Exhibit 10.11
AMENDED AND RESTATED NOTE PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
among
OPTION ONE OWNER TRUST 2001-2
as Issuer
and
OPTION ONE LOAN WAREHOUSE CORPORATION
as Depositor
and
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
as Purchaser
Dated as of November 25, 2003
OPTION ONE OWNER TRUST 2001-2
MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS
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SECTION 1.01. Certain Defined Terms
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SECTION 1.02. Other Definitional
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ARTICLE II COMMITMENT; CLOSING AND PURCHASES OF ADDITIONAL NOTE
PRINCIPAL BALANCES
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ARTICLE III
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TRANSFER DATES AND FUNDING DATES
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SECTION 3.01. Transfer Dates
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SECTION 3.02. Funding Dates
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ARTICLE IV CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO EFFECTIVENESS OF
COMMITMENT
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SECTION 4.01. Closing Subject to Conditions
Precedent
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ARTICLE V REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE ISSUER AND
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SECTION 5.02. Securities Act
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SECTION 5.04. Information
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SECTION 5.05. The Purchased Note
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SECTION 5.06. Use of Proceeds
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SECTION 5.07. The Depositor
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SECTION 5.09. Financial Condition
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ARTICLE VI REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO
THE
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SECTION 6.01. Organization
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SECTION 6.02. Authority, etc
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SECTION 6.03. Securities Act
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SECTION 6.04. Conflicts With Law
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SECTION 6.05. Conflicts With Agreements,
etc
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ARTICLE VII COVENANTS OF THE ISSUER AND THE DEPOSITOR
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SECTION 7.01. Information from the
Issuer
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SECTION 7.02. Access to Information
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SECTION 7.03. Ownership and Security Interests;
Further Assurances
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SECTION 7.06. With Respect to the Exempt Status
of the Purchased Note
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ARTICLE VIII ADDITIONAL COVENANTS
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SECTION 8.01. Legal Conditions to
Closing
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SECTION 8.03. Mutual Obligations
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SECTION 8.04. Restrictions on
Transfer
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SECTION 8.05. Confidentiality
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SECTION 8.06. Information Provided by the
Purchaser
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ARTICLE IX INDEMNIFICATION
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SECTION 9.01. Indemnification of
Purchaser
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SECTION 9.02. Procedure and Defense
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ARTICLE X MISCELLANEOUS
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SECTION 10.01. Amendments
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SECTION 10.03. No Waiver; Remedies
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SECTION 10.04. Binding Effect;
Assignability
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SECTION 10.05. Provision of Documents and
Information
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SECTION 10.06. GOVERNING LAW;
JURISDICTION
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SECTION 10.07. No Proceedings
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SECTION 10.08. Execution in
Counterparts
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SECTION 10.09. No Recourse - Purchaser and
Depositor
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SECTION 10.11. Tax Characterization
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SECTION 10.13. Limitation on
Liability
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Schedule I Information for
Notices
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NOTE PURCHASE AGREEMENT
AMENDED
AND RESTATED NOTE PURCHASE AGREEMENT, dated and effective as of
November 25, 2003 (the “Note Purchase Agreement”),
among OPTION ONE OWNER TRUST 2001-2 (the “Issuer”),
OPTION ONE LOAN WAREHOUSE CORPORATION (the
“Depositor”), and BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. (“Bank of
America,” and in its capacity as Purchaser hereunder, the
“Purchaser”).
The
parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
SECTION
I.1. Certain Defined Terms . Capitalized terms used herein
without definition shall have the meanings set forth in the
Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement (as defined below).
Additionally, the following terms shall have the following
meanings:
“
Closing ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2.02.
“
Closing Date ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2.02.
“
Commitment ” means the commitment of the Purchaser to
purchase Additional Note Principal Balances pursuant to
Section 2.01.
“
Confidential Information ” means all marketing
information, financial information, terms sheets and other
information concerning the transactions contemplated thereby,
prepared by the Purchaser and its Affiliates.
“
Exchange Act ” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended.
“
Governmental Actions ” means any and all consents,
approvals, permits, orders, authorizations, waivers, exceptions,
variances, exemptions or licenses of, or registrations,
declarations or filings with, any Governmental Authority required
under any Governmental Rules.
“
Governmental Authority ” means the United States of
America, any state or other political subdivision thereof and any
entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or
administrative functions of or pertaining to government and having
jurisdiction over the applicable Person.
“
Governmental Rules ” means any and all laws, statutes,
codes, rules, regulations, ordinances, orders, writs, decrees and
injunctions, of any Governmental Authority and any and all legally
binding conditions, standards, prohibitions, requirements and
judgments of any Governmental Authority.
“
Indemnified Party ” means the Purchaser and any of its
officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives, assignees
and Affiliates and any Person who controls the Purchaser or its
Affiliates within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities
Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act.
“
Indenture ” means the Indenture dated as of
April 1, 2001, and as amended and restated through and
including November 25, 2003, between the Issuer as Issuer and
Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, National Association as Indenture
Trustee, as the same may be further amended or supplemented from
time to time.
“
Investment Company Act ” shall have the meaning
provided in Section 5.01(i).
“
Lien ” means, with respect to any asset, (a) any
mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest, hypothecation,
option or encumbrance of any kind in respect of such asset or (b)
the interest of a vendor or lessor under any conditional sale
agreement, financing lease or other title retention agreement
relating to such asset.
“
Loan Originator ” means Option One Mortgage
Corporation, a California corporation.
“
Maximum Note Principal Balance ” means an amount equal
to $2,000,000,000, less any reductions pursuant to
Section 2.06 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.
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Purchaser ” means the Purchaser and its permitted
successors and assigns.
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Purchased Note ” means the Series 2001-2 Note
issued by the Issuer pursuant to the Indenture.
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REMIC Servicer ” shall have the meaning set forth in
the Advance Indenture.
“
Sale and Servicing Agreement ” means the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, dated as of April 1, 2001, and as amended
and restated through and including November 25, 2003, among
the Issuer, the Depositor, the Loan Originator, the Servicer and
Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, National Association as the Indenture
Trustee, as the same may be further amended or supplemented from
time to time.
“
Servicer ” means Option One Mortgage Corporation or
its permitted successors and assigns.
SECTION
I.2. Other Definitional Provisions .
(1) All
terms defined in this Note Purchase Agreement shall have the
defined meanings when used in any certificate or other document
made or delivered pursuant hereto unless otherwise defined
therein.
(2) As
used herein and in any certificate or other document made or
delivered pursuant hereto or thereto, accounting terms not defined
in Section 1.01, and accounting terms
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partially defined in
Section 1.01 to the extent not defined, shall have the
respective meanings given to them under generally accepted
accounting principles. To the extent that the definitions of
accounting terms herein are inconsistent with the meanings of such
terms under generally accepted accounting principles, the
definitions contained herein shall control.
(3) The
words “hereof,” “herein” and
“hereunder” and words of similar import when used in
this Note Purchase Agreement shall refer to this Note Purchase
Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this
Note Purchase Agreement; and Section, subsection, Schedule and
Exhibit references contained in this Note Purchase Agreement are
references to Sections, subsections, and Exhibits in or to this
Note Purchase Agreement unless otherwise specified.
ARTICLE II
COMMITMENT; CLOSING AND PURCHASES OF
ADDITIONAL NOTE PRINCIPAL BALANCES
SECTION
II.1. Commitment .
At
any time during the Revolving Period, to the extent that the
aggregate Note Principal Balance (after giving effect to the
proposed purchase) is less than the Maximum Note Principal Balance,
and subject to the terms and conditions hereof and in accordance
with the other Basic Documents, the Issuer may request that the
Purchaser purchase Additional Note Principal Balances (each such
request, a “Purchase Request”). Each Purchase Request
shall identify (i) with respect to each Transfer Date, the
proposed Transfer Date and an estimate of the number of Loans and
aggregate Principal Balances of such Loans to be purchased by the
Issuer on such Transfer Date and (ii) with respect to each
Funding Date, the proposed Funding Date and the aggregate
Receivables Balance of the Receivables to be purchased by the
Advance Trust on such Funding Date. On the identified Transfer Date
or Funding Date, the Purchaser agrees to purchase the Additional
Note Principal Balances requested in the Purchase Request, subject
to the terms and conditions and in reliance upon the covenants,
representations and warranties set forth herein and in the other
Basic Documents.
SECTION
II.2. Closing .
The
closing (the “ Closing ”) of the execution of
the Basic Documents and Purchased Note shall take place at
10:00 a.m. at the offices of Thacher Proffitt & Wood, 2
World Trade Center, New York, New York 10048 on April 18,
2001, or if the conditions to closing set forth in Article IV
of this Note Purchase Agreement shall not have been satisfied or
waived by such date, as soon as practicable after such conditions
shall have been satisfied or waived, or at such other time, date
and place as the parties shall agree upon (the date of the Closing
being referred to herein as the “ Closing Date
”).
ARTICLE 2
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TRANSFER DATES AND FUNDING DATES
SECTION
II.1. Transfer Dates .
(1) Subject
to the conditions and terms set forth herein and in
Section 2.06 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement with respect
to each Transfer Date, the Issuer may request, and the Purchaser
agrees to purchase Additional Note Principal Balances from the
Issuer from time to time in accordance with, and upon the
satisfaction, as of the applicable Transfer Date, of each of the
following additional conditions:
(1) With
respect to each Transfer Date, each condition set forth in
Section 2.06 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement shall have
been satisfied. Prior to the first Transfer Date on which Wet
Funded Loans are conveyed, counsel to the Servicer shall have
delivered to the Purchaser a favorable opinion, dated as of the
Closing Date to the effect that the Indenture Trustee has a first
priority perfected security interest in all cash and Permitted
Investments held in the Reserve Account satisfactory in form and
substance to the Purchaser and its counsel;
(2) Each
of the representations and warranties of the Issuer, the Servicer,
the Loan Originator and the Depositor made in the Basic Documents
shall be true and correct as of such date (except to the extent
they expressly relate to an earlier or later time);
(3) The
Issuer, the Servicer, the Loan Originator and the Depositor shall
be in compliance with all of their respective covenants contained
in the Basic Documents and the Purchased Note;
(4) No
Event of Default and no Default shall have occurred or shall be
occurring; and
(5) With
respect to each Transfer Date, the Purchaser shall have received
evidence reasonably satisfactory to it of the completion of all
recordings, registrations, and filings as may be necessary or, in
the reasonable opinion of the Purchaser, desirable to perfect or
evidence the assignments required to be effected on such Transfer
Date in accordance with the Sale and Servicing Agreement including,
without limitation, the assignment of the Loans and the proceeds
thereof required to be assigned pursuant to the related LPA
Assignment, S&SA Assignment and the Indenture.
(2) The
Purchaser shall determine in its reasonable discretion whether each
of the above conditions have been met in accordance with the Sale
and Servicing Agreement and its determination shall be binding on
the parties hereto.
(3) The
price paid by the Purchaser on each Transfer Date for the
Additional Note Principal Balance purchased on such Transfer Date
shall be equal to the amount of such Additional Note Principal
Balance and shall be remitted not later than 4:00 p.m. New York
City time on the Transfer Date by wire transfer of immediately
available funds to the Advance Account, provided that a portion
thereof equivalent to the aggregate Sales Price of Wet Funded Loans
conveyed on such date shall be remitted to the Reserve Account by
the Purchaser.
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(4) The
Purchaser shall record on the schedule attached to the Purchased
Note, the date and amount of any Additional Note Principal Balance
purchased by it; provided , that failure to make such
recordation on such schedule or any error in such schedule shall
not adversely affect the Purchaser’s rights with respect to
its Note Principal Balance and its right to receive interest
payments in respect of the Note Principal Balance actually held.
Absent manifest error, the Note Principal Balance of the Purchased
Note as set forth in the Purchaser’s records shall be binding
upon the parties hereto, notwithstanding any notation or record
made or kept by any other party hereto.
SECTION
II.2. Funding Dates .
(5) Subject
to the conditions and terms set forth herein and in
Section 2.06 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement with respect
to each Funding Date, the Issuer may request, and the Purchaser
agrees to purchase Additional Note Principal Balances from the
Issuer from time to time in accordance with, and upon the
satisfaction, as of the applicable Funding Date, of each of the
following additional conditions:
(1) With
respect to each Funding Date, each condition set forth in
Section 2.06 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement shall have
been satisfied;
(2) Each
of the representations and warranties of (x) the Issuer, the
Servicer, the Loan Originator and the Depositor made in the Basic
Documents and (y) the Advance Trust, the REMIC Servicer, the
Receivables Seller and the Advance Depositor made in the Advance
Documents shall be true and correct as of such date (except to the
extent they expressly relate to an earlier or later
time);
(3) Each
of (x) the Issuer, the Servicer, the Loan Originator and the
Depositor shall be in compliance with all of its respective
covenants contained in the Basic Documents and the Purchased Note
and (y) the Advance Trust, the REMIC Servicer, the Receivables
Seller and the Advance Depositor shall be in compliance with all of
its respective covenants contained in the Advance Documents and the
Advance Note;
(4) No
Event of Default and no Default shall have occurred or shall be
occurring; and
(5) With
respect to each Funding Date, the Purchaser shall have received
evidence reasonably satisfactory to it of the completion of all
recordings, registrations, and filings as may be necessary or, in
the reasonable opinion of the Purchaser, desirable to perfect or
evidence the Indenture Trustee’s security interest in the
Advance Note and the proceeds thereof.
(6) The
Purchaser shall determine in its reasonable discretion whether each
of the above conditions have been met in accordance with the Sale
and Servicing Agreement and its determination shall be binding on
the parties hereto.
(7) The
price paid by the Purchaser on each Funding Date for the Additional
Note Principal Balance purchased on such Funding Date shall be
equal to the amount of such Additional
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Note Principal Balance and shall
be remitted not later than 4:00 p.m. New York City time on the
Funding Date by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the
Funding Account.
(8) The
Purchaser shall record on the schedule attached to the Purchased
Note, the date and amount of any Additional Note Principal Balance
purchased by it; provided , that failure to make such
recordation on such schedule or any error in such schedule shall
not adversely affect the Purchaser’s rights with respect to
its Note Principal Balance and its right to receive interest
payments in respect of the Note Principal Balance actually held.
Absent manifest error, the Note Principal Balance of the Purchased
Note as set forth in the Purchaser’s records shall be binding
upon the parties hereto, notwithstanding any notation or record
made or kept by any other party hereto.
(9) On
or prior to the first Funding Date, the Advance Note shall be
delivered to the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture.
ARTICLE III
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO EFFECTIVENESS OF
COMMITMENT
SECTION
III.1. Closing Subject to Conditions Precedent . The
effectiveness of the Commitment hereunder is subject to the
satisfaction at the time of the Closing of the following conditions
(any or all of which may be waived by the Purchaser in its sole
discretion):
(10)
Performance by the Issuer, the Depositor, the Servicer and the
Loan Originator . All the terms, covenants, agreements and
conditions of the Basic Documents to be complied with and performed
by the Issuer, the Depositor, the Servicer and the Loan Originator
on or before the Closing Date shall have been complied with and
performed in all material respects.
(11)
Representations and Warranties . Each of the representations
and warranties of the Issuer, the Depositor, the Servicer and the
Loan Originator made in the Basic Documents shall be true and
correct in all material respects as of the Closing Date (except to
the extent they expressly relate to an earlier or later
time).
(12)
Officer’s Certificate . The Purchaser shall have
received in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Purchaser an Officer’s Certificate from the Loan Originator,
the Depositor and the Servicer and a certificate of an Authorized
Officer of the Issuer, dated the Closing Date, certifying to the
satisfaction of the conditions set forth in the preceding
paragraphs (a) and (b).
(13)
Opinions of Counsel to the Issuer, the Loan Originator, the
Servicer and the Depositor . Counsel to the Issuer, the Loan
Originator, the Servicer and the Depositor shall have delivered to
the Purchaser favorable opinions, dated as of the Closing Date and
satisfactory in form and substance to the Purchaser and its
counsel. In addition to the foregoing, the Loan Originator shall
have caused its counsel to deliver to the Purchaser a favorable
opinion to the effect that (i) the Issuer will not be treated
as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a
corporation or as a taxable mortgage pool, for federal income tax
purposes and (ii) the Purchased Note shall be treated as the
issuance of debt instruments by the Loan Originator or an Affiliate
thereof for federal
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income tax purposes, in each case
satisfactory in form and substance of the Purchaser and its
counsel.
(14)
Opinions of Counsel to the Indenture Trustee . Counsel to
the Indenture Trustee shall have delivered to the Purchaser a
favorable opinion, dated as of the Closing Date and reasonably
satisfactory in form and substance to the Purchaser and its
counsel.
(15)
Opinions of Counsel to the Owner Trustee . Delaware counsel
to the Owner Trustee of the Issuer and the Depositor shall have
delivered to the Purchaser favorable opinions regarding the
formation, existence and standing of the Issuer and the Depositor
and of the Issuer’s and the Depositor’s execution,
authorization and delivery of each of the Basic Documents to which
it is a party and such other matters as the Purchaser may
reasonably request, dated as of the Closing Date and reasonably
satisfactory in form and substance to the Purchaser and its
counsel.
(16)
Filings and Recordations . The Purchaser shall have received
evidence reasonably satisfactory to it of (i) the completion
of all recordings, registrations, and filings as may be necessary
or, in the reasonable opinion of the Purchaser, desirable to
perfect or evidence the assignment by the Loan Originator to the
Depositor of the Loan Originator’s ownership interest in the
Trust Estate including, without limitation, the Loans conveyed
pursuant to the Loan Purchase Agreement and the proceeds thereof,
(ii) the completion of all recordings, registrations and
filings as may be necessary or, in the reasonable opinion of the
Purchaser, desirable to perfect or evidence the assignment by the
Depositor to the Issuer of the Depositor’s ownership interest
in the Trust Estate including, without limitation, the Loans and
the proceeds thereof and (iii) the completion of all
recordings, registrations, and filings as may be necessary or, in
the reasonable opinion of the Purchaser, desirable to perfect or
evidence the grant of a first priority perfected security interest
in the Issuer’s ownership interest in the Trust Estate
including, without limitation, the Loans, in favor of the Indenture
Trustee, subject to no Liens prior to the Lien of the
Indenture.
(17)
Documents . The Purchaser shall have received a duly
executed counterpart of each of the Basic Documents, the Purchased
Note and each and every document or certification delivered by any
party in connection with any of the Basic Documents or the
Purchased Note, and each such document shall be in full force and
effect.
(18)
Actions or Proceedings . No action, suit, proceeding or
investigation by or before any Governmental Authority shall have
been instituted to restrain or prohibit the consummation of, or to
invalidate, any of the transactions contemplated by the Basic
Documents, the Purchased Note and the documents related thereto in
any material respect.
(19)
Approvals and Consents . All Governmental Actions of all
Governmental Authorities required with respect to the transactions
contemplated by the Basic Documents, the Purchased Note and the
documents related thereto shall have been obtained or
made.
(20)
Accounts . The Purchaser shall have received evidence
reasonably satisfactory to it that each Trust Account has each been
established in accordance with the terms of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.
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(21)
Fees and Expenses . The fees and expenses payable by the
Issuer and the Depositor pursuant to Section 8.02(b) shall
have been paid.
(22)
Other Documents . The Issuer, the Loan Originator, the
Depositor and the Servicer shall have furnished to the Purchaser
such other opinions, information, certificates and documents as the
Purchaser may reasonably request.
(23)
Proceedings in Contemplation of Sale of Purchased Note . All
actions and proceedings undertaken by the Issuer, the Loan
Originator, the Depositor and the Servicer in connection with the
issuance and sale of the Purchased Note as herein contemplated
shall be satisfactory in all respects to the Purchaser and its
counsel.
If
any condition specified in this Section 4.01 shall not have
been fulfilled when and as required to be fulfilled, this Agreement
may be terminated by the Purchaser by notice to the Loan Originator
at any time at or prior to the Closing Date, and the Purchaser
shall incur no liability as a result of such
termination.
ARTICLE IV
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE ISSUER AND
THE DEPOSITOR
The
Issuer and the Depositor hereby jointly and severally make the
following representations and warranties to the Purchaser, as of
the Closing Date and as of each Transfer Date and each Funding
Date, and the Purchaser shall be deemed to have relied on such
representations and warranties in making (or committing to make)
purchases of Additional Note Principal Balances on each Transfer
Date and each Funding Date:
SECTION
IV.1. Issuer .
(24) The
Issuer has been duly organized and is validly existing and in good
standing as a statutory trust under the laws of the State of
Delaware, with requisite trust power and authority to own its
properties and to transact the business in which it is now engaged,
and is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing (or is
exempt from such requirements) in each State of the United States
where the nature of its business requires it to be so qualified and
the failure to be so qualified and in good standing would have a
material adverse effect on the Issuer or any adverse effect on the
interests of the Purchaser.
(25) The
issuance, sale, assignment and conveyance of the Purchased Note and
the Additional Note Principal Balances, the performance of the
Issuer’s obligations under each Basic Document to which it is
a party and the consummation of the transactions therein
contemplated will not conflict with or result in a breach of any of
the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or
result in the creation or imposition of any Lien (other than any
Lien created by the Basic Documents), charge or encumbrance upon
any of the property or assets of the Issuer or any of its
Affiliates pursuant to the terms of, any indenture, mortgage, deed
of trust, l