The Indenture Trustee
U.S. Bank National Association (“U.S. Bank”), a national banking association, will act as the Indenture Trustee, initial note registrar and note paying agent under the Indenture for the benefit of the noteholders. U.S. Bancorp, with total assets exceeding $567 billion as of September 30, 2021, is the parent company of U.S. Bank, the fifth largest commercial bank in the United States. As of September 30, 2021, U.S. Bancorp operated over 2,200 branch offices in 26 states. A network of specialized U.S. Bancorp offices across the nation provides a comprehensive line of banking, brokerage, insurance, investment, mortgage, trust and payment services products to consumers, businesses, and institutions.
U.S. Bank has one of the largest corporate trust businesses in the country with office locations in 48 Domestic and 2 International cities. The Indenture will be administered from U.S. Bank’s corporate trust office located at 190 South LaSalle Street, 7th Floor, Chicago, IL 60603.
U.S. Bank has provided corporate trust services since 1924. As of September 30, 2021, U.S. Bank was acting as trustee with respect to over 115,000 issuances of securities with an aggregate outstanding principal balance of over $5.1 trillion. This portfolio includes corporate and municipal bonds, mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations.
The Indenture Trustee shall make each monthly statement available to the Noteholders via the Indenture Trustee’s internet website at https://pivot.usbank.com. Noteholders with questions may direct them to the Indenture Trustee’s bondholder services group at (800) 934-6802.
As of September 30, 2021, U.S. Bank (and its affiliate U.S. Bank Trust National Association) was acting as indenture trustee, registrar and paying agent on 161 issuances of automobile receivables-backed securities with an outstanding aggregate principal balance of approximately $65,911,000,000.
The Seller and its affiliates may maintain normal commercial banking or investment banking relations with the Indenture Trustee and its affiliates. The fees and expenses of the Indenture Trustee will be paid by CarMax Business Services, as the Administrator under the Administration Agreement and, to the extent not paid by the Administrator, as described under “Application of Available Funds—Priority of Distributions (Pre-Acceleration)” and “—Priority of Distributions (Post-Acceleration).” The Indenture Trustee will have various rights and duties with respect to the Notes.
See “The Indenture” in this prospectus for a further discussion of the rights and duties of the Indenture Trustee.
U.S. Bank and other large financial institutions have been sued in their capacity as trustee or successor trustee for certain residential mortgage backed securities (“RMBS”) trusts. The complaints, primarily filed by investors or investor groups against U.S. Bank and similar institutions, allege the trustees caused losses to investors as a result of alleged failures by the sponsors, mortgage loan sellers and servicers to comply with the governing agreements for these RMBS trusts. Plaintiffs generally assert causes of action based upon the trustees’ purported failures to enforce repurchase obligations of mortgage loan sellers for alleged breaches of representations and warranties, notify securityholders of purported events of default allegedly caused by breaches of servicing standards by mortgage loan servicers and abide by a heightened standard of care following alleged events of default.
U.S. Bank denies liability and believes that it has performed its obligations under the RMBS trusts in good faith, that its actions were not the cause of losses to investors, that it has meritorious defenses, and it has contested and intends to continue contesting the plaintiffs’ claims vigorously. However, U.S. Bank cannot assure you as to the outcome of any of the litigation, or the possible impact of these litigations on the trustee or the RMBS trusts.
On March 9, 2018, a law firm purporting to represent fifteen Delaware statutory trusts (the “DSTs”) that issued securities backed by student loans (the “Student Loans”) filed a lawsuit in the Delaware Court of Chancery against U.S. Bank in its capacities as indenture trustee and successor special servicer, and three other institutions in their respective transaction capacities, with respect to the DSTs and the Student Loans. This lawsuit is captioned The
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