(c) the countries comprising the “European Economic Area” are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
United Kingdom. Each underwriter has represented, warranted and agreed that:
(a) it has only communicated or caused to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated any invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (as amended, the “FSMA”)) received by it in connection with the issue or sale of any notes in circumstances in which section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to the issuing entity or the depositor; and
(b) it has complied and will comply with all applicable provisions of the FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to any notes in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom.
LEGAL OPINIONS
Specified matters relating to the offered notes will be passed upon for the trust, the depositor, the servicer and Ally Bank by Richard V. Kent, Esq., General Counsel to the depositor and Chief Counsel to Ally Bank, by Mayer Brown LLP, counsel to the depositor, the trust and Ally Bank, and by Parsons, Behle & Latimer, Utah counsel for Ally Bank. Certain federal income tax matters and certain bank insolvency matters will be passed upon for Ally Bank, the trust and the depositor by Mayer Brown LLP. Mr. Kent may from time to time own common stock of Ally Financial. Specified matters relating to the offered notes will be passed upon for the underwriters by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, which has from time to time represented Ally Bank and its affiliates.
WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION
We filed a registration statement relating to the notes with the SEC under the Securities Act. This prospectus is part of the registration statement, but the registration statement includes additional information.
The servicer will file with the SEC all required annual reports on Form 10-K, including registered public accounting firm attestation reports and servicer compliance statements, monthly distribution reports on Form 10-D, monthly asset level data files and related documents on Form ABS-EE, current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports about the trust under Ally Auto Receivables Trust 2019-4, SEC file number 333-228265-03. These reports will be made available on the world wide web at http://www.ally.com/about/investor/auto-securitization/us/.
You may read and copy any reports, statements or other information we file at the SEC’s public reference room in Washington, D.C. You can request copies of these documents, upon payment of a duplicating fee, by writing to the SEC. Please call the SEC at (800) SEC-0330 for further information on the operation of the public reference rooms. Our SEC filings are also available to the public on the SEC Internet site, http://www.sec.gov.
For a summary of reports to be provided to securityholders, see “Reports to Securityholders” in this prospectus.
INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
The SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” information we file with it, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to those documents. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be part of this prospectus. We incorporate by reference any SEC reports and materials except for auditor’s reports or Forms ABS-15G filed or furnished by or on behalf of the issuing entity since the end of the latest fiscal year. We also incorporate by reference any future SEC reports and materials except for auditor’s reports or Forms ABS-15G filed or furnished by or on behalf of the issuing entity until we terminate our offering of the notes issued by the issuing entity. Information that we file later with the SEC will automatically update the information in
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