The Owner Trustee
On March 23, 2021, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (“Wells Fargo Bank”) and Wells Fargo Delaware Trust Company, N.A. (“WFDTC”, and collectively with Wells Fargo Bank and Wells Fargo & Company “Wells Fargo”) entered into a definitive agreement with Computershare Trust Company, Computershare Delaware Trust Company and Computershare Limited (collectively, “Computershare”) to sell substantially all of its Corporate Trust Services (“CTS”) business. The sale to Computershare closed on November 1, 2021, and virtually all CTS employees of Wells Fargo, along with most existing CTS systems, technology, and offices transferred to Computershare as part of the sale. On November 1, 2021, for some of the transactions in its CTS business, Wells Fargo Bank transferred its roles, and the duties, rights, and liabilities for such roles, under the relevant transaction agreements to Computershare Trust Company. For other transactions in its CTS business, since November 1, 2021, Wells Fargo Bank has been transferring and intends to continue to transfer, such roles, duties, rights, and liabilities to Computershare Trust Company or Computershare Delaware Trust Company, as applicable, in stages. WFDTC also intends to transfer its roles, duties, rights, and liabilities to Computershare Delaware Trust Company in stages. For any transaction where the roles of Wells Fargo Bank or WFDTC, as applicable, have not already transferred to Computershare Trust Company or Computershare Delaware Trust Company, Computershare Trust Company or Computershare Delaware Trust Company performs all or virtually all of the obligations of Wells Fargo Bank or WFDTC, respectively, as its agent as of such date.
Computershare Delaware Trust Company will act as the owner trustee under the trust agreement. Computershare Delaware Trust Company is a Delaware trust company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Computershare Limited. With its acquisition of the CTS business from Wells Fargo on November 1, 2021, Computershare acquired a business that has been engaged in the business of acting as owner trustee and Delaware trustee since 2002. As of December 31, 2022, Computershare Delaware Trust Company was acting in some cases as the owner trustee, Delaware trustee or resident trustee, and in most cases as agent for the owner trustee, Delaware trustee or resident trustee on approximately 404 transactions across all asset types. Computershare Delaware Trust Company maintains a corporate trust office at 919 North Market Street, Suite 1600, Wilmington, Delaware 19801.
Currently, there are no legal proceedings pending before any court or governmental authority against Computershare Delaware Trust Company that would have a material adverse effect on the ability of Computershare Delaware Trust Company to perform its obligations as owner trustee under the trust agreement.
Other than the above three paragraphs, Computershare Delaware Trust Company has not participated in the preparation of, and is not responsible for, any other information contained in this prospectus.
The owner trustee’s liability in connection with the issuance and sale of the notes and the certificate is limited solely to the express obligations of the owner trustee set forth in the trust agreement and the sale and servicing agreement. In no event shall the owner trustee have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or enforce compliance with the credit risk retention requirements for asset-backed securities or other rules or regulations relating to risk retention. The owner trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of such rules, nor shall it be liable to any noteholder, certificateholder, the depositor, the servicer or any other person for violation of such rules now or hereafter in effect. The owner trustee shall not be required to monitor, initiate or conduct any proceedings to enforce the obligations of the trust, the depositor, the servicer or any other person with respect to any breach of representation or warranty under any transaction document and the owner trustee shall not have any duty to conduct any investigation as to the occurrence of any condition requiring the repurchase of any receivable by any person pursuant to any transaction document. In the ordinary course of its business, the owner trustee and its affiliates have engaged and may in the future engage in commercial banking, trustee or financial advisory transactions with the depositor, the servicer and their affiliates.
The owner trustee is, and any successor owner trustee must be, a financial institution with trust powers, with a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, and subject to supervision by state or federal authorities. Under the administration agreement, JDCC, as administrator, is obligated to perform on behalf of the owner trustee all of the administrative obligations of the owner trustee under the trust agreement. The owner trustee shall not have any liability for those obligations that the administrator has agreed to perform.