Section 11.4 Notices. All demands, notices and other communications under this Trust Agreement shall be in writing, personally delivered, sent by telecopier, email, overnight courier or mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested, and shall be deemed to have been duly given upon receipt (i) in the case of the Owner Trustee, at the Corporate Trust Office, (ii) in the case of the Depositor, at the following address: 12800 Tuckahoe Creek Parkway, Suite 400, Richmond, Virginia 23238, Attention: Treasurer, (iii) in the case of the Indenture Trustee, at the Corporate Trust Office, (iv) in the case of Fitch Ratings, Inc. at the following address: 33 Whitehall Street, New York, New York, 10004, Attention: Auto Asset Backed Securities Group, and via email to surveillance-abs-auto@fitchratings.com, (v) in the case of S&P Global Ratings, at the following address: S&P Global Ratings, 55 Water Street, New York, New York 10041, Attention: Asset Backed Surveillance Department, and via email to servicer_reports@spglobal.com and (vi) in the case of the Administrator, at the following address: 12800 Tuckahoe Creek Parkway, Richmond, Virginia 23238, Attention: Treasury Department. Any notice required or permitted to be mailed to a Certificateholder shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, at the address of such Holder as shown in the Certificate Register. Any notice so mailed within the time prescribed in this Trust Agreement shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Certificateholder shall receive such notice.
Section 11.5 Severability. If any provision of this Trust Agreement or the Certificates shall be held for any reason whatsoever invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Trust Agreement and the Certificates shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 11.6 Separate Counterparts and Electronic Signature. This Trust Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which counterparts when so executed shall be deemed to be an original, and all of which counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. Each party agrees that this Agreement and any other documents to be delivered in connection herewith may be electronically signed, and that any electronic signatures appearing on this Agreement or such other documents shall have the same effect as manual signatures for the purposes of validity, enforceability and admissibility.
Section 11.7 Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in this Trust Agreement and the Certificates shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and its successors and each Certificateholder and its successors and permitted assigns, all as herein provided. Any request, notice, direction, consent, waiver or other instrument or action by a Certificateholder shall bind the successors and assigns of such Certificateholder.
Section 11.8 Covenants of the Depositor. The Depositor shall not at any time institute against the Trust, or join in any institution against the Trust of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under any United States federal or State bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Certificates, the Notes, this Trust Agreement or any of the other Transaction Documents.
Section 11.9 No Petition. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Owner Trustee (not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee), by entering into this Trust Agreement, each Certificateholder, by accepting a Certificate, and the Indenture Trustee and each Noteholder, by accepting the benefits of this Trust Agreement, hereby covenant and agree that they will not at any time institute against the Depositor or the Trust, or join in any institution against the Depositor or the Trust of, or cooperate with or encourage others to institute against the Depositor or the Trust, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under any United States federal or State bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Certificates, the Notes, this Trust Agreement or any of the other Transaction Documents.
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