This FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) by and between CHASE CARD FUNDING LLC (“Chase Card Funding”), a Delaware limited liability company, as Transferor (the “Transferor”) and Beneficiary (the “Beneficiary”), and WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, a Delaware non-depository trust company, as Owner Trustee (the “Owner Trustee”), is made and entered into as of December 16, 2024.
RECITALS
WHEREAS, Chase Bank USA, National Association (formerly known as Chase Manhattan Bank USA, National Association and successor to Bank One, Delaware, National Association), a national banking association (“Chase USA”), and the Owner Trustee have heretofore created the Owner Trust, a Delaware statutory trust, pursuant to the Delaware Statutory Trust Act by filing the Certificate of Trust with the office of the Secretary of State, and entering into a Trust Agreement, dated as of April 24, 2002 (the “Original Trust Agreement”);
WHEREAS, Chase USA and the Owner Trustee have heretofore entered into an Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2002 (the “Amended and Restated Trust Agreement”), which amended and restated the Original Trust Agreement;
WHEREAS, Chase USA and the Owner Trustee have heretofore entered into a Second Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of October 15, 2004 (the “Second Amended and Restated Trust Agreement”), which amended and restated the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement;
WHEREAS, Chase USA and the Owner Trustee have heretofore entered into a Third Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of March 14, 2006 (the “Third Amended and Restated Trust Agreement”), which amended and restated the Second Amended and Restated Trust Agreement;
WHEREAS, Chase USA and the Owner Trustee have heretofore entered into a Fourth Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of January 20, 2016 (the “Fourth Amended and Restated Trust Agreement”), which amended and restated the Third Amended and Restated Trust Agreement;
WHEREAS, Chase Card Funding was created as a Delaware limited liability company on November 1, 2015, and is governed pursuant to a Second Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement, dated as of January 20, 2016, (as amended, the “LLC Agreement”), by Chase USA, as the sole member, in accordance with the provisions of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act;
WHEREAS, Chase USA formed Chase Card Funding for the purpose of, among other things, entering into this Agreement, pursuant to which Chase Card Funding shall assume the rights and obligations of Chase USA, as transferor and beneficiary of the Owner Trust, become a Transferor and Beneficiary under this Agreement, and undertake