Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2)
Registration Statement Nos.333-103545-05 & 333-190926
Subject to Completion, dated July 15, 2015
This preliminary Remarketing Prospectus Supplement is subject to completion. The Notes offered hereby may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time a final Remarketing Prospectus Supplement is completed. This preliminary Remarketing Prospectus Supplement shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of these Notes in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration qualification or exemption under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
Preliminary Remarketing Prospectus Supplement
to Base Prospectus dated July 15, 2015
relating to the remarketing of
(up to)
$180,000,000
CLASS A-5 NOTES
SLM Student Loan Trust 2005-7
Issuing Entity
Navient Funding, LLC
Depositor
Navient Solutions, Inc.
Sponsor, Servicer and Administrator
Student Loan-Backed Notes
The remarketing agents are remarketing, on behalf of SLM Student Loan Trust 2005-7, the class A-5 notes (the “class A-5 notes”). The class A-5 notes were originally issued by the trust on August 11, 2005. If successfully remarketed on July 27, 2015, the class A-5 notes will have the following terms:
Class | | Outstanding Principal Amount | | Interest Rate | | Price | | Next Reset Date | Legal Maturity Date |
Class A-5 Notes | | $ | 180,000,000 | | 3-month LIBOR plus % | | | 100.00% | | October 26, 2015 | January 25, 2040 |
Other than as provided herein, no person has been authorized to give any information or to make any representations other than those contained in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement and, if given or made, such information or representations must not be relied upon. This preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any securities other than the class A-5 notes nor an offer of such securities to any person in any state or other jurisdiction in which it is unlawful to make such offer or solicitation. The delivery of this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement at any time does not imply that the information herein is correct as of any time after its date.
All existing class A-5 noteholders are hereby advised that if you want to retain your class A-5 notes you are required to submit a hold notice prior to 12:00 p.m. (noon), New York City time, on July 17, 2015, to one of the remarketing agents. Otherwise your notes will be deemed to have been tendered for remarketing.
The class A-5 notes have not been approved or disapproved by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), any state securities commission or any other regulatory authority, nor have any of the foregoing authorities passed upon or endorsed the merits of this remarketing or the accuracy or adequacy of this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.
You should consider carefully the risk factors on page S-22 of this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement and on page 15 of the base prospectus.
We are not offering the class A-5 notes in any state or other jurisdiction where the offer is prohibited.
The notes are asset-backed securities and are obligations of the issuing entity, which is a trust. They are not obligations of or interests in Navient Corporation, the sponsor, the depositor, any seller of loans to the depositor, the administrator, the servicer or any of their respective affiliates.
The notes are not guaranteed or insured by the United States or any governmental agency.
The trust will be relying on an exclusion or exemption from the Investment Company Act of 1940 contained in rule 3a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, although there may be additional exclusions or exemptions available to the trust. The trust is being structured so as not to constitute a “covered fund” for purposes of the Volcker Rule under the Dodd-Frank Act (both as defined in this offering memorandum).
Remarketing Agents
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| BofA Merrill Lynch | Deutsche Bank Securities | |
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July , 2015
REMARKETING TERMS SUMMARY
On April 27, 2015 (absent a Failed Remarketing, or the exercise by Navient Corporation or one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries of its call option), the class A-5 notes will be reset from their current terms to the following terms, which terms will be applicable until the next reset date for the class A-5 notes (definitions for certain capitalized terms may be found in the Glossary at the end of this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement):
| Original principal amount | $180,000,000 | |
| Current outstanding principal balance | $180,000,000 | |
| Principal amount being remarketed | $180,000,000 (1) | |
| Remarketing Terms Determination Date | July 15, 2015 | |
| Notice Date(2) | July 17, 2015 | |
| Spread Determination Date(3) | On or before July 22, 2015 | |
| Current Reset Date | April 27, 2015 | |
| All Hold Rate | Three-Month LIBOR plus % | |
| Next applicable reset date | October 26, 2015 | |
| Interest rate mode | Floating | |
| Index | Three-Month LIBOR(4) | |
| Spread(5) | Plus % | |
| Day-count basis | Actual/360 | |
| Weighted average remaining life | (6) | |
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(1) Subject to the receipt of timely delivered Hold Notices.
(2) Unless an existing class A-5 noteholder submits a Hold Notice to the remarketing agents prior to 12:00 p.m. (noon), New York City time, on the Notice Date, such notes will be irrevocably deemed to have been tendered for remarketing.
(3) The applicable Spread may be determined at any time after 12:00 p.m. (noon), New York City time, on the Notice Date but not later than 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on July 22, 2015.
(4) Three-month LIBOR will be reset on each LIBOR Determination Date in accordance with the procedures set forth under “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—Determination of Indices—LIBOR” in the base prospectus.
(5) To be determined on the spread determination date.
(6) The projected weighted average remaining life to the October 26, 2015 reset date of the class A-5 notes (and assuming a successful remarketing of such notes on the current reset date) under various usual and customary prepayment scenarios is approximately 0.25 years. More information may be found under “Prepayments, Extensions, Weighted Average Remaining Life and Expected Maturity of the Class A-5 Notes” to be included as Exhibit I to the final remarketing prospectus supplement to be distributed to potential investors on or prior to the spread determination date.
The remarketing agents may be contacted as follows:
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
60 Wall Street, 3rd Floor
New York, New York 10005
Attention: Con Accibal
Telephone: 212-250-7730
Facsimile: 212-797-2031
Email: con.accibal@db.com
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
One Bryant Park
New York, New York 10036
Attention: Brian Kane
Telephone: 646-855-9095
E-mail: brian.f.kane@baml.com
INTRODUCTION
The Student Loan-Backed Notes issued by SLM Student Loan Trust 2005-7 consist of the class A-5 notes, as well as the class A-3 notes (referred to as the “other reset rate notes” and together with the class A-5 notes, the “reset rate notes”), the class A-1, class A-2 and class A-4 notes (collectively referred to as the “floating rate class A notes”) and the class B notes (which, together with the floating rate class A notes, and the reset rate notes are referred to as the “notes”). As of the date of this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement (referred to as the “preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement”), the class A-1 and class A-2 notes have been paid in full and are no longer outstanding. None of the notes other than the class A-5 notes (collectively referred to as the “other notes”) are being offered under this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement. Any information contained herein with respect to the other notes is provided only to present a better understanding of the class A-5 notes. The class A-5 notes were originally offered for sale pursuant to the prospectus supplement, dated August 3, 2005, and the related base prospectus, dated August 1, 2005.
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated are serving as the remarketing agents (in such capacity, collectively, the “remarketing agents”) for the class A-5 notes.
The notes were issued on August 11, 2005 (referred to as the “closing date”), are obligations of an issuing entity known as SLM Student Loan Trust 2005-7 (referred to as the “trust”), and are secured by the assets of the trust, which consist primarily of a pool of consolidation student loans (the “trust student loans”).
Principal of and interest on the notes are payable as described herein on the 25th day of each January, April, July and October or, if such day is not a business day, then on the next succeeding business day (each, a “distribution date”). The “initial reset date” for the class A-5 notes was July 25, 2013. A failed remarketing was declared with respect to the initial reset date and each subsequent reset date. Pursuant to the terms of these failed remarketings, (i) the holders of the class A-5 notes were required to retain their notes, (ii) the class A-5 notes were reset to bear interest at the failed remarketing rate, which is an annual rate equal to three-month LIBOR plus 0.75%, which rate remained in effect after this failed remarketing, and (iii) a three-month reset period ending on the next distribution date was established. We refer to the July 27, 2015 reset date as the “current reset date” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement. If successfully remarketed on the current reset date, interest will accrue on the class A-5 notes at the rate specified in the summary of this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement and will be calculated based on the actual number of days elapsed in each accrual period and a 360-day year until their next reset date which will occur on October 26, 2015. Interest will accrue on the outstanding principal balance of the class A-5 notes during three-month accrual periods and will be paid on each distribution date. The first distribution date after the current reset date is scheduled to occur on October 26, 2015. Each accrual period will begin on a distribution date and end on the day before the next distribution date.
Investors in the class A-5 notes are strongly urged to keep in contact with the remarketing agents because notices and required information pertaining to the remarketing of the class A-5 notes sent to the clearing agencies by the administrator or the remarketing agents, as applicable, may not be communicated in a timely manner to the related beneficial owners.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preliminary Remarketing Prospectus Supplement
REMARKETING TERMS SUMMARY | i |
INTRODUCTION | iii |
SUMMARY OF NOTE TERMS | S-1 |
RISK FACTORS | S-21 |
DEFINED TERMS | S-26 |
THE TRUST | S-26 |
USE OF PROCEEDS | S-31 |
THE TRUST STUDENT LOAN POOL | S-31 |
DESCRIPTION OF THE NOTES | S-39 |
STATIC POOLS | S-65 |
PREPAYMENTS, EXTENSIONS, WEIGHTED AVERAGE REMAINING LIFE AND EXPECTED MATURITY OF THE CLASS A-5 NOTES | S-65 |
U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES | S-66 |
EUROPEAN UNION DIRECTIVE ON THE TAXATION OF SAVINGS INCOME | S-69 |
ERISA CONSIDERATIONS | S-70 |
ACCOUNTING CONSIDERATIONS | S-71 |
REPORTS TO NOTEHOLDERS | S-71 |
REMARKETING | S-72 |
NOTICES TO INVESTORS | S-72 |
LISTING INFORMATION | S-73 |
CERTAIN INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT CONSIDERATIONS | S-74 |
RATINGS | S-75 |
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS | S-75 |
LEGAL MATTERS | S-75 |
GLOSSARY | S-77 |
ANNEX A: | The Trust Student Loan Pool as of May 31, 2015 |
APPENDIX A: | Federal Family Education Loan Program |
EXHIBIT I: | Prepayments, Extensions, Weighted Average Remaining Life and Expected Maturity of the Class A-5 Notes |
APPENDIX I: | Base Prospectus, dated July 15, 2015 |
THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRELIMINARY REMARKETING PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT AND THE BASE PROSPECTUS ATTACHED HERETO AS APPENDIX I
We provide information to you about the class A-5 notes in two separate sections of this document that provide progressively more detailed information. These two sections are: (a) the accompanying base prospectus (referred to as the “base prospectus”), which begins after the end of this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement and which provides general information about the issuing entity, the trust student loans and the notes, some of which will not apply to the class A-5 notes, and (b) this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement, which describes the specific terms of the class A-5 notes that are being offered hereby and provides information about the trust student loans as of May 31, 2015. You should read both the base prospectus and this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement to fully understand the class A-5 notes.
For your convenience, we include cross-references in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement and in the base prospectus to captions in these materials where you can find related information. The Table of Contents on page vi provides the pages on which you can find these captions.
The class A-5 notes may not be offered or sold to persons in the United Kingdom in a transaction that results in an offer to the public within the meaning of the securities laws of the United Kingdom.
The class A-5 notes are currently listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. You should consult with Deutsche Bank Luxembourg S.A., the Luxembourg listing agent for the class A-5 notes, for additional information regarding their status.
This preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement is not required to contain all information that is required to be included in the final prospectus supplement and base prospectus. The information in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement is preliminary and is subject to completion or change. The information in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement, if conveyed prior to the time of your commitment to purchase any class of notes, supersedes any information contained in any prior preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement relating to the notes.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Certain statements contained in or incorporated by reference in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement and the base prospectus consist of forward-looking statements relating to future economic performance or projections and other financial items. These statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking words such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “expects,” “believes,” “anticipates,” “estimates,” or other comparable words. Forward-looking statements are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from the projected results. Those risks and uncertainties include, among others, general economic and business conditions, regulatory initiatives and compliance with governmental regulations, customer preferences and various other matters, many of which are beyond our control. Because we cannot predict the future, what actually happens may be very different from what is contained in our forward-looking statements.
SUMMARY OF NOTE TERMS
This summary highlights selected information about the class A-5 notes. It does not contain all of the information that you might find important in making your investment decision. It provides only an overview to aid your understanding. You should read the full description of this information appearing elsewhere in this document and in the attached base prospectus. We have provided information in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement with respect to the other notes in order to further the understanding by potential investors of the class A-5 notes.
ISSUING ENTITY
SLM Student Loan Trust 2005-7.
CLASS A-5 NOTES
The Reset Rate Class A-5 Student Loan-Backed Notes that are being remarketed hereunder were originally issued by the trust on August 11, 2005 in the principal amount of $180,000,000 and are currently outstanding in the same amount.
The initial reset date for the class A-5 notes was July 25, 2013. A failed remarketing was declared with respect to the initial reset date and each subsequent reset date. Pursuant to the terms of the these failed remarketings, (i) the holders of the class A-5 notes were required to retain their notes, (ii) the class A-5 notes were reset to bear interest at the failed remarketing rate, which is an annual rate equal to three-month LIBOR plus 0.75%, which rate remained in effect after this failed remarketing, and (iii) a three-month reset period ending on the next distribution date was established. We refer to the July 27, 2015 reset date as the "current reset date" in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement. Absent a failed remarketing or an exercise of the related call option by Navient Corporation (formerly known as SLM Corporation) or one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries with respect to the current reset date, the next reset date for the class A-5 notes will be October 26, 2015. The legal maturity date for the class A-5 notes is January 25, 2040.
Interest. During the reset period following the July 27, 2015 reset date, interest will accrue on the outstanding principal balance of the class A-5 notes during each accrual period and will be paid on each distribution date.
If successfully remarketed on the April 27, 2015 reset date, the class A-5 notes, until the end of the accrual period relating to the October 26, 2015 reset date, will bear interest at an annual rate equal to three-month LIBOR plus % based on the actual number of days elapsed in each accrual period and a 360-day year. Each accrual period during such reset period will begin on a distribution date and will end on the day before the next distribution date. The next accrual period for the class A-5 notes will begin on July 27, 2015 and end on October 25, 2015.
During the reset period ending on July 27, 2015, the class A-5 notes have borne interest at the failed remarketing rate equal to three-month LIBOR plus 0.75% per annum.
For each subsequent reset period, the related currency, applicable accrual periods and applicable distribution dates will be determined on the related remarketing terms determination date as specified under “Description of the Notes—The Reset Rate Notes” and “—Reset Periods” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement.
Principal. Payments of principal to the class A-5 notes will generally be made only after the class A-3 and class A-4 notes, in that order, have been retired. The class A-1 and class A-2 notes, which were earlier in the sequence of principal payments, have been paid in full and are no longer outstanding. The class A-3 and class A-4 notes, however, are still outstanding. Absent an event of default, no principal will be paid to the class A-5 notes until the outstanding principal balance of each class of publicly offered class A notes has been reduced to zero.
There will be no payment of principal on the class A-5 notes from the trust on the July 27, 2015 reset date.
Reset Date Procedures
Remarketing Terms Determination Date. Not later than eight business days prior to the related reset date, which we refer to as the remarketing terms determination date and which, for the class A-5 notes and with respect to the current reset date, is July 15, 2015, the remarketing agents, in consultation with the administrator, will determine for the class A-5 notes, among other things, the applicable currency, the applicable interest rate mode, whether principal will be paid periodically or at the end of the related reset period, the index, if applicable, the length of the reset period and the applicable distribution dates, the identities of any potential swap counterparties, if applicable, and the all hold rate. See “Description of the Notes—The Reset Rate Notes” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement.
All Hold Rate. The all hold rate for the reset rate notes will be the interest rate applicable for the reset rate notes for the next reset period if all holders of the reset rate notes choose not to tender their notes to the remarketing agents for remarketing, which for the class A-5 notes and the current reset date occurring on July 27, 2015 is equal to an annual rate of three-month LIBOR plus 0.75%. The all hold rate will be applicable only if the class A-5 notes are denominated in U.S. Dollars in both the then-current reset period and the immediately following reset period (as will be the case for the class A-5 notes on the July 27, 2015 reset date).
Tendered Notes. Absent a failed remarketing, holders of reset rate notes denominated in U.S. Dollars in the then-current reset period and the immediately following reset period (as will be the case for the class A-5 notes assuming a successful remarketing on the July 27, 2015 reset date) that wish to sell some or all of their reset rate notes on a reset date will be able to obtain a 100% repayment of principal by tendering the applicable amount of their reset rate notes pursuant to the remarketing process. Holders of reset rate notes denominated in a non-U.S. Dollar currency in the then-current reset period or the immediately following reset period will be deemed to have tendered their reset rate notes pursuant to the remarketing process.
Hold Notices. In connection with the current reset date, holders of the class A-5 notes will be given until the notice date, which is 12:00 p.m. (noon), New York City time, on the date not less than six business days prior to the related reset date, to choose whether to hold their notes by delivering a hold notice to the remarketing agents. The notice date with respect to the class A-5 notes and the current reset date is July 17, 2015. Any class A-5 notes for which a hold notice is not timely received on or prior to the notice date, will be deemed to be tendered and will be remarketed on the related reset date.
Spread Determination Date. Absent receipt by the remarketing agents of hold notices
from 100% of the holders of the class A-5 notes or an exercise of the related call option by Navient Corporation or one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, the spread will be determined by the remarketing agents at any time after the notice date but no later than 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the date which is three business days prior to the related reset date, which we refer to as the spread determination date and which, for the class A-5 notes and with respect to the current reset date, is any time during the period beginning after 12:00 p.m. (noon), New York City time, on July 17, 2015 and ending at 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on July 22, 2015. The spread for the current reset date will be the lowest spread to three-month LIBOR, but not less than the all hold rate (which is equal to an annual rate of three-month LIBOR plus 0.75% for the class A-5 notes), which would enable all tendering noteholders to receive a payment equal to 100% of the outstanding principal balance of their reset rate notes. Absent a failed remarketing or an exercise of the related call option by Navient Corporation or one of its wholly owned subsidiaries with respect to the July 27, 2015 reset date, the class A-5 notes will be reset to bear interest until October 26, 2015, the next reset date, at an annual floating rate equal to the sum of three-month LIBOR plus %. LIBOR will be determined as specified under “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—Determination of Indices—LIBOR” in the base prospectus.
Reset Date. Reset dates always occur on a distribution date and reset periods always end on a distribution date and may not extend beyond the maturity date of the reset rate notes. The current reset date for the class A-5 notes is July 27, 2015. The next scheduled reset date for the class A-5 notes is October 26, 2015. Holders of class A-5 notes that wish to be repaid on the current reset date will be able to obtain a 100% repayment of principal by tendering their reset rate notes pursuant to the remarketing process. Tender is mandatory for any reset rate notes that are denominated in a non-U.S. Dollar currency during either the then-current or the immediately following reset period and all holders of such reset rate notes will be deemed to have tendered their notes on the related reset date. If there is a failed remarketing of the reset rate notes with respect to such reset date, existing holders of such notes will not be permitted to exercise any remedies as a result of the failure of their reset rate notes to be remarketed on such reset date.
Failed Remarketing. There will be a failed remarketing for the class A-5 notes with respect to the July 27, 2015 reset date if:
· | the remarketing agents cannot determine the applicable required reset terms on or before the remarketing terms determination date; |
· | the remarketing agents cannot establish the required spread on the spread determination date; |
· | either sufficient committed purchasers cannot be obtained for all of the class A-5 notes at the spread set by the remarketing agents, or committed purchasers default on their purchase obligations and the remarketing agents choose not to purchase the class A-5 notes themselves; |
· | any rating agency then rating the notes has not confirmed or upgraded its then-current rating of any class of notes, if such confirmation is required; or |
· | certain other conditions specified in the remarketing agreement are not satisfied. |
See “Description of the Notes—The Reset Rate Notes—Tender of Reset Rate Notes; Remarketing Procedures” in this
preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement.
In the event a failed remarketing is declared with respect to the class A-5 notes:
· | all holders of the class A-5 notes will retain their notes, including in all deemed mandatory tender situations; |
· | the related interest rate for the class A-5 notes will be reset to a failed remarketing rate of three-month LIBOR plus 0.75% per annum; and |
· | the related reset period will be set at three months. |
Call Option. Navient Corporation, or one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries (to whom it has the right at any time to transfer such call option), has the option to purchase the class A-5 notes in their entirety as of any reset date. If this right is exercised, the interest rate for the reset rate notes, which we refer to as the call rate, will be (1) if no related swap agreement was in effect with respect to the reset rate notes during the previous reset period (as has been the case with respect to the class A-5 notes and the reset period ending on July 27, 2015), the floating rate applicable for the most recent reset period during which the failed remarketing rate was not in effect, or (2) if one or more related interest rate swap agreements were in effect with respect to the reset rate notes during the previous reset period, an annual three-month LIBOR-based interest rate equal to the weighted average of the floating rates of interest that the trust paid to the swap counterparties hedging the basis risk for the reset rate notes during the preceding reset period.
The call rate will continue to apply for each reset period while Navient Corporation, or any of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, if applicable, retains the reset rate notes pursuant to its exercise of the call option. In either case, the next reset date for the reset rate notes will occur on the next distribution date.
The administrator will notify the Luxembourg Stock Exchange of any exercise of the call option and will cause a notice to be published in a leading newspaper having general circulation in Luxembourg (which is expected to be Luxemburger Wort) and/or on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange’s website at http://www.bourse.lu.
See “Description of the Notes—The Reset Rate Notes” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement for a more complete discussion of the remarketing process.
Denominations. The class A-5 notes will be available for purchase in minimum denominations of $100,000 and additional increments of $1,000 in excess thereof. The class A-5 notes will be available only in book-entry form through The Depository Trust Company, Clearstream, Luxembourg and the Euroclear System. You will not receive a certificate representing your class A-5 notes except in very limited circumstances.
DATES
The closing date for the original offering was August 11, 2005. We refer to this date as the closing date.
The statistical cutoff date for the original offering was July 25, 2005. We refer to this date as the statistical cutoff date.
Unless otherwise indicated, all information provided in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement regarding the notes and the pool of trust student loans is
presented as of May 31, 2015. We refer to this date as the statistical disclosure date.
A distribution date for each class of notes is the 25th of each January, April, July and October. If any January 25, April 25, July 25 or October 25 is not a business day, the distribution date will be the next business day.
Each reset date will occur on a distribution date for the class A-5 notes. The related reset period will always end on a distribution date and may not extend beyond the maturity date of the class A-5 notes.
Interest and principal will be payable to holders of record as of the close of business on the record date, which is the day before the related distribution date.
A collection period is the three-month period ending on the last day of March, June, September or December, in each case for the distribution date in the following month.
PREPAYMENTS, EXTENSIONS, WEIGHTED AVERAGE REMAINING LIFE AND EXPECTED MATURITY OF THE CLASS A-5 NOTES
The projected weighted average remaining life to the July 27, 2015 reset date of the class A-5 notes (and assuming a successful remarketing of such notes on the current reset date) under various usual and customary prepayment scenarios is approximately 0.25 years. More information may be found under “Prepayments, Extensions, Weighted Average Remaining Life and Expected Maturity of the Class A-5 Notes” to be included as Exhibit I to the final remarketing prospectus supplement to be distributed to potential investors on or prior to the spread determination date.
THE OTHER NOTES
On the closing date, the trust also issued its class A-1, class A-2, class A-3, class A-4 and class B notes, as more specifically described below.
Floating Rate Class A Notes:
· | Class A-1 Student Loan-Backed Notes in the original principal amount of $453,000,000, none of which remain outstanding; |
· | Class A-2 Student Loan-Backed Notes in the original principal amount of $315,000,000, none of which remain outstanding; and |
· | Class A-4 Student Loan-Backed Notes in the original principal amount of $307,339,000, and currently outstanding in the same amount. |
Reset Rate Class A Notes:
· | Class A-3 Student Loan-Backed Notes in the original principal amount of $266,000,000.00, and currently outstanding in the amount of $113,774,642.87. |
Class B Notes:
· | Class B Student Loan-Backed Notes in the original principal amount of $47,052,000.00, and currently outstanding in the amount of $33,391,549.98. |
We sometimes refer to:
· | the floating rate class A notes and the reset rate class A notes collectively as the class A notes; |
· | the floating rate class A notes and the class B notes as the floating rate notes; and |
· | the floating rate notes and the reset rate notes as the notes. |
Interest Rates. The outstanding floating rate notes bear interest at an annual rate equal to the sum of three-month LIBOR and the applicable spread listed in the table below:
| Class | | Spread | |
| Class A-4 | | plus 0.15% | |
| Class B | | plus 0.31% | |
For all classes of notes, the administrator determines LIBOR as specified under “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—Determination of Indices—LIBOR” in the base prospectus. For the floating rate notes, interest is calculated based on the actual number of days elapsed in each accrual period and a 360-day year.
The class A-3 notes bear interest at an annual rate equal to the sum of three-month LIBOR plus 1.35%. For the floating rate notes, interest is calculated based on the actual number of days elapsed in each accrual period and a 360-day year.
ALL NOTES
Interest Payments. Interest accrues on the outstanding principal balance of the notes during each accrual period and is payable on the related distribution date.
An accrual period for the floating rate notes begins on a distribution date and ends on the day before the next distribution date.
An accrual period for reset rate notes that bear a fixed rate of interest will begin on the 25th day of the month of the immediately preceding distribution date and end on the 24th day of the month of the current distribution date.
Principal Payments. Principal will be payable or allocable on each distribution date in an amount generally equal to (a) the principal distribution amount for that distribution date plus (b) any shortfall in the payment of principal as of the preceding distribution date.
Priority of Principal Payments. We will apply or allocate principal sequentially on each distribution date as follows:
· | first, the class A noteholders' principal distribution amount, sequentially to the class A-3 notes, class A-4 notes and class A-5 notes, in that order, until their respective principal balances are reduced to zero; and |
· | second, on each distribution date on and after the stepdown date, and provided that no trigger event is in effect on such distribution date, the class B noteholders’ principal distribution amount, to the class B notes, until their principal balance is reduced to zero. |
On each distribution date prior to the stepdown date, which occurred on the July 2011 distribution date, the class B notes were not entitled to any payments of principal. On each distribution date on and after the stepdown date, provided that no trigger event is in effect, the class B notes will continue to be entitled to their pro rata share of principal, subject to the existence of sufficient available funds.
The class A noteholders’ principal distribution amount is equal to the principal distribution amount times the class A percentage, which is equal to 100% minus the class B percentage. The class B noteholders’ principal distribution amount is equal to the principal distribution amount times the class B percentage.
The class B percentage was 0% prior to the stepdown date and will be 0% on any other distribution date when a trigger event is in effect. On each other distribution date, the class B percentage is the percentage obtained by dividing (x) the aggregate principal balance of the class B notes, by (y) the aggregate principal balance, or U.S. Dollar equivalent, of all outstanding notes less all amounts on deposit, exclusive of any investment earnings, in the accumulation account, in each case determined immediately prior to that distribution date.
A trigger event will be in effect on any distribution date if the outstanding principal balance of the notes, less amounts on deposit in the accumulation account, exclusive of any investment earnings and after giving effect to distributions to be made on that distribution date, would exceed the adjusted pool balance for that distribution date.
See “Description of the Notes— Distributions” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement for a more detailed description of principal payments.
Maturity Dates.
The class A-1 notes were repaid in full on the October 2007 distribution date.
The class A-2 notes were repaid in full on the October 2012 distribution date.
Each class of outstanding notes will mature no later than the date set forth in the table below for that class:
| Class | | Maturity Date | |
| Class A-3 | | July 25, 2025 | |
| Class A-4 | | October 25, 2029 | |
| Class A-5 | | January 25, 2040 | |
| Class B | | January 25, 2040 | |
The actual maturity of any class of outstanding notes could occur earlier if, for example:
· there are prepayments on the trust student loans;
· the servicer exercises its option to purchase all remaining trust student loans, which will not occur until the first distribution date on which the pool balance is 10% or less of the initial pool balance; or
· the indenture trustee auctions all remaining trust student loans, which absent an event of default under the indenture, will not occur until the first distribution date on which the pool balance is 10% or less of the initial pool balance.
The initial pool balance is equal to the sum of: (i) the pool balance as of the closing date and (ii) all amounts deposited into the supplemental purchase account and the add-on consolidation loan account on the closing date.
Subordination of the Class B Notes. Payments of interest on the class B notes will be subordinate to payments of interest on the class A notes and to certain trust swap payments due to any swap counterparty, if applicable. In general, payments of principal on the class B notes will be subordinate to the payment of both interest and principal on the class A notes, trust swap payments due to any swap counterparty, if applicable, and any deposits required to be made into any supplemental interest account or any investment reserve account. See “Description of the Notes—The Notes—The Class B Notes—Subordination of the Class B Notes” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement.
Security for the Notes. The notes are secured by the assets of the trust, primarily the trust student loans.
Potential Future Interest Rate Cap Agreement. At any time, at the written direction of the administrator, the trust may enter into one or more interest rate cap agreements (collectively, the “potential future interest rate cap agreement”) with one or more eligible swap counterparties (collectively, the “potential future cap counterparty”) to hedge some or all of the interest rate risk of the notes. Any payment due by the trust to a potential future cap counterparty would be payable only out of funds available for distribution under clause (p)(1) of “Description of the Notes—Distributions—Distributions from the Collection Account” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement. Any payments received from a potential future cap counterparty would be included in available funds. It is not anticipated that the trust would be required to make any payments to any potential future cap counterparty under any potential future interest rate cap agreement other than an upfront payment and, in some circumstances, a termination payment. See “Description of the Notes—Potential Future Interest Rate Cap Agreement” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement.
As of the July 27, 2015 reset date, the trust will not have entered into any potential future interest rate cap agreements.
INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND PAYING AGENT
The trust issued the notes under an indenture dated as of August 1, 2005. Under the indenture, Deutsche Bank National Trust Company acts as successor indenture trustee for the benefit of, and to protect the interests of, the noteholders and acts as paying agent for the notes.
LUXEMBOURG PAYING AGENT
If the rules of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange require a Luxembourg paying agent, the depositor will cause one to be appointed.
ELIGIBLE LENDER TRUSTEE
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, a New York banking corporation, is the successor eligible lender trustee under the trust agreement. It holds legal title to the assets of the trust.
DELAWARE TRUSTEE
BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware, a Delaware banking corporation, is the Delaware trustee. The Delaware trustee acts in the capacities required under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act and under the trust agreement. Its principal Delaware address is 100 White Clay Center, Suite 102, Newark, Delaware 19711.
REMARKETING AGENTS
The remarketing agents will be entitled to a fee on each reset date in connection with a successful remarketing of the reset rate notes from amounts on deposit in the remarketing fee account. In connection with a successful remarketing of the class A-5 notes on the July 27, 2015 reset date, the remarketing agents will be paid a remarketing fee by the trust in an amount that will not exceed $630,000.00. As of the July 2015 distribution date, there was $630,000.00 on deposit in the remarketing fee account. The trust will also be obligated to reimburse the remarketing agents, on a subordinated basis, for certain out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with each reset date.
ADMINISTRATOR AND SPONSOR
Navient Solutions, Inc. (formerly known as Sallie Mae, Inc.), is the sponsor of the trust and, as the assignee of the rights of SLMA under the related administration agreement, acts as the administrator of the trust under an administration agreement. Navient Solutions, Inc. is a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Navient Corporation. Subject to certain conditions, Navient Solutions, Inc. may transfer its obligations as administrator to an affiliate.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRUST
The trust is a Delaware statutory trust created under a trust agreement dated as of July 29, 2005.
The only activities of the trust that are currently permitted are acquiring, owning and managing the trust student loans and the other assets of the trust, issuing and making payments on the notes, entering into any required swap agreements or potential future interest rate cap agreements and other related activities. See “The Trust—General” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement.
Navient Funding, LLC (formerly known as SLM Funding LLC), as depositor, after acquiring the student loans from one of VG Funding LLC (“VG Funding”) or Navient Credit Finance Corporation (formerly known as SLM Education Credit Finance Corporation) (“Navient CFC”) under separate purchase agreements, sold them to the trust on the closing date under a sale agreement (we sometimes refer to Navient CFC and VG Funding as the “sellers”). The depositor is a limited liability company of which Navient CFC is the sole member. Chase Bank USA, National Association, as interim eligible lender trustee, initially held legal title to the student loans for the depositor under an interim trust arrangement prior to their transfer to the trust and then as eligible lender trustee for the benefit of the trust under the trust agreement. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas now serves as successor interim eligible lender trustee for the depositor and successor eligible lender trustee on behalf of the trust.
Its Assets
The assets of the trust include:
· | the trust student loans; |
· | collections and other payments on the trust student loans; |
· | funds it currently holds or will hold from time to time in its trust accounts, including a collection account; a reserve account; an accumulation account; a supplemental interest account; an investment reserve account; an investment premium purchase account; a remarketing fee account; and if the class A-5 notes are denominated in a currency other than U.S. Dollars, a currency account; |
· | its rights under the transfer and servicing agreements, including the right to require VG Funding (or Navient Solutions, Inc., as servicer, acting on its behalf), Navient CFC, the depositor or the servicer to repurchase trust student loans from it or to substitute loans under certain conditions; |
· | its rights under any swap agreement or potential future interest rate cap agreement, as applicable; and |
· | its rights under the guarantee agreements with guarantors. |
The rest of this section more fully describes the trust student loans and trust accounts.
Trust Student Loans. The trust student loans (including the initial trust student loans, any additional trust student loans and any add-on consolidation loans) are education loans to students and parents of students made under the Federal Family Education Loan Program, known as the FFELP. All of the trust student loans are consolidation loans.
Consolidation loans are used to combine a borrower’s or borrowers’ obligations under various federally authorized student loan programs into a single loan. See “Appendix A—Federal Family Education Loan Program” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement, which supersedes in its entirety Appendix A to the base prospectus.
The trust student loans were selected from student loans owned by Navient CFC or VG Funding, or their affiliates, based on the criteria established by the depositor, as described in the base prospectus.
Guaranty agencies described in this document guarantee all of the trust student loans. They are also reinsured by the United States Department of Education (which we refer to as the Department of Education).
Initial Trust Student Loans. The initial trust student loans had a pool balance of approximately $1,500,391,111 as of the statistical cutoff date. The trust student loans have a pool balance of approximately $620,974,603 as of the statistical disclosure date.
As of the statistical disclosure date, (i) the weighted average annual borrower interest rate of the trust student loans was approximately 3.60% and (ii) their weighted average remaining term to scheduled maturity was approximately 202 months.
Special allowance payments on 0.10% of the trust student loans by principal balance (as of the statistical disclosure date) are based on the 91-day treasury bill rate. Special allowance payments on 99.90% of the trust student loans by principal balance (as of the statistical disclosure date) are based on the one-month LIBOR rate.
For more details concerning the trust student loans as of the statistical disclosure date, see “Annex A—The Trust Student Loan Pool” attached to this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement.
Collection Account. The administrator established and maintains the collection account as an asset of the trust in the name of the indenture trustee. The administrator will deposit collections on the trust student loans, interest subsidy payments and special allowance payments into the collection account, as described in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement and the base prospectus.
Reserve Account. The administrator established and maintains the reserve account as an asset of the trust in the name of the indenture trustee. As of the April 2015 distribution date, the amount on deposit in the reserve account was $2,280,587.00.
Funds in the reserve account may be replenished on each distribution date by additional funds available after all prior required distributions have been made. See “Description of the Notes—Distributions.”
The specified reserve account balance is the amount required to be maintained in the reserve account. The specified reserve account balance for any distribution date will be equal to the greater of (a) 0.25% of the pool balance at the end of the related collection period and (b) $2,280,587.00. The specified reserve account balance will be subject to adjustment as described in this
preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement. In no event will it exceed the outstanding principal balance of the notes, less all amounts then on deposit in the accumulation account (exclusive of investment earnings), if any.
Amounts remaining in the reserve account in excess of the specified reserve account balance on any distribution date, after the payment of amounts described below, will be deposited into the collection account for distribution on that distribution date.
The reserve account will be available to cover any shortfalls in payments of the primary servicing fee, the administration fee, the remarketing fees, if any, the class A noteholders’ interest distribution amount (but only up to an annual interest rate equal to three-month LIBOR plus 0.75% in the case of the class A-5 notes), the class B noteholders’ interest distribution amount, payments due to any swap counterparty with respect to interest, if applicable, and certain swap termination payments. As of the April 2015 distribution date, amounts on deposit in the reserve account have not been required for these purposes.
In addition, the reserve account will be available:
· | on the related maturity date for each class of class A notes and upon termination of the trust, to cover shortfalls in payments of the class A noteholders’ principal and accrued interest to the related class of notes; and |
· | on the class B maturity date and upon termination of the trust, to cover shortfalls in payments of the class B noteholders’ principal and accrued interest, any carryover servicing fees, any remaining swap termination payments and remarketing fees and expenses. |
The reserve account enhances the likelihood of payment to noteholders. In certain circumstances, however, the reserve account could be depleted which could result in shortfalls in distributions to noteholders.
On any distribution date, if the market value of the reserve account, together with amounts on deposit in any supplemental interest account, is sufficient to pay the remaining principal and interest accrued on the notes and any carryover servicing fees, amounts on deposit in those accounts will be so applied on that distribution date. See “Description of the Notes—Credit Enhancement—Reserve Account” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement.
Capitalized Interest Account. All funds on deposit in the capitalized interest account that was created and funded on the closing date were transferred to the collection account on the October 2007 distribution date. No additional sums were subsequently or will be deposited into this account.
Remarketing Fee Account. The administrator established and maintains a remarketing fee account as an asset of the trust in the name of the indenture trustee, for the benefit of the remarketing agents and the class A noteholders. Beginning on the distribution date that is one year prior to the initial reset date or next reset date, as applicable, for the applicable class of reset rate notes, and through the reset date, the trust is required to deposit into the remarketing fee account available funds up to the related quarterly required amount on each related distribution date, until the balance on deposit in the remarketing fee account reaches the targeted level for the related reset date, prior to the payment of interest on the notes. As of the April 2015 distribution date, there was $630,000.00 on deposit in the remarketing fee account. As of the July 27, 2015 reset date, the required
amount for this account will not exceed $630,000.00.
Investment earnings on deposit in the remarketing fee account are withdrawn on each distribution date, deposited into the collection account and included in available funds for that distribution date. In addition, if on any distribution date, a class A note interest shortfall would exist, or if on the maturity date for any class of class A notes, available funds would not be sufficient to reduce the principal balance of that class to zero, the amount of that class A note interest shortfall or principal deficiency, as applicable, may be withdrawn from the remarketing fee account and used for payment of interest or principal on the class A notes, to the extent sums are on deposit in that account. See “Description of the Notes—The Reset Rate Notes—Tender of Reset Rate Notes; Remarketing Procedures” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement.
Accumulation Account. The administrator will establish and maintain, in the name of the indenture trustee, an accumulation account for the benefit of the class A-5 notes whenever such notes are structured not to receive a payment of principal until the end of the related reset period (as will be the case in any future reset period during which the class A-5 notes are reset to bear interest at a fixed rate or are denominated in a currency other than U.S. Dollars). With respect to each related reset period, on each distribution date, the indenture trustee will deposit any payments of principal allocated to the class A-5 notes, in U.S. Dollars, into the accumulation account. All sums on deposit in the accumulation account, including any amounts deposited into the accumulation account on the related distribution date, but exclusive of investment earnings, will be paid either:
· | if the class A-5 notes are then denominated in U.S. Dollars, on the next reset date, to the reset rate noteholders, after all other required distributions have been made on that reset date; or |
· | if the class A-5 notes are then denominated in a currency other than U.S. Dollars, on or about the next reset date, to the currency swap counterparty or counterparties, which will in turn pay the applicable currency equivalent of those amounts to the trust, for payment to the reset rate noteholders on the second business day following the related reset date, after all other required distributions have been made on that reset date. |
Amounts on deposit in the accumulation account (exclusive of investment earnings) may be used only to pay principal on the class A-5 notes or to the currency swap counterparty or counterparties and for no other purpose. Investment earnings on deposit in the accumulation account will be withdrawn on each distribution date, deposited into the collection account and included as a part of available funds for that distribution date.
Amounts on deposit in the accumulation account may be invested in eligible investments that can be purchased at a price equal to par, at a discount, or at a premium. Eligible investments may be purchased at a premium over par only if there are sufficient amounts on deposit in the investment premium purchase account described below to pay the amount of the purchase price in excess of par.
As of the April 2015 distribution date there were no amounts on deposit in the accumulation account.
Investment Premium Purchase Account. When required, the administrator will establish and maintain, in the name of the indenture trustee, an investment premium purchase account related to the accumulation account. On each distribution date when funds are deposited into the accumulation account, the indenture trustee will be required to deposit, subject to sufficient available funds, an amount generally equal to 1.0% of the amount deposited into the accumulation account into the investment premium purchase account, together with any carryover amounts from previous distribution dates if there were insufficient available funds on any previous distribution date to make the required deposits in full.
Amounts on deposit in the investment premium purchase account may be used from time to time to pay amounts in excess of par on eligible investments purchased with funds on deposit in the accumulation account. Amounts not used to pay such premium purchase amounts will become a part of available funds on future distribution dates pursuant to a formula set forth in the administration agreement.
As of the April 2015 distribution date there were no amounts on deposit in the investment premium purchase account.
Investment Reserve Account. When required, the administrator will establish and maintain, in the name of the indenture trustee, an investment reserve account related to the accumulation account. On any distribution date, and to the extent of available funds, if the ratings of any eligible investments in the accumulation account have been downgraded by one or more rating agencies, the indenture trustee will deposit into the investment reserve account an amount, if any, to be set by each applicable rating agency in satisfaction of the rating agency condition, which amount will not exceed the amount of the unrealized loss on the related eligible investments. On each distribution date, all amounts on deposit in the investment reserve account either will be withdrawn from the investment reserve account and deposited into the accumulation account in an amount required to offset any realized losses on eligible investments related to the accumulation account, or will be deposited into the collection account to be included as a part of available funds on that distribution date.
As of the April 2015 distribution date there were no amounts on deposit in the investment reserve account.
Supplemental Interest Account. When required, the administrator will establish and maintain, in the name of the indenture trustee, a supplemental interest account related to the accumulation account.
On each distribution date when amounts are deposited into or are on deposit in the accumulation account, the administrator will cause the indenture trustee, subject to sufficient available funds, to make a deposit into the supplemental interest account. This deposit will equal the amount sufficient to pay either to the reset rate noteholders or to each swap counterparty, as applicable, the floating rate payments due to the reset rate noteholders or the swap counterparty, as applicable, through the next distribution date at the related LIBOR-based floating rate on all amounts on deposit in the accumulation account, after giving effect to an assumed rate of investment earnings on that account.
All amounts on deposit in the supplemental interest account will be withdrawn on or before each distribution date, deposited into the collection account and included as a part of available funds for that distribution date.
As of the April 2015 distribution date there were no amounts on deposit in the supplemental interest account.
Spread Supplement Account. On April 25, 2008, the reset date for the class A-3 notes, Navient Corporation made a one-time capital contribution to the trust in an amount that represents the excess of the expected cash flow requirements in order to pay noteholders of the class A-3 notes interest at the annualized stated reset rate of interest over the amount that would be payable by the trust if such class of notes bore an annual rate of interest equal to LIBOR plus 0.75%. Such amounts were deposited into a newly created trust account (the “spread supplement account”) for the benefit of the class A-3 noteholders exclusively. On each distribution date, the indenture trustee will withdraw the excess of interest earned on the class A-3 notes at the applicable stated reset rate of interest over interest that would have been payable on such class of notes if they bore interest at an annual rate of LIBOR plus 0.75% and pay such amounts directly to the class A-3 noteholders. All investment earnings on the spread supplement account will be paid to the excess distribution certificateholder on each distribution date. No amounts on deposit in the spread supplement account will become a part of available funds nor may be used to satisfy any other obligations of the trust. On each distribution date, any amount on deposit in the spread supplement account in excess of the required specified balance for such account will be withdrawn and paid to the excess distribution certificateholder. Following payment in full of all outstanding amounts on the class A-3 notes, any sums remaining on deposit in the spread supplement account will be withdrawn on the related distribution date and paid to the excess distribution certificateholder.
ADMINISTRATION OF THE TRUST
Distributions
Navient Solutions, Inc., as administrator, will instruct the indenture trustee to withdraw funds on deposit in the collection account and the other accounts, as described above. These funds will be applied on or before each applicable distribution date generally as shown in the chart on the following page. Funds on deposit in the collection account and, to the extent required, the reserve account will be applied monthly to the payment of the primary servicing fee.
See “Description of the Notes— Distributions” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement for a more detailed description of distributions.
Transfer of the Assets to the Trust
Under a sale agreement, the depositor sold the trust student loans to the trust, with the eligible lender trustee holding legal title to the trust student loans.
If the depositor breaches a representation under the sale agreement regarding a trust student loan, generally the depositor will have to cure the breach, repurchase or replace that trust student loan or reimburse the trust for losses resulting from the breach.
Each seller has similar obligations under the purchase agreements. See “Transfer and Servicing Agreements—Purchase of Student Loans by the Depositor; Representations and Warranties of the Sellers” in the base prospectus.
Servicing of the Assets
Under a servicing agreement, Navient Solutions, Inc., as servicer, is responsible for servicing, maintaining custody of and making collections on the trust student loans. It also bills and collects payments from the guaranty agencies and the Department of Education.
The servicer manages and operates the loan servicing functions for the Navient Corporation family of companies. The servicer may enter into subservicing agreements with respect to some or all of its servicing obligations, but these arrangements will not affect the servicer’s obligations to the trust. Under some circumstances, the servicer may transfer its obligations as servicer.
If the servicer breaches a covenant under the servicing agreement regarding a trust student loan, generally it will have to cure the breach, purchase that trust student loan or reimburse the trust for losses resulting from the breach. See “The Trust Student Loan Pool—Insurance of Student Loans; Guarantors of Student Loans” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement.
Compensation of the Servicer
The servicer receives two separate fees: a primary servicing fee and a carryover servicing fee.
The primary servicing fee for any month is equal to 1/12th of an amount not to exceed 0.50% of the outstanding principal amount of the trust student loans.
The primary servicing fee is payable in arrears out of available funds and amounts on deposit in the reserve account on the 25th day of each month, or if the 25th day is not a business day, then on the next business day. Fees are calculated as of the first day of the preceding calendar month. Fees include amounts from any prior monthly servicing payment dates that remain unpaid.
The carryover servicing fee is payable to the servicer on each distribution date out of available funds.
The carryover servicing fee is the sum of:
· | the amount of specified increases in the costs incurred by the servicer; |
· | the amount of specified conversion, transfer and removal fees; |
· | any amounts described in the first two bullets that remain unpaid from prior distribution dates; and |
· | interest on any unpaid amounts. |
See “Description of the Notes—Servicing Compensation” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement.
TERMINATION OF THE TRUST
The trust will terminate upon:
· | the maturity or other liquidation of the last trust student loan and the disposition of any amount received upon its liquidation; and |
· | the payment of all amounts required to be paid to the noteholders. |
See “The Student Loan Pools—Termination” in the base prospectus.
Optional Purchase
The servicer may purchase or arrange for the purchase of all remaining trust student loans on any distribution date when the pool balance is 10% or less of the initial pool balance.
The exercise of this purchase option will result in the early retirement of the remaining notes, including an early distribution of all amounts then on deposit in the accumulation account. The purchase price will equal the amount required to prepay in full, including all accrued and unpaid interest, the remaining trust student loans as of the end of the preceding collection period, but will not be less than a prescribed minimum purchase amount.
This prescribed minimum purchase amount is the amount that would be sufficient to:
· | pay to noteholders the interest payable on the related distribution date; and |
· | reduce the outstanding principal amount of each class of notes then outstanding on the related distribution date to zero, taking into account all amounts then on deposit in the accumulation account. |
For these purposes, if the class A-5 notes:
· | are then structured not to receive a payment of principal until the end of the related reset period, the outstanding principal balance of the class A-5 notes will be deemed to have been reduced by any amounts on deposit, exclusive of any investment earnings, in the accumulation account; and/or |
· | are then denominated in a non-U.S. Dollar currency, the U.S. Dollar equivalent of the then-outstanding principal balance of the class A-5 notes will be determined based upon the exchange rate provided for in the currency swap agreement or agreements. |
The pool balance as of the statistical disclosure date is approximately 41.39% of the initial pool balance.
Auction of Trust Assets
The indenture trustee will offer for sale all remaining trust student loans at the end of the first collection period when the pool balance is 10% or less of the initial pool balance.
The trust auction date will be the third business day before the related distribution date. An auction will be consummated only if the servicer has first waived its optional purchase right as described above. The servicer will waive its option to purchase the remaining trust student loans if it fails to notify the eligible lender trustee and the indenture trustee, in writing, that it intends to exercise its purchase option before the indenture trustee accepts a bid to purchase the trust student loans. The depositor and its affiliates, including Navient CFC and the servicer, and unrelated third parties may offer bids to purchase the trust student loans. The depositor or any affiliate may not
submit a bid representing greater than fair market value of the trust student loans.
If at least two bids are received, the indenture trustee will solicit and re-solicit new bids from all participating bidders until only one bid remains or the remaining bidders decline to resubmit bids. The indenture trustee will accept the highest of the remaining bids if it equals or exceeds the higher of (a) the minimum purchase amount described under “—Optional Purchase” above (plus any amounts owed to the servicer as carryover servicing fees); or (b) the fair market value of the trust student loans as of the end of the related collection period.
If at least two bids are not received or the highest bid after the re-solicitation process does not equal or exceed the amount in the immediately preceding paragraph, the indenture trustee will not complete the sale. The indenture trustee may, and at the direction of the depositor will be required to, consult with a financial advisor, including any of the original underwriters of the notes, or the administrator, to determine if the fair market value of the trust student loans has been offered. See “The Student Loan Pools—Termination” in the base prospectus.
The net proceeds of any auction sale, plus all amounts, exclusive of investment earnings, then on deposit in the accumulation account, will be used to retire any outstanding notes on the related distribution date.
If the sale is not completed, the indenture trustee may, but will not be under any obligation to, solicit bids for sale of the trust student loans after future collection periods upon terms similar to those described above, including the servicer’s waiver of its option to purchase remaining trust student loans.
If the trust student loans are not sold as described above, on each subsequent distribution date, if the amount on deposit in the reserve account after giving effect to all withdrawals, except withdrawals payable to the depositor, exceeds the specified reserve account balance, the administrator will direct the indenture trustee to distribute the amount of the excess as accelerated payments or allocations of note principal.
The indenture trustee may or may not succeed in soliciting acceptable bids for the trust student loans either on the trust auction date or on subsequent distribution dates.
See “The Student Loan Pools— Termination” in the base prospectus.
TAX CONSIDERATIONS
Subject to important considerations described in the base prospectus:
· | Federal tax counsel for the trust is of the opinion that the class A-5 notes will be characterized as debt for federal income tax purposes. |
· | Federal tax counsel for the trust is of the opinion that the trust will not be characterized as an association or a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes. |
· | Delaware tax counsel for the trust is of the opinion that the same characterizations will apply for Delaware state income tax purposes as for federal income tax purposes and that noteholders who were not otherwise subject to Delaware taxation on income would not become subject to Delaware taxation as a result of their ownership of notes. |
See “U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement and in the base prospectus.
ERISA CONSIDERATIONS
Subject to important considerations and conditions described in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement and the base prospectus, the class A-5 notes may, in general, be purchased by or on behalf of an employee benefit plan, including an insurance company general account, only if:
· | an exemption from the prohibited transaction provisions of Section 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, applies, so that the purchase or holding of the class A-5 notes will not result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction; and |
· | the purchase or holding of the class A-5 notes will not cause a non-exempt violation of any substantially similar federal, state, local or foreign laws. |
Each fiduciary who purchases a note will be deemed to represent that an exemption exists and applies to it and that no non-exempt violations of any substantially similar laws will occur.
See “ERISA Considerations” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement and in the base prospectus for additional information concerning the application of ERISA.
CERTAIN INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT CONSIDERATIONS
The issuing entity will be relying on an exclusion or exemption from the definition of “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”), contained in Rule 3a-7 under the Investment Company Act, although there may be additional exclusions or exemptions available to the issuing entity. The issuing entity is intended to be structured so as not to constitute a “covered fund” for purposes of the Volcker Rule under the Dodd-Frank Act (both as defined in this offering memorandum). See “Certain Investment Company Act Considerations” in this offering memorandum for more information.
RATINGS
The class A-5 notes are currently rated by two or more rating agencies. A rating addresses only the likelihood of the timely payment of stated interest and the payment of principal at final maturity, and does not address the timing or likelihood of principal distributions prior to final maturity. See “Ratings” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement.
LISTING INFORMATION
The class A-5 notes are currently listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. You should consult with Deutsche Bank Luxembourg S.A., the Luxembourg listing agent for the notes, for additional information regarding their status. You can contact the listing agent at 2 Boulevard Konrad Adenauer L-1115, Luxembourg.
So long as the class A-5 notes are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, and its rules so require, notices relating to that class of notes, including if any of such class is delisted, will be published in a leading newspaper having general circulation in
Luxembourg, which is expected to be LuxemburgerWort and/or on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange’s website at: http://www.bourse.lu.
The class A-5 notes are currently able to be cleared and settled through Clearstream, Luxembourg and Euroclear.
RISK FACTORS
Some of the factors you should consider before making an investment in the class A-5 notes are described in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement and in the base prospectus under “Risk Factors.”
IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS
The class A-5 notes have the following identification numbers:
CUSIP Number | 78442G QK 5 |
International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) | US78442GQK57 |
European Common Code | 022702858 |
RISK FACTORS
You should carefully consider the following factors in order to understand the structure and characteristics of the notes and the potential merits and risks of an investment in the class A-5 notes. Potential investors must review and be familiar with the following risk factors in deciding whether to purchase the class A-5 notes. The base prospectus describes additional risk factors that you should also consider beginning on page 21. These risk factors could affect your investment in or return on the class A-5 notes.
Federal Financial Regulatory Legislation Could Have An Adverse Effect On Navient Corporation, The Sponsor, The Servicer, The Depositor, Navient CFC or Any Other Seller And The Trust, Which Could Result In Losses Or Delays In Payments On Your Notes | | On July 21, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Dodd-Frank Act”) to reform and strengthen supervision of the U.S. financial services industry. The Dodd-Frank Act represents a comprehensive change to existing laws, imposing significant new regulation on almost every aspect of the U.S. financial services industry. The Dodd-Frank Act will result in significant new regulation in key areas of the business of Navient Corporation (formerly known as SLM Corporation), the indirect parent of Navient Solutions, Inc. and Navient Funding, LLC, and its affiliates and the markets in which Navient Corporation, the sponsor and their affiliates operate. Pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act, Navient Corporation and many of its subsidiaries are subject to regulations promulgated by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the “CFPB”). The CFPB will have substantial power to define the rights of consumers and the responsibilities of certain institutions, including Navient Corporation’s education loan servicing business. The CFPB began exercising its authority on July 21, 2011. Most of the component parts of the Dodd-Frank Act continues to be subject to intensive rulemaking and public comment over the coming months and none of Navient Corporation, the sponsor or their affiliates can predict the ultimate effect the Dodd-Frank Act or required examinations of the private education loan market could have on their operations at this time. It is likely, however, that operational expenses will increase if new or additional compliance requirements are imposed on their operations and their competitiveness could be significantly affected if they are subjected to supervision and regulatory standards not otherwise applicable to their competitors. The Dodd-Frank Act also creates a liquidation framework for the resolution of bank holding companies and other non-bank financial companies determined to be “covered financial companies.” If Navient Corporation or its affiliates were determined to be covered financial companies, it is possible that the Federal Deposit |
| | Insurance Corporation (the “FDIC”) could be appointed receiver of Navient Corporation, the sponsor or any of their affiliates under the Orderly Liquidation Authority (“OLA”) provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act. If that occurred, the FDIC could repudiate contracts deemed burdensome to the estate, including secured debt. The sponsor has structured the transfers of the student loans to the depositor and the trust as a valid and perfected sale under applicable state law and under the United States Bankruptcy Code to mitigate the risk of the recharacterization of the sale as a security interest to secure debt of Navient Solutions, Inc. Any attempt by the FDIC to recharacterize the securitization transaction as a secured loan (which the FDIC could then repudiate) could cause delays in payments or losses on the notes. In addition, if the trust were to become subject to the OLA, the FDIC could repudiate the debt of the trust with the result that the noteholders would have a secured claim in the receivership of the trust. Also, if the trust were subject to OLA, noteholders would not be permitted to accelerate the debt, exercise remedies against the collateral or replace the servicer without the FDIC’s consent for 90 days after the receiver is appointed. As a result of any of these events, delays in payments on the notes and reductions in the amount of those payments could occur. See “The Trust Student Loan Pool—Dodd-Frank Act—Potential Applicability and Orderly Liquidation Authority Provisions—FDIC’s Repudiation Power Under the OLA” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement. |
Sequential Payment Of The Notes Results In A Greater Risk Of Loss | | Holders of the class A-5 notes bear a greater risk of loss than do holders of the class A-3 and class A-4 notes because no principal will be paid to any class A-5 noteholders until the class A-3 and class A-4 notes have been paid in full. If a failed remarketing occurs, the reset rate notes would become subject to the failed remarketing rate, which may be higher than the interest rate that would otherwise be applicable to such class of notes. This would reduce the amount of available funds to pay interest on other classes of notes and principal on the reset rate notes. In that case, or if prepayments are much higher than anticipated, or if losses on the trust student loans are greater than expected, you may suffer a loss. |
Your Notes Are Subject To A Call Option | | Navient Corporation, or one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, has the option to call, in full, the class A-5 notes in respect of each reset date, even if you have delivered a hold notice. If this option is exercised, you will receive a payment of principal equal to the outstanding principal balance of your class A-5 notes less all amounts distributed to you as a payment of principal, plus all accrued and unpaid interest on such distribution date. However, you may not be able to reinvest the proceeds you receive in a |
| | comparable security with an equivalent yield. For additional information concerning the call option and reset periods, see “Description of the Notes—The Reset Rate Notes” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement. |
You May Be Required To Continue To Hold Your Notes If A Failed Remarketing Occurs With Respect To A Reset Date | | In connection with any remarketing of the class A-5 notes (including on the current reset date), if a failed remarketing is declared, your class A-5 notes will not be sold, even if you attempted to tender them for remarketing or if the notes were mandatorily tendered with respect to such reset date. In this event you will be required to rely on a sale through the secondary market, which may not then exist for your class A-5 notes, independent of the remarketing process. |
| | If a failed remarketing is declared with respect to the July 27, 2015 reset date, the class A-5 notes will continue to bear interest until the next reset date at the failed remarketing rate, which is currently equal to an annual rate of three-month LIBOR plus 0.75%. We cannot assure you that the failed remarketing rate will be as high as the prevailing market rate of interest for similar securities and you may suffer a loss in yield. For additional information concerning a failed remarketing, see “Description of the Notes—The Reset Rate Notes” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement. |
You May Experience Notification Delays In Connection With A Remarketing Of Your Notes | | Holders of beneficial interests in the class A-5 notes may not receive timely notifications of the reset terms for any reset date due to procedures used by the clearing agencies and financial intermediaries. If you do not receive a copy of the notice delivered on the related remarketing terms determination date, you will nevertheless be deemed to have tendered your class A-5 notes unless the remarketing agents have received a hold notice from you on or prior to the related notice date. |
Certain Actions Can Be Taken Without Noteholder Approval | | The transaction documents provide that certain actions may be taken based upon receipt by the indenture trustee of a confirmation from each of the rating agencies that the then-current ratings assigned by the rating agencies then rating the notes will not be downgraded or withdrawn by those actions. In this event, such actions may be taken without the consent of noteholders. |
Your Notes May Have A Degree Of Basis Risk, Which Could Compromise The Trust’s Ability To Pay Principal And Interest On Your Notes | | There is a degree of basis risk associated with the class A-5 notes. Basis risk is the risk that shortfalls might occur because, among other things, the interest rates of the trust student loans adjust on the basis of specified indices and those of the notes adjust on the basis of different indices. If a shortfall were to occur, the trust’s ability to pay principal and/or interest on your notes could be compromised. See “Annex A—The Trust Student Loan Pool—Composition of the Trust Student Loans as of the Statistical |
| | Disclosure Date” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement which specifies the percentages of trust student loans that adjust based on LIBOR or the 91-day Treasury bill rate, as applicable. Consequently, you must rely on other forms of credit enhancement, to the extent available, to mitigate basis risk. There can be no assurance that the amount of credit enhancement will be sufficient to cover the basis risk associated with the notes. |
Illiquid Market Conditions May Occur From Time To Time | | Despite federal market interventions and programs, periods of general market illiquidity may occur from time to time and may adversely affect the secondary market for your class A-5 notes. Accordingly, you may not be able to sell your class A-5 notes when you want to do so or you may be unable to obtain the price that you wish to receive for your class A-5 notes and, as a result, you may suffer a loss on your investment. |
The Bankruptcy Of The Servicer Could Delay The Appointment Of A Successor Servicer Or Reduce Payments On Your Notes | | In the event of default by the servicer resulting solely from certain events of insolvency or the bankruptcy of the servicer, a court, conservator, receiver or liquidator may have the power to prevent any of the servicer, indenture trustee or the noteholders, as applicable, from appointing a successor and delays in the collection of payments on the related trust student loans may occur. Any delay in the collection of payments on the affected trust student loans may delay or reduce payments to noteholders. In addition, in the event of an insolvency or a bankruptcy of the servicer, a court, conservator, receiver or liquidator may permit the servicer to assign its rights and obligations as servicer to a third party without complying with the provisions of the transaction documents. |
The Trust May Be Affected By Delayed Payments From Borrowers Called To Active Military Service | | The Higher Education Act, the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act and similar state and local laws provide payment relief to borrowers who enter active military service and to borrowers in reserve status who are called to active duty after the origination of their trust student loans. Recent and ongoing military operations by the United States have increased the number of citizens who are in active military service, including persons in reserve status who have been called or may be called to active duty. The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act also limits the ability of a lender in the FFELP to take legal action against a borrower during the borrower’s period of active duty and, in some cases, during an additional three-month period thereafter. We do not know how many trust student loans have been or may be affected by the application of these laws. As a result, there may |
| | be unanticipated delays in payment and losses on the trust student loans. |
Rating Agencies May Have A Conflict Of Interest | | The sponsor, or an affiliate, paid a fee to two or more rating agencies to assign the initial credit ratings to the notes on or before the closing date. The Securities and Exchange Commission has said that being paid by the sponsor, issuer or an underwriter to issue and/or maintain a credit rating on asset backed securities creates a conflict of interest for rating agencies, and that this conflict is particularly acute because arrangers of asset-backed securities transactions provide repeat business to such rating agencies. |
A Lowering Of The Credit Rating of the United States Of America May Adversely Affect The Market Value Of Your Notes | | The credit rating of the United States was downgraded by a NRSRO and may potentially be downgraded by other NRSROs in the future. The impact of any such downgrade is not yet clear, and depending on the ratings assigned, the stated reasons for a lower rating and other factors, the liquidity, market value and regulatory characteristics of your notes could be materially and adversely affected. |
DEFINED TERMS
In later sections, we use a few terms that we define in the Glossary at the end of this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement. These terms appear in bold face on their first use and in initial capital letters in all cases.
THE TRUST
General
The SLM Student Loan Trust 2005-7 (the “trust”) is a Delaware statutory trust formed under, and is currently operating pursuant to, a trust agreement dated as of July 29, 2005 between the depositor and the eligible lender trustee. The short-form trust agreement was amended on the closing date pursuant to an amended and restated trust agreement dated as of August 11, 2005, among the depositor, the eligible lender trustee and the indenture trustee. We refer to the short-form trust agreement and the amended and restated trust agreement together as the “trust agreement.”
The trust has not engaged and will not engage in any activity other than:
· | acquiring, holding and managing the trust student loans and the other assets of the trust and related proceeds; |
· | making payments on the notes; |
· | if applicable, entering into swap agreements from time to time with respect to the reset rate notes and making the required payments set forth therein; |
· | entering into any potential future interest rate cap agreements at the direction of the administrator from time to time and making the payments, including any upfront payments, required thereunder; and |
· | engaging in other activities that are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish, or are incidental to, the foregoing. |
The trust was initially capitalized with nominal equity of $100, excluding amounts that were deposited into the reserve account, the capitalized interest account, the supplemental purchase account, the add-on consolidation loan account and the collection account by the trust on the closing date. The proceeds from the original sale of the notes were used by the eligible lender trustee to make the initial deposits into the reserve account, the capitalized interest account, the supplemental purchase account, the add-on consolidation loan account and the collection account, and to purchase, on behalf of the trust, the initial trust student loans. The trust purchased the initial trust student loans from the depositor under a sale agreement dated as of August 11, 2005, among the depositor, the trust and the eligible lender trustee. The depositor
used the net proceeds it received from the sale of the initial trust student loans to pay the sellers the respective purchase prices for the initial trust student loans acquired from them under the purchase agreements dated August 11, 2005.
The property of the trust consists of:
· | the pool of trust student loans, legal title to which is held by the eligible lender trustee on behalf of the trust; |
· | all funds collected on trust student loans, including any special allowance payments and interest subsidy payments, on or after the applicable cutoff date; |
· | all moneys and investments from time to time on deposit in the Trust Accounts; |
· | if applicable, its rights under any and all swap agreements entered into from time to time with respect to the reset rate notes and the related documents; |
· | if applicable, its rights under any potential future interest rate cap agreement entered into from time to time and the related documents; |
· | its rights under the transfer and servicing agreements, including the right to require VG Funding (or Navient Solutions, Inc., as servicer, acting on its behalf), Navient CFC, the depositor or the servicer to repurchase trust student loans from it or to substitute student loans under certain conditions; and |
· | its rights under the guarantee agreements with guarantors. |
The notes are secured by the property of the trust. The collection account, the reserve account, any accumulation account, any supplemental interest account, any investment premium purchase account, any investment reserve account and any currency accounts will be maintained in the name of the indenture trustee for the benefit of the noteholders. The remarketing fee account will be maintained in the name of the indenture trustee for the benefit of the remarketing agents and the class A-5 noteholders. To facilitate servicing and to minimize administrative burden and expense, the servicer will act as custodian of the promissory notes representing the trust student loans and other related documents.
The trust’s principal offices are in New York, New York, in care of Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as successor eligible lender trustee, at its address shown below under “—Eligible Lender Trustee”.
Capitalization of the Trust
The following table illustrates the capitalization of the trust as of the April 2015 distribution date:
Floating Rate Class A-1 Student Loan-Backed Notes | | $ | 0.00 | |
Floating Rate Class A-2 Student Loan-Backed Notes | | | 0.00 | |
Reset Rate Class A-3 Student Loan-Backed Notes | | | 113,774,642.87 | |
Floating Rate Class A-4 Student Loan-Backed Notes | | | 307,339,000.00 | |
Reset Rate Class A-5 Student Loan-Backed Notes | | | 180,000,000.00 | |
Floating Rate Class B Student Loan-Backed Notes | | | 33,391,549.98 | |
Initial Equity | | | 100.00 | |
Total | | $ | 634,505,292.85 | |
Eligible Lender Trustee
The successor eligible lender trustee is Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (“DBTCA”). DBTCA is a banking corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York. Its address is 60 Wall Street, 16th floor, Mailstop NYC60-1625, New York, New York 10005. DBTCA has been, and currently is, serving as eligible lender trustee for numerous securitization transactions and programs involving pools of student loan receivables.
DBTCA has provided the information in the prior paragraph. Other than the prior paragraph, DBTCA has not participated in the preparation of, and is not responsible for, any other information contained in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement or the base prospectus.
The initial eligible lender trustee was Chase Manhattan Bank USA, National Association until its responsibilities were assigned to The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association (“BNYMTC”) in 2007. Effective as of May 15, 2012, BNYMTC resigned from such capacity, and DBTCA was assigned such capacity.
The eligible lender trustee holds on behalf of the trust legal title to all the trust student loans acquired under the sale agreement. The eligible lender trustee, on behalf of the trust, has entered into separate guarantee agreements with each of the guaranty agencies described in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement with respect to the trust student loans. The eligible lender trustee qualifies as an eligible lender and the holder of the trust student loans for all purposes under the Higher Education Act and the guarantee agreements. Failure of the trust student loans to be owned by an eligible lender would result in the loss of guarantor and Department of Education payments on the trust student loans. See “Appendix A—Federal Family Education Loan Program—Eligible Lenders, Students and Educational Institutions” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement, which supersedes in its entirety Appendix A to the base prospectus.
The eligible lender trustee acts on behalf of the excess distribution certificateholder and represents and exercises the rights and interests of the excess distribution certificateholder under the trust agreement. Except as specifically delegated to the administrator in the administration agreement, the eligible lender trustee will also execute and deliver all agreements required to be entered into on behalf of the trust.
The liability of the eligible lender trustee in connection with the issuance and sale of the notes will consist solely of the express obligations specified in the trust agreement and sale agreement. The eligible lender trustee is not personally liable for any actions or omissions that were not the result of its own bad faith, willful misconduct or negligence. The eligible lender trustee is entitled to be indemnified by the administrator for any loss, liability or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred by it in connection with the performance of its duties under the indenture and the other transaction documents (including any supplemental indenture and/or amended administration agreement). See “Description of the Notes” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement and “Transfer and Servicing Agreements” in the base prospectus. Affiliates of the depositor maintain banking relations with the eligible lender trustee.
The eligible lender trustee may resign at any time. The administrator may also remove the eligible lender trustee if it becomes insolvent or ceases to be eligible to continue as eligible lender trustee. In the event of such a resignation or removal, the administrator will appoint a successor. The resignation or removal of the eligible lender trustee and the appointment of a successor will become effective only when a successor accepts its appointment. To the extent expenses incurred in connection with the replacement of the eligible lender trustee are not paid by the successor trustee, the depositor will be responsible for the payment of such expenses.
Delaware Trustee
BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware is the Delaware trustee. The Delaware trustee acts in the capacities required for a Delaware trust under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act. BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware is a Delaware banking corporation with its principal place of business located at 100 White Clay Center, Suite 102, Newark, Delaware 19711. BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware has and is currently serving as Delaware trustee for numerous securitization transactions and programs involving pools of student loan receivables.
BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware has provided the information in the prior paragraph. Other than the prior paragraph, BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware has not participated in the preparation of, and is not responsible for, any other information contained in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement or the base prospectus.
The liability of the Delaware trustee in connection with the issuance and sale of the notes will consist solely of the express obligations specified in the trust agreement. The Delaware trustee will not be personally liable for any actions or omissions that were not the result of its own bad faith, willful misconduct or negligence. The Delaware trustee will be entitled to be indemnified by the administrator (at the direction of the depositor) for any loss, liability or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred by it in connection with the performance of its duties under the trust agreement. See “Description of the Notes” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement and “Transfer and Servicing Agreements” in the base prospectus. The depositor and its affiliates maintain banking relations with the Delaware trustee and/or its affiliates.
The Delaware trustee may resign at any time. The administrator may also remove the Delaware trustee if it becomes insolvent or ceases to be eligible to continue as Delaware trustee.
In the event of such a resignation or removal, the administrator will appoint a successor. The resignation or removal of the Delaware trustee and the appointment of a successor will become effective only when a successor accepts its appointment. To the extent expenses incurred in connection with the replacement of the Delaware trustee are not paid by the successor trustee, the depositor will be responsible for the payment of such expenses.
Indenture Trustee
The trust issued the notes under an indenture dated as of August 1, 2005. Under the indenture, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas was the initial indenture trustee for the benefit of and to protect the interests of the noteholders and acts as paying agent for the notes. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, a national banking association, is the successor indenture trustee. Its address is 100 Plaza One, Jersey City, New Jersey 07311. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company has acted as indenture trustee on numerous asset-backed securities transactions involving pools of student loans, and has worked with its affiliate Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas in connection with, as of May 31, 2015, approximately 110 previous asset-backed securities transactions involving federally-insured and private education student loans that were sponsored by Navient Solutions, Inc.
Affiliates of the depositor maintain customary banking relations on arms-length terms with the indenture trustee.
The indenture trustee acts on behalf of the noteholders and represents their interests in the exercise of their rights under the indenture.
To the extent expenses incurred in connection with the replacement of an indenture trustee are not paid by the indenture trustee that is being replaced, the depositor will be responsible for the payment of such expenses.
The indenture trustee will not be personally liable for any actions or omissions that were not the result of its own bad faith, willful misconduct or negligence. The indenture trustee is entitled to be indemnified by the administrator (at the direction of the trust) for any loss, liability or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred by it in connection with the performance of its duties under the indenture and the other transaction documents. Upon the occurrence of an event of default, and in the event the administrator fails to reimburse the indenture trustee, the indenture trustee is entitled to receive all such amounts owed from cashflow on the trust student loans prior to any amounts being distributed to the noteholders.
VG Funding LLC
VG Funding is a limited liability company whose sole member is Navient CFC. It was formed in Delaware on February 3, 2000. VG Funding is a limited purpose, bankruptcy remote entity formed to purchase education loans, whether originated under the FFELP loan program or other private credit loan programs, for re-sale in various securitization transactions. Navient Solutions, Inc. services all loans owned by VG Funding. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (as successor in interest to The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association, formerly known as The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A.), acts as successor interim eligible lender trustee on behalf of VG Funding.
USE OF PROCEEDS
A successful remarketing of the class A-5 notes will not result in any proceeds to the trust. Rather all proceeds from the remarketing will be used to purchase tendered class A-5 notes from existing class A-5 noteholders at par.
The trust used the original net proceeds from the sale of the notes to make the initial deposits to the reserve account, the supplemental purchase account, the add-on consolidation loan account, the collection account and the capitalized interest account and to purchase the initial trust student loans from the depositor on the closing date under the sale agreement. The depositor then used the proceeds paid to the depositor by the trust to pay to the sellers the respective purchase prices for the initial trust student loans purchased by the depositor.
THE TRUST STUDENT LOAN POOL
General
On August 11, 2005, the closing date, the initial eligible lender trustee, on behalf of the trust, purchased the pool of initial trust student loans from the depositor. The information about the trust student loans was originally calculated and presented as of July 25, 2005, the statistical cutoff date.
Eligible Trust Student Loans
The trust student loans were originally selected from the portfolio of student loans owned by Navient CFC, VG Funding or one of their affiliates by employing several criteria, including requirements that each trust student loan as of the statistical cutoff date (and with respect to each additional trust student loan, as of its related subsequent cutoff date, to be specified at the time of its sale to the trust):
· | was a consolidation loan guaranteed as to principal and interest by a guaranty agency under a guarantee agreement and the guaranty agency was, in turn, reinsured by the Department of Education in accordance with the FFELP; |
· | contained terms in accordance with those required by the FFELP, the guarantee agreements and other applicable requirements; |
· | was not more than 210 days past due; |
· | did not have a borrower who was noted in the related records of the servicer as being currently involved in a bankruptcy proceeding; and |
· | had special allowance payments, if any, based on the three-month commercial paper rate or the 91-day Treasury bill rate. |
No trust student loan was, as of the applicable cutoff date, or will be, subject to any prior obligation to sell that loan to a third party.
The addition of add-on consolidation loans utilizing funds on deposit in the add-on consolidation loan account was not a sale of new loans to the trust; rather, each such addition merely served to increase the principal balance of the applicable existing trust student loan and, in the event of a breach of any representation or warranty, the applicable seller is required to repurchase the entire applicable trust student loan, including the portion attributable to the add-on consolidation loan.
Dodd-Frank Act—Potential Applicability and Orderly Liquidation Authority Provisions
General. On July 21, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Act which, among other things, gives the FDIC authority to act as receiver of certain bank holding companies, financial companies and their respective subsidiaries (other than an insured depository institution) in specific situations under its Orderly Liquidation Authority (the “OLA”) provisions. The proceedings, standards, powers of the receiver and many other substantive provisions of the OLA differ from those of the United States Bankruptcy Code in several respects. To the extent those differences may affect Navient Corporation, the sponsor and their affiliates, they are discussed in this section below. In addition, because the OLA provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act remain subject to clarification through FDIC regulations and have yet to be applied by the FDIC in any receivership, it is unclear what impact these provisions will have on any particular company, including Navient Corporation, the sponsor, the depositor, any seller, the trust, the servicer, the administrator, or any of their respective creditors.
Potential Applicability to Navient Corporation, the Sponsor and their Affiliates. The Dodd-Frank Act creates uncertainty as to whether certain companies may be subject to liquidation in a receivership under the OLA rather than bankruptcy proceedings under the United States Bankruptcy Code. For a company to become subject to the OLA, the Secretary of the Treasury (in consultation with the President of the United States) must determine, among other things, that such company is or is likely to be in bankruptcy, insolvent, or unable to pay its obligations when due, that the company’s failure and its resolution under the United States Bankruptcy Code “would have serious adverse effects on financial stability in the United States,” that an OLA proceeding would mitigate these adverse effects, and that no viable private sector alternative is available to prevent the default of the company.
If the OLA is determined to apply to Navient Corporation or the sponsor, the trust, the depositor, Navient CFC or any other seller, the servicer or the administrator could be deemed a “covered subsidiary” of Navient Corporation or the sponsor. For the trust, the depositor, Navient CFC or any other seller, the servicer or the administrator to be subject to receivership under the OLA as a “covered subsidiary” of Navient Corporation or the sponsor (1) the FDIC would have to be appointed as receiver for Navient Corporation or the sponsor, as applicable, under the OLA as described above, (2) the FDIC and the Secretary of the Treasury would have to jointly determine that (a) such covered subsidiary is or is likely to be in bankruptcy, insolvent, or unable to pay its obligations when due, (b) appointment of the FDIC as receiver of such covered subsidiary would avoid or mitigate serious adverse effects on the financial stability or economic conditions of the United States, and (c) such appointment would facilitate the orderly liquidation of Navient Corporation or the sponsor, as applicable. To mitigate the likelihood that the trust, the depositor, Navient CFC or any other seller, the servicer or the administrator would be subject to the OLA, the trust does not intend to issue non-investment grade debt and the depositor, Navient CFC or any other seller, the servicer and the administrator will not issue any debt. Moreover, the trust owns a relatively small amount of the student loans originated by Navient
CFC or any other seller and serviced by the servicer, and each of the trust, the depositor, Navient CFC or any other seller, the servicer or the administrator is structured as a separate legal entity from the sponsor and any other issuing entity sponsored by the sponsor. Notwithstanding the foregoing, because of the novelty of the Dodd-Frank Act and the OLA provisions, the uncertainty surrounding how the Secretary of the Treasury’s determination will be made and the fact that such determination would be made in the future under potentially different circumstances, no assurance can be given that the OLA provisions would not apply to Navient Corporation, the sponsor or their covered subsidiaries or, if it were to apply, that the timing and amounts of payments to the noteholders would not be less favorable than under the United States Bankruptcy Code.
FDIC’s Repudiation Power Under the OLA. Under the OLA, if the FDIC were appointed receiver of Navient Corporation, the sponsor or a covered subsidiary, including the trust or the depositor, the FDIC would have various powers, including the power to repudiate any contract to which Navient Corporation, the sponsor or such covered subsidiary was a party, if the FDIC determined that performance of the contract was burdensome to the estate and that repudiation would promote the orderly administration of Navient Corporation’s, the sponsor’s or such covered subsidiary’s affairs, as applicable.
In January 2011, the Acting General Counsel of the FDIC issued an advisory opinion (the “January 2011 Opinion”) confirming, among other things, its intended application of the FDIC’s repudiation power under the OLA. In the January 2011 Opinion, the Acting General Counsel stated that nothing in the Dodd-Frank Act changes the existing law governing the separate existence of separate entities under other applicable law. As a result, the Acting General Counsel was of the opinion that the FDIC as receiver for a covered financial company (as defined in the Dodd-Frank Act), which could include Navient Corporation, the sponsor or their covered subsidiaries (including the trust or the depositor), cannot repudiate a contract or lease unless it has been appointed as receiver for that entity or the separate existence of that entity may be disregarded under other applicable law. In addition, the Acting General Counsel was of the opinion that until such time as the FDIC Board of Directors adopts a regulation further addressing the application of Section 210(c) of the Dodd-Frank Act, which relates to contracts that are entered into prior to the appointment of a receiver, if the FDIC were to become receiver for a covered financial company, which could include Navient Corporation, the sponsor or their covered subsidiaries (including the trust or the depositor), the FDIC will not, in the exercise of its authority under Section 210(c) of the Dodd-Frank Act, reclaim, recover or recharacterize as property of that covered financial company or the receivership any asset transferred by that covered financial company prior to the end of the applicable transition period of a regulation, provided that such transfer satisfies the conditions for the exclusion of such assets from the property of the estate of that covered financial company under the United States Bankruptcy Code. Although the January 2011 Opinion does not bind the FDIC or its Board of Directors, or any court or any governmental entity, and could be modified or withdrawn in the future, it also states that the Acting General Counsel will recommend that the FDIC Board of Directors incorporate a transition period of 90 days for any provisions in any further regulations affecting the statutory power to disaffirm or repudiate contracts. To date, the FDIC has not proposed or adopted any regulations addressing these issues.
The January 2011 Opinion also states that the FDIC anticipates recommending consideration of future regulations related to the Dodd-Frank Act. To the extent any future
regulations or subsequent FDIC actions or court rulings in an OLA proceeding involving Navient Corporation, the sponsor or their covered subsidiaries (including the trust or the depositor), are contrary to the January 2011 Opinion, payment or distributions of principal of and interest on the notes issued by the trust could be delayed and/or reduced. We have structured the transfers of student loans under the purchase agreements and sale agreements with the intent that they would be characterized as legal true sales under applicable state law and that the student loans would not be included in the related transferor’s bankruptcy estate under the United States Bankruptcy Code. If the transfers are so characterized in a FDIC OLA receivership, based on the January 2011 Opinion and other applicable law, the FDIC would not be able to recover the transferred student loans using its repudiation power. However, if the FDIC were to successfully assert that the transfers of student loans were not legal true sales and should instead be characterized as a security interest to secure a loan, and if the FDIC repudiated those loans, the purchasers of the student loans or the noteholders, as applicable, would have a claim for their “actual direct compensatory damages,” which claim would be no less than the initial principal balance of the loan plus interest accrued to the date the FDIC was appointed receiver.
In addition, to the extent that the value of the collateral securing the loan exceeds such amount, the purchaser or the noteholders, as applicable, would also have a claim for any interest that accrued after such appointment at least through the date of repudiation or disaffirmance. In addition, noteholders could suffer delays in payments on their notes even if the FDIC was unsuccessful in challenging that the transfers were not legal true sales or if it ultimately did not repudiate a legal true sale.
Also assuming that the FDIC were appointed receiver of Navient Corporation, the sponsor or a covered subsidiary, including the trust or the depositor, under the OLA, the FDIC’s repudiation power would extend to continuing obligations of the applicable entity or entities under receivership, as applicable, including any obligation to repurchase student loans for a breach of representation or warranty as well as, with respect to the servicer, its obligation to service the student loans. If the FDIC were to exercise this repudiation power, noteholders would not be able to compel the sponsor or any applicable covered subsidiary to repurchase student loans for a breach of representation and warranty and instead would have a claim for damages in the sponsor’s, or that covered subsidiary’s, receivership, as applicable, and thus would suffer delays and may suffer losses of payments on their notes. Noteholders would also be prevented from replacing the servicer during the stay. In addition, if the FDIC were to repudiate the sponsor’s obligations as servicer, there may be disruptions in servicing as a result of a transfer of servicing to a third party and noteholders may suffer delays or losses of payments on their notes. In addition, there are other statutory provisions enforceable by the FDIC under which, if the FDIC takes action, payments or distributions of principal of and interest on the notes issued by the trust would be delayed and may be reduced.
In addition, under the OLA, none of the parties to the purchase agreements, sale agreement, servicing agreement, administration agreement or the indenture could exercise any right or power to terminate, accelerate, or declare a default under those contracts, or otherwise affect the sponsor’s or a covered subsidiary’s rights under those contracts without the FDIC’s consent for 90 days after the receiver is appointed. For at least the same period, and possibly longer, the FDIC’s consent would also be needed for any attempt to obtain possession of or exercise control over any property of Navient Corporation, the sponsor or of a covered subsidiary. The requirement to obtain the FDIC’s consent before taking these actions relating to
a covered financial company’s or covered subsidiary’s contracts or property is comparable to the “automatic stay” under the United States Bankruptcy Code.
If the trust were to become subject to the OLA, the FDIC may repudiate the debt of the trust. In such an event, the noteholders would have a secured claim in the receivership of the trust for “actual direct compensatory damages” as described above, but delays in payments on the notes would occur and possible reductions in the amount of those payments could occur. In addition, for a period of at least 90 days after a receiver was appointed, noteholders would be stayed from accelerating the debt or exercising any remedies under the indenture.
FDIC’s Avoidance Power Under the OLA. Under statutory provisions of the OLA similar to those of the United States Bankruptcy Code, the FDIC could avoid transfers of student loans that are deemed “preferential.” Under one potential interpretation of these provisions, the FDIC could avoid as a preference transfers of student loans evidenced by certain written contracts and perfected either automatically upon the transfer (in the case of a sale) or by the filing of a UCC financing statement against the applicable transferor (in the case of a pledge to secure a debt), unless the contracts were physically delivered to the transferee or its custodian or were marked in a manner legally sufficient to indicate the rights of the indenture trustee. If a transfer of student loans were avoided as preferential, the transferee would have only an unsecured claim in the receivership for the purchase price of the student loans.
However, on July 15, 2011, the FDIC Board of Directors published a final rule which among other things, states that the FDIC is interpreting the OLA’s provisions regarding the treatment of preferential transfers in a manner comparable to the relevant provisions of the United States Bankruptcy Code so that transferees will have the same treatment under the OLA as they would have in a bankruptcy proceeding. Under such a construction, a transfer of student loans perfected either automatically upon the transfer (in the case of a sale) or by the filing of a UCC financing statement against a transferor (in the case of a pledge to secure a debt) as provided in the applicable transfer agreement would not be avoidable by the FDIC as a preference under the OLA. If a court were to conclude, however, that this FDIC rule is not consistent with the statute, then if a transfer were avoided as a preference under the OLA, noteholders would only have an unsecured claim in the receivership for the purchase price of the receivables and payments or distributions of principal of and interest on the notes issued by your issuing entity could be delayed or reduced.
Characteristics of the Trust Student Loans
Unless otherwise specified, all information with respect to the trust student loans presented in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement or in Annex A to this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement is presented as of May 31, 2015, which is the statistical disclosure date.
The tables contained in Annex A to this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement provide a description of specified characteristics of the trust student loans as of the statistical disclosure date. The aggregate outstanding principal balance of the loans in each of the tables in Annex A includes the principal balance due from borrowers, plus accrued interest of $1,325,389 to be capitalized as of the statistical disclosure date. Percentages and dollar amounts in any table may not total 100% or whole dollars due to rounding. The tables in Annex A also contain information concerning the total number of loans and total number of borrowers in the portfolio of trust student loans. For ease of administration, the servicer separates a consolidation loan on
its system into two separate loan segments representing subsidized and unsubsidized segments of the same loan. The tables in Annex A reflect those loan segments within the number of loans. In addition, 1 borrower(s) has more than one trust student loan.
For a description of the FFELP, see “Appendix A—Federal Family Education Loan Program” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement, which supersedes in its entirety Appendix A to the base prospectus.
Insurance of Student Loans; Guarantors of Student Loans
Each trust student loan is required to be guaranteed as to at least 98% of the principal and interest by one of the guaranty agencies as described below and reinsured by the Department of Education under the Higher Education Act and must be eligible for special allowance payments and, in the case of some trust student loans, interest subsidy payments by the Department of Education.
In general, disbursed student loans are guaranteed by the applicable guarantor, and reinsured against default by the Department of Education. The percentage of the guarantee is based upon the date of disbursement of the student loans as follows:
| Disbursement Date | | Percentage Guaranteed | |
| Prior to October 1, 1993 | | 100% | |
| On or after October 1, 1993 but before July 1, 2006 | | 98% | |
See “Appendix A—Federal Family Education Loan Program—Guaranty Agencies under the FFELP” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement, which supersedes in its entirety Appendix A to the base prospectus.
No insurance premium is charged to a borrower or a lender in connection with a consolidation loan. However, FFELP lenders must pay a monthly rebate fee to the Department of Education at an annualized rate of 1.05% on principal of and interest on consolidation loans disbursed on or after October 1, 1993, or at an annualized rate of 0.62% on consolidation loans for which consolidation loan applications were received between October 1, 1998 and January 31, 1999. The trust will pay this consolidation loan rebate prior to calculating Available Funds.
Under the Higher Education Amendments of 1992, if the Department of Education has determined that a guaranty agency is unable to meet its insurance obligations, a loan holder may submit claims directly to the Department of Education and the Department of Education is required to pay the full guarantee payment in accordance with guarantee claim processing standards no more stringent than those of the guaranty agency. However, the Department of Education’s obligation to pay guarantee claims directly in this fashion is contingent upon the Department of Education making the determination referred to above. We cannot assure you that the Department of Education would ever make such a determination with respect to a guaranty agency or, if such a determination was made, whether that determination or the ultimate payment of guarantee claims would be made in a timely manner. See “Appendix A—Federal Family Education Loan Program—Guaranty Agencies under the FFELP” in this preliminary
remarketing prospectus supplement, which supersedes in its entirety Appendix A to the base prospectus.
The table on page A-12 of Annex A provides information with respect to the portion of the trust student loans guaranteed by each guarantor.
The eligible lender trustee has entered into a separate guarantee agreement with each of the guaranty agencies shown on the table on page A-12 of Annex A to this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement, under which each of the guarantors has agreed to serve as guarantor for the specified trust student loans.
Some historical information about the only guaranty agency that guarantees trust student loans comprising more than 10% of the Pool Balance as of the statistical disclosure date is provided beginning on page A-13 in Annex A. For purposes of the tables in Annex A, we refer to this guaranty agency as the “Significant Guarantors.”
The Department of Education is required to make reinsurance payments to guarantors with respect to FFELP loans in default. This requirement is subject to specified reductions when the guarantor’s claims rate for a fiscal year equals or exceeds certain trigger percentages of the aggregate original principal amount of FFELP loans guaranteed by that guarantor that are in repayment on the last day of the prior fiscal year. See “Appendix A—Federal Family Education Loan Program—Guaranty Agencies under the FFELP” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement, which supersedes in its entirety Appendix A to the base prospectus.
Each guaranty agency’s guarantee obligations with respect to any trust student loan is conditioned upon the satisfaction of all the conditions in the applicable guarantee agreement. These conditions include, but are not limited to, the following:
· | the origination and servicing of the trust student loan being performed in accordance with the FFELP, the Higher Education Act, the guaranty agency’s rules and other applicable requirements; |
· | the timely payment to the guaranty agency of the guarantee fee payable on the trust student loan; and |
· | the timely submission to the guaranty agency of all required pre-claim delinquency status notifications and of the claim on the trust student loan. |
Failure to comply with any of the applicable conditions, including those listed above, may result in the refusal of the guaranty agency to honor its guarantee agreement on the trust student loan, in the denial of guarantee coverage for certain accrued interest amounts or in the loss of certain interest subsidy payments and special allowance payments.
Prospective investors may consult the Department of Education Data Books for further information concerning the guarantors.
Cure Period for Trust Student Loans
The sellers, the depositor or the servicer, as applicable, will be obligated to purchase, or to substitute qualified substitute student loans for, any trust student loan in the event of a material breach of certain representations, warranties or covenants concerning the trust student loan, following a period during which the breach may be cured. For purposes of trust student loans the cure period will be 210 days. However, in the case of breaches that may be cured by the reinstatement of the guarantor’s guarantee of the trust student loan, the cure period will be 360 days. In each case the cure period begins on the earlier of the date on which the breach is discovered and the date of the servicer’s receipt of the guarantor reject transmittal form with respect to the trust student loan. The purchase or substitution will be made not later than the end of the 210-day cure period or not later than the 60th day following the end of the 360-day cure period, as applicable.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if as of the last business day of any month the aggregate principal amount of trust student loans for which claims have been filed with and rejected by a guarantor as a result of a breach by the depositor or the servicer or for which the servicer determines that claims cannot be filed pursuant to the Higher Education Act as a result of that breach exceeds 1% of the Pool Balance, then the servicer or the depositor, as applicable, will be required to purchase, within 30 days of a written request by the eligible lender trustee or the indenture trustee, affected trust student loans in an aggregate principal amount so that after the purchases the aggregate principal amount of affected trust student loans is less than 1% of the Pool Balance. The trust student loans to be purchased by the servicer or the depositor pursuant to the preceding sentence will be based on the date of claim rejection, with the trust student loans with the earliest of these dates to be purchased first. See “Servicing and Administration—Servicer Covenants” and “Transfer and Servicing Agreements—Sale of Student Loans to the Trust; Representations and Warranties of the Depositor” and “—Purchase of Student Loans by the Depositor; Representations and Warranties of the Sellers” in the base prospectus.
Consolidation of Federal Benefit Billings and Receipts and Guarantor Claims with Other Trusts
Due to a Department of Education policy limiting the granting of new lender identification numbers, the eligible lender trustee will be allowed under the trust agreement to permit other trusts established by the depositor to securitize student loans to use the Department of Education lender identification number applicable to the trust. In that event, the billings submitted to the Department of Education for interest subsidy and special allowance payments on loans in the trust would be consolidated with the billings for the payments for student loans in other trusts using the same lender identification number and payments on the billings would be made by the Department of Education in lump sum form. These lump sum payments would then be allocated on a loan-by-loan basis among the various trusts using the same lender identification number.
In addition, the sharing of the lender identification number with other trusts may result in the receipt of claim payments from guaranty agencies in lump sum form. In that event, these
payments would be allocated among the trusts in a manner similar to the allocation process for interest subsidy and special allowance payments.
The Department of Education regards the eligible lender trustee as the party primarily responsible to the Department of Education for any liabilities owed to the Department of Education or guaranty agencies resulting from the eligible lender trustee’s activities in the FFELP. As a result, if the Department of Education or a guaranty agency were to determine that the eligible lender trustee owes a liability to the Department of Education or a guaranty agency on any student loan included in a trust using the shared lender identification number, the Department of Education or that guaranty agency would be likely to collect that liability by offset against amounts due the eligible lender trustee under the shared lender identification number, including amounts owed in connection with the trust.
In addition, other trusts using the shared lender identification number may in a given quarter incur consolidation origination fees, consolidation loan rebate fees or floor income rebates that exceed the interest subsidy and special allowance payments payable by the Department of Education on the loans in the other trusts, resulting in the consolidated payment from the Department of Education received by the eligible lender trustee under the lender identification number for that quarter equaling an amount that is less than the amount owed by the Department of Education on the loans in the trust for that quarter.
The servicing agreement for the trust and the servicing agreements for the other trusts established by the depositor that share the lender identification number to be used by the trust will require any trust to indemnify the other trusts against a shortfall or an offset by the Department of Education or a guaranty agency arising from the trust student loans held by the eligible lender trustee on the related trust’s behalf.
DESCRIPTION OF THE NOTES
General
The notes were issued under an indenture dated as of August 1, 2005. The following summary describes some terms of the notes, the indenture and the trust agreement. The base prospectus describes other terms of the notes. See “Description of the Notes” and “Additional Information Regarding the Notes” in the base prospectus. The following summary does not cover every detail and is subject to the provisions of the notes, the indenture and the trust agreement.
The Notes
The Class A Notes
Distributions of Interest. Interest accrues on the outstanding principal balances of the class A notes at their respective interest rates. Interest accrues during each applicable accrual period and is generally payable quarterly to the class A noteholders on each applicable distribution date; provided, however, that with respect to the class A-5 notes and any reset period when such notes are denominated in a currency other than U.S. Dollars, payments of interest will
be made as described under “—The Reset Rate Notes—Interest” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement. Interest accrued as of any distribution date but not paid on that distribution date is due on the next distribution date together with an amount equal to interest on the unpaid amount at the applicable rate per annum specified in the definition of Class A Note Interest Shortfall in the Glossary. Interest payments on the class A notes for any distribution date are generally funded from (1) Available Funds and (2) amounts on deposit in the reserve account remaining after the distribution of the primary servicing fee and administration fee, and required deposits into the remarketing fee account for that distribution date. See “—Distributions” and “ —Credit Enhancement” below. If these sources are insufficient to pay the Class A Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount for that distribution date, the shortfall will be allocated pro rata to the class A noteholders, based upon the total amount of interest then due on each class of class A notes from Available Funds.
The interest rate for each class of floating rate class A notes that remain outstanding, for each accrual period, is equal to the sum of an annual rate of three-month LIBOR (as determined on the second business day before the beginning of that accrual period as described in the base prospectus under “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—Determination of Indices—LIBOR”) and the following applicable spread:
| Class of Notes | | Spread | |
| Class A-3 | | plus 1.35% | |
| Class A-4 | | plus 0.15% | |
The interest rate for the class A-5 notes for the accrual period prior to the current reset date has been equal to an annual interest rate equal to three-month LIBOR plus 0.75% calculated based on the actual number of days elapsed in the related accrual period and a 360-day year.
Absent a Failed Remarketing or an exercise of the related call option with respect to the July 27, 2015 reset date and until their next reset date, the interest rate for the class A-5 notes will be equal to the sum of an annual rate of three-month LIBOR (as determined on the second business day before the beginning of that accrual period as described in the base prospectus under “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—Determination of Indices—LIBOR”) plus % based on the actual number of days elapsed in that accrual period and a 360-day year.
Distributions of Principal. Principal payments are made or allocated to the class A noteholders and any applicable Swap Counterparty on each distribution date in an amount generally equal to the Principal Distribution Amount times the Class A Percentage for that distribution date, until the principal balance of each class of class A notes is reduced to zero (taking into account, if applicable, funds on deposit (exclusive of investment earnings) in any related accumulation account that, if distributed, would reduce the outstanding principal amount of the reset rate notes to zero). Principal payments on the class A notes and to any applicable Swap Counterparty are generally funded from Available Funds and the other sources of funds available for payment described in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement (subject to all prior required distributions). See “—The Class B Notes—Subordination of the Class B Notes,” “—Distributions” and “—Credit Enhancement” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement. If these sources are insufficient to pay the Class A Noteholders’
Principal Distribution Amount for a distribution date, the shortfall will be added to the principal payable to the class A noteholders and any applicable Swap Counterparty with respect to principal on subsequent distribution dates. Amounts on deposit in the reserve account, other than amounts in excess of the Specified Reserve Account Balance, will not be available to make principal payments on the class A notes except at maturity of the applicable class of notes or on the final distribution upon termination of the trust.
Principal payments generally are applied on each distribution date in the priorities set forth under “—Distributions” below.
Absent an event of default, no principal will be paid to the class A-5 notes until the outstanding principal balances of the class A-3 and class A-4 notes have been reduced to zero.
The class A-1 and class A-2 notes have been paid in full and will receive no further distributions from the trust.
As of the April 2015 distribution date, there were no sums on deposit in any accumulation account relating to the class A-5 notes. There will be no payment of principal of the class A-5 notes from the trust on the current reset date.
However, notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary, following the occurrence of an event of default and the exercise by the indenture trustee of remedies under the indenture, principal payments on the class A notes and to each applicable Swap Counterparty will be made pro rata, without preference or priority, except that amounts on deposit in an accumulation account will be applied only to the payment of principal of the reset rate notes.
The aggregate outstanding principal balance of each class of class A notes will be due and payable in full on its maturity date. The actual date on which the aggregate outstanding principal and accrued interest of a class of class A notes is paid may be earlier than its maturity date, based on a variety of factors as described in “Risk Factors” in the base prospectus.
The Class B Notes
Distributions of Interest. Interest accrues on the principal balance of the class B notes at the class B interest rate. Interest accrues during each accrual period and will be payable quarterly to the class B noteholders on each distribution date. Interest accrued as of any distribution date but not paid on that distribution date is due on the next distribution date, together with an amount equal to interest on the unpaid amount at the class B interest rate. Interest payments on the class B notes for any distribution date are generally funded from Available Funds and other sources of funds available for payment described in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement (subject to all prior required distributions). See “—The Class B Notes—Subordination of the Class B Notes,” “—Distributions” and “—Credit Enhancement—Reserve Account” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement.
The annual interest rate for the class B notes with respect to each accrual period will be equal to three-month LIBOR plus 0.31%. The administrator determines three-month LIBOR for the class B notes for all accrual periods in the same manner as for the class A notes described above under “—The Class A Notes—Distributions of Interest.”
Distributions of Principal. Principal payments will be made to the class B noteholders on each distribution date on and after the Stepdown Date, provided that a Trigger Event has not
occurred and is not continuing, in an amount generally equal to the Class B Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount for that distribution date. Principal payable on any distribution date will generally be funded from the portion of Available Funds and the other sources of funds available for payment described in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement (subject to all prior required distributions). Amounts on deposit in the reserve account (other than amounts in excess of the Specified Reserve Account Balance) will not be available to make principal payments on the class B notes except at their maturity and on the final distribution upon termination of the trust. See “—Distributions” and “—Credit Enhancement—Reserve Account” below.
The outstanding principal balance of the class B notes will be due and payable in full on the class B maturity date to the extent of Available Funds. The actual date on which the final distribution on the class B notes will be made may be earlier than the class B maturity date, however, based on a variety of factors as described in “Risk Factors” in the base prospectus.
Subordination of the Class B Notes. On any distribution date, distributions of interest on the class B notes will be subordinated to the payment of interest on the class A notes and amounts, if any, due to a Swap Counterparty for trust swap payments, and payment of the Class B Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount will be subordinated to the payment of both interest and the applicable Class A Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount, if any, due to a Swap Counterparty for trust swap payments and any required deposits into any supplemental interest account and any investment reserve account. Consequently, on any distribution date, Available Funds and amounts on deposit in the reserve account remaining after payment of the primary servicing fee, the administration fee and any required deposits to the remarketing fee account will be applied to the payment of interest on the class A notes prior to any payment of interest on the class B notes, and no payments of the principal balance on the class B notes will be made on such distribution date until the class A notes have received the applicable Class A Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount. In addition, even after the class A notes have been paid in full (or sufficient amounts are on deposit in any accumulation account to pay the outstanding principal amount in full of the reset rate notes), the Class B Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount will be subordinated to the payment of any required deposits into any supplemental interest account and any investment reserve account.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if
(1) on any distribution date following distributions under clauses (a) through (f) under “—Distributions—Distributions from the Collection Account” to be made on that distribution date, the outstanding principal balance of the class A notes, less amounts, other than investment earnings, on deposit in any accumulation account, would be in excess of:
· | the outstanding principal balance of the trust student loans plus |
· | any accrued but unpaid interest on the trust student loans as of the last day of the related collection period plus |
· | the balance of the reserve account on the distribution date following those distributions made under clauses (a) through (f) under “—Distributions—Distributions from the Collection Account” below minus |
· | the Specified Reserve Account Balance and the Supplemental Interest Account Deposit Amount for that distribution date, or |
(2) an event of default under the indenture affecting the class A notes has occurred and is continuing,
then, until the conditions described in (1) or (2) above no longer exist, the amounts on deposit in the collection account and the reserve account will be applied on that distribution date to the payment of the Class A Noteholders’ Distribution Amount and any Supplemental Interest Account Deposit Amount before any amounts are applied to the payment of the Class B Noteholders’ Distribution Amount.
The Reset Rate Notes
General. The applicable currency and interest rate for the reset rate notes will be reset from time to time in a currency and at an interest rate determined using the procedures described below. Currently, the class A-5 notes have been denominated in U.S. Dollars and have borne interest at a floating rate.
Interest.
Interest on the class A-5 notes, during any reset period when the class A-5 notes bear interest at a fixed rate, will accrue daily and will be computed based on:
· | if the class A-5 notes are denominated in U.S. Dollars, a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months; or |
· | if the class A-5 notes are denominated in a currency other than U.S. Dollars, generally, the Actual/Actual (ISMA) accrual method as described in “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—Determination of Indices” in the base prospectus or another day-count convention as set forth on the related Remarketing Terms Determination Date. |
Interest on the class A-5 notes, during any reset period when the class A-5 notes are denominated in U.S. Dollars and bear interest at a floating rate based on LIBOR (as has been the case during the period ending on July 27, 2015), will be calculated using a rate of LIBOR that is determined for all accrual periods in the same manner as for the LIBOR-based class A notes as described above under “Description of the Notes—The Notes—The Class A Notes.” Interest will accrue daily and will be computed based on the actual number of days elapsed and a 360-day year. Interest on the class A-5 notes, during any reset period when the class A-5 notes bear interest at a floating rate based on EURIBOR, GBP-LIBOR or another index, will be computed as described under “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—Determination of Indices” in the base prospectus.
An accrual period during any reset period when the class A-5 notes bear interest at a floating rate, including both U.S. Dollar and non-U.S. Dollar denominated notes, will begin on a
distribution date and end on the day before the next distribution date. An accrual period during any reset period when the class A-5 notes bear a fixed rate of interest, including both U.S. Dollar and non-U.S. Dollar denominated notes, will begin on the 25th day of the month of the immediately preceding distribution date and end on the 24th day of the month of the then-current distribution date. The accrual periods and the distribution dates for payments of interest for the class A-5 notes may be monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual, as specified on the related Remarketing Terms Determination Date as described under “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—The Reset Rate Notes—Reset Periods” in the base prospectus. Interest and principal will be payable or allocated, as applicable, on each applicable distribution date.
However, during any reset period when the class A-5 notes are denominated in a currency other than U.S. Dollars, if a distribution date for the class A-5 notes coincides with a reset date, payments of interest will be made to the class A-5 noteholders on the second business day following that distribution date (which we sometimes refer to as the “special reset payment date” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement), together with additional interest on the applicable principal balance at the related interest rate. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for any reset period when the class A-5 notes are denominated in a currency other than U.S. Dollars, following a reset date upon which a Failed Remarketing has occurred, up to and including the reset date resulting in a successful remarketing or an exercise of the call option for the class A-5 notes (as described below), payments of interest and principal to the class A-5 noteholders will be made on the special reset payment date without the payment of any additional interest.
Principal. In general, payments of principal will be made or allocated to the class A-5 notes on each distribution date as described above. If, on any distribution date, principal would be payable to the class A-5 notes during any reset period when they are then structured not to receive a payment of principal until the end of the related reset period (as will be the case, generally, but not exclusively, whenever such notes bear a fixed rate of interest), principal generally will be allocated to the class A-5 notes and deposited into the accumulation account until the next reset date, when such amounts will be distributed to the class A-5 noteholders or to the related Swap Counterparty, as applicable, on or about that reset date. See “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—The Reset Rate Notes—Principal” in the base prospectus.
Reset Periods. The current reset date for the class A-5 notes is July 27, 2015 and, assuming a successful remarketing on that date, the next reset date for the class A-5 notes will be October 26, 2015. We refer to these dates, together with each date thereafter on which the class A-5 notes may be reset with respect to the currency and/or interest rate mode, as a ��reset date” and each period between the reset dates for the class A-5 notes as a “reset period.” All reset dates will occur on a distribution date, and each reset period will end on the day before a distribution date. However, no reset period may end after January 24, 2040 which is the day before the maturity date for the class A-5 notes. Depending on the rate and timing of prepayments on the trust student loans, the class A-5 notes may be repaid earlier than the next related reset date.
The applicable currency, interest rate and the frequency of principal payments on the class A-5 notes will be reset as of each related reset date as determined by:
· | the remarketing agents, in consultation with the administrator, with respect to the length of the reset period, the applicable currency (U.S. Dollars, Euros, Pounds Sterling or another currency), whether the interest rate is fixed or floating and, if floating, the |
| applicable interest rate index, the day-count convention, the applicable interest rate determination dates, the interval between interest rate change dates during each accrual period, whether the class A-5 notes will be structured to amortize periodically or to receive a payment of principal only at the end of the reset period, and the related All Hold Rate (if applicable); and |
· | the remarketing agents with respect to the determination of the applicable fixed rate of interest or Spread to the chosen interest rate index, as applicable. |
In the event that the class A-5 notes are reset to pay (or continue to pay) in a currency other than U.S. Dollars, the class A-5 notes are said to be in foreign exchange mode. In that case, the administrator will be responsible for arranging, on behalf of the trust, the required currency swap agreement to hedge, in whole or in part, against the currency exchange risks that result from the required payment to the reset rate noteholders in a currency other than U.S. Dollars and, together with the remarketing agents, for selecting one or more Eligible Swap Counterparties. See “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—The Reset Rate Notes—Foreign Exchange Mode” in the base prospectus.
In the event that the class A-5 notes are reset to bear (or continue to bear) a fixed rate of interest, the administrator will be responsible for arranging, on behalf of the trust, the required interest rate swap agreement to hedge the basis risk that results from the payment of a fixed rate of interest on the class A-5 notes and, together with the remarketing agents, for selecting one or more Eligible Swap Counterparties. See “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—The Reset Rate Notes—Fixed Rate Mode” in the base prospectus. In the event that the class A-5 notes are reset to bear (or continue to bear) a floating rate of interest, the Spread will be determined in the manner described below for each reset period. See also “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—The Reset Rate Notes—Spread Determination Date” in the base prospectus.
Each reset period will be no less than three months and will always end on the day before a distribution date. Each distribution date when the reset rate noteholders will receive interest and/or principal payments will be determined by the remarketing agents, in consultation with the administrator, on the applicable Remarketing Terms Determination Date in connection with the establishment of each reset period.
Absent a Failed Remarketing, any class A-5 noteholders that wish to be repaid on a reset date for their class A-5 notes will be able to obtain a 100% repayment of principal by tendering their class A-5 notes pursuant to the remarketing process; provided, that tender is deemed mandatory when the class A-5 notes are denominated in a currency other than U.S. Dollars during either the then-current or the immediately following reset period, as more fully discussed under “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—The Reset Rate Notes—Tender of Reset Rate Notes; Remarketing Procedures” in the base prospectus. If there is a Failed Remarketing of the class A-5 notes, however, the class A-5 noteholders will not be permitted to exercise any remedies as a result of the failure of their class A-5 notes to be remarketed on the related reset date, as described under “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—The Reset Rate Notes—Failed Remarketing” in the base prospectus.
Interest on the class A-5 notes during each reset period will accrue and be payable either:
· | at a floating interest rate, in which case the class A-5 notes are said to be in floating rate mode, or |
· | at a fixed interest rate, in which case the class A-5 notes are said to be in fixed rate mode, |
in each case as determined by the remarketing agents, in consultation with the administrator and in accordance with the remarketing agreement and the applicable remarketing agency agreement.
Remarketing Terms Determination Date. On the Remarketing Terms Determination Date, unless notice of the exercise of the call option described below has already been given, the remarketing agents will notify the class A-5 noteholders whether tender is deemed mandatory or optional for their class A-5 notes. Additionally, in consultation with the administrator, the remarketing agents will establish the following terms for the class A-5 notes by the Remarketing Terms Determination Date, which terms will be applicable during the upcoming reset period:
· | the weighted average life of the class A-5 notes under several assumed prepayment scenarios; |
· | the name and contact information of the remarketing agents; |
· | the next reset date and reset period; |
· | the applicable minimum denomination and additional increments; |
· | the interest rate mode (i.e., fixed rate or floating rate); |
· | the applicable currency; |
· | if in foreign exchange mode, the identities of the Eligible Swap Counterparties from which bids will be solicited; |
· | if in foreign exchange mode, the applicable distribution dates on which interest and principal will be paid to the reset rate noteholders, if other than quarterly; |
· | whether the class A-5 notes will be structured to amortize periodically or to receive a payment of principal only at the end of the related reset period (as will be the case, generally, but not exclusively, whenever the class A-5 notes bear a fixed rate of interest); |
· | if in floating rate mode, the applicable interest rate index; |
· | if in floating rate mode, the interval between interest rate change dates; |
· | if in floating rate mode, the applicable interest rate determination date; |
· | if in fixed rate mode, the applicable fixed rate pricing benchmark; |
· | if in fixed rate mode, the identities of the Eligible Swap Counterparties from which bids will be solicited; |
· | if in floating rate mode, whether there will be a swap agreement and if so the identities of the Eligible Swap Counterparties from which bids will be solicited; |
· | the applicable interest rate day-count basis; and |
· | the related All Hold Rate, if applicable. |
Any interest rate mode other than a floating rate based on LIBOR or a commercial paper rate will require that the Rating Agency Condition be satisfied.
The remarketing agents will communicate this information by written notice, through DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg, as applicable, to the class A-5 noteholders, the indenture trustee and the rating agencies on the related Remarketing Terms Determination Date.
If the class A-5 notes are denominated in U.S. Dollars during the then-current reset period and will continue to be denominated in U.S. Dollars during the immediately following reset period (as will be the case on the July 27, 2015 reset date), on each Remarketing Terms Determination Date, the remarketing agents, in consultation with the administrator, will establish the related All Hold Rate. In this event, on or before the Notice Date, the class A-5 noteholders will have the option to deliver a Hold Notice. A Hold Notice must be delivered with respect to all or any portion of the class A-5 notes to be retained by the related class A-5 noteholder. All or any portion of such notes that are not affirmatively specified in a timely and validly delivered Hold Notice as being retained by the class A-5 noteholder will be deemed to have been tendered. See “—Tender of Reset Rate Notes; Remarketing Procedures” below. If the class A-5 notes either are in foreign exchange mode during the then-current reset period or will be reset into foreign exchange mode on the immediately following reset date, the class A-5 noteholders will be deemed to have tendered their class A-5 notes on the related reset date, regardless of any desire by those noteholders to retain their ownership of any of the class A-5 notes, and no All Hold Rate will be applicable.
If applicable, the All Hold Rate will be the minimum rate of interest that will be effective for the upcoming reset period. In the event that the remarketing agents do not receive Hold Notices with respect to all of the reset rate notes for the next applicable reset period, and the rate of interest using the Spread or fixed rate of interest established on the Spread Determination Date is higher than the All Hold Rate, all reset rate notes for which a Hold Notice was delivered will be entitled to the higher rate of interest on those reset rate notes for the upcoming reset period. If 100% of the reset rate noteholders elect to hold all of their reset rate notes for the next applicable reset period, the rate of interest during the upcoming reset period will be the All Hold Rate.
If the remarketing agents, in consultation with the administrator, are unable to determine the terms set forth above that are required to be established on the applicable Remarketing Terms Determination Date, then, unless the holder of the call option chooses to exercise its call option, a Failed Remarketing will be declared on the related Spread Determination Date as described
under “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—The Reset Rate Notes—Spread Determination Date” and “—Failed Remarketing” in the base prospectus.
Call Option. The class A-5 notes will be subject, as of each reset date, to a call option, held by Navient Corporation or one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, for 100% of the class A-5 notes exercisable at a price equal to 100% of the principal balance of the class A-5 notes, less all amounts distributed to the class A-5 noteholders as a payment of principal, plus any accrued and unpaid interest not paid by the trust on the applicable reset date. The call option may be exercised by Navient Corporation or one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries at any time prior to the determination of the related Spread or fixed rate or the declaration of a Failed Remarketing on the related Spread Determination Date. Once notice is given, the holder of the call option may not rescind its exercise of that call option. If the call option is exercised with respect to the class A-5 notes, the interest rate on the class A-5 notes will be the Call Rate and the applicable currency will be U.S. Dollars. In that event, a reset period of three months will be established for the class A-5 notes, at the end of which the holder of the call option may either remarket the class A-5 notes pursuant to the remarketing procedures set forth below or retain those notes for one or more successive three-month reset periods at the existing Call Rate. See “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—The Reset Rate Notes—Call Option” in the base prospectus.
Spread Determination Date. On each Spread Determination Date, the remarketing agents will set the applicable Spread above or below the applicable index (if the reset rate notes will be in floating rate mode during the next reset period) or the applicable fixed rate of interest (if the reset rate notes will be in fixed rate mode during the next reset period), in either case, at a rate that, in the reasonable opinion of the remarketing agents, will enable all tendering noteholders to receive a payment equal to 100% of the outstanding principal balance of their reset rate notes. Also, if applicable, the administrator and the remarketing agents will select from the bids received from the Eligible Swap Counterparty or Counterparties, with which the trust will enter into one or more swap agreements to hedge basis and/or currency risks for the next related reset period. Furthermore, if the reset rate notes are to be reset to foreign exchange mode, the currency exchange rate, the ExtensionRate due to the related currency Swap Counterparty and the Failed Remarketing Rate for the applicable reset period will be determined pursuant to the terms of the related currency swap agreement. If required for the immediately following reset period, on or before the related Spread Determination Date the administrator will arrange for new or additional securities identification codes to be obtained. See “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—The Reset Rate Notes—Spread Determination Date” in the base prospectus.
Timeline. The following chart shows a timeline of the remarketing process:
Foreign Exchange Mode. If the class A-5 notes are to be reset in foreign exchange mode on the related reset date, the administrator, on behalf of the trust, will enter into one or more currency swap agreements with Eligible Swap Counterparties:
· | to facilitate the trust’s ability to pay principal and interest in the applicable currency; |
· | to pay additional interest at the applicable interest rate and in the applicable currency on the class A-5 notes from and including the related reset date to, but excluding the second business day following the related reset date; and |
· | to facilitate the exchange of all secondary market trade proceeds from a successful remarketing (or proceeds from the exercise of the call option) on the applicable reset date to the applicable currency. |
See “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—The Reset Rate Notes—Foreign Exchange Mode” in the base prospectus.
Any applicable currency swap agreement may also terminate as a result of the optional purchase of the trust student loans by the servicer or an auction of the trust student loans by the indenture trustee. No currency swap agreement will terminate solely due to the declaration of a Failed Remarketing.
The terms of all currency swap agreements must satisfy the Rating Agency Condition. The inability to obtain any required currency swap agreement, either as a result of the failure to satisfy the Rating Agency Condition or otherwise, will, in the absence of an exercise of the call option, result in the declaration of a Failed Remarketing for the class A-5 notes on the related reset date; provided that, if the remarketing agents, in consultation with the administrator, on or before the Remarketing Terms Determination Date, determine that it is unlikely that currency swap agreements satisfying the above criteria will be obtainable on the related reset date, the class A-5 notes must be reset to U.S. Dollars on the related reset date. No new currency swap agreements will be entered into by the trust for the applicable reset period following an exercise of the call option.
If the class A-5 notes are either currently in foreign exchange mode or to be reset into foreign exchange mode, the class A-5 notes will be subject to a mandatory tender by the holders thereof on the related reset date. Affected class A-5 noteholders desiring to retain some or all of their class A-5 notes will be required to repurchase their class A-5 notes through the remarketing agents. However, the class A-5 noteholders may or may not be allocated their desired amount of reset rate notes as part of the remarketing process for the class A-5 notes. Holders of the class A-5 notes denominated in a currency other than U.S. Dollars will receive all principal and interest payments due from the trust as well as payment of any outstanding principal amount payable as a result of the remarketing process on or about the second business day following the reset date as a result of the required delay in payment through Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg.
Floating Rate Mode. If, following a successful remarketing, the class A-5 notes will be denominated in U.S. Dollars and are reset to bear a floating rate of interest, then, during the corresponding reset period, the reset rate notes will bear interest at a per annum rate equal to the
applicable interest rate index, plus or minus the applicable Spread, as determined on the relevant Spread Determination Date.
In addition, if the remarketing agents, in consultation with the administrator, determine that it would be in the best interest of the trust based on then-current market conditions during any reset period when the class A-5 notes bear a floating rate of interest, or if otherwise required to satisfy the Rating Agency Condition, the trust will enter into one or more interest rate swap agreements with Eligible Swap Counterparties for the next reset period to hedge some or all of the basis risk. In exchange for providing payments to the trust at the applicable interest rate index plus the related Spread, each Swap Counterparty will be entitled to receive on each distribution date a payment from the trust equal to three-month LIBOR plus or minus a spread, which must satisfy the Rating Agency Condition. In the selection of the Swap Counterparties and the establishment of the applicable spread to three-month LIBOR, the remarketing agents, in consultation with the administrator, generally will use the procedures set forth under “—Foreign Exchange Mode” above and “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—The Reset Rate Notes—Foreign Exchange Mode” in the base prospectus.
Fixed Rate Mode. If, following a successful remarketing, the class A-5 notes will be denominated in U.S. Dollars and are reset to bear a fixed rate of interest, then the applicable fixed rate of interest for the corresponding reset period will be determined on the Spread Determination Date by adding:
· | the applicable spread as determined by the remarketing agents on the Spread Determination Date; and |
· | the yield to maturity on the Spread Determination Date of the applicable fixed rate pricing benchmark, selected by the remarketing agents, as having an expected weighted average life based on a scheduled maturity at the next reset date, which would be used in accordance with customary financial practice in pricing new issues of asset-backed securities of comparable average life, provided, that the remarketing agents shall establish that fixed rate equal to the rate that, in the reasonable opinion of the remarketing agents, will enable all of the tendered reset rate notes to be remarketed by the remarketing agents at 100% of their outstanding principal balance. However, that fixed rate of interest will in no event be lower than the related All Hold Rate, if applicable. |
Interest on the class A-5 notes during any reset period when they bear a fixed rate of interest and are denominated in U.S. Dollars generally will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest on the class A-5 notes during any reset period when they bear a fixed rate of interest and are denominated in a currency other than U.S. Dollars generally will be calculated based on the Actual/Actual (ISMA) accrual method as described under “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—Determination of Indices” in the base prospectus, or another day-count convention as may be established on the related Remarketing Terms Determination Date. This interest will be payable on each distribution date at the applicable fixed rate of interest, as determined on the Spread Determination Date, during the relevant reset period.
In addition, if, following a successful remarketing, the class A-5 notes will bear a fixed rate of interest during the next related reset period, the trust will enter into one or more interest rate swap agreements with one or more Eligible Swap Counterparties on the related reset date to facilitate the trust’s ability to pay interest at a fixed rate, and any such interest rate swap will be made as part of any required currency swap agreement as described in “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—The Reset Rate Notes—Foreign Exchange Mode” in the base prospectus. Each of these interest rate swap agreements will terminate, generally, on the earliest to occur of:
· | the next succeeding reset date, if the class A-5 notes are then denominated in U.S. Dollars, or the next succeeding reset date resulting in a successful remarketing, if the class A-5 notes are then in foreign exchange mode; |
· | the related reset date for which the call option is exercised; |
· | the distribution date on which the outstanding principal balance of the class A-5 notes is reduced to zero (including as the result of the optional purchase of the remaining trust student loans by the servicer or an auction of the trust student loans by the indenture trustee); or |
· | the maturity date of the class A-5 notes. |
See “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—The Reset Rate Notes—Fixed Rate Mode” in the base prospectus.
Allocation of Principal to Accumulation Account. If, on any distribution date, principal would be payable to the class A-5 notes during any reset period when such notes are then structured not to receive a payment of principal until the end of the related reset period (as will be the case, generally, but not exclusively, whenever the class A-5 notes bear a fixed rate of interest), principal generally will be allocated to the class A-5 notes and deposited into the accumulation account. Those principal amounts will remain in the accumulation account until the next reset date for the class A-5 notes, unless there occurs, prior to that reset date, an optional termination of the trust, an optional purchase of the remaining trust student loans by the servicer or a successful auction of the remaining trust student loans by the indenture trustee or payment of principal on the notes is accelerated following an event of default. On such reset date, all amounts (exclusive of investment earnings) then on deposit in the accumulation account, including any allocation of principal made on that distribution date, will be distributed to the class A-5 noteholders, as of the related record date, in reduction of principal of the class A-5 notes (or if in foreign exchange mode, on or about that reset date to the related Swap Counterparty, in exchange for the equivalent amount of the applicable non-U.S. Dollar currency to be paid to the class A-5 noteholders on or about that reset date).
However, in the event that on any distribution date the amount (exclusive of investment earnings) on deposit in the accumulation account would equal the outstanding principal balance (or if in foreign exchange mode, the U.S. Dollar equivalent thereof) of the class A-5 notes, then no additional amounts will be deposited into the accumulation account, and all amounts therein, exclusive of investment earnings, will be distributed on the next reset date to the class A-5 noteholders (or if in foreign exchange mode, on or about that reset date to the related currency
Swap Counterparty, in exchange for the equivalent amount of the applicable non-U.S. Dollar currency to be paid to the class A-5 noteholders on or about that reset date). On that reset date the outstanding principal balance of the class A-5 notes will be reduced to zero. Amounts (exclusive of investment earnings) on deposit in the accumulation account may be used only to pay principal on the class A-5 notes (or to make payments to the related currency Swap Counterparty, but solely in exchange for the equivalent amount of the applicable non-U.S. Dollar currency at the conversion rate set forth in the currency swap agreement) and for no other purpose. All investment earnings on deposit in the accumulation account will be withdrawn on each distribution date and deposited into the collection account.
Whenever amounts are deposited into or are on deposit in the accumulation account, the indenture trustee, subject to sufficient available funds therefor, will deposit into the supplemental interest account the Supplemental Interest Account Deposit Amount as described under “—Distributions” below.
Tender of Reset Rate Notes; Remarketing Procedures. On the closing date, the trust, the administrator and the original remarketing agents entered into a remarketing agreement for the remarketing of the class A-5 notes by the original remarketing agents. Pursuant to the remarketing agreement, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (as successor in interest to Banc of America Securities LLC) each initially agreed to act as remarketing agents. The administrator, in its sole discretion, may change or remove the remarketing agents or, if at any time, there is more than one remarketing agent, designate a lead remarketing agent for the class A-5 notes and any reset period at any time on or before the related Remarketing Terms Determination Date. In addition, the administrator will appoint one or more additional remarketing agents, if necessary, for a reset date when the class A-5 notes will be remarketed in a currency other than U.S. Dollars. Furthermore, a remarketing agent may resign at any time provided that no resignation may become effective on a date that is later than 15 business days prior to the next Remarketing Terms Determination Date.
On each Remarketing Terms Determination Date, the trust, the administrator and the remarketing agents will enter into a remarketing agency agreement that will set forth certain terms of the remarketing for the class A-5 notes, and on the related Spread Determination Date (unless a Failed Remarketing is declared, Hold Notices relating to 100% of the class A-5 notes have been timely delivered, or the call option has been exercised with respect to the related reset date), that remarketing agency agreement will be supplemented to include all other required terms of the related remarketing for the class A-5 notes. See “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—The Reset Rate Notes—Tender of Reset Rate Notes; Remarketing Procedures” in the base prospectus for a description of the remarketing procedures applicable to reset rate notes.
The remarketing agents will be entitled to receive a fee from amounts on deposit in the remarketing fee account in connection with their services rendered for each reset date. The remarketing agents also will be entitled to reimbursement from the trust, on a subordinated basis, or from the administrator, if there are insufficient Available Funds on the related distribution date, for certain expenses associated with each remarketing. The fees associated with each successful remarketing and certain out-of-pocket expenses with respect to each reset date will be payable generally from amounts on deposit from time to time in the remarketing fee account. On each distribution date that is one year or less prior to a reset date, Available Funds will be
deposited into the remarketing fee account, prior to the payment of interest on any class of notes, in an amount up to the Quarterly Funding Amount. If the amount on deposit in the remarketing fee account, after the payment of any remarketing fees therefrom, exceeds the Reset Period Target Amount, the excess will be withdrawn on the distribution date immediately following the related reset date, deposited into the collection account and included in Available Funds for that distribution date. In addition, all investments on deposit in the remarketing fee account will be withdrawn on the next distribution date, deposited into the collection account and included in Available Funds for that distribution date. Also, if on any distribution date a Class A Note Interest Shortfall would exist, or if on the maturity date for any class of class A notes, Available Funds would not be sufficient to reduce the principal balance of that class to zero, the amount of the Class A Note Interest Shortfall or principal deficiency, as applicable, to the extent sums are on deposit in the remarketing fee account, may be withdrawn from that account and used for payment of interest or principal on the class A notes.
The remarketing fee account is held by the indenture trustee for the benefit of the remarketing agents and the class A noteholders. As of the April 2015 distribution date, there was $630,000.00 on deposit in the remarketing fee account. In connection with a successful remarketing of the class A-5 notes on the July 27, 2015 reset date, the remarketing agents will be paid a remarketing fee by the trust in an amount not to exceed $630,000.00.
Notice of Interest Rates
Information concerning past and current three-month LIBOR, any other applicable index, and the interest rates applicable to the reset rate notes, will be available on the administrator’s website at https://www.navient.com/about/investors/debtasset/slmsltrusts/issuedetails/2005-7.aspx or by telephoning the administrator at (800) 321-7179 between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on any business day and will also be available through Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page or Bloomberg L.P. If any class of notes is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, the administrator will also notify the Luxembourg paying agent, if any, and will cause the Luxembourg Stock Exchange to be notified, of the current interest rate for each class of notes listed on the exchange prior to the first day of each accrual period.
Accounts
The administrator has established and maintains, in the name of the indenture trustee and for the benefit of the reset rate noteholders and, with respect to the remarketing fee account, the class A noteholders, the collection account, the remarketing fee account and the reserve account.
Funds in the collection account, the remarketing fee account, the reserve account, any accumulation account, any supplemental interest account, any investment premium purchase account, and any investment reserve account will be invested as provided in the indenture in eligible investments. Eligible investments are generally limited to investments acceptable to the rating agencies as being consistent with the ratings of the notes. Subject to some conditions, eligible investments may include debt instruments or other obligations (including asset-backed securities) issued by the depositor or its affiliates, other trusts originated by the depositor or its affiliates or third parties and repurchase obligations of those persons with respect to federally guaranteed student loans that are serviced by the servicer or an affiliate thereof. Eligible
investments are limited to obligations or debt instruments that are expected to mature not later than the business day immediately preceding the next applicable distribution date, or, with respect to the collection account only, the next monthly servicing fee payment date, to the extent of the primary servicing fee; provided, however, that with respect to funds on deposit in any accumulation account, related eligible investments may mature no later than the business day immediately preceding the next reset date for the reset rate notes.
The administrator will direct the related Swap Counterparties to pay all amounts denominated in a currency other than U.S. Dollars payable under any currency swap agreement into the applicable currency account.
Servicing Compensation
The servicer will be entitled to receive the servicing fee in an amount equal to the primary servicing fee and the carryover servicing fee as compensation for performing the functions as servicer for the trust. The primary servicing fee is payable on each monthly servicing payment date out of Available Funds and amounts on deposit in the reserve account on that date. The carryover servicing fee is payable to the servicer on each distribution date out of Available Funds after payment on that distribution date of clauses (a) through (k) under “—Distributions—Distributions from the Collection Account” below. The carryover servicing fee will be subject to an increase agreed to by the administrator, the eligible lender trustee and the servicer to the extent that a demonstrable and significant increase occurs in the costs incurred by the servicer in providing the services to be provided under the servicing agreement, whether due to changes in applicable governmental regulations, guarantor program requirements or regulations, or postal rates.
Distributions
Deposits into the Collection Account. On or before the business day before each distribution date, the servicer and the administrator will provide the indenture trustee with certain information as to the preceding collection period, including the amount of Available Funds received from the trust student loans and the aggregate purchase amount of the trust student loans to be purchased from the trust by the sellers, the depositor or the servicer.
Except as provided in the next paragraph, the servicer will deposit all payments on the trust student loans and all proceeds of the trust student loans collected by it during each collection period into the collection account within two business days of receipt. Except as provided in the next paragraph, the eligible lender trustee will deposit all interest subsidy payments and all special allowance payments on the student loans received by it for each collection period into the collection account within two business days of receipt.
However, for so long as no administrator default has occurred and is continuing, the servicer and the eligible lender trustee will remit the amounts referred to above that would otherwise be deposited into the collection account to the administrator within two business days of receipt, and the administrator will remit those amounts to the collection account on or before the business day preceding each monthly servicing payment date, together with interest calculated from the first day of the month following receipt by the administrator to but excluding
the day on which the administrator remits such amounts to the collection account at a rate no less than the federal funds rate for each day during that period less 0.20%. See “Servicing and Administration—Payments on Student Loans” in the base prospectus.
Distributions from the Collection Account. On each monthly servicing payment date that is not a distribution date, the administrator will instruct the indenture trustee to pay to the servicer the primary servicing fee due for the period from and including the preceding monthly servicing payment date from amounts on deposit in the collection account.
On or before each distribution date, the administrator will instruct the indenture trustee to make the following deposits and distributions in the amounts and in the order of priority shown below, except as otherwise provided under “Description of the Notes—The Notes—The Class A Notes—Distributions of Principal” and “—The Notes—The Class B Notes—Subordination of the Class B Notes” herein, to the extent of Available Funds for that distribution date and amounts transferred from the reserve account with respect to that distribution date:
(a) to the servicer, the primary servicing fee due on that distribution date;
(b) to the administrator, the administration fee due on that distribution date and all prior unpaid administration fees;
(c) to the remarketing fee account, any Quarterly Funding Amount for that distribution date;
(d) pro rata, based on amounts due and owing:
(1) to the class A noteholders (other than the reset rate noteholders if a swap agreement with respect to interest payments to be made to those noteholders is then in effect), the Class A Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount, pro rata, based on the amounts payable as Class A Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount; provided, however, that quarterly payments of interest to the class A-3 noteholders from Available Funds will be limited to an interest rate equal to three-month LIBOR plus 0.75%, and all amounts in excess thereof that are due and owing will be paid directly to the class A-3 noteholders utilizing funds on deposit in the spread supplement account;
(2) if a swap agreement is then in effect for the reset rate notes with respect to interest payments to be made to those noteholders, to each applicable Swap Counterparty, the amount of interest at the related floating rate of interest due to each applicable Swap Counterparty under the related swap agreement; and
(3) if applicable, to each Swap Counterparty, the amount of any swap termination payment due to that Swap Counterparty under the related swap agreement due solely to a swap termination event resulting from a payment default by the trust or the insolvency of the trust;
(e) to the class B noteholders, the Class B Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount;
(f) the class A noteholders’ principal distribution amount, sequentially, to the class A-3 noteholders, class A-4 noteholders and class A-5 noteholders, in that order, until each such class is paid in full, the Class A Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount;
(g) to any supplemental interest account, the Supplemental Interest Account Deposit Amount, if any, for that distribution date;
(h) to any investment reserve account, the amount, if any, required to fund that account to the applicable Investment Reserve Account Required Amount;
(i) on each distribution date on and after the Stepdown Date, and provided that no Trigger Event is in effect on such distribution date, to the class B noteholders until paid in full, the Class B Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount;
(j) to the reserve account, the amount, if any, necessary to reinstate the balance of the reserve account to the Specified Reserve Account Balance;
(k) to any investment premium purchase account, the Investment Premium Purchase Account Deposit Amount, if any, together with any carryover shortfalls not deposited on previous distribution dates;
(l) to the servicer, the aggregate unpaid amount of the carryover servicing fee, if any;
(m) if applicable, to any Swap Counterparty or Swap Counterparties, pro rata, the amount of any swap termination payments due to the Swap Counterparty or Swap Counterparties, as the case may be, not payable in clause (d)(3) above;
(n) if applicable, to the remarketing agents, any remarketing fees due and owing by the trust to the extent not paid from amounts on deposit in the remarketing fee account;
(o) if applicable, sequentially, first to the remarketing agents for certain expenses incurred in connection with the remarketing of the reset rate notes on that distribution date, and second to the administrator for advances made on behalf of the trust for the payment of remarketing expenses on that or prior distribution dates; and
(p) sequentially, in this order, to (1) any potential future cap counterparty under a potential future interest rate cap agreement, the amount of any payment under such potential future interest rate cap agreement (including, without limitation, any upfront fees, termination payments or any other amounts due to such potential future cap counterparty), as applicable, and (2) the excess distribution certificateholder, any remaining amounts after application of the preceding clauses.
Amounts that would be paid to each Swap Counterparty pursuant to clauses (d), (f) or (m) above with respect to the reset rate notes may be paid by the trust to the related Swap Counterparty on or prior to the applicable distribution date.
In the event that a swap termination payment is owed by the trust to any Swap Counterparty and a replacement swap agreement is procured by the trust under which the replacement Swap Counterparty makes a payment to the trust, the trust will pay that amount directly to the original Swap Counterparty to the extent that a payment is owed by the trust to that counterparty. If after making that payment, the original Swap Counterparty is still owed a payment, then the remaining amount will be paid as set forth in clause (m) above.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event the trust student loans are not sold on the trust auction date, on each subsequent distribution date on which the Pool Balance is equal to 10% or less of the Initial Pool Balance, the administrator will direct the indenture trustee to distribute as accelerated payments of principal on the notes all amounts that otherwise would be paid to the excess distribution certificateholder.
For a discussion of the ramifications of a termination of a swap agreement meant to hedge currency risk, see “—Distributions with Respect to the Reset Rate Notes in Foreign Exchange Mode” below.
Distributions with Respect to the Reset Rate Notes in Foreign Exchange Mode. On each applicable distribution date, a paying agent, acting at the direction of the administrator, will distribute all amounts on deposit in the applicable currency account to the holders of the reset rate notes if the notes are then in foreign exchange mode. If a currency swap agreement terminates, amounts that would have otherwise been paid to the related Swap Counterparty under that currency swap agreement will be used to make payments to the reset rate notes, in an amount in the applicable non-U.S. Dollar currency, equal to the payment that the related Swap Counterparty would have made. If this occurs, the trust will exchange U.S. Dollars for the applicable non-U.S. Dollar currency in order to make distributions to the reset rate notes. If the then-current exchange rate of U.S. Dollars for the applicable non-U.S. Dollar currency is less favorable than under the applicable currency swap agreement or if the then-current spread to LIBOR for another applicable index or a fixed rate is less favorable than under the applicable currency swap agreement, the trust will use more U.S. Dollars to pay the reset rate noteholders than it would have paid to the related Swap Counterparty. As a result, amounts paid pursuant to clauses (d)(1) and (f) above, as applicable, under “—Distributions from the Collection Account” above could be higher if a currency swap agreement terminates.
Distributions Following an Event of Default and Acceleration of the Maturity of the Notes
After the occurrence of any of the following:
· | an event of default under the indenture relating to the payment of principal on any class at its maturity date or to the payment of interest on any class of notes which has resulted in an acceleration of the maturity of the notes, |
· | an event of default under the indenture relating to an insolvency event or a bankruptcy with respect to the trust which has resulted in an acceleration of the maturity of the notes, or |
· | a liquidation of the trust assets following any event of default under the indenture, |
the priority of the payment of the notes changes. In particular, payments on the notes on each distribution date following the acceleration of the maturity of the notes as provided above will be made in the following order of priority:
FIRST:
| A: | to the noteholders of the reset rate notes then denominated in U.S. Dollars and then structured not to receive a payment of principal until the end of its related reset period, the amount, if any, on deposit in the related accumulation account for the reset rate notes (exclusive of investment earnings) in reduction of the outstanding principal balance of such reset rate notes until they are paid in full; and/or |
| B: | to the related currency Swap Counterparty if the reset rate notes are then in foreign exchange mode and are then structured not to receive a payment of principal until the end of their reset period, the amount, if any, on deposit in the related accumulation account for the reset rate notes (exclusive of investment earnings) in reduction of the outstanding amount of the reset rate notes until they are paid in full; |
SECOND: to the indenture trustee, for annual fees and any other amounts due and owing under the indenture;
THIRD: to the servicer, the primary servicing fee due on that distribution date and all prior unpaid primary servicing fees;
FOURTH: to the administrator, the administration fee due on that distribution date and all prior unpaid administration fees;
FIFTH: pro rata, based on amounts due and owing:
| A: | to the class A noteholders (other than the noteholders of the reset rate notes if a swap agreement with respect to interest payments to be made to such noteholders is then in effect), the Class A Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, based on the amounts due and payable as the Class A Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount; |
| B: | if a swap agreement is then in effect for the reset rate noteholders with respect to interest payments to be made to such noteholders, to each Swap Counterparty, the amount of any swap interest payments due and payable by the trust (other than as paid to that Swap Counterparty under clause FIRST); and |
| C: | if any swap agreement with respect to the reset rate notes has been terminated, to the related Swap Counterparty, the amount of any swap termination payments due to such Swap Counterparty under the related |
| | swap agreement due to a swap termination event relating to a payment default by the trust, acceleration of the notes or the insolvency of the trust; |
SIXTH:
| A: | if the reset rate notes are in foreign exchange mode, pro rata (1) to the class A noteholders (other than the holders of any reset rate notes then in foreign exchange mode), ratably, an amount sufficient to reduce the respective principal balances of those class A notes to zero, and (2) to the applicable currency Swap Counterparties an amount sufficient to reduce the U.S. Dollar equivalent principal balance of the reset rate notes then in foreign exchange mode to zero; or |
| B: | if the reset rate notes are then denominated in U.S. Dollars, pro rata to the class A noteholders, ratably, an amount sufficient to reduce the respective principal balances of those class A notes to zero; |
SEVENTH: to the class B noteholders, the Class B Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount;
EIGHTH: to the class B noteholders, an amount sufficient to reduce the principal balance of the class B notes to zero;
NINTH: to the servicer, the aggregate unpaid amount of the carryover servicing fee, if any;
TENTH: to any Swap Counterparties, pro rata, the amount of any swap termination payments due to such Swap Counterparties from the trust and not payable under clause FIFTH (C);
ELEVENTH: to the remarketing agents, any due and unpaid remarketing fees payable by the trust to the extent not previously paid from amounts on deposit in the remarketing fee account;
TWELFTH: if applicable, sequentially, first to the remarketing agents for certain expenses incurred in connection with the remarketing of the reset rate notes on such distribution date, and second to the administrator for advances made on behalf of the trust for the payment of remarketing expenses on that or prior distribution dates; and
THIRTEENTH: sequentially, in this order, to (a) any potential future cap counterparty under a potential future interest rate cap agreement, the amount of any payment under such potential future interest rate cap agreement (including, without limitation, any upfront fees, termination payments or any other amounts due to such potential future cap counterparty), as applicable, and (b) the excess distribution certificateholder, any remaining amounts after application of the preceding clauses.
If the trust has entered into a currency swap agreement and such currency swap agreement terminates, amounts that would have otherwise been paid to the related currency Swap Counterparty (other than amounts payable as a termination payment thereunder) will be
used to make payments to the reset rate noteholders in an amount in the applicable non-U.S. Dollar currency, equal to the payment that the related currency Swap Counterparty wouldhave made. If this occurs, the trust will exchange U.S. Dollars for the applicable non-U.S. Dollar currency in order to make distributions on the reset rate notes.
Voting Rights and Remedies
Noteholders will have the voting rights and remedies described in the base prospectus. The notes will all vote and exercise remedies together as if they were a single class other than with respect to exercising the right to liquidate collateral, in which case the class A notes and class B notes have different rights. See “Description of the Notes—The Indenture—Events of Default; Rights Upon Event of Default” in the base prospectus.
Credit Enhancement
Reserve Account. The reserve account was created with an initial deposit by the trust on the closing date and, as of the April 2015 distribution date, it had a balance of $2,280,587.00. The reserve account may be replenished on each distribution date, by deposit into it of the amount, if any, necessary to reinstate the balance of the reserve account to the Specified Reserve Account Balance from the amount of Available Funds remaining after payment for that distribution date under clauses (a) through (i) under “—Distributions—Distributions from the Collection Account” above.
If the market value of securities and cash in the reserve account together with amounts on deposit in any supplemental interest account on any distribution date is sufficient to pay the remaining principal balance of and interest accrued on the notes and any carryover servicing fee, these assets will be so applied on that distribution date.
If the amount on deposit in the reserve account on any distribution date after giving effect to all deposits or withdrawals from the reserve account on that distribution date is greater than the Specified Reserve Account Balance for that distribution date, subject to certain limitations, the administrator will instruct the indenture trustee to deposit the amount of the excess into the collection account for distribution on that distribution date.
Amounts held from time to time in the reserve account will continue to be held for the benefit of the trust. Funds will be withdrawn from cash in the reserve account on any distribution date or, in the case of the payment of any primary servicing fee, on any monthly servicing payment date, to the extent that the amount of Available Funds on that distribution date or monthly servicing payment date is insufficient to pay any of the items specified in clauses (a) through (c), (d)(1), (d)(2) and (e) under “—Distributions—Distributions from the Collection Account” above. These funds also will be withdrawn at maturity of a class of notes or on the final distribution upon termination of the trust to the extent that the amount of Available Funds at that time is insufficient to pay any of the items specified in clauses (f) and (i) and, in the case of the final distribution upon termination of the trust, clauses (l) through (o) under “—Distributions—Distributions from the Collection Account” above. These funds will be paid from the reserve account to the persons and in the order of priority specified for distributions out of
the collection account in clauses (a) through (c), (d)(1), (d)(2) and (e), clauses (f) and (i), and clauses (l) through (o), as applicable.
The reserve account is intended to enhance the likelihood of timely distributions of interest to the noteholders and to decrease the likelihood that the noteholders will experience losses. In some circumstances, however, the reserve account could be reduced to zero. Except on the final distribution upon termination of the trust, amounts on deposit in the reserve account, other than amounts in excess of the Specified Reserve Account Balance, will not be available to cover any carryover servicing fees. Amounts on deposit in the reserve account will be available to pay principal on the notes and accrued interest at the maturity of the notes, and to pay the carryover servicing fee and carryover amounts on the final distribution upon termination of the trust.
Subordination of the Class B Notes. On any distribution date, distributions of interest on the class B notes will be subordinated to the payment of interest on the class A notes and distributions of principal on the class B notes will be subordinated to the payment of both interest and principal on all of the class A notes. See “Description of the Notes—The Notes—The Class B Notes—Subordination of the Class B Notes” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement.
Capitalized Interest Account. All funds on deposit in the capitalized interest account that was created and funded on the closing date were released to the excess distribution certificateholder on the distribution date that occurred in October 2007. No additional sums have been or will be deposited into this account.
Potential Future Interest Rate Cap Agreement
At any time, at the direction of the administrator, the trust may enter into one or more interest rate cap agreements (collectively, the “potential future interest rate cap agreement”) with one or more Eligible Swap Counterparties (collectively, the “potential future cap counterparty”) to hedge some or all of the interest rate risk of the notes. Any potential future interest rate cap agreement would contain customary and usual terms for such derivative agreements. Any payment due by the trust to a potential future cap counterparty would be payable only out of funds payable under clause (p)(1) of “—Distributions—Distributions from the Collection Account” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement. Any payments received from a potential future cap counterparty would be included in Available Funds. The trust will enter into a potential future interest rate cap agreement only upon receipt of a written confirmation from each rating agency then rating the notes that such potential future interest rate cap agreement will not result in the downgrading of its then current rating of any class of notes. It is not anticipated that the trust would be required to make any payments to any potential future cap counterparty under any potential future interest rate cap agreement other than an upfront payment and, in some circumstances, a termination payment. As of the July 27, 2015 reset date, the trust will not be a party to any interest rate cap agreement.
Initial Interest Rate Swap Agreement
On the closing date, the trust entered into an interest rate swap agreement with The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, as the Swap Counterparty, to hedge the interest rate risk that results from payment of a fixed rate of interest on the class A-3 notes during their initial reset period. This initial interest rate swap agreement terminated in accordance with its terms on the April 25, 2008 reset date. The trust will not enter into another interest rate swap agreement with respect to the class A-3 notes on the July 27, 2015 reset date.
Additional Interest Rate Swap Agreements
If, on any reset date, the class A-5 notes are reset to bear a fixed rate of interest, the trust will enter into one or more interest rate swap agreements to be effective until the next related reset date.
Administration Fee
As compensation for the performance of the administrator’s obligations under the administration agreement and as reimbursement for its related expenses, the administrator will be entitled to an administration fee in an amount equal to $25,000 per collection period payable in arrears on each distribution date.
In addition, to the extent that the trust does not have sufficient Available Funds therefor on the related reset date, the administrator will advance the amount of certain unpaid expenses (other than remarketing fees) associated with a remarketing, including, without limitation, the fees of the rating agencies in connection with any required satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition. On subsequent distribution dates, the administrator will be entitled to reimbursement for those remarketing related expenses, from Available Funds on a subordinated basis, as set forth under “Distributions—Distributions From the Collection Account” above.
Determination of Indices
For a discussion of the day count basis, interest rate determination dates, interest rate change dates and possible interest rate indices applicable for a class of notes, see “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—Determination of Indices” in the base prospectus.
Optional Purchase
The servicer may purchase or arrange for the purchase of all remaining trust student loans on any distribution date on or after the first distribution date when the Pool Balance is 10% or less of the Initial Pool Balance.
The exercise of this purchase option will result in the early retirement of the remaining notes, including an early distribution of all amounts then on deposit in any accumulation account. The purchase price will equal the amount required to prepay in full, including all accrued and unpaid interest, the remaining trust student loans as of the end of the preceding collection period, but not less than a prescribed minimum purchase amount.
This prescribed minimum purchase amount is the amount that would be sufficient to:
· | pay to noteholders the interest payable on the related distribution date; and |
· | reduce the outstanding principal amount of each class of notes then outstanding on the related distribution date to zero, taking into account all amounts then on deposit in any accumulation account. |
See “The Student Loan Pools—Termination” in the base prospectus.
For these purposes, if the reset rate notes:
· | are then structured not to receive a payment of principal until the end of the related reset period, the outstanding principal balance of the reset rate notes will be deemed to have been reduced by any amounts on deposit, exclusive of any investment earnings, in the related accumulation account; and/or |
· | are then denominated in a non-U.S. Dollar currency, the U.S. Dollar equivalent of the then-outstanding principal balance of the reset rate notes will be determined based upon the exchange rate provided for in the related currency swap agreement or agreements. |
Auction of Trust Assets
The indenture trustee will offer for sale all remaining trust student loans at the end of the first collection period when the Pool Balance is 10% or less of the Initial Pool Balance.
The trust auction date will be the third business day before the related distribution date. An auction will be consummated only if the servicer has first waived its optional right to purchase all of the remaining trust student loans. The servicer will waive its option to purchase all of the remaining trust student loans if it fails to notify the eligible lender trustee and the indenture trustee, in writing, that it intends to exercise its purchase option before the indenture trustee accepts a bid to purchase the trust student loans. The depositor and its affiliates, including Navient CFC and the servicer, and unrelated third parties may offer bids to purchase the trust student loans. The depositor or any affiliate may not submit a bid representing greater than fair market value of the trust student loans.
If at least two bids are received, the indenture trustee will solicit and re-solicit new bids from all participating bidders until only one bid remains or the remaining bidders decline to resubmit bids. The indenture trustee will accept the highest of the remaining bids if it equals or exceeds the higher of:
· | the minimum purchase amount described under “—Optional Purchase” above (plus any amounts owed to the servicer as carryover servicing fees); or |
· | the fair market value of the trust student loans as of the end of the related collection period. |
If at least two bids are not received or the highest bid after the re-solicitation process does not equal or exceed that amount, the indenture trustee will not complete the sale. The indenture
trustee may, and at the direction of the depositor will be required to, consult with a financial advisor, including any of the original underwriters of the notes, or the administrator, to determine if the fair market value of the trust student loans has been offered. See “The Student Loan Pools— Termination” in the base prospectus.
The net proceeds of any auction sale will be used to retire any outstanding notes on the related distribution date.
If the sale is not completed, the indenture trustee may, but will not be under any obligation to, solicit bids for sale of the trust student loans after future collection periods upon terms similar to those described above, including the servicer’s waiver of its option to purchase all of the remaining trust student loans. The indenture trustee may or may not succeed in soliciting acceptable bids for the trust student loans either on the trust auction date or subsequently.
If the trust student loans are not sold as described above, on each subsequent distribution date, if the amount on deposit in the reserve account after giving effect to all withdrawals, except withdrawals payable to the depositor, exceeds the specified reserve account balance, the administrator will direct the indenture trustee to distribute the amount of the excess as accelerated payments of note principal.
See “The Student Loan Pools—Termination” in the base prospectus.
STATIC POOLS
Information concerning the static pool data of previous similar student loan securitizations of the sponsor was filed with the SEC as a report on Form 8-K on May 14, 2015 and may be found under CIK 0000949114. The Form 8-K presents the static pool data of the sponsor’s previous securitizations involving similar student loan assets in the form of published charts. We caution you that this pool of trust student loans may not perform in a similar manner to student loans in other trusts.
PREPAYMENTS, EXTENSIONS, WEIGHTED AVERAGE REMAINING LIFE AND EXPECTED MATURITY OF THE CLASS A-5 NOTES
The rate of payment of principal of the class A-5 notes and the yield on the class A-5 notes will be affected by prepayments on the trust student loans that may occur as described below. Therefore, payments on the class A-5 notes could occur significantly earlier than expected. Consequently, the actual maturity of the class A-5 notes could be significantly earlier, the weighted average life of the class A-5 notes could be significantly shorter, and periodic balances could be significantly lower, than expected. Each trust student loan is prepayable in whole or in part, without penalty, by the borrowers at any time, or as a result of a borrower’s default, death, disability or bankruptcy and subsequent liquidation or collection of guarantee payments with respect thereto. The rate of such prepayments cannot be predicted and may be influenced by a variety of economic, social, competitive and other factors, including as described below. In general, the rate of prepayments may tend to increase to the extent that alternative financing becomes available on more favorable terms or at interest rates significantly below the interest rates applicable to the trust student loans. Prepayments could increase as a result of
certain borrower benefit programs, among other factors. In addition, the depositor is obligated to repurchase any trust student loan (or substitute an eligible student loan) as a result of a breach of any of its representations and warranties relating to trust student loans contained in the sale agreement, and the servicer is obligated to purchase any trust student loan pursuant to the servicing agreement as a result of a breach of certain covenants with respect to such trust student loan, in each case where such breach materially adversely affects the interests of the trust in that trust student loan and is not cured within the applicable cure period. See “Transfer and Servicing Agreements—Purchase of Student Loans by the Depositor; Representations and Warranties of the Sellers” and “Servicing and Administration—Servicer Covenants” in the base prospectus.
On the other hand, the rate of principal payments and the yield on the notes will be affected by scheduled payments with respect to, and maturities and average lives of, the trust student loans. These may be lengthened as a result of, among other things, grace periods, deferment periods, forbearance periods, or repayment term or monthly payment amount modifications agreed to by the servicer. Therefore, payments on the class A-5 notes could occur significantly later than expected. Consequently, the actual maturity and the weighted average life of the class A-5 notes could be significantly longer than expected and periodic balances could be significantly higher than expected. The rate of payment of principal of the class A-5 notes and the yield on the class A-5 notes may also be affected by the rate of defaults resulting in losses on defaulted trust student loans which have been liquidated, by the severity of those losses and by the timing of those losses, which may affect the ability of the guarantors to make timely guarantee payments with respect thereto. In addition, the maturity of certain of the trust student loans could extend beyond the legal maturity date for the class A-5 notes.
The rate of prepayments on the trust student loans cannot be predicted due to a variety of factors, some of which are described above, and any reinvestment risks resulting from a faster or slower incidence of prepayment on trust student loans will be borne entirely by the noteholders. Such reinvestment risks may include the risk that interest rates and the relevant spreads above particular interest rate indices are lower at the time noteholders receive payments from the trust than such interest rates and such spreads would otherwise have been if such prepayments had not been made or had such prepayments been made at a different time.
The projected weighted average remaining life to the October 26, 2015 reset date of the class A-5 notes (and assuming a successful remarketing of such notes on the current reset date) under various usual and customary prepayment scenarios is approximately 0.25 years. More information may be found under “Prepayments, Extensions, Weighted Average Remaining Life and Expected Maturity of the Class A-5 Notes,” to be included as Exhibit I to the final remarketing prospectus supplement to be distributed to potential investors on or prior to the Spread Determination Date.
U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES
The following discussion summarizes certain U.S. federal income tax consequences to a U.S. holder, whose functional currency is the U.S. Dollar, pertaining to certain aspects of the reset rate notes. For a summary of additional tax consequences to U.S. holders of the reset rate notes, holders should refer to “U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences” and “Appendix L—Global Clearance, Settlement and Tax Documentation Procedures—U.S. Federal Income Tax
Documentation Requirements” in the base prospectus, and for a discussion of the U.S. federal income tax consequences to non-U.S. holders of the reset rate notes, holders should refer to “U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences—Tax Consequences to Holders of Notes In General—Tax Consequences to Foreign Investors” and “Appendix L—Global Clearance, Settlement and Tax Documentation Procedures—U.S. Federal Income Tax Documentation Requirements” in the base prospectus.
This discussion is general in nature and does not address all aspects of U.S. federal income taxation. Nor does it address issues that may be relevant to a particular U.S. holder subject to special treatment under U.S. federal income tax laws (such as tax-exempt organizations, partnerships or pass-through entities, persons holding the reset rate notes as part of a hedging, integrated, conversion or constructive sale transaction or a straddle, financial institutions, brokers, dealers in securities or currencies and traders that elect to mark-to-market their securities). In addition, this discussion does not consider the effect of any alternative minimum taxes or foreign, state, local or other tax laws, or any U.S. tax considerations (e.g., estate or gift tax) other than U.S. federal income tax considerations that may be applicable to particular U.S. holders. Furthermore, this summary assumes that U.S. holders hold the reset rate notes as “capital assets” (generally, property held for investment) within the meaning of section 1221 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). This summary also assumes that, with respect to the reset rate notes reflected on the books of a qualified business unit of a U.S. holder, such qualified business unit is a U.S. resident.
This summary is based on the Code and applicable Treasury Regulations, rulings, administrative pronouncements and judicial decisions thereunder as of the date hereof, all of which are subject to change or differing interpretations at any time with possible retroactive effect. The terms of the reset rate notes are unusual and there are no rulings or cases that address the treatment of instruments similar to the reset rate notes. Moreover, the administrator does not intend to request rulings as to the U.S. federal income tax treatment of the reset rate notes. Thus, there can be no assurance that the U.S. federal income tax consequences of the reset rate notes described below will be sustained if the relevant transactions are examined by the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) or by a court if the IRS proposes to disallow such treatment.
Unless otherwise indicated herein, it is assumed that any holder is a U.S. person, and, except as set forth below, this discussion does not address the tax consequences of holding a reset rate note to any holder who is not a U.S. person. As used herein, “U.S. holder” means a beneficial owner of a reset rate note that is for U.S. federal income tax purposes:
· | a citizen or individual resident of the United States; |
· | a corporation or partnership (including an entity treated as such) organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia; |
· | an estate the income of which is includible in gross income for U.S. federal income tax purposes, regardless of its source; or |
· | a trust whose administration is subject to the primary supervision of a United States court and which has one or more United States persons who have the authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust. |
To the extent provided in Treasury Regulations, some trusts in existence on August 20, 1996, and treated as U.S. persons before that date, that elect to continue to be treated as U.S. persons, will be U.S. persons and not foreign persons.
EACH HOLDER OF A RESET RATE NOTE IS URGED TO CONSULT SUCH HOLDER’S TAX ADVISOR REGARDING THE POTENTIAL U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES (AND ANY FOREIGN, STATE OR LOCAL TAX CONSEQUENCES) OF HOLDING AND DISPOSING OF THE RESET RATE NOTES IN LIGHT OF THE HOLDER’S PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES.
Although not free from doubt and subject to the discussion below, the current reset of the interest rate and other terms of the reset rate notes through the reset procedures pursuant to a successful remarketing of the reset rate notes will not constitute a “significant modification” of the notes or a retirement and reissuance of the notes under applicable Treasury Regulations. Accordingly, in such circumstances, any holder of a reset rate note who continued to hold the note would not realize gain or loss at the time of the current reset, as the reset will be treated as a continuation of the old note. Solely for purposes of determining includible interest and original issue discount (“OID”) thereon, however, the reset rate notes will be treated as maturing on each reset date for an amount equal to their fair market value on that date (which generally will be equal to the principal amount thereof by virtue of the reset procedures), and reissued on the same date for the same value. Although the possibility cannot be excluded that additional interest income (in the form of OID) might arise at some time in the future as a result of the reset procedures (e.g., if the failed remarketing rate became applicable to the reset rate notes where a remarketing was not successful), the reset rate notes will be treated as bearing interest includible in a holder’s income equal to the stated amount of interest, but (subject to the discussion below) will not be treated as bearing any additional amount of interest income (such as OID), for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a result of the current remarketing.
Given the open-ended nature of the reset mechanism (which allows the interest on the reset rate notes to be changed from fixed to floating, or vice versa, and allows the interval between remarketing dates of the reset rate notes to be changed), however, the possibility that the reset rate notes would be deemed to mature and be reissued on a reset date is somewhat greater than if the reset procedure were merely a device to reset rates on a regular basis. If, contrary to the analysis in the preceding paragraph, the reset procedures were determined to give rise to a new indebtedness for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the reset rate notes could be treated as debt instruments that mature on a reset date. If, contrary to the conclusion above, the reset procedures did constitute a significant modification or the reset rate notes were otherwise deemed reissued for U.S. federal income tax purposes, U.S. tax legislation (commonly referred to as “FATCA”) generally would apply to impose a 30% withholding tax on certain payments made to certain foreign entities if such entity fails to satisfy certain disclosure and reporting rules. Holders of the reset rate notes that are foreign persons should consult with their own tax advisors regarding the potential application and impact of FATCA.
Alternatively, even if the reset mechanism did not cause a deemed reissuance of the reset rate notes, the reset rate notes could be treated as bearing contingent interest under applicable Treasury Regulations. Under such regulations, the amount treated as taxable interest to a holder of a reset rate note in each accrual period would be a hypothetical amount based upon the issuer’s current borrowing costs for comparable, noncontingent debt instruments, and a holder of a reset rate note might be required to include interest in income in excess of actual cash payments received for certain taxable periods. In addition, if the reset rate notes were treated as contingent payment obligations, any gain upon their sale or exchange would be treated as ordinary income, and any loss would be ordinary loss to the extent of the holder’s prior ordinary income inclusions with respect to the reset rate notes; the balance after such ordinary loss generally would constitute capital loss.
If the reset rate notes are purchased pursuant to the call option by Navient Corporation or one of its subsidiaries that is a member of its affiliated group for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the reset rate notes will be considered retired for such purposes on the date of purchase.
For a more detailed discussion of the treatment of the reset rate notes, you should refer to the subsection entitled “—Special Tax Consequences to Holders of Reset Rate Notes” of the Section entitled “U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences” in the base prospectus.
EUROPEAN UNION DIRECTIVE ON THE TAXATION OF SAVINGS INCOME
The European Union has adopted Council Directive (2003/48/EC) regarding the taxation of savings income in the form of interest payments (the “Savings Directive”). Under the Savings Directive, member states of the European Union (“Member States”) are required to provide to the tax or other relevant authorities of other Member States details of payments of interest and other similar income paid by a person within its jurisdiction to an individual, or certain other types of persons, resident in another Member State, except that Austria and Luxembourg have instead opted to impose a withholding system in relation to such payments, deducting tax at the rate of 35%, for a transitional period unless during such period they elect otherwise (the ending of such transitional period being dependent on the conclusion of certain other agreements relating to information exchange with certain other countries). Luxembourg has announced that it will no longer impose the withholding system as from January 1, 2015 and will provide details of payments of interest and other similar income as from that date. A number of non-European Union countries, and certain dependent or associated territories of certain Member States, have agreed to adopt similar measures (either regarding the provision of information or transitional withholding).
On March 24, 2014, the Council of the European Union adopted a directive amending the Savings Directive (the "Amending Directive"), which, if implemented, would amend and broaden the scope of the requirements above. Member States have until January 1, 2016 to adopt the national legislation necessary to comply with this amending directive.
The European Commission has proposed that the Savings Directive should be repealed generally with effect from January 1, 2016 or, in the case of Austria, from January 1, 2017, in order to avoid overlap with Council Directive 2011/16/EU on administrative cooperation in the field of taxation (as amended by Council Directive 2014/107/EU), pursuant to which Members States will be required to apply new measures on mandatory automatic exchange of information. The proposal also provides that, if it proceeds, Member States will not be required to apply the new requirements of the Amending Directive. Investors who are in any doubt as to their position should consult their professional advisors.
ERISA CONSIDERATIONS
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), and Section 4975 of the Code impose certain restrictions on employee benefit plans or other retirement arrangements (including individual retirement accounts and Keogh plans) and any entities whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in these plans or arrangements (including certain insurance company general accounts) (collectively, “Plans”).
ERISA also imposes various duties on persons who are fiduciaries of Plans subject to ERISA and prohibits certain transactions between a Plan and its so-called Parties in Interest under ERISA or Disqualified Persons under the Code (“Parties in Interest”). Particularly, the depositor, the servicer, the eligible lender trustee, the indenture trustee, the administrator, any underwriter, or any of their respective affiliates may be the fiduciary for one or more Plans. In addition, because these parties may receive certain benefits from the sales of the notes, the purchase of the notes using Plan assets over which any of them has investment authority should not be made if it could be deemed a violation of the prohibited transaction rules of ERISA and the Code for which no exemption is available.
If the notes were treated as “equity” for purposes of the Plan Asset Regulations, a Plan purchasing the notes could be treated as holding the trust student loans and the other assets of the trust as further described under “ERISA Considerations” in the base prospectus. If, however, the notes are treated as debt for purposes of the Plan Asset Regulations, the trust student loans and the other assets of the trust should not be deemed to be assets of an investing Plan. Although there is little guidance on this, the notes, which are denominated as debt, should be treated as debt and not as “equity interests” for purposes of the Plan Asset Regulations, as further described in the base prospectus. However, acquisition of the notes could still cause prohibited transactions under Section 406 of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code if a note is acquired or held by a Plan with respect to which any of the trust, the depositor, any underwriter, the eligible lender trustee, the indenture trustee or certain of their respective affiliates is a Party in Interest.
Some employee benefit plans, such as governmental plans described in Section 3(32) of ERISA, certain church plans described in Section 3(33) of ERISA and foreign plans, are not subject to the prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code. However, these plans may be subject to the provisions of other applicable federal, state, local or foreign law similar to the provisions of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”). Moreover, if a plan is not subject to ERISA requirements but is qualified and exempt from taxation under Sections 401(a) and 501(a) of the Code, the prohibited transaction rules in Section 503 of the Code will apply.
Before making an investment in the notes, a Plan or other employee benefit plan investor must determine whether, and each fiduciary causing the notes to be purchased by, on behalf of or using the assets of a Plan or other employee benefit plan, will be deemed to have represented that:
· | the Plan’s purchase and holding of the notes will not constitute or otherwise result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction in violation of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code which is not covered by a statutory exemption or a class or |
| other applicable exemption from the prohibited transaction rules as described in the base prospectus; and |
· | the purchase and holding of the notes by any employee benefit plan subject to a Similar Law will not cause a non-exempt violation of that Similar Law. |
Before making an investment in the notes, Plan fiduciaries are strongly encouraged to consult with their legal advisors concerning the impact of ERISA and the Code and the potential consequences of the investment in their specific circumstances. Moreover, in addition to determining whether the investment constitutes a direct or indirect prohibited transaction with a Party in Interest and whether exemptive relief is available to cover that transaction, each Plan fiduciary should take into account, among other considerations:
· | whether the fiduciary has the authority to make the investment; |
· | the diversification by type of asset of the Plan’s portfolio; |
· | the Plan’s funding objective; and |
· | whether under the fiduciary standards of investment prudence and diversification an investment in the notes is appropriate for the Plan, also taking into account the overall investment policy of the Plan and the composition of the Plan’s investment portfolio. |
ACCOUNTING CONSIDERATIONS
Various factors may influence the accounting treatment applicable to an investor’s acquisition and holding of asset-backed securities. Accounting standards, and the application and interpretation of such standards, are subject to change from time to time. Before making an investment in the notes, potential investors are strongly encouraged to consult their own accountants for advice as to the appropriate accounting treatment for their class of notes.
REPORTS TO NOTEHOLDERS
Quarterly and annual reports concerning the Trust will be delivered to noteholders. See “Reports to Noteholders” in the base prospectus. These reports will be available at the office of the Luxembourg paying agent, if any, or Luxembourg listing agent. The next such quarterly distribution report is expected to be available on or about August 10, 2015. See “Reports to Noteholders” in the base prospectus.
Except in very limited circumstances, you will not receive these reports directly from the trust. Instead, you will receive them through Cede & Co., as nominee of DTC and registered holder of the notes. See “Additional Information Regarding the Notes—Book-Entry Registration” in the base prospectus.
REMARKETING
The remarketing for the class A-5 notes by the remarketing agents is being done in accordance with the terms of the remarketing agreement, dated as of August 11, 2005, among the trust, the administrator, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (as successor in interest to Banc of America Securities LLC), and the related remarketing agency agreement, dated as of July 15, 2015 and the supplemental remarketing agency agreement, to be dated as of the Spread Determination Date, each among the trust, the administrator and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, as the remarketing agents. The remarketing agents are offering the class A-5 notes on a best efforts basis and, while a remarketing agent may choose to purchase any or all of the class A-5 notes that have been tendered by the holders thereof, no remarketing agent is under any obligation to purchase any of the class A-5 notes. The administrator, in its sole discretion, may change or remove the remarketing agent or, if at any time, there is more than one remarketing agent, designate a lead remarketing agent for the reset rate notes for any reset period at any time on or before the related Remarketing Terms Determination Date. Furthermore, a remarketing agent may resign at any time provided that no resignation may become effective on a date that is later than 15 business days prior to a Remarketing Terms Determination Date. Unless all tendered class A-5 notes are sold pursuant to the remarketing (or the call option is exercised), a Failed Remarketing will be declared and all existing class A-5 noteholders will retain their notes.
NOTICES TO INVESTORS
Each remarketing agent has represented and agreed that:
• 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 FSMA, received by it in connection with the issue or sale of any of the class A-5 notes in circumstances in which section 21(1) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the “FSMA”) does not apply to the trust;
• it has complied and will comply with all applicable provisions of the FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to the class A-5 notes in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom; and
• in relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a “Relevant Member State”), each remarketing agent will represent and agree that with effect from and including the date on which the Prospectus Directive is implemented in that Relevant Member State (the “Relevant Implementation Date”) it has not made and will not make an offer of the class A-5 notes which are the subject of the offering contemplated by this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement to the public in that Relevant Member State other than:
(a) to any legal entity which is a qualified investor as defined in the Prospectus Directive;
(b) to fewer than 150 natural or legal persons (other than qualified investors as defined in the Prospectus Directive), as permitted under the Prospectus Directive; or
(c) in any other circumstances falling within Article 3(2) of the Prospectus Directive,
provided that no such offer of class A-5 notes shall require the trust or the remarketing agents to publish a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive. For the purposes of the foregoing, the expression “an offer of notes to the public” in relation to any class A-5 notes in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the class A-5 notes to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe the notes, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State, the expression “Prospectus Directive” means Directive 2003/71/EC (and amendments thereto, including Directive 2010/73/EU), and includes any relevant implementing measure in the Relevant Member State.
No action has been or will be taken by the depositor or the remarketing agents that would permit a public offering of the class A-5 notes in any country or jurisdiction, where action for that purpose is required. Accordingly, the class A-5 notes may not be offered or sold, directly or indirectly, and neither, this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement and the base prospectus nor any circular, prospectus (including any preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement or supplement thereto), form of application, advertisement or other material may be distributed in or from or published in any country or jurisdiction, except under circumstances that will result in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations. Persons into whose hands all or any part of such documents (including any preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement or supplement thereto) come are required by the depositor and the remarketing agents to comply with all applicable laws and regulations in each country or jurisdiction in which they purchase, sell or deliver class A-5 notes or have in their possession or distribute such documents, in all cases at their own expense.
LISTING INFORMATION
The class A-5 notes are currently listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. You should consult with Deutsche Bank Luxembourg S.A., the Luxembourg listing agent for the class A-5 notes at 2 Boulevard Konrad Adenauer, L 1115 Luxembourg, phone number (352) 421.22.639 for additional information regarding their status. In connection with the listing application, the certificate of formation and limited liability company operating agreement of the depositor, as well as a legal notice relating to the issuance of the notes together with copies of the indenture, the trust agreement, the form of the class A-5 notes, the administration agreement, the servicing agreement, and the other basic documents were deposited with the Trade and Companies Register (Régistre de Commerce et des Sociétés) in Luxembourg where copies of those documents may be obtained upon request. Copies of the indenture, the trust agreement, the form of the class A-5 notes, the administration agreement, the servicing agreement, and the other basic documents are available at the offices of the Luxembourg paying agent, if any, or the Luxembourg listing agent. Trading of the class A-5 notes may be effected on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. So long as any class of notes is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange’s Euro MTF Market, and its rules so require, notices will also be published in a leading newspaper having general circulation in Luxembourg (which is expected to be Luxemburger Wort) and/or
on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange’s website at http://www.bourse.lu. The Luxembourg Stock Exchange will also be advised if the class A-5 notes are delisted.
The class A-5 notes are currently able to be cleared and settled through Clearstream, Luxembourg and Euroclear.
The notes, the indenture and the administration agreement are governed by the laws of the State of New York. The trust agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Delaware.
The class A-5 notes are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and definitive notes have been issued. We will appoint a Luxembourg paying and transfer agent if required to do so by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.
As long as the class A-5 notes are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, quarterly distribution reports and annual servicing and administration reports concerning the trust and its activities will be available at the office of the Luxembourg paying agent, if any, or the Luxembourg listing agent. The next such quarterly distribution report is expected to be available on or about August 10, 2015.
As of the date of this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement, none of the trust, the eligible lender trustee nor the indenture trustee is involved in any litigation or arbitration proceeding relating to the notes. The depositor is not aware of any proceedings relating to the notes, whether pending or threatened.
The depositor has taken all reasonable care to confirm that the information contained in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement is true and accurate in all material respects. In relation to the depositor, the trust, Navient Solutions, Inc. or the class A-5 notes, the depositor accepts full responsibility for the accuracy of the information contained in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement. Having made all reasonable inquiries, the depositor confirms that, to the best of its knowledge, there have not been omitted material facts the omission of which would make misleading any statements of fact or opinion contained in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement, when taken as a whole.
The depositor confirms that there has been no material adverse change in the assets of the trust since May 31, 2015, which is the statistical disclosure date and the date of the information with respect to the assets of the trust set forth in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement.
CERTAIN INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT CONSIDERATIONS
The issuing entity will be relying on an exclusion or exemption under the Investment Company Act contained in Rule 3a-7 under the Investment Company Act, although there may be additional exclusions or exemptions available to the issuing entity. The issuing entity is intended to be structured so as not to constitute a “covered fund” for purposes of the regulations adopted to implement Section 619 of the Dodd-Frank Act (such statutory provision together with such implementing regulations, the “Volcker Rule”). The Volcker Rule generally prohibits “banking entities” (which is broadly defined to include U.S. banks and bank holding companies and many non-U.S. banking entities, together with their respective subsidiaries and other affiliates) from (i) engaging in proprietary trading, (ii) acquiring or retaining an ownership interest in or sponsoring a “covered fund” and (iii) entering into certain relationships with such funds. The Volcker Rule became effective on July 21, 2012, and final regulations implementing the Volcker Rule were
adopted on December 10, 2013 and became effective on April 1, 2014. Conformance with the Volcker Rule and its implementing regulations is required by July 21, 2015 (subject to the possibility of up to two one-year extensions). In the interim, banking entities must make good-faith efforts to conform their activities and investments to the Volcker Rule. Under the Volcker Rule, “covered fund” includes any issuer that would be an “investment company” but for the exclusions contained in Section 3(c)(1) and Section 3(c)(7) of the Investment Company Act. Therefore, unless jointly determined otherwise by specified federal regulators, an issuer that may rely on an exclusion or exemption from the definition of “investment company” under the Investment Company Act other than Section 3(c)(1) or Section 3(c)(7) generally will not be a covered fund. The general effects of the Volcker Rule remain uncertain. Any prospective investor in the certificates, including a U.S. or foreign bank or a subsidiary or other affiliate thereof, should consult its own legal advisors regarding such matters and other effects of the Volcker Rule.
RATINGS
The class A-5 notes are currently rated by two or more rating agencies. A rating addresses only the likelihood of the timely payment of stated interest and the payment of principal at final maturity, and does not address the timing or likelihood of principal distributions prior to final maturity. A rating is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities and may be subject to revision or withdrawal at any time by the assigning rating agency.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
DBTCA has been named as a defendant in civil litigation concerning its role as trustee of certain residential mortgage backed securities (“RMBS”) trusts. On June 18, 2014, a group of investors (“Plaintiff Investors”) filed a civil action against DBTCA and Deutsche Bank National Trust Company (“DBNTC”) in New York State Supreme Court purportedly on behalf of and for the benefit of 544 private-label RMBS trusts asserting claims for alleged violations of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and negligence based on DBTCA’s and DBNTC’s alleged failure to perform their obligations as trustees for the trusts (the “NY Derivative Action”). An amended complaint was filed on July 16, 2014, adding Plaintiff Investors and RMBS trusts to the NY Derivative Action. On November 24, 2014, the Plaintiff Investors moved to voluntarily dismiss the NY Derivative Action without prejudice. Also on November 24, 2014, substantially the same group of Plaintiff Investors filed a civil action against DBTCA and DBNTC in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “SDNY Action”), making substantially the same allegations as the New York Derivative Action with respect to 564 RMBS trusts (542 of which were at issue in the NY Derivative Action). The SDNY Action is styled both as a derivative action on behalf of the named RMBS Trusts and, in the alternative, as a putative class action on behalf of holders of RMBS representing interests in those RMBS trusts. DBTCA is reviewing these newly-filed pleadings. DBTCA has no pending legal proceedings (including, based on DBTCA’s preliminary evaluation, the litigation disclosed in this paragraph) that would materially affect its ability to perform its duties as trustee on behalf of the certificateholders.
LEGAL MATTERS
On the closing date, a Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Navient Solutions, Inc., acting as counsel to Navient CFC, VG Funding, the servicer, the administrator and the
depositor, and McKee Nelson LLP, New York, New York, as special counsel to Navient CFC, VG Funding, the trust, the servicer, the administrator and the depositor, gave opinions on specified legal matters for Navient CFC, VG Funding, the trust, the depositor, the servicer and the administrator. Shearman & Sterling LLP gave opinions on specified federal income tax matters for the trust. Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., as Delaware counsel for the trust, gave opinions on specified legal matters for the trust, including specified Delaware state income tax matters.
If there is a successful remarketing of the class A-5 notes on the July 27, 2015 reset date, Laurent C. Lutz, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Navient Corporation, or any Deputy General Counsel or Associate General Counsel of Navient Solutions, Inc., acting as counsel to the sellers, the servicer, the administrator and the depositor, and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, Washington, DC, as special counsel to the sellers, the trust, the servicer, the administrator, the sponsor and the depositor, will give opinions on additional specified legal matters regarding the remarketing. Shearman & Sterling LLP will give opinions on specified federal income tax matters for the trust. Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, Washington, DC, and Shearman & Sterling LLP are advising the remarketing agents on legal matters regarding the remarketing and Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. is acting as Delaware counsel for the trust. The information in this section supersedes information under “Legal Matters” in the base prospectus.
GLOSSARY
“Adjusted Pool Balance” means, for any distribution date,
· | if the Pool Balance as of the last day of the related collection period is greater than 40% of the Initial Pool Balance, then the Adjusted Pool Balance shall be the sum of that Pool Balance and the Specified Reserve Account Balance for that distribution date, or |
· | if the Pool Balance as of the last day of the related collection period is less than or equal to 40% of the Initial Pool Balance, then the Adjusted Pool Balance shall be that Pool Balance. |
“All Hold Rate” means, if the reset rate notes are denominated in U.S. Dollars during the then-current reset period and the immediately following reset period, the applicable index plus or minus the related Spread (if the reset rate notes are in floating rate mode) or the applicable fixed rate, which may be expressed as the fixed rate pricing benchmark plus or minus a spread (if the reset rate notes are in fixed rate mode), that the remarketing agents, in consultation with the administrator, determine will be effective, unless the call option is exercised, in the event that 100% of the holders of the reset rate notes choose to hold their reset rate notes for the upcoming reset period. The All Hold Rate shall be a rate that the remarketing agents, in consultation with the administrator, determine based on then-existing market conditions.
“Available Funds” means, as to a distribution date or any related monthly servicing payment date, the sum of the following amounts received with respect to the related collection period or, in the case of a monthly servicing payment date, the applicable portion of these amounts:
· | all collections on the trust student loans, including any guarantee payments received on the trust student loans, but net of: |
| (1) | any collections in respect of principal on the trust student loans applied by the trust to repurchase guaranteed loans from the guarantors under the guarantee agreements, and |
| (2) | amounts required by the Higher Education Act to be paid to the Department of Education or to be repaid to borrowers, whether or not in the form of a principal reduction of the applicable trust student loan, on the trust student loans for that collection period, including consolidation loan rebate fees; |
· | any interest subsidy payments and special allowance payments received by the servicer or the eligible lender trustee with respect to the trust student loans during that collection period; |
· | all proceeds of the liquidation of defaulted trust student loans which were liquidated during that collection period in accordance with the servicer’s customary servicing procedures, net of expenses incurred by the servicer related to their liquidation and any amounts required by law to be remitted to the borrower on the liquidated student loans, and all recoveries on liquidated student loans which were written off in prior collection periods or during that collection period; |
· | the aggregate purchase amounts received during that collection period for those trust student loans repurchased by the depositor or purchased by the servicer or for trust student loans sold to another eligible lender pursuant to the servicing agreement; |
· | the aggregate purchase amounts received during that collection period for those trust student loans purchased by the sellers; |
· | the aggregate amounts, if any, received from the sellers, the depositor or the servicer, as the case may be, as reimbursement of non-guaranteed interest amounts, or lost interest subsidy payments and special allowance payments, on the trust student loans pursuant to the sale agreement or the servicing agreement; |
· | amounts received by the trust pursuant to the servicing agreement during that collection period as to yield or principal adjustments; |
· | any interest remitted by the administrator to the collection account prior to that distribution date or monthly servicing date; |
· | investment earnings for that distribution date earned on amounts on deposit in each trust account (other than any accumulation account and any currency account); |
· | investment earnings actually received by the trust for that distribution date earned on amounts on deposit in any accumulation account; |
· | amounts transferred from the remarketing fee account in excess of the Reset Period Target Amount for that distribution date; |
· | amounts transferred from any investment premium purchase account in excess of the amount required to be on deposit therein pursuant to the formula set forth in the administration agreement; |
· | all amounts on deposit in any investment reserve account not transferred to the accumulation account to offset realized losses on eligible investments as of that distribution date; |
· | all amounts on deposit in any supplemental interest account; |
· | amounts transferred from the reserve account in excess of the Specified Reserve Account Balance as of that distribution date; |
· | all amounts received by the trust from any potential future cap counterparty, or otherwise under any potential future interest rate cap agreement, for deposit into the collection account for that distribution date; and |
· | all amounts received by the trust from any Swap Counterparty for deposit into the collection account, but only to the extent paid in U.S. Dollars, for that distribution date; |
provided that if on any distribution date there would not be sufficient funds, after application of Available Funds, as defined above, and application of amounts available from the reserve account, to pay any of the items specified in clauses (a) through (e) under “Description of the Notes—Distributions—Distributions from the Collection Account” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement (but excluding clause (e), and including clauses (f) and (g), in the event that a condition exists as described in either (1) or (2) under “Description of the Notes—The Notes—The Class B Notes—Subordination of the Class B Notes” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement), then Available Funds for that distribution date will include, in addition to Available Funds as defined above, amounts on deposit in the collection account, or amounts held by the administrator, or which the administrator reasonably estimates to be held by the administrator, for deposit into the collection account which would have constituted Available Funds for the distribution date succeeding that distribution date, up to the amount necessary to pay those items, and Available Funds for the succeeding distribution date will be adjusted accordingly.
“Call Rate” means, if the call option has been exercised with respect to the reset rate notes, the rate of interest that is either:
· | if the reset rate notes did not have at least one related swap agreement in effect during the previous reset period, the floating rate applicable for the most recent reset period during which the Failed Remarketing Rate was not in effect; or |
· | if the reset rate notes had one or more swap agreements in effect during the previous reset period, the weighted average of the floating rates of interest that were due to the related Swap Counterparties from the trust during the previous reset period. |
The Call Rate will continue to apply for each reset period while the holder of the call option retains the reset rate notes.
“Class A Note Interest Shortfall” means, for any distribution date, the excess of:
· | the Class A Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount on the preceding distribution date, over |
· | the amount of interest actually distributed to the class A noteholders on that preceding distribution date, |
plus interest on the amount of that excess, to the extent permitted by law, at the interest rate applicable for each related class of notes from that preceding distribution date to the current distribution date.
“Class A Note Principal Shortfall” means, as of the close of any distribution date, the excess of:
· | the Class A Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount on that distribution date, over |
· | the amount of principal actually distributed or allocated to the class A noteholders or deposited into the accumulation account on that distribution date. |
“Class A Noteholders’ Distribution Amount” means, for any distribution date, the sum of the Class A Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount and the Class A Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount for that distribution date.
“Class A Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount” means, for any distribution date, the sum of:
· | the amount of interest accrued at the class A note interest rates for the related accrual period on the aggregate outstanding principal balances of all classes of class A notes on the immediately preceding distribution date, after giving effect to all principal distributions to class A noteholders on that preceding distribution date; and |
· | the Class A Note Interest Shortfall for that distribution date. |
“Class A Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount” means, for any distribution date, the Principal Distribution Amount times the Class A Percentage for that distribution date, plus any Class A Note Principal Shortfall as of the close of business on the preceding distribution date; provided that the Class A Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount will not exceed the outstanding principal balance of the class A notes, less all amounts, other than investment earnings, on deposit in the accumulation account.
In addition, on the maturity date for any class of class A notes, the principal required to be distributed to the related noteholders will include the amount required to reduce the outstanding principal balance of that class to zero.
“Class A Percentage” means 100% minus the Class B Percentage.
“Class B Note Interest Shortfall” means, for any distribution date, the excess of:
· | the Class B Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount on the preceding distribution date, over |
· | the amount of interest actually distributed to the class B noteholders on that preceding distribution date, |
plus interest on the amount of that excess, to the extent permitted by law, at the class B note interest rate from that preceding distribution date to the current distribution date.
“Class B Note Principal Shortfall” means, as of the close of any distribution date, the excess of:
· | the Class B Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount on that distribution date, over |
· | the amount of principal actually distributed to the class B noteholders on that distribution date. |
“Class B Noteholders’ Distribution Amount” means, for any distribution date, the sum of the Class B Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount and the Class B Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount for that distribution date.
“Class B Noteholders’ Interest Distribution Amount” means, for any distribution date, the sum of:
· | the amount of interest accrued at the class B note rate for the related accrual period on the outstanding principal balance of the class B notes on the immediately preceding distribution date, after giving effect to all principal distributions to class B noteholders on that preceding distribution date, and |
· | the Class B Note Interest Shortfall for that distribution date. |
“Class B Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount” means, for any distribution date, the Principal Distribution Amount times the Class B Percentage for that distribution date, plus any Class B Note Principal Shortfall as of the close of business on the preceding distribution date; provided that the Class B Noteholders’ Principal Distribution Amount will not exceed the principal balance of the class B notes.
In addition, on the class B maturity date, the principal required to be distributed to the class B noteholders will include the amount required to reduce the outstanding principal balance of the class B notes to zero.
“Class B Percentage” with respect to any distribution date, means:
· | prior to the Stepdown Date or with respect to any distribution date on which a Trigger Event is in effect, zero; and |
· | on and after the Stepdown Date and provided that no Trigger Event is in effect, a fraction expressed as a percentage, the numerator of which is the aggregate principal balance of the class B notes immediately prior to that distribution date and the denominator of which is the aggregate principal balance of all outstanding notes, less all amounts (other than investment earnings) on deposit in the accumulation account, immediately prior to that distribution date. |
“Clearstream, Luxembourg” means Clearstream Banking, sociéte anonyme (formerly known as Cedelbank, sociéte anonyme), or any successor thereto.
“DTC” means The Depository Trust Company, or any successor thereto.
“Eligible Swap Counterparty” means an entity, which may be an affiliate of a remarketing agent, engaged in the business of entering into derivative instrument contracts that satisfies the Rating Agency Condition.
“Euroclear” means the Euroclear System in Europe, or any successor thereto.
“Extension Rate” means, for each distribution date following a Failed Remarketing with respect to the reset rate notes if such notes are then in foreign exchange mode, the rate of interest payable to the related currency Swap Counterparty, generally not to exceed three-month LIBOR plus 0.75%, unless the remarketing agents, in consultation with the administrator, determine that market conditions or some other benefit to the trust requires a higher rate; provided that in each case the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied.
“Failed Remarketing” means, with respect to any reset date for the reset rate notes, the situation where:
· | the remarketing agents, in consultation with the administrator, cannot establish one or more of the terms required to be set on the Remarketing Terms Determination Date, |
· | the remarketing agents are unable to establish the related Spread or fixed rate on the Spread Determination Date, |
· | the remarketing agents are unable to remarket some or all of the tendered reset rate notes at the Spread or fixed rate established on the Spread Determination Date, or committed purchasers default on their purchase obligations, and the remarketing agents, in their sole discretion, elects not to purchase the reset rate notes themselves, |
· | the remarketing agents, in consultation with the administrator, are unable to obtain one or more swap agreements meeting the required criteria, if applicable, |
· | certain conditions specified in the remarketing agreement are not satisfied, or |
· | any applicable Rating Agency Condition has not been satisfied. |
“Failed Remarketing Rate” means, for any reset period when the reset rate notes are then denominated in U.S. Dollars, three-month LIBOR plus 0.75%; and when the reset rate notes are in foreign exchange mode during a reset period, such rate as will be determined on the related Spread Determination Date pursuant to the terms of the related currency swap agreement.
“Hold Notice” means a written statement (or an oral statement confirmed in writing, which may be by e-mail) from a holder of reset rate notes denominated in U.S. Dollars during the then-current and immediately following reset periods, delivered to a remarketing agent that the holder desires to hold some or all of its reset rate notes for the upcoming reset period and affirmatively agrees to receive a rate of interest of not less than the applicable All Hold Rate during that reset period.
“Initial Pool Balance” means the sum of the Pool Balance of the initial trust student loans as of the closing date and all amounts deposited into the supplemental purchase account and the add-on consolidation loan account on the closing date.
“Investment Premium Purchase Account Deposit Amount” means, with respect to each distribution date when funds are deposited into an accumulation account, an amount generally equal to 1.0% of the amount deposited into such accumulation account.
“Investment Reserve Account Required Amount” means, with respect to each distribution date, immediately following the date when the ratings of any eligible investment in an accumulation account have been downgraded by one or more rating agencies, an amount (to the extent funds are available), to be set by each applicable rating agency in satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition (that amount not to exceed the amount of the unrealized loss on the related eligible investments).
“Notice Date” means, for the reset rate notes, 12:00 p.m. (noon), New York City time, on the sixth business day prior to the applicable reset date.
“Pool Balance” means, for any date, the aggregate principal balance of the trust student loans on that date, including accrued interest that is expected to be capitalized, as such balance has been reduced through such date by:
· | all payments received by the trust through that date from borrowers, the guaranty agencies and the Department of Education; |
· | all amounts received by the trust through that date from repurchases of the trust student loans by any of the sellers, the depositor or the servicer; |
· | all liquidation proceeds and Realized Losses on the trust student loans liquidated through that date; |
· | the amount of any adjustments to balances of the trust student loans that the servicer makes under the servicing agreement through that date; and |
· | the amount by which guarantor reimbursements of principal on defaulted trust student loans through that date are reduced from 100% to 98%, or other applicable percentage, as required by the risk sharing provisions of the Higher Education Act. |
“Principal Distribution Amount” means:
· | as to the initial distribution date, the amount by which the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the notes exceeds the Adjusted Pool Balance for that distribution date, and |
· | as to each subsequent distribution date, the amount by which the Adjusted Pool Balance for the preceding distribution date exceeds the Adjusted Pool Balance for that distribution date. |
“Quarterly Funding Amount” means, with respect to the reset rate notes and for any distribution date that is: (1) more than one year before the next reset date, zero, and (2) one year or less before the next reset date, an amount to be deposited in the remarketing fee account so that the amount therein in respect of the reset rate notes equals the Quarterly Required Amount; provided, however, that if on any distribution date that is not a reset date, the amount on deposit in the remarketing fee account in respect of the reset rate notes is greater than the Quarterly Required Amount, the excess will be transferred to the collection account and included in Available Funds for that distribution date.
“Quarterly Required Amount” means, for the reset rate notes, (1) on any reset date, the Reset Period Target Amount or (2) on a distribution date that is one year or less before the next reset date (x) the Reset Period Target Amount multiplied by (y) 5 minus the number of distribution dates remaining until the next reset date for the reset rate notes (excluding the current distribution date and including the next reset date), divided by (z) 5.
“Rating Agency Condition” means the written confirmation or reaffirmation, as the case may be, from each rating agency then rating the notes that any intended action will not result in the downgrading of its then-current rating of any class of notes.
“Realized Loss” means the excess of the principal balance, including any interest that had been or had been expected to be capitalized, of any liquidated student loan over liquidation proceeds for a student loan to the extent allocable to principal, including any interest that had been or had been expected to be capitalized.
“Remarketing Terms Determination Date” means, for the reset rate notes, not later than 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the eighth business day prior to the applicable reset date.
“Reset Period Target Amount” means for the reset rate notes and for any distribution date that is: (1) more than one year before the next reset date, zero, and (2) one year or less before the next reset date, the highest remarketing fee payable to the remarketing agents for the reset rate notes (not to exceed 0.35% of the maximum principal balance of the reset rate notes that could be remarketed) on the next reset date as determined by the administrator based on the assumed weighted average life of the reset rate notes and the maximum remarketing fee set forth on a schedule attached to the remarketing agreement, as that schedule may be amended from time to time.
“Significant Guarantor” means the guaranty agency that guarantees trust student loans comprising at least 10% of the Pool Balance of the trust student loans as of the statistical disclosure date.
“Specified Reserve Account Balance” means, for any distribution date, the greater of:
| (a) | 0.25% of the Pool Balance as of the close of business on the last day of the related collection period; and |
provided that in no event will that balance exceed the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the notes. For these purposes, if the reset rate notes are not then structured to receive a payment of principal until the end of the related reset period, the outstanding principal balance of the reset rate notes (or their U.S. Dollar equivalent, if applicable) will be reduced by any amounts (exclusive of investment earnings) on deposit in the accumulation account.
“Spread” means the percentage determined by the remarketing agents with respect to the reset rate notes if, following a successful remarketing, they are reset to bear a floating rate of interest, in excess of or below the applicable interest rate index that will be applicable to the reset rate notes during the upcoming reset period, so as to result in a rate that, in the reasonable opinion of the remarketing agents, will enable all of the class A-5 notes tendered for remarketing to be purchased at a price equal to 100% the outstanding principal balance thereof, as described under “Description of the Notes—The Reset Rate Notes—Tender of Reset Rate Notes; Remarketing Procedures” in this preliminary remarketing prospectus supplement.
“Spread Determination Date” means, for the reset rate notes, any time after the Notice Date but no later than 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third business day prior to the related reset date.
“Stepdown Date” means the earlier to occur of (1) the July 2011 distribution date or (2) the first date on which no class A notes remain outstanding. For this purpose, the outstanding principal balance of the reset rate notes will be deemed reduced by any amounts (other than investment earnings) on deposit in the accumulation account.
“Supplemental Interest Account Deposit Amount” means, with respect to any distribution date during a reset period when the reset rate notes are then structured not to receive a payment of principal until the end of the related reset period, the lesser of:
| (1) | the difference between (a) the weighted average of the LIBOR-based rates (as determined on the LIBOR Determination Date immediately preceding that distribution date) that will be payable by the trust to any related Swap Counterparties on the next distribution date, or the LIBOR-based rate (as determined on the LIBOR Determination Date immediately preceding that distribution date) that will be payable by the trust to the reset rate noteholders on the next distribution date, as applicable, and (b) an assumed rate of investment earnings that satisfies the Rating Agency Condition, |
| (2) | the amount on deposit in the accumulation account immediately after that distribution date, and |
| (3) | the actual number of days from that distribution date to the next reset date, divided by 360; and |
· | an amount that satisfies the Rating Agency Condition. |
“Swap Counterparty” means each Eligible Swap Counterparty with which the trust has entered, or will later enter, into an interest rate or currency swap agreement to hedge in part basis and/or currency risks associated with the reset rate notes.
“Trigger Event” means, on any distribution date while any of the class A notes are outstanding, that the outstanding principal balance of the notes, less any amounts (exclusive of investment earnings) on deposit in any accumulation account, after giving effect to distributions to be made on that distribution date, would exceed the Adjusted Pool Balance as of the end of the related collection period.
“Trust Accounts” means, collectively, the collection account, the reserve account, the capitalized interest account, the supplemental purchase account, the add-on consolidation loan account, the accumulation account, any supplemental interest account, any investment premium purchase account, any investment reserve account and any currency accounts.
ANNEX A
THE TRUST STUDENT LOAN POOL
The trust student loans owned by the trust were originally selected from a portfolio of consolidation student loans owned by Navient CFC, VG Funding or one of their affiliates by employing several criteria, including requirements that each trust student loan as of the original statistical cutoff date (and with respect to each additional trust student loan as of its related subsequent cutoff date):
· | was a consolidation loan guaranteed as to principal and interest by a guaranty agency under a guarantee agreement and the guaranty agency was, in turn, reinsured by the Department of Education in accordance with the FFELP; |
· | contained terms in accordance with those required by the FFELP, the guarantee agreements and other applicable requirements; |
· | was not more than 210 days past due; |
· | did not have a borrower who was noted in the related records of the servicer as being currently involved in a bankruptcy proceeding; and |
· | had special allowance payments, if any, based on the three-month commercial paper rate or the 91-day Treasury bill rate. |
No trust student loan as of the applicable cutoff date was subject to any prior obligation to sell that loan to a third party.
Unless otherwise specified, all information with respect to the trust student loans is presented as of May 31, 2015, which is the statistical disclosure date.
The following tables provide a description of specified characteristics of the trust student loans as of the statistical disclosure date. The aggregate outstanding principal balance of the loans in each of the following tables includes the principal balance due from borrowers, plus accrued interest of $1,325,389 to be capitalized as of the statistical disclosure date. Percentages and dollar amounts in any table may not total 100% or whole dollars due to rounding. The following tables also contain information concerning the total number of loans and total number of borrowers in the portfolio of trust student loans. For ease of administration, the servicer separates a consolidation loan on its system into two separate loan segments representing subsidized and unsubsidized segments of the same loan. The following tables reflect those loan segments within the number of loans. In addition, 1 borrower has more than one trust student loan.
The distribution by weighted average interest rate applicable to the trust student loans on any date following the statistical disclosure date may vary significantly from that in the following tables as a result of variations in the effective rates of interest applicable to the trust student loans and in rates of principal reduction. Moreover, the information below about the weighted average remaining term to maturity of the trust student loans as of the statistical disclosure date may vary significantly from the actual term to maturity of any of the trust student loans as a result of prepayments or the granting of deferment and forbearance periods.
The following tables also contain information concerning the total number of loans and the total number of borrowers in the portfolio of initial trust student loans.
Percentages and dollar amounts in any table may not total 100% of the initial trust student loan balance, as applicable, due to rounding.
COMPOSITION OF THE TRUST STUDENT LOANS AS OF THE STATISTICAL DISCLOSURE DATE |
|
Aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance | | $ | 620,974,603 | |
Aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance – Treasury Bill | | $ | 596,946 | |
Percentage of Aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance – Treasury Bill | | | 0.10 | % |
Aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance – One-Month LIBOR | | $ | 620,377,658 | |
Percentage of Aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance – One-Month LIBOR | | | 99.90 | % |
Number of Borrowers | | | 30,941 | |
Average Outstanding Principal Balance Per Borrower | | $ | 20,070 | |
Number of Loans | | | 50,780 | |
Average Outstanding Principal Balance Per Loan – Treasury Bill | | $ | 33,164 | |
Average Outstanding Principal Balance Per Loan – One-Month LIBOR | | $ | 12,221 | |
Weighted Average Remaining Term to Scheduled Maturity | | 202 months | |
Weighted Average Annual Interest Rate | | | 3.60 | % |
We determined the weighted average remaining term to maturity shown in the table from the statistical disclosure date to the stated maturity date of the applicable trust student loan without giving effect to any deferment or forbearance periods that may be granted in the future. See Appendix A to the free-writing prospectus.
The weighted average annual borrower interest rate shown in the table is exclusive of special allowance payments. The weighted average spread for special allowance payments to the 91-day Treasury bill rate was 3.10% as of the statistical disclosure date.
The weighted average spread for special allowance payments to the one-month LIBOR rate was 2.64% as of the statistical disclosure date. See “Special Allowance Payments” in Appendix A to the free-writing prospectus.
For these purposes, the 91-day Treasury bill rate is the weighted average per annum discount rate, expressed on a bond equivalent basis and applied on a daily basis, for direct obligations of the United States with a maturity of thirteen weeks, as reported by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
DISTRIBUTION OF THE TRUST STUDENT LOANS BY BORROWER INTEREST RATES AS OF THE STATISTICAL DISCLOSURE DATE |
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Interest Rates | | Number of Loans | | | Aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance | | | Percent of Pool by Outstanding Principal Balance | |
Less than or equal to 3.00% | | | 17,819 | | | $ | 231,861,040 | | | | 37.3 | % |
3.01% to 3.50% | | | 16,361 | | | | 151,239,237 | | | | 24.4 | |
3.51% to 4.00% | | | 5,806 | | | | 78,747,896 | | | | 12.7 | |
4.01% to 4.50% | | | 8,856 | | | | 109,916,829 | | | | 17.7 | |
4.51% to 5.00% | | | 689 | | | | 14,893,073 | | | | 2.4 | |
5.01% to 5.50% | | | 386 | | | | 8,450,250 | | | | 1.4 | |
5.51% to 6.00% | | | 201 | | | | 6,399,088 | | | | 1.0 | |
6.01% to 6.50% | | | 216 | | | | 5,914,040 | | | | 1.0 | |
6.51% to 7.00% | | | 134 | | | | 4,579,953 | | | | 0.7 | |
7.01% to 7.50% | | | 97 | | | | 3,431,952 | | | | 0.6 | |
7.51% to 8.00% | | | 138 | | | | 3,240,781 | | | | 0.5 | |
8.01% to 8.50% | | | 70 | | | | 2,131,566 | | | | 0.3 | |
Equal to or greater than 8.51% | | | 7 | | | | 168,898 | | | | * | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Total | | | 50,780 | | | $ | 620,974,603 | | | | 100.0 | % |
* Represents a percentage greater than 0% but less than 0.05%. | |
We determined the interest rates shown in the table above using the interest rates applicable to the trust student loans as of the statistical disclosure date. Because trust student loans with different interest rates are likely to be repaid at different rates, this information is not likely to remain applicable to the trust student loans after the statistical disclosure date. See Appendix A to the free-writing prospectus and “The Student Loan Pools – SLM Corporation’s Student Loan Financing Business” in the prospectus.
On March 30, 2010, the President of the United States signed into law the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (“HCERA”) which terminated the Federal Family Education Loan Program, known as the FFELP, under Title IV of the Higher Education Act, as of July 1, 2010. This appendix presents a summary of the FFELP prior to its termination date. The new law does not alter or affect the terms and conditions of existing student loans made under the FFELP prior to July 1, 2010.
The FFELP provides for loans to students who were enrolled in eligible institutions, or to parents of dependent students, to finance their educational costs. As further described below, payment of principal and interest on the student loans is insured by a state or not-for-profit guaranty agency against:
Claims are paid from federal assets, known as “federal student loan reserve funds,” which are maintained and administered by state and not-for-profit guaranty agencies. In addition the holders of student loans are entitled to receive interest subsidy payments and special allowance payments from the United States Department of Education (which we refer to as the Department of Education) on eligible student loans.
Special allowance payments raise the interest rate of return to student loan lenders when the statutory borrower interest rate is below an indexed market value. Subject to certain conditions, a program of federal reinsurance under the Higher Education Act entitles guaranty agencies to reimbursement from the Department of Education for between 75% and 100% of the amount of each guarantee payment.
Before July 1, 1994, the Higher Education Act also authorized loans called “Supplemental Loans to Students” or “SLS Loans” to independent students and, under some circumstances, dependent undergraduate students, to supplement their Subsidized Stafford Loans. The Unsubsidized Stafford Loan program replaced the SLS program.
This appendix and the base offering memorandum describe or summarize the material provisions of Title IV of the Higher Education Act, the FFELP and related statutes and regulations. They, however, are not complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to each actual statute and regulation. Both the Higher Education Act and the related regulations have been the subject of extensive amendments. We cannot predict whether future amendments or modifications might materially change any of the programs described in this appendix or the statutes and regulations that implement them.
The federal student loan programs are subject to frequent statutory and regulatory changes. The most significant change to the FFELP was with the enactment of the HCERA, which terminated the FFELP as of July 1, 2010.
On December 23, 2011, the President of the United States signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2012 into law. This law includes changes that permit FFELP lenders or beneficial holders to change the index on which the special allowance payments are calculated for FFELP loans first disbursed on or after January 1, 2000. The law allows owners of FFELP loans to elect to change the applicable index from the three-month commercial paper rate to the one-month LIBOR index. Such elections must be made by April 1, 2012. Unless otherwise stated in the related offering memorandum supplement, such election was made with respect to the related trust student loans underlying your notes.
We cannot predict whether further changes will be made to the Higher Education Act in future legislation or the effect of such additional legislation on the sponsor’s student loan program or the trust student loans.
Lenders who were eligible to make loans under the FFELP generally included banks, savings and loan associations, credit unions, pension funds and, under some conditions, schools and guarantors. A student loan may be made to, or on behalf of, a “qualified student.” A “qualified student” is an individual who
Eligible schools include institutions of higher education, including proprietary institutions, meeting the standards provided in the Higher Education Act. For a school to participate in the program, the Department of Education must approve its eligibility under standards established by regulation.
Subject to program limits and conditions, student loans generally were made in amounts sufficient to cover the student’s estimated costs of attending school, including tuition and fees, books, supplies, room and board, transportation and miscellaneous personal expenses as determined by the institution. Generally, each loan applicant (and parents in the case of a dependent child) underwent a financial need analysis.
The Higher Education Act provides for quarterly special allowance payments to be made by the Department of Education to holders of student loans to the extent necessary to ensure that they receive at least specified market interest rates of return. The rates for special allowance payments depend on formulas that vary according to the type of loan, the date the loan was made and the type of funds, tax-exempt or taxable, used to finance the loan. The Department of Education makes a special allowance payment for each calendar quarter, generally within 45 to 60 days after the receipt of a bill from the lender.
The special allowance payment equals the average unpaid principal balance, including interest which has been capitalized, of all eligible loans held by a holder during the quarterly period multiplied by the special allowance percentage.
For student loans disbursed before January 1, 2000, the special allowance percentage is computed by:
(1) determining the average of the bond equivalent rates of 91-day Treasury bills auctioned for that quarter;
(3) adding the applicable special allowance margin described in the table below; and
(4) dividing the resultant percentage by 4.
If the result is negative, the special allowance payment is zero.
For student loans disbursed after January 1, 2000, the special allowance percentage is computed by:
(1) determining the average of the bond equivalent rates of 3-month commercial paper (financial) rates or one-month London Inter-Bank Offered Rates (LIBOR), as applicable, quoted for that quarter;
(3) adding the applicable special allowance margin described in the table below; and
(4) dividing the resultant percentage by 4.
If the result is negative, the special allowance payment is zero.
For student loans disbursed on or after April 1, 2006, lenders are required to pay the Department of Education any interest paid by borrowers on student loans that exceeds the special allowance support levels applicable to such loans.
Special allowance payments are available on variable rate PLUS Loans and SLS Loans only if the variable rate, which is reset annually, exceeds the applicable maximum borrower rate. The variable rate is based on the weekly average one-year constant maturity Treasury yield for loans made before July 1, 1998 and based on the 91-day Treasury bill for loans made on or after July 1, 1998. The maximum borrower rate for these loans is between 9% and 12%. Effective July 1, 2006, this limitation on special allowance payments for PLUS Loans made on and after January 1, 2000 was repealed.
We refer to all three types of assistance as “federal assistance”.
The rate for variable rate Stafford Loans applicable for any 12-month period beginning on July 1 and ending on June 30 is determined on the preceding June 1 and is equal to the lesser of:
The Department of Education makes quarterly interest subsidy payments to the owner of a Subsidized Stafford Loan in an amount equal to the interest that accrues on the unpaid balance of that loan before repayment begins or during any deferral periods. The Higher Education Act provides that the owner of an eligible Subsidized Stafford Loan has a contractual right against
the United States to receive interest subsidy and special allowance payments. However, receipt of interest subsidy and special allowance payments is conditioned on compliance with the requirements of the Higher Education Act, including the following:
If the loan is not held by an eligible lender in accordance with the requirements of the Higher Education Act and the applicable guarantee agreement, the loan may lose its eligibility for federal assistance.
Lenders generally receive interest subsidy payments within 45 days to 60 days after the submission of the applicable data for any given calendar quarter to the Department of Education. However, there can be no assurance that payments will, in fact, be received from the Department of Education within that period.
In addition to the outstanding FFELP indebtedness requirements described above, the Higher Education Act currently requires minimum annual payments of $600, unless the borrower and the lender agree to lower payments, except that negative amortization is not allowed. The Higher Education Act and related regulations require lenders to offer a choice among standard, graduated, income-sensitive and extended repayment schedules, if applicable, to all borrowers entering repayment. The 2007 legislation introduced an income-based repayment plan on July 1, 2009 that a student borrower may elect during a period of partial financial hardship and have annual payments that do not exceed 15% of the amount by which adjusted gross income exceeds 150% of the poverty line. The Secretary repays or cancels any outstanding principal and interest under certain criteria after 25 years.
For borrowers whose first loans are disbursed on or after July 1, 1993, repayment of principal may be deferred while the borrower returns to school at least half-time. Additional deferrals are available, when the borrower is:
The Higher Education Act also permits, and in some cases requires, “forbearance” periods from loan collection in some circumstances. Interest that accrues during a forbearance period is never subsidized. When a borrower ends forbearance and enters repayment, the account is considered current.
The Higher Education Act authorizes PLUS Loans to be made to parents of eligible dependent students and graduate and professional students and previously authorized SLS Loans to be made to the categories of students now served by the Unsubsidized Stafford Loan program. Borrowers who have no adverse credit history or who are able to secure an endorser without an adverse credit history are eligible for PLUS Loans, as well as some borrowers with extenuating circumstances. The basic provisions applicable to PLUS and SLS Loans are similar to those of Stafford Loans for federal insurance and reinsurance. However, interest subsidy payments are not available under the PLUS and SLS programs and, in some instances, special allowance payments are more restricted.
The annual and aggregate amounts of PLUS Loans first disbursed on or after July 1, 1993 are limited only to the difference between the cost of the student’s education and other financial aid received, including scholarship, grants and other student loans.
For PLUS or SLS Loans that bear interest based on a variable rate, the rate is set annually for 12-month periods, from July 1 through June 30, on the preceding June 1 and is equal to the lesser of:
Under current law, PLUS Loans with a first disbursement on or after July 1, 2006 will return to a fixed annual interest rate of 8.5%.
Until July 1, 2001, the 1-year index was the bond equivalent rate of 52-week Treasury bills auctioned at the final auction held prior to each June 1. Beginning July 1, 2001, the 1-year index is the weekly average 1-year constant maturity Treasury, as published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, for the last calendar week ending on or before the June 26 immediately preceding the July 1 reset date.
A holder of a PLUS or SLS Loan is eligible to receive special allowance payments during any quarter if:
The enactment of HCERA ended new originations under the FFELP consolidation program, effective July 1, 2010. Previously, the Higher Education Act authorized a program under which borrowers could consolidate one or more of their student loans into a single Consolidation Loan that was insured and reinsured on a basis similar to Stafford and PLUS Loans. Consolidation Loans were made in an amount sufficient to pay outstanding principal, unpaid interest, late charges and collection costs on all federally reinsured student loans incurred under the FFELP that the borrower selects for consolidation, as well as loans made under various other federal student loan programs and loans made by different lenders. In general, a borrower’s eligibility to consolidate its federal student loans ends upon receipt of a Consolidation Loan. With the end of new FFELP originations, borrowers with multiple loans, including FFELP loans, may only consolidate their loans under the FDLP.
Consolidation Loans made on or after July 1, 1994 have no minimum loan amount. Consolidation Loans for which an application was received on or after January 1, 1993 but before July 1, 1994 were available only to borrowers who had aggregate outstanding student loan balances of at least $7,500. For applications received before January 1, 1993, Consolidation Loans were available only to borrowers who had aggregate outstanding student loan balances of at least $5,000.
To obtain a FFELP Consolidation Loan, the borrower must be either in repayment status or in a grace period before repayment begins. For applications received on or after January 1, 1993, delinquent or defaulted borrowers are eligible to obtain Consolidation Loans if they re-enter repayment through loan consolidation. Prior to July 1, 2006, married couples who agreed to be jointly and severally liable could apply for one Consolidation Loan. In some cases, borrowers may enter repayment status while still in school and thereby become eligible to obtain a Consolidation Loan.
Consolidation Loans bear interest at a fixed rate equal to the greater of the weighted average of the interest rates on the unpaid principal balances of the consolidated loans and 9% for loans originated before July 1, 1994. For Consolidation Loans made on or after July 1, 1994 and for which applications were received before November 13, 1997, the weighted average interest rate is rounded up to the nearest whole percent. Consolidation Loans made on or after July 1, 1994 for which applications were received on or after November 13, 1997 through September 30, 1998 bear interest at the annual variable rate applicable to Stafford Loans subject to a cap of 8.25%. Consolidation Loans for which the application is received on or after October 1, 1998 bear interest at a fixed rate equal to the lesser of (i) the weighted average
interest rate of the loans being consolidated rounded up to the nearest one-eighth of one percent or (ii) 8.25%.
The 1998 reauthorization maintained interest rates for borrowers of Federal Direct Consolidation Loans whose applications were received prior to February 1, 1999 at 7.46%, which rates are adjusted annually based on a formula equal to the 91-day Treasury bill rate plus 2.3%. The borrower interest rates on Federal Direct Consolidation Loans for borrowers whose applications were received on or after February 1, 1999 and before July 1, 2006 is a fixed rate equal to the lesser of the weighted average of the interest rates of the loans consolidated, adjusted up to the nearest one-eighth of one percent, and 8.25%. This is the same rate that the 1998 legislation set on FFELP Consolidation Loans for borrowers whose applications are received on or after October 1, 1998 and before July 1, 2006. The 1998 legislation, as modified by the 1999 act and in 2002, set the special allowance payment rate for FFELP Consolidation Loans at the three-month commercial paper (financial) rate plus 2.64% for loans disbursed on or after January 1, 2000 and before July 1, 2006. Public Law 112-74, dated December 23, 2011, allows FFELP lenders to make an election to permanently change the index for special allowance payment calculations on all FFELP loans in the lender’s portfolio (with certain exceptions) disbursed after January 1, 2000 from the three-month commercial paper (financial) rate to the one-month LIBOR index, commencing with the special allowance payment calculations for the calendar quarter beginning on April 1, 2012. Lenders of FFELP Consolidation Loans pay a reinsurance fee to the U.S. Department of Education. All other guarantee fees may be passed on to the borrower.
Interest on Consolidation Loans accrues and, for applications received before January 1, 1993, is paid without interest subsidy by the Department of Education. For Consolidation Loans for which applications were received between January 1, 1993 and August 10, 1993, all interest of the borrower is paid during all deferment periods. Consolidation Loans for which applications were received on or after August 10, 1993 are subsidized only if all of the underlying loans being consolidated were Subsidized Stafford Loans. In the case of Consolidation Loans made on or after November 13, 1997, the portion of a Consolidation Loan that is comprised of Subsidized Stafford Loans retains subsidy benefits during deferment periods.
No insurance premium is charged to a borrower or a lender in connection with a Consolidation Loan. However, FFELP lenders must pay an origination fee to the Department of Education of 0.50% on principal of Consolidation Loans disbursed and a monthly rebate fee to the Department of Education at an annualized rate of 1.05% on principal of and interest on Consolidation Loans disbursed on or after October 1, 1993, or at an annualized rate of 0.62% for Consolidation Loan applications received between October 1, 1998 and January 31, 1999. The rate for special allowance payments for Consolidation Loans is determined in the same manner as for other FFELP loans.
A borrower must begin to repay his Consolidation Loan within 60 days after his consolidated loans have been disbursed. For applications received on or after January 1, 1993, repayment schedule options include graduated or income-sensitive repayment plans. Loans are repaid over periods determined by the sum of the Consolidation Loan and the amount of the borrower’s other eligible student loans outstanding. The lender may, at its option, include
Under the FFELP, guaranty agencies guarantee loans made by eligible lending institutions, paying claims from “Federal student loan reserve funds.” Student loans are guaranteed as to 100% of principal and accrued interest against death or discharge. The guarantor also pays 100% of the unpaid principal and accrued interest on PLUS Loans, where the student on whose behalf the loan was borrowed dies.
FFELP loans are also insured against default, with the percent insured dependent on the date of the related loan’s disbursement. For loans made prior to October 1, 1993, lenders are insured against default for 100% of principal and accrued interest. For loans disbursed from October 1, 1993 through June 30, 2006, lenders are insured against default for 98% of principal and accrued interest. For loans disbursed on or after July 1, 2006, lenders are insured against default for 97% of principal and accrued interest.
The Department of Education reinsures guarantors for amounts paid to lenders on loans that are discharged or defaulted. The reimbursement rate on discharged loans is for 100% of the amount paid to the holder. The reimbursement rate for defaulted loans decreases as a guarantor’s default rate increases. The first trigger for a lower reinsurance rate is when the amount of defaulted loan reimbursements exceeds 5% of the amount of all loans guaranteed by the agency in repayment status at the beginning of the federal fiscal year. The second trigger is when the amount of defaults exceeds 9% of the loans in repayment. Guaranty agency reinsurance rates are presented in the table below.
After the Department of Education reimburses a guarantor for a default claim, the guaranty agency attempts to collect the loan from the borrower. However, the Department of Education requires that the defaulted guaranteed loans be assigned to it when the guaranty agency is not successful. A guaranty agency also refers defaulted loans to the Department of Education to “offset” any federal income tax refunds or other federal reimbursement that may be due the borrowers. Some states have similar offset programs.
To be eligible for federal reinsurance, FFELP loans must meet the requirements of the Higher Education Act and the regulations issued thereunder. Generally, these regulations require that lenders determine whether the applicant is an eligible borrower attending an eligible institution, explain to borrowers their responsibilities under the loan, ensure that the promissory notes evidencing the loan are executed by the borrower, and disburse the loan proceeds as required. After the loan is made, the lender must establish repayment terms with the borrower, properly administer deferrals and forbearances, credit the borrower for payments made, and
report the loan’s status to credit reporting agencies. If a borrower becomes delinquent in repaying a loan, a lender must perform collection procedures that vary depending upon the length of time a loan is delinquent. The collection procedures consist of telephone calls, demand letters, skiptracing procedures and requesting assistance from the guaranty agency.
A lender may submit a default claim to the guaranty agency after the related student loan has been delinquent for at least 270 days. The guaranty agency must review and pay the claim within 90 days after the lender filed it. The guaranty agency will pay the lender interest accrued on the loan for up to 450 days after delinquency. The guaranty agency must file a reimbursement claim with the Secretary within 30 days after the guaranty agency paid the lender for the default claim. Following payment of claims, the guaranty agency endeavors to collect the loan. Guaranty agencies also must meet statutory and regulatory requirements for collecting loans.
FFELP loans are not generally dischargeable in bankruptcy. Under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, before a student loan may be discharged, the borrower must demonstrate that repaying it would cause the borrower or his family undue hardship. When a FFELP borrower files for bankruptcy, collection of the loan is suspended during the time of the proceeding. If the borrower files under the “wage earner” provisions of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code or files a petition for discharge on the grounds of undue hardship, then the lender transfers the loan to the guaranty agency which guaranteed that loan and that agency then participates in the bankruptcy proceeding. When the proceeding is complete, unless there was a finding of undue hardship, the loan is transferred back to the lender and collection resumes.
Student loans are discharged if the borrower dies or becomes totally and permanently disabled. A physician must certify eligibility for discharge due to disability. This discharge is conditional for the first three years; if a borrower recovers sufficiently during that period to earn a reasonable income, the borrower must resume repayment. Effective January 29, 2007, discharge eligibility was extended to survivors of eligible public servants and certain other eligible victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.
If a school closes while a student is enrolled, or within 90 days after the student withdrew, loans made for that enrollment period are discharged. If a school falsely certifies that a borrower is eligible for the loan, the loan may be discharged, and if a school fails to make a refund to which a student is entitled, the loan is discharged to the extent of the unpaid refund. Effective July 1, 2006, a loan is also eligible for discharge if it is determined that the borrower’s eligibility for the loan was falsely certified as a result of a crime of identity theft.
The Department of Education is authorized to enter into agreements with a guaranty agency under which such guaranty agency may sell defaulted loans that are eligible for rehabilitation to an eligible lender. For a loan to be eligible for rehabilitation the related guaranty agency must have received reasonable and affordable payments originally for 12 months which was reduced to 9 payments in 10 months effective July 1, 2006, and then the borrower may request that the loan be rehabilitated. Because monthly payments are usually greater after rehabilitation, not all borrowers opt for rehabilitation. Upon rehabilitation, a borrower is again eligible for all the benefits under the Higher Education Act for which he or she is not eligible as a borrower on a defaulted loan, such as new federal aid, and the negative credit record is expunged. No student loan may be rehabilitated more than once.
The July 1, 2009 technical corrections made to the Higher Education Act under H.R. 1777, Public Law 111-39 provide authority, between July 1, 2009 through September 30, 2011, for a guaranty agency to assign a defaulted loan to the Department of Education depending on market conditions.
In addition to administering the federal reserve funds, from which claims are paid, guaranty agencies are charged with responsibility for maintaining records on all loans which they have insured (“account maintenance”), assisting lenders to prevent default by delinquent borrowers (“default aversion”), post-default loan administration and collections and program awareness and oversight. These activities are funded by revenues from the following statutorily prescribed sources plus earnings on investments.
The Higher Education Act requires guaranty agencies to establish two funds: a Federal Student Loan Reserve Fund and an Agency Operating Fund. The Federal Student Loan Reserve Fund contains the payments received from the Department of Education and insurance premiums. The fund is federal property and its assets may be used only to pay Default Aversion Fees. Collection fees on defaulted loans are deposited into the Agency Operating Fund. The Agency Operating Fund is the guaranty agency’s property and is not subject to strict limitations on its use.
If the Department of Education determines that a guarantor is unable to meet its insurance obligations, the holders of loans insured by that guaranty agency may submit claims directly to the Department of Education and the Department of Education is required to pay the full reimbursement amounts due, in accordance with claim processing standards no more stringent than those applied by the affected guaranty agency. However, the Department of Education’s obligation to pay guarantee claims directly in this fashion is contingent upon the Department of Education determining a guaranty agency is unable to meet its obligations. While there have been situations where the Department of Education has made such determinations regarding affected guaranty agencies, there can be no assurances as to whether the Department of Education must make such determinations in the future or whether payments of reimbursement amounts would be made in a timely manner.
[to be included as Exhibit I to the final remarketing prospectus supplement to be
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