Exhibit 4.7
RECEIVABLES PURCHASE AND CONTRIBUTION
AGREEMENT
between
CDF FUNDING, INC.,
as Seller,
and
GE DEALER FLOORPLAN MASTER NOTE
TRUST,
as Buyer
Dated as of August 12, 2004
Receivables Purchase and
Contribution Agreement
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
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Section
1.1
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Definitions
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Section
1.2
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Other
Interpretive Matters
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ARTICLE II
SALES
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Section
2.1
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Sales
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Section
2.2
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Acceptance by
Buyer
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Section
2.3
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Characterization of Transfers
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Section
2.4
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Purchase
Price
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Section
2.5
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Adjustments
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Section
2.6
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Addition of
Accounts
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Section
2.7
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Removal of
Accounts
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Section
2.8
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Additional
Sellers
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Section
2.9
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Additional
Originators
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ARTICLE III
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
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Section
3.1
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Conditions to
Initial Transfer
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Section
3.2
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Conditions to
all Transfers
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ARTICLE IV
OTHER MATTERS RELATING TO SELLER
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Section
4.1
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Merger or
Consolidation of, or Assumption of the Obligations of, Seller,
etc.
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ARTICLE V
BANKRUPTCY EVENTS
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Section
5.1
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Rights upon the
Occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event
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ARTICLE VI
REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS
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Section
6.1
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Representations
and Warranties of Seller
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Section
6.2
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Affirmative
Covenants of Seller
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Section
6.3
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Negative
Covenants of Seller
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ARTICLE VII
MISCELLANEOUS
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Section
7.1
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Notices
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Section
7.2
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No Waiver;
Remedies
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Section
7.3
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Successors and
Assigns
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Section
7.4
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Termination
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Section
7.5
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Survival
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Section
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Complete
Agreement; Modification of Agreement
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Section
7.7
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GOVERNING LAW;
CONSENT TO JURISDICTION; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
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Section
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Counterparts
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Section
7.9
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Severability
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Section
7.10
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Section
Titles
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Section
7.11
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No
Setoff
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Section
7.12
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Further
Assurances
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Section
7.13
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Accounting
Changes
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Section
7.14
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No Indirect or
Consequential Damages
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Section
7.15
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No
Proceedings
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List of
Accounts
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UCC
Information
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Perfection
Representations and Warranties
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EXHIBIT A Form of Assignment
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EXHIBIT B Form of Reassignment
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EXHIBIT C Form of Opinion of Counsel with
Respect to Additional Accounts
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RECEIVABLES
PURCHASE AND CONTRIBUTION AGREEMENT, dated as of August 12,
2004 (this “Agreement”), between CDF FUNDING, INC., a
Delaware corporation, as Seller, and GE DEALER FLOORPLAN MASTER
NOTE TRUST , a statutory trust organized under the laws of
the State of Delaware, as Buyer (“Buyer”).
In
consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants hereinafter
contained, and for other good and valuable consideration, the
receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the
parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.1
Definitions.
“Account”
means each Initial Account and each Additional Account. The term
Account includes an Additional Account only from and after its
Addition Date and includes any Removed Account only prior to its
Removal Date.
“Account
Schedule” means a computer file or microfiche list or other
list containing a true and complete list of Accounts, identified by
account number (or by an alpha-numeric identifier that uniquely and
objectively identifies the applicable account number pursuant to a
protocol that has been provided to Buyer) and setting forth the
receivables balance for each as of (i) the applicable Addition
Cut-Off Date, in the case of an Account Schedule relating to
Additional Accounts, (ii) the Removal Notice Date, in the case
of an Account Schedule relating to Removed Accounts or
(iii) the date specified therein, in the case of any other
Account Schedule. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the initial
Account Schedule does not set forth receivables balances, and any
failure to set forth receivables balances in such a file or list
shall not impair the file’s or list’s effectiveness as
an Account Schedule.
“Accounting
Changes” means, with respect to any Person: (a) changes
in accounting principles required by the promulgation of any rule,
regulation, pronouncement or opinion of the Financial Accounting
Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants (or any successor thereto or any agency with similar
functions); (b) changes in accounting principles concurred by
such Person’s certified public accountants; (c) purchase
accounting adjustments under A.P.B. 16 or 17 and EITF 88-16, and
the application of the accounting principles set forth in FASB 109,
including the establishment of reserves pursuant thereto and any
subsequent reversal (in whole or in part) of such reserves; and
(d) the reversal of any reserves established as a result of
purchase accounting adjustments.
“Accounts
Receivable” means, with respect to any Dealer, all amounts
shown on such Dealer’s records as amounts payable by a
customer (which customer may be a Dealer) in respect of goods or
services sold by such Dealer to such customer.
“Accounts
Receivable Business” means the extensions of credit made by
an Originator to Dealers in order to finance the Accounts
Receivable of such Dealers.
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“Accounts
Receivable Financing Agreement” means an accounts receivable
financing agreement or accounts receivable purchase agreement
entered into by an Originator with a Dealer in connection with the
Accounts Receivable Business.
“Addition
Cut-Off Date” means, as to any Additional Account, the date
specified as such in the related Assignment.
“Addition
Date” means, as to any Additional Account, the date specified
as such in the related Assignment.
“Additional
Accounts” is defined in Section 2.6(a).
“Affiliate”
means, with respect to any Person, (a) each Person that,
directly or indirectly, owns or controls, whether beneficially, or
as a trustee, guardian or other fiduciary, five percent (5%) or
more of the securities having ordinary voting power in the election
of directors of such Person, (b) each Person that controls, is
controlled by or is under common control with such Person, or
(c) each of such Person’s officers, directors, joint
venturers and partners. For the purposes of this definition,
“control” of a Person means the possession, directly or
indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of its
management or policies, whether through the ownership of voting
securities, by contract or otherwise.
“Aggregate
Reassignment Amount” means, for any reassignment of the
Transferred Receivables pursuant to Section 6.1(e), the
greater of (a) the aggregate outstanding amount (comprising
principal, interest and all other non-principal amounts) of the
Receivables held by Buyer as of the end of the preceding Monthly
Period, and (b) the aggregate outstanding principal balance of
all notes issued by Buyer pursuant to the Indenture and any
Indenture Supplement, in each case as of the Payment Date on which
the reassignment is scheduled to be made, plus accrued and unpaid
interest on all series of such notes through such Payment
Date.
“Agreement”
is defined in the preamble.
“Agreement
Termination Date” is defined in Section 7.4.
“Asset Based
Lending Business” means the extensions of credit made by an
Originator to Dealers in order to provide loans based on the value
of certain assets of such Dealers.
“Asset Based
Lending Financing Agreement” means an asset based lending
financing agreement entered into by an Originator and a Dealer in
connection with the Asset Based Lending Business.
“Assignment”
is defined in Section 2.6(c).
“Authorized
Officer” means (a) with respect to any corporation or
statutory trust, the Chairman or Vice-Chairman of the Board, the
President, any Vice President, the Secretary, the Treasurer, any
Assistant Secretary, any Assistant Treasurer and each other officer
or employee of such corporation or trustee of such trust
specifically authorized in resolutions of the Board of Directors of
such corporation or trustee of such trust to sign agreements,
instruments or other documents on behalf of such corporation or
statutory trust in connection with the transactions
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contemplated by the Related
Documents, and (b) with respect to a limited liability
company, an officer or manager of such limited liability
company.
“Bankruptcy
Event” means, as to any Person, any of the following events:
(a) a case or proceeding shall have been commenced against
such Person seeking a decree or order in respect of such Person
(i) under any Debtor Relief Law, (ii) appointing a
custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee or sequestrator
(or similar official) for any such Person or for any substantial
part of such Person’s assets, or (iii) ordering the
winding-up or liquidation of the affairs of any such Person; or
(b) such Person shall (i) file a petition seeking relief
under any Debtor Relief Law, (ii) consent or fail to object in
a timely and appropriate manner to the institution of proceedings
thereunder or to the filing of any such petition or to the
appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver,
liquidator, assignee, trustee or sequestrator (or similar official)
for such Person or for any substantial part of such Person’s
assets, (iii) make an assignment for the benefit of creditors,
or (iv) take any corporate or statutory trust action in
furtherance of any of the foregoing.
“Business
Day” means any day that is not a Saturday, a Sunday or a day
on which banks are required or permitted to be closed in the State
of New York or the state of Master Servicer’s principal place
of business (which, as of the Closing Date, is the State of
Connecticut).
“Buyer”
is defined in the preamble.
“Closing
Date” means August 12, 2004.
“Collateral
Security” means, with respect to any Receivable, (i) the
security interest, if any, granted by or on behalf of the related
Dealer with respect thereto, including a security interest in the
related Products, Accounts Receivable or assets, (ii) all
other security interests or liens and property subject thereto from
time to time purporting to secure payment of such Receivable,
whether pursuant to the agreement giving rise to such Receivable or
otherwise, together with all financing statements filed against a
Dealer describing any collateral securing such Receivable,
(iii) all guarantees, insurance and other agreements
(including Floorplan Agreements and subordination agreements with
other lenders) or arrangements of whatever character from time to
time supporting or securing payment of such Receivable whether
pursuant to the agreement giving rise to such Receivable or
otherwise, and (iv) all Records in respect of such
Receivable.
“Collections”
means, without duplication, all payments by or on behalf of Dealers
received in respect of the Receivables (including proceeds from the
realization upon any Collateral Security) in the form of cash,
checks, wire transfers or any other form of payment. Collections
that constitute Recoveries shall be considered to be Collections of
Non-Principal Receivables.
“Credit and
Collection Policies” means the credit and collection policies
adopted by Seller by a resolution of its board of directors on or
prior to the Closing Date, as such credit and collections policies
may be amended from time to time.
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“Date of
Processing” means, as to any transaction, the Business Day on
which the transaction is first recorded on Master Servicer’s
computer file of accounts (without regard to the effective date of
such recordation).
“Dealer”
means a Person engaged generally in the business of purchasing
consumer or commercial goods from a manufacturer or distributor
thereof and holding such goods for sale or lease in the ordinary
course of business or a Person engaged generally in the business of
manufacturing or distributing consumer or commercial goods for sale
to Dealers in the ordinary course of business.
“Debtor
Relief Laws” means Title 11 of the United States Code and all
other applicable liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy,
moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency,
reorganization, suspension of payments, readjustment of debt,
marshalling of assets or similar debtor relief laws of the United
States, any state or any foreign country from time to time in
effect, affecting the rights of creditors generally.
“Defaulted
Receivables” on any Determination Date means all Receivables
(other than Ineligible Receivables and any Designated Ineligible
Receivables) in an Account which are charged off as uncollectible
on or prior to such Determination Date in respect of the
immediately preceding Monthly Period in accordance with
Seller’s customary and usual servicing procedures for
servicing Dealer receivables comparable to the Receivables which
have not been sold to third parties.
“Delinquent
Receivables” means Receivables that have been SAU or NSF for
at least thirty-one (31) days.
“Deposit
Date” is defined in Section 6.1(d).
“Designated
Ineligible Receivable” means, without duplication,
(i) any Receivable that arises in an Eligible Account but was
not an Eligible Receivable at the time of its transfer to Buyer;
and (ii) any Receivable that, at the time of its transfer to
Buyer has been SAU or NSF for more than ninety
(90) days.
“Designated
Participation Interest” is defined in
Section 2.6(b).
“Determination
Date” means the second Business Day preceding each Payment
Date.
“DFS
Financing Trust” means Distribution Financial Services
Floorplan Master Trust, a common-law trust formed pursuant to the
Pooling and Security Agreement.
“Early
Amortization Event” is defined in the Indenture.
“Eligible
Account” is defined in the First Tier Agreement.
“Eligible
Receivable” is defined in the First Tier
Agreement.
“Excess
Funding Account” is defined in the Indenture.
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“Financing
Agreement” means a Wholesale Financing Agreement, Accounts
Receivable Financing Agreement or Asset Based Lending Financing
Agreement.
“First Tier
Agreement” means the Receivables Sale Agreement dated as of
August 12, 2004 among the Originators and Seller.
“Floorplan
Agreement” means an agreement entered into by an Originator
and a Manufacturer establishing certain terms and conditions for
the financing of such Manufacturer’s Dealers by such
Originator, which may include such Manufacturer’s agreement,
among other matters, to repurchase from, or remarket for, such
Originator Products sold by such Manufacturer to any of its Dealers
and financed by such Originator under a Wholesale Financing
Agreement if such Originator acquires possession of such Products
because of a default by such Dealer under such Wholesale Financing
Agreement, whether by repossession, voluntary surrender or other
circumstances.
“Floorplan
Business” means the extensions of credit made by an
Originator to Dealers in order to finance Products purchased by
Dealers from Manufacturers for sale or lease by such
Dealers.
“Free Equity
Amount” is defined in the Indenture.
“GAAP”
means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States
of America in effect from time to time.
“GE
Capital” means General Electric Capital Corporation, a
Delaware corporation.
“Governmental
Authority” means any nation or government, any state or other
political subdivision thereof, and any agency, department or other
entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or
administrative functions of or pertaining to government.
“Indenture”
means the Master Indenture dated as of August 12, 2004 between
Buyer and the Indenture Trustee.
“Indenture
Supplement” means a supplement to the Indenture executed and
delivered pursuant to the Indenture.
“Indenture
Trustee” means Wilmington Trust Company, as indenture trustee
under the Indenture.
“Ineligible
Account” means an Account that at the time of determination
is not an Eligible Account.
“Ineligible
Receivable” is defined in Section 6.1(c).
“Initial
Account” means each individual revolving credit arrangement
established by an Originator with a Dealer which was identified in
the Account Schedule delivered in connection with the execution and
delivery of this Agreement.
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“Insurance
Proceeds” with respect to an Account means any amounts
received pursuant to any policy of insurance which are required to
be paid to an Originator pursuant to a Wholesale Financing
Agreement, Accounts Receivable Financing Agreement or Asset Based
Lending Financing Agreement.
“Lien”
means any mortgage or deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation,
assignment, deposit arrangement, lien, charge, claim, security
interest, easement or encumbrance, or preference, priority or other
security agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or
nature whatsoever (including any lease or title retention
agreement, any financing lease having substantially the same
economic effect as any of the foregoing, and the filing of, or
agreement to give, any financing statement perfecting a security
interest under the UCC or comparable law of any
jurisdiction).
“Litigation”
means, with respect to any Person, any action, claim, lawsuit,
demand, investigation or proceeding pending or threatened against
such Person before any court, board, commission, agency or
instrumentality of any federal, state, local or foreign government
or of any agency or subdivision thereof or before any arbitrator or
panel of arbitrators.
“Manufacturer”
means a Person engaged generally in the business of manufacturing
or distributing Products for sale or lease to Dealers in the
ordinary course of business.
“Master
Servicer” means GE Capital, in its capacity as master
servicer under the Servicing Agreement, or any other Person
designated as a successor master servicer pursuant to the Servicing
Agreement.
“Material
Adverse Effect” means, with respect to Seller, a material
adverse effect on (a) the ability of Seller to perform any of
its obligations under the Related Documents in accordance with the
terms thereof, (b) the validity or enforceability of any
Related Document or the rights and remedies of Buyer under any
Related Document with respect to Seller, or (c) the
Transferred Receivables (including the collectibility of the
Transferred Receivables and the security interests and other rights
securing and supporting the payment of the Transferred
Receivables), the Financing Agreements therefor or the ownership
interests or Liens of Seller or Buyer thereon or the priority of
such interests or Liens.
“Minimum
Free Equity Amount” is defined in the Indenture.
“Monthly
Period” means a calendar month.
“Non-Principal
Collections” means the sum of (a) Collections of
interest and all other non-principal charges (including insurance
service fees and handling fees) on the Receivables, and
(b) all Recoveries.
“Non-Principal
Receivables” with respect to any Account means all amounts
billed to the related Dealer in respect of interest and all other
non-principal charges.
“Noteholder”
is defined in the Indenture.
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“Note Trust
Certificate” means the Note Trust Certificate, Series
2004-NTC, issued pursuant to the Series 2004-NTC
Supplement.
“Note Trust
Principal Balance” is defined in the Indenture.
“NSF”
means, with respect to a Receivable, that a check in payment of
such Receivable has been returned because of insufficient funds and
has not thereafter been paid.
“Officer’s
Certificate” means, with respect to any Person, a certificate
signed by an Authorized Officer of such Person.
“Opinion of
Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be
counsel for, or an employee of, the Person providing the
opinion.
“Originator”
means each of GE Commercial Distribution Finance Corporation,
Transamerica Commercial Finance Corporation, Brunswick Acceptance
Company, LLC, and any other originator so designated pursuant to
Section 2.9 of the First Tier Agreement.
“Originator
Guaranty” means the Originator Performance Guaranty dated as
of August 12, 2004 made by GE Capital.
“Outstanding
Balance” means, with respect to any Principal Receivable, the
outstanding amount of such Principal Receivable; provided, that the
Outstanding Balance of a Defaulted Receivable shall equal
zero.
“Participation
Agreement” means an agreement between an Originator and a
lender pursuant to which such Originator conveys to such lender an
undivided interest in certain receivables that is pari passu in all
respects (other than nonsubordinated interest strips and fees) with
the undivided interest retained by such Originator.
“Participation
Interest” means the undivided interest, created pursuant to a
Participation Agreement, in a receivable in which a Receivable
represents the remaining undivided interest.
“Payment
Date” means, except as otherwise specified in any Indenture
Supplement for the Series relating thereto, the twentieth (20
th ) day of each calendar month, or if the twentieth (20
th ) day is not a Business Day, the next Business
Day.
“Permitted
Encumbrances” means the following: (a) Liens for taxes
or assessments or other governmental charges not yet due and
payable; (b) inchoate and unperfected workers’,
mechanics’, suppliers’ or similar Liens arising in the
ordinary course of business; (c) presently existing or
hereinafter created Liens in favor of, or created by, Buyer;
(d) any Lien created or permitted by any Related Document;
(e) any Lien created by any Participation Agreement; and
(f) any security interests in assets that are subordinate to
the security interests securing the related Receivables.
“Person”
means any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, joint
venture, unincorporated organization, trust (including a business
trust), association, corporation, limited
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liability company, institution,
public benefit corporation, joint stock company, Governmental
Authority or any other entity of whatever nature.
“Pooling and
Servicing Agreement” means the Amended and Restated Pooling
and Servicing Agreement , dated as of April 1, 2000, among CDF
Financing, L.L.C. (as successor to Deutsche Floorplan Receivables,
L.P.), GE Commercial Distribution Finance Corporation (formerly
known as Deutsche Financial Services Corporation), and Wilmington
Trust Company (as successor to The Chase Manhattan Bank), as
trustee.
“Principal
Collections” means Collections other than Non-Principal
Collections. Amounts paid by Seller pursuant to Section 2.5
shall be deemed to be Principal Collections.
“Principal
Receivable” with respect to an Account means amounts shown on
Seller’s records as Receivables (other than such amounts
which represent Non-Principal Receivables) payable by the related
Dealer.
“Products”
means the commercial and consumer goods financed by an Originator
for Dealers.
“Purchase
Date” means the Closing Date and, thereafter, each Business
Day.
“Purchase
Price” is defined in Section 2.4(a).
“Rating
Agency” is defined in the Indenture.
“Rating
Agency Condition” is defined in the Indenture.
“Reassignment”
is defined in Section 2.7(a).
“Receivable”
means, with respect to an Account, all amounts payable (including
interest, finance charges and other charges), and the obligation to
pay such amounts, by the related Dealer from time to time in
respect of advances made by an Originator to or on behalf of such
Dealer in connection with the Floorplan Business, the Accounts
Receivable Business or the Asset Based Lending Business, as the
case may be, together with the group of writings evidencing such
amounts and the security interest created in connection therewith
and all of the rights, remedies, powers and privileges thereunder
(including under the related Financing Agreement); provided, that
if a Participation Interest has been created in respect of such
Account, whether before or after such Account has been designated
as an Account, the amounts so payable by the related Dealer that
are allocable to such Participation Interest shall not be part of
the “Receivables” in respect of such Account. A
Receivable that, prior to its transfer to Buyer, was subject to a
participation from an Originator in favor of another Originator
shall be considered a Receivable.
“Records”
means, with respect to any Receivables, all Financing Agreements
and other documents, books, records and other information
(including computer programs, tapes, disks, data processing
software and related property and rights) relating to such
Receivable and the related Dealer.
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“Recoveries”
on any date means all amounts received, including Insurance
Proceeds, during the Monthly Period immediately preceding such date
with respect to Receivables which have previously become Defaulted
Receivables.
“Related
Documents” means this Agreement, the First Tier Agreement,
the Trust Agreement, the Servicing Agreement, the Indenture, any
Indenture Supplement and all other pledges, powers of attorney,
consents, assignments, contracts, notices, and all other written
matter whether heretofore, now or hereafter executed by or on
behalf of any Person, or any employee of any Person, and delivered
in connection with any of the foregoing or the transactions
contemplated thereby.
“Removed
Account” means an Account that is removed from the Account
Schedule in accordance with Section 2.7.
“Removal
Date” is defined in Section 2.7(a).
“Removal
Notice Date” is defined in Section 2.7(a).
“Required
Principal Balance” is defined in the Indenture.
“Requirements
of Law” means, as to any Person, the certificate of
incorporation or articles of association and by-laws or other
organizational or governing documents of such Person, and any law,
treaty, rule or regulation, or determination of an arbitrator or
Governmental Authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon
such Person or to which such Person is subject, whether federal,
state or local.
“S&P”
means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of
The McGraw – Hill Companies, Inc.
“SAU”
means, with respect to a Receivable, that if such Receivable was
originally secured by a security interest in a Product, such
Product has been sold and such Receivable is not paid in
full.
“Seller”
means CDF Funding, Inc.
“Series”
means a series of notes issued under the Indenture.
“Series 2004-NTC
Supplement” means the Series 2004-NTC Supplement, dated
as of August 12, 2004, among CDF Financing, L.L.C., GE
Commercial Distribution Finance Corporation, and Wilmington Trust
Company, as trustee.
“Servicing
Agreement” means the Servicing Agreement dated as of
August 12, 2004, between Master Servicer and Buyer.
“Sub-Servicer”
means any Person with whom Master Servicer enters into a
Sub-Servicing Agreement.
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“Sub-Servicing
Agreement” means any written contract entered into between
Master Servicer and any Sub-Servicer relating to the servicing,
administration or collection of any Transferred
Receivables.
“Subsidiary”
means, with respect to any Person, any corporation or other entity
(a) of which securities or other ownership interests having
ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors
or other Persons performing similar functions are at the time
directly or indirectly owned by such Person or (b) that is
directly or indirectly controlled by such Person within the meaning
of control under Section 15 of the Securities Act of
1933.
“Transfer
Date” means, with respect to a Transferred Receivable, the
date on which Buyer acquires such Transferred Receivable from
Seller pursuant to Section 2.1 or any Assignment.
“Transferred
Assets” is defined in Section 2.1(a).
“Transferred
Receivable” means any Receivable purchased by Buyer from
Seller pursuant to this Agreement or any Assignment, including
Principal Receivables and Non-Principal Receivables that exist at
the time of purchase of any Principal Receivables in the same
Account or that arise in an Account after the date of purchase of
Principal Receivables in the Account. However, Receivables that are
repurchased by Seller pursuant to this Agreement or purchased by
Master Servicer pursuant to the Servicing Agreement shall cease to
be considered “Transferred Receivables” from the date
of such purchase.
“Trust
Agreement” means the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement
dated as of August 12, 2004, between Seller and The Bank of
New York (Delaware), as trustee.
“Trustee”
means The Bank of New York (Delaware), not in its individual
capacity but solely in its capacity as trustee under the Trust
Agreement, its successors in interest and any successor trustee
under the Trust Agreement.
“UCC”
means, with respect to any jurisdiction, the Uniform Commercial
Code as the same may, from time to time, be enacted and in effect
in such jurisdiction.
“United
States” means the United States of America, together with its
territories and possessions.
“Wholesale
Financing Agreement” means a wholesale financing agreement
entered into by an Originator and a Dealer in order to finance
Products purchased by such Dealer from a Manufacturer.
Section 1.2
Other Interpretive Matters. All terms defined directly or by
incorporation in this Agreement shall have the defined meanings
when used in any certificate or other document delivered pursuant
thereto unless otherwise defined therein. For purposes of this
Agreement and all related certificates and other documents, unless
the context otherwise requires: (a) accounting terms not
otherwise defined in this Agreement, and accounting terms partly
defined in this Agreement to the extent not defined, shall have the
respective meanings given to them under GAAP; (b) unless
otherwise provided, references to any month, quarter or
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year refer to a calendar month,
quarter or year; (c) terms defined in Article 9 of the
UCC as in effect in the applicable jurisdiction and not otherwise
defined in this Agreement are used as defined in that Article; (d)
references to any amount as on deposit or outstanding on any
particular date means such amount at the close of business on such
day; (e) the words “hereof,” “herein”
and “hereunder” and words of similar import refer to
this Agreement (or the certificate or other document in which they
are used) as a whole and not to any particular provision of this
Agreement (or such certificate or document); (f) references to
any Section, Schedule or Exhibit are references to Sections,
Schedules and Exhibits in or to this Agreement (or the certificate
or other document in which the reference is made), and references
to any paragraph, subsection, clause or other subdivision within
any Section or definition refer to such paragraph, subsection,
clause or other subdivision of such Section or definition;
(g) the term “including” means “including
without limitation”; (h) references to any law or
regulation refer to that law or regulation as amended from time to
time and include any successor law or regulation;
(i) references to any agreement refer to that agreement as
from time to time amended, restated or supplemented or as the terms
of such agreement are waived or modified in accordance with its
terms; and (j) references to any Person include that Person’s
successors and permitted assigns.
ARTICLE II
SALES
Section 2.1
Sales.
(a) By
execution of this Agreement, Seller does hereby transfer, assign,
set over and otherwise convey to Buyer, without recourse except as
provided herein, all of Seller’s right, title and interest
in, to and under, the following (the “Transferred
Assets”): (i) the Receivables existing at the opening of
business on the Closing Date, and thereafter created from time to
time until the Agreement Termination Date, together with the
Collateral Security and Collections with respect thereto and
related Recoveries, in each case together with all monies due or to
become due and all amounts received or receivable with respect
thereto and Insurance Proceeds relating thereto, (ii) without
limiting the generality of the foregoing or the following, all of
Seller’s rights to receive payments from any Dealer in
respect of such Receivables and (iii) all proceeds of all of
the foregoing. The foregoing does not constitute and is not
intended to result in the creation or assumption by Buyer of any
obligation of Seller or any other Person in connection with the
Accounts or the Transferred Receivables or under any agreement or
instrument relating thereto, including any obligation under the
Financing Agreements, the Floorplan Agreements or any Participation
Agreement or any obligation to any Dealer or any Manufacturer. The
foregoing conveyance shall be effective (x) on the Closing
Date, as to all Transferred Assets then existing (it being
understood and agreed that, in the case of this clause (x), the
Collections transferred to Buyer shall include all Collections
since July 31, 2004), and (y) on each Purchase Date, as
to all Transferred Assets arising since the prior Purchase
Date.
(b) Seller
agrees, at its own expense, (i) on or prior to (x) the
Closing Date, in the case of the Initial Accounts, (y) the
applicable Addition Date, in the case of Additional Accounts, and
(z) the applicable Removal Date, in the case of Removed
Accounts, to indicate, or cause to be indicated, in the appropriate
computer files that Receivables created (or reassigned, if
applicable, in the case of Removed Accounts) in connection with the
Accounts have been
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conveyed to Buyer pursuant to
this Agreement (or conveyed to Seller or its designee, if
applicable, in accordance with Section 2.7, in the case of
Removed Accounts) by including, or causing to be included, in such
computer files a code so identifying each such Account (or, in the
case of Removed Accounts, deleting, or causing to be deleted, such
code thereafter) and (ii) on or prior to the date referred to
in clauses (i)(x), (y) or (z), as applicable, to deliver to
Buyer an Account Schedule. The initial such Account Schedule, as
supplemented from time to time to reflect Additional Accounts and
Removed Accounts, shall be marked as Schedule 1 to this
Agreement and is hereby incorporated into and made a part of this
Agreement. Once the code referenced in clause (i) of this
paragraph has been included with respect to any Account, Seller
further agrees not to permit such code to be altered during the
remaining term of this Agreement unless and until (x) such
Account becomes a Removed Account, or (y) Seller shall have
delivered to Buyer at least thirty (30) days’ prior
written notice of its intention to do so and has taken such action
as is necessary or advisable to cause the interest of Buyer in the
Transferred Receivables to continue to be perfected with the
priority required by this Agreement.
(c) By
execution of this Agreement, Seller does hereby transfer, assign,
set over and otherwise convey to Buyer, as a capital contribution,
all of Seller’s right, title and interest in, to and under
(i) the Note Trust Certificate, (ii) without limiting the
generality of the foregoing or the following, all of Seller’s
rights to receive payments from the DFS Financing Trust in respect
of the Note Trust Certificate, and (iii) all proceeds of the
foregoing. On the Closing Date, Seller shall deliver to Buyer an
instrument of assignment in respect of the Note Trust Certificate,
substantially in the form of the assignment attached to the Note
Trust Certificate, and shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to
Buyer a registered certificate representing the Note Trust
Certificate. The foregoing does not constitute and is not intended
to result in the creation or assumption by Buyer of any obligation
of Seller or any other Person in connection with the Note Trust
Certificate.
Section 2.2
Acceptance by Buyer.
(a) Buyer
hereby acknowledges its acceptance of all right, title and interest
to the property, now existing and hereafter created, conveyed to
Buyer pursuant to Section 2.1. Buyer shall maintain a copy of
Schedule 1, as delivered to it from time to time.
(b) Buyer
hereby agrees not to disclose to any Person any account numbers or
other information contained in the Account Schedule marked as
Schedule 1 and delivered to Buyer, from time to time, except
(i) to Master Servicer, any Sub-Servicer or as required by a
Requirement of Law applicable to Buyer, (ii) in connection with the
performance of Buyer’s duties hereunder, (iii) to the
Indenture Trustee in connection with its duties or (iv) to
bona fide creditors or potential creditors of Master Servicer or
Seller for the limited purpose of enabling any such creditor to
identify Transferred Receivables or Accounts subject to this
Agreement. Buyer agrees to take such measures as shall be
reasonably requested by Seller to protect and maintain the security
and confidentiality of such information and, in connection
therewith, shall allow Seller or its duly authorized
representatives to inspect Buyer’s security and
confidentiality arrangements from time to time during normal
business hours upon prior written notice. Buyer shall promptly
notify Seller of any request received by Buyer to disclose
information of the type described in this Section 2.2(b), which
notice shall in any event be provided no later than five (5)
Business Days prior to disclosure of any such information unless
Buyer is compelled pursuant to
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a Requirement of Law to disclose
such information prior to the date that is five (5) Business
Days after the giving of such notice.
Section 2.3
Characterization of Transfers.
(a) The
parties hereto intend that each transfer of the Transferred Assets
by Seller to Buyer shall constitute a sale by Seller to Buyer and
not a loan by Buyer to Seller secured by the Transferred Assets.
If, contrary to the intent of the parties hereto, a court of
competent jurisdiction determines that any transfer of Transferred
Assets by Seller to Buyer constitutes a loan and not a sale of the
Transferred Assets, then this Agreement shall constitute a security
agreement under applicable law with respect to the Transferred
Assets and Seller shall be deemed to have granted, and Seller
hereby grants, to Buyer a security interest in and to all of
Seller’s right, title and interest in, to and under the
Transferred Assets.
(b) The
parties hereto intend that the transfer of the Note Trust
Certificate by Seller to Buyer shall constitute a capital
contribution by Seller to Buyer and not a loan by Buyer to Seller
secured by the Note Trust Certificate. If, contrary to the interest
of the parties hereto, a court of competent jurisdiction determines
that the transfer of the Note Trust Certificate by Seller to Buyer
constitutes a loan and not a capital contribution, then this
Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under applicable
law with respect to the Note Trust Certificate and Seller shall be
deemed to have granted, and Seller hereby grants, to Buyer a
security interest in all of Seller’s right, title and
interest in, to and under the Note Trust Certificate.
Section 2.4
Purchase Price.
(a) The
purchase price for the Transferred Receivables and the other
Transferred Assets related thereto shall equal the fair market
value of such Transferred Receivables and other Transferred Assets
as agreed upon by Buyer and Seller prior to such sale (such amount
for any Transferred Assets, the “Purchase
Price”).
(b) The
Purchase Price for any Transferred Assets sold by Seller shall be
payable in full in cash on each Purchase Date; provided, however,
that Buyer may, with respect to any sale, offset against such
Purchase Price any amounts owed by Seller to Buyer hereunder and
which remain unpaid. On each such Purchase Date or other date set
by the parties for payment, Buyer shall, upon satisfaction of the
applicable conditions set forth in Article III, make available
to Seller the Purchase Price for the applicable Transferred Assets
in same day funds.
Section 2.5
Adjustments. If on any day the outstanding amount of any Principal
Receivable is reduced because of a rebate, refund, unauthorized
charge or billing error to a Dealer, or because such Principal
Receivable was created in respect of merchandise which was refused
or returned by a Dealer, or if the outstanding amount of any
Principal Receivable is otherwise reduced other than on account of
Collections thereof or such amount being charged-off as
uncollectible, then Seller shall compensate Buyer for such
reduction in the outstanding amount of such Principal Receivable as
provided below. Any adjustment required pursuant to the preceding
sentence shall be made not later than the second Business Day after
the Date of Processing for the event giving rise to such adjustment
or less frequently if so agreed between Buyer and Seller. The
amount of each such reduction shall be deducted from the amount of
the
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Purchase Price payable by Buyer
to Seller on the Purchase Date that coincides with or next follows
the date of the adjustment, and Seller shall pay Buyer on that
Purchase Date any excess of the aggregate amount of such reductions
over the aggregate Purchase Price otherwise payable to Seller on
that Purchase Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, on any Purchase
Date the aggregate amount of such reductions shall be paid gross by
Seller to Buyer, without netting against the Purchase Price, to the
extent that Buyer informs Seller that Buyer requires funds to make
payments on account of such reductions under any of the Related
Documents.
Section 2.6
Addition of Accounts.
(a) Additional
Accounts. (i) From time to time, Seller may designate
additional Eligible Accounts (“Additional Accounts”) to
be included as Accounts, so long as the following limits are not
exceeded:
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during the calendar quarter in which
such Eligible Accounts are added as Accounts, the number of new
Accounts for Dealers that are financing Products of the type
already being financed by an Originator and that are purchasing
such Products from Manufacturers with which an Originator has an
existing business arrangement, does not exceed ten percent (10%) of
the number of all Accounts as of the end of the preceding calendar
quarter,
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(B)
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during the twelve (12) months
ending at the beginning of such calendar quarter, the number of new
Accounts designated pursuant to this sentence does not exceed
twenty percent (20%) of the number of all Accounts as of the
beginning of such twelve (12) month period,
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during the calendar quarter in which
such Eligible Accounts are added as Accounts, the outstanding
balance of the Principal Receivables in new Accounts designated
pursuant to this sentence, measured in the case of a new Account as
of the effective date of such designation, does not exceed ten
percent (10%) of the Combined Outstanding Principal Balances (as
such term is defined in the Indenture) as of the end of the
preceding calendar quarter, and
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during the twelve (12) months
ending at the beginning of such calendar quarter, the outstanding
balance of the Principal Receivables in new Accounts designated
pursuant to this sentence, measured in the case of a new Account as
of the effective date of such designation, does not exceed twenty
percent (20%) of the Combined Outstanding Principal Balances (as
such term is defined in the Indenture) as of the beginning of such
twelve (12) month period.
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(ii) An Account
that is removed pursuant to Section 2.7 for the purpose of
permitting an Originator to convey a participation interest in
Receivables arising in such Account and that, after such
participation interest is created, is designated as an
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Additional Account with an Addition Date that is
no more than forty-five (45) days after its Removal Date, will
not need to satisfy the limits described above.
(iii)
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Seller may designate Additional
Accounts without regard to the limitations in clause
(i) above, or designate Accounts as Additional Accounts if
such Accounts are acquired by an Originator from another Person, if
the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied.
(iv) If at the end
of any Monthly Period, the Free Equity Amount is less than the
Minimum Free Equity Amount or the Note Trust Principal Balance is
less than the Required Principal Balance, Seller shall designate
Additional Accounts on or before the tenth (10 th )
Business Day following that Monthly Period. The amount of the
required addition is the amount necessary so that the Free Equity
Amount and the Note Trust Principal Balance, in each case computed
on a pro forma basis as if the Additional Accounts have been
designated prior to the end of the Monthly Period, would at least
equal the Minimum Free Equity Amount and Required Principal
Balance, respectively.
(b) Designated
Participation Interests. In lieu of, or in addition to, designating
Additional Accounts as contemplated by subsection (a) above
and in addition to the Note Trust Certificate, Seller may convey to
Buyer participations or additional trust certificates representing
undivided or beneficial interests in a pool of assets primarily
consisting of receivables arising under dealer floorplan loan
credit arrangements owned by Seller or any of its Affiliates and
collections thereon (“Designated Participation
Interests”). Seller and Buyer will enter into an amendment to
this Agreement relating to the conveyance of any Designated
Participation Interest. The Rating Agency Condition shall be
satisfied in connection with any conveyance of a Designated
Participation Interest under this subsection (b).
(c) Conditions
for Additions of Additional Accounts. Any sale of Receivables from
Additional Accounts shall occur only upon satisfaction of the
following conditions on or before the Addition Date (to the extent
provided below):
(i) Seller shall
have delivered to Buyer (A) prior notice of such Addition
Date, (B) a written assignment in substantially the form of
Exhibit A (the “Assignment”), and Seller shall
indicate in its computer files that the Receivables created in
connection with the Additional Accounts have been transferred to
Buyer, and (C) an Account Schedule reflecting the addition of
such Additional Accounts (which Account Schedule shall be attached
as a schedule to such Assignment); and
(ii) Seller shall
deliver an Opinion of Counsel with respect to the Receivables in
the Additional Accounts to Buyer (in such numbers and with such
additional addressees as Buyer may reasonably request)
substantially in the form of Exhibit C (with appropriate
modifications).
Section 2.7
Removal of Accounts.
From time to time,
but not more frequently than once during each Monthly Period for
any Dealer, Seller may request (which request Buyer may deny): (i)
the removal of one or more
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Accounts from the Account
Schedule, and (ii) if any such Account was not an Eligible
Account at the time such Account was originally added to the
Account Schedule, the reassignment to Seller or its designee of all
Buyer’s right, title and interest in, to and under
(A) the Transferred Receivables then existing and thereafter
created in such Account, (B) the Collateral Security,
Collections and Recoveries with respect thereto, and (C) all
monies due or to become due and all amounts received or receivable
with respect thereto and Insurance Proceeds relating thereto. Any
such removal and reassignment shall be subject to the satisfaction
of the following conditions:
(i) on or before
the third Business Day immediately preceding the Removal Date (the
“Removal Notice Date”), Seller shall have given Buyer
written notice of such request and specifying the date for removal
of the proposed Removed Accounts (the “Removal
Date”);
(ii) Buyer shall
have delivered its written consent for such removal to
Seller;
(iii) on or prior
to the Removal Date, Seller shall have delivered to Buyer a
schedule listing the proposed Removed Accounts and a schedule
listing the Accounts that are not proposed to be Removed Accounts
(which schedules shall be attached as schedules to such
Reassignment);
(iv) the Rating
Agency Condition shall have been met;
(v) Seller shall
have delivered to Buyer an Officer’s Certificate, dated as of
the Removal Date, to the effect that Seller reasonably believes
that: (i) individual Accounts or administratively convenient
groups of Accounts were chosen for removal on a random basis;
(ii) no selection procedure believed by Seller to be
materially adverse to the interest of Buyer or any of its creditors
has been used in selecting the Removed Accounts; and (iii) the
removal shall not cause an Early Amortization Event; and
(vi) the
Outstanding Balance of the Principal Receivables in such Removed
Accounts will not exceed ten billion dollars ($10,000,000,000) or
such higher dollar amount as to which the Rating Agency Condition
may be satisfied (such Rating Agency Condition shal