NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST
2009-B
$213,000,000
0.41035% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-1
$308,000,000
1.22% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-2
$423,000,000
2.07% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-3
$80,850,000
2.65% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-4
NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST
2009-B
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Indenture Trustee
Dated as of September 11,
2009
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ARTICLE ONE
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DEFINITIONS
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Capitalized
Terms
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Interpretation
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Incorporation
by Reference Trust Indenture Act
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ARTICLE TWO
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THE NOTES
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Form
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Execution,
Authentication and Delivery
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Temporary
Notes
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Registration;
Registration of Transfer and Exchange
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Mutilated,
Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes
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Persons Deemed
Owners
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Cancellation
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Release of
Collateral
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Book-Entry
Notes
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Notices to
Clearing Agency
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Definitive
Notes
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Authenticating
Agents
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Tax
Treatment
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[Reserved]
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ARTICLE THREE
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COVENANTS
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Payments to
Noteholders, Trust Certificateholders and Depositor
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Maintenance of
Office or Agency
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Money for
Payments to be Held in Trust
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Existence
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Protection of
Owner Trust Estate
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Opinions as to
Owner Trust Estate
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Performance of
Obligations; Servicing of the 2009-B SUBI Assets
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Negative
Covenants
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Annual
Statement as to Compliance
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Restrictions on
Certain Other Activities
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)
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Notice of
Defaults
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Further
Instruments and Acts
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Delivery of the
2009-B SUBI Certificate
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Compliance with
Laws
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Issuing Entity
May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms
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Successor or
Transferee
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Removal of the
Administrative Agent
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Perfection
Representations
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Securities
Exchange Act Filings
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Regulation AB Representations, Warranties
and Covenants
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ARTICLE FOUR
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SATISFACTION AND
DISCHARGE
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Satisfaction
and Discharge of Indenture
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Application of
Trust Money
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Repayment of
Monies Held by Paying Agent
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ARTICLE FIVE
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INDENTURE DEFAULT
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Indenture
Defaults
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Acceleration of
Maturity; Waiver of Indenture Default
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Collection of
Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture
Trustee
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Remedies;
Priorities
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Optional
Preservation of the Owner Trust Estate
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Limitation of
Suits
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Unconditional
Rights of Noteholders to Receive Principal and Interest
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Restoration of
Rights and Remedies
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Rights and
Remedies Cumulative
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Delay or
Omission Not a Waiver
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Control by
Noteholders
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[Reserved]
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-ii-
TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)
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Undertaking for
Costs
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Waiver of Stay
or Extension Laws
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Action on
Notes
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Performance and
Enforcement of Certain Obligations
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Sale of Owner
Trust Estate
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ARTICLE SIX
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THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE
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Duties of
Indenture Trustee
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Rights of
Indenture Trustee
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Individual
Rights of Indenture Trustee
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Indenture
Trustee’s Disclaimer
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Notice of
Defaults
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Reports by
Indenture Trustee to Noteholders
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Compensation
and Indemnity
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Replacement of
Indenture Trustee
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Successor
Indenture Trustee by Merger
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Appointment of
Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee
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Eligibility;
Disqualification
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Trustee as
Holder of the 2009-B SUBI Certificate
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Representations
and Warranties of Indenture Trustee
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Furnishing of
Documents
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Preferred
Collection of Claims Against Issuer
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ARTICLE SEVEN
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NOTEHOLDERS’ LISTS AND
REPORTS
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Note Registrar
to Furnish Noteholder Names and Addresses
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Preservation of
Information; Communications to Noteholders
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Reports by
Issuing Entity
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Reports by
Indenture Trustee
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Indenture
Trustee Website
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ARTICLE EIGHT
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ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND
RELEASES
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)
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Collection of
Money
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Accounts
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Payment Date
Certificate
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Disbursement of
Funds
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General
Provisions Regarding Accounts
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Release of
Owner Trust Estate
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Release of
Interest In 2009-B Leases and 2009-B Vehicles Upon Purchase or
Reallocation by the Servicer
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Opinion of
Counsel
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ARTICLE NINE
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SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
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Supplemental
Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders
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Supplemental
Indentures With Consent of Noteholders
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Execution of
Supplemental Indentures
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Effect of
Supplemental Indenture
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Reference in
Notes to Supplemental Indentures
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ARTICLE TEN
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REDEMPTION OF NOTES
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Redemption
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Form of
Redemption Notice
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Notes Payable
on Redemption Date
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ARTICLE ELEVEN
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MISCELLANEOUS
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Compliance
Certificates and Opinions
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Form of
Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee
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Acts of
Noteholders
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Notices
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Notices to
Noteholders; Waiver
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Effect of
Headings and Table of Contents
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Successors and
Assigns
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Severability
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Benefits of
Indenture
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Legal
Holidays
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Governing
Law
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Counterparts
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Recording of
Indenture
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Trust
Obligation
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No
Petition
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No
Recourse
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Inspection
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Limitation of
Liability of Owner Trustee
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Conflict with
Trust Indenture Act
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Intent of the
Parties; Reasonableness
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Schedule I Perfection
Representations, Warranties and Covenants
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Exhibit A
— Form of Notes
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A-1
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Exhibit B
— Form of Depository Agreement
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B-1
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Exhibit C
— Applicable Servicing Criteria
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C-1
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Reconciliation and tie between the
Trust Indenture Act
of 1939 and Indenture
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TIA
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Indenture
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Section
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Section
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(a)(1)
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6.08, 6.11
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(a)(2)
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6.08, 6.11
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(a)(3)
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6.10(b)(i)
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(a)(4)
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6.12
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(a)(5)
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6.11
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(b)
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6.08, 6.11, 11.05
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(c)
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N.A.
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(a)
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6.15
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(b)
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6.15
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(c)
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N.A.
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(a)
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7.01
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(b)
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(c)
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7.02(c)
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(a)
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7.04
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(b)(1)
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7.04
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(b)(2)
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7.04
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(c)
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7.03, 7.04, 11.05
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(d)
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7.04
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(a)
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3.09, 7.03, 11.05
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(b)
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11.13
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(c)(1)
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11.01
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(c)(2)
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8.08, 11.01
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(c)(3)
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11.01
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(d)
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11.01(b)
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(e)
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11.01
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(f)
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N.A.
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(a)
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6.01(b)
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(b)
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6.05
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(c)
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6.01(a)
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(d)
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6.01(c)
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(e)
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5.13
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(a)(1)(A)
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5.11, 6.01(c)
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(a)(1)(B)
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5.02
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(a)
(2)
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N.A.
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(b)
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5.07
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(c)
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N.A.
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(a)(1)
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5.04
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(a)(2)
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5.03(d)
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(b)
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3.03
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11.19
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(1)
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This
reconciliation table and tie shall not, for any purpose be deemed
to be part of the Indenture.
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(2)
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N.A. means not
applicable.
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This Indenture,
dated as of September 11, 2009 (as amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time, this “ Indenture
”), is between the Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2009-B, a Delaware
statutory trust (the “ Issuing Entity ”), and
U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association
(“ U.S. Bank ”), as trustee (the “
Indenture Trustee ”).
Each party agrees
as follows for the benefit of the other parties and the holders of
the Issuing Entity’s 0.41035% Asset Backed Notes,
Class A-1 (the “ Class A-1 Notes ”),
1.22% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-2 (the “
Class A-2 Notes ”), 2.07% Asset Backed Notes,
Class A-3 (the “ Class A-3 Notes ”),
and 2.65% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-4 (the “
Class A-4 Notes ”) (collectively, the
Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3
Notes and the Class A-4 Notes are referred to herein as the
“ Notes ”):
The Issuing Entity
hereby Grants in trust to the Indenture Trustee on the Closing
Date, as trustee for the benefit of the Noteholders and the Trust
Certificateholders, all of the Issuing Entity’s right, title
and interest, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in and to
(i) the Owner Trust Estate and (ii) 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,
securities, financial assets and other property that at any time
constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of
the foregoing (collectively, the “ Collateral
”), in each case as such terms are defined herein.
The Indenture
Trustee, as trustee on behalf of the Noteholders, acknowledges the
foregoing Grant, accepts the trusts under this Indenture in
accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and agrees to
perform its duties required in this Indenture to the best of its
ability to the end that the interests of the Noteholders may be
adequately and effectively protected.
SECTION 1.01
Capitalized Terms . Capitalized terms used herein that are
not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed
thereto in the Agreement of Definitions, dated as of
September 11, 2009, by and among the Issuing Entity, NILT
Trust, a Delaware statutory trust, as grantor and initial
beneficiary (in such capacity, the “ Grantor ”
and the “ UTI Beneficiary ,” respectively),
Nissan-Infiniti LT, a Delaware statutory trust (the “
Titling Trust ”), Nissan Motor Acceptance Corporation,
a California corporation (“ NMAC ”), in its
individual capacity, as servicer and as administrative agent (in
such capacity, the “ Servicer ” and the “
Administrative Agent ,” respectively), Nissan Auto
Leasing LLC II, a Delaware limited liability company (“
NALL II ”), NILT, Inc., a Delaware corporation, as
trustee to the Titling
Trust (the
“ Titling Trustee ” or “ Trustee
”), Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation,
as owner trustee and Delaware trustee (in such capacity, the
“ Owner Trustee ” and the “ Delaware
Trustee ,” respectively) and U.S. Bank, as Indenture
Trustee and trust agent (in such capacity, the “ Trust
Agent ”).
SECTION 1.02
Interpretation . For all purposes of this Indenture, except
as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise
requires, (i) terms used herein include, as appropriate, all
genders and the plural as well as the singular,
(ii) references to this Indenture include all Exhibits hereto,
(iii) references to words such as “herein,”
“hereof” and the like shall refer to this Indenture as
a whole and not to any particular part, Article or Section within
this Indenture, (iv) references to an Article or Section such
as “Article Twelve” or “Section 12.01”
shall refer to the applicable Article or Section of this Indenture,
(v) the term “include” and all variations thereof
shall mean “include without limitation,” (vi) the
term “or” shall include “and/or,”
(vii) the term “proceeds” shall have the meaning
ascribed to such term in the UCC, (viii) references to Persons
include their permitted successors and assigns,
(ix) references to agreements and other contractual
instruments include all subsequent amendments, amendments and
restatements and supplements thereto or changes therein entered
into in accordance with their respective terms and not prohibited
by this Indenture, and (x) references to laws include their
amendments and supplements, the rules and regulations thereunder
and any successors thereto.
Any reference in
this Indenture to any agreement means such agreement as it may be
amended, restated, supplemented (only to the extent such agreement
as supplemented relates to the Notes), or otherwise modified from
time to time. Any reference in this Indenture to any law, statute,
regulation, rule, or other legislative action shall mean such law,
statute, regulation, rule or other legislative action as amended,
supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time, and shall
include any rule or regulation promulgated thereunder. Any
reference in this Indenture to a Person shall include the
successors or assignee of such Person.
SECTION 1.03
Incorporation by Reference Trust Indenture Act . Whenever
this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is
incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The
following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following
meanings:
“
Commission ” means the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
“
indenture securities ” means the Notes.
“
indenture security holder ” means a
Noteholder.
“
indenture to be qualified ” means this
Indenture.
“
indenture trustee ” or “ institutional
trustee ” means the Indenture Trustee.
“
obligor ” on the indenture securities means the
Issuing Entity and any other obligor on the indenture
securities.
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All other TIA
terms used in this Indenture that are defined in the TIA, defined
in the TIA by reference to another statute or defined by Commission
rule have the meanings so assigned to them.
SECTION 2.01
Form . The Notes, together with the Indenture
Trustee’s certificate of authentication, shall be in
substantially the form set forth as Exhibit A hereto,
with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and
other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture and
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 such 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 such Note.
The terms of the
Notes set forth in Exhibit A hereto are part of the
terms of this Indenture.
SECTION 2.02
Execution, Authentication and Delivery . The Notes shall be
executed by the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuing Entity. The
signature of any authorized officer of the Owner Trustee on the
Notes may be manual or by facsimile. Notes bearing the manual or
facsimile signature of individuals who were at any time authorized
officers of the Owner Trustee shall bind the Issuing Entity,
notwithstanding that any such individuals have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or
did not hold such offices at the date of such Notes.
The Indenture
Trustee shall, upon receipt of an Issuing Entity Order,
authenticate and deliver for original issue the following aggregate
principal amounts of the Notes: (i) $213,000,000 of Class A-1
Notes, (ii) $308,000,000 of Class A-2 Notes, (iii)
$423,000,000 of Class A-3 Notes and (vi) $80,850,000 of
Class A-4 Notes. The aggregate principal amount of
Class A-1 Notes, Class A-2 Notes, Class A-3 Notes
and Class A-4 Notes outstanding at any time may not exceed
such respective amounts, except as provided in
Section 2.05 .
Each Note shall be
dated the date of its authentication. The Notes shall be issuable
as registered notes in book-entry form in minimum denominations of
$25,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess
thereof.
No Note may be
sold, pledged or otherwise transferred to any Person except in
accordance with Section 2.04 and any attempted sale,
pledge or transfer in violation of such Section shall be null and
void.
No Note shall be
entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Note a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided
for herein 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.
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SECTION 2.03
Temporary Notes . Pending the preparation of Definitive
Notes, the Owner Trustee may execute, on behalf of the Issuing
Entity, and upon receipt of an Issuing Entity Order, the Indenture
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Notes that are
printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise
produced, substantially of the tenor of the Definitive Notes in
lieu of which they are issued and with such variations not
inconsistent with the terms of this Indenture as the officers
executing such Notes may determine, as evidenced by their execution
of such Notes.
If temporary Notes
are issued, the Issuing Entity shall cause Definitive Notes to be
prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of
Definitive Notes, the temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for
Definitive Notes upon surrender of such temporary Notes at the
office or agency of the Issuing Entity to be maintained as provided
in Section 3.02 , without charge to the related
Noteholder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more
temporary Notes, the Owner Trustee shall execute, on behalf of the
Issuing Entity, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver in exchange therefor, a like principal amount of Definitive
Notes of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged, such
temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same
benefits under this Indenture as Definitive Notes.
SECTION 2.04
Registration; Registration of Transfer and
Exchange.
(a) The
Issuing Entity shall cause to be kept a register (the “
Note Register ”) in which, subject to such reasonable
regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuing Entity shall provide
for the registration of Notes and the registration of transfers of
Notes by the Note Registrar. The Indenture Trustee is hereby
initially appointed the “ Note Registrar ” for
the purpose of registering Notes and transfers of Notes as herein
provided. In the event, subsequent to the Closing Date, the
Indenture Trustee notifies the Issuing Entity that it is unable to
act as Note Registrar, the Issuing Entity shall appoint another
bank or trust company, having an office located in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York, agreeing to act in accordance with
the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise
acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note
Registrar under this Indenture. Upon any resignation of any Note
Registrar, the Issuing Entity shall promptly appoint a successor
or, if it elects not to make such an appointment, assume the duties
of Note Registrar.
If a Person other
than the Indenture Trustee is appointed by the Issuing Entity as
Note Registrar, the Issuing Entity shall give the Indenture Trustee
prompt written notice of such appointment and the location, and any
change in such location, of the Note Register, and the Indenture
Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register at all
reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof, and the Indenture
Trustee shall have the right to rely upon a certificate executed on
behalf of the Note Registrar by an Executive Officer as to the
names and addresses of the Noteholders and the principal amounts
and number of such Notes.
(b) Upon the
proper surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the
office or agency of the Issuing Entity to be maintained as provided
in Section 3.02 , if the requirements of
Section 8-401 of the UCC are met, the Owner Trustee shall
execute, on behalf of the Issuing Entity, and the Indenture Trustee
shall authenticate and the related Noteholder shall obtain from the
Indenture Trustee, in the name of the designated transferee, one or
more new Notes in any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate
principal amount.
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(c) At the
option of the related Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other
Notes in any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate
principal amount, upon surrender of such Notes at such office or
agency. Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, if the
requirements of Section 8-401 of the UCC are met, the Owner
Trustee shall execute, on behalf of the Issuing Entity, the
Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and the Noteholder shall
obtain from the Indenture Trustee the Notes that the Noteholder
making such exchange is entitled to receive. Every Note presented
or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall (if
so required by the Issuing Entity or the Indenture Trustee) be duly
endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in
form and substance satisfactory to the Issuing Entity and the
Indenture Trustee, including appropriate tax documentation, duly
executed by the Noteholder thereof or its attorney-in-fact duly
authorized in writing.
(d) All Notes
issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes shall
be the valid obligations of the Issuing Entity, evidencing the same
debt and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the
Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or
exchange.
(e) No
service charge shall be made to a Noteholder for any registration
of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Issuing Entity may
require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith,
other than exchanges pursuant to Sections 2.03 or
9.05 not involving any transfer.
(f) Each
Noteholder shall be deemed to represent, warrant and covenant (on
the date of acquisition of a Note (or any interest therein) and
throughout the period of holding such Note (or interest therein))
that either (i) it is not, and is not acting on behalf of, a
Benefit Plan or any other plan that is subject to any Similar Law
or (ii) its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Note
(or any interest therein) will not result in a nonexempt prohibited
transaction under Section 406 of ERISA, Section 4975 of
the Code or any Similar Law.
The preceding
provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Issuing Entity
shall not be required to make, and the Note Registrar need not
register, transfers or exchanges of any Note (i) selected for
redemption or (ii) for a period of 15 days preceding the
due date for any payment with respect to such Note.
SECTION 2.05
Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes . If (i) any
mutilated Note is surrendered to the Indenture Trustee, or the
Indenture Trustee receives evidence to its satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of any Note and (ii) there is
delivered to the Indenture Trustee such security or indemnity as
may be required by it to hold the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee
and the Indenture Trustee harmless, then, in the absence of notice
to the Owner Trustee, the Note Registrar or the Indenture Trustee
that such Note has been acquired by a “protected
purchaser” (as contemplated by Article 8 of the UCC),
and provided that the requirements of Section 8-405 of the UCC
are met, the Owner Trustee shall execute, on behalf of the Issuing
Entity, and upon receipt of an Issuing Entity 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; provided , however , that if any
such destroyed, lost or stolen Note (but not a
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mutilated Note)
shall have become or within seven days shall become due and
payable, or shall have been called for redemption, instead of
issuing a replacement Note, the Issuing Entity may pay such
destroyed, lost or stolen Note when so due or payable or upon the
Redemption Date without the surrender thereof. If, after the
delivery of such replacement Note or payment of a destroyed, lost
or stolen Note pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, a
“protected purchaser” (as contemplated by
Article 8 of the UCC) of the original Note in lieu of which
such replacement Note was issued presents for payment such original
Note, the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee shall be
entitled to recover such replacement Note (or such payment) from
the Person to whom it was delivered or any Person taking such
replacement Note from such Person to whom such replacement Note was
delivered or any assignee of such Person, except a “protected
purchaser” (as contemplated by Article 8 of the UCC),
and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity
provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or
expense incurred by the Issuing Entity or the Indenture Trustee in
connection therewith.
Upon the issuance
of any replacement Note under this Section, the Issuing Entity or
the Indenture Trustee may require the payment by the related
Noteholder of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any
other reasonable expenses (including the fees and expenses of the
Indenture Trustee or the Note Registrar) connected
therewith.
Every replacement
Note issued pursuant to this Section in replacement of any
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an
original additional contractual obligation of the Issuing Entity,
whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall
be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all
the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any
and all other Notes duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of
this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent
lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the
replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Notes.
SECTION 2.06
Persons Deemed Owners . Prior to due presentment for
registration of transfer of any Note, the Issuing Entity, the
Indenture Trustee and their respective agents shall treat the
Person in whose name any Note is registered (as of the date of
determination) as the owner of such Note for the purpose of
receiving payments of principal of and interest, if any, on such
Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such
Note is overdue, and none of the Issuing Entity, the Indenture
Trustee or any of their respective agents shall be affected by
notice to the contrary.
SECTION 2.07
Cancellation . All Notes surrendered for payment,
registration of transfer, exchange or redemption shall, if
surrendered to any Person other than the Indenture Trustee, be
delivered to the Indenture Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled
by the Indenture Trustee. The Issuing Entity may at any time
deliver to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation any Notes
previously authenticated and delivered hereunder that the Issuing
Entity may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Notes so
delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Indenture Trustee. No
Notes shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any
Notes cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly
permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled Notes may be held or
disposed of by the Indenture Trustee in accordance with
its
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standard
retention or disposal policy as in effect at the time unless the
Issuing Entity shall direct by an Issuing Entity Order that they be
destroyed or returned to it; provided, that such Issuing Entity
Order is timely and that such Notes have not been previously
disposed of by the Indenture Trustee.
SECTION 2.08
Release of Collateral . Subject to Section 11.01
and the terms of the other Basic Documents, the Indenture Trustee
shall release property from the Lien of this Indenture only upon
receipt of an Issuing Entity Request, accompanied by an
Officer’s Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and Independent
Certificates in accordance with TIA Sections 314(c) and 314(d)(1)
or an Opinion of Counsel in lieu of such Independent Certificates
to the effect that the TIA does not require any such Independent
Certificates.
SECTION 2.09
Book-Entry Notes . Unless otherwise specified, the Notes,
upon original issuance, will be issued in the form of one or more
typewritten Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes, to be
delivered to the Indenture Trustee, as agent for DTC, the initial
Clearing Agency, or a custodian therefor, by, or on behalf of, the
Issuing Entity. For each Class of Book-Entry Notes, one fully
registered Note shall be issued with respect to each
$500 million in principal amount of each Class of Notes or
such lesser amount as necessary. Such Notes shall initially be
registered on the Note Register in the name of Cede & Co., the
nominee of the initial Clearing Agency, and no Note Owner shall
receive a Definitive Note representing such Note Owner’s
interest in such Note except as provided in
Section 2.11 . Unless and until Definitive Notes have
been issued to Note Owners pursuant to Section 2.11
:
(a) the
provisions of this Section shall be in full force and
effect;
(b) the Note
Registrar and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to deal with
the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this Indenture (including
the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes and the
giving of instructions or directions hereunder) as the sole
Noteholder, and shall have no obligation to Note Owners;
(c) to the
extent that the provisions of this Section conflict with any other
provisions of this Indenture, the provisions of this Section shall
control;
(d) the
rights of Note Owners shall be exercised only through the Clearing
Agency and shall be limited to those established by law and
agreements between or among such Note Owners and the Clearing
Agency or Clearing Agency Participants; pursuant to the Depository
Agreement, unless and until Definitive Notes are issued pursuant to
Section 2.11 , the initial Clearing Agency will make
book-entry transfers among the Clearing Agency Participants and
receive and transmit payments of principal of and interest on the
Notes to such Clearing Agency Participants; and
(e) whenever
this Indenture requires or permits actions to be taken based upon
instructions or directions of Noteholders evidencing a specified
percentage of the Outstanding Amount, the Clearing Agency shall be
deemed to represent such percentage only to the extent that it has
received instructions to such effect from Note Owners and/or
Clearing Agency Participants owning or representing, respectively,
such required percentage of the beneficial interest in the Notes
and has delivered such instructions to the Indenture
Trustee.
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SECTION 2.10
Notices to Clearing Agency . Whenever a notice or other
communication to Noteholders is required under this Indenture,
unless and until Definitive Notes shall have been issued to Note
Owners pursuant to Section 2.11 , the Indenture Trustee
shall give all such notices and communications specified herein to
be given to Noteholders to the Clearing Agency, and shall have no
obligation to the Note Owners.
SECTION 2.11
Definitive Notes . If (i) (A) the Depositor, the Owner
Trustee or the Administrative Agent advises the Indenture Trustee
in writing that the Clearing Agency is no longer willing or able to
properly discharge its responsibilities as described in the
Depository Agreement and (B) the Depositor, the Indenture
Trustee or the Administrative Agent is unable to locate a qualified
successor (and if the Administrative Agent has made such
determination, the Administrative Agent has given written notice
thereof to the Indenture Trustee), (ii) the Depositor, the
Indenture Trustee or the Administrative Agent, to the extent
permitted by applicable law, at its option advises the Indenture
Trustee in writing that it elects to terminate the book-entry
system through the Clearing Agency or (iii) after an Indenture
Default, Note Owners representing in the aggregate not less than
51% of the Outstanding Amount, voting as a single class, advise the
Indenture Trustee through the Clearing Agency and Clearing Agency
Participants in writing that the continuation of a book-entry
system through the Clearing Agency or its successor is no longer in
the best interest of Note Owners, the Indenture Trustee shall be
required to notify all Note Owners, through the Clearing Agency, of
the occurrence of such event and the availability through the
Clearing Agency of Definitive Notes to Note Owners requesting the
same. Upon surrender to the Indenture Trustee by the Clearing
Agency of the Note or Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes and
the receipt of instructions for re-registration, the Indenture
Trustee shall issue Definitive Notes to Note Owners, who thereupon
shall become Noteholders for all purposes of this Indenture. None
of the Issuing Entity, Owner Trustee, the Note Registrar or the
Indenture Trustee shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such
instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected
in relying on, such instructions.
The Indenture
Trustee, the Issuing Entity and the Administrative Agent shall not
be liable if the Indenture Trustee or the Administrative Agent is
unable to locate a qualified successor Clearing Agency. The
Definitive Notes shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or
engraved or produced by any combination of such methods (with or
without steel engraved borders), all as determined by the officers
executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such
Notes. From and after the date of issuance of Definitive Notes, all
notices to be given to Noteholders shall be mailed to their
addresses of record in the Note Register as of the relevant Deposit
Date. Such notices shall be deemed to have been given as of the
date of mailing.
If Definitive
Notes are issued and the Indenture Trustee is not the Note
Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall furnish or cause to be furnished
to the Indenture Trustee a list of the names and addresses of the
Noteholders (i) as of each Deposit Date, within five days
thereafter and (ii) as of not more than ten days prior to the
time such list is furnished, within 30 days after receipt by
the Owner Trustee of a written request therefor.
SECTION 2.12
Authenticating Agents . Upon the request of the Issuing
Entity, the Indenture Trustee shall, and if the Indenture Trustee
so chooses the Indenture Trustee may, appoint one or more
Authenticating Agents with power to act on its behalf and subject
to its direction in the authentication of Notes in connection with
issuance, transfers and exchanges
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under
Sections 2.02 , 2.04 , 2.05 and
9.05 , as fully to all intents and purposes as though each
such Authenticating Agent had been expressly authorized by such
Sections to authenticate such Notes. For all purposes of this
Indenture, the authentication of Notes by an Authenticating Agent
pursuant to this Section shall be deemed to be the authentication
of Notes by the Indenture Trustee.
Any corporation
into which any Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or
with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, consolidation or conversion to which any
Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation
succeeding to the corporate trust business of any Authenticating
Agent, shall be the successor of such Authenticating Agent
hereunder, without the execution or filing of any further act on
the part of the parties hereto or such Authenticating Agent or such
successor corporation.
Any Authenticating
Agent may at any time resign by giving written notice of
resignation to the Indenture Trustee and the Issuing Entity. The
Indenture Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of any
Authenticating Agent by giving written notice of termination to
such Authenticating Agent and the Issuing Entity. Upon receiving
such notice of resignation or upon such termination, the Indenture
Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor Authenticating Agent and
shall give written notice of such appointment to the Issuing
Entity.
The Indenture
Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to
time reasonable compensation for its services and reimbursement for
its reasonable expenses relating thereto, and the Indenture Trustee
shall be entitled to be reimbursed for all such payments, subject
to Section 6.07 . The provisions of
Sections 2.07 and 6.04 shall be applicable to
any Authenticating Agent.
SECTION 2.13
Tax Treatment . The Issuing Entity has entered into this
Indenture, and the Notes will be issued, with the intention that,
for federal, state and local income, single business and franchise
tax purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness. The Issuing
Entity, by entering into this Indenture, and each Noteholder, by
its acceptance of a Note (and each Note Owner by its acceptance of
an interest in the applicable Book-Entry Note), agrees to treat the
Notes for federal, state and local income, single business and
franchise tax purposes as indebtedness.
SECTION 2.14
[ Reserved ] .
SECTION 3.01
Payments to Noteholders, Trust Certificateholders and
Depositor . The Issuing Entity shall duly and punctually
(i) pay the principal of and interest on the Notes in
accordance with the terms of the Notes and this Indenture and
(ii) cause the Servicer to direct the Indenture Trustee to
release from the Note Distribution Account all other amounts
distributable or payable from the Owner Trust Estate (including
distributions to be made to the Trust Certificateholders on any
Payment Date) under the Trust Agreement and the Servicing
Agreement. Without limiting the foregoing, subject to
Section 8.04 , the Issuing Entity shall
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cause the
Servicer to direct the Indenture Trustee to apply all amounts on
deposit in the Note Distribution Account on each Payment Date that
have been deposited therein for the benefit of the Notes. Amounts
properly withheld under the Code by any Person from a payment to
any Noteholder or Trust Certificateholder of interest or principal
(or other amounts) shall be considered to have been paid by the
Issuing Entity to such Noteholder or Trust Certificateholder for
all purposes of this Indenture.
SECTION 3.02
Maintenance of Office or Agency . The Note Registrar, on
behalf of the Issuing Entity, shall maintain at the Corporate Trust
Office or at such other location in the Borough of Manhattan, The
City of New York, chosen by the Note Registrar, acting for the
Issuing Entity, an office or agency where Notes may be surrendered
for registration of transfer or exchange, and where notices to and
demands upon the Issuing Entity in respect of the Notes and this
Indenture may be served. The Issuing Entity hereby initially
appoints the Indenture Trustee as its agent to receive all such
surrenders, notices and demands. The Issuing Entity shall give
prompt written notice to the Indenture Trustee of the location, and
of any change in the location, of any such office or agency. If at
any time the Issuing Entity shall fail to maintain any such office
or agency or shall fail to furnish the Indenture Trustee with the
address thereof, such surrenders, notices and demands may be made
or served at the Corporate Trust Office, and the Issuing Entity
hereby appoints the Indenture Trustee as its agent to receive all
such surrenders, notices and demands.
SECTION 3.03
Money for Payments to be Held in Trust . As provided in
Sections 5.04(b) and 8.04 , 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 or the Reserve
Account, if any, shall be made on behalf of the Issuing Entity by
the Indenture Trustee or by another Paying Agent, and no amounts so
withdrawn therefrom for payments on Notes shall be paid over to the
Issuing Entity except as provided in this Section. All payments of
amounts due and payable with respect to any Notes or Trust
Certificates that are to be made from amounts withdrawn from the
Note Distribution Account or Reserve Account pursuant to
Sections 3.01 , 4.02 and 4.03 shall be
made on behalf of the Issuing Entity by the Indenture Trustee or by
a Paying Agent, and no amounts so withdrawn from such accounts for
payments of Notes or Trust Certificates shall be paid over to the
Issuing Entity or the Owner Trustee, except as provided by this
Section.
On each Payment
Date and Redemption Date, the Issuing Entity shall deposit or cause
to be deposited (including the provision of instructions to the
Indenture Trustee to make any required withdrawals from the Reserve
Account) into the Note Distribution Account an aggregate sum
sufficient to pay the amounts then becoming due under the Notes,
and the Paying Agent shall hold such sum in trust for the benefit
of the Persons entitled thereto and (unless the Paying Agent is the
Indenture Trustee) shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee of
any failure by the Issuing Entity to effect such
deposit.
The Indenture
Trustee, as Paying Agent, hereby agrees with the Issuing Entity
that it will, and the Issuing Entity will cause each Paying Agent
other than the Indenture Trustee, as a condition to its acceptance
of its appointment as Paying Agent, to execute and deliver to the
Indenture Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall
agree with the Indenture Trustee, subject to the provisions of this
Section, that such Paying Agent shall:
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(a) 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;
(b) give the
Indenture Trustee notice of any default by the Issuing Entity of
which it has actual knowledge (or any other obligor upon the Notes,
if any) in the making of any payment required to be made with
respect to the Notes;
(c) 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;
(d) 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 at the time of its appointment; and
(e) 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.
The Issuing Entity
may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, by Issuing
Entity Order direct any Paying Agent to pay to the Indenture
Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent, such sums to
be held by the Indenture Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon
which such 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.
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
after such amount has become due and payable and after the
Indenture Trustee has taken the steps described in this paragraph
shall be discharged from such trust and be paid to Second Harvest
Food Bank of Middle Tennessee upon presentation thereto of an
Issuing Entity Order, and the related Noteholder shall thereafter,
as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Issuing Entity
for payment thereof, and all liability of the Indenture Trustee or
such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money shall thereupon
cease. If any Noteholder shall not surrender its Notes for
retirement within six months after the date specified in the
written notice of final payment described in
Section 8.04(d) , the Indenture Trustee will give a
second written notice to the registered Noteholders that have not
surrendered their Notes for final payment and retirement. If within
one year after such second notice any Notes have not been
surrendered, the Indenture Trustee shall, at the expense and
direction of the Issuing Entity, cause to be published once, in an
Authorized Newspaper, 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 will be paid to Second Harvest
Food Bank of Middle Tennessee. The Indenture Trustee shall also
adopt and employ, at the expense and direction of the Issuing
Entity, any other reasonable means of notification of such
repayment specified by the Issuing Entity or the Administrative
Agent.
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SECTION 3.04
Existence . The Issuing Entity shall keep in full effect its
existence, rights and franchises as a trust under the laws of the
State of Delaware (unless it becomes, or any successor Issuing
Entity hereunder is or becomes, organized under the laws of any
other state or of the United States, in which case the Issuing
Entity shall keep in full effect its existence, rights and
franchises under the laws of such other jurisdiction) and shall
obtain and preserve its qualification to do business in each
jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be necessary
to protect the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the
Notes, the Collateral and each other instrument or agreement
included in the Owner Trust Estate.
SECTION 3.05
Protection of Owner Trust Estate . The Issuing Entity
intends the security interest Granted pursuant to this Indenture in
favor of the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Noteholders to be
prior to all other liens in respect of the Owner Trust Estate, and
the Issuing Entity shall take all actions necessary to obtain and
maintain, for the benefit of the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the
Noteholders, a first lien on and a first priority, perfected
security interest in the Owner Trust Estate. The Issuing Entity
shall from time to time execute and deliver all such supplements
and amendments hereto and all such financing statements,
continuation statements, instruments of further assurance and other
instruments, all as prepared by the Administrative Agent and
delivered to the Issuing Entity, and shall take such other action
necessary or advisable to:
(a) Grant
more effectively all or any portion of the Collateral;
(b) maintain
or preserve the lien and security interest (and the priority
thereof) created by this Indenture or carry out more effectively
the purposes hereof;
(c) perfect,
publish notice of or protect the validity of any Grant made or to
be made by this Indenture;
(d) enforce
any of the Collateral;
(e) preserve
and defend title to the Collateral and the rights of the Indenture
Trustee and the Noteholders in the Collateral against the claims of
all Persons; or
(f) pay all
taxes or assessments levied or assessed upon the Collateral when
due.
The Issuing Entity
hereby designates the Indenture Trustee its agent and
attorney-in-fact to execute all financing statements, continuation
statements or other instruments required to be executed pursuant to
this Section.
SECTION 3.06
Opinions as to Owner Trust Estate .
(a) On the
Closing Date, the Issuing Entity shall furnish or cause to be
furnished to the Indenture Trustee, an Opinion of Counsel to the
effect that, in the opinion of such counsel (subject to standard
limitations, qualifications and assumptions), the provisions of the
Indenture are effective under the New York UCC to create in favor
of the Indenture Trustee a security interest in the Issuing
Entity’s rights in the Collateral and in identifiable
proceeds thereof, and upon filing of the applicable financing
statement, the Indenture Trustee’s security interest in the
Issuing Entity’s rights in the Collateral and in identifiable
proceeds thereof will be perfected.
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(b) On or
before June 30 of each calendar year, beginning with
June 30, 2010, the Issuing Entity shall furnish to the
Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that in the
opinion of such counsel, either (i) all financing statements
and continuation statements have been executed and filed that are
necessary to continue the lien and security interest of the
Indenture Trustee in the Collateral and reciting the details of
such filings or referring to prior Opinions of Counsel in which
such details are given or (ii) no such action is necessary to
continue such lien and security interest.
SECTION 3.07
Performance of Obligations; Servicing of the 2009-B SUBI
Assets .
(a) The
Issuing Entity shall not take any action and shall use its best
efforts not to permit any action to be taken by others, including
the Administrative Agent, that would release any Person from any of
such Person’s material covenants or obligations under any
instrument or agreement included in the Owner Trust Estate or that
would result in the amendment, hypothecation, subordination,
termination or discharge of, or impair the validity or
effectiveness of, any such instrument or agreement, except as
expressly provided in the Basic Documents or such other instrument
or agreement.
(b) The
Issuing Entity may contract with other Persons, to assist it in
performing its duties under this Indenture, and any performance of
such duties by a Person identified to the Indenture Trustee in an
Officer’s Certificate of the Issuing Entity shall be deemed
to be action taken by the Issuing Entity. Initially, the Issuing
Entity has contracted with the Administrative Agent, and the
Administrative Agent has agreed, to assist the Issuing Entity in
performing its duties under this Indenture.
(c) The
Issuing Entity shall, and, shall cause the Administrative Agent and
the Servicer to, punctually perform and observe all of its
obligations and agreements contained in this Indenture, the other
Basic Documents and the instruments and agreements included in the
Owner Trust Estate, including filing or causing to be filed all UCC
financing statements and continuation statements required to be
filed by the terms of this Indenture and the other Basic Documents
in accordance with and within the time periods provided for herein
and therein. The Issuing Entity, as a party to the Basic Documents
and as Holder of the 2009-B SUBI Certificate, shall not, and shall
cause the Servicer and the Administrative Agent not to, modify,
amend, supplement, waive or terminate any Basic Document or any
provision thereof other than in accordance with the applicable
amendment provisions set forth in such Basic Document.
(d) If the
Indenture Trustee or an Authorized Officer of the Issuing Entity
shall have knowledge of the occurrence of a Servicer Default, such
entity shall promptly notify the other entity and each Rating
Agency thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if
any, the other entity is taking in respect of such default. If a
Servicer Default shall arise from the failure of the Servicer to
perform any of its duties or obligations under the Servicing
Agreement with respect to the 2009-B SUBI Assets, the Issuing
Entity shall take all reasonable steps available to it to remedy
such failure. Upon the occurrence of a Servicer Default with
respect to the 2009-B SUBI or the Trust Assets allocated thereto,
the Indenture Trustee may terminate all of the rights and
obligations of the Servicer with respect to the 2009-B SUBI and the
Trust Assets allocated thereto only, and a successor Servicer shall
be appointed pursuant to the Servicing Agreement.
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(e) Upon any
termination of the Servicer’s rights and powers or
resignation of the Servicer pursuant to the Servicing Agreement,
the Issuing Entity or the Indenture Trustee shall promptly notify
the other entity thereof. As soon as a successor Servicer is
appointed pursuant to the Servicing Agreement, the Issuing Entity
or the Indenture Trustee shall notify the other entity of such
appointment, specifying in such notice the name and address of such
successor Servicer.
SECTION 3.08
Negative Covenants. So long as any Notes are Outstanding,
the Issuing Entity shall not:
(a) engage in
any activities other than financing, acquiring, owning, pledging
and managing the 2009-B SUBI Certificate as contemplated by this
Indenture and the other Basic Documents;
(b) except as
expressly permitted herein and in the other Basic Documents, sell,
transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of any of the assets of the
Issuing Entity, including those assets included in the Owner Trust
Estate, unless directed to do so by the Indenture
Trustee;
(c) 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 Owner Trust Estate;
(d) except as
may be permitted expressly hereby (i) permit the validity or
effectiveness of this Indenture to be impaired, 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 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 Owner Trust Estate, 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 any 2009-B SUBI Asset and
arising solely as a result of an action or omission of the related
Lessee) or (iii) except as otherwise provided in the Basic
Documents, permit the lien of this Indenture not to constitute a
valid first priority (other than with respect to any such tax,
mechanics’ or other lien) security interest in the Owner
Trust Estate;
(e) incur,
assume or guarantee any indebtedness other than indebtedness
incurred in accordance with the Basic Documents; or
(f) except as
otherwise permitted by the Basic Documents, dissolve or liquidate
in whole or in part.
SECTION 3.09
Annual Statement as to Compliance . The Issuing Entity will
cause the Servicer to deliver to the Indenture Trustee concurrently
with its delivery thereof to the Issuing Entity the annual
statement of compliance described in Section 8.11 of
the 2009-B Servicing Supplement. In addition, on the same date
annually upon which such annual statement of compliance is to be
delivered by the Servicer, the Issuing Entity shall deliver to the
Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating, as to the
Authorized Officer signing such Officer’s Certificate,
that:
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(a) a review
of the activities of the Issuing Entity during such year and of its
performance under this Indenture has been made under such
Authorized Officer’s supervision; and
(b) to the
best of such Authorized Officer’s knowledge, based on such
review, the Issuing Entity has complied with all conditions and
covenants under this Indenture throughout such year, or, if there
has been a default in its compliance with any such condition or
covenant, specifying each such default known to such Authorized
Officer and the nature and status thereof.
On or before
June 15 th of
each calendar year in which a Form 10-K is required to be filed on
behalf of the Issuing Entity, commencing in 2010, the Indenture
Trustee shall deliver to the Issuing Entity and the Servicer a
report regarding the Indenture Trustee’s assessment of
compliance with each of the Servicing Criteria specified on
Exhibit C hereto during the immediately preceding reporting
year accompanied by an attestation report by a registered public
accounting firm, in each case as required under Rules 13a-18
and 15d-18 of the Exchange Act and Item 1122 of
Regulation AB. Such report shall be addressed to the Issuing
Entity and signed by an authorized officer of the Indenture
Trustee, and shall address each of the Servicing Criteria specified
on Exhibit C hereto.
SECTION 3.10
Restrictions on Certain Other Activities . Except as
otherwise provided in the Basic Documents, unless and until the
Issuing Entity shall have been released from its duties and
obligations hereunder, the Issuing Entity shall not:
(i) engage in any activities other than financing, acquiring,
owning, leasing (subject to the lien of this Indenture), pledging
and managing the 2009-B SUBI Certificate in the manner contemplated
by the Basic Documents and activities incidental thereto;
(ii) issue, incur, assume, guarantee or otherwise become
liable, directly or indirectly, for any indebtedness;
(iii) make any loan, advance or credit to, 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; or (iv) make any
expenditure (by long-term or operating lease or otherwise) for
capital assets (either realty or personalty).
SECTION 3.11
Notice of Defaults . The Issuing Entity agrees to give the
Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency prompt written notice of
each Indenture Default hereunder on the part of the Administrative
Agent.
SECTION 3.12
Further Instruments and Acts . Upon request of the Indenture
Trustee, the Issuing Entity shall execute and deliver such further
instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary
or proper to carry out more effectively the purposes of this
Indenture.
SECTION 3.13
Delivery of the 2009-B SUBI Certificate . On the Closing
Date, the Issuing Entity shall deliver or cause to be delivered to
the Indenture Trustee as security for its obligations hereunder,
the 2009-B SUBI Certificate. The Indenture Trustee shall take
possession of the 2009-B SUBI Certificate in the Borough of
Manhattan in the City of New York and shall at all times during the
period of this Indenture maintain custody of the 2009-B SUBI
Certificate in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New
York.
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SECTION 3.14
Compliance with Laws . The Issuing Entity shall comply with
the requirements of all applicable laws, the non-compliance with
which would, individually or in the aggregate, materially and
adversely affect the ability of the Issuing Entity to perform its
obligations under the Notes, this Indenture or any other Basic
Document.
SECTION 3.15
Issuing Entity May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms
.
(a) The
Issuing Entity shall not consolidate or merge with or into any
other Person unless:
(i) the Person (if
other than the Issuing Entity) formed by or surviving such
consolidation or merger shall be a Person organized and existing
under the laws of the United States of America or any State or the
District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture
supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Indenture
Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the duty to
make due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on
all Notes and the performance or observance of every agreement and
covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Issuing Entity to be
performed or observed, all as provided herein;
(ii) immediately
after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Indenture
Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(iii) the Issuing
Entity shall have provided each Rating Agency 10 days’
prior written notice thereof, and no Rating Agency shall have
notified the Indenture Trustee, the Administrative Agent or the
Owner Trustee that such transaction might or would result in the
removal or reduction of the rating then assigned thereby to any
Class of Notes;
(iv) the Issuing
Entity shall have received an Opinion of Counsel (and shall have
delivered copies thereof to the Indenture Trustee) to the effect
that such transaction will not (A) affect the treatment of the
Notes as debt for federal income tax purposes, (B) be deemed
to cause a taxable exchange of the Notes for federal income tax
purposes or (C) cause the Issuing Entity, the Depositor or the
Titling Trust to be taxable as an association (or publicly traded
partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax
purposes;
(v) any action
that is necessary to maintain each lien and security interest
created by the Trust Agreement or this Indenture shall have been
taken; and
(vi) the Issuing
Entity shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee an
Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating
that such consolidation or merger and any related supplemental
indenture complies with this Article III and that all
conditions precedent provided in this Indenture relating to such
transaction have been complied with (including any filing required
by the Exchange Act).
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(b) The
Issuing Entity shall not convey or transfer any of its properties
or assets, including those included in the Owner Trust Estate, to
any Person other than pursuant to the terms of the Basic Documents,
unless:
(i) the Person
that acquires by conveyance or transfer such properties and assets
of the Issuing Entity shall (A) be a United States citizen or
a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States
of America or any state or the District of Columbia, (B) expressly
assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered
to the Indenture Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Indenture
Trustee, the duty to make due and punctual payment of the principal
of and interest on all Notes and the performance or observance of
every agreement and covenant of this Indenture on the part of the
Issuing Entity to be performed or observed, all as provided herein,
(C) expressly agree by means of such supplemental indenture
that all right, title and interest so conveyed or transferred shall
be subject and subordinate to the rights of Holders of the Notes,
(D) unless otherwise provided in such supplemental indenture,
expressly agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Issuing
Entity, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee against and
from any loss, liability or expense arising under or related to
this Indenture and the Notes and (E) expressly agree by means
of such supplemental indenture that such Person (or if a group of
Persons, then one specified Person) shall make all filings that
counsel satisfactory to such purchaser or transferee and the
Indenture Trustee determines must be made with (1) the
Commission (and any other appropriate Person) required by the
Exchange Act or the appropriate authorities in any state in which
the Notes have been sold pursuant to any qualification or exemption
under the securities or “blue sky” laws of such state,
in connection with the Notes or (2) the Internal Revenue
Service or the relevant state or local taxing authorities of any
jurisdiction;
(ii) immediately
after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Indenture
Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(iii) the Issuing
Entity shall have provided each Rating Agency 10 days’
prior written notice thereof, no Rating Agency shall have notified
the Indenture Trustee, the Administrative Agent or the Owner
Trustee that such transaction might or would result in the removal
or reduction of the rating then assigned thereby to any Class of
Notes;
(iv) the Issuing
Entity shall have received an Opinion of Counsel (and shall have
delivered copies thereof to the Indenture Trustee) to the effect
that such transaction will not (A) affect the treatment of the
Notes as debt for federal income tax purposes, (B) be deemed
to cause a taxable exchange of the Notes for federal income tax
purposes or (C) cause the Issuing Entity, the Depositor or the
Titling Trust to be taxable as an association (or publicly traded
partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax
purposes;
(v) any action
that is necessary to maintain each lien and security interest
created by the Trust Agreement or this Indenture shall have been
taken; and
(vi) the Issuing
Entity shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee an
Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating
that such conveyance or
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transfer and
such supplemental indenture comply with this Article III and
that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such
transaction have been complied with (including any filing required
by the Exchange Act).
SECTION 3.16
Successor or Transferee.
(a) Upon any
consolidation or merger of the Issuing Entity in accordance with
Section 3.15(a) , the Person formed by or surviving such
consolidation or merger (if other than the Issuing Entity) shall
succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right
and power of, the Issuing Entity under this Indenture with the same
effect as if such Person had been named as the Issuing Entity
herein.
(b) Upon a
conveyance or transfer of all the assets and properties of the
Issuing Entity pursuant to Section 3.15(b) , Nissan
Auto Lease Trust 2009-B will be released from every covenant and
agreement of this Indenture to be observed or performed on the part
of the Issuing Entity with respect to the Notes and the Trust
Certificates immediately upon the delivery of written notice to the
Indenture Trustee stating that Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2009-B is to
be so released.
SECTION 3.17
Removal of the Administrative Agent . So long as any Notes
are Outstanding, the Issuing Entity shall not remove the
Administrative Agent without cause unless so instructed by the
Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee and unless each Rating
Agency shall have received 10 days’ written notice
thereof and shall not have notified the Indenture Trustee, the
Administrative Agent or the Owner Trustee that such removal might
or would result in the removal or reduction of the rating, if any,
then assigned thereby to any Class of Notes or the Trust
Certificates.
SECTION 3.18
Perfection Representations .
(a) The
representations, warranties and covenants set forth in
Schedule I hereto shall be a part of this Indenture for
all purposes.
(b) Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Indenture or any other Basic Document,
the perfection representations contained in Schedule I
hereto shall be continuing, and remain in full force and effect
until such time as all obligations under this Indenture have been
finally and fully paid and performed.
(c) The
parties to this Indenture: (i) shall not waive any of the
perfection representations contained in Schedule I
hereto; (ii) shall provide the Rating Agencies with prompt
written notice of any breach of perfection representations
contained in Schedule I hereto and (iii) shall not
waive a breach of any of the perfection representations contained
in Schedule I hereto.
SECTION 3.19
Securities Exchange Act Filings . The Issuing Entity hereby
authorizes the Servicer and the Depositor, or either of them, to
prepare, sign, certify and file any and all reports, statements and
information related to the Issuing Entity or the Notes required to
be filed pursuant to the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, and
the rules and regulations thereunder.
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SECTION 3.20
Regulation AB Representations, Warranties and Covenants
. The Issuing Entity agrees to perform all duties and obligations
applicable to or required of the Issuing Entity set forth in
Schedule A to the 2009-B Servicing Supplement and makes the
representations and warranties therein applicable to it.
SATISFACTION AND
DISCHARGE
SECTION 4.01
Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture . This Indenture
shall discharge with respect to the Collateral securing the Notes
and cease to be of further effect with respect to the Notes, except
as to (a) rights of registration of transfer and exchange,
(b) substitution of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Notes, (c) rights of Noteholders to receive payments of
principal thereof and interest thereon; (d)
Sections 3.03 , 3.04 , 3.05 , 3.08
, 3.10(i) , 3.10(ii) and 3.15 , (e) the
rights, obligations and immunities of the Indenture Trustee
hereunder (including the rights of the Indenture Trustee under
Section 6.07 and the obligations of the Indenture
Trustee under Sections 3.03 and 4.02 ) and
(f) the rights of the 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
and at the expense and on behalf of the Issuing Entity, shall
execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge
of this Indenture, when:
(i) either
(A) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other
than (1) Notes that have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen and that have been replaced or paid as provided in
Section 2.05 and (2) Notes for whose payment money
has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in
trust by the Issuing Entity and thereafter paid to the Persons
entitled thereto or discharged from such trust, as provided in
Section 3.03 ) have been delivered to the Indenture Trustee
for cancellation; or (B) all Notes not theretofore delivered
to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation (1) have become due
and payable, (2) will become due and payable on the applicable
Note Final Scheduled Payment Date within one year or (3) are
to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee for the giving of notice of
redemption by the Indenture Trustee in the name, and at the
expense, of the Issuing Entity, and the Issuing Entity, in the case
of clauses (1), (2) or (3) 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 (that 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 indebtedness on such Notes (including
interest and any fees due and payable to the Owner Trustee or the
Indenture Trustee) not theretofore delivered to the Indenture
Trustee for cancellation, when due, to the applicable Note Final
Scheduled Payment Date for each Class, or to the Redemption Date
(if Notes shall have been called for redemption pursuant to
Section 10.01 ), as the case may be;
(ii) the Issuing
Entity has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable
hereunder by the Issuing Entity; and
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(iii) the Issuing
Entity has delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s
Certificate, (if required by the TIA or the Indenture Trustee) an
Opinion of Counsel and (if required by the TIA or the Indenture
Trustee) an Independent Certificate from a firm of certified public
accountants, each meeting the applicable requirements of Section
11.01 and, subject to Section 11.02 , stating that
all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied
with and, to the extent the Notes are still outstanding, stating
that the Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied.
SECTION 4.02
Application of Trust Money . All monies deposited with the
Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 4.01 shall be
held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions
of the Notes, and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly
or through any Paying Agent, as the Indenture Trustee may
determine, to the Noteholders of the particular Notes for the
payment or redemption of which such monies have been deposited with
the Indenture Trustee of all sums due and to become due thereon for
principal and interest. Such monies need not be segregated from
other funds except to the extent required herein or in the
Servicing Agreement or as required by law.
SECTION 4.03
Repayment of Monies Held by Paying Agent . In connection
with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect
to the Notes, all monies then held by any Paying Agent other than
the Indenture Trustee under the provisions of this Indenture with
respect to such Notes shall, upon demand of the Issuing Entity, be
paid to the Indenture Trustee to be held and applied according to
Section 3.03 and such Paying Agent shall thereupon be
released from all further liability with respect to such
monies.
SECTION 5.01
Indenture Defaults . Any one of the following events
(whatever the reason for such Indenture Default and whether it
shall be voluntary or involuntary or effected by operation of law
or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any
order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental
body) shall constitute a default under this Indenture (each, an
“ Indenture Default ”):
(a) default
in the payment of any interest on any Note when the same becomes
due and payable, and such default shall continue for a period of
five days or more;
(b) default
in the payment of principal of any Note on the related Note Final
Scheduled Payment Date or the Redemption Date;
(c) default
in the observance or performance of any covenant or agreement of
the Issuing Entity made in this Indenture (other than a covenant or
agreement, a default in the observance or performance of which is
elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with), or any
representation or warranty of the Issuing Entity made in this
Indenture or in any certificate or other writing delivered pursuant
hereto or in connection herewith proving to have been inaccurate in
any material respect as of the time when the same shall have been
made, which
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default or
inaccuracy materially and adversely affects the interests of the
Noteholders and such default or inaccuracy shall continue or not be
cured, or the circumstance or condition in respect of which such
misrepresentation or warranty was inaccurate shall not have been
eliminated or otherwise cured, for a period of 60 days (or for
such longer period not in excess of 90 days as may be
reasonably necessary to remedy such failure; provided that
(1) such failure is capable of remedy within 90 days or
less and (2) a majority of the Outstanding Amount of Notes,
voting as a single class, consent to such longer cure period) after
there shall have been given, by registered or certified mail, to
the Issuing Entity by the Indenture Trustee or to the Issuing
Entity and the Indenture Trustee by Noteholders representing at
least the majority of the Outstanding Amount of Notes, voting as
single class, a written notice specifying such default or
inaccurate representation or warranty and requiring it to be
remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of
Default” hereunder;
(d) the
filing of a petition seeking entry of a decree or order for relief
by a court having jurisdiction in the premises in respect of the
Issuing Entity or any substantial part of the Owner Trust Estate in
an involuntary case under any applicable federal or state
bankruptcy, liquidation, insolvency or other similar law now or
hereafter in effect, or appointing a receiver, liquidator,
assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of
the Issuing Entity or for any substantial part of the Owner Trust
Estate, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of the Issuing
Entity’s affairs, and such proceeding shall remain unstayed,
undismissed and in effect for a period of 90 consecutive days or
immediately upon entry of any such decree or order; or
(e) the
commencement by the Issuing Entity of a voluntary case under any
applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar
law now or hereafter in effect or the consent by the Issuing Entity
to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case under
any such law, the consent by the Issuing Entity to the appointment
of or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee,
custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Issuing
Entity or for any substantial part of the Owner Trust Estate, the
making by the Issuing Entity of any general assignment for the
benefit of creditors, the failure by the Issuing Entity generally
to pay its debts as such debts become due or the taking of action
by the Issuing Entity in furtherance of any of the
foregoing.
The Issuing Entity
shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee, each Rating Agency and each
Noteholder, within five Business Days after the occurrence thereof,
written notice in the form of an Officer’s Certificate of any
event that with the giving of notice and the lapse of time would
become an Indenture Default under clauses (c) or (d), its
status and what action the Issuing Entity is taking or proposes to
take with respect thereto.
Subject to the
provisions herein relating to the duties of the Indenture Trustee,
if an Indenture Default occurs and is continuing, the Indenture
Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights
or powers under this Indenture at the request or direction of any
Noteholder, if the Indenture Trustee reasonably believes that it
will not be adequately indemnified against the costs, expenses and
liabilities that might be incurred by it in complying with such
request. Subject to such provisions for indemnification and certain
limitations contained herein, Noteholders holding not less than a
Majority Interest of the Notes voting as a single class shall have
the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding or any remedy available to the Indenture Trustee or
exercising any trust power conferred on the Indenture
Trustee.
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SECTION 5.02
Acceleration of Maturity; Waiver of Indenture Default . If
an Indenture Default should occur and be continuing, the Indenture
Trustee or Noteholders representing a Majority Interest voting as a
single class may declare the principal of the Notes to be
immediately due and payable. Upon such declaration, the Indenture
Trustee shall promptly provide written notice to each Rating
Agency. Such declaration may be rescinded by Noteholders holding a
Majority Interest voting as a single class before a judgment or
decree for payment of the amount due has been obtained by the
Indenture Trustee if (a) the Issuing Entity has deposited with
the Indenture Trustee an amount sufficient to pay (i) all
interest on and principal of the Notes and all other amounts that
would then be due hereunder as if the Indenture Default giving rise
to such declaration had not occurred and (ii) all amounts
advanced by the Indenture Trustee and its costs and expenses; and
(b) all Indenture Defaults (other than the nonpayment of
principal of the Notes that has become due solely by such
acceleration) have been cured or waived.
Prior to the
acceleration of the maturity of the Notes as provided in this
Section 5.02 , Noteholders holding not less than a Majority
Interest of the Notes voting as a single class may waive any past
Indenture Default and its consequences except an Indenture Default
(i) in payment of principal of or interest on the Notes or
(ii) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof that cannot
be modified or amended without the consent of each Noteholder. In
the case of any such waiver, the Issuing Entity, the Indenture
Trustee and the Noteholders shall be restored to their former
positions and rights hereunder, respectively, but no such waiver
shall extend to any subsequent or other Indenture Default or impair
any right consequent thereto.
Upon any such
waiver, such Indenture Default shall cease to exist and be deemed
to have been cured and not to have occurred, and any Indenture
Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured and
not to have occurred for every purpose of this Indenture, but no
such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Indenture
Default or impair any right consequent thereto.
If the Notes have
been declared due and payable following an Indenture Default, the
Indenture Trustee may institute proceedings to collect amounts due,
exercise remedies as a secured party (including foreclosure or sale
of the Owner Trust Estate) or elect to maintain the Owner Trust
Estate and continue to apply the proceeds from the Owner Trust
Estate as if there had been no declaration of acceleration. Any
sale of the Owner Trust Estate by the Indenture Trustee will be
subject to the terms and conditions of Section 5.04
.
SECTION 5.03
Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Indenture Trustee .
(a) The
Issuing Entity covenants that if there is a default in the payment
of (i) any interest on the Notes when the same becomes due and
payable, and such default continues for a period of five days or
(ii) the principal of any Notes at the related Note Final
Scheduled Payment Date or the Redemption Date, the Issuing Entity
shall, upon demand of the Indenture Trustee, pay to the Indenture
Trustee, for the benefit of such Noteholders, the entire amount
then due and
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payable on such
Notes for principal and interest, with interest on the overdue
principal, and, to the extent payment at such rate of interest
shall be legally enforceable, upon overdue installments of
interest, at the Overdue Interest Rate and in addition thereto,
such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and
expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee and
its agents, attorneys and counsel.
(b) In case
the Issuing Entity shall fail forthwith to pay amounts described in
Section 5.03(a) upon demand, the Indenture Trustee, in its
own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a
Proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and
may prosecute such Proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may
enforce the same against the Issuing Entity or other obligor upon
such Notes and collect in the manner provided by law out of the
property of the Issuing Entity or other obligor upon such Notes,
wherever situated, the monies adjudged or decreed to be
payable.
(c) If an
Indenture Default occurs and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee
may, in its discretion, proceed to protect and enforce its rights
and the rights of the Noteholders, by such appropriate Proceedings
as the Indenture Trustee shall deem most effective to protect and
enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of
any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the
exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other
proper remedy or legal or equitable right vested in the Indenture
Trustee by this Indenture or by law.
(d) In case
there shall be pending, relative to the Issuing Entity or any other
obligor upon the Notes or any Person having or claiming an
ownership interest in the Owner Trust Estate, Proceedings under the
Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or in case a receiver,
assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator,
sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or
taken possession of the Issuing Entity or its property or such
other obligor or Person, or in case of any other comparable
judicial Proceedings relative to the Issuing Entity or other
obligor upon the Notes, or to the creditors or property of the
Issuing Entity or such other obligor, the Indenture Trustee,
irrespective of whether the principal of any Notes shall then be
due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise
and irrespective of whether the Indenture Trustee shall have made
any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section, shall be
entitled and empowered, by intervention in such Proceedings or
otherwise:
(i) to file and
prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and
interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Notes, and to file such
other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order
to have the claims of the Indenture Trustee (including any claim
for reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee and each
predecessor Indenture Trustee, and their respective agents,
attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of all expenses and
liabilities incurred, and all advances and disbursements made, by
the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee,
except as a result of negligence or bad faith) and of the
Noteholders allowed in such Proceedings;
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(ii) unless
prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on behalf of
the Noteholders in any election of a trustee, a standby trustee or
Person performing similar functions in any such
Proceedings;
(iii) to collect
and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on
any such claims and to distribute all amounts received with respect
to the claims of the Noteholders and the Indenture Trustee on their
behalf; and
(iv) to file such
proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary
or advisable in order to have the claims of the Indenture Trustee
or the Noteholders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to
the Issuing Entity, its creditors and its property;
and any
trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official
in any such Proceeding is hereby authorized by each Noteholder to
make payments to the Indenture Trustee and, if the Indenture
Trustee shall consent to the making of payments directly to such
Noteholders to pay to the Indenture Trustee such amounts as shall
be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Indenture
Trustee, each predecessor Indenture Trustee and their respective
agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and
liabilities incurred and all advances and disbursements made by the
Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee except as
a result of negligence or bad faith, and any other amounts due the
Indenture Trustee under Section 6.07 .
(e) Nothing
herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Indenture Trustee
to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf
of any Noteholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any
Noteholder or to vote in respect of the claim of any Noteholder in
any such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election
of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar Person.
(f) All
rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or
under the Notes, may be enforced by the Indenture Trustee without
the possession of the Notes or the production thereof in any trial
or other Proceedings relative thereto, and any such action or
Proceedings instituted by the Indenture Trustee shall be brought in
its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of
judgment, subject to the payment of the expenses, advances,
disbursements and compensation of the Indenture Trustee, each
predecessor Indenture Trustee and their respective agents,
attorneys and counsel shall be for the ratable benefit of the
Noteholders in respect of which such judgment has been
recovered.
(g) In any
Proceedings brought by the Indenture Trustee (and also any
Proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this
Indenture to which the Indenture Trustee shall be a party), the
Indenture Trustee shall be held to represent all the Noteholders,
and it shall not be necessary to make any Noteholder a party to any
such Proceedings.
SECTION 5.04
Remedies; Priorities.
(a) If an
Indenture Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the
Indenture Trustee may do one or more of the following (subject to
Sections 5.02 and 5.05 ):
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(i) institute
Proceedings in its own name and as trustee of an express trust for
the collection of all amounts then payable on the Notes or under
this Indenture with respect thereto, whether by declaration or
otherwise, enforce any judgment obtained, and collect from the
Issuing Entity and any other obligor upon such Notes monies
adjudged due;
(ii) institute
Proceedings from time to time for the complete or partial
foreclosure of this Indenture with respect to the Owner Trust
Estate;
(iii) exercise any
remedies of a secured party under the UCC and take any other
appropriate action to protect and enforce the rights and remedies
of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders; and
(iv) subject to
Section 5.17 , and, if applicable, giving effect to any
direction of the Holder of the 2009-B SUBI Certificate (acting in
accordance with instructions from the Registered Pledgee) pursuant
to Section 12.05(b) of the 2009-B SUBI Supplement,
after an acceleration of the maturity of the Notes pursuant to
Section 5.02 , sell the Owner Trust Estate or any portion
thereof or rights or interest therein, at one or more public or
private sales called and conducted in any manner permitted by law;
provided , however , that the Indenture Trustee may
not sell or otherwise liquidate the Owner Trust Estate following an
Indenture Default, other than an Indenture Default described in
Section 5.01(a) or (b) , unless
(A) Noteholders holding 100% of the Outstanding Amount of
Notes consent thereto, (B) the proceeds of such sale are
sufficient to discharge in full all amounts then due and unpaid
upon all outstanding Notes or (C) the Indenture Trustee
determines that the Owner Trust Estate will not continue to provide
sufficient funds for the payment of principal of and interest on
the Notes as they would have become due if the Notes had not been
declared due and payable and the Indenture Trustee obtains the
consent of Noteholders holding not less than 66
2 / 3
% of the Outstanding Amount of
Notes, voting together as a single class; and provided further,
that the Indenture Trustee may not sell the Owner Trust Estate,
unless it shall first have obtained an Opinion of Counsel that such
sale will not cause the Titling Trust or an interest therein or
portion thereof to be classified as an association (or a publicly
traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax
purposes. In determining such sufficiency or insufficiency with
respect to clauses (B) and (C) of the preceding sentence,
the Indenture Trustee may but need not obtain (at the expense of
the Issuing Entity) and rely upon an opinion of an Independent
investment banking or accounting firm of national reputation as to
the feasibility of such proposed action and as to the sufficiency
of the Owner Trust Estate for such purpose.
(b) If the
Indenture Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to this
Article Five upon sale of the Owner Trust Estate, it shall pay
out such money or property held as Collateral (together with
available monies on deposit in the Reserve Account) and deposited
in the Note Distribution Account pursuant to
Section 12.05(b) of the SUBI Trust Agreement, after
giving effect to the distributions set forth in such Section, for
the benefit of the Securityholders in the following
order:
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(i) to the
Class A-1 Noteholders, in payment of the principal amount due
and unpaid on the Class A-1 Notes (until the Class A-1
Notes have been paid in full), and then to the Holders of the other
Notes in payment of the principal amount due and unpaid on the
Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4
Notes pro rata (based on the amount due and unpaid of each such
Class), until all Notes have been paid in full
(ii) to the
Indenture Trustee, any accrued and unpaid fees, expenses and
indemnity payments due pursuant to the Indenture but only to the
extent that such fees, expenses or indemnity payments have been
outstanding for at least 60 days; and
(iii) to the
Certificate Distribution Account for the
Certificateholder.
(c) The
Indenture Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any
payment to Noteholders pursuant to this Section. At least
15 days before such record date, the Issuing Entity shall mail
to each Noteholder and the Indenture Trustee a notice that states
the record date, the payment date and the amount to be
paid.
SECTION 5.05
Optional Preservation of the Owner Trust Estate . If the
Notes have been declared to be due and payable under
Section 5.02 following an Indenture Default and such
declaration and its consequences have not been rescinded and
annulled, the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, elect to
maintain possession of the Owner Trust Estate and continue to apply
the proceeds thereof in accordance with Sections 3.01
and 8.04 . It is the intent of the parties hereto and the
Noteholders that there be at all times sufficient funds for the
payment of principal and interest on the Notes, and the Indenture
Trustee shall take such intent into account when determining
whether or not to maintain possession of the Owner Trust Estate. In
determining whether to maintain possession of the Owner Trust
Estate, the Indenture Trustee may but need not obtain (at the
expense of the Issuing Entity) and rely upon an opinion of an
Independent investment banking or accounting firm of national
reputation as to the feasibility of such proposed action and as to
the sufficiency of the Owner Trust Estate for such
purpose.
SECTION 5.06
Limitation of Suits.
(i) No Holder of
any Note shall have any right to institute any Proceeding, judicial
or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the
appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy
hereunder, unless: (i) such Noteholder previously has given to
the Indenture Trustee written notice of a continuing Indenture
Default, (ii) Noteholders holding not less than 25% of the
Outstanding Amount of Note
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