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ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT
ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT, dated as of December 8,
2006 between Residential
Funding Company, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
("RFC") and Residential Asset
Mortgage Products, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
"Company").
Recitals
A. RFC has entered into seller contracts ("Seller Contracts")
with the
seller/servicers.
B. The Company wishes to purchase from RFC certain Mortgage
Loans (as hereinafter
defined) originated pursuant to the Seller Contracts other than
the Arrearages (as defined
in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement) with respect
thereto.
C. The Company, RFC, as master servicer, and U.S. Bank National
Association, as
trustee (the "Trustee"), are entering into a Pooling and
Servicing Agreement dated as of
November 1, 2006 (the "Pooling and Servicing Agreement"),
pursuant to which the Trust
proposes to issue Mortgage Asset-Backed Pass-Through
Certificates, RAAC Series 2006-SP4 (the
"Certificates") consisting of classes of senior certificates
designated as Class A-1, Class
A-2 and Class A-3 (collectively, the "Senior Certificates") and
subordinate certificates
designated as Class M-1, Class M-2, Class M-3, Class M-4, Class
M-5 and Class M-6
Certificates (collectively, the "Class M Certificates"), Class
R-I Certificates, Class R-II
Certificates and Class SB Certificates representing beneficial
ownership interests in a
trust fund consisting primarily of a pool of mortgage loans
identified in Exhibits F-1 and
F-2 to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement (the "Mortgage
Loans").
D. In connection with the purchase of the Mortgage Loans, the
Company will assign
to or at the direction of RFC the Class R-I, Class R-II and
Class SB Certificates
(collectively, the "Retained Certificates").
E. In connection with the purchase of the Mortgage Loans and the
issuance of the
Certificates, RFC wishes to make certain representations and
warranties to the Company and
to assign certain of its rights under the Seller Contracts to
the Company, and the Company
wishes to assume certain of RFC's obligations under the Seller
Contracts.
F. The Company and RFC intend that the conveyance by RFC to the
Company of all
its right, title and interest in and to the Mortgage Loans
pursuant to this Agreement shall
constitute a purchase and sale and not a loan.
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the recitals and the mutual
promises herein and
other good and valuable consideration, the parties agree as
follows:
1. All capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have
the meanings assigned
thereto in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
2. Concurrently with the execution and delivery hereof, RFC
hereby assigns to the
Company without recourse all of its right, title and interest in
and to the Mortgage Loans,
including all interest and principal received on or with respect
to the Mortgage Loans after
the Cut-off Date (other than payments of principal and interest
due on the Mortgage Loans in
November 2006). In consideration of such assignment, RFC will
receive from the Company, in
immediately available funds, an amount equal to $303,093,260.76
and the Retained
Certificates. In connection with such assignment and at the
Company's direction, RFC has in
respect of each Mortgage Loan endorsed the related Mortgage Note
(other than any Destroyed
Mortgage Note) to the order of the Trustee and delivered an
assignment of mortgage in
recordable form to the Trustee or its agent. A Destroyed
Mortgage Note means a Mortgage
Note the original of which was permanently lost or
destroyed.
The Company and RFC intend that the conveyance by RFC to the
Company of all its
right, title and interest in and to the Mortgage Loans pursuant
to this Section 2 shall be,
and be construed as, a sale of the Mortgage Loans by RFC to the
Company. It is, further, not
intended that such conveyance be deemed to be a pledge of the
Mortgage Loans by RFC to the
Company to secure a debt or other obligation of RFC. However, in
the event that the Mortgage
Loans are held to be property of RFC, or if for any reason this
Agreement is held or deemed
to create a security interest in the Mortgage Loans then it is
intended that (a) this
Agreement shall also be deemed to be a security agreement within
the meaning of Articles 8
and 9 of the Minnesota Uniform Commercial Code and the Uniform
Commercial Code of any other
applicable jurisdiction; (b) the conveyance provided for in this
Section shall be deemed to
be a grant by RFC to the Company of a security interest in all
of RFC's right (including the
power to convey title thereto), title and interest, whether now
owned or hereafter acquired,
in and to (A) the Mortgage Loans, including (i) with respect to
each Cooperative Loan, the
related Mortgage Note, Security Agreement, Assignment of
Proprietary Lease, Cooperative
Stock Certificate, Cooperative Lease, any insurance policies and
all other documents in the
related Mortgage File and (ii) with respect to each Mortgage
Loan other than a Cooperative
Loan, the Mortgage Notes, the Mortgages, any related insurance
policies and all other
documents in the related Mortgage Files, (B) all amounts payable
pursuant to the Mortgage
Loans in accordance with the terms thereof and (C) any and all
general intangibles, payment
intangibles, accounts, chattel paper, instruments, documents,
money, deposit accounts,
certificates of deposit, goods, letters of credit, advices of
credit and investment property
and other property of whatever kind or description now existing
or hereafter acquired
consisting of, arising from or relating to any of the foregoing,
and all proceeds of the
conversion, voluntary or involuntary, of the foregoing into
cash, instruments, securities or
other property, including, without limitation, all amounts from
time to time held or
invested in the Certificate Account or the Custodial Account,
whether in the form of cash,
instruments, securities or other property; (c) the possession by
the Trustee, the Custodian
or any other agent of the Trustee of Mortgage Notes or such
other items of property as
constitute instruments, money, negotiable documents or chattel
paper shall be deemed to be
"possession by the secured party", or possession by a purchaser
or a person designated by
him, for purposes of perfecting the security interest pursuant
to the Minnesota Uniform
Commercial Code and the Uniform Commercial Code of any other
applicable jurisdiction
(including, without limitation, Section 9-305, 8-313 or 8-321
thereof); and (d)
notifications to persons holding such property, and
acknowledgments, receipts or
confirmations from persons holding such property, shall be
deemed notifications to, or
acknowledgments, receipts or confirmations from, financial
intermediaries, bailees or agents
(as applicable) of the Trustee for the purpose of perfecting
such security interest under
applicable law. RFC shall, to the extent consistent with this
Agreement, take such
reasonable actions as may be necessary to ensure that, if this
Agreement were deemed to
create a security interest in the Mortgage Loans and the other
property described above,
such security interest would be deemed to be a perfected
security interest of first priority
under applicable law and will be maintained as such throughout
the term of this Agreement.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, RFC shall
prepare and deliver to the
Company no less than 15 days prior to any filing date, and the
Company shall file, or shall
cause to be filed, at the expense of RFC, all filings necessary
to maintain the
effectiveness of any original filings necessary under the
Uniform Commercial Code as in
effect in any jurisdiction to perfect the Company's security
interest in or lien on the
Mortgage Loans including without limitation (x) continuation
statements, and (y) such other
statements as may be occasioned by (1) any change of name of RFC
or the Company, (2) any
change of location of the state of formation, place of business
or the chief executive
office of RFC or (3) any transfer of any interest of RFC in any
Mortgage Loan.
3. Concurrently with the execution and delivery hereof, the
Company hereby assigns to or
at the direction of RFC without recourse all of its right, title
and interest in and to the
Retained Certificates as part of the consideration payable to
RFC by the Company pursuant to
this Agreement.
4. RFC represents and warrants to the Company, with respect to
each Mortgage Loan that
on the date of execution hereof (or, if otherwise specified
below, as of the date so
specified):
(a) The information set forth in the Mortgage Loan Schedule for
such Mortgage Loan is
true and correct in all material respects as of the date or
dates respecting
which such information is furnished;
(b) Each Mortgage Loan constitutes a qualified mortgage under
Section 860G(a)(3)(A) of
the Code and Treasury Regulations Section 1.860G-2(a)(1);
(c) Immediately prior to the conveyance of each Mortgage Loan to
the Trustee, RFC had
good title to, and was the sole owner of, such Mortgage Loan
free and clear of
any pledge, lien, encumbrance or security interest (other than
rights to
servicing and related compensation) and such conveyance validly
transfers
ownership of such Mortgage Loan to the Trustee free and clear of
any pledge,
lien, encumbrance or security interest;
(d) Each Mortgage Note constitutes a legal, valid and binding
obligation of the Mortgagor
enforceable in accordance with its terms except as limited by
bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar laws affecting generally the
enforcement of
creditors' rights;
(e) To the best of RFC's knowledge as of the Cut-off Date, and
except as noted in (h)
below, there is no default, breach, violation or event of
acceleration
existing under the terms of any Mortgage Note or Mortgage and no
event which,
with notice and expiration of any grace or cure period, would
constitute a
default, breach, violation or event of acceleration under the
terms of any
Mortgage Note or Mortgage, and no such default, breach,
violation or event of
acceleration has been waived by RFC or by any other entity
involved in
servicing a Mortgage Loan;
(f) Each Mortgage Loan with a Loan-to-Value Ratio, or combined
Loan-to-Value Ratio in the
case of Mortgage Loans Secured by second liens, at origination
in excess of
80% will be insured by a Primary Insurance Policy, except for
91.8% of the
Mortgage Loans. The amount of this insurance covers the amount
of such
Mortgage Loan in excess of 75% of the value of the related
Mortgaged Property
used in determining the Loan-to-Value Ratio, or combined
Loan-to-Value Ratio
in the case of Mortgage Loans Secured by second liens.
(g) As of the Cut-Off Date, none of the Mortgage Loans are 30 to
59 days Delinquent in
payment of principal and interest and approximately 0.9% of the
Mortgage Loans
have been 30 to 59 days delinquent in the payment of principal
and interest
within the last twelve months. As of the Cut-Off Date, none of
the Mortgage
Loans are currently 60 or more days delinquent in the payment of
principal and
interest and none of the Mortgage Loans have been 60 or more
days delinquent
in the payment of principal and interest within the last twelve
months;
(h) None of the Mortgage Loans is a Buy-Down Mortgage Loan;
(i) To the best of RFC's knowledge, there is no delinquent tax
or assessment lien against
any related Mortgaged Property;
(j) No Mortgagor has any valid right of offset, defense or
counterclaim as to the related
Mortgage Note or Mortgage, except as may be provided under the
Servicemembers
Civil Relief Act of 1940, as amended;
(k) No Mortgage Loan provides for payments that are subject to
reduction by withholding
taxes levied by any foreign (non-United States) sovereign
government;
(l) The proceeds of each Mortgage Loan have been fully disbursed
and (2) to the best of
RFC's knowledge, there is no requirement for future advances
thereunder and
any and all requirements as to completion of any on-site or
off-site
improvements and as to disbursements of any escrow funds
therefor (including
any escrow funds held to make Monthly Payments pending
completion of such
improvements) have been complied with. All costs, fees and
expenses incurred
in making, closing or recording the Mortgage Loans were
paid;
(m) To the best of RFC's knowledge, with respect to each
Mortgage Loan, there are no
mechanics' liens or claims for work, labor or material affecting
any Mortgaged
Property which are or may be a lien prior to, or equal with, the
lien of the
related Mortgage, except such liens that are insured or
indemnified against by
a title insurance policy;
(n) With respect to each Mortgage Loan, a policy of title
insurance was effective as of
the closing of such Mortgage Loan, is valid and binding, and
remains in full
force and effect, unless the related Mortgaged Property is
located in the
State of Iowa and an attorney's certificate has been
provided;
(o) Each Mortgaged Property is free of damage and in good repair
and no notice of
condemnation has been given with respect thereto. RFC knows of
nothing
involving any Mortgaged Property that could reasonably be
expected to
materially adversely affect the value or marketability of any
Mortgaged
Property;
(p) Each Mortgage contains customary and enforceable provisions
which render the rights
and remedies of the holder adequate to realize the benefits of
the security
against the Mortgaged Property, including (i) in the case of a
Mortgage that
is a deed of trust, by trustee's sale or (ii) by judicial
foreclosure or, if
applicable, non judicial foreclosure, and to the best of RFC's
knowledge,
there is no homestead or other exemption available to the
Mortgagor that would
interfere with such right to sell at a trustee's sale or right
to foreclosure,
subject in each case to applicable federal and state laws and
judicial
precedents with respect to bankruptcy and right of
redemption;
(q) To the best of RFC's knowledge, with respect to each
Mortgage that is a deed of
trust, a trustee duly qualified under applicable law to serve as
such is
properly named, designated and serving, and except in connection
with a
trustee's sale after default by a Mortgagor, no fees or expenses
are payable
by the seller or RFC to the trustee u
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