shall not have been surrendered for cancellation, the Certificate Administrator shall hold all amounts distributable to the Holders thereof for the benefit of such Holders until the earlier of (i) its termination as Certificate Administrator hereunder and the transfer of such amounts to a successor Certificate Administrator and (ii) the termination of the Trust Fund, at which time such amounts shall be distributed to the Depositor. No interest shall accrue or be payable to any Certificateholder on any amount held in trust hereunder or by the Certificate Administrator as a result of such Certificateholder’s failure to surrender its Certificate(s) for final payment thereof in accordance with this Section 4.1(e). Any such amounts transferred to the Certificate Administrator may, but need not be, invested in Permitted Investments and all income and gain realized from investment of such funds shall be for the benefit of the Certificate Administrator. In the event the Certificate Administrator is permitted or required to invest any amounts in Permitted Investments under this Agreement, whether in its capacity as Certificate Administrator or in the event of its assumption of the duties of, or becoming the successor to, the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, it shall invest such amounts in Permitted Investments under clause (i) of the definition of Permitted Investments.
(f) The Certificate Administrator shall be responsible for the calculations with respect to distributions from the Trust so long as the Trust Fund has not been terminated in accordance with this Agreement. The Certificate Administrator shall have no duty to recompile, recalculate or verify the accuracy of information provided to it by the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.18(a) and, in the absence of manifest error in such information, may conclusively rely upon it.
(g) On each Distribution Date, Realized Losses with respect to the Trust Loan shall be allocated to reduce the Certificate Balance of the Class A Certificates until the Certificate Balance has been reduced to zero.
To the extent any Realized Losses are subsequently recovered, the amount of such recovery shall be reimbursed to the Class A Certificates, up to the amount of any Realized Losses, if any, that have been allocated to such Class of Certificates.
4.2. Withholding Tax. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Certificate Administrator shall comply with all federal withholding requirements with respect to payments to Certificateholders that the Certificate Administrator reasonably believes are applicable under the Code. The consent of Certificateholders shall not be required for any such withholding. In the event the Certificate Administrator withholds any amount from interest payments or advances thereof to any Certificateholder pursuant to federal withholding requirements, amounts so withheld shall be treated as having been entirely distributed to such Certificateholder, and the Certificate Administrator shall indicate the amount withheld to such Certificateholder through a report.
4.3. Allocation and Distribution of Yield Maintenance Premiums. (a) On any Distribution Date, any Yield Maintenance Premiums collected in respect of the Whole Loan during the related Collection Period and allocable to the Trust Loan pursuant to the Co-Lender Agreement shall be distributed to the holders of the Class A Certificates.
(b) Reserved.
4.4. Statements to Certificateholders. (a) On each Distribution Date, based on information provided by the Servicer and the Special Servicer, as applicable, the Certificate Administrator shall prepare and forward or make available through its internet website, which is located at www.ctslink.com to any Privileged Person, a statement, prepared by the Certificate Administrator, based upon information supplied to it by the Servicer and the Special Servicer, as applicable, in respect of the distributions on such Distribution Date (a “Distribution Date Statement”) setting forth:
(i) for each Class of Certificates (other than the Class R Certificates) (A) the amount of the distributions made on such Distribution Date allocable to interest at the Pass-Through Rate and the amount allocable to principal (separately identifying the amount of any principal payments (and specifying the source of such payments)), (B) the amount of any Yield Maintenance Premiums collected on the Trust Loan allocable to each Class of Certificates and (C) and the amount of interest paid on Advances from Default Interest and allocable to such Class;
(ii) if the distribution to the Holders of any Class of Certificates is less than the full amount that would be distributable to such Holders if there were sufficient Available Funds, the amount of the shortfall allocable to such Class, stating separately amounts allocable to principal and interest;
(iii) the amount of any Monthly Payment Advance for such Distribution Date;
(iv) the Certificate Balance of the Class A Certificates after giving effect to any distribution in reduction of the Certificate Balance on such Distribution Date;
(v) the principal balance of the Trust Loan as of the end of the Collection Period for such Distribution Date;
(vi) the aggregate amount of Unscheduled Payments (and the source of such payments) made during the related Collection Period;
(vii) identification of any Loan Event of Default or any Special Servicing Loan Event, any Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event under this Agreement that in either case has been declared as of the close of business on the second Business Day prior to the end of the immediately preceding calendar month;
(viii) the amount of compensation paid to the Servicer, the Certificate Administrator, CREFC® and the Trustee, separately listing the Trustee Fee, the Certificate Administrator Fee, the CREFC® License Fee and the Servicing Fee;
(ix) the number of days the Borrower is delinquent in the event that the Borrower is delinquent at least 30 days and the date upon which any foreclosure proceedings have been commenced;
(x) notification if the Property (or any portion thereof) has become a Foreclosed Property as of the close of business on the Loan Payment Date immediately preceding such Distribution Date;
(xi) information with respect to any declared bankruptcy of the Borrower;
(xii) as to any item of Collateral released, liquidated or disposed of during the preceding Collection Period, the identity of such item and the amount of proceeds of any liquidation or other amounts, if any, received therefrom during the related Collection Period;
(xiii) the aggregate amount of all Advances, if any, not yet reimbursed;
(xiv) the amount of any reimbursement of Nonrecoverable Advances paid to the Servicer;
(xv) an itemized report identifying any Appraisal Reduction Amount;
(xvi) the amount of Default Interest, if any, and late payment charges, if any, paid by the Borrower during the related Collection Period on the Trust Loan in the aggregate;
(xvii) the aggregate amount of Borrower Reimbursable Trust Fund Expenses; and
(xviii) an itemized listing of any Disclosable Special Servicer Fees received by the Special Servicer or any of its Affiliates during the related Collection Period to the extent provided to the Certificate Administrator by the Special Servicer per Section 3.18(d) hereof.
The Certificate Administrator, the Servicer and the Special Servicer may agree to enhance the reporting requirements of the Distribution Date Statement without Certificateholder approval.
Within a reasonable period of time after the end of each calendar year, the Certificate Administrator shall furnish to each Person who at any time during the calendar year was a Holder of a Certificate upon written request to the Certificate Administrator, a statement containing the information set forth in clauses (i), (ii), (iv) and (viii) above as to the applicable Class, aggregated for such calendar year or applicable portion of such year during which such Person was a Certificateholder, together with such other information as the Certificate Administrator deems necessary or desirable, or that a Certificateholder or beneficial owner of a Certificate reasonably requests, to enable Certificateholders to prepare their tax returns for such calendar year. Such obligation of the Certificate Administrator shall be deemed to have been satisfied to the extent that substantially comparable information shall be provided by the Certificate Administrator pursuant to any requirements of the Code as from time to time are in force.
(b) The Certificate Administrator shall make available to Privileged Persons on each Distribution Date, pursuant to Section 8.14(b), (i) the CREFC® Reports with respect to such Distribution Date received from the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.18(a) and (ii) when received from the Special Servicer, the summary of the Asset Status Report received from the Special Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10. The Certificate Administrator’s obligation to provide such information to Certificateholders and others shall be contingent on the Certificate Administrator’s receipt of such information from the Servicer and the Special Servicer, as applicable. The Certificate Administrator shall be entitled to rely on such information provided to it by the Servicer or the Special Servicer without independent verification. To the extent that the information required to be furnished by the Servicer is based on information required to be provided by the Borrower or the Special Servicer, the Servicer’s obligation to furnish such information to the Certificate Administrator shall be contingent on its receipt of such information from the Borrower or the Special Servicer, as applicable. To the extent that information required to be furnished by the Special Servicer is based on information required to be provided by the Borrower, the Special Servicer’s obligation to furnish such information shall be contingent upon its receipt of such information from the Borrower. The Servicer, the Special Servicer and the Certificate Administrator shall be entitled to rely on information supplied by the Borrower without independent verification.
The Certificate Administrator shall, to the extent provided to it by the Servicer in electronic format, make available to Privileged Persons pursuant to Section 8.14(b) reports or analyses of net operating income from the Property. Such net operating income reports or analyses shall be prepared pursuant to Section 3.18 hereof by the Servicer in CREFC® format based on the quarterly, annual and periodic statements and rent rolls with respect to the Property obtained by the Servicer from the Borrower.
If so authorized by the Depositor, the Certificate Administrator may make available on its internet website to the Initial Purchaser, the Servicer, the Special Servicer and each Certificateholder certain other information with respect to the Trust Loan (subject to the limitations of Section 3.18) and will provide such information to the 17g-5 Information Provider (who shall post it to the 17g-5 Information Website pursuant to Section 8.14(b)).
In addition, the Certificate Administrator shall make available on its website such information as set forth in Section 8.14(b) herein.
4.5. Investor Q&A Forum; Investor Registry and Rating Agency Q&A Forum. (a) The Certificate Administrator shall make available, only to Privileged Persons, the Investor Q&A Forum. The “Investor Q&A Forum” shall be a service available on the Certificate Administrator’s Website, where (i) Certificateholders and Beneficial Owners who provide the Certificate Administrator with an Investor Certification in the form of Exhibit J-1 may submit questions to the Certificate Administrator relating to the Distribution Date Statement, or submit questions to the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, relating to the reports being made available pursuant to Section 8.14(b)(ii)(B), the Whole Loan or the Property (each an “Inquiry” and collectively, “Inquiries”), and (ii) Privileged Persons may view Inquiries that have been previously submitted and answered, together with the answers thereto. Upon receipt of an Inquiry for the Servicer or the Special Servicer, the Certificate Administrator shall forward the Inquiry to the Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, in each case via email within a
commercially reasonable period of time following receipt thereof. Following receipt of an Inquiry, the Certificate Administrator, the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, unless it determines not to answer such Inquiry as provided below, shall reply to the Inquiry, which reply of the Servicer or Special Servicer shall be by email to the Certificate Administrator. The Certificate Administrator shall post (within a commercially reasonable period of time following preparation or receipt of such answer, as the case may be) such Inquiry and the related answer to the Certificate Administrator’s Website. If the Certificate Administrator, the Servicer or the Special Servicer determines, in its respective sole discretion, that (i) any Inquiry is beyond the scope of the topics described above, (ii) answering any Inquiry would not be in the best interests of the Trust Fund and/or the Certificateholders, (iii) answering any Inquiry would be in violation of applicable law, the Loan Documents or this Agreement, (iv) answering any Inquiry would, or is reasonably expected to, result in a waiver of attorney client privilege or the disclosure of attorney work product, (v) answering any Inquiry would materially increase the duties of, or result in significant additional cost or expense to, the Certificate Administrator, the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, (vi) answering any Inquiry is otherwise, for any reason, not advisable or (vii) answering any Inquiry would violate the applicable confidentiality provisions, it shall not be required to answer such Inquiry and, in the case of the Servicer or the Special Servicer, shall promptly notify the Certificate Administrator of such determination. The Certificate Administrator shall notify the Person who submitted such Inquiry in the event that the Inquiry will not be answered. Any notice by the Certificate Administrator to the Person who submitted an Inquiry that will not be answered shall include the following statement: “Because the Trust and Servicing Agreement provides that the Certificate Administrator, the Servicer and the Special Servicer shall not answer an Inquiry if it determines, in its respective sole discretion, that (i) any Inquiry is beyond the scope of the topics described in the Trust and Servicing Agreement, (ii) answering any Inquiry would not be in the best interests of the Trust and/or the Certificateholders, (iii) answering any Inquiry would be in violation of applicable law or the Loan Documents, (iv) answering any Inquiry would, or is reasonably expected to, result in a waiver of attorney client privilege or the disclosure of attorney work product, (v) answering any Inquiry would materially increase the duties of, or result in significant additional cost or expense to, the Certificate Administrator, the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, (vi) answering any Inquiry is otherwise, for any reason, not advisable or (vii) answering any Inquiry would violate the applicable confidentiality provisions, no inference should be drawn from the fact that the Certificate Administrator, the Servicer or the Special Servicer has declined to answer the Inquiry.” Answers posted on the Investor Q&A Forum will be attributable only to the respondent, and shall not be deemed to be answers from any of the Depositor, the Initial Purchaser or any of their respective Affiliates. None of the Initial Purchaser, the Depositor, the Special Servicer, the Servicer, the Trustee or any of their respective Affiliates will certify to any of the information posted in the Investor Q&A Forum and no such party shall have any responsibility or liability for the content of any such information. The Certificate Administrator shall not be required to post to the Certificate Administrator’s Website any Inquiry or answer thereto that the Certificate Administrator determines, in its sole discretion, is administrative or ministerial in nature. The Investor Q&A Forum will not reflect questions, answers and other communications that are not submitted via the Certificate Administrator’s Website. In addition to the Certificate Administrator’s receipt of the Investor Certification to confirm that such Person is a Privileged Person, the Certificate Administrator may require acceptance of an additional waiver and disclaimer for access to the Investor Q&A Forum.
(b) The Certificate Administrator shall make available to any Certificateholder and any Beneficial Owner, the Investor Registry. The “Investor Registry” shall be a voluntary service available on the Certificate Administrator’s Website, where Certificateholders and Beneficial Owners can register and thereafter obtain information with respect to any other Certificateholder or Beneficial Owner that has so registered. Any person registering to use the Investor Registry will be required to certify that (a) it is a Certificateholder or a Beneficial Owner and (b) it grants authorization to the Certificate Administrator to make its name and contact information available on the Investor Registry for at least 45 days from the date of such certification to other persons entitled to access the Investor Registry. Such Person shall then be asked to enter certain mandatory fields such as the individual’s name, the company name and email address, as well as certain optional fields such as address, phone, and Class(es) of Certificates owned. If any Certificateholder or Beneficial Owner notifies the Certificate Administrator that it wishes to be removed from the Investor Registry (which notice may not be within 45 days of its registration), the Certificate Administrator shall promptly remove it from the Investor Registry. The Certificate Administrator will not be responsible for verifying or validating any information submitted on the Investor Registry, or for monitoring or otherwise maintaining the accuracy of any information thereon. The Certificate Administrator may require acceptance of a waiver and disclaimer for access to the Investor Registry.
(c) Certain information concerning the Trust Loan and the Certificates, including the Distribution Date Statements, CREFC® Reports and supplemental notices, shall be provided by the Certificate Administrator to certain market data providers upon the consent of the Depositor, and upon receipt by the Certificate Administrator from such person of a certification in the form of Exhibit J-3 hereto, which certification may be submitted electronically via the Certificate Administrator’s Website. The Depositor hereby consents to the provision of such information to Bloomberg Financial Markets L.P., Trepp LLC, Intex Solutions, Inc., BlackRock Financial Management, Inc, CMBS.com, Inc., Interactive Data Corp. and Markit Group Limited, and the provision of such information shall not constitute a breach of this Agreement by the Certificate Administrator.
(d) The 17g-5 Information Provider shall make available, only to NRSROs, the Rating Agency Q&A Forum and Document Request Tool. The “Rating Agency Q&A Forum and Document Request Tool” shall be a service available on the 17g-5 Information Provider’s Website, where NRSROs may (i) submit inquiries to the Certificate Administrator relating to the Distribution Date Statement, (ii) submit inquiries electronically to the 17g-5 Information Provider to forward to the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, relating to the reports prepared by such parties, the Whole Loan or the Property (each such submission identified in sub-clauses (i) and (ii) hereof, a “Rating Agency Inquiry”) or (iii) view Rating Agency Inquiries that have been previously submitted and answered, together with the responses thereto. Upon receipt of a Rating Agency Inquiry for the Servicer, the Special Servicer or the Certificate Administrator, the 17g-5 Information Provider shall forward the Rating Agency Inquiry to the appropriate person, in each case within a commercially reasonable period of time following receipt thereof. Following receipt of a Rating Agency Inquiry from the 17g-5 Information Provider, the Certificate Administrator, the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, unless it determines not to answer such Rating Agency Inquiry as provided below, shall reply by email to the 17g-5 Information Provider. The 17g-5 Information Provider shall post (within a commercially reasonable period of time following receipt of such response) such Rating Agency Inquiry and the related response (or such reports, as applicable) to the Rating
Agency Q&A Forum and Document Request Tool. If the Certificate Administrator, the Servicer or the Special Servicer determines, in its respective sole discretion, that (I) answering any Rating Agency Inquiry would be in violation of applicable law, the Accepted Servicing Practices, this Agreement or the Loan Documents, (II) answering any Rating Agency Inquiry would or is reasonably expected to result in a waiver of an attorney-client privilege with, or the disclosure of attorney work product of, any counsel engaged by the Certificate Administrator, the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, or (III) (A) answering any Rating Agency Inquiry would materially increase the duties of, or result in significant additional cost or expense to, the Certificate Administrator, the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, and (B) the Certificate Administrator, the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, determines in accordance with the Accepted Servicing Practices (or in good faith, in the case of the Certificate Administrator) that the performance of such duties or the payment of such costs and expenses is beyond the scope of its duties in its capacity as Certificate Administrator, Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, under this Agreement, it shall not be required to answer such Rating Agency Inquiry and shall promptly notify the 17g-5 Information Provider by email of such determination. The 17g-5 Information Provider shall promptly thereafter post the Rating Agency Inquiry with the reason it was not answered to the Rating Agency Q&A Forum and Document Request Tool. The 17g-5 Information Provider will not be liable for the failure by any other such Person to answer any such Rating Agency Inquiry. Questions posted on the Rating Agency Q&A Forum and Document Request Tool shall not be attributed to the submitting NRSRO. Answers posted on the Rating Agency Q&A Forum and Document Request Tool shall be attributable only to the respondent, and shall not be deemed to be answers from any other person. None of the Initial Purchaser, the Depositor, or any of their respective Affiliates shall certify to any of the information posted in the Rating Agency Q&A Forum and Document Request Tool and no such party shall have any responsibility or liability for the content of any such information. The 17g-5 Information Provider shall not be required to post to the 17g-5 Information Provider’s Website any Rating Agency Inquiry or answer thereto that the 17g-5 Information Provider determines, in its sole discretion, is administrative or ministerial in nature. The Rating Agency Q&A Forum and Document Request Tool will not reflect questions, answers and other communications that are not submitted via the 17g-5 Information Provider’s Website.
5. THE CERTIFICATES
5.1. The Certificates. (a) The Certificates shall be issued in substantially the respective forms set forth as Exhibits A-1 and A-2 hereto, with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Agreement or as may, in the reasonable judgment of the Certificate Registrar, be necessary, appropriate or convenient to comply, or facilitate compliance, with applicable laws, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required by law, or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Certificates, as evidenced by their execution thereof.
(b) The Certificates of the Class A Certificates shall be issued in minimum denominations of $100,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. If the Original Certificate Balance of the Class A Certificates does not equal an integral multiple of $1,000, then a single additional Certificate of such Class may be issued in a minimum denomination of authorized Original Certificate Balance that includes the excess of (i) the Original Certificate
Balance of such Class over (ii) the largest integral multiple of $1,000 that does not exceed such amount. The Class R Certificates shall be issued, maintained and transferred in minimum percentage interests of 10% of such Class R Certificates and in integral multiples of 1% in excess thereof.
(c) One authorized signatory shall sign the Certificates for the Certificate Registrar by manual or facsimile signature. If an authorized signatory whose signature is on a Certificate no longer holds that office at the time the Certificate Registrar countersigns the Certificate, the Certificate shall be valid nevertheless. A Certificate shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the Certificate Registrar (who may be the same officer who executed the Certificate) manually countersigns the Certificate. The signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Certificate has been executed and countersigned under this Agreement.
5.2. Form and Registration. (a) Each Class of the Certificates (other than the Class R Certificates) sold in offshore transactions in reliance on Regulation S under the Act shall be initially be represented by a temporary global certificate in definitive, fully registered form without interest coupons, substantially in the applicable form set forth as an exhibit hereto (each a “Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate”), which shall be deposited on the Closing Date on behalf of the purchasers of the Certificates represented thereby with the Certificate Registrar, at its principal trust office, as custodian, for the Depository, and registered in the name of the Depository or the nominee of the Depository for the account of designated agents holding on behalf of the Euroclear System (“Euroclear”) and/or Clearstream Banking, société anonyme (“Clearstream”). Prior to the expiration of the 40-day period commencing on the later of the commencement of the offering and the Closing Date (the “Restricted Period”), beneficial interests in each Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate may be held only through Euroclear or Clearstream. After the expiration of the Restricted Period, a beneficial interest in a Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate may be exchanged for an interest in the related permanent global certificate of the same Class (a “Regulation S Global Certificate”) in the applicable form set forth as an exhibit hereto in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 5.3(f). During the Restricted Period, distributions due in respect of a beneficial interest in a Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate shall only be made upon delivery to the Certificate Registrar by Euroclear or Clearstream, as applicable, of a Non-U.S. Beneficial Ownership Certification. After the expiration of the Restricted Period, distributions due in respect of any beneficial interests in a Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate shall not be made to the holders of such beneficial interests unless exchange for a beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Certificate of the same Class is improperly withheld or refused. The aggregate Certificate Balance of a Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate or a Regulation S Global Certificate may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Certificate Registrar, as custodian for the Depository, as hereinafter provided.
On the Closing Date, the Certificate Administrator shall execute, the Authenticating Agent shall authenticate, and the Certificate Administrator shall deliver to the Certificate Registrar the Regulation S Global Certificates, which shall be held by the Certificate Registrar for purposes of effecting the exchanges contemplated by the preceding paragraph.
(b) Certificates of each Class (other than the Class R Certificates) offered and sold to QIBs in reliance on Rule 144A under the Act (“Rule 144A”) shall be represented by a
single, global certificate in definitive, fully registered form without interest coupons, substantially in the applicable form set forth as an exhibit hereto (each, a “Rule 144A Global Certificate” and, together with the Temporary Regulation S Global Certificates and the Regulation S Global Certificates, the “Global Certificates”), which shall be deposited with the Certificate Registrar or an agent of the Certificate Registrar, as custodian for the Depository, and registered in the name of the Depository or a nominee of the Depository. The aggregate Certificate Balance of a Rule 144A Global Certificate may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Certificate Registrar, as custodian for the Depository, as hereinafter provided.
(c) Certificates of each Class that are initially offered and sold to investors that are Institutional Accredited Investors that are not QIBs and the Class R Certificates (the “Non-Book Entry Certificates”) shall be in the form of Definitive Certificates, substantially in the applicable form set forth as an exhibit hereto, and shall be registered in the name of such investors or their nominees by the Certificate Registrar who shall deliver the certificates for such Non-Book Entry Certificates to the respective beneficial owners or owners.
(d) Owners of beneficial interests in Global Certificates of any Class shall not be entitled to receive physical delivery of certificated Certificates unless: (i) the Depository advises the Certificate Registrar in writing that the Depository is no longer willing or able to discharge properly its responsibilities as depository with respect to the Global Certificates of such Class or ceases to be a Clearing Agency, and the Certificate Registrar and the Depository are unable to locate a qualified successor within 90 days of such notice or (ii) the Certificate Administrator or the Trustee has instituted or has been directed to institute any judicial proceeding to enforce the rights of the Holders of such Class and the Certificate Administrator or the Trustee, as the case may be, has been advised by counsel that in connection with such proceeding it is necessary or appropriate for the Certificate Registrar to obtain possession of the Certificates of such Class; provided, however, that under no circumstances will certificated Certificates be issued to beneficial owners of a Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate. Upon notice of the occurrence of any of the events described in clause (i) or (ii) above with respect to any Certificates of a Class that are in the form of Global Certificates and upon surrender by the Depository of any Global Certificate of such Class and receipt from the Depository of instructions for reregistration, the Certificate Registrar shall issue Certificates of such Class in the form of Definitive Certificates (bearing, in the case of a Definitive Certificate issued for a Rule 144A Global Certificate, the same legends regarding transfer restrictions borne by such Global Certificate), and thereafter the Certificate Registrar shall recognize the holders of such Definitive Certificates as Certificateholders under this Agreement.
5.3. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. (a) The Certificate Administrator shall keep or cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office books (the “Certificate Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Certificate Administrator shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided (the Certificate Administrator, in such capacity, being the “Certificate Registrar”). In such capacity, the Certificate Administrator shall be responsible for, among other things, (i) maintaining the Certificate Register and a record of the aggregate holdings of Certificates of each Class represented by a Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate, a Regulation S Global Certificate and a Rule 144A Global Certificate and
accepting Certificates for exchange and registration of transfer and (ii) transmitting to the Depositor, the Trustee, the Servicer and the Special Servicer any notices from the Certificateholders.
(b) Subject to the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Article 5, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate, the Certificate Registrar shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations, in like aggregate interest and of the same Class.
(c) Rule 144A Global Certificate to Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate. If a holder of a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Certificate deposited with the Certificate Registrar as custodian for the Depository wishes at any time to exchange its interest in such Rule 144A Global Certificate for an interest in the Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate of the same Class, or to transfer its interest in such Rule 144A Global Certificate to a Person who is required to take delivery thereof in the form of an interest in the Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate of the same Class, such holder may, subject to the rules and procedures of the Depository, exchange or cause the exchange of such interest for an equivalent beneficial interest in such Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate. Upon receipt by the Certificate Registrar, as registrar, at its office designated in Section 5.7 hereof, of (1) instructions given in accordance with the Depository’s procedures from a Depository Participant directing the Certificate Registrar to credit, or cause to be credited, a beneficial interest in the Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate in an amount equal to the beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Certificate to be exchanged, (2) a written order given in accordance with the Depository’s procedures containing information regarding the Euroclear or Clearstream account to be credited with such increase and the name of such account and (3) a certificate in the form of Exhibit C hereto given by the holder of such beneficial interest stating that the transfer of such interest has been made in compliance with the transfer restrictions applicable to the Global Certificates and pursuant to and in accordance with Regulation S, then the Certificate Registrar shall instruct the Depository to reduce, or cause to be reduced, the Certificate Balance of the Rule 144A Global Certificate and to increase, or cause to be increased, the Certificate Balance of the Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate by the aggregate Certificate Balance of the beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Certificate to be exchanged, to credit or cause to be credited to the account of the Person specified in such instructions (who shall be the agent member of Euroclear or Clearstream, or both) a beneficial interest in the Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate equal to the reduction in the Certificate Balance of the Rule 144A Global Certificate, and to debit, or cause to be debited, from the account of the Person making such exchange or transfer the beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Certificate that is being exchanged or transferred.
(d) Rule 144A Global Certificate to Regulation S Global Certificate. If a holder of a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Certificate deposited with the Certificate Registrar as custodian for the Depository wishes at any time to exchange its interest in such Rule 144A Global Certificate for an interest in the Regulation S Global Certificate of the same Class, or to transfer its interest in such Rule 144A Global Certificate to a Person who is required to take delivery thereof in the form of an interest in a Regulation S Global Certificate, such holder may, subject to the rules and procedures of the Depository, exchange, or cause the exchange of, such interest for an equivalent beneficial interest in such Regulation S Global
Certificate. Upon receipt by the Certificate Registrar, as registrar, at its office designated in Section 5.7 hereof, of (1) instructions given in accordance with the Depository’s procedures from a Depository Participant directing the Certificate Registrar to credit or cause to be credited a beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Certificate in an amount equal to the beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Certificate to be exchanged, (2) a written order given in accordance with the Depository’s procedures containing information regarding the participant account of the Depository to be credited with such increase and (3) a certificate in the form of Exhibit D hereto given by the holder of such beneficial interest stating (A) that the transfer of such interest has been made in compliance with the transfer restrictions applicable to the Global Certificates and pursuant to and in accordance with Regulation S, (B) that the Certificate being transferred is not a “restricted security” as defined in Rule 144 under the Act or (C) that the transferee is otherwise entitled to hold its interest in the applicable Certificates in the form of an interest in the Regulation S Global Certificate, without any registration of such Certificates under the Act (in which case such certificate shall enclose an Opinion of Counsel to such effect and such other documents as the Certificate Registrar may reasonably require), then the Certificate Registrar shall instruct the Depository to reduce, or cause to be reduced, the Certificate Balance of the Rule 144A Global Certificate and to increase, or cause to be increased, the Certificate Balance of the Regulation S Global Certificate by the aggregate Certificate Balance of the beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Certificate to be exchanged, to credit or cause to be credited to the account of the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Certificate equal to the reduction in the Certificate Balance of the Rule 144A Global Certificate, and to debit, or cause to be debited, from the account of the Person making such exchange or transfer the beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Certificate that is being exchanged or transferred.
(e) Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate or Regulation S Global Certificate to Rule 144A Global Certificate. If a holder of a beneficial interest in a Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate or Regulation S Global Certificate deposited with the Certificate Registrar as custodian for the Depository wishes at any time to exchange its interest in such Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate or Regulation S Global Certificate for an interest in the Rule 144A Global Certificate of the same Class, or to transfer its interest in such Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate or Regulation S Global Certificate to a Person who is required to take delivery thereof in the form of an interest in the Rule 144A Global Certificate, such holder may, subject to the rules and procedures of Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, and the Depository, exchange or cause the exchange of such interest for an equivalent beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Certificate of the same Class. Upon receipt by the Certificate Registrar, as registrar, at its office designated in Section 5.7 hereof, of (1) instructions from Euroclear or Clearstream, if applicable, and the Depository, directing the Certificate Registrar, as registrar, to credit or cause to be credited a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Certificate equal to the beneficial interest in the Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate or Regulation S Global Certificate to be exchanged, such instructions to contain information regarding the participant account with the Depository to be credited with such increase, (2) with respect to a transfer of an interest in the Regulation S Global Certificate, information regarding the participant account of the Depository to be debited with such decrease and (3) with respect to a transfer of an interest in the Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate (but not the Regulation S Global Certificate) for an interest in the Rule 144A Global Certificate, a certificate in the form of Exhibit E hereto given by the holder of such beneficial interest and stating that the Person transferring such interest in
the Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate reasonably believes that the Person acquiring such interest in the Rule 144A Global Certificate is a QIB and is obtaining such beneficial interest in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, then the Certificate Registrar shall instruct the Depository to reduce, or cause to be reduced, the Certificate Balance of the Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate or Regulation S Global Certificate and to increase, or cause to be increased, the Certificate Balance of the Rule 144A Global Certificate by the aggregate Certificate Balance of the beneficial interest in the Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate or Regulation S Global Certificate to be exchanged, and the Certificate Registrar shall instruct the Depository, concurrently with such reduction, to credit, or cause to be credited, to the account of the Person specified in such instructions, a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Certificate equal to the reduction in the Certificate Balance of the Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate or Regulation S Global Certificate and to debit, or cause to be debited, from the account of the Person making such transfer the beneficial interest in the Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate or Regulation S Global Certificate that is being transferred.
(f) Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate to Regulation S Global Certificate. Interests in a Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate as to which the Certificate Registrar has received from Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, a certificate (a “Non-U.S. Beneficial Ownership Certification”) to the effect that Euroclear or Clearstream, as applicable, has received a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit F hereto from the holder of a beneficial interest in such Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate, shall be exchanged after the Restricted Period, for interests in the Regulation S Global Certificate of the same Class. The Certificate Registrar shall effect such exchange by delivering to the Depository for credit to the respective accounts of such holders, a duly executed and authenticated Regulation S Global Certificate, representing the aggregate Certificate Balance of interests in the Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate initially exchanged for interests in the Regulation S Global Certificate. The delivery to the Certificate Registrar by Euroclear or Clearstream of the certificate or certificates referred to above may be relied upon by the Depositor and the Certificate Registrar as conclusive evidence that the certificate or certificates referred to therein has or have been delivered to Euroclear or Clearstream pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate. Upon any exchange of interests in the Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate for interests in the Regulation S Global Certificate, the Certificate Registrar shall endorse the Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate to reflect the reduction in the Certificate Balance represented thereby by the amount so exchanged and shall endorse the Regulation S Global Certificate to reflect the corresponding increase in the amount represented thereby. Until so exchanged in full and except as provided therein, the Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate, and the Certificates evidenced thereby, shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Agreement as the Regulation S Global Certificate and Rule 144A Global Certificate authenticated and delivered hereunder.
(g) Non-Book Entry Certificate to Global Certificate. If a holder of a Non-Book Entry Certificate (other than a Class R Certificate) wishes at any time to exchange its interest in such Non-Book Entry Certificate for an interest in a Global Certificate of the same Class, or to transfer all or part of such Non-Book Entry Certificate to a Person who is entitled to take delivery thereof in the form of an interest in a Global Certificate, such holder may, subject to the rules and procedures of Euroclear or Clearstream, if applicable, and the Depository, cause the exchange of all or part of such Non-Book Entry Certificate for an equivalent beneficial
interest in the appropriate Global Certificate of the same Class. Upon receipt by the Certificate Registrar, as registrar, at its office designated in Section 5.7 hereof, of (1) such Non-Book Entry Certificate, duly endorsed as provided herein, (2) instructions from such holder directing the Certificate Registrar, as registrar, to credit, or cause to be credited, a beneficial interest in the applicable Global Certificate equal to the portion of the Certificate Balance of the Non-Book Entry Certificate to be exchanged, such instructions to contain information regarding the participant account with the Depository to be credited with such increase and (3) a certificate in the form of Exhibit G hereto (in the event that the applicable Global Certificate is the Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate), in the form of Exhibit H hereto (in the event that the applicable Global Certificate is the Regulation S Global Certificate) or in the form of Exhibit I hereto (in the event that the applicable Global Certificate is the Rule 144A Global Certificate), then the Certificate Registrar, as registrar, shall cancel, or cause to be canceled, all or part of such Non-Book Entry Certificate, shall, if applicable, execute, authenticate and deliver to the transferor a new Non-Book Entry Certificate equal to the aggregate Certificate Balance of the portion retained by such transferor and shall instruct the Depository to increase, or cause to be increased, such Global Certificate by the aggregate Certificate Balance of the portion of the Non-Book Entry Certificate to be exchanged and to credit, or cause to be credited, to the account of the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in the applicable Global Certificate equal to the Certificate Balance of the portion of the Non-Book Entry Certificate so canceled.
(h) Non-Book Entry Certificates on Initial Issuance Only. Subject to the issuance of Definitive Certificates, if and when permitted by Section 5.2(d), no Non-Book Entry Certificate shall be issued to a transferee of an interest in any Rule 144A Global Certificate, Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate or Regulation S Global Certificate (or any portion thereof).
(i) Other Exchanges. In the event that a Global Certificate is exchanged for a Definitive Certificate, such Certificates may be exchanged only in accordance with such procedures as are substantially consistent with the provisions of clauses (c) through (f) above (including the certification requirements intended to ensure that such transfers comply with Rule 144A or Regulation S under the Act, at the case may be) and such other procedures as may from time to time be adopted by the Certificate Registrar.
(j) Restricted Period. Prior to the termination of the Restricted Period with respect to the issuance of the Certificates, transfers of interests in the Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate to U.S. persons (as defined in Regulation S) shall be limited to transfers made pursuant to the provisions of clause (e) above.
(k) If Certificates are issued upon the transfer, exchange or replacement of Certificates bearing a restrictive legend relating to compliance with the Act, or if a request is made to remove such legend on Certificates, the Certificates so issued shall bear the restrictive legend, or such legend shall not be removed, as the case may be, unless there is delivered to the Certificate Registrar such satisfactory evidence, which may include an Opinion of Counsel that neither such legend nor the restrictions on transfer set forth therein are required to ensure that transfers thereof comply with the provisions of Rule 144A, Rule 144 or Regulation S under the Act or, with respect to Non-Book Entry Certificates, that such Certificates are not “restricted”
within the meaning of Rule 144 under the Act. Upon provision of such satisfactory evidence, the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver Certificates that do not bear such legend.
(l) All Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer and exchange shall be canceled and subsequently destroyed by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with the Certificate Registrar’s customary procedures.
(m) No Class R Certificate may be purchased by or transferred to any prospective purchaser or transferee that is or will be an employee benefit plan or other plan subject to the fiduciary responsibility provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a governmental plan (as defined in Section 3(32) of ERISA) that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is, to a material extent, similar to the foregoing provisions of ERISA or the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”), or any person acting on behalf of any such Plan or using the assets of a Plan to purchase such Certificate. Each prospective transferee of a Class R Certificate shall deliver to the transferor, the Certificate Registrar and the Certificate Administrator a representation letter, substantially in the form of Exhibit M-3, stating that the prospective transferee meets the requirements of the preceding sentence. No Class A Certificates may be purchased by or transferred to any prospective purchaser or transferee that is or will be a Plan, or any person acting on behalf of any such plan or using the assets of a Plan to purchase such Certificate, unless (A) the purchaser is an Institutional Accredited Investor and (B) the acquisition, holding and disposition of such Certificate by the purchaser will not constitute or otherwise result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (or a similar non-exempt violation of Similar Law). Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions shall be null and void ab initio and shall vest no rights in any purported transferee and shall not relieve the transferor of any obligations with respect to the applicable Certificates.
(n) Each Person who has or acquires any Residual Ownership Interest shall be deemed by the acceptance or acquisition of such Residual Ownership Interest to have agreed to be bound by the following provisions and the rights of each Person acquiring any Residual Ownership Interest are expressly subject to the following provisions:
(i) Each Person acquiring or holding any Residual Ownership Interest shall be a Permitted Transferee and shall not acquire or hold such Residual Ownership Interest as agent (including a broker, nominee or other middleman) on behalf of any Person that is not a Permitted Transferee. Any such Person shall promptly notify the Certificate Registrar of any change or impending change in its status (or the status of the beneficial owner of such Residual Ownership Interest) as a Permitted Transferee. Any acquisition of a Residual Ownership Interest by a Person who is not a Permitted Transferee or by a Person who is acting as an agent of a Person who is not a Permitted Transferee shall be void ab initio and of no effect, and the immediately preceding owner who was a Permitted Transferee shall be restored to registered and beneficial ownership of the Residual Ownership Interest as soon and as fully as possible.
(ii) No Residual Ownership Interest may be Transferred, and no such Transfer shall be registered in the Certificate Register, without the express written consent of the Certificate Registrar, and the Certificate Registrar shall not recognize the Transfer, and
such proposed Transfer shall not be effective, without such consent with respect thereto. In connection with any proposed Transfer of any Residual Ownership Interest, other than in connection with the initial Transfer thereof to the Initial Purchaser, the Certificate Registrar shall, as a condition to such consent, (x) require the proposed transferee to deliver, and the proposed transferee shall deliver to the Certificate Registrar and to the proposed transferor, an affidavit in substantially the form attached as Exhibit M-1 (a “Transferee Affidavit”) of the proposed transferee (A) that such proposed transferee is a Permitted Transferee and (B) stating that (1) the proposed transferee historically has paid its debts as they have come due and intends to do so in the future, (2) the proposed transferee understands that, as the holder of a Residual Ownership Interest, it may incur liabilities in excess of cash flows generated by the residual interest, (3) the proposed transferee intends to pay taxes associated with holding the Residual Ownership Interest as they become due, (4) the proposed transferee will not cause income with respect to the Residual Ownership Interest to be attributable to a foreign permanent establishment or fixed base, within the meaning of an applicable income tax treaty, of such proposed transferee or any other U.S. Person, (5) the proposed transferee will not transfer the Residual Ownership Interest to any Person that does not provide a Transferee Affidavit or as to which the proposed transferee has actual knowledge that such Person is not a Permitted Transferee or is acting as an agent (including a broker, nominee or other middleman) for a Person that is not a Permitted Transferee, and (6) the proposed transferee expressly agrees to be bound by and to abide by the provisions of this Section 5.3(n) and (y) other than in connection with the initial issuance of a Class R Certificate, require a statement from the proposed transferor substantially in the form attached as Exhibit M-2 (the “Transferor Letter”), that the proposed transferor has no actual knowledge that the proposed transferee is not a Permitted Transferee and has no actual knowledge or reason to know that the proposed transferee’s statements in the Transferee Affidavit are false.
(iii) Notwithstanding the delivery of a Transferee Affidavit by a proposed transferee under clause (ii) above, if a Responsible Officer of the Certificate Registrar has actual knowledge that the proposed transferee is not a Permitted Transferee, no Transfer to such proposed transferee shall be effected and such proposed Transfer shall not be registered on the Certificate Register; provided, however, that the Certificate Registrar shall not be required to conduct any independent investigation to determine whether a proposed transferee is a Permitted Transferee. Upon notice to the Certificate Registrar that there has occurred a Transfer to any Person that is a Disqualified Organization or an agent thereof (including a broker, nominee or middleman) in contravention of the foregoing restrictions, and in any event not later than 60 days after a request for information from the transferor of such Residual Ownership Interest or such agent, the Certificate Registrar and the Certificate Administrator agree to furnish to the IRS and the transferor of such Residual Ownership Interest or such agent such information necessary to the application of Section 860E(e) of the Code as may be required by the Code, including, but not limited to, the present value of the total anticipated excess inclusions with respect to such Class R Certificate (or portion thereof) for periods after such Transfer. At the election of the Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar may charge a reasonable fee for computing and furnishing such information to the transferor or to
such agent referred to above; provided, however, that such Persons shall in no event be excused from furnishing such information.
(iv) The Class R Certificates may only be issued as Definitive Certificates, and transferred to and owned by QIBs.
5.4. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates. If (a) any mutilated Certificate is surrendered to the Certificate Registrar, or the Certificate Registrar receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Certificate and (b) there is delivered to the Certificate Registrar such security or indemnity as may be required by it to save it harmless, then, in the absence of actual notice to the Certificate Registrar that such Certificate has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Certificate Registrar shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate, a new Certificate of like tenor and interest in the Trust Fund. In connection with the issuance of any new Certificate under this Section 5.4, the Certificate Registrar may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Certificate Registrar) connected therewith. Any replacement Certificate issued pursuant to this Section 5.4 shall constitute complete and indefeasible evidence of ownership in the Trust Fund, as if originally issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate shall be found at any time.
5.5. Persons Deemed Owners. The Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Certificate Administrator, the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar, and any agent of any of them, may treat the Person in whose name any Certificate is registered as the owner of such Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions as provided in this Agreement and for all other purposes whatsoever, and neither the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Certificate Administrator, the Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, nor any agent of any of them shall be affected by any notice to the contrary; provided, however, that to the extent that a party to this Agreement responsible for distributing any report, statement or other information required to be distributed to Certificateholders has been provided an Investor Certification, such party to this Agreement shall distribute such report, statement or other information to such beneficial owner (or prospective transferee).
5.6. Access to List of Certificateholders’ Names and Addresses; Special Notices. The Certificate Registrar shall maintain in as current form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of the Certificateholders. If any Certificateholder that has provided an Investor Certification (a) requests in writing from the Certificate Registrar a list of the names and addresses of Certificateholders, (b) states that such Certificateholder desires to communicate with other Certificateholders with respect to its rights under this Agreement or under the Certificates and (c) provides a copy of the communication which such Certificateholder proposes to transmit, then the Certificate Registrar shall, within 10 Business Days after the receipt of such request, afford such Certificateholder access during normal business hours to a current list of the Certificateholders. Every Certificateholder, by receiving and holding a Certificate, agrees that the Certificate Registrar and the Certificate Administrator shall not be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to the list of the Certificateholders hereunder, regardless of the source from which such information was derived. The Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Trustee and the Depositor shall
be entitled to a list of the names and addresses of Certificateholders from time to time upon request therefor.
Upon the written request of any Certificateholder or Beneficial Owner that (a) has provided an Investor Certification, (b) states that such Certificateholder or Beneficial Owner desires the Certificate Administrator to transmit a notice to all Certificateholders or Beneficial Owner stating that such Certificateholder wishes to be contacted by other Certificateholders or Beneficial Owners, setting forth the relevant contact information and briefly stating the reason for the requested contact (a “Special Notice”) and (c) provides a copy of the Special Notice which such Certificateholder or Beneficial Owner proposes to transmit, the Certificate Administrator shall post such Special Notice to the Certificate Administrator’s Website pursuant to Section 8.14(b) and shall mail such Special Notice to all Certificateholders at their respective addresses appearing on the Certificate Register. The costs and expenses of the Certificate Administrator associated with delivering any such Special Notice shall be borne by the party requesting such Special Notice. Every Certificateholder and Beneficial Owner, by receiving and holding or beneficially owning a Certificate, agrees that neither the Certificate Administrator nor the Certificate Registrar shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such Special Notice to Certificateholders, regardless of the information set forth in such Special Notice.
5.7. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Certificate Registrar shall maintain or cause to be maintained an office or offices or agency or agencies where Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Certificate Registrar in respect of the Certificates and this Agreement may be served. The Certificate Registrar initially designates its office at Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, Marquette Avenue and Sixth Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55479-0113, as its office for such purposes. The Certificate Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Certificateholders and the Borrower of any change in the location of the Certificate Register or any such office or agency.
6. THE DEPOSITOR, THE SERVICER AND THE SPECIAL SERVICER
6.1. Respective Liabilities of the Depositor, the Servicer and the Special Servicer. The Depositor, the Servicer and the Special Servicer each shall be liable in accordance herewith only to the extent of the obligations specifically imposed by this Agreement.
6.2. Merger or Consolidation of the Servicer or the Special Servicer. Each of the Servicer and Special Servicer shall keep in full effect its existence and rights as an entity under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, and shall be in compliance with the laws of all jurisdictions to the extent necessary to perform its duties under this Agreement.
Any Person into which the Servicer or the Special Servicer may be merged or consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger or consolidation to which the Servicer or the Special Servicer shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to the business of the Servicer or the Special Servicer, shall be the successor of the Servicer or Special Servicer, as the case may be, hereunder, and shall be deemed to have assumed all of the liabilities and obligations of such Servicer or Special Servicer hereunder, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary
notwithstanding; provided, however, that such successor or surviving Person would not cause the then current rating on any of the Certificates to be qualified, downgraded or withdrawn by any of the Rating Agencies, as evidenced in writing from such Rating Agencies and delivered to the Certificate Administrator and the Trustee.
6.3. Limitation on Liability of the Depositor, the Servicer, the Special Servicer and Others. (a) Neither the Depositor, the Servicer, the Special Servicer nor any of their respective directors, officers, members, managers, partners, employees, Affiliates or agents shall be under any liability to the Trust, the Certificateholders or the Companion Loan Holder for any action taken or for refraining from the taking of any action in good faith pursuant to this Agreement, actions taken or not taken at the direction of Certificateholders or the Companion Loan Holder in accordance with this Agreement or the Co-Lender Agreement, or for errors in judgment; provided, however, that this provision shall not protect the Depositor, the Servicer, the Special Servicer or any such other person against any breach of warranties or representations made herein or any liability which would otherwise be imposed by reason of willful misconduct, bad faith or negligence in the performance of its duties or by reason of negligent disregard of its obligations and duties hereunder and shall not release the Depositor or its Affiliates from, or otherwise relate to any liability or obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document or the Loan Seller under the Loan Purchase Agreement. The Depositor, the Servicer, the Special Servicer and any of their respective directors, officers, employees, members, managers, partners, Affiliates or agents may reasonably rely on any document of any kind prima facie properly executed and submitted by any Person respecting any matters arising hereunder. The Depositor, the Servicer, the Special Servicer and any of their respective directors, officers, members, managers, partners, employees, agents, Affiliates or other “controlling persons” within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act (“Controlling Persons”), shall be indemnified by the Trust (in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 3.4(c)) and held harmless against any loss, liability, claim, demand or expense incurred in connection with any legal action or other claims, costs, expenses, losses, penalties, fines, foreclosures, judgments or liabilities relating to this Agreement, the Whole Loan, the Property, or the Certificates other than any loss, liability or expense incurred by reason of willful misconduct, bad faith or negligence by it in the performance of its duties hereunder or by reason of its negligent disregard of its obligations and duties hereunder or for any liability or obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document or the Loan Seller under the Loan Purchase Agreement. None of the Depositor, the Servicer or Special Servicer shall be under any obligation to appear in, prosecute or defend any legal action which is not incidental to its respective duties under this Agreement and which in its opinion may involve it in any expense or liability; provided, however, that the Depositor, the Servicer or the Special Servicer may, in its discretion, undertake any such action which it may deem necessary or desirable in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices in respect of this Agreement and the rights and duties of the parties hereto and the interests of the Certificateholders hereunder. In such event, the legal expenses and costs of such action and any liabilities of the Trust, the Depositor, the Servicer and the Special Servicer shall be entitled to be reimbursed therefor pursuant to Section 3.4(c) from funds on deposit in the Collection Account.
(b) The Depositor shall not be obligated to monitor or supervise the performance of the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator under this Agreement. The Depositor may, but shall not be obligated to, enforce the obligations
of the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator under this Agreement.
6.4. Servicer and Special Servicer Not to Resign; Replacement of Servicer or Special Servicer. (a) In connection with any resignation permitted pursuant to Section 6.4(b), each of the Servicer and Special Servicer may resign and assign its rights and delegate its duties and obligations under this Agreement to any Person or to an entity, provided that:
(i) the Person accepting such assignment and delegation (A) shall be an established mortgage finance institution, bank or mortgage servicing institution having a net worth of not less than $25,000,000, organized and doing business under the laws of the United States or of any state of the United States or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to perform the duties of the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as the case may be, of the Whole Loan, (B) shall execute and deliver to the Trustee an agreement satisfactory to the Trustee, which contains an assumption by such Person of the performance and observance of each covenant and condition to be performed or observed by the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as the case may be, under this Agreement from and after the date of such agreement; provided, however that to the extent such agreement modifies in any respect any of the covenants, terms or conditions in this Agreement to be performed by the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as the case may be, such agreement shall be subject to the approval of the Trustee, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld, and (C) shall make such representations and warranties of the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as the case may be, as provided in Section 2.5;
(ii) Rating Agency Confirmation has been received with respect to the assignee or appointee of the Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable;
(iii) the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as the case may be, shall not be released from its obligations under this Agreement that arose prior to the effective date of such assignment and delegation under this Section 6.4(a);
(iv) the rate at which any servicing compensation (or any component thereof) is calculated shall not exceed the rate specified herein; and
(v) the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as the case may be, shall reimburse the Trustee, the Certificate Administrator, the Trust, and the Rating Agencies for any expenses of such resignation, assignment, sale or transfer.
Upon satisfaction of the foregoing requirements and acceptance of such assignment, such Person shall be the successor Servicer or the Special Servicer, as the case may be, hereunder.
(b) Subject to the provisions of Sections 6.2 and 6.4(a), neither the Servicer nor the Special Servicer shall resign from its obligations and duties hereby imposed on it, except upon determination that performance of its duties hereunder is no longer permissible under applicable law or are in material conflict by reason of applicable law with any other activities carried on by it. Any such determination permitting the resignation of the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as the case may be, shall be evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel delivered to the Trustee and the Depositor. No resignation by the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable,
under this Agreement shall become effective until a successor Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, shall have assumed the responsibilities and obligations of the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, under this Agreement in accordance with Section 7.2. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, each of the Servicer and the Special Servicer may assign its duties and obligations under this Agreement under certain limited circumstances as described herein.
6.5. Ethical Wall.
(a) The Servicer shall maintain reasonable policies and procedures, taking into account the nature of its business, to ensure that divisions and individuals of the Servicer making Investment Decisions (such division and individuals, “Servicer Investment Personnel”) shall not obtain Confidential Information from the division and individuals of the Servicer who are involved in the performance of the duties of the Servicer hereunder (such divisions and individuals, “Servicer Servicing Personnel”) and the Servicer Servicing Personnel shall not obtain information regarding Investments from Servicer Investment Personnel. The Servicer represents that informational barriers exist, and shall be maintained by the Servicer, between Servicer Investment Personnel, on the one hand, and Servicer Servicing Personnel, on the other, and that such barriers operate in both directions so as to include (i) a barrier against the disclosure of Confidential Information from Servicer Servicing Personnel to Servicer Investment Personnel and (ii) a barrier against the disclosure of information regarding Investments from Servicer Investment Personnel to Servicer Servicing Personnel. The senior management personnel of the Servicer and/or its Affiliate (consisting of the Person who heads CMBS servicing at the Servicer and management personnel of the Servicer and/or its Affiliates who report (directly or indirectly) to such Person) who have obtained Confidential Information in the course of their exercise of general managerial responsibilities may not participate in or use that information to influence Investment Decisions; nor may they pass that information to others for use in such activities; nor may such senior management personnel who have obtained information regarding Investments in the course of their exercise of general managerial responsibilities use that information to influence servicing decisions or strategies or otherwise affect the manner in which the Servicer performs its servicing duties. The Servicer shall maintain procedures that are designed to result in compliance with such policies. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the delivery or provision by the Servicer of information or reports as required by this Agreement shall not constitute a violation or default of this Section 6.5(a).
(b) The Special Servicer shall maintain reasonable policies and procedures, taking into account the nature of its business, to ensure that divisions and individuals of the Special Servicer making Investment Decisions (such division and individuals, “Special Servicer Investment Personnel”) shall not obtain Confidential Information from the division and individuals of the Special Servicer who are involved in the performance of the duties of the Special Servicer hereunder (such divisions and individuals, “Special Servicer Servicing Personnel”) and the Special Servicer Servicing Personnel shall not obtain information regarding Investments from Special Servicer Investment Personnel. The Special Servicer represents that informational barriers exist, and shall be maintained by the Special Servicer, between Special Servicer Investment Personnel, on the one hand, and Special Servicer Servicing Personnel, on the other, and that such barriers operate in both directions so as to include (i) a barrier against the disclosure of Confidential Information from Special Servicer Servicing Personnel to Special
Servicer Investment Personnel and (ii) a barrier against the disclosure of information regarding Investments from Special Servicer Investment Personnel to Special Servicer Servicing Personnel. The senior management personnel of the Special Servicer and/or its Affiliate (consisting of the Person who heads CMBS special servicing at the Special Servicer and management personnel of the Special Servicer and/or its Affiliates who report (directly or indirectly) to such Person) who have obtained Confidential Information in the course of their exercise of general managerial responsibilities may not participate in or use that information to influence Investment Decisions; nor may they pass that information to others for use in such activities; nor may such senior management personnel who have obtained information regarding Investments in the course of their exercise of general managerial responsibilities use that information to influence servicing decisions or strategies or otherwise affect the manner in which the Special Servicer performs its servicing duties. The Special Servicer shall maintain procedures that are designed to result in compliance with such policies. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the delivery or provision by the Special Servicer of information or reports as required by this Agreement shall not constitute a violation or default of this Section 6.5(b).
The Servicer and the Special Servicer shall afford the Depositor, upon reasonable advance notice, during normal business hours access to all non-confidential, non-proprietary records, including those in electronic form, documentation, records or any other information regarding the Whole Loan that are in its possession or control hereunder and access to its officers responsible therefor. The Depositor shall not have any responsibility or liability for any action or failure to act by the Servicer or the Special Servicer and is not obligated to supervise the performance of the Servicer and the Special Servicer under this Agreement or otherwise.
6.6. Indemnification by the Servicer, the Special Servicer and the Depositor.
(a) Each of the Servicer, the Special Servicer and the Depositor, severally and not jointly, shall indemnify and hold harmless the Trust, the Certificate Administrator and the Trustee from and against any claims, losses, damages, penalties, fines, forfeitures, reasonable legal fees and expenses and related costs, judgments and other costs and expenses incurred by the Trust, the Certificate Administrator or the Trustee that arise out of or are based upon (i) a breach by the Servicer, the Special Servicer or the Depositor, as the case may be, of its obligations to the Trust or the Certificateholders under this Agreement or (ii) negligence, bad faith, fraud or willful misconduct on the part of the Servicer, the Special Servicer or the Depositor, as the case may be, in the performance of such obligations or its negligent disregard of its obligations and duties under this Agreement.
(b) Each of the Servicer and the Special Servicer, severally and not jointly, shall indemnify and hold harmless the Companion Loan Holder from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, penalties, fines, forfeitures, reasonable legal fees and related costs, judgments, and any other costs, fees and expenses that the Companion Loan Holder may sustain in connection with this Agreement that arise out of or are based upon the Servicer’s or the Special Servicer’s, as the case may be, willful misconduct, bad faith, fraud or negligence in the performance of its obligations and duties hereunder or by reason of negligent disregard of its obligations and duties hereunder.
7. SERVICER TERMINATION EVENTS; TERMINATION OF SPECIAL SERVICER WITHOUT CAUSE
7.1. Servicer Termination Events; Special Servicer Termination Events. (a) “Servicer Termination Event,” or “Special Servicer Termination Event” wherever used herein with respect to the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as the case may be, means any one of the following events whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body:
(i) any failure by the Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, to remit any payment required to be made or remitted by it (other than Advances described under clause (ii) below) when required to be remitted under the terms of this Agreement by 11:00 a.m., New York time, on the first Business Day following the date on which such remittance was required to be made;
(ii) any failure of the Servicer to (a) make any Monthly Payment Advance or Administrative Advance required to be made pursuant to this Agreement on or prior to the applicable Remittance Date which is not cured by 11:00 a.m., New York time, on the related Distribution Date or (b) make any Property Protection Advance required to be made pursuant to this Agreement when the same is due and such failure continues unremedied for ten Business Days (or such shorter period (not less than one Business Day) as would prevent a lapse in insurance or a delinquent payment of real estate taxes or ground or leasehold rents) following the date on which the Servicer receives notice thereof or should have had notice thereof if it had been acting in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices;
(iii) any failure by the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, to observe or perform in any material respect any other of its covenants or agreements or the material breach of its representations or warranties under this Agreement, which failure shall continue unremedied for a period of 30 days after the date on which written notice of such failure shall have been given to the Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, by the Trustee or to the Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, and the Trustee by the holders of Class A Certificates having greater than 25% of the aggregate Voting Rights of all then outstanding Class A Certificates or, if affected thereby, by a Companion Loan Holder; provided, however, that, with respect to any such failure that is not curable within such 30-day period, the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, will have an additional cure period of 30 days to effect such cure so long as the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, has commenced to cure such failure within the initial 30-day period and has provided the Trustee with an officer’s certificate certifying that it has diligently pursued, and is continuing to diligently pursue, such cure;
(iv) a decree or order of a court or agency or supervisory authority having jurisdiction in the premises in an involuntary case under any present or future federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law for the appointment of a conservator or receiver or liquidator in any insolvency, readjustment of debt, marshaling of assets and liabilities or similar proceedings, or for the winding-up or liquidation of its affairs, shall
have been entered against the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, and such decree or order shall have remained in force undischarged or unstayed for a period of 60 days; provided, however, that, with respect to any such decree or order that cannot be discharged, dismissed or stayed within such 60-day period, the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as appropriate, will have an additional period of 30 days to effect such discharge, dismissal or stay so long as it has commenced proceedings to have such decree or order dismissed, discharged or stayed within the initial 60-day period and has diligently pursued, and is continuing to pursue, such discharge, dismissal or stay;
(v) the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, shall consent to the appointment of a conservator or receiver or liquidator or liquidation committee in any insolvency, readjustment of debt, marshaling of assets and liabilities, voluntary liquidation, or similar proceedings of or relating to the Servicer or the Special Servicer or of or relating to all or substantially all of its property;
(vi) the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, file a petition to take advantage of any applicable insolvency or reorganization statute, make an assignment for the benefit of its creditors, or voluntarily suspend payment of its obligations;
(vii) The Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, is removed from S&P’s Select Servicer List as a U.S. Commercial Mortgage Master Servicer or U.S. Commercial Mortgage Special Servicer, as applicable, and that the Servicer or Special Servicer, as the case may be, is not reinstated to such status within 60 days;
(viii) the Servicer or the Special Servicer is no longer rated at least “CMS3” or “CSS3”, respectively, by Fitch and such Servicer or Special Servicer is not reinstated to at least that rating within 60 days of the delisting;
(ix) a Companion Loan Rating Agency has (A) qualified, downgraded or withdrawn its rating or ratings of one or more classes of Companion Loan Securities, or (B) placed one or more classes of Companion Loan Securities on “watch status” in contemplation of rating downgrade or withdrawal and, in the case of either of clauses (A) or (B), citing servicing concerns with the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, as the sole or material factor in such rating action (and such qualification, downgrade, withdrawal or “watch status” placement has not been withdrawn by such Companion Loan Rating Agency within 60 days of such event); or
(x) so long as any Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, or any primary servicer, Sub-Servicer or Servicing Function Participant (such entity, the “Sub-Servicing Entity”) retained by the Servicer or Special Servicer, shall fail to deliver the items required to be delivered by this Agreement to enable such Other Securitization Trust to comply with its reporting obligations under the Exchange Act within 5 Business Days of such failure to comply with Article 12 (any Sub-Servicing Entity that defaults in accordance with this Section 7.1(a)(ix) shall be terminated at the direction of the Depositor).
(b) Upon the occurrence of any Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event, the Trustee shall upon actual knowledge by a Responsible Officer promptly notify the Certificate Administrator in writing and the Certificate Administrator shall (i) post such notice on the Certificate Administrator’s Website pursuant to Section 8.14(b), (ii) promptly provide such notice to the 17g-5 Information Provider who shall post written notice thereof to the 17g-5 Information Provider’s Website pursuant to Section 8.14(b) and promptly, but no earlier than two (2) Business Days following delivery to the 17g-5 Information Provider, deliver to each Rating Agency, (iii) provide notice of the same to the Companion Loan Holder and (iv) provide notice of the same to the Certificateholders by mail, to the addresses set forth on the Certificate Register, of such Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event, unless it shall have been cured or waived. For avoidance of doubt, (i) the occurrence of a Servicer Termination Event with respect to the Servicer shall not cause there to have occurred a Special Servicer Termination Event with respect to the Special Servicer unless the relevant event also constitutes a Special Servicer Termination Event and (ii) the occurrence of a Special Servicer Termination Event with respect to the Special Servicer shall not cause there to have occurred a Servicer Termination Event with respect to the Servicer unless the relevant event also constitutes a Servicer Termination Event.
(c) If a Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event shall occur then, and in each and every such case, so long as such Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event shall not have been remedied, either (i) the Trustee may, or (ii) upon the written direction of Holders of Certificates having at least 25% of the Voting Rights of the Certificates or, if affected thereby, of the Companion Loan Holder, the Trustee shall terminate all of the rights and obligations of the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, under this Agreement, other than rights and obligations accrued prior to such termination, and in and to the Whole Loan and the proceeds thereof by notice in writing to the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable; provided that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary, if a Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event, as applicable, under clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (ix) and/or (x) of Section 7.1(a) only has an adverse effect on a Companion Loan, a Companion Loan Holder or a rating on any Companion Loan Securities, but has no adverse effect on the Trust Loan, the Certificateholders, the Trustee, the Certificate Administrator or a rating on any of the Certificates, it shall not be deemed to be a Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event, as applicable, and (A) the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, shall not be terminated by the Trustee pursuant to clause (i) above of this sentence or upon the written direction of the Holders of Certificates pursuant to clause (ii) above of this sentence, and (B) (x) with respect to a Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event under clause (x) of Section 7.1(a), the related Other Depositor or (y) with respect to a Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event under clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and/or (viii) of Section 7.1(a), the related affected Companion Loan Holder, shall be able to require termination of the Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, with respect to the Companion Loan pursuant to clause (ii) above of this sentence. Upon any termination of the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, and appointment of a successor to the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, the Certificate Administrator shall, as soon as possible, post such written notice thereof on the Certificate Administrator’s Website and provide the same to the 17g-5 Information Provider who shall post written notice thereof to the 17g-5 Information Provider’s Website pursuant to Section 8.14(b), and thereafter, give written notice to the Rating Agencies, Depositor and the Certificateholders. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary,
the Depositor and the Borrower shall have the right, but not the obligation, to notify the Trustee of any Servicer Termination Event of which the Depositor or the Borrower becomes aware.
(d) Upon (i) the written direction of holders of Class A Certificates evidencing not less than 25% of the Voting Rights of the Class A Certificates requesting a vote to replace the Special Servicer with a new special servicer designated in such written direction, (ii) payment by such holders to the Certificate Administrator of the reasonable fees and expenses to be incurred by the Certificate Administrator in connection with administering such vote, (iii) delivery by such holders to the certificate administrator (if any) and the trustee for each Other Securitization Trust (with a copy to the Certificate Administrator and the Trustee) of a Companion Loan Rating Agency Confirmation with respect to the appointment of such new special servicer (which Companion Loan Rating Agency Confirmation shall be obtained at the expense of such holders) and (iv) delivery by such holders to the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator of Rating Agency Confirmation with respect to the appointment of such new special servicer (which Rating Agency Confirmation shall be obtained at the expense of such holders), the Certificate Administrator shall promptly post written notice of the same to the Certificate Administrator’s Website pursuant to Section 8.14(b), provide written notice to all Certificateholders of such request by mail, and shall conduct the solicitation of votes of all Certificates in such regard. If 66 2/3% of the aggregate Voting Rights have been exercised by the related Certificateholders, then, upon the written direction of holders of Certificates evidencing at least 75% of the aggregate Voting Rights of all Certificates whose holders exercise their right to vote (which direction must be received by the Certificate Administrator within 180 days of the request for a vote), the Certificate Administrator shall notify the Trustee and the Trustee shall terminate all of the rights and obligations of the Special Servicer under this Agreement and appoint the successor Special Servicer designated by such Certificateholders. The Certificate Administrator shall include on each Distribution Date Statement a statement that each Certificateholder may access such notices on the Certificate Administrator’s Website and that each Certificateholder may register to receive e-mail notifications when such notices are posted thereon.
(e) In the event that the Servicer or Special Servicer is terminated pursuant to this Section 7.1, the Trustee (the “Terminating Party”) shall, by notice in writing to the Servicer or Special Servicer, as the case may be (the “Terminated Party”) (with a copy to the Borrower), terminate all of its rights and obligations under this Agreement and in and to the Whole Loan and the proceeds thereof, other than any rights the Terminated Party may have hereunder as a Certificateholder and any rights or obligations that accrued prior to the date of such termination (including the right to receive all amounts accrued or owing to it under this Agreement with respect to periods prior to the date of such termination and the right to the benefits of Section 6.3 notwithstanding any such termination). On or after the receipt by the Terminated Party of such written notice, subject to the foregoing, all of its authority and power under this Agreement, whether with respect to the Certificates (except that the Terminated Party shall retain its rights as a Certificateholder in the event and to the extent that it is a Certificateholder) or the Whole Loan or otherwise, shall pass to and be vested in the Terminating Party pursuant to and under this Section and, without limitation, the Terminating Party is hereby authorized and empowered to execute and deliver, on behalf of and at the expense of the Terminated Party, as attorney-in-fact or otherwise, any and all documents and other instruments, and to do or accomplish all other acts or things necessary or appropriate to effect the purposes of such notice of termination, whether to
complete the transfer and endorsement or assignment of the Whole Loan and related documents, or otherwise. The Servicer and the Special Servicer, as applicable, each agrees that, in the event it is terminated pursuant to this Section 7.1, or resigns under Section 6.4(b), to promptly (and in any event no later than ten Business Days subsequent to such notice) provide, at its own expense, the Terminating Party (which term shall include for the purposes of the remainder of this Section 7.1(e), the Trustee (or a successor Servicer or Special Servicer) in connection with a resignation of the Servicer or the Special Servicer under Section 6.4(b)) with all documents and records requested by the Terminating Party to enable the Terminating Party to assume its functions hereunder, and to cooperate with the Terminating Party and the successor to its responsibilities hereunder in effecting the termination of its responsibilities and rights hereunder, including, without limitation, the transfer to the successor Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, or the Terminating Party, as applicable, for administration by it of all cash amounts which shall at the time be or should have been credited by the Terminated Party (which term shall include, for the purposes of the remainder of this Section 7.1(e), the resigning party in connection with a resignation of the Servicer or the Special Servicer under Section 6.4(b)) to the Collection Account, any Foreclosed Property Account or shall thereafter be received with respect to the Whole Loan, and shall promptly provide the Terminating Party or such successor Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable (which may include the Trustee), as applicable, all documents and records reasonably requested by it, such documents and records to be provided in such form as the Terminating Party or such successor Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, shall reasonably request (including electromagnetic form), to enable it to assume the function of the Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, hereunder. All reasonable costs and expenses of the Terminating Party or the successor Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, incurred in connection with transferring the Mortgage File to the Terminating Party or to the successor Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, and amending this Agreement to reflect such succession pursuant to this Section 7.1 shall be paid by the Terminated Party upon presentation of reasonable documentation of such costs and expenses. If the Terminated Party has not reimbursed the Terminating Party or such successor Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, for such expenses within 90 days after the presentation of reasonable documentation, such expense shall be reimbursed by the Trust pursuant to Section 3.4(c); provided that the Terminated Party shall not thereby be relieved of its liability for such expenses. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that the Special Servicer is terminated without cause pursuant to Section 7.1(d), all costs and expenses incurred or payable by the terminated Special Servicer under this Section 7.1 shall be paid by the Trust Fund.
7.2. Trustee to Act; Appointment of Successor. (a) On and after the time the Servicer or Special Servicer, as the case may be, receives a notice of termination pursuant to Section 7.1, or resigns pursuant to Section 6.4(b), the Terminating Party (which term shall include, for the purposes of the remainder of this Section 7.2, the Trustee (or a successor Servicer or Special Servicer including a successor appointed under Section 6.4(a)) in connection with a resignation of the Servicer or the Special Servicer under Section 6.4(b)) shall, unless prohibited by law, be the successor to the Terminated Party (which term shall include, for the purposes of the remainder of this Section 7.2, the resigning party in connection with a resignation of the Servicer of the Special Servicer under Section 6.4(b)) in all respects under this Agreement and the transactions set forth or provided for herein and, except as provided herein, shall be subject to all the responsibilities, duties, limitations on liability and liabilities relating thereto and arising thereafter placed on the Terminated Party by the terms and provisions hereof;
provided, however, that (i) neither the Trustee nor the Terminating Party (or any successor Servicer or Special Servicer, as the case may be) shall have responsibilities, duties, liabilities or obligations with respect to any act or omission of the Terminated Party and (ii) any failure to perform, or delay in performing, such duties or responsibilities caused by the Terminated Party’s failure to provide, or delay in providing, records, tapes, disks, information or monies or failure to cooperate as required by this Agreement shall not be considered a default by the Terminating Party or such successor hereunder. The Trustee, as successor Servicer, and any other successor Servicer or Special Servicer, as the case may be, shall be indemnified to the full extent provided to the Trustee under this Agreement. The appointment of a successor Servicer or Special Servicer, as the case may be, shall not affect any liability of the Terminated Party that may have arisen prior to its termination as such. The Terminating Party shall not be liable for any of the representations and warranties of the Terminated Party herein or in any related document or agreement, for any acts or omissions of the Terminated Party or for any losses incurred in respect of any Permitted Investment by the Terminated Party nor shall the Terminating Party or any successor Servicer or Special Servicer be required to purchase the Whole Loan hereunder. As compensation therefor, the Terminating Party as successor Servicer or Special Servicer, as the case may be, shall be entitled to all compensation with respect to the Whole Loan to which the Terminated Party would have been entitled that accrues after the date of the Terminating Party’s succession to which the Terminated Party would have been entitled if it had continued to act hereunder and, in the case of a successor Special Servicer, the Special Servicing Fee. Notwithstanding the above, the Trustee may, if it shall be unwilling to so act, or shall, if it is unable to so act, or if the Holders of Certificates having greater than 25% of the aggregate Voting Rights of all then outstanding Certificates so request in writing to the Trustee, or the Trustee is not approved by the Rating Agencies as a Servicer or Special Servicer, as the case may be, as evidenced by a Rating Agency Confirmation or if a Rating Agency Confirmation is not obtained, promptly appoint, or petition a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint, any established loan servicing institution the appointment for which a Rating Agency Confirmation is obtained, as the successor to the Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, hereunder in the assumption of all or any part of the responsibilities, duties or liabilities of the Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, hereunder. No appointment of a successor to a Terminated Party hereunder shall be effective until the assumption by such successor of all the Terminated Party’s responsibilities, duties and liabilities hereunder. Pending appointment of a successor to a Terminated Party hereunder, unless the Trustee shall be prohibited by law from so acting, the Trustee shall act in the applicable capacity as herein above provided. In connection with such appointment and assumption described herein, the Trustee may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor out of payments on the Whole Loan as it and such successor shall agree; provided, however, that no such compensation shall be in excess of that permitted the Terminated Party hereunder, except that if no successor to the Terminated Party can be obtained to perform the obligations of such Terminated Party hereunder, additional amounts shall be paid to such successor and such amounts in excess of that permitted the Terminated Party shall be paid pursuant to Section 3.4(c). The Depositor, the Trustee, the Certificate Administrator, the Servicer (as applicable), the Special Servicer (as applicable) and such successor shall take such action, consistent with this Agreement, as shall be necessary to effectuate any such succession.
(b) Notwithstanding Section 7.1(b) of this Agreement, if a Servicer receives a notice of termination solely due to a Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination
Event, as applicable, under Section 7.1(a)(vii), (viii) or (ix) and the terminated Servicer provides the Trustee with the appropriate “request for proposal” materials within five (5) Business Days after such termination, then such Servicer shall continue to serve as Servicer, if requested to do so by the Trustee, and the Trustee shall promptly thereafter (using such “request for proposal” materials provided by the terminated Servicer) solicit good faith bids for the rights to master service the Whole Loan from at least three (3) Persons qualified to act as successor servicer hereunder in accordance with Section 6.2 and Section 7.2 for which the Trustee has received Rating Agency Confirmation (any such Person so qualified, a “Qualified Bidder”) or, if three (3) Qualified Bidders cannot be located, then from as many Persons as the Trustee can determine are Qualified Bidders; provided, however, that (i) at the Trustee’s request, the terminated Servicer shall supply the Trustee with the names of Persons from whom to solicit such bids; and (ii) the Trustee shall not be responsible if less than three (3) or no Qualified Bidders submit bids for the right to master service the Whole Loan under this Agreement. The bid proposal shall require any Successful Bidder (as defined below), as a condition of such bid, to enter into this Agreement as successor Servicer with respect to the Whole Loan, and to agree to be bound by the terms hereof, within forty-five (45) days after the receipt by the terminated Servicer of a notice of termination. The Trustee shall solicit bids (i) on the basis of such successor servicer entering into a sub-servicing agreement with the terminated Servicer to service the Whole Loan at a sub-servicing fee rate per annum equal to the Servicing Fee minus the Retained Fee Rate (each, a “Servicing-Retained Bid”) and (ii) on the basis of having no obligation to enter into a sub-servicing agreement with the terminated Servicer (each, a “Servicing-Released Bid”). The Trustee shall select the Qualified Bidder with the highest cash Servicing-Retained Bid (or, if none, the highest cash Servicing Released Bid) (the “Successful Bidder”) to act as successor servicer hereunder. The Successful Bidder shall enter into this Agreement as successor servicer pursuant to the terms hereof (and, if the successful bid was a Servicing-Retained Bid, to enter into a sub-servicing agreement with the terminated Servicer as contemplated above), no later than forty-five (45) days after the termination of the terminated Servicer. Upon the assignment and acceptance of the servicing rights hereunder to and by the Successful Bidder, and upon payment of the proceeds by the Successful Bidder to the Certificate Administrator, the Certificate Administrator shall remit or cause to be remitted to the terminated Servicer the amount of such cash bid received from the Successful Bidder (net of “out of pocket” expenses incurred in connection with obtaining such bid and transferring servicing).
If the Trustee or an Affiliate acts pursuant to this Section 7.2 as successor to the resigning or terminated Servicer, it may reduce such terminated Servicer’s Retained Fee Rate to the extent that its or such Affiliate’s compensation as successor Servicer would otherwise be below market rate servicing compensation. If the Trustee elects to appoint a successor to the resigning or terminated Servicer other than itself or an Affiliate pursuant to this Section 7.2, it may reduce the Retained Fee Rate to the extent reasonably necessary (in the sole discretion of the Trustee) for the Trustee to appoint a qualified successor Servicer that meets the requirements of this Section 7.2.
7.3. Other Remedies of Trustee. During the continuance of any Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event, as the case may be, or so long as such Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event shall not have been remedied, the Trustee, in addition to the rights specified in Section 7.1, shall have the right, in its own name as trustee of an express trust, to take all actions now or hereafter existing at law, in equity or by
statute to enforce its rights and remedies and to protect the interests, and enforce the rights and remedies, of the Certificateholders and the Companion Loan Holder (including the institution and prosecution of all judicial, administrative and other proceedings and the filing of proofs of claim and debt in connection therewith). In such event, the legal fees, expenses and costs of such action and any liability resulting therefrom shall be expenses, costs and liabilities of the Trust, and the Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed therefor pursuant to Section 3.4(c) from the Collection Account. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, no remedy provided for by this Agreement shall be exclusive of any other remedy, and each and every remedy shall be cumulative and in addition to any other remedy and no delay or omission to exercise any right or remedy shall impair any such right or remedy or shall be deemed to be a waiver of any Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event.
7.4. Waiver of Past Servicer Termination Events and Special Servicer Termination Events. The Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than 66 2/3% of the aggregate Voting Rights of all then outstanding Certificates and each affected Companion Loan Holder may, on behalf of all Certificateholders and upon adequate indemnification of the Trustee by the requesting Holders of Certificates, waive any default by the Servicer or the Special Servicer in the performance of its obligations hereunder and its consequences, except a default in making any required deposits (including Monthly Payment Advances) to or payments from the Collection Account, the Distribution Account or any Foreclosed Property Account or in remitting payments as received, in each case in accordance with this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, no Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event may be waived with respect to a prior Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, following its termination and the appointment of a successor servicer or successor special servicer, as applicable. Upon any such waiver of a past default, such default shall cease to exist, and the related Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been remedied for every purpose of this Agreement. No such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right related thereto.
7.5. Trustee as Maker of Advances. In the event that the Servicer fails to fulfill its obligations hereunder to make any Advances and such failure remains uncured, the Trustee (subject to a determination of non-recoverability) shall perform such obligations (w) within five Business Days (and shall use reasonable efforts to make such Advance in such shorter period (but not less than one Business Day) as may be required, if applicable, to avoid any lapse in insurance coverage required under the Loan Documents or this Agreement with respect to the Property or to avoid any foreclosure or similar action with respect to the Property by reason of failure to pay real estate taxes, assessments, ground or leasehold rents or governmental charges) of a Responsible Officer of the Trustee having actual knowledge of such failure by the Servicer or the Special Servicer with respect to any Advances (other than any Monthly Payment Advances) and (x) by 2:00 p.m. New York time on the related Distribution Date with respect to Monthly Payment Advances unless the Trustee has received notice that such failure was cured. In the event that the Servicer fails to make a required Advance hereunder, the Certificate Administrator shall use reasonable efforts to notify the Trustee via email of such failure by close of business on the related Remittance Date; provided that any failure by the Certificate Administrator to notify the Trustee of the Servicer’s failure to Advance on the related Remittance Date shall not relieve the Trustee of its obligations to Advance hereunder. If the Certificate Administrator has not received any required Monthly Payment Advance from the
Servicer by 10:30 a.m. on the related Distribution Date, the Certificate Administrator shall provide notice via e-mail to Jennifer.vandyne@db.com to that effect to the Trustee, and if the required Monthly Payment Advance is still not received by the Certificate Administrator by 11:45 a.m. on the related Distribution Date, the Certificate Administrator shall again provide notice via e-mail to Jennifer.vandyne@db.com to that effect to the Trustee, who shall then perform the obligations set forth in the preceding sentence. With respect to any such Advance made by the Trustee, the Trustee shall succeed to all of the Servicer’s and/or the Special Servicer’s rights, as applicable, with respect to Advances hereunder, including, without limitation, the rights of reimbursement and interest on each Advance at the Advance Rate, and rights to determine that a proposed Advance is a Nonrecoverable Advance (without regard to any impairment of any such rights of reimbursement caused by such Servicer’s and/or the Special Servicer’s default in its obligations hereunder and further subject to the Trustee’s standard of good faith judgment); provided, however, that if Advances made by the Trustee, the Servicer and/or the Special Servicer shall at any time be outstanding, or any interest on any Advance shall be accrued and unpaid, all amounts available to repay such Advances and the interest thereon hereunder shall be applied entirely to the Advances outstanding to the Trustee until such Advances shall have been repaid in full, together with all interest accrued thereon, prior to reimbursement of the Servicer and/or the Special Servicer, as applicable, for such Advances and interest accrued thereon. The Trustee shall be entitled to conclusively rely on any notice given by the Servicer and/or the Special Servicer, as applicable, with respect to a Nonrecoverable Advance hereunder. The Trustee shall notify the master servicer and trustee with respect to each Other Securitization Trust of the amount of any Monthly Payment Advance made by it pursuant to this Section 7.5 within two (2) Business Days of making such advance.
8. THE TRUSTEE AND THE CERTIFICATE ADMINISTRATOR
8.1. Duties of the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator. (a) Each of the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator, prior to the occurrence of a Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event, as the case may be, and after the curing or waiver of any Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event that may have occurred, undertakes with respect to the Trust Fund to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Agreement. Neither the Depositor nor the Servicer nor the Special Servicer shall be obligated to monitor or supervise the performance by the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator of its duties hereunder. In case a Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event has occurred (which has not been cured or waived), the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 7.2 and 7.3, shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Agreement, and shall use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent institution would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such institution’s own affairs. Any permissive right of the Trustee set forth in this Agreement shall not be construed as a duty. The Trustee (or the Servicer or the Special Servicer on its behalf) shall have the power to exercise all the rights of a holder of the Whole Loan on behalf of the Certificateholders and the Companion Loan Holder, subject to the terms of the Loan Documents and the Co-Lender Agreement; provided, however, that the Lender’s obligations under the Loan Documents shall be exercised by the Servicer or Special Servicer, as the case may be, pursuant to this Agreement.
(b) Each of the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator, upon receipt of all resolutions, certificates, statements, opinions, reports, documents, orders or other instruments furnished to the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator that are specifically required to be furnished pursuant to any provision of this Agreement, shall examine, or cause to be examined, such instruments to determine whether they conform to the requirements of this Agreement to the extent specifically set forth herein. If any such instrument is found on its face not to conform to the requirements of this Agreement in a material manner, the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, may take such action as it deems appropriate to have the instrument corrected, and if the instrument is not corrected to the Trustee’s or the Certificate Administrator’s, as applicable, reasonable satisfaction, the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, shall provide notice thereof to the Certificateholders. Neither the Trustee nor the Certificate Administrator shall be responsible for the accuracy or content of any resolution, certificate, statement, opinion, report, document, order or other instrument furnished by the Depositor, the Servicer, or the Special Servicer and accepted by the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as the case may be, in good faith, pursuant to this Agreement.
(c) Subject to Section 8.3, no provision of this Agreement shall be construed to relieve the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, its failure to perform its obligations in compliance with this Agreement, its own willful misconduct or bad faith; provided, however, that:
(i) prior to the occurrence of a Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event, and after the curing or waiver of all Servicer Termination Events or Special Servicer Termination Event which may have occurred, the duties and obligations of the Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Agreement, the Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Agreement, no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Agreement against the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, and each of the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and/or the Certificate Administrator (including those provided pursuant to Section 10.1) and conforming to the requirements of this Agreement which it reasonably believes in good faith to be genuine and to have been duly executed by the proper authorities respecting any matters arising hereunder;
(ii) the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator shall not be liable for an error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator or such Responsible Officer, as applicable, was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(iii) the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator shall not be liable with respect to any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with this Agreement or at the direction of Holders of Certificates evidencing, in the aggregate, not less than 25% of the Voting Rights of the Certificates, relating to the
time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, under this Agreement;
(iv) the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator shall not be charged with knowledge of any failure by the Servicer or the Special Servicer to comply with any of their respective obligations referred to in Section 7.1 or any other act or circumstance upon the occurrence of which the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, may be required to take action unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, obtains actual knowledge of such failure, act or circumstance or the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, receives written notice of such failure from the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Depositor, the Borrower or Holders of the Certificates evidencing, in the aggregate, not less than 25% of the Voting Rights of the Certificates;
(v) subject to the other provisions of this Agreement and without limiting the generality of Sections 8.1 and 8.2, the Trustee shall have no duty except in the capacity as a successor Servicer or successor Special Servicer (A) to see to any recording, filing or depositing of this Agreement or any agreement referred to herein or any financing statement or continuation statement evidencing a security interest, or to see to the maintenance of any such recording or filing or depositing or to any re-recording, refiling or redepositing thereof, (B) to see to any insurance, (C) to confirm or verify the contents of any reports or certificates of the Servicer or the Special Servicer delivered to the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator pursuant to this Agreement reasonably believed by the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties, (D) subject to Section 10.01(f), to see to the payment or discharge of any tax levied against any part of the Trust Fund other than from funds available in the Collection Account or the Distribution Account, and (E) to see to the payment of any assessment or other governmental charge or any lien or encumbrance of any kind owing with respect to, assessed or levied against, any part of the Trust Fund other than from funds available in the Collection Account or the Distribution Account (provided that such assessment, charge, lien or encumbrance did not arise out of the Trustee’s, the Certificate Administrator’s or the Tax Administrator’s, as applicable, willful misfeasance, bad faith or negligence); and
(vi) for all purposes under this Agreement, the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator shall not be required to take any action with respect to, or be deemed to have notice or knowledge of the Loan Event of Default, Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, has actual knowledge thereof or shall have received written notice thereof. In the absence of receipt of such notice and such actual knowledge otherwise obtained, the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator may conclusively assume that there is no Loan Event of Default, Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event.
Neither the Certificate Administrator nor the Trustee shall be required to take action with respect to, or be deemed to have notice or knowledge of, any default or Servicer Termination Event
(other than the Master Servicer’s failure to deliver any monies, including P&I Advances, or to provide any report, certificate or statement, to the Trustee, the Certificate Administrator or the Tax Matters Person, as applicable, when required pursuant to this Agreement) unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator shall have received written notice or otherwise have actual knowledge thereof. Otherwise, the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator may conclusively assume that there is no such default or Servicer Termination Event
(d) None of the provisions contained in this Agreement shall in any event require the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator to (i) expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers hereunder if there are reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it, or (ii) perform, or be responsible for the manner of performance of, any of the obligations of the Servicer or the Special Servicer under this Agreement, except with respect to the Trustee, during such time, if any, as the Trustee shall be the successor to, and be vested with the rights, duties, powers and privileges of, the Servicer or the Special Servicer in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Notwithstanding anything contained herein, neither the Trustee nor the Certificate Administrator shall be responsible or have liability in connection with the duties assumed by the Authenticating Agent, and the Certificate Registrar hereunder, unless the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator is acting in any such capacity hereunder; provided, further, that in any such capacity the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator shall have all of the rights, protections and indemnities provided to it as Trustee and the Certificate Administrator hereunder, as applicable.
8.2. Certain Matters Affecting the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator. (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 8.1:
(i) each of the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator may request and rely upon and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, Officer’s Certificate, auditor’s certificate or any other certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(ii) each of the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator may consult with any nationally recognized 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 suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with such Opinion of Counsel;
(iii) neither the Trustee nor the Certificate Administrator shall be under any obligation to exercise any of the trusts or powers vested in it by this Agreement or to institute, conduct or defend any litigation hereunder or in relation hereto at the request, order or direction of any of the Certificateholders, pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, unless such Certificateholders shall have offered to the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses
and liabilities, including reasonable legal fees, which may be incurred therein or thereby; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall relieve the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator of the obligation, upon the occurrence of a Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event, as the case may be (which has not been cured or waived), to exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Agreement, and to use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs;
(iv) neither the Trustee nor the Certificate Administrator shall be liable for any action reasonably taken, suffered or omitted by it in good faith and reasonably believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Agreement;
(v) prior to the occurrence of a Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event hereunder and after the curing or waiver of such Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event that may have occurred, neither the Trustee nor the Certificate Administrator shall be bound to ascertain or inquire as to the performance or observance of any of the terms, conditions, covenants or agreements herein (except as specifically required by this Agreement) or to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond or other paper or document, unless requested in writing so to do by Holders of Certificates evidencing, in the aggregate, not less than 25% of the Voting Rights of the outstanding Certificates; provided, however, that if the payment within a reasonable time to the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator of the costs, expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by either party in the making of such investigation is, in the opinion of the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, not reasonably assured to the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator by the security afforded to it by the terms of this Agreement, the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, may require indemnity satisfactory to it against such costs, expenses or liabilities as a condition to taking any such action. The reasonable expense of every such investigation shall be paid by the Trust pursuant to Section 3.4(c) in the event that such investigation relates to a Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event, if such an event shall have occurred and is continuing, and otherwise by the Certificateholders requesting the investigation;
(vi) each of the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys selected by it with due care;
(vii) the Certificate Administrator shall not be liable for any loss on any investment of funds made by it pursuant to the terms of this Agreement other than as set forth in Section 3.8 (other than investments made with the Certificate Administrator in its commercial capacity);
(viii) neither the Trustee nor the Certificate Administrator shall be required to post any kind of bond or surety in connection with the execution and performance of its
duties hereunder, and in no event shall the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator be liable for punitive, special, indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including but not limited to lost profits), even if the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage;
(ix) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers vested in it by this Agreement, and the Certificate Administrator and the Tax Matters Person may each perform any of their respective duties hereunder, either directly or by or through the Custodian or other agents or attorneys-in-fact, provided that (a) the use of the Custodian or other agents or attorneys-in-fact shall not be deemed to relieve the Trustee, the Certificate Administrator or the Tax Matters Person, as applicable, of any of its duties and obligations hereunder (except as expressly set forth herein) and (b) the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as the case may be, may not perform any duties hereunder through any Person actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, to be a Prohibited Party without the consent of the Depositor acting in its reasonable discretion;
(x) in no event shall the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator be liable for special, punitive, indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including but not limited to lost profits), even if the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action; and
(xi) the right of the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator to perform any discretionary act enumerated in this Agreement shall not be construed as a duty, and none of the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, shall be answerable for other than its negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of any such act.
(b) Following the Closing Date, neither the Trustee nor the Certificate Administrator shall accept any contribution of assets to the Trust Fund not specifically contemplated by this Agreement.
(c) All rights or actions under this Agreement or under any of the Certificates, enforceable by the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator may be enforced by such party without the possession of any of the Certificates, or the production thereof at the trial or other proceeding relating thereto, and any such suit, action or proceeding instituted by the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, shall be brought in its name for the benefit of all the Holders of such Certificates, subject to the provisions of this Agreement.
(d) In order to comply with the laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions, including those relating to the funding of terrorist activities and money laundering (“Applicable Laws”), the Trustee is required to obtain, verify and record certain information relating to individuals and entities which maintain a business relationship with the Trustee. Accordingly, each of the parties agrees to provide to the Trustee, upon its request from time to time such identifying information and documentation as may be available for such party in order to enable the Trustee to comply with Applicable Laws.
8.3. Neither the Trustee nor the Certificate Administrator is Liable for Certificates or the Whole Loan. The recitals contained herein and in the Certificates (other than the signature and authentication of the Certificate Administrator on the Certificates) shall not be taken as the statements of the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, and the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator assume no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee and the Certificate Administrator make no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement, the Certificates or of the Whole Loan or related documents except as expressly set forth herein. The Trustee and the Certificate Administrator shall not be liable for any action or failure of any action by the Depositor, the Servicer or the Special Servicer hereunder. The Trustee and the Certificate Administrator shall not at any time have any responsibility or liability for or with respect to the legality, ownership, title, validity or enforceability of any of the Mortgage or Collateral Security Documents or the Whole Loan, or the perfection, sufficiency and priority of any of the Mortgage or Collateral Security Documents or the maintenance of any such perfection and priority, or for or with respect to the efficacy of the Trust Fund or its ability to generate the payments to be distributed to Certificateholders under this Agreement, including, without limitation, the existence, condition and ownership of the Property; the existence and enforceability of any hazard insurance thereon; the validity of the assignment of the Trust Loan to the Trust; the performance or enforcement of the Trust Loan (other than with respect to the Servicer or Special Servicer, if the Trustee shall assume the duties of the Servicer and/or Special Servicer, respectively, pursuant to Section 7.2 and then only to the extent of the obligations of the Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, hereunder); the compliance by the Depositor, the Borrower, the Servicer and the Special Servicer with any warranty or representation made under this Agreement or in any related document or the accuracy of any such warranty or representation made under this Agreement or in any related document prior to the Trustee’s receipt of notice or other discovery of any noncompliance therewith or any breach thereof; any investment of monies by or at the direction of the Servicer or the Special Servicer or any loss resulting therefrom (other than investments made with the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator in its commercial capacity); the failure of the Servicer, the Special Servicer or any sub-servicer to act or perform any duties required of it hereunder; or any action by the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator taken at the direction of the Servicer or the Special Servicer (other than with respect to the Trustee if the Trustee shall assume the duties of the Servicer or the Special Servicer, respectively); provided, however, that the foregoing shall not relieve the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, of its obligation to perform its duties under this Agreement. No recourse shall be had for any claim based on any provisions of this Agreement, the Certificates, the Mortgage, the Property, the Collateral Security Documents or the Trust Loan or assignment thereof against the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, in its respective individual capacity, and neither the Trustee nor the Certificate Administrator shall have any personal obligation, liability or duty whatsoever to any Certificateholder or any other Person with respect to any such claim, and any such claim shall be asserted solely against the Trust Fund or any indemnitor who shall furnish indemnity as provided in this Agreement, except as otherwise set forth herein for a claim based on either the Trustee’s or the Certificate Administrator’s negligent action, negligent failure to act, bad faith or willful misconduct (or such other standard of care as may be provided herein with respect to any particular matter). Neither the Trustee nor the Certificate Administrator shall have any responsibility for filing any financing or continuation statements in any public office at any time or to otherwise perfect or maintain the perfection of any security interest or lien granted to it
hereunder or to record this Agreement (unless, with respect to the Trustee, the Trustee shall have become the successor Servicer or Special Servicer). Neither the Trustee nor the Certificate Administrator shall be accountable for the use or application by the Depositor of any of the Certificates or of the proceeds of such Certificates or for the use or application of any funds paid to the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, in respect of the Trust Loan deposited into or withdrawn from the Collection Account or any account maintained by or on behalf of the Servicer (except to the extent that the Collection Account or such other account is held by the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator in their commercial capacity), or for investment of such amounts (other than investments made with the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator in their commercial capacity).
Neither the Trustee nor the Certificate Administrator, by reason of the action or inaction of a Responsible Officer or Officers of the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, nor any of their respective directors, officers, employees, affiliates or agents shall have any liability to the Trust, the Certificateholders or the Companion Loan Holder for any action taken or for refraining from the taking of any action in good faith pursuant to this Agreement, or for actions taken or not taken at the direction of the Certificateholders or the Companion Loan Holder in accordance with this Agreement, or for errors in judgment. The Trustee, the Certificate Administrator and any of their respective directors, officers, members, managers, partners, employees, Affiliates, agents or Controlling Persons shall be indemnified pursuant to Section 3.4(c) out of amounts on deposit in the Collection Account, and held harmless against any loss, liability, claim, demand or expense incurred in connection with any legal action or other claims, costs, expenses, losses, penalties, fines, foreclosures, judgments or liabilities incurred in connection with or related to this Agreement (including, without limitation, performance under Section 8.1 hereof); provided, however, that this provision shall not protect the Trustee, the Certificate Administrator or any such Person against any liability which would otherwise be imposed by reason of willful misconduct, bad faith or negligence of the Trustee, the Certificate Administrator or any such Person. The indemnification provided hereunder shall survive the resignation or removal of the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator and the termination of this Agreement. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall be responsible for its acts or failure to act as Servicer and/or Special Servicer during the time the Trustee is serving as such pursuant and subject to the terms of this Agreement.
8.4. Trustee and Certificate Administrator May Own Certificates. The Trustee and the Certificate Administrator in their individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Certificates with the same rights, powers, and privileges as it would have if they were not the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator.
8.5. Trustee’s and Certificate Administrator’s Fees and Expenses. (a) The Trustee and the Certificate Administrator shall be entitled to the Certificate Administrator Fee (including that portion of the Certificate Administrator Fee that represents the Trustee Fee, which is payable to the Trustee), payable pursuant to Section 3.4(c). The Certificate Administrator Fee (which shall not be limited to any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust) shall constitute the Certificate Administrator’s and the Trustee’s sole form of compensation for all services rendered by each entity in the execution of the trust hereby created and in the exercise and performance of any of the powers and duties of the Certificate Administrator and the Trustee hereunder. No Trustee/Certificate Administrator Fee shall be
payable with respect to the Companion Loan. The Trustee and the Certificate Administrator shall be entitled to be reimbursed for all reasonable expenses and disbursements incurred or made by the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, in accordance with any of the provisions of this Agreement (including the fees and expenses of its counsel and of all Persons not regularly in its employ), provided such cost would qualify as an “unanticipated expense incurred by the REMIC” within the meaning of the REMIC Provisions, except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may arise from its negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith or which is expressly the responsibility of a Certificateholder or Certificateholders hereunder, all of which reimbursements to be paid from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account pursuant to Section 3.4(c); provided, however, that neither the Trustee nor the Certificate Administrator shall refuse to perform any of their obligations hereunder solely as a result of the failure to be paid any fees and expenses so long as payment of such fees and expenses are reasonably assured to it. The Trustee and the Certificate Administrator shall provide the Servicer with an invoice or a certification by the Trustee, on or prior to each Payment Date, setting forth the actual expenses incurred in connection with the performance of its duties hereunder for which it seeks payment or reimbursement. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, neither the Trustee nor the Certificate Administrator shall be entitled to reimbursement from the Trust for an expense incurred under this Agreement in connection with the performance of its ordinary and regularly recurring duties hereunder unless such reimbursement is expressly provided for herein or otherwise permitted hereunder.
(b) Each of the Certificate Administrator and the Trustee (each, for purposes of this Section 8.5(b) only, an “Indemnifying Party”) shall (severally and not jointly) indemnify the Depositor and each other, and their respective Affiliates and each of the directors, officers, employees and agents of the foregoing and their respective Affiliates (each, for purposes of this Section 8.5(b) only, an “Indemnified Party”), and hold each of them harmless against any and all claims, losses, damages, penalties, fines, forfeitures, reasonable legal fees and related costs, judgments, and any other costs, fees and expenses that the Indemnified Party may sustain in connection with this Agreement (including, without limitation reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel incurred by the Indemnified Party in any action or proceeding between the Indemnifying Party and the Indemnified Party or between the Indemnified Party and any third party or otherwise) resulting from the Indemnifying Party’s willful misconduct, bad faith, fraud or negligence in the performance of its duties hereunder or by reason of negligent disregard of its obligations and duties hereunder.
8.6. Eligibility Requirements for the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator; Errors and Omissions Insurance. (a) Each of the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator hereunder shall at all times be a corporation, association or trust company organized and doing business under the laws of any state or the United States of America, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers and to accept the trust conferred under this Agreement, which has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and (i) a rating on its unsecured long term debt of “BBB+” by S&P and by Fitch (or “BBB” by S&P and Fitch if the Trustee’s or Certificate Administrator’s, as applicable, unsecured short term debt is rated at least “A-1” by S&P and “F-1” by Fitch)) or (ii) is otherwise acceptable to each Rating Agency as evidenced by the receipt of a Rating Agency Confirmation, and is subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority and shall not be an Affiliate of the Servicer or the Special Servicer (except during any period when the Trustee has assumed the
duties of the Servicer and/or Special Servicer pursuant to Section 7.2). If a corporation, association or trust company publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for purposes of this Section the combined capital and surplus of such entity shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. In the event that the place of business from which the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, administers the Trust Fund is a state or local jurisdiction that imposes a tax on the Trust, the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, shall elect either to (i) resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 8.7, (ii) pay such tax from its own funds and continue as Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, or (iii) administer the Trust Fund from a state and local jurisdiction that does not impose such a tax. In case at any time the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 8.7.
(b) The Certificate Administrator shall obtain and maintain at its own expense, and keep in full force and effect throughout the term of this Agreement, a blanket fidelity bond and an errors and omissions insurance policy covering the Certificate Administrator’s directors, officers and employees acting on behalf of the Certificate Administrator in connection with its activities under this Agreement; provided that if the Certificate Administrator is not rated at least “A” or its equivalent by S&P and by Fitch, such applicable error and omissions insurance policy must be rated at least “A” or its equivalent by S&P and by Fitch. Such insurance policy shall protect the Certificate Administrator against losses, forgery, theft, embezzlement, fraud, errors and omissions of such covered persons. The amount of coverage shall be at least equal to the coverage that is required by applicable governmental authorities having regulatory power over the Certificate Administrator. In the event that any such bond or policy ceases to be in effect, the Certificate Administrator shall obtain a comparable replacement bond or policy. In lieu of the foregoing, the Certificate Administrator shall be entitled to self-insure with respect to such risks so long as (a) the Certificate Administrator is rated at least “A” or its equivalent by S&P and by Fitch or (b) each Rating Agency has confirmed as evidenced by the receipt of a Rating Agency Confirmation.
(c) The Trustee shall obtain and maintain at its own expense, and keep in full force and effect throughout the term of this Agreement, a blanket fidelity bond and an errors and omissions insurance policy covering the Trustee’s directors, officers and employees acting on behalf of the Trustee in connection with its activities under this Agreement. In the event that any such bond or policy ceases to be in effect, the Trustee shall obtain a comparable replacement bond or policy. In lieu of the foregoing, the Trustee shall be entitled to self-insure with respect to such risks so long as (a) the Trustee is rated at least “A” or its equivalent by S&P and by Fitch or (b) each Rating Agency has confirmed as evidenced by the receipt of a Rating Agency Confirmation.
8.7. Resignation and Removal of the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator. Each of the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator may at any time resign and be discharged from the trusts hereby created by (i) posting written notice on the Certificate Administrator’s Website pursuant to Section 8.14(b) and giving written notice of resignation to the Depositor, the Borrower, the Initial Purchaser, the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the
Certificate Administrator, the Certificate Registrar (if other than the Trustee), the Trustee and the 17g-5 Information Provider, who shall post such notice on the 17g-5 Information Provider’s Website pursuant to Section 8.14(b) and after such posting by the 17g-5 Information Provider, to the Rating Agencies and by mailing notice of resignation by first class mail, postage prepaid, to the Certificateholders at their addresses appearing on the Certificate Register, not less than 60 days before the date specified in such notice when, subject to Section 8.8, such resignation is to take effect, and (ii) acceptance by a successor Trustee or Certificate Administrator, as applicable, appointed by the Depositor in accordance with Section 8.8 meeting the qualifications set forth in Section 8.6. Upon such notice of resignation, the Depositor shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Certificate Administrator, as applicable, obtain Rating Agency Confirmation, in triplicate, which written confirmation shall be delivered to the resigning Trustee or Certificate Administrator, and the successor Trustee or Certificate Administrator, as applicable. If no successor Trustee or Certificate Administrator shall have been so appointed and shall have accepted appointment within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee or Certificate Administrator, as applicable, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee or Certificate Administrator, as applicable.
If at any time any of the following occur: (x) the Trustee or Certificate Administrator shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 8.6 and shall fail to resign after written request for the Trustee’s or the Certificate Administrator’s resignation by the Depositor, the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable; (y) the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator shall materially default in the performance of its obligations under this Agreement; or (z) if at any time the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator shall become incapable of action, or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator or of either of their property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or Certificate Administrator or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation then, in any such case, (1) the Depositor may remove the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, and appoint a successor Trustee or Certificate Administrator, as applicable, by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by an authorized officer of the Depositor, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, so removed and one copy to the successor Trustee or Certificate Administrator, as applicable, or (2) any Certificateholder who has been a bona fide Certificateholder for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Certificate Administrator, as applicable. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee or Certificate Administrator, as applicable, which removal and appointment shall become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee or Certificate Administrator, as applicable, as provided in Section 8.8. The successor Trustee or Certificate Administrator, as applicable, so appointed by such court shall immediately and without further act be superseded by any successor Trustee or Certificate Administrator, as applicable, appointed by the Certificateholders as provided below within one year from the date of appointment by such court. Holders of Certificates evidencing, in the aggregate, not less than a majority of the Voting Rights of the outstanding Certificates, may at any time remove the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator and appoint a successor Trustee or Certificate Administrator, as applicable, by written instrument or instruments, in
triplicate, signed by such Holders or their attorney-in-fact duly authorized, one complete set of which instrument or instruments shall be delivered to the Depositor (with a copy to the Servicer and Special Servicer and the Borrower), one complete set to the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, so removed and one complete set to the successor(s) so appointed. Notice of any removal of the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator and acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee or Certificate Administrator shall be given to the Borrower, the Companion Loan Holder, the Rating Agencies (through the successor 17g-5 Information Provider’s website, as applicable) and the Initial Purchaser by the successor Trustee or Certificate Administrator, as applicable. No removal of the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator shall be effective until all reasonable fees, costs, expenses and Advances (including interest thereon) have been paid to the Trustee or Certificate Administrator, as applicable in full.
Any resignation or removal of the Trustee or Certificate Administrator shall not become effective until acceptance of the appointment by the successor Trustee or Certificate Administrator, as applicable, as provided in Section 8.8.
8.8. Successor Trustee or Successor Certificate Administrator. Any successor Trustee or Certificate Administrator appointed as provided in Section 8.7 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Depositor, the Servicer, the Special Servicer and to its predecessor trustee or certificate administrator an instrument (i) accepting such appointment hereunder and (ii) making the representations and warranties of the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, as provided in Section 2.3 and Section 2.4, respectively, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor trustee or certificate administrator shall become effective and such successor Trustee or Certificate Administrator, as applicable, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become fully vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor hereunder, with the like effect as if originally named as trustee or certificate administrator herein. The predecessor Certificate Administrator shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the successor Certificate Administrator, as applicable, the Mortgage File and related documents and statements held by it hereunder, and the Depositor, the Servicer, the Special Servicer and the predecessor trustee or certificate administrator shall execute and deliver such instruments and do such other things as may reasonably be required for more fully and certainly vesting and confirming in the successor Trustee or Certificate Administrator all such rights, powers, duties and obligations.
No successor Trustee or Certificate Administrator shall accept appointment as provided in this Section 8.8 unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee or Certificate Administrator shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 8.6 and its appointment shall not result in the qualification, downgrading, or withdrawal of the current rating of any Class of the Certificates (prior to the resignation or termination of the Trustee or Certificate Administrator).
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Trustee or Certificate Administrator as provided in this Section 8.8, the successor Trustee or Certificate Administrator shall mail notice of the succession of such trustee or certificate administrator hereunder to all Holders of Certificates at their addresses as shown in the Certificate Register, the Depositor, the Companion Loan Holder, the Borrower and the Initial Purchaser.
8.9. Merger or Consolidation of the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator. Any Person into which the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator may be merged or converted or with which either may be consolidated or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator shall be the successor of the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, hereunder; provided that such Person shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 8.6, without the execution or filing of any paper or further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding.
8.10. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee. (a) At any time or times, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Property may at the time be located or in which any action of the Trustee may be required to be performed or taken, the Trustee, the Depositor or the Holders of Certificates evidencing, in the aggregate, a majority of the Voting Rights of the outstanding Certificates, by an instrument in writing signed by it or them, may appoint one or more individuals or corporations to act as separate trustee or separate trustees or co-trustees, acting jointly with the Trustee, of all or any part of the Property, to the full extent that local law makes it necessary for such separate trustee or separate trustees or co-trustee acting jointly with the Trustee to act. The fees and expenses of any separate trustee or co-trustee shall be paid by the Trust Fund pursuant to Section 3.4(c).
(b) The Trustee shall execute, acknowledge and deliver all such instruments as may be required by the legal requirements of any jurisdiction or by any such separate trustee or separate trustees or co-trustee for the purpose of more fully conferring such title, rights or duties to such separate trustee or separate trustees or co-trustee, it, he, she or they shall be vested with such title to the Property or any part thereof, and with such rights, powers, duties and obligations as shall be specified in the instrument of appointment, and such rights, powers, duties and obligations shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Trustee, or the Trustee and such separate trustee or separate trustees or co-trustees jointly with the Trustee subject to all the terms of this Agreement, except to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be performed shall be exercised and performed by such separate trustee or separate trustees or co-trustee, as the case may be. Any separate trustee or separate trustees or co-trustee may, at any time by an instrument in writing, constitute the Trustee, its attorney-in-fact and agent with full power and authority to do all acts and things and to exercise all discretion on its behalf and in its, her or his name. In the event that any such separate trustee or co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, the title to the Property and all assets, property, rights, powers, duties and obligations of such separate trustee or co-trustee shall, so far as permitted by law, vest in and be exercised by the Trustee, without the appointment of a successor to such separate trustee or co-trustee unless and until a successor is appointed.
(c) All provisions of this Agreement which are for the benefit of the Trustee and Certificate Administrator shall extend to and apply to each separate trustee or co-trustee appointed pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 8.10 and to the Trustee and Certificate Administrator in each capacity that it may assume hereunder, including, without limitation, its capacity as Certificate Administrator, Certificate Registrar, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent and 17g-5 Information Provider, as applicable.
(d) Every co-trustee and separate trustee hereunder shall, to the extent permitted by law, be appointed and act and the Trustee shall act, subject to the following provisions and conditions: (i) all powers, duties, obligations and rights conferred upon the Trustee in respect of the receipt, custody, investment and payment of monies shall be exercised solely by the Trustee; (ii) all other rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed upon the Trustee shall be conferred or imposed and exercised or performed by the Trustee and such co-trustee or trustees and separate trustee or trustees jointly except to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be performed, the Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties and obligations shall be exercised and performed by such co-trustee or trustees; (iii) no power hereby given to, or exercisable by, any such co-trustee or separate trustee shall be exercised hereunder by such co-trustee or separate trustees except jointly with, or with the consent of, the Trustee; and (iv) no trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of any other trustees hereunder.
If, at any time, the Trustee shall deem it no longer necessary or prudent in order to conform to any such law, the Trustee shall execute and deliver all instruments and agreements necessary or proper to remove any co-trustee or separate trustee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the appointment of a co-trustee or separate trustee by the Trustee shall not relieve the Trustee of its obligations, duties, or responsibilities in any way or to any degree.
(e) Any request, approval or consent in writing by the Trustee to any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be sufficient warrant to such co-trustee or separate trustee, as the case may be, to take such action as may be so required, approved or consented to.
(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 8.10, the powers of any co-trustee or separate trustee shall not exceed those of the Trustee hereunder, and such co-trustee or separate trustee must meet the eligibility requirements set forth in Section 8.6.
8.11. Appointment of Authenticating Agent. (a) The Certificate Administrator may appoint an agent or agents which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Certificate Administrator to authenticate Certificates (each such agent, an “Authenticating Agent��), and Certificates so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Agreement and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Certificate Administrator hereunder. Wherever a reference is made in this Agreement to the authentication and delivery of Certificates by the Certificate Administrator or the Certificate Administrator’s certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Certificate Administrator by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Certificate Administrator by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall, at all times, be a corporation or association organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such law to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $15,000,000, authorized under such laws to do trust business and subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authorities. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and
surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If, at any time, an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section. The initial Authenticating Agent shall be the Certificate Administrator.
(b) Any Person into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to the corporate agency business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an Authenticating Agent, provided such Person shall be otherwise eligible under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Certificate Administrator or the Authenticating Agent.
(c) An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving at least 30 days’ advance written notice thereof to the Certificate Administrator, the Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, and the Depositor. The Certificate Administrator may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent, the Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, and the Depositor. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Certificate Administrator may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent and shall mail written notice of such appointment by first class mail, postage prepaid to all Certificateholders as their names and addresses appear in the Certificate Register. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent herein. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section.
8.12. Indemnification by Trustee and the Certificate Administrator. The Trustee, and the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, shall indemnify and hold harmless the Trust, the Servicer and the Special Servicer from and against any claims, losses, damages, penalties, fines, forfeitures, legal fees and expenses and related costs, judgments and other costs and expenses incurred by the Trust, the Servicer and the Special Servicer that arise out of or are based upon (i) a breach by the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator of its representations and warranties made under this Agreement, or (ii) the negligence, bad faith, fraud or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator in the performance of its obligations or negligent disregard of its obligations and duties under this Agreement.
The Certificate Administrator shall indemnify and hold harmless the Depositor from and against any claims, losses, damages, penalties, fines, forfeitures, legal fees and expenses and related costs, judgments and other costs and expenses incurred by the Depositor or its Affiliates that arise out of or are based upon (i) a breach by the Certificate Administrator, in its capacity as 17g-5 Information Provider, of its obligations under this Agreement or (ii) negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct on the part of the Certificate Administrator, in its capacity as 17g-5 Information Provider, in the performance of such obligations or its negligent disregard of its obligations and duties under this Agreement.
8.13. Certificate Administrator and Servicer Not Responsible for Inconsistent Payment Information. In connection with any Distribution Date and a voluntary prepayment or the payment at maturity by the Borrower of the Trust Loan or any portion thereof, the Certificate Administrator shall report the amount of such prepayment or payment to the Depository based on information received from the Servicer or Special Servicer in reliance on notices received from the Borrower. In the event of any inconsistencies in payments or prepayments made by the Borrower with the previously delivered notices by the Borrower, all costs and expenses incurred as a result of a failure by the Borrower to make any such payments or prepayment, shall be paid by the Borrower in accordance with the Loan Agreement provided that the amount of payment reported to the Depository by the Certificate Administrator was consistent with the information received from the Servicer or Special Servicer. If the Borrower fails to do so, such costs and expenses shall be reimbursed to the Certificate Administrator and to the Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, by the Trust pursuant to Section 3.4(c) from funds on deposit in the Collection Account. Neither the Certificate Administrator, the Trustee, the Servicer nor the Special Servicer shall be liable for any inability or delay of the Depository to make a distribution as a result of such inconsistencies. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Certificate Administrator shall notify the Depository on the Remittance Date or as soon as reasonably possible of any such inconsistencies.
8.14. Access to Certain Information. (a) The Certificate Administrator shall afford to any Privileged Person (other than the Rating Agencies, the Borrower, the Sponsor or Manager and any respective Affiliate thereof) and to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the FDIC and any other banking or insurance regulatory authority that may exercise authority over any Certificateholder, access to any documentation regarding the Whole Loan or the other assets of the Trust Fund that are in its possession or within its control including, without limitation:
(i) the Loan files, including any and all modifications, waivers and amendments to the terms of the Whole Loan entered into or consented to by the Servicer or the Special Servicer and delivered to the Certificate Administrator;
(ii) the annual, quarterly and monthly operating statements, if any, collected by or on behalf of the Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, and delivered to the Certificate Administrator for the Property, and
(iii) all notices and reports delivered to the Certificate Administrator with respect to the Property as to which environmental testing revealed any failure of the Property to comply with any applicable law, including any environmental law, or which revealed an environmental condition present at the Property requiring further investigation, testing, monitoring, containment, clean up, or remediation.
Such access shall be afforded without charge but only upon reasonable prior written request and during normal business hours at the offices of the Certificate Administrator.
The Certificate Administrator will provide copies of the items described in this Section 8.14(a) above upon reasonable written request of the Certificateholders. The Certificate Administrator may require payment for the reasonable costs and expenses of providing the
copies and may also require a confirmation executed by the requesting Person, in a form reasonably acceptable to the Certificate Administrator, to the effect that the Person making the request is a Beneficial Owner or prospective purchaser of Certificates, is requesting the information solely for use in evaluating its investment in the Certificates and will otherwise keep the information confidential. Certificateholders, by the acceptance of their Certificates, will be deemed to have agreed to keep this information confidential.
(b) The Certificate Administrator shall make available to Privileged Persons, via the Certificate Administrator’s Website, the following items (to the extent such items were prepared by or delivered to the Certificate Administrator in electronic format to trustadministrationgroup@wellsfargo.com):
(i) The following “deal documents”:
(A) the Offering Circular and any other disclosure document relating to the Certificates, in the form most recently provided to the Certificate Administrator by the Depositor or by any Person designated by the Depositor;
(B) this Agreement, each sub-servicing agreement delivered to the Certificate Administrator since the Closing Date (if any), the Loan Purchase Agreement and any amendments and exhibits hereto or thereto; and
(C) the CREFC® Loan Setup File delivered to the Certificate Administrator and prepared by the Servicer;
(ii) The following “periodic reports”:
(A) all Distribution Date Statements prepared by the Certificate Administrator pursuant to Section 4.4(a); and
(B) all CREFC® Reports delivered by the Servicer to the Certificate Administrator pursuant to Section 3.18(a) other than the CREFC® Loan Setup File;
(iii) The following “additional documents”:
(A) summaries of Asset Status Reports delivered to the Certificate Administrator pursuant to Section 3.10;
(B) all inspection reports delivered to the Certificate Administrator pursuant to Section 3.22;
(C) all Appraisals delivered to the Certificate Administrator pursuant to Section 3.7(a); and
(D) operating statements and rent rolls;
(iv) The following “special notices”:
(A) any notice of final payment on the Certificates delivered to the Certificate Administrator pursuant to Section 4.1(d);
(B) any notice of a Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event delivered to the Certificate Administrator pursuant to Section 7.1(b);
(C) any notice of resignation of the Trustee and any notice of the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee or successor Trustee delivered to the Certificate Administrator pursuant to Section 8.7;
(D) any and all Officer’s Certificates and other evidence delivered to or by the Certificate Administrator to support its or the Servicer’s, as the case may be, determination that any Advance was (or, if made, would be) a Nonrecoverable Advance, pursuant to Section 3.23(f);
(E) any Special Notice delivered to the Certificate Administrator pursuant to Section 5.6;
(F) any Annual Statements as to Compliance and related Officer’s Certificates delivered under Section 12.7;
(G) any Annual Independent Public Accountants’ Servicing Reports delivered pursuant to Section 12.9;
(H) any notice of termination of the Servicer or the Special Servicer delivered to the Certificate Administrator pursuant to Section 7.1(c);
(I) any request by the Certificateholders representing at least 25% of the Voting Rights to terminate the Special Servicer pursuant to Section 7.1(d); and
(J) any notice of resignation of the Trustee or Certificate Administrator and any notice of the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee or successor Certificate Administrator pursuant to Section 8.7.
(v) the “Investor Q&A Forum” pursuant to Section 4.5(a); and
(vi) solely to Certificateholders and Beneficial Owner of Certificates, the “Investor Registry” pursuant to Section 4.5(b).
The foregoing information shall be made available by the Certificate Administrator on the Certificate Administrator’s Website promptly following receipt. The Certificate Administrator shall have no obligation or duty to verify, confirm or otherwise determine whether the information being delivered is accurate, complete, conforms to the transaction, or otherwise is or is not anything other than what it purports to be. In the event that
any such information is delivered or posted in error, the Certificate Administrator may remove it from the Certificate Administrator’s Website. The Certificate Administrator has not obtained and shall not be deemed to have obtained actual knowledge of any information posted to the Certificate Administrator’s Website to the extent such information was not produced by the Certificate Administrator. In connection with providing access to the Certificate Administrator’s Website, the Certificate Administrator may require registration and the acceptance of a disclaimer. The Certificate Administrator shall not be liable for the dissemination of information in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, makes no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or completeness of such information being made available, and assumes no responsibility for such information. Assistance in using the Certificate Administrator’s Website may be obtained by calling (866) 846-4526. The Certificate Administrator shall provide a mechanism to notify each Person that has signed-up for access to the Certificate Administrator’s Website in respect of the transaction governed by this Agreement each time an additional document is posted to the Certificate Administrator’s Website. For purposes of receiving any information or report from the Certificate Administrator’s Website, other than Distribution Date Statements only, the Depositor and its designees, the Borrower, Manager, or an Affiliate thereof (as evidenced by its submission of an Investor Certification in the form of Exhibit J-1 hereto) shall be deemed to not be a “Privileged Person”.
The Certificate Administrator and the 17g-5 Information Provider shall make available solely to NRSROs (including the Rating Agencies) the following items to the extent such items are delivered to it via email at 17g5informationprovider@wellsfargo.com, specifically with a subject reference of “RBS Commercial Funding Inc. 2013-GSP” and an identification of the type of information being provided in the body of the email, or via any alternate email address following notice to the parties hereto or any other delivery method established or approved by the 17g-5 Information Provider if or as may be necessary or beneficial:
(i) any Asset Status Report delivered by the Special Servicer under Section 3.10(i);
(ii) notice of final payments on the Certificates;
(iii) any environmental reports delivered by the Special Servicer under Section 3.12(d);
(iv) any Appraisals delivered to the 17g-5 Information Provider pursuant to Section 3.7(a);
(v) any Annual Statements as to Compliance and related Officer’s Certificates delivered under Section 12.7;
(vi) any Annual Independent Public Accountants’ Servicing Reports delivered pursuant to Section 12.9;
(vii) any requests for Rating Agency Confirmation that are delivered to the 17g-5 Information Provider pursuant to Section 3.26(a);
(viii) any notice to the Rating Agencies relating to the Servicer’s, Special Servicer’s or Trustee’s determination to take action without receiving Rating Agency Confirmation as set forth in Section 3.26(a);
(ix) any information requested by the Depositor or the Rating Agencies pursuant to Section 3.21(b) (it being understood the 17g-5 Information Provider shall not disclose on the 17g-5 Information Provider’s Website which Rating Agency requested such information as provided in Section 3.21(b));
(x) any notice of resignation of the Trustee and any notice of the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee delivered to the Certificate Administrator pursuant to Section 8.7;
(xi) any and all Officer’s Certificates and other evidence delivered to the Certificate Administrator by the Trustee or the Servicer, as the case may be, relating to a determination that any Advance was (or, if made, would be) a Nonrecoverable Advance, pursuant to Section 3.23(f);
(xii) any notice of a Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event delivered to the Certificate Administrator pursuant to Section 7.1(b);
(xiii) any summary of oral communications with the Rating Agencies that are delivered to the 17g-5 Information Provider pursuant to Section 8.14(c); provided that the summary of such oral communications shall not attribute which Rating Agency the communication was with;
(xiv) any information authorized by the Depositor to be made available pursuant to Section 4.4(b);
(xv) this Agreement, each sub-servicing agreement delivered to the Certificate Administrator since the Closing Date (if any), the Loan Purchase Agreement and any amendments and exhibits hereto or thereto;
(xvi) any notice of termination of the Servicer or the Special Servicer delivered to the Certificate Administrator pursuant to Section 7.1(c);
(xvii) all CREFC® Reports prepared by, or delivered to, the 17g-5 Information Provider pursuant to Section 3.18(b);
(xviii) all inspection reports delivered to the 17g-5 Information Provider pursuant to Section 3.22; and
(xix) the Rating Agency Q&A Forum and Document Request Tool pursuant to Section 4.5(d).
The foregoing information shall be made available by the 17g-5 Information Provider on the 17g-5 Information Provider’s Website (a link to which shall be provided on the Depositor’s website at www.intralinks.com, or such other website as to which the Depositor may
notify the parties hereto in writing). Information will be posted on the same Business Day of receipt provided that such information is received by 12:00 p.m. (eastern time) or, if received after 12:00 p.m., on the next Business Day. The 17g-5 Information Provider shall have no obligation or duty to verify, confirm or otherwise determine whether the information being delivered is accurate, complete, conforms to the transaction, or otherwise is or is not anything other than what it purports to be. In the event that any information is delivered or posted in error, the 17g-5 Information Provider may remove it from the 17g-5 Information Provider’s Website. The Certificate Administrator and the 17g-5 Information Provider have not obtained and shall not be deemed to have obtained actual knowledge of any information posted to the 17g-5 Information Provider’s Website to the extent such information was not produced by the Certificate Administrator. Access will be provided by the 17g-5 Information Provider to NRSROs upon receipt of an NRSRO Certification. Questions regarding delivery of information to the 17g-5 Information Provider may be directed to 866-846-4526 or 17g5informationprovider@wellsfargo.com.
The Certificate Administrator and the 17g-5 Information Provider shall provide a mechanism to promptly notify each Person that has signed-up for access to the Certificate Administrator’s Website or the 17g-5 Information Provider’s Website, as applicable, in respect of the transaction governed by this Agreement each time an additional document is posted thereto. In connection with providing access to the 17g-5 Information Provider’s Website, the Certificate Administrator and the 17g-5 Information Provider, as applicable, may require registration and the acceptance of a disclaimer. The Certificate Administrator and the 17g-5 Information Provider shall not be liable for the dissemination of information in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or completeness of such information being made available, and assume no responsibility for any such information for which it is not the original source. The 17g-5 Information Provider shall not be liable for failing to make any information available to any NRSROs unless the same was delivered to it at its email address set forth above, with the proper subject heading. Assistance in using the Certificate Administrator’s Website or the 17g-5 Information Provider’s Website can be obtained by calling 866-846-4526.
(c) Each of the Servicer and the Special Servicer may, in accordance with such reasonable rules and procedures as it may adopt, also make available through its website or otherwise (and, as to the Certificate Administrator, shall make available all information as necessary to enable the Certificate Administrator to comply with Section 8.14(b)) and any additional information relating to the Whole Loan, the Property or the Borrower, for review by the Trustee, the Certificate Administrator, the Companion Loan Holder any other Persons who deliver an Investor Certification in accordance with this Section 8.14(c), and the Rating Agencies (only to the extent such additional information is simultaneously delivered to the 17g-5 Information Provider in accordance with the provisions of Section 8.14(b), who shall post such additional information on the 17g-5 Information Provider’s Website in accordance with the provisions of Section 8.14(b)) (collectively, the “Disclosure Parties”) in each case except to the extent doing so is prohibited by applicable law or by the Whole Loan. The Servicer or the Special Servicer as the case may be, shall be entitled to (i) indicate the source of such information and affix thereto any disclaimer it deems appropriate in its discretion and/or (ii) require that the recipient of such information (A) except for the Certificate Administrator and the Trustee, enter into an Investor Certification or other confidentiality agreement acceptable to
the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as the case may be, and (B) acknowledge that the Servicer or the Special Servicer may contemporaneously provide such information to any other Disclosure Party. In addition, to the extent access to such information is provided via the Servicer’s or the Special Servicer’s website, the Servicer and the Special Servicer may require registration and the acceptance of a reasonable and customary disclaimer and/or an additional or alternative agreement as to the confidential nature of such information. In connection with providing access to or copies of the items described in Section 8.14(b) to Certificateholders, the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, shall require: (a) in the case of a Certificateholder or a licensed or registered investment advisor acting on behalf of such Certificateholder, an Investor Certification executed by the requesting Person indicating that such Person is a Holder of Certificates and will keep such information confidential (except that such Certificateholder may provide such information to its auditors, legal counsel and regulators and to any other Person that holds or is contemplating the purchase of any Certificate or interest therein (provided that such other Person confirms in writing such ownership interest or prospective ownership interest and agrees to keep such information confidential)); and (b) in the case of a prospective purchaser of Certificates or interests therein, an Investor Certification indicating that such Person is a prospective purchaser of a Certificate or an interest therein and is requesting the information for use in evaluating a possible investment in Certificates and will otherwise keep such information confidential. In the case of a licensed or registered investment advisor acting on behalf of a current or prospective Certificateholder, the Investor Certification shall be executed and delivered by both the investment advisor and such current or prospective Certificateholder.
Neither the Servicer nor the Special Servicer shall be liable for the dissemination of information in accordance with this Agreement. Neither the Servicer nor the Special Servicer shall be responsible or have any liability for the completeness or accuracy of the information delivered, produced or otherwise made available pursuant to this Section 8.14(c) unless such information was produced by the Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable.
In connection with the delivery by Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, to the 17g-5 Information Provider of any information, report, notice or document for posting to the 17g-5 Information Provider’s Website, the 17g-5 Information Provider shall provide confirmation (which confirmation may be via email) to the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, of when such information, report, notice or other document has been posted to the 17g-5 Information Provider’s Website. The Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, may, but is not obligated to, send such information, reports, notice or other document to the applicable Rating Agency or Rating Agencies following the earlier (a) receipt of such notice from the 17g-5 Information Provider and (b) two Business Days after it has provided such information, report, notice or other document to the 17g-5 Information Provider.
The Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Certificate Administrator and the Trustee shall be permitted to orally communicate with the Rating Agencies provided that such party summarizes the information provided to the Rating Agencies in such communication and provides the 17g-5 Information Provider with such summary in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 8.14(b) on the same day such communication takes place; provided that the summary of such oral communications shall not be attributed to the Rating Agency the communication was with. The 17g-5 Information Provider shall post such summary on the 17g-5 Information Provider’s website in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 8.14(b).
9. TERMINATION
9.1. Termination. (a) The respective obligations and responsibilities of the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Depositor, the Certificate Administrator and the Trustee created hereby (other than the obligation to make certain payments to the Companion Loan Holder, other than the obligation of the Certificate Administrator to make certain payments to Certificateholders after the final Distribution Date and other than the indemnification rights and obligations of the parties hereto) shall terminate upon the last action required to be taken by the Certificate Administrator on the final Distribution Date pursuant to this Article 9 following the later of (i) the final payment on the Certificates or (ii) the liquidation of the Trust Loan (including, without limitation, the sale of the Trust Loan pursuant to this Agreement), or the liquidation or abandonment of the Property and all other Collateral for the Trust Loan; provided, however, that in no event shall the Trust continue beyond the expiration of 21 years from the death of the last survivor of the descendants of Joseph P. Kennedy, the late ambassador of the United States to the Court of St. James’s, living on the date hereof.
(b) On the final Distribution Date, all amounts on deposit in the Collection Account and not otherwise payable to a person other than the Certificateholders, shall be applied generally as described in Section 4.1.
(c) Notice of any termination, specifying the final Distribution Date (which shall be a date that would otherwise be a Distribution Date) upon which the Certificateholders of any Class may surrender their Certificates to the Certificate Administrator for payment of the final distribution and cancellation, shall be given promptly by the Certificate Administrator by letter to Certificateholders mailed as soon as practicable specifying (A) the final Distribution Date upon which final payment of the Certificates shall be made upon presentation and surrender of Certificates at the office or agency of the Certificate Administrator therein designated, (B) the amount of any such final payment and (C) that the Record Date otherwise applicable to such Distribution Date is not applicable, payments being made only upon presentation and surrender of the Certificates at the office or agency of the Certificate Administrator therein specified.
9.2. Additional Termination Requirements. In connection with any termination pursuant to Section 9.1 other than final payment on the Trust Loan, the Trust Fund shall be terminated in accordance with the following additional requirements, unless the Certificate Administrator has received at the expense of the Trust Fund, an Opinion of Counsel that any other manner of terminating the Trust REMIC will not subject the Trust Fund or the Trust REMIC to federal income tax:
(i) Within 89 days prior to the final Distribution Date, the Certificate Administrator shall designate the first day of the 90-day liquidation period of the Trust REMIC which shall be specified in a notice from the Certificate Administrator to the Certificateholders as soon as practicable prior to such final Distribution Date, and shall specify such date in the final tax return of the Trust REMIC;
(ii) At or after the time of adoption of such plan of complete liquidation and at or prior to the final scheduled Distribution Date, the Special Servicer shall sell any
remaining assets (other than cash) of the Trust Fund and credit the proceeds thereof to the Trust Fund; and
(iii) At or after such time as the proceeds from the disposition of the remaining assets of the Trust Fund shall have been credited to the Trust Fund, the Certificate Administrator shall cause all remaining amounts held as part of the Trust REMIC to be distributed to the Holders of the Certificates in accordance with Section 4.1(a), Section 4.1(b) and Section 4.1(g).
9.3. Trusts Irrevocable. Except as expressly provided herein, all trusts created hereby are irrevocable.
10. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
10.1. Amendment. (a) This Agreement may be amended from time to time by the parties hereto, without the consent of any of the Certificateholders or the Companion Loan Holder:
(i) to correct any inconsistency, defect or ambiguity in this Agreement or to correct any manifest error in any provision of this Agreement;
(ii) to cause the provisions in this Agreement to conform or be consistent with or in furtherance of the statements made in the Offering Circular with respect to the Certificates, the Trust or this Agreement or to correct or supplement any of its provisions that may be inconsistent with any other provisions therein or correct any error (including, but not limited to, the amount and priority of distributions to the Certificateholders);
(iii) to change the timing and/or nature of deposits in the Collection Account, the Distribution Account or the Foreclosed Property Account, provided that (a) the Remittance Date shall in no event be later than the Business Day prior to the related Distribution Date and (b) such change shall not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Certificateholder as evidenced by a Rating Agency Confirmation;
(iv) to modify, eliminate or add to any of its provisions to the extent necessary to maintain the qualification of the Trust REMIC as a REMIC at all times that any Certificate is outstanding, or to avoid or minimize the risk of imposition of any tax on the Trust REMIC that would be a claim against the Trust REMIC; provided that the Trustee, the Certificate Administrator and the Depositor have received an Opinion of Counsel (at the expense of the party requesting the amendment) to the effect that (1) the action is necessary or desirable to maintain such qualification or to avoid or minimize the risk of imposition of any such tax and (2) the action will not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any holder of the Certificates;
(v) to modify, eliminate or add to any of its provisions to restrict (or to remove any existing restrictions with respect to) the transfer of the Class R Certificates; provided that the Depositor has determined that the amendment will not give rise to any tax with respect to the transfer of the Class R Certificates to a non-Permitted Transferee; provided, further, that the Depositor may conclusively rely upon an Opinion of Counsel
(a copy of which shall be delivered to the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator) to such effect;
(vi) to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Agreement or any other change, provided that the required action shall not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Certificateholder not consenting thereto, as evidenced by Rating Agency Confirmation with respect to such change;
(vii) to amend or supplement any provision hereof to the extent necessary to maintain the then-current ratings assigned to the Class A Certificates by each Rating Agency, as evidenced by Rating Agency Confirmation;
(viii) to modify the provisions hereof with respect to reimbursement of Nonrecoverable Advances if (a) the Depositor, the Certificate Administrator, the Servicer, and, to the extent that the Trustee has the obligation to make Advances, the Trustee, determine that the commercial mortgage backed securities industry standard for such provisions has changed, in order to conform to such industry standard and (b) such modification does not adversely affect the status of the Trust REMIC as a REMIC, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel (at the expense of the party requesting the amendment or at the expense of the Trust Fund if the Trustee is the requesting party) and Rating Agency Confirmation; and
(ix) to modify the procedures herein relating to Exchange Act Rule 17g-5; provided that such modification does not materially increase the obligations of the Trustee, the Certificate Administrator, the 17g-5 Information Provider, the Servicer or the Special Servicer without the consent of such party.
(b) This Agreement may also be amended by the parties to this Agreement with the consent of the holders of Certificates of each Class affected by such amendment evidencing, in each case, not less than 51% of the aggregate Percentage Interests constituting the Class for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement or of modifying in any manner the rights of the holders of the Certificates, except that the amendment may not directly (i) reduce in any manner the amount of, or delay the timing of, payments which are required to be distributed on any Certificate without the consent of the holder of such Certificate or that are required to be distributed to the Companion Loan Holder without the consent of that holder, (ii) reduce the aforesaid percentage of Certificates of any Class the holders of which are required to consent to the amendment, without the consent of the holders of all Certificates of that Class then outstanding, (iii) adversely affect the Voting Rights of any Class of Certificates, without the consent of the holders of all Certificates of that Class then outstanding, (iv) change in any manner the obligations of the Loan Seller under the Loan Purchase Agreement without the consent of the Loan Seller, (v) adversely affect the Companion Loan Holder in its capacity as such without its consent, or (vi) amend Accepted Servicing Practices without, in each case, the consent of 100% of the holders of Certificates adversely affected by such amendment, and Rating Agency Confirmation with respect to such amendment.
(c) Notwithstanding any contrary provision contained in this Agreement, no amendment to this Agreement may be made that changes in any manner the rights and/or obligations of the Loan Seller under this Agreement or under the Loan Purchase Agreement without the consent of the Loan Seller, or the rights of the Initial Purchaser hereunder without the written consent of the Initial Purchaser, or impairs the rights of the Companion Loan Holder hereunder without the written consent of such Companion Loan Holder, and each of the Trustee or Certificate Administrator may, but will not be obligated to, enter into any amendment to this Agreement that it determines affects its respective rights, duties or immunities or creates any additional liability for the Trustee or Certificate Administrator, as applicable, under this Agreement.
(d) It shall not be necessary for the consent of Certificateholders under this Section 10.1 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. The manner of obtaining such consents and of evidencing the authorization of the execution thereof by Certificateholders shall be subject to such reasonable regulations as the Certificate Administrator may prescribe.
(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing, no amendment may be made to this Agreement unless the Certificate Administrator, the Trustee, the Servicer and the Special Servicer have first received an Opinion of Counsel (at the Trust Fund’s expense) to the effect that the amendment is authorized or permitted under this Agreement and all conditions precedent have been met and that the amendment or the exercise of any power granted to the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Depositor, the Certificate Administrator or any other specified person in accordance with the amendment, will not result in the imposition of federal income tax on any portion of the Trust or cause the Trust REMIC to fail to qualify as a REMIC under the Code.
(f) Promptly after the execution of any amendment to this Agreement, the Certificate Administrator shall post a copy of the same to the Certificate Administrator’s Website, deliver a copy of the same to the 17g-5 Information Provider who shall post a copy of the same on the 17g-5 Information Provider’s Website pursuant to Section 8.14(b), and thereafter, the Certificate Administrator shall furnish written notification of the substance of such amendment to each Certificateholder, the Depositor, the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Borrower, the Initial Purchaser and the Rating Agencies.
(g) In the event that neither the Depositor nor any successor thereto is in existence, any amendment under this Section 10.1 shall be effected with the consent of the Trustee, the Certificate Administrator and the Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable, and, to the extent required by this Section 10.1, the required Certificateholders, Companion Loan Holder, Loan Seller and/or Initial Purchaser, as applicable.
(h) Unless otherwise specified in Section 10.1(a), the costs and expenses associated with any such amendment, including without limitation, Opinions of Counsel and Rating Agency Confirmations, shall be borne by the party requesting such amendment (or, if such amendment is required by any of the Rating Agencies to maintain the rating issued by it or requested by the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, or the Certificate Administrator for any purpose described in Section 10.1(a) (which do not modify or otherwise relate solely to the obligations, duties or rights of the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator), then at the expense
of the Depositor and, if neither the Depositor nor any successor thereto is in existence, the Trust Fund).
10.2. Recordation of Agreement; Counterparts. (a) This Agreement or an abstract hereof, if acceptable by the applicable recording office, is subject to recordation in all appropriate public offices for real property records in the county in which the Property subject to the Mortgage is situated, and in any other appropriate public recording office or elsewhere, such recordation to be effected by the Certificate Administrator at the expense of the Trust upon its receipt of an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such recordation materially and beneficially affects the interests of the Certificateholders of the Trust.
(b) For the purpose of facilitating the recordation of this Agreement as herein provided and for other purposes, this Agreement may be executed simultaneously in any number of counterparts, each of which counterparts shall be deemed to be an original, and such counterparts shall constitute but one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement in Portable Document Format (PDF) or by facsimile transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a manually executed original counterpart of this Agreement.
10.3. Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction. THIS AGREEMENT AND ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE ARISING UNDER OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT, AND/OR THE INTERPRETATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS AND DECISIONS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CHOICE OF LAW RULES THEREOF. THE PARTIES HERETO INTEND THAT THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5-1401 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW SHALL APPLY TO THIS AGREEMENT.
EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY (I) SUBMITS TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND THE FEDERAL COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK FOR THE PURPOSE OF ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT; (II) WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE DEFENSE OF AN INCONVENIENT FORUM IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT; (III) AGREES THAT A FINAL JUDGMENT IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT SHALL BE CONCLUSIVE AND MAY BE ENFORCED IN ANY OTHER JURISDICTION BY SUIT ON THE JUDGMENT OR IN ANY OTHER MANNER PROVIDED BY LAW; AND (IV) AGREES THAT NOTHING HEREIN SHALL AFFECT THE RIGHT TO EFFECT SERVICE OF PROCESS IN ANY MANNER PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
10.4. Notices. All demands, notices and communications hereunder shall be in writing, shall be deemed to have been given upon receipt (except that notices to Holders of any Class of Certificates held in registered, definitive form shall be deemed to have been given upon being sent by first class mail, postage prepaid) as follows:
| Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas |
| 1761 East St. Andrew Place |
| Santa Ana, California 92705-4934 |
| Attention: CMBS – RBS Commercial Funding Inc. 2013-GSP |
| Facsimile: (714) 656-2626 |
| Email: jennifer.vandyne@db.com |
If to the Certificate Administrator, to:
| Wells Fargo Bank, National Association |
| Attention: CMBS – RBS Commercial Funding Inc. 2013-GSP |
| Telephone: (410) 884-2000 |
| Facsimile: (410) 715-2380 |
| Email: trustadministrationgroup@wellsfargo.com |
If to the Depositor, to:
RBS Commercial Funding Inc.
600 Washington Boulevard
Stamford, Connecticut 06901
Attention: Jim Barnard
Facsimile number: (203) 873-4310
with a copy to:
| Facsimile number: (203) 873-4670 |
| E-mail: Joseph.Thomas@rbs.com; |
with an additional copy to:
| Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP |
| One World Financial Center |
| Attention: Patrick T. Quinn |
| Facsimile number: (212) 504-6666 |
| E-mail: pat.quinn@cwt.com; |
| Wells Fargo Bank, National Association |
| 550 S. Tryon Street, 14th Floor |
| Charlotte, North Carolina 28202 |
| Attention: RBS Commercial Funding Inc. 2013-GSP Trust Asset Manager |
| Facsimile: (704) 715-0036 |
| Wells Fargo Bank, National Association |
| 301 South College Street, 30th Floor |
| Charlotte, North Carolina 28202 |
| Attention: Commercial Mortgage Servicing Legal Support |
| Facsimile No.: (704) 383-0353 |
With an additional copy to:
| Charlotte, North Carolina 28202 |
| Attention: Stacy G. Ackermann, Esq. |
| Reference – RBS Commercial Funding Inc. 2013-GSP Trust |
| Facsimile No.: (704) 353-3190 |
| Email: stacy.ackermann@klgates.com |
If to the Special Servicer, to:
| Wells Fargo Bank, National Association |
| Charlotte, North Carolina 28202 |
| Attention: RBS Commercial Funding Inc. 2013-GSP Special Servicing |
| Facsimile: (704) 715-0036 |
| Wells Fargo Bank, National Association |
| 301 South College Street, 30th Floor |
| Charlotte, North Carolina 28202 |
| Attention: Commercial Mortgage Servicing Legal Support |
| Facsimile No.: (704) 383-0353 |
With an additional copy to:
| Charlotte, North Carolina 28202 |
| Attention: Stacy G. Ackermann, Esq. |
| Reference – RBS Commercial Funding Inc. 2013-GSP Trust |
| Facsimile No.: (704) 353-3190 |
| Email: stacy.ackermann@klgates.com |
If to the Initial Purchaser:
| Stamford, Connecticut 06901 |
| Facsimile number: (203) 873-4310 |
If to any Certificateholder, to:
| the address set forth in the Certificate Register, |
| If to the Borrower: at the address therefor set forth in the Loan Agreement |
or, in the case of the parties to this Agreement, to such other address as such party shall specify by written notice to the other parties hereto.
10.5. Notices to the Rating Agencies. Any notices or documents required to be delivered to the Rating Agencies under this Agreement and any other information regarding the Trust Fund as may be reasonably requested by the Rating Agencies from any party hereto to the extent such party has or can obtain such information without unreasonable effort or expense shall be delivered to the Rating Agencies at the addresses set forth below; provided, however, that such other information is first provided to the 17g-5 Information Provider in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 8.14(b); and then such information may, but is not required to, be delivered to the Rating Agencies directly, promptly, but not earlier than 2 Business Days after such information is provided to the 17g-5 Information Provider, provided, further, that responses, information, reports and communications with respect to any Rating Agency Inquiry conducted or submitted on the Rating Agency Q&A Forum and Document Request Tool shall not be required to be delivered to the 17g-5 Information Provider. The 17g-5 Information Provider shall not disclose which Rating Agency has requested such information. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the failure to deliver such notices or copies shall not constitute a Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event, as the case may be, under this Agreement. Any confirmation of the rating by the Rating Agencies required hereunder shall be in writing.
In the event a Transfer and Assumption (as such term is defined in the Loan Agreement) occurs and Rating Agency Confirmation was not a condition to such transfer pursuant to Section 5.26.2(c) of the Loan Agreement, to the extent such information is in its possession, the Servicer shall use reasonable efforts to provide notice of such transfer to S&P (via the 17g-5 Information Provider’s Website) and, upon the written request of S&P, forward copies of the documents and opinions entered into or obtained in connection with such transfer to the 17g-5 Information Provider who shall post such information to the 17g-5 Information Provider’s Website; provided that any failure of the Servicer to provide such notice and/or documents and opinions shall not constitute a Servicer Termination Event hereunder.
Any notices to the Rating Agencies shall be sent to the following addresses:
| Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services |
| 55 Water Street, 41st Floor |
| Attention: Commercial Mortgage Surveillance Manager |
| Email: cmbs_info_17g5@standardandpoors.com |
Fitch, Inc.
One State Street Plaza, 31st Floor
New York, New York 10004
Email: info.cmbs@fitchratings.com
10.6. Severability of Provisions. If any one or more of the covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement shall be for any reason whatsoever held invalid, then, to the extent permitted by applicable law, such covenants, agreements, provisions or terms shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement and shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of the other provisions of this Agreement or of the Certificates or the rights of the Holders thereof.
10.7. Limitation on Rights of Certificateholders. The death or incapacity of any Certificateholder shall not operate to terminate this Agreement or the Trust Fund, nor entitle such Certificateholder’s legal representative or heirs to claim an accounting or to take any action or to commence any proceeding in any court for a petition or winding up of the Trust Fund, or otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto or any of them.
No Certificateholder, solely by virtue of its status as a Certificateholder, shall have any right to vote (except as provided herein) or in any manner otherwise control the operation and management of the Trust Fund, or the obligations of the parties hereto, nor shall anything herein set forth or contained in the terms of the Certificates be construed so as to constitute the Certificateholders from time to time as partners or members of an association; nor shall any Certificateholders be under any liability to any third party by reason of any action by the parties to this Agreement pursuant to any provision hereof.
No Certificateholder, solely by virtue of its status as a Certificateholder, shall have any right by virtue or by availing itself of any provisions of this Agreement to institute any suit, action or proceeding in equity or at law upon or under or with respect to this Agreement,
unless such Holder previously shall have given to the Trustee a written notice of a Servicer Termination Event or Special Servicer Termination Event, as the case may be, and of the continuance thereof, as herein before provided, and unless the Holders of Certificates aggregating not less than 25% of the Voting Rights of the Certificates shall also have made written request upon the Trustee to institute such action, suit or proceeding in its own name as Trustee hereunder and shall have offered to the Trustee such reasonable indemnity as it may require against the costs, expenses, and liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby, and the Trustee, for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity, shall have neglected or refused to institute any such action, suit or proceeding; it being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by each Certificateholder with every other Certificateholder and the Trustee, that no one or more Holders of Certificates shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue or by availing itself or themselves of any provisions of this Agreement to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of the Holders of any other of the Certificates, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other such Holder except as provided herein with respect to entitlement to payments or to enforce any right under this Agreement, except in the manner herein provided and for the common benefit of all Certificateholders. For the protection and enforcement of the provisions of this Section, each and every Certificateholder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.
10.8. Certificates Nonassessable and Fully Paid. The Certificateholders shall not be personally liable for obligations of the Trust Fund, the interests in the Trust Fund represented by the Certificates shall be nonassessable for any reason whatsoever, and the Certificates, upon due authentication thereof by the Certificate Administrator pursuant to this Agreement, are and shall be deemed fully paid.
10.9. Reproduction of Documents. This Agreement and all documents relating thereto, including, without limitation, (i) consents, waivers and modifications which may hereafter be executed, (ii) documents received by any party at the closing, and (iii) financial statements, certificates and other information previously or hereafter furnished, may be reproduced by any photographic, photostatic, microfilm, micro-card, miniature photographic or other similar process. The parties agree that any such reproduction shall be admissible in evidence as the original itself in any judicial or administrative proceeding, whether or not the original is in existence and whether or not such reproduction was made by a party in the regular course of business, and that any enlargement, facsimile or further reproduction of such reproduction shall likewise be admissible in evidence.
10.10. No Partnership. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed or construed to create a partnership or joint venture between the parties hereto.
10.11. Actions of Certificateholders. (a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Agreement to be given or taken by Certificateholders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Certificateholders in person or by agent duly appointed in writing; and except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Certificate Administrator and, where required, to the Depositor, the Trustee, the Servicer or the Special
Servicer. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Agreement and conclusive in favor of the Certificate Administrator, the Trustee, the Depositor, the Servicer and the Special Servicer if made in the manner provided in this Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution of any Certificateholder of any such instrument or writing may be proved in any reasonable manner which the Certificate Administrator deems sufficient.
(c) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other act by a Certificateholder shall bind every Holder of every Certificate issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, in respect of anything done, or omitted to be done, by the Trustee, the Certificate Administrator, the Depositor, the Servicer or the Special Servicer in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Certificate.
(d) The Certificate Administrator may require additional proof of any matter referred to in this Section as it shall deem reasonably necessary.
10.12. Successors and Assigns. The rights and obligations of any party hereto shall not be assigned (except pursuant to Section 6.2, 6.4, 8.7 or 8.9 hereof) by such party without the prior written consent of the other parties hereto. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Depositor, the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Certificate Administrator and the Trustee and their respective permitted successors and assigns. No Person other than a party to this Agreement, the Initial Purchaser and any Certificateholder shall have any rights with respect to the enforcement of any of the rights or obligations hereunder. Without limiting the foregoing, the parties to this Agreement specifically agree that (i) the Loan Seller shall be a third-party beneficiary of this Agreement with respect to any provisions relating to the Loan Seller, (ii) unless it is the Borrower or an Affiliate thereof, each Companion Loan Holder shall be a third-party beneficiary of this Agreement with respect to the rights afforded it under this Agreement, (iii) each Other Depositor and Other Exchange Act Reporting Party shall be third-party beneficiary of this Agreement with respect to its rights under Article 12, and (iv) no Borrower, property manager or other party to the Whole Loan is an intended third-party beneficiary of this Agreement (provided that the Borrower shall be entitled to notices to the extent expressly provided herein).
10.13. Acceptance by Authenticating Agent, Certificate Registrar. The Certificate Administrator hereby accepts its appointment as Authenticating Agent and Certificate Registrar and agrees to perform the obligations required to be performed by it in each such capacity pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.
10.14. Streit Act. Any provisions required to be contained in this Agreement by Section 126 and/or Section 130-k or Article 4-A of the New York Real Property Law are hereby incorporated herein, and such provisions shall be in addition to those conferred or imposed by this Agreement; provided, however, that to the extent that such Section 126 and/or 130-k shall not have any effect, and if said Section 126 and/or Section 130-k should at any time be repealed or cease to apply to this Agreement or be construed by judicial decision to be
inapplicable, said Section 126 and/or Section 130-k shall cease to have any further effect upon the provisions of this Agreement. In a case of a conflict between the provisions of this Agreement and any mandatory provisions of Article 4-A of the New York Real Property Law, such mandatory provisions of said Article 4-A shall prevail, provided that if said Article 4-A shall not apply to this Agreement, should at any time be repealed, or cease to apply to this Agreement or be construed by judicial decision to be inapplicable, such mandatory provisions of such Article 4-A shall cease to have any further effect upon the provisions of this Agreement.
10.15. Assumption by Trust of Duties and Obligations of the Lender Under the Loan Documents. The Trustee and Certificate Administrator on behalf of the Trust as assignee of the Trust Loan and the Servicer and Special Servicer hereby acknowledge that the Trust assumes all of the rights and obligations of the Lender as lender under the Loan Documents and agrees to be bound thereby, and in accordance with the terms thereof. Such acknowledgement on behalf of the Trust is made by the Trustee, the Certificate Administrator, the Servicer and the Special Servicer in the exercise of the powers and authority conferred and vested in it and is intended for the purpose of binding only the Trust. Nothing contained in this Section shall be construed as creating any liability on the part of the Trustee, Certificate Administrator, Servicer or Special Servicer, individually or personally, it being agreed that all liabilities and obligations being acknowledged as assumed are solely those of the Trust, and under no circumstances shall the Trustee, Certificate Administrator, Servicer or Special Servicer be liable personally for the breach or failure of any obligation, representation, warranty or covenant made or undertaken by the Trust under this Agreement, any Loan Document or any related document.
11. REMIC ADMINISTRATION
11.1. REMIC Administration. (a) The parties intend that the Trust REMIC shall constitute, and that the affairs of the Trust REMIC shall be conducted so as to qualify it as, a REMIC, and the provisions hereof shall be interpreted consistently with this intention.
(b) The Certificate Administrator shall make or cause to be made an election on behalf of the Trust REMIC to treat the segregated pool of assets constituting the Trust REMIC as a REMIC under the Code. Each such election shall be made on IRS Form 1066 or other appropriate federal tax or information return for the taxable year ending on the last day of the calendar year in which the Certificates are issued.
(c) The Closing Date is hereby designated as the “Startup Day” of the Trust REMIC within the meaning of Section 860G(a)(9) of the Code. The “latest possible maturity date” of the Certificates for the purposes of Section 860G(a)(1) of the Code is the Rated Final Distribution Date.
(d) The Certificate Administrator shall prepare or cause to be prepared, and file or cause to be filed with the IRS, on behalf of the Trust REMIC, an application for a taxpayer identification number for the Trust REMIC on IRS Form SS-4 or obtain such number by other permissible means. Within thirty days of the Closing Date, the Certificate Administrator shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Internal Revenue Service, on IRS Form 8811 or as otherwise may be required by the Code, the name, title and address of the
Persons that Holders of the Certificates may contact for tax information relating thereto (and the Certificate Administrator shall act as the representative of the Trust REMIC for this purpose), together with such additional information as may be required by such Form, and shall update such information at the time or times and in the manner required by the Code (and the Depositor agrees within (10) Business Days of the Closing Date to provide any information reasonably requested by the Servicer or the Certificate Administrator and necessary to make such filing).
(e) The Certificate Administrator shall pay without any right of reimbursement the ordinary and usual expenses in connection with the preparation, filing and mailing of tax information reports and returns that are incurred by it in the ordinary course of its business, but extraordinary or unusual expenses, costs or liabilities incurred in connection with its tax-related duties under this Agreement, including without limitation any expenses, costs or liabilities associated with audits or any administrative or judicial proceedings with respect to the Trust REMIC that involve the IRS or state tax authorities, shall be reimbursable from the Trust Fund.
(f) The Certificate Administrator shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, timely furnish or cause to be timely furnished to the Trustee to sign (and the Trustee shall timely sign), and the Certificate Administrator shall file or cause to be filed all federal, state and local income or franchise or other tax and information returns for the Trust REMIC as the direct representative for the Trust REMIC. Except as provided in Section 11.1(e), the expenses of preparing and filing such returns shall be borne by the Certificate Administrator. The Depositor shall provide on a timely basis to the Certificate Administrator or its designee such information with respect to the Trust REMIC as is in its possession, and is reasonably requested by the Certificate Administrator to enable it to perform its obligations under this subsection (f), and the Certificate Administrator shall be entitled to rely on such information in the performance of its obligations hereunder.
(g) The Certificate Administrator shall perform on behalf of the Trust REMIC all reporting and other tax compliance duties that are the responsibility of the Trust REMIC under the Code, the REMIC Provisions, or other compliance guidance issued by the IRS or any state or local taxing authority. Among its other duties, the Certificate Administrator shall provide (i) to the IRS or other Persons (including, but not limited to, the transferor of a Class R Certificate to a Disqualified Organization or to an agent that has acquired a Class R Certificate on behalf of a Disqualified Organization) such information as is necessary for the application of any tax relating to the transfer of a Class R Certificate to any Disqualified Organization and (ii) to the Certificateholders such information or reports as are required by the Code or REMIC Provisions. The Depositor shall provide on a timely basis (and in no event later than 30 days after the Certificate Administrator’s request) to the Certificate Administrator or its designee such information with respect to the Trust REMIC as is in its possession and is reasonably requested in writing by the Certificate Administrator to enable it to perform its obligations under this subsection (g).
(h) The Holder of the Class R Certificates holding the largest Percentage Interest therein shall be the Tax Matters Person of the Trust REMIC, pursuant to Treasury Regulations Section 1.860F-4(d). The duties of the Tax Matters Person for the Trust REMIC are hereby delegated to the Certificate Administrator as agent for the Tax Matters Person, and the
Class R Certificateholders, by acceptance of the Class R Certificates, agree, on behalf of themselves and all successor holders of such Class R Certificates, to such delegation to the Certificate Administrator as its agent and attorney in fact.
(i) The Certificate Administrator, the Holders of the Class R Certificates, the Servicer and the Special Servicer shall perform their obligations under this Agreement and the REMIC Provisions in a manner consistent with the status of the Trust REMIC as a REMIC.
(j) The Certificate Administrator, any Holder of the Class R Certificates, the Servicer and the Special Servicer shall not take any action or cause the Trust REMIC to take any action, within their respective control and the scope of their specific respective duties under this Agreement that, under the REMIC Provisions, could reasonably be expected to (i) endanger the status of the Trust REMIC as a REMIC or (ii) unless permitted under Section 11.2(a), result in the imposition of a tax upon the Trust REMIC (including but not limited to the tax on prohibited transactions as defined in Section 860F(a)(2) of the Code and the tax on prohibited contributions as defined in Section 860G(d) of the Code) (any such result in clause (i) or (ii), an “Adverse REMIC Event”) unless (A) the Certificate Administrator and the Servicer have received a Nondisqualification Opinion (at the expense of the party seeking to take such action or of the Trust Fund if taken for the benefit of the Certificateholders) with respect to such action or (B) the Certificate Administrator and the Servicer have received an opinion (at the expense of the party seeking to take such action or of the Trust Fund if taken for the benefit of the Certificateholders) to the effect that such action will not cause e the Trust REMIC to fail to qualify as a REMIC and that no tax will actually be imposed.
(k) Any and all federal, state and local taxes imposed on the Trust REMIC or its assets or transactions, including, without limitation, “prohibited transaction” taxes as defined in Section 860F of the Code, and any tax on contributions imposed by Section 860G(d) of the Code, shall be paid from the Collection Account; provided that the Servicer, upon two (2) days prior written notice, shall remit from the Collection Account to the Certificate Administrator the amount of any such tax that the Certificate Administrator notifies the Servicer is due; provided, further, that if such taxes shall have been imposed on account of the willful misconduct, bad faith or negligence of any party hereto, or in connection with the breach of any representation or warranty made by any party hereto in this Agreement, then such taxes shall be paid by such party.
(l) The Certificate Administrator shall, for federal income tax purposes, maintain books and records with respect to the Trust REMIC on a calendar year and on an accrual basis. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in the Loan Documents (but subject to Section 1.3), all amounts collected on the Whole Loan shall, for federal income tax purposes, be allocated first to interest due and payable on the Whole Loan (including interest on overdue interest) other than Default Interest. The books and records must be sufficient concerning the nature and amount of the investments of the Trust REMIC to show that such REMIC has complied with the REMIC Provisions.
(m) None of the Certificate Administrator, the Trustee, the Servicer or the Special Servicer shall enter into any arrangement by which the Trust REMIC will receive a fee or other compensation for services.
(n) In order to enable the Certificate Administrator to perform its duties as set forth herein, the Depositor shall provide, or cause to be provided, to the Certificate Administrator within 10 days after the Closing Date, all information or data that the Certificate Administrator reasonably determines to be relevant for tax purposes on the valuations and offering prices of the Certificates, including, without limitation, the yield, issue prices, pricing prepayment assumption and projected cash flows of the Certificates and the Class R Certificates, as applicable, and the projected cash flows on the Whole Loan. Thereafter, the Depositor, the Trustee, the Servicer and the Special Servicer shall provide to the Certificate Administrator, promptly upon request therefor, any such additional information or data that the Certificate Administrator may, from time to time, reasonably request in order to enable the Certificate Administrator to perform its duties as set forth herein. The Certificate Administrator is hereby directed to use any and all such information or data provided by the Trustee, the Depositor, the Servicer and the Special Servicer in the preparation of all federal, state or local income, franchise or other tax and information returns and reports for the Trust REMIC to Certificateholders as required herein. The Depositor hereby indemnifies the Certificate Administrator for any losses, liabilities, damages, claims or expenses of the Certificate Administrator arising from any errors or miscalculations of the Certificate Administrator pursuant to this Section 11.1 that result from any failure of the Depositor to provide or to cause to be provided, accurate information or data to the Certificate Administrator (but not resulting from the methodology employed by the Certificate Administrator) on a timely basis and such indemnifications shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the termination of the Certificate Administrator.
The Certificate Administrator agrees that all such information or data so obtained by it shall be regarded as confidential information and agrees that it shall use its best reasonable efforts to retain in confidence, and shall ensure that its officers, employees and representatives retain in confidence, and shall not disclose, without the prior written consent of the Depositor, any or all of such information or data, or make any use whatsoever (other than for the purposes contemplated by this Agreement) of any such information or data without the prior written consent of the Depositor, unless such information is generally available to the public (other than as a result of a breach of this Section 11.1) or is required by law or applicable regulations to be disclosed.
11.2. Foreclosed Property. (a) The parties hereto acknowledge and understand that if the Trust Fund were to acquire the Property as Foreclosed Property and were to own and operate the Property in a manner consistent with the manner in which the Property is currently owned and operated by the Borrower, through a Successor Manager, some portion or all of the income derived in the Trust REMIC from such Foreclosed Property may be considered “net income from foreclosure property” for purposes of Section 860G(c) of the Code and subject to tax at normal corporate income tax rates.
In determining whether to acquire and hold any Foreclosed Property, the Special Servicer, acting on behalf of the Trustee hereunder, shall take these circumstances into account and shall only acquire any such Foreclosed Property if it determines, in its reasonable judgment (after, consultation with counsel, at the expense of the Trust Fund), that either (i) there is a commercially feasible alternative method of administering such Foreclosed Property that would not result in such tax, e.g., a net lease that results in Rents from Real Property or (ii) the likely recovery with respect to operating the Foreclosed Property on behalf of the Trust Fund, after
taking into account any such taxes that might be imposed on the Trust REMIC, will exceed the likely recovery to the Trust Fund if the Trust Fund were to net lease the Foreclosed Property or were not to acquire and hold the Foreclosed Property. If the Trust Fund acquires any Foreclosed Property, the Special Servicer, acting on behalf of the Trustee, if the property manager would not be considered an Independent Contractor, shall either renegotiate the management agreement (if any) or replace the property manager with a Successor Manager (as appropriate and to the extent permitted under such management agreement) so that the Foreclosed Property would be considered to be operated by an Independent Contractor. If, after making the foregoing reasonable efforts, the Special Servicer determines that it is in the best interests of Certificateholders on a net after-tax basis to operate the Foreclosed Property in a manner such that the Trust REMIC shall receive, based upon an Opinion of Counsel, “net income from foreclosure property” under the REMIC Provisions, the Special Servicer shall maintain or cause to be maintained such records of income and expense as to enable such amounts to be computed accurately, and shall pay or retain or cause to be paid or retained from Foreclosure Proceeds such amounts as are necessary to pay such tax or, to the extent such amounts are insufficient, from the Collection Account pursuant to Section 3.4(c)(x).
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Special Servicer shall not, to the extent within its power:
(i) permit the Trust Fund to enter into, renew or extend any new lease with respect to the Foreclosed Property, if the new lease by its terms will give rise to any income that does not constitute Rents from Real Property;
(ii) permit any amount to be received or accrued under any new lease other than amounts that will constitute Rents from Real Property;
(iii) authorize or permit any construction on the Foreclosed Property, other than the completion of a building or other improvement thereon, and then only if more than ten percent of the construction of such building or other improvements was completed before default on the Trust Loan became imminent, all within the meaning of Section 856(e)(4)(B) of the Code; or
(iv) Directly Operate, other than through an Independent Contractor, or allow any other Person to Directly Operate, other than through the Manager or an Independent Contractor, the Foreclosed Property on any date more than 90 days after its acquisition date.
(b) The Special Servicer, acting on behalf of the Trustee hereunder, shall make reasonable efforts to sell the Foreclosed Property for its fair market value in accordance with Section 3.15. In any event, however, the Special Servicer, acting on behalf of the Trustee hereunder, shall dispose of any Foreclosed Property as soon as is practicable but in no event later than the close of the third calendar year following the year in which the Acquisition Date occurs unless the Special Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, has received (or has not been denied) an extension of time (an “Extension”) by the Internal Revenue Service to sell such Foreclosed Property or an opinion of counsel to the effect that the holding by the Trust Fund of the Foreclosed Property for an additional specified period will neither result in the imposition of
taxes on “prohibited transactions” of the Trust Fund as defined in Section 860F of the Code, nor cause the Trust REMIC to fail to qualify as a REMIC at any time that the Certificates are outstanding, in which event such period shall be extended by such additional specified period, with the expenses of obtaining any such extension of time being an expense of the Trust Fund. If the Special Servicer, on behalf of the Trustee, has received (or has not been denied) such Extension, then the Special Servicer, acting on behalf of the Trustee hereunder, shall continue to attempt to sell the Foreclosed Property for its fair market value for such longer period as such Extension permits (the “Extended Period”). If the Special Servicer, acting on behalf of the Trustee, has not received such an Extension and the Special Servicer, acting on behalf of the Trustee hereunder, is unable to sell the Foreclosed Property, within the foregoing period or if the Special Servicer, acting on behalf of the Trustee hereunder, has received such an Extension, and the Special Servicer, acting on behalf of the Trustee hereunder, is unable to sell the Foreclosed Property within the Extended Period, the Special Servicer shall, before the end of the above-referenced period or the Extended Period, as the case may be, auction the Foreclosed Property to the highest bidder (which may be the Special Servicer) in accordance with Accepted Servicing Practices.
(c) Within 30 days of the sale of a Foreclosed Property, the Special Servicer shall provide to each of the Certificate Administrator and the Trustee a statement of accounting for the Foreclosed Property, including, without limitation, (i) the date the Property was acquired in foreclosure or by deed in lieu of foreclosure, (ii) the date of disposition of such Foreclosed Property, (iii) the gross sale price and related selling and other expenses, (iv) accrued interest calculated from the date of acquisition to the disposition date, and (v) such other information as the Certificate Administrator and/or Trustee may reasonably request.
11.3. Prohibited Transactions and Activities. The Special Servicer, on behalf of the Trust Fund, shall not permit the sale or disposition of the Trust Loan at a time when the Trust Loan is not the subject of a breach of a representation or is not in default or default with respect thereto is not reasonably foreseeable (except in a disposition pursuant to (i) the bankruptcy or insolvency of the Trust REMIC or (ii) the termination of the Trust REMIC in a “qualified liquidation” as defined in Section 860F(a)(4) of the Code), nor acquire any assets for the Trust REMIC (other than Foreclosed Property), nor sell or dispose of any investments in the Collection Account or Distribution Account for gain, nor receive any amount representing a fee or other compensation for services, nor accept any contributions to the Trust REMIC (other than a cash contribution during the three-month period beginning on the Startup Day), unless it has received an Opinion of Counsel (at the expense of the Person requesting it to take such action) to the effect that such disposition, acquisition, substitution or acceptance will not (a) affect adversely the status of the Trust REMIC as a REMIC, or of the Regular Certificates as representing regular interests therein, (b) affect the distribution of interest or principal on the Regular Certificates, (c) result in the encumbrance of the assets transferred or assigned to the Trust REMIC (except pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement), or (d) cause the Trust REMIC to be subject to a tax on “prohibited transactions” or “prohibited contributions” pursuant to the REMIC Provisions.
11.4. Indemnification with Respect to Certain Taxes and Loss of REMIC Status. (a) If the Trust REMIC fails to qualify as a REMIC, loses its status as a REMIC, or incurs state or local taxes, or a tax as a result of a prohibited transaction or contribution subject to taxation
under the REMIC Provisions due to the willful misconduct, bad faith or negligent performance by the Certificate Administrator of its duties and obligations specifically set forth herein, or by reason of the Certificate Administrator’s negligent disregard of its obligations and duties thereunder, the Certificate Administrator shall indemnify the Trust against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses (“Losses”) resulting therefrom; provided, however, that the Certificate Administrator shall not be liable for any such Losses attributable to the action or inaction of the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Depositor, or the Holders of the Class R Certificates nor for any such Losses resulting from misinformation provided by the Holders of the Class R Certificates, the Servicer, the Special Servicer, or the Depositor, on which the Certificate Administrator has relied. The foregoing shall not be deemed to limit or restrict the rights and remedies of successor Holders of the Class R Certificates at law or in equity.
(b) If the Trust REMIC fails to qualify as a REMIC, loses its status as a REMIC, or incurs state or local taxes, or a tax as a result of a prohibited transaction or contribution subject to taxation under the REMIC Provisions due to the willful misconduct, bad faith or negligent performance of the Servicer or the Special Servicer in the performance of its duties and obligations set forth herein, or by reason of the Servicer’s or Special Servicer’s negligent disregard of its obligations and duties thereunder, the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as the case may be, shall indemnify the Trust against any and all losses resulting therefrom; provided, however, that the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as the case may be, shall not be liable for any such losses attributable to the action or inaction of the Certificate Administrator, the Depositor, the Holders of the Class R Certificates nor for any such losses resulting from misinformation provided by the Certificate Administrator, the Depositor or the Holders of the Class R Certificates on which the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as the case may be, has relied. The foregoing shall not be deemed to limit or restrict the rights and remedies of any successor Holders of the Class R Certificates at law or in equity.
12. EXCHANGE ACT REPORTING AND REGULATION AB COMPLIANCE
12.1. Intent of the Parties; Reasonableness. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the purpose of Article 12 of this Agreement is, among other things, to facilitate compliance by any Other Depositor with the provisions of Regulation AB and the related rules and regulations of the Commission. Except as expressly required by Sections 12.7, 12.8 and 12.9, the Depositor shall not, and no Other Depositor may, exercise its rights to request delivery of information or other performance under these provisions other than in good faith, or for purposes other than compliance with the Act, the Exchange Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The parties hereto acknowledge that interpretations of the requirements of Regulation AB may change over time due to interpretive guidance provided by the Commission or its staff, and agree to comply with reasonable requests made by the Depositor, or any Other Depositor, in good faith for delivery of information under these provisions on the basis of such evolving interpretations of Regulation AB. In connection with the RBS Commercial Funding Mortgage Trust 2013-GSP, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2013-GSP, and any Companion Loan Securities, each of the parties to this Agreement shall cooperate fully with the Depositor, the Certificate Administrator, any Other Depositor and any Other Exchange Act Reporting Party, as applicable, to deliver to the Depositor or Other Depositor, as applicable (including any of its assignees or designees), any and all statements, reports, certifications, records and any other information in its possession or reasonably available to it and necessary in the reasonable good
faith determination of the Depositor, the Certificate Administrator, any Other Depositor or any Other Exchange Act Reporting Party, as applicable, to permit any Other Depositor to comply with the provisions of Regulation AB, together with such disclosures relating to the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Certificate Administrator and the Trustee, as applicable, and any Sub-Servicer, or the servicing of the Whole Loan, reasonably believed by the Depositor or any Other Depositor, as applicable, in good faith to be necessary in order to effect such compliance.
12.2. Succession; Sub-Servicers; Subcontractors. (a) For so long as any Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act (in addition to any requirements contained in Section 12.7 of this Agreement), in connection with the succession to the Servicer and Special Servicer or any Sub-Servicer as servicer or sub-servicer (to the extent such Sub-Servicer is a “servicer” meeting the criteria contemplated by Item 1108(a)(2) of Regulation AB) under this Agreement by any Person (i) into which the Servicer and Special Servicer or such Sub-Servicer may be merged or consolidated, or (ii) which may be appointed as a successor to the Servicer and Special Servicer or any such Sub-Servicer, the Servicer or Special Servicer, as applicable (depending on whether such succession involves it or one of its Sub-Servicers), shall provide (other than in the case of a succession pursuant to an appointment under Section 7.1 or 7.2, in which case the successor servicer or successor special servicer, as applicable, shall provide) to any Other Depositor as to which the applicable Companion Loan is affected, at least five (5) Business Days prior to the effective date of such succession or appointment as long as such disclosure prior to such effective date would not be violative of any applicable law or confidentiality agreement (and as long as such notice is not given by a successor servicer or successor special servicer appointed under Section 7.1 or 7.2), and otherwise no later than one (1) Business Day after such effective date of succession, (x) written notice to the Depositor and each such Other Depositor of such succession or appointment and (y) in writing and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to each such Other Depositor, all information relating to such successor servicer reasonably requested by any such Other Depositor in order to comply with its reporting obligation under Item 6.02 of Form 8-K pursuant to the Exchange Act (if such reports under the Exchange Act are required to be filed under the Exchange Act).
(b) For so long as any Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, each of the Servicer, the Special Servicer, any Sub-Servicer and the Certificate Administrator (each of the Servicer, the Special Servicer and the Certificate Administrator and each Sub-Servicer, for purposes of this Section 12.2(b) and Section 12.2(c), a “Servicing Party”) is permitted to utilize one or more Subcontractors to perform certain of its obligations hereunder. Such Servicing Party shall promptly upon request provide to any Other Depositor as to which the applicable Companion Loan is affected, a written description (in form and substance satisfactory to each such Other Depositor) of the role and function of each Subcontractor that is a Servicing Function Participant utilized by such Servicing Party during the preceding calendar year, specifying (i) the identity of such Subcontractor, and (ii) which elements of the Servicing Criteria will be addressed in assessments of compliance provided by each such Subcontractor. Each Servicing Party shall cause any Subcontractor utilized by such Servicing Party that is determined to be a Servicing Function Participant to comply with the provisions of Section 12.8 and Section 12.9 of this Agreement to the same extent as if such Subcontractor were such Servicing Party. Such Servicing Party shall obtain from each such Subcontractor (or, in the case of each Sub-Servicer set forth on Exhibit N, shall use
commercially reasonable efforts to obtain from such Sub-Servicer) and deliver to the applicable Persons any assessment of compliance report and related accountant’s attestation required to be delivered by such Subcontractor under Section 12.8 and Section 12.9 of this Agreement, in each case, as and when required to be delivered.
(c) For so long as any Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, notwithstanding the foregoing, if a Servicing Party engages a Subcontractor in connection with the performance of any of its duties under this Agreement, such Servicing Party shall be responsible for determining whether such Subcontractor is a “servicer” within the meaning of Item 1101 of Regulation AB and whether such Subcontractor meets the criteria in Item 1108(a)(2)(i), (ii) or (iii) of Regulation AB. If a Servicing Party determines, pursuant to the preceding sentence, that such Subcontractor is a “servicer” within the meaning of Item 1101 of Regulation AB and meets the criteria in Item 1108(a)(2)(i), (ii) or (iii) of Regulation AB, then such Subcontractor shall be deemed to be a Sub-Servicer for purposes of this Agreement, and the engagement of such Sub-Servicer shall not be effective unless and until notice is given to the Depositor and the Certificate Administrator, as well as any Other Depositor as to which the applicable Companion Loan is affected, of any such Sub-Servicer and Subservicing Agreement. No Subservicing Agreement (other than such agreements set forth on Exhibit S hereto) shall be effective until five (5) Business Days after such written notice is received by the Depositor, the Certificate Administrator and each such Other Depositor. Such notice shall contain all information reasonably necessary, and in such form as may be necessary, to enable each Other Exchange Act Reporting Party as to which the applicable Companion Loan is affected, to accurately and timely report the event under Item 6.02 of Form 8-K pursuant to the related Other Pooling and Servicing Agreement or otherwise (if such reports under the Exchange Act are required to be filed under the Exchange Act).
(d) For so long as any Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, in connection with the succession to the Trustee or Certificate Administrator under this Agreement by any Person (i) into which the Trustee or Certificate Administrator may be merged or consolidated, or (ii) which may be appointed as a successor to the Trustee or Certificate Administrator, the Trustee or Certificate Administrator, as applicable, shall notify the Depositor and each Other Depositor, at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the effective date of such succession or appointment (or if such prior notice would be violative of applicable law or any applicable confidentiality agreement, no later than the time required under Section 12.6 of this Agreement) and shall furnish pursuant to Section 12.6 of this Agreement to each Other Depositor in writing and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Depositor and each Other Depositor, all information reasonably necessary for each Other Exchange Act Reporting Party to accurately and timely report the event under Item 6.02 of Form 8-K pursuant to the related Other Pooling and Servicing Agreement or otherwise (if such reports under the Exchange Act are required to be filed under the Exchange Act).
12.3. Other Securitization Trust’s Filing Obligations. For so long as any Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Certificate Administrator and the Trustee shall (and shall cause (or, in the case of each Sub-Servicer set forth on Exhibit N, shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause) each Additional Servicer and Servicing Function Participant utilized
thereby to) reasonably cooperate with each Other Depositor in connection with the satisfaction of each Other Securitization Trust’s reporting requirements under the Exchange Act.
12.4. Form 10-D Disclosure. For so long as any Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, within one Business Day after the related Distribution Date (using commercially reasonable efforts), but in no event later than noon (New York City time) on the third Business Day after the related Distribution Date, (i) the parties as set forth on Exhibit O to this Agreement, shall be required to provide to each Other Exchange Act Reporting Party and each Other Depositor to which the particular Additional Form 10-D Disclosure is relevant for Exchange Act reporting purposes, to the extent a Servicing Officer or Responsible Officer thereof has knowledge thereof (other than information required by Item 1117 of Regulation AB as to such party which shall be reported if actually known by any Servicing Officer or Responsible Officer, as the case may be, or any lawyer in the in-house legal department of such party), in EDGAR-compatible format (to the extent available to such party in such format), or in such other format as otherwise agreed upon by each such Other Exchange Act Reporting Party, each such Other Depositor and such parties, the form and substance of the Additional Form 10-D Disclosure, if applicable, and (ii) the parties listed on Exhibit O to this Agreement shall include with such Additional Form 10-D Disclosure application to such party and shall cause each Sub-Servicer (or, in the case of each Sub-Servicer set forth on Exhibit N, shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Sub-Servicer) and Subcontractor of such party to the extent required under Regulation AB to provide, and if received, include, an Additional Disclosure Notification in the form attached as Exhibit Q to this Agreement. The Certificate Administrator has no duty under this Agreement to monitor or enforce the performance by the parties listed on Exhibit O to this Agreement of their duties under this paragraph or proactively solicit or procure from such parties any Additional Form 10-D Disclosure information.
12.5. Form 10-K Disclosure. For so long as any Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, no later than March 1, commencing in March 2014, (i) the parties listed on Exhibit P to this Agreement shall be required to provide (and with respect to any Servicing Function Participant of such party (other than any party to this Agreement), shall cause such Servicing Function Participant to provide) to each Other Exchange Act Reporting Party and each Other Depositor to which the particular Additional Form 10-K Disclosure is relevant for Exchange Act Reporting purposes, to the extent a Servicing Officer or a Responsible Officer, as the case may be, thereof has actual knowledge (other than information required by Item 1117 of Regulation AB as to such party which shall be reported if actually known by any Servicing Officer or Responsible Officer, as the case may be, or any lawyer in the in-house legal department of such party), in EDGAR-compatible format (to the extent available to such party in such format) or in such other format as otherwise agreed upon by each such Other Exchange Act Reporting Party, each such Other Depositor and such providing parties, the form and substance of any Additional Form 10-K Disclosure described on Exhibit P to this Agreement applicable to such party, and (ii) the parties listed on Exhibit P to this Agreement shall include with such Additional Form 10-K Disclosure applicable to such party and shall cause each Sub-Servicer (or, in the case of each Sub-Servicer set forth on Exhibit N, shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Sub-Servicer) and Subcontractor of such party to the extent required under Regulation AB to provide, and if received, include, an Additional Disclosure Notification in the form attached as Exhibit Q to this Agreement. The Certificate
Administrator has no duty under this Agreement to monitor or enforce the performance by the parties listed on Exhibit P to this Agreement of their duties under this paragraph or proactively solicit or procure from such parties any Additional Form 10-K Disclosure information.
12.6. Form 8-K Disclosure. For so long as any Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, to the extent a Servicing Officer or Responsible Officer thereof has actual knowledge of such event (other than Item 1117 of Regulation AB as to such party which shall be reported if actually known by any Servicing Officer or Responsible Officer, as the case may be, or any lawyer in the in-house legal department of such party), within one Business Day after the occurrence of an event requiring disclosure on Form 8-K (each such event, a “Reportable Event”) (using commercially reasonable efforts), but in no event later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the second Business Day after the occurrence of a Reportable Event, (i) the parties set forth on Exhibit R to this Agreement shall be required to provide (and (i) with respect to any Servicing Function Participant of such party that is a Sub-Servicer set forth on Exhibit N, shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Servicing Function Participant to provide, and (ii) with respect to any other Servicing Function Participant of such party (other than any party to this Agreement), shall cause such Servicing Function Participant to provide) to each Other Depositor and each Other Exchange Act Reporting Party to which the particular Form 8-K Disclosure Information is relevant for Exchange Act reporting purposes, in EDGAR-compatible format (to the extent available to such party in such format) or in such other format as otherwise agreed upon by each such Other Depositor, each such Other Exchange Act Reporting Party and such providing parties, any Form 8-K Disclosure Information described on Exhibit R to this Agreement as applicable to such party, if applicable, and (ii) the parties listed on Exhibit R to this Agreement shall include with such Form 8-K Disclosure Information applicable to such party and shall cause each Sub-Servicer (or, in the case of each Sub-Servicer set forth on Exhibit N, shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Sub-Servicer) and Subcontractor of such party to the extent required under Regulation AB to provide, and if received, include, an Additional Disclosure Notification in the form attached hereto as Exhibit Q. The Certificate Administrator has no duty under this Agreement to monitor or enforce the performance by the parties listed on Exhibit R of their duties under this paragraph or proactively solicit or procure from such parties any Form 8-K Disclosure Information.
12.7. Annual Compliance Statements. On or before March 15 of each year, commencing in 2014, each of the Servicer, the Special Servicer (regardless of whether the Special Servicer has commenced special servicing of the Whole Loan) and, for so long as any Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the Certificate Administrator, at its own expense, shall furnish (and each such party, (i) with respect to each Servicing Function Participant that is a Sub-Servicer set forth on Exhibit N with which it has entered into a servicing relationship with respect to the Whole Loan, shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Servicing Function Participant to furnish, and (ii) with respect to any other Servicing Function Participant of such party (other than any party to this Agreement), shall cause such Servicing Function Participant to furnish) (each such Servicing Function Participant and each of the Servicer, Special Servicer and the Certificate Administrator, a “Certifying Servicer”) to the Certificate Administrator and the 17g-5 Information Provider (who shall post it to the Certificate Administrator’s Website and the 17g-5 Information Provider’s Website, as applicable, pursuant to Section 8.14(b)), the Trustee, the Depositor and the
Companion Loan Holder (or, in the case of a Companion Loan that is part of an Other Securitization Trust, the applicable Other Depositor and Other Exchange Act Reporting Party), an Officer’s Certificate stating, as to the signer thereof, that (A) a review of such Person’s activities during the preceding calendar year or portion thereof and of such Person’s performance under this Agreement or the applicable sub-servicing agreement, as applicable, has been made under such officer’s supervision and (B) to the best of such officer’s knowledge, based on such review, such Person has fulfilled all its obligations under this Agreement or the applicable sub-servicing agreement, as applicable, in all material respects throughout such year or portion thereof, or, if there has been a failure to fulfill any such obligation in any material respect, specifying each such failure known to such officer and the nature and status thereof. For so long as any Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, promptly after receipt of each such Officer’s Certificate, the Depositor (and, in the case of a Companion Loan that is part of an Other Securitization Trust, the applicable Other Depositor and Other Exchange Act Reporting Party) may review each such Officer’s Certificate and, if applicable, consult with the Certifying Servicer, as applicable, as to the nature of any failures by such Certifying Servicer, respectively, or any related Servicing Function Participant with which the Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, has entered into a servicing relationship with respect to the Trust Loan or the Companion Loan in the fulfillment of any Certifying Servicer’s obligations hereunder or under the applicable sub-servicing or primary servicing agreement. The obligations of each Certifying Servicer under this Section apply to each such Certifying Servicer that serviced the Trust Loan or a Companion Loan during the applicable period, whether or not the Certifying Servicer is acting in such capacity at the time such Officer’s Certificate is required to be delivered. Copies of all Officer’s Certificates delivered pursuant to this Section 12.7 shall be made available to any Privileged Person by the Certificate Administrator by posting such Compliance Report to the Certificate Administrator’s Website pursuant to Section 8.14(b).
12.8. Annual Reports on Assessment of Compliance with Servicing Criteria. (a) On or before March 15 of each year, commencing in 2014, the Servicer, the Special Servicer (regardless of whether the Special Servicer has commenced special servicing of the Whole Loan) and, for so long as any Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the Certificate Administrator, each at its own expense, shall furnish (and each such party, (i) with respect to each Servicing Function Participant that is a Sub-Servicer set forth on Exhibit N with which it has entered into a servicing relationship with respect to the Whole Loan, shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Servicing Function Participant to furnish, and (ii) with respect to any other Servicing Function Participant of such party (other than any party to this Agreement), shall cause such Servicing Function Participant to furnish) (each Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Certificate Administrator and any Servicing Function Participant, as the case may be, a “Reporting Servicer”) to the Certificate Administrator and the 17g-5 Information Provider (who shall post it to the Certificate Administrator’s Website and the 17g-5 Information Provider’s Website, as applicable, pursuant to Section 8.14(b)), the Trustee, the Depositor and the Companion Loan Holder (or, in the case of a Companion Loan that is part of an Other Securitization Trust, the applicable Other Depositor and Other Exchange Act Reporting Party), a report on an assessment of compliance with the Applicable Servicing Criteria that contains (A) a statement by such Reporting Servicer of its responsibility for assessing compliance with the Applicable Servicing Criteria, (B) a statement that, to the best of such Reporting Servicer’s knowledge, such Reporting Servicer used the Servicing Criteria to assess compliance with the Applicable Servicing Criteria, (C) such Reporting Servicer’s assessment of
compliance with the Applicable Servicing Criteria as of the end of and for the preceding calendar year, including, if there has been any material instance of noncompliance with the Applicable Servicing Criteria, a discussion of each such failure and the nature and status thereof and (D) a statement that a registered public accounting firm that is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants has issued an attestation report on such Reporting Servicer’s assessment of compliance with the Applicable Servicing Criteria as of and for such period. Copies of all compliance reports delivered pursuant to this Section 12.8 shall be provided to any Certificateholder, upon the written request therefor, by the Certificate Administrator.
Each such report shall be addressed to the Depositor and each Other Depositor (if addressed) and signed by an authorized officer of the applicable company, and shall address each of the Applicable Servicing Criteria. For so long as any Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, promptly after receipt of each such report, the Depositor and each Other Depositor may review each such report and, if applicable, consult with the each Reporting Servicer as to the nature of any material instance of noncompliance with the Relevant Servicing Criteria.
(b) On the Closing Date, the Servicer, the Special Servicer and the Certificate Administrator each acknowledge and agree that Exhibit K to this Agreement sets forth the Relevant Servicing Criteria for such party.
(c) No later than 30 days after the end of each fiscal year for the Trust, the Servicer, the Special Servicer and, for so long as any Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the Certificate Administrator shall notify the Certificate Administrator, the Depositor, each Other Exchange Act Reporting Party and each Other Depositor as to the name of each Servicing Function Participant utilized by it, in each case, and each such notice will specify what specific Servicing Criteria will be addressed in the report on assessment of compliance prepared by such Servicing Function Participant. When the Servicer, the Special Servicer and, for so long as any Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the Certificate Administrator submit their assessments pursuant to Section 12.8(a) of this Agreement, such parties, as applicable, will also at such time include the assessment (and related attestation pursuant to Section 12.9) of each Servicing Function Participant engaged by it. The fiscal year for the Trust shall be January 1 through and including December 31 of each calendar year.
(d) In the event the Servicer, the Special Servicer or, for so long as any Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the Certificate Administrator is terminated or resigns pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, such party shall provide, and each such party shall cause (or, if the Servicing Function Participant is a Sub-Servicer set forth on Exhibit N, shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause) any Servicing Function Participant engaged by it to provide (and the Servicer, the Special Servicer and the Certificate Administrator shall, with respect to any Servicing Function Participant that resigns or is terminated under any applicable servicing agreement, cause such Servicing Function Participant to provide) an annual assessment of compliance pursuant to this Section 12.8, coupled with an attestation as required in Section 12.9 in respect of the period of time that the Servicer, the Special Servicer or, for so long as any Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the Certificate Administrator was subject to this
Agreement or the period of time that the Servicing Function Participant was subject to such other servicing agreement.
12.9. Annual Independent Public Accountants’ Servicing Report. On or before March 15 of each year, commencing in 2014, the Servicer, the Special Servicer and, for so long as any Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the Certificate Administrator, each at its own expense, shall cause (and each such party, (i) with respect to each Servicing Function Participant that is a Sub-Servicer set forth on Exhibit N with which it has entered into a servicing relationship with respect to the Whole Loan, shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Servicing Function Participant to furnish, and (ii) with respect to any other Servicing Function Participant of such party (other than any party to this Agreement), shall cause such Servicing Function Participant to furnish) a registered public accounting firm (which may also render other services to the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Certificate Administrator or the applicable Servicing Function Participant, as the case may be) and that is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants to furnish a report to the Certificate Administrator (who shall post it to the Certificate Administrator’s Website pursuant to Section 8.14(b)), the Depositor, the Companion Loan Holder (or, in the case of a Companion Loan that is part of an Other Securitization Trust, the applicable Other Depositor and Other Exchange Act Reporting Party) and the 17g-5 Information Provider (who shall post it to the 17g-5 Information Provider’s Website pursuant to Section 8.14(b)), to the effect that (i) it has obtained a representation regarding certain matters from the management of such Reporting Servicer, which includes an assessment from such Reporting Servicer of its compliance with the Applicable Servicing Criteria and (ii) on the basis of an examination conducted by such firm in accordance with standards for attestation engagements issued or adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, it is expressing an opinion as to whether such Reporting Servicer’s assessment of compliance with the Servicing Criteria was fairly stated in all material respects, or it cannot express an overall opinion regarding such party’s assessment of compliance with the Applicable Servicing Criteria. In the event that an overall opinion cannot be expressed, such registered public accounting firm shall state in such report why it was unable to express such an opinion. Each accountant’s attestation report required hereunder shall be made in accordance with Rules 1-02(a)(3) and 2-02(g) of Regulation S-X under the Act and the Exchange Act. Such report must be available for general use and not contain restricted use language. Copies of all statements delivered pursuant to this Section 12.9 shall be made available to any Privileged Person by the Certificate Administrator posting such statement on the Certificate Administrator’s Website pursuant to Section 8.14(b).
For so long as any Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, promptly after receipt of such report from the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Certificate Administrator or any Servicing Function Participant, the Depositor and each Other Depositor may review the report and, if applicable, consult with the Servicer, the Special Servicer or, for so long as any Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the Certificate Administrator as to the nature of any defaults by the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Certificate Administrator or any Servicing Function Participant with which it has entered into a servicing relationship with respect to the Trust Loan or the Companion Loan, as the case may be, in the fulfillment of any of the
Servicer’s, the Special Servicer’s, the Certificate Administrator’s or the applicable Servicing Function Participants’ obligations hereunder or under the applicable sub-servicing agreement.
12.10. Significant Obligor. With respect to the Companion Loan that the applicable Other Depositor has notified the Servicer in writing that the Property is a “significant obligor” (within the meaning of Item 1101(k) of Regulation AB) with respect to an Other Securitization Trust that includes such Companion Loan, the Servicer shall, after receipt of updated net operating income information for the Property, (x) promptly deliver the financial statements of such “significant obligor” to the Other Depositor and Other Exchange Act Reporting Party of such Other Securitization Trust and (y) update the following columns related to the “significant obligor” of the CREFC® Loan Periodic Update File for (i) the next applicable Distribution Date if the Servicer receives such updated net operating income information at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the Determination Date related to such Distribution Date or (ii) the second succeeding Distribution Date if the Master Servicer does not receive such updated net operating income information prior to the date set forth in clause (i): BB, BP, BT and BU (corresponding fields 54 – “Preceding Fiscal Year NOI,” 68 – “Most Recent NOI,” 72 – “Most Recent Financial As of Start Date” and 73 – “Most Recent Financial As of End Date”), as such column references and field numbers may change from time to time.
If the Servicer does not receive financial information satisfactory to comply with Item 6 of Form 10-D or Item 1112(b)(1) of Form 10-K, as the case may be, of such “significant obligor” within ten Business Days after the date such financial information is required to be delivered under the Loan Documents, the Servicer shall notify the Other Depositor with respect to such Other Securitization Trust that includes the related Companion Loan (and shall cause each applicable sub-servicing agreement to require any related Sub-Servicer to notify such Other Depositor) that it has not received them. The Servicer shall use efforts consistent with Accepted Servicing Practices (taking into account, in addition, the ongoing reporting obligations of such Other Depositor under the Exchange Act) to obtain the periodic financial statements of the Borrower under the Loan Documents.
The Servicer shall (and shall cause each applicable sub-servicing agreement to require any related Sub-Servicer to) retain written evidence of each instance in which it (or a Sub-Servicer) attempts to contact the Borrower to obtain the required financial information and is unsuccessful and, within five (5) Business Days prior to the date in which a Form 10-D or Form 10-K, as applicable, is required to be filed with respect to the Other Securitization Trust, shall forward an Officer’s Certificate evidencing its attempts to obtain this information to the Other Exchange Act Reporting Party and Other Depositor related to such Other Securitization Trust. This Officer’s Certificate should be addressed to the certificate administrator at its corporate trust office, as specified in the related Other Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
12.11. Sarbanes-Oxley Backup Certification. For so long as any Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the Certificate Administrator, the Servicer and the Special Servicer shall provide (and with respect to any other Servicing Function Participant of such party, shall cause such Servicing Function Participant to provide) to the Person who signs the Sarbanes-Oxley Certification with respect to such Other Securitization Trust (the “Certifying Person”) no later than March 15 of the year following the year to which the Form 10-K of such Other Securitization Trust relates or, if March 15 is not a
Business Day, on the immediately following Business Day, a certification in the form attached to this Agreement as Exhibit S-1, Exhibit S-2 and Exhibit S-3, as applicable, on which the Certifying Person, the entity for which the Certifying Person acts as an officer, and such entity’s officers, directors and Affiliates (collectively with the Certifying Person, “Certification Parties”) can reasonably rely. In the event any Reporting Servicer is terminated or resigns pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, or any applicable sub-servicing agreement or primary servicing agreement, as the case may be, such Reporting Servicer shall provide a certification to the Certifying Person pursuant to this Section 12.11 with respect to the period of time it was subject to this Agreement or the applicable sub-servicing or primary servicing agreement, as the case may be.
12.12. Indemnification. Each of the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Certificate Administrator and the Trustee shall indemnify and hold harmless the Depositor, each Other Depositor and any employee, director or officer of the Depositor or any Other Depositor from and against any claims, losses, damages, penalties, fines, forfeitures, legal fees and expenses and related costs, judgments and other costs and expenses incurred by such indemnified party arising out of (i) an actual breach by the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Certificate Administrator or the Trustee (solely with respect to Sections 12.4, 12.5 and 12.6), as the case may be, of its obligations under this Article 12 or (ii) negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct on the part of the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Certificate Administrator or the Trustee (solely with respect to Sections 12.4, 12.5 and 12.6), as applicable, in the performance of such obligations.
The Servicer, the Special Servicer and the Certificate Administrator shall cause each Servicing Function Participant of such party that is not a Sub-Servicer set forth on Exhibit N (and with respect to any Servicing Function Participant of such party that is a Sub-Servicer set forth on Exhibit N, shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Servicing Function Participant) to indemnify and hold harmless the Depositor, each Other Depositor and any employee, director or officer of the Depositor or any Other Depositor from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, penalties, fines, forfeitures, legal fees and expenses and related costs, judgments and any other costs, fees and expenses incurred by such indemnified party arising out of (i) a breach of its obligations to provide any of the annual compliance statements or annual servicing criteria compliance reports or attestation reports pursuant to the applicable sub-servicing agreement or (ii) negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct its part in the performance of such obligations or (iii) any failure by a Servicing Party (as defined in Section 12.2(b)) to identify a Servicing Function Participant pursuant to Section 12.2(c).
If the indemnification provided for in, or contemplated by, either of the prior two paragraphs is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless the Depositor, any Other Depositor or any employee, director or officer of the Depositor or any Other Depositor, then the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Certificate Administrator, the Trustee, the Additional Servicer or other Servicing Function Participant (the “Performing Party”) shall contribute to the amount paid or payable to the indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities of the indemnified party in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the indemnified party on the one hand and the Performing Party on the other in connection with a breach of the Performing Party’s obligations pursuant to this Article 12 (or breach of its
obligations under the applicable sub-servicing agreement to provide any of the annual compliance statements or annual servicing criteria compliance reports or attestation reports) or the Performing party’s negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct in connection therewith.
The Servicer, the Special Servicer and the Certificate Administrator shall cause each Servicing Function Participant of such party that is not a Sub-Servicer set forth on Exhibit N (and with respect to any Servicing Function Participant of such party that is a Sub-Servicer set forth on Exhibit N, shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Servicing Function Participant) to agree to the foregoing indemnification and contribution obligations. This Section 12.11 shall survive the termination of this Agreement or the earlier resignation or removal of the Servicer, the Special Servicer or the Certificate Administrator.
12.13. Amendments. This Article 12 may be amended by the parties hereto pursuant to Section 10.1 of this Agreement for purposes of complying with Regulation AB, the Act or the Exchange Act and/or to conform to standards developed within the commercial mortgage-backed securities market and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act without any Opinions of Counsel, Officer’s Certificates, Rating Agency Confirmations or the consent of any Certificateholder, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement.
12.14. Termination of the Certificate Administrator. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Depositor or any Other Depositor may terminate the Certificate Administrator upon five Business Days’ notice if the Certificate Administrator fails to comply with any of its obligations under this Article 12; provided that such termination shall not be effective until a successor Certificate Administrator shall have accepted the appointment.
12.15. Termination of Sub-Servicing Agreements. For so long as any Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, each of the Servicer, the Certificate Administrator and the Trustee, as applicable, shall (i) cause each Sub-Servicing Agreement to which it is a party to entitle the Depositor or any Other Depositor to terminate such agreement (without compensation, termination fee or the consent of any other Person) at any time following any failure of the applicable Sub-Servicer to any deliver any Exchange Act reporting items that such Sub-Servicer is required to deliver under Regulation AB or as otherwise contemplated by this Article 12 and (ii) promptly notify the Depositor and any Other Depositor following any failure of the applicable Sub-Servicer to deliver any Exchange Act reporting items that such Sub-Servicer is required to deliver under Regulation AB or as otherwise contemplated by this Article 12. The Depositor and any Other Depositor is hereby authorized to exercise the rights described in clause (i) of the preceding sentence in its sole discretion. The rights of the Depositor and any Other Depositor to terminate a Sub-Servicing Agreement as aforesaid shall not limit any right the Servicer, the Certificate Administrator or the Trustee, as applicable, may have to terminate such Sub-Servicing Agreement.
12.16. Notification Requirements and Deliveries in Connection with .Securitization of a Companion Loan (a) Any other provision of this Article 12 to the contrary notwithstanding, including, without limitation, any deadlines for delivery set forth in this Article 12, in connection with the requirements contained in this Article 12 that provide for the delivery of information and other items to, and the cooperation with, the Other Depositor and
Other Exchange Act Reporting Party of any Other Securitization Trust that includes a Companion Loan, no party hereunder shall be obligated to provide any such items to or cooperate with such Other Depositor or Other Exchange Act Reporting Party (i) until the Other Depositor or Other Exchange Act Reporting Party of such Other Securitization Trust has provided each party hereto with not less than 30 days written notice (which shall only be required to be delivered once), setting forth the contact information for such Person(s) and, except as regards the deliveries and cooperation contemplated by Section 12.7, Section 12.8 and Section 12.9 of this Agreement, stating that such Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, and (ii) specifying in reasonable detail the information and other items not otherwise specified in this Agreement that are requested to be delivered; provided that if Exchange Act reporting is being requested, such Other Depositor or Other Exchange Act Reporting Party is only required to provide a single written notice to such effect. Any reasonable cost and expense of the Servicer, Special Servicer, Trustee and Certificate Administrator in cooperating with such Other Depositor or Other Exchange Act Reporting Party of such Other Securitization Trust (above and beyond their expressed duties hereunder) shall be the responsibility of such Other Depositor or Other Securitization Trust. The parties hereto shall have the right to confirm in good faith with the Other Depositor of such Other Securitization Trust as to whether applicable law requires the delivery of the items identified in this Article 12 to such Other Depositor and Other Exchange Act Reporting Party of such Other Securitization Trust prior to providing any of the reports or other information required to be delivered under this Article 12 in connection therewith and (i) upon such confirmation, the parties shall comply with the deadlines for delivery set forth in this Article 12 with respect to such Other Securitization Trust or (ii) in the absence of such confirmation, the parties shall not be required to deliver such items; provided that no such confirmation will be required in connection with any delivery of the items contemplated by Section 12.7, Section 12.8 and Section 12.9 of this Agreement. Such confirmation shall be deemed given if the Other Depositor or Other Exchange Act Reporting Party for the Other Securitization Trust provides a written statement to the effect that the Other Securitization Trust is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act and the appropriate party hereto receives such written statement. The parties hereunder shall also have the right to require that such Other Depositor provide them with the contact details of such Other Depositor, Other Exchange Act Reporting Party and any other parties to the Other Pooling and Servicing Agreement relating to such Other Securitization Trust.
(b) Each of the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Certificate Administrator and the Trustee shall, upon reasonable prior written request given in accordance with the terms of Section 12.16(a) above, and subject to a right of the Servicer, Special Servicer, the Certificate Administrator or Trustee, as the case may be, to review and approve such disclosure materials, permit the Companion Loan Holder to use such party’s description contained in the Offering Circular (updated as appropriate by the Servicer, the Special Servicer, Certificate Administrator or Trustee, as applicable, at the reasonable cost of the Other Depositor) for inclusion in the disclosure materials relating to any securitization of a Companion Loan.
(c) The Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Certificate Administrator and the Trustee, upon reasonable prior written request given in accordance with the terms of Section 12.16(a) above, shall each timely provide (to the extent the reasonable cost thereof is paid or caused to be paid by the requesting party) to the Other Depositor and any underwriters
with respect to any securitization transaction that includes the Companion Loan such opinion(s) of counsel, certifications and/or indemnification agreement(s) with respect to the updated description referred in Section 12.16(b) with respect to such party, substantially identical to those, if any, delivered by the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as the case may be, or their respective counsel, in connection with the information concerning such party in the Offering Circular and/or any other disclosure materials relating to this Trust (updated as deemed appropriate by the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, or their respective legal counsel, as the case may be, and sufficient to comply with Regulation AB). None of the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator shall be obligated to deliver any such item with respect to the securitization of the Companion Loan if it did not deliver a corresponding item with respect to this Trust.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused their names to be signed hereto by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized as of the day and year first above written.
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| RBS COMMERCIAL FUNDING INC., as Depositor |
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| By: | /s/ Jim Barnard |
| | Name: Jim Barnard |
| | Title: Director |
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| WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Servicer |
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| By: | /s/ Nachette Hadden |
| | Name: Nachette Hadden |
| | Title: Vice President |
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| WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Special Servicer |
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| By: | /s/ Nachette Hadden |
| | Name: Nachette Hadden |
| | Title: Vice President |
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| WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Certificate Administrator |
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| By: | /s/ Amy Mofsenson |
| | Name: Amy Mofsenson |
| | Title: Vice President |
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| DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Trustee |
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| By: | /s/ Jennifer Van Dyne |
| | Name: Jennifer Van Dyne |
| | Title: Assistant Vice President |
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| By: | /s/ Melissa Rossiter |
| | Name: Melissa Rossiter |
| | Title: Vice President |
STATE OF CT | ) | |
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COUNTY OF FAIRFIELD | ) | |
On this 17 day of December 2013, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for the State of Connecticut, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared Jim Barnard, to me known who, by me duly sworn, did depose and acknowledge before me and say that s/he resides at Stamford, CT; that s/he is the Director of [ RBS ], a [ ], the entity described in and that executed the foregoing instrument; and that s/he signed her/his name thereto under authority of said entity and on behalf of such entity.
WITNESS my hand and seal hereto affixed the day and year first above written.
| /s/ Kimberly J. Donnelly |
| NOTARY PUBLIC in and for the |
| State of Connecticut |
[SEAL] My Commission expires: | | |
6/30/14 | | |
RBSCF 2013-GSP: TRUST AND SERVICING AGREEMENT
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA | ) |
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COUNTY OF MECKLENBURG | ) |
On this 19 day of December, 2013, personally appeared before me Nachette Hadden, to me known (or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence) to be a Vice President of Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, a national banking association, that executed the within and foregoing instrument, and acknowledged that said instrument to be the free and voluntary act and deed of said entity, for the uses and purposes therein mentioned, and on oath stated that she was authorized to execute said instrument, and that by her signature on the instrument the entity upon behalf of which she acted, executed the instrument.
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| /s/ Erica L. Smith | |
| Notary | |
| Name: | |
My Commission expires: July 15, 2017
[SEAL]
RBSCF 2013-GSP: TRUST AND SERVICING AGREEMENT
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA | ) |
| ): ss. |
COUNTY OF MECKLENBURG | ) |
On this 19 day of December, 2013, personally appeared before me Nachette Hadden, to me known (or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence) to be a Vice President of Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, a national banking association, that executed the within and foregoing instrument, and acknowledged that said instrument to be the free and voluntary act and deed of said entity, for the uses and purposes therein mentioned, and on oath stated that she was authorized to execute said instrument, and that by her signature on the instrument the entity upon behalf of which she acted, executed the instrument.
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| /s/ Erica L. Smith | |
| Notary | |
| Name: | |
My Commission expires: July 15, 2017
RBSCF 2013-GSP: TRUST AND SERVICING AGREEMENT
STATE OF | ) |
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COUNTY OF | ) |
On this 19th day of December 2013, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for the State of New York, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared Amy Mofsenson, to me known who, by me duly sworn, did depose and acknowledge before me that s/he is the Vice President of Wells Fargo Bank, NA, a national banking association, and the entity described in and that executed the foregoing instrument; and that s/he signed her/his name on behalf of such entity.
WITNESS my hand and seal hereto affixed the day and year first above written.
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| /s/ Janet M. Jolley |
| NOTARY PUBLIC in and for the |
| State of _______________ |
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[SEAL]
My Commission expires:
RBSCF 2013-GSP: TRUST AND SERVICING AGREEMENT
State of California}
Country of Orange}
On December 17, 2013, before me, Joisy Lisseth Rodriguez Notary Public, personally appeared Jennifer Van Dyne and Melissa Rossiter, who proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the people whose names are subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that they executed the same in their authorized capacity and that by their signatures on the instrument the people, or the entity upon behalf of which the person acted, executed the instrument.
I certify under PENALTY OF PERJURY under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing paragraph is true and correct.
Witness my hand and official seal.
| | [SEAL] My Comm. Expires Aug 25, 2016 |
/s/ Joisy Lisseth Rodriguez | |
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EXHIBIT A-1
FORM OF CLASS A CERTIFICATES
CLASS A
[THIS CERTIFICATE IS A TEMPORARY REGULATION S GLOBAL CERTIFICATE FOR PURPOSES OF REGULATION S UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”). NEITHER THIS TEMPORARY REGULATION S GLOBAL CERTIFICATE NOR ANY INTEREST HEREIN MAY BE OFFERED, SOLD OR DELIVERED, EXCEPT AS PERMITTED UNDER THE TRUST AND SERVICING AGREEMENT REFERRED TO BELOW.
NO BENEFICIAL OWNERS OF THIS TEMPORARY REGULATION S GLOBAL CERTIFICATE SHALL BE ENTITLED TO RECEIVE PAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL OR INTEREST HEREON UNLESS THE REQUIRED CERTIFICATIONS HAVE BEEN DELIVERED PURSUANT TO THE TERMS OF THE TRUST AND SERVICING AGREEMENT.]1
[UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.]2
[TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL CERTIFICATE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE, AND TRANSFERS OF BENEFICIAL INTERESTS IN THIS GLOBAL CERTIFICATE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE TRUST AND SERVICING AGREEMENT REFERRED TO BELOW.]3
THIS CERTIFICATE DOES NOT REPRESENT AN INTEREST IN OR OBLIGATION OF THE DEPOSITOR, THE BORROWERS, THE SERVICER, THE SPECIAL SERVICER, THE TRUSTEE, THE INITIAL PURCHASER, THE LOAN SELLER, THE
1 Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate legend.
2 Legend required as long as DTC is the Depository under the Trust and Servicing Agreement.
3 Global Certificate legend.
CERTIFICATE ADMINISTRATOR OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE AFFILIATES (OTHER THAN THE BORROWERS AS SET FORTH IN THE OFFERING CIRCULAR). NEITHER THIS CERTIFICATE NOR THE UNDERLYING LOAN ARE INSURED OR GUARANTEED BY ANY GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY OR INSTRUMENTALITY.
PRINCIPAL PAYMENTS IN RESPECT OF THIS CERTIFICATE ARE DISTRIBUTABLE AS SET FORTH IN THE TRUST AND SERVICING AGREEMENT. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING CERTIFICATE BALANCE OF THIS CERTIFICATE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE INITIAL CERTIFICATE BALANCE SET FORTH BELOW.
THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED OR QUALIFIED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY STATE OR FOREIGN SECURITIES LAW. THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THIS CERTIFICATE, AGREES THAT THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE REOFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY (A)(1) PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”) TO A PERSON THAT THE HOLDER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A (A “QIB”), OR IS PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QIB, AND WHOM THE HOLDER HAS INFORMED THAT THE REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE, OR OTHER TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (2) TO A NON-“U.S. PERSON” IN AN “OFFSHORE TRANSACTION”, AS SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED IN, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 903 OR RULE 904 OF, REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (3) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) OF REGULATION D UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, AND (B) IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE JURISDICTION.
THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE PURCHASED BY OR PLEDGED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED TO ANY PERSON THAT IS OR BECOMES AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR OTHER PLAN THAT IS SUBJECT TO THE FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITY PROVISIONS OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”), OR TO SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”), OR A GOVERNMENTAL PLAN (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(32) OF ERISA) THAT IS SUBJECT TO ANY FEDERAL, STATE OR LOCAL LAW THAT IS, TO A MATERIAL EXTENT, SIMILAR TO THE FOREGOING PROVISIONS OF ERISA OR THE CODE (“SIMILAR LAW”), OR ANY PERSON ACTING ON BEHALF OF ANY SUCH PLAN OR USING THE ASSETS OF SUCH PLAN TO ACQUIRE THIS CERTIFICATE, UNLESS (A) SUCH PERSON IS AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a)(1) OF REGULATION D OF THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AND (B) THE ACQUISITION, HOLDING AND DISPOSITION OF THE CERTIFICATES BY SUCH PERSON WILL NOT CONSTITUTE OR OTHERWISE RESULT IN A NON-EXEMPT
PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE (OR A SIMILAR NON-EXEMPT VIOLATION OF SIMILAR LAW).
FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, THIS CERTIFICATE REPRESENTS A “REGULAR INTEREST” IN A “REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CONDUIT,” AS THOSE TERMS ARE DEFINED, RESPECTIVELY, IN SECTIONS 860G(a)(1) AND 860D OF THE CODE.
RBS COMMERCIAL FUNDING INC. 2013-GSP TRUST,
COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES,
SERIES 2013-GSP, CLASS A
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Pass-Through Rate: WAC4 | |
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First Distribution Date: January 2014 | |
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Aggregate Initial Certificate Balance of the Class A Certificates: $375,000,000 | Rated Final Distribution Date: January 2032 |
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CUSIP: U7537A AA9 ISIN: USU7537AAA985 | Initial Certificate Balance of this Certificate: $[375,000,000][QIB] $[______][Reg S] |
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CUSIP: 74932Q AA8 ISIN: US74932QAA856 No.: A-1 | |
This certifies that Cede & Co. is the registered owner of the Percentage Interest evidenced by this Certificate in the distributions to be made from a Trust Fund with respect to the Class A Certificates. The Trust Fund consists primarily of one promissory note secured by the Collateral held in trust by the Trustee issued by a special purpose entity evidencing a fixed rate loan (the “Trust Loan”, together with a pari passu companion loan, the “Whole Loan”). The Trust Fund was created, and the Whole Loan is to be serviced, pursuant to the Trust and Servicing Agreement (as defined below). The holder of this Certificate, by virtue of the acceptance hereof, assents to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Trust and Servicing Agreement and is bound thereby. Also issued under the Trust and Servicing Agreement are the Class R Certificates (collectively with the Class A Certificates, the “Certificates”; the holders of Certificates issued under the Trust and Servicing Agreement are collectively referred to herein as “Certificateholders”).
This Certificate is issued pursuant to, and in accordance with, the terms of a Trust and Servicing Agreement, dated as of December 6, 2013 (the “Trust and Servicing Agreement”), by and among RBS Commercial Funding Inc., as Depositor, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Servicer, Special Servicer, and Certificate Administrator and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee. To the extent not defined herein, capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings assigned thereto in the Trust and Servicing Agreement.
4 For any Distribution Date, the Pass Through Rate of the Class A Certificates will be a per annum rate equal to (a) for the Distribution Date in January 2014, 3.8336%, and (b) for each Distribution Date beginning in February 2014, the net mortgage rate on the Whole Loan (adjusted, if necessary, to accrue on the basis of a 360 day year consisting of twelve 30 day months) for such Distribution Date.
5 For Regulation S Global Certificate only.
6 For Certificate sold in reliance on Rule 144A only.
Pursuant to the terms of the Trust and Servicing Agreement, the Certificate Administrator will distribute, on the 4th Business Day after each Determination Date, commencing in January 2014 (each such date, a “Distribution Date”), to the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered as of the related Record Date, which will be the close of business on the last Business Day of the calendar month preceding the month in which the applicable Distribution Date occurs, an amount equal to such Person’s pro rata share (based on the Percentage Interest represented by this Certificate) of that portion of the aggregate amount of principal and interest and any Yield Maintenance Premiums then distributable, if any, allocable to the Class A Certificates for such Distribution Date, all as more fully described in the Trust and Servicing Agreement.
All distributions will be made to the Persons entitled thereto by check mailed by first class mail to the address set forth therefor in the Certificate Register or, provided that such Certificateholder shall have provided the Certificate Administrator with a written request for payment by wire transfer, together with wire instructions, at least five Business Days prior to the related Distribution Date, by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of such Certificateholder at a bank or other entity located in the United States and having appropriate facilities therefor. The final distribution on each Certificate shall be made in like manner, but only upon presentment and surrender of such Certificate at the location that is specified in the notice to Certificateholders of such final distribution.
This Certificate does not purport to summarize the Trust and Servicing Agreement, and reference is made to the Trust and Servicing Agreement for the interests, rights, benefits, obligations and duties evidenced hereby, and the limitations thereon, and the rights, duties and immunities of the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator.
In the event of a conflict or inconsistency between the terms of this Certificate and the Trust and Servicing Agreement, the terms and conditions of the Trust and Servicing Agreement shall govern.
As provided in the Trust and Servicing Agreement, subject to certain restrictions on transfer set forth therein, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate, the Certificate Registrar shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates in authorized denominations, in like aggregate interest and of the same Class.
Prior to due presentation of this Certificate for registration of transfer, the Certificate Administrator, the Trustee, the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Certificate Registrar, and any agent of the Certificate Administrator, the Trustee, the Servicer, the Special Servicer or the Certificate Registrar may treat the Person in whose name any Certificate is registered as the owner of such Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions as provided in the Trust and Servicing Agreement and for all other purposes whatsoever, and neither the Certificate Administrator, the Trustee, the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Certificate Registrar, nor any agent of the Certificate Administrator, the Trustee, the Servicer, the Special Servicer or the Certificate Registrar shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
The Trust and Servicing Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Depositor, the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Certificate Administrator and the Trustee, without the consent of any of the Certificateholders or the Companion Loan Holder, in certain circumstances specified in the Trust and Servicing Agreement. The Trust and Servicing Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the Depositor, the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Certificate Administrator and the Trustee with the written consent of the holders of Certificates of each Class affected by such amendment evidencing, in each case, not less than 51% of the aggregate Percentage Interests constituting the Class for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of the Trust and Servicing Agreement or of modifying in any manner the rights of the holders of the Certificates; provided, however, that certain specified amendments require the consent of the holders of all Certificates representing all of the Percentage Interests of the Class or Classes adversely affected thereby. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no amendment to the Trust and Servicing Agreement may be made that changes in any manner the obligations of the Loan Seller under the Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement without the consent of the Loan Seller, or the rights of the Initial Purchaser under the Trust and Servicing Agreement without the written consent of the Initial Purchaser, or impairs the rights of the Companion Loan Holder under the Trust and Servicing Agreement without the written consent of such Companion Loan Holder, and the Trustee and the Certificate Administrator may, but will not be obligated to, enter into any amendment to the Trust and Servicing Agreement that it determines affects its rights, duties or immunities or creates any additional liability for the Trustee or the Certificate Administrator, as applicable, under the Trust and Servicing Agreement. In addition, no amendment may be made to the Trust and Servicing Agreement unless the Certificate Administrator, the Trustee, the Servicer and the Special Servicer have first received an Opinion of Counsel (at the Trust Fund’s expense) to the effect that the amendment is authorized or permitted under the Trust and Servicing Agreement and all conditions precedent have been met and that the amendment or the exercise of any power granted to the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Depositor, the Certificate Administrator, the Trustee or any other specified person in accordance with the amendment, will not result in the imposition of federal income tax on any portion of the Trust or cause the Trust REMIC to fail to qualify as a REMIC under the Code.
The Trust and Servicing Agreement provides that the respective obligations and responsibilities of the Servicer, the Special Servicer, the Depositor, the Certificate Administrator and the Trustee created thereby with respect to the Certificates (other than the obligation of the Certificate Administrator to make certain payments to Certificateholders after the final Distribution Date and other than the indemnification obligations of the parties thereto) shall terminate upon the last action required to be taken by the Certificate Administrator on the final Distribution Date pursuant to Article 9 of the Trust and Servicing Agreement upon the later of (i) the final payment on the Certificates or (ii) the liquidation of the Trust Loan or the liquidation or abandonment of the Property and all other Collateral for the Trust Loan; provided, however, that in no event shall the Trust continue beyond the expiration of 21 years from the death of the last survivor of the descendants of Joseph P. Kennedy, the late ambassador of the United States to the Court of St. James’s, living on the date hereof.
Unless the Certificate of Authentication on this Certificate has been executed by the Certificate Administrator or on its behalf by the Authenticating Agent, by manual signature,
this Certificate shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Trust and Servicing Agreement or be valid for any purpose.
The Certificate Administrator makes no representation or warranty as to any of the statements contained herein or the validity or sufficiency of the Certificates or the Trust Loan and has executed this Certificate in its limited capacity as Certificate Administrator under the Trust and Servicing Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Certificate Administrator has caused this Certificate to be duly executed.
Dated: December 30, 2013
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| WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity but solely as Certificate Administrator |
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Certificate of Authentication
This is one of the Class A Certificates referred to in the Trust and Servicing Agreement.
Dated: December 30, 2013
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| WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION not in its individual capacity but solely as Authenticating Agent |
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SCHEDULE A
SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES
The following payments of principal and exchanges of a part of this [Rule 144A Global Certificate] [Temporary Regulation S Global Certificate] [Regulation S Global Certificate] have been made:
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned (“Assignor(s)”) hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto __________________________________________ (please print or typewrite name(s) and address(es), including postal zip code(s) of assignee(s)) (“Assignee(s)”) the entire Percentage Interest represented by the within Certificate and hereby authorize(s) the registration of transfer of such interest to Assignee(s) on the Certificate Register of the Trust.
I (we) further direct the Certificate Registrar to issue a new Certificate of the entire Percentage Interest represented by the within Certificate to the above-named Assignee(s) and to deliver such Certificate to the following address:
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DISTRIBUTION INSTRUCTIONS
The Assignee(s) should include the following for purposes of distribution:
Address of the Assignee(s) for the purpose of receiving notices and distributions: _____________________________________________________________________.
Distributions, if being made by wire transfer in immediately available funds, to ____________________________________ for the account of _________________________ account number ____________________.
This information is provided by ____________________________________ the Assignee(s) named above, or _______________________________________ as its (their) agent.
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