INDENTURE by and among ABPCI DIRECT LENDING FUND CLO XIII LTD, as Issuer ABPCI DIRECT LENDING FUND CLO XIII FIRST STATIC SUBSIDIARY LTD, as First Static Subsidiary ABPCI DIRECT LENDING FUND CLO XIII SECOND STATIC SUBSIDIARY LTD, as Second Static...

Exhibit 10.1

EXECUTION VERSION

INDENTURE

by and among

ABPCI DIRECT LENDING FUND CLO XIII LTD,

as Issuer

ABPCI DIRECT LENDING FUND CLO XIII FIRST STATIC SUBSIDIARY LTD,

as First Static Subsidiary

ABPCI DIRECT LENDING FUND CLO XIII SECOND STATIC SUBSIDIARY LTD,

as Second Static Subsidiary

ABPCI DIRECT LENDING FUND CLO XIII LLC,

as Co-Issuer

and

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Trustee

Dated as of May 3, 2023

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INDENTURE, dated as of May 3, 2023, among ABPCI DIRECT LENDING FUND CLO XIII LTD, a private company limited by shares incorporated in Jersey (the “Issuer”), ABPCI DIRECT LENDING FUND CLO XIII LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Co-Issuer,” and together with the Issuer, the “Co-Issuers”), ABPCI DIRECT LENDING FUND CLO XIII FIRST STATIC SUBSIDIARY LTD, a private company limited by shares incorporated in Jersey (the “First Static Subsidiary”), ABPCI DIRECT LENDING FUND CLO XIII SECOND STATIC SUBSIDIARY LTD, a private company limited by shares incorporated in Jersey (the “Second Static Subsidiary”), and U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as trustee (herein, together with its permitted successors and assigns in the trusts hereunder, the “Trustee”).

PRELIMINARY STATEMENT

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

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

GRANTING CLAUSES

Each of the Issuer and each Issuer Subsidiary hereby Grants to the Trustee, for the benefit and security of the Holders of the Secured Notes, the Trustee, the Administrator, the Collateral Administrator (collectively, the “Secured Parties”), all of its right, title and interest in, to and under all property of the Issuer and each Issuer Subsidiary, in each case, whether now owned or existing, or hereafter acquired or arising and wherever located, including, without limitation, the following property of the Issuer and each Issuer Subsidiary (all such property, excluding the Excepted Property, is collectively referred to as the “Assets”):

(a) the Collateral Obligations (listed, as of the Closing Date, in Schedule 1 to this Indenture) which the Issuer and each Issuer Subsidiary causes to be Delivered to the Trustee (directly or through an intermediary) herewith and all payments thereon or with respect thereto, and all Collateral Obligations which are Delivered to the Trustee in the future pursuant to the terms hereof and all payments thereon or with respect thereto;

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

(c) the Issuer’s equity interest in each Issuer Subsidiary and all payments and rights thereunder;

(d) the Collateral Management Agreement as set forth in Article XV hereof, the Placement Agreement, the Collateral Administration Agreement, the Administration Agreements, the Master Transfer Agreement, and the EU/UK Retention Letter;

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

(f) all accounts, chattel paper, deposit accounts, financial assets, general intangibles, instruments, investment property, letter-of-credit rights and other supporting obligations relating to the foregoing (in each case as defined in the UCC);

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

(h) any Equity Securities received by the Issuer or the Issuer Subsidiaries;

(i) any lien granted by the BDC to the Issuer pursuant to the Master Transfer Agreement; and

(j) all proceeds with respect to the foregoing;

provided that such Grants shall not include amounts (if any) remaining from the U.S.$250 transaction fee paid to the Issuer and to each of the Issuer Subsidiaries in consideration of the issuance of the Obligations, the funds attributable to the issuance and allotment of the Issuer’s ordinary shares and the bank account in Jersey in which such funds are deposited (and any interest thereon) (collectively, the “Excepted Property”).

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

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

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ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

Section 1.1 Definitions. Except as otherwise specified herein or as the context may otherwise require, the following terms have the respective meanings set forth below for all purposes of this Indenture, and the definitions of such terms are equally applicable both to the singular and plural forms of such terms and to the masculine, feminine and neuter genders of such terms.

“17g-5 Information”: The meaning specified in Section 14.17(a).

“17g-5 Website”: The internet website of the Information Agent, initially located at ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇@▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇, specified by Issuer’s name, access to which is limited to the Rating Agency and NRSROs who have provided an NRSRO Certification.

“25% Limitation”: A limitation that is exceeded only if Benefit Plan Investors hold 25% or more of the value of any class of equity interests in the Issuer, as calculated under 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA.

“ABPCI”: AB Private Credit Investors LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

“Accountants’ Certificate”: An agreed upon procedures report of the firm or firms appointed by the Issuer pursuant to Section 10.9(a).

“Accounts”: (i) The Payment Accounts, (ii) the Collection Accounts, (iii) the Revolver Funding Accounts, (iv) the Custodial Accounts, (v) the Ramp-Up Account, (vi) the Closing Expense Account, and (vii) the Contribution Accounts.

“Accredited Investor”: The meaning set forth in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act.

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

“Additional Obligations”: Any additional Obligations issued to Section 2.13.

“Adjusted Break-even Default Rate”: As of any date of determination:

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“Administration Agreement”: An agreement among the Administrator, MaplesFS Limited and the Issuer, the First Static Subsidiary or the Second Static Subsidiary, respectively (as amended and/or restated from time to time) relating to the various corporate management functions that the Administrator will perform on behalf of the Issuer, the First Static Subsidiary or the Second Static Subsidiary, respectively, including the provision of certain clerical, administrative and other services during the term of such agreement.

“Administrative Expense Cap”: An amount equal on any Payment Date (when taken together with any Administrative Expenses paid during the period since the preceding Payment Date or in the case of the first Payment Date, the period since the Closing Date), to the sum of (a) 0.02% per annum (prorated for the related Interest Accrual Period on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) of the Aggregate Principal Balance of the Assets (excluding any Assets that constitute Interest Proceeds) as of the first day of the related Collection Period and (b) U.S.$300,000.00 per annum (prorated for the related Interest Accrual Period on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months); provided that in respect of the third Payment Date following the Closing Date and any Payment Date thereafter, if the aggregate amount of Administrative Expenses paid pursuant to Sections 11.1(a)(i)(A), 11.1(a)(ii)(A), 11.1(a)(iii)(A), 11.1(a)(iv)(A), 11.1(a)(v)(A), 11.1(a)(vi)(A), 11.1(a)(vii)(A), 11.1(a)(viii)(A) and 11.1(a)(ix)(A) (including any excess applied in accordance with this proviso) on the three immediately preceding Payment Dates (or the two immediately preceding Payment Dates in the case of the third Payment Date following the Closing Date) and during the related Collection Periods is less than the stated Administrative Expense Cap (without regard to any excess applied in accordance with this proviso) in the aggregate for such three preceding Payment Dates, then the excess may be applied to the Administrative Expense Cap with respect to the then-current Payment Date, except that, in respect of the third Payment Date following the Closing Date, such excess amount shall be calculated based on the Payment Dates preceding such Payment Date.

“Administrative Expenses”: The fees, expenses (including indemnities) and other amounts due or accrued with respect to any Payment Date (including, with respect to any Payment Date, any such amounts that were due and not paid on any prior Payment Date in accordance with the Priority of Payments) and payable in the following order by the Issuer, the Co-Issuer or the

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applicable Issuer Subsidiary: first, on a pari passu basis to (x) the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.7 and the other provisions of this Indenture and the Transaction Documents, (y) without duplication to clause (x), to the Bank in all of its capacities under the Transaction Documents and (z) the Collateral Administrator pursuant to the Collateral Administration Agreement, second, on a pro rata basis, the following amounts (excluding indemnities) to the following parties: (i) the Independent accountants, agents (other than the Collateral Manager) and counsel of the Co-Issuers or any Issuer Subsidiary for fees, costs and expenses; (ii) on a pro rata basis, (x) the Rating Agencies for fees and expenses (including any annual fee, amendment fees and surveillance fees) in connection with any rating of the Rated Notes or in connection with the rating of (or provision of credit estimates in respect of) any Collateral Obligations and (y) any person in respect of any fees or expenses incurred as a result of compliance with Rule 17g-5 of the Exchange Act; (iii) the Collateral Manager under this Indenture and pursuant to the Collateral Management Agreement, but excluding the Collateral Management Fee; (iv) the Administrator and the Share Trustee pursuant to the Administration Agreements and the Delaware Administrator pursuant to the Manager Services Agreement and the Registered Agent Terms; (v) the independent manager of the Co-Issuer and each Issuer Subsidiary for fees and expenses; (vi) any person in respect of any governmental fee or Tax permitted under this Indenture and the documents delivered pursuant to or in connection with this Indenture (including any tax or other amount payable pursuant to, or incurred in connection with achieving Tax Account Reporting Rules Compliance); (vii) any remaining expenses related to an Issuer Subsidiary; (viii) the Issuer for any amounts due with respect to any Person in connection with satisfying the EU/UK Securitisation Laws (as may be supplemented or superseded from time to time), including any costs and fees related to compliance with the Transparency Requirements to the extent applicable; and (ix) any other Person in respect of any other fees or expenses permitted under this Indenture and the documents delivered pursuant to or in connection with this Indenture (including (1) the payment of all legal and other fees and expenses incurred in connection with the acquisition or sale of any Collateral Obligations and any other expenses incurred in connection with the Collateral Obligations, (2) expenses incurred in connection with forming and administering the Issuer Subsidiaries and (3) any expenses and indemnities owing to the Partnership Representative or the Designated Individual) and the Obligations, including but not limited to, amounts owed to the Co-Issuer pursuant to Section 7.1, any amounts due in respect of the listing of any Obligations on any stock exchange or trading system and third, on a pro rata basis, indemnities payable to any Person pursuant to any Transaction Document; provided that (x) amounts due in respect of actions taken on or before the Closing Date shall not be payable as Administrative Expenses, but shall be payable only from the Closing Expense Account pursuant to Section 10.3(d) and (y) for the avoidance of doubt, amounts that are expressly payable to any Person under the Priority of Payments in respect of an amount that is stated to be payable as an amount other than as Administrative Expenses (including, without limitation, interest and principal in respect of the Obligations) shall not constitute Administrative Expenses.

“Administrator”: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Fiduciary Services (Jersey) Limited and any successor thereto.

“Affected Class”: Any Class of Secured Notes that, as a result of the occurrence of a Tax Event described in the definition of “Tax Redemption,” has not received 100% of the aggregate amount of principal and interest that would otherwise be due and payable to such Class on any Payment Date.

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“Affected Investors”: EU Institutional Investors and UK Institutional Investors.

“Affiliate” or “Affiliated”: With respect to a Person, (a) any other Person who, directly or indirectly, is in control of, or controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person or (b) any other Person who is a director, Officer, employee or general partner (i) of such Person, (ii) of any subsidiary or parent company of such Person or (iii) of any Person described in clause (a) of this sentence; provided that (i) investment vehicles or funds or accounts managed by the Collateral Manager or Affiliates of the Collateral Manager shall be excluded from the definition hereof and (ii) no Issuer Entity shall be deemed to be an Affiliate of the Collateral Manager or any of its Affiliates solely by reason of the Collateral Management Agreement; provided, further that, for purposes of the Concentration Limitations, one Obligor shall not be considered an Affiliate of another Obligor solely because they are controlled by the same financial sponsor. For the purposes of this definition, “control” of a Person shall mean the power, direct or indirect, (x) to vote more than 50% of the securities having ordinary voting power for the election of directors of such Person or (y) to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person whether by contract or otherwise. For purposes of this definition, no entity shall be deemed an Affiliate of any Issuer Entity solely because the Administrator or any of its Affiliates acts as administrator or share trustee for such entity and the Administrator, the Share Trustee or any of their Affiliates acts as administrator or share trustee for such entity and the Administrator and the Share Trustee shall not in any case be an Affiliate of any Issuer Entity.

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

“Aggregate Funded Spread”: As of any date with respect to any specified Portfolio, in the case of each Collateral Obligation in the specified Portfolio that is not a Fixed Rate Obligation (and excluding any PIK Loan in the specified Portfolio to the extent of any non-cash interest and excluding the unfunded portion of any Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation and any Revolving Collateral Obligation in the specified Portfolio) the sum of the products of (i) the excess of the stated interest rate (giving effect to any floor rate) with respect to each such Collateral Obligation in the specified Portfolio over the Reference Rate applicable to the Secured Notes during the Interest Accrual Period in which such date occurs (which spread or excess may be expressed as a negative percentage) multiplied by (ii) the Principal Balance of each such Collateral Obligation in the specified Portfolio (excluding the unfunded portion of any Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation or Revolving Collateral Obligation in the specified Portfolio).

“Aggregate Outstanding Amount”: With respect to any of the Obligations as of any date, the aggregate unpaid principal amount of such Obligations Outstanding (including any Deferred Interest previously added to the principal amount of any of the Class C Notes and the Class D Notes that remains unpaid except to the extent otherwise expressly provided herein).

“Aggregate Participation Exposure”: At any time, the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations in a Portfolio that are in the form of Participation Interests owned by the Issuer at such time.

“Aggregate Participation Percentage”: For any Selling Institution at any time, the percentage of Total Capitalization with respect to a Portfolio represented by the Aggregate Participation Exposure at such time for such Selling Institution.

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

“Aggregate Unfunded Spread”: As of any date with respect to any specified Portfolio, the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (a) for each Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation and Revolving Collateral Obligation in the specified Portfolio, the related commitment fee or other analogous fees (expressed at a per annum rate) then in effect as of such date by (b) the undrawn commitments under each such Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation and Revolving Collateral Obligation in the specified Portfolio as of such date.

“AML Compliance”: Compliance with the Jersey AML Regulations.

“Applicable Issuer” or “Applicable Issuers”: With respect to the Secured Notes, the Issuer Entities; with respect to the Subordinated Notes, the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries only; and with respect to any Additional Obligations issued in accordance with Sections 2.13 and 3.2, the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries and, if such Additional Obligations are co-issued, the Co-Issuer.

“Appraised Value”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation, the value of such Collateral Obligation, as determined by the applicable Approved Appraisal Firm, as set forth in the related analysis (or, if a range of values is set forth therein, the midpoint of such values), adjusted appropriately if the applicable Issuer Entity owns less than 100% of the total lenders’ interests secured by the assets securing any Collateral Obligation or, if it has sold participation interests in such Collateral Obligation.

“Approved Appraisal Firm”: (a) Each independent appraisal firm set forth on Exhibit D hereto or (b) (i) with respect to a Collateral Obligation that is a loan, an independent appraisal or valuation firm recognized as being experienced in conducting valuations of secured loans and with respect to a Collateral Obligation that is a debt obligation, an independent appraisal or valuation firm recognized as being experienced in conducting valuations of debt obligations, or (ii) an independent financial adviser of recognized standing retained by the Issuer, the Collateral Manager or the agent or lenders under any Collateral Obligation, in the case of each of the preceding clauses (b)(i) and (b)(ii) as approved by each of the Collateral Manager and a Majority of the Controlling Class for so long as any such Obligations remain Outstanding.

“Approved Foreign Jurisdiction”: Each of the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, France, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and each Approved Tax Jurisdiction; provided that each such country has a foreign currency borrower credit rating that is at least “AA” by S&P.

“Approved Tax Jurisdiction”: Each of Bahamas, Bermuda, Luxembourg, the British Virgin Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, the Channel Islands and the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Islands; provided that each such country has a foreign currency borrower credit rating that is at least “AA” by S&P.

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

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“Assumed Reinvestment Rate”: The Reference Rate (as determined on the most recent Interest Determination Date relating to an Interest Accrual Period beginning on a Payment Date or the Closing Date); provided that the Assumed Reinvestment Rate shall not be less than 0.00%.

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

“Authorized Officer”: With respect to the Issuer, the Co-Issuer or any Issuer Subsidiary, any Officer or any other Person who is authorized to act for the Issuer, the Co-Issuer or any Issuer Subsidiary, as applicable, in matters relating to, and binding upon, the Issuer, the Co-Issuer or any Issuer Subsidiary. With respect to the Collateral Manager, any Officer, employee, member or agent of the Collateral Manager who is authorized to act for the Collateral Manager in matters relating to, and binding upon, the Collateral Manager with respect to the subject matter of the request, certificate or order in question. With respect to the Retention Provider, any Officer, employee, member or agent of the Retention Provider who is authorized to act for the Retention Provider in matters relating to, and binding upon, the Retention Provider with respect to the subject matter of the request, certificate or order in question. With respect to the Depositor, any Officer, employee, member or agent of the Depositor who is authorized to act for the Depositor in matters relating to, and binding upon, the Depositor with respect to the subject matter of the request, certificate or order in question. With respect to the Collateral Administrator, any Officer, employee, partner or agent of the Collateral Administrator who is authorized to act for the Collateral Administrator in matters relating to, and binding upon, the Collateral Administrator with respect to the subject matter of the request, certificate or order in question. With respect to the Trustee, the Bank (in all of its capacities) or any other bank or trust company acting as trustee of an express trust or as custodian, a Trust Officer. With respect to any Authenticating Agent, any Officer or Trust Officer of such Authenticating Agent who is authorized to authenticate the Notes. Each party may receive and accept a certification of the authority of any other party as conclusive evidence of the authority of any Person to act, and such certification may be considered as in full force and effect until receipt by such other party of written notice to the contrary.

“Average Life”: On any date of determination with respect to any Collateral Obligation in any specified Portfolio, the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the sum of the products of (a) the number of years (rounded to the nearest one hundredth thereof) from such date to the respective dates of each successive Scheduled Distribution of principal of such Collateral Obligation and (b) the respective amounts of principal of such Scheduled Distributions by (ii) the sum of all successive Scheduled Distributions of principal on such Collateral Obligation.

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

“Bank”: U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, a national banking association organized under the laws of the United States (including any organization or entity succeeding to all or substantially all of its corporate trust business), in its individual capacity and not as Trustee, and any successor thereto.

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“Bankruptcy Code”: The federal Bankruptcy Code, Title 11 of the United States Code, as amended from time to time.

“Bankruptcy Law”: The federal Bankruptcy Code, Title 11 of the United States Code, as amended from time to time, and any successor statute or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy law or similar law, including, without limitation, the Bankruptcy (Désastre) (Jersey) Law 1990, as amended from time to time, and the Companies (Jersey) Law 1991, as amended from time to time, any bankruptcy, insolvency, winding up, reorganization or similar law enacted under the laws of Jersey or any other applicable jurisdiction.

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

“Base Rate Modifier”: A modifier applied to a reference or base rate in order to cause such rate to be comparable to the three-month Term SOFR, which modifier is recognized or acknowledged as being the industry standard by the LSTA or the ARRC and which modifier may include an addition or subtraction to such unadjusted rate. For the avoidance of doubt, to the extent the Base Rate Modifier does not exist, it will be zero for purposes of this definition.

“BDC”: AB Private Credit Investors Corporation, a Maryland corporation.

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

“Board of Directors”: With respect to the Issuer or an Issuer Subsidiary, the directors duly appointed by either (i) the shareholders of the Issuer or such Issuer Subsidiary, respectively, or (ii) the board of directors of the Issuer or Issuer Subsidiary, as applicable, in each case, pursuant to the Memorandum and Articles of Association of such Issuer or Issuer Subsidiary, as applicable, and in accordance with the laws of Jersey, and with respect to the Co-Issuer, the board of directors of the Issuer acting in its capacity as the designated manager of the Co-Issuer.

“Board Resolution”: With respect to the Issuer or an Issuer Subsidiary, a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Issuer or Issuer Subsidiary, as applicable or, with respect to the Co-Issuer, a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Issuer acting in its capacity as the designated manager of the Co-Issuer.

“Bond”: Any obligation (other than a Senior Secured Note) that (a) constitutes borrowed money and (b) is in the form of, or represented by, a bond, note, certificated debt security or other debt security (other than any of the foregoing that evidences a Loan or Participation Interest).

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“Break-even Default Rate”: With respect to the S&P Highest Ranking Class, as of any date of determination, the sum of:

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

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

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

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

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

“CCC Excess”: With respect to a Portfolio and any date of determination, an amount equal to the excess, if any, of the (i) the Aggregate Principal Balance of all CCC Collateral Obligations in such Portfolio over (ii) 20.0% of Total Capitalization of such Portfolio as of such date of determination; provided that in determining which of the CCC Collateral Obligations will be included in the CCC Excess, the CCC Collateral Obligations with the lowest Market Value expressed as a percentage of par will be deemed to constitute such CCC Excess.

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

“Certificated Notes”: The meaning specified in Section 2.2(b)(ii).

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

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

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

“Class”: All of the Obligations having the same priority (as a single class).

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“Class A First Static Note Amount”: As of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) the product of (i) the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Class A Notes as of the First Static Date multiplied by (ii) the First Static Direction Percentage less (b) the aggregate amount of all payments applied in accordance with Sections 11.1(a)(iv), 11.1(a)(v) and 11.1(a)(vi) to the principal of the Class A Notes.

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

“Class A Reinvesting Note Amount”: As of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Class A Notes as of such date less (b) the sum of (i) the Class A First Static Note Amount as of such date plus (ii) the Class A Second Static Note Amount as of such date.

“Class A Second Static Note Amount”: As of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) the product of (i)(x) the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Class A Notes as of the Second Static Date, less (y) the Class A First Static Note Amount as of the Second Static Date, multiplied by (ii) the Second Static Direction Percentage less (b) the aggregate amount of all payments applied in accordance with Sections 11.1(a)(vii), 11.1(a)(viii) and 11.1(a)(ix) to the principal of the Class A Notes.

“Class A/B First Static Coverage Tests”: The Overcollateralization Ratio Test and the Interest Coverage Test, each as applied with respect to the Class A First Static Note Amount and the Class B First Static Note Amount (in the aggregate and not separately by Class) and the First Static Portfolio.

“Class A/B Reinvesting Coverage Tests”: The Overcollateralization Ratio Test and the Interest Coverage Test, each as applied with respect to the Class A Reinvesting Note Amount and the Class B Reinvesting Note Amount (in the aggregate and not separately by Class) and the Reinvesting Portfolio.

“Class A/B Second Static Coverage Tests”: The Overcollateralization Ratio Test and the Interest Coverage Test, each as applied with respect to the Class A Second Static Note Amount and the Class B Second Static Note Amount (in the aggregate and not separately by Class) and the Second Static Portfolio.

“Class B First Static Note Amount”: As of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) the product of (i) the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Class B Notes as of the First Static Date multiplied by (ii) the First Static Direction Percentage less (b) the aggregate amount of all payments applied in accordance with Sections 11.1(a)(iv), 11.1(a)(v) and 11.1(a)(vi) to the principal of the Class B Notes.

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

“Class B Reinvesting Note Amount”: As of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Class B Notes as of such date less (b) the sum of (i) the Class B First Static Note Amount as of such date plus (ii) the Class B Second Static Note Amount as of such date.

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“Class B Second Static Note Amount”: As of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) the product of (i)(x) the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Class B Notes as of the Second Static Date, less (y) the Class B First Static Note Amount as of the Second Static Date, multiplied by (ii) the Second Static Direction Percentage less (b) the aggregate amount of all payments applied in accordance with Sections 11.1(a)(vii), 11.1(a)(viii) and 11.1(a)(ix) to the principal of the Class B Notes.

“Class C First Static Coverage Tests”: The Overcollateralization Ratio Test and the Interest Coverage Test, each as applied with respect to the Class C First Static Note Amount and the First Static Portfolio.

“Class C First Static Note Amount”: As of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) the product of (i) the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Class C Notes as of the First Static Date multiplied by (ii) the First Static Direction Percentage less (b) the aggregate amount of all payments applied in accordance with Sections 11.1(a)(iv), 11.1(a)(v) and 11.1(a)(vi) to the principal of the Class C Notes.

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

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

“Class C Reinvesting Note Amount”: As of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Class C Notes as of such date less (b) the sum of (i) the Class C First Static Note Amount as of such date plus (ii) the Class C Second Static Note Amount as of such date.

“Class C Second Static Coverage Tests”: The Overcollateralization Ratio Test and the Interest Coverage Test, each as applied with respect to the Class C Second Static Note Amount and the Second Static Portfolio.

“Class C Second Static Note Amount”: As of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) the product of (i)(x) the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Class C Notes as of the Second Static Date, less (y) the Class C First Static Note Amount as of the Second Static Date, multiplied by (ii) the Second Static Direction Percentage less (b) the aggregate amount of all payments applied in accordance with Sections 11.1(a)(vii), 11.1(a)(viii) and 11.1(a)(ix) to the principal of the Class C Notes.

“Class D First Static Coverage Tests”: The Overcollateralization Ratio Test and the Interest Coverage Test, each as applied with respect to the Class D First Static Note Amount and the First Static Portfolio.

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“Class D First Static Note Amount”: As of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) the product of (i) the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Class D Notes as of the First Static Date multiplied by (ii) the First Static Direction Percentage less (b) the aggregate amount of all payments applied in accordance with Sections 11.1(a)(iv), 11.1(a)(v) and 11.1(a)(vi) to the principal of the Class D Notes.

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

“Class D Reinvesting Coverage Tests”: The Overcollateralization Ratio Test and the Interest Coverage Test, each as applied with respect to the Class D Reinvesting Note Amount and the Reinvesting Portfolio.

“Class D Reinvesting Note Amount”: As of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Class D Notes as of such date less (b) the sum of (i) the Class D First Static Note Amount as of such date plus (ii) the Class D Second Static Note Amount as of such date.

“Class D Second Static Coverage Tests”: The Overcollateralization Ratio Test and the Interest Coverage Test, each as applied with respect to the Class D Second Static Note Amount and the Second Static Portfolio.

“Class D Second Static Note Amount”: As of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) the product of (i)(x) the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Class D Notes as of the Second Static Date, less (y) the Class D First Static Note Amount as of the Second Static Date, multiplied by (ii) the Second Static Direction Percentage less (b) the aggregate amount of all payments applied in accordance with Sections 11.1(a)(vii), 11.1(a)(viii) and 11.1(a)(ix) to the principal of the Class D Notes.

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

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

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

“Clearstream”: Clearstream Banking, société anonyme, a corporation organized under the laws of the Duchy of Luxembourg (formerly known as Cedelbank, société anonyme).

“Closing Date”: May 3, 2023.

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

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

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

“Co-Issuers”: The Issuer and the Co-Issuer.

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

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

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

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

“Collateral Management Fee”: The Senior Collateral Management Fee and the Subordinated Collateral Management Fee.

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

“Collateral Obligation”: A Senior Secured Loan, a Second Lien Loan, a Qualified First Lien Loan, a First Lien/Last Out Loan or a Senior Secured Note (or Participation Interest in any of the foregoing), pledged by the Issuer to the Trustee that, as of the date the Issuer enters into a binding commitment to acquire such obligation, meets each of the following criteria:

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

(ii) is an obligation of an Obligor Domiciled in the United States (or any state thereof but excluding any territory thereof) or an Approved Foreign Jurisdiction;

(iii) is U.S. Dollar denominated and is neither convertible by the Obligor thereof into, nor payable in, any other currency, and is governed by the law of a state of the United States or the law of an Approved Foreign Jurisdiction (other than an Approved Tax Jurisdiction);

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(iv) is not a Defaulted Obligation or a Credit Risk Obligation;

(v) is not an Equity Security, a component of an Equity Security, an Equity Kicker (including any Equity Security acquired as part of a “unit” in connection with the acquisition of a Collateral Obligation) or exchangeable or convertible into an Equity Security;

(vi) has an S&P Rating;

(vii) does not have (A) an “f,” “r,” “p,” “pi,” “q,” “t” or “sf” subscript assigned by S&P or (B) an “sf” subscript assigned by any other rating agency;

(viii) does not pay interest less frequently than semi-annually;

(ix) is not a Structured Finance Obligation, a finance lease or chattel paper;

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

(xi) does not mature after the Stated Maturity of the Obligations;

(xii) is not a Real Estate Loan;

(xiii) does not constitute Margin Stock;

(xiv) the Issuer and/or any Issuer Subsidiary, as applicable, will receive payments due under the terms of such asset and proceeds from disposing of such asset free and clear of withholding tax, other than with respect to (A) FATCA withholding or (B) withholding tax as to which the Obligor must make additional payments so that the net amount received by the Issuer and/or any Issuer Subsidiary, as applicable, after satisfaction of such tax is the amount due to the Issuer and/or any Issuer Subsidiary, as applicable, before the imposition of any withholding tax; provided that this clause (xiv) shall not apply to commitment fees and similar fees associated with Revolving Collateral Obligations or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligations;

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

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

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(xvii) is not a Zero Coupon Obligation or a Bridge Loan;

(xviii) will not require the Issuer, the Co-Issuer, any Issuer Subsidiary or the pool of Assets to be registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act;

(xix) if such Collateral Obligation is a Participation Interest, then such Participation Interest is acquired from (a) a Selling Institution incorporated or organized under the laws of the United States (or any state thereof but excluding any territory thereof) or any U.S. branch of a Selling Institution incorporated or organized outside the United States or (b) with respect to Collateral Obligations the Obligors of which are organized or incorporated in an Approved Foreign Jurisdiction (other than an Approved Tax Jurisdiction), a Selling Institution organized or incorporated in an Approved Foreign Jurisdiction (other than an Approved Tax Jurisdiction), in each case to the extent such Selling Institution satisfies the S&P Counterparty Criteria;

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

(xxi) other than in the case of a Fixed Rate Obligation, accrues interest at a floating rate determined by reference to (a) the Dollar prime rate, federal funds rate, SOFR, Libor or other Reference Rate or (b) a similar interbank offered rate, commercial deposit rate or any other index;

(xxii) is Registered;

(xxiii) is not a Synthetic Security;

(xxiv) neither is nor supports a letter of credit (other than any letter of credit sub-facility that is part of a Revolving Collateral Obligation and which letter of credit neither is issued by the Issuer nor requires the Issuer to collateralize its commitment or deposit the amount thereof in trust);

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

(xxvi) is not (a) a Bond, (b) a derivative or (c) a commodity forward contract;

(xxvii) is not a Related Obligation;

(xxviii) is not a repurchase obligation;

(xxix) is acquired at a price at least equal to 65% of its outstanding principal balance;

(xxx) has an S&P Rating of at least “CCC-”;

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(xxxi) is not a Prohibited Obligation; and

(xxxii) is not a Small Obligor Loan.

“Collateral Quality Test”: A test satisfied on any Measurement Date (or other applicable date of determination) on and after the Effective Date and during the Reinvestment Period (provided that the Collateral Quality Test shall continue to apply after the Reinvestment Period for purposes of determining whether the Repurchase and Substitution Qualification Conditions are satisfied) if, in the aggregate, the Collateral Obligations in the Reinvesting Portfolio owned (or in relation to a proposed acquisition of a Collateral Obligation, proposed to be owned) by the Issuer satisfy each of the tests set forth below or if a test is not satisfied on such date, the degree of compliance with such test is maintained or improved after giving effect to the investment, calculated in each case as required by Section 1.3 herein:

(i) the Minimum Weighted Average S&P Spread Test;

(ii) the Minimum Weighted Average Fixed Rate Coupon Test;

(iii) the Maximum Weighted Average Life Test;

(iv) the S&P CDO Monitor Test; and

(v) the Minimum Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate Test.

“Collection Accounts”: Each of the Reinvesting Collection Account, the First Static Collection Account and the Second Static Collection Account.

“Collection Period”: (i) With respect to the first Payment Date, the period commencing on the Closing Date and ending at the close of business on the eighth Business Day prior to the first Payment Date; and (ii) with respect to any other Payment Date, the period commencing on the day immediately following the prior Collection Period and ending (a) in the case of the final Collection Period preceding the latest Stated Maturity of any Class of Obligations, on the day of such Stated Maturity, (b) in the case of the final Collection Period preceding an Optional Redemption or Tax Redemption in whole of the Obligations, on the Redemption Date and (c) in any other case, at the close of business on the eighth Business Day prior to such Payment Date.

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

“Concentration Limitations”: Limitations satisfied on any Measurement Date or other date of determination, in each case on and after the Effective Date and during the Reinvestment Period if, in the aggregate, the Collateral Obligations owned in the Reinvesting Portfolio (or in relation to a proposed acquisition of a Collateral Obligation, proposed to be owned therein) by the Issuer comply with all of the requirements set forth below (or in relation to a proposed acquisition, if not in compliance, the relevant requirements must be maintained or improved after giving effect to the acquisition), calculated in each case as required by Section 1.3 herein, calculated as a percentage of Total Capitalization of the Reinvesting Portfolio:

(i) at least 90.0% shall consist of Collateral Obligations that are Senior Secured Loans, Cash and Eligible Investments;

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(ii) not more than 10.0% may consist of Qualified First Lien Loans, First Lien/Last Out Loans, Second Lien Loans and Senior Secured Notes in the aggregate; provided that not more than 5.0% may consist of Second Lien Loans; provided further that no more than 5.0% may consist of Senior Secured Notes;

(iii) [reserved];

(iv) not more than 5.0% may consist of Fixed Rate Obligations;

(v) not more than 5.0% may consist of Current Pay Obligations;

(vi) not more than 2.5% may consist of Collateral Obligations issued by a single Obligor and its Affiliates, except that Collateral Obligations issued by up to three Obligors and their respective Affiliates may each constitute up to 3.0%; provided that not more than 1.5% may consist of Collateral Obligations issued by a single Obligor and its Affiliates that are Second Lien Loans;

(vii) not more than 12.0% may consist of Collateral Obligations that are issued by Obligors that belong to any single S&P Industry Classification, except that the largest S&P Industry Classification may represent up to 20.0% and the second largest S&P Industry Classification may represent up to 15.0%;

(viii) not more than 10.0% may consist of Collateral Obligations as to which the S&P Rating is derived from a publicly monitored rating by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ (but not from a replacement of ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ selected in accordance with the definition of “Rating Agency”);

(ix) [reserved];

(x) not more than 5.0% may consist of DIP Collateral Obligations;

(xi) not more than 5.0% may consist of Collateral Obligations that pay interest less frequently than quarterly;

(xii) not more than 10.0% may consist, in the aggregate, of Revolving Collateral Obligations and any undrawn commitments with respect to Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligations;

(xiii) not more than 5.0% may consist of Obligors Domiciled in an Approved Foreign Jurisdiction;

(xiv) not more than 17.5% may consist of Cov-Lite Loans;

(xv) not more than 5.0% may consist of Participation Interests;

(xvi) not more than 7.5% may consist of PIK Loans;

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(xvii) [reserved];

(xviii) not more than 10.0% may consist of Discount Obligations;

(xix) not more than 17.5% may consist of CCC Collateral Obligations;

(xx) [reserved]; and

(xxi) not more than 10.0% may consist, in the aggregate, of Eligible Recurring Revenue Loans and Hybrid Asset-Based Loans; provided that not more than 5.0% may consist of Hybrid Asset-Based Loans; provided, further that not more than 5.0% may consist of Eligible Recurring Revenue Loans with a loan-to-value ratio greater than 35%.

“Confidential Information”: The meaning specified in Section 14.18(b).

“Contribution”: The meaning specified in Section 10.3(e).

“Contribution Accounts”: The meaning specified in Section 10.3(e).

“Contributor”: The meaning specified in Section 10.3(e).

“Controlled Affiliate”: With respect to an Affiliate, (i) any Affiliate that is an Issuer Entity, the Collateral Manager, the Retention Provider or the Depositor, (ii) any Affiliate who, directly or indirectly, is in control of, or controlled by, or is under common control with, any Issuer Entity, the Collateral Manager, the Retention Provider, the Depositor or (iii) for so long as ABPCI or any Affiliate thereof is the Collateral Manager, any other Affiliate who, directly or indirectly, is controlled by AllianceBernstein L.P.; provided that, except as set forth in the following proviso, no Person in control of AllianceBernstein L.P. shall be deemed to be a Controlled Affiliate under clause (ii) above; provided, further, that if any Affiliate of any of the foregoing entities that would otherwise not qualify as a “Controlled Affiliate” in accordance with this definition purchases Subordinated Notes, such Person shall be deemed to be a “Controlled Affiliate” for purposes of this Indenture.

“Controlling Class”: As of any date of determination, (a) with respect to any matter applicable to all Portfolios under this Indenture collectively, the Class A Notes so long as any Class A Notes are Outstanding; then the Class B Notes so long as any Class B Notes are Outstanding; then the Class C Notes so long as any Class C Notes are Outstanding; then the Class D Notes so long as any Class D Notes are Outstanding; and then the Subordinated Notes so long as any Subordinated Notes are Outstanding or (b) with respect to any matter applicable to any individual Portfolio under this Indenture, the Class A Notes so long as the applicable Note Amount of the Class A Notes with respect to such Portfolio is Outstanding; then the Class B Notes so long as the applicable Note Amount of the Class B Notes with respect to such Portfolio is Outstanding; then the Class C Notes so long as the applicable Note Amount of the Class C Notes with respect to such Portfolio is Outstanding; then the Class D Notes so long as the applicable Note Amount of the Class D Notes with respect to such Portfolio is Outstanding; and then the Subordinated Notes so long as the applicable Note Amount of the Subordinated Notes with respect to such Portfolio is Outstanding.

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“Controlling Person”: A Person (other than a Benefit Plan Investor) who has discretionary authority or control with respect to the assets of the entity or provides investment advice for a fee (direct or indirect) with respect to such assets or an affiliate of any such Person. For this purpose, any “affiliate” of a person includes any person, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the person. “Control,” with respect to a person other than an individual, means the power to exercise a controlling influence over the management or policies of such person.

“Corporate Trust Office”: The corporate trust office of the Trustee (a) for Note transfer purposes and presentment of the Notes for final payment thereon, U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇. ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Attention: Bondholder Services – EP-MN-WS2N – ABPCI Direct Lending Fund CLO XIII Ltd and (b) for all other purposes, U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, 214 North ▇▇▇▇▇ Street, 26th Floor, Charlotte, North Carolina 28202, Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ – ABPCI Direct Lending Fund CLO XIII Ltd, email: ▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇@▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇, or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders, the Collateral Manager and the Issuer or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Trustee.

“Coverage Tests”: The Overcollateralization Ratio Test and the Interest Coverage Test, each as applied to each specified Note Amount of the applicable Class and Portfolio.

“Cov-Lite Loan”: A Collateral Obligation the Underlying Instruments for which do not (i) contain any financial covenants or (ii) require the Obligor thereunder to comply with any Maintenance Covenant (regardless of whether compliance with one or more Incurrence Covenants is otherwise required by such Underlying Instruments); provided that other than for purposes of the S&P Recovery Rate, a Collateral Obligation shall not constitute a Cov-Lite Loan if the Underlying Instruments contain a cross-default or cross-acceleration provision to, or such Collateral Obligation is pari passu with, another loan of the applicable Obligor forming part of the same loan facility that contains one or more Maintenance Covenants.

“Credit Improved Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation that in the Collateral Manager’s commercially reasonable business judgment has significantly improved in credit quality from the condition of its credit at the time of acquisition which judgment may (but need not) be based on one or more of the following facts:

(i) it has a market price that is greater than the price that is warranted by its terms and credit characteristics, or improved in credit quality since its acquisition by the Issuer;

(ii) the Obligor of such Collateral Obligation has shown improved financial results since the published financial reports first produced after it was acquired by the Issuer;

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

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(iv) with respect to which one or more of the following criteria applies:

(1) such Collateral Obligation has been upgraded or put on a watch list for possible upgrade by either of the Rating Agencies since the date on which such Collateral Obligation was acquired by the Issuer;

(2) the Sale Proceeds (excluding Sale Proceeds that constitute Interest Proceeds) of such Collateral Obligation would be at least 101% of its acquisition price;

(3) the price of such Collateral Obligation has changed during the period from the date on which it was acquired by the Issuer to the proposed sale date by a percentage either at least 0.25% more positive, or 0.25% less negative, as the case may be, than the percentage change in the average price of the applicable Eligible Index over the same period;

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

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

(6) such Collateral Obligation has a Market Value above the higher of (i) par and (ii) the original acquisition price paid by the Issuer for such Collateral Obligation; or

(v) the Obligor in respect of such Collateral Obligation has a projected cash flow interest coverage ratio (earnings before interest and taxes divided by cash interest expense as estimated by the Collateral Manager) that is expected to be more than 1.15 times such Obligor’s current year’s projected cash flow interest coverage ratio.

“Credit Risk Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation that in the Collateral Manager’s commercially reasonable business judgment has a significant risk of declining in credit quality or market value, which judgment may (but need not) be based on one or more of the following facts:

(i) such Collateral Obligation has been downgraded or put on a watch list for possible downgrade by either of the Rating Agencies since the date on which such Collateral Obligation was acquired by the Issuer;

(ii) the price of such Collateral Obligation has changed during the period from the date on which it was acquired by the Issuer to the proposed sale date by a percentage either at least 0.25% more negative, or at least 0.25% less positive, as the case may be, than the percentage change in the average price of an Eligible Index;

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(iii) the Market Value (which is not determined pursuant to clause (iv) or (v) of the definition thereof) of such Collateral Obligation has decreased by at least 1.00% of the price paid by the Issuer for such Collateral Obligation;

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

(v) the Obligor in respect of such Collateral Obligation has a projected cash flow interest coverage ratio (earnings before interest and taxes divided by cash interest expense as estimated by the Collateral Manager) of less than 1.00 or that is expected to be less than 0.85 times such Obligor’s current year’s projected cash flow interest coverage ratio; or

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

“Current Pay Obligation”: A Collateral Obligation (other than a DIP Collateral Obligation) that would otherwise be a Defaulted Obligation as to which (i) all scheduled payments due (other than those due as a result of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other analogous proceeding) were paid in Cash and the Issuer or the Collateral Manager reasonably expects that such remaining scheduled payments due will be paid in cash, (ii) the Market Value (which is not determined pursuant to clause (iv) of the definition thereof) of such Collateral Obligation is at least 80% of par and (iii) if the Obligor of such Collateral Obligation is the subject of a bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other analogous proceeding, the bankruptcy court or other authorized official has authorized the payment of interest due and payable on such Collateral Obligation and all scheduled payments due and payable thereunder have been paid in Cash when due; provided that to the extent that more than 7.5% of Total Capitalization of all Portfolios in the aggregate would otherwise constitute Current Pay Obligations, one or more Collateral Obligations (or a portion thereof) designated by the Issuer having a Principal Balance at least equal to such excess shall be deemed not to constitute Current Pay Obligations and shall instead constitute Defaulted Obligations (the “Current Pay Excess”); provided, further that in determining which of the Current Pay Obligations will be included in the Current Pay Excess, the Current Pay Obligations with the lowest Market Value expressed as a percentage of par will be deemed to constitute such Current Pay Excess.

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“Current Portfolio”: At any time, with respect to each Portfolio, the portfolio of Collateral Obligations and Eligible Investments therein, representing Principal Proceeds (determined in accordance with Section 1.2 to the extent applicable), then held by the Issuer or an Issuer Subsidiary, as applicable.

“Custodial Accounts”: Each of the Reinvesting Custodial Account, the First Static Custodial Account and the Second Static Custodial Account.

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

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

“Default Differential”: With respect to the S&P Highest Ranking Class, as of any date of determination, the rate calculated by subtracting the Scenario Default Rate at such time from the Adjusted Break-even Default Rate at such time.

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

“Defaulted Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation as to which:

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

(b) a default known to the Collateral Manager as to the payment of principal and/or interest has occurred and is continuing on another debt obligation of the same Obligor which is senior or pari passu in right of payment to such Collateral Obligation after the passage (in the case of a default that in the Collateral Manager’s judgment is not due to credit-related causes) of five Business Days or seven calendar days, whichever is greater, but in no case beyond the passage of any grace period applicable thereto; provided that both the Collateral Obligation and such other debt obligation are full recourse obligations of the applicable Obligor and secured by the same collateral;

(c) except in the case of a DIP Collateral Obligation, the Obligor in respect of such Collateral Obligation has, or others have, instituted proceedings to have such Obligor adjudicated as bankrupt or insolvent or placed into receivership and such proceedings have not been stayed or dismissed, or such Obligor has filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code;

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(d) except in the case of a DIP Collateral Obligation, such Collateral Obligation has an S&P Rating of “SD” or “CC” or lower, or had such rating immediately before such rating was withdrawn;

(e) the Collateral Manager knows such Collateral Obligation is pari passu or subordinate in right of payment as to the payment of principal and/or interest to another debt obligation of the same Obligor which has an S&P Rating of “SD” or “CC” or lower, or had such rating immediately before such rating was withdrawn; provided that both the Collateral Obligation and such other debt obligation are full recourse obligations of the applicable Obligor and is secured by the same collateral;

(f) a default known to the Collateral Manager under the Underlying Instruments and any applicable grace period has expired and the holders of such Collateral Obligation have accelerated the repayment of the Collateral Obligation (but only until such acceleration has been rescinded) in the manner provided in the Underlying Instruments;

(g) such Collateral Obligation is a Participation Interest (until it is elevated or converted to an assigned Collateral Obligation) with respect to which the related Selling Institution has defaulted in any material respect in the performance of any of its payment obligations under the Participation Interest;

(h) such Collateral Obligation is a Participation Interest (until it is elevated or converted to an assigned Collateral Obligation) in a Loan that would, if such Loan were a Collateral Obligation, constitute a “Defaulted Obligation” (other than under this clause (h)) or with respect to which the Selling Institution has an S&P Rating of “SD” or “CC” or lower or had such rating immediately before such rating was withdrawn; or

(i) the Collateral Manager has in accordance with the Standard of Care otherwise declared such Collateral Obligation to be a “Defaulted Obligation” and has not rescinded such declaration;

provided that Current Pay Obligations shall not be considered to be Defaulted Obligations, except that Current Pay Obligations (or portions thereof, as applicable) in excess of 7.5% of Total Capitalization of all Portfolios in the aggregate shall be deemed to be Defaulted Obligations as set forth in the proviso in the definition of “Current Pay Obligation”.

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

“Deferred Interest Secured Notes”: The Class C Notes and the Class D Notes.

“Delaware Administrator”: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Fiduciary Services (Delaware) Inc. and any successor thereto, as administrator of the Co-Issuer.

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

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

(i) in the case of each Certificated Security (other than a Clearing Corporation Security) and Instrument:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(vi) in the case of Cash or Money:

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

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

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

(vii) in the case of each general intangible (including any Participation Interest which is not represented by an Instrument) causing the filing of a Financing Statement in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C., in the case of the Issuer and each Issuer Subsidiary.

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

“Depositor”: ABPCI Direct Lending Fund CLO XIII Depositor LLC.

“Designated Individual”: The meaning specified in Section 7.17(k).

“Designated Maturity”: Three months, provided that for the period from the Closing Date to the First Interest Determination End Date, the Reference Rate will be determined by interpolating linearly between the rate for the next shorter period of time for which rates are available and the rate for the next longer period of time for which rates are available (rounded to the nearest one hundred thousandth thereof).

“Designated Principal Proceeds”: The meaning specified in Section 10.2(g).

“Designated Unused Proceeds”: The meaning specified in Section 10.3(c).

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

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

“Discount Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation which was acquired (as determined without averaging prices of acquisitions on different dates) for less than (a) 80.0% of its principal balance, or (b) if such Collateral Obligation has an S&P Rating below “B-”, 85.0% of its principal balance; provided that (x) such Collateral Obligation shall cease to be a Discount Obligation at such time as the Market Value (which is not determined pursuant to clause (iv) of the definition thereof) (expressed as a percentage of the par amount of such Collateral Obligation) determined for such Collateral Obligation on each day during any period of 30 consecutive days since the acquisition by the Issuer of such Collateral Obligation, equals or exceeds 90% of its Principal Balance as of the end of such 30 consecutive day period, (y) any Collateral Obligation that would otherwise be considered a Discount Obligation, but that is acquired in accordance with the Investment Criteria with the proceeds of the sale of a Collateral Obligation that was not a Discount Obligation at the time of its acquisition, so long as such acquired Collateral Obligation (A) is acquired or committed to be acquired within five Business Days of such sale, (B) is acquired at an acquisition price (expressed as a percentage of the par amount thereof) equal to or greater than the sale price of the sold Collateral Obligation, (C) is purchased at a price not less than 65.0% of its principal balance, (D) has an S&P Rating equal to or greater than the rating of the sold Collateral Obligation, and (E) has a stated maturity shorter than or equal to the stated maturity of the sold Collateral Obligation, and (z) clause (y) above in this proviso shall not apply to any such Collateral Obligation (1) at any time on or after the acquisition by the Issuer of such Collateral Obligation if, as determined at the time of such acquisition, such application would result in (A) more than 5% of the Total Capitalization of the Reinvesting Portfolio consisting of Collateral Obligations to which such clause (y) has been applied or (B) the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations to which such clause (y) has been applied since the Closing Date being more than 10% of the Reinvestment Target Par Balance or (2) if any Class of Secured Notes is downgraded or put on watch for potential downgrade by S&P.

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“Distribution”: Any payment of principal or interest or any dividend or premium payment made on, or any other distribution in respect of, a Collateral Obligation or other Asset.

“Distribution Report”: The meaning specified in Section 10.7(b).

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

“Domicile” or “Domiciled”: With respect to any Obligor with respect to a Collateral Obligation: (a) except as provided in clauses (b) or (c) below, its country of organization; (b) if it is organized in an Approved Tax Jurisdiction, each of such jurisdiction and the country in which, in the Collateral Manager’s good faith estimate, a substantial portion of its operations are located or from which a substantial portion of its revenue or value is derived, in each case directly or through subsidiaries (which shall be any jurisdiction and country known at the time of designation by the Collateral Manager to be the source of the majority of revenues, if any, of such Obligor); or (c) if its payment obligations in respect of such Collateral Obligation are guaranteed by a person or entity that is organized in the United States, then the United States (provided that such guarantee complies with the applicable ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ and S&P criteria with respect to guarantees).

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

“Due Date”: Each date on which a Distribution is due on a Collateral Obligation or other Asset, each in accordance with its terms.

“EBITDA”: Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (determined, for any Collateral Obligation, in the manner provided in the Underlying Instruments).

“Effective Date”: The earlier to occur of (i) September 30, 2023 and (ii) the first date on which the Collateral Manager certifies to the Trustee and the Collateral Administrator that the conditions set forth in Section 7.18 are satisfied.

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

“Effective Date-Related Redemption Amount”: The meaning specified in Section 9.6.

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

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

“Eligible First Lien Tranches”: With respect to a Collateral Obligation, one or more tranches (inclusive of any revolving loan commitments) funded under the applicable Underlying Instrument that, in the case of an event of default under the applicable Underlying Instrument, are treated as first lien loans (for which purposes an Obligor’s obligations thereunder in respect of its trade claims, accounts receivables, inventory, capitalized leases or similar obligations or Senior Revolver Facilities shall be deemed not to constitute such first lien loans).

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“Eligible Index”: With respect to each Collateral Obligation, one of the following indices as selected by the Collateral Manager in writing delivered to the Trustee and the Collateral Administrator upon acquisition of such Collateral Obligation: CS Leveraged Loan Index (formerly CSFB Leveraged Loan Index), the Deutsche Bank Leveraged Loan Index, the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇/Loan Pricing Corporation Liquid Leveraged Loan Index, the Banc of America Securities Leveraged Loan Index, the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Indices or any other loan index for which the S&P Rating Agency Condition has been obtained.

“Eligible Investment Required Ratings”: In the case of each Eligible Investment, a ratings requirement satisfied if (a) such obligation or security (i) has both a long-term and a short-term credit rating from ▇▇▇▇▇’▇, such ratings are “Aa3” or better (not on credit watch for possible downgrade) and “P-1” (not on credit watch for possible downgrade), respectively, (ii) has only a long-term credit rating from ▇▇▇▇▇’▇, such rating is “Aaa” (not on credit watch for possible downgrade) or (iii) has only a short-term credit rating from ▇▇▇▇▇’▇, such rating is “P-1” (not on credit watch for possible downgrade) and (b) such obligation or security (or the sovereign guaranteeing such obligation or security) has both a long-term and a short-term issuer credit rating from S&P, such ratings are “A” and “A-1” or better (or, in the absence of a short-term credit rating, “A+” or better).

“Eligible Investments”: Either Cash or any Dollar investment that, at the time it is Delivered to the Trustee (directly or through an intermediary or bailee), is one or more of the following obligations or securities:

(i) direct Registered obligations of, and Registered obligations the timely payment of principal and interest on which is fully and expressly guaranteed by, the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the obligations of which are expressly backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America and which satisfy clause (b) of the Eligible Investment Required Ratings;

(ii) demand and time deposits in, certificates of deposit of, trust accounts with, bankers’ acceptances payable within 183 days of issuance by, or federal funds sold by any depository institution or trust company incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof and subject to supervision and examination by federal and/or state banking authorities, so long as the commercial paper and/or the debt obligations of such depository institution or trust company (or, in the case of the principal depository institution in a holding company system, the commercial paper or debt obligations of such holding company) at the time of such investment or contractual commitment providing for such investment have the Eligible Investment Required Ratings;

(iii) commercial paper (excluding extendible commercial paper or asset backed commercial paper) which satisfies the Eligible Investment Required Ratings;

(iv) offshore money market funds which have, at all times, credit ratings of “AAAm” by S&P; and

(v) Cash;

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provided that (1) Eligible Investments acquired with funds in a Collection Account shall be held until maturity except as otherwise specifically provided herein and shall include only such obligations or securities, other than those referred to in clause (iv) above, as mature (or are putable at par to the issuer thereof) no later than the earlier of (x) 60 days after the date of acquisition thereof or (y) the Business Day prior to the next Payment Date unless such Eligible Investments are issued by the Trustee in its capacity as a banking institution, in which event such Eligible Investments may mature on such Payment Date; and (2) none of the foregoing obligations or securities shall constitute Eligible Investments if (a) such obligation or security has an “f,” “r,” “p,” “pi,” “q,” “sf” or “t” subscript assigned by S&P, (b) all, or substantially all, of the remaining amounts payable thereunder consist of interest and not principal payments, (c) payments with respect to such obligations or securities or proceeds of disposition are subject to withholding taxes by any jurisdiction unless the payor is required to make “gross-up” payments that cover the full amount of any such withholding tax on an after-tax basis, (d) such obligation or security is secured by real property, (e) such obligation or security is acquired at a price greater than 100% of the principal or face amount thereof, (f) such obligation or security is the subject of a tender offer, voluntary redemption, exchange offer, conversion or other similar action, (g) in the Collateral Manager’s judgment, such obligation or security is subject to material non-credit related risks, (h) such obligation is a Structured Finance Obligation or (i) such obligation or security is represented by a certificate of interest in a grantor trust. Eligible Investments may include, without limitation, those investments issued by or made with the Bank or for which the Bank or the Trustee or an Affiliate of the Bank or the Trustee provides services and receives compensation.

“Eligible Recurring Revenue Loan”: Any Loan issued by an Obligor that (i) provides software or technology-enabled services and solutions, (ii) is underwritten on the basis of debt to recurring revenue, (iii) at the time of acquisition, has a loan-to-value ratio of less than 40%, (iv) has an enterprise value greater than $100,000,000 and (v) has a trailing twelve-month EBITDA of less than $5,000,000.

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

“EoD Overcollateralization Ratios”: Each of the Reinvesting EoD Overcollateralization Ratio, the First Static EoD Overcollateralization Ratio and the Second Static EoD Overcollateralization Ratio.

“Equity Kicker”: A warrant (or other “attached” Equity Security) that is received with respect to a Loan or acquired as part of a “unit” with a Loan.

“Equity Security”: Any security that by its terms does not provide for periodic payments of interest at a stated coupon rate and repayment of principal at a stated maturity and any other security or loan asset that at the time of acquisition, conversion or exchange is not eligible for acquisition by the Issuer as a Collateral Obligation and is not an Eligible Investment, it being understood that Equity Securities may not be acquired by the Issuer but may be received by the Issuer or the Issuer Subsidiaries in exchange for a Collateral Obligation or a portion thereof in connection with an insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization, debt restructuring or workout of the issuer thereof.

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

“ESG Norm-Based Exclusions”: (a) Activities that have been identified by the Collateral Manager through in house data or the utilization of third party data, as not compliant with regard to international treaties on controversial weapons (including, but not limited to: (i) chemical weapons, (ii) biological weapons, (iii) cluster munitions, (iv) landmines, (v) weapons utilizing non-detectable fragments, (vi) white phosphorus, (vii) blinding laser weapons, (viii) nuclear weapons and (ix) depleted uranium), namely the convention on cluster munitions, the chemical weapons convention, the biological weapons convention, and the treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. For the avoidance of doubt, this prohibition will include obligors generating revenues from the manufacturing, production, distribution, marketing or sale of controversial weapons or key components made explicitly for use in commercial manufacturing of such controversial weapons; and (b) activities which evidence severe weaknesses in business conduct and governance in relation to the United Nations Global Compact Principles.

“ESG Values-Based Exclusions”: Business activities in the following areas: (a) tobacco, (b) pornography and/or prostitution, (c) gambling (including land-based casino and betting establishments, online casino and gambling operators, gambling software and technology developers and online gambling marketing), (d) unconventional extraction of oil and gas (oil sands, fracking, and extraction of gas from coal) and (e) thermal coal (power generation, mining); provided that an obligation shall only be considered an ESG Values-Based Exclusion if such obligation’s revenues resulting from the areas listed in any of (a) through (e) above is, in each case, greater than 5% of the total revenues of the Collateral Obligations in the Current Portfolio.

“EU Due Diligence Requirements”: Investor diligence requirements that apply in the EU under Article 5 of the EU Securitisation Regulation.

“EU Institutional Investor”: (Subject to certain conditions and exceptions) (a) institutions for occupational retirement provision; (b) credit institutions (as defined in Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, as amended (the “CRR”)); (c) alternative investment fund managers who manage and/or market alternative investment funds in the EU; (d) investment firms (as defined in the CRR); (e) insurance and reinsurance undertakings; (f) management companies of UCITS funds (or internally managed UCITS); and (g) certain consolidated affiliates of such credit institutions and investment firms, wherever established or located to which the EU Due Diligence Requirements apply.

“EU Securitisation Regulation”: Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 relating to a European framework for simple, transparent and standardised securitisation (as amended by Regulation (EU) 2021/557 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2021 and from time to time), including any implementing regulation, technical standards and official guidance related thereto.

“EU/UK Origination Requirement”: The requirement which will be satisfied if, on any Origination Measurement Date:

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“EU/UK Retained Amount”: A material net economic interest in the securitisation position comprised by the Notes which, in any event, shall not be less than 5% (or such lower amount, including 0%, if such lower amount is required or allowed under the EU/UK Securitisation Laws as a result of amendment, repeal or otherwise) of the nominal value of the Collateral Obligations and Eligible Investments from time to time, as calculated and measured at each origination or acquisition of a Collateral Obligation or Eligible Investment by the Issuer.

“EU/UK Retention Deficiency”: An event which shall occur if the Subordinated Notes held by the EU/UK Retention Provider are insufficient to constitute the EU/UK Retained Amount.

“EU/UK Retention Letter”: Each letter relating to the retention of the EU/UK Retained Amount in substantially the form of Exhibit E hereto, from the EU/UK Retention Provider and the U.S. Retention Provider and addressed to the Issuer, the Trustee and the Placement Agent (as amended, replaced, updated or otherwise modified from time to time).

“EU/UK Retention Provider”: AB Private Credit Investors Corporation, a Maryland corporation, in its capacity as the retention provider for purposes of the EU/UK Securitisation Laws.

“EU/UK Securitisation Laws”: The requirements contained in each Securitisation Regulation, together with any implementing regulation, technical standards and official guidance related thereto, in each case as amended, varied or substituted from time to time.

“Euroclear”: Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V.

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

“Excel Default Model Input File”: A Microsoft Excel file that provides all of the inputs required to determine whether the S&P CDO Monitor Test has been satisfied, including, at a minimum, the following data with respect to each Collateral Obligation: CUSIP number (if any), LoanX identification or LIN # (if any), name of Obligor, coupon, spread (if applicable), legal final maturity date, average life, principal balance, identification as a Senior Secured Loan, a Qualified First Lien Loan, a First Lien/Last Out Loan, a Second Lien Loan or a Senior Secured Loan with a Senior Revolver Facility, whether it is a Cov-Lite Loan, settlement date, S&P Industry Classification and S&P Recovery Rate.

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

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“Excess CCC Adjustment Amount”: As of any date of determination, with respect to any Portfolio, an amount equal to the excess, if any, of:

(a) the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations therein included in the CCC Excess; over

(b) the sum of the Market Values of all Collateral Obligations therein included in the CCC Excess.

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

“Fallback Rate”: The reference rate (which shall include a Base Rate Modifier identified by the Collateral Manager and, if applicable, the methodology for calculating such reference rate) identified by the Collateral Manager as the first alternative set forth in the order below: (1) the reference rate recommended or mandated by the Relevant Governmental Body or (2) (x) if 50% or more of the Collateral Obligations are Floating Rate Obligations, the reference rate being used by at least 50% of the Floating Rate Obligations or (y) the reference rate that is being used in at least 50% of new-issue collateralized loan obligation transactions that have closed in the three months prior to the applicable date of determination in which the applicable issuer(s) have issued quarterly pay floating rate securities that bear interest based on a reference rate other than Term SOFR.

“FATCA”: Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any agreement entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b) of the Code, any intergovernmental agreement entered into in connection with the implementation of such Sections of the Code or any U.S. or non-U.S. fiscal or regulatory legislation, guidance notes, rules or practices adopted pursuant to any such intergovernmental agreements.

“Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Website”: The website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York at ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇ or any successor source.

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

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

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

“First Interest Determination End Date”: July 27, 2023 or, if that day is not a U.S. Government Securities Business Day, the next succeeding U.S. Government Securities Business Day.

“First Lien/Last Out Loan”: A Collateral Obligation that would be a Senior Secured Loan but for the fact that, in the case of an event of default under the applicable Underlying Instrument, the lenders thereunder will be paid after one or more Eligible First Lien Tranches.

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

“First Static Contribution Account”: The account established pursuant to Section 10.3(e).

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

“First Static Date”: December 31, 2024.

“First Static Direction”: The meaning specified in Section 16.1(a).

“First Static Direction Percentage”: (i) Prior to the First Static Date, 0%; and (ii) on and after the First Static Date, the percentage specified in the First Static Direction.

“First Static Enforcement Event”: The meaning specified in Section 11.1(a)(vi).

“First Static EoD Overcollateralization Ratio”: As of any Measurement Date or other date of determination, the percentage derived from:

(a) the Aggregate Principal Balance with respect to the First Static Portfolio on such date; divided by

(b) the Class A First Static Note Amount;

provided that for purposes of this definition, a Defaulted Obligation shall be treated as having a Principal Balance equal to its then-current Market Value.

“First Static Interest Proceeds”: Interest Proceeds received on the First Static Portfolio.

“First Static Note Amount”: As of any date of determination, the sum of (a) the Class A First Static Note Amount, plus (b) the Class B First Static Note Amount plus (c) the Class C First Static Note Amount plus (d) the Class D First Static Note Amount, plus (e) the Subordinated First Static Note Amount.

“First Static Payment Account”: The meaning specified in Section 10.3(a).

“First Static Percentage”: As of any date of determination, a percentage equal to (a) the First Static Note Amount divided by (b) the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Obligations.

“First Static Portfolio”: The Assets (if any) transferred to the First Static Subsidiary on the First Static Date and thereafter all Assets held by the First Static Subsidiary at such time.

“First Static Principal Proceeds”: Principal Proceeds received on the First Static Portfolio.

“First Static Revolver Funding Account”: The meaning specified in Section 10.4.

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

“Fixed Rate Notes”: Notes that bear interest at fixed rates.

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

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

“Floating Rate Notes”: Notes that bear interest at a floating rate.

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

“Flowthrough Entity”: A partnership, grantor trust, S corporation or entity that is disregarded as separate from an owner that is a partnership, grantor trust or S corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

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

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

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

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

“Holder AML Obligations”: The meaning set forth in Section 2.12(f).

“Holder Tax Obligations”: The meaning specified in Section 2.12(d).

“Hybrid Asset-Based Loan”: Any Loan issued by an Obligor that (i) is primarily underwritten on the basis of such Obligor’s sale of discrete, separable assets, including, without limitation, cellular tower leases and security alarm monitoring contracts and (ii) at the time of acquisition, has an enterprise value greater than $100,000,000 and (iii) has a trailing twelve month EBITDA of less than $5,000,000.

“Incurrence Covenant”: A covenant by any Obligor to comply with one or more financial covenants (including, without limitation, any covenant relating to a borrowing base, asset valuation or similar asset-based requirement) only upon the occurrence of certain actions of the Obligor, including, without limitation, a debt issuance, drawing a revolver, dividend payment, share purchase, merger, acquisition or divestiture.

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Information Agent”: The meaning specified in Section 14.17(a).

“Initial Determination Date”: The meaning specified in Section 10.3(d).

“Initial Rating”: With respect to the Rated Notes, the rating or ratings, if any, for each Class of Rated Notes on the Closing Date indicated in Section 2.3.

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“Institutional Accredited Investor”: An Accredited Investor under clauses (1), (2), (3), (7), (8), (9), (12) or (13) of Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act.

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

“Interest Accrual Period”: (i) With respect to the initial Payment Date (or, in the case of a Class that is subject to Refinancing, the first Payment Date following the Redemption Date related to such Refinancing), the period from and including the Closing Date (or, in the case of a Refinancing, the date of issuance of the replacement Obligations or debt obligations) to but excluding such Payment Date; and (ii) with respect to each succeeding Payment Date, the period from and including the immediately preceding Payment Date to but excluding the following Payment Date (or, in the case of a Class that is subject to Refinancing, to but excluding the Redemption Date related to such Refinancing) until the principal of the Secured Notes is paid or made available for payment; provided that for purposes of determining any Interest Accrual Period with respect to any Fixed Rate Notes, the Payment Date (notwithstanding the definition thereof) shall be assumed to be the 20^th day of the relevant month (irrespective of whether such day is a Business Day).

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

“Interest Coverage Ratio”: With respect to any designated Note Amount of a specified Class or Classes and Portfolio, as of any Measurement Date or other date of determination on, or subsequent to, the Determination Date occurring immediately prior to the second Payment Date, the percentage derived from the following equation: (A – B) / C, where:

A = The Collateral Interest Amount for the applicable Portfolio as of such Measurement Date or other date of determination;

B = Amounts payable (or expected as of the Measurement Date or other date of determination to be payable) on the following Payment Date as set forth in clauses (A) and (B) in Section 11.1(a)(i) (with respect to the Reinvesting Portfolio), Section 11.1(a)(iv) (with respect to the First Static Portfolio) or Section 11.1(a)(vii) (with respect to the Second Static Portfolio); and

C = Interest due and payable on such Note Amount and each Note Amount that ranks senior to or pari passu with such Note Amount (excluding Deferred Interest but including any interest on Deferred Interest with respect to the applicable Note Amount of the Class C Notes and the Class D Notes) on such Payment Date.

“Interest Coverage Test”: A test that is satisfied with respect to any designated Note Amount of a specified Class or Classes and Portfolio as of any Measurement Date or other date of determination on, or subsequent to, the Determination Date occurring immediately prior to the second Payment Date, if (i) the applicable Interest Coverage Ratio is at least equal to the Required Interest Coverage Ratio for such Note Amount or (ii) such Note Amount of such specified Class or Classes of Secured Notes is no longer Outstanding.

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“Interest Determination Date”: With respect to (a) the first Interest Accrual Period, (x) the period from the Closing Date to, but excluding the First Interest Determination End Date, the second U.S. Government Securities Business Day preceding the Closing Date, and (y) for the remainder of the first Interest Accrual Period, the second U.S. Government Securities Business Day preceding the First Interest Determination End Date, and (b) each Interest Accrual Period thereafter, the second U.S. Government Securities Business Day preceding the first day of such Interest Accrual Period.

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

(i) all payments of interest and delayed compensation (representing compensation for delayed settlement) received in Cash by the Issuer during the related Collection Period on the Collateral Obligations and Eligible Investments, including the accrued interest received in connection with a sale thereof during the related Collection Period, less any such amount that represents Principal Financed Accrued Interest;

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

(iii) all upfront fees, anniversary fees, redemption fees, collateral monitoring fees, success fees, termination fees, amendment and waiver fees, late payment fees, ticking fees and all other fees received by the Issuer during the related Collection Period, except for those in connection with (A) the reduction of the par amount of the related Collateral Obligation or (B) a Maturity Amendment;

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

(v) Contributions received by the Issuer or an Issuer Subsidiary and designated as Interest Proceeds in accordance with this Indenture;

(vi) any Designated Principal Proceeds and any Designated Unused Proceeds; and

(vii) any amounts deposited in the Interest Collection Subaccount from the Closing Expense Account pursuant to this Indenture in respect of the related Determination Date;

provided that any amounts received in respect of (i) any Defaulted Obligation or any Equity Security shall constitute Principal Proceeds (and not Interest Proceeds) until the aggregate of all collections in respect of such Defaulted Obligation since it became a Defaulted Obligation equals the outstanding principal balance of such Collateral Obligation at the time it became a Defaulted Obligation and (ii) any Collateral Obligation that, as a result of any exchange, amendment or waiver of or supplement thereto, ceases to meet the definition of “Collateral Obligation” shall constitute Principal Proceeds (and not Interest Proceeds) until the earlier of (x) such time as such Collateral Obligation meets the definition of “Collateral Obligation” or (y) the aggregate of all collections in respect of such Collateral Obligation equals the outstanding principal balance of such Collateral Obligation at the time it ceased to meet the definition of “Collateral Obligation”. Under no circumstances shall Interest Proceeds include the Excepted Property or any interest earned thereon.

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“Interest Rate”: With respect to each Class of Secured Notes, the per annum stated interest rate payable on such Class with respect to each Interest Accrual Period equal to Term SOFR for such Interest Accrual Period plus the spread specified in Section 2.3.

“Intervening Event”: With respect to any Trading Plan, the prepayment of any Collateral Obligation included in such Trading Plan or any change in any characteristic of any Collateral Obligation (or the obligor thereof) relevant to any Investment Criteria, in each case to the extent beyond the Issuer’s or the Collateral Manager’s control, so long as no other Collateral Obligation (or the obligor thereof) included in such Trading Plan had any change in any characteristic relevant to any Investment Criteria since the first day of the related Trading Plan Period.

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

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

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

(a) any Discount Obligation shall be the acquisition price of such Discount Obligation;

(b) any Long Dated Obligation shall be an amount equal to 70% multiplied by the Principal Balance of such Long Dated Obligation (but no greater than the par value of such Long Dated Obligation); and

(c) any Collateral Obligation included in the Excess CCC Adjustment Amount shall be the Market Value of such Collateral Obligation;

provided, further, that the Investment Criteria Adjusted Balance for any Collateral Obligation that satisfies more than one of the definitions of Discount Obligation or Long Dated Obligation or is in the Excess CCC Adjustment Amount shall be the lowest amount determined pursuant to clauses (a), (b) and (c) above.

“IRS”: United States Internal Revenue Service.

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

“Issuer Entity” and “Issuer Entities”: Each of the Co-Issuers and the Issuer Subsidiaries, individually or collectively as the context so requires.

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“Issuer Order” and “Issuer Request”: A written order, request or direction (which may be a standing order, request or direction) dated and signed in the name of the applicable Issuer Entity or by an Authorized Officer of the applicable Issuer Entity, or by the Collateral Manager by an Authorized Officer thereof, on behalf of the applicable Issuer Entity; provided that, for purposes of Section 10.8 and Article XII and the release, sale or acquisition of any Assets thereunder, “Issuer Order” or “Issuer Request” shall mean delivery to the Trustee on behalf of the applicable Issuer Entity or the Collateral Manager on its behalf, by email or otherwise in writing, of a trade ticket, confirmation of trade, instruction to post or to commit to the trade, “SWIFT” messages or similar electronic communication or language, all of which shall constitute and be deemed to be a direction and certification by applicable Issuer Entity and the Collateral Manager that the transaction is in compliance with and satisfies all applicable provisions of Section 10.8 and Article XII of this Indenture. For the avoidance of doubt, an order or request provided in an email or other electronic communication by an Authorized Officer of the Issuer or an Authorized Officer of the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer shall constitute an Issuer Order, unless the Trustee otherwise requests that such Issuer Order be in writing.

“Issuer Securities Account Control Agreement”: The securities account control agreement dated as of the Closing Date among the Issuer, U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as Trustee and U.S. Bank National Association, as custodian.

“Issuer Subsidiary” and “Issuer Subsidiaries”: Each of the First Static Subsidiary and the Second Static Subsidiary, individually or collectively as the context so requires.

“Jersey AEOI Regulations”: The Taxation (Implementation) (Jersey) Law 2004 together with regulations (including the Taxation (Implementation) (International Tax Compliance) (United States of America) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 and any guidance notes made pursuant to such regulations (including the CRS)).

“Jersey AML Regulations”: The EU Legislation (Information Accompanying Transfers of Funds) (Jersey) Regulations 2017, the Money Laundering and Weapons Development (Directions) (Jersey) Law 2012, the Non-Profit Organizations (Jersey) Law 2008, the Proceeds of Crime (Jersey) Law 1999, the Money Laundering (Jersey) Order 2008, the Proceeds of Crime (Supervisory Bodies) (Jersey) Law 2008, the Terrorism (Jersey) Law 2002 together with all regulations, orders, notices issued pursuant to such legislation, together with any other legislation, regulations, notices, guidance notes, regulatory handbooks or similar issued by any competent authority (including the Jersey Financial Services Commission) relating to anti-money laundering and/or counter-terrorism financing generally and having effect in Jersey, in each case each as amended from time to time.

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

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

“Long Dated Obligation”: A Loan that matures after the earliest Stated Maturity of any Class of the Obligations.

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“Maintenance Covenant”: A covenant by any Obligor to comply with one or more financial covenants (including without limitation any covenant relating to a borrowing base, asset valuation or similar asset-based requirement) during each reporting period, that exists regardless of whether or not such Obligor has taken any specified action and includes a covenant that applies only when the related loan is funded, regardless of whether such covenant is only applicable until or after the expiration of a certain period of time after the initial issuance of such loan.

“Majority”: With respect to any Class or Classes of Obligations (or the applicable Note Amount(s) thereof), the Holders of more than 50% of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Obligations of such Class or Classes (or the applicable Note Amount(s) thereof).

“Manager Services Agreement”: The manager services agreement dated on or about the Closing Date between the Delaware Administrator and the independent manager of the Co-Issuer.

“Mandatory Redemption”: The meaning specified in Section 9.1.

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

“Market Value”: With respect to any Loans or other Assets, the amount (determined by the Collateral Manager) equal to the product of the principal amount thereof and the price (as a percentage of par) determined in the following manner:

(i) the bid price determined by the Loan Pricing Corporation, LoanX Inc. or Markit Group Limited;

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

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

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

(C) if only one such bid can be obtained, and such bid was obtained from a Qualified Broker/Dealer, such bid;

(iii) if the Market Value of an asset cannot be determined in accordance with clause (i) or (ii) above, then the Market Value shall be the Appraised Value; provided that the Appraised Value of such Collateral Obligation has been obtained or updated within the immediately preceding month (or, solely for purposes of Sections 12.3(b), 12.3(c) and 12.4(a), the most recent of (i) 90 days prior to such date of determination or (ii) the date of the most recently audited financial statements for the Obligor of such Collateral Obligation); provided, further, that if such asset is a Collateral Obligation acquired from an unaffiliated third party in an arms’ length transaction within the immediately preceding 30 days and there has been no material adverse change with respect to the Obligor or the Collateral Obligation to the actual knowledge of the Collateral Manager, then the Market Value shall be the original acquisition price paid for such Collateral Obligation (after adjustment for any borrowing or repayments and exclusive of interest) until the expiry of 30 days after the date of the Issuer’s acquisition of such Collateral Obligation;

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(iv) if a price or such bid described in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) is not available, then the Market Value of an asset shall be the value determined as the bid side market value of such Collateral Obligation as reasonably determined by the Collateral Manager (so long as the Collateral Manager is a Registered Investment Adviser, or has applied to be a Registered Investment Adviser) consistent with the Standard of Care and certified by the Collateral Manager to the Trustee; provided that if such Collateral Obligation has a public rating from ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ or S&P, the Market Value of such Collateral Obligation for a period of 30 days after such date of determination shall be the lower of:

(A) the bid side market value thereof as reasonably determined by the Collateral Manager consistent with the Standard of Care and certified by the Collateral Manager to the Trustee; and

(B) the higher of (x) 70% multiplied by the Principal Balance of such Collateral Obligation and (y) the applicable S&P Recovery Rate multiplied by the Principal Balance of such Collateral Obligation,

and, following such 30-day period, the Market Value of such Collateral Obligation shall be zero; or

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

“Master Transfer Agreement”: The amended and restated loan sale and contribution agreement dated as of the Closing Date, among the BDC, as seller, the Depositor, as intermediate seller and the Issuer, as buyer, as amended or otherwise modified from time to time.

“Material Covenant Default”: A default by an Obligor with respect to any Collateral Obligation and, subject to any grace periods contained in the related Underlying Instruments, that gives rise to the right of the lender(s) thereunder to accelerate the principal of such Collateral Obligation.

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

“Maturity Amendment”: An amendment to the Underlying Instruments governing a Collateral Obligation that extends the stated maturity of such Collateral Obligation.

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“Maximum Weighted Average Life Test”: A test satisfied on any date of determination if the Weighted Average Life of all Collateral Obligations in the Reinvesting Portfolio as of such date is less than or equal to the value in the table below corresponding to the immediately preceding Payment Date (or, prior to the first Payment Date following the Closing Date, the Closing Date):

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

“Memorandum and Articles of Association”: The Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Issuer, the First Static Subsidiary or the Second Static Subsidiary, as applicable, each as they may be amended, revised or restated from time to time.

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

“Minimum Weighted Average Fixed Rate Coupon Test”: A test that shall be satisfied on any date of determination if the Weighted Average Fixed Rate Coupon equals or exceeds 7.0%.

“Minimum Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate Test”: A test that shall be satisfied on any date of determination if the Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate for the Class A Notes equals or exceeds the Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate for the Class A Notes selected by the Collateral Manager in connection with the S&P CDO Monitor Test.

“Minimum Weighted Average S&P Spread Test”: A test that shall be satisfied on any date of determination if the Weighted Average Spread equals or exceeds the Weighted Average Spread selected by the Collateral Manager in connection with the S&P CDO Monitor Test.

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

“Monitor Principal Amount”: As of any date of determination, with respect to each Portfolio, an amount equal to the sum, without duplication, of the following: (a) the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations therein (excluding Defaulted Obligations (as to which the applicable rule below shall apply)), plus (b) the aggregate amount of funds on deposit in the applicable Collection Account and the applicable Revolver Funding Account, including Eligible Investments, constituting Principal Proceeds, plus (c)(i) for each Defaulted Obligation therein that has been a Defaulted Obligation for less than three years, the lower of (A) an amount equal to the Market Value at such time of such Defaulted Obligation and (B) the S&P Recovery Rate multiplied by the principal balance thereof at such time and (ii) for any Defaulted Obligation therein which has been a Defaulted Obligation for three years or more, zero.

“Monthly Report”: The meaning specified in Section 10.7(a).

“Monthly Report Determination Date”: The meaning specified in Section 10.7(a).

“Moody’s”: ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.

“Net Purchased Loan Balance”: As of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) the sum of (i) the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations sold and/or contributed to the Issuer by the Transferor pursuant to the Master Transfer Agreement prior to such date plus (ii) the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations acquired by the Issuer other than directly from the Transferor prior to such date, in each case calculated as of the date of the Issuer’s acquisition thereof, minus (b) the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations that are optionally repurchased or substituted by the Transferor pursuant to the Master Transfer Agreement prior to such date.

“Non-Call Period”: The period from the Closing Date to and including October 27, 2025.

“Non-Permitted AML Holder”: Any Holder that fails to comply with the Holder AML Obligations.

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

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

“Note Amounts”: Each of the Class A Reinvesting Note Amount, the Class A First Static Note Amount, the Class A Second Static Note Amount, the Class B Reinvesting Note Amount, the Class B First Static Note Amount, the Class B Second Static Note Amount, the Class C Reinvesting Note Amount, the Class C First Static Note Amount, the Class C Second Static Note Amount, the Class D Reinvesting Note Amount, the Class D First Static Note Amount, the Class D Second Static Note Amount, the Subordinated Reinvesting Note Amount, the Subordinated First Static Note Amount and the Subordinated Second Static Note Amount.

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

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

(i) to the payment of principal of the Class A Notes (plus any defaulted interest thereon), until the applicable Note Amounts of the Class A Notes have been paid in full;

(ii) to the payment of principal of the Class B Notes (plus any defaulted interest thereon), until the applicable Note Amounts of the Class B Notes have been paid in full;

(iii) to the payment of any accrued and unpaid interest (plus any defaulted interest thereon) and any Deferred Interest (including interest on Deferred Interest) on the applicable Note Amounts of the Class C Notes until such amounts have been paid in full;

(iv) to the payment of principal of the Class C Notes until the applicable Note Amounts of the Class C Notes have been paid in full;

(v) to the payment of any accrued and unpaid interest (plus any defaulted interest thereon) and any Deferred Interest (including interest on Deferred Interest) on the applicable Note Amounts of the Class D Notes until such amounts have been paid in full; and

(vi) to the payment of principal of the Class D Notes until the applicable Note Amounts of the Class D Notes have been paid in full.

“Notes”: Collectively, the Secured Notes and the Subordinated Notes authorized by, and authenticated and delivered under, this Indenture (as specified in Section 2.3).

“Notice of Substitution”: The meaning specified in Section 12.3.

“NRSRO”: Any nationally recognized statistical rating organization, other than S&P.

“NRSRO Certification”: A certification executed by a NRSRO in favor of the Issuer and the Information Agent that states that such NRSRO has provided the Issuer with the appropriate certifications under Exchange Act Rule 17g-5(a)(3)(iii)(B) and that such NRSRO has access to the 17g-5 Website.

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“Obligations”: The Secured Notes and the Subordinated Notes.

“Obligor”: Any borrower, obligor or guarantor under a Loan.

“Obligor Diversity Measure”: As of any date of determination, the number obtained by dividing (a) 1 by (b) the sum of the squares of the quotients, for each Obligor, obtained by dividing (i) the Aggregate Principal Balance at such time of all Collateral Obligations (other than Defaulted Obligations) issued by such Obligor by (ii) the Aggregate Principal Balance at such time of all Collateral Obligations (other than Defaulted Obligations).

“Offer”: The meaning specified in Section 10.8(c).

“Offering”: The offering of any Obligations pursuant to the relevant Offering Circular.

“Offering Circular”: The offering circular dated as of dated May 1, 2023, including any supplements thereto.

“Officer”: (a) With respect to any corporation, the Chairman of the Board of Directors or, with respect to the Issuer and each Issuer Subsidiary, any director, the President, any Vice President, the Secretary, an Assistant Secretary, the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer of such entity or any Person authorized by such entity and shall, for the avoidance of doubt, include any duly appointed attorney-in-fact of the Issuer, and (b) with respect to the Co-Issuer and any limited liability company, any managing member or manager thereof or any person to whom the rights and powers of management thereof are delegated in accordance with the limited liability company agreement of such limited liability company.

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

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

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

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“Origination Measurement Date”: Each date upon which the Issuer commits to originate or acquire a Collateral Obligation and the Closing Date.

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

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

(i) Notes theretofore canceled by the Registrar or delivered to the Registrar for cancellation in accordance with the terms of Section 2.9 or registered in the Register on the date that the Trustee provides notice to the Holders that this Indenture has been discharged in accordance with Article IV; in each case, pursuant to the Note Payment Sequence;

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

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

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

In determining whether the Holders of the requisite Aggregate Outstanding Amount have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, (a) Obligations owned by the Issuer, the Co-Issuer or any Issuer Subsidiary (or, only in the case of (1) a vote on the removal of the Collateral Manager for “Cause” (as defined in the Collateral Management Agreement), (2) a waiver of an event constituting “Cause” under the Collateral Management Agreement as a basis for termination of the Collateral Management Agreement or removal of the Collateral Manager thereunder, or (3) a vote in connection with the appointment of a replacement Collateral Manager that is an Affiliate of the Collateral Manager, the Collateral Manager, any Controlled Affiliate thereof or any funds or accounts managed by the Collateral Manager or one of its Controlled Affiliates as to which the Collateral Manager or one of its Controlled Affiliates has discretionary voting authority) shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Obligations that a Trust Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge to be so owned shall be so disregarded and (b) Obligations so owned that have been pledged in good faith shall be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Obligations and that the pledgee is not one of the Persons specified above.

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“Overcollateralization Ratio”: With respect to any designated Note Amount of a specified Class or Classes and Portfolio, as of any Measurement Date or other date of determination, the percentage derived from: (i) the Principal Collateralization Amount for such Portfolio on such date divided by (ii) the Note Amounts on such date of such Class or Classes, each Priority Class of Secured Notes and each Pari Passu Class of Secured Notes.

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

“Pari Passu Class”: With respect to any specified Class of Obligations, each Class of Obligations that ranks pari passu to such Class, as indicated in Section 2.3.

“Partial Refinancing Interest Proceeds”: In connection with a Refinancing in part of one or more Classes of Secured Notes, with respect to each such refinanced Class, Interest Proceeds up to the amount of accrued and unpaid interest on such Class, but only to the extent that such Interest Proceeds would be available under the Priority of Payments to pay accrued and unpaid interest on such Class on the date of a Refinancing of such Class (or, in the case of a Refinancing occurring on a date other than a Payment Date, only to the extent that such Interest Proceeds would be available under the Priority of Payments to pay accrued and unpaid interest on such Class on the next Payment Date, taking into account Scheduled Distributions on the Assets that are expected to be received prior to the next Determination Date).

“Participation Interest”: A participation interest in a Loan that, at the time of acquisition, or the Issuer’s commitment to acquire the same, satisfies each of the following criteria: (i) such participation would constitute a Collateral Obligation were it acquired directly, (ii) the seller of the participation is the lender on the Loan, (iii) the aggregate participation in the Loan does not exceed the principal amount or commitment of such Loan, (iv) such participation does not grant, in the aggregate, to the participant in such participation a greater interest than the seller holds in the Loan or commitment that is the subject of the participation, (v) the entire acquisition price for such participation is paid in full at the time of its acquisition (or, in the case of a participation in a Revolving Collateral Obligation and Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation, at the time of the funding of such Loan), (vi) the participation provides the participant all of the economic benefit and risk of the whole or part of the Loan or commitment that is the subject of the Loan participation and (vii) such participation is documented under a Loan Syndications and Trading Association, Loan Market Association or similar agreement standard for loan participation transactions among institutional market participants. For the avoidance of doubt a Participation Interest shall not include a sub-participation interest in any Loan.

“Partner”: The meaning specified in Section 7.17(k).

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

“Partnership Tax Audit Rules”: Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code together with any guidance issued thereunder or successor provisions and any similar provision of state or local tax laws.

“Party”: The meaning specified in Section 14.15.

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

“Payment Accounts”: Each of the Reinvesting Payment Account, the First Static Payment Account and the Second Static Payment Account.

“Payment Date”: (a) On and after the Closing Date, the 27^th day of January, April, July and October of each year (or, if such day is not a Business Day, then the next succeeding Business Day), commencing in October 2023, (b) each date fixed by the Trustee on which payments are made in accordance with Section 5.7, (c) the Stated Maturity (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day), (d) any Redemption Date and (e) after the date on which no Secured Notes is deemed or considered Outstanding, any Business Day that the Collateral Manager shall designate as a “Payment Date”.

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

“Permitted Liens”: (a) Security interests, liens and other encumbrances in favor of the Trustee for the benefit of the Secured Parties granted pursuant to this Indenture and any other Transaction Document; (b) with respect to agented Collateral Obligations, security interests, liens and other encumbrances in favor of the lead agent, the collateral agent or the paying agent on behalf of all holders of indebtedness of the Obligor under the related facility, (c) with respect to any Equity Security, any security interests, liens and other encumbrances granted on such Equity Security to secure indebtedness of the related Obligor and/or any security interests, liens and other encumbrances granted under any governing documents or other agreement or binding upon the Issuer as the holder of equity in such Obligor and (d) security interests, liens and other encumbrances for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or claims that are not yet delinquent or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and diligently concluded (provided that any reserve or other appropriate provision as shall be required in conformity with GAAP shall have been made therefor).

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

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“Permitted Use”: With respect to any Contribution received into the Contribution Account of the Issuer or an Issuer Subsidiary, any of the following uses: (i) the transfer of the applicable portion of such amount to the Interest Collection Subaccount of such Issuer Entity for application as Interest Proceeds; (ii) the transfer of the applicable portion of such amount to the Principal Collection Subaccount of such Issuer Entity for application as Principal Proceeds (which designation shall be irrevocable); (iii) the payment of any Administrative Expenses of the Issuer Entities; (iv) to pay the expenses of a Refinancing; (v) to be treated as Partial Refinancing Interest Proceeds; (vi) to exercise a warrant or similar right to acquire securities held in the Assets or any right to acquire loan assets, in each case, which right was received by an Issuer Entity in connection with the insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization, restructuring or workout of a Collateral Obligation or the Obligor thereof; and (vii) any other application or purpose not specifically prohibited by this Indenture.

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

“PIK Loan” Any loan on which a portion (but not all) of the interest accrued for a specified portion of time or until the maturity thereof is, or at the option of the Obligor may be, added to the principal balance of such loan or otherwise deferred rather than being paid in cash; provided that a loan that requires by the terms of its applicable Underlying Instrument interest to be paid in cash at a rate of (in the case of a PIK Loan that is a Fixed Rate Obligation) at least 4.00% and (in the case of a PIK Loan that is a Floating Rate Obligation) at least the Reference Rate plus 2.00% per annum shall be deemed not to be a PIK Loan hereunder. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) a Zero Coupon Obligation shall be deemed not to be a PIK Loan hereunder and (ii) if the Obligor under a PIK Loan fails to make a required cash interest payment thereunder, such PIK Loan shall become a Defaulted Obligation.

“Placement Agent”: Natixis Securities Americas LLC, in its capacity as placement agent of the Secured Notes.

“Placement Agreement”: The agreement dated as of May 3, 2023 by and among the Issuer Entities and the Placement Agent relating to the placement of the applicable Obligations as set forth therein, as amended from time to time.

“Portfolio Redemption”: The meaning specified in Section 9.2(c).

“Portfolios”: Each of the Reinvesting Portfolio, the First Static Portfolio and the Second Static Portfolio.

“Posting”: The forwarding by the Collateral Administrator of emails received at the Rule 17g-5 Address to the 17g-5 Website.

“Potential Equity Notes”: As of the relevant time of determination, the Class D Notes and any other Secured Notes if the Issuer (upon their issuance for U.S. federal income tax purposes), in each case, has not received an opinion in respect of the Class D Notes or such other Secured Notes, as applicable, from nationally recognized tax counsel experienced in such matters and reasonably acceptable to the Issuer to the effect that the Class D Notes or such other Secured Notes will be treated as debt for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

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“Principal Balance”: Subject to Section 1.3, with respect to (a) any Asset other than a Revolving Collateral Obligation or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation, as of any date of determination, the outstanding principal amount of such Asset (excluding any capitalized interest) and (b) any Revolving Collateral Obligation or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation, as of any date of determination, the outstanding principal amount of such Revolving Collateral Obligation or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation (excluding any capitalized interest), plus (except as expressly set forth in this Indenture) any undrawn commitments that have not been irrevocably reduced or withdrawn with respect to such Revolving Collateral Obligation or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation; provided that for purposes of calculating the Overcollateralization Ratio, Total Capitalization, the Monitor Principal Amount and the Investment Criteria Adjusted Balance, the Principal Balance of any Revolving Collateral Obligation or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation shall not include any undrawn commitments with respect to such Revolving Collateral Obligation or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation; provided, further, that for all purposes (other than the calculation of the EU/UK Retained Amount and whether an EU/UK Retention Deficiency has occurred) the Principal Balance of any Equity Security or interest only strip shall be deemed to be zero. For purposes of calculating the EU/UK Retained Amount and determining whether an EU/UK Retention Deficiency has occurred, the Principal Balance of any Asset shall be its Principal Balance in each case without any adjustments for acquisition price or the application of haircuts or other adjustments.

“Principal Collateralization Amount”: As of any date, with respect to each Portfolio or as applied to any specified Collateral Obligation, an amount equal to the sum, without duplication, of the following:

(a) the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations therein (excluding Defaulted Obligations, Discount Obligations and Long Dated Obligations); plus

(b) the aggregate amount of funds on deposit in the applicable Collection Account, the Ramp-Up Account and the applicable Revolver Funding Account, including Eligible Investments, constituting Principal Proceeds; plus

(c) for each Defaulted Obligation therein that has been a Defaulted Obligation for less than two years, the lower of (i) an amount equal to the Market Value at such time of such Defaulted Obligation and (ii) the S&P Recovery Rate multiplied by the principal balance thereof at such time; plus

(d) for each Discount Obligation therein, the aggregate acquisition price, excluding accrued interest, expressed as a Dollar amount, for such Discount Obligations (after adding the amount of any subsequent borrowings and/or subtracting the amount of any subsequent repayments thereof); plus

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(e) for each Long Dated Obligation therein, the lower of (i) an amount equal to 70% multiplied by the Principal Balance of such Long Dated Obligation and (ii) the Market Value of such Long Dated Obligation; minus

(f) the Excess CCC Adjustment Amount with respect thereto;

provided that, (i) with respect to any Collateral Obligation therein that satisfies more than one of the definitions of Defaulted Obligation, Discount Obligation or Long Dated Obligation or any asset that falls into the Excess CCC Adjustment Amount, such Collateral Obligation shall, for the purposes of this definition, be treated as belonging to the category of Collateral Obligations which results in the lowest Principal Collateralization Amount on any date of determination and (ii) the Principal Collateralization Amount for any Defaulted Obligation which has been a Defaulted Obligation for two years or more shall be zero.

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

“Principal Financed Accrued Interest”: With respect to (i) any Collateral Obligation owned or acquired by the Issuer on the Closing Date if acquired with Principal Proceeds, an amount equal to the unpaid interest on such Collateral Obligation that accrued prior to the Closing Date that is owing to the Issuer and remains unpaid as of the Closing Date and (ii) any Collateral Obligation acquired after the Closing Date, the amount of Principal Proceeds, if any, applied towards the acquisition of accrued interest on such Collateral Obligation.

“Principal Proceeds”: With respect to any Collection Period or Determination Date, all amounts received by the Issuer during the related Collection Period that do not constitute Interest Proceeds and any other amounts that have been designated as Principal Proceeds pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.

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

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

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

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

“Prohibited Obligation”: Any debt obligation or debt security where the relevant obligor, either directly or indirectly through majority-owned subsidiaries, derives its revenue from ESG Value-Based Exclusions and/or is involved in any ESG Norm-Based Exclusions.

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

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“QIB/QP”: Any Person that, at the time of its acquisition, purported acquisition or proposed acquisition of Notes is both (i) a Qualified Institutional Buyer and (ii) either (x) a Qualified Purchaser or (y) a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity (other than a trust), each shareholder, partner, member or other equity owner of which is a Qualified Purchaser.

“Qualified Broker/Dealer”: Any of Bank of America/▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇; The Bank of Montreal; The Bank of New York Mellon, N.A.; Barclays Bank plc; BNP Paribas; Broadpoint Securities; Citadel Securities LLC; Credit Agricole CIB; Citibank, N.A.; Credit Agricole S.A.; Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce; Commerzbank; Credit Suisse; Deutsche Bank AG; Dresdner Bank AG; GE Capital; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ & Co.; HSBC Bank; Imperial Capital LLC; ING Financial Partners, Inc.; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & Co.; ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Securities LLC; KeyBank; KKR Capital Markets LLC; Lazard; Lloyds TSB Bank; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Lynch, Pierce, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇ Incorporated; ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & Co.; Natixis; Northern Trust Company; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & Co. Inc.; Royal Bank of Canada; The Royal Bank of Scotland plc; Scotia Capital; Societe Generale; Truist Financial Corporation; The Toronto-Dominion Bank; UBS AG; U.S. Bank National Association; ▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank, National Association; Cantor ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇.▇.; Seaport Group; ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & Company, Incorporated; FBR & Co.; CIT Group Inc.; Gleacher & Company, Inc.; and Macquarie Capital.

“Qualified First Lien Loan”: A Collateral Obligation that (a) in the case of an event of default under the applicable Underlying Instrument, the lenders thereunder will be paid after one or more Eligible First Lien Tranches (and but for such fact would be a Senior Secured Loan) and (b) the outstanding principal balance and unfunded commitments of the Eligible First Lien Tranches with respect thereto (i) have a leverage ratio of not greater than 1.5x, or (ii) have a loan-to-value of not greater than 17.5%; provided the total loan-to-value of the Qualified First Lien Loan will not be greater than 75%; provided further in no event shall the Senior Revolver Facility and the Eligible First Lien Tranche in aggregate exceed 25% of the outstanding principal balance and unfunded commitments of the Senior Revolver Facility and the Eligible First Lien Tranches plus the Qualified First Lien Loan plus any other Loan that is senior or pari passu in right of payment to such Qualified First Lien Loan at the closing of the related credit facility and as of any date the commitments under the related credit facility are increased; provided further that any such Collateral Obligation that is a Cov-Lite Loan, a PIK Loan or a Current Pay Obligation will not qualify as a Qualified First Lien Loan.

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

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

“Rated Notes”: The Class A Notes, the Class B Notes, the Class C Notes and the Class D Notes.

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“Rating Agency”: S&P (only for so long as Rated Notes rated by such entity on the Closing Date are Outstanding and rated by such entity) or, with respect to the Assets generally, ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ or S&P or, if at any time ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ or S&P ceases to provide rating services with respect to debt obligations, any other nationally recognized investment rating agency selected by the Issuer (or the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer). If at any time any of the rating agencies referred to above ceases to be a “Rating Agency” and a replacement rating agency is selected in accordance with the preceding sentence, then references to rating categories of such replaced rating agency in this Indenture shall be deemed instead to be references to the equivalent categories of such replacement rating agency as of the most recent date on which such replacement rating agency and such replaced rating agency published ratings for the type of obligation in respect of which such replacement rating agency is used; provided that a replacement rating agency selected to replace ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ shall not be applicable for purposes of the determination of an S&P Rating.

“Real Estate Loan”: A loan or other debt obligation that is (a) secured primarily by a mortgage, deed of trust or similar lien on commercial real estate, residential real estate or undeveloped land or (b) made to a company engaged primarily in acquiring and developing undeveloped land (whether or not such loan or other debt obligation is secured by real estate).

“Record Date”: With respect to the Obligations, the date that is 15 days prior to the applicable Payment Date.

“Redemption Date”: Any date specified for a redemption of Obligations (other than a Mandatory Redemption, a Special Redemption or an Effective Date-Related Redemption) pursuant to Article IX.

“Redemption Price”: (a) For each Secured Note (or applicable Note Amount of such Secured Note) to be redeemed, (x) 100% of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount (or the outstanding Note Amount) of such Secured Note plus (y) accrued and unpaid interest thereon (including, in the case of a Class C Note and a Class D Note, interest on any accrued and unpaid Deferred Interest with respect to such Class C Note or Class D Note (or the applicable Note Amounts thereof)) to the Redemption Date and (b) for each Subordinated Note (or applicable Note Amount of Subordinated Notes) to be redeemed, its proportional share (based on the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of Subordinated Notes or on the applicable Note Amount of Subordinated Notes) of the amount of the proceeds of the applicable Assets remaining after giving effect to the Optional Redemption or Tax Redemption, as applicable, of the Secured Notes (or applicable Note Amount of the Secured Notes) in whole or after all of the Secured Notes (or Note Amounts in respect of such Secured Notes) has been repaid in full and payment in full of (and/or creation of a reserve for) all expenses (including all Collateral Management Fees (unless waived by the Collateral Manager) and Administrative Expenses, which shall not be subject to the Administrative Expense Cap) of the applicable Issuer Entities; provided that, in connection with any Optional Redemption or Tax Redemption, holders of 100% of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of any Class of Secured Notes for which the Note Amount thereof is outstanding corresponding to the applicable Portfolio at such time, by notifying the Trustee in writing prior to the Redemption Date, may elect to receive less than 100% of the Redemption Price that would otherwise be payable to the holders of such Class of Secured Notes and such lesser amount shall be the “Redemption Price” for such Class of Secured Notes in connection with such Optional Redemption or Tax Redemption.

“Reduced Interest Class”: The meaning specified in Section 8.2(b).

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“Reference Rate”: Initially, Term SOFR provided that if the Term SOFR Reference Rate component of Term SOFR or the then-current Reference Rate is (x) unavailable or no longer reported or (y) inconsistent with the reference rate that reflects market practice for new issue-collateralized loan obligations, in each case, as determined by the Collateral Manager on any date of determination, then upon written notice from the Collateral Manager to the Issuer, the Calculation Agent, the Collateral Administrator and the Trustee of such event and the designation of a Fallback Rate, then “Reference Rate” means such Fallback Rate for all purposes relating to the Notes in respect of such determination on such date and all determinations on all subsequent dates; provided further that with respect to any Class of Notes, the Reference Rate will be no less than zero. With respect to any Collateral Obligation, when used in the context of such Collateral Obligation, “Reference Rate” means the London interbank offered rate, the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR or the applicable benchmark rate currently in effect for such Floating Rate Obligation and determined in accordance with the related Underlying Instrument.

“Reference Rate Conforming Changes”: With respect to any Fallback Rate, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “Interest Accrual Period,” timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, and other administrative matters) that the Collateral Manager decides may be appropriate to reflect the adoption of such Fallback Rate in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Collateral Manager decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Collateral Manager determines that no market practice for use of the Fallback Rate exists, in such other manner as the Collateral Manager determines is reasonably necessary).

“Refinancing”: A loan or an issuance of replacement securities, whose terms in each case shall be negotiated by the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Applicable Issuers, from one or more financial institutions or purchasers to refinance the Secured Notes in connection with an Optional Redemption.

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

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

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

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

“Registered Agent Terms”: The Delaware Administrator’s standard registered agent terms and conditions set out at ▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇.

“Registered Investment Adviser”: A Person duly registered as an investment adviser in accordance with and pursuant to Section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended.

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

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

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

“Reinvesting Contribution Account”: The account established pursuant to Section 10.2(e).

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

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

“Reinvesting EoD Overcollateralization Ratio”: As of any Measurement Date or other date of determination, the percentage derived from:

(a) the Aggregate Principal Balance with respect to the Reinvesting Portfolio on such date; divided by

(b) the Class A Reinvesting Note Amount;

provided that for purposes of this definition, a Defaulted Obligation shall be treated as having a Principal Balance equal to its then-current Market Value.

“Reinvesting Interest Proceeds”: Interest Proceeds received on the Reinvesting Portfolio.

“Reinvesting Note Amount”: As of any date of determination, the sum of (a) the Class A Reinvesting Note Amount, plus (b) the Class B Reinvesting Note Amount, plus (c) the Class C Reinvesting Note Amount, plus (d) the Class D Reinvesting Note Amount, plus (e) the Subordinated Reinvesting Note Amount.

“Reinvesting Payment Account”: The meaning specified in Section 10.3(a).

“Reinvesting Percentage”: As of any date of determination, a percentage equal to (a) the Reinvesting Note Amount divided by (b) the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Obligations.

“Reinvesting Portfolio”: (i) Prior to the First Static Date, all of the Assets; (ii) on and after the First Static Date but prior to the Second Static Date, all of the Assets other than Assets in the First Static Portfolio; and (iii) on and after the Second Static Date, all of the Assets other than Assets in the First Static Portfolio and the Second Static Portfolio.

“Reinvesting Principal Proceeds”: Principal ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ received on the Reinvesting Portfolio.

“Reinvesting Revolver Funding Account”: The meaning specified in Section 10.4.

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“Reinvestment Period”: The period from and including the Closing Date to and including the earliest of (i) April 27, 2027, (ii) the date of the acceleration of the Maturity of the Reinvesting Percentage of any Class of Secured Notes pursuant to Section 5.2, (iii) the date on which the Collateral Manager reasonably determines that it can no longer reinvest in additional Collateral Obligations in accordance with Section 9.6 or the Collateral Management Agreement, provided that the Collateral Manager shall provide written notice to S&P of the termination of the Reinvestment Period pursuant to this clause (iii), (iv) for the First Static Portfolio, the First Static Date and (v) for the Second Static Portfolio, the Second Static Date.

“Reinvestment Target Par Balance”: As of any date of determination, the Target Initial Par Amount, minus (i) the amount of any reduction in the Reinvesting Note Amount, plus (ii) the aggregate amount of Principal Proceeds that result from the issuance of any Additional Obligations pursuant to Sections 2.13 and 3.2 (after giving effect to such issuance of any Additional Obligations).

“Related Obligation”: A loan issued by (or the Obligor of which is) (i) the BDC (or any of its Affiliates) or any other Person whose investments are primarily managed by the BDC or any of its Controlled Affiliates (other than, in each case, any investor in any fund managed by the BDC or any of its Affiliates), (ii) the Collateral Manager (or any of its Controlled Affiliates) or any other Person whose investments are primarily managed by the Collateral Manager or any of its Affiliates (other than, in each case, any investor in any fund managed by the Collateral Manager or any of its Affiliates) or (iii) an entity 25% or more of which is owned by an entity described in the preceding clauses (i) or (ii).

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

“Repurchase and Substitution Event”: An event which shall have occurred with respect to any Collateral Obligation that:

(a) becomes a Defaulted Obligation;

(b) becomes subject to a Material Covenant Default;

(c) becomes subject to a proposed Specified Amendment; or

(d) becomes a Credit Risk Obligation.

“Repurchase and Substitution Limit”: The meaning specified in Section 12.3.

“Repurchase and Substitution Qualification Conditions”: The following conditions:

(a) each Substitute Collateral Obligation satisfies the definition of “Collateral Obligation”;

(b) each Coverage Test shall be satisfied (or, if not satisfied, maintained or improved) after giving effect to such repurchase or substitution;

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(c) each Collateral Quality Test (other than, after the Reinvestment Period, clauses (i) and (v) of the definition of “Collateral Quality Test”) and Concentration Limitation is satisfied (or if not satisfied, maintained or improved) after giving effect to such repurchase or substitution;

(d) the Principal Balance of such Substitute Collateral Obligation (or, if more than one Substitute Collateral Obligation will be added in replacement of a Collateral Obligation or Collateral Obligations, the Aggregate Principal Balance of such Substitute Collateral Obligations) equals or exceeds the Principal Balance of the Collateral Obligation (or Collateral Obligations) being substituted for, and the unfunded commitment thereof, if any, with respect thereto shall have been deposited in the Revolver Funding Account;

(e) the Market Value of such Substitute Collateral Obligation (or, if more than one Substitute Collateral Obligation will be added in replacement of a Collateral Obligation or Collateral Obligations, the aggregate Market Value of such Substitute Collateral Obligations) equals or exceeds the Market Value of the Collateral Obligation being substituted (provided that for purposes of this subclause (e), Market Value shall not be determined pursuant to clause (iv) or (v) of the definition thereof);

(f) (i) if any of the Collateral Obligations being substituted for are Second Lien Loans, the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Substitute Collateral Obligations that are Second Lien Loans equals or is less than the Principal Balance of the Collateral Obligation being substituted for that are Second Lien Loans and (ii) if none of the Collateral Obligations being substituted are Second Lien Loans, no Substitute Collateral Obligation is a Second Lien Loan;

(g) the S&P Rating of each Substitute Collateral Obligation is equal to or higher than the S&P Rating of the Collateral Obligation being substituted for;

(h) the EU/UK Origination Requirement will be satisfied with respect thereto; and

(i) solely after the Reinvestment Period, the stated maturity date of each Substitute Collateral Obligation is the same or earlier than the stated maturity date of the Collateral Obligation being substituted for.

“Required Interest Coverage Ratio”: (a) for the Class A Notes and the Class B Notes, 120%; (b) for the Class C Notes, 115%; and (c) for the Class D Notes, 110%.

“Required Overcollateralization Ratio”: (a) for the Class A Notes and the Class B Notes, 141.52%; (b) for the Class C Notes, 125.33%; and (c) for the Class D Notes, 115.95%.

“Reset Amendment”: The meaning specified in Section 8.2(d).

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“Restricted Trading Period”: The period during which the S&P Rating of any of (x) the Class A Notes is one or more subcategories below its rating on the Closing Date or (y) the Class B Notes or the Class C Notes is two or more subcategories below its rating on the Closing Date; provided that such period shall not be a Restricted Trading Period (i) if (A) the Aggregate Principal Balance of the Collateral Obligations in the Reinvesting Portfolio plus Eligible Investments constituting Principal Proceeds in the Reinvesting Portfolio is greater than or equal to the Reinvestment Target Par Balance, (B) each Overcollateralization Ratio Test and Interest Coverage Test has been satisfied and (C) the Collateral Quality Test has been satisfied or (ii) so long as the S&P Rating of the highest rated Class of Secured Notes then Outstanding has not been further downgraded, withdrawn or put on watch for potential downgrade, upon the direction of the Issuer Entities with the consent of a Majority of the Controlling Class with respect to the Reinvesting Portfolio.

“Retention Provider”: The EU/UK Retention Provider and the U.S. Retention Provider.

“Revolver Funding Accounts”: Each of the Reinvesting Revolver Funding Account, the First Static Revolver Funding Account and the Second Static Revolver Funding Account.

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

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

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

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

“Rule 17g-5”: The meaning specified in Section 14.17(a).

“Rule 17g-5 Address”: The meaning specified in Section 14.3(e).

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

“S&P CDO Monitor”: Each dynamic, analytical computer model developed by S&P used to calculate the default frequency in terms of the amount of debt assumed to default as a percentage of the original principal amount of the Collateral Obligations in the Reinvesting Portfolio consistent with a specified benchmark rating level based upon certain assumptions (including the applicable Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate) and S&P’s proprietary corporate default studies, as may be amended by S&P from time to time upon notice to the Issuer, the Collateral Manager, the Collateral Administrator and the Trustee. Each S&P CDO Monitor shall be chosen by the Collateral Manager and associated with either (x) a Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate and a Weighted Average Spread from Section 2 of Schedule 3 or (y) a Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate and a Weighted Average Spread confirmed by S&P; provided that as of any date of determination the Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate for the S&P Highest Ranking Class equals or exceeds the Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate for the S&P Highest Ranking Class chosen by the Collateral Manager and the Weighted Average Spread equals or exceeds the Weighted Average Spread chosen by the Collateral Manager.

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

“S&P CDO Monitor Test”: A test that shall be satisfied on any date of determination on or after the Effective Date (and, on and after the S&P CDO Monitor Election Date, following receipt by the Collateral Manager and the Collateral Administrator of the Adjusted Break-even Default Rate for each S&P CDO Monitor (in accordance with the definition of “Adjusted Break-even Default Rate”)) if, after giving effect to the sale of a Collateral Obligation or the acquisition of a Collateral Obligation, the Default Differential of the Proposed Portfolio is positive. The S&P CDO Monitor Test shall be considered to be improved if the Default Differential of the Proposed Portfolio is greater than the Default Differential of the Current Portfolio.

“S&P Counterparty Criteria”: With respect to any Participation Interest acquired by the Issuer, criteria that shall be met if, immediately after giving effect to such acquisition, the Aggregate Participation Percentages of all Selling Institutions and participants that have the same or a lower S&P Rating does not exceed the “Aggregate Percentage Limit” set forth below for such S&P Rating, and the Aggregate Participation Percentage of any single Selling Institution or participant that has the S&P Rating set forth below or a lower credit rating does not exceed the “Individual Percentage Limit” set forth below for such S&P Rating:

“S&P Highest Ranking Class”: As of any date of determination, the Class of Secured Notes that is Outstanding and has no Priority Class and is rated by S&P.

“S&P Industry Classification”: Each industry identified in Schedule 2.

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“S&P Rating”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation, as of any date of determination, the rating determined in accordance with the following methodology:

(i) (a) if there is an issuer credit rating of the Obligor of such Collateral Obligation by S&P as published by S&P, or the guarantor which unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees such Collateral Obligation pursuant to a form of guaranty that complies with then-current S&P criteria for use in connection with this transaction, then the S&P Rating shall be such rating (regardless of whether there is a published rating by S&P on the Collateral Obligations of such Obligor held by the Issuer; provided that private ratings (that is, ratings provided at the request of the Obligor) may be used for purposes of this definition if the related Obligor has consented to the disclosure thereof and a copy of such consent has been provided to S&P) or (b) if there is no issuer credit rating of the Obligor by S&P but (1) there is a senior secured rating on any obligation or security of the Obligor, then the S&P Rating of such Collateral Obligation shall be one sub-category below such rating; (2) if clause (1) above does not apply, but there is a senior unsecured rating on any obligation or security of the Obligor, the S&P Rating of such Collateral Obligation shall equal such rating; and (3) if neither clause (1) nor clause (2) above applies, but there is a subordinated rating on any obligation or security of the Obligor, then the S&P Rating of such Collateral Obligation shall be one sub-category above such rating;

(ii) with respect to any Collateral Obligation that is a DIP Collateral Obligation, the S&P Rating thereof shall be the credit rating assigned to such issue by S&P; provided that such credit rating shall expire on the earlier of (i) the 12-month anniversary of the date S&P assigned such credit rating to such DIP Collateral Obligation, unless S&P renews such credit rating, in which case, the credit rating shall expire on the 12-month anniversary of the date of renewal and (ii) the date S&P provides notice to the Collateral Manager that the credit quality of such DIP Collateral Obligation has deteriorated since S&P assigned or renewed such credit rating;

(iii) if there is not a rating by S&P on the Obligor or on an obligation of the Obligor, then the S&P Rating may be determined pursuant to clauses (a) through (c) below:

(a) if an obligation of the Obligor is not a DIP Collateral Obligation and is publicly rated by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇, then the S&P Rating shall be the rating equivalent of the public rating by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ of such Collateral Obligation except that the S&P Rating of such obligation shall be (1) one sub category below the S&P equivalent of the rating by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ if such rating is “Baa3” or higher and (2) two sub-categories below the S&P equivalent of the rating by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ if such rating is “Ba1” or lower;

(b) the S&P Rating may be based on a credit estimate provided by S&P, and in connection therewith, the Issuer, the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer or the Obligor of such Collateral Obligation shall, prior to or within 30 days after the acquisition of such Collateral Obligation, apply (and concurrently submit all available Information in respect of such application) to S&P for a credit estimate which shall be its S&P Rating; provided that, if such Information is submitted within such 30-day period, then, pending receipt from S&P of such estimate, such Collateral Obligation shall have an S&P Rating as determined by the Collateral Manager in its sole discretion if the Collateral Manager certifies to the Trustee and the Collateral Administrator that it believes that such S&P Rating determined by

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the Collateral Manager is commercially reasonable and that the credit estimate provided by S&P shall be at least equal to such S&P Rating determined by the Collateral Manager; provided, further, that if such Information is not submitted within such 30-day period, then, pending receipt from S&P of such estimate, the Collateral Obligation shall have (1) the S&P Rating as determined by the Collateral Manager for a period of up to 90 days after the acquisition of such Collateral Obligation and (2) an S&P Rating of “CCC-” following such 90-day period; unless, during such 90-day period, the Collateral Manager has requested the extension of such period and S&P, in its sole discretion, has granted such request; provided, further, that if such 90-day period (or other extended period) elapses pending S&P’s decision with respect to such application, the S&P Rating of such Collateral Obligation shall be “CCC-”; provided, further, that if the Collateral Obligation has had a public rating by S&P that S&P has withdrawn or suspended within six months prior to the date of such application for a credit estimate in respect of such Collateral Obligation, the S&P Rating in respect thereof shall be “CCC-” pending receipt from S&P of such estimate, and S&P may elect not to provide such estimate until a period of six months have elapsed after the withdrawal or suspension of the public rating; provided, further, that the S&P Rating may not be determined pursuant to this clause (b) if the Collateral Obligation is a DIP Collateral Obligation; provided, further, that such credit estimate shall expire 12 months after the acquisition of such Collateral Obligation, following which such Collateral Obligation shall have an S&P Rating of “CCC-” unless, during such 12-month period, the Issuer applies for renewal thereof in accordance with this Indenture, in which case such credit estimate shall continue to be the S&P Rating of such Collateral Obligation until S&P has confirmed or revised such credit estimate, upon which such confirmed or revised credit estimate shall be the S&P Rating of such Collateral Obligation; provided, further, that such confirmed or revised credit estimate shall expire on the next succeeding 12-month anniversary of the date of the acquisition of such Collateral Obligation and (when renewed annually in accordance with this Indenture) on each 12-month anniversary thereafter; or

(c) with respect to a Collateral Obligation that is not a Defaulted Obligation, the S&P Rating of such Collateral Obligation shall, at the election of the Issuer (at the direction of the Collateral Manager), be “CCC-” provided (i) neither the Obligor of such Collateral Obligation nor any of its Affiliates are subject to any bankruptcy or reorganization proceedings and (ii) the Obligor has not defaulted on any payment obligation in respect of any debt security or other obligation of the Obligor at any time within the two year period ending on such date of determination, all such debt securities and other obligations of the Obligor that are pari passu with or senior to the Collateral Obligation are current and the Collateral Manager reasonably expects them to remain current; provided, further, that the Issuer, the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer or the Obligor of such Collateral Obligation shall submit all available Information in respect of such Collateral Obligation to S&P prior to or within 30 days after the election of the Issuer (at the direction of the Collateral Manager);

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(iv) with respect to a Current Pay Obligation that is rated “D” or “SD” by S&P, the S&P Rating of such Current Pay Obligation shall be, at the election of the Issuer (at the direction of the Collateral Manager) the higher of “CCC” or the issue rating by S&P of such Current Pay Obligation; or

(v) with respect to a DIP Collateral Obligation that has no issue rating by S&P, the S&P Rating of such DIP Collateral Obligation will be, at the election of the Issuer (at the direction of the Collateral Manager), “CCC-” or, for a period of up to 90 days following the issuance of such DIP Collateral Obligation (or such earlier date if an S&P Rating is assigned prior to the expiration of such 90-day period), such higher rating as reasonably determined by the Collateral Manager (not to be called into question as a result of subsequent events) so long as the Collateral Manager reasonably expects that such DIP Collateral Obligation will be assigned an S&P Rating equal to or higher than such S&P Rating determined by the Collateral Manager no later than 90 days after such determination; provided that (A) if such DIP Collateral Obligation has no issue rating by S&P at the expiration of such 90-day period, the S&P Rating will be, at the election of the Issuer, “CCC-” and (B) the Collateral Manager will provide Information with respect to such DIP Collateral Obligation to S&P, if available;

provided that for purposes of the determination of the S&P Rating, (x) if the applicable rating assigned by S&P to an Obligor or its obligations is on “credit watch positive” by S&P, such rating shall be treated as being one sub-category above such assigned rating and (y) if the applicable rating assigned by S&P to an Obligor or its obligations is on “credit watch negative” by S&P, such rating shall be treated as being one sub-category below such assigned rating.

“S&P Rating Agency Condition”: With respect to any event or any action taken or to be taken by or on behalf of the Issuer, a condition that is satisfied if S&P provides written confirmation (which may take the form of a press release or other written communication which may be in electronic form or posted on S&P’s website) that, with respect to its then-current rating of any Class of Rated Notes rated by S&P, no immediate withdrawal or reduction will occur as a result of such event or action; provided that the S&P Rating Agency Condition shall be deemed to be satisfied if (i) no Class of Rated Notes then outstanding is then rated by S&P (including due to the withdrawal by S&P of its rating on such Rated Notes) or (ii) S&P makes a public announcement or informs the Issuer, the Collateral Manager or the Trustee in writing that (A) it believes that satisfaction of the S&P Rating Agency Condition is not required with respect to such event or action, (B) its practice is not to give such confirmations or (C) it will not review such event or action for purposes of evaluating whether to confirm the then-current ratings (or Initial Ratings) of the Rated Notes rated by S&P.

“S&P Rating Factor”: With respect to each Collateral Obligation, the rating factor determined in accordance with the table in Section 3 of Schedule 3 using such Collateral Obligation’s S&P Global Rating’s credit rating.

“S&P Recovery Rate”: With respect to a Collateral Obligation, the recovery rate set forth in Section 1 of Schedule 3 using the Initial Rating of the most senior Class of Secured Notes Outstanding at the time of determination.

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“S&P Recovery Rating”: With respect to a Collateral Obligation for which an S&P Recovery Rate is being determined, the “Recovery Rating” assigned by S&P to such Collateral Obligation.

“S&P Weighted Average Rating Factor”: With respect to all Collateral Obligations with an S&P Rating of “CCC-” or higher, (a) the sum of the product of (i) the principal balance of each such Collateral Obligation and (ii) the S&P Rating Factor divided by (b) the aggregate outstanding principal balance for all such Collateral Obligations.

“Sale”: The meaning specified in Section 5.17.

“Sale Proceeds”: All proceeds (excluding accrued interest, if any) received with respect to Assets as a result of sales of such Assets in accordance with Article XII less any reasonable expenses incurred by the Collateral Manager, the Collateral Administrator or the Trustee (other than amounts payable as Administrative Expenses) in connection with such sales. Sale Proceeds shall include Principal Financed Accrued Interest received in respect of such sale.

“Scenario Default Rate”: With respect to the S&P Highest Ranking Class, as of any date of determination:

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“Schedule of Collateral Obligations”: The schedule of Collateral Obligations attached as Schedule 1 hereto, which schedule shall include the Obligor, Principal Balance, coupon/spread, the stated maturity, the S&P Rating (unless such rating is based on a credit estimate or is a private or confidential rating from S&P) and the percentage of the aggregate commitment under each Revolving Collateral Obligation and Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation that is funded, as amended from time to time (without the consent of or any action on the part of any Person) to reflect the release of Collateral Obligations pursuant to Article X hereof and the inclusion of additional Collateral Obligations as provided in Section 12.2 hereof.

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

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

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

“Second Static Contribution Account”: The account established pursuant to Section 10.3(e).

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

“Second Static Date”: December 31, 2025.

“Second Static Direction”: The meaning specified in Section 16.1(b).

“Second Static Direction Percentage”: (i) Prior to the Second Static Date, 0%; and (ii) on and after the Second Static Date, the percentage specified in the Second Static Direction.

“Second Static Enforcement Event”: The meaning specified in Section 11.1(a)(ix).

“Second Static EoD Overcollateralization Ratio”: As of any Measurement Date or other date of determination, the percentage derived from:

(a) the Aggregate Principal Balance with respect to the Second Static Portfolio on such date; divided by

(b) the Class A Second Static Note Amount;

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provided that for purposes of this definition, a Defaulted Obligation shall be treated as having a Principal Balance equal to its then-current Market Value.

“Second Static Interest Proceeds”: Interest Proceeds received on the Second Static Portfolio.

“Second Static Note Amount”: As of any date of determination, the sum of (a) the Class A Second Static Note Amount, plus (b) the Class B Second Static Note Amount, plus (c) the Class C Second Static Note Amount, plus (d) the Class D Second Static Note Amount, plus (e) the Subordinated Second Static Note Amount.

“Second Static Payment Account”: The meaning specified in Section 10.3(a).

“Second Static Percentage”: As of any date of determination, a percentage equal to (a) the Second Static Note Amount divided by (b) the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Obligations.

“Second Static Portfolio”: The Assets (if any) transferred to the Second Static Subsidiary on the Second Static Date and thereafter all Assets held by the Second Static Subsidiary at such time.

“Second Static Principal Proceeds”: Principal ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ received on the Second Static Portfolio.

“Second Static Revolver Funding Account”: The meaning specified in Section 10.4.

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

“Section 385 Rules”: The final and temporary regulations issued under Section 385 of the Code, to the extent in effect at the relevant time.

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

“Secured Notes”: The Class A Notes, the Class B Notes, the Class C Notes and the Class D Notes.

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

“Securities Account Control Agreements”: (i) The Issuer Securities Account Control Agreement; (ii) the securities account control agreement to be dated as of the Closing Date among the First Static Subsidiary, U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as Trustee and U.S. Bank National Association, as custodian; and (iii) the securities account control agreement to be dated as of the Closing Date among the Second Static Subsidiary, U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as Trustee and U.S. Bank National Association, as custodian.

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

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“Securities Intermediary”: The meaning specified in Section 8-102(a)(14) of the UCC.

“Securitisation Regulations”: The EU Securitisation Regulation and the UK Securitisation Regulation.

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

“Selling Institution”: The entity obligated to make payments to the Issuer under the terms of a Participation Interest.

“Senior Collateral Management Fee”: The meaning assigned to such term in the Collateral Management Agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Transaction Document, the parties acknowledge and agree that the Senior Collateral Management Fee will be $0 in accordance with Section 8 of the Collateral Management Agreement for so long as ABPCI is the Collateral Manager.

“Senior Revolver Facility”: With respect to any Loan, a senior secured revolving facility incurred by the Obligor of such Loan that is prior in right of payment to such Loan so long as the outstanding principal balance and unfunded commitments of such facility does not exceed 15% of the sum of (x) the outstanding principal balance of the Loan, plus (y) the outstanding principal balance and unfunded commitments of such revolving facility, plus (z) the outstanding principal balance of any other debt for borrowed money incurred by such Obligor that is pari passu with such Loan.

“Senior Secured Loan”: Any Loan that: (a) is not (and cannot by its terms become) subordinate in right of payment to any other obligation of the Obligor of such Loan (subject to customary exceptions for permitted liens including an Obligor’s obligations thereunder in respect of its trade claims, accounts receivables, inventory, capitalized leases and similar obligations and Senior Revolver Facilities); (b) is secured by a valid first-priority perfected security interest or lien in, to or on specified collateral securing the Obligor’s obligations under the Loan (subject to customary exceptions for permitted liens); and (c) the value of the collateral securing the Loan at the time of acquisition together with other attributes of the Obligor (including, without limitation, its general financial condition, ability to generate cash flow available for debt service and other demands for that cash flow) is adequate (in the commercially reasonable judgment of the Collateral Manager) to repay the Loan in accordance with its terms and to repay all other Loans of equal seniority secured by a first lien or security interest in the same collateral.

“Senior Secured Note”: Any debt obligation that constitutes borrowed money and is in the form of, or represented by, a note (other than any note evidencing a Loan), certificated debt security or other debt security and that: (a) is not (and cannot by its terms become) subordinate in right of payment to any other obligation of the Obligor of such note (subject to customary exceptions for permitted liens including an Obligor’s obligations thereunder in respect of its trade claims, accounts receivables, inventory, capitalized leases and similar obligations and Senior Revolver Facilities); (b) is secured by a valid first-priority perfected security interest or lien in, to or on specified collateral securing the Obligor’s obligations under the note (subject to customary exceptions for permitted liens); (c) does not constitute a Bond (or other similar debt obligation with a public rating) and (d) the value of the collateral securing the note at the time of acquisition

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together with other attributes of the Obligor (including, without limitation, its general financial condition, ability to generate cash flow available for debt service and other demands for that cash flow) is adequate (in the commercially reasonable judgment of the Collateral Manager) to repay the note in accordance with its terms and to repay all other debt obligations of equal seniority secured by a first lien or security interest in the same collateral.

“Share Trustee”: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Trustees (Jersey) Limited.

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

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

“Small Obligor Loan”: Any Loan (other than an Eligible Recurring Revenue Loan or a Hybrid Asset-Based Loan) issued by an Obligor that has a trailing twelve month EBITDA of less than $5,000,000, as measured at the time of such Collateral Obligation’s acquisition or origination based on the most recent financial information provided by such Obligor.

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

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

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

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

“Specified Amendment”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation, any amendment, waiver or modification of the Underlying Instrument which would:

(a) modify the amortization schedule with respect to such Collateral Obligation in a manner that (i) reduces the dollar amount of any Scheduled Distribution by more than the greater of (x) 25% and (y) U.S.$250,000, (ii) postpones any Scheduled Distribution by more than two payment periods or (iii) causes the Weighted Average Life of the applicable Collateral Obligation to increase by more than 25%;

(b) reduce or increase the cash interest rate payable by the Obligor thereunder by more than 100 basis points (excluding any increase in an interest rate arising by operation of a default or penalty interest clause under a Collateral Obligation or as a result of an increase in the interest rate index for any reason other than such amendment, waiver or modification);

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(c) extend the stated maturity date of such Collateral Obligation by (i) more than 24 months or (ii) beyond the Stated Maturity;

(d) contractually or structurally subordinate such Collateral Obligation by operation of a priority of payments, turnover provisions, the transfer of assets in order to limit recourse to the related Obligor or the granting of liens (other than customary permitted liens) on any of the underlying collateral securing such Collateral Obligation;

(e) release any party from its obligations under such Collateral Obligation, if such release would have a material adverse effect on the Collateral Obligation; or

(f) reduce the principal amount of the applicable Collateral Obligation.

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

(a) nonpayment of interest or principal;

(b) the rescheduling of any interest or principal in any part of the capital structure of the related Obligor;

(c) any breach of a covenant by such Obligor;

(d) any act or omission that, in the determination of the Collateral Manager using commercially reasonable efforts, absent a cure by such Obligor, will result in a breach of a covenant occurring the next six months;

(e) any restructuring of debt (including proposed debt) of such Obligor;

(f) the occurrence of significant transactions (including any sale or acquisition of assets);

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

(h) a Maturity Amendment; or

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

“STAMP”: The meaning specified in Section 2.5(a).

“Standard of Care”: The meaning specified in the Collateral Management Agreement.

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

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

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

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

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

“Subordinated Collateral Management Fee”: The meaning assigned to such term in the Collateral Management Agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Transaction Document, the parties acknowledge and agree that the Subordinated Collateral Management Fee will be $0 in accordance with Section 8 of the Collateral Management Agreement for so long as ABPCI is the Collateral Manager.

“Subordinated First Static Note Amount”: As of any date of determination, an amount equal to the product of (a) the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Subordinated Notes as of the First Static Date multiplied by (b) the First Static Direction Percentage.

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

“Subordinated Reinvesting Note Amount”: As of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Subordinated Notes as of such date less (b) the sum of (i) the Subordinated First Static Note Amount as of such date plus (ii) the Subordinated Second Static Note Amount as of such date.

“Subordinated Second Static Note Amount”: As of any date of determination, an amount equal to the product of (i)(x) the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Subordinated Notes as of the Second Static Date, less (y) the Subordinated First Static Note Amount as of the Second Static Date, multiplied by (ii) the Second Static Direction Percentage.

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

“Substitute Collateral Obligations”: Collateral Obligations conveyed by the Transferor to the Issuer in accordance with the Master Transfer Agreement as substitute Collateral Obligations pursuant to Section 12.3(a).

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

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

“Target Initial Par Amount”: U.S.$400,000,000.

“Target Initial Par Condition”: A condition satisfied as of the Effective Date if the Aggregate Principal Balance of Collateral Obligations that are held by the Issuer and that the Issuer has committed to acquire on such date, together with (i) the amount of any proceeds of sales, prepayments, maturities or redemptions of Collateral Obligations acquired by the Issuer prior to such date (other than any such proceeds that have been reinvested in Collateral Obligations held by the Issuer on the Effective Date) and (ii) without duplication of clause (i) above, amounts designated as Principal Proceeds and transferred to the Collection Account (other than any such proceeds that have been reinvested, or committed to be reinvested, in Collateral Obligations held by the Issuer on the Effective Date), will equal or exceed the Target Initial Par Amount; provided that for purposes of this definition, any Collateral Obligation that becomes a Defaulted Obligation prior to the Effective Date shall be treated as having a Principal Balance equal to its Principal Collateralization Amount.

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

“Tax Account Reporting Rules”: FATCA, and any other laws, intergovernmental agreements, administrative guidance or official interpretations, adopted or entered into on, before or after the date of this Indenture, by one or more governments providing for the collection of financial account information and the automatic exchange of such information between or among governments for purposes of improving tax compliance, including but not limited to the Jersey AEOI Regulations, and any laws, intergovernmental agreements or other guidance adopted pursuant to the global standard for automatic exchange of financial account information issued by the OECD.

“Tax Account Reporting Rules Compliance”: Compliance with the Tax Account Reporting Rules as necessary to avoid (a) fines, penalties, or other sanctions imposed on the Issuer, the Issuer Subsidiaries or any of their respective directors or (b) the withholding or imposition of tax from or in respect of payments to or for the benefit of the Issuer or any Issuer Subsidiary.

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“Tax Event”: An event that occurs (a) if a change in or the adoption of any tax statute or treaty, or any change in or the issuance of any regulation (whether final, temporary or proposed), rule, ruling, practice, procedure or judicial decision or interpretation of the foregoing after the Closing Date results in (i) any Obligor under any Collateral Obligation being required to deduct or withhold from any payment under such Collateral Obligation to the Issuer and/or any Issuer Subsidiary for or on account of any Tax for whatever reason and such Obligor is not required to pay to the Issuer and/or such Issuer Subsidiary such additional amount as is necessary to ensure that the net amount actually received by the Issuer and/or such Issuer Subsidiary (free and clear of Taxes, whether assessed against such Obligor or the Issuer and/or such Issuer Subsidiary) will equal the full amount that the Issuer and/or such Issuer Subsidiary would have received had no such deduction or withholding occurred or (ii) the Issuer or any Issuer Subsidiary being required to deduct or withhold from any payment to another Person for or on account of any tax for whatever reason and the Issuer and/or such Issuer Subsidiary being required to pay to such Person such additional amount as is necessary to ensure that the net amount actually received by such Person (after payment of all taxes, whether assessed against such Person or the Issuer and/or such Issuer Subsidiary) will equal the full amount that the Person would have received had no such taxes been imposed or (b) any jurisdiction imposes net income, profits or similar Tax on the Issuer and/or any Issuer Subsidiary, and the aggregate amount of such a tax or taxes imposed on the Issuer and/or such Issuer Subsidiary or withheld from payments to the Issuer and/or such Issuer Subsidiary and with respect to which the Issuer and/or such Issuer Subsidiary receives less than the full amount that the Issuer and/or such Issuer Subsidiary would have received had no such deduction occurred, and of “gross-up payments” required to be made by the Issuer and/or such Issuer Subsidiary, is in excess of $1,000,000 (x) during the Collection Period in which such event occurs or (y) during any 12-month period.

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

“Term SOFR”: For each Interest Accrual Period, (x) the Term SOFR Reference Rate for the Designated Maturity, as of the Interest Determination Date, as such rate is published by the Term SOFR Administrator; however, that if as of 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on any Interest Determination Date the Term SOFR Reference Rate for the Designated Maturity has not been published by the Term SOFR Administrator, then Term SOFR will be the Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor as published by the Term SOFR Administrator on the first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day for which such Term SOFR Reference Rate for the Designated Maturity was published by the Term SOFR Administrator so long as such first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day is not more than five Business Days prior to such Interest Determination Date or (y) if the Term SOFR Reference Rate cannot be determined in accordance with clause (x), Term SOFR shall be the Fallback Rate, as determined by the Collateral Manager in its sole discretion; provided that if Term SOFR as so determined would be less than 0%, such rate shall be deemed to be 0% for the purposes of this Indenture.

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

“Term SOFR Administrator’s Website”: The Term SOFR Administrator’s website, currently accessed through the website ▇▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇, or any successor source for the secured overnight financing rate identified as such by the Term SOFR Administrator from time to time.

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“Term SOFR Determination Day”: The meaning specified in the definition of “Term SOFR”.

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

“Total Capitalization”: For each Portfolio, an amount equal to, without duplication (i) the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations therein (other than Defaulted Obligations), plus (ii) the aggregate amount of Principal Proceeds on deposit in the applicable Collection Account and the applicable Revolver Funding Account, in each case including Eligible Investments, plus (iii) the Principal Collateralization Amount for all Defaulted Obligations therein.

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

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

“Transaction Documents”: This Indenture, the Securities Account Control Agreements, the Collateral Management Agreement, the Placement Agreement, the Collateral Administration Agreement, the Master Transfer Agreement, the Administration Agreements and the EU/UK Retention Letter.

“Transfer”: A transfer, sale, assignment, participation, pledge or other disposition.

“Transferor”: The BDC, in its capacity as seller under the Master Transfer Agreement.

“Transparency Requirements”: The transparency and reporting requirements of Article 7 of each Securitisation Regulation.

“Trust Officer”: When used with respect to the Trustee and the Bank (in all of its capacities), any officer within the Corporate Trust Office (or any successor group of the Trustee) including any vice president, assistant vice president or officer of the Trustee and the Bank (in all of its capacities) customarily performing functions similar to those performed by the persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred at the Corporate Trust Office because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and, in each case, having direct responsibility for the administration of this transaction.

“Trustee”: The meaning specified in the first sentence of this Indenture, and any successor thereto.

“Trustee’s Website”: The meaning specified in Section 10.7(g).

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

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“UK Due Diligence Requirements”: Investor diligence requirements that apply in the UK under the EU Securitisation Regulation as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (as amended).

“UK Institutional Investors”: (Subject to certain conditions and exceptions): (a) insurance undertakings and reinsurance undertakings as defined in the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (as amended, the “FSMA”); (b) occupational pension schemes as defined in the Pension Schemes Act 1993 that have their main administration in the UK, and certain fund managers of such schemes; (c) alternative investment fund managers as defined in the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Regulations 2013 which market or manage alternative investment funds in the UK; (d) UCITS as defined in the FSMA, which are authorized open ended investment companies as defined in the FSMA, and management companies as defined in the FSMA; (e) CRR firms as defined in Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (as amended); (f) FCA Investment Firms as defined by Article 4(1)(2AB) of the UK CRR and (g) certain consolidated affiliates of such CRR firms and such FCA Investment Firms, wherever established or located to which the UK Due Diligence Requirements apply.

“UK Securitisation Regulation”: Regulation (EU 2017/2402) as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (as amended) and as amended by the Securitisation (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 and the Securities Financing Transactions, Securitisation and Miscellaneous Amendments (EU Exit) Regulations 2020, including any implementing regulation or statutory instrument, technical standards and official guidance related thereto.

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

“Underlying Instrument”: The indenture or other agreement pursuant to which an Asset has been issued or created and, other than for purposes of Section 6.19, each other agreement that governs the terms of or secures the obligations represented by such Asset or of which the holders of such Asset are the beneficiaries.

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

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

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

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“Unsecured Loan”: A senior unsecured Loan which is not (and by its terms is not permitted to become) subordinate in right of payment to any other debt for borrowed money incurred by the Obligor under such Loan.

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

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

“U.S. Retention Provider”: ABPCI Direct Lending Fund CLO XIII Depositor LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, in its capacity as a “majority-owned affiliate” of a “sponsor” for purposes of the U.S. Risk Retention Rules.

“U.S. Risk Retention Rules”: The final rules implementing the credit risk retention requirements of Section 941 of the ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

“Warehouse Closing Date”: March 24, 2021.

“Warehouse Facility”: The credit agreement, dated as of the Warehouse Closing Date (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time), among ABPCIC Funding III LLC, as borrower, the lenders party thereto from time to time, Natixis, New York Branch, as administrative agent, and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor in interest to U.S. Bank National Association), as collateral agent, collateral administrator and custodian.

“Weighted Average Fixed Rate Coupon”: As of any date with respect to any specified Portfolio, the number, expressed as a percentage, obtained by dividing:

provided that if the foregoing amount is less than 7.0%, then all or a portion of the Weighted Average Fixed Rate Coupon Adjustment, if any, as of such date, to the extent not exceeding such shortfall, shall be added to such result.

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“Weighted Average Fixed Rate Coupon Adjustment”: As of any date of determination with respect to any specified Portfolio, a fraction (expressed as a percentage), the numerator of which is equal to the product of (i) the excess, if any, of the Weighted Average Spread for such date over the Weighted Average Spread selected by the Collateral Manager at such time in connection with the S&P CDO Monitor Test, and (ii) the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations in the specified Portfolio that are not Fixed Rate Obligations as of such date, and the denominator of which is the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Fixed Rate Obligations in the specified Portfolio as of such date (in each case, excluding the unfunded portion of any Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligations or Revolving Collateral Obligations in the specified Portfolio that are Fixed Rate Obligations). In computing the Weighted Average Fixed Rate Coupon Adjustment on any date, the Weighted Average Spread for such date shall be computed as if the Weighted Average Spread Adjustment was equal to zero.

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

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

and dividing such sum by:

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

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

“Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate”: With respect to the Class A Notes, as of any date of determination, the number, expressed as a percentage, determined by summing the products obtained by multiplying the outstanding Principal Balance of each Collateral Obligation in the Reinvesting Portfolio by its corresponding recovery rate as determined in accordance with Section 1 of Schedule 3, dividing such sum by the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations in the Reinvesting Portfolio, and rounding to the nearest tenth of a percent.

“Weighted Average Spread”: As of any date with respect to any specified Portfolio is the number determined by dividing:

(a) the amount equal to (A) the Aggregate Funded Spread of such specified Portfolio (with respect to all Collateral Obligations in the specified Portfolio that are not Fixed Rate Obligations) plus (B) the Aggregate Unfunded Spread of such specified Portfolio; by

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(b) an amount equal to the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Floating Rate Obligations in the specified Portfolio as of such date, in each case, excluding any PIK Loan to the extent of any non-cash interest;

provided that if the foregoing amount is less than Weighted Average Spread selected by the Collateral Manager in connection with the S&P CDO Monitor Test, then all or a portion of the Weighted Average Spread Adjustment, if any, as of such date, to the extent not exceeding such shortfall, shall be added to such result.

“Weighted Average Spread Adjustment”: As of any date with respect to any specified Portfolio, a fraction (expressed as a percentage), the numerator of which is equal to the product of (i) the excess, if any, of the Weighted Average Fixed Rate Coupon for such date over 7.0% and (ii) the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Fixed Rate Obligations in the specified Portfolio as of such date (in each case, excluding the unfunded portion of any Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligations or Revolving Collateral Obligations in the specified Portfolio that are Fixed Rate Obligations), and the denominator of which is the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations in the specified Portfolio that are not Fixed Rate Obligations as of such date. In computing the Weighted Average Spread Adjustment on any date, the Weighted Average Fixed Rate Coupon for such date shall be computed as if the Weighted Average Fixed Rate Coupon Adjustment was equal to zero.

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

Section 1.2 Usage of Terms. With respect to all terms in this Indenture, the singular includes the plural and the plural the singular; words importing any gender include the other genders; references to “writing” include printing, typing, lithography and other means of reproducing words in a visible form; references to agreements and other contractual instruments include all amendments, modifications and supplements thereto or any changes therein entered into in accordance with their respective terms and not prohibited by this Indenture; references to Persons include their permitted successors and assigns; and the term “including” means “including without limitation.” All references in this Indenture to designated “Articles,” “Sections,” “subsections” and other subdivisions are to the designated articles, sections, sub-sections and other subdivisions of this Indenture. The words “herein,” “hereof,” “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular article, section, subsection or other subdivision. Any reference to “execute”, “executed”, “sign”, “signed”, “signature” or any other like term hereunder shall include execution by electronic signature (including, without limitation, any .pdf file, .jpeg file, or any other electronic or image file, or any “electronic signature” as defined under the U.S. Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (“E-SIGN”) or the New York Electronic Signatures and Records Act (“ESRA”), which includes any electronic signature provided using Orbit, Adobe Sign, Adobe Fill & Sign, DocuSign, or any other similar platform identified by the Issuer and reasonably available at no undue burden or expense to the Trustee), except to the extent the Trustee requests otherwise, and any such electronic signatures shall be valid, effective and legally binding as if such electronic signatures were handwritten signatures and shall be deemed to have been duly and validly delivered for all purposes hereunder.

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

(a) For purposes of calculating all Concentration Limitations, in both the numerator and the denominator of any component of the Concentration Limitations, Defaulted Obligations shall be treated as having a Principal Balance equal to the portion of the Principal Collateralization Amount relating to such Defaulted Obligations. Except where expressly referenced herein for inclusion in such calculations, Defaulted Obligations shall not be included in the calculation of the Collateral Quality Test.

(b) If withholding tax is imposed on (i) any late payment fees, prepayment fees or similar fees, (ii) any amendment, waiver, consent or extension fees or (iii) commitment fees or similar fees in respect of Revolving Collateral Obligations and Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligations, the Collateral Quality Test and the Coverage Tests shall be calculated thereafter net of the full amount of such withholding tax unless the related Obligor is required to make “gross-up” payments to the Issuer or an Issuer Subsidiary that cover the full amount of any such withholding tax on an after-tax basis pursuant to the Underlying Instruments with respect thereto.

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

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

(e) For each Collection Period and as of any date of determination, the Scheduled Distribution on any Asset (excluding Defaulted Obligations, which, except as otherwise provided herein, shall be assumed to have a Scheduled Distribution of zero, except to the extent any payments have actually been received) shall be the sum of (i) the total amount of payments and collections anticipated to be received during such Collection Period in respect of such Asset (including the proceeds of the sale of such Asset received and, in the case of sales which have not yet settled, to be received during the Collection Period and not reinvested in additional Collateral Obligations or Eligible Investments or retained in the Reinvesting Collection Account for subsequent reinvestment pursuant to Section 12.2) that, if paid as scheduled, will be available in the applicable Collection Account at the end of the Collection Period and (ii) any such amounts received by the Issuer or any Issuer Subsidiary in prior Collection Periods that were not disbursed on a previous Payment Date.

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(f) Each Scheduled Distribution receivable with respect to an Asset shall be assumed to be received on the applicable Due Date, and each such Scheduled Distribution shall be assumed to be immediately deposited in the applicable Collection Account to earn interest at the Assumed Reinvestment Rate. All such funds shall be assumed to continue to earn interest until the date on which they are required to be available in the applicable Collection Account for application, in accordance with the terms hereof, to payments of principal of or interest on the Secured Notes or other amounts payable pursuant to this Indenture. For purposes of the applicable determinations required by Section 10.7(b)(v), Article XII and the definition of “Interest Coverage Ratio”, the expected interest on the Secured Notes and Floating Rate Obligations shall be calculated using the then current interest rates applicable thereto.

(g) All calculations with respect to Scheduled Distributions on the Assets shall be made on the basis of information as to the terms of each such Asset and upon reports of payments, if any, received on such Asset that are furnished by or on behalf of the Obligor of such Asset and, to the extent they are not manifestly in error, such information or reports may be conclusively relied upon in making such calculations.

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

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

(j) Any reference in this Indenture to an amount of the Trustee’s or the Collateral Administrator’s fees calculated with respect to a period at a per annum rate shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in the applicable due period divided by 360 and will be based on the Aggregate Principal Balance of the Assets (excluding any Assets that constitute Interest Proceeds) as of the first day of the related Collection Period.

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

(l) For purposes of calculating the Weighted Average Spread or Weighted Average Fixed Rate Coupon, (i) a Collateral Obligation that is a Step-Down Obligation shall be treated as having the lowest per annum interest rate or spread over the applicable index or benchmark rate over the remaining maturity of such Collateral Obligation and (ii) a Collateral Obligation that is a Step-Up Obligation shall be treated as having the then current per annum interest rate or spread over the applicable index or benchmark rate.

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

(n) For purposes of determining the Coverage Tests, the Collateral Quality Test and the Concentration Limitations (and related computations of stated interest coupons and Aggregate Funded Spread), capitalized or deferred interest (and any other interest that is not paid in cash) shall be excluded.

(o) For purposes of calculating the EU/UK Retained Amount and determining whether an EU/UK Retention Deficiency has occurred, the Principal Balance of any Asset shall be its Principal Balance in each case without any adjustments for acquisition price or the application of haircuts or other adjustments.

(p) For purposes of determining the Coverage Tests after the First Static Date and/or the Second Static Date, all calculations that refer to a Class or Classes of Secured Notes shall be deemed to be references to the applicable Note Amount (corresponding to the applicable Portfolio) for such Class or Classes of Secured Notes.

(q) For purposes of determining the Controlling Class after the First Static Date and/or the Second Static Date, the Controlling Class shall be the Controlling Class with respect to all of the Portfolios collectively, unless otherwise explicitly indicated herein.

Section 1.4 [Reserved].

ARTICLE II

THE NOTES

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

Section 2.2 Forms of Notes. (a) The forms of the Notes, including the forms of Certificated Secured Notes, Certificated Subordinated Notes, Regulation S Global Secured Notes and Rule 144A Global Secured Notes, shall be as set forth in the applicable part of Exhibit A hereto.

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(i) The Secured Notes (other than the Potential Equity Notes) of each Class sold to persons who are not U.S. persons in offshore transactions in reliance on Regulation S shall each be issued initially in the form of one permanent Global Secured Note per Class in definitive, fully registered form without interest coupons substantially in the applicable form attached as Exhibit A-1 hereto, in the case of the Secured Notes (each, a “Regulation S Global Secured Note”), and shall be deposited on behalf of the subscribers for such Notes represented thereby with the Trustee as custodian for, and registered in the name of a nominee of, DTC for the respective accounts of Euroclear and Clearstream, duly executed by the Applicable Issuers and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided.

(ii) The Secured Notes (other than the Potential Equity Notes) of each Class sold to persons that are QIB/QPs shall each be issued initially in the form of one permanent Global Secured Note per Class in definitive, fully registered form without interest coupons substantially in the applicable form attached as Exhibit A-1 hereto (each, a “Rule 144A Global Secured Note”) and shall be deposited on behalf of the subscribers for such Notes represented thereby with the Trustee as custodian for, and registered in the name of a nominee of, DTC, duly executed by the Applicable Issuers and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided unless such person notifies the Trustee and the Issuer in writing that it elects to receive a Certificated Secured Note and complies with all transfer requirements related to such acquisition and subject to the next sentence. Any Secured Notes of any Class that are sold to persons that, at the time of the acquisition, purported acquisition or proposed acquisition of any such Secured Note, are Institutional Accredited Investors (or, if so elected by such persons, Qualified Institutional Buyers) and Qualified Purchasers (or a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity (other than a trust), each shareholder, partner, member or other equity owner of which is a Qualified Purchaser), shall be issued in the form of definitive, fully registered notes without coupons substantially in the applicable form attached as Exhibit A-2 hereto (a “Certificated Secured Note”) which shall be registered in the name of the beneficial owner or a nominee thereof, duly executed by the Issuer and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided. The Subordinated Notes sold to (i) QIB/QPs or (ii) Institutional Accredited Investors and either Qualified Purchasers or a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity (other than a trust), each shareholder, partner, member or other equity owner of which is a Qualified Purchaser shall be issued in the form of definitive, fully registered notes without coupons substantially in the form attached as Exhibit A-3 hereto (each, a “Certificated Subordinated Note” and, together with the Certificated Secured Notes, “Certificated Notes”) which shall be registered in the name of the beneficial owner or a nominee thereof, duly executed by the Issuer and authenticated by the Trustee upon Issuer Order as hereinafter provided.

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

(iv) The Class D Notes shall constitute Potential Equity Notes on the Closing Date and shall be issued as Certificated Secured Notes on the Closing Date.

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

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

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

Section 2.3 Authorized Amount; Stated Maturity; Denominations. The aggregate principal amount of Secured Notes and Subordinated Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is limited to U.S.$328,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Notes except for (i) Deferred Interest with respect to the Class C Notes and the Class D Notes, (ii) Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Notes pursuant to Section 2.5, Section 2.6 or Section 8.5 of this Indenture or (iii) Additional Obligations issued in accordance with Sections 2.13 and 3.2.

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

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The Notes shall be issued in minimum denominations of U.S.$250,000 and integral multiples of U.S.$1.00 in excess thereof. Notes shall only be transferred or resold in compliance with the terms of this Indenture.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuer as Registrar, the Issuer shall give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of a Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the Register, and the Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof and the Trustee shall have the right to rely upon a certificate executed on behalf of the Registrar by an Officer thereof as to the names and addresses of the Holders of the Notes and the principal or face amounts and numbers of such Notes. Upon written request at any time the Registrar shall provide to the Issuer, the Collateral Manager, the Placement Agent or any Holder a current list of Holders (and their holdings) as reflected in the Register. In addition and upon written request at any time, the Registrar shall provide to the Issuer, the Collateral Manager, the Placement Agent or any Holder any information the Registrar actually possesses regarding the nature and identity of any beneficial owner of any Note (and its holdings) and each Holder is deemed to agree by acceptance of its Note that the Registrar shall not have any liability with respect to the release of such information to such Persons as requested.

Subject to this Section 2.5, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Notes at the office or agency of the Issuer Entities to be maintained as provided in Section 7.2, the Applicable Issuers shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes of any authorized denomination and of a like aggregate principal or face amount.

At the option of the Holder, Notes may be exchanged for Notes of like terms, in any authorized denominations and of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Note is surrendered for exchange, the Applicable Issuers shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Notes that the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

All Notes issued and authenticated upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries and, solely in the case of the Secured Notes, the Co-Issuer, evidencing the same debt (to the extent they evidence debt), and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Registrar duly executed by the Holder thereof or such ▇▇▇▇▇▇’s attorney duly authorized in writing with such signature guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Securities Transfer Agents Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Exchange Act.

No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Trustee or the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith. The Trustee or the Registrar shall be permitted to request such evidence reasonably satisfactory to it documenting the identity and/or signatures of the transferor and transferee.

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(b) No Note may be sold or transferred (including, without limitation, by pledge or hypothecation) unless such sale or transfer is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, is exempt from the registration requirements under applicable state securities laws and will not cause either of the Co-Issuers or any Issuer Subsidiary to become subject to the requirement that it register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act.

(c) No transfer of an interest in the Potential Equity Notes or Subordinated Notes shall be effective, and no such transfer shall be recognized, if it may result in 25% or more of the value of any Class of Potential Equity Notes or the Subordinated Notes being held by Benefit Plan Investors. For purposes of this determination, the value of Notes held by the Placement Agent, the Trustee, the Collateral Manager and certain of their affiliates (other than those interests held by a Benefit Plan Investor) or a Person (other than a Benefit Plan Investor) who is a Controlling Person is disregarded. The Trustee shall be entitled to rely exclusively upon the information set forth on the face of the transfer certificates received pursuant to the terms of this Section 2.5 and only Notes that a Trust Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge (solely in reliance upon such information) to be so held shall be disregarded.

(d) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Trustee shall not be responsible for ascertaining whether any transfer complies with, or for otherwise monitoring or determining compliance with, the registration provisions of or any exemptions from the Securities Act, applicable state securities laws or the applicable laws of any other jurisdiction, ERISA, the Code, the Investment Company Act, or the terms hereof; provided that if a certificate is specifically required by the terms of this Section 2.5 to be provided to the Trustee by a prospective transferor or transferee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to receive and examine the same to determine whether or not the certificate substantially conforms on its face to the applicable requirements of this Indenture and shall promptly notify the party delivering the same if such certificate does not comply with such terms.

(e) For so long as any of the Obligations are Outstanding, the Issuer shall not issue or permit the transfer of any ordinary shares of the Issuer to U.S. persons; provided that this clause shall not apply to issuances and transfers of Subordinated Notes or any Class of Secured Notes recharacterized as equity for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

(f) Transfers of Global Secured Notes shall only be made in accordance with Section 2.2(b) and this Section 2.5(f).

(i) Rule 144A Global Secured Note to Regulation S Global Secured Note. If a holder of a beneficial interest in a Rule 144A Global Secured Note deposited with DTC wishes at any time to exchange its interest in such Rule 144A Global Secured Note for an interest in the corresponding Regulation S Global Secured Note, or to transfer its interest in such Rule 144A Global Secured Note to a Person who wishes to take delivery thereof in the form of an interest in the corresponding Regulation S Global Secured Note, such holder (provided that such holder or, in the case of a transfer, the transferee is not a U.S. person and is acquiring such interest in an offshore transaction) may, subject to the immediately succeeding sentence and the rules and procedures of DTC, exchange or transfer, or cause the exchange or transfer of, such interest for an equivalent beneficial interest in the corresponding Regulation S Global Secured Note. Upon receipt by the Registrar of (A) instructions given in accordance with DTC’s procedures from an Agent Member directing the Registrar to credit or cause to be credited a beneficial interest in the

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corresponding Regulation S Global Secured Note, but not less than the minimum denomination applicable to such holder’s Notes, in an amount equal to the beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Secured Note to be exchanged or transferred, (B) a written order given in accordance with DTC’s procedures containing information regarding the participant account of DTC and the Euroclear or Clearstream account to be credited with such increase, (C) a certificate in the form of Exhibit B-1 attached hereto given by the holder of such beneficial interest stating that the exchange or transfer of such interest has been made in compliance with the transfer restrictions applicable to the Global Secured Notes, including that the holder or the transferee, as applicable, is not a U.S. person, and in an offshore transaction pursuant to and in accordance with Regulation S, and (D) a written certification in the form of Exhibit B-7 attached hereto given by the transferee in respect of such beneficial interest stating, among other things, that such transferee is Qualified Purchaser (or a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity (other than a trust), each shareholder, partner, member or other equity owner of which is a Qualified Purchaser) and is a Qualified Purchaser (or a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity (other than a trust), each shareholder, partner, member or other equity owner of which is a Qualified Purchaser) and is a non-U.S. person purchasing such beneficial interest in an offshore transaction pursuant to Regulation S, then the Registrar shall approve the instructions at DTC to reduce the principal amount of the Rule 144A Global Secured Note and to increase the principal amount of the Regulation S Global Secured Note by the aggregate principal amount of the beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Secured Note to be exchanged or transferred, and to credit or cause to be credited to the securities account of the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in the corresponding Regulation S Global Secured Note equal to the reduction in the principal amount of the Rule 144A Global Secured Note.

(ii) Regulation S Global Secured Note to Rule 144A Global Secured Note. If a holder of a beneficial interest in a Regulation S Global Secured Note deposited with DTC wishes at any time to exchange its interest in such Regulation S Global Secured Note for an interest in the corresponding Rule 144A Global Secured Note or to transfer its interest in such Regulation S Global Secured Note to a Person who wishes to take delivery thereof in the form of an interest in the corresponding Rule 144A Global Secured Note, such holder may, subject to the immediately succeeding sentence and the rules and procedures of Euroclear, Clearstream and/or DTC, as the case may be, exchange or transfer, or cause the exchange or transfer of, such interest for an equivalent beneficial interest in the corresponding Rule 144A Global Secured Note. Upon receipt by the Registrar of (A) instructions from Euroclear, Clearstream and/or DTC, as the case may be, directing the Registrar to cause to be credited a beneficial interest in the corresponding Rule 144A Global Secured Note in an amount equal to the beneficial interest in such Regulation S Global Secured Note, but not less than the minimum denomination applicable to such holder’s Notes to be exchanged or transferred, such instructions to contain information regarding the participant account with DTC to be credited with such increase, (B) a certificate in the form of Exhibit B-3 attached hereto given by the holder of such beneficial interest and stating, among other things, that, in the case of a transfer, the Person transferring such interest in such Regulation S Global Secured Note reasonably believes that the Person acquiring such interest in a Rule 144A Global Secured Note is a Qualified Purchaser (or a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity (other

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than a trust), each shareholder, partner, member or other equity owner of which is a Qualified Purchaser) and a Qualified Institutional Buyer, is obtaining such beneficial interest in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A and in accordance with any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States or any other jurisdiction and (C) a written certification in the form of Exhibit B-6 attached hereto given by the transferee in respect of such beneficial interest stating, among other things, that such transferee is a Qualified Institutional Buyer and a Qualified Purchaser (or a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity (other than a trust), each shareholder, partner, member or other equity owner of which is a Qualified Purchaser), then the Registrar shall approve the instructions at DTC to reduce, or cause to be reduced, the Regulation S Global Secured Note by the aggregate principal amount of the beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Secured Note to be transferred or exchanged and the Registrar shall instruct DTC, concurrently with such reduction, to credit or cause to be credited to the securities account of the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in the corresponding Rule 144A Global Secured Note equal to the reduction in the principal amount of the Regulation S Global Secured Note.

(iii) Global Secured Note to Certificated Secured Note. Subject to Section 2.10(a), if a holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Secured Note deposited with DTC wishes at any time to transfer its interest in such Global Secured Note to a Person who wishes to take delivery thereof in the form of a corresponding Certificated Secured Note, such holder may, subject to the immediately succeeding sentence and the rules and procedures of Euroclear, Clearstream and/or DTC, as the case may be, transfer, or cause the transfer of, such interest for a Certificated Secured Note. Upon receipt by the Registrar of (A) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit B-2 attached hereto executed by the transferee and (B) appropriate instructions from DTC, if required, the Registrar shall approve the instructions at DTC to reduce, or cause to be reduced, the Global Secured Note by the aggregate principal amount of the beneficial interest in the Global Secured Note to be transferred, record the transfer in the Register in accordance with Section 2.5(a) and upon execution by the Issuer and authentication and delivery by the Trustee, one or more corresponding Certificated Secured Notes, registered in the names specified in the instructions described in clause (B) above, in principal amounts designated by the transferee (the aggregate of such principal amounts being equal to the aggregate principal amount of the interest in such Global Secured Note transferred by the transferor), and in authorized denominations.

(g) Transfers of Certificated Secured Notes shall only be made in accordance with Section 2.2(b) and this Section 2.5(g).

(i) Transfer of Certificated Secured Notes to Global Secured Notes. If a Holder of a Certificated Secured Note wishes at any time to transfer such Certificated Secured Note to a Person who wishes to take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in a corresponding Global Secured Note, such Holder may, subject to the immediately succeeding sentence and the rules and procedures of Euroclear, Clearstream and/or DTC, as the case may be, exchange or transfer, or cause the exchange or transfer of, such Certificated Secured Note for a beneficial interest in a corresponding Global Secured Note. Upon receipt by the Registrar of (A) a Holder’s Certificated Secured Note properly

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endorsed for assignment to the transferee, (B) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit B-1 or B-3 attached hereto executed by the transferor and certificates substantially in the forms of Exhibit B-6 or B-7 (as applicable) attached hereto executed by the transferee, (C) instructions given in accordance with Euroclear, Clearstream or DTC’s procedures, as the case may be, from an Agent Member to instruct DTC to cause to be credited a beneficial interest in the applicable Global Secured Notes in an amount equal to the Certificated Secured Notes to be transferred or exchanged, and (D) a written order given in accordance with DTC’s procedures containing information regarding the participant’s account at DTC and/or Euroclear or Clearstream to be credited with such increase, the Registrar shall cancel such Certificated Secured Note in accordance with Section 2.9, record the transfer in the Register in accordance with Section 2.5(a) and approve the instructions at DTC, concurrently with such cancellation, to credit or cause to be credited to the securities account of the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in the corresponding Global Secured Note equal to the principal amount of the Certificated Secured Note transferred or exchanged.

(ii) Transfer of Certificated Secured Notes to Certificated Secured Notes. Upon receipt by the Registrar of (A) a Holder’s Certificated Secured Note properly endorsed for assignment to the transferee, and (B) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit B-2 attached hereto executed by the transferee, the Registrar shall cancel such Certificated Secured Note in accordance with Section 2.9, record the transfer in the Register in accordance with Section 2.5(a) and upon execution by the Applicable Issuers and authentication and delivery by the Trustee, deliver one or more Certificated Secured Notes bearing the same designation as the Certificated Secured Note endorsed for transfer, registered in the names specified in the assignment described in clause (A) above, in principal amounts designated by the transferee (the aggregate of such principal amounts being equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Certificated Secured Note surrendered by the transferor), and in authorized denominations.

(h) Subject to Sections 2.12(j) and (k), transfers and exchanges of Subordinated Notes shall only be made in accordance with Section 2.5(c) and this Section 2.5(h).

(i) Certificated Subordinated Note to Certificated Subordinated Note. Upon receipt by the Registrar of (A) a Holder’s Certificated Subordinated Note properly endorsed for assignment to the transferee, and (B) certificates in the form of Exhibits B-4 and B-5 attached hereto given by the transferee of such Certificated Subordinated Note, the Registrar shall cancel such Certificated Subordinated Note in accordance with Section 2.9, record the transfer in the Register in accordance with Section 2.5(a) and upon execution by the Issuer and authentication and delivery by the Trustee, deliver one or more Certificated Subordinated Notes bearing the same designation as the Certificated Subordinated Note endorsed for transfer, registered in the names specified in the assignment described in clause (A) above, in principal amounts designated by the transferee (the aggregate of such principal amounts being equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Certificated Subordinated Note surrendered by the transferor), and in authorized denominations.

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(i) If Notes are issued upon the transfer, exchange or replacement of Notes bearing the applicable legends set forth in the applicable part of Exhibit A hereto, and if a request is made to remove such applicable legend on such Notes, the Notes so issued shall bear such applicable legend, or such applicable legend shall not be removed, as the case may be, unless there is delivered to the Trustee and the Applicable Issuers such satisfactory evidence, which may include an Opinion of Counsel acceptable to them, as may be reasonably required by the Applicable Issuers (and which shall by its terms permit reliance by the Trustee), to the effect that neither such applicable legend nor the restrictions on transfer set forth therein are required to ensure that transfers thereof comply with the provisions of the Securities Act, the Investment Company Act, ERISA or the Code. Upon provision of such satisfactory evidence, the Trustee or its Authenticating Agent, at the written direction of the Applicable Issuers shall, after due execution by the Applicable Issuers authenticate and deliver Notes that do not bear such applicable legend.

(j) Each Person who becomes a beneficial owner of Notes represented by an interest in a Global Secured Note will be deemed to have represented and agreed as follows:

(i) In connection with the purchase of such Notes: (A) none of the Issuer Entities, the Collateral Manager, the Retention Provider, the Transferor, the Depositor, the Placement Agent, the Trustee, the Calculation Agent, the Paying Agent, the Collateral Administrator or any of their respective Affiliates is acting as a fiduciary or financial or investment adviser for such beneficial owner; (B) such beneficial owner is not relying (for purposes of making any investment decision or otherwise) upon any advice, counsel or representations (whether written or oral) of the Issuer Entities, the Collateral Manager, the Retention Provider, the Transferor, the Depositor, the Placement Agent, the Trustee, the Calculation Agent, the Paying Agent, the Collateral Administrator or any of their respective Affiliates other than any statements in the final Offering Circular for such Notes, and such beneficial owner has read and understands such final Offering Circular; (C) such beneficial owner has consulted with its own legal, regulatory, tax, business, investment, financial and accounting advisors to the extent it has deemed necessary and has made its own investment decisions (including decisions regarding the suitability of any transaction pursuant to this Indenture) based upon its own judgment and upon any advice from such advisors as it has deemed necessary and not upon any view expressed by the Issuer Entities, the Collateral Manager, the Retention Provider, the Transferor, the Depositor, the Placement Agent, the Trustee, the Calculation Agent, the Paying Agent, the Collateral Administrator or any of their respective Affiliates; (D) such beneficial owner is either (1) (in the case of a beneficial owner of an interest in a Rule 144A Global Secured Note) both (a) a Qualified Institutional Buyer that is not a broker-dealer which owns and invests on a discretionary basis less than U.S.$25,000,000 in securities of issuers that are not affiliated persons of the dealer and is not a plan referred to in paragraph (a)(1)(d) or (a)(1)(e) of Rule 144A under the Securities Act or a trust fund referred to in paragraph (a)(1)(f) of Rule 144A under the Securities Act that holds the assets of such a plan, if investment decisions with respect to the plan are made by beneficiaries of the plan and (b) a Qualified Purchaser (or a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity (other than a trust), each shareholder, partner, member or other equity owner of which is a Qualified Purchaser) or (2) with respect to the Class A Notes, the Class B Notes, the Class C Notes and the Class D Notes (in each case, so long as such Notes are not Potential Equity Notes), not a “U.S. person” as defined in Regulation S and is acquiring

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the Notes in an offshore transaction (as defined in Regulation S) in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Regulation S; (E) such beneficial owner is acquiring its interest in such Notes for its own account; (F) such beneficial owner was not formed for the purpose of investing in such Notes; (G) such beneficial owner understands that the Issuer may receive a list of participants holding interests in the Notes from one or more book-entry depositories; (H) such beneficial owner will hold and transfer at least the minimum denomination of such Notes; (I) such beneficial owner is a sophisticated investor and is purchasing the Notes with a full understanding of all of the terms, conditions and risks thereof, and is capable of and willing to assume those risks; (J) such beneficial owner will provide notice of the relevant transfer restrictions to subsequent transferees; and (K) if it is not a United States Tax Person, it is not acquiring any Note as part of a plan to reduce, avoid or evade U.S. federal income tax; provided that any purchaser or transferee of Notes, which purchaser or transferee is any of (I) the Collateral Manager, (II) a Controlled Affiliate of the Collateral Manager or (III) a fund or account managed by the Collateral Manager (or any of its Controlled Affiliates) as to which the Collateral Manager (or such Controlled Affiliate) has discretionary voting authority, in each case shall not be required or deemed to make the representations set forth in clauses (A), (B) and (C) above with respect to the Collateral Manager.

(ii) With respect to the purchase of Class A Notes, Class B Notes, Class C Notes or Class D Notes (in each case, so long as such Notes are not Potential Equity Notes), (x) such beneficial owner is not, and is not acting on behalf of or using the assets of, an entity or other person that is or will be a Benefit Plan Investor or other plan subject to any Other Plan Law or (y) (1) if such beneficial owner is, or is acting on behalf of, a Benefit Plan Investor, its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Notes do not and will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, and (2) if such beneficial owner is, or is acting on behalf of, a governmental, church, non-U.S. or other plan which is subject to any Other Plan Law, its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Notes do not and will not constitute or result in a non-exempt violation of any such Other Plan Law. With respect to the purchase of Potential Equity Notes, (1) whether or not, for so long as such beneficial owner holds such Notes or interest therein, such beneficial owner is, or is acting on behalf of, a Benefit Plan Investor, (2) whether or not, for so long as such beneficial owner holds such Notes or interest therein, such beneficial owner is a Controlling Person and (3) that (a) if it is, or is acting on behalf of, a Benefit Plan Investor, its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Notes will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and (b) if it is a governmental, church or non-U.S. plan, (x) it is not, and for so long as it holds such Notes or interest therein will not be, subject to Similar Law and (y) its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Notes will not constitute or result in a non-exempt violation of any Other Plan Law. With respect to any purchaser that is a “Benefit Plan Investor”, such purchaser will be deemed to represent, warrant and agree that (i) none of the Issuer, the Co-Issuer, the Trustee, the Calculation Agent, the Paying Agent, the Collateral Manager, the Collateral Administrator or the Administrator, nor any of their respective affiliates, has provided any investment recommendation or investment advice on which it, or any plan fiduciary or other person investing its assets (“Plan Fiduciary”), has relied in connection with the decision to invest in the Notes, and it is not otherwise acting as a fiduciary, as defined in Section 3(21) of ERISA or Section 4975(e)(3) of the Code, to it or the Plan Fiduciary in connection with its acquisition of Obligations; and (ii) the Plan Fiduciary is exercising its own independent judgment in evaluating the transaction.

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(iii) Such beneficial owner understands that such Notes are being offered only in a transaction not involving any public offering in the United States within the meaning of the Securities Act, such Notes have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act, and, if in the future such beneficial owner decides to offer, resell, pledge or otherwise transfer such Notes, such Notes may be offered, resold, pledged or otherwise transferred only in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and the legend on such Notes. Such beneficial owner acknowledges that no representation has been made as to the availability of any exemption under the Securities Act or any state securities laws for resale of such Notes. Such beneficial owner understands that none of the Issuer Entities has been registered under the Investment Company Act, and that the Issuer and each Issuer Subsidiary is exempt from registration as such by virtue of Section 3(c)(7) of the Investment Company Act.

(iv) Such beneficial owner is aware that, except as otherwise provided in this Indenture, any Notes being sold to it in reliance on Regulation S will be represented by one or more Regulation S Global Secured Notes, and that beneficial interests therein may be held only through DTC for the respective accounts of Euroclear or Clearstream.

(v) Such beneficial owner will provide notice to each Person to whom it proposes to transfer any interest in the Notes of the transfer restrictions and representations set forth in this Section 2.5, including the Exhibits referenced herein.

(vi) Such beneficial owner agrees to be subject to the Bankruptcy Subordination Agreement.

(vii) Such beneficial owner agrees that it will not, prior to the date which is one year (or if longer, any applicable preference period) and one day after the payment in full of all Notes, institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against, any Issuer Entity any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency, winding up, moratorium or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under Jersey, U.S. federal or state bankruptcy or similar laws.

(viii) Such beneficial owner is not a member of the public in Jersey.

(ix) Such beneficial owner is deemed to make the representations in Section 2.12 that are applicable to Secured Notes.

(k) Each Person who becomes an owner of a Certificated Secured Note shall be required to make the representations and agreements set forth in Exhibit B-2. Each Person who becomes an owner of a Certificated Subordinated Note shall be required to make the representations and agreements set forth in Exhibit B-4 and Exhibit B-5.

(l) Any purported transfer of a Note not in accordance with this Section 2.5 or Section 2.12 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever.

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(m) To the extent required by the Issuer, as determined by the Issuer or the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer, the Issuer may, upon written notice to the Trustee, impose additional transfer restrictions on the Subordinated Notes to comply with the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 and other similar laws or regulations, including, without limitation, requiring each transferee of a Subordinated Note to make representations to the Issuer in connection with such compliance.

(n) The Registrar, the Trustee and the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries shall be entitled to conclusively rely on the information set forth on the face of any transferor and transferee certificate delivered pursuant to this Section 2.5 and shall be able to presume conclusively the continuing accuracy thereof, in each case without further inquiry or investigation. Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the contrary, the Trustee shall not be required to obtain any certificate specifically required by the terms of this Section 2.5 if the Trustee is not notified of any transfer requiring such certificate to be presented by the proposed transferor or transferee.

(o) For the avoidance of doubt, notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the contrary, the Placement Agent may hold a position in a Regulation S Global Secured Note prior to the distribution of the applicable Notes represented by such position.

(p) Transfers of Potential Equity Notes shall only be effective if Exhibit B-7 is provided by the transferee, transfers of Subordinated Notes shall only be effective if Exhibit B-8 is provided by the transferee, and (in each case) any purported transfer in the absence thereof shall be null and void ab initio and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever.

Section 2.6 Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Note. If (a) any mutilated or defaced Note is surrendered to a Transfer Agent, or if there shall be delivered to the Applicable Issuers, the Trustee and the relevant Transfer Agent evidence to their reasonable satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note, and (b) there is delivered to the Applicable Issuers, the Trustee and such Transfer Agent such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Applicable Issuers, the Trustee or such Transfer Agent that such Note has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Applicable Issuers shall execute and, upon Issuer Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder, in lieu of any such mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a new Note, of like tenor (including the same date of issuance) and equal principal or face amount, registered in the same manner, dated the date of its authentication, bearing interest from the date to which interest has been paid on the mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Note and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

If, after delivery of such new Note, a protected purchaser of the predecessor Note presents for payment, transfer or exchange such predecessor Note, the Applicable Issuers, the Transfer Agent and the Trustee shall be entitled to recover such new Note from the Person to whom it was delivered or any Person taking therefrom, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Applicable Issuers, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent in connection therewith.

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In case any such mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Note has become due and payable, the Applicable Issuers in their discretion may, instead of issuing a new Note pay such Note without requiring surrender thereof except that any mutilated or defaced Note shall be surrendered.

Upon the issuance of any new Note under this Section 2.6, the Applicable Issuers may require the payment by the Holder thereof of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.

Every new Note issued pursuant to this Section 2.6 in lieu of any mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Applicable Issuers and such new Note shall be entitled, subject to the second paragraph of this Section 2.6, to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes of the same Class duly issued hereunder.

The provisions of this Section 2.6 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes.

Section 2.7 Payment of Principal and Interest and Other Amounts; Principal and Interest Rights Preserved. (a) The Secured Notes of each Class shall accrue interest during each Interest Accrual Period at the applicable Interest Rate and such interest shall be payable in arrears on each Payment Date on the Aggregate Outstanding Amount thereof on the first day of the related Interest Accrual Period (in each case after giving effect to payments of principal thereof on such date) except as otherwise set forth below. Payment of interest on each Class of Secured Notes (and payments of available Interest Proceeds to the Holders of the Subordinated Notes) shall be subordinated to the payment of interest on each related Priority Class as provided in Section 11.1. So long as any Priority Class is Outstanding with respect to a Class of Deferred Interest Secured Notes, any payment of interest due pursuant to the applicable Priority of Payments on such Class of Deferred Interest Secured Notes that is not available to be paid (“Deferred Interest”) in accordance with the applicable Priority of Payments on any Payment Date shall not be considered “due and payable” for the purposes of Section 5.1(a) (and the failure to pay such interest shall not be an Event of Default) until the earliest of (i) the Payment Date on which funds are available to pay such Deferred Interest in accordance with the applicable Priority of Payments, (ii) the Redemption Date with respect to such Class of Deferred Interest Secured Notes and (iii) the Stated Maturity of such Class of Deferred Interest Secured Notes. Deferred Interest on any Class of Deferred Interest Secured Notes shall be added to the principal balance of such Class of Deferred Interest Secured Notes, and shall be payable on the first Payment Date on which funds are available to be used for such purpose in accordance with the applicable Priority of Payments, but in any event no later than the earlier of the Payment Date (i) which is the Redemption Date with respect to such Class of Deferred Interest Secured Notes and (ii) which is the Stated Maturity of such Class of Deferred Interest Secured Notes. To the extent that any Deferred Interest exists with respect to the Class C Reinvesting Note Amount or the Class D Reinvesting Note Amount on the First Static Date and/or the Second Static Date, the First Static Direction Percentage (with respect to the First Static Date) and/or the Second Static Direction Percentage (with respect to the Second Static Date) of such Deferred Interest shall be allocable to the Class C First Static Note Amount or the Class C

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Second Static Note Amount, as applicable, the Class D First Static Note Amount or the Class D Second Static Note Amount, as applicable, and shall be payable in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence. To the extent that any Deferred Interest exists with respect to a Class of Deferred Interest Secured Notes after the First Static Date and/or the Second Static Date, such Deferred Interest shall be allocable to the Note Amount corresponding to the applicable Portfolio and Priority of Payments that such Deferred Interest results from. So long as any Priority Class is Outstanding with respect to a Class of Deferred Interest Secured Notes, to the extent that funds are not available on any Payment Date (other than the Redemption Date with respect to, or Stated Maturity of, such Class of Obligations) to pay previously accrued and related Deferred Interest pursuant to the applicable Priority of Payments, such previously accrued and related Deferred Interest shall not be due and payable on such Payment Date for the purposes of Section 5.1(a) and any failure to pay such previously accrued and related Deferred Interest on such Payment Date shall not be an Event of Default. Interest shall cease to accrue on each Secured Note, or in the case of a partial repayment, on such repaid part, from the date of repayment. To the extent lawful and enforceable, interest on any interest that is not paid when due on any Class A Notes or, if no Class A Notes are Outstanding with respect to the applicable Priority of Payments, any Class B Notes, or if there are no Class B Notes Outstanding with respect to the applicable Priority of Payments, any Class C Notes, or if there are no Class C Notes Outstanding with respect to the applicable Priority of Payments, any Class D Notes or, if there are no Class D Notes Outstanding with respect to the applicable Priority of Payments, any Class D Notes shall accrue at the Interest Rate for such Class until paid as provided herein.

(b) The principal of each Secured Note of each Class matures at par and is due and payable on the date of the Stated Maturity for such Class, unless such principal has been previously repaid or unless the unpaid principal of such Secured Notes becomes due and payable at an earlier date by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the payment of principal of each Class of Secured Notes (and payments of Principal Proceeds to the Holders of the Subordinated Notes) may only occur in accordance with the Priority of Payments. Payments of principal on any Class of Secured Notes, and distributions of Principal Proceeds to the Holders of the Subordinated Notes, which are not paid, in accordance with the Priority of Payments, on any Payment Date (other than the Payment Date which is the Stated Maturity of such Class of Obligations or any Redemption Date), because of insufficient funds therefor shall not be considered “due and payable” for purposes of Section 5.1(a) until the Payment Date on which such principal may be paid in accordance with the Priority of Payments or all Priority Classes with respect to such Class have been paid in full.

(c) Principal payments on the Obligations shall be made in accordance with the Priority of Payments and Article IX.

(d) The Paying Agent shall require the previous delivery of properly completed and signed applicable tax certifications (generally, in the case of U.S. federal income tax, an IRS Form W-9 (or applicable successor form) in the case of a United States Tax Person or, in the case of the Secured Notes (other than the Potential Equity Notes), the applicable IRS Form W-8 (or applicable successor form) (together with all appropriate attachments) in the case of a Person that is not a United States Tax Person) or other certification acceptable to it to enable the Issuer Entities, the Trustee and any Paying Agent, as applicable, to determine their duties and liabilities with respect to any taxes or other charges that they may be required to pay, deduct or withhold from payments

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in respect of such Obligation or the Holder or beneficial owner of such Obligation under any present or future law or regulation of Jersey, the United States, any other jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof or taxing authority therein or to comply with any reporting or other requirements under any such law or regulation and, if instructed by the Issuer or any Issuer Subsidiary, the delivery of any information required under FATCA to determine if the Holder or the Issuer or any Issuer Subsidiary is subject to withholding or payments by the Issuer or any Issuer Subsidiary are subject to withholding. The Issuer Entities shall not be obligated to pay any additional amounts to the Holders or beneficial owners of the Obligations as a result of deduction or withholding for or on account of any present or future taxes, duties, assessments or governmental charges with respect to the Obligations. Nothing herein shall be construed to obligate the Paying Agent or the Trustee to determine the duties or liabilities of the Issuer, the Issuer Subsidiaries or any other Person with respect to any tax certification or withholding requirements, or any tax certification or withholding requirements of any jurisdiction, political subdivision or taxing authority outside the United States.

(e) Payments in respect of interest on and principal of any Secured Note and any payment with respect to any Subordinated Note shall be made by the Trustee in Dollars to DTC or its designee with respect to a Global Secured Note and to the Holder or its nominee with respect to a Certificated Note, by wire transfer, as directed by the Holder, in immediately available funds to a Dollar account maintained by DTC or its nominee with respect to a Global Secured Note, and to the Holder or its nominee with respect to a Certificated Note; provided that (1) in the case of a Certificated Note, the Holder thereof shall have provided written wiring instructions to the Trustee on or before the related Record Date and (2) if appropriate instructions for any such wire transfer are not received by the related Record Date, then such payment shall be made by check drawn on a U.S. bank mailed to the address of the Holder specified in the Register. Upon final payment due on the Maturity of a Note, the Holder thereof shall present and surrender such Note at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or at the office of any Paying Agent on or prior to such Maturity; provided that if the Trustee and the Applicable Issuers shall have been furnished such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless and an undertaking thereafter to surrender such certificate, then, in the absence of notice to the Applicable Issuers or the Trustee that the applicable Note has been acquired by a protected purchaser, such final payment shall be made without presentation or surrender, in accordance with the payment instructions previously provided by such Holder to the Trustee. None of the Issuer Entities, the Trustee, the Collateral Manager, nor any Paying Agent shall have any responsibility or liability for any aspects of the records maintained by DTC, Euroclear, Clearstream or any of the Agent Members relating to or for payments made thereby on account of beneficial interests in a Global Secured Note. In the case where any final payment of principal and interest is to be made on any Secured Note (other than on the Stated Maturity thereof) or any final payment is to be made on any Subordinated Note (other than on the Stated Maturity thereof), the Trustee, in the name and at the expense of the Applicable Issuers shall, prior to the date on which such payment is to be made, mail (by first class mail, postage prepaid) to the Persons entitled thereto at their addresses appearing on the Register a notice which shall specify the date on which such payment will be made, the amount of such payment per U.S.$1,000 original principal amount of Secured Notes, original principal amount of Subordinated Notes and the place where such Notes may be presented and surrendered for such payment.

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(f) Payments of principal to Holders of the Secured Notes of each Class shall be made in the proportion that the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Secured Notes (or the Note Amounts of such Secured Notes) of such Class registered in the name of each such Holder on the applicable Record Date bears to the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Secured Notes (or the Note Amounts of such Secured Notes) of such Class on such Record Date. Payments to the Holders of the Subordinated Notes from Interest Proceeds and Principal Proceeds shall be made in the proportion that the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Subordinated Notes (or the Note Amounts of such Subordinated Notes) registered in the name of each such Holder on the applicable Record Date bears to the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Subordinated Notes (or the Note Amounts of such Secured Notes) on such Record Date.

(g) Interest accrued with respect to the Floating Rate Notes shall be calculated on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in the applicable Interest Accrual Period divided by 360. Interest on the Fixed Rate Notes shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.

(h) All reductions in the principal amount of an Obligation (or one or more predecessor Obligations) effected by payments of installments of principal made on any Payment Date or Redemption Date shall be binding upon all future Holders of such Obligation and of any Obligation issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, whether or not such payment is noted on such Note.

(i) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the obligations of the Issuer, the First Static Subsidiary and the Second Static Subsidiary, respectively, under the Obligations and the Transaction Documents are limited recourse obligations thereof, respectively, and, in the case of the Secured Notes, non-recourse obligations of the Co-Issuer, in each case payable solely from the Reinvesting Portfolio (in the case of the Issuer), the First Static Portfolio (in the case of the First Static Subsidiary) and the Second Static Portfolio (in the case of the Second Static Subsidiary), and following realization of the respective Portfolio and application of the proceeds thereof in accordance with this Indenture, all obligations of and any claims hereunder or in connection herewith against the owner of such Portfolio after such realization against the respective Portfolio thereof shall be extinguished and shall not thereafter revive. Upon the extinguishment of the obligations of the Issuer hereunder, all obligations of and any claims hereunder or in connection herewith against the Co-Issuer relating to the Secured Notes shall be extinguished and shall not thereafter revive. No recourse shall be had against any Officer, director, employee, shareholder, authorized person or incorporator of the Issuer Entities, the Collateral Manager or their respective Affiliates, successors or assigns for any amounts payable under the Obligations or the Transaction Documents. It is understood that the foregoing provisions of this paragraph (i) shall not (i) prevent recourse to the Assets for the sums due or to become due under any security, instrument or agreement which is part of the Assets or (ii) constitute a waiver, release or discharge of any indebtedness or obligation evidenced by the Obligations or secured by this Indenture until such Assets have been realized. It is further understood that the foregoing provisions of this paragraph (i) shall not limit the right of any Person to name any of the Issuer Entities as a party defendant in any Proceeding or in the exercise of any other remedy under the Obligations or this Indenture, so long as no judgment in the nature of a deficiency judgment or seeking personal liability shall be asked for or (if obtained) enforced against any such Person or entity. The Subordinated Notes are not secured hereunder.

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(j) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.7, each Note delivered under this Indenture and upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Note shall carry the rights to unpaid interest and principal (or other applicable amount) that were carried by such other Note.

Section 2.8 Persons Deemed Owners. The Issuer Entities, the Trustee, and any agent of the Issuer Entities or the Trustee shall treat as the owner of each Obligation the Person in whose name such Obligation is registered on the Register on the applicable Record Date for the purpose of receiving payments of principal of and interest on such Obligation and on, other than as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, any other date for all other purposes whatsoever (whether or not such Obligation is overdue), and none of the Issuer Entities, the Trustee or any agent of the Issuer Entities or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

Section 2.9 Cancellation. All Notes surrendered for payment, registration of transfer, exchange or redemption, or deemed lost or stolen, shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee and may not be reissued (except in connection with any Note deemed lost or stolen) or resold. No Note may be surrendered (including any surrender in connection with any abandonment) except for payment as provided herein, or for registration of transfer or exchange, or for redemption in accordance with Article IX hereof (in the case of Special Redemption, Effective Date-Related Redemption or a Mandatory Redemption, only to the extent that such Special Redemption, Effective Date-Related Redemption or Mandatory Redemption results in payment in full of the applicable Class of Notes), or for replacement in connection with any Note deemed lost or stolen. Any Notes surrendered for cancellation as permitted by this Section 2.9 shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee. No Notes shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Notes canceled as provided in this Section 2.9, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Notes held by the Trustee shall be destroyed or held by the Trustee in accordance with its standard policy unless the Applicable Issuers shall direct by an Issuer Order received prior to destruction that they be returned to it.

Section 2.10 DTC Ceases to be Depository. (a) A Global Secured Note deposited with DTC pursuant to Section 2.2 shall be transferred in the form of a corresponding Certificated Note to the beneficial owners thereof only if (A) such transfer complies with Section 2.5 of this Indenture and (B) either (x) (i) DTC notifies the Applicable Issuers that it is unwilling or unable to continue as depository for such Global Secured Note or (ii) DTC ceases to be a Clearing Agency registered under the Exchange Act and, in each case, a successor depository is not appointed by the Issuer Entities within 90 days after such event or (y) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and such transfer is requested by any beneficial owner of an interest in such Global Secured Note.

(b) Any Global Secured Note that is transferable in the form of a corresponding Certificated Note to the beneficial owner thereof pursuant to this Section 2.10 shall be surrendered by DTC to the Trustee’s office located in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York to be so transferred, in whole or from time to time in part, without charge, and the Applicable Issuers shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, upon such transfer of each portion of such Global Secured Note, an equal aggregate principal amount of definitive physical certificates (pursuant to the instructions of DTC) in authorized denominations. Any Certificated Note delivered in exchange for an interest in a Global Secured Note shall, except as otherwise provided by Section 2.5, bear the legends set forth in the applicable Exhibit A and shall be subject to the transfer restrictions referred to in such legends.

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(c) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (b) of this Section 2.10, the Holder of a Global Secured Note may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including Agent Members and Persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action which such Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the Notes.

(d) In the event of the occurrence of either of the events specified in subsection (a) of this Section 2.10, the Issuer Entities shall promptly make available to the Trustee a reasonable supply of Certificated Notes.

If Certificated Notes are not so issued by the Applicable Issuers to such beneficial owners of interests in Global Secured Notes as required by subsection (a) of this Section 2.10, the Issuer Entities expressly acknowledge that the beneficial owners shall be entitled to pursue any remedy that the Holders of a Global Secured Note would be entitled to pursue in accordance with Article V of this Indenture (but only to the extent of such beneficial owner’s interest in the Global Secured Note) as if corresponding Certificated Notes had been issued; provided that the Trustee shall be entitled to rely upon any certificate of ownership provided by such beneficial owners (including a certificate in the form of Exhibit C) and/or other forms of reasonable evidence of such ownership.

Neither the Trustee nor the Registrar shall be liable for any delay in the delivery of directions from the depository and may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected in relying on, such direction as to the names of the beneficial owners in whose names such Certificated Notes shall be registered or as to delivery instructions for such Certificated Notes.

Section 2.11 Non-Permitted Holders. (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary elsewhere in this Indenture, any transfer of a beneficial interest in any Obligation to a U.S. person that is not a QIB/QP (other than a U.S. person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor and is also a Qualified Purchaser or a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity (other than a trust), each shareholder, partner, member or other equity owner of which is a Qualified Purchaser) shall be null and void and any such purported transfer of which the Issuer, the Co-Issuer or the Trustee shall have notice may be disregarded by the Issuer, the Co-Issuer and the Trustee for all purposes.

(b) If (w) any U.S. person that is not both (i) either a Qualified Institutional Buyer or an Institutional Accredited Investor and (ii) a Qualified Purchaser (or a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity (other than a trust), each shareholder, partner, member or other equity owner of which is a Qualified Purchaser) shall become the Holder or beneficial owner of an interest in any Obligation, (x) any Holder or beneficial owner of Obligations shall fail to comply with its Holder Tax Obligations or the Issuer determines, in its reasonable discretion, that such Holder or beneficial owner’s acquisition, ownership or transfer of the Obligations otherwise prevents the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries from achieving Tax Account Reporting Rules Compliance, (y) in the reasonable determination of the Issuer, any beneficial owner of the Potential Equity Notes or the Subordinated Notes is not a United States Tax Person or (z) in the reasonable determination of the Issuer, any Holder or beneficial owner of Notes has acquired such Notes in a transfer that was prohibited by Section 2.12(i) or Section 2.12(p) (in each

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case of (w), (x), (y) and (z), any such Person, a “Non-Permitted Holder”), the acquisition of Obligations by such Holder or beneficial owner shall be null and void ab initio. The Issuer (or the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer) shall, promptly after discovery that such Person is a Non-Permitted Holder by the Issuer or the Trustee (and notice by the Trustee if a Trust Officer of the Trustee obtains actual knowledge or by the Co-Issuer if it makes the discovery (who, in each case, agree to notify the Issuer of such discovery, if any)), send notice to such Non-Permitted Holder demanding that such Non-Permitted Holder transfer its interest in the Obligations held by such Person to a Person that is not a Non-Permitted Holder within 30 days after the date of such notice. If such Non-Permitted Holder fails to so transfer such Obligations, the Issuer or the Collateral Manager acting for the Issuer shall have the right, without further notice to the Non-Permitted Holder, to sell such Obligations or interest in such Obligations to a purchaser selected by the Issuer that is not a Non-Permitted Holder on such terms as the Issuer may choose. The Issuer, or the Collateral Manager acting on behalf of the Issuer, may select the purchaser by soliciting one or more bids from one or more brokers or other market professionals that regularly deal in securities similar to the Obligations and sell such Obligations to the highest such bidder; provided that the Collateral Manager, its Affiliates and accounts, funds, clients or portfolios established and controlled by the Collateral Manager shall be entitled to bid in any such sale. However, the Issuer or the Collateral Manager may select a purchaser by any other means determined by it in its sole discretion. The Holder of each Obligation, the Non-Permitted Holder and each other Person in the chain of title from the Holder to the Non-Permitted Holder, by its acceptance of an interest in the Obligations, agrees to cooperate with the Issuer, the Collateral Manager and the Trustee to effect such transfers. The proceeds of such sale, net of any commissions, expenses and taxes due in connection with such sale shall be remitted to the Non-Permitted Holder. The terms and conditions of any sale under this sub-section shall be determined in the sole discretion of the Issuer, and none of the Issuer Entities, the Trustee or the Collateral Manager shall be liable to any Person having an interest in the Obligations sold as a result of any such sale or the exercise of such discretion.

(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary elsewhere in this Indenture, any transfer of a beneficial interest in any Obligation to a Person who has made an ERISA-related representation required by Section 2.5 that is subsequently shown to be false or misleading shall be null and void and any such purported transfer of which the Issuer Entities or the Trustee shall have notice may be disregarded by the Issuer Entities and the Trustee for all purposes.

(d) If any Person shall become the Holder or beneficial owner of an interest in any Obligation who has made or is deemed to have made a prohibited transaction, Benefit Plan Investor, Controlling Person or Other Plan Law representation required by Section 2.5 that is subsequently shown to be false or misleading or whose beneficial ownership otherwise causes a violation of the 25% Limitation (any such person a “Non-Permitted ERISA Holder”), the Issuer (or the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer) shall, promptly after discovery that such person is a Non-Permitted ERISA Holder by the Issuer or upon notice from the Trustee (if a Trust Officer of the Trustee obtains actual knowledge or the Co-Issuer if it makes the discovery) send notice to such Non-Permitted ERISA Holder demanding that such Non-Permitted ERISA Holder transfer all or any portion of the Obligations held by such Person to a Person that is not a Non-Permitted ERISA Holder within 14 days after the date of such notice. If such Non-Permitted ERISA Holder fails to so transfer such Obligations the Issuer shall have the right, without further notice to the Non-Permitted ERISA Holder, to sell such Obligations or interest in such Obligations to a

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purchaser selected by the Issuer that is not a Non-Permitted ERISA Holder on such terms as the Issuer may choose. The Issuer may select the purchaser by soliciting one or more bids from one or more brokers or other market professionals that regularly deal in securities similar to the Obligations and sell such Obligations to the highest such bidder. The Holder and beneficial owner of each Obligation, the Non-Permitted ERISA Holder and each other Person in the chain of title from the Holder to the Non-Permitted ERISA Holder, by its acceptance of an interest in the Obligations agrees to cooperate with the Issuer, the Collateral Manager and the Trustee to effect such transfers. The proceeds of such sale, net of any commissions, expenses and taxes due in connection with such sale shall be remitted to the Non-Permitted ERISA Holder. The terms and conditions of any sale under this subsection shall be determined in the sole discretion of the Issuer, and none of the Issuer Entities, the Trustee or the Collateral Manager shall be liable to any Person having an interest in the Obligations sold as a result of any such sale or the exercise of such discretion.

Section 2.12 Treatment and Tax Certification and AML Compliance. (a) Each Holder (which term, for purposes of this Section 2.12 shall include any beneficial owner of an interest in a Note) of a Secured Note, by acceptance of such Secured Note or an interest in such Secured Note, shall agree or be deemed to have agreed to treat, and shall treat, the Secured Notes, to the extent outstanding for U.S. federal income tax purposes, as debt for U.S. federal and, to the extent permitted by law, state and local income and franchise tax purposes and shall take no action inconsistent with such treatment unless required by any relevant taxing authority.

(b) Each Holder of a Subordinated Note, by acceptance of such Subordinated Note or an interest in such Subordinated Note, shall be deemed to have agreed to treat, and shall treat, the Subordinated Notes as equity for U.S. federal and, to the extent permitted by law, state and local income and franchise tax purposes, to the extent outstanding for such purposes, and shall take no action inconsistent with such treatment unless required by any relevant taxing authority.

(c) Each Holder, by acceptance of such Note or an interest in such Note, shall understand and acknowledge or be deemed to understand and acknowledge that failure to provide the Issuer and the Trustee (and any of their Agents) with the properly completed and signed applicable tax certifications (generally, in the case of U.S. federal income tax, an IRS Form W-9 (or applicable successor form) in the case of a United States Tax Person or, in the case of the Secured Notes (other than the Potential Equity Notes), the applicable IRS Form W-8 (or applicable successor form) (together with all applicable attachments) in the case of a Person that is not a United States Tax Person) may result in withholding from payments in respect of such Note, including U.S. federal withholding or backup withholding.

(d) Each Holder, by acceptance of such Note or an interest in such Note, shall agree or be deemed to have agreed to provide the Issuer, the Trustee, the Collateral Manager, any relevant intermediary or other agent of the Issuer any information or documentation, to correct and update such information and to take such action that is necessary or helpful (in the sole determination of the Issuer) to enable the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries to achieve Tax Account Reporting Rules Compliance (“Holder Tax Obligations”). Each Holder of a Note, by acceptance of such Note or an interest in such Note, shall acknowledge or be deemed to acknowledge that the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries may provide such information and any other information concerning its investment in the Notes to the Comptroller of Revenue in Jersey,

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the IRS and any other relevant taxing authority. Each Holder of a Note, by acceptance of such Note or an interest in such Note, shall acknowledge and agree or be deemed to acknowledge and agree that the Issuer has the right, hereunder, to compel any purchaser, beneficial owner and subsequent transferee of an interest in a Note that fails to comply with the foregoing requirements to sell its interest in such Note following the procedures and timeframe relating to Non-Permitted Holders specified in Section 2.11(b). The Issuer may also assign such Notes a separate CUSIP or CUSIPs in the Issuer’s sole discretion. In addition, each Holder of a Note, by acceptance of such Note or an interest in such Note, shall acknowledge and agree or be deemed to acknowledge and agree that the Issuer has the right under this Indenture to withhold from any Holder of an interest in Notes that fails to comply with its Holder Tax Obligations.

(e) Each Holder of a Secured Note (other than a Potential Equity Note) shall represent, warrant and covenant or be deemed to represent, warrant and covenant that, if it is not a United States Tax Person, it is not, and will not be, a member of an “expanded group” (within the meaning of the Section 385 Rules) that includes a domestic corporation (as determined for U.S. federal income tax purposes) if (i) such domestic corporation, directly or indirectly (through one or more entities that are treated for U.S. federal income tax purposes as partnerships, disregarded entities, or grantor trusts), owns Potential Equity Notes or Subordinated Notes and (ii) (A) the Issuer is a “controlled partnership” (within the meaning of the Section 385 Rules) with respect to such expanded group or (B) the Issuer is an entity disregarded as separate from either such domestic corporation or an entity that is treated as a “controlled partnership” (within the meaning of the Section 385 Rules) with respect to such expanded group; provided that such Holder may acquire Secured Notes (other than Potential Equity Notes) in violation of this restriction if it provides the Issuer with an opinion of nationally recognized U.S. tax counsel experienced in such matters, in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Manager, to the effect that the acquisition or transfer of Secured Notes will not cause such Secured Notes to be recharacterized as equity under the Section 385 Rules.

(f) Each purchaser, beneficial owner and subsequent transferee of a Note or interest therein will provide the Issuer, the Issuer Subsidiaries or their agents, as applicable, with such information and documentation that may be required for the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries to achieve AML Compliance and shall update or replace such information or documentation, as may be necessary (the “Holder AML Obligations”).

(g) If a Holder of a Note fails for any reason to (i) comply with the Holder AML Obligations, (ii) such information or documentation is not accurate or complete, or (iii) the Issuer otherwise reasonably determines that such Holder’s acquisition, holding or transfer of an interest in any Note would cause the Issuer to be unable to achieve AML Compliance, the Issuer or the Issuer Subsidiaries, as applicable (or any intermediary on their behalf) shall have the right to (x) compel the relevant Holder to sell its interest in such Note or (y) sell such interest on such Holder’s behalf. Neither the Issuer nor the Issuer Subsidiaries shall compel sales for failure to provide such other information or documentation as may be required under the Jersey AML Regulations unless the Issuer or the Issuer Subsidiaries, as applicable, reasonably determines the Holder’s acquisition, holding or transfer of an interest in such Note would result in a materially adverse effect on the Issuer or the Issuer Subsidiaries, as applicable.

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(h) Each Holder of a Secured Note (other than the Potential Equity Notes) or an interest in a Secured Note (other than the Potential Equity Notes) that is not a United States Tax Person represents or is deemed to represent that either (A) it is not a bank (or an entity affiliated with a bank) extending credit pursuant to a loan agreement entered into in the ordinary course of its trade or business (within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code), a 10% shareholder of the issuer of such Secured Notes (as determined for U.S. federal income tax purposes) within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3) of the Code, or a controlled foreign corporation within the meaning of Section 957(a) of the Code that is related to the issuer of such Secured Notes (as determined for U.S. federal income tax purposes) within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3) of the Code, (B) it has provided an IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E (or successor form) representing that it is a person that is eligible for benefits under an income tax treaty with the United States that eliminates U.S. federal income taxation of U.S. source interest not attributable to a permanent establishment in the United States, or (C) it has provided an IRS Form W-8ECI (or successor form) representing that all payments received or to be received by it on such Secured Notes are effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business within the United States.

(i) Other than in the case of a Potential Equity Note held (and to be transferred) as a Certificated Secured Note, each Holder of a Secured Note or an interest in a Secured Note agrees or is deemed to have agreed that, notwithstanding anything contained in this Indenture to the contrary, no Secured Notes may be transferred by a Person from which the Issuer is disregarded as separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes, unless written advice from Milbank LLP or Dechert LLP or an opinion of other tax counsel of nationally recognized standing in the United States experienced in such matters is delivered to the Trustee, in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Manager, to the effect that any Secured Note so transferred will be characterized as debt for U.S. federal income tax purposes immediately following such transfer.

(j) Each Holder of a Potential Equity Note or a Subordinated Note (other than the Depositor) represents, warrants and agrees that, if it is classified for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a Flowthrough Entity, it will not acquire or own such Potential Equity Note or Subordinated Note unless (A)(i) none of its direct or indirect beneficial owners has or ever will have more than 40% of the value of its interest in such Holder attributable to the aggregate interest (direct or indirect) of such Holder in the combined value of the Potential Equity Notes and the Subordinated Notes (and any other equity interests in the Issuer), and (ii) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving the investment of such Holder in such Potential Equity Note or Subordinated Note to permit the Issuer to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulations Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii), or (B) written advice of Milbank LLP or Dechert LLP or an opinion of other tax counsel of nationally recognized standing in the United States experienced in such matters is delivered to the Issuer and the Trustee, in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Manager, to the effect that such acquisition or ownership will not cause the Issuer to be treated as a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation.

(k) Each Holder of a Potential Equity Note or a Subordinated Note agrees that no Transfer of an interest in the Potential Equity Notes or the Subordinated Notes (or any derivative interest therein) shall be effective, and no such Transfer shall be recognized, if (i) such Transfer results in there being more than 98 “partners” in the Issuer in the aggregate within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 1.7704-1(h) or such Transfer would otherwise cause the Issuer to be treated as a publicly traded partnership as defined in Section 7704(b) of the Code or (ii) such Notes

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are Transferred on or through (A) an established securities market or (B) a secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof), in each case within the meaning of Section 7704(b) of the Code (and the Treasury Regulations thereunder), unless written advice of Milbank LLP or Dechert LLP or an opinion of other tax counsel of nationally recognized standing in the United States experienced in such matters is delivered to the Trustee, in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Manager, to the effect that such acquisition, ownership or Transfer will not cause the Issuer to be treated as a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation.

(l) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no transfer of an interest in the Subordinated Notes shall be effective if such transfer would result in the BDC and/or the Depositor holding less than a Majority of the Subordinated Notes, and any such purported transfer shall be void ab initio.

(m) Each Holder of a Potential Equity Note or a Subordinated Note agrees that it will not enter into any financial instrument payments on which are, or the value of which is, determined in whole or in part by reference to the Potential Equity Notes or the Subordinated Notes or the Issuer (including the amount of Issuer distributions, the value of the Issuer’s assets, or the result of the Issuer’s operations), or any contract that otherwise is described in Treasury Regulations Section 1.7704-1(a)(2)(i)(B).

(n) Each Holder of a Potential Equity Note or a Subordinated Note agrees to provide (i) any transferee of such Notes a certification that it is a United States Tax Person in accordance with Section 1446(f)(2) of the Code and any applicable Treasury Regulations thereunder such that the transferee will not be obligated to withhold under Section 1446(f)(1) of the Code, and (ii) such forms, documentation, proof of payment or other certifications as reasonably required by the Issuer or the Trustee to determine that such transferee has complied with Section 1446(f) of the Code (ignoring for this purpose Section 1446(f)(4) of the Code), and any similar provision of state, local or non-U.S. law. It agrees that the Issuer or the Trustee may provide such information and any other information concerning its investment in the Potential Equity Notes or the Subordinated Notes to the IRS.

(o) Each Holder of a Potential Equity Note or a Subordinated Note represents and warrants that it is a United States Tax Person acting for its own account and shall provide the Issuer and the Trustee (and any of their agents) with a properly completed and signed IRS Form W-9 (or applicable successor form). Each Holder of a Potential Equity Note or a Subordinated Note agrees and acknowledges that the failure to provide such form may result in withholding from payments in respect of such Notes, including U.S. federal withholding or backup withholding, and that any purported transfers made in violation of the foregoing requirements shall be void ab initio.

(p) Each Holder of a Subordinated Note agrees that no Subordinated Notes or interests in Subordinated Notes may be transferred by a Person from which the Issuer is disregarded as separate for U.S. federal income tax purposes unless written advice from Milbank LLP or Dechert LLP or an opinion of other tax counsel of nationally recognized standing in the United States experienced in such matters is delivered to the Trustee, in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Manager, to the effect that any Secured Notes (other than any Potential Equity Notes held as Certificated Secured Notes) held by such Person immediately prior to such transfer of Subordinated Notes or interests in Subordinated Notes will be characterized as debt for U.S. federal income tax purposes immediately following such transfer.

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(q) Each Holder of a Subordinated Note agrees to (a) provide tax information or certifications (including evidence of filing or payment of tax) as reasonably requested by the Partnership Representative in connection with a Covered Audit Adjustment; (b) comply with the Partnership Representative’s reasonable request to file accurate and timely amended returns to reflect a Covered Audit Adjustment; and (c) be liable for and economically bear (and indemnify and hold the Issuer and each other Partner harmless from), all taxes and related interest, penalties and other liabilities including reasonable administrative costs resulting from or otherwise attributable to the Holder’s allocable share of the tax items affected by the audit adjustment. This clause shall survive the termination, dissolution, liquidation and winding up of the Issuer.

Section 2.13 Additional Issuance. (a) At any time during the Reinvestment Period (or, in the case of an issuance of Subordinated Notes only, during or after the Reinvestment Period) and so long as neither the First Static Date nor the Second Static Date has occurred, the Applicable Issuers may issue and sell Additional Obligations of any one or more existing Classes and the Issuer may use the proceeds to acquire additional Collateral Obligations or as otherwise permitted under this Indenture; provided that the following conditions are met:

(i) the Collateral Manager and a Majority of the Controlling Class consents to such issuance and such issuance is directed or approved by a Majority of the Subordinated Notes; provided that the consent of a Majority of the Controlling Class shall not be required for any additional issuance that is required to prevent or cure an EU/UK Retention Deficiency;

(ii) the terms of the Additional Obligations issued must be identical to the respective terms of previously issued Obligations of the applicable Class (except that the interest due on additional Secured Notes will accrue from the issue date of such additional Secured Notes and the price of such Additional Obligations does not have to be identical to the price of the initial Obligations of that Class and the interest rate of such Obligations may be equal to or lower than the interest rate of the initial Obligations of that Class);

(iii) unless only additional Subordinated Notes are being issued, Additional Obligations of all Classes must be issued and such issuance of Additional Obligations must be proportional across all Classes; provided that the principal amount of Subordinated Notes issued in any such issuance may exceed the proportion otherwise applicable to the Subordinated Notes;

(iv) unless only additional Subordinated Notes are being issued, the S&P Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with respect to any Rated Notes not constituting part of such additional issuance;

(v) the proceeds of any Additional Obligations (net of fees and expenses incurred in connection with such issuance, which fees and expenses shall be paid solely from the proceeds of such additional issuance) shall be treated as Reinvesting Principal Proceeds and used to acquire additional Collateral Obligations, to invest in Eligible Investments or to apply pursuant to the Priority of Payments;

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(vi) the Issuer shall have obtained an Opinion of Counsel from tax counsel of nationally recognized standing in the United States experienced in such matters, in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Manager, shall be delivered to the Trustee to the effect that (A) any additional Secured Notes will have the same U.S. federal income tax characterization as debt (and at the same comfort level) as Secured Notes of the same Class and (B) the additional issuance will not result in the Issuer being treated as an association or a publicly traded partnership, in either case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes or becoming subject to U.S. federal income tax with respect to its net income (including any tax imposed under Section 1446 of the Code), other than by operation of Chapter 63 of the Code; provided that the opinion described in clause (A) will not be required with respect to any additional Secured Notes that bear a different CUSIP number (or equivalent identifier) from the Secured Notes of the same Class that are outstanding at the time of the additional issuance; provided, further that (x) if an opinion to the effect that any additional Secured Notes will be debt for U.S. federal income tax purposes is not delivered, such additional Secured Notes will be subject to tax-related transfer restrictions substantially similar to those applicable to the Subordinated Notes and (y) if an opinion to the effect that any additional Secured Notes will or should be debt for U.S. federal income tax purposes is not delivered, such additional Secured Notes will be (I) Potential Equity Notes and (II) issued in the form of definitive, fully registered notes;

(vii) the ratings of such Additional Obligations are no lower than the Initial Ratings of such Classes;

(viii) unless only additional Subordinated Notes are being issued, immediately after giving effect to such additional issuance, (A) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (B)(x) all Coverage Tests are (1) satisfied and (2) maintained or improved, (y) the Collateral Quality Test is satisfied (or if the Collateral Quality Test is not satisfied at such time, is maintained or improved) and (z) each Concentration Limitation is satisfied (or if any Concentration Limitation is not satisfied at such time, is maintained or improved);

(ix) any additional Secured Notes that are not fungible for U.S. federal income tax purposes with the outstanding Secured Notes of the same Class will be identified with separate CUSIP numbers;

(x) the U.S. Retention Provider (as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the EU/UK Retention Provider) commits to acquire such additional Subordinated Notes as may be required to satisfy the EU/UK Retained Amount following the additional issuance;

(xi) the U.S. Retention Provider commits to acquire such additional Subordinated Notes as may be required to satisfy the U.S. Risk Retention Rules following the additional issuance; and

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(b) Except as set forth in the immediately following sentence, any Additional Obligations of an existing Class issued as described above shall, to the extent reasonably practicable, be offered first to Holders of that Class in such amounts as are necessary to preserve their pro rata holdings of Obligations of such Class (unless such issuance is of additional Subordinated Notes that are required to prevent or cure an EU/UK Retention Deficiency). In connection with an additional issuance, the Collateral Manager (or an Affiliate thereof) or the Retention Provider shall have the right to acquire one or more Obligations of one or more Classes if the Collateral Manager determines such acquisition is advisable to comply with the U.S. Risk Retention Rules.

(c) Upon the purchase of Additional Obligations, a purchaser shall be deemed to be a Holder of the relevant Class of Obligations for all purposes under this Indenture.

ARTICLE III

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

Section 3.1 Conditions to Issuance of Obligations on Closing Date. (a) The Obligations to be issued on the Closing Date may be executed by the Applicable Issuers and delivered to the Trustee for authentication and thereupon the same shall be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee upon Issuer Order and upon receipt by the Trustee of the following:

(i) Officers’ Certificate of the Co-Issuers and the Issuer Subsidiaries Regarding Corporate Matters. An Officer’s certificate of each of the Co-Issuers and the Issuer Subsidiaries (A) evidencing the authorization by Board Resolution of the execution and delivery of this Indenture, in the case of the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries, the Securities Account Control Agreements, the Collateral Management Agreement, the Collateral Administration Agreement, the Placement Agreement, the Administration Agreements and in the case of the Issuer, the Master Transfer Agreement, the EU/UK Retention Letter, and any subscription agreements and in each case the execution, authentication and (with respect to the Issuer only) delivery of the Obligations applied for by it and specifying the Stated Maturity, principal amount and Interest Rate of each Class of Secured Notes to be authenticated and delivered and the Stated Maturity and principal amount of the Subordinated Notes to be authenticated and delivered and (B) certifying that (1) the attached copy of the Board Resolution is a true and complete copy thereof, (2) such resolutions have not been rescinded and are in full force and effect on and as of the Closing Date and (3) the Officers authorized to execute and deliver such documents hold the offices and have the signatures indicated thereon.

(ii) Governmental Approvals. From each Issuer Entity either (A) a certificate of the Applicable Issuer and Issuer Subsidiary or other official document evidencing the due authorization, approval or consent of any governmental body or bodies, at the time having jurisdiction in the premises, together with an Opinion of Counsel of such Issuer Entity that no other authorization, approval or consent of any governmental body is required for the valid issuance of the Obligations or (B) an Opinion of Counsel of such Issuer Entity that no such authorization, approval or consent of any governmental body is required for the valid issuance of such Obligations except as has been given.

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(iii) U.S. Counsel Opinions. Opinions of Milbank LLP, counsel to the Placement Agent and the Issuer Entities, Dechert LLP, special U.S. counsel to the Collateral Manager and the Retention Providers, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, Maryland counsel to the EU/UK Retention Provider, and ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, counsel to the Trustee and Collateral Administrator, each dated the Closing Date.

(iv) Jersey Counsel Opinion. An opinion of ▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ (Jersey) LLP, Jersey counsel to the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries, dated the Closing Date.

(v) Officers’ Certificate of the Issuer Entities Regarding Indenture. An Officer’s certificate of each Issuer Entity stating that, to the best of such Issuer Entity’s knowledge, such Issuer Entity is not in default under this Indenture and that the issuance of the Obligations applied for by it will not result in a default or a breach of any of the terms, conditions or provisions of, or constitute a default under, its organizational documents, any indenture or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it is bound, or any order of any court or administrative agency entered in any Proceeding to which it is a party or by which it may be bound or to which it may be subject; that all conditions precedent provided in this Indenture relating to the authentication and delivery of the Obligations applied for by it have been complied with; and that all expenses due or accrued with respect to the Offering of such Obligations or relating to actions taken on or in connection with the Closing Date have been paid or reserves therefor have been made. The Officer’s certificate of the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries shall also state that all of its representations and warranties contained herein are true and correct as of the Closing Date.

(vi) Transaction Documents.

(A) an executed counterpart of each Transaction Document;

(B) a copy of the purchaser representation letters for Certificated Secured Notes, substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit B-2, relating to the Certificated Secured Notes issued on the Closing Date;

(C) [reserved]; and

(D) a copy of the purchaser representation letter for Certificated Subordinated Notes, substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit B-4, and a copy of the ERISA certificate, substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit B-5, relating to the Certificated Subordinated Note on the Closing Date.

(vii) Certificate of the Collateral Manager. An Officer’s certificate of the Collateral Manager, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that immediately before the Delivery of the Collateral Obligations on the Closing Date:

(A) the information with respect to each Collateral Obligation in the Schedule of Collateral Obligations is true and correct and such schedule is complete with respect to each such Collateral Obligation;

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(B) each Collateral Obligation in the Schedule of Collateral Obligations satisfies the requirements of the definition of “Collateral Obligation”; and

(C) the Aggregate Principal Balance of the Collateral Obligations which the Issuer has acquired or entered into binding commitments to acquire on or prior to the Closing Date is at least U.S.$361,455,084.82.

(viii) Grant of Collateral Obligations. The Grant pursuant to the Granting Clauses of this Indenture of all of the Issuer’s and each Issuer Subsidiary’s right, title and interest in and to the Collateral Obligations pledged to the Trustee for inclusion in the Assets on the Closing Date shall be effective, and Delivery of such Collateral Obligations (including any promissory note and all other Underlying Instruments related thereto to the extent received by the Issuer or any Issuer Subsidiary) as contemplated by Section 3.3 shall have been effected.

(ix) Certificate of the Issuer Regarding Assets. A certificate of an Authorized Officer of the Issuer, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that:

(A) in the case of each Collateral Obligation pledged to the Trustee for inclusion in the Assets, on the Closing Date and immediately prior to the Delivery thereof (or immediately after Delivery thereof, in the case of clause (VI)(ii) below) on the Closing Date;

(I) the Issuer is the owner of such Collateral Obligation free and clear of any liens, claims or encumbrances of any nature whatsoever except for (i) those which are being released on the Closing Date, (ii) those Granted pursuant to this Indenture and (iii) any other Permitted Liens;

(II) the Issuer has acquired its ownership in such Collateral Obligation in good faith without notice of any adverse claim, except as described in clause (I) above;

(III) the Issuer has not assigned, pledged or otherwise encumbered any interest in such Collateral Obligation (or, if any such interest has been assigned, pledged or otherwise encumbered, it has been released or will be released substantially contemporaneously therewith) other than interests Granted pursuant to this Indenture;

(IV) the Issuer has full right to Grant a security interest in and assign and pledge such Collateral Obligation to the Trustee;

(V) based on the certificate of the Collateral Manager delivered pursuant to Section 3.1(a)(vii), the information set forth with respect to each Collateral Obligation in the Schedule of Collateral Obligations is correct;

(VI) (i) based on the certificate of the Collateral Manager delivered pursuant to Section 3.1(a)(vii), each Collateral Obligation included in the Assets satisfies the requirements of the definition of “Collateral Obligation” and (ii) the requirements of Section 3.1(a)(viii) have been satisfied; and

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(VII) upon Grant by the Issuer, the Trustee has a first priority perfected security interest in the Collateral Obligations and other Assets, except as permitted by this Indenture (assuming that any Clearing Corporation, intermediary or other entity not within the control of the Issuer involved in the Delivery of such Collateral Obligations and other Assets takes the actions required of it for perfection of that interest); and

(B) based on the certificate of the Collateral Manager delivered pursuant to Section 3.1(a)(vii), the Aggregate Principal Balance of the Collateral Obligations which the Issuer has acquired or entered into binding commitments to acquire on or prior to the Closing Date is approximately U.S.$361,455,084.82.

(x) Rating Letters. An Officer’s certificate of the Issuer to the effect that attached thereto is a true and correct copy of the letter signed by S&P, and confirming that each Class of Rated Notes has been assigned the applicable Initial Ratings and that such ratings are in effect on the Closing Date.

(xi) Accounts. Evidence of the establishment of each of the Accounts.

(xii) Issuer Order for Deposit of Funds into Accounts. An Issuer Order signed in the name of the Issuer by an Authorized Officer of the Issuer, dated as of the Closing Date, authorizing the deposit of (A) U.S.$0 from the proceeds of the issuance of the Obligations into the Reinvesting Revolver Funding Account for use pursuant to Section 10.4 and (B) U.S.$0 from the proceeds of the issuance of the Obligations into the Closing Expense Account for use pursuant to Section 10.3(d).

(xiii) Closing Merger. Evidence of the merger of the borrower under the Warehouse Facility into the Issuer on the Closing Date and the documents related thereto. The Issuer hereby directs the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Issuer any instrument evidencing its written consent to such merger.

(xiv) Financing Statements. (A) Financing statements, duly filed on or before the Closing Date (and the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries hereby consent to such filing) under the UCC in all jurisdictions necessary or desirable in order to perfect the interests in the Assets contemplated by this Indenture and any other Transaction Documents and (B) copies of proper financing statements necessary to release all security interests and other rights of any Person in the Assets previously granted by the Issuer or any other transferor; provided that nothing in this clause (xiv) shall imply or impose a duty on the Trustee to determine in which jurisdictions a financing statement should be filed.

(xv) Fees and Expenses. Evidence that all fees and expenses (including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) have been paid in connection with the issuance of the Obligations.

(xvi) [Reserved].

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(xvii) Officer’s Certificate of the Collateral Manager, EU/UK Retention Provider, Transferor and Depositor Regarding Corporate Matters. An Officer’s certificate of each of the Collateral Manager, the EU/UK Retention Provider, the Transferor and Depositor (A) evidencing the authorization by written consent of its members or partners or by Board Resolution, as applicable, of the execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents it is party to and related transaction documents and (B) certifying that (1) the attached copy of the written consent of its members or partners or Board Resolutions, as applicable, is a true and complete copy thereof, (2) such written consent or Board Resolutions, as applicable, has not been rescinded and is in full force and effect on and as of the Closing Date and (3) the Officer’s authorized to execute and deliver such documents hold the offices and have the signatures indicated thereon.

(xviii) Repayment of Warehouse Facility. Evidence of the payment in full of all loans and other obligations under the Warehouse Facility, in form and substance satisfactory to the lenders thereunder.

(xix) Other Documents. Such other documents as the Trustee may reasonably require; provided that nothing in this clause (xx) shall imply or impose a duty on the part of the Trustee to require any other documents.

(b) The Issuer shall post copies of the documents specified in Section 3.1(a) (other than the rating letter specified in clause (x) thereof) on the 17g-5 Website as soon as practicable after the Closing Date.

Section 3.2 Conditions to Additional Issuance. (a) Any Additional Obligations to be issued in accordance with Section 2.13 may be executed by the Applicable Issuers and delivered to the Trustee for authentication and thereupon the same shall be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee upon Issuer Order (setting forth registration, delivery and authentication instructions) upon satisfaction of the requirements set forth in Section 2.13 and upon receipt by the Trustee of the following:

(i) Officers’ Certificate of the Applicable Issuers Regarding Corporate Matters. An Officer’s certificate of each of the Applicable Issuers (A) evidencing the authorization by Board Resolution of the execution, authentication and (with respect to the Issuer only) delivery of the Obligations applied for by it and specifying the Stated Maturity, principal amount and Interest Rate (if applicable) of the Obligations to be authenticated and delivered and (B) certifying that (1) the attached copy of the Board Resolution is a true and complete copy thereof, (2) such resolutions have not been rescinded and are in full force and effect on and as of the date of issuance and (3) the Officers authorized to execute and deliver such documents hold the offices and have the signatures indicated thereon.

(ii) Governmental Approvals. From each of the Applicable Issuers either (A) a certificate of the Applicable Issuer or other official document evidencing the due authorization, approval or consent of any governmental body or bodies, at the time having jurisdiction in the premises, together with an Opinion of Counsel of such Applicable Issuer that no other authorization, approval or consent of any governmental body is required for the valid issuance of the Additional Obligations or (B) an Opinion of Counsel of such Applicable Issuer that no such authorization, approval or consent of any governmental body is required for the valid issuance of such Additional Obligations except as has been given.

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(iii) Officers’ Certificate of Applicable Issuers Regarding Indenture. An Officer’s certificate of each of the Applicable Issuers stating that, to the best of the signing Officer’s knowledge, such Applicable Issuer is not in Default under this Indenture and that the issuance of the Additional Obligations applied for by it will not result in a Default under this Indenture or a breach of any of the terms, conditions or provisions of, or constitute a default under, its organizational documents, any indenture or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it is bound, or any order of any court or administrative agency entered in any Proceeding to which it is a party or by which it may be bound or to which it may be subject; that the provisions of Section 2.13 and all conditions precedent provided in this Indenture relating to the authentication and delivery of the Additional Obligations applied for by it have been complied with; and that all expenses due or accrued with respect to the offering of such Obligations or relating to actions taken on or in connection with the additional issuance have been paid or reserves therefor have been made. The Officer’s certificate of the Issuer shall also state that all of its representations and warranties contained herein are true and correct as of the date of additional issuance.

(iv) Supplemental Indenture. A fully executed counterpart of the supplemental indenture making such changes to this Indenture as shall be necessary to permit such additional issuance.

(v) Rating Letter. Unless only additional Subordinated Notes are being issued, an Officer’s certificate of the Issuer to the effect that attached thereto is a true and correct copy of the letter signed by S&P, confirming that the S&P Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied with respect to the additional issuance.

(vi) Issuer Order for Deposit of Funds into Accounts. An Issuer Order signed in the name of the Issuer by an Authorized Officer of the Issuer, dated as of the date of the additional issuance, authorizing the deposit of the net proceeds of the issuance into the Principal Collection Subaccount for use pursuant to Section 10.2.

(vii) U.S. Counsel Opinions. An Opinion of Counsel of special U.S. counsel to the Co-Issuers, dated the date of the additional issuance, as to customary matters and also to the effect that such additional issuance is authorized or permitted pursuant to the terms of this Indenture and all conditions precedent have been satisfied.

(viii) Jersey Counsel Opinion. An Opinion of Counsel of Jersey counsel to the Issuer, dated the date of additional issuance, as to customary matters and also to the effect that such additional issuance is authorized or permitted under Jersey law and the Memorandum and Articles of Association.

(ix) Evidence of Required Consents. A certificate of the Collateral Manager consenting to such additional issuance and satisfactory evidence of the consent of a Majority of the Subordinated Notes to such additional issuance (which may be in the form of an Officer certificate of the Issuer).

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(x) Certificate of the Issuer Regarding Assets. A certificate of an Authorized Officer of the Issuer, dated as of the date of the additional issuance, to the effect that, in the case of each Collateral Obligation pledged to the Trustee for inclusion in the Assets on the date of the additional issuance and immediately prior to the delivery thereof on the date of the additional issuance:

(A) the Issuer is the owner of such Collateral Obligation free and clear of any liens, claims or encumbrances of any nature whatsoever except for (i) those which are being released on the date of the additional issuance or (ii) those Granted pursuant to this Indenture;

(B) the Issuer has acquired its ownership in such Collateral Obligation in good faith without notice of any adverse claim, except as described in clause (A) above;

(C) the Issuer has not assigned, pledged or otherwise encumbered any interest in such Collateral Obligation (or, if any such interest has been assigned, pledged or otherwise encumbered, it has been released or is being released on the date of the additional issuance) other than interests Granted pursuant to this Indenture;

(D) the Issuer has full right to Grant a security interest in and assign and pledge such Collateral Obligation to the Trustee;

(E) the information set forth with respect to such Collateral Obligation in the Schedule of Collateral Obligations is correct;

(F) the Collateral Obligations included in the Assets satisfy the requirements of the definition of “Collateral Obligation”;

(G) after giving effect to the inclusion of the additional Collateral Obligations in the Assets, the Collateral Quality Test and each Concentration Limitation is satisfied, or, if not satisfied, maintained or improved; and

(H) upon Grant by the Issuer, the Trustee has a first priority perfected security interest in such Collateral Obligations and other Assets, except as permitted by this Indenture.

(xi) EU/UK Risk Retention Requirements. Upon written request therefor, (i) to any Affected Investor an executed EU/UK Retention Letter in the form of Exhibit E hereto and (ii) to the Issuer, a certificate of an Authorized Officer of the EU/UK Retention Provider confirming its compliance with the requirements and obligations of the EU/UK Retention Provider as set forth in the EU/UK Retention Letter and the EU/UK Retention Provider’s holding of the EU/UK Retained Amount (through its equity interest in the Depositor as its wholly-owned subsidiary pursuant to the terms of the EU/UK Retention Letter) immediately following such additional issuance.

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(xii) Fees and Expenses. Evidence that the Issuer shall have paid all fees and expenses (including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) in connection with the issuance of such Additional Obligations.

(xiii) [Reserved].

(xiv) Other Documents. Such other documents as the Trustee may reasonably require; provided that nothing in this clause (xiv) shall imply or impose a duty on the part of the Trustee to require any other documents.

Section 3.3 Custodianship; Delivery of Collateral Obligations and Eligible Investments. (a) The Collateral Manager, on behalf of the Issuer or the Issuer Subsidiaries, shall deliver or cause to be delivered to a custodian appointed by the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries acting as custodian for the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries, which shall be a Securities Intermediary (the “Custodian”) or the Trustee, as applicable, all Assets in accordance with the definition of “Deliver.” Initially, the Custodian shall be the Bank. Any successor custodian shall be a state or national bank or trust company that (x) has capital and surplus of at least U.S.$200,000,000 and (y) is a Securities Intermediary. Any successor custodian shall satisfy the requirements set forth in Section 6.8 and Section 10.1 and notice of such successor custodian shall be provided to S&P by the Issuer. Subject to the limited right to relocate Assets as provided in Section 7.5(b), the Trustee or the Custodian, as applicable, shall hold (i) all Collateral Obligations, Eligible Investments, Cash and other investments acquired in accordance with this Indenture and (ii) any other property of the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries otherwise Delivered to the Trustee or the Custodian, as applicable, by or on behalf of the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries, in the relevant Account established and maintained pursuant to Article X; as to which in each case the Trustee shall have entered into the Securities Account Control Agreements with the Custodian providing, inter alia, that the establishment and maintenance of such Account will be governed by a law of a jurisdiction satisfactory to the Issuer and the Trustee.

(b) Each time that the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer or an Issuer Subsidiary directs or causes the acquisition of any Collateral Obligation, Eligible Investment or other investment, the Collateral Manager (on behalf of the Issuer or the applicable Issuer Subsidiary) shall, if the Collateral Obligation, Eligible Investment or other investment is required to be, but has not already been, transferred to the relevant Account, cause the Collateral Obligation, Eligible Investment or other investment to be Delivered to the Custodian to be held in the applicable Custodial Account (or in the case of any such investment that is not a Collateral Obligation, in the Account in which the funds used to acquire the investment are held in accordance with Article X) for the benefit of the Trustee in accordance with this Indenture. The security interest of the Trustee in the funds or other property used in connection with the acquisition shall, immediately and without further action on the part of the Trustee, be released. The security interest of the Trustee shall nevertheless come into existence and continue in the Collateral Obligation, Eligible Investment or other investment so acquired, including all interests of the Issuer or the applicable Issuer Subsidiary in any contracts related to and proceeds of such Collateral Obligation, Eligible Investment or other investment.

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Section 3.4 Transparency Requirements. The Issuer shall fulfil the Transparency Requirements as in force on the Closing Date. The Issuer will assume all costs of complying with the Transparency Requirements and, if applicable, shall reimburse each of the Collateral Manager and/or the Collateral Administrator for any such costs incurred by the Collateral Manager or the Collateral Administrator in connection with their assisting the Issuer with the preparation and/or filing of such information and reports required pursuant to the Transparency Requirements.

ARTICLE IV

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

Section 4.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture shall be discharged and shall cease to be of further effect except as to (i) rights of registration of transfer and exchange, (ii) substitution of mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes, (iii) rights of Holders to receive payments of principal thereof and interest thereon, (iv) the rights and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and its obligations under this Article IV, (v) the rights, obligations and immunities of the Collateral Manager hereunder and under the Collateral Management Agreement, (vi) the obligations of the Collateral Administrator under Section 21 of the Collateral Administration Agreement and the rights and immunities of the Collateral Administrator under the Collateral Administration Agreement and (vii) the rights of Holders as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property deposited with the Trustee and payable to all or any of them (and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture) when:

(a) either:

(i) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered to Holders (other than (A) Notes which have been mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.6 and (B) Notes for whose payment Money has theretofore irrevocably been deposited in trust and thereafter repaid to the Issuer or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 7.3) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

(ii) all Obligations not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation (A) have become due and payable, or (B) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or (C) are to be called for redemption pursuant to Article IX under an arrangement satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Applicable Issuers pursuant to Section 9.4 and either (1) the Issuer has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee, in trust for such purpose, Cash or non-callable direct obligations of the United States of America; provided that the obligations are entitled to the full faith and credit of the United States of America or are debt obligations which are rated “AAA” by S&P or “Aaa” by Moody’s, in an amount sufficient, as verified by a firm of Independent certified public accountants which are nationally recognized, to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Obligations not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Obligations which have become due and payable), or to their Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be, and shall have Granted

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to the Trustee a valid perfected security interest in such Cash or non-callable direct obligations of the United States of America that is of first priority or free of any adverse claim, as applicable, and shall have furnished to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel with respect thereto or (2) in the event all of the Assets are liquidated following the satisfaction of the conditions specified in Section 5.5(a), the Applicable Issuers shall have paid or caused to be paid all proceeds of such liquidation of the Assets in accordance with the Priority of Payments; or

(iii) the Issuer has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s certificate stating that (A) there are no Assets that remain subject to the lien of this Indenture and (B) all funds on deposit in the Accounts have been distributed in accordance with the terms of this Indenture (including, without limitation, the Priority of Payments) or have otherwise been irrevocably deposited in trust with the Trustee for such purpose;

(b) the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries have each paid or caused to be paid all other sums then due and payable hereunder (including, without limitation, any amounts then due and payable pursuant to the Collateral Administration Agreement and the Collateral Management Agreement, in each case, without regard to the Administrative Expense Cap) by the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries, respectively, and no other amounts are scheduled to be due and payable by the Issuer or the Issuer Subsidiaries, it being understood that the requirements of this clause (b) may be satisfied as set forth in Section 5.7; and

(c) the Issuer has delivered to the Trustee, an Officer’s certificate from the Collateral Manager and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with; provided that upon the final distribution of all proceeds of any liquidation of the Assets effected hereunder, the foregoing requirements shall be deemed satisfied for the purposes of discharging this Indenture following certification from the Collateral Manager that it has determined in its discretion that the Issuer Entities affairs have been wound up.

In connection with delivery by the Issuer of the Officer’s certificate referred to in clause (c) above, the Trustee shall confirm to the Issuer Entities that (i) to the knowledge of the Trust Officer, there are no pledged Collateral Obligations (provided that the Trustee shall be entitled to conclusively rely on the Collateral Manager with respect to the characterization, classification, designation or categorization of any Collateral Obligations included in the Assets) on deposit in or credited to any Account in the name of the Trustee for the benefit of any Secured Party or any Issuer Entity, including any Account established pursuant to Article X, (ii) to the knowledge of the Trust Officer, all funds on deposit in the Accounts have been distributed in accordance with the terms of this Indenture (including the Priority of Payments) or have otherwise been irrevocably deposited in trust with the Trustee for such purpose.

Immediately prior to the discharge of this Indenture, the Trustee shall notify all Holders of Outstanding Obligations that this Indenture will be discharged. Upon the discharge of this Indenture, the Trustee shall provide such information to the Issuer, any Issuer Subsidiary or the Administrator as may be reasonably required by the Issuer, any Issuer Subsidiary or the Administrator in order for the liquidation of the Issuer and each Issuer Subsidiary to be completed. The Trustee may consult and rely on any information provided by the Collateral Manager in connection with this Article IV.

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Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the rights and obligations of the Issuer Entities, the Trustee, the Collateral Manager and, if applicable, the Holders, as the case may be, under Sections 2.7, 4.2, 5.4(d), 5.9, 5.18, 6.1, 6.3, 6.6, 6.7, 7.1, 7.3, 13.1 and 14.15 shall survive.

Section 4.2 Application of Trust Money. All Cash and obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.1 shall be held in trust and applied by it in accordance with the provisions of the Obligations and this Indenture, including, without limitation, the Priority of Payments, to the payment of principal and interest (or other amounts with respect to the Subordinated Notes), either directly or through any Paying Agent, as the Trustee may determine; and such Cash and obligations shall be held in a segregated account identified as being held in trust for the benefit of the Secured Parties.

Section 4.3 Repayment of Monies Held by Paying Agent. In connection with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Obligations, all Monies then held by any Paying Agent other than the Trustee under the provisions of this Indenture shall, upon demand of the Issuer Entities, be paid to the Trustee to be held and applied pursuant to Section 7.3 hereof and in accordance with the Priority of Payments and thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such Monies.

ARTICLE V

EVENTS OF DEFAULT; REMEDIES

Section 5.1 Events of Default. “Event of Default,” wherever used herein, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):

(a) a default in the payment, when due and payable, of (i) any interest on any Class A Notes or Class B Notes or, if there are no Class A Notes or Class B Notes Outstanding, any Secured Notes comprising the Controlling Class with respect to the applicable Portfolio at such time and, in each case, the continuation of any such default, for seven Business Days, or (ii) any principal of, or interest or Deferred Interest on, or any Redemption Price in respect of, any Secured Notes at its Stated Maturity or any Redemption Date or any Subordinated Note at its Stated Maturity (and payment in full has not been waived by each applicable Class); provided that the failure to effect any Optional Redemption which is withdrawn in accordance with this Indenture or with respect to which any Refinancing fails to occur shall not constitute an Event of Default; provided, further, that in the case of a failure to disburse funds due to an administrative error or omission by the Collateral Manager, the Trustee, the Collateral Administrator or any Paying Agent and such failure is remedied within ten Business Days, such failure shall not constitute an Event of Default;

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(b) the failure on any Payment Date to disburse amounts available in a Payment Account, in each case in excess of $100,000 in accordance with the Priority of Payments and continuation of such failure for a period of five Business Days or, in the case of a failure to disburse due to an administrative error or omission by the Trustee, Collateral Administrator or any Paying Agent, such failure continues for 15 Business Days after a Trust Officer of the Trustee receives written notice or has actual knowledge of such administrative error or omission;

(c) (i) any of the Issuer Entities or the Assets voluntarily files to become an investment company required to be registered under the Investment Company Act or (ii) any of the Issuer Entities or the Assets otherwise becomes an investment company required to be registered under the Investment Company Act and such requirement has not been eliminated within 45 days to the extent consistent with applicable law;

(d) except as otherwise provided in this Section 5.1, a default in a material respect in the performance by, or breach in a material respect of any material covenant of, an Issuer Entity under this Indenture (it being understood, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, that any failure to meet any Concentration Limitation, the Collateral Quality Test or any Coverage Test is not an Event of Default and any failure to satisfy the requirements of Section 7.18, except, in either case, to the extent provided in clause (g) below), or the failure of any material representation or warranty of an Issuer Entity made in this Indenture or in any certificate or other writing delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith to be correct in each case in all material respects when the same shall have been made, and the continuation of such default, breach or failure for a period of 45 days after notice to the applicable Issuer Entity and the Collateral Manager by registered or certified mail or overnight courier, by the Trustee at the written direction of the Holders of at least a Majority of the Controlling Class, specifying such default, breach or failure and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder;

(e) the entry of a decree or order by a court having competent jurisdiction adjudging any Issuer Entity as bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of any Issuer Entity under the Bankruptcy Law or any other applicable law, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, or sequestrator (or other similar official) of any Issuer Entity or of any substantial part of its property, respectively, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, respectively, and the continuance of any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days;

(f) the institution by any Issuer Entity of Proceedings to have such Issuer Entity adjudicated as bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent of any Issuer Entity to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency Proceedings against it, or the filing by any Issuer Entity of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under the Bankruptcy Law or any other similar applicable law, or the consent by any Issuer Entity to the filing of any such petition or to the appointment in a Proceeding of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee or sequestrator (or other similar official) of it or of any substantial part of its property, respectively, or the making by any Issuer Entity of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission any Issuer Entity in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking of any action by any Issuer Entity in furtherance of any such action, or the passing of a resolution by the shareholders of the Issuer to have the Issuer wound up on a voluntary basis; or

(g) for any reason (i) the Reinvesting EoD Overcollateralization Ratio is less than or equal to 102.5%, (ii) the First Static EoD Overcollateralization Ratio is less than or equal to 102.5% or (iii) the Second Static EoD Overcollateralization Ratio is less than or equal to 102.5%, in any case as of any Measurement Date and remains so for 10 Business Days after such Measurement Date.

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Upon obtaining knowledge of the occurrence of an Event of Default, each of (i) the Issuer Entities, (ii) the Trustee and (iii) the Collateral Manager shall notify each other in writing. Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default known to a Trust Officer of the Trustee, the Trustee shall, not later than three Business Days thereafter, notify the Holders (as their names appear on the Register), each Paying Agent, the Collateral Manager, the Issuer Entities and the Rating Agency (so long as it is rating a Class of Secured Notes) of such Event of Default in writing (unless such Event of Default has been waived as provided in Section 5.14).

Section 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. (a) If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(e) or (f)), the Trustee may, and shall, upon the written direction of a Majority of the Controlling Class with respect to the applicable Portfolio(s), by notice to the Issuer Entities (subject to Section 14.3(c), which notice the Issuer shall provide to the Rating Agency so long as it is rating a Class of Secured Notes) and the Collateral Manager, declare (x) any of the following, as applicable with respect to the Event of Default and the Issuer Entity and respective Portfolio specified below:

(i) the Reinvesting Percentage of the principal of the Secured Notes in the case of the occurrence of an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(a), (b) or (g), as applicable, related to the Issuer and the Reinvesting Portfolio;

(ii) the First Static Percentage of the principal of the Secured Notes in the case of the occurrence of an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(a), (b) or (g), as applicable, related to the First Static Subsidiary and the First Static Portfolio;

(iii) the Second Static Percentage of the principal of the Secured Notes in the case of the occurrence of an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(a), (b) or (g), as applicable, related to the Second Static Subsidiary and the Second Static Portfolio; or

(iv) the principal of all of the Secured Notes in the case of the occurrence of an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(c), (d), (e) or (f), as applicable, related to any Issuer Entity and any Portfolio;

and (y) all other amounts whatsoever payable by the applicable Issuer Entities subject to such Event of Default pursuant to the applicable Priority of Payments to be immediately due and payable, and upon any such declaration such principal, together with all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, and all other amounts payable by each such Issuer Entity hereunder in accordance with the applicable Priority of Payments, shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(e) or (f) occurs, all such unpaid principal, together with all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, of all of the Secured Notes, and all other amounts payable thereunder and hereunder, shall automatically become due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.

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(b) At any time after such a declaration of acceleration of maturity has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the Money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter provided in this Article V, a Majority of the Controlling Class with respect to the applicable Portfolio(s), by written notice to the Issuer Entities and the Trustee (subject to Section 14.3(c), which notice the Issuer shall provide to the Rating Agency so long as it is rating a Class of Secured Notes), may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:

(i) The applicable Issuer Entities have paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay:

(A) all unpaid installments of interest and principal then due on the Secured Notes and owing by each such Issuer Entity (other than any principal amounts due to the occurrence of an acceleration);

(B) to the extent that the payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon any Deferred Interest owing by each such Issuer Entity at the applicable Interest Rate; and

(C) in accordance with the applicable Priority of Payments related to the Secured Notes, all unpaid Taxes and Administrative Expenses of each such Issuer Entity and other sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder or by the Collateral Administrator under the Collateral Administration Agreement or hereunder owing by each such Issuer Entity, accrued and unpaid Collateral Management Fees (unless waived by the Collateral Manager) owing by each such Issuer Entity and any other amounts then payable by each such Issuer Entity hereunder prior to such Administrative Expenses and such Collateral Management Fees; and

(ii) It has been determined that all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the interest on or principal of Secured Notes that has become due solely by such acceleration, have (A) been cured, and a Majority of the Controlling Class with respect to the applicable Portfolio(s), by written notice to the Trustee, has agreed with such determination (which agreement shall not be unreasonably withheld), or (B) been waived as provided in Section 5.14.

No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

Section 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee. The Applicable Issuers covenant that if a default shall occur in respect of the payment of any principal of or interest when due and payable on the applicable Note Amount of any Secured Notes, the Applicable Issuers shall, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holder of such Secured Notes, a sum equal to the Reinvesting Percentage, the First Static Percentage and/or the Second Static Percentage, as applicable, of the whole amount, if any, then due and payable on the applicable Note Amount of such Secured Notes for principal and interest with interest upon the overdue principal and, to the extent that payments of such interest shall be legally enforceable, upon overdue installments of interest, at the applicable Interest Rate, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee and its agents and counsel.

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If the Applicable Issuers fail to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may, and shall, subject to the terms of this Indenture (including Section 6.3(e)) upon written direction of a Majority of the Controlling Class with respect to the applicable Portfolio, institute a Proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such Proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same against the Applicable Issuers or any other obligor upon the Secured Notes and collect the Monies adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the Assets.

If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion, and shall, subject to the terms of this Indenture (including Section 6.3(e)) upon written direction of the Majority of the Controlling Class with respect to the applicable Portfolio, proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Secured Parties by such appropriate Proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual (if no such direction is received by the Trustee) or as the Trustee may be directed by the Majority of the Controlling Class with respect to the applicable Portfolio, to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy or legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law.

In case there shall be pending Proceedings relative to any Issuer Entity or any other obligor upon the Secured Notes under the Bankruptcy Law or any other applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of any Issuer Entity or its respective property or such other obligor or its property, or in case of any other comparable Proceedings relative to any Issuer Entity or other obligor upon the Secured Notes, or the creditors or property of any Issuer Entity or such other obligor, the Trustee, regardless of whether the principal of the applicable Note Amount of any Secured Notes shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and regardless of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.3, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such Proceedings or otherwise:

(a) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the applicable Note Amount of the Secured Notes upon direction by a Majority of the Controlling Class with respect to the applicable Portfolio and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of all reasonable expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, except as a result of negligence or bad faith) and of the Secured Noteholders allowed in any Proceedings relative to any Issuer Entity or other obligor upon the Secured Notes or to the creditors or property of any Issuer Entity or such other obligor;

(b) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on behalf of the Secured Noteholders upon the direction of a Majority of the Controlling Class with respect to the applicable Portfolio, in any election of a trustee or a standby trustee in arrangement, reorganization, liquidation or other bankruptcy or insolvency Proceedings or person performing similar functions in comparable Proceedings; and

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(c) to collect and receive any Monies or other property payable to or deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute all amounts received with respect to the claims of the Holders and of the Trustee on their behalf; and any trustee, receiver or liquidator, custodian or other similar official is hereby authorized by each of the Secured Noteholders to make payments to the Trustee, and, if the Trustee shall consent to the making of payments directly to the Secured Noteholders to pay to the Trustee such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Trustee, each predecessor Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other reasonable expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee except as a result of negligence or bad faith.

Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of any Secured Noteholders, any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Secured Notes or any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Secured Noteholders, as applicable, in any such Proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar person.

In any Proceedings brought by the Trustee on behalf of the Holders of the Secured Notes (and any such Proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the Trustee shall be a party), the Trustee shall be held to represent all the Holders of the Secured Notes.

Notwithstanding anything in this Section 5.3 to the contrary, the Trustee may not sell or liquidate the Assets or institute Proceedings in furtherance thereof pursuant to this Section 5.3 except according to the provisions specified in Section 5.5(a).

Section 5.4 Remedies. (a) If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default referred to in Section 5.1(e)) has occurred and is continuing, and the Secured Notes (or any applicable Note Amount related thereto) have been declared due and payable and such declaration and its consequences have not been rescinded and annulled, the Issuer Entities agree that the Trustee may, and shall, subject to the terms of this Indenture (including Sections 5.5 and 6.3(e)), upon written direction of a Majority of the Controlling Class with respect to the applicable Portfolio(s), to the extent permitted by applicable law, exercise one or more of the following rights, privileges and remedies:

(i) institute Proceedings for the collection of all amounts then payable on the applicable Note Amounts of the Secured Notes or otherwise payable under this Indenture, whether by declaration or otherwise, enforce any judgment obtained, and collect from the Assets (or, in the case of an Event of Default for which the entire principal amount of the Secured Notes may not be declared due and payable in accordance with Section 5.2(a), the Assets in the applicable Portfolio) any Monies adjudged due;

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(ii) sell or cause the sale of all or a portion of the Assets (or, in the case of an Event of Default for which the entire principal amount of the Secured Notes may not be declared due and payable in accordance with Section 5.2(a), the Assets in the applicable Portfolio) or rights or interests therein, at one or more public or private sales called and conducted in any manner permitted by law and in accordance with Section 5.17 hereof;

(iii) institute Proceedings from time to time for the complete or partial foreclosure of this Indenture with respect to the Assets (or, in the case of an Event of Default for which the entire principal amount of the Secured Notes may not be declared due and payable in accordance with Section 5.2(a), the Assets in the applicable Portfolio);

(iv) exercise any remedies of a secured party under the UCC and take any other appropriate action to protect and enforce the rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders of the Secured Notes hereunder (including exercising all rights of the Trustee under the applicable Securities Account Control Agreements); and

(v) exercise any other rights and remedies that may be available at law or in equity;

provided that the Trustee may not sell or liquidate the applicable Assets or institute Proceedings in furtherance thereof pursuant to this Section 5.4 except according to the provisions of Section 5.5(a); provided, further, that the Trustee may not sell or liquidate the Issuer’s equity interest in the First Static Subsidiary or the Second Static Subsidiary, as applicable, and all payments and rights thereunder, or institute Proceedings in furtherance thereof pursuant to this Section 5.4 unless such Event of Default occurred and is continuing in respect of such Issuer Subsidiary and the corresponding Portfolio.

The Trustee may, but need not, obtain and rely upon an opinion or advice of an Independent investment banking firm of national reputation (the cost of which shall be payable as an Administrative Expense) in structuring and distributing securities similar to the Secured Notes, which may be the Placement Agent, as to the feasibility of any action proposed to be taken in accordance with this Section 5.4 and as to the sufficiency of the proceeds and other amounts receivable with respect to the applicable Assets to make the required payments of principal of and interest on the applicable Note Amounts of the Secured Notes which opinion shall be conclusive evidence as to such feasibility or sufficiency.

(b) If an Event of Default as described in Section 5.1(d) hereof shall have occurred and be continuing the Trustee may, and at the direction of the Holders of not less than 25% of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class shall, subject to the terms of this Indenture (including Section 5.13 and Section 6.3(e)), institute a Proceeding solely to compel performance of the covenant or agreement or to cure the representation or warranty, the breach of which gave rise to the Event of Default under such Section, and enforce any equitable decree or order arising from such Proceeding.

(c) Upon any sale, whether made under the power of sale hereby given or by virtue of judicial Proceedings, any Secured Party and the Collateral Manager may bid for and purchase the applicable Assets or any part thereof and, upon compliance with the terms of sale, may hold, retain, possess or dispose of such property in its or their own absolute right without accountability. Any Holder at such sale may, in payment of the purchase price, deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any of the Obligations in lieu of cash equal to the amount which shall, upon distribution of the net proceeds of such sale, be payable on the Obligations so delivered by such ▇▇▇▇▇▇ (taking into account the Class of such Obligations, the Priority of Payments and Article XIII).

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Upon any sale, whether made under the power of sale hereby given or by virtue of judicial Proceedings, the receipt of the Trustee, or of the Officer making a sale under judicial Proceedings, shall be a sufficient discharge to the purchaser or purchasers at any sale for its or their purchase Money, and such purchaser or purchasers shall not be obliged to see to the application thereof.

Any such sale, whether under any power of sale hereby given or by virtue of judicial Proceedings, shall bind the relevant Issuer Entities, the Trustee and the Holders of the Secured Notes, shall operate to divest all right, title and interest whatsoever, either at law or in equity, of each of them in and to the property sold, and shall be a perpetual bar, both at law and in equity, against each of them and their successors and assigns, and against any and all Persons claiming through or under them.

(d) (i) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, none of the Trustee, the Secured Parties or the Holders may, prior to the date which is one year (or if longer, any applicable preference period) and one day after the payment in full of all Obligations, institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against, any Issuer Entity any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency, winding up, moratorium or liquidation Proceedings, or other Proceedings under Jersey, U.S. federal or state bankruptcy or similar laws. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Article V, in the event that any Proceeding described in the immediately preceding sentence is commenced against any Issuer Entity, such Issuer Entity, subject to the availability of funds as described in the immediately following sentence, shall promptly object to the institution of any such proceeding against it and take all necessary or advisable steps to cause the dismissal of any such proceeding (including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, to timely file an answer and any other appropriate pleading objecting to (i) the institution of any proceeding to have such Issuer Entity adjudicated as bankrupt or insolvent or (ii) the filing of any petition seeking relief, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition or in respect of such Issuer Entity under applicable bankruptcy law or any other applicable law). The reasonable fees, costs, charges and expenses incurred by the Issuer Entities (including reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses) in connection with taking any such action shall be paid as Administrative Expenses. Any person who acquires a beneficial interest in an Obligation shall be deemed to have accepted and agreed to the foregoing restrictions.

(ii) In the event one or more Holders or beneficial owners of Obligations cause the filing of a petition in bankruptcy against any Issuer Entity in violation of the prohibition described above, such Holder(s) or beneficial owner(s) shall be deemed to acknowledge and agree that any claim that such Holder(s) or beneficial owner(s) have against such Issuer Entity or with respect to any applicable Assets (including any proceeds thereof) shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the applicable Priority of Payments, be fully subordinate in right of payment to the claims of each Holder and beneficial owner of any Secured Notes that does not seek to cause any such filing, with such subordination being effective until each Secured Note held by each Holder or beneficial owners of any Secured Notes that does not seek to cause any such filing is paid in full in accordance with the Priority of Payments (after giving effect to such subordination). The terms described in

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the immediately preceding sentence are referred to herein as the “Bankruptcy Subordination Agreement.” The Bankruptcy Subordination Agreement shall constitute a “subordination agreement” within the meaning of Section 510(a) of the Bankruptcy Code. The Trustee shall be entitled to rely upon an Issuer Order with respect to the payment of any amounts payable to Holders, which amounts are subordinated pursuant to this Section 5.4(d)(ii).

(iii) Nothing in this Section 5.4 shall preclude, or be deemed to stop, the Trustee (i) from taking any action prior to the expiration of the aforementioned period in (A) any case or Proceeding voluntarily filed or commenced by an Issuer Entity or (B) any involuntary insolvency Proceeding filed or commenced by a Person other than the Trustee, or (ii) from commencing against any Issuer Entity or any of their respective properties any legal action which is not a bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency, moratorium or liquidation Proceeding.

(iv) The parties hereto agree that the restrictions described in clause (i) of this Section 5.4(d) are a material inducement for each Holder and beneficial owner of the Obligations to acquire such Obligations and for the Issuer Entities and the Collateral Manager to enter into this Indenture (in the case of the Issuer Entities) and the other applicable Transaction Documents and are an essential term of this Indenture. Any Holder or beneficial owner of an Obligation or any Issuer Entity may seek and obtain specific performance of such restrictions (including injunctive relief), including, without limitation, in any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency, moratorium or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under Jersey law, United States federal or state bankruptcy law or similar laws.

Section 5.5 Optional Preservation of Assets. (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Trustee shall retain the Assets securing the Secured Notes intact (provided, however, that (1) certain types of Collateral Obligations (other than Unsaleable Assets) may continue to be sold by the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries pursuant to this Indenture as described under Article XII and (2) in the case of an Event of Default for which the entire principal amount of the Secured Notes may not be declared due and payable in accordance with Section 5.2(a), the Trustee shall only retain the Assets in the applicable Portfolios), collect and cause the collection of the proceeds thereof and make and apply all payments and deposits and maintain all accounts in respect of such Assets and the Obligations in accordance with the Priority of Payments and the provisions of Article X, Article XII and Article XIII unless:

(i) the Trustee, pursuant to Section 5.5(c), determines that the anticipated proceeds of a sale or liquidation of the applicable Assets (after deducting the anticipated reasonable expenses of such sale or liquidation) would be sufficient to discharge in full the applicable amounts then due (or, in the case of interest, accrued) and unpaid on the applicable Note Amounts of the Secured Notes for principal and interest (including accrued and unpaid Deferred Interest), and all other amounts that, pursuant to the applicable Priority of Payments, are required to be paid prior to such payments on such Note Amounts of the Secured Notes (including any amounts due and owing (or anticipated to be due and owing) as Administrative Expenses (without regard to the Administrative Expense Cap) and any due and unpaid Senior Collateral Management Fee (unless waived by the Collateral Manager)) and a Majority of the Controlling Class with respect to the applicable Portfolio(s) agrees with such determination; or

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(ii) the Holders of at least 66-2/3% of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of each Class of Secured Notes for which the Note Amount thereof is outstanding corresponding to the applicable Portfolio at such time (each voting separately by Class) direct the sale and liquidation of the applicable Assets (without regard to whether another Event of Default has occurred prior, contemporaneously or subsequent to such Event of Default); provided that if an EoD Overcollateralization Ratio in respect of any Portfolio is less than or equal to 102.5% as of any Measurement Date and remains so for 10 Business Days after such Measurement Date, and the applicable Note Amount of the Class A Notes is outstanding corresponding to the applicable Portfolio at such time, a Majority of the Controlling Class with respect to such Portfolio may direct the sale and liquidation of the Assets in such Portfolio (without regard to whether another Event of Default has occurred prior, contemporaneously or subsequent to such Event of Default).

The Trustee shall make the determinations required by clause (i) of the preceding sentence within 30 days after an Event of Default and at the request of a Majority of the Controlling Class with respect to the applicable Portfolio at any time during which the Trustee retains the Assets of the applicable Portfolio pursuant to this Indenture.

So long as such Event of Default is continuing, any such retention pursuant to this Section 5.5(a) may be rescinded at any time when the conditions specified in clause (i) or (ii) exist.

(b) Nothing contained in Section 5.5(a) shall be construed to require the Trustee to sell Assets securing the Secured Notes if the conditions set forth in clause (i) or (ii) of Section 5.5(a) are not satisfied. Nothing contained in Section 5.5(a) shall be construed to require the Trustee to preserve the applicable Assets securing the Obligations if prohibited by applicable law.

(c) In determining whether the condition specified in Section 5.5(a)(i) exists, the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts to obtain bid prices with respect to each Asset or group of Assets in the applicable Portfolio from two nationally recognized dealers with substantial experience buying and selling such assets and shall compute the anticipated proceeds of sale or liquidation on the basis of the lower of such bid prices for each such Asset or group of Assets. In the event that the Trustee is only able to obtain bid prices with respect to the applicable Assets from one nationally recognized dealer at the time making a market in such assets, the Trustee shall compute the anticipated proceeds of sale or liquidation on the basis of such one bid price for such Asset or Assets. In addition, for the purposes of obtaining bid prices as provided for in this Section 5.5(c) and/or determining issues relating to the execution of a sale or liquidation of the Assets and the execution of a sale or other liquidation thereof in connection with a determination whether the condition specified in Section 5.5(a)(i) exists, the Trustee may retain and rely on an opinion or advice of an Independent investment banking firm of national reputation or other appropriate advisors (the reasonable cost of which shall be payable as an Administrative Expense).

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The Trustee shall deliver to the Holders and the Collateral Manager a report stating the results of any determination required pursuant to Section 5.5(a)(i) no later than 10 days after such determination is made. The Trustee shall make the determinations required by Section 5.5(a)(i) within 30 days after an Event of Default and at the request of a Majority of the Controlling Class with respect to the applicable Portfolio(s) at any time during which the Trustee retains the applicable Assets pursuant to Section 5.5(a)(i).

(d) Prior to the sale of any Assets in connection with Section 5.5(a)(i), the Trustee shall offer the BDC and the Collateral Manager (in each case, including any designee thereof) the right (which right, for avoidance of doubt, shall be irrevocably forfeited if not exercised within the specified timeframe) to purchase such Assets at a price equal to the highest bid price received by the Trustee in accordance with Section 5.5(c) (or if only one bid is received, such bid price). Such Person must submit a bid to purchase such Assets at the aforementioned price within two Business Days of such Person’s receipt of the Trustee’s report provided in accordance with Section 5.5(c). Such purchase shall be effected by paying to the Trustee in immediately available funds an amount equal to the aforementioned bid price; provided that such purchase shall settle within five Business Days after the date the Trustee’s report is received, otherwise such purchase shall not be permitted. Notwithstanding the foregoing purchase rights, the BDC, the Collateral Manager and any of their respective Affiliates shall have the right to bid on any Assets sold pursuant to this Section 5.5.

Section 5.6 Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Obligations. All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or under any of the Secured Notes may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Secured Notes or the production thereof in any trial or other Proceeding relating thereto, and any such action or Proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall be applied as set forth in Section 5.7 hereof.

Section 5.7 Application of Money Collected. Any Money collected by the Trustee with respect to the Obligations pursuant to this Article V and any Money that may then be held or thereafter received by the Trustee with respect to the applicable Portfolio and the applicable Note Amount of the Obligations hereunder shall be applied, subject to Section 13.1 and in accordance with the provisions of Sections 11.1(a)(iii), (vi) and (ix), as applicable, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee. Upon the final distribution of all proceeds of any liquidation of the Assets effected hereunder, the provisions of Section 4.1(a) and (b) shall be deemed satisfied for the purposes of discharging this Indenture pursuant to Article IV.

Section 5.8 Limitation on Suits. No Holder of any Obligation shall have any right to institute any Proceedings, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:

(a) such Holder has previously given to the Trustee written notice of an Event of Default;

(b) the Holders of not less than 25% of the then Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Obligations of the Controlling Class shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute Proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder and such Holder or Holders have provided the Trustee indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;

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(c) the Trustee, for 30 days after its receipt of such notice, request and provision of such indemnity, has failed to institute any such Proceeding; and

(d) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 30-day period by a Majority of the Controlling Class; it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders of Obligations shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing itself of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders of Obligations of the same Class or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders of the Obligations of the same Class or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all the Holders of Obligations of the same Class subject to and in accordance with Section 13.1 and the Priority of Payments.

In the event the Trustee shall receive conflicting or inconsistent requests and indemnity pursuant to this Section 5.8 from two or more groups of Holders of the Controlling Class, each representing less than a Majority of the Controlling Class, the Trustee shall act in accordance with the request specified by the group of Holders with the greatest percentage of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture. If all such groups represent the same percentage, the Trustee, in its sole discretion, may determine what action, if any, shall be taken.

Section 5.9 Unconditional Rights of Secured Noteholders to Receive Principal and Interest. Subject to Section 2.7(i), but notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the Holder of any Secured Notes shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and interest on such Secured Notes, as such principal, interest and other amounts become due and payable in accordance with the Priority of Payments and Section 13.1, as the case may be, and, subject to the provisions of Section 5.4(d) and Section 5.8, to institute proceedings for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder. Holders of Secured Notes ranking junior to Obligations for which the Note Amount thereof is outstanding corresponding to the applicable Portfolio at such time shall have no right to institute Proceedings for the enforcement of any such payment until such time as no Note Amount of Secured Notes ranking senior to such Secured Notes remains outstanding corresponding to the applicable Portfolio at such time, which right shall be subject to the provisions of Section 5.4(d) and Section 5.8, and shall not be impaired without the consent of any such Holder.

Section 5.10 Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any Proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such Proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case the Issuer Entities, the Trustee and the Holder shall, subject to any determination in such Proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holder shall continue as though no such Proceeding had been instituted.

Section 5.11 Rights and Remedies Cumulative. No right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders 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.

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Section 5.12 Delay or Omission Not Waiver. No delay or omission of the Trustee or any Holder of Secured Notes to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein or of a subsequent Event of Default. Every right and remedy given by this Article V or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders of the Secured Notes may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders of the Secured Notes.

Section 5.13 Control by Majority of Controlling Class. A Majority of the Controlling Class with respect to the applicable Portfolio(s) shall have the right following the occurrence, and during the continuance of, an Event of Default to cause the institution of and direct the time, method and place of conducting any Proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee; provided that:

(a) such direction shall not conflict with any rule of law or with any express provision of this Indenture;

(b) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction; provided that subject to Section 6.1, the Trustee need not take any action that it determines might involve it in liability or expense (unless the Trustee has received the indemnity as set forth in (c) below);

(c) the Trustee shall have been provided with indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it; and

(d) notwithstanding the foregoing, any direction to the Trustee to undertake a Sale of the Assets shall be by the Holders of Obligations representing the requisite percentage of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of Obligations required in Section 5.4 and/or Section 5.5.

Section 5.14 Waiver of Past Defaults. Prior to the time a judgment or decree for payment of the Money due has been obtained by the Trustee, as provided in this Article V, a Majority of the Controlling Class with respect to the applicable Portfolio(s) may, on behalf of the Holders of all the Obligations for which the Note Amount thereof is outstanding corresponding to the applicable Portfolio at such time, waive any past Default or Event of Default and its consequences, except a Default:

(a) in the payment of the principal of any Secured Notes (which may be waived only with the consent of the Holder of such Secured Notes);

(b) in the payment of interest on any Secured Notes (which may be waived only with the consent of the Holder of such Secured Notes);

(c) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof that under Section 8.2 cannot be modified or amended without the waiver or consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Obligation materially and adversely affected thereby (which may be waived only with the consent of each such Holder); or

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(d) in respect of a representation contained in Section 7.19.

In the case of any such waiver, the Issuer Entities, the Trustee and the Holders of the Obligations shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereto. The Trustee shall promptly give written notice of any such waiver to the Collateral Manager, the Issuer Entities (and, subject to Section 14.3(c), the Issuer shall provide such notice to the Rating Agency so long as it is rating a Class of Rated Notes) and each Holder. Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture.

Section 5.15 Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Obligation by such ▇▇▇▇▇▇’s acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section 5.15 shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class with respect to the applicable Portfolio(s), or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or interest on any Obligation on or after the applicable Stated Maturity (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the applicable Redemption Date).

Section 5.16 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Issuer Entities covenant (to the extent that they may lawfully do so) that they will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law or any valuation, appraisement, redemption or marshalling law or rights, in each case wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants, the performance of or any remedies under this Indenture; and the Issuer Entities (to the extent that they may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waive all benefit or advantage of any such law or rights, and covenant that they will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted or rights created.

Section 5.17 Sale of Assets. (a) The power to effect any sale (a “Sale”) of any portion of the Assets pursuant to Sections 5.4 and 5.5 shall not be exhausted by any one or more Sales as to any portion of such Assets remaining unsold, but shall continue unimpaired (subject to Section 5.5(d) in the case of sales pursuant to Section 5.5) until the applicable Assets shall have been sold or all amounts secured by such Assets shall have been paid. The Trustee may upon notice to the Holders and the Collateral Manager, and shall, upon written direction of a Majority of the Controlling Class with respect to the applicable Portfolio(s), from time to time postpone any Sale

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by public announcement made at the time and place of such Sale. The Trustee hereby expressly waives its rights to any amount fixed by law as compensation for any Sale; provided that the Trustee shall be authorized to deduct the reasonable costs, charges and expenses (including but not limited to costs and expenses of counsel) incurred by it in connection with such Sale from the proceeds thereof notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6.7 or other applicable terms hereof.

(b) The Trustee may bid for and acquire any portion of the Assets in connection with a public Sale thereof, and the Trustee may pay all or part of the purchase price by crediting against amounts owing on the Secured Notes in the case of the Assets or other amounts secured by the Assets, all or part of the net proceeds of such Sale after deducting the reasonable costs, charges and expenses (including but not limited to costs and expenses of counsel) incurred by the Trustee in connection with such Sale notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6.7 hereof or other applicable terms hereof. The Secured Notes need not be produced in order to complete any such Sale, or in order for the net proceeds of such Sale to be credited against amounts owing on the Obligations. The Trustee may hold, lease, operate, manage or otherwise deal with any property so acquired in any manner permitted by law in accordance with this Indenture.

(c) If any portion of the Assets consists of securities issued without registration under the Securities Act (“Unregistered Securities”), the Trustee may seek an Opinion of Counsel, or, if no such Opinion of Counsel can be obtained and with the consent of a Majority of the Controlling Class, seek a no action position from the Securities and Exchange Commission or any other relevant federal or State regulatory authorities, regarding the legality of a public or private Sale of such Unregistered Securities.

(d) The Trustee shall execute and deliver an appropriate instrument of conveyance transferring its interest in any portion of the Assets in connection with a Sale thereof, without recourse, representation or warranty. In addition, the Trustee is hereby irrevocably appointed the agent and attorney in fact of the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries to transfer and convey their interest in any portion of the Assets in connection with a Sale thereof, and to take all action necessary to effect such Sale. No purchaser or transferee at such a sale shall be bound to ascertain the Trustee’s authority, to inquire into the satisfaction of any conditions precedent or see to the application of any Monies.

(e) The Trustee shall provide notice of any public Sale to the Holders of the Subordinated Notes and the Collateral Manager at least 10 days prior to such public Sale, and the Holders of the Subordinated Notes shall be permitted to participate in any such public Sale to the extent permitted by applicable law and such Holders or the Collateral Manager, as the case may be, meet any applicable eligibility requirements with respect to such Sale.

Section 5.18 Action on the Obligations. The Trustee’s right to seek and recover judgment on the Obligations or under this Indenture shall not be affected by the seeking or obtaining of or application for any other relief under or with respect to this Indenture. Neither the lien of this Indenture nor any rights or remedies of the Trustee or the Holders shall be impaired by the recovery of any judgment by the Trustee against the Issuer or any Issuer Subsidiary or by the levy of any execution under such judgment upon any portion of the Assets or upon any of the assets of the Issuer Entities.

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ARTICLE VI

THE TRUSTEE

Section 6.1 Certain Duties and Responsibilities. (a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default known to the Trustee:

(i) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and

(ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; provided that in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they substantially conform on their face to the requirements of this Indenture and shall promptly, but in any event within three Business Days in the case of an Officer’s certificate furnished by the Collateral Manager, notify the party delivering the same if such certificate or opinion does not conform. If a corrected form shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 15 days after such notice from the Trustee, the Trustee shall so notify the Holders.

(b) In case an Event of Default known to the Trustee has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall, prior to the receipt of directions, if any, from a Majority of the applicable Controlling Class, or such other percentage as permitted by this Indenture, exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs.

(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:

(i) this subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of subsection (a) of this Section 6.1;

(ii) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Trust Officer, unless it shall be proven that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;

(iii) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Issuer, the Co-Issuer or the Collateral Manager in accordance with this Indenture and/or a Majority (or such other percentage as may be required by the terms hereof) of the applicable Controlling Class (or other Class if required or permitted by the terms hereof), relating to the time, method and place of conducting any Proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, under this Indenture;

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(iv) no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial or other liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers contemplated hereunder, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity satisfactory to it against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it; and

(v) in no event shall the Trustee be liable for special, indirect, incidental, punitive or consequential loss or damage (including, but not limited to, lost profits) even if the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such damages and regardless of such action.

(d) For all purposes under this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice or knowledge of any Default or Event of Default described in Sections 5.1(c), (d), (e), or (f) unless a Trust Officer assigned to and working in the Corporate Trust Office has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact such an Event of Default or Default is received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office, and such notice references the Obligations generally, the Issuer, the Co-Issuer, the Assets or this Indenture. For purposes of determining the Trustee’s responsibility and liability hereunder, whenever reference is made in this Indenture to such an Event of Default or a Default, such reference shall be construed to refer only to such an Event of Default or Default of which the Trustee is deemed to have notice as described in this Section 6.1.

(e) Not later than one Business Day after the Trustee receives (i) notice of assignment pursuant to Section 13(d) of the Collateral Management Agreement, (ii) a Termination Notice (as defined in the Collateral Management Agreement) or a Statement of Cause (as defined in the Collateral Management Agreement) pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Collateral Management Agreement or (iii) a notice from the Collateral Manager pursuant to Section 14(b) of the Collateral Management Agreement, the Trustee shall forward a copy of such notice to the Holders (as their names appear in the Register).

(f) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 6.1.

(g) The Trustee shall grant access, via a protected password to the Trustee’s Website in order to examine all books of account, records, reports and other papers of the Trustee (other than any items protected by attorney-client privilege) relating to the Obligations, upon reasonable written request (but not less than three Business Days), to any Holder shown on the Register and, upon written notice to the Trustee in the form of Exhibit C, any beneficial owner of a Note.

Section 6.2 Notice of Event of Default. Promptly (and in no event later than three Business Days) after the occurrence of any Event of Default of which a Trust Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge or after any declaration of acceleration has been made or delivered to the Trustee pursuant to Section 5.2, the Trustee shall transmit by mail or e-mail to the Collateral Manager, the Issuer (and, subject to Section 14.3(c), the Issuer shall provide such notice to the Rating Agency), and all Holders, as their names and addresses appear on the Register notice of all Event of Defaults hereunder known to the Trustee, unless such Event of Default shall have been cured or waived.

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Section 6.3 Certain Rights of Trustee. Except as otherwise provided in Section 6.1:

(a) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, note, electronic communication or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties. Any electronically signed document delivered via email from a person purporting to be an Authorized Officer shall be considered signed or executed by such Authorized Officer on behalf of the applicable Person. The Trustee shall have no duty to inquire into or investigate the authenticity or authorization of any such electronic signature and shall be entitled to conclusively rely on any such electronic signature without any liability with respect thereto;

(b) any request or direction of the Issuer or the Co-Issuer mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Issuer Request or Issuer Order, as the case may be;

(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall (i) deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officer’s certificate or Issuer Order or (ii) be required to determine the value of any Assets or funds hereunder or the cash flows projected to be received therefrom, the Trustee may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely on reports of nationally recognized accountants (which may or may not be the accountants appointed by the Issuer pursuant to Section 10.9), investment bankers or other persons qualified to provide the information required to make such determination, including nationally recognized dealers in securities of the type being valued and securities quotation services;

(d) as a condition to the taking or omitting of any action by it hereunder, the Trustee may consult with counsel and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;

(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise, enforce or to honor any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have provided to the Trustee security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses (including reasonable fees and expenses of agents, experts and attorneys) and liabilities which might reasonably be incurred by it in complying with such request or direction;

(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, note or other paper, electronic communication or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may, and upon the written direction of a Majority of the Controlling Class or of the Rating Agency shall (subject to the right hereunder to be indemnified reasonably satisfactory to it for associated expense and liability), make such further inquiry or investigation

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into such facts or matters as it may see fit or as it shall be directed, and the Trustee shall be entitled, on reasonable prior written notice to the Co-Issuers and the Collateral Manager, to examine the books and records relating to the Obligations and the Assets, personally or by agent or attorney, during the Co-Issuers’ or the Collateral Manager’s normal business hours; provided that the Trustee shall, and shall cause its agents to, hold in confidence all such information, except (i) to the extent disclosure may be required by law or by any regulatory, administrative or governmental authority, (ii) as otherwise required pursuant to this Indenture and (iii) to the extent that the Trustee, in its sole discretion, may determine that such disclosure is consistent with its obligations hereunder; provided, further, that the Trustee may disclose on a confidential basis any such information to its agents, attorneys and auditors in connection with the performance of its responsibilities hereunder;

(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys; provided that the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent appointed or attorney appointed, with due care by it hereunder;

(h) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith that it reasonably believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers hereunder, including actions or omissions to act at the direction of the Collateral Manager;

(i) nothing herein shall be construed to impose an obligation on the part of the Trustee to monitor, recalculate, evaluate or verify or independently determine the accuracy of any report, certificate or information received from the Issuer or Collateral Manager (unless and except to the extent otherwise expressly set forth herein);

(j) to the extent any defined term hereunder, or any calculation required to be made or determined by the Trustee hereunder, is dependent upon or defined by reference to generally accepted accounting principles (as in effect in the United States) (“GAAP”), the Trustee shall be entitled to request and receive (and rely upon) instruction from the Issuer or the accountants identified in the Accountants’ Certificate (and in the absence of its receipt of timely instruction therefrom, shall be entitled to obtain from an Independent accountant at the expense of the Issuer) as to the application of GAAP in such connection, in any instance;

(k) the Trustee shall not be liable for the actions or omissions of, or any inaccuracies in the records of, the Collateral Manager, the Issuer, the Co-Issuer, any Paying Agent (other than the Trustee), DTC, Euroclear, Clearstream, or any other clearing agency or depository or for the actions or omissions of any such Person (including compliance with Rule 17g-5 requirements in accordance with Section 14.17), and without limiting the foregoing, the Trustee shall not be under any obligation to monitor, evaluate or verify compliance by the Collateral Manager with the terms hereof or of the Collateral Management Agreement, or to verify or independently determine the accuracy of information received by the Trustee from the Collateral Manager (or from any selling institution, agent bank, trustee or similar source) with respect to the Assets;

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(l) notwithstanding any term hereof (or any term of the UCC that might otherwise be construed to be applicable to a “securities intermediary” as defined in the UCC) to the contrary, none of the Trustee, the Custodian or the Securities Intermediary shall be under a duty or obligation in connection with the acquisition or Grant by the Issuer to the Trustee of any item constituting the Assets, or to evaluate the sufficiency of the documents or instruments delivered to it by or on behalf of the Issuer in connection with its Grant or otherwise, or in that regard to examine any Underlying Instrument, in each case, in order to determine compliance with applicable requirements of and restrictions on transfer in respect of such Assets;

(m) in the event the Bank or an Affiliate of the Bank is also acting in the capacity of Paying Agent, Registrar, Transfer Agent, Custodian, Calculation Agent or Securities Intermediary, the rights, protections, benefits, immunities and indemnities afforded to the Trustee pursuant to this Article VI shall also be afforded to the Bank or such Affiliate acting in such capacities; provided that such rights, protections, benefits, immunities and indemnities shall be in addition to any rights, immunities and indemnities provided in the Securities Account Control Agreements or any other documents to which the Bank or such Affiliate in such capacity is a party; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not be construed to impose upon the Paying Agent, Registrar, Transfer Agent, Custodian, Calculation Agent or Securities Intermediary any of the duties or standards of care (including, without limitation, any duties of a prudent person) of the Trustee;

(n) any permissive right of the Trustee to take or refrain from taking actions enumerated in this Indenture shall not be construed as a duty;

(o) the Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the execution of this Indenture or otherwise;

(p) the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice or knowledge of any matter unless a Trust Officer has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice thereof is received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office and such notice references the Notes generally, the Issuer, the Co-Issuer or this Indenture. Whenever reference is made in this Indenture to a Default or an Event of Default such reference shall, insofar as determining any liability on the part of the Trustee is concerned, be construed to refer only to a Default or an Event of Default of which the Trustee is deemed to have knowledge in accordance with this paragraph;

(q) the Trustee shall not be responsible for delays or failures in performance resulting from circumstances beyond its control (such circumstances include but are not limited to acts of God, strikes, lockouts, riots, acts of war, loss or malfunctions of utilities, computer (hardware or software) or communication services);

(r) to help fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities and/or to achieve Tax Account Reporting Rules Compliance, the Trustee will obtain, verify, and record information that identifies individuals or entities that establish a relationship or open an account with the Trustee. The Trustee will ask for the name, address, tax identification number and other information that will allow the Trustee to identify the individual or entity who is establishing the relationship or opening the account. The Trustee may also ask for formation documents such as articles of incorporation, an offering memorandum, or other identifying documents to be provided;

(s) to the extent not inconsistent herewith, the rights, protections, immunities and indemnities afforded to the Trustee pursuant to this Indenture also shall be afforded to the Collateral Administrator; provided that such rights, immunities and indemnities shall be in addition to any rights, immunities and indemnities provided in the Collateral Administration Agreement;

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(t) in making or disposing of any investment permitted by this Indenture, the Trustee is authorized to deal with itself (in its individual capacity) or with any one or more of its Affiliates, in each case on an arm’s-length basis, whether it or such Affiliate is acting as a subagent of the Trustee or for any third person or dealing as principal for its own account. If otherwise qualified, obligations of the Bank or any of its Affiliates shall qualify as Eligible Investments hereunder;

(u) the Trustee or its Affiliates are permitted to receive additional compensation that could be deemed to be in the Trustee’s economic self-interest for (i) serving as investment adviser, administrator, shareholder, servicing agent, custodian or subcustodian with respect to certain of the Eligible Investments, (ii) using Affiliates to effect transactions in certain Eligible Investments and (iii) effecting transactions in certain Eligible Investments. Such compensation is not payable or reimbursable under Section 6.7 of this Indenture;

(v) the Trustee shall have no duty (i) to see to any recording, filing, or depositing of this Indenture or any supplemental indenture or any financing statement or continuation statement evidencing a security interest, or to see to the maintenance of any such recording, filing or depositing or to any rerecording, refiling or redepositing of any thereof or (ii) to maintain any insurance;

(w) neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Administrator shall have any obligation to determine: (i) if a Collateral Obligation or Eligible Investment meets the criteria or eligibility restrictions imposed by this Indenture or (ii) if the Collateral Manager has not provided it with the information necessary for making such determination, whether the conditions specified in the definition of “Delivered” have been complied with;

(x) in accordance with the U.S. Unlawful Internet Gambling Act (the Gambling Act), the Issuer may not use the Accounts or other U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association facilities in the United States to process “restricted transactions” as such term is defined in U.S. 31 CFR Section 132.2(y). Therefore, neither the Issuer nor any person who has an ownership interest in or control over the Accounts may use it to process or facilitate payments for prohibited internet gambling transactions; and

(y) the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any U.S. Risk Retention Rules, EU/UK Securitisation Laws or Transparency Requirements nor will the Trustee be responsible for monitoring, confirming or enforcing any U.S. Risk Retention Rules, EU/UK Securitisation Laws or Transparency Requirements applicable to the transaction, and the Trustee will not be liable to any Holder or any other party for violation of such rules now or hereinafter in effect.

Section 6.4 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Obligations. The recitals contained herein and in the Notes, other than the Certificate of Authentication thereon, shall be taken as the statements of the Applicable Issuers; and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture (except as may be made with respect to the validity of the Trustee’s obligations hereunder), the Assets or the Obligations. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Co-Issuers of the Obligations or the proceeds thereof or any Money paid to the Co-Issuers pursuant to the provisions hereof.

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Section 6.5 May Hold Obligations. The Bank, any of its Affiliates, any Paying Agent, Registrar or any other agent of the Co-Issuers, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Obligations and may otherwise deal with the Co-Issuers or any of their Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar or such other agent.

Section 6.6 Money Held in Trust. Money held by the Trustee hereunder shall be held in trust to the extent required herein. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any Money received by it hereunder except to the extent of income or other gain on investments which are deposits in or certificates of deposit of the Bank in its commercial capacity and income or other gain actually received by the Trustee on Eligible Investments.

Section 6.7 Compensation and Reimbursement. (a) The Issuer and each Issuer ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ agrees:

(i) to pay the Bank and U.S. Bank National Association (in each of their respective capacities) on each Payment Date reasonable compensation, as set forth in a separate fee schedule, for all services rendered by the Trustee and the Bank hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust) in accordance with the applicable Priority of Payments;

(ii) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to pay or reimburse the Trustee in a timely manner upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee, the Bank or U.S. Bank National Association (in each of their respective capacities) in accordance with any provision of this Indenture or other Transaction Document (including, without limitation, securities transaction charges and the reasonable compensation and expenses and disbursements of its agents and legal counsel and of any accounting firm or investment banking firm employed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 5.4, 5.5, 6.3(c) or 10.7, except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith) but with respect to securities transaction charges, only to the extent any such charges have not been waived during a Collection Period due to the Trustee’s payment or receipt of a payment from a financial institution with respect to certain Eligible Investments, as specified by the Collateral Manager;

(iii) to indemnify the Trustee, the Bank and U.S. Bank National Association (in each of their respective capacities) and their respective officers, directors, employees and agents for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability, claim (whether brought by or involving the Issuer or any third party) or expense (including reasonable fees and expenses of attorneys and experts) incurred without negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith on their part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this Indenture or the performance of its duties hereunder or under any of the other Transaction Documents, including the costs and expenses of (i) defending themselves (including reasonable attorney’s and expert’s fees and expenses) against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of their powers or duties hereunder and under any Transaction Document (whether brought by or involving any of the Issuer Entities or any third party) and (ii) enforcing their rights hereunder; and

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(iv) to pay the Trustee reasonable additional compensation together with its expenses (including reasonable counsel fees) for any collection or enforcement action taken pursuant to Section 6.13 or Article V, respectively.

(b) The Trustee shall receive amounts pursuant to this Section 6.7 and any other amounts payable to it under this Indenture or in any of the Transaction Documents to which the Trustee is a party only as provided in Sections 11.1(a)(i) through (ix) but only to the extent that funds are available for the payment thereof. Subject to Section 6.9, the Trustee shall continue to serve as Trustee under this Indenture notwithstanding the fact that the Trustee shall not have received amounts due it hereunder; provided that nothing herein shall impair or affect the Trustee’s rights under Section 6.9. No direction by the Holders shall affect the right of the Trustee to collect amounts owed to it under this Indenture. If on any date when a fee or an expense shall be payable to the Trustee pursuant to this Indenture insufficient funds are available for the payment thereof, any portion of a fee or an expense not so paid shall be deferred and payable on such later date on which a fee or an expense shall be payable and sufficient funds are available therefor.

(c) Without limitation to Section 5.4(d), the Trustee hereby agrees not to cause the filing of a petition in bankruptcy for the non-payment to the Trustee of any amounts provided by this Section 6.7 until at least one year, or if longer the applicable preference period then in effect, and one day after the payment in full of all Obligations issued under this Indenture; provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit the filing of proofs of claim in any such action that is filed or commenced by a Person other than the Trustee or any Affiliate thereof.

(d) The Issuer’s payment obligations to the Trustee under this Section 6.7 shall be secured by the lien of this Indenture payable in accordance with the Priority of Payments, and shall survive the discharge of this Indenture and the resignation or removal of the Trustee. When the Trustee incurs expenses after the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default under Section 5.1(e) or (f), the expenses are intended to constitute expenses of administration under Bankruptcy Law or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law.

Section 6.8 Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility. There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be an organization or entity organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America or of any state thereof, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at least U.S.$200,000,000, subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority, having a long-term issuer credit rating of at least “BBB” by S&P (or such lower rating for which an S&P Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied) and having an office within the United States. If such organization or entity publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 6.8, the combined capital and surplus of such organization or entity shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent published report of condition. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6.8, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article VI.

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Section 6.9 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor. (a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article VI shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee under Section 6.10.

(b) The Trustee may resign at any time by giving not less than 30 days’ written notice thereof to the Co-Issuers (and, subject to Section 14.3(c), the Issuer shall provide notice to the Rating Agency so long as it is rating a Class of Rated Notes), the Collateral Manager and the Holders of the Obligations. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Co-Issuers shall promptly appoint a successor trustee or trustees satisfying the requirements of Section 6.8 by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by an Authorized Officer of the Issuer, one copy of which shall be delivered to the Trustee so resigning and one copy to the successor Trustee or Trustees, together with a copy to each Holder and the Collateral Manager; provided that such successor Trustee shall be appointed only upon the written consent of a Majority of the Secured Notes of each Class (each voting separately by Class) or, at any time when an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or when a successor Trustee has been appointed pursuant to Section 6.9(e), by an Act of a Majority of the Controlling Class. If no successor Trustee shall have been appointed and an instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee or any Holder, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee satisfying the requirements of Section 6.8.

(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time by Act of a Majority of each Class of Obligations (each voting separately by Class) or, at any time when an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing by an Act of a Majority of the Controlling Class, delivered to the Trustee and to the Co-Issuers.

(d) If at any time:

(i) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.8 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Co-Issuers or by any Holder; or

(ii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged as bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver or liquidator of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation;

then, in any such case (subject to Section 6.9(a)), (A) the Co-Issuers, by Issuer Order, may remove the Trustee, or (B) subject to Section 5.15, any Holder may, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee.

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(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of the Trustee for any reason (other than resignation), the Co-Issuers, by Issuer Order, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee. If the Co-Issuers shall fail to appoint a successor Trustee within 60 days after such resignation, removal or incapability or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee may be appointed by a Majority of the Controlling Class by written instrument delivered to the Issuer and the retiring Trustee. The successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment, become the successor Trustee and supersede any successor Trustee proposed by the Co-Issuers. If no successor Trustee shall have been so appointed by the Co-Issuers or a Majority of the Controlling Class and shall have accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter provided, subject to Section 5.15, any Holder may, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

(f) The Co-Issuers shall give prompt notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee and each appointment of a successor Trustee by mailing written notice of such event by first class mail, postage prepaid, to the Collateral Manager, subject to Section 14.3(c), the Rating Agency (so long as it is rating a Class of Rated Notes) and to the Holders of the Obligations as their names and addresses appear in the Register. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust Office. If the Co-Issuers fail to mail such notice within 10 days after acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee, the successor Trustee shall cause, subject to Section 14.3(c), such notice to be given at the expense of the Co-Issuers.

Section 6.10 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor. Every successor Trustee appointed hereunder shall meet the requirements of Section 6.8, shall make the representations and warranties contained in Section 6.17 and shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Co-Issuers and the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment. Upon delivery of the required instruments, the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts, duties and obligations of the retiring Trustee; but, on request of the Co-Issuers or a Majority of any Class of Secured Notes or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges then unpaid, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee, and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and Money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder. Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Co-Issuers shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts.

Section 6.11 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business of Trustee. Any organization or entity into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any organization or entity resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any organization or entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided that such organization or entity shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article VI, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any of the Notes has been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Notes so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Notes.

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Section 6.12 Co-Trustees. At any time or times, for the purpose of meeting the legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Assets may at the time be located, the Co-Issuers and the Trustee shall have power to appoint one or more Persons to act as co-trustee, jointly with the Trustee, of all or any part of the Assets, with the power to file such proofs of claim and take such other actions pursuant to Section 5.6 herein and to make such claims and enforce such rights of action on behalf of the Holders, as such Holders themselves may have the right to do, subject to the other provisions of this Section 6.12.

The Co-Issuers shall join with the Trustee in the execution, delivery and performance of all instruments and agreements necessary or proper to appoint a co-trustee. If the Co-Issuers do not join in such appointment within 15 days after the receipt by them of a request to do so, the Trustee shall have the power to make such appointment.

Should any written instrument from the Co-Issuers be required by any co-trustee so appointed, more fully confirming to such co-trustee such property, title, right or power, any and all such instruments shall, on request, be executed, acknowledged and delivered by the Co-Issuers. The Co-Issuers agree to pay, to the extent funds are available therefor under Sections 11.1(a)(i)(A), (iv)(A) and (vii)(A), as applicable, for any reasonable fees and expenses in connection with such appointment.

Every co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law, but to such extent only, be appointed subject to the following terms:

(a) the Notes shall be authenticated and delivered and all rights, powers, duties and obligations hereunder in respect of the custody of securities, ▇▇▇▇ and other personal property held by, or required to be deposited or pledged with, the Trustee hereunder, shall be exercised solely by the Trustee;

(b) the rights, powers, duties and obligations hereby conferred or imposed upon the Trustee in respect of any property covered by the appointment of a co-trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Trustee or by the Trustee and such co-trustee jointly as shall be provided in the instrument appointing such co-trustee;

(c) the Trustee at any time, by an instrument in writing executed by it, with the concurrence of the Co-Issuers evidenced by an Issuer Order, may accept the resignation of or remove any co-trustee appointed under this Section 6.12, and in case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall have the power to accept the resignation of, or remove, any such co-trustee without the concurrence of the Co-Issuers. A successor to any co-trustee so resigned or removed may be appointed in the manner provided in this Section 6.12;

(d) no co-trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of the Trustee hereunder;

(e) the Trustee shall not be liable by reason of any act or omission of a co-trustee; and

(f) any Act of Holders delivered to the Trustee shall be deemed to have been delivered to each co-trustee.

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Subject to Section 14.3(c), the Issuer shall notify the Rating Agency (so long as it is rating a Class of Rated Notes) of the appointment of a co-trustee hereunder.

Section 6.13 Certain Duties of Trustee Related to Delayed Payment of Proceeds. If the Trustee shall not have received a payment with respect to any Asset on its Due Date, (a) the Trustee shall promptly notify the Issuer and the Collateral Manager in writing and (b) unless within three Business Days (or the end of the applicable grace period for such payment, if any) after such notice (x) such payment shall have been received by the Trustee or (y) the Issuer, in its absolute discretion (but only to the extent permitted by Section 10.2(a)), shall have made provision for such payment satisfactory to the Trustee in accordance with Section 10.2(a), the Trustee shall, not later than the Business Day immediately following the last day of such period and in any case upon request by the Collateral Manager, request the issuer of such Asset, the trustee under the related Underlying Instrument or paying agent designated by either of them, as the case may be, to make such payment not later than three Business Days after the date of such request. If such payment is not made within such time period, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of clause (iv) of Section 6.1(c), shall take such action as the Collateral Manager shall direct. Any such action shall be without prejudice to any right to claim a Default or Event of Default under this Indenture. If the Issuer or the Collateral Manager requests a release of an Asset and/or delivers an additional Collateral Obligation in connection with any such action under the Collateral Management Agreement, such release and/or substitution shall be subject to Section 10.8 and Article XII of this Indenture, as the case may be. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, the Trustee shall deliver to the Issuer or its designee any payment with respect to any Asset or any additional Collateral Obligation received after the Due Date thereof to the extent the Issuer previously made provisions for such payment satisfactory to the Trustee in accordance with this Section 6.13 and such payment shall not be deemed part of the Assets.

Reasonably promptly after receipt thereof, the Trustee shall notify and provide to the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer a copy of any documents, financial reports, legal opinions or any other information including, without limitation, any notices, reports, requests for waiver, consent requests or any other requests or communications relating to the Assets or any Obligor or to actions affecting the Assets or any Obligor. Upon reasonable request by the Collateral Manager, the Trustee further agrees to provide to the Collateral Manager from time to time, on a timely basis, any information in its possession relating to the Collateral Obligations, the Equity Securities and the Eligible Investments as requested so as to enable the Collateral Manager to perform its duties hereunder or under the Collateral Management Agreement.

Section 6.14 Authenticating Agents. Upon the request of the Co-Issuers, the Trustee shall, and if the Trustee so chooses the Trustee may, appoint one or more Authenticating Agents with power to act on its behalf and subject to its direction in the authentication of Notes in connection with issuance, transfers and exchanges under Sections 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 and 8.5, as fully to all intents and purposes as though each such Authenticating Agent had been expressly authorized by such Sections to authenticate such Notes. For all purposes of this Indenture, the authentication of Notes by an Authenticating Agent pursuant to this Section 6.14 shall be deemed to be the authentication of Notes by the Trustee.

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Any entity or organization into which any Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any entity or organization resulting from any merger, consolidation or conversion to which any Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any entity or organization succeeding to the corporate trust business of any Authenticating Agent, shall be the successor of such Authenticating Agent hereunder, without the execution or filing of any further act on the part of the parties hereto or such Authenticating Agent or such successor entity or organization.

Any Authenticating Agent may at any time resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee and the Issuer. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of any Authenticating Agent by giving written notice of termination to such Authenticating Agent and the Co-Issuers. Upon receiving such notice of resignation or upon such a termination, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of the Issuer, promptly appoint a successor Authenticating Agent and shall give written notice of such appointment to the Co-Issuers.

Unless the Authenticating Agent is also the same entity as the Trustee, the Issuer agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services, and reimbursement for its reasonable expenses relating thereto as an Administrative Expense. The provisions of Sections 2.8, 6.4 and 6.5 shall be applicable to any Authenticating Agent.

Section 6.15 Withholding. If any withholding tax is imposed by applicable law on the Issuer’s payment (or allocations of income) under the Obligations, such tax shall reduce the amount otherwise distributable to the relevant Holder. For the avoidance of doubt, any withholding tax required to be withheld under FATCA shall be treated as imposed by applicable law. The Trustee is hereby authorized and directed to retain from amounts otherwise distributable to any Holder sufficient funds for the payment of any such tax that is legally owed or required to be withheld by the Issuer, including due to the failure by a Holder to comply with its Holder Tax Obligations, and to timely remit such amounts to the appropriate taxing authority. Such authorization, however, shall not prevent the Trustee from contesting any such tax in appropriate Proceedings and withholding payment of such tax, if permitted by law, pending the outcome of such Proceedings. The amount of any withholding tax imposed with respect to any Obligation shall be treated as Cash distributed to the relevant Holder at the time it is withheld by the Trustee. If there is a possibility that withholding is required by applicable law with respect to a distribution, the Paying Agent or the Trustee may, in its sole discretion, withhold such amounts in accordance with this Section 6.15. If any Holder or beneficial owner wishes to apply for a refund of any such withholding tax, the Trustee shall reasonably cooperate with such Person in providing readily available information so long as such Person agrees to reimburse the Trustee for any out-of-pocket expenses incurred. Nothing herein shall impose an obligation on the part of the Trustee to determine the amount of any tax or withholding obligation on the part of the Issuer or in respect of the Obligations.

Upon written request, the Trustee shall provide to the Issuer or any agent thereof any information specified by such Persons as necessary for the Issuer to comply with its tax and information reporting obligations (including by achieving Tax Account Reporting Rules Compliance), if any, regarding the Holders of the Obligations and payments on the Obligations that is reasonably available to the Trustee, as the case may be.

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Section 6.16 Representative for Secured Noteholders Only; Agent for each other Secured Party and the Holders of the Subordinated Notes. With respect to the security interest created hereunder, the delivery of any Asset to the Trustee is to the Trustee as representative of the Secured Noteholders and agent for each other Secured Party and the Holders of the Subordinated Notes. In furtherance of the foregoing, the possession by the Trustee of any Asset, the endorsement to or registration in the name of the Trustee of any Asset (including without limitation as entitlement holder of the Custodial Account) are all undertaken by the Trustee in its capacity as representative of the Secured Noteholders, and agent for each other Secured Party and the Holders of the Subordinated Notes.

Section 6.17 Representations and Warranties of the Bank. The Bank hereby represents and warrants as follows:

(a) Organization. The Bank has been duly organized and is validly existing as a banking corporation with trust powers under the laws of the United States and has the power to conduct its business and affairs as a trustee, paying agent, registrar, transfer agent, and calculation agent.

(b) Authorization; Binding Obligations. The Bank has the corporate power and authority to perform the duties and obligations of Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar, Transfer Agent and Calculation Agent under this Indenture. The Bank has taken all necessary corporate action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of this Indenture, and all of the documents required to be executed by the Bank pursuant hereto. This Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Bank and constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Bank enforceable in accordance with its terms subject, as to enforcement, (i) to the effect of bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting generally the enforcement of creditors’ rights as such laws would apply in the event of any bankruptcy, receivership, insolvency or similar event applicable to the Bank and (ii) to general equitable principles (whether enforcement is considered in a Proceeding at law or in equity).

(c) Eligibility. The Bank is eligible under Section 6.8 to serve as Trustee hereunder.

(d) No Conflict. Neither the execution, delivery and performance of this Indenture, nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Indenture, (i) is prohibited by, or requires the Bank to obtain any consent, authorization, approval or registration under, any law, statute, rule, regulation or, to the best of its knowledge, judgment, order, writ, injunction or decree that is binding upon the Bank, or (ii) will violate any provision of, result in any default or acceleration of any obligations under, result in the creation or imposition of any lien pursuant to, or require any consent under, any agreement to which the Bank is a party or by which it is bound, which, in each of the foregoing cases, would have a material adverse effect on the Bank’s performance of its duties hereunder.

Section 6.18 Communications with Rating Agency. Any written communication, including any confirmation, from the Rating Agency provided for or required to be obtained by the Trustee hereunder shall be sufficient in each case when such communication or confirmation is received by the Trustee, including by electronic message, facsimile, press release, posting to the Rating Agency’s website, or other means then considered industry standard. For the avoidance of doubt, no written communication given by S&P under this Section 6.18 shall be deemed to satisfy the S&P Rating Agency Condition unless such communication is provided by S&P specifically in satisfaction of the S&P Rating Agency Condition.

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Section 6.19 Custodian of Underlying Instruments.

(a) Delivery of Underlying Instruments. In connection with each Collateral Obligation included in the Assets as of the Closing Date, and promptly following the acquisition of a Collateral Obligation after the date hereof, the Issuer shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Trustee an electronic copy of the Underlying Instruments in respect of each Collateral Obligation. In taking and retaining custody of such electronic copies of the Underlying Instruments, the Trustee shall be deemed to be acting as the agent of the Secured Parties. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Trustee shall have no obligation to review or monitor any Underlying Instruments but shall only be required to hold those electronic copies of the Underlying Instruments received by it in safekeeping.

(b) Duties. From the Closing Date until its resignation or removal pursuant to Section 6.9, the Trustee shall accept delivery and retain custody of electronic copies of the Underlying Instruments delivered by the Issuer pursuant to clause (a) above in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Indenture, all for the benefit of the Secured Parties.

(c) Access to Certain Documentation and Information Regarding the Underlying Instruments. The Trustee shall provide the Holders with access to the electronic copies of the Underlying Instruments in such cases where the Trustee is required in connection with the enforcement of the rights or interests of the Secured Parties, or by applicable statutes or regulations, to review such documentation. Such access being afforded at the expense of the Issuer pursuant to this Indenture and only (i) upon two Business Days’ prior written request, (ii) during normal business hours, (iii) subject to the Trustee’s normal security and confidentiality procedures and (iv) following the occurrence of an Event of Default.

ARTICLE VII

COVENANTS

Section 7.1 Payment of Principal and Interest. The Applicable Issuers shall duly and punctually pay the principal of and interest on the applicable Note Amounts of the Secured Notes, in accordance with the terms of such Secured Notes and this Indenture pursuant to the applicable Priority of Payments. Each Issuer Entity shall, to the extent funds are available pursuant to the applicable Priority of Payments, duly and punctually pay all required distributions on the Subordinated Notes, in accordance with the Subordinated Notes and this Indenture.

The Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries shall, subject to the applicable Priority of Payments, reimburse the Co-Issuer for any amounts paid by the Co-Issuer pursuant to the terms of the Obligations or this Indenture. The Co-Issuer shall not reimburse the Issuer or the Issuer Subsidiaries for any amounts paid by the Issuer or the Issuer Subsidiaries pursuant to the terms of the Obligations or this Indenture.

Amounts properly withheld under the Code or other applicable law by any Person from a payment under the Obligations shall be considered as having been paid by the Issuer and/or the Issuer Subsidiaries to the relevant Holder for all purposes of this Indenture.

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Section 7.2 Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Issuer Entities hereby appoint the Trustee as a Paying Agent for payments on the Notes and the Issuer Entities hereby appoint the Trustee as Transfer Agent at its applicable Corporate Trust Office, as the Issuer Entities’ agent where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Issuer Entities hereby appoint Corporation Service Company (the “Process Agent”), as their agent upon whom process or demands may be served in any action arising out of or based on this Indenture or the transactions contemplated hereby.

The Issuer Entities may at any time and from time to time vary or terminate the appointment of any such agent or appoint any additional agents for any or all of such purposes; provided that (x) the Issuer Entities shall maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, an office or agency where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer Entities in respect of such Obligations and this Indenture may be served and, subject to any laws or regulations applicable thereto, an office or agency outside of the United States where Notes may be presented for payment; and (y) no Paying Agent shall be appointed in a jurisdiction which subjects payments on the Obligations to withholding tax solely as a result of such Paying Agent’s activities. The Issuer Entities shall at all times maintain a duplicate copy of the Register at the Corporate Trust Office. The Issuer Entities shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee, the Rating Agency (so long as it is rating a Class of Rated Notes) and the Holders of the appointment or termination of any such agent and of the location and any change in the location of any such office or agency.

If at any time the Issuer Entities shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, presentations and surrenders may be made (subject to the limitations described in the preceding paragraph) at and notices and demands may be served on the Issuer Entities, and Notes may be presented and surrendered for payment to the appropriate Paying Agent at its designated office, and the Issuer Entities hereby appoint the same as their agent to receive such respective presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.

Section 7.3 Money for Note Payments to be Held in Trust. All payments of amounts due and payable with respect to any Notes that are to be made from amounts withdrawn from the Payment Accounts shall be made on behalf of the Issuer and/or the applicable Issuer Subsidiary by the Trustee or a Paying Agent with respect to payments on the Notes.

When the Applicable Issuers shall have a Paying Agent that is not also the Registrar, they shall furnish, or cause the Registrar to furnish, no later than the fifth calendar day after each Record Date a list, if necessary, in such form as such Paying Agent may reasonably request, of the names and addresses of the Holders and of the certificate numbers of individual Notes held by each such Holder.

Whenever the Applicable Issuers shall have a Paying Agent other than the Trustee, they shall, on or before the Business Day next preceding each Payment Date and any Redemption Date, as the case may be, direct the Trustee to deposit on such Payment Date or such Redemption Date, as the case may be, with such Paying Agent, if necessary, an aggregate sum sufficient to pay the amounts then becoming due (to the extent funds are then available for such purpose in the applicable Payment Account), such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Applicable Issuers shall promptly notify

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the Trustee of its action or failure so to act. Any Monies deposited with a Paying Agent (other than the Trustee) in excess of an amount sufficient to pay the amounts then becoming due on the Notes with respect to which such deposit was made shall be paid over by such Paying Agent to the Trustee for application in accordance with Article X.

The initial Paying Agent shall be as set forth in Section 7.2. Any additional or successor Paying Agents shall be appointed by Issuer Order with written notice thereof to the Trustee and the Rating Agency. The Issuer Entities shall not appoint any Paying Agent that is not, at the time of such appointment, a depository institution or trust company subject to supervision and examination by federal and/or state and/or national banking authorities. The Issuer Entities shall cause each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee and if the Trustee acts as Paying Agent, it hereby so agrees, subject to the provisions of this Section 7.3, that such Paying Agent shall:

(a) allocate all sums received for payment to the Holders of Notes for which it acts as Paying Agent on each Payment Date and any Redemption Date among such Holders in the proportion specified in the applicable Distribution Report to the extent permitted by applicable law;

(b) hold all sums held by it for the payment of amounts due with respect to the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and pay such sums to such Persons as herein provided;

(c) if such Paying Agent is not the Trustee, immediately resign as a Paying Agent and forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held by it in trust for the payment of Notes if at any time it ceases to meet the standards set forth above required to be met by a Paying Agent at the time of its appointment;

(d) if such Paying Agent is not the Trustee, immediately give the Trustee notice of any default by any Issuer Entity (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in the making of any payment required to be made; and

(e) if such Paying Agent is not the Trustee, during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent.

The Issuer Entities may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Issuer Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Issuer Entities or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Issuer Entities or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such Money.

Except as otherwise required by applicable law, any Money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for any payment on any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after such amount has become due and payable shall be paid to the Applicable Issuers on Issuer Order; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Applicable Issuers for payment of such amounts (but only to the extent of the amounts so paid

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to the Applicable Issuers) and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust Money shall thereupon cease. The Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such release of payment, may, but shall not be required to, adopt and employ, at the expense of the Applicable Issuers any reasonable means of notification of such release of payment, including, but not limited to, mailing notice of such release to Holders whose Notes have been called but have not been surrendered for redemption or whose right to or interest in Monies due and payable but not claimed is determinable from the records of any Paying Agent, at the last address of record of each such Holder.

Section 7.4 Existence of the Issuer Entities. (a) The Issuer Entities shall, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, maintain in full force and effect their existence and rights as companies incorporated or organized under the laws of Jersey (in the case of the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries) and the State of Delaware (in the case of the Co-Issuer) and shall obtain and preserve their qualification to do business as foreign corporations or companies, as applicable, in each jurisdiction in which such qualifications are or shall be necessary to protect the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes, or any of the Assets; provided that the Issuer and any Issuer Subsidiary shall be entitled to change its jurisdiction of incorporation from Jersey to any other jurisdiction reasonably selected by the Issuer or such Issuer Subsidiary at the direction of a Majority of the Subordinated Notes so long as (i) such Issuer Entity has received a legal opinion (upon which the Trustee may conclusively rely) to the effect that such change is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders, (ii) the Issuer shall have given written notice of such change to the Trustee and, subject to Section 14.3(c), the Rating Agency (so long as it is rating a Class of Rated Notes), which notice shall be promptly forwarded by the Trustee to the Holders and the Collateral Manager, (iii) the S&P Rating Agency Condition is satisfied, (iv) a Majority of the Controlling Class has consented to such change and (v) such change does not result in the applicable Issuer Entity being organized in a jurisdiction that the European Union has “blacklisted”.

The Issuer Entities shall ensure that all corporate or other formalities regarding their respective existences (including, if required, holding regular board of directors’ and shareholders’, or other similar, meetings to the extent required by applicable law) are followed. None of the Issuer Entities shall take any action, or conduct its affairs in a manner, that is likely to result in its separate existence being ignored or in its assets and liabilities being substantively consolidated with any other Person in a bankruptcy, reorganization, winding up or other insolvency Proceeding. Without limiting the foregoing, (i) the Issuer shall not have any subsidiaries (other than (1) the Co-Issuer and (2) the Issuer Subsidiaries); (ii) the Co-Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries shall not have any subsidiaries; and (iii) except with respect to the Issuer and each Issuer Subsidiary to the extent contemplated in each respective Administration Agreement or the declaration of trust, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Trustees (Jersey) Limited, (x) the Issuer Entities shall not (A) have any employees (other than their respective directors or managers), (B) except as contemplated by the Collateral Management Agreement, the Memorandum and Articles of Association and the Administration Agreements, engage in any transaction with any shareholder that would constitute a conflict of interest or (C) pay dividends other than in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the Memorandum and Articles of Association and (y) the Issuer shall (A) maintain books and records separate from any other Person, (B) maintain its accounts separate from those of any other Person, (C) not commingle its assets with those of any other Person, (D) conduct its own business in its own name, (E) maintain separate financial statements (if any), (F) pay its own liabilities out of its own funds,

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(G) maintain an arm’s length relationship with its Affiliates, (H) use separate stationery, invoices and checks, (I) hold itself out as a separate Person, (J) correct any known misunderstanding regarding its separate identity and (K) have at least one director that is Independent of the Collateral Manager. Each Issuer Subsidiary shall meet the then-current general criteria of the Rating Agency for bankruptcy remote entities and shall not obtain title to real property or hold or obtain a controlling interest in an entity that owns real property. The provisions of this Section 7.4(b) shall not be binding for tax purposes.

(b) The Issuer shall ensure that any Issuer Subsidiary (i) is wholly owned by the Issuer, (ii) will not sell, transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of, or pledge, mortgage, hypothecate or otherwise encumber (or permit such to occur or suffer such to exist), any part of its assets, except in compliance with this Indenture and with such Issuer Subsidiary’s constituent documents, (iii) will not have any subsidiaries, (iv) will comply with the restrictions applicable to them set forth in Section 7.8(a) of this Indenture, (v) will not incur or guarantee any indebtedness and will not hold itself out as being liable of the debts of any other Person other than such Issuer Subsidiary’s obligations pursuant to the Priority of Payments, (vi) will include in its constituent documents (A) a limitation on its business such that it may only engage in the acquisition and disposition of the Assets (and proceeds thereof) in the applicable Portfolio (and activities ancillary thereto) and (B) provisions ensuring the separate existence of such Issuer Subsidiary from any other Person (other than for tax purposes) and (vii) will have at least one manager that is an Independent manager complying with any applicable Rating Agency criteria and that is required to consider the interests of the Holders with respect to such Issuer Subsidiary.

Section 7.5 Protection of Assets. (a) The Collateral Manager, on behalf of the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries, shall cause the taking of such action within the Collateral Manager’s control as is reasonably necessary in order to maintain the perfection and priority of the security interest of the Trustee in the Assets; provided that the Collateral Manager and the Trustee shall be entitled to rely on any Opinion of Counsel delivered pursuant to Section 7.6 and any Opinion of Counsel with respect to the same subject matter delivered pursuant to Section 3.1(a)(iii) to determine what actions are reasonably necessary, and shall be fully protected in so relying on such an Opinion of Counsel, unless the Collateral Manager has actual knowledge that the procedures described in any such Opinion of Counsel are no longer adequate to maintain such perfection and priority. The Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries shall from time to time execute and deliver all such supplements and amendments hereto and file or authorize the filing of all such Financing Statements, continuation statements, instruments of further assurance and other instruments, and shall take such other action as may be necessary or advisable or desirable to secure the rights and remedies of the Holders of the Secured Notes hereunder and to:

(i) Grant more effectively all or any portion of the Assets;

(ii) maintain, preserve and perfect any Grant made or to be made by this Indenture including, without limitation, the first priority nature of the lien or carry out more effectively the purposes hereof;

(iii) perfect, publish notice of or protect the validity of any Grant made or to be made by this Indenture (including, without limitation, any and all actions necessary or desirable as a result of changes in law or regulations);

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(iv) enforce any of the Assets or other instruments or property included in the Assets;

(v) preserve and defend title to the Assets and the rights therein of the Trustee and the Holders of the Secured Notes in the Assets against the claims of all Persons and parties; or

(vi) pay or cause to be paid any and all Taxes levied or assessed upon all or any part of the Assets.

Each of the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries hereby designate the Trustee as its agent and attorney in fact to file and hereby authorizes the filing of any Financing Statement, continuation statement and all other instruments prepared and delivered to it, and take all other actions, required pursuant to this Section 7.5. Such designation shall not impose upon the Trustee, or release or diminish, the Issuer’s, any Issuer Subsidiary’s and the Collateral Manager’s obligations under this Section 7.5. The Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries further authorize and shall cause its United States counsel to file without its signature a Financing Statement that names it as debtor and the Trustee, on behalf of the Secured Parties, as secured party and that describes “all personal property of the Debtor now owned or hereafter acquired, other than ‘Excepted Property’” (and that defines “Excepted Property” in accordance with its definition herein) as the Assets in which the Trustee has a Grant.

(b) The Trustee shall not, except in accordance with Section 5.5 or Section 10.8(a), (b) and (c) or Section 12.1, as applicable, permit the removal of any portion of the Assets or transfer any such Assets from the Account to which it is credited, or cause or permit any change in the Delivery made pursuant to Section 3.3 with respect to any Assets, if, after giving effect thereto, the jurisdiction governing the perfection of the Trustee’s security interest in such Assets is different from the jurisdiction governing the perfection at the time of delivery of the most recent Opinion of Counsel pursuant to Section 7.6 (or, if no Opinion of Counsel has yet been delivered pursuant to Section 7.6, the Opinion of Counsel delivered at the Closing Date pursuant to Section 3.1(a)(iii) unless the Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the lien and security interest created by this Indenture with respect to such property and the priority thereof will continue to be maintained after giving effect to such action or actions).

Section 7.6 Opinions as to Assets. On or before January 24 in each calendar year, commencing in 2024, the Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee and the Rating Agency an Opinion of Counsel relating to the security interest granted by the Issuer and each Issuer Subsidiary to the Trustee, stating that, as of the date of such opinion, the lien and security interest created by this Indenture with respect to the Assets remain in effect and that no further action (other than as specified in such opinion) needs to be taken to ensure the continued effectiveness of such lien over the next year.

Section 7.7 Performance of Obligations. (a) The Issuer Entities, each as to itself, shall not take any action, and shall use their best efforts not to permit any action to be taken by others, that would release any Person from any of such Person’s covenants or obligations under any instrument included in the Assets, except in the case of enforcement action taken with respect to any Defaulted Obligation in accordance with the provisions hereof and actions by the Collateral Manager under the Collateral Management Agreement and in conformity with this Indenture or as otherwise required hereby.

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(b) The Issuer shall notify the Rating Agency within 10 Business Days after it has received notice from any Holder of any material breach of any Transaction Document, following any applicable cure period for such breach.

Section 7.8 Negative Covenants. (a) The Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries shall not and, with respect to clauses (ii), (iii), (iv), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xii) and (xiii) the Co-Issuer shall not, in each case from and after the Closing Date:

(i) sell, transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of, or pledge, mortgage, hypothecate or otherwise encumber (or permit such to occur or suffer such to exist), any part of the Assets, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture and the Collateral Management Agreement;

(ii) claim any credit on, make any deduction from, or dispute the enforceability of payment of the principal or interest payable (or any other amount) in respect of the Obligations (other than amounts withheld or deducted in accordance with the Code or, in the case of the Issuer only, any applicable laws of Jersey or other applicable jurisdiction, including pursuant to FATCA);

(iii) (A) incur or assume or guarantee any indebtedness, other than the Obligations, this Indenture and the transactions contemplated hereby or (B)(1) issue or co-issue, as applicable, any additional class of securities except in accordance with Section 2.13 and 3.2 or (2) issue or co-issue, as applicable, any additional shares;

(iv) (A) permit the validity or effectiveness of this Indenture or any Grant hereunder to be impaired, or permit the lien of this Indenture to be amended, hypothecated, subordinated, terminated or discharged, or permit any Person to be released from any covenants or obligations with respect to this Indenture or the Notes except as may be permitted hereby or by the Collateral Management Agreement, (B) except as permitted by this Indenture, permit any lien, charge, adverse claim, security interest, mortgage or other encumbrance (other than the lien of this Indenture) to be created on or extend to or otherwise arise upon or burden any part of the Assets, any interest therein or the proceeds thereof, or (C) except as permitted by this Indenture, take any action that would permit the lien of this Indenture not to constitute a valid first priority security interest in the Assets;

(v) amend the Collateral Management Agreement except pursuant to the terms thereof and Article XV of this Indenture;

(vi) dissolve or liquidate in whole or in part, except as permitted hereunder or required by applicable law; provided that (A) the First Static Subsidiary may liquidate and dissolve after either (1) the payment in full of the First Static Note Amount and the payment of all other amounts payable pursuant to Sections 11.1(a)(iv), (v) and (vi) or (2) the First Static Date if the First Static Direction has not been effected as provided in Section 16.1(a) and (B) the Second Static Subsidiary may liquidate and dissolve after either (1) the payment in full of the Second Static Note Amount and the payment of all other amounts payable pursuant to Sections 11.1(a)(vii), (viii) and (ix) or (2) the Second Static Date if the Second Static Direction has not been effected as provided in Section 16.1(b).

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(vii) pay any distributions other than in accordance with the Priority of Payments;

(viii) permit the formation of any subsidiaries (except, in the case of the Issuer, the Co-Issuer and each Issuer Subsidiary);

(ix) conduct business under any name other than its own;

(x) have any employees (other than directors or managers to the extent they are employees);

(xi) sell, transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of Assets, or enter into an agreement or commitment to do so or enter into or engage in any business with respect to any part of the Assets, except as expressly permitted by both this Indenture and the Collateral Management Agreement; or

(xii) fail to maintain an Independent manager or Independent director, as applicable.

(b) The Co-Issuer shall not invest any of its assets in “securities” as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act, and shall keep all of its assets in Cash.

(c) The Issuer Entities shall not be party to any agreements without including customary “non-petition” and “limited recourse” provisions therein (and shall not amend or eliminate such provisions in any agreement to which it is party), except for any agreements related to the purchase and sale of any Collateral Obligations or Eligible Investments which contain customary (as determined by the Collateral Manager in its sole discretion) purchase or sale terms or which are documented using customary (as determined by the Collateral Manager in its sole discretion) loan trading documentation.

(d) The Issuer shall not transfer its membership interest in the Co-Issuer so long as any Secured Notes is Outstanding, and none of the Co-Issuer or any Issuer Subsidiary shall permit the transfer of its membership interests so long as any Obligations are Outstanding.

(e) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Indenture to the contrary, the Issuer Entities may not acquire any of the Secured Notes; provided that this Section 7.8(d) shall not be deemed to limit an Optional Redemption or Mandatory Redemption pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.

Section 7.9 Statement as to Compliance. On or before January 24 in each calendar year commencing in 2024, or immediately if there has been a Default under this Indenture and prior to the issuance of any Additional Obligations pursuant to Section 2.13, the Issuer, subject to Section 14.3(c), shall deliver to the Rating Agency (so long as it is rating a Class of Rated Notes), the Trustee, the Collateral Manager and the Administrator (to be forwarded by the Trustee or the Administrator, as applicable, to each Holder making a written request therefor) an Officer’s

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certificate of the Issuer that, having made reasonable inquiries of the Collateral Manager, and to the best of the knowledge, information and belief of the Issuer, there did not exist, as at a date not more than five days prior to the date of the certificate, nor had there existed at any time prior thereto since the date of the last certificate (if any), any Default hereunder or, if such Default did then exist or had existed, specifying the same and the nature and status thereof, including actions undertaken to remedy the same, and that the Issuer has complied with all of its obligations under this Indenture or, if such is not the case, specifying those obligations with which it has not complied.

Section 7.10 Issuer Entities May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms. No Issuer Entity (the “Merging Entity”) shall consolidate or merge with or into any other Person or, except as permitted under this Indenture, transfer or convey all or substantially all of its assets to any Person, unless permitted by Jersey law (in the case of the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries) or United States and Delaware law (in the case of the Co-Issuer) and unless:

(a) the Merging Entity shall be the surviving corporation, or the Person (if other than the Merging Entity) formed by such consolidation or into which the Merging Entity is merged or to which all or substantially all of the assets of the Merging Entity are transferred (the “Successor Entity”) (A) if the Merging Entity is the Issuer, shall be a company incorporated and existing under the laws of Jersey or such other jurisdiction approved by a Majority of the Controlling Class, provided that no such approval shall be required in connection with any such transaction undertaken solely to effect a change in the jurisdiction of incorporation pursuant to Section 7.4, and (B) in any case shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee and each Holder, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all Secured Notes and the performance and observance of every covenant of this Indenture on its part to be performed or observed, all as provided herein;

(b) the S&P Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with respect to such consolidation or merger;

(c) if the Merging Entity is not the Successor Entity, the Successor Entity shall have agreed with the Trustee (i) to observe the same legal requirements for the recognition of such formed or surviving corporation as a legal entity separate and apart from any of its Affiliates as are applicable to the Merging Entity with respect to its Affiliates and (ii) not to consolidate or merge with or into any other Person or transfer or convey the Assets or all or substantially all of its assets to any other Person except in accordance with the provisions of this Section 7.10;

(d) if the Merging Entity is not the Successor Entity, the Successor Entity shall have delivered to the Trustee, the Collateral Manager, the Issuer and, if applicable, the appropriate Issuer Subsidiary (and, subject to Section 14.3(c), the Issuer shall have delivered to the Rating Agency so long as it is rating a Class of Rated Notes) an Officer’s certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such Person is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing in the jurisdiction in which such Person is organized; that such Person has sufficient power and authority to assume the obligations set forth in subsection (a) above and to execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto for the purpose of assuming such obligations; that such Person has duly authorized the execution, delivery and performance of an indenture supplemental hereto for the purpose of assuming such obligations and that such supplemental indenture is a valid, legal and

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binding obligation of such Person, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject only to bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, moratorium and other laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a Proceeding in equity or at law); if the Merging Entity is the Issuer or an Issuer Subsidiary, that, immediately following the event which causes such Successor Entity to become the successor to the Issuer or the applicable Issuer Subsidiary, (i) such Successor Entity has title, free and clear of any lien, security interest or charge, other than the lien and security interest of this Indenture and any other Permitted Lien, to the applicable Assets securing the Secured Notes and (ii) the Trustee continues to have a valid perfected first priority security interest in the Assets securing all of the Secured Notes; and in each case as to such other matters as the Trustee or any Holder may reasonably require; provided that nothing in this clause shall imply or impose a duty on the Trustee to require such other documents;

(e) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

(f) the Merging Entity shall have notified the Collateral Manager, the Issuer and, if applicable, the appropriate Issuer Subsidiary (and, subject to Section 14.3(c), the Issuer shall have notified the Rating Agency so long as it is rating a Class of Rated Notes) of such consolidation, merger, transfer or conveyance and shall have delivered to the Trustee and each Holder an Officer’s certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such consolidation, merger, transfer or conveyance and such supplemental indenture comply with this Article VII and that all conditions precedent in this Article VII relating to such transaction have been complied with;

(g) the Merging Entity shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that after giving effect to such transaction, no Issuer Entity (or, if applicable, the Successor Entity) will be required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act;

(h) after giving effect to such transaction, the outstanding stock of the Merging Entity (or, if applicable, the Successor Entity) will not be beneficially owned within the meaning of the Investment Company Act by any U.S. person;

(i) the fees, costs and expenses of the Trustee (including any reasonable legal fees and expenses) associated with the matters addressed in this Section 7.10 shall have been paid by the Merging Entity (or, if applicable, the Successor Entity) or otherwise provided for to the satisfaction of the Trustee; and

(j) after giving effect to such transaction, the Successor Entity is not treated as a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes or otherwise subject to U.S. federal income tax on a net basis (including any tax imposed under Section 1446 of the Code), other than by operation of Subchapter C of Chapter 63 of the Code.

Section 7.11 Successor Substituted. Upon any consolidation or merger, or transfer or conveyance of all or substantially all of the assets of any Issuer Entity in accordance with Section 7.10 in which the Merging Entity is not the surviving corporation, the Successor Entity shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Merging Entity under this Indenture with the same effect as if such Person had been named as the Issuer,

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the Co-Issuer or the applicable Issuer Subsidiary, as the case may be, herein. In the event of any such consolidation, merger, transfer or conveyance, the Person named as the “Issuer”, the “Co-Issuer”, the “First Static Subsidiary” or the “Second Static Subsidiary” in the first paragraph of this Indenture or any successor which shall theretofore have become such in the manner prescribed in this Article VII may be dissolved, wound up and liquidated at any time thereafter, and such Person thereafter shall be released, without further action by any Person, from its liabilities as obligor and maker on all the Obligations and from its obligations under this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party.

Section 7.12 No Other Business. The Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries shall not have any employees (other than its officer, if any, and directors to the extent such officer or directors might be considered employees) and shall not engage in any business or activity other than co-issuing, paying and redeeming the Obligations and any Additional Obligations co-issued pursuant to this Indenture, acquiring, holding, selling, exchanging, redeeming and pledging, solely for its own account, the Assets and other incidental activities, including entering into the Transaction Documents to which it is a party. The Co-Issuer shall not engage in any business or activity other than co-issuing and selling the Secured Notes and any Additional Obligations of such Classes co-issued pursuant to this Indenture and other incidental activities. The Issuer Entities may amend, or permit the amendment of, their Memorandum and Articles of Association (in the case of the Issuer and the Issuer Subsidiaries) and certificate of formation and operating agreement (in the case of the Co-Issuer) only if such amendment would satisfy the S&P Rating Agency Condition.

Section 7.13 [Reserved].

Section 7.14 Annual Rating Review. (a) So long as any of the Secured Notes of any Class remain Outstanding, on or before January 24 in each year commencing in 2024, the Applicable Issuers shall obtain and pay for an annual review of the rating of each such Class of Secured Notes from the Rating Agency so long as it is rating such Class, as applicable. The Applicable Issuers shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Collateral Manager in writing (and the Trustee shall promptly provide the Holders with a copy of such notice) if at any time the then-current rating of any such Class of Secured Notes has been, or is known will be, changed or withdrawn.

(b) The Issuer and/or the applicable Issuer Subsidiaries shall obtain and pay for an annual review of any Collateral Obligation which has an S&P Rating derived as set forth in clause (iii)(b) of the part of the definition of the term “S&P Rating”.

Section 7.15 Reporting. At any time when the Issuer Entities are not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and are not exempt from reporting pursuant to Rule 12g3 - 2(b) under the Exchange Act, upon the request of a Holder or beneficial owner of a Note, the Issuer Entities shall promptly furnish or cause to be furnished Rule 144A Information to such Holder or beneficial owner, to a prospective purchaser of such Note designated by such Holder or beneficial owner, or to the Trustee for delivery upon an Issuer Order to such Holder or beneficial owner or a prospective purchaser designated by such Holder or beneficial owner, as the case may be, in order to permit compliance by such Holder or beneficial owner with Rule 144A under the Securities Act in connection with the resale of such Note. “Rule 144A Information” shall be such information as is specified pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act (or any successor provision thereto).

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Section 7.16 Calculation Agent. (a) The Issuer hereby agrees that for so long as any Floating Rate Notes remains Outstanding there will at all times be an agent appointed (which does not control or is not controlled or under common control with any Issuer Entity, the Collateral Manager or their respective Affiliates, and is not a fund or account managed by the Collateral Manager or Affiliates of the Collateral Manager) to calculate the Reference Rate in respect of each Interest Accrual Period in accordance with the definition of Reference Rate (the “Calculation Agent”). The Issuer hereby appoints the Collateral Administrator as Calculation Agent. The Calculation Agent may be removed by the Issuer or the Collateral Manager, on behalf of the Issuer, at any time. If the Calculation Agent is unable or unwilling to act as such or is removed by the Issuer or the Collateral Manager, on behalf of the Issuer, the Issuer or the Collateral Manager, on behalf of the Issuer, shall promptly appoint a replacement Calculation Agent which does not control or is not controlled by or under common control with (x) any Issuer Entity or their respective Affiliates, (y) the Collateral Manager or its Affiliates or (z) funds or accounts managed by the Collateral Manager or Affiliates of the Collateral Manager. The Calculation Agent may not resign its duties or be removed without a successor having been duly appointed.

(b) The Calculation Agent shall be required to agree (and the Collateral Administrator as Calculation Agent does hereby agree) that, as soon as practicable after 5:00 a.m. Chicago time on each Interest Determination Date, but in no event later than 11:00 a.m. New York time on the Business Day immediately following each Interest Determination Date, the Calculation Agent shall calculate the Interest Rate applicable to each Class of Floating Rate Notes during the related Interest Accrual Period and the Note Interest Amount (in each case, rounded to the nearest cent, with half a cent being rounded upward) payable on the related Payment Date in respect of such Class of Floating Rate Notes in respect of the related Interest Accrual Period. At such time, the Calculation Agent shall communicate such rates and amounts to the Issuer Entities, the Trustee, each Paying Agent, the Collateral Manager, Euroclear and Clearstream. The Calculation Agent shall also specify to the Issuer Entities the quotations upon which the foregoing rates and amounts are based, and in any event the Calculation Agent shall notify the Issuer Entities before 5:00 p.m. (New York time) on every Interest Determination Date if it has not determined and is not in the process of determining any such Interest Rate or Note Interest Amount together with its reasons therefor. The Calculation Agent’s determination of the foregoing rates and amounts for any Interest Accrual Period shall (in the absence of manifest error) be final and binding upon all parties.

(c) Upon a change of the Reference Rate to the Fallback Rate pursuant to the requirements set forth herein, the Calculation Agent and the Collateral Manager shall confer and consult in good faith to determine and adopt any technical, administrative or operational changes necessary or advisable to provide for the calculation of such Fallback Rate in a manner substantially consistent with market practice and that is administratively feasible (in the judgment of the Collateral Manager); provided that nothing herein shall be deemed to impose or expand any discretionary obligations on the Calculation Agent herein or the Transaction Documents (including with respect to, but not limited to, the designation of a replacement reference rate or any modifier thereto); provided, further, that neither the Collateral Manager nor the Calculation Agent shall have any liability for changes employed pursuant to this paragraph.

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(d) The Calculation Agent and the Trustee shall have no (i) responsibility or liability for selecting the Reference Rate or a Fallback Rate (including, without limitation, any modifier thereto) or for determining whether any such rate is permitted to be adopted under this Indenture as a successor or replacement benchmark to the Reference Rate (including whether a Fallback Rate or whether any other conditions to the selection or determination of such rate have been satisfied) and shall be entitled to rely upon any designation or selection of such a rate (and any modifier) by the Collateral Manager, (ii) liability for any failure of or delay by the Collateral Manager in selecting and designating any such rate, (iii) obligation to monitor, determine or verify the unavailability or cessation of the then-current Reference Rate, or (iv) liability for any failure or delay in performing their duties under this Indenture or other Transaction Documents as a result of the unavailability of the then-current Reference Rate or any other rate replacing a Reference Rate described herein or inability to calculate the Fallback Rate selected by the Collateral Manager.

(e) Neither the Trustee nor the Calculation Agent shall have any liability for any interest rate published by any publication that is the source for determining the interest rates of the Floating Rate Notes, including but not limited to any rates compiled by Bloomberg Financial Markets Commodities News or any successor thereto, rates compiled by the ICE Benchmark Administration Ltd. (or any successor thereto), rates published by the Term SOFR Administrator (or any successor sources) or its redistribution partners, rates compiled by the Loan Syndication and Trading Association (or any successor thereto) or for any rates published on any publicly available source, including without limitation the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Website, or in any of the foregoing cases for any delay, error or inaccuracy in the publication of any such rates, or for any subsequent correction or adjustment thereto.

Section 7.17 Certain Tax Matters. (a) As of the Closing Date, the Issuer shall elect to be classified, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, as a disregarded entity wholly owned by the sole beneficial owner of the Subordinated Notes and shall not take any action or permit any other Person to take any action that would cause it to be treated as other than a disregarded entity or a partnership (that is not a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation) for U.S. federal income tax purposes. So long as there is one beneficial owner of the Subordinated Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes, each of the Issuer Entities and such beneficial owner agree to treat the assets and liabilities of the Issuer, the Co-Issuer and each Issuer Subsidiary as those of the sole beneficial owner. The Issuer Entities shall treat the Subordinated Notes as equity for U.S. federal and, to the extent permitted by law, state and local income and franchise tax purposes and shall take no action inconsistent with such treatment unless required by any relevant taxing authority. The Issuer Entities shall treat the Secured Notes, to the extent outstanding for U.S. federal income tax purposes, as debt for U.S. federal and, to the extent permitted by law, state and local income and franchise tax purposes and shall take no action inconsistent with such treatment unless required by any relevant taxing authority. The Issuer Entities shall also treat the Secured Notes as debt for legal, accounting and ratings purposes.

(b) The Issuer shall treat each purchase of Collateral Obligations (other than those transferred to it from a Person from whom the Issuer is disregarded for U.S. federal income tax purposes) as a “purchase” for tax accounting and reporting purposes.

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(c) The Issuer and the Co-Issuer shall file, or cause to be filed, and the Issuer shall cause each Issuer Subsidiary to file, any tax returns, including information tax returns, required by any governmental authority.

(d) If the Issuer is aware that it has participated in a “reportable transaction” within the meaning of Section 6011 of the Code, and a Holder or beneficial owner of a Subordinated Note (or any Secured Notes that is recharacterized as equity for U.S. federal income tax purposes) requests in writing information about any such transactions in which the Issuer is an investor, the Issuer shall provide (to the extent it can reasonably obtain such information), or cause its Independent certified public accountants to provide, such information that is required to be obtained by such Holder or beneficial owner under the Code as soon as practicable after such request.

(e) Upon a change of the Reference Rate to the Fallback Rate, if the Issuer (in consultation with nationally recognized U.S. tax counsel) reasonably determines that such change constitutes a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 1.1001-3, the Issuer will cause its Independent certified public accountants to comply with any requirements under Treasury Regulations Section 1.1273-2(f)(9) (or any successor provision) including (as applicable) to (i) by determining whether the Secured Notes subject to the Fallback Rate is traded on an established market, and (ii) if so traded, by determining the fair market value of such Secured Notes and making available such fair market value determination to Holders in a commercially reasonable fashion, including by electronic publication, within 90 days of the date on which the change of the Reference Rate to the Fallback Rate occurs.

(f) Upon the Issuer’s receipt of a request of a Holder of Secured Notes or written request of a Person certifying that it is an owner of a beneficial interest in Secured Notes for the information described in Treasury Regulations Section 1.1275-3(b)(1)(i) that is applicable to such Secured Notes, the Issuer shall cause its Independent certified public accountants to provide promptly to the Trustee and such requesting Holder or owner of a beneficial interest in such Secured Notes all of such information.

(g) If required to prevent the withholding and imposition of U.S. federal income tax on payments made to the Issuer or the Issuer Subsidiaries, the Issuer shall deliver or cause to be delivered an IRS Form W-9 of its sole beneficial owner for U.S. federal income tax purposes or, for periods during which the Issuer is treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, its own IRS Form W-8IMY or an applicable successor form and any relevant supporting documentation (including IRS Form W-9s from its beneficial owners) to each Obligor of or counterparty with respect to an Asset at the time such Asset is acquired or entered into by the Issuer or the relevant Issuer Subsidiary and thereafter prior to the obsolescence or expiration of such form.

(h) No more than 50% of the debt obligations (as determined for U.S. federal income tax purposes) held by the Issuer may at any time consist of real estate mortgages as determined for purposes of Section 7701(i) of the Code unless the Issuer has received written advice of Dechert LLP or Milbank LLP or an Opinion of Counsel from another nationally recognized U.S. tax counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that the ownership of such debt obligations will not cause the Issuer to be treated as a taxable mortgage pool for U.S. federal income tax purposes; provided, that, for the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Section 7.17(h) shall be construed to permit the Issuer to purchase real estate mortgages.

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(i) With respect to periods during which the Issuer is treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the BDC or its designee shall be the “partnership representative” (as defined in Section 6223 of the Code) of the Issuer (the “Partnership Representative”) and, for each taxable year of the Issuer, the Issuer shall appoint an individual selected by the Partnership Representative as the designated individual (as defined in Treasury Regulations Section 301.6223-1) (the “Designated Individual”), and the Issuer shall revoke such appointment if and only if instructed to do so by the Partnership Representative. By its acceptance thereof, ABPCI and each Holder of Obligations hereby agrees to irrevocably appoint ABPCI as its agent to perform all of the duties of the Partnership Representative for the Issuer. In the event the Issuer shall be the subject of an income tax audit by any U.S. federal, state or local authority, to the extent the Issuer is treated as an entity for purposes of such audit, including administrative settlement and judicial review, the Partnership Representative shall be authorized to act for, and its decision shall be final and binding upon, the Issuer and each partner thereof. All expenses incurred in connection with any such audit, investigation, settlement or review shall be borne by the Issuer. The Issuer shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, reimburse and indemnify the Partnership Representative and the Designated Individual in connection with any expenses reasonably incurred in connection with its performance of its duties as or on behalf of the Partnership Representative, which expenses shall be paid as Administrative Expenses in accordance with the applicable Priority of Payments.

(j) So long as the Issuer is treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the Issuer shall use commercially reasonable efforts to provide (or cause to be provided) each person who was a beneficial owner of a Subordinated Note (or any Class of Secured Notes recharacterized as equity for U.S. federal income tax purposes) (a “Partner”) at any time during a taxable year with an annual statement (including a Schedule K-1 and/or other applicable Schedule K to IRS Form 1065) indicating such beneficial owner’s allocable share of the Issuer’s tax items for such year taxable year.

(k) So long as the Issuer is a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the Partnership Representative shall sign the Issuer’s tax returns and is authorized to make tax elections on behalf of the Issuer in its reasonable discretion, to determine the amount and characterization of any allocations or tax items described in this Indenture in its reasonable discretion, and to take all actions and do such things as required or as it shall deem appropriate under the Code, at the Issuer’s sole expense. Any action taken by the Partnership Representative in connection with audits of the Issuer under the Code will, to the extent permitted by law, be binding upon the Partners. Each such Partner agrees that it will treat any Issuer item on such Partner’s income tax returns consistently with the treatment of the item on the Issuer’s tax return and that such Partner will not independently act with respect to tax audits or tax litigation affecting the Issuer, unless previously authorized to do so in writing by the Partnership Representative, which authorization may be withheld in the complete discretion of the Partnership Representative.

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(l) If the IRS, in connection with an audit governed by the Partnership Tax Audit Rules, proposes an adjustment greater than $25,000 in the amount of any item of income, gain, loss, deduction or credit of the Issuer, or any Partner’s distributive share thereof, and such adjustment results in an “imputed underpayment” as described in Section 6225(b) of the Code, together with any guidance issued thereunder or successor provisions (a “Covered Audit Adjustment”), the Partnership Representative will use commercially reasonable efforts (taking into account whether the Issuer has received any needed information on a timely basis from the Partners), to apply the alternative method provided by Section 6226 of the Code, together with any guidance issued thereunder or successor provisions (the “Alternative Method”). In the event the proposed adjustment is equal to or less than $25,000, the Partnership Representative may in its sole discretion elect to have the Issuer pay such adjustment. To the extent that the Partnership Representative does not (or is unable to) elect the Alternative Method with respect to a Covered Audit Adjustment and such Covered Audit Adjustment is material as to the Issuer (determined in the Partnership Representative’s discretion), the Partnership Representative shall use commercially reasonable efforts to (i) to the extent not economically or administratively burdensome, make reasonable any modifications available under Sections 6225(c)(3), (4) and (5) of the Code, together with any guidance issued thereunder or successor provisions, to the extent that such modifications are available (taking into account whether the Partnership Representative has received any needed information on a timely basis from the Partners) and would reduce any taxes payable by the Issuer with respect to the Covered Audit Adjustment, and (ii) if reasonably requested by a Partner, provide to such Partner available information allowing such Partner to file an amended U.S. federal income tax return, as described in Section 6225(c)(2) of the Code, together with any guidance issued thereunder or successor provisions, to the extent that such amended return and payment of any related U.S. federal income taxes would reduce any taxes payable by the Issuer with respect to the Covered Audit Adjustment (after taking into account any modifications described in clause (i)). Similar procedures shall be followed in connection with any state or local income tax audit governed by rules similar to the Partnership Tax Audit Rules. Any U.S. federal income taxes (and any related interest and penalties) paid by the Issuer (or any diminution in distributable proceeds resulting from an adjustment under Partnership Tax Audit Rules) may be allocated in the reasonable discretion of the Issuer to those Partners to whom such amounts are specifically attributable (whether as a result of their status, actions, inactions or otherwise), as determined in the reasonable discretion of the Issuer.

(m) (i) So long as the Issuer is treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the Issuer shall maintain, or cause to be maintained, a separate capital account for each Partner in accordance with the principles and requirements set forth in Section 704(b) of the Code and the Treasury Regulations. For U.S. federal income tax purposes, this Indenture shall constitute part of the “partnership agreement” of the Issuer pursuant to Section 761(c) of the Code and Treasury Regulations Sections 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(h) and 1.761-1(c).

(ii) After giving effect to Section 7.17(m)(iii) through (vi), all Issuer items of income, gain, loss and deduction shall be allocated among the Partners in a manner such that, after the allocation, each such Partner’s capital account is equal (as nearly as possible) to the amount that such Partner would receive from the Issuer if the Issuer (i) sold all of its assets for their “book values” (within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)), (ii) applied the proceeds to discharge Issuer liabilities at face amount (limited with respect to each nonrecourse liability to the book values of the assets securing such liability), and (iii) distributed the remaining proceeds in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, minus the sum of such Partner’s share of “partnership minimum gain” (within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-2(b)(2)) and “partner nonrecourse debt minimum gain” (within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-2(i)(3)).

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(iii) This Section 7.17(m)(iii) incorporates by reference, as if fully set forth herein, the “minimum gain chargeback” requirement contained in Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-2(f), the “partner minimum gain chargeback” requirement contained in Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-2(i), and the “qualified income offset” requirement contained in Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(d).

(iv) In the event that any Partner has a deficit capital account at the end of any Issuer taxable year that is in excess of the amount such Partner is deemed to be obligated to restore pursuant to the penultimate sentences of Treasury Regulations Sections 1.704-2(g)(1) and 1.704-2(i)(5), such Partner will be allocated items of Issuer income and gain in the amount of such excess as quickly as possible. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an allocation pursuant to this Section 7.17(m)(iv) will be made only if and to the extent that such Partner would have a deficit capital account in excess of such amount after all other allocations provided for in this Section 7.17 have been tentatively made as if this Section 7.17 did not include this Section 7.17(m)(iv) or the “qualified income offset” requirement of Section 7.17(m)(iii).

(v) Nonrecourse deductions (within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-2(b)(1)) will be specially allocated to the Partners in the same manner as if they were not nonrecourse deductions.

(vi) No Partner will be allocated items of loss or deduction under Section 7.17(m)(ii) through (v) if such allocation would cause or increase a deficit balance in such Partner’s capital account as of the end of the Issuer taxable year to which such allocation relates, within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(d).

(vii) It is the intent of the Issuer that, to the extent possible, all special allocations made pursuant to Section 7.17(m)(iii) through (vi) be offset either with other special allocations made pursuant to Section 7.17(m)(iii) through (vi) or with special allocations made pursuant to this Section 7.17(m)(vii). Therefore, notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 7.17 (other than Section 7.17(m)(iii) through (vi)), offsetting special allocations of Issuer items of income, gain, loss and deduction will be made so that, after such offsetting allocations are made, the capital account balance of each Partner is, to the extent possible, equal to the capital account balance such Partner would have had if the special allocations made pursuant to Section 7.17(m)(iii) through (vi) were not part of this Section 7.17 and all Issuer items of income, gain, loss and deduction were allocated pursuant to Section 7.17(m)(ii).