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Exhibit
10.3
EXECUTION
COPY
NAVISTAR FINANCIAL 2007-C
OWNER TRUST
Floating Rate Asset Backed
Notes
INDENTURE
Dated as of
November 28, 2007
The Bank of New
York,
a New York banking
corporation,
Indenture
Trustee
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND
INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
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Section 1.1
Definitions
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ARTICLE II THE NOTES
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Section 2.1
Form
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Section 2.2 Execution,
Authentication and Delivery
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Section 2.3
[Reserved.]
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Section 2.4
Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange of
Notes
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Section 2.5 Mutilated,
Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes
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Section 2.6 Persons
Deemed Noteholders
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Section 2.7 Payment of
Principal and Interest
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Section 2.8
Cancellation of Notes
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Section 2.9
[Reserved]
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Section 2.10
[Reserved]
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Section 2.11
[Reserved]
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Section 2.12
[Reserved]
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Section 2.13 Seller as
Noteholder
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Section 2.14 Tax
Treatment
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Section 2.15 Private
Placement of Notes
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ARTICLE III COVENANTS
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Section 3.1 Payment of
Principal and Interest
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Section 3.2 Maintenance
of Agency Office
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Section 3.3 Money for
Payments to Be Held in Trust
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Section 3.4
Existence
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Section 3.5 Protection
of Collateral; Acknowledgment of Pledge
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Section 3.6 Opinions as
to Collateral
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Section 3.7 Performance
of Obligations; Servicing of Receivables
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Section 3.8 Negative
Covenants
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Section 3.9 Annual
Statement as to Compliance
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Section 3.10
Consolidation, Merger, etc., of the Issuer; Disposition of Trust
Assets
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Section 3.11 Successor
or Transferee
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Section 3.12 No Other
Business
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Section 3.13 No
Borrowing
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Section 3.14
Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities
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Section 3.15
Servicer’s Obligations
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Section 3.16 Capital
Expenditures
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Section 3.17 Removal of
Administrator
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Section 3.18 Restricted
Payments
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Section 3.19 Notice of
Events of Default
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Section 3.20 Further
Instruments and Acts
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Section 3.21 Indenture
Trustee’s Assignment of Administrative Receivables and
Warranty Receivables
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Section 3.22
Representations and Warranties by the Issuer to the Indenture
Trustee
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ARTICLE IV SATISFACTION AND
DISCHARGE
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Section 4.1
Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture
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Section 4.2 Application
of Trust Money
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Section 4.3 Repayment
of Monies Held by Paying Agent
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Section 4.4 Duration of
Position of Indenture Trustee for Benefit of
Certificateholders
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ARTICLE V DEFAULT AND
REMEDIES
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Section 5.1 Events of
Default
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Section 5.2
Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment
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Section 5.3 Collection
of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture
Trustee
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Section 5.4 Remedies;
Priorities
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Section 5.5 Optional
Preservation of the Collateral
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Section 5.6 Limitation
of Suits
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Section 5.7
Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal, Interest
and Other Amounts
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Section 5.8 Restoration
of Rights and Remedies
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Section 5.9 Rights and
Remedies Cumulative
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Section 5.10 Delay or
Omission Not a Waiver
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Section 5.11 Control by
Noteholders
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Section 5.12 Waiver of
Past Defaults
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Section 5.13
Undertaking for Costs
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Section 5.14 Waiver of
Stay or Extension Laws
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Section 5.15 Action on
Notes
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Section 5.16
Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations
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ARTICLE VI THE INDENTURE
TRUSTEE
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Section 6.1 Duties of
Indenture Trustee
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Section 6.2 Rights of
Indenture Trustee
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Section 6.3 Indenture
Trustee May Own Notes
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Section 6.4 Indenture
Trustee’s Disclaimer
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Section 6.5 Notice of
Defaults
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Section 6.6 Reports by
Indenture Trustee to Holders
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Section 6.7
Compensation; Indemnity
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Section 6.8 Replacement
of Indenture Trustee
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Section 6.9 Merger or
Consolidation of Indenture Trustee
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Section 6.10
Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture
Trustee
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Section 6.11
Eligibility; Disqualification
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Section 6.12
[Reserved]
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Section 6.13
Representations and Warranties of Indenture Trustee
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Section 6.14 Indenture
Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Notes
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Section 6.15
[Reserved]
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Section 6.16 Rights of
Agent to Direct Indenture Trustee
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ARTICLE VII NOTEHOLDERS’ LISTS
AND REPORTS
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Section 7.1 Issuer To
Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of
Noteholders
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Section 7.2
Preservation of Information, Communications to
Noteholders
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ARTICLE VIII ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS
AND RELEASES
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Section 8.1 Collection
of Money
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Section 8.2 Designated
Accounts; Payments
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Section 8.3 General
Provisions Regarding Accounts
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Section 8.4 Release of
Collateral
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Section 8.5 Opinion of
Counsel
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Section 8.6 Investment
Earnings and Supplemental Servicing Fees
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Section 8.7 Net
Deposits
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Section 8.8 Statements
to Securityholders
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Section 8.9 Designated
Accounts
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Section 8.10 Reserve
Account
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Section 8.11
[Reserved]
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Section 8.12
[Reserved]
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Section 8.13
Termination
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ARTICLE IX SUPPLEMENTAL
INDENTURES
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Section 9.1
Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders
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Section 9.2
Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Noteholders
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Section 9.3 Execution
of Supplemental Indentures
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Section 9.4 Effect of
Supplemental Indenture
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Section 9.5
[Reserved]
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Section 9.6 Reference
in Notes to Supplemental Indentures
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ARTICLE X REDEMPTION OF
NOTES
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Section 10.1 Redemption
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Section 10.2 Form of Redemption
Notice
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Section 10.3 Notes Payable on
Redemption Date
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ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS
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Section 11.1 Compliance
Certificates and Opinions, etc.
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Section 11.2 Form of Documents
Delivered to Indenture Trustee
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Section 11.3 Acts of
Noteholders
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Section 11.4 Notices, etc., to
Indenture Trustee, Issuer and Agent
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Section 11.5 Notices to
Noteholders; Waiver
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Section 11.6 Alternate Payment and
Notice Provisions
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Section 11.7 [Reserved]
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Section 11.8 Effect of Headings and
Table of Contents
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Section 11.9 Successors and
Assigns
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Section 11.10
Separability
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Section 11.11 Benefits of
Indenture
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Section 11.12 Legal
Holidays
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Section 11.13 Governing Law;
Submission to Jurisdiction
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Section 11.14
Counterparts
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Section 11.15 Recording of
Indenture
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Section 11.16 No
Recourse
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Section 11.17 No
Petition
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Section 11.18 Inspection
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Locations of
Composite Schedule of Retail Notes |
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Form of
Asset Backed Note |
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INDENTURE, dated as of
November 28, 2007, between NAVISTAR FINANCIAL 2007-BNS OWNER
TRUST, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Issuer”), and
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, a New York banking corporation, as indenture
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 Financial Parties:
GRANTING
CLAUSE
The Issuer hereby grants to
the Indenture Trustee on the Closing Date, as trustee for the
benefit of the Financial Parties including the Certificateholder
and the Swap Counterparty, all right, title and interest of the
Issuer, whether now existing or hereafter arising or acquired, in,
to and under (a) all Receivables acquired or purported to be
acquired from time to time by the Issuer under the Pooling
Agreement, whether now existing or hereafter acquired and
including, without limitation, Subsequent Receivables acquired by
the Issuer pursuant to the Pooling Agreement and all Related
Security; (b) the Collection Account and the Note Distribution
Account and all amounts, investments and investment property held
from time to time in the Collection Account and the Note
Distribution Account (whether in the form of deposit accounts,
Physical Property, book-entry securities, uncertificated
securities, or otherwise) and all proceeds of the foregoing;
(c) the Reserve Account and all amounts, investments and
investment property held from time to time in the Reserve Account
(whether in the form of deposit accounts, Physical Property,
book-entry securities, uncertificated securities, or otherwise) and
all proceeds of the foregoing; (d) the Reserve Account Initial
Deposit with respect to the Closing Date and the Reserve Account
Subsequent Transfer Deposit with respect to each Subsequent
Transfer Date and all proceeds thereof ((c) and (d), collectively,
the “ Reserve Account Property ”); (e) the
Pooling Agreement and each PSA Assignment (including all rights of
NFRRC under the Purchase Agreement, the Initial PA Assignment and
any Subsequent Transfer PA Assignments assigned to the Issuer
pursuant to the Pooling Agreement); (f) the Servicing
Agreement; (g) all Collections; (h) all right, title and
interest of the Issuer in, to and under the Interest Rate Swap and
the Swap Counterparty Rights Agreement; and (i) 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 of the foregoing, including all proceeds of the conversion,
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, 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 payment of principal of and interest on, and
any other amounts owing in respect of, the Notes, equally and
ratably without prejudice, priority or distinction, subject to the
priority set forth in Section 8.2(d) of this Indenture,
and to secure any amounts owing from the Issuer to the Swap
Counterparty under the Interest Rate Swap, subject to the priority
set forth in Section 8.2(c) of this Indenture, 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 Issuer 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,
interest and other Scheduled 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 Issuer or
otherwise and generally to do and receive anything that the Issuer
is or may be entitled to do or receive under or with respect to the
Collateral.
The Indenture Trustee, as
trustee on behalf of the Financial Parties, 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 them in Part
I of Appendix A to the Pooling Agreement of even date
herewith between the Issuer and NFRRC (as it may be amended,
supplemented or modified from time to time, the “Pooling
Agreement”). All references herein to “the
Indenture” or “this Indenture” are to this
Indenture 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 . All references herein
to Articles, Sections, subsections and exhibits are to Articles,
Sections, subsections and exhibits 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 such Appendix A shall
be applicable to this Indenture.
ARTICLE II
THE NOTES
Section 2.1 Form
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(a) Each Note, together with
the Indenture Trustee’s certificate of authentication, shall
be substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit B ,
with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and
other variations as are required or permitted 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 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.
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(c) Each Note shall be dated
the date of its authentication. The terms of the Notes as provided
for in Exhibit B 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 the Notes which may be issued in
a different denomination).
(b) The Notes shall be
executed on behalf of the Issuer 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 Issuer shall bind the Issuer,
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
shall upon Issuer Order authenticate and deliver to or upon the
order of the Issuer, the Notes for original issue with a Maximum
Net Investment of $500,000,000 except as provided in
Section 2.5 .
(e) No Notes 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 Exhibit B , executed by the Indenture Trustee by the
manual signature of one of its authorized signatories, and 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
[Reserved.]
Section 2.4
Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes
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(a) The Issuer shall cause to
be kept the Note Register, in which, subject to such reasonable
regulations as the Issuer may prescribe, the Issuer 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 Issuer 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 Issuer as Note Registrar,
the Issuer 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 Issuer (and
following the delivery, in the former case, of such Notes to the
Issuer by the Indenture Trustee), the Issuer 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 in any
authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount,
upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at the Corporate Trust
Office of the Indenture Trustee or the Agency Office of the Issuer
(and following the delivery, in the former case, of such Notes to
the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee), the Issuer shall execute, and
the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and the Noteholder shall
obtain from the Indenture Trustee, the Notes which the Noteholder
making the exchange is entitled to receive.
(e) All Notes issued upon any
registration of transfer or exchange of Notes shall be the valid
obligations of the Issuer, 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) [Reserved.]
(g) No service charge shall
be made to a Holder for any registration of transfer or exchange of
Notes, but the Issuer 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
Section 9.6 not involving any transfer.
(h) The preceding provisions
of this Section 2.4 notwithstanding, the Issuer 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 in full
within 15 days of surrender to the Corporate Trust Office or the
Agency Office.
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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 Issuer and the Indenture Trustee harmless, then, in
the absence of notice to the Issuer, the Note Registrar or the
Indenture Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a protected
purchaser, the Issuer shall execute and upon the Issuer’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 Note 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 days shall be due and payable in
full, or shall have been called for redemption, instead of issuing
a replacement Note, the Issuer 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.
(b) If, after the delivery of
a replacement Note or payment in respect of a destroyed, lost or
stolen Note pursuant to subsection (a), any protected purchaser of
the original Note in lieu of which such replacement Note was issued
presents for payment such original Note, the Issuer 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 any protected
purchaser, and the Issuer 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 Issuer or the Indenture Trustee in connection
therewith.
(c) In connection with the
issuance of any replacement Note under this Section 2.5
, the Issuer 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 Issuer, 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.
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Section 2.6 Persons
Deemed Noteholders . Prior to due presentment for registration
of transfer of any Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any
of their agents 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 Issuer, the Indenture Trustee
nor any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.
Section 2.7 Payment
of Principal and Interest .
(a) Interest on the Notes
shall accrue in the manner set forth in the Note Purchase
Agreement, and such interest shall be payable to each Noteholder on
a pro rata basis (based on the aggregate fractional undivided
interests in the Notes held by such Noteholder) on each
Distribution Date, in accordance with the priorities set forth in
Section 8.2(c) and (d) , as specified in the
form of Note set forth in Exhibit B . 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 Issuer or
the Servicer into the Note Distribution Account before each
Distribution Date for payment to Noteholders on the related
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 wire transfer in immediately available
funds to the account designated by the applicable
Noteholder.
(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 the Notes shall be payable in
full on the Final Scheduled Distribution Date and, to the extent of
funds available therefor, to each Noteholder on a pro rata basis in
installments on the Distribution Dates (if any) preceding the Final
Scheduled Distribution Date, in the amounts and in accordance with
the priorities set forth in Section 8.2(c) and
(d) . Any installment of principal payable on any Note shall
be punctually paid or duly provided for by a deposit by the
Indenture Trustee in accordance with the provisions of
Section 8.2 into the Note Distribution Account prior to
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 wire transfer in
immediately available funds to the account designated by the
Noteholder, 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) [Reserved.]
(d) 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, principal on the Notes shall be
payable to each Noteholder on a pro rata basis as provided in
Section 8.2(d) .
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(e) With respect to any
Distribution Date on which the final installment of principal and
interest on the Notes is to be paid, the Indenture Trustee shall
notify each Noteholder of record 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 to be paid on such
Distribution Date. Such notice shall be sent not later than three
Business Days after such Record Date in accordance with
Section 11.5(a) , 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 days of the
surrender pursuant to this Section 2.7(e) or
cancellation pursuant to Section 2.8 of all of the
Notes, the Indenture Trustee shall provide the Agent with written
notice stating that all Notes 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 Issuer may at any time deliver to the
Indenture Trustee for cancellation any Notes previously
authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Issuer 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 Issuer shall direct by an Issuer Order that they be
returned to it; provided, however, that such Issuer Order is timely
and the Notes have not been previously disposed of by the Indenture
Trustee. The Indenture Trustee shall certify to the Issuer that
surrendered Notes have been duly canceled and retained or
destroyed, as the case may be.
Section 2.9
[Reserved].
Section 2.10
[Reserved].
Section 2.11
[Reserved].
Section 2.12
[Reserved].
Section 2.13 Seller
as Noteholder . The Seller in its individual or any other
capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise
deal with the Issuer or its affiliates with the same rights it
would have if it were not the Seller.
Section 2.14 Tax
Treatment . The Issuer in entering into this Indenture, and the
Noteholders, by acquiring any Note or interest therein,
(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.
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Section 2.15 Private
Placement of Notes .
(a) None of the Notes have
been or will be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the “ Securities Act ”), or the
securities laws of any other jurisdiction. Consequently, the 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. The Notes or an interest
in the Notes are being sold in a private placement pursuant to
Section 4(2) of the Securities Act on the date hereof.
Thereafter, no further sale, pledge or other transfer of any Note
(or interest therein) may be made by any person unless either
(i) such sale, pledge or other transfer is made to a
“qualified institutional buyer” that executes a
certificate, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D or otherwise
in form and substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee and the
Issuer, to the effect that (A) it is a “qualified
institutional buyer” as defined under Rule 144A under the
Securities Act, acting for its own account or the accounts of other
“qualified institutional buyers” as defined under Rule
144A under the Securities Act, and (B) it is aware that the
transferor of such Note intends to rely on the exemption from the
registration requirements of the Securities Act provided by Rule
144A under the Securities Act, or (ii) such sale, pledge or
other transfer is otherwise made in a transaction exempt from the
registration requirements of the 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 Issuer in writing the facts
surrounding such transfer, which certification shall be in form and
substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer, and
(B) the Indenture Trustee shall require a written opinion of
counsel (which will not be at the expense of the Issuer, the
Servicer or the Indenture Trustee) satisfactory to the Issuer and
the Indenture Trustee to the effect that such transfer will not
violate the Securities Act. Neither the Issuer nor the Indenture
Trustee will register any of the Notes under the Securities Act,
qualify any of the Notes under the securities laws of any state or
provide registration rights to any purchaser or holder
thereof.
(b) Each Note shall bear a
legend to the effect set forth in subsection
(a) above.
ARTICLE III
COVENANTS
Section 3.1 Payment
of Principal and Interest . The Issuer 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
Indenture Trustee shall distribute amounts on deposit in the Note
Distribution Account to the Noteholders in accordance with
Sections 2.7 and 8.2 , less amounts properly withheld under
the Code by any Person from a payment to any Noteholder of interest
and/or principal. Any amounts so withheld shall be considered as
having been paid by the Issuer to such Noteholder for all purposes
of this Indenture but shall not affect indemnification or payment
of other amounts required to be paid pursuant to the terms of the
Note Purchase Agreement. Notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary (including Section 8.2(b) ), amounts payable
on any Distribution
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Date in respect of Noteholders’
Interest Distributable Amount and/or Principal Distribution Amount
(calculated on the basis of the Target Overcollateralization Amount
being zero) shall be due and payable on each such Distribution Date
whether or not there are Total Available Amounts available therefor
at such time.
Section 3.2
Maintenance of Agency Office . As long as any of the Notes
remains outstanding, the Issuer 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 Issuer for registration of transfer or exchange,
and where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in respect of
the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Issuer hereby
initially appoints the Indenture Trustee to serve as its agent for
the foregoing purposes. The Issuer 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 Issuer 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 Issuer 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 , 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(d) shall be made on behalf of the Issuer 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 Issuer except as provided in this
Section 3.3 .
(b) On or before each
Distribution Date or the Redemption Date (if applicable), the
Indenture Trustee shall deposit in the Note Distribution Account an
aggregate sum sufficient to pay the amounts then becoming due with
respect to the Notes and all accrued and unpaid Other Obligations,
such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons
entitled thereto.
(c) The Issuer 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 Issuer (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;
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(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 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 Issuer may at any
time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge
of this Indenture or for any other purpose, by Issuer 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 by the Indenture Trustee to
the Issuer on Issuer Request; and the Holder of such Note shall
thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the
Issuer for payment thereof (but only to the extent of the amounts
so paid to the Issuer), 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 Issuer 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 30 days from the date of such publication, any
unclaimed balance of such money then remaining shall be paid to the
Issuer. The Indenture Trustee may also adopt and employ, at the
expense of the Issuer, 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 Issuer 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
Issuer hereunder is or becomes, organized under the laws of any
other State or of the United States of America, in which case the
Issuer shall keep in full effect its existence, rights and
franchises under the laws of such other jurisdiction) and shall
obtain and preserve its
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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 Collateral. The Issuer shall maintain all necessary
licenses and approvals in all jurisdictions in which the ownership
or lease of property or the conduct or its business requires or
shall require such licenses and approvals.
Section 3.5
Protection of Collateral; Acknowledgment of Pledge . The
Issuer shall from time to time execute and deliver all such
supplements and amendments hereto and all such financing
statements, amendments thereto, continuation statements,
assignments, certificates, instruments of further assurance and
other instruments, and shall take such other action as may be
determined to be necessary or advisable in an Opinion of Counsel to
either the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee to:
(i) maintain or preserve the
lien and security interest (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 days after the occurrence of any
of the following: (A) any change in the name of the Issuer (or
its successor), (B) any change in the jurisdiction of
formation of the Issuer (or its successor) and (C) any merger
or consolidation or other change in the identity or organizational
structure of the Issuer and by promptly notifying the Indenture
Trustee of any such filings;
(ii) perfect, publish notice
of or protect the validity of any Grant made or to be made by this
Indenture;
(iii) enforce the rights of
the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders in any of the Collateral;
or
(iv) preserve and defend
title to the Collateral and the rights of the Indenture Trustee and
the Noteholders in such Collateral against the claims of all
Persons and parties, and the Issuer hereby authorizes the Indenture
Trustee to execute and file any financing statement, continuation
statement or other instrument required by the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to this Section 3.5 .
Section 3.6 Opinions
as to Collateral .
(a) On the Closing Date and
on each Subsequent Transfer Date, the Issuer 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 execution and filing of any financing statements and
continuation statements as are necessary to perfect and make
effective the lien and security interest 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 and security interest effective.
(b) On or before
April 15 in each calendar year, beginning April 15, 2008,
the Issuer 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,
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re-recording and refiling of this
Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto and any other
requisite documents and with respect to the execution and filing of
any financing statements and continuation statements as is
necessary to maintain the lien and security interest 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 and security interest 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
execution and filing of any financing statements and continuation
statements that will, in the opinion of such counsel, be required
to maintain the lien and security interest of this Indenture until
April 15 in the following calendar year.
Section 3.7
Performance of Obligations; Servicing of Receivables
.
(a) The Issuer shall not take
any action and shall use its 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 Collateral 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 Pooling Agreement, the Servicing
Agreement, the Purchase Agreement, the Administration Agreement or
such other instrument or agreement.
(b) The Issuer 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
Officers’ Certificate of the Issuer shall be deemed to be
action taken by the Issuer. Initially, the Issuer has contracted
with the Servicer and the Administrator to assist the Issuer in
performing its duties under this Indenture.
(c) The Issuer shall
punctually perform and observe all of its obligations and
agreements contained in this Indenture, the Basic Documents and in
the instruments and agreements included in the Collateral,
including but not limited to filing or causing to be filed all UCC
financing statements and continuation statements required to be
filed under the terms of this Indenture, the Pooling Agreement and
the Purchase Agreement in accordance with and within the time
periods provided for herein and therein.
(d) If the Issuer shall have
knowledge of the occurrence of a Servicer Default under the
Servicing Agreement, the Issuer shall promptly notify the Indenture
Trustee and the Agent thereof, and shall specify in such notice the
response or action, if any, the Issuer has taken or is taking with
respect to such default. If a Servicer Default shall arise from the
failure of the Servicer to perform any of its duties or obligations
under the Servicing Agreement with respect to the Receivables, the
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee shall take all reasonable steps
available to them pursuant to the 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 Issuer agrees that it shall not consent so as to
permit NFRRC or NFC to, without
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the prior written consent of the
Indenture Trustee and the Agent, 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 Seller under the Pooling Agreement
or the Purchase Agreement, the Servicer under the Servicing
Agreement, the Administrator under the Administration Agreement or
NFC under the Purchase Agreement, except as specifically permitted
under the Basic Documents; provided , however , that,
notwithstanding the foregoing, no action specified in the
proviso to Section 9.2(a) shall be taken except
in compliance with Section 9.2 . If any such amendment,
modification, supplement or waiver shall be so consented to by the
Indenture Trustee and the Agent, the Issuer agrees, promptly
following a request by the Indenture Trustee to do so, to execute
and deliver, in its own name and at its own expense, such
agreements, instruments, consents and other documents as the
Indenture Trustee may deem necessary or appropriate in the
circumstances.
Section 3.8 Negative
Covenants . So long as any Notes are Outstanding, the Issuer
shall not:
(a) sell, transfer, exchange
or otherwise dispose of any of the properties or assets of the
Issuer, except the Issuer may (i) collect, and, subject in all
respects to Section 3.10(b), 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 as contemplated by the Basic
Documents and (iii) take other actions, in each case as
contemplated 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 state 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
Collateral;
(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 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, charge, excise, claim, security
interest, mortgage or other encumbrance (other than the lien of
this Indenture) to be created on or extend to or otherwise arise
upon or burden the Collateral 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, perfected security interest in the Collateral
(to the extent constituting Code Collateral) free and clear of any
adverse claim (other than with respect to any such tax,
mechanics’ or other lien).
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Section 3.9 Annual
Statement as to Compliance . The Issuer shall deliver to the
Indenture Trustee, with a copy to the Agent and the Swap
Counterparty on or before February 1 of each year, beginning
February 1, 2008, an Officer’s Certificate signed by an
Authorized Officer, dated as of the immediately preceding
October 31, stating that:
(a) a review of the
activities of the Issuer during such fiscal year and of performance
by the Issuer 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
Issuer has fulfilled in all material respects all of its
obligations under this Indenture throughout such year, 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.
Section 3.10
Consolidation, Merger, etc., of the Issuer; Disposition of Trust
Assets .
(a) The Issuer shall not
consolidate or merge with or into any other Person,
unless:
(i) the Person (if other than
the Issuer) 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 and the other Basic Documents on the
part of the Issuer to be performed or observed, all as provided
herein;
(ii) immediately after giving
effect to such merger or consolidation, no Default shall have
occurred and be continuing;
(iii) the written approval of
the Agent with respect to such transaction shall be
obtained;
(iv) any action as is
necessary to maintain the lien and security interest created by
this Indenture shall have been completed; and
(v) the Issuer shall have
delivered to the Indenture Trustee and the Agent an Officers’
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Issuer, each
stating:
(A) that such consolidation
or merger and such supplemental indenture comply with this
Section 3.10(a) ;
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(B) that such consolidation
or merger and such supplemental indenture shall have no material
adverse tax consequence to the Issuer or any Securityholder;
and
(C) that all conditions
precedent herein provided for in this Section 3.10(a)
have been complied with.
(b) Except as otherwise
expressly permitted by this Indenture or the other Basic Documents,
the Issuer shall not sell, convey, exchange, transfer or otherwise
dispose of any of its properties or assets, including those
included in the Collateral, to any Person, unless:
(i) the Person that acquires
such properties or assets of the Issuer (A) 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 (B) by
an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the
Indenture Trustee and the Agent, in form satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee and the Agent:
(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 and the other Basic Documents on the part of the
Issuer to be performed or observed, all as provided herein or
therein;
(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 Noteholders;
(C) unless otherwise provided
in such supplemental indenture, expressly agrees to indemnify,
defend and hold harmless the Issuer 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 shall have occurred and be
continuing;
(iii) the Agent shall have
consented in writing to such transaction;
(iv) any action as is
necessary to maintain the lien and security interest created by
this Indenture shall have been taken; and
(v) the Issuer shall have
delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officers’ Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Issuer, each stating
that:
(A) such sale, conveyance,
exchange, transfer or disposition and such supplemental indenture
comply with this Section 3.10(b) ;
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(B) such sale, conveyance,
exchange, transfer or disposition and such supplemental indenture
have no material adverse tax consequence to the Issuer or to any
Noteholders or Certificateholders; and
(C) that all conditions
precedent herein provided for in this Section 3.10(b)
have been complied with.
Section 3.11
Successor or Transferee .
(a) Upon any consolidation or
merger of the Issuer in accordance with Section 3.10(a)
, the Person formed by or surviving such consolidation or merger
(if other than the Issuer) shall succeed to, and be substituted
for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Issuer under
this Indenture with the same effect as if such Person had been
named as the Issuer herein.
(b) Upon a conveyance or
transfer of all the assets and properties of the Issuer pursuant to
Section 3.10(b) , the Issuer shall be released from
every covenant and agreement of this Indenture to be observed or
performed on the part of the Issuer with respect to the
Securityholders immediately upon the delivery of written notice to
the Indenture Trustee from the Person acquiring such assets and
properties stating that the Issuer is to be so released.
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Section 3.12 No Other
Business . The Issuer 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 Securities, making payments on the
Securities and such other activities that are necessary, suitable,
desirable or convenient to accomplish the foregoing or are
incidental thereto, as set forth in Section 2.3 of the
Trust Agreement. After the end of the Funding Period, the Issuer
shall not fund the purchase of any new Receivables.
Section 3.13 No
Borrowing . The Issuer 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 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
Issuer 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 Issuer shall use its best
efforts to cause the Servicer to comply with its obligations under
Sections 2.17, 3.01 and 3.02 of the Servicing
Agreement.
Section 3.16 Capital
Expenditures . The Issuer 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 Seller pursuant to the Pooling Agreement.
Section 3.17 Removal
of Administrator . So long as any Notes are Outstanding, the
Issuer shall not remove the Administrator without cause unless the
Agent shall have consented in writing in connection with such
removal.
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Section 3.18
Restricted Payments . Except for payments of principal or
interest on or redemption of the Notes, the Other Obligations and
other amounts set forth in the Note Purchase Agreement, so long as
any Notes are Outstanding, the Issuer 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 Issuer or
otherwise, in each case with respect to any ownership or equity
interest or similar security in or of the Issuer;
(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,
prior to any Event of Default, the Issuer may make, or cause to be
made, distributions to the Servicer, the Seller, the Indenture
Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the Swap Counterparty and the
Certificateholders as permitted by, and to the extent funds are
available for such purpose hereunder or under the Pooling
Agreement, the Servicing Agreement, the Trust Agreement or the
other Basic Documents. The Issuer 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 Issuer agrees to give the Indenture
Trustee and the Agent prompt written notice of each Event of
Default hereunder, each Servicer Default under the Servicing
Agreement, each default on the part of the Seller of its
obligations under the Pooling Agreement and each default on the
part of NFC of its obligations under the Purchase
Agreement.
Section 3.20 Further
Instruments and Acts . Upon request of the Indenture Trustee,
the Issuer 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 and the
other Basic Documents to which the Issuer is a party.
Section 3.21
Indenture Trustee’s 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,
as the case may be, the Indenture Trustee shall release to the
Servicer or the Warranty Purchaser, as applicable, all of the
Indenture Trustee’s right, title and interest in and to such
repurchased Receivable and the Related Security with respect
thereto and any documents relating thereto, and the Servicer or the
Warranty Purchaser, as applicable, shall thereupon own such
Receivable and the Related Security with respect thereto free of
any further obligation to the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders
with respect thereto. If in any enforcement suit or legal
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 such Receivable, the Indenture Trustee
shall, at the Servicer’s expense, take such steps as the
Servicer deems necessary to enforce the Receivable, including
bringing suit in the Indenture Trustee’s name or the names of
the Securityholders.
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Section 3.22
Representations and Warranties by the Issuer to the Indenture
Trustee . The Issuer hereby represents and warrants to the
Indenture Trustee as follows:
(a) Good Title . No
Receivable has been sold, transferred, assigned or pledged by the
Issuer to any Person other than the Indenture Trustee; immediately
prior to the grant of a security interest in the Receivables
pursuant to this Indenture, the Issuer had good and marketable
title thereto, free of any Lien; and, upon execution and delivery
of this Indenture by the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee shall have
all of the right, title and interest of the Issuer in, to and under
the Collateral, free of any Lien (except for any Permitted Liens);
and
(b) All Filings Made .
All filings necessary under the UCC in any jurisdiction to give the
Indenture Trustee a first priority perfected security interest in
the Receivables and, to the extent constituting Code Collateral,
the other Collateral shall have been made. The Receivables
constitute Code Collateral.
(c) [Reserved].
(d) Lien of Indenture
. This Indenture constitutes a valid and continuing Lien on the
Collateral in favor of the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the
Financial Parties, which Lien will be prior to all other Liens
(other than Permitted Liens), will be enforceable as such as
against creditors of and purchasers from the Issuer in accordance
with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by
applicable 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, and all action necessary to perfect such prior security
interest has been duly taken.
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
3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.8, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14, 3.16, 3.17,
3.19 and 3.21 ; (v) the rights, obligations and immunities
of the 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 Issuer 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 Issuer and thereafter repaid to the Issuer
or discharged from such trust, as provided in
Section 3.3 ) have been delivered to the Indenture
Trustee for cancellation; or
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(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
Issuer.
and the Issuer, in the case of (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 are to be called for redemption
pursuant to Section 10.1(a) ), as the case may
be;
(b) the Issuer has paid or
caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder, under or in
connection with the Note Purchase Agreement and under the Interest
Rate Swap by the Issuer; and
(c) the Issuer has delivered
to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate of the
Issuer, an Opinion of Counsel and (if required by the Indenture
Trustee) 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 herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.
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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,
(i) 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 or
with respect thereto, including for principal and interest and
(ii) to the Swap Counterparty of all sums, if any, by the
Issuer payable to the Swap Counterparty under the Interest Rate
Swap and distributed in accordance with this Indenture; but such
monies need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent
required herein or in the Servicing Agreement or by applicable
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 the Notes shall, upon demand of the Issuer, 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 for Benefit of
Certificateholders . Notwithstanding (i) the earlier
payment in full of all principal and interest due to the
Noteholders under the terms of Notes, (ii) the cancellation of
such Notes pursuant to Section 2.8 and (iii) the
discharge of the Indenture Trustee’s duties hereunder with
respect to such Notes, the Indenture Trustee shall continue to act
in the capacity as Indenture Trustee hereunder for the benefit of
the Certificateholders and the Indenture Trustee, for the benefit
of the Certificateholders, shall comply with its obligations under
Sections 2.02, 7.02 and 7.03 of the Servicing Agreement, as
appropriate, until such time as all distributions in respect of the
Certificates have been paid in full.
ARTICLE V
DEFAULT AND
REMEDIES
Section 5.1 Events of
Default . For the purposes of this Indenture, “Event of
Default” wherever used herein or in any other Basic Document,
means any one of the following events:
(a) failure to pay any
interest on any Note or the Other Obligations as and when the same
becomes due and payable, and such default shall continue unremedied
for a period of five (5) days after the earlier of (i) a
Responsible Officer of the Servicer obtains actual knowledge of
such failure or (i) there shall have been given to the
Servicer by the Indenture Trustee or the Agent, a written notice
specifying such default, demanding that it be remedied and stating
that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder;
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,
and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of five
(5) days after the earlier of (i) a Responsible Officer
of the Servicer obtaining actual knowledge of such failure or
(ii) there shall have been
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given to the Servicer by the Indenture
Trustee or the Agent, a written notice specifying such default,
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 the Notes by the Final
Scheduled Distribution Date; or
(d) default in the observance
or performance in any material respect of any covenant or agreement
of the Issuer made in this Indenture (other than a covenant or
agreement, a default in the observance or performance of which is
specifically dealt with elsewhere in this Section 5.1 )
which failure materially and adversely affects the value, validity,
enforceability or collectibility of the Collateral, the
enforceability of any Basic Document or the rights, remedies or
interests (including security interests) of the Noteholders, and
such default shall continue or not be cured for a period of thirty
(30) days (or in the case of the failure of the Indenture
Trustee to maintain a first priority perfected security interest in
the Collateral, five (5) Business Days) after the earlier of
(i) a Responsible Officer of the Servicer obtaining actual
knowledge of such default or (i) there shall have been given
to the Servicer by the Indenture Trustee or the Agent, 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 Issuer, the Seller or NFC or any substantial part of
its property 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 Issuer
(other than as Owner Trustee) or for any substantial part of the
Collateral, the Seller or NFC or ordering the winding-up or
liquidation of the Issuer’s, the Seller’s or
NFC’s affairs, and such decree or order shall remain unstayed
and in effect for a period of sixty (60) consecutive days;
or
(f) the commencement by the
Issuer, the Seller or NFC 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 Issuer, the Seller or
NFC to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case
under any such law, or the consent by the Issuer, the Seller or NFC
to the appointment or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator,
assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of
the Issuer, the Seller or NFC or for any substantial part of its
property, or the making by the Issuer, the Seller or NFC of any
general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the failure by
the Issuer, the Seller or NFC generally to pay its debts as such
debts become due, or the taking of action by the Issuer in
furtherance of any of the foregoing; or
(g) any representation,
warranty, certification or statement made by the Issuer under this
Indenture or in any agreement, certificate, report, appendix,
schedule or document furnished by the Issuer to the Agent pursuant
to or in connection with this Indenture shall prove to have been
false or misleading in any material respect as of the time made or
deemed made (including by omission of material information
necessary to make such representation, warranty, certification or
statement not misleading) and such false or misleading
representation, warranty, certification or statement made by the
Issuer shall continue or not be
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cured for a period of thirty
(30) days after the earlier of (i) a Responsible Officer
of the Servicer obtaining actual knowledge thereof or
(ii) there shall have been given to the Servicer by the
Indenture Trustee or the Agent, a written notice specifying such
false or misleading representation, warranty, certification or
statement made by the Issuer, demanding that it be remedied and
stating that such notice is a “ Notice of Default
” hereunder; or
(h) there shall be a
“change of control” with respect to the Seller (for
purposes of this clause only, a “change of control”
shall mean the failure of NFC to own, on a fully diluted basis,
100% of the outstanding shares of voting stock of the Seller);
or
(i) any provision of this
Indenture or any other Basic Document to which the Issuer, NFC or
the Seller is a party shall cease to be in full force and effect
and the parties thereto shall not within thirty (30) days
thereafter have amended such agreement to the satisfaction of the
Agent to eliminate such non-enforceability or the Issuer, NFC or
the Seller shall so state in writing and, in either case, such
non-enforceability would materially and adversely affect the value,
validity, enforceability or collectibility of the Collateral, the
enforceability of any Basic Document or the rights, remedies or
interests (including security interests) of the Noteholders;
or
(j) the failure of the Trust
to make any payment required under the Interest Rate Swap to the
extent provided pursuant to this Indenture or the failure of the
Swap Counterparty to make any payment required to be made
thereunder, in either case, other than as a result of any action or
inaction on the part of the Swap Counterparty, if the swap
counterparty under the Interest Rate Swap is Citibank, N.A.;
or
(k) a default by the Servicer
in the performance of any term, provision or condition contained in
any agreement under which any indebtedness of the Servicer in
excess of $50 million was created or is governed, the effect of
which is to cause any such indebtedness to become due prior to its
stated maturity; or any such indebtedness shall be declared to be
due and payable or required to be prepaid (other than by a
regularly scheduled payment or as a result of the voluntary sale or
transfer of the property or assets) prior to the stated maturity
date thereof, and the failure of the Servicer to repay such
indebtedness in full or otherwise caused such indebtedness to be
reinstated within 30 days after such indebtedness shall be declared
to be due and payable or required to be prepaid; or
(l) a Servicer Default
pursuant to Section 7.01(a), (b), (c) or (d) of the
Servicing Agreement shall have occurred and be continuing;
or
(m) the failure by any
Warranty Purchaser to make any Warranty Payment when due or the
failure of the Servicer to make any Administrative Payment when due
or the failure of NFC or the Seller to deposit into the Collection
Account any proceeds from the International Purchase Obligations
when received, and any such failure shall continue until, or not be
cured by, the Transfer Date related to the Monthly Period in which
such amount is collected, after the earlier of (i) a
Responsible Officer of the Servicer obtaining actual knowledge of
such failure or (ii) there shall have been given to the
Warranty Purchaser, NFC, the Servicer or the Seller and such Person
shall have received, as applicable, by the Indenture Trustee or the
Agent, a written notice specifying such failure, demanding that it
be remedied and stating that such notice is a “ Notice of
Default ” hereunder;
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(n) default in the observance
or performance in any material respect of any covenant or agreement
of (i) NFC made in the Purchase Agreement, (ii) the
Seller made in the Pooling Agreement or (iii) the Seller made
in the Note Purchase Agreement, as applicable, which failure
material
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