false 0001467760 0001467760 2020-06-30 2020-06-30

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): June 30, 2020

 

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Maryland

 

001-34452

 

27-0467113

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

c/o Apollo Global Management, Inc.

9 West 57th Street, 43rd Floor

New York, New York

 

10019

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (212) 515-3200

n/a

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class

 

Trading

Symbol(s)

 

Name of each exchange

on which registered

Common Stock, $0.01 par value

 

ARI

 

New York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging Growth Company  

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  

 

 


Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

The information set forth under Item 2.03 below relating to the Trust Deed and ITM, each as defined below, is incorporated by reference into this Item 1.01.

Item 2.03 Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.

Transaction Overview

On June 30, 2020 (the “Closing Date”), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. (the “Company”) completed a private securitization arrangement (the “Securitization Arrangement”) with Barclays Bank plc (“Barclays”), pursuant to which it refinanced five commercial mortgage loans with outstanding principal balances in aggregate of £729.7 million and 217.1 million (or $1.15 billion in aggregate, assuming conversion at the exchange rates prevailing at June 30, 2020) (the Sterling-denominated loans, “GBP Loans” and the Euro-denominated loan, “EUR Loans” and, collectively, the “Underlying Loans”), originated by certain affiliates of the Company in respect of properties located throughout Europe, which were previously primarily financed through repurchase arrangements (the “Original Financing Arrangements”) with Barclays. On the Closing Date, ACRE Debt 2 PLC, a newly formed insolvency-remote UK public limited company (the “Issuer”) and a consolidated subsidiary of the Company under U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, issued four classes of notes, the Class A GBP Notes and the Class A EUR Notes (collectively, as issued on the Closing Date, the “Class A Initial Notes”) and the Class B GBP Notes and the Class B EUR Notes (collectively, as issued on the Closing Date, the “Class B Initial Notes” and, together with the Class A Initial Notes, the “Initial Notes”), each in the principal amount and having the characteristics and designations set forth in the table and description below, pursuant to the terms of a trust deed dated June 30, 2020 (the “Trust Deed”) by and among the Issuer and U.S. Bank Trustees Limited (the “Trustee”) and the incorporated terms memorandum dated June 30, 2020 (the “ITM”), by and among, the Issuer, ACRE Debt Holdings Limited, as holder of the voting share of the Issuer, ACREFI B, LLC (“ACREFI B”), as seller, Class B Noteholder and Residual Certificateholder, ACREFI BN, LLC (the “Servicer”), as servicer, the Trustee, as trustee, Barclays, as the realisation agent and Class A Noteholder, and other transaction parties identified in the ITM. ACREFI B and the Servicer are wholly-owned indirect subsidiaries of the Company.

Class

 

Principal
Amount on
Closing Date

   

Principal

Amount on
Closing Date
(USD)*

   

Noteholder

 

Class A GBP Asset Backed Floating Rate Notes (“Class A GBP Notes”)

  £

519,632,744

    $

644,396,565

     

Barclays

 

Class A EUR Asset Backed Floating Rate Notes (“Class A EUR Notes”)

 

122,493,843

    $

137,609,583

     

Barclays

 
                         

Subtotal

   

    $

782,006,149

     

 

Class B GBP Asset Backed Floating Rate Notes (“Class B GBP Notes”)

  £

174,149,194

    $

215,962,416

     

ACREFI B

 

Class B EUR Asset Backed Floating Rate Notes (“Class B EUR Notes”)

 

83,720,558

    $

94,051,675

     

ACREFI B

 
                         

Subtotal

   

    $

310,014,091

     

 
                         

Total

   

    $

1,092,020,239

     

 
                         

* Assuming conversion to U.S. Dollars (“USD”) at exchange rates prevailing at June 30, 2020.

Although the Initial Notes have a stated maturity of August 2025, unless redeemed or repaid prior thereto, it is anticipated that the Initial Notes will be paid in advance of the stated maturity date as the Underlying Loans are repaid or ACREFI B repurchases the Underlying Loans from the Issuer in accordance with the terms of the New Financing Arrangements (as defined below). The estimated minimum weighted average life of the Initial Notes is 36 months. The estimated minimum weighted average life of the Initial Notes has been calculated assuming certain collateral characteristics, including that there are no prepayments, defaults or delinquencies on the Underlying Loans and certain other modeling assumptions. There can be no assurances that such assumptions will be met.    

The Initial Notes represent secured, limited recourse obligations of the Issuer payable solely from the Underlying Loans acquired by the Issuer from ACREFI B under a Global Master Repurchase Agreement (the “New Financing Arrangements”) which have been pledged pursuant to a deed of charge (the “Deed of Charge”). In addition, ACREFI B transferred two additional commercial mortgage loans to the Issuer with outstanding principal balances in aggregate of £26.0 million and 5.3 million (or $38.2 million in aggregate, assuming conversion at the exchange rate prevailing at June 30, 2020), which are also pledged under the Deed of Charge (the “Additional Collateral”). The proceeds from the issuance of the Initial Notes, after payment of certain fees and expenses, were used to finance the Underlying Loans.


The New Financing Arrangements do not contain any mark-to-market or daily margining provisions. The New Financing Arrangements include provisions which may require ACREFI B to partially prepay individual secured debt arrangements underlying the New Financing Arrangements in certain circumstances. These include (i) where a material default (including insolvency, maturity default, financial covenant breach or payment default, subject to the Servicer’s ability to waive such defaults in accordance with the servicing and realisation agreement, as described below) occurs in relation to the relevant Underlying Loan, to the extent that following such default, the market value of the relevant Underlying Loan is less than a specified threshold and (ii) where certain loan-to-value financial covenants (“LTV Covenants”) for a secured debt arrangement are not satisfied. The LTV Covenants are not applicable during the initial six months following the Closing Date.

In connection with the New Financing Arrangements, the Company, through its subsidiaries, repaid 16.5 million (or $18.5 million, assuming conversion at the exchange rate prevailing at June 30, 2020) under the Original Financing Arrangements and terminated them.

The Issuer may issue, from time to time, additional Class A GBP Notes and Class A EUR Notes (together with the Class A Initial Notes, the “Class A Notes”) to Barclays and additional Class B GBP Notes and Class B EUR Notes (together with the Class B Initial Notes, the “Class B Notes”, and together with the Class A Notes, the “Notes”) to ACREFI B, as well as Class A USD Notes and Class B USD Notes, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Trust Deed and the other transaction documents.

The proceeds of any issuances of additional Notes, or Class A USD Notes or Class B USD Notes, will be used to purchase additional assets, as agreed between the Company and the holders, from time to time, of the Class A Notes, pursuant to the New Financing Arrangements in respect of the Notes and pursuant to a newly agreed Global Master Repurchase Agreement in respect of any Class A USD Notes or Class B USD Notes.

The Company continues to provide a guarantee of the obligations of ACREFI B under the New Financing Arrangements (the “Guaranty”). Under the terms of the Guaranty, the Company is subject to customary covenants, including financial covenants with respect to minimum tangible net worth, maximum ratio of total indebtedness to consolidated tangible net worth, and minimum liquidity.

The offer and sale of the Initial Notes has not been registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or any state securities laws, and unless so registered, the Securities may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws.

Servicing and Realisation

The Underlying Loans sold or to be sold to the Issuer and the Additional Collateral will be serviced by Servicer pursuant to a servicing and realisation agreement, pursuant to which the Servicer will service the loans and Barclays will serve as the realisation agent. The Servicer has additional discretion to waive certain underlying covenant defaults or debt service payments under the Underlying Loans for a period of 18 months following the Closing Date.

The Notes

Collateral

The Initial Notes are secured by, among other things, (i) the portfolio of the Underlying Loans sold or to be sold to the Issuer under the New Financing Arrangements, excluding any collateral which is repurchased by ACREFI B pursuant to the New Financing Arrangements, and the Additional Collateral, (ii) certain transaction, income, margin and any additional accounts and all monies now or in the future standing to the credit of or accrued or accruing on any of the foregoing accounts, (iii) certain permitted investments by the Trustee as set forth in the Trust Deed, (iv) any asset, agreement, property or right of the Issuer under each transaction document (as set forth in the Deed of Charge), (v) all of the Issuer’s property, assets, rights and revenues, whatsoever and wheresoever present and future, and (vi) all proceeds of the foregoing.


The portfolio of Underlying Loans has an estimated weighted average life of 47 months. The estimated weighted average life of the Underlying Loans has been calculated assuming certain collateral characteristics, including that there are no prepayments, defaults or delinquencies on the Underlying Loans and certain other modeling assumptions. In addition, it is assumed that each Underlying Loan is fully extended to its maximum contracted extension term. There can be no assurances that such assumptions will be met.

The Initial Notes constitute secured, limited recourse obligations of the Issuer. The Notes of each class will at all times rank without preference or priority pari passu amongst themselves.

Interest

The Class A Initial Notes have a weighted average interest rate margin of approximately 1.73% over LIBOR or EURIBOR, as applicable. Any surplus interest payments on the Underlying Loans will be paid to ACREFI B, as holder of residual certificates issued under the Trust Deed (the “Residual Certificates”). On each designated quarterly interest payment date, and upon specified reductions in the purchase price of Underlying Loans in accordance with the New Financing Arrangements, interest on each class of Initial Notes will be payable in the applicable currency in arrears.

Subordination of the Notes

Payments of interest on the Class A Notes will at all times rank in priority to payments of interest on the Class B Notes and payments of principal on the Class A Notes will at all times rank in priority to payments of Principal on the Class B Notes.

Event of Default

The Notes are subject to customary events of default, including non-payment of principal or interest on the Class A Notes, breach of obligations of the Issuer under the Trust Deed, Deed of Charge or other transaction documents, an insolvency event in relation to the Issuer, or if it is or becomes unlawful for the Issuer to perform or comply with its obligations under the Notes or transaction documents, as well as the occurrence of customary events of default relating to the performance of ACREFI B under the New Financing Arrangements and of the Company under the Guaranty. Upon delivery of an enforcement notice relating to an event of default, the Notes will become immediately due and payable at their principal amount outstanding, together with accrued interest, and all entitlements of holders of Residual Certificates to any residual payments will be suspended until the Notes have been paid in full.

The foregoing summaries of the Trust Deed and the ITM are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of the Trust Deed and ITM, copies of which are filed herewith as Exhibits 10.1 and 10.2, respectively, and incorporated herein by reference.

Forward-Looking Information

The Company makes forward-looking statements herein within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. When used in this Current Report on Form 8-K, the words “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “plan,” “continue,” “intend,” “should,” “may” or similar expressions, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. For these statements, the Company claims the protections of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in such Sections. Forward-looking statements are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties, many of which are difficult to predict and are generally beyond the Company’s control. The forward-looking statements herein include information about the Company’s plans and objectives, the possible issuance of additional securities, the use of proceeds of any such issuance, and extensions and expected maturities of the Underlying Loans and New Financing Arrangements.

The forward-looking statements are based on our beliefs, assumptions and expectations, taking into account all information currently available to the Company. Forward-looking statements are not predictions of future events. These beliefs, assumptions and expectations can change as a result of many possible events or factors, not all of which are known to the Company. See “Item 1A. Risk Factors” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2020. These and other risks, uncertainties and factors, could cause actual results to differ materially from those included in any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. New risks and uncertainties arise over time and it is not possible to predict those events or how they may affect the Company. Except as required by law, the Company is not obligated to, and does not intend to, update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.


Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d) Exhibits.

Exhibit
No.

   

Description

         
 

10.1

   

Trust Deed, dated June 30, 2020, by and between ACRE Debt 2 PLC, as issuer (the “Issuer”) and U.S. Bank Trustees Limited, as trustee (the “Trustee”)

         
 

10.2*

   

Incorporated Terms Memorandum, dated June 30, 2020, by and among the Issuer, ACREFI B, LLC, ACREFI BN, LLC, the Trustee, Barclays Bank plc, and the other parties identified therein

         
 

104

   

Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)

* Portions of this exhibit have been omitted pursuant to Rule 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.

     

By:

 

/s/ Stuart A. Rothstein

Name:

 

Stuart A. Rothstein

Title:

 

President and Chief Executive Officer

Date: July 7, 2020

Exhibit 10.1

 

LOGO    CLIFFORD CHANCE LLP

EXECUTION VERSION

ACRE DEBT 2 PLC

AS ISSUER

AND

U.S. BANK TRUSTEES LIMITED

AS TRUSTEE

 

 

TRUST DEED

IN RELATION TO

£519,632,743.56 CLASS A GBP ASSET BACKED FLOATING RATE

NOTES DUE 2025

€122,493,843.06 CLASS A EUR ASSET BACKED FLOATING RATE

NOTES DUE 2025

£174,149,194.44 CLASS B GBP ASSET BACKED FLOATING RATE

NOTES DUE 2025

€83,720,557.94 CLASS B EUR ASSET BACKED FLOATING RATE

NOTES DUE 2025

AND

100 RESIDUAL CERTIFICATES

 

 


CONTENTS

 

Clause    Page  

1.

 

Definitions

     1

2.

 

Common Terms

     1

3.

 

Representations and Covenants by the Issuer

     2

4.

 

Amount of the Notes

     3

5.

 

Issue of Further Notes

     4

6.

 

Covenant to Repay Principal

     4

7.

 

Covenant to Pay Interest, Residual Payments and Prepayment Fees

     5

8.

 

Conditions of Payment

     5

9.

 

Trust

     6

10.

 

Powers to be Additional

     7

11.

 

Following a Note Event of Default

     7

12.

 

Rate of Interest after a Default

     8

13.

 

Note Certificates

     8

14.

 

Residual Certificates

     9

15.

 

Waiver

     11

16.

 

Modifications

     12  

17.

 

Noteholders to bind Certificateholders

     12

18.

 

Substitution

     13

19.

 

Enforcement Notice, Enforceability of Security and Proceedings

     16

20.

 

Proceedings and Actions

     17

21.

 

Evidence of Default

     18

22.

 

Monies Held on Trust

     18

23.

 

Investment of Monies

     18

24.

 

Permitted Investments

     19

25.

 

Payment to Instrumentholders

     19

26.

 

Currency Indemnity

     19

27.

 

Supplement to Trustee Acts

     20

28.

 

Remuneration

     33

29.

 

Appointment of Trustees

     36

30.

 

Notice of a New Trustee

     36

31.

 

Separate and Co-Trustees

     37

32.

 

Appointment, Removal, Remuneration of Separate/Co-Trustee

     37

33.

 

Retirement of Trustees

     37

34.

 

Competence of a Majority of Trustees

     38

 

- i -


35. Powers Additional

     38

36. Execution

     38

Schedule 1

  

Form of Note Certificate

     39

Schedule 2

  

Form of Residual Certificate

     44

Schedule 3

  

Terms and Conditions of the Notes

     49

Schedule 4

  

Provisions for Meetings of Noteholders

     79

Schedule 5

  

Terms and Conditions of the Residual Certificates

     88

Schedule 6

  

Provisions for Meetings of Certificateholders

     102

Schedule 7

  

Form of Class B Noteholder write-down notice

     110

EXECUTION PAGE(S)

     1

 

- ii -


THIS DEED is made on 30 June 2020.

BETWEEN:

 

(1)

ACRE DEBT 2 PLC (registered number 12635042) whose registered office is at 8th Floor 20 Farringdon Street, London, United Kingdom, EC4A 4AB (the “Issuer”); and

 

(2)

U.S. BANK TRUSTEES LIMITED (registered number 02379632), a private limited company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales with its principal office at 5th Floor, 125 Old Broad Street, London EC2N (in its capacity as the “Trustee” which expression shall include such company and all other persons or companies for the time being acting as trustee (or co-trustee) pursuant to the terms of this Deed and the Deed of Charge (as applicable)).

INTRODUCTION:

 

(A)

The Issuer has authorised the creation and issue of the Initial Notes and the Residual Certificates, to be constituted by this Deed and secured by the Security.

 

(B)

The Trustee has agreed to act as Trustee of the Trust Property in accordance with the provisions of this Deed and the other Trust Documents.

THIS DEED WITNESSES as follows:

SECTION A

INTERPRETATION

 

1.

DEFINITIONS

 

1.1

Unless otherwise defined in this Deed or the context requires otherwise, words and expressions used in this Deed have the meanings and constructions ascribed to them in schedule 1 (Master Definitions Schedule) to the Incorporated Terms Memorandum dated on or about the date of this Deed and signed, inter alios, by the parties to this Deed and others (as the same may be amended, varied and/or supplemented from time to time with the consent of the parties to this Deed, the “Incorporated Terms Memorandum”). This Deed shall be construed in accordance with the principles of construction and interpretation set out in the Incorporated Terms Memorandum.

 

1.2

References to this Deed mean this Deed, the Conditions, the Residual Certificate Conditions and the Schedules and any trust deed supplemental hereto and the Schedules (if any) thereto.

 

2.

COMMON TERMS

 

2.1

Incorporation of Common Terms

Except as provided below, the common terms set out in schedule 2 (Common Terms) to the Incorporated Terms Memorandum (the “Common Terms”) apply to this Deed and shall be binding on the parties to this Deed as if set out in full in this Deed.

 

- 1 -


2.2

Conflict with Common Terms

If there is any conflict between the provisions of the Common Terms and the provisions of this Deed, the provisions of this Deed shall prevail, unless any provisions of this Deed relate to VAT, in which case the VAT provisions of the Common Terms shall prevail.

 

2.3

Obligor/Obligee

For the purposes of this Deed, paragraph 1 (Further Assurance) of part 1 (General Legal Terms) of the Common Terms applies to this Deed as if set out in full in this Deed and as if the Issuer were the Obligor and the Trustee were an Obligee for the purposes of such paragraph.

 

2.4

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

This Deed and all non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it shall be governed by English law in accordance with part 3 (Governing Law Provisions), paragraph 1 (Governing Law) of the Common Terms. Part 3 (Governing Law Provisions), paragraph 2.3 (Jurisdiction) of the Common Terms applies to this Deed as if set out in full in this Deed.

SECTION B

REPRESENTATIONS AND COVENANTS BY THE ISSUER

 

3.

REPRESENTATIONS AND COVENANTS BY THE ISSUER

 

3.1

Representations and Warranties

The Issuer gives certain representations and warranties to the Trustee (acting for itself and on behalf of the Instrumentholders).

 

3.2

Times for making representations and warranties

 

  3.2.1

The Issuer Warranties are made on the date of this Deed.

 

  3.2.2

Unless a representation and warranty is expressed to be given at a specific date, each of the Issuer Warranties is deemed to be repeated by the Issuer on each date until the Final Discharge Date.

 

  3.2.3

When a representation and warranty is repeated, it is applied to the circumstances existing at the time of repetition.

 

3.3

Covenants

The Issuer covenants with the Trustee (acting for itself and on behalf of the Instrumentholders) on the terms of the Issuer Covenants and covenants to comply with those provisions of the Conditions, the Residual Certificates Conditions, this Deed and the other Transaction Documents that are expressed to be binding on it and to perform and observe the same.

 

- 2 -


3.4

Instruments subject to Trust Documents

The Notes and the Residual Certificates are subject to the provisions contained in the Trust Documents, all of which shall be binding upon the Issuer, the Instrumentholders and all persons claiming through or under them respectively.

SECTION C

AMOUNT OF THE NOTES AND COVENANT TO REPAY AND PAY INTEREST ON THE NOTES

 

4.

AMOUNT OF THE NOTES

 

4.1

Initial Notes

The aggregate Principal Amount Outstanding of the Initial Notes on the Closing Date is limited to £693,781,938 in respect of the GBP denominated Notes and €206,214,401 in respect of the EUR denominated Notes. The Initial Notes shall be comprised on the Closing Date of the Class A GBP Initial Notes in a principal amount of £519,632,743.56, the Class A EUR Initial Notes in a principal amount of €122,493,843.06, the Class B GBP Initial Notes in a principal amount of £174,149,194.44 and the Class B EUR Initial Notes in a principal amount of €83,720,557.94. The Issuer will issue 100 Residual Certificates on the Closing Date and those Residual Certificates will not have a Principal Amount Outstanding.

 

4.2

Further Notes

 

  4.2.1

The Issuer (or the Servicer on its behalf) may, not less than five (5) Business Days before an Interest Payment Date deliver to the Trustee and the Noteholders a prior written request from the Issuer for the Noteholders’ approval of the issue of Further Notes.

 

  4.2.2

Subject to the Noteholders approving of such request for Further Notes (acting by way of Extraordinary Resolution), the Issuer shall issue Further Notes pursuant to Clause 5.1 (Notice of Further Notes), provided that the Issuer has confirmed in writing to the Trustee that the following conditions have been met:

 

  (a)

the Issuer entering into a note purchase agreement pursuant to which Noteholders agree to purchase Further Notes with an aggregate Principal Amount Outstanding upon issue equal to the aggregate purchase price of the relevant securities that will be acquired by the Issuer which shall include a schedule containing the terms of the new Confirmation;

 

  (b)

the Conditions of such Further Notes shall be in the same form as the Conditions in respect of the Initial Notes except that the Conditions in respect of the Further Notes will provide for a different issue date, first Interest Payment Date and (if applicable) purchase price than that applicable to the Initial Notes;

 

  (c)

the Issuer and the Seller have executed the relevant transfer certificates and trade confirmations in relation to the purchased securities that will be acquired by the Issuer from the Seller following issuance of the Further Notes; and

 

- 3 -


  (d)

no Note Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

 

5.

ISSUE OF FURTHER NOTES

 

5.1

Notice of Further Notes

The Issuer may, following written notice delivered to the Trustee at least 30 days before the relevant Interest Payment Date on which the Further Notes are to be issued, issue Further Notes in accordance with Clause 4.2 (Further Notes) upon the Issuer confirming in writing to the Trustee compliance by all relevant parties with the relevant conditions precedent required in respect of such issue of Further Notes.

 

5.2

Cancellation of right to issue Further Notes

The Issuer may, upon irrevocable notice to the Trustee, irrevocably cancel its right to issue Further Notes (but without prejudice to any previous exercise in part of such right). Any such notice cancelling the Issuer’s right to issue Further Notes shall be of immediate effect on receipt by the Trustee and shall automatically cancel the Issuer’s right to issue Further Notes. Upon sending such notice, the Issuer shall also notify the Noteholders as soon as practicable in accordance with the Notices Condition.

 

5.3

Principal Amount Outstanding

On each date on which Further Notes are issued, the Principal Amount Outstanding of each Further Note shall, in respect of a Further Note of the relevant class, equal the Principal Amount Outstanding on that date in which Further Notes and in respect of the Notes as a whole, shall be the Principal Amount Outstanding of all the Notes at any given time.

 

5.4

Supplemental trust deed

Any Further Notes issued in accordance with Clause 4.2 (Further Notes) shall be constituted pursuant to a Supplemental Trust Deed. The Issuer shall, on or prior to the Interest Payment Date on which Further Notes are issued, in relation to any Further Notes, execute and deliver to the Trustee a Supplemental Trust Deed (if applicable, duly stamped or denoted) containing covenants by the Issuer in the form of and on the same terms as the Covenant to Pay, Clause 9 (Trust) and Clause 8 (Conditions of Payment) of this Deed in relation to the principal and interest in respect of such Further Notes and such other provisions (corresponding to any of the provisions contained in this Trust Deed) as the Trustee shall require.

 

6.

COVENANT TO REPAY PRINCIPAL

The Issuer covenants with the Trustee (acting for itself and on behalf of the Noteholders) that it will unconditionally pay or procure to be paid to or to the order of the Trustee, in accordance with Clause 8 (Conditions of Payment), the principal amount of the Notes or any of them or any part thereof becoming due for redemption or repayment in accordance with this Deed and the Conditions as and when:

 

  6.1.1

the Notes or any of them become due to be redeemed; or

 

  6.1.2

any principal on the Initial Notes or any of them becomes due to be repaid.

 

- 4 -


7.

COVENANT TO PAY INTEREST, RESIDUAL PAYMENTS

 

7.1

Interest

Until all payments of principal on the Notes or any of them are duly made under Clause 6 (Covenant to Repay Principal) (after as well as before any judgment or other order of any court of competent jurisdiction), the Issuer shall pay or procure to be paid to or to the order of the Trustee (acting for itself and on behalf of the Noteholders) on the dates and in the amounts provided for in the Conditions and in accordance with Clause 8 (Conditions of Payment), interest on the Principal Amount Outstanding of the Notes or any of them outstanding from time to time and all other amounts payable in respect of the Notes in accordance with the Conditions, subject to the provisions of the Conditions and Clause 12 (Rate of Interest after a Default).

 

7.2

Residual Payments

The Issuer shall pay or procure to be paid, in accordance with Clause 8 (Conditions of Payment), all Residual Payments or any part thereof becoming due for payment in accordance with the Residual Certificates Conditions when any such payments are due to be made. The Residual Certificates do not have a principal amount and therefore no interest accrues on the Residual Certificates.

 

8.

CONDITIONS OF PAYMENT

 

8.1

Manner of payment

Payments made pursuant to Clauses 6 (Covenant to Repay Principal) and 7 (Covenant to Pay Interest and Residual Payments) shall be made by, or on behalf of, the Issuer to the order of the Trustee in the currency in which the relevant Notes are denominated in immediately available funds subject to the following provisions of this Clause 8.

 

8.2

Application of payments

Subject to Clause 8.3 (Payment after due date), every payment in respect of the principal or interest in respect of the Notes and every payment in respect of Residual Payments in respect of the Residual Certificates made the Paying Agent in the manner provided in the Agency Agreement shall satisfy, to the extent of such payment, the relevant covenant by the Issuer contained in Clause 6 (Covenant to Repay Principal) and Clause 7 (Covenant to Pay Interest and Residual Payments).

 

8.3

Payment after due date

If any payment of principal or interest in respect of the Notes or any Residual Payments in respect of the Residual Certificates is made after the due date, payment shall be deemed not to have been made until the earlier of:

 

  8.3.1

the date on which the full amount is paid to the relevant Instrumentholders; and

 

  8.3.2

the seventh day after notice has been given to the relevant Instrumentholders in accordance with the Notices Condition that the full amount (together with any interest accrued to that date) has been received by the Paying Agent except to the extent that there is a default in the subsequent payment thereof to the Instrumentholders (as the case may be) under the Conditions or the Residual Certificates Conditions.

 

- 5 -


8.4

Default interest

In any case where payment of the whole or any part of the principal amount due in respect of any Note is improperly withheld, or not made, or refused upon due presentation of the Note (if so provided for in the Conditions), interest at the rate specified in Clause 7 (Covenant to Pay Interest and Residual Payments) shall accrue on the whole or such part of such principal amount from the date of such withholding or refusal until the earlier of:

 

  8.4.1

the date on which such principal amount (together with accrued interest) due is paid to the relevant Noteholder; and

 

  8.4.2

the seventh day after notice has been given to the relevant Noteholders in accordance with the Notices Condition that the full amount payable in respect of the said principal amount is available for collection by such Noteholders, provided that on further due presentation thereof (if so provided for in the Conditions) such payment is in fact made.

 

8.5

Maximum payments

No provision contained in the Conditions or the Trust Documents will require the Issuer to pay:

 

  8.5.1

an amount of principal in respect of a Note which exceeds the Principal Amount Outstanding of such Note at the relevant time; or

 

  8.5.2

an amount of interest calculated on any principal amount in excess of such Principal Amount Outstanding.

 

9.

TRUST

 

9.1

The Trustee will hold the benefit of the rights, powers and covenants in its favour (save for any rights, powers or covenants given to the Trustee in its personal capacity) contained in the Trust Documents and the other Transaction Documents upon trust for itself and the Instrumentholders according to its and their respective interests, upon and subject to the terms and conditions of the Transaction Documents.

 

9.2

The provisions contained in Schedule 3 (Terms and Conditions of the Notes) shall have effect with respect to the Notes as if set out herein and Schedule 4 (Provisions for Meetings of Noteholders) shall have effect with respect to all Notes as if set out herein.

 

9.3

The provisions contained in Schedule 5 (Terms and Conditions of the Residual Certificates) shall have effect with respect to the Residual Certificates, as if set out herein and Schedule 6 (Provisions for Meetings of Certificateholders) shall have effect with respect to the Residual Certificates as if set out herein.

 

- 6 -


10.

POWERS TO BE ADDITIONAL

The powers conferred upon the Trustee by the Trust Documents shall be in addition to any powers which may from time to time be vested in the Trustee by the general law or as a holder of any of the Notes or Residual Certificates.

 

11.

FOLLOWING A NOTE EVENT OF DEFAULT

 

11.1

Notes due and Payable

Upon the delivery of an Enforcement Notice in accordance with Condition 12, to the Issuer, (a) the Notes, without further action or formality, shall become immediately due and payable at their Principal Amount Outstanding, together with accrued interest, and (b) all entitlements of Certificateholders to any Residual Payments shall be suspended until such time as the Notes have been paid in full at their Principal Amount Outstanding, together with accrued interest.

 

11.2

Residual Certificates due and payable

Upon the delivery of an Enforcement Notice in accordance with Residual Certificate Condition 11 and provided there are no Notes outstanding, any Residual Payments pursuant to the Residual Certificates Conditions, without further action or formality, shall become immediately due and payable.

 

11.3

Appointment of Agents for Trustee

At any time after any Note Event of Default or Potential Note Event of Default shall have occurred, which shall not have been waived by the Trustee or remedied to its satisfaction or the Trustee shall have received any money which it proposes to pay under Clause 22 (Monies Held on Trust) to the Instrumentholders, the Trustee may:

 

  11.3.1

by notice in writing to the Issuer and the Agents (or such of them as are specified by the Trustee) require each or any of the Agents:

 

  (a)

to act thereafter, until instructed otherwise by the Trustee, as agents of the Trustee under the provisions of the Trust Documents mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in the Agency Agreement and, where applicable, the other Transaction Documents (with consequential amendments as necessary) save that the Trustee’s liability under any provisions of the Agency Agreement and, where applicable, the other Transaction Documents for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the Paying Agent and the Agents (as applicable) shall be limited to amounts for the time being held by the Trustee on the trusts of the Trust Documents in relation to the Notes and the Residual Certificates on the terms of the Trust Documents and available to the Trustee for such purpose; and

 

  (b)

to hold all Instruments and all sums, documents and records held by it in respect of the Instruments on behalf of the Trustee subject to the terms of the Agency Agreement; and/or

 

- 7 -


  (c)

to deliver up all Instruments and all sums, documents and records held by them in respect of Instruments and, in the case of the Paying Agent, all Instruments held by it as the Trustee shall direct in such notice, provided that such notice shall be deemed not to apply to any document or record which the Paying Agent and/or any Agent is obliged not to release by any Requirement of Law or Regulatory Direction or by the terms of the Agency Agreement; and

 

  11.3.2

by notice in writing to the Issuer, require the Issuer to make all subsequent payments in respect of the Instruments to or to the order of the Trustee and not to any Agent and with effect from the issue of any such notice until such notice is withdrawn, the provisions in Clause 8.2 (Application of payments) and (so far as it concerns payments by the Issuer) Clause 25 (Payment to Instrumentholders) shall cease to have effect.

 

12.

RATE OF INTEREST AFTER A DEFAULT

If the Notes become immediately repayable pursuant to the Conditions, the rate of interest payable thereon shall be calculated at quarterly intervals, the first of which shall commence on the expiry of the Interest Period during which the Notes become so repayable. In these circumstances, interest payable on the Notes will be calculated in accordance with Condition 7 (Interest) (with consequential amendments as necessary).

SECTION D

FORM AND ISSUE OF THE NOTES AND THE RESIDUAL CERTIFICATES

 

13.

NOTE CERTIFICATES

Each Note Certificate will represent the Principal Amount Outstanding of the Notes of the relevant class at any time.

 

13.1

Authentication of Note Certificates

The procedures as regards the authentication, delivery, surrender, cancellation, presentation, and marking down of the Note Certificates (or part thereof) and any other matters to be carried out by the relevant parties shall be made in accordance with the provisions of the relevant Note Certificates and the Agency Agreement.

 

13.2

Form of the Note Certificates

The Note Certificates will not be security printed unless required by applicable legal requirements, and will be in the form, or substantially in the form set out in Schedule 1 (Form of Note Certificate). The Note Certificates will have the Conditions attached thereto.

 

13.3

Signature

The Note Certificates will each be signed manually or in facsimile by an Authorised Signatory of the Issuer on behalf of the Issuer and will be authenticated manually by or on behalf of the Registrar. The Issuer may use the facsimile signature of a person who at the date of this Deed is an Authorised Signatory even if at the time of issue of any Note Certificate he no longer holds that office. Note Certificates so executed and authenticated will be binding and valid obligations of the Issuer.

 

- 8 -


13.4

Deemed Absolute Owner of Notes

 

  13.4.1

The Issuer, the Trustee, the Registrar and the other Agents shall deem and treat the person registered in the Register as the holder of the relevant Note or, if more than one person is so registered, the first named of such persons as the absolute owner of such Note (whether or not such Note shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing on it or any notice of previous loss or theft of such Note) for all purposes.

 

  13.4.2

Transfers of the Notes shall be effected by the execution of a completed transfer form by the transferor Noteholder as shown on the Register and the registration of the transfer in accordance with the terms of the Agency Agreement and Condition 3 (Form, Denomination and Title).

 

  13.4.3

Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by applicable law, the Issuer, the Trustee, the Registrar and the other Agents shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary and shall make payments thereon accordingly.

 

13.5

Payments valid

All payments made to the person registered in the Register as the holder of the Note or, if more than one person is so registered, the first named of such persons in accordance with Clause 13.4 (Deemed Absolute Owner of Note Certificates) shall be valid and, to the extent of the sums so paid, effective to satisfy and discharge the Issuer’s liability for the monies payable upon the Notes.

 

13.6

Agency: Noteholders

Without prejudice to Clause 13.4 (Deemed Absolute Owner of Note Certificates), the Trustee shall not recognise any person other than a Noteholder as being entitled to exercise rights of a Noteholder unless express written confirmation of such entitlement has been provided by the relevant Noteholder (as applicable) to the Trustee’s satisfaction.

 

14.

RESIDUAL CERTIFICATES

 

14.1

Authentication of Residual Certificates

The procedures as regards the authentication, delivery, surrender, cancellation, presentation, and marking down of the Residual Certificates (or part thereof) and any other matters to be carried out by the relevant parties shall be made in accordance with the provisions of the relevant Residual Certificates and the Agency Agreement.

 

14.2

Form of Residual Certificates

The Residual Certificates will not be security printed unless required by applicable legal requirements, and will be in the form, or substantially in the form, set out in Schedule 2 (Form of Residual Certificate). The Residual Certificates will have the Residual Certificates Conditions attached thereto.

 

- 9 -


14.3

Signature

The Residual Certificates will each be signed manually or in facsimile by an Authorised Signatory of the Issuer on behalf of the Issuer and will be authenticated manually by or on behalf of the Registrar. The Issuer may use the facsimile signature of a person who at the date of this Deed is an Authorised Signatory even if at the time of issue of any Residual Certificate he no longer holds that office. Residual Certificates so executed and authenticated will be binding and valid obligations of the Issuer.

 

14.4

Deemed Absolute Owner of Residual Certificates

 

  14.4.1

The Issuer, the Trustee, the Registrar and the other Agents shall deem and treat the person registered in the Register as the holder of the relevant Residual Certificate or, if more than one person is so registered, the first named of such persons as the absolute owner of such Residual Certificate (whether or not such Residual Certificate shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing on it or any notice of previous loss or theft of such Residual Certificate) for all purposes.

 

  14.4.2

Transfers of the Residual Certificates shall be effected by the execution of a completed transfer form by the transferor Certificateholder as shown on the Register and the registration of the transfer in accordance with the terms of the Agency Agreement and Residual Condition 3 (Form, Denomination and Title).

 

  14.4.3

Except as ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction or as required by applicable law, the Issuer, the Trustee, the Registrar and the other Agents shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary and shall make payments thereon accordingly.

 

14.5

Payments valid

 

  14.5.1

All payments made to the person registered in the Register as the holder of the Residual Certificate or, if more than one person is so registered, the first named of such persons in accordance with Clause 14.4 (Deemed Absolute Owner of Residual Certificates) shall be valid and, to the extent of the sums so paid, effective to satisfy and discharge the Issuer’s liability for the monies payable upon the Residual Certificates.

 

14.6

Agency: Certificateholders

Without prejudice to Clause 14.4 (Deemed Absolute Owner of Residual Certificates), the Trustee shall not recognise any person other than a Certificateholder as being entitled to exercise rights of a Certificateholder unless express written confirmation of such entitlement has been provided by the relevant Certificateholder (as applicable) to the Trustee’s satisfaction.

 

- 10 -


SECTION E

WAIVER, MODIFICATIONS AND SUBSTITUTION

 

15.

WAIVER

 

15.1

Waiver of Breach

Other than in respect of any Basic Terms Modification and subject to Clause 15.3 (Restriction on powers), the Trustee shall on the instruction of the holders of the Most Senior Class of Notes then outstanding (acting by Extraordinary Resolution) (or, if there are no Notes outstanding, on the instruction of the Certificateholders (acting by Extraordinary Resolution)) subject to it being indemnified and/or secured and/or pre-funded to its satisfaction against all liabilities to which it may thereby become liable or which it may incur by so doing in accordance with the terms of the Trust Documents:

 

  15.1.1

authorise or waive, on such terms and subject to such conditions (if any) as it may decide, any proposed breach or breach of any of the covenants or provisions contained in the Trust Documents, the Conditions, the Notes, the Residual Certificates, the Residual Certificate Conditions or any other of the Transaction Documents; or

 

  15.1.2

determine, on such terms and subject to such conditions (if any) as it may decide, that any Note Event of Default or Potential Note Event of Default shall not be treated as such for the purposes of the Trust Documents, the Conditions, the Notes, the Residual Certificates, the Residual Certificate Conditions or any of the other Transaction Documents.

 

15.2

Binding Nature

Any authorisation, waiver or determination referred to in Clause 15.1 (Waiver of Breach) shall be binding on the Noteholders, the Certificateholders and the other Secured Creditors.

 

15.3

Restriction on powers

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Transaction Document the Trustee shall not be obliged to agree to any authorisation or waiver or determination which, in the sole opinion of the Trustee would have the effect of (i) exposing itself to any Liability against which it has not been indemnified and/or secured and/or pre-funded to its satisfaction or (ii) increasing the obligations or duties, or decreasing the rights or protection, it has in the Transaction Documents and/or the Conditions.

 

15.4

Notice of waiver

Unless the Trustee agrees otherwise, the Issuer shall cause any such authorisation, waiver or determination to be notified to the Noteholders, the Certificateholders and the other Secured Creditors in accordance with the Conditions, the Residual Certificates Conditions and the relevant Transaction Documents as soon as practicable after it has been made.

 

- 11 -


16.

MODIFICATIONS

 

16.1

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Transaction Document but subject to Clause 16.2, the Trustee shall, on the instruction of the holders of the Most Senior Class of Notes then outstanding (acting by Extraordinary Resolution) (or, if there are no Notes outstanding, on the instruction of the Certificateholders (acting by Extraordinary Resolution)) subject to it being indemnified and/or secured and/or prefunded to its satisfaction against all liabilities to which it may thereby become liable or which it may incur by so doing in accordance with the terms of the Trust Documents with the written consent of the Secured Creditors which are a party to the relevant Transaction Document (such consent to be conclusively demonstrated by such Secured Creditor entering into any deed or document purporting to modify such Transaction Document), but without the consent or sanction of any other Noteholders, the Certificateholders or any other Secured Creditors, concur with the Issuer and any other relevant parties in making or sanctioning any modification (except in the case of a Basic Terms Modification) to the Conditions, the Residual Certificates Conditions, this Deed or any other Transaction Document. The Trustee shall not be obliged to agree to any modification which, in the sole opinion of the Trustee would have the effect of (i) exposing itself to any Liability against which it has not been indemnified and/or secured and/or pre-funded to its satisfaction or (ii) increasing the obligations or duties, or decreasing the rights or protection, it has in the Transaction Documents and/or the Conditions.

 

16.2

Binding Nature

Any modification referred to in this Clause 16 shall be binding on the Noteholders, the Certificateholders and the other Secured Creditors.

 

16.3

Notice of modification

Unless the Trustee otherwise agrees, the Issuer shall cause any such modification to be notified to the Noteholders, the Certificateholders, the other Secured Creditors as soon as practicable after it has been made.

 

17.

NOTEHOLDERS TO BIND CERTIFICATEHOLDERS

Except in the case of an Extraordinary Resolution relating to a Basic Terms Modification, any Extraordinary Resolution (or other direction in accordance with the Transaction Documents) of the Most Senior Class of Notes then outstanding shall also be binding upon the holders of all the other classes of Notes and the Residual Certificates. A matter which is a Basic Terms Modification affecting only the holders of the Residual Certificates and which would not, in the opinion of the Trustee, be materially prejudicial to the interests of the Noteholders of any of the Classes of Notes ranking senior to the Residual Certificates shall only require an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of the Residual Certificates then in issue and, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not require an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of any Class of Notes.

 

- 12 -


18.

SUBSTITUTION

 

18.1

Procedure

The Trustee may, with the prior written consent of the Most Senior Class of Notes (acting by way of Extraordinary Resolution) but without the consent of any other Instrumentholder or any other Secured Creditor, concur with the Issuer (at the request of the Issuer) in substituting in place of the Issuer (or of any previous substitute under this Clause 18.1) a Substituted Obligor as the principal debtor in respect of the Transaction Documents, the Notes, the Residual Certificates and the other Secured Amounts if:

 

  18.1.1

a trust deed is executed or some other written form of undertaking is given by the Substituted Obligor to the Trustee, in form and manner satisfactory to the Trustee, agreeing to be bound by the terms of the Trust Documents, the Notes, the Residual Certificates and the other Transaction Documents with any consequential amendments which the Trustee may deem appropriate, as fully as if the Substituted Obligor had been named in the Trust Documents and the other Transaction Documents and on the Instruments as the principal debtor in respect of the Notes and the other Secured Amounts in place of the Issuer (or of any previous substitute under this Clause 18.1);

 

  18.1.2

the Issuer (or any previous substitute) and the Substituted Obligor execute such other deeds, documents and instruments (if any) as the Trustee may require in order that the substitution is fully effective and complies with such other requirements as the Trustee may direct in the interests of the Noteholders, the Certificateholders and the other Secured Creditors;

 

  18.1.3

if all or substantially all of the assets of the Issuer (or any previous substitute) are transferred to the Substituted Obligor, the Substituted Obligor:

 

  (a)

acquires the Issuer’s (or such previous substitute’s) equity of redemption in the Charged Property (other than the undertaking of the Issuer or any previous substitute);

 

  (b)

becomes a party to all the Transaction Documents to which the Issuer (or such previous substitute) is a party;

 

  (c)

acknowledges the Security and the other matters created and effected in respect thereof pursuant to the Trust Documents; and

 

  (d)

takes all such action as the Trustee may require so that the Charged Property continue to be subject to the Security and the other matters created and effected in respect thereof pursuant to the Trust Documents are otherwise effected or maintained in all respects corresponding to those previously subsisting on the part of the Issuer (or such previous substitute);

 

  18.1.4

(unless all or substantially all of the assets of the Issuer (or any previous substitute) are transferred to the Substituted Obligor) an unconditional and irrevocable guarantee secured on the Charged Property in form and substance

 

- 13 -


  satisfactory to the Trustee is given by the Issuer (or such previous substitute) of the obligations of the Substituted Obligor under the Trust Documents, the Notes, the Residual Certificates and the other Transaction Documents;

 

  18.1.5

the Substituted Obligor is a single purpose company similar to, and with like constitution as, and having substantially the same restrictions and prohibitions on its activities and operations as the Issuer, and undertakes to be bound by provisions corresponding to those set out in the Conditions, the Residual Certificates Conditions, the Trust Documents and the other Transaction Documents binding on the Issuer (or any previous substitute) and satisfies the SPV Criteria;

 

  18.1.6

the Trustee is satisfied that in accordance with all applicable Requirements of Law and Regulatory Directions:

 

  (a)

the Substituted Obligor has obtained all governmental and regulatory approvals and consents necessary for its assumption of liability as principal debtor in respect of the Notes, the Residual Certificates and the other Secured Amounts in place of the Issuer (or such previous substitute as aforesaid);

 

  (b)

(if a guarantee is executed in accordance with sub-clause 18.1.4 above) the Issuer (or such previous substitute) has obtained all governmental and regulatory approvals and consents necessary for the guarantee to be fully effective; and

 

  (c)

such approvals and consents are at the time of substitution in full force and effect; and

 

  18.1.7

the Trustee is provided with legal opinions in respect of such substitution and the satisfaction of the conditions thereto in this Clause 18.1.7 in form and substance satisfactory to it. The Trustee may accept, without liability to any person, the opinions referred to above as satisfaction of the conditions thereto and shall rely on such opinions without liability to any person.

 

18.2

Change of law

In connection with any proposed substitution of the Issuer or any previous substitute, the Trustee may, with the prior written consent of the Most Senior Class of Notes (acting by way of Extraordinary Resolution) but without the consent of the other Instrumentholders or the other Secured Creditors, agree to a change of the law from time to time governing the Notes, the Residual Certificates and/or the Trust Documents and/or the other Transaction Documents.

 

18.3

Extra duties

Notwithstanding any of the forgoing provisions, the Trustee shall be entitled to refuse to approve any Substituted Obligor if, pursuant to the law of the country of incorporation of the Substituted Obligor, the assumption by the Substituted Obligor of its obligations under the Trust Documents and the other Transaction Documents imposes responsibilities and Liabilities on the Trustee over and above those which have been assumed under (or decreases the protections of the Trustee under) the Trust Documents or other Transaction Documents.

 

- 14 -


18.4

Directors’ certification

If any two directors of the Substituted Obligor certify that at the date of the assumption of its obligations as Substituted Obligor under the Trust Documents and the other Transaction Documents and immediately thereafter the Substituted Obligor is solvent after taking account of all prospective and contingent liabilities resulting from its becoming the Substituted Obligor, the Trustee need not have regard to the financial condition, profits or prospects of the Substituted Obligor or compare the same with those of the Issuer (or of any previous substitute under this sub-clause) or have regard to the possibility of avoidance of the Security or any part thereof on the grounds of insolvency or the proximity to insolvency, liquidation or some other event of the creation of the Security and the Trustee can rely on such certification without liability.

 

18.5

Substitution for tax reasons

If the Issuer (or any previous substitute):

 

  18.5.1

would be required to make a Tax Deduction in respect of any payments made on the Notes or at the time a Residual Payment is made on the Residual Certificates; or

 

  18.5.2

by virtue of a change in the Tax law of the Issuer’s Jurisdiction (or the application or official interpretation thereof) would be subject to Tax on an amount in excess of the Issuer Profit Amount,

then the Issuer shall with the prior written consent of the Most Senior Class of Notes (acting by way of Extraordinary Resolution) but without the consent of any Instrumentholder or any other Secured Creditor, use all reasonable endeavours to procure the substitution of the Issuer (or any previous substitute) as principal debtor under the Trust Documents, the Notes, the Residual Certificates and the other Secured Amounts upon the same terms and in the same form as are set out in Clause 18.1 (Procedure) of a company approved by the Trustee incorporated in some other jurisdiction, subject to and in accordance with the Conditions and the Residual Certificates Conditions.

 

18.6

Interests of Instrumentholders and Secured Creditors

In connection with any proposed substitution, the Trustee shall not have regard to, or be in any way liable for, the consequences of such substitution for individual Instrumentholders or the other Secured Creditors resulting from their being for any purpose domiciled or resident in, or otherwise connected with, or subject to the jurisdiction of, any particular territory. No Instrumentholder or other Secured Creditor shall, in connection with any such substitution, be entitled to claim from the Issuer or the Trustee any indemnification or payment in respect of any Tax consequence of any such substitution upon individual Instrumentholders or other Secured Creditors.

 

- 15 -


18.7

Release of Issuer

Any agreement by the Trustee pursuant to Clause 18.1 (Procedure) shall, if so expressed, operate to release the Issuer (or such previous substitute) from any or all of its obligations as principal debtor under the Notes, the Residual Certificates, the Trust Documents and the other Secured Amounts but without prejudice to its liabilities under any guarantee given pursuant to sub-clause 18.1.4 above.

 

18.8

Notice of substitution

Not later than fourteen days after any substitution in accordance with this Clause 18.8 has effect in accordance with Clause 18.9 (Completion of substitution) the Substituted Obligor shall cause notice of the substitution to be given to the Noteholders, the Certificateholders and the other Secured Creditors in accordance with the Notices Condition and the relevant Transaction Documents.

 

18.9

Completion of substitution

Upon the execution of such documents as are required to be executed pursuant to Clause 18.1 (Procedure) and compliance with any requirements of the Trustee under such Clause, the Substituted Obligor shall be deemed to be named in the Trust Documents, the Notes, the Residual Certificates and the other Transaction Documents as the principal debtor in place of the Issuer (or of any previous substitute under this Clause 18.9) and the Trust Documents, the Notes, the Residual Certificates and the other Transaction Documents shall thereupon be deemed to be amended in such manner as shall be necessary to give effect to the substitution. Any references to the Issuer (or any previous substitute) in the Trust Documents, the Notes, the Residual Certificates and the other Transaction Documents shall be deemed to be references to the Substituted Obligor.

SECTION F

ENFORCEMENT

 

19.

ENFORCEMENT NOTICE, ENFORCEABILITY OF SECURITY AND PROCEEDINGS

The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that:

 

19.1

Enforcement Notices

The circumstances in which the Trustee may or shall deliver an Enforcement Notice and the conditions applicable to delivery of an Enforcement Notice are set out in the Deed of Charge and: (a) (while any Notes remain outstanding) in Conditions 12 (Events of Default) and 13 (Enforcement), respectively; and (b) (when no Notes remain outstanding) in Residual Certificates Conditions 10 (Events of Default) and 11 (Enforcement).

 

19.2

Enforceability of Security

The Security shall become enforceable upon the delivery of an Enforcement Notice in accordance with clause 13 (Security Enforceable) of the Deed of Charge.

 

- 16 -


20.

PROCEEDINGS AND ACTIONS

 

20.1

Proceedings

The circumstances in which the Trustee may institute proceedings to enforce its rights under this Deed in respect of each class of Notes and the Residual Certificates and under the other Transaction Documents are set out (a) (while any Notes remain outstanding) in Conditions 12 (Events of Default) and 13 (Enforcement), respectively; and (b) (when no Notes remain outstanding) in Residual Certificates Conditions 10 (Events of Default) and 11 (Enforcement).

 

20.2

No action by Noteholders or any other Secured Creditor

The Trustee shall be entitled to act as provided in (a) (while any Notes remain outstanding) Conditions 12 (Events of Default) and 13 (Enforcement) and (b) (when no Notes remain outstanding) Residual Certificates Condition 10 (Events of Default) and 11 (Enforcement), and the Noteholders, the Certificateholders and other Secured Creditors shall have their rights to act limited in accordance with the provisions of those Conditions and Residual Certificates Conditions.

 

20.3

Trustee discretions

 

  20.3.1

When taking any action pursuant to the provisions of the Transaction Documents, the Trustee can rely on the provisions for its benefit as set out in this Deed, the Conditions, the Residual Certificates Conditions and the Deed of Charge.

 

  20.3.2

In relation to any discretion to be exercised or action to be taken by the Trustee under any Transaction Document, the Trustee may, at its discretion, or shall, if it has been so directed by an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of the Most Senior Class of Notes then outstanding or so requested in writing by the holders of at least 25 per cent. of the Most Senior Class of Notes then outstanding or if there are no Notes outstanding, by an Extraordinary Resolution of the Certificateholders or so requested in writing by 25 per cent. in number of the Residual Certificates and without further notice exercise such discretion or take such action, provided that, in either case, the Trustee shall not be obliged to exercise such discretion or take such action unless it shall have been indemnified and/or secured and/or prefunded to its satisfaction against all Liabilities and provided that the Trustee shall not be held liable for the consequences of exercising its discretion or taking any such action and may do so without having regard to the effect of such action on individual Noteholders, Certificateholders or Secured Creditors. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Deed or the other Transaction Documents, nothing shall require the Trustee to risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties.

 

20.4

Action by the Trustee

Save as otherwise provided in the Deed of Charge, only the Trustee may pursue the remedies available under the general law or the Transaction Documents to enforce the rights under the Trust Documents of the Noteholders, the Certificateholders and the

 

- 17 -


other Secured Creditors. No person shall be entitled to proceed directly against the Issuer to enforce the performance of any provision of the Trust Documents unless the Trustee is obliged by the Conditions, the Residual Certificates Conditions or any of the Transaction Documents to take such action but fails to do so.

 

21.

EVIDENCE OF DEFAULT

If the Trustee makes any claim, institutes any legal proceeding or lodges any proof in respect of the Issuer under the Trust Documents or under the Notes or under the Residual Certificates, proof therein that, as regards any specified Note or Residual Certificate, the Issuer has made default in paying any principal or interest due in respect of such Note or Residual Payment in respect of such Residual Certificates shall (unless the contrary be proved) be sufficient evidence that the Issuer has made the like default as regards all other Notes or Residual Certificates in respect of which a corresponding payment is then due.

SECTION G

APPLICATION OF MONEYS

 

22.

MONIES HELD ON TRUST

All moneys received by the Trustee in respect of the Instruments or amounts payable under the Trust Documents (including any moneys which represent principal or interest) in respect of Notes which have become void under the Conditions will, despite any appropriation by the Issuer, be held by the Trustee on trust to apply them (subject to Clause 23 (Investment of Monies)), if received prior to delivery of a Note Event of Default Notice or an Enforcement Notice, in accordance with the Pre-Default Interest Priority of Payments and Pre-Default Principal Priority of Payments and, if received after delivery of a Note Event of Default Notice or an Enforcement Notice, in accordance with the Post-Default Priority of Payments.

 

23.

INVESTMENT OF MONIES

 

23.1

Investment by the Trustee

After the Security has become enforceable, the amount of the moneys at any time available for payment of principal and interest in respect of the Notes and any other amounts payable under Clause 22 (Monies Held on Trust) shall be less than a sum sufficient to pay at least one-tenth of the aggregate Principal Amount Outstanding of the Notes the Trustee may, at its absolute discretion, invest such moneys upon some or one of the investments hereinafter authorised with power from time to time, with like discretion, to vary such investments.

 

23.2

Accumulations

Any investment referred to in Clause 23.1 (Investment by the Trustee), with the resulting income thereof, may be accumulated until the accumulations together with any other funds for the time being under the control of the Trustee and available for the purpose shall amount to a sum sufficient to pay at least one-tenth of the aggregate Principal Amount Outstanding of the Notes and such accumulation and funds (after deduction of any taxes and any other deductibles applicable thereto) shall then be applied in accordance with the Post–Default Priority of Payments.

 

- 18 -


24.

PERMITTED INVESTMENTS

 

24.1

Types of Investment

Any moneys which under the Trust Documents may be invested by the Trustee may be invested in the name or under the control of the Trustee in the following:

 

  24.1.1

any of the investments for the time being authorised by English law for the investment by trustees of trust moneys; or

 

  24.1.2

in any other investments, whether similar to those aforesaid or not, whether or not they produce income which may be selected by the Trustee by placing the same on deposit in the name or under the control of the Trustee with such bank or other financial institution as the Trustee may think fit. If that bank or institution is the Trustee or a subsidiary, holding or associated company of the Trustee, it need only account for an amount of interest equal to the standard amount of interest payable by it on such deposit to an independent customer.

 

25.

PAYMENT TO INSTRUMENTHOLDERS

The Trustee shall, after the delivery of an Enforcement Notice, give notice to the Noteholders and Certificateholders in accordance with the Conditions and the Residual Certificate Conditions of the date fixed for any payment to them under Clause 22 (Monies Held on Trust). Any payment to be made in respect of the Notes or the Residual Certificates by the Issuer or the Trustee to the Paying Agent may be made in the manner provided in the Conditions, the Residual Certificate Conditions, the Agency Agreement, the Trust Documents and any payment so made shall be a good discharge to the Issuer or to the Trustee as the case may be to the extent of such payment. Any payment in full in respect of the interest or principal or Residual Payment payable to the Paying Agent made in respect of the Instruments in the manner aforesaid shall extinguish any claim of a Noteholder or Certificateholder which may arise directly or indirectly in respect of such interest or principal or Residual Payment.

 

26.

CURRENCY INDEMNITY

The indemnity contained in paragraph 1.3 (Currency Indemnity) of part 2 (Payment Provisions) of the Common Terms shall constitute an obligation of the Issuer separate and independent from its obligations under the other provisions of the Trust Documents and shall apply irrespective of any indulgence granted by the Trustee or the Instrumentholders from time to time and shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding the judgment or filing of any proof or proofs in any bankruptcy, insolvency or liquidation of the Issuer for a liquidated sum or sums in respect of amounts due under the Trust Documents (other than this Clause 26). Any such deficiency as aforesaid shall be deemed to constitute a loss suffered by the Instrumentholders and no proof or evidence of any actual loss shall be required by the Issuer or its liquidator or liquidators.

 

- 19 -


SECTION H

TERMS OF APPOINTMENT

 

27.

SUPPLEMENT TO TRUSTEE ACTS

By way of supplement to the Trustee Acts, it is expressly declared as follows in relation to the Trustee and the trust created by the Trust Documents:

 

27.1

Reliance on Information

 

  27.1.1

Advice: the Trustee may act on the opinion or advice of, or a certificate or any information (whether addressed to the Trustee or not) obtained from, any lawyer, banker, valuer, surveyor, securities company, broker, auctioneer, financial adviser, accountant or other expert in the United Kingdom or elsewhere (whether obtained by the Trustee, the Receiver, the Issuer, an Agent or any other Secured Creditor or any other person and whether or not the liability of such lawyer, banker, valuer, surveyor, securities company, broker, auctioneer, financial adviser, accountant or other expert is limited by monetary cap or otherwise or if any document entered into by that person limits the scope and/or basis of such opinion, advice, certificate or information), and shall not be responsible for any Liability occasioned by so acting or relying;

 

  27.1.2

Transmission of Advice: any opinion, advice, certificate or information referred to in sub-clause 27.1.1 (Advice) may be sent or obtained by letter, telegram, e-mail or fax transmission and the Trustee shall not be liable for acting on any opinion, advice, certificate or information purporting to be so conveyed although the same contains some error or is not authentic;

 

  27.1.3

Certificate of Directors or Authorised Signatories: the Trustee may call for and shall be at liberty to accept a certificate signed by two directors and/or two Authorised Signatories of the Issuer or any other Transaction Party (or other person duly authorised on its behalf):

 

  (a)

as to any fact or matter prima facie within the knowledge of the Issuer or such other Transaction Party; and

 

  (b)

to the effect that any particular dealing, transaction or step or thing is, in the opinion of the person so certifying, expedient,

as sufficient evidence that such is the case, and the Trustee shall not be bound in any such case to call for further evidence or be responsible for any Liability that may be occasioned by its failing so to do and in any event (without limitation) shall be entitled to assume the truth and accuracy of any such certificate without being required to make any further investigation in respect thereof;

 

  27.1.4

Resolution or direction of Noteholders or Certificateholders: the Trustee shall not be responsible for acting upon any resolution purporting to be a Written Resolution or to have been passed at any Meeting in respect whereof minutes have been made and signed or a direction of the requisite percentage of Noteholders or Certificateholders, even though it may subsequently be found

 

- 20 -


  that there was some defect in the constitution of the Meeting or the passing of the Written Resolution or the making of such directions or that for any reason the resolution purporting to be a Written Resolution or to have been passed at any Meeting or the making of the directions was not valid or binding upon the Noteholders or Certificateholders;

 

  27.1.5

Certificates of other parties to the Transaction Documents: the Trustee shall be entitled to call for and rely upon a certificate, believed by it to be genuine, of:

 

  (a)

any of the parties to the Transaction Documents, in respect of every matter and circumstance for which a certificate is expressly provided for under the Trust Documents, the Conditions, the Residual Certificate Conditions or the other Transaction Documents;

 

  (b)

the Servicer, the Realisation Agent or the Repo Calculation Agent, as to any other fact or matter prima facie within the knowledge of the Servicer, the Realisation Agent or the Repo Calculation Agent;

 

  (c)

the Cash Manager, as to any other fact or matter prima facie within the knowledge of the Cash Manager;

 

  (d)

the auditors or, if applicable, the Insolvency Official (if any) of the Issuer as to the amounts to be paid to Secured Creditors in accordance with the Post–Default Priority of Payments; and

 

  (e)

the Issuer, that the Issuer has sufficient funds to make an optional redemption under the Conditions or the Residual Certificates Conditions,

as sufficient evidence thereof, and the Trustee shall not be bound in any such case to call for further evidence or be responsible for any liability or inconvenience that may be occasioned by its failing to do so;

 

  27.1.6

Notes or Residual Certificates held by or for the benefit of the Issuer or any other person referred to in the proviso to the definition of outstanding: in the absence of knowledge or express notice to the contrary, the Trustee may assume without enquiry (other than requesting a certificate of the Issuer or the Seller) that no Notes or Residual Certificates are for the time being held by or for the benefit of the Issuer or any other person referred to in the proviso to the definition of outstanding;

 

  27.1.7

Trustee not responsible for investigations: the Trustee shall not be responsible for, or for investigating any matter which is the subject of, any recital, statement, representation, warranty or covenant of any person contained in the Trust Documents, the other Transaction Documents, the Notes, the Conditions, the Residual Certificates, the Residual Certificates Conditions or any other agreement or document relating to the transactions herein or therein contemplated or for the execution, legality, effectiveness, adequacy, genuineness, validity, enforceability or admissibility in evidence thereof and shall assume the accuracy and correctness thereof nor shall the Trustee, by execution of the Trust Documents, be deemed to make any representation as to the validity, sufficiency or enforceability of either the whole or any part of the Trust Documents;

 

- 21 -


  27.1.8

Information: it is a term of the trust created in this Deed that, except where expressly provided otherwise in the Transaction Documents, where the Trustee receives any information provided to it under to the terms of the Transaction Documents for information purposes only, the Trustee will not and is not expected to review or monitor such information;

 

  27.1.9

Holding of documents: The Trustee shall be at liberty to hold this Deed and any other documents relating thereto or to deposit them in any part of the world with any banker or banking company or company whose business includes undertaking the safe custody of documents or lawyer or firm of lawyers considered by the Trustee to be of good repute and may deposit this Deed and any other documents relating to this Deed with such custodian and the Trustee shall not be responsible for or required to insure against any Liability incurred in connection with any such holding or deposit and may pay all sums required to be paid on account of or in respect of any such deposit;

 

  27.1.10

No Liability as a result of the delivery of a certificate: the Trustee shall have no liability whatsoever for any Liability directly or indirectly suffered or incurred by the Issuer, any Noteholder, Certificateholder, Secured Creditor or any other person as a result of the delivery by the Trustee to the Issuer of a certificate as to material prejudice pursuant to Notes Condition 12.3 (Conditions to delivery of an Enforcement Notice) or Residual Certificate Condition 10.3 (Conditions to delivery of an Enforcement Notice), on the basis of an opinion formed by it in good faith;

 

  27.1.11

Forged Notes or Residual Certificates: the Trustee shall not be liable to the Issuer or any Noteholder or any Certificateholder by reason of having accepted as valid or not having rejected any Note as such and subsequently found to be forged or not authentic;

 

  27.1.12

Replacement of Servicer and Realisation Agent: in determining whether to serve any notice pursuant to clause 21 (Termination) of the Servicing and Realisation Agreement (or their equivalent in any replacement or back-up servicing and realisation agreements) it shall be entitled to seek directions by way of an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of the Most Senior Class of Notes then outstanding or a request in writing by the holders of at least 25 per cent. in aggregate of the Principal Amount Outstanding of such Notes or if there are no Notes outstanding, by an Extraordinary Resolution of the Certificateholders or a request in writing by 25 per cent. in number of the Residual Certificates and shall not be responsible for any delays in taking action occasioned by so doing. The Trustee has no obligation to assume the role or responsibilities of the Servicer or Realisation Agent or to appoint a successor Servicer or Realisation Agent; and

 

  27.1.13

Replacement of Cash Manager: in determining whether to serve any notice pursuant to clause 17 (Cash Manager Termination Events) of the Cash Management Agreement (or their equivalent in any replacement or back-up cash management agreements) it shall be entitled to seek directions by way of

 

- 22 -


  an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of the Most Senior Class of Notes then outstanding or a request in writing by the holders of at least 25 per cent. in aggregate of the Principal Amount Outstanding of such Notes or if there are no Notes outstanding, by an Extraordinary Resolution of the Certificateholders or a request in writing by 25 per cent. in number of the Residual Certificates and shall not be responsible for any delays in taking action occasioned by so doing. The Trustee has no obligation to assume the role or responsibilities of the Cash Manager or to appoint a successor Cash Manager.

 

27.2

Trustee’s powers and duties

 

  27.2.1

Trustee’s determination: the Trustee may determine whether or not a default in the performance by the Issuer of any obligation under the provisions of the Trust Documents, the Conditions, the Residual Certificate Conditions or contained in the Notes, the Residual Certificates or any other Transaction Document is capable of remedy, including, inter alia, the following events: (i) the Issuer ceases or threatens to cease to carry on the whole or, in the opinion of the Trustee, a substantial part of its business, save for the purposes of reorganisation on terms approved in writing by the Trustee or by Extraordinary Resolution of the Most Senior Class of Noteholders or, if there are no Notes outstanding, by an Extraordinary Resolution of the Certificateholders, or (ii) the Issuer stops or threatens to stop payment of, or is unable to, or admits inability to, pay its debts (or any class of its debts) as they fall due or the value of its assets falls to less than the amount of its liabilities (taking into account its contingent and prospective liabilities), or (iii) the Issuer is deemed unable to pay its debts pursuant to or for the purposes of any Applicable Law or is adjudicated or found bankrupt or insolvent and/or materially prejudicial to the interests of the Noteholders or any class of Notes or the Certificateholders, such certificate shall be conclusive and binding upon the Issuer, the Noteholders, the Certificateholders and the other Secured Creditors;

 

  27.2.2

Events of Default: the Trustee shall not be bound to give notice to any person of the execution of the Trust Documents or the other Transaction Documents or to take any steps to ascertain whether any Note Event of Default or Potential Note Event of Default or Residual Certificate Event of Default has happened and, until it has received a Note Event of Default Notice pursuant to the Trust Documents, the Trustee shall be entitled to assume that no Note Event of Default or Potential Note Event of Default or Residual Certificate of Event of Default has happened and that the Issuer is observing and performing all the obligations on its part contained in the Notes, the Conditions, the Residual Certificates, the Residual Certificates Conditions the other Transaction Documents and under the Trust Documents and no event has happened as a consequence of which any of the Notes may become repayable;

 

  27.2.3

Determination of questions: the Trustee, as between itself, the Instrumentholders and the other Secured Creditors, shall have full power to determine all questions and doubts arising in relation to any of the provisions of the Trust Documents and every such determination, whether made upon a question actually raised or implied in the acts or proceedings of the Trustee, shall be conclusive and shall bind the Trustee, the Instrumentholders and the other Secured Creditors;

 

- 23 -


  27.2.4

Noteholders and Certificateholders as a class: without prejudice to the provisions of sub-clause 27.2.5 (Consideration of the interests of the Noteholders, the Certificateholders and the other Secured Creditors), whenever in the Trust Documents the Trustee is required in connection with any exercise of its powers, trusts, authorities or discretions (including any modification, waiver, authorisation or determination) to have regard to the interests of the Noteholders or any class of Notes thereof or the Certificateholders, it shall have regard to the interests of the Noteholders (or such class of Notes) and the Certificateholders as a class. The Trustee shall not be obliged to have regard to the consequences of such exercise for any individual Noteholder or Certificateholder resulting from its being for any purpose domiciled or resident in, or otherwise connected in any way with, or subject to the jurisdiction of, any particular territory or taxing jurisdiction and the Noteholder or Certificateholders shall not be entitled to claim from the Issuer, the Trustee or any other person any indemnification or payment in respect of any Tax or stamp duty consequences of any such exercise upon individual Noteholders, except to the extent already provided for in Condition 11 (Taxation);

 

  27.2.5

Consideration of the interests of the Noteholders, the Certificateholders and the other Secured Creditors: the Trustee shall, as regards all the powers, trusts, authorities, duties and discretions vested in it by the Trust Documents, the other Transaction Documents, the Conditions, the Residual Certificates Conditions, the Residual Certificates or the Notes, except where expressly provided otherwise, have regard to the interests only of the Noteholders and/or the Certificateholders and not of the other Secured Creditors. Where, in the opinion of the Trustee:

 

  (a)

there is a conflict between the interests of:

 

  (i)

the Class A Noteholders; and

 

  (ii)

the Class B Noteholders and/or the Certificateholders,

the Trustee shall give priority to the interests of the Class A Noteholders whose interests shall prevail.

 

  (b)

There is a conflict between the interest of:

 

  (i)

the Class B Noteholders; and

 

  (ii)

the Certificateholders,

the Trustee shall give priority to the interests of the Class B Noteholders whose interests shall prevail,

provided further that, while any Notes of a Class ranking senior to any other Class of Notes or the Residual Certificates are then outstanding, the Trustee shall not and shall not be bound to, act at the request or direction of the Noteholders of any other Class of Notes or the Certificateholders unless

 

- 24 -


  (a)

to do so would not, in its opinion, be materially prejudicial to the interests of the Noteholders of all the Classes of Notes ranking senior to such other Class or the Residual Certificates; or

 

  (b)

(if the Trustee is not of that opinion) such action of each Class or the Residual Certificates is sanctioned by an Extraordinary Resolution of the Noteholders of the Class or Classes of the Notes ranking senior to such other Class or the Residual Certificates,

and in any such case, only if it shall have been indemnified and/or secured and/or pre-funded to its satisfaction against all liabilities to which it may thereby become liable or which it may incur by so doing in accordance with the terms of the Trust Deed.

 

  27.2.6

Trustee’s discretion: save as expressly otherwise provided herein or in the other Transaction Documents, the Trustee shall have absolute and uncontrolled discretion as to the exercise or non-exercise as regards all the trusts, powers, authorities and discretions vested in it by the Trust Documents, the other Transaction Documents or by operation of law. The Trustee shall not be responsible for any Liability that may result from the exercise or non-exercise of such discretion, but whenever the Trustee is under the provisions of the Trust Documents bound to act at the request or direction of the Noteholders or any class of Notes thereof or the Certificateholders, the Trustee shall nevertheless not be so bound unless first indemnified and/or secured and/or prefunded to its satisfaction against all actions, proceedings, claims and demands to which it may render itself liable and all Liabilities which it may incur by so doing;

 

  27.2.7

Trustee’s consent: any consent, authority, approval or waiver given by the Trustee for the purposes of the Trust Documents, the Conditions, the Residual Certificates Conditions, the Notes, the Residual Certificates and the other Transaction Documents may be given on such terms and subject to such conditions (if any) as the Trustee may require and (notwithstanding any provision to the contrary) may be given retrospectively;

 

  27.2.8

Conversion of currency: where it is necessary or desirable for any purpose in connection with the Trust Documents to convert any sum from one currency to another it shall (unless otherwise provided by the Trust Documents, the other Transaction Documents or required by law) be converted at such rate or rates, in accordance with such method and as at such date for the determination of such rate of exchange, as may be specified by the Trustee in its absolute discretion as relevant and any rate, method and date so specified shall be binding on the Issuer, the Instrumentholders and the other Secured Creditors;

 

  27.2.9

Application of proceeds: the Trustee shall not be responsible for the receipt or application by the Issuer of the proceeds of the issue of the Notes Certificates or the Residual Certificates or the delivery of any Note or Residual Certificate to the persons entitled to them;

 

  27.2.10

Error of judgment by employees: the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by any officer or employee of the Trustee assigned by the Trustee to administer its corporate trust matters;

 

- 25 -


  27.2.11

Agents: the Trustee may, in the conduct of the trusts created pursuant to the Trust Documents, instead of acting personally, employ and pay an agent on any terms, whether or not a lawyer or other professional person, to transact or conduct, or concur in transacting or conducting, any business and to do or concur in doing all acts required to be done by the Trustee (including the receipt and payment of money), and the Trustee shall not be bound to supervise the proceedings or acts of, and shall not in any way or to any extent be responsible for, any Liability incurred by reason of the misconduct, omission or default on the part of any person appointed by it hereunder;

 

  27.2.12

Delegation: the Trustee may, in the execution and exercise of all or any of the trusts, powers, authorities and discretions vested in it by the Trust Documents, act by responsible officers or a responsible officer for the time being of the Trustee and the Trustee may also whenever it thinks fit, whether by power of attorney or otherwise, delegate to any person or persons or fluctuating body of persons (whether being a joint trustee or co-trustee of the Trust Documents or not) all or any of the trusts, powers, authorities and discretions vested in it by the Trust Documents. Any such delegation may be made upon such terms and conditions and subject to such regulations (including power to sub-delegate with the consent of the Trustee) as the Trustee may think fit in the interests of the Noteholders and the Certificateholders and the Trustee shall not be bound to supervise the proceedings or acts of, and shall not in any way or to any extent be responsible for any Liability incurred by reason of the misconduct, omission or default on the part of, such delegate or sub-delegate;

 

  27.2.13

Custodians and nominees: the Trustee may appoint and pay any person to act as a custodian or nominee on any terms in relation to the Trust Property as the Trustee may determine, including for the purpose of depositing with a custodian this Deed or any document relating to the trusts created by the Trust Documents and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any Liability incurred by reason of the misconduct, omission or default on the part of any person appointed by it hereunder or be bound to supervise the proceedings or acts of any such person; the Trustee is not obliged to appoint a custodian if the Trustee invests in securities payable to bearer;

 

  27.2.14

Advice or opinion on material prejudice: where the Trustee is required to consider whether any event or the exercise by it of any power, trust, authority, duty or discretion, under or in relation to the Notes, the Residual Certificates, the Trust Documents or any other Transaction Document, is or will be materially prejudicial to the interests of the Noteholders (or any class of Notes thereof) or the Certificateholders, the Trustee shall be entitled to call for and rely and act upon the advice or opinion of any reputable financial or other adviser (whether or not such financial adviser shall be a Secured Creditor or other party to any Transaction Document) and the advice of such financial or other professional adviser if relied upon by the Trustee, shall be binding on the Noteholders and the Certificateholders and the Trustee shall not incur any Liability by reason of so acting or relying;

 

  27.2.15

Directions from the holders of the Most Senior Class of Notes or the Certificateholders: The Trustee shall be entitled to seek and obtain the express direction by an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of the Most Senior Class

 

- 26 -


  of Notes then outstanding or if no Notes are outstanding the Certificateholders or the direction is made in writing by the holders of at least 25 per cent. in principal amount outstanding of such Notes then outstanding or if no Notes are outstanding, 25 per cent. of the Residual Certificates in respect of the exercise of any of its powers in Section E of this Deed and any such direction shall be binding on the Instrumentholders and the other Secured Creditors;

 

  27.2.16

Confidential information: the Trustee shall not (unless required pursuant to any Requirement of Law or any Regulatory Direction or ordered so to do by a court of competent jurisdiction) be required to disclose to any Instrumentholder, any other Secured Creditor or any other person confidential information or other information (including information of a financial or price sensitive nature) made available to the Trustee by the Issuer or any other person in connection with this Deed or the other Transaction Documents and no Instrumentholder, other Secured Creditor or any other person shall be entitled to take any action to obtain from the Trustee any such information;

 

  27.2.17

No obligation to monitor performance: the Trustee shall be under no obligation to monitor or supervise the performance by the Issuer or any of the other Transaction Parties of their respective obligations under the Transaction Documents or under the Notes, the Residual Certificates the Conditions, the Residual Certificates Conditions or any other agreement or document relating to the transactions herein or therein contemplated and shall be entitled, in the absence of actual knowledge of a breach of obligation, to assume that each such person is properly performing and complying with its obligations;

 

  27.2.18

Illegality: notwithstanding anything else contained in the Trust Documents or the other Transaction Documents, the Trustee may refrain from doing anything which would or might in its opinion be contrary to any Requirement of Law or Regulatory Direction or which would or might otherwise render it liable to any person and may do anything which is, in its opinion, necessary to comply with any such Requirement of Law or Regulatory Direction;

 

  27.2.19

Responsibility for determination or procuring the determination of certain matters: the Issuer is responsible, pursuant to the Conditions and Residual Certificates Conditions (as applicable) for determining the amount of (i) the Note Principal Payment, (ii) the Principal Amount Outstanding, (iii) the Interest Amount and (iv) the Residual Payments and the Trustee shall have no responsibility to recalculate any such amounts notwithstanding a manifest error therein. If the Issuer does not at any time for any reason determine such amounts, the Trustee may (but is not obliged to) without responsibility or liability appoint an agent to determine the same and such calculation shall be deemed to have been made by the Issuer pursuant to the Conditions and the Residual Certificates Conditions and the Trustee shall have no liability in respect thereof;

 

  27.2.20

Termination Events: The Trustee shall not be responsible for:

 

  (a)

identifying the occurrence of an Issuer Termination in respect of the Servicer or the Realisation Agent or a Cash Manager Termination Event and shall assume that no such event or eventuality has occurred unless notified thereof by the Issuer, the Servicer, the Realisation Agent or the Cash Manager; or

 

- 27 -


  (b)

analysing the circumstances which have informed the Servicer, the Realisation Agent, the Cash Manager or the Issuer when notifying the Trustee of an Issuer Termination in respect of the Servicer,

and the Trustee has no obligation to assume the role or responsibilities of the Servicer, Realisation Agent or Cash Manager or to appoint a replacement Servicer, Realisation Agent or Cash Manager.

 

  27.2.21

Trustee not responsible for monitoring compliance with the Securitisation Regulation: the Trustee shall not be responsible for the monitoring of, compliance with, or for investigating any matter which is the subject of the undertaking given by the Retention Holder to the Trustee in paragraph 6 of the Risk Retention Letter in relation to the Retention Holder’s (i) holding of a material net economic interest pursuant to article 6(3) of the Securitisation Regulation; and (ii) compliance with its other obligations under the Securitisation Regulation ((i) and (ii) above together, the “Compliance Undertaking”). The Trustee shall not be under any obligation to take any action in relation to the Retention Holder’s non-compliance with the Compliance Undertaking unless and until it receives actual written notice from any Transaction Party confirming a breach of the Compliance Undertaking, in which event the only obligation of the Trustee shall be to forthwith notify the Issuer (who shall notify the Noteholders and the other Secured Creditors of the same) and, subject to its being indemnified and/or secured and/or prefunded to its satisfaction, to take such further action as it is directed to take in connection with such breach in accordance with an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of the Most Senior Class of Notes or if there are no Notes outstanding, by an Extraordinary Resolution of the Certificateholders;

 

27.3

Financial matters

 

  27.3.1

Professional charges: any trustee being a banker, lawyer, broker or other person engaged in any profession or business shall be entitled to charge and be paid all usual professional and other charges for business transacted and acts done by him or his partner or firm on matters arising in connection with the trusts of the Trust Documents and also his properly incurred charges in addition to disbursements for all other work and business done and all time spent by him or his partner or firm on matters arising in connection with the Trust Documents, including matters which might or should have been attended to in person by a trustee not being a banker, lawyer, broker or other professional person;

 

  27.3.2

Expenditure by the Trustee: the Trustee may refrain from taking any action or exercising any right, power, authority or discretion vested in it under the Trust Documents, any other Transaction Document, the Charged Property or any other agreement relating to the transactions herein or therein contemplated or from taking any action to enforce the Security until it has been indemnified and/or secured and/or prefunded to its satisfaction against any and all Liabilities which might be brought, made or conferred against or suffered, incurred or sustained by it as a result (which may include payment on account). Nothing

 

- 28 -


  contained in the Trust Documents or the other Transaction Documents shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of its duties or the exercise of any right, power, authority or discretion hereunder if it has grounds for believing the repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against, or security or prefunding for, such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it;

 

  27.3.3

Deductions and withholdings: notwithstanding anything contained in the Trust Documents, to the extent required by applicable law, if the Trustee is required to make any deduction or withholding from any distribution or payment made by it under the Trust Documents (other than in connection with its remuneration as provided for herein) or if the Trustee is otherwise charged to, or may become liable to, Tax as a consequence of performing its duties under the Trust Documents or the other Transaction Documents (other than Tax imposed on or calculated by reference to the overall net income, profits or gains of the Trustee), then the Trustee shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding or (as the case may be) to retain out of sums received by it an amount sufficient to discharge any liability to Tax which relates to sums so received or distributed or to discharge any such other liability of the Trustee to Tax from the funds held by the Trustee on the trusts of the Trust Documents;

 

  27.3.4

Trustee may enter into financial transactions: no Trustee and no director or officer of any corporation being a Trustee hereof shall by reason of the fiduciary position of such Trustee be in any way precluded from making any contracts or entering into any transactions in the ordinary course of business with the Issuer or any other Transaction Party or any person or body corporate directly or indirectly associated with the Issuer or such other party, or from accepting the trusteeship of any other debenture stock, debentures or securities of the Issuer or such other party or any person or body corporate directly or indirectly associated with the Issuer or such other party. Neither the Trustee nor any director or officer of any corporation being a Trustee shall be accountable to the Instrumentholders, the other Secured Creditors, the Issuer or any other Transaction Party or any person or body corporate directly or indirectly associated with the Issuer or any such other Transaction Party for any profit, fees, commissions, interest, discounts or share of brokerage earned, arising or resulting from any such contracts or transactions and the Trustee and any such director or officer shall also be at liberty to retain the same for its or his own benefit; and

 

  27.3.5

Noteholder and Certificateholder appraisal of financial condition: each Noteholder, each Certificateholder and each other Secured Creditor shall be solely responsible for making its own independent appraisal of and investigation into the financial condition, creditworthiness, affairs, status and nature of the Issuer and the other Transaction Parties, the Charged Property or the Security and the Trustee shall not at any time have any responsibility for any such appraisal or investigation and no Noteholder, Certificateholder or other Secured Creditors shall rely on the Trustee in respect thereof.

 

- 29 -


27.4

FSMA Authorisation

Notwithstanding anything in the Trust Documents or any other Transaction Document to the contrary, the Trustee shall not do, or be authorised or required to do, anything which might constitute a regulated activity for the purpose of FSMA, unless it is authorised under FSMA to do so.

The Trustee shall have the discretion at any time:

 

  27.4.1

to delegate any of the functions which fall to be performed by an authorised person under FSMA to any other agent or person which also has the necessary authorisations and licences; and

 

  27.4.2

to apply for authorisation under FSMA and perform any or all such functions itself if, in its absolute discretion, it considers necessary, desirable or appropriate to do so.

Nothing in these presents shall require the Trustee to assume an obligation of the Issuer arising under any provisions of the listing, prospectus, disclosure or transparency rules (or equivalent rules of any other competent authority besides the FCA).

 

27.5

Trustee Liability

Subject to Sections 750 and 751 of the Companies Act 2006 (if applicable) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Transaction Documents, the Trustee shall not be liable to any person for any matter or thing done or omitted in any way in connection with or in relation to the Transaction Documents save in relation to its own gross negligence, wilful default or fraud.

The Trustee will not responsible for any Liability caused by or any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder if it is prevented from so performing its obligations by a Force Majeure Event.

 

27.6

Consequential Damages or Loss of Profits

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Transaction Documents, the Trustee shall not in any event be liable for special, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, lost profits, goodwill reputation or business opportunity), whether or not foreseeable, even if the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of whether the claim for loss or damage is made in negligence, for breach of contract, breach of trust or otherwise.

 

27.7

Trustee liable for gross negligence

None of the provisions of the Trust Documents shall in any case in which the Trustee has failed to show the degree of care and diligence required by it as Trustee, having regard to the provisions of the Trust Documents conferring on the Trustee any powers, authorities or discretions, relieve or indemnify the Trustee against any liability which by virtue of any applicable rule of law would otherwise attach to it in respect of any gross negligence, wilful default or fraud (except insofar as the same arises because of the gross negligence, wilful default or fraud of the Issuer or any other Transaction Party) of which it is found guilty in relation to its duties under the Trust Documents.

 

- 30 -


27.8

Disapplication

Section 1 of the Trustee Act 2000 shall not apply to the duties of the Trustee in relation to the trusts constituted by the Trust Documents. Where there are any inconsistencies between the Trustee Acts and the provisions of the Trust Documents, the provisions of the Trust Documents shall, to the extent allowed by law, prevail and, in the case of any such inconsistency with the Trustee Act 2000, the provisions of the Trust Documents shall constitute a restriction or exclusion for the purposes of that Act.

 

27.9

Matters Relating to Security

 

  27.9.1

Reliance on title to the Security: the Trustee may accept without investigation, requisition or objection such right and title as the Issuer may have to any of the Charged Property and the other Security created in favour of the Trustee by the Trust Documents and shall not be bound or concerned to examine or enquire into or be liable for any defect or failure in the right or title of the Issuer or any other person to all or any of the Charged Property whether such defect or failure was known to the Trustee or might have been discovered upon examination or enquiry and whether capable of remedy or not;

 

  27.9.2

Registration and perfection of the Security: the Trustee shall not be liable for any failure, omission or defect in perfecting, protecting or further assuring the Security including:

 

  (a)

any failure, omission or defect in registering or filing or procuring registration or filing of, or otherwise protecting or perfecting the Security or the priority thereof or the right or title of any person in or to the assets comprised in the Security; and

 

  (b)

any failure or omission to require any further assurances in relation to the Security;

 

  27.9.3

Adequacy of the Security: the Trustee shall not be responsible for any unsuitability, inadequacy or unfitness of any Charged Property as security for the Secured Amounts and shall not be obliged to make any investigation into, and shall be entitled to assume, the suitability, adequacy and fitness of the Charged Property as security for the Secured Amounts;

 

  27.9.4

Monitoring: the Trustee shall not be responsible for investigating, monitoring or supervising the observance or performance by any person of its obligations in respect of the Charged Property or otherwise;

 

  27.9.5

No responsibility for Security: the Trustee shall not be responsible for any Liabilities occasioned to the Security however caused, whether by an act or omission of the Issuer or any other party to the Transaction Documents or any other person (including any bank, broker, depositary, custodian or other intermediary or any clearing system or operator thereof) acting in accordance with or contrary to the provisions of any of the Transaction Documents or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Security is held by or to the order of any of such persons;

 

- 31 -


  27.9.6

Insurance: without prejudice to the provisions of any Transaction Document relating to insurance, the Trustee shall not be under any obligation to insure any of the Security or Charged Property or any deeds or documents of title or other evidence in respect of the Security or Charged Property or to require any other person to maintain any such insurance or monitor the adequacy of any such insurance and shall not be responsible for any Liability which may be suffered by any person as a result of the lack of or inadequacy of any such insurance;

 

  27.9.7

Depreciation in value: the monies standing to the credit of any account comprised in the Charged Property shall be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of the Transaction Documents and the Trustee shall not be responsible in such circumstances or at any other time for any Liability suffered by any person, whether by reason of depreciation in value or by fluctuation in exchange rates or otherwise;

 

  27.9.8

No liability for loss: the Trustee will not be liable for any decline in the value nor any loss realised upon any sale or other disposition pursuant to the Trust Documents of, any of the Charged Property. In particular and without limitation, the Trustee shall not be liable for any such decline or loss directly or indirectly arising from its acting or failing to act as a consequence of an opinion reached by it in good faith based on advice received by it in accordance with the Trust Documents and the Conditions;

 

  27.9.9

Liability to Tax: the Trustee shall have no responsibility whatsoever to the Issuer, any Noteholder or other Secured Creditors as regards any deficiency which might arise because the Trustee is subject to any Tax in respect of all or any of the Charged Property, the income therefrom or the proceeds thereof; and

 

  27.9.10

Responsibility: the Trustee shall not be responsible for the execution, legality, effectiveness, adequacy, genuineness, validity, enforceability, admissibility in evidence or suitability of any of the Underlying Assets, the Underlying Finance Documents, the Underlying Security, the Financial Assets or the Repurchase Agreement or other documents entered into in connection therewith, nor shall it be responsible or liable to any person because of any invalidity of any provisions of such documents or the unenforceability thereof, whether arising from statute, law or decision of any court. The Trustee shall not have any responsibility for, or have any duty to make any investigation in respect of or in any way be liable whatsoever for:

 

  (a)

the nature, status, creditworthiness or solvency of any Underlying Obligor or any other person or entity who has at any time provided any security or support whether by way of guarantee, charge or otherwise in respect of any advance made to any Underlying Obligor;

 

  (b)

the execution, delivery, legality, effectiveness, genuineness, validity, adequacy, admissibility in evidence, suitability or enforceability of any Underlying Assets, the Underlying Finance Documents, the Underlying Security, the Financial Assets or the Repurchase Agreement or any other document entered into in connection therewith;

 

- 32 -


  (c)

the scope or accuracy of any representations, warranties or statements made by or on behalf of any Underlying Obligor in any application for any advance or any document entered into in connection therewith;

 

  (d)

the performance or observance by any Underlying Obligor or any other person of any provisions of any Underlying Assets, the Underlying Finance Documents, the Underlying Security, the Financial Assets or the Repurchase Agreement or in any document entered into in connection therewith or the fulfilment or satisfaction of any conditions contained therein or relating thereto or as to the existence or occurrence at any time of any default, event of default or similar event contained therein or waiver or consent which has at any time been granted in relation to any of the foregoing;

 

  (e)

the existence, accuracy or sufficiency of any legal or other opinions, searches, reports, certificates, valuations or investigations delivered or obtained or required to be delivered or obtained at any time in connection with any Underlying Assets, the Underlying Finance Documents, the Underlying Security, the Financial Assets or the Repurchase Agreement;

 

  (f)

the title of the Issuer to any Financial Assets;

 

  (g)

the compliance of the provisions and contents of and the manner and formalities applicable to the execution of the Underlying Assets or the Repurchase Agreement and any documents connected therewith, with any Requirement of Law or Regulatory Disclosure;

 

  (h)

the failure to call for delivery of documents of title to or require any transfers, legal mortgages, charges or other further assurances in relation to any of the assets the subject matter of any of the Transaction Documents or any other document;

 

  (i)

any other matter or thing relating to or in any way connected with any Underlying Assets or the Repurchase Agreement or any document entered into in connection therewith, whether or not similar to the foregoing.

SECTION I

COSTS AND EXPENSES

 

28.

REMUNERATION

 

28.1

Normal Remuneration

The Issuer shall pay to the Trustee remuneration for its services as trustee as from the date of this Deed, such remuneration to be at such rate agreed in a separate fee letter between the Issuer and the Trustee. Such remuneration shall accrue from day to day and be payable in accordance with the Priorities of Payments until the trusts of the Trust Documents are discharged.

 

- 33 -


28.2

Extra Remuneration

In the event of the occurrence of an Note Event of Default or a Potential Note Event of Default or a Residual Certificate Event of Default or the Trustee considering it expedient or necessary or being requested by the Issuer to undertake duties which the Trustee and the Issuer agree to be of an exceptional nature or otherwise outside the scope of the normal duties of the Trustee under the Trust Documents, including, without limitation, pre-enforcement actions such as amendments, noteholder meetings and other expert advice required by the Trustee, the Issuer shall pay to the Trustee such additional remuneration as shall be agreed between them (and which may be calculated by reference to the Trustee’s normal hourly rates in force from time to time).

 

28.3

Value Added Tax

The Issuer shall in addition pay to the Trustee an amount of any VAT chargeable in respect of its remuneration and all sums of whatever nature payable under this Deed upon receipt of a valid VAT invoice from the Trustee in respect of the supply for which that remuneration is the consideration for VAT purposes.

 

28.4

Failure to agree

In the event of the Trustee and the Issuer failing to agree:

 

  28.4.1

(in a case to which Clause 28.1 (Normal Remuneration) applies) upon the amount of the remuneration; or

 

  28.4.2

(in a case to which Clause 28.2 (Extra Remuneration) applies) upon whether such duties shall be of an exceptional nature or otherwise outside the scope of the normal duties of the Trustee under the Trust Documents or upon such additional remuneration,

such matters shall be determined by an independent third party (acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator) selected by the Trustee and approved by the Issuer or, failing such approval, nominated (on the application of the Trustee) by the President for the time being of The Law Society of England and Wales (the expenses involved in such nomination and the fees of such independent third party being payable by the Issuer) and the determination of any such independent third party shall be final and binding upon the Trustee and the Issuer.

 

28.5

Expenses

The Issuer shall also pay or discharge all costs, charges and expenses properly incurred by the Trustee, any Appointee and (if applicable) the Receiver in relation to the preparation and execution of, the exercise or attempted or purported exercise of its powers and the performance of its duties under, and in any other manner in relation to, the Trust Documents and the other Transaction Documents, including, but not limited to, legal and travelling expenses and any stamp, issue, registration, documentary and other taxes or duties paid or payable by the Trustee (other than a liability imposed on, or calculated by reference to, the Trustee’s, the Appointee’s and (if applicable) the

 

- 34 -


Receiver’s net income, profits or gains) in connection with any action taken or contemplated by or on behalf of the Trustee for enforcing, or resolving any doubt concerning, or for any other purpose in relation to, the Trust Documents or the other Transaction Documents.

 

28.6

Indemnity

 

  28.6.1

Without prejudice to the right of indemnity by law given to trustees, the Issuer covenants with and undertakes to the Trustee to indemnify the Trustee on demand on an after-Tax basis against any Liabilities (other than a liability to Tax imposed on, or calculated by reference to, the Trustee’s, the Appointee’s and (if applicable) the Receiver’s net income, profits or gains) which are properly incurred by the Trustee, any Receiver or any Appointee or any other person appointed by the Trustee under the Trust Documents to whom any trust, power, authority or discretion may be delegated by the Trustee in the execution, or the purported execution, of the trusts, powers, authorities and discretions vested in it or performance or attempted performance of its duties imposed by the Trust Documents or the other Transaction Documents, in, or in connection with (except insofar as the same are incurred because of any gross negligence, fraud or wilful default of the Trustee, any Appointee or the Receiver):

 

  (a)

the performance of the terms of the Trust Documents or the other Transaction Documents;

 

  (b)

anything done or purported to be done or omitted by the Trustee, any Appointee or the Receiver in relation to the Charged Property or under the Trust Documents or any other Transaction Document;

 

  (c)

the exercise or attempted or purported or omitted exercise by or on behalf of the Trustee, any Appointee or the Receiver of any of the powers or performance or attempted performance of the Trustee, any Appointee or the Receiver or any other action taken by or on behalf of the Trustee with a view to or in connection with enforcing any obligations of the Issuer or any other person under any Transaction Document or the recovery by the Trustee, any Appointee or the Receiver from the Issuer of the Secured Amounts; or

 

  (d)

any payment made in respect of the Secured Amounts (whether by the Issuer or any other person) which is subsequently impeached or declared void for any reason whatsoever.

 

  28.6.2

The Issuer shall, if required by the Trustee, put the Trustee in funds prior to the Trustee being required to make a payment in respect of any Liability incurred by the Trustee where the Trustee would have a right to be indemnified by the Issuer for such Liability under sub-clause 28.6.1 above and the Trustee shall only be required to pay such liability to the extent that the Trustee has been prefunded therefor.

 

- 35 -


28.7

Priority of Indemnity

The Trustee, any Appointee and the Receiver shall be entitled to be indemnified out of the Charged Property against all Liabilities payable pursuant to Clause 28.6 (Indemnity) in accordance with the Priorities of Payments and the Trustee may retain and pay out of the monies in its hands arising from the Charged Property all sums necessary to effect such indemnity.

 

28.8

Payment of amounts due

 

  28.8.1

All amounts due and payable pursuant to Clauses 28.5 (Expenses) and 28.6 (Indemnity) shall be payable by the Issuer on the date specified in a demand by the Trustee; the rate of interest applicable to such payments shall be 2 per cent. per annum above the base rate from time to time of Bank of England or 2 per cent. whichever is higher and interest shall accrue:

 

  (a)

in the case of payments made by the Trustee prior to the date of the demand, from the date on which the payment was made or such later date as specified in such demand;

 

  (b)

in the case of payments made by the Trustee on or after the date of the demand, from the date specified in such demand, which date shall not be a date earlier than the date such payments are made.

 

  28.8.2

All remuneration or indemnity payments due and payable to the Trustee shall carry interest at the rate specified in sub-clause 28.8.1 above from the due date thereof.

 

28.9

Discharges

Unless otherwise specifically stated in any discharge of the Trust Documents or the other Transaction Documents the provisions of this Clause 28 shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding such discharge and whether or not the Trustee is then the Trustee of this Deed.

SECTION J

APPOINTMENT AND RETIREMENT

 

29.

APPOINTMENT OF TRUSTEES

The power of appointing new or replacement trustees of the Trust Documents shall be vested in the Issuer, but no person shall be appointed who shall not previously have been approved by an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of the Most Senior Class of Notes then outstanding, or if there are no Notes outstanding, the Residual Certificates. One or more persons may hold office as trustee or trustees of the Trust Documents, provided that such trustee or trustees shall be (if there is only one) or include (if there is more than one) a Trust Corporation.

 

30.

NOTICE OF A NEW TRUSTEE

Any appointment of a new or replacement trustee of the Trust Documents shall, as soon as practicable thereafter, be notified by the Issuer to the Agents, the Noteholders, the

 

- 36 -


Certificateholders and the other Secured Creditors. The Most Senior Class of Notes outstanding, or if there are no Notes outstanding the Residual Certificates, shall have the power, exercisable by Extraordinary Resolution, to remove any trustee or trustees for the time being hereof. The removal of any trustee shall not become effective unless there remains a trustee hereof (being a Trust Corporation) in office after such removal.

 

31.

SEPARATE AND CO-TRUSTEES

Notwithstanding the provisions of Clause 29 (Appointment of Trustees), the Trustee may, upon giving prior notice to the Issuer (but without the consent of the Issuer, the Noteholders, the Certificateholders or any other Secured Creditor), appoint any person established or resident in any jurisdiction (whether a Trust Corporation or not) to act either as a separate trustee or as a co-trustee jointly with the Trustee:

 

31.1

if the Trustee considers such appointment to be in the interests of the Noteholders and the Certificateholders; or

 

31.2

for the purposes of conforming to any legal requirements, restrictions or conditions in any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be performed; or

 

31.3

for the purposes of obtaining a judgment against the Issuer in any jurisdiction or the enforcement in any jurisdiction either of a judgment already obtained against the Issuer or in respect of the Trust Documents or any other Transaction Document; or

 

31.4

if the Trustee in its absolute discretion determines that such appointment is necessary or desirable to avoid any potential conflicts of interest.

 

32.

APPOINTMENT, REMOVAL, REMUNERATION OF SEPARATE/CO-TRUSTEE

The Issuer hereby irrevocably appoints the Trustee to be its attorney in its name and on its behalf to execute any instrument of appointment of a separate or co-trustee pursuant to Clause 31 (Separate and Co-trustees). Such a person shall (subject always to the provisions of the Trust Documents and the other Transaction Documents) have such trusts, powers, authorities and discretions (not exceeding those conferred on the Trustee by the Trust Documents and the other Transaction Documents) and such duties and obligations as shall be conferred on such person or imposed by the instrument of appointment. The Trustee shall have the power in like manner to remove any such person. Such remuneration as the Trustee may pay to any such person, together with any attributable Liabilities incurred by it in performing its function as such separate trustee or co-trustee, shall for the purposes of the Trust Documents be treated as Liabilities of the Trustee.

 

33.

RETIREMENT OF TRUSTEES

Any Trustee for the time being of the Trust Documents may retire at any time upon giving not less than 60 calendar days’ notice in writing to the Issuer without assigning any reason therefor and without being responsible for any Liabilities occasioned by such retirement. The retirement of any Trustee shall not become effective unless there remains a trustee hereof (being a Trust Corporation) in office after such retirement. The Issuer covenants that, in the event of the sole trustee or the only Trustee hereof which

 

- 37 -


is a Trust Corporation giving notice under this Clause 33, it shall use all reasonable endeavours to procure a new trustee, being a Trust Corporation, to be appointed. If the Issuer has not appointed a new Trustee prior to the expiry of the notice period given by the Trustee, the Trustee shall be entitled to nominate a replacement, being a Trust Corporation. Subject to Clause 29 (Appointment of Trustees), such appointment must be approved by an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of the Most Senior Class of Notes outstanding or, if no Notes are outstanding the Residual Certificates. The Trustee shall resign at any time upon the resignation or termination of the appointment of the Trustee in accordance with the provisions of the Transaction Documents. On termination of the appointment of the Trustee, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive all fees and other moneys accrued and unpaid up to the date of termination.

 

34.

COMPETENCE OF A MAJORITY OF TRUSTEES

Whenever there shall be more than two trustees hereof the majority of such trustees shall (provided such majority includes a Trust Corporation) be competent to execute and exercise all the trusts, powers, authorities and discretions vested by the Trust Documents in the Trustee generally.

 

35.

POWERS ADDITIONAL

The powers conferred by the Trust Documents upon the Trustee shall be in addition to any powers which may from time to time be vested in it by general law or as the holder of any of the Notes or Residual Certificates.

SECTION K

MISCELLANEOUS

 

36.

EXECUTION

The parties have executed this Deed as a deed and intend to deliver, and do deliver, this Deed on the date stated at the beginning of this Deed.

 

- 38 -


SCHEDULE 1

FORM OF NOTE CERTIFICATE

[ISIN: [Class A: []] [Class B: []]

Common Code: [Class A: []] [Class B: []]

THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR WITH ANY SECURITIES REGULATORY AUTHORITY OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES OR ANY OTHER RELEVANT JURISDICTION AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, A U.S. PERSON (AS DEFINED IN REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) (1) AS PART OF THEIR DISTRIBUTION AT ANY TIME OR (2) OTHERWISE PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS 40 DAYS AFTER THE LATER OF THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE OFFERING OF THE NOTES AND THE CLOSING OF THE OFFERING OF THE NOTES, EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

[EACH PURCHASER OR HOLDER AGREES THAT, FOR U.S. FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL INCOME AND FRANCHISE TAX PURPOSES AND FOR ACCOUNTING PURPOSES, THIS NOTE SHALL BE TREATED AS INDEBTEDNESS OF APOLLO COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE FINANCE INC. UNLESS PROHIBITED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EACH PURCHASER OR HOLDER AGREES TO TREAT SO TREAT THIS NOTE FOR ALL U.S. FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL INCOME AND FRANCHISE TAX PURPOSES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ON ANY AND ALL FILINGS WITH ANY U.S. FEDERAL, STATE, OR LOCAL TAXING AUTHORITY), AND SHALL NOT TAKE ANY ACTION INCONSISTENT WITH SUCH TREATMENT. ]1

EACH PURCHASER OR HOLDER OF THIS NOTE SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED BY SUCH PURCHASE AND/OR HOLDING THAT (I) IT IS NOT AND IS NOT USING THE ASSETS OF A BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR, AND SHALL NOT AT ANY TIME HOLD THIS NOTE FOR OR ON BEHALF OF A BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR AND (II) IT IS NOT AND IS NOT USING THE ASSETS OF A GOVERNMENTAL, CHURCH OR NON-U.S. PLAN WHICH IS SUBJECT TO FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL OR NON-U.S. LAWS WHICH ARE SIMILAR TO THE PROHIBITED TRANSACTION PROVISIONS OF SECTION 406 OF THE U.S. EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED, (“ERISA”) OR SECTION 4975 OF THE U.S. INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”). THE TERM “BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR” SHALL MEAN (I) AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA), WHICH IS SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF ERISA, (II) A PLAN DESCRIBED IN AND SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE, OR (III) AN ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE PLAN ASSETS BY REASON OF A PLAN’S INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY UNDER U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR REGULATIONS § 2510.3-101 (29 C.F.R. § 2510.3-101) AS MODIFIED BY SECTION 3(42) OF ERISA.]

 

 

1

To be included in Class A Notes only.

 

- 39 -


ACRE Debt 2 PLC

(incorporated with limited liability under

the laws of England and Wales with registered number 12635042)

[£][initial principal amount in figures] Class [[A]/[B]] [[GBP]/[EUR]/[USD]] Asset

Backed Floating Rate Notes due 2025

This Note Certificate is issued in respect of the above captioned Notes (the “Notes”) of ACRE Debt 2 PLC (the “Issuer”). The Notes are constituted by, are subject to, and have the benefit of the Trust Deed and are the subject of the Agency Agreement and the other Transaction Documents.

Any reference herein to the “Conditions” is to the terms and conditions of the Notes attached hereto and any reference to a numbered “Condition” is to the correspondingly numbered provision thereof.

In this Note Certificate, unless otherwise defined herein or the context requires otherwise, words and expressions have the meanings and constructions ascribed to them in the Conditions.

This is to certify that:

 

 

 

of  

    

 

    

is the person registered in the Register maintained by the Registrar in relation to the Notes as the duly registered holder or, if more than one person is so registered, the first-named of such persons (the “Holder”) of:

 

£[amount]                                                                                              
(                                         [CURRENCY AND AMOUNT IN WORDS])

in aggregate principal amount of the Notes.

The Issuer, for value received, promises to pay such principal sum to the Holder on the dates and in the amounts specified in the Conditions or on such earlier date or dates as the same may become payable in accordance with the Conditions, and to pay interest on the unpaid balance of such principal sum in arrear on the dates and at the rate specified in the Conditions, together with any additional amounts payable in accordance with the Conditions, all subject to and in accordance with the Conditions.

The statements set out in the legend above are an integral part of this Note Certificate and, by acceptance hereof, each Holder of this Note Certificate agrees to be subject to and bound by such legends.

 

- 40 -


This Note Certificate is evidence of entitlement only and is not a document of title. Entitlements are determined by the Register and only the Holder is entitled to payment in respect of this Note Certificate.

This Note Certificate shall not be valid for any purpose until it has been authenticated for and on behalf of the Registrar.

AS WITNESS the manual or facsimile signature of a duly authorised person on behalf of the Issuer.

SIGNED by

ACRE Debt 2 PLC

 

By:  

                    

  [●] as Director
  [manual signature or facsimile signature]
  (duly authorised)
Issued in London, on [●]
ISSUED as of [●] 20[●]
AUTHENTICATED for and on behalf of
Elavon Financial Services D.A.C., UK Branch
as Registrar
By:  

                    

  Authorised Signatory
  (Without recourse, warranty or liability)

 

- 41 -


FORM OF TRANSFER

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED                                                                                       , being the registered holder of this Note Certificate, hereby transfers
to                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                   of                                                                                                                                               ,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                    , £                      in principal amount of the [Class A [GBP/EUR/USD]] [Class B [GBP/EUR/USD]] Asset Backed Floating Rate Notes due 2025 (the “Notes”) of ACRE Debt 2 PLC (the “Issuer”) and irrevocably requests and authorises Elavon Financial Services D.A.C., UK Branch, in its capacity as registrar in relation to the Notes (or any successor to Elavon Financial Services D.A.C., UK Branch, in its capacity as such) to effect the relevant transfer by means of appropriate entries in the register kept by it.

 

Dated:
By:  

                    

  (duly authorised)

Notes

The name of the person by or on whose behalf this form of transfer is signed must correspond with the name of the registered holder as it appears on the face of this Note Certificate.

 

(a)

A representative of such registered holder should state the capacity in which he signs, e.g. executor.

 

(b)

The signature of the person effecting a transfer shall conform to any list of duly authorised specimen signatures supplied by the registered holder or be certified by a recognised bank, notary public or in such other manner as the Registrar may require.

 

(c)

The Class B Notes shall not be transferred in part or separately from the Residual Certificates. However, all of the Class B Notes and Residual Certificates, together, may be transferred to a single transferee, provided that: (i) such transferee is a Related Entity of the Class B Noteholder and (ii) following delivery of a Write-Down Notice, any proposed transfer of the Class B Notes and Residual Certificates shall only be effective after the Class B Set-Off Date as specified in the notice.

 

- 42 -


TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE NOTES

(as set out in Schedule 3 (Terms and Conditions of the Notes) to the Trust Deed)

REGISTRAR

Elavon Financial Services D.A.C., UK Branch

125 Old Broad Street

London EC2N 1AR

United Kingdom

 

- 43 -


SCHEDULE 2

FORM OF RESIDUAL CERTIFICATE

[ISIN: [●]

Common Code: [●]

THIS RESIDUAL CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR WITH ANY SECURITIES REGULATORY AUTHORITY OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES OR ANY OTHER RELEVANT JURISDICTION AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, A U.S. PERSON (AS DEFINED IN REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) (1) AS PART OF THEIR DISTRIBUTION AT ANY TIME OR (2) OTHERWISE PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS 40 DAYS AFTER THE LATER OF THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE OFFERING OF THE RESIDUAL CERTIFICATES AND THE CLOSING OF THE OFFERING OF THE RESIDUAL CERTIFICATES, EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

EACH PURCHASER OR HOLDER OF THIS RESIDUAL CERTIFICATES SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED BY SUCH PURCHASE AND/OR HOLDING THAT (I) IT IS NOT AND IS NOT USING THE ASSETS OF A BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR, AND SHALL NOT AT ANY TIME HOLD THIS NOTE FOR OR ON BEHALF OF A BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR AND (II) IT IS NOT AND IS NOT USING THE ASSETS OF A GOVERNMENTAL, CHURCH OR NON-U.S. PLAN WHICH IS SUBJECT TO FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL OR NON-U.S. LAWS WHICH ARE SIMILAR TO THE PROHIBITED TRANSACTION PROVISIONS OF SECTION 406 OF THE U.S. EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED, (“ERISA”) OR SECTION 4975 OF THE U.S. INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”). THE TERM “BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR” SHALL MEAN (I) AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA), WHICH IS SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF ERISA, (II) A PLAN DESCRIBED IN AND SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE, OR (III) AN ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE PLAN ASSETS BY REASON OF A PLAN’S INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY UNDER U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR REGULATIONS § 2510.3-101 (29 C.F.R. § 2510.3-101) AS MODIFIED BY SECTION 3(42) OF ERISA.]

 

- 44 -


ACRE Debt 2 PLC

(incorporated with limited liability under

the laws of England and Wales with registered number 12635042)

RESIDUAL CERTIFICATE

This Residual Certificate is issued in respect of the above captioned residual certificate (the “Residual Certificate”) of ACRE Debt 2 PLC (the “Issuer”). The Residual Certificates are constituted by, are subject to, and have the benefit of the Trust Deed and are the subject of the Agency Agreement and the other Transaction Documents.

Any reference herein to the “Conditions” is to the terms and conditions of the Notes attached hereto and any reference to a numbered “Condition” is to the corresponding numbered provision thereof.

In this Residual Certificate, unless otherwise defined herein or the context require otherwise, words and expressions have the meanings and constructions ascribed to them in the Residual Certificate Conditions.

This is to certify that:

 

 

    

of  

    

 

    

is the person registered in the Register maintained by the Registrar in relation to the Residual Certificate as the duly registered holder or, if more than one person is so registered, the first-named of such persons (the “Holder”) of:

 

[amount in numbers]                                                                                                                    
(                                          [AMOUNT IN WORDS])

Residual Certificates.

The Issuer, for value received, promises to pay such sums to the Holder on the dates and in the amounts specified in the Residual Certificate Conditions or on such earlier date or dates as the same may become payable in accordance with the Residual Certificate Conditions, together with any additional amounts payable in accordance with the Conditions, all subject to and in accordance with the Residual Certificate Conditions.

The statements set out in the legend above are an integral part of this Residual Certificate and, by acceptance hereof, each Holder of this Residual Certificate agrees to be subject to and bound by such legends.

This Residual Certificate is evidence of entitlement only and is not a document of title. Entitlements are determined by the Register and only the Holder is entitled to payment in respect of this Residual Certificate.

 

- 45 -


This Residual Certificate shall not be valid for any purpose until has been authenticated for and on behalf of the Registrar.

AS WITNESS the manual or facsimile signature of a duly authorised person on behalf of the Issuer.

SIGNED by

ACRE Debt 2 PLC

 

By:  

                    

  [●] as Director
  [manual signature or facsimile signature]
  (duly authorised)
Issued in London, on [●]
ISSUED as of [●] 20[●]
AUTHENTICATED for and on behalf of
Elavon Financial Services D.A.C., UK Branch
as Registrar
By:  

                    

  Authorised Signatory
  (Without recourse, warranty or liability)

 

- 46 -


FORM OF TRANSFER

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED                                                                              , being the registered holder of this Residual Certificate, hereby transfers
to                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                        of                                                                                                          ,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                    , [●] Residual Certificates (the “Residual Certificates”) of ACRE Debt 2 PLC (the “Issuer”) and irrevocably requests and authorises Elavon Financial Services D.A.C., UK Branch, in its capacity as registrar in relation to the Residual Certificates (or any successor to Elavon Financial Services D.A.C., UK Branch, in its capacity as such) to effect the relevant transfer by means of appropriate entries in the register kept by it.

 

Dated:
By:  

                    

  (duly authorised)

Notes

The name of the person by or on whose behalf this form of transfer is signed must correspond with the name of the registered holder as it appears on the face of this Global Residual Certificate.

 

(a)

A representative of such registered holder should state the capacity in which he signs, e.g. executor.

 

(b)

The signature of the person effecting a transfer shall conform to any list of duly authorised specimen signatures supplied by the registered holder or be certified by a recognised bank, notary public or in such other manner as the Registrar may require.

 

(c)

The Residual Certificates shall not be transferred in part or separately from the Class B Notes. However, all of the Residual Certificates and all of the Class B Notes, together, may be transferred to a single transferee.

 

- 47 -


TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE RESIDUAL CERTIFICATES

(as set out in Schedule 5 (Terms and Conditions of the Residual Certificates) to the Trust Deed)

REGISTRAR

Elavon Financial Services D.A.C., UK Branch

125 Old Broad Street

London EC2N 1AR

United Kingdom

 

- 48 -


SCHEDULE 3

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE NOTES

 

1.

GENERAL

 

1.1

The £519,632,743.56 Class A GBP Asset Backed Floating Rate Notes due 2025 (the “Class A GBP Notes”), the €122,493,843.06 Class A EUR Asset Backed Floating Rate Notes due 2025 (the “Class A EUR Notes” and, together with the Class A GBP Notes the “Class A Notes”), the £174,149,194.44 Class B GBP Asset Backed Floating Rate Notes due 2025 (the “Class B GBP Notes”), the €83,720,557.94 Class B EUR Asset Backed Floating Rate Notes due 2025 (the “Class B EUR Notes” and, together with the Class B GBP Notes, the “Class B Notes”) will be issued by ACRE DEBT 2 PLC (registered number 12635042) on or about the Closing Date.

 

1.2

The Issuer has agreed to issue the Notes subject to and with the benefit of the terms of the Trust Deed and the Agency Agreement. The security for the Notes is created pursuant to, and on the terms set out in, the Deed of Charge.

 

1.3

The Agency Agreement records certain arrangements in relation to the payment of interest and principal in respect of the Notes.

 

1.4

Certain provisions of these Conditions are summaries of the Trust Documents and the Agency Agreement and are subject to their detailed provisions.

 

1.5

The Noteholders are bound by the terms of the Trust Documents and are deemed to have notice of all the provisions of the Transaction Documents.

 

1.6

Copies of each of the Transaction Documents (including any related modification, waiver, authorisation or determination in writing) and the Restricted Transferees List will be sent by the Registrar to each Noteholder at its request upon entry of their name in the Register by uninsured first class mail (airmail if overseas) at the risk of the Noteholder to the address specified in the Register.

 

2.

DEFINITIONS

 

2.1

Definitions

Capitalised terms not otherwise defined in these Conditions shall bear the meanings given to them in the Incorporated Terms Memorandum available as described above.

 

2.2

Interpretation

These Conditions shall be construed in accordance with the principles of construction set out in the Incorporated Terms Memorandum.

 

3.

FORM, DENOMINATION AND TITLE

 

3.1

Form and Denomination

The Notes are in registered form without interest coupons or principal coupons and in the denomination of (i) £100,000 each and integral multiples of £0.01 in excess thereof in respect of the Class A GBP Notes and the Class B GBP Notes, (ii) €100,000 each

 

- 49 -


and integral multiples of €0.01 in excess thereof in respect of the Class A EUR Notes and the Class B EUR Notes and (iii) $100,000 each and integral multiples of $0.01 in excess thereof in respect of the Class A USD Notes and the Class B USD Notes (each, an “Authorised Holding”), as reduced by the prior redemptions pursuant to Condition 8 (Final Redemption, Mandatory Redemption, Optional Redemption and Cancellation).

 

3.2

Title

 

  3.2.1

Title to the Notes shall pass by registration in the Register.

 

  3.2.2

The Issuer shall procure that the Registrar maintains the Register in accordance with the terms of the Agency Agreement.

 

  3.2.3

The holder of each Note shall (except as otherwise required by law) be treated as its absolute owner for all purposes (including the making of any payment) whether or not any payment is overdue and regardless of any notice of ownership, trust or any other interest therein, any writing on the Note Certificate relating thereto (other than the endorsed form of transfer) or any notice of any previous loss or theft of such Note Certificate and no person shall be liable for so treating such holder.

 

3.3

Register

The Registrar will maintain the Register in respect of the Notes in accordance with the provisions of the Agency Agreement. A Note Certificate will be issued (at the request of the Noteholder) to each Noteholder in respect of its registered holding. Each Note Certificate will be numbered serially with an identifying number which will be recorded in the Register. For the avoidance of doubt, the entry on the Register shall be conclusive proof of title to the Notes and not any Note Certificate.

 

3.4

Transfers

 

  3.4.1

Subject to Conditions 3.7 (Closed periods) and 3.8 (Regulations concerning transfers and registration) below, a Note may be transferred by delivery of a completed transfer form to the Specified Office of the Registrar or the Paying Agent, together with such evidence of the authority of the individuals who have executed the form of transfer; provided, however, that:

 

  (a)

a Note may not be transferred unless the principal amount of Notes transferred and (where not all of the Notes held by a holder are being transferred) the principal amount of the balance of Notes not transferred are Authorised Holdings; and

 

  (b)

the proposed transferee is not a Restricted Transferee (unless a Note Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time of transfer, in which case the Notes shall be freely transferable to any Restricted Transferee).

Where not all the Notes held by a Noteholder are transferred, the Noteholder may surrender its Note Certificate and request a new Note Certificate in respect of the balance of the Notes and the Registrar will issue such new Note Certificate in accordance with the terms of the Agency Agreement.

 

- 50 -


  3.4.2

The Class B Notes shall not be transferred in part or separately from the Residual Certificates. However, all of the Class B Notes and Residual Certificates, together, may be transferred to a single transferee, provided that:

 

  (a)

such transferee is a Related Entity of the Class B Noteholder;

 

  (b)

such transfer would not be in breach of the Risk Retention Undertaking given by the Retention Holder; and

 

  (c)

following the delivery of a Write-Down Notice, such transfer is effective only after the Class B Set-Off Date as specified in the notice,

in each case as confirmed by the Servicer to the Registrar, which confirmation the Registrar may rely on without liability and without further investigation .

 

3.5

Registration and delivery of Note Certificates

Within five Business Days of delivery of a completed transfer form, the Registrar will (provided it has available in its possession an inventory of Note Certificates) register the transfer in question and, if requested to do so, authenticate and make available at its Specified Office or at the Specified Office of the Paying Agent, as the case may be, to the transferee or send to by uninsured first class mail (airmail if overseas) the authenticated Note Certificates to the address specified for the purpose by the transferee.

 

3.6

No charge

The transfer of a Note will be effected without charge by or on behalf of the Issuer and the Registrar but against such indemnity as the Registrar may require from the transferee to the transfer for any stamp duty, documentary, registration, transfer or other similar taxes or other government charges which may be levied or imposed in connection with such transfer.

 

3.7

Closed periods

Noteholders may not require transfers to be registered during the period of 5 Business Days ending on an Interest Payment Date or Final Maturity Date.

 

3.8

Regulations concerning transfers and registration

All transfers of Notes and entries on the Register are subject to the detailed regulations concerning the transfer of Notes scheduled to the Agency Agreement. The regulations may be changed by the Issuer with the prior written approval of all Noteholders and the Registrar. A copy of the current regulations will be mailed (free of charge) by the Registrar to every Noteholder who requests it in writing to the Registrar by uninsured first class mail (airmail if overseas) at the risk of the Noteholder to the address specified in the Register.

 

- 51 -


3.9

Listing

An application will be made to TISE for the Notes to be admitted to listing as soon as possible after the Closing Date, in any case by no later than the first Interest Payment Date.

 

4.

STATUS AND RANKING

 

4.1

Status

The Notes of each class constitute secured, limited recourse obligations of the Issuer.

 

4.2

Ranking

The Notes of each Class will at all times rank without preference or priority pari passu amongst themselves.

 

4.3

Sole Obligations

The Notes are obligations solely of the Issuer and are not obligations of or guaranteed by any of the other Transaction Parties.

 

4.4

Priority of Interest Payments

Payments of interest on the Class A Notes will at all times rank in priority to payments of interest on the Class B Notes, in each case in accordance with the Pre-Default Interest Priority of Payments or, after delivery of a Note Event of Default Notice or an Enforcement Notice, in accordance with the Post-Default Priority of Payments.

 

4.5

Priority of Principal Payments

Payments of principal on the Class A Notes will at all times rank in priority to payments of principal on the Class B Notes in accordance with the Pre-Default Principal Priority of Payments or, after delivery of a Note Event of Default Notice or an Enforcement Notice, in accordance with the Post-Default Priority of Payments.

 

4.6

Payment Priorities

Prior to the delivery of a Note Event of Default Notice or an Enforcement Notice, the Issuer is required to apply Available Interest Amounts and Available Principal Receipts in accordance with the Pre-Default Priorities of Payment and thereafter in accordance with the Post-Default Priority of Payments.

 

5.

SECURITY

 

5.1

Security

 

  5.1.1

The Notes are secured by the Security.

 

  5.1.2

The Security over the relevant assets will be released in the following circumstances:

 

  (a)

over all amounts which the Cash Manager, on behalf of the Issuer and the Trustee (if applicable), is permitted to withdraw from the relevant

 

- 52 -


  Issuer Account(s), in accordance with the Deed of Charge, any such release to take effect immediately upon the relevant withdrawal being made; or

 

  (b)

over an Underlying Asset and any security pertaining to it are sold by the Realisation Agent or Servicer (as applicable) pursuant to the Servicing and Realisation Agreement and the Deed of Charge.

 

5.2

Enforceability

The Security will become enforceable upon the delivery by the Trustee of an Enforcement Notice in accordance with Condition 12 (Events of Default) and subject to the matters referred to in Condition 13 (Enforcement).

 

6.

ISSUER COVENANTS

The Issuer Covenants contain certain covenants in favour of the Trustee from the Issuer which, amongst other things, restrict the ability of the Issuer to create or incur any indebtedness (save as permitted in the Trust Deed), dispose of assets or change the nature of its business. So long as any Note remains outstanding, the Issuer shall comply with the Issuer Covenants.

 

7.

INTEREST

 

7.1

Accrual of Interest

Each Note bears interest on its Principal Amount Outstanding, from (and including) the Closing Date.

 

7.2

Cessation of Interest

Each Note of each Class (or in the case of redemption of part only of a Note, that part only of such Note) shall cease to bear interest from its due date for redemption unless, upon due presentation, payment of the principal is improperly withheld or refused or default is otherwise made in respect of the payment, in which case, it will continue to bear interest in accordance with this Condition 7 (both before and after judgment) until whichever is the earlier of:

 

  7.2.1

the day on which all sums due in respect of such Note up to that day are received by or on behalf of the relevant Noteholder; and

 

  7.2.2

the day which is seven days after the Paying Agent or the Trustee has notified the Noteholders of such Class in accordance with Condition 22 (Notices) that it has received all sums due in respect of the Notes of such class up to such seventh day (except to the extent that there is any subsequent default in payment).

 

7.3

Interest Payments

 

  7.3.1

Interest on each of the Class A GBP Notes and the Class B GBP Notes is payable in Sterling in arrear on each Interest Payment Date commencing on the First Interest Payment Date, in an amount equal to the Interest Amount in respect of such Note for the Interest Period ending on the day immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date.

 

- 53 -


  7.3.2

Interest on each of the Class A EUR Notes and the Class B EUR Notes is payable in EUR in arrear on each Interest Payment Date commencing on the First Interest Payment Date, in an amount equal to the Interest Amount in respect of such Note for the Interest Period ending on the day immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date.

 

  7.3.3

Interest on each of the Class A USD Notes and the Class B USD Notes is payable in USD in arrear on each Interest Payment Date commencing on the First Interest Payment Date, in an amount equal to the Interest Amount in respect of such Note for the Interest Period ending on the day immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date.

 

7.4

Calculation of Interest Amount

Upon or as soon as practicable after each Interest Determination Date, the Issuer shall calculate (or shall cause the Note Calculation Agent to calculate) the Interest Amount payable on each Note for the related Interest Period.

 

7.5

Calculation and Publication of Interest Amount and Interest Payment Date

On or as soon as practicable after each Interest Determination Date, the Note Calculation Agent will calculate:

 

  7.5.1

the Interest Amount payable in respect of each Note of each class for the related Interest Period; and

 

  7.5.2

the Interest Payment Date next following the related Interest Period,

and notify the Issuer, the Cash Manager, the Trustee, the Registrar and the Paying Agent. The Issuer will cause notice thereof promptly to be given to Noteholders in accordance with the Notices Condition and provide a breakdown of the calculations of the Interest Amount (including by reference to each sub-paragraph of the Interest Amount definition).    

 

7.6

Amendments to Publications

The Note Calculation Agent will be entitled to recalculate the Interest Amount for the Notes of any Class (on the basis of the foregoing provisions) and the Interest Payment Date so published may subsequently be amended (or appropriate alternative arrangements made by way of adjustment) without notice in the event of any extension or shortening of the relevant Interest Period.

 

7.7

Determination or Calculation by Trustee

If the Issuer does not at any time for any reason determine (or cause the Note Calculation Agent to determine) any Interest Amount payable on any Note of any Class in accordance with this Condition 7, the Trustee may (but is not obliged to and without any responsibility and without any liability accruing to the Trustee as a result) appoint, at the expense of the Issuer, an agent to calculate the Interest Amount in respect of any Note of any Class in the manner specified in this Condition 7, and any such determination and/or calculation shall be deemed to have been made by the Issuer.

 

- 54 -


7.8

Notifications to be final

All notifications, opinions, determinations, certificates, calculations, quotations and decisions given, expressed, made or obtained for the purposes of this Condition 7, by the Note Calculation Agent, the Realisation Agent or the Servicer (as applicable) shall (in the absence of any Breach of Duty, or manifest error) be binding on the Issuer and all Noteholders and (in the absence of any Breach of Duty or manifest error) no liability to the Issuer shall attach to the Servicer, the Realisation Agent or the Note Calculation Agent, in connection with the exercise or non-exercise by them or any of them of their powers, duties and discretions under this Condition 7.

 

7.9

Interest Deferral

 

  7.9.1

To the extent that funds available to the Issuer to pay interest on the Notes of any Class (other than the Most Senior Class of Notes) on an Interest Payment Date are insufficient to pay the full amount of such interest, payment of the shortfall in respect of such Class of Notes (“Deferred Interest”) will not then fall due but will instead be deferred until the first Interest Payment Date thereafter on which funds are available to the Issuer (after allowing for the Issuer’s liabilities of higher priority in accordance with the Priorities of Payments and subject to and in accordance with these Conditions) to fund the payment of such Deferred Interest when the Deferred Interest will be paid to the extent of such available funds.

 

  7.9.2

Payment of any amounts of Deferred Interest shall not be deferred beyond the Final Maturity Date or beyond any earlier date on which the relevant class of Notes falls to be redeemed in full in accordance with Condition 8 (Final Redemption, Mandatory Redemption, Optional Redemption and Cancellation) and any such amount which has not then been paid in respect of the relevant Class of Notes shall thereupon become due and payable in full.

 

7.10

Notification of Availability for Payment

The Issuer shall cause notice of the availability for payment of any Deferred Interest in respect of a Class (and the date of payment thereof in respect of such Class) to be published in accordance with the Notices Condition.

 

7.11

Agents

The Issuer shall use best endeavours to ensure that, so long as any of the Notes remains outstanding there shall at all times be a Note Calculation Agent and a Realisation Agent. If the Note Calculation Agent or the Realisation Agent is unable or unwilling to continue to act as such, the Issuer shall appoint such other bank as may be previously approved in writing by the Trustee to act as such in its place. The Note Calculation Agent or the Realisation Agent may not resign until a successor approved in writing by the Trustee is appointed by the Issuer. Notice of any change in any of the Agents or in their Specified Offices shall promptly be given to the Noteholders in accordance with the Notices Condition.

 

- 55 -


8.

FINAL REDEMPTION, MANDATORY REDEMPTION, OPTIONAL REDEMPTION AND CANCELLATION

 

8.1

Final Redemption

Unless previously redeemed or purchased and cancelled as provided in this Condition 8, the Issuer shall redeem the Notes in each Class at their Principal Amount Outstanding together with accrued interest on the Final Maturity Date.

 

8.2

Mandatory redemption

 

  8.2.1

Prior to delivery of a Note Event of Default Notice or an Enforcement Notice, on each Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, unless previously redeemed in full and cancelled, each class of GBP Notes is subject to mandatory early redemption in part in an amount not exceeding the GBP Available Principal Receipts for such class of GBP Notes on such Interest Payment Date, Alternate Payment Date or other date as follows:

 

  (i)

GBP Pro Rata Principal Receipts

The GBP Pro Rata Principal Receipts as determined by the Cash Manager on any Calculation Date shall be allocated to the outstanding Notes on the immediately following Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date in the following order to:

 

  (A)

the Class A GBP Notes in an amount to the proportion of GBP Pro Rata Principal Receipts being the quotient of the Senior Exposure for the relevant Purchased Security divided by the Purchase Price for such Purchased Security; and

 

  (B)

the Class B GBP Notes in an amount to the remaining GBP Pro Rata Principal Receipts.

If all the Class A GBP Notes and Class B GBP Notes have been redeemed or will be redeemed in full on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, an amount equal to the GBP Pro Rata Principal Receipts (reduced by any amount allocated to the Class A GBP Notes and the Class B GBP Notes on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date) will be applied in accordance with: (x) in respect of an Interest Payment Date, the Pre-Default Interest Priority of Payments and (y) in respect of an Alternate Payment Date, the Pre-Default Principal Priority of Payments and this Condition 8.2 on the immediately following Interest Payment Date or this Condition 8.2 on the immediately following Alternate Payment Date, whichever is the earlier to occur.

 

  (ii)

GBP Sequential Principal Receipts

The GBP Sequential Principal Receipts as determined by the Cash Manager on any Calculation Date will be allocated to the outstanding

 

- 56 -


Notes on the immediately following Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date sequentially in the following order to:

 

  (A)

the Class A GBP Notes pro rata until the Class A GBP Notes are redeemed in full;

 

  (B)

if the Class A GBP Notes have been or will be redeemed in full on such day, an amount equal to the GBP Sequential Principal Receipts (reduced by any amount allocated to the Class A GBP Notes under sub-paragraph (A) above on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date) will be converted into euros and U.S. dollars (in each case at the Cash Manager’s spot rate) and used to redeem the Class A EUR Notes and the Class A USD Notes until redeemed in full. The amounts to be converted into euros and U.S. dollars shall be calculated by the Cash Manager so that the amounts applied pursuant to this paragraph to redeem the Class A EUR Notes and the Class A USD Notes are in proportion to the Principal Amount Outstanding of the relevant class by reference to the aggregate Principal Amount Outstanding of the Class A EUR Notes and Class A USD Notes;

 

  (C)

if the Class A Notes have been or will be redeemed in full on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, an amount equal to the GBP Sequential Principal Receipts (reduced by any amount allocated to the Class A Notes under sub-paragraphs (A) and (B) above on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date) will be allocated to the Class B GBP Notes pro rata until the Class B GBP Notes are redeemed in full; and

 

  (D)

if the Class B GBP Notes have been or will be redeemed in full on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, an amount equal to the GBP Sequential Principal Receipts (reduced by any amount allocated to the Class A GBP Notes, Class A Notes and Class B GBP Notes under sub-paragraphs (A) to (C) above (inclusive) on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date) will be converted into euros and U.S. dollars (in each case at the Cash Manager’s spot rate) and used to redeem the Class B EUR Notes and the Class B USD Notes until redeemed in full. The amounts to be converted into euros and U.S. dollars shall be calculated by the Cash Manager so that the amounts applied pursuant to this paragraph to redeem the Class B EUR Notes and the Class B USD Notes are in proportion to the Principal Amount Outstanding of the relevant class by reference to the aggregate Principal Amount Outstanding of the Class B EUR Notes and Class B USD Notes; and

 

  (E)

if the Class B Notes have been or will be redeemed in full on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, an amount equal to the GBP Sequential Principal Receipts (reduced by any amount allocated to the Class A Notes and Class B Notes

 

- 57 -


  under sub-paragraphs (A) to (D) above (inclusive) on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date) will be applied in accordance with (x) in respect of an Interest Payment Date, the Pre-Default Interest Priority of Payments and (y) in respect of an Alternate Payment Date, the Pre-Default Principal Priority of Payments and this Condition 8.2 on the immediately following Interest Payment Date or this Condition 8.2 on the immediately following Alternate Payment Date, whichever is the earlier to occur.

These are referred to as the “GBP Pre-Default Principal Allocation Rules”.

 

  8.2.2

Prior to delivery of a Note Event of Default Notice or an Enforcement Notice, on each Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date (as applicable), unless previously redeemed in full and cancelled, the Class A EUR Notes and the Class B EUR Notes are subject to mandatory early redemption in part in an amount not exceeding the EUR Available Principal Amounts for such Class A EUR Notes or Class B EUR Notes (as applicable) on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date or other date as follows:

 

  (i)

EUR Pro Rata Principal Receipts

The EUR Pro Rata Principal Receipts as determined by the Cash Manager on any Calculation Date shall be allocated to the outstanding Notes on the immediately following Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date in the following order to:

 

  (A)

the Class A EUR Notes in an amount to the proportion of EUR Pro Rata Principal Receipts being the quotient of the Senior Exposure for the relevant Purchased Security divided by the Purchase Price for such Purchased Security; and

 

  (B)

the Class B EUR Notes in an amount to the remaining EUR Pro Rata Principal Receipts.

If all the Class A EUR Notes and Class B EUR Notes have been redeemed or will be redeemed in full on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, an amount equal to the EUR Pro Rata Principal Receipts (reduced by any amount allocated to the Class A EUR Notes and the Class B EUR Notes on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date) will be applied in accordance (x) in respect of an Interest Payment Date, the Pre-Default Interest Priority of Payments and (y) in respect of an Alternate Payment Date, the Pre-Default Principal Priority of Payments and this Condition 8.2 on the immediately following Interest Payment Date or this Condition 8.2 on the immediately following Alternate Payment Date, whichever is the earlier to occur.

 

- 58 -


  (ii)

EUR Sequential Principal Receipts

The EUR Sequential Principal Receipts as determined by the Cash Manager on any Calculation Date will be allocated to the outstanding Notes on the immediately following Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date sequentially in the following order to:

 

  (A)

the Class A EUR Notes pro rata until the Class A EUR Notes are redeemed in full;

 

  (B)

if the Class A EUR Notes have been or will be redeemed in full on such day, an amount equal to the EUR Sequential Principal Receipts (reduced by any amount allocated to the Class A EUR Notes under sub-paragraph (A) above on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date) will be converted into Sterling and U.S. dollars (in each case at the Cash Manager’s spot rate) and used to redeem the Class A GBP Notes and the Class A USD Notes until redeemed in full. The amounts to be converted into Sterling and U.S. dollars shall be calculated by the Cash Manager so that the amounts applied pursuant to this paragraph are distributed to redeem the Class A GBP Notes and the Class A USD Notes are in proportion to the Principal Amount Outstanding of the relevant class by reference to the aggregate Principal Amount Outstanding of the Class A GBP Notes and Class A USD Notes;

 

  (C)

if the Class A Notes have been or will be redeemed in full on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date an amount equal to the EUR Sequential Principal Receipts (reduced by any amount allocated to the Class A Notes under sub-paragraphs (A) and (B) above on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date) will be allocated to the Class B EUR Notes pro rata until the Class B EUR Notes are redeemed in full; and

 

  (D)

if the Class B EUR Notes have been or will be redeemed in full on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, an amount equal to the EUR Sequential Principal Receipts (reduced by any amount allocated to the Class A EUR Notes, Class A Notes and Class B EUR Notes under sub-paragraphs (A) to (C) above (inclusive) on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date) will be converted into Sterling and U.S. dollars (in each case at the Cash Manager’s spot rate) and used to redeem the Class B GBP Notes and the Class B USD Notes until redeemed in full. The amounts to be converted into Sterling and U.S. dollars shall be calculated by the Cash Manager so that the amounts applied pursuant to this paragraph to redeem the Class B GBP Notes and the Class B USD Notes are in proportion to the Principal Amount Outstanding of the relevant class by reference to the aggregate Principal Amount Outstanding of the Class B GBP Notes and Class B USD Notes; and

 

- 59 -


  (E)

if the Class B Notes have been or will be redeemed in full on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, an amount equal to the EUR Sequential Principal Receipts (reduced by any amount allocated to the Class A Notes and Class B Notes under sub-paragraphs (A) to (D) above (inclusive) on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date) will be applied in accordance with (x) in respect of an Interest Payment Date, the Pre-Default Interest Priority of Payments and (y) in respect of an Alternate Payment Date, the Pre-Default Principal Priority of Payments and this Condition 8.2 on the immediately following Interest Payment Date or this Condition 8.2 on the immediately following Alternate Payment Date, whichever is the earlier to occur.

These are referred to as the “EUR Pre-Default Principal Allocation Rules”.

 

  8.2.3

Prior to the delivery of a Note Event of Default Notice or an Enforcement Notice, on each Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date (as applicable), unless previously redeemed in full and cancelled, each class of USD Notes is subject to mandatory early redemption in part in an amount not exceeding the USD Available Principal Amounts for such class of USD Notes on such Interest Payment Date, Alternate Payment Date or other date as follows:

 

  (i)

USD Pro Rata Principal Receipts

The USD Pro Rata Principal Receipts as determined by the Cash Manager on any Calculation Date shall be allocated to the outstanding Notes on the immediately following Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date in the following order to:

 

  (A)

the Class A USD Notes in an amount to the proportion of USD Pro Rata Principal Receipts being the quotient of the Senior Exposure for the relevant Purchased Security divided by the Purchase Price for such Purchased Security; and

 

  (B)

the Class B USD Notes in an amount to the remaining USD Pro Rata Principal Receipts.

If all the Class A USD Notes and Class B USD Notes have been redeemed or will be redeemed in full on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, an amount equal to the USD Pro Rata Principal Receipts (reduced by any amount allocated to the Class A USD Notes and the Class B USD Notes on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date will be applied in accordance with (x) in respect of an Interest Payment Date, the Pre-Default Interest Priority of Payments and (y) in respect of an Alternate Payment Date, the Pre-Default Principal Priority of Payments and this Condition 8.2 on the immediately following Interest Payment Date or this Condition 8.2 on the immediately following Alternate Payment Date, whichever is the earlier to occur.

 

- 60 -


  (ii)

USD Sequential Principal Receipts

The USD Sequential Principal Receipts as determined by the Cash Manager on any Calculation Date will be allocated to the outstanding Notes on the immediately following Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date sequentially in the following order to:

 

  (A)

the Class A USD Notes pro rata until the Class A USD Notes are redeemed in full;

 

  (B)

if the Class A USD Notes have been or will be redeemed in full on such day, an amount equal to the USD Sequential Principal Receipts (reduced by any amount allocated to the Class A USD Notes under sub-paragraph (A) above on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date) will be converted into Sterling and euro (in each case at the Cash Manager’s spot rate) and used to redeem the Class A GBP Notes and the Class A EUR Notes until redeemed in full. The amounts to convert into Sterling and euro shall be calculated by the Cash Manager so that the amounts applied pursuant to this paragraph to redeem the Class A GBP Notes and the Class A EUR Notes in proportion to the Principal Amount Outstanding of the relevant class by reference to the aggregate Principal Amount Outstanding of the Class A GBP Notes and Class A EUR Notes;

 

  (C)

if the Class A Notes have been or will be redeemed in full on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, an amount equal to the USD Sequential Principal Receipts (reduced by any amount allocated to the Class A Notes under sub-paragraphs (A) and (B) above on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date) will be allocated to the Class B USD Notes pro rata until the Class B USD Notes are redeemed in full; and

 

  (D)

if the Class B USD Notes have been or will be redeemed in full on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, an amount equal to the USD Sequential Principal Receipts (reduced by any amount allocated to the Class A USD Notes, Class A Notes and Class B USD Notes under sub-paragraphs (A) to (C) above (inclusive) on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date) will be converted into Sterling and euro (in each case at the Cash Manager’s spot rate) and used to redeem the Class B GBP Notes and the Class B EUR Notes until redeemed in full. The amounts to be converted into Sterling and euro shall be calculated by the Cash Manager so that the amounts applied pursuant to this paragraph to redeem the Class B GBP Notes and the Class B EUR Notes in proportion to the Principal Amount

 

- 61 -


  Outstanding of the relevant class by reference to the aggregate Principal Amount Outstanding of the Class B GBP Notes and Class B EUR Notes; and

 

  (E)

if the Class B Notes have been or will be redeemed in full on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, an amount equal to the USD Sequential Principal Receipts (reduced by any amount allocated to the Class A Notes and Class B Notes under sub-paragraphs (A) to (D) above (inclusive) on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date) will be applied in accordance with (x) in respect of an Interest Payment Date, the Pre-Default Interest Priority of Payments and (y) in respect of an Alternate Payment Date, the Pre-Default Principal Priority of Payments and this Condition 8.2 on the immediately following Interest Payment Date or this Condition 8.2 on the immediately following Alternate Payment Date, whichever is the earlier to occur.

These are referred to as the “USD Pre-Default Principal Allocation Rules” and, together with the GBP Pre-Default Principal Allocation Rules and the EUR Pre-Default Principal Allocation Rules, the “Pre-Default Principal Allocation Rules”.

 

  8.2.4

Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of the Transaction Documents:

 

  (a)

the Issuer shall not be obliged to redeem the Notes on an Alternate Payment Date unless the aggregate Available Principal Receipts due to be applied in accordance with this Condition 8.2 towards redemption of the Notes on such Alternate Payment Date is in an aggregate amount equal to or greater than equivalent of £2,500,000; and

 

  (b)

the Class B Noteholder may deliver a Write-Down Notice to the Issuer, the Trustee, the Realisation Agent and the Seller pursuant to the terms of the Repurchase Agreement in the form set out under Schedule 7 (Form of Class B Noteholder Write-Down Notice). If the Class B Noteholder delivers a Write-Down Notice, the Issuer shall reduce (or procure the reduction of) the Principal Amount Outstanding of the Class B Notes by the amount specified in the Write-Down Notice on the Class B Set-Off Date specified in the Write-Down Notice.

 

8.3

Senior Exposure Reduction Rules

 

  8.3.1

The Cash Manager shall maintain a record of all principal amounts paid to the holders of the Class A Notes attributable to each Purchased Security such that the Senior Exposure of such Purchased Security is reduced by the relevant principal amount. For the avoidance of doubt, the aggregate amount by which the Senior Exposures of all Purchased Securities is reduced by on any relevant Ledger shall at all times equal the aggregate principal amounts paid to the Class A Notes. On any Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date on which Class A Notes are redeemed in part or in full, the Cash Manager shall record

 

- 62 -


  reductions in the Senior Exposure of the relevant Purchased Security in the manner set out below (the “Senior Exposure Reduction Rules”):

 

  (i)

firstly, by the amount of the Pro Rata Principal Receipts used to redeem the Class A Notes on such day in relation to a Purchased Security;

 

  (ii)

secondly, by the amount of the Sequential Sole Exposure Principal Receipts used to redeem to the Class A Notes on such day in relation to a Purchased Security;

 

  (iii)

third, by the proportion of the Sequential All Exposure Principal Receipts used to redeem the Class A Notes on such day in the currency of the Purchased Security, which shall be equal to the quotient of (a) the Senior Exposure of such Purchased Security (after giving effect to (i) and (ii) above, if applicable)) over (b) the aggregate of the Senior Exposures of all Purchased Securities denominated in the same currency (after giving effect to (i) and (ii) above, if applicable, in relation to all such Purchased Securities);

 

  (iv)

fourth, if any Sequential Sole Exposure Principal Receipts used to redeem the Class A Notes on such day in relation to the Purchased Securities, which are denominated in the same currency as such Purchased Security, are in excess of the Senior Exposure of the Purchased Securities to which the Sequential Sole Exposure Principal Receipts received by the Issuer are attributable, the Senior Exposure shall be reduced by the amount equal to the proportion of such excess being the quotient of (a) the Senior Exposure of such Purchased Security (after giving effect to (i), (ii) and (iii) above, if applicable)) over (b) the aggregate of the Senior Exposures of all Purchased Securities denominated in the same currency (after giving effect to (i), (ii) and (iii) above, if applicable, in relation to all such Purchased Securities);

 

  (v)

fifth, if any Sequential Sole Exposure Principal Receipts paid to the Class A Notes on such day in relation to Purchased Securities, which are denominated in a different currency than such Purchased Security, are in excess of the aggregate of the Senior Exposure of the Purchased Securities in the currency of these Sequential Sole Exposure Principal Receipts, the Senior Exposure shall be reduced by the amount equal to the proportion of such excess being the quotient of the Senior Exposure of (a) such Purchased Security (after giving effect to (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) above, if applicable)) over (b) the aggregate of the Senior Exposures of all other Purchased Securities (after giving effect to (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) above, if applicable, in relation to all such Purchased Securities). Any conversion calculations required under this sub-paragraph shall be made by the Cash Manager using the relevant spot rate; and

 

  (vi)

sixth, if the Sequential All Exposure Principal Receipts paid to the Class A Notes on such day in relation to Purchased Securities, which are denominated in a different currency than such Purchased Security, are in excess of the aggregate of the Senior Exposure of the Purchased Securities in the currency of these Sequential All Exposure Principal

 

- 63 -


  Receipts, the Senior Exposure shall be reduced by the amount equal to the proportion of such excess being the quotient of (a) the Senior Exposure of such Purchased Security (after giving effect to (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) above, if applicable)) over (b) the aggregate of the Senior Exposures of all other Purchased Securities (after giving effect to (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) above, if applicable, in relation to all such Purchased Securities). Any conversion calculations required under this sub-paragraph shall be made by the Cash Manager using the relevant spot rate,

provided that:

 

  (A)

if the amounts described in (i) to (vi) above are in excess of the Senior Exposure of such Purchased Security, the resulting amounts as described in the relevant sub-paragraph shall be applied to reduce the Senior Exposure of the Purchased Security to zero and all remaining amounts shall be used to reduce the Senior Exposure of all other Purchased Securities as per (i) to (vi) above; and

 

  (B)

the Senior Exposure of all Purchased Securities shall be recalculated under any given sub-paragraph above simultaneously and the calculations required under the immediately following sub-paragraph shall only be performed once the calculations of the preceding paragraph have been performed on all Purchased Securities.

 

8.4

Optional Redemption in whole for taxation reasons

The Issuer may redeem all (but not some only) of the Notes at their Principal Amount Outstanding together with any accrued interest, on any Interest Payment Date:

 

  8.4.1

after the date on which by virtue of a change in Tax law (or the application or official interpretation of such Tax law) the Issuer is (or the Paying Agent on behalf of the Issuer is) to make any payment in respect of the Notes and either the Issuer (or the Paying Agent on behalf of the Issuer) would be required to make a Tax Deduction in respect of such relevant payment; or

 

  8.4.2

after the date on which by virtue of a change in Tax law (or the application or official interpretation of such Tax law) the Issuer would be subject to United Kingdom corporation tax or any other tax of a similar fiscal nature elsewhere in an accounting period on an amount which exceeds the aggregate Issuer Profit Amount retained during that accounting period;

subject to the following:

 

  8.4.3

no Enforcement Notice has been delivered by the Trustee;

 

  8.4.4

the Issuer has given not more than 60 nor less than 30 days’ notice to the Trustee and the Noteholders in accordance with the Notices Condition of its intention to redeem all (but not some only) of the Notes in each class; and

 

- 64 -


  8.4.5

prior to giving any such notice, the Issuer has provided to the Trustee:

 

  (a)

a legal opinion (in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee) from a firm of lawyers in the applicable jurisdiction (approved in writing by the Trustee), opining on the relevant change in Tax law; and

 

  (b)

a certificate signed by two directors of the Issuer to the effect that the obligation to make a Tax Deduction cannot be avoided; and

 

  (c)

a certificate signed by two directors of the Issuer to the effect that it will have the funds on the relevant Interest Payment Date, not subject to the interest of any other person, required to redeem the Notes pursuant to this Condition 8.4.5 and meet its payment obligations of a higher priority under the Pre-Default Interest Priority of Payments and the Pre-Default Principal Priority of Payments or if a Note Event of Default Notice has been issued, the Post-Default Priority of Payments.

 

8.5

Calculation of Principal Payment Amount and Principal Amount Outstanding

On each Calculation Date, the Issuer shall calculate (or cause the Note Calculation Agent to calculate):

 

  8.5.1

the aggregate (if any) Principal Payment Amount due in relation to each Class on the Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date immediately succeeding such Calculation Date;

 

  8.5.2

the Principal Payment Amount (if any) due on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date in respect of each Note of each class;

 

  8.5.3

the Principal Amount Outstanding of each Note of each class on the Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date immediately succeeding such Calculation Date (after deducting any Principal Payment Amount due to be made on that Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date in relation to such Note),

and notify the Trustee and the Agents and the Issuer will immediately cause details of each calculation of a Principal Payment Amount and Principal Amount Outstanding to be notified in accordance with the Notices Condition by not later than: (x) in respect of an Interest Payment Date, three Business Days prior to each Interest Payment Date and (y) in respect of an Alternate Payment Date, one Business Day prior to each Alternate Payment Date.

 

8.6

Calculations final and binding

Each calculation by or on behalf of the Issuer of any Principal Payment Amount and Principal Amount Outstanding pursuant to this Condition 8 shall in each case (in the absence of any Breach of Duty or manifest error) be final and binding on all persons.

 

8.7

Trustee to determine amounts in case of Issuer default

If the Issuer does not at any time for any reason calculate (or cause the Cash Manager or the Note Calculation Agent to calculate) any Available Principal Receipts and Principal Amount Outstanding in accordance with this Condition 8, the Trustee may (but is not obliged to and without any responsibility and without any liability accruing

 

- 65 -


to the Trustee as a result) appoint, at the expense of the Issuer, an agent to make such calculation in accordance with this Condition (based on information supplied to it by the Issuer, the Note Calculation Agent or the Cash Manager) and each such calculation shall be deemed to have been made by the Issuer.

 

8.8

Conclusiveness of certificates and legal opinions

Any certificate or legal opinion given by or on behalf of the Issuer pursuant to Condition 8.4 (Optional Redemption in whole for taxation reasons) may be relied on by the Trustee without further investigation and without liability to any other person and shall be conclusive and binding on the Noteholders, the Trustee and on the other Secured Creditors.

 

8.9

Notice irrevocable

Any such notice as is referred to in Condition 8.4 (Optional Redemption in whole for tax reasons) shall be irrevocable and, upon the expiration of such notice, the Issuer shall be bound to redeem the Notes to which such notice relates in the amounts specified in these Conditions.

 

8.10

Cancellation of redeemed Notes

All Notes redeemed in full will be cancelled forthwith by the Issuer and no such Notes may be reissued or resold.

 

9.

LIMITED RECOURSE

 

9.1

If at any time following

 

  (a)

the occurrence of either:

 

  (i)

the Final Maturity Date or any earlier date upon which all of the Notes of each class are due and payable; or

 

  (ii)

the service of an Enforcement Notice; and

 

  (b)

realisation of the Charged Property and application in full of any amounts available to pay amounts due and payable under the Notes in accordance with the applicable Priorities of Payments,

the proceeds of such Realisation are insufficient, after payment of all other claims ranking in priority in accordance with the applicable Priorities of Payments, to pay in full all amounts then due and payable under any Class of Notes then the amount remaining to be paid (after such application in full of the amounts first referred to in paragraph (b) above) under such Class of Notes (and any Class of Notes junior to that Class of Notes) shall, on the day following such application in full of the amounts referred to in paragraph (b) above, cease to be due and payable by the Issuer.

For the purposes of this Condition 9, “Realisation” means, in relation to any Charged Property, the deriving, to the fullest extent practicable, (in accordance with the provisions of the Transaction Documents) of proceeds from or in respect of such Charged Property including (without limitation) through sale or through performance by an obligor.

 

- 66 -


10.

PAYMENTS

 

10.1

Principal and interest

Payments of principal and interest shall be made by cheque drawn in Sterling in the case of the GBP Notes, euro in the case of the EUR Notes and U.S. dollars in the case of the USD Notes or by transfer to an account in Sterling in the case of the GBP Notes, euro in the case of the EUR Notes or U.S. dollars in the case of the USD Notes, maintained by the payee and (in the case of final redemption) upon surrender (or, in the case of part payment only, endorsement) of the relevant Notes to the Paying Agent in accordance with the terms of the Agency Agreement.

 

10.2

Record date

Each payment in respect of a Note will be made to the person shown as the Noteholder in the Register at the opening of business in the place of the Registrar’s Specified Office on the fifth day before the due date for such payment (the “Record Date”). Where payment in respect of a Note is to be made by cheque, the cheque will be mailed to the address shown as the address of the Noteholder in the Register at the opening of business on the relevant Record Date. The person shown in the Register at the opening of business on the relevant Record Date in respect of a Note shall be the only person entitled to receive payments in respect of such Note and the Issuer will be discharged by payment to, or to the order of, such person in respect of each amount so paid.

 

10.3

Payments subject to fiscal laws

All payments in respect of the Notes are subject in each case to any applicable fiscal or other laws and regulations. No commissions or expenses shall be charged to the Noteholders in respect of such payments.

 

10.4

Partial Payments

If the Paying Agent makes a partial payment in respect of any Note, the Issuer shall procure that the amount and date of such payment are noted on the Register and, in the case of partial payment upon presentation of a Note, that a statement indicating the amount and the date of such payment is endorsed on the relevant Note.

 

10.5

Payments on Business Days

If the due date for payment of any amount in respect of any Note is not a Business Day, then the holder shall not be entitled to payment until the next succeeding Business Day and no further payments of additional amounts by way of interest, principal or otherwise shall be due in respect of such Note.

 

 

- 67 -


11.

TAXATION

 

11.1

Payments free of Tax

All payments of principal and interest in respect of the Notes by or on behalf of the Issuer shall be made free and clear of, and without withholding or deduction for or on account of, any Taxes imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by or on behalf of the Issuer Jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof or any authority therein or thereof having power to tax, unless the Issuer, the Trustee or the Paying Agent (as the case may be) are required by law to make any Tax Deduction. In that event, the Issuer, the Trustee or the Paying Agents (as the case may be) shall make such payments after such Tax Deduction and shall account to the relevant authorities for the amount so withheld or deducted. Notwithstanding any other provision in these Conditions, the Issuer, the Trustee and the Paying Agent shall be permitted to withhold or deduct any amounts required pursuant to a FATCA withholding.

 

11.2

No payment of additional amounts

The Issuer, the Trustee and the Agents will not be obliged to pay any additional amounts to the Noteholders as a result of any such Tax Deduction. None of the Issuer, the Trustee or the Paying Agent shall have any obligation to pay additional amounts or otherwise indemnify a holder for any FATCA withholding deducted or withheld by the Issuer, the Trustee, a Paying Agent or any other party as a result of any person not being entitled to receive payments free of FATCA withholding.

 

11.3

Taxing Jurisdiction

If the Issuer becomes subject at any time to any taxing jurisdiction other than the Issuer’s Jurisdiction, references in these Conditions to the Issuer Jurisdiction shall be construed as references to the Issuer Jurisdiction and/or such other taxing jurisdiction.

 

11.4

Tax Deduction not Note Event of Default

Notwithstanding that the Trustee, the Issuer or any Agent are required to make a Tax Deduction this shall not constitute a Note Event of Default.

 

12.

EVENTS OF DEFAULT

 

12.1

Note Events of Default

Subject to the other provisions of this Condition 12, each of the following events shall be treated as a “Note Event of Default”:

 

  12.1.1

Repo Event of Default: a Repo Event of Default occurs and is continuing under the Repurchase Agreement;

 

  12.1.2

Non-payment: the Issuer fails to pay any amount of principal or interest in respect of the Most Senior Class of Notes within two days of the due date for payment of such principal or interest, provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, a deferral of interest in respect of a class of Notes (other than the Most Senior Class of Notes) in accordance with Condition 7.9 (Interest Deferral) shall not constitute a default in payment for the purpose of this Condition 12; or

 

  12.1.3

Breach of material obligations: the Issuer defaults in the performance or observance of any of its material obligations under or in respect of the Most Senior Class of Notes or in respect of the Issuer Covenants, the Trust Deed, the

 

- 68 -


  Deed of Charge of any of the other Transaction Documents and such default (a) is, in the opinion of the Trustee, incapable of remedy or (b) is, in the opinion of the Trustee, capable of remedy but remains unremedied for 30 days or such longer period as the Trustee may agree after the Trustee has given written notice of such default to the Issuer; or

 

  12.1.4

Insolvency Event: an Insolvency Event occurs in relation to the Issuer; or

 

  12.1.5

Unlawfulness: it is or will become unlawful for the Issuer to perform or comply with any of its obligations under or in respect of the Notes or any of the Transaction Documents,

and, following any Note Event of Default, the Issuer or any holder of the Most Senior Class of Notes may deliver a Note Event of Default Notice.

 

12.2

Delivery of an Enforcement Notice

If a Note Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may at its discretion (following the delivery of a Note Event of Default Notice only) and shall:

 

  12.2.1

if so requested in writing by the holders of at least 25 per cent. of the Principal Amount Outstanding of the Most Senior Class of Notes then outstanding; or

 

  12.2.2

if so directed by an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of the Most Senior Class of Notes then outstanding,

deliver an Enforcement Notice to the Issuer.

 

12.3

Conditions to delivery of an Enforcement Notice

Notwithstanding Condition 12.2 (Delivery of an Enforcement Notice) the Trustee shall not be obliged to deliver an Enforcement Notice unless:

 

  12.3.1

in the case of the occurrence of any of the events mentioned in Condition 12.1.3 (Breach of material obligations), the Trustee shall have certified in writing that the happening of such event is in its opinion materially prejudicial to the interests of the holders of the Most Senior Class of Notes; and

 

  12.3.2

it shall have been indemnified and/or secured and/or prefunded to its satisfaction against all Liabilities to which it may thereby become liable or which it may incur by so doing.

 

12.4

Consequences of delivery of an Enforcement Notice

Upon the delivery of an Enforcement Notice, the Notes of each Class shall become immediately due and payable without further action or formality at their Principal Amount Outstanding together with any accrued interest and deferred interest in accordance with the Post-Default Priority of Payments.

 

- 69 -


13.

ENFORCEMENT

 

13.1

Security Enforceable

The whole of the Security shall become enforceable:

 

  13.1.1

upon the delivery of an Enforcement Notice, except where the Enforcement Notice has been delivered as a result of an Insolvency Event occurring solely as a result of the Issuer obtaining or taking steps to obtain a moratorium pursuant to section 1A of the Insolvency Act 1986; or

 

  13.1.2

if any person who is entitled to do so presents an application for the appointment of an administrator of the Issuer, gives notice of intention to appoint an administrator of the Issuer or files such notice with the court.

 

13.2

Proceedings

The Trustee may at its discretion and without further notice, institute such proceedings as it thinks fit to enforce its rights under the Trust Deed in respect of the Notes of each class and under the other Transaction Documents, but it shall not be bound to do so unless:

 

  13.2.1

so requested in writing by the holders of at least 25 per cent. of the Principal Amount Outstanding of the Most Senior Class of Notes then outstanding; or

 

  13.2.2

so directed by an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of the Most Senior Class of Notes then outstanding,

and in any such case, only if it shall have been indemnified and/or secured and/or prefunded to its satisfaction against all Liabilities to which it may thereby become liable or which it may incur by so doing.

 

13.3

Action by the Trustee

If the Trustee shall take any action described in Condition 13.1.2 (Proceedings) it may take such action without having regard to the effect of such action on individual Noteholders or any other Secured Creditor, provided that, so long as any of the Most Senior Class of Notes are outstanding, the Trustee shall not, and shall not be bound to, act at the request or direction of the Noteholders of any other class of Notes or Certificateholders unless:

 

  13.3.1

to do so would not, in its opinion, be materially prejudicial to the interests of the Noteholders of the classes of Notes ranking senior to such other class; or

 

  13.3.2

(if the Trustee is not of that opinion) such action is sanctioned by an Extraordinary Resolution of the Noteholders of the Notes ranking senior to such other class.

 

13.4

Third Party Rights

No person shall have any right to enforce any Condition or any provision of the Trust Deed under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.

 

- 70 -


14.

NO ACTION BY NOTEHOLDERS OR ANY OTHER SECURED CREDITOR

Only the Trustee may pursue the remedies available under the general law or under the Trust Documents to enforce the Security and no Noteholder or other Secured Creditor shall be entitled to proceed directly against the Issuer to enforce the Security. In particular, none of the Noteholders or any other Secured Creditor (nor any person on its or their behalf, other than the Trustee where appropriate) are entitled:

 

  14.1.1

otherwise than as expressly permitted by these Conditions, to enforce the Security or take any proceedings against the Issuer to enforce the Security; or

 

  14.1.2

to take or join any person in taking any steps against the Issuer for the purpose of obtaining payment of any amount due from the Issuer to such Noteholders or any other Secured Creditors; or

 

  14.1.3

until the date falling two years after the Final Discharge Date, to initiate or join any person in initiating any Insolvency Proceedings in relation to the Issuer; or

 

  14.1.4

to take or join in the taking of any steps or proceedings which would result in the Priorities of Payments not being observed.

 

15.

MEETINGS OF NOTEHOLDERS

 

15.1

Convening

The Trust Deed contains “Provisions for Meetings of Noteholders” for convening separate or combined meetings of Noteholders of any class to consider matters relating to the Notes, including, subject to Condition 16 (Modification and Waiver) the modification of any provision of these Conditions or the Trust Deed, which modification may be made if sanctioned by an Extraordinary Resolution.

 

15.2

Separate and combined meetings

The Trust Deed provides that:

 

  15.2.1

an Extraordinary Resolution which in the opinion of the Trustee affects the Notes of only one class shall be transacted at a separate meeting of the Noteholders of that class;

 

  15.2.2

an Extraordinary Resolution which in the opinion of the Trustee affects the Noteholders of more than one class of Notes but does not give rise to an actual or potential conflict of interest between the Noteholders of one class of Notes and the holders of another class of Notes shall be transacted either at separate meetings of the Noteholders of each such class or at a single meeting of the Noteholders of all such classes of Notes, as the Trustee shall determine in its absolute discretion; and

 

  15.2.3

an Extraordinary Resolution which, in the opinion of the Trustee, affects the Noteholders of more than one class and gives rise to any actual or potential conflict of interest between the Noteholders of one class of Notes and the Noteholders of any other class of Notes shall be transacted at separate meetings of the Noteholders of each such class.

 

- 71 -


15.3

Request from Noteholders

A meeting of Noteholders of a particular class may be convened by the Trustee or the Issuer at any time and must be convened by the Trustee (subject to its being indemnified and/or secured and/or prefunded to its satisfaction) upon the request in writing of Noteholders of a particular class holding not less than 10 per cent. of the aggregate Principal Amount Outstanding of the outstanding Notes of that class.

 

15.4

Quorum

The quorum at any meeting convened to vote on:

 

  15.4.1

an Extraordinary Resolution, other than regarding a Basic Terms Modification, relating to a meeting of a particular class or classes of the Notes will be one or more persons holding or representing 75 per cent. of the Principal Amount Outstanding of the outstanding Notes in that class or those classes or, at any adjourned meeting, one or more persons being or representing holders of not less than an aggregate of 25 per cent. of the Principal Amount Outstanding of the relevant class of Notes then outstanding; and

 

  15.4.2

an Extraordinary Resolution relating to a Basic Terms Modification (which must be proposed separately to each class of Noteholders) will be one or more persons holding or representing in the 75 per cent. of the Principal Amount Outstanding of the outstanding Notes in the relevant class or, at any adjourned meeting, one or more persons being or representing holders of not less than an aggregate of 75 per cent. of the Principal Amount Outstanding of the relevant class of Notes then outstanding.

 

15.5

Relationship between classes

In relation to each class of Notes:

 

  15.5.1

no Extraordinary Resolution involving a Basic Terms Modification that is passed by the holders of one class of Notes shall be effective unless it is sanctioned by an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of each of the other classes of Notes then outstanding and the Residual Certificates;

 

  15.5.2

no Extraordinary Resolution of any class of Noteholders to approve any matter other than a Basic Terms Modification shall be effective unless it is sanctioned by an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of each of the other classes of Notes then outstanding ranking senior to such class (to the extent that there are Notes outstanding ranking senior to such class of Notes) unless the Trustee considers that none of the holders of each of the other classes of Notes ranking senior to such class would be materially prejudiced by the absence of such sanction; and

 

  15.5.3

any resolution passed at a Meeting of Noteholders of one or more classes of Notes duly convened and held in accordance with the Trust Deed shall be binding upon all Noteholders of such class or classes, whether or not present at such Meeting and whether or not voting and, except in the case of a meeting relating to a Basic Terms Modification, any resolution passed at a meeting of the holders of the Most Senior Class of Notes then outstanding duly convened shall also be binding upon the holders of all the other classes of Notes and the Residual Certificates.

 

- 72 -


15.6

Resolutions in writing

A Written Resolution shall take effect as if it were an Extraordinary Resolution.

 

16.

MODIFICATION AND WAIVER

 

16.1

Modification

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Transaction Document (but subject to Condition 16.3 (Restriction on power to modify or waive), the Trustee shall, on the instruction of the holders of the Most Senior Class of Notes then outstanding (acting by Extraordinary Resolution) (or, if there are no Notes outstanding, on the instruction of the Certificateholders (acting by Extraordinary Resolution)), concur with the Issuer and any other relevant parties in making or sanctioning any modification (except in the case of a Basic Terms Modification), subject to the Trustee being indemnified and/or secured and/or prefunded to its satisfaction against all liabilities to which it may thereby become liable or which it may incur by so doing in accordance with the terms of the Trust Documents with the written consent of the Secured Creditors which are a party to the relevant Transaction Document (such consent to be conclusively demonstrated by such Secured Creditor entering into any deed or document purporting to modify such Transaction Document), but without the consent or sanction of any other Noteholders, the Certificateholders or any other Secured Creditors.

 

16.2

Breach

Other than in respect of any Basic Terms Modification and subject to Condition 16.3 (Restriction on power to modify or waive), the Trustee shall on the instruction of the holders of the Most Senior Class of Notes then outstanding (acting by Extraordinary Resolution) or, if there are no Notes outstanding, on the instruction of the Certificateholders (acting by Extraordinary Resolution) subject to it being indemnified and/or secured and/or pre-funded to its satisfaction against all liabilities to which it may thereby become liable or which it may incur by so doing in accordance with the terms of the Trust Documents:

 

  16.2.1

authorise or waive, on such terms and subject to such conditions (if any) as it may decide, any proposed breach or breach of any of the covenants or provisions contained in the Trust Documents, the Conditions, the Notes, the Residual Certificates, the Residual Certificate Conditions or any other of the Transaction Documents; or

 

  16.2.2

determine, on such terms and subject to such conditions (if any) as it may decide, that any Note Event of Default or Potential Note Event of Default shall not be treated as such for the purposes of the Trust Documents, the Conditions, the Notes, the Residual Certificates, the Residual Certificate Conditions or any of the other Transaction Documents.

 

- 73 -


16.3

Restriction on power to modify or waive

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Transaction Document the Trustee shall not be obliged to agree to any modification, authorisation or waiver or determination which, in the sole opinion of the Trustee would have the effect of (i) exposing itself to any Liability against which it has not been indemnified and/or secured and/or pre-funded to its satisfaction or (ii) increasing the obligations or duties, or decreasing the rights or protection, it has in the Transaction Documents and/or the Conditions.    

 

16.4

Notification

Unless the Trustee otherwise agrees, the Issuer shall cause any such authorisation, waiver, modification or determination to be notified to the Noteholders and the other Secured Creditors in accordance with the Notices Condition and the Transaction Documents, as soon as practicable after it has been made.

 

16.5

Binding Nature

Any authorisation, waiver, determination or modification referred to in this Condition 16 shall be binding on the Noteholders and the other Secured Creditors.

 

17.

PRESCRIPTION

 

17.1

Principal

Claims for principal in respect of Notes shall become void where application for payment is made more than 10 years after the due date therefor.

 

17.2

Interest

Claims for interest in respect of Notes, shall become void where application for payment is made more than five years after the due date therefor.

 

18.

REPLACEMENT OF NOTE CERTIFICATE

If any Note Certificate is lost, stolen, mutilated, defaced or destroyed, it may be replaced at the Specified Office of the Paying Agent, subject to all applicable laws and stock exchange requirements, upon payment by the claimant of the expenses incurred in connection with such replacement and on such terms as to evidence, security, indemnity and otherwise as the Issuer may reasonably require. Mutilated or defaced Notes must be surrendered before replacements are issued.

 

19.

TRUSTEE AND AGENTS

 

19.1

Trustee’s right to Indemnity

Under the Transaction Documents, the Trustee is entitled to be indemnified and relieved from responsibility in certain circumstances and to be paid or reimbursed for any Liabilities incurred by it in priority to the claims of the Noteholders. In addition, the Trustee is entitled to enter into business transactions with the Issuer and any entity relating to the Issuer without accounting for any profit.

 

- 74 -


19.2

Trustee not responsible for loss or for monitoring

The Trustee will not be responsible for any loss, expense or liability which may be suffered as a result of the Charged Property or any documents of title thereto being uninsured or inadequately insured or being held by or to the order of the Servicer or by any person on behalf of the Trustee. The Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring the compliance by any of the other Transaction Parties with their obligations under the Transaction Documents.

 

19.3

Regard to classes of Noteholders

In the exercise of its powers and discretions under these Conditions and the Trust Deed, the Trustee will:

 

  19.3.1

have regard to the interests of each class of Noteholders as a class and will not be responsible for any consequence for individual Noteholders as a result of such holders being domiciled or resident in, or otherwise connected in any way with, or subject to the jurisdiction of, a particular territory or taxing jurisdiction;

 

  19.3.2

if there is a conflict of interest between the interests of the Most Senior Class of Notes and any other Class of Notes have regard only to the holders of the outstanding Notes of the Most Senior Class of Notes and will not have regard to any lower ranking class of Notes or Certificateholders; and

 

  19.3.3

while the Notes are outstanding, not have regard to the interests of the other Secured Creditors except to ensure the application of the Issuer’s funds after the delivery of an Enforcement Notice in accordance with the Post-Default Priority of Payments.

 

19.4

Agents solely agents of Issuer

In acting under the Agency Agreement and in connection with the Notes, the Realisation Agent, the Note Calculation Agent and the Registrar and the Paying Agent act solely as agents of the Issuer and (to the extent provided therein) the Trustee and do not assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the Noteholders.

 

19.5

Initial Agents

The Issuer reserves the right (with the prior written approval of the Trustee) to vary or terminate the appointment of any Agent and to appoint a successor paying agent, realisation agent, registrar or note calculation agent and additional or successor agents at any time, having given not less than 30 days’ notice to such agent.

 

20.

SUBSTITUTION OF THE ISSUER

 

20.1

Substitution of the Issuer

The Trustee may, with the prior written consent of the Most Senior Class of Notes (acting by way of Extraordinary Resolution) but without the consent of any other Instrumentholder or any other Secured Creditor, subject to such further conditions as are specified in the Trust Deed, concur with the Issuer (at the request of the Issuer) to the substitution of a Substituted Obligor in place of the Issuer as the principal debtor in respect of the Trust Documents, the Transaction Documents, the Notes and the Secured Amounts.

 

- 75 -


20.2

Notice of Substitution of Issuer

Not later than 14 days after any substitution of the Issuer in accordance with this Condition 20, the Substituted Obligor shall cause notice of such substitution to be given to the Noteholders and the other Secured Creditors in accordance with the Notices Condition and the other relevant Transaction Documents.

 

20.3

Change of Law

In the case of a substitution pursuant to this Condition 20, the Trustee may with the prior written consent of the Most Senior Class of Notes (acting by way of Extraordinary Resolution) but without the consent of any other Instrumentholder or any other Secured Creditor agree to a change of the law governing the Notes and/or any of the Transaction Documents.

 

20.4

No Indemnity

No Noteholder shall, in connection with any such substitution, be entitled to claim from the Issuer any indemnification or payment in respect of any Tax consequence of any such substitution upon individual Noteholders.

 

21.

FURTHER NOTES

 

21.1

Right to issue Further Notes

The Issuer may, from time to time, in accordance with the Trust Deed, create and issue Further Notes having the same terms and conditions as the Notes in all respects including the benefit of the Security (except that the conditions in respect of the Further Notes will provide for a different issue date, first Interest Payment Date and (if applicable) purchase price in respect of the Further Notes than that applicable to the Initial Notes) so as to be consolidated and form a single series with such Notes.

 

21.2

Cancellation of right to issue Further Notes

The Issuer may from time to time, upon irrevocable notice to the Trustee and in accordance with the Trust Deed, cancel its right to issue Further Notes (but without prejudice to any previous exercise in part of such right). As soon as practicable after any such cancellation in accordance with this Condition 21.2, the Issuer will notify the Noteholders in accordance with Condition 22 (Notices) of the date from which such cancellation shall have effect.

 

22.

NOTICES

 

22.1

Notice must be given in the manner provided hereunder.

 

22.2

Any notice or other communication under or in connection with these Conditions or the Transaction Documents (a “Notice”) shall be in writing, in the English language and shall be delivered personally or sent by pre-paid recorded delivery (and air mail if

 

- 76 -


  overseas), by fax or by email, to the party due to receive the Notice at its address set out below or such other address as that party may specify by notice in writing to the others, received before the relevant Notice was dispatched.

 

22.3

In the absence of evidence of earlier receipt, a Notice shall be deemed to have been duly given:

 

  22.3.1

if delivered personally, when left at the address referred to below;

 

  22.3.2

if sent by mail other than air mail, two Business Days after posting it;

 

  22.3.3

if sent by air mail, six Business Days after posting it;

 

  22.3.4

if sent by fax, when confirmation of its transmission has been recorded on the sender’s fax machine; and

 

  22.3.5

if sent by email, when a valid receipt of delivery or transmission is received by the sender.

 

22.4

Form of notices and addressees:

 

  22.4.1

If to the Issuer:

Address:          8th Floor 20 Farringdon Street, London,

                         United Kingdom, EC4A 4AB

Attention:        The Directors

Email:    

 

  22.4.2

If to the Noteholders:

The regular mail addresses, fax numbers and email addresses of the relevant person in whose name the Notes are registered in the Register at the time the notice is dispatched, as such addresses, fax numbers and email addresses may be reflected in the Register.

 

23.

PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION TO TISE

For so long as the Notes are listed on TISE, the Noteholders may direct the Issuer to make public such information as the Noteholders may deem necessary from time to time.

 

24.

GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

 

24.1

Governing law

The Transaction Documents and the Notes and all non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with them are governed by, and shall be construed in accordance with, English law.

 

- 77 -


24.2

Jurisdiction

The Courts of England are to have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any disputes that may arise out of or in connection with the Notes and the Transaction Documents (including a dispute regarding the existence, validity or termination of any of the Notes or the Transaction Documents, any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with any of the Notes or the Transaction Documents or the consequences of their nullity) and accordingly any legal action or proceedings arising out of or in connection with the Notes and/or the Transaction Documents may be brought in such Courts. The Issuer has in each of the Transaction Documents irrevocably submitted to the jurisdiction of such Courts.

 

- 78 -


SCHEDULE 4

PROVISIONS FOR MEETINGS OF NOTEHOLDERS

In this Schedule, “Notes” and “Noteholders” shall mean, except where the context otherwise requires: in connection with a meeting of the Class A Noteholders, the Class A Notes and the Class A Noteholders respectively; in connection with a meeting of the Class B Noteholders, the Class B Notes and the Class B Noteholders, respectively.

 

1.

VOTING CERTIFICATES, BLOCK VOTING INSTRUCTIONS AND FORM OF PROXY

 

1.1

Issue of Block Voting Instructions

The holder of a Note that is outstanding may obtain a Voting Certificate from the Paying Agent to issue a Block Voting Instruction by depositing such Note with the Paying Agent or arranging for such Note to be (to its satisfaction) held to its order or under its control not later than 48 hours before the time fixed for the relevant Meeting.

 

1.2

Issue of Form of Proxy

Any Noteholder may obtain an uncompleted and unexecuted Form of Proxy from the Registrar.

 

1.3

Expiry of Validity

A Form of Proxy or Block Voting Instruction shall be valid until the release of the deposited Notes to which it relates.

A certified copy of each Block Voting Instruction or Form of Proxy and satisfactory proof of due execution (if applicable) must, if required by the Issuer, the Trustee or the Registrar, be produced by the proxy at the relevant Meeting or adjourned Meeting. If the Trustee requires, a notarised copy of each Block Voting Instruction and satisfactory proof of the identity of each Proxy named therein shall be produced at the Meeting, but the Trustee shall not be obliged to investigate the validity of any Block Voting Instructions or the authority of any Proxy.

 

1.4

Deemed Holder

So long as a Form of Proxy or Block Voting Instruction is valid, any Proxy named therein (including in the case of a Block Voting Instruction) shall be deemed to be the holder of the Notes to which it relates for all purposes in connection with the Meeting.

 

1.5

Mutually Exclusive

A Form of Proxy and a Block Voting Instruction cannot be outstanding simultaneously in respect of the same Note.

 

2.

VALIDITY OF BLOCK VOTING INSTRUCTIONS AND FORMS OF PROXY

Block Voting Instructions and any Forms of Proxy shall be valid only if deposited at the registered office of the Paying Agent or at some other place approved by the Trustee, at least 24 hours before the time fixed for the relevant Meeting or the Chairman decides otherwise before the Meeting proceeds to business.

 

- 79 -


3.

RECORD DATE

The Issuer may fix a record date for the purposes of any Meeting or any resumption thereof following its adjournment for want of a quorum, provided that such record date is not more than 10 days prior to the time fixed for such Meeting or (as the case may be) its resumption. The person in whose name a Note is registered in the Register on the record date at close of business in the city in which the Registrar has its Specified Office shall be deemed to be the holder of such Note for the purposes of such Meeting and notwithstanding any subsequent transfer of such Note or entries in the Register.

 

4.

CONVENING OF MEETING: MEETINGS OF COMBINED CLASSES OF NOTES

 

4.1

Convening of Meeting

 

  (a)

The Issuer or the Trustee may convene a Meeting at any time. The Issuer or the Trustee shall be entitled to cancel any Meeting proposed in accordance with this Paragraph 4, provided that notice of such cancellation is provided no later than 24 hours before the time fixed for such Meeting.

 

  (b)

The Trustee shall be obliged to convene a Meeting, subject to its being indemnified and/or secured and/or prefunded to its satisfaction, upon the request in writing of a class or classes of Noteholders holding not less than 10 per cent. of the aggregate Principal Amount Outstanding of the relevant classes or classes of Notes then outstanding.

 

  (c)

Every Meeting shall be held on a date, and at a time and place, approved by the Trustee.

 

5.

NOTICE

 

5.1

Notice period and notice details

At least 21 clear days’ notice (exclusive of the day on which the notice is given and of the day on which the relevant Meeting is to be held) specifying the date, time and place of the Meeting shall be given to the relevant Noteholders, the Registrar and the Agents (with a copy to the Issuer where the Meeting is convened by the Trustee or, where the Meeting is convened by the Issuer, with a copy to the Trustee).

 

5.2

Notice of proposed resolutions

The notice shall set out the full text of any resolutions to be proposed and shall state that Notes may be deposited with the Paying Agent (or to its order at a bank or other depositary) for the purposes of appointing Proxies under Block Voting Instructions 48 hours before the time fixed for the Meeting and a Noteholder may appoint a Proxy either under a Block Voting Instruction by delivering written instructions to the Paying Agent or by executing and delivering a Form of Proxy to the Specified Office of the Paying Agent, in either case until 48 hours before the time fixed for the Meeting.

 

- 80 -


6.

CHAIRMAN

An individual (who may, but need not, be a Noteholder) nominated in writing by the Trustee may take the chair at any Meeting but, if no such nomination is made or if the individual nominated is not present within 15 minutes after the time fixed for the Meeting, those present shall elect one of themselves to take the chair, failing which, the Issuer may appoint a Chairman. The Chairman of an adjourned Meeting need not be the same person as was the Chairman of the original Meeting. The Chairman may, before the Meeting or adjourned Meeting proceeds to business, decide to treat as valid any Form of Proxy which has not been submitted to the Specified Office of the Registrar in accordance with the requirements of Paragraph 2 (Validity of Block Voting Instructions and Forms of Proxy).

 

7.

QUORUM

 

7.1

Quorum: The quorum at any initial meeting convened to vote on:

 

  (a)

an Extraordinary Resolution, other than regarding a Basic Terms Modification, relating to a meeting of a particular class or classes of the Notes will be one or more persons holding or representing in the aggregate not less than 75 per cent. of the aggregate Principal Amount Outstanding of the outstanding Notes in that class or classes;

 

  (b)

an Extraordinary Resolution relating to a Basic Terms Modification (which must be proposed separately to each class of Notes) will be one or more persons eligible to attend and vote such meeting holding or representing in the aggregate 75 per cent. of the aggregate Principal Amount Outstanding of the outstanding Notes in that class.

 

7.2

Quorum: The quorum at any adjourned meeting convened to vote on:

 

  (a)

an Extraordinary Resolution, other than regarding a Basic Terms Modification, shall be one or more persons present and representing in the aggregate not less than 25 per cent. of the aggregate Principal Amount Outstanding of the relevant class or classes of Notes then outstanding;

 

  (b)

an Extraordinary Resolution relating to a Basic Terms Modification shall be one or more persons eligible to attend and vote such meeting holding or representing in the aggregate not less than 75 per cent. of the aggregate Principal Amount Outstanding of each class of Notes then outstanding.

 

8.

ADJOURNMENT FOR WANT OF QUORUM

If within 15 minutes after the time fixed for any Meeting a quorum is not present, then:

 

  (a)

in the case of a Meeting requested by Noteholders, it shall be dissolved; and

 

  (b)

in the case of any other Meeting (unless the Issuer, the Trustee otherwise agree), it shall (subject to paragraphs (i) and (ii) below) be adjourned for such period (which shall be not less than 14 days and not more than 42 days) and to such place as the Chairman determines (with the approval of the Trustee), provided that:

 

  (i)

the Meeting shall be dissolved if the Issuer and the Trustee together so decide; and

 

- 81 -


  (ii)

no Meeting may be adjourned more than once for want of a quorum.

 

9.

ADJOURNED MEETING

Save as provided in Paragraph 8 (Adjournment for Want of Quorum), the Chairman may, with the consent of, and shall if directed by the Noteholders in relation to any Meeting adjourn such Meeting from time to time and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned Meeting except business which might lawfully have been transacted at the Meeting from which the adjournment took place.

 

10.

NOTICE FOLLOWING ADJOURNMENT

Paragraph 5 (Notice) shall apply to any Meeting which is to be resumed after adjournment for want of a quorum save that:

 

10.1

10 days’ notice (exclusive of the day on which the notice is given and of the day on which the Meeting is to be resumed) shall be sufficient; and

 

10.2

the notice shall specifically set out the quorum requirements that will apply when the Meeting resumes.

It shall not be necessary to give notice of the resumption of a Meeting that has been adjourned for any other reason.

 

11.

PARTICIPATION

The following may attend and speak at a Meeting:

 

11.1

Voters;

 

11.2

representatives of the Issuer, the Paying Agent or the Trustee;

 

11.3

the financial advisers of the Issuer, the Paying Agent or the Trustee;

 

11.4

the legal counsel to the Issuer, the Paying Agent or the Trustee; and

 

11.5

any other person approved by the Meeting or the Trustee.

 

12.

POLL

A demand for a poll shall be valid if it is made by the Chairman, the Issuer, the Trustee or one or more Voters representing or holding not less than one-fiftieth of the aggregate Principal Amount Outstanding of the outstanding Notes of the relevant class or classes. The poll may be taken immediately or after such adjournment as the Chairman directs, but any poll demanded on the election of the Chairman or on any question of adjournment shall be taken at the Meeting without adjournment. A valid demand for a poll shall not prevent the continuation of the relevant Meeting for any other business as the Chairman directs.

 

- 82 -


13.

VOTES

 

13.1

Number

Every Voter shall have on a poll, one vote (i) in the case of a Meeting of holders of Notes of a class comprised of Notes denominated in Sterling, in respect of each £1.00 in Principal Amount Outstanding of the outstanding Note(s) represented or held by him; (i) in the case of a Meeting of holders of Notes of a class comprised of Notes denominated in euro, each €1.00 Principal Amount Outstanding represented or held by him, (iii) in the case of a Meeting of holders of Notes of a class comprised of Notes denominated in US dollars, each $1.00 Principal Amount Outstanding represented or held by him and (iv) in the case of a Meeting of holders of Notes of a class comprised of Notes denominated in more than one currency each £1.00 Sterling Equivalent Principal Amount Outstanding represented or held by him. In this paragraph, “Sterling Equivalent Principal Amount Outstanding” means (a) in relation to a Note or Class of Notes which is denominated in a currency other than sterling, the sterling equivalent of the Principal Amount Outstanding of such Note or Class of Notes ascertained using the spot rate (or derived spot rate, as the case may be) of the relevant currency reported by Bloomberg L.P. at approximately 9:30 a.m. London time, and (b) in relation to any other Note or Class of Notes, the Principal Amount Outstanding of such Note or Class of Notes;

 

13.2

No obligation to exercise

Unless the terms of any Block Voting Instruction state otherwise, a Voter shall not be obliged to exercise all the votes to which he is entitled or to cast all the votes which he exercises in the same way. In the case of a voting tie the Chairman shall have a casting vote.

 

14.

VOTES BY PROXIES

 

14.1

Validity

Any vote by a Proxy in accordance with the relevant Block Voting Instruction or Form of Proxy shall be valid even if such Block Voting Instruction or Form of Proxy or any instruction pursuant to which it was given has been amended or revoked, provided that neither the Issuer, the Paying Agent, the Trustee nor the Chairman has been notified in writing of such amendment or revocation by the time which is 24 hours before the time fixed for the relevant Meeting.

 

14.2

Adjournment

Unless revoked, any appointment of a Proxy under a Block Voting Instruction or Form of Proxy in relation to a Meeting shall remain in force in relation to any resumption of such Meeting following an adjournment.

 

- 83 -


15.

POWERS

 

15.1

Power of a Meeting

 

  (a)

Subject to Paragraph 16 (Extraordinary Resolution of Noteholders), a Meeting shall have the power (exercisable only by Extraordinary Resolution), without prejudice to any other powers conferred on it or any other person:

 

  (b)

to sanction or to approve a Basic Terms Modification;

 

  (c)

to sanction any compromise or arrangement proposed to be made between, among others, the Issuer or any other party to any Transaction Document;

 

  (d)

to sanction any abrogation, modification, compromise or arrangement in respect of the rights of, among others, the Trustee or any other party to any Transaction Document against any other or others of them or against any of their property whether such rights arise under this Trust Deed, any other Transaction Document or otherwise;

 

  (e)

to approve the substitution of any person for the Issuer as principal debtor and any change in law in accordance with Condition 20 (Substitution of the Issuer) or Clause 18 (Substitution) of the Trust Deed;

 

  (f)

to assent to any modification of this Trust Deed or any other Transaction Document which is proposed by the Issuer or any other party to any Transaction Document or any Noteholder, other than those modifications which are sanctioned by the Trustee without the consent or sanction of the Noteholders in accordance with the terms of this Trust Deed;

 

  (g)

to direct the Trustee to serve an Enforcement Notice in accordance with Condition 12 (Events of Default);

 

  (h)

to remove the Trustee;

 

  (i)

to approve the appointment of a new Trustee;

 

  (j)

to approve the resignation of the Servicer and the appointment of a replacement Servicer in accordance with the terms of the Servicing and Realisation Agreement;

 

  (k)

to authorise the Trustee and/or any Appointee to execute all documents and do all things necessary to give effect to any Extraordinary Resolution;

 

  (l)

to discharge or exonerate the Trustee and/or any Appointee from any liability in respect of any act or omission for which it may become responsible under this Trust Deed or the Notes;

 

  (m)

to make directions to the Trustee in connection with the breach of the Risk Retention Undertaking by the Retention Holder;

 

  (n)

to appoint any persons as a committee to represent the interests of the Noteholders and to confer upon such committee any powers which the Noteholders could themselves exercise by Extraordinary Resolution;

 

  (o)

other than pursuant to Clause 18 (Substitution) of the Trust Deed, to sanction any scheme or proposal for the exchange, sale, conversion or cancellation of the

 

- 84 -


  Notes for or partly or wholly in consideration of shares, stock, notes, bonds, debentures, debenture stock and/or other obligations and/or securities of the Issuer or any other company or partly or wholly in consideration of cash; or

 

  (p)

to give any other authorisation or sanction which under the Trust Deed or any other Transaction Document is required to be given by Extraordinary Resolution.

 

15.2

Noteholders to bind Certificateholders and junior classes

Except in the case of an Extraordinary Resolution relating to a Basic Terms Modification, any Extraordinary Resolution (or other direction in accordance with the Transaction Documents) of the Most Senior Class of Notes then outstanding shall also be binding upon the holders of all the other classes of Notes and the Residual Certificates.

 

16.

EXTRAORDINARY RESOLUTION OF NOTEHOLDERS

No Extraordinary Resolution to approve any matter other than a Basic Terms Modification of any class of Notes shall be effective unless it is sanctioned by an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of each of the other classes of Notes then outstanding ranking senior to such class (to the extent that there are Notes outstanding ranking senior to such class of Notes) unless the Trustee considers that the interests of the holders of each of the other classes of Notes ranking senior to such class of Notes would not be materially prejudiced by the implementation of such first mentioned Extraordinary Resolution.

Subject to the following sentence, no Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of a class or classes of Notes or the Residual Certificates to sanction a Basic Terms Modification in respect of any class of Notes or Residual Certificates shall take effect unless it has been sanctioned by an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of each other class of Notes then outstanding and of the holders of the Residual Certificates then in issue. A matter which is a Basic Terms Modification affecting only the holders of the Residual Certificates and which would not, in the opinion of the Trustee, be materially prejudicial to the interests of the Noteholders of any of the Classes of Notes ranking senior to the Residual Certificates shall only require an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of the Residual Certificates then in issue and, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not require an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of any Class of Notes.

 

17.

EXTRAORDINARY RESOLUTION BINDS ALL HOLDERS

 

17.1

Binding Nature

Subject to Paragraph 16 (Extraordinary Resolution of Noteholders), which takes priority over the following, any resolution passed at a Meeting of Noteholders of one or more classes of Notes duly convened and held in accordance with the Trust Deed shall be binding upon all Noteholders of such class of Notes, whether or not present at such Meeting and whether or not voting and any resolution passed at a meeting of the holders of the Most Senior Class of Notes duly convened and held as aforesaid shall also be binding upon the holders of all the other classes of Notes and the Residual Certificates and will override any resolution to the contrary of the other classes of Notes and of the Residual Certificates.

 

- 85 -


17.2

Notice of Voting Results

Notice of the result of every vote on a resolution duly considered by the Noteholders shall be published (at the cost of the Issuer) in accordance with the Conditions and given to the Registrar, Paying Agents and the Agents (with a copy to the Issuer and the Trustee) within 14 days of the conclusion of the Meeting.

 

18.

MINUTES

Minutes of all resolutions and proceedings at each Meeting shall be made. The Chairman shall sign the minutes, which shall be prima facie evidence of the proceedings recorded therein. Unless and until the contrary is proved, every such Meeting in respect of the proceedings of which minutes have been summarised and signed shall be deemed to have been duly convened and held and all resolutions passed or proceedings transacted at it to have been duly passed and transacted.

 

19.

WRITTEN RESOLUTION

A Written Resolution shall take effect as if it were an Extraordinary Resolution.

 

20.

SEPARATE AND COMBINED MEETINGS OF CLASSES OF NOTEHOLDERS

 

20.1

Subject to Paragraphs 16 (Extraordinary Resolution of Noteholders), and 17.1 (Binding Nature), the Trustee shall have certain discretions regarding the constitution of Meetings of Noteholders as set out below:

 

20.2

an Extraordinary Resolution which in the opinion of the Trustee affects the Notes of only one class shall be transacted at a separate Meeting of the Noteholders of that class;

 

20.3

an Extraordinary Resolution which in the opinion of the Trustee affects the Noteholders of more than one class of Notes but does not give rise to an actual or potential conflict of interest between the Noteholders of one class of Notes and the holders of another class of Notes shall be transacted either at separate Meetings of the Noteholders of each relevant class or at a single Meeting of the Noteholders of all such classes of Notes as the Trustee shall determine in its absolute discretion; and

 

20.4

an Extraordinary Resolution which in the opinion of the Trustee affects the Noteholders of more than one class and gives rise to any actual or potential conflict of interest between the Noteholders of one class of Notes and the Noteholders of any other class of Notes shall be transacted at separate Meetings of the Noteholders of each relevant class and the provisions of this Schedule 4 (Provisions for Meetings of Noteholders) shall apply mutatis mutandis thereto.

 

- 86 -


21.

FURTHER REGULATIONS

Subject to all other provisions contained in this Deed, the Trustee may without the consent of the Issuer or the Noteholders prescribe such further regulations regarding the requisitioning and/or holding of Meetings of Noteholders and attendance and voting at them and/or the provision of a Written Resolution as the Trustee may in its sole discretion determine.

 

- 87 -


SCHEDULE 5

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE RESIDUAL CERTIFICATES

 

1.

GENERAL

 

1.1

The 100 residual certificates (the “Residual Certificates”) will be issued by ACRE DEBT 2 PLC (registered number 12635042) on or about the Closing Date.

 

1.2

The Issuer has agreed to issue the Residual Certificates subject to and with the benefit of the terms of the Trust Deed and the Agency Agreement. The security for the Residual Certificates is created pursuant to, and on the terms set out in, the Deed of Charge.

 

1.3

The Agency Agreement records certain arrangements in relation to the payment of interest and principal in respect of the Residual Certificates.

 

1.4

Certain provisions of these Residual Certificate Conditions are summaries of the Trust Documents and the Agency Agreement and are subject to their detailed provisions.

 

1.5

The Certificateholders are bound by the terms of the Trust Documents and are deemed to have notice of all the provisions of the Transaction Documents.

 

1.6

Copies of the Trust Deed, the Deed of Charge, the Agency Agreement, the Restricted Transferee List, the Incorporated Terms Memorandum and the Memorandum and Articles of Association of each of the Issuer and Holdings are available for inspection by Certificateholders on reasonable notice during normal business hours at the Specified Office for the time being of the Paying Agent.

 

2.

DEFINITIONS

 

2.1

Definitions

Capitalised terms not otherwise defined in these Residual Certificate Conditions shall bear the meanings given to them in the Incorporated Terms Memorandum available as described above.

 

2.2

Interpretation

These Residual Certificate Conditions shall be construed in accordance with the principles of construction set out in the Incorporated Terms Memorandum.

 

3.

FORM, DENOMINATION AND TITLE

 

3.1

Form and Denomination

The Residual Certificates will be represented by residual certificates in registered form.

 

3.2

Title

 

  3.2.1

Title to the Residual Certificates shall pass by registration in the Register.

 

- 88 -


  3.2.2

The Issuer shall procure that the Registrar maintains the Register in accordance with the terms of the Agency Agreement.

 

3.3

Register

The Registrar will maintain the Register in respect of the Residual Certificates in accordance with the provisions of the Agency Agreement. A Residual Certificate will be issued to each Certificateholder (at the request of such Certificateholder) in respect of its registered holding. Each Residual Certificate will be numbered serially with an identifying number which will be recorded in the Register. For the avoidance of doubt, the entry on the Register shall be conclusive proof of title to the Residual Certificates and not any Residual Certificate.

 

3.4

Transfers

 

  3.4.1

Subject to Residual Conditions 3.7 (Closed periods) and 3.8 (Regulations concerning transfers and registration) below, a Residual Certificate may be transferred by delivery of a completed transfer form to the Specified Office of the Registrar or the Paying Agent, together with such evidence of the authority of the individuals who have executed the form of transfer.

 

  3.4.2

The Residual Certificates shall not be transferred in part or separately from the Class B Notes. However, all of the Residual Certificates and all of the Class B Notes, together may be transferred to a single transferee.

 

3.5

Registration and delivery of Residual Certificates

Within five Business Days of delivery of a completed transfer form, the Registrar will (provided it has available in its possession an inventory of Residual Certificates) register the transfer in question and, if requested to do so, authenticate and make available at its Specified Office or at the Specified Office of the Paying Agent, as the case may be, to the transferee or send to by uninsured first class mail (airmail if overseas) the authenticated Residual Certificates to the address specified for the purpose by the transferee.

 

3.6

No charge

The transfer of a Residual Certificate will be effected without charge by or on behalf of the Issuer and the Registrar but against such indemnity as the Registrar may require from the transferee to the transfer for any stamp duty, documentary, registration, transfer or other similar taxes or other government charges which may be levied or imposed in connection with such transfer.

 

3.7

Closed periods

Certificateholders may not require transfers to be registered during the period of 5 Business Days ending on the due date for any payment of any amount in respect of the Residual Certificates.

 

- 89 -


3.8

Regulations concerning transfers and registration

All transfers of Residual Certificate and entries on the Register are subject to the detailed regulations concerning the transfer of Residual Certificates scheduled to the Agency Agreement. The regulations may be changed by the Issuer with the prior written approval of all Certificateholders and the Registrar. A copy of the current regulations will be mailed (free of charge) by the Registrar to every Certificateholder who requests it in writing to the Registrar by uninsured first class mail (airmail if overseas) at the risk of the Certificateholder to the address specified in the Register.

 

4.

STATUS AND RANKING

 

4.1

Status

The Residual Certificates constitute secured amounts of the Issuer.

 

4.2

Ranking

The Residual Certificates will at all times rank subordinated to the Notes but without preference or priority pari passu amongst themselves in relation to payments on the Residual Certificates.

 

4.3

Sole Obligations

The Residual Certificates are obligations solely of the Issuer and are not obligations of or guaranteed by any of the other Transaction Parties.

 

4.4

Priority of Residual Payments

Residual Payments will be made subject to and in accordance with the Pre-Default Interest Priority of Payments or, after delivery of a Note Event of Default Notice or an Enforcement Notice, in accordance with the Post-Default Priority of Payments.

 

4.5

Payment Priorities

Prior to the delivery of a Note Event of Default Notice or an Enforcement Notice, the Issuer is required to apply Available Interest Amounts and Available Principal Receipts in accordance with the Pre-Default Priorities of Payment and thereafter in accordance with the Post-Default Priority of Payments.

 

5.

SECURITY

 

5.1

Security

 

  5.1.1

The Residual Certificates are secured by the Security.

 

  5.1.2

The Security over the relevant assets will be released in the following circumstances:

 

  (a)

over all amounts which the Cash Manager, on behalf of the Issuer and the Trustee (if applicable), is permitted to withdraw from the relevant Issuer Account(s), in accordance with the Deed of Charge, any such release to take effect immediately upon the relevant withdrawal being made; or

 

- 90 -


  (b)

over an Underlying Asset and any security pertaining to it are sold by the Realisation Agent or Servicer (as applicable) pursuant to the Servicing and Realisation Agreement and the Deed of Charge.

 

5.2

Enforceability

The Security will become enforceable upon the delivery by the Trustee of an Enforcement Notice in accordance (i) as long as there are Notes outstanding, Condition 12 (Events of Default) and subject to the matters referred to in Condition 13 (Enforcement), and (ii) while there are no Notes outstanding and as long as there are Residual Certificates in issue, Certificate Condition 10 (Events of Default) and subject to the matters referred to in Residual Certificate Condition 11 (Enforcement).

 

6.

ISSUER COVENANTS

The Issuer Covenants contain certain covenants in favour of the Trustee from the Issuer which, amongst other things, restrict the ability of the Issuer to create or incur any indebtedness (save as permitted in the Trust Deed), dispose of assets or change the nature of its business. So long as any Note or Residual Certificate remains outstanding, the Issuer shall comply with the Issuer Covenants.

 

7.

LIMITED RECOURSE

 

7.1

If at any time following

 

  7.1.1

the occurrence of either:

 

  (a)

the Final Maturity Date or any earlier date upon which all of the Residual Certificates are due and payable; or

 

  (b)

the service of an Enforcement Notice; and

 

  7.1.2

realisation of the Charged Property and application in full of any amounts available to pay amounts due and payable under the Residual Certificates in accordance with the applicable Priorities of Payments,

the proceeds of such Realisation are insufficient, after payment of all other claims ranking in priority in accordance with the applicable Priorities of Payments, to pay in full all amounts then due and payable under the Residual Certificates then the amount remaining to be paid (after such application in full of the amounts first referred to in Residual Certificate Condition 7.1.2 above) under the Residual Certificates shall, on the day following such application in full of the amounts referred to in Residual Certificate Condition 7.1.2 above, cease to be due and payable by the Issuer.

For the purposes of this Residual Certificate Condition 9, “Realisation” means, in relation to any Charged Property, the deriving, to the fullest extent practicable, (in accordance with the provisions of the Transaction Documents) of proceeds from or in respect of such Charged Property including (without limitation) through sale or through performance by an obligor.

 

- 91 -


8.

RESIDUAL PAYMENTS

 

8.1

Residual Payments

Payments of Residual Payments shall be made by cheque drawn in Sterling or, upon application by a Certificateholder to the Paying Agent’s Specified Office not later than the fifteenth day before the due date for payment, by transfer to an account in Sterling, maintained by the payee with a bank in London and (in the case of final redemption) upon surrender (or, in the case of part payment only, endorsement) of the relevant Residual Certificate at the Paying Agent’s Specified Office in accordance with the terms of the Agency Agreement.

 

8.2

Record date

Each payment in respect of a Residual Certificate will be made to the person shown as the Certificateholder in the Register at the opening of business in the place of the Registrar’s Specified Office on the fifth day before the due date for such payment (the “Record Date”). Where payment in respect of a Residual Certificate is to be made by cheque, the cheque will be mailed to the address shown as the address of the Certificateholder in the Register at the opening of business on the relevant Record Date. The person shown in the Register at the opening of business on the relevant Record Date in respect of a Residual Certificate shall be the only person entitled to receive payments in respect of such Residual Certificate and the Issuer will be discharged by payment to, or to the order of, such person in respect of each amount so paid.

 

8.3

Payments subject to fiscal laws

All payments in respect of the Residual Certificates are subject in each case to any applicable fiscal or other laws and regulations. No commissions or expenses shall be charged to the Certificateholders in respect of such payments.

 

8.4

Payments on Business Days

If the due date for payment of any amount in respect of any Residual Certificate is not a Business Day, then the holder shall not be entitled to payment until the next succeeding Business Day and no further payments of additional amounts by way of principal or otherwise shall be due in respect of such Residual Certificate.

 

8.5

Termination of Payments

Following the redemption in full of the Notes or after enforcement of the Notes, the realisation of the Charged Property and payment of the proceeds of realisation in accordance with the applicable Priority of Payments, no more Residual Payments will be made by the Issuer and the Residual Certificates shall be cancelled.

 

9.

TAXATION

 

9.1

Payments free of Tax

All payments of principal in respect of the Residual Certificates by or on behalf of the Issuer shall be made free and clear of, and without withholding or deduction for or on account of, any Taxes imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by or on behalf

 

- 92 -


of the Issuer Jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof or any authority therein or thereof having power to tax, unless the Issuer, the Trustee or the Paying Agent (as the case may be) are required by law to make any Tax Deduction. In that event, the Issuer, the Trustee or the Paying Agent (as the case may be) shall make such payments after such Tax Deduction and shall account to the relevant authorities for the amount so withheld or deducted. Notwithstanding any other provision in these Residual Certificate Conditions, the Issuer, the Trustee and the Paying Agent shall be permitted to withhold or deduct any accounts required pursuant to a FATCA withholding.

 

9.2

No payment of additional amounts

The Issuer, the Trustee and the Agents will not be obliged to pay any additional amounts to the Certificateholders as a result of any such Tax Deduction. None of the Issuer, the Trustee or the Paying Agent shall have any obligation to pay additional amounts or otherwise indemnify a holder for any FATCA withholding deducted or withheld by the Issuer, the Trustee, a Paying Agent or any other party as a result of any person not being entitled to receive payments free of FATCA.

 

9.3

Taxing Jurisdiction

If the Issuer becomes subject at any time to any taxing jurisdiction other than the Issuer’s Jurisdiction, references in these Residual Certificate Conditions to the Issuer Jurisdiction shall be construed as references to the Issuer Jurisdiction and/or such other taxing jurisdiction.

 

9.4

Tax Deduction not Residual Certificate Event of Default

Notwithstanding that the Trustee, the Issuer or any Agent are required to make a Tax Deduction this shall not constitute a Residual Certificate Event of Default.

 

10.

EVENTS OF DEFAULT

 

10.1

Residual Certificate Events of Default

Subject to the other provisions of this Residual Certificate Condition 10 and subject to the Notes no longer being outstanding, each of the following events shall be treated as an “Residual Certificate Event of Default”:

 

  10.1.1

Non-payment: the Issuer fails to pay any amount due in respect of the Residual Certificates within two days of the due date for payment of such amount; or

 

  10.1.2

Breach of material obligations: the Issuer defaults in the performance or observance of any of its material obligations under or in respect of the Residual Certificates or in respect of the Issuer Covenants, the Trust Deed, the Deed of Charge of any of the other Transaction Documents and such default (a) is, in the opinion of the Trustee, incapable of remedy or (b) is, in the opinion of the Trustee, capable of remedy but remains unremedied for 30 days or such longer period as the Trustee may agree after the Trustee has given written notice of such default to the Issuer; or

 

  10.1.3

Insolvency Event: an Insolvency Event occurs in relation to the Issuer; or

 

- 93 -


  10.1.4

Unlawfulness: it is or will become unlawful for the Issuer to perform or comply with any of its obligations under or in respect of the Residual Certificates or any of the Transaction Documents.

 

10.2

Delivery of an Enforcement Notice

If a Residual Certificate Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may at its discretion and shall:

 

  10.2.1

if so requested in writing by the Certificateholders; or

 

  10.2.2

if so directed by an Extraordinary Resolution of the Certificateholders,

deliver an Enforcement Notice to the Issuer, provided that all the Notes have been redeemed in full.

 

10.3

Conditions to delivery of an Enforcement Notice

Notwithstanding Residual Certificate Condition 12.2 (Delivery of an Enforcement Notice) the Trustee shall not be obliged to deliver an Enforcement Notice unless:

 

  10.3.1

in the case of the occurrence of any of the events mentioned in Residual Certificate Condition 12.1.3 (Breach of material obligations), the Trustee shall have certified in writing that the happening of such event is in its opinion materially prejudicial to the interests of the Certificateholders; and

 

  10.3.2

it shall have been indemnified and/or secured and/or prefunded to its satisfaction against all Liabilities to which it may thereby become liable or which it may incur by so doing.

 

10.4

Consequences of delivery of an Enforcement Notice

Upon the delivery of an Enforcement Notice, the Residual Certificates shall become immediately due and payable without further action or formality.

 

11.

ENFORCEMENT

 

11.1

Security Enforceable

The whole of the Security shall become enforceable:

 

  11.1.1

upon the delivery of an Enforcement Notice, except where the Enforcement Notice has been delivered as a result of an Insolvency Event occurring solely as a result of the Issuer obtaining or taking steps to obtain a moratorium pursuant to section 1A of the Insolvency Act 1986; or

 

  11.1.2

if any person who is entitled to do so presents an application for the appointment of an administrator of the Issuer, gives notice of intention to appoint an administrator of the Issuer or files such notice with the court.

 

- 94 -


11.2

Proceedings

The Trustee may at its discretion and without further notice, institute such proceedings as it thinks fit to enforce its rights under the Trust Deed in respect of the Residual Certificates and under the other Transaction Documents, but it shall not be bound to do so unless:

 

  11.2.1

so requested in writing by the holders of at least 25 per cent. of the Principal Amount Outstanding of the Most Senior Class of Notes then outstanding (or, if there are no Notes outstanding) so requested in writing by the holders of at least 25 per cent. of the Residual Certificates in number; or

 

  11.2.2

so directed by an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of the Most Senior Class of Notes then outstanding (or there are no Notes outstanding) so directed by an Extraordinary Resolution of the Certificateholders;

and in any such case, only if it shall have been indemnified and/or secured and/or prefunded to its satisfaction against all Liabilities to which it may thereby become liable or which it may incur by so doing.

 

11.3

Action by the Trustee

If the Trustee shall take any action described in Residual Certificate Condition 13.1.2 (Proceedings) it may take such action without having regard to the effect of such action on individual Certificateholders or any other Secured Creditor, provided that, so long as the Residual Certificates are outstanding, the Trustee shall not, and shall not be bound to, act at the request or direction of the Certificateholders.

 

11.4

Third Party Rights

No person shall have any right to enforce any Residual Certificate Condition or any provision of the Trust Deed under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.

 

12.

NO ACTION BY CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OR ANY OTHER SECURED CREDITOR

Only the Trustee may pursue the remedies available under the general law or under the Trust Documents to enforce the Security and no Certificateholder or other Secured Creditor shall be entitled to proceed directly against the Issuer to enforce the Security. In particular, none of the Certificateholders or any other Secured Creditor (nor any person on its or their behalf, other than the Trustee where appropriate) are entitled:

 

  12.1.1

otherwise than as expressly permitted by these Residual Certificate Conditions, to enforce the Security or take any proceedings against the Issuer to enforce the Security; or

 

  12.1.2

to take or join any person in taking any steps against the Issuer for the purpose of obtaining payment of any amount due from the Issuer to such Noteholders or any other Secured Creditors; or

 

  12.1.3

until the date falling two years after the Final Discharge Date, to initiate or join any person in initiating any Insolvency Proceedings in relation to the Issuer; or

 

- 95 -


  12.1.4

to take or join in the taking of any steps or proceedings which would result in the Priorities of Payments not being observed.

 

13.

MEETINGS OF CERTIFICATEHOLDERS

 

13.1

Convening

The Trust Deed contains “Provisions for Meetings of Certificateholders” for convening separate or combined meetings of Certificateholders consider matters relating to the Residual Certificates, including, subject to Residual Certificate Condition 16 (Modification and Waiver) the modification of any provision of these Residual Certificate Conditions or the Trust Deed, which modification may be made if sanctioned by an Extraordinary Resolution.

 

13.2

Separate and combined meetings

The Trust Deed provides that an Extraordinary Resolution which in the opinion of the Trustee affects the Residual Certificates shall be transacted at a separate meeting of the Certificateholders.

 

13.3

Request from Certificateholders

A meeting of Certificateholders may be convened by the Trustee or the Issuer at any time and must be convened by the Trustee (subject to its being indemnified and/or secured and/or prefunded to its satisfaction) upon the request in writing of Certificateholders.

 

13.4

Quorum

The quorum at any meeting convened to vote on:

 

  13.4.1

an Extraordinary Resolution, other than regarding a Basic Terms Modification, relating to a meeting will be one or more persons holding or representing not less than 50 per cent. of the outstanding Residual Certificates by number then in issue or, at any adjourned meeting, one or more persons being or representing holders of the outstanding Residual Certificates then in issue, whatever the number held; and

 

  13.4.2

an Extraordinary Resolution relating to a Basic Terms Modification will be one or more persons holding or representing in the aggregate not less than 75 per cent. of the outstanding Residual Certificates by number then in issue or, at any adjourned meeting, two or more persons holding or representing not less than in the aggregate 75 per cent. of the outstanding Residual Certificates then in issue.

 

13.5

Resolutions in writing

A Written Resolution shall take effect as if it were an Extraordinary Resolution.

 

- 96 -


13.6

Relationship with Notes

In respect of the interests of the Certificateholders, the Trust Deed contains provisions requiring the Trustee to give priority to the interests of the Noteholders in the case of a conflict with the interests of the Certificateholders as regards all powers, trusts, authorities, duties and directions of the Trustee. The Trustee may only be directed by the Residual Holders and any Extraordinary Resolution of the Residual Holders will only be effective if the Trustee is of the opinion that the effect of the same will not be materially prejudicial to the interests of all of the classes of Noteholders ranking senior to the Residual Certificates or is sanctioned by an Extraordinary Resolution of each class of Noteholders. Except in certain circumstances, the Trust Deed imposes no limitations on the powers of the Noteholders, the exercise of which will be binding on the Residual Holders.

 

14.

MODIFICATION AND WAIVER

 

14.1

Modification

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Transaction Document (but subject to Residual Certificate Condition 14.3 (Restriction on power to modify or waive), the Trustee shall, on the instruction of the holders of the Most Senior Class of Notes then outstanding (acting by Extraordinary Resolution) (or, if there are no Notes outstanding, on the instruction of the Certificateholders (acting by Extraordinary Resolution)), concur with the Issuer and any other relevant parties in making or sanctioning any modification (except in the case of a Basic Terms Modification), subject to the Trustee being indemnified and/or secured and/or prefunded to its satisfaction against all liabilities to which it may thereby become liable or which it may incur by so doing in accordance with the terms of the Trust Documents with the written consent of the Secured Creditors which are a party to the relevant Transaction Document (such consent to be conclusively demonstrated by such Secured Creditor entering into any deed or document purporting to modify such Transaction Document), but without the consent or sanction of any other Noteholders, the Certificateholders or any other Secured Creditors.

 

14.2

Breach

Other than in respect of any Basic Terms Modification and subject to Residual Certificate Condition 14.3 (Restriction on power to modify or waive), the Trustee shall on the instruction of the holders of the Most Senior Class of Notes then outstanding (acting by Extraordinary Resolution) or, if there are no Notes outstanding, on the instruction of the Certificateholders (acting by Extraordinary Resolution) subject to it being indemnified and/or secured and/or pre-funded to its satisfaction against all liabilities to which it may thereby become liable or which it may incur by so doing in accordance with the terms of the Trust Documents:

 

  14.2.1

authorise or waive, on such terms and subject to such conditions (if any) as it may decide, any proposed breach or breach of any of the covenants or provisions contained in the Trust Documents, the Conditions, the Notes, the Residual Certificates, the Residual Certificate Conditions or any other of the Transaction Documents; or

 

- 97 -


  14.2.2

determine, on such terms and subject to such conditions (if any) as it may decide, that any Note Event of Default or Potential Note Event of Default shall not be treated as such for the purposes of the Trust Documents, the Conditions, the Notes, the Residual Certificates, the Residual Certificate Conditions or any of the other Transaction Documents.

 

14.3

Restriction on power to modify or waive

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Transaction Document the Trustee shall not be obliged to agree to any modification, authorisation or waiver or determination which, in the sole opinion of the Trustee would have the effect of (i) exposing itself to any Liability against which it has not been indemnified and/or secured and/or pre-funded to its satisfaction or (ii) increasing the obligations or duties, or decreasing the rights or protection, it has in the Transaction Documents and/or the Conditions.

 

14.4

Notification

Unless the Trustee otherwise agrees, the Issuer shall cause any such authorisation, waiver, modification or determination to be notified to the Certificateholders and the other Secured Creditors in accordance with the Notices Condition and the Transaction Documents, as soon as practicable after it has been made.

 

14.5

Binding Nature

Any authorisation, waiver, determination or modification referred to in Residual Certificate Condition 16.1 (Breach) shall be binding on the Certificateholders and the other Secured Creditors.

 

15.

PRESCRIPTION

 

15.1

Principal

Claims for principal in respect of the Residual Certificates will be prescribed where application for payment is made more than ten years after the due date therefor.

 

16.

Replacement of Residual Certificates

If any Residual Certificate is lost, stolen, mutilated, defaced or destroyed, it may be replaced at the Specified Office of the Paying Agent, subject to all applicable laws, upon payment by the claimant of the expenses incurred in connection with such replacement and on such terms as to evidence, security, indemnity and otherwise as the Issuer may reasonably require. Mutilated or defaced Residual Certificates must be surrendered before replacements will be issued.

 

17.

TRUSTEE AND AGENTS

 

17.1

Trustee’s right to Indemnity

Under the Transaction Documents, the Trustee is entitled to be indemnified and relieved from responsibility in certain circumstances and to be paid or reimbursed for any Liabilities incurred by it in priority to the claims of the Certificateholders. In addition, the Trustee is entitled to enter into business transactions with the Issuer and any entity relating to the Issuer without accounting for any profit.

 

- 98 -


17.2

Trustee not responsible for loss or for monitoring

The Trustee will not be responsible for any loss, expense or liability which may be suffered as a result of the Charged Property or any documents of title thereto being uninsured or inadequately insured or being held by or to the order of the Servicer or by any person on behalf of the Trustee. The Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring the compliance by any of the other Transaction Parties with their obligations under the Transaction Documents.

 

17.3

Regard to the Certificateholders

Subject to Residual Certificate Condition 13.6, in the exercise of its powers and discretions under these Residual Certificate Conditions and the Trust Deed, the Trustee will to the extent applicable:

 

  17.3.1

have regard to the interests of the Certificateholders as a class only and will not be responsible for any consequence for individual Certificateholders as a result of such holders being domiciled or resident in, or otherwise connected in any way with, or subject to the jurisdiction of, a particular territory or taxing jurisdiction; and

 

  17.3.2

not have regard to the interests of the other Secured Creditors (other than the Noteholders) except to ensure the application of the Issuer’s funds after the delivery of an Enforcement Notice in accordance with the Post Enforcement Priority of Payments.

 

17.4

Agents solely agents of Issuer

In acting under the Agency Agreement and in connection with the Residual Certificates, the Realisation Agent, the Note Calculation Agent and the Registrar and the Paying Agent act solely as agents of the Issuer and (to the extent provided therein) the Trustee and do not assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the Certificateholders.

 

17.5

Initial Agents

The Issuer reserves the right (with the prior written approval of the Trustee) to vary or terminate the appointment of any Agent and to appoint a successor paying agent, realisation agent, registrar or note calculation agent and additional or successor agents at any time, having given not less than 30 days’ notice to such agent.

 

18.

SUBSTITUTION OF THE ISSUER

 

18.1

Substitution of the Issuer

The Trustee may, with the prior written consent of the Most Senior Class of Notes (acting by way of Extraordinary Resolution) but without the consent of the

 

- 99 -


Certificateholders or any other Secured Creditor, subject to such further conditions as are specified in the Trust Deed, concur with the Issuer (at the request of the Issuer) to the substitution of a Substituted Obligor in place of the Issuer as the principal debtor in respect of the Trust Documents, the Transaction Documents, the Residual Certificates and the Secured Amounts.

 

18.2

Notice of Substitution of Issuer

Not later than fourteen days after any substitution of the Issuer in accordance with this Residual Certificate Condition 20, the Substituted Obligor shall cause notice of such substitution to be given to the Certificateholders and the other Secured Creditors in accordance with the Notices Condition and the other relevant Transaction Documents.

 

18.3

Change of Law

In the case of a substitution pursuant to this Residual Certificate Condition 20, the Trustee may with the prior written consent of the Most Senior Class of Notes (acting by way of Extraordinary Resolution) but without the consent of any other Instrumentholder or any other Secured Creditor agree, to a change of the law governing the Notes and/or any of the Transaction Documents.

 

18.4

No Indemnity

No Certificateholder shall, in connection with any such substitution, be entitled to claim from the Issuer any indemnification or payment in respect of any Tax consequence of any such substitution upon individual Certificateholders.

 

19.

NOTICES

 

19.1

Notice must be given in the manner provided hereunder.

 

19.2

Any notice or other communication under or in connection with these Residual Certificate Conditions or the Transaction Documents (a “Notice”) shall be in writing, in the English language and shall be delivered personally or sent by pre-paid recorded delivery (and air mail if overseas), by fax or by email, to the party due to receive the Notice at its address set out below or such other address as that party may specify by notice in writing to the others, received before the relevant Notice was dispatched.

 

19.3

In the absence of evidence of earlier receipt, a Notice shall be deemed to have been duly given:

 

  19.3.1

if delivered personally, when left at the address referred to below;

 

  19.3.2

if sent by mail other than air mail, two Business Days after posting it;

 

  19.3.3

if sent by air mail, six Business Days after posting it;

 

  19.3.4

if sent by fax, when confirmation of its transmission has been recorded on the sender’s fax machine; and

 

  19.3.5

if sent by email, when a valid receipt of delivery or transmission is received by the sender.

 

- 100 -


19.4

Form of notices and addressees:

 

  19.4.1

If to the Issuer:

 

Address:    8th Floor,
   20 Farringdon Street,
   London,
   United Kingdom, EC4A 4AB
Attention:    The Directors
Email:   

 

  19.4.2

If to the Certificateholders:

The regular mail addresses, fax numbers and email addresses of the relevant person in whose name the Residual Certificates are registered in the Register at the time the notice is dispatched, as such addresses, fax numbers and email addresses may be reflected in the Register.

 

20.

GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

 

20.1

Governing law

The Transaction Documents and the Residual Certificates and all non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with them are governed by, and shall be construed in accordance with, English law.

 

20.2

Jurisdiction

The Courts of England are to have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any disputes that may arise out of or in connection with the Residual Certificates and the Transaction Documents (including a dispute regarding the existence, validity or termination of any of the Residual Certificates or the Transaction Documents, any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with any of the Residual Certificates or the Transaction Documents or the consequences of their nullity) and accordingly any legal action or proceedings arising out of or in connection with the Residual Certificates and/or the Transaction Documents may be brought in such Courts. The Issuer has in each of the Transaction Documents irrevocably submitted to the jurisdiction of such Courts.

 

- 101 -


SCHEDULE 6

PROVISIONS FOR MEETINGS OF CERTIFICATEHOLDERS

 

1.

VOTING CERTIFICATES, BLOCK VOTING INSTRUCTIONS AND FORM OF PROXY

 

1.1

Issue of Block Voting Instructions

The holder of a Residual Certificate that is outstanding may obtain a Voting Certificate from the Issuer to issue a Block Voting Instruction by depositing such Residual Certificate with the Issuer or arranging for such Residual Certificate to be (to its satisfaction) held to its order or under its control not later than 48 hours before the time fixed for the relevant Meeting.

 

1.2

Issue of Form of Proxy

Any Certificateholder may obtain an uncompleted and unexecuted Form of Proxy from the Registrar.

 

1.3

Expiry of Validity

A Form of Proxy or Block Voting Instruction shall be valid until the release of the deposited Residual Certificates to which it relates.

A certified copy of each Block Voting Instruction or Form of Proxy and satisfactory proof of due execution (if applicable) must, if required by the Issuer, the Trustee or the Registrar, be produced by the proxy at the relevant Meeting or adjourned Meeting. If the Trustee requires, a notarised copy of each Block Voting Instruction and satisfactory proof of the identity of each Proxy named therein shall be produced at the Meeting, but the Trustee shall not be obliged to investigate the validity of any Block Voting Instructions or the authority of any Proxy.

 

1.4

Deemed Holder

So long as a Form of Proxy or Block Voting Instruction is valid, any Proxy named therein (including in the case of a Block Voting Instruction) shall be deemed to be the holder of the Residual Certificates to which it relates for all purposes in connection with the Meeting.

 

1.5

Mutually Exclusive

A Form of Proxy and a Block Voting Instruction cannot be outstanding simultaneously in respect of the same Residual Certificate.

 

2.

VALIDITY OF BLOCK VOTING INSTRUCTIONS AND FORMS OF PROXY

Block Voting Instructions and any Forms of Proxy shall be valid only if deposited at the registered office of the Issuer or at some other place approved by the Trustee, at least 24 hours before the time fixed for the relevant Meeting or the Chairman decides otherwise before the Meeting proceeds to business.

 

- 102 -


3.

RECORD DATE

The Issuer may fix a record date for the purposes of any Meeting or any resumption thereof following its adjournment for want of a quorum, provided that such record date is not more than 10 days prior to the time fixed for such Meeting or (as the case may be) its resumption. The person in whose name a Residual Certificate is registered in the Register on the record date at close of business in the city in which the Registrar has its Specified Office shall be deemed to be the holder of such Residual Certificate for the purposes of such Meeting.

 

4.

CONVENING OF MEETING

 

4.1

Convening of Meeting

 

  (a)

The Issuer or the Trustee may convene a Meeting at any time. The Issuer or the Trustee shall be entitled to cancel any Meeting proposed in accordance with this Paragraph 4, provided that notice of such cancellation is provided no later than 24 hours before the time fixed for such Meeting.

 

  (b)

Every Meeting shall be held on a date, and at a time and place, approved by the Trustee.

 

5.

NOTICE

 

5.1

Notice period and notice details

At least 21 clear days’ notice (exclusive of the day on which the notice is given and of the day on which the relevant Meeting is to be held) specifying the date, time and place of the Meeting shall be given to the relevant Certificateholders, the Registrar and the Agents (with a copy to the Issuer where the Meeting is convened by the Trustee or, where the Meeting is convened by the Issuer, with a copy to the Trustee).

 

5.2

Notice of proposed resolutions

The notice shall set out the full text of any resolutions to be proposed and a Certificateholder may appoint a Proxy either under a Block Voting Instruction by delivering written instructions to the Registrar or by executing and delivering a Form of Proxy to the Specified Office of the Registrar, in either case until 48 hours before the time fixed for the Meeting.

 

6.

CHAIRMAN

An individual (who may, but need not, be a Certificateholder) nominated in writing by the Trustee may take the chair at any Meeting but, if no such nomination is made or if the individual nominated is not present within 15 minutes after the time fixed for the Meeting, those present shall elect one of themselves to take the chair, failing which, the Issuer may appoint a Chairman. The Chairman of an adjourned Meeting need not be the same person as was the Chairman of the original Meeting. The Chairman may, before the Meeting or adjourned Meeting proceeds to business, decide to treat as valid any Form of Proxy which has not been submitted to the Specified Office of the Registrar in accordance with the requirements of Paragraph 2 (Validity of Block Voting Instructions and Forms of Proxy).

 

- 103 -


7.

QUORUM

 

7.1

Quorum: The quorum at any initial meeting convened to vote on:

 

  (a)

an Extraordinary Resolution, other than regarding a Basic Terms Modification, shall be one or more persons present and representing in the aggregate not less than 50 per cent. of the outstanding Residual Certificates in number then in issue; and

 

  (b)

an Extraordinary Resolution relating to a Basic Terms Modification, shall be one or more persons eligible to attend and vote at such meeting holding or representing in the aggregate not less than 75 per cent. of the outstanding Residual Certificates by number then in issue.

 

7.2

Quorum: The quorum at any adjourned meeting convened to vote on:

 

  (a)

an Extraordinary Resolution, other than regarding a Basic Terms Modification, shall be one or more persons present and representing any outstanding Residual Certificates then in issue whatever the number held; and

 

  (b)

a Basic Terms Modification, shall be one or more persons eligible to attend and vote at such meeting holding or representing in the aggregate not less than 75 per cent. of the Residual Certificates then in issue.

 

8.

ADJOURNMENT FOR WANT OF QUORUM

If within 15 minutes after the time fixed for any Meeting a quorum is not present, then:

 

  (a)

in the case of a Meeting requested by Certificateholders, it shall be dissolved; and

 

  (b)

in the case of any other Meeting (unless the Issuer, the Trustee otherwise agree), it shall (subject to paragraphs (i) and (ii) below) be adjourned for such period (which shall be not less than 14 days and not more than 42 days) and to such place as the Chairman determines (with the approval of the Trustee), provided that:

 

  (i)

the Meeting shall be dissolved if the Issuer and the Trustee together so decide; and

 

  (ii)

no Meeting may be adjourned more than once for want of a quorum.

 

9.

ADJOURNED MEETING

Save as provided in Paragraph 8 (Adjournment for Want of Quorum), the Chairman may, with the consent of, and shall if directed by, any Meeting adjourn such Meeting from time to time and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned Meeting except business which might lawfully have been transacted at the Meeting from which the adjournment took place.

 

- 104 -


10.

NOTICE FOLLOWING ADJOURNMENT

Paragraph 5 (Notice) shall apply to any Meeting which is to be resumed after adjournment for want of a quorum save that:

 

10.1

10 days’ notice (exclusive of the day on which the notice is given and of the day on which the Meeting is to be resumed) shall be sufficient; and

 

10.2

the notice shall specifically set out the quorum requirements that will apply when the Meeting resumes.

It shall not be necessary to give notice of the resumption of a Meeting that has been adjourned for any other reason.

 

11.

PARTICIPATION

The following may attend and speak at a Meeting:

 

11.1

Voters;

 

11.2

representatives of the Issuer, the Paying Agent or the Trustee;

 

11.3

the financial advisers of the Issuer, the Paying Agent or the Trustee;

 

11.4

the legal counsel to the Issuer, the Paying Agent or the Trustee; and

 

11.5

any other person approved by the Meeting or the Trustee.

 

12.

SHOW OF HANDS

Every question submitted to a Meeting shall be decided in the first instance by a show of hands. Unless a poll is validly demanded before or at the time that the result is declared, the Chairman’s declaration that on a show of hands a resolution has been passed, passed by a particular majority, rejected or rejected by a particular majority shall be conclusive, without proof of the number of votes cast for, or against, the resolution.

 

13.

POLL

A demand for a poll shall be valid if it is made by the Chairman, the Issuer, the Trustee or one or more Voters representing or holding not less than one-fiftieth of the Residual Certificates. The poll may be taken immediately or after such adjournment as the Chairman directs, but any poll demanded on the election of the Chairman or on any question of adjournment shall be taken at the Meeting without adjournment. A valid demand for a poll shall not prevent the continuation of the relevant Meeting for any other business as the Chairman directs.

 

- 105 -


14.

VOTES

 

14.1

Number

Every Voter shall have:

 

  (a)

on a show of hands, one vote; and

 

  (b)

on a poll, one vote in respect of each Residual Certificate represented or held by him.

 

14.2

No Obligation to exercise

Unless the terms of any Block Voting Instruction state otherwise, a Voter shall not be obliged to exercise all the votes to which he is entitled or to cast all the votes which he exercises in the same way. In the case of a voting tie the Chairman shall have a casting vote.

 

15.

VOTES BY PROXIES

 

15.1

Validity

Any vote by a Proxy in accordance with the relevant Block Voting Instruction or Form of Proxy shall be valid even if such Block Voting Instruction or Form of Proxy or any instruction pursuant to which it was given has been amended or revoked, provided that neither the Issuer, the Trustee nor the Chairman has been notified in writing of such amendment or revocation by the time which is 24 hours before the time fixed for the relevant Meeting.

 

15.2

Adjournment

Unless revoked, any appointment of a Proxy under a Block Voting Instruction or Form of Proxy in relation to a Meeting shall remain in force in relation to any resumption of such Meeting following an adjournment.

 

16.

POWERS

 

16.1

Power of a Meeting

 

  (a)

Subject to Paragraph 18 (Extraordinary Resolution binds all holders) and provided that no Extraordinary Resolution of the Certificateholders shall take effect for any purpose while any of the Notes remain outstanding (unless it shall have been sanctioned by an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of each Class of Notes or the Trustee is of the opinion that it would not be materially prejudicial to the interests of the holdings of the outstanding Notes), a Meeting shall have the power (exercisable only by Extraordinary Resolution), without prejudice to any other powers conferred on it or any other person:

 

  (b)

to sanction or to approve a Basic Terms Modification;

 

  (c)

to sanction any compromise or arrangement proposed to be made between, among others, the Issuer or any other party to any Transaction Document;

 

- 106 -


  (d)

to sanction any abrogation, modification, compromise or arrangement in respect of the rights of, among others, the Trustee or any other party to any Transaction Document against any other or others of them or against any of their property whether such rights arise under this Trust Deed, any other Transaction Document or otherwise;

 

  (e)

to approve the substitution of any person for the Issuer as principal debtor under the Notes other than in accordance with Condition 8.2 (Mandatory Redemption) or Condition 18 (Substitution of the Issuer) or Clause 18 (Substitution) of the Trust Deed;

 

  (f)

to assent to any modification of this Trust Deed or any other Transaction Document which is proposed by the Issuer or any other party to any Transaction Document or any Noteholder or Certificateholder, other than those modifications which are sanctioned by the Trustee without the consent or sanction of the Noteholders in accordance with the terms of this Trust Deed;

 

  (g)

to direct the Trustee to serve an Enforcement Notice subject to and in accordance with Residual Certificates Conditions 10 (Events of Default) and 11 (Enforcement);

 

  (h)

to remove the Trustee;

 

  (i)

to approve the appointment of a new Trustee;

 

  (j)

to approve the appointment of a replacement Servicer in circumstances where the Servicer has resigned and the appointment of the replacement Servicer is not on substantially similar terms to those of the outgoing Servicer;

 

  (k)

to authorise the Trustee and/or any Appointee to execute all documents and do all things necessary to give effect to any Extraordinary Resolution;

 

  (l)

to discharge or exonerate the Trustee and/or any Appointee from any liability in respect of any act or omission for which it may become responsible under this Trust Deed or the Notes;

 

  (m)

to make directions to the Trustee in connection with the breach of the Risk Retention Undertaking by the Retention Holder;

 

  (n)

to appoint any persons as a committee to represent the interests of the Certificateholders and to confer upon such committee any powers which the Certificateholders could themselves exercise by Extraordinary Resolution;

 

  (o)

other than pursuant to Clause 18 (Substitution) of the Trust Deed, to sanction any scheme or proposal for the exchange, sale, conversion or cancellation of the Residual Certificates for or partly or wholly in consideration of shares, stock, notes, bonds, debentures, debenture stock and/or other obligations and/or securities of the Issuer or any other company or partly or wholly in consideration of cash; or

 

- 107 -


  (p)

to give any other authorisation or sanction which under the Trust Deed or any other Transaction Document is required to be given by Extraordinary Resolution.

 

16.2

Noteholders to bind Certificateholders

Except in the case of an Extraordinary Resolution relating to a Basic Terms Modification, any Extraordinary Resolution (or other direction in accordance with the Transaction Documents) of the Most Senior Class of Notes then outstanding shall also be binding upon the holders of all the other classes of Notes and the Residual Certificates.

 

16.3

Basic Terms Modifications relating to Residual Certificateholders only

A matter which is a Basic Terms Modification affecting only the holders of the Residual Certificates and which would not, in the opinion of the Trustee, be materially prejudicial to the interests of the Noteholders of any of the Classes of Notes ranking senior to the Residual Certificates shall only require an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of the Residual Certificates then in issue and, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not require an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of any Class of Classes of Notes.

 

17.

EXTRAORDINARY RESOLUTION OF RESIDUAL CERTIFICATES

Subject to Paragraph 16.3, no Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of a class or classes of Notes or the Residual Certificates which would have the effect of sanctioning a Basic Terms Modification in respect of any class of Notes or Residual Certificates shall take effect unless it has been sanctioned by an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of each class of Notes then outstanding and the holders of the Residual Certificates then in issue.

 

18.

EXTRAORDINARY RESOLUTION BINDS ALL HOLDERS

 

18.1

Extraordinary Resolution

No Extraordinary Resolution to approve any matter other than a Basic Terms Modification shall be effective unless it is sanctioned by an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of each class of Notes then outstanding ranking senior to the Residual Certificates (to the extent that there are Notes outstanding) unless the Trustee considers that none of the holders of each of the other classes of Notes ranking senior to the Residual Certificates would be materially prejudiced by the absence of such sanction.

 

18.2

Binding Nature

Subject to Paragraph 15.2 (Extraordinary Resolution of Residual Certificates) which take priority over the following, any resolution passed at a meeting of the Certificateholders duly convened and held in accordance with this Deed shall be binding upon all Certificateholders.

 

18.3

Notice of Voting Results

Notice of the result of every vote on a resolution duly considered by the Certificateholders shall be published (at the cost of the Issuer) in accordance with the Conditions and given to the Registrar and the Agents (with a copy to the Issuer and the Trustee) within 14 days of the conclusion of the Meeting.

 

- 108 -


19.

MINUTES

Minutes of all resolutions and proceedings at each Meeting shall be made. The Chairman shall sign the minutes, which shall be prima facie evidence of the proceedings recorded therein. Unless and until the contrary is proved, every such Meeting in respect of the proceedings of which minutes have been summarised and signed shall be deemed to have been duly convened and held and all resolutions passed or proceedings transacted at it to have been duly passed and transacted.

 

20.

WRITTEN RESOLUTION

A Written Resolution shall take effect as if it were an Extraordinary Resolution.

 

21.

FURTHER REGULATIONS

Subject to all other provisions contained in this Deed, the Trustee may without the consent of the Issuer or the Certificateholders prescribe such further regulations regarding the requisitioning and/or holding of Meetings of Certificateholders and attendance and voting at them and/or the provision of a Written Resolution as the Trustee may in its sole discretion determine.

 

- 109 -


SCHEDULE 7

FORM OF CLASS B NOTEHOLDER WRITE-DOWN NOTICE

 

To:

Trustee, Issuer, Agents and Realisation Agent

 

From:

Class B Noteholder and Seller

This notice is delivered by the Seller (under paragraph [2.15(d)(ii)(B)] / [2.20(d)] of the Repurchase Agreement) and the Class B Noteholder.

The Seller confirms that it is the sole holder of the Class B Notes and agrees to the set-off contemplated under paragraph [2.15(d)(ii)(B)] / [2.20(d)] of the Repurchase Agreement.

We confirm in our capacity as the Class B Noteholder that the Principal Amount Outstanding under the Class B Notes shall be reduced by the corresponding amount contemplated under the Repurchase Agreement being [●] and shall and request the Trustee and the Agents to take such further action as requested by the Issuer to effect the same.

We confirm that we shall not transfer any of the Class B Notes until after the Class B Set-Off Date following receipt of the payments made by Seller pursuant to the Notice.

 

Signed by:

 

Seller and Class B Noteholder

Acknowledged by

We confirm that the person signing this notice as Class B Noteholder is the holder of all the Class B Notes in the Register.

 

 

ACRE Debt 2 Plc
Acknowledged by

 

Elavon Financial Services D.A.C., UK Branch as Registrar

 

- 110 -


EXECUTION PAGE(S)

ISSUER

 

SIGNED and DELIVERED    )
as a DEED by    )
ACRE DEBT 2 PLC    )

Joint Corporate Services Limited

 

/s/

  Director

/s/

  Director

TRUSTEE

 

EXECUTED and DELIVERED

as a DEED by

   
U.S. BANK TRUSTEES LIMITED    
acting by its duly authorised signatories    

/s/

    Authorised Signatory
   

/s/

    Authorised Signatory

 

Signature page to the Trust Deed

CERTAIN IDENTIFIED INFORMATION HAS BEEN EXCLUDED FROM THIS AGREEMENT BECAUSE IT IS NOT MATERIAL AND WOULD LIKELY CAUSE COMPETITIVE HARM TO THE REGISTRANT IF PUBLICALY DISCLOSED. [***] INDICATES THAT INFORMATION HAS BEEN REDACTED.

Exhibit 10.2

 

LOGO    LOGO

EXECUTION VERSION

 

 

INCORPORATED TERMS MEMORANDUM

IN RELATION TO

£519,632,743.56 CLASS A GBP ASSET BACKED

FLOATING RATE NOTES DUE 2025

€122,493,843.06 CLASS A EUR ASSET BACKED

FLOATING RATE NOTES DUE 2025

£174,149,194.44 CLASS B GBP ASSET BACKED

FLOATING RATE NOTES DUE 2025

€83,720,557.94 CLASS B EUR ASSET BACKED

FLOATING RATE NOTES DUE 2025

100 RESIDUAL CERTIFICATES

 

 


CONTENTS

 

Clause    Page  

Schedule 1 Master Definitions Schedule

     1  

Schedule 2 Common Terms

     54  

Part 1 General Legal Terms

     54  

Part 2 Payment Provisions

     65  

Schedule 3 Seller’s Representations and Warranties

     73  

Part 1 Corporate Representations and Warranties of the Seller

     73  

Part 2 Transaction Document Representations and Warranties of the Seller

     75  

Part 3 Asset Representations and Warranties of the Seller

     78  

Schedule 4 Seller Covenants

     79  

Part 1 Corporate Covenants of the Seller

     79  

Part 2 Transaction Document Covenants of the Seller

     80  

Schedule 5 Issuer’s Representations and Warranties

     82  

Part 1 Corporate Representations and Warranties of the Issuer

     82  

Part 2 Transaction Document Representations and Warranties of the Issuer

     85  

Schedule 6 Issuer Covenants

     90  

Part 1 Corporate Covenants of the Issuer

     90  

Part 2 Transaction Document Covenants of the Issuer

     93  

Part 3 Asset Covenants of the Issuer

     95  

Part 4 Covenants of the Issuer in respect of the Notes

     96  

Schedule 7 Securitisation Regulation Covenants of the Issuer, Seller and the Servicer

     98  

Schedule 8 Notice Details

     99  

Schedule 9 Account Details

     102  


SCHEDULE 1

MASTER DEFINITIONS SCHEDULE

 

1.

DEFINITIONS

Except where the context otherwise requires, the following defined terms used in the Transaction Documents have the meanings set out below (as the same may be amended and supplemented from time to time):

Account Bank” means Elavon Financial Services DAC, UK Branch or any other bank as the account bank with which an Issuer Account is maintained as nominated in accordance with the terms of the Account Bank Agreement;

Account Bank Agreement” means the agreement so named dated on or about the Closing Date between the Issuer, the Seller, the Cash Manager, the Account Bank and the Trustee;

Account Bank Minimum Rating” means:

 

  (a)

a long-term, unsecured, unguaranteed and unsubordinated debt obligation rating of at least “A3” by Moody’s; and

 

  (b)

a short-term issuer default rating by Fitch of at least F-1 or a long-term issuer default rating by Fitch of at least “A” by Fitch,

or a comparable rating from an internationally recognised credit rating agency (each, the “Account Bank Minimum Rating” and together, the “Account Bank Minimum Ratings”).

Account Details” means the details of each of the Issuer Accounts set out in Schedule 9 (Account Details) of this Incorporated Terms Memorandum;

Accounting Reference Date” means, in each year in respect of the Issuer, 31 May.

Accounts Final Delivery Date” means, in respect of the Issuer, the date which is 180 days after its Accounting Reference Date;

Additional Account” means each additional Issuer Account which may be opened by the Issuer pursuant to clause 18 (Additional Accounts) of the Account Bank Agreement or any additional or replacement accounts that the Issuer may from time to time open with the consent of the Trustee (including, if applicable, any securities accounts);

Additional Ledger” means each additional ledger which may be established by the Cash Manager on any Issuer Account pursuant to the terms of the Cash Management Agreement;

Affiliate” means, in relation to any person, a Subsidiary of that person or a Holding Company of that person or any other Subsidiary of that Holding Company;

Agency Agreement” means the agreement so named dated on or about the Closing Date between the Issuer, the Agents, the Trustee;

 

- 1 -


Agents” means the Note Calculation Agent, the Paying Agent and the Registrar and “Agent” means any one of them;

Alternate Payment Date” means any Business Day on which the Purchase Price of a Purchased Security is reduced pursuant to paragraphs 2.8(g), 2.10(d), 2.19(d) and 2.20(i) of the Repurchase Agreement, provided that the Issuer (or the Servicer on its behalf) has provided the Cash Manager, the Trustee, the Agents and where applicable the Servicer, at least 3 Business Days’ notice of its intention to so redeem the Notes;

Amortisation Amount” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Repurchase Agreement;

Amortisation Ratio Threshold” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Repurchase Agreement. “Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Repurchase Agreement.

Ancillary Rights” means in relation to a Right, all ancillary rights, accretions and supplements to such Right, including any guarantees or indemnities in respect of such Right;

Applicable Law” means any law or regulation including, but not limited to:

 

  (a)

any domestic or foreign statute or regulation;

 

  (b)

any rule of any Governmental Authority, stock exchange or self-regulatory organisation with which each Party is bound or accustomed to comply; and

 

  (c)

any agreement entered into by the Parties and any Governmental Authority or between any two or more Governmental Authorities;

Appointee” means any delegate, agent, nominee, custodian, attorney or manager appointed by the Trustee pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Documents and the other Transaction Documents;

Asset Realisation Proceeds” means the sum of any and all realisation proceeds resulting from the realisation (sale or other disposal) of each Underlying Asset (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Guarantee and any other Ancillary Rights) less any realisation costs incurred in connection with such realisation.

Assigned Rights” means the Benefit of the Financial Assets and the Underlying Finance Documents assigned or to be assigned to the Issuer by the Seller pursuant to the terms of the Repurchase Agreement;

Authorised Representative” means a person named in schedule 10 (Authorised Representatives) to the Account Bank Agreement, as amended pursuant to clause 5.12 (Payment mechanics) of the Account Bank Agreement;

Authorised Signatory” means, in relation to any Transaction Party, any person who is duly authorised and in respect of whom a certificate has been provided signed by a director or another duly authorised person of such Transaction Party setting out the name and signature of such person and confirming such person’s authority to act;

 

- 2 -


Available Interest Amounts” means, for each Interest Payment Date, an amount equal to the aggregate of (without double-counting):

 

  (a)

an amount equal to the Price Differential received by the Issuer during the immediately preceding Interest Period;

 

  (b)

interest paid to the Issuer on the Transaction Accounts received during the immediately preceding Calculation Period; and

 

  (c)

other net income of the Issuer received during the immediately preceding Calculation Period, including any additional amounts to be applied as Available Interest Amounts in accordance with item (c) of the Pre-Default Principal Priority of Payments.

Available Principal Receipts” means payments received by the Issuer representing Sequential Principal Receipts or Pro Rata Principal Receipts, appearing in the record of the Pro Rata Principal Receipts and Sequential Principal Receipts attributable to a Purchased Security as maintained by the Cash Manager in accordance with the Cash Management Agreement;

Basic Terms Modification” means each of:

 

  (a)

the modification of the date of maturity of Notes;

 

  (b)

the modification of the date of payment of principal, interest or any other amount in respect of the Notes, or, where applicable, of the method of calculating the date of payment of principal, interest or any other amount in respect of the Notes, or of the method of calculating the date of payment in respect of the Residual Certificates;

 

  (c)

the modification of the amount of principal or the rate of interest or any other amount payable in respect of the Notes, or, where applicable, of the method of calculating the amount payable of any principal, interest or any other amount in respect of the Notes, or of the method of calculating the amounts payable in respect of the Residual Certificates (including, in relation to any class of Notes or Residual Certificates, if any such modification is proposed for any class of Notes ranking senior to such class of Notes or the Residual Certificates in the Priorities of Payments);

 

  (d)

the alteration of the currency in which payments under the Notes or Residual Certificates are to be made;

 

  (e)

a request for Further Notes to be issued;

 

  (f)

the alteration of the quorum or majority required in relation to the Basic Terms Modification;

 

  (g)

the sanctioning of any scheme or proposal for the sale, conversion or cancellation of the Notes or the Residual Certificates;

 

  (h)

the sanctioning of any waiver of any proposed or actual breach of any of the covenants (including any Note Event of Default or Potential Note Event of

 

- 3 -


  Default) or provisions contained in or arising pursuant to the Conditions, the Residual Certificates Conditions any of the Transaction Documents by any party thereto which would have the effect of any of the foregoing;

 

  (i)

any amendment to the definition of Restricted Transferees;

 

  (j)

any amendment to the Priorities of Payment;

 

  (k)

any amendment to Repurchase Agreement;

 

  (l)

any change to the provisions referred to in this definition of Basic Terms Modification; or

 

  (m)

any change to the definition of a Basic Terms Modification;

Benchmark Rate” means, for each Interest Period, the rate determined by the Servicer or the Realisation Agent (as applicable) as follows:

 

  (a)

in respect of each Class of the GBP Notes, the sum of the rates determined for all GBP Purchased Securities by multiplying (i) a fraction, the numerator of which is the Purchase Price for such GBP Purchased Securities as at the first day of that Interest Period and the denominator of which is the aggregate Purchase Price for all GBP Purchased Securities as at the first day of that Interest Period by (ii) the Repo Benchmark Rate for such GBP Purchased Securities determined on the Pricing Rate Determination Date which immediately precedes the first day of that Interest Period;

 

  (b)

in respect of each Class of the EUR Notes, the sum of the rates determined for all EUR Purchased Securities by multiplying (i) a fraction, the numerator of which is the Purchase Price for such EUR Purchased Securities as at the first day of that Interest Period and the denominator of which is the aggregate Purchase Price for all EUR Purchased Securities as at the first day of that Interest Period by (ii) the Repo Benchmark Rate for such EUR Purchased Securities determined on the Pricing Rate Determination Date which immediately precedes the first day of that Interest Period; and

 

  (c)

in respect of any Class A USD Notes or Class B USD Notes, the benchmark rate agreed between the Seller, the Noteholders and the Issuer on or prior to the date of the issue of the Class A USD Notes or Class B USD Notes, as applicable,

provided that if the Purchase Price for any Purchased Security is reduced during an Interest Period in accordance with the terms of the Repurchase Agreement:

 

  (i)

the Benchmark Rate for the relevant Class of Notes shall be re-calculated in the manner set out below:

 

  (A)

in respect of each Class of the GBP Notes, the sum of the rates determined for all GBP Purchased Securities by multiplying (i) a fraction, the numerator of which is the Purchase Price for such GBP Purchased Securities as at such Alternate Payment Date and the denominator of which is the aggregate Purchase Price for all GBP Purchased Securities as at such Alternate Payment Date

 

- 4 -


  by (ii) the Repo Benchmark Rate for such GBP Purchased Securities determined on the Pricing Rate Determination Date which immediately precedes such Alternate Payment Date first;

 

  (B)

in respect of each Class of the EUR Notes, the sum of the rates determined for all EUR Purchased Securities by multiplying (i) a fraction, the numerator of which is the Purchase Price for such EUR Purchased Securities as at such Alternate Payment Date and the denominator of which is the aggregate Purchase Price for all EUR Purchased Securities as at such Alternate Payment Date by (ii) the Repo Benchmark Rate for such EUR Purchased Securities determined on the Pricing Rate Determination Date which immediately precedes such Alternate Payment Date; and

 

  (C)

in respect of each Class of the USD Notes, the benchmark rate agreed between the Seller, the Noteholders and the Issuer on or prior to the date of the issue of the Class A USD Notes or Class B USD Notes, as applicable; and

 

  (ii)

such re-calculated Benchmark Rate shall apply until the earlier to occur of an Alternate Payment Date (in which case the Benchmark Rate will be re-calculated on the basis of limb (i) above) or an Interest Payment Date.

For the avoidance of doubt, re-calculation of the Benchmark Rate on an Alternate Payment Date shall occur immediately after reduction in the Purchase Price for the relevant Purchased Security and redemption of the relevant Notes.

Benefit” in respect of any asset, agreement, property or right (each a “Right” for the purpose of this definition) held, assigned, conveyed, transferred, charged, sold or disposed of by any person shall be construed so as to include:

 

  (a)

all right, title, interest and benefit, present and future, actual and contingent (and interests arising in respect thereof) of such person in, to, under and in respect of such Right and all Ancillary Rights in respect of such Right;

 

  (b)

all monies and proceeds payable or to become payable under, in respect of, or pursuant to such Right or its Ancillary Rights and the right to receive payment of such monies and proceeds and all payments made including, in respect of any bank account, all sums of money which may at any time be credited to such bank account together with all interest accruing from time to time on such money and the debts represented by such bank account;

 

  (c)

the benefit of all covenants, undertakings, representations, warranties and indemnities in favour of such person contained in or relating to such Right or its Ancillary Rights;

 

  (d)

the benefit of all powers of and remedies for enforcing or protecting such person’s right, title, interest and benefit in, to, under and in respect of such Right or its Ancillary Rights, including the right to demand, sue for, recover, receive and give receipts for proceeds of and amounts due under or in respect of or relating to such Right or its Ancillary Rights; and

 

- 5 -


  (e)

all items expressed to be held on trust for such person under or comprised in any such Right or its Ancillary Rights, all rights to deliver notices and/or take such steps as are required to cause payment to become due and payable in respect of such Right and its Ancillary Rights, all rights of action in respect of any breach of or in connection with any such Right and its Ancillary Rights and all rights to receive damages or obtain other relief in respect of such breach;

Block Voting Instruction” means, in relation to any Meeting, a document in the English language issued by the Paying Agent:

 

  (a)

certifying that certain specified Notes or Residual Certificates have been deposited with the Paying Agent (or to its order at a bank or other depository) and will not be released until the earlier of:

 

  (i)

the conclusion of the Meeting; and

 

  (ii)

the surrender to the Paying Agent, not less than 48 hours before the time fixed for the Meeting (or, if the Meeting has been adjourned, the time fixed for its resumption), of the receipt for the deposited Notes or Residual Certificates and notification thereof by the Paying Agent to the Issuer and the Trustee;

 

  (b)

certifying that the depositor of such specified Note or Residual Certificates or a duly authorised person on its behalf has instructed the Paying Agent that the votes attributable to such specified Note or Residual Certificates are to be cast in a particular way on each resolution to be put to the Meeting and that, during the period of 48 hours before the time fixed for the Meeting, such instructions may not be amended or revoked;

 

  (c)

listing the total number of the Notes or Residual Certificates, distinguishing (if relevant) for each resolution between those in respect of which instructions have been given to vote for, or against, the resolution or to abstain; and

 

  (d)

authorising a named individual or individuals to vote in respect of the Notes or Residual Certificates;

Breach of Duty” means in relation to any person (other than the Trustee, the Account Bank, the Cash Manager and the Agents), a wilful default, fraud, illegal dealing, negligence or material breach of any agreement or breach of trust by such person and in relation to the Trustee, the Account Bank, the Cash Manager and each Agent means a wilful default, fraud or gross negligence by the Trustee, the Account Bank, the Cash Manager or the relevant Agent (as the case may be);

Business Day has the meaning given to it in the Repurchase Agreement;

Calculation Date” means:

 

  (a)

in relation to an Interest Payment Date, the date falling 5 Business Days prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date; or

 

- 6 -


  (b)

in relation to an Alternate Payment Date, the date falling 2 Business Days prior to the relevant Alternate Payment Date;

Calculation Period” means each period from (but excluding) a Calculation Date (or in respect of the first Calculation Period, from and including the Closing Date to (and including) the next (or first) Calculation Date and, in relation to an Interest Payment Date, the “related Calculation Period” means, unless the context otherwise requires, the Calculation Period ending immediately before such Interest Payment Date;

Call-back Contacts” has the meaning given to it in clause 5.13.2 of the Issuer Account Bank Agreement;

Cash Management Agreement” means the agreement so named dated on or about the Closing Date between the Issuer, the Cash Manager, the Seller and the Trustee;

Cash Manager” means U.S. Bank Global Corporate Trust Limited and/or any Replacement Cash Manager appointed in accordance with the terms of the Cash Management Agreement from time to time;

Cash Manager Records” means the original and/or any copies of all documents and records, in whatever form or medium, relating to the Cash Manager Services including all computer tapes, files and discs relating to the Cash Manager Services;

Cash Manager Services” means those services which the Cash Manager has agreed to perform pursuant to the Cash Management Agreement (including, without limitation, schedules to the Cash Management Agreement and in particular schedule 1 (Cash Manager Services) to the Cash Management Agreement);

Cash Manager Termination Date” means the latest to occur of the date specified in a Cash Manager Termination Notice or in a notice delivered pursuant to clause 19.1 (Termination by notice) of the Cash Management Agreement or determined in accordance with clause 19.2 (Agreement to terminate on appointment of Replacement Cash Manager) of the Cash Management Agreement;

Cash Manager Termination Event” means any of the events described in clause 17 (Cash Manager Termination Events) of the Cash Management Agreement;

Cash Manager Termination Notice” means a notice to the Cash Manager from the Issuer or, as applicable, the Trustee delivered in accordance with the terms of clause 17 (Cash Manager Termination Events) of the Cash Management Agreement;

Cash Manager Warranties” has the meaning given to it in clause 8.1 (Cash Manager Representations and Warranties) of the Cash Management Agreement;

Cash Manager Website” means the website of https://pivot.usbank.com (or such other website as may be available for such purpose and notified by the Cash Manager to the Transaction Parties);

Cash Margin Accounts” means the EUR Cash Margin Account, the GBP Cash Margin Account and the USD Cash Margin Account;

 

- 7 -


Cash Margin Account Mandates” means the EUR Cash Margin Account Mandate, the GBP Cash Margin Account Mandate and the USD Cash Margin Account Mandate;

Cash Margin Ledger” means the ledger so named opened in the books of the Issuer by the Cash Manager in accordance with part 2 (Operation of Ledgers) schedule 1 (Maintenance and Operation of Ledgers) of the Cash Management Agreement which records the receipt and distribution of Margin Threshold Rectification Amounts and Default Exposure Threshold Rectification Amount;

Certificateholders” means the persons who for the time being are registered in the Register as the holders of the Residual Certificates;

Chairman” means, in relation to any Meeting, the individual who takes the chair in accordance with paragraph 6 (Chairman) of schedule 4 (Provisions for Meetings of Noteholders) of the Trust Deed;

Charged Accounts” means the Issuer Accounts and any bank or other account in which the Issuer may at any time acquire a Benefit and over which the Issuer has created an Encumbrance in favour of the Trustee pursuant to the Deed of Charge;

Charged Property” means all the property of the Issuer which is subject to the Security;

Class A EUR Further Notes” means any Class A EUR Notes issued on any Interest Payment Date, such notes being consolidated, and forming a single series, with the Class A EUR Initial Notes;

Class A EUR Initial Notes” means the €122,493,843.06 Class A EUR Asset Backed Floating Rate Notes due 2025 issued or due to be issued by the Issuer on the Closing Date or, as the case may be, a specific number thereof;

Class A EUR Noteholders” means the persons who for the time being are the registered holders of the Class A EUR Notes;

Class A EUR Notes” means the Class A EUR Initial Notes and any Class A EUR Further Notes;

Class A EUR Prepayment Fee Amount” means, on any Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date that the Class A Notes are redeemed pursuant to Condition 8 (Final Redemption, Mandatory Redemption, Optional Redemption and Cancellation) as a result of an early repurchase of EUR Purchased Securities where an Exit Fee is received by the Issuer under the Repurchase Agreement, an amount equal to 100 per cent. of the Exit Fee received by the Issuer;

Class A EUR Principal Payment Amount” means, in respect of any Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, the lesser of:

 

  (a)

the Principal Amount Outstanding of the Class A EUR Notes; and

 

  (b)

the sum of that portion of:

 

  (i)

the EUR Pro Rata Principal Receipts; and

 

- 8 -


  (ii)

the EUR Sequential Principal Receipts;

allocated to the Class A EUR Notes in accordance with the EUR Pre-Default Principal Allocation Rules on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date;

Class A Further Notes” means the Class A EUR Further Notes, the Class A GBP Further Notes and the Class A USD Notes;

Class A GBP Further Notes” means any Class A GBP Notes issued on any Interest Payment Date, such notes being consolidated, and forming a single series, with the Class A GBP Initial Notes;

Class A GBP Initial Notes” means the £519,632,743.56 Class A GBP Asset Backed Floating Rate Notes due 2025 issued or due to be issued by the Issuer on the Closing Date or, as the case may be, a specific number thereof;

Class A GBP Noteholders” means the persons who for the time being are the registered holders of the Class A GBP Notes;

Class A GBP Notes” means the Class A GBP Initial Notes and any Class A GBP Further Notes;

Class A GBP Prepayment Fee Amount” means, on any Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date that the Class A Notes are redeemed pursuant to Condition 8 (Final Redemption, Mandatory Redemption, Optional Redemption and Cancellation) as a result of an early repurchase of GBP Purchased Securities where an Exit Fee is received by the Issuer under the Repurchase Agreement, an amount equal to 100 per cent. of the Exit Fee received by the Issuer;

Class A GBP Principal Payment Amount” means, in respect of any Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, the lesser of:

 

  (a)

the Principal Amount Outstanding of the Class A GBP Notes; and

 

  (b)

the sum of that portion of:

 

  (i)

the GBP Pro Rata Principal Receipts; and

 

  (ii)

the GBP Sequential Principal Receipts;

allocated to the Class A GBP Notes in accordance with the GBP Pre- Default Principal Allocation Rules on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date;

Class A Initial Notes” means the Class A EUR Initial Notes and the Class A GBP Initial Notes;

Class A Noteholders” means the persons who for the time being are holders of the Class A Notes;

 

- 9 -


Class A Notes” means the Class A EUR Notes, the Class A GBP Notes and the Class A USD Notes;

Class A Prepayment Fee Amount” means the Class A EUR Prepayment Fee Amount, the Class A GBP Prepayment Fee Amount and the Class A USD Prepayment Fee Amount;

Class A Principal Payment Amount” means the Class A EUR Principal Payment Amount, the Class A GBP Principal Payment Amount and the Class A USD Principal Payment Amount;

Class A USD Noteholders” means the persons who for the time being are the registered holders of the Class A USD Notes;

Class A USD Notes” means any Class A USD Asset Backed Floating Rate Notes due 2025 issued on any Interest Payment Date;

Class A USD Prepayment Fee Amount” means, on any Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date that the Class A Notes are redeemed pursuant to condition 8 (Final Redemption, Mandatory Redemption, Optional Redemption and Cancellation) as a result of an early repurchase of USD Purchased Securities where an Exit Fee is received by the Issuer under the Repurchase Agreement, an amount equal to 100 per cent. of the Exit Fee received by the Issuer;

Class A USD Principal Payment Amount” means, in respect of any Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, the lesser of:

 

  (a)

the Principal Amount Outstanding of the Class A USD Notes; and

 

  (b)

the sum of that portion of:

 

  (i)

the USD Pro Rata Principal Receipts; and

 

  (ii)

the USD Sequential Principal Receipts;

allocated to the Class A USD Notes in accordance with the USD Pre-Default Principal Allocation Rules on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date;

Class B EUR Further Notes” means any Class B EUR Notes issued on any Interest Payment Date, such notes being consolidated, and forming a single series, with the Class B EUR Initial Notes;

Class B EUR Initial Notes” means the €83,720,557.94 Class B EUR Asset Backed Floating Rate Notes due 2025 issued or due to be issued by the Issuer on the Closing Date or, as the case may be, a specific number thereof;

Class B EUR Noteholders” means the persons who for the time being are the registered holders of the Class B EUR Notes;

Class B EUR Notes” means the Class B EUR Initial Notes and any Class B EUR Further Notes;

 

- 10 -


Class B EUR Principal Payment Amount” means, in respect of any Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, the lesser of:

 

  (a)

the Principal Amount Outstanding of the Class B EUR Notes; and

 

  (b)

the sum of that portion of:

 

  (i)

the EUR Pro Rata Principal Receipts; and

 

  (ii)

the EUR Sequential Principal Receipts;

allocated to the Class B EUR Notes in accordance with the EUR Pre-Default Principal Allocation Rules on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date;

Class B Further Notes” means the Class B EUR Further Notes, the Class B GBP Further Notes and the Class B USD Notes;

Class B GBP Further Notes” means any Class B GBP Notes issued on any Interest Payment Date, such notes being consolidated, and forming a single series, with the Class B GBP Initial Notes;

Class B GBP Initial Notes” means the £174,149,194.44 Class B GBP Asset Backed Floating Rate Notes due 2025 issued or due to be issued by the Issuer on the Closing Date or, as the case may be, a specific number thereof;

Class B GBP Noteholders” means the persons who for the time being are the registered holders of the Class B GBP Notes;

Class B GBP Notes” means the Class B GBP Initial Notes and any Class B GBP Further Notes;

Class B GBP Principal Payment Amount” means, in respect of any Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, the lesser of:

 

  (a)

the Principal Amount Outstanding of the Class B GBP Notes; and

 

  (b)

the sum of that portion of:

 

  (i)

the GBP Pro Rata Principal Receipts; and

 

  (ii)

the GBP Sequential Principal Receipts;

allocated to the Class B GBP Notes in accordance with the GBP Pre-Default Principal Allocation Rules on such Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date.

Class B Initial Notes” means the Class B EUR Initial Notes and the Class B GBP Initial Notes;

Class B Noteholders” means the persons who for the time being are holders of the Class B Notes;

 

- 11 -


Class B Notes” means the Class B EUR Notes, the Class B GBP Notes and the Class B USD Notes;

Class B Principal Payment Amount” means the Class B EUR Principal Payment Amount, the Class B GBP Principal Payment Amount and the Class B USD Principal Payment Amount;

Class B Set-Off Date” means, in relation to a Write-Down Notice:

 

  (a)

where such notice is delivered following an event of default under the Repurchase Agreement in respect of which the Issuer (in its capacity as buyer) is the Defaulting Party, the Early Termination Date (as each such term is defined in the Repurchase Agreement); or

 

  (b)

where such notice is delivered in relation to an early repurchase in accordance with Part 2.20(d) of the Repurchase Agreement, the Early Repurchase Date (as such term is defined in the Repurchase Agreement);

Class B USD Noteholders” means the persons who for the time being are the registered holders of the Class B USD Notes;

Class B USD Notes” means any Class B USD Asset Backed Floating Rate Notes due 2025 which may be issued by the Issuer on any Interest Payment Date;

Class B USD Principal Payment Amount” means, in respect of any Interest Payment Date, the lesser of:

 

  (a)

the Principal Amount Outstanding of the Class B USD Notes; and

 

  (b)

the sum of that portion of:

 

  (i)

the USD Pro Rata Principal Receipts; and

 

  (ii)

the USD Sequential Principal Receipts;

allocated to the Class B USD Notes in accordance with the USD Pre-Default Principal Allocation Rules on such Interest Payment Date;

Clearing House Automated Payment System” or “CHAPS” means transfers by way of the Clearing House Automated Payment System or such other system as may replace it;

Client Money Rules” means the FCA Rules in relation to client money from time to time;

Client Money Distribution and Transfer Rules” means the FCA Rules in relation to the distribution and transfer of client money from time to time;

Closing Date” means 30 June 2020;

Common Terms” means the provisions set out in Schedule 2 (Common Terms) of this Incorporated Terms Memorandum;

 

- 12 -


Companies Acts” has the meaning given to it in Section 2 of the Companies Act 2006;

Conditions” means:

 

  (a)

in relation to the Initial Notes, the terms and conditions to be endorsed on the Initial Notes in, or substantially in, the form set out in schedule 3 (Terms and Conditions of the Notes) of the Trust Deed; and

 

  (b)

in relation to any Further Notes, the terms and conditions to be endorsed on the Further Notes, in accordance with the Supplemental Trust Deed relating thereto and in, or substantially in, the form set out in schedule 3 (Terms and Conditions of the Notes) of the Trust Deed,

as any of the same may from time to time be modified in accordance with the Trust Deed and any reference to a particular numbered Condition shall be construed in relation to the Initial Notes accordingly and any reference to a particular numbered Condition in relation to any Further Notes shall be construed as a reference to the provision (if any) in the Conditions of such Further Notes which corresponds to the particular numbered Condition of the Initial Notes;

Confirmation” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the Repurchase Agreement

Corporate Services Agreement” means the agreement so named dated on or about the Closing Date between the Corporate Services Provider, the Issuer and the Trustee;

Corporate Services Provider” means TMF Global Services (UK) Limited;

Covenant to Pay” means the covenants of the Issuer in respect of the Notes and Residual Certificates contained in clause 6 (Covenant to Repay Principal) and clause 7 (Covenant to Pay Interest and Residual Payments) of the Trust Deed and, in respect of the Secured Amounts, contained in clause 3 (Issuer’s Undertaking to Pay) of the Deed of Charge and the corresponding covenants contained in any supplemental or further trust deeds executed in connection with the issue of any Further Notes;

Cure Payment” has the meaning given to such term in paragraph 8.2.2(b) of Part 2 (Operation of Ledgers) of Schedule 1 (Cash Manager Services) of the Cash Management Agreement;

Cut-Off Date” means the day falling 3 Business Days prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date;

Data Protection Legislation” means the GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018 and all other applicable data protection and data privacy laws and regulations;

 

- 13 -


Day Count Fraction” means in relation to any Interest Period, the quotient of:

 

  (a)

the actual number of days in the period starting on the relevant Interest Determination Date or the Alternate Payment Date (where applicable) and ending on the immediately following Interest Determination Date; and

 

  (b)

either: (i) 360 (for EUR Notes and USD Notes) or (ii) 365 (for GBP Notes),

where (a) is the numerator and (b) is the denominator;

Deed of Charge” means the deed so named dated on or about the Closing Date between the Issuer and the Trustee;

Default Bid Process” has the meaning given to such term in the Servicing and Realisation Agreement;

Default Exposure Threshold” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Repurchase Agreement;

Default Exposure Threshold Event” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Repurchase Agreement;

Default Exposure Threshold Rectification Amount” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Repurchase Agreement;

Dispute” means a dispute arising out of or in connection with any Transaction Document (including a dispute regarding the existence, validity or termination of any Transaction Document;

Draft ESMA Disclosure RTS” has the meaning given to it in clause 12.2.1(a) of the Servicing and Realisation Agreement;

Encumbrance” means:

 

  (a)

a mortgage, charge, pledge, lien or other encumbrance securing any obligation of any person;

 

  (b)

any arrangement under which money or claims to money, or the benefit of, a bank or other account may be applied, set off or made subject to a combination of accounts so as to effect discharge of any sum owed or payable to any person; or

 

  (c)

any other type of preferential arrangement (including any title transfer and retention arrangement) having a similar effect;

Enforcement Notice” means a notice delivered by the Trustee to the Issuer in accordance with Condition 13 (Events of Default) which declares the Notes to be immediately due and payable;

Enforcement Procedures” means the exercise of rights and remedies against an Underlying Obligor in respect of such Underlying Obligor’s obligations arising from any Financial Asset in respect of which such Underlying Obligor is in default;

Equivalent Securities” has the meaning given to it in the Repurchase Agreement;

 

- 14 -


ESMA” means the European Securities and Markets Authority;

EUR Available Principal Receipts” means, for each Interest Payment Date, an amount equal to the aggregate of:

 

  (a)

payments received by the Issuer representing EUR Sequential Principal Receipts; and

 

  (b)

payments received by the Issuer representing or EUR Pro Rata Principal Receipts;

EUR Cash Margin Account” means the account so named specified in the Account Details or such other account or accounts as may, with the prior written consent of the Trustee, be designated by the Issuer as such account;

EUR Cash Margin Account Mandate” means the resolutions, instructions and signature authorities relating to the EUR Cash Margin Account in the form of the document set out in schedule 4 (EUR Cash Margin Account Mandate) of the Account Bank Agreement;

EUR Cash Margin Account Payment Amount” means all amounts for the time being deposited and held in the EUR Cash Margin Account, including all interest accrued thereon and credited to the EUR Cash Margin Account from time to time;

EUR Income Account” means the account so named specified in the Account Details or such other account or accounts as may, with the prior written consent of the Trustee, be designated by the Issuer as such account;

EUR Income Account Mandate” means the resolutions, instructions and signature authorities relating to the EUR Income Account in the form of the document set out in schedule 7 (EUR Income Account Mandate) of the Account Bank Agreement;

EUR Income Account Payment Amount” means all amounts for the time being deposited and held in the EUR Income Account, including all interest accrued thereon and credited to the EUR Income Account from time to time;

EUR Notes” means the Class A EUR Notes and the Class B EUR Notes;

EUR Pre-Default Principal Allocation Rules” has the meaning given to it in Condition 8.2.2;

EUR Pro Rata Principal Receipts” means, for each Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, an amount equal to the aggregate of the following amounts received by the Issuer under the Repurchase Agreement to be applied in accordance with the EUR Pre-Default Principal Allocation Rules:

 

  (a)

(i) prior to the occurrence of an NPE Trigger, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event, or Default Exposure Threshold Event (in each case, which is continuing) in respect of the related Purchased Security; and (ii) if no Default Exposure Threshold Event is continuing in respect of any Purchased Security, any Amortisation Amount (pursuant to item (a)(i) of the definition thereof in the Repurchase Agreement) received by the Issuer following its receipt of any scheduled payment or pre-payment of principal directly in relation to a EUR Purchased Security;

 

- 15 -


  (b)

the full repurchase proceeds in EUR of a Purchased Security, other than any Release Price Excess, which shall be the aggregate of:

 

  (i)

prior to the occurrence of an NPE Trigger, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or Default Exposure Threshold Event (in each case, which is continuing) in relation to any Purchased Security, any amounts relating to principal received in connection with the repurchase of an EUR Purchased Security in full; and

 

  (ii)

following the occurrence of an NPE Trigger, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or Default Exposure Threshold Event (in each case, which is continuing) in relation to any Purchased Security, any amounts relating to principal received in connection with the repurchase in full of an EUR Purchased Security that is the subject of an NPE Trigger, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or Default Exposure Threshold Event provided that (x) the repurchase of such security will cure the relevant event and (y) as a result of such repurchase, no Default Exposure Threshold Event is continuing in respect of any Purchased Security;

EUR Purchased Securities” means:

 

  (a)

the Project [***] Securities; and

 

  (b)

any further EUR denominated securities acquired by the Issuer under the Repurchase Agreement;

EUR Sequential All Exposure Principal Receipts” means:

 

  (a)

any Amortisation Amount received by the Issuer under the Repurchase Agreement arising from Income retained by the Issuer under the Repurchase Agreement arising from the Project [***] Securities or any Further Initial Margin Securities denominated in EUR;

 

  (b)

following the occurrence of an NPE Trigger, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or Default Exposure Threshold Event (in each case, which is continuing), any amounts in excess of the Senior Exposure received in connection with the early repurchase in full of an EUR Purchased Security that is not subject to an NPE Trigger, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or Default Exposure Threshold Event and where the repurchase of such a security would not cure the relevant event;

 

  (c)

any excess GBP Sequential All Exposure Principal Receipts or USD Sequential All Exposure Principal Receipts after repayment of the Class A GBP Notes or Class A USD Notes (as applicable) in full as converted into euro at the spot rate by the Cash Manager, pursuant to the Senior Exposure Reduction Rules; and

 

  (d)

any Release Price Excess denominated in EUR;

 

- 16 -


EUR Sequential Principal Receipts” means EUR Sequential All Exposure Principal Receipts and EUR Sequential Sole Exposure Principal Receipts appearing in the record of the EUR Sequential Principal Receipts attributable to a Purchased Security, which shall be equal to the EUR Sequential Sole Exposure Principal Receipts of such Purchased Security, as maintained by the Cash Manager in accordance with the Cash Management Agreement;

EUR Sequential Sole Exposure Principal Receipts” means the following amounts received by the Issuer under the Repurchase Agreement:

 

  (a)

if (i) an NPE Trigger, (ii) an Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or (iii) a Default Exposure Threshold Event has occurred and, in each case, which is continuing, any Amortisation Amount received in respect of a EUR Purchased Security;

 

  (b)

any Default Exposure Threshold Rectification Amount received in respect of the EUR Purchased Security;

 

  (c)

amounts received in connection with a partial early repurchase of a EUR Purchased Security;

 

  (d)

following the occurrence of an NPE Trigger, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or Default Exposure Threshold Event (in each case, which is continuing) any amounts equal to the Senior Exposure received in connection with the early repurchase of a EUR Purchased Security in full that is not subject to NPE Trigger, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or Default Exposure Threshold Event and repurchase of such a security would not cure the relevant event;

 

  (e)

any Margin Threshold Rectification Amount or Recalculated Margin Threshold Rectification Amount (as applicable) received in respect of the EUR Purchased Security;

 

  (f)

any Cure Payments received in respect of a EUR Purchased Security;

 

  (g)

any other Income or payment received by the Issuer in respect of an EUR Purchased Security where such Income or payment has not been applied as Available Interest Amounts, EUR Pro Rata Principal Receipts or EUR Sequential All Exposure Principal Receipt; and

 

  (h)

any payment made under the Guarantee in respect of a EUR Purchased Security,

where in relation to each of the above, a record of the EUR Sequential Sole Exposure Principal Receipts paid to the Class A Noteholders in relation to a Purchased Security will be kept by the Cash Manager so that the Senior Exposure of that Purchased Security can be updated accordingly in the Cash Management Agreement;

EUR Transaction Account” means the account so named specified in the Account Details or such other account or accounts as may, with the prior written consent of the Trustee, be designated by the Issuer as such account;

EUR Transaction Account Mandate” means the resolutions, instructions and signature authorities relating to the EUR Transaction Account in the form of the document set out in schedule 1 (EUR Transaction Account Mandate) of the Account Bank Agreement;

 

- 17 -


EUR Transaction Account Payment Amount” means all amounts for the time being deposited and held in the EUR Transaction Account, including all interest accrued thereon and credited to the EUR Transaction Account from time to time;

Execution Policy” means the execution policy of Elavon Financial Services D.A.C., UK Branch in its capacity as Account Bank as provided to the Issuer from time to time;

Exit Fee” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the Repurchase Agreement;

Extraordinary Resolution” means:

 

  (a)

in respect of the holders of any class of Notes, a resolution passed at a meeting of Noteholders duly convened and held in accordance with the provisions contained in schedule 4 (Provisions for Meetings of Noteholders) in the Trust Deed by the holders of not less than 75 per cent. of Principal Amount Outstanding of the relevant class of Notes; and

 

  (b)

in respect of the Certificateholders, a resolution passed at a meeting of Certificateholders duly convened and held in accordance with the provisions contained in schedule 6 (Provisions for Meetings of Certificateholders) in the Trust Deed by a majority of not less than half of the votes cast;

Fallback Bid Process” has the meaning given to such term in the Servicing and Realisation Agreement;

FATCA” means:

 

  (a)

sections 1471 to 1474 of the Code and any associated regulations;

 

  (b)

any treaty, law or regulation of any other jurisdiction, or relating to an intergovernmental agreement between the US and any other jurisdiction, which (in either case) facilitates the implementation of any law or regulation referred to in Paragraph (a) above; and

 

  (c)

any agreement pursuant to the implementation of any treaty, law or regulation referred to in Paragraph (a) or (b) above with the US Internal Revenue Service, the US government or any governmental or Tax Authority in any other jurisdiction;

FATCA Compliant Entity” means a person payments to whom are not subject to FATCA withholding;

FCA” means United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority or any successor entity that assumes its relevant functions;

FCA Rules” means the rules established by the FCA in the FCA’s Handbook of rules and guidance from time to time;

 

- 18 -


Final Discharge Date” means the date on which the Trustee notifies the Issuer and the Secured Creditors that it is satisfied that all the Secured Amounts and/or all other moneys and other Liabilities due or owing by the Issuer in connection with the Instruments have been paid or discharged in full;

Final Maturity Date” means the Interest Payment Date falling in August 2025;

Financial Asset” means each of the Purchased Securities and the Margin Securities sold or to be sold to the Issuer on the Closing Date (and at any time thereafter pursuant to the Repurchase Agreement) but excluding (for the avoidance of doubt) a Financial Asset which is repurchased by the Seller pursuant to the Repurchase Agreement and no longer beneficially owned by the Issuer;

Financial Statements” means, in respect of any person, audited financial statements of such person for a specified period (including, a balance sheet, profit and loss account (or other form of income statement) and statement of cash flow);

First Interest Payment Date” means 22 August 2020;

Fitch” means Fitch Ratings Limited or any successor to its credit rating business;

Floating Charge” means the floating charge created by clause 5 (Creation of Floating Charge) of the Deed of Charge;

Force Majeure Event” means an event beyond the reasonable control of the person affected including strike, lock out, labour dispute, act of God, war, riot, civil commotion, epidemics, malicious damage, accident, breakdown of plant or machinery, computer software, hardware or system failure, electricity power-cut, fire, flood, storm and other circumstances affecting the supply of goods or services;

Foreign Transaction Party” means a Transaction Party which is incorporated or domiciled in a jurisdiction other than England and Wales;

Form of Proxy” means, in relation to a Proxy, a document in the form provided by the Registrar confirming that the Proxy has been appointed;

FSMA” means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 as amended from time to time;

Further Initial Margin Securities” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the Repurchase Agreement;

Further Issue” means any issue of Further Notes;

Further Note Purchase Agreement” means any agreement so named dated on or about a Further Signing Date and made between, among others, the Issuer and the Seller;

Further Notes” means the Class A Further Notes and the Class B Further Notes or, as the case may require, all the Class A Further Notes and the Class B Further Notes issued on the same Interest Payment Date in accordance with an Upsize Request;

 

- 19 -


Further Signing Date” means any date on which a Further Note Purchase Agreement is or is to be executed;

Further Transaction Documents” means, in respect of a Further Issue, the Further Note Purchase Agreement and the Supplemental Trust Deed in relation to such Further Issue and, if relevant, a US Repurchase Agreement;

GBP Available Principal Receipts” means, for each Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, an amount equal to the aggregate of:

 

  (a)

payments received by the Issuer representing GBP Sequential Principal Receipts; and

 

  (b)

payments received by the Issuer representing GBP Pro Rata Principal Receipts;

GBP Cash Margin Account” means the account so named specified in the Account Details or such other account or accounts as may, with the prior written consent of the Trustee, be designated by the Issuer as such account;

GBP Cash Margin Account Mandate” means the resolutions, instructions and signature authorities relating to the GBP Cash Margin Account in the form of the document set out in schedule 5 (GBP Transaction Account Mandate) of the Account Bank Agreement;

GBP Cash Margin Account Payment Amount” means all amounts for the time being deposited and held in the GBP Cash Margin Account, including all interest accrued thereon and credited to the GBP Cash Margin Account from time to time;

GBP Income Account” means the account so named specified in the Account Details or such other account or accounts as may, with the prior written consent of the Trustee, be designated by the Issuer as such account;

GBP Income Account Mandate” means the resolutions, instructions and signature authorities relating to the GBP Transaction Account in the form of the document set out in schedule 8 (GBP Income Account Mandate) of the Account Bank Agreement;

GBP Income Account Payment Amount” means all amounts for the time being deposited and held in the GBP Transaction Account, including all interest accrued thereon and credited to the GBP Transaction Account from time to time;

GBP Notes” means the Class A GBP Notes and the Class B GBP Notes;

GBP Pre-Default Principal Allocation Rules” has the meaning given to it in Condition 8.2.1;

GBP Pro Rata Principal Receipts” means, for each Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, an amount equal to the aggregate of the following amounts received by the Issuer under the Repurchase Agreement to be applied in accordance with the GBP Pre-Default Principal Allocation Rules:

 

  (a)

(i) prior to the occurrence of an NPE Trigger, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event, Note Event of Default or Default Exposure Threshold Event (in each

 

- 20 -


  case, which is continuing) in respect of the related Purchased Security; and (ii) if no Default Exposure Threshold Event is continuing in respect of any Purchased Security, any Amortisation Amount (pursuant to items (a)(i) of the definition thereof in the Repurchase Agreement) received by the Issuer following its receipt of any schedule payment or pre-payment of principal directly from a GBP Purchased Security; and

 

  (b)

the full repurchase proceeds in GBP of a Purchased Security, other than any Release Price Excess, which shall be the aggregate of:

 

  (i)

prior to the occurrence of an NPE Trigger, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or Default Exposure Threshold Event (in each case, which is continuing) in relation to any Purchased Security, any amounts relating to principal received in connection with the repurchase of a GBP Purchased Security in full; and

 

  (ii)

following the occurrence of an NPE Trigger, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or Default Exposure Threshold Event (in each case, which is continuing) in relation to any Purchased Security, any amounts relating to principal received in connection with the repurchase in full of a GBP Purchased Security that is the subject of an NPE Trigger, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or Default Exposure Threshold Event provided that (x) the repurchase of such a security will cure the relevant event and (y) as a result of such repurchase, no Default Exposure Threshold Event is continuing in respect of any Purchased Security;

GBP Purchased Securities” means:

 

  (c)

the Project [***] Securities;

 

  (d)

the Project [***] Securities;

 

  (e)

the Project [***] Securities;

 

  (f)

the Project [***] Securities; and

 

  (g)

any further GBP denominated securities acquired by the Issuer under the Repurchase Agreement;

GBP Sequential All Exposure Principal Receipts” means

 

  (a)

any Amortisation Amount received by the Issuer under the Repurchase Agreement arising from Income retained by the Issuer under the Repurchase Agreement arising from the Project [***] Securities or any Further Initial Margin Securities denominated in GBP;

 

  (b)

following the occurrence of an NPE Trigger, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or Default Exposure Threshold Event (in each case, which is continuing) any amounts in excess of the Senior Exposure received in connection with the early repurchase in full of a GBP Purchased Security in full that is not subject to NPE Trigger, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or Default Exposure Threshold Event and where repurchase of such a security would not cure the relevant event;

 

- 21 -


  (c)

any excess EUR Sequential All Exposure Principal Receipts or USD Sequential All Exposure Principal Receipts after repayment of the Class A EUR Notes or Class A USD Notes (as applicable) in full as converted into Sterling at the spot rate by the Cash Manager, pursuant to the Senior Exposure Reduction Rules; and

 

  (d)

any Release Price Excess denominated in GBP;

GBP Sequential Principal Receipts” means GBP Sequential All Exposure Principal Receipts and GBP Sequential Sole Exposure Principal Receipts appearing in the record of the GBP Sequential Principal Receipts attributable to a Purchased Security, which shall be equal to the GBP Sequential Sole Exposure Principal Receipts of such Purchased Security, as maintained by the Cash Manager in accordance with the Cash Management Agreement;

GBP Sequential Sole Exposure Principal Receipts” means the following amounts received by the Issuer under the Repurchase Agreement:

 

  (a)

if (i) an NPE Trigger, (ii) an Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or (iii) a Default Exposure Threshold Event has occurred (in each case, which is continuing), any Amortisation Amount received in respect of a GBP Purchased Security;

 

  (b)

any Default Exposure Threshold Rectification Amount received in respect of the GBP Purchased Security;

 

  (c)

following the occurrence of an NPE Trigger, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or Default Exposure Threshold Event (in each case, which is continuing) any amounts equal to the Senior Exposure received in connection with the early repurchase of a GBP Purchased Security in full that is not subject to NPE Trigger, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or Default Exposure Threshold Event and repurchase of such a security would not cure the relevant event;

 

  (d)

amounts received in connection with a partial early repurchase of a GBP Purchased Security;

 

  (e)

any Margin Threshold Rectification Amount or Recalculated Margin Threshold Rectification Amount (as applicable) received in respect of the GBP Purchased Security;

 

  (f)

any Cure Payments received in respect of a GBP Purchased Security;

 

  (g)

any other Income or payment received by the Issuer in respect of a GBP Purchased Security where such Income or payment has not been applied as Available Interest Amounts, GBP Pro Rata Principal Receipts or GBP Sequential All Exposure Principal Receipt; and

 

  (h)

any payment made under the Guarantee in respect of a GBP Purchased Security;

 

- 22 -


  where in relation to each of the above, a record of the GBP Sequential Sole Exposure Principal Receipts paid to the Class A Noteholders in relation to a Purchased Security will be kept by the Cash Manager so that the Senior Exposure of that Purchased Security can be updated accordingly in the Cash Management Agreement;

GBP Transaction Account” means the account so named specified in the Account Details or such other account or accounts as may, with the prior written consent of the Trustee, be designated by the Issuer as such account;

GBP Transaction Account Mandate” means the resolutions, instructions and signature authorities relating to the GBP Transaction Account in the form of the document set out in schedule 2 (GBP Transaction Account Mandate) of the Account Bank Agreement;

GBP Transaction Account Payment Amount” means all amounts for the time being deposited and held in the GBP Transaction Account, including all interest accrued thereon and credited to the GBP Transaction Account from time to time;

GDPR” means the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679;

Governmental Authority” means any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government;

Guarantee” means the payment guarantee dated the Closing Date provided by the Guarantor;

Guarantor” means Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. in its capacity as Guarantor under the Guarantee;

Holding Company” means, in relation to a person, any other person in respect of which it is a Subsidiary;

Holdings” means ACRE Debt Holdings Limited, the parent company of the Issuer;

Income” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Repurchase Agreement;

Income Accounts” means the EUR Income Account, the GBP Income Account and the USD Income Account;

Incorporated Terms Memorandum” means the memorandum so named dated on or about the Closing Date and signed for the purpose of identification by each of the Transaction Parties;

Initial Class A Noteholder” means Barclays Bank plc as initial holder of the Class A Notes;

Initial Note Purchase Agreement” means the agreement so named dated on or about the Closing Date between, among others, the Issuer and the Seller;

Initial Notes” means the Class A Initial Notes and the Class B Initial Notes;

 

- 23 -


Initial Principal Amount” means, in relation to any Note, the Principal Amount Outstanding of such Note on the Closing Date on which such Note is issued;

Initial Repurchase Agreement” means the 2011 version of the Global Master Repurchase Agreement (as published by the International Capital Market Association) entered into by inter alios, the Issuer and the Seller from time to time dated on or before the Closing Date;

Initial Transaction Documents” means the Account Bank Agreement, Cash Management Agreement, Corporate Services Agreement, Deed of Charge, the Initial Repurchase Agreement, the Guarantee, the Notes, Agency Agreement, Servicing and Realisation Agreement, Share Trust Deed, Note Purchase Agreement, the Risk Retention Letter, Trust Deed (including the Conditions) and such other related documents as are referred to in the terms of the above documents or which relate to the issue of the Notes;

Insolvency Act” means the Insolvency Act 1986;

Insolvency Event” in respect of a company means:

 

  (a)

such company is unable or admits its inability to pay its debts as they fall due (after taking into account any grace period or permitted deferral), or suspends making payments on any of its debts; or

 

  (b)

a moratorium is declared in respect of any indebtedness of such company;

 

  (c)

the commencement of negotiations with one or more creditors of such company with a view to rescheduling any indebtedness of such company other than in connection with any refinancing in the ordinary course of business;

 

  (d)

any corporate action, legal proceedings or other procedure or step is taken in relation to:

 

  (i)

the appointment of an Insolvency Official in relation to such company or in relation to the whole or any part of the undertaking or assets of such company except, in the case of the Issuer, the application to the court under paragraph 12 or the filing of notice of intention to appoint an administrator under paragraph 26 of Schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act by the Issuer or its directors, or the appointment of an administrative receiver by the Trustee following any such application or notice; or

 

  (ii)

an encumbrancer (excluding, in relation to the Issuer, the Trustee or any Receiver) taking possession of the whole or any part of the undertaking or assets of such company;

 

  (iii)

the making of an arrangement, composition, or compromise (whether by way of voluntary arrangement, scheme of arrangement or otherwise) with any creditor of such company, a reorganisation of such company, a conveyance to or assignment for the creditors of such company generally or the making of an application to a court of competent jurisdiction for protection from the creditors of such company generally other than in connection with any refinancing in the ordinary course of business; or

 

- 24 -


  (iv)

any distress, execution, attachment or other process being levied or enforced or imposed upon or against the whole or any part of the undertaking or assets of such company (excluding, in relation to the Issuer, by the Trustee or any Receiver); or

 

  (e)

any procedure or step is taken, or any event occurs, analogous to those set out in (a) to (d) above, in any jurisdiction;

Insolvency Official” means, in relation to a company, a liquidator, (except, in the case of the Issuer, a liquidator appointed for the purpose of a merger, reorganisation or amalgamation the terms of which have previously been approved either in writing by the Trustee or by an Extraordinary Resolution of the holders of the Most Senior Class of Notes then outstanding) provisional liquidator, administrator, bank administrator, bank liquidator, investment bank administrator, administrative receiver, receiver, receiver or manager, compulsory or interim manager, nominee, supervisor, trustee, conservator, guardian or other similar officer in respect of such company or in respect of any arrangement, compromise or composition with any creditors or any equivalent or analogous officer under the law of any jurisdiction;

Insolvency Proceedings” means any winding-up, dissolution or administration including bank administration, bank insolvency, special administration, special administration (bank administration) or special administration (bank insolvency) (whether by court action or otherwise) of a company and shall be construed so as to include any equivalent or analogous proceedings under the law of any jurisdiction including the seeking of liquidation, winding-up, reorganisation, dissolution, administration (whether by court action or otherwise), arrangement, adjustment, protection or relief of debtors;

Instruction” means any Payment Instruction or any other instruction, communication or direction which the Account Bank is entitled to rely on for the purposes of the Account Bank Agreement;

Instrument” or “Instruments” means the Notes and the Residual Certificates;

Instrumentholders” means the persons who for the time being are the holders of the Instruments;

Interest Amount” means, in respect of a Note for any Interest Period, the sum of the amounts of interest calculated on the related Interest Determination Date and on each Alternate Payment Date falling in such Interest Period, where:

 

  (a)

in respect of the Class A GBP Notes the sum of:

 

  (i)

the Senior Exposure for the Project [***] Securities multiplied by the sum of (a) the higher of (i) the Benchmark Rate; and (ii) 0, and (b) the Relevant Margin;

 

- 25 -


  (ii)

the Senior Exposure for the Project [***] Securities multiplied by the sum of (a) the higher of (i) the Benchmark Rate; and (ii) 0, and (b) the Relevant Margin;

 

  (iii)

the Senior Exposure for the Project [***] Securities multiplied by the sum of (a) the higher of (i) the Benchmark Rate; and (ii) 0, and (b) the Relevant Margin;

 

  (iv)

the Senior Exposure for the Project [***] Securities multiplied by the sum of (a) the higher of (i) the Benchmark Rate; and (ii) 0, and (b) the Relevant Margin; and

 

  (v)

the Senior Exposure of any additional Purchased Security denominated in Sterling multiplied by the sum of (a) the higher of (i) the Benchmark Rate; and (ii) 0, and (b) the Relevant Margin;

 

  (b)

in respect of the Class A EUR Notes the sum of:

 

  (i)

the Senior Exposure for the Project [***] Securities; multiplied by the higher of (i) the Benchmark Rate; and (ii) 0, plus the Relevant Margin; and

 

  (ii)

the Senior Exposure of any additional Purchased Security denominated in EUR; multiplied by the higher of (i) the Benchmark Rate; and (ii) 0, plus the Relevant Margin for any additional Purchased Security denominated in EUR;

 

  (c)

in respect of the Class B GBP Notes the product of:

 

  (i)

the aggregate Purchase Price of the GBP Purchased Securities less the aggregate Senior Exposure for the GBP Purchased Securities; multiplied by:

 

  (ii)

the higher of (i) the Benchmark Rate; and (ii) 0, plus the Relevant Margin; and

 

  (d)

in respect of the Class B EUR Notes the product of:

 

  (i)

the aggregate Purchase Price of the EUR Purchased Securities less the aggregate Senior Exposure for the EUR Purchased Securities; multiplied by:

 

  (ii)

the higher of (i) the Benchmark Rate; and (ii) 0, plus the Relevant Margin; and

 

  (e)

in respect of any Class A USD Notes or Class B USD Notes, the interest amount agreed between the Seller, the Noteholders and the Issuer on or prior to the date of the issue of the Class A USD Notes or Class B USD Notes, as applicable;

 

- 26 -


provided that:

 

  (i)

the Senior Exposure and Benchmark Rate in each of the paragraphs above is determined as at the relevant Interest Determination Date or each Alternate Payment Date (where applicable):

 

  (ii)

the relevant amount determined in each of the paragraphs above are multiplied by the relevant Day Count Fraction and rounding the resultant figure to the nearest Minimum Amount; and

 

  (iii)

the Interest Amounts for the relevant period shall be subject to reconciliation on each Alternate Payment Date in accordance with Clause 9.2.1(b) (Duties of the Note Calculation Agent) of the Agency Agreement;

Interest Determination Date” means each Interest Payment Date or, in the case of the first Interest Period, the Closing Date and, in relation to an Interest Period, the “related Interest Determination Date” means the Interest Determination Date which falls on the first day of such Interest Period;

Interest Income Ledger” means the ledger so named opened in the books of the Issuer by the Cash Manager in accordance with part 2 (Operation of Ledgers) schedule 1 (Maintenance and Operation of Ledgers) of the Cash Management Agreement which records the receipt and distribution of Interest Income;

Interest Payment Date” means 22 February, 22 May, 22 August and 22 November in each year commencing on the First Interest Payment Date, provided that if any such day is not a Business Day, the Interest Payment Date will instead be the next Business Day in that calendar month (if there is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is not);

Interest Period” means each period from (and including) an Interest Payment Date (except in the case of the first Interest Period, which shall commence on (and include) the Closing Date) to (but excluding) the next following Interest Payment Date;

Interest Receipts Ledger” means the ledger so named opened in the books of the Issuer by the Cash Manager in accordance with part 2 (Operation of Ledgers) schedule 1 (Maintenance and Operation of Ledgers) of the Cash Management Agreement which records the receipt and distribution of Available Interest Amounts;

Interim Investor Report” means the report in respect of the Issuer in the form agreed between the Servicer (acting on the instructions of all the Noteholders) and the Cash Manager to be provided by the Cash Manager to the Servicer, the Seller, the Issuer and the Trustee following each Alternate Payment Date pursuant to the Cash Management Agreement;

Investor Report” means the investor report prepared by the Cash Manager setting out information in accordance with paragraph 3.4 of part 4 of schedule 1 of the Cash Management Agreement;

Issuer” means ACRE Debt 2 PLC, a public limited company incorporated in England and Wales with registered number 12635042 as issuer of the Notes;

 

- 27 -


Issuer Account Mandates” means each of the EUR Transaction Account Mandate, the USD Transaction Account Mandate, the Income Account Mandate, the Cash Margin Account Mandate and the GBP Transaction Account Mandate;

Issuer Accounts” means the EUR Transaction Account, the GBP Transaction Account, the USD Transaction Account, the Income Account, the Cash Margin Account and any Additional Account;

Issuer Covenants” means the covenants of the Issuer set out in Schedule 6 (Issuer Covenants) of this Incorporated Terms Memorandum;

Issuer Incumbency Certificate” means the issuer incumbency certificate dated the Closing Date;

Issuer Jurisdiction” means England and Wales or such other jurisdiction in which the Issuer or any Issuer substitute (as contemplated by Condition 20 (Substitution of the Issuer) and Residual Certificates Condition 18 (Substitution of the Issuer)) is incorporated and/or subject to taxation;

Issuer Profit Amount” means £2,932 payable on the First Interest Payment Date and £250 on each Interest Payment Date thereafter, in each case to be credited to the GBP Transaction Account and to be retained by the Issuer as profit in respect of the business of the Issuer and recorded in the Issuer Profit Ledger;

Issuer Profit Ledger” means the ledger so named opened in the books of the Issuer by the Cash Manager in accordance with part 2 (Operation of Ledgers) schedule 1 (Maintenance and Operation of Ledgers) of the Cash Management Agreement which records the receipt and distribution of the Issuer Profit Amount;

Issuer Security Power of Attorney” means the power of attorney contained in clause 25 (Power of Attorney) of the Deed of Charge;

Issuer Warranties” means the representations and warranties given by the Issuer and set out in Schedule 5 (Issuer’s Representations and Warranties) of the Incorporated Terms Memorandum and “Issuer Warranty” means any of them;

Ledgers” means the Issuer Profit Ledger, Interest Receipts Ledger, Principal Receipts Ledger, the Senior Exposure Ledger, the Interest Income Ledger, the Principal Income Ledger, the Cash Margin Ledger and any Additional Ledger and “Ledger” means any one of them;

Liabilities” means, in respect of any person, any losses, damages, costs, charges, awards, claims, demands, expenses, judgments, actions, proceedings (or threats of any actions or proceedings) or other liabilities whatsoever including properly incurred legal fees and any Taxes (including, without limitation VAT) and penalties incurred by that person;

Listing Document” means the listing document dated on or about the Closing Date prepared in connection with the issue by the Issuer of the Initial Notes or, as the case may require, the listing document dated on or about a Further Signing Date prepared in connection with the issue by the Issuer of Further Notes;

 

- 28 -


LPA” means the Law of Property Act 1925;

Margin Securities” means the:

 

  (a)

Project [***] Securities;

 

  (b)

Project [***] Securities; and

 

  (c)

Further Initial Margin Securities;

Margin Threshold Rectification Amount” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Repurchase Agreement;

Master Definitions Schedule” means Schedule 1 of the Incorporated Terms Memorandum;

Material Adverse Effect” means, as the context specifies:

 

  (a)

a material adverse effect on the validity or enforceability of any of the Transaction Documents; or

 

  (b)

in respect of a Transaction Party, a material adverse effect on:

 

  (i)

the business, operations, assets, property, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of such Transaction Party; or

 

  (ii)

the ability of such Transaction Party to perform its obligations under any of the Transaction Documents; or

 

  (iii)

the rights or remedies of such Transaction Party under any of the Transaction Documents; or

 

  (c)

in the context of the Assigned Rights, a material adverse effect on the interests of the Issuer or the Trustee in the Assigned Rights, or on the ability of the Issuer (or the Servicer on the Issuer’s behalf) to collect amounts due under the Financial Assets or on the ability of the Trustee to enforce its Security; or

 

  (d)

a material adverse effect on the validity or enforceability of any of the Notes or the Residual Certificates;

Meeting” means a meeting of Noteholders of any class or classes of Notes or a meeting of Certificateholders (as applicable) (whether originally convened or resumed following an adjournment);

Minimum Amount” means £0.01, €0.01 or $0.01, as applicable;

Minimum Denomination” means £100,000 in respect of the Class A GBP Notes and the Class B GBP Notes, €100,000 in respect of the Class A EUR Notes and the Class B EUR Notes and $100,000 in respect of the Class A USD Notes and the Class B USD Notes;

 

- 29 -


Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service Limited or any successor to its credit rating business;

Most Senior Class of Notes” means, the Class A Notes whilst they remain outstanding and thereafter the Class B Notes whilst they remain outstanding;

MTRA Return Amount” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Repurchase Agreement;

Note Calculation Agent” means Elavon Financial Services D.A.C., UK Branch, in its capacity as note calculation agent in accordance with the terms of the Agency Agreement;

Note Certificate” means a note certificate substantially in the form set out in schedule 1 (Form of Note Certificate) of the Trust Deed;

Note Event of Default” means

 

  (a)

in relation to the Notes, any one of the events specified in Condition 12 (Events of Default);

 

  (b)

in relation to the Residual Certificates, any of the events specified in the Residual Certificate Condition 10 (Events of Default);

Note Event of Default Notice” means a notice delivered by the Issuer or any holder of the Most Senior Class of Notes to the Trustee, the Cash Manager, the Note Calculation Agent, the Servicer, the Noteholders, the Paying Agent, the Account Bank and the Realisation Agent specifying that a Note Event of Default has occurred;

Note Principal Payment” means in respect of any Note on any Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, the principal amount redeemable in respect of such a Note, which shall be a proportion of the amount of Available Principal Receipts required as at that Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date pursuant to the Pre-Default Principal Priority of Payments or Condition 8.2 (Mandatory redemption) to be applied in redemption of the relevant class of Notes on such date equal to the proportion that the Principal Amount Outstanding of the relevant Note bears to the aggregate Principal Amount Outstanding of such class of Notes rounded down to the nearest Minimum Amount provided always that no such Note Principal Payment may exceed the Principal Amount Outstanding of the relevant Note;

Note Purchase Agreements” means the Initial Note Purchase Agreement and each Further Note Purchase Agreement;

Noteholders” means the Class A Noteholders and the Class B Noteholders or, where the context otherwise requires, the holders of Notes of a particular class or classes;

Notes” means the Class A Notes and the Class B Notes;

Notice” means any notice delivered under or in connection with any Transaction Document;

 

- 30 -


Notice of Assignment to Account Bank” means a notice in, or substantially in, the form set out at schedule 1 (Form of Notice of Charge and Assignment to Account Bank) to the Deed of Charge;

Notice of Assignment to Transaction Parties” means a notice in, or substantially in, the form set out at schedule 2 (Form of Notice of Assignment to Transaction Parties) to the Deed of Charge;

Notices Condition” means:

 

  (a)

in relation to the Notes, Condition 22 (Notices); and

 

  (b)

in relation to the Residual Certificates, Residual Certificate Condition 19 (Notices);

Notices Details” means the provisions set out in Schedule 8 (Notices Details) of this Incorporated Terms Memorandum;

NPE Trigger” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Repurchase Agreement;

Obligations” means all of the obligations of the Issuer created by or arising under the Notes and the Transaction Documents;

outstanding” means, in relation to the Instruments, all the Instruments other than:

 

  (a)

those which have been redeemed in full and cancelled in accordance with the Conditions and the Residual Certificate Conditions, as applicable;

 

  (b)

those in respect of which the date for redemption, in accordance with the provisions of the Conditions and the Residual Certificate Conditions, as applicable, has occurred and for which the redemption monies (including all interest accrued thereon to such date for redemption) have been duly paid to the Paying Agent in the manner provided for in the Agency Agreement (and, where appropriate, notice to that effect has been given to the Noteholders in accordance with the Notices Condition) and remain available for payment in accordance with the Conditions;

 

  (c)

those which have been purchased and surrendered for cancellation as provided in Condition 8 (Final Redemption, Mandatory Redemption and Cancellation) and clause 11.3 (Cancellation at the request of the Issuer) of the Agency Agreement and notice of the cancellation of which has been given to the Trustee;

 

  (d)

those which have become void under the Conditions or the Residual Certificate Conditions; and

 

  (e)

those mutilated or defaced Instruments which have been surrendered or cancelled and those Instruments which are alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed and in all cases in respect of which Replacement Instruments have been issued pursuant to the Conditions and the Residual Certificate Conditions, as applicable;

 

- 31 -


provided that for each of the following purposes, namely:

 

  (i)

the right to attend and vote at any meeting of Noteholders or the Certificateholders, as applicable;

 

  (ii)

the determination of how many and which Notes are for the time being outstanding for the purposes of clause 15 (Waiver), clause 16 (Modifications), clause 20 (Proceedings and Actions), clause 30 (Appointment of Trustees) and clause 31 (Notice of a New Trustee) of the Trust Deed, Condition 13 (Events of Default), Condition 14 (Enforcement) and Condition 16 (Meetings of Noteholders) and the Provisions for Meetings of Noteholders, Condition 12 (Events of Default), Condition 13 (Enforcement) and Condition 10 (Meetings of Noteholders) and the Provisions for Meetings of Certificateholders; and

 

  (iii)

any discretion, power or authority, whether contained in the Trust Deed or provided by law, which the Trustee is required to exercise in or by reference to the interests of the Noteholders, the Certificateholders or any of them,

those Instruments (if any) which are for the time being held by any person (including the Issuer,) for the benefit of the Issuer, the Seller, any holding company of the Seller or any other subsidiary of such holding company (each a “Relevant Persons”) shall (unless and until ceasing to be so held) be deemed not to remain outstanding except in the case where all of the Instruments of any class are held by or on behalf of or for the benefit of one or more Relevant Persons in which case such class of Notes or Residual Certificate (the “Relevant Class”) shall be deemed to remain outstanding unless there is another class of Notes or Residual Certificate ranking pari passu with or junior to the Relevant Class and one or more Relevant Persons are not the beneficial owners of all the Notes of such class or such Residual Certificate, when the Relevant Class shall be deemed not to be outstanding;

Paying Agent” means Elavon Financial Services DAC, UK Branch in its capacity as paying agent in accordance with the terms of the Agency Agreement;

Paying Transaction Party” means where any Transaction Party is under an obligation created by a Transaction Document to make a payment to a Receiving Transaction Party the Transaction Party who is to make such payment;

Payment Instruction” means a payment instruction, substantially in the form set out at schedule 11 (Form of Payment Instruction) to the Account Bank Agreement signed by an Authorised Representative and given in accordance with the terms of the Issuer Account Mandates;

Permitted Encumbrance” means any Encumbrance permitted to be created in accordance with a Transaction Document;

Post-Default Priority of Payments” means the provisions relating to the order of priority of payments from the relevant Issuer Accounts set out in clause 15 (Post-Default Priority of Payments) of the Deed of Charge;

 

- 32 -


Potential Note Event of Default” means any event which may become (with the passage of time, the giving of notice, the making of any determination or any combination thereof) a Note Event of Default;

Pre-Default Interest Priority of Payments” means the priority of payments set out in part A (Pre-Default Interest Priority of Payments) of schedule 3 (Priorities of Payments) of the Cash Management Agreement;

Pre-Default Principal Allocation Rules” means the EUR Pre-Default Principal Allocation Rules, the GBP Pre-Default Principal Allocation Rules and the USD Pre-Default Principal Allocation Rules;

Pre-Default Principal Priority of Payments” means the priority of payments set out in part B (Pre-Default Principal Priority of Payments) of schedule 3 (Priorities of Payment) of the Cash Management Agreement;

Pre-Default Priorities of Payment” means the Pre-Default Principal Priority of Payments and the Pre-Default Interest Priority of Payments;

Price Differential” has the meaning given to such term in the Repurchase Agreement;

Principal Amount Outstanding” means, on any day:

 

  (a)

in relation to a Note, the principal amount of that Note upon issue minus the aggregate amount of any principal payments in respect of that Note that have been paid to the Noteholders on or prior to that day;

 

  (b)

in relation to a class, the aggregate of the amount in (a) in respect of all Notes outstanding in such class; and

 

  (c)

in relation to the Notes outstanding at any time, the aggregate of the amount in (a) in respect of all Notes outstanding, regardless of class;

Principal Income Ledger” means the ledger so named opened in the books of the Issuer by the Cash Manager in accordance with part 2 (Operation of Ledgers) schedule 1 (Cash Manager Services) of the Cash Management Agreement which records the receipt and distribution of any Income received in the Income Account which constitutes Principal Receipts or other payments, to the extent not already accounted for;

Principal Payment Amount” means, in respect of any Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, the Class A Principal Payment Amount and the Class B Principal Payment Amount (as applicable) for that Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date;

Pricing Rate Determination Date” has the meaning given to such term in the Repurchase Agreement;

Principal Receipts” has the meaning given to such term in the Repurchase Agreement;

Principal Receipts Ledger” means the ledger so named opened in the books of the Issuer by the Cash Manager in accordance with part 2 (Operation of Ledgers) schedule 1 (Cash Manager Services) of the Cash Management Agreement which records the receipt and distribution of Available Principal Receipts;

 

- 33 -


Priorities of Payment” means the Pre-Default Interest Priority of Payments, the Pre-Default Principal Priority of Payments or the Post-Default Priority of Payments, as the context requires;

Pro Rata Principal Receipts” means the EUR Pro Rata Principal Receipts, the GBP Pro Rata Principal Receipts and the USD Pro Rata Principal Receipts appearing in the record of the Pro Rata Principal Receipts attributable to a Purchased Security as maintained by the Cash Manager in accordance with the Cash Management Agreement;

Properties” means the properties mortgaged in favour of the relevant security agent pursuant to the Underlying Finance Documents;

Proceedings” means any legal proceedings relating to a Dispute;

Process Service Agent” means Apollo Global Management LLP or any replacement process agent appointed by any Foreign Transaction Party in relation to the Transaction Documents;

Process Service Agent Address” means, in relation to each Foreign Transaction Party, the address of the Process Service Agent set opposite the name of each such Foreign Transaction Party in the Process Service Agent details set out in Schedule 8 (Notices Details) of the Incorporated Terms Memorandum;

Project [***] Securities” has the meaning given to “[***] Securities” in the Repurchase Agreement;

Project [***] Securities” has the meaning given to “[***] Securities” in the Repurchase Agreement;

Project [***] Securities” has the meaning given to “Initial Margin [***] Securities” in the Repurchase Agreement;

Project [***] Securities” has the meaning given to “[***] Securities” in the Repurchase Agreement;

Project [***] Securities” “has the meaning given to “[***] Securities” in the Repurchase Agreement;

Project [***] Securities” has the meaning given to “[***] Securities” in the Repurchase Agreement;

Project [***] Securities” has the meaning given to “[***] Securities” in the Repurchase Agreement;

Provisions for Meetings of Certificateholders” means the provisions contained in schedule 6 of the Trust Deed;

Provisions for Meetings of Noteholders” means the provisions contained in schedule 4 of the Trust Deed;

 

- 34 -


Proxy” means, in relation to any Meeting, a person appointed to vote under a Block Voting Instruction other than:

 

  (a)

any person whose appointment has been revoked and in relation to whom the Issuer, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Chairman has been notified in writing of such revocation by the time which is 24 hours before the time fixed for such Meeting; and

 

  (b)

any person appointed to vote at a Meeting which has been adjourned for want of a quorum and who has not been re-appointed to vote at the Meeting when it is resumed;

Purchased Securities” means:

 

  (a)

the Project [***] Securities;

 

  (b)

the Project [***] Securities;

 

  (c)

the Project [***] Securities;

 

  (d)

the Project [***] Securities;

 

  (e)

the Project [***] Securities; and

 

  (f)

any further securities acquired by the Issuer under the Repurchase Agreement,

and each a “Purchased Security”;

Quarterly Reporting Date” means the date falling 5 Business Days prior to the immediately succeeding Calculation Date;

Realisation” has the meaning given to it in Condition 9 (Limited Recourse);

Realisation Agent” means Barclays Bank PLC in its capacity as Realisation Agent under the Servicing and Realisation Agreement;

Recalculated Margin Threshold Rectification Amount” has the meaning given to such term in the Repurchase Agreement;

Recast EU Insolvency Regulation” means Regulation (EC) 2015/848 of 20 May 2015 on insolvency proceedings;

Receiver” means any receiver, manager, receiver or manager, administrator or administrative receiver appointed in respect of the Issuer by the Trustee in accordance with clause 17 (Appointment and Removal of Administrators and Receiver) of the Deed of Charge;

Receiving Transaction Party” means, where any Transaction Party is under an obligation created by a Transaction Document to make payment to another Transaction Party, the Transaction Party which is to receive such payment;

 

- 35 -


Register” means, as applicable:

 

  (a)

the register on which the names and addresses of the holders of the Notes and the Residual Certificates and the particulars of the Notes and the Residual Certificates shall be entered; or

 

  (b)

the register on which the names and addresses of the holders of the Certificates and the particulars of the Certificates shall be entered,

 

   

in each case, kept at the Specified Office of the Registrar;

Registrar” means Elavon Financial Services DAC, UK Branch acting in such capacity pursuant to the Agency Agreement (or any successor duly appointed);

Regulatory Direction” means, in relation to any person, a direction or requirement of any Governmental Authority with whose directions or requirements such person is accustomed to comply;

Release Price Excess” has the meaning given to such term in the Repurchase Agreement;

Related Entity” means:

 

  (a)

in relation to a fund (the “first fund”), means a fund which is managed or advised by the same investment manager or investment adviser as the first fund or, if it is managed by a different investment manager or investment adviser, a fund whose investment manager or investment adviser is an Affiliate of the investment manager or investment adviser of the first fund; and

 

  (b)

in relation to any other person (the “first person”), each fund which is managed or advised by an investment manager or investment adviser which is the first person or an Affiliate of the first person.

Relevant” means:

 

  (a)

when used in relation to the execution of or the entering into of a Transaction Document and in conjunction with a reference to any Transaction Party, a Transaction Document which such Transaction Party is required to execute or enter into or has executed or entered into;

 

  (b)

when used in respect of the Transaction Documents generally and in conjunction with a reference to any particular Transaction Party, the Transaction Documents to which such Transaction Party is a party;

and references to “Relevant Transaction Documents”, “Relevant Initial Transaction Documents” and “Relevant Further Transaction Documents” and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;

Relevant Facility Agent” has the meaning ascribed to the term “Facility Agent” or “Trustee” (or equivalent thereof) in the loan or credit agreement, or the note purchase agreement, relating to an Underlying Asset;

Relevant Information” means any written information provided by the Issuer or the Seller in connection with the preparation of the Listing Document;

 

- 36 -


Relevant Margin” means:

 

  (a)

in respect of the Class A Notes:

 

  (i)

in respect of the Project [***] Securities, [***] per cent.;

 

  (ii)

in respect of the Project [***] Securities, [***] per cent.;

 

  (iii)

in respect of the Project [***] Securities, [***] per cent.;

 

  (iv)

in respect of the Project [***] Securities, [***] per cent.; and

 

  (v)

in respect of the Project [***] Securities, [***] per cent.; and

 

  (b)

in respect of the Class B Notes, 1.70 per cent;

Relevant Period” means, in relation to an Interest Determination Date, the length in months of the related Interest Period;

Relevant Security Agent” has the meaning ascribed to the term “Security Agent” or “Security Trustee” (or equivalent thereof) in the loan or credit agreement, or the note purchase agreement, relating to an Underlying Asset;

Relevant Transaction Documents” means, with reference to any particular Transaction Party, the Transaction Documents to which such Transaction Party is a party together with the Transaction Documents that contain provisions that otherwise bind or confer rights upon such Transaction Party;

Relevant Transaction Party” means, in respect of any representation, warranty, covenant or undertaking, the Transaction Party to whom such representation, warranty, covenant or undertaking is given;

Replacement Cash Manager” means an entity identified and appointed in accordance with clause 23 (Appointment of Replacement Cash Manager) of the Cash Management Agreement to perform the Cash Manager Services;

Replacement Instruments” means any Instruments which have been authenticated and delivered by the Registrar under the terms of the Agency Agreement, as a replacement for any which have been mutilated or defaced or which are alleged to have been destroyed and “Replacement Instrument” means any one of them;

Repo Benchmark Rate” has the meaning ascribed to the term “Benchmark Rate” in the Repurchase Agreement;

Repo Calculation Agent” means ACREFI BN, LLC in its capacity as repo calculation agent in accordance with the terms of the Repurchase Agreement;

Repo Event of Default” has the meaning ascribed to the term “Event of Default” in the Repurchase Agreement;

Representative Amount” means an amount that is representative for a single transaction in the relevant market at the relevant time;

 

- 37 -


Repurchase Agreement” means the Initial Repurchase Agreement and any US Repurchase Agreement pursuant to which the Issuer will acquire the Purchased Securities and the Margin Securities;

US Repurchase Agreement” means the Master Repurchase Agreement (September 1996 Version) as published by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association as may be entered into by inter alios, the Issuer and the Seller from time to time.

Required Consents” means the registration of correctly completed Form MR01 and original executed copies of the Deed of Charge with the Registrar of Companies, in accordance with any relevant Requirements of Law or any Regulatory Direction;

Requirement of Law” in respect of any person shall mean:

 

  (a)

any law, treaty, rule, requirement or regulation;

 

  (b)

a notice by or an order of any court having jurisdiction;

 

  (c)

a mandatory requirement of any regulatory authority having jurisdiction; or

 

  (d)

a determination of an arbitrator or Governmental Authority,

in each case applicable to or binding upon that person or to which that person is subject or with which it is customary for it to comply;

Residual Certificate Conditions” means the terms and conditions to be endorsed on the Residual Certificates in, or substantially in, the form set out in Schedule 5 (Terms and Conditions of the Residual Certificates) of the Trust Deed as any of the same may from time to time be modified in accordance with the Trust Deed and any reference to a particular numbered Residual Certificate Condition shall be construed accordingly;

Residual Certificates” means the 100 residual certificates issued or due to be issued by the Issuer on the Closing Date or, as the case may be, a specific number thereof;

Residual Payment” means

 

  (a)

prior to a Note Event of Default, in respect of each Interest Payment Date, the amount (if any) by which Available Interest Amounts exceeds the amounts required to satisfy items (a) to (e) of the Pre-Default Interest Priority of Payments on that Interest Payment Date; and

 

  (b)

following a Note Event of Default, in respect of each date on which amounts are to be applied in accordance with the Post-Default Priority of Payments, the amount by which amounts available for payment in accordance with the Post- Default Priorities of Payment exceeds the amounts required to satisfy items 15.1.1 to 15.1.8 of the Post-Default Priority of Payments on that date;

Restricted Transferee List” means the list of Restricted Transferees as may be amended from time to time;

 

- 38 -


Restricted Transferees” means, as at the Closing Date, each of the following entities (by trade name or otherwise) and any of their respective Affiliates from time to time:

 

  (a)

[***]

 

  (b)

[***]

 

  (c)

[***]

 

  (d)

[***]

 

  (e)

[***]

 

  (f)

[***]

 

  (g)

[***]

 

  (h)

[***]

 

  (i)

[***]

 

  (j)

[***]

 

  (k)

[***]

 

  (l)

[***]

 

  (m)

[***]

 

  (n)

[***]

 

  (o)

[***]

 

  (p)

[***]

 

  (q)

[***]

 

  (r)

[***]

 

  (s)

[***]

 

  (t)

[***]

 

  (u)

[***]

 

  (v)

[***]

 

  (w)

[***]

 

  (x)

[***]

 

  (y)

[***]

 

- 39 -


  (z)

[***]

 

  (aa)

[***]

 

  (bb)

[***]

 

  (cc)

[***]

 

  (dd)

[***]

 

  (ee)

[***]

 

  (ff)

[***]

 

  (gg)

[***]

 

  (hh)

[***]

 

  (ii)

[***]

 

  (jj)

[***]

 

  (kk)

[***]

Retention Holder” means ACREFI Operating LLC;

Retiring Cash Manager” means the Cash Manager or any successor whose appointment is terminated pursuant to the Cash Management Agreement other than by termination at the Final Discharge Date;

Reverse Charge” means the charge arising as a result of section 8(1) of VATA;

Risk Retention Letter” means the risk retention letter from the Seller and the Retention Holder to the Issuer and the Trustee dated on or about the Closing Date;

Risk Retention Undertaking” means the undertaking and obligations by the Retention Holder contained in the Risk Retention Letter, dated on or about the date hereof;

Rounded Arithmetic Mean” means the arithmetic mean (rounded, if necessary, to the nearest 0.0001 per cent., 0.00005 per cent. being rounded upwards);

Sanctions” means economic, financial or trade sanctions or restrictive measures enacted, imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by (i) the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the U.S. Department of State, or (ii) HM Treasury (or any other person which takes over the administration of this list) under the Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets in the UK displayed on https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/financial-sanctions-consolidated-list-oftargets (or any replacement webpage which displays that list), or (iii) the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, or other relevant sanctions authority, or (iv) French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the French Ministry of the Economy, or other relevant sanctions authority in France;

 

- 40 -


Secured Amounts” means the aggregate of all moneys and Liabilities which from time to time are or may become due, owing or payable by the Issuer to each, some or any of the Secured Creditors under the Notes or the Transaction Documents;

Secured Creditors” means those persons listed as entitled to payment in clause 15 (Post-Default Priority of Payments) of the Deed of Charge;

Securities Act” means the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended;

Securities Portfolio” means the portfolio comprising of the Purchased Securities and the Margin Securities;

Securitisation Regulation” means Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 together with any implementing regulation, technical standards and official guidance thereto, in each case as amended, varied or substituted from time to time;

Security” means security created by the Issuer in favour of the Trustee pursuant to the Deed of Charge;

Security Protection Notice” means a notice in, or substantially in, the form set out in schedule 2 (Form of Security Protection Notice) of the Deed of Charge;

Seller” means ACREFI B, LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Delaware as seller of the Financial Assets;

Seller Account” means the Seller’s account so named specified in the Account Details or such other account or accounts as the Seller may have designated as the Seller Account;

Seller Asset Warranties” means the representations and warranties contained in Part 3 of Schedule 3 (Seller’s Representations and Warranties) of the Incorporated Terms Memorandum and given by the Seller and “Seller Asset Warranty” means any of them;

Seller Covenants” means the covenants set out in Schedule 4 (Seller Covenants) of this Incorporated Terms Memorandum and given by the Seller;

Seller Warranties” means the representations and warranties given by the Seller set out in Schedule 3 (Seller’s Representations and Warranties) of this Incorporated Terms Memorandum and “Seller Warranty” means any of them;

Senior Exposure” means, on the Closing Date:

 

  (a)

in respect of the Project [***] Securities, EUR [***];

 

  (b)

in respect of the Project [***] Securities, £[***];

 

  (c)

in respect of the Project [***] Securities, £[***];

 

  (d)

in respect of the Project [***] Securities, £[***]; and

 

  (e)

in respect of the Project [***] Securities, £[***];

 

- 41 -


  (f)

in respect of any additional Purchased Security, the exposure agreed between the Issuer and the Seller in accordance with the terms of the Repurchase Agreement,

and thereafter such amount as reduced by reference to amortisation of the Notes and recorded in the Senior Exposure Ledger;

Senior Exposure Ledger” means the ledger maintained by the Cash Manager to record the Senior Exposure of each Equivalent Security;

Senior Exposure Reduction Rules” has the meaning given to that term in Condition 8.3 (Senior Exposure Reduction Rules);

Sequential All Exposure Principal Receipts” means the EUR Sequential All Exposure Principal Receipts, the GBP Sequential All Exposure Principal Receipts and the USD Sequential All Exposure Principal Receipts;

Sequential Sole Exposure Principal Receipts” means the EUR Sequential Sole Exposure Principal Receipts, the GBP Sequential Sole Exposure Principal Receipts and the USD Sequential Sole Exposure Principal Receipts;

Sequential Principal Receipts” means the EUR Sequential Principal Receipts, the GBP Sequential Principal Receipts and the USD Sequential Principal Receipts appearing in the record of the Sequential Principal Receipts attributable to a Purchased Security;

Servicer” means ACREFI BN, LLC in its capacity as servicer in accordance with the terms of the Servicing and Realisation Agreement;

Servicer Quarterly Report” means the report to be delivered by the Servicer in accordance with clause 12.1 of the Servicing and Realisation Agreement;

Servicer Reporting Period” means the period from and excluding a Quarterly Reporting Date (except for the first Servicer Reporting Period which shall commence on the Closing Date) to and including the immediately succeeding Quarterly Reporting Date, provided that if any such day is not a Business Day, the Quarterly Reporting Date shall be the immediately preceding Business Day;

Servicing and Realisation Agreement” means the agreement so named dated on or about the Closing Date between the Issuer, the Servicer, the Seller and the Trustee;

Share Trust Deed” means declaration of trust dated 11 June 2020 pursuant to which the Share Trustee holds the beneficial interest in the shares of Holdings on trust for charitable purposes;

Share Trustee” means ACRE Debt Holdings Limited as share trustee of the Issuer or the trustee or trustees for the time being of the Share Trust Deed;

Specified Currency” means:

 

  (a)

in respect of the GBP Notes, Sterling;

 

- 42 -


  (b)

in respect of the EUR Notes, EUR; and

 

  (c)

in respect of the USD Notes, U.S. dollars;

Specified Office” means, in relation to any Agent:

 

  (a)

the office specified against its name in the Notices Details; or

 

  (b)

such other office as such Agent may specify in accordance with clause 14.7 (Changes in Specified Offices) of the Agency Agreement;

SPV Criteria” means the criteria established from time to time by the Rating Agencies for a single purpose company in the Issuer Jurisdiction;

SR Investor Report” means the investor report prepared by the Cash Manager setting out information required under Article 7(1)(e) of the Securitisation Regulation in accordance with paragraph 3.3.2 of part 4 of schedule 1 of the Cash Management Agreement;

SR Loan Level Report” means the report prepared by the Servicer setting out loan level information required under Article 7(1)(a) of the Securitisation Regulation in accordance with the terms of clause 12.2.2 of the Servicing and Realisation Agreement;

Subsidiary” means a subsidiary within the meaning of Section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006;

Substituted Obligor” means a single purpose company incorporated in any jurisdiction that meets the SPV Criteria;

Successor Trustee” means an entity appointed in accordance with clause 30 (Appointment of Trustees) of the Trust Deed to act as successor trustee;

Supplemental Trust Deed” means a deed supplemental to the Trust Deed executed by the Issuer in accordance with clause 5.4 (Supplemental Trust Deed) of the Trust Deed;

TARGET2 system” means the Trans European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer payment system which utilises a single platform and which was launched on 19 November 2007;

Tax” shall be construed so as to include any present or future tax, levy, impost, duty, charge, fee, deduction or withholding of any nature whatsoever (including any penalty or interest payable in connection with any failure to pay or any delay in paying any of the same) and “Taxes”, “taxation”, “taxable” and comparable expressions shall be construed accordingly;

Tax Authority” means any government, state or municipality or any local, state, federal or other authority, body or official anywhere in the world including, without limitation, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs;

Tax Credit” means any credit received by a Transaction Party from a Tax Authority in respect of any Tax paid by such Transaction Party;

 

- 43 -


Tax Deduction” means any deduction or withholding on account of Tax;

Tax Payment” means any payment for or on account of Tax;

TISE” means The International Stock Exchange;

Transaction” means each of the transactions in the series of transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and “Transactions” means the total of each Transaction;

Transaction Accounts” means the EUR Transaction Account, the GBP Transaction Account and the USD Transaction Account;

Transaction Account Payment Amount” means the EUR Transaction Account Payment Amount, the GBP Transaction Account Payment Amount and the USD Transaction Account Payment Amount;

Transaction Account Mandates” means the EUR Transaction Account Mandate, the GBP Transaction Account Mandate and the USD Transaction Account Mandate;

Transaction Documents” means the Initial Transaction Documents and the Further Transaction Documents;

Transaction Party” means any person who is a party to a Transaction Document and “Transaction Parties” means some or all of them;

Trust Corporation” means a corporation entitled by the rules made under the Public Trustee Act 1906 to act as a custodian trustee or entitled pursuant to any other legislation applicable to a trustee in any jurisdiction other than England and Wales to act as trustee and carry on trust business under the laws of the country of its incorporation;

Trust Deed” means the deed so named dated on or about the Closing Date between the Issuer and the Trustee and any document expressed to be supplemented to the Trust Deed;

Trust Documents” means the Trust Deed and the Deed of Charge and (unless the context requires otherwise) includes any deed or other document executed in accordance with the provisions of the Trust Deed or (as applicable) the Deed of Charge and expressed to be supplemental to the Trust Deed or the Deed of Charge (as applicable);

Trust Proceeds” means all recoveries, receipts and benefits received by the Trustee by virtue of the Trust Property save for monies or other assets which it is entitled to retain for its own account or which are earmarked for receipt by a third party other than as part of the Trust Property;

Trust Property” means the Covenant to Pay, the Issuer Covenants, the Seller Covenants, the Issuer Warranties, the Seller Warranties, the Security and all proceeds of the Security;

 

- 44 -


Trustee” means U.S. Bank Trustees Limited in its capacity as trustee under the Trust Documents and such company and all other persons or companies for the time being acting as Trustee pursuant to the terms of the Trust Documents;

Trustee Acts” means both the Trustee Act 1925 and the Trustee Act 2000 of England and Wales;

Underlying Asset” means, with respect to a Purchased Security or Margin Security, a commercial mortgage loan or repacked note in relation to such Purchased Security or Margin Security, as applicable;

Underlying Finance Document” means with respect to each Purchased Security or Margin Security:

 

  (a)

the related loan or credit agreement, or note purchase agreement;

 

  (b)

the related mortgage and all other related security documents;

 

  (c)

any intercreditor arrangements;

 

  (d)

all other documents designated as finance documents pursuant to the related Purchased Security and Margin Security; and

 

  (e)

all other documents evidencing the Issuer’s interest or title in such Purchased Security and Margin Security,

and in each case all documents amending, modifying or supplementing the same;

Underlying Loan” means a loan granted under an Underlying Finance Document;

Underlying Obligor” means an obligor under an Underlying Finance Document;

Underlying Security” means any transaction security created by an Underlying Obligor in favour of the Relevant Security Agent pursuant to the relevant Underlying Finance Documents

Upsize Request” means the Seller’s request to sell to the Issuer additional Financial Assets pursuant to the terms of the Repurchase Agreement;

U.S. Bank Fee Letter” means the fee letter entered into between the Issuer and U.S. Bank on or around the Closing Date in respect of the fees for the services to be provided by U.S. Bank pursuant to the Transaction Documents, including, without limitation, the Cash Manager Services;

USD Available Principal Receipts” means, for each Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, an amount equal to the aggregate of:

 

  (c)

payments received by the Issuer representing USD Sequential Principal Receipts; and

 

  (d)

payments received by the Issuer representing or USD Pro Rata Principal Receipts;

 

- 45 -


USD Cash Margin Account” means the account so named specified in the Account Details or such other account or accounts as may, with the prior written consent of the Trustee, be designated by the Issuer as such account;

USD Cash Margin Account Mandate” means the resolutions, instructions and signature authorities relating to the USD Cash Margin Account in the form of the document set out in schedule 6 (USD Cash Margin Account Mandate) of the Account Bank Agreement;

USD Cash Margin Account Payment Amount” means all amounts for the time being deposited and held in the USD Cash Margin Account, including all interest accrued thereon and credited to the USD Cash Margin Account from time to time;

USD Income Account” means the account so named specified in the Account Details or such other account or accounts as may, with the prior written consent of the Trustee, be designated by the Issuer as such account;

USD Income Account Mandate” means the resolutions, instructions and signature authorities relating to the USD Income Account in the form of the document set out in schedule 9 (USD Income Account Mandate) of the Account Bank Agreement;

USD Income Account Payment Amount” means all amounts for the time being deposited and held in the USD Income Account, including all interest accrued thereon and credited to the USD Income Account from time to time;

USD Notes” means the Class A USD Notes and the Class B USD Notes;

USD Pre-Default Principal Allocation Rules” has the meaning given to it in Condition 8.2.3;

USD Pro Rata Principal Receipts” means, for each Interest Payment Date or Alternate Payment Date, an amount equal to the aggregate of the following amounts received by the Issuer under the US Repurchase Agreement to be applied in accordance with the USD Pre-Default Principal Allocation Rules:

 

  (a)

(i) prior to the occurrence of an NPE Trigger, Note Event of Default, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or Default Exposure Threshold Event (in each case, which is continuing) in respect of the related Purchased Security and (ii) if no Default Exposure Threshold Event is continuing in respect of any Purchased Security, any Amortisation Amount (pursuant to item (a)(i) of the definition thereof in the Repurchase Agreement) received by the Issuer following its receipt of any payment or pre-payment of principal directly from a USD Purchased Security; and

 

  (b)

the full repurchase proceeds in USD of a Purchased Security, other than any Release Price Excess, which shall be the aggregate of:

 

  (i)

prior to the occurrence of an NPE Triger, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or Default Exposure Threshold Event (in each case, which is continuing) in relation to any Purchased Security, any amounts relating to principal received in connection with the repurchase of a USD Purchased Security in full; and

 

- 46 -


  (ii)

following the occurrence of an NPE Trigger, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or Default Exposure Threshold Event (in each case, which is continuing) in relation to any Purchased Security, any amounts relating to principal received in connection with the repurchase in full of a USD Purchased Security that is the subject of an NPE Trigger, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or Default Exposure Threshold Event and provided that (x) the repurchase of such a security will cure the relevant event and (y) as a result of such repurchase, no Default Exposure Threshold Event is continuing in respect of any Purchased Security;

USD Purchased Securities” means any further USD denominated securities acquired by the Issuer under the US Repurchase Agreement;

USD Sequential All Exposure Principal Receipts” means:

 

  (a)

following the occurrence of an NPE Trigger, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or Default Exposure Threshold Event (in each case, which is continuing), any amounts in excess of the Senior Exposure received in connection with the early repurchase in full of a USD Purchased Security that is not subject to an NPE Trigger, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or Default Exposure Threshold Event and where the repurchase of such a security would not cure the relevant event;

 

  (b)

any excess GBP Sequential All Exposure Principal Receipts or EUR Sequential All Exposure Principal Receipts after repayment of the Class A GBP Notes or Class EUR Notes (as applicable) in full as converted into euro at the spot rate by the Cash Manager, pursuant to the Senior Exposure Reduction Rules; and

 

  (c)

any Release Price Excess denominated in USD;

USD Sequential Principal Receipts” means USD Sequential All Exposure Principal Receipts and USD Sequential Sole Exposure Principal Receipts appearing in the record of the USD Sequential Principal Receipts attributable to a Purchased Security, which shall be equal to the USD Sequential Sole Exposure Principal Receipts of such Purchased Security, as maintained by the Cash Manager to update the Senior Exposure of each USD Purchased Security in accordance with the Cash Management Agreement;

USD Sequential Sole Exposure Principal Receipts” means the following amounts received by the Issuer under the US Repurchase Agreement:

 

  (a)

if (i) an NPE Trigger, (ii) an Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or (iii) a Default Exposure Threshold Event has occurred (in each case, which is continuing), any Amortisation Amount received in respect of an USD Purchased Security;

 

  (b)

any Default Exposure Threshold Rectification Amount received in respect of the USD Purchased Security;

 

  (c)

amounts received in connection with a partial early repurchase of a USD Purchased Security;

 

- 47 -


  (d)

following the occurrence of an NPE Trigger, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or Default Exposure Threshold Event (in each case, which is continuing), any amounts equal to the Senior Exposure received in connection with the early repurchase of a USD Purchased Security in full that is not subject to an NPE Trigger, Amortisation Ratio Threshold Event or Default Exposure Threshold Event and repurchase of such a security would not cure the relevant event;

 

  (e)

any Margin Threshold Rectification Amount or Recalculated Margin Threshold Rectification Amount (as applicable) received in respect of the USD Purchased Security;

 

  (f)

any Cure Payments received in respect of a USD Purchased Security;

 

  (g)

any other Income or payment received by the Issuer in respect of a USD Purchased Security where such Income or payment has not been applied as Available Interest Amounts, USD Pro Rata Principal Receipts or USD Sequential All Exposure Principal Receipt; and

 

  (h)

any payment made under the Guarantee in respect of a USD Purchased Security,

where in relation to each of the above, a record of the USD Sequential Sole Exposure Principal Receipts paid to the Class A Noteholders in relation to a Purchased Security will be kept by the Cash Manager so that the Senior Exposure of that Purchased Security can be updated accordingly in the Cash Management Agreement.

USD Transaction Account” means the account so named specified in the Account Details or such other account or accounts as may, with the prior written consent of the Trustee, be designated by the Issuer as such account;

USD Transaction Account Mandate” means the resolutions, instructions and signature authorities relating to the USD Transaction Account in the form of the document set out in schedule 3 (USD Transaction Account Mandate) of the Account Bank Agreement;

USD Transaction Account Payment Amount” means all amounts for the time being deposited and held in the USD Transaction Account, including all interest accrued thereon and credited to the USD Transaction Account from time to time;

VAT” means value added tax imposed by VATA and legislation and regulations supplemental thereto and includes any other tax of a similar fiscal nature whether imposed in the United Kingdom (instead of or in addition to value added tax) or elsewhere from time to time;

VAT Group” means a group for the purposes of the VAT Grouping Legislation;

VAT Grouping Legislation” means:

 

  (a)

sections 43 to 43D (inclusive) of VATA; and

 

  (b)

the Value Added Tax (Groups: eligibility) Order 2004 (SI 2004/1931);

 

- 48 -


VATA” means the Value Added Tax Act 1994;

Voter” means, in relation to any Meeting, the bearer of a Voting Certificate, a Proxy or the bearer of a Note Certificate who produces such Note Certificate or the bearer of a Residual Certificate who produces such Residual Certificate at such Meeting;

Voting Certificate” means, in relation to any Meeting, a certificate in the English language issued by the Paying Agent and dated in which it is stated:

 

  (a)

that on the date thereof the Notes and/or Residual Certificates (not being the Notes and/or Residual Certificates (as applicable) in respect of which a Block Voting Instruction has been issued and is outstanding in respect of the meeting specified in such Voting Certificate) are blocked in an account with a clearing system and that no such Notes and/or Residual Certificates will cease to be so blocked until the first to occur of:

 

  (i)

the conclusion of the meeting specified in such Voting Certificate; and

 

  (ii)

the surrender of the Voting Certificate to the Paying Agent; and

 

  (b)

that the bearer thereof is entitled to attend and vote at such meeting in respect of the Notes and/or Residual Certificates represented by such Voting Certificate;

Written Resolution” means a resolution in writing signed by or on behalf of all holders of Notes of the relevant class or the Certificateholders for the time being outstanding who for the time being are entitled to receive notice of a Meeting in accordance with the provisions for the meetings of Noteholders or Certificateholders contained in the Trust Deed, as applicable, whether contained in one document or several documents in the same form, each signed by or on behalf of one or more such holders of the Notes;

Write-Down Notice” means the write-down notice to be delivered by the Seller and the Class B Noteholder in the form set out in schedule 7 (Form of Class B Noteholder Write Down Notice) of the Trust Deed;

24 hours” means a period of 24 hours including all or part of a day upon which banks are open for business in both the place where any Meeting is to be held and in each of the places where the Paying Agent has its Specified Office (disregarding for this purpose the day upon which such Meeting is to be held); and

48 hours” means 2 consecutive periods of 24 hours.

 

2.

PRINCIPLES OF INTERPRETATION AND CONSTRUCTION

 

2.1

Knowledge

 

2.2

References in any Transaction Document to the expressions “so far as a Party is aware” or “to the best of the knowledge, information and belief of a Party” or any similar expression in respect of any matter shall be deemed to refer to the actual knowledge of senior officers of that Party.

 

- 49 -


2.3

Interpretation

Any reference in the Transaction Documents to:

a document being in an “agreed form” means that the form of the document in question has been agreed between the proposed parties thereto;

continuing”, in respect of a Note Event of Default or a Potential Note Event of Default, shall be construed as a reference to a Note Event of Default or a Potential Note Event of Default, as the case may be, which has not been waived in accordance with the terms of the Conditions or, as the case may be, the relevant Transaction Document and in respect of a Potential Note Event of Default, as the case may be, one which has not been remedied within the relevant grace period or waived in accordance with the terms of the Conditions or, as the case may be, the relevant Transaction Document;

a “class” shall be a reference to a class of the Notes being the Class A EUR Notes, the Class A GBP Notes, the Class A USD Notes, the Class B EUR Notes, the Class B GBP Notes and the Class B USD Notes and “classes” shall be construed accordingly;

holder” means the bearer of a Note and the words “holders” and related expressions shall (where appropriate) be construed accordingly;

including” shall be construed as a reference to “including without limitation”, so that any list of items or matters appearing after the word “including” shall be deemed not to be an exhaustive list, but shall be deemed rather to be a representative list, of those items or matters forming a part of the category described prior to the word “including”;

indebtedness” shall be construed so as to include any obligation (whether incurred as principal or as surety) for the payment or repayment of money, whether present or future, actual or contingent;

a “law” shall be construed as any law (including common or customary law), statute, constitution, decree, judgement, treaty, regulation, directive, bye law, order or any other legislative measure (whether primary or subsidiary made pursuant to primary legislation) of any government, supranational, local government, statutory or regulatory body or court;

a “month” is a reference to a period starting on one day in a calendar month and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the next succeeding calendar month except that:

 

  (a)

if any such numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day, such period shall end on the immediately succeeding Business Day to occur in that next succeeding calendar month or, if none, it shall end on the immediately preceding Business Day; and

 

  (b)

if there is no numerically corresponding day in that next succeeding calendar month, that period shall end on the last Business Day in that next succeeding calendar month,

and references to “months” shall be construed accordingly;

 

- 50 -


a “person” shall be construed as a reference to any person, firm, company, corporation, government, state or agency of a state or any association or partnership (whether or not having separate legal personality) of two or more of the foregoing;

principal” shall, where applicable, include premium;

repay”, “redeem” and “pay” shall each include both of the others and “repaid”, “repayable” and “repayment”, “redeemed”, “redeemable” and “redemption” and “paid”, “payable” and “payment” shall be construed accordingly;

a reference to the “spot rate” of the Cash Manager shall be construed so as to include its own spot rate and the spot rate of any of its affiliates;

a reference to any person defined as a “Transaction Party” in this Incorporated Terms Memorandum or in any Transaction Document or in the Conditions shall be construed so as to include its and any subsequent successors and permitted transferees in accordance with their respective interests;

a “subsidiary” of a company or corporation shall be construed as a reference to any company or corporation:

 

  (a)

which is controlled, directly or indirectly, by the first mentioned company or corporation;

 

  (b)

more than half the issued share capital of which is beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by the first mentioned company or corporation; or

 

  (c)

which is a subsidiary of another subsidiary of the first mentioned company or corporation

and, for these purposes, a company or corporation means any other company or corporation which is a “subsidiary undertaking” of such company or corporation as defined pursuant to Section 1162 of the Companies Act 2006;

a “successor” of any party shall be construed so as to include an assignee or successor in title of such party and any person who under the laws of the jurisdiction of incorporation or domicile of such party has assumed the rights and obligations of such party under any Transaction Document or to which, under such laws, such rights and obligations have been transferred; and

a “wholly owned subsidiary” of a company or corporation shall be construed as a reference to any company or corporation which has no other members except that other company or corporation and that other company’s or corporation’s wholly owned subsidiaries or persons acting on behalf of that other company or corporation or its wholly owned subsidiaries.

 

2.4

Currency symbols

£”, “GBP”, “pounds” and “Sterling” denote the lawful currency for the time being of the of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

 

- 51 -


euro”, “EUR” or “” means the currency introduced at the start of the third stage of European economic and monetary union, and as defined in Article 2 of Council Regulation (EC) No 974/98 of 3 May 1998 on the introduction of the euro, as amended.

$”, “USD” or “U.S. dollar” denote the lawful currency for the time being of the United States of America.

 

2.5

Transaction Documents and other agreements

Any reference to the Incorporated Terms Memorandum, any document defined as a Transaction Document or any other agreement or document shall be construed as a reference to the Incorporated Terms Memorandum, such Transaction Document or, as the case may be, such other agreement or document as the same may have been, or may from time to time be, amended, varied, novated, supplemented or replaced.

 

2.6

Legislation and Treaties

Any reference to any legislation (whether primary legislation or regulations or other subsidiary legislation made pursuant to primary legislation) or treaty shall be construed as a reference to such legislation or treaty as the same may have been, or may from time to time be, amended or re-enacted.

 

2.7

Time

Any reference in any Transaction Document to a time of day shall, unless a contrary indication appears, be a reference to London time.

 

2.8

Schedules

Any Schedule of, or Appendix to a Transaction Document forms part of such Transaction Document and shall have the same force and effect as if the provisions of such Schedule or Appendix were set out in the body of such Transaction Document. Any reference to a Transaction Document shall include any such Schedule or Appendix.

 

2.9

Headings

Section, Part, Schedule, Paragraph and Clause headings are for ease of reference only.

 

2.10

Sections

Except as otherwise specified in a Transaction Document, reference in a Transaction Document to:

 

  2.10.1

a “Section” shall be construed as a reference to a section of such Transaction Document;

 

  2.10.2

a “Part” shall be construed as a reference to a part of such Transaction Document;

 

  2.10.3

a “Schedule” shall be construed as a reference to a schedule of such Transaction Document;

 

- 52 -


  2.10.4

a “Clause” shall be construed as a reference to a clause of a Part or Section (as applicable) of such Transaction Document;

 

  2.10.5

a “Paragraph” shall be construed as a reference to a paragraph of a Schedule of such Transaction Document; and

 

  2.10.6

this Agreement” or “this Deed” shall be construed as a reference to such Transaction Document together with any Schedules and/or Appendices thereto.

 

2.11

Number

In any Transaction Document, save where the context otherwise requires, words importing the singular number include the plural and vice versa.

 

2.12

Time of the Essence

Any date or period specified in any Transaction Document may be postponed or extended by mutual agreement between the parties thereto, but as regards any date or period originally fixed or so postponed or extended, time shall be of the essence.

 

- 53 -


SCHEDULE 2

COMMON TERMS

PART 1

GENERAL LEGAL TERMS

 

1.

FURTHER ASSURANCE

Each Transaction Party referred to as an “Obligor” in any Transaction Document for the purposes of this Paragraph shall (at such Transaction Party’s cost) do and execute, or arrange for the doing and executing of, each act, document and thing requested of it by any Transaction Party referred to as an “Obligee” in such Transaction Document for the purposes of this paragraph in order to implement and/or give effect to such Transaction Document and the Transaction contemplated by it.

 

2.

ENTIRE AGREEMENT

 

2.1

Entire Agreement

The Transaction Documents and any document referred to in the Transaction Documents constitute the entire agreement and understanding between the Transaction Parties relating to the Transactions and supersede any previous agreements between the parties relating to the subject matter of the Transaction Documents.

 

2.2

No reliance

Each Transaction Party agrees that:

 

  2.2.1

it has not entered into any of the Transaction Documents in reliance upon any representation, warranty or undertaking of any other Transaction Party which is not expressly set out or referred to in one of the Transaction Documents;

 

  2.2.2

except in respect of an express representation or warranty under any of the Transaction Documents, it shall not have any claim or remedy (whether in equity, contract or tort, under the Misrepresentation Act 1967 or in any other way) in respect of any misrepresentation or breach of warranty by any other Transaction Party or in respect of any untrue statement by any other Transaction Party, regardless of whether such misrepresentation, breach or untrue statement was made, occurred or was given prior to the execution of any of the Transaction Documents.

 

2.3

Breach of Duty

Nothing in this Paragraph shall have the effect of limiting or restricting any liability of a Transaction Party arising as a result of any Breach of Duty.

 

- 54 -


3.

APPLICATION OF COMMON TERMS

 

3.1

Separate parties

Where any Transaction Party acts in more than one capacity, the provisions of the Common Terms shall apply to such person as though it were a separate party in each such capacity.

 

3.2

Inconsistency

If a provision of any Transaction Document is inconsistent with any provision of the Common Terms or the Master Definitions Schedule, the provision of such Transaction Document shall prevail.

 

4.

TRUSTEE PARTY TO TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS

 

4.1

Better preservation and enforcement of rights

 

  4.1.1

Except where any Transaction Document provides otherwise, the Trustee has agreed to become a party to each Transaction Document to which it is a party for the better preservation and enforcement of its rights under such Transaction Document and the Trust Documents and shall not assume any liabilities or obligations under any Transaction Document unless such obligation or liability is expressly assumed by the Trustee in such Transaction Document.

 

  4.1.2

When acting under a Transaction Document, the Trustee shall act subject to, and in accordance with, the terms of the Trust Documents and in so acting, the Trustee shall have the rights, benefits, protections, indemnities and immunities set out in this Deed and the Trust Documents. In the event there is any inconsistency or conflict between the rights, duties, benefits, obligations, protections, immunities or indemnities of the Trustee as contained in the relevant Transaction Document and the rights, duties, benefits, obligations, protections, immunities or indemnities of the Trustee in the Trust Documents, the provisions of the Trust Documents shall, to the extent permitted under applicable law prevail and apply.

 

4.2

Trustee has no responsibility

The Trustee shall not have any responsibility for any of the obligations of the other Transaction Parties and the other Transaction Parties acknowledge that the Trustee has no such responsibility and that the Trustee is entitled to the protections contained in and on the terms set out in the Trust Documents.

 

5.

CHANGE OF TRUSTEE

 

5.1

Successor Trustee

If there is an appointment of a Successor Trustee in accordance with the terms of the Trust Deed, each of the other Transaction Parties shall execute such documents and take such action as the Successor Trustee and the outgoing Trustee may reasonably require for the purposes of vesting in the Successor Trustee the benefit of the Transaction Documents and the rights, powers and obligations of the Trustee under the Transaction Documents, and releasing the outgoing Trustee from its future obligations under the Transaction Documents.

 

- 55 -


5.2

Merger

Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of the Trustee, as applicable, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder as applicable, provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Clause, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto.

 

6.

SERVICES NON EXCLUSIVE

 

6.1

Non Exclusivity

Subject to the provisions of the Transaction Documents, nothing in the Transaction Documents shall prevent any Transaction Party from rendering services similar to those provided for in the Transaction Documents to other persons, firms or companies or from carrying on any business similar to or in competition with the business of any of the Transaction Parties.

 

6.2

Existing Businesses

Nothing in the Transaction Documents shall prevent any Transaction Party from carrying on its own business in the manner which it thinks fit, unless, by so doing, it would render itself unable to perform its obligations under the Transaction Documents in the manner contemplated in the Transaction Documents.

 

7.

RESTRICTION ON ENFORCEMENT OF SECURITY, NON PETITION AND LIMITED RECOURSE

 

7.1

No proceedings against the Issuer

Only the Trustee may pursue the remedies available under the general law or under the Trust Documents to enforce the Security and no Transaction Party shall be entitled to proceed Insolvency Proceedings directly against the Issuer to enforce the Security. Each Transaction Party (other than the Issuer and the Trustee) agrees with and acknowledges to each of the Issuer and the Trustee, and the Trustee agrees with and acknowledges to the Issuer, that:

 

  7.1.1

none of the Transaction Parties (nor any person on their behalf, other than the Trustee where appropriate) are entitled, otherwise than as permitted by the Transaction Documents, to direct the Trustee to enforce the Security or take any proceedings against the Issuer to enforce the Security;

 

  7.1.2

none of the Transaction Parties (other than the Trustee) shall have the right to take or join any person in taking any steps against the Issuer for the purpose of obtaining payment of any amount due from the Issuer to any of such Transaction Parties;

 

- 56 -


  7.1.3

until the date falling two years after the Final Discharge Date none of the Transaction Parties nor any person on their behalf shall initiate or join any person in initiating an Insolvency Event or the appointment of an Insolvency Official in relation to the Issuer other than a Receiver or an administrator appointed under clause 17 (Appointment and Removal of Administrator and Receivers) of the Deed of Charge; and

 

  7.1.4

none of the Transaction Parties shall be entitled to take or join in the taking of any corporate action, legal proceedings or other procedure or step which would result in the Priorities of Payments not being complied with.

 

7.2

Limited Recourse

Each Transaction Party (other than the Issuer and the Trustee) agrees with and acknowledges to each of the Issuer and the Trustee, and the Trustee agrees with and acknowledges to the Issuer, that if at any time following

 

  (a)

the occurrence of either:

 

  (i)

the Final Maturity Date or any earlier date upon which all of the Notes of each class are due and payable; or

 

  (ii)

the service of an Enforcement Notice; and

 

  (b)

realisation of the Charged Property and application in full of any amounts available to pay amounts due and payable under the Notes and the Residual Certificates in accordance with the applicable Priorities of Payments;

the proceeds of such Realisation are insufficient, after payment of all other claims ranking in priority in accordance with the applicable Priorities of Payments, to pay in full all amounts then due and payable under any class of Notes, then the amount remaining to be paid (after such application in full of the amounts first referred to in (b) above) under such class of Notes or Residual Certificates (and any class of Notes junior or Certificates to that class of Notes) and all other amounts due and payable to the Secured Creditors, shall, on the day following such application in full of the amounts referred to in (b) above, cease to be due and payable by the Issuer.

For the purposes of this Paragraph 7.2, “Realisation” means, in relation to any Charged Property, the deriving, to the fullest extent practicable, (in accordance with the provisions of the Transaction Documents) of proceeds from or in respect of such Charged Property including (without limitation) through sale or through performance by an obligor.

 

8.

PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS

 

8.1

Acknowledgement of the Security

Each Transaction Party (other than the Trustee):

 

  8.1.1

acknowledges the Security created by the Trust Documents;

 

- 57 -


  8.1.2

undertakes to the Trustee not to do anything inconsistent with the Security or the terms of the Transaction Documents;

 

  8.1.3

acknowledges that the Security is held by the Trustee for the benefit of all the Secured Creditors and that any Receiver shall be appointed by the Trustee for the benefit of all the Secured Creditors;

 

  8.1.4

acknowledges the existence of the rights conferred on the Noteholders by Condition 12.2 (Delivery of an Enforcement Notice) and Condition 13.2 (Proceedings);

 

  8.1.5

acknowledges the existence of the rights conferred on the Certificateholders by Residual Certificate Condition 10.2 (Delivery of an Enforcement Notice) and Residual Certificate Condition 11.2 (Proceedings).

 

8.2

Secured Creditors and Transaction Documents

Each Secured Creditor shall be deemed to have notice of, all of the provisions of the Transaction Documents.

 

8.3

Receipt

The Trustee is hereby authorised to execute on behalf of the Secured Creditors a receipt in respect of all or part only of the Secured Amounts, as may be appropriate from time to time.

 

8.4

Recoveries after Enforcement

Except for moneys paid out by the Trustee pursuant to the Post-Default Priority of Payments, all monies received or recovered by the Secured Creditors in respect of the Secured Amounts after delivery of an Enforcement Notice (whether by way of set off, retention, compensation, balancing of accounts or otherwise) shall forthwith be paid to (and pending such payment held on trust for) the Trustee.

 

9.

OBLIGATIONS AS CORPORATE OBLIGATIONS

 

9.1

No recourse against shareholders and others

No Transaction Party shall have any recourse against nor shall any personal liability attach to any shareholder, officer, agent, employee or director of the Issuer in his capacity as such, by any Proceedings or otherwise, in respect of any obligation, covenant, or agreement of the Issuer contained in the Transaction Documents.

 

9.2

No liability for Obligations of the Issuer

The Transaction Parties, other than the Issuer, shall not have any liability for the Obligations of the Issuer and nothing in the Transaction Documents shall constitute the giving of a guarantee, an indemnity or the assumption of a similar obligation by any of such other Transaction Parties in respect of the performance by the Issuer of the Obligations.

 

- 58 -


10.

VARIATION OF TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS

 

10.1

Transaction Documents

A variation of any Transaction Document is valid only if it is in writing and signed by or on behalf of each Transaction Party which is a party to such Transaction Document.

 

10.2

Incorporated Terms Memorandum

A variation of the Incorporated Terms Memorandum is valid only if it is approved by each of the Transaction Parties.

 

11.

EXERCISE OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES

 

11.1

No waiver

A failure to exercise or delay in exercising a right or remedy provided by any Transaction Document or by law does not constitute a waiver of the right or remedy or a waiver of other rights or remedies. No single or partial exercise of a right or remedy provided by any Transaction Document or by law prevents further exercise of the right or remedy or the exercise of another right or remedy.

 

11.2

Rights and remedies cumulative

Except where any Transaction Document specifically provides otherwise, the rights and remedies contained in a Transaction Document are cumulative and not exclusive of rights or remedies provided by law.

 

12.

PARTIAL INVALIDITY

The invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of a provision of a Transaction Document does not affect or impair the continuation in force of the remainder of such Transaction Document.

 

13.

NO PARTNERSHIP

Except where any Transaction Document specifically provides otherwise, no provision of any Transaction Document creates a partnership between any of the Transaction Parties or makes a Transaction Party the agent of another Transaction Party for any purpose. Except where any Transaction Document provides otherwise, a Transaction Party has no authority or power to bind, to contract in the name of, or to create a liability for another Transaction Party in any way or for any purpose.

 

14.

CONTINUATION OF OBLIGATIONS

Except to the extent that they have been performed and except where any Transaction Document specifically provides otherwise, the warranties, representations, indemnities, and obligations contained in any Transaction Document remain in force after the date on which they were expressed to take effect until the Final Discharge Date.

 

- 59 -


15.

ASSIGNMENT AND SUBCONTRACTING

 

15.1

Successors

Each Transaction Document shall be binding upon and enure to the benefit of each Transaction Party which is a party to such Transaction Document or is otherwise bound by its terms and its or any subsequent successors, transferees and assigns.

 

15.2

Assignment

Except where any Transaction Document provides otherwise or with the prior written consent of the Trustee, a Transaction Party (other than the Trustee) may not assign or transfer or purport to assign or transfer a right or obligation under any Transaction Document to which it is a party.

 

15.3

Benefit

Each Transaction Party (other than the Trustee) is entering into each Transaction Document to which it is a party for its benefit and not for the benefit of another person.

 

15.4

Delegation

Except where any Transaction Document specifically provides otherwise, a Transaction Party may not subcontract or delegate the performance of any of its obligations under a Transaction Document.

 

16.

THIRD PARTY TRANSACTION RIGHTS

Rights under a Transaction Document only accrue to a person party to such Transaction Document. Accordingly, a person who is not a party to a Transaction Document shall have no rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term of any Transaction Document, but this does not affect any right or remedy of a third party which exists or is available apart from that Act.

 

17.

CONFIDENTIALITY

 

17.1

Confidentiality of information

Each Transaction Party agrees that prior to the Final Discharge Date and thereafter it shall keep confidential and it shall not disclose to any person whatsoever, any information relating to the business, finances or other matters of a confidential nature of any of the Seller, the Servicer or the Issuer (as the case may be) which it may have obtained as a result of the execution of any Transaction Document or of which it may otherwise have become possessed as a result of the performance of its obligations in respect of the Transaction including any information concerning the identity of any Underlying Obligor.

 

- 60 -


17.2

Disapplication of confidentiality provisions

The Transaction Parties shall use all reasonable endeavours to prevent any disclosure referred to in Paragraph 17.1 (Confidentiality of information) provided however that the provisions of Paragraph 17.1 (Confidentiality of information) shall not apply:

 

  17.2.1

to the disclosure of any information to any person who is a Transaction Party insofar as such disclosure is expressly permitted by the relevant Transaction Document;

 

  17.2.2

to the disclosure of any information already known to the recipient otherwise than as a result of entering into any of the Transaction Documents;

 

  17.2.3

to the disclosure of any information with the consent of the relevant Transaction Parties;

 

  17.2.4

to the disclosure of any information which is or becomes public knowledge otherwise than as a result of the conduct of the recipient;

 

  17.2.5

to the disclosure of any information:

 

  (a)

in order to list the Notes on TISE; or

 

  (b)

which it is necessary or desirable to provide to prospective investors in the Notes;

 

  17.2.6

to the extent that the recipient is required to disclose the same pursuant to any Requirement of Law or any Regulatory Direction;

 

  17.2.7

to the extent that the recipient needs to disclose the same for the exercise, protection or enforcement of any of its rights under any of the Underlying Finance Documents or the Transaction Documents or, in the case of the Trustee, for the purpose of discharging, in such manner as it thinks fit, its duties or obligations under or in connection with the Transaction Documents in each case to such persons as require to be informed of such information for such purposes or, in the case of the Trustee, in connection with transferring or purporting to transfer its rights and obligations to a successor Trustee;

 

  17.2.8

to the extent that the recipient needs to disclose the same to any of its employees provided that before any such disclosure each Transaction Party shall make the relevant employees aware of its obligations of confidentiality under the relevant Transaction Document and shall at all times procure compliance with such obligations by such employees;

 

  17.2.9

to the disclosure of any information to professional advisers who receive the same under a duty of confidentiality;

 

  17.2.10

to the disclosure of any information disclosed to a prospective successor servicer, successor cash manager or Successor Trustee on the basis that the recipient will hold such information confidential upon substantially the same terms as this Paragraph.

 

- 61 -


18.

NOTICES

 

18.1

Communications in writing

Except as specified in any Transaction Document, any Notice:

 

  18.1.1

shall be in writing;

 

  18.1.2

shall be in the English language or accompanied by a translation thereof into English certified (by an officer of the person making or delivering the same) as being a true and accurate translation thereof;

 

  18.1.3

shall be delivered personally or sent by first class post (and air mail if overseas) or by fax or by e-mail to the party due to receive the Notice at its address, fax number or e-mail address and marked for the attention of the person or persons set out in the Notices Details or to another address or fax number or e mail address or marked for the attention of another person or persons specified by the receiving party by written notice to the other Transaction Parties received before the Notice was despatched; and

 

  18.1.4

that is required to be given the Initial Class A Noteholder, such shall be made via email to each of:

 

  (a)

 

  (b)

 

  (c)

 

  (d)

 

  (e)

 

  (f)

 

  (g)

 

  18.1.5

that is required to be given to any other Noteholder, to the email address provided to the Registrar in relation to its holding of Notes.

 

18.2

Time of receipt

Unless there is evidence that it was received earlier, a Notice marked for the attention of the person specified in accordance with Paragraph 18.1 (Communications in writing) is deemed given:

 

  18.2.1

if delivered personally, when left at the relevant address referred to in the Notices Details;

 

  18.2.2

if sent by post, except air mail, two business days after posting it;

 

  18.2.3

if sent by air mail, six business days after posting it;

 

- 62 -


  18.2.4

if sent by fax, 24 hours after completion of its transmission/when confirmation of its transmission has been recorded by the sender’s fax machine; and

 

  18.2.5

if sent by e-mail, two business days after sending it,

provided that in each case where personal delivery or delivery by fax occurs after 6:00p.m. on a business day or on a day which is not a business day, service shall be deemed to occur at 9:00a.m. on the following business day.

 

18.3

Business day

In Paragraph 18.2 (Time of receipt) “business day” means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday in either the country from which the Notice is sent or in the country to which the Notice is sent.

 

18.4

Noteholder directions

Where any reference is made to a direction or communication being made by the Noteholders to a Transaction Party but without reference to any express requirements (including without limitation as regards Extraordinary Resolution or specified percentage), such direction shall be deemed to have been validly given if:

 

  18.4.1

made in writing or by email to the address given under Schedule 8 of the Common Terms; and

 

  18.4.2

such direction has been signed by or on behalf of holders representing not less than 75% of the Principal Amount Outstanding for that relevant class of Notes.

 

19.

COUNTERPARTS

Each Transaction Document may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

 

20.

GOVERNING LANGUAGE

The Transaction Documents are in the English language. If the Transaction Documents are translated into another language, the English language text prevails.

 

21.

MERGER AND CONSOLIDATION OF U.S. BANK TRUSTEES LIMITED OR ELAVON FINANCIAL SERVICES D.A.C.

 

21.1

Successor through merger: Any corporation into which U.S. Bank Trustees Limited, U.S. Bank Global Corporate Trust Limited or Elavon Financial Services D.A.C., UK Branch may be merged or converted, or any corporation with which U.S. Bank Trustees Limited, U.S. Bank Global Corporate Trust Limited or Elavon Financial Services D.A.C., UK Branch may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which U.S. Bank Trustees Limited, U.S. Bank Global Corporate Trust Limited or Elavon Financial Services D.A.C., UK Branch (as applicable) shall be a party, or any corporation to which U.S. Bank Trustees Limited, U.S. Bank Global Corporate Trust Limited or Elavon Financial Services D.A.C., UK Branch (as applicable) shall sell or otherwise transfer: (a) all or substantially all of its assets or (b) all or substantially all of its corporate trust business shall, on the date when

 

- 63 -


  the merger, conversion, consolidation or transfer becomes effective and to the extent permitted by any applicable laws, become the successor to U.S. Bank Trustees Limited, U.S. Bank Global Corporate Trust Limited or Elavon Financial Services D.A.C., UK Branch (as applicable) under the Transaction Documents without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the parties to the Transaction Documents, unless otherwise required by the Issuer and after the said effective date all references in the Transaction Documents to the Trustee, the relevant Agents, the Account Bank and/or the Cash Manager (as applicable) shall be deemed to be references to such successor corporation.

 

21.2

Rights and obligations upon merger: In the event of such a merger or conversion the Issuer, the Seller, the relevant Agents (if applicable) the Trustee (if applicable), the Cash Manager (if applicable) and such successor shall acquire and become subject to the same rights and obligations between themselves as if they had entered into an agreement in the form of (and on the same terms as) the relevant Transaction Document.

 

21.3

Notice of merger: Notice of any such merger or conversion shall forthwith be given by such successor to the Issuer, the Seller, the Trustee (if applicable) and the Cash Manager (if applicable).

 

- 64 -


PART 2

PAYMENT PROVISIONS

 

1.

CALCULATIONS AND PAYMENTS

 

1.1

Basis of accrual

Except as otherwise provided in any Transaction Document, any interest, commitment commission, or fees due from one Transaction Party to another under any Transaction Document shall accrue from day to day and shall be calculated on the basis of a year of the number of days referred to in the definition of Day Count Fraction (or, in any case where market practice differs, in accordance with market practice).

 

1.2

Prima facie evidence

In any legal action or proceeding arising out of or in connection with any Transaction Document, the records of the Servicer shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts due from one Transaction Party to another or to any third party.

 

1.3

Currency indemnity

If any sum (a “ Sum”) due from a Paying Transaction Party to a Receiving Transaction Party under any Transaction Document or any order, judgement, award or decision given or made in relation thereto has to be converted from the currency (the “First Currency”) in which such Sum is payable into another currency (the “Second Currency”) for the purpose of:

 

  1.3.1

making or filing a claim or proof against the Paying Transaction Party; or

 

  1.3.2

obtaining or enforcing an order, judgment, award or decision in any court or other tribunal,

the Paying Transaction Party shall indemnify the Receiving Transaction Party from and against any loss suffered or incurred as a result of any discrepancy between (a) the rate of exchange used for such purpose to convert such Sum from the First Currency into the Second Currency and (b) the rate or rates of exchange available to such person at the time of receipt of such Sum.

 

1.4

Currency of account and payment

Except where otherwise specified, Sterling is the currency of account and payment for each and every sum at any time due from one Transaction Party to another under the Transaction Documents, except that each payment in respect of costs and expenses in respect of a Transaction Document shall be made in the currency in which the same were incurred.

 

1.5

Payments to the Seller

On each date on which any Transaction Document requires an amount to be paid by a Transaction Party to the Seller, such Transaction Party shall make the relevant amount available to the Seller by payment to the Seller Account for value on the due date no later than the time specified in the relevant Transaction Document or, if no time is specified in the Transaction Document, by close of banking hours in the place of payment on the due date.

 

- 65 -


1.6

Payments to the Issuer

On each date on which any Transaction Document requires an amount to be paid by a Transaction Party to the Issuer, such Transaction Party shall make the relevant amount available to the Issuer by payment to the GBP Transaction Account, the USD Transaction Account, the Cash Margin Account or the Income Account or the EUR Transaction Account, as applicable, for value on the due date no later than the time specified in the relevant Transaction Document or, if no time is specified in the relevant Transaction Document, by close of banking hours in the place of payment on the due date.

 

1.7

Payments to other Transaction Parties

On each date on which any Transaction Document requires an amount to be paid by one Transaction Party to another Transaction Party (other than to the Seller or to the Issuer), the Paying Transaction Party shall make the relevant amount available to the Receiving Transaction Party by payment to the account specified in the relevant Transaction Document for value on the due date no later than the time specified in the relevant Transaction Document or, if no time is specified in the relevant Transaction Document, by close of banking hours in the place of payment on the due date.

 

1.8

No set off

All payments required to be made by any Transaction Party under the Transaction Documents shall be calculated without reference to any set off or counterclaim and shall be made free and clear of and without any deduction for or on account of any set off or counterclaim.

 

1.9

Partial Payments

If and whenever a payment is made by any Transaction Party to another under any Transaction Document, the Receiving Transaction Party shall, except as otherwise provided in any Transaction Document, apply the amount received towards the obligations of the Paying Transaction Party under the relevant Transaction Document in the following order:

 

  1.9.1

first, in or towards payment of any Liabilities which the receiving party is entitled to be paid under the terms of the relevant Transaction Document and in accordance with the Priorities of Payment;

 

  1.9.2

secondly, in or towards payment pro rata of any accrued interest due but unpaid;

 

  1.9.3

thirdly, in or towards payment pro rata of any principal due but unpaid; and

 

  1.9.4

fourthly, in or towards payment pro rata of any other sum due but unpaid.

 

- 66 -


1.10

Variation of partial payments

The order of payments set out in Paragraph 1.9 (Partial Payments) shall override any appropriation made by any Paying Transaction Party but the order set out in subparagraphs 1.9.2, 1.9.3 and 1.9.4 of Paragraph 1.9 (Partial Payments) may be varied if the relevant Transaction Parties so agree and for this purpose “relevant Transaction Parties” means Transaction Parties who might, in the Trustee’s sole opinion, be affected by such variation in application.

 

1.11

Business Days

Except as otherwise provided in any Transaction Document any payment which is due to be made on a day that is not a Business Day shall be made on the next Business Day in the same calendar month (if there is one) or on the preceding Business Day (if there is not).

 

1.12

Rectification

If any amount paid pursuant to a Transaction Document (other than by or to the Trustee) shall be determined (after consultation in good faith between the Transaction Parties which are parties to the relevant Transaction Document) to have been incorrect, the Transaction Parties shall consult in good faith in order to agree upon an appropriate method for rectifying such error so that the amounts subsequently received and retained by all relevant Transaction Parties are those which they would have received and retained if no such error had been made.

 

1.13

Amounts not due to be held on trust

If any Secured Creditor (other than the Trustee):

 

  1.13.1

receives any amount which should not have been paid out of the Issuer Account and which it purports to apply; or

 

  1.13.2

purports to set off any amount owed to it by the Issuer in or towards satisfaction of any sum owed by it under any Transaction Document other than out of amounts in the Issuer Account and in strict accordance with the Priorities of Payments,

such Secured Creditor shall hold the amount so received or applied on trust for the Issuer and for application in accordance with the Priorities of Payments.

 

2.

VAT

 

2.1

Sums payable exclusive of VAT

Any sum set out in any Transaction Document as payable, or otherwise payable pursuant to any Transaction Document:

 

  2.1.1

by any Transaction Party other than the Trustee or the Issuer to any other Transaction Party; or

 

  2.1.2

by the Issuer to the Trustee,

 

- 67 -


shall be deemed to be exclusive of any VAT which is or becomes chargeable on any supply or supplies for which that sum (or any part thereof) is the whole or part of the consideration for VAT purposes.

 

2.2

Sums payable inclusive of VAT

Any sum set out in any Transaction Document as payable, or otherwise payable, pursuant to any Transaction Document:

 

  2.2.1

by the Issuer to any Transaction Party other than the Trustee; or

 

  2.2.2

by the Trustee to any other Transaction Party,

shall be inclusive of any VAT which is or becomes chargeable on any supply or supplies for which that sum (or any part thereof) is the whole or part of the consideration for VAT purposes and section 89 of VATA shall not apply to affect the amount of such sum payable.

 

2.3

Payment of amounts in respect of VAT

Where:

 

  2.3.1

any person that is a party to any Transaction Document (such person, a “Supplier” for the purposes of this Paragraph 2) makes a supply to another person that is also a party to that Transaction Document (such person, the “Recipient” in relation to that supply for the purposes of this Paragraph 2) for VAT purposes pursuant to that Transaction Document;

 

  2.3.2

the sum which is the consideration (in whole or in part) for that supply is (or, if the consideration for that supply were in cash, would be) deemed to be exclusive of VAT in accordance with Paragraph 2.1 (Sums payable exclusive of VAT) above; and

 

  2.3.3

the Supplier is required to account to any relevant Tax Authority for any VAT chargeable on that supply,

the Recipient shall pay to the Supplier an additional amount equal to that VAT, such additional amount to be paid at the same time as paying any other consideration for that supply, save that where the consideration for that supply does not consist of, or wholly of, money, such sum shall be paid no later than five (5) Business Days before the last day on which the Supplier can account to the relevant Tax Authority for the VAT due in respect of that supply without incurring interest or penalties and the Supplier shall (in either case) provide the Recipient with a valid VAT invoice in respect of that supply.

 

- 68 -


2.4

Acquisitions and reverse charges

In relation to any supply that gives rise to either an acquisition for the purpose of Section 1(1)(b) of VATA or a Reverse Charge, where the Recipient (which for the purposes of this Paragraph 2.4 shall include the person making any acquisition) of that supply or acquisition is the Issuer or the Trustee:

 

  2.4.1

the consideration for such supply or acquisition shall (unless the Supplier (which for the purposes of this Paragraph 2.4 shall include any person from whom an acquisition is made) in relation thereto is the Issuer or the Trustee) be reduced to such amount as, with the addition thereto of the VAT chargeable on such supply or acquisition, equals the amount which would have been payable by the Recipient had such supply not given rise to such charge as aforesaid; or

 

  2.4.2

if the consideration does not consist of, or wholly of, money, or the consideration actually paid is less than the amount in respect of or by reference to which VAT is charged, the Supplier shall (unless it is the Issuer or the Trustee) pay to the Recipient an amount equal to the VAT chargeable on the supply or acquisition no later than five (5) Business Days before the last day (which the Recipient shall notify the Supplier of in writing) on which the Recipient can account to the relevant Tax Authority for the VAT due in respect of that supply or acquisition without incurring interest or penalties.

 

2.5

Costs and expenses

 

  2.5.1

References (including, for the avoidance of doubt, references within definitions) in any Transaction Document to any fee, cost, loss, disbursement, commission, damages, expense, charge or other liability incurred by the Issuer and in respect of which the Issuer is to be reimbursed or indemnified by any other person under the terms of, or the amount of which is to be taken into account in any calculation or computation set out in, any Transaction Document shall include such part of such fee, cost, loss, disbursement, commission, damages, expense, charge or other liability as represents any VAT and also any VAT for which the Issuer is required to account to any relevant Tax Authority under any regime applicable to acquisitions for VAT purposes or the Reverse Charge in relation to such fee, cost, loss, disbursement, commission, damages, expense, charge or other liability.

 

  2.5.2

References (including, for the avoidance of doubt, references within definitions) in any Transaction Document to any fee, cost, loss, disbursement, commission, damages, expense, charge or other liability incurred by any person (other than the Issuer) and in respect of which such person is to be reimbursed or indemnified by any other person under the terms of, or the amount of which is to be taken into account in any calculation or computation set out in, any Transaction Document shall include such part of such fee, cost, loss, disbursement, commission, damages, expense, charge or other liability as represents any VAT and also any VAT for which such first person is required to account to the relevant Tax Authority under any regime applicable to acquisitions for VAT purposes or the Reverse Charge in relation to such fee, cost, loss, disbursement, commission, damages, expense, charge or other liability, but (in each such case) only to the extent that such first person is not entitled to a refund (by way of credit or repayment) in respect of such VAT from any relevant Tax Authority.

 

2.6

VAT Groups

Any reference in any Transaction Document to any person, when construing any provision in relation to VAT, shall (where appropriate and unless the context otherwise

 

- 69 -


requires) be construed, at any time when such person is treated as a member of a VAT Group, to include a reference to the representative member of such group at such time (so that a reference to x, for example, would read “x or the relevant representative member of the VAT Group of which x is a member (as the case may be)”) (the term “representative member” to have the same meaning as for the purposes of the VAT Grouping Legislation).

 

3.

WITHHOLDING TAXES

 

3.1

Tax Deduction

Except as otherwise provided in any Transaction Document, each payment made by a Paying Transaction Party to a Receiving Transaction Party under any Transaction Document shall be made without any Tax Deduction, unless a Tax Deduction is required by any Requirement of Law.

 

3.2

Notification

If a Paying Transaction Party becomes aware that it must make a Tax Deduction in respect of any payment under any Transaction Document (or that there is any change in the rate or the basis of a Tax Deduction) it shall notify the Receiving Transaction Party accordingly.

 

3.3

Tax Credits

If a Paying Transaction Party makes a Tax Payment and a Receiving Transaction Party determines that a Tax Credit is attributable to that Tax Payment and the Receiving Transaction Party has obtained, utilised and retained that Tax Credit then the Receiving Transaction Party shall pay an amount to the Paying Transaction Party which the Receiving Transaction Party determines will leave it (after that payment) in the same after tax position as it would have been in had the Tax Payment not been required to be made by the Paying Transaction Party.

 

4.

COSTS

Except as otherwise provided in any Transaction Document, the Seller shall pay all of the costs relating to the negotiation, preparation, execution and implementation by the Transaction Parties of each Transaction Document and of each document referred to in it.

 

- 70 -


PART 3

Governing Law Provisions

 

1.

GOVERNING LAW

Each Transaction Document and all non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.

 

2.

JURISDICTION

 

2.1

English courts

The courts of England have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any Dispute.

 

2.2

Convenient forum

Each Transaction Party other than the Trustee agrees that the courts of England are the most appropriate and convenient courts to settle Disputes between them and, accordingly, that they will not argue to the contrary.

 

2.3

Jurisdiction

Paragraph 2.1 (English Courts) is for the benefit of the Trustee for the purpose of this Paragraph 2 in any Transaction Document. As a result each other Transaction Party acknowledges that Paragraph 2.1 (English Courts), does not prevent the Trustee from taking any Proceedings in any other courts with jurisdiction. To the extent allowed by law, the Trustee may take concurrent Proceedings in any number of jurisdictions.

 

2.4

Service of process

Each of the Seller, the Risk Retainer and the Servicer (where the Servicer is ACREFI Management, LLC) agrees that the documents which start any Proceedings and any other documents required to be served in relation to those Proceedings may be served on it by being delivered to Apollo Global Management LLP at 25 St George Street, London W1S 1FS for the attention of                      or, if different, such person’s registered office for the time being or at any other address in England and Wales at which process may be served on such person or the Issuer in accordance with Part 37 of the Companies Act 2006. If such person is not or ceases to be effectively appointed to accept service of process on behalf of the relevant party, such party shall appoint a further person in England to accept service of process on its behalf and, failing such appointment within 15 days, the Trustee shall be entitled to appoint such a person by written notice addressed to such party and delivered to such party. Nothing in this Paragraph shall affect the right of the Trustee to serve process in any other manner permitted by law. This clause applies to Proceedings in England and to Proceedings elsewhere.

 

2.5

Consent to enforcement etc.

Each of the Transaction Parties consents generally in respect of any Proceedings to the giving of any relief or the issue of any process in connection with such Proceedings including (without limitation) the making, enforcement or execution against any property whatsoever (irrespective of its use or intended use) of any order or judgement which is made or given in such Proceedings.

 

- 71 -


2.6

Waiver of immunity

To the extent that any Transaction Party may in any jurisdiction claim for itself or its assets or revenues immunity from suit, execution, attachment (whether in aid of execution, before judgement or otherwise) or other legal process and to the extent that such immunity (whether or not claimed) may be attributed in any such jurisdiction to the relevant Transaction Party or its respective assets or revenues, the relevant Transaction Party agrees not to claim and irrevocably waives such immunity to the full extent permitted by the laws of such jurisdiction.

 

- 72 -


SCHEDULE 3

SELLER’S REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

PART 1

CORPORATE REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE SELLER

 

1.

INCORPORATION

The Seller is a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware, having its registered office at c/o Corporation Service Company, 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, DE 19808 and with company registration number 7522204 and with full power and authority to own its property and assets and conduct its business as currently conducted by it.

 

2.

LITIGATION

There are no governmental, legal or arbitration proceedings (including any such proceedings which are pending or threatened of which the Issuer is aware) which may have or may during the twelve months prior to the Closing Date have had a significant effect on the financial position or profitability of the Issuer or which may have a Material Adverse Effect on the Seller, any Relevant Transaction Document or any Assigned Rights.

 

3.

NO GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATION

No governmental or official investigation or inquiry concerning the Seller is, so far as the Seller is aware, progressing or pending or has been threatened which may have a Material Adverse Effect on the Seller, any Relevant Transaction Document or any Assigned Rights or which may have or may during the twelve months prior to or following the Closing Date have had a significant effect on the financial position of the Seller.

 

4.

SOLVENCY

No Insolvency Event has occurred in respect of the Seller and no Insolvency Event in respect of the Seller will occur in consequence of the Seller entering into the Relevant Transaction Documents and performing its obligations thereunder.

 

5.

CONSENTS

The Seller has obtained and maintains in effect all authorisations, approvals, licences and consents required in connection with its business pursuant to any Requirement of Law and any Regulatory Direction applicable to the Seller in the United States of America and in each other jurisdiction in which the Seller carries on business.

 

6.

MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION

The Seller’s centre of management of its interests and the place from which the Seller’s interests are administered on a regular basis is the United States of America.

 

- 73 -


7.

NO MATERIAL ADVERSE CHANGE

Since the date of the Seller’s incorporation there has been no adverse change nor any development or event involving a prospective adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise), business, prospects, results of operations or general affairs of the Seller or the Seller’s group that is material in the context of its entry into, and performance of its obligations under, the Transaction Documents to which it is a party or the Assigned Rights.

 

8.

TAX

 

8.1

The Seller is a company which is and has, since incorporation, been resident for tax purposes solely in the United States of America.

 

9.

NO BREACH OF TRANSACTION DOCUMENT REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

There has been no breach of the representations and warranties given by the Seller under the Transaction Documents.

 

- 74 -


PART 2

TRANSACTION DOCUMENT REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE SELLER

 

1.

CORPORATE POWER

The Seller has the requisite power and authority to enter into each Relevant Transaction Document and to undertake and perform the obligations expressed to be assumed by it therein.

 

2.

AUTHORISATION

All acts, conditions and things required to be done, fulfilled and performed in order:

 

2.1

to enable the Seller lawfully to enter into each Relevant Transaction Document;

 

2.2

to enable the Seller lawfully to exercise its rights under and perform and comply with the obligations expressed to be assumed by it in the Relevant Transaction Documents;

 

2.3

to ensure that the obligations expressed to be assumed by it in the Relevant Transaction Documents are legal, valid, binding and enforceable against it; and

 

2.4

to make the Relevant Transaction Documents admissible in evidence in England and Wales,

have been done, fulfilled and performed and are in full force and effect or, as the case may be, have been effected, and no steps have been taken to challenge, revoke or cancel any such authorisation obtained or effected.

 

3.

EXECUTION

The Relevant Transaction Documents have been duly executed by the Seller.

 

4.

NO BREACH OF LAW OR CONTRACT

The entry by the Seller into and the execution (and, where appropriate, delivery) of the Relevant Transaction Documents and the performance by the Issuer of its obligations under the Relevant Transaction Documents do not and will not conflict with or constitute a breach or infringement of any of the terms of, or constitute a default by the Seller under:

 

4.1

the Seller constitutive documents;

 

4.2

any Requirement of Law or any Regulatory Direction; or

 

4.3

any agreement, indenture, contract, mortgage, deed or other instrument to which the Seller is a party or which is binding on it or any of its assets,

where such conflict, breach, infringement or default might have a Material Adverse Effect on the Seller, any Relevant Transaction Documents or any Assigned Rights.

 

- 75 -


5.

VALID AND BINDING OBLIGATIONS

The obligations expressed to be assumed by the Seller under the Relevant Transaction Documents are legal and valid obligations, binding on it and enforceable against it in accordance with their terms, except:

 

5.1

as such enforcement may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, reorganisation or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of the rights of creditors generally;

 

5.2

as such enforceability may be limited by the effect of general principles of equity; and

 

5.3

obligations relating to stamp duties may be void by virtue of Section 117 of the Stamp Act 1891.

 

6.

ARMS’ LENGTH TRANSACTIONS

The Relevant Transaction Documents to which the Seller is a party have been entered into by the Seller in good faith for the benefit of the Issuer and on arms’ length commercial terms.

 

7.

CROSS DEFAULT

The Seller is not in breach of or default under any agreement, indenture, contract, mortgage, deed or other instrument to which it is a party or which is binding on it or any of its assets to an extent or in a manner which would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Seller, any Relevant Transaction Document or any of the Assigned Rights.

 

8.

COMPLIANCE WITH RELEVANT TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS

The Seller has complied with the terms of the Relevant Transaction Documents.

 

9.

REQUIRED CONSENTS

The Seller does not require the consent of any other party or the consent, licence, approval or authorisation of any Governmental Authority or the filing, recording or enrolling of any Transaction Document with any court or other authority in England in connection with the performance of the Relevant Transaction Documents by the Seller.

 

10.

ACCURACY OF INFORMATION

All Relevant Information supplied by the Seller to the Trustee in connection with the execution of the Relevant Transaction Documents and the performance of the obligations of the Issuer under the Relevant Transaction is true and accurate in all respects and is not misleading because of any omission or ambiguity or for any other reason.

 

11.

LISTING DOCUMENT

 

11.1

The Listing Document contains all information regarding the Notes which is (in the context of the issue of the Notes) material;

 

- 76 -


11.2

such information is true and accurate in all material respects and not misleading in any material respect;

 

11.3

any opinions, predictions and intentions expressed in the Listing Document on the part of the Issuer are honestly held or made and are not misleading in any material respect;

 

11.4

the Listing Document does not omit to state any material fact necessary to make such information, opinions, predictions or intentions (in such context) not misleading in any material respect; and

 

11.5

all proper enquiries have been made by or on behalf of the Issuer to ascertain and to verify the foregoing.

 

12.

OFAC SANCTIONS AND ANTI-CORRUPTION:

Sanctions Target: the Seller is not, nor, to the knowledge of the Issuer, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Issuer is currently a Sanctions Target and will not lend, invest, contribute or otherwise make available the proceeds of the offering of the Notes to or for the benefit of any then-current Sanctions Target; and

Anti-corruption: neither the Seller nor, to the best of the knowledge of the Seller, any director, officer, agent, employee, affiliate of or person acting on behalf of the Issuer has engaged in any activity or conduct which would violate any applicable anti-bribery or anti-corruption law or regulation.

 

13.

BANKING ACT

The Seller is not a holding company of a bank, a building society or a credit union, or a group undertaking of any such entities as such terms are defined in Part 1 of the Banking Act 2009.

 

- 77 -


PART 3

ASSET REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE SELLER

The Seller represents that the representations set out in Schedule 2 of the Repurchase Agreement are true and correct.

 

- 78 -


SCHEDULE 4

SELLER COVENANTS

PART 1

CORPORATE COVENANTS OF THE SELLER

The Seller shall:

 

1.

CONDUCT

at all times carry on and conduct its affairs in a proper and efficient manner in compliance with any Requirement of Law and any Regulatory Direction from time to time in force in any jurisdiction in which it carries on business and in compliance with its constitutive documents;

 

2.

CONSENTS

obtain, comply with the terms of and do all that is necessary to maintain in full force and effect all authorisations, approvals, licences and consents necessary under any Requirement of Law and any Regulatory Direction from time to time in force in any other applicable jurisdiction;

 

2.1

in connection with its business; and

 

2.2

to enable it lawfully to enter into and perform its obligations under the Relevant Transaction Documents or to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility in evidence in the Issuer Jurisdiction of the Relevant Transaction Documents including any registration required under the Companies Acts.

 

- 79 -


PART 2

TRANSACTION DOCUMENT COVENANTS OF THE SELLER

The Seller shall:

 

1.

COMPLIANCE WITH RELEVANT TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS

at all times comply with and perform all its obligations under the Relevant Transaction Documents and use all reasonable endeavours to procure that the other Transaction Parties, other than the Trustee, comply with and perform all their respective obligations under the Relevant Transaction Documents;

 

2.

EXERCISE RIGHTS

preserve and/or exercise and/or enforce its rights under and pursuant to the Relevant Transaction Documents;

 

3.

NOTIFICATION OF BREACH OF SELLER WARRANTIES AND UNDERTAKINGS

immediately notify the Issuer and the Trustee if the Seller becomes aware of any breach of the Seller Warranties or of any breach of any undertaking given by the Seller in any Relevant Transaction Documents;

 

4.

EXECUTION OF FURTHER DOCUMENTS

perform any act required by any Requirement of Law or any Regulatory Direction to be performed, and so far as permitted by applicable law, execute such further documents and perform such further acts as may be incidental to, or necessary in the opinion of the Trustee to give effect to, the Relevant Transaction Documents;

 

5.

NO VARIATION AND TERMINATION OF RELEVANT TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS

not until the Final Discharge Date, save to the extent permitted by the Relevant Transaction Documents or with the prior written consent of the Trustee:

 

5.1

terminate, repudiate, rescind or discharge any Relevant Transaction Document;

 

5.2

vary, novate, amend, modify or waive any provision of any Relevant Transaction Document; or

 

5.3

permit any person who has obligations under the Relevant Transaction Documents to be released from such obligations other than in accordance with the terms of the applicable Relevant Transaction Document and any applicable Requirement of Law or Regulatory Direction.

 

- 80 -


6.

PAYMENTS DUE TO THE ISSUER UNDER THE REPURCHASE AGREEMENT

 

6.1

pay all Margin Threshold Rectification Amounts and Default Exposure Threshold Rectification Amounts in accordance with the relevant currency of the applicable Purchased Security to the relevant Cash Margin Account; and

 

6.2

pay all amounts due to the Issuer under the Repurchase Agreement (to the extent not addressed in paragraph 6.1 above) in accordance with the relevant currency of the applicable Purchased Security to the relevant Transaction Account.

 

- 81 -


SCHEDULE 5

ISSUER’S REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

PART 1

CORPORATE REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE ISSUER

 

1.

INCORPORATION

The Issuer is duly incorporated in the Issuer Jurisdiction with limited liability under the Companies Acts, with its registered office and its head office at 8th Floor 20 Farringdon Street, London, United Kingdom EC4A 4AB and with full power and authority to own its property and assets and conduct its business.

 

2.

CENTRE OF MAIN INTERESTS

The Issuer has its “centre of main interests”, as that term is used in Article 3(1) of the Recast EU Insolvency Regulation, in the Issuer Jurisdiction.

 

3.

LITIGATION

There are no governmental, legal or arbitration proceedings (including any such proceedings which are pending or threatened of which the Issuer is aware) which may have or may during the twelve months prior to the Closing Date have had a significant effect on the financial position or profitability of the Issuer or which may have a Material Adverse Effect on the Issuer, any Relevant Transaction Document or any Assigned Rights.

 

4.

SOLVENCY

No Insolvency Event has occurred in respect of the Issuer and no Insolvency Event will occur in consequence of the Issuer entering into the Transaction Documents to which it is expressed to be a party.

 

5.

TAX RESIDENCE

The Issuer is a company which is and has, since incorporation, been resident for tax purposes solely in the Issuer Jurisdiction.

 

6.

MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION

The Issuer’s management, the places of residence of the directors of the Issuer and the place at which meetings of the board of directors of the Issuer are held are all situated in the Issuer Jurisdiction.

 

7.

ACCOUNTING REFERENCE DATE

The Accounting Reference Date of the Issuer is 31 May.

 

- 82 -


8.

NO ESTABLISHMENT, SUBSIDIARIES, EMPLOYEES OR PREMISES

The Issuer has no “establishment”, as that term is used in Article 2(10) of the Recast EU Insolvency Regulation or branch or office in any jurisdiction, no subsidiaries, no employees and no premises.

 

9.

NO ENCUMBRANCES

No Encumbrance exists over or in respect of any asset of the Issuer which would rank in priority to or pari passu with the Security.

 

10.

ISSUER’S ACTIVITIES

The Issuer has not engaged in any activities since its incorporation other than:

 

10.1

those incidental to its registration under the Companies Acts;

 

10.2

various changes to its directors, secretary, registered office and constitutive documents;

 

10.3

increases in authorised and issued share capital;

 

10.4

changes to its name;

 

10.5

other appropriate corporate steps;

 

10.6

the authorisation of the issue of the Initial Notes and the Residual Certificates and the authorisation and execution of the Relevant Transaction Documents; and

 

10.7

the activities referred to in or contemplated by the Transaction Documents.

 

11.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

No Financial Statements for the Issuer have been prepared for the period since its incorporation.

 

12.

NO DISTRIBUTIONS

In respect of the Closing Date (or thereafter as permitted under the Transaction Documents) the Issuer has not paid any dividends or made any distributions since incorporation.

 

13.

NO ADVERSE CHANGE

Since the date of its incorporation there has been no adverse change in the financial position or prospects of the Issuer that is material in the context of the issue of the Notes or the Residual Certificates.

 

14.

CONSENTS

The Issuer has obtained and maintained in effect all authorisations, approvals, licences and consents required in connection with its business and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Relevant Transaction Documents pursuant to any Requirement of Law or any Regulatory Direction applicable to the Issuer in the Issuer Jurisdiction and in each other jurisdiction in which the Issuer carries on business.

 

- 83 -


15.

NO GOVERNMENTAL INVESTIGATION

No governmental or official investigation or inquiry concerning the Issuer is, so far as the Issuer is aware, progressing or pending or has been threatened which may have a Material Adverse Effect on the Issuer, any Relevant Transaction Document, or any of the Assigned Rights or which may have or may during the twelve months prior to the Closing Date have had a significant effect on the financial position of the Issuer.

 

- 84 -


PART 2

TRANSACTION DOCUMENT REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE ISSUER

 

1.

CORPORATE POWER

The Issuer has the requisite power and authority to:

 

1.1

enter into each Relevant Transaction Document; and

 

1.2

create and issue the Notes and the Residual Certificates and the Security,

and to undertake and perform the obligations expressed to be assumed by it therein.

 

2.

AUTHORISATION

All acts, conditions and things required to be done, fulfilled and performed in order:

 

2.1

to enable the Issuer lawfully to issue, distribute and perform the terms of the Notes in accordance with the selling restrictions set out in schedule 1 (Selling Restrictions) of the Note Purchase Agreement;

 

2.2

to enable the Issuer lawfully to enter into each Relevant Transaction Document;

 

2.3

to enable the Issuer lawfully to exercise its rights under and perform and comply with the obligations expressed to be assumed by it in the Relevant Transaction Documents;

 

2.4

to ensure that the obligations expressed to be assumed by it in the Notes, the Residual Certificates and the Relevant Transaction Documents are legal, valid, binding and enforceable against it; and

 

2.5

to make the Notes and the Relevant Transaction Documents admissible in evidence in the Issuer Jurisdiction,

have been done, fulfilled and performed and are in full force and effect or, as the case may be, have been effected, and no steps have been taken to challenge, revoke or cancel any such authorisation obtained or effected.

 

3.

EXECUTION

The Relevant Transaction Documents have been duly executed by the Issuer.

 

4.

NO BREACH OF LAW OR CONTRACT

The entry by the Issuer into and the execution (and, where appropriate, delivery) of the Relevant Transaction Documents, the issue of Notes and the Residual Certificates and, if required to be executed and delivered, the Definitive Notes in respect of the Notes and the Definitive Residual Certificates in respect of the Residual Certificates and the performance by the Issuer of its obligations under the Relevant Transaction Documents, the issue of the Notes and such Definitive Notes and the Residual Certificates and such Definitive Residual Certificates do not and will not conflict with or constitute a breach or infringement of any of the terms of, or constitute a default by the Issuer under:

 

4.1

the Issuer’s constitutive documents;

 

- 85 -


4.2

any Requirement of Law or any Regulatory Direction; or

 

4.3

any agreement, indenture, contract, mortgage, deed or other instrument to which the Issuer is a party or which is binding on it or any of its assets.

 

5.

VALID AND BINDING OBLIGATIONS

The obligations expressed to be assumed by the Issuer under the Relevant Transaction Documents (other than the Notes and the Residual Certificates) are legal and valid obligations, binding on it and enforceable against it in accordance with their terms, except:

 

5.1

as such enforcement may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, reorganisation or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of the rights of creditors generally;

 

5.2

as such enforceability may be limited by the effect of general principles of equity; and

 

5.3

obligations relating to stamp duties may be void by virtue of Section 117 of the Stamp Act 1891.

 

6.

NOTES AND RESIDUAL CERTIFICATES VALID AND BINDING

The Note Certificates will, upon execution, due authentication and delivery, constitute legal and valid obligations, binding on it and enforceable against it in accordance with their terms, except:

 

6.1

as such enforcement may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, reorganisation or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of the rights of creditors generally;

 

6.2

as such enforceability may be limited by the effect of general principles of equity; and

 

6.3

obligations relating to stamp duties may be void by virtue of Section 117 of the Stamp Act 1891.

 

7.

STATUS OF NOTES AND RESIDUAL CERTIFICATES

 

7.1

The Notes and the Residual Certificates will constitute secured obligations of the Issuer in accordance with the terms of the Deed of Charge.

 

7.2

The Class A Notes rank and will at all times rank pari passu and rateably without preference or priority amongst themselves and the Class B Notes rank and will at all times rank pari passu and rateably without preference or priority amongst themselves.

 

7.3

Payments of interest due on the Class A Notes will rank in priority to payments of interest due on the Class B Notes.

 

7.4

Payments of principal due on the Class A Notes will rank in priority to payments of principal due on the Class B Notes.

 

- 86 -


7.5

The Residual Certificates rank pari passu without preference or priority among themselves in relation to payment of Residual Payments, but subordinate to all payments due in respect of the Notes, as provided in the Residual Certificates Conditions and the Transaction Documents.

 

8.

ARMS’ LENGTH TRANSACTIONS

The Relevant Transaction Documents to which the Issuer is a party have been entered into by the Issuer in good faith for the benefit of the Issuer and on arms’ length commercial terms.

 

9.

CROSS DEFAULT

The Issuer is not in breach of or default under any agreement, indenture, contract, mortgage, deed or other instrument to which it is a party or which is binding on it or any of its assets to an extent or in a manner which would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Issuer, any Relevant Transaction Document, any of the Assigned Rights or the Notes.

 

10.

COMPLIANCE WITH RELEVANT TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS

The Issuer has complied with the terms of the Relevant Transaction Documents.

 

11.

SECURITY

The Deed of Charge validly creates the Encumbrances in respect of the assets of the Issuer which it purports to create and with the ranking specified in the Deed of Charge.

 

12.

ENCUMBRANCES VALID AND BINDING

The Encumbrances created by the Deed of Charge are legal and valid obligations, binding on it and enforceable against it in accordance with their respective terms and not liable to be avoided or otherwise set aside in the event of any Insolvency Event in relation to the Issuer.

 

13.

RANKING OF CLAIMS

The claims of the Secured Creditors against the Issuer will rank in priority to the claims of unsecured creditors of the Issuer as provided in the Deed of Charge.

 

14.

CHOICE OF LAW

 

14.1

The choice of English law as the governing law of the Transaction Documents will be recognised and enforced in the Issuer Jurisdiction; and

 

14.2

any judgment obtained in England and Wales in relation to any Transaction Document will be recognised and enforced in the Issuer Jurisdiction.

 

15.

REQUIRED CONSENTS

The Issuer does not require the consent of any other party or the consent, licence, approval or authorisation of any Governmental Authority or the filing, recording or

 

- 87 -


enrolling of any Transaction Document with any court or other authority in England in connection with the creation and issue of the Notes and the Residual Certificates, or the entering into or performance of the Relevant Transaction Documents other than the Required Consents in relation to the Issuer which have not been revoked or suspended and which are in full force and effect and the Issuer has complied with any conditions which apply to the Required Consents in relation to the Issuer.

 

16.

NO REVOCATION OF REQUIRED CONSENTS

The Issuer is not aware of any circumstance which indicates that any Required Consent of the Issuer is likely to be terminated or revoked or not renewed.

 

17.

STAMP, REGISTRATION AND SIMILAR TAXES

Under the laws of the Issuer Jurisdiction, it is not necessary that any stamp, registration or similar tax be paid on or in relation to the Relevant Transaction Documents or any of them.

 

18.

WITHHOLDING TAX

Under the laws of the Issuer Jurisdiction the Issuer will not be required to make any Tax Deduction from any payment it may make under the Notes, the Residual Certificates or any Relevant Transaction Documents (including interest accruing after a payment default), subject to, in the case of manufactured payments under the Repurchase Agreement, the Issuer having received a direction given by the Commissioners of Revenue & Customs under Regulation 2 of the Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (General) Regulations 1970 (SI 1970/488) with respect to such payments.

 

19.

ACCURACY OF INFORMATION

All Relevant Information supplied by the Issuer to the Trustee in connection with the execution of the Relevant Transaction Documents and the issue of the Notes and of the Residual Certificates and the performance of the obligations of the Issuer under the Relevant Transaction Documents and in respect of the Notes and of the Residual Certificates is true and accurate in all respects and is not misleading because of any omission or ambiguity or for any other reason.

 

20.

LISTING DOCUMENT

 

20.1

The Listing Document contains all information regarding the Issuer and the Notes which is (in the context of the issue of the Notes) material;

 

20.2

such information is true and accurate in all material respects and not misleading in any material respect;

 

20.3

any opinions, predictions and intentions expressed in the Listing Document on the part of the Issuer are honestly held or made and are not misleading in any material respect;

 

20.4

the Listing Document does not omit to state any material fact necessary to make such information, opinions, predictions or intentions (in such context) not misleading in any material respect; and

 

- 88 -


20.5

all proper enquiries have been made by or on behalf of the Issuer to ascertain and to verify the foregoing.

 

21.

GENERAL DUTY OF DISCLOSURE

The Listing Document contains all such information as is necessary to enable investors to make an informed assessment of the assets and liabilities, financial position, profits and losses and prospects of the Issuer and of the rights attaching to the Notes.

 

22.

APPROVAL OF LISTING DOCUMENT

Applications have been made or will be made within 5 Business Days of the Closing Date for each class of Notes to be admitted to listing on the Official List of TISE.

 

23.

EVENTS OF DEFAULT, POTENTIAL NOTE EVENT OF DEFAULT

No Potential Note Event of Default or Note Event of Default has occurred.

 

24.

SECURITIES PORTFOLIO

On the Closing Date, the Issuer will be the beneficial owner of the Securities Portfolio to be acquired by it on the Closing Date pursuant to the Repurchase Agreement.

 

25.

OFAC SANCTIONS AND ANTI-CORRUPTION:

Sanctions Target: the Issuer is not, nor, to the knowledge of the Issuer, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Issuer is currently a target of any economic sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of Treasury (“OFAC”) or any other US, EU, United Nations or UK economic sanctions (“Sanctions Target”) and will not lend, invest, contribute or otherwise make available the proceeds of the offering of the Notes to or for the benefit of any then-current Sanctions Target; and

Anti-corruption: neither the Issuer nor, to the best of the knowledge of the Issuer, any director, officer, agent, employee, affiliate of or person acting on behalf of the Issuer has engaged in any activity or conduct which would violate any applicable anti-bribery or anti-corruption law or regulation.

 

26.

BANKING ACT

The Issuer is not a holding company of a bank, a building society or a credit union, or a group undertaking of any such entities as such terms are defined in Part 1 of the Banking Act 2009.

 

- 89 -


SCHEDULE 6

ISSUER COVENANTS

PART 1

CORPORATE COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER

The Issuer shall:

 

1.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

1.1

Preparation of Financial Statements

cause to be prepared in respect of each of its financial years, Financial Statements in such form as will comply with the requirements for the time being of the Companies Acts;

 

1.2

Delivery of Financial Statements

as soon as the same become available, but in any event by the Accounts Final Delivery Date, deliver to the Servicer and the Trustee two copies of its Financial Statements for such financial year and deliver to the Servicer and the Trustee as soon as practicable following the issue or giving of the same two copies of every balance sheet, profit and loss account, source and application of funds statement (if any), report or other notice, statement, circular or document issued or given to any holder of securities or creditors generally of the Issuer;

 

1.3

Certificate to accompany Financial Statements

on the Calculation Date immediately preceding each anniversary of the Closing Date and otherwise forthwith on request by the Trustee deliver a certificate signed by two directors of the Issuer stating that no Note Event of Default or Potential Note Event of Default has occurred (or, if such is not the case, specifying the particulars of any Note Event of Default);

 

2.

CONDUCT

at all times carry on and conduct its affairs in a proper and efficient manner in compliance with any Requirement of Law and any Regulatory Direction from time to time in force in the Issuer Jurisdiction or in any other jurisdiction in which it carries on business and in compliance with its constitutive documents;

 

3.

CONSENTS

obtain, comply with the terms of and do all that is necessary to maintain in full force and effect all authorisations, approvals, licences and consents necessary under any Requirement of Law and any Regulatory Direction from time to time in force in the Issuer Jurisdiction or in any other applicable jurisdiction;

 

3.1

in connection with its business; and

 

3.2

to enable it lawfully to enter into and perform its obligations under the Relevant Transaction Documents or to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility in evidence in the Issuer Jurisdiction of the Relevant Transaction Documents including any registration required under the Companies Acts;

 

- 90 -


4.

AUTHORISED SIGNATORIES

deliver to the Trustee (with a copy to the Servicer) on the Closing Date and thereafter upon any change of the same, a list of Authorised Signatories of the Issuer together with a specimen signature of each Authorised Signatory;

 

5.

REGISTERED OFFICE, HEAD OFFICE AND CENTRE OF MAIN INTERESTS

maintain its registered office, its head office and its “centre of main interests”, as that term is used in Article 3(1) of the Recast EU Insolvency Regulation, in England and will not move such offices to another jurisdiction;

 

6.

BOARD MEETINGS, MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION

hold all meetings of the board of directors of the Issuer in the United Kingdom and not hold any such meeting outside the United Kingdom and procure that the Issuer’s management, the places of residence of the directors of the Issuer and the place where the Issuer effects its central management and decision making are all, at all times, situated in the United Kingdom;

 

7.

NO FOREIGN ESTABLISHMENT

not establish any “establishment”, as that term is used in Article 2(10) of the Recast EU Insolvency Regulation, outside of England.

 

8.

GENERAL NEGATIVE COVENANTS

not until after the Final Discharge Date, save to the extent permitted by the Relevant Transaction Documents or with the prior written consent of the Trustee:

 

8.1

carry on any business or enter into any documents other than those contemplated by the Relevant Transaction Documents;

 

8.2

except as contemplated by the Transaction Documents, sell, convey, transfer, lease, assign or otherwise dispose of or agree or attempt or purport to sell, convey, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of or use, invest or otherwise deal with any of its properties, assets or undertaking or grant any option or right to acquire the same;

 

8.3

grant, create or permit to exist any Encumbrance over (including the grant of security or trust over or the occurrence of execution or diligence in respect of) the Assigned Rights other than any Permitted Encumbrance;

 

8.4

pay dividends or make other distributions to its members out of profits available for distribution and then only in the manner permitted by its constitutive documents and by applicable laws;

 

8.5

incur or permit to subsist any indebtedness whatsoever;

 

- 91 -


8.6

make any loans, grant any credit or give any guarantee or indemnity to or for the benefit of any person or otherwise voluntarily assume any liability, whether actual or contingent, in respect of any obligation of any other person;

 

8.7

consolidate or merge with any other person;

 

8.8

surrender any losses to any other company;

 

8.9

have any employees or premises or have any subsidiary undertaking (as defined in Section 1162 of the Companies Act 2006) or become a director of any company;

 

8.10

have an interest in any bank account other than the Issuer Accounts and the bank account opened to hold its share capital and annual profit unless such account or interest is charged to the Trustee on terms acceptable to it;

 

8.11

amend, supplement or otherwise modify its constitutive documents; and

 

8.12

permit the validity or effectiveness of the Trust Documents or of the Security to be impaired or to be amended, hypothecated, subordinated, terminated or discharged.

 

9.

SECURITISATION COMPANY

 

9.1

enter into the transactions envisaged by the Relevant Transaction Documents and, in accordance with the terms of those documents, and will not undertake any other activities (and in particular it will not own any shares or other interest in another company, have any employees or act as guarantor of any liability of any nature whatsoever of any other company), and any activity undertaken by it otherwise than in accordance with the Relevant Transaction Documents and the transactions actually entered into by it is or will be (as appropriate) an activity that is incidental to the Issuer’s acquisition, holding and management of financial assets forming the whole or part of the security for the Notes and Residual Certificates.

 

9.2

not take any action which would be inconsistent with it being and remaining a note-issuing company as defined in the Taxation of Securitisation Companies Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/3296) or that would cause it to cease to be taxed in accordance with regulation 14 of those Regulations.

 

- 92 -


PART 2

TRANSACTION DOCUMENT COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER

The Issuer shall:

 

1.

COMPLIANCE WITH RELEVANT TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS

at all times comply with and perform all its obligations under the Relevant Transaction Documents and the Notes and Residual Certificates and use all reasonable endeavours to procure that the other Transaction Parties, other than the Trustee, comply with and perform all their respective obligations under the Relevant Transaction Documents;

 

2.

EXERCISE RIGHTS

preserve and/or exercise and/or enforce its rights under and pursuant to the Notes, the Residual Certificates and the Relevant Transaction Documents;

 

3.

DEALING WITH TRUSTEE

 

3.1

Inspection by Trustee

upon reasonable notice, during normal business hours allow the Trustee and any persons appointed by the Trustee access to such books of account and other business records as relate to the Assigned Rights or the Benefit of the Assigned Rights as the Trustee or any such persons may reasonably require;

 

3.2

Information to Trustee

at all times give to the Trustee such information, opinions, certificates and other evidence as the Trustee and any persons appointed by the Trustee shall reasonably require (and which it is reasonably practicable to produce) for the purposes of the discharge of the duties, trusts, powers, authorities and discretions vested in the Trustee by or pursuant to the Trust Deed or any other Relevant Transaction Document;

 

4.

NOTIFICATION OF BREACH OF ISSUER WARRANTIES AND UNDERTAKINGS

immediately notify the Servicer, the Trustee if the Issuer becomes aware of any breach of the Issuer Warranties or of any breach of any undertaking given by the Issuer in any Relevant Transaction Documents;

 

5.

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

 

5.1

Notification of Legal Proceedings

if any legal proceedings are instituted against it by any of its creditors or in respect of any of the Assigned Rights, including any litigation or claim calling into question in any material way the Issuer’s interest therein, immediately:

 

  5.1.1

notify the Servicer and the Trustee of such proceedings; and

 

- 93 -


  5.1.2

notify the court and any receiver appointed in respect of the property the subject of such proceedings of the interests of the Trustee in the Assigned Rights;

 

5.2

Join in Legal Proceedings

if the Trustee so requires the Issuer will join in any legal proceedings brought by the Trustee against any person;

 

6.

EXECUTION OF FURTHER DOCUMENTS

perform any act required by any Requirement of Law or any Regulatory Direction to be performed, and so far as permitted by applicable law, execute such further documents and perform such further acts as may be incidental to, or necessary in the opinion of the Trustee to give effect to, the Relevant Transaction Documents;

 

7.

NOTIFICATION OF NOTE EVENT OF DEFAULT

deliver notice to the Trustee forthwith upon becoming aware of any Note Event of Default or Potential Note Event of Default without waiting for the Trustee to take any further action;

 

8.

NO ENCUMBRANCES

not create or permit to subsist any Encumbrance in respect of the Issuer Accounts or any assets of the Issuer other than pursuant to the Deed of Charge;

 

9.

NO VARIATION AND TERMINATION OF RELEVANT TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS

not until the Final Discharge Date, save to the extent permitted by the Relevant Transaction Documents or with the prior written consent of the Trustee:

 

9.1

terminate, repudiate, rescind or discharge any Relevant Transaction Document;

 

9.2

vary, novate, amend, modify or waive any provision of any Relevant Transaction Document; or

 

9.3

permit any person who has obligations under the Relevant Transaction Documents to be released from such obligations other than in accordance with the terms of the applicable Relevant Transaction Document and any applicable Requirement of Law or Regulatory Direction; and

 

10.

REQUIRED CONSENTS

effect all Required Consents in respect of the Issuer and file, record or enrol each Relevant Transaction Document required to be filed, recorded or enrolled with any court or other authority in England and ensure that such Required Consents and such other filings, recordings or enrolments are at all times maintained in accordance with any applicable Requirement of Law or Regulatory Direction.

 

- 94 -


PART 3

ASSET COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER

The Issuer shall:

 

1.

BOOKS OF ACCOUNT

maintain, or procure that the Servicer maintains, clear and unambiguous records and books of account in respect of the Assigned Rights and all amounts received in respect of the Assigned Rights;

 

2.

NOTIFICATION OF LITIGATION

promptly notify the Servicer and the Trustee if the Issuer receives, after the Closing Date in respect of any Assigned Rights, any notice of any litigation in relation to any of such Assigned Rights including any litigation or claim calling into question in any material way the Issuer’s interest in any Assigned Rights;

 

3.

PARTICIPATION IN LITIGATION

if reasonably required to do so by the Servicer or the Trustee, participate in or join in and lend its name to, and take such other steps as may be required by the Servicer or the Trustee (as the case may be) in relation to any action (through the courts or otherwise) relating to any Assigned Rights after the Closing Date in respect of such Assigned Rights, including participation in any legal proceedings to the extent necessary for defending or contesting any litigation in relation to such Assigned Rights including any litigation or claim calling into question the Issuer’s interest in any such Assigned Rights;

 

4.

INTERESTS IN THE ASSIGNED RIGHTS

at all times own and exercise its rights in respect of the Assigned Rights and its interest in the Assigned Rights and perform and comply with its obligations in respect of the Assigned Rights under the terms of the Relevant Transaction Documents;

 

5.

FURTHER ACTION

perform any act incidental to or necessary in connection with the other covenants contained in Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of this Schedule 6 or any act required by any law, regulation or order of any court to be performed; and

 

6.

NEGATIVE COVENANT

not until the Final Discharge Date, save to the extent permitted by the Transaction Documents, permit any person other than the Issuer and the Trustee to have any interest in the Assigned Rights.

 

- 95 -


PART 4

COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER IN RESPECT OF THE NOTES

The Issuer shall:

 

1.

LISTING

 

1.1

use all reasonable endeavours to procure the admission of the Notes to listing on TISE and to maintain such admission until none of the Notes is outstanding;

 

1.2

if it is impracticable or unduly burdensome to maintain the admission of the Notes to listing on TISE, use all reasonable endeavours to procure and maintain a listing for or quotation or trading of the Notes on such other stock exchange or exchanges as it may (with the approval of the Trustee) decide provided such other stock exchange is a recognised stock exchange for the purpose of section 1005 of the Income Tax Act 2007;

 

2.

ASCERTAINING THE OUTSTANDING AMOUNTS OF THE NOTES

upon receiving a written request from the Trustee, and subject to the Registrar providing the Issuer with the necessary information it has available to in accordance with the Transaction Documents, deliver to the Trustee a certificate of the Issuer (signed on its behalf by two Authorised Signatories) setting out the total number and aggregate Principal Amount Outstanding of the outstanding Notes which:

 

2.1

up to and including the date of such certificate have been purchased by the Issuer and cancelled in accordance with the Agency Agreement; and

 

2.2

at the date of such certificate are held by any person for the benefit of the Issuer or, so far as the Issuer is aware, the Seller any of the Seller’s holding companies or any subsidiaries of any of the Seller’s holding companies (without being required to make enquiries other than of its holding companies or the Seller);

 

3.

NOTICES TO NOTEHOLDERS

send or procure to be sent to the Trustee not less than three days prior to the date of publication, for the Trustee’s approval, one copy of each notice to be given to the Noteholders in accordance with the Conditions and not publish such notice without such approval and, upon publication, send to the Trustee a copy of such notice (such approval, unless so expressed, not to constitute approval of such notice for the purposes of Section 21 of the FSMA), provided that this Paragraph shall not apply to the submission of the Issuer’s Financial Statements with The International Stock Exchange;

 

4.

NOTIFICATION OF NON PAYMENT

procure that the Paying Agent notifies the Trustee forthwith if it does not, on or before the due date for payment in respect of the Notes, receive unconditionally the full amount in Sterling, euro or U.S. dollars of the monies payable on such due date on all such Notes;

 

- 96 -


5.

NOTIFICATION OF LATE PAYMENT

if unconditional payment to the Paying Agent or the Trustee of any sum due in respect of the Notes is made after the due date for such payment, forthwith give notice to the Noteholders in accordance with the Conditions that such payment has been made;

 

6.

NOTIFICATION OF REDEMPTION OR REPAYMENT

not less than the number of days specified in the relevant Conditions prior to the redemption or repayment date in respect of any Note, give to the Trustee notice in writing of the amount of such redemption or repayment pursuant to the Conditions;

 

7.

TAX OR OPTIONAL REDEMPTION

if the Issuer gives notice to the Trustee that it intends to redeem the Notes pursuant to Condition 8.3 (Optional Redemption in whole for taxation reasons) prior to giving such notice to the Noteholders, provide such information to the Trustee as the Trustee requires in order to satisfy itself of the matters referred to in those Conditions;

 

8.

LIABILITY TO TAX

promptly give notice to the Trustee:

 

8.1

if it is required by law to effect a Tax Deduction in respect of any payment due in respect of the Notes or the Residual Certificates; or

 

8.2

if it ceases to be taxable in accordance with Regulation 14 of the Taxation of Securitisation Company Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/3296),

and take such action as may be required by the Trustee in respect thereof; and

 

9.

CHANGE OF AGENTS

give not less than 14 days prior notice to the Noteholders in accordance with the Notices Condition of any future appointment or any resignation or removal of any Agent or of any change by any Agent of its Specified Office.

 

- 97 -


SCHEDULE 7

SECURITISATION REGULATION COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER, THE SELLER AND THE SERVICER

 

1.

Designated entity

The Seller as the originator and the Issuer as the SSPE (each for the purposes of the Securitisation Regulation) have agreed that the Issuer shall act as the ‘designated entity’ for the purposes of Article 7(2) of the Securitisation Regulation and will either fulfil such requirements itself or shall procure that such requirements are complied with on its behalf.

 

2.

Transaction summary

The Seller represents that the information contained in the transaction summary provided in accordance with Article 7(1)(c) of the Securitisation Regulation on or around the Closing Date to the Class A Noteholder and the Class B Noteholder is true and accurate in all material aspects.

 

2.1

Transparency

 

2.2

The Issuer (as the SSPE for the purposes of the Securitisation Regulation) represents and undertakes to the Class A Noteholder that it will use commercially reasonable efforts to procure that the Servicer will use commercially reasonable efforts to provide any information which is required to be made available by the Issuer pursuant to and at the times and in the manner required by Articles 7(1)(a), (c), (e) and (g) of the Securitisation Regulation (subject to the provisions of Article 43(8) of the Securitisation Regulation);

 

2.3

the Servicer represents and undertakes to the Class A Noteholder that it will use commercially reasonable efforts to provide any information which is required to be made available by the Issuer pursuant to and at the times and in the manner required by Articles 7(1)(a), (e) and (g) of the Securitisation Regulation (subject to the provisions of Article 43(8) of the Securitisation Regulation);

 

2.4

the Servicer represents and undertakes to the Class A Noteholder that it will use commercially reasonable efforts to provide any information reasonably requested by the Class A Noteholder provided that the Class A Noteholder has confirmed to the Seller that such information is being sought strictly for the purposes of it complying with its obligations under Article 5 of the Securitisation Regulation arising from a mandatory requirement of any regulatory authority having jurisdiction on the Class A Noteholder after the Closing Date; and

 

2.5

in each case subject to any requirement of law and subject to and in accordance with any guidance and any transitional provision that is then current and issued by the European Banking Authority, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority, the European Securities and Markets Authority, the European Commission, the FCA and/or any successor regulator and provided that neither the Issuer nor the Servicer will be in breach of such undertaking if it fails to so comply due to events, actions and/or circumstances beyond its control.

 

- 98 -


SCHEDULE 8

NOTICE DETAILS

The address referred to in Paragraph 18 (Notices) of the Common Terms is:

 

1.            in the case of the Seller:
   To:    ACREFI B, LLC
   Address:    C/o Corporation Service Company
      251 Little Falls Drive
      Wilmington, DE 19808
   Attention:   
   With a copy to:    Apollo Global Management LLP
      25 St George Street
      London W1S 1FS
   Tel:                        
   Email:                        
   Attention:   

 

- 99 -


2.        

  

in the case of the Issuer:

  

Address:

  

ACRE Debt 2 PLC

  

Fax:

  

                    

  

Email:

  

                    

  

Attention:

  

The Directors

3.

  

in the case of the Servicer:

  

To:

  

ACREFI Management, LLC

  

Address:

  

C/o Corporation Service Company

     

251 Little Falls Drive

     

Wilmington, DE 19808

  

Attention:

  
  

With a copy to:

  

Apollo Global Management LLP

     

25 St George Street

     

London W1S 1FS

  

Tel:

  

                    

  

Email:

  

                    

  

Attention:

  
     

4.

  

in the case of the Trustee:

  

To:

  

U.S. Bank Trustees Limited

  

Address:

  

125 Old Broad Street, Fifth Floor, London EC2N 1AR

  

Fax:

                       
  

Email:

                       
  

Attention:

  

Structured Finance Relationship Management

 

- 100 -


5.            in the case of the Account Bank, the Note Calculation Agent, the Paying Agent and the Registrar:
  

To:

  

Elavon Financial Services D.A.C., UK Branch

  

Address:

  

5th Floor, 125 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1AR

  

Fax:

  
  

Email:

  
  

Attention:

  

Structured Finance Relationship Management

6.

  

in the case of the Cash Manager:

  

To:

  

U.S. Bank Global Corporate Trust Limited

  

Address:

  

5th Floor, 125 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1AR

  

Fax:

  
  

Email:

  
  

Attention:

  

Structured Finance Relationship Management

7.

  

in the case of the Realisation Agent:

  

To:

  

Barclays Bank PLC

  

Address:

  

5 The North Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London, E14 4BB

  

Fax:

  
  

Email:

  
  

Attention:

  

8.

  

in the case of the Corporate Services Provider:

  

To:

  

TMF Global Services (UK) Limited

  

Address:

  

8th Floor 20 Farringdon Street, London, United Kingdom, EC4A 4AB

  

Fax:

  
  

Email:

  
  

Attention:

  

The Transaction Team

 

- 101 -


SCHEDULE 9

ACCOUNT DETAILS

Seller GBP Account Details

Seller EUR Account Details

GBP Transaction Account Details

 

- 102 -


EUR Transaction Account Details

USD Transaction Account Details

EUR Cash Margin Account Details

 

- 103 -


GBP Cash Margin Account Details

USD Cash Margin Account Details

EUR Income Account Details

 

- 104 -


GBP Income Account Details

USD Income Account Details

 

 

- 105 -


THIS INCORPORATED TERMS MEMORANDUM has been signed on or about 30 June 2020

 

BY:      
The Issuer      
SIGNED and DELIVERED    )   
as a DEED by    )   
ACRE DEBT 2 PLC    )   
acting by its two duly authorised    )   
signatories    )   

/s/

 

   Authorised Signatory   

/s/

 

   Authorised Signatory   
Holdings      
SIGNED and DELIVERED    )   
as a DEED by    )   
ACRE DEBT HOLDINGS LIMITED    )   
acting by its two duly authorised    )   
signatories    )   

/s/

 

   Authorised Signatory   

/s/

 

   Authorised Signatory   

 

Signature page to the Incorporated Terms Memorandum


The Seller      
SIGNED and DELIVERED    )    /s/
as a DEED by    )
ACREFI B, LLC    )
by    )
Authorised Person    )
The Servicer      
SIGNED and DELIVERED    )    /s/
as a DEED by    )
ACREFI BN, LLC    )
by    )
Authorised Person    )
The Account Bank, Registrar, Paying Agent and Note Calculation Agent   
SIGNED and DELIVERED    )   
as a DEED by    )   
ELAVON FINANCIAL SERVICES    )   
D.A.C., UK BRANCH    )   
acting by its two duly authorised    )   
signatories      

/s/

   Authorised Signatory

/s/

   Authorised Signatory

 

Signature page to the Incorporated Terms Memorandum


The Cash Manager      
SIGNED and DELIVERED    )   
as a DEED by    )   
U.S. BANK GLOBAL CORPORATE    )   
TRUST LIMITED    )   
acting by its two duly authorised    )   
signatories      

/s/

   Authorised Signatory   

    

Authorised Signatory

     

/s/

   Authorised Signatory   

    

Authorised Signatory

     
The Trustee      
SIGNED and DELIVERED    )   
as a DEED by    )   
U.S. BANK TRUSTEES LIMITED    )   
acting by its duly authorised signatories      

/s/

   Authorised Signatory   

    

Authorised Signatory

     

/s/

   Authorised Signatory   

    

Authorised Signatory

     

 

Signature page to the Incorporated Terms Memorandum


The Realisation Agent      

EXECUTED and DELIVERED

as a DEED by

     

BARCLAYS BANK PLC

acting by its authorised signatory

  

/s/

 

  
   Authorised Signatory   
Witnessed by:   

/s/

 

  
   Witness   
Name:      
Address: 5 The North Colonnade      
London      
E14 4BB      
                                                                                                    
The Corporate Services Provider      
SIGNED and DELIVERED    )   
as a DEED by    )   
TMF GLOBAL SERVICES (UK) LIMITED    )   
acting by its two duly authorised    )   
signatories    )   

/s/

   Authorised Signatory   

/s/

   Authorised Signatory   

 

Signature page to the Incorporated Terms Memorandum


The Class A Noteholder      

EXECUTED and DELIVERED

as a DEED by

     

BARCLAYS BANK PLC

acting by its authorised signatory

  

/s/

 

  
   Authorised Signatory   
Witnessed by:   

/s/

 

  
   Witness   
Name:      
Address: 5 The North Colonnade      
London      
E14 4BB      

/s/                                                                                          

     
The Class B Noteholder      

SIGNED and DELIVERED

as a DEED by

     

ACREFI B, LLC

by

     
Authorised Person      
/s/                                                                                                

The Certificateholder

 

SIGNED and DELIVERED

as a DEED by

ACREFI B, LLC

by

Authorised Person

     
/s/                                                                                                

 

Signature page to the Incorporated Terms Memorandum