since the immediately preceding SOFR determination date due to a determination by the administrator that a benchmark transition event and its related benchmark replacement date have occurred.
In connection with the implementation of a benchmark replacement, the administrator will have the right to make benchmark replacement conforming changes from time to time.
Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the administrator or any other person in connection with a benchmark transition event, a benchmark replacement conforming change or a benchmark replacement as described above, including, but not limited to, any determination with respect to administrative feasibility (whether due to technical, administrative or operational issues), a tenor, a rate or an adjustment or the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date, and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, may be made in the administrator’s sole discretion, and will become effective without the consent of any other person (including any noteholder). The holders of the notes will not have any right to approve or disapprove of these changes or determinations and will be deemed to have waived and released any and all claims against any transaction party relating to any such changes or determinations. None of the issuing entity, the owner trustee, the indenture trustee, the paying agent, the administrator, the sponsor, the depositor or the servicer will have any liability for any action or inaction taken or refrained from being taken by it or the administrator with respect to any benchmark, benchmark transition event, benchmark replacement date, benchmark replacement, unadjusted benchmark replacement, benchmark replacement adjustment, benchmark replacement conforming changes or any other matters related to or arising in connection with the foregoing. Each noteholder and each beneficial owner of notes, by its acceptance of a note or a beneficial interest in a note, will be deemed to waive and release any and all claims against the issuing entity, the owner trustee, the indenture trustee, the paying agent, the administrator, the sponsor, the depositor and the servicer relating to any such determinations.
None of the indenture trustee, the paying agent or the owner trustee will be under any obligation (i) to monitor, determine or verify the unavailability or cessation of 30-day average SOFR (or any other benchmark), or whether or when there has occurred, or to give notice to any other transaction party of the occurrence of, any benchmark transition event or related benchmark replacement date, (ii) to select, determine or designate any benchmark replacement, or other successor or replacement benchmark index, or to determine whether any conditions to the designation of such a rate or index have been satisfied, (iii) to select, determine or designate any benchmark replacement adjustment, or other modifier to any replacement or successor index, or (iv) to determine whether or what SOFR adjustment conforming changes or benchmark replacement conforming changes are appropriate in connection with any of the foregoing, including, but not limited to, as to any spread adjustment thereon, the business day convention, interest determination dates or any other relevant methodology applicable to such substitute or successor benchmark. In connection with the foregoing, each of the indenture trustee, the paying agent and the owner trustee will be entitled to conclusively rely on any determinations made by the administrator without independent investigation, and none will have any liability for actions taken at the administrator’s direction in connection therewith.
None of the indenture trustee, the paying agent or the owner trustee will be liable for any inability, failure or delay on its part to perform any of its duties set forth in the transaction documents as a result of the unavailability of SOFR or any applicable benchmark replacement, including as a result of any failure, inability, delay, error or inaccuracy on the part of any other transaction party in providing any direction, instruction, notice or information required or contemplated by the terms of the transaction documents and reasonably required for the performance of such duties. None of the indenture trustee, the paying agent or the owner trustee will be responsible or liable for the actions or omissions of the administrator, or for any failure or delay in the performance by the administrator, nor shall any of the indenture trustee, paying agent or the owner trustee be under any obligation to oversee or monitor the performance of the administrator.
“benchmark” means, for an interest period, (i) initially, 30-day average SOFR, or (ii) if a benchmark transition event, its related benchmark replacement date and the date of implementation thereof by the administrator have occurred with respect to 30-day average SOFR or the then-current benchmark, then “benchmark” means the applicable benchmark replacement.
“benchmark replacement” means the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the administrator as of the applicable benchmark replacement date;