EXHIBIT 10.4
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NISSAN AUTO LEASING LLC II,
as Transferor,
and
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
as Owner Trustee
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AMENDED AND RESTATED
TRUST AGREEMENT
Dated as of October 29, 2003
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ARTICLE ONE DEFINITIONS............................................................................ 1
SECTION 1.01 Definitions................................................................... 1
SECTION 1.02 Interpretive Provisions....................................................... 1
ARTICLE TWO ORGANIZATION........................................................................... 2
SECTION 2.01 Name and Status............................................................... 2
SECTION 2.02 Office........................................................................ 2
SECTION 2.03 Purposes and Powers........................................................... 2
SECTION 2.04 Appointment of Owner Trustee.................................................. 3
SECTION 2.05 Liability of the Trust Certificateholders..................................... 3
SECTION 2.06 Initial Capital Contribution of Owner Trust Estate............................ 3
SECTION 2.07 Declaration of Trust.......................................................... 3
SECTION 2.08 Title to Trust Property....................................................... 4
SECTION 2.09 Situs of Trust................................................................ 4
SECTION 2.10 Representations and Warranties of the Transferor.............................. 4
SECTION 2.11 Power of Attorney............................................................. 5
ARTICLE THREE TRUST CERTIFICATES AND TRANSFER OF INTERESTS........................................... 6
SECTION 3.01 Initial Ownership............................................................. 6
SECTION 3.02 The Trust Certificates........................................................ 6
SECTION 3.03 Authentication and Delivery of Trust Certificates............................. 6
SECTION 3.04 Registration of Transfer and Exchange......................................... 7
SECTION 3.05 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Certificates....................... 10
SECTION 3.06 Persons Deemed Trust Certificateholders....................................... 11
SECTION 3.07 Access to List of Trust Certificateholders' Names and Addresses............... 11
SECTION 3.08 Maintenance of Office or Agency............................................... 11
SECTION 3.09 Appointment of Paying Agent................................................... 11
SECTION 3.10 Ownership by the Transferor of Trust Certificates............................. 12
SECTION 3.11 Trust Certificates Held by Trust, Transferor or Their Affiliates.............. 12
ARTICLE FOUR ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE OR TRUST CERTIFICATEHOLDERS................................... 12
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SECTION 4.01 Prior Notice to Trust Certificateholders With Respect to Certain Matters...... 12
SECTION 4.02 Action by Trust Certificateholders With Respect to Certain Matters............ 13
SECTION 4.03 Action by Owner Trustee With Respect to Bankruptcy............................ 13
SECTION 4.04 Restrictions on Trust Certificateholders' Power............................... 13
SECTION 4.05 Majority Control.............................................................. 14
ARTICLE FIVE APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES............................................. 14
SECTION 5.01 Establishment of Certificate Distribution Account and Reserve Account......... 14
SECTION 5.02 Application of Trust Funds.................................................... 15
SECTION 5.03 Method of Payment............................................................. 17
SECTION 5.04 Accounting and Reports........................................................ 17
ARTICLE SIX AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE.................................................. 18
SECTION 6.01 General Authority............................................................. 18
SECTION 6.02 General Duties................................................................ 18
SECTION 6.03 Action Upon Instruction....................................................... 19
SECTION 6.04 No Duties Except as Specified................................................. 20
SECTION 6.05 No Action Unless Specifically Authorized...................................... 20
SECTION 6.06 Restrictions.................................................................. 20
ARTICLE SEVEN CONCERNING THE OWNER TRUSTEE........................................................... 21
SECTION 7.01 Acceptance of Trusts and Duties............................................... 21
SECTION 7.02 Furnishing of Documents....................................................... 22
SECTION 7.03 Representations and Warranties................................................ 22
SECTION 7.04 Reliance; Advice of Counsel................................................... 23
SECTION 7.05 Not Acting in Individual Capacity............................................. 24
SECTION 7.06 Owner Trustee Not Liable for Trust Certificates............................... 24
SECTION 7.07 Owner Trustee May Own Trust Certificates and Notes............................ 24
ARTICLE EIGHT COMPENSATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE.......................................................... 24
SECTION 8.01 Owner Trustee's Compensation and Indemnification.............................. 24
ARTICLE NINE TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT......................................................... 25
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SECTION 9.01 Termination of Trust Agreement................................................ 25
SECTION 9.02 [Reserved].................................................................... 26
SECTION 9.03 Purchase of the 2003-A SUBI Certificate; Repayment of the Trust Certificates.. 26
ARTICLE TEN SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES................................. 28
SECTION 10.01 Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee.................................... 28
SECTION 10.02 Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee....................................... 28
SECTION 10.03 Successor Owner Trustee....................................................... 29
SECTION 10.04 Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee...................................... 29
SECTION 10.05 Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee................................. 30
ARTICLE ELEVEN TAX MATTERS............................................................................ 31
SECTION 11.01 Tax and Accounting Characterization........................................... 31
SECTION 11.02 Signature on Returns; Tax Matters Partner..................................... 31
SECTION 11.03 Tax Reporting................................................................. 31
ARTICLE TWELVE MISCELLANEOUS.......................................................................... 32
SECTION 12.01 Supplements and Amendments.................................................... 32
SECTION 12.02 No Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate.......................................... 33
SECTION 12.03 Limitations on Rights of Others............................................... 33
SECTION 12.04 Notices....................................................................... 34
SECTION 12.05 Severability.................................................................. 34
SECTION 12.06 Counterparts.................................................................. 34
SECTION 12.07 Successors and Assigns........................................................ 34
SECTION 12.08 No Petition................................................................... 34
SECTION 12.09 No Recourse................................................................... 35
SECTION 12.10 Headings...................................................................... 35
SECTION 12.11 GOVERNING LAW................................................................. 35
SECTION 12.12 Trust Certificates Nonassessable and Fully Paid............................... 35
SECTION 12.13 Furnishing of Basic Documents................................................. 35
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EXHIBITS
Exhibit A - Form of Trust Certificate.......................... A-1
Exhibit B - Form of Rule 144A Certificate...................... B-1
Exhibit C - Form of Form of Investment Letter.................. C-1
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AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT
This Amended and Restated Trust Agreement (this "Agreement"), dated as
of October 29, 2003, is between Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II, a Delaware limited
liability company ("NALL II"), as transferor (the "Transferor"), and Wilmington
Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation ("Wilmington Trust"), as trustee
(the "Owner Trustee").
WHEREAS, the parties hereto entered into a trust agreement dated as of
May 13, 2003 (the "Initial Trust Agreement") pursuant to which the Nissan Auto
Lease Trust 2003-A was created; and
WHEREAS, the parties hereto are entering into this Agreement pursuant
to which, among other things, the Initial Trust Agreement will be amended and
restated, and $185,305,313.53 aggregate principal amount of Asset Backed
Certificates and $240,300,000 aggregate principal amount of 1.16563% Asset
Backed Class A-1 Notes, $277,000,000 aggregate principal amount 1.69000% Asset
Backed Class A-2 Notes, $379,950,000 aggregate principal amount Floating Rate
Asset Backed Class A-3a Notes and $342,450,000 aggregate principal amount of
2.57000% Asset Backed Class A-3b Notes will be issued.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements herein
contained, and of other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.01 Definitions. Capitalized terms used herein that are not
otherwise defined shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Agreement of
Definitions, dated as of October 29, 2003, by and among Nissan Auto Lease Trust
2003-A, as trust (the "Trust"), NILT Trust, a Delaware statutory trust, as
grantor and initial beneficiary (in such capacity, the "Grantor" and the "UTI
Beneficiary," respectively), Nissan-Infiniti LT, a Delaware statutory trust (the
"Titling Trust"), Nissan Motor Acceptance Corporation, a California corporation
("NMAC"), in its individual capacity, as servicer and as Administrative Agent
(in such capacity, the "Servicer" and the "Administrative Agent," respectively),
NALL II, NILT, Inc., a Delaware corporation, as trustee to the Titling Trust
(the "Titling Trustee"), Wilmington Trust, as Owner Trustee and Delaware trustee
(in such capacity, the "Delaware Trustee") and U.S. Bank National Association, a
national banking association ("U.S. Bank"), as trust agent and indenture trustee
(in such capacity, the "Trust Agent" and the "Indenture Trustee," respectively).
SECTION 1.02 Interpretive Provisions. For all purposes of this
Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context
otherwise requires, (i) terms used herein include, as appropriate, all genders
and the plural as well as the singular, (ii) references to this Agreement
include all Exhibits hereto, (iii) references to words such as "herein,"
"hereof" and the like shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any
particular part, Article, or Section herein, (iv) references to an Article or
Section such as "Article Twelve" or "Section 12.01" shall refer to the
applicable Article or Section of this Agreement, (v) the term "include" and all
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variations thereof shall mean "include without limitation," (vi) the term "or"
shall include "and/or", and (vii) the term "proceeds" shall have the meaning
ascribed to such term in the UCC.
Any reference in this Agreement to any agreement means such agreement
as it may be amended, restated, supplemented (only to the extent such agreement
as supplemented relates to the Notes), or otherwise modified from time to time.
Any reference in this Agreement to any law, statute, regulation, rule, or other
legislative action shall mean such law, statute, regulation, rule, or other
legislative action as amended, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to
time, and shall include any rule or regulation promulgated thereunder. Any
reference in this Agreement to a Person shall include the successor or assignee
of such Person.
ARTICLE TWO
ORGANIZATION
SECTION 2.01 Name and Status. The trust created hereby shall be known
as "Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2003-A," in which name the Trust may engage in
activities as permitted by the Basic Documents, make and execute contracts and
other instruments and sue and be sued, to the extent provided herein. It is the
intention of the parties hereto that the Trust shall be a statutory trust under
the Statutory Trust Statute, and that this Agreement shall constitute the
governing instrument of that statutory trust.
SECTION 2.02 Office. The chief executive office and principal place of
business of the Trust shall be in care of the Owner Trustee, initially at the
Owner Corporate Trust Office and thereafter at such other address as the Owner
Trustee may designate by written notice to the Trust Certificateholders and the
Transferor.
SECTION 2.03 Purposes and Powers.
(a) The purposes of the Trust are: (i) at the direction of the
Trust Certificateholders, to take assignments and conveyances of certain assets
from time to time, to hold such assets in trust and to collect and disburse the
periodic income therefrom for the benefit of the Trust Certificateholders, (ii)
to engage in any of the other activities described or authorized in this
Agreement, any supplement or any amendment hereto or thereto and (iii) to engage
in any and all activities that are necessary or appropriate to accomplish the
foregoing or that are incidental thereto or connected therewith. The Trust shall
not be employed for any purpose except as duly authorized in accordance with the
provisions of this Agreement.
(b) The initial sole purpose of the Trust is to conserve the Owner
Trust Estate and collect and disburse the periodic income therefrom for the use
and benefit of the Trust Certificateholders, and in furtherance of such purpose
to engage in the following ministerial activities:
(i) to issue the Notes pursuant to the Indenture
and the Trust Certificates pursuant to this Agreement;
(ii) to acquire the 2003-A SUBI Certificate from
the Transferor and the other property of the Owner Trust Estate in
exchange for (A) the issuance of the
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Notes to the Transferor, (B) certain capital contributions from the
Transferor and (C) the issuance of the Trust Certificate to the
Transferor;
(iii) to pay interest on and principal of the
Notes;
(iv) to assign, grant, transfer, pledge mortgage
and convey the Owner Trust Estate pursuant to the Indenture to the
Indenture Trustee as security for the Notes and to hold, manage and
distribute to the Trust Certificateholders pursuant to the terms of
this Agreement any portion of the Owner Trust Estate released from the
Lien of, and remitted to the Trust pursuant to, the Indenture;
(v) to enter into and perform its obligations
under the Basic Documents to which the Trust is a party;
(vi) to engage in other transactions, including
entering into agreements, that are necessary, suitable or convenient to
accomplish the foregoing or that are incidental thereto or connected
therewith; and
(vii) subject to compliance with the Basic
Documents, to engage in such other activities as may be required in
connection with conservation of the Owner Trust Estate and the making
of distributions to the Trust Certificateholders and the Noteholders.
(c) The Trust shall not engage in any activity other than in
connection with the foregoing or other than as required or authorized by the
terms of this Agreement or the other Basic Documents.
SECTION 2.04 Appointment of Owner Trustee. The Transferor hereby
appoints the Owner Trustee as trustee of the Trust effective as of the date
hereof, to have all the rights, powers and duties set forth herein, and the
Owner Trustee hereby accepts such appointment.
SECTION 2.05 Liability of the Trust Certificateholders. No Trust
Certificateholder shall have any personal liability for any liability or
obligation of the Trust, solely by reason of it being a Trust Certificateholder.
SECTION 2.06 Initial Capital Contribution of Owner Trust Estate. The
Transferor hereby sells, assigns, transfers, conveys and sets over to the Owner
Trustee, as of the date hereof, the sum of $1.00. The Owner Trustee hereby
acknowledges receipt in trust from the Transferor, as of the date hereof, of the
foregoing contribution, which shall constitute the initial Owner Trust Estate
and shall be deposited in the Certificate Distribution Account. The Transferor
shall pay organizational expenses of the Trust as they may arise or shall, upon
the request of the Owner Trustee, promptly reimburse the Owner Trustee for any
such expenses paid by the Owner Trustee.
SECTION 2.07 Declaration of Trust. The Owner Trustee hereby declares
that it will hold the Owner Trust Estate in trust upon and subject to the
conditions set forth herein for the sole purpose of conserving the Owner Trust
Estate and collecting and disbursing the periodic income therefrom for the use
and benefit of the Trust Certificateholders, who are intended to be
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"beneficial owners" within the meaning of the Statutory Trust Statute, subject
to the Lien of the Indenture Trustee and the obligations of the Trust under the
Basic Documents. It is the intention of the parties hereto that the Trust
constitutes a statutory trust under the Statutory Trust Statute and that this
Agreement constitutes the governing instrument of such statutory trust.
Consistent with Section 11.01, it is the intention of the parties hereto that,
solely for income and franchise tax purposes, the Trust shall be treated as a
division or branch of the Trust Certificateholder. Effective as of the date
hereof, the Owner Trustee shall have all rights, powers and duties set forth
herein and under Delaware law for the purpose and to the extent necessary to
accomplish the purpose of the Trust as set forth in Sections 2.03(a) and
2.03(b). At the direction of the Transferor, the Owner Trustee caused to be
filed the Certificate of Trust pursuant to the Statutory Trust Statute, and the
Owner Trustee shall file or cause to be filed such amendments thereto as shall
be necessary or appropriate to satisfy the purposes of this Agreement and as
shall be consistent with the provisions hereof.
SECTION 2.08 Title to Trust Property. Legal title to the Owner Trust
Estate shall be vested at all times in the Trust as a separate legal entity,
except where applicable law in any jurisdiction requires title to any part of
the Owner Trust Estate to be vested in a trustee or trustees, in which case
title shall be deemed to be vested in the Owner Trustee, a co-trustee and/or a
separate trustee, as the case may be.
SECTION 2.09 Situs of Trust. The Trust shall be located and
administered in the state of Delaware. All bank accounts maintained by the Owner
Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall be located in the states of California,
Delaware or New York. The Trust shall not have any employees in any state other
than Delaware; provided, however, that nothing herein shall restrict or prohibit
the Owner Trustee from having employees within or without the state of Delaware.
Payments shall be received by the Trust only in the states of Delaware,
California or New York, and payments will be made by the Trust only from the
states of Delaware, California or New York. The only principal office of the
Trust will be at the Corporate Trust Office.
SECTION 2.10 Representations and Warranties of the Transferor. The
Transferor hereby represents and warrants to the Owner Trustee as of the Closing
Date that:
(a) Organization and Good Standing. The Transferor has been duly
organized and validly existing as a limited liability company in good standing
under the laws of the State of Delaware, with the power and authority to own its
properties and to conduct its business as such properties are currently owned
and such business is presently conducted.
(b) Due Qualification. The Transferor has been duly qualified to
do business as a limited liability company in good standing, and has obtained
all necessary licenses and approvals in all jurisdictions in which the conduct
of its business requires such qualifications, except when the failure to have
any such license, approval or qualification would not have a material adverse
effect on the condition, financial or otherwise, of the Transferor or would not
have a material adverse effect on the ability of the Transferor to perform its
obligations under this Agreement.
(c) Power and Authority. The Transferor has (i) the power and
authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to carry out its terms; (ii)
good title to and is the sole legal and beneficial owner of the 2003-A SUBI
Certificate, free and clear of Liens and claims; (iii) full
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power and authority to transfer the 2003-A SUBI Certificate and deposit the same
with the Trust; (iv) duly authorized such transfer and deposit to the Trust by
all necessary action; and (v) duly authorized the execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement by all necessary action.
(d) Binding Obligation. This Agreement is a legal, valid and
binding obligation of the Transferor, enforceable in accordance with its terms,
except as such enforceability may be subject to or limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar
laws affecting creditors' rights generally and by general principles of equity,
regardless of whether such enforceability shall be considered in a proceeding in
equity or law.
(e) No Violation. The consummation of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement and the fulfillment of the terms of this
Agreement do not conflict with or breach any of the terms or provisions of, or
constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the
certificate of formation or limited liability agreement of the Transferor, any
material indenture, agreement or other instrument to which the Transferor is a
party or by which it shall be bound; nor result in the creation or imposition of
any material Lien upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any such
indenture, agreement or other instrument (other than the Basic Documents); nor
violate any law or, to the best of the Transferor's knowledge, any order, rule
or regulation applicable to the Transferor of any court or of any federal or
State regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental
instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Transferor or its properties, which
breach, default, conflict, Lien or violation in any case would have a material
adverse effect on the ability of the Transferor to perform its obligations under
this Agreement.
(f) No Proceedings. There are no proceedings or investigations
pending, or to the Transferor's knowledge, threatened, before any court,
regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality
having jurisdiction over the Transferor or its properties: (i) asserting the
invalidity of this Agreement or any of the other Basic Documents to which it is
party; (ii) seeking to prevent the issuance of the Notes or the Trust
Certificates or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement or any of the other Basic Documents to which it is a party; (iii)
seeking any determination or ruling that would be likely materially and
adversely to affect the performance by the Transferor of its obligations under,
or the validity or enforceability of, this Agreement or any of the other Basic
Documents to which it is a party; or (iv) relating to the Transferor and that
would be likely materially and adversely to affect the federal income tax or any
state income tax attributes of the Trust, the Notes or the Trust Certificates.
(g) Independent Manager. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
in the Transferor's Formation Documents, the Transferor shall ensure that at
least one manager of the Transferor shall be an Independent Manager.
SECTION 2.11 Power of Attorney. Pursuant to the Trust Administration
Agreement, the Owner Trustee has authorized the Administrative Agent to perform
certain of its administrative duties hereunder, including duties with respect to
the management of the Owner Trust Estate, and in connection therewith hereby
grants the Administrative Agent its revocable power of attorney. Each Trust
Certificateholder by such Holder's acceptance of any Trust
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Certificate or beneficial interest therein, as the case may be, shall be deemed
to have granted power of attorney to the Administrative Agent for purposes of
actions taken or to be taken with respect to the Trust Certificates.
ARTICLE THREE
TRUST CERTIFICATES
AND TRANSFER OF INTERESTS
SECTION 3.01 Initial Ownership. Upon the formation of the Trust by the
contribution by the Transferor pursuant to Section 2.06 and until the issuance
of the Trust Certificates, the Transferor shall be sole beneficiary of the
Trust.
SECTION 3.02 The Trust Certificates.
(a) The Trust Certificates shall be substantially in the form set
forth in Exhibit A, in minimum denominations of $250,000. Except for the
issuance of the Trust Certificate to the Transferor, no Trust Certificate may be
sold, pledged, exchanged or otherwise transferred to any Person except in
accordance with Sections 3.04 and 3.10 and any attempted sale, pledge, exchange
or transfer (each referred to hereinafter as a "transfer") in violation of such
Sections shall be null and void. The Trust Certificate shall be issued in the
name of the Transferor. Upon delivery to the Transferor, the Owner Trustee and
the Certificate Registrar of a letter in the form of Exhibit C, any Trust
Certificate shall be reissued in the name and in the denomination set forth in
such letter.
(b) The Trust Certificates may be printed, lithographed,
typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, and may be executed on behalf
of the Trust by manual or facsimile signature of an Authenticating Agent. Trust
Certificates bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were,
at the time when such signatures shall have been affixed, authorized to sign on
behalf of the Trust, shall be validly issued and entitled to the benefits of
this Agreement, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall have
ceased to be so authorized prior to the authentication and delivery of such
Trust Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of authentication
and delivery of such Trust Certificates. If registration of a transfer of a
Trust Certificate is permitted pursuant to Section 3.04 and Section 3.10, the
transferee of such Trust Certificate shall become a Trust Certificateholder and
shall be entitled to the rights and subject to the obligations of a Trust
Certificateholder hereunder, upon such transferee's acceptance of a Trust
Certificate duly registered in such transferee's name pursuant to Section 3.04.
SECTION 3.03 Authentication and Delivery of Trust Certificates.
Concurrently with the transfer of the 2003-A SUBI Certificate to the Trust, the
Owner Trustee shall cause to be executed on behalf of the Trust to the
Transferor the Trust Certificate in an aggregate principal amount equal to the
Initial Trust Certificate Balance, authenticated and delivered to or upon the
written order of the Transferor, in authorized denominations, evidencing the
entire ownership of the Trust. No Trust Certificate shall entitle its holder to
any benefit
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under this Agreement, or shall be valid for any purpose, unless there shall
appear on such Trust Certificate a certificate of authentication, substantially
in the form set forth in Exhibit A, executed by the Owner Trustee or its
Authenticating Agent, by manual or facsimile signature; and such authentication
shall constitute conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Trust
Certificate shall have been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. All
Trust Certificates shall be dated the date of their authentication. Upon
issuance, execution and delivery pursuant to the terms hereof, the Trust
Certificates shall be entitled to the benefits of this Agreement. The Wilmington
Trust Company shall be the initial Authenticating Agent of the Owner Trustee
hereunder, and all references herein to authentication by the Owner Trustee
shall be deemed to include the Authenticating Agent.
SECTION 3.04 Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
(a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at
the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a register (the
"Certificate Register"), in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it
may prescribe, the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of
Trust Certificates and, if and to the extent transfers are permitted pursuant to
Section 3.04(b) and Section 3.10, the registration of transfers of Trust
Certificates. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be recognized except upon
registration of such transfer. Wilmington Trust Company is hereby appointed as
the initial Certificate Registrar. If the Certificate Registrar shall for any
reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar
shall give prompt written notice to such effect to the Transferor, the Owner
Trustee and the Servicer. The Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor,
which shall be another trust company or bank, and shall agree to act in
accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it as successor
Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
(b) Each Trust Certificate shall bear a legend regarding transfers
to the effect of the legend on the form of Trust Certificate attached as Exhibit
A hereto, unless determined otherwise by the Servicer (as certified to the
Certificate Registrar in an Officer's Certificate) consistent with applicable
law.
If and to the extent transfers are permitted pursuant to Section 3.10,
as a condition to the registration of any transfer of a Trust Certificate, the
prospective transferee shall be required to represent in writing to the Owner
Trustee, the Transferor and the Certificate Registrar the following:
(i) It has neither acquired nor will it transfer
any Trust Certificate it purchases (or any interest therein) or cause
any such Trust Certificates (or any interest therein) to be marketed on
or through an "established securities market" within the meaning of
Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code, including, without limitation, an
over-the-counter-market or an interdealer quotation system that
regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations.
(ii) It either (A) is not, and will not become, a
partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal
income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but none of the direct or
indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee
have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such
other
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percentage as the Transferor may establish prior to the time of such
proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to
such transferee's ownership of Trust Certificates.
(iii) It understands that no subsequent transfer
of the Trust Certificates is permitted unless (A) such transfer is of a
Trust Certificate with a denomination of at least $250,000, (B) it
causes its proposed transferee to provide to the Trust and the
Certificate Registrar a letter substantially in the form of Exhibit C
hereto, or such other written statement as the Transferor shall
prescribe and (C) the Transferor consents in writing to the proposed
transfer, which consent shall be granted unless the Transferor
determines that such transfer would create a risk that the Trust or the
Titling Trust would be classified for federal or any applicable state
tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded partnership)
taxable as a corporation; provided, however, that any attempted
transfer that would either cause (1) the number of registered holders
of Trust Certificates to exceed 95 or (2) the number of holders of
direct or indirect interests in the Titling Trust to exceed 50, shall
be a void transfer.
(iv) It understands that the Opinion of Counsel
to the Trust that the Trust is not a publicly traded partnership
taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of the
representations in paragraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) above.
(v) It is not a Benefit Plan or arrangement
subject to Section 406 of ERISA, will not acquire or hold the Trust
Certificates being transferred on behalf of or with "plan assets" of a
Benefit Plan, and is not a Person acting on behalf of such a Benefit
Plan or arrangement nor using the assets of such a Benefit Plan or
arrangement to effect such transfer;
(vi) It is a Person who is either (A)(1) a
citizen or resident of the United States, (2) a corporation,
partnership or other entity organized in or under the laws of the
United States or any political subdivision thereof or (3) a Person not
described in (A)(1) or (2) whose ownership of the Trust Certificates is
effectively connected with such Person's conduct of a trade or business
within the United States (within the meaning of the Code) and its
ownership of any interest in a Trust Certificate will not result in any
withholding obligation with respect to any payments with respect to the
Trust Certificates by any Person (other than withholding, if any, under
Section 1446 of the Code) or (B) an estate or trust the income of which
is includible in gross income for federal income tax purposes,
regardless of source or a trust if a court within the United States is
able to exercise primary supervision of the administration of the trust
and one or more "U.S. persons" (as such term is defined in the Code)
have the authority to control all substantial decisions of the Trust.
It agrees that it will provide a certification of non-foreign status
signed under penalty of perjury and, alternatively, that if it is a
Person described in clause (A)(3) above, it will furnish to the
Transferor and the Owner Trustee a properly executed IRS Form W-8ECI
and a new IRS Form W-8ECI upon the expiration or obsolescence of any
previously delivered form (and such other certifications,
representations or Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the
Transferor and the Owner Trustee).
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(vii) It understands that any purported transfer
of any Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) in contravention of
any of the restrictions and conditions in this Section shall be void,
and the purported transferee in such transfer shall not be recognized
by the Trust or any other Person as a Trust Certificateholder for any
purpose.
(c) By acceptance of any Trust Certificate, the related Trust
Certificateholder specifically agrees with and represents to the Transferor, the
Trust and Certificate Registrar that no transfer of such Trust Certificate shall
be made unless the registration requirements of the Securities Act and any
applicable state securities laws are complied with, or such transfer is exempt
from the registration requirements under the Securities Act because the transfer
satisfies one of the following:
(i) Such transfer is in compliance with Rule
144A, to a transferee who the transferor reasonably believes is a
Qualified Institutional Buyer that is purchasing for its own account or
for the account of a Qualified Institutional Buyer and to whom notice
is given that such transfer is being made in reliance upon Rule 144A
and (A) the transferor thereof executes and delivers to the Transferor
and the Certificate Registrar, a Rule 144A certificate substantially in
the form attached as Exhibit B and (B) the transferee executes and
delivers to the Transferor and the Certificate Registrar an investment
letter substantially in the form attached as Exhibit C.
(ii) After the appropriate holding period, such
transfer is pursuant to an exemption from registration under the
Securities Act provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act and the
transferee, if requested by the Transferor or the Certificate
Registrar, delivers an Opinion of Counsel in form and substance
satisfactory to the Transferor.
(d) The Transferor shall make the Rule 144A Information available
to the prospective transferor and transferee of a Trust Certificate. The Rule
144A Information shall include any or all of the following items requested by
the prospective transferee:
(i) the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented
to the date of such transfer;
(ii) each Payment Date Certificate delivered to
Trust Certificateholders on each Payment Date preceding such request;
and
(iii) such other information as is reasonably
available to the Transferor in order to comply with requests for
information pursuant to Rule 144A.
None of the Transferor, the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee
is under an obligation to register any Trust Certificate under the Securities
Act or any state securities laws.
(e) Upon surrender for registration of transfer or exchange of any
Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and upon compliance
with the provisions of this Agreement relating to such transfer or exchange,
provided that the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the UCC are met, the Owner
Trustee shall execute and shall, or shall cause the Authenticating Agent to,
authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more
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new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate face
amount dated the date of such authentication or the Trust Certificates that the
Trust Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive, as the case
may be.
The Certificate Registrar shall require that every Trust Certificate
presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer and accompanied by IRS Form
W-8BEN or W-9 or such other form as may be reasonably required in form
satisfactory to the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Trust
Certificateholder or such Person's attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate
Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of
transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates.
The Certificate Registrar shall cancel and retain or destroy, in
accordance with the Certificate Registrar's retention policy then in effect, all
Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and
shall upon written request certify to the Transferor as to such retention or
destruction.
(f) The provisions of this Section generally are intended, among
other things, to prevent the Trust from being characterized as a "publicly
traded partnership" within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code, in reliance
on Treasury Regulations Section 1.7704-1(e) and (h), and the Transferor shall
take such intent into account in determining whether or not to consent to any
proposed transfer of any Trust Certificate.
The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner
Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register any
transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the
due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
SECTION 3.05 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Certificates.
If any mutilated Trust Certificate is surrendered to the Certificate Registrar,
or if the Certificate Registrar receives evidence to its satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of any Trust Certificate and there is delivered to
the Certificate Registrar and the Owner Trustee such security or indemnity as
may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then in the absence of
notice that such Trust Certificate has been transferred to a protected purchaser
and provided that the requirements of Section 8-405 of the UCC are met, the
Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall execute and the Authenticating Agent
shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Trust Certificate, a new Trust Certificate
of like tenor and denomination. In connection with the issuance of any new Trust
Certificate under this Section, the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar
may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith. Any duplicate
Trust Certificate issued pursuant to this Section shall constitute conclusive
evidence of an ownership interest in the Trust, as if originally issued, whether
or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust Certificate shall be found at any
time.
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SECTION 3.06 Persons Deemed Trust Certificateholders. Prior to due
presentation of a Trust Certificate for registration of transfer, the Owner
Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, any Paying Agent and any of their respective
agents may treat the Person in whose name any Trust Certificate is registered in
the Certificate Register as the owner of such Trust Certificate for the purpose
of receiving distributions pursuant to Section 5.02 and for all other purposes
whatsoever, and none of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, any Paying
Agent or any of their respective agents shall be affected by any notice to the
contrary.
SECTION 3.07 Access to List of Trust Certificateholders' Names and
Addresses. The Certificate Registrar shall furnish or cause to be furnished to
the Owner Trustee, the Servicer and the Transferor or the Indenture Trustee, as
the case may be, within 15 days after its receipt of a request therefor from the
Owner Trustee, the Servicer, the Transferor or the Indenture Trustee in writing,
a list, in such form as the requesting party may reasonably request, of the
names and addresses of the Trust Certificateholders as of the most recent Record
Date. If (i) two or more Trust Certificateholders or (ii) one or more Trust
Certificateholders evidencing not less than 25% of the Certificate Balance apply
in writing to the Owner Trustee, and such application states that the applicants
desire to communicate with other Trust Certificateholders with respect to their
rights under this Agreement or under the Trust Certificates and such application
is accompanied by a copy of the communication that such applicants propose to
transmit, then the Owner Trustee shall, within five Business Days after the
receipt of such application, afford such applicants access during normal
business hours to the current list of Trust Certificateholders. Each Trust
Certificateholder, by receiving and holding a Trust Certificate, shall be deemed
to have agreed not to hold any of the Transferor, the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee or the Servicer, as the case may be, accountable by reason of
the disclosure of its name and address, regardless of the source from which such
information was derived.
SECTION 3.08 Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Owner Trustee shall
maintain in The Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or offices
or agency or agencies where Trust Certificates may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon
the Owner Trustee in respect of the Trust Certificates and the other Basic
Documents to which the Trust is a party may be served. The Owner Trustee
initially designates Wilmington Trust Company, c/o Computershare Trust Company
of New York, Wall Street Plaza, 88 Pine Street, 19th Floor, New York, New York,
as the office for such purposes. The Owner Trustee shall give prompt written
notice to the Transferor and the other Trust Certificateholders of any change in
the location of the Certificate Register or any such office or agency.
SECTION 3.09 Appointment of Paying Agent. The Paying Agent shall make
distributions to the Trust Certificateholders pursuant to Section 5.02, and
shall report the amounts of such distributions to the Owner Trustee. Any Paying
Agent shall have the revocable power to withdraw funds from the Certificate
Distribution Account for the purpose of making the distributions referred to
above. The Paying Agent initially shall be U.S. Bank. The Owner Trustee may
revoke such power and remove the Paying Agent if the Owner Trustee determines in
its sole discretion that the Paying Agent has failed to perform its obligations
under this Agreement in any material respect. Any co-paying agent chosen by the
Transferor and acceptable to the Owner Trustee shall also be a Paying Agent.
Each Paying Agent may resign upon 30 days' written notice to the Owner Trustee.
In the event that a Paying Agent may no
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longer act as Paying Agent, the Owner Trustee shall appoint a successor to act
as Paying Agent (which shall be a bank or trust company). The Owner Trustee
shall cause such successor Paying Agent or any additional Paying Agent appointed
by the Owner Trustee to execute and deliver to the Owner Trustee an instrument
in which such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent shall agree with
the Owner Trustee that as Paying Agent, such successor Paying Agent or
additional Paying Agent shall hold all sums, if any, held by it for payment to
the Trust Certificateholders in trust for the benefit of the Trust
Certificateholders entitled thereto until such sums are paid to the Trust
Certificateholders. The Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to the
Owner Trustee and upon removal of a Paying Agent such Paying Agent shall also
return all funds in its possession to the Owner Trustee. The provisions of
Sections 7.01, 7.03, 7.04 and 8.01 shall apply to the Owner Trustee also in its
role as Paying Agent, for so long as the Owner Trustee shall act as Paying Agent
and, to the extent applicable, to any other paying agent appointed hereunder.
Any reference in this Agreement to the Paying Agent shall include any co-paying
agent unless the context requires otherwise.
SECTION 3.10 Ownership by the Transferor of Trust Certificates. The
Transferor shall receive on the Closing Date in accordance with Section 3.02 and
shall thereafter retain beneficial and record ownership of Trust Certificates
representing 100% of the Certificate Balance. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Agreement to the contrary, any attempted transfer of any Trust
Certificate that would reduce such interest of the Transferor below 100% of the
Certificate Balance shall be void. The Owner Trustee shall cause one Trust
Certificate issued to the Transferor (representing 100% of the Certificate
Balance) to bear a legend stating "THIS CERTIFICATE IS NON-TRANSFERABLE."
Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon a dissolution or termination of the
Transferor, the Trust Certificates held by it shall be distributed to NMAC
without regard to the provisions of Section 3.02 or this Section 3.10.
SECTION 3.11 Trust Certificates Held by Trust, Transferor or Their
Affiliates. Unless otherwise specified in this Agreement or other Basic
Documents, any Trust Certificates owned by the Trust, the Transferor, the
Servicer (so long as NMAC or an Affiliate is the Servicer) or any of their
respective Affiliates shall be entitled to the benefits under this Agreement
equally and proportionately to the benefits afforded other owners of the Trust
Certificates, except that such Trust Certificates shall be deemed not to be
outstanding for the purpose of determining whether the requisite percentage of
Securityholders have given any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent or other action under the Basic Documents (other than the
commencement by the Trust of a voluntary proceeding in bankruptcy), unless all
Securities are owned by the Trust, the Transferor, the Servicer (so long as NMAC
or an Affiliate is the Servicer) or any of their respective Affiliates.
ARTICLE FOUR
ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE OR TRUST CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
SECTION 4.01 Prior Notice to Trust Certificateholders With Respect to
Certain Matters. Subject to the provisions and limitations of Section 4.04, with
respect to the following matters, the Owner Trustee shall not take action unless
the Owner Trustee has notified the Trust Certificateholders and the Rating
Agencies in writing of the proposed action at least 30 days before the taking of
such action and Trust Certificateholders representing at least 25% of the
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Certificate Balance have not notified the Owner Trustee in writing prior to the
30th day after such notice is given that such Trust Certificateholders have
withheld consent or provided alternative direction:
(a) the initiation of any claim or lawsuit by the Trust and the
compromise of any action, claim or lawsuit brought by or against the Trust
(other than an action brought by the Servicer on behalf of the Titling Trust and
Persons having interests in the 2003-A SUBI Certificate to collect amounts owed
under a 2003-A Lease or 2003-A Vehicle);
(b) the election by the Trust to file an amendment to the
Certificate of Trust (unless such amendment is required to be filed under the
Statutory Trust Statute);
(c) the amendment of the Indenture in circumstances where the
consent of any Noteholder is required;
(d) the amendment of any Basic Document other than the Trust
Agreement in circumstances such amendment materially and adversely affects the
interests of the Trust Certificateholders;
(e) the amendment of any other Basic Document unless the Owner
Trustee is furnished an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such amendment
does not materially and adversely affect the interests of the Trust
Certificateholders; or
(f) the appointment a successor Owner Trustee or successor
Indenture Trustee.
SECTION 4.02 Action by Trust Certificateholders With Respect to Certain
Matters. Subject to the provisions and limitations of Section 4.04, to the
extent the Owner Trustee or the Trust is deemed to be the Holder of the 2003-A
SUBI Certificate pursuant to the SUBI Trust Agreement, the Owner Trustee or
Trust, as the case may be, shall take such actions as directed in writing by
Trust Certificateholders holding Trust Certificates evidencing an interest of at
least 662/3% of the Certificate Balance; provided, however, that so long as the
Lien of the Indenture is outstanding, such direction shall be subject to the
consent of the Indenture Trustee. The Owner Trustee may not, except upon the
occurrence of a Servicer Default subsequent to the payment in full of the Notes
and in accordance with the written directions of Trust Certificateholders
holding 100% of the Certificate Balance, remove the Servicer, with respect to
the 2003-A SUBI Assets or appoint a successor Servicer with respect thereto.
SECTION 4.03 Action by Owner Trustee With Respect to Bankruptcy. The
Owner Trustee shall not have the power to commence a voluntary proceeding in
bankruptcy relating to the Trust without the unanimous prior approval of all
Trust Certificateholders (including the board of managers (including the
Independent Managers, as such term is defined in the Transferor's limited
liability company agreement) of the Transferor) and the delivery to the Owner
Trustee of a written certification by each Trust Certificateholder that such
Trust Certificateholder reasonably believes that the Trust is insolvent.
SECTION 4.04 Restrictions on Trust Certificateholders' Power. The Trust
Certificateholders shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take or refrain from
taking any action if such action or inaction would be contrary to any obligation
of the Trust or the Owner Trustee
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under this Agreement or any of the other Basic Documents or would be contrary to
the purpose of the Trust as set forth in Section 2.03, nor shall the Owner
Trustee be obligated to follow any such direction, if given.
SECTION 4.05 Majority Control. Except as expressly provided herein, any
action that may be taken by the Trust Certificateholders under this Agreement
may be taken by the Trust Certificateholders holding not less than a Majority
Interest of the Trust Certificates. Except as expressly provided herein, any
written notice of the Trust Certificateholders delivered pursuant to this
Agreement shall be effective if signed by Trust Certificateholders holding not
less than a Majority Interest of the Certificates at the time of delivery of
such notice.
ARTICLE FIVE
APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES
SECTION 5.01 Establishment of Certificate Distribution Account and
Reserve Account.
(a) The Owner Trustee, for the benefit of the Trust
Certificateholders, shall establish and maintain, or cause to be established and
maintained, at the direction of the Transferor, an Eligible Account with and in
the name of the Owner Trustee which shall be designated the "Certificate
Distribution Account." The Certificate Distribution Account shall be held in
trust for the benefit of the Trust Certificateholders and shall bear a
designation clearly indicating that the funds deposited therein are held for the
benefit of the Trust Certificateholders.
The Owner Trustee shall possess all right, title and interest in all
funds on deposit from time to time in the Certificate Distribution Account and
in all proceeds thereof. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Certificate
Distribution Account shall be under the sole dominion and control of the Owner
Trustee for the benefit of the Trust Certificateholders. If at any time the
Certificate Distribution Account ceases to be an Eligible Account, the Owner
Trustee (or the Transferor on behalf of the Owner Trustee, if the Certificate
Distribution Account is not then held by the Owner Trustee or an Affiliate
thereof) shall, within ten Business Days following notification of such
occurrence (or such longer period, not to exceed 30 calendar days, as to which
each Rating Agency may consent), establish a new Certificate Distribution
Account as an Eligible Account and shall transfer any cash or investments to
such new Certificate Distribution Account.
(b) The Servicer, on behalf of the Trust, shall establish and
maintain an Eligible Account (initially at U.S. Bank) in the name of the
Indenture Trustee until the Outstanding Amount is reduced to zero, and
thereafter, in the name of the Owner Trustee, which is designated as the
"Reserve Account". The Reserve Account shall be held for the benefit of the
Securityholders, and shall bear a designation clearly indicating that the funds
on deposit therein are held for the benefit of the Securityholders.
The Reserve Account shall be under the sole dominion and control of the
Indenture Trustee until the Outstanding Amount has been reduced to zero, and
thereafter under the sole dominion and control of the Owner Trustee. On the
Closing Date, the Transferor will use the net
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proceeds of the sale of the Notes and the Trust Certificates to make a capital
contribution to the Trust, which the Trust shall use to cause the Initial
Deposit Amount to be deposited into the Reserve Account. All deposits to and
withdrawals from the Reserve Account shall be made only upon the terms and
conditions of the Basic Documents.
(c) The Trust shall take or cause to be taken such further
actions, to execute, deliver and file or cause to be executed, delivered and
filed such further documents and instruments (including, without limitation, the
Control Agreement or any UCC financing statements) as may be determined to be
reasonably necessary by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Trust, in
order to perfect the interests created by Section 5.01(b) and otherwise fully
effectuate the purposes, terms and conditions of this Section. The Trust (or
Administrative Agent on behalf of the Trust) shall:
(i) promptly execute, deliver and file any
financing statements, amendments, continuation statements, assignments,
certificates and other documents with respect to such interests and
perform all such other acts as may be necessary in order to perfect or
to maintain the perfection of its securities interest in the Reserve
Account; and
(ii) make the necessary filings of financing
statements or amendments thereto within five days after the occurrence
of any of the following (and promptly notify the Trust and the Owner
Trustee of each such filing): (A) any change in the Transferor's
corporate name or any trade name, (B) any change in the location of is
chief executive office or principal place of business or (C) any merger
or consolidation or other change in its identity or corporate
structure.
SECTION 5.02 Application of Trust Funds.
(a) Until the Outstanding Amount of the Trust Certificates has
been reduced to zero, on each Payment Date, the Paying Agent (or the Owner
Trustee, if there is no Paying Agent) shall pay, to the extent of funds
available, the amount required to be deposited by the Titling Trustee and by the
Indenture Trustee into the Certificate Distribution Account pursuant to Section
8.04 of the Indenture, after the payment in full of the Notes, for the payment
of principal of the Trust Certificates on such Payment Date, pro rata to the
Trust Certificateholders of record at the close of business on the Record Date
with respect to such Payment Date. On any Payment Date on which the amount on
deposit in the Reserve Account, after giving effect to all withdrawals therefrom
and deposits thereto in respect of that Payment Date, exceeds the Reserve
Account Requirement, any such excess shall be released to the Transferor.
(b) On or after the date on which the Outstanding Amount of the
Notes has been reduced to zero, pursuant to the Indenture and the Control
Agreement, dominion and control over the Reserve Account shall be transferred to
the Owner Trustee. On each Payment Date thereafter, all amounts distributable to
the Trust Certificateholders shall be distributed by the Owner Trustee in the
order and priority set forth in Section 8.04(a) of the Indenture and the Owner
Trustee shall comply with Sections 8.04(c) and 8.05(a) of the Indenture.
On the Payment Date on which the Certificate Balance has been reduced
to zero, the Owner Trustee shall release to the Transferor, without recourse,
representation or warranty
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(except as set forth in Section 7.03), all of the Trust's right, title, and
interest in, to and under the Reserve Account Property. In addition, on or
following the Payment Date on which the Certificate Balance has been reduced to
zero, the Transferor may direct the Owner Trustee in writing to distribute to
it, and upon receipt of such direction the Owner Trustee shall distribute to the
Transferor, the remaining assets of the Trust.
(c) On each Payment Date, the Owner Trustee shall send to each
Trust Certificateholder a report (the "Distribution Statement") provided by the
Servicer, based on information in the Payment Date Certificate delivered
pursuant to Section 8.03 of the Indenture, that shall include the following
information:
(i) the amount of SUBI Collections for the
related Collection Period and the amounts allocable to the 2003-A SUBI
Certificate;
(ii) the Certificate Balance on the immediately
preceding Payment Date, or if the current Payment Date is the first
Payment Date, on the Closing Date;
(iii) the aggregate amount of interest accrued and
paid on each Class of Notes during the related Accrual Period;
(iv) the aggregate amount of principal paid with
respect to each Class of Notes and the Trust Certificates on such
Payment Date and the Principal Carryover Shortfall, if any;
(v) the Outstanding Amount of the Notes and the
Certificate Balance on the day immediately preceding such Payment Date;
(vi) the Note Factor for each Class of Notes and
the Certificate Factor (after giving effect to payments made on such
Payment Date);
(vii) the Available Funds deposited into the SUBI
Collection Account, including amounts with respect to each of items (i)
through (v) of the definition thereof;
(viii) (A) the Reserve Account Requirement, (B) the
Reserve Account Deposit Amount, if any, (C) the Reserve Account Draw
Amount, if any, (D) the balance on deposit in the Reserve Account on
such Payment Date after giving effect to withdrawals therefrom and
deposits thereto in respect of such Payment Date and (E) the change in
such balance from the immediately preceding Payment Date;
(ix) the Servicing Fee and the Payment Date
Advance Reimbursement for the related Collection Period and
(x) the amount of Residual Value Losses for the
related Collection Period.
The information required to be delivered by such Distribution Statement
may be included with such other information or reports furnished by the Servicer
to the Owner Trustee in connection with the making of payments pursuant to the
other Basic Documents.
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(d) If any withholding tax is imposed on the Trust's payment (or,
if the Trust is treated as a partnership for federal income tax purposes,
allocations of income) to a Trust Certificateholder, such tax shall reduce the
amount otherwise distributable to such Trust Certificateholder in accordance
with this Section. The Owner Trustee is hereby authorized and directed to retain
from amounts otherwise distributable to such Trust Certificateholders,
sufficient funds for the payment of any withholding tax that is legally owed by
the Trust (but such authorization shall not prevent the Owner Trustee from
contesting any such tax in appropriate proceedings, and withholding payment of
such tax, if permitted by law, pending the outcome of such proceedings). The
amount of any withholding tax imposed with respect to a Trust Certificateholder
shall be treated as cash distributed to such Trust Certificateholders, at the
time it is withheld by the Trust for remittance to the appropriate taxing
authority. If the Owner Trustee determines that there is a possibility that
withholding tax is payable with respect to a distribution (such as any
distribution to a "non-U.S. person" (as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the
Code)), the Owner Trustee may in its sole discretion withhold such amounts in
accordance with this Section. If a Trust Certificateholder wishes to apply for a
refund of any such withholding tax, the Owner Trustee shall reasonably cooperate
with such Trust Certificateholder in making such claim so long as such Trust
Certificateholder agrees to reimburse the Owner Trustee for any out-of-pocket
expenses incurred.
(e) Subject to Section 6.07 of the Indenture and 8.01 hereof, as
the case may be, neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Owner Trustee, as the
case may be, shall in any way be held liable by reason of any insufficiency in
the Reserve Account resulting from any loss on any Permitted Investment included
therein, except for losses attributable to the Indenture Trustee's or the Owner
Trustee's, as the case may be, failure to make payments on any such Permitted
Investments issued by the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, as the case
may be, in its commercial capacity as principal obligor and not as trustee, in
accordance with their terms.
SECTION 5.03 Method of Payment. Subject to Section 9.01(c) respecting
the final payment upon retirement of the Trust Certificates, distributions
required to be made to Trust Certificateholders on any Payment Date shall be
made to each Trust Certificateholder of record on the related Record Date by
check mailed to such Trust Certificateholder at the address of such holder
appearing on the Certificate Register, except that a Trust Certificateholder
having original denominations aggregating at least $1 million may request
payment by wire transfer of funds pursuant to written instructions delivered to
the Owner Trustee at least five Business Days prior to the Record Date.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the final payment on the Trust Certificates shall
be made only upon presentation and surrender of such Trust Certificates at the
office or agency specified in the notice of final payment to the Trust
Certificateholders. The Owner Trustee or a Paying Agent shall, upon receipt of
at least 20 days' notice from the Trust or the Administrative Agent as set forth
in the Indenture, provide such notice to the Trust Certificateholders of record
not more than 30 days and not less than 15 days prior to the date on which such
final payment is expected to occur.
SECTION 5.04 Accounting and Reports.
(a) The Owner Trustee shall, based on information provided by the
Transferor, (i) maintain (or cause to be maintained) the books of the Trust on a
calendar year basis on the accrual method of accounting (except as required by
Article Eleven), (ii) deliver to each Trust
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Certificateholder not later than the latest date permitted by law (A) a
statement of the amounts provided for in Section 8.04 of the Indenture and (B)
such information as may be required by the Code and applicable Treasury
Regulations with respect to instruments such as the Trust Certificates and (iii)
in addition to the Owner Trustee's rights under Section 5.02, take such action
as instructed by the Transferor to collect or cause to be collected and paid
over to applicable authorities any withholding tax as described in and in
accordance with Section 5.02 and Article Eleven with respect to income or
distributions to Trust Certificateholders. The Owner Trustee shall make all
elections pursuant to Article Eleven as directed by the Transferor.
(b) The Transferor shall maintain such books and records, and
shall prepare and file such reports and returns, as are required pursuant to
this Section and Section 5.02.
ARTICLE SIX
AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.01 General Authority. The Owner Trustee shall administer the
Trust in the interest of the Trust Certificateholders, subject to the Lien of
the Indenture Trustee, in accordance with the Basic Documents. Subject to the
provisions and limitations of Sections 2.03 and 2.07, the Owner Trustee is
authorized and directed to execute and deliver on behalf of the Trust the Basic
Documents to which the Trust is to be a party and each certificate or other
document attached as an exhibit to or contemplated by the Basic Documents to
which the Trust is to be a party, in each case in such form as the Transferor
shall approve as evidenced conclusively by the Owner Trustee's execution thereof
and the Transferor's execution of this Agreement, and on behalf of the Trust, to
direct the Indenture Trustee to authenticate and deliver Class A-1 Notes in the
aggregate principal amount of $240,300,000, Class A-2 Notes in the aggregate
principal amount of $277,000,000, Class A-3a Notes in the aggregate principal
amount of $379,950,000 and Class A-3b Notes in the aggregate principal amount of
$342,450,000. In addition to the foregoing, the Owner Trustee is authorized to
take all actions required of the Trust pursuant to the Basic Documents. The
Owner Trustee is further authorized from time to time to take such action on
behalf of the Trust as is permitted by the Basic Documents and that the Servicer
or the Administrative Agent recommends with respect to the Basic Documents,
except to the extent this Agreement expressly requires the consent of the Trust
Certificateholders for such action.
SECTION 6.02 General Duties. Subject to the provisions and limitations
of Sections 2.03 and 2.07, it shall be the duty of the Owner Trustee to
discharge or cause to be discharged all of its responsibilities pursuant to the
terms of the Basic Documents to which the Trust is a party and to administer the
Trust in the interest of the Trust Certificateholders, subject to the Lien of
the Indenture Trustee and in accordance with the provisions of the Basic
Documents. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall be deemed to
have discharged its duties and responsibilities hereunder and under the other
Basic Documents to the extent the Administrative Agent has agreed in the Trust
Administration Agreement to perform any act or to discharge any duty of the
Trust or the Owner Trustee hereunder or under any other Basic Document, and the
Owner Trustee shall not be held liable for the default or failure of the
Administrative Agent to carry out its obligations under the Trust Administration
Agreement.
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SECTION 6.03 Action Upon Instruction.
(a) Subject to Article Four and in accordance with the terms of
the Basic Documents, the Transferor may by written instruction direct the Owner
Trustee in the administration of the Trust subject to, and in accordance with,
the terms of the Basic Documents. The Owner Trustee, upon receipt of all
resolutions, certificates, statements, opinions, reports, documents, orders or
other instruments furnished to the Owner Trustee that shall be specifically
required to be furnished pursuant to any provision of this Agreement, shall
examine them to determine whether they conform on their face to the requirements
of this Agreement.
(b) The Owner Trustee shall not be required to take any action
hereunder or under any other Basic Document if the Owner Trustee shall have
reasonably determined, or shall have been advised by counsel, that such action
is likely to result in liability on the part of the Owner Trustee, is contrary
to the terms hereof or of any other Basic Document or is otherwise contrary to
law or any obligation of the Owner Trustee or the Trust.
(c) Whenever the Owner Trustee is unable to decide between
alternative courses of action permitted or required by the terms of this
Agreement or any other Basic Document, the Owner Trustee shall promptly give
notice (in such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the
Trust Certificateholders requesting instruction as to the course of action to be
adopted, and to the extent the Owner Trustee acts in good faith in accordance
with any written instruction of Trust Certificateholders holding not less than a
Majority Interest of the Trust Certificates, the Owner Trustee shall not be
liable on account of such action to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall not
have received appropriate instruction within ten days of such notice (or within
such shorter period of time as reasonably may be specified in such notice as may
be necessary under the circumstances), it may, but shall be under no duty to,
take or refrain from taking such action not inconsistent with this Agreement or
the other Basic Documents as it shall deem to be in the best interests of the
Trust Certificateholders, and shall have no liability to any Person for such
action or inaction.
(d) If the Owner Trustee is unsure as to the application of any
provision of this Agreement or any other Basic Document or any such provision is
ambiguous as to its application, or is, or appears to be, in conflict with any
other applicable provision, or in the event that this Agreement or any other
Basic Document permits any determination by the Owner Trustee or is silent or is
incomplete as to the course of action the Owner Trustee is required to take with
respect to a particular set of facts, the Owner Trustee may give notice (in such
form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the Trust
Certificateholders requesting instruction and, to the extent the Owner Trustee
acts or refrains from acting in good faith in accordance with any such
instruction received from Trust Certificateholders holding not less than a
Majority Interest of the Trust Certificates and in accordance with Sections 6.04
and 6.05, the Owner Trustee shall not be liable, on account of such action or
inaction, to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall not have received
appropriate instruction within ten days of such notice (or within such shorter
period of time as reasonably may be specified in such notice or as may be
necessary under the circumstances) it may, but shall be under no duty to, take
or refrain from taking such action, not inconsistent with this Agreement or the
other Basic Documents, as it shall deem to be in the best interests of the Trust
Certificateholders, and shall have no liability to any Person for such action or
inaction.
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(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the right of the Transferor or
the Trust Certificateholders to take any action affecting the Owner Trust Estate
shall be subject to the rights of the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture.
SECTION 6.04 No Duties Except as Specified. The Owner Trustee shall not
be required to perform any of the obligations of the Trust under this Agreement
or the other Basic Documents that are required to be performed by (i) the
Servicer under the Servicing Agreement or the 2003-A SUBI Supplement, (ii) the
Transferor under this Agreement, the Servicing Agreement, the Indenture, the
SUBI Certificate Transfer Agreement, or the Back-Up Security Agreement, (iii)
the Administrative Agent under the Trust Administration Agreement or (iv) the
Indenture Trustee under the Indenture. The Owner Trustee shall not have any duty
or obligation to manage, make any payment with respect to, register, record,
sell, dispose of or otherwise deal with the Owner Trust Estate, or to otherwise
take or refrain from taking any action under, or in connection with, any
document contemplated hereby to which the Trust is a party, except as expressly
provided by the terms of this Agreement or in any document or written
instruction received by the Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 6.03; and no
implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or any other
Basic Document against the Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall have no
responsibility for filing any financing or continuation statement in any public
office at any time or to otherwise perfect or maintain the perfection of any
ownership or security interest in the Owner Trust Estate or to record this
Agreement or any other Basic Document. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
herein or in any Basic Document, neither the Indenture Trustee, the Titling
Trustee nor the Trust Agent shall be required to execute, deliver or certify on
behalf of the Issuer or any other person any filings, certificates, affidavits
or other instruments required under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, to the
extent permitted by applicable law. The Owner Trustee nevertheless agrees that
it will, at its own cost and expense, promptly take all action as may be
necessary to discharge any Liens (other than the Lien of the Indenture) on any
part of the Owner Trust Estate that result from actions by or claims against the
Owner Trustee in its individual capacity that are not related to the ownership
or the administration of the Owner Trust Estate.
SECTION 6.05 No Action Unless Specifically Authorized. The Owner
Trustee shall not manage, control, use, sell, dispose of or otherwise deal with
any part of the Owner Trust Estate except in accordance with (i) the powers
granted to and the authority conferred upon the Owner Trustee pursuant to this
Agreement, (ii) the other Basic Documents to which the Trust or the Owner
Trustee is a party and (iii) any document or instruction delivered to the Owner
Trustee pursuant to Section 6.03. In particular, the Owner Trustee shall not
transfer, sell, pledge, assign or convey the 2003-A SUBI Certificate, except as
specifically required or permitted by the Basic Documents.
SECTION 6.06 Restrictions. The Owner Trustee shall not take any action
(i) that is contrary to the purposes of the Trust set forth in Section 2.03 or
(ii) that, to the actual knowledge of the Owner Trustee, would (a) affect the
treatment of the Notes as debt for federal income tax purposes, (b) be deemed to
cause a taxable exchange of the Notes for federal income tax purposes or (c)
cause the Trust, the Transferor or the Titling Trust or any portion thereof to
be taxable as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a
corporation for federal or state income or franchise tax purposes. The Trust
Certificateholders and the Transferor shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take
action that would violate the provisions of this Section. The
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Owner Trustee may not (i) initiate or settle any claim or lawsuit involving the
Trust (unless brought by the Servicer to collect amounts owed under a 2003-A
Lease), (ii) amend the Certificate of Trust (unless such amendment is required
to be filed under applicable law), (iii) amend this Agreement where Trust
Certificateholder consent is required, (iv) amend this Agreement where Trust
Certificateholder consent is not required if such amendment materially adversely
affects the Trust Certificateholders, (v) amend any Basic Document other than
this Agreement if such amendment materially adversely affects the Trust
Certificateholders, or (vi) appoint a successor Owner Trustee or successor
Indenture Trustee, unless (a) the Owner Trustee provides 30 days' written notice
thereof to the Trust Certificateholders and each Rating Agency and (b) Trust
Certificateholders holding at least 25% of the Certificate Balance (which for
this purpose shall include Trust Certificates held by the Trust, the Transferor,
the Servicer and their respective Affiliates) do not object in writing to any
such proposed amendment within 30 days of such notice. Notwithstanding anything
herein to the contrary, the Transferor, the Servicer and their respective
Affiliates may maintain normal commercial banking relationships with the Owner
Trustee and its Affiliates.
ARTICLE SEVEN
CONCERNING THE OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 7.01 Acceptance of Trusts and Duties. The Owner Trustee accepts
the trusts hereby created and agrees to perform its duties hereunder with
respect to such trusts but only upon the terms of this Agreement. The Owner
Trustee also agrees to disburse all monies actually received by it constituting
part of the Owner Trust Estate upon the terms of the Basic Documents to which
the Trust or the Owner Trustee is a party. The Owner Trustee shall not be
answerable or accountable hereunder or under any other Basic Document under any
circumstances, except (i) for its own willful misconduct, bad faith or
negligence or (ii) in the case of the inaccuracy of any representation or
warranty contained in Section 7.03 made by the Owner Trustee. In particular, but
not by way of limitation, and subject to the exceptions set forth in the
preceding sentence:
(a) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for any error in
judgment of an officer of the Owner Trustee made in good faith, unless it is
proved that such officer was negligent in ascertaining the facts;
(b) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any
action taken or omitted to be taken by it in accordance with the instructions of
any Trust Certificateholder, the Transferor, the Indenture Trustee, the
Administrative Agent or the Servicer;
(c) no provision of this Agreement or any other Basic Document
shall require the Owner Trustee to expend or risk funds or otherwise incur any
financial liability in the performance of any of its rights or powers hereunder
or under any other Basic Document if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonable
grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against
such risk or liability is not reasonably assured or provided to it;
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(d) under no circumstances shall the Owner Trustee be liable for
indebtedness evidenced by or arising under any of the Basic Documents, including
the principal of and interest on the Notes or the principal of the Trust
Certificates;
(e) the Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for or in respect
of the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement or for the due execution hereof
by the Transferor or for the form, character, genuineness, sufficiency, value or
validity of any of the Owner Trust Estate or for or in respect of the validity
or sufficiency of the other Basic Documents, other than the execution of and the
certificate of authentication on the Trust Certificates, and the Owner Trustee
shall in no event be deemed to have assumed or incurred any liability, duty or
obligation to any Securityholder or any third party dealing with the Trust or
the Owner Trust Estate, other than as expressly provided for herein and in the
other Basic Documents;
(f) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the misfeasance,
malfeasance or nonfeasance of the Servicer, the Administrative Agent, the
Transferor, the Indenture Trustee or the Cap Provider under any of the Basic
Documents or otherwise, and the Owner Trustee shall have no obligation or
liability to perform the obligations of the Trust or the Transferor under this
Agreement or the Basic Documents that are required to be performed by the
Servicer under the Servicing Agreement or the SUBI Trust Agreement, the
Administrative Agent under the Trust Administration Agreement, or the Indenture
Trustee under the Indenture or the Cap Provider under the Interest Rate Cap
Agreement; and
(g) the Owner Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement, or to institute, conduct
or defend any litigation under this Agreement or otherwise or in relation to
this Agreement or any other Basic Document, at the request, order or direction
of any Trust Certificateholder unless such Trust Certificateholder have offered
to the Owner Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the
Expenses that may be incurred by the Owner Trustee therein or thereby; the right
of the Owner Trustee to perform any discretionary act enumerated in this
Agreement or in any other Basic Document shall not be construed as a duty, and
the Owner Trustee shall not be answerable for other than its bad faith,
negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of any such act.
SECTION 7.02 Furnishing of Documents. The Owner Trustee shall furnish
to any Trust Certificateholder promptly upon receipt of a written request
therefor (at the expense of the Trust Certificateholder), duplicates or copies
of all reports, notices, requests, demands, certificates and any other
instruments furnished to the Owner Trustee under the Basic Documents.
SECTION 7.03 Representations and Warranties. The Owner Trustee hereby
represents and warrants to the Transferor and the Trust Certificateholders,
that:
(a) It is a banking corporation duly organized and validly
existing in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware. It has all
requisite power, right and authority to execute, deliver and perform its
obligations under this Agreement.
(b) It has taken all action necessary to authorize the execution
and delivery by it of this Agreement and each other Basic Document to which it
is a party, and this Agreement and
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each other Basic Document to which it is a party will be executed and delivered
by one of its officers who is duly authorized to execute and deliver this
Agreement and each other Basic Document to which it is a party on its behalf.
(c) Neither the execution nor the delivery by it of this
Agreement, nor the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby or
thereby nor compliance by it with any of the terms or provisions hereof will
contravene any federal or Delaware law, governmental rule or regulation
governing the banking or trust powers of the Owner Trustee or any judgment or
order binding on it, or constitute any default under its charter documents or
bylaws or any indenture, mortgage, contract, agreement or instrument to which it
is a party or by which any of its properties may be bound or result in the
creation or imposition of any Lien, charge or encumbrance on the Owner Trust
Estate resulting from actions by or claims against the Owner Trustee
individually that are unrelated to this Agreement or the other Basic Documents.
(d) This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by it and
constitutes the legal, valid and binding agreement of it, enforceable against
the Owner Trustee in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be
limited by bankruptcy, liquidation, insolvency, reorganization or other similar
laws affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights in general and by general
principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in
a proceeding in equity or at law.
(e) It is authorized to exercise trust powers in the State of
Delaware as and to the extent contemplated herein or has appointed a Delaware
trustee that is so authorized and it has a principal place of business in the
state of Delaware or has appointed a Delaware trustee that has such a principal
place of business.
SECTION 7.04 Reliance; Advice of Counsel.
(a) The Owner Trustee may rely upon, shall be protected in relying
upon and shall incur no liability to anyone in acting or refraining from acting
upon, any signature, instrument, notice, resolution, request, consent, order,
certificate, report, opinion, bond or other document or paper believed by it to
be genuine and believed by it to be signed by the proper party or parties. The
Owner Trustee may accept a certified copy of a board resolution or documents of
any other governing body of any corporate party as conclusive evidence that such
board resolution or other document has been duly adopted by such body and that
the same is in full force and effect. As to any fact or matter the method of the
determination of which is not specifically prescribed herein, the Owner Trustee
may for all purposes hereof rely on a certificate, signed by the president, any
vice president, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer or any other authorized
officers of the relevant party as to such fact or matter, and such certificate
shall constitute full protection to the Owner Trustee for any action taken or
omitted to be taken by it in good faith in reliance thereon.
(b) In the exercise or administration of the trusts hereunder and
in the performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement and the
other Basic Documents, the Owner Trustee (i) may act directly or through its
agents or attorneys pursuant to agreements entered into with any of them, and
the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the conduct or misconduct of such
agents or attorneys if such agents or attorneys shall have been selected by the
Owner Trustee with reasonable care and (ii) may consult with counsel,
accountants and other skilled
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Persons to be selected with reasonable care and employed by it. The Owner
Trustee shall not be liable for anything done, suffered or omitted in good faith
by it in accordance with the opinion or advice of any such counsel, accountants
or other such Persons and not, to the actual knowledge of the Owner Trustee,
contrary to this Agreement or any other Basic Document.
SECTION 7.05 Not Acting in Individual Capacity. Except as provided in
this Article, in accepting the trusts hereby created, Wilmington Trust Company
acts solely as Owner Trustee hereunder and not in its individual capacity and
all Persons having any claim against the Owner Trustee by reason of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any Basic Document shall look
only to the Owner Trust Estate for payment or satisfaction thereof.
SECTION 7.06 Owner Trustee Not Liable for Trust Certificates. The
recitals contained herein and in the Trust Certificates (other than the
signature of the Owner Trustee and the certificate of authentication on the
Trust Certificates and its representations and warranties in Section 7.03) shall
be taken as the statements of the Transferor, and the Owner Trustee assumes no
responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Owner Trustee makes no
representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement, any other
Basic Document or the Trust Certificates (other than the signature of the Owner
Trustee and the certificate of authentication on the Trust Certificates) or the
Notes or any offering document relating to either of them. The Owner Trustee
shall at no time have any responsibility or liability for or with respect to the
legality, validity or enforceability of any Basic Document to which the Owner
Trustee is to be a party (except for enforceability against the Owner Trustee),
or the perfection and priority of any security interest created by or under any
Basic Document, or the maintenance of any such perfection and priority, or for
or with respect to the sufficiency of the Owner Trust Estate or its ability to
generate the payments to be distributed to Trust Certificateholders under this
Agreement or the Noteholders under the Indenture, the validity of the transfer
of the 2003-A SUBI Certificate, or for the compliance by the Transferor, the
Administrative Agent or the Servicer with any warranty or representation made
under any Basic Document or for the accuracy of any such warranty or
representation or for any action of the Administrative Agent, the Servicer or
the Indenture Trustee taken in the name of the Owner Trustee; provided, however,
that the foregoing shall not relieve the Owner Trustee of its obligation to
perform its duties under this Agreement.
SECTION 7.07 Owner Trustee May Own Trust Certificates and Notes. The
Owner Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or
pledgee of Trust Certificates or Notes and may deal with the Transferor, the
Servicer, the Administrative Agent, the Indenture Trustee and their respective
Affiliates, in banking transactions with the same rights as it would have if it
were not the Owner Trustee.
ARTICLE EIGHT
COMPENSATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE
SECTION 8.01 Owner Trustee's Compensation and Indemnification.
(a) The Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and any Paying
Agent shall receive as compensation from the Administrative Agent for its
services hereunder such fees as have been
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separately agreed upon before the date hereof between the Transferor or the
Administrative Agent and the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the
Paying Agent. The Transferor shall be liable as primary obligor for, and shall
indemnify the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and any Paying Agent and
their respective successors, assigns, agents, servants, officers and employees
(collectively, the "Indemnified Parties") from and against, any Expenses that
may at any time be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the Owner Trustee
or any other Indemnified Party in any way relating to or arising out of the
Basic Documents, the Owner Trust Estate, the administration of the Owner Trust
Estate or the action or inaction of the Owner Trustee hereunder, except that the
Transferor shall not be liable for or required to indemnify any Indemnified
Party from and against Expenses arising or resulting from any income taxes on
any fees payable to any Indemnified Party as described in Section 7.01 for any
willful misconduct, bad faith or negligence on the part of the Owner Trustee or
in the case of the inaccuracy of any representation or warranty of the Owner
Trustee made in Section 7.03. The indemnities contained in this Section shall
survive the resignation or termination of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate
Registrar or any Paying Agent or the termination of this Agreement. In any event
of any claim, action or proceeding for which indemnity will be sought pursuant
to this Section, the Indemnified Party's choice of legal counsel shall be
subject to the approval of the Transferor, which approval shall not be
unreasonably withheld. Neither the Transferor nor the Administrative Agent shall
make any claim upon the Owner Trust Estate for the payment of such Expenses.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall not be
liable for (i) any error of judgment made by an officer of the Owner Trustee,
(ii) any action taken or omitted to be taken in accordance with the instructions
of any Trust Certificateholder, the Indenture Trustee, the Transferor, the
Administrative Agent or the Servicer, (iii) the interest on or principal of the
Securities or (iv) the default or misconduct of the Administrative Agent, the
Servicer, the Transferor or the Indenture Trustee.
ARTICLE NINE
TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT
SECTION 9.01 Termination of Trust Agreement.
(a) This Agreement (other than Article Eight) shall terminate and
the Trust shall dissolve and be wound up in accordance with Section 3808 of the
Statutory Trust Statute, upon the earliest of (i) the final distribution by the
Owner Trustee of all funds or other property or proceeds of the Owner Trust
Estate in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and this Agreement or (ii)
at the times provided in Section 9.03. The bankruptcy, liquidation, dissolution,
or termination, death or incapacity of any Trust Certificateholder, other than
the Transferor, as described in Section 9.03, shall not (i) operate to terminate
this Agreement or the Trust, (ii) entitle such Trust Certificateholder's legal
representatives or heirs to claim an accounting or to take any action or
proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up of all or any part of the
Trust or Owner Trust Estate nor (iii) otherwise affect the rights, obligations
and liabilities of the parties hereto.
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(b) Except as provided in Section 9.01(a), neither the Transferor
nor any other Trust Certificateholder shall be entitled to revoke or terminate
the Trust.
(c) Notice of any termination of this Agreement pursuant to
Section 9.01(a), specifying the Payment Date upon which the Trust
Certificateholders shall surrender their Trust Certificates to the Paying Agent
for final payment and cancellation, shall be given by the Owner Trustee by
letter to Trust Certificateholders mailed within five Business Days of receipt
of notice of such termination from the Administrative Agent, stating (i) the
Payment Date upon or with respect to which final payment of the Trust
Certificates shall be made upon presentation and surrender of the Trust
Certificates at the office of the Paying Agent therein designated, (ii) the
amount of any such final payment and (iii) that the Record Date otherwise
applicable to such Payment Date is not applicable, payments being made only upon
presentation and surrender of the Trust Certificates at the office of the Paying
Agent therein specified. The Owner Trustee shall give such notice to the
Certificate Registrar (if other than the Owner Trustee) and the Paying Agent at
the time such notice is given to Trust Certificateholders and the Transferor.
Upon presentation and surrender of the Trust Certificates, the Paying Agent
shall cause to be distributed to Trust Certificateholders amounts distributable
on such Payment Date pursuant to Section 5.02. The Owner Trustee shall promptly
notify each Rating Agency upon the final payment of the Trust Certificates.
(d) If one or more of the Trust Certificateholders shall not
surrender their Trust Certificates for cancellation within six months after the
date specified in the above-mentioned written notice, the Owner Trustee shall
give a second written notice to the remaining Trust Certificateholders to
surrender their Trust Certificates for cancellation and receive the final
distribution with respect thereto. If within one year after the second notice,
all of the Trust Certificates shall not have been surrendered for cancellation,
the Owner Trustee may take appropriate steps, or may appoint an agent to take
appropriate steps, to contact the remaining Trust Certificateholders concerning
surrender of their Trust Certificates, and the cost thereof shall be paid out of
the funds and other assets that shall remain subject to this Agreement. Any
funds remaining in the Trust after exhaustion of such remedies shall be
distributed by the Owner Trustee to the Administrative Agent.
(e) Upon the winding up of the Trust and its termination, the
Owner Trustee shall cause the Certificate of Trust to be cancelled by filing a
certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State in accordance with
Section 3810 of the Statutory Trust Statute.
SECTION 9.02 [Reserved].
SECTION 9.03 Purchase of the 2003-A SUBI Certificate; Repayment of the
Trust Certificates.
(a) The Servicer shall be permitted at its option to purchase, or
cause to be purchased, the 2003-A SUBI Certificate from the Trust on any Payment
Date if, either before or after giving effect to any payment of principal
required to be made on such Payment Date, (i) the Securities Balance is less
than or equal to 10% of the Initial Securities Balance or (ii) the Outstanding
Amount of the Notes is reduced to zero and 100% of the outstanding Trust
Certificates are owned by the Trust, the Transferor, the Servicer (so long as
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Servicer) and their respective Affiliates (the exercise of such option is
referred to as an "Optional Purchase"). The purchase price (the "Optional
Purchase Price") shall equal the aggregate Securitization Value of the 2003-A
SUBI Assets plus the appraised value of any other property (other than cash, in
which case such value shall be the amount of such funds held in cash) held as
part of the Trust (less Liquidation Expenses) and shall be deposited by the
Servicer into the SUBI Collection Account on the Deposit Date related to such
Payment Date. The Servicer shall not exercise the Optional Purchase if the
Optional Purchase Price does not exceed the sum of (i) the Redemption Price,
(ii) unpaid portions of any outstanding Sales Proceeds Advances and Monthly
Payment Advances, (iii) the Servicing Fee in respect of the related Collection
Period, together with any unpaid Servicing Fees in respect of one or more prior
Collection Periods, and (iv) the Certificate Balance. If the Servicer exercises
the Optional Purchase, the Notes shall be redeemed and the Trust Certificates
shall be repaid, in each case in whole but not in part on the related Payment
Date. The Servicer, at its option, may pay all or a portion of the Optional
Purchase Price by issuing a demand note in favor of the Trust, the terms of
which, on the whole, shall be commercially reasonable and substantially similar
to terms that would prevail in an arms-length negotiation between unaffiliated
parties; provided, however, that (x) the Servicer shall pay in cash the portion
of the Optional Purchase Price that is equal to or greater than the sum of the
amounts specified in clauses (i) through (iii) of the second preceding sentence
and (y) the Servicer may issue a demand note to a Trust Certificateholder
pursuant to this Section 9.03 only if such Certificateholder consents to the
receipt of such demand note.
(b) In connection with an Optional Purchase, the Trust
Certificates shall be due and payable on the related Payment Date, upon
furnishing of a notice complying with Section 9.03(c) to each Trust
Certificateholder. The Administrative Agent or the Owner Trustee shall furnish
each Rating Agency notice of such repayment or redemption.
(c) Notice of repayment or redemption under Section 9.03(b) shall
be given (i) by the Administrative Agent to the Owner Trustee by facsimile or by
first-class mail, postage prepaid, transmitted or mailed at least 20 days prior
to the related Payment Date and (ii) by the Owner Trustee to each Trust
Certificateholder by facsimile or by first-class mail, postage prepaid,
transmitted or mailed at least 15 days (but no more than 30 days) prior to the
related Payment Date, at such Trust Certificateholder's or the Transferor's
address appearing in the Certificate Register.
All notices of repayment shall state:
(i) the related Payment Date for the repayment;
(ii) [reserved];
(iii) the place where the Trust Certificates to be
repaid are to be surrendered for payment of the Repayment Price (which
shall be the office or agency of the Owner Trustee to be maintained as
provided in Section 3.08); and
(iv) that on the related Payment Date, the
Repayment Price will become due and payable upon each such Trust
Certificate.
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Notice of repayment of the Trust Certificates shall be given by the
Owner Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Trust. Failure to give
notice of repayment or any defect therein, to any Trust Certificateholder shall
not impair or affect the validity of the repayment of any Trust Certificate.
(d) The Trust Certificates to be repaid shall, following notice of
repayment as required by Section 9.03(c) on the related Payment Date, become due
and payable at the Repayment Price.
ARTICLE TEN
SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES
SECTION 10.01 Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee. The Owner
Trustee shall (i) be a corporation satisfying the provisions of Section 3807(a)
of the Statutory Trust Statute; (ii) at all times be able and authorized to
exercise corporate trust powers; (iii) have a long-term debt rating of "A" or
higher by Moody's, Standard and Poor's and Fitch (if rated by Fitch), or be
otherwise acceptable to each Rating Agency; (iv) have combined capital and
surplus of at least $50,000,000; and (v) be subject to supervision or
examination by federal or state authorities. If the Owner Trustee shall publish
reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements
of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purpose of
this Section, the combined capital and surplus of the Owner Trustee shall be
deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent
report of condition so published. In case at any time the Owner Trustee shall
cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the
Owner Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect
specified in Section 10.02.
SECTION 10.02 Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee. The Owner
Trustee may at any time resign and be discharged from the trusts hereby created
by giving written notice thereof to the Administrative Agent, the Servicer, each
Rating Agency, the Transferor, the Indenture Trustee and the Trust
Certificateholders. If, for any reason, Wilmington Trust Company or any of its
Affiliates should assume the duties of the Indenture Trustee, then from that
time forward Wilmington Trust Company, in its capacity as Owner Trustee, shall
resign as Owner Trustee hereunder if any Event of Default under the Indenture
occurs and is necessary to eliminate any conflict of interest under the TIA with
the Indenture Trustee or any other trustee under the Indenture. Upon receiving
such notice of resignation, the Transferor shall promptly appoint a successor
Owner Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which instrument
shall be delivered to the resigning Owner Trustee and one copy to the successor
Owner Trustee. If no successor Owner Trustee shall have been so appointed and
have accepted appointment within 30 days after the giving of such notice of
resignation, the resigning Owner Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Owner Trustee.
If at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of Section 10.01 and shall fail to resign after
written request therefor by the Administrative Agent, the Transferor or Trust
Certificateholders holding not less than a Majority Interest of the Trust
Certificates (which, for this purpose, includes Trust Certificates owned by
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the Trust, the Transferor, the Servicer (so long as NMAC or an Affiliate is the
Servicer) or any of their respective Affiliates), or if at any time the Owner
Trustee shall be legally unable to act, or shall be adjudged bankrupt or
insolvent, or a receiver of the Owner Trustee or of its property shall be
appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Owner
Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation,
conservation or liquidation, then the Transferor or such Trust
Certificateholders may remove the Owner Trustee. If the Owner Trustee shall be
removed pursuant to the preceding sentence, the Transferor shall promptly
appoint a successor Owner Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy
of which instrument shall be delivered to the outgoing Owner Trustee so removed
and one copy to the successor Owner Trustee.
Any resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee and appointment of a
successor Owner Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section shall
not become effective until acceptance of appointment by the successor Owner
Trustee pursuant to Section 10.03 and payment of all fees and expenses owed to
the outgoing Owner Trustee. Any appointment of a successor Owner Trustee is
subject to satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition.
SECTION 10.03 Successor Owner Trustee. Any successor Owner Trustee
appointed pursuant to Section 10.02 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to
the Administrative Agent and to its predecessor Owner Trustee an instrument
accepting such appointment under this Agreement, and thereupon the resignation
or removal of the predecessor Owner Trustee shall become effective and such
successor Owner Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall
become fully vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its
predecessor under this Agreement, with like effect as if originally named as
Owner Trustee. The predecessor Owner Trustee shall, upon payment of its fees and
expenses, deliver to the successor Owner Trustee all documents and statements
and monies held by it under this Agreement; and the Transferor, the
Administrative Agent and the predecessor Owner Trustee shall execute and deliver
such instruments and do such other things as may reasonably be required for
fully and certainly vesting and confirming in the successor Owner Trustee all
such rights, powers, duties and obligations.
No successor Owner Trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this
Section unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Owner Trustee shall
be eligible pursuant to Section 10.01.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to
this Section, the Transferor shall mail notice of the successor of such Owner
Trustee to all Trust Certificateholders, the Indenture Trustee and each Rating
Agency. If the Transferor shall fail to mail such notice within ten days after
acceptance of appointment by the successor Owner Trustee, the successor Owner
Trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the expense of the Transferor.
SECTION 10.04 Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee. Any Person (i)
into which the Owner Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be
consolidated, (ii) resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to
which the Owner Trustee shall be a party or (iii) succeeding to all or
substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Owner Trustee, shall be
the successor of the Owner Trustee hereunder, without the execution or filing of
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any instrument or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto,
provided, that such Person shall be eligible pursuant to Section 10.01 anything
herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Owner Trustee shall mail notice of
such merger, conversion, or consolidation to each Rating Agency, the Indenture
Trustee and the Trust Certificateholders.
SECTION 10.05 Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, at any time, for the
purpose of meeting any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any part
of the Owner Trust Estate may at the time be located, the Transferor and the
Owner Trustee acting jointly shall have the power and shall execute and deliver
all instruments to appoint one or more Persons to act as co-trustee, jointly
with the Owner Trustee, or separate trustee or separate trustees, of all or any
part of the Owner Trust Estate, and to vest in such Person, in such capacity,
such title to the Trust, or any part thereof, and, subject to the other
provisions of this Section, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts
as the Transferor and the Owner Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. If
the Transferor shall not have joined in such appointment within 15 days after
the receipt by it of a request to do so, the Owner Trustee alone shall have the
power to make such appointment. No co-trustee or separate trustee under this
Agreement shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a trustee
pursuant to Section 10.01 and no notice of the appointment of any co-trustee or
separate trustee shall be required pursuant to Section 10.03.
Each separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by
law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and conditions:
(a) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or
imposed upon the Owner Trustee shall be conferred upon and exercised or
performed by the Owner Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee jointly
(it being understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee is not authorized
to act separately without the Owner Trustee joining in such act), except to the
extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or
acts are to be performed, the Owner Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified
to perform such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties and
obligations (including the holding of title to the Trust Estate or any portion
thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed singly by
such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction of the Owner
Trustee;
(b) no trustee under this Agreement shall be personally liable by
reason of any act or omission of any other trustee under this Agreement; and
(c) the Transferor and the Owner Trustee acting jointly may at any
time accept the resignation of or remove any separate trustee or co-trustee.
Any notice, request or other writing given to the Owner Trustee shall
be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and
co-trustees as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument
appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement and
the conditions of this Article. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its
acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property
specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Owner
Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions
of this Agreement, specifically including every provision of this Agreement
relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording
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protection to the Owner Trustee. Each such instrument shall be filed with the
Owner Trustee and a copy thereof given to the Administrative Agent, the Servicer
and the Transferor.
Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time appoint the Owner
Trustee, its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to the
extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of this
Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or co-trustee
shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its estates,
properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the
Owner Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new
or successor trustee.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
TAX MATTERS
SECTION 11.01 Tax and Accounting Characterization.
(a) It is the intent of the parties hereto that the Trust not
constitute a separate entity for federal income tax and state income and
franchise tax purposes. It is the intent of the Transferor and the Trust
Certificateholders that the Notes be treated as indebtedness secured by the
2003-A Vehicles and the payments on the 2003-A Leases for federal income tax and
state income and franchise tax purposes. If, however, the Trust is
re-characterized as a separate entity for federal income tax purposes, it is the
intention of the parties that it qualify as a partnership, with the assets of
the partnership being the Owner Trust Estate. The parties agree that, unless
otherwise required by appropriate tax authorities, the Trust shall not file or
cause to be filed annual returns, reports or other forms and will treat the
Trust in a manner consistent with the characterization that the Trust is not a
separate entity for tax purposes.
The Transferor and the Trust Certificateholder, by acceptance of a
Trust Certificate, agree to take no action inconsistent with the foregoing
intention.
(b) It is the intent of the Transferor to treat the Trust
Certificates as equity interests in the Trust for financial accounting purposes.
SECTION 11.02 Signature on Returns; Tax Matters Partner.
(a) If the Trust shall be required to file federal or other income
tax returns as a partnership, such returns shall be signed by an authorized
signatory for the Transferor or such other Person as shall be required by law to
sign such returns of the Trust.
(b) By acceptance of its beneficial interest in a Trust
Certificate, each Trust Certificateholder agrees that in the event that the
Trust is classified as a partnership for federal income tax purposes, the
Transferor shall be the "tax matters partner" of the Trust pursuant to the Code.
SECTION 11.03 Tax Reporting. Unless otherwise required by appropriate
tax authorities, the Trust shall not file or cause to be filed annual or other
income or franchise tax returns and shall not be required to obtain any taxpayer
identification number.
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ARTICLE TWELVE
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 12.01 Supplements and Amendments.
(a) This Agreement may be amended by the Transferor and the Owner
Trustee without the consent of any of the Securityholders to cure any ambiguity,
correct or supplement any provision herein that may be inconsistent with any
other provision herein, add any other provisions with respect to matters or
questions arising under this Agreement that are not inconsistent with the
provisions of this Agreement or add or amend any provision herein in connection
with permitting transfers of the Trust Certificates; provided, however, that
such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, materially
adversely affect the interests of any Holder of a 2003-A SUBI Certificate
(which, so long as any Notes are outstanding, shall include the Indenture
Trustee) or any Securityholder.
(b) This Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the
Transferor and the Owner Trustee, with prior written notice to the Rating
Agencies and subject to the satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition, with
the consent of the Noteholders holding a Majority Interest of the Notes, voting
as a single class, and to the extent affected thereby, the consent of Trust
Certificateholders holding not less than a Majority Interest of the Trust
Certificates (which for this purpose shall include Trust Certificates owned by
the Trust, the Transferor, the Servicer (as long as NMAC or an Affiliate is the
Servicer) and their respective Affiliates), for the purpose of adding any
provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of
this Agreement or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders or
the Trust Certificateholders. No such amendment shall, however, (i) increase or
reduce in any manner the amount of, or accelerate or delay the timing of,
distributions that are required to be made on the Notes or the Trust
Certificates or (ii) reduce the percentage of the Certificate Balance or the
Outstanding Amount required to consent to any such amendment, without the
consent of the holders of 100% of all outstanding Trust Certificates (including
Trust Certificates owned by the Trust, the Transferor, the Servicer (as long as
NMAC or an Affiliate is the Servicer) and their respective Affiliates), and
provided, further that an Opinion of Counsel shall be furnished to the Indenture
Trustee and the Owner Trustee to the effect that such amendment shall not (A)
affect the treatment of the Notes as debt for federal income tax purposes, (B)
be deemed to cause a taxable exchange of the Notes for federal income tax
purposes or (C) cause the Trust or the 2003-A SUBI Certificate to be classified
as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation
for federal income tax purposes. This Agreement may also be amended or
supplemented from time to time, at the request of the holders of no less than 66
2/3% of all outstanding Trust Certificates (including Trust Certificates owned
by the Trust, the Transferor, the Servicer (as long as NMAC or an Affiliate is
the Servicer) and their respective Affiliates), to approve any trust purpose
with respect to the Trust in addition to the purpose authorized pursuant to
Section 2.03(b), upon not less that 90 days notice to each Rating Agency and
each Noteholder and subject to each of (1) the prior written notice to each
Rating Agency of such action, and (2) the consent of the holders of at least 66
2/3% of all outstanding Notes (including such Notes, if any, owned by the Trust,
the Transferor, the Servicer (as long as NMAC or an Affiliate is the Servicer)
and their respective Affiliates), and provided, further that an Opinion of
Counsel shall be furnished to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee to the
effect that such amendment
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or supplement shall not affect the treatment of any outstanding Notes for
federal income tax purposes, or cause the Trust or the 2003-A SUBI Certificate
to be classified as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as
a corporation for federal income tax purposes.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of Trust Certificateholders,
the Noteholders or the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section to approve the
particular form of any proposed amendment or consent, but it shall be sufficient
if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. The manner of obtaining
such consents (and any other consents of Trust Certificateholders provided for
in this Agreement or in any other Basic Document) and of evidencing the
authorization of the execution thereof by Trust Certificateholders shall be
subject to such reasonable requirements as the Owner Trustee may prescribe.
(c) Notwithstanding Section 12.01(b), this Agreement may be
amended at any time by the parties hereto to the extent reasonably necessary to
assure that none of the Titling Trust, the Trust or the Transferor will be
classified as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a
corporation for federal income tax purposes.
(d) Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement or
any other Basic Document, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive and
rely upon an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amendment is
authorized or permitted by this Agreement and the other Basic Documents and that
all conditions precedent herein and in the other Basic Documents to the
execution and delivery of such amendment have been satisfied. The Owner Trustee
may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment which affects
the Owner Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or
otherwise. (e) The Owner Trustee shall give the Trust Certificateholders 30
days' written notice of any proposed amendment or supplement hereto, unless the
Owner Trustee is furnished an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such
amendment or supplement does not materially adversely affect the Trust
Certificateholders or if Noteholders consent is required and this Agreement
provides that the Owner Trustee shall not enter into such amendment unless a
majority of the Certificate Balance of Trust Certificateholders consent in
writing.
SECTION 12.02 No Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate. The Trust
Certificateholders shall have legal title to any part of the Owner Trust Estate.
The Trust Certificateholders shall be entitled to receive distributions with
respect to their Trust Certificates only in accordance with Articles Five and
Nine. No transfer, by operation of law or otherwise, of any right, title or
interest of the Trust Certificateholders to and in their ownership interest in
the Owner Trust Estate shall operate to terminate this Agreement or the trusts
hereunder or entitle any transferee to an accounting or to the transfer to it of
legal title to any part of the Owner Trust Estate.
SECTION 12.03 Limitations on Rights of Others. The provisions of this
Agreement are solely for the benefit of the Owner Trustee, the Transferor, the
Trust Certificateholders, the Administrative Agent, the Servicer and the
Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders, and nothing in this Agreement, whether
express or implied, shall be construed to give to any other Person any legal or
equitable right, remedy or claim in the Owner Trust Estate or under or in
respect of this Agreement or any covenants, conditions or provisions contained
herein.
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SECTION 12.04 Notices. All demands, notices and communications
hereunder shall be in writing and shall be delivered or mailed by registered or
certified first-class United States mail, postage prepaid, hand delivery,
prepaid courier service, or by telecopier, and addressed in each case as
follows: (i) if to the Owner Trustee, at Wilmington Trust Company, Rodney Square
North, 1100 N. Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890, (telecopier no. (302)
651-8882), Attention: Corporate Trust Administration; (ii) if to the Transferor,
at 990 West 190th Street, Torrance, California 90502 (telecopier no. (310)
719-8509), Attention: Secretary; (iii) if to Moody's, at Moody's Investors
Service, Inc., 99 Church Street, New York, New York 10007, Attention: ABS
Monitoring Group (telecopier no. (212) 553-7820); (iv) if to Standard & Poor's,
to Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies,
Inc., 55 Water Street, New York, New York 10041 (telecopier no. (212) 208-0030),
Attention: Asset Backed Monitoring Group; (v) if to Fitch, at Fitch, Inc., One
State Street Plaza, New York, New York 10004 (telecopier no.(212) 480-4438),
Attention: Romaana Zia; or (vi) at such other address as shall be designated by
any of the foregoing in a written notice to the other parties hereto. Delivery
shall occur only upon receipt or reported tender of such communication by an
officer of the recipient entitled to receive such notices located at the address
of such recipient for notices hereunder.
Any notice required or permitted to be given to a Trust
Certificateholder shall be given by first-class mail, confirmed, facsimile or
overnight courier, postage prepaid, at the address of such Trust
Certificateholder as shown in the Certificate Register. Any notice so mailed
within the time prescribed in this Agreement shall be conclusively presumed to
have been duly given, whether or not such Trust Certificateholder receives such
notice.
SECTION 12.05 Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that is
prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction,
be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without
invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or
unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render
unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
SECTION 12.06 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by the
parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and
delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall together
constitute but one and the same instrument.
SECTION 12.07 Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements
contained herein shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the
Transferor, the Owner Trustee, and each Trust Certificateholder and their
respective successors and permitted assigns, all to the extent as herein
provided. Any request, notice, direction, consent, waiver or other instrument or
action by a Trust Certificateholder shall bind the successors and assigns of the
Transferor or such Trust Certificateholder.
SECTION 12.08 No Petition. The Owner Trustee, any Paying Agent, the
Transferor, and each Trust Certificateholder by accepting a Trust Certificate,
covenant that they will not institute, or join in instituting, any bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation Proceeding, or other
Proceeding under federal or State bankruptcy or similar laws, against NMAC, the
Transferor, the Titling Trust, the UTI Beneficiary or the Trust, for a period of
one year and a day after:
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(a) payment in full of all amounts due to each Holder in respect
of the UTI, the SUBI or any Other SUBI, against any UTI Beneficiary (or any
general partner of a UTI Beneficiary which is a partnership, the Titling Trust
and the Titling Trustee, without the consent of 100% of the Holders of the
2003-A SUBI and each Other SUBI (excluding the UTI Beneficiary, the Transferor
or any of their respective Affiliates); and
(b) payment in full of the Notes; provided, however, that 100% of
the Noteholders, or, if no Notes are then outstanding, 100% of the Trust
Certificateholders (in each case excluding the Transferor and any of its
Affiliates) may at any time institute or join in instituting any bankruptcy,
reorganization, insolvency or liquidation proceeding against the Transferor or
the Trust.
SECTION 12.09 No Recourse. Each Trust Certificate entitles the holder
thereof to the respective rights and benefits set forth in this Agreement and in
the Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates do not represent interests in or
obligations of the Servicer, the Transferor, the Owner Trustee, any Paying
Agent, the Indenture Trustee or any Affiliate thereof and no recourse may be had
against such parties or their assets, except as may be expressly set forth or
contemplated in this Agreement, the Trust Certificates or the other Basic
Documents.
SECTION 12.10 Headings. The headings of the various Articles and
Sections herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or
limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.
SECTION 12.11 GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS
CONFLICTS OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
SECTION 12.12 Trust Certificates Nonassessable and Fully Paid. Trust
Certificateholders shall not be personally liable for obligations of the Trust.
The interests represented by the Trust Certificates shall be nonassessable for
any losses or expenses of the Trust or for any reason whatsoever, and, upon
authentication thereof pursuant to Section 3.03, 3.04 and 3.05, the Trust
Certificates shall be deemed fully paid.
SECTION 12.13 Furnishing of Basic Documents. The Transferor shall
furnish to any Trust Certificateholder promptly upon receipt of a written
request by such Trust Certificateholder (at the expense of the requesting Trust
Certificateholder) therefor, duplicates or copies of all Basic Documents.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amended and
Restated Trust Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers
hereunto duly authorized, as of the day and year first above written.
NISSAN AUTO LEASING LLC II, as Transferor
By: /s/ Joji Tagawa
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Name: Joji Tagawa
Title: Treasurer
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as Owner
Trustee
By: /s/ Anita E. Dallago
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Name: Anita E. Dallago
Title: Senior Financial Services Officer
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EXHIBIT A
FORM OF TRUST CERTIFICATE
TRUST CERTIFICATE
SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS
THIS CERTIFICATE IS NON-TRANSFERABLE.
THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR UNDER ANY
STATE SECURITIES OR BLUE SKY LAW. THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THIS TRUST
CERTIFICATE, AGREES THAT THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE MAY BE REOFFERED, RESOLD,
PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND
OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS AND ONLY PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT
("RULE 144A") TO AN INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR THAT THE HOLDER REASONABLY BELIEVES
IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A (A "QIB"),
PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR A QIB PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QIB, IN
EACH CASE WHOM THE HOLDER HAS INFORMED THAT THE REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER
TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A SUBJECT TO THE RECEIPT BY THE
OWNER TRUSTEE AND THE TRANSFEROR OF A LETTER SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM PROVIDED
IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE RECEIPT BY THE OWNER TRUSTEE AND THE TRANSFEROR
OF SUCH OTHER EVIDENCE ACCEPTABLE TO THE OWNER TRUSTEE AND THE TRANSFEROR THAT
SUCH REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES
ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS OR IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE
SECURITIES LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE
UNITED STATES AND ANY OTHER APPLICABLE JURISDICTION. THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE MAY
NOT BE PURCHASED OR HELD WITH PLAN ASSETS OF ANY "EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN" AS
DEFINED IN SECTION 3(3) OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974,
AS AMENDED ("ERISA"), THAT IS SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF ERISA OR ANY "PLAN" AS
DEFINED IN SECTION 4975(e)(1) THAT IS SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL
REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED, or any entity whose underlying assets inCLUDE
"PLAN ASSETS" BY REASON OF A PLAN'S INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY OR OTHERWISE (EACH
A "BENEFIT PLAN"). BY ACCEPTANCE OF THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE OR AN INTEREST
THEREIN, THE HOLDER HEREOF SHALL BE DEEMED TO REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT ITS
ACQUISITION AND HOLDING IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTION ON
BENEFIT PLAN ASSETS.
THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE IS DISTRIBUTABLE AS SET FORTH
IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING CERTIFICATE BALANCE OF THIS
TRUST CERTIFICATE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE
HEREOF.
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THIS CERTIFICATE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN OBLIGATION OF OR AN INTEREST IN
THE TRANSFEROR, THE OWNER TRUSTEE, THE SERVICER, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, NMAC,
NALL II, NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC. OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE AFFILIATES, AND
WILL NOT BE INSURED OR GUARANTEED BY ANY SUCH ENTITY OR BY ANY GOVERNMENTAL
AGENCY.
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NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2003-A
ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATE
evidencing a beneficial interest in the Trust, as defined below, the
property of which includes, among other things, the 2003-A SUBI
Certificate, evidencing a 100% beneficial interest in the 2003-A SUBI.
The property of the Trust has been pledged to the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to the Indenture to secure the payment of the Notes issued
thereunder.
This Trust Certificate does not represent an interest in or obligation
of the Transferor, Nissan Motor Acceptance Corporation, the Owner Trustee or any
of their respective Affiliates, except to the extent described below.
NUMBER $_____________
R-_____
This certifies that _________________ is the registered owner of a
_______________ dollars nonassessable, fully-paid, beneficial ownership interest
in the Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2003-A (the "Trust") formed by Nissan Auto
Leasing LLC II, a Delaware limited liability company (the "Transferor").
The Trust was created pursuant to a trust agreement, as amended and
restated as of October 29, 2003 (the "Trust Agreement"), between the Transferor
and Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee (the "Owner Trustee"), a summary of
certain of the pertinent provisions of which is set forth below. Capitalized
terms used herein that are not otherwise defined shall have the meanings
ascribed thereto in the Agreement of Definitions.
This Trust Certificate is one of the duly authorized Trust Certificates
designated as "Asset Backed Certificates" (the "Trust Certificates"). Also
issued under an indenture, dated as of October 29, 2003 (the "Indenture"),
between the Trust and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the "Indenture
Trustee"), are the 1.16563% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-1, the 1.69000% Asset
Backed Notes, Class A-2, the Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes, Class A-3a and
the 2.57000% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-3b. This Trust Certificate is issued
under and is subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Trust
Agreement, to which Trust Agreement the holder of this Trust Certificate by
virtue of the acceptance hereof assents and by which such Trust
Certificateholder is bound. The property of the Trust primarily includes, among
other things, (i) the 2003-A SUBI Certificate, evidencing a 100% beneficial
interest in the 2003-A SUBI, and (ii) all proceeds of the foregoing. The rights
of the Trust in the foregoing property have been pledged by the Trust to the
Indenture Trustee to secure the payment of the Notes.
The Trust Certificates represent obligations of the Trust only and do
not represent interests in, recourse to or obligations of the Transferor, the
UTI Beneficiary or any of their respective Affiliates.
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Under the Trust Agreement, there will be distributed on the 15th day of
each month (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next Business Day),
commencing November 17, 2003 (each, a "Payment Date"), to the Person in whose
name this Trust Certificate is registered at the close of business on the day
preceding each Payment Date (each, a "Record Date") such Trust
Certificateholder's percentage interest in the amount to be distributed with
respect to the Trust Certificates on such Payment Date.
The holder of this Trust Certificate acknowledges and agrees that its
rights to receive payments in respect of this Trust Certificate are subordinated
to the rights of the Noteholders as described in the Indenture.
It is the intent of the Transferor and Trust Certificateholder that the
Trust not constitute a separate entity for federal income and state income and
franchise tax purposes, and that the Notes be treated as indebtedness for such
purposes. If, however, the Trust is re-characterized as a separate entity for
federal income tax purposes, it is the intention of the parties to the Trust
Agreement that it qualify as a partnership for such purposes. The Transferor and
the other Trust Certificateholders, by acceptance of a Trust Certificate, agree
to take no action inconsistent with the foregoing intention.
Each Trust Certificateholder by accepting a Trust Certificate,
covenants and agrees that they will not institute, or join in instituting, any
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation Proceeding,
or other Proceeding under federal or State bankruptcy or similar laws, against
NMAC, the Transferor or the Trust, for a period of one year and a day after:
(a) payment in full of all amounts due to each Holder in respect
of the UTI, the SUBI or any Other SUBI, against the UTI Beneficiary, the Titling
Trust and the Titling Trustee, without the consent of 100% of the Holders of the
2003-A SUBI and each Other SUBI (excluding the UTI Beneficiary, the Transferor
or any of their respective Affiliates); and
(b) payment in full of the Notes, against the Transferor or the
Trust; provided, however, that 100% of the Noteholders, or, if no Notes are then
outstanding, 100% of the Trust Certificateholders (in each case excluding the
Transferor and any of its Affiliates) may at any time institute or join in
instituting any bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency or liquidation proceeding
against the Transferor or the Trust.
Distributions on this Trust Certificate will be made as provided in the
Trust Agreement by the Owner Trustee by check mailed to the Trust
Certificateholder of record in the Certificate Register without the presentation
or surrender of this Trust Certificate or the making of any notation hereon.
Except as otherwise provided in the Trust Agreement and notwithstanding the
above, the final payment on this Trust Certificate will be made after due notice
by the Owner Trustee of the pendency of such payment and only upon presentation
and surrender of this Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained for
the purpose by the Owner Trustee in The Borough of Manhattan in the The City of
New York.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Trust
Certificate set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for
all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
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Unless the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been
executed by an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee, by manual signature,
this Trust Certificate shall not entitle the holder hereof to any benefit under
the Trust Agreement or be valid for any purpose.
THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS
OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICTS OF LAW PROVISIONS,
AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE
DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust and not
in its individual capacity, has caused this Trust Certificate to be duly
executed.
Dated: ________________________ NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2003-A
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
as Owner Trustee
By: ___________________________________
Name:
Title:
OWNER TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Trust Certificates referred to in the
within-mentioned Trust Agreement.
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, or WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
as Owner Trustee as Owner Trustee
By: _____________________,
Authenticating Agent
By:_____________________________
By: ___________________________________
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[Reverse of Trust Certificate]
The Trust Certificates do not represent an obligation of or an interest
in the Transferor, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee or any of their respective
Affiliates, and no recourse may be had against such parties or their assets,
except as may be expressly set forth or contemplated herein or in the Trust
Agreement or the other Basic Documents. In addition, this Trust Certificate is
not guaranteed by any governmental agency or instrumentality and is limited in
right of payment to certain collections and recoveries and certain other amounts
respecting the assets of the Trust, all as more specifically set forth in the
Indenture. The Transferor will furnish, upon the request of any holder of a
Trust Certificate, such information as is specified in paragraph (d)(4) of Rule
144A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, with respect to the Trust.
The Trust Agreement may be amended by the Transferor and the Owner
Trustee without the consent of any of the Securityholders to cure any ambiguity,
correct or supplement any provision therein that may be inconsistent with any
other provision therein, add any other provisions with respect to matters or
questions arising under the Trust Agreement that are not inconsistent with the
provisions of the Trust Agreement or add or amend any provision therein in
connection with permitting transfers of the Trust Certificates; provided,
however, that such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel,
materially adversely affect the interests of any Holder of a 2003-A SUBI
Certificate (which, so long as any Notes are outstanding, shall include the
Indenture Trustee) or any Securityholder.
The Trust Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the
Transferor and the Owner Trustee, with prior written notice to the Rating
Agencies, with the consent of the Noteholders holding a Majority Interest of the
Notes, voting as a single class, and, to the extent affected thereby, the
consent of Trust Certificateholders holding not less than a Majority Interest of
the Trust Certificates, for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing
in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of the Trust Agreement or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders or the Trust
Certificateholders. No such amendment shall, however, (i) increase or reduce in
any manner the amount of, or accelerate or delay the timing of, distributions
that are required to be made on the Notes or the Trust Certificates or (ii)
reduce the percentage of the Certificate Balance or the Outstanding Amount
required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the holders of
100% of all outstanding Trust Certificates (including Trust Certificates owned
by the Trust, the Transferor, the Servicer (so long as NMAC or an Affiliate is
the Servicer) and their respective Affiliates), and provided, further that an
Opinion of Counsel shall be furnished to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner
Trustee to the effect that such amendment shall not (A) affect the treatment of
the Notes as debt for federal income tax purposes, (B) be deemed to cause a
taxable exchange of the Notes for federal income tax purposes or (C) cause the
Trust or the 2003-A SUBI Certificates to be classified as an association (or a
publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal and state
income and franchise tax purposes.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Trust Agreement may be amended at
any time by the parties hereto to the extent reasonably necessary to assure that
none of the Titling Trust, the Trust or the Transferor will be classified as an
association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for
federal income tax purposes.
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As provided in the Trust Agreement, if and to the extent transfers are
permitted and if the Transferor delivers an Opinion of Counsel that the Trust
Certificates are transferable in accordance with the terms set forth therein,
which opinion the Transferor has not determined can be given under the Internal
Revenue Code and existing and proposed regulations thereunder, the transfer of
this Trust Certificate is registerable in the Certificate Register upon
surrender of this Trust Certificate for registration of transfer at the offices
or agencies of the Certificate Registrar maintained by the Owner Trustee in the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, accompanied by a written instrument
of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate
Registrar duly executed by the Trust Certificateholder hereof or such Trust
Certificateholder's attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or
more new Trust Certificates of the same class and in authorized denominations
evidencing the same aggregate interest in the Trust will be issued to the
designated transferee. The initial Certificate Registrar appointed under the
Trust Agreement is Wilmington Trust Company.
The Trust Certificates are issuable only as registered Trust
Certificates without coupons in minimum denominations of $250,000. As provided
in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth,
Trust Certificates are exchangeable for new Trust Certificates of authorized
denominations evidencing the same aggregate denomination, as requested by the
Holder surrendering the same. No service charge will be made for any such
registration of transfer or exchange, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate
Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
The Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and any agent of the Owner
Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may treat the Person in whose name this
Trust Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and none
of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any such agent shall be
affected by any notice to the contrary.
The obligations and responsibilities created by the Trust Agreement and
the trust created thereby shall terminate upon the payment to Trust
Certificateholders of all amounts required to be paid to them pursuant to the
Trust Agreement and the Indenture and the disposition of all property held as
part of the Owner Trust Estate.
Any prospective transferee of a Trust Certificate will be required to
deliver a letter to the Transferor and the Certificate Registrar substantially
in the form of Exhibit C to the Trust Agreement, which letter includes a
representation that such prospective transferee is not a "Benefit Plan Investor"
(as defined in Department of Labor Regulation 2510.3-101(f)(2)). The Trust
Certificates may not be transferred, sold, pledged or otherwise disposed to or
for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor.
The Trust Certificates may not be acquired by a Benefit Plan. By
accepting and holding this Trust Certificate, the holder hereof shall be deemed
to have represented and warranted that it is not a Benefit Plan and is not
acquiring this Trust Certificate or an interest therein for the account of a
Benefit Plan.
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto
________________________________________________________________________________
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF
ASSIGNEE
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
(Please print or type name and address, including postal zip code, of assignee)
the within Trust Certificate, and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably
constituting and appointing ______________________________ attorney to transfer
said Trust Certificate on the books of the Certificate Registrar, with full
power of substitution in the premises.
Dated: ___________________
____________________________________*
Signature Guaranteed:
____________________________________*
* NOTICE: The signatures(s) on this Assignment must correspond with the
name(s) as written on the face of the within Trust Certificate in every
particular without alteration, enlargement or any change whatsoever.
Such signature must be guaranteed by a member firm of the New York
Stock Exchange or a commercial bank or trust company.
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EXHIBIT B
FORM OF RULE 144A CERTIFICATE
____________, ____
Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II
990 West 190(th) Street
Torrance, California 90502
Wilmington Trust Company,
as Owner Trustee
Rodney Square North
1100 N. Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19890
Wilmington Trust Company,
as Certificate Registrar
520 Madison Avenue
33(rd) Floor
New York, New York 10019
Ladies and Gentlemen:
This is to notify you as to the transfer of $____________ initial
principal balance of Asset Backed Certificates (the "Trust Certificates") of
Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2003-A (the "Trust").
The undersigned is the holder of the Trust Certificates and with this
notice hereby deposits with Wilmington Trust Company (the "Owner Trustee")
$____________ initial principal balance of Trust Certificates and requests that
Trust Certificates in the same initial principal balance be issued, executed and
authenticated and registered to the purchaser on ____________, 200__, as
specified in the trust agreement dated May 13, 2003, as amended and restated by
the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement dated October 29, 2003 among Wilmington
Trust Company and Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II, as follows:
Name: Denominations:
Address:
Taxpayer I.D. No:
The undersigned represents and warrants that the undersigned (a)
reasonably believes the purchaser is a "qualified institutional buyer," as
defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"),
(b) such purchaser has acquired the Trust Certificates in a transaction effected
in accordance with the exemption from the registration requirements of the Act
provided by Rule 144A and (c) if the purchaser has purchased the Trust
Certificates for one or more accounts for which it is acting as fiduciary or
agent, (i) each such account is a qualified
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institutional buyer and (ii) the purchaser is acquiring Trust Certificates for
its own account or for one or more institutional accounts for which it is acting
as fiduciary or agent in a minimum amount equivalent to not less than $250,000
for each such account.
Very truly yours,
____________________________________________
By: ________________________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT C
FORM OF INVESTMENT LETTER
QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER
______________, ______
U.S. Bank National Association,
as Indenture Trustee
400 North Michigan Avenue, 2(nd) Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60601
Wilmington Trust Company,
as Owner Trustee
Rodney Square North
1100 N. Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19890
Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II
990 West 190th Street
Torrance, California 90502
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with our proposed purchase of $__________________
aggregate principal amount of Certificates (the "Certificates") representing an
undivided interest in the Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2003-A (the "Trust"), the
investor on whose behalf the undersigned is executing this letter (the
"Purchaser") confirms that:
1. Reference is made to the Prospectus, dated October
21, 2003 (the "Prospectus"), relating to the Certificates. Capitalized terms
used herein that are not otherwise defined shall have the meanings ascribed
thereto in the Prospectus. The Purchaser has received a copy of the Prospectus
and such other information as the Purchaser deems necessary in order to make its
investment decision and the Purchaser has been provided the opportunity to ask
questions of, and receive answers from, the Servicer and Nissan Auto Leasing LLC
II, as the Transferor, concerning the Servicer, the UTI Beneficiary and the
Transferor and the terms and conditions of the offering described in the
Prospectus. The Purchaser has received and understands the above, and
understands that substantial risks are involved in an investment in the
Certificates. The Purchaser represents that in making its investment decision to
acquire the Certificates, the Purchaser has not relied on representations,
warranties, opinions, projections, financial or other information or analysis,
if any, supplied to it by any person, including you, the Servicer, the
Transferor or the Owner Trustee or any of your or their affiliates, except as
expressly contained in the Prospectus and in the other written information, if
any, discussed above. The Purchaser has such knowledge and experience in
financial and business matters as to be capable of evaluating the merits and
risks of an investment in the Certificates, and the Purchaser is able to bear
the substantial economic risks of such an investment. The Purchaser
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has relied upon its own tax, legal and financial advisors in connection with its
decision to purchase the Certificates.
2. The Purchaser is (A) a "Qualified Institutional
Buyer" (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(the "1933 Act")) and has delivered to you a certificate substantially in the
form attached hereto as Annex 1 or Annex 2, as applicable and (B) acquiring the
Certificates for its own account or for the account of an investor of the type
described in clause (A) above as to each of which the Purchaser exercises sole
investment discretion. The Purchaser is purchasing the Certificates for
investment purposes and not with a view to, or for, the offer or sale in
connection with, a public distribution or in any other manner that would violate
the 1933 Act or the securities or "Blue Sky" laws of any state.
3. The Purchaser understands that the Certificates have
not been and will not be registered under the 1933 Act or under the securities
or blue sky laws of any state, and that (i) if it decides to resell, pledge or
otherwise transfer any Certificate, such Certificate may be resold, pledged or
transferred without registration only to an entity that has delivered to the
Transferor and the Owner Trustee a certification that it is a Qualified
Institutional Buyer that purchases (1) for its own account or (2) for the
account of such a Qualified Institutional Buyer, that is, in either case, aware
that the resale, pledge or transfer is being made in reliance on said Rule 144A
and (ii) it will, and each subsequent holder will be required to, notify any
purchaser of any Certificate from it of the resale restrictions referred to in
clause (i) above.
4. The Purchaser understands that each of Certificate
will bear a legend to the following effect, unless otherwise agreed by the
Transferor and the Owner Trustee:
"THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES
ACT"), OR UNDER ANY STATE SECURITIES OR BLUE SKY LAW. THE
HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THIS CERTIFICATE, AGREES THAT
THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE REOFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR
OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES
ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS AND ONLY PURSUANT TO RULE 144A
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT ("RULE 144A") TO AN INSTITUTIONAL
INVESTOR THAT THE HOLDER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A (A "QIB"),
PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR A QIB PURCHASING FOR THE
ACCOUNT OF A QIB, WHOM THE HOLDER HAS INFORMED, IN EACH CASE,
THAT THE REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS BEING
MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A SUBJECT TO THE RECEIPT BY THE
TRANSFEROR AND THE OWNER TRUSTEE OF A LETTER SUBSTANTIALLY IN
THE FORM PROVIDED IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE RECEIPT BY
THE OWNER TRUSTEE AND THE
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TRANSFEROR OF SUCH OTHER EVIDENCE ACCEPTABLE TO THE OWNER
TRUSTEE AND THE TRANSFEROR THAT SUCH REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE
OR TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER
APPLICABLE LAWS OR IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL
APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND SECURITIES
LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES AND ANY OTHER
APPLICABLE JURISDICTION. THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE
PURCHASED OR HELD WITH PLAN ASSETS OF ANY "EMPLOYEE BENEFIT
PLAN" AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(3) OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT
INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED ("ERISA"), OR ANY PLAN
THAT IS SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF ERISA OR ANY "PLAN" AS DEFINED
IN SECTION 4975(e)(1) THAT IS SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE
INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED, or any entity whose
underlying assets inCLUDE "PLAN ASSETS" BY REASON OF A PLAN'S
INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY OR OTHERWISE (EACH A "BENEFIT PLAN").
BY ACCEPTANCE OF THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE OR AN INTEREST
THEREIN, THE HOLDER HEREOF SHALL BE DEEMED TO REPRESENT AND
WARRANT THAT ITS ACQUISITION AND HOLDING IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH
THE FOREGOING RESTRICTION ON BENEFIT PLAN ASSETS."
5. If the Purchaser is acquiring any Certificate as a
fiduciary or agent for one or more investor accounts, it has sole investment
discretion with respect to each such account and that it has full power to make
the acknowledgements, representations and agreements contained herein on behalf
of such account.
6. The Purchaser is not (a) an "employee benefit plan"
(as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the provisions of Title
I of ERISA, (b) a "plan" (as defined in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code) that is
subject to Section 4975 of the Code or otherwise (c) any entity whose underlying
assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in such entity or
otherwise (each, a "Benefit Plan").
7. The Purchaser has neither acquired nor will it
transfer any Certificate it purchases (or any interest therein) or cause any
such Certificates (or any interest therein) to be marketed on or through an
"established securities market" within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the
Code, including, without limitation, an over-the-counter-market or an
interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell
quotations.
8. The Purchaser either (A) is not, and will not become,
a partnership, Subchapter S corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income
tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but none of the direct or indirect
beneficial owners of any of the interests in such
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transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such
other percentage as the Transferor may establish prior to the time of such
proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such
transferee's ownership of Certificates.
9. The Purchaser understands that no subsequent transfer
of the Certificates is permitted unless (A) such transfer is of a Certificate
with a denomination of at least $250,000, (B) it causes its proposed transferee
to provide to the Transferor and the Certificate Registrar a letter
substantially in the form of Exhibit C to the Trust Agreement, as applicable, or
such other written statement as the Transferor shall prescribe and (C) the
Transferor consents in writing to the proposed transfer, which consent shall be
granted unless the Transferor determines that such transfer would create a risk
that the Trust or the Titling Trust would be classified for federal or any
applicable state tax purposes as an association (or a publicly traded
partnership) taxable as a corporation; provided, however, that any attempted
transfer that would either cause (1) the number of registered holders of
Certificates to exceed 95 or (2) the number of holders of direct or indirect
interests in the Titling Trust to exceed 50, shall be a void transfer.
10. The Purchaser understands that the opinion of counsel
to the Trust that the Trust is not a publicly traded partnership taxable as a
corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of the representations in
paragraphs 7, 8 and 9 above.
11. The Purchaser is a Person who is either (A)(1) a
citizen or resident of the United States, (2) a corporation, partnership or
other entity organized in or under the laws of the United States or any
political subdivision thereof or (3) a Person not described in (A)(1) or (2)
whose ownership of the Certificates is effectively connected with such Person's
conduct of a trade or business within the United States (within the meaning of
the Code) and its ownership of any interest in a Certificate will not result in
any withholding obligation with respect to any payments with respect to the
Certificates by any Person (other than withholding, if any, under Section 1446
of the Code) or (B) an estate the income of which is includible in gross income
for federal income tax purposes regardless of source or a trust if the court
within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision of the
administration of the trust and one or more United States persons have the
authority to control all substantial decisions of the Trust. It agrees that it
will provide a certification of non-foreign status signed under penalty of
perjury and, alternatively, that if it is a Person described in clause (A)(3)
above, it will furnish to the Transferor and the Owner Trustee a properly
executed IRS Form W-8ECI and a new W-8ECI upon the expiration or obsolescence of
any previously delivered form (and such other certifications, representations or
Opinions of Counsel as may be requested by the Transferor and the Owner
Trustee).
12. The Purchaser agrees that if at some time in the
future it wishes to transfer or exchange any of the Certificates, it will not
transfer or exchange any of the Certificates unless such transfer or exchange is
in accordance with Section 3.04 of the Trust Agreement. The Purchaser
understands that any purported transfer of the Certificates (or any interest
therein) in contravention of any of the restrictions and conditions in the Trust
Agreement, as applicable, shall be a void, and the purported transferee in such
transfer shall not be recognized by the Trust or any other Person as a
Certificateholder, as the case may, be for any purpose.
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13. The Purchaser hereby irrevocably requests you to
arrange for definitive Certificates representing the Certificates purchased by
the Purchaser to be registered and delivered promptly after the Closing Date as
follows:
Principal Amount Registered in Deliver Definitive
of Definitive Certificate: Name of: Certificate to:
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_________________________ _____________ ________________________
_________________________ _____________ ________________________
_________________________ _____________ ________________________
You and the Owner Trustee are entitled to rely upon this letter and are
irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested
party in any administrative or legal proceeding or official inquiry with respect
to the matters covered hereby.
Very truly yours,
By: _______________________________________
Name:
Title:
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ANNEX 1 TO EXHIBIT C
QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER STATUS UNDER SEC RULE 144A
[For Transferees Other Than Registered Investment Companies]
The undersigned (the "Purchaser") hereby certifies as follows to the
addressees of the Rule 144A Representation Letter to which this certification is
attached with respect to the Certificate described therein:
(i) As indicated below, the undersigned is the President,
Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President or other
executive officer of the Purchaser.
(ii) In connection with purchases by the Purchaser, the
Purchaser is a "qualified institutional buyer" as that term is
defined in Rule 144A ("Rule 144A") under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, because (i) the Purchaser owned and/or
invested on a discretionary basis $__________(1) in securities
(except for the excluded securities referred to below) as of
the end of the Purchaser's most recent fiscal year (such
amount being calculated in accordance with Rule 144A) and (ii)
the Purchaser satisfies the criteria in the category marked
below.
___ Corporation, etc. The Purchaser is a
corporation (other than a bank, savings and
loan association or similar institution),
Massachusetts or similar business trust,
partnership, or charitable organization
described in Section 501(c)(3) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
___ Bank. The Purchaser (a) is a national bank
or banking institution organized under the
laws of any state, territory or the District
of Columbia, the business of which is
substantially confined to banking and is
supervised by the state or territorial
banking commission or similar official or is
a foreign bank or equivalent institution,
and (b) has an audited net worth of at least
$25,000,000 as demonstrated in its latest
annual financial statements, a copy of which
is attached hereto.
___ Savings and Loan. The Purchaser (a) is a
savings and loan association, building and
loan association, cooperative bank,
homestead association or similar
institution, which is supervised and
examined by a state or federal authority
having supervision over any such
institutions or is a foreign savings and
loan association or equivalent institution
and (b) has an audited net
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(1) Purchaser must own and/or invest on a discretionary basis at least
$100,000,000 in securities unless Purchaser is a dealer, and, in that
case, Purchaser must own and/or invest on a discretionary basis at
least $10,000,000 in securities.
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worth of at least $25,000,000 as
demonstrated in its latest annual financial
statements, a copy of which is attached
hereto.
___ Broker-dealer. The Purchaser is a dealer
registered pursuant to Section 15 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
(the "Exchange Act").
___ Insurance Company. The Purchaser is an
insurance company whose primary and
predominant business activity is the writing
of insurance or the reinsuring of risks
underwritten by insurance companies and
which is subject to supervision by the
insurance commissioner or a similar official
or agency of a state, territory or the
District of Columbia.
___ State or Local Plan. The Purchaser is a plan
established and maintained by a state, its
political subdivisions, or any agency or
instrumentality of the state or its
political subdivisions, for the benefit of
its employees (a "Plan").
___ ERISA Plan. The Purchaser is an employee
benefit plan within the meaning of Title I
of the Employee Retirement Income Security
Act of 1974 (an "ERISA Plan").
___ Investment Advisor. The Purchaser is an
investment advisor registered under the
Investment Advisors Act of 1940.
___ Small Business Investment Company. The
Purchaser is a small business investment
company licensed by the U.S. Small Business
Administration under Section 301(c) or (d)
of the Small Business Investment Act of
1958.
___ Business Development Company. The Purchaser
is a business development company as defined
in Section 202(a)(22) of the Investment
Advisors Act of 1940.
___ Trust Fund. The Purchaser is a trust fund
whose trustee is a bank or trust company and
whose participants are exclusively state or
local Plans or ERISA Plans as defined above,
and no participant of the Purchaser is an
individual retirement account or an H.R. 10
(Keogh) plan.
(iii) The term "securities" as used herein does not include
(i) securities of issuers that are affiliated with the
Purchaser, (ii) securities that are part of an unsold
allotment to or subscription by the Purchaser, if the
Purchaser is a dealer, (iii) bank deposit notes and
certificates of deposit, (iv) loan participations, (v)
repurchase agreements, (vi) securities owned but subject to a
repurchase agreement and (vii) currency, interest rate and
commodity swaps.
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(iv) For purposes of determining the aggregate amount of
securities owned and/or invested on a discretionary basis by
the Purchaser, the Purchaser used the cost of such securities
to the Purchaser and did not include any of the securities
referred to in the preceding paragraph, except (i) where the
Purchaser reports its securities holdings in its financial
statements on the basis of their market value, and (ii) no
current information with respect to the cost of those
securities has been published. If clause (ii) in the preceding
sentence applies, the securities may be valued at their market
value. Further, in determining such aggregate amount, the
Purchaser may have included securities owned by subsidiaries
of the Purchaser, but only if such subsidiaries are
consolidated with the Purchaser in its financial statements
prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles and if the investments of such subsidiaries are
managed under the Purchaser's direction. However, such
securities were not included if the Purchaser is a
majority-owned, consolidated subsidiary of another enterprise
and the Purchaser is not itself a reporting company under the
Exchange Act.
(v) The Purchaser acknowledges that it is familiar with
Rule 144A and understands that the seller to it and other
parties related to the Certificates are relying and will
continue to rely on the statements made herein because one or
more sales to the Purchaser may be in reliance on Rule 144A.
(vi) Until the date of purchase of the Certificates, the
Purchaser will notify each of the parties to which this
certification is made of any changes in the information and
conclusions herein. Until such notice is given, the
Purchaser's purchase of the Certificates will constitute a
reaffirmation of this certification as of the date of such
purchase. In addition, if the Purchaser is a bank or savings
and loan is provided above, the Purchaser agrees that it will
furnish to such parties updated annual financial statements
promptly after they become available.
____________________________________
Name of Purchaser
By: ________________________________
Name:
Title:
Dated: _____________________________
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ANNEX 2 TO EXHIBIT C
QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER STATUS UNDER SEC RULE 144A
[For Transferees That are Registered Investment Companies]
The undersigned (the "Purchaser") hereby certifies as follows to the
addressees of the Rule 144A Representation Letter to which this certification is
attached with respect to the Certificate described therein:
(i) As indicated below, the undersigned is the President,
Chief Financial Officer or Senior Vice President of the
Purchaser or, if the Purchaser is a "qualified institutional
buyer" as that term is defined in Rule 144A ("Rule 144A")
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, because the
Purchaser is part of a Family of Investment Companies (as
defined below), is such an officer of the Adviser.
(ii) In connection with purchases by the Purchaser, the
Purchaser is a "qualified institutional buyer" as defined in
Rule 144A because (i) the Purchaser is an investment company
registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended, and (ii) as marked below, the Purchaser alone, or the
Purchaser's Family of Investment Companies, owned at least
$100,000,000 in securities (other than the excluded securities
referred to below) as of the end of the Purchaser's most
recent fiscal year. For purposes of determining the amount of
securities owned by the Purchaser or the Purchaser's Family of
Investment Companies, the cost of such securities was used,
except (i) where the Purchaser or the Purchaser's Family of
Investment Companies reports its securities holdings in its
financial statements on the basis of their market value, and
(ii) no current information with respect to the cost of those
securities has been published. If clause (ii) in the preceding
sentence applies, the securities may be valued at market.
___ The Purchaser owned $__________ in
securities (other than the excluded
securities referred to below) as of the end
of the Purchaser's most recent fiscal year
(such amount being calculated in accordance
with Rule 144A).
___ The Purchaser is part of a Family of
Investment Companies which owned in the
aggregate $__________ in securities (other
than the excluded securities referred to
below) as of the end of the Purchaser's most
recent fiscal year (such amount being
calculated in accordance with Rule 144A).
(iii) The term "Family of Investment Companies" as used
herein means two or more registered investment companies (or
series thereof) that have the same investment adviser or
investment advisers that are affiliated (by virtue of being
majority owned subsidiaries of the same parent or because one
investment adviser is a majority owned subsidiary of the
other).
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(iv) The term "securities" as used herein does not include
(i) securities of issuers that are affiliated with the
Purchaser or are part of the Purchaser's Family of Investment
Companies, (ii) bank deposit notes and certificates of
deposit, (iii) loan participations, (iv) repurchase
agreements, (v) securities owned but subject to a repurchase
agreement and (vi) currency, interest rate and commodity
swaps.
(v) The Purchaser is familiar with Rule 144A and
understands that the parties listed in the Rule 144A
Representation Letter to which this certification relates are
relying and will continue to rely on the statements made
herein because one or more sales to the Purchaser will be in
reliance on Rule 144A. In addition, the Purchaser will only
purchase for the Purchaser's own account.
(vi) Until the date of purchase of the Transferor
Certificate, the undersigned will notify the parties listed in
the Rule 144A Transferee Certificate to which this
certification relates of any changes in the information and
conclusions herein. Until such notice is given, the
Purchaser's purchase of the Certificates will constitute a
reaffirmation of this certification by the undersigned as of
the date of such purchase.
____________________________________
Name of Purchaser or Advisor
By: ________________________________
Name:
Title:
IF AN ADVISOR:
____________________________________
Name of Purchaser
Dated: _____________________________
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