Exhibit 10.6
EXECUTION COPY
SIXTH AMENDMENT
To Loan Agreement
Dated as of May 19,
2009
by and among
PASSIVE ASSET TRANSACTIONS,
LLC,
as Borrower,
RFC ASSET HOLDINGS II,
LLC,
as Borrower,
RESIDENTIAL FUNDING COMPANY,
LLC,
as Guarantor,
GMAC MORTGAGE, LLC,
as Guarantor,
RESIDENTIAL CAPITAL, LLC
as Guarantor,
Certain Affiliates of the Borrowers
and Guarantors
party hereto as Obligors,
GMAC LLC,
as Initial Lender and as Lender
Agent
and
Certain Other Financial Institutions
and Persons from
time to time party hereto as Lenders
This SIXTH AMENDMENT (this “
Agreement ”) dated as of May 19, 2009
(the “ Amendment Effective Date ”), is by
and among Passive Asset Transactions, LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company (“ PATI ”), RFC Asset Holdings
II, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“ RAHI
” and, together with PATI, each a “ Borrower
” and collectively, the “ Borrowers ”),
Residential Funding Company, LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company (“ RFC ”), Residential Capital, LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company (“ ResCap ”),
GMAC Mortgage, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
(“ GMAC Mortgage ”, and together with RFC and
ResCap, each a “ Guarantor ” and collectively,
the “ Guarantors ”), the various other parties
signatory hereto as obligors (the “ Obligors ”)
GMAC LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “
Initial Lender ”), the financial institutions and
other Persons that are or may from time to time become parties
hereto as Lenders (together with the Initial Lender and their
respective successors and assigns, each a “ Lender
” and collectively, the “ Lenders ”)
and GMAC LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as agent
for the Lenders (in such capacity together with its successors and
assigns in such capacity, the “ Lender Agent
”).
Reference is hereby made to the Loan
Agreement, dated as of November 20, 2008 among the Borrowers,
the Guarantors, the Lenders and the Lender Agent (as amended and
modified through the date hereof, the “ Loan Agreement
”).
RECITALS
1. Each of the parties hereto is a
party to the Loan Agreement.
2. The parties hereto desire to make
certain amendments to the Loan Agreement.
3. Each of the parties hereto, by
its signature hereto, hereby acknowledges, consents and agrees to
the matters set forth herein.
4. In consideration of the premises
and mutual agreements herein contained and for good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby
acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINED TERMS
SECTION 1.1 Capitalized terms used
herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meaning set forth
in the Loan Agreement.
ARTICLE II
AMENDMENTS TO THE LOAN AGREEMENT
SECTION 2.1 Amendments to the
Loan Agreement . Each of the parties hereto hereby consents and
agrees that the Loan Agreement shall be amended as of the Amendment
Effective Date as follows:
(a) Section 2.04(b) of
the Loan Agreement is hereby amended and restated to read as
follows:
“(b) After the Initial Funding
Date, the Borrowers shall deliver to the Lender Agent an updated
Monthly Collateral Report no less frequently than once per calendar
month and no later than the eleventh Business Day of each calendar
month (commencing with December 2008). In addition, on each REO
Supplement Date (commencing with June, 2009) the Borrowers shall
deliver to the Lender an REO Supplemental Report. For purposes of
preparing each Collateral Value Report, the Borrowers shall
calculate the Collateral Value of the Qualifying Collateral in
accordance with Schedule 2.04 .”
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(b) Section 2.04(c) of
the Loan Agreement is hereby amended by replacing “the Flume
No. 8 Note” in the first sentence of
Section 2.04(c) with “a European Note”.
(c) Section 2.08(d) of
the Loan Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety
to read as follows:
“[Reserved.]”
(d) Section 4.01 of the
Loan Agreement is hereby amended by deleting the phrase
“(other than Collections with respect to the Flume 8 Note and
the related Supporting Assets)” from the first sentence of
Section 4.01 .
(e) Section 4.02 of the
Loan Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to
read as follows:
“Section 4.02. Collections
with Respect to European Collateral . The Borrowers shall cause
to be established the European SPV Accounts. Any Collections with
respect to the Supporting Assets for a European Note shall be
deposited in the applicable European SPV Accounts in accordance
with the terms of the applicable European Security Documents. Any
Collections with respect to a European Note shall be deposited by
the Obligors in a Collection Account no later than the Applicable
Deposit Date; it being understood that the Obligors may deposit
such Collections in the applicable European Hedging Account prior
to deposit in a Collection Account on or prior to the Applicable
Deposit Date.”
(f) Section 7.01(m) of
the Loan Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety
to read as follows:
“(m) Custodial
Procedures . On or before the Custodial Transfer Date, the
Borrowers and Obligors will enter into one or more custody
agreements (as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified
or restated from time to time, the “ Custody
Agreements ”) governing the custody of certain
documentation for Collateral consisting of US Mortgage Loans, in
form and substance satisfactory to the Lender Agent, which Custody
Agreements shall appoint Wells Fargo Bank National Association
and Ally Bank as custodians. The Obligors will use commercially
reasonable efforts to cause such custodians to have obtained and
verified their possession of all notes, and other documents
described in the Custody Agreements as being deliverable to such
custodians no later than August 19, 2009, and any US Mortgage
Loans for which
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the applicable custodian has not
verified possession of the related Mortgage Note by August 20,
2009 shall no longer constitute Eligible Assets after such
applicable date unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Lender
Agent. The Obligors and the Lender shall discuss in good faith how
the items included on each custodian’s exception report shall
be addressed prior to September 2, 2009. It is understood and
agreed that the Lender Agent may adjust the Specified Percentage of
all or a portion of the US Mortgage Loans in response to the
exceptions described therein.”
(g) Section 7.01(q) of
the Loan Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety
to read as follows:
“(q) No later than
May 29, 2009, the Obligors and Lender Agent shall agree upon a
structure to protect the Lender Agent’s and the Omnibus
Agent’s interest in REO Property resulting from the
foreclosure of US Mortgage Loans. It is understood and agreed
that the Lender Agent may, based on the structure agreed upon or
the failure to agree upon a structure, adjust the Specified
Percentage for all or a portion of the US Mortgage
Loans.”
(h) Section 7.01(v) of
the Loan Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety
to read as follows:
“(v) Instructions under
Flume No. 8 Agreements and GX II Agreements . ResCap
shall, at the specific written direction of the Lender Agent, give
(or refrain from giving) any instructions permitted to be given
under the European Security Documents.”
(i) The first sentence of
Section 7.01(w) of the Loan Agreement is hereby
replaced in its entirety with the following:
“The Obligors shall provide
not less than the Specified Days prior written notice to the Lender
Agent of any proposed Approved Additional Collateral which they
request to be added to the Collateral, and shall deliver such
documents, agreements, schedules and other information as the
Lender Agent shall request in connection with any such proposed
Approved Additional Collateral including, without limitation, all
information with respect to any equity in joint ventures or other
Assets acquired by Equity Investment I. The Lender Agent shall act
in good faith to discuss any such request from the
Obligors.
If any proposed Approved Additional
Collateral consists of US Mortgage Loans, the Obligors shall
deliver to the Lender Agent a schedule of the proposed Approved
Additional Collateral, which schedule shall include loan data, with
the same detail and in the same format, as the data file delivered
to the Lender Agent in connection with the first Group A Loans
included in the Collateral (or such other data, detail or format as
the Lender Agent and the Obligors shall mutually agree), and in any
event sufficient data to identify each Mortgage Loan thereon and
shall include both (i) US Mortgage Loans proposed to be added
to the Group A Loans and the Group B Loans and (ii) Group
A Loans and Group B Loans
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included in the Collateral at the
time such schedule is delivered. In connection with the delivery of
the Collateral Addition Designation Notice, the Obligors shall
(i) deliver a Mortgage Schedule to the Lender Agent and the
Omnibus Agent and a final data file in the same format and
containing the same information as the original data file, but
containing only those loans included on the Mortgage Schedule and
those US Mortgage Loans included in the Collateral at the time such
Mortgage Schedule is delivered, (ii) prepare and file a UCC-3
financing statement adding a description of the Mortgage Schedule
to the financing statements outstanding at such time, which shall
be in form and substance acceptable to the Lender Agent and its
counsel and (iii) deliver any lien releases and related UCC-3
financing statements required to release any outstanding liens on
such Mortgage Loans, which shall be in form and substance
acceptable to the Lender Agent and its counsel. Each Obligor shall
promptly mark its books and records to indicate that all Mortgage
Loans included on a Mortgage Schedule have been pledged to the
Lender Agent for so long as such Mortgage Loan constitutes
Collateral.”
(j) Section 7.02(k) of
the Loan Agreement is hereby amended and restated as
follows:
“(k) consummate a Collateral
Disposition unless (i) the related Collateral Disposition
Proceeds are deposited as Collections in accordance with Article
IV , (ii) the Lender Agent shall have consented to such
Collateral Disposition unless such Collateral Disposition consists
of (A) the Transfer of whole Mortgage Loans in the ordinary
course of business and the Collateral Disposition Proceeds
resulting from such Transfer (or a related series of Transfers) is
less than $20,000,000, or (B) the Transfer of First Savings
Mortgage Loans to First Savings Mortgage Corporation pursuant to
the First Savings Repurchase Agreement, and (iii) except for a
Collateral Disposition of whole Mortgage Loans securing Eligible
Warehouse Loans, the Collateral Disposition Proceeds deposited as
provided in clause (i) above represents the fair market value
of such the Assets Transferred.”
(k) Section 7.02(q) of
the Loan Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety
to read as follows:
“(q) without the prior written
consent of the Lender Agent, terminate the administrator under the
European Security Documents or take any other action under the
European Security Documents which could reasonably be expected to
adversely affect the Lender or the Lender Agent or the value of the
related European Note, provided , however, that this Section
shall not apply to automatic termination of the administrator under
the applicable agreements;”
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(l) Section 12.11(b) if
the Loan Agreement is hereby amended and restated to read as
follows:
“(b) No Collateral shall be
released from the security interest created by the Security
Agreement without the prior written consent of the Lender Agent;
provided that (a) if whole Mortgage Loans are
Transferred in the ordinary course of an Obligor’s business
and the Collateral Disposition Proceeds in respect of such Transfer
(or a related series of Transfers) is less than $20,000,000, or
(b) if First Savings Mortgage Loans are Transferred to First
Savings Mortgage Corporation pursuant to the First Savings
Repurchase Agreement, then the Lien on such Collateral shall be
released automatically concurrently with such Transfer in
accordance with the Security Agreement and any related Collateral
Addition Designation Notice.”
(m) Section 13.05 of the
Loan Agreement is hereby amended by amending and replacing the
second sentence of Section 13.05 in its entirety to read as
follows:
“EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY
IRREVOCABLY SUBMITS TO THE NONEXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS
OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK LOCATED IN THE CITY OF MANHATTAN OR IN THE
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
FOR PURPOSES OF ALL LEGAL PROCEEDINGS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO
THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY AND
IRREVOCABLY AGREES TO BE BOUND BY ANY JUDGMENT RENDERED THEREBY IN
CONNECTION WITH SUCH LITIGATION.”
SECTION 2.2 Amendments to
Definitions . Each of the parties hereto hereby consents and
agrees that Schedule 1.01 to the Loan Agreement shall be
amended as of the Amendment Effective Date as follows:
(a) Each of the following
definitions in Schedule 1.01 to the Loan Agreement is hereby
amended and restated in full to read as follows:
“ Applicable Deposit
Date ” means:
(i) in the case of any Collateral
Disposition Proceeds or other Collections relating to a European
Note:
(a) one (1) Business Day after
such funds are received in relation to a European Note if such
Collateral Disposition Proceeds or other Collections exceed
$100,000,000;
(b) in all other cases relating to
Collateral Disposition Proceeds, not later than five Business Days
after the earlier of (I) the next monthly Distribution Date or
Redemption Date (as defined in the Flume No. 8 Security
Documents) with respect to Collateral Dispositions relating to the
Flume No. 8 Note or the Note Payment Date (as defined in the
GX II Security Documents) with respect to Collateral
Dispositions relating to the GX II Note
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or (II) the date the amount of
Collateral Disposition Proceeds on deposit in (1) the
applicable accounts relating to the English SPE exceeds
£5,000,000 in the aggregate or (2) the applicable
accounts relating to the GX II SPE exceeds EUR5,000,000 in the
aggregate, as applicable; and
(c) in all other cases relating to
Collections, not later than five Business Days after the next
monthly Distribution Date (as defined in the Flume No. 8
Security Documents) with respect to Collections relating to the
Flume No. 8 Note or the Note Payment Date (as defined in the
GX II Security Documents) with respect to Collections (excluding
Collateral Disposition Proceeds) relating to the GX II
Note.”
(ii) in the case of Scheduled
Collections on US Mortgage Loans, twenty calendar days after the
month in which such Scheduled Collections were received by the
related servicer; and
(iii) in the case of any Collateral
Disposition Proceeds or other Collections relating to an Asset
(other than as described in clause (i) or (ii) above),
(a) the day such funds are received by an Obligor if such
Collateral Disposition Proceeds or other Collections exceed
$100,000,000 or (b) in all other cases, three Business Days
after such funds are received by an Obligor; provided that,
solely with respect to US Mortgage Loans, prior to June 18,
2009 the Obligors shall only be required to use commercially
reasonable efforts to remit Collateral Disposition Proceeds in
accordance with this clause (iii) .”
“ Approved Additional
Collateral ” means (a) Eligible Assets consisting of
US Mortgage Loans, (b) Eligible Assets consisting of
Incremental Advances, (c) Eligible Assets consisting of an
increase in the aggregate outstanding principal balance of a
European Note in accordance with the terms of the European Security
Documents, (d) Eligible Assets consisting of an increase in
the Carrying Value of RFC’s equity interest in Equity
Investment I due to its acquisition of Supporting Assets and
(e) any other Eligible Assets which have been identified as
Eligible Assets in a Collateral Addition Designation
Notice.
“ Approved Exceptions
” means, with respect to an Asset, any irregularity in the
documentation, underwriting or origination for such Asset, such
irregularity (i) does not make the related Contracts
unenforceable and is not reasonably expected to impair the
practical realization of benefits intended to be created by such
Contracts (determined without giving effect to any indemnification
from the related Originator), (ii) has been taken into account
by the Obligors in determining the Carrying Value of such Asset in
accordance with its usual and customary business practices, and
(iii) has been disclosed to the Lender Agent, it being
understood and agreed that disclosure may be in the form of
discussion between the
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Obligors and the Lender Agent in the
context of the Lender Agent’s determination of whether to
include such Asset (individually or with a group of Assets) in a
Collateral Addition Designation Notice and, if applicable,
establishment of a related Specified Percentage (as defined in
Schedule 2.04 ), provided that the Obligors’
description of such irregularity is sufficiently clear and detailed
to enable the Lender to reasonably evaluate the risks with respect
to such Asset.
“ Asset ” means
(i) a Mortgage Loan, (ii) a Financial Asset Backed
Security, (iii) an Eligible Warehouse Loan or a increase in
the Collateral Value thereof, (iv) a Flume No. 8 Note or
an increase in the Carrying Value thereof due to Flume No. 8
SPE’s acquisition of Supporting Assets, (v) the GSAP
Class A-1 Preference Shares and the GSAP Class A-2
Preference Shares, (vi) an Equity Interest in a Financing SPV
or an increase in the Carrying Value thereof due to its acquisition
of Supporting Assets, (vii) a GX II Note or an increase in the
Carrying Value thereof due to GX II SPE’s acquisition of
Supporting Assets, (viii) RFC’s equity interest in
Equity Investment I or an increase in the Carrying Value thereof
due to its acquisition of Supporting Assets, or (ix) any other
asset identified as an Asset in a Collateral Addition Designation
Notice.
“ Collateral Addition
Designation Notice ” means a notice in writing (which may
be electronic) delivered by the Lender Agent at a Borrower’s
request with respect to any category or sub-category of Approved
Additional Collateral, which notice shall approve or designate a
Collateral Addition Date for such Approved Additional Collateral as
well as any applicable advance rates, additional eligibility
requirements, opinion requirements, or other restrictions, terms or
conditions as the Lender Agent may specify in its discretion; it
being understood that this Agreement and the other Facility
Documents may refer to a category of Collateral prior to the
Collateral Addition Date therefor, but that such references will
not be given effect until such Collateral Addition Date.
“ Collateral Value
Report ” means a Collateral Value Report, substantially
in the form of Exhibit 2.04(a) , with additional information
on Equity Investment I, US Mortgage Loans and REO Property,
substantially in the format provided pursuant to the Senior Debt
Facility Documents, as the Lender Agent may reasonably request from
time to time, delivered by the Borrowers to the Lender Agent in
accordance with Sections 2.04(a)-(b)
.”
“ Custodial Transfer
Date ” means (i) May 19, 2009 or (ii) such
other date as the Borrowers, the Guarantors and the Lender Agent
shall agree in writing.
“ Eligible Asset
” means an Asset which satisfies the following
criteria:
(a) such Asset (i) is an
Incremental Advance, (ii) is an increase in the aggregate
outstanding principal balance of a European Note in accordance with
the terms of the applicable European Security Documents with the
consent
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of the Lender Agent in its sole
discretion in an effective Collateral Addition Designation Notice,
(iii) RFC’s equity interest in Equity Investment I and,
with the consent of the Lender Agent in its sole discretion in an
effective Collateral Addition Designation Notice, an increase in
the Carrying Value of such equity interest due to its acquisition
of Supporting Assets, (iv) is a US Mortgage Loan listed on a
Mortgage Schedule in accordance with Section 7.01(w)
and designated as an Eligible Asset in a Collateral Addition
Designation Notice, or (v) is otherwise specified as an
Eligible Asset with the consent of the Lender Agent in its sole
discretion in an effective Collateral Addition Designation
Notice;
(b) such Asset is owned by a
Borrower or a Guarantor; and
(c) such Asset satisfies the
Eligibility Requirements.
“ Eligible Warehouse
Loans ” mean loans or other extensions of credit made by
a Guarantor pursuant to an Eligible Warehouse Agreement to the
borrower or counterparty under such agreement, provided that
such loan satisfies the Eligibility Requirements; and
provided further that, for the avoidance of doubt, the
Eligibility Requirements shall not apply to any mortgage loans or
other loans which secure an Eligible Warehouse Loan or are the
subject of purchase pursuant to an Eligible Warehouse
Agreement).
“ European Hedging
Account ” means, (a) prior to the Account Addition
Date, the Existing European Hedging Account and (b) after the
Account Addition Date, one or more newly established segregated
trust accounts established in the name of the Borrowers in the
United Kingdom into which solely proceeds of the European Notes are
deposited and each at all times after the Account Addition Date
subject to an account control arrangement acceptable to the Lender
Agent in its sole discretion.
“ European SPV Accounts
” means each account held in the name of the Flume No. 8
SPV or the GX II SPE pursuant to the terms of the Flume No. 8
Security Documents or the GX II Security Documents (as
applicable).
“ First Savings Warehouse
Agreement ” means, collectively, the First Savings Credit
Agreement and the First Savings Repurchase Agreement.
“ GMAC Bank ”
means, collectively, (i) IB Finance Holding Company,
(ii) Ally Bank, formerly known as GMAC Bank and (iii) any
successor thereto.
“ Mortgage Loan ”
means any first or second lien residential mortgage
loan.
“ Security Documents
” means (a) the Security Agreement, the Omnibus Security
Agreement, the Account Control Agreements, the GSAP Indenture
Transaction Documents, the Flume No. 8 Security Documents, the
GX II Security Documents and the Custody Agreements, (b) any
document designated as a Security Document in any Collateral
Addition
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Designation Notice and (c) all
of the security agreements, pledges, collateral assignments,
mortgages, deeds of trust, trust deeds or other instruments
evidencing or creating or purporting to create any security
interests in favor of the Omnibus Agent or Lender Agent for its
benefit and for the benefit of the Lender Parties.
“ Underlying Documents
” means (a) (i) the First Savings Warehouse
Agreement, the Provident Warehouse Agreement and the other
Warehouse Facility Documents; (ii) the Flume No. 8 Note,
the Flume No. 8 Security Documents and the other Flume
No. 8 Facility Documents; (iii) the GSAP Class A-1
Preference Shares, the GSAP Class A-2 Preference Shares and
the GSAP Indenture Transaction Documents and (iv) the GX II
Note and the GX II Security Documents; and (b) after the
applicable Collateral Addition Date, any document designated as an
Underlying Document in any Collateral Addition Designation
Notice.
(b) The definition of “
Financing SPV ” in Schedule 1.01 to the Loan
Agreement is hereby amended by replacing “the Flume
No. 8 SPE” with “the European
SPEs”.
SECTION 2.3 Additional
Definitions . Each of the parties hereto hereby consents and
agrees that Schedule 1.01 to the Loan Agreement shall be
amended as of the Amendment Effective Date by adding the following
new definitions in the appropriate alphabetical location
therein:
“ Collateral Disposition
Proceeds ” means, with respect to an Asset, the net
proceeds received by an Obligor from the Collateral Disposition of
such Asset.
“ Custody Agreement
” has the meaning specified in Section 7.01(m)
.
“ Cut-Off Date ”
means, with respect to a Monthly Report, the last day of the
calendar month immediately prior to the month in which such Monthly
Report is required to be delivered.
“ Equity Investment I
” means Equity Investment I, LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company.
“ European Note ”
means a Flume No. 8 Note and/or GX II Note (as
applicable).
“ European Security
Documents ” means the Flume No. 8 Security Documents
or the GX II Security Documents (as applicable).
“ First Savings Mortgage
Loan ” means any mortgage or other loan subject to the
First Savings Repurchase Agreement.
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“ First Savings Credit
Agreement ” means the Sixth Amended and Restated
Warehousing Credit and Security Agreement dated as of April 1,
2005 between RFC and First Savings Mortgage Corporation, as the
same may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified
from time to time.
“ First Savings Repurchase
Agreement ” means the master repurchase agreement entered
into between RFC and First Savings Mortgage Corporation in May or
June 200