Note Interest on such Class.
(h) In addition, in the event that the Securities Administrator receives
any Subsequent Recoveries from the Servicer or Master Servicer, the Securities
Administrator shall deposit such funds into the Payment Account pursuant to
Section 3.01 of this Indenture. If, after taking into account such Subsequent
Recoveries, the amount of a Realized Loss is reduced, the amount of such
Subsequent Recoveries will be applied to increase the Note Principal Balance of
the Notes with the highest payment priority to which Realized Losses have been
allocated, but not by more than the amount of Realized Losses previously
allocated to that Class or Classes of Notes pursuant to this Section 3.24. The
amount of any Subsequent Recoveries following the application set forth in the
immediately preceding sentence will be applied to sequentially increase the Note
Principal Balance of the Notes, beginning with the Class of Notes with the next
highest payment priority, up to the amount of such Realized Losses previously
allocated to such Class or Classes of Notes pursuant to this Section 3.24.
Holders of such Notes will not be entitled to any payments in respect of Accrued
Note Interest on the amount of such increases for any Interest Accrual Period
preceding the Payment Date on which such increase occurs. Any such increases
shall be applied to the Note Principal Balance of the Notes of such Class in
accordance with its respective Percentage Interest.
Section 3.25 Permitted Withdrawals and Transfers from the Payment Account.
(a) The Securities Administrator will, from time to time on demand of the Master
Servicer, make or cause to be made such withdrawals or transfers from the
Payment Account as the Master Servicer has designated for such transfer or
withdrawal pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement or as the Securities
Administrator has instructed hereunder for the following purposes (limited in
the case of amounts due the Master Servicer to those not withdrawn from the
Master Servicer Collection Account) but not in any order of priority:
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(i) to reimburse the Master Servicer or the related Servicer for
any Monthly Advance of its own funds, the right of the Master Servicer or the
related Servicer to reimbursement pursuant to this subclause (i) being limited
to amounts received on a particular Mortgage Loan (including, for this purpose,
the Repurchase Price therefor, Insurance Proceeds and Liquidation Proceeds)
which represent late payments or recoveries of the principal of or interest on
such Mortgage Loan respecting which such Monthly Advance was made;
(ii) to reimburse the Master Servicer or the related Servicer from
Insurance Proceeds or Liquidation Proceeds relating to a particular Mortgage
Loan for amounts expended by the Master Servicer or such Servicer in good faith
in connection with the restoration of the related Mortgaged Property which was
damaged by an Uninsured Cause or in connection with the liquidation of such
Mortgage Loan;
(iii) to reimburse the Master Servicer or the related Servicer from
Insurance Proceeds relating to a particular Mortgage Loan for insured expenses
incurred with respect to such Mortgage Loan and to reimburse the Master Servicer
or the related Servicer from Liquidation Proceeds from a particular Mortgage
Loan for Liquidation Expenses incurred with respect to such Mortgage Loan;
provided that the Master Servicer shall not be entitled to reimbursement for
Liquidation Expenses with respect to a Mortgage Loan to the extent that (i) any
amounts with respect to such Mortgage Loan were paid as Excess Liquidation
Proceeds pursuant to clause (viii) of this Subsection 3.25 (a) to the Master
Servicer; and (ii) such Liquidation Expenses were not included in the
computation of such Excess Liquidation Proceeds;
(iv) to reimburse the Master Servicer or the related Servicer for
advances of funds (other than Monthly Advances) made with respect to the
Mortgage Loans, and the right to reimbursement pursuant to this subclause being
limited to amounts received on the related Mortgage Loan (including, for this
purpose, the Repurchase Price therefor, Insurance Proceeds and Liquidation
Proceeds) which represent late recoveries of the payments for which such
advances were made;
(v) to reimburse the Master Servicer or the related Servicer for
any Monthly Advance or advance, after a Realized Loss has been allocated with
respect to the related Mortgage Loan if the Monthly Advance or advance has not
been reimbursed pursuant to clauses (i) and (iv);
(vi) to pay the Master Servicer as set forth in Section 3.13 of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement; provided however, that the Master Servicer shall
be obligated to pay from its own funds any amounts which it is required to pay
under Section 5.03 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement;
(vii) to reimburse the Master Servicer for expenses, costs and
liabilities incurred by and reimbursable to it pursuant to Sections 3.02,
5.04(c) and (d) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, to the extent that the
Master Servicer has not already reimbursed itself for such amounts from the
Master Servicer Collection Account;
(viii)to pay to the Master Servicer, as additional servicing
compensation, any Excess Liquidation Proceeds to the extent not retained by the
related Servicer;
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(ix) to reimburse or pay the related Servicer any such amounts as
are due thereto under the related Servicing Agreements and have not been
retained by or paid to the related Servicer, to the extent provided in the
related Servicing Agreement;
(x) to reimburse or pay the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee,
the Securities Administrator and the Master Servicer any amounts due or
expenses, costs and liabilities incurred by or reimbursable to such Persons
pursuant to this Indenture or any other Basic Documents, to the extent such
amounts have not already been previously paid or reimbursed to such party from
the Master Servicer Collection Account;
(xi) to remove amounts deposited in error; and
(xii) to pay to the Holder of the Trust Certificates any investment
income due and payable to it pursuant to this Indenture.
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ARTICLE IV
THE NOTES; SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE
Section 4.01 The Notes. Each Class of Class 1-A, Class 2-A, and Class 3-A
Notes shall be registered in the name of a nominee designated by the Depository.
Beneficial Owners will hold interests in the Class 1-A, Class 2-A and Class 3-A
Notes through the book-entry facilities of the Depository in minimum initial
Note Principal Balances of $100,000 and integral multiples of $1 in excess
thereof. Registered Holders will hold interests in the Class X Notes in physical
form in minimum initial Notional Amount of $100,000 and integral multiples of $1
in excess thereof. Registered Holders will hold interests in the Class X, Class
M-1, Class M-2, Class M-3, Class B-1, Class B-2 and Class B-3 Notes in physical
form in minimum initial Note Principal Balances of $100,000 and integral
multiples of $1 in excess thereof.
The Indenture Trustee and Securities Administrator may for all purposes
(including the making of payments due on the Notes) deal with the Depository as
the authorized representative of the Beneficial Owners with respect to the Notes
for the purposes of exercising the rights of Holders of the Notes hereunder.
Except as provided in the next succeeding paragraph of this Section 4.01, the
rights of Beneficial Owners with respect to the Notes shall be limited to those
established by law and agreements between such Beneficial Owners and the
Depository and Depository Participants. Except as provided in Section 4.08
hereof, Beneficial Owners shall not be entitled to definitive certificates for
the Notes as to which they are the Beneficial Owners. Requests and directions
from, and votes of, the Depository as Holder of the Notes shall not be deemed
inconsistent if they are made with respect to different Beneficial Owners. The
Securities Administrator may establish a reasonable record date in connection
with solicitations of consents from or voting by Noteholders and give notice to
the Depository of such record date. Without the consent of the Issuer and the
Securities Administrator, no Note may be transferred by the Depository except to
a successor ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ that agrees to hold such Note for the account of the
Beneficial Owners.
In the event the Depository Trust Company resigns or is removed as
Depository, the Depositor may appoint a successor Depository. If no successor
Depository has been appointed within 30 days of the effective date of the
Depository's resignation or removal, each Beneficial Owner shall be entitled to
certificates representing the Notes it beneficially owns in the manner
prescribed in Section 4.08.
The Notes shall, on original issue, be executed on behalf of the Issuer by
the Owner Trustee, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee,
authenticated by the Securities Administrator and delivered by the Securities
Administrator to or upon the order of the Issuer.
Section 4.02 Registration of and Limitations on Transfer and Exchange of
Notes; Appointment of Note Registrar and Certificate Registrar. The Issuer shall
cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Securities Administrator a
Note Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, the Note Registrar shall provide for the registration of Notes and of
transfers and exchanges of Notes as herein provided.
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Subject to the restrictions and limitations set forth below, upon
surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the Corporate Trust Office
of the Securities Administrator, the Issuer shall execute and the Note Registrar
shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Notes in authorized initial Note Principal Balances
evidencing the same Class and aggregate Percentage Interests.
No transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition of any Privately Offered
Note or interest therein shall be made unless that transfer, sale, pledge or
other disposition is exempt from the registration and/or qualification
requirements of the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws, or
is otherwise made in accordance with the Securities Act and such state
securities laws. If a transfer of any Privately Offered Note is to be made
without registration under the Securities Act (other than in connection with the
initial issuance thereof or a transfer thereof to the Depositor or one of its
Affiliates), then the Note Registrar shall refuse to register such transfer
unless (i) it receives (and upon receipt, may conclusively rely upon) a
certificate substantially in the form attached as Exhibit C hereto (provided,
however, that in the case of the Book-Entry Notes, the Noteholder and the
Noteholder's prospective transferee will be deemed to have made the
representations set forth in such certification) or (ii) (a) it receives a
written Opinion of Counsel acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory
to the Note Registrar, the Securities Administrator and the Indenture Trustee
that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption, describing the
applicable exemption and the basis therefor, from the Securities Act and any
applicable state securities laws or is being made pursuant to the Securities Act
and any applicable state securities laws, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be
an expense of the Issuer, the Seller, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee,
the Securities Administrator, the Master Servicer or any Servicer and (b) the
transferee executes a representation letter, substantially in the form of
Exhibit D attached hereto, and transferor executes a representation letter,
substantially in the form of Exhibit E hereto, each acceptable to and in form
and substance satisfactory to the Note Registrar, the Securities Administrator
and the Indenture Trustee certifying the facts surrounding such transfer, which
representation letters shall not be an expense of the Issuer, the Seller, the
Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator, the Master
Servicer or any Servicer. None of the Issuer, the Depositor, the Indenture
Trustee, the Securities Administrator or the Note Registrar is obligated to
register or qualify any Notes under the Securities Act or any other securities
law or to take any action not otherwise required under this Indenture to permit
the transfer of any Note or interest therein without registration or
qualification. Any Noteholder desiring to effect a transfer of Notes or
interests therein shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the
Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Securities
Administrator and the Note Registrar against any liability that may result if
the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with such federal and
state laws or in accordance with any restrictions on transfer set forth in this
Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions of this paragraph shall
not apply to the initial transfer of the Notes to the Depositor or any Affiliate
thereof.
No transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition of any Senior Note or
Privately Offered Notes (other than (A) (i) an Initial Transfer of a Senior Note
with respect to which (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit I
hereto (a "Tax Transfer Certificate") has been furnished to the Securities
Administrator or (y) a "will be debt" opinion has been rendered by nationally
recognized tax counsel and furnished to the Securities Administrator, or (ii) an
Initial Transfer of a Privately Offered Note with respect to which a "will be
debt" opinion has been
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rendered by nationally recognized tax counsel and furnished to the Securities
Administrator or (B) a Subsequent Transfer of a Senior Note or Privately Offered
Note) or interest therein shall be made, and the Note Registrar shall refuse to
register any such transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition, unless the
transferee shall have delivered to the Owner Trustee, the Note Registrar, the
Securities Administrator and the Indenture Trustee a certificate substantially
in the form of Exhibit F hereto certifying that (i) it is a real estate
investment trust ("REIT") within the meaning of Section 856(a), or a qualified
REIT subsidiary ("QRS") within the meaning of Section 856(i) of the Code, or an
entity disregarded as an entity separate from a REIT or a QRS and (ii) following
the transfer, 100% of the Subordinate Notes and Certificates (other than
Subordinate Notes, with respect to which a "will be debt" opinion has been
rendered by nationally recognized tax counsel and furnished to the Securities
Administrator) will be owned by a single REIT, directly or indirectly through
one or more QRSs of such REIT or one or more entities disregarded as entities
separate from such REIT or such QRSs; provided that, notwithstanding the
foregoing, (x) any Senior Notes or Privately Offered Notes may be pledged to
secure indebtedness and may be the subject of repurchase agreements treated by
the Issuer as secured indebtedness for federal income tax purposes, and (y) any
Senior Notes or Privately Offered Notes may be transferred by the related lender
under any such related loan agreement or repurchase agreement upon a default
under any such indebtedness, in which case the transferor shall deliver to the
Note Registrar, the Securities Administrator, the Owner Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee a certificate substantially in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit G certifying to such effect.
Subject to the foregoing, and Section 4.08, Notes may be exchanged for
other Notes of like tenor and in authorized initial Note Principal Balances
evidencing the same Class and aggregate Percentage Interests upon surrender of
the Notes to be exchanged at the Corporate Trust Office of the Note Registrar.
Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Issuer shall execute and
the Securities Administrator shall authenticate and deliver the Notes which the
Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Each Note presented or
surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall (if so required by
the Note Registrar) be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Note Registrar
duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing
with such signature guaranteed by a commercial bank or trust company located or
having a correspondent located in the city of New York. Notes delivered upon any
such transfer or exchange will evidence the same obligations, and will be
entitled to the same rights and privileges, as the Notes surrendered.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Notes, but the Note Registrar shall require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes.
The Issuer hereby appoints the Securities Administrator as (i) Certificate
Registrar to keep at its Corporate Trust Office a Certificate Register pursuant
to Section 3.08 of the Trust Agreement in which, subject to such reasonable
regulations as it may prescribe, the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the
registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges thereof pursuant to
Section 3.04 of the Trust Agreement and (ii) Note Registrar under this
Indenture. The Securities Administrator hereby accepts such appointments.
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Section 4.03 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes. If (i) any
mutilated Note is surrendered to the Securities Administrator, or the Securities
Administrator receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or
theft of any Note, and (ii) there is delivered to the Securities Administrator
such security or indemnity as may be required by it to hold the Issuer and the
Securities Administrator harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Issuer,
the Note Registrar or the Securities Administrator that such Note has been
acquired by a bona fide purchaser, and provided that the requirements of Section
8-405 of the UCC are met, the Issuer shall execute, and upon its request the
Securities Administrator shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in
lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a replacement Note;
provided, however, that if any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note, but not a
mutilated Note, shall have become or within seven days shall be due and payable,
instead of issuing a replacement Note, the Issuer may pay such destroyed, lost
or stolen Note when so due or payable without surrender thereof. If, after the
delivery of such replacement Note or payment of a destroyed, lost or stolen Note
pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, a bona fide purchaser of the
original Note in lieu of which such replacement Note was issued presents for
payment such original Note, the Issuer and the Securities Administrator shall be
entitled to recover such replacement Note (or such payment) from the Person to
whom it was delivered or any Person taking such replacement Note from such
Person to whom such replacement Note was delivered or any assignee of such
Person, except a bona fide purchaser, 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 Indenture Trustee or the Securities
Administrator in connection therewith.
Upon the issuance of any replacement Note under this Section 4.03, the
Issuer may require the payment by the Holder of such Note of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation
thereto and any other reasonable expenses (including the fees and expenses of
the Securities Administrator) connected therewith.
Every replacement Note issued pursuant to this Section 4.03 in replacement
of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original
additional contractual obligation of the Issuer, whether or not the mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and
shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and
proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section 4.03 are exclusive and shall preclude (to
the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement
or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes.
Section 4.04 Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentment for
registration of transfer of any Note, the Issuer, the Securities Administrator,
the Paying Agent and any agent of the Issuer or the Securities Administrator or
the Paying Agent may treat the Person in whose name any Note is registered (as
of the day of determination) as the owner of such Note for the purpose of
receiving payments of principal of and interest, if any, on such Note and for
all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note be overdue, and none of
the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator, the Paying
Agent or any agent of the Issuer, the Securities Administrator, the Indenture
Trustee or the Paying Agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
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Section 4.05 Cancellation. All Notes surrendered for payment, registration
of transfer, exchange or redemption shall, if surrendered to any Person other
than the Securities Administrator, be delivered to the Securities Administrator
and shall be promptly cancelled by the Securities Administrator. The Issuer may
at any time deliver to the Securities Administrator for cancellation any Notes
previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Issuer may have
acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Notes so delivered shall be promptly
cancelled by the Securities Administrator. No Notes shall be authenticated in
lieu of or in exchange for any Notes cancelled as provided in this Section 4.05,
except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled Notes may be held
or disposed of by the Securities Administrator in accordance with its standard
retention or disposal policy as in effect at the time unless the Issuer shall
direct by an Issuer Request that they be destroyed or returned to it; provided,
however, that such Issuer Request is timely and the Notes have not been
previously disposed of by the Securities Administrator.
Section 4.06 Form of Notes. The Class 1-A, Class 2-A and Class 3-A Notes,
upon original issuance, will be issued in the form of typewritten Notes
representing the Book-Entry Notes, to be delivered to The Depository Trust
Company, the initial Depository, by, or on behalf of, the Issuer. The Notes
shall initially be registered on the Note Register in the name of Cede & Co.,
the nominee of the initial Depository, and no Beneficial Owner will receive a
Definitive Note representing such Beneficial Owner's interest in such Note,
except as provided in Section 4.08. With respect to such Notes, unless and until
definitive, fully registered Notes (the "Definitive Notes") have been issued to
Beneficial Owners pursuant to Section 4.08:
(i) the provisions of this Section 4.06 shall be in full
force and effect;
(ii) the Note Registrar, the Paying Agent, the Indenture
Trustee and the Securities Administrator shall be entitled to deal with the
Depository for all purposes of this Indenture (including the payment of
principal of and interest on the Notes and the giving of instructions or
directions hereunder) as the sole holder of the Notes, and shall have no
obligation to the Beneficial Owners of the Notes;
(iii) to the extent that the provisions of this Section 4.06
conflict with any other provisions of this Indenture, the provisions of this
Section 4.06 shall control;
(iv) the rights of Beneficial Owners shall be exercised only
through the Depository and shall be limited to those established by law and
agreements between such Owners of Notes and the Depository and/or the Depository
Participants. Unless and until Definitive Notes are issued pursuant to Section
4.08, the initial Depository will make book-entry transfers among the Depository
Participants and receive and transmit payments of principal of and interest on
the Notes to such Depository Participants; and
(v) whenever this Indenture requires or permits actions to
be taken based upon instructions or directions of Holders of Notes evidencing a
specified percentage of the Note Principal Balances of the Notes, the Depository
shall be deemed to represent such percentage with respect to the Notes only to
the extent that it has received instructions to such effect from Beneficial
Owners and/or Depository Participants owning or representing, respectively, such
required percentage of the beneficial interest in the Notes and has delivered
such instructions to the Securities Administrator and the Indenture Trustee.
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None of the Depositor, the Issuer, the Master Servicer, the Seller, the
Securities Administrator, the Indenture Trustee, the Note Registrar and the
Owner Trustee shall have any liability for any aspect of the records relating to
or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests in the Book-Entry
Notes or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to
beneficial ownership interests or transfers thereof.
The Class X, Class M-1, Class M-2, Class M-3, Class B-1, Class B-2 and
Class B-3 Notes will be registered in full definitive form.
Section 4.07 Notices to Depository. Whenever a notice or other
communication to the Note Holders is required under this Indenture, unless and
until Definitive Notes shall have been issued to Beneficial Owners pursuant to
Section 4.08, the Indenture Trustee or Securities Administrator, as applicable,
shall give all such notices and communications specified herein to be given to
Holders of the Notes to the Depository, and shall have no obligation to the
Beneficial Owners.
Section 4.08 Definitive Notes. If (i) the Depositor advises the Securities
Administrator in writing that the Depository is no longer willing or able to
properly discharge its responsibilities with respect to the Book-Entry Notes and
the Depositor is unable to locate a qualified successor within 30 days or (ii)
the Depositor, at its option (with the consent of the Securities Administrator,
such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) elects to terminate the book-entry
system through the Depository, then the Securities Administrator shall request
that the Depository notify all Beneficial Owners of the occurrence of any such
event and of the availability of Definitive Notes to Beneficial Owners
requesting the same. Upon surrender to the Securities Administrator of the
typewritten Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes by the Depository,
accompanied by registration instructions, the Issuer shall execute and the
Securities Administrator shall authenticate the Definitive Notes in accordance
with the instructions of the Depository. None of the Issuer, the Note Registrar
or the Securities Administrator shall be liable for any delay in delivery of
such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in
relying on, such instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive Notes, the
Securities Administrator shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive Notes as
Noteholders.
In addition, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, each
Note Owner materially adversely affected thereby may at its option request a
Definitive Note evidencing such Noteholder's interest in the related Class of
Notes. In order to make such request, such Noteholder shall, subject to the
rules and procedures of the Depository, provide the Depository or the related
Depository Participant with directions for the Securities Administrator to
exchange or cause the exchange of the Noteholder's interest in such Class of
Notes for an equivalent interest in fully registered definitive form. Upon
receipt by the Securities Administrator of instructions from the Depository
directing the Securities Administrator to effect such exchange (such
instructions to contain information regarding the Class of Notes and the Note
Principal Balance being exchanged, the Depository Participant account to be
debited with the decrease, the registered holder of and delivery instructions
for the Definitive Note, and any other information reasonably required by the
Securities Administrator), (i) the Securities Administrator shall instruct the
Depository to reduce the related Depository Participant's account by the
aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Definitive Note, (ii) the Securities
Administrator shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in accordance with the
registration and delivery instructions provided by the Depository, a Definitive
Note evidencing such Noteholder's interest in such Class of
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Notes and (iii) the Issuer shall execute and the Securities Administrator shall
authenticate a new Book-Entry Note reflecting the reduction in the Note
Principal Balance of such Class of Notes by the amount of the Definitive Notes.
Section 4.09 Tax Treatment. The Issuer has entered into this Indenture,
and the Class 1-A, Class 2-A and Class 3-A Notes will be issued with the
intention that, for federal, state and local income, single business and
franchise tax purposes, such Classes of Notes will qualify as indebtedness at
any time at which such Notes are treated as issued and outstanding for federal
income tax purposes. The Issuer and the Securities Administrator (in accordance
with Section 6.07 hereof), by entering into this Indenture, and each Class 1-A,
Class 2-A and Class 3-A Noteholder, by its acceptance of its Note (and each
Beneficial Owner by its acceptance of an interest in the applicable Book-Entry
Note), agree to treat such Classes of Notes for federal, state and local income,
single business and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness at any time at which
such Notes are treated as issued and outstanding for federal income tax
purposes.
Section 4.10 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture shall
cease to be of further effect with respect to the Notes except as to (i) rights
of registration of transfer and exchange, (ii) substitution of mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Notes, (iii) rights of Noteholders to receive payments
of principal thereof and interest thereon, (iv) Sections 3.03, 3.04, 3.06, 3.09,
3.17, 3.19 and 3.20, (v) the rights, obligations and immunities of the Indenture
Trustee and Securities Administrator hereunder (including the rights of the
Securities Administrator under Section 6.08 and the obligations of the
Securities Administrator under Section 4.11), and (vi) the rights of Noteholders
as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property so deposited with the
Securities Administrator payable to all or any of them, and the Indenture
Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper
instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with
respect to the Notes and shall release and deliver, or cause the Custodian to
deliver, the Collateral to or upon the order of the Issuer, when
(A) either
(1) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i)
Notes that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced or
paid as provided in Section 4.03 hereof and (ii) Notes for whose payment money
has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the
Issuer and thereafter repaid to the Issuer or discharged from such trust, as
provided in Section 3.03) have been delivered to the Securities Administrator
for cancellation; or
(2) all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Securities Administrator
for cancellation
a. have become due and payable,
b. will become due and payable at the Final Scheduled Payment
Date within one year, or
c. have been called for early redemption and the Trust has been
terminated pursuant to Section 8.06 hereof,
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and the Issuer, in the case of a. or b. above, has irrevocably deposited or
caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Securities Administrator cash or
direct obligations of or obligations guaranteed by the United States of America
(which will mature prior to the date such amounts are payable), in trust for
such purpose, in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire
indebtedness on such Notes then outstanding not theretofore delivered to the
Securities Administrator for cancellation when due on the Final Scheduled
Payment Date or other final Payment Date and has delivered to the Securities
Administrator and the Indenture Trustee a verification report from a nationally
recognized accounting firm certifying that the amounts deposited with the
Securities Administrator are sufficient to pay and discharge the entire
indebtedness of such Notes, or, in the case of c. above, the Issuer shall have
complied with all requirements of Section 8.06 hereof,
(B) the Issuer has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
payable hereunder; and
(C) the Issuer has delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officer's
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each meeting the applicable
requirements of Section 10.01 hereof, each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge
of this Indenture have been complied with and, if the Opinion of Counsel
relates to a deposit made in connection with Section 4.10(A)(2)b. above,
such opinion shall further be to the effect that such deposit will
constitute an "in-substance defeasance" within the meaning of Revenue
Ruling 85-42, 1985-1 C.B. 36, and in accordance therewith, the Issuer will
be the owner of the assets deposited in trust for federal income tax
purposes.
Section 4.11 Application of Trust Money. All monies deposited with the
Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 4.10 hereof shall be held in trust
and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Notes and this
Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent or the
Certificate Paying Agent as designee of the Issuer, as the Securities
Administrator may determine, to the Holders of Securities, of all sums due and
to become due thereon for principal and interest or otherwise; but such monies
need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required herein or
required by law.
Section 4.12 [Reserved].
Section 4.13 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 Person other than the Securities Administrator under the
provisions of this Indenture with respect to such Notes shall, upon demand of
the Issuer, be paid to the Securities Administrator to be held and applied
according to Section 3.03 and thereupon such Person shall be released from all
further liability with respect to such monies.
Section 4.14 Temporary Notes. Pending the preparation of any Definitive
Notes, the Issuer may execute and upon its written direction, the Securities
Administrator may authenticate and make available for delivery, temporary Notes
that are printed, lithographed, typewritten, photocopied or otherwise produced,
in any denomination, substantially of the tenor of the Definitive Notes in lieu
of which they are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions,
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substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such Notes may
determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.
If temporary Notes are issued, the Issuer will cause Definitive Notes to
be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of the Definitive
Notes, the temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for Definitive Notes upon
surrender of the temporary Notes at the Corporate Trust Office of the Securities
Administrator, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of
any one or more temporary Notes, the Issuer shall execute and the Securities
Administrator shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in exchange
therefor, Definitive Notes of authorized denominations and of like tenor, class
and aggregate principal amount. Until so exchanged, such temporary Notes shall
in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as
Definitive Notes.
Section 4.15 Representation Regarding ERISA. By acquiring a Class 1-A,
Class 2-A and Class 3-A Note or interest therein, each Holder of such Note or
Beneficial Owner of any such interest will be deemed to represent that either
(1) it is not acquiring such Note with Plan Assets or (2) (A) the acquisition,
holding and transfer of such Note will not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited
transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and (B) the
Notes are rated investment grade or better and such person believes that the
Notes are properly treated as indebtedness without substantial equity features
for purposes of the Department of Labor regulation 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101,
and agrees to so treat the Notes. Alternatively, regardless of the rating of the
Notes, such person may provide the Securities Administrator and the Note
Registrar with an opinion of counsel, which opinion of counsel will not be at
the expense of the Issuer, the Seller, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee,
the Securities Administrator, the Note Registrar, the Master Servicer or any
servicer which opines that the acquisition, holding and transfer of such Note or
interest therein is permissible under applicable law, will not constitute or
result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the
Code and will not subject the Issuer, the Seller, the Depositor, the Owner
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator, the Note
Registrar, the Master Servicer or any Servicer to any obligation in addition to
those undertaken in the Indenture and the other Basic Documents.
No transfer of any Privately Offered Notes or any interest therein shall
be made to any Person unless the Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar are
provided with an Opinion of Counsel which establishes to the satisfaction of the
Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar that the purchase of the Notes is
permissible under applicable law, will not constitute or result in any
prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and will not
subject the Issuer, the Seller, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the
Master Servicer or the Note Registrar to any obligation or liability (including
obligations or liabilities under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) in addition
to those undertaken in this Indenture, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an
expense of the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the
Securities Administrator, the Notes Registrar or the Master Servicer. In lieu of
such Opinion of Counsel, a Person acquiring the Notes may provide a
certification in the form each attached hereto as paragraph 3 of Exhibit C or
clause (d) of Exhibit D, which the Issuer, the Seller, the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee, the Master Servicer and the Note Registrar may rely upon
without further inquiry or investigation. Neither an Opinion of Counsel nor a
certification will be required in connection with the initial transfer of any
such Notes by the Depositor to an affiliate
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of the Depositor (in which case, the Depositor or any affiliate thereof shall be
deemed to have represented that such affiliate is not a Plan or a Person
investing Plan Assets of any Plan) and the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee,
the Master Servicer and the Note Register shall be entitled to conclusively rely
upon a representation (which, upon the request of the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee, the Master Servicer and the Note Register, shall be a written
representation) from the Depositor of the status of such transferee as an
affiliate of the Depositor.
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ARTICLE V
DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
Section 5.01 Events of Default. The Issuer shall deliver to the Indenture
Trustee, within five days after learning of the occurrence of a Default, written
notice in the form of an Officer's Certificate of any event which with the
giving of notice and the lapse of time would become an Event of Default under
clause (ii), (iii) or (iv) of the definition of "Event of Default", its status
and what action the Issuer is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.
The Indenture Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any Default or
Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer has actual knowledge thereof or
unless written notice of such Default or Event of Default is received by a
Responsible Officer and such notice references the Notes, the Trust Estate or
this Indenture.
Section 5.02 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. If an
Event of Default should occur and be continuing, then and in every such case the
Indenture Trustee at the written direction of the Holders of Senior Notes
representing not less than a majority of the aggregate Note Principal Balance of
the Notes may declare such Notes to be immediately due and payable, by a notice
in writing to the Issuer (and to the Indenture Trustee if such notice is given
by Noteholders), and upon any such declaration the unpaid Note Principal Balance
of such Notes, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon through the
date of acceleration, shall become immediately due and payable.
At any time after such declaration of acceleration of maturity with
respect to an Event of Default has been made and before a judgment or decree for
payment of the money due has been obtained by the Indenture Trustee as
hereinafter in this Article V provided, Holders of the Senior Notes representing
not less than a majority of the aggregate Note Principal Balance of each Class
of Notes, by written notice to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, may,
subject to Section 5.12, waive the related Event of Default and rescind and
annul such declaration and its consequences if:
(i) the Issuer has paid or deposited with the Indenture Trustee or
Securities Administrator a sum sufficient to pay:
(A) all payments of principal of and interest on the Senior
Notes and all other amounts that would then be due hereunder or under the
Senior Notes if the Event of Default giving rise to such acceleration had
not occurred;
(B) all sums paid or advanced by the Indenture Trustee
hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Indenture Trustee and its agents and counsel; and
(ii) all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the
principal of the Senior Notes that has become due solely by such acceleration,
have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.12.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereto.
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Section 5.03 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Indenture Trustee.
(a) The Issuer covenants that if (i) default is made in the payment of
any interest on any Senior Note when the same becomes due and payable, and such
default continues for a period of five days, or (ii) default is made in the
payment of the principal of or any installment of the principal of any Senior
Note when the same becomes due and payable, the Issuer shall, upon demand of the
Indenture Trustee, acting at the direction of the Holders of a majority of the
aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Senior Notes, pay to the Securities
Administrator, for the benefit of the Holders of such Notes, the whole amount
then due and payable on such Notes for principal and interest, with interest at
the applicable Note Interest Rate upon the overdue principal, 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 Indenture Trustee and its agents and counsel.
(b) In case the Issuer shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts upon
such demand, the Indenture Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express
trust, subject to the provisions of Section 10.15 hereof, may institute a
Proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute
such Proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same against
the Issuer or other obligor upon the Notes and collect in the manner provided by
law out of the property of the Issuer or other obligor upon the Notes, wherever
situated, the monies adjudged or decreed to be payable.
(c) If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Indenture
Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 10.15 hereof, may, as more
particularly provided in Section 5.04 hereof, in its discretion, proceed to
protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Noteholders by such
appropriate Proceedings as directed in writing by Holders of a majority of the
aggregate Note Principal Balance of each Class of Senior Notes, 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 Indenture Trustee by this Indenture or by law.
(d) In case there shall be pending, relative to the Issuer or any other
obligor upon the Notes or any Person having or claiming an ownership interest in
the Trust Estate, Proceedings under Title 11 of the United States Code or any
other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law,
or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization,
liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or
taken possession of the Issuer or its property or such other obligor or Person,
or in case of any other comparable judicial Proceedings relative to the Issuer
or other obligor upon the Notes, or to the creditors or property of the Issuer
or such other obligor, the Indenture Trustee, as directed in writing by Holders
of a majority of the aggregate Note Principal Balance of each Class of Notes,
irrespective of whether the principal of any Notes shall then be due and payable
as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether
the Indenture Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of
this Section, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such
Proceedings or otherwise:
(i) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of
principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Senior Notes and to
file such other papers or
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documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the
Indenture Trustee (including any claim for reasonable compensation to the
Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee, and their respective
agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of all expenses and
liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee and each
predecessor Indenture Trustee, except as a result of negligence, willful
misconduct or bad faith) and of the Noteholders allowed in such Proceedings;
(ii) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote
on behalf of the Holders of Notes in any election of a trustee, a standby
trustee or Person performing similar functions in any such Proceedings;
(iii) to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and to distribute all amounts received with
respect to the claims of the Noteholders and of the Indenture Trustee on their
behalf, and
(iv) to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as
may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Indenture
Trustee or the Holders of Notes allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to
the Issuer, its creditors and its property;
and any trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official in
any such Proceeding is hereby authorized by each of such Noteholders to make
payments to the Securities Administrator, and, in the event that the Indenture
Trustee shall consent to the making of payments directly to such Noteholders, to
pay to the Indenture Trustee such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover
reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor Indenture
Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other
expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Indenture
Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee.
(e) Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Indenture
Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of
any Noteholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder thereof or to
authorize the Indenture Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any
Noteholder in any such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election
of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar Person.
(f) All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture,
or under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Indenture Trustee without the
possession of any of the Notes or the production thereof in any trial or other
Proceedings relative thereto, and any such action or proceedings instituted by
the Indenture Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express
trust, and any recovery of judgment, subject to the payment of the expenses,
disbursements and compensation of the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor
Indenture Trustee and their respective agents and attorneys, shall be for the
ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes, subject to Section 5.05 hereof.
In any Proceedings brought by the Indenture Trustee (and also any
Proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to
which the Indenture Trustee shall be a party), the Indenture Trustee shall be
held to represent all the Holders of the Notes, and it shall not be necessary to
make any Noteholder a party to any such Proceedings.
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Section 5.04 Remedies; Priorities. (a) If an Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing and if an acceleration has been declared and not
rescinded pursuant to Section 5.02 hereof, the Indenture Trustee, subject to the
provisions of Section 10.15 hereof, may, and shall, at the written direction of
the Holders of a majority of the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Senior
Notes, do one or more of the following (subject to Section 5.05 hereof):
(i) institute Proceedings in its own name and as trustee of an
express trust for the collection of all amounts then payable on the Senior Notes
or under this Indenture with respect thereto, whether by declaration or
otherwise, enforce any judgment obtained, and collect from the Issuer and any
other obligor upon such Notes monies adjudged due;
(ii) institute Proceedings from time to time for the complete or
partial foreclosure of this Indenture with respect to the Trust Estate;
(iii) 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 Indenture Trustee and the Holders of the Notes; and
(iv) sell the Trust Estate or any portion thereof or rights or
interest therein, at one or more public or private sales called and conducted in
any manner permitted by law;
provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee may not sell or otherwise
liquidate the Trust Estate following an Event of Default, unless (A) the
Indenture Trustee obtains the consent of the Holders of 100% of the aggregate
Note Principal Balance of the Senior Notes then outstanding, (B) the proceeds of
such sale or liquidation distributable to the Holders of the Senior Notes are
sufficient to discharge in full all amounts then due and unpaid upon such Senior
Notes for principal and interest or (C) the Indenture Trustee determines that
the Mortgage Loans will not continue to provide sufficient funds for the payment
of principal of and interest on the Senior Notes as they would have become due
if the Senior Notes had not been declared due and payable, and the Indenture
Trustee obtains the consent of the Holders of 66 2/3% of the aggregate Note
Principal Balance of each Class of Senior Notes then outstanding, voting
separately. In determining such sufficiency or insufficiency with respect to
clause (B) and (C), the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, obtain and rely
upon an opinion (obtained at the expense of the Trust) of an Independent
investment banking or accounting firm of national reputation as to the
feasibility of such proposed action and as to the sufficiency of the Trust
Estate for such purpose. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Sale of the Trust
Estate shall be made subject to the continued servicing of the Mortgage Loans by
the Servicer (other than any Servicer as to which an Event of Servicer
Termination has occurred and is continuing) as provided in the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.
(b) If the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator collects
any money or property pursuant to this Article V, the Securities Administrator
shall pay out the money or property in the following order:
FIRST: to the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator,
Master Servicer, the Owner Trustee, the Custodian and the Servicers for
amounts due and not previously paid pursuant to the Indenture and the
other Basic Documents;
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SECOND: to the Class 1-A, Class 2-A and Class 3-A Noteholders, pro
rata, for amounts due and unpaid on such Notes with respect to interest
(not including any Basis Risk Shortfall Carryover Amounts), according to
the amounts due and payable on each such Notes for interest;
THIRD: to the Class 1-A, Class 2-A and Class 3-A Noteholders, pro
rata, for amounts due and unpaid on such Notes with respect to principal,
and to each such Noteholder ratably, without preference or priority of any
kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such Notes for
principal, until the Note Principal Balance of each such Class is reduced
to zero;
FOURTH: to the Class 1-A, Class 2-A and Class 3-A Noteholders, pro
rata, in each case based on the amount of any Basis Risk Shortfall
Carryover Amounts not previously paid;
FIFTH: to the Class X Noteholders for amounts due and unpaid on such
Notes with respect to interest;
SIXTH: first, to the Class M-1 Noteholders, second, to the Class M-2
Noteholders, third, to the Class M-3 Noteholders, fourth, to the Class B-1
Noteholders, fifth, to the Class B-2 Notes and sixth, to the Class B-3
Notes, according to the amounts due and payable on such Classes of Notes
for interest and principal; and
EIGHTH: to the holders of the Trust Certificates on behalf of the
Issuer.
The Securities Administrator may fix a record date and Payment Date for
any payment to Noteholders pursuant to this Section 5.04. At least 15 days
before such record date, the Securities Administrator shall mail to each
Noteholder a notice that states the record date, the Payment Date and the amount
to be paid.
Section 5.05 Optional Preservation of the Trust Estate. If the Notes have
been declared to be due and payable under Section 5.02 following an Event of
Default and such declaration and its consequences have not been rescinded and
annulled, the Indenture Trustee may elect to take and maintain possession of the
Trust Estate. It is the desire of the parties hereto and the Noteholders that
there be at all times sufficient funds for the payment of principal of and
interest on the Notes and other obligations of the Issuer, and the Indenture
Trustee shall take such desire into account when determining whether or not to
take and maintain possession of the Trust Estate. In determining whether to take
and maintain possession of the Trust Estate, the Indenture Trustee may, but need
not, obtain and rely upon an opinion of an Independent investment banking or
accounting firm of national reputation as to the feasibility of such proposed
action and as to the sufficiency of the Trust Estate for such purpose.
Section 5.06 Limitation of Suits. No Holder of any Note shall have any
right to institute any Proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this
Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other
remedy hereunder, unless and subject to the foregoing and the provisions of
Section 10.15 hereof:
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(i) such Holder has previously given written notice to the
Indenture Trustee of a continuing Event of Default;
(ii) the Holders of not less than 25% of the aggregate Note
Principal Balance of the Senior Notes have made a written request to the
Indenture Trustee to institute such Proceeding in respect of such Event of
Default in its own name as Indenture Trustee hereunder;
(iii) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Indenture Trustee
reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred
in complying with such request;
(iv) the Indenture Trustee, for 60 days after its receipt of such
notice of request and offer of indemnity, has failed to institute such
Proceedings; and
(v) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been
given to the Indenture Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a
majority of the Note Principal Balances of the Senior Notes.
It is understood and intended that no one or more Holders of Notes shall
have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any
provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any
other Holders of Notes or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference
over any other Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in
the manner herein provided.
Subject to the last paragraph of Section 5.11 herein, in the event the
Indenture Trustee shall receive conflicting or inconsistent requests and
indemnity from two or more groups of Holders of Notes, each representing less
than a majority of the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Senior Notes, the
Indenture Trustee shall take such action as requested by the Holders
representing the highest amount (in the aggregate) of the Note Principal
Balances, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture.
Section 5.07 Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal and
Interest. Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture, the Holder of
any Senior Note shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to
receive payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on such Note on or
after the respective due dates thereof expressed in such Note or in this
Indenture and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and
such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
Section 5.08 Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Indenture 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 Indenture Trustee or to such
Noteholder, then and in every such case the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and
the Noteholders 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 Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders
shall continue as though no such Proceeding had been instituted.
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Section 5.09 Rights and Remedies Cumulative. No right or remedy herein
conferred upon or reserved to the Indenture 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 5.10 Delay or Omission Not a Waiver. No delay or omission of the
Indenture Trustee or any Holder of any Note 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.
Every right and remedy given by this Article V or by law to the Indenture
Trustee or to the Noteholders may be exercised from time to time, and as often
as may be deemed expedient, by the Indenture Trustee or by the Noteholders, as
the case may be.
Section 5.11 Control By Noteholders. The Holders of a majority of the
aggregate Note Principal Balance of Senior Notes shall have the right to direct
the time, method and place of conducting any Proceeding for any remedy available
to the Indenture Trustee with respect to the Notes or exercising any trust or
power conferred on the Indenture Trustee; provided that:
(i) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law
or with this Indenture;
(ii) any direction to the Indenture Trustee to sell or liquidate
the Trust Estate shall be by Holders of Notes representing not less than 100% of
the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Senior Notes or the Holders of 66
2/3% of the aggregate Note Principal Balance of each Class of Senior Notes then
outstanding, voting separately as set forth in Section 5.04(a) hereof; and
(iii) the Indenture Trustee may take any other action deemed proper
by the Indenture Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction of the
Holders of the Senior Notes representing a majority of the aggregate Note
Principal Balance of the Senior Notes.
Notwithstanding the rights of Noteholders set forth in this Section 5.11
the Indenture Trustee need not take any action that it determines might involve
it in liability.
Section 5.12 Waiver of Past Defaults. Prior to the declaration of the
acceleration of the maturity of the Notes as provided in Section 5.02 hereof,
the Holders of Notes representing not less than a majority of the aggregate Note
Principal Balance of each Class of Senior Notes may waive any past Event of
Default and its consequences except an Event of Default (a) with respect to
payment of principal of or interest on any of the Senior Notes, or (b) in
respect of a covenant or provision hereof which cannot be modified or amended
without the consent of the Holder of each Senior Note. In the case of any such
waiver, the Issuer, the Indenture 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 Event of Default or impair
any right consequent thereto.
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Upon any such waiver, any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be
deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred for every purpose of this
Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Event of
Default or impair any right consequent thereto.
Section 5.13 Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree,
and each Holder of any Note and each Beneficial Owner of any interest therein 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 Indenture Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as
Indenture 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 5.13 shall not apply to (a) any suit instituted by
the Indenture Trustee, (b) any suit instituted by any Noteholder, or group of
Noteholders, in each case holding in the aggregate more than 10% of the Note
Principal Balances of the Senior Notes or (c) any suit instituted by any
Noteholder for the enforcement of the payment of principal of or interest on any
Note on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Note and in this
Indenture.
Section 5.14 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 wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in
force, that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and
the Issuer (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives
all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it shall not
hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the
Indenture Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power
as though no such law had been enacted.
Section 5.15 Sale of Trust Estate. (a) The power to effect any sale or
other disposition (a "Sale") of any portion of the Trust Estate pursuant to
Section 5.04 hereof is expressly subject to the provisions of Sections 5.05 and
5.11(ii) hereof and this Section 5.15. The power to effect any such Sale shall
not be exhausted by any one or more Sales as to any portion of the Trust Estate
remaining unsold, but shall continue unimpaired until the entire Trust Estate
shall have been sold or all amounts payable on the Notes and under this
Indenture shall have been paid. The Indenture Trustee may from time to time
postpone any public Sale by public announcement made at the time and place of
such Sale. The Indenture Trustee hereby expressly waives its right to any amount
fixed by law as compensation for any Sale.
(b) The Indenture Trustee shall not in any private Sale sell the Trust
Estate, or any portion thereof, unless
(1) the Holders of all Senior Notes consent to or direct the
Indenture Trustee to make, such Sale, or
(2) the proceeds of such Sale would be not less than the entire
amount which would be payable to the Senior Noteholders under the Notes,
in full payment thereof in accordance with Section 5.02 hereof, on the
Payment Date next succeeding the date of such Sale, or
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(3) the Indenture Trustee determines that the conditions for
retention of the Trust Estate set forth in Section 5.05 hereof cannot be
satisfied (in making any such determination, the Indenture Trustee may
rely upon an opinion of an Independent investment banking firm obtained
and delivered as provided in Section 5.05 hereof), and the Holders of
Notes representing at least 100% of the Note Principal Balances of the
Senior Notes consent to such Sale.
The purchase by the Indenture Trustee of all or any portion of the Trust Estate
at a private Sale shall not be deemed a Sale or other disposition thereof for
purposes of this Section 5.15(b).
(c) Subject to this Section 5.15, unless the Holders representing at
least 100% of the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Senior Notes or the
Holders of 66 2/3% of the aggregate Note Principal Balance of each Class of
Senior Notes then outstanding, voting separately as set forth in Section 5.04(a)
hereof, have otherwise consented or directed the Indenture Trustee, at any
public Sale of all or any portion of the Trust Estate at which a minimum bid
equal to or greater than the amount described in paragraph (2) of subsection (b)
of this Section 5.15 has not been established by the Indenture Trustee and no
Person bids an amount equal to or greater than such amount, the Indenture
Trustee, as trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, shall bid an
amount (which shall include the Indenture Trustee's right, in its capacity as
Indenture Trustee, to credit bid) at least $1.00 more than the highest other bid
in order to preserve the Trust Estate on behalf of the Noteholders.
(d) In connection with a Sale of all or any portion of the Trust Estate,
(1) any Holder or Holders of Notes may bid for and purchase the
property offered for sale, and upon compliance with the terms of sale may
hold, retain and possess and dispose of such property, without further
accountability, and may, in paying the purchase money therefor, deliver
any Notes or claims for interest thereon in lieu of cash up to the amount
which shall, upon distribution of the net proceeds of such sale, be
payable thereon, and such Notes, in case the amounts so payable thereon
shall be less than the amount due thereon, shall be returned to the
Holders thereof after being appropriately stamped to show such partial
payment;
(2) the Indenture Trustee may bid for and acquire the property
offered for Sale in connection with any Sale thereof, and, subject to any
requirements of, and to the extent permitted by, applicable law in
connection therewith, may purchase all or any portion of the Trust Estate
in a private sale, and, in lieu of paying cash therefor, may make
settlement for the purchase price by crediting the gross Sale price
against the sum of (A) the amount which would be distributable to the
Holders of the Notes and Holders of Certificates on the Payment Date next
succeeding the date of such Sale and (B) the expenses of the Sale and of
any Proceedings in connection therewith which are reimbursable to it,
without being required to produce the Notes in order to complete any such
Sale or in order for the net Sale price to be credited against such Notes,
and any property so acquired by the Indenture Trustee shall be held and
dealt with by it in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture;
(3) the Indenture Trustee shall execute and deliver an appropriate
instrument of conveyance, prepared by the Issuer and satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee,
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transferring its interest in any portion of the Trust Estate in connection
with a Sale thereof;
(4) the Indenture 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 Trust Estate in connection with a Sale
thereof, and to take all action necessary to effect such Sale; and
(5) no purchaser or transferee at such a Sale shall be bound to
ascertain the Indenture Trustee's authority, inquire into the satisfaction
of any conditions precedent or see to the application of any monies.
Section 5.16 Action on Notes. The Indenture Trustee's right to seek and
recover judgment on the Notes or under this Indenture shall not be affected by
the seeking, obtaining or application of any other relief under or with respect
to this Indenture. Neither the lien of this Indenture nor any rights or remedies
of the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders shall be impaired by the recovery of
any judgment by the Indenture Trustee against the Issuer or by the levy of any
execution under such judgment upon any portion of the Trust Estate or upon any
of the assets of the Issuer. Any money or property collected by the Indenture
Trustee or the Securities Administrator shall be applied by the Securities
Administrator in accordance with Section 5.04(b) hereof.
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ARTICLE VI
THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR
Section 6.01 Duties of Indenture Trustee and Securities Administrator. (a)
If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee
shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the
same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent person would
exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person's own
affairs.
(b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default of which
the Indenture Trustee has actual knowledge or has received written notice, in
the case of the Indenture Trustee and, at any time, in the case of the
Securities Administrator:
(i) the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator undertakes
to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in
this Indenture and the other Basic Documents to which it is a party and no
implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture and the other
Basic Documents against the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator;
and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Indenture Trustee
and the Securities Administrator may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the
statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon
certificates, reports, documents, Issuer Requests or other instruments or
opinions furnished to each of the Indenture Trustee and the Securities
Administrator and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture or the other
Basic Documents; however, the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator
shall examine the certificates, reports, documents, Issuer Requests or other
instruments and opinions to determine whether or not they conform on their face
to the requirements of this Indenture.
(c) The Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator may not be
relieved from liability for each of its own negligent action, its own negligent
failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(i) this paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this
Section 6.01;
(ii) neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities Administrator
shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a
Responsible Officer unless it is proved that the Indenture Trustee or the
Securities Administrator, as applicable, was negligent in ascertaining the
pertinent facts; and
(iii) neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities Administrator
shall be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good
faith in accordance with a direction received by it from Noteholders, the
Certificateholders or from the Issuer, which they are entitled to give under the
Basic Documents.
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(d) The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money
received by it except as set forth in the Basic Documents and as the Indenture
Trustee may agree in writing with the Issuer.
(e) Money held in trust by the Indenture Trustee need not be segregated
from other trust funds except to the extent required by law or the terms of this
Indenture or the Trust Agreement.
(f) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Indenture Trustee or
the Securities Administrator to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur
financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the
exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds to
believe that repayment of such funds or indemnity satisfactory to it against
such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
(g) Every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting
the liability of or affording protection to the Indenture Trustee shall be
subject to the provisions of this Section.
(h) The Indenture Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice or knowledge
of any Default or Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Indenture
Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any such event
that is in fact an Event of Default or Default is received by the Indenture
Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office and such notice references the Notes or
Certificates generally, the Issuer, the Trust Estate or this Indenture.
Section 6.02 Rights of Indenture Trustee and Securities Administrator. (a)
The Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator may rely on any document
believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper
person. The Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator need not
investigate any fact or matter stated in the document.
(b) Before the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator acts or
refrains from acting, it may require an Officer's Certificate or an Opinion of
Counsel. Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall be
liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on and
in accordance with an Officer's Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.
(c) Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall
be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith which it
believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers.
(d) The Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator may consult with
counsel, and the written advice or Opinion of Counsel (which shall not be at the
expense of the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator) with respect
to legal matters relating to this Indenture, the other Basic Documents and the
Notes shall be full and complete authorization and protection from liability in
respect to any action taken, omitted or suffered by it hereunder in good faith
and in accordance with the written advice or opinion of such counsel.
(e) For the limited purpose of effecting any action to be undertaken by
each of the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator, but not
specifically as a duty of the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator
in the Indenture, each of the Indenture Trustee
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and the Securities Administrator may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder, either directly or by or through
agents, attorneys, custodians or nominees appointed with due care, and shall not
be responsible for any willful misconduct or negligence on the part of any
agent, attorney, custodian or nominee so appointed.
(f) The Securities Administrator or its Affiliates are permitted to
receive additional compensation that could be deemed to be in the Securities
Administrator's economic self-interest for (i) serving as investment adviser,
administrator, shareholder servicing agent, custodian or sub-custodian with
respect to certain of the Permitted Investments, (ii) using Affiliates to effect
transactions in certain Permitted Investments and (iii) effecting transactions
in certain Permitted Investments. Such compensation shall not be considered an
amount that is reimbursable or payable to the Securities Administrator (i) as
part of the compensation hereunder or (ii) out of Available Funds.
(g) Anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, in no
event shall the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator be liable for
special, indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever
(including but not limited to lost profits), even if the Indenture Trustee or
the Securities Administrator has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or
damage and regardless of the form of action.
(h) None of the Securities Administrator, the Issuer or the Indenture
Trustee shall be responsible for the acts or omissions of the other, it being
understood that this Indenture shall not be construed to render them partners,
joint venturers or agents of one another.
(i) Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall
be required to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial
liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise
of any of its rights or powers, if there is reasonable ground for believing that
the repayment of such funds or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against
such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it, and none of the
provisions contained in this Indenture shall in any event require the Indenture
Trustee or the Securities Administrator to perform, or be responsible for the
manner of performance of, any of the obligations of the Master Servicer under
the Servicing Agreement, except during such time, if any, as the Indenture
Trustee shall be the successor to, and be vested with the rights, duties, powers
and privileges of, the Master Servicer in accordance with the terms of the
Servicing Agreement.
(j) Except for those actions that the Indenture Trustee or the Securities
Administrator are required to take hereunder, neither the Indenture Trustee nor
the Securities Administrator shall have any obligation or liability to take any
action or to refrain from taking any action hereunder in the absence of written
direction as provided hereunder.
(k) Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall
be under any obligation to exercise any of the trusts or powers vested in it by
this Indenture, other than its obligation to give notices pursuant to this
Indenture, or to institute, conduct or defend any litigation hereunder or in
relation hereto at the request, order or direction of any of the Noteholders
pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, unless such Noteholders shall have
offered to the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as applicable,
reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities
which may be incurred therein or thereby. Nothing contained herein shall,
however, relieve the Indenture Trustee of the
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obligation, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default of which a Responsible
Officer of the Indenture Trustee has actual knowledge (which has not been cured
or waived), to exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this
Indenture and to use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a
prudent person would exercise under the circumstances in the conduct of his own
affairs.
(l) Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall
be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any
resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice,
request, consent, order, approval, bond or other paper or document, unless
requested in writing to do so by Holders of Notes representing not less than 25%
of the Note Principal Balance of the Notes and provided that the payment within
a reasonable time to the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as
applicable, of the costs, expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by it in
the making of such investigation is, in the opinion of the Indenture Trustee or
the Securities Administrator, as applicable, reasonably assured to the Indenture
Trustee by the security afforded to it by the terms of this Indenture. The
Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator may require reasonable
indemnity against such expense or liability as a condition to taking any such
action. The reasonable expense of every such examination shall be paid by the
Noteholders requesting the investigation.
(m) Should the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator deem the
nature of any action required on its part to be unclear, the Indenture Trustee
or the Securities Administrator, respectively, may require prior to such action
that it be provided by the Depositor with reasonable further instructions.
(n) The right of the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator to
perform any discretionary act enumerated in this Indenture shall not be
construed as a duty, and neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities
Administrator shall be accountable for other than its negligence or willful
misconduct in the performance of any such act.
(o) Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall
be required to give any bond or surety with respect to the execution of the
trust created hereby or the powers granted hereunder.
(p) Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall
have any duty to conduct any affirmative investigation as to the occurrence of
any condition requiring the repurchase of any Mortgage Loan by the Seller
pursuant to this Indenture or the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, as
applicable, or the eligibility of any Mortgage Loan for purposes of this
Indenture.
(q) The Indenture Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice or actual
knowledge of any Default or Event of Default unless actually known to a
Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee or written notice thereof (making
reference to this Indenture or the Notes) is received by the Indenture Trustee
at the Corporate Trust Office.
Section 6.03 Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee. The Indenture Trustee
in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes
and may otherwise deal with the Issuer or its Affiliates with the same rights it
would have if it were not Indenture Trustee, subject to the requirements of the
Trust Indenture Act. Any Note Registrar, co-registrar
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or co-paying agent may do the same with like rights. However, the Indenture
Trustee must comply with Section 6.12 hereof.
Section 6.04 [Reserved].
Section 6.05 Indenture Trustee's and Securities Administrator's
Disclaimer. Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Securities Administrator shall
be responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of
this Indenture, the Notes or any other Basic Document, it shall not be
accountable for the Issuer's use of the proceeds from the Notes, and it shall
not be responsible for any statement of the Issuer in the Indenture or in any
document issued in connection with the sale of the Notes or in the Notes other
than the Securities Administrator's certificate of authentication.
Section 6.06 Notice of Event of Default. Subject to Section 5.01, the
Indenture Trustee shall promptly mail to each Noteholder notice of the Event of
Default after it is known to a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee,
unless such Event of Default shall have been waived or cured. Except in the case
of an Event of Default in payment of principal of or interest on any Note, the
Indenture Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as a committee of its
Responsible Officers in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in
the best interests of Noteholders.
Section 6.07 Reports to Holders and Tax Administration.
The Securities Administrator shall deliver to each Noteholder such
information as may be required and such other customary information as the
Securities Administrator may determine and/or be required by the Internal
Revenue Service or by a federal or state law or rules or regulations to enable
such holder to prepare its federal and state income tax returns.
The Securities Administrator shall prepare and file (or cause to be
prepared and filed), on behalf of the Owner Trustee, all tax returns (if any)
and information reports, tax elections and such annual or other reports of the
Issuer as are necessary for preparation of tax returns and information reports
as provided in Section 5.03 of the Trust Agreement, including without limitation
Form 1099. All tax returns and information reports shall be signed by the Owner
Trustee or to the extent permitted by law, the Securities Administrator as
provided in Section 5.03 of the Trust Agreement.
Section 6.08 Compensation. An annual fee shall be paid to the Indenture
Trustee by the Master Servicer pursuant to a separate agreement between the
Indenture Trustee and the Master Servicer. In addition, the Indenture Trustee
and the Securities Administrator will each be entitled to recover from the
Payment Account pursuant to Section 3.25 of this Indenture all reasonable
out-of-pocket expenses, disbursements and advances and the expenses of the
Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator, respectively, in connection
with any breach of this Indenture or any claim or legal action (including any
pending or threatened claim or legal action) or otherwise incurred or made by
the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator, respectively, in the
administration of the trusts hereunder (including the reasonable compensation,
expenses and disbursements of its counsel) except any such expense, disbursement
or advance as may arise from its own negligence or intentional misconduct or
which is the responsibility of the Noteholders as provided herein. Such
compensation and
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reimbursement obligation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard
to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust. Additionally, each of the
Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator and any director, officer,
employee or agent of the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator shall
be indemnified by the Trust and held harmless against any loss, liability or
expense (including reasonable attorney's fees and expenses) incurred in the
administration of this Indenture (other than its ordinary out of pocket expenses
incurred hereunder) or in connection with any claim or legal action relating to
(a) the Basic Documents or (b) the Notes, other than any loss, liability or
expense incurred by reason of its own negligence or intentional misconduct, or
which is the responsibility of the Noteholders as provided herein.
The Issuer's payment obligations to the Indenture Trustee and Securities
Administrator pursuant to this Section 6.08 shall survive the discharge of this
Indenture and the termination or resignation of the Indenture Trustee or
Securities Administrator. When the Indenture Trustee or the Securities
Administrator incurs expenses after the occurrence of an Event of Default with
respect to the Issuer, the expenses are intended to constitute expenses of
administration under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other applicable
federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law.
Section 6.09 Replacement of Indenture Trustee and the Securities
Administrator. No resignation or removal of the Indenture Trustee or the
Securities Administrator and no appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee or
a successor Securities Administrator shall become effective until the acceptance
of appointment by the successor Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.09.
The Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator may resign at any time by
so notifying the Issuer. In the event that the Indenture Trustee determines that
a conflict of interest exists between the Holders of the Class A Notes and the
Holders of any Class of Subordinate Notes, then the Indenture Trustee shall be
entitled to resign as the indenture trustee for all Classes of Notes other than
the Class A Notes. In such event the Holders of a majority of Note Principal
Balances of all of the Subordinate Notes shall designate a separate indenture
trustee to represent their interests hereunder. Holders of a majority of Note
Principal Balances of each Class of Notes may remove the Indenture Trustee by so
notifying the Indenture Trustee and may appoint a successor Indenture Trustee.
The Issuer shall remove the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator,
as applicable, if:
(i) the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator fails to
comply with or qualify pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.12 hereof;
(ii) the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator is adjudged
a bankrupt or insolvent;
(iii) a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the Indenture
Trustee or the Securities Administrator or its property;
(iv) the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator otherwise
becomes incapable of acting; or
(v) the Master Servicer is terminated pursuant to Section 5.01 of the
Servicing Agreement.
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If the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator resigns or is
removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of the Indenture Trustee or the
Securities Administrator for any reason (the Indenture Trustee or the Securities
Administrator in such event being referred to herein as the retiring Indenture
Trustee or the retiring Securities Administrator ), the Issuer shall promptly
appoint a successor Indenture Trustee or successor Securities Administrator.
Each of a successor Indenture Trustee or successor Securities
Administrator shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the
retiring Indenture Trustee or the retiring Securities Administrator, as
applicable, and to the Issuer. Thereupon, the resignation or removal of the
retiring Indenture Trustee or the retiring Securities Administrator shall become
effective, and the successor Indenture Trustee or successor Securities
Administrator shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Indenture
Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, under this Indenture.
The successor Indenture Trustee or successor Securities Administrator shall each
mail a notice of its succession to Noteholders. The retiring Indenture Trustee
or the retiring Securities Administrator shall promptly transfer all property
held by it as Indenture Trustee or Securities Administrator, as applicable, to
the successor Indenture Trustee or successor Securities Administrator.
If a successor Indenture Trustee or successor Securities Administrator
does not take office within 60 days after the retiring Indenture Trustee or the
retiring Securities Administrator, as applicable, resigns or is removed, the
retiring Indenture Trustee or the retiring Securities Administrator, the Issuer
or the Holders of a majority of Note Principal Balances of the Notes may
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Indenture Trustee or successor Securities Administrator.
Notwithstanding the replacement of the Indenture Trustee or the Securities
Administrator pursuant to this Section, the Issuer's obligations under Section
6.07 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Indenture Trustee or the
retiring Securities Administrator.
Section 6.10 Successor Indenture Trustee and Securities Administrator by
▇▇▇▇▇▇. If the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator consolidates
with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all of its
corporate trust business or assets to, another corporation or banking
association, the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation, without any
further act, shall be the successor Indenture Trustee or successor Securities
Administrator, as applicable; provided, that such corporation or banking
association shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under Section 6.12 hereof.
The Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator shall provide the Rating
Agencies and the Issuer with prior written notice, and the Noteholders with
prompt written notice, of any such transaction.
If at the time such successor or successors by merger, conversion or
consolidation to the Indenture Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by
this Indenture and any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not
delivered, any such successor to the Indenture Trustee may adopt the certificate
of authentication of any predecessor trustee and deliver such Notes so
authenticated; and if at that time any of the Notes shall not have been
authenticated, any successor to the Indenture Trustee may authenticate such
Notes either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the
successor to the Indenture Trustee; and in all such cases such certificates
shall have the full force which is in the Notes or in this Indenture provided
that the certificate of the Indenture Trustee shall have.
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Section 6.11 Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture
Trustee. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, at any
time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirement of any jurisdiction in
which any part of the Trust Estate may at the time be located, the Indenture
Trustee shall have the power and may execute and deliver all instruments to
appoint one or more Persons to act as a co-trustee or co-trustees, or separate
trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part of the Trust Estate, and to
vest in such Person or Persons, in such capacity and for the benefit of the
Noteholders, such title to the Trust Estate, or any part hereof, and, subject to
the other provisions of this Section, such powers, duties, obligations, rights
and trusts as the Indenture Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. No
co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be required to meet the terms of
eligibility as a successor trustee under Section 6.12 hereof.
(b) Every separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted
by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and conditions:
(i) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed
upon the Indenture Trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or
performed by the Indenture Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee
jointly (it being understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee is not
authorized to act separately without the Indenture Trustee joining in such act),
except to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any
particular act or acts are to be performed the Indenture Trustee shall be
incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such
rights, powers, duties and obligations (including the holding of title to the
Trust Estate or any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised
and performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the
direction of the Indenture Trustee;
(ii) no trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any
act or omission of any other trustee hereunder; and
(iii) the Indenture Trustee may at any time accept the resignation of
or remove any separate trustee or co-trustee.
(c) Any notice, request or other writing given to the Indenture Trustee
shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and
co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument
appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Indenture and
the conditions of this Article VI. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon
its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or
property specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the
Indenture Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the
provisions of this Indenture, specifically including every provision of this
Indenture relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording
protection to, the Indenture Trustee. Every such instrument shall be filed with
the Indenture Trustee.
(d) Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time constitute the
Indenture Trustee, its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority,
to the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of
this Indenture on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or
co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of
its estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be
exercised by the
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Indenture Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a
new or successor trustee.
Section 6.12 Eligibility; Disqualification. The Indenture Trustee shall at
all times be an entity that meets the requirements of Section 3(c)(3) under the
Investment Company Act of 1940 applicable to a trustee, and shall have a
combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 as set forth in its most
recent published annual report of condition and it or its parent shall have a
long-term debt rating of Baa3 or better by ▇▇▇▇▇'▇.
Section 6.13 [Reserved].
Section 6.14 Representations and Warranties. The Indenture Trustee hereby
represents that:
(i) The Indenture Trustee is duly organized and validly existing as a
national banking association in good standing under the laws of the United
States with power and authority to own its properties and to conduct its
business as such properties are currently owned and such business is presently
conducted;
(ii) The Indenture Trustee has the power and authority to execute and
deliver this Indenture and to carry out its terms; and the execution, delivery
and performance of this Indenture have been duly authorized by the Indenture
Trustee by all necessary corporate action;
(iii) The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Indenture and the fulfillment of the terms hereof do not conflict with, result
in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute (with or
without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the articles of incorporation
or bylaws of the Indenture Trustee or any agreement or other instrument to which
the Indenture Trustee is a party or by which it is bound; and
(iv) To the Indenture Trustee's knowledge, there are no proceedings or
investigations pending or threatened before any court, regulatory body,
administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction
over the Indenture Trustee or its properties: (A) asserting the invalidity of
this Indenture, (B) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of the
transactions contemplated by this Indenture or (C) seeking any determination or
ruling that might materially and adversely affect the performance by the
Indenture Trustee of its obligations under, or the validity or enforceability
of, this Indenture.
Section 6.15 Directions to Indenture Trustee and the Securities
Administrator. The Indenture Trustee is hereby directed:
(a) to accept the pledge of the Mortgage Loans and hold the assets of the
Trust in trust for the Noteholders;
(b) the Securities Administrator is hereby directed to (i) authenticate
and deliver the Notes substantially in the form prescribed by Exhibits A-1, A-2
and A-3 to this Indenture in accordance with the terms of this Indenture; and
(c) to take all other actions as shall be required to be taken by the
Securities Administrator pursuant to the terms of this Indenture and the other
Basic Documents.
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Section 6.16 The Agents. The provisions of this Indenture relating to the
limitations of the Indenture Trustee's liability and to its rights and
protections shall inure also to the Paying Agent, Note Registrar and Certificate
Registrar.
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ARTICLE VII
NOTEHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS
Section 7.01 Issuer To Furnish Securities Administrator Trustee Names and
Addresses of Noteholders. The Issuer will furnish or cause to be furnished to
the Securities Administrator (a) not more than five days after each Record Date,
a list, in such form as the Securities Administrator may reasonably require, of
the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes as of such Record Date, and (b)
at such other times as the Securities Administrator may request in writing,
within 30 days after receipt by the Issuer of any such request, a list of
similar form and content as of a date not more than 10 days prior to the time
such list is furnished; provided, however, that so long as the Securities
Administrator is the Note Registrar, no such list shall be required to be
furnished to the Securities Administrator.
Section 7.02 Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders.
(a) The Securities Administrator shall preserve, in as current a form as is
reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes
contained in the most recent list furnished to the Securities Administrator as
provided in Section 7.01 hereof and the names and addresses of Holders of Notes
received by the Securities Administrator in its capacity as Note Registrar. The
Securities Administrator may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in
such Section 7.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) Noteholders may communicate with other Noteholders with respect to
their rights under this Indenture or under the Notes.
Section 7.03 Financial Information. For so long as any of the Notes
bearing a restrictive legend remains outstanding and is a "restricted security"
within the meaning of Rule 144(a)(3) under the Securities Act, the Issuer shall,
during any period in which it is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act nor exempt from reporting pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under such
Act, cause the Securities Administrator to make available to any Holder of any
such Note in connection with any sale thereof and to any prospective purchaser
of any such Note from such Holder, in each case upon request, the information
specified in, and meeting the requirements of, Rule 144A(d)(4) under the
Securities Act that is in the Securities Administrator's possession or
reasonably obtainable by it, if requested, from the Master Servicer (and to the
extent such information is in the Master Servicer's possession or is reasonably
obtainable by it from the Servicers).
Unless the Issuer otherwise determines, the fiscal year of the Issuer
shall end on December 31 of each year.
Section 7.04 Statements to Noteholders. (a) With respect to each Payment
Date, the Securities Administrator shall make available via the Securities
Administrator's website, initially located at ▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇, to each
Noteholder and each Certificateholder, the Depositor, the Issuer, the Seller,
the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Paying Agent and the Rating Agencies, a
statement setting forth the following information as to the Notes, to the extent
applicable:
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(i) the Available Funds, the Basis Risk Shortfall Carryover Amount on
each Class of Class A Notes for such Payment Date and the aggregate Net Interest
Shortfall on each Class of Notes for such Payment Date;
(ii) (a) the amount of such distribution to each Class of Notes (other
than the Class X Notes) applied to reduce the Note Principal Balance thereof,
and (b) the aggregate amount included therein representing Principal
Prepayments;
(iii) the amount of such distribution to Holders of each Class of
Notes allocable to interest;
(iv) the amount of any distribution to the Certificates;
(v) if the distribution to the Holders of any Class of Notes is less
than the full amount that would be distributable to such Holders if there were
sufficient funds available therefor, the amount of the shortfall;
(vi) the number and the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of the
Mortgage Loans as of the end of the related Due Period;
(vii) the aggregate Note Principal Balance and Notional Amount, as
applicable, of each Class of Notes, after giving effect to the amounts
distributed on such Payment Date, separately identifying any reduction of the
Note Principal Balance due to Realized Losses and the aggregate Note Principal
Balance of the Notes after giving effect to the distribution of principal on
such Payment Date;
(viii) the number and aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of
Mortgage Loans (a) as to which the Monthly Payment is delinquent for 31-60 days,
61-90 days, 91 or more days, respectively, (b) in foreclosure and (c) that have
become REO Property, in each case as of the end of the preceding calendar month;
(ix) the amount of any Monthly Advances and Compensating Interest
payments;
(x) the aggregate Realized Losses with respect to the related Payment
Date and cumulative Realized Losses since the Closing Date;
(xi) the number and aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of Mortgage
Loans repurchased pursuant to the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement for the
related Payment Date and cumulatively since the Closing Date;
(xii) the book value (if available) of any REO Property;
(xiii) the amount of any Prepayment Interest Shortfalls or Relief Act
Shortfalls for such Payment Date; and
(xiv) the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of Mortgage Loans
purchased pursuant to Section 2.04 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement for the
related Payment Date and cumulatively since the Closing Date.
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Items (iii) and (iv) above shall be presented on the basis of a Note
having a $1,000 denomination. In addition, by January 31 of each calendar year
following any year during which the Notes are outstanding, the Securities
Administrator shall furnish a report to each Noteholder of record if so
requested in writing at any time during each calendar year as to the aggregate
of amounts reported pursuant to (iii) and (iv) with respect to the Notes for
such calendar year.
The Securities Administrator may conclusively rely upon the information
provided by the Master Servicer to the Securities Administrator in its
preparation of monthly statements to Noteholders.
The Securities Administrator will make the monthly statements provided for
in this section (and, at its option, any additional files containing the same
information in an alternative format) available each month to Noteholders, each
Noteholder and each Certificateholder, the Depositor, the Issuer, the Seller,
the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Paying Agent and the Rating Agency via the
Securities Administrator's website. The Securities Administrator's website shall
initially be located at "▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇." Assistance in using the website can
be obtained by calling the Securities Administrator's customer service desk at
(▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇. Parties that are unable to use the website are entitled to have
a paper copy mailed to them via first class mail by calling the Securities
Administrator's customer service desk and indicating such. The Securities
Administrator may have the right to change the way the monthly statements are
distributed in order to make such distribution more convenient and/or more
accessible to the above parties and the Securities Administrator shall provide
timely and adequate notification to all above parties regarding any such
changes.
The Securities Administrator shall be entitled to rely on but shall not be
responsible for the content or accuracy of any information provided by third
parties for purposes of preparing the monthly statement, and may affix thereto
any disclaimer it deems appropriate in its reasonable discretion (without
suggesting liability on the part of any other party hereto).
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ARTICLE VIII
ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES
Section 8.01 Collection of Money. Except as otherwise expressly provided
herein, the Securities Administrator may demand payment or delivery of, and
shall receive and collect, directly and without intervention or assistance of
any fiscal agent or other intermediary, all money and other property payable to
or receivable by the Securities Administrator pursuant to this Indenture. The
Securities Administrator shall apply all such money received by it as provided
in this Indenture. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, if
any default occurs in the making of any payment or performance under any
agreement or instrument that is part of the Trust Estate, the Indenture Trustee
may take such action as may be appropriate to enforce such payment or
performance, including the institution and prosecution of appropriate
Proceedings. Any such action shall be without prejudice to any right to claim a
Default or Event of Default under this Indenture and any right to proceed
thereafter as provided in Article V.
Section 8.02 Officer's Certificate. The Indenture Trustee shall receive at
least seven Business Days' notice when requested by the Issuer to take any
action pursuant to Section 8.06(a) hereof, accompanied by copies of any
instruments to be executed, and the Indenture Trustee shall also require, as a
condition to such action, an Officer's Certificate, in form and substance
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, stating the legal effect of any such
action, outlining the steps required to complete the same, and concluding that
all conditions precedent to the taking of such action have been complied with.
Section 8.03 Termination Upon Distribution to Noteholders. This Indenture
and the respective obligations and responsibilities of the Issuer, the
Securities Administrator and the Indenture Trustee created hereby shall
terminate upon the distribution to Noteholders, the Certificate Paying Agent on
behalf of the Certificateholders, the Securities Administrator and the Indenture
Trustee of all amounts required to be distributed pursuant to Article III;
provided, however, that in no event shall the trust created hereby continue
beyond the expiration of 21 years from the death of the survivor of the
descendants of ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, the late ambassador of the United States to
the Court of St. ▇▇▇▇▇, living on the date hereof.
Section 8.04 Release of Trust Estate. (a) Subject to the payment of its
fees and expenses, the Indenture Trustee may, and when required by the
provisions of this Indenture shall, execute instruments to release property from
the lien of this Indenture, or convey the Indenture Trustee's interest in the
same, in a manner and under circumstances that are not inconsistent with the
provisions of this Indenture, including for the purposes of any purchase of a
Mortgage Loan by the Majority Certificateholder pursuant to Section 8.06 of this
Indenture. No party relying upon an instrument executed by the Indenture Trustee
as provided in Article VIII hereunder shall be bound to ascertain the Indenture
Trustee's authority, inquire into the satisfaction of any conditions precedent,
or see to the application of any monies.
(b) The Indenture Trustee shall, at such time as (i) it is notified by the
Securities Administrator that there are no Notes Outstanding and (ii) all sums
then due and unpaid to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Indenture have
been paid, release any remaining portion of the Trust Estate that secured the
Notes from the lien of this Indenture.
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(c) The Indenture Trustee shall release property from the lien of this
Indenture pursuant to this Section 8.05 only upon receipt of a request from the
Issuer.
Section 8.05 Surrender of Notes Upon Final Payment. By acceptance of any
Note, the Holder thereof agrees to surrender such Note to the Securities
Administrator promptly, prior to such Noteholder's receipt of the final payment
thereon.
Section 8.06 Optional Redemption of the Mortgage Loans. (a) The Majority
Certificateholder shall have the option to purchase the assets of the Trust and
thereby cause the redemption of the Notes, in whole, but not in part, on or
after the Payment Date on which the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of the
Mortgage Loans as of the end of the prior Due Period is 10% or less of Cut-off
Date Scheduled Principal Balance of the Mortgage as of the Closing Date. The
aggregate redemption price (the "Redemption Price") for the Notes will be equal
to 100% of the aggregate outstanding Note Principal Balance of the Notes as of
the Payment Date on which the proposed redemption will take place in accordance
with the foregoing, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon at the
applicable Note Interest Rate through such Payment Date (including any related
Net Interest Shortfall and Basis Risk Shortfall Carryover Amount), plus an
amount sufficient to pay in full all amounts owing to the Indenture Trustee, the
Master Servicer and the Securities Administrator, pursuant to any Basic Document
(which amounts shall be specified in writing upon request of the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee, the Master Servicer and the Securities Administrator, as
applicable).
(b) In order to exercise the foregoing option, the Majority
Certificateholder shall provide written notice of its exercise of such option to
the Securities Administrator, the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Master
Servicer at least 15 days prior to its exercise. Following receipt of the
notice, the Securities Administrator shall provide written notice to the
Noteholders of the final payment on the Notes. In addition, the Majority
Certificateholder shall, not less than one Business Day prior to the proposed
Payment Date on which such redemption is to be made, deposit the Redemption
Price specified in (a) above with the Securities Administrator, who shall
deposit the Redemption Price into the Payment Account and shall, on the Payment
Date after receipt of the funds, apply such funds to make final payments of
principal and interest on the Notes in accordance with Section 3.03 hereof and
payment to the Securities Administrator and the Master Servicer as set forth in
(a) above, and this Indenture shall be discharged subject to the provisions of
Section 4.10 hereof. If for any reason the amount deposited by the Majority
Certificateholder is not sufficient to make such redemption or such redemption
cannot be completed for any reason, (a) the amount so deposited by the Majority
Certificateholder with the Securities Administrator shall be immediately
returned to the Majority Certificateholder in full and shall not be used for any
other purpose or be deemed to be part of the Trust Estate and (b) the Note
Principal Balance of the Notes shall continue to bear interest at the related
Note Interest Rate.
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ARTICLE IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 9.01 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders. (a)
Without the consent of the Holders of any Notes but with prior notice to the
Rating Agencies, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Securities
Administrator, when authorized by an Issuer Request, at any time and from time
to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator, for any
of the following purposes:
(i) to correct or amplify the description of any property at any time
subject to the lien of this Indenture, or better to assure, convey and confirm
unto the Indenture Trustee any property subject or required to be subjected to
the lien of this Indenture, or to subject to the lien of this Indenture
additional property;
(ii) to evidence the succession, in compliance with the applicable
provisions hereof, of another person to the Issuer, and the assumption by any
such successor of the covenants of the Issuer herein and in the Notes contained;
(iii) to add to the covenants of the Issuer, for the benefit of the
Holders of the Notes, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon
the Issuer;
(iv) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property to
or with the Indenture Trustee;
(v) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision
herein or in any supplemental indenture that may be inconsistent with any other
provision herein or in any supplemental indenture;
(vi) to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions
arising under this Indenture or in any supplemental indenture; provided, that
such action shall not materially and adversely affect the interests of the
Holders of the Notes; provided further, that such supplemental indenture will be
deemed to not materially and adversely affect the interests of the Holders of
the Notes if a Rating Confirmation is received with respect to such supplemental
indenture; or
(vii) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of the appointment
hereunder by a successor trustee with respect to the Notes and to add to or
change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to
facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one trustee,
pursuant to the requirements of Article VI hereof;
provided, however, that no such indenture supplements shall be entered into
unless the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator shall have
received an Opinion of Counsel not at the expense of the Indenture Trustee or
the Securities Administrator as to the enforceability of any such indenture
supplement and to the effect that (i) such indenture supplement is permitted
hereunder and will not materially and adversely affect the Holders of the Notes,
(ii) entering into such indenture supplement will not result in a "substantial
modification" of the Notes under
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Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3 or adversely affect the indebtedness status
of any Classes of Notes with respect to which a "will be debt" opinion has been
rendered by nationally recognized tax counsel and furnished to the Securities
Administrator and (iii) such indenture supplement does not materially and
adversely affect the transfer restrictions with respect to the Senior Notes set
forth in Section 4.02.
The Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator are hereby
authorized to join in the execution of any such supplemental indenture and to
make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations that may be therein
contained.
(b) The Issuer, the Securities Administrator and the Indenture Trustee,
when authorized by an Issuer Request, in the case of the Securities
Administrator and the Indenture Trustee may, also without the consent of any of
the Holders of the Notes and prior notice to the Rating Agency, enter into an
indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any
provisions to, or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions
of, this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of
the Notes under this Indenture; provided, however, that such action as evidenced
by an Opinion of Counsel, (i) is permitted by this Indenture, (ii) shall not
adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Noteholder, (iii)
if 100% of the Certificates and Privately Offered Notes (other than any
Privately Offered Notes with respect to which a "will be debt" opinion has been
rendered by nationally recognized tax counsel and furnished to the Securities
Administrator) are not owned by the Investor, shall not cause the Issuer to be
subject to an entity level tax for federal income tax purpose and (iv) such
action does not materially and adversely affect the transfer restrictions with
respect to the Senior Notes set forth in Section 4.02.
Section 9.02 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Noteholders. The
Issuer, the Securities Administrator and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized
by an Issuer Request in the case of the Securities Administrator and the
Indenture Trustee, also may, with prior notice to the Rating Agencies and, with
the consent Holders of not less than a majority of the Note Principal Balance of
each Class of Notes affected thereby, by Act (as defined in Section 10.03
hereof) of such Holders delivered to the Issuer, the Securities Administrator
and the Indenture Trustee, enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental
hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to, or changing in any manner or
eliminating any of the provisions of, this Indenture or of modifying in any
manner the rights of the Holders of the Notes under this Indenture; provided,
however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the
Holder of each Note affected thereby:
(i) change the date of payment of any installment of principal of or
interest on any Note, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the interest
rate thereon, change the provisions of this Indenture relating to the
application of collections on, or the proceeds of the sale of, the Trust Estate
and to payment of principal of or interest on the Notes, or change any place of
payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Note or the interest
thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of
the provisions of this Indenture requiring the application of funds available
therefor, as provided in Article V, to the payment of any such amount due on the
Notes on or after the respective due dates thereof;
(ii) reduce the percentage of the Note Principal Balances of the
Notes, or any Class of Notes, the consent of the Holders of which is required
for any such supplemental
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indenture, or the consent of the Holders of which is required for any waiver of
compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults
hereunder and their consequences provided for in this Indenture;
(iii) modify or alter the provisions of the proviso to the definition
of the term "Outstanding" or modify or alter the exception in the definition of
the term "Holder";
(iv) reduce the percentage of the Note Principal Balances of the
Notes, or any Class of Notes, required to direct the Indenture Trustee to direct
the Issuer to sell or liquidate the Trust Estate pursuant to Section 5.04
hereof;
(v) modify any provision of this Section 9.02 except to increase any
percentage specified herein or to provide that certain additional provisions of
this Indenture or the Basic Documents cannot be modified or waived without the
consent of the Holder of each Note affected thereby;
(vi) modify any of the provisions of this Indenture in such manner as
to affect the calculation of the amount of any payment of interest or principal
due on any Note on any Payment Date (including the calculation of any of the
individual components of such calculation); or
(vii) permit the creation of any lien ranking prior to or on a parity
with the lien of this Indenture with respect to any part of the Trust Estate or,
except as otherwise permitted or contemplated herein, terminate the lien of this
Indenture on any property at any time subject hereto or deprive the Holder of
any Note of the security provided by the lien of this Indenture;
and provided, further, that (i) such action shall not, as evidenced by an
Opinion of Counsel, cause the Issuer, if 100% of the Senior Notes, Privately
Offered Notes and Certificates (other than any Senior Notes or Privately Offered
Notes with respect to which a "will be debt" opinion has been rendered by
nationally recognized tax counsel and furnished to the Securities Administrator)
are not owned by the Investor, to be subject to an entity level tax for federal
income tax purposes and (ii) such action does not materially and adversely
affect the transfer restrictions with respect to the Senior Notes set forth in
Section 4.02.
Any such action shall not adversely affect in any material respect the
interest of any Holder (other than a Holder who shall consent to such
supplemental indenture) as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel (provided by the
Person requesting such supplemental indenture) delivered to the Indenture
Trustee and the Securities Administrator.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Noteholders under this Section
9.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but
it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
Promptly after the execution by the Issuer, the Securities Administrator
and the Indenture Trustee of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Section
9.02, the Securities Administrator shall mail to the Holders of the Notes to
which such amendment or supplemental indenture relates a notice setting forth in
general terms the substance of such supplemental indenture. Any
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failure of the Securities Administrator to mail such notice, or any defect
therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any
such supplemental indenture.
Section 9.03 Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In executing, or
permitting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture
permitted by this Article IX or the modification thereby of the trusts created
by this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator shall
be entitled to receive, and subject to Sections 6.01 and 6.02 hereof, shall be
fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel not at the expense of the
Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator stating that the execution of
such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The
Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator each may, but shall not be
obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture that affects the
Indenture Trustee's or the Securities Administrator's own rights, duties,
liabilities or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Section 9.04 Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Upon the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this Indenture shall
be and shall be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith with
respect to the Notes affected thereby, and the respective rights, limitations of
rights, obligations, duties, liabilities and immunities under this Indenture of
the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator, the Issuer and the Holders
of the Notes shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder
subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments, and all the terms
and conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be
part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.
Section 9.05 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. Every amendment of this
Indenture and every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article IX
shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect
so long as this Indenture shall then be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 9.06 Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures. Notes
authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture
pursuant to this Article IX may, and if required by the Securities Administrator
shall, bear a notation in form approved by the Securities Administrator as to
any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Issuer or the
Securities Administrator shall so determine, new Notes so modified as to
conform, in the opinion of the Securities Administrator and the Issuer, to any
such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Issuer and
authenticated and delivered by the Securities Administrator in exchange for
Outstanding Notes.
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ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 10.01 Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc. (a) Upon any
application or request by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee to take any action
under any provision of this Indenture, the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture
Trustee (i) an Officer's Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if
any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been
complied with and (ii) an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such
counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except
that, in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing
of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture,
no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition
or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:
(1) a statement that each signatory of such certificate or opinion
has read or has caused to be read such covenant or condition and the
definitions herein relating thereto;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions
contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such signatory, such
signatory has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to
enable such signatory to express an informed opinion as to whether or not
such covenant or condition has been complied with;
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
signatory, such condition or covenant has been complied with; and
(5) if the signatory of such certificate or opinion is required to
be Independent, the statement required by the definition of the term
"Independent".
(b) (i) Prior to the deposit of any Collateral or other property or
securities with the Indenture Trustee that is to be made the basis for the
release of any property or securities subject to the lien of this Indenture, the
Issuer shall, in addition to any obligation imposed in Section 10.01 (a) or
elsewhere in this Indenture, furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer's
Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each person signing such
certificate as to the fair value (within 90 days prior to such deposit) to the
Issuer of the Collateral or other property or securities to be so deposited and
a report from a nationally recognized accounting firm verifying such value.
(ii) Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the Indenture
Trustee an Officer's Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of any signer
thereof as to the matters described in clause (i) above, the Issuer shall also
deliver to the Indenture Trustee an
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Independent Certificate from a nationally recognized accounting firm as to the
same matters, if the fair value of the securities to be so deposited and of all
other such securities made the basis of any such withdrawal or release since the
commencement of the then current fiscal year of the Issuer, as set forth in the
certificates delivered pursuant to clause (i) above and this clause (ii), is 10%
or more of the Note Principal Balances of the Notes, but such a certificate need
not be furnished with respect to any securities so deposited, if the fair value
thereof as set forth in the related Officer's Certificate is less than $25,000
or less than one percent of the then outstanding Note Principal Balances of the
Notes.
(iii) Whenever any property or securities are to be released from
the lien of this Indenture, the Issuer shall also furnish to the Indenture
Trustee an Officer's Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each
person signing such certificate as to the fair value (within 90 days prior to
such release) of the property or securities proposed to be released and stating
that in the opinion of such person the proposed release will not impair the
security under this Indenture in contravention of the provisions hereof.
(iv) Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the Indenture
Trustee an Officer's Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of any signer
thereof as to the matters described in clause (iii) above, the Issuer shall also
furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Independent Certificate as to the same
matters if the fair value of the property or securities and of all other
property or securities released from the lien of this Indenture since the
commencement of the then-current calendar year, as set forth in the certificates
required by clause (iii) above and this clause (iv), equals 10% or more of the
Note Principal Balances of the Notes, but such certificate need not be furnished
in the case of any release of property or securities if the fair value thereof
as set forth in the related Officer's Certificate is less than $25,000 or less
than one percent of the then outstanding Note Principal Balances of the Notes.
Section 10.02 Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee. In any
case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an
opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be
certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they
be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify
or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such
Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion
as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an Authorized Officer of the Issuer may be
based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of,
or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are
erroneous. Any such certificate of an Authorized Officer or Opinion of Counsel
may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or
opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the Seller or the
Issuer, stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in
the possession of the Seller or the Issuer, unless such counsel knows, or in the
exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or
representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.
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Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
Whenever in this Indenture, in connection with any application or
certificate or report to the Indenture Trustee, it is provided that the Issuer
shall deliver any document as a condition of the granting of such application,
or as evidence of the Issuer's compliance with any term hereof, it is intended
that the truth and accuracy, at the time of the granting of such application or
at the effective date of such certificate or report (as the case may be), of the
facts and opinions stated in such document shall in such case be conditions
precedent to the right of the Issuer to have such application granted or to the
sufficiency of such certificate or report. The foregoing shall not, however, be
construed to affect the Indenture Trustee's right to rely upon the truth and
accuracy of any statement or opinion contained in any such document as provided
in Article VI.
Section 10.03 Acts of Noteholders. (a) Any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to
be given or taken by Noteholders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more
instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Noteholders in person
or by agents duly appointed in writing; and except as herein otherwise expressly
provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments
are delivered to the Indenture Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly
required, to the Issuer. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied
therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of
the Noteholders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of
any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be
sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 6.01
hereof) conclusive in favor of the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer, if made in
the manner provided in this Section 10.03 hereof.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved in any manner that the Indenture Trustee
deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Notes shall be proved by the Note Registrar.
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action by the Holder of any Notes shall bind the Holder of every
Note issued upon the registration thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu
thereof, in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the
Indenture Trustee or the Issuer in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of
such action is made upon such Note.
Section 10.04 Notices etc., to Indenture Trustee Issuer, Securities
Administrator and Rating Agencies. Any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Noteholders or other documents
provided or permitted by this Indenture shall be in writing and if such request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or act of Noteholders
is to be made upon, given or furnished to or filed with:
(i) the Indenture Trustee by any Noteholder or by the Issuer shall
be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in
writing to or with the Indenture Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office. The
Indenture Trustee shall promptly transmit any notice received by it from the
Noteholders to the Issuer;
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(ii) the Securities Administrator by any Noteholder or by the
Issuer shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished
or filed in writing to or with the Securities Administrator at ▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank,
N.A., P.O. Box 98, Columbia Maryland 21046 (or, in the case of overnight
deliveries, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇), Attn: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage Investors Trust, Series MLCC 2005-2, or such other address as may
hereafter be furnished to the other parties hereto in writing. The Securities
Administrator shall promptly transmit any notice received by it from the
Noteholders to the Issuer; or
(iii) the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or by any Noteholder shall
be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in
writing and mailed first-class, postage prepaid to the Issuer addressed to:
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage Investors Trust, Series 2005-2, in care of Wilmington
Trust Company, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Square North, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇,
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, or at any other
address previously furnished in writing to the Indenture Trustee by the Issuer.
The Issuer shall promptly transmit any notice received by it from the
Noteholders to the Indenture Trustee.
Notices required to be given to the Rating Agencies by the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator or the Owner Trustee shall be in
writing, mailed first-class postage pre-paid: in the case of Moody's, to
Moody's, at the following address: ▇▇▇▇▇'▇ Investors Service, Inc., ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇; and in the case of S&P, Standard & Poor's, a
division of The ▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇ Companies, Inc., ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇; or as to each of the foregoing, at such other address as shall be
designated by written notice to the other parties.
Section 10.05 Notices to Noteholders; Waiver. Where this Indenture
provides for notice to Noteholders of any event, such notice shall be
sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if made, given,
furnished or filed in writing and mailed, first-class, postage prepaid to each
Noteholder affected by such event, at such Person's address as it appears on the
Note Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest
date, prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to
Noteholders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice nor any
defect in any notice so mailed to any particular Noteholder shall affect the
sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Noteholders, and any notice
that is mailed in the manner herein provided shall conclusively be presumed to
have been duly given regardless of whether such notice is in fact actually
received.
Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be
waived in writing by any Person entitled to receive such notice, either before
or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice.
Waivers of notice by Noteholders shall be filed with the Indenture Trustee but
such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action
taken in reliance upon such a waiver.
In case, by reason of the suspension of regular mail service as a result
of a strike, work stoppage or similar activity, it shall be impractical to mail
notice of any event to Noteholders when such notice is required to be given
pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any manner of giving such
notice as shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to be a
sufficient giving of such notice.
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Where this Indenture provides for notice to the Rating Agency, failure to
give such notice shall not affect any other rights or obligations created
hereunder, and shall not under any circumstance constitute an Event of Default.
Section 10.06 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any provision hereof
limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof that is required to
be included in this Indenture by any of the provisions of the Trust Indenture
Act, such required provision shall control.
The provisions of TIA Sections 310 through 317 that impose duties on any
Person (including the provisions automatically deemed included herein unless
expressly excluded by this Indenture) are a part of and govern this Indenture,
whether or not physically contained herein.
Section 10.07 Effect of Headings. The Article and Section headings herein
are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 10.08 Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in this
Indenture and the Notes by the Issuer shall bind its successors and assigns,
whether so expressed or not. All agreements of the Indenture Trustee in this
Indenture shall bind its successors, co-trustees and agents.
Section 10.09 Separability. In case any provision in this Indenture or in
the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality,
and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected
or impaired thereby.
Section 10.10 Legal Holidays. In any case where the date on which any
payment is due shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other
provision of the Notes or this Indenture) payment need not be made on such date,
but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and
effect as if made on the date on which nominally due, and no interest shall
accrue for the period from and after any such nominal date.
Section 10.11 GOVERNING LAW. THIS INDENTURE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS
CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS (OTHER THAN SECTIONS 5-1401 AND 5-1402 OF THE NEW
YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAWS, WHICH SHALL APPLY HERETO), AND THE OBLIGATIONS,
RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH SUCH LAWS.
Section 10.12 Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in any number
of counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an
original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the
same instrument.
Section 10.13 Recording of Indenture. If this Indenture is subject to
recording in any appropriate public recording offices, such recording is to be
effected by the Issuer and at its expense accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel
at its expense (which may be counsel to the Indenture Trustee or any other
counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee) to the effect that such
recording is necessary either for the protection of the Noteholders or any other
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Person secured hereunder or for the enforcement of any right or remedy granted
to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.
Section 10.14 Issuer Obligation. No recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or
the Securities Administrator on the Notes or under this Indenture or any
certificate or other writing delivered in connection herewith or therewith,
against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual
capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any
partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director, employee or agent of the
Securities Administrator, the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, any
holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Securities Administrator, the
Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the
Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, except as any
such Person may have expressly agreed (it being understood that the Indenture
Trustee and the Owner Trustee have no such obligations in their individual
capacity) and except that any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be fully
liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for any unpaid consideration
for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call
owing to such entity. For all purposes of this Indenture, in the performance of
any duties or obligations of the Issuer hereunder, the Owner Trustee shall be
subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the terms and provisions of Article
VI, VII and VIII of the Trust Agreement.
Section 10.15 No Petition. The Indenture Trustee and the Securities
Administrator, by entering into this Indenture, each Noteholder, by accepting a
Note and each Certificateholder, by accepting a Certificate, hereby covenant and
agree that they will not at any time prior to one year from the date of
termination hereof, institute against the Depositor or the Issuer, or join in
any institution against the Depositor or the Issuer of, any bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other
proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law
in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, this Indenture or any
of the Basic Documents; provided however, that nothing herein shall prohibit the
Indenture Trustee from filing proofs of claim in any proceeding.
Section 10.16 Inspection. The Issuer agrees that, at its expense, on
reasonable prior notice, it shall permit any representative of the Indenture
Trustee or the Securities Administrator, during the Issuer's normal business
hours, to examine all the books of account, records, reports and other papers of
the Issuer, to make copies and extracts therefrom, to cause such books to be
audited by Independent certified public accountants, and to discuss the Issuer's
affairs, finances and accounts with the Issuer's officers, employees, and
Independent certified public accountants, all at such reasonable times and as
often as may be reasonably requested. The Indenture Trustee shall cause its
representatives to hold in confidence all such information except to the extent
disclosure may be required by law (and all reasonable applications for
confidential treatment are unavailing) and except to the extent that the
Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator may reasonably determine that
such disclosure is consistent with its obligations hereunder.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer, the Securities Administrator and the
Indenture Trustee have caused their names to be signed hereto by their
respective officers thereunto duly authorized, all as of the day and year first
above written.
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ MORTGAGE INVESTORS TRUST, SERIES
2005-2, as Issuer
BY: Wilmington Trust Company,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as Owner
Trustee
By: /S/ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Senior Financial Services Officer
▇▇▇▇▇ FARGO BANK, N.A., as Securities
Administrator
By: /S/ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as
Indenture Trustee
By: /S/ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
STATE OF MARYLAND )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF BALTIMORE )
On the 31st day of August 2005 before me, a notary public in and for said
State, personally appeared ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, known to me to be a Vice President
of ▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank, N.A., the entity that executed the within instrument, and
also known to me to be the person who executed it on behalf of said entity, and
acknowledged to me that such entity executed the within instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official
seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.
/S/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Notary Public
[Notarial Seal]
STATE OF DELAWARE )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF NEWCASTLE )
On this 31st day of August, 2005, before me personally appeared ▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ to me known, who being by me duly sworn, did depose and say, that he/she
is a(n) Senior Financial Services Officer of the Owner Trustee, one of the
entities described in and which executed the above instrument; and that he
signed her name thereto by like order.
Notary Public
/S/ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
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NOTARY PUBLIC
[NOTARIAL SEAL]
STATE OF NEW YORK )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF NEW YORK )
On this 31st day of August, 2005, before me personally appeared ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇
to me known, who being by me duly sworn, did depose and say, that she is a Vice
President of the Indenture Trustee, one of the corporations described in and
which executed the above instrument; and that he signed his name thereto by like
order.
Notary Public
/S/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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NOTARY PUBLIC
[NOTARIAL SEAL]
EXHIBIT A-1
FORM OF CLASS A NOTES
UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY
TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR
OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE
ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO
CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE OR BENEFICIAL OWNER OF ANY INTEREST HEREIN IS DEEMED TO
REPRESENT THAT EITHER (1) IT IS NOT ACQUIRING THE NOTE WITH PLAN ASSETS OR (2)
(A) THE ACQUISITION, HOLDING AND TRANSFER OF A NOTE WILL NOT GIVE RISE TO A
NONEXEMPT PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF
THE CODE AND (B) THE NOTES ARE RATED INVESTMENT GRADE OR BETTER AND SUCH PERSON
BELIEVES THAT THE NOTES ARE PROPERLY TREATED AS INDEBTEDNESS WITHOUT SUBSTANTIAL
EQUITY FEATURES FOR PURPOSES OF THE DOL REGULATIONS, AND AGREES TO SO TREAT THE
NOTES. ALTERNATIVELY, REGARDLESS OF THE RATING OF THE NOTES, SUCH PERSON MAY
PROVIDE THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND THE NOTE REGISTRAR WITH AN OPINION OF COUNSEL,
WHICH OPINION OF COUNSEL WILL NOT BE AT THE EXPENSE OF THE ISSUER, THE SELLER,
THE OWNER TRUSTEE, THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE, THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR, THE NOTE
REGISTRAR, THE MASTER SERVICER OR ANY SERVICER, WHICH OPINES THAT THE
ACQUISITION, HOLDING AND TRANSFER OF SUCH NOTE OR INTEREST THEREIN IS
PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, WILL NOT CONSTITUTE OR RESULT IN A NON-EXEMPT
PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE AND WILL NOT
SUBJECT THE ISSUER, THE SELLER, THE DEPOSITOR, THE OWNER TRUSTEE, THE INDENTURE
TRUSTEE, THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR, THE NOTE REGISTRAR, THE MASTER SERVICER
OR ANY SERVICER TO ANY OBLIGATION IN ADDITION TO THOSE UNDERTAKEN IN THE
INDENTURE.
THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE OR BENEFICIAL OWNER OF ANY INTEREST HEREIN WILL BE
DEEMED TO REPRESENT TO ONE OF THE REPRESENTATIONS CONTAINED IN THE INDENTURE.
NO TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE SHALL BE MADE, UNLESS (A) (I) IN THE CASE OF AN INITIAL
TRANSFER (AS DEFINED IN THE INDENTURE) OF THIS NOTE, (X) A CERTIFICATE
SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM OF EXHIBIT I TO THE INDENTURE (A "TAX TRANSFER
CERTIFICATE") HAS BEEN FURNISHED TO
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THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR OR (Y) A "WILL BE DEBT" OPINION SHALL HAVE BEEN
RENDERED BY A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED TAX COUNSEL WITH RESPECT TO IT AND FURNISHED
TO THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR, OR (II) AN INITIAL TRANSFER OF A PRIVATELY
OFFERED NOTE WITH RESPECT TO WHICH A "WILL BE DEBT" OPINION HAS BEEN RENDERED BY
NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED TAX COUNSEL AND FURNISHED TO THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR
OR (B) IN THE CASE OF A SUBSEQUENT TRANSFER (AS DEFINED IN THE INDENTURE) OF
THIS NOTE, THE TRANSFEREE SHALL HAVE DELIVERED TO THE OWNER TRUSTEE, THE NOTE
REGISTRAR, THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR AND THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE A CERTIFICATE
CERTIFYING THAT (1) IT IS A REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST ("REIT") WITHIN THE
MEANING OF SECTION 856(A) OF THE CODE OR A QUALIFIED REIT SUBSIDIARY ("QRS")
WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 856(I) OF THE CODE OR AN ENTITY DISREGARDED AS AN
ENTITY SEPARATE FROM A REIT OR A QRS AND (2) FOLLOWING THE TRANSFER, 100% OF THE
SUBORDINATE NOTES AND CERTIFICATES (OTHER THAN ANY SUBORDINATE NOTES WITH
RESPECT TO WHICH A "WILL BE DEBT" OPINION HAS BEEN RENDERED BY NATIONALLY
RECOGNIZED TAX COUNSEL AND FURNISHED TO THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR) WILL BE
OWNED BY A REIT, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY THROUGH ONE OR MORE QRSs OF SUCH REIT OR
ONE OR MORE ENTITIES DISREGARDED AS ENTITIES SEPARATE FROM SUCH REIT OR SUCH
QRSs; PROVIDED THAT, NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, (X) THIS NOTE MAY BE PLEDGED
TO SECURE INDEBTEDNESS AND MAY BE THE SUBJECT OF REPURCHASE AGREEMENTS TREATED
AS SECURED INDEBTEDNESS FOR FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, AND (Y) THIS NOTE MAY
BE TRANSFERRED BY A RELATED LENDER UNDER ANY SUCH RELATED LOAN AGREEMENT OR
REPURCHASE AGREEMENT UPON A DEFAULT UNDER ANY SUCH INDEBTEDNESS, IN WHICH CASE
THE TRANSFEROR SHALL DELIVER TO THE NOTE REGISTRAR, THE SECURITIES
ADMINISTRATOR, THE OWNER TRUSTEE AND THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE A CERTIFICATE
CERTIFYING TO SUCH EFFECT.
THIS NOTE IS A NON-RECOURSE OBLIGATION OF THE ISSUER, AND IS LIMITED IN RIGHT OF
PAYMENT TO AMOUNTS AVAILABLE FROM THE TRUST ESTATE AS PROVIDED IN THE INDENTURE
REFERRED TO BELOW. THE ISSUER IS NOT OTHERWISE PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR PAYMENTS ON
THIS NOTE.
PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE OVER TIME AS SET FORTH HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY,
THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT
SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
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▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ MORTGAGE INVESTORS TRUST, SERIES 2005-2
MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES, SERIES MLCC 2005-2
CLASS [1][2][3]-A
AGGREGATE NOTE PRINCIPAL NOTE INTEREST
BALANCE: $[________________] RATE: Adjustable Rate
INITIAL NOTE PRINCIPAL NOTE NO. 1
BALANCE OF THIS NOTE: $[_____________]
CUSIP NO: [_______________]
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ MORTGAGE INVESTORS TRUST, SERIES 2005-2 (the "Issuer"), a
Delaware statutory trust, for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede &
Co. or registered assigns, the principal sum of $[____________________] in
monthly installments on the twenty-fifth day of each month or, if such day is
not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day (each a "Payment Date"),
commencing in September 2005 and ending on or before the Payment Date occurring
in [__________ 20___] (the "Final Scheduled Payment Date") and to pay interest
on the Note Principal Balance of this Note (this "Note") outstanding from time
to time as provided below.
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of the Issuer's
Mortgage-Backed Notes, Series MLCC 2005-2 (the "Notes"), issued under an
Indenture dated as of August 31, 2005 (the "Indenture"), among the Issuer, ▇▇▇▇▇
Fargo Bank, N.A., as Securities Administrator (the "Securities Administrator")
and HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as indenture trustee (the "Indenture
Trustee", which term includes any successor Indenture Trustee under the
Indenture) to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference
is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights thereunder of the
Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, and the Holders of the Notes and the terms upon
which the Notes are to be authenticated and delivered. All terms used in this
Note which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them
in the Indenture.
Payments of principal and interest on this Note will be made on each
Payment Date to the Noteholder of record as of the related Record Date. The
"Note Principal Balance" of a Note as of any date of determination is equal to
the initial Note Principal Balance thereof, minus (i) all amounts distributed in
respect of principal with respect to such Class of Notes and (ii) the aggregate
amount of any reductions in the Note Principal Balance thereof deemed to have
occurred in connection with allocations of Realized Losses on all prior Payment
Dates in accordance with the Indenture, taking account of its applicable Loss
Allocation Limitation, plus (iii) any Subsequent Recoveries allocated thereto.
The principal of, and interest on, this Note are due and payable as
described in the Indenture, in such coin or currency of the United States of
America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and
private debts. All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Note shall
be equal to this Note's pro rata share of the aggregate payments on all Class
[1][2][3]-A Notes as described above, and shall be applied as between interest
and principal as provided in the Indenture.
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All principal and interest accrued on the Notes, if not previously paid,
will become finally due and payable at the Final Scheduled Payment Date.
The Mortgage Loans are subject to purchase in whole, but not in part, by
the Majority Certificateholder on any Payment Date on or after the Payment Date
on which the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans as of
the end of the prior Due Period is less than or equal to 10% of the aggregate
Scheduled Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-off Date.
The Issuer shall not be liable upon the indebtedness evidenced by the
Notes except to the extent of amounts available from the Trust Estate which
constitutes security for the payment of the Notes. The assets included in the
Trust Estate will be the sole source of payments on the Class [1][2][3]-A Notes,
and each Holder hereof, by its acceptance of this Note, agrees that (i) such
Note will be limited in right of payment to amounts available from the Trust
Estate as provided in the Indenture and (ii) such Holder shall have no recourse
to the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor, the
Seller, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator or any of their
respective affiliates, or to the assets of any of the foregoing entities, except
the assets of the Issuer pledged to secure the Class [1][2][3]-A Notes pursuant
to the Indenture and the rights conveyed to the Issuer under the Indenture.
Any payment of principal or interest payable on this Note which is
punctually paid on the applicable Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in
whose name such Note is registered at the close of business on the Record Date
for such Payment Date by check mailed to such person's address as it appears in
the Note Register on such Record Date, except for the final installment of
principal and interest payable with respect to such Note, which shall be payable
as provided below. Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon written request with
appropriate instructions by the Holder of this Note delivered to the Securities
Administrator at least five Business Days prior to the Record Date, any payment
of principal or interest, other than the final installment of principal or
interest, shall be made by wire transfer to an account in the United States
designated by such Holder. All reductions in the principal amount of a Note
effected by payments of principal made on any Payment Date shall be binding upon
all Holders of this 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. The final payment of this Note shall be payable
upon presentation and surrender thereof on or after the Payment Date thereof at
the office designated by the Securities Administrator or the office or agency of
the Issuer maintained by it for such purpose pursuant to Section 4.02 of the
Indenture.
Subject to the foregoing provisions, each Note delivered under the
Indenture, upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any
other Note, shall carry the right to unpaid principal and interest that were
carried by such other Note.
If an Event of Default as defined in the Indenture shall occur and be
continuing with respect to the Notes, the Notes may become or be declared due
and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. If any
such acceleration of maturity occurs prior to the payment of the entire unpaid
Note Principal Balance of the Notes, the amount payable to the Holder of this
Note will be equal to the sum of the unpaid Note Principal Balance of this Note,
together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon as described in the Indenture.
The Indenture provides that, notwithstanding the acceleration of the maturity of
the Notes, under certain
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circumstances specified therein, all amounts collected as proceeds of the Trust
Estate securing the Notes or otherwise shall continue to be applied to payments
of principal of and interest on the Notes as if they had not been declared due
and payable.
The failure to pay any Net Interest Shortfall at any time when funds are
not available to make such payment as provided in the Indenture shall not
constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture.
The Holder of this Note or Beneficial Owner of any interest herein is
deemed to represent that either (1) it is not acquiring the Note with Plan
Assets or (2) (A) the acquisition, holding and transfer of a Note will not give
rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section
4975 of the Code and (B) the Notes are rated investment grade or better and such
person believes that the Notes are properly treated as indebtedness without
substantial equity features for purposes of the DOL Regulations, and agrees to
so treat the Notes. Alternatively, regardless of the rating of the Notes, such
person may provide the Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar with an opinion
of counsel, which opinion of counsel will not be at the expense of the Issuer,
the Seller, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Master Servicer, the
Securities Administrator, the Note Registrar or any servicer, which opines that
the acquisition, holding and transfer of such Note or interest therein is
permissible under applicable law, will not constitute or result in a non-exempt
prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and will not
subject the Issuer, the Seller, the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee, the Note Registrar, the Securities Administrator, the Master Servicer
or any servicer to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the
Indenture and the other Basic Documents.
No transfer of this note shall be made, unless (A) (I) In the case of an
Initial Transfer (as defined in the indenture) of this Note, (x) a certificate
substantially in the form of Exhibit I to the indenture (a "Tax Transfer
Certificate") has been furnished to the Securities Administrator or (y) a "will
be debt" opinion shall have been rendered by a nationally recognized tax counsel
with respect to it and furnished to the Securities Administrator, or (ii) an
Initial Transfer of a Privately Offered Note with respect to which a "will be
debt" opinion has been rendered by nationally recognized tax counsel and
furnished to the Securities Administrator or (B) in the case of a Subsequent
Transfer (as defined in the indenture) of this Note, the transferee shall have
delivered to the Owner Trustee, the Note Registrar, the Securities Administrator
and the Indenture Trustee a certificate certifying that (1) it is a real estate
investment trust ("REIT") within the meaning of section 856(a) of the code or a
qualified REIT subsidiary ("QRS") within the meaning of section 856(i) of the
code or an entity disregarded as an entity separate from a REIT or a QRS and (2)
following the transfer, 100% of the Subordinate Notes and Certificates (other
than any Subordinate Notes with respect to which a "will be debt" opinion has
been rendered by nationally recognized tax counsel and furnished to the
Securities Administrator) will be owned by a REIT, directly or indirectly
through one or more QRSs of such REIT or one or more entities disregarded as
entities separate from such REIT or such QRSs; provided that, notwithstanding
the foregoing, (x) this note may be pledged to secure indebtedness and may be
the subject of repurchase agreements treated as secured indebtedness for federal
income tax purposes, and (y) this note may be transferred by a related lender
under any such related loan agreement or repurchase agreement upon a default
under any such indebtedness, in which case the transferor
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shall deliver to the Note Registrar, the Securities Administrator, the Owner
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee a certificate certifying to such effect.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein
set forth, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register of
the Issuer. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of, or presentation of a
written instrument of transfer for, this Note at the office or agency designated
by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, accompanied by proper instruments of
assignment in form satisfactory to the Securities Administrator, one or more new
Notes of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate then outstanding
Note Principal Balance, will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note,
the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator and any agent of
the Issuer, the Securities Administrator or the Indenture Trustee may treat the
Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner of such Note (i) on
the applicable Record Date for the purpose of making payments and interest of
such Note, and (ii) on any other date for all other purposes whatsoever, as the
owner hereof, whether or not this Note be overdue, and none of the Issuer, the
Securities Administrator, the Indenture Trustee nor any such agent of the
Issuer, the Securities Administrator or the Indenture Trustee shall be affected
by notice to the contrary.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture at any
time by the Issuer and the Holders of a majority of each Class of Notes affected
thereby. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of Notes
representing not less than a majority of the aggregate Note Principal Balance of
the Notes, to waive any past Event of Default and its consequences except an
Event of Default (a) with respect to payment of principal of or interest on any
of the Notes, or (b) in respect of a covenant or provision of the Indenture
which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each
Note. Any such waiver by the Holder, at the time of the giving thereof, of this
Note (or any one or more predecessor Notes) shall bind the Holder of every Note
issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu
hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon such
Note. The Indenture also permits the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the
Securities Administrator, following prior notice to the Rating Agencies, to
amend or waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without
the consent of the Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.
Initially, the Notes will be registered in the name of Cede & Co. as
nominee of DTC, acting in its capacity as the Depository for the Notes. The
Notes will be delivered by the clearing agency in denominations as provided in
the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth. The Notes
are exchangeable for a like aggregate then outstanding Note Principal Balance of
Notes of different authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder
surrendering same.
Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the
Securities Administrator by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to
any benefit under the Indenture, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
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Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as expressly
provided in the Basic Documents, neither the Owner Trustee in its individual
capacity, nor any of its respective partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers,
directors, employees, or successors or assigns, shall be personally liable for,
nor shall recourse be had to any of them for, the payment of principal of or
interest on, or performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants,
obligations or indemnifications contained in this Note, it being expressly
understood that said covenants, obligations and indemnifications have been made
solely by the Trust to the extent of the assets of the Trust. The holder of this
Note by the acceptance hereof agrees that, except as expressly provided in the
Basic Documents, the Holder shall have no claim against any of the foregoing for
any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing
contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against,
the assets of the Trust Estate for any and all liabilities, obligations and
undertakings contained in this Note.
AS PROVIDED IN THE INDENTURE, THIS NOTE AND THE INDENTURE CREATING THIS
NOTE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, AND GOVERNED BY, THE LAWS OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO AGREEMENTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED THEREIN.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be duly
executed.
Dated: August 31, 2005
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ MORTGAGE INVESTORS TRUST,
SERIES 2005-2
BY: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity
but solely in its capacity as
Owner Trustee
By: ____________________________________
Authorized Signatory
SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Class [1][2][3]-A Notes referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
▇▇▇▇▇ FARGO BANK, N.A.,
as Securities Administrator
BY: ____________________________________
Authorized Signatory
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ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of
the Note, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according
to applicable laws or regulations:
TEN COM -- as tenants in common
TEN ENT -- as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN -- as joint tenants with right of
survivorship and not as tenants in
common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT -- ____________ Custodian
______________________________________
(Cust) (Minor)
under Uniform Gifts to Minor Act
______________________________________
(State)
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers
unto
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE:
____________________________
____________________________
____________________________
(Please print or typewrite name and address, including zip code, of assignee)
________________________________________________________________________________
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes
and appoints ________________________ attorney to transfer said Note on the
books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the
premises.
Dated:
Signature Guaranteed by __________________________________
NOTICE: The signature(s) to this assignment must correspond with the name
as it appears upon the face of the within Note in every particular, without
alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. Signature(s) must be
guaranteed by a commercial bank or by a member firm of the New York Stock
Exchange or another national securities exchange. Notarized or witnessed
signatures are not acceptable.
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EXHIBIT A-2
FORM OF CLASS X NOTES
THIS NOTE IS SUBORDINATED IN RIGHT OF PAYMENT TO THE CLASS 1-A, CLASS 2-A AND
CLASS 3-A NOTES AS DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.
THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED, OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE AND MAY NOT BE RESOLD OR
TRANSFERRED UNLESS IT IS REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SUCH ACT AND LAWS OR IS SOLD OR
TRANSFERRED IN TRANSACTIONS WHICH ARE EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER SUCH ACT
AND UNDER APPLICABLE STATE LAW AND IS TRANSFERRED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE.
NO TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE SHALL BE MADE UNLESS THE TRANSFEREE IS NOT ACQUIRING
THE NOTE WITH PLAN ASSETS OR UNLESS THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND THE NOTE REGISTRAR
ARE PROVIDED WITH AN OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE EFFECT THAT THE PURCHASE OF THE
NOTES IS PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, WILL NOT CONSTITUTE OR RESULT IN ANY
PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE AND WILL NOT
SUBJECT THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE, THE OWNER TRUSTEE, THE DEPOSITOR, THE SECURITIES
ADMINISTRATOR, THE MASTER SERVICER, ANY SERVICER OR THE NOTE REGISTRAR TO ANY
OBLIGATION OR LIABILITY (INCLUDING OBLIGATIONS OR LIABILITIES UNDER ERISA OR
SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE) IN ADDITION TO THOSE UNDERTAKEN IN THE INDENTURE,
WHICH OPINION OF COUNSEL SHALL NOT BE AN EXPENSE OF THE DEPOSITOR, THE OWNER
TRUSTEE, THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE, THE NOTE REGISTRAR OR THE SECURITIES
ADMINISTRATOR.
NO TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE SHALL BE MADE, UNLESS (A) A "WILL BE DEBT" OPINION
SHALL HAVE BEEN RENDERED BY NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED TAX COUNSEL WITH RESPECT TO IT
AND FURNISHED TO THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR, OR (B) THE TRANSFEREE SHALL HAVE
DELIVERED TO THE OWNER TRUSTEE, THE NOTE REGISTRAR, THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR
AND THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE A CERTIFICATE CERTIFYING THAT (1) IT IS A REAL ESTATE
INVESTMENT TRUST ("REIT") WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 856(a) OF THE CODE OR A
QUALIFIED REIT SUBSIDIARY ("QRS") WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 856(i) OF THE
CODE OR AN ENTITY DISREGARDED AS AN ENTITY SEPARATE FROM A REIT OR A QRS AND (2)
FOLLOWING THE TRANSFER, 100% OF THE SUBORDINATE NOTES AND CERTIFICATES (OTHER
THAN ANY SUBORDINATE NOTES WITH RESPECT TO WHICH A "WILL BE DEBT" OPINION HAS
BEEN RENDERED BY NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED TAX COUNSEL AND FURNISHED TO THE
SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR) WILL BE OWNED BY A REIT, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY
THROUGH ONE OR MORE QRSs OF SUCH REIT OR ONE OR MORE ENTITIES DISREGARDED AS
ENTITIES SEPARATE FROM SUCH REIT OR SUCH QRSs;
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PROVIDED THAT (X) THIS NOTE MAY BE PLEDGED TO SECURE INDEBTEDNESS AND MAY BE THE
SUBJECT OF REPURCHASE AGREEMENTS TREATED AS SECURED INDEBTEDNESS FOR FEDERAL
INCOME TAX PURPOSES, AND (Y) THIS NOTE MAY BE TRANSFERRED BY A RELATED LENDER
UNDER ANY SUCH RELATED LOAN AGREEMENT OR REPURCHASE AGREEMENT UPON A DEFAULT
UNDER ANY SUCH INDEBTEDNESS, IN WHICH CASE THE TRANSFEROR SHALL DELIVER TO THE
NOTE REGISTRAR, THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR, THE OWNER TRUSTEE AND THE
INDENTURE TRUSTEE A CERTIFICATE CERTIFYING TO SUCH EFFECT.
THIS NOTE IS A NON-RECOURSE OBLIGATION OF THE ISSUER, AND IS LIMITED IN RIGHT OF
PAYMENT TO AMOUNTS AVAILABLE FROM THE TRUST ESTATE AS PROVIDED IN THE INDENTURE
REFERRED TO BELOW. THE ISSUER IS NOT OTHERWISE PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR PAYMENTS ON
THIS NOTE.
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▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ MORTGAGE INVESTORS TRUST, SERIES 2005-2
MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES, SERIES MLCC 2005-2
CLASS X
NOTE INTEREST
AGGREGATE NOTIONAL AMOUNT: :$[__________] RATE: Variable Rate
INITIAL NOTIONAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE:
: NOTE NO. 1
PERCENTAGE INTEREST: 100% CUSIP NO: [__________]
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ MORTGAGE INVESTORS TRUST, SERIES 2005-2 (the "Issuer"), a
Delaware statutory trust, for value received, hereby promises to pay to
[__________] or registered assigns, interest hereon in monthly installments on
the twenty-fifth day of each month or, if such day is not a Business Day, the
next succeeding Business Day (each a "Payment Date"), commencing in September
2005 and ending on or before the Payment Date occurring in October 2035 (the
"Final Scheduled Payment Date") and to pay interest on the Note Principal
Balance of this Note (this "Note") outstanding from time to time as provided
below.
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of the Issuer's
Mortgage-Backed Notes, Series MLCC 2005-2 (the "Notes"), issued under an
Indenture, dated as of August 31, 2005 (the "Indenture"), among the Issuer,
▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank, N.A., as Securities Administrator (the "Securities
Administrator") and HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as indenture trustee
(the "Indenture Trustee", which term includes any successor Indenture Trustee
under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto
reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights thereunder of
the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and the terms
upon which the Notes are to be authenticated and delivered. All terms used in
this Note which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to
them in the Indenture.
Payments of interest on this Note will be made on each Payment Date to the
Noteholder of record as of the related Record Date. The "Notional Amount" of
this Note as of any date of determination shall be calculated as set forth under
the Indenture.
The interest on this Note are due and payable as described in the
Indenture, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the
time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. All
payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied as
provided in the Indenture.
The Mortgage Loans are subject to purchase in whole, but not in part, by
the Majority Certificateholder on any Payment Date on or after the Payment Date
on which the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans as of
the end of the prior Due Period is less than or equal to 10% of aggregate
Scheduled Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-off Date.
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The Issuer shall not be liable upon the indebtedness evidenced by the
Notes except to the extent of amounts available from the Trust Estate which
constitutes security for the payment of the Notes. The assets included in the
Trust Estate will be the sole source of payments on the Class X Notes, and each
Holder hereof, by its acceptance of this Note, agrees that (i) such Note will be
limited in right of payment to amounts available from the Trust Estate as
provided in the Indenture and (ii) such Holder shall have no recourse to the
Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor, the Seller, the
Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator or any of their respective
affiliates, or to the assets of any of the foregoing entities, except the assets
of the Issuer pledged to secure the Class X Notes pursuant to the Indenture and
the rights conveyed to the Issuer under the Indenture.
Any payment of interest payable on this Note which is punctually paid on
the applicable Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Note
is registered at the close of business on the Record Date for such Payment Date
by check mailed to such person's address as it appears in the Note Register on
such Record Date, except for the final installment of interest payable with
respect to such Note, which shall be payable as provided below. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, upon written request with appropriate instructions by the Holder
of this Note delivered to the Securities Administrator at least five Business
Days prior to the Record Date, any payment of interest, other than the final
installment of interest, shall be made by wire transfer to an account in the
United States designated by such ▇▇▇▇▇▇. The final payment of this Note shall be
payable upon presentation and surrender thereof on or after the Payment Date
thereof at the Office designated by the Securities Administrator or the office
or agency of the Issuer maintained by it for such purpose pursuant to the
Indenture.
Subject to the foregoing provisions, each Note delivered under the
Indenture, upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any
other Note, shall carry the right to unpaid principal and interest that were
carried by such other Note.
If an Event of Default as defined in the Indenture shall occur and be
continuing with respect to the Notes, the Notes may become or be declared due
and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. The
Indenture provides that, notwithstanding the acceleration of the maturity of the
Notes, under certain circumstances specified therein, all amounts collected as
proceeds of the Trust Estate securing the Notes or otherwise shall continue to
be applied to payments of principal and interest on the Notes as if they had not
been declared due and payable.
The failure to pay principal or interest on the Class X Notes, shall not
constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture.
No transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition of this Note or interest
herein shall be made unless that transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition is
exempt from the registration and/or qualification requirements of the Securities
Act and any applicable state securities laws, or is otherwise made in accordance
with the Securities Act and such state securities laws. If a transfer of this
Note is to be made without registration under the Securities Act (other than in
connection with the initial issuance thereof or a transfer thereof by the
Depositor or one of its Affiliates), then the Note Registrar shall refuse to
register such transfer unless (i) it receives (and upon receipt, may
conclusively rely upon) a certificate substantially in the form attached as
Exhibit C to the Indenture or (ii) it receives a written Opinion of Counsel
acceptable to and in form and
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substance satisfactory to the Note Registrar and the Indenture Trustee and the
transferee executes a representation letter substantially in the form of Exhibit
D attached to the Indenture, and transferor executes a representation letter
substantially in the form of Exhibit E attached to the Indenture, each
acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Note Registrar and
the Indenture Trustee. None of the Issuer, the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee
or the Note Registrar is obligated to register or qualify any Notes under the
Securities Act or any other securities law or to take any action not otherwise
required under the Indenture to permit the transfer of this Note or interest
herein without registration or qualification. Any Noteholder desiring to effect
a transfer of this Note or interest herein shall, and does hereby agree to,
indemnify the Issuer, the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee
and the Note Registrar against any liability that may result if the transfer is
not so exempt or is not made in accordance with such federal and state laws.
No transfer of this Class X Note or any interest therein shall be made to
any Person unless the Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar are provided with
an Opinion of Counsel which establishes to the satisfaction of the Indenture
Trustee and the Note Registrar that the purchase of a Class X Note is
permissible under applicable law, will not constitute or result in any
prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and will not
subject the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Securities
Administrator, the Note Registrar, any Servicer or the Master Servicer to any
obligation or liability (including obligations or liabilities under ERISA or
Section 4975 of the Code) in addition to those undertaken in the Indenture,
which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense of the Depositor, the Owner
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Master Servicer, any Servicer or the Note
Registrar. In lieu of such Opinion of Counsel, a Person acquiring a Class X Note
may provide a certification in the form attached to the Indenture, which the
Indenture Trustee, Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Master Servicer and the
Note Registrar may rely upon without further inquiry or investigation.
No transfer of this Class X Note (other than any Class X Note with respect
to which a "will be debt" opinion has been rendered by nationally recognized tax
counsel and furnished to the Securities Administrator) or any interest therein
shall be made to any Person, and the Note Registrar shall refuse to register any
such transfer, unless the transferee shall have delivered to the Owner Trustee,
the Note Registrar, the Securities Administrator and the Indenture Trustee a
certificate certifying that (i) it is a real estate investment trust ("REIT")
within the meaning of Section 856(a) of the Code, a qualified REIT subsidiary
("QRS") within the meaning of Section 856(i) of the Code, or an entity
disregarded as an entity separate from a REIT or a QRS and (ii) following the
transfer, 100% of the Subordinate Notes and Trust Certificates (other than any
Subordinate Notes that are characterized as indebtedness for federal income tax
purposes) will be owned by a REIT, directly or indirectly through one or more
qualified QRSs of such REIT or one or more entities disregarded as entities
separate from such REIT or such QRSs; provided that (x) this Class X Note may be
pledged to secure indebtedness and may be the subject of repurchase agreements
treated as secured indebtedness for federal income tax purposes, and (y) this
Class X Note may be transferred by the related lender under any such related
loan agreement or repurchase agreement upon a default under any such
indebtedness, in which case the transferor shall deliver to the Note Registrar,
the Securities Administrator, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee a
certificate certifying to such effect.
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As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein
set forth, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register of
the Issuer. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of, or presentation of a
written instrument of transfer for, this Note at the office or agency designated
by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, accompanied by proper instruments of
assignment in form satisfactory to the Securities Administrator, one or more new
Notes of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate then outstanding
Note Principal Balance, will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note,
the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator and any agent of
the Issuer, the Securities Administrator or the Indenture Trustee may treat the
Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner of such Note (i) on
the applicable Record Date for the purpose of making payments and interest of
such Note, and (ii) on any other date for all other purposes whatsoever, as the
owner hereof, whether or not this Note be overdue, and none of the Issuer, the
Securities Administrator, the Indenture Trustee nor any such agent of the
Issuer, the Securities Administrator or the Indenture Trustee shall be affected
by notice to the contrary.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture at any
time by the Issuer and the Holders of a majority of each Class of Notes affected
thereby. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of Notes
representing not less than a majority of the aggregate Note Principal Balance of
the Notes, to waive any past Event of Default and its consequences except an
Event of Default (a) with respect to payment of principal of or interest on any
of the Notes, or (b) in respect of a covenant or provision of the Indenture
which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each
Note. Any such waiver by the Holder, at the time of the giving thereof, of this
Note (or any one or more predecessor Notes) shall bind the Holder of every Note
issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu
hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon such
Note. The Indenture also permits the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the
Securities Administrator, following prior notice to the Rating Agencies, to
amend or waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without
the consent of the Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.
The Notes are exchangeable for a like aggregate then outstanding Notional
Amount of the Notes of different authorized denominations, as requested by the
Holder surrendering same.
Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the
Securities Administrator by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to
any benefit under the Indenture, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as expressly
provided in the Basic Documents, neither the Owner Trustee in its individual
capacity, nor any of its respective partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers,
directors, employees, or successors or assigns, shall be personally liable for,
nor shall recourse be had to any of them for, the payment of principal of or
interest on, or performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants,
obligations or indemnifications contained in this Note, it being expressly
understood that said covenants, obligations and indemnifications have been made
solely by the Trust to the extent of the assets of the Trust. The holder of this
Note by the acceptance hereof agrees that, except as expressly
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provided in the Basic Documents, the Holder shall have no claim against any of
the foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however,
that nothing contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to, and
enforcement against, the assets of the Trust Estate for any and all liabilities,
obligations and undertakings contained in this Note.
AS PROVIDED IN THE INDENTURE, THIS NOTE AND THE INDENTURE CREATING THIS
NOTE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, AND GOVERNED BY, THE LAWS OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO AGREEMENTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED THEREIN.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be duly
executed.
Dated: August 31, 2005
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ MORTGAGE INVESTORS TRUST,
SERIES 2005-2
BY: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity
but solely in its capacity as
Owner Trustee
By: ________________________________
Authorized Signatory
SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Class X Notes referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
▇▇▇▇▇ FARGO BANK, N.A.,
as Securities Administrator
BY: ________________________________
Authorized Signatory
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ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of
the Note, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according
to applicable laws or regulations:
TEN COM -- as tenants in common
TEN ENT -- as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN -- as joint tenants with right of
survivorship and not as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT -- __________ Custodian
__________________________________________
(Cust) (Minor)
under Uniform Gifts to Minor Act
__________________________________________
(State)
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers
unto PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE:
________________________________________________
________________________________________________
________________________________________________
(Please print or typewrite name and address, including zip code, of assignee)
________________________________________________________________________________
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes
and appoints ____________________ attorney to transfer said Note on the books
kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:
Signature Guaranteed by ________________________________________
NOTICE: The signature(s) to this assignment must correspond with the name
as it appears upon the face of the within Note in every particular, without
alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. Signature(s) must be
guaranteed by a commercial bank or by a member firm of the New York Stock
Exchange or another national securities exchange. Notarized or witnessed
signatures are not acceptable.
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EXHIBIT A-3
FORM OF CLASS M NOTES AND CLASS B NOTES
THIS NOTE IS SUBORDINATED IN RIGHT OF PAYMENT TO THE CLASS 1-A, CLASS 2-A, CLASS
3-A[,] [AND] CLASS X[,] [AND] [CLASS M-1][,] [AND] [CLASS M-2][,] [AND] [CLASS
M-3][,] [AND] [CLASS B-1][,] [AND] [CLASS B-2] NOTES AS DESCRIBED IN THE
INDENTURE.
THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED, OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE AND MAY NOT BE RESOLD OR
TRANSFERRED UNLESS IT IS REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SUCH ACT AND LAWS OR IS SOLD OR
TRANSFERRED IN TRANSACTIONS WHICH ARE EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER SUCH ACT
AND UNDER APPLICABLE STATE LAW AND IS TRANSFERRED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE.
NO TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE SHALL BE MADE UNLESS THE TRANSFEREE IS NOT ACQUIRING
THE NOTE WITH PLAN ASSETS OR UNLESS THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND THE NOTE REGISTRAR
ARE PROVIDED WITH AN OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE EFFECT THAT THE PURCHASE OF THE
NOTES IS PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, WILL NOT CONSTITUTE OR RESULT IN ANY
PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE AND WILL NOT
SUBJECT THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE, THE OWNER TRUSTEE, THE DEPOSITOR, THE ISSUER, THE
SELLER, THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR, THE MASTER SERVICER, ANY SERVICER OR THE
NOTE REGISTRAR TO ANY OBLIGATION OR LIABILITY (INCLUDING OBLIGATIONS OR
LIABILITIES UNDER ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE) IN ADDITION TO THOSE
UNDERTAKEN IN THE INDENTURE, WHICH OPINION OF COUNSEL SHALL NOT BE AN EXPENSE OF
THE DEPOSITOR, THE OWNER TRUSTEE, THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE, THE NOTE REGISTRAR OR
THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR.
NO TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE SHALL BE MADE, UNLESS (A) A "WILL BE DEBT" OPINION
SHALL HAVE BEEN RENDERED BY NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED TAX COUNSEL WITH RESPECT TO IT
AND FURNISHED TO THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR, OR (B) THE TRANSFEREE SHALL HAVE
DELIVERED TO THE OWNER TRUSTEE, THE NOTE REGISTRAR, THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR
AND THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE A CERTIFICATE CERTIFYING THAT (1) IT IS A REAL ESTATE
INVESTMENT TRUST ("REIT") WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 856(a) OF THE CODE OR A
QUALIFIED REIT SUBSIDIARY ("QRS") WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 856(i) OF THE
CODE OR AN ENTITY DISREGARDED AS AN ENTITY SEPARATE FROM A REIT OR A QRS AND (2)
FOLLOWING THE TRANSFER, 100% OF THE SUBORDINATE NOTES AND CERTIFICATES (OTHER
THAN ANY SUBORDINATE NOTES WITH RESPECT TO WHICH A "WILL BE DEBT" OPINION HAS
BEEN RENDERED BY NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED TAX COUNSEL AND FURNISHED TO THE
SECURITIES
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ADMINISTRATOR) WILL BE OWNED BY A SINGLE REIT, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY THROUGH
ONE OR MORE QRSs OF SUCH REIT OR ONE OR MORE ENTITIES DISREGARDED AS ENTITIES
SEPARATE FROM SUCH REIT OR SUCH QRSs; PROVIDED THAT (X) THIS NOTE MAY BE PLEDGED
TO SECURE INDEBTEDNESS AND MAY BE THE SUBJECT OF REPURCHASE AGREEMENTS TREATED
AS SECURED INDEBTEDNESS FOR FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, AND (Y) THIS NOTE MAY
BE TRANSFERRED BY A RELATED LENDER UNDER ANY SUCH RELATED LOAN AGREEMENT OR
REPURCHASE AGREEMENT UPON A DEFAULT UNDER ANY SUCH INDEBTEDNESS, IN WHICH CASE
THE TRANSFEROR SHALL DELIVER TO THE NOTE REGISTRAR, THE SECURITIES
ADMINISTRATOR, THE OWNER TRUSTEE AND THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE A CERTIFICATE
CERTIFYING TO SUCH EFFECT.
THIS NOTE IS A NON-RECOURSE OBLIGATION OF THE ISSUER, AND IS LIMITED IN RIGHT OF
PAYMENT TO AMOUNTS AVAILABLE FROM THE TRUST ESTATE AS PROVIDED IN THE INDENTURE
REFERRED TO BELOW. THE ISSUER IS NOT OTHERWISE PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR PAYMENTS ON
THIS NOTE.
PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE OVER TIME AS SET FORTH HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY,
THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT
SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.
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▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ MORTGAGE INVESTORS TRUST, SERIES 2005-2
MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES, SERIES MLCC 2005-2
CLASS [M][B]-[1][2][3]
AGGREGATE NOTE PRINCIPAL NOTE INTEREST
BALANCE: $[__________] RATE: Variable Rate
INITIAL NOTE PRINCIPAL NOTE NO. 1
BALANCE OF THIS NOTE: $[__________]
PERCENTAGE INTEREST: 100% CUSIP NO: [__________]
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ MORTGAGE INVESTORS TRUST, SERIES 2005-2 (the "Issuer"), a
Delaware statutory trust, for value received, hereby promises to pay to
[____________________] or registered assigns, the principal sum of
$[__________] in monthly installments on the twenty-fifth day of each month or,
if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day (each a
"Payment Date"), commencing in September 2005 and ending on or before the
Payment Date occurring in October 2035 (the "Final Scheduled Payment Date") and
to pay interest on the Note Principal Balance of this Note (this "Note")
outstanding from time to time as provided below.
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of the Issuer's
Mortgage-Backed Notes, Series MLCC 2005-2 (the "Notes"), issued under an
Indenture, dated as of August 31, 2005 (the "Indenture"), among the Issuer,
▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank, N.A., as Securities Administrator (the "Securities
Administrator") and HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as indenture trustee
(the "Indenture Trustee", which term includes any successor Indenture Trustee),
to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby
made for a statement of the respective rights thereunder of the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and the terms upon which the
Notes are to be authenticated and delivered. All terms used in this Note which
are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the
Indenture.
Payments of principal and interest on this Note will be made on each
Payment Date to the Noteholder of record as of the related Record Date. The
"Note Principal Balance" of a Note as of any date of determination is equal to
the initial Note Principal Balance thereof, minus (i) all amounts distributed in
respect of principal with respect to such Class of Notes, (ii) the aggregate
amount of any reductions in the Note Principal Balance thereof deemed to have
occurred in connection with allocations of Realized Losses on all prior Payment
Dates in accordance with the Indenture, taking account of its applicable Loss
Allocation Limitation, and (iii) such Class's pro rata share, if any, of the
applicable Subordinate Writedown Amount for previous Payment Dates, plus (iv)
any Subsequent Recoveries allocated thereto.
The principal of, and interest on, this Note are due and payable as
described in the Indenture, in such coin or currency of the United States of
America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and
private debts. All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Note shall
be equal to this Note's pro rata share of the aggregate payments on all
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Class [M][B]-[1][2][3] Notes as described above, and shall be applied as between
interest and principal as provided in the Indenture.
All principal and interest accrued on the Notes, if not previously paid,
will become finally due and payable at the Final Scheduled Payment Date.
The Mortgage Loans are subject to purchase in whole, but not in part, by
the Majority Certificateholder on any Payment Date on or after the Payment Date
on which the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans as of
the end of the prior Due Period is less than or equal to 10% of the aggregate
Scheduled Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans as of the Cut-off Date.
The Issuer shall not be liable upon the indebtedness evidenced by the
Notes except to the extent of amounts available from the Trust Estate which
constitutes security for the payment of the Notes. The assets included in the
Trust Estate will be the sole source of payments on the Class [M][B]-[1][2][3]
Notes, and each Holder hereof, by its acceptance of this Note, agrees that (i)
such Note will be limited in right of payment to amounts available from the
Trust Estate as provided in the Indenture and (ii) such Holder shall have no
recourse to the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor,
the Seller, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator or any of their
respective affiliates, or to the assets of any of the foregoing entities, except
the assets of the Issuer pledged to secure the Class [M][B]-[1][2][3] Notes
pursuant to the Indenture and the rights conveyed to the Issuer under the
Indenture.
Any payment of principal or interest payable on this Note which is
punctually paid on the applicable Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in
whose name such Note is registered at the close of business on the Record Date
for such Payment Date by check mailed to such person's address as it appears in
the Note Register on such Record Date, except for the final installment of
principal and interest payable with respect to such Note, which shall be payable
as provided below. Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon written request with
appropriate instructions by the Holder of this Note delivered to the Securities
Administrator at least five Business Days prior to the Record Date, any payment
of principal or interest, other than the final installment of principal or
interest, shall be made by wire transfer to an account in the United States
designated by such Holder. All reductions in the principal amount of a Note
effected by payments of principal made on any Payment Date shall be binding upon
all Holders of this 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. The final payment of this Note shall be payable
upon presentation and surrender thereof on or after the Payment Date thereof at
the Office designated by the Securities Administrator or the office or agency of
the Issuer maintained by it for such purpose pursuant to the Indenture.
Subject to the foregoing provisions, each Note delivered under the
Indenture, upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any
other Note, shall carry the right to unpaid principal and interest that were
carried by such other Note.
If an Event of Default as defined in the Indenture shall occur and be
continuing with respect to the Notes, the Notes may become or be declared due
and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. If any
such acceleration of maturity occurs prior to the payment of the entire unpaid
Note Principal Balance of the Notes, the amount payable to the
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Holder of this Note will be equal to the sum of the unpaid Note Principal
Balance of this Note, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon as
described in the Indenture. The Indenture provides that, notwithstanding the
acceleration of the maturity of the Notes, under certain circumstances specified
therein, all amounts collected as proceeds of the Trust Estate securing the
Notes or otherwise shall continue to be applied to payments of principal of and
interest on the Notes as if they had not been declared due and payable.
The failure to pay any Net Interest Shortfall at any time when funds are
not available to make such payment as provided in the Indenture shall not
constitute an Event of Default under the Indenture.
No transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition of this Note or interest
herein shall be made unless that transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition is
exempt from the registration and/or qualification requirements of the Securities
Act and any applicable state securities laws, or is otherwise made in accordance
with the Securities Act and such state securities laws. If a transfer of this
Note is to be made without registration under the Securities Act (other than in
connection with the initial issuance thereof or a transfer thereof by the
Depositor or one of its Affiliates), then the Note Registrar shall refuse to
register such transfer unless (i) it receives (and upon receipt, may
conclusively rely upon) a certificate substantially in the form attached as
Exhibit C to the Indenture or (ii) it receives a written Opinion of Counsel
acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Note Registrar and
the Indenture Trustee and the transferee executes a representation letter
substantially in the form of Exhibit D attached to the Indenture, and transferor
executes a representation letter substantially in the form of Exhibit E attached
to the Indenture, each acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to
the Note Registrar and the Indenture Trustee. None of the Issuer, the Depositor,
the Indenture Trustee or the Note Registrar is obligated to register or qualify
any Notes under the Securities Act or any other securities law or to take any
action not otherwise required under the Indenture to permit the transfer of this
Note or interest herein without registration or qualification. Any Noteholder
desiring to effect a transfer of this Note or interest herein shall, and does
hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar against any liability that may result
if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with such federal
and state laws.
No transfer of this Class [M][B]-[1][2][3] Note or any interest therein
shall be made to any Person unless the Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar
are provided with an Opinion of Counsel which establishes to the satisfaction of
the Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar that the purchase of a Class
[M][B]-[1][2][3] Note is permissible under applicable law, will not constitute
or result in any prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code
and will not subject the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee,
the Master Servicer, any Servicer or the Note Registrar to any obligation or
liability (including obligations or liabilities under ERISA or Section 4975 of
the Code) in addition to those undertaken in the Indenture, which Opinion of
Counsel shall not be an expense of the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator, the Master Servicer, any
Servicer and the Note Registrar. In lieu of such Opinion of Counsel, a Person
acquiring a Class [M][B]-[1][2][3] Note may provide a certification in the form
attached to the Indenture, which the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee, the Note Registrar and the Master Servicer may rely upon without
further inquiry or investigation.
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No transfer of this Class [M][B]-[1][2][3] Note (other than any Class
[M][B]-[1][2][3] Note with respect to which a "will be debt" opinion has been
rendered by nationally recognized tax counsel and furnished to the Securities
Administrator) or any interest therein shall be made to any Person, and the Note
Registrar shall refuse to register any such transfer, unless the transferee
shall have delivered to the Owner Trustee, the Note Registrar, the Securities
Administrator and the Indenture Trustee a certificate certifying that (i) it is
a real estate investment trust ("REIT") within the meaning of Section 856(a) of
the Code, a qualified REIT subsidiary ("QRS") within the meaning of Section
856(i) of the Code, or an entity disregarded as an entity separate from a REIT
or a QRS and (ii) following the transfer, 100% of the Subordinate Notes and
Trust Certificates (other than any Subordinate Notes that are characterized as
indebtedness for federal income tax purposes) will be owned by a REIT, directly
or indirectly through one or more qualified QRSs of such single REIT or one or
more entities disregarded as entities separate from such REIT or such QRSs;
provided that (x) this Class [M][B]-[1][2][3] Note may be pledged to secure
indebtedness and may be the subject of repurchase agreements treated as secured
indebtedness for federal income tax purposes, and (y) this Class
[M][B]-[1][2][3] Note may be transferred by the related lender under any such
related loan agreement or repurchase agreement upon a default under any such
indebtedness, in which case the transferor shall deliver to the Note Registrar,
the Securities Administrator, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee a
certificate certifying to such effect.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein
set forth, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register of
the Issuer. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of, or presentation of a
written instrument of transfer for, this Note at the office or agency designated
by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, accompanied by proper instruments of
assignment in form satisfactory to the Securities Administrator, one or more new
Notes of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate then outstanding
Note Principal Balance, will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees.
Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note,
the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator and any agent of
the Issuer, the Securities Administrator or the Indenture Trustee may treat the
Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner of such Note (i) on
the applicable Record Date for the purpose of making payments and interest of
such Note, and (ii) on any other date for all other purposes whatsoever, as the
owner hereof, whether or not this Note be overdue, and none of the Issuer, the
Securities Administrator, the Indenture Trustee nor any such agent of the
Issuer, the Securities Administrator or the Indenture Trustee shall be affected
by notice to the contrary.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture at any
time by the Issuer and the Holders of a majority of each Class of Notes affected
thereby. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of Notes
representing not less than a majority of the aggregate Note Principal Balance of
the Notes, to waive any past Event of Default and its consequences except an
Event of Default (a) with respect to payment of principal of or interest on any
of the Notes, or (b) in respect of a covenant or provision of the Indenture
which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each
Note. Any such waiver by the Holder, at the time of the giving thereof, of this
Note (or any one or more predecessor Notes) shall bind the Holder of every Note
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issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu
hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon such
Note. The Indenture also permits the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the
Securities Administrator, following prior notice to the Rating Agencies, to
amend or waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without
the consent of the Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.
The Notes are exchangeable for a like aggregate then outstanding Note
Principal Balance of Notes of different authorized denominations, as requested
by the Holder surrendering same.
Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the
Securities Administrator by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to
any benefit under the Indenture, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as expressly
provided in the Basic Documents, neither the Owner Trustee in its individual
capacity, nor any of its respective partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers,
directors, employees, or successors or assigns, shall be personally liable for,
nor shall recourse be had to any of them for, the payment of principal of or
interest on, or performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants,
obligations or indemnifications contained in this Note, it being expressly
understood that said covenants, obligations and indemnifications have been made
solely by the Trust to the extent of the assets of the Trust. The holder of this
Note by the acceptance hereof agrees that, except as expressly provided in the
Basic Documents, the Holder shall have no claim against any of the foregoing for
any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing
contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against,
the assets of the Trust Estate for any and all liabilities, obligations and
undertakings contained in this Note.
AS PROVIDED IN THE INDENTURE, THIS NOTE AND THE INDENTURE CREATING THIS
NOTE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, AND GOVERNED BY, THE LAWS OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO AGREEMENTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED THEREIN.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be duly
executed.
Dated: August 31, 2005
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ MORTGAGE INVESTORS TRUST,
SERIES 2005-2
BY: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity
but solely in its capacity as
Owner Trustee
By: ________________________________
Authorized Signatory
SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Class [M][B]-[1][2][3] Notes referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
▇▇▇▇▇ FARGO BANK, N.A.,
as Securities Administrator
BY: ________________________________
Authorized Signatory
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ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of
the Note, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according
to applicable laws or regulations:
TEN COM -- as tenants in common
TEN ENT -- as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN -- as joint tenants with right of
survivorship and not as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT -- __________ Custodian
__________________________________________
(Cust) (Minor)
under Uniform Gifts to Minor Act
__________________________________________
(State)
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers
unto PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE:
________________________________________________
________________________________________________
________________________________________________
(Please print or typewrite name and address, including zip code, of assignee)
________________________________________________________________________________
the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes
and appoints ________________________ attorney to transfer said Note on the
books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the
premises.
Dated:
Signature Guaranteed by __________________________________________
NOTICE: The signature(s) to this assignment must correspond with the name
as it appears upon the face of the within Note in every particular, without
alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. Signature(s) must be
guaranteed by a commercial bank or by a member firm of the New York Stock
Exchange or another national securities exchange. Notarized or witnessed
signatures are not acceptable.
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EXHIBIT B
MORTGAGE LOAN SCHEDULE
(Provided Upon Request)
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EXHIBIT C
[FORM OF RULE 144A INVESTMENT REPRESENTATION]
Description of Rule 144A Securities, including numbers:
___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
The undersigned seller, as registered holder (the "Seller"), intends to
transfer the Rule 144A Securities described above to the undersigned buyer (the
"Buyer").
1. In connection with such transfer and in accordance with the
agreements pursuant to which the Rule 144A Securities were issued, the Seller
hereby certifies the following facts: Neither the Seller nor anyone acting on
its behalf has offered, transferred, pledged, sold or otherwise disposed of the
Rule 144A Securities, any interest in the Rule 144A Securities or any other
similar security to, or solicited any offer to buy or accept a transfer, pledge
or other disposition of the Rule 144A Securities, any interest in the Rule 144A
Securities or any other similar security from, or otherwise approached or
negotiated with respect to the Rule 144A Securities, any interest in the Rule
144A Securities or any other similar security with, any person in any manner, or
made any general solicitation by means of general advertising or in any other
manner, or taken any other action, that would constitute a distribution of the
Rule 144A Securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933
Act"), or that would render the disposition of the Rule 144A Securities a
violation of Section 5 of the 1933 Act or require registration pursuant thereto,
and that the Seller has not offered the Rule 144A Securities to any person other
than the Buyer or another "qualified institutional buyer" as defined in Rule
144A under the 1933 Act.
2. The Buyer warrants and represents to, and covenants with, the
Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 4.02 of the Indenture (the "Indenture"),
dated as of August 31, 2005, among ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage Investors Trust,
Series 2005-2, as Issuer, and ▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank, N.A., as Securities
Administrator and HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Indenture Trustee, as
follows:
a. The Buyer understands that the Rule 144A Securities have not been
registered under the 1933 Act or the securities laws of any state.
b. The Buyer considers itself a substantial, sophisticated
institutional investor having such knowledge and experience in financial
and business matters that it is capable of evaluating the merits and risks
of investment in the Rule 144A Securities.
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c. The Buyer has been furnished with all information regarding the
Rule 144A Securities that it has requested from the Seller, the Indenture
Trustee, the Owner Trustee or the Master Servicer.
d. Neither the Buyer nor anyone acting on its behalf has offered,
transferred, pledged, sold or otherwise disposed of the Rule 144A
Securities, any interest in the Rule 144A Securities or any other similar
security to, or solicited any offer to buy or accept a transfer, pledge or
other disposition of the Rule 144A Securities, any interest in the Rule
144A Securities or any other similar security from, or otherwise
approached or negotiated with respect to the Rule 144A Securities, any
interest in the Rule 144A Securities or any other similar security with,
any person in any manner, or made any general solicitation by means of
general advertising or in any other manner, or taken any other action,
that would constitute a distribution of the Rule 144A Securities under the
1933 Act or that would render the disposition of the Rule 144A Securities
a violation of Section 5 of the 1933 Act or require registration pursuant
thereto, nor will it act, nor has it authorized or will it authorize any
person to act, in such manner with respect to the Rule 144A Securities.
e. The Buyer is a "qualified institutional buyer" as that term is
defined in Rule 144A under the 1933 Act and has completed either of the
forms of certification to that effect attached hereto as Annex 1 or Annex
2. The Buyer is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on
Rule 144A. The Buyer is acquiring the Rule 144A Securities for its own
account or the accounts of other qualified institutional buyers,
understands that such Rule 144A Securities may be resold, pledged or
transferred only (i) to a person reasonably believed to be a qualified
institutional buyer that purchases for its own account or for the account
of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the
resale, pledge or transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, or (ii)
pursuant to another exemption from registration under the 1933 Act.
3. The Buyer warrants and represents to, and covenants with, the
Seller, the Indenture Trustee, Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, Master
Servicer and the Depositor that either (1) the Buyer is (A) not an employee
benefit plan (within the meaning of Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA")), or a plan (within the
meaning of Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 ("Code")),
which (in either case) is subject to ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (both a
"Plan"), and (B) is not directly or indirectly purchasing the Rule 144A
Securities on behalf of, as investment manager of, as named fiduciary of, as
trustee of, or with "plan assets" of a Plan, or (2) the Buyer understands that
registration of transfer of any Rule 144A Securities to any Plan, or to any
Person acting on behalf of any Plan, will not be made unless such Plan delivers
an opinion of its counsel, addressed and satisfactory to the Certificate
Registrar, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Master Servicer and the
Depositor, to the effect that the purchase and holding of the Rule 144A
Securities by, on behalf of or with "plan assets" of any Plan is permissible
under applicable law, would not constitute or result in a prohibited transaction
under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, and would not subject the Depositor,
the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the
Master Servicer to any obligation or liability (including liabilities under
ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) in addition to those undertaken in the
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Agreement, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense of the Depositor,
the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the
Master Servicer.
4. This document may be executed in one or more counterparts and by
the different parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which, when so
executed, shall be deemed to be an original; such counterparts, together, shall
constitute one and the same document.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties has executed this document as of
the date set forth below.
_____________________________ _____________________________
Print Name of Seller Print Name of Buyer
By: _________________________________ By: _____________________________
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
Taxpayer Identification: Taxpayer Identification:
No: _________________________________ No: _____________________________
Date:_________________________________ Date:_____________________________
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ANNEX 1 TO EXHIBIT C
QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER STATUS UNDER SEC RULE 144A
[For Buyers Other Than Registered Investment Companies]
The undersigned hereby certifies as follows in connection with the Rule
144A Investment Representation to which this Certification is attached:
1. As indicated below, the undersigned is the President, Chief
Financial Officer, Senior Vice President or other executive officer of the
Buyer.
2. In connection with purchases by the Buyer, the Buyer is a
"qualified institutional buyer" as that term is defined in Rule 144A under the
Securities Act of 1933 ("Rule 144A") because (i) the Buyer owned and/or invested
on a discretionary basis $_________(1) in securities (except for the
excluded securities referred to below) as of the end of the Buyer's most recent
fiscal year (such amount being calculated in accordance with Rule 144A) and (ii)
the Buyer satisfies the criteria in the category marked below.
_____ Corporation, etc. The Buyer is a corporation (other than a bank, savings
and loan association or similar institution), Massachusetts or similar
business trust, partnership, or charitable organization described in
Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
_____ Bank. The Buyer (a) is a national bank or banking institution organized
under the laws of any State, territory or the District of Columbia, the
business of which is substantially confined to banking and is supervised
by the State or territorial banking commission or similar official or is a
foreign bank or equivalent institution, and (b) has an audited net worth
of at least $25,000,000 as demonstrated in its latest annual financial
statements.
_____ Savings and Loan. The Buyer (a) is a savings and loan association,
building and loan association, cooperative bank, homestead association or
similar institution, which is supervised and examined by a State or
Federal authority having supervision over any such institutions or is a
foreign savings and loan association or equivalent institution and (b) has
an audited net worth of at least $25,000,000 as demonstrated in its latest
annual financial statements.
_____ Broker-Dealer. The Buyer is a dealer registered pursuant to Section 15 of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
_____ Insurance Company. The Buyer is an insurance company whose primary and
predominant business activity is the writing of insurance or the
reinsuring of risks underwritten by insurance companies and which is
subject to supervision by the insurance commissioner or a similar official
or agency of a State or territory or the District of Columbia.
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(1) Buyer must own and/or invest on a discretionary basis at least $100,000,000
in securities unless Buyer is a dealer, and, in that case, ▇▇▇▇▇ must own and/or
invest on a discretionary basis at least $10,000,000 in securities.
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_____ State or Local Plan. The Buyer is a plan established and maintained by a
State, its political subdivisions, or any agency or instrumentality of the
State or its political subdivisions, for the benefit of its employees.
_____ ERISA Plan. The Buyer is an employee benefit plan within the meaning of
Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
_____ Investment Adviser. The Buyer is an investment adviser registered under
the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
_____ SBIC. The Buyer is a Small Business Investment Company licensed by the
U.S. Small Business Administration under Section 301(c) or (d) of the
Small Business Investment Act of 1958.
_____ Business Development Company. The Buyer is a business development company
as defined in Section 202(a)(22) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
_____ Trust Fund. The Buyer is a trust fund whose trustee is a bank or trust
company and whose participants are exclusively (a) plans established and
maintained by a State, its political subdivisions, or any agency or
instrumentality of the State or its political subdivisions, for the
benefit of its employees, or (b) employee benefit plans within the meaning
of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, but is
not a trust fund that includes as participants individual retirement
accounts or H.R. 10 plans.
3. The term "securities" as used herein does not include (i)
securities of issuers that are affiliated with the Buyer, (ii) securities that
are part of an unsold allotment to or subscription by the Buyer, if the Buyer is
a dealer, (iii) bank deposit Notes and certificates of deposit, (iv) loan
participations, (v) repurchase agreements, (vi) securities owned but subject to
a repurchase agreement and (vii) currency, interest rate and commodity swaps.
4. For purposes of determining the aggregate amount of securities
owned and/or invested on a discretionary basis by the Buyer, the Buyer used the
cost of such securities to the Buyer and did not include any of the securities
referred to in the preceding paragraph. Further, in determining such aggregate
amount, the Buyer may have included securities owned by subsidiaries of the
Buyer, but only if such subsidiaries are consolidated with the Buyer in its
financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles and if the investments of such subsidiaries are managed under the
Buyer's direction. However, such securities were not included if the Buyer is a
majority-owned, consolidated subsidiary of another enterprise and the Buyer is
not itself a reporting company under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
5. The Buyer acknowledges that it is familiar with Rule 144A and
understands that the seller to it and other parties related to the Certificates
are relying and will continue to rely on the statements made herein because one
or more sales to the Buyer may be in reliance on Rule 144A.
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________ _________ Will the Buyer be purchasing the Rule 144A Securities
Yes No only for the Buyer's own account?
6. If the answer to the foregoing question is "no", the Buyer agrees
that, in connection with any purchase of securities sold to the Buyer for the
account of a third party (including any separate account) in reliance on Rule
144A, the Buyer will only purchase for the account of a third party that at the
time is a "qualified institutional buyer" within the meaning of Rule 144A. In
addition, the Buyer agrees that the Buyer will not purchase securities for a
third party unless the Buyer has obtained a current representation letter from
such third party or taken other appropriate steps contemplated by Rule 144A to
conclude that such third party independently meets the definition of "qualified
institutional buyer" set forth in Rule 144A.
7. The Buyer will notify each of the parties to which this
certification is made of any changes in the information and conclusions herein.
Until such notice is given, the Buyer's purchase of Rule 144A Securities will
constitute a reaffirmation of this certification as of the date of such
purchase.
___________________________________
Print Name of Buyer
By: ________________________________
Name
Title
Date:
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ANNEX 2 TO EXHIBIT C
QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER STATUS UNDER SEC RULE 144A
[For Buyers That Are Registered Investment Companies]
The undersigned hereby certifies as follows in connection with the Rule
144A Investment Representation to which this Certification is attached:
1. As indicated below, the undersigned is the President, Chief Financial
Officer or Senior Vice President of the Buyer or, if the Buyer is a "qualified
institutional buyer" as that term is defined in Rule 144A under the Securities
Act of 1933 ("Rule 144A") because Buyer is part of a Family of Investment
Companies (as defined below), is such an officer of the Adviser.
2. In connection with purchases by Buyer, the Buyer is a "qualified
institutional buyer" as defined in SEC Rule 144A because (i) the Buyer is an
investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and (ii)
as marked below, the Buyer alone, or the Buyer's Family of Investment Companies,
owned at least $100,000,000 in securities (other than the excluded securities
referred to below) as of the end of the Buyer's most recent fiscal year. For
purposes of determining the amount of securities owned by the Buyer or the
Buyer's Family of Investment Companies, the cost of such securities was used.
_____ The Buyer owned $___________________ in securities (other than the
excluded securities referred to below) as of the end of the Buyer's most
recent fiscal year (such amount being calculated in accordance with Rule
144A).
_____ The Buyer is part of a Family of Investment Companies which owned in the
aggregate $ in securities (other than the excluded securities referred to
below) as of the end of the Buyer's most recent fiscal year (such amount
being calculated in accordance with Rule 144A).
3. The term "Family of Investment Companies" as used herein means two or
more registered investment companies (or series thereof) that have the same
investment adviser or investment advisers that are affiliated (by virtue of
being majority owned subsidiaries of the same parent or because one investment
adviser is a majority owned subsidiary of the other).
4. The term "securities" as used herein does not include (i) securities of
issuers that are affiliated with the Buyer or are part of the Buyer's Family of
Investment Companies, (ii) bank deposit Notes and certificates of deposit, (iii)
loan participations, (iv) repurchase agreements, (v) securities owned but
subject to a repurchase agreement and (vi) currency, interest rate and commodity
swaps.
5. The Buyer is familiar with Rule 144A and understands that each of the
parties to which this certification is made are relying and will continue to
rely on the statements made herein because one or more sales to the Buyer will
be in reliance on Rule 144A. In addition, the Buyer will only purchase for the
Buyer's own account.
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6. The undersigned will notify each of the parties to which this
certification is made of any changes in the information and conclusions herein.
Until such notice, the Buyer's purchase of Rule 144A Securities will constitute
a reaffirmation of this certification by the undersigned as of the date of such
purchase.
___________________________________
Print Name of Buyer
By: _______________________________
Name
Title
IF AN ADVISER:
___________________________________
Print Name of Buyer
Date: _____________________________
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EXHIBIT D
FORM OF INVESTMENT LETTER [NON-RULE 144A]
[DATE]
Wilmington Trust Company
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Square North
▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank, N.A.
Sixth Street and Marquette Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55479
Re: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage Investors Trust, Mortgage-Backed Notes,
Series MLCC 2005-2, [Class X] [Class M] [Class B] (the "Notes")
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with our acquisition of the above-captioned Notes, we
certify that (a) we understand that the Notes are not being registered under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), or any state securities laws and
are being transferred to us in a transaction that is exempt from the
registration requirements of the Act and any such laws, (b) we are an
"accredited investor," as defined in Regulation D under the Act, and have such
knowledge and experience in financial and business matters that we are capable
of evaluating the merits and risks of investments in the Notes, (c) we have had
the opportunity to ask questions of and receive answers from the Depositor
concerning the purchase of the Notes and all matters relating thereto or any
additional information deemed necessary to our decision to purchase the Notes,
(d) we are not an employee benefit plan that is subject to the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or a plan that is subject to
Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, nor are we acting
on behalf of any such plan or we have delivered an opinion of counsel as
required by the Indenture, (e) we are acquiring the Notes for investment for our
own account and not with a view to any distribution of such Notes (but without
prejudice to our right at all times to sell or otherwise dispose of the Notes in
accordance with clause (g) below), (f) we have not offered or sold any Notes to,
or solicited offers to buy any Notes from, any person, or otherwise approached
or negotiated with any person with respect thereto, or taken any other action
which would result in a violation of Section 5 of the Act, and (h) we will not
sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any Notes unless (1) such sale, transfer
or other disposition is made pursuant to an effective registration statement
under the Act or is exempt from such registration requirements, and if
requested, we will at our expense provide an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to
the addressees of this certificate that such sale, transfer or other disposition
may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Act, (2) the purchaser or
transferee of such Note has executed and delivered to you a certificate to
substantially the same effect as this certificate, and (3) the purchaser or
transferee has otherwise complied with any conditions for transfer set forth in
the Indenture.
D-1
Very truly yours,
[TRANSFEREE]
By: _______________________________
Authorized Officer
D-2
EXHIBIT E
TRANSFEROR CERTIFICATE
Wilmington Trust Company
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Square North
▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
HSBC Bank USA, National Association
Corporate Trust & Loan Agency
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank, N.A.
Sixth Street and Marquette Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55479
Re: Proposed Transfer of [Class X] [Class M] [Class B] ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
Mortgage Investors Trust, Series MLCC 2005-2
Gentlemen:
This certification is being made by ____________________ (the
"Transferor") in connection with the proposed Transfer to _____________________
(the "Transferee") of the [Class A Notes][Class X Notes] [Class M Notes] [Class
B Notes] (the "Notes") issued pursuant to the Indenture, dated August 31, 2005,
being referred to herein as the "Indenture") among ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage
Investors Trust, Series 2005-2, as issuer, ▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank, N.A., as securities
administrator and HSBC Bank USA, National Association as indenture trustee (the
"Indenture"). Initially capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in the Indenture. The Transferor hereby certifies,
represents and warrants to, and covenants with, the Owner Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee that:
Neither the Transferor nor anyone acting on its behalf has (a) offered,
pledged, sold, disposed of or otherwise transferred any Note, any interest in
any Note or any other similar security to any person in any manner, (b) has
solicited any offer to buy or to accept a pledge, disposition or other transfer
of any Note, any interest in any Note or any other similar security from any
person in any manner, (c) has otherwise approached or negotiated with respect to
any Note, any interest in any Note or any other similar security with any person
in any manner, (d) has made any general solicitation by means of general
advertising or in any other manner, or (e) has taken any other action, that (as
to any of (a) through (e) above) would constitute a distribution of the Notes
under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Act"), that would render the disposition
of any Note a violation of Section 5 of the Act or any state securities law, or
that would require registration or qualification pursuant thereto. The
Transferor will not act in any manner set forth in the foregoing sentence with
respect to any Note. The Transferor has not and will not sell or otherwise
transfer any of the Notes, except in compliance with the provisions of the
Indenture.
E-1
Date: _____________________ ______________________________
Authorized Officer
______________________________
Signature
______________________________
Name
______________________________
Title
E-2
EXHIBIT F
FORM OF TRANSFEREE CERTIFICATE
Wilmington Trust Company
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Square North
▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
HSBC Bank USA, National Association
Corporate Trust & Loan Agency
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank, N.A.
Sixth Street and Marquette Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55479
Re: Proposed Transfer of [Class A] [Class X] [Class M] [Class B] Notes,
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage Investors Trust, Series MLCC 2005-2
Gentlemen:
This certification is being made by _________ (the "Transferee") in
connection with the proposed transfer (the "Transfer") by _________ of a [Class
X] [Class M] [Class B] Note issued pursuant to the Indenture, dated as of August
31, 2005 (the "Indenture"), among ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage Investors Trust, Series
2005-2, as issuer, ▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank, N.A., as securities administrator (the
"Securities Administrator"), and HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as
indenture trustee (the "Indenture Trustee"). Initially capitalized terms used
but not defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture. The
Transferee hereby certifies, represents and warrants to, and covenants with, the
Owner Trustee, the Note Registrar, the Securities Administrator and the
Indenture Trustee that:
(a) The Transferee is a REIT or a QRS within the meaning of Section 856(a)
or Section 856(i) of the Code or an entity disregarded as an entity separate
from a REIT or a QRS.
(b) Following the Transfer, 100% of the Certificates and Subordinate Notes
(other than any Subordinate Notes with respect to which a "will be debt" opinion
has been rendered by nationally recognized tax counsel and furnished to the
Securities Administrator) will be owned by a single REIT, directly or indirectly
through one or more QRSs of such REIT or one or more entities disregarded as
entities separate from such REIT or such QRSs.
F-1
Date: _____________________ ______________________________
Authorized Officer
______________________________
Signature
______________________________
Name
______________________________
Title
F-2
EXHIBIT G
FORM OF TRANSFEROR CERTIFICATE
Wilmington Trust Company, as Owner Trustee
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Square North
▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank, N.A.
Sixth Street and Marquette Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55479
HSBC Bank USA, National Association
Corporate Trust & Loan Agency
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
Re: Proposed Transfer of [Class A] [Class X] [Class M] [Class B] Notes,
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage Investors Trust, Series MLCC 2005-2 (the
"Notes")
Gentlemen:
This certification is being made by _________________ (the "Transferor")
in connection with the proposed transfer or pledge by the Transferor of a [Class
A] [Class X] [Class M] [Class B] Note issued pursuant to the Indenture, dated as
of August 31, 2005 (the "Indenture") among ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage Investors
Trust, Series 2005-2, as issuer, ▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank, National Association, as
securities administrator (the "Securities Administrator") and HSBC Bank USA,
National Association, as indenture trustee (the "Indenture Trustee"). Initially
capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meanings assigned to them
in the Indenture. The Transferor hereby certifies, represents and warrants to,
and covenants with, the Securities Administrator, the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar that:
(a) The Class [A][X][M][B] Notes are being pledged by the Transferor to
secure indebtedness of [___________] or is the subject of a loan agreement or
repurchase agreement treated by the Issuer as secured indebtedness of
[___________] for federal income tax purposes as permitted under the Indenture;
or
(b) The Class [A][X][M][B] Notes are being transferred by the related
lender under a loan agreement or repurchase agreement upon a default under any
such indebtedness as permitted under the Indenture.
G-1
Date: _____________________ ______________________________
Authorized Officer
______________________________
Signature
______________________________
Name
______________________________
Title
G-2
EXHIBIT H
FORM OF MORTGAGE LOAN PURCHASE AGREEMENT
(Provided Upon Request)
H-1
EXHIBIT I
FORM OF TAX TRANSFER CERTIFICATE
Wilmington Trust Company
▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
HSBC Bank USA, National Association
Corporate Trust & Loan Agency
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank, N.A.
Sixth Street and Marquette Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55479
Re: Proposed Transfer of Class [1][2][3]-A Notes,
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage Investors Trust, Series MLCC 2005-2____________
Ladies and Gentlemen:
This certification is being made by ____________________ (the
"Transferor") in connection with the proposed sale ("Transfer") to
_____________________ (the "Transferee") of the Class [1][2][3]-A Note (the
"Senior Note") issued pursuant to an indenture, dated as of August 31, 2005 (the
"Indenture") among ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage Investors Trust, Series 2005-2, as
issuer (the "Issuer"), ▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank, N.A., as securities administrator (the
"Securities Administrator") and HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as
indenture trustee (the "Indenture Trustee"). Capitalized terms used but not
defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in Appendix A to the
Indenture. The Transferor hereby certifies, represents and warrants to, and
covenants with, the Issuer, the Securities Administrator and the Indenture
Trustee that:
(1) Based on consultation with counsel, no adverse changes have been made
to (or that would adversely affect the application of) the Closing Date Legal
Authorities;
(2) No modifications have been made to the Indenture as of the date hereof
(other than any modification for which an Opinion of Counsel was rendered to the
effect that such modification does not materially and adversely affect the
transfer restrictions with respect to the Senior Notes set forth in Section 4.02
of the Indenture);
(3) The Rating Agencies' respective ratings of the Senior Notes as of the
date hereof are not lower than the ratings on such Senior Notes as of the
Closing Date; and
(4) the sum of (x) the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Subordinate
Notes as of the Payment Date on or immediately preceding the date hereof and (y)
the present value as of the date hereof of the expected total cashflow on the
Class X Notes and the Owner Trust Certificates on future Distribution Dates plus
the expected interest cashflow on the Subordinate
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Notes on future Distribution Dates plus the expected total cashflow on the Owner
Trust Certificates on future Distribution Dates (such expected cashflow in each
case calculated assuming no Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans, a prepayment
assumption equal to that used in connection with the Transfer of such Senior
Notes, and the forward LIBOR curve in effect on the date hereof), discounted at
ten (10%) percent per annum, is at least equal to 4.0% of the aggregate
Outstanding Principal Balance of the Outstanding Mortgage Loans as of the date
hereof.
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Date: __________________________ Name of Transferor
-------------------------
Signature
-------------------------
Name
-------------------------
Title
I-2
APPENDIX A
DEFINITIONS
Accepted Master Servicing Practices: With respect to any Mortgage
Loan, those customary mortgage servicing practices of prudent mortgage servicing
institutions that master service Mortgage Loans of the same type and quality as
such Mortgage Loan in the jurisdiction where the related Mortgaged Property is
located, to the extent applicable to the Master Servicer (except in its capacity
as successor to the Servicer).
Account: The Master Servicer Collection Account, the Payment Account
and the Protected Account, as the context may require.
Accrual Period: With respect to the Notes and any Payment Date, the
calendar month preceding the month in which such Payment Date occurs.
Accrued Note Interest: With respect to any Class of Notes and any
Payment Date, the amount of interest accrued during the related Accrual Period
at the applicable Note Interest Rate on the Note Principal Balance or Notional
Amount of such Note immediately prior to such Payment Date, less (1) in the case
of a Senior Note, such Class's share of (a) Prepayment Interest Shortfalls, to
the extent not covered by Compensating Interest paid by the related Servicer or
the Master Servicer, (b) interest shortfalls on the related Mortgage Loans
resulting from the application of the Relief Act or similar state law and (c)
after the Cross-Over Date, the interest portion of any Realized Losses on the
related Mortgage Loans and (2) in the case of a Subordinate Note, such Class's
share of (a) Prepayment Interest Shortfalls on the Mortgage Loans, to the extent
not covered by Compensating Interest paid by the related Servicer or the Master
Servicer, (b) interest shortfalls on the Mortgage Loans resulting from the
application of the Relief Act or similar state law and (c) the interest portion
of any Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans. Prepayment Interest Shortfalls and
interest shortfalls resulting from the application of the Relief Act will be
allocated among the Notes in proportion to the amount of Accrued Note Interest
that would have been allocated thereto in the absence of such shortfalls.
Accrued Note Interest on the Notes will be calculated on the basis of a 360-day
year consisting of 30-day months.
Additional Collateral: With respect to any Additional Collateral
Mortgage Loan, the meaning assigned thereto in the Mortgage Loan Purchase
Agreement.
Additional Collateral Mortgage Loan: Each Mortgage Loan identified
as such in the Mortgage Loan Schedule.
Administration Agreement: The Administration Agreement, dated as of
August 31, 2005, among the Issuer, the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the
Securities Administrator.
Adjustment Date: As to each Mortgage Loan, each date set forth in
the related Mortgage Note on which an adjustment to the interest rate on such
Mortgage Loan becomes effective.
Affiliate: With respect to any Person, any other Person controlling,
controlled by or under common control with such Person. For purposes of this
definition, "control" means the
power to direct the management and policies of a Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise and
"controlling" and "controlled" shall have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
Aggregate Master Servicing Compensation: For any Payment Date, any
investment income on funds on deposit in the Master Servicer Collection Account
that is payable to the Master Servicer on such Payment Date pursuant to the Sale
and Servicing Agreement.
Allocable Share: With respect to each Class of Class M Notes and
Class B Notes:
(a) as to any Payment Date and amounts distributable pursuant to
clauses (i) and (iv) of the definition of Subordinate Optimal Principal Amount,
the fraction, expressed as a percentage, the numerator of which is the Note
Principal Balance of such Class and the denominator of which is the aggregate
Note Principal Balance of all Classes of Class M Notes and Class B Notes; and
(b) as to any Payment Date and amounts distributable pursuant to
clauses (ii), (iii) and (v) of the definition of Subordinate Optimal Principal
Amount and as to each Class of Class M Notes and Class B Notes (other than the
Class of Class M Notes and Class B Notes having the lowest numerical designation
as to which the Class Prepayment Distribution Trigger shall not be applicable)
for which (x) the related Class Prepayment Distribution Trigger has been
satisfied on such Payment Date, the fraction, expressed as a percentage, the
numerator of which is the Note Principal Balance of such Class and the
denominator of which is the aggregate of the Note Principal Balances of all such
Classes of Subordinate Notes and (y) the related Class Prepayment Distribution
Trigger has not been satisfied on such Payment Date, 0%; provided that if on a
Payment Date, the Note Principal Balance of any Class of Class M Notes and Class
B Notes for which the related Class Prepayment Distribution Trigger was
satisfied on such Payment Date is reduced to zero, any amounts distributed
pursuant to this clause (b), to the extent of such Class's remaining Allocable
Share, shall be distributed to the remaining Class or Classes of Class M Notes
and Class B Notes which satisfy the related Class Prepayment Distribution
Trigger and to the Class B-3, Class B-2, Class B-1, Class M-3, Class M-2 and
Class M-1 Notes, in that order, in reduction of their respective Note Principal
Balances.
Allocated Realized Loss Amount: With respect to any of the Class A,
Class X, Class M and Class B Notes and any Payment Date, an amount equal to the
sum of any Realized Loss allocated to that Class of Notes on that Payment Date
and any Allocated Realized Loss Amount for that Class remaining unpaid from the
previous Payment Date, in each case, with interest thereon at the applicable
Note Interest Rate for such Payment Date for such Class for the related Accrual
Period.
Applicable Credit Rating: For any long-term deposit or security, a
credit rating of AAA from S&P. For any short-term deposit or security, a rating
of A-1+ from S&P.
Appraised Value: For any Mortgaged Property related to a Mortgage
Loan, the amount set forth as the appraised value of such Mortgaged Property in
an appraisal made for the mortgage originator in connection with its origination
of the related Mortgage Loan.
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Assignment Agreements: The agreements attached as Exhibit D to the
Sale and Servicing Agreement, whereby the related Servicing Agreement was
assigned to the Issuer for the benefit of the Noteholders.
Assignment of Mortgage: An assignment of Mortgage, notice of
transfer or equivalent instrument, in recordable form, which is sufficient under
the laws of the jurisdiction wherein the related Mortgaged Property is located
to reflect of record the sale of the Mortgage, which assignment, notice of
transfer or equivalent instrument may be in the form of one or more blanket
assignments covering Mortgages secured by Mortgaged Properties located in the
same county, if permitted by law.
Authorized Newspaper: A newspaper of general circulation in the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, printed in the English language and
customarily published on each Business Day, whether or not published on
Saturdays, Sundays or holidays.
Authorized Officer: With respect to the Issuer, any officer of the
Owner Trustee who is authorized to act for the Owner Trustee in matters relating
to the Issuer and who is identified on the list of Authorized Officers delivered
by the Owner Trustee to the Indenture Trustee and Securities Administrator on
the Closing Date (as such list may be modified or supplemented from time to time
thereafter).
Available Funds: With respect to any Payment Date, the sum of the
Group I Available Funds, Group II Available Funds and Group III Available Funds
for such Payment Date.
Available Funds Rate: With respect to any Payment Date and the Class
1-A Notes, a per annum rate, expressed as a percentage, equal to a fraction, the
numerator of which is the Interest Funds for Loan Group I, for such Payment
Date, multiplied by 12, and the denominator of which is the aggregate Scheduled
Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in Loan Group I as of the beginning of
the related Due Period. With respect to any Payment Date and the Class 2-A
Notes, a per annum rate, expressed as a percentage, equal to a fraction, the
numerator of which is the Interest Funds for Loan Group II, for such Payment
Date, multiplied by 12, and the denominator of which is the aggregate Scheduled
Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in Loan Group II as of the beginning of
the related Due Period. With respect to any Payment Date and the Class 3-A
Notes, a per annum rate, expressed as a percentage, equal to a fraction, the
numerator of which is the Interest Funds for Loan Group III, for such Payment
Date, multiplied by 12, and the denominator of which is the aggregate Scheduled
Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in Loan Group III as of the beginning of
the related Due Period.
Average Loss Severity Percentage: With respect to any Payment Date,
the percentage equivalent of a fraction, the numerator of which is the sum of
the Loss Severity Percentages for each Mortgage Loan which had a Realized Loss
and the denominator of which is the number of Mortgage Loans which had Realized
Losses.
Bankruptcy Code: The United States Bankruptcy Code, as amended as
codified in 11 U.S.C. Sections 101-1330.
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Bankruptcy Loss: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, any Deficient
Valuation or Debt Service Reduction related to such Mortgage Loan as reported by
the Servicer to the Master Servicer.
Basic Documents: The Sale and Servicing Agreement, the PHH Servicing
Agreement, the ▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Servicing Agreement, the Indenture, the Trust
Agreement, the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, the Custodial Agreement and the
Administration Agreement and the other documents and certificates delivered in
connection with any of the above.
Basis Risk Shortfall: With respect to any Class of Senior Notes on
each Payment Date where the related Accrued Note Interest is calculated at the
Available Funds Rate, the excess, if any, of (x) the aggregate Accrued Note
Interest thereon for such Payment Date calculated pursuant to clause (a)(i) or
(b)(i) or (b)(ii) of the definition of "Note Interest Rate", as applicable, for
such Payment Date over (y) interest accrued on the Mortgage Loans at the related
Available Funds Rate.
Basis Risk Shortfall Carryover Amount: If on any Payment Date, the
Note Interest Rate of the Senior Notes are subject to their respective Available
Funds Rate, such notes become entitled to payment of an amount equal to the
excess of the (i) interest accrued at their respective Note Interest Rate
(without giving effect to the related Available Funds Rate) over (ii) the amount
of interest received on such Notes based on the related Available Funds Rate,
together with the unpaid portion of any such excess from previous Payment Dates
(and any interest thereon at the then applicable Note Interest Rate without
giving effect to the related Available Funds Rate).
Beneficial Owner: With respect to any Note, the Person who is the
beneficial owner of such Note as reflected on the books of the Depository or on
the books of a Person maintaining an account with such Depository (directly as a
Depository Participant or indirectly through a Depository Participant, in
accordance with the rules of such Depository).
Book-Entry Notes: Beneficial interests in the Class 1-A, Class 2-A
and Class 3-A Notes, ownership and transfers of which shall be made through book
entries by the Depository as described in the Indenture.
Business Day: Any day other than (i) a Saturday or a Sunday, or (ii)
a day on which the New York Stock Exchange or Federal Reserve is closed or on
which banking institutions in the jurisdiction in which the Indenture Trustee,
the Master Servicer, the Servicer or the Securities Administrator is located are
authorized or obligated by law or executive order to be closed.
Certificate Paying Agent: Initially, the Securities Administrator,
in its capacity as Certificate Paying Agent, or any successor to Securities
Administrator in such capacity.
Certificate Distribution Account: The account or accounts created
and maintained pursuant to Section 3.09(c) of the Trust Agreement. The
Certificate Payment Account shall be an Eligible Account.
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Certificate Percentage Interest: With respect to the Trust
Certificates and any date of determination, the percentage interest as stated on
the face of any Trust Certificate.
Certificate Register: The register maintained by the Certificate
Registrar in which the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration
of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates.
Certificate Registrar: Initially, the Securities Administrator, in
its capacity as Certificate Registrar, or any successor to the Securities
Administrator in such capacity pursuant to the Trust Agreement.
Certificate of Trust: The Certificate of Trust filed for the Trust
pursuant to Section 3810(a) of the Statutory Trust Statute.
Certificates or Trust Certificates: The ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage
Investors Trust Certificates, Series MLCC 2005-2, evidencing the beneficial
ownership interest in the Issuer and executed by the Owner Trustee in
substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A to the Trust Agreement.
Certificateholder: The Person in whose name a Certificate is
registered in the Certificate Register. Owners of Certificates that have been
pledged in good faith may be regarded as Holders if the pledgee establishes to
the satisfaction of the Securities Administrator or the Owner Trustee, as the
case may be, the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Certificates and
that the pledgee is not the Issuer, any other obligor upon the Certificates or
any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons.
Class: Any of the Class A, Class X, Class M or Class B Notes.
Class A Notes: The Class 1-A, Class 2-A and Class 3-A Notes in the
form attached as Exhibit A-1 to the Indenture.
Class B Notes: The Class B-1, Class B-2 and Class B-3 Notes in the
form attached as Exhibit A-3 to the Indenture.
Class M Notes: The Class M-1, Class M-2 and Class M-3 Notes in the
form attached as Exhibit A-3 to the Indenture.
Class X Notes: The Class X Notes in the form attached as Exhibit A-2
to the Indenture.
Class Prepayment Distribution Trigger: For a Class of Class M Notes
or Class B Notes for any Payment Date, the Class Prepayment Distribution Trigger
is satisfied if the fraction (expressed as a percentage), the numerator of which
is the aggregate Note Principal Balance of such Class and each Class of Class M
Notes or Class B Notes subordinate thereto, if any, in each case, immediately
preceding such Payment Date, and the denominator of which is the aggregate
Scheduled Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans as of the beginning of the
related Due Date, equals or exceeds such percentage calculated as of the Closing
Date. If on any Payment Date the Note Principal Balance of any Class or Classes
of Class M Notes or Class B
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Notes for which the related Class Prepayment Distribution Trigger was satisfied
on such Payment Date is reduced to zero, any amounts distributable to such Class
or Classes pursuant to clauses (ii), (iii) and (v) of the definition of
"Subordinate Optimal Principal Amount," to the extent of such Class's remaining
Allocable Share, shall be distributed to the remaining Class or Classes of Class
M Notes or Class B Notes in reduction of their respective Note Principal
Balances, sequentially, Class B-3, Class B-2, Class B-1, Class M-3, Class M-2
and Class M-1 Notes, in that order.
Closing Date: August 31, 2005.
Closing Date Legal Authorities: The existing provisions of
applicable law and regulations issued or proposed thereunder, published rulings
and releases of applicable agencies or other governmental bodies and existing
case law upon which the tax opinions of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇ LLP are based.
Code: The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the rules
and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Collateral: The meaning specified in the Granting Clause of the
Indenture.
Commission: The Securities and Exchange Commission.
Compensating Interest Payment: As defined in Section 3.21 of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement with respect to amounts payable by the Master
Servicer, and any amounts in respect of Interest Shortfalls required to be paid
by the related Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement.
Corporate Trust Office: With respect to the Indenture Trustee, the
principal corporate trust office of the Indenture Trustee at which at any
particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office
at the date of the execution of this instrument is located at HSBC Bank USA,
National Association, Corporate Trust & Loan Agency, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇,
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇. With respect to the Owner Trustee, the principal corporate trust
office of the Owner Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust
business shall be administered, which office at the date of the execution of
this Trust Agreement is located at Wilmington Trust Company, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Square
North, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇. With respect to the
Securities Administrator, Certificate Registrar, Note Registrar and Paying
Agent, the Corporate Trust Office of the Note Registrar and the Certificate
Registrar for purposes of presentment and surrender of the Notes and the
Certificates for the final payment or distribution thereon and for transfer is
located at Sixth Street and Marquette Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55479,
Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage Investors Trust, Series MLCC 2005-2, and for
all other purposes is located at P.O. Box 98, Columbia, Maryland 21046 (or, for
overnight deliveries, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇), Attn:
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage Investors Trust, Series MLCC 2005-2, or any other address
that the Securities Administrator may designate from time to time by notice to
the Noteholders and the Certificateholders.
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Cross-Over Date: The first Payment Date on which the aggregate Note
Principal Balance of the Class B Notes has been reduced to zero (after giving
effect to all distributions on such Payment Date).
Custodial Agreement: The custodial agreement, dated as of August 31,
2005, among the Issuer, the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee, the Master
Servicer and the Custodian, relating to the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage Investors
Trust, Mortgage-Backed Notes, Series MLCC 2005-2.
Custodian: ▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank, N.A., and its successors and assigns.
Cut-off Date: With respect to the Mortgage Loans, August 1, 2005.
Cut-off Date Balance: $1,220,525,429.03.
Cut-off Date Principal Balance: With respect to any Mortgage Loan,
the unpaid principal balance thereof as of the Cut-off Date after applying the
principal portion of Monthly Payments due on or before such date, whether or not
received, and without regard to any payments due after such date.
Debt Service Reduction: Any reduction of the Scheduled Payments
which a Mortgagor is obligated to pay with respect to a Mortgage Loan as a
result of any proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code or any other similar state
law or other proceeding.
Default: Any occurrence which is or with notice or the lapse of time
or both would become an Event of Default.
Deficient Valuation: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, a valuation
of the Mortgaged Property by a court of competent jurisdiction in an amount less
than the then outstanding indebtedness under the Mortgage Loan, which valuation
results from a proceeding initiated under the Bankruptcy Code or any other
similar state law or other proceeding.
Definitive Notes: The meaning specified in Section 4.08 of the
Indenture.
Deleted Mortgage Loan: A Mortgage Loan replaced or to be replaced
with a Substitute Mortgage Loan.
Depositor: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage Investors, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, or its successor in interest.
Depository: The Depository Trust Company, the nominee of which is
Cede & Co., or any successor thereto.
Depository Participant: A Person for whom, from time to time, the
Depository effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with
the Depository.
Designated Depository Institution: A depository institution
(commercial bank, federal savings bank, mutual savings bank or savings and loan
association) or trust company
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(which may include the Indenture Trustee), the deposits of which are fully
insured by the FDIC to the extent provided by law.
Determination Date: With respect to any Payment Date, the 15th day
of the related month, or if the 15th day of such month is not a Business Day,
the immediately preceding Business Day.
Due Date: With respect to each Mortgage Loan, the day of the month
on which each scheduled Monthly Payment is due.
Due Period: With respect to any Payment Date and the Mortgage Loans,
the period commencing on the second day of the month immediately preceding the
month of such Payment Date (or, with respect to the first Due Period, the day
following the Cut-off Date) and ending on the first day of the month of such
Payment Date.
Eligible Account: An account that is any of the following: (i)
maintained with a depository institution the short-term debt obligations of
which have been rated by each Rating Agency in its highest rating category
available, or (ii) an account or accounts in a depository institution in which
such accounts are fully insured to the limits established by the FDIC, provided
that any deposits not so insured shall, to the extent acceptable to each Rating
Agency, as evidenced in writing, be maintained such that (as evidenced by an
Opinion of Counsel delivered to the Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency)
the Indenture Trustee have a claim with respect to the funds in such account or
a perfected first priority security interest against any collateral (which shall
be limited to Permitted Investments) securing such funds that is superior to
claims of any other depositors or creditors of the depository institution with
which such account is maintained, or (iii) in the case of the Master Servicer
Collection Account and the Payment Account, a trust account or accounts (or a
sub-account of such) maintained in the corporate trust division of the Master
Servicer or Securities Administrator, or (iv) an account or accounts of a
depository institution acceptable to each Rating Agency (as evidenced in writing
by each Rating Agency that use of any such account as the Master Servicer
Collection Account or the Payment Account will not reduce the rating assigned to
any of the Notes by such Rating Agency as of the Closing Date by such Rating
Agency).
ERISA: The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended.
Event of Default: With respect to the Indenture, 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):
(i) a failure by the Issuer to pay Accrued Note Interest on the
Class 1-A, Class 2-A and Class 3-A Notes on any Payment Date and such default
shall continue for a period of five days; or
(ii) the failure by the Issuer on the Final Scheduled Payment Date
to pay all Accrued Note Interest of any Class A Notes, all remaining Basis Risk
Shortfall Carryover
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Amounts to any of the Class A Notes and to reduce the Note Principal Balances of
any Class of Class A Notes to zero; or
(iii) there occurs a default in the observance or performance of any
covenant or agreement of the Issuer made in the Indenture, or any representation
or warranty of the Issuer made in the Indenture or in any certificate or other
writing delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith proving to have been
incorrect in any material respect as of the time when the same shall have been
made, and such default shall continue or not be cured, or the circumstance or
condition in respect of which such representation or warranty was incorrect
shall not have been eliminated or otherwise cured, for a period of 30 days after
there shall have been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Issuer by
the Indenture Trustee or to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee by the Holders
of at least 25% of the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Outstanding
Notes, a written notice specifying such default or incorrect representation or
warranty and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a
notice of default hereunder; or
(iv) there occurs the filing of a decree or order for relief by a
court having jurisdiction in the premises in respect of the Issuer or any
substantial part of the Trust Estate in an involuntary case under any applicable
federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in
effect, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee,
sequestrator or similar official of the Issuer or for any substantial part of
the Trust Estate, or ordering the winding-up or liquidation of the Issuer's
affairs, and such decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a
period of 60 consecutive days; or
(v) there occurs the commencement by the Issuer of a voluntary
case under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other
similar law now or hereafter in effect, or the consent by the Issuer to the
entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case under any such law, or the
consent by the Issuer to the appointment or taking possession by a receiver,
liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of
the Issuer or for any substantial part of the assets of the Trust Estate, or the
making by the Issuer of any general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or
the failure by the Issuer generally to pay its debts as such debts become due,
or the taking of any action by the Issuer in furtherance of any of the
foregoing.
Event of Servicer Termination: The occurrence of an event, as
defined in the related Servicing Agreement, permitting termination or removal of
the related Servicer thereunder as servicer of the Mortgage Loans.
Excess Liquidation Proceeds: To the extent that such amount is not
required by law to be paid to the related Mortgagor, the amount, if any, by
which Liquidation Proceeds with respect to a Liquidated Mortgage Loan exceed the
sum of (i) the Outstanding Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan and accrued
but unpaid interest at the related Mortgage Interest Rate through the last day
of the month in which the related Liquidation Date occurs, (ii) related
Liquidation Expenses (including Liquidation Expenses which are payable therefrom
to the related Servicer or the Master Servicer in accordance with the related
Servicing Agreement or Sale and Servicing Agreement) and (iii) unreimbursed
advances by the related Servicer or the Master Servicer and Monthly Advances.
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Exchange Act: The Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and
the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Expenses: The meaning specified in Section 7.02 of the Trust
Agreement.
Expiration Notice: The notice to be delivered by the Master Servicer
to the related Servicer (pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement), stating
that it has received notice from the Certificate Registrar that (i) the Investor
no longer holds all of the Certificates and Privately Offered Notes or (ii) the
Investor has forfeited its rights set forth in Section 4.02 of the related
Servicing Agreement.
▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ (formerly, the Federal National Mortgage
Association), or any successor thereto.
FDIC: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any successor
thereto.
Final Certification: The final certification delivered by the
Custodian pursuant to Section 2.3(c) of the Custodial Agreement in the form
attached thereto as Exhibit Three.
Final Scheduled Payment Date: With respect to each Class of Notes,
the Payment Date in October 2035.
Foreclosure Notice: The notice to be delivered by the related
Servicer to the Master Servicer (pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement) no
later than five Business Days prior to the Servicer's commencement of
foreclosure proceedings with respect to a Mortgage Loan, of its intention to
commence such foreclosure proceedings.
Freddie Mac: Freddie Mac (formerly, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage
Corporation), or any successor thereto.
▇▇▇▇▇: Pledge, bargain, sell, warrant, alienate, remise, release,
convey, assign, transfer, create, and ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇ ▇▇▇▇ upon and a security interest
in and right of set-off against, deposit, set over and confirm pursuant to the
Indenture. A Grant of the Collateral or of any other agreement or instrument
shall include all rights, powers and options (but none of the obligations) of
the granting party thereunder, including the immediate and continuing right to
claim for, collect, receive and give receipt for principal and interest payments
in respect of such collateral or other agreement or instrument and all other
moneys 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.
Gross Margin: As to each Mortgage Loan, the fixed percentage set
forth in the related Mortgage Note and indicated on the Mortgage Loan Schedule
which percentage is added to the related Index on each Interest Adjustment Date
to determine (subject to rounding, the minimum and maximum Mortgage Interest
Rate and the Periodic Rate Cap) the Mortgage Interest Rate until the next
Interest Adjustment Date.
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Group I, Group II or Group III Available Funds: For any Payment Date
with respect to each Loan Group, the related Interest Funds, the Principal Funds
and any amounts transferred from the related Interest Coverage Account.
Group I Cut-off Date Balance: The aggregate Scheduled Principal
Balance of Loan Group I as of the Cut-off Date.
Group II Cut-off Date Balance: The aggregate Scheduled Principal
Balance of the Loan Group II as of the Cut-off Date.
Group III Cut-off Date Balance: The aggregate Scheduled Principal
Balance of the Loan Group III as of the Cut-off Date.
Group I, Group II or Group III Interest Funds: The Interest Funds
for such Loan Group for any Payment Date.
Group I, Group II or Group III Principal Funds: The Principal Funds
for such Loan Group for any Payment Date.
Group I Senior Notes: Any of the Class 1-A Notes.
Group II Senior Notes: Any of the Class 2-A Notes.
Group III Senior Notes: Any of the Class 3-A Notes.
Group I Senior Optimal Principal Amount, Group II Senior Optimal
Principal Amount or Group III Senior Optimal Principal Amount: With respect to
each Payment Date and the related group of Senior Notes, an amount equal to the
sum, without duplication, of the following (but in no event greater than the
aggregate Note Principal Balance of the related Senior Notes immediately prior
to such Payment Date):
(1) the applicable Senior Percentage of the principal portion of
all Monthly Payments due on each Outstanding Mortgage Loan in the related Loan
Group on the related Due Date as specified in the amortization schedule at the
time applicable thereto (after adjustments for previous Principal Prepayments
but before any adjustment to such amortization schedule by reason of any
bankruptcy or similar proceeding or any moratorium or similar waiver or grace
period);
(2) the applicable Senior Prepayment Percentage of the Scheduled
Principal Balance of each Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group which was the
subject of a Principal Prepayment in full received by the related Servicer
during the related Prepayment Period;
(3) the applicable Senior Prepayment Percentage of all Principal
Prepayments in part received by the related Servicer during the related
Prepayment Period with respect to each Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group;
(4) the lesser of (a) the applicable Senior Prepayment Percentage of
the sum of (i) all Net Liquidation Proceeds allocable to principal received in
respect of each Mortgage Loan in
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the related Loan Group which became a Liquidated Mortgage Loan during the
related Prepayment Period (other than Mortgage Loans described in the
immediately following clause (ii)) and all Subsequent Recoveries received in
respect of each Liquidated Mortgage Loan during the related Due Period and (ii)
the Scheduled Principal Balance of each such Mortgage Loan purchased by an
insurer from the Indenture Trustee during the related Prepayment Period pursuant
to the related Primary Mortgage Insurance Policy, if any, or otherwise; and (b)
the applicable Senior Percentage of the sum of (i) the Scheduled Principal
Balance of each Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group which became a
Liquidated Mortgage Loan during the related Prepayment Period (other than the
Mortgage Loans described in the immediately following clause (ii)) and all
Subsequent Recoveries received in respect of each Liquidated Mortgage Loan
during the related Due Period and (ii) the Scheduled Principal Balance of each
such Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group that was purchased by an insurer
from the Indenture Trustee during the related Prepayment Period pursuant to the
related Primary Mortgage Insurance Policy, if any or otherwise; and
(5) the applicable Senior Prepayment Percentage of the sum of (a)
the Scheduled Principal Balance of each Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group
which was repurchased by the Seller in connection with such Payment Date and (b)
the excess, if any, of the Scheduled Principal Balance of a Mortgage Loan that
in the related Loan Group has been replaced by the Seller with an Eligible
Substitute Mortgage Loan pursuant to the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement in
connection with such Payment Date over the Scheduled Principal Balance of such
Eligible Substitute Mortgage Loan.
Group I Senior Percentage: With respect to Loan Group I, the lesser
of (a) 100% and (b) the percentage obtained by dividing the aggregate Note
Principal Balance of the Group I Senior Notes immediately prior to such Payment
Date, by the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in Loan
Group I as of the beginning of the related Due Period. The initial Senior
Percentage for Loan Group I will be equal to approximately 96.65%.
Group II Senior Percentage: With respect to Loan Group II, the
lesser of (a) 100% and (b) the percentage obtained by dividing the aggregate
Note Principal Balance of the Group II Senior Notes immediately prior to such
Payment Date, by the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans
in Loan Group II as of the beginning of the related Due Period. The initial
Senior Percentage for Loan Group II will be equal to approximately 96.65%.
Group III Senior Percentage: With respect to Loan Group III, the
lesser of (a) 100% and (b) the percentage obtained by dividing the aggregate
Note Principal Balance of the Group III Senior Notes immediately prior to such
Payment Date, by the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans
in Loan Group III as of the beginning of the related Due Period. The initial
Senior Percentage for Loan Group III will be equal to approximately 96.65%.
Group I Senior Prepayment Percentage, Group II Senior Prepayment
Percentage or Group III Senior Prepayment Percentage: With respect to the Group
I Senior Notes, Group II Senior Notes or Group III Senior Notes on any Payment
Date occurring during the periods set forth below, as follows:
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Period (dates inclusive) Senior Prepayment Percentage
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September 25, 2005 - August 25, 2012 100%
September 25, 2012 - August 25, 2013 related Senior Percentage plus 70% of the
related Subordinate Percentage
September 25, 2013 - August 25, 2014 related Senior Percentage plus 60% of the
related Subordinate Percentage
September 25, 2014 - August 25, 2015 related Senior Percentage plus 40% of the
related Subordinate Percentage
September 25, 2015 - August 25, 2016 related Senior Percentage plus 20% of the
related Subordinate Percentage
September 25, 2016 and thereafter related Senior Percentage
Any scheduled reduction to the Senior Prepayment Percentage for the
related Senior Notes shall not be made as of any Payment Date unless, as of the
last day of the month preceding such Payment Date (1) the aggregate Scheduled
Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans delinquent 60 days or more (including
for this purpose any such Mortgage Loans in foreclosure and bankruptcy and such
Mortgage Loans with respect to which the related mortgaged property has been
acquired by the Trust) averaged over the last six months, as a percentage of the
aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Subordinate Notes does not exceed 50%
and (2) cumulative Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans do not exceed (a) 30%
of the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Original Subordinate Principal
Balance if such Payment Date occurs between and including September 2012 and
August 2013, (b) 35% of the Original Subordinate Principal Balance if such
Payment Date occurs between and including September 2013 and August 2014, (c)
40% of the Original Subordinate Principal Balance if such Payment Date occurs
between and including September 2014 and August 2015, (d) 45% of the Original
Subordinate Principal Balance if such Payment Date occurs between and including
September 2015 and August 2016, and (e) 50% of the Original Subordinate
Principal Balance if such Payment Date occurs during or after September 2016.
In addition, if on any Payment Date the current weighted average of
the Subordinate Percentages is equal to or greater than two times the weighted
average of the initial Subordinate Percentages, and (a) the aggregate Scheduled
Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans delinquent 60 days or more (including
for this purpose any such Mortgage Loans in foreclosure and bankruptcy and such
Mortgage Loans with respect to which the related mortgaged property has been
acquired by the Trust), averaged over the last six months, as a percentage of
the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Subordinate Notes does not exceed
50% and (b)(i) on or prior to the Payment Date occurring in September 2008,
cumulative Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans as of the end of the related
Prepayment Period do not exceed 20% of the Original Subordinate Principal
Balance and (ii) after the Payment Date occurring in September 2008, cumulative
Realized Losses on the Mortgage Loans as of the end of the related Prepayment
Period do not exceed 30% of the Original Subordinate Principal Balance, then, in
each case, the Senior Prepayment Percentage for the related Senior Notes for
such Payment Date will equal the related Senior Percentage for such Classes of
Senior Notes; provided, however, if on such Payment Date the current weighted
average of the Subordinate Percentages is equal to or greater than two times the
weighted average of the initial Subordinate
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Percentages on or prior to the Payment Date occurring in September 2008 and the
above delinquency and loss tests are met, then the Senior Prepayment Percentage
for the related Senior Notes for such Payment Date, will equal the Senior
Percentage for such Classes of Senior Notes plus 50% of the related Subordinate
Percentage on such Payment Date.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if on any Payment Date, the
percentage, the numerator of which is the aggregate Note Principal Balance of
the related Senior Notes immediately preceding such Payment Date, and the
denominator of which is the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of the
Mortgage Loans in the related Loan Group as of the beginning of the related Due
Period, exceeds such percentage as of the Cut-off Date, then the related Senior
Prepayment Percentage for the related Senior Notes for such Payment Date will
equal 100%.
Holder: Any Certificateholder or any Noteholder, as the context
requires.
Indemnified Party: The meaning specified in Section 7.02 of the
Trust Agreement.
Indenture: The indenture, dated as of August 31, 2005, among the
Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator, relating to the
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage Investors Trust, Mortgage-Backed Notes, Series MLCC
2005-2.
Indenture Trustee: HSBC Bank USA, National Association, and its
successors and assigns or any successor indenture trustee appointed pursuant to
the terms of the Indenture.
Independent: When used with respect to any specified Person, the
Person (i) is in fact independent of the Issuer, any other obligor on the Notes,
the Seller, the Master Servicer, the Depositor and any Affiliate of any of the
foregoing Persons, (ii) does not have any direct financial interest or any
material indirect financial interest in the Issuer, any such other obligor, the
Seller, the Master Servicer, the Depositor or any Affiliate of any of the
foregoing Persons and (iii) is not connected with the Issuer, any such other
obligor, the Seller, the Master Servicer, the Depositor or any Affiliate of any
of the foregoing Persons as an officer, employee, promoter, underwriter,
trustee, partner, director or person performing similar functions.
Independent Certificate: A certificate or opinion to be delivered to
the Indenture Trustee under the circumstances described in, and otherwise
complying with, the applicable requirements of Section 10.01 of the Indenture,
made by an independent appraiser or other expert appointed by an Issuer Request
and approved by the Indenture Trustee in the exercise of reasonable care, and
such opinion or certificate shall state that the signer has read the definition
of "Independent" in this Indenture and that the signer is Independent within the
meaning thereof.
Index: The index, if any, specified in a Mortgage Note by reference
to which the related Mortgage Interest Rate will be adjusted from time to time.
Initial Certification: The initial certification delivered by the
Custodian pursuant to Section 2.3(a) of the Custodial Agreement in the form
attached thereto as Exhibit One.
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Initial Note Principal Balance: With respect to the Class 1-A Notes,
$745,957,000, with respect to the Class 2-A Notes, $221,254,000, with respect to
the Class 3-A Notes, $212,425,000, with respect to the Class M-1 Notes,
$17,697,000, with respect to the Class M-2 Notes, $8,543,000, with respect to
the Class M-3 Notes, $5,492,000, with respect to the Class B-1 Notes,
$3,051,000, with respect to the Class B-2 Notes, $1,830,000, and with respect to
the Class B-3 Notes, $4,276,429.03.
Initial Notional Amount: With respect to the Class X Notes,
$1,179,636,000.
Initial Transfer: With respect to a Senior Note or Privately Offered
Note, the initial transfer of such Senior Note or Privately Offered Note (other
than a pledge of such Senior Note or Privately Offered Note to secure
indebtedness or the transfer of such Senior Note or Privately Offered Note
pursuant to a repurchase agreement treated as secured indebtedness for federal
income tax purposes) by a REIT which is the owner, directly or through one or
more QRSs or disregarded entities of 100% of all Certificates and all Senior
Notes and Privately Offered Notes other than those with respect to which a Tax
Transfer Certificate or "will be debt" opinion previously was furnished to the
Securities Administrator, in connection with which a Tax Transfer Certificate or
"will be debt" opinion is furnished to the Securities Administrator; provided,
that, if a REIT which is the owner, directly or through one or more QRSs or
entities disregarded as entities separate from such REIT or QRSs, of 100% of all
Certificates and all Senior Notes and Privately Offered Notes other than those
with respect to which a Tax Transfer Certificate or "will be debt" opinion
previously was furnished to the Securities Administrator reacquires any such
Senior Note or Privately Offered Note, then the initial transfer of such Senior
Note or Privately Offered Note by such REIT after such reacquisition shall be
treated as an Initial Transfer requiring a new Tax Transfer Certificate or "will
be debt" opinion and not as a Subsequent Transfer; provided, further, for the
avoidance of doubt, that if Notes are transferred to any Person in a transfer
with respect to which a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit F
hereto is required to be delivered to the Securities Administrator and certain
other parties, then (1) such transfer of such Notes to such Person shall not be
treated as an Initial Transfer or a Subsequent Transfer and (2) the initial
transfer of any Senior Note or Privately Offered Note (other than a pledge of
such Senior Note or Privately Offered Note to secure indebtedness or the
transfer of such Senior Note or Privately Offered Note pursuant to a repurchase
agreement treated as secured indebtedness for federal income tax purposes) by
such Person shall be treated as an Initial Transfer requiring a new Tax Transfer
Certificate or "will be debt" opinion and not as a Subsequent Transfer.
Insurance Policy: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, any standard
hazard insurance policy, flood insurance policy or title insurance policy.
Insurance Proceeds: Amounts paid by the insurer under any Insurance
Policy covering any Mortgage Loan or Mortgaged Property other than amounts
required to be paid over to the Mortgagor pursuant to law or the related
Mortgage Note or Security Instrument and other than amounts used to repair or
restore the Mortgaged Property or to reimburse insured expenses.
Interest Adjustment Date: With respect to a Mortgage Loan, the date,
if any, specified in the related Mortgage Note on which the Mortgage Interest
Rate is subject to adjustment.
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Interest Determination Date: With respect the Class 1-A Notes
commencing on the Payment Date in June 2010, the second Business Day prior to
the beginning of the related Interest Accrual Period. Any subsequent Interest
Determination Date for the Class 1-A Notes shall be the second LIBOR Business
Day prior to the sixth Interest Accrual Period following the preceding Interest
Determination Date for such Class of Notes. With respect to the Class 2-A Notes
commencing on the Payment Date in July 2010, the last Business Day of the
related Interest Accrual Period. Any subsequent Interest Determination Date for
the Class 2-A Notes shall be the second Business Day prior to the twelfth
Interest Accrual Period following the preceding Interest Determination Date for
such Class of Notes. Any Interest Determination Date for the Class 3-A Notes
shall be the second LIBOR Business Day prior to the related Interest Accrual
Period following the preceding Interest Determination Date for such Class of
Notes.
Interest Funds: With respect to each Loan Group and any Payment Date
(i) the sum, without duplication, of (a) all scheduled interest during the
related Due Period with respect to the related Mortgage Loans less the Servicing
Fee, (b) all Advances relating to interest with respect to the related Mortgage
Loans made on or prior to the related Payment Date, (c) all Compensating
Interest with respect to the related Mortgage Loans and required to be remitted
by the Master Servicer pursuant to this Agreement with respect to such Payment
Date, (d) Liquidation Proceeds and Subsequent Recoveries with respect to the
related Mortgage Loans collected during the related Prepayment Period (to the
extent such Liquidation Proceeds and Subsequent Recoveries relate to interest),
and (e) all amounts relating to interest with respect to each Mortgage Loan in
such Loan Group repurchased by the Seller pursuant to Sections 2.02 and 2.03 of
the Sale and Servicing Agreement, in each case to the extent remitted by the
Master Servicer to the Payment Account pursuant to the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, minus (ii) all amounts required to be reimbursed or paid pursuant to
the Indenture or as otherwise set forth in any Basic Document, to the extent
related to such Loan Group (or, if such reimbursement or payment not related to
a Loan Group, then such Loan Group's pro rata share (based on aggregate
Scheduled Principal Balance) of such reimbursement or payment).
Interest Shortfall: With respect to any Payment Date and each
Mortgage Loan that during the related Prepayment Period was the subject of a
Principal Prepayment or constitutes a Relief Act Mortgage Loan, an amount
determined as follows:
(a) Partial principal prepayments received during the relevant
Prepayment Period: The difference between (i) one month's interest at the
applicable Net Rate on the amount of such prepayment and (ii) the amount of
interest for the calendar month of such prepayment (adjusted to the applicable
Net Rate) received at the time of such prepayment;
(b) Principal prepayments in full received during the relevant
Prepayment Period: The difference between (i) one month's interest at the
applicable Net Rate on the Scheduled Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan
immediately prior to such prepayment and (ii) the amount of interest for the
calendar month of such prepayment (adjusted to the applicable Net Rate) received
at the time of such prepayment; and
(c) Relief Act Mortgage Loans: As to any Relief Act Mortgage Loan,
the excess of (i) 30 days' interest (or, in the case of a principal prepayment
in full, interest to the date of prepayment) on the Scheduled Principal Balance
thereof (or, in the case of a principal
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prepayment in part, on the amount so prepaid) at the related Net Rate over (ii)
30 days' interest (or, in the case of a principal prepayment in full, interest
to the date of prepayment) on such Scheduled Principal Balance (or, in the case
of a Principal Prepayment in part, on the amount so prepaid) at the Net Rate
required to be paid by the Mortgagor as limited by application of the Relief
Act.
Interim Certification: The interim certification delivered by the
Custodian pursuant to Section 2.3(b) of the Custodial Agreement in the form
attached thereto as Exhibit Two.
Investment Company Act: The Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended, and any amendments thereto.
Investor: KKR Financial Corp.
IRS: The Internal Revenue Service.
Issuer: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Investors Trust, Series 2005-2, a Delaware
statutory trust, or its successor in interest.
Issuer Request: A written order or request signed in the name of the
Issuer by any one of its Authorized Officers and delivered to the Indenture
Trustee.
LIBOR Business Day: A day on which banks are open for dealing in
foreign currency and exchange in London and New York City.
Lien: Any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, conveyance,
hypothecation, assignment, participation, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien
(statutory or other), preference, priority right or interest or other security
agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever,
including, without limitation, any conditional sale or other title retention
agreement, any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as
any of the foregoing and the filing of any financing statement under the UCC
(other than any such financing statement filed for informational purposes only)
or comparable law of any jurisdiction to evidence any of the foregoing.
Liquidated Mortgage Loan: With respect to any Payment Date, a
defaulted Mortgage Loan that has been liquidated through deed-in-lieu of
foreclosure, foreclosure sale, indenture trustee's sale or other realization as
provided by applicable law governing the real property subject to the related
Mortgage and any security agreements and as to which the related Servicer has
certified in the related Prepayment Period that it has received all amounts it
expects to receive in connection with such liquidation.
Liquidation Date: With respect to any Liquidated Mortgage Loan, the
date on which the Master Servicer or the related Servicer has certified that
such Mortgage Loan has become a Liquidated Mortgage Loan.
Liquidation Expenses: With respect to a Mortgage Loan in
liquidation, unreimbursed expenses paid or incurred by or for the account of the
Master Servicer or the
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related Servicer in connection with the liquidation of such Mortgage Loan and
the related Mortgage Property, such expenses including (a) property protection
expenses, (b) property sales expenses, (c) foreclosure and sale costs, including
court costs and reasonable attorneys' fees, and (d) similar expenses reasonably
paid or incurred in connection with liquidation.
Liquidation Proceeds: Cash received in connection with the
liquidation of a defaulted Mortgage Loan, whether through trustee's sale,
foreclosure sale, Insurance Proceeds, condemnation proceeds or otherwise.
Loan-to-Value Ratio: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, the
fraction, expressed as a percentage, the numerator of which is the original
principal balance of the related Mortgage Loan and the denominator of which is
the Original Value of the related Mortgaged Property.
Loan Group: Loan Group I, Loan Group II or Loan Group III, as
applicable.
Loan Group I: The group of Mortgage Loans designated as belonging
to Loan Group I on the Mortgage Loan Schedule.
Loan Group II: The group of Mortgage Loans designated as belonging
to Loan Group II on the Mortgage Loan Schedule.
Loan Group III: The group of Mortgage Loans designated as belonging
to Loan Group III on the Mortgage Loan Schedule.
Loss Allocation Limitation: As defined in Section 3.24(c) of the
Indenture.
Loss Severity Percentage: With respect to any Payment Date, the
percentage equivalent of a fraction, the numerator of which is the amount of
Realized Losses incurred on a Mortgage Loan and the denominator of which is the
Scheduled Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan immediately prior to the
liquidation of such Mortgage Loan.
Lost Notes: The original Mortgage Notes that have been lost, as
indicated on the Mortgage Loan Schedule.
Majority Certificateholder: A Holder of a 50.01% or greater
Certificate Percentage Interest of the Trust Certificates.
Master Servicer: ▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank, N.A., and its successors and
assigns.
Master Servicer Certification: A written certification covering
servicing of the Mortgage Loans by the Servicer and signed by an officer of the
Master Servicer that complies with (i) the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ Act of 2002, as
amended from time to time, and (ii) the February 21, 2003 Statement by the Staff
of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission
Regarding Compliance by Asset-Backed Issuers with Exchange Act Rules 13a-14 and
15d-14, as in effect from time to time; provided that if, after the Closing Date
(a) the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ Act of 2002 is amended, (b) the Statement referred to in
clause (ii) is modified or superseded by any subsequent statement, rule or
regulation of the Securities and Exchange Commission or any statement of a
division thereof, or (c) any future releases, rules
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and regulations are published by the Securities and Exchange Commission from
time to time pursuant to the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ Act of 2002, which in any such case
affects the form or substance of the required certification and results in the
required certification being, in the reasonable judgment of the Master Servicer,
materially more onerous than the form of the required certification as of the
Closing Date, the Master Servicer Certification shall be as agreed to by the
Master Servicer and the Depositor following a negotiation in good faith to
determine how to comply with any such new requirements.
Master Servicer Collection Account: The trust account or accounts
created and maintained pursuant to Section 4.02 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement. The Master Servicer Collection Account shall be an Eligible Account
and maybe a sub-account of the Payment Account.
Master Servicer Compensation: As defined in Section 3.13 of the Sale
and Servicing Agreement.
Master Servicer Event of Default: Has the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 6.01 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
Material Defect: The meaning specified in Section 2.02(a) of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement.
Maximum Lifetime Mortgage Rate: The maximum level to which a
Mortgage Interest Rate can adjust in accordance with its terms, regardless of
changes in the applicable Index.
MERS: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., a corporation
organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, or any successor
thereto.
MERS(R) System: The system of recording transfers of Mortgages
electronically maintained by MERS.
MIN: The Mortgage Identification Number for Mortgage Loans
registered with MERS on the MERS(R) System.
Minimum Lifetime Mortgage Rate: The minimum level to which a
Mortgage Interest Rate can adjust in accordance with its terms, regardless of
changes in the applicable Index.
MOM Loan: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, MERS acting as the
mortgagee of such Mortgage Loan, solely as nominee for the originator of such
Mortgage Loan and its successors and assigns, at the origination thereof, or as
nominee for any subsequent assignee of the originator pursuant to an assignment
of mortgage to MERS.
Monthly Advance: An advance of principal or interest required to be
made by the related Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement or the
Master Servicer pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
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Monthly Payment: With respect to any Mortgage Loan (including any
REO Property) and any Due Date, the payment of principal and interest due
thereon in accordance with the amortization schedule at the time applicable
thereto (after adjustment, if any, for partial Principal Prepayments and for
Deficient Valuations occurring prior to such Due Date but before any adjustment
to such amortization schedule by reason of any bankruptcy, other than a
Deficient Valuation, or similar proceeding or any moratorium or similar waiver
or grace period).
Moody's: ▇▇▇▇▇'▇ Investors Service, Inc.
Mortgage: The mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument reflected
on the Mortgage Loan Schedule as securing a Mortgage Loan.
Mortgage File: The file containing the Related Documents pertaining
to a particular Mortgage Loan and any additional documents required to be added
to the Mortgage File pursuant to the Indenture.
Mortgage Interest Rate: The annual rate at which interest accrues
from time to time on any Mortgage Loan pursuant to the related Mortgage Note,
which rate is initially equal to the "Mortgage Interest Rate" set forth with
respect thereto on the Mortgage Loan Schedule.
Mortgage Loan: A Mortgage Loan transferred and assigned to the Trust
pursuant to Section 2.01 or Section 2.04 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, as
identified in the Mortgage Loan Schedule, including a Mortgage Loan the property
securing which has become an REO Property.
Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement: The Mortgage Loan Purchase
Agreement, dated as of August 31, 2005, between ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage Lending,
Inc., as seller, and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage Investors, as purchaser, and all
amendments thereof and supplements thereto, attached to the Sale and Servicing
Agreement as Exhibit E.
Mortgage Loan Schedule: The schedule, attached hereto as Exhibit B
with respect to the Mortgage Loans, and as amended from time to time to reflect
the repurchase or substitution of Mortgage Loans pursuant to the Indenture or
the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, as the case may be.
Mortgage Note: The originally executed note or other evidence of the
indebtedness of a Mortgagor under the related Mortgage Loan.
Mortgaged Property: Land and improvements securing the indebtedness
of a Mortgagor under the related Mortgage Loan or, in the case of REO Property,
such REO Property.
Mortgagor: The obligor on a Mortgage Note.
Net Collections: With respect to any Liquidated Mortgage Loan, an
amount equal to all payments on account of interest and principal on such
Mortgage Loan.
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Net Interest Shortfall: With respect to any Payment Date, the
Interest Shortfall, if any, for such Payment Date net of Compensating Interest
made with respect to such Payment Date.
Net Liquidation Proceeds: With respect to any Liquidated Mortgage
Loan, Liquidation Proceeds and Subsequent Recoveries net of unreimbursed
advances by the related Servicer, Monthly Advances, expenses incurred by the
related Servicer in connection with the liquidation of such Mortgage Loan and
the related Mortgaged Property, and any other amounts payable to the related
Servicer under the related Servicing Agreement.
Net Rate or Net Mortgage Rate: For any Mortgage Loan, the then
applicable Mortgage Rate thereon less the Servicing Fee Rate.
Nonrecoverable Advance: Any advance or Monthly Advance (i) which was
previously made or is proposed to be made by the Master Servicer, the Indenture
Trustee solely as successor Master Servicer, or the related Servicer and (ii)
which, in the good faith judgment of the Master Servicer, the Indenture Trustee
as successor Master Servicer or the related Servicer, will not or, in the case
of a proposed advance or Monthly Advance, would not, be ultimately recoverable
by the Master Servicer, the Indenture Trustee as successor Master Servicer, or
the related Servicer from Liquidation Proceeds, Insurance Proceeds or future
payments on the Mortgage Loan for which such advance or Monthly Advance was made
or is proposed to be made.
Note: Any of the Class A, Class X, Class M or Class B Note.
Noteholder: The Person in whose name a Note is registered in the
Note Register, except that, any Note registered in the name of the Depositor,
the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, the Seller, the Securities Administrator or
the Master Servicer or any Affiliate of any of them shall be deemed not to be a
holder or holders, nor shall any so owned be considered outstanding, for
purposes of giving any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent or waiver under the Indenture or the Trust Agreement; provided that, in
determining whether the Indenture Trustee or Securities Administrator shall be
protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent or waiver, only Notes that a Responsible Officer of the
Indenture Trustee or Securities Administrator has actual knowledge to be so
owned shall be so disregarded. Owners of Notes that have been pledged in good
faith may be regarded as Holders if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction
of the Securities Administrator or the Owner Trustee the pledgee's right so to
act with respect to such Notes and that the pledgee is not the Issuer, any other
obligor upon the Notes or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons.
Note Interest Rate: With respect to Class 1-A Notes, on or prior to
the Payment Date in June 2010, the lesser of (i) 4.25% per annum and (ii) the
related Available Funds Rate; and thereafter, the least of (i) Six-Month LIBOR
Note Index plus 1.25% per annum, (ii) the related Available Funds Rate and (iii)
10.00% per annum. With respect to Class 2-A Notes on or prior to the Payment
Date in July 2010, the lesser of (i) 4.25% per annum and (ii) the related
Available Funds Rate; and thereafter, the least of (i) One-Year U.S. Treasury
Note Index plus 2.25% per annum, (ii) the related Available Funds Rate and (iii)
9.00% per annum. With respect to Class 3-A Notes, the least of (i) One-Month
LIBOR Note Index plus 1.00% per annum, (ii) the
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related Available Funds Rate and (iii) 11.75% per annum. With respect to each
Class of Class M Notes and Class B Notes, the weighted average of the weighted
average of the Net Rates of the Mortgage Loans in each Loan Group, weighted in
proportion to the results of subtracting from the aggregate Scheduled Principal
Balance of the Mortgage Loans of each such Loan Group the aggregate Note
Principal Balance of the related Classes of Senior Notes. With respect to the
Class X Notes, a variable rate equal to the product of (i) 12 and (ii) a
fraction expressed as a rate, (x) the numerator of which is the excess, if any,
of (1) the interest accrued and payable on the Mortgage Loans for the related
Due Period, over (2) the amount of any Accrued Note Interest (including any
Accrued Note Interest remaining unpaid from any previous Payment Date) payable
to the Class A, Class M and Class B Notes (including any Basis Risk Shortfall
Carryover Amounts payable to the Class A Notes) for the related Payment Date,
and (y) the denominator of which is the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the
Class A Notes.
Note Owner: The Beneficial Owner of a Note.
Note Principal Balance: With respect to any Note (other than the
Class X Notes) as of any Payment Date, will equal such Note's initial principal
balance on the Closing Date, as reduced by (i) all amounts distributed on
previous Payment Dates on such Note with respect to principal, (ii) the
principal portion of all Realized Losses allocated prior to such Payment Date to
such Note (taking into account the applicable Loss Allocation Limitation) and
(iii) in the case of a Subordinate Note, such Class's pro rata share, if any, of
the applicable Subordinate Writedown Amount for previous Payment Dates, plus any
Subsequent Recoveries added to the Note Principal Balance of such Note. With
respect to any Class of Notes (other than the Class X Notes), the Note Principal
Balance thereof shall be equal to the sum of the Note Principal Balances of all
Outstanding Notes of such Class.
Note Rate Change Date: With respect to the Class 1-A Notes, the
Payment Date in July 2010 and with respect to the Class 2-A Notes, the Payment
Date in August 2010.
Note Register: The register maintained by the Note Registrar in
which the Note Registrar shall provide for the registration of Notes and of
transfers and exchanges of Notes.
Note Registrar: The Securities Administrator, in its capacity as
Note Registrar, or any successor to the Securities Administrator in such
capacity.
Notional Amount: With respect to the Class X Notes and each Payment
Date, an amount equal to the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Senior
Notes before giving effect to distributions to be made on such Payment Date.
Officer's Certificate: With respect to the Master Servicer, a
certificate signed by the President, Managing Director, a Director, a Vice
President or an Assistant Vice President, of the Master Servicer and delivered
to the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator, as applicable. With
respect to the Issuer, a certificate signed by any Authorized Officer of the
Issuer, under the circumstances described in, and otherwise complying with, the
applicable requirements of Section 10.01 of the Indenture, and delivered to the
Indenture Trustee. Unless otherwise specified, any reference in the Indenture to
an Officer's Certificate shall be to an Officer's Certificate of any Authorized
Officer of the Issuer.
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One-Month LIBOR Note Index: With respect to any Accrual Period, the
rate determined by the Indenture Trustee on the related Interest Determination
Date on the basis of the London interbank offered rate for one-month United
States dollar deposits, as such rates appear on the Telerate Screen Page 3750,
as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such Interest Determination Date.
In the event that on any Interest Determination Date, Telerate
Screen 3750 fails to indicate the London interbank offered rate for one-month
United States dollar deposits, then The One-Month LIBOR Note Index for the
related Accrual Period will be established by the Indenture Trustee as follows:
(i) If on such Interest Determination Date two or more
Reference Banks provide such offered quotations, The One-Month LIBOR Note
Index for the related Accrual Period shall be the arithmetic mean of such
offered quotations (rounded upwards if necessary to the nearest whole
multiple of 1/16%).
(ii) If on such Interest Determination Date fewer than two
Reference Banks provide such offered quotations, The One-Month LIBOR Note
Index for the related Accrual Period shall be the higher of (i) the
One-Month LIBOR Note Index as determined on the previous Interest
Determination Date and (ii) the Reserve Interest Rate.
(iii) If no such quotations can be obtained and no Reference
Bank rate is available, the One-Month LIBOR Note Index will be the
One-Month LIBOR Note Index rate applicable to the preceding Accrual
Period.
The establishment of the One-Month LIBOR Note Index on each related
Interest Determination Date by the Indenture Trustee and the Indenture Trustee's
calculation of the applicable Note Interest Rate applicable for the related
Accrual Period shall (in the absence of manifest error) be final and binding.
One-Year U.S. Treasury Note Index: With respect to any Accrual
Period, the rate determined by the Securities Administrator on the related
Interest Determination Date on the basis of the weekly average yield on U.S.
Treasury securities adjusted to a constant maturity of one year as reported in
the Release on the related Interest Determination Date or, if not so available,
as most recently available immediately prior to such Interest Determination
Date.
Opinion of Counsel: A written opinion of counsel acceptable to the
Indenture Trustee in its reasonable discretion which counsel may be in-house
counsel for the Depositor or the Seller if acceptable to the Indenture Trustee
and the Rating Agencies or outside counsel for the Depositor, the Seller, the
Issuer or the Master Servicer, as the case may be.
Optional Termination Date: The Payment Date occurring after the
first Payment Date for which the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of the
Mortgage Loans as of the end of the related Due Period has been reduced to 10%
or less of the Cut-off Date Balance.
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Original Subordinate Principal Balance: The aggregate Note Principal
Balance of the Subordinate Notes as of the Closing Date.
Original Value: The lesser of (i) the Appraised Value or (ii) the
sales price of a Mortgaged Property at the time of origination of a Mortgage
Loan, except in instances where either clauses (i) or (ii) is unavailable, the
other may be used to determine the Original Value, or if both clauses (i) and
(ii) are unavailable, Original Value may be determined from other sources
reasonably acceptable to the Depositor.
Outstanding: With respect to the Notes, as of the date of
determination, all Notes theretofore executed, authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture except:
(i) Notes theretofore canceled by the Note Registrar or
delivered to the Securities Administrator for cancellation; and
(ii) Notes in exchange for or in lieu of which other Notes
have been executed, authenticated and delivered pursuant to the
Indenture unless proof satisfactory to the Securities Administrator
is presented that any such Notes are held by a holder in due course.
Outstanding Mortgage Loan: With respect to any Due Date, a Mortgage
Loan which, prior to such Due Date, was not the subject of a Principal
Prepayment in full, did not become a Liquidated Mortgage Loan and was not
purchased or replaced.
Outstanding Principal Balance: As of the time of any determination,
the principal balance of a Mortgage Loan remaining to be paid by the Mortgagor,
or, in the case of an REO Property, the principal balance of the related
Mortgage Loan remaining to be paid by the Mortgagor at the time such property
was acquired by the Trust less any Excess Liquidation Proceeds with respect
thereto to the extent applied to principal.
Owner Trust Estate: The corpus of the Issuer created by the Trust
Agreement which consists of items referred to in Section 3.01 of the Trust
Agreement.
Owner Trustee: Wilmington Trust Company, and its successors and
assigns or any successor owner trustee appointed pursuant to the terms of the
Trust Agreement.
Paying Agent: Any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed under
the Indenture, which initially shall be the Securities Administrator.
Payment Account: The trust account or accounts created and
maintained pursuant to Section 3.01 of the Indenture, which shall be denominated
▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank, N.A., as Securities Administrator f/b/o holders of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage Investors Trust, Mortgage-Backed Notes, Series MLCC 2005-2 -
Payment Account." The Payment Account shall be an Eligible Account.
Payment Account Deposit Date: The Business Day prior to each Payment
Date.
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Payment Date: The 25th day of each month, or if such day is not a
Business Day, then the next Business Day, commencing in September 2005.
Percentage Interest: With respect to any Note, the percentage
obtained by dividing the Note Principal Balance of such Note by the aggregate
Note Principal Balance of all Notes of that Class. With respect to any
Certificate, the percentage as stated on the face thereof.
Periodic Rate Cap: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, the maximum
rate, if any, by which the Mortgage Rate on such Mortgage Loan can adjust on any
Adjustment Date, as stated in the related Mortgage Note or Mortgage.
Permitted Investments: Any one or more of the following obligations
or securities held in the name of the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the
Noteholders:
(i) direct obligations of, and obligations the timely payment of
which are fully guaranteed by the United States of America or any agency or
instrumentality of the United States of America the obligations of which are
backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America;
(ii) (a) demand or time deposits, federal funds or bankers'
acceptances issued by any depository institution or trust company incorporated
under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof (including
the Indenture Trustee, Securities Administrator or the Master Servicer or its
Affiliates acting in its commercial banking capacity) and subject to supervision
and examination by federal and/or state banking authorities, provided that the
commercial paper and/or the short-term debt rating and/or the long-term
unsecured debt obligations of such depository institution or trust company at
the time of such investment or contractual commitment providing for such
investment have the Applicable Credit Rating or better from the Rating Agencies
and (b) any other demand or time deposit or certificate of deposit that is fully
insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation;
(iii) repurchase obligations with respect to (a) any security
described in clause (i) above or (b) any other security issued or guaranteed by
an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America, the obligations of
which are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America,
in either case entered into with a depository institution or trust company
(acting as principal) described in clause (ii)(a) above where the Securities
Administrator holds the security therefor;
(iv) securities bearing interest or sold at a discount issued by
any corporation (including the Indenture Trustee, Securities Administrator or
the Master Servicer or its Affiliates) incorporated under the laws of the United
States of America or any state thereof that have the Applicable Credit Rating or
better from the Rating Agencies at the time of such investment or contractual
commitment providing for such investment; provided, however, that securities
issued by any particular corporation will not be Permitted Investments to the
extent that investments therein will cause the then outstanding principal amount
of securities issued by such corporation and held as part of the Trust to exceed
10% of the aggregate Outstanding Principal Balances of all the Mortgage Loans
and Permitted Investments held as part of the Trust as determined by the Master
Servicer;
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(v) commercial paper (including both non-interest-bearing discount
obligations and interest-bearing obligations payable on demand or on a specified
date not more than one year after the date of issuance thereof) having the
Applicable Credit Rating or better from the Rating Agencies at the time of such
investment;
(vi) a Reinvestment Agreement issued by any bank, insurance company
or other corporation or entity;
(vii) any other demand, money market or time deposit, obligation,
security or investment as may be acceptable to the Rating Agencies as evidenced
in writing by the Rating Agencies to the Securities Administrator; and
(viii)any money market or common trust fund having the Applicable
Credit Rating or better from the Rating Agencies, including any such fund for
which the Securities Administrator or Master Servicer or any affiliate of the
Securities Administrator or Master Servicer acts as a manager or an advisor;
provided, however, that no instrument or security shall be a Permitted
Investment if such instrument or security evidences a right to receive only
interest payments with respect to the obligations underlying such instrument or
if such security provides for payment of both principal and interest with a
yield to maturity in excess of 120% of the yield to maturity at par or if such
instrument or security is purchased at a price greater than par as determined by
the Master Servicer.
Person: Any individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability
company, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated
organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
PHH: PHH Mortgage Corporation (formerly known as Cendant Mortgage
Corporation), or its successor in interest.
PHH Servicing Agreement: The Mortgage Loan Flow Purchase, Sale and
Servicing Agreement, dated as of March 27, 2001, among ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage
Capital Inc., PHH and ▇▇▇▇▇▇'▇ Gate Residential Mortgage Trust, attached as
Exhibit C-2 to the Sale and Servicing Agreement, as modified by the related
Assignment Agreement.
Plan: Any employee benefit plan or certain other retirement plans
and arrangements, including individual retirement accounts and annuities, ▇▇▇▇▇
plans and bank collective investment funds and insurance company general or
separate accounts in which such plans, accounts or arrangements are invested,
that are subject to ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code.
Plan Assets: Assets of a Plan within the meaning of Department of
Labor regulation 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101.
Pool Balance: With respect to any date of determination, the
aggregate of the Scheduled Principal Balances of all Mortgage Loans as of such
date.
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Prepayment Interest Shortfall: As to any Payment Date, Interest
Shortfalls, if any, of the type described in clauses (a) and (b) of the
definition thereof, for such Payment Date, net of Compensating Interest Payments
made with respect to such Payment Date.
Prepayment Period: With respect any Mortgage Loan and any Payment
Date, the calendar month immediately preceding the month in which such Payment
Date occurs.
Primary Mortgage Insurance Policy: Any primary mortgage guaranty
insurance policy issued in connection with a Mortgage Loan which provides
compensation to a Mortgage Note holder in the event of default by the obligor
under such Mortgage Note or the related Security Instrument, if any, or any
replacement policy therefor through the related Accrual Period for such Class
relating to a Payment Date.
Principal Funds: With respect to a Payment Date and each Loan Group,
are equal to the sum, without duplication, of (i) the scheduled principal
collected on the mortgage loans in the related Loan Group during the related Due
Period or advanced by the related Servicer or Master Servicer, (ii) prepayments
of principal in respect of the mortgage loans in the related Loan Group,
exclusive of any prepayment charges, collected in the related Prepayment Period,
(iii) the Scheduled Principal Balance of each mortgage loan in the related Loan
Group that was repurchased by the Seller, the amount, if any, by which the
aggregate unpaid principal balance of any replacement mortgage loans is less
than the aggregate unpaid principal balance of any deleted mortgage loans
delivered by the Seller in connection with a substitution of a mortgage loan,
(iv) all Liquidation Proceeds and Subsequent Recoveries collected during the
related Prepayment Period on the mortgage loans in the related Loan Group, to
the extent such Liquidation Proceeds and Subsequent Recoveries relate to
principal, less all non-recoverable advances relating to principal reimbursed
during the related Due Period, and (v) such Loan Group's pro rata share (based
on the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance) of the principal portion of the
purchase price of the assets of the trust upon the exercise by the majority
holder of the Trust Certificate of its optional termination right; minus any
amounts required to be reimbursed to the Seller, the Master Servicer, the
Securities Administrator, the Custodian or the Indenture Trustee as provided in
the Indenture to the extent related to such Loan Group (or, if such
reimbursement or payment is not related to a Loan Group, then such Loan Group's
pro rata share (based on the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance) of such
reimbursement or payment), to the extent not reimbursed from the Interest Funds
from either Loan Group for such Payment Date.
Principal Prepayment: Any payment (whether partial or full) or other
recovery of principal on a Mortgage Loan which is received in advance of its
scheduled Due Date to the extent that it is not accompanied by an amount as to
interest representing scheduled interest due on any date or dates in any month
or months subsequent to the month of prepayment, including Insurance Proceeds
and Repurchase Proceeds, but excluding the principal portion of Excess
Liquidation Proceeds.
Privately Offered Notes: Any of the Class X, Class M-1, Class M-2,
Class M-3, Class B-1, Class B-2 and Class B-3 Notes.
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Proceeding: Any suit in equity, action at law or other judicial or
administrative proceeding.
Protected Account: The trust account or accounts created and
maintained by a Servicer pursuant to the related Servicing Agreement. Each
Protected Account shall be an Eligible Account.
Publicly Offered Notes: Any of the Class 1-A, Class 2-A and Class
3-A Notes.
Purchaser: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage Investors, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, and its successors and assigns.
Qualified Insurer: Any insurance company duly qualified as such
under the laws of the state or states in which the related Mortgaged Property or
Mortgaged Properties is or are located, duly authorized and licensed in such
state or states to transact the type of insurance business in which it is
engaged and approved as an insurer by the Master Servicer, so long as the claims
paying ability of which is acceptable to the Rating Agencies for mortgage-backed
notes having the same rating as the Notes rated by the Rating Agencies as of the
Closing Date.
Rating Agency: Any nationally recognized statistical rating
organization, or its successor, that rated the Notes at the request of the
Depositor at the time of the initial issuance of the Notes. Initially, Standard
& Poor's and ▇▇▇▇▇'▇. If such organization or a successor is no longer in
existence, "Rating Agency" with respect to the Notes shall be such nationally
recognized statistical rating organization, or other comparable Person,
designated by the Depositor, notice of which designation shall be given to the
Indenture Trustee and Master Servicer. References herein to the highest short
term unsecured rating category of a Rating Agency shall mean A-1 or better in
the case of Standard & Poor's, P-1 in the case of ▇▇▇▇▇'▇ and in the case of any
other Rating Agency shall mean such equivalent ratings. References herein to the
highest long-term rating category of a Rating Agency shall mean "AAA" in the
case of Standard & Poor's, "Aaa" in the case of ▇▇▇▇▇'▇ and in the case of any
other Rating Agency, such equivalent rating.
Realized Loss: Any (i) Bankruptcy Loss or (ii) as to any Liquidated
Mortgage Loan, (x) the Outstanding Principal Balance of such Liquidated Mortgage
Loan plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon at the Mortgage Interest Rate
through the last day of the month of such liquidation, less (y) the related
Excess Liquidation Proceeds with respect to such Mortgage Loan and the related
Mortgage Property.
Record Date: With respect to any Class of Notes and the Trust
Certificate and any Payment Date, the close of business on the last Business Day
of the calendar month immediately preceding such Payment Date.
Registered Holder: The Person in whose name a Note is registered in
the Note Register on the applicable Record Date.
Related Documents: With respect to each Mortgage Loan, the documents
specified in Section 2.01(b)(i)-(vii) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement and
any documents
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required to be added to such documents pursuant to the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, the Trust Agreement, the Indenture or the Mortgage Loan Purchase
Agreement.
Release: The Federal Reserve Board's statistical Release No.
H.15(519).
Relief Act: Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.
Relief Act Mortgage Loan: Any Mortgage Loan as to which the
Scheduled Payment thereof has been reduced due to the application of the Relief
Act.
REO Property: A Mortgaged Property acquired in the name of the
Indenture Trustee, for the benefit of the Noteholders, by foreclosure or
deed-in-lieu of foreclosure in connection with a defaulted Mortgage Loan.
Repurchase Price: With respect to any Mortgage Loan (or any property
acquired with respect thereto) required to be repurchased by the Seller pursuant
to the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement or Article II of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, an amount equal to the sum of (i)(a) 100% of the Outstanding
Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan as of the date of repurchase (or if the
related Mortgaged Property was acquired with respect thereto, 100% of the
Outstanding Principal Balance at the date of the acquisition), plus (b) accrued
but unpaid interest on the Outstanding Principal Balance at the related Mortgage
Interest Rate, through and including the last day of the month of repurchase,
plus (c) any unreimbursed Monthly Advances and servicing advances payable to the
related Servicer or to the Master Servicer and (ii) any costs and damages (if
any) incurred by the Trust in connection with any violation of such Mortgage
Loan of any predatory lending laws.
Repurchase Proceeds: the Repurchase Price in connection with any
repurchase of a Mortgage Loan by the Seller and any cash deposit in connection
with the substitution of a Mortgage Loan.
Request for Release: A request for release in the form attached to
the Custodial Agreement as Exhibit Four.
Required Insurance Policy: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, any
insurance policy which is required to be maintained from time to time under the
Sale and Servicing Agreement with respect to such Mortgage Loan.
Reserve Interest Rate: With respect to any Interest Determination
Date, the rate per annum that the Securities Administrator determines to be
either (i) the arithmetic mean (rounded upwards if necessary to the nearest
whole multiple of 0.0625%) of the one-year United States dollar lending rates
which New York City banks selected by the Securities Administrator are quoting
on the relevant Interest Determination Date to the principal London offices of
leading banks in the London interbank market or (ii) in the event that the
Securities Administrator can determine no such arithmetic mean, the lowest
one-year United States dollar lending rate which New York City banks selected by
the Securities Administrator are quoting on such Interest Determination Date to
leading European banks.
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Responsible Officer: With respect to the Securities Administrator,
any officer of the Securities Administrator with direct responsibility for the
administration of the Indenture and also, with respect to a particular matter,
any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of such officer's
knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject; and with respect to
the Indenture Trustee, any vice president, assistant vice president, any
assistant secretary, any assistant treasurer, any associate or any other officer
of the Indenture Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those
performed by any of the above designated officers who at such time shall be
officers to whom, with respect to a particular matter, such matter is referred
because of such officer's knowledge of and familiarity with the particular
subject or who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this
Indenture.
Sale and Servicing Agreement: The Sale and Servicing Agreement,
dated as of August 31, 2005, among the Issuer, the Seller, the Indenture
Trustee, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator and the Depositor.
Scheduled Payment: With respect to any Mortgage Loan and any month,
the scheduled payment or payments of principal and interest due during such
month on such Mortgage Loan which either is payable by a Mortgagor in such month
under the related Mortgage Note or, in the case of REO Property, would otherwise
have been payable under the related Mortgage Note.
Scheduled Principal: The principal portion of any Scheduled Payment.
Scheduled Principal Balance: With respect to any Mortgage Loan and
any Payment Date (1) the unpaid principal balance of such Mortgage Loan as of
the close of business on the related Due Date (taking account of the principal
payment to be made on such Due Date and irrespective of any delinquency in its
payment), as specified in the amortization schedule at the time relating thereto
(before any adjustment to such amortization schedule by reason of any bankruptcy
or similar proceeding occurring after the Cut-off Date (other than a Deficient
Valuation) or any moratorium or similar waiver or grace period) less (2) any
Principal Prepayments and the principal portion of any Excess Liquidation
Proceeds received during or prior to the immediately preceding Prepayment
Period; provided that the Scheduled Principal Balance of any Liquidated Mortgage
Loan is zero.
Securities Act: The Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the
rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Securities Administrator: ▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank, National Association, or
its successor in interest, or any successor securities administrator.
Security: Any of the Certificates or Notes.
Securityholder or Holder: Any Noteholder or Certificateholder.
Security Instrument: A written instrument creating a valid first
lien on a Mortgaged Property securing a Mortgage Note, which may be any
applicable form of mortgage, deed of trust, deed to secure debt or security
deed, including any riders or addenda thereto.
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Seller: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage Lending, Inc., and its successors and
assigns.
Senior Notes: Any of the Class 1-A, Class 2-A and Class 3-A Notes.
Senior Optimal Principal Amount: The Group I Senior Optimal
Principal Amount, Group II Senior Optimal Principal Amount or Group III Senior
Optimal Principal Amount, as applicable.
Senior Percentage: The Group I Senior Percentage, Group II Senior
Percentage or Group III Senior Percentage, as applicable.
Senior Prepayment Percentage: The Group I Senior Prepayment
Percentage, Group II Senior Prepayment Percentage or Group III Senior Prepayment
Percentage, as applicable.
Servicers: ▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo and PHH, and their respective successors and
assigns.
Servicer Remittance Date: With respect to each Mortgage Loan, the
date set forth in the related Servicing Agreement.
Servicing Agreements: The ▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Servicing Agreement and the
PHH Servicing Agreement.
Servicing Fee: As to any Mortgage Loan and Payment Date, an
amount equal to the product of (i) the Scheduled Principal Balance of such
Mortgage Loan as of the Due Date in the preceding calendar month and (ii) the
applicable Servicing Fee Rate.
Servicing Fee Rate: As to any Mortgage Loan, a per annum rate as set
forth in the Mortgage Loan Schedule.
Servicing Officer: Any officer of the Master Servicer involved in,
or responsible for, the administration and servicing of the Mortgage Loans whose
name and specimen signature appear on a list of servicing officers furnished to
the Indenture Trustee by the Master Servicer, as such list may be amended from
time to time.
Six-Month LIBOR Note Index: With respect to any Accrual Period, the
rate determined by the Indenture Trustee on the related Interest Determination
Date on the basis of the London interbank offered rate for six-month United
States dollar deposits, as such rates appear on the Telerate Screen Page 3750,
as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such Interest Determination Date.
In the event that on any Interest Determination Date, Telerate
Screen 3750 fails to indicate the London interbank offered rate for six-month
United States dollar deposits, then the Six-Month LIBOR Note Index for the
related Accrual Period will be established by the Indenture Trustee as follows:
(i) If on such Interest Determination Date two or more
Reference Banks provide such offered quotations, the Six-Month LIBOR Note
Index for the related
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Accrual Period shall be the arithmetic mean of such offered quotations
(rounded upwards if necessary to the nearest whole multiple of 1/16%).
(ii) If on such Interest Determination Date fewer than two
Reference Banks provide such offered quotations, the Six-Month LIBOR Note
Index for the related Accrual Period shall be the higher of (i) the
Six-Month LIBOR Note Index as determined on the previous Interest
Determination Date and (ii) the Reserve Interest Rate.
(iii) If no such quotations can be obtained and no Reference
Bank rate is available, the Six-Month LIBOR Note Index will be the
Six-Month LIBOR Note Index rate applicable to the preceding Accrual
Period.
The establishment of the Six-Month LIBOR Note Index on each Interest
Determination Date by the Indenture Trustee and the Indenture Trustee's
calculation of the applicable Note Interest Rate applicable for the related
Accrual Period shall (in the absence of manifest error) be final and binding.
Standard & Poor's: Standard & Poor's, a division of The ▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Companies, Inc., or its successor in interest.
Statutory Trust Statute: Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware
Code, 12 Del. Code Sections 3801 et seq., as the same may be amended from time
to time.
Subordinate Notes: Any of the Class X, Class M-1, Class M-2, Class
M-3, Class B-1, Class B-2 and Class B-3 Notes.
Subordinate Optimal Principal Amount: With respect to the Class M
Notes and Class B Notes and each Payment Date will be an amount equal to the sum
of the following from each Loan Group (but in no event greater than the
aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Subordinate Notes immediately prior to
such Payment Date):
(i) the applicable Subordinate Percentage of the principal portion of
all Monthly Payments due on each Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group on the
related Due Date, as specified in the amortization schedule at the time
applicable thereto (after adjustment for previous principal prepayments but
before any adjustment to such amortization schedule by reason of any bankruptcy
or similar proceeding or any moratorium or similar waiver or grace period);
(ii) the applicable Subordinate Prepayment Percentage of the Scheduled
Principal Balance of each Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group which was the
subject of a prepayment in full received by the Master Servicer during the
applicable Prepayment Period;
(iii) the applicable Subordinate Prepayment Percentage of all partial
prepayments of principal received during the applicable Prepayment Period for
each Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group;
(iv) the excess, if any, of (a) the Net Liquidation Proceeds allocable to
principal received during the related Prepayment Period in respect of each
Liquidated Mortgage Loan in
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the related Loan Group and all Subsequent Recoveries received in respect of each
Liquidated Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group during the related Due Period
over (b) the sum of the amounts distributable to the holders of the related
Senior Notes pursuant to clause (4) of the definition of "Group I Senior Optimal
Principal Amount", "Group II Senior Optimal Principal Amount" and "Group III
Senior Optimal Principal Amount", as applicable, on such Payment Date;
(v) the applicable Subordinate Prepayment Percentage of the sum of (a) the
Scheduled Principal Balance of each Mortgage Loan in the related Loan Group
which was repurchased by the Seller in connection with such Payment Date and (b)
the difference, if any, between the Scheduled Principal Balance of each Mortgage
Loan in the related Loan Group that has been replaced by the Seller with a
substitute mortgage loan pursuant to the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement in
connection with such Payment Date and the Scheduled Principal Balance of each
such substitute mortgage loan; and
(vi) on the Payment Date on which the Note Principal Balances of the
related Senior Notes have all been reduced to zero, 100% of any applicable
Senior Optimal Principal Amount.
Subordinate Percentage: With respect to each Loan Group as of any
Payment Date, 100% minus the related Senior Percentage for the related Senior
Notes. The initial Subordinate Percentage for each Loan Group will be equal to
approximately 3.35%.
Subordinate Prepayment Percentage: As of any Payment Date and with
respect to any Loan Group, 100% minus the related Senior Prepayment Percentage
for such Loan Group, except that on any Payment Date after the Note Principal
Balance of each class of Senior Notes of the related note group has each been
reduced to zero, if (A) the weighted average of the Subordinate Percentages on
such Payment Date equals or exceeds two times the initial weighted average of
the Subordinate Percentages and (B) the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of
the Mortgage Loans delinquent 60 days or more (including for this purpose any
such Mortgage Loans in foreclosure and bankruptcy and Mortgage Loans with
respect to which the related mortgaged property has been acquired by the Trust),
averaged over the last six months, as a percentage of the sum of the aggregate
Note Principal Balance of the Subordinate Certificates does not exceed 100%, the
Subordinate Prepayment Percentage for the Subordinate Certificates with respect
to such Loan Group will equal 100%. If the above test is not satisfied on any
Payment Date after the Note Principal Balance of each class of Senior
Certificates of the related note group has each been reduced to zero, then the
Subordinate Prepayment Percentage with respect to such Loan Group shall equal
zero for such Payment Date.
Subordinate Writedown Amount: With respect to the Subordinate Notes,
the amount by which (a) the sum of the Note Principal Balances of the
Subordinate Notes (after giving effect to the distribution of principal and the
allocation of applicable Realized Losses in reduction on a pro rata basis of the
Note Principal Balances of such Notes on such Payment Date) exceeds (b) the
aggregate Scheduled Principal Balances of the Mortgage Loans on the Due Date
related to such Payment Date.
Subsequent Transfer: A transfer of a Senior Note or Privately
Offered Note with respect to which a Tax Transfer Certificate or "will be debt"
opinion has been furnished to the
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Securities Administrator; provided, that, if a REIT which is the owner, directly
or through one or more QRSs or entities disregarded as entities separate from
such REIT or QRSs, of 100% of all Certificates and all Senior Notes and
Privately Offered Notes other than those with respect to which a Tax Transfer
Certificate or "will be debt" opinion previously was furnished to the Securities
Administrator reacquires any such Senior Note or Privately Offered Note, then
the initial transfer of such Senior Note or Privately Offered Note by such REIT
after such reacquisition shall be treated as an Initial Transfer requiring a new
Tax Transfer Certificate or "will be debt" opinion and not as a Subsequent
Transfer; provided, further, for the avoidance of doubt, that if Notes are
transferred to any Person in a transfer with respect to which a certificate
substantially in the form of Exhibit F hereto is required to be delivered to the
Securities Administrator and certain other parties, then (1) such transfer of
such Notes to such Person shall not be treated as an Initial Transfer or a
Subsequent Transfer and (2) the initial transfer of any Senior Note or Privately
Offered Note (other than a pledge of such Senior Note or Privately Offered Note
to secure indebtedness or the transfer of such Senior Note or Privately Offered
Note pursuant to a repurchase agreement treated as secured indebtedness for
federal income tax purposes) by such Person shall be treated as an Initial
Transfer requiring a new Tax Transfer Certificate or "will be debt" opinion and
not as a Subsequent Transfer; provided, further, that if any Senior Note or
Privately Offered Note has been transferred to a lender upon a default under any
secured indebtedness or has been transferred to a counterparty to a repurchase
agreement and a default subsequently occurs with respect to such repurchase
agreement, and such lender or repurchase agreement counterparty furnishes, or
causes to be furnished, to the Securities Administrator (x) in the case of a
Senior Note, a Tax Transfer Certificate or a "will be debt" opinion rendered by
nationally recognized tax counsel or (y) in the case of a Privately Offered
Note, a "will be debt" opinion rendered by nationally recognized tax counsel,
then the transfer of such Senior Note or Privately Offered Note by such secured
lender or a repurchase agreement counterparty shall be treated as a Subsequent
Transfer.
Substitute Mortgage Loan: A Mortgage Loan tendered to the Indenture
Trustee pursuant to the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement or the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, as applicable, in each case, (i) which has an Outstanding
Principal Balance not greater nor materially less than the Mortgage Loan for
which it is to be substituted; (ii) which has a Mortgage Interest Rate and Net
Rate not less than, and not materially greater than, such Mortgage Loan; (iii)
which has a maturity date not materially earlier or later than such Mortgage
Loan and not later than the latest maturity date of any Mortgage Loan; (iv)
which is of the same property type and occupancy type as such Mortgage Loan; (v)
which has a Loan-to-Value Ratio not greater than the Loan-to-Value Ratio of such
Mortgage Loan; (vi) which is current in payment of principal and interest as of
the date of substitution; (vii) as to which the payment terms do not vary in any
material respect from the payment terms of the Mortgage Loan for which it is to
be substituted and (viii) which has a Gross Margin and Maximum Lifetime Mortgage
Rate no less than those of such Mortgage Loan, has the same Index and interval
between Interest Adjustment Dates as such Mortgage Loan, and a Minimum Lifetime
Mortgage Rate no lower than that of such Mortgage Loan.
Subordinate Note: Any of the Class M, Class B or Class X Notes.
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Subsequent Recoveries: Means any amount recovered by the related
Servicer or the Master Servicer (net of reimbursable expenses) with respect to a
Liquidated Mortgage Loan with respect to which a Realized Loss was incurred
after the liquidation or disposition of such Mortgage Loan.
Telerate Screen Page 3750: The display designated as page 3750 on
the Telerate Service (or such other page as may replace page 3750 on that
service for the purpose of displaying London interbank offered rates of major
banks).
Treasury Regulations: Regulations, including proposed or temporary
Regulations, promulgated under the Code. References herein to specific
provisions of proposed or temporary regulations shall include analogous
provisions of final Treasury Regulations or other successor Treasury
Regulations.
Trust: The ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Mortgage Investors Trust, Series 2005-2
created pursuant to the Trust Agreement.
Trust Agreement: The Trust Agreement, dated as of August 19, 2005,
as amended by the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of August 31,
2005, among the Owner Trustee, the Depositor and the Securities Administrator,
relating to the Trust.
Trust Estate: The meaning specified in the Granting Clause of the
Indenture.
Trust Indenture Act or TIA: The Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended from time to time, as in effect on any relevant date.
UCC: The Uniform Commercial Code, as amended from time to time, as
in effect in any specified jurisdiction.
Underwriter: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇ Incorporated.
Uninsured Cause: Any cause of damage to a Mortgaged Property or
related REO Property such that the complete restoration of such Mortgaged
Property or related REO Property is not fully reimbursable by the hazard
insurance policies required to be maintained pursuant to the related Servicing
Agreement, without regard to whether or not such policy is maintained.
▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo: ▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank, N.A., or its successor in interest.
▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Servicing Agreement: The Seller's Warranties and
Servicing Agreement dated as of August 1, 2005, as amended, between ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇ Bank USA and ▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank, N.A., attached as Exhibit C-1 to the Sale
and Servicing Agreement, as modified by the related Assignment Agreement.
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