commercial banking, committed credit facilities, underwriting agreements, hedging agreements and financial advisory services, all on arm’s length terms and conditions.
The owner trustee is not an affiliate of any of the depositor, the sponsor, the servicer, the titling trust, the issuing entity, the settlor or the indenture trustee. However, the owner trustee and one or more of its affiliates may, from time to time engage in arm’s length transactions with the depositor, the sponsor, the servicer, the titling trust, the issuing entity, the settlor or the indenture trustee or affiliates of any of them, that are distinct from its role as owner trustee, including transactions both related and unrelated to the securitization of Lease Assets.
The indenture trustee is not an affiliate of any of the depositor, the sponsor, the servicer, the titling trust, the issuing entity, the settlor or the owner trustee. However, the indenture trustee and one or more of its affiliates may, from time to time, engage in arm’s length transactions with the depositor, the sponsor, the servicer, the titling trust, the issuing entity, the settlor or the owner trustee or affiliates of any of them, that are distinct from its role as indenture trustee, including transactions both related and unrelated to the securitization of Lease Assets.
The sponsor, the depositor, the titling trust and the settlor are affiliates and also engage in other transactions with each other involving securitizations and sales of Lease Assets. In addition, the indenture trustee is an affiliate of Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, one of the underwriters.
Credit Risk Retention
The risk retention regulations in Regulation RR of the Securities Act require the sponsor, either directly or through its majority-owned affiliates, to retain an economic interest in the credit risk of the Lease Assets. The depositor is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the sponsor and will retain the issuer trust certificate. The retention by the depositor, or another majority-owned affiliate of the sponsor, of the issuer trust certificate is intended to comply with the requirements of the retention of an “eligible horizontal residual interest” in an amount equal to at least five percent of all “ABS Interests” (within the meaning of Regulation RR) in the issuing entity issued as part of this securitization transaction, in satisfaction of the sponsor’s obligations under Regulation RR.
In general, the issuer trust certificate (which represents the residual interest in the issuing entity) represents the rights to the overcollateralization, amounts remaining in the reserve account and excess spread, in all cases to the extent those amounts are eligible for distribution in accordance with the transaction documents and are not needed to make payments on the notes or cover losses on the Lease Assets. Because the issuer trust certificate is subordinated to each class of notes and is only entitled to amounts that are not needed on a payment date to make payments on the notes or to make other required payments or deposits according to the priorities of payments described in “Description of the Transaction Documents—Distributions—Payment Date Payments on the Notes” and “—Payment Date Payments after an Event of Default,” the residual interest absorbs all losses on a given payment date on the Lease Assets by reduction of, first, the excess spread, second, the overcollateralization and, third, the amounts in the reserve account, before any losses are incurred by the notes. See “Description of the Transaction Documents—Credit Enhancement” for a description of the credit enhancement available for the notes, including the excess spread, overcollateralization and the reserve account.
The depositor’s retention of the issuer trust certificate (which represents the residual interest in the issuing entity) is intended to satisfy the requirements for an “eligible horizontal residual interest” under Regulation RR. The fair value of the residual interest will represent at least five percent of the sum of the fair values of the notes and the residual interest on the closing date. Pursuant to Regulation RR, the depositor, or another majority-owned affiliate of the sponsor, is required to retain this residual interest until the latest of (i) two years from the closing date, (ii) the date the Aggregate Securitization Value of
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