0001193125-13-342234.txt : 20130821 0001193125-13-342234.hdr.sgml : 20130821 20130821162336 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-13-342234 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 7 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20130821 ITEM INFORMATION: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement ITEM INFORMATION: Other Events ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20130821 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20130821 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000893958 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES [6189] IRS NUMBER: 383082892 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-49169 FILM NUMBER: 131053048 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1209 ORANGE STREET CITY: WILMINGTON STATE: DE ZIP: 19801 BUSINESS PHONE: 3135561240 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: MAIL CODE 482-B08-C24 STREET 2: 200 RENAISSANCE CENTER CITY: DETROIT STATE: MI ZIP: 48265-2000 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19921109 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3 CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001583965 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES [6189] STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-171684-03 FILM NUMBER: 131053049 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1209 ORANGE STREET CITY: WILMINGTON STATE: DE ZIP: 19801 BUSINESS PHONE: 3135561240 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: MAIL CODE 482-B08-C24 STREET 2: 200 RENAISSANCE CENTER CITY: DETROIT STATE: MI ZIP: 48265-2000 8-K 1 d585410d8k.htm FORM 8-K Form 8-K

 

 

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) August 21, 2013

 

 

Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3

(Issuing Entity with respect to Securities)

Capital Auto Receivables LLC

(Depositor with respect to Securities)

 

 

 

Delaware   333-171684-03   38-7097835

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification Number)

 

Capital Auto Receivables LLC

200 Renaissance Center

Detroit, Michigan

  48265
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

Registrant’s Telephone Number, including area code: (313) 656-5500

(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:

 

¨ 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))

 

 

 


Item 1.01 and 8.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement and Other Events

Capital Auto Receivables LLC (“Capital Auto”) has registered an issuance of $18,052,591,000 in principal amount of asset backed notes on Form S-3 (Registration File No. 333-171684) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), filed on January 13, 2011, as amended by Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 on December 6, 2011 (as amended, the “Registration Statement”).

Pursuant to the Registration Statement, Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3 (the “Issuing Entity”) issued $95,000,000 aggregate principal balance of the Class A-1a 0.80% Asset Backed Notes (the “Class A-1a Notes”), $166,000,000 aggregate principal balance of the Class A-1b Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the “Class A-1b Notes” and, together with the Class A-1a Notes, the “Class A-1 Notes”), $266,000,000 aggregate principal balance of the Class A-2 1.04% Asset Backed Notes (the ‘‘Class A-2 Notes’’), $260,000,000 aggregate principal balance of the Class A-3 1.31% Asset Backed Notes (the ‘‘Class A-3 Notes’’), $73,010,000 aggregate principal balance of the Class A-4 1.68% Asset Backed Notes (the ‘‘Class A-4 Notes’’ and, together with the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes and the Class A-3 Notes, the “Class A Notes”), $51,060,000 aggregate principal balance of the Class B 2.32% Asset Backed Notes (the “Class B Notes”), $48,380,000 aggregate principal balance of the Class C 2.79% Asset Backed Notes (the “Class C Notes”) and $43,000,000 aggregate principal balance of the Class D 3.69% Asset Backed Notes (the “Class D Notes” and collectively with the Class A Notes, the Class B Notes and the Class C Notes, the “Offered Notes”) on August 21, 2013 (the “Closing Date”). The Offered Notes have an aggregate principal balance of $1,002,450,000. The $37,630,000 aggregate principal balance of Class E 4.55% Asset Backed Notes (the “Class E Notes” and collectively with the Offered Notes, the “Notes”) were also issued by the Issuing Entity. Only the Offered Notes were offered publicly for sale. The Class E Notes and the Certificates will initially be held by the Depositor.

This Current Report on Form 8-K is being filed to satisfy an undertaking to file copies of certain agreements executed in connection with the issuance of the Offered Notes, the forms of which were filed as Exhibits to the Registration Statement.

The Notes were issued pursuant to an Indenture attached hereto as Exhibit 4.1, dated as of the Closing Date between the Issuing Entity and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Indenture Trustee.

The Notes evidence indebtedness of the Issuing Entity, the assets of which consist primarily of motor vehicle retail instalment sale contracts (the “Receivables”) secured by new and used automobiles and light duty trucks financed thereby.

As of the Closing Date, the Receivables have the characteristics described in the Prospectus Supplement, dated as of August 14, 2013, filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b)(5) of the Act on August 16, 2013.


Item 9.01. Exhibits

 

Exhibit 4.1    Indenture between Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3 and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Indenture Trustee, dated as of August 21, 2013.
Exhibit 4.2    Trust Agreement between Capital Auto Receivables LLC, as Depositor, and BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware, as Owner Trustee, dated as of August 21, 2013.
Exhibit 4.3    Pooling and Servicing Agreement between Ally Financial Inc., as Seller and Servicer, and Capital Auto Receivables LLC, dated as of August 21, 2013.
Exhibit 99.1    Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement among Ally Financial Inc., as Servicer, Custodian and Seller, Capital Auto Receivables LLC, as Depositor, and Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3, as Issuing Entity, dated as of August 21, 2013.
Exhibit 99.2    Custodian Agreement between Ally Financial Inc., as Custodian, and Capital Auto Receivables LLC, as Depositor, dated as of August 21, 2013.
Exhibit 99.3    Administration Agreement among Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3, as Issuing Entity, Ally Financial Inc., as Administrator, and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Indenture Trustee, dated as of August 21, 2013.


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.

 

CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES LLC

By:

 

/s/ R. C. Farris

Name:

  R. C. Farris

Title:

  Vice President

Dated: August 21, 2013


EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No.

  

Description

Exhibit 4.1    Indenture between Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3 and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Indenture Trustee, dated as of August 21, 2013.
Exhibit 4.2    Trust Agreement between Capital Auto Receivables LLC, as Depositor, and BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware, as Owner Trustee, dated as of August 21, 2013.
Exhibit 4.3    Pooling and Servicing Agreement between Ally Financial Inc., as Seller and Servicer, and Capital Auto Receivables LLC, dated as of August 21, 2013.
Exhibit 99.1    Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement among Ally Financial Inc., as Servicer, Custodian and Seller, Capital Auto Receivables LLC, as Depositor, and Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3, as Issuing Entity, dated as of August 21, 2013.
Exhibit 99.2    Custodian Agreement between Ally Financial Inc., as Custodian, and Capital Auto Receivables LLC, as Depositor, dated as of August 21, 2013.
Exhibit 99.3    Administration Agreement among Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3, as Issuing Entity, Ally Financial Inc., as Administrator, and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Indenture Trustee, dated as of August 21, 2013.
EX-4.1 2 d585410dex41.htm INDENTURE Indenture

EXHIBIT 4.1

 

 

 

CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET TRUST 2013-3

Class A-1a 0.80% Asset Backed Notes

Class A-1b Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes

Class A-2 1.04% Asset Backed Notes

Class A-3 1.31% Asset Backed Notes

Class A-4 1.68% Asset Backed Notes

Class B 2.32% Asset Backed Notes

Class C 2.79% Asset Backed Notes

Class D 3.69% Asset Backed Notes

Class E 4.55% Asset Backed Notes

 

 

INDENTURE

Dated as of August 21, 2013

 

 

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS

Indenture Trustee

 

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

         Page  

ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

     3   

SECTION 1.1

  DEFINITIONS      3   

SECTION 1.2

  INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE OF TRUST INDENTURE ACT      3   

ARTICLE II THE NOTES

     3   

SECTION 2.1

  FORM      3   

SECTION 2.2

  EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION AND DELIVERY      4   

SECTION 2.3

  TEMPORARY NOTES      5   

SECTION 2.4

  REGISTRATION OF NOTES; REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE OF NOTES      5   

SECTION 2.5

  MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST OR STOLEN NOTES      7   

SECTION 2.6

  PERSONS DEEMED NOTEHOLDERS      8   

SECTION 2.7

  PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST      8   

SECTION 2.8

  CANCELLATION OF NOTES      11   

SECTION 2.9

  RELEASE OF COLLATERAL      11   

SECTION 2.10

  BOOK-ENTRY NOTES      11   

SECTION 2.11

  NOTICES TO CLEARING AGENCY      12   

SECTION 2.12

  DEFINITIVE NOTES      12   

SECTION 2.13

  DEPOSITOR AS NOTEHOLDER      13   

SECTION 2.14

  TAX TREATMENT      13   

SECTION 2.15

  SPECIAL TERMS APPLICABLE TO THE PRIVATE NOTES      13   

ARTICLE III COVENANTS

     14   

SECTION 3.1

  PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST      14   

SECTION 3.2

  MAINTENANCE OF AGENCY OFFICE      14   

SECTION 3.3

  MONEY FOR PAYMENTS TO BE HELD IN TRUST      14   

SECTION 3.4

  EXISTENCE      16   

SECTION 3.5

  PROTECTION OF TRUST ESTATE; ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF PLEDGE      16   

SECTION 3.6

  OPINIONS AS TO TRUST ESTATE.      17   

SECTION 3.7

  PERFORMANCE OF OBLIGATIONS; SERVICING OF RECEIVABLES      18   

SECTION 3.8

  NEGATIVE COVENANTS      19   

SECTION 3.9

  ANNUAL STATEMENT AS TO COMPLIANCE      19   

SECTION 3.10

  CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, ETC., OF ISSUING ENTITY; DISPOSITION OF TRUST ASSETS      20   

SECTION 3.11

  SUCCESSOR OR TRANSFEREE.      22   

SECTION 3.12

  NO OTHER BUSINESS      22   

SECTION 3.13

  NO BORROWING      22   

SECTION 3.14

  GUARANTEES, LOANS, ADVANCES AND OTHER LIABILITIES      22   

SECTION 3.15

  SERVICERS OBLIGATIONS      22   

SECTION 3.16

  CAPITAL EXPENDITURES      22   

SECTION 3.17

  REMOVAL OF ADMINISTRATOR      23   

SECTION 3.18

  RESTRICTED PAYMENTS      23   

SECTION 3.19

  NOTICE OF EVENTS OF DEFAULT      23   

SECTION 3.20

  FURTHER INSTRUMENTS AND ACTS      23   

SECTION 3.21

  INDENTURE TRUSTEES ASSIGNMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE RECEIVABLES AND WARRANTY RECEIVABLES      23   

SECTION 3.22

  REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES BY THE ISSUING ENTITY TO THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE      24   

ARTICLE IV SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

     24   

SECTION 4.1

  SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE      24   

SECTION 4.2

  APPLICATION OF TRUST MONEY      26   

 

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SECTION 4.3

  REPAYMENT OF MONIES HELD BY PAYING AGENT      26   

SECTION 4.4

  DURATION OF POSITION OF INDENTURE TRUSTEE      26   

ARTICLE V DEFAULT AND REMEDIES

     26   

SECTION 5.1

  EVENTS OF DEFAULT      26   

SECTION 5.2

  ACCELERATION OF MATURITY; RESCISSION AND ANNULMENT      27   

SECTION 5.3

  COLLECTION OF INDEBTEDNESS AND SUITS FOR ENFORCEMENT BY INDENTURE TRUSTEE      28   

SECTION 5.4

  REMEDIES; PRIORITIES      30   

SECTION 5.5

  OPTIONAL PRESERVATION OF THE RECEIVABLES      31   

SECTION 5.6

  LIMITATION OF SUITS      32   

SECTION 5.7

  UNCONDITIONAL RIGHTS OF NOTEHOLDERS TO RECEIVE PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST      32   

SECTION 5.8

  RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES      33   

SECTION 5.9

  RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE      33   

SECTION 5.10

  DELAY OR OMISSION NOT A WAIVER      33   

SECTION 5.11

  CONTROL BY NOTEHOLDERS      33   

SECTION 5.12

  WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULTS      34   

SECTION 5.13

  UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS      34   

SECTION 5.14

  WAIVER OF STAY OR EXTENSION LAWS      34   

SECTION 5.15

  ACTION ON NOTES      35   

SECTION 5.16

  PERFORMANCE AND ENFORCEMENT OF CERTAIN OBLIGATIONS      35   

ARTICLE VI THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE

     36   

SECTION 6.1

  DUTIES OF INDENTURE TRUSTEE      36   

SECTION 6.2

  RIGHTS OF INDENTURE TRUSTEE      37   

SECTION 6.3

  INDENTURE TRUSTEE MAY OWN NOTES      38   

SECTION 6.4

  INDENTURE TRUSTEES DISCLAIMER      38   

SECTION 6.5

  NOTICE OF DEFAULTS      38   

SECTION 6.6

  REPORTS BY INDENTURE TRUSTEE      39   

SECTION 6.7

  COMPENSATION; INDEMNITY      39   

SECTION 6.8

  REPLACEMENT OF INDENTURE TRUSTEE      40   

SECTION 6.9

  MERGER OR CONSOLIDATION OF INDENTURE TRUSTEE      41   

SECTION 6.10

  APPOINTMENT OF CO-INDENTURE TRUSTEE OR SEPARATE INDENTURE TRUSTEE      41   

SECTION 6.11

  ELIGIBILITY; DISQUALIFICATION      42   

SECTION 6.12

  PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST THE ISSUING ENTITY      43   

SECTION 6.13

  REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF INDENTURE TRUSTEE      43   

SECTION 6.14

  INDENTURE TRUSTEE MAY ENFORCE CLAIMS WITHOUT POSSESSION OF NOTES      44   

SECTION 6.15

  SUIT FOR ENFORCEMENT      44   

SECTION 6.16

  RIGHTS OF NOTEHOLDERS TO DIRECT INDENTURE TRUSTEE      44   

ARTICLE VII NOTEHOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS

     44   

SECTION 7.1

  ISSUING ENTITY TO FURNISH INDENTURE TRUSTEE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF NOTEHOLDERS      44   

SECTION 7.2

  PRESERVATION OF INFORMATION, COMMUNICATIONS TO NOTEHOLDERS      44   

SECTION 7.3

  REPORTS BY THE ISSUING ENTITY      45   

SECTION 7.4

  REPORTS BY TRUSTEE      45   

ARTICLE VIII ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES

     46   

SECTION 8.1

  COLLECTION OF MONEY      46   

SECTION 8.2

  DESIGNATED ACCOUNTS; PAYMENTS      46   

SECTION 8.3

  GENERAL PROVISIONS REGARDING ACCOUNTS      48   

SECTION 8.4

  RELEASE OF TRUST ESTATE      48   

SECTION 8.5

  OPINION OF COUNSEL      49   

 

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ARTICLE IX SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

     49   

SECTION 9.1

  SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITHOUT CONSENT OF NOTEHOLDERS      49   

SECTION 9.2

  SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITH CONSENT OF NOTEHOLDERS      50   

SECTION 9.3

  EXECUTION OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES      52   

SECTION 9.4

  EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE      52   

SECTION 9.5

  CONFORMITY WITH THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT      52   

SECTION 9.6

  REFERENCE IN NOTES TO SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES      52   

ARTICLE X REDEMPTION OF NOTES

     52   

SECTION 10.1

  REDEMPTION      52   

SECTION 10.2

  FORM OF REDEMPTION NOTICE      53   

SECTION 10.3

  NOTES PAYABLE ON REDEMPTION DATE      53   

ARTICLE XI MISCELLANEOUS

     53   

SECTION 11.1

  COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATES AND OPINIONS, ETC.      53   

SECTION 11.2

  FORM OF DOCUMENTS DELIVERED TO INDENTURE TRUSTEE      55   

SECTION 11.3

  ACTS OF NOTEHOLDERS      56   

SECTION 11.4

  NOTICES, ETC., TO INDENTURE TRUSTEE, ISSUING ENTITY AND RATING AGENCIES      56   

SECTION 11.5

  NOTICES TO NOTEHOLDERS; WAIVER      57   

SECTION 11.6

  ALTERNATE PAYMENT AND NOTICE PROVISIONS      58   

SECTION 11.7

  CONFLICT WITH THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT      58   

SECTION 11.8

  EFFECT OF HEADINGS AND TABLE OF CONTENTS      58   

SECTION 11.9

  SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS      58   

SECTION 11.10

  SEVERABILITY      58   

SECTION 11.11

  BENEFITS OF INDENTURE      58   

SECTION 11.12

  LEGAL HOLIDAYS      58   

SECTION 11.13

  GOVERNING LAW      59   

SECTION 11.14

  COUNTERPARTS      59   

SECTION 11.15

  RECORDING OF INDENTURE      59   

SECTION 11.16

  NO RECOURSE      59   

SECTION 11.17

  NO PETITION      59   

SECTION 11.18

  INSPECTION      60   

SECTION 11.19

  INDEMNIFICATION BY AND REIMBURSEMENT OF SERVICER      60   

SECTION 11.20

  SUBORDINATION      60   

SECTION 11.21

  COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE ANTI-TERRORISM AND ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING REGULATIONS      61   

EXHIBIT A LOCATIONS OF SCHEDULE OF INITIAL RECEIVABLES AND ANY SCHEDULE OF ADDITIONAL RECEIVABLES

     Ex. A   

EXHIBIT B FORM OF NOTE DEPOSITORY AGREEMENT FOR THE NOTES

     Ex. B-1   

EXHIBIT C-1 FORM OF CLASS A-1A, CLASS A-2, CLASS A-3, CLASS A-4, CLASS B, CLASS C AND CLASS D FIXED RATE ASSET BACKED NOTES

     Ex. C-1   

EXHIBIT C-2: FORM OF CLASS A-1B FLOATING RATE ASSET BACKED NOTES

     Ex. C-2   

EXHIBIT C-3: FORM OF CLASS E FIXED RATE ASSET BACKED NOTES

     Ex. C-3   

EXHIBIT D SERVICING CRITERIA TO BE ADDRESSED IN INDENTURE TRUSTEE’S ASSESSMENT OF COMPLIANCE

     Ex. D-1   

EXHIBIT E FORM OF CERTIFICATION

     Ex. E   

APPENDIX A ADDITIONAL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

     App. A   

 

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INDENTURE, dated as of August 21, 2013, between CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET TRUST 2013-3, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Issuing Entity”), and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, a New York banking corporation, as trustee and not in its individual capacity (the “Indenture Trustee”).

Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Secured Parties (only to the extent expressly provided herein):

GRANTING CLAUSE

The Issuing Entity hereby Grants to the Indenture Trustee at the Initial Closing Date and at each Subsequent Closing Date, as applicable, as trustee for the benefit of the Secured Parties (only to the extent expressly provided herein):

(a) all right, title and interest of the Issuing Entity in, to and under the Initial Receivables listed on the Schedule of Initial Receivables and all monies received thereon on and after the Initial Cutoff Date, exclusive of any amounts allocable to the premium for physical damage collateral protection insurance required by the Seller or the Servicer covering any related Financed Vehicle;

(b) the interest of the Issuing Entity in the security interests in the Financed Vehicles granted by Obligors pursuant to the Initial Receivables and, to the extent permitted by law, any accessions thereto;

(c) the interest of the Issuing Entity in any proceeds from claims on any physical damage, credit life, credit disability or other insurance policies covering the related Financed Vehicles or Obligors;

(d) the interest of the Issuing Entity in any proceeds from recourse against Dealers on the Initial Receivables;

(e) the right to purchase Additional Receivables during the Revolving Period at a price equal to the Aggregate Additional Receivables Principal Balance of such Additional Receivables as of each Distribution Date;

(f) all right, title and interest of the Issuing Entity in, to and under the Additional Receivables listed on each Schedule of Additional Receivables and all monies received thereon on and after the applicable Subsequent Cutoff Date, in each case exclusive of any amounts allocable to the premium for physical damage collateral protection insurance required by the Seller or the Servicer covering any related Financed Vehicle;

(g) the interest of the Issuing Entity in the security interests in the Financed Vehicles granted by Obligors pursuant to the Additional Receivables and, to the extent permitted by law, any accessions thereto;

(h) the interest of the Issuing Entity in any proceeds from recourse against Dealers on the Additional Receivables;


(i) all right, title and interest of the Issuing Entity in, to and under the First Step Initial Receivables Assignment and the applicable First Step Additional Receivables Assignment;

(j) all right, title and interest of the Issuing Entity in, to and under the Second Step Initial Receivables Assignment and the applicable Second Step Additional Receivables Assignment;

(k) all right, title and interest of the Issuing Entity in the Reserve Account, the Collection Account, the Note Distribution Account, the Reserve Account Property and all funds on deposit in or other investment property credited to the Accumulation Account, the Collection Account and the Note Distribution Account from time to time;

(l) all right, title and interest of the Issuing Entity in, to and under the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and any other Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, including all rights of the Depositor under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the Custodian Agreement assigned to the Issuing Entity pursuant to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement; and

(m) all present and future claims, demands, causes and choses in action in respect of any or all of the foregoing and all payments on or under and all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in respect of any or all the foregoing, including all proceeds of the conversion of any or all of the foregoing, voluntary or involuntary, into cash or other liquid property, all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes, drafts, acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit accounts, insurance proceeds, investment property, payment intangibles, general intangibles, condemnation awards, rights to payment of any and every kind and other forms of obligations and receivables, instruments and other property which at any time constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the foregoing (collectively, the “Collateral”).

The foregoing Grant is made in trust to secure the Secured Obligations, equally and ratably without prejudice, priority or distinction, and to secure compliance with the provisions of this Indenture, all as provided in this Indenture. This Indenture constitutes a security agreement under the UCC.

The foregoing Grant includes all rights, powers and options (but none of the obligations, if any) of the Issuing Entity under any agreement or instrument included in the Collateral, including the immediate and continuing right to claim for, collect, receive and give receipt for principal and interest payments in respect of the Receivables included in the Collateral and all other monies payable under the Collateral, to give and receive notices and other communications, to make waivers or other agreements, to exercise all rights and options, to bring Proceedings in the name of the Issuing Entity or otherwise and generally to do and receive anything that the Issuing Entity is or may be entitled to do or receive under or with respect to the Collateral.

 

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The Indenture Trustee, as trustee on behalf of the Secured Parties and (only to the extent expressly provided herein) the Certificateholders, acknowledges such Grant and accepts the trusts under this Indenture in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

SECTION 1.1 Definitions. Certain capitalized terms used in this Indenture shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in Part I of Appendix A to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, dated as of the date hereof (as amended from time to time, the “Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement”), among the Issuing Entity, Capital Auto Receivables LLC and Ally Financial Inc. All references in this Indenture to Articles, Sections, subsections and Exhibits are to the same contained in or attached to this Indenture unless otherwise specified. All terms defined in this Indenture shall have the defined meanings when used in any certificate, notice, Note or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto unless otherwise defined therein. The rules of construction set forth in Part II of Appendix A to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement shall be applicable to this Indenture.

SECTION 1.2 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act. Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, such provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:

Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

indenture securities” means the Notes.

indenture security holder” means a Noteholder.

indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture.

indenture trustee” means the Indenture Trustee.

obligor” on the indenture securities means the Issuing Entity and any other obligor on the indenture securities.

All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by reference to another statute or defined by a Commission rule have the respective meanings assigned to them by such definitions.

ARTICLE II

THE NOTES

SECTION 2.1 Form.

(a) Each of the Class A-1a Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4 Notes, the Class B Notes, the Class C Notes and the Class D Notes, together, with the Indenture Trustee’s certificate of authentication, shall be substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit C-1, each of the Class A-1b Notes, together, with the Indenture Trustee’s certificate of authentication, shall be substantially in the form set forth in

 

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Exhibit C-2, and each of the Class E Notes, together, with the Indenture Trustee’s certificate of authentication, shall be substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit C-3, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are permitted or required by this Indenture and each such Note may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of the Notes. Any portion of the text of any Note may be set forth on the reverse thereof with an appropriate reference thereto on the face of the Note.

(b) The Definitive Notes shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods (with or without steel engraved borders), all as determined by the officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.

(c) The terms of each class of Notes as provided for in Exhibits C-1, C-2 and C-3 hereto are part of the terms of this Indenture.

SECTION 2.2 Execution, Authentication and Delivery.

(a) Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication and shall be issuable as a registered Note in the minimum denomination of $1,000 and in integral multiples thereof (except, if applicable, for one Note representing a residual portion of each class which may be issued in a different denomination).

(b) The Notes shall be executed on behalf of the Issuing Entity by any of its Authorized Officers. The signature of any such Authorized Officer on the Notes may be manual or facsimile.

(c) Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signature of individuals who were at any time Authorized Officers of the Issuing Entity shall bind the Issuing Entity, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such office prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or did not hold such office at the date of such Notes.

(d) The Indenture Trustee, in exchange for the Grant of the Receivables and the other components of the Trust Estate, simultaneously with the Grant to the Indenture Trustee of the Receivables and the constructive delivery to the Indenture Trustee of the Receivables Files and the other assets and components of the Trust Estate, shall cause to be authenticated and delivered to or upon the order of the Issuing Entity Notes for original issue in the aggregate principal amount of $1,040,080,000 comprised of (i) Class A-1 Notes in the aggregate principal amount of $261,000,000, (ii) Class A-2 Notes in the aggregate principal amount of $266,000,000, (iii) Class A-3 Notes in the aggregate principal amount of $260,000,000, (iv) Class A-4 Notes in the aggregate principal amount of $73,010,000, (v) Class B Notes in the aggregate principal amount of $51,060,000, (vi) Class C Notes in the aggregate principal amount of $48,380,000, (vii) Class D Notes in the aggregate principal amount of $43,000,000 and (viii) Class E Notes in the aggregate principal amount of $37,630,000. The aggregate principal amount of all Notes outstanding at any time may not exceed $1,040,080,000, except as provided in Section 2.5.

 

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(e) No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Note a certificate of authentication substantially in the form set forth in Exhibits C-1, C-2 and C-3, as applicable, executed by the Indenture Trustee by the manual signature of one of its Authorized Officers; such certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.

SECTION 2.3 Temporary Notes.

(a) Pending the preparation of Definitive Notes, if any, the Issuing Entity may execute, and upon receipt of an Issuing Entity Order the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, such Temporary Notes which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, of the tenor of the Definitive Notes in lieu of which they are issued and with such variations as are consistent with the terms of this Indenture as the officers executing such Notes may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.

(b) If Temporary Notes are issued, the Issuing Entity shall cause Definitive Notes to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of Definitive Notes, the Temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for Definitive Notes upon surrender of the Temporary Notes at the Agency Office of the Issuing Entity to be maintained as provided in Section 3.2, without charge to the Noteholder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more Temporary Notes, the Issuing Entity shall execute and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like principal amount of Definitive Notes of authorized denominations. Until so delivered in exchange, the Temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as Definitive Notes.

SECTION 2.4 Registration of Notes; Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes.

(a) The Issuing Entity shall cause to be kept the Note Register, comprising separate registers for each class of Notes, in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as the Issuing Entity may prescribe, the Issuing Entity shall provide for the registration of the Notes and the registration of transfers and exchanges of the Notes. The Indenture Trustee shall initially be the Note Registrar for the purpose of registering the Notes and transfers of the Notes as herein provided. Upon any resignation of any Note Registrar, the Issuing Entity shall promptly appoint a successor Note Registrar or, if it elects not to make such an appointment, assume the duties of the Note Registrar.

(b) If a Person other than the Indenture Trustee is appointed by the Issuing Entity as Note Registrar, the Issuing Entity will give the Indenture Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Note Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the Note Register. The Indenture Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof. The Indenture Trustee shall have the right to rely upon a certificate executed on behalf of the Note Registrar by an Executive Officer thereof as to the names and addresses of the Noteholders and the principal amounts and number of such Notes.

 

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(c) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee or the Agency Office of the Issuing Entity (and following the delivery, in the former case, of such Notes to the Issuing Entity by the Indenture Trustee), the Issuing Entity shall execute, the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and the Noteholder shall obtain from the Indenture Trustee, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes in any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount.

(d) At the option of the Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the same class in any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount; and upon surrender of such Notes to be exchanged at the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee or the Agency Office of the Issuing Entity (and following the delivery, in the former case, of such Notes to the Issuing Entity by the Indenture Trustee), the Issuing Entity shall execute, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and the Noteholder shall obtain from the Indenture Trustee, such Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

(e) All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of other Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuing Entity, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

(f) Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by a commercial bank or trust company located, or having a correspondent located, in The City of New York or the city in which the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee is located, or by a member firm of a national securities exchange, and such other documents as the Indenture Trustee may require.

(g) No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Issuing Entity or Indenture Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, other than exchanges pursuant to Sections 2.3 or 9.6 not involving any transfer.

(h) By acquiring a Class A Note, Class B Note, Class C Note or Class D Note, each purchaser and transferee shall be deemed to represent and warrant that either (i) it is not acquiring the Note with the plan assets of a Benefit Plan or other plan that is subject to any law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or (ii) the acquisition and holding of the Note will not give rise to a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of any substantially similar applicable law.

 

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(i) The preceding provisions of this Section 2.4 notwithstanding, the Issuing Entity shall not be required to transfer or make exchanges, and the Note Registrar need not register transfers or exchanges, of Notes that (i) have been selected for redemption pursuant to Article X, if applicable, or (ii) are due for repayment within fifteen (15) days of submission to the Corporate Trust Office or the Agency Office.

(j) (i) Sale, pledge or transfer of a Retained Note may only be made to a Person who is a United States Person (within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Internal Revenue Code). A Person other than the Depositor acquiring a Retained Note or an interest therein shall be deemed to have made the representations set forth in Section 2.14; and (ii) no sale, pledge, or transfer of a Retained Note shall be made (x) to any one person in an amount less than 100% of the Note Principal Balance of that class of Retained Note or (y) to a Special Pass-Through Entity, in each case, unless (A) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee and the Depositor that such sale, pledge, or transfer shall not cause the Issuing Entity to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes shall have been delivered to the Indenture Trustee and the Depositor and (B) the Depositor shall have provided prior written approval;

provided, however, that the restrictions in this Section 2.4(j) shall not continue to apply to such Notes (covered by the opinion described in this clause) in the event counsel satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee and the Depositor has rendered an opinion, with respect to the sale, pledge or transfer by the Depositor, to the effect that the Retained Notes to be sold, pledged, or transferred will be characterized as indebtedness for federal income tax purposes. Any attempted transfer in contravention of this Section 2.4(j) will be void ab initio and the purported transferor will continue to be treated as the owner of the Retained Note.

For the purposes of this Section 2.4(j), “Special Pass-Through Entity” means a grantor trust, S corporation, or partnership where more than 50% of the value of a beneficial owner’s interest in such pass through entity is attributable to the pass-through entity’s interest in the Retained Note.

SECTION 2.5 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes.

(a) If (i) any mutilated Note is surrendered to the Indenture Trustee, or the Indenture Trustee receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note and (ii) there is delivered to the Indenture Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by it to hold the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Issuing Entity, the Note Registrar or the Indenture Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Issuing Entity shall execute and upon the Issuing Entity’s request the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a replacement Note of a like class and aggregate principal amount; provided, however, that if any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note, but not a mutilated Note, shall have become or within seven (7) days shall be due and payable, or shall have been called for redemption, instead of issuing a replacement Note, the Issuing Entity may make payment to the Holder of such destroyed, lost or stolen Note when so due or payable or upon the Redemption Date, if applicable, without surrender thereof.

 

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(b) If, after the delivery of a replacement Note or payment in respect of a destroyed, lost or stolen Note pursuant to subsection (a), a protected purchaser of the original Note in lieu of which such replacement Note was issued presents for payment such original Note, the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to recover such replacement Note (or such payment) from (i) any Person to whom it was delivered, (ii) the Person taking such replacement Note from the Person to whom such replacement Note was delivered or (iii) any assignee of such Person, except a protected purchaser, and the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Issuing Entity or the Indenture Trustee in connection therewith.

(c) In connection with the issuance of any replacement Note under this Section 2.5, the Issuing Entity may require the payment by the Holder of such Note of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other reasonable expenses (including all fees and expenses of the Indenture Trustee) connected therewith.

(d) Any duplicate Note issued pursuant to this Section 2.5 in replacement for any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Issuing Entity, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be found at any time or be enforced by any Person, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder.

(e) The provisions of this Section 2.5 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes.

SECTION 2.6 Persons Deemed Noteholders. Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer of any Note, the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuing Entity or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name any Note is registered (as of the day of determination) as the Noteholder for the purpose of receiving payments of principal of and interest on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note be overdue, and neither the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee nor any agent of the Issuing Entity or the Indenture Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

SECTION 2.7 Payment of Principal and Interest.

(a) Interest on each class of Notes shall accrue in the manner set forth in Exhibit C-1, C-2 and C-3, as applicable, at the applicable Interest Rate for such class and will be due and payable on each Distribution Date in accordance with the priorities set forth in Section 8.2(c). Any installment of interest payable on any Note shall be punctually paid or duly provided for by a deposit by or at the direction of the Issuing Entity into the Note Distribution Account on the applicable Distribution Date and shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered on the applicable Record Date, by check mailed first-class, postage prepaid to such Person’s address as it appears on the Note Register on such Record Date; provided, however, that, unless and until Definitive Notes have been issued pursuant to Section 2.12, with respect to Notes registered on the applicable Record Date in the name of the

 

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Note Depository (initially, Cede & Co.), payment shall be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by the Note Depository; provided, further, that with respect to any Private Notes (other than Private Notes registered on the applicable Record Date in the name of the Note Depository), upon written request of the Holder thereof, payment shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account designated by such Holder until further written notice from such Holder.

(b) Prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and a declaration in accordance with Section 5.2(a) that the Notes have become immediately due and payable, the principal of each class of Notes shall be payable in full on the Final Scheduled Distribution Date for such class and, during the Amortization Period, to the extent of funds available therefor, in installments on the Distribution Dates (if any) preceding the Final Scheduled Distribution Date for such class, in the amounts and in accordance with the priorities set forth in Section 8.2(c)(ii) or Section 8.2(c)(iii), as applicable. All principal payments on each class of Notes on any Distribution Date shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders of such class entitled thereto. Any installment of principal payable on any Note shall be punctually paid or duly provided for by a deposit by or at the direction of the Issuing Entity into the Note Distribution Account on the applicable Distribution Date and shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered on the applicable Record Date, by check mailed first-class, postage prepaid to such Person’s address as it appears on the Note Register on such Record Date; provided, however, that, (A) unless and until Definitive Notes have been issued pursuant to Section 2.12, with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of the Note Depository, payment shall be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by the Note Depository and (B) with respect to any Private Notes (other than Private Notes registered on the applicable Record Date in the name of the Note Depository), upon written request of the Holder thereof, payment shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account designated by such Holder until further written notice from such Holder, in each case, except for: (i) the final installment of principal on any Note; and (ii) the Redemption Price for the Notes redeemed pursuant to Section 10.1, which, in each case, shall be payable as provided herein. The funds represented by any such checks in respect of interest or principal returned undelivered shall be held in accordance with Section 3.3.

(c) From and after the occurrence of an Event of Default and a declaration in accordance with Section 5.2(a) that the Notes have become immediately due and payable, until such time as all Events of Default have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.2(b), all interest and principal payments shall be allocated:

(i) first, an amount equal to the Aggregate Class A Interest Distributable Amount for payment of interest on the Class A Notes;

(ii) second, an amount equal to the Note Principal Balance of the Class A Notes (after giving effect to the reduction in the Note Principal Balance to result from the deposits made in the Note Distribution Account on such Distribution Date and on each prior Distribution Date) for payment of principal on the Class A Notes, sequentially by class, as follows:

(A) to the Class A-1a Notes and the Class A-1b Notes, ratably in accordance with the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Class A-1a Notes and the Class A-1b Notes until the Outstanding Amounts of the Class A-1a Notes and the Class A-1b Notes are reduced to zero;

 

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(B) to the Class A-2 Notes, until the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-2 Notes is reduced to zero;

(C) to the Class A-3 Notes, until the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-3 Notes is reduced to zero; and

(D) to the Class A-4 Notes, until the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-4 Notes is reduced to zero;

(iii) third, an amount equal to the Aggregate Class B Interest Distributable Amount for payment of interest on the Class B Notes;

(iv) fourth, an amount equal to the Note Principal Balance of the Class B Notes (after giving effect to the reduction in the Note Principal Balance to result from the deposits made in the Note Distribution Account on such Distribution Date and on each prior Distribution Date) for payment of principal on the Class B Notes;

(v) fifth, an amount equal to the Aggregate Class C Interest Distributable Amount for payment of interest on the Class C Notes;

(vi) sixth, an amount equal to the Note Principal Balance of the Class C Notes (after giving effect to the reduction in the Note Principal Balance to result from the deposits made in the Note Distribution Account on such Distribution Date and on each prior Distribution Date) for payment of principal on the Class C Notes;

(vii) seventh, an amount equal to the Aggregate Class D Interest Distributable Amount for payment of interest on the Class D Notes;

(viii) eighth, an amount equal to the Note Principal Balance of the Class D Notes (after giving effect to the reduction in the Note Principal Balance to result from the deposits made in the Note Distribution Account on such Distribution Date and on each prior Distribution Date) for payment of principal on the Class D Notes;

(ix) ninth, an amount equal to the Aggregate Class E Interest Distributable Amount for payment of interest on the Class E Notes; and

(x) tenth, an amount equal to the Note Principal Balance of the Class E Notes (after giving effect to the reduction in the Note Principal Balance to result from the deposits made in the Note Distribution Account on such Distribution Date and on each prior Distribution Date) for payment of principal on the Class E Notes.

(d) With respect to any Distribution Date on which the final installment of principal and interest on a class of Notes is to be paid, the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Issuing Entity shall notify each Noteholder of record of such class as of the Record Date for such Distribution Date of the fact that the final installment of principal of and interest on such Note is

 

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to be paid on such Distribution Date. With respect to any such class of Notes (other than in the case of redemption pursuant to Section 10.2(a)), such notice shall be sent (i) on such Record Date by facsimile, if Book-Entry Notes are outstanding; or (ii) not later than three (3) Business Days after such Record Date in accordance with Section 11.5(a) if Definitive Notes are outstanding, and shall specify that such final installment shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of such Note and shall specify the place where such Note may be presented and surrendered for payment of such installment and the manner in which such payment shall be made. Notices in connection with redemptions of Notes shall be mailed to Noteholders as provided in Section 10.2. Within sixty (60) days of the surrender pursuant to this Section 2.7(d) or cancellation pursuant to Section 2.8 of all of the Notes of a particular class, the Indenture Trustee if requested shall provide to the Depositor, who shall promptly deliver to each of the Rating Agencies, written notice stating that all Notes of such class have been surrendered or canceled.

SECTION 2.8 Cancellation of Notes. All Notes surrendered for payment, redemption, exchange or registration of transfer shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Indenture Trustee, be delivered to the Indenture Trustee and shall be promptly canceled by the Indenture Trustee. The Issuing Entity may at any time deliver to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation any Notes previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Issuing Entity may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Notes so delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Indenture Trustee. No Notes shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Notes canceled as provided in this Section 2.8, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Notes may be held or disposed of by the Indenture Trustee in accordance with its standard retention or disposal policy as in effect at the time unless the Issuing Entity shall direct by an Issuing Entity Order that they be destroyed or returned to it; provided, however, that such Issuing Entity Order is timely and the Notes have not been previously disposed of by the Indenture Trustee. The Indenture Trustee shall certify to the Issuing Entity upon request that surrendered Notes have been duly canceled and retained or destroyed, as the case may be.

SECTION 2.9 Release of Collateral. The Indenture Trustee shall release property from the Lien of this Indenture other than as permitted by Sections 3.21, 8.2, 8.4 and 11.1, only upon receipt of an Issuing Entity Request accompanied by an Officer’s Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel (to the extent required by the TIA) and Independent Certificates in accordance with TIA §§314(c)
and 314(d)(1).

SECTION 2.10 Book-Entry Notes. The Notes, upon original issuance, shall be issued in the form of a typewritten Note or Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes, to be delivered to The Depository Trust Company, as the initial Clearing Agency, or its custodian, by or on behalf of the Issuing Entity, or in the case of Retained Notes, at the Depositor’s option, as Definitive Notes delivered to the Depositor or its representative. Such Note or Notes shall be registered on the Note Register in the name of the Note Depository, and no Note Owner shall receive a Definitive Note representing such Note Owner’s interest in such Note, except as provided in Section 2.12. Unless and until the Definitive Notes have been issued to Note Owners pursuant to Section 2.12:

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(b) the Note Registrar and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this Indenture (including the payment of principal of and interest on such Notes and the giving of instructions or directions hereunder) as the sole Holder of such Notes and shall have no obligation to the Note Owners;

(c) to the extent that the provisions of this Section 2.10 conflict with any other provisions of this Indenture, the provisions of this Section 2.10 shall control;

(d) the rights of the Note Owners shall be exercised only through the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those established by law and agreements between such Note Owners and the Clearing Agency or the Clearing Agency Participants. Unless and until Definitive Notes are issued pursuant to Section 2.12, the initial Clearing Agency shall make book-entry transfers between the Clearing Agency Participants and receive and transmit payments of principal of and interest on such Notes to such Clearing Agency Participants, pursuant to the Note Depository Agreement; and

(e) whenever this Indenture requires or permits actions to be taken based upon instructions or directions of Holders of Notes evidencing a specified percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, the Clearing Agency shall be deemed to represent such percentage only to the extent that it has (i) received instructions to such effect from Note Owners or Clearing Agency Participants owning or representing, respectively, such required percentage of the beneficial interest in the Notes; and (ii) delivered such instructions to the Indenture Trustee.

SECTION 2.11 Notices to Clearing Agency. Whenever a notice or other communication to the Noteholders is required under this Indenture, unless and until Definitive Notes shall have been issued to Note Owners pursuant to Section 2.12, the Indenture Trustee shall give all such notices and communications specified herein to be given to Noteholders to the Clearing Agency and shall have no other obligation to the Note Owners.

SECTION 2.12 Definitive Notes. If (i) the Administrator advises the Indenture Trustee in writing that the Clearing Agency is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its responsibilities with respect to the Notes and the Issuing Entity is unable to locate a qualified successor; (ii) the Administrator, at its option, advises the Indenture Trustee in writing that it elects to terminate the book-entry system through the Clearing Agency; or (iii) after the occurrence of an Event of Default or a Servicer Default, Note Owners representing beneficial interests aggregating at least a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class advise the Clearing Agency in writing that the continuation of a book-entry system through the Clearing Agency is no longer in the best interests of the Note Owners, then the Clearing Agency shall notify all Note Owners and the Indenture Trustee of the occurrence of any such event and of the availability of Definitive Notes to Note Owners requesting the same. Upon surrender to the Indenture Trustee of the typewritten Note or Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration instructions, the Issuing Entity shall execute and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate the Definitive Notes in accordance with the instructions of the Clearing Agency. None of the Issuing Entity, the Note Registrar or the Indenture Trustee shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive Notes, the Indenture Trustee shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive Notes as Noteholders.

 

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SECTION 2.13 Depositor as Noteholder. The Depositor in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes of any class and may otherwise deal with the Issuing Entity or its affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not the Depositor.

SECTION 2.14 Tax Treatment. The Depositor and the Indenture Trustee, by entering into this Indenture, and the Noteholders, by acquiring any Note or interest therein (except a Note or interest therein acquired by the Depositor or other person considered for federal income tax purposes the issuer of such Note), (i) express their intention that the Notes qualify under applicable tax law as indebtedness secured by the Collateral, and (ii) unless otherwise required by appropriate taxing authorities, agree to treat the Notes as indebtedness secured by the Collateral for the purpose of federal income taxes, State and local income and franchise taxes, and any other taxes imposed upon, measured by or based upon gross or net income.

SECTION 2.15 Special Terms Applicable to the Private Notes.

(a) None of the Private Notes has been or will be registered under the Securities Act or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction. Consequently, the Private Notes are not transferable other than pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and satisfaction of certain other provisions specified herein.

(b) Except in a sale, pledge or other transfer of the Private Notes to the Depositor or an Affiliate of the Depositor or pursuant to Section 2.15(a), no sale, pledge or other transfer of the Private Notes or an interest in the Private Notes may be made by any person other than to a person who the transferor reasonably believes is a “qualified institutional buyer” (“QIB”) as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act (“Rule 144A”) and is purchasing for its own account (and not for the account of others) or as a fiduciary or agent for others (which others also are “QIBs”) and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A.

(c) No sale, pledge or other transfer of Class E Notes (or any interest therein) with an initial principal balance of less than $500,000 may be made to any one Person, and, in the case of any person acting on behalf of one or more third parties (other than a “bank,” as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act, acting in its fiduciary capacity), for Class E Notes (or any interest therein) with a face amount of less than such amount for each such third party. Any attempted transfer in contravention of the immediately preceding restriction will be void ab initio and the purported transferor will continue to be treated as the owner of the Class E Notes (or any interest therein) for all purposes.

(d) The Class E Notes may not be acquired by or for the account of any Benefit Plan, other than an “insurance company general account” (as defined in Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption (“PTCE”) 95-60) whose underlying assets include less than 25% “plan assets” and for which the purchase and holding of Class E Notes is eligible for and satisfies all conditions for relief under PTCE 95-60. The Class E Notes also may not be acquired by or

 

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for the account of an employee benefit plan or plan that is not subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (including non-U.S. or governmental plans) if such acquisition would result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under, or a violation of, any applicable law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code.

(e) Each Private Note shall bear a legend to the effect set forth in subsection (b) above.

(f) The Retained Notes shall initially be issued as Definitive Notes at the Depositor’s option. Upon the subsequent request of the Depositor, the Retained Notes shall be issued as Book-Entry Notes, to be delivered to The Depository Trust Company.

ARTICLE III

COVENANTS

SECTION 3.1 Payment of Principal and Interest. The Issuing Entity shall duly and punctually pay the principal of and interest on the Notes in accordance with the terms of the Notes and this Indenture. On each Distribution Date and on the Redemption Date (if applicable), the Issuing Entity shall cause amounts on deposit in the Note Distribution Account to be distributed to the Noteholders in accordance with Sections 2.7 and 8.2, less amounts properly withheld under the Code (and applicable provisions of State, local or non-U.S. tax law) by any Person from a payment to any Noteholder of interest or principal. Any amounts so withheld shall be considered as having been paid by the Issuing Entity to such Noteholder for all purposes of this Indenture.

SECTION 3.2 Maintenance of Agency Office. As long as any of the Notes remains outstanding, the Issuing Entity shall maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office (the “Agency Office”), being an office or agency where Notes may be surrendered to the Issuing Entity for registration of transfer or exchange, and where notices and demands to or upon the Issuing Entity in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Issuing Entity hereby initially appoints the Indenture Trustee to serve as its agent for the foregoing purposes. The Issuing Entity shall give prompt written notice to the Indenture Trustee of the location, and of any change in the location, of the Agency Office. If at any time the Issuing Entity shall fail to maintain any such office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Indenture Trustee with the address thereof, such surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee, and the Issuing Entity hereby appoints the Indenture Trustee as its agent to receive all such surrenders, notices and demands.

SECTION 3.3 Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust.

(a) As provided in Section 8.2(a) and Section 8.2(b), all payments of amounts due and payable with respect to any Notes that are to be made from amounts withdrawn from the Note Distribution Account pursuant to Section 8.2(c) shall be made on behalf of the Issuing Entity by the Indenture Trustee or by another Paying Agent, and no amounts so withdrawn from the Note Distribution Account for payments of Notes shall be paid over to the Issuing Entity except as provided in this Section 3.3.

 

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(b) On or before each Distribution Date or the Redemption Date (if applicable), the Issuing Entity shall deposit or cause to be deposited in the Note Distribution Account pursuant to Section 4.06 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement an aggregate sum sufficient to pay the amounts then becoming due with respect to the Notes, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto.

(c) The Issuing Entity shall cause each Paying Agent other than the Indenture Trustee to execute and deliver to the Indenture Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Indenture Trustee (and if the Indenture Trustee acts as Paying Agent, it hereby so agrees), subject to the provisions of this Section 3.3, that such Paying Agent shall:

(i) hold all sums held by it for the payment of amounts due with respect to the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and pay such sums to such Persons as herein provided;

(ii) give the Indenture Trustee notice of any default by the Issuing Entity (or any other obligor upon the Notes) of which it has actual knowledge in the making of any payment required to be made with respect to the Notes;

(iii) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Indenture Trustee, forthwith pay to the Indenture Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent;

(iv) immediately resign as a Paying Agent and forthwith pay to the Indenture Trustee all sums held by it in trust for the payment of Notes if at any time it ceases to meet the standards required to be met by a Paying Agent in effect at the time of determination; and

(v) comply with all requirements of the Code (and applicable provisions of State, local or non-U.S. tax law) with respect to the withholding from any payments made by it on any Notes of any applicable withholding taxes imposed thereon and with respect to any applicable reporting requirements in connection therewith.

(d) The Issuing Entity may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, by Issuing Entity Order direct any Paying Agent to pay to the Indenture Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Indenture Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which the sums were held by such Paying Agent; and upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Indenture Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money.

(e) Subject to applicable laws with respect to escheat of funds, any money held by the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the payment of any amount due with respect to any Note and remaining unclaimed for one year after such amount has become due and payable shall be discharged from such trust and be paid to the Issuing Entity on Issuing Entity Request; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as a general unsecured creditor, look only to the Issuing Entity for payment thereof (but only to the extent of the amounts so paid

 

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to the Issuing Entity), and all liability of the Indenture Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such payment, may at the expense of the Issuing Entity cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general circulation in The City of New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than thirty (30) days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining shall be paid to the Issuing Entity. The Indenture Trustee may also adopt and employ, at the expense of the Issuing Entity, any other reasonable means of notification of such payment (including, but not limited to, mailing notice of such payment to Holders whose Notes have been called but have not been surrendered for redemption or whose right to or interest in monies due and payable but not claimed is determinable from the records of the Indenture Trustee or of any Paying Agent, at the last address of record for each such Holder).

SECTION 3.4 Existence. The Issuing Entity shall keep in full effect its existence, rights and franchises as a statutory trust under the laws of the State of Delaware (unless it becomes, or any successor Issuing Entity hereunder is or becomes, organized under the laws of any other State or of the United States of America, in which case the Issuing Entity shall keep in full effect its existence, rights and franchises under the laws of such other jurisdiction) and shall obtain and preserve its qualification to do business in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be necessary to protect the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes, the Collateral and each other instrument or agreement included in the Trust Estate.

SECTION 3.5 Protection of Trust Estate; Acknowledgment of Pledge.

(a) The Issuing Entity shall from time to time execute and deliver all such supplements and amendments hereto and authorize or execute, as applicable, and prepare, deliver and file all such financing statements, continuation statements, instruments of further assurance and other instruments, and shall take such other action necessary or advisable to:

(i) maintain or preserve the Lien (and the priority thereof) of this Indenture or carry out more effectively the purposes hereof, including by making the necessary filings of financing statements or amendments thereto within sixty (60) days after the occurrence of any of the following and by promptly notifying the Indenture Trustee of any such filings: (A) any change in the Issuing Entity’s true legal name or any of its trade names, (B) any change in the location of the Issuing Entity’s principal place of business, (C) any merger or consolidation or other change in the Issuing Entity’s identity or organizational structure or jurisdiction of organization in which the Issuing Entity is located for purposes of the UCC and (D) any other change or occurrence that would make any financing statement or amendment thereto seriously misleading within the meaning of the UCC;

(ii) perfect, publish notice of or protect the validity of any Grant made or to be made by this Indenture and the priority thereof;

(iii) enforce the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders in any of the Collateral; or

 

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(iv) preserve and defend title to the Trust Estate and the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the Secured Parties in such Trust Estate against the claims of all persons and parties,

and the Issuing Entity hereby designates the Indenture Trustee its agent and attorney-in-fact to authorize or execute any financing statement, continuation statement or other instrument required by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section 3.5.

(b) The Indenture Trustee acknowledges the pledge by the Issuing Entity to the Indenture Trustee, pursuant to the Granting Clause of this Indenture, of all the Issuing Entity’s right, title and interest in and to the Reserve Account Property in order to provide for the payment to the Securityholders and the Servicer in accordance with Section 4.06(c) and Section 4.06(d) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, to assure availability of the amounts maintained in the Reserve Account for the benefit of the Securityholders and the Servicer.

(c) The Issuing Entity hereby authorizes the Indenture Trustee to file all financing statements naming the Issuing Entity as debtor that are necessary or advisable to perfect, make effective or continue the lien and security interest of this Indenture, and authorizes the Indenture Trustee to take any such action without its signature, it being understood that the Indenture Trustee has no obligation to effect any filings of financing or continuation statements.

SECTION 3.6 Opinions as to Trust Estate.

(a) On the Initial Closing Date, the Issuing Entity shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, such action has been taken with respect to the recording and filing of this Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto and any other requisite documents, and with respect to the authorization, execution and filing of any financing statements and continuation statements as are necessary to perfect and make effective the Lien of this Indenture and reciting the details of such action, or stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no such action is necessary to make such Lien effective.

(b) On or before March 15 (and, if such date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) in each calendar year, beginning March 15, 2014, the Issuing Entity shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, such action has been taken with respect to the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of this Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto and any other requisite documents and with respect to the authorization, execution and filing of any financing statements and continuation statements as is necessary to maintain the Lien created by this Indenture and reciting the details of such action or stating that in the opinion of such counsel no such action is necessary to maintain the Lien created by this Indenture. Such Opinion of Counsel shall also describe the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of this Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto and any other requisite documents and the authorization, execution and filing of any financing statements and continuation statements that will, in the opinion of such counsel, be required to maintain the Lien of this Indenture until March 15 in the following calendar year.

 

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SECTION 3.7 Performance of Obligations; Servicing of Receivables.

(a) The Issuing Entity shall not take any action and shall use all reasonable efforts not to permit any action to be taken by others that would release any Person from any of such Person’s material covenants or obligations under any instrument or agreement included in the Trust Estate or that would result in the amendment, hypothecation, subordination, termination or discharge of, or impair the validity or effectiveness of, any such instrument or agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Administration Agreement or such other instrument or agreement.

(b) The Issuing Entity may contract with other Persons to assist it in performing its duties under this Indenture, and any performance of such duties by a Person identified to the Indenture Trustee in the Basic Documents or an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuing Entity shall be deemed to be action taken by the Issuing Entity. Initially, the Issuing Entity has contracted with the Servicer and the Administrator to assist the Issuing Entity in performing its duties under this Indenture.

(c) The Issuing Entity shall punctually perform and observe all of its obligations and agreements contained in this Indenture, the other Basic Documents and in the instruments and agreements included in the Trust Estate, including filing or causing to be filed all UCC financing statements and continuation statements required to be filed by the terms of this Indenture, the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement in accordance with and within the time periods provided for herein and therein.

(d) If the Issuing Entity shall have knowledge of the occurrence of a Servicer Default under the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuing Entity shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agencies, and shall specify in such notice the response or action, if any, the Issuing Entity has taken or is taking with respect of such default. If a Servicer Default shall arise from the failure of the Servicer to perform any of its duties or obligations under the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement or the Pooling and Servicing Agreement with respect to the Receivables, the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee shall take all reasonable steps available to them pursuant to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement to remedy such failure.

(e) Without derogating from the absolute nature of the assignment granted to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture or the rights of the Indenture Trustee hereunder, the Issuing Entity agrees that, except as permitted by the Basic Documents, it shall not, without the prior written consent of the Indenture Trustee or acting at the direction of the Holders of at least a majority in Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, as applicable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture, amend, modify, waive, supplement, terminate or surrender, or agree to any amendment, modification, supplement, termination, waiver or surrender of, the terms of any Collateral or any of the Basic Documents, or waive timely performance or observance by the Servicer or the Depositor under the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Custodian Agreement or the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Administrator under the Administration Agreement or the Seller or the Servicer under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

 

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SECTION 3.8 Negative Covenants. So long as any Notes are Outstanding, the Issuing Entity shall not:

(a) sell, transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of any of the properties or assets of the Issuing Entity, except as permitted in Section 3.10(b) and except the Issuing Entity may cause the Servicer to (i) collect, liquidate, sell or otherwise dispose of Receivables (including Warranty Receivables, Administrative Receivables and Liquidating Receivables), (ii) make cash payments out of the Designated Accounts and the Certificate Distribution Account and (iii) take other actions, in each case as permitted by the Basic Documents;

(b) claim any credit on, or make any deduction from the principal or interest payable in respect of the Notes (other than amounts properly withheld from such payments under the Code or applicable provisions of State, local or non-U.S. tax law) or assert any claim against any present or former Noteholder by reason of the payment of the taxes levied or assessed upon any part of the Trust Estate;

(c) voluntarily commence any insolvency, readjustment of debt, marshaling of assets and liabilities or other proceeding, or apply for an order by a court or agency or supervisory authority for the winding-up or liquidation of its affairs or any other event specified in Section 5.1(f); or

(d) either (i) permit the validity or effectiveness of this Indenture or any other Basic Document to be impaired, or permit the Lien of this Indenture to be amended, hypothecated, subordinated, terminated or discharged, or permit any Person to be released from any covenants or obligations with respect to the Notes under this Indenture except as may be expressly permitted hereby, (ii) permit any Lien (other than the Lien of this Indenture) to be created on or extend to or otherwise arise upon or burden the Trust Estate or any part thereof or any interest therein or the proceeds thereof (other than tax liens, mechanics’ liens and other liens that arise by operation of law, in each case on a Financed Vehicle and arising solely as a result of an action or omission of the related Obligor), or (iii) permit the Lien of this Indenture not to constitute a valid first priority security interest in the Trust Estate (other than with respect to any such tax, mechanics’ or other lien).

SECTION 3.9 Annual Statement as to Compliance. The Issuing Entity shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee on or before March 15 (and, if such date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) of each year, beginning March 15, 2014, an Officer’s Certificate signed by an Authorized Officer, dated as of December 31 of the immediately preceding year, in each case stating that:

(a) a review of the activities of the Issuing Entity during the preceding 12-month period (or, with respect to the first such Officer’s Certificate, such period as shall have elapsed since the Initial Closing Date) and of performance under this Indenture has been made under such Authorized Officer’s supervision; and

(b) to the best of such Authorized Officer’s knowledge, based on such review, the Issuing Entity has fulfilled all of its obligations under this Indenture throughout such period, or, if there has been a default in the fulfillment of any such obligation, specifying each such default known to such Authorized Officer and the nature and status thereof. A copy of such certificate may be obtained by any Noteholder by a request in writing to the Issuing Entity addressed to the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee.

 

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SECTION 3.10 Consolidation, Merger, etc., of Issuing Entity; Disposition of Trust Assets.

(a) The Issuing Entity shall not consolidate or merge with or into any other Person, unless:

(i) the Person (if other than the Issuing Entity) formed by or surviving such consolidation or merger shall be a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, or any State and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the due and timely payment of the principal of and interest on all Notes and the performance or observance of every agreement and covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Issuing Entity to be performed or observed, all as provided herein;

(ii) immediately after giving effect to such merger or consolidation, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

(iii) the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with respect to such transaction and such Person;

(iv) any action as is necessary to maintain the Lien created by this Indenture shall have been taken; and

(v) the Issuing Entity shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Issuing Entity, each stating:

(A) that such consolidation or merger and such supplemental indenture comply with this Section 3.10;

(B) that such consolidation or merger and such supplemental indenture shall have no material adverse tax consequence to the Issuing Entity or any Financial Party; and

(C) that all conditions precedent herein provided for in this Section 3.10 have been complied with, which shall include any filing required by the Exchange Act.

 

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(b) Except as otherwise expressly permitted by this Indenture or the other Basic Documents, the Issuing Entity shall not sell, convey, exchange, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets, including those included in the Trust Estate, to any Person, unless:

(i) the Person that acquires such properties or assets of the Issuing Entity (1) shall be a United States citizen or a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America or any State and (2) by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee:

(A) expressly assumes the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all Notes and the performance or observance of every agreement and covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Issuing Entity to be performed or observed, all as provided herein;

(B) expressly agrees that all right, title and interest so sold, conveyed, exchanged, transferred or otherwise disposed of shall be subject and subordinate to the rights of the Secured Parties;

(C) unless otherwise provided in such supplemental indenture, expressly agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Issuing Entity against and from any loss, liability or expense arising under or related to this Indenture and the Notes; and

(D) expressly agrees that such Person (or if a group of Persons, then one specified Person) shall make all filings with the Commission (and any other appropriate Person) required by the Exchange Act in connection with the Notes;

(ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

(iii) the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with respect to such transaction and such Person;

(iv) any action as is necessary to maintain the Lien created by this Indenture shall have been taken; and

(v) the Issuing Entity shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Issuing Entity, each stating that:

(A) such sale, conveyance, exchange, transfer or disposition and such supplemental indenture comply with this Section 3.10;

(B) such sale, conveyance, exchange, transfer or disposition and such supplemental indenture have no material adverse tax consequence to the Trust or to any Financial Parties; and

(C) all conditions precedent herein provided for in this Section 3.10 have been complied with, which shall include any filing required by the Exchange Act.

 

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SECTION 3.11 Successor or Transferee.

(a) Upon any consolidation or merger of the Issuing Entity in accordance with Section 3.10(a), the Person formed by or surviving such consolidation or merger (if other than the Issuing Entity) shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Issuing Entity under this Indenture and the other Basic Documents with the same effect as if such Person had been named as the Issuing Entity herein.

(b) Upon a conveyance or transfer of substantially all the assets and properties of the Issuing Entity pursuant to Section 3.10(b), the Issuing Entity shall be released from every covenant and agreement of this Indenture and the other Basic Documents to be observed or performed on the part of the Issuing Entity with respect to the Notes immediately upon the delivery of written notice to the Indenture Trustee from the Person acquiring such assets and properties stating that the Issuing Entity is to be so released.

SECTION 3.12 No Other Business. The Issuing Entity shall not engage in any business or activity other than acquiring, holding and managing the Collateral and the proceeds therefrom in the manner contemplated by the Basic Documents, issuing the Notes and the Certificates, making payments on the Notes and the Certificates and such other activities that are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish the foregoing or are incidental thereto, as set forth in Section 2.3 of the Trust Agreement.

SECTION 3.13 No Borrowing. The Issuing Entity shall not issue, incur, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable, directly or indirectly, for any indebtedness for money borrowed other than indebtedness for money borrowed in respect of the Notes or otherwise in accordance with the Basic Documents.

SECTION 3.14 Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities. Except as contemplated by this Indenture or the other Basic Documents, the Issuing Entity shall not make any loan or advance or credit to, or guarantee (directly or indirectly or by an instrument having the effect of assuring another’s payment or performance on any obligation or capability of so doing or otherwise), endorse or otherwise become contingently liable, directly or indirectly, in connection with the obligations, stocks or dividends of, or own, purchase, repurchase or acquire (or agree contingently to do so) any stock, obligations, assets or securities of, or any other interest in, or make any capital contribution to, any other Person.

SECTION 3.15 Servicer’s Obligations. The Issuing Entity shall use its best efforts to cause the Servicer to comply with its obligations under Section 3.09 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and Sections 4.01 and 4.02 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

SECTION 3.16 Capital Expenditures. The Issuing Entity shall not make any expenditure (whether by long-term or operating lease or otherwise) for capital assets (either real, personal or intangible property) other than the purchase of the Receivables and other property and rights from the Depositor pursuant to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

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SECTION 3.17 Removal of Administrator. So long as any Notes are Outstanding, the Issuing Entity shall not remove the Administrator without cause unless the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied in connection with such removal.

SECTION 3.18 Restricted Payments. Except for payments of principal or interest on or redemption of the Notes, so long as any Notes are Outstanding, the Issuing Entity shall not, directly or indirectly:

(a) pay any dividend or make any distribution (by reduction of capital or otherwise), whether in cash, property, securities or a combination thereof, to the Owner Trustee or any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuing Entity or otherwise, in each case with respect to any ownership or equity interest or similar security in or of the Issuing Entity or to the Servicer;

(b) redeem, purchase, retire or otherwise acquire for value any such ownership or equity interest or similar security; or

(c) set aside or otherwise segregate any amounts for any such purpose;

provided, however, that the Issuing Entity may make, or cause to be made, distributions to the Servicer, the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Financial Parties as permitted by, and to the extent funds are available for such purpose under, the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Trust Agreement or the other Basic Documents. The Issuing Entity shall not, directly or indirectly, make payments to or distributions from the Collection Account except in accordance with the Basic Documents.

SECTION 3.19 Notice of Events of Default. The Issuing Entity agrees to give the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agencies prompt written notice of each Event of Default hereunder, each Servicer Default, each default on the part of the Depositor or the Servicer of its respective obligations under the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and each default on the part of the Seller or the Servicer of its respective obligations under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

SECTION 3.20 Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Indenture Trustee, the Issuing Entity shall execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purpose of this Indenture.

SECTION 3.21 Indenture Trustee’s Assignment of Administrative Receivables and Warranty Receivables. Upon receipt of the Administrative Purchase Payment, the Warranty Payment or the Liquidation Proceeds with respect to an Administrative Receivable, a Warranty Receivable or a Liquidating Receivable, as the case may be, the Servicer, the Warranty Purchaser or the purchaser and assignee of the Liquidating Receivable, as applicable, shall thereupon own such purchased or repurchased Receivable, all monies due thereon, the security interest in the related Financed Vehicle, proceeds from any Insurance Policies, proceeds from recourse against the Dealer on such Receivable and the interests in certain rebates of premiums and other amounts relating to the Insurance Policies and any documents relating thereto.

 

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Any such Administrative Receivable, Warranty Receivable or Liquidating Receivable shall be deemed to be automatically released from the Lien of this Indenture without any action being taken by the Indenture Trustee upon payment of the Administrative Purchase Payment or Warranty Payment or upon receipt of the Liquidation Proceeds, as applicable, and the Servicer, Warranty Purchaser, or purchaser or assignee of the Liquidating Receivable, as applicable, shall own such Administrative Receivable, Warranty Receivable, or Liquidating Receivable, as applicable, and all such security and documents, free of any further obligation to the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders or the Certificateholders with respect thereto. If in any enforcement suit or legal proceeding it is held that the Servicer or other purchaser of an Administrative Receivable, Warranty Receivable or Liquidating Receivable may not enforce a Receivable on the ground that it is not a real party in interest or a holder entitled to enforce the Receivable, the Indenture Trustee shall, at the Servicer’s, Warranty Purchaser’s or such other purchaser’s or assignee’s expense, as applicable, take such steps as the Servicer, Warranty Purchaser or such other purchaser or assignee deems necessary to enforce the Receivable, including bringing suit in the Indenture Trustee’s name or the names of the Noteholders or, pursuant to Section 4.4, the Certificateholders.

SECTION 3.22 Representations and Warranties by the Issuing Entity to the Indenture Trustee. The Issuing Entity hereby represents and warrants to the Indenture Trustee as follows:

(a) Good Title. No Receivable has been sold, transferred, assigned or pledged by the Issuing Entity to any Person other than the Indenture Trustee; immediately prior to the conveyance of the Receivables pursuant to this Indenture, the Issuing Entity had good and marketable title thereto, free of any Lien; and, upon execution and delivery of this Indenture by the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee shall have a Lien on all of the right, title and interest of the Issuing Entity in, to and under the Receivables, the unpaid indebtedness evidenced thereby and the collateral security therefor, and such right, title and interest are free of any Lien other than the Lien of this Indenture;

(b) All Filings Made. All filings (including UCC filings) necessary in any jurisdiction to give the Indenture Trustee a first priority perfected security interest in the Receivables shall have been made; and

(c) Additional Representations and Warranties. The additional representations and warranties regarding creation, perfection and priority of security interests in the Receivables, which are attached to this Indenture as Appendix A, are true and correct to the extent they are applicable.

ARTICLE IV

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

SECTION 4.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture shall cease to be of further effect with respect to the Notes except as to: (i) rights of registration of transfer and exchange; (ii) substitution of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes; (iii) rights of Noteholders to receive payments of principal thereof and interest thereon; (iv) Sections 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.8, 3.10, 3.12, 3.13, 3.19 and 3.21; (v) the rights, obligations and immunities of the

 

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Indenture Trustee hereunder (including the rights of the Indenture Trustee under Section 6.7 and the obligations of the Indenture Trustee under Sections 4.2 and 4.4); and (vi) the rights of Noteholders as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property so deposited with the Indenture Trustee payable to all or any of them, and the Indenture Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Issuing Entity, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes, if:

(a) either:

(i) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (A) Notes that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.5 and (B) Notes for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Issuing Entity and thereafter repaid to the Issuing Entity or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 3.3) have been delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation; or

(ii) all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation:

(A) have become due and payable,

(B) will be due and payable on their respective Final Scheduled Distribution Dates within one year, or

(C) are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Indenture Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Issuing Entity or such Notes have been redeemed in accordance with Section 10.1,

and the Issuing Entity, in the case of clauses (A), (B) or (C) of subsection 4.1(a)(ii) above, has irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Indenture Trustee cash or direct obligations of or obligations guaranteed by the United States of America (which will mature prior to the date such amounts are payable), in trust for such purpose, in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire unpaid principal and accrued interest on such Notes not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation when due on the Final Scheduled Distribution Date for such Notes or the Redemption Date for such Notes (if such Notes have been called for redemption pursuant to Section 10.1), as the case may be; and

(b) the Issuing Entity has delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuing Entity, an Opinion of Counsel and (if required by the TIA or the Indenture Trustee to the extent the Notes are not paid in full) an Independent Certificate from a firm of certified public accountants, each meeting the applicable requirements of Section 11.1(a) and each stating that all conditions precedent set forth in this Section 4.1 relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with. The Indenture Trustee shall provide confirmation to the Issuing Entity that the Noteholders have been paid in full.

 

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SECTION 4.2 Application of Trust Money. All monies deposited with the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 4.1 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Notes and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent, as the Indenture Trustee may determine, to the Holders of the particular Notes for the payment or redemption of which such monies have been deposited with the Indenture Trustee, of all sums due and to become due thereon for principal and interest and to payment of any other Secured Party of all sums, if any, due or to become due to any other Secured Party under and in accordance with this Indenture; but such monies need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required herein, in the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, or as required by law.

SECTION 4.3 Repayment of Monies Held by Paying Agent. In connection with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes, all monies then held by any Paying Agent other than the Indenture Trustee under the provisions of this Indenture with respect to such Notes shall, upon demand of the Issuing Entity, be paid to the Indenture Trustee to be held and applied according to Section 3.3 and thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such monies.

SECTION 4.4 Duration of Position of Indenture Trustee. Notwithstanding the earlier payment in full of all principal and interest due to the Noteholders under the terms of the Notes and the cancellation of the Notes, the Indenture Trustee shall continue to act in the capacity as Indenture Trustee hereunder for the benefit of the Certificateholders, for purposes of compliance with, and the Indenture Trustee shall comply with, its obligations under Sections 5.01(a), 7.02 and 7.03 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, as appropriate, the Indenture Trustee in such capacity shall continue to have the rights, benefits and immunities set forth in Article VI hereof.

ARTICLE V

DEFAULT AND REMEDIES

SECTION 5.1 Events of Default. For the purposes of this Indenture, “Event of Default” wherever used herein, means any one of the following events:

(a) failure to pay the full Note Class Interest Distributable Amount to the Controlling Class on any Distribution Date, and such default shall continue for a period of five (5) days; or

(b) except as set forth in Section 5.1(c), failure to pay any installment of the principal of any Note as and when the same becomes due and payable pursuant to Section 4.06(d) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, and such default continues unremedied for a period of thirty (30) days after there shall have been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Servicer by the Indenture Trustee or to the Servicer and the Indenture Trustee by the Holders of not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, a written notice specifying such default and demanding that it be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or

(c) failure to pay in full the outstanding principal balance of any class of Notes by the Final Scheduled Distribution Date for such class; or

 

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(d) default in the observance or performance in any material respect of any covenant or agreement of the Issuing Entity made in this Indenture (other than a covenant or agreement, a default in the observance or performance of which is elsewhere specifically dealt with in this Section 5.1) which failure materially and adversely affects the rights of the Noteholders, and such default shall continue or not be cured, for a period of thirty (30) days after there shall have been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Issuing Entity and the Depositor (or the Servicer, as applicable) by the Indenture Trustee or to the Issuing Entity and the Depositor (or the Servicer, as applicable) and the Indenture Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, a written notice specifying such default, demanding that it be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or

(e) the filing of a decree or order for relief by a court having jurisdiction in the premises in respect of the Issuing Entity or any substantial part of the Trust Estate in an involuntary case under any applicable federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Issuing Entity or for any substantial part of the Trust Estate, or ordering the winding-up or liquidation of the Issuing Entity’s affairs, and such decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of ninety (90) consecutive days; or

(f) the commencement by the Issuing Entity of a voluntary case under any applicable federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or the consent by the Issuing Entity to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case under any such law, or the consent by the Issuing Entity to the appointment or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Issuing Entity or for any substantial part of the Trust Estate, or the making by the Issuing Entity of any general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the failure by the Issuing Entity generally to pay its debts as such debts become due, or the taking of action by the Issuing Entity in furtherance of any of the foregoing.

The Issuing Entity shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee, within five (5) Business Days after learning of the occurrence thereof, written notice in the form of an Officer’s Certificate of any event which with the giving of notice and the lapse of time would become an Event of Default under Section 5.1(d), its status and what action the Issuing Entity is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.

SECTION 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.

(a) If an Event of Default should occur and be continuing, then and in every such case, unless the principal amount of the Notes shall have already become due and payable pursuant to Section 4.06(d) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, either the Indenture Trustee or the Holders of Notes representing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class may declare all the Notes to be immediately due and payable, by a notice in writing to the Issuing Entity (and to the Indenture Trustee if given by the Noteholders) setting forth the Event or Events of Default, and upon any such declaration the unpaid principal amount of such Notes, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon through the date of acceleration, shall become immediately due and payable.

 

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(b) At any time after such declaration of acceleration of maturity of the Notes has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due thereunder has been obtained by the Indenture Trustee as hereinafter provided in this Article V, the Holders of Notes representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, by written notice to the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee, may waive all Defaults set forth in the notice delivered pursuant to Section 5.2(a), and rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences; provided, that no such rescission and annulment shall extend to or affect any other Default or impair any right consequent thereto; and provided further, that if the Indenture Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under this Indenture and such Proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned because of such rescission and annulment or for any other reason, or such Proceedings shall have been determined adversely to the Indenture Trustee, then and in every such case, the Indenture Trustee, the Issuing Entity and the Noteholders, as the case may be, shall be restored respectively to their former positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers of the Indenture Trustee, the Issuing Entity and the Noteholders, as the case may be, shall continue as though no such Proceedings had been commenced.

SECTION 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture Trustee.

(a) The Issuing Entity covenants that if an Event of Default occurs and such Event of Default has not been waived pursuant to Section 5.12 (or rescinded pursuant to Section 5.2(b)), the Issuing Entity shall, upon demand of the Indenture Trustee, pay to the Indenture Trustee, for the ratable benefit of the Noteholders in accordance with their respective outstanding principal amounts, the whole amount then due and payable on such Notes for principal and interest, with interest upon the overdue principal, at the rate borne by the Notes and in addition thereto such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee and its agents and counsel.

(b) If the Issuing Entity shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts upon such demand, the Indenture Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a Proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such Proceeding to judgment or final decree, may enforce the same against the Issuing Entity or other obligor upon such Notes and may collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Issuing Entity or other obligor upon such Notes, wherever situated, the monies adjudged or decreed to be payable.

(c) If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee may, as more particularly provided in Section 5.4, in its discretion, proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Noteholders, by such appropriate Proceedings as the Indenture Trustee shall deem most effective to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy or legal or equitable right vested in the Indenture Trustee by this Indenture or by applicable law.

 

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(d) If there shall be pending, relative to the Issuing Entity or any other obligor upon the Notes or any Person having or claiming an ownership interest in the Trust Estate, Proceedings under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other applicable federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or if a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Issuing Entity or its property or such other obligor or Person, or in case of any other comparable judicial Proceedings relative to the Issuing Entity or other obligor upon the Notes, or to the creditors or property of the Issuing Entity or such other obligor, the Indenture Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of any Notes shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Indenture Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.3, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such Proceedings or otherwise:

(i) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Notes and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Indenture Trustee (including any claim for reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor trustee, and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of all expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor trustee, except as a result of negligence or bad faith) and of the Noteholders allowed in such Proceedings;

(ii) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on behalf of the Holders of Notes in any election of a trustee, a standby trustee or Person performing similar functions in any such Proceedings;

(iii) to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute all amounts received with respect to the claims of the Noteholders and of the Indenture Trustee on their behalf; and

(iv) to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Indenture Trustee or the Holders of Notes allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Issuing Entity, its creditors and its property;

and any trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official in any such Proceeding is hereby authorized by each of such Noteholders to make payments to the Indenture Trustee for application in accordance with the priorities set forth in the Basic Documents, and, if the Indenture Trustee shall consent to the making of payments directly to such Noteholders, to pay to the Indenture Trustee such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor trustee except as a result of negligence or bad faith.

(e) Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Indenture Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of any Noteholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Indenture Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Noteholder in any such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar Person.

 

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(f) All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Indenture Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes or the production thereof in any trial or other Proceedings relative thereto, and any such Proceedings instituted by the Indenture Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment, subject to the payment of the expenses, disbursements and compensation of the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor Trustee and their respective agents and attorneys, shall be for the benefit of the Secured Parties in accordance with the priorities set forth in the Basic Documents.

(g) In any Proceedings brought by the Indenture Trustee (and also any Proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the Indenture Trustee shall be a party), the Indenture Trustee shall be held to represent all the Noteholders, and it shall not be necessary to make any Noteholder a party to any such Proceedings.

SECTION 5.4 Remedies; Priorities.

(a) If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the Notes have been accelerated under Section 5.2(a), the Indenture Trustee may do one or more of the following (subject to Sections 5.3 and 5.5):

(i) institute Proceedings in its own name and as trustee of an express trust for the collection of all amounts then due and payable on the Notes or under this Indenture with respect thereto, whether by declaration of acceleration or otherwise, enforce any judgment obtained, and collect from the Issuing Entity and any other obligor upon such Notes monies adjudged due;

(ii) institute Proceedings from time to time for the complete or partial foreclosure of this Indenture with respect to the Trust Estate;

(iii) exercise any remedies of a secured party under the UCC and take any other appropriate action to protect and enforce the rights and remedies of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders; and

(iv) sell the Trust Estate or any portion thereof or rights or interest therein, at one or more public or private sales called and conducted in any manner permitted by law or elect to have the Issuing Entity maintain possession of the Receivables and continue to apply collections on such Receivables as if there had been no declaration of acceleration;

provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee may not sell or otherwise liquidate the Trust Estate following an Event of Default and acceleration of the Notes, unless (i) (A) the Holders of all of the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Notes consent thereto or (B) the proceeds of such sale or liquidation distributable to the Noteholders are sufficient to discharge in full the principal of and the accrued interest on the Notes, at the date of such sale or liquidation or (C) (x) there has been an Event of Default under Section 5.1(a), Section 5.1(b) or Section 5.1(c) or otherwise

 

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arising from a failure to make a required payment of principal on any Notes, (y) the Indenture Trustee determines that the Trust Estate will not continue to provide sufficient funds for the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes as and when they would have become due if the Notes had not been declared due and payable, and (z) the Indenture Trustee obtains the consent of Holders of 66-2/3% of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class and (ii) ten (10) days’ prior written notice of sale or liquidation has been given to the Rating Agencies by the Depositor, provided, however, that the Depositor shall have received such notice from the Indenture Trustee at least two (2) Business Days’ prior thereto. In determining such sufficiency or insufficiency with respect to clauses (B) and (C), the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, obtain and rely upon an opinion of an Independent investment banking or accounting firm of national reputation as to the feasibility of such proposed action and as to the sufficiency of the Trust Estate for such purpose;

provided, however, that prior to the exercise of the right to sell all or any portion of the Trust Estate as provided herein, the Indenture Trustee shall provide a notice in writing to the Issuing Entity (with a copy to the Depositor and the Owner Trustee) (the “Event of Default Sale Notice”) of its intention to sell all or any portion of the Trust Estate (the part to be sold being the “Subject Estate”), and if the Subject Estate is less than all of the Trust Estate, the portion of the Trust Estate to be sold. The Indenture Trustee shall not consummate any sale until at least seven (7) Business Days after the Event of Default Sale Notice has been given to the Issuing Entity (with a copy to the Depositor).

(b) If the Indenture Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to this Article V, it shall pay out the money or property in the following order:

FIRST: to the Indenture Trustee for amounts due under Section 6.7 and then to the Owner Trustee for amounts due to the Owner Trustee (not including amounts due for payments to the Certificateholders) under the Trust Agreement or the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement; and

SECOND: to the Collection Account, for distribution pursuant to Section 8.01(b) and Section 8.01(e) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

SECTION 5.5 Optional Preservation of the Receivables. If the Notes have been declared to be due and payable under Section 5.2 following an Event of Default and such declaration and its consequences have not been rescinded and annulled in accordance with Section 5.2(b), the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, elect to take and maintain possession of the Trust Estate. It is the desire of the parties hereto and the Secured Parties that there be at all times sufficient funds for the payment of the Secured Obligations to the Secured Parties and the Indenture Trustee shall take such desire into account when determining whether or not to take and maintain possession of the Trust Estate. In determining whether to take and maintain possession of the Trust Estate, the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, obtain and rely upon an opinion of an Independent investment banking or accounting firm of national reputation as to the feasibility of such proposed action and as to the sufficiency of the Trust Estate for such purpose.

 

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SECTION 5.6 Limitation of Suits. No Holder of any Note shall have any right to institute any Proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:

(a) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Indenture Trustee of a continuing Event of Default;

(b) the Holders of not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class have made written request to the Indenture Trustee to institute such Proceeding in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Indenture Trustee hereunder;

(c) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Indenture Trustee reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in complying with such request;

(d) the Indenture Trustee for sixty (60) days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute such Proceedings; and

(e) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Indenture Trustee during such sixty (60) day period by the Holders of a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class;

it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders of Notes shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders of Notes or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders of Notes or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable (on the basis of the respective aggregate amount of principal and interest, respectively, due and unpaid on the Notes held by each Noteholder) and common benefit of all holders of Notes. For the protection and enforcement of the provisions of this Section 5.6, each and every Noteholder shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.

If the Indenture Trustee shall receive conflicting or inconsistent requests and indemnity from two or more groups of Holders of Notes, each representing less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, the Indenture Trustee in its sole discretion may determine what action, if any, shall be taken, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture.

SECTION 5.7 Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal and Interest. Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture, the Holder of any Note shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and interest on such Note on or after the respective due dates thereof expressed in such Note or in this Indenture (or, in the case of redemption, if applicable, on or after the Redemption Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.

 

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SECTION 5.8 Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Indenture Trustee or any Noteholder has instituted any Proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such Proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason or has been determined adversely to the Indenture Trustee or to such Noteholder, then and in every such case the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders shall, subject to any determination in such Proceeding, be restored severally to their respective former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders shall continue as though no such Proceeding had been instituted.

SECTION 5.9 Rights and Remedies Cumulative. No right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Indenture Trustee or to the Noteholders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

SECTION 5.10 Delay or Omission Not a Waiver. No delay or omission of the Indenture Trustee or any Holder of any Note to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Default or Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Default or Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article V or by law to the Indenture Trustee or to the Noteholders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Indenture Trustee or by the Noteholders, as the case may be.

SECTION 5.11 Control by Noteholders. The Holders of a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class shall, subject to provision being made for indemnification against costs, expenses and liabilities in a form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, have the right to direct in writing the time, method and place of conducting any Proceeding for any remedy available to the Indenture Trustee with respect to the Notes or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Indenture Trustee; provided, however, that:

(a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture;

(b) subject to the express terms of Section 5.4, any direction to the Indenture Trustee to sell or liquidate the Trust Estate shall be by the Holders of Notes representing not less than 100% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes;

(c) if the conditions set forth in Section 5.5 have been satisfied and the Indenture Trustee elects to retain the Trust Estate pursuant to Section 5.5, then any direction to the Indenture Trustee by Holders of Notes representing less than 100% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes to sell or liquidate the Trust Estate shall be of no force and effect; and

(d) the Indenture Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Indenture Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction;

provided, however, that, subject to Section 6.1, the Indenture Trustee need not take any action that it determines might cause it to incur any liability or might materially adversely affect the rights of any Noteholders not consenting to such action.

 

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SECTION 5.12 Waiver of Past Defaults.

(a) Prior to the declaration of the acceleration of the maturity of the Notes as provided in Section 5.2, the Holders of not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class may waive any past Default or Event of Default and its consequences except a Default (i) in the payment of principal of or interest on any of the Notes or (ii) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Note. In the case of any such waiver, the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders shall be restored to their respective former positions and rights hereunder; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereto.

(b) Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist and be deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereto.

SECTION 5.13 Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Note by such Holder’s acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any Proceeding for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any Proceeding against the Indenture Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Indenture Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such Proceeding of an undertaking to pay the costs of such Proceeding, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such Proceeding, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section 5.13 shall not apply to:

(a) any Proceeding instituted by the Indenture Trustee;

(b) any Proceeding instituted by any Noteholder, or group of Noteholders, in each case holding in the aggregate more than 10% of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class; or

(c) any Proceeding instituted by any Noteholder for the enforcement of the payment of principal of or interest on any Note on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Note and in this Indenture (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date).

SECTION 5.14 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Issuing Entity covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, or plead or in any manner whatsoever, claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture. The Issuing Entity (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it shall not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Indenture Trustee, but shall suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

 

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SECTION 5.15 Action on Notes. The Indenture Trustee’s right to seek and recover judgment on the Notes or under this Indenture shall not be affected by the seeking, obtaining or application of any other relief under or with respect to this Indenture. Neither the Lien of this Indenture nor any rights or remedies of the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders shall be impaired by the recovery of any judgment by the Indenture Trustee against the Issuing Entity or by the levy of any execution under such judgment upon any portion of the Trust Estate or upon any of the assets of the Issuing Entity. Any money or property collected by the Indenture Trustee shall be applied in accordance with Section 5.4(b).

SECTION 5.16 Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations.

(a) Promptly following a request from the Indenture Trustee to do so and at the Administrator’s expense, the Issuing Entity agrees to take all such lawful action as the Indenture Trustee may request to compel or secure the performance and observance by the Depositor and the Servicer of their respective obligations to the Issuing Entity under or in connection with the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement or by Ally Financial of its obligations under or in connection with the Pooling and Servicing Agreement in accordance with the terms thereof, and to exercise any and all rights, remedies, powers and privileges lawfully available to the Issuing Entity under or in connection with the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement to the extent and in the manner directed by the Indenture Trustee, including the transmission of notices of default on the part of the Seller, the Depositor or the Servicer and the institution of legal or administrative actions or proceedings to compel or secure performance by the Seller, the Depositor or the Servicer of their respective obligations under the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, as applicable.

(b) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee may, and, at the direction (which direction shall be in writing or by telephone (confirmed in writing promptly thereafter)) of the Holders of 66-2/3% of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class shall, exercise all rights, remedies, powers, privileges and claims of the Issuing Entity against the Depositor or the Servicer under or in connection with the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement or the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, including the right or power to take any action to compel or secure performance or observance by the Depositor or the Servicer of each of their obligations to the Issuing Entity thereunder and to give any consent, request, notice, direction, approval, extension or waiver under the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, and any right of the Issuing Entity to take such action shall be suspended.

(c) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee may, and, at the direction (which direction shall be in writing or by telephone (confirmed in writing promptly thereafter)) of the Holders of 66-2/3% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes shall, exercise all rights, remedies, powers, privileges and claims of the Depositor against each of the Seller and the Servicer under or in connection with the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, including the right or power to take any action to compel or secure performance or observance by each of the Seller and the Servicer of its obligations to the Depositor thereunder and to give any consent, request, notice, direction, approval, extension or waiver under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, and any right of the Depositor to take such action shall be suspended.

 

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ARTICLE VI

THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE

SECTION 6.1 Duties of Indenture Trustee.

(a) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs.

(b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:

(i) the Indenture Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture, the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement or any other Basic Document against the Indenture Trustee; and

(ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Indenture Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Indenture Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture.

(c) The Indenture Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:

(i) this Section 6.1(c) does not limit the effect of Section 6.1(b);

(ii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer unless it is proved that the Indenture Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and

(iii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to any provision of this Indenture or any other Basic Document.

(d) The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Indenture Trustee may agree in writing with the Issuing Entity.

(e) Money held in trust by the Indenture Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law or the terms of this Indenture, the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement or the Trust Agreement.

 

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(f) No provision of this Indenture or any other Basic Document shall require the Indenture Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds to believe that repayments of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

(g) Every provision of this Indenture and each other Basic Document relating to the Indenture Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 6.1 and to the provisions of the TIA.

(h) The Indenture Trustee shall have no liability or responsibility for the acts or omissions of any other party to any of the Basic Documents.

(i) In no event shall the Indenture Trustee be liable for any damages in the nature of special, indirect or consequential damages, however styled, including lost profits.

(j) If and for so long as Certificates representing in the aggregate a 100% beneficial interest in the Trust are held by the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee shall make distributions to the Depositor, rather than the Certificate Distribution Account, under the circumstances described in Section 5.2 of the Trust Agreement.

SECTION 6.2 Rights of Indenture Trustee.

(a) The Indenture Trustee may rely on any document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper Person. The Indenture Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document.

(b) Before the Indenture Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officer’s Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel. The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on the Officer’s Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.

(c) The Indenture Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys or a custodian or nominee, and the Indenture Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of, or for the supervision of, any such agent, attorney, custodian or nominee appointed with due care by it hereunder.

(d) The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee’s conduct does not constitute willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith.

(e) The Indenture Trustee may consult with counsel, and the advice or opinion of counsel with respect to legal matters relating to this Indenture and the Notes shall be full and complete authorization and protection from liability in respect to any action taken, omitted or suffered by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the advice or opinion of such counsel.

 

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(f) The Indenture Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Indenture Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.

(g) The Indenture Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Indenture Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit.

(h) The Indenture Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default, Event of Default or Servicer Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a default is received by the Indenture Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee, and such notice references the Securities and this Indenture.

(i) The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Indenture Trustee, including its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Indenture Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, including its capacity under Section 4.4 hereof, and in connection with the performance of any of its duties or obligations under any of the Basic Documents.

SECTION 6.3 Indenture Trustee May Own Notes. The Indenture Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Issuing Entity, the Servicer or any of their respective Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Indenture Trustee; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee shall comply with Sections 6.10 and 6.11. Any Paying Agent, Note Registrar, co-registrar or co-paying agent may do the same with like rights.

SECTION 6.4 Indenture Trustee’s Disclaimer. The Indenture Trustee shall not be responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of any Basic Document, including this Indenture or the Notes, it shall not be accountable for the Issuing Entity’s use of the proceeds from the Notes, and it shall not be responsible for any statement of the Issuing Entity in the Indenture or in any document issued in connection with the sale of the Notes or in the Notes other than the Indenture Trustee’s certificate of authentication.

SECTION 6.5 Notice of Defaults. If a Default occurs and is continuing and if it is known to a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to each Noteholder notice of the Default within the later of (a) ninety (90) days after it occurs and (b) ten (10) days after it is known to a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee. Except in the case of a Default in payment of principal of or interest on any Note, the Indenture Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as a committee of its Responsible Officers in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of Noteholders.

 

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SECTION 6.6 Reports by Indenture Trustee.

(a) The Indenture Trustee shall deliver to each Noteholder the documents and information set forth in Article VII and, in addition, all such information with respect to the Notes as may be required to enable such Holder to prepare its federal and State income tax returns.

(b) The Indenture Trustee shall:

(i) deliver to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer a report of its assessment of compliance with the Servicing Criteria set forth in Exhibit D, including disclosure of any material instance of non-compliance identified by the Indenture Trustee, as required by Rule 13a-18 and Rule 15d-18 of the Exchange Act and Item 1122 of Regulation AB under the Securities Act;

(ii) cause a firm of registered public accountants that is qualified and independent within the meaning of Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act to deliver to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer an attestation report that satisfies the requirements of Rule 13a-18 or Rule 15d-18 under the Exchange Act, as applicable, on the assessment of compliance with Servicing Criteria with respect to the prior calendar year for inclusion in the Issuing Entity’s 10-K filing; such attestation report shall be in accordance with Rule 1-02(a)(3) and Rule 2-02(g) of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act; and

(iii) deliver to the Depositor and any other Person that will be responsible for signing the certification (a “Sarbanes Certification”) required by Rule 13a-14(d) and Rule 15d-14(d) under the Exchange Act (pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002) on behalf of the Issuing Entity or the Depositor with respect to this securitization transaction a certification substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit E or such form as mutually agreed upon by the Depositor and the Indenture Trustee; the Indenture Trustee acknowledges that the parties identified in this clause (iii) may rely on the certification provided by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to such clause in signing a Sarbanes Certification and filing such with the Commission.

(c) The reports referred to in Section 6.6(b) shall be delivered on or before March 15 of each year that a 10-K filing is required to be filed by the Issuing Entity, beginning March 15, 2014 (and if such date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day), unless the Issuing Entity is not required to file periodic reports under the Exchange Act or any other law, in which case such reports may be delivered on or before April 30 of each calendar year, beginning April 30, 2015.

SECTION 6.7 Compensation; Indemnity.

(a) The Issuing Entity shall cause the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.08 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement to pay to the Indenture Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for its services. The Indenture Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. The Issuing Entity shall cause the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.08 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement to reimburse the Indenture

 

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Trustee for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred or made by it, including costs of collection, in addition to the compensation for its services. Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses, disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee’s agents, external counsel, accountants and experts. The Issuing Entity shall cause the Servicer to indemnify the Indenture Trustee in accordance with Section 6.01 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

(b) The Issuing Entity’s obligations to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.7 shall survive the discharge of this Indenture. When the Indenture Trustee incurs expenses after the occurrence of a Default specified in Section 5.1(e) or Section 5.1(f) with respect to the Issuing Entity, the expenses are intended to constitute expenses of administration under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other applicable federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law.

SECTION 6.8 Replacement of Indenture Trustee.

(a) The Indenture Trustee may at any time give notice of its intent to resign by so notifying the Issuing Entity; provided, however, that no such resignation shall become effective and the Indenture Trustee shall not resign prior to the time set forth in Section 6.8(c). The Holders of a majority in Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class may remove the Indenture Trustee by so notifying the Indenture Trustee and may appoint a successor Indenture Trustee. Such resignation or removal shall become effective in accordance with Section 6.8(c). The Issuing Entity shall remove the Indenture Trustee if:

(i) the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11;

(ii) the Indenture Trustee is adjudged bankrupt or insolvent;

(iii) a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the Indenture Trustee or its property; or

(iv) the Indenture Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of acting.

(b) If the Indenture Trustee gives notice of its intent to resign or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of the Indenture Trustee for any reason (the Indenture Trustee in such event being referred to herein as the retiring Indenture Trustee), the Issuing Entity shall promptly appoint and designate a successor Indenture Trustee.

(c) A successor Indenture Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment and designation to the retiring Indenture Trustee and to the Issuing Entity. Thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Indenture Trustee shall become effective and the successor Indenture Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture. The successor Indenture Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to Noteholders. The retiring Indenture Trustee shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Indenture Trustee to the successor Indenture Trustee.

 

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(d) If a successor Indenture Trustee does not take office within sixty (60) days after the Indenture Trustee gives notice of its intent to resign or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the Issuing Entity or the Holders of a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment and designation of a successor Indenture Trustee.

(e) If the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11, any Noteholder may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Indenture Trustee and the appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee.

(f) Notwithstanding the replacement of the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.8, the Issuing Entity’s obligations under Section 6.7 and the Servicer’s corresponding obligations under the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Indenture Trustee.

SECTION 6.9 Merger or Consolidation of Indenture Trustee.

(a) Any corporation into which the Indenture Trustee may be merged or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger or consolidation to which the Indenture Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate trust business of the Indenture Trustee, shall be the successor of the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture; provided, however, that such corporation shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 6.11, without the execution or filing of any instrument or any further act on the part of any of the parties to this Indenture, anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding.

(b) If at the time such successor or successors by merger or consolidation to the Indenture Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture, any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Indenture Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee, and deliver such Notes so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Indenture Trustee may authenticate such Notes either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor to the Indenture Trustee. In all such cases such certificate of authentication shall have the same full force as is provided anywhere in the Notes or herein with respect to the certificate of authentication of the Indenture Trustee.

SECTION 6.10 Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture Trustee.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, at any time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirement of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Trust Estate or any Financed Vehicle may at the time be located, the Indenture Trustee shall have the power and may execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons to act as a co-trustee or co-trustees, or separate trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part of the Trust Estate, and to vest in such Person or Persons, in such capacity and for the benefit of the Secured Parties (only to the extent expressly provided herein), such title to the Trust Estate, or any part hereof, and, subject to the other provisions of this Section 6.10, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Indenture Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor trustee under Section 6.11 and no notice to Noteholders of the appointment of any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required under Section 6.8.

 

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(b) Every separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and conditions:

(i) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed upon the Indenture Trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Indenture Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee is not authorized to act separately without the Indenture Trustee joining in such act), except to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be performed the Indenture Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties and obligations (including the holding of title to the Trust Estate or any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction of the Indenture Trustee;

(ii) no trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of any other trustee hereunder; and

(iii) the Indenture Trustee may at any time accept the resignation of or remove any separate trustee or co-trustee.

(c) Any notice, request or other writing given to the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Indenture and the conditions of this Article VI. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Indenture Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions of this Indenture, specifically including every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the Indenture Trustee. Every such instrument shall be filed with the Indenture Trustee.

(d) Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time constitute the Indenture Trustee, its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of this Indenture on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the Indenture Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or successor trustee.

SECTION 6.11 Eligibility; Disqualification. The Indenture Trustee shall at all times satisfy the requirements of TIA § 310(a). The Indenture Trustee shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition and (unless waived by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and Standard & Poor’s

 

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Ratings Services) it shall have a long term unsecured debt rating that falls within an investment grade category by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services. The Indenture Trustee shall comply with TIA § 310(b); provided, however, that there shall be excluded from the operation of TIA § 310(b)(1) any indenture or indentures under which other securities of the Issuing Entity are outstanding if the requirements for such exclusion set forth in TIA § 310(b)(1) are met.

SECTION 6.12 Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Issuing Entity. The Indenture Trustee shall comply with TIA § 311(a), excluding any creditor relationship listed in TIA § 311(b). A trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA § 311(a) to the extent indicated.

SECTION 6.13 Representations and Warranties of Indenture Trustee. The Indenture Trustee represents and warrants as of the Initial Closing Date that:

(a) the Indenture Trustee (i) is a New York banking corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the United States of America and (ii) satisfies the eligibility criteria set forth in Section 6.11;

(b) the Indenture Trustee has full power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver and perform this Indenture, and has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it of this Indenture;

(c) the execution, delivery and performance by the Indenture Trustee of this Indenture (i) shall not violate any provision of any law or regulation governing the banking and trust powers of the Indenture Trustee or any order, writ, judgment or decree of any court, arbitrator, or governmental authority applicable to the Indenture Trustee or any of its assets, (ii) shall not violate any provision of the corporate charter or by-laws of the Indenture Trustee, or (iii) shall not violate any provision of, or constitute, with or without notice or lapse of time, a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any properties included in the Trust Estate pursuant to the provisions of any mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement or other undertaking to which it is a party, which violation, default or Lien could reasonably be expected to have a materially adverse effect on the Indenture Trustee’s performance or ability to perform its duties under this Indenture or on the transactions contemplated in this Indenture;

(d) the execution, delivery and performance by the Indenture Trustee of this Indenture shall not require the authorization, consent or approval of, the giving of notice to, the filing or registration with, or the taking of any other action in respect of, any governmental authority or agency regulating the banking and corporate trust activities of the Indenture Trustee; and

(e) this Indenture has been duly executed and delivered by the Indenture Trustee and constitutes the legal, valid and binding agreement of the Indenture Trustee, enforceable in accordance with its terms.

 

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SECTION 6.14 Indenture Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Notes. All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Notes may be prosecuted and enforced by the Indenture Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Indenture Trustee shall be brought in its own name as Indenture Trustee. Any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Noteholders and (only to the extent expressly provided herein) the Certificateholders in respect of which such judgment has been obtained.

SECTION 6.15 Suit for Enforcement. If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the Indenture Trustee, in its discretion may, subject to the provisions of Section 6.1, proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Noteholders under this Indenture by Proceeding whether for the specific performance of any covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the execution of any power granted in this Indenture or for the enforcement of any other legal, equitable or other remedy as the Indenture Trustee, being advised by counsel, shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any of the rights of the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders.

SECTION 6.16 Rights of Noteholders to Direct Indenture Trustee. Holders of Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any Proceeding for any remedy available to the Indenture Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Indenture Trustee; provided, however, that subject to Section 6.1, the Indenture Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the Indenture Trustee being advised by counsel determines that the action so directed may not lawfully be taken, or if the Indenture Trustee in good faith shall, by a Responsible Officer, determine that the proceedings so directed would be illegal or subject it to personal liability or be unduly prejudicial to the rights of Noteholders not parties to such direction; and provided, further, that nothing in this Indenture shall impair the right of the Indenture Trustee to take any action deemed proper by the Indenture Trustee and which is not inconsistent with such direction by the Noteholders.

ARTICLE VII

NOTEHOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS

SECTION 7.1 Issuing Entity To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of Noteholders. The Issuing Entity shall furnish or cause to be furnished by the Servicer to the Indenture Trustee (a) not more than five (5) days before each Distribution Date a list, in such form as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes as of the close of business on the related Record Date, and (b) at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may request in writing, within fourteen (14) days after receipt by the Issuing Entity of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than ten (10) days prior to the time such list is furnished; provided, however, that so long as the Indenture Trustee is the Note Registrar, no such list shall be required to be furnished.

SECTION 7.2 Preservation of Information, Communications to Noteholders.

(a) The Indenture Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes contained in the most recent list furnished to the Indenture Trustee as provided in Section 7.1 and the names and addresses of Holders of Notes received by the Indenture Trustee in its capacity as Note Registrar. The Indenture Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in such Section 7.1 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

 

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(b) Noteholders may communicate pursuant to TIA § 312(b) with other Noteholders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Notes.

(c) The Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar shall have the protection of TIA § 312(c).

SECTION 7.3 Reports by the Issuing Entity.

(a) The Issuing Entity shall:

(i) file with the Indenture Trustee, within fifteen (15) days after the Issuing Entity is required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Issuing Entity may be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or Item 1122 of Regulation AB;

(ii) file with the Indenture Trustee and the Commission in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission such additional information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by the Issuing Entity with the conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules and regulations; and

(iii) supply to the Indenture Trustee (and the Indenture Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Noteholders described in TIA § 313(c)) such summaries of any information, documents and reports required to be filed by the Issuing Entity pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) of this Section 7.3(a) as may be required by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission.

(b) Unless the Issuing Entity otherwise determines, the fiscal year of the Issuing Entity shall end on December 31 of such year.

SECTION 7.4 Reports by Trustee.

(a) If required by TIA § 313(a), within sixty (60) days after each April 15, beginning with April 15, 2014, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to each Noteholder as required by TIA § 313(c) a brief report dated as of such date that complies with TIA § 313(a). The Indenture Trustee also shall comply with TIA § 313(b). A copy of any report delivered pursuant to this Section 7.4(a) shall, at the time of its mailing to Noteholders, be filed by the Indenture Trustee with the Commission and each stock exchange, if any, on which the Notes are listed. The Issuing Entity shall notify the Indenture Trustee if and when the Notes are listed on any stock exchange.

 

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(b) On each Distribution Date the Indenture Trustee shall include with each payment to each Noteholder a copy of the statement for the related Monthly Period or Periods applicable to such Distribution Date as required pursuant to Section 4.09 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

ARTICLE VIII

ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES

SECTION 8.1 Collection of Money. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the Indenture Trustee may demand payment or delivery of, and shall receive and collect, directly and without intervention or assistance of any fiscal agent or other intermediary, all money and other property payable to or receivable by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Indenture or the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement. The Indenture Trustee shall apply all such money received by it as provided in this Indenture. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, if any default occurs in the making of any payment or performance under any agreement or instrument that is part of the Trust Estate, the Indenture Trustee may take such action as may be appropriate to enforce such payment or performance, including the institution and prosecution of appropriate Proceedings. Any such action shall be without prejudice to any right to claim a Default or Event of Default under this Indenture and any right to proceed thereafter as provided in Article V.

SECTION 8.2 Designated Accounts; Payments.

(a) On or prior to the Initial Closing Date, the Issuing Entity shall cause the Servicer to establish and maintain, in the name of the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Financial Parties (and with respect to the Reserve Account, for the benefit of the Noteholders) the Designated Accounts as provided in Articles IV and V of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

(b) On or before each Distribution Date, (i) amounts shall be deposited in the Collection Account as provided in Section 4.06 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and (ii) the Aggregate Noteholders’ Interest Distributable Amount and, during the Amortization Period, the Aggregate Noteholders’ Principal Distributable Amount shall be transferred from the Collection Account to the Note Distribution Account as and to the extent provided in Section 4.06 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

(c) On each Distribution Date, in accordance with the Servicer’s Accounting, the Indenture Trustee shall notify the Account Holder to apply and, as required, distribute to the Noteholders all amounts on deposit in the Note Distribution Account (subject to the Servicer’s rights under Section 5.03 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement to Investment Earnings) in the following order of priority and in the amounts determined as described below:

(i) On each Distribution Date, except as otherwise provided in clause (iii) below, the amount deposited in the Note Distribution Account in respect of interest on the Notes shall be applied in the following order of priority, to the extent of remaining funds after all earlier priorities have been satisfied, and any amount so applied shall be paid on such Distribution Date to the holders of Notes of each applicable Class:

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(B) the Aggregate Class B Interest Distributable Amount shall be paid to the holders of the Class B Notes;

(C) the Aggregate Class C Interest Distributable Amount shall be paid to the holders of the Class C Notes;

(D) the Aggregate Class D Interest Distributable Amount shall be paid to the holders of the Class D Notes; and

(E) the Aggregate Class E Interest Distributable Amount shall be paid to the holders of the Class E Notes;

provided however, if there are not sufficient funds to so pay the entire amount specified in any of the foregoing priorities for a particular class of Notes, then the amount available for such class of Notes shall be paid to the Holders thereof ratably on the basis of the total amount of accrued and unpaid interest owing to each such Holder.

(ii) During the Amortization Period, unless otherwise provided in clause (iii) below, an amount equal to the Aggregate Noteholders’ Principal Distributable Amount shall be applied to each class of Notes in the following amounts and in the following order of priority and any amount so applied shall be paid on such Distribution Date to the Holders of such class of Notes:

(1) to the Class A-1a Notes and the Class A-1b Notes, ratably in accordance with the aggregate Note Principal Balance of the Class A-1a Notes and the Class A-1b Notes until the Outstanding Amounts of the Class A-1a Notes and the Class A-1b Notes are reduced to zero;

(2) to the Class A-2 Notes, until the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-2 Notes is reduced to zero;

(3) to the Class A-3 Notes, until the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-3 Notes is reduced to zero;

(4) to the Class A-4 Notes, until the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-4 Notes is reduced to zero;

(5) to the Class B Notes, until the Outstanding Amount of the Class B Notes is reduced to zero;

(6) to the Class C Notes, until the Outstanding Amount of the Class C Notes is reduced to zero;

(7) to the Class D Notes, until the Outstanding Amount of the Class D Notes is reduced to zero; and

 

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(8) to the Class E Notes, until the Outstanding Amount of the Class E Notes is reduced to zero.

(iii) If the Notes have been declared immediately due and payable following an Event of Default as provided in Section 5.2, until such time as all Events of Default have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.2(b), any amounts deposited in the Note Distribution Account shall be applied in accordance with Section 2.7(c).

SECTION 8.3 General Provisions Regarding Accounts.

(a) So long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, all or a portion of the funds in the Designated Accounts shall be invested in Eligible Investments and reinvested by the Indenture Trustee upon Issuing Entity Order, subject to the provisions of Section 5.01(b) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement. The Issuing Entity shall not direct the Indenture Trustee to make any investment of any funds or to sell any investment held in any of the Designated Accounts unless the security interest granted and perfected in such account shall continue to be perfected in such investment or the proceeds of such sale, in either case without any further action by any Person, and, in connection with any direction to the Indenture Trustee to make any such investment or sale, if requested by the Indenture Trustee, the Issuing Entity shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to such effect.

(b) Subject to Section 6.1(c), the Indenture Trustee shall not in any way be held liable by reason of any insufficiency in any of the Designated Accounts resulting from any loss on any Eligible Investment included therein except for losses attributable to the Indenture Trustee’s failure to make payments on such Eligible Investments issued by the Indenture Trustee, in its commercial capacity as principal obligor and not as trustee, in accordance with their terms.

(c) If (i) the Issuing Entity shall have failed to give investment directions for any funds on deposit in the Designated Accounts to the Indenture Trustee by 11:00 a.m., New York City time (or such other time as may be agreed by the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee) on any Business Day; or (ii) a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to the Notes but the Notes shall not have been declared due and payable pursuant to Section 5.2, or, if such Notes shall have been declared due and payable following an Event of Default, but amounts collected or receivable from the Trust Estate are being applied in accordance with Section 5.5 as if there had not been such a declaration; then the Indenture Trustee shall, to the fullest extent practicable, invest and reinvest funds in the Designated Accounts in one or more Eligible Investments selected by the Indenture Trustee or alternatively, in accordance with the last instructions received by the Indenture Trustee.

SECTION 8.4 Release of Trust Estate.

(a) Subject to the payment of its fees and expenses pursuant to Section 6.7, the Indenture Trustee may, and when required by the provisions of this Indenture shall, execute instruments to release property from the Lien of this Indenture, or convey the Indenture Trustee’s interest in the same, in a manner and under circumstances that are consistent with the provisions of this Indenture. No party relying upon an instrument executed by the Indenture Trustee as provided in this Article VIII shall be bound to ascertain the Indenture Trustee’s authority, inquire into the satisfaction of any conditions precedent or see to the application of any monies.

 

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(b) The Indenture Trustee shall, at such time as there are no Notes Outstanding and all sums due to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 6.7 have been paid, release any remaining portion of the Trust Estate that secured the Notes and the other Secured Obligations from the Lien of this Indenture and release to the Issuing Entity or any other Person entitled thereto any funds then on deposit in the Designated Accounts. The Indenture Trustee shall release property from the Lien of this Indenture pursuant to this Section 8.4(b) only upon receipt by it of an Issuing Entity Request and an Officer’s Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel meeting the applicable requirements of Section 11.1 and (if required by the TIA) Independent Certificates in accordance with TIA §§ 314(c) and 314(d)(1) meeting the applicable requirements of Section 11.1.

SECTION 8.5 Opinion of Counsel. The Indenture Trustee shall receive at least seven (7) days’ notice when requested by the Issuing Entity to take any action pursuant to Section 8.4(a), accompanied by copies of any instruments involved, and the Indenture Trustee shall also require as a condition to such action, an Opinion of Counsel, in form and substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, stating the legal effect of any such action, outlining the steps required to complete the same, and concluding that all conditions precedent to the taking of such action have been complied with and such action shall not materially and adversely impair the security for the Secured Obligations or the rights of the Secured Parties in contravention of the provisions of this Indenture; provided, however, that such Opinion of Counsel shall not be required to express an opinion as to the fair value of the Trust Estate. Counsel rendering any such opinion may rely, without independent investigation, on the accuracy and validity of any certificate or other instrument delivered to the Indenture Trustee in connection with any such action.

ARTICLE IX

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

SECTION 9.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders.

(a) Without the consent of the Holders of any Notes but with prior notice by the Issuing Entity to the Rating Agencies, the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuing Entity Order, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act as in force at the date of the execution thereof), in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, for any of the following purposes:

(i) to correct or amplify the description of any property at any time subject to the Lien of this Indenture, or better to assure, convey and confirm unto the Indenture Trustee any property subject or required to be subjected to the Lien of this Indenture, or to subject additional property to the Lien of this Indenture;

(ii) to evidence the succession, in compliance with Section 3.10 and the applicable provisions hereof, of another Person to the Issuing Entity, and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Issuing Entity contained herein and in the Notes contained;

 

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(iii) to add to the covenants of the Issuing Entity, for the benefit of the Securityholders or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Issuing Entity;

(iv) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property to or with the Indenture Trustee;

(v) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein or in any supplemental indenture which may be inconsistent with any other provision herein or in any supplemental indenture or in any other Basic Document;

(vi) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of the appointment hereunder by a successor or additional trustee with respect to the Notes and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Article VI; or

(vii) to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to effect the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA or under any similar federal statute hereafter enacted and to add to this Indenture such other provisions as may be expressly required by the TIA, and the Indenture Trustee is hereby authorized to join in the execution of any such supplemental indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations that may be therein contained.

(b) The Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuing Entity Order, may, also without the consent of any of the Noteholders but with prior notice by the Issuing Entity to the Rating Agencies, at any time and from time to time enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to, changing in any manner, or eliminating any of the provisions of, this Indenture or modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders under this Indenture; provided, however, that such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Noteholder.

SECTION 9.2 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Noteholders.

(a) The Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuing Entity Order, also may, with prior notice by the Issuing Entity to each of the Rating Agencies, and with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, by Act of such Holders delivered to the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee, enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to, changing in any manner, or eliminating any of the provisions of, this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby:

 

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(i) change the due date of any installment of principal of or interest on any Note, or reduce the principal amount thereof, the interest rate applicable thereto, or the Redemption Price with respect thereto, change any place of payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Note or any interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of the provisions of this Indenture requiring the application of funds available therefor, as provided in Article V, to the payment of any such amount due on the Notes on or after the respective due dates thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date);

(ii) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, the consent of the Holders of which is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of the Holders of which is required for any waiver of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences as provided for in this Indenture;

(iii) modify or alter the provisions of the proviso to the definition of the term “Outstanding”;

(iv) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes required to direct the Indenture Trustee to sell or liquidate the Trust Estate pursuant to Section 5.4 if the proceeds of such sale would be insufficient to pay the principal amount of and accrued but unpaid interest on the Outstanding Notes;

(v) modify any provision of this Section 9.2 to decrease the required minimum percentage necessary to approve any amendments to any provisions of this Indenture or any of the Basic Documents;

(vi) modify any of the provisions of this Indenture in such manner as to affect the calculation of the amount of any payment of interest or principal due on any Note on any Distribution Date (including the calculation of any of the individual components of such calculation), or modify or alter the provisions of the Indenture regarding the voting of Notes held by the Issuing Entity, the Depositor or any Affiliate of either of them; or

(vii) permit the creation of any Lien ranking prior to or on a parity with the Lien of this Indenture with respect to any part of the Trust Estate or, except as otherwise permitted or contemplated herein, terminate the Lien of this Indenture on any property at any time subject thereto or deprive the Holder of any Note of the security afforded by the Lien of this Indenture.

(b) The Indenture Trustee may in its discretion determine whether or not any Notes would be affected (such that the consent of each Noteholder would be required) by any supplemental indenture proposed pursuant to this Section 9.2 and any such determination shall be binding upon the Holders of all Notes, whether authenticated and delivered thereunder before or after the date upon which such supplemental indenture becomes effective. The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any such determination made in good faith.

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(d) Promptly after the execution by the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Section 9.2, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to the Noteholders to which such amendment or supplemental indenture relates a notice setting forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental indenture. Any failure of the Indenture Trustee to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture.

SECTION 9.3 Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In executing, or permitting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article IX or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Indenture Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture that affects the Indenture Trustee’s own rights, duties, liabilities or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

SECTION 9.4 Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith with respect to the Notes affected thereby, and the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties, liabilities and immunities under this Indenture of the Indenture Trustee, the Issuing Entity and the Noteholders shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments, and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.

SECTION 9.5 Conformity with the Trust Indenture Act. Every amendment of this Indenture and every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article IX shall conform to the requirements of the TIA as then in effect so long as this Indenture shall then be qualified under the TIA.

SECTION 9.6 Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures. Notes authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article IX may, and if required by the Indenture Trustee shall, bear a notation in form approved by the Indenture Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Issuing Entity or the Indenture Trustee shall so determine, new Notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Indenture Trustee and the Issuing Entity, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Issuing Entity and authenticated and delivered by the Indenture Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Notes of the same class.

ARTICLE X

REDEMPTION OF NOTES

SECTION 10.1 Redemption. The Notes are subject to redemption in whole, but not in part, upon the exercise by the Servicer (or the Holder of all the Certificates that is not the Depositor or any Affiliate thereof) of its option to purchase the Receivables pursuant to Section 8.01 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement. The date on which such redemption shall occur is the Distribution Date following the Optional Purchase Date identified by Servicer in its notice of

 

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exercise of such purchase option (the “Redemption Date”). The purchase price for the Notes shall be equal to the applicable Redemption Price. The Servicer or the Issuing Entity shall furnish the Rating Agencies notice of such redemption. If the Notes are to be redeemed pursuant to this Section 10.1, the Servicer or the Issuing Entity shall furnish notice thereof to the Indenture Trustee not later than twenty-five (25) days prior to the Redemption Date and the Indenture Trustee (based on such notice) shall withdraw from the Collection Account and deposit into the Note Distribution Account, on the Redemption Date, the aggregate Redemption Price of the Notes, whereupon all such Notes shall be due and payable on the Redemption Date.

SECTION 10.2 Form of Redemption Notice. Notice of redemption of the Notes under Section 10.1 shall be given by the Indenture Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than five (5) days prior to the applicable Redemption Date to each Noteholder of record at such Noteholder’s address appearing in the Note Register.

(a) All notices of redemption shall state:

(i) the Redemption Date;

(ii) the applicable Redemption Price; and

(iii) the place where Notes are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price (which shall be the Agency Office of the Issuing Entity to be maintained as provided in Section 3.2).

(b) Notice of redemption of the Notes shall be given by the Indenture Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Issuing Entity. Failure to give notice of redemption, or any defect therein, to any Holder of any Note shall not impair or affect the validity of the redemption of any other Note.

SECTION 10.3 Notes Payable on Redemption Date. The Notes shall, following notice of redemption as required by Section 10.2, on the Redemption Date cease to be Outstanding for purposes of this Indenture and shall thereafter represent only the right to receive the applicable Redemption Price and (unless the Issuing Entity shall default in the payment of such Redemption Price) no interest shall accrue on such Redemption Price for any period after the date to which accrued interest is calculated for purposes of calculating such Redemption Price.

ARTICLE XI

MISCELLANEOUS

SECTION 11.1 Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc.

(a) Upon any application or request by the Issuing Entity to the Indenture Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Issuing Entity shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee: (i) an Officer’s Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with, (ii) an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if

 

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any, have been complied with, and (iii) (if required by the TIA) an Independent Certificate from a firm of certified public accountants meeting the applicable requirements of this Section 11.1, except that, in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished. Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:

(i) a statement that each signatory of such certificate or opinion has read or has caused to be read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;

(ii) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;

(iii) a statement that, in the judgment of each such signatory, such signatory has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable such signatory to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and

(iv) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such signatory, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

(b) (i) Prior to the deposit with the Indenture Trustee of any Collateral or other property or securities that is to be made the basis for the release of any property or securities subject to the Lien of this Indenture, the Issuing Entity shall, in addition to any obligation imposed in Section 11.1(a) or elsewhere in this Indenture, furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each Person signing such certificate as to the fair value (within ninety (90) days of such deposit) to the Issuing Entity of the Collateral or other property or securities to be so deposited.

(ii) Whenever the Issuing Entity is required to furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of any signer thereof as to the matters described in clause (b)(i) above, the Issuing Entity shall also deliver to the Indenture Trustee an Independent Certificate as to the same matters, if the fair value to the Issuing Entity of the securities to be so deposited and of all other such securities made on the basis of any such withdrawal or release since the commencement of the then current fiscal year of the Issuing Entity, as set forth in the certificates delivered pursuant to clause (i) above and this clause (b)(ii), is 10% or more of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, but such a certificate need not be furnished with respect to any securities so deposited, if the fair value thereof to the Issuing Entity as set forth in the related Officer’s Certificate is less than $25,000 or less than one percent of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes.

(iii) Other than with respect to the release of any Warranty Receivables, Administrative Receivables or Liquidating Receivables, whenever any property or securities are to be released from the Lien of this Indenture, the Issuing Entity shall also furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each Person

 

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signing such certificate as to the fair value (within ninety (90) days of such release) of the property or securities proposed to be released and stating that in the opinion of such Person the proposed release will not impair the security under this Indenture in contravention of the provisions hereof.

(iv) Whenever the Issuing Entity is required to furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of any signatory thereof as to the matters described in clause (b)(iii) above, the Issuing Entity shall also furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Independent Certificate as to the same matters if the fair value of the property or securities and of all other property, other than Warranty Receivables, Administrative Receivables and Liquidating Receivables or Receivables valued at their Receivables Principal Balance, or securities released from the lien of this Indenture since the commencement of the then current calendar year, as set forth in the certificates required by clause (b)(iii) above and this clause (b)(iv), equals 10% or more of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, but such certificate need not be furnished in the case of any release of property or securities if the fair value thereof as set forth in the related Officer’s Certificate is less than $25,000 or less than one percent of the then Outstanding Amount of the Notes.

(v) Notwithstanding Section 2.9 or any other provision of this Section 11.1, the Issuing Entity may (A) collect, liquidate, sell or otherwise dispose of Receivables as and to the extent permitted or required by the Basic Documents, (B) make cash payments out of the Designated Accounts and the Certificate Distribution Account as and to the extent permitted or required by the Basic Documents and (C) take any other action not inconsistent with the TIA.

SECTION 11.2 Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee.

(a) In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.

(b) Any certificate or opinion of an Authorized Officer of the Issuing Entity may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that any certificate, opinion or representation with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based is erroneous. Any such certificate of an Authorized Officer or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the Servicer, the Depositor, the Issuing Entity or the Administrator, stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Servicer, the Depositor, the Issuing Entity or the Administrator, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.

 

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(c) Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.

(d) Whenever in this Indenture, in connection with any application or certificate or report to the Indenture Trustee, it is provided that the Issuing Entity shall deliver any document as a condition of the granting of such application, or as evidence of the Issuing Entity’s compliance with any term hereof, it is intended that the truth and accuracy, at the time of the granting of such application or at the effective date of such certificate or report (as the case may be), of the facts and opinions stated in such document shall in such case be conditions precedent to the right of the Issuing Entity to have such application granted or to the sufficiency of such certificate or report. The foregoing shall not, however, be construed to affect the Indenture Trustee’s right to rely upon the truth and accuracy of any statement or opinion contained in any such document as provided in Article VI.

SECTION 11.3 Acts of Noteholders.

(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Noteholders or a class of Noteholders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Noteholders in person or by agents duly appointed in writing; and except as herein otherwise expressly provided such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Indenture Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Issuing Entity. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Noteholders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 6.1) conclusive in favor of the Indenture Trustee and the Issuing Entity, if made in the manner provided in this Section 11.3.

(b) The fact and date of the execution by any person of any such instrument or writing may be proved in any manner that the Indenture Trustee deems sufficient.

(c) The ownership of Notes shall be proved by the Note Register.

(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action by the Holder of any Notes (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall bind the Holder of every Note issued upon the registration thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Indenture Trustee or the Issuing Entity in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Note.

SECTION 11.4 Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Issuing Entity and Rating Agencies. Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Noteholders or other documents provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to or filed with:

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(b) the Issuing Entity by the Indenture Trustee or by any Noteholder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if in writing and either sent by electronic facsimile transmission (with hard copy to follow via first class mail) or mailed, by certified mail, return receipt requested to the Issuing Entity and the Owner Trustee each at the address specified in Appendix B to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

The Issuing Entity shall promptly transmit any notice received by it from the Noteholders to the Indenture Trustee. The Indenture Trustee shall likewise promptly transmit any notice received by it from the Noteholders to the Issuing Entity.

Notices required to be given to the Rating Agencies by the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee shall be delivered as specified in Appendix B to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

SECTION 11.5 Notices to Noteholders; Waiver.

(a) Where this Indenture provides for notice to Noteholders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if it is in writing and mailed, first-class, postage prepaid to each Noteholder affected by such event, at such Person’s address as it appears on the Note Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice. If notice to Noteholders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice nor any defect in any notice so mailed to any particular Noteholder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Noteholders, and any notice that is mailed in the manner herein provided shall conclusively be presumed to have been duly given regardless of whether such notice is in fact actually received.

(b) Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by any Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Noteholders shall be filed with the Indenture Trustee but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such a waiver.

(c) In case, by reason of the suspension of regular mail service as a result of a strike, work stoppage or similar activity, it shall be impractical to mail notice of any event of Noteholders when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any manner of giving such notice as shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice.

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SECTION 11.6 Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions. Notwithstanding any provision of this Indenture or any of the Notes to the contrary, the Issuing Entity may enter into any agreement with any Holder of a Note providing for a method of payment, or notice by the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent to such Holder, that is different from the methods provided for in this Indenture for such payments or notices. The Issuing Entity shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee a copy of each such agreement and the Indenture Trustee shall cause payments to be made and notices to be given in accordance with such agreements.

SECTION 11.7 Conflict with the Trust Indenture Act.

(a) If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof that is required to be included in this Indenture by any of the provisions of the TIA, such required provision shall control.

(b) The provisions of TIA §§ 310 through 317 that impose duties on any Person (including the provisions automatically deemed included herein unless expressly excluded by this Indenture) are a part of and govern this Indenture, whether or not physically contained herein.

SECTION 11.8 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents. The Article and Section headings herein and the table of contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

SECTION 11.9 Successors and Assigns.

(a) All covenants and agreements in this Indenture and the Notes by the Issuing Entity shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

(b) All covenants and agreements of the Indenture Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

SECTION 11.10 Severability. In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

SECTION 11.11 Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder, and to the extent expressly provided herein, the Noteholders, the Certificateholders, the Owner Trustee, any other party secured hereunder and any other Person with an ownership interest in any part of the Trust Estate, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.

SECTION 11.12 Legal Holidays. If the date on which any payment is due shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of the Notes or this Indenture) payment need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on the date on which nominally due, and no interest shall accrue for the period from and after any such nominal date.

 

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SECTION 11.13 Governing Law. THIS INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 AND SECTION 5-1402 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

SECTION 11.14 Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

SECTION 11.15 Recording of Indenture. If this Indenture is subject to recording in any appropriate public recording offices, such recording is to be effected by the Issuing Entity and at its expense accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel (which may be counsel to the Indenture Trustee or any other counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee) to the effect that such recording is necessary either for the protection of the Noteholders or any other Person secured hereunder or for the enforcement of any right or remedy granted to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.

SECTION 11.16 No Recourse. No recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under this Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection herewith or therewith, against:

(a) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity;

(b) the Depositor or any other owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuing Entity; or

(c) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director, employee or agent of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, the Depositor or any other holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity (or any of their successors or assigns), except as any such Person may have expressly agreed (it being understood that the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee have no such obligations in their individual capacity) and except that any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity. For all purposes of this Indenture, in the performance of any duties or obligations of the Issuing Entity hereunder, the Owner Trustee shall be subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the terms and provisions of Articles VI, VII and VIII of the Trust Agreement.

SECTION 11.17 No Petition. The Indenture Trustee, by entering into this Indenture, and each Noteholder and Note Owner, by accepting a Note (or interest therein) issued hereunder, hereby covenant and agree that they shall not, prior to the date which is one year and one day after the termination of this Indenture with respect to the Issuing Entity pursuant to Section 4.1, acquiesce, petition or otherwise invoke or cause the Depositor or the Issuing Entity to invoke the process of any court or government authority for the purpose of commencing or

 

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sustaining a case against the Depositor or the Issuing Entity under any federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official of the Depositor or the Issuing Entity or any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the Depositor or the Issuing Entity under any federal or State bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding.

SECTION 11.18 Inspection. The Issuing Entity agrees that, on reasonable prior notice, it shall permit any representative of the Indenture Trustee, during the Issuing Entity’s normal business hours, to examine all the books of account, records, reports, and other papers of the Issuing Entity, to make copies and extracts therefrom, to cause such books to be audited by Independent certified public accountants, and to discuss the Issuing Entity’s affairs, finances and accounts with the Issuing Entity’s officers, employees and Independent certified public accountants, all at such reasonable times and as often as may be reasonably requested. The Indenture Trustee shall and shall cause its representatives to hold in confidence all such information except to the extent disclosure may be required by law (and all reasonable applications for confidential treatment are unavailing) and except to the extent that the Indenture Trustee may reasonably determine that such disclosure is consistent with its obligations hereunder.

SECTION 11.19 Indemnification by and Reimbursement of Servicer. The Indenture Trustee acknowledges and agrees to reimburse (i) the Servicer and its directors, officers, employees and agents in accordance with Section 6.03(b) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and (ii) the Depositor and its directors, officers, employees and agents in accordance with Section 3.04 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement. The Indenture Trustee further acknowledges and accepts the conditions and limitations with respect to the Servicer’s obligation to indemnify, defend and hold the Indenture Trustee harmless as set forth in Section 6.01(a)(iv) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

SECTION 11.20 Subordination. Each Note represents beneficial interests in the Issuing Entity only and does not represent interests in or obligations of the Depositor, the Servicer, the Administrator, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or any Affiliate thereof and no recourse, either directly or indirectly, may be had against such parties or their assets, except as may be expressly set forth or contemplated in the Basic Documents. Except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the event of nonpayment of any amounts with respect to the Notes, each Noteholder shall have no claim against any of the Depositor, the Servicer, the Administrator, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or any Affiliate for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom. In the event that any of the covenants above of each Noteholder is prohibited by, or declared illegal or otherwise unenforceable against any such Noteholder under applicable law by any court or other authority of competent jurisdiction, and, as a result, a Noteholder is deemed to have an interest in any assets of the Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor other than the Issuing Entity, each Noteholder agrees that (i) its claim against any such other assets shall be, and hereby is, subject and subordinate in all respects to the rights of other Persons to whom rights in the other assets have been expressly granted, including to the payment in full of all amounts owing to such entitled Persons, and (ii) the covenant set forth in the preceding clause (i) constitutes a “subordination agreement” within the meaning of, and subject to, Section 510(a) of the Bankruptcy Code.

 

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SECTION 11.21 Compliance with Applicable Anti-Terrorism and Anti-Money Laundering Regulations. In order to comply with laws, rules and regulations applicable to banking institutions, including those relating to the funding of terrorist activities and money laundering, the Indenture Trustee is required to obtain, verify and record certain information relating to individuals and entities which maintain a business relationship with the Indenture Trustee. Accordingly, the Issuing Entity agrees to provide, and agrees to cause the Administrator and the Servicer to provide, to the Indenture Trustee upon its request from time to time such identifying

information and documentation as may be reasonably available to such party without undue expense in order to enable the Indenture Trustee to comply with applicable law.

* * * * *

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee have caused this Indenture to be duly executed by their respective officers, thereunto duly authorized, as of the day and year first above written.

 

CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET
TRUST 2013-3
By:   BNY MELLON TRUST OF DELAWARE, not
  in its individual capacity but solely as
Owner Trustee
By:   /s/ Kristine K. Gullo
Name:   Kristine K. Gullo
Title:   Vice President
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST
COMPANY for DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST
COMPANY AMERICAS, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee
By:   /s/ Mark DiGiacomo

Name:

  Mark DiGiacomo

Title:

  Vice President
By:   /s/ Robin Durant

Name:

  Robin Durant

Title:

  Associate

Indenture (CARAT 2013-3)


EXHIBIT A

LOCATIONS OF SCHEDULE OF INITIAL RECEIVABLES AND

ANY SCHEDULE OF ADDITIONAL RECEIVABLES

The Schedule of Initial Receivables and any Schedule of Additional Receivables are on file at the offices of:

 

1. The Indenture Trustee

 

2. The Owner Trustee

 

3. The Servicer

 

4. The Depositor

 

5. The Seller

 

Ex. A


EXHIBIT B

FORM OF NOTE DEPOSITORY AGREEMENT FOR THE NOTES

[On File]

 

Ex. B-1


EXHIBIT C-1

FORM OF CLASS A-1A, CLASS A-2, CLASS A-3, CLASS A-4, CLASS B, CLASS C

AND CLASS D FIXED RATE ASSET BACKED NOTES

 

REGISTERED    $[                    ]

NO. R-

SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

CUSIP NO.             

EACH [CLASS A-1A] [CLASS A-2] [CLASS A-3] [CLASS A-4] [CLASS B] [CLASS C] [CLASS D] NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER, BY ACCEPTANCE OF A [CLASS A-1A] [CLASS A-2] [CLASS A-3] [CLASS A-4] [CLASS B] [CLASS C] [CLASS D] NOTE OR, IN THE CASE OF A NOTE OWNER, A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A [CLASS A-1A] [CLASS A-2] [CLASS A-3] [CLASS A-4] [CLASS B] [CLASS C] [CLASS D] NOTE WILL BE DEEMED TO REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT EITHER (I) IT IS NOT ACQUIRING THE NOTE WITH THE ASSETS OF (A) AN “EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN” AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(3) OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”), THAT IS SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE I OF ERISA, (B) A “PLAN” SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”), (C) AN ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE PLAN ASSETS BY REASON OF INVESTMENT BY AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN IN SUCH ENTITY OR (D) ANY OTHER PLAN THAT IS SUBJECT TO ANY LAW THAT IS SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO TITLE I OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE OR (II) THE ACQUISITION AND HOLDING OF THE NOTE WILL NOT GIVE RISE TO A NON-EXEMPT PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE OR A VIOLATION OF ANY SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR APPLICABLE LAW.

EACH [CLASS A-1A] [CLASS A-2] [CLASS A-3] [CLASS A-4] [CLASS B] [CLASS C] [CLASS D] NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER, BY ACCEPTANCE OF A [CLASS A-1A] [CLASS A-2] [CLASS A-3] [CLASS A-4] [CLASS B] [CLASS C] [CLASS D] NOTE OR, IN THE CASE OF A NOTE OWNER, A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A [CLASS A-1A] [CLASS A-2] [CLASS A-3] [CLASS A-4] [CLASS B] [CLASS C] [CLASS D] NOTE, COVENANTS AND AGREES THAT NO RECOURSE MAY BE TAKEN, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, WITH RESPECT TO THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE ISSUING ENTITY, THE OWNER TRUSTEE OR THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE ON THE [CLASS A-1A] [CLASS A-2] [CLASS A-3] [CLASS A-4] [CLASS B] [CLASS C] [CLASS D] NOTES OR UNDER THE INDENTURE OR ANY CERTIFICATE OR OTHER WRITING DELIVERED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, AGAINST (i) THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE OR THE OWNER TRUSTEE IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITIES, (ii) THE DEPOSITOR OR ANY OTHER OWNER OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THE ISSUING ENTITY OR (iii) ANY

 

Ex. C-1-1


PARTNER, OWNER, BENEFICIARY, AGENT, OFFICER, DIRECTOR OR EMPLOYEE OF THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE OR THE OWNER TRUSTEE IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITIES, ANY HOLDER OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THE ISSUING ENTITY, THE OWNER TRUSTEE OR THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE OR OF ANY SUCCESSOR OR ASSIGN OF THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE OR THE OWNER TRUSTEE IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITIES, EXCEPT AS ANY SUCH PERSON MAY HAVE EXPRESSLY AGREED AND EXCEPT THAT ANY SUCH PARTNER, OWNER OR BENEFICIARY SHALL BE FULLY LIABLE, TO THE EXTENT PROVIDED BY APPLICABLE LAW, FOR ANY UNPAID CONSIDERATION FOR STOCK, UNPAID CAPITAL CONTRIBUTION OR FAILURE TO PAY ANY INSTALLMENT OR CALL OWING TO SUCH ENTITY.

EACH [CLASS A-1A] [CLASS A-2] [CLASS A-3] [CLASS A-4] [CLASS B] [CLASS C] [CLASS D] NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE OF A [CLASS A-1A] [CLASS A-2] [CLASS A-3] [CLASS A-4] [CLASS B] [CLASS C] [CLASS D] NOTE OR, IN THE CASE OF A NOTE OWNER, A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A [CLASS A-1A] [CLASS A-2] [CLASS A-3] [CLASS A-4] [CLASS B] [CLASS C] [CLASS D] NOTE, COVENANTS AND AGREES THAT BY ACCEPTING THE BENEFITS OF THE INDENTURE SUCH [CLASS A-1A] [CLASS A-2] [CLASS A-3] [CLASS A-4] [CLASS B] [CLASS C] [CLASS D] NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER WILL NOT, PRIOR TO THE DATE WHICH IS ONE YEAR AND ONE DAY AFTER THE TERMINATION OF THE INDENTURE WITH RESPECT TO THE ISSUING ENTITY, ACQUIESCE, PETITION OR OTHERWISE INVOKE OR CAUSE THE DEPOSITOR OR THE ISSUING ENTITY TO INVOKE THE PROCESS OF ANY COURT OR GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF COMMENCING OR SUSTAINING A CASE AGAINST THE DEPOSITOR OR THE ISSUING ENTITY UNDER ANY FEDERAL OR STATE BANKRUPTCY, INSOLVENCY OR SIMILAR LAW OR APPOINTING A RECEIVER, LIQUIDATOR, ASSIGNEE, TRUSTEE, CUSTODIAN, SEQUESTRATOR OR OTHER SIMILAR OFFICIAL OF THE DEPOSITOR OR THE ISSUING ENTITY OR ANY SUBSTANTIAL PART OF THE PROPERTY OF EITHER OF THEM, OR ORDERING THE WINDING UP OR LIQUIDATION OF THE AFFAIRS OF THE DEPOSITOR OR THE ISSUING ENTITY UNDER ANY FEDERAL OR STATE BANKRUPTCY OR INSOLVENCY PROCEEDING.

EACH [CLASS A-1A] [CLASS A-2] [CLASS A-3] [CLASS A-4] [CLASS B] [CLASS C] [CLASS D] NOTEHOLDER BY ACCEPTING A NOTE (OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT SUCH PERSON’S NOTE (OR INTEREST THEREIN) REPRESENTS BENEFICIAL INTERESTS IN THE ISSUING ENTITY ONLY AND DOES NOT REPRESENT INTERESTS IN OR OBLIGATIONS OF THE DEPOSITOR, THE SERVICER, THE ADMINISTRATOR, THE OWNER TRUSTEE, THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE OR ANY AFFILIATE THEREOF AND NO RECOURSE, EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, MAY BE HAD AGAINST SUCH PARTIES OR THEIR ASSETS, EXCEPT AS MAY BE EXPRESSLY SET FORTH OR CONTEMPLATED IN THE BASIC DOCUMENTS. EACH [CLASS A-1A] [CLASS A-2] [CLASS A-3] [CLASS A-4] [CLASS B] [CLASS C] [CLASS D] NOTEHOLDER BY THE ACCEPTANCE OF A NOTE (OR BENEFICIAL INTEREST THEREIN) AGREES THAT EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN THE BASIC DOCUMENTS, IN THE EVENT OF NONPAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNTS WITH RESPECT TO THE NOTES, IT SHALL HAVE NO CLAIM AGAINST ANY OF THE DEPOSITOR, THE SERVICER, THE ADMINISTRATOR, THE OWNER

 

Ex. C-1-2


TRUSTEE, THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE OR ANY AFFILIATE FOR ANY DEFICIENCY, LOSS OR CLAIM THEREFROM. IN THE EVENT THAT ANY OF THE FOREGOING COVENANTS OF EACH [CLASS A-1A] [CLASS A-2] [CLASS A-3] [CLASS A-4] [CLASS B] [CLASS C] [CLASS D] NOTEHOLDER IS PROHIBITED BY, OR DECLARED ILLEGAL OR OTHERWISE UNENFORCEABLE AGAINST ANY SUCH [CLASS A-1A] [CLASS A-2] [CLASS A-3] [CLASS A-4] [CLASS B] [CLASS C] [CLASS D] NOTEHOLDER UNDER APPLICABLE LAW BY ANY COURT OR OTHER AUTHORITY OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION, AND, AS A RESULT, A [CLASS A-1A] [CLASS A-2] [CLASS A-3] [CLASS A-4] [CLASS B] [CLASS C] [CLASS D] NOTEHOLDER IS DEEMED TO HAVE AN INTEREST IN ANY ASSETS OF THE DEPOSITOR OR ANY AFFILIATE OF THE DEPOSITOR OTHER THAN THE ISSUING ENTITY, EACH [CLASS A-1A] [CLASS A-2] [CLASS A-3] [CLASS A-4] [CLASS B] [CLASS C] [CLASS D] NOTEHOLDER AGREES THAT (I) ITS CLAIM AGAINST ANY SUCH OTHER ASSETS SHALL BE, AND HEREBY IS, SUBJECT AND SUBORDINATE IN ALL RESPECTS TO THE RIGHTS OF OTHER PERSONS TO WHOM RIGHTS IN THE OTHER ASSETS HAVE BEEN EXPRESSLY GRANTED, INCLUDING TO THE PAYMENT IN FULL OF ALL AMOUNTS OWING TO SUCH ENTITLED PERSONS, AND (II) THE COVENANT SET FORTH IN THE PRECEDING CLAUSE (I) CONSTITUTES A “SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT” WITHIN THE MEANING OF, AND SUBJECT TO, SECTION 510(A) OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE.

EACH [CLASS A-1A] [CLASS A-2] [CLASS A-3] [CLASS A-4] [CLASS B] [CLASS C] [CLASS D] NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER, BY ACCEPTANCE OF A [CLASS A-1A] [CLASS A-2] [CLASS A-3] [CLASS A-4] [CLASS B] [CLASS C] [CLASS D] NOTE OR, IN THE CASE OF A NOTE OWNER, A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A [CLASS A-1A] [CLASS A-2] [CLASS A-3] [CLASS A-4] [CLASS B] [CLASS C] [CLASS D] NOTE, EXPRESSES ITS INTENTION THAT THIS [CLASS A-1A] [CLASS A-2] [CLASS A-3] [CLASS A-4] [CLASS B] [CLASS C] [CLASS D] NOTE QUALIFIES UNDER APPLICABLE TAX LAW AS INDEBTEDNESS SECURED BY THE COLLATERAL AND, UNLESS OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY APPROPRIATE TAXING AUTHORITIES, AGREES TO TREAT THE [CLASS A-1A] [CLASS A-2] [CLASS A-3] [CLASS A-4] [CLASS B] [CLASS C] [CLASS D] NOTES AS INDEBTEDNESS SECURED BY THE COLLATERAL FOR THE PURPOSE OF FEDERAL INCOME TAXES, STATE AND LOCAL INCOME AND FRANCHISE TAXES, AND ANY OTHER TAXES IMPOSED UPON, MEASURED BY OR BASED UPON GROSS RECEIPTS OR GROSS OR NET INCOME.

[Unless this Note is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (“DTC”), to the Issuing Entity or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any Note issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.]

THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE AS SET FORTH HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.

 

Ex. C-1-3


CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET TRUST 2013-3

[CLASS A-1A] [CLASS A-2] [CLASS A-3] [CLASS A-4] [CLASS B] [CLASS C] [CLASS D]

            % ASSET BACKED NOTES

CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET TRUST 2013-3, a statutory trust organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the “Issuing Entity”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to [Cede & Co., or registered assigns,] the principal sum of [            ] DOLLARS ($[            ]) or such lesser outstanding amount as may be payable in accordance with the Indenture (as defined on the reverse side of this Note), on each Distribution Date, in an amount equal to the result obtained by multiplying (i) a fraction, the numerator of which is the initial principal amount hereof and the denominator of which is the aggregate initial principal amount for such [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Notes by (ii) the aggregate amount, if any, payable on such Distribution Date from the Note Distribution Account in respect of principal on the [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Notes pursuant to Sections 2.7, 3.1 and 8.2(c) of the Indenture; provided, however, that the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on [            ] (the “Final Scheduled Distribution Date”) unless the Note is earlier redeemed pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Indenture, in which case such unpaid principal amount shall be due on the Redemption Date. The Issuing Entity shall pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum shown above on each Distribution Date until the principal of this Note is paid or made available for payment on the principal amount of this Note outstanding on the preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to all payments of principal made on the preceding Distribution Date (or, for the initial Distribution Date, the outstanding principal balance on the Initial Closing Date)). Interest on the [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Notes will accrue from and including the Initial Closing Date and will be payable on each Distribution Date in an amount equal to the Note Class Interest Distributable Amount for such Distribution Date for the [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Notes. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months (or, in the case of the initial Distribution Date, from and including the Initial Closing Date, a 29-day period). Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the reverse hereof. All interest payments on each class of Notes on any Distribution Date shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders of such class entitled thereto.

The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin or currency of the United States of America which, at the time of payment, is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Issuing Entity with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though fully set forth on the face of this Note.

 

Ex. C-1-4


Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

Ex. C-1-5


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuing Entity has caused this instrument to be signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer.

Dated: August 21, 2013

 

CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET TRUST 2013-3
By:   BNY MELLON TRUST OF DELAWARE,
not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

INDENTURE TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the Notes designed above and referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY for DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, not in its individual capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee
By:    

Name:

Title:

 

 

Ex. C-1-6


REVERSE OF NOTE

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuing Entity, designated as [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] [            ]% Asset Backed Notes (herein called the “[Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Notes”), all issued under an indenture, dated as of August 21, 2013 (such indenture, as amended or supplemented, is herein called the “Indenture”), between the Issuing Entity and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee (the “Indenture Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders. The [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Notes are one of several duly authorized classes of Notes of the Issuing Entity issued pursuant to the Indenture (collectively, as to all Notes of all such classes, the “Notes”). The Notes are governed by and subject to all terms of the Indenture (which terms are incorporated herein and made a part hereof), to which Indenture the Holder of this [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note by virtue of acceptance hereof assents and by which such Holder is bound. All capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined in this [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note that are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in or pursuant to the Indenture.

The [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Notes and all other Notes issued pursuant to the Indenture are and will be equally and ratably secured by the Collateral pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture.

Each [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note will be deemed to represent and warrant that either (i) it is not acquiring the Note with the assets of (a) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (b) a “plan” subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (c) an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of investment by an employee benefit plan or plan in such entity or (d) any other plan that is subject to any law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or (ii) the acquisition and holding of the Note will not give rise to a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of any substantially similar applicable law.

Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, (ii) the Depositor or any other owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuing Entity or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner

 

Ex. C-1-7


Trustee in their individual capacities, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity.

Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note, covenants and agrees that by accepting the benefits of the Indenture such Noteholder or Note Owner will not, prior to the date which is one year and one day after the termination of the Indenture with respect to the Issuing Entity, acquiesce, petition or otherwise invoke or cause the Depositor or the Issuing Entity to invoke the process of any court or government authority for the purpose of commencing or sustaining a case against the Depositor or the Issuing Entity under any federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official of the Depositor or the Issuing Entity or any substantial part of the property of either of them, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the Depositor or the Issuing Entity under any federal or State bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding.

Each Noteholder by accepting a [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note (or any interest therein) acknowledges that such Person’s [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note (or interest therein) represents beneficial interests in the Issuing Entity only and does not represent interests in or obligations of the Depositor, the Servicer, the Administrator, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or any Affiliate thereof and no recourse, either directly or indirectly, may be had against such parties or their assets, except as may be expressly set forth or contemplated in the Basic Documents. Each Noteholder by the acceptance of a [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note (or beneficial interest therein) agrees that except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the event of nonpayment of any amounts with respect to the [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Notes, it shall have no claim against any of the Depositor, the Servicer, the Administrator, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or any Affiliate for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom. In the event that any of the foregoing covenants of each Noteholder is prohibited by, or declared illegal or otherwise unenforceable against any such Noteholder under applicable law by any court or other authority of competent jurisdiction, and, as a result, a Noteholder is deemed to have an interest in any assets of the Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor other than the Issuing Entity, each Noteholder agrees that (i) its claim against any such other assets shall be, and hereby is, subject and subordinate in all respects to the rights of other Persons to whom rights in the other assets have been expressly granted, including to the payment in full of all amounts owing to such entitled Persons, and (ii) the covenant set forth in the preceding clause (i) constitutes a “subordination agreement” within the meaning of, and subject to, Section 510(a) of the Bankruptcy Code.

 

Ex. C-1-8


Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note, expresses its intention that this [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note qualifies under applicable tax law as indebtedness secured by the Collateral and, unless otherwise required by appropriate taxing authorities, agrees to treat the [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Notes as indebtedness secured by the Collateral for the purpose of federal income taxes, State and local income and franchise taxes, and any other taxes imposed upon, measured by or based upon gross or net income.

Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note, the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuing Entity or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note shall be overdue, and none of the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuing Entity and the rights of the Noteholders under the Indenture at any time by the Issuing Entity with the consent of the Holders of Notes representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of Notes representing specified percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, on behalf of the Holders of all the [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Notes, to waive compliance by the Issuing Entity with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note (or any one of more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of the Noteholders.

The term “Issuing Entity” as used in this [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note includes any successor to the Issuing Entity under the Indenture.

The Issuing Entity is permitted by the Indenture, under certain circumstances, to merge or consolidate, subject to the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the Holders of Notes under the Indenture.

The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.

 

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This [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without reference to its conflict of law provisions, and the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuing Entity, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.

Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, neither the Depositor, the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee nor the Owner Trustee in their respective individual capacities, any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuing Entity, nor any of their respective partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, employees or successors or assigns, shall be personally liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of them for, the payment of principal of or interest on, or performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or indemnifications contained in this [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note or the Indenture, it being expressly understood that said covenants, obligations and indemnifications have been made by the Owner Trustee solely as the Owner Trustee in the assets of the Issuing Entity. The Holder of this [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note by the acceptance hereof agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the Holder shall have no claim against any of the foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the Issuing Entity for any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this [Class A-1a] [Class A-2] [Class A-3] [Class A-4] [Class B] [Class C] [Class D] Note.

 

Ex. C-1-10


ASSIGNMENT

Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee                                                                                                                           

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

                                                 (name and address of assignee)

the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints                                                      , as attorney, to transfer said Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:                                                                                                                                                     1      
     Signature Guaranteed:      

 

    

 

     

 

 

1 

NOTE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatsoever.

 

Ex. C-1-11


EXHIBIT C-2

FORM OF CLASS A-1B FLOATING RATE ASSET BACKED NOTES

 

REGISTERED    $[            ]

NO. R-

SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

CUSIP NO.

EACH CLASS A-1B NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER, BY ACCEPTANCE OF A CLASS A-1B NOTE OR, IN THE CASE OF A NOTE OWNER, A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A CLASS A-1B NOTE WILL BE DEEMED TO REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT EITHER (I) IT IS NOT ACQUIRING THE NOTE WITH THE ASSETS OF (A) AN “EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN” AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(3) OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”), THAT IS SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE I OF ERISA, (B) A “PLAN” SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”), (C) AN ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE PLAN ASSETS BY REASON OF INVESTMENT BY AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN IN SUCH ENTITY OR (D) ANY OTHER PLAN THAT IS SUBJECT TO ANY LAW THAT IS SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO TITLE I OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE OR (II) THE ACQUISITION AND HOLDING OF THE NOTE WILL NOT GIVE RISE TO A NON-EXEMPT PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE OR A VIOLATION OF ANY SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR APPLICABLE LAW.

EACH CLASS A-1B NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER, BY ACCEPTANCE OF A CLASS A-1B NOTE OR, IN THE CASE OF A NOTE OWNER, A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A CLASS A-1B NOTE, COVENANTS AND AGREES THAT NO RECOURSE MAY BE TAKEN, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, WITH RESPECT TO THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE ISSUING ENTITY, THE OWNER TRUSTEE OR THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE ON THE CLASS A-1B NOTES OR UNDER THE INDENTURE OR ANY CERTIFICATE OR OTHER WRITING DELIVERED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, AGAINST (i) THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE OR THE OWNER TRUSTEE IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITIES, (ii) THE DEPOSITOR OR ANY OTHER OWNER OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THE ISSUING ENTITY OR (iii) ANY PARTNER, OWNER, BENEFICIARY, AGENT, OFFICER, DIRECTOR OR EMPLOYEE OF THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE OR THE OWNER TRUSTEE IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITIES, ANY HOLDER OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THE ISSUING ENTITY, THE OWNER TRUSTEE OR THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE OR OF ANY SUCCESSOR OR ASSIGN OF THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE OR THE OWNER TRUSTEE IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITIES, EXCEPT AS ANY SUCH PERSON MAY HAVE EXPRESSLY AGREED AND EXCEPT THAT ANY SUCH PARTNER, OWNER OR BENEFICIARY SHALL BE FULLY LIABLE, TO THE EXTENT PROVIDED BY APPLICABLE LAW, FOR ANY UNPAID CONSIDERATION FOR STOCK, UNPAID CAPITAL CONTRIBUTION OR FAILURE TO PAY ANY INSTALLMENT OR CALL OWING TO SUCH ENTITY.

 

Ex. C-2-1


EACH CLASS A-1B NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE OF A CLASS A-1B NOTE OR, IN THE CASE OF A NOTE OWNER, A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A CLASS A-1B NOTE, COVENANTS AND AGREES THAT BY ACCEPTING THE BENEFITS OF THE INDENTURE SUCH CLASS A-1B NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER WILL NOT, PRIOR TO THE DATE WHICH IS ONE YEAR AND ONE DAY AFTER THE TERMINATION OF THE INDENTURE WITH RESPECT TO THE ISSUING ENTITY, ACQUIESCE, PETITION OR OTHERWISE INVOKE OR CAUSE THE DEPOSITOR OR THE ISSUING ENTITY TO INVOKE THE PROCESS OF ANY COURT OR GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF COMMENCING OR SUSTAINING A CASE AGAINST THE DEPOSITOR OR THE ISSUING ENTITY UNDER ANY FEDERAL OR STATE BANKRUPTCY, INSOLVENCY OR SIMILAR LAW OR APPOINTING A RECEIVER, LIQUIDATOR, ASSIGNEE, TRUSTEE, CUSTODIAN, SEQUESTRATOR OR OTHER SIMILAR OFFICIAL OF THE DEPOSITOR OR THE ISSUING ENTITY OR ANY SUBSTANTIAL PART OF THE PROPERTY OF EITHER OF THEM, OR ORDERING THE WINDING UP OR LIQUIDATION OF THE AFFAIRS OF THE DEPOSITOR OR THE ISSUING ENTITY UNDER ANY FEDERAL OR STATE BANKRUPTCY OR INSOLVENCY PROCEEDING.

EACH CLASS A-1B NOTEHOLDER BY ACCEPTING A NOTE (OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT SUCH PERSON’S NOTE (OR INTEREST THEREIN) REPRESENTS BENEFICIAL INTERESTS IN THE ISSUING ENTITY ONLY AND DOES NOT REPRESENT INTERESTS IN OR OBLIGATIONS OF THE DEPOSITOR, THE SERVICER, THE ADMINISTRATOR, THE OWNER TRUSTEE, THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE OR ANY AFFILIATE THEREOF AND NO RECOURSE, EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, MAY BE HAD AGAINST SUCH PARTIES OR THEIR ASSETS, EXCEPT AS MAY BE EXPRESSLY SET FORTH OR CONTEMPLATED IN THE BASIC DOCUMENTS. EACH CLASS A-1B NOTEHOLDER BY THE ACCEPTANCE OF A NOTE (OR BENEFICIAL INTEREST THEREIN) AGREES THAT EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN THE BASIC DOCUMENTS, IN THE EVENT OF NONPAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNTS WITH RESPECT TO THE NOTES, IT SHALL HAVE NO CLAIM AGAINST ANY OF THE DEPOSITOR, THE SERVICER, THE ADMINISTRATOR, THE OWNER TRUSTEE, THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE OR ANY AFFILIATE FOR ANY DEFICIENCY, LOSS OR CLAIM THEREFROM. IN THE EVENT THAT ANY OF THE FOREGOING COVENANTS OF EACH CLASS A-1B NOTEHOLDER IS PROHIBITED BY, OR DECLARED ILLEGAL OR OTHERWISE UNENFORCEABLE AGAINST ANY SUCH CLASS A-1B NOTEHOLDER UNDER APPLICABLE LAW BY ANY COURT OR OTHER AUTHORITY OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION, AND, AS A RESULT, A CLASS A-1B NOTEHOLDER IS DEEMED TO HAVE AN INTEREST IN ANY ASSETS OF THE DEPOSITOR OR ANY AFFILIATE OF THE DEPOSITOR OTHER THAN THE ISSUING ENTITY, EACH CLASS A-1B NOTEHOLDER AGREES THAT (I) ITS CLAIM AGAINST ANY SUCH OTHER ASSETS SHALL BE, AND HEREBY IS, SUBJECT AND SUBORDINATE IN ALL RESPECTS TO THE RIGHTS OF OTHER PERSONS TO WHOM RIGHTS IN THE OTHER ASSETS HAVE BEEN EXPRESSLY GRANTED, INCLUDING TO THE PAYMENT IN FULL OF ALL AMOUNTS OWING TO SUCH ENTITLED PERSONS, AND (II) THE COVENANT SET FORTH IN THE PRECEDING CLAUSE (I) CONSTITUTES A “SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT” WITHIN THE MEANING OF, AND SUBJECT TO, SECTION 510(A) OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE.

 

Ex. C-2-2


EACH CLASS A-1B NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER, BY ACCEPTANCE OF A CLASS A-1B NOTE OR, IN THE CASE OF A NOTE OWNER, A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A CLASS A-1B NOTE, EXPRESSES ITS INTENTION THAT THIS CLASS A-1B NOTE QUALIFIES UNDER APPLICABLE TAX LAW AS INDEBTEDNESS SECURED BY THE COLLATERAL AND, UNLESS OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY APPROPRIATE TAXING AUTHORITIES, AGREES TO TREAT THE CLASS A-1B NOTES AS INDEBTEDNESS SECURED BY THE COLLATERAL FOR THE PURPOSE OF FEDERAL INCOME TAXES, STATE AND LOCAL INCOME AND FRANCHISE TAXES, AND ANY OTHER TAXES IMPOSED UPON, MEASURED BY OR BASED UPON GROSS RECEIPTS OR GROSS OR NET INCOME.

Unless this Note is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (“DTC”), to the Issuing Entity or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any Note issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.

THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE AS SET FORTH HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.

CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET TRUST 2013-3

CLASS A-1B FLOATING RATE ASSET BACKED NOTES

CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET TRUST 2013-3, a statutory trust organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the “Issuing Entity”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of [                                                 ] DOLLARS ($[                ]) or such lesser outstanding amount as may be payable in accordance with the Indenture (as defined on the reverse side of this Note), on each Distribution Date, in an amount equal to the result obtained by multiplying (i) a fraction, the numerator of which is the initial principal amount hereof and the denominator of which is the aggregate initial principal amount for such Class A-1b Notes by (ii) the aggregate amount, if any, payable on such Distribution Date from the Note Distribution Account in respect of principal on the Class A-1b Notes pursuant to Sections 2.7, 3.1 and 8.2(c) of the Indenture; provided, however, that the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on November 20, 2015 (the “Final Scheduled Distribution Date”) unless the Note is earlier redeemed pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Indenture, in which case such unpaid principal amount shall be due on the Redemption Date. The Issuing Entity shall pay interest on

 

Ex. C-2-3


this Note on each Distribution Date until the principal of this Note is paid or made available for payment on the principal amount of this Note outstanding on the preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to all payments of principal made on the preceding Distribution Date (or, for the initial Distribution Date, the outstanding principal balance on the Closing Date)). Interest on the Class A-1b Notes will accrue from and including the Closing Date and will be payable on each Distribution Date in an amount equal to the Note Class Interest Distributable Amount for such Distribution Date for the Class A-1b Notes. Interest will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed from and including the prior Distribution Date (or, in the case of the initial Distribution Date, from and including the Initial Closing Date) to but excluding the current Distribution Date and a 360-day year. Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the reverse hereof. All interest payments on each class of Notes on any Distribution Date shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders of such class entitled thereto.

The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin or currency of the United States of America which, at the time of payment, is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Issuing Entity with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though fully set forth on the face of this Note.

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

Ex. C-2-4


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuing Entity has caused this instrument to be signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer.

Dated: August 21, 2013

 

CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET TRUST 2013-3
By:   BNY MELLON TRUST OF DELAWARE,
not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

INDENTURE TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the Notes designed above and referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY for DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, not in its individual capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

Ex. C-2-5


REVERSE OF NOTE

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuing Entity, designated as Class A-1b Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (herein called the (“Class A-1b Notes”), all issued under an indenture, dated as of August 21, 2013 (such indenture, as amended or supplemented, is herein called the “Indenture”), between the Issuing Entity and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee (the “Indenture Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders. The Class A-1b Notes are one of several duly authorized classes of Notes of the Issuing Entity issued pursuant to the Indenture (collectively, as to all Notes of all such classes, the “Notes”). The Notes are governed by and subject to all terms of the Indenture (which terms are incorporated herein and made a part hereof), to which Indenture the Holder of this Class A-1b Note by virtue of acceptance hereof assents and by which such Holder is bound. All capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined in this Class A-1b Note that are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in or pursuant to the Indenture.

The Class A-1b Notes and all other Notes issued pursuant to the Indenture are and will be equally and ratably secured by the Collateral pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture.

Each Class A-1b Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Class A-1b Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Class A-1b Note will be deemed to represent and warrant that either (i) it is not acquiring the Note with the assets of (a) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (b) a “plan” subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (c) an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of investment by an employee benefit plan or plan in such entity or (d) any other plan that is subject to any law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or (ii) the acquisition and holding of the Note will not give rise to a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of any substantially similar applicable law.

Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Class A-1b Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Class A-1b Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, (ii) the Depositor or any other owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuing Entity or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity.

 

Ex. C-2-6


Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Class A-1b Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Class A-1b Note, covenants and agrees that by accepting the benefits of the Indenture such Noteholder or Note Owner will not, prior to the date which is one year and one day after the termination of the Indenture with respect to the Issuing Entity, acquiesce, petition or otherwise invoke or cause the Depositor or the Issuing Entity to invoke the process of any court or government authority for the purpose of commencing or sustaining a case against the Depositor or the Issuing Entity under any federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official of the Depositor or the Issuing Entity or any substantial part of the property of either of them, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the Depositor or the Issuing Entity under any federal or state bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding.

Each Noteholder by accepting a Class A-1b Note (or any interest therein) acknowledges that such Person’s Class A-1b Note (or interest therein) represents beneficial interests in the Issuing Entity only and does not represent interests in or obligations of the Depositor, the Servicer, the Administrator, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or any Affiliate thereof and no recourse, either directly or indirectly, may be had against such parties or their assets, except as may be expressly set forth or contemplated in the Basic Documents. Each Noteholder by the acceptance of a Class A-1b Note (or beneficial interest therein) agrees that except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the event of nonpayment of any amounts with respect to the Class A-1b Notes, it shall have no claim against any of the Depositor, the Servicer, the Administrator, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or any Affiliate for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom. In the event that any of the foregoing covenants of each Noteholder is prohibited by, or declared illegal or otherwise unenforceable against any such Noteholder under applicable law by any court or other authority of competent jurisdiction, and, as a result, a Noteholder is deemed to have an interest in any assets of the Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor other than the Issuing Entity, each Noteholder agrees that (i) its claim against any such other assets shall be, and hereby is, subject and subordinate in all respects to the rights of other Persons to whom rights in the other assets have been expressly granted, including to the payment in full of all amounts owing to such entitled Persons, and (ii) the covenant set forth in the preceding clause (i) constitutes a “subordination agreement” within the meaning of, and subject to, Section 510(a) of the Bankruptcy Code.

Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Class A-1b Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Class A-1b Note, expresses its intention that this Class A-1b Note qualifies under applicable tax law as indebtedness secured by the Collateral and, unless otherwise required by appropriate taxing authorities, agrees to treat the Class A-1b Notes as indebtedness secured by the Collateral for the purpose of federal income taxes, state and local income and franchise taxes, and any other taxes imposed upon, measured by or based upon gross or net income.

Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Class A-1b Note, the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuing Entity or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Class A-1b Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Class A-1b Note shall be overdue, and none of the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

Ex. C-2-7


The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuing Entity and the rights of the Noteholders under the Indenture at any time by the Issuing Entity with the consent of the Holders of Notes representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of Notes representing specified percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, on behalf of the Holders of all the Class A-1b Notes, to waive compliance by the Issuing Entity with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Class A-1b Note (or any one of more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Class A-1b Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Class A-1b Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of the Noteholders.

The term “Issuing Entity” as used in this Class A-1b Note includes any successor to the Issuing Entity under the Indenture.

The Issuing Entity is permitted by the Indenture, under certain circumstances, to merge or consolidate, subject to the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the Holders of Notes under the Indenture.

The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.

This Class A-1b Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without reference to its conflict of law provisions, and the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Class A-1b Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuing Entity, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Class A-1b Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.

Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, neither the Depositor, the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee nor the Owner Trustee in their respective individual capacities, any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuing Entity, nor any of their respective partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, employees or successors or assigns, shall be personally liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of them for, the payment of principal of or interest on, or performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or indemnifications contained in this Class A-1b Note or the Indenture, it being expressly understood that said covenants, obligations and indemnifications have been made by the Owner Trustee solely as the Owner Trustee in the assets of the Issuing Entity. The

 

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Holder of this Class A-1b Note by the acceptance hereof agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the Holder shall have no claim against any of the foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the Issuing Entity for any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this Class A-1b Note.

 

Ex. C-2-9


ASSIGNMENT

Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee                                                                                                                           

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

                                                 (name and address of assignee)

the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints                                                      , as attorney, to transfer said Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:                                                                                                                                                     1      
     Signature Guaranteed:      

 

    

 

     

 

 

1  NOTE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatsoever.

 

Ex. C-2-10


EXHIBIT C-3

FORM OF CLASS E FIXED RATE ASSET BACKED NOTES

 

REGISTERED    $[                ]

NO. R-

SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

CUSIP NO.

THIS RULE 144A GLOBAL CLASS E NOTE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “U.S. SECURITIES ACT “), OR UNDER THE SECURITIES OR BLUE SKY LAWS OF ANY STATE IN THE UNITED STATES OR ANY FOREIGN SECURITIES LAWS. BY ITS ACCEPTANCE OF THIS RULE 144A GLOBAL CLASS E NOTE (OR INTEREST THEREIN) THE HOLDER OF THIS RULE 144A GLOBAL CLASS E NOTE (OR SUCH INTEREST) IF, OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITOR OR ANY AFFILIATE OF THE DEPOSITOR, IS DEEMED TO REPRESENT TO THE DEPOSITOR AND THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE THAT IT IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT AND IS ACQUIRING THIS RULE 144A GLOBAL CLASS E NOTE (OR INTEREST THEREIN) FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT (AND NOT FOR THE ACCOUNT OF OTHERS) OR AS A FIDUCIARY OR AGENT FOR OTHERS (WHICH OTHERS ALSO ARE QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYERS).

NO SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER OF THIS RULE 144A GLOBAL CLASS E NOTE (OR INTEREST THEREIN) MAY BE MADE BY ANY PERSON UNLESS EITHER (i) SUCH SALE IS MADE TO THE DEPOSITOR OR ANY AFFILIATE OF THE DEPOSITOR, (ii) SUCH SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS MADE TO A PERSON WHOM THE TRANSFEROR REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A), ACTING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT (AND NOT FOR THE ACCOUNT OF OTHERS) OR AS A FIDUCIARY OR AGENT FOR OTHERS (WHICH OTHERS ALSO ARE “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYERS”) TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, OR (iii) SUCH SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS OTHERWISE MADE IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT, IN WHICH CASE (A) THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE SHALL REQUIRE THAT BOTH THE PROSPECTIVE TRANSFEROR AND THE PROSPECTIVE TRANSFEREE CERTIFY TO THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND THE DEPOSITOR IN WRITING THE FACTS SURROUNDING SUCH TRANSFER, WHICH CERTIFICATION SHALL BE IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE SATISFACTORY TO THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND THE DEPOSITOR AND (B) THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE SHALL REQUIRE A WRITTEN OPINION OF COUNSEL (WHICH SHALL NOT BE AT THE EXPENSE OF THE DEPOSITOR, THE ADMINISTRATOR, THE SERVICER, THE ISSUING ENTITY OR THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE) SATISFACTORY TO THE DEPOSITOR AND THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE TO THE EFFECT THAT SUCH TRANSFER WILL NOT VIOLATE THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT.

 

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NO SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER MAY BE MADE TO ANY ONE PERSON FOR CLASS E NOTES WITH AN INITIAL FACE AMOUNT OF LESS THAN $500,000 (OR SUCH OTHER AMOUNT AS THE DEPOSITOR MAY DETERMINE IN ORDER TO PREVENT THE ISSUING ENTITY FROM BEING TREATED AS A “PUBLICLY TRADED PARTNERSHIP” UNDER SECTION 7704 OF THE UNITED STATES INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “INTERNAL REVENUE CODE”), BUT IN NO EVENT LESS THAN $250,000) AND, IN THE CASE OF ANY PERSON ACTING ON BEHALF OF ONE OR MORE THIRD PARTIES (OTHER THAN A BANK (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(a)(2) OF THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT) ACTING IN ITS FIDUCIARY CAPACITY), FOR CLASS E NOTES WITH A FACE AMOUNT OF LESS THAN SUCH AMOUNT FOR EACH SUCH THIRD PARTY. ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER IN CONTRAVENTION OF THE IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING RESTRICTION WILL BE VOID AB INITIO AND THE PURPORTED TRANSFEROR WILL CONTINUE TO BE TREATED AS THE OWNER OF THE CLASS E NOTES FOR ALL PURPOSES.

EACH CLASS E NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER, BY ACCEPTANCE OF A CLASS E NOTE OR, IN THE CASE OF A NOTE OWNER, A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A CLASS E NOTE WILL BE DEEMED TO REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT IT IS NOT (1) AN “EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN,” AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(3) OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED, (“ERISA”), THAT IS SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE I OF ERISA, (2) A PLAN SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE, OR (3) ANY ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE PLAN ASSETS BY REASON OF INVESTMENT BY AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR A PLAN IN SUCH ENTITY, OTHER THAN AN “INSURANCE COMPANY GENERAL ACCOUNT” (AS DEFINED IN PROHIBITED TRANSACTION CLASS EXEMPTION (“PTCE”) 95-60) WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE LESS THAN 25% “PLAN ASSETS” AND FOR WHICH THE PURCHASE AND HOLDING OF THE CLASS E NOTES IS ELIGIBLE FOR AND SATISFIES ALL CONDITIONS FOR RELIEF UNDER PTCE 95-60. THIS CLASS E NOTE (OR AN INTEREST THEREIN) ALSO MAY NOT BE ACQUIRED BY OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN THAT IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE I OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE (INCLUDING NON-U.S. OR GOVERNMENTAL PLANS) IF SUCH ACQUISITION WOULD RESULT IN A NON-EXEMPT PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER, OR A VIOLATION OF, ANY APPLICABLE LAW THAT IS SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO TITLE I OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.

TRANSER OF THIS CLASS E NOTE MAY ONLY BE MADE TO A PERSON WHO IS A UNITED STATED PERSON (WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 7701(a)(3) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE).

 

Ex. C-3-2


EACH CLASS E NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER, BY ACCEPTANCE OF A CLASS E NOTE OR, IN THE CASE OF A NOTE OWNER, A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A CLASS E NOTE, COVENANTS AND AGREES THAT NO RECOURSE MAY BE TAKEN, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, WITH RESPECT TO THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE ISSUING ENTITY, THE OWNER TRUSTEE OR THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE ON THE CLASS E NOTES OR UNDER THE INDENTURE OR ANY CERTIFICATE OR OTHER WRITING DELIVERED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, AGAINST (i) THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE OR THE OWNER TRUSTEE IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITIES, (ii) THE DEPOSITOR OR ANY OTHER OWNER OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THE ISSUING ENTITY OR (iii) ANY PARTNER, OWNER, BENEFICIARY, AGENT, OFFICER, DIRECTOR OR EMPLOYEE OF THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE OR THE OWNER TRUSTEE IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITIES, ANY HOLDER OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THE ISSUING ENTITY, THE OWNER TRUSTEE OR THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE OR OF ANY SUCCESSOR OR ASSIGN OF THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE OR THE OWNER TRUSTEE IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITIES, EXCEPT AS ANY SUCH PERSON MAY HAVE EXPRESSLY AGREED AND EXCEPT THAT ANY SUCH PARTNER, OWNER OR BENEFICIARY SHALL BE FULLY LIABLE, TO THE EXTENT PROVIDED BY APPLICABLE LAW, FOR ANY UNPAID CONSIDERATION FOR STOCK, UNPAID CAPITAL CONTRIBUTION OR FAILURE TO PAY ANY INSTALLMENT OR CALL OWING TO SUCH ENTITY.

EACH CLASS E NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE OF A CLASS E NOTE OR, IN THE CASE OF A NOTE OWNER, A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A CLASS E NOTE, COVENANTS AND AGREES THAT BY ACCEPTING THE BENEFITS OF THE INDENTURE SUCH CLASS E NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER WILL NOT, PRIOR TO THE DATE WHICH IS ONE YEAR AND ONE DAY AFTER THE TERMINATION OF THE INDENTURE WITH RESPECT TO THE ISSUING ENTITY, ACQUIESCE, PETITION OR OTHERWISE INVOKE OR CAUSE THE DEPOSITOR OR THE ISSUING ENTITY TO INVOKE THE PROCESS OF ANY COURT OR GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF COMMENCING OR SUSTAINING A CASE AGAINST THE DEPOSITOR OR THE ISSUING ENTITY UNDER ANY FEDERAL OR STATE BANKRUPTCY, INSOLVENCY OR SIMILAR LAW OR APPOINTING A RECEIVER, LIQUIDATOR, ASSIGNEE, TRUSTEE, CUSTODIAN, SEQUESTRATOR OR OTHER SIMILAR OFFICIAL OF THE DEPOSITOR OR THE ISSUING ENTITY OR ANY SUBSTANTIAL PART OF THE PROPERTY OF EITHER OF THEM, OR ORDERING THE WINDING UP OR LIQUIDATION OF THE AFFAIRS OF THE DEPOSITOR OR THE ISSUING ENTITY UNDER ANY FEDERAL OR STATE BANKRUPTCY OR INSOLVENCY PROCEEDING.

EACH CLASS E NOTEHOLDER BY ACCEPTING A NOTE (OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT SUCH PERSON’S NOTE (OR INTEREST THEREIN) REPRESENTS BENEFICIAL INTERESTS IN THE ISSUING ENTITY ONLY AND DOES NOT REPRESENT INTERESTS IN OR OBLIGATIONS OF THE DEPOSITOR, THE SERVICER, THE ADMINISTRATOR, THE OWNER TRUSTEE, THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE OR ANY AFFILIATE THEREOF AND NO RECOURSE, EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, MAY BE HAD AGAINST SUCH PARTIES OR THEIR ASSETS, EXCEPT AS MAY BE EXPRESSLY SET FORTH OR CONTEMPLATED IN THE BASIC DOCUMENTS. EACH CLASS E NOTEHOLDER BY THE ACCEPTANCE OF A NOTE (OR BENEFICIAL INTEREST THEREIN) AGREES THAT EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY

 

Ex. C-3-3


PROVIDED IN THE BASIC DOCUMENTS, IN THE EVENT OF NONPAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNTS WITH RESPECT TO THE NOTES, IT SHALL HAVE NO CLAIM AGAINST ANY OF THE DEPOSITOR, THE SERVICER, THE ADMINISTRATOR, THE OWNER TRUSTEE, THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE OR ANY AFFILIATE FOR ANY DEFICIENCY, LOSS OR CLAIM THEREFROM. IN THE EVENT THAT ANY OF THE FOREGOING COVENANTS OF EACH CLASS E NOTEHOLDER IS PROHIBITED BY, OR DECLARED ILLEGAL OR OTHERWISE UNENFORCEABLE AGAINST ANY SUCH CLASS E NOTEHOLDER UNDER APPLICABLE LAW BY ANY COURT OR OTHER AUTHORITY OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION, AND, AS A RESULT, A CLASS E NOTEHOLDER IS DEEMED TO HAVE AN INTEREST IN ANY ASSETS OF THE DEPOSITOR OR ANY AFFILIATE OF THE DEPOSITOR OTHER THAN THE ISSUING ENTITY, EACH CLASS E NOTEHOLDER AGREES THAT (I) ITS CLAIM AGAINST ANY SUCH OTHER ASSETS SHALL BE, AND HEREBY IS, SUBJECT AND SUBORDINATE IN ALL RESPECTS TO THE RIGHTS OF OTHER PERSONS TO WHOM RIGHTS IN THE OTHER ASSETS HAVE BEEN EXPRESSLY GRANTED, INCLUDING TO THE PAYMENT IN FULL OF ALL AMOUNTS OWING TO SUCH ENTITLED PERSONS, AND (II) THE COVENANT SET FORTH IN THE PRECEDING CLAUSE (I) CONSTITUTES A “SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT” WITHIN THE MEANING OF, AND SUBJECT TO, SECTION 510(A) OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE.

EACH CLASS E NOTEHOLDER OR NOTE OWNER (EXCEPT A CLASS E NOTEHOLDER WHICH IS CONSIDERED FOR FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES THE ISSUER OF THE CLASS E NOTE (OR IS DISREGARDED AS AN ENTITY SEPARATE FROM SUCH ISSUER)), BY ACCEPTANCE OF A CLASS E NOTE OR, IN THE CASE OF A NOTE OWNER, A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A CLASS E NOTE, EXPRESSES ITS INTENTION THAT THIS CLASS E NOTE QUALIFIES UNDER APPLICABLE TAX LAW AS INDEBTEDNESS SECURED BY THE COLLATERAL AND, UNLESS OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY APPROPRIATE TAXING AUTHORITIES, AGREES TO TREAT THE CLASS E NOTES AS INDEBTEDNESS SECURED BY THE COLLATERAL FOR THE PURPOSE OF FEDERAL INCOME TAXES, STATE AND LOCAL INCOME AND FRANCHISE TAXES, AND ANY OTHER TAXES IMPOSED UPON, MEASURED BY OR BASED UPON GROSS RECEIPTS OR GROSS OR NET INCOME.

[Unless this Note is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (“DTC”), to the Issuing Entity or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any Note issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.]

THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE AS SET FORTH HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.

 

Ex. C-3-4


CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET TRUST 2013-3

CLASS E 4.55% ASSET BACKED NOTES

CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET TRUST 2013-3, a statutory trust organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the “Issuing Entity”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to [Capital Auto Receivables LLC] [Cede & Co., or registered assigns,] the principal sum of [                                                         ] DOLLARS ($[                ]) or such lesser outstanding amount as may be payable in accordance with the Indenture (as defined on the reverse side of this Note), on each Distribution Date, in an amount equal to the result obtained by multiplying (i) a fraction, the numerator of which is the initial principal amount hereof and the denominator of which is the aggregate initial principal amount for such Class E Notes by (ii) the aggregate amount, if any, payable on such Distribution Date from the Note Distribution Account in respect of principal on the Class E Notes pursuant to Sections 2.7, 3.1 and 8.2(c) of the Indenture; provided, however, that the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on March 21, 2022 (the “Final Scheduled Distribution Date”) unless the Note is earlier redeemed pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Indenture, in which case such unpaid principal amount shall be due on the Redemption Date. The Issuing Entity shall pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum shown above on each Distribution Date until the principal of this Note is paid or made available for payment on the principal amount of this Note outstanding on the preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to all payments of principal made on the preceding Distribution Date (or, for the initial Distribution Date, the outstanding principal balance on the Closing Date)). Interest on the Class E Notes will accrue from and including the Closing Date and will be payable on each Distribution Date in an amount equal to the Note Class Interest Distributable Amount for such Distribution Date for the Class E Notes. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months (or, in the case of the initial Distribution Date, a 29 day period). Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the reverse hereof. All interest payments on each class of Notes on any Distribution Date shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders of such class entitled thereto.

The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin or currency of the United States of America which, at the time of payment, is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Issuing Entity with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though fully set forth on the face of this Note.

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

Ex. C-3-5


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuing Entity has caused this instrument to be signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer.

Dated: August 21, 2013

 

CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET TRUST 2013-3
By:  

BNY MELLON TRUST OF DELAWARE,

not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee

By:    
Name:  
Title:  

INDENTURE TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the Notes designed above and referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY for DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, not in its individual capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

Ex. C-3-6


REVERSE OF NOTE

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuing Entity, designated as Class E 4.55% Asset Backed Notes (herein called the “Class E Notes”), all issued under an indenture, dated as of August 21, 2013 (such indenture, as amended or supplemented, is herein called the “Indenture”), between the Issuing Entity and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee (the “Indenture Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders. The Class E Notes are one of several duly authorized classes of Notes of the Issuing Entity issued pursuant to the Indenture (collectively, as to all Notes of all such classes, the “Notes”). The Notes are governed by and subject to all terms of the Indenture (which terms are incorporated herein and made a part hereof), to which Indenture the Holder of this Class E Note by virtue of acceptance hereof assents and by which such Holder is bound. All capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined in this Class E Note that are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in or pursuant to the Indenture.

The Class E Notes and all other Notes issued pursuant to the Indenture are and will be equally and ratably secured by the Collateral pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture.

Each Class E Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Class E Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Class E Note will be deemed to represent and warrant that it is not, and has not acquired the Class E Note for the benefit of (1) an “employee benefit plan,” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, (“ERISA”), that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (2) a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code, or (3) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of investment by an employee benefit plan or a plan in such entity, other than an “insurance company general account” (as defined in Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption (“PTCE”) 95-60) whose underlying assets include less than 25% “plan assets” and for which the purchase and holding of the Class E Notes is Eligible for and satisfies all conditions for relief under PTCE 95-60. This Class E Note (or an interest therein) also may not be acquired by or for the account of an employee benefit plan or plan that is not subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (including non-U.S. or governmental plans) if such acquisition would result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under, or a violation of, any applicable law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code. Each Holder of a Class E Note, by accepting this Class E Note, will be deemed to have represented and warranted that it is not subject to the foregoing limitations.

Transfer of this Class E Note may only be made to a Person who is a United States Person (within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code).

Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Class E Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Class E Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner

 

Ex. C-3-7


Trustee in their individual capacities, (ii) the Depositor or any other owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuing Entity or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity.

Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Class E Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Class E Note, covenants and agrees that by accepting the benefits of the Indenture such Noteholder or Note Owner will not, prior to the date which is one year and one day after the termination of the Indenture with respect to the Issuing Entity, acquiesce, petition or otherwise invoke or cause the Depositor or the Issuing Entity to invoke the process of any court or government authority for the purpose of commencing or sustaining a case against the Depositor or the Issuing Entity under any federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official of the Depositor or the Issuing Entity or any substantial part of the property of either of them, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the Depositor or the Issuing Entity under any federal or state bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding.

Each Noteholder by accepting a Class E Note (or any interest therein) acknowledges that such Person’s Class E Note (or interest therein) represents beneficial interests in the Issuing Entity only and does not represent interests in or obligations of the Depositor, the Servicer, the Administrator, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or any Affiliate thereof and no recourse, either directly or indirectly, may be had against such parties or their assets, except as may be expressly set forth or contemplated in the Basic Documents. Each Noteholder by the acceptance of a Class E Note (or beneficial interest therein) agrees that except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the event of nonpayment of any amounts with respect to the Class E Notes, it shall have no claim against any of the Depositor, the Servicer, the Administrator, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or any Affiliate for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom. In the event that any of the foregoing covenants of each Noteholder is prohibited by, or declared illegal or otherwise unenforceable against any such Noteholder under applicable law by any court or other authority of competent jurisdiction, and, as a result, a Noteholder is deemed to have an interest in any assets of the Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor other than the Issuing Entity, each Noteholder agrees that (i) its claim against any such other assets shall be, and hereby is, subject and subordinate in all respects to the rights of other Persons to whom rights in the other assets have been expressly granted, including to the payment in full of all amounts owing to such entitled Persons, and (ii) the covenant set forth in the preceding clause (i) constitutes a “subordination agreement” within the meaning of, and subject to, Section 510(a) of the Bankruptcy Code.

Except a Noteholder which is considered for federal income tax purposes the issuer of the Class E Note (or is disregarded as an entity separate from such issuer), each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Class E Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Class E Note, expresses its intention that this Class E Note qualifies under applicable tax law

 

Ex. C-3-8


as indebtedness secured by the Collateral and, unless otherwise required by appropriate taxing authorities, agrees to treat the Class E Notes as indebtedness secured by the Collateral for the purpose of federal income taxes, state and local income and franchise taxes, and any other taxes imposed upon, measured by or based upon gross or net income.

Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Class E Note, the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuing Entity or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Class E Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Class E Note shall be overdue, and none of the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuing Entity and the rights of the Noteholders under the Indenture at any time by the Issuing Entity with the consent of the Holders of Notes representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of Notes representing specified percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, on behalf of the Holders of all the Class E Notes, to waive compliance by the Issuing Entity with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Class E Note (or any one of more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Class E Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Class E Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of the Noteholders.

The term “Issuing Entity” as used in this Class E Note includes any successor to the Issuing Entity under the Indenture.

The Issuing Entity is permitted by the Indenture, under certain circumstances, to merge or consolidate, subject to the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the Holders of Notes under the Indenture.

The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.

This Class E Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without reference to its conflict of law provisions, and the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Class E Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuing Entity, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Class E Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.

 

Ex. C-3-9


Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, neither the Depositor, the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee nor the Owner Trustee in their respective individual capacities, any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuing Entity, nor any of their respective partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, employees or successors or assigns, shall be personally liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of them for, the payment of principal of or interest on, or performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or indemnifications contained in this Class E Note or the Indenture, it being expressly understood that said covenants, obligations and indemnifications have been made by the Owner Trustee solely as the Owner Trustee in the assets of the Issuing Entity. The Holder of this Class E Note by the acceptance hereof agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the Holder shall have no claim against any of the foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the Issuing Entity for any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this Class E Note.

 

Ex. C-3-10


ASSIGNMENT

Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee                                                                                                                           

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

                                                 (name and address of assignee)

the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints                                                      , as attorney, to transfer said Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:                                                                                                                                                     1      
     Signature Guaranteed:      

 

    

 

     

 

 

1  NOTE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatsoever.

 

Ex. C-3-11


EXHIBIT D

SERVICING CRITERIA TO BE ADDRESSED IN INDENTURE TRUSTEE’S ASSESSMENT OF COMPLIANCE

The assessment of compliance to be delivered by the Indenture Trustee shall address, at a minimum, the criteria identified as below as “Applicable Servicing Criteria”:

 

Servicing Criteria

   Applicable Servicing
Criteria
 

Reference

  

Criteria

      
   General Servicing Considerations   

1122(d)(1)(i)

   Policies and procedures are instituted to monitor any performance or other triggers and events of default in accordance with the transaction agreements.   

1122(d)(1)(ii)

   If any material servicing activities are outsourced to third parties, policies and procedures are instituted to monitor the third party’s performance and compliance with such servicing activities.   

1122(d)(1)(iii)

   Any requirements in the transaction agreements to maintain a back-up servicer for the pool assets are maintained.   

1122(d)(1)(iv)

   A fidelity bond and errors and omissions policy is in effect on the party participating in the servicing function throughout the reporting period in the amount of coverage required by and otherwise in accordance with the terms of the transaction agreements.   
   Cash Collection and Administration   

1122(d)(2)(i)

   Payments on pool assets are deposited into the appropriate custodial bank accounts and related bank clearing accounts no more than two business days following receipt, or such other number of days specified in the transaction agreements.   

1122(d)(2)(ii)

   Disbursements made via wire transfer on behalf of an obligor or to an investor are made only by authorized personnel.      ü   

1122(d)(2)(iii)

   Advances of funds or guarantees regarding collections, cash flows or distributions, and any interest or other fees charged for such advances, are made, reviewed and approved as specified in the transaction agreements.   

1122(d)(2)(iv)

   The related accounts for the transaction, such as cash reserve accounts or accounts established as a form of overcollateralization, are separately maintained (e.g., with respect to commingling of cash) as set forth in the transaction agreements.(1)      ü   

1122(d)(2)(v)

   Each custodial account is maintained at a federally insured depository institution as set forth in the transaction agreements. For purposes of this criterion, “federally insured depository institution” with respect to a foreign financial institution means a foreign financial institution that meets the requirements of Rule 13k-1(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act. (1)      ü   

1122(d)(2)(vi)

   Unissued checks are safeguarded so as to prevent unauthorized access.   

 

(1) 

To extent such accounts relate to accounts maintained at the Indenture Trustee.

 

Ex. D-1


Servicing Criteria

   Applicable Servicing
Criteria
 

Reference

  

Criteria

      

1122(d)(2)(vii)

   Reconciliations are prepared on a monthly basis for all asset-backed securities related bank accounts, including custodial accounts and related bank clearing accounts. These reconciliations are (A) mathematically accurate; (B) prepared within 30 calendar days after the bank statement cutoff date, or such other number of days specified in the transaction agreements; (C) reviewed and approved by someone other than the person who prepared the reconciliation; and (D) contain explanations for reconciling items. These reconciling items are resolved within 90 calendar days of their original identification, or such other number of days specified in the transaction agreements.   
   Investor Remittances and Reporting   

1122(d)(3)(i)

   Reports to investors, including those to be filed with the Commission, are maintained in accordance with the transaction agreements and applicable Commission requirements. Specifically, such reports (A) are prepared in accordance with timeframes and other terms set forth in the transaction agreements; (B) provide information calculated in accordance with the terms specified in the transaction agreements; (C) are filed with the Commission as required by its rules and regulations; and (D) agree with investors’ or the trustee’s records as to the total unpaid principal balance and number of pool assets serviced by the Servicer.   

1122(d)(3)(ii)

   Amounts due to investors are allocated and remitted in accordance with timeframes, distribution priority and other terms set forth in the transaction agreements.1      ü   

1122(d)(3)(iii)

   Disbursements made to an investor are posted within two business days to the Servicer’s investor records, or such other number of days specified in the transaction agreements.      ü   

1122(d)(3)(iv)

   Amounts remitted to investors per the investor reports agree with cancelled checks, or other form of payment, or custodial bank statements.      ü   
   Pool Asset Administration   

1122(d)(4)(i)

   Collateral or security on pool assets is maintained as required by the transaction agreements or related asset pool documents.   

1122(d)(4)(ii)

   Pool assets and related documents are safeguarded as required by the transaction agreements   

1122(d)(4)(iii)

   Any additions, removals or substitutions to the asset pool are made, reviewed and approved in accordance with any conditions or requirements in the transaction agreements.   

1122(d)(4)(iv)

   Payments on pool assets, including any payoffs, made in accordance with the related pool asset documents are posted to the Servicer’s obligor records maintained no more than two business days after receipt, or such other number of days specified in the transaction agreements, and allocated to principal, interest or other items (e.g., escrow) in accordance with the related asset pool documents.   

1122(d)(4)(v)

   The Servicer’s records regarding the accounts and the accounts agree with the Servicer’s records with respect to an obligor’s unpaid principal balance.   

1122(d)(4)(vi)

   Changes with respect to the terms or status of an obligor’s account (e.g., loan modifications or re-agings) are made, reviewed and approved by authorized personnel in accordance with the transaction agreements and related pool asset documents.   

1122(d)(4)(vii)

   Loss mitigation or recovery actions (e.g., forbearance plans, modifications and deeds in lieu of foreclosure, foreclosures and repossessions, as applicable) are initiated, conducted and concluded in accordance with the timeframes or other requirements established by the transaction agreements.   

 

1  In accordance with the Servicer’s Accounting as set forth in the Basic Documents, as applicable.

 

Ex. D-2


Servicing Criteria

   Applicable Servicing
Criteria

Reference

  

Criteria

    

1122(d)(4)(viii)

   Records documenting collection efforts are maintained during the period a pool asset is delinquent in accordance with the transaction agreements. Such records are maintained on at least a monthly basis, or such other period specified in the transaction agreements, and describe the entity’s activities in monitoring delinquent pool assets including, for example, phone calls, letters and payment rescheduling plans in cases where delinquency is deemed temporary (e.g., illness or unemployment).   

1122(d)(4)(ix)

   Adjustments to interest rates or rates of return for pool assets with variable rates are computed based on the related pool asset documents.   

1122(d)(4)(x)

   Regarding any funds held in trust for an obligor (such as escrow accounts): (A) such funds are analyzed, in accordance with the obligor’s Account documents, on at least an annual basis, or such other period specified in the transaction agreements; (B) interest on such funds is paid, or credited, to obligors in accordance with applicable Account documents and state laws; and (C) such funds are returned to the obligor within 30 calendar days of full repayment of the related Accounts, or such other number of days specified in the transaction agreements.   

1122(d)(4)(xi)

   Payments made on behalf of an obligor (such as tax or insurance payments) are made on or before the related penalty or expiration dates, as indicated on the appropriate bills or notices for such payments, provided that such support has been received by the servicer at least 30 calendar days prior to these dates, or such other number of days specified in the transaction agreements.   

1122(d)(4)(xii)

   Any late payment penalties in connection with any payment to be made on behalf of an obligor are paid from the servicer’s funds and not charged to the obligor, unless the late payment was due to the obligor’s error or omission.   

1122(d)(4)(xiii)

   Disbursements made on behalf of an obligor are posted within two business days to the obligor’s records maintained by the servicer, or such other number of days specified in the transaction agreements.   

1122(d)(4)(xiv)

   Delinquencies, charge-offs and uncollectible accounts are recognized and recorded in accordance with the transaction agreements.   

1122(d)(4)(xv)

   Any external enhancement or other support, identified in Item 1114(a)(1) through (3) or Item 1115 of Regulation AB, is maintained as set forth in the transaction agreements.   

 

Ex. D-3


EXHIBIT E

FORM OF CERTIFICATION

Re: the                      dated as of                     , 20         (the “Agreement”), among                                                                              .

I,                                              , the                                                       of Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (the “Company”), certify to Capital Auto Receivables LLC (the “Depositor”), and its officers, with the knowledge and intent that they will rely upon this certification, that:

(1) I have reviewed the report on assessment of the Company’s compliance provided in accordance with Rules 13a-18 and 15d-18 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and Item 1122 of Regulation AB (the “Report on Assessment”), and the registered public accounting firm’s attestation report provided in accordance with Rules 13a-18 and 15d-18 under the Exchange Act and Section 1122(b) of Regulation AB that were delivered by the Company to the Depositor pursuant to the Agreement (collectively, the “Company Information”);

(2) To the best of my knowledge, the Report on Assessment, taken as a whole, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period of time covered by the Report on Assessment; and

(3) To the best of my knowledge, all of the Company Information required to be provided by the Company under the Agreement has been provided to the Depositor.

 

  Dated:    
  By:   DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY for DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, not in its individual capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee
Name:    
  Title:    
Name:    
  Title:    

 

Ex. E


APPENDIX A

Additional Representations and Warranties

 

1. This Indenture creates a valid and continuing security interest (as defined in the applicable UCC) in the Receivables in favor of the Indenture Trustee, which security interest is prior to all other Liens, and is enforceable as such as against creditors of and purchasers from the Issuing Entity.

 

2. All steps necessary to perfect the Issuing Entity’s security interest against each Obligor in the property securing the Receivables have been taken.

 

3. The Receivables constitute “tangible chattel paper” within the meaning of the applicable UCC.

 

4. The Issuing Entity owns and has good and marketable title to the Receivables free and clear of any Lien, claim or encumbrance of any Person.

 

5. The Issuing Entity has caused or will have caused, within ten (10) days, the filing of all appropriate financing statements in the proper filing office in the appropriate jurisdictions under applicable law in order to perfect the security interest in the Receivables granted to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.

 

6. Other than the security interest granted to the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture, the Issuing Entity has not pledged, assigned, sold, granted a security interest in, or otherwise conveyed any of the Receivables. The Issuing Entity has not authorized the filing of, nor is the Issuing Entity aware of, any financing statements against the Seller, the Depositor or the Issuing Entity that include a description of collateral covering the Receivables other than the financing statements relating to the security interests granted to the Depositor, the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee under the Basic Documents or any financing statement that has been terminated. The Issuing Entity is not aware of any judgment or tax lien filings against the Seller, the Depositor or the Issuing Entity.

 

7. The Custodian has in its possession or with other third party vendors all original copies of the Receivables Files and other documents that constitute or evidence the Receivables. The Receivables Files and other documents that constitute or evidence the Receivables do not have any marks or notations indicating that they have been pledged, assigned or otherwise conveyed to any Person other than the Depositor. All financing statements filed or to be filed against the Issuing Entity in favor of the Indenture Trustee in connection herewith describing the Receivables contain a statement to the following effect: “A purchase of or security interest in any collateral described in this financing statement will violate the rights of the Indenture Trustee.”

 

App. A

EX-4.2 3 d585410dex42.htm TRUST AGREEMENT Trust Agreement

EXHIBIT 4.2

 

 

 

TRUST AGREEMENT

BETWEEN

CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES LLC,

DEPOSITOR

AND

BNY MELLON TRUST OF DELAWARE,

OWNER TRUSTEE

DATED AS OF AUGUST 21, 2013

 

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

         Page  

ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

     1   

SECTION 1.1

  DEFINITIONS      1   

ARTICLE II ORGANIZATION

     1   

SECTION 2.1

  NAME      1   

SECTION 2.2

  OFFICE      1   

SECTION 2.3

  PURPOSES AND POWERS      1   

SECTION 2.4

  APPOINTMENT OF OWNER TRUSTEE      2   

SECTION 2.5

  INITIAL CAPITAL CONTRIBUTION OF OWNER TRUST ESTATE      2   

SECTION 2.6

  DECLARATION OF TRUST      2   

SECTION 2.7

  LIABILITY OF THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS      3   

SECTION 2.8

  TITLE TO TRUST PROPERTY      3   

SECTION 2.9

  SITUS OF TRUST      3   

SECTION 2.10

  REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE DEPOSITOR      3   

SECTION 2.11

  TAX TREATMENT      4   

ARTICLE III THE CERTIFICATES

     5   

SECTION 3.1

  INITIAL CERTIFICATE OWNERSHIP      5   

SECTION 3.2

  FORM OF THE CERTIFICATES      5   

SECTION 3.3

  EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION AND DELIVERY      5   

SECTION 3.4

  REGISTRATION OF CERTIFICATES; REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE OF CERTIFICATES      5   

SECTION 3.5

  MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST OR STOLEN CERTIFICATES      8   

SECTION 3.6

  PERSONS DEEMED CERTIFICATEHOLDERS      8   

SECTION 3.7

  ACCESS TO LIST OF CERTIFICATEHOLDERS’ NAMES AND ADDRESSES      9   

SECTION 3.8

  MAINTENANCE OF CORPORATE TRUST OFFICE      9   

SECTION 3.9

  APPOINTMENT OF PAYING AGENT      9   

SECTION 3.10

  DEPOSITOR AS CERTIFICATEHOLDER      10   

ARTICLE IV ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE

     10   

SECTION 4.1

  PRIOR NOTICE TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN MATTERS      10   

SECTION 4.2

  ACTION BY CERTIFICATEHOLDERS WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN MATTERS      10   

SECTION 4.3

  ACTION BY CERTIFICATEHOLDERS WITH RESPECT TO BANKRUPTCY      11   

SECTION 4.4

  RESTRICTIONS ON CERTIFICATEHOLDERS’ POWER      11   

SECTION 4.5

  MAJORITY CONTROL      11   

ARTICLE V APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES

     11   

SECTION 5.1

  ESTABLISHMENT OF CERTIFICATE DISTRIBUTION ACCOUNT      11   

SECTION 5.2

  APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS      12   

SECTION 5.3

  METHOD OF PAYMENT      13   

SECTION 5.4

  ACCOUNTING AND REPORTS TO THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS, THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE AND OTHERS      13   

SECTION 5.5

  SIGNATURE ON RETURNS; OTHER TAX MATTERS      13   

ARTICLE VI THE OWNER TRUSTEE

     14   

SECTION 6.1

  DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE      14   

SECTION 6.2

  RIGHTS OF OWNER TRUSTEE      15   

SECTION 6.3

  ACCEPTANCE OF TRUSTS AND DUTIES      15   

SECTION 6.4

  ACTION UPON INSTRUCTION BY CERTIFICATEHOLDERS      17   

SECTION 6.5

  FURNISHING OF DOCUMENTS      17   

 

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SECTION 6.6

  REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE      17   

SECTION 6.7

  RELIANCE; ADVICE OF COUNSEL      18   

SECTION 6.8

  OWNER TRUSTEE MAY OWN CERTIFICATES AND NOTES      19   

SECTION 6.9

  COMPENSATION AND INDEMNITY      19   

SECTION 6.10

  REPLACEMENT OF OWNER TRUSTEE      19   

SECTION 6.11

  MERGER OR CONSOLIDATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE      20   

SECTION 6.12

  APPOINTMENT OF CO-TRUSTEE OR SEPARATE TRUSTEE      21   

SECTION 6.13

  ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR OWNER TRUSTEE      22   

ARTICLE VII TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT

     22   

SECTION 7.1

  TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT      22   

ARTICLE VIII AMENDMENTS

     24   

SECTION 8.1

  AMENDMENTS WITHOUT CONSENT OF CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OR NOTEHOLDERS      24   

SECTION 8.2

  AMENDMENTS WITH CONSENT OF CERTIFICATEHOLDERS AND NOTEHOLDERS      24   

SECTION 8.3

  FORM OF AMENDMENTS      25   

ARTICLE IX MISCELLANEOUS

     25   

SECTION 9.1

  NO LEGAL TITLE TO OWNER TRUST ESTATE      25   

SECTION 9.2

  LIMITATIONS ON RIGHTS OF OTHERS      25   

SECTION 9.3

  DERIVATIVE ACTIONS      26   

SECTION 9.4

  NOTICES      26   

SECTION 9.5

  SEVERABILITY      26   

SECTION 9.6

  COUNTERPARTS      26   

SECTION 9.7

  SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS      26   

SECTION 9.8

  NO PETITION      26   

SECTION 9.9

  NO RECOURSE      27   

SECTION 9.10

  HEADINGS      27   

SECTION 9.11

  GOVERNING LAW      27   

SECTION 9.12

  INDEMNIFICATION BY AND REIMBURSEMENT OF THE SERVICER      28   

SECTION 9.13

  EFFECT OF AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT      28   

SECTION 9.14

  INFORMATION TO BE PROVIDED BY THE OWNER TRUSTEE.      28   

 

EXHIBIT A    Form of Certificate
EXHIBIT B    Certificate of Trust
EXHIBIT C    Form of Undertaking Letter

 

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TRUST AGREEMENT, dated as of August 21, 2013, between CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, in its capacity as a depositor (the “Depositor”), and BNY MELLON TRUST OF DELAWARE, a Delaware banking corporation, as trustee and not in its individual capacity (the “Owner Trustee”).

WHEREAS, the Depositor, the Servicer and the Owner Trustee previously entered into a certain trust agreement, dated July 18, 2013 (the “Original Trust Agreement”), that contemplated this Trust Agreement; and

WHEREAS, the Depositor and the Owner Trustee desire hereby to amend and restate the Original Trust Agreement in its entirety.

NOW, THEREFORE, the Depositor and the Owner Trustee hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

Section 1.1 Definitions. Certain capitalized terms used in this Trust Agreement shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in Part I of Appendix A to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement of even date herewith among the Depositor, the Servicer and the Trust (as amended, supplemented or modified from time to time, the “Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement”). All references herein to “the Agreement” or “this Agreement” are to this Trust Agreement. All references herein to Articles, Sections and subsections are to Articles, Sections and subsections of this Agreement unless otherwise specified. The rules of construction set forth in Part II of Appendix A to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement shall be applicable to this Agreement.

ARTICLE II

ORGANIZATION

Section 2.1 Name. The Trust continued hereby shall be known as Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3, in which name the Owner Trustee may conduct the business of the Trust, make and execute contracts and other instruments on behalf of the Trust and sue and be sued on behalf of the Trust. The Owner Trustee has filed the Certificate of Trust on behalf of the Trust pursuant to Section 3810(a) of the Statutory Trust Act.

Section 2.2 Office. The office of the Trust shall be in care of the Owner Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office or at such other address in Delaware as the Owner Trustee may designate by written notice to the Certificateholders and the Depositor.

Section 2.3 Purposes and Powers. The purpose of the Trust is, and the Trust shall have the power and authority, to engage in the following activities:

(a) to acquire, manage and hold the Receivables;

(b) to issue the Notes pursuant to the Indenture and the Certificates pursuant to this Agreement, and to sell, transfer or exchange the Notes and the Certificates;


(c) to acquire certain property and assets from the Depositor on the Initial Closing Date and, from time to time, on the Subsequent Closing Dates thereafter pursuant to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and any other Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, to make payments to the Noteholders and the Certificateholders, to make deposits into and withdrawals from the Reserve Account and to pay the organizational, start-up and transactional expenses of the Trust;

(d) to assign, grant, transfer, pledge, mortgage and convey the Owner Trust Estate pursuant to the terms of the Indenture and to hold, manage and distribute to the Certificateholders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement any portion of the Trust Estate released from the lien of, and remitted to the Trust pursuant to, the Indenture;

(e) to enter into and perform its obligations and exercise its rights under the Basic Documents to which it is to be a party;

(f) to engage in those activities, including entering into agreements, that are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish the foregoing or are incidental thereto or connected therewith; and

(g) subject to compliance with the Basic Documents, to engage in such other activities as may be required in connection with conservation of the Owner Trust Estate and the making of distributions to the Securityholders.

The Trust shall not engage in any activity other than in connection with the foregoing or other than as required or authorized by the terms of this Agreement or the other Basic Documents.

Section 2.4 Appointment of Owner Trustee. The Depositor hereby appoints the Owner Trustee as trustee of the Trust to have all the rights, powers and duties set forth herein.

Section 2.5 Initial Capital Contribution of Owner Trust Estate. The Depositor sold, assigned, transferred, conveyed and set over to the Owner Trustee, as of July 18, 2013, the sum of one dollar. The Owner Trustee hereby acknowledges receipt in trust from the Depositor, as of July 18, 2013, of the foregoing contribution which constituted the initial Owner Trust Estate. The Depositor shall pay organizational expenses of the Trust as they may arise or shall, upon the request of the Owner Trustee, promptly reimburse the Owner Trustee for any such expenses paid by the Owner Trustee.

Section 2.6 Declaration of Trust. The Owner Trustee hereby declares that it shall hold the Owner Trust Estate (in the name of the Trust and not in the Owner Trustee’s name for the Trust, except as required by, and in accordance with, Section 2.8) in trust upon and subject to the conditions set forth herein for the use and benefit of the Certificateholders, subject to the obligations of the Trust under the Basic Documents. It is the intention of the parties hereto that the Trust constitute a statutory trust under the Statutory Trust Act, that this Agreement constitute the governing instrument of such statutory trust and that the Certificates represent the beneficial interests therein. The rights of the Certificateholders shall be determined as set forth herein and in the Statutory Trust Act and the relationship between the parties hereto created by this

 

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Agreement shall not constitute indebtedness for any purpose. Effective as of the date hereof, the Owner Trustee shall have all rights, powers and duties set forth herein and in the Statutory Trust Act with respect to accomplishing the purposes of the Trust.

Section 2.7 Liability of the Certificateholders. Certificateholders and holders of beneficial interests therein shall be entitled to the same limitation of personal liability extended to stockholders of private corporations for profit organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

Section 2.8 Title to Trust Property. Legal title to all the Owner Trust Estate shall be vested at all times in the Trust as a separate legal entity except where applicable law in any jurisdiction requires title to any part of the Owner Trust Estate to be vested in a trustee or trustees, in which case title shall be deemed to be transferred to and vested in the Owner Trustee, a co-trustee and/or a separate trustee, as the case may be. Any such trustee shall take such part of the Owner Trust Estate subject to the security interest of the Indenture Trustee therein established under the Indenture. Such trustee’s acceptance of its appointment shall constitute acknowledgment of such security interest and shall constitute a Grant to the Indenture Trustee of a security interest in all property held by such trustee. Any such trustee shall prepare and file all such financing statements naming such trustee as debtor that are necessary or advisable to perfect, make effective or continue the lien and security interest of the Indenture Trustee.

Section 2.9 Situs of Trust. The Trust shall be located and administered in the States of Delaware or New York. All bank accounts maintained by the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall be located in the State of Delaware or the State of New York. The Trust shall not have any employees in any State other than the State of Delaware; provided, however, that nothing herein shall restrict or prohibit the Owner Trustee from having employees within or without the State of Delaware. Payments shall be received by the Trust only in the State of Delaware or the State of New York, and payments shall be made by the Trust only from the State of Delaware or the State of New York. The only office of the Trust shall be the Corporate Trust Office of the Owner Trustee in the State of Delaware.

Section 2.10 Representations and Warranties of the Depositor. The Depositor hereby represents and warrants to the Owner Trustee that:

(a) The Depositor has been duly formed and is validly existing as an entity in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with power and authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as such properties are presently owned and such business is presently conducted and had at all relevant times, and now has, power, authority and legal right to acquire and own the Receivables contemplated to be transferred to the Trust pursuant to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

(b) The Depositor is duly qualified to do business as a foreign entity in good standing, and has obtained all necessary licenses and approvals, in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualifications.

 

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(c) The Depositor has the power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and any other Basic Documents to which the Depositor is a party and to carry out its terms, the Depositor has full power and authority to sell and assign the property to be sold and assigned to and deposited with the Trust as part of the Owner Trust Estate and the Depositor has duly authorized such sale and assignment to the Trust by all necessary limited liability company action; and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement have been duly authorized by the Depositor by all necessary limited liability company action.

(d) The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and any other Basic Documents to which the Depositor is a party, and the fulfillment of the terms of this Agreement and any other Basic Documents to which the Depositor is a party do not conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the certificate of formation or limited liability company agreement of the Depositor, or any indenture, agreement or other instrument to which the Depositor is a party or by which it is bound, or result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any such indenture, agreement or other instrument (other than pursuant to the Basic Documents), or violate any law or, to the best of the Depositor’s knowledge, any order, rule or regulation applicable to the Depositor of any court or of any federal or State regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Depositor or any of its properties.

Section 2.11 Tax Treatment. As long as the Depositor or an Affiliate that is treated as the same Person as the Depositor for federal income tax purposes is the sole owner of the Certificates, the Depositor and Owner Trustee, by entering into this Agreement, express their intention that the Trust will be disregarded for federal income tax purposes and will be treated as a division of the Depositor (or, if the Depositor is disregarded as a separate entity for federal income tax purposes, the Depositor’s first direct or indirect parent entity that is not disregarded as a separate entity for federal income tax purposes). If the Depositor is not the sole owner of the Certificates, through sale of the Certificates, issuance by the Trust of additional Certificates to a Person other than the Depositor or otherwise, the Depositor and the Owner Trustee, by entering into this Agreement, and the Certificateholders, by acquiring any Certificates or interest therein, (i) express their intention that the Certificates will qualify as equity interests in either (A) a division of an entity which is not disregarded as a separate entity for federal income tax purposes, or (B) a partnership for federal income tax purposes if the Certificates are owned by more than one Person (as long as (1) such Persons are not disregarded as separate entities for federal income tax purposes and (2) if such Persons are disregarded as separate entities for federal income tax purposes, such Persons are not treated as a division of the same Person) and (ii) unless otherwise required by the appropriate taxing authorities, agree to treat the Certificates as equity interests in an entity as described in clause (i) of this Section 2.11 for the purposes of federal income taxes, State and local income and franchise taxes, and any other taxes imposed upon, measured by, or based upon gross receipts or gross or net income. The parties agree that, unless otherwise required by appropriate tax authorities, the Trust shall file or cause to be filed annual or other necessary returns, reports and other forms consistent with such characterization of the Trust for such tax purposes.

 

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ARTICLE III

THE CERTIFICATES

Section 3.1 Initial Certificate Ownership. Since the formation of the Trust by the contribution by the Depositor pursuant to Section 2.5, the Depositor has been the sole Certificateholder.

Section 3.2 Form of the Certificates.

(a) The Certificates shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A. The Certificates shall represent the entire beneficial interest in the Trust. The Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Trust by manual or facsimile signature of a Responsible Officer of the Owner Trustee. Certificates bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were, at the time when such signatures shall have been affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Trust, shall be duly issued, fully paid and non-assessable beneficial interests in the Trust, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall have ceased to be so authorized prior to the authentication and delivery of such Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of authentication and delivery of such Certificates.

(b) The Certificates shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods (with or without steel engraved borders) all as determined by the officers executing such Certificates, as evidenced by their execution of such Certificates. The Certificates shall be fully registered.

(c) The Certificates shall be issued in fully-registered form. The terms of the Certificates set forth in Exhibit A shall form part of this Agreement.

Section 3.3 Execution, Authentication and Delivery. Concurrently with the sale of the Receivables to the Trust pursuant to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Owner Trustee shall cause a single Certificate representing the entire beneficial interest in the Trust to be executed on behalf of the Trust, authenticated and delivered to or upon the written order of the Depositor, signed by its chairman of the board, its president or any vice president, without further limited liability company action by the Depositor. Such Certificate shall be issued to and held by the Depositor, as the initial Certificateholder. No Certificate shall entitle its holder to any benefit under this Agreement, or shall be valid for any purpose, unless there shall appear on such Certificate a certificate of authentication substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A, executed by the Owner Trustee or the Owner Trustee’s authenticating agent, by manual signature. Such authentication shall constitute conclusive evidence that such Certificate shall have been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. All Certificates shall be dated the date of their authentication.

Section 3.4 Registration of Certificates; Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates.

(a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as provided herein. BNY Mellon

 

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Trust of Delaware shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of a Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor or, if it elects not to make such an appointment, assume the duties of Certificate Registrar.

(b) The Certificateholder may at any time, without consent of the Noteholders, sell, transfer, convey or assign in any manner its rights to and interests in the Certificates (including its right to distributions from the Reserve Account), provided that: (A)(i) such transfer, conveyance or assignment is made to the Depositor or either such entity pledges its rights and interests in the Certificates or (B)(i) such action will not result in a reduction or withdrawal of the rating of any class of Notes, (ii) the Certificateholder provides to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee an opinion of independent counsel that such action will not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes, (iii) such transferee or assignee agrees to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder, (iv) the conditions set forth in Section 3.4(g), (h) and (i) have been satisfied and (v) in connection with any transfer of less than all of the interests in the Certificates, the transferor and transferee shall specify the respective interests in the Certificates to be held by the transferor and transferee, which interests may be determined by a formula or on any other basis agreed by the transferor and transferee. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that the resulting Certificate represents less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). In addition, no transfer of a Certificate shall be registered unless the transferee shall have provided to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar an opinion of counsel that in connection with such transfer no registration of the Certificates is required under the Securities Act or applicable State securities law or that such transfer is otherwise being made in accordance with all applicable federal and State securities laws. If agreed by the transferor and transferee, different interests may be used for distributions of proceeds and for purposes of voting the Certificates. The transferor shall notify the Owner Trustee of any such agreement in connection with such transfer.

(c) In the event that the Depositor is no longer the sole Certificateholder, the Administrator will promptly prepare amendments (subject to the provisions regarding amendments in the applicable Basic Documents) to the Basic Documents to the extent necessary to reflect the establishment of the Certificate Distribution Account and the making of distributions to the Certificateholders and such other matters as shall be agreed between the Depositor and the Owner Trustee. The expense of the foregoing amendments shall be paid by the Administrator.

(d) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, the Owner Trustee shall execute on behalf of the Trust, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates of a like aggregate percentage interest in the Trust dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent.

 

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(e) At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of a like percentage interest in the Trust, as shown on the applicable Certificates, upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8. Whenever any Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee shall execute on behalf of the Trust, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver) one or more Certificates dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. Such Certificates shall be delivered to the Holder making the exchange.

(f) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing and such other documents and instruments as may be required by Section 3.4(b). Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently destroyed or otherwise disposed of by the Owner Trustee or Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice.

(g) The Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed and any other expenses of the Owner Trustee in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates.

(h) The Certificates may not be acquired by or for the account of a Benefit Plan other than an “insurance company general account,” as defined in Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption (“PTCE”) 95-60, whose underlying assets include less than 25% “plan assets” and for which the purchase and holding of Certificates is eligible and satisfies all conditions for relief under PTCE 95-60. The Certificates also may not be acquired by or for the account of an employee benefit plan or plan that is not subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (including non-U.S. or governmental plans) if such acquisition would result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under, or a violation of, any applicable law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code.

(i) The Certificates may (A) only be acquired by or for the account of a Person who is a United States Person (within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) and (B) not be acquired by or for the account of a Special Pass-Through Entity. For the purposes of this Section 3.5(i), “Special Pass-Through Entity” means a grantor trust, S corporation, or partnership where more than 50% of the value of a beneficial owner’s interest in such pass through entity is attributable to the pass-through entity’s interest in the Certificates.

(j) No transfer shall be permitted if such transfer is effected through an established securities market or secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof) within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code and any regulation thereunder.

 

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Section 3.5 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates.

(a) If (i) any mutilated Certificate is surrendered to the Certificate Registrar, or the Certificate Registrar receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Certificate, and (ii) there is delivered to the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Trust such security or indemnity as may be required by them to hold each of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee that such Certificate has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Owner Trustee shall execute on behalf of the Trust and the Owner Trustee shall authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate, a replacement Certificate of a like percentage interest in the Trust, as shown on the Certificate; provided, however, that if any such destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate, but not a mutilated Certificate, shall have become or within seven (7) days shall be payable, then instead of issuing a replacement Certificate the Owner Trustee may make distributions to such destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate when so payable.

(b) If, after the delivery of a replacement Certificate or payment in respect of a destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate pursuant to Section 3.5(a), a protected purchaser of the original Certificate in lieu of which such replacement Certificate was issued presents for payment or distribution such original Certificate, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to recover such replacement Certificate (and any distributions or payments made with respect thereto) or such payment or distribution from the Person to whom it was delivered or any Person taking such replacement Certificate from such Person to whom such replacement Certificate was delivered or any assignee of such Person, except a protected purchaser, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Owner Trustee in connection therewith.

(c) In connection with the issuance of any replacement Certificate under this Section 3.5, the Owner Trustee may require the payment by the Holder of such Certificate of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other reasonable expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar) connected therewith.

(d) Any duplicate Certificate issued pursuant to this Section 3.5 in replacement of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate shall constitute an original additional beneficial interest in the Trust, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate shall be found at any time or be enforced by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Agreement equally and proportionately with any and all other Certificates duly issued hereunder.

(e) The provisions of this Section 3.5 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificates.

Section 3.6 Persons Deemed Certificateholders. Prior to due presentation of a Certificate for registration of transfer, the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may treat the Person in whose name any Certificate shall be registered in the Certificate Register as the Certificateholder of such Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions pursuant to Article V and for all other purposes whatsoever, and neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.

 

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Section 3.7 Access to List of Certificateholders’ Names and Addresses. The Certificate Registrar shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Servicer and the Depositor, within fifteen (15) days after receipt by the Certificate Registrar of a request therefor from the Servicer or the Depositor in writing, a list of the names and addresses of the Certificateholders as of the most recent Record Date. Each Holder, by receiving and holding a Certificate, shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold any of the Servicer, the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee accountable by reason of the disclosure of its name and address, regardless of the source from which such information was derived.

Section 3.8 Maintenance of Corporate Trust Office. The Owner Trustee shall maintain an office or offices or agency or agencies where Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Owner Trustee in respect of the Certificates and the Basic Documents may be served. The Owner Trustee initially designates its office located at 100 White Clay Center, Suite 102, Newark, Delaware 19711, as its principal office for such purposes. The Owner Trustee shall give prompt written notice to the Depositor, to the Servicer and to the Certificateholders of any change in the location of the Certificate Register or any such office or agency.

Section 3.9 Appointment of Paying Agent. Except as otherwise provided in Section 5.2, the Paying Agent shall make distributions to Certificateholders from the Certificate Distribution Account pursuant to Section 5.2 and shall report the amounts of such distributions to the Owner Trustee and the Servicer; provided, however, that no such reports shall be required so long as the Depositor is the sole Certificateholder. Any Paying Agent shall have the revocable power to withdraw funds from the Certificate Distribution Account for the purpose of making the distributions referred to above. The Owner Trustee may revoke such power and remove the Paying Agent if the Owner Trustee determines in its sole discretion that the Paying Agent shall have failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. The Paying Agent shall initially be BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware, and any co-paying agent chosen by BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware. BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware shall be permitted to resign as Paying Agent upon thirty (30) days’ written notice to the Owner Trustee. If BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware shall no longer be the Paying Agent, the Owner Trustee shall appoint a successor to act as Paying Agent (which shall be a bank or trust company). The Owner Trustee shall cause such successor Paying Agent or any additional Paying Agent appointed by the Owner Trustee to execute and deliver to the Owner Trustee an instrument in which such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent shall agree with the Owner Trustee that as Paying Agent, such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent shall hold all sums, if any, held by it for payment to the Certificateholders in trust for the benefit of the Certificateholders entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Certificateholders. The Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to the Owner Trustee and upon removal of a Paying Agent such Paying Agent shall also return all funds in its possession to the Owner Trustee. The provisions of Sections 6.3, 6.6, 6.7 and 6.9 shall apply to the Owner Trustee also in its role as Paying Agent or Certificate Registrar for so long as the Owner Trustee shall act as Paying Agent or Certificate Registrar and, to the extent applicable, to any other paying agent, certificate registrar or authenticating agent appointed hereunder. Any reference in this Agreement to the Paying Agent shall include any co-paying agent unless the context requires otherwise.

 

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Section 3.10 Depositor as Certificateholder. The Depositor in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Certificates and may otherwise deal with the Owner Trustee or its Affiliates as if it were not the Depositor.

ARTICLE IV

ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE

Section 4.1 Prior Notice to Certificateholders with Respect to Certain Matters. The Owner Trustee shall not take action with respect to the following matters, unless (i) the Owner Trustee shall have notified the Certificateholders in writing of the proposed action at least thirty (30) days and not more than forty-five (45) days before the taking of such action, and (ii) the Certificateholders shall not have notified the Owner Trustee in writing prior to the 30th day after such notice is given that such Certificateholders have withheld consent or provided alternative direction:

(a) the initiation of any claim or lawsuit by the Trust (other than an action to collect on a Receivable or an action by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Indenture) and the compromise of any action, claim or lawsuit brought by or against the Trust (other than an action to collect on a Receivable or an action by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Indenture);

(b) except as may be required under the Statutory Trust Act, the election by the Trust to file an amendment to the Certificate of Trust, a conformed copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit B;

(c) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture in circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is required;

(d) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture in circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is not required and such amendment materially adversely affects the interests of the Certificateholders;

(e) the amendment, change or modification of the Administration Agreement, except to cure any ambiguity or to amend or supplement any provision in a manner that would not materially adversely affect the interests of the Certificateholders; or

(f) the appointment pursuant to the Indenture of a successor Note Registrar, Paying Agent or Indenture Trustee or pursuant to this Agreement of a successor Certificate Registrar, or the consent to the assignment by the Note Registrar, Paying Agent, Indenture Trustee or Certificate Registrar of its obligations under the Indenture or this Agreement, as applicable.

Section 4.2 Action by Certificateholders with Respect to Certain Matters. The Owner Trustee shall not have the power, except upon the written direction of the Certificateholders, to remove the Administrator under the Administration Agreement pursuant to Section 10 thereof, appoint a successor Administrator pursuant to Section 10 of the Administration Agreement, remove the Servicer under the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement pursuant to Section 7.02 thereof or, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, sell the Receivables or any interest therein after the termination of the Indenture. The Owner Trustee shall take the actions referred to in the preceding sentence only upon written instructions signed by the Certificateholders.

 

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Section 4.3 Action by Certificateholders with Respect to Bankruptcy. Notwithstanding any prior termination of this Agreement, the Owner Trustee shall not have the power to commence a voluntary case under Title 11 of the United States Code or any successor provision relating to the Trust without the prior approval of the Majority Certificateholders and the delivery to the Owner Trustee by each such Majority Certificateholder of a certificate certifying that such Majority Certificateholder reasonably believes that the Trust is insolvent; provided, however, that under no circumstances shall the Owner Trustee commence or join in commencing any such case prior to the date that is one year and one day after the termination of the Trust.

Section 4.4 Restrictions on Certificateholders’ Power. No Certificateholder shall direct the Owner Trustee to take or refrain from taking any action if such action or inaction would be contrary to any obligation of the Trust or the Owner Trustee under this Agreement, including Section 2.3 of this Agreement, or any of the other Basic Documents, nor shall the Owner Trustee be obligated to follow any such direction, if given. The Certificateholders shall not and shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take action that would violate the provisions of Section 6.1 and, if given, the Owner Trustee shall not be obligated to follow any such direction.

Section 4.5 Majority Control. Except as expressly provided herein, any action that may be taken or consent that may be given or withheld by the Certificateholders under this Agreement shall be effective if such action is taken or such consent is given or withheld by the Majority Certificateholders as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date. Except as expressly provided herein, any written notice, instruction, direction or other document of the Certificateholders delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall be effective if signed by the Majority Certificateholders at the time of the delivery of such notice.

ARTICLE V

APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES

Section 5.1 Establishment of Certificate Distribution Account.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 5.2, the Servicer, for the benefit of the Certificateholders, shall establish and maintain in the name of the Trust an Eligible Deposit Account known as the Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3 Certificate Distribution Account (the “Certificate Distribution Account”), bearing an additional designation clearly indicating that the funds deposited therein are held for the benefit of the Certificateholders.

(b) The Trust shall possess all right, title and interest in and to all funds on deposit from time to time in the Certificate Distribution Account and in all proceeds thereof. Except as otherwise provided herein, in the Indenture or in the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Certificate Distribution Account shall be under the sole dominion and control of the Owner Trustee or the Paying Agent for the benefit of the Certificateholders. If, at any time, the Certificate Distribution Account ceases to be an Eligible Deposit Account, the Owner Trustee (or the Servicer on behalf of the Owner Trustee, if the Certificate Distribution Account is not

 

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then held by the Owner Trustee or an Affiliate thereof) shall within ten (10) Business Days (or such longer period, not to exceed thirty (30) calendar days, as to which each Rating Agency may consent) establish a new Certificate Distribution Account as an Eligible Deposit Account and shall transfer any cash and/or any investments to such new Certificate Distribution Account.

Section 5.2 Application of Trust Funds.

(a) On each Distribution Date, the Owner Trustee or the Paying Agent shall distribute to the Certificateholders, on a pro rata basis, amounts equal to the amounts deposited in the Certificate Distribution Account pursuant to Sections 4.06 and 4.07 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement on or prior to such Distribution Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything else to the contrary in this Agreement or the other Basic Documents, if and for so long as Certificates representing in the aggregate a 100% beneficial interest in the Trust are held by the Depositor, (i) no Certificate Distribution Account shall be required to be established or maintained and (ii) all distributions and payments on the Certificates (including the final distribution as contemplated by Section 7.1(c) hereof) required hereunder or under the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement shall be made directly to the Depositor by the Indenture Trustee (whether or not the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement otherwise contemplates deposit into the Certificate Distribution Account) and the Owner Trustee shall have no duty or liability to see to such distribution.

(b) On each Distribution Date, the Owner Trustee shall send to each Certificateholder the statement provided to the Owner Trustee by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.09(a) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement on such Distribution Date; provided that no such statement shall be required to be sent by the Owner Trustee if and for so long as the Depositor is the sole Certificateholder.

(c) If any withholding tax is imposed on the Trust’s payment (or allocations of income) to a Certificateholder, such tax shall reduce the amount otherwise distributable to the Certificateholder in accordance with this Section 5.2; provided that the Owner Trustee or the Paying Agent shall not have an obligation to withhold any such amount if and for so long as the Depositor is the sole Certificateholder. The Owner Trustee or the Paying Agent is hereby authorized and directed to retain from amounts otherwise distributable to the Certificateholders sufficient funds for the payment of any tax that is legally owed by the Trust (but such authorization shall not prevent the Owner Trustee or the Paying Agent from contesting any such tax in appropriate proceedings and withholding payment of such tax, if permitted by law, pending the outcome of such proceedings). The amount of any withholding tax imposed with respect to a Certificateholder shall be treated as cash distributed to such Certificateholder at the time it is withheld by the Trust and remitted to the appropriate taxing authority. If there is a possibility that withholding tax is payable with respect to a distribution (such as a distribution to a non-U.S. Certificateholder), the Owner Trustee or the Paying Agent may in its sole discretion withhold such amounts in accordance with this Section 5.2(c). If a Certificateholder wishes to apply for a refund of any such withholding tax, the Owner Trustee or the Paying Agent shall reasonably cooperate with such Certificateholder in making such claim so long as such Certificateholder agrees to reimburse the Owner Trustee or the Paying Agent for any out-of-pocket expenses incurred.

 

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(d) If the Indenture Trustee holds escheated funds for payment to the Trust pursuant to Section 3.3(e) of the Indenture, the Owner Trustee shall, upon notice from the Indenture Trustee that such funds exist, submit on behalf of the Trust an Issuing Entity Order to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 3.3(e) of the Indenture instructing the Indenture Trustee to pay such funds to or at the order of the Depositor.

Section 5.3 Method of Payment. Subject to Section 7.1(c), distributions required to be made to Certificateholders on any Distribution Date shall be made to each Certificateholder of record on the related Record Date by wire transfer, in immediately available funds, to the account of such Holder at a bank or other entity having appropriate facilities therefore, if such Certificateholder shall have provided to the Certificate Registrar appropriate written instructions at least five (5) Business Days prior to such Record Date or if not, by check mailed to such Certificateholder at the address of such Certificateholder appearing in the Certificate Register.

Section 5.4 Accounting and Reports to the Certificateholders, the Internal Revenue Service and Others. The Owner Trustee shall maintain (or cause to be maintained) the books of the Trust on a calendar year basis on the accrual method of accounting, deliver to each Certificateholder, as may be required by the Code and applicable Treasury Regulations or otherwise, such information as may be required to enable each Certificateholder to prepare its federal income tax return, file such tax returns relating to the Trust and make such elections as may from time to time be required or appropriate under any applicable State or federal statute or rule or regulation thereunder so as to maintain the Trust’s characterization as an entity described in Section 2.11(i) for federal income tax purposes, cause such tax returns to be signed in the manner required by law and collect or cause to be collected any withholding tax as described in and in accordance with Section 5.2(c) with respect to income or distributions to Certificateholders. If the Trust were to become a partnership in accordance with Section 2.11 or the Internal Revenue Service were to contend successfully that the Trust is not a disregarded entity but is rather a partnership for federal income tax purposes, the Trust shall allocate items of income, gain, deduction and loss to the partners of the Trust in accordance with their economic interests in the Trust. With respect to interest expense of the Trust, the Trust shall allocate to the Certificateholders their share of the entire amount of such interest expense.

Section 5.5 Signature on Returns; Other Tax Matters. The Owner Trustee shall sign on behalf of the Trust any and all tax returns of the Trust, unless applicable law requires a Certificateholder to sign such documents, in which case such documents shall be signed by the Depositor. To the extent one may be required, the Depositor shall be the “tax matters partner” of the Trust pursuant to the Code.

 

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ARTICLE VI

THE OWNER TRUSTEE

Section 6.1 Duties of Owner Trustee.

(a) The Owner Trustee undertakes to perform such duties, and only such duties, as are specifically set forth in this Agreement and the other Basic Documents, including the administration of the Trust in the interest of the Certificateholders, subject to the Basic Documents and in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. No implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Agreement.

(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall be deemed to have discharged its duties and responsibilities hereunder and under the other Basic Documents to the extent the Administrator has agreed in the Administration Agreement to perform any act or to discharge any duty of the Trust or the Owner Trustee hereunder or under any other Basic Document, and the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the default or failure of the Administrator to carry out its obligations under the Administration Agreement.

(c) In the absence of bad faith on its part, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Owner Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Agreement in determining the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions contained therein; provided, however, that the Owner Trustee shall have examined such certificates or opinions so as to determine compliance of the same with the requirements of this Agreement.

(d) The Owner Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:

(i) this Section 6.1(d) shall not limit the effect of Section 6.1(a) or 6.1(b);

(ii) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer unless it is proved that the Owner Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and

(iii) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section 4.1, 4.2 or 6.4.

(e) Subject to Sections 5.1 and 5.2, monies received by the Owner Trustee hereunder need not be segregated in any manner except to the extent required by law or the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and may be deposited under such general conditions as may be prescribed by law, and the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for any interest thereon.

(f) The Owner Trustee shall not take any action that (i) is inconsistent with the purposes of the Trust set forth in Section 2.3 or (ii) would, to the actual knowledge of a Responsible Officer of the Owner Trustee, result in the Trust’s becoming taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes. The Certificateholders shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take action that would violate the provisions of this Section 6.1.

 

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Section 6.2 Rights of Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee is authorized and directed to execute and deliver the Basic Documents and each certificate or other document attached as an exhibit to or contemplated by the Basic Documents to which the Trust is to be a party, in such form as the Depositor shall approve as evidenced conclusively by the Owner Trustee’s execution thereof. In addition to the foregoing, the Owner Trustee is authorized, but shall not be obligated, to take all actions required of the Trust pursuant to the Basic Documents. The Owner Trustee is further authorized from time to time to take such action as the Administrator recommends and directs in writing with respect to the Basic Documents.

Section 6.3 Acceptance of Trusts and Duties. Except as otherwise provided in this Article VI, in accepting the trusts hereby created, BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware acts solely as Owner Trustee hereunder and not in its individual capacity and all Persons having any claim against the Owner Trustee by reason of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Basic Document shall look only to the Owner Trust Estate for payment or satisfaction thereof. The Owner Trustee accepts the trusts hereby created and agrees to perform its duties hereunder with respect to such trusts but only upon the terms of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee also agrees to disburse all monies actually received by it constituting part of the Owner Trust Estate upon the terms of the Basic Documents. The Owner Trustee shall not be liable or accountable hereunder or under any other Basic Document under any circumstances, except for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct or in the case of the inaccuracy of any representation or warranty contained in Section 6.6 and expressly made by the Owner Trustee. In particular, but not by way of limitation (and subject to the exceptions set forth in the preceding sentence):

(a) the Owner Trustee shall at no time have any responsibility or liability for, or with respect to, the legality, validity and enforceability of any Receivable, or the perfection and priority of any security interest created by any Receivable in any Financed Vehicle or the maintenance of any such perfection and priority, or for, or with respect to, the sufficiency of the Owner Trust Estate or its ability to generate the payments to be distributed to Certificateholders under this Agreement or to Noteholders under the Indenture, including: the existence, condition and ownership of any Financed Vehicle; the existence and enforceability of any insurance thereon; the existence and contents of any Receivable on any computer or other record thereof; the validity of the assignment of any Receivable to the Trust or of any intervening assignment; the completeness of any Receivable; the performance or enforcement of any Receivable; the compliance by the Depositor or the Servicer with any warranty or representation made under any Basic Document or in any related document or the accuracy of any such warranty or representation or any action of the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee or the Servicer or any sub-servicer taken in the name of the Owner Trustee;

(b) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in accordance with the instructions of the Administrator or any Certificateholder;

 

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(c) no provision of this Agreement or any other Basic Document shall require the Owner Trustee to expend or risk funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its rights or powers hereunder or under any other Basic Document, if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured or provided to it;

(d) under no circumstances shall the Owner Trustee be liable for indebtedness evidenced by or arising under any of the Basic Documents, including the principal of and interest on the Notes;

(e) the Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for or in respect of and makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of any provision of this Agreement other than as explicitly set forth herein or for the due execution hereof by the Depositor or for the form, character, genuineness, sufficiency, value or validity of any of the Owner Trust Estate or for, or in respect of, the validity or sufficiency of the Notes, the Certificates (other than the certificate of authentication on the Certificates), the other Basic Documents, any Receivables or any related documents, and the Owner Trustee shall in no event assume or incur any liability, duty or obligation to any Noteholder or to any Certificateholder, other than as expressly provided for herein and in the other Basic Documents;

(f) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the default or misconduct of the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor or the Servicer under any of the Basic Documents or otherwise and the Owner Trustee shall have no obligation or liability to perform the obligations of the Trust under this Agreement or the Basic Documents that are required to be performed by the Administrator under the Administration Agreement, the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture or the Servicer under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement or the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement;

(g) the Owner Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement, or to institute, conduct or defend any litigation under this Agreement or otherwise or in relation to this Agreement or any other Basic Document, at the request, order or direction of any of the Certificateholders, unless such Certificateholders have offered to the Owner Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities that may be incurred by the Owner Trustee therein or thereby. The right of the Owner Trustee to perform any discretionary act enumerated in this Agreement or in any other Basic Document shall not be construed as a duty, and the Owner Trustee shall not be answerable for other than its negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of any such act;

(h) notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in any other Basic Document, and notwithstanding any Person’s right to instruct the Owner Trustee, neither the Owner Trustee nor any agent, employee, director or officer of the Owner Trustee shall have any obligation to execute, deliver or certify on behalf of the Trust or any other Person any filings, certificates, affidavits or other instruments required pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 or the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, and the refusal to comply with any such instructions shall not constitute a default or breach under any Basic Document. In the event that the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, does not execute, deliver or certify any filings, certificates, affidavits or other instruments required under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, an Authorized Officer of the Administrator shall, on behalf of the Trust, execute, deliver or make such certification;

 

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(i) the Owner Trustee shall not be personally liable for special, consequential or punitive damages, however styled, including lost profits; and

(j) the Owner Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default or Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Owner Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a default is received by the Owner Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Owner Trustee, and such notice references the Certificates or this Trust Agreement.

Section 6.4 Action upon Instruction by Certificateholders.

(a) Subject to Section 4.4, the Certificateholders may by written instruction direct the Owner Trustee in the management of the Trust. Such direction may be exercised at any time by written instruction of the Certificateholders pursuant to Section 4.5.

(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall not be required to take any action hereunder or under any other Basic Document if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonably determined, or shall have been advised by counsel, that such action is likely to result in liability on the part of the Owner Trustee or is contrary to the terms hereof or of any other Basic Document or is otherwise contrary to law.

(c) Whenever the Owner Trustee is unable to decide between alternative courses of action permitted or required by the terms of this Agreement or any other Basic Document, or is unsure as to the application, intent, interpretation or meaning of any provision of this Agreement or the other Basic Documents, the Owner Trustee shall promptly give notice (in such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the Certificateholders requesting instruction as to the course of action to be adopted, and, to the extent the Owner Trustee acts in good faith in accordance with any such instruction received, the Owner Trustee shall not be liable on account of such action to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall not have received appropriate instructions within ten (10) days of such notice (or within such shorter period of time as reasonably may be specified in such notice or may be necessary under the circumstances) it may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking such action which is consistent, in its view, with this Agreement or the other Basic Documents, and as it shall deem to be in the best interests of the Certificateholders, and the Owner Trustee shall have no liability to any Person for any such action or inaction.

Section 6.5 Furnishing of Documents. The Owner Trustee shall furnish to the Certificateholders, promptly upon receipt of a written request therefor, duplicates or copies of all reports, notices, requests, demands, certificates, financial statements and any other instruments furnished to the Owner Trustee under the Basic Documents.

Section 6.6 Representations and Warranties of Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee hereby represents and warrants to the Depositor, for the benefit of the Certificateholders, that:

 

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(a) It is a banking corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of its incorporation. It has satisfied the eligibility requirements set forth in Section 6.13.

(b) It has full power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver and perform this Agreement, and has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it of this Agreement.

(c) The execution, delivery and performance by it of this Agreement (i) shall not violate any provision of any law or regulation governing the banking and trust powers of the Owner Trustee or any order, writ, judgment or decree of any court, arbitrator or governmental authority applicable to the Owner Trustee or any of its assets, (ii) shall not violate any provision of the corporate charter or by-laws of the Owner Trustee or (iii) shall not violate any provision of, or constitute, with or without notice or lapse of time, a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien on any properties included in the Trust pursuant to the provisions of any mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement or other undertaking to which it is a party, which violation, default or lien could reasonably be expected to have a materially adverse effect on the Owner Trustee’s performance or ability to perform its duties as Owner Trustee under this Agreement or on the transactions contemplated in this Agreement.

(d) This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Owner Trustee and constitutes the legal, valid and binding agreement of the Owner Trustee, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights in general and by general principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

Section 6.7 Reliance; Advice of Counsel.

(a) The Owner Trustee shall incur no liability to anyone in acting upon any signature, instrument, notice, resolution, request, consent, order, certificate, report, opinion, bond or other document or paper believed by it to be genuine and believed by it to be signed by the proper party or parties and need not investigate any fact or matter in any such document. The Owner Trustee may accept a certified copy of a resolution of the board of directors or other governing body of any corporate party as conclusive evidence that such resolution has been duly adopted by such body and that the same is in full force and effect. As to any fact or matter the method of the determination of which is not specifically prescribed herein, the Owner Trustee may for all purposes hereof rely on a certificate, signed by the president or any vice president or by the treasurer or other authorized officers of the relevant party, as to such fact or matter, and such certificate shall constitute full protection to the Owner Trustee for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in reliance thereon.

(b) In the exercise or administration of the trusts hereunder and in the performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement or the other Basic Documents, the Owner Trustee may act directly or through its agents, attorneys, custodians or nominees (including The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. who will perform administrative duties on behalf of BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware as Owner Trustee) pursuant to

 

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agreements entered into with any of them, and the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the conduct or misconduct of such agents, attorneys, custodians or nominees if such agents, attorneys, custodians or nominees shall have been selected by the Owner Trustee with reasonable care; and may consult with counsel, accountants and other skilled professionals to be selected with reasonable care and employed by it. The Owner Trustee shall not be liable for anything done, suffered or omitted in good faith by it in accordance with the opinion or advice of any such counsel, accountants or other such Persons and not contrary to this Agreement or any other Basic Document.

Section 6.8 Owner Trustee May Own Certificates and Notes. BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware or any successor Owner Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Certificates or Notes and may deal with the Depositor, the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee and the Servicer in transactions in the same manner as it would have if it were not the Owner Trustee.

Section 6.9 Compensation and Indemnity. The Owner Trustee shall receive as compensation for its services hereunder such fees as have been separately agreed upon before the date hereof between the Servicer and the Owner Trustee, and the Owner Trustee, any paying agent, registrar, authenticating agent or co-trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed by the Servicer for its other reasonable expenses hereunder, including the reasonable compensation, expenses and disbursements of such agents, custodians, nominees, representatives, experts and external counsel as the Owner Trustee may employ in connection with the exercise and performance of its rights and its duties hereunder. The Servicer shall indemnify the Owner Trustee, any paying agent, registrar, authenticating agent or co-trustee and its successors, assigns, agents and servants in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.01 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement. The indemnities contained in this Section 6.9 shall survive the resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee or the termination of this Agreement. Any amounts paid to the Owner Trustee pursuant to this Article VI shall be deemed not to be a part of the Owner Trust Estate immediately after such payment.

Section 6.10 Replacement of Owner Trustee.

(a) The Owner Trustee may give notice of its intent to resign and be discharged from the trusts hereby created by giving notice thereof to the Administrator provided that no such resignation shall become effective, and the Owner Trustee shall not resign, prior to the time set forth in Section 6.10(c). If no successor Owner Trustee shall have been appointed pursuant to Section 6.10(b) and have accepted such appointment within thirty (30) days after the giving of such notice, the Owner Trustee giving such notice may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Owner Trustee. The Administrator shall remove the Owner Trustee if:

(i) the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.13 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Administrator;

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(iii) a receiver or other public officer shall be appointed or take charge or control of the Owner Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation; or

(iv) the Owner Trustee shall otherwise be incapable of acting.

(b) If the Owner Trustee gives notice of its intent to resign or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of Owner Trustee for any reason, the Administrator shall promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate (one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the outgoing Owner Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor Owner Trustee) and shall pay all fees owed to the outgoing Owner Trustee.

(c) Any resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee and appointment of a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 6.10 shall not become effective, and no such resignation shall be deemed to have occurred, until a written acceptance of appointment is delivered by the successor Owner Trustee to the outgoing Owner Trustee and the Administrator and all fees and expenses due to the outgoing Owner Trustee are paid. Costs associated with the resignation of the Owner Trustee and the appointment of a successor Owner Trustee will be borne by the Servicer. Any successor Owner Trustee appointed pursuant to this Section 6.10 shall be eligible to act in such capacity in accordance with Section 6.13 and, following compliance with the preceding sentence, shall become fully vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor under this Agreement, with like effect as if originally named as Owner Trustee. The Administrator shall provide notice of such resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee to each of the Rating Agencies.

(d) The predecessor Owner Trustee shall upon payment of its fees and expenses deliver to the successor Owner Trustee all documents and statements and monies held by it under this Agreement. The Administrator and the predecessor Owner Trustee shall execute and deliver such instruments and do such other things as may reasonably be required for fully and certainly vesting and confirming in the successor Owner Trustee all such rights, powers, duties and obligations.

(e) Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.10, the Administrator shall mail notice of the successor of such Owner Trustee to all Certificateholders, the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders and the Rating Agencies.

Section 6.11 Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee. Any Person into which the Owner Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Owner Trustee shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Owner Trustee, shall be the successor of the Owner Trustee hereunder, provided such Person shall be eligible pursuant to Section 6.13, and without the execution or filing of any instrument or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto; provided, however, that the Owner Trustee shall mail notice of such merger or consolidation to the Depositor, who promptly shall notify the Rating Agencies.

 

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Section 6.12 Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, at any time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirement of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Owner Trust Estate or any Financed Vehicle may at the time be located, the Administrator and the Owner Trustee acting jointly shall, at the expense of the Servicer, have the power and shall, at the expense of the Servicer, execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons approved by the Owner Trustee to act as co-trustee, jointly with the Owner Trustee, or as separate trustee or trustees, of all or any part of the Owner Trust Estate, and to vest in such Person (in the name of the Trust and not in such Person’s name for the Trust, except to the extent otherwise required by, and in accordance with, Section 2.8), in such capacity, such title to the Trust, or any part thereof, and, subject to the other provisions of this Section 6.12, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Administrator and the Owner Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. If the Administrator shall not have joined in such appointment within fifteen (15) days after the receipt by it of a request so to do, the Owner Trustee alone shall have the power to make such appointment. No co-trustee or separate trustee under this Agreement shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor trustee pursuant to Section 6.13 and no notice of the appointment of any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required pursuant to Section 6.10.

(b) Each separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and conditions:

(i) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed upon the Owner Trustee shall be conferred upon and exercised or performed by the Owner Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee is not authorized to act separately without the Owner Trustee joining in such act), except to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be performed, the Owner Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties and obligations (including the holding of title to the Trust or any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction of the Owner Trustee;

(ii) no trustee under this Agreement shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of any other trustee under this Agreement; and

(iii) the Administrator and the Owner Trustee acting jointly may at any time accept the resignation of or remove any separate trustee or co-trustee.

(c) Any notice, request or other writing given to the Owner Trustee shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement and the conditions of this Article. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Owner Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions of this Agreement, specifically including every provision of this Agreement relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the Owner Trustee. Each such instrument shall be filed with the Owner Trustee and a copy thereof given to the Administrator.

 

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(d) Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time appoint the Owner Trustee as its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of this Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the Owner Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or successor trustee.

Section 6.13 Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall at all times satisfy the requirement of Section 26(a)(1) of the Investment Company Act. The Owner Trustee shall at all times: (a) be a corporation satisfying the provisions of Section 3807(a) of the Statutory Trust Act; (b) be authorized to exercise corporate trust powers; (c) have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and be subject to supervision or examination by federal or State authorities; and (d) have (or have a parent which has) a long-term unsecured debt rating of at least BBB- by, or such other rating as is acceptable to, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services and at least Baa3 by, or such other rating as is acceptable to, Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. If such corporation shall publish reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purpose of this Section 6.13, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6.13, the Owner Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 6.10.

ARTICLE VII

TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT

Section 7.1 Termination of Trust Agreement.

(a) The Trust shall dissolve in accordance with Section 3808 of the Statutory Trust Act immediately prior to the final distribution by the Owner Trustee of all monies or other property or proceeds of the Owner Trust Estate in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement (including the exercise by the Servicer of its option to purchase the Receivables pursuant to Section 8.01(a) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement) and Article V. The bankruptcy, liquidation, dissolution, death or incapacity of any Certificateholder shall not (x) operate to terminate this Agreement or the Trust, (y) entitle such Certificateholder’s legal representatives or heirs to claim an accounting or to take any action or proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up of all or any part of the Trust or the Owner Trust Estate or (z) otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto.

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(c) Subject to Section 5.2(a), notice of any dissolution of the Trust, specifying the Distribution Date upon which the Certificateholders shall surrender their Certificates to the Paying Agent for payment of the final distribution and cancellation, shall be given by the Owner Trustee by letter to Certificateholders mailed within five (5) Business Days of receipt of notice of such termination from the Servicer given pursuant to Section 8.01(c) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, stating: (i) the Distribution Date upon or with respect to which final payment of the Certificates shall be made upon presentation and surrender of the Certificates at the office of the Paying Agent therein designated; (ii) the amount of any such final payment; and (iii) that the Record Date otherwise applicable to such Distribution Date is not applicable, payments being made only upon presentation and surrender of the Certificates at the office of the Paying Agent therein specified. The Owner Trustee shall give such notice to the Certificate Registrar (if other than the Owner Trustee) and the Paying Agent at the time such notice is given to Certificateholders. Upon presentation and surrender of the Certificates, the Paying Agent shall cause to be distributed to Certificateholders amounts distributable on such Distribution Date pursuant to Section 5.2.

(d) If all of the Certificateholders shall not surrender their Certificates for cancellation within six (6) months after the date specified in the written notice referred to in Section 7.1(c), the Owner Trustee shall give a second written notice to the remaining Certificateholders to surrender their Certificates for cancellation and receive the final distribution with respect thereto. If within one (1) year after the second notice all the Certificates shall not have been surrendered for cancellation, the Owner Trustee may take appropriate steps, or may appoint an agent to take appropriate steps, to contact the remaining Certificateholders concerning surrender of their Certificates, and the cost thereof shall be paid out of the funds and other assets that shall remain subject to this Agreement. Subject to applicable laws with respect to escheat of funds, any funds remaining in the Trust after exhaustion of such remedies in the preceding sentence shall be deemed property of the Depositor and distributed by the Owner Trustee to the Depositor, and the Owner Trustee shall have no further liability to the Certificateholders with respect thereto.

(e) Upon the winding up and termination of the Trust in accordance with Section 3808 of the Statutory Trust Act and this Section 7.1 at the written direction and expense of the Certificateholders, the Owner Trustee shall cause the Certificate of Trust to be canceled by filing a certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State in accordance with the provisions of Section 3810 of the Statutory Trust Act. Thereupon, this Agreement (other than Sections 6.9, 9.8 and 9.9) and the Trust shall terminate.

 

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ARTICLE VIII

AMENDMENTS

Section 8.1 Amendments Without Consent of Certificateholders or Noteholders. This Agreement may be amended by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee without the consent of any of the Noteholders or any other Persons who may be Certificateholders (but with prior notice to each of the Rating Agencies from the Depositor), to (i) cure any ambiguity, (ii) correct or supplement any provision in this Agreement that may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision in this Agreement or any other Basic Document, (iii) add or supplement any credit enhancement for the benefit of the Noteholders or Certificateholders (provided that if any such addition shall affect any class of Noteholders or Certificateholders differently from any other class of Noteholders or Certificateholders, then such addition shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any class of the Noteholders or Certificateholders), (iv) add to the covenants, restrictions or obligations of the Depositor or the Owner Trustee, (v) evidence and provide for the acceptance of the appointment of a successor trustee with respect to the Owner Trust Estate and add to or change any provisions as shall be necessary to facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one trustee pursuant to Article VI, and (vi) add, change or eliminate any other provision of this Agreement in any manner that shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the Noteholders or Unaffiliated Certificateholders.

Section 8.2 Amendments With Consent of Certificateholders and Noteholders. This Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee with the consent of Noteholders whose Notes evidence not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date and, if any Person other than the Depositor or an Affiliate of the Depositor holds any Certificates, the consent of the Majority Certificateholders as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date (which consent, whether given pursuant to this Section 8.2 or pursuant to any other provision of this Agreement, shall be conclusive and binding on such Person and on all future holders of such Notes or Certificates and of any Notes or Certificates issued upon the transfer thereof or in exchange thereof or in lieu thereof whether or not notation of such consent is made upon the Notes or Certificates) for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement, or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders; provided, however, that no such amendment shall (a) without the consent of the holder of the affected Note or Certificate, as applicable, increase or reduce the interest rate or principal amount of any Note or change any Distribution Date or the Final Scheduled Distribution Date of any Note or distributions on the Certificates (without the consent of the holders hereof), (b) increase or reduce the amount of the required Specified Reserve Account Balance without the consent of all of the Noteholders or Certificateholders then outstanding, (c) adversely affect the rating of any Securities by any of the Rating Agencies without the consent of the holders of two-thirds of the Outstanding Amount of an affected class of Notes or two-thirds of the Voting Interests of affected Certificates, as appropriate, each as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date or (d) reduce the aforesaid percentage required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the holders of all Notes and Certificates then outstanding. The Depositor shall furnish notice to each of the Rating Agencies prior to obtaining consent to any proposed amendment under this Section 8.2.

 

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Section 8.3 Form of Amendments.

(a) Promptly after the execution of any amendment, supplement or consent pursuant to Section 8.1 or 8.2, the Owner Trustee shall furnish written notification of the substance of such amendment or consent to each Unaffiliated Certificateholder and the Indenture Trustee.

(b) It shall not be necessary for the consent of Certificateholders, the Noteholders or the Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 8.2 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment or consent, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. The manner of obtaining such consents (and any other consents of Unaffiliated Certificateholders provided for in this Agreement or in any other Basic Document) and of evidencing the authorization of the execution thereof by Unaffiliated Certificateholders shall be subject to such reasonable requirements as the Owner Trustee may prescribe.

(c) Promptly after the execution of any amendment to the Certificate of Trust, the Owner Trustee shall cause the filing of such amendment with the Secretary of State.

(d) Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement or the Certificate of Trust, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive and conclusively rely upon an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amendment is authorized or permitted by this Agreement. The Owner Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment which affects the Owner Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.

ARTICLE IX

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 9.1 No Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate. The Certificateholders shall not have legal title to any part of the Owner Trust Estate. The Certificateholders shall be entitled to receive distributions with respect to their undivided ownership interest therein only in accordance with Articles V and VII. No transfer, by operation of law or otherwise, of any right, title, and interest of the Certificateholders to and in their ownership interest in the Owner Trust Estate shall operate to terminate this Agreement or the trusts hereunder or entitle any transferee to an accounting or to the transfer to it of legal title to any part of the Owner Trust Estate.

Section 9.2 Limitations on Rights of Others. Except for Section 9.12, the provisions of this Agreement are solely for the benefit of the Owner Trustee, the Depositor, the Certificateholders, the Administrator and, to the extent expressly provided herein, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders, and nothing in this Agreement, whether express or implied, shall be construed to give to any other Person any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim in the Owner Trust Estate or under or in respect of this Agreement or any covenants, conditions or provisions contained herein.

 

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Section 9.3 Derivative Actions. Any provision contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the right of any Certificateholder to bring a derivative action in the right of the Trust is hereby made expressly subject to the following limitations and requirements:

(a) such Certificate Owner must meet all requirements set forth in the Statutory Trust Act; and

(b) no Certificateholder may bring a derivative action in the right of the Trust without the prior written consent of the Majority Certificateholders.

Section 9.4 Notices. All demands, notices and communications upon or to the Depositor, the Servicer, the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee or the Rating Agencies under this Agreement shall be delivered as specified in Appendix B to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

Section 9.5 Severability. If any one or more of the covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement shall be for any reason whatsoever held invalid, then such covenants, agreements, provisions or terms shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement and shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of the other provisions of this Agreement or of the Certificates or the rights of the holders thereof.

Section 9.6 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.

Section 9.7 Successors and Assigns.

(a) All covenants and agreements contained herein shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and each Certificateholder and their respective successors and permitted assigns, all as herein provided. Any request, notice, direction, consent, waiver or other instrument or action by a Certificateholder shall bind the successors and assigns of such Certificateholder.

(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, this Trust Agreement may be assigned by the Depositor without the consent of any other Person, but with notice to the Rating Agencies, to a corporation, limited liability company or other entity that is a successor (by merger, consolidation or purchase of assets) to the Depositor, or 25% or more of the voting interests of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by General Motors or by Ally Financial, provided that such entity executes an agreement of assumption, as provided in Section 3.03(a) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

Section 9.8 No Petition. The Owner Trustee by entering into this Trust Agreement and each Certificateholder or Certificate Owner, by accepting a Certificate (or interest therein) issued hereunder, hereby covenant and agree that they shall not (nor shall they join with or solicit another person to), prior to the day that is one year and one day after the termination of the Trust and of each other trust heretofore formed by the Depositor, acquiesce, petition or otherwise invoke or cause the Depositor or the Trust to invoke in any court or government authority for the

 

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purpose of commencing or sustaining a case against the Depositor or the Trust under any federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official of the Depositor or the Trust or any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the Depositor or the Trust under a federal or State bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding.

Section 9.9 No Recourse. Each Certificateholder or Certificate Owner by accepting a Certificate (or any interest therein) acknowledges that such Person’s Certificate (or interest therein) represents beneficial interests in the Trust only and does not represent interests in or obligations of the Depositor, the Servicer, the Administrator, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or any Affiliate thereof and no recourse, either directly or indirectly, may be had against such parties or their assets, except as may be expressly set forth or contemplated in this Agreement, the Certificates or the other Basic Documents. Except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, none of the Depositor, the Servicer or the Owner Trustee in their respective individual capacities, or any of their respective partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, employees or successors or assigns, shall be personally liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of them for, the distribution of any amount with respect to the Certificates or the Trust’s performance of, or omission to perform, any obligations or indemnifications contained in the Certificates, this Agreement or the other Basic Documents, it being expressly understood that such Certificateholder obligations have been made solely by the Trust. Each Certificateholder by the acceptance of a Certificate (or beneficial interest therein) agrees that except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the event of nonpayment of any amounts with respect to the Certificates, it shall have no claim against any of the foregoing Persons for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom. In the event that any of the foregoing covenants of each Certificateholder and Certificate Owner is prohibited by, or declared illegal or otherwise unenforceable against any such Certificateholder or Certificate Owner under applicable law by any court or other authority of competent jurisdiction, and, as a result, a Certificateholder or Certificate Owner is deemed to have an interest in any assets of the Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor other than the Trust, each Certificateholder and Certificate Owner agrees that (i) its claim against any such other assets shall be, and hereby is, subject and subordinate in all respects to the rights of other Persons to whom rights in the other assets have been expressly granted, including to the payment in full of all amounts owing to such entitled Persons, and (ii) the covenant set forth in the preceding clause (i) constitutes a “subordination agreement” within the meaning of, and subject to, Section 510(a) of the Bankruptcy Code.

Section 9.10 Headings. The headings of the various Articles and Sections herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.

Section 9.11 Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS THEREOF OR OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

 

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Section 9.12 Indemnification by and Reimbursement of the Servicer. The Owner Trustee acknowledges and agrees to reimburse (i) the Servicer and its directors, officers, employees and agents in accordance with Section 6.03(b) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and (ii) the Depositor and its directors, officers, employees and agents in accordance with Section 3.04 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement. The Owner Trustee further acknowledges and accepts the conditions and limitations with respect to the Servicer’s obligation to indemnify, defend and hold the Owner Trustee harmless as set forth in Section 6.01(a)(iv) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

Section 9.13 Effect of Amendment and Restatement. It is the intent of the parties hereto that this Trust Agreement shall, as of August 21, 2013, replace in its entirety the Original Trust Agreement; provided, however, that with respect to the period of time from July 18, 2013 through August 21, 2013, the rights and obligations of the parties shall be governed by the Original Trust Agreement; and provided further, that the amendment and restatement of the Original Trust Agreement shall not affect any of the grants, conveyances or transfers contemplated by the Original Trust Agreement to have occurred prior to the date hereof.

Section 9.14 Information to be Provided by the Owner Trustee.

(a) The Owner Trustee agrees to cooperate in good faith with any reasonable request by the Depositor for information regarding the Owner Trustee which is required in order to enable the Depositor to comply with the provisions of Items 1104(e), 1121(c), 1117 and 1119 of Regulation AB and Rule 15Ga-1 under the Exchange Act as it relates to the Owner Trustee or to the Owner Trustee’s obligations under this Agreement; provided that with respect to Rule 15Ga-1, and Items 1121(c) and 1104(e), the Owner Trustee shall not be deemed a “securitizer” under Regulation AB or under the Exchange Act.

(b) Except to the extent disclosed by the Owner Trustee in subsection (c) or (d) below, the Owner Trustee shall be deemed to have represented to the Depositor on the first day of each Monthly Period with respect to the prior Monthly Period that to the best of its knowledge there were no legal or governmental proceedings pending (or known to be contemplated) against BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware or any property of BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware that would be material to any Noteholder or, to the extent that the Certificates are registered under the Securities Act for public sale, any holder of such Certificates.

(c) The Owner Trustee shall, as promptly as practicable following notice to or discovery by the Owner Trustee of any changes to any information regarding the Owner Trustee as is required for the purpose of compliance with Item 1117 of Regulation AB, provide to the Depositor, in writing, such updated information.

(d) The Owner Trustee shall deliver to the Depositor on or before March 15 (or, if such date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) of each year, beginning with March 15, 2014, a report of a representative of the Owner Trustee with respect to the immediately preceding calendar year certifying, on behalf of the Owner Trustee, that except to the extent otherwise disclosed in writing to Depositor, to the best of his or her knowledge there were no legal or governmental proceedings pending (or known to be contemplated) against BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware or any property of BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware that would be material to any Noteholder or, to the extent that the Certificates are registered under the Securities Act for public sale, any holder of such Certificates.

 

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(e) The Owner Trustee shall deliver to the Depositor on or before March 15 (or, if such date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) of each year, beginning with March 15, 2014, a report of a representative of the Owner Trustee with respect to the immediately preceding calendar year providing to the Depositor such information regarding the Owner Trustee as is required for the purpose of compliance with Item 1119 of Regulation AB. Such information shall include, at a minimum, a description of any affiliation between the Owner Trustee and any of the following parties to this securitization transaction, as such parties are identified to the Owner Trustee by the Depositor in writing in advance of this securitization transaction:

(i) the Depositor;

(ii) Ally Financial Inc., as sponsor;

(iii) the Trust;

(iv) the Servicer;

(v) the Indenture Trustee; and

(vi) any other material transaction party.

(f) In connection with the parties listed in clauses (i) through (vi) above, the Owner Trustee shall include a description of whether there is, and if so, the general character of, any business relationship, agreement, arrangement, transaction or understanding that is entered into outside the ordinary course of business or is on terms other than would be obtained in an arm’s length transaction with an unrelated third party, apart from this securitization transaction, that currently exists or that existed during the past two years and that is material to an investor’s understanding of the asset backed securities issued in this securitization transaction.

(g) The Owner Trustee shall provide the Depositor with notification, as soon as practicable and in any event within five Business Days, of all demands delivered to a Reporting Officer of the Owner Trustee for the repurchase or replacement of any Receivable pursuant to Section 2.05 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement or Section 3.07 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, as applicable. Subject to this Section 9.14, the Owner Trustee shall have no obligation to take any other action with respect to any demand. Except as set forth in the Basic Documents, in no event shall the Owner Trustee have (i) any responsibility or liability in connection with any filing to be made by a securitizer under the Exchange Act or Regulation AB or (ii) any duty or obligation to undertake any investigation or inquiry related to repurchase activity or otherwise to assume any additional duties or responsibilities except as expressly set forth in this Section 9.14.

* * * * *

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers, hereunto duly authorized, as of the day and year first above written.

 

BNY MELLON TRUST OF DELAWARE,

as Owner Trustee and Paying Agent

By:  

/s/ Kristine K. Gullo

Name:   Kristine K. Gullo
Title:   Vice President
CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES LLC, as Depositor
By:  

/s/ R. C. Farris

Name:   R. C. Farris
Title:   Vice President

Trust Agreement (CARAT 2013-3)


EXHIBIT A

FORM OF CERTIFICATE

 

NO. R-                %

SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “ACT”), OR THE VARIOUS STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NO TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE MADE UNLESS SUCH TRANSFER IS MADE IN A TRANSACTION THAT DOES NOT REQUIRE REGISTRATION UNDER THE ACT OR ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AND IS OTHERWISE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT.

THIS CERTIFICATE (OR AN INTEREST HEREIN) MAY NOT BE ACQUIRED BY OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF (1) AN “EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN,” AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(3) OF THE UNITED STATES EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”), THAT IS SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE I OF ERISA, (2) A “PLAN” SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”), OR (3) ANY ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE PLAN ASSETS BY REASON OF INVESTMENT BY AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN IN SUCH ENTITY OTHER THAN AN “INSURANCE COMPANY GENERAL ACCOUNT,” AS DEFINED IN PROHIBITED TRANSACTION CLASS EXEMPTION 95-60 (“PTCE”) 95-60, WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE LESS THAN 25% PLAN ASSETS AND FOR WHICH THE PURCHASE AND HOLDING OF CERTIFICATES IS ELIGIBLE AND SATISFIES ALL CONDITIONS FOR RELIEF UNDER PTCE 95-60. THIS CERTIFICATE (OR AN INTEREST THEREIN) ALSO MAY NOT BE ACQUIRED BY OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN THAT IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE I OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, NON-U.S. OR GOVERNMENTAL PLANS) IF SUCH ACQUISITION WOULD RESULT IN A NON-EXEMPT PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER, OR A VIOLATION OF, ANY APPLICABLE LAW THAT IS SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO TITLE I OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE. EACH HOLDER OF THIS CERTIFICATE, BY ACCEPTING THIS CERTIFICATE, WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED AND WARRANTED THAT IT IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS AND, IF REQUESTED TO DO SO BY THE DEPOSITOR, SUCH PERSON SHALL EXECUTE AND DELIVER TO THE OWNER TRUSTEE AN UNDERTAKING LETTER TO SUCH EFFECT IN THE FORM SPECIFIED IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT.

 

Ex. A-1


NO TRANSFER SHALL BE PERMITTED IF SUCH TRANSFER IS EFFECTED THROUGH AN ESTABLISHED SECURITIES MARKET OR SECONDARY MARKET (OR THE SUBSTANTIAL EQUIVALENT THEREOF) WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 7704 OF THE CODE AND ANY REGULATION THEREUNDER.

THIS CERTIFICATE MAY (A) ONLY BE ACQUIRED BY OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A PERSON WHO IS A UNITED STATES PERSON (WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 7701(A)(30) OF THE CODE) AND (B) NOT BE ACQUIRED BY OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A SPECIAL PASS-THROUGH ENTITY (AS DEFINED IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT).

CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET TRUST 2013-3

ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATE

evidencing a fractional undivided interest in the Trust, as defined below, the property of which includes a pool of retail instalment sale contracts and direct purchase money loans secured by new or used automobiles and light trucks and sold to the Trust by Capital Auto Receivables LLC.

(This Certificate does not represent an interest in or obligation of Capital Auto Receivables LLC or Ally Financial Inc. or any of their respective affiliates, except to the extent described in the Basic Documents.)

THIS CERTIFIES THAT             is the registered owner of a nonassessable, fully-paid fractional undivided interest in Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3 (the “Trust”) formed by Capital Auto Receivables LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Depositor”).

The Trust was created pursuant to a Trust Agreement, dated as of July 18, 2013, between the Depositor and BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware, as owner trustee (the “Owner Trustee”), and as amended and restated on August 21, 2013) (the “Trust Agreement”), a summary of certain of the pertinent provisions of which is set forth below. To the extent not otherwise defined herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them or incorporated by reference in the Trust Agreement.

This Certificate is one of the duly authorized Certificates designated as Asset Backed Certificates (the “Certificates”). This Certificate is issued under and is subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Trust Agreement, the terms of which are incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof, to which Trust Agreement the holder of this Certificate by virtue of the acceptance hereof assents and by which such holder is bound.

Under the Trust Agreement there shall be distributed on the 20th day of each month, or if such 20th day is not a Business Day, the next Business Day, commencing on September 20, 2013 (each, a “Distribution Date”), to the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered on the related Record Date, such amount as is provided in the Basic Documents. The “Record Date,” with respect to any Distribution Date, means the last day of the preceding Monthly Period.

 

Ex. A-2


The distributions in respect of this Certificate are payable in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Trust with respect to this Certificate shall be applied in respect of this Certificate.

The holder of this Certificate acknowledges and agrees that its rights to receive distributions in respect of this Certificate are subordinated to the rights of the Noteholders as and to the extent described in the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

It is the intent of the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders that, for purposes of federal income, State and local income and franchise taxes and any other taxes imposed upon, measured by or based upon gross or net income, the Trust shall be treated as either (A) a division of an entity which is not disregarded as a separate entity for federal income tax purposes, or (B) a partnership if the Certificates are owned by more than one Person (as long as (1) such Persons are not disregarded as separate entities for federal income tax purposes and (2) if such Persons are disregarded as separate entities for federal income tax purposes, such Persons are not treated as a division of the same Person). Except as otherwise required by appropriate taxing authorities, the Depositor and the other Certificateholders by acceptance of a Certificate agree to treat, and to take no action inconsistent with the treatment of, the Certificates for such tax purposes as interests in such a disregarded entity or partnership as described in the previous sentence.

Each Certificateholder or Certificate Owner by its acceptance of a Certificate (or an interest therein) covenants and agrees that such Certificateholder or Certificate Owner shall not (nor shall it join with or solicit another person to), prior to the date which is one year and one day after the termination of the Trust and of each other trust heretofore formed by the Depositor, acquiesce, petition or otherwise invoke or cause the Depositor, the Owner Trustee or the Trust to invoke the process of any court or governmental authority for the purpose of commencing or sustaining a case against the Depositor or the Owner Trustee under any federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar law or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official of the Depositor or the Trust or any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the Depositor or the Trust under a federal or State bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding.

Except as otherwise provided in the Trust Agreement, distributions on this Certificate shall be made as provided in the Trust Agreement by the Owner Trustee by wire transfer or check mailed to the Certificateholder without the presentation or surrender of this Certificate or the making of any notation hereon. Except as otherwise provided in the Trust Agreement and notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this Certificate shall be made after due notice by the Owner Trustee of the pendency of such distribution and only upon presentation and surrender of this Certificate at the office maintained for such purpose by the Owner Trustee.

 

Ex. A-3


Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Certificate set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been executed by an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee by manual signature, this Certificate shall not entitle the holder hereof to any benefit under the Trust Agreement or the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement or be valid for any purpose.

THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW THEREOF OR OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

 

Ex. A-4


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust and not in its individual capacity, has caused this Certificate to be duly executed.

 

Dated:                    , 20         CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET TRUST 2013-3
   

By: BNY MELLON TRUST OF

DELAWARE, not in its individual capacity

but solely as Owner Trustee

    By:    
   

Name:

Title:

OWNER TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the Certificates referred to in the within-mentioned Trust Agreement.

 

BNY MELLON TRUST OF DELAWARE, not

in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee

By:    
Name:
Title:

 

Ex. A-5


REVERSE OF CERTIFICATE

The Certificate does not represent an obligation of, or an interest in, the Depositor, the Servicer, Ally Financial Inc., the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee or any affiliates of any of them and no recourse may be had against such parties or their assets, except as may be expressly set forth or contemplated herein or in the Trust Agreement or the other Basic Documents. In addition, this Certificate is not guaranteed by any governmental agency or instrumentality and is limited in right of payment to certain collections and recoveries with respect to the Receivables (and certain other amounts), all as more specifically set forth herein and in the other Basic Documents. A copy of each of the other Basic Documents may be examined during normal business hours at the principal office of the Depositor, and at such other places, if any, designated by the Depositor, by any Certificateholder upon written request. In the event of any conflict between the terms of this Certificate and the terms of the other Basic Documents, the terms of the other Basic Documents shall govern.

The Trust Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Depositor and the rights of the Certificateholders under the Trust Agreement at any time by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee with the consent of the Holders of the Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date and the consent of the Majority Certificateholders as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date. Any such consent by the Holder of this Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such Holder and on all future Holders of this Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon the transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent is made upon this Certificate. The Trust Agreement also permits the amendment thereof, in certain circumstances, without the consent of the Holders of any of the Certificates or the Notes.

As provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registerable in the Certificate Register upon surrender of this Certificate for registration of transfer at the offices or agencies of the Certificate Registrar maintained by the Owner Trustee, accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Holder hereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Certificates evidencing the same aggregate percentage interest in the Trust will be issued to the designated transferee. The initial Certificate Registrar appointed under the Trust Agreement is BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware.

The Certificate is issuable only as a registered Certificate. As provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the Certificate is exchangeable for a new Certificate. No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

 

Ex. A-6


The Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may treat the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and none of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any such agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.

The obligations and responsibilities created by the Trust Agreement and the Trust created thereby shall terminate in accordance with Article VII of the Trust Agreement.

 

Ex. A-7


ASSIGNMENT

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY

NUMBER OR OTHER IDENTIFYING

NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE

 

 

(please print or type name and address, including postal zip code, of assignee)

 

 

the within Certificate, and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing

                                                                                                                                                                                                 attorney to transfer said Certificate on the books of the Certificate Registrar, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:       *
  Signature Guaranteed:  
      *

 

* NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the registered owner as it appears upon the face of the within Certificate in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatsoever. Such signature must be guaranteed by a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange or a commercial bank or trust company.

 

Ex. A-8


EXHIBIT B

CERTIFICATE OF TRUST

OF CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET TRUST 2013-3

THIS Certificate of Trust of Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3 (the “Trust”) is being duly executed and filed by the undersigned, as trustee, to form a statutory trust under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act (12 Del. C. § 3801 et seq.) (the “Act”).

1. Name. The name of the statutory trust formed hereby is Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3.

2. Delaware Trustee. The name and business address of the trustee of the Trust having its principal place of business in the State of Delaware are BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware, 100 White Clay Center, Suite 102, Newark, Delaware 19711.

3. Effective Date. This Certificate of Trust shall be effective upon filing.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this certificate of trust in accordance with Section 3811(a)(1) of the Act.

 

BNY MELLON TRUST OF DELAWARE, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
By:    
Name:
Title:

 

Ex. B


EXHIBIT C

UNDERTAKING LETTER

Capital Auto Receivables LLC

Corporation Trust Center

1209 Orange Street

Wilmington, DE 19801

BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware,

as Owner Trustee of Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3

100 White Clay Center

Suite 102

Newark, DE 19711

Ladies and Gentlemen:

In connection with our purchase of record or beneficial ownership of the             Asset Backed Certificate (the “Certificate”) of Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3, the undersigned purchaser, record owner or beneficial owner hereby acknowledges, represents and warrants that such purchaser, record owner or beneficial owner:

(1) is not, and has not acquired the Certificate by or for the benefit of, (a) (i) an “employee benefit plan,” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” subject to Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), or (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of investment by an employee benefit plan or plan in such entity other than an “insurance company general account,” as defined in Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption (“PTCE”) 95-60, whose underlying assets include less than 25% “plan assets” and for which the purchase and holding of Certificates is eligible and satisfies all conditions for relief under PTCE 95-60, or (b) an employee benefit plan or plan that is not subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (including, without limitation, non-U.S. or governmental plans) if such acquisition would result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under, or a violation of, any applicable law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code;

(2) acknowledges that you and others will rely on our acknowledgments, representations and warranties made in connection with our purchase of record or beneficial ownership of the Certificate and agrees to notify you promptly in writing if any of our representations or warranties herein cease to be accurate and complete; and

(3) (A) is a United States Person (within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) and (B) is not acquiring the Certificate by or for the account of a Special Pass-Through Entity. For the purposes of this Section (3)(B), “Special Pass-Through Entity” means a grantor trust, S corporation, or partnership where more than 50% of the value of a beneficial owner’s interest in such pass through entity is attributable to the pass-through entity’s interest in the Certificates.

 

Ex. C-1


 
Name of Certificate Owner
By:    
Name:    
Title:    
Date:    

 

Ex. C-2

EX-4.3 4 d585410dex43.htm POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT Pooling and Servicing Agreement

EXHIBIT 4.3

 

 

 

POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT

BETWEEN

CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES LLC

AND

ALLY FINANCIAL INC.

DATED AS OF AUGUST 21, 2013

 

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

         Page  

ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS

     1   

SECTION 1.01

  Definitions      1   

SECTION 1.02

  Owner of a Receivable      2   

ARTICLE II PURCHASE AND SALE OF RECEIVABLES

     2   

SECTION 2.01

  Purchase and Sale of Receivables      2   

SECTION 2.02

  Receivables Purchase Price      4   

SECTION 2.03

  The Closings      5   

SECTION 2.04

  Custody of Receivable Files      5   

ARTICLE III ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF RECEIVABLES

     6   

SECTION 3.01

  Duties of the Servicer      6   

SECTION 3.02

  Collection of Receivable Payments      7   

SECTION 3.03

  Realization Upon Liquidating Receivables      7   

SECTION 3.04

  Maintenance of Insurance Policies      8   

SECTION 3.05

  Maintenance of Security Interests in Vehicles      8   

SECTION 3.06

  Covenants, Representations and Warranties of the Servicer      8   

SECTION 3.07

  Purchase of Receivables Upon Breach of Covenant      10   

SECTION 3.08

  Basic Servicing Fee; Payment of Certain Expenses by Servicer      10   

SECTION 3.09

  Servicer’s Accounting      10   

SECTION 3.10

  Application of Collections      10   

ARTICLE IV REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

     11   

SECTION 4.01

  Representations and Warranties as to the Receivables      11   

SECTION 4.02

  Additional Representations and Warranties of the Seller      15   

SECTION 4.03

  Representations and Warranties of CARI      16   

ARTICLE V ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS

     17   

SECTION 5.01

  Conflicts With Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements      17   

SECTION 5.02

  Protection of Title      17   

SECTION 5.03

  Other Liens or Interests      18   

SECTION 5.04

  Repurchase Events      18   

SECTION 5.05

  Indemnification      18   

SECTION 5.06

  Further Assignments      19   

SECTION 5.07

  Pre-Closing Collections      19   

ARTICLE VI CONDITIONS

     19   

SECTION 6.01

  Conditions to Obligation of CARI      19   

SECTION 6.02

  Conditions to Obligation of the Seller      20   

ARTICLE VII MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

     21   

SECTION 7.01

  Amendment      21   

SECTION 7.02

  Survival      21   

SECTION 7.03

  Notices      21   

SECTION 7.04

  Governing Law      21   

SECTION 7.05

  Waivers      21   

SECTION 7.06

  Costs and Expenses      21   

SECTION 7.07

  Confidential Information      21   

SECTION 7.08

  Headings      21   

 

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SECTION 7.09    

  Counterparts      22   

SECTION 7.10

  No Petition Covenant      22   

SECTION 7.11

  Limitations on Rights of Others      22   

SECTION 7.12

  Merger and Consolidation of the Seller, the Servicer or CARI      22   

SECTION 7.13

  Assignment      22   

 

EXHIBIT A            Form of First Step Initial Receivables Assignment
EXHIBIT B    Form of First Step Additional Receivables Assignment
SCHEDULE A    Schedule of Receivables
APPENDIX A    Definitions, Rules of Construction and Notices
APPENDIX B    Additional Representations and Warranties

 

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THIS POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT, dated as of August 21, 2013, between CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“CARI”), and ALLY FINANCIAL INC., a Delaware corporation (“Ally Financial,” also herein referred to as the “Seller” in its capacity as seller of the Receivables and as the “Servicer” in its capacity as servicer of the Receivables).

WHEREAS, CARI desires to purchase on the date hereof and from time to time hereafter portfolios of automobile and light truck retail instalment sale contracts, direct purchase money loans and related rights owned by the Seller;

WHEREAS, the Seller is willing to sell on the date hereof and from time to time hereafter such contracts and related rights to CARI;

WHEREAS, CARI may wish to sell or otherwise transfer on the date hereof and from time to time hereafter such contracts and related rights, or interests therein, to a trust, corporation, partnership or other entity (any such entity being the “Issuing Entity”);

WHEREAS, the Issuing Entity may issue debentures, notes, participations, certificates of beneficial interest, partnership interests or other interests or securities (collectively, any such issued interests or securities being “Securities”) to fund its acquisition of such contracts and related rights;

WHEREAS, the Issuing Entity may wish to provide in the agreements pursuant to which it acquires its interest in such contracts and related rights and issues the Securities (the Second Step Receivables Assignments, the Trust Agreement, the Notes, the Certificates, the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Indenture being collectively the “Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements”) that the Servicer shall service such contracts;

WHEREAS, the Servicer is willing to service such contracts in accordance with the terms hereof for the benefit of CARI and, by its execution of the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, will be willing to service such contracts in accordance with the terms of such Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements for the benefit of the Issuing Entity and each other party identified or described herein or in the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements as having an interest as owner, trustee, secured party, or holder of Securities (the Issuing Entity and all such parties under the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements being “Interested Parties”) with respect to such contracts, and the proceeds thereof, as the interests of such parties may appear from time to time.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

SECTION 1.01 Definitions. Certain capitalized terms used in this Agreement are defined in and shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in Part I of Appendix A to this Agreement. All references herein to “the Agreement” or “this Agreement” are to this Pooling and Servicing Agreement as it may be amended, supplemented or modified from time to


time, and all references herein to Articles and Sections are to Articles or Sections of this Agreement unless otherwise specified. The rules of construction set forth in Part II of such Appendix A shall be applicable to this Agreement.

SECTION 1.02 Owner of a Receivable. For purposes of this Agreement, the “Owner” of a Receivable shall mean CARI until the sale, transfer, assignment or other conveyance of such Receivable by CARI pursuant to the terms of the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, and thereafter shall mean the Issuing Entity; provided, however, that the Seller, the Servicer or CARI, as applicable, shall be the “Owner” of any Receivable from and after the time that such Person shall acquire such Receivable, whether pursuant to Section 3.07 or 5.04 of this Agreement, any provision of the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements or otherwise.

ARTICLE II

PURCHASE AND SALE OF RECEIVABLES

SECTION 2.01 Purchase and Sale of Receivables.

(a) Initial Purchase. On the Initial Closing Date, subject to satisfaction of the conditions specified in Article VI and the First Step Initial Receivables Assignment (and, in any event, immediately prior to consummation of the related transactions contemplated by the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, if any), the Seller shall sell, transfer, assign and otherwise convey to CARI, without recourse:

(i) all right, title and interest of the Seller in, to and under the Initial Receivables listed on the Schedule of Initial Receivables and all monies received thereon on and after the Initial Cutoff Date, exclusive of any amounts allocable to the premium for physical damage collateral protection insurance required by the Seller or the Servicer covering any related Financed Vehicle;

(ii) the interest of the Seller in the security interests in the Financed Vehicles granted by Obligors pursuant to the Initial Receivables and, to the extent permitted by law, any accessions thereto;

(iii) the interest of the Seller in any proceeds from claims on any physical damage, credit life, credit disability or other insurance policies covering the related Financed Vehicles or Obligors;

(iv) the interest of the Seller in any proceeds from recourse against Dealers on the Initial Receivables;

(v) all right, title and interest of the Seller in, to and under the First Step Initial Receivables Assignment;

(vi) the right to purchase Additional Receivables during the Revolving Period at a price equal to the Aggregate Additional Receivables Principal Balance on each applicable Distribution Date; and

 

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(vii) all present and future claims, demands, causes and choses in action in respect of any or all of the foregoing described in clauses (i) through (vi) above and all payments on or under and all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in respect of any or all the foregoing, including all proceeds of the conversion of any or all of the foregoing, voluntary or involuntary, into cash or other liquid property, all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes, drafts, acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit accounts, insurance proceeds, investment property, payment intangibles, general intangibles, condemnation awards, rights to payment of any and every kind and other forms of obligations and receivables, instruments and other property which at any time constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the foregoing.

The property described in clauses (i) through (vii) above is referred to herein collectively as the “Initial Purchased Property.”

(b) Additional Purchases. On each Subsequent Closing Date, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions specified in Article VI and the First Step Additional Receivables Assignment (and, in any event, immediately prior to consummation of the related transactions contemplated by the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, if any), the Seller shall sell, transfer, assign and otherwise convey to CARI, without recourse:

(i) all right, title and interest of the Seller in, to and under the Additional Receivables listed on the Schedule of Additional Receivables for such Subsequent Closing Date and all monies received thereon on and after the related Subsequent Cutoff Date, exclusive of any amounts allocable to the premium for physical damage collateral protection insurance required by the Seller or the Servicer covering any related Financed Vehicle;

(ii) the interest of the Seller in the security interests in the Financed Vehicles granted by Obligors pursuant to the Additional Receivables and, to the extent permitted by law, any accessions thereto;

(iii) the interest of the Seller in any proceeds from claims on any physical damage, credit life, credit disability or other insurance policies covering the related Financed Vehicles or Obligors;

(iv) the interest of the Seller in any proceeds from recourse against Dealers on the Additional Receivables;

(v) all right, title and interest of the Seller in, to and under the related First Step Additional Receivables Assignment; and

(vi) all present and future claims, demands, causes and choses in action in respect of any or all the foregoing described in clauses (i) through (v) above and all payments on or under and all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in respect of any or all the foregoing, including all proceeds of the conversion of any or all of the foregoing, voluntary or involuntary, into cash or other liquid property, all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes, drafts, acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit accounts, insurance proceeds, investment property, payment intangibles, general intangibles, condemnation awards, rights to payment of any and every kind and other forms of obligations and receivables, instruments and other property which at any time constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the foregoing.

 

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The property described in clauses (i) through (vi) above is referred to herein collectively as the “Additional Purchased Property.” The Initial Purchased Property and the Additional Purchased Property are referred to herein collectively as the “Purchased Property.”

(c) It is the intention of the Seller and CARI that the sale, transfer, assignment and other conveyances of the Receivables contemplated by this Agreement and the First Step Receivables Assignment shall constitute a sale of the Receivables from the Seller to CARI and the beneficial interest in and title to the Receivables shall not be part of the Seller’s estate in the event of the filing of a bankruptcy petition by or against the Seller under any bankruptcy law.

(d) Each sale, transfer, assignment and other conveyances of Receivables contemplated by this Agreement and the related First Step Receivables Assignment do not constitute and are not intended to result in the creation of or an assumption by CARI of any obligation of the Seller, the Servicer or any other Person to the Obligors, Dealers, insurers or any other Person in connection with the Receivables, any Dealer Agreements, any insurance policies or any other agreement or instrument relating to any of them.

SECTION 2.02 Receivables Purchase Price.

(a) Initial Purchase. In consideration for the Initial Purchased Property, CARI shall, on the Initial Closing Date, pay to the Seller an amount equal to the Initial Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance in respect of the Initial Receivables and the Seller shall execute and deliver to CARI an assignment in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “First Step Initial Receivables Assignment”). The Initial Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance is equal to $1,075,013,471.59. A portion of the Initial Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance shall be paid to the Seller in immediately available funds and the balance of such purchase price shall be paid through one or both of (a) an increase in the amount owing from CARI to Seller under the Intercompany Advance Agreement (as a result of an advance made thereunder from Seller to CARI) and (b) an increase in Seller’s capital account in CARI (as a result of a deemed capital contribution from the Seller to CARI). The amount advanced under the Intercompany Advance Agreement and the amount of the deemed capital contribution shall be duly recorded by the Seller and CARI.

(b) Additional Receivables. In consideration for the Additional Purchased Property, CARI shall, on each related Subsequent Closing Date, pay to the Seller an amount equal to the Aggregate Additional Receivables Principal Balance in respect of the Additional Receivables sold on such date and the Seller shall execute and deliver to CARI an assignment in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “First Step Additional Receivables Assignment”). A portion of the Aggregate Additional Receivables Principal Balance shall be paid to the Seller in immediately available funds and the balance of such purchase shall be paid through one or both of (a) an increase in the amount owing from CARI to Seller under the Intercompany Advance Agreement (as a result of an advance made thereunder from Seller to CARI) and (b) an increase in Seller’s capital account in CARI (as a result of a deemed capital contribution from Seller to CARI). The amount advanced under the Intercompany Advance Agreement and the amount of

 

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the deemed capital contribution shall be duly recorded by the Seller and CARI. The First Step Initial Receivables Assignment and each First Step Additional Receivables Assignment are collectively referred to herein as the “First Step Receivables Assignments.”)

SECTION 2.03 The Closings.

(a) Initial Purchase. The sale and purchase of the Initial Receivables shall take place at the offices of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 300 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60654, on the Initial Closing Date at a time mutually agreeable to the Seller and CARI, and will occur simultaneously with the closing of transactions contemplated by the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements.

(b) Additional Purchases. The sale and purchase of the Additional Receivables shall take place on the Subsequent Closing Dates at such locations and at such times as are mutually agreeable to the Seller and CARI, and will occur simultaneously with the closing of transactions contemplated by any Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements.

SECTION 2.04 Custody of Receivable Files. In connection with the sale, transfer and assignment of the Receivables to CARI pursuant to this Agreement and the First Step Receivables Assignments, CARI, simultaneously with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, shall enter into the Custodian Agreement with the Custodian, pursuant to which CARI shall revocably appoint the Custodian, and the Custodian shall accept such appointment, to act as the agent of CARI as Custodian of the following documents or instruments which shall be constructively delivered to CARI with respect to each Receivable:

(a) the fully executed original of the instalment sale contract or direct purchase money loan, as applicable, for such Receivable;

(b) documents evidencing or related to any Insurance Policy;

(c) the original credit application of each Obligor, fully executed by each such Obligor on the Seller’s customary form, or on a form approved by the Seller, for such application;

(d) where permitted by law, the original certificate of title (when received) and otherwise such documents, if any, that the Seller keeps on file in accordance with its customary procedures indicating that the Financed Vehicle is owned by the Obligor and subject to the interest of the Seller as first lienholder or secured party; and

(e) any and all other documents that the Seller keeps on file in accordance with its customary procedures relating to the individual Receivable, Obligor or Financed Vehicle.

 

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ARTICLE III

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF RECEIVABLES

SECTION 3.01 Duties of the Servicer.

(a) The Servicer is hereby appointed and authorized to act as agent for the Owner of the Receivables and in such capacity shall manage, service, administer and process collections on the Receivables with reasonable care, using that degree of skill and attention that the Servicer exercises with respect to comparable motor vehicle related receivables that it services for itself or others. The Servicer hereby accepts such appointment and authorization and agrees to perform the duties of Servicer with respect to the Receivables set forth herein and in the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements.

(b) The Servicer’s duties shall include collection and posting of all payments, responding to inquiries of Obligors, investigating delinquencies, sending billing statements to Obligors, policing the collateral, including remarketing repossessed and returned Financed Vehicles, accounting for collections and furnishing monthly and annual statements to the Owner of any Receivables with respect to distributions, generating federal income tax information and performing the other duties specified herein. Subject to the provisions of Section 3.02, the Servicer shall follow its customary standards, policies and procedures and shall have full power and authority, acting alone, to do any and all things in connection with such managing, servicing, administration and collection that it may deem necessary or desirable.

(c) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Servicer is hereby authorized and empowered by the Owner of the Receivables, pursuant to this Section 3.01, to execute and deliver, on behalf of all Interested Parties, or any of them, any and all instruments of satisfaction or cancellation, or of partial or full release or discharge, and all other comparable instruments, with respect to the Receivables and the Financed Vehicles (including proceeds). The Servicer is hereby authorized to (i) commence, in its own name or in the name of the Owner of such Receivable a legal proceeding, whether through judicial process or (with respect to repossession of a Financed Vehicle) non-judicial process, (ii) participate in a voluntary or involuntary liquidation proceeding to enforce a Liquidating Receivable or Receivable as contemplated by Section 3.03, (iii) enforce all obligations of the Seller, the Servicer, CARI or the Issuing Entity under this Agreement and under the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements or (iv) commence or participate in a legal proceeding (including a bankruptcy case) relating to or involving a Receivable or a Liquidating Receivable. If the Servicer commences or participates in such a legal proceeding in its own name, the Servicer is hereby authorized and empowered by the Owner of the Receivables pursuant to this Section 3.01 to obtain possession of the related Financed Vehicle and immediately and without further action on the part of the Owner or the Servicer, the Owner of such Receivable shall thereupon automatically assign in trust such Receivable and the security interest in the related Financed Vehicle to the Servicer for the benefit of the Interested Parties immediately prior to such legal or liquidation proceeding for purposes of commencing or participating in any such proceeding as a party or claimant. Upon such automatic assignment, the Servicer will be, and will have all the rights and duties of, a secured party under the UCC and other applicable law with respect to such Receivable and the related Financed Vehicle. At the Servicer’s request from time to time, the Owner of a Receivable assigned under this Section 3.01 shall provide the Servicer with evidence of the assignment in trust for the benefit of the Interested Parties as may be reasonably necessary for the Servicer to take any of the actions set forth in the following sentence.

 

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(d) The Servicer is hereby authorized and empowered by the Owner of a Receivable to execute and deliver in the Servicer’s name any notices, demands, claims, complaints, responses, affidavits or other documents or instruments in connection with any such proceeding. Any Owner of Receivables shall furnish the Servicer with any powers of attorney and other documents and take any other steps which the Servicer may deem necessary or appropriate to enable the Servicer to carry out its servicing and administrative duties under this Agreement and the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements. Except to the extent required by the preceding two sentences, the authority and rights granted to the Servicer in this Section 3.01 shall be nonexclusive and shall not be construed to be in derogation of the retention by the Owner of a Receivable of equivalent authority and rights.

SECTION 3.02 Collection of Receivable Payments. The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Receivables as and when the same shall become due, and shall follow such collection practices, policies and procedures as it follows with respect to comparable motor vehicle related receivables that it services for itself or others in connection therewith. Except as provided in Section 3.06(a)(iii), the Servicer is hereby authorized to grant extensions, rebates or adjustments on a Receivable without the prior consent of the Owner of such Receivable. The Servicer is authorized in its discretion to waive any prepayment charge, late payment charge or any other fees that may be collected in the ordinary course of servicing such Receivable.

SECTION 3.03 Realization Upon Liquidating Receivables. The Servicer shall use reasonable efforts, consistent with its customary practices, policies and procedures, to repossess or otherwise comparably convert the ownership or gain control of any Financed Vehicle that it has reasonably determined should be repossessed or otherwise converted following a default under the Receivable secured by the Financed Vehicle. The Servicer is authorized to follow such customary practices, policies and procedures as it follows with respect to comparable motor vehicle related receivables that it services for itself or others, which customary practices, policies and procedures may include reasonable efforts to realize upon any recourse to Dealers, selling the related Financed Vehicle at public or private sale and other actions by the Servicer in order to realize upon such a Receivable. The Servicer is hereby authorized to exercise its discretion consistent with its customary practices, policies and procedures and the terms of the Basic Documents, in servicing Liquidating Receivables so as to maximize the net collection of those Liquidating Receivables, including the discretion to choose to sell or not to sell any of the Liquidating Receivables itself on behalf of the Depositor or any other Owner. The Servicer shall not be liable for any such exercise of its discretion made in good faith and in accordance with such servicing procedures. The foregoing is subject to the provision that, in any case in which the Financed Vehicle shall have suffered damage, the Servicer shall not expend funds in connection with any repair or towards the repossession of such Financed Vehicle unless it shall determine in its discretion that such repair and/or repossession shall increase the proceeds of liquidation of the related Receivable by an amount greater than the amount of such expenses. The Servicer shall be entitled to receive Liquidation Expenses with respect to each Liquidating Receivable at such time as the Receivable becomes a Liquidating Receivable (or as may otherwise be provided in the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements).

 

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SECTION 3.04 Maintenance of Insurance Policies. The Servicer shall, in accordance with its customary practices, policies and procedures, require that each Obligor shall have obtained physical damage insurance covering the Financed Vehicle as of the execution of the related Receivable. The Servicer shall, in accordance with its customary practices, policies and procedures, track such physical damage insurance with respect to each Receivable.

SECTION 3.05 Maintenance of Security Interests in Vehicles. The Servicer shall, in accordance with its customary practices, policies and procedures and at its own expense, take such steps as are necessary to maintain perfection of the security interest created by each Receivable in the related Financed Vehicle. The Owner of each Receivable hereby authorizes the Servicer to re-perfect such security interest on behalf of such Owner, as necessary because of the relocation of a Financed Vehicle, or for any other reason.

SECTION 3.06 Covenants, Representations and Warranties of the Servicer. As of the Initial Closing Date with respect to the Initial Receivables and as of each Subsequent Closing Date with respect to the Additional Receivables purchased on each such Subsequent Closing Date, the Servicer hereby makes the following representations, warranties and covenants on which CARI relies in accepting the Receivables hereunder and pursuant to the related First Step Receivables Assignment, and on which the Issuing Entity shall rely in accepting such Receivables and executing and delivering the Securities under the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements.

(a) The Servicer covenants that from and after the closing hereunder:

(i) Liens in Force. Except as contemplated in this Agreement or the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, the Servicer shall not release in whole or in part any Financed Vehicle from the security interest securing the related Receivable;

(ii) No Impairment. The Servicer shall do nothing to impair the rights or security interest of CARI or any Interested Party in and to the Purchased Property; and

(iii) No Modifications. The Servicer shall not amend or otherwise modify any Receivable such that the Amount Financed, the Annual Percentage Rate, or the number of originally scheduled due dates is altered or such that the last scheduled due date occurs after the Final Scheduled Distribution Date.

(b) Upon the execution of this Agreement and the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, the Servicer represents and warrants to the Issuing Entity and CARI that as of the Initial Closing Date with respect to the Initial Receivables and as of each Subsequent Closing Date with respect to the Additional Receivables purchased on each such Subsequent Closing Date:

(i) Organization and Good Standing. The Servicer has been duly formed and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its State of incorporation, with power and authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as such properties are presently owned and such business is presently conducted;

 

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(ii) Due Qualification. The Servicer is duly qualified to do business as a foreign entity in good standing, and has obtained all necessary licenses and approvals, in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business (including the servicing of the Receivables) requires or shall require such qualification;

(iii) Power and Authority. The Servicer has the power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements and to carry out the terms of such agreements; the Servicer has the power, authority and legal right to service the Receivables as provided herein and in the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements and the Servicer’s execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements have been duly authorized by the Servicer by all necessary corporate action;

(iv) Binding Obligation. The Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements and this Agreement, when duly executed and delivered, shall constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Servicer enforceable in accordance with their respective terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights in general and by general principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law;

(v) No Violation. The consummation by the Servicer of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, and the fulfillment by the Servicer of the terms hereof and thereof, shall not conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the articles of incorporation or bylaws (or similar organizational documents) of the Servicer, or any indenture, agreement, mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument to which the Servicer is a party or by which it is bound, or result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any such indenture, agreement, mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument, other than this Agreement and the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, or violate any law or, to the best of the Servicer’s knowledge, any order, rule or regulation applicable to the Servicer of any court or of any federal or State regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Servicer or any of its properties; and

(vi) No Proceedings. To the Servicer’s knowledge, there are no proceedings or investigations pending, or threatened, before any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other tribunal or governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Servicer or its properties (A) asserting the invalidity of this Agreement and the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements or any Securities issued thereunder, (B) seeking to prevent the issuance of such Securities or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, or (C) seeking any determination or ruling that might materially and adversely affect this Agreement, the performance by the Servicer of its obligations under, or the validity or enforceability of, the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements.

 

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SECTION 3.07 Purchase of Receivables Upon Breach of Covenant. Upon discovery by any of the Seller, the Servicer, CARI or any party under the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements of a breach of any of the covenants set forth in Sections 3.05 and 3.06(a), the party discovering such breach shall give prompt written notice thereof to the others. As of the last day of the second Monthly Period following its discovering or receiving notice of such breach (or, at the Servicer’s election, the last day of the first Monthly Period following such discovery or notice), the Servicer shall, unless it shall have cured such breach in all material respects, purchase from the Owner thereof any Receivable materially and adversely affected by such breach as determined by such Owner and, on the related Distribution Date, the Servicer shall pay the Administrative Purchase Payment. It is understood and agreed that the obligation of the Servicer to purchase any Receivable with respect to which such a breach has occurred and is continuing shall, if such obligation is fulfilled, constitute the sole remedy against the Servicer for such breach available to CARI or any Interested Party.

SECTION 3.08 Basic Servicing Fee; Payment of Certain Expenses by Servicer. The Servicer is entitled to receive the Basic Servicing Fee out of collections in respect of the Receivables and other available funds, as and to the extent set forth herein and in the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements. The Servicer shall also be entitled to Investment Earnings as, and to the extent, set forth in the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements. Subject to any limitations on the Servicer’s liability under the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, the Servicer shall be required to pay all expenses incurred by it in connection with its activities under this Agreement and under the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements (including fees and disbursements of the Issuing Entity, any trustees and independent accountants, taxes imposed on the Servicer, expenses incurred in connection with distributions and reports to holders of Securities and all other fees and expenses not expressly stated under this Agreement or the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements to be for the account of the holders of Securities).

SECTION 3.09 Servicer’s Accounting. On each Determination Date under a Further Transfer and Servicing Agreement, the Servicer shall deliver to each of the trustees and other applicable parties under the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements and to CARI and the Rating Agencies a Servicer’s Accounting with respect to the immediately preceding Monthly Period executed by any Authorized Officer of the Servicer containing all information necessary to each such party for making any distributions required by the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, and all information necessary to each such party for sending any statements required under the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements. Receivables to be purchased by the Servicer under Sections 3.07 or 5.04 or to be repurchased by CARI, the Servicer or the Seller under the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements as of the last day of any Monthly Period shall be identified by Receivable number (as set forth in the Schedule of Receivables). With respect to any Receivables for which CARI is the Owner, the Servicer shall deliver to CARI such accountings relating to such Receivables and the actions of the Servicer with respect thereto as CARI may reasonably request.

SECTION 3.10 Application of Collections. For the purposes of this Agreement and the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, no later than each Distribution Date all collections for the related Monthly Period shall be applied by the Servicer as follows:

 

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(a) With respect to all Simple Interest Receivables (other than Administrative Receivables and Warranty Receivables), payments by or on behalf of the Obligors that are not Supplemental Servicing Fees shall be applied to principal and interest on all such Simple Interest Receivables.

(b) With respect to a Simple Interest Receivable that is also an Administrative Receivable or Warranty Receivable, payments by or on behalf of the Obligor shall be applied in the same manner as set forth in Section 3.10(a). A Warranty Payment or an Administrative Purchase Payment, as applicable, shall be applied to principal and interest on such Receivable.

ARTICLE IV

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

SECTION 4.01 Representations and Warranties as to the Receivables. The Seller makes the following representations and warranties as to the Receivables, on which CARI relies in accepting the Receivables. Such representations and warranties speak as of the Initial Closing Date with respect to the Initial Receivables, and as of each Subsequent Closing Date with respect to the Additional Receivables purchased on each such Subsequent Closing Date, and shall survive the sale, transfer and assignment of the Receivables to CARI and the subsequent assignment and transfer pursuant to the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements:

(a) Characteristics of Receivables.

(i) General. Each Receivable:

(1) is secured by a Financed Vehicle, was originated in the United States by the Seller or one of its subsidiaries or a Dealer for the retail sale of a Financed Vehicle in the ordinary course of business, was fully and properly executed by the parties thereto, if not originated by the Seller, was purchased by the Seller from one of its subsidiaries or from such Dealer under an existing Dealer Agreement, and was validly assigned by such subsidiary or such Dealer to the Seller in accordance with its terms,

(2) has created or shall create a valid, binding and enforceable first priority security interest in favor of the Seller in the Financed Vehicle, which security interest is assignable by the Seller to CARI,

(3) contains customary and enforceable provisions such as to render the rights and remedies of the holder thereof adequate for realization against the collateral of the benefits of the security,

(4) is a Simple Interest Receivable,

(5) provides for level monthly payments which may vary from one another by no more than $5, which shall amortize the Amount Financed by maturity and shall yield interest at the Annual Percentage Rate,

 

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(6) has an original term of not less than twelve (12) months and not greater than eighty-four (84) months and a remaining term of not less than nine (9) months, and

(7) with respect to which at least one monthly payment has been made.

(ii) Initial Receivables. In addition to the characteristics set forth in Section 4.01(a)(i) above, each Initial Receivable (1) has a first scheduled payment due date on or after June 9, 2007, (2) was originated on or after May 3, 2007, (3) as of the Initial Cutoff Date, was not considered past due (that is, no payments due on that Initial Receivable in excess of $25 were more than thirty (30) days delinquent), and was not a Liquidating Receivable, and (4) has an Annual Percentage Rate not greater than 24.00%.

(iii) Additional Receivables. In addition to the characteristics set forth in Section 4.01(a)(i) above, each Additional Receivable as of the related Subsequent Cutoff Date, was not considered past due, that is, the payments due on that Additional Receivable in excess of $25 were not more than thirty (30) days delinquent, and such Additional Receivable was not a Liquidating Receivable.

(iv) Cumulative Receivables. Following the addition of all Additional Receivables on each Subsequent Cutoff Date:

(1) the sum of the Amount Financed of each Cumulative Receivable as of such date that had an original term: (a) of 60 months or less, measured as of its date of origination, is at least 22.5% of the Aggregate Amount Financed of the Cumulative Receivables as of such date; (b) of between 73 months and 75 months, measured as of its date of origination, is not greater than 10.0% of the Aggregate Amount Financed of the Cumulative Receivables as of such date; and (c) in excess of 75 months, measured as of its date of origination, is not greater than 2.0% of the Aggregate Amount Financed of the Cumulative Receivables as of such date;

(2) the sum of the Amount Financed of each Cumulative Receivable as of such date that was secured by used Financed Vehicles, measured as of the Applicable Cutoff Date for each such Cumulative Receivable, is not greater than 40.0% of the Aggregate Amount Financed of the Cumulative Receivables as of such dates;

(3) the Weighted Average FICO Score of the Cumulative Receivables, measured as of the Applicable Cutoff Date, is 630 or greater;

(4) the Weighted Average Loan-to-Value of the Cumulative Receivables, measured as of the Applicable Cutoff Date, is 110 or less;

(5) the Weighted Average Rate of the Cumulative Receivables, measured as of the Applicable Cutoff Date, is at least 7.8%;

(6) the sum of the Amount Financed of each Cumulative Receivable with no FICO score or related to a business obligor, measured as of the Applicable Cutoff Date, is not greater than 10.0% of the Aggregate Amount Financed of the Cumulative Receivables; and

 

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(7) the sum of the Amount Financed of each Cumulative Receivable with a FICO score less than 580, measured as of the Applicable Cutoff Date, is not greater than 12.5% of the Aggregate Amount Financed of the Cumulative Receivables.

(b) Creation, Perfection and Priority of Security Interests. The representations and warranties regarding creation, perfection and priority of security interests in the Purchased Property, which are attached to this Agreement as Appendix B, are true and correct to the extent that they are applicable.

(c) Schedule of Receivables. The information set forth in the Schedule of Initial Receivables is, and each Schedule of Additional Receivables will be, true and correct in all material respects, and no selection procedures believed to be adverse to CARI or to holders of the Securities issued under the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements were utilized in selecting the Receivables from those receivables of the Seller that meet the selection criteria set forth in this Agreement.

(d) Compliance With Law. All requirements of applicable federal, State and local laws, and regulations thereunder, including usury laws, the Federal Truth-in-Lending Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Fair Credit Billing Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Regulations “B” and “Z”, the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act of 2003, the Texas Consumer Credit Code, and state adaptations of the National Consumer Act and of the Uniform Consumer Credit Code and other consumer credit laws and equal credit opportunity and disclosure laws, in respect of each such Receivable and other Purchased Property, have been complied with in all material respects, and each such Receivable and the sale of the Financed Vehicle evidenced thereby complied at the time it was originated or made and now complies in all material respects with all legal requirements of the jurisdiction in which it was originated or made.

(e) Binding Obligation. Each such Receivable represents the genuine, legal, valid and binding payment obligation in writing of the Obligor thereon, enforceable by the holder thereof in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights in general and by equity, regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

(f) Security Interest in Financed Vehicle. Immediately prior to the sale, transfer and assignment thereof pursuant hereto and the First Step Receivables Assignments, each Receivable was secured by a validly perfected first priority security interest in the Financed Vehicle in favor of the Seller as secured party or all necessary and appropriate action had been commenced that would result in the valid perfection of a first priority security interest in the Financed Vehicle in favor of the Seller as secured party.

 

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(g) Receivables In Force. Each such Receivable has not been satisfied, subordinated or rescinded, and the Financed Vehicle securing each such Receivable has not been released from the lien of the related Receivable in whole or in part.

(h) No Waiver. Since the Initial Cutoff Date or any Subsequent Cutoff Date, as applicable, no provision of any such Receivable has been waived, altered or modified in any respect.

(i) No Defenses. No right of rescission, setoff, counterclaim or defense has been asserted or threatened with respect to any such Receivable.

(j) No Liens. To the best of the Seller’s knowledge: (1) there are no liens or claims that have been filed for work, labor or materials affecting any Financed Vehicle securing any Receivable that are or may be liens prior to, or equal or coordinate with, the security interest in the Financed Vehicle granted by such Receivable; (2) no contribution failure has occurred with respect to any Benefit Plan which is sufficient to give rise to a lien under Section 303 (k) of ERISA with respect to any Receivable; and (3) no tax lien has been filed and no claim related thereto is being asserted with respect to any Receivable.

(k) Insurance. The Obligor under each such Receivable is required to maintain a physical damage insurance policy of the type that the Seller requires in accordance with its customary underwriting standards for the purchase of motor vehicle related receivables.

(l) Good Title. Each such Receivable has not been sold, transferred, assigned or pledged by the Seller to any Person other than CARI; immediately prior to the conveyance of each such Receivable pursuant to this Agreement and the First Step Receivables Assignments, the Seller had good and marketable title thereto, free of any Lien; and, upon execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Seller, CARI shall have all of the right, title and interest of the Seller in and to each such Receivable, the unpaid indebtedness evidenced thereby and the collateral security therefor, free of any Lien.

(m) Lawful Assignment. Each such Receivable was not originated in, or is not subject to the laws of, any jurisdiction the laws of which would make unlawful the sale, transfer and assignment of each such Receivable under this Agreement, the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement or the Indenture, as applicable.

(n) All Filings Made. All filings (including UCC filings) necessary in any jurisdiction to give CARI a first priority perfected ownership interest in each such Receivable shall have been made.

(o) One Original. There is only one original executed copy of each such Receivable.

(p) No Documents or Instruments. No such Receivable, or constituent part thereof, constitutes a “negotiable instrument” or “negotiable document of title” (as such terms are used in the UCC).

 

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(q) No Amendment. Each such Receivable has not been amended or otherwise modified such that the number of originally scheduled due dates has been increased or such that the Amount Financed has been increased.

SECTION 4.02 Additional Representations and Warranties of the Seller. The Seller hereby represents and warrants to CARI and the Servicer as of the Initial Closing Date with respect to the Initial Receivables and as of each Subsequent Closing Date with respect to the Additional Receivables purchased on each such Subsequent Closing Date that:

(a) Organization and Good Standing. The Seller has been duly formed and is validly existing as an entity in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with power and authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as such properties are presently owned and such business is presently conducted;

(b) Due Qualification. The Seller is duly qualified to do business as a foreign entity in good standing, and has obtained all necessary licenses and approvals, in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires or shall require such qualification;

(c) Power and Authority. The Seller has the power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and the related First Step Receivables Assignment and to carry out its terms; the Seller has full power and authority to sell and assign the property to be sold and assigned to CARI, and has duly authorized such sale and assignment to CARI by all necessary corporate action; and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the related First Step Receivables Assignment have been duly authorized by the Seller by all necessary corporate action;

(d) Valid Sale; Binding Obligation. This Agreement and the First Step Initial Receivables Assignment, when duly executed and delivered, shall constitute a valid sale, transfer and assignment of the Initial Receivables, and each First Step Additional Receivables Assignment, when duly executed and delivered, shall constitute a valid sale, transfer and assignment of the respective Additional Receivables, in each case, enforceable against creditors of and purchasers from the Seller; and this Agreement together with the related First Step Receivables Assignment, when duly executed and delivered, shall constitute a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Seller enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, receivership, conservatorship, insolvency, reorganization or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights in general and by general principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law;

(e) No Violation. The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the related First Step Receivables Assignment and the fulfillment of the terms of this Agreement and the related First Step Receivables Assignment shall not conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the articles of incorporation or bylaws (or similar organizational documents) of the Seller, or any indenture, agreement, mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument to which the Seller is a party or by which it is bound, or result in the creation or

 

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imposition of any Lien upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any such indenture, agreement, mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument, other than this Agreement and the First Step Receivables Assignments or violate any law or, to the best of the Seller’s knowledge, any order, rule or regulation applicable to the Seller of any court or of any federal or State regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Seller or any of its properties;

(f) No Proceedings. To the Seller’s knowledge, there are no proceedings or investigations pending, or threatened, before any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other tribunal or governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Seller or its properties (A) asserting the invalidity of this Agreement and the related First Step Receivables Assignment, (B) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the related First Step Receivables Assignment, or (C) seeking any determination or ruling that might materially and adversely affect the performance by the Seller of its obligations under, or the validity or enforceability of, this Agreement and the First Step Receivables Assignments; and

(g) No Insolvency. With respect to the Additional Receivables as of the related Subsequent Closing Date, (i) the Seller was not and will not become insolvent as a result of the transfer of such Additional Receivables, (ii) the Seller did not intend to or believe that it would incur debts that would be beyond its ability to pay as such debts matured, (iii) the Seller did not transfer such Additional Receivables with the actual intent to hinder, delay or defraud any Person and (iv) the assets of the Seller did not constitute unreasonably small capital to carry out its business as conducted.

SECTION 4.03 Representations and Warranties of CARI. CARI hereby represents and warrants to the Seller and the Servicer as of the Initial Closing Date and each Subsequent Closing Date:

(a) Organization and Good Standing. CARI has been duly formed and is validly existing as an entity in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with power and authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as such properties are presently owned and such business is presently conducted, and had at all relevant times, and now has, power, authority and legal right to acquire and own the Receivables;

(b) Due Qualification. CARI is duly qualified to do business as a foreign entity in good standing, and has obtained all necessary licenses and approvals in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification;

(c) Power and Authority. CARI has the power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and the First Step Receivables Assignments and to carry out its terms and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the First Step Receivables Assignments have been duly authorized by CARI by all necessary limited liability company action;

 

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(d) No Violation. The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the First Step Receivables Assignments and the fulfillment of the terms of this Agreement and the First Step Receivables Assignments shall not conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the certificate of formation or limited liability company agreement of CARI, or any indenture, agreement, mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument to which CARI is a party or by which it is bound, or result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any such indenture, agreement or other instrument, other than any Further Transfer and Servicing Agreement or violate any law or, to the best of CARI’s knowledge, any order, rule or regulation applicable to CARI of any court or of any federal or State regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over CARI or any of its properties; and

(e) No Proceedings. To CARI’s knowledge, there are no proceedings or investigations pending or threatened, before any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other tribunal or governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over CARI or its properties (i) asserting the invalidity of this Agreement and the First Step Receivables Assignments, or (ii) seeking any determination or ruling that might materially and adversely affect the performance by CARI of its obligations under, or the validity or enforceability of, this Agreement and the First Step Receivables Assignments.

ARTICLE V

ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS

SECTION 5.01 Conflicts With Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements. To the extent that any provision of Sections 5.02 through 5.04 of this Agreement conflicts with any provision of the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements shall govern.

SECTION 5.02 Protection of Title.

(a) Filings. The Seller shall authorize and execute, as applicable, and file such financing statements or amendments to financing statements and cause to be authorized and executed, as applicable, and filed such continuation and other statements, all in such manner and in such places as may be required by law fully to preserve, maintain and protect the interest of CARI under this Agreement and the First Step Receivables Assignments in the Receivables and the other Purchased Property and in the proceeds thereof. The Seller shall deliver (or cause to be delivered) to CARI file-stamped copies of, or filing receipts for, any document filed as provided above, as soon as available following such filing, and the Seller hereby authorizes CARI and its assigns to file all such financing statements without its signature.

(b) Name Change. The Seller shall not change its State of incorporation or its name, identity or entity structure in any manner that would, could or might make any financing statement or continuation statement filed by the Seller, CARI or CARI’s assigns in accordance with Section 5.02(a) seriously misleading within the meaning of the UCC, unless it shall give CARI written notice thereof within ten (10) days of such change.

 

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(c) Executive Office; Maintenance of Offices. The Seller shall give CARI written notice within ten (10) days of any relocation of its principal executive office if, as a result of such relocation, the applicable provisions of the UCC would require the filing of any amendment of any previously filed financing or continuation statement or of any new financing statement. The Seller shall at all times maintain each office from which it originates Receivables and its principal executive office within the United States of America.

(d) New Debtor. In the event that the Seller shall change the jurisdiction in which it is formed or otherwise enter into any transaction which would result in a “new debtor” (as defined in the UCC) succeeding to the obligations of the Seller hereunder, the Seller shall comply fully with the obligations of Section 5.02(a).

SECTION 5.03 Other Liens or Interests. Except for the conveyances hereunder and under the First Step Receivables Assignments and as contemplated by the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, the Seller shall not sell, pledge, assign or transfer the Receivables or other Purchased Property to any other Person, or grant, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien on any interest therein, and the Seller shall defend the right, title and interest of CARI in, to and under such Receivables or other Purchased Property against all claims of third parties claiming through or under the Seller.

SECTION 5.04 Repurchase Events. By its execution of the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements to which it is a party, the Seller shall acknowledge the assignment by CARI of such of its right, title and interest in, to and under this Agreement and the First Step Receivables Assignments to the Issuing Entity as shall be provided in the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements. The Seller hereby covenants and agrees with CARI for the benefit of CARI and the Interested Parties that in the event of a breach of any of the Seller’s representations and warranties contained in Section 4.01 hereof with respect to any Receivable (a “Repurchase Event”), the Seller will repurchase such Receivable from the Issuing Entity (if the Issuing Entity is then the Owner of such Receivable) on the date and for the amount specified in the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, without further notice from CARI hereunder. Upon the occurrence of a Repurchase Event with respect to a Receivable for which CARI is the Owner, the Seller agrees to repurchase such Receivable from CARI for an amount and upon the same terms as the Seller would be obligated to repurchase such Receivable from the Issuing Entity if the Issuing Entity was then the Owner thereof, and upon payment of such amount, the Seller shall have such rights with respect to such Receivable as if the Seller had purchased such Receivable from the Issuing Entity as the Owner thereof. It is understood and agreed that the obligation of the Seller to repurchase any Receivable as to which a breach has occurred and is continuing shall, if such obligation is fulfilled, constitute the sole remedy against the Seller for such breach available to CARI or any Interested Party.

SECTION 5.05 Indemnification. The Seller shall indemnify CARI for any liability as a result of the failure of a Receivable to be originated in compliance with all requirements of law. This indemnity obligation shall be in addition to any obligation that the Seller may otherwise have.

 

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SECTION 5.06 Further Assignments. The Seller acknowledges that CARI may, pursuant to the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, sell the Receivables to the Issuing Entity and assign its rights hereunder and under the First Step Receivables Assignments to the Issuing Entity, subject to the terms and conditions of the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, and that the Issuing Entity may in turn further pledge, assign or transfer its rights in the Receivables and this Agreement and the First Step Receivables Assignments. The Seller further acknowledges that CARI may assign its rights under the Custodian Agreement to the Issuing Entity.

SECTION 5.07 Pre-Closing Collections. Within two (2) Business Days after the Initial Closing Date and each Subsequent Closing Date, the Seller shall transfer to the account or accounts designated by CARI (or by the Issuing Entity under the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements) all collections on the Receivables held by the Seller on the Initial Closing Date or Subsequent Closing Date, as applicable, and conveyed to CARI pursuant to Section 2.01; provided that so long as the Monthly Remittance Conditions are satisfied, such collections need not be transferred until the first Distribution Date.

ARTICLE VI

CONDITIONS

SECTION 6.01 Conditions to Obligation of CARI. The obligation of CARI to purchase the Receivables hereunder and pursuant to the First Step Receivables Assignments is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions:

(a) Representations and Warranties True. The representations and warranties of each of the Seller and the Servicer hereunder shall be true and correct at the time of the Initial Closing Date and each Subsequent Closing Date with the same effect as if then made, and each of the Seller and Servicer shall have performed all obligations to be performed by it hereunder on or prior to the Initial Closing Date and each Subsequent Closing Date.

(b) No Repurchase Event. No Repurchase Event shall have occurred on or prior to the Initial Closing Date and each Subsequent Closing Date.

(c) Computer Files Marked. The Seller shall have or shall have caused to have, at its own expense, on or prior to the Initial Closing Date and each Subsequent Closing Date, indicated in its computer files created in connection with the Receivables that the Receivables have been sold to CARI pursuant to this Agreement and the First Step Receivables Assignments and deliver to CARI the Schedule of Initial Receivables or Schedule of Additional Receivables, as applicable, certified by an officer of the Seller to be true, correct and complete.

(d) Documents to be Delivered By the Seller.

(i) The Assignments. On the Initial Closing Date, the Seller shall execute and deliver the First Step Initial Receivables Assignment and on each Subsequent Closing Date, the Seller shall execute and deliver the First Step Additional Receivables Assignment.

(ii) Evidence of UCC Filing. On or prior to the Initial Closing Date, the Seller shall record and file, at its own expense, a UCC-1 financing statement in each jurisdiction in which required by applicable law, authorized by and naming the Seller as seller or

 

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debtor, naming CARI as purchaser or secured party, naming the Receivables and the other Purchased Property as collateral, meeting the requirements of the laws of each such jurisdiction and in such manner as is necessary to perfect the sale, transfer, assignment and conveyance of such Receivables to CARI. The Seller shall deliver a file-stamped copy, or other evidence satisfactory to CARI of such filing, to CARI on or prior to the Initial Closing Date.

(iii) Other Documents. On the Initial Closing Date and on each Subsequent Closing Date the Seller shall provide such other documents as CARI may reasonably request.

(e) Other Transactions. The transactions contemplated by the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements shall be consummated to the extent that such transactions are intended to be substantially contemporaneous with the transactions hereunder.

(f) Conditions to the Purchase of Additional Receivables. In addition to the conditions set forth in this Section 6.01, the obligation of CARI to purchase Additional Receivables hereunder and pursuant to the related First Step Additional Receivables Assignment is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions:

(i) No Adverse Selection Procedures. No selection procedures believed by the Seller to be adverse to the interests of CARI, the Issuing Entity, the Noteholders or the Certificateholders shall have been utilized in selecting the Additional Receivables.

(ii) No Material Tax Consequences. The addition of the Additional Receivables will not result in a material adverse tax consequence to CARI, the Issuing Entity, the Noteholders or the Certificateholders.

(iii) Conditions Satisfied. All the conditions to the transfer of the Additional Receivables from CARI to the Issuing Entity specified in Section 2.07 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement shall have been satisfied.

SECTION 6.02 Conditions to Obligation of the Seller. The obligation of the Seller to sell the Receivables to CARI hereunder or pursuant to the related First Step Receivables Assignment is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions:

(a) Representations and Warranties True. The representations and warranties of CARI hereunder shall be true and correct as of the Initial Closing Date with respect to the Initial Receivables and as of the Subsequent Closing Date with respect to the Additional Receivables with the same effect as if then made, and CARI shall have performed all obligations to be performed by it hereunder or pursuant to the First Step Receivables Assignments on or prior to the closing hereunder.

(b) Receivables Purchase Price. On the Initial Closing Date, CARI shall pay to the Seller that portion of the Initial Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance and on each Subsequent Closing Date, CARI shall pay the Seller that portion of the Aggregate Additional Receivables Principal Balance, in each case, as provided in Section 2.02.

 

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ARTICLE VII

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

SECTION 7.01 Amendment. This Agreement may be amended from time to time (subject to any expressly applicable amendment provision of the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements) by a written amendment duly executed and delivered by the Seller, the Servicer and CARI.

SECTION 7.02 Survival. The representations and warranties of the Seller and the Servicer set forth in Articles IV and V of this Agreement and of Servicer set forth in Section 3.06 of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and shall survive the Initial Closing Date and each Subsequent Closing Date under Section 2.03 hereof and the closing under the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements.

SECTION 7.03 Notices. All demands, notices and communications upon or to the Seller or CARI under this Agreement shall be delivered as specified in Part III of Appendix A to this Agreement.

SECTION 7.04 Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE FIRST STEP RECEIVABLES ASSIGNMENTS SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS THEREOF OR OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 AND SECTION 5-1402 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

SECTION 7.05 Waivers. No failure or delay on the part of CARI in exercising any power, right or remedy under this Agreement or the First Step Receivables Assignments shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such power, right or remedy preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other power, right or remedy.

SECTION 7.06 Costs and Expenses. The Seller agrees to pay all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses of CARI, including fees and expenses of counsel, in connection with the perfection as against third parties of CARI’s right, title and interest in, to and under the Receivables and the enforcement of any obligation of the Seller hereunder.

SECTION 7.07 Confidential Information. CARI agrees that it shall neither use nor disclose to any person the names and addresses of the Obligors, except in connection with the enforcement of CARI’s rights hereunder, under the Receivables, under the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements or as required by law.

SECTION 7.08 Headings. The headings of the various Articles and Sections herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.

 

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SECTION 7.09 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts and by different parties on separate counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

SECTION 7.10 No Petition Covenant. Notwithstanding any prior termination of this Agreement, the Seller shall not, prior to the date which is one year and one day after the final distribution with respect to the Notes to the Note Distribution Account or, with respect to the Certificates, to the Certificateholder or the Certificate Distribution Account, acquiesce, petition or otherwise invoke or cause CARI or the Issuing Entity to invoke the process of any court or government authority for the purpose of commencing or sustaining a case against CARI or the Issuing Entity under any federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official of CARI or the Issuing Entity or any substantial part of the property of either of them, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of CARI or the Issuing Entity under any federal or State bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding.

SECTION 7.11 Limitations on Rights of Others. The provisions of this Agreement and the First Step Receivables Assignments are solely for the benefit of the Seller, the Servicer and CARI and, to the extent expressly provided herein, the Interested Parties, and nothing in this Agreement, whether express or implied, shall be construed to give to any other Person any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim in, under, or in respect of this Agreement or any covenants, conditions or provisions contained herein.

SECTION 7.12 Merger and Consolidation of the Seller, the Servicer or CARI. Any corporation, limited liability company or other entity (i) into which any of the Seller, the Servicer or CARI may be merged or consolidated, (ii) resulting from any merger or consolidation to which any of the Seller, the Servicer or CARI shall be a party, (iii) succeeding to the business of any of the Seller, the Servicer or CARI or (iv) 25% or more of the voting stock (or, if not a corporation, other voting interests) of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by General Motors or Ally Financial, which corporation, limited liability company or other entity in any of the foregoing cases executes an agreement of assumption to perform every obligation of the Seller, the Servicer or CARI (as applicable) under this Agreement and the other Basic Documents, shall be the successor to the Seller, the Servicer or CARI (as applicable) under this Agreement without the execution or filing of any document or any further act on the part of any of the parties to this Agreement.

SECTION 7.13 Assignment. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, this Agreement may be assigned by the Seller, the Servicer or CARI without the consent of any other Person to a corporation, limited liability company or other entity that is a successor (by merger, consolidation or purchase of assets) to the Seller, the Servicer or CARI (as applicable), or 25% or more of the voting interests of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by General Motors or by Ally Financial, provided that the assignee of CARI executes an agreement of assumption, as provided in Section 3.03(a) or 6.02 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers as of the day and year first above written.

 

ALLY FINANCIAL INC.
By:   /s/ M. T. St. Charles
  Name: M. T. St. Charles
  Title:   Assistant Treasurer
CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES LLC
By:   /s/ R. C. Farris
  Name: R. C. Farris
  Title:   Vice President

Pooling and Servicing Agreement (CARAT 2013-3)


EXHIBIT A

FORM OF

FIRST STEP INITIAL RECEIVABLES ASSIGNMENT

PURSUANT TO THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT

For value received, in accordance with the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated as of August 21, 2013 (the “Pooling and Servicing Agreement”), between Ally Financial Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Seller” and the “Servicer”), and Capital Auto Receivables LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“CARI”), the Seller does hereby sell, assign, transfer and otherwise convey unto CARI, without recourse, as of August 21, 2013, (i) all right, title and interest of the Seller in, to and under the Initial Receivables listed on the Schedule of Initial Receivables attached as Schedule A hereto and all monies received thereon on and after the Initial Cutoff Date, exclusive of any amounts allocable to the premium for physical damage collateral protection insurance required by the Seller or the Servicer covering any related Financed Vehicle; (ii) the interest of the Seller in the security interests in the Financed Vehicles granted by Obligors pursuant to the Initial Receivables and, to the extent permitted by law, any accessions thereto; (iii) the interest of the Seller in any proceeds from claims on any physical damage, credit life, credit disability or other insurance policies covering the related Financed Vehicles or Obligors; (iv) the interest of the Seller in any proceeds from recourse against Dealers on the Initial Receivables; and (v) all right, title and interest of the Seller in, to and under the First Step Initial Receivables Assignment; (vi) the right to purchase Additional Receivables during the Revolving Period at a price equal to the Aggregate Additional Receivables Principal Balance on each applicable Distribution Date; and (vii) all present and future claims, demands, causes and choses in action in respect of any or all the foregoing described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), and (v) above and all payments on or under and all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in respect of any or all the foregoing, including all proceeds of the conversion of any or all of the foregoing, voluntary or involuntary, into cash or other liquid property, all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes, drafts, acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit accounts, insurance proceeds, investment property, payment intangibles, general intangibles, condemnation awards, rights to payment of any and every kind and other forms of obligations and receivables, instruments and other property which at any time constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the foregoing.

It is the intention of the Seller and CARI that the sale, transfer, assignment and other conveyances of the Initial Receivables contemplated by the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and this First Step Initial Receivables Assignment shall constitute a sale of the Initial Receivables from the Seller to CARI and the beneficial interest in and title to the Initial Receivables shall not be part of the Seller’s estate in the event of the filing of a bankruptcy petition by or against the Seller under any bankruptcy law.

The foregoing sale, transfer, assignment and other conveyances of the Initial Receivables contemplated by the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and this First Step Initial Receivables Assignment do not constitute and are not intended to result in the creation of or an assumption by CARI of any obligation of the undersigned to the Obligors, Dealers, insurers or any other Person in connection with the Initial Receivables, any Dealer Agreements, any insurance policies or any other agreement or instrument relating to any of them.

 

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This First Step Initial Receivables Assignment is made pursuant to and upon the representations, warranties and agreements on the part of the undersigned contained in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and is to be governed by the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning assigned to them in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

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Ex. A-2


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this First Step Initial Receivables Assignment to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.

 

ALLY FINANCIAL INC.
By:    

Name:

Title:

 

 

Ex. A-3


EXHIBIT B

FORM OF

FIRST STEP ADDITIONAL RECEIVABLES ASSIGNMENT

PURSUANT TO THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT

For value received, in accordance with the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated as of August 21, 2013 (the “Pooling and Servicing Agreement”), between Ally Financial Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Seller” and the “Servicer”), and Capital Auto Receivables LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“CARI”), the Seller does hereby sell, assign, transfer and otherwise convey unto CARI, without recourse, as of [            ], 20[    ], (i) all right, title and interest of the Seller in, to and under the Additional Receivables listed on the Schedule of Additional Receivables attached as Schedule A hereto and all monies received thereon on and after the related Subsequent Cutoff Date, exclusive of any amounts allocable to the premium for physical damage collateral protection insurance required by the Seller covering any related Financed Vehicle; (ii) the interest of the Seller or the Servicer in the security interests in the Financed Vehicles granted by Obligors pursuant to the Additional Receivables and, to the extent permitted by law, any accessions thereto; (iii) the interest of the Seller in any proceeds from claims on any physical damage, credit life, credit disability or other insurance policies covering the related Financed Vehicles or Obligors; (iv) the interest of the Seller in any proceeds from recourse against Dealers on the Additional Receivables; (v) all right, title and interest of the Seller in, to and under the First Step Additional Receivables Assignment; and (vi) all present and future claims, demands, causes and choses in action in respect of any or all the foregoing described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), and (v) above and all payments on or under and all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in respect of any or all the foregoing, including all proceeds of the conversion of any or all of the foregoing, voluntary or involuntary, into cash or other liquid property, all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes, drafts, acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit accounts, insurance proceeds, investment property, payment intangible, general intangibles, condemnation awards, rights to payment of any and every kind and other forms of obligations and receivables, instruments and other property which at any time constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the foregoing.

It is the intention of the Seller and CARI that the sale, transfer, assignment and other conveyances of the Additional Receivables contemplated by the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and this First Step Additional Receivables Assignment shall constitute a sale of the Additional Receivables from the Seller to CARI and the beneficial interest in and title to the Additional Receivables shall not be part of the Seller’s estate in the event of the filing of a bankruptcy petition by or against the Seller under any bankruptcy law.

The foregoing sale, transfer, assignment and other conveyances of the Additional Receivables contemplated by the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and this First Step Additional Receivables Assignment do not constitute and are not intended to result in the creation of or an assumption by CARI of any obligation of the undersigned to the Obligors, Dealers, insurers or any other Person in connection with the Additional Receivables, any Dealer Agreements, any insurance policies or any other agreement or instrument relating to any of them.

 

Ex. B-1


This First Step Additional Receivables Assignment is made pursuant to and upon the representations, warranties and agreements on the part of the undersigned contained in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and is to be governed by the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

The Seller hereby represents that as of the Subsequent Cutoff Date the Aggregate Additional Receivables Principal Balance of the Additional Receivables conveyed hereby was $[            ].

The Seller and CARI hereby acknowledge that the Aggregate Additional Receivables Principal Balance for the Additional Receivables assigned hereunder is $[            ].

Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

* * * * *

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this First Step Additional Receivables Assignment to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.

 

ALLY FINANCIAL INC.
By:    

Name:

Title:

 

 

Ex. B-2


SCHEDULE A

SCHEDULE OF RECEIVABLES

The Schedule of Initial Receivables is, and the Schedule of

Additional Receivables will be, on file at the offices of:

 

1. The Indenture Trustee

 

2. The Owner Trustee

 

3. The Servicer

 

4. The Seller

 

5. Capital Auto Receivables LLC

 

Sch. A


APPENDIX A

Part I

For ease of reference, capitalized terms defined herein have been consolidated with and are contained in Part I of Appendix A to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement of even date herewith among Ally Financial Inc., CARI and Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3, as amended and supplemented from time to time.

Part II

For ease of reference, the rules of construction have been consolidated with and are contained in Part II of Appendix A to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement of even date herewith among Ally Financial Inc., CARI and Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3, as amended and supplemented from time to time.

Part III

For ease of reference, the notice addresses and procedures have been consolidated with and are contained in Appendix B to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement of even date herewith among Ally Financial Inc., CARI and Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3, as amended and supplemented from time to time.

 

App. A


APPENDIX B

Additional Representations and Warranties

 

1. While it is the intention of the Seller and CARI that the transfer and assignment contemplated by this Agreement and the First Step Receivables Assignment shall constitute sales of the Purchased Property from the Seller to CARI, this Agreement, the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Indenture create a valid and continuing security interest (as defined in the applicable UCC) in the Purchased Property in favor of CARI, the Trust and the Indenture Trustee, as applicable, which security interest is prior to all other Liens, and is enforceable as such as against creditors of and purchasers from the Seller, CARI and the Issuing Entity, respectively.

 

2. All steps necessary to perfect the Seller’s security interest against each Obligor in the property securing the Purchased Property have been taken.

 

3. Prior to the sale of the Purchased Property to CARI under this Agreement, the Receivables constitute “tangible chattel paper” within the meaning of the applicable UCC.

 

4. The Seller owns and has good and marketable title to the Purchased Property free and clear of any Lien, claim or encumbrance of any Person.

 

5. The Seller has caused or will have caused, within ten (10) days, the filing of all appropriate financing statements in the proper filing office in the appropriate jurisdictions under applicable law in order to perfect the security interest in the Purchased Property granted to CARI hereunder, the Issuing Entity under the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture.

 

6. Other than the security interest granted to CARI pursuant to the Basic Documents, the Issuing Entity under the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture none of the Seller, CARI or the Issuing Entity has pledged, assigned, sold, granted a security interest in, or otherwise conveyed any of the Purchased Property. None of the Seller, CARI or the Issuing Entity has authorized the filing of, nor is the Seller aware of, any financing statements against the Seller, CARI or the Issuing Entity that include a description of collateral covering the Purchased Property other than the financing statements relating to the security interests granted to CARI, the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee under the Basic Documents or any financing statement that has been terminated. The Seller is not aware of any judgment or tax lien filings against the Seller, CARI or the Issuing Entity.

 

7. The Custodian has in its possession or with third party vendors all original copies of the Receivables Files and other documents that constitute or evidence the Receivables and the Purchased Property. The Receivables Files and other documents that constitute or evidence the Purchased Property do not have any marks or notations indicating that they have been pledged, assigned or otherwise conveyed to any Person other than CARI. All financing statements filed or to be filed against the Seller in favor of CARI in connection herewith describing the Receivables contain a statement to the following effect: “A purchase of or security interest in any collateral described in this financing statement will violate the rights of CARI.”

 

App. B

EX-99.1 5 d585410dex991.htm TRUST SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement

EXHIBIT 99.1

 

 

 

TRUST SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT

AMONG

ALLY FINANCIAL INC.

SERVICER, CUSTODIAN AND SELLER

CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES LLC

DEPOSITOR

AND

CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET TRUST 2013-3

ISSUING ENTITY

DATED AS OF AUGUST 21, 2013

 

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

       Page   
ARTICLE I CERTAIN DEFINITIONS      1   

Section 1.01

  Definitions      1   
ARTICLE II CONVEYANCE OF RECEIVABLES; ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES      2   

Section 2.01

  Conveyance of Receivables      2   

Section 2.02

  Custody of Receivable Files      4   

Section 2.03

  Acceptance by Issuing Entity      4   

Section 2.04

  Representations and Warranties as to the Receivables      5   

Section 2.05

  Repurchase of Receivables Upon Breach of Warranty      5   

Section 2.06

  Realization Upon Liquidating Receivables      5   

Section 2.07

  Conditions to Sales of Additional Receivables      6   
ARTICLE III THE DEPOSITOR      8   

Section 3.01

  Representations of the Depositor      8   

Section 3.02

  Liability of the Depositor      10   

Section 3.03

  Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption of the Obligations of the Depositor; Amendment of Limited Liability Company Agreement      10   

Section 3.04

  Limitation on Liability of the Depositor and Others      11   

Section 3.05

  The Depositor May Own Notes or Certificates      11   
ARTICLE IV SERVICER’S COVENANTS; DISTRIBUTIONS; RESERVE ACCOUNT; STATEMENTS TO NOTEHOLDERS AND CERTIFICATEHOLDERS      11   

Section 4.01

  Annual Statement as to Compliance; Notice of Servicer Default      11   

Section 4.02

  Annual Report of Assessment of Compliance with Servicing Criteria      12   

Section 4.03

  Access to Certain Documentation and Information Regarding the Receivables      13   

Section 4.04

  Amendments to Schedule of Receivables      13   

Section 4.05

  Assignment of Administrative Receivables and Warranty Receivables      13   

Section 4.06

  Distributions      14   

Section 4.07

  Reserve Account      18   

Section 4.08

  Net Deposits      19   

Section 4.09

  Statements to Securityholders      19   
ARTICLE V CERTIFICATEHOLDER AND NOTEHOLDER STATEMENTS AND ACCOUNTS; COLLECTIONS, DEPOSITS AND INVESTMENTS      21   

Section 5.01

  Establishment of Accounts      21   

Section 5.02

  Collections      24   

Section 5.03

  Investment Earnings and Supplemental Servicing Fees      25   

Section 5.04

  [Reserved]      25   

Section 5.05

  Additional Deposits      25   
ARTICLE VI LIABILITIES OF SERVICER AND OTHERS      25   

Section 6.01

  Liability of Servicer; Indemnities      25   

Section 6.02

  Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption of the Obligations of the Servicer      26   

Section 6.03

  Limitation on Liability of Servicer and Others      27   

Section 6.04

  Delegation of Duties      28   

Section 6.05

  Servicer Not to Resign      28   
ARTICLE VII DEFAULT      28   

Section 7.01

  Servicer Defaults      28   

Section 7.02

  Consequences of a Servicer Default      29   

 

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Section 7.03

  Indenture Trustee to Act; Appointment of Successor      30   

Section 7.04

  Notification to Noteholders and Certificateholders      30   

Section 7.05

  Waiver of Past Defaults      30   
ARTICLE VIII TERMINATION      31   

Section 8.01

  Optional Purchase of All Receivables; Insolvency of the Depositor; Termination of Trust      31   
ARTICLE IX MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS      33   

Section 9.01

  Amendment      33   

Section 9.02

  Protection of Title to Trust      35   

Section 9.03

  Notices      37   

Section 9.04

  GOVERNING LAW      37   

Section 9.05

  Severability of Provisions      37   

Section 9.06

  Assignment      37   

Section 9.07

  Third-Party Beneficiaries      37   

Section 9.08

  Separate Counterparts      38   

Section 9.09

  Headings and Cross-References      38   

Section 9.10

  Assignment to Indenture Trustee      38   

Section 9.11

  No Petition Covenants      38   

Section 9.12

  Limitation of Liability of Indenture Trustee and Owner Trustee      38   

Section 9.13

  Tax Treatment      39   

Section 9.14

  Furnishing Documents      39   

Section 9.15

  Information to Be Provided by the Indenture Trustee      39   

 

EXHIBIT A

   Schedule of Receivables

EXHIBIT B

   Form of Second Step Initial Receivables Assignment

EXHIBIT C

   Form of Second Step Additional Receivables Assignment

EXHIBIT D

   Form of Officer’s Certificate

EXHIBIT E

   Additional Representations and Warranties

APPENDIX A

   Definitions and Rules of Construction

APPENDIX B

   Notices Addresses and Procedures

 

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THIS TRUST SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT is made as of August 21, 2013 by and among ALLY FINANCIAL INC., a Delaware corporation (generally, “Ally Financial”, and in its capacity as seller of the Receivables specified in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement described below, the “Seller”, in its capacity as Custodian under the Custodian Agreement, the “Custodian” and in its capacity as Servicer under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement described below, the “Servicer”), CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Depositor”), and CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET TRUST 2013-3, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Issuing Entity”).

WHEREAS, on the Initial Closing Date, the Seller has sold the Initial Receivables and from time to time thereafter on each Subsequent Closing Date will sell Additional Receivables to the Depositor;

WHEREAS, the Servicer has agreed to service the Receivables pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement;

WHEREAS, the Depositor desires to sell the Initial Receivables to the Issuing Entity on the Initial Closing Date and the Additional Receivables on each Subsequent Closing Date relating to the Revolving Period in exchange for the Notes and Certificates pursuant to the terms of this Agreement;

WHEREAS, the Servicer desires to perform the servicing obligations set forth herein for and in consideration of the fees and other benefits set forth in this Agreement and in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement; and

WHEREAS, the Depositor and the Issuing Entity wish to set forth the terms pursuant to which the Receivables are to be sold by the Depositor to the Issuing Entity and serviced by the Servicer.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing, the other good and valuable consideration and the mutual terms and covenants contained herein, the parties hereto agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

Section 1.01 Definitions. Certain capitalized terms used in the above recitals and in this Agreement are defined in and shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in Part I of Appendix A to this Agreement. All references herein to “the Agreement” or “this Agreement” are to this Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement as it may be amended, supplemented or modified from time to time, the exhibits hereto and the capitalized terms used herein which are defined in such Appendix A, and all references herein to Articles, Sections and subsections are to Articles, Sections or subsections of this Agreement unless otherwise specified. The rules of construction set forth in Part II of such Appendix A shall be applicable to this Agreement.


ARTICLE II

CONVEYANCE OF RECEIVABLES; ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES

Section 2.01 Conveyance of Receivables.

(a) Initial Receivables. In consideration of the Issuing Entity’s delivery of the Notes and the Certificates to, or upon the order of, the Depositor, the Depositor does hereby enter into this Agreement and the related Second Step Initial Receivables Assignment in the form attached as Exhibit B to this Agreement (the “Second Step Initial Receivables Assignment”) and agrees to fulfill all of its obligations hereunder and thereunder and to sell, transfer, assign and otherwise convey to the Issuing Entity, without recourse:

(i) all right, title and interest of the Depositor in, to and under the Initial Receivables listed on the Schedule of Initial Receivables and all monies received thereon on and after the Initial Cutoff Date, exclusive of any amounts allocable to the premium for physical damage collateral protection insurance required by the Servicer or the Seller covering any related Financed Vehicle;

(ii) the interest of the Depositor in the security interests in the Financed Vehicles granted by Obligors pursuant to the Initial Receivables and, to the extent permitted by law, any accessions thereto;

(iii) the interest of the Depositor in any proceeds from claims on any physical damage, credit life, credit disability or other insurance policies covering the related Financed Vehicles or Obligors;

(iv) the interest of the Depositor in any proceeds from recourse against Dealers on the Initial Receivables;

(v) all right, title and interest of the Depositor in, to and under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the First Step Receivables Assignments and the Custodian Agreement, including the right of the Depositor to cause the Seller or the Servicer to repurchase Receivables under certain circumstances;

(vi) the right to purchase Additional Receivables during the Revolving Period at a price equal to the Aggregate Additional Receivables Principal Balance of such Additional Receivables as of each Distribution Date; and

(vii) all present and future claims, demands, causes and choses in action in respect of any or all of the foregoing described in clauses (i) through (vi) above and all payments on or under and all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in respect of any or all of the foregoing, including all proceeds of the conversion of any or all of the foregoing, voluntary or involuntary, into cash or other liquid property, all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes, drafts, acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit accounts, insurance proceeds, investment property, payment intangibles, general intangibles, condemnation awards, rights to payment of any and every kind and other forms of obligations and receivables, instruments and other property which at any time constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the foregoing.

 

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(b) Additional Receivables. On each Distribution Date during the Revolving Period, the Depositor shall purchase from the Seller and sell to the Issuing Entity Additional Receivables in an amount approximately equal to (but not greater than) the amount of funds deposited on such Distribution Date in the Accumulation Account pursuant to clauses (vii) and (ix) of Section 4.06(c) of this Agreement. Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 2.07, in consideration of the Issuing Entity’s delivery on or prior to any Subsequent Closing Date to the Depositor of an amount equal to the Aggregate Additional Receivables Principal Balance for such date, on each Subsequent Closing Date the Depositor shall, pursuant to this Agreement and the related Second Step Additional Receivables Assignment in the form attached as Exhibit C to this Agreement (the “Second Step Additional Receivables Assignment” and together with the Second Step Initial Receivables Assignment, the “Second Step Receivables Assignments”), sell, transfer, assign and otherwise convey to the Issuing Entity, without recourse:

(i) all right, title and interest of the Depositor in, to and under the Additional Receivables listed on the Schedule of Additional Receivables delivered on or prior to the related Subsequent Closing Date and all monies received thereon on and after the related Subsequent Cutoff Date, exclusive of any amounts allocable to the premium for physical damage collateral protection insurance required by the Servicer or the Seller covering any related Financed Vehicle;

(ii) the interest of the Depositor in the security interests in the Financed Vehicles granted by Obligors pursuant to the Additional Receivables and, to the extent permitted by law, any accessions thereto;

(iii) the interest of the Depositor in any proceeds from claims on any physical damage, credit life, credit disability or other insurance policies covering the related Financed Vehicles or Obligors;

(iv) the interest of the Depositor in any proceeds from recourse against Dealers on the Additional Receivables;

(v) all right, title and interest of the Depositor in, to and under the First Step Additional Receivables Assignments; and

(vi) all present and future claims, demands, causes and choses in action in respect of any or all of the foregoing described in clauses (i) through (v) above and all payments on or under and all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in respect of any or all of the foregoing, including all proceeds of the conversion of any or all of the foregoing, voluntary or involuntary, into cash or other liquid property, all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes, drafts, acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit accounts, insurance proceeds, investment property, payment intangibles, general intangibles, condemnation awards, rights to payment of any and every kind and other forms of obligations and receivables, instruments and other property which at any time constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the foregoing.

 

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(c) It is the intention of the Depositor and the Issuing Entity that the transfers and assignments contemplated by this Agreement and the Second Step Receivables Assignments shall constitute sales of the Receivables from the Depositor to the Issuing Entity for the purpose of applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other similar laws, so that the beneficial interest in and title to the Receivables shall not be part of the Depositor’s estate in the event of the filing of a bankruptcy petition by or against the Depositor under any bankruptcy law.

(d) The foregoing sales, transfers, assignments and other conveyances do not constitute and are not intended to result in the creation of or an assumption by the Issuing Entity of any obligation of the Servicer, the Depositor or any other Person to the Obligors, Dealers, insurers or any other Person in connection with the Receivables, any Dealer Agreements, any insurance policies or any other agreement or instrument relating to any of them.

(e) Within two (2) Business Days after the Initial Closing Date, with respect to the Initial Receivables, and within two (2) Business Days after each related Subsequent Closing Date, with respect to the Additional Receivables, the Servicer shall cause to be deposited into the Collection Account the collections on the Receivables described in Section 5.07 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement; provided, however, that so long as the Monthly Remittance Conditions are satisfied, such collections need not be deposited until the Distribution Date immediately following the Initial Closing Date or Subsequent Closing Date, as applicable. The Issuing Entity shall retain in the Accumulation Account any funds deposited therein on a Distribution Date which are not used pursuant to Section 2.01(b) above to purchase Additional Receivables.

Section 2.02 Custody of Receivable Files. In connection with the sale, transfer and assignment of the Receivables to the Issuing Entity pursuant to this Agreement and the Second Step Receivables Assignments, the Custodian, under the Custodian Agreement, agrees to act as Custodian thereunder for the benefit of the Issuing Entity. The Issuing Entity hereby accepts and agrees to the terms and provisions of the Custodian Agreement and designates Ally Financial as the custodian with respect to the Receivables Files.

Section 2.03 Acceptance by Issuing Entity. The Issuing Entity does hereby accept all consideration conveyed by the Depositor pursuant to Section 2.01(a) and shall accept all consideration to be conveyed pursuant to Section 2.01(b), and declares that the Issuing Entity shall hold such consideration upon the trust set forth in the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the Certificateholders, subject to the terms and conditions of the Indenture, this Agreement and the Second Step Receivables Assignments and the rights of the Noteholders with respect thereto. The Issuing Entity hereby agrees to and accepts the appointment and authorization of Ally Financial as Servicer under Section 3.01 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. The parties agree that this Agreement, the Second Step Receivables Assignments, the Indenture, the Trust Agreement, the Notes and the Certificates constitute the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements for purposes of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and that the rights, duties and obligations of the Servicer under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement are subject to the provisions of Sections 6.02, 6.04, 6.05, 9.01 and Article VII hereof.

 

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Section 2.04 Representations and Warranties as to the Receivables. Pursuant to Section 2.01(a)(v), the Depositor assigns to the Issuing Entity all of its right, title and interest in, to and under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. Such assigned right, title and interest includes the benefit of representations and warranties of the Seller made to the Depositor pursuant to Section 4.01 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. The Depositor hereby represents and warrants to the Issuing Entity that the Depositor has taken no action which would cause such representations and warranties of the Seller to be false in any material respect as of the Initial Closing Date with respect to the Initial Receivables, and as of the related Subsequent Closing Date, with respect to the Additional Receivables. The Depositor further acknowledges that the Issuing Entity and its permitted assignees rely on the representations and warranties of the Depositor under this Agreement and of the Seller under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement in accepting the Receivables in trust and executing and delivering the Notes and the Certificates. The foregoing representation and warranty speaks as of the Initial Closing Date with respect to the Initial Receivables, and as of the related Subsequent Closing Date, with respect to the Additional Receivables, but shall survive the sale, transfer and assignment of the Receivables to the Issuing Entity and the pledge thereof to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Indenture.

Section 2.05 Repurchase of Receivables Upon Breach of Warranty. Upon discovery by the Seller, the Depositor, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee of a breach of any of the representations and warranties in Section 4.01 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement or in Section 2.04 or Section 3.01 of this Agreement that materially and adversely affects the interests of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders in any Receivable, the party discovering such breach shall give prompt written notice thereof to the others. As of the last day of the second Monthly Period following its discovery or its receipt of notice of such breach (or, at the Depositor’s election, the last day of the first Monthly Period following such discovery or receipt of notice), unless such breach shall have been cured in all material respects, in the event of a breach of the representations and warranties made by the Depositor in Section 2.04 or Section 3.01, the Depositor shall repurchase, or in the event of a breach of a representation and warranty under Section 4.01 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Depositor and the Servicer shall use reasonable efforts to enforce the obligation of the Seller under Section 5.04 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement to repurchase such Receivable from the Issuing Entity on the related Distribution Date. The repurchase price to be paid by the breaching party (the “Warranty Purchaser”) shall be an amount equal to the Warranty Payment calculated as of the last day of the related Monthly Period. It is understood and agreed that the obligation of the Warranty Purchaser to repurchase any Receivable as to which a breach has occurred and is continuing, and the obligation of the Depositor and the Servicer to enforce the Seller’s obligation to repurchase such Receivables pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement shall, if such obligations are fulfilled, constitute the sole remedy against the Depositor, the Servicer or the Seller for such breach available to the Issuing Entity, the Financial Parties, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee. The Servicer also acknowledges its obligations to repurchase Administrative Receivables from the Issuing Entity pursuant to Section 3.07 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

Section 2.06 Realization Upon Liquidating Receivables. The Servicer shall use reasonable efforts, consistent with its customary practices, policies and procedures, to repossess or otherwise comparably convert the ownership or gain control of any Financed Vehicle that it has reasonably determined should be repossessed or otherwise converted following a default

 

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under the Receivable secured by the Financed Vehicle. The Servicer is authorized to follow such customary practices, policies and procedures as it follows with respect to comparable motor vehicle related receivables that it services for itself or others, which customary practices, policies and procedures may include reasonable efforts to realize upon any recourse to Dealers, selling the related Financed Vehicle at public or private sale and the taking of other actions by the Servicer in order to realize upon such a Receivable. The Servicer is hereby authorized to exercise its discretion consistent with its customary practices, policies and procedures and the terms of this Agreement, in servicing Liquidating Receivables so as to maximize the net collections of those Liquidating Receivables, including the discretion to choose to sell or not to sell any of the Liquidating Receivables itself on behalf of the Depositor or any other Owner. The Servicer shall not be liable for any such exercise of its discretion made in good faith and in accordance with such servicing procedures. The foregoing is subject to the provision that, in any case in which the Financed Vehicle shall have suffered damage, the Servicer shall not expend funds in connection with any repair or towards the repossession of such Financed Vehicle unless it shall determine in its discretion and in accordance with such servicing procedures that such repair or repossession shall increase the proceeds of liquidation of the related Receivable by an amount greater than the amount of such expenses. The Servicer shall be entitled to receive Liquidation Expenses with respect to each Liquidating Receivable at such time as the Receivable becomes a Liquidating Receivable.

Section 2.07 Conditions to Sales of Additional Receivables. The Depositor shall sell, transfer, assign and otherwise convey to the Issuing Entity on each Subsequent Closing Date the Additional Receivables and the other property and rights related thereto described in Section 2.01(b) only upon the satisfaction of each of the following conditions on or prior to such Subsequent Closing Date:

(a) the Depositor shall have delivered to each of the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee a duly executed Second Step Additional Receivables Assignment, which shall include the Schedule of Additional Receivables;

(b) as of such Subsequent Closing Date: (i) the Depositor shall not be insolvent and shall not become insolvent as a result of the transfer of Additional Receivables on such Subsequent Closing Date, (ii) the Depositor shall not intend to incur or believe that it would incur debts that would be beyond the Depositor ability to pay as such debts matured, (iii) such transfer shall not be made by the Depositor with actual intent to hinder, delay or defraud any Person and (iv) the assets of the Depositor shall not constitute unreasonably small capital to carry out its business as conducted;

(c) each Additional Receivable (i) is secured by a Financed Vehicle, was originated in the United States by the Seller or one of its subsidiaries or a Dealer for the retail sale of a Financed Vehicle in the ordinary course of business, was fully and properly executed by the parties thereto, if not originated by the Seller, was purchased by the Seller from one of its subsidiaries or from such Dealer under an existing Dealer Agreement, and was validly assigned by such subsidiary or such Dealer to the Seller in accordance with its terms, (ii) will have created a valid, binding and enforceable first priority security interest in favor of the Seller in the Financed Vehicle, which security interest is assignable by the Seller to the Depositor, (iii) contains customary and enforceable provisions such as to render the rights and remedies of

 

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the holder thereof adequate for realization against the collateral of the benefits of the security, (iv) is a Simple Interest Receivable, (v) provides for level monthly payments (which may vary from one another by no more than $5) which shall amortize the Amount Financed by maturity and shall yield interest at the Annual Percentage Rate, (vi) has an original term of not less than twelve (12) months and not greater than eighty-four (84) months and a remaining term of not less than nine (9) months, (vii) as of the related Subsequent Cutoff Date, was not considered past due, that is, the payments due on that Additional Receivable in excess of $25 were no more than thirty (30) days delinquent, nor was a Liquidating Receivable, (viii) with respect to which at least one monthly payment has been made and (ix) following the addition of the Additional Receivables on each Subsequent Cutoff Date:

(i) the sum of the Amount Financed of each Cumulative Receivable as of such date that had an original term: (a) of 60 months or less, measured as of its date of origination, is at least 22.5% of the Aggregate Amount Financed of the Cumulative Receivables as of such date; (b) of between 73 months and 75 months, measured as of its date of origination, is not greater than 10.0% of the Aggregate Amount Financed of the Cumulative Receivables as of such date; and (c) in excess of 75 months, measured as of its date of origination, is not greater than 2.0% of the Aggregate Amount Financed of the Cumulative Receivables as of such date;

(ii) the sum of the Amount Financed of each Cumulative Receivable as of such date that was secured by used Financed Vehicles, measured as of the Applicable Cutoff Date for each such Cumulative Receivable, is not greater than 40.0% of the Aggregate Amount Financed of the Cumulative Receivables as of such dates;

(iii) the Weighted Average FICO Score of the Cumulative Receivables, measured as of the Applicable Cutoff Date, is 630 or greater;

(iv) the Weighted Average Loan-to-Value of the Cumulative Receivables, measured as of the Applicable Cutoff Date, is 110 or less;

(v) the Weighted Average Rate of the Cumulative Receivables, measured as of the Applicable Cutoff Date, is at least 7.8%;

(vi) the sum of the Amount Financed of each Cumulative Receivable with no FICO score or related to a business obligor, measured as of the Applicable Cutoff Date, is not greater than 10.0% of the Aggregate Amount Financed of the Cumulative Receivables; and

(vii) the sum of the Amount Financed of each Cumulative Receivable with a FICO score less than 580, measured as of the Applicable Cutoff Date, is not greater than 12.5% of the Aggregate Amount Financed of the Cumulative Receivables;

(d) the Revolving Period shall be in effect;

(e) each of the representations and warranties made by the Depositor pursuant to Section 3.01 of this Agreement and by the Seller pursuant to Sections 4.01 and 4.02 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, with respect to the Depositor, the Seller and the Additional Receivables, as applicable, shall be true and correct as of the date as of which such representations and warranties are made;

 

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(f) the Depositor shall, at its own expense, on or prior to the Subsequent Closing Date, indicate in its computer files that the Additional Receivables have been sold to the Issuing Entity pursuant to this Agreement and the related Second Step Additional Receivables Assignment and deliver to the Owner Trustee the related Schedule of Additional Receivables certified by an officer of the Depositor to be true, correct and complete;

(g) the Depositor shall have taken any action required to maintain the first priority perfected ownership interest of the Issuing Entity in the Trust Property and the first priority perfected security interest of the Indenture Trustee in the Collateral;

(h) no selection procedures believed by the Depositor to be adverse to the interests of the Issuing Entity, the Noteholders or the Certificateholders shall have been utilized in selecting the Additional Receivables;

(i) the addition of the Additional Receivables will not result in any material adverse tax consequences to the Issuing Entity, the Noteholders or the Certificateholders;

(j) the Depositor shall have delivered to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate confirming the satisfaction of each condition specified in this Section 2.07 substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D; and

(k) all the conditions to the transfer of the Additional Receivables by the Seller to the Depositor specified in Section 6.01 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement shall be satisfied.

ARTICLE III

THE DEPOSITOR

Section 3.01 Representations of the Depositor. The Depositor makes the following representations on which the Issuing Entity is relying in acquiring the Receivables and issuing the Notes and the Certificates. The representations in clause (a) speak as of the Initial Closing Date and each Subsequent Closing Date. The representations in clause (b) speak as of the Initial Closing Date with respect to the Initial Receivables, and as of the related Subsequent Closing Date, with respect to the Additional Receivables, but in either case, such representations shall survive the sale, transfer and assignment of the Receivables to the Issuing Entity.

(a) Representations and Warranties as to the Depositor.

(i) Organization and Good Standing. The Depositor has been duly formed and is validly existing as an entity in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with power and authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as such properties are presently owned and such business is presently conducted;

(ii) Due Qualification. The Depositor is duly qualified to do business as a foreign entity in good standing, and has obtained all necessary licenses and approvals in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification;

 

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(iii) Power and Authority. The Depositor has the power and authority to execute and deliver the Basic Documents to which it is a party and to carry out their terms, the Depositor had at all relevant times, and now has, power, authority and legal right to acquire and own the Receivables and has full power and authority to sell and assign the property to be sold and assigned to and deposited with the Issuing Entity as part of the Owner Trust Estate and has duly authorized such sale and assignment to the Issuing Entity by all necessary limited liability company action; and the execution, delivery and performance of the Basic Documents to which it is a party have been duly authorized by the Depositor by all necessary limited liability company action;

(iv) Valid Sale; Binding Obligations. This Agreement and the related Second Step Receivables Assignment, when duly executed and delivered, shall constitute a valid sale, transfer and assignment of the Receivables, enforceable against creditors of and purchasers from the Depositor; and the Basic Documents to which the Depositor is a party, when duly executed and delivered, shall constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Depositor enforceable in accordance with their terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights in general and by general principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law;

(v) No Violation. The consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Basic Documents to which the Depositor is a party and the fulfillment of the terms of the Basic Documents to which the Depositor is a party shall not conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the certificate of formation or limited liability company agreement of the Depositor, or any indenture, agreement or other instrument to which the Depositor is a party or by which it is bound, or result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any such indenture, agreement or other instrument, other than this Agreement and the related Second Step Receivables Assignment, or violate any law or, to the best of the Depositor’s knowledge, any order, rule or regulation applicable to the Depositor of any court or of any federal or State regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Depositor or any of its properties; and

(vi) No Proceedings. To the Depositor’s knowledge, there are no proceedings or investigations pending, or threatened, before any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other tribunal or governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Depositor or its properties (i) asserting the invalidity of any Basic Document, (ii) seeking to prevent the issuance of the Notes or the Certificates or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by any Basic Document, (iii) seeking any determination or ruling that might materially and adversely affect the performance by the Depositor of its obligations under, or the validity or enforceability of, any Basic Document or (iv) seeking to adversely affect the federal income tax attributes of the Notes or the Certificates.

 

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(b) Representations and Warranties as to the Receivables.

(i) Good Title. No Receivable has been sold, transferred, assigned or pledged by the Depositor to any Person other than the Issuing Entity; immediately prior to the conveyance of the Receivables pursuant to this Agreement and the Second Step Receivables Assignments, the Depositor had good and marketable title thereto, free of any Lien; and, upon execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Second Step Receivables Assignments by the Depositor, the Issuing Entity shall have all of the right, title and interest of the Depositor in, to and under the Receivables, the unpaid indebtedness evidenced thereby and the collateral security therefor, free of any Lien.

(ii) All Filings Made. All filings (including UCC filings) necessary in any jurisdiction to give the Issuing Entity a first priority perfected ownership interest in the Receivables shall have been made.

(iii) Additional Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties regarding creation, perfection and priority of security interests in the Receivables, which are attached to this Agreement as Exhibit E, are true and correct to the extent they are applicable.

Section 3.02 Liability of the Depositor. The Depositor shall be liable in accordance with this Agreement and the Second Step Receivables Assignments only to the extent of the obligations in this Agreement and the Second Step Receivables Assignments specifically undertaken by the Depositor.

Section 3.03 Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption of the Obligations of the Depositor; Amendment of Limited Liability Company Agreement.

(a) Any corporation, limited liability company or other entity (i) into which the Depositor may be merged or consolidated, (ii) resulting from any merger or consolidation to which the Depositor shall be a party, (iii) succeeding to the business of the Depositor, or (iv) 25% or more of the voting stock (or, if not a corporation, other voting interests) of which is owned directly or indirectly by General Motors or Ally Financial, which corporation, limited liability company or other entity in any of the foregoing cases executes an agreement of assumption to perform every obligation of the Depositor under this Agreement and the other Basic Documents to which it is a party, shall be the successor to the Depositor under this Agreement without the execution or filing of any document or any further act on the part of any of the parties to this Agreement. The Depositor shall provide ten (10) days prior notice of any merger, consolidation or succession pursuant to this Section 3.03 to the Rating Agencies.

(b) The Depositor hereby agrees that during the term of this Agreement it shall not (i) take any action prohibited by Article Fourth or Article Eighth of its limited liability company agreement, (ii) without the prior written consent of the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee and without giving prior written notice to the Rating Agencies, amend Article Third, Fourth or Eighth of its limited liability company agreement or (iii) incur any indebtedness, or assume or guaranty indebtedness of any other entity, other than pursuant to the Intercompany Advance Agreement and any notes thereunder (without giving effect to any amendment to such Agreement after the date hereof, unless the Rating Agency Condition was satisfied in connection therewith), if such action would result in a downgrading of the then current rating of any class of the Notes.

 

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Section 3.04 Limitation on Liability of the Depositor and Others. The Depositor and any director or officer or employee or agent of the Depositor may rely in good faith on the advice of counsel or on any document of any kind prima facie properly executed and submitted by any Person respecting any matters arising under this Agreement and the Second Step Receivables Assignments. The Depositor and any director or officer or employee or agent of the Depositor shall be reimbursed by the Indenture Trustee or Owner Trustee, as applicable, for any contractual damages, liability or expense incurred by reason of such trustee’s willful misfeasance, bad faith or negligence (gross negligence in the case of the Owner Trustee) (except errors in judgment) in the performance of its duties under this Agreement, the Second Step Receivables Assignments, the Indenture or the Trust Agreement, or by reason of reckless disregard of its obligations and duties under this Agreement, the Second Step Receivables Assignments, the Indenture or the Trust Agreement. In no event, however, shall the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee be liable to the Depositor for any damages in the nature of special, indirect or consequential damages, however styled, including lost profits. The Depositor shall not be under any obligation to appear in, prosecute or defend any legal action that is not incidental to its obligations as the Depositor of the Receivables under this Agreement and the Second Step Receivables Assignments and that in its opinion may involve it in any expense or liability.

Section 3.05 The Depositor May Own Notes or Certificates. Each of the Depositor and any Person controlling, controlled by or under common control with the Depositor may in its individual or any other capacity become the owner or pledgee of Notes or Certificates with the same rights as it would have if it were not the Depositor or an Affiliate thereof, except as otherwise specifically provided herein. Except as otherwise provided herein, Notes or Certificates so owned by or pledged to the Depositor or such controlling or commonly controlled Person shall have an equal and proportionate benefit under the provisions of this Agreement, without preference, priority or distinction as among all of such Notes or Certificates, respectively.

ARTICLE IV

SERVICER’S COVENANTS; DISTRIBUTIONS; RESERVE ACCOUNT;

STATEMENTS TO NOTEHOLDERS AND CERTIFICATEHOLDERS

Section 4.01 Annual Statement as to Compliance; Notice of Servicer Default.

(a) The Servicer shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee, on or before March 15 of each year, beginning March 15, 2014 (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) an officer’s certificate signed by an Authorized Officer of the Servicer, dated as of December 31 of the immediately preceding year, in each instance stating that (i) a review of the activities of the Servicer during the preceding twelve (12) month period (or, with respect to the first such certificate, such period as shall have elapsed from the Initial Closing Date to the date of such certificate) and of its performance under this Agreement and under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement has been made under such officer’s supervision and (ii) to the best of such officer’s knowledge, based on such review, the Servicer has fulfilled all its obligations under such agreements in all material respects throughout such period, or, if there has been a default in the fulfillment of any such obligation, in any material respect specifying each such default known to such officer and the nature and status thereof. A copy of such certificate, once delivered, may be obtained by any Noteholder or any Certificateholder by a request in writing to the Issuing Entity addressed to the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, as applicable.

 

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(b) The Servicer shall deliver to the Issuing Entity, on or before March 15 of each year, beginning on March 15, 2014 (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) a report regarding the Servicer’s assessment of compliance with the Servicing Criteria during the immediately preceding calendar year, as required under Rules 13a-18 and 15d-18 of the Exchange Act and Item 1122 of Regulation AB.

(c) The Servicer shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Rating Agencies, promptly after having obtained knowledge thereof, but in no event later than five (5) Business Days thereafter, written notice in an officer’s certificate of any event which with the giving of notice or lapse of time, or both, unless cured, would become a Servicer Default under Section 7.01. The Depositor shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the Servicer and the Rating Agencies, promptly after having obtained knowledge thereof, but in no event later than five (5) Business Days thereafter, written notice in an officer’s certificate of any event which with the giving of notice or lapse of time, or both, unless cured, would become a Servicer Default under clause (b) of Section 7.01.

(d) The Administrator shall prepare, and cause the Servicer to execute and deliver all certificates or other documents required to be delivered by the Issuing Entity pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 or the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.

Section 4.02 Annual Report of Assessment of Compliance with Servicing Criteria.

(a) The Servicer shall cause a firm of independent certified public accountants, who may also render other services to the Servicer, the Depositor or their Affiliates, to deliver to the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee on or before March 15 of each year, beginning March 15, 2014 (or if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day), a report (the “Report of Assessment of Compliance with Servicing Criteria”) delivered to the Board of Directors of the Servicer and to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee that satisfies the requirements of Rule 13a-18 or Rule 15d-18 under the Exchange Act and Item 1122 of Regulation AB, as applicable, on the assessment of compliance with Servicing Criteria with respect to the prior calendar year. The certificates and reports referred to in Section 4.01(a), Section 4.01(b) and this Section 4.02(a) shall be delivered within 120 days after the end of each calendar year if the Issuing Entity is not required to file periodic reports under the Exchange Act or any other law, beginning April 30, 2014.

(b) A copy of the Report of Assessment of Compliance with Servicing Criteria received pursuant to Section 4.02(a) shall be delivered by the Servicer to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee on or before March 15 of each year beginning March 15, 2014 (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day).

(c) A copy of the Report of Assessment of Compliance with Servicing Criteria, once delivered, may be obtained by any Noteholder or Certificateholder by a request in writing to the Issuing Entity addressed to the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee.

 

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Section 4.03 Access to Certain Documentation and Information Regarding the Receivables. The Servicer shall provide to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee reasonable access to the documentation regarding the Receivables. The Servicer shall provide such access to any Noteholder or Certificateholder only in such cases where a Noteholder or a Certificateholder is required by applicable statutes or regulations to review such documentation. In each case, such access shall be afforded without charge but only upon reasonable request and during normal business hours at offices of the Servicer designated by the Servicer. Nothing in this Section 4.03 shall derogate from the obligation of the Servicer to observe any applicable law prohibiting disclosure of information regarding Obligors, and the failure of the Servicer to provide access as provided in this Section 4.03 as a result of such obligation shall not constitute a breach of this Section 4.03.

Section 4.04 Amendments to Schedule of Receivables. If the Servicer, during a Monthly Period, assigns to a Receivable an account number that differs from the account number previously identifying such Receivable on the Schedule of Initial Receivables or any Schedule of Additional Receivables, the Servicer shall deliver to the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee on or before the Distribution Date related to such Monthly Period an amendment to the Schedule of Initial Receivables or any Schedule of Additional Receivables, as applicable, to report the newly assigned account number. Each such amendment shall list all new account numbers assigned to the Receivables during such Monthly Period and shall show by cross reference the prior account numbers identifying such Receivables on the Schedule of Initial Receivables or any Schedule of Additional Receivables, as applicable.

Section 4.05 Assignment of Administrative Receivables and Warranty Receivables. Upon receipt of the Administrative Purchase Payment or the Warranty Payment with respect to an Administrative Receivable or a Warranty Receivable, respectively, the Owner Trustee shall assign, without recourse, representation or warranty, to the Servicer or the Warranty Purchaser, as applicable, all of the Issuing Entity’s right, title and interest in, to and under, and the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed automatically to have released its security interest in such Administrative Receivable or Warranty Receivable, all monies due thereon, the security interests in the related Financed Vehicle, proceeds from any Insurance Policies, proceeds from recourse against a Dealer on such Receivable and the interests of such Person or the Issuing Entity, as applicable, in rebates of premiums and other amounts relating to the Insurance Policies and any document relating thereto and all other related Purchased Property, such assignment being an assignment outright and not for security; and the Servicer or the Warranty Purchaser, as applicable, shall thereupon own such Receivable, and all such security and documents, free of any further obligations to the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the Noteholders or the Certificateholders with respect thereto. If in any Proceeding it is held that the Servicer may not enforce a Receivable on the ground that it is not a real party in interest or a holder entitled to enforce the Receivable, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, as applicable, shall, at the Servicer’s expense, take such steps as the Servicer deems necessary to enforce the Receivable, including bringing suit in the name of such Person or the names of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders.

 

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Section 4.06 Distributions.

(a) On or before each Determination Date, the Servicer shall calculate:

(i) the Total Available Amount, the Available Interest, the Available Principal, if any, the Basic Servicing Fee, the Aggregate Noteholders’ Interest Distributable Amount (including the Aggregate Class A Interest Distributable Amount, the Aggregate Class B Interest Distributable Amount, the Aggregate Class C Interest Distributable Amount, the Aggregate Class D Interest Distributable Amount and the Aggregate Class E Interest Distributable Amount), the Noteholders’ Regular Principal Distributable Amount (related to the Amortization Period only), the Aggregate Noteholders’ Principal Distributable Amount (related to the Amortization Period only), the Specified Reserve Account Balance, and all other amounts required to determine the amounts, if any, to be deposited in or paid from each of the Collection Account, the Note Distribution Account, the Reserve Account, if applicable, and during the Revolving Period, the Accumulation Account, on or before the related Distribution Date; and

(ii) during the Revolving Period, the Parity Reinvestment Amount, the Target Reinvestment Amount, the Accumulation Amount immediately prior to the Distribution Date, the Aggregate Additional Receivables Principal Balance and the amount that will be deposited in the Accumulation Account for the purchase of Additional Receivables on the related Distribution Date.

(b) Based in each case on the information contained in the Servicer’s Accounting delivered on the related Determination Date pursuant to Section 3.09 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement:

(i) On or before each Distribution Date, the Indenture Trustee shall transfer from the Collection Account to the Servicer, in immediately available funds, payments of Liquidation Expenses (and any unpaid Liquidation Expenses from prior periods) with respect to Receivables which became Liquidating Receivables during the related Monthly Period pursuant to Section 3.03 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

(ii) On or before each Distribution Date, the Indenture Trustee shall withdraw from the Reserve Account and deposit in the Collection Account the amount of cash or other immediately available funds on deposit therein.

(iii) On or before each Distribution Date related to the Revolving Period and on the first Distribution Date during the Amortization Period, the Indenture Trustee shall transfer all amounts in the Accumulation Account to the Collection Account.

(c) Except as otherwise provided in Section 4.06(e), on each Distribution Date during the Revolving Period the Indenture Trustee (based on the information contained in the Servicer’s Accounting delivered on the related Determination Date pursuant to Section 3.09 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement) shall make the following distributions from the Collection Account (after the withdrawals, deposits and transfers specified in Section 4.06(b) have been made) in the following order of priority:

 

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(i) first, to the Servicer, to the extent of the Total Available Amount, the Basic Servicing Fee;

(ii) second, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distribution described in clause (i) above), to the Note Distribution Account for the payment of interest on the Class A Notes, the Aggregate Class A Interest Distributable Amount;

(iii) third, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (i) and (ii) above), to the Note Distribution Account for the payment of interest on the Class B Notes, the Aggregate Class B Interest Distributable Amount;

(iv) fourth, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (i) through (iii) above), to the Note Distribution Account for the payment of interest on the Class C Notes, the Aggregate Class C Interest Distributable Amount;

(v) fifth, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (i) through (iv) above), to the Note Distribution Account for the payment of interest on the Class D Notes, the Aggregate Class D Interest Distributable Amount;

(vi) sixth, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (i) through (v) above), to the Note Distribution Account for the payment of interest on the Class E Notes, the Aggregate Class E Interest Distributable Amount;

(vii) seventh, to the Accumulation Account, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (i) through (vi) above), for the reinvestment in Additional Receivables pursuant to Section 2.01(b) of this Agreement, the Parity Reinvestment Amount for such Distribution Date;

(viii) eighth, to the Reserve Account, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (i) through (vii) above), the amount required to bring the amount on deposit therein up to the Specified Reserve Account Balance;

(ix) ninth, to the Accumulation Account, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (i) through (viii) above), for the reinvestment in Additional Receivables pursuant to Section 2.01(b) of this Agreement, an amount equal to the excess, if any, of the Target Reinvestment Amount for such Distribution Date over the amount deposited into the Accumulation Account pursuant to clause (vii) above;

(x) tenth, to the Indenture Trustee, any costs of the Indenture Trustee, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (i) through (ix) above), incurred associated with a resignation of the Servicer and the appointment of a successor Servicer; and

 

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(xi) eleventh, to the Certificateholders (or if the Certificate Distribution Account has been established pursuant to Section 5.1 of the Trust Agreement, then to such Certificate Distribution Account for distribution to the Certificateholders), any portion of the Total Available Amount remaining after the distributions described in clauses (i) through (x) above.

(d) Except as otherwise provided in Section 4.06(e), on each Distribution Date during the Amortization Period the Indenture Trustee (based on the information contained in the Servicer’s Accounting delivered on the related Determination Date pursuant to Section 3.09 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement) shall make the following distributions from the Collection Account (after the withdrawals, deposits and transfers specified in Section 4.06(b) have been made) in the following order of priority:

(i) first, to the Servicer, to the extent of the Total Available Amount, the Basic Servicing Fee;

(ii) second, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distribution described in clause (i) above), to the Note Distribution Account for the payment of interest on the Class A Notes, the Aggregate Class A Interest Distributable Amount;

(iii) third, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (i) and (ii) above), to the Note Distribution Account for the payment of principal on the Notes in the priority specified in the Indenture, the First Priority Principal Distributable Amount;

(iv) fourth, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (i) through (iii) above), to the Note Distribution Account for the payment of interest on the Class B Notes, the Aggregate Class B Interest Distributable Amount;

(v) fifth, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (i) through (iv) above), to the Note Distribution Account for the payment of principal on the Notes in the priority specified in the Indenture, the Second Priority Principal Distributable Amount;

(vi) sixth, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (i) through (v) above), to the Note Distribution Account for the payment of interest on the Class C Notes, the Aggregate Class C Interest Distributable Amount;

 

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(vii) seventh, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (i) through (vi) above), to the Note Distribution Account for the payment of principal on the Notes in the priority specified in the Indenture, the Third Priority Principal Distributable Amount;

(viii) eighth, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (i) through (vii) above), to the Note Distribution Account for the payment of interest on the Class D Notes, the Aggregate Class D Interest Distributable Amount;

(ix) ninth, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (i) through (viii) above), to the Note Distribution Account for the payment of principal on the Notes in the priority specified in the Indenture, the Fourth Priority Principal Distributable Amount;

(x) tenth, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (i) through (ix) above), to the Note Distribution Account for the payment of interest on the Class E Notes, the Aggregate Class E Interest Distributable Amount;

(xi) eleventh, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (i) through (x) above), to the Note Distribution Account for the payment of principal on the Notes in the priority specified in the Indenture, the Fifth Priority Principal Distributable Amount;

(xii) twelfth, to the Reserve Account, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (i) through (xi) above), the amount required to bring the amount on deposit therein up to the Specified Reserve Account Balance;

(xiii) thirteenth, to the Note Distribution Account for payment to the Noteholders of principal on the Notes in the priority specified in the Indenture, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (i) through (xii) above), an amount equal to the Noteholders’ Regular Principal Distributable Amount;

(xiv) fourteenth, to the Indenture Trustee, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (i) through (xiii) above), any costs of the Indenture Trustee, incurred associated with a resignation of the Servicer and the appointment of a successor Servicer; and

(xv) fifteenth, to the Certificateholders (or if the Certificate Distribution Account has been established pursuant to Section 5.1 of the Trust Agreement, then to such Certificate Distribution Account for distribution to the Certificateholders on a pro rata basis) any portion of the Total Available Amount remaining after the distributions described in clauses (i) through (xiv) above.

 

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(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time that the Notes have not been paid in full and the principal balance of the Notes has been declared immediately due and payable following the occurrence of an Event of Default under Sections 5.1(a), 5.1(b), 5.1(c), 5.1(e), or 5.1(f) of the Indenture, then until such time as the Notes have been paid in full and the Indenture has been discharged or the foregoing Events of Default have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.2(b) of the Indenture, the order in which the amounts allocated to the Note Distribution Account pursuant to clauses (ii) through (vi) and clauses (ii) through (xi) of Section 4.06(c) and (d), respectively, of this Agreement will be used to make payments to Noteholders shall be in the order specified in Section 2.7(c) of the Indenture.

Section 4.07 Reserve Account.

(a) There shall be established in the name of and maintained with the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Noteholders an Eligible Deposit Account known as the Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3 Reserve Account (the “Reserve Account”) to include the money and other property deposited and held therein pursuant to this Section 4.07(a), Section 4.06(c) and Section 4.06(d). On the Initial Closing Date, the Depositor shall deposit the Reserve Account Initial Deposit in immediately available funds into the Reserve Account. The Reserve Account shall constitute property of the Issuing Entity.

(b) If the amount on deposit in the Reserve Account on any Distribution Date (after giving effect to all deposits therein or withdrawals therefrom on such Distribution Date) exceeds the Specified Reserve Account Balance for such Distribution Date, the Servicer shall instruct the Indenture Trustee to distribute an amount equal to any such excess to the Certificateholders (or if the Certificate Distribution Account has been established pursuant to Section 5.1 of the Trust Agreement, then to such Certificate Distribution Account for distribution to the Certificateholders on a pro rata basis); it being understood that no such distribution from the Reserve Account shall be made to the Certificateholders (or if the Certificate Distribution Account has been established pursuant to Section 5.1 of the Trust Agreement, then to such Certificate Distribution Account for distribution to the Certificateholders on a pro rata basis) unless the amount so on deposit in the Reserve Account exceeds such Specified Reserve Account Balance.

(c) The Depositor, at its option, shall be entitled to make deposits into the Reserve Account; provided, that the aggregate amount of such deposits shall not exceed 5.0% of the Initial Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance.

(d) Each of the Depositor and Servicer agrees to take or cause to be taken such further actions, to execute, deliver and file or cause to be authorized and executed, as applicable, delivered and filed such further documents and instruments (including any UCC financing statements or this Agreement) as may be determined to be necessary, in an Opinion of Counsel to the Depositor delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in order to perfect the interests created by this Section 4.07 and otherwise fully to effectuate the purposes, terms and conditions of this Section 4.07. The Depositor shall:

(i) promptly authorize or execute, as applicable, deliver and file any financing statements, amendments, continuation statements, assignments, certificates and other documents with respect to such interests and perform all such other acts as may be necessary in order to perfect or to maintain the perfection of the Indenture Trustee’s security interest; and

 

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(ii) make the necessary filings of financing statements or amendments thereto within thirty (30) days after the occurrence of any of the following: (A) any change in its entity name or any trade names, (B) any change in the location of its chief executive office or principal place of business or any change in its jurisdiction of formation, (C) any merger or consolidation or other change in its identity or structure and (D) any other change or occurrence that would make any financing statement or amendment thereto seriously misleading within the meaning of the UCC; and shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee of any such filings.

Section 4.08 Net Deposits. At any time that (i) Ally Financial shall be the Servicer and (ii) the Servicer shall be permitted by Section 5.02 to remit collections on a basis other than a daily basis, the Servicer, the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee may make any remittances pursuant to this Article IV net of amounts to be distributed by the applicable recipient to such remitting party. Nonetheless, each such party shall account for all of the above described remittances and distributions as if the amounts were deposited and/or transferred separately.

Section 4.09 Statements to Securityholders.

(a) On each Distribution Date, the Owner Trustee shall (except as otherwise provided in the Trust Agreement) deliver to each Certificateholder, and the Indenture Trustee shall include with each distribution to each Noteholder, a statement (which statement shall also be provided by the Servicer to the Rating Agencies) prepared by the Servicer based on information in the Servicer’s Accounting furnished pursuant to Section 3.09 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. Each such statement to be delivered to Certificateholders and Noteholders, respectively, shall comply with Regulation AB and set forth the following information concerning the Certificates or the Notes, as appropriate, with respect to such Distribution Date or the preceding Monthly Period:

(i) the amount of such distribution allocable to principal of each class of the Notes;

(ii) the amount of the distribution, if any, allocable to interest on or with respect to each class of Notes;

(iii) the amount of such distribution allocable to the Certificateholders;

(iv) the Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance as of the close of business on the last day of such Monthly Period, the Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance as of the close of business on the last day of the second Monthly Period preceding such Distribution Date (or, for the first Distribution Date, the Initial Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance) and the Principal Distributable Amount for such Distribution Date;

(v) the Note Principal Balance for each class of Notes and the Aggregate Note Principal Balance, and the Note Pool Factor for each class of Notes, each as of such Distribution Date after giving effect to all payments described under clause (i) above and to all reinvestments described under clause (xiv) below;

 

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(vi) the amount of the Class A Interest Carryover Shortfall, the Class B Interest Carryover Shortfall, the Class C Interest Carryover Shortfall, the Class D Interest Carryover Shortfall and the Class E Interest Carryover Shortfall, if any, and the change in each of such amounts from the preceding Distribution Date;

(vii) the Negative Carry Amount, if any, on such Distribution Date;

(viii) the amount of the Basic Servicing Fee paid to the Servicer with respect to the related Monthly Period;

(ix) the amount, if any, and purpose of any other fees or expenses accrued or paid;

(x) the amount, if any, distributed to Noteholders from amounts on deposit in the Reserve Account;

(xi) the amount, if any, of excess cash distributed from the Reserve Account to the Certificateholders (or if the Certificate Distribution Account has been established pursuant to Section 5.1 of the Trust Agreement, then to such Certificate Distribution Account for distribution to the Certificateholders on a pro rata basis);

(xii) the balance of the Reserve Account on such Distribution Date (after giving effect to changes therein on such Distribution Date);

(xiii) LIBOR for such Distribution Date and the interest rate on each class or tranche of Floating Rate Notes;

(xiv) the Aggregate Additional Receivables Principal Balance for such Distribution Date (related to the Revolving Period only);

(xv) the balance of the Accumulation Account after giving effect to payments to and distributions from such account on such Distribution Date (related to the Revolving Period only);

(xvi) cash flows received during the related Collection Period and their sources;

(xvii) whether the Revolving Period has terminated early as a result of the occurrence of an Early Amortization Event (related to the Revolving Period only);

(xviii) the number and dollar amount of Receivables at the beginning and end of the applicable Collection Period, and updated pool composition information as of the end of the Collection Period, such as weighted average coupon, weighted average life, weighted average remaining term, and prepayments;

 

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(xix) delinquency and loss information for the period and any material changes in determining or defining delinquencies, charge-offs and uncollectible accounts;

(xx) the amount of receivables with respect to which material breaches of pool asset representations or warranties or transaction covenants have occurred; and

(xxi) any material modifications, extensions or waivers relating to the terms of or fees, penalties or payments on, pool assets during the distribution period or that, cumulatively, have become material over time.

Each amount set forth pursuant to clauses (i), (ii), (vi), (x), (xi), and (xii) above shall be expressed as a dollar amount per $1,000 of initial principal amount of the Notes.

(b) Within the prescribed period of time for tax reporting purposes after the end of each calendar year during the term of this Agreement, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee shall mail, to each Person who at any time during such calendar year shall have been a holder of Notes or Certificates, respectively, and received any payments thereon, a statement containing such information as may be required by the Code and applicable Treasury Regulations to enable such securityholder to prepare its federal income tax returns.

ARTICLE V

CERTIFICATEHOLDER AND NOTEHOLDER STATEMENTS AND ACCOUNTS;

COLLECTIONS, DEPOSITS AND INVESTMENTS

Section 5.01 Establishment of Accounts.

(a)

(i) The Servicer, for the benefit of the Financial Parties, shall establish and maintain in the name of the Indenture Trustee an Eligible Deposit Account known as the Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3 Collection Account (the “Collection Account”), bearing an additional designation clearly indicating that the funds deposited therein are held for the benefit of the Financial Parties.

(ii) The Servicer, for the benefit of the Noteholders, shall establish and maintain in the name of the Indenture Trustee an Eligible Deposit Account known as the Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3 Note Distribution Account (the “Note Distribution Account”), bearing an additional designation clearly indicating that the funds deposited therein are held for the benefit of the Noteholders.

(iii) The Servicer, for the benefit of the Noteholders and the Certificateholders, shall establish and maintain in the name of the Indenture Trustee an Eligible Deposit Account known as the Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3 Accumulation Account (the “Accumulation Account”), bearing an additional designation clearly indicating that the funds deposited therein are held for the benefit of the Noteholders and the Certificateholders.

 

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(b)

(i) Each of the Designated Accounts shall be initially established with the Indenture Trustee. At any time after the Initial Closing Date, the Servicer, upon thirty (30) days written notice to the Indenture Trustee or other Account Holder, shall have the right to instruct an Account Holder to transfer any or all of the Designated Accounts to another Eligible Institution designated by the Servicer in such notice. No Designated Account shall be maintained with an Account Holder if the short-term debt obligations of such Account Holder cease to have the Required Deposit Rating (except that any Designated Account may be maintained with an Account Holder even if the short-term debt obligations of such Account Holder do not have the Required Deposit Rating, if such Account Holder maintains such Designated Account in its corporate trust department). Should the short-term unsecured debt obligations of an Account Holder no longer have the Required Deposit Rating, then the Servicer shall, within ten (10) Business Days (or such longer period, not to exceed thirty (30) calendar days, as to which each Rating Agency shall consent), with the Indenture Trustee’s assistance as necessary, cause each affected Designated Account (A) to be moved to an Account Holder that is an Eligible Institution or (B) with respect to the Designated Accounts only, to be moved to the corporate trust department of the Account Holder. All amounts held in Designated Accounts (including amounts, if any, which the Servicer is required to remit daily to the Collection Account pursuant to Section 5.02) shall, to the extent permitted by applicable laws, rules and regulations, be invested, at the written direction of the Servicer, by such Account Holder in Eligible Investments. Such written direction shall constitute certification by the Servicer that any such investment is authorized by this Section 5.01. Funds deposited in the Reserve Account shall be invested in Eligible Investments which mature (i) prior to the next Distribution Date or (ii) at such later date as shall be otherwise permitted by the Rating Agencies. Investments in Eligible Investments shall be made in the name of the Indenture Trustee or its nominee, and such investments shall not be sold or disposed of prior to their maturity; provided, however, that Notes held in the Reserve Account may be sold or disposed of prior to their maturity so long as (x) the Servicer directs the Indenture Trustee to make such sale or disposition, (y) the Indenture Trustee gives reasonable prior notice of such disposition to the Administrator and (z) such Notes are sold at a price equal to or greater than the unpaid principal balance thereof if, following such sale, the amount on deposit in the Reserve Account would be less than the Specified Reserve Account Balance. Investment Earnings on funds deposited in the Designated Accounts shall be payable to the Servicer. Each Account Holder holding a Designated Account as provided in this Section 5.01(b)(i), shall be a “Securities Intermediary.” If a Securities Intermediary shall be a Person other than the Indenture Trustee, the Servicer shall obtain the express agreement of such Person to the obligations of the Securities Intermediary set forth in this Section 5.01 and an Opinion of Counsel that such Person can perform such obligations.

(ii) With respect to the Designated Account Property, the Account Holder agrees, by its acceptance hereof, that:

(A) Any Designated Account Property that is held in deposit accounts shall be held solely in Eligible Deposit Accounts. The Designated Accounts are accounts to which Financial Assets will be credited.

 

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(B) All securities or other property underlying any Financial Assets credited to the Designated Accounts shall be registered in the name of the Securities Intermediary, indorsed to the Securities Intermediary or in blank or credited to another securities account maintained in the name of the Securities Intermediary and in no case will any Financial Asset credited to any of the Designated Accounts be registered in the name of the Issuing Entity, the Servicer or the Depositor, payable to the order of the Issuing Entity, the Servicer or the Depositor or specially indorsed to the Issuing Entity, the Servicer or the Depositor except to the extent the foregoing have been specially indorsed to the Securities Intermediary or in blank.

(C) All property delivered to the Securities Intermediary pursuant to this Agreement will be credited upon receipt of such property to the appropriate Designated Account.

(D) Each item of property (whether investments, investment property, Financial Assets, securities, instruments or cash) credited to a Designated Account shall be treated as a “financial asset” within the meaning of Section 8-102(a)(9) of the New York UCC.

(E) If at any time the Securities Intermediary shall receive any order from the Indenture Trustee directing transfer or redemption of any Financial Asset relating to the Designated Accounts, the Securities Intermediary shall comply with such order without further consent by the Issuing Entity, the Servicer, the Depositor or any other Person.

(F) The Designated Accounts shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York, regardless of any provision in any other agreement. For purposes of the UCC, New York shall be deemed to be the Securities Intermediary’s jurisdiction and the Designated Accounts (as well as the Security Entitlements related thereto) shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York.

(G) The Securities Intermediary has not entered into, and until the termination of this Agreement will not enter into, any agreement with any other Person relating to the Designated Accounts and/or any Financial Assets or other property credited thereto pursuant to which it has agreed to comply with entitlement orders (as defined in Section 8-102(a)(8) of the New York UCC) of such other Person and the Securities Intermediary has not entered into, and until the termination of this Agreement will not enter into, any agreement with the Issuing Entity, the Depositor, the Servicer, the Account Holder or the Indenture Trustee purporting to limit or condition the obligation of the Securities Intermediary to comply with entitlement orders as set forth in Section 5.01(b)(ii)(E) hereof.

(H) Except for the claims and interest of the Indenture Trustee in the Designated Accounts, the Securities Intermediary has no actual knowledge of claims to, or interests in, the Designated Accounts or in any Financial Asset credited thereto. If any other Person asserts any Lien, encumbrance or adverse claim (including any writ, garnishment, judgment, warrant of attachment, execution or similar process) against the Designated Accounts or in any Financial Asset carried therein, the Securities Intermediary will promptly notify the Indenture Trustee, the Servicer and the Issuing Entity thereof.

 

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(I) The Securities Intermediary will promptly send copies of all statements, confirmations and other correspondence concerning the Designated Accounts and/or any Designated Account Property simultaneously to each of the Servicer and the Indenture Trustee, at the addresses set forth in Appendix B to this Agreement.

(J) The Account Holder shall maintain each item of Designated Account Property in the particular Designated Account to which such item originated and shall not commingle items from different Designated Accounts.

(iii) The Servicer shall have the power, revocable by the Indenture Trustee (or by the Owner Trustee with the consent of the Indenture Trustee) to instruct the Indenture Trustee to make withdrawals and payments from the Designated Accounts for the purpose of permitting the Servicer or the Owner Trustee to carry out its respective duties hereunder or permitting the Indenture Trustee to carry out its duties under the Indenture.

(iv) The Indenture Trustee shall possess all right, title and interest in and to all funds on deposit from time to time in the Designated Accounts and in all proceeds thereof (except Investment Earnings). Except as otherwise provided herein or in the Indenture, the Designated Accounts shall be under the exclusive dominion and control of the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Securityholders and the Indenture Trustee shall have sole signature power and authority with respect thereto.

(v) The Servicer shall not direct the Account Holder to make any investment of any funds or to sell any investment held in any of the Designated Accounts unless the security interest granted and perfected in such account shall continue to be perfected in such investment or the proceeds of such sale, in either case without any further action by any Person, and, in connection with any direction to the Account Holder to make any such investment or sale, if requested by the Indenture Trustee, the Servicer shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel, acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to such effect.

(c) [Reserved].

(d) The Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the Securities Intermediary, the Account Holder and each other Eligible Institution with whom a Designated Account is maintained waives any right of set-off, counterclaim, security interest or bankers’ lien to which it might otherwise be entitled.

Section 5.02 Collections. If a Monthly Remittance Condition is not satisfied, commencing with the first day of the first Monthly Period that begins at least two (2) Business Days after the day on which any Monthly Remittance Condition ceases to be satisfied, the Servicer shall remit to the Collection Account all payments by or on behalf of the Obligors on the Receivables and all Liquidation Proceeds within two (2) Business Days after receipt thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a Monthly Remittance Condition is unsatisfied, the Servicer may utilize an alternative remittance schedule (which may include a remittance schedule utilized by the Servicer at a time when the Monthly Remittance Conditions were satisfied), if the

 

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Servicer provides to the Indenture Trustee written confirmation from the Rating Agencies that such alternative remittance schedule will not result in the downgrading or withdrawal by the Rating Agencies of the ratings then assigned to the Notes or the Certificates. At all times when all Monthly Remittance Conditions are satisfied, the Servicer shall remit collections received during a Monthly Period to the Collection Account in immediately available funds on or before the related Distribution Date.

Section 5.03 Investment Earnings and Supplemental Servicing Fees. The Servicer shall be entitled to receive all Investment Earnings (with the exception of Investment Earnings on funds in the Accumulation Account) and Supplemental Servicing Fees when and as paid without any obligation to the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Depositor in respect thereof. The Servicer will have no obligation to deposit any such amount in any account established hereunder. To the extent that any such amount shall be held in any account held by the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, or otherwise established hereunder, such amount will be withdrawn therefrom and paid to the Servicer upon presentation of a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Servicer setting forth, in reasonable detail, the amount of such Investment Earnings or Supplemental Servicing Fees.

Section 5.04 [Reserved].

Section 5.05 Additional Deposits. The Servicer and the Depositor shall deposit in the Collection Account the aggregate Administrative Purchase Payments and Warranty Payments with respect to Administrative Receivables and Warranty Receivables, respectively. All such deposits with respect to a Monthly Period shall be made in immediately available funds on or before the Distribution Date related to such Monthly Period.

ARTICLE VI

LIABILITIES OF SERVICER AND OTHERS

Section 6.01 Liability of Servicer; Indemnities.

(a) The Servicer shall be liable in accordance with this Agreement and the Second Step Receivables Assignments only to the extent of the obligations in this Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement specifically undertaken by the Servicer. Such obligations shall include the following:

(i) The Servicer shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the Issuing Entity, the Noteholders and the Certificateholders from and against any and all costs, expenses, losses, damages, claims and liabilities arising out of or resulting from the use, ownership or operation by the Servicer or any Affiliate thereof of any Financed Vehicle;

(ii) The Servicer shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Issuing Entity from and against any taxes that may at any time be asserted against any such Person with respect to the transactions contemplated in this Agreement, including any sales, gross receipts, general corporation, tangible personal property, privilege or license taxes (but not including any taxes asserted with respect to, and as of the date of, the sale of the Receivables to the Issuing Entity or the issuance and original sale of

 

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the Notes and the Certificates, or asserted with respect to ownership of the Receivables, or federal or other income taxes arising out of distributions on the Notes or the Certificates, or any fees or other compensation payable to any such Person) and costs and expenses in defending against the same;

(iii) The Servicer shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the Issuing Entity, the Noteholders and the Certificateholders from and against any and all costs, expenses, losses, claims, damages, and liabilities to the extent that such cost, expense, loss, claim, damage, or liability arose out of, or was imposed upon the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the Issuing Entity, the Noteholders or the Certificateholders through the negligence, willful misfeasance or bad faith of the Servicer in the performance of its duties under this Agreement or any other Basic Document or by reason of reckless disregard of its obligations and duties under this Agreement or any other Basic Document; and

(iv) The Servicer shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee, and their respective agents and servants, from and against all costs, expenses, losses, claims, damages and liabilities arising out of or incurred in connection with (x) in the case of the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee’s performance of its duties under the Indenture or any other Basic Document, (y) in the case of the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee’s performance of its duties under the Trust Agreement or (z) the acceptance, administration or performance by, or action or inaction of, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, as applicable, of the trusts and duties contained in this Agreement, the Basic Documents, the Indenture (in the case of the Indenture Trustee), including the administration of the Trust Estate, and the Trust Agreement (in case of the Owner Trustee), including the administration of the Owner Trust Estate, except in each case to the extent that such cost, expense, loss, claim, damage or liability: (A) is due to the willful misfeasance, bad faith or negligence (except for errors in judgment) of the Person indemnified, (B) to the extent otherwise payable to the Indenture Trustee, arises from the Indenture Trustee’s breach of any of its representations or warranties in Section 6.13 of the Indenture, (C) to the extent otherwise payable to the Owner Trustee, arises from the Owner Trustee’s breach of any of its representations or warranties set forth in Section 6.6 of the Trust Agreement, or (D) to the extent otherwise payable to the Indenture Trustee, arises out of or be incurred in connection with the performance by the Indenture Trustee of the duties of successor Servicer hereunder.

(b) Indemnification under this Section 6.01 shall include reasonable fees and expenses of external counsel and expenses of litigation. If the Servicer has made any indemnity payments pursuant to this Section 6.01 and the recipient thereafter collects any of such amounts from others, the recipient shall promptly repay such amounts collected to the Servicer, without interest.

Section 6.02 Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption of the Obligations of the Servicer. Any corporation, limited liability company or other entity (a) into which the Servicer may be merged or consolidated, (b) resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Servicer shall be a party, (c) succeeding to the business of the Servicer or (d) 25% or more of the voting stock (or, if not a corporation, other voting interests) of which is owned directly or indirectly by General Motors or Ally Financial and which is otherwise servicing the

 

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Depositor’s receivables, which corporation, limited liability company or other entity in any of the foregoing cases executes an agreement of assumption to perform every obligation of the Servicer under this Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, shall be the successor to the Servicer under this Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties to this Agreement, anything in this Agreement or in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding. The Servicer shall provide notice of any merger, consolidation or succession pursuant to this Section 6.02 to the Rating Agencies.

Section 6.03 Limitation on Liability of Servicer and Others.

(a) Neither the Servicer nor any of the directors or officers or employees or agents of the Servicer shall be under any liability to the Issuing Entity, the Noteholders or the Certificateholders, except as specifically provided in this Agreement and in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, for any action taken or for refraining from the taking of any action pursuant to this Agreement, the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Indenture or the Trust Agreement or for errors in judgment; provided, however, that this provision shall not protect the Servicer or any such Person against any liability that would otherwise be imposed by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith or negligence (except errors in judgment) in the performance of duties or by reason of reckless disregard of obligations and duties under this Agreement, the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Indenture, the Trust Agreement or any other Basic Document. The Servicer and any director, officer or employee or agent of the Servicer may rely in good faith on the advice of counsel or on any document of any kind prima facie properly executed and submitted by any Person respecting any matters arising under this Agreement or the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

(b) The Servicer and any director or officer or employee or agent of the Servicer shall be reimbursed by the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, as applicable, for any contractual damages, liability or expense (including any obligation of the Servicer to the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, as applicable, pursuant to Section 6.01(a)(iv)(x) or (y)) incurred by reason of such trustee’s willful misfeasance, bad faith or negligence (except errors in judgment) (gross negligence in the case of the Owner Trustee) in the performance of such trustee’s duties under this Agreement, the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Indenture or the Trust Agreement or by reason of reckless disregard of its obligations and duties under this Agreement. In no event, however, shall the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee be liable to the Servicer for any damages in the nature of special, indirect or consequential damages, however styled, including lost profits.

(c) Except as provided in this Agreement or in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Servicer shall not be under any obligation to appear in, prosecute or defend any legal action that is not incidental to its duties to service the Receivables in accordance with this Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and that in its opinion may involve it in any expense or liability; provided, however, that the Servicer may undertake any reasonable action that it may deem necessary or desirable in respect of this Agreement or the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the rights and duties of the parties to this Agreement or the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the interests of the Noteholders and the Certificateholders under this Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the interests of the Noteholders under

 

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the Indenture and the interests of the Certificateholders under the Trust Agreement. In such event, the legal expenses and costs for such action and any liability resulting therefrom shall be expenses, costs and liabilities of the Issuing Entity and the Servicer shall be entitled to be reimbursed therefor.

(d) The Applicable Trustee shall distribute out of the Collection Account on a Distribution Date any amounts permitted for reimbursement pursuant to Section 6.03(c) not therefor reimbursed; provided, however, that the Applicable Trustee shall not distribute such amounts if the amount on deposit in the Reserve Account (after giving effect to all deposits and withdrawals pursuant to Sections 4.06(b) and (c), on such Distribution Date) is greater than zero but less than the Specified Reserve Account Balance for such Distribution Date.

Section 6.04 Delegation of Duties. So long as Ally Financial acts as Servicer, the Servicer may, at any time without notice or consent, delegate any duties under this Agreement or under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement to any corporation or other Person 25% or more of the voting stock (or, if not a corporation, other voting interests) of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by General Motors or Ally Financial. The Servicer may at any time perform specific duties as Servicer through sub-contractors who are in the business of servicing motor vehicle related receivables; provided, however, that no such delegation or sub-contracting shall relieve the Servicer of its responsibility with respect to such duties.

Section 6.05 Servicer Not to Resign. Subject to the provisions of Section 7.02, the Servicer shall not resign from the obligations and duties imposed on it by this Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement as Servicer except upon determination that the performance of its duties under this Agreement or under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, as the case may be, is no longer permissible under applicable law. Any such determination permitting the resignation of the Servicer shall be evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel to such effect delivered to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee. If, at the time of resignation, a successor Servicer has not accepted appointment as Servicer, the Indenture Trustee shall assume the responsibilities and obligations of the Servicer in accordance with Section 7.02.

ARTICLE VII

DEFAULT

Section 7.01 Servicer Defaults. Each of the following shall constitute a “Servicer Default”:

(a) any failure by the Servicer to deliver to the Indenture Trustee for deposit in any of the Designated Accounts any required payment or to direct the Indenture Trustee to make any required distributions therefrom, which failure continues unremedied for a period of five (5) Business Days after written notice is received by the Servicer from the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee or after discovery of such failure by an officer of the Servicer;

(b) failure on the part of the Servicer to duly observe or perform in any material respect any other covenants or agreements of the Servicer set forth in this Agreement, the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Indenture or the Trust Agreement which failure (i) materially and adversely affects the rights of Noteholders or Certificateholders, and (ii) continues

 

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unremedied for a period of ninety (90) days after the date on which written notice of such failure, requiring the same to be remedied, shall have been given to the Servicer by the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, or to the Servicer and to the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee by Noteholders whose Notes evidence not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date or if no Notes are Outstanding, by Certificateholders whose Certificates evidence not less than 25% of the Voting Interests as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date;

(c) the entry of a decree or order by a court or agency or supervisory authority having jurisdiction in the premises for the appointment of a conservator, receiver or liquidator for the Servicer, in any insolvency, readjustment of debt, marshalling of assets and liabilities or similar proceedings, or for the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of ninety (90) consecutive days; or

(d) the consent by the Servicer to the appointment of a conservator or receiver or liquidator in any insolvency, readjustment of debt, marshalling of assets and liabilities, or similar proceedings of or relating to the Servicer or of or relating to substantially all of its property; or the Servicer shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, file a petition to take advantage of any applicable insolvency or reorganization statute, make an assignment for the benefit of its creditors or voluntarily suspend payment of its obligations.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, there shall be no Servicer Default where a Servicer Default would otherwise exist under clause (a) above for a period of ten (10) Business Days or under clause (b) for a period of sixty (60) days if the delay or failure giving rise to the Servicer Default was caused by an act of God or other similar occurrence. Upon the occurrence of any of these events, the Servicer shall not be relieved from using its best efforts to perform its obligations in a timely manner in accordance with the terms of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and this Agreement, and the Servicer shall provide the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the Depositor and the Securityholders prompt notice of the failure or delay by it, together with a description of its efforts to so perform its obligations.

Section 7.02 Consequences of a Servicer Default. If a Servicer Default shall occur and be continuing, either the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders whose Notes evidence not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date (or, if the Notes have been paid in full and the Indenture has been discharged in accordance with its terms, by the Owner Trustee or the Majority Certificateholders as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date) by notice then given in writing to the Servicer and the Owner Trustee (and to the Indenture Trustee if given by the Noteholders or the Certificateholders) may terminate all of the rights and obligations of the Servicer under this Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. On or after the receipt by the Servicer of such written notice, all authority and power of the Servicer under this Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, whether with respect to the Notes, the Certificates or the Receivables or otherwise, shall pass to and be vested in the Indenture Trustee pursuant to and under this Section 7.02. The Indenture Trustee is hereby authorized and empowered to execute and deliver, on behalf of the Servicer, as attorney-in-fact or otherwise, any and all documents and other instruments, and to do or accomplish all other acts or things necessary or appropriate to effect the

 

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purposes of such notice of termination, whether to complete the transfer and endorsement of the Receivables and related documents, or otherwise. The Servicer agrees to cooperate with the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee in effecting the termination of the responsibilities and rights of the Servicer under this Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, including the transfer to the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee for administration by it of all cash amounts that shall at the time be held by the Servicer for deposit, or that shall have been deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account, or the Note Distribution Account or thereafter received with respect to the Receivables that shall at that time be held by the Servicer.

Section 7.03 Indenture Trustee to Act; Appointment of Successor. On and after the time the Servicer receives a notice of termination pursuant to Section 7.02, the Indenture Trustee shall be the successor in all respects to the Servicer in its capacity as servicer under this Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the transactions set forth or provided for in this Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, and shall be subject to all the responsibilities, restrictions, duties and liabilities relating thereto placed on the Servicer by the terms and provisions of this Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. As compensation therefor, the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to such compensation (whether payable out of the Collection Account or otherwise) as the Servicer would have been entitled to under this Agreement if no such notice of termination had been given including the Basic Servicing Fee, Investment Earnings and Supplemental Servicing Fees. Notwithstanding the above, the Indenture Trustee may, if it shall be unwilling so to act, or shall, if it is legally unable so to act, appoint, or petition a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint, a successor (i) having a net worth of not less than $100,000,000, (ii) which has a long term unsecured debt rating that falls within an investment grade category by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services or is otherwise acceptable to Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services) and (iii) whose regular business includes the servicing of motor vehicle related receivables, as the successor to the Servicer under this Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement in the assumption of all or any part of the responsibilities, duties or liabilities of the Servicer under this Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. In connection with such appointment and assumption, the Indenture Trustee may make such arrangements for the compensation of such successor out of payments on Receivables as it and such successor shall agree; provided, however, that no such compensation shall be in excess of that permitted the Servicer under this Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. The Indenture Trustee and such successor shall take such action, consistent with this Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, as shall be necessary to effectuate any such succession. Costs associated with the resignation of the Servicer and the appointment of a successor Servicer will be paid by the Indenture Trustee from amounts in the Trust Estate.

Section 7.04 Notification to Noteholders and Certificateholders. Upon any termination of, or appointment of a successor to, the Servicer pursuant to this Article VII, the Indenture Trustee shall give prompt written notice thereof to the Noteholders and the Depositor, who promptly shall provide such notice to the Rating Agencies, and the Owner Trustee shall give prompt written notice thereof to the Certificateholders.

Section 7.05 Waiver of Past Defaults. Noteholders whose Notes evidence not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date (or, if all of the Notes have been paid in full and the Indenture has been

 

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discharged in accordance with its terms, the Majority Certificateholders as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date) may, on behalf of all Noteholders and Certificateholders, waive any default by the Servicer in the performance of its obligations hereunder and its consequences, except a default in making any required deposits to or payments from any of the Designated Accounts in accordance with this Agreement. Upon any such waiver of a past default, such default shall cease to exist, and any Servicer Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been remedied for every purpose of this Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. No such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.

ARTICLE VIII

TERMINATION

Section 8.01 Optional Purchase of All Receivables; Insolvency of the Depositor; Termination of Trust.

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(i) The Servicer shall have the option to purchase the assets of the Issuing Entity (other than the Designated Accounts) as of any date (the “Optional Purchase Date”) which is the last day of any Monthly Period as of which the Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance is the Optional Purchase Percentage or less of the Initial Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance. To exercise such option, the Servicer shall (A) furnish to the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee notice of its intention to exercise such option and of the Optional Purchase Date (such notice to be furnished not later than twenty-five (25) days prior to the Distribution Date related to such Optional Purchase Date) and (B) deposit in the Collection Account when required pursuant to clause (ii) below an amount equal to the greater of (a) the remaining unpaid Principal Balance of the Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest, and any accrued and unpaid Basic Servicing Fee payments, and (b) the unpaid Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance plus accrued and unpaid interest.

(ii) The Servicer shall make such deposit set forth in clause (i)(B) above in immediately available funds on the Distribution Date related to the Optional Purchase Date, except that if any Monthly Remittance Condition is not satisfied on the Optional Purchase Date, such deposit shall instead be made on the Optional Purchase Date. Upon the making of such deposit, the Servicer shall succeed to all interests in and to the Issuing Entity (other than the Designated Accounts).

(b) Upon any sale or other disposition of the assets of the Issuing Entity pursuant to Article V of the Indenture (an “Event of Default Sale”), the Servicer shall instruct the Applicable Trustee to deposit into the Collection Account from the proceeds of such disposition the amount specified in clause SECOND of Section 5.4(b) of the Indenture (the “Event of Default Proceeds”). On the Distribution Date on which the Event of Default Proceeds are deposited in the Collection Account (or, if such proceeds are not so deposited on a Distribution Date, on the Distribution Date immediately following such deposit), the Servicer shall instruct

 

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the Applicable Trustee to make the following deposits (after the application on such Distribution Date of the Available Principal and the Available Interest and funds on deposit in the Reserve Account pursuant to Sections 4.06 and 4.07) from the Event of Default Proceeds and any funds remaining on deposit in the Reserve Account (including the proceeds of any sale of investments therein as described in the following sentence) in the following priority:

(i) first, to the Note Distribution Account, for payment of interest on the Class A Notes, the Aggregate Class A Interest Distributable Amount;

(ii) second, to the Note Distribution Account, an amount equal to the Note Principal Balance of the Class A Notes (after giving effect to the reduction in the Note Principal Balance to result from the deposits made in the Note Distribution Account on such Distribution Date and on each prior Distribution Date) for payment of principal on the Class A Notes, sequentially by class, starting with the Class A-1 Notes, until each class of Class A Notes has been paid in full;

(iii) third, to the Note Distribution Account, an amount equal to the Aggregate Class B Interest Distributable Amount for payment of interest on the Class B Notes;

(iv) fourth, to the Note Distribution Account, an amount equal to the Note Principal Balance of the Class B Notes (after giving effect to the reduction in the Note Principal Balance to result from the deposits made in the Note Distribution Account on such Distribution Date and on each prior Distribution Date) for payment of principal on the Class B Notes;

(v) fifth, to the Note Distribution Account, an amount equal to the Aggregate Class C Interest Distributable Amount for payment of interest on the Class C Notes;

(vi) sixth, to the Note Distribution Account, an amount equal to the Note Principal Balance of the Class C Notes (after giving effect to the reduction in the Note Principal Balance to result from the deposits made in the Note Distribution Account on such Distribution Date and on each prior Distribution Date) for payment of principal on the Class C Notes;

(vii) seventh, to the Note Distribution Account, an amount equal to the Aggregate Class D Interest Distributable Amount for payment of interest on the Class D Notes;

(viii) eighth, to the Note Distribution Account, an amount equal to the Note Principal Balance of the Class D Notes (after giving effect to the reduction in the Note Principal Balance to result from the deposits made in the Note Distribution Account on such Distribution Date and on each prior Distribution Date) for payment of principal on the Class D Notes;

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(x) tenth, to the Note Distribution Account, an amount equal to the Note Principal Balance of the Class E Notes (after giving effect to the reduction in the Note Principal Balance to result from the deposits made in the Note Distribution Account on such Distribution Date and on each prior Distribution Date) for payment of principal on the Class E Notes.

Subject to Section 5.01(b), any investments on deposit in the Reserve Account which shall not mature on or before such Distribution Date shall be sold by the Indenture Trustee at such time as shall result in the Indenture Trustee receiving the proceeds from such sale not later than such Distribution Date and applied as set forth above. Any Event of Default Proceeds remaining after all the deposits and other payments described above have been paid in full shall be paid to the Certificateholder (or if the Certificate Distribution Account has been established pursuant to Section 5.1 of the Trust Agreement, then to such Certificate Distribution Account for distribution to the Certificateholders on a pro rata basis).

(c) Notice of any dissolution of the Issuing Entity shall be given by the Servicer to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee as soon as practicable after the Servicer has received notice thereof.

(d) Following the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture with respect to the Notes, and the payment in full of the principal and interest on the Notes, the Certificateholders shall succeed to the rights of the Noteholders hereunder and the Owner Trustee shall succeed to the rights of the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Agreement (subject to the continuing obligations of the Indenture Trustee set forth in Sections 3.04, 6.03(b) and 7.03 of this Agreement and Section 4.4 of the Indenture).

(e) After indefeasible payment in full to the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the Noteholders, the Certificateholders and the Servicer of all amounts required to be paid under this Agreement, the Indenture and the Trust Agreement (including as contemplated by this Section 8.01), (i) any amounts on deposit in the Reserve Account and the Collection Account (after all other distributions required to be made from such accounts have been made and provision for the payment of all liabilities of the Issuing Entity as required by Section 3808 of the Statutory Trust Act) shall be paid to the Certificateholder (or if the Certificate Distribution Account has been established pursuant to Section 5.1 of the Trust Agreement, then to such Certificate Distribution Account for distribution to the Certificateholders on a pro rata basis) and (ii) any other assets remaining in the Issuing Entity shall be distributed to the Certificateholder (or if the Certificate Distribution Account has been established pursuant to Section 5.1 of the Trust Agreement, then to such Certificate Distribution Account for distribution to the Certificateholders on a pro rata basis).

ARTICLE IX

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Section 9.01 Amendment.

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Indenture Trustee, with the consent of the Indenture Trustee, and, if such amendment materially and adversely affects the rights of the Owner Trustee under this Agreement, with the consent of the Owner Trustee, but without the consent of any of the Financial Parties, (i) to cure any ambiguity, (ii) to correct or supplement any provision in this Agreement that may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision in this Agreement or any other Basic Documents, (iii) to add or supplement any credit enhancement for the benefit of the Noteholders of any class or the Certificateholders (provided that if any such addition shall affect any class of Noteholders or Certificateholders differently from any other class of Noteholders or Certificateholders, then such addition shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any class of Noteholders or the Certificateholders), (iv) to add to the covenants, restrictions or obligations of the Depositor, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or (v) to add, change or eliminate any other provision of this Agreement in any manner that shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the Financial Parties.

(b) This Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the Depositor, the Servicer and the Issuing Entity, and if such amendment materially and adversely affects the rights of the Indenture Trustee, with the consent of the Indenture Trustee, the consent of Noteholders whose Notes evidence not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date, and if any Person other than the Depositor holds any Certificates, the consent of the Majority Certificateholders as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date (which consent, whether given pursuant to this Section 9.01 or pursuant to any other provision of this Agreement, shall be conclusive and binding on such Person and on all future holders of such Notes or Certificates and of any Note or Certificate issued upon the transfer thereof or in exchange thereof or in lieu thereof whether or not notation of such consent is made upon the Note or Certificate) for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement, or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders; provided, however, that no such amendment shall (i) increase or reduce the interest rate or principal amount of any Note or change any Distribution Date or the Final Scheduled Distribution Date of any Note or distributions on the Certificates (without the consent of the holders hereof), (ii) increase or reduce the amount of the required Specified Reserve Account Balance without the consent of all of the Noteholders or Certificateholders then outstanding, (iii) adversely affect the rating of any Securities by any of the Rating Agencies without the consent of the holders of two-thirds of the Outstanding Amount of an affected class of Notes or two-thirds of the Voting Interests of affected Certificates, as appropriate, each as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date or (iv) reduce the aforesaid percentage required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the holders of all Notes and Certificates then outstanding.

(c) Prior to the execution of any such amendment or consent pursuant to Section 9.01(a) or (b), the Indenture Trustee shall furnish written notification of the substance of such amendment or consent to the Depositor, who promptly shall provide such notice to the Rating Agencies.

(d) Promptly after the execution of any such amendment or consent pursuant to Section 9.01(a) or (b), the Owner Trustee shall furnish a copy of such amendment or consent to each Interested Party and to the Depositor, who promptly shall provide such copy to each Rating Agency.

 

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(e) It shall not be necessary for the consent of Noteholders or Certificateholders pursuant to Section 9.01(b) to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment or consent, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. The manner of obtaining such consents (and any other consents of Noteholders or Certificateholders provided for in this Agreement) and of evidencing the authorization of the execution thereof by Noteholders and Certificateholders shall be subject to such reasonable requirements as the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee may prescribe, including the establishment of record dates pursuant to paragraph 7 of the Note Depository Agreement.

(f) Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive and conclusively rely upon an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amendment is authorized or permitted by this Agreement and the Opinion of Counsel referred to in Section 9.02(j). The Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment which affects such trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.

(g) Each of the Servicer and the Depositor agrees that such Person shall not amend or agree to any amendment of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement unless such amendment would be permissible under the terms of this Section 9.01 as if this Section 9.01 were contained in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

Section 9.02 Protection of Title to Trust.

(a) The Depositor or the Servicer or both, as applicable, shall authorize or execute, as applicable, and file such financing statements or amendments to financing statements and cause to be authorized or executed, as applicable, and filed such continuation and other statements, all in such manner and in such places as may be required by law fully to preserve, maintain and protect the interest of the Noteholders, the Certificateholders, the Indenture Trustee and the Issuing Entity under this Agreement and the Second Step Receivables Assignment in the Receivables and in the proceeds thereof. The Depositor or the Servicer or both shall deliver (or cause to be delivered) to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee file-stamped copies of, or filing receipts for, any document filed as provided above, as soon as available following such filing.

(b) The Depositor shall not change its State of formation or its name, identity or structure in any manner that would, could or might make any financing statement or continuation statement filed in accordance with paragraph (a) above seriously misleading within the meaning of the UCC, unless it shall have given the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee at least sixty (60) days prior written notice thereof.

(c) The Depositor shall give the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee at least sixty (60) days prior written notice of any relocation of its principal executive office or change of its jurisdiction of formation if, as a result of such relocation or change of jurisdiction, the applicable provisions of the UCC would require the filing of any amendment of any

 

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previously filed financing or continuation statement or of any new financing statement. The Servicer shall at all times maintain each office from which it services Receivables and its principal executive office within the United States of America.

(d) The Servicer shall maintain accounts and records as to each Receivable accurately and in sufficient detail to permit (i) the reader thereof to know at any time the status of such Receivable, including payments and recoveries made and payments owing (and the nature of each), and (ii) reconciliation between payments or recoveries on (or with respect to) each Receivable and the amounts from time to time deposited in the Collection Account, and Note Distribution Account.

(e) The Servicer shall maintain its computer systems so that, from and after the time of sale of the Receivables under this Agreement and the Second Step Receivables Assignments, the Servicer’s master computer records (including any back-up archives) that refer to any Receivable indicate clearly that the Receivable is owned by the Issuing Entity. Indication of the Issuing Entity’s ownership of a Receivable shall be deleted from or modified on the Servicer’s computer systems when, and only when, the Receivable has been paid in full or repurchased by the Depositor or purchased by the Servicer in accordance with the terms of the Basic Documents.

(f) In the event that the Servicer shall change the jurisdiction in which it is formed or otherwise enter into any transaction which would result in a “new debtor” (as defined in the UCC) succeeding to the obligations of the Servicer hereunder, the Servicer shall comply fully with the obligations of Section 9.02(a).

(g) If at any time the Depositor or the Servicer proposes to sell, grant a security interest in, or otherwise transfer any interest in motor vehicle receivables to any prospective purchaser, lender or other transferee, the Servicer and the Depositor shall give to such prospective purchaser, lender or other transferee computer tapes, records or print-outs (including any restored from back-up archives) that, if they refer in any manner whatsoever to any Receivable, indicate clearly that such Receivable has been sold and is owned by the Issuing Entity unless such Receivable has been paid in full or repurchased by the Depositor or purchased by the Servicer.

(h) The Servicer shall permit the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee and their respective agents at any time to inspect, audit and make copies of and abstracts from the Servicer’s records regarding any Receivables then or previously included in the Owner Trust Estate.

(i) The Servicer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee at any time upon request a list of all Receivables then held as part of the Owner Trust Estate, together with a reconciliation of such list to the Schedule of Receivables and to each of the Servicer’s Accountings furnished before such request indicating removal of Receivables from the Owner Trust Estate. Upon request, the Servicer shall furnish a copy of any such list to the Depositor. The Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor shall hold any such list and the Schedule of Receivables for examination by interested parties during normal business hours at their respective offices located at the addresses specified in Section 9.03.

 

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(j) The Servicer shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee promptly after the execution and delivery of this Agreement and of each amendment thereto, an Opinion of Counsel either (a) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all financing statements and continuation statements have been authorized and filed as necessary to fully preserve and protect the interest of the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee in the Receivables, and reciting the details of such filings or referring to prior Opinions of Counsel in which such details are given, or (b) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no such action is necessary to preserve and protect such interest.

(k) To the extent required by law, the Depositor shall cause the Notes and the Certificates to be registered with the Commission pursuant to Section 12(b) or Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act within the time periods specified in such sections.

Section 9.03 Notices. All demands, notices and communications upon or to the Depositor, the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee or the Rating Agencies under this Agreement shall be delivered as specified in Appendix B hereto.

Section 9.04 GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS THEREOF OR OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 AND SECTION 5-1402 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

Section 9.05 Severability of Provisions. If any one or more of the covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement shall be for any reason whatsoever held invalid, then such covenants, agreements, provisions or terms shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement and shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of the other provisions of this Agreement or of the Securities or the rights of the holders thereof.

Section 9.06 Assignment. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, this Agreement may not be assigned by the Depositor without the prior written consent of Noteholders whose Notes evidence not less than 66% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date and of Certificateholders whose Certificates evidence not less than 66% of the Voting Interests as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date. The Depositor shall provide notice of any such assignment to the Rating Agencies.

Section 9.07 Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement and the Second Step Receivables Assignments shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and, to the extent expressly provided herein, the Noteholders, the Certificateholders, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee and their respective successors and permitted assigns. Except as otherwise provided in Section 6.01 or in this Article IX, no other Person shall have any right or obligation hereunder.

 

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Section 9.08 Separate Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

Section 9.09 Headings and Cross-References. The various headings in this Agreement are included for convenience only and shall not affect the meaning or interpretation of any provision of this Agreement.

Section 9.10 Assignment to Indenture Trustee. The Depositor hereby acknowledges and consents to any mortgage, pledge, assignment and grant of a security interest by the Issuing Entity pursuant to the Indenture for the benefit of the Noteholders and (only to the extent expressly provided in the Indenture) the Certificateholders of all right, title and interest of the Issuing Entity in, to and under the Receivables and/or the assignment of any or all of the Issuing Entity’s rights and obligations hereunder to the Indenture Trustee.

Section 9.11 No Petition Covenants. Notwithstanding any prior termination of this Agreement, the Servicer and the Depositor shall not, prior to the date which is one year and one day after the final distribution with respect to the Notes to the Note Distribution Account or, with respect to the Certificates, to the Certificateholders or the Certificate Distribution Account, acquiesce, petition or otherwise invoke or cause the Issuing Entity to invoke the process of any court or government authority for the purpose of commencing or sustaining a case against the Issuing Entity under any federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official of the Issuing Entity or any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the Issuing Entity under a federal or State bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding.

Section 9.12 Limitation of Liability of Indenture Trustee and Owner Trustee.

(a) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, this Agreement has been acknowledged and accepted by Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, not in its individual capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee and in no event shall Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas have any liability for the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements or other obligations of the Issuing Entity hereunder or in any of the certificates, notices or agreements delivered pursuant hereto, as to all of which recourse shall be had solely to the assets of the Issuing Entity. For all purposes of this Agreement, in the performance of its duties or obligations hereunder or in the performance of any duties or obligations of the Issuing Entity hereunder, the Indenture Trustee shall be subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the terms and provisions of Article VI of the Indenture.

(b) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, this Agreement has been executed by BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware not in its individual capacity but solely in its capacity as Owner Trustee of the Issuing Entity and in no event shall BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware in its individual capacity or, except as expressly provided in the Trust Agreement, as Owner Trustee of the Issuing Entity have any liability for the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements or other obligations of the Issuing Entity hereunder or in any of the certificates, notices or agreements delivered pursuant hereto, as to all of which recourse shall be had solely to the assets of the Issuing Entity. For all purposes of this Agreement, in the

 

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performance of its duties or obligations hereunder or in the performance of any duties or obligations of the Issuing Entity hereunder, the Owner Trustee shall be subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the terms and provisions of Article VI of the Trust Agreement.

Section 9.13 Tax Treatment. The Servicer covenants that for all tax purposes the Servicer shall regard and treat the Notes and the Certificates in a manner consistent with the agreements (i) among the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders in Section 2.11 of the Trust Agreement and (ii) among the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders in Section 2.14 of the Indenture.

Section 9.14 Furnishing Documents. The Indenture Trustee shall furnish to Noteholders, promptly upon receipt of a written request therefor, copies of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Administration Agreement, the Custodian Agreement, the Trust Agreement, the Indenture and this Agreement.

Section 9.15 Information to Be Provided by the Indenture Trustee.

(a) The Indenture Trustee agrees to cooperate in good faith with any reasonable request by the Depositor for information regarding the Indenture Trustee which is required in order to enable the Depositor to comply with the provisions of Items 1104(e), 1117, 1119, 1121(c) and 1122 of Regulation AB and Rule 15Ga-1 under the Exchange Act as it relates to the Indenture Trustee or to the Indenture Trustee’s obligations under this Agreement and the Indenture; provided that with respect to Rule 15Ga-1 and Items 1104(e) and 1121(c), the Indenture Trustee shall not be deemed a “securitizer” under Regulation AB or under the Exchange Act.

(b) Except to the extent disclosed by the Indenture Trustee in subsection (c) or (d) below, the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to have represented to the Depositor on the first day of each Monthly Period with respect to the prior Monthly Period that to the best of its knowledge there were no legal or governmental proceedings pending (or known to be contemplated) against Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas or any property of Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas that would be material to any Noteholder or, to the extent that the Certificates are registered under the Securities Act for public sale, any holder of such Certificates.

(c) The Indenture Trustee shall, as promptly as practicable following notice to or discovery by the Indenture Trustee of any changes to any information regarding the Indenture Trustee as is required for the purpose of compliance with Item 1117 of Regulation AB, provide to the Depositor, in writing, such updated information.

(d) The Indenture Trustee shall deliver to the Depositor on or before March 15 of each year, beginning with March 15, 2014 (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) a certificate of a representative of the Indenture Trustee with respect to the immediately preceding calendar year certifying, on behalf of the Indenture Trustee, that except to the extent otherwise disclosed in writing to Depositor, to the best of his or her knowledge there were no legal or governmental proceedings pending (or known to be contemplated) against Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas or any property of Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas that would be material to any Noteholder or, to the extent that the Certificates are registered under the Securities Act for public sale, any holder of such Certificates.

 

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(e) The Indenture Trustee shall deliver to the Depositor on or before March 15 of each year, beginning with March 15, 2014 (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) a certificate of a representative of the Indenture Trustee with respect to the immediately preceding calendar year providing to the Depositor such information regarding the Indenture Trustee as is required for the purpose of compliance with Item 1119 of Regulation AB. Such information shall include, at a minimum a description of any affiliation between the Indenture Trustee and any of the following parties to this securitization transaction, as such parties are identified to the Indenture Trustee by the Depositor in writing in advance of this securitization transaction:

(i) the Depositor;

(ii) Ally Financial, as sponsor;

(iii) the Issuing Entity;

(iv) the Servicer;

(v) the Owner Trustee; and

(vi) any other material transaction party.

(f) In connection with the parties listed in clauses (i) through (vi) above, the Indenture Trustee shall include a description of whether there is, and if so, the general character of, any business relationship, agreement, arrangement, transaction or understanding that is entered into outside the ordinary course of business or is on terms other than would be obtained in an arm’s length transaction with an unrelated third party, apart from this securitization transaction, that currently exists or that existed during the past two years and that is material to an investor’s understanding of the asset backed securities issued in this securitization transaction.

(g) The Indenture Trustee shall provide the Depositor with notification, as soon as practicable and in any event within five (5) Business Days, of all demands communicated to the Indenture Trustee for the repurchase or replacement of any Receivable pursuant to Section 2.05 of this Agreement or Section 5.04 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, as applicable.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers as of the day and year first above written.

 

CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES
ASSET TRUST 2013-3
By: BNY MELLON TRUST OF DELAWARE, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust,
  By:   /s/ Kristine K. Gullo
    Name: Kristine K. Gullo
    Title:   Vice President
CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES LLC,
Depositor
By:   /s/ R. C. Farris
  Name: R. C. Farris
  Title:   Vice President
ALLY FINANCIAL INC.,
Servicer, Custodian and Seller
By:   /s/ M. T. St. Charles
  Name: M. T. St. Charles
  Title:   Assistant Treasurer

Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement (CARAT 2013-3)


Acknowledged, Accepted, and, with respect to Sections 4.02(c), 4.05, 4.06, 4.09, 5.01, 6.05, 7.03, 9.01(c), 9.02(i), 9.14 and 9.15, Agreed to by:

DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY for DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, not in its individual capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee,

 

By:   /s/ Mark DiGiacomo
  Name: Mark DiGiacomo
  Title:   Vice President
By:   /s/ Robin Durant
  Name: Robin Durant
  Title:   Associate

Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement (CARAT 2013-3)


EXHIBIT A

SCHEDULE OF RECEIVABLES

The Schedule of Initial Receivables and any Schedule of Additional Receivables is

on file at the offices of:

 

  1. The Indenture Trustee

 

  2. The Owner Trustee

 

  3. The Servicer

 

  4. The Depositor

 

  5. The Seller

 

Ex. A


EXHIBIT B

SECOND STEP INITIAL RECEIVABLES ASSIGNMENT

PURSUANT TO TRUST SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT

For value received in accordance with and subject to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, dated as of August 21, 2013, (the “Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement”), by and among Ally Financial Inc., a Delaware corporation and in its capacity (generally, “Ally Financial”, and in its capacity as seller of the Receivables specified in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement described below, the “Seller”, in its capacity as Custodian under the Custodian Agreement, the “Custodian” and in its capacity as Servicer under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement described below, the “Servicer”), Capital Auto Receivables LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Depositor”), and Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Issuing Entity”), the Depositor hereby irrevocably sells, transfers, assigns and otherwise conveys to the Issuing Entity, without recourse (subject to the obligations herein), all right, title and interest of the Depositor, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in, to and under the following:

(i) all right, title and interest of the Depositor in, to and under the Initial Receivables listed on the Schedule of Initial Receivables, attached as Exhibit A hereto, and all monies received thereon on and after the Initial Cutoff Date, exclusive of any amounts allocable to the premium for physical damage collateral protection insurance required by the Servicer or the Seller covering any related Financed Vehicle;

(ii) the interest of the Depositor in the security interests in the Financed Vehicles granted by Obligors pursuant to the Initial Receivables and, to the extent permitted by law, any accessions thereto;

(iii) the interest of the Depositor in any proceeds from claims on any physical damage, credit life, credit disability or other insurance policies covering the related Financed Vehicles or Obligors;

(iv) the interest of the Depositor in any proceeds from recourse against Dealers on the Initial Receivables;

(v) all right, title and interest of the Depositor in, to and under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the First Step Receivables Assignments and the Custodian Agreement, including the right of the Depositor to cause the Seller or the Servicer to repurchase Receivables under certain circumstances;

(vi) the right to purchase Additional Receivables during the Revolving Period at a price equal to the Aggregate Additional Receivables Principal Balance of such Additional Receivables as of each Distribution Date; and

(vii) all present and future claims, demands, causes and choses in action in respect of any or all of the foregoing described in clauses (i) through (vi) above and all payments on or under and all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in respect of any or all of the

 

Ex. B-1


foregoing, including all proceeds of the conversion of any or all of the foregoing, voluntary or involuntary, into cash or other liquid property, all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes, drafts, acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit accounts, insurance proceeds, investment property, payment intangibles, general intangibles, condemnation awards, rights to payment of any and every kind and other forms of obligations and receivables, instruments and other property which at any time constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the foregoing.

The Depositor hereby represents that as of the Initial Cutoff Date, the Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance was $1,075,013,471.59 and acknowledges that in consideration of such Receivables, the Issuing Entity has paid to the Depositor, in the form of Notes and Certificates, an amount equal to $1,075,013,471.59.

THIS SECOND STEP INITIAL RECEIVABLES ASSIGNMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS THEREOF OR OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 AND SECTION 5-1402 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS SECOND STEP INITIAL RECEIVABLES ASSIGNMENT SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

This Second Step Initial Receivables Assignment is made pursuant to and upon the representations, warranties and agreements on the part of the Depositor contained in the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and is to be governed in all respects by the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

* * * *

 

Ex. B-2


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers as of the day and year first above written.

 

  CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES LLC,
  as Depositor
By:    
  Name:
  Title:

 

Ex. B-3


EXHIBIT C

SECOND STEP ADDITIONAL RECEIVABLES ASSIGNMENT

PURSUANT TO TRUST SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT

For value received in accordance with and subject to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, dated as of August 21, 2013 (the “Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement”), by and among Ally Financial Inc., a Delaware corporation and in its capacity as Seller and Servicer under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement described below (the “Seller” in its capacity as seller of the Receivables and as the “Servicer” in its capacity as servicer of the Receivables), Capital Auto Receivables, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Depositor”), and Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Issuing Entity”), the Depositor hereby irrevocably sells, transfers, assigns and otherwise conveys to the Issuing Entity, without recourse (subject to the obligations herein), as of [            ], 20[    ] all right, title and interest of the Depositor, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in, to and under the following:

(i) all right, title and interest of the Depositor in, to and under the Additional Receivables listed on the Schedule of Additional Receivables, attached as Exhibit A hereto, and all monies received thereon on and after the Subsequent Cutoff Date, exclusive of any amounts allocable to the premium for physical damage collateral protection insurance required by the Servicer or the Seller covering any related Financed Vehicle;

(ii) the interest of the Depositor in the security interests in the Financed Vehicles granted by Obligors pursuant to the Additional Receivables and, to the extent permitted by law, any accessions thereto;

(iii) the interest of the Depositor in any proceeds from claims on any physical damage, credit life, credit disability or other insurance policies covering the related Financed Vehicles or Obligors;

(iv) the interest of the Depositor in any proceeds from recourse against Dealers on the Additional Receivables;

(v) all right, title and interest of the Depositor in, to and under the First Step Additional Receivables Assignments; and

(vi) all present and future claims, demands, causes and choses in action in respect of any or all of the foregoing described in clauses (i) through (v) above and all payments on or under and all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in respect of any or all of the foregoing, including all proceeds of the conversion of any or all of the foregoing, voluntary or involuntary, into cash or other liquid property, all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes, drafts, acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit accounts, insurance proceeds, investment property, payment intangibles, general intangibles, condemnation awards, rights to payment of any and every kind and other forms of obligations and receivables, instruments and other property which at any time constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the foregoing.

 

Ex. C-1


The Depositor hereby represents that as of the Subsequent Cutoff Date, the Aggregate Additional Receivables Principal Balance of the Additional Receivables was $            and acknowledges that in consideration of such Additional Receivables, the Issuing Entity has paid to the Depositor, an amount equal to $            .

THIS SECOND STEP ADDITIONAL RECEIVABLES ASSIGNMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS THEREOF OR OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 AND SECTION 5-1402 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS SECOND STEP ADDITIONAL RECEIVABLES ASSIGNMENT SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

This Second Step Additional Receivables Assignment is made pursuant to and upon the representations, warranties and agreements on the part of the Depositor contained in the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and is to be governed in all respects by the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

* * * *

 

Ex. C-2


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers as of the day and year first above written.

 

CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES LLC,
as Depositor
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

[Attach Schedule of Additional Receivables]

 

Ex. C-3


EXHIBIT D

FORM OF OFFICER’S CERTIFICATE

The undersigned, on behalf of Ally Financial Inc., as Administrator, (the “Administrator “), does hereby certify pursuant to Section 2.07(j) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, dated as of August 21, 2013 (the “Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement”), by and among Ally Financial Inc., a Delaware corporation and in its capacity as Servicer under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement described below (the “Servicer”), Capital Auto Receivables LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Depositor”), and Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Issuing Entity”), that all of the conditions to the transfer to the Issuing Entity of the Additional Receivables listed on the Second Step Additional Receivables Assignment delivered herewith and the other property and rights related to such Additional Receivables, as described in Section 2.07 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, have been satisfied on or prior to the related Subsequent Closing Date.

Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

* * * *

 

Ex. D-1


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this certificate to be duly executed by this             day of             .

 

By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

Ex. D-2


EXHIBIT E

Additional Representations and Warranties

 

1. This Agreement and the Indenture create a valid and continuing security interest (as defined in the applicable UCC) in the Purchased Property in favor of the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee, as applicable, which security interest is prior to all other Liens, and is enforceable as such as against creditors of and purchasers from the Depositor and the Issuing Entity, respectively.

 

2. All steps necessary to perfect the Depositor’s security interest against each Obligor in the property securing the Purchased Property have been taken.

 

3. Prior to the sale of the Purchased Property to the Issuing Entity under this Agreement, the Receivables constitute “tangible chattel paper” within the meaning of the applicable UCC.

 

4. The Depositor owns and has good and marketable title to the Purchased Property free and clear of any Lien, claim or encumbrance of any Person.

 

5. The Depositor has caused or will have caused, within ten (10) days, the filing of all appropriate financing statements in the proper filing office in the appropriate jurisdictions under applicable law in order to perfect the security interest in the Purchased Property granted to the Issuing Entity hereunder and the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture.

 

6. Other than the security interest granted to the Depositor pursuant to the Basic Documents, the Issuing Entity under the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture, none of the Seller, the Depositor or the Issuing Entity has pledged, assigned, sold, granted a security interest in, or otherwise conveyed any of the Purchased Property. None of the Seller, the Depositor or the Issuing Entity has authorized the filing of, nor is the Depositor aware of, any financing statements against the Seller, the Depositor or the Issuing Entity that include a description of collateral covering the Purchased Property other than the financing statements relating to the security interests granted to the Depositor, the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee under the Basic Documents or any financing statement that has been terminated. The Depositor is not aware of any judgment or tax lien filings against the Seller, the Depositor or the Issuing Entity.

 

7. The Custodian has in its possession or with other third party vendors all original copies of the Receivables Files and other documents that constitute or evidence the Receivables and the Purchased Property. The Receivables Files and other documents that constitute or evidence the Purchased Property do not have any marks or notations indicating that they have been pledged, assigned or otherwise conveyed to any Person other than the Depositor. All financing statements filed or to be filed against the Depositor in favor of the Issuing Entity in connection herewith describing the Receivables contain a statement to the following effect: “A purchase of or security interest in any collateral described in this financing statement will violate the rights of the Issuing Entity.”

 

Ex. E


APPENDIX A

PART I — DEFINITIONS

All terms defined in this Appendix shall have the defined meanings when used in the Basic Documents, unless otherwise defined therein.

Account Holder: A bank or trust company, whose short-term unsecured debt obligations have the Required Deposit Rating, that holds one or more of the Designated Accounts.

Accumulation Account: The account designated as such, established and maintained pursuant to Section 5.01(a)(iii) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

Accumulation Amount: For any Distribution Date during the Revolving Period, the aggregate amount on deposit in the Accumulation Account.

Act: An Act as specified in Section 11.3(a) of the Indenture.

Additional Purchased Property: As defined in Section 2.01(b) of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

Additional Receivables: Any retail installment sale contract or direct purchase money loan for a Financed Vehicle that is included in the Schedule of Additional Receivables attached to a First Step Additional Receivables Assignment and all rights and obligations thereunder.

Administration Agreement: That certain Administration Agreement, dated as of the Initial Closing Date, among Ally Financial, as Administrator, the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee, as amended, supplemented or modified from time to time.

Administrative Purchase Payment: With respect to a Distribution Date and to an Administrative Receivable purchased as of the last day of the related Monthly Period, a payment equal to the Amount Financed minus that portion of all payments made by or on behalf of the related Obligor on or prior to the last day of the related Monthly Period allocable to principal.

Administrative Receivable: A Receivable that the Servicer is required to purchase pursuant to Section 3.07 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement or which the Servicer has elected to repurchase pursuant to Section 8.01(a) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

Administrator: Ally Financial or any successor Administrator under the Administration Agreement.

Affiliate: With respect to any specified Person, any other Person controlling, controlled by or under common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

 

App. A-1


Agency Office: The office of the Issuing Entity maintained pursuant to Section 3.2 of the Indenture.

Aggregate Additional Receivables Principal Balance: With respect to a Distribution Date during the Revolving Period, the aggregate of the Receivable Principal Balances of each Additional Receivable purchased by the Issuing Entity on that Distribution Date.

Aggregate Amount Financed: The aggregate of the Amount Financed for each Receivable as of the Applicable Cutoff Date. As of the Initial Cutoff Date, the Aggregate Amount Financed was $1,075,013,471.59.

Aggregate Class A Interest Distributable Amount: With respect to any Distribution Date, the sum of (i) the aggregate of the Note Class Interest Distributable Amount for each class of the Class A Notes as of such Distribution Date and (ii) the Class A Interest Carryover Shortfall as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date.

Aggregate Class B Interest Distributable Amount: With respect to any Distribution Date, the sum of (i) the Note Class Interest Distributable Amount for the Class B Notes as of such Distribution Date and (ii) the Class B Interest Carryover Shortfall as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date.

Aggregate Class C Interest Distributable Amount: With respect to any Distribution Date, the sum of (i) the Note Class Interest Distributable Amount for the Class C Notes as of such Distribution Date and (ii) the Class C Interest Carryover Shortfall as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date.

Aggregate Class D Interest Distributable Amount: With respect to any Distribution Date, the sum of (i) the Note Class Interest Distributable Amount for the Class D Notes as of such Distribution Date and (ii) the Class D Interest Carryover Shortfall as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date.

Aggregate Class E Interest Distributable Amount: With respect to any Distribution Date, the sum of (i) the Note Class Interest Distributable Amount for the Class E Notes as of such Distribution Date and (ii) the Class E Interest Carryover Shortfall as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date.

Aggregate Note Principal Balance: With respect to the close of a Distribution Date, the sum of the Note Principal Balances for all classes of Notes.

Aggregate Noteholders’ Interest Distributable Amount: With respect to any Distribution Date the sum of (i) the Aggregate Class A Interest Distributable Amount as of such Distribution Date, (ii) the Aggregate Class B Interest Distributable Amount as of such Distribution Date, (iii) the Aggregate Class C Interest Distributable Amount as of such Distribution Date, (iv) the Aggregate Class D Interest Distributable Amount as of such Distribution Date and (v) the Aggregate Class E Interest Distributable Amount as of such Distribution Date.

 

App. A-2


Aggregate Noteholders’ Principal Distributable Amount: With respect to any Distribution Date during the Amortization Period, the sum of (i) the Noteholders’ Regular Principal Distributable Amount as of such Distribution Date and (ii) the Aggregate Noteholders’ Priority Principal Distributable Amount as of such Distribution Date. With respect to any Distribution Date during the Revolving Period, the Aggregate Noteholders’ Principal Distributable Amount shall be equal to zero.

Aggregate Noteholders’ Priority Principal Distributable Amount: With respect to any Distribution Date during the Amortization Period, the sum of (i) the First Priority Principal Distributable Amount, (ii) the Second Priority Principal Distributable Amount, (iii) the Third Priority Principal Distributable Amount, (iv) the Fourth Priority Principal Distributable Amount and (v) the Fifth Priority Principal Distributable Amount, each as of such Distribution Date. With respect to any Distribution Date during the Revolving Period, the Aggregate Noteholders’ Priority Principal Distributable Amount shall be equal to zero.

Aggregate Principal Balance of Non-Subvented Receivables: As of any date, the present value as of such date of all scheduled monthly payments on all of the Non-Subvented Receivables (other than Liquidating Receivables) held by the Issuing Entity on such date which have not been applied on or prior to such date (determined after taking into account any Warranty Payments and Administrative Purchase Payments in respect of such Receivables), with each Receivable being discounted from the last day of the calendar month in which payments are to become due to such date at the greater of the Discount Rate and the Annual Percentage Rate.

Aggregate Principal Balance of Subvented Receivables: As of any date, the present value as of such date of all scheduled monthly payments on all of the Subvented Receivables (other than Liquidating Receivables) held by the Issuing Entity on such date which have not been applied on or prior to such date (determined after taking into account any Warranty Payments and Administrative Purchase Payments in respect of such Receivables), with each Receivable being discounted from the last day of the calendar month in which payments are to become due to such date at the greater of the Discount Rate and the Annual Percentage Rate.

Aggregate Receivables Face Amount: As of any date, the sum of the Principal Balances of all outstanding Receivables (other than Liquidating Receivables) held by the Issuing Entity on such date.

Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance: As of any date, the sum of (i) the Aggregate Principal Balance of Subvented Receivables and (ii) the Aggregate Principal Balance of Non-Subvented Receivables, each as of such date.

Ally Financial: Ally Financial Inc., a Delaware corporation, formerly known as GMAC Inc., GMAC LLC and General Motors Acceptance Corporation, and its successors and assigns.

Amortization Date: The earlier of (i) August 1, 2014 and (ii) the date on which an Early Amortization Event occurs.

Amortization Period: The period beginning on the Amortization Date and ending on the date that all classes of Notes have been paid in full.

 

App. A-3


Amount Financed: With respect to a Receivable, the aggregate amount advanced under such Receivable toward the purchase price of the Financed Vehicle, including accessories, insurance premiums, service and warranty contracts and other items customarily financed as part of retail automobile installment sale contracts and direct purchase money loans and related costs, less:

 

  (i) payments received from the related Obligor prior to the Cutoff Date allocable to principal and

 

  (ii) any amount allocable to the premium for physical damage collateral protection insurance covering the Financed Vehicle required by the Servicer or the Seller.

Annual Percentage Rate: With respect to a Receivable, the annual rate of finance charges stated in such Receivable.

Annual Statement of Compliance: The Officer’s Certificate required to be delivered by the Issuing Entity, pursuant to Section 3.9 of the Indenture or the Officer’s Certificate required to be delivered by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.01(a) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, as applicable.

Applicable Cutoff Date: For a particular Receivable, the related Cutoff Date.

Applicable Trustee: So long as the Aggregate Note Principal Balance is greater than zero and the Indenture has not been discharged in accordance with its terms, the Indenture Trustee, and thereafter, the Owner Trustee.

Authorized Officer: (i) With respect to the Issuing Entity, any officer or agent acting under power of attorney of the Owner Trustee who is authorized to act for the Owner Trustee in matters relating to the Issuing Entity and who is identified on the list of Authorized Officers delivered by the Owner Trustee to the Indenture Trustee on the Closing Date (as such list may be modified or supplemented from time to time thereafter) or the power of attorney and, so long as the Administration Agreement is in effect, any officer of the Administrator who is authorized to act for the Administrator in matters relating to the Issuing Entity and to be acted upon by the Administrator pursuant to the Administration Agreement and who is identified on the list of Authorized Officers delivered by the Administrator to the Indenture Trustee on the Closing Date (as such list may be modified or supplemented from time to time thereafter) and (ii) with respect to the Servicer, any officer or agent of the Servicer who is authorized to act for the Servicer in matters relating to the Servicer or the Issuing Entity and to be acted upon by the Servicer pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

Available Interest: With respect to any Distribution Date, the sum of the following amounts with respect to the prior Monthly Period:

 

  (i) that portion of all collections on the Receivables held by the Issuing Entity (other than Liquidating Receivables) allocable to interest;

 

  (ii) Liquidation Proceeds to the extent allocable to interest;

 

App. A-4


  (iii) the Warranty Payment or the Administrative Purchase Payment for each Receivable that the Depositor repurchased or the Servicer purchased during such Monthly Period to the extent allocable to accrued interest; and

 

  (iv) any Investment Earnings on funds on deposit in the Accumulation Account;

except that any of the foregoing amounts, to the extent they constitute amounts representing Liquidation Expenses pursuant to Section 3.03 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, shall be excluded from “Available Interest.”

For purposes of this definition, references to the prior Monthly Period shall mean (i) with respect to any Initial Receivable and the initial Distribution Date, the period from and including the Initial Cutoff Date to the end of the calendar month preceding the initial Distribution Date and (ii) with respect to any Additional Receivable and the first Distribution Date following its Applicable Cutoff Date, the period from and including its Applicable Cutoff Date to the end of the calendar month preceding such first Distribution Date. All of the preceding allocations called for herein shall be made in accordance with the Servicer’s customary servicing procedures.

Available Principal: With respect to any Distribution Date, the sum of the following amounts with respect to the prior Monthly Period:

 

  (i) that portion of all collections on Receivables held by the Issuing Entity (other than Liquidating Receivables) allocable to principal;

 

  (ii) Liquidation Proceeds to the extent allocable to principal; and

 

  (iii) to the extent allocable to principal, the Warranty Payment or the Administrative Purchase Payment for each Receivable that the Depositor repurchased or the Servicer purchased during such Monthly Period;

except that any of the foregoing amounts, to the extent they constitute amounts representing reimbursement for Liquidation Expenses pursuant to Section 3.03 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, shall be excluded from “Available Principal.”

For purposes of this definition, references to the prior Monthly Period shall mean (i) with respect to any Initial Receivable and the initial Distribution Date, the period from and including the Initial Cutoff Date to the end of the calendar month preceding the initial Distribution Date and (ii) with respect to any Additional Receivable and the first Distribution Date following its Applicable Cutoff Date, the period from and including its Applicable Cutoff Date to the end of the calendar month preceding such first Distribution Date. All of the preceding allocations called for herein shall be made in accordance with the Servicer’s customary servicing procedures.

Bankruptcy Code: Title 11 of the United States Code, as the same may be amended from time to time.

Basic Documents: The Certificate of Trust, the Trust Agreement, the Pooling and Servicing Agreement (including the First Step Receivables Assignments), the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement (including the Second Step Receivables Assignments), the Custodian Agreement, the Administration Agreement, the Indenture, the Note Depository Agreement, the Notes, the Certificates and the other documents and certificates delivered in connection therewith.

 

App. A-5


Basic Servicing Fee: With respect to a Distribution Date, the basic fee payable to the Servicer for services rendered during the related Monthly Period, which shall be equal to the sum of (a) one-twelfth (1/12th) of the Basic Servicing Fee Rate multiplied by the Aggregate Receivables Face Amount of all Receivables held by the Issuing Entity as of the first day of such Monthly Period (or, for the first Distribution Date, the Basic Servicing Fee Rate multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is 30 and the denominator of which is 360, multiplied by the Aggregate Receivables Face Amount as of the Initial Closing Date) and (b) any unpaid Basic Servicing Fees from any prior Distribution Date.

Basic Servicing Fee Rate: 1.25% per annum.

Benefit Plan: Any of (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA, that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” subject to Section 4975 of the Code or (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of investment by an employee benefit plan or plan in such entity.

Book-Entry Notes: A beneficial interest in the Notes, ownership and transfers of which shall be made through book entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 2.10 of the Indenture.

Business Day: Any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or any other day on which banks in New York, New York or Detroit, Michigan may, or are required to, remain closed.

CARI: Capital Auto Receivables LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

Certificate: The Certificates executed by the Issuing Entity and authenticated by the Owner Trustee in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A to the Trust Agreement.

Certificate Distribution Account: The account, if applicable, designated as such, established and maintained pursuant to Section 5.1(a) of the Trust Agreement.

Certificate of Trust: The certificate of trust of the Issuing Entity substantially in the form of Exhibit B to the Trust Agreement filed for the Issuing Entity pursuant to Section 3810(a) of the Statutory Trust Act.

Certificate Owner: The owner of an interest in a Certificate.

Certificate Register: The register of Certificates specified in Section 3.4 of the Trust Agreement.

Certificate Registrar: The registrar at any time of the Certificate Register, appointed pursuant to Section 3.4(a) of the Trust Agreement.

 

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Certificateholder: A Person in whose name a Certificate is registered pursuant to the terms of the Trust Agreement.

Class A Interest Carryover Shortfall: With respect to any Distribution Date, as of the close of business on such Distribution Date, the excess of (i) the Aggregate Class A Interest Distributable Amount for such Distribution Date over (ii) the amount that was actually deposited in the Note Distribution Account on such Distribution Date in respect of interest for the Class A Notes.

Class A Notes: Collectively, the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, and the Class A-4 Notes.

Class A-1 Notes: Collectively, the Class A-1a Notes and the Class A-1b Notes.

Class A-1a Notes: The 0.80% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-1a in the initial aggregate principal balance of $95,000,000 issued pursuant to the Indenture.

Class A-1b Notes: The Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes, Class A-1b in the initial aggregate principal balance of $166,000,000 issued pursuant to the Indenture.

Class A-2 Notes: The 1.04% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-2 in the initial aggregate principal balance of $266,000,000 issued pursuant to the Indenture.

Class A-3 Notes: The 1.31% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-3 in the initial aggregate principal balance of $260,000,000 issued pursuant to the Indenture.

Class A-4 Notes: The 1.68% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-4 in the initial aggregate principal balance of $73,010,000 issued pursuant to the Indenture.

Class B Interest Carryover Shortfall: With respect to any Distribution Date, as of the close of business on such Distribution Date, the excess of (i) the Aggregate Class B Interest Distributable Amount for such Distribution Date over (ii) the amount that was actually deposited in the Note Distribution Account on such Distribution Date in respect of interest for the Class B Notes.

Class B Notes: The 2.32% Asset Backed Notes, Class B in the initial aggregate principal balance of $51,060,000 issued pursuant to the Indenture.

Class C Interest Carryover Shortfall: With respect to any Distribution Date, as of the close of business on such Distribution Date, the excess of (i) the Aggregate Class C Interest Distributable Amount for such Distribution Date over (ii) the amount that was actually deposited in the Note Distribution Account on such Distribution Date in respect of interest for the Class C Notes.

Class C Notes: The 2.79% Asset Backed Notes, Class C in the initial aggregate principal balance of $48,380,000 issued pursuant to the Indenture.

 

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Class D Interest Carryover Shortfall: With respect to any Distribution Date, as of the close of business on such Distribution Date, the excess of (i) the Aggregate Class D Interest Distributable Amount for such Distribution Date over (ii) the amount that was actually deposited in the Note Distribution Account on such Distribution Date in respect of interest for the Class D Notes.

Class D Notes: The 3.69% Asset Backed Notes, Class D in the initial aggregate principal balance of $43,000,000 issued pursuant to the Indenture.

Class E Interest Carryover Shortfall: With respect to any Distribution Date, as of the close of business on such Distribution Date, the excess of (i) the Aggregate Class E Interest Distributable Amount for such Distribution Date over (ii) the amount that was actually deposited in the Note Distribution Account on such Distribution Date in respect of interest for the Class E Notes.

Class E Notes: The 4.55% Asset Backed Notes, Class E in the initial aggregate principal balance of $37,630,000 issued pursuant to the Indenture.

Clearing Agency: An organization registered as a “clearing agency” pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act. The initial Clearing Agency shall be The Depository Trust Company.

Clearing Agency Participant: A securities broker, dealer, bank, trust company, clearing corporation or other financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Clearing Agency effects book entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the Clearing Agency.

Code: The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder.

Collateral: The collateral specified in the Granting Clause of the Indenture.

Collection Account: The account designated as such, established and maintained pursuant to Section 5.01(a)(i) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

Commission: The Securities and Exchange Commission.

Controlling Class: (a) So long as the Class A Notes are outstanding, the Class A Notes, (b) if the Class A Notes are no longer outstanding but the Class B Notes are outstanding, the Class B Notes, (c) if the Class A Notes and the Class B Notes are no longer outstanding but the Class C Notes are outstanding, the Class C Notes, (d) if the Class A Notes, the Class B Notes and the Class C Notes are no longer outstanding but the Class D Notes are outstanding, the Class D Notes, and (e) if the Class A Notes, the Class B Notes, the Class C Notes and the Class D Notes are no longer outstanding but the Class E Notes are outstanding, the Class E Notes.

Corporate Trust Office: With respect to the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, the principal office at which at any particular time the corporate trust business of the Indenture Trustee or Owner Trustee, respectively, shall be administered, which offices at the Closing Date are located, in the case of the Indenture Trustee, (i) solely for purposes of transfer, surrender, or

 

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exchange of the Notes, Transfer Agency and Static Data, DB Services Americas, Inc., US CTAS Operations, 5022 Gate Parkway, Suite 200, Jacksonville, FL 32256 USA, and (ii) for all other purposes, the principal office of the Indenture Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office at the date of execution of this Indenture is located at 100 Plaza One—MS: JCY03-0699, Jersey City, NJ 07311, Attention: Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3, Email: as set forth on the attached Schedule 1, and in the case of the Owner Trustee, at BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware, 100 White Clay Center, Suite 102, Newark, DE 19711.

Cumulative Receivables: As of any Subsequent Closing Date, means all Additional Receivables sold by Ally Financial to the Depositor and by the Depositor to the Issuing Entity on or before such Subsequent Closing Date, whether or not such Additional Receivable is still outstanding or owned by the Issuing Entity on such Subsequent Closing Date.

Custodian: Ally Financial, as Custodian, or another custodian named from time to time in the Custodian Agreement.

Custodian Agreement: The Custodian Agreement, dated as of the Initial Closing Date, between the Custodian and the Depositor, as amended, supplemented or modified from time to time.

Cutoff Date: The Initial Cutoff Date with respect to the Initial Receivables or the applicable Subsequent Cutoff Date with respect to any Additional Receivables.

Dealer: The seller of automobiles or light trucks that originated one or more of the Receivables and assigned the respective Receivable, directly or indirectly, to Ally Financial under an existing agreement between such seller and Ally Financial.

Dealer Agreement: An existing agreement between Ally Financial or one of its Affiliates and a Dealer with respect to a Receivable.

Default: Any occurrence that is, or with notice or the lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default.

Definitive Notes: The Notes issued in the form of definitive notes pursuant to Section 2.12 of the Indenture.

Depositor: The Person executing the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement as the Depositor, or its successor in interest pursuant to Section 3.03 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

Designated Account Property: The Designated Accounts, all cash, investments, Financial Assets, securities and investment property held from time to time in any Designated Account (whether in the form of deposit accounts, Physical Property, book-entry securities, Uncertificated Securities or otherwise), including the Reserve Account Initial Deposit, and all proceeds of the foregoing but excluding all Investment Earnings thereon.

 

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Designated Accounts: The Accumulation Account, the Collection Account, the Note Distribution Account and the Reserve Account, collectively.

Determination Date: The fifteenth day of each calendar month, or if such fifteenth day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day.

Discount Rate: With respect to the Initial Receivables, 0.00% per annum and, with respect to each pool of Additional Receivables as of each Subsequent Cutoff Date, a per annum rate, if any, which when applied to scheduled payments results in payments allocable to interest on such Additional Receivables transferred on each Subsequent Closing Date is equal to within 0.20% of 7.80%.

Distribution Date: With respect to a Monthly Period, the 20th day of the next succeeding calendar month or, if such 20th day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing September 20, 2013.

Early Amortization Event: The occurrence during the Revolving Period of one or more of the following: (i) the amount on deposit in the Reserve Account is less than the Specified Reserve Account Balance on two consecutive Distribution Dates after payment of the Aggregate Additional Receivables Principal Balance; (ii) the amount on deposit in the Accumulation Account is less than the Target Reinvestment Amount on two consecutive Distribution Dates after payment of the Aggregate Additional Receivables Principal Balance; (iii) after payment of the Aggregate Additional Receivables Principal Balance on three consecutive Distribution Dates, the amount on deposit in the Accumulation Account exceeds 0.10% of the Initial Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance; (iv) an Event of Default occurs; or (v) a Servicer Default occurs.

Eligible Deposit Account: Either (i) a segregated account with an Eligible Institution or (ii) a segregated trust account with the corporate trust department of a depository institution organized under the laws of the United States of America or any State (or any domestic branch of a foreign bank), having corporate trust powers and acting as trustee for funds deposited in such account, so long as any of the securities of such depository institution have a credit rating from each Rating Agency in one of its generic rating categories which signifies investment grade.

Eligible Institution: Either (i) the corporate trust department of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, as applicable, or (ii) a depository institution organized under the laws of the United States of America or any State (or any domestic branch of a foreign bank), (A) which has either (1) a long-term unsecured debt rating acceptable to the Rating Agencies or (2) a short-term unsecured debt rating or certificate of deposit rating acceptable to the Rating Agencies and (B) whose deposits are insured by the FDIC.

Eligible Investments: Book-entry securities, negotiable instruments or securities represented by instruments in bearer or registered form which evidence:

 

  (i) direct obligations of, and obligations fully guaranteed as to timely payment of principal and interest by, the United States of America;

 

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  (ii) demand deposits, time deposits or certificates of deposit of any depository institution or trust company incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof (or any domestic branch of a foreign bank) and subject to supervision and examination by Federal or State banking or depository institution authorities; provided, however, that at the time of the investment or contractual commitment to invest therein, the commercial paper or other short-term unsecured debt obligations (other than such obligations the rating of which is based on the credit of a Person other than such depository institution or trust company) thereof shall have a credit rating from each of the Rating Agencies in the highest investment category for short-term unsecured debt obligations or certificates of deposit granted thereby;

 

  (iii) commercial paper having, at the time of the investment or contractual commitment to invest therein, a rating from each of the Rating Agencies in the highest investment category for short-term unsecured debt obligations or certificates of deposit granted thereby;

 

  (iv) investments in money market or common trust funds having a rating from each of the Rating Agencies in the highest investment category for short-term unsecured debt obligations or certificates of deposit granted thereby (including funds for which the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee or any of their respective affiliates is investment manager or advisor, so long as such fund shall have such rating);

 

  (v) bankers’ acceptances issued by any depository institution or trust company referred to in clause (ii) above;

 

  (vi) repurchase obligations with respect to any security that is a direct obligation of, or fully guaranteed by, the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof the obligations of which are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America, in either case entered into with (A) a depository institution or trust company (acting as principal) described in clause (ii) or (B) a depository institution or trust company (x) the deposits of which are insured by FDIC or (y) the counterparty for which has a rating from each of the Rating Agencies in the highest investment category for short-term unsecured debt obligations, the collateral for which is held by a custodial bank for the benefit of the Trust or the Indenture Trustee, is marked to market daily and is maintained in an amount that exceeds the amount of such repurchase obligation, and which is required to be liquidated immediately upon the amount of such collateral being less than the amount of such repurchase obligation (unless the counterparty immediately satisfies the repurchase obligation upon being notified of such shortfall);

 

  (vii) commercial paper master notes having, at the time of the investment or contractual commitment to invest therein, a rating from each of the Rating Agencies in the highest investment category for short-term unsecured debt obligations;

 

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  (viii) (solely in the case of the Reserve Account) the Class A Notes; and

 

  (ix) any other investment permitted by each of the Rating Agencies,

in each case, unless otherwise permitted by the Rating Agencies, maturing (A) not later than the Business Day immediately preceding the next Distribution Date or (B) on such next Distribution Date if either (x) such investment is issued by the institution with which the Note Distribution Account is then maintained or (y) the Indenture Trustee (so long as the short-term unsecured debt obligations of the Indenture Trustee are rated at least P-1 by Moody’s Investors Service and A-1+ by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, on the date such investment is made) shall advance funds on such Distribution Date to the Note Distribution Account in the amount payable on such investment on such Distribution Date pending receipt thereof to the extent necessary to make distributions on the Notes on such Distribution Date. If a Rating Agency that is rating the Notes has failed to provide a rating for an investment, then an equivalent required deposit rating may be obtained from another nationally recognized rating agency. For purposes of the foregoing, unless the Indenture Trustee objects at the time an investment is made, the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to have agreed to make such advance with respect to such investment.

Entitlement Holder: Has the meaning given such term in Section 8-102(a)(7) of the New York UCC.

ERISA: The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.

Event of Default: An event described in Section 5.1 of the Indenture.

Event of Default Proceeds: As defined in Section 8.01(b) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

Event of Default Sale: As defined in Section 8.01(b) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

Exchange Act: The Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

Executive Officer: With respect to any corporation or limited liability company, the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, President, Executive Vice President, any Vice President, the Secretary or the Treasurer of such entity; and with respect to any partnership, any general partner thereof.

Expenses: The expenses described in Section 6.9 of the Trust Agreement.

FDIC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any successor agency.

Fifth Priority Principal Distributable Amount: With respect to any Distribution Date related to the Amortization Period, an amount, not less than zero, equal to the difference between (i) the excess, if any, of (a) the aggregate outstanding principal balance of all the Notes as of the preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to any principal payments made on the Notes on such preceding Distribution Date) over (b) the Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance as of the close of business on the last day of the immediately preceding Monthly Period, and (ii) the sum

 

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of (a) the First Priority Principal Distributable Amount, if any, with respect to such Distribution Date, (b) the Second Priority Principal Distributable Amount, if any, with respect to such Distribution Date, (c) the Third Priority Principal Distributable Amount, if any, with respect to such Distribution Date and (d) the Fourth Priority Principal Distributable Amount, if any, with respect to such Distribution Date.

Final Scheduled Distribution Date: With respect to a class of Notes, the Distribution Date in the month and year set forth below opposite such Notes:

 

Class A-1 Notes:    November 20, 2015;
Class A-2 Notes:    November 21, 2016;
Class A-3 Notes:    December 20, 2017;
Class A-4 Notes:    April 20, 2018;
Class B Notes:    July 20, 2018;
Class C Notes:    October 22, 2018;
Class D Notes:    February 20, 2019; and
Class E Notes    March 21, 2022.

Financed Vehicle: A new or used car or light truck, together with all accessories thereto, securing an Obligor’s indebtedness under a Receivable.

Financial Asset: Has the meaning given such term in Article 8 of the New York UCC. As used herein, the Financial Asset “related to” a Security Entitlement is the Financial Asset in which the Entitlement Holder holding such Security Entitlement has the rights and property interest specified in Article 8 of the New York UCC.

Financial Parties: The Noteholders and the Certificateholders.

First Priority Principal Distributable Amount: With respect to any Distribution Date related to the Amortization Period, an amount equal to the excess, if any, of (i) the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Class A Notes as of the preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to any principal payments made on the Class A Notes on such preceding Distribution Date) over (ii) the Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance as of the close of business on the last day of the immediately preceding Monthly Period.

First Step Additional Receivables Assignment: As defined in Section 2.02(b) of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

First Step Initial Receivables Assignment: As defined in Section 2.02(a) of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

First Step Receivables Assignments: As defined in Section 2.02(b) of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

Fixed Rate Notes: Together, the Class A-1a Notes, Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4 Notes, the Class B Notes, the Class C Notes, the Class D Notes and the Class E Notes.

 

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Floating Rate Notes: The Class A-1b Notes.

Fourth Priority Principal Distributable Amount: With respect to any Distribution Date related to the Amortization Period, an amount, not less than zero, equal to the difference between (i) the excess, if any, of (a) the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Class A Notes, the Class B Notes, the Class C Notes and the Class D Notes as of the preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to any principal payments made on the Class A Notes, the Class B Notes, the Class C Notes and the Class D Notes on such preceding Distribution Date) over (b) the Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance as of the close of business on the last day of the immediately preceding Monthly Period, and (ii) the sum of (a) the First Priority Principal Distributable Amount, if any, with respect to such Distribution Date, (b) the Second Priority Principal Distributable Amount, if any, with respect to such Distribution Date, and (c) the Third Priority Principal Distributable Amount, if any, with respect to such Distribution Date.

Fractional Undivided Interest: The percentage interest in the Issuing Entity shown on a Certificateholders’ Certificate.

Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements: As defined in the recitals to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

General Motors: General Motors Company, a Delaware corporation, and its successors and assigns, or General Motors LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and its successors and assigns.

Grant: To mortgage, pledge, bargain, sell, warrant, alienate, remise, release, convey, assign, transfer, create, and grant a lien upon, a security interest in and right of set-off against, deposit, set over and confirm pursuant to the Indenture. A Grant of the Collateral or of any other agreement or instrument shall include all rights, powers and options (but none of the obligations) of the Granting party thereunder, including the immediate and continuing right to claim for, collect, receive and give receipt for principal and interest payments in respect of, the Collateral and all other moneys payable thereunder, to give and receive notices and other communications, to make waivers or other agreements, to exercise all rights and options, to bring Proceedings in the name of the Granting party or otherwise and generally to do and receive anything that the Granting party is or may be entitled to do or receive thereunder or with respect thereto.

Holder: The Person in whose name a Note or Certificate is registered on the Note Register or the Certificate Register, as applicable.

Indemnified Parties: The Persons specified in Section 6.9 of the Trust Agreement.

Indenture: The Indenture, dated as of the Initial Closing Date, between the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee, as amended, supplemented or modified from time to time.

Indenture Trustee: Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee under the Indenture, or any successor trustee under the Indenture.

 

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Independent: When used with respect to any specified Person, that the Person (i) is in fact independent of the Issuing Entity, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Depositor and any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons, (ii) does not have any direct financial interest or any material indirect financial interest in the Issuing Entity, any such other obligor, the Depositor or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons and (iii) is not connected with the Issuing Entity, any such other obligor, the Depositor or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons as an officer, employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director or person performing similar functions.

Independent Certificate: A certificate or opinion to be delivered to the Indenture Trustee under the circumstances described in, and otherwise complying with, the applicable requirements of Section 11.1 of the Indenture, made by an Independent appraiser or other expert appointed by an Issuer Order and approved by the Indenture Trustee in the exercise of reasonable care, and stating that the signer has read the definition of “Independent” in the Indenture and that the signer is Independent within the meaning thereof.

Indirect Participant: A securities broker, dealer, bank, trust company or other Person that clears through or maintains a custodial relationship with a Clearing Agency Participant, either directly or indirectly.

Initial Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance: As of the Initial Cutoff Date, the sum of (i) the Aggregate Principal Balance of Subvented Receivables and (ii) the Aggregate Principal Balance of Non-Subvented Receivables, equal to $1,075,013,471.59.

Initial Closing Date: August 21, 2013.

Initial Cutoff Date: August 1, 2013.

Initial Purchased Property: As defined in Section 2.01(a) of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

Initial Receivables: Any retail instalment sale contract or direct purchase money loan for a Financed Vehicle that is included in the Schedule of Initial Receivables attached to the First Step Initial Receivables Assignment and all rights and obligations thereunder.

Insurance Policy: With respect to a Receivable, an insurance policy covering (i) physical damage, theft, mechanical breakdown or similar event with respect to the related Financed Vehicle or (ii) credit life or credit disability with respect to the related Obligor.

Intercompany Advance Agreement: The CARI Intercompany Advance Agreement dated as of March 25, 2004 between CARI and Ally Financial, as amended, supplemented or modified from time to time.

Interest Rate: With respect to each class of Notes, the per annum rate set forth below:

 

Class A-1a Notes:

   0.80%;

Class A-1b Notes:

   LIBOR + 0.43%;

Class A-2 Notes:

   1.04%;

Class A-3 Notes:

   1.31%;

Class A-4 Notes:

   1.68%;

 

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Class B Notes:    2.32%;

Class C Notes:

   2.79%;

Class D Notes:

   3.69%; and

Class E Notes:

   4.55%.

Interested Parties: As defined in the recitals to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

Investment Company Act: The Investment Company Act of 1940, as the same may be amended from time to time.

Investment Earnings: Investment earnings on funds deposited in the Designated Accounts, net of losses and investment expenses.

Issuing Entity: The party named as such in the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and in the Indenture until a successor replaces it and, thereafter, means the successor.

Issuing Entity Order: A written order signed in the name of the Issuing Entity by any one of its Authorized Officers and delivered to the Indenture Trustee.

Issuing Entity Request: A written request signed in the name of the Issuing Entity by any of its Authorized Officers and delivered to the Indenture Trustee.

Loan-to-Value: With respect to a Receivable, the original undiscounted Principal Balance divided by the estimated Value of the Financed Vehicle, multiplied by 100.

LIBOR: With respect to the initial Distribution Date, 0.18356%; with respect to each Distribution Date other than the initial Distribution Date, the rate for deposits in U.S. Dollars for a period of one month which appears on Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page as of 11:00 a.m., London time, on the day that is two LIBOR Business Days prior to the preceding Distribution Date (and, in the case of the initial Distribution Date, two LIBOR Business Days prior to the Initial Closing Date). If such rate does not appear on that date on Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page (or any other page as may replace that page on that service, or if that service is no longer offered, any other service for displaying LIBOR or comparable rates as may be selected by the Indenture Trustee after consultation with the Depositor), then LIBOR will be the Reference Bank Rate.

LIBOR Business Day: Any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or any other day on which banks in London are required or authorized to be closed.

Lien: Any security interest, lien, charge, pledge, equity, encumbrance or adverse claim of any kind other than tax liens, mechanics’ liens and any liens that attach by operation of law.

Liquidating Receivable: A Receivable as to which the Servicer (A)(i) has reasonably determined, in accordance with its customary servicing procedures, that eventual payment of amounts owing on such Receivable is unlikely or (ii) has repossessed and disposed of the Financed Vehicle and (B) has charged off.

 

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Liquidation Expenses: With respect to (i) a Liquidating Receivable without recourse to a Dealer, $300.00 (or such greater amount as the Servicer determines necessary in accordance with its customary procedures to refurbish and dispose of a liquidated Financed Vehicle) as an allowance for amounts charged to the account of the Obligor, in keeping with the Servicer’s customary procedures, for refurbishing and disposition of the Financed Vehicle and other out-of-pocket costs related to the liquidation; and (ii) a Liquidating Receivable with recourse to a Dealer, $0.

Liquidation Proceeds: With respect to a Liquidating Receivable, all amounts realized with respect to such Receivable net of amounts that are required to be refunded to the Obligor on such Receivable.

Majority Certificateholders: Certificateholders holding in the aggregate more than 50% of the Voting Interests.

Monthly Period: With respect to a Distribution Date, the calendar month preceding the month in which such Distribution Date occurs; provided, however, that with respect to the first Distribution Date, the Monthly Period will be the period from and including the Cutoff Date to the end of the calendar month preceding such Distribution Date.

Monthly Remittance Condition: Each of the following conditions:

 

  (i) Ally Financial is the Servicer;

 

  (ii) the rating of Ally Financial’s short-term unsecured debt is at least A-1 by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, and P-1 by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.; and

 

  (iii) a Servicer Default shall not have occurred and be continuing.

Negative Carry Amount: For each Distribution Date related to the Revolving Period, if an Accumulation Amount shall exist at the close of business on such Distribution Date, an amount, not less than zero, equal to the product of:

 

  (A) the excess of the Note Principal Balance over the Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance and

 

  (B) one-twelfth of the excess of (a) the Weighted Average Note Rate over (b) LIBOR.

New York UCC: The UCC as in effect on the Closing Date in the State of New York, and as may be amended from time to time.

Non-Subvented Receivable: A Receivable that was or will be acquired or originated by Ally Financial or its Affiliates that is not a Subvented Receivable.

Note Class Interest Distributable Amount: With respect to any class of Notes and any Distribution Date, the product of (i) the outstanding principal balance of such class of Notes as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date (or, in the case of the first Distribution Date, the outstanding principal balance of such class of Notes on the Initial Closing Date) and (ii) in the

 

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case of (a) the Fixed Rate Notes, one-twelfth (1/12th) of the Interest Rate for such class (or, in the case of the first Distribution Date, the Interest Rate for such class multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is 29 and the denominator of which is 360) and (b) the Floating Rate Notes, the product of the Interest Rate for such class or tranche of Notes for such Distribution Date and a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days elapsed from and including the prior Distribution Date (or, in the case of the first Distribution Date, from and including the Initial Closing Date), to but excluding that Distribution Date and the denominator of which is 360.

Note Depository: The depository from time to time selected by the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Issuing Entity in whose name the Notes are registered prior to the issue of Definitive Notes. The first Note Depository shall be Cede & Co., the nominee of the initial Clearing Agency.

Note Depository Agreement: The agreement, dated as of the Initial Closing Date, between the Issuing Entity and The Depository Trust Company, as the initial Clearing Agency relating to the Notes, substantially in the form of Exhibit B to the Indenture, as the same may be amended and supplemented from time to time.

Note Distribution Account: The account designated as such, established and maintained pursuant to Section 5.01(a)(ii) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

Note Owner: With respect to a Book-Entry Note, the Person who is the beneficial owner of such Book-Entry Note, as reflected on the books of the Clearing Agency, or on the books of a Person maintaining an account with such Clearing Agency (directly as a Clearing Agency Participant or as an Indirect Participant, in each case in accordance with the rules of such Clearing Agency).

Note Pool Factor: With respect to any class of Notes and any Distribution Date, an amount expressed to the seventh decimal place and computed by the Servicer which is equal to the Note Principal Balance for such class as of the close of such Distribution Date divided by the initial Note Principal Balance for such class.

Note Principal Balance: With respect to a class of Notes and any Distribution Date, the aggregate principal balance of such class of Notes, reduced by all previous payments to the Noteholders of such class in respect of principal of such Notes.

Note Register: With respect to any class of Notes, the register of such Notes specified in Section 2.4 of the Indenture.

Note Registrar: The registrar at any time of the Note Register, appointed pursuant to Section 2.4 of the Indenture.

Notes: The Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4 Notes, the Class B Notes, the Class C Notes, the Class D Notes and the Class E Notes.

Noteholders: Holders of record of the Notes pursuant to the Indenture and, with respect to any class of Notes, holders of record of such class of Notes pursuant to the Indenture.

 

App. A-18


Noteholders’ Regular Principal Distributable Amount: With respect to the Notes, for any Distribution Date related to the Amortization Period, the lesser of:

 

  (A) the Aggregate Note Principal Balance as of the close of the immediately preceding Distribution Date reduced by the Aggregate Noteholders’ Priority Principal Distributable Amount, if any, with respect to such Distribution Date; and

 

  (B) the remainder, if any, of:

 

  (1) the Principal Distributable Amount minus

 

  (2) the Aggregate Noteholders’ Priority Principal Distributable Amount, if any, with respect to such Distribution Date.

For any Distribution Date related to the Revolving Period, the Noteholders’ Regular Principal Distributable Amount shall be equal to zero.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, on or after the Final Scheduled Distribution Date for the Class E Notes, the Noteholders’ Regular Principal Distributable Amount shall equal the greater of (i) the amount specified above and (ii) the outstanding principal balance of the Notes as of the preceding Distribution Date reduced by the Aggregate Noteholders’ Priority Principal Distributable Amount, if any, with respect to such current Distribution Date.

Obligor: The purchaser or the co-purchasers of the Financed Vehicle or other person who owes payments under a Receivable.

Offered Notes: The Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4 Notes, the Class B Notes, the Class C Notes and the Class D Notes.

Officer’s Certificate: A certificate signed by any Authorized Officer of the Issuing Entity, under the circumstances described in, and otherwise complying with, the applicable requirements of Section 11.1 of the Indenture, and delivered to the Indenture Trustee. Unless otherwise specified in the Indenture, any reference in the Indenture to an officer’s certificate shall be to an Officer’s Certificate of any Authorized Officer of the Issuing Entity.

Opinion of Counsel: A written opinion of counsel, who may, except as otherwise expressly provided, be an employee of the Depositor or the Servicer. In addition, for purposes of the Indenture: (i) such counsel shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee; (ii) the opinion shall be addressed to the Indenture Trustee as Trustee and (iii) the opinion shall comply with any applicable requirements of Section 11.1 of the Indenture and shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee.

Optional Purchase Date: As defined in Section 8.01(a) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

Optional Purchase Percentage: 10.0%.

 

App. A-19


Outstanding: With respect to the Notes, as of the date of determination, all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered under the Indenture except:

 

  (i) Notes theretofore cancelled by the Indenture Trustee or delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation;

 

  (ii) Notes or portions thereof the payment for which money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the Holders of such Notes; provided, however, that if such Notes are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to the Indenture or provision therefor, satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, has been made; and

 

  (iii) Notes in exchange for or in lieu of other Notes which have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the Indenture unless proof satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee is presented that any such Notes are held by a bona fide purchaser;

provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite Outstanding Amount of the Notes or of the Controlling Class have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or under any Basic Document, Notes both legally and beneficially owned by the Issuing Entity, any other obligor upon the Notes, any Certificateholder or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Indenture Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Notes that the Indenture Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Notes so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Indenture Trustee the pledgor’s right so to act with respect to such Notes and that the pledgee is not the Issuing Entity, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Depositor or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons.

Outstanding Amount: As of any date of determination, the aggregate principal amount of all Notes, or a class of Notes, as applicable, Outstanding at such date.

Overcollateralization Target Amount: (1) With respect to any Distribution Date during the Revolving Period, 3.25% of the Initial Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance and (2) with respect to any Distribution Date during the Amortization Period, 4.75% of the Initial Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance.

Owner: As defined in Section 1.02 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

Owner Trust Estate: All right, title and interest of the Issuing Entity in and to the property and rights assigned to the Issuing Entity pursuant to Article II of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, all funds on deposit from time to time in the Collection Account and all other property of the Issuing Entity from time to time, including any rights of the Owner Trustee and the Issuing Entity pursuant to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Administration Agreement.

 

App. A-20


Owner Trustee: BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware, a Delaware banking corporation, not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee, or any successor trustee under the Trust Agreement.

Parity Reinvestment Amount: With respect to any Distribution Date during the Revolving Period, the excess, if any, of the Aggregate Note Principal Balance as of the preceding Distribution Date or the Initial Closing Date, as applicable, over the Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance as of the last day of the Monthly Period related to such Distribution Date.

Paying Agent: With respect to the Indenture, the Indenture Trustee or any other Person that meets the eligibility standards for the Indenture Trustee specified in Section 6.11 of the Indenture and is authorized by the Issuing Entity to make the payments to and distributions from the Collection Account and the Note Distribution Account, including payment of principal of or interest on the Notes on behalf of the Issuing Entity. With respect to the Trust Agreement, any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed pursuant to Section 3.9 of the Trust Agreement that meets the eligibility standards for the Owner Trustee specified in Section 6.13 of the Trust Agreement. The initial Paying Agent under the Trust Agreement shall be BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware.

Person: Any legal person, including any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, limited liability company, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

Physical Property: (i) Bankers’ acceptances, commercial paper, negotiable certificates of deposit and other obligations that constitute “instruments” within the meaning of Section 9-102(a)(47) of the New York UCC and are susceptible of physical delivery and (ii) Security Certificates.

Pooling and Servicing Agreement: The Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated as of the Initial Closing Date, among the Seller, the Servicer and the Depositor, as amended, supplemented or modified from time to time.

Predecessor Note: With respect to any particular Note, every previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Note; and, for the purpose of this definition, any Note authenticated and delivered under Section 2.5 of the Indenture in lieu of a mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note.

Principal Balance: With respect to any Simple Interest Receivable, as of any date, the Amount Financed minus the sum of the following amounts:

 

  (i) that portion of all payments received from the related Obligor on or prior to such date allocable to principal; and

 

  (ii) any Warranty Payment or Administrative Purchase Payment received on or prior to such date to the extent allocable to principal.

 

App. A-21


Principal Distributable Amount: With respect to any Distribution Date related to the Amortization Period, the excess of (i) the Aggregate Note Principal Balance as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date over (ii) the result of the Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance as of the close of business on the last day of the immediately preceding Monthly Period minus the Overcollateralization Target Amount. On the first Distribution Date related to the Amortization Period, the Principal Distributable Amount shall also include the Accumulation Amount as of the close of business on the preceding Distribution Date.

Private Notes: The Class E Notes.

Proceeding: Any suit in equity, action at law or other judicial or administrative proceeding.

protected purchaser: As defined in Section 8-303 of the applicable UCC, and provided that the requirements of Section 8-405 of the applicable UCC are met.

Purchased Property: As defined in Section 2.01(b) of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

Rating Agencies: As of any date, the nationally recognized statistical rating organizations requested by the Depositor to provide ratings on the Notes which are rating the Notes on such date.

Rating Agency Condition: With respect to any action, the condition that (a) each Rating Agency shall have been given at least ten (10) days prior notice of that action and (b) none of the Seller, the Servicer, the Issuing Entity or the Indenture Trustee shall have received notice from any Rating Agency that such action shall result in a downgrade or withdrawal of the then current rating of the Notes.

Receivable: A retail instalment sale contract or direct purchase money loan for a Financed Vehicle that is included in the Schedule of Initial Receivables and any Additional Receivable that is included in a Schedule of Additional Receivables and all rights and obligations thereunder.

Receivable File: The documents listed in Section 2.04 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement pertaining to a particular Receivable.

Receivables Principal Balance: (i) With respect to a Subvented Receivable, an amount equal to the present value as of the close of business on the Applicable Cutoff Date of all remaining payments on the Subvented Receivable which have not been applied prior to the Applicable Cutoff Date, with each Receivable being discounted at the greater of the Discount Rate and the Annual Percentage Rate from the last day of the calendar month in which each scheduled payment is to become due to that Distribution Date and (ii) with respect to a Non-Subvented Receivable, an amount equal to the outstanding principal balance of the Non-Subvented Receivable on the Applicable Cutoff Date.

Receivables Purchase Price: The amount described in Section 2.02 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

 

App. A-22


Record Date: (i) With respect to the Notes and with respect to any Distribution Date, the close of business on the day immediately preceding such Distribution Date, or if Definitive Notes are issued for any class of Notes, with respect to such class of Notes the last day of the preceding Monthly Period and (ii) with respect to the Certificates and with respect to any Distribution Date, the last day of the preceding Monthly Period.

Redemption Date: As defined in Section 10.1 of the Indenture.

Redemption Price: With respect to the Notes, the unpaid principal amount of such Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon.

Reference Bank Rate: For any Distribution Date, a rate determined on the basis of the rates at which deposits in United States dollars are offered by reference banks as of 11:00 a.m., London time, on the day that is two LIBOR Business Days prior to the immediately preceding Distribution Date (or, in the case of the initial Distribution Date, the day that is two LIBOR Business Days prior to the Initial Closing Date) to prime banks in the London interbank market for a period of one month, in amounts approximately equal to with respect to the calculation of (a) the Specified Reserve Account Balance, the excess of the Aggregate Note Principal Balance over the Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance and (b) interest payable on the Floating Rate Notes, the then Outstanding Amount of the applicable class of the then outstanding Floating Rate Notes. The reference banks shall be four major banks that are engaged in transactions in the London interbank market, selected by the Indenture Trustee after consultation with the Depositor. The Indenture Trustee will request the principal London office of each of the reference banks to provide a quotation of its rate. If at least two quotations are provided, the rate will be the arithmetic mean of the quotations, rounded upwards to the nearest one-sixteenth of one percent. If on that date fewer than two quotations are provided as requested, the rate will be the arithmetic mean, rounded upwards to the nearest one-sixteenth of one percent, of the rates quoted by one or more major banks in New York City, selected by the Indenture Trustee after consultation with the Depositor, as of 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on that date to leading European banks for United States dollar deposits for a period of one month in amounts approximately equal to with respect to the calculation of (a) the Specified Reserve Account Balance, the excess of the Aggregate Note Principal Balance over the Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance and (b) interest payable on the Floating Rate Notes, the then Outstanding Amount of the applicable class of the then outstanding Floating Rate Notes. If no quotation can be obtained, then LIBOR will be the rate from the prior Distribution Date.

Registered Holder: The Person in whose name a Note is registered on the Note Register on the applicable Record Date.

Regulation AB: Subpart 229.1100 – Asset Backed Securities (Regulation AB), 17 C.F.R. §§229.1100-229.1123, as such may be amended from time to time and subject to such clarification and interpretation as have been provided by the Commission in the adopting release (Asset-Backed Securities, Securities Act Release No. 33-8518, 70 Fed. Reg. 1,506, 1,531 (January 7, 2005)) or by the staff of the Commission, or as may be provided by the Commission or its staff from time to time.

 

App. A-23


Report of Assessment of Compliance with Servicing Criteria: As defined in Section 4.02(a) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

Reporting Officer: With respect to the Owner Trustee, any officer, employee or other person within the Corporate Trust Office of the Owner Trustee having responsibility for the administration of the Trust Agreement.

Repurchase Event: As defined in Section 5.04 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

Required Deposit Rating: A rating on short-term unsecured debt obligations of P-1 by Moody’s Investors Service and A-1+ by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, if rated by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services. Any requirement that short-term unsecured debt obligations have the “Required Deposit Rating” shall mean that such short-term unsecured debt obligations have the foregoing required ratings from each of such rating agencies.

Reserve Account: The account designated as such, established and maintained pursuant to Section 4.07(a) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

Reserve Account Initial Deposit: Cash or Eligible Investments having a value of at least $5,375,067.36.

Reserve Account Property: (i) The Reserve Account and all proceeds thereof (other than the Investment Earnings thereon) including all cash, investments, investment property and other amounts held from time to time in the Reserve Account (whether in the form of deposit accounts, Physical Property, book-entry securities, Uncertificated Securities, Financial Assets or otherwise) and (ii) the Reserve Account Initial Deposit and all proceeds thereof (other than the Investment Earnings thereon).

Responsible Officer: With respect to the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, any officer within the Corporate Trust Office of such trustee or with respect to the Owner Trustee, any agent of the Owner Trustee acting under a power of attorney, and, with respect to the Servicer, the President, any Vice President, Assistant Vice President, Secretary, Assistant Secretary or any other officer or assistant officer of such Person customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and also, with respect to a particular matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of such officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.

Retained Certificates: The Certificates retained by the Depositor pursuant to the Trust Agreement.

Retained Notes: The Notes held by the Depositor or a Person treated as the same Person as the Depositor for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

Revolving Period: The period beginning on the Initial Closing Date and ending on (but not including) the Amortization Date.

Schedule of Additional Receivables: The Schedule of Additional Receivables attached to the First Step Additional Receivables Assignment delivered on the each Subsequent Closing Date and originally held as part of the Trust, and on file at the locations listed on Exhibit A of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time.

 

App. A-24


Schedule of Initial Receivables: The schedule of Initial Receivables attached to the First Step Initial Receivables Assignment delivered on the Initial Closing Date and originally held as part of the Trust, and on file at the locations listed on Exhibit A of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, as it may be amended from time to time.

Second Priority Principal Distributable Amount: With respect to any Distribution Date related to the Amortization Period, an amount, not less than zero, equal to the difference between (i) the excess, if any, of (a) the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Class A Notes and the Class B Notes as of the preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to any principal payments made on the Class A Notes and the Class B Notes on such preceding Distribution Date) over (b) the Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance as of the close of business on the last day of the immediately preceding Monthly Period, and (ii) the First Priority Principal Distributable Amount, if any, with respect to such Distribution Date.

Second Step Additional Receivables Assignment: As defined in Section 2.01(b) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

Second Step Initial Receivables Assignment: As defined in Section 2.01(a) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

Second Step Receivables Assignments: As defined in Section 2.01(b) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

Secretary of State: The Secretary of State of the State of Delaware.

Secured Obligations: Obligations consisting of the principal of and interest on, and any other amounts owing in respect of, the Notes and amounts allocable pursuant to the Indenture with respect to the Certificates.

Secured Parties: Each Noteholder.

Securities: The Notes and the Certificates.

Securities Act: The Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Securities Intermediary: As defined in Section 5.01(b)(i) of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

Security Certificate: Has the meaning given such term in Section 8-102(a)(16) of the New York UCC.

Security Entitlement: Has the meaning given such term in Section 8-102(a)(17) of the New York UCC.

Securityholder: A Holder of a Note or a Certificate.

 

App. A-25


Seller: Ally Financial, in its capacity as Seller under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, and any successor or assignee thereof under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

Servicer: The Person executing the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement as the Servicer, or its successor in interest pursuant to Section 6.02 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and Section 7.12 or Section 7.13 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

Servicer Default: An event described in Section 7.01 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

Servicer’s Accounting: A certificate, completed by and executed on behalf of the Servicer, in accordance with Section 3.09 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.

Servicing Criteria: The “Servicing Criteria” set forth in Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB, as such may be amended from time to time.

Simple Interest Method: The method of allocating each monthly payment on a Simple Interest Receivable to principal and interest pursuant to which the portion of such payment that is allocated to interest is equal to the product of the outstanding principal balance thereon multiplied by the fixed rate of interest applicable to such Receivable multiplied by the period of time elapsed (expressed as a fraction of a calendar year) since the preceding payment of interest with respect to such principal balance was made.

Simple Interest Receivable: Any Receivable under which the portion of each monthly payment allocable to earned interest and the portion allocable to the Amount Financed is determined in accordance with the Simple Interest Method. For purposes hereof, all payments with respect to a Simple Interest Receivable shall be allocated to principal and interest in accordance with the Simple Interest Method.

Specified Reserve Account Balance: For any Distribution Date, the sum of

 

  (i) the lesser of

 

  (A) 0.50% of the Initial Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance, which equals $5,375,067.36; and

 

  (B) the outstanding principal balance of the Notes as of the close of business on such Distribution Date (after giving effect to all payments and distributions to be made on such Distribution Date);

and

 

  (ii) the Negative Carry Amount.

State: Any one of the 50 states of the United States of America or the District of Columbia.

 

App. A-26


Statutory Trust Act: Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware Code, 12 Del. Code § 3801 et seq., as the same may be amended from time to time.

Subsequent Closing Date: With respect to each Additional Receivable, the Distribution Date related to the Revolving Period on which such Additional Receivable is sold, transferred, assigned or otherwise conveyed (i) from the Seller to the Depositor and (ii) from the Depositor to the Issuing Entity.

Subsequent Cutoff Date: With respect to any Additional Receivable, the first calendar day of the month in which such Additional Receivable is purchased by CARI from the Seller.

Subvented Receivable: A Receivable that was or will be acquired or originated by Ally Financial or its Affiliates under special incentive rate financing programs.

Supplemental Servicing Fees: With respect to a Distribution Date, all late fees, prepayment charges and other administrative fees and expenses or similar charges allowed by applicable law with respect to Receivables, collected (from whatever source) on the Receivables held by the Issuing Entity during the related Monthly Period.

Target Reinvestment Amount: As of any Distribution Date during the Revolving Period, the excess, if any, of the sum of (i) the Aggregate Note Principal Balance as of the preceding Distribution Date or the Initial Closing Date, as applicable, and (ii) the Overcollateralization Target Amount, over the Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance as of the last day of the Monthly Period related to such Distribution Date.

Temporary Notes: The Notes specified in Section 2.3 of the Indenture.

Third Priority Principal Distributable Amount: With respect to any Distribution Date related to the Amortization Period, an amount, not less than zero, equal to the difference between (i) the excess, if any, of (a) the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Class A Notes, the Class B Notes and the Class C Notes as of the preceding Distribution Date (after giving effect to any principal payments made on the Class A Notes, the Class B Notes and the Class C Notes on such preceding Distribution Date) over (b) the Aggregate Receivables Principal Balance as of the close of business on the last day of the immediately preceding Monthly Period, and (ii) the sum of (a) the First Priority Principal Distributable Amount, if any, with respect to such Distribution Date and (b) the Second Priority Principal Distributable Amount, if any, with respect to such Distribution Date.

Total Available Amount: With respect to any Distribution Date, the sum of the Available Interest and the Available Principal for such Distribution Date, the Accumulation Amount as of the opening of business on such Distribution Date and the amount of all cash or other immediately available funds on deposit in the Reserve Account immediately prior to such Distribution Date.

Treasury Regulations: The regulations, including proposed or temporary regulations, promulgated under the Code. References herein to specific provisions of proposed or temporary regulations shall include analogous provisions of final Treasury Regulations or other successor Treasury Regulations.

 

App. A-27


Trust: Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust 2013-3, a Delaware statutory trust created by the Certificate of Trust and described in the Trust Agreement.

Trust Agreement: The Trust Agreement, dated as of the Initial Closing Date, between the Depositor and the Owner Trustee, as amended, supplemented or modified from time to time.

Trust Estate: All money, instruments, rights and other property that are subject or intended to be subject to the lien and security interest of the Indenture for the benefit of the Secured Parties (including all property and interests Granted to the Indenture Trustee), including all proceeds thereof.

Trust Indenture Act or TIA: The Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force on the date hereof, unless otherwise specifically provided.

Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement: The Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, dated as of the Initial Closing Date, among the Depositor, the Servicer and the Trust, as amended, supplemented or modified from time to time.

UCC: The Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the relevant jurisdiction from time to time.

Unaffiliated Certificateholder: Any Certificateholder other than the Depositor or an Affiliate of the Depositor.

Uncertificated Security: Has the meaning given to such term in Section 8-102(a)(18) of the New York UCC.

Undertaking Letter: The letter in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit C of the Trust Agreement.

Value: With respect to a Financed Vehicle, (i) if such Financed Vehicle is new, the Dealer’s invoice cost of the Financed Vehicle and (ii) if such Financed Vehicle is used, the value received by Ally Financial from the Dealer, as verified by a market vehicle value guide.

Voting Interests: The voting interests in the Certificates, the aggregate strength of which shall be based on the percentage interests in the Issuing Entity represented thereby.

Warranty Payment: With respect to a Distribution Date and to a Warranty Receivable to be repurchased as of the last day of the related Monthly Period, in the case of a Simple Interest Receivable, a payment equal to the Amount Financed minus that portion of all payments received from the related Obligor on or prior to the last day of the related Monthly Period allocable to principal and minus any Liquidation Proceeds (to the extent applied to reduce the Principal Balance of such Simple Interest Receivable) previously received with respect to such Simple Interest Receivable.

Warranty Purchaser: The Person described in Section 2.05 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 

App. A-28


Warranty Receivable: A Receivable that the Warranty Purchaser has become obligated to repurchase pursuant to Section 2.05 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

Weighted Average FICO Score: The weighted average FICO score of the Additional Receivables weighted on the basis of (i) the original undiscounted Principal Balance and (ii) the remaining maturity of each such Receivable as of the Initial Cutoff Date, excluding Receivables with respect to which the Obligor is a business account and Receivables for which no FICO score is available.

Weighted Average Loan-to-Value: The weighted average Loan-to-Value of the Additional Receivables, weighted on the basis of (i) the original undiscounted Principal Balance and (ii) the remaining maturity of each such Receivable as of its date of origination.

Weighted Average Note Rate: 1.76896% per annum.

Weighted Average Rate: The greater of the Annual Percentage Rate and the Discount Rate applied to each of the Additional Receivables or the Initial Receivables, as applicable, weighted on the basis of (i) the Principal Balance and (ii) the remaining term of each such Receivable, each as of the Applicable Cutoff Date.

 

App. A-29


PART II — RULES OF CONSTRUCTION

 

(a) Accounting Terms. As used in this Appendix or the Basic Documents, accounting terms which are not defined, and accounting terms partly defined, herein or therein shall have the respective meanings given to them under generally accepted accounting principles. To the extent that the definitions of accounting terms in this Appendix or the Basic Documents are inconsistent with the meanings of such terms under generally accepted accounting principles, the definitions contained in this Appendix or the Basic Documents will control.

 

(b) Hereof,” etc. The words “hereof,” “herein” and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in this Appendix or any Basic Document will refer to this Appendix or such Basic Document as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Appendix or such Basic Document; and Section, Schedule and Exhibit references contained in this Appendix or any Basic Document are references to Sections, Schedules and Exhibits in or to this Appendix or such Basic Document unless otherwise specified. The word “or” is not exclusive.

 

(c) Reference to Distribution Dates. With respect to any Distribution Date, the “related Monthly Period,” and the “related Record Date,” will mean the Monthly Period and Record Date, respectively, immediately preceding such Distribution Date, and the relationships among Monthly Periods and Record Dates will be correlative to the foregoing relationships.

 

(d) Number and Gender. Each defined term used in this Appendix or the Basic Documents has a comparable meaning when used in its plural or singular form. Each gender-specific term used in this Appendix or the Basic Documents has a comparable meaning whether used in a masculine, feminine or gender-neutral form.

 

(e) Including. Whenever the term “including” (whether or not that term is followed by the phrase “but not limited to” or “without limitation” or words of similar effect) is used in this Appendix or the Basic Documents in connection with a listing of items within a particular classification, that listing will be interpreted to be illustrative only and will not be interpreted as a limitation on, or exclusive listing of, the items within that classification.

 

(f) Reference to a Class of Notes. Unless otherwise specified, references to a Class of Notes includes all the tranches included in such class of Notes.

 

(g) Notices to Rating Agencies. If Ally Financial is no longer the Administrator, the Custodian or the Servicer, any successor Administrator, Custodian or Servicer, as applicable, shall provide any required Rating Agency notices to the Depositor, who shall promptly provide such notice to the Rating Agencies.

 

App. A-30


APPENDIX B

NOTICE ADDRESSES AND PROCEDURES

All requests, demands, directions, consents, waivers, notices, authorizations and communications provided or permitted under any Basic Document to be made upon, given or furnished to or filed with the Depositor, the Servicer, the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee, the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Custodian or the Rating Agencies shall be in writing, personally delivered, sent by facsimile or email, in each case with a copy to follow via first class mail or mailed by certified mail-return receipt requested, and shall be deemed to have been duly given upon receipt:

(a) in the case of the Depositor, at the following address:

Capital Auto Receivables LLC

Corporation Trust Center

1209 Orange Street

Wilmington, DE 19801

Email: as set forth on attached Schedule 1,

with a copy to:

Executive Director—Securitization,

Ally Financial Inc

200 Renaissance Center

12th Floor, MC: 482-B12-C24

Detroit, MI 48265

Fascimile: (313) 566-0954

Attention: Ryan Farris

Email: as set forth on attached Schedule 1,

(b) in the case of the Servicer, the Administrator or the Custodian, at the following address:

Executive Director—U.S. Securitization

Ally Financial Inc.

200 Renaissance Center

12th Floor, MC: 482-B12-C24

Detroit, MI 48265

Fascimile: (313) 566-0954

Attention: Ryan Farris

Email: as set forth on attached Schedule 1,

(c) in the case of the Indenture Trustee, at its Corporate Trust Office, and

(d) in the case of the Issuing Entity or the Owner Trustee, to the Owner Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office,

 

App. B-1


with a copy to:

The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.

2 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1020

Chicago, IL 60602

Attention: Structured Finance Services—CARAT 2013-3

Phone: (312) 827-8653

Facsimile: (312) 827-8562

Attention: Cathy Flowers

Email: as set forth on attached Schedule 1

and with a copy to:

Capital Auto Receivables LLC

Attention: Manager—Securitization

200 Renaissance Center

12th Floor, MC: 482-B12-C24

Detroit, MI 48265

Fascimile: (313) 566-0954

Attention: Ryan Farris

Email: as set forth on attached Schedule 1.

The Issuing Entity shall promptly transmit any notice received by it from the Noteholders to the Indenture Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall likewise promptly transmit any notice received by it from the Noteholders to the Issuing Entity: in the case of the Rating Agencies, to the Depositor, which shall promptly post any such notice to the website maintained by the Depositor for notifications to nationally recognized statistical rating organizations, or at such other address as shall be designated by such Person in a written notice to the other parties to this Agreement. With respect to any Servicer’s Accounting sent to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 3.09 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Servicer shall not be required to send a copy of such communication via first class mail or mailed by certified mail-return receipt requested unless requested by the Indenture Trustee and in the absence of any such request, any email or facsimile of any Servicer’s Accounting otherwise sent in accordance with the instructions above shall be deemed to have been duly delivered upon receipt thereof by the Indenture Trustee.

Where any Basic Document provides for notice to Noteholders or Certificateholders of any condition or event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if it is in writing and mailed, first-class, postage prepaid to each Noteholder or Certificateholder affected by such condition or event, at such Person’s address as it appears on the Note Register or Certificate Register, as applicable, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed in such Basic Document for the giving of such notice. If notice to Noteholders or Certificateholders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice nor any defect in any notice so mailed to any particular Noteholders or Certificateholders shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Noteholders or Certificateholders, and any notice that is mailed in the manner herein provided shall conclusively be presumed to have been duly given regardless of whether such notice is in fact actually received.

 

App. B-2


Schedule 1

Email Addresses on file at the offices of:

 

1. The Indenture Trustee

 

2. The Owner Trustee

 

3. The Servicer, Administrator and Custodian

 

4. The Seller

 

5. Capital Auto Receivables LLC

 

6. Rating Agencies

 

Sch. 1

EX-99.2 6 d585410dex992.htm CUSTODIAN AGREEMENT Custodian Agreement

EXHIBIT 99.2

 

 

 

CUSTODIAN AGREEMENT

BETWEEN

ALLY FINANCIAL INC.,

CUSTODIAN

AND

CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES LLC,

DEPOSITOR

DATED AS OF AUGUST 21, 2013

 

 

 


This CUSTODIAN AGREEMENT, dated as of August 21, 2013, is made between ALLY FINANCIAL INC., a Delaware corporation, as custodian (“Ally Financial” or the “Custodian”), and CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as depositor (the “Depositor”).

WHEREAS, simultaneously herewith Ally Financial, as seller (the “Seller”) and as the servicer (the “Servicer”) and the Depositor are entering into a Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated as of the date hereof (as it may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, the “Pooling and Servicing Agreement”), pursuant to which the Seller shall sell, transfer and assign, as of the Initial Closing Date, with respect to the Initial Receivables and as of each Subsequent Closing Date, with respect to the Additional Receivables, to the Depositor without recourse all of its right, title and interest in and to the Receivables;

WHEREAS, in connection with such sale, transfer and assignment, the Pooling and Servicing Agreement provides that the Depositor shall simultaneously enter into a custodian agreement pursuant to which the Depositor shall revocably appoint the Custodian as custodian of the Receivable Files pertaining to the Receivables;

WHEREAS, the Pooling and Servicing Agreement contemplates that the Depositor may enter into the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements with the Issuing Entity, pursuant to which the Depositor shall sell, transfer and assign, as of the Initial Closing Date, with respect to the Initial Receivables and as of each Subsequent Closing Date, with respect to the Additional Receivables, to the Issuing Entity without recourse all of the Depositor’s right, title and interest in and to the Receivables and under the aforementioned custodian agreement;

WHEREAS, in connection with any such sale, transfer and assignment, the Depositor desires for the Custodian to act as custodian of the Receivables for the benefit of the Issuing Entity; and

WHEREAS, after the execution of the Indenture, the Custodian will act on behalf of the Indenture Trustee in connection with its duties as custodian of the Receivables.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained and of other good and valuable consideration the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties agree as follows:

1. Definitions. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in Part I of Appendix A to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement among Ally Financial, the Issuing Entity and the Depositor, dated as of the date hereof (as it may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, the “Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement”) or in the text of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement. The rules of construction set forth in Part II of such Appendix A shall be applicable to this Custodian Agreement. All references herein to Sections and subsections are to sections and subsections of this Custodian Agreement unless otherwise specified.

2. Appointment of Custodian; Acknowledgment of Receipt. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Depositor hereby appoints the Custodian, and the Custodian hereby accepts such appointment, to act as agent of the Depositor as Custodian to maintain custody of


the Receivable Files pertaining to the Receivables. The Custodian hereby acknowledges that the Depositor may sell, transfer and assign all of its right, title and interest under this Custodian Agreement to the Issuing Entity pursuant to the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements. The Custodian hereby agrees, in connection with any such sale, transfer and assignment, to act as Custodian for the benefit of the Issuing Entity with respect to those Receivables of which from time to time the Issuing Entity is the Owner. The Custodian acknowledges that the Issuing Entity has pledged the Receivables to the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture and agrees to hold the Receivables on behalf of the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Secured Parties. In performing its duties hereunder, the Custodian agrees to act with reasonable care, using that degree of skill and attention that the Custodian exercises with respect to files relating to comparable motor vehicle related property that the Custodian services and holds for itself or others. The Custodian hereby acknowledges receipt of the Receivable File for each Initial Receivable listed on the Schedule of Initial Receivables.

3. Maintenance at Office. The Custodian agrees to maintain each Receivable File at one of its branch offices as identified in the list of branch offices attached hereto as Exhibit A or with third party vendors as shall be deemed appropriate by the Custodian.

4. Duties of Custodian.

(a) Safekeeping. The Custodian shall hold each Receivable File described herein on behalf of the Owner of the related Receivable for the use and benefit of the Owner and, if applicable, Interested Parties and shall maintain such accurate and complete accounts, records and computer systems pertaining to each Receivable File described herein as shall enable the Depositor and the Issuing Entity to comply with their respective obligations under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the other Basic Documents. Each Receivable shall be identified as such on the books and records of the Custodian to the extent the Custodian reasonably determines to be necessary to comply with the terms and conditions of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and, if applicable, the other Basic Documents. The Custodian shall conduct, or cause to be conducted, periodic physical inspections of the Receivable Files held by it under this Custodian Agreement, and of the related accounts, records and computer systems, in such a manner as shall enable the Issuing Entity, the Servicer and the Custodian to verify the accuracy of the Custodian’s inventory and record keeping. The Custodian shall promptly report to the Owner of a Receivable any failure on its part to hold the related Receivable File as described herein and maintain its accounts, records and computer systems as herein provided and promptly take appropriate action to remedy any such failure.

(b) Access to Records. Subject only to the Custodian’s security requirements applicable to its own employees having access to similar records held by the Custodian, the Custodian shall permit the Owner of a Receivable or its duly authorized representatives, attorneys or auditors to inspect the related Receivable File described herein and the related accounts, records and computer systems maintained by the Custodian pursuant hereto at such times as the Owner may reasonably request.

 

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(c) Release of Documents. The Custodian shall release any Receivable (and its related Receivable File) to the Depositor, the Servicer or the Issuing Entity, as appropriate, under the circumstances provided in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the other Basic Documents.

(d) Administration; Reports. In general, the Custodian shall attend to all non-discretionary details in connection with maintaining custody of the Receivable Files as described herein. In addition, the Custodian shall assist the Issuing Entity and the Servicer generally in the preparation of routine reports to the Securityholders, if any, or to regulatory bodies, to the extent necessitated by the Custodian’s custody of the Receivable Files described herein.

(e) Servicing. The Custodian is familiar with the duties of the Servicer, the servicing procedures and the allocation and distribution provisions (including those related to principal collections, losses and recoveries on Receivables) set forth in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Indenture and hereby agrees to maintain the Receivables Files in a manner consistent therewith. The Custodian further agrees to cooperate with the Servicer in the Servicer’s performance of its duties under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

(f) Regulation AB Compliance. If at any time the Custodian is not also serving as Servicer under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Custodian shall:

(i) deliver to the Servicer on or before March 10 of each year, beginning March 10, 2014, (or, if such date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day), a report, dated as of December 31 of the preceding calendar year, of its assessment of compliance with the Servicing Criteria applicable to it with respect to such calendar year (or, in the case of the first year, since no later than the Closing Date), including disclosure of any material instance of non-compliance identified by the Custodian, as required by Rule 13a-18 and 15d-18 of the Exchange Act and Item 1122 of Regulation AB under the Securities Act, and

(ii) cause a firm of registered public accountants that is qualified and independent within the meaning of Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act to deliver to the Servicer on or before March 15 (or, if such date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) of each year, beginning March 15, 2014, an attestation report that satisfies the requirements of Rule 13a-18 or Rule 15d-18 under the Exchange Act, as applicable, of the assessment of compliance with Servicing Criteria with respect to the prior calendar year (or, in the case of the first year, since no later than the Closing Date).

(iii) The reports under this Section 4(f) shall be delivered on or before April 15 (or, if such date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) of each calendar year if the Issuing Entity is not required to file periodic reports under the Exchange Act or any other law, beginning April 15, 2015.

5. Instructions; Authority to Act. The Custodian shall be deemed to have received proper instructions from the Issuing Entity with respect to the Receivable Files described herein upon its receipt of written instructions signed by an Authorized Officer. A certified copy of a by-law or of a resolution of the appropriate governing body of the Issuing Entity (or, as appropriate, a trustee or other Authorized Officer on behalf of the Issuing Entity)

 

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may be received and accepted by the Custodian as conclusive evidence of the authority of any such officer to act and may be considered as in full force and effect until receipt of written notice to the contrary. Such instructions may be general or specific in terms.

6. Indemnification by the Custodian. The Custodian agrees to indemnify the Depositor, the Issuing Entity and each trustee for any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damage, payments, costs or expenses of any kind whatsoever that may be imposed on, incurred or asserted against the Depositor, the Issuing Entity or any such trustee as the result of any act or omission in any way relating to the maintenance and custody by the Custodian of the Receivable Files described herein; provided, however, that the Custodian shall not be liable to the Depositor, the Issuing Entity or any such trustee, respectively, for any portion of any such amount resulting from the willful misfeasance, bad faith or negligence of the Depositor, the Issuing Entity or any such trustee, respectively.

7. Advice of Counsel. The Custodian, the Depositor and, upon execution of the Basic Documents, the Issuing Entity further agree that the Custodian shall be entitled to rely and act upon advice of counsel with respect to its performance hereunder and shall be without liability for any action reasonably taken pursuant to such advice, provided that such action is not in violation of applicable federal or state law.

8. Limitation on Liability of the Custodian and Others.

(a) Neither the Custodian nor any of the directors or officers or employees or agents of the Custodian shall be under any liability to the Issuing Entity, the Noteholders or the Certificateholders, except as specifically provided in this Custodian Agreement, for any action taken or for refraining from the taking of any action pursuant to this Custodian Agreement or for errors in judgment; provided, however, that this provision shall not protect the Custodian or any such Person against any liability that would otherwise be imposed by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith or negligence (except errors in judgment) in the performance of duties or by reason of a reckless disregard of its obligations and duties herein.

(b) Except as provided in this Custodian Agreement, the Custodian shall not be under any obligation to appear in, prosecute or defend any proceeding that is not incidental to its duties to act as custodian for the Receivables and the other Purchased Property in accordance with this Custodian Agreement and that in its opinion may involve it in any expense or liability; provided, however, the Custodian may undertake any reasonable action that it may deem necessary or desirable in respect of this Custodian Agreement and the rights and duties of the parties to this Custodian Agreement and the interests of the Noteholders and Certificateholders in the Basic Documents. In such event, the legal expenses and costs for such action and any liability resulting therefrom shall be expenses, costs and liabilities of the Trust and the Custodian shall be entitled to be reimbursed therefor.

9. Effective Period, Termination and Amendment; Interpretive and Additional Provisions. This Custodian Agreement shall become effective as of the date hereof, shall continue in full force and effect until terminated as hereinafter provided, and may be amended at any time by mutual agreement of the parties hereto. This Custodian Agreement may be terminated by either party by written notice to the other party, such termination to take effect

 

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no sooner than sixty (60) days after the date of such notice. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Ally Financial resigns as Servicer under the Basic Documents or if all of the rights and obligations of the Servicer have been terminated under the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, this Custodian Agreement may be terminated by the Issuing Entity or by any Persons to whom the Issuing Entity has assigned its rights hereunder. As soon as practicable after the termination of this Custodian Agreement, the Custodian shall deliver the Receivable Files described herein to the Issuing Entity or the Issuing Entity’s agent at such place or places as the Issuing Entity may reasonably designate.

10. Governing Law. THIS CUSTODIAN AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS THEREOF OR OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 AND SECTION 5-1402 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS CUSTODIAN AGREEMENT SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

11. Notices. All demands, notices and communications upon or to the Custodian or the Depositor under this Custodian Agreement shall be delivered as specified in Appendix B of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

12. Binding Effect. This Custodian Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the Depositor, the Issuing Entity, the Custodian and their respective successors and assigns, including the Issuing Entity.

13. Severability of Provisions. If any one or more of the covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Custodian Agreement shall be for any reason whatsoever held invalid, then such covenants, agreements, provisions or terms shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Custodian Agreement and shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of the other provisions of this Custodian Agreement.

14. Assignment. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Custodian Agreement other than Section 19 of this Custodian Agreement, this Custodian Agreement may not be assigned by the Custodian without the prior written consent of the Depositor or any Persons to whom the Depositor has assigned its rights hereunder, as applicable.

15. Headings. The headings of the various sections herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.

16. Counterparts. This Custodian Agreement may be executed by the parties in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an original but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

17. No Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Custodian Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto, the Owners and, to the extent expressly provided herein, the Interested Parties, and their respective successors and permitted assigns. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Custodian Agreement, no other Person shall have any right or obligation hereunder.

 

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18. Merger and Integration. Except as specifically stated otherwise herein, this Custodian Agreement sets forth the entire understanding of the parties relating to the subject matter hereof, and all prior understandings, written or oral, are superseded by this Custodian Agreement. This Custodian Agreement may not be modified, amended, waived or supplemented except as provided herein.

19. Merger, Consolidation or Assumption of the Obligations of the Custodian. Any corporation, limited liability company or other entity (i) into which the Custodian may be merged or consolidated, (ii) resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Custodian shall be a party, (iii) succeeding to the business of the Custodian or (iv) 25% or more of the voting stock (or if not a corporation, other voting interests) of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by General Motors or Ally Financial, which corporation, limited liability company or other entity in any of the foregoing cases executes an agreement of assumption to perform every obligation of the Custodian under this Custodian Agreement and the other Basic Documents, shall be the successor to the Custodian under this Custodian Agreement without the execution or filing of any documents or any further act on the part of any of the parties to this Custodian Agreement, anything in this Custodian Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding. The Custodian shall provide notice of any merger, consolidation or succession pursuant to this Section 19 to the Rating Agencies.

* * * * *

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties hereto has caused this Custodian Agreement to be executed in its name and on its behalf by a duly authorized officer as of the day and year first above written.

 

ALLY FINANCIAL INC., as Custodian

By:

 

/s/ M. T. St. Charles

 

Name: M. T. St. Charles

 

Title:   Assistant Treasurer

CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES LLC, as Depositor

By:

 

/s/ R. C. Farris

 

Name: R. C. Farris

 

Title:   Vice President

Custodian Agreement (CARAT 2013-3)


EXHIBIT A

LIST OF BRANCH OFFICES

[On File]

 

Ex. A

EX-99.3 7 d585410dex993.htm ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENT Administration Agreement

EXHIBIT 99.3

 

 

 

ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENT

AMONG

CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET TRUST 2013-3,

ISSUING ENTITY,

ALLY FINANCIAL INC.,

ADMINISTRATOR

AND

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS,

INDENTURE TRUSTEE

DATED AS OF AUGUST 21, 2013

 

 

 


ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENT, dated as of August 21, 2013, among CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET TRUST 2013-3, a Delaware statutory trust, as issuer (the “Issuing Entity”), ALLY FINANCIAL INC. (“Ally Financial”), a Delaware corporation, as administrator (the “Administrator”), and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, a New York banking corporation, not in its individual capacity but solely as indenture trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”).

W I T N E S S E T H :

WHEREAS, the Issuing Entity is issuing Notes pursuant to an indenture, dated as of August 21, 2013 (as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, the “Indenture”), between the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee;

WHEREAS, the Issuing Entity has entered into (or assumed) certain agreements in connection with the issuance of the Notes and the Certificates, including (a) the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, (b) the Note Depository Agreement and (c) the Indenture;

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Basic Documents, the Issuing Entity and BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware, as Owner Trustee, are required to perform certain duties in connection with (a) the Notes and the Collateral and (b) the Certificates;

WHEREAS, the Issuing Entity and the Owner Trustee desire to have the Administrator perform certain of the duties of the Issuing Entity and the Owner Trustee referred to in the preceding clause, and to provide such additional services consistent with the terms of this Agreement and the Basic Documents as the Issuing Entity and the Owner Trustee may from time to time request; and

WHEREAS, the Administrator has the capacity to provide the services required hereby and is willing to perform such services for the Issuing Entity and the Owner Trustee on the terms set forth herein.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises and the mutual covenants herein contained, the parties agree as follows:

1. Certain Definitions. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in Part I of Appendix A to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement of even date herewith among the Issuing Entity, the Depositor and Ally Financial, as Servicer (as it may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, the “Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement”). All references herein to the “Agreement” or “this Agreement” are to this Administration Agreement as it may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time. All references herein to “Sections” are to sections of this Agreement unless otherwise specified. The rules of construction set forth in Part II of Appendix A to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement shall be applicable to this Agreement.


2. Duties of the Administrator.

(a) Duties with Respect to the Note Depository Agreement and the Indenture.

(i) The Administrator agrees to perform all its duties as Administrator and the duties of the Issuing Entity under the Indenture and the Note Depository Agreement. In addition, the Administrator shall consult with the Owner Trustee regarding the duties of the Issuing Entity under the Indenture and the Note Depository Agreement. The Administrator shall monitor the performance of the Issuing Entity and shall advise the Owner Trustee when action is necessary to comply with the Issuing Entity’s duties under the Indenture and the Note Depository Agreement. The Administrator shall prepare for execution by the Issuing Entity or shall cause the preparation by other appropriate persons of all such documents, reports, filings, instruments, certificates, notices and opinions as it shall be the duty of the Issuing Entity to prepare, file or deliver pursuant to the Indenture and the Note Depository Agreement. In furtherance of the foregoing, the Administrator shall take all appropriate action that it is the duty of the Issuing Entity to take pursuant to the Indenture, including such of the foregoing as are required with respect to the following matters under the Indenture (references are to sections of the Indenture):

(A) the preparation of or obtaining of the documents and instruments required for authentication of the Notes and delivery of such documents or instruments to the Indenture Trustee (Section 2.2 of the Indenture);

(B) the duty to cause the Note Register to be kept and to give the Indenture Trustee notice of any appointment of a new Note Registrar and the location, or change in location, of the Note Register (Section 2.4 of the Indenture);

(C) the preparation of the notification of the Noteholders of the final principal payment on their Notes (Section 2.7(d) of the Indenture);

(D) the preparation, obtaining or filing of the instruments, opinions and certificates and other documents required for the release of Collateral (Section 2.9 of the Indenture);

(E) the preparation of Definitive Notes and arranging the delivery thereof (Section 2.12 of the Indenture);

(F) the maintenance of an office in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, for registration of transfer or exchange of Notes (Section 3.2 of the Indenture);

(G) the duty to cause newly appointed Paying Agents, if any, to deliver to the Indenture Trustee the instrument specified in the Indenture regarding funds held in trust (Section 3.3(c) of the Indenture);

(H) the direction to the Indenture Trustee to deposit monies with Paying Agents, if any, other than the Indenture Trustee (Section 3.3(c) of the Indenture);

 

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(I) the obtaining and preservation of the Issuing Entity’s qualification to do business in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be necessary to protect the validity and enforceability of the Indenture, the Notes, the Collateral and each other instrument and agreement included in the Trust Estate (Section 3.4 of the Indenture);

(J) the preparation and filing of all supplements, amendments, financing statements, continuation statements, instruments of further assurance and other instruments, in accordance with Section 3.5 of the Indenture, necessary to protect the Trust Estate (Section 3.5 of the Indenture);

(K) the delivery of the Opinion of Counsel on the Initial Closing Date, in accordance with Section 3.6(a) of the Indenture, the delivery of the Opinion of Counsel on or before March 15 (or, if such date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) in each calendar year, beginning March 15, 2014 regarding maintenance of security liens and security interests in accordance with Section 3.6(b) of the Indenture, each of which relates to the Trust Estate, and the annual delivery of the Officers’ Certificate and certain other statements, in accordance with Section 3.9 of the Indenture, as to compliance with the Indenture (Sections 3.6(a), 3.6(b) and 3.9 of the Indenture);

(L) the identification to the Indenture Trustee in an Officers’ Certificate of a Person with whom the Issuing Entity has contracted to perform its duties under the Indenture (Section 3.7(b) of the Indenture);

(M) the notification of the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agencies of a Servicer Default pursuant to the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and, if such Servicer Default arises from the failure of the Servicer to perform any of its duties under the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement or the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the taking of all reasonable steps available to remedy such failure (Section 3.7(d) of the Indenture);

(N) the preparation and obtaining of documents and instruments required for the release of the Issuing Entity from its obligations under the Indenture (Sections 3.10 and 3.11 of the Indenture);

(O) the delivery of notice to the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agencies of each Event of Default under the Indenture, each Servicer Default, each default by the Depositor under the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement and each default by the Seller or the Servicer under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement (Section 3.19 of the Indenture);

(P) the monitoring of the Issuing Entity’s obligations as to the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture and the preparation and delivery of an Officers’ Certificate, and the obtaining of the Opinion of Counsel and an Independent Certificate relating thereto (Section 4.1 of the Indenture);

(Q) the compliance with any written directive of the Indenture Trustee with respect to the sale of the Trust Estate in a commercially reasonable manner if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing (Section 5.4 of the Indenture);

 

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(R) the preparation and delivery of notice to the Noteholders of the resignation or removal of the Indenture Trustee and the appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee (Section 6.8 of the Indenture);

(S) the preparation of any written instruments required to confirm more fully the authority of any co-trustee or separate trustee and any written instruments necessary in connection with the resignation or removal of any co-trustee or separate trustee (Section 6.10 of the Indenture);

(T) the furnishing of the Indenture Trustee with the names and addresses of the Noteholders during any period when the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar (Section 7.1 of the Indenture);

(U) the preparation, the execution on behalf of the Issuing Entity and the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, any applicable state agencies and the Indenture Trustee of documents required to be filed on a periodic basis with, and summaries thereof as may be required by rules and regulations prescribed by, the Securities and Exchange Commission and any applicable state agencies and the transmission of such summaries, as necessary, to the Noteholders (Section 7.3 of the Indenture);

(V) the opening of one or more accounts in the Issuing Entity’s name, the preparation of Issuing Entity Orders and Opinions of Counsel and all other actions necessary with respect to investment and reinvestment of funds in the Designated Accounts (Sections 8.2 and 8.3 of the Indenture);

(W) the preparation of an Issuing Entity Request and Officer’s Certificate and the obtaining of an Opinion of Counsel and Independent Certificates, if necessary, for the release of the Trust Estate as defined in the Indenture (Sections 8.4 and 8.5 of the Indenture);

(X) the preparation of Issuing Entity Orders, the obtaining of Opinions of Counsel and the notification of the Rating Agencies with respect to the execution of supplemental indentures (Sections 9.1, 9.2 and 9.3 of the Indenture);

(Y) the execution and delivery of new Notes conforming to any supplemental indenture (Section 9.6 of the Indenture);

(Z) the preparation of the notification of the Noteholders and the Rating Agencies of redemption of the Notes (Sections 10.1 and 10.2 of the Indenture);

(AA) the preparation of all Officer’s Certificates, Opinions of Counsel and Independent Certificates with respect to any requests by the Issuing Entity to the Indenture Trustee to take any action under the Indenture and delivery thereof to the Indenture Trustee (Section 11.1(a) of the Indenture);

(BB) the preparation and delivery of Officers’ Certificates and the obtaining of Independent Certificates, if necessary, for the release of property from the lien of the Indenture (Section 11.1(b) of the Indenture);

 

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(CC) the notification of the Rating Agencies upon the failure of the Indenture Trustee to give such notification, of the information required pursuant to Section 11.4 (Section 11.4 of the Indenture);

(DD) the preparation and delivery to the Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent of any agreements with any Holder of a Note with respect to alternate payment and notice provisions (Section 11.6 of the Indenture); and

(EE) the recording of the Indenture, if applicable (Section 11.15 of the Indenture).

(ii) For so long as Ally Financial is both the Administrator and the Servicer, the Administrator will perform those payment and indemnity obligations of the Servicer under Section 3.01 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and Section 6.01 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement in the event that the Servicer fails to perform such obligations.

(iii) If Ally Financial is no longer the Administrator, the Administrator shall provide any required Rating Agency notices under this Section 2(a) to the Depositor, who promptly shall provide such notices to the Rating Agencies.

(b) Additional Duties.

(i) In addition to the duties of the Administrator set forth above, the Administrator shall perform all the duties of the Issuing Entity under the other Basic Documents, including making all calculations and shall prepare for execution by the Issuing Entity or the Owner Trustee or shall cause the preparation by other appropriate Persons of all such documents, reports, filings, instruments, certificates, notices and opinions as it shall be the duty of the Issuing Entity or the Owner Trustee to prepare, file or deliver pursuant to the Basic Documents, and at the request of the Owner Trustee shall take all appropriate action that it is the duty of the Issuing Entity or the Owner Trustee to take pursuant to the Basic Documents. Subject to Section 7 of this Agreement, and in accordance with the directions of the Owner Trustee, the Administrator shall administer, perform or supervise the performance of such other activities in connection with the Collateral (including the Basic Documents) as are not covered by any of the foregoing provisions and as are expressly requested by the Owner Trustee and are reasonably within the capability of the Administrator.

(ii) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or the other Basic Documents to the contrary, the Administrator shall be responsible for promptly notifying the Owner Trustee if any withholding tax is imposed on the Issuing Entity’s payments to a Certificateholder as contemplated in Section 5.2(c) of the Trust Agreement. Any such notice shall specify the amount of any withholding tax required to be withheld by the Owner Trustee pursuant to such provision.

(iii) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or the Basic Documents to the contrary, the Administrator shall be responsible for performance of the duties of the Owner Trustee set forth in Section 5.4 of the Trust Agreement with respect to, among other things, accounting and reports to Certificateholders; provided, however, that if the Owner Trustee is notified by the Administrator that the Issuing Entity is deemed to be taxable as a partnership for

 

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federal income tax purposes, the Owner Trustee shall retain responsibility for the distribution, but not for the preparation, to the Certificateholders of the Schedule K-1s necessary to enable each Certificateholder (or beneficial owner of a Certificate) to prepare its federal and state income tax returns.

(iv) The Administrator may satisfy any obligations it may have with respect to clauses (ii) and (iii) above by retaining, at the expense of the Issuing Entity payable by the Administrator, a firm of independent public accountants acceptable to the Owner Trustee which shall perform the obligations of the Administrator thereunder.

(v) The Administrator shall perform the duties of the Administrator specified in Section 6.10 of the Trust Agreement required to be performed in connection with the resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee, and any other duties expressly required to be performed by the Administrator under the Trust Agreement, including the duties under Section 3.4(c) of the Trust Agreement, required to be performed by the Administrator with respect to amendments to the Basic Documents in the event that the Depositor is no longer the sole Certificateholder.

(vi) In carrying out the foregoing duties or any of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Administrator may enter into transactions with or otherwise deal with any of its Affiliates; provided, however, that the terms of any such transactions or dealings shall be in accordance with any directions received from the Issuing Entity and shall be, in the Administrator’s opinion, no less favorable to the Issuing Entity than would be available from Persons that are not Affiliates of the Administrator.

(vii) The Administrator shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee from and against any and all costs, expenses, losses, claims, damages, and liabilities to the extent that such cost, expense, loss, claim, damage, or liability arose out of, or was imposed upon the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee through the negligence, willful misfeasance or bad faith of the Administrator in the performance of its duties under this Agreement or by reason of reckless disregard of its obligations and duties under this Agreement. Indemnification under this Section 2(b)(vii) shall include reasonable fees and expenses of counsel and expenses of litigation. If the Administrator has made any indemnity payments pursuant to this Section 2(b)(vii) and the recipient thereafter collects any of such amounts from others, the recipient shall promptly repay such amounts collected to the Administrator, without interest.

(c) Non-Ministerial Matters.

(i) With respect to matters that in the reasonable judgment of the Administrator are non-ministerial, the Administrator shall not take any action unless, within a reasonable time before the taking of such action, the Administrator shall have notified the Owner Trustee of the proposed action and the Owner Trustee shall not have withheld consent or provided an alternative direction. For the purpose of the preceding sentence, “non-ministerial matters” shall include:

(A) the amendment of or any supplement to the Indenture;

 

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(B) the initiation of any claim or lawsuit by the Issuing Entity and the compromise of any action, claim or lawsuit brought by or against the Issuing Entity;

(C) the amendment, change or modification of any of the Basic Documents;

(D) the appointment of successor Note Registrars, successor Paying Agents and successor Indenture Trustees pursuant to the Indenture or the appointment of successor Administrators or successor Servicers, or the consent to the assignment by the Note Registrar, Paying Agent or Indenture Trustee of its obligations under the Indenture; and

(E) the removal of the Indenture Trustee.

(ii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Administrator shall not be obligated to, and shall not, (x) make any payments to the Noteholders under the Basic Documents, (y) sell the Trust Estate pursuant to Section 5.4 of the Indenture or (z) take any other action that the Issuing Entity directs the Administrator not to take on its behalf.

3. Successor Servicer and Administrator. The Issuing Entity shall undertake, as promptly as possible after the giving of notice of termination to the Servicer of the Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to Section 7.02 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement, to enforce the provisions of Sections 7.02, 7.03 and 7.04 of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement with respect to the appointment of a successor Servicer. Such successor Servicer shall, upon compliance with Sections 10(e)(ii) and 10(e)(iii), become the successor Administrator hereunder.

4. Records. The Administrator shall comply with Section 5.4 of the Trust Agreement, including maintaining appropriate books of account and records relating to services performed hereunder, which books of account and records shall be accessible for inspection by the Issuing Entity and the Depositor at any time during normal business hours.

5. Compensation. As compensation for the performance of the Administrator’s obligations under this Agreement and as reimbursement for its expenses related thereto, the Servicer shall, unless otherwise waived by the Administrator, pay the Administrator a monthly fee in the amount of $1,500.

6. Additional Information To Be Furnished to the Issuing Entity. The Administrator shall furnish to the Issuing Entity from time to time such additional information regarding the Collateral as the Issuing Entity shall reasonably request.

7. Independence of the Administrator. For all purposes of this Agreement, the Administrator shall be an independent contractor and shall not be subject to the supervision of the Issuing Entity or the Owner Trustee with respect to the manner in which it accomplishes the performance of its obligations hereunder. Unless expressly authorized by the Issuing Entity, the Administrator shall have no authority to act for or represent the Issuing Entity or the Owner Trustee in any way and shall not otherwise be deemed an agent of the Issuing Entity or the Owner Trustee.

 

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8. No Joint Venture. Nothing contained in this Agreement (i) shall constitute the Administrator and either of the Issuing Entity or the Owner Trustee as members of any partnership, joint venture, association, syndicate, unincorporated business or other separate entity, (ii) shall be construed to impose any liability as such on any of them or (iii) shall be deemed to confer on any of them any express, implied or apparent authority to incur any obligation or liability on behalf of the others.

9. Other Activities of Administrator. Nothing herein shall prevent the Administrator or its Affiliates from engaging in other businesses or, in its sole discretion, from acting in a similar capacity as an administrator for any other person or entity even though such person or entity may engage in business activities similar to those of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee.

10. Term of Agreement; Resignation and Removal of Administrator.

(a) This Agreement shall continue in force until the termination of the Issuing Entity, upon which event this Agreement shall automatically terminate.

(b) Subject to Section 10(e), the Administrator may give notice of its intent to resign its duties hereunder by providing the Issuing Entity with at least sixty (60) days’ prior written notice.

(c) Subject to Section 10(e), the Issuing Entity may remove the Administrator without cause by providing the Administrator with at least sixty (60) days’ prior written notice.

(d) Subject to Section 10(e), at the sole option of the Issuing Entity, the Administrator may be removed immediately upon written notice of termination from the Issuing Entity to the Administrator if any of the following events shall occur:

(i) the Administrator shall default in the performance of any of its duties under this Agreement and, after notice from the Issuing Entity of such default, shall not cure such default within ten (10) days (or, if such default cannot be cured in such time, shall not give within ten (10) days such assurance of cure as shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Issuing Entity);

(ii) a court having jurisdiction in the premises shall enter a decree or order for relief, and such decree or order shall not have been vacated within sixty (60) days, in respect of the Administrator in any involuntary case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or appoint a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official for the Administrator or any substantial part of its property or order the winding-up or liquidation of its affairs; or

(iii) the Administrator shall commence a voluntary case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, shall consent to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case under any such law, or shall consent to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or similar official for the Administrator or any substantial part of its property, shall consent to the taking of possession by any such official of any substantial part of its property, shall make any general assignment for the benefit of creditors or shall fail generally to pay its debts as they become due.

 

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The Administrator agrees that if any of the events specified in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) of this Section 10(d) shall occur, it shall give written notice thereof to the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee within seven (7) days after the happening of such event.

(e) No resignation or removal of the Administrator pursuant to this Section 10 shall be effective until (i) a successor Administrator shall have been appointed by the Issuing Entity, (ii) such successor Administrator shall have agreed in writing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement in the same manner as the Administrator is bound hereunder, and (iii) the Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied with respect to such proposed appointment.

11. Action upon Termination, Resignation or Removal. Promptly upon the effective date of termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 10(a) or the resignation or removal of the Administrator pursuant to Section 10(b) or 10(c), respectively, the Administrator shall be entitled to be paid all fees and reimbursable expenses accruing to it to the effective date of such termination, resignation or removal. The Administrator shall forthwith upon such termination pursuant to Section 10(a) deliver to the Issuing Entity all property and documents of or relating to the Collateral then in the custody of the Administrator. In the event of the resignation or removal of the Administrator pursuant to Section 10(b) or 10(c), respectively, the Administrator shall cooperate with the Issuing Entity and take all reasonable steps requested to assist the Issuing Entity in making an orderly transfer of the duties of the Administrator.

12. Notices. All demands, notices and communications upon or to the Issuing Entity, the Administrator or the Indenture Trustee under this Agreement shall be delivered as specified in Appendix B of the Trust Sale and Servicing Agreement.

13. Amendments.

(a) This Agreement may be amended by the Issuing Entity, the Administrator and the Indenture Trustee, without the consent of any of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders, (i) to cure any ambiguity, (ii) to correct or supplement any provision in this Agreement that may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision in this Agreement or any other Basic Documents, (iii) to add or supplement any provision in this Agreement for the benefit of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders (provided that if any such addition shall affect any class of Noteholders or the Certificateholders differently from any other class of Noteholders or the Certificateholders, then such addition shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any class of Noteholders or the Certificateholders) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Administrator, (iv) to evidence and provide for the appointment of a successor Administrator hereunder and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Agreement as shall be necessary to facilitate such succession, (v) to add to the covenants, restrictions or obligations of the Administrator or (vi) to add, change or eliminate any other provision of this Agreement in any manner that shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders.

 

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(b) This Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the Issuing Entity at the direction of the Majority Certificateholders as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date, the Administrator and the Indenture Trustee, with the consent of the Noteholders whose Notes evidence not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date and if any Person other than the Depositor holds any Certificates, the consent of the Majority Certificateholders as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date (which consent, whether given pursuant to this Section 13(b) or pursuant to any other provision of this Agreement, shall be conclusive and binding on such Person and on all future holders of such Note or Certificate and of any Note or Certificate issued upon the transfer thereof or in exchange thereof or in lieu thereof whether or not notation of such consent is made upon the Note or Certificate) for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement, or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders; provided, however, that no such amendment shall (i) without the consent of the holder of the affected Note or Certificate, increase or reduce the interest rate or principal amount of any Note or change any Distribution Date or the Final Scheduled Distribution Date of any Note or distributions on the Certificates, (ii) reduce the amount of the required Specified Reserve Account Balance without the consent of all of the Noteholders or Certificateholders then outstanding, (iii) adversely affect the rating of any Securities by any of the Rating Agencies without the consent of the holders of two-thirds of the Outstanding Amount of an affected class of Notes or two-thirds of the Voting Interests of affected Certificates, as appropriate, each as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date or (iv) reduce the aforesaid percentage required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the holders of all Notes and Certificates then outstanding.

(c) Prior to the execution of any amendment or consent pursuant to Section 13(a) or (b), the Indenture Trustee shall furnish written notice of the substance of such amendment to the Rating Agencies.

(d) Promptly after the execution of any amendment or consent pursuant to Section 13(a) or (b), the Indenture Trustee shall furnish a copy of such amendment or consent to each of the Interested Parties.

(e) Notwithstanding Sections 13(a) and (b), the Administrator may not amend this Agreement without the consent of the Depositor, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

(f) It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Noteholders or Certificateholders pursuant to Section 13(b) to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment or consent, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. The manner of obtaining such consents (and any other consents of Noteholders or Certificateholders provided for in this Agreement) and of evidencing the authorization of the execution thereof by Noteholders and Certificateholders shall be subject to such reasonable requirements as the Indenture Trustee may prescribe.

(g) Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement, the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to receive and conclusively rely upon an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amendment is authorized or permitted by this Section 13. The Indenture Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment which affects such trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.

 

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14. Successors and Assigns. This Agreement may not be assigned by the Administrator unless such assignment is previously consented to in writing by the Issuing Entity and the Owner Trustee and subject to the satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition in respect thereof. An assignment with such consent and satisfaction, if accepted by the assignee, shall bind the assignee hereunder in the same manner as the Administrator is bound hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Agreement may be assigned by the Administrator without the consent of the Issuing Entity or the Owner Trustee to a corporation or other organization that is a successor (by merger, consolidation or purchase of assets) to the Administrator or that more than 25% of the voting interests of which is owned, directly or indirectly by, General Motors or Ally Financial, provided that such successor organization executes and delivers to the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee an agreement in which such corporation or other organization agrees to be bound hereunder by the terms of such assignment in the same manner as the Administrator is bound hereunder. Subject to the foregoing, this Agreement shall bind any successors or assigns of the parties hereto.

15. Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS THEREOF OR OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 AND SECTION 5-1402 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

16. Headings. The section headings hereof have been inserted for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.

17. Separate Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by the parties in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

18. Severability of Provisions. If any one or more of the covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement shall for any reason whatsoever be held invalid, then such covenants, agreements, provisions or terms shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement and shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of the other provisions of this Agreement or of the Securities or the rights of the holders thereof.

19. Not Applicable to Ally Financial in Other Capacities. Nothing in this Agreement shall affect any obligation Ally Financial may have in any other capacity.

20. Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee and Indenture Trustee.

(a) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, this Agreement has been countersigned by BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee and in no event shall BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware have any liability for the

 

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representations, warranties, covenants, agreements or other obligations of the Issuing Entity hereunder or in any of the certificates, notices or agreements delivered pursuant hereto, as to all of which recourse shall be had solely to the assets of the Issuing Entity. For all purposes of this Agreement, in the performance of any duties or obligations of the Issuing Entity hereunder, the Owner Trustee shall be subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the terms and provisions of Article VI of the Trust Agreement.

(b) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, this Agreement has been countersigned by Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, not in its individual capacity but solely in its capacity as Indenture Trustee and in no event shall Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas have any liability for the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements or other obligations of the Issuing Entity hereunder or in any of the certificates, notices or agreements delivered pursuant hereto, as to all of which recourse shall be had solely to the assets of the Issuing Entity. For all purposes of this Agreement, in the performance of any duties or obligations of the Issuing Entity hereunder, the Indenture Trustee shall be subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the terms and provisions of Article VI of the Indenture.

21. Third-Party Beneficiary. The Owner Trustee is a third-party beneficiary to this Agreement and is entitled to the rights and benefits hereunder and may enforce the provisions hereof as if it were a party hereto.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers as of the day and year first above written.

 

CAPITAL AUTO RECEIVABLES ASSET TRUST 2013-3, as Issuing Entity

By: BNY MELLON TRUST OF DELAWARE,

not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuing Entity

By:  

/s/ Kristine K. Gullo

Name:   Kristine K. Gullo
Title:   Vice President
ALLY FINANCIAL INC., as Administrator
By:  

/s/ M. T. St. Charles

Name:   M. T. St. Charles
Title:   Assistant Treasurer
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY for DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, not in its individual capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee
By:  

/s/ Mark DiGiacomo

Name:   Mark DiGiacomo
Title:   Vice President
By:  

/s/ Robin Durant

Name:   Robin Durant
Title:   Associate

Administration Agreement (CARAT 2013-3)