Execution Copy
J.P. MORGAN ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION I
Depositor
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Master Servicer and Securities Administrator
and
HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Trustee
___________________________
POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT
Dated as of January 1, 2007
___________________________
J.P. MORGAN MORTGAGE TRUST 2007-A1
MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS
6
Section 1.01
Definitions.
6
Section 1.02
Calculations Respecting Mortgage
Loans.
42
ARTICLE II DECLARATION OF TRUST; ISSUANCE
OF CERTIFICATES
43
Section 2.01
Creation and Declaration of Trust Fund;
Conveyance of Mortgage Loans.
43
Section 2.02
Acceptance of Trust Fund by Trustee;
Review of Documentation for Trust Fund.
46
Section 2.03
Representations and Warranties of the
Depositor.
47
Section 2.04
Representations and Warranties as to the
Mortgage Loans.
49
Section 2.05
Discovery of Breach; Repurchase or
Substitution of Mortgage Loans.
50
Section 2.06
Grant Clause.
53
ARTICLE III THE CERTIFICATES
54
Section 3.01
The Certificates.
54
Section 3.02
Registration.
54
Section 3.03
Transfer and Exchange of
Certificates.
55
Section 3.04
Cancellation of Certificates.
58
Section 3.05
Replacement of Certificates.
58
Section 3.06
Persons Deemed Owners.
59
Section 3.07
Temporary Certificates.
59
Section 3.08
Appointment of Paying Agent.
60
Section 3.09
Book-Entry Certificates.
60
ARTICLE IV ADMINISTRATION OF THE TRUST
FUND
61
Section 4.01
Custodial Accounts; Distribution
Account.
61
Section 4.02
[Reserved].
63
Section 4.03
[Reserved].
63
Section 4.04
Reports to Trustee and
Certificateholders.
63
ARTICLE V DISTRIBUTIONS TO HOLDERS OF
CERTIFICATES
65
Section 5.01
Distributions Generally.
65
Section 5.02
Distributions from the Distribution
Account.
66
Section 5.03
Allocation of Losses.
71
Section 5.04
Advances by Master Servicer.
74
Section 5.05
Compensating Interest
Payments.
74
Section 5.06
Deposit of Uncertificated REMIC
Interests.
74
ARTICLE VI CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE AND THE
SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR;
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
75
Section 6.01
Duties of Trustee and the Securities
Administrator.
75
Section 6.02
Certain Matters Affecting the Trustee and
the Securities Administrator.
78
Section 6.03
Trustee and Securities Administrator Not
Liable for Certificates.
79
Section 6.04
Trustee and the Securities Administrator
May Own Certificates.
80
Section 6.05
Eligibility Requirements for
Trustee.
80
Section 6.06
Resignation and Removal of Trustee and
the Securities Administrator.
80
Section 6.07
Successor Trustee and Successor
Securities Administrator.
82
Section 6.08
Merger or Consolidation of Trustee or the
Securities Administrator.
83
Section 6.09
Appointment of Co-Trustee, Separate
Trustee or Custodian.
83
Section 6.10
Authenticating Agents.
84
Section 6.11
Indemnification of the Trustee and the
Securities Administrator.
85
Section 6.12
Fees and Expenses of Securities
Administrator and the Trustee.
86
Section 6.13
Collection of Monies.
86
Section 6.14
Events of Default; Trustee To Act;
Appointment of Successor.
87
Section 6.15
Additional Remedies of Trustee Upon Event
of Default.
90
Section 6.16
Waiver of Defaults.
90
Section 6.17
Notification to Holders.
91
Section 6.18
Directions by Certificateholders and
Duties of Trustee During Event of Default.
91
Section 6.19
Action Upon Certain Failures of the
Master Servicer and Upon Event of Default.
91
Section 6.20
Preparation of Tax Returns and Other
Reports.
92
ARTICLE VII PURCHASE OF MORTGAGE LOANS
AND TERMINATION OF THE TRUST
FUND
92
Section 7.01
Purchase of Mortgage Loans; Termination
of Trust Fund Upon Purchase or
Liquidation of All Mortgage
Loans.
92
Section 7.02
Procedure Upon Redemption or Termination
of Trust Fund.
93
Section 7.03
Additional Trust Fund Termination
Requirements.
94
ARTICLE VIII RIGHTS OF
CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
95
Section 8.01
Limitation on Rights of
Holders.
95
Section 8.02
Access to List of Holders.
96
Section 8.03
Acts of Holders of
Certificates.
97
ARTICLE IX ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING
OF MORTGAGE LOANS BY THE
MASTER SERVICER
98
Section 9.01
Duties of the Master Servicer;
Enforcement of Servicer’s and Master
Servicer’s
Obligations.
98
Section 9.02
Assumption of Master Servicing by
Trustee.
99
Section 9.03
Representations and Warranties of the
Master Servicer.
100
Section 9.04
Compensation to the Master
Servicer.
102
Section 9.05
Merger or Consolidation.
102
Section 9.06
Resignation of Master
Servicer.
102
Section 9.07
Assignment or Delegation of Duties by the
Master Servicer.
103
Section 9.08
Limitation on Liability of the Master
Servicer and Others.
103
Section 9.09
Indemnification; Third-Party
Claims.
104
ARTICLE X REMIC ADMINISTRATION
104
Section 10.01
REMIC Administration.
104
Section 10.02
Prohibited Transactions and
Activities.
106
Section 10.03
Indemnification with Respect to
Prohibited Transactions or Loss of REMIC Status.
107
Section 10.04
REO Property.
107
Section 10.05
Fidelity.
108
ARTICLE XI
108
EXCHANGE ACT REPORTING
108
Section 11.01
Form 10-D Reporting.
108
Section 11.02
Form 10-K Reporting.
109
Section 11.03
Form 8-K Reporting.
111
Section 11.04
Delisting; Amendment; Late Filing of
Reports.
112
Section 11.05
Annual Statements of
Compliance.
113
Section 11.06
Annual Assessments of
Compliance.
113
Section 11.07
Accountant’s
Attestation.
114
Section 11.08
Sarbanes-Oxley Certification.
115
Section 11.09
Indemnification.
116
Section 11.10
Additional Information.
117
Section 11.11
Intention of the Parties and
Interpretation.
117
Section 11.12
Notice under Article XI.
118
ARTICLE XII MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS
118
Section 12.01
Binding Nature of Agreement;
Assignment.
118
Section 12.02
Entire Agreement.
118
Section 12.03
Amendment.
118
Section 12.04
Voting Rights.
120
Section 12.05
Provision of Information.
120
Section 12.06
Governing Law.
120
Section 12.07
Notices.
121
Section 12.08
Severability of Provisions.
121
Section 12.09
Indulgences; No Waivers.
121
Section 12.10
Headings Not To Affect
Interpretation.
121
Section 12.11
Benefits of Agreement.
122
Section 12.12
Special Notices to the Rating
Agencies.
122
Section 12.13
Conflicts.
123
Section 12.14
Counterparts.
123
Section 12.15
No Petitions.
123
Section 12.16
Concerning the Custodian
123
ATTACHMENTS
Exhibit A
Forms of Certificates
Exhibit B
Form of Residual Interest Transfer
Affidavit (Transferee)
Exhibit C
Form of Residual Interest Transfer
Affidavit (Transferor)
Exhibit D
[Reserved]
Exhibit E
List of Purchase and Servicing
Agreements, Purchase Agreements and Servicing Agreements
Exhibit F
List of Custodial Agreements
Exhibit G
[Reserved]
Exhibit H
Form of Rule 144A Transfer
Certificate
Exhibit I
Form of Purchaser’s Letter for
Institutional Accredited Investors
Exhibit J
Form of ERISA Transfer
Affidavit
Exhibit K
Form of Letter of Representations with
the Depository Trust Company
Exhibit L
Form of Custodian
Certification
Exhibit M
Regulation AB Relevant Servicing Criteria
Matrix
Exhibit N
Form 10-D, Form 8-K and Form 10-K
Reporting Responsibility
Exhibit O
[Reserved]
Exhibit P
[Reserved]
Exhibit Q
Form of Annual Back-Up
Certification
Exhibit R
Additional Disclosure
Notification
Schedule A
Mortgage Loan Schedule
This POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT,
dated as of January 1, 2007 (the “Agreement”), by and
among J.P. MORGAN ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION I, a Delaware
corporation, as depositor (the “Depositor”), HSBC BANK
USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as trustee (the “Trustee”),
and U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, in its dual capacities as
master servicer (the “Master Servicer”) and securities
administrator (the “Securities Administrator”), and
acknowledged by J.P. MORGAN MORTGAGE ACQUISITION CORP., a Delaware
corporation, as seller (the “Seller”), for purposes of
Sections 2.04 and 2.05 and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as custodian (the
“Custodian”), for purposes of Sections 11.01, 11.02,
11.03, 11.06, 11.07, 11.09 and 12.16.
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
The Depositor has acquired the Mortgage
Loans from the Seller and at the Closing Date is the owner of the
Mortgage Loans and the other property being conveyed by the
Depositor to the Trustee hereunder for inclusion in the Trust Fund.
On the Closing Date, the Depositor will acquire the
Certificates from the Trustee as consideration for the
Depositor’s transfer to the Trust Fund of the Mortgage Loans
and the other property constituting the Trust Fund. The
Depositor has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Agreement to provide for the conveyance to the Trustee of the
Mortgage Loans and the other property constituting the Trust Fund.
All covenants and agreements made by the Depositor, the
Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator and the Trustee
herein, with respect to the Mortgage Loans and the other property
constituting the Trust Fund, are for the benefit of the Holders
from time to time of the Certificates. The Depositor, the
Trustee, the Master Servicer and the Securities Administrator are
entering into this Agreement, and the Trustee is accepting the
Trust Fund created hereby, for good and valuable consideration, the
receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged.
As provided herein, the Trustee shall
elect that the Trust Fund be treated for federal income tax
purposes as comprising two real estate mortgage investment conduits
(each, a “REMIC” or, in the alternative, the
“Lower-Tier REMIC” and the “Upper-Tier
REMIC”). Each of the Certificates set forth below,
other than the Exchangeable Certificates, the Exchangeable REMIC
Certificates, and the Class A-R Certificate, shall represent
ownership of a regular interest in the Upper-Tier REMIC for
purposes of the REMIC Provisions. The Class A-R Certificate
represents ownership of the sole class of residual interest in the
Upper-Tier REMIC. The Upper-Tier REMIC shall hold as assets
the several classes of uncertificated Lower-Tier Interests in the
Lower-Tier REMIC (other than the Class LT-A-R Interest). The
Lower-Tier REMIC shall hold as assets all property of the Trust
Fund. The uncertificated Class LT-A-R Interest
represents ownership of the sole class of residual interest in the
Lower-Tier REMIC.
The latest possible maturity date of all
REMIC regular interests created in this Agreement shall be the
Latest Possible Maturity Date.
The Lower-Tier REMIC
The Lower-Tier REMIC Regular Interests
shall have the initial Class Principal Amounts, pass-through rates
and Corresponding Mortgage Pools as set forth in the following
table:
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|
|
|
|
|
REMIC 1 Interests
|
Initial Principal
Amount
|
Pass-Through
Rate
|
Corresponding
Mortgage Pool
|
|
A-1
(0.9% of SP Group 1)
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
1
|
|
B-1
(0.1% of SP Group 1)
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
1
|
|
C-1
(Excess of Group 1)
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
1
|
|
A-2
(0.9% of SP Group 2)
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
2
|
|
B-2
(0.1% of SP Group 2)
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
2
|
|
C-2
(Excess of Group 2)
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
2
|
|
A-3
(0.9% of SP Group 3)
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
3
|
|
B-3
(0.1% of SP Group 3)
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
3
|
|
C-3
(Excess of Group 3)
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
3
|
|
A-4
(0.9% of SP Group 4)
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
4
|
|
B-4
(0.1% of SP Group 4)
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
4
|
|
C-4
(Excess of Group 4)
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
4
|
|
A-5
(0.9% of SP Group 5)
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
5
|
|
B-5
(0.1% of SP Group 5)
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
5
|
|
C-5
(Excess of Group 5)
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
5
|
|
A-6
(0.9% of SP Group 6)
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
6
|
|
B-6
(0.1% of SP Group 6)
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
6
|
|
C-6
(Excess of Group 6)
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
6
|
|
A-7
(0.9% of SP Group 7)
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
7
|
|
B-7
(0.1% of SP Group 7)
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
7
|
|
C-7
(Excess of Group 7)
|
(1)
|
(2)
|
7
|
|
LT-A-R
|
(3)
|
(3)
|
N/A
|
_______________
(1)
Each Class A Interest
shall have a principal balance initially equal to 0.9% of the Pool
Subordinate Amount (“SP”) of its corresponding Mortgage
Pool. Each Class B Interest shall have a principal balance
initially equal to 0.1% of the Pool Subordinate Amount of its
corresponding Mortgage Pool. The initial principal balance of each
Class C Interest shall equal the excess of the initial aggregate
principal balance of its corresponding Mortgage Pool over the
initial aggregate principal balances of the Class A and Class B
Interests corresponding to such Mortgage Pool.
(2)
A rate equal to the
weighted average of the Net Mortgage Rates of the Mortgage Loans of
the corresponding Mortgage Pool.
(3)
The Class LT-A-R
Interest is the sole class of residual interest in Lower-Tier
REMIC. It has no principal balance and pays no principal or
interest.
On each Distribution Date, the Available
Funds from each Mortgage Pool in the Aggregate Pool shall be
distributed with respect to its corresponding Lower-Tier REMIC
Interests in the following manner:
(1) Interest . Interest is to be
distributed with respect to each Lower-Tier REMIC Interest at the
rate, or according to the formulas, described above.
(2) Principal if no Cross-Over
Situation Exists . If no Cross-Over Situation exists with
respect to any Class of Interests, then principal amounts arising
with respect to each such Mortgage Pool will be allocated: first to
cause the Mortgage Pool's corresponding Class A and Class B to
equal, respectively, 0.9% of the SP and 0.1% of the SP; and second
to the Mortgage Pool's corresponding Class C Interest.
(3) Principal if a Cross-Over
Situation Exists . If a Cross-Over Situation exists with
respect to the Class A and Class B Interests of a Mortgage Pool
then:
(a) if the Calculation Rate in respect of
such outstanding Class A and Class B Interests is less than the
Subordinate Net WAC, Principal Relocation Payments will be made
proportionately to the outstanding Class A Interests prior to any
other Principal Distributions from such Mortgage Pool;
and
(b) if the Calculation Rate in respect of
the outstanding Class A and Class B Interests is greater than the
Aggregate Pool Subordinate Net WAC, Principal Relocation Payments
will be made proportionately to the outstanding Class B Interests
prior to any other Principal Distributions from such Mortgage
Pool.
In each case, Principal Relocation
Payments will be made so as to cause the Calculation Rate in
respect of the outstanding Class A and Class B Interests to equal
the Subordinate Net WAC. With respect to each Mortgage Pool, if
(and to the extent that) the sum of (a) the principal payments
comprising the Principal Remittance Amount received during the Due
Period and (b) the Realized Losses, are insufficient to make the
necessary reductions of principal on the Class A and Class B
Interests, then interest will be added to the Mortgage Pool’s
other Interests that are not receiving Principal Relocation
Payments, in proportion to their principal balances.
(c) The outstanding aggregate Class A and
Class B Interests for all Mortgage Pools will not be reduced below
1 percent of the excess of (i) the aggregate outstanding Class
Principal Amounts of all Mortgage Pools as of the end of any Due
Period over (ii) the Senior Certificates for all Mortgage Pools as
of the related Distribution Date (after taking into account
distributions of principal on such Distribution Date).
If (and to the extent that) the
limitation in paragraph (c) prevents the distribution of principal
to the Class A and Class B Interests of a Mortgage Pool, and if the
Mortgage Pool’s Class C Interest has already been reduced to
zero, then the excess principal from that Mortgage Pool will be
paid to the Class C Interests of the other Mortgage Pools, the
aggregate Class A and Class B Interests of which are less than one
percent of the Pool Subordinated Amount. If the Mortgage Pool of a
Class C Interest that receives such payment has a weighted average
Net Mortgage Rate below the weighted average Net Mortgage Rate of
the Mortgage Pool making the payment, then the payment will be
treated by Lower-Tier REMIC as a Realized Loss. Conversely, if the
Mortgage Pool of a Class C Interest that receives such payment has
a weighted average Net Mortgage Rate above the weighted average Net
Mortgage Rate of the Mortgage Pool making the payment, then the
payment will be treated by the Lower-Tier REMIC as a reimbursement
for prior Realized Losses..
Upper-Tier REMIC
The following table sets forth (or
describes) the Class designation, Certificate Interest Rate,
initial Class Principal Amount and minimum denomination for each
Class of Certificates comprising interests in the portion of the
Trust Fund related to the Aggregate Pool created hereunder and the
Exchangeable Certificates.
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|
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|
|
|
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Certificate Interest Rate
|
Initial Class Principal Amount or Class Notional Amount(13)
|
Minimum Denominations or Percentage Interest
|
|
Class 1-A-1
|
(3)
|
$217,896,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 1-A-2
|
(3)
|
$19,205,900
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 2-A-1
|
(4)
|
$149,538,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 2-A-2
|
(4)
|
$135,000,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 2-A-3
|
(4)
|
$8,618,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 2-A-4
|
(4)
|
$6,289,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 3-A-1
|
(5)
|
$189,000,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 3-A-2
|
(5)
|
$432,766,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 3-A-3
|
(5)
|
$100,000,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 3-A-4
|
(5)
|
$25,000,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 3-A-5
|
(5)
|
$11,965,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 4-A-1
|
(6)
|
$156,384,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 4-A-2
|
(6)
|
$75,000,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 4-A-3
|
(6)
|
$4,788,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 4-A-4
|
(6)
|
$5,067,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 5-A-1
|
(7)
|
$519,293,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 5-A-2
|
(7)
|
$215,000,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 5-A-3
|
(7)
|
$13,724,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 5-A-4
|
(7)
|
$16,046,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 5-A-5
|
(7)
|
$200,000,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 5-A-6
|
(7)
|
$50,000,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 6-A-1(1)
|
(8)
|
$651,901,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 6-A-2
|
(8)
|
$13,984,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 6-A-3(2)
|
(8)
|
$441,056,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 6-A-4(2)
|
(8)
|
$210,845,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 7-A-1
|
(9)
|
$130,000,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 7-A-2
|
(9)
|
$280,513,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 7-A-3(1)
|
(9)
|
$137,143,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 7-A-3M (2)
|
(10)
|
$137,143,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 7-A-3S (2)
|
(11)
|
$137,143,000*
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class 7-A-4
|
(9)
|
$11,748,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class B-1
|
(12)
|
$38,493,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class B-2
|
(12)
|
$15,396,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class B-3
|
(12)
|
$5,773,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class B-4
|
(12)
|
$5,773,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class B-5
|
(12)
|
$3,849,000
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class B-6
|
(12)
|
$3,850,350
|
$
100,000.00
|
|
Class A-R
|
(3)
|
$100
|
100%
|
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*
Notional Amount.
(1)
This class shall be
issued in uncertificated form and shall constitute an
Uncertificated REMIC Interest. Each Class of Exchangeable
REMIC Certificates issued under the Trust Agreement will be
entitled to the same distributions of principal and interest as the
corresponding Uncertificated REMIC Interest.
(2)
These Certificates are
Exchangeable Certificates which will not be issued under this
Agreement. The Exchangeable Certificates are issued under the
Trust Agreement.
(3)
The per annum
Certificate Interest Rate with respect to any Distribution Date
(and the related Accrual Period) for the Class 1-A-1, Class 1-A-2
and Class A-R Certificates will equal the Pool 1 Net
WAC.
(4)
The per annum
Certificate Interest Rate with respect to any Distribution Date
(and the related Accrual Period) for the Class 2-A-1, Class 2-A-2,
Class 2-A-3 and Class 2-A-4 Certificates will equal the Pool 2
Net WAC.
(5)
The per annum
Certificate Interest Rate with respect to any Distribution Date
(and the related Accrual Period) for the Class 3-A-1, Class 3-A-2,
Class 3-A-3, Class 3-A-4 and Class 3-A-5 Certificates will equal
the Pool 3 Net WAC.
(6)
The per annum
Certificate Interest Rate with respect to any Distribution Date
(and the related Accrual Period) for the Class 4-A-1, Class 4-A-2,
Class 4-A-3 and Class 4-A-4 Certificates will equal the Pool 4
Net WAC.
(7)
The per annum
Certificate Interest Rate with respect to any Distribution Date
(and the related Accrual Period) for the Class 5-A-1, Class 5-A-2,
Class 5-A-3, Class 5-A-4, Class 5-A-5 and Class 5-A-6 Certificates
will equal the Pool 5 Net WAC.
(8)
The per annum
Certificate Interest Rate with respect to any Distribution Date
(and the related Accrual Period) for the Class 6-A-1, Class 6-A-2,
Class 6-A-3 and Class 6-A-4 Certificates will equal the Pool 6
Net WAC.
(9)
The per annum
Certificate Interest Rate with respect to any Distribution Date
(and the related Accrual Period) for the Class 7-A-1, Class 7-A-2,
Class 7-A-3 and Class 7-A-4 Certificates will equal the Pool 7
Net WAC.
(10)
On each Distribution
Date (and the related Accrual Period) on or prior to the Interest
Adjustment Date, the per annum Certificate Interest Rate for the
Class 7-A-3M Certificates will equal the Pool 7 Net WAC, minus
the Certificate Margin. On each Distribution Date (and
the related Accrual Period) after the Interest Adjustment Date, the
per annum Certificate Interest Rate for the Class 7-A-3M
Certificates will equal the Pool 7 Net WAC.
(11)
On each Distribution
Date (and the related Accrual Period) on or prior to the Interest
Adjustment Date, the per annum Certificate Interest Rate for the
Class 7-A-3S Certificates will equal 0.25%. On each
Distribution Date (and the related Accrual Period) after the
Interest Adjustment Date, the per annum Certificate Interest Rate
for the Class 7-A-3S Certificates will equal 0.00%.
(12)
The Certificate Interest
Rate with respect to any Distribution Date (and the related Accrual
Period) for the Class B-1, Class B-2, Class B-3,
Class B-4, Class B-5 and Class B-6 Certificates will
be equal to the Subordinate Net WAC.
(13)
With respect to any
Distribution Date and the Interest-Only Certificates, the Class
Notional Amount will be the Class Principal Amount of the Related
P&I Certificates immediately prior to such Distribution
Date.
As of the Cut-off Date, the Mortgage
Loans had an Aggregate Stated Principal Balance of
$3,849,003,350.
The foregoing REMIC structure is intended
to cause all of the cash from the Mortgage Loans to flow through to
the Upper-Tier REMIC as cash flow on a REMIC regular interest,
without creating any shortfall—actual or potential (other
than for credit losses) to any REMIC regular interest. To the
extent that the structure is believed to diverge from such
intention the parties identifying such ambiguity shall notify the
other parties hereto and the parties involved will resolve such
ambiguities to accomplish such result and will to the extent
necessary rectify any drafting errors or seek clarification to the
structure without Certificateholder approval (but with guidance of
Counsel) to accomplish such intention, including, to the extent
necessary, making any amendments in accordance with Section 12.03
of this Agreement.
In consideration of the mutual agreements
herein contained, the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the
Securities Administrator and the Trustee hereby agree as
follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Section
1.01
Definitions.
The following words and phrases, unless
the context otherwise requires, shall have the following
meanings:
Accountant : A Person engaged in the practice of accounting who
(except when this Agreement provides that an Accountant must be
Independent) may be employed by or affiliated with the Depositor or
an Affiliate of the Depositor.
Accountant’s
Attestation : The attestation
required from an Accountant for each of the Master Servicer, the
Securities Administrator, the Custodian and each Servicing Function
Participant pursuant to Section 11.07.
Accrual Period : With respect to any Distribution Date and any Class
of Certificates, the calendar month preceding the month in which
the Distribution Date occurs. Interest shall accrue on all
Classes of Certificates and on all Lower-Tier Interests on the
basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.
Acknowledgements
: The Assignment, Assumption and
Recognition Agreements assigning from the Seller to the Depositor
and from the Depositor to the Trustee, for the benefit of the
Certificateholders, their respective rights in the Purchase and
Servicing Agreements and Servicing Agreements, as specifically
identified in Exhibit E.
Act : The Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Additional Disclosure
Notification : As defined in
Section 11.01.
Additional Form 10-D
Disclosure : As defined in
Section 11.01.
Additional Form 10-K
Disclosure : As defined in
Section 11.02.
Adjustment Date
: As to any Mortgage Loan, the date on
which the related Mortgage Rate adjusts in accordance with the
terms of the related Mortgage Note.
Advance : With respect to a Mortgage Loan, the payments
required to be made by the Master Servicer or the Servicer with
respect to any Distribution Date pursuant to this Agreement or the
applicable Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement,
as applicable, the amount of any such payment being equal to the
aggregate of the payments of principal and interest (net of the
applicable Servicing Fee, in the case of the Servicer, and net of
any net income in the case of any REO Property) on the Mortgage
Loans that were due on the related Due Date and not received as of
the close of business on the related Determination Date, less the
aggregate amount of any such delinquent payments that the Master
Servicer or the Servicer has determined would constitute
Nonrecoverable Advances if advanced.
Adverse REMIC Event
: Either (i) loss of status as a
REMIC, within the meaning of Section 860D of the Code, for any
group of assets identified as a REMIC in the Preliminary Statement
to this Agreement, or (ii) imposition of any tax, including
the tax imposed under Section 860F(a)(1) of the Code on
prohibited transactions, and the tax imposed under
Section 860G(d) of the Code on certain contributions to a
REMIC, on any REMIC created hereunder to the extent such tax would
be payable from assets held as part of the Trust Fund.
Affiliate : With respect to any specified Person, any other
Person controlling or controlled by or under common control with
such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
“control” when used with respect to any specified
Person means the power to direct the management and policies of
such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership
of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms
“controlling” and “controlled” have
meanings correlative to the foregoing.
Aggregate Pool : Pool 1, Pool 2, Pool 3, Pool 4, Pool 5, Pool
6 and Pool 7.
Aggregate Stated Principal
Balance : As to any
Distribution Date, the aggregate of the Stated Principal Balances
for all Mortgage Loans (and when such term is used (a) with respect
to a particular Mortgage Pool, the aggregate of the Stated
Principal Balances of the Mortgage Loans in such Mortgage Pool or
(b) with respect to the Aggregate Pool, the aggregate of the Stated
Principal Balances of the Mortgage Loans in the Aggregate Pool)
which were outstanding on the Due Date in the month preceding the
month of such Distribution Date.
Aggregate Subordinate
Percentage : With
respect to any Distribution Date, the percentage equivalent of a
fraction, the numerator of which is the aggregate Class Principal
Amount of the Subordinate Certificates immediately prior to that
date, and the denominator of which is the Aggregate Stated
Principal Balance for such Distribution Date.
Aggregate Voting Interests
: The aggregate of the Voting Interests
of all the Certificates under this Agreement.
Agreement : This Pooling and Servicing Agreement and all
amendments and supplements hereto.
Apportioned Principal
Balance : As to any
Distribution Date and each Class of Subordinate Certificates, the
Class Principal Amount thereof immediately prior to such
Distribution Date multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which
is the applicable Pool Subordinate Amount ( i.e. , the
Pool 1 Subordinate Amount, the Pool 2 Subordinate Amount,
the Pool 3 Subordinate Amount, the Pool 4 Subordinate
Amount, the Pool 5 Subordinate Amount, the Pool 6
Subordinate Amount or the Pool 7 Subordinate Amount, as the
case may require), and the denominator of which is the sum of the
Pool Subordinate Amounts in the Aggregate Pool, in each case, for
such Distribution Date.
Appraised Value
: With respect to any Mortgage Loan, the
Appraised Value of the related Mortgaged Property shall be:
(i) with respect to a Mortgage Loan other than a Refinancing
Mortgage Loan, the lesser of (a) the value of the Mortgaged
Property based upon the appraisal made at the time of the
origination of such Mortgage Loan and (b) the sales price of
the Mortgaged Property at the time of the origination of such
Mortgage Loan; provided, however, that with respect to certain
Mortgage Loans financing the acquisition of the related Mortgaged
Property is in New York State, the Appraised Value will be based
solely on the appraisal made at the time of origination of such
Mortgage Loan and (ii) with respect to a Refinancing Mortgage
Loan, the value of the Mortgaged Property based upon the appraisal
made at the time of the origination of such Refinancing Mortgage
Loan.
Assessment of Compliance
: The certification required from
each of the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator, the
Custodian and each Servicing Function Participant pursuant to
Section 11.06.
Assignment of Mortgage
: An assignment of the Mortgage,
notice of transfer or equivalent instrument, in recordable form,
sufficient under the laws of the jurisdiction wherein the related
Mortgaged Property is located to reflect the sale of the Mortgage
to the Trustee, which assignment, notice of transfer or equivalent
instrument may be in the form of one or more blanket assignments
covering the Mortgage Loans secured by Mortgaged Properties located
in the same jurisdiction, if permitted by law; provided ,
however , that neither the Trustee nor the Custodian shall
be responsible for determining whether any such assignment is in
recordable form.
Assignment of Proprietary
Lease : With respect to
a Cooperative Loan, an assignment of the Proprietary Lease
sufficient under the laws of the jurisdiction wherein the related
Cooperative Unit is located to reflect the assignment of such
Proprietary Lease.
Assignment of Recognition
Agreement : With respect
to a Cooperative Loan, an assignment of the Recognition Agreement
sufficient under the laws of the jurisdiction wherein the related
Cooperative Unit is located to reflect the assignment of such
Recognition Agreement.
Authenticating Agent
: Any authenticating agent
appointed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.10 until any
successor authenticating agent for the Certificates is named, and
thereafter “Authenticating Agent” shall mean any
such successor. The Authenticating Agent shall be U.S. Bank
National Association for so long as it is acting as Securities
Administrator under this Agreement.
Authorized Officer
: Any Person who may execute an
Officer’s Certificate on behalf of the Depositor.
Available Distribution
Amount : With respect to
any Distribution Date and each Mortgage Pool, the total amount of
all cash received by the Master Servicer on the Mortgage Loans in
such Mortgage Pool from the Servicer or otherwise for deposit into
the Distribution Account in respect of such Distribution Date,
including (1) all scheduled installments of interest (net of
the Securities Administrator Fee, the related Servicing Fees and
any lender paid primary mortgage guaranty insurance fees, if
applicable) and principal collected on the related Mortgage Loans
and due during the Due Period related to such Distribution Date,
together with any Advances in respect thereof, (2) all
Insurance Proceeds, Liquidation Proceeds, Subsequent Recoveries and
the proceeds of any Additional Collateral from the related Mortgage
Loans, in each case for such Distribution Date, (3) all
partial or full Principal Prepayments, together with any accrued
interest thereon, identified as having been received from the
related Mortgage Loans during the related Prepayment Period,
(4) any amounts paid by the Master Servicer and/or received
from the Servicer in respect of Prepayment Interest Shortfalls with
respect to the related Mortgage Loans, (5) the aggregate
Purchase Price of all Defective Mortgage Loans in such Mortgage
Pool purchased from the Trust Fund during the related Prepayment
Period, and (6) on the Distribution Date on which the related
Mortgage Pool is to be terminated pursuant to Article VII hereof,
that portion of the Redemption Price in respect of principal for
such Mortgage Pool, up to the Par Value calculated for that
Mortgage Pool, minus:
(A)
with respect to the Mortgage Loans in
that Mortgage Pool (or, if not related to the Mortgage Pool, that
Mortgage Pool’s pro rata share of), all related charges and
other amounts payable or reimbursable to the Master Servicer, the
Securities Administrator, the Custodian or the Trustee under this
Agreement or to the Servicer under the applicable Purchase and
Servicing Agreements or Servicing Agreement, as
applicable;
(B)
in the case of (2), (3), (4) and (5)
above, any related unreimbursed expenses incurred by the Servicer
in connection with a liquidation or foreclosure and any
unreimbursed Advances or Servicing Advances due to the Master
Servicer or the Servicer;
(C)
any related unreimbursed Nonrecoverable
Advances due to the Master Servicer or the Servicer; and
(D)
in the case of (1) through (4) above, any
related amounts collected which are determined to be attributable
to a subsequent Due Period or Prepayment Period.
Bankruptcy : As to any Person, the making of an assignment
for the benefit of creditors, the filing of a voluntary petition in
bankruptcy, adjudication as a bankrupt or insolvent, the entry of
an order for relief in a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, the
seeking of reorganization, arrangement, composition, readjustment,
liquidation, dissolution or similar relief, or seeking, consenting
to or acquiescing in the appointment of a trustee, receiver or
liquidator, dissolution, or termination, as the case may be, of
such Person pursuant to the provisions of either the Bankruptcy
Code or any other similar state laws.
Bankruptcy Code
: The United States Bankruptcy Code
of 1986, as amended.
Bankruptcy Coverage Termination
Date : The point in time
at which the Bankruptcy Loss Coverage Amount is reduced to
zero.
Bankruptcy Loss
: With respect to any Mortgage
Loan, a Deficient Valuation or Debt Service Reduction; provided,
however, that a Bankruptcy Loss shall not be deemed a Bankruptcy
Loss hereunder so long as the Servicer has notified the Master
Servicer in writing that the Servicer is diligently pursuing any
remedies that may exist in connection with the related Mortgage
Loan and either (A) the related Mortgage Loan is not in default
with regard to payments due thereunder or (B) delinquent payments
of principal and interest under the related Mortgage Loan and any
related escrow payments in respect of such Mortgage Loan are being
advanced on a current basis by the Master Servicer or the Servicer,
in either case without giving effect to any Debt Service Reduction
or Deficient Valuation, as reported by the Servicer to the Master
Servicer.
Bankruptcy Loss Coverage
Amount : As of any date
of determination, the Bankruptcy Loss Coverage Amount shall equal
the Initial Bankruptcy Loss Coverage Amount as reduced by (i) the
aggregate amount of Bankruptcy Losses allocated solely to the
Subordinate Certificates since the Cut-off Date and (ii) any
permissible reductions in the Bankruptcy Loss Coverage Amount as
evidenced by a letter of each Rating Agency to the Trustee and the
Securities Administrator to the effect that any such reduction will
not result in a downgrading of the then current ratings assigned to
the related Classes of Certificates rated by it.
Book-Entry Certificates
: Beneficial interests in
Certificates designated as “Book-Entry Certificates” in
this Agreement, ownership and transfers of which shall be evidenced
or made through book entries by a Clearing Agency as described in
Section 3.09; provided , that after the
occurrence of a Book-Entry Termination whereupon book-entry
registration and transfer are no longer permitted and Definitive
Certificates are to be issued to Certificate Owners, such
Book-Entry Certificates shall no longer be “Book-Entry
Certificates.” As of the Closing Date, the
Certificates, other than the Class B-4, Class B-5, Class B-6 and
Class A-R Certificates and the Uncertificated REMIC Interests, will
be Book-Entry Certificates.
Book-Entry Termination
: The occurrence of any of the
following events: (i) the Clearing Agency is no longer willing
or able to properly discharge its responsibilities with respect to
the Book Entry Certificates, and the Depositor is unable to locate
a qualified successor; or (ii) the Depositor at its option
advises the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar in writing that
it elects to terminate the book-entry system through the Clearing
Agency.
Bring-Down Date
: With respect to any Mortgage
Loan, the date as of which the applicable Originator makes the
representations and warranties with respect to such Mortgage Loan
and as specified in the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or
Purchase Agreement, as applicable.
Business Day : Any day other than (i) a Saturday or a
Sunday or (ii) a day on which banking institutions in New
York, New York or, if other than New York, the city in which the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee is located, or the State of
Minnesota, are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to
be closed.
Calculation Rate
: For each Distribution Date, in
the case of the Class A and Class B Interests, the
product of (i) 10 and (ii) the weighted average rate of the
outstanding Class A and Class B Interests, treating each
Class A Interest as capped at zero or reduced by a fixed
percentage of 100% of the interest accruing on such
Class.
Certificate : Any one of the certificates signed by the
Trustee, or the Securities Administrator on the Trustee’s
behalf, and authenticated by the Securities Administrator as
Authenticating Agent in substantially the forms attached hereto as
Exhibit A and issued pursuant to this Agreement and the
Uncertificated REMIC Interests.
Certificate Group
: Each of
the Group 1 Certificates,
Group 2 Certificates, Group 3 Certificates, Group 4
Certificates, Group 5 Certificates, Group 6 Certificates
and Group 7 Certificates.
Certificate Interest Rate
: With respect to each Class of
Certificates and any Distribution Date, the applicable per annum
rate described in the Preliminary Statement hereto.
Certificate Margin
: 0.25%.
Certificate Owner
: With respect to a Book-Entry
Certificate, the Person who is the owner of such Book-Entry
Certificate, as reflected on the books of the Clearing Agency, or
on the books of a Person maintaining an account with such Clearing
Agency (directly or as an indirect participant, in accordance with
the rules of such Clearing Agency).
Certificate Principal
Amount : With respect to
any Certificate, at the time of determination, the maximum
specified dollar amount of principal to which the Holder thereof is
then entitled hereunder, such amount being equal to the initial
principal amount set forth on the face of such Certificate, (A)
plus any Subsequent Recoveries added to the Certificate Principal
Amount of such Certificate pursuant to Section 5.03, (B) minus (i)
the amount of all principal distributions previously made with
respect to such Certificate; (ii) all Realized Losses allocated to
such Certificate; and (iii) in the case of a Subordinate
Certificate, any Subordinate Certificate Writedown Amount allocated
to such Certificates. For purposes of Article V hereof,
unless specifically provided to the contrary, Certificate Principal
Amounts shall be determined as of the close of business of the
immediately preceding Distribution Date, after giving effect to all
distributions made on such date.
Certificate Register and Certificate
Registrar : The register
maintained and the registrar appointed pursuant to
Section 3.02. The Securities Administrator will act as
the initial Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.
Certificateholder
: The meaning provided in the
definition of “Holder.”
Certification Parties
: As defined in Section
11.08.
Certifying Person
: As defined in Section
11.08.
Chase Originator
: CHF and/or JPMCB, as the context
requires.
Chase Originator Mortgage
Loan : Each Mortgage
Loan originated by a Chase Originator and listed on the Mortgage
Loan Schedule.
Chase Originator Purchase and
Servicing Agreement : Each
agreement between the Seller and a Chase Originator listed under
the heading “Purchase and Servicing Agreements” in
Exhibit E hereto, as modified by the related
Acknowledgement.
CHF : Chase Home Finance, LLC (successor by merger
to Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation) or its successor in
interest.
Civil Relief Act
: The Servicemembers Civil Relief
Act and any similar state laws.
Class : Collectively, Certificates bearing the same
class designation. In the case of a Lower-Tier REMIC, the
term “Class” refers to all Lower-Tier Interests having
the same alphanumeric designation.
Class A-R Certificate
: The Class A-R Certificate
executed by the Trustee or Securities Administrator on behalf of
the Trustee, and authenticated and delivered by the Authenticating
Agent, substantially in the form annexed hereto as Exhibit A,
and evidencing the ownership of the residual interest in the
Upper-Tier REMIC.
Class Notional Amount
: With respect to the Interest-Only
Certificates and any Distribution Date, as set forth in the
Preliminary Statement.
Class Principal Amount
: With respect to each Class of
Certificates, the aggregate of the Certificate Principal Amounts of
all Certificates of such Class at the date of determination.
With respect to any Lower-Tier Interest, the initial Class
Principal Amount as shown or described in the table set forth in
the Preliminary Statement for the issuing REMIC, as reduced by
principal distributed with respect to such Lower-Tier Interest and
Realized Losses allocated to such Lower-Tier Interest at the date
of determination.
Class Subordination
Percentage : With
respect to each Class of Subordinate Certificates, for each
Distribution Date, the percentage obtained by dividing the Class
Principal Amount of such Class immediately prior to such
Distribution Date by the aggregate Class Principal Amount of all
the Certificates.
Clearing Agency
: An organization registered as a
“clearing agency” pursuant to Section 17A of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. As of the
Closing Date, the Clearing Agency shall be The Depository Trust
Company.
Clearing Agency Participant
: A broker, dealer, bank, other
financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time a
Clearing Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of
securities deposited with the Clearing Agency.
Closing Date : January 26, 2007.
Code : The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended, and as it may be further amended from time to time, any
successor statutes thereto, and applicable U.S. Department of
Treasury regulations issued pursuant thereto in temporary or final
form.
Commission : The Securities and Exchange
Commission.
Compensating Interest
Payment : As to any
Distribution Date, the lesser of (1) the aggregate Master
Servicing Fee for such date, to the extent that Prepayment Interest
Shortfalls relating to such Distribution Date are required to be
paid by the Servicer pursuant to the Purchase and Servicing
Agreements or Servicing Agreements, as applicable, as amended by
the Acknowledgements, but not actually paid by the Servicer, and
(2) any Prepayment Interest Shortfall for such
date.
Consent : A document executed by the Cooperative
Corporation (i) consenting to the sale of the Cooperative Unit to
the Mortgagor and (ii) certifying that all maintenance charges
relating to the Cooperative Unit have been paid.
Controlling Person
: With respect to any Person, any
other Person who “controls” such Person within the
meaning of the Securities Act.
Cooperative Corporation
: The entity that holds title (fee
or an acceptable leasehold estate) to the real property and
improvements constituting the Cooperative Property and which
governs the Cooperative Property, which Cooperative Corporation
must qualify as a Cooperative Housing Corporation under
Section 216 of the Code.
Cooperative Loan
: Any Mortgage Loan secured by
Cooperative Shares and a Proprietary Lease.
Cooperative Property
: The real property and
improvements owned by the Cooperative Corporation, that includes
the allocation of individual dwelling units to the holders of the
shares of the Cooperative Corporation.
Cooperative Shares
: Shares issued by a Cooperative
Corporation.
Cooperative Unit
: With respect to any Cooperative
Loan, a specific unit in a Cooperative Property.
Corporate Trust Office
: With respect to the Trustee, the
principal corporate trust office of the Trustee located at 452
Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, 10018 Attention: CTLA –
Structured Finance, J.P. Morgan Mortgage Trust 2007-A1, or at such
other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by
notice to the Certificateholders, the Depositor, the Master
Servicer and the Securities Administrator or the principal
corporate trust office of any successor Trustee. With respect
to the Certificate Registrar and presentment of Certificates for
registration of transfer, exchange or final payment, U.S. Bank
National Association, 60 Livingston Avenue, EP-MN-W2N, St. Paul,
Minnesota 55107, Attention: Transfer Unit, J.P. Morgan Mortgage
Trust 2007-A1.
Credit Support Depletion
Date : The first
Distribution Date, if any, on which the aggregate Class Principal
Amount of the Subordinate Certificates have been reduced to
zero.
Cross-Over Situation
: For any Distribution Date and for
any Mortgage Pool (after taking into account principal
distributions on such Distribution Date) a Cross-Over Situation
exists with respect to the Class A and Class B Interests
of the Mortgage Pool if such Interests in the aggregate are less
than 1% of the Pool Subordinate Amount of the Mortgage
Pool.
Current Interest
: With respect to each Class of
Certificates and any Distribution Date, the aggregate amount of
interest accrued at the applicable Certificate Interest Rate during
the related Accrual Period on the Class Principal Amount or Class
Notional Amount of such Class, as applicable, immediately prior to
such Distribution Date.
Custodial Accounts
: Each custodial account (other
than an Escrow Account) established and maintained by the Servicer
pursuant to a Purchasing and Servicing Agreement or Servicing
Agreement, as applicable.
Custodial Agreements
: The Custodial Agreements, listed
in Exhibit F hereof, as each such agreement may be amended or
supplemented from time to time as permitted hereunder.
Custodian : A Person who is at anytime appointed by the
Trustee and the Depositor as the Custodian of the Mortgage
Documents and the Trustee Mortgage Files. The initial
Custodian is JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Any corporation
or association into which the Custodian may be merged or converted
or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation or
association resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation
to which such Custodian shall be a party, or any corporation or
association to which all or substantially all of the corporate
trust business of such Custodian may be sold or otherwise
transferred, shall be the successor to such Custodian hereunder
without any further act.
Cut-off Date : January 1, 2007.
Debt Service Reduction
: With respect to any Mortgage
Loan, a reduction by a court of competent jurisdiction in a
proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code in the Scheduled Payment for
such Mortgage Loan which became final and non-appealable, except
such a reduction resulting from a Deficient Valuation or any
reduction that results in a permanent forgiveness of
principal.
Defective Mortgage Loan
: The meaning specified in
Section 2.05.
Deficient Valuation
: With respect to any Mortgage
Loan, a valuation of the related Mortgaged Property by a court of
competent jurisdiction in an amount less than the then outstanding
indebtedness under the Mortgage Loan, or any reduction in the
amount of principal to be paid in connection with any Scheduled
Payment that results in a permanent forgiveness of principal, which
valuation or reduction results from an order of such court which is
final and non-appealable in a proceeding under the Bankruptcy
Code.
Definitive Certificate
: A Certificate of any Class issued
in definitive, fully registered, certificated form.
Deleted Mortgage Loan
: A Mortgage Loan which is
repurchased, or replaced or to be replaced with a Replacement
Mortgage Loan.
Delinquent : Any Mortgage Loan with respect to which the
Scheduled Payment due on a Due Date is not received.
Depositor : J.P. Morgan Acceptance Corporation I, a
Delaware corporation having its principal place of business in New
York, or its successors in interest.
Determination Date
: With respect to each Distribution
Date and Servicer, the date specified as such in the related
Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as
applicable.
Disqualified Organization
: A “disqualified
organization” as defined in Section 860E(e)(5) of the
Code.
Distribution Account
: The separate Eligible Account
created and maintained by the Securities Administrator, on behalf
of the Trustee, pursuant to Section 4.01. Funds in the
Distribution Account (exclusive of any earnings on investments made
with funds deposited in the Distribution Account) shall be held in
trust for the Trustee and the Certificateholders for the uses and
purposes set forth in this Agreement.
Distribution Account Deposit
Date : With respect to
the Servicer, the Remittance Date as defined in the related
Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as
applicable, commencing in February 2007.
Distribution Date
: The 25th day of each month or, if
such 25th day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business
Day, commencing in February 2007.
Due Date : With respect to any Mortgage Loan, the date
on which a Scheduled Payment is due under the related Mortgage Note
as indicated in the applicable Purchase and Servicing Agreement or
Purchase Agreements.
Due Period : As to any Distribution Date, the period
beginning on the second day of the month preceding the month of
such Distribution Date, and ending on the first day of the month of
such Distribution Date.
Eligible Account
: Any of (i) an account or
accounts maintained with a federal or state chartered depository
institution or trust company the short-term unsecured debt
obligations of which (or, in the case of a depository institution
or trust company that is the principal subsidiary of a holding
company, the debt obligations of such holding company) have the
highest short-term ratings of each Rating Agency at the time any
amounts are held on deposit therein, or (ii) an account or
accounts in a depository institution or trust company in which such
accounts are insured by the FDIC or the SAIF (to the limits
established by the FDIC or the SAIF) and the uninsured deposits in
which accounts are otherwise secured such that, as evidenced by an
Opinion of Counsel delivered to the Trustee, the Securities
Administrator and to each Rating Agency, the Certificateholders
have a claim with respect to the funds in such account or a
perfected first priority security interest against any collateral
(which shall be limited to Permitted Investments) securing such
funds that is superior to claims of any other depositors or
creditors of the depository institution or trust company in which
such account is maintained, or (iii) a trust account or
accounts maintained with the trust department of a federal or state
chartered depository institution or trust company that is subject
to regulations regarding fiduciary funds on deposit similar to
Title 12 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulation Section 9.10(b),
which, in either case, has corporate trust powers and is acting in
its fiduciary capacity or (iv) any other account acceptable to
each Rating Agency, as evidenced by a signed writing delivered by
each Rating Agency. Eligible Accounts may bear interest, and may
include, if otherwise qualified under this definition, accounts
maintained with the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Securities
Administrator or the Master Servicer.
ERISA : The Employee Retirement Income Security Act
of 1974, as amended.
ERISA-Qualifying
Underwriting : A best
efforts or firm commitment underwriting or private placement that
meets the requirements of an Underwriter’s
Exemption.
ERISA-Restricted
Certificate : The
Class A-R, Class B-4, Class B-5 or Class B-6
Certificates, and any Certificate that does not satisfy the
applicable rating requirement under the Underwriter’s
Exemption and the Uncertificated Interests.
Escrow Account : As defined in Article I of each Purchase and
Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as
applicable.
Estoppel Letter
: A document executed by the
Cooperative Corporation certifying, with respect to a Cooperative
Unit, (i) the appurtenant Proprietary Lease will be in full force
and effect as of the date of issuance thereof, (ii) the related
stock certificate was registered in the Mortgagor’s name and
the Cooperative Corporation has not been notified of any lien upon,
pledge of, levy of execution on or disposition of such stock
certificate, and (iii) the Mortgagor is not in default under the
appurtenant Proprietary Lease and all charges due the Cooperative
Corporation have been paid.
Event of Default
: Any one of the conditions or
circumstances enumerated in Section 6.14.
Excess Loss : The amount of any (i) Fraud Loss on a
Mortgage Loan in any Mortgage Pool realized after the Fraud Loss
Coverage Termination Date, (ii) Special Hazard Loss on a Mortgage
Loan in any Mortgage Pool realized after the Special Hazard
Coverage Termination Date or (iii) Bankruptcy Loss on a Mortgage
Loan in any Mortgage Pool realized after the Bankruptcy Coverage
Termination Date.
Exchange Act : The Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder.
Exchange Trustee
: HSBC Bank USA, National
Association, solely in its capacity as exchange trustee under the
Trust Agreement.
Exchangeable Certificates
: The Certificates designated as
Exchangeable Certificates in the Preliminary Statement issued or
issuable pursuant to the Trust Agreement in exchange for and in
accordance with the Trust Agreement for the applicable Exchangeable
REMIC Certificates.
Exchangeable REMIC
Certificates : The Class
6-A-1 and Class 7-A-3 Certificates.
Expense Fee Rate
: As to each Mortgage Loan, the sum
of the related Servicing Fee Rate and the Securities Administrator
Fee Rate.
Fair Market Value
: An amount equal to the fair
market value of all of the property of the Trust Fund, as agreed
upon between the Master Servicer and a majority of the holders of
the Uncertificated Interests; provided, however, that if the Master
Servicer and a majority of the holders of the Uncertificated
Interest do not agree upon the fair market value of all of such
property of the Trust Fund, the Master Servicer, or an agent
appointed by the Master Servicer, shall solicit bids for all of
such property of the Trust Fund, until it has received three bids,
and the Fair Market Value shall be equal to the highest of such
three bids.
Fannie Mae : The entity formerly known as the Federal
National Mortgage Association, a federally chartered and privately
owned corporation organized and existing under the Federal National
Mortgage Association Charter Act, or any successor
thereto.
FDIC : The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or
any successor thereto.
FHLMC : The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, a
corporate instrumentality of the United States created and existing
under Title III of the Emergency Home Finance Act of 1970, as
amended, or any successor thereto.
Fitch Ratings : Fitch, Inc., or any successor in
interest.
Form 8-K Disclosure
Information : As defined
in Section 11.03.
Fraud Loan : A Liquidated Mortgage Loan as to which a
Fraud Loss has occurred, as reported by the Servicer to the Master
Servicer.
Fraud Loss Coverage Amount
: As of the Closing Date,
$38,490,033.50, subject to reduction from time to time by the
amount of Fraud Losses allocated to the Certificates. In
addition, on each anniversary of the Cut-off Date, the Fraud Loss
Coverage Amount will be reduced on the first, second, third and
fourth anniversaries of the Cut-off Date, to an amount equal to the
lesser of (i) 1.00%, in the case of the first anniversary, and
0.50%, in the case of the second, third and fourth anniversaries,
of the then current Aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the
Aggregate Pool, and (ii) the excess of the Fraud Loss Coverage
Amount as of the preceding anniversary of the Cut-off Date (or the
Cut-off Date, in the case of the first anniversary), over the
cumulative amount of Fraud Losses allocated to the related
Certificates since the preceding anniversary and (b) on the
fifth anniversary of the Cut-off Date, to zero.
Fraud Loss Coverage Termination
Date : The point in time
at which the Fraud Loss Coverage Amount is reduced to
zero.
Fraud Losses : Losses sustained on a Liquidated Mortgage
Loan as reported by the Servicer by reason of a default arising
from fraud, dishonesty or misrepresentation.
Global Securities
: The global certificates
representing the Book-Entry Certificates.
Group 1 : All of the Group 1
Certificates.
Group 1 Certificate
: Any Class 1-A-1, Class 1-A-2 or
Class A-R Certificate.
Group 2 : All of the Group 2
Certificates.
Group 2 Certificate
: Any Class 2-A-1, Class 2-A-2,
Class 2-A-3 or Class 2-A-4 Certificate.
Group 3 : All of the Group 3
Certificates.
Group 3 Certificate
: Any Class 3-A-1, Class 3-A-2,
Class 3-A-3, Class 3-A-4 or Class 3-A-5 Certificate.
Group 4 : All of the Group 4
Certificates.
Group 4 Certificate
: Any Class 4-A-1, Class 4-A-2,
Class 4-A-3 or Class 4-A-4 Certificate.
Group 5 : All of the Group 5
Certificates.
Group 5 Certificate
: Any Class 5-A-1, Class 5-A-2,
Class 5-A-3, Class 5-A-4, Class 5-A-5 or Class 5-A-6
Certificate.
Group 6 : All of the Group 6
Certificates.
Group 6 Certificate
: Any Class 6-A-1 or Class 6-A-2
Certificate.
Group 7 : All of the Group 7
Certificates.
Group 7 Certificate
: Any Class 7-A-1, Class 7-A-2,
Class 7-A-3 or Class 7-A-4 Certificate.
Holder or Certificateholder
: The registered owner of any
Certificate as recorded on the books of the Certificate Registrar
except that, solely for the purposes of taking any action or giving
any consent pursuant to this Agreement, any Certificate registered
in the name of the Depositor, the Trustee, the Master Servicer, the
Securities Administrator and the Servicer, or any Affiliate thereof
shall be deemed not to be outstanding in determining whether the
requisite percentage necessary to effect any such consent has been
obtained, except that, in determining whether the Trustee or the
Securities Administrator shall be protected in relying upon any
such consent, only Certificates which a Responsible Officer of the
Trustee or the Securities Administrator knows to be so owned shall
be disregarded. Each of the Trustee and the Securities
Administrator may request and conclusively rely on certifications
by the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator
(in the case of the Trustee), the Trustee (in the case of the
Securities Administrator) or the Servicer in determining whether
any Certificates are registered to an Affiliate of the Depositor,
the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator or the
Servicer.
HUD : The United States Department of Housing and
Urban Development, or any successor thereto.
Independent : When used with respect to any Accountant, a
Person who is “independent” within the meaning of Rule
2-01(B) of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s
Regulation S-X. Independent means, when used with respect to
any other Person, a Person who (A) is in fact independent of
another specified Person and any Affiliate of such other Person,
(B) does not have any material direct or indirect financial
interest in such other Person or any Affiliate of such other
Person, (C) is not connected with such other Person or any
Affiliate of such other Person as an officer, employee, promoter,
underwriter, Securities Administrator, partner, director or Person
performing similar functions and (D) is not a member of the
immediate family of a Person defined in clause (B) or (C)
above.
Index : As to each Mortgage Loan, the index from time
to time in effect for adjustment of the Mortgage Rate as set forth
as such on the related Mortgage Note.
Initial Bankruptcy Loss Coverage
Amount :
$100,000.
Initial Optional Purchase
Date : The first
Distribution Date following the date on which the Aggregate Stated
Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans is less than 1.00% of the
Aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans as of the
Cut-off Date
Insurance Policy
: With respect to any Mortgage
Loan, any insurance policy, including all names and endorsements
thereto in effect, including any replacement policy or policies for
any Insurance Policies.
Insurance Proceeds
: Proceeds paid by any Insurance
Policy (excluding proceeds required to be applied to the
restoration and repair of the related Mortgaged Property or
released to the Mortgagor), in each case other than any amount
included in such Insurance Proceeds in respect of Insured Expenses
and the proceeds from any Limited Purpose Surety Bond.
Insured Expenses
: Expenses covered by an Insurance
Policy or any other insurance policy with respect to the Mortgage
Loans.
Interest Adjustment Date
: January 2012.
Interest Distribution
Amount : For each Class
of Certificates, on any Distribution Date, the Current Interest for
such Class, as reduced by (i) such Class’s share of Net
Prepayment Interest Shortfalls and (ii) the related Class’
allocable share of (A) after the Special Hazard Coverage
Termination Date, with respect to each Mortgage Loan in the related
Mortgage Pool (or after the Credit Support Depletion Date, any
Mortgage Loan in the Aggregate Pool) that became a Special Hazard
Mortgage Loan during the calendar month preceding the month of such
Distribution Date, the excess of one month’s interest at the
related Net Mortgage Rate on the Stated Principal Balance of such
Mortgage Loan as of the Due Date in such month over the amount of
Liquidation Proceeds applied as interest on such Mortgage Loan with
respect to such month, (B) after the Bankruptcy Coverage
Termination Date, with respect to each Mortgage Loan in the related
Mortgage Pool (or after the Credit Support Depletion Date, any
Mortgage Loan in the Aggregate Pool) that became subject to a
Bankruptcy Loss during the calendar month preceding the month of
such Distribution Date, the interest portion of the related Debt
Service Reduction or Deficient Valuation, (C) each related Relief
Act Shortfall for the Mortgage Loans in the related Mortgage Pool
(or after the Credit Support Depletion Date, any Mortgage Loan in
the Aggregate Pool) incurred during the calendar month preceding
the month of such Distribution Date and (D) after the Fraud Loss
Coverage Termination Date, with respect to each Mortgage Loan in
the related Mortgage Pool (or after the Credit Support Depletion
Date, any Mortgage Loan in the Aggregate Pool) that became a Fraud
Loan during the calendar month preceding the month of such
Distribution Date, the excess of one month’s interest at the
related Net Mortgage Rate on the Stated Principal Balance of such
Mortgage Loan as of the Due Date in such month over the amount of
Liquidation Proceeds applied as interest on such Mortgage Loan with
respect to such month. Any such shortfalls and reductions for
a Mortgage Pool shall be allocated among all Classes of the Senior
Certificates of the Related Certificate Group (or after the Credit
Support Depletion Date, all Classes of the Senior Certificates)
proportionately on the basis of the Current Interest otherwise
payable thereon on such Distribution Date and among the Subordinate
Certificates on the basis of Current Interest, except such interest
shall be calculated on the related Apportioned Principal Balances
before taking into account any of the foregoing
reductions.
Interest-Only Certificates
: The Class 7-A-3S
Certificates.
Interest Shortfall
: As to any Class of Certificates
and any Distribution Date, (i) the amount by which the
Interest Distribution Amount for such Class on all prior
Distribution Dates exceeds (ii) amounts distributed in respect
thereof to such Class on prior Distribution Dates.
Interest Transfer Amount
: For any Distribution Date and for
any Undercollateralized Group, an amount equal to one month’s
interest on the applicable Principal Transfer Amount at the Net WAC
of the applicable Undercollateralized Group, plus any interest
accrued on the Senior Certificates of such Undercollateralized
Group remaining unpaid from prior Distribution Dates.
Intervening Assignments
: The original intervening
assignments of the Mortgage, notices of transfer or equivalent
instrument.
Item 1123 Certification
: The certification required from
each of the Master Servicer and each Servicing Function Participant
pursuant to Section 11.05.
JPMCB : JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, or
its successors in interest.
Latest Possible Maturity
Date : The Distribution Date
occurring in the month three years after the latest scheduled
maturity date for any Mortgage Loan included in the Trust Fund on
the Closing Date.
Liquidated Mortgage Loan
: With respect to any Distribution
Date, a defaulted Mortgage Loan (including any REO Property) which
was liquidated in the calendar month preceding the month of such
Distribution Date and as to which the Servicer has certified (in
accordance with its Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing
Agreement, as applicable) that it has received all amounts it
expects to receive in connection with the liquidation of such
Mortgage Loan including the final disposition of an REO
Property.
Liquidation Proceeds
: Amounts, including Insurance
Proceeds and the proceeds of any Additional Collateral, received in
connection with the partial or complete liquidation of defaulted
Mortgage Loans, whether through trustee’s sale, foreclosure
sale or otherwise or amounts received in connection with any
condemnation or partial release of a Mortgaged Property and any
other proceeds received in connection with an REO
Property.
Loan-To-Value Ratio
: With respect to any Mortgage Loan
and as to any date of determination, the fraction (expressed as a
percentage) the numerator of which is the principal balance of the
related Mortgage Loan at such date of determination and the
denominator of which is the Appraised Value of the related
Mortgaged Property.
Lower-Tier Interest
: Any one of the interests in the
Lower-Tier REMIC as described in the Preliminary
Statement.
Lower-Tier REMIC
: As described in the Preliminary
Statement.
Margin : As to each Mortgage Loan, the percentage
amount set forth on the related Mortgage Note added to the Index in
calculating the Mortgage Rate thereon.
Master Servicer
: U.S. Bank National Association, a
national banking association organized under the laws of the United
States in its capacity as Master Servicer and any Person succeeding
as Master Servicer hereunder or any successor in interest, or if
any successor master servicer shall be appointed as herein
provided, then such successor master servicer.
Master Servicing Fee
: An amount determined by agreement
between the Master Servicer and the Securities Administrator;
provided, that with respect to the Master Servicer’s
obligation to reduce a portion of its Master Servicing Fee for the
related Distribution Date to the extent necessary to make
Compensating Interest Payments, the aggregate Master Servicing Fee
shall be deemed to be equal to the aggregate Securities
Administrator Fee for that Distribution Date.
Maximum Rate : As to any Mortgage Loan, the maximum rate set
forth on the related Mortgage Note at which interest can accrue on
such Mortgage Loan.
MERS : Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems,
Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the
State of Delaware, or any successor to Mortgage Electronic
Registration Systems, Inc.
MERS Mortgage Loan
: Any Mortgage Loan registered with
MERS on the MERS® System.
MERS® System
: The system of recording transfers
of mortgages electronically maintained by MERS.
MIN : The mortgage identification number for any
MERS Mortgage Loan.
MOM Loan : Any Mortgage Loan as to which MERS is acting
as mortgagee, solely as nominee for the originator of such Mortgage
Loan and its successors and assigns.
Moody’s : Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., or any
successor in interest.
Mortgage : A mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument
encumbering a fee simple interest in real property securing a
Mortgage Note, together with improvements thereto.
Mortgage Documents
: With respect to each Mortgage
Loan, the mortgage documents required to be delivered to the
Custodian pursuant to the Custodial Agreement.
Mortgage Loan : A Mortgage and the related notes or other
evidences of indebtedness secured by each such Mortgage conveyed,
transferred, sold, assigned to or deposited with the Trustee
pursuant to Section 2.01 (including any Replacement Loan and
REO Property), including without limitation, each Mortgage Loan
listed on the Mortgage Loan Schedule, as amended from time to
time.
Mortgage Loan Schedule
: The schedule attached hereto as
Schedule A, which shall identify each Mortgage Loan, as such
schedule may be amended by the Depositor or the Servicer from time
to time to reflect the addition of Replacement Mortgage Loans to,
or the deletion of Deleted Mortgage Loans from, the Trust Fund.
Such schedule shall, among other things (i) designate
the Servicer servicing such Mortgage Loan and the applicable
Servicing Fee Rate, (ii) identify the designated Mortgage Pool
in which such Mortgage Loan is included, and (iii) separately
identify Additional Collateral Mortgage Loans.
Mortgage Note : The original executed note or other evidence
of the indebtedness of a Mortgagor secured by a Mortgage under a
Mortgage Loan.
Mortgage Pool : Each of Pool 1, Pool 2,
Pool 3, Pool 4, Pool 5, Pool 6 and
Pool 7.
Mortgaged Property
: The underlying property,
including any Additional Collateral, securing a Mortgage Loan
which, with respect to a Cooperative Loan, is the related
Cooperative Shares and Proprietary Lease.
Mortgage Rate : As to any Mortgage Loan, the annual rate of
interest borne by the related Mortgage Notes.
Mortgagor : The obligor on a Mortgage Note.
Net Liquidation Proceeds
: With respect to any Liquidated
Mortgage Loan or any other disposition of related Mortgaged
Property, the related Liquidation Proceeds net of Advances,
Servicer Advances, Servicing Fees and/or Securities Administrator
Fees and any other accrued and unpaid servicing fees received and
retained in connection with the liquidation of such Mortgage Loan
or Mortgaged Property.
Net Mortgage Rate
: With respect to any Mortgage Loan
and any Distribution Date, the related Mortgage Rate as of the Due
Date in the month preceding the month of such Distribution Date
reduced by the Expense Fee Rate for such Mortgage Loan.
Net Prepayment Interest
Shortfall : With respect
to a Mortgage Pool and any Distribution Date, the amount by which a
Prepayment Interest Shortfall for the related Prepayment Period
exceeds the amount that the Master Servicer is obligated to remit
pursuant to the terms hereof and/or the Servicer is obligated to
remit pursuant to the Purchase and Servicing Agreement or
applicable Servicing Agreement to cover such shortfall for such Due
Period.
Net WAC : As to any Distribution Date, the weighted
average of the Net Mortgage Rates of the Mortgage Loans (or any
Mortgage Pool) as of the first day of the calendar month preceding
the month of such Distribution Date, weighted on the basis of their
outstanding Stated Principal Balances (after giving effect to the
Scheduled Payments due on or before such date and Principal
Prepayments received on or prior to such date) at such time.
Non-Book-Entry Certificate
: Any Certificate other than a
Book-Entry Certificate.
Non-Permitted Foreign
Holder : As defined in
Section 3.03(f).
Non-U.S. Person
: Any person other than a
“United States person” within the meaning of
Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
Nonrecoverable Advance
: Any portion of an Advance or
Servicer Advance previously made or proposed to be made by the
Master Servicer and/or the Servicer (as certified in an
Officer’s Certificate of such Servicer), which in the good
faith judgment of such party, shall not be ultimately recoverable
by such party from the related Mortgagor, related Liquidation
Proceeds or otherwise.
Offering Document
: The Prospectus.
Officer’s Certificate
: A certificate signed by two
Authorized Officers of the Depositor or the Chairman of the Board,
any Vice Chairman, the President, any Vice President or any
Assistant Vice President of the Master Servicer or the Securities
Administrator, and in each case delivered to the Trustee or the
Securities Administrator , as the case may be, as required by this
Agreement.
Officer’s Certificate of the
Servicer : A certificate
(i) signed by the Chairman of the Board, the Vice Chairman of
the Board, the President, a Managing Director, a Vice President
(however denominated), an Assistant Vice President, the Treasurer,
the Secretary, or one of the Assistant Treasurers or Assistant
Secretaries of the Servicer, or (ii) if provided for herein,
signed by a Servicing Officer, as the case may be, and delivered to
the Trustee, the Securities Administrator or the Master Servicer,
as required hereby.
Opinion of Counsel
: A written opinion of counsel,
reasonably acceptable in form and substance to the Trustee, the
Securities Administrator or the Master Servicer, as required
hereby, and who may be in-house or outside counsel to the
Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator or the
Trustee but which must be Independent outside counsel with respect
to any such opinion of counsel concerning the transfer of any
Residual Certificate or Uncertificated Interest or concerning
certain matters with respect to the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), or the
taxation, or the federal income tax status, of each
REMIC.
Original Applicable Credit Support
Percentage : With
respect to each Class of the Subordinate Certificates, the
corresponding percentage set forth opposite its Class
designation:
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Class B-1
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1.90%
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Class B-2
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0.90%
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Class B-3
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0.50%
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Class B-4
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0.35%
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Class B-5
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0.20%
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Class B-6
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0.10%
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Originator : The Chase Originators.
Overcollateralized Group
: On any Distribution Date, any
Certificate Group which is not an Undercollateralized
Group.
Par Value : The amount calculated pursuant to clause (1)
of the definition of Redemption Price.
Paying Agent : Any paying agent appointed pursuant to
Section 3.08. The initial Paying Agent shall be the
Securities Administrator.
PCAOB : The Public Company Accounting Oversight
Board.
Percentage Interest
: With respect to any Certificate,
its percentage interest in the undivided beneficial ownership
interest in the Trust Fund evidenced by all Certificates of the
same Class as such Certificate. With respect to any
Certificate, other than the Class A-R Certificates, the Percentage
Interest evidenced thereby shall equal the initial Certificate
Principal Amount thereof divided by the initial Class Principal
Amount of all Certificates of the same Class. With respect to
the Class A-R Certificates, the Percentage Interest evidenced
thereby shall be as specified on the face thereof, or otherwise, be
equal to 100%.
Permitted Investments
: At any time, any one or more of
the following obligations and securities:
(i)
obligations of the United States or any
agency thereof, provided that such obligations are backed by the
full faith and credit of the United States;
(ii)
general obligations of or obligations
guaranteed by any state of the United States or the District of
Columbia receiving the highest long-term debt rating of each Rating
Agency, or such lower rating as shall not result in the downgrading
or withdrawal of the ratings then assigned to the Certificates by
the Rating Agencies, as evidenced by a signed writing delivered by
each Rating Agency;
(iii)
commercial or finance company paper which
is then receiving the highest commercial or finance company paper
rating of each Rating Agency rating such paper, or such lower
rating as shall not result in the downgrading or withdrawal of the
ratings then assigned to the Certificates by the Rating Agencies,
as evidenced by a signed writing delivered by each Rating
Agency;
(iv)
certificates of deposit, demand or time
deposits, or bankers’ acceptances issued by any depository
institution or trust company incorporated under the laws of the
United States or of any state thereof and subject to supervision
and examination by federal and/or state banking authorities,
provided that the commercial paper and/or long-term unsecured debt
obligations of such depository institution or trust company (or in
the case of the principal depository institution in a holding
company system, the commercial paper or long-term unsecured debt
obligations of such holding company, but only if Moody’s is
not the applicable Rating Agency) are then rated one of the two
highest long-term and the highest short-term ratings of each Rating
Agency for such securities, or such lower ratings as shall not
result in the downgrading or withdrawal of the ratings then
assigned to the Certificates by the Rating Agencies, as evidenced
by a signed writing delivered by each Rating Agency;
(v)
demand or time deposits or certificates
of deposit issued by any bank or trust company or savings
institution to the extent that such deposits are fully insured by
the FDIC;
(vi)
guaranteed reinvestment agreements issued
by any bank, insurance company or other corporation acceptable to
the Rating Agencies at the time of the issuance of such agreements,
as evidenced by a signed writing delivered by each Rating
Agency;
(vii)
repurchase obligations with respect to
any security described in clauses (i) and (ii) above, in
either case entered into with a depository institution or trust
company (acting as principal) described in clause (iv)
above;
(viii)
securities (other than stripped bonds,
stripped coupons or instruments sold at a purchase price in excess
of 115% of the face amount thereof) bearing interest or sold at a
discount issued by any corporation incorporated under the laws of
the United States or any state thereof which, at the time of such
investment, have one of the two highest ratings of each Rating
Agency (except if the Rating Agency is Moody’s, such rating
shall be the highest commercial paper rating of Moody’s for
any such series), or such lower rating as shall not result in the
downgrading or withdrawal of the ratings then assigned to the
Certificates by the Rating Agencies, as evidenced by a signed
writing delivered by each Rating Agency;
(ix)
interests in any money market fund which
at the date of acquisition of the interests in such fund and
throughout the time such interests are held in such fund has the
highest applicable rating by each Rating Agency rating such fund or
such lower rating as shall not result in a change in the rating
then assigned to the Certificates by each Rating Agency, as
evidenced by a signed writing delivered by each Rating Agency,
including funds for which the Trustee, the Master Servicer, the
Securities Administrator or any of its Affiliates is investment
manager or adviser;
(x)
short-term investment funds sponsored by
any trust company or national banking association incorporated
under the laws of the United States or any state thereof which on
the date of acquisition has been rated by each applicable Rating
Agency in their respective highest applicable rating category or
such lower rating as shall not result in a change in the rating
then specified stated maturity and bearing interest or sold at a
discount acceptable to each Rating Agency as shall not result in
the downgrading or withdrawal of the ratings then assigned to the
Certificates by the Rating Agencies, as evidenced by a signed
writing delivered by each Rating Agency; and
(xi)
such other investments having a specified
stated maturity and bearing interest or sold at a discount
acceptable to the Rating Agencies as shall not result in the
downgrading or withdrawal of the ratings then assigned to the
Certificates by the Rating Agencies, as evidenced by a signed
writing delivered by each Rating Agency;
provided, that no such instrument shall
be a Permitted Investment if (i) such instrument evidences the
right to receive interest only payments with respect to the
obligations underlying such instrument or (ii) such instrument
would require the Depositor to register as an investment company
under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
Person : Any individual, corporation, partnership, joint
venture, association, joint-stock company, limited liability
company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any
agency or political subdivision thereof.
Pool 1 : The aggregate of Mortgage Loans identified on the
Mortgage Loan Schedule as being included in Pool 1.
Pool 1 Mortgage Loans
: Any Mortgage Loan in
Pool 1.
Pool 1 Net WAC
: With respect to any Distribution Date,
the weighted average of the Net Mortgage Rates of the Pool 1
Mortgage Loans as of the first day of the calendar month
immediately preceding the calendar month of such Distribution Date,
weighted on the basis of their Stated Principal Balances (after
giving effect to Scheduled Payments due on or before such date and
Principal Prepayments received on or prior to such date) at such
time.
Pool 1 Subordinate
Amount : For any Distribution
Date, the excess of the Aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the
Pool 1 Mortgage Loans as of the first day of the month
preceding the month of such Distribution Date over the sum
of the Class Principal Amount of the Group 1 Certificates
immediately before such Distribution Date.
Pool 2 : The aggregate of Mortgage Loans identified on the
Mortgage Loan Schedule as being included in Pool 2.
Pool 2 Mortgage Loans
: Any Mortgage Loan in
Pool 2.
Pool 2 Net WAC
: With respect to any Distribution Date,
the weighted average of the Net Mortgage Rates of the Pool 2
Mortgage Loans as of the first day of the calendar month
immediately preceding the calendar month of such Distribution Date,
weighted on the basis of their Stated Principal Balances (after
giving effect to Scheduled Payments due on or before such date and
Principal Prepayments received on or prior to such date) at such
time.
Pool 2 Subordinate
Amount : For any Distribution
Date, the excess of the Aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the
Pool 2 Mortgage Loans as of the first day of the month
preceding the month of such Distribution Date over the sum
of the Class Principal Amount of the Group 2 Certificates
immediately before such Distribution Date.
Pool 3 : The aggregate of Mortgage Loans identified on the
Mortgage Loan Schedule as being included in Pool 3.
Pool 3 Mortgage Loans
: Any Mortgage Loan in
Pool 3.
Pool 3 Net WAC
: With respect to any Distribution Date,
the weighted average of the Net Mortgage Rates of the Pool 3
Mortgage Loans as of the first day of the calendar month
immediately preceding the calendar month of such Distribution Date,
weighted on the basis of their Stated Principal Balances (after
giving effect to Scheduled Payments due on or before such date and
Principal Prepayments received on or prior to such date) at such
time.
Pool 3 Subordinate
Amount : For any Distribution
Date, the excess of the Aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the
Pool 3 Mortgage Loans as of the first day of the month
preceding the month of such Distribution Date over the sum
of the Class Principal Amounts of the Group 3 Certificates
immediately before such Distribution Date.
Pool 4 : The aggregate of Mortgage Loans identified on the
Mortgage Loan Schedule as being included in Pool 4.
Pool 4 Mortgage Loans
: Any Mortgage Loan in
Pool 4.
Pool 4 Net WAC
: With respect to any Distribution Date,
the weighted average of the Net Mortgage Rates of the Pool 4
Mortgage Loans as of the first day of the calendar month
immediately preceding the calendar month of such Distribution Date,
weighted on the basis of their Stated Principal Balances (after
giving effect to Scheduled Payments due on or before such date and
Principal Prepayments received on or prior to such date) at such
time.
Pool 4 Subordinate
Amount : For any Distribution
Date, the excess of the Aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the
Pool 4 Mortgage Loans as of the first day of the month
preceding the month of such Distribution Date over the sum
of the Class Principal Amounts of the Group 4 Certificates
immediately before such Distribution Date.
Pool 5 : The aggregate of Mortgage Loans identified on the
Mortgage Loan Schedule as being included in Pool 5.
Pool 5 Mortgage Loans
: Any Mortgage Loan in
Pool 5.
Pool 5 Net WAC
: With respect to any Distribution Date,
the weighted average of the Net Mortgage Rates of the Pool 5
Mortgage Loans as of the first day of the calendar month
immediately preceding the calendar month of such Distribution Date,
weighted on the basis of their Stated Principal Balances (after
giving effect to Scheduled Payments due on or before such date and
Principal Prepayments received on or prior to such date) at such
time.
Pool 5 Subordinate
Amount : For any Distribution
Date, the excess of the Aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the
Pool 5 Mortgage Loans as of the first day of the month
preceding the month of such Distribution Date over the sum
of the Class Principal Amounts of the Group 5 Certificates
immediately before such Distribution Date.
Pool 6 : The aggregate of Mortgage Loans identified on the
Mortgage Loan Schedule as being included in Pool 6.
Pool 6 Mortgage Loans
: Any Mortgage Loan in
Pool 6.
Pool 6 Net WAC
: With respect to any Distribution Date,
the weighted average of the Net Mortgage Rates of the Pool 6
Mortgage Loans as of the first day of the calendar month
immediately preceding the calendar month of such Distribution Date,
weighted on the basis of their Stated Principal Balances (after
giving effect to Scheduled Payments due on or before such date and
Principal Prepayments received on or prior to such date) at such
time.
Pool 6 Subordinate
Amount : For any Distribution
Date, the excess of the Aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the
Pool 6 Mortgage Loans as of the first day of the month
preceding the month of such Distribution Date over the sum
of the Class Principal Amounts of the Group 6 Certificates
immediately before such Distribution Date.
Pool 7 : The aggregate of Mortgage Loans identified on the
Mortgage Loan Schedule as being included in Pool 7.
Pool 7 Mortgage Loans
: Any Mortgage Loan in
Pool 7.
Pool 7 Net WAC
: With respect to any Distribution Date,
the weighted average of the Net Mortgage Rates of the Pool 7
Mortgage Loans as of the first day of the calendar month
immediately preceding the calendar month of such Distribution Date,
weighted on the basis of their Stated Principal Balances (after
giving effect to Scheduled Payments due on or before such date and
Principal Prepayments received on or prior to such date) at such
time.
Pool 7 Subordinate
Amount : For any Distribution
Date, the excess of the Aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the
Pool 7 Mortgage Loans as of the first day of the month
preceding the month of such Distribution Date over the sum
of the Class Principal Amounts of the Group 7 Certificates
immediately before such Distribution Date.
Pool Subordinate Amount
: Any of the Pool 1, Pool 2,
Pool 3, Pool 4, Pool 5, Pool 6 or Pool 7
Subordinate Amounts.
Prepayment Interest
Shortfall : With respect to
any full or partial Principal Prepayment of a Mortgage Loan, the
excess, if any, of (i) one full month’s interest at the
applicable Net Mortgage Rate on the Stated Principal Balance of
such Mortgage Loan or, with respect to a partial Principal
Prepayment, the portion of the Stated Principal Balance subject to
the prepayment, immediately prior to such Principal Prepayment over
(ii) the amount of interest actually received with respect to
such Mortgage Loan in connection with such Principal
Prepayment.
Prepayment Period
: With respect to each Distribution Date,
the calendar month immediately preceding the month in which the
Distribution Date occurs.
Prepayment Premiums
: With respect to each Mortgage Loan, the
prepayment charge or penalty interest required to be paid by the
Mortgagor in connection with a prepayment of the related Mortgage
Loan, as provided in the related Mortgage Note or Mortgage, and as
specified on the Mortgage Loan Schedule.
Primary Mortgage Insurance
Policy : Each policy of
primary mortgage guaranty insurance or any replacement policy
therefor with respect to any Mortgage Loan.
Principal Prepayment
: Any Mortgagor payment of principal or
other recovery of principal on a Mortgage Loan that is recognized
as having been received or recovered in advance of its scheduled
Due Date and applied to reduce the principal balance of the
Mortgage Loan in accordance with the terms of the Mortgage Note or
the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing
Agreement, as applicable.
Principal Relocation
Payment : A payment from any
Mortgage Pool to Lower-Tier REMIC Regular Interests that correspond
to a different Mortgage Pool as provided in the Preliminary
Statement. Principal Relocation Payments shall be made of
principal allocations comprising the Senior Principal Distribution
Amount and the Subordinate Principal Distribution Amount from a
Mortgage Pool .
Principal Transfer Amount
: For any Distribution Date and for any
Undercollateralized Group, the excess, if any, of the aggregate
Class Principal Amount of the Senior Certificates related to such
Undercollateralized Group immediately prior to such Distribution
Date, over the Aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the related
Mortgage Pool immediately prior to such Distribution
Date.
Proprietary Lease
: With respect to any Cooperative
Property, a lease or occupancy agreement between a Cooperative
Corporation and a holder of related Cooperative Shares.
Prospectus : The prospectus supplement dated January 25, 2007,
together with the accompanying prospectus dated September 21, 2006,
relating to the Certificates.
Purchase Agreement
: The agreements listed under the heading
“Purchase Agreements” in Exhibit E hereto, as each
such agreement may be amended or supplemented from time to time as
permitted hereunder.
Purchase and Servicing
Agreement : The agreements
listed under the heading “Purchase and Servicing
Agreements” in Exhibit E hereto, as each such agreement
may be amended or supplemented from time to time as permitted
hereunder.
Purchase Price : With respect to any Mortgage Loan required or
permitted to be purchased by the Seller or the Depositor pursuant
to this Agreement, or by the related Originator or Servicer
pursuant to the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or
Purchase Agreement, as applicable, an amount equal to the sum of
(i) 100% of the unpaid principal balance of the Mortgage Loan
on the date of such purchase and (ii) accrued interest thereon
at the applicable Net Mortgage Rate from the date through which
interest was last paid by the Mortgagor to the Due Date in the
month in which the Purchase Price is to be distributed to
Certificateholders, or such other amount as may be specified in the
related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Purchase Agreement, as
applicable.
Rapid Prepayment Conditions
: As to any Distribution Date, if
(1) the Aggregate Subordinate Percentage on such date is less
than 200% of the Aggregate Subordinate Percentage on the Closing
Date; or (2) the outstanding Stated Principal Balance of the
Mortgage Loans in any Mortgage Pool Delinquent 60 days or more
(including Mortgage Loans in REO, foreclosure, or bankruptcy
status) (averaged over the preceding six-month period), as a
percentage of such Mortgage Pool’s Pool Subordinate Amount,
is greater than or equal to 50%.
Rating Agency : Each of Fitch Ratings, S&P and
Moody’s.
Realized Loss : With respect to each Liquidated Mortgage Loan, an
amount (not less than zero or more than the Stated Principal
Balance of the Mortgage Loan) as of the date of such liquidation,
equal to (i) the Stated Principal Balance of the Liquidated
Mortgage Loan as of the date of such liquidation, plus
(ii) interest at the Net Mortgage Rate from the Due Date as to
which interest was last paid or advanced (and not reimbursed) to
Certificateholders up to the Due Date in the month in which
Liquidation Proceeds are required to be distributed on the Stated
Principal Balance of such Liquidated Mortgage Loan from time to
time, minus (iii) the Liquidation Proceeds received during the
month in which such liquidation occurred, to the extent applied as
recoveries of interest at the Net Mortgage Rate and to principal of
the Liquidated Mortgage Loan. With respect to each Mortgage Loan
which has become the subject of a Deficient Valuation, if the
principal amount due under the related Mortgage Note has been
reduced, the difference between the principal balance of the
Mortgage Loan outstanding immediately prior to such Deficient
Valuation and the principal balance of the Mortgage Loan as reduced
by the Deficient Valuation. With respect to each Mortgage
Loan which has become the subject of a Debt Service Reduction, the
present value of all monthly Debt Service Reductions on the
Mortgage Loan, assuming that the mortgagor pays each Scheduled
Payment on the applicable Due Date and that no Principal
Prepayments are received on the Mortgage Loan, discounted at the
applicable Mortgage Rate.
Recognition Agreement
: An agreement among a Cooperative
Corporation, a lender and a Mortgagor with respect to a Cooperative
Loan whereby such parties (i) acknowledge that such lender may
make, or intends to make, such Cooperative Loan, and (ii) make
certain agreements with respect to such Cooperative
Loan.
Record Date : As to any Distribution Date the last Business Day
of the calendar month preceding the month of such Distribution
Date.
Redemption Date
: As defined in Section
7.01(c).
Redemption Price
: With respect to a Redemption Date, an
amount equal to the greater of (1) the sum of (i) 100% of the
Stated Principal Balance of each Mortgage Loan (other than in
respect of REO Property) plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon
from the date to which such interest was paid or advanced at the
sum of the applicable Mortgage Rate, to but not including the Due
Date in the month of the final Distribution Date and (ii) with
respect to any related REO Property, the appraised value of any
related REO Property as determined by the higher of two appraisals
completed by two independent appraisers selected by the Depositor
at the expense of the Depositor and (iii) any remaining
unreimbursed Advances and Servicing Advances, unpaid Servicing Fees
and unpaid Securities Administrator Fees and any other amounts
payable to the Trustee, the Servicer, the Master Servicer and
Securities Administrator and (2) the Fair Market Value of all of
the related property in the Trust Fund.
Refinancing Mortgage Loan
: Any Mortgage Loan originated in
connection with the refinancing of an existing mortgage
loan.
Regulation AB : Subpart 229.1100 – Asset Backed Securities
(Regulation AB), 17 C.F.R. §§ 229.1100 - 229.1123,
as such may be amended from time to time, and subject to such
clarification and interpretation as have been provided by the
Commission in the adopting release (Asset-Backed Securities,
Securities Act Release No. 33-8518, 70 Fed. Reg. 1,506, 1,531 (Jan.
7, 2005)) or by the staff of the Commission, or as may be provided
by the Commission or its staff from time to time.
Related Certificate Group
: The Certificate Group related to a
particular Mortgage Pool as indicated by the same numerical
designation ( i.e. , Group 1 Certificates are related
to Pool 1, Group 2 Certificates are related to Pool 2,
Group 3 Certificates are related to Pool 3, Group 4
Certificates are related to Pool 4, Group 5 Certificates are
related to Pool 5, Group 6 Certificates are related to
Pool 6 and Group 7 Certificates are related to
Pool 7).
Related P&I
Certificates : With respect to
the Interest-Only Certificates, the Class 7-A-3M
Certificates.
Relevant Servicing Criteria
: The Servicing Criteria applicable to
the various parties, as set forth on Exhibit M attached hereto.
For clarification purposes, multiple parties can have
responsibility for the same Relevant Servicing Criteria. With
respect to a Servicing Function Participant engaged by the Master
Servicer, the Securities Administrator, the Trustee, the Servicer
or the Custodian, the term “Relevant Servicing
Criteria” may refer to a portion of the Relevant Servicing
Criteria applicable to such parties.
Relief Act Shortfalls
: With respect to any Distribution Date
and any Mortgage Loan as to which there has been a reduction in the
amount of interest collectible thereon for the most recently ended
calendar month as a result of the application of the Civil Relief
Act, the amount, if any, by which (i) interest collectible on
such Mortgage Loan for the most recently ended calendar month is
less than (ii) interest accrued thereon for such month
pursuant to the Mortgage Note.
REMIC : Each pool of assets in the Trust Fund designated as
a REMIC as described in the Preliminary Statement.
REMIC Provisions
: The provisions of the federal income
tax law relating to real estate mortgage investment conduits, which
appear at sections 860A through 860G of the Code, and related
provisions, and regulations, including proposed regulations and
rulings, and administrative pronouncements promulgated thereunder,
as the foregoing may be in effect from time to time.
REO Property : A Mortgaged Property acquired by the Trust Fund
through foreclosure or deed-in-lieu of foreclosure in connection
with a defaulted Mortgage Loan or otherwise treated as having been
acquired pursuant to the REMIC Provisions.
Replacement Mortgage Loan
: A mortgage loan substituted by an
Originator or the Seller for a Deleted Mortgage Loan which must, on
the date of such substitution, as confirmed in a request for
release, substantially in the form attached to the Custodial
Agreement, (i) have a Stated Principal Balance, after
deduction of the principal portion of the Scheduled Payment due in
the month of substitution, not in excess of, and not more than 10%
less than, the Stated Principal Balance of the Deleted Mortgage
Loan; (ii) have a Maximum Rate not less than (and not more
than two percentage points greater than) the Maximum Rate of the
Deleted Mortgage Loan; (iii) have a gross margin not less than
that of the Deleted Mortgage Loan; (iv) have a Loan-to-Value
Ratio or, with respect to any Additional Collateral Mortgage Loan,
an Effective Loan-to-Value Ratio, no higher than that of the
Deleted Mortgage Loan; (v) have a remaining term to maturity
no greater than (and not more than one year less than that of) the
Deleted Mortgage Loan; (vi) have the same Adjustment Date as
that of the Deleted Mortgage Loan; (vii) have a Minimum Rate
not less than that of the Deleted Mortgage Loan; (viii) not permit
conversion of the related Mortgage Rate to a permanent fixed
Mortgage Rate; (ix) have the same Index as that of the Deleted
Mortgage Loan; (x) comply with each representation and warranty set
forth in the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Purchase
Agreement, as applicable; and (xii) if applicable, shall be
accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel that such Replacement Mortgage
Loan would not adversely affect the REMIC status of any REMIC
created hereunder or would not otherwise be prohibited by this
Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
Reportable Event
: Has the meaning set forth in Section
11.03.
Residual Certificate
: The Class A-R
Certificate.
Residual Interest
: The Class A-R Certificate and the
Uncertificated Interests.
Residual Interest Holder
: Any holder of a Residual Certificate or
Uncertificated Interest.
Responsible Officer
: With respect to the Trustee, any
officer in the corporate trust department or similar group of the
Trustee with direct responsibility for the administration of this
Agreement and also, with respect to a particular corporate trust
matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because
of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with the particular
subject.
Restricted Certificate
: Any Class A-R, Class B-4, Class
B-5, Class B-6 Certificate or any Uncertificated Interest.
S&P : Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a
division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
SAIF : The Saving’s Association Insurance Fund, or
any successor thereto.
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the
rules and regulations of the commission promulgated thereunder
(including any interpretations thereof by the commissions
staff).
Sarbanes-Oxley
Certification : A written
certification signed by an officer of the Master Servicer that
complies with (i) the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended
from time to time, and (ii) Exchange Act Rules 13a-14(d) and
15d-14(d), as in effect from time to time; provided that if, after
the Closing Date (a) the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is
amended, (b) the Rules referred to in clause (ii) are
modified or superceded by any subsequent statement, rule or
regulation of the Commission or any statement of a division
thereof, or (c) any future releases, rules and regulations are
published by the Commission from time to time pursuant to the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which in any such case affects the form
or substance of the required certification and results in the
required certification being, in the reasonable judgment of the
Master Servicer, materially more onerous that then form of the
required certification as of the Closing Date, the Sarbanes-Oxley
Certification shall be as agreed to by the Master Servicer, the
Depositor and the Seller following a negotiation in good faith to
determine how to comply with any such new requirements.
Scheduled Payment
: The scheduled monthly payment on a
Mortgage Loan due on any Due Date allocable to principal and/or
interest on such Mortgage Loan which, unless otherwise specified in
the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement, Purchase Agreement or
Servicing Agreement, as applicable, shall give effect to any
related Debt Service Reduction and any Deficient Valuation that
affects the amount of the monthly payment due on such Mortgage
Loan.
Securities Act : The Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the
rules and regulations thereunder.
Securities Administrator
: U.S. Bank National Association, not in
its individual capacity but solely as Securities Administrator, or
any successor in interest, or if any successor Securities
Administrator shall be appointed as herein provided, then such
successor Securities Administrator.
Securities Administrator
Fee : As to any Distribution
Date and each Mortgage Loan, an amount equal to the product of
(a) one-twelfth of the Securities Administrator Fee Rate and
(b) the Stated Principal Balance of such Mortgage Loan as of
the first day of the related Due Period.
Securities Administrator Fee
Rate : A per annum rate
of 0.0018%.
Seller : J.P. Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Corp., a Delaware
corporation.
Senior Certificates
: The Group 1 Certificates,
Group 2 Certificates, Group 3 Certificates, Group 4
Certificates, Group 5 Certificates, Group 6 Certificates
and Group 7 Certificates.
Senior Percentage
: With respect to each Distribution Date
and each Mortgage Pool, the percentage equivalent of a fraction,
the numerator of which is the aggregate Class Principal Amount of
the Class or Classes of Senior Certificates of the Related
Certificate Group immediately prior to such Distribution Date, and
the denominator of which is the Aggregate Stated Principal Balance
of the related Mortgage Pool for such Distribution Date;
provided , however , that on any Distribution Date
after the sixth Senior Termination Date, the Senior Percentage of
the remaining Senior Certificates is the percentage equivalent of a
fraction, the numerator of which is the aggregate of the Class
Principal Amounts of the remaining Classes of Senior Certificates
immediately prior to such date, and the denominator of which is the
aggregate Class Principal Amount of all Classes of Certificates
immediately prior to such date.
Senior Prepayment
Percentage : With respect to
any Mortgage Pool and any Distribution Date:
·
occurring before the Distribution Date in
February 2014, 100%;
·
occurring in or after February 2014 but
before February 2015, the related Senior Percentage plus 70% of the
related Subordinate Percentage for that date;
·
occurring in or after February 2015 but
before February 2016, the related Senior Percentage plus 60% of the
related Subordinate Percentage for that date;
·
occurring in or after February 2016 but
before February 2017, the related Senior Percentage plus 40% of the
related Subordinate Percentage for that date;
·
occurring in or after February 2017 but
before February 2018, the related Senior Percentage plus 20% of the
related Subordinate Percentage for that date; or
·
occurring in February 2018 or thereafter,
the related Senior Percentage for that date.
Notwithstanding the foregoing: (i) no
decrease in the Senior Prepayment Percentage for any Mortgage Pool
will occur as described above unless the Step-Down Test is
satisfied with respect to each Mortgage Pool on such Distribution
Date, (ii) if, on any Distribution Date, the Senior Percentage for
a Mortgage Pool exceeds the related Senior Percentage on the
Closing Date, in which case the Senior Prepayment Percentage for
all Mortgage Pools for such Distribution Date will equal 100%,
(iii) if the Two Times Test is met on any Distribution Date on or
prior to the Distribution Date in January 2010, in which case the
Senior Prepayment Percentage for each Mortgage Pool will equal the
related Senior Percentage plus 50% of the related Subordinate
Percentage for such Distribution Date, (iv) if the Two Times Test
is met on any Distribution Date on or after to the Distribution
Date in February 2010, in which case the Senior Prepayment
Percentage for each Mortgage Pool will equal the related Senior
Percentage for such Distribution Date and (v) if on any
Distribution Date the allocation to the related Senior Certificates
then entitled to distributions of principal of related Principal
Prepayments and other amounts in the percentage required above
would reduce the sum of the Class Principal Amounts of those
Certificates below zero, the distribution to the class or classes
of Certificates of the related Senior Prepayment Percentage of
those amounts for such Distribution Date will be limited to the
percentage necessary to reduce the related Class Principal
Amounts to zero.
Senior Principal Distribution
Amount : For a Certificate
Group and for each Distribution Date, the sum of:
(1)
the product of (a) the related Senior
Percentage and (b) the principal portion of each Scheduled Payment
on each Mortgage Loan in the related Mortgage Pool due during the
related Due Period;
(2)
the product of (a) the related Senior
Prepayment Percentage and (b) each of the following amounts: (i)
the principal portion of each Principal Prepayment made by a
borrower on a Mortgage Loan in the related Mortgage Pool during the
related Prepayment Period; (ii) each other unscheduled collection,
including Insurance Proceeds and Net Liquidation Proceeds (other
than with respect to any Mortgage Loan in the related Mortgage Pool
that was finally liquidated during the related Prepayment Period)
representing or allocable to recoveries of principal of the related
Mortgage Loans received during the related Prepayment Period,
including any Subsequent Recoveries on the related Mortgage Loans;
(iii) the principal portion of the Purchase Price of each Mortgage
Loan in the related Mortgage Pool or, in the case of a permitted
substitution of a Defective Mortgage Loan in the related Mortgage
Pool, any Substitution Adjustment, in each case with respect to the
related Prepayment Period and (iv) in connection with any optional
purchase of the Mortgage Loans pursuant to Section 7.01(c), the
principal portion of the Redemption Price allocable to the Mortgage
Loans in the related Mortgage Pool up to the principal portion of
the Par Value allocable to the Mortgage Loans in the related
Mortgage Pool;
(3)
with respect to unscheduled recoveries
allocable to principal of any Mortgage Loan in the related Mortgage
Pool that was fully liquidated during the related Prepayment
Period, the lesser of (a) the related Senior Prepayment Percentage
of the Net Liquidation Proceeds allocable to principal and (b) the
product of (i) the related Senior Percentage for that date and (ii)
the related remaining Stated Principal Balance of the related
Mortgage Loan at the time of liquidation; and
(4)
any amounts described in clauses (1)
through (3) above that remain unpaid with respect to the
Certificate Group from prior Distribution Dates.
provided, however
, that on any Distribution Date after the
sixth Senior Termination Date for the Aggregate Pool has occurred,
the Senior Principal Distribution Amount for the remaining related
Senior Certificates will be calculated pursuant to the above
formula based on all of the Mortgage Loans in the Aggregate Pool,
as opposed to the Mortgage Loans in the related Mortgage
Pool.
Senior Termination Date
: For each Certificate Group, the
Distribution Date when the aggregate of the Class Principal
Balances of that Certificate Group has been reduced to
zero.
Servicer : JPMCB, under the related Purchase and Servicing
Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, as identified in
Exhibit E.
Servicer Advance
: A “Servicing Advance” as
defined in the applicable Purchase and Servicing
Agreement.
Service(s)(ing)
: In accordance with Regulation AB, the
act of servicing and administering the Mortgage Loans or any other
assets of the Trust by an entity that meets the definition of
“servicer’ set forth in Item 1101 of Regulation AB and
is subject to the disclosure requirements set forth in Item 1108 of
Regulation AB. For clarification purposes, any uncapitalized
occurrence of this term shall have the meaning commonly understood
by participants in the residential mortgage-backed securitization
market.
Servicing Agreement
: The agreements listed under the heading
“Servicing Agreements” in Exhibit E hereto, as
each such agreement may be amended or supplemented from time to
time as permitted hereunder.
Servicing Criteria
: The criteria set forth in paragraph (d)
of Item 1122 of Regulation AB, as such may be amended from time to
time.
Servicing Fee : As to any Distribution Date and each Mortgage Loan,
an amount equal to the product of (a) one-twelfth of the
Servicing Fee Rate and (b) the Stated Principal Balance of
such Mortgage Loan as of the first day of the related Due
Period.
Servicing Fee Rate
: With respect to each Mortgage Loan and
any Distribution Date, the rate specified in the related Purchase
and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as
applicable.
Servicing Function
Participant : Any
Sub-Servicer, Subcontractor or any other Person, other than the
Servicer, the Master Servicer, the Trustee, the Securities
Administrator and the Custodian, that is performing material
activities addressed by the Servicing Criteria.
Servicing Officer
: Any officer of the Servicer involved
in, or responsible for, the administration and servicing of the
related Mortgage Loans whose name and facsimile signature appear on
a list of servicing officers furnished to the Master Servicer by
the Servicer on the Closing Date pursuant to the related Purchase
and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, as
such list may from time to time be amended.
Special Hazard Coverage Termination
Date : As to either Special
Hazard Loss Coverage Amount, the point in time at which the related
Special Hazard Loss Coverage Amount is reduced to zero.
Special Hazard Loss
: Any Realized Loss suffered by a
Mortgaged Property on account of direct physical loss, as reported
by the Servicer to the Master Servicer, but not including
(i) any loss of a type covered by a hazard insurance policy or
a flood insurance policy required to be maintained with respect to
such Mortgaged Property to the extent of the amount of such loss
covered thereby, or (ii) any loss caused by or resulting
from:
(a)
normal wear and tear;
(b)
fraud, conversion or other dishonest act
on the part of the Trustee, the Master Servicer or any of their
agents or employees (without regard to any portion of the loss not
covered by any errors and omissions policy);
(c)
errors in design, faulty workmanship or
faulty materials, unless the collapse of the property or a part
thereof ensues and then only for the ensuing loss;
(d)
nuclear or chemical reaction or nuclear
radiation or radioactive or chemical contamination, all whether
controlled or uncontrolled, and whether such loss be direct or
indirect, proximate or remote or be in whole or in part caused by,
contributed to or aggravated by a peril covered by the definition
of the term “Special Hazard Loss;”
(e)
hostile or warlike action in time of
peace and war, including action in hindering, combating or
defending against an actual, impending or expected
attack:
1.
by any government or sovereign power, de
jure or de facto, or by any authority maintaining or using
military, naval or air forces; or
2.
by military, naval or air forces;
or
3.
by an agent of any such government,
power, authority or forces;
(f)
any weapon of war employing nuclear
fission, fusion or other radioactive force, whether in time of
peace or war; or
(g)
insurrection, rebellion, revolution,
civil war, usurped power or action taken by governmental authority
in hindering, combating or defending against such an occurrence,
seizure or destruction under quarantine or customs regulations,
confiscation by order of any government or public authority or
risks of contraband or illegal transportation or trade.
Special Hazard Loss Coverage
Amount : With respect to the
first Distribution Date, $38,490,033.50. With respect to any
Distribution Date after the first Distribution Date, the lesser of
(a) the greatest of (i) 1% of the aggregate of the
principal balances of the Mortgage Loans in the Aggregate Pool,
(ii) twice the principal balance of the largest Mortgage Loan
in the Aggregate Pool, and (iii) the aggregate of the
principal balances of all Mortgage Loans in the Aggregate Pool
secured by Mortgaged Properties located in the single California
postal zip code area having the highest aggregate principal balance
of any such zip code area and (b) such Special Hazard Loss
Coverage Amount as of the Closing Date less the amount, if any, of
Special Hazard Losses allocated to the related Certificates since
the Closing Date in the Aggregate Pool. All principal
balances for the purpose of this definition will be calculated as
of the first day of the calendar month preceding the month of such
Distribution Date after giving effect to Scheduled Payments on the
Mortgage Loans then due, whether or not paid.
Special Hazard Mortgage
Loan : A Liquidated Mortgage
Loan as to which a Special Hazard Loss has occurred.
Startup Day : The day designated as such pursuant to
Section 10.01(b) hereof.
Stated Principal Balance
: As to any Mortgage Loan and Due Date,
the unpaid principal balance of such Mortgage Loan as of such Due
Date as specified in the amortization schedule at the time relating
thereto (before any adjustment to such amortization schedule by
reason of any moratorium or similar waiver or grace period) after
giving effect to any previous partial Principal Prepayments and
Liquidation Proceeds allocable to principal (other than with
respect to any Liquidated Mortgage Loan) and to the payment of
principal due on such Due Date and irrespective of any delinquency
in payment by the related Mortgagor.
Step-Down Test : As of the first Distribution Date as to which
any decrease in any Senior Prepayment Percentage applies, with
respect to each Mortgage Pool in the Aggregate Pool (i) the
outstanding principal balance of all Mortgage Loans in a Mortgage
Pool 60 days or more Delinquent (including Mortgage Loans in
foreclosure, REO Property or bankruptcy status) (averaged over the
preceding six month period), as a percentage of the related Pool
Subordinate Amount for such Distribution Date, or does not equal or
exceed 50%, provided however that if such date is after the sixth
Senior Termination Date, the outstanding principal balance of all
Mortgage Loans 60 days or more Delinquent (including Mortgage Loans
in foreclosure, REO Property or bankruptcy status) (averaged over
the preceding six month period) as a percentage of the aggregate
Class Principal Amount of the Subordinate Certificates on such
Distribution Date (without giving effect to any payments on such
Distribution Date), does not equal or exceed 50% and (ii)
cumulative Realized Losses with respect to the Mortgage Loans in
each Mortgage Pool do not exceed (a) with respect to each
Distribution Date from February 2014 to January 2015, 30% of the
related original Pool Subordinate Amount, (b) with respect to each
Distribution Date from February 2015 to January 2016, 35% of the
related original Pool Subordinate Amount, (c) with respect to each
Distribution Date from February 2016 to January 2017, 40% of the
related original Pool Subordinate Amount, (d) with respect to each
Distribution Date from February 2017 to January 2018, 45% of the
related original Pool Subordinate Amount and (e) with respect to
each Distribution Date from February 2018 and thereafter, 50% of
the related original Pool Subordinate Amount.
Sub-account : Not applicable.
Subcontractor : Any vendor, subcontractor or other Person that (i)
is a Servicing Function Participant and (ii) is not responsible for
the overall servicing of Mortgage Loans but performs one or more
discrete functions identified in Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB with
respect to Mortgage Loans under the direction or authority of the
Servicer (or a Sub-Servicer of the Servicer), the Master Servicer,
the Trustee or the Securities Administrator.
Sub-Servicer : Any Person that (i) is a Servicing Function
Participant, (ii) services Mortgage Loans on behalf of the
Servicer, and (iii) is responsible for the performance (whether
directly or through sub-Servicer or Subcontractors) of Servicing
functions required to be performed under this Agreement, any
related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as
applicable, or any sub-servicing agreement that are identified in
Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB.
Subordinate Certificates
: Class B-1, Class B-2, Class B-3,
Class B-4, Class B-5 and Class B-6 Certificates.
Subordinate Certificate Writedown
Amount : The amount, if any,
by which the aggregate of the Class Principal Amounts of all
outstanding Classes of Certificates (after giving effect to the
distribution of principal and allocation of Realized Losses on such
Distribution Date) exceeds the Aggregate Stated Principal Balance
for the Aggregate Pool for the following Distribution
Date.
Subordinate Class
Percentage : As to any
Distribution Date and any Class of Subordinate Certificates, a
fraction, expressed as a percentage, the numerator of which is the
Class Principal Amount of such Class immediately prior to such
date, and the denominator of which is the aggregate Class Principal
Amount of all Classes of the Subordinate Certificates immediately
prior to such date.
Subordinate Net WAC
: For any Distribution Date, the
weighted average of the Pool 1 Net WAC, the Pool 2 Net
WAC, Pool 3 Net WAC, Pool 4 Net WAC, the Pool 5 Net
WAC, Pool 6 Net WAC and Pool 7 Net WAC, in each case
weighted on the basis of the related Pool Subordinate Amounts for
Pool 1, Pool 2, Pool 3, Pool 4, Pool 5, Pool 6 and Pool 7,
respectively, for such Distribution Date. For federal income
tax purposes, the Subordinate Net WAC will equal the Calculation
Rate following the allocation of principal amounts or Principal
Relocation Payments for such Distribution Date as provided in the
Preliminary Statement.
Subordinate Percentage
: With respect to each Mortgage Pool and
any Distribution Date, the difference between 100% and the related
Senior Percentage for such Mortgage Pool for such Distribution
Date; provided, however, that on any Distribution Date after the
sixth Senior Termination Date has occurred, the Subordinate
Percentage will represent the entire interest of the Subordinate
Certificates in the Mortgage Loans and will be equal to the
difference between the 100% and the Senior Percentage related to
the Mortgage Loans in the aggregate for such Distribution
Date.
Subordinate Prepayment
Percentage : With respect to
any Distribution Date and for each Mortgage Pool, the difference
between 100% and the related Senior Prepayment Percentage for such
Mortgage Pool for such Distribution Date.
Subordinate Principal Distribution
Amount : The aggregate of the
amount calculated for each Mortgage Pool for each Distribution
Date, equal to the sum of:
(1)
the product of (a) the related
Subordinate Percentage and (b) the principal portion of each
related Scheduled Payment on each Mortgage Loan in the related
Mortgage Pool due during the related Due Period;
(2)
the product of (a) the related
Subordinate Prepayment Percentage and (b) the sum of the following
amounts: (i) the principal portion of each Principal Prepayment
made by a borrower on a Mortgage Loan in the related Mortgage Pool
during the related Prepayment Period, (ii) each other unscheduled
collection, including Insurance Proceeds and Net Liquidation
Proceeds (other than with respect to any Mortgage Loan in the
related Mortgage Pool that was finally liquidated during the
related Prepayment Period), representing or allocable to recoveries
of principal of Mortgage Loans in the related Mortgage Pool
received during the related Prepayment Period, including any
Subsequent Recoveries on the related Mortgage Loans; (iii) the
principal portion of the Purchase Price of each Mortgage Loan in
the related Mortgage Pool or, in the case of a permitted
substitution of a Defective Mortgage Loan in the related Mortgage
Pool, any Substitution Adjustment, in each case with respect to
such Distribution Date and (iv) in connection with any optional
purchase of the Aggregate Pool pursuant to Section 7.01(c), the
principal portion of the Redemption Price allocable to the Mortgage
Loans in the related Mortgage Pool up to the principal portion of
the Par Value allocable to the Mortgage Loans in the related
Mortgage Pool;
(3)
with respect to unscheduled recoveries
allocable to principal of any Mortgage Loan in the related Mortgage
Pool that was finally liquidated during the related Prepayment
Period, the related net Liquidation Proceeds allocable to
principal, to the extent not distributed pursuant to clause (3) of
the definition of Senior Principal Distribution Amount for that
Mortgage Pool; and
(4)
any amounts described in clauses (1)
through (3) for any previous Distribution Date that remain
unpaid;
Minus the sum of:
(A)
if the aggregate Class Principal Amount
of any Certificate Group has been reduced to zero, principal paid
from the Available Distribution Amount from the related Mortgage
Pool to the remaining Certificate Groups pursuant to Section
5.02(h) on such Distribution Date; and
(B)
the amounts paid from the Available
Distribution Amount for an Overcollateralized Group to the Senior
Certificates of a related Undercollateralized Group, pursuant to
Section 5.02(i) on such Distribution Date.
On any Distribution Date after the
occurrence of the sixth Senior Termination Date, the Subordinate
Principal Distribution Amount will not be calculated with respect
to a related Mortgage Pool, but will equal the amount calculated
pursuant to the formula set forth above based on the Subordinate
Percentage or Subordinate Prepayment Percentage, as applicable, for
the Subordinate Certificates for such Distribution Date with
respect to all of the Mortgage Loans in the Aggregate Pool as
opposed to the Mortgage Loans in the related Mortgage Pool
only.
Subsequent Recoveries
: With respect to any Distribution Date,
with respect to a Liquidated Mortgage Loan that resulted in a
Realized Loss in a prior calendar month, amounts received by the
Master Servicer from the Servicer specifically related to such
Liquidated Mortgage Loan.
Substitution Amount
: As defined in the second paragraph of
Section 2.05(c).
Tax Matters Person
: The “tax matters person” as
specified in the REMIC Provisions, which shall initially be the
Holder of a majority interest in the residual interest with respect
to such REMIC.
Trust Agreement
: The Trust Agreement dated as of
January 1, 2007, entered into by and among the Depositor, the
Exchange Trustee, the Master Servicer and the Securities
Administrator for the issuance of the Exchangeable
Certificates.
Trust Fund : The corpus of the trust created pursuant to this
Agreement, consisting of the Mortgage Loans and all interest and
principal received thereon on or after the Cut-off Date (other than
Scheduled Payments due on or prior to the Cut-off Date), the
Depositor’s rights assigned to the Trustee under the Purchase
and Servicing Agreements, the Purchase Agreements and the Servicing
Agreements, as modified by the Acknowledgements, the Insurance
Policies relating to the Mortgage Loans, all cash, instruments or
property held or required to be held in the Custodial Accounts, the
Distribution Account, property that secured a Mortgage Loan, the
pledge, control and guaranty agreements and Limited Purpose Surety
Bond relating to the Additional Collateral Mortgage
Loans.
Trustee : HSBC Bank USA, National Association, a national
banking association organized under the laws of the United States
and any Person succeeding the Trustee hereunder, or if any
successor trustee or any co-trustee shall be appointed as herein
provided, then such successor trustee and such co-trustee, as the
case may be.
Trustee Mortgage Files
: With respect to each Mortgage Loan, the
Mortgage Documents to be retained in the custody and possession of
the Trustee or the Custodian on behalf of the Trustee, as defined
in Section 2.01 hereof.
Two Times Test : As to any Distribution Date and the Subordinate
Certificates, (x) on or prior to the Distribution Date in January
2010, (i) the Aggregate Subordinate Percentage for the Subordinate
Certificates is at least two times the Aggregate Subordinate
Percentage as of the Closing Date, (ii) the condition described in
clause first of the definition of “Step-Down Test” is
satisfied with respect to each Mortgage Pool and (iii) cumulative
Realized Losses with respect to the Mortgage Loans in the Aggregate
Pool do not exceed 20% of the aggregate Class Principal Amount of
the Subordinate Certificates as of the Closing Date or (y) on or
after the Distribution Date in February 2010, (i) the Aggregate
Subordinate Percentage for the Subordinate Certificates is at least
two times the Aggregate Subordinate Percentage as of the Closing
Date, (ii) the condition described in clause first of the
definition of “Step-Down Test” is satisfied with
respect to each Mortgage Pool in the Aggregate Pool and (iii)
cumulative Realized Losses with respect to the Mortgage Loans do
not exceed 30% of the aggregate Class Principal Amount of the
Subordinate Certificates as of the Closing Date.
UCC : The Uniform Commercial Code as enacted in the
relevant jurisdiction.
Uncertificated Interests
: The LT-A-R Interest.
Uncertificated REMIC
Interests: The Class 6-A-1 and
Class 7-A-3 Certificates.
Undercollateralized Group
: With respect to any Distribution Date
and any Certificate Group in the Aggregate Pool, with respect to
which the aggregate Class Principal Amount of such Certificate
Group is greater than the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of the
Mortgage Loans in the related Mortgage Pool immediately prior to
such Distribution Date.
Underwriter : J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.
Underwriter’s
Exemption : The prohibited
transaction exemption granted to the Underwriter, or its affiliate,
and most recently amended and restated by PTE 2002-19, or any
substantially similar administrative exemption granted by the U.S.
Department of Labor to the Underwriter.
Underwriting Agreement
: The Underwriting Agreement, dated
January 25, 2007, among the Seller, the Depositor and the
Underwriter.
Uniform Commercial Code
: The Uniform Commercial Code as in
effect in any applicable jurisdiction from time to time.
Upper-Tier REMIC
: As described in the Preliminary
Statement.
Voting Interests
: The portion of the voting rights of all
the Certificates that is allocated to any Certificate for purposes
of the voting provisions of this Agreement. At all times
during the term of this Agreement, 99.00% of all Voting Interests
shall be allocated to the Certificates, other than the Class A-R
Certificates. Voting Interests shall be allocated among such
Certificates based on the product of (i) 99.00% and (ii) the
fraction, expressed as a percentage, the numerator of which is the
aggregate Class Principal Amounts for each such Class then
outstanding and the denominator of which is the Aggregate Stated
Principal Balance outstanding. At all times during the term
of this Agreement, 1.00% of all Voting Interests shall be allocated
to the Class A-R Certificate, while it remains outstanding in
proportion to its Class Principal Amount. Voting Interests
shall be allocated among the Certificates within each such Class in
proportion to their Certificate Principal Amounts or Percentage
Interests.
Section
1.02
Calculations Respecting Mortgage Loans.
Calculations required to be made pursuant
to this Agreement with respect to any Mortgage Loan in the Trust
Fund shall be made based upon current information as to the terms
of the Mortgage Loans and reports of payments received from the
Mortgagor on such Mortgage Loans and payments to be made to the
Securities Administrator as supplied to the Securities
Administrator by the Master Servicer. The Securities
Administrator shall not be required to recompute, verify or
recalculate the information supplied to it by the Master Servicer
or the Servicer.
ARTICLE II
DECLARATION OF TRUST;
ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES
Section
2.01
Creation and Declaration of Trust Fund;
Conveyance of Mortgage Loans.
(a)
Concurrently with the execution and
delivery of this Agreement, the Depositor does hereby transfer,
assign, set over, deposit with and otherwise convey to the Trustee,
without recourse, subject to Sections 2.02 and 2.05, in trust,
all the right, title and interest of the Depositor in and to the
Trust Fund. Such conveyance includes, without limitation,
(i) the Mortgage Loans, including the right to all payments of
principal and interest received on or with respect to the Mortgage
Loans on and after the Cut-off Date, and all such payments due
after such date but received prior to such date and intended by the
related Mortgagors to be applied after such date; (ii) all of
the Depositor’s right, title and interest in and to all
amounts from time to time credited to and the proceeds of the
Distribution Account, any Custodial Accounts or any Escrow Account
established with respect to the Mortgage Loans; (iii) all of
the rights of the Depositor as assignee of the Seller with respect
to the Seller’s rights under the Purchase and Servicing
Agreements, the Servicing Agreements, the Purchase Agreements and
the Acknowledgements; (iv) all of the Depositor’s right,
title or interest in REO Property and the proceeds thereof;
(v) all of the Depositor’s rights under any Insurance
Policies related to the Mortgage Loans; and (vi) if
applicable, the Depositor’s security interest in any
collateral pledged to secure the Mortgage Loans, including the
Mortgaged Properties and any Additional Collateral relating to the
Additional Collateral Mortgage Loans, including, but not limited
to, the pledge, control and guaranty agreements and the Limited
Purpose Surety Bond, to have and to hold, in trust; and the Trustee
declares that, subject to the review provided for in
Section 2.02, it has received and shall hold the Trust Fund,
as trustee, in trust, for the benefit and use of the Holders of the
Certificates and for the purposes and subject to the terms and
conditions set forth in this Agreement, and, concurrently with such
receipt, has caused to be executed, authenticated and delivered to
or upon the order of the Depositor, in exchange for the Trust Fund,
Certificates in the authorized denominations evidencing the entire
ownership of the Trust Fund.
The foregoing sale, transfer, assignment,
set-over, deposit and conveyance does not and is not intended to
result in the creation or assumption by the Trustee of any
obligation of the Depositor, the Seller or any other Person in
connection with the Mortgage Loans or any other agreement or
instrument relating thereto except as specifically set forth
therein.
In connection with such transfer and
assignment of the Mortgage Loans, the Custodian acting on the
Trustee’s behalf, will continue to hold the documents or
instruments listed below with respect to each Mortgage Loan (each,
a “Trustee Mortgage File”) so transferred and
assigned.
The Trustee shall be under no duty or
obligation to inspect, review or examine said documents,
instruments, certificates or other papers to determine that the
same are genuine, enforceable or appropriate for the represented
purpose or that they have actually been recorded in the real estate
records or that they are other than what they purport to be on
their face.
On the Closing Date, the Custodian shall
deliver to the Trustee, the Securities Administrator and the
Depositor a certification (“Custodian Certification”)
substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit L certifying
that, pursuant to each Custodial Agreement, the applicable
Originator delivered and released to such Custodian, subject to and
in accordance with the relevant section of each related Purchase
and Servicing Agreement, Purchase Agreement or Custodial Agreement,
the following documents pertaining to each of the Mortgage Loans
identified in the Mortgage Loan Schedule (provided, however, that
the Custodian shall not be required nor does it intend to
re-examine the contents of the Trustee Mortgage File for any of the
Mortgage Loans in connection with entering into this Agreement or
providing the Custodian Certification required pursuant to this
Section 2.01):
(i)
with respect to each Mortgage Loan, the
original Mortgage Note endorsed without recourse in proper form to
the order of the Trustee, or in blank (in each case, with all
necessary intervening endorsements, as applicable);
(ii)
with respect to each Mortgage Loan (other
than a Cooperative Loan) that is not a MERS Mortgage Loan, the
original Mortgage with evidence of recording thereon and in the
case of the each MERS Mortgage Loan, the original Mortgage, noting
the presence of the MIN of the Mortgage Loans and either language
indicating that the Mortgage Loan is a MOM Loan if the Mortgage
Loan is a MOM Loan or if the Mortgage Loan was not a MOM Loan at
origination, the original Mortgage and the assignment thereof to
MERS, with evidence of recording indicated thereon;
(iii)
with respect to each Mortgage Loan (other
than a Cooperative Loan) that is not a MERS Mortgage Loan, the
Assignment of Mortgage in form and substance acceptable for
recording in the relevant jurisdiction, such assignment being
either (A) in blank, without recourse, or (B) endorsed to
“HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee of J.P.
Morgan Mortgage Trust 2007-A1, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates,
without recourse”;
(iv)
with respect to each Mortgage Loan (other
than a Cooperative Loan) that is not a MERS Mortgage Loan, the
originals of all intervening assignments of the Mortgage, if any,
with evidence of recording thereon, or if the original intervening
assignment has not yet been returned from the recording office, a
copy of such assignment certified by the applicable Seller to be a
true copy of the original of the assignment which has been sent for
recording in the appropriate jurisdiction in which the Mortgaged
Property is located;
(v)
if applicable, with respect to each
Mortgage Loan (other than a Cooperative Loan), the originals of all
assumption, modification, consolidation or extension agreements, if
any, with evidence of recording thereon;
(vi)
if applicable, with respect to each
Mortgage Loan (other than a Cooperative Loan), the original policy
of title insurance (or a true copy thereof) with respect to any
such Mortgage Loan, or, if such policy has not yet been delivered
by the insurer, the title commitment or title binder to issue
same;
(vii)
if applicable, with respect to each
Mortgage Loan, the original power of attorney and guaranty
agreement with respect to such Mortgage Loan;
(viii)
if applicable, the original certificates
evidencing ownership of the Cooperative Shares issued by the
Cooperative Corporation and related assignment of such certificates
or an assignment of such Cooperative Shares, in blank, executed by
the Mortgagor with such signature guaranteed;
(ix)
with respect to each Mortgage Loan which
constitutes a Cooperative Loan:
(a)
the original of any security agreement or
similar document executed in connection with the Cooperative
Loan;
(b)
the original Recognition
Agreement;
(c)
UCC-1 financing statements with recording
information thereon from the appropriate governmental recording
offices if necessary to perfect the security interest of the
Cooperative Loan under the Uniform Commercial Code in the
jurisdiction in which the Cooperative Property is located,
accompanied by UCC-3 financing statements executed in blank for
recordation of the change in the secured party
thereunder;
(d)
the original Proprietary Lease and the
Assignment of Proprietary Lease executed by the Mortgagor in blank
or if the Proprietary Lease has been assigned by the Mortgagor to
the Seller, then the Seller must execute an assignment of the
Assignment of Proprietary Lease in blank;
(x)
[reserved]; and
(xi)
any other document or instruments
required to be delivered under the Custodial Agreement.
In addition, in connection with the
assignment of any MERS Mortgage Loan, it is understood that the
related Originator will cause the MERS® System to indicate
that such Mortgage Loans have been assigned by the related
Originator to the Trustee in accordance with this Agreement for the
benefit of the Certificateholders by including (or deleting, in the
case of Mortgage Loans which are repurchased in accordance with
this Agreement) in such computer files the information required by
the MERS® System to identify the series of Certificates issued
in connection with such Mortgage Loans. It is further
understood that the related Originator will not, and the Master
Servicer hereby agrees that it will not, alter the information
referenced in this paragraph with respect to any Mortgage Loan
during the term of this Agreement unless and until such Mortgage
Loan is repurchased in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement.
(b)
[Reserved].
(c)
In instances where a title insurance
policy is required to be delivered to the Trustee or the Custodian
on behalf of the Trustee and is not so delivered, the Depositor
will provide a copy of such title insurance policy to the Trustee,
or to the Custodian on behalf of the Trustee, as promptly as
practicable after the execution and delivery hereof, but in any
case within 180 days of the Closing Date.
(d)
For Mortgage Loans (if any) that have
been prepaid in full after the Cut-off Date and prior to the
Closing Date, the Depositor, in lieu of delivering the above
documents, herewith delivers to the Trustee, or to the Custodian on
behalf of the Trustee, an Officer’s Certificate which shall
include a statement to the effect that all amounts received in
connection with such prepayment that are required to be deposited
in the Distribution Account pursuant to Section 4.01 have been
so deposited. All original documents that are not delivered
to the Trustee or the Custodian on behalf of the Trustee shall be
held by the Master Servicer or the Servicer in trust for the
benefit of the Trustee and the Certificateholders.
(e)
The Depositor and the Trustee hereto
agree and understand that it is not intended that any Mortgage Loan
be included in the Trust Fund that is (i) a “High-Cost Home
Loan” as defined in the New Jersey Home Ownership Act
effective November 27, 2003, (ii) a “High-Cost Home
Loan” as defined in the New Mexico Home Loan Protection Act
effective January 1, 2004, (iii) a “High Cost Home
Mortgage Loan” as defined in the Massachusetts Predatory Home
Loan Practices Act effective November 7, 2004, (iv) a
“high risk home loan” under the Illinois High
Risk Home Loan Act, effective as of January 1, 2004, or (v) a
“high-cost home loan” under the Indiana High Cost Home
Loan Law, effective January 1, 2005. The Trustee shall
be entitled to indemnification from the Depositor and the Trust
Fund for any loss, liability or expense arising out of, or in
connection with, the provisions of this Section 2.01(e), including,
without limitation, all costs, liabilities and expenses (including
reasonable legal fees and expenses) of investigating and defending
itself against any claim, action or proceeding, pending or
threatened, relating to such provisions.
Section
2.02
Acceptance of Trust Fund by Trustee;
Review of Documentation for Trust Fund.
(a)
Subject to the review thereof by the
Custodian as provided herein and in the Custodial Agreements, the
Trustee, by execution and delivery hereof, acknowledges receipt by
it or by the Custodian on its behalf of the Trustee Mortgage Files
pertaining to the Mortgage Loans listed on the Mortgage Loan
Schedule.
(b)
With respect to the Mortgage Loans, in
the event there exist exceptions noted on the Custodian
Certification, not later than 120 Business Days, after the Closing
Date, the Custodian shall deliver to the Trustee, the Securities
Administrator and the Depositor a further certification with any
applicable exceptions noted thereon.
(c)
Nothing in this Agreement shall be
construed to constitute an assumption by the Trust Fund, the
Trustee, any Custodian or the Certificateholders of any unsatisfied
duty, claim or other liability on any Mortgage Loan or to any
Mortgagor.
(d)
Each of the parties hereto acknowledges
that (i) the Custodian has performed the applicable review of the
Mortgage Loans and has delivered the Custodian Certification as
provided herein and in the Custodial Agreements on the Closing Date
and (ii) thereafter, if applicable, the Custodian shall perform the
applicable review of the Mortgage Loans and deliver the further
certifications as provided herein and in the Custodial
Agreements.
(e)
Upon execution of this Agreement, the
Depositor hereby delivers to the Trustee and the Trustee
acknowledges receipt of the Acknowledgements, together with the
related Purchase and Servicing Agreements and Servicing
Agreements.
Section
2.03
Representations and Warranties of the
Depositor.
(a)
The Depositor hereby represents and
warrants to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Certificateholders,
and to the Master Servicer and the Securities Administrator as of
the Closing Date or such other date as is specified,
that:
(i)
the Depositor is a corporation duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws
governing its creation and existence and has full corporate power
and authority to own its property, to carry on its business as
presently conducted, to enter into and perform its obligations
under this Agreement, and to create the trust pursuant
hereto;
(ii)
the execution and delivery by the
Depositor of this Agreement have been duly authorized by all
necessary corporate action on the part of the Depositor; neither
the execution and delivery of this Agreement, nor the consummation
of the transactions herein contemplated, nor compliance with the
provisions hereof, will conflict with or result in a breach of, or
constitute a default under, any of the provisions of any law,
governmental rule, regulation, judgment, decree or order binding on
the Depositor or its properties or the certificate of incorporation
or bylaws of the Depositor;
(iii)
the execution, delivery and performance
by the Depositor of this Agreement and the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby do not require the consent or
approval of, the giving of notice to, the registration with, or the
taking of any other action in respect of, any state, federal or
other governmental authority or agency, except such as has been
obtained, given, effected or taken prior to the date
hereof;
(iv)
this Agreement has been duly executed and
delivered by the Depositor and, assuming due authorization,
execution and delivery by the Trustee, the Master Servicer and the
Securities Administrator, constitutes a valid and binding
obligation of the Depositor enforceable against it in accordance
with its terms except as such enforceability may be subject to
(A) applicable bankruptcy and insolvency laws and other
similar laws affecting the enforcement of the rights of creditors
generally and (B) general principles of equity regardless of
whether such enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or
at law;
(v)
there are no actions, suits or
proceedings pending or, to the knowledge of the Depositor,
threatened or likely to be asserted against or affecting the
Depositor, before or by any court, administrative agency,
arbitrator or governmental body (A) with respect to any of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement or (B) with
respect to any other matter which in the judgment of the Depositor
will be determined adversely to the Depositor and will if
determined adversely to the Depositor materially and adversely
affect it or its business, assets, operations or condition,
financial or otherwise, or adversely affect its ability to perform
its obligations under this Agreement;
(vi)
immediately prior to the transfer and
assignment of the Mortgage Loans to the Trustee, the Depositor was
the sole owner of record and holder of each Mortgage Loan, and the
Depositor had good and marketable title thereto, and had full right
to transfer and sell each Mortgage Loan to the Trustee free and
clear, subject only to (1) liens of current real property
taxes and assessments not yet due and payable and, if the related
Mortgaged Property is a condominium unit, any lien for common
charges permitted by statute, (2) covenants, conditions and
restrictions, rights of way, easements and other matters of public
record as of the date of recording of such Mortgage acceptable to
mortgage lending institutions in the area in which the related
Mortgaged Property is located and specifically referred to in the
lender’s title insurance policy or attorney’s opinion
of title and abstract of title delivered to the originator of such
Mortgage Loan, and (3) such other matters to which like
properties are commonly subject which do not, individually or in
the aggregate, materially interfere with the benefits of the
security intended to be provided by the Mortgage, of any
encumbrance, equity, participation interest, lien, pledge, charge,
claim or security interest, and had full right and authority,
subject to no interest or participation of, or agreement with, any
other party, to sell and assign each Mortgage Loan pursuant to this
Agreement;
(vii)
This Agreement creates a valid and
continuing security interest (as defined in the applicable Uniform
Commercial Code (the “UCC”)), in the Mortgage Loans in
favor of the Trustee, which security interest is prior to all other
liens, and is enforceable as such against creditors of and
purchasers from the Depositor;
(viii)
The Mortgage Loans constitute
“instruments” within the meaning of the applicable
UCC;
(ix)
Other than the security interest granted
to the Trustee pursuant to this Agreement, the Depositor has not
pledged, assigned, sold, granted a security interest in, or
otherwise conveyed any of the Mortgage Loans. The Depositor
has not authorized the filing of and is not aware of any financing
statement against the Depositor that includes a description of the
collateral covering the Mortgage Loans other than a financing
statement relating to the security interest granted to the Trustee
hereunder or that has been terminated. The Depositor is not
aware of any judgment or tax lien filings against the
Depositor;
(x)
None of the Mortgage Loans have any marks
or notations indicating that such Mortgage Loans have been pledged,
assigned or otherwise conveyed to any Person other than the
Trustee; and
(xi)
The Depositor has received all consents
and approvals required by the terms of the Mortgage Loans to convey
the Mortgage Loans hereunder to the Trustee.
The foregoing representations made in
this Section 2.03 shall survive the termination of this
Agreement and shall not be waived by any party hereto.
Section
2.04
Representations and Warranties as to the
Mortgage Loans.
(a)
Representations and Warranties of the
Depositor as to the Mortgage Loans.
The Depositor hereby represents and
warrants to the Trustee with respect to the Mortgage Loans or each
Mortgage Loan, as the case may be, as of the date hereof or such
other date set forth herein that as of the Closing Date:
(i)
Immediately prior to the transfer and
assignment contemplated herein, the Depositor was the sole owner
and holder of the Mortgage Loans. The Mortgage Loans were not
assigned or pledged by the Depositor and the Depositor had good and
marketable title thereto, and the Depositor had full right to
transfer and sell the Mortgage Loans to the Trustee free and clear
of any encumbrance, participation interest, lien, equity, pledge,
claim or security interest and had full right and authority subject
to no interest or participation in, or agreement with any other
party to sell or otherwise transfer the Mortgage Loans.
(ii)
As of the Closing Date, the Depositor has
transferred all right, title and interest in the Mortgage Loans to
the Trustee on behalf of the Trust.
(iii)
As of the Closing Date, the Depositor has
not transferred the Mortgage Loans to the Trustee on behalf of the
Trust with any intent to hinder, delay or defraud an of its
creditors.
It is understood and agreed that the
representations and warranties set forth in this Section 2.04(a)
shall survive the delivery of the respective Mortgage Files to the
Trustee or the Custodian and shall inure to the benefit of the
Trustee, notwithstanding any restrictive or qualified endorsement
or assignment.
(b)
Representations and Warranties of the
Seller as to the Mortgage Loans.
(i)
The representations and warranties of the
applicable Chase Originator with respect to the Chase Originator
Mortgage Loans in the related Chase Originator Purchase and
Servicing Agreement, which have been assigned to the Trustee
hereunder, were made as of the applicable Bring-Down Date, as
specified in the Chase Originator Purchase and Servicing Agreement.
With respect to the Chase Originator Mortgage Loans and the
period from such Bring-Down Date to and including the Closing Date,
the Seller hereby makes the representations and warranties
contained in Section 3.02 of each Chase Originator Purchase and
Servicing Agreement with respect to each of the Chase Originator
Mortgage Loans to and for the benefit of the Depositor, the Trustee
and the Trust Fund.
(ii)
In addition, the Seller hereby represents
and warrants that, as of the Closing Date, (i) no Mortgage Loan is
subject to the Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act of 1994 or
any applicable, similar federal, state or local statutes or
regulations related to “high cost” mortgage loans or
“predatory,” “high cost,”
“threshold” or “covered” lending (as such
terms are defined in the applicable statute or regulation); (ii) no
Mortgage Loan is (w) a “High-Cost Home Loan” as defined
in the New Jersey Home Ownership Act effective November 27,
2003, (x) a “High-Cost Home Loan” as defined in the New
Mexico Home Loan Protection Act effective January 1, 2004, (y)
a “High Cost Loan” or “Covered Loan” (as
such terms are defined in the current S&P’s LEVELS®
Glossary), or (z) governed by the Georgia Fair Lending Act, if such
Mortgage Loan was originated on or after October 1, 2002
through March 6, 2003, (iii) each Mortgage Loan at origination
complied in all material respects with applicable local, state and
federal laws, including, but not limited to, applicable
anti-predatory and abusive lending laws, and (iv) each Mortgage
Loan is a “qualified mortgage” within the meaning of
860G(a)(3) of the Code.
The Seller agrees to comply with the
provisions of Section 2.05 hereof in respect of a breach of any of
such representations and warranties.
Section
2.05
Discovery of Breach; Repurchase or
Substitution of Mortgage Loans.
(a)
Upon discovery by the Depositor, the
Seller or the related Originator or receipt of written notice of
any materially defective document in, or, following the date of
delivery to the Trustee of the Custodian’s certifications as
required under the Custodial Agreements, that a document is missing
from, a Trustee Mortgage File, or discovery by the Trustee, the
Securities Administrator, the Depositor, the Seller or the related
Originator of the breach by such Originator or Seller of any
representation or warranty under the related Purchase and Servicing
Agreement, as modified by the Acknowledgement, or Purchase
Agreement, as applicable, in the case of an Originator, or under
this Agreement, in the case of the Seller, in respect of any
Mortgage Loan which materially adversely affects the value of that
Mortgage Loan or the interest therein of the Certificateholders (a
“Defective Mortgage Loan”) (each of the Depositor, the
Seller and the related Originator hereby agreeing to give written
notice thereof to the Trustee, the Securities Administrator and the
other of such parties), the Securities Administrator, or its
designee, on behalf of the Trust Fund, shall promptly notify the
Depositor, the Trustee and the Seller or the related Originator, as
applicable, in writing of such defective or missing document or
breach and request that the Seller or related Originator deliver
such missing document or cure or cause the cure of such defect or
breach within a period of time specified in the related Purchase
and Servicing Agreement or Purchase Agreement, as applicable (or,
in the case of a breach by the Seller, within 90 days from the
earlier of its discovery or its receipt of notice of such breach),
and if the Trustee receives written notice that the Seller or
related Originator, as applicable, has not delivered such missing
document or cured such defect or breach in all material respects
during such period, the Trustee, on behalf of the Trust Fund, shall
enforce the obligations of the related Originator under the related
Purchase and Servicing Agreement, as modified by the
Acknowledgement, or Purchase Agreement, as applicable, and then, to
the extent that the related Originator fails to cure such defect or
breach, the Seller under this Agreement, and cause the related
Originator or the Seller, as the case may be, to repurchase that
Mortgage Loan from the Trust Fund at the Purchase Price on or prior
to the Determination Date following the expiration of such
specified period (subject to Section 2.05(b) below);
provided , however , that, in connection with any
such breach that could not reasonably have been cured within such
specified period (unless permitted a greater period of time to cure
under the related Purchase and Servicing Agreement or Purchase
Agreement, as applicable), subject to Section 2.05(c) below, if the
related Originator or the Seller, as applicable, shall have
commenced to cure such breach within such specified period, the
related Originator or the Seller shall be permitted to proceed
thereafter diligently and expeditiously to cure the same within
such additional time as is reasonably determined by the Trustee to
cure such breach. To the extent that any costs and damages
are incurred by the Trust Fund as a result of any violation of any
applicable federal, state, or local predatory or abusive lending
law arising from or in connection with the origination of any
Mortgage Loan repurchased by the related Originator or the Seller,
such costs and damages shall be included in the Purchase Price of
such repurchased Mortgage Loan and shall be borne by the Seller.
The Purchase Price for the repurchased Mortgage Loan shall be
deposited in the related Distribution Account, and the Trustee, or
its designee, upon receipt of written certification from the
Securities Administrator of such deposit, shall release or cause
the Custodian to release to the related Originator or the Seller,
as applicable, the related Trustee Mortgage File and shall execute
and deliver such instruments of transfer or assignment, in each
case without recourse, representation or warranties, as either
party shall furnish to it and as shall be necessary to vest in such
party any Mortgage Loan released pursuant hereto and the Trustee,
or its designee, shall have no further responsibility with regard
to such Trustee Mortgage File (it being understood that the Trustee
shall have no responsibility for determining the sufficiency of
such assignment for its intended purpose). If pursuant to the
foregoing provisions the related Originator or the Seller
repurchases a Mortgage Loan that is a MERS Mortgage Loan, the
Servicer shall cause MERS to designate on the MERS® System the
related Originator or the Seller, as applicable, as the beneficial
holder of such Mortgage Loan.
In lieu of repurchasing any such Mortgage
Loan as provided above, either party may cause such Mortgage Loan
to be removed from the Trust Fund (in which case it shall become a
Deleted Mortgage Loan) and substitute one or more Replacement
Mortgage Loans in the manner and subject to the limitations set
forth in Section 2.05(b) below. It is understood and
agreed that the obligations of the Originators and the Seller to
cure or to repurchase (or to substitute for) any related Mortgage
Loan as to which a document is missing, a material defect in a
constituent document exists or as to which such a breach has
occurred and is continuing shall constitute the sole remedy against
the such party respecting such omission, defect or breach available
to the Trustee on behalf of the Certificateholders.
(b)
Any substitution of Replacement Mortgage
Loans for Deleted Mortgage Loans made pursuant to
Section 2.05(a) above must be effected prior to the last
Business Day that is within two years after the Closing Date.
As to any Deleted Mortgage Loan for which the related
Originator or the Seller substitutes a Replacement Mortgage Loan or
Loans, such substitution shall be effected by delivering to the
Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee, for such Replacement Mortgage
Loan or Loans, the Mortgage Note, the Mortgage, the Assignment to
the Trustee, and such other documents and agreements, with all
necessary endorsements thereon, together with an Officers’
Certificate stating that each such Replacement Mortgage Loan
satisfies the definition thereof and specifying the Substitution
Amount (as described below), if any, in connection with such
substitution. Scheduled Payments due with respect to
Replacement Mortgage Loans in the Due Period related to the
Distribution Date in the month of substitution shall not be
included as part of the Trust Fund and shall be retained by the
related Originator or the Seller, as applicable. For the
month of substitution, distributions to the Certificateholders
shall reflect the Scheduled Payments in respect of such Deleted
Mortgage for the related Due Period preceding the month of
substitution and the related Originator or the Seller, as
applicable, shall thereafter be entitled to retain all amounts
subsequently received in respect of such Deleted Mortgage Loan.
Upon such substitution, such Replacement Mortgage Loan shall
constitute part of the Trust Fund and shall be subject in all
respects to the terms of this Agreement and the related Purchase
and Servicing Agreement, as modified by the related Acknowledgement
or Purchase Agreement, as applicable, including all representations
and warranties thereof included in such Purchase and Servicing
Agreement or Purchase Agreement, as applicable, as modified by the
Acknowledgement, in each case as of the date of
substitution.
For any month in which an Originator or
the Seller substitutes one or more Replacement Mortgage Loans for
one or more Deleted Mortgage Loans, the Servicer shall determine
the excess (each, a “Substitution Amount”), if any, by
which the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of all such Deleted
Mortgage Loans exceeds the aggregate Stated Principal Balance of
the Replacement Mortgage Loans. On the date of such
substitution, the related Originator or Seller, as applicable,
shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Servicer for deposit
in the Custodial Account an amount equal to the related
Substitution Amount, if any, plus one month’s interest, at
the applicable Net Mortgage Rate, on such Substitution Amount, and
the Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee, upon receipt of the
related Replacement Mortgage Loan or Loans and certification by
such Servicer of such deposit, shall release to the related
Originator or the Seller, as applicable, the related Trustee
Mortgage File or Files and shall execute and deliver such
instruments of transfer or assignment, in each case without
recourse, as the related Originator or Seller shall deliver to it
and as shall be necessary to vest therein any Deleted Mortgage Loan
released pursuant hereto.
In addition, the related Originator or
the Seller, as applicable, shall obtain at its own expense and
deliver to the Trustee and the Securities Administrator an Opinion
of Counsel to the effect that such substitution (either
specifically or as a class of transactions) shall not cause an
Adverse REMIC Event. If such Opinion of Counsel can not be
delivered, then such substitution may only be effected at such time
as the required Opinion of Counsel can be given.
(c)
Upon discovery by the related Originator,
the Seller, the Depositor, the Securities Administrator or the
Trustee that any Mortgage Loan does not constitute a
“qualified mortgage” within the meaning of
Section 860G(a)(3) of the Code, the party discovering such
fact shall within two Business Days give written notice thereof to
the other parties. In connection therewith, the applicable
party shall repurchase or, subject to the limitations set forth in
Section 2.05(b), substitute one or more Replacement Mortgage
Loans for the affected Mortgage Loan within 90 days of the earlier
of discovery or receipt of such notice with respect to such
affected Mortgage Loan. Any such repurchase or substitution
shall be made in the same manner as set forth in
Section 2.05(a) above. The Trustee shall re-convey to
the related Originator or the Seller, as applicable, the Mortgage
Loan to be released pursuant hereto in the same manner, and on the
same terms and conditions, as it would a Mortgage Loan repurchased
for breach of a representation or warranty.
Section
2.06
Grant Clause.
(a)
It is intended that the conveyance of the
Depositor’s right, title and interest in and to property
constituting the Trust Fund pursuant to this Agreement shall
constitute, and shall be construed as, a sale of such property and
not a grant of a security interest to secure a loan. However,
if such conveyance is deemed to be in respect of a loan, it is
intended that: (1) the rights and obligations of the parties
shall be established pursuant to the terms of this Agreement;
(2) the Depositor hereby grants to the Trustee for the benefit
of the Holders of the Certificates a first priority security
interest in all of the Depositor’s right, title and interest
in, to and under, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, the
Trust Fund and all proceeds of any and all property constituting
the Trust Fund to secure payment of the Certificates; and
(3) this Agreement shall constitute a security agreement under
applicable law. If such conveyance is deemed to be in respect
of a loan and the trust created by this Agreement terminates prior
to the satisfaction of the claims of any Person holding any
Certificate, the security interest created hereby shall continue in
full force and effect and the Trustee shall be deemed to be the
collateral agent for the benefit of such Person, and all proceeds
shall be distributed as herein provided.
(b)
The Depositor shall, to the extent
consistent with this Agreement, take such reasonable actions as may
be necessary to ensure that, if this Agreement were deemed to
create a security interest in the Mortgage Loans and the other
property described above, such security interest would be deemed to
be a perfected security interest of first priority under applicable
law and will be maintained as such throughout the term of this
Agreement. The Depositor will, at its own expense, make all
initial filings on or about the Closing Date and shall forward a
copy of such filing or filings to the Trustee and the Securities
Administrator. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, the Depositor shall prepare and forward for filing, or
shall cause to be forwarded for filing, at the expense of the
Depositor, all filings necessary to maintain the effectiveness of
any original filings necessary under the relevant UCC to perfect
the Trustee’s security interest in or lien on the Mortgage
Loans, including without limitation (x) continuation
statements, and (y) such other statements as may be occasioned
by (1) any change of name of an Originator, the Depositor or
the Trustee, (2) any change of location of the place of
business or the chief executive office of the Seller or the
Depositor, (3) any transfer of any interest of an Originator
or the Depositor in any Mortgage Loan or (4) any change under
the relevant UCC or other applicable laws. Neither the
Originators nor the Depositor shall organize under the law of any
jurisdiction other than the State under which each is organized as
of the Closing Date (whether changing its jurisdiction of
organization or organizing under an additional jurisdiction)
without giving 30 days prior written notice of such action to its
immediate and intermediate transferee, including the Trustee.
Before effecting such change, any Originator or the Depositor
proposing to change its jurisdiction of organization shall prepare
and file in the appropriate filing office any financing statements
or other statements necessary to continue the perfection of the
interests of its immediate and mediate transferees, including the
Trustee, in the Mortgage Loans. In connection with the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, each of the
Originators and the Depositor authorizes its immediate or mediate
transferee to file in any filing office any initial financing
statements, any amendments to financing statements, any
continuation statements, or any other statements or filings
described in this paragraph (b), it being understood that such
immediate or mediate transferees are under no obligation to make
such filings.
ARTICLE III
THE
CERTIFICATES
Section
3.01
The Certificates.
(a)
The Certificates, other than the
Uncertificated REMIC Interests, shall be issuable as certificated
securities in registered form only and shall be securities governed
by Article 8 of the New York Uniform Commercial Code. The
Uncertificated REMIC Interests and the Uncertificated Interests
shall be issuable as uncertificated securities in registered form
only and shall be securities governed by Article 8 of the New York
Uniform Commercial Code. The Book-Entry Certificates will be
evidenced by one or more certificates, beneficial ownership of
which will be held in the dollar denominations in Certificate
Principal Amount specified herein. Each class of
Uncertificated REMIC Interests will be issued in the minimum
denominations in Certificate Principal Amount specified in the
Preliminary Statement hereto and in integral multiples of $1 in
excess thereof. Each Class of Definitive Certificates, other
than the Residual Certificates, shall be issued in definitive,
fully registered form in the minimum denominations in Certificate
Principal Amount specified in the Preliminary Statement hereto and
in integral multiples of $1 in excess thereof. The Class A-R
Certificates shall each be issued as a single Certificate and
maintained in definitive, fully registered form in a denomination
equal to 100% of the Percentage Interest of each such Class.
Each Uncertificated Interest shall be maintained in fully
registered form.
(b)
The Definitive Certificates shall be
executed by manual or facsimile signature on behalf of the Trustee
by an authorized officer of the Trustee or of the Securities
Administrator on its behalf. Each Definitive Certificate
shall, on original issue, be authenticated by the Authenticating
Agent upon the order of the Depositor upon receipt by the Trustee,
or the Custodian on behalf of the Trustee of the Trustee Mortgage
Files described in Section 2.01. No Book-Entry or
Definitive Certificate shall be entitled to any benefit under this
Agreement, or be valid for any purpose, unless there appears on
such Certificate a certificate of authentication substantially in
the form provided for herein, executed by an authorized officer of
the Authenticating Agent, by manual signature, and such
certification upon any Certificate shall be conclusive evidence,
and the only evidence, that such Certificate has been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder. All Definitive
Certificates shall be dated the date of their authentication.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and
delivery of this Agreement, the Depositor may deliver Definitive
Certificates executed by the Trustee or the Securities
Administrator on behalf of the Trustee to the Authenticating Agent
for authentication and the Authenticating Agent shall authenticate
and deliver such Certificates as in this Agreement provided and not
otherwise.
Section
3.02
Registration.
The Securities Administrator is hereby
appointed, and the Securities Administrator hereby accepts its
appointment as initial Certificate Registrar in respect of the
Certificates and shall maintain books for the registration and for
the transfer of Certificates and the Uncertificated Interests (the
“Certificate Register”). The Trustee may appoint
a bank or trust company to act as successor Certificate Registrar.
A registration book shall be maintained for the Certificates
and the Uncertificated Interests collectively. The
Certificate Registrar may resign or be discharged or removed and a
new successor may be appointed in accordance with the procedures
and requirements set forth in Sections 6.06 and 6.07 hereof
with respect to the resignation, discharge or removal of the
Securities Administrator and the appointment of a successor
Securities Administrator. The Certificate Registrar may
appoint, by a written instrument delivered to the Holders and the
Master Servicer, any bank or trust company to act as co-registrar
under such conditions as the Certificate Registrar may prescribe;
provided , however , that the Certificate Registrar
shall not be relieved of any of its duties or responsibilities
hereunder by reason of such appointment. The Certificate
Register in respect of the Uncertificated Interests shall contain a
statement that transfers of the Uncertificated Interests to a
Disqualified Organization are prohibited as provided in this
Agreement.
Section
3.03
Transfer and Exchange of Certificates.
(a)
A Definitive Certificate (other than
Book-Entry Certificates which shall be subject to Section 3.09
hereof) may be transferred by the Holder thereof only upon
presentation and surrender of such Certificate at the office of the
Certificate Registrar duly endorsed or accompanied by an assignment
duly executed by such Holder or his duly authorized attorney in
such form as shall be satisfactory to the Certificate Registrar.
Upon the transfer of any Definitive Certificate in accordance
with the preceding sentence, the Trustee or the Securities
Administrator on behalf of the Trustee shall execute, and the
Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and deliver to the
transferee, one or more new Certificates of the same Class and
evidencing, in the aggregate, the same aggregate Certificate
Principal Amount as the Certificate being transferred. An
Uncertificated Interest or Uncertificated REMIC Interest may be
transferred by the Holder thereof upon written notice to the
Certificate Registrar, satisfaction of the other conditions set
forth in this Section 3.03 and, with respect to the
Uncertificated REMIC Interests, the consent of the Depositor.
No service charge shall be made to a Certificateholder for
any registration of transfer of Certificates, but the Certificate
Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax
or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any
registration of transfer of Certificates.
(b)
A Definitive Certificate (other than
Book-Entry Certificates which shall be subject to Section 3.09
hereof) may be exchanged by the Holder thereof for any number of
new Certificates of the same Class, in authorized denominations,
representing in the aggregate the same Certificate Principal Amount
as the Certificate surrendered, upon surrender of the Certificate
to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar duly
endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer duly
executed by such Holder or his duly authorized attorney in such
form as is satisfactory to the Certificate Registrar.
Definitive Certificates delivered upon any such exchange will
evidence the same obligations, and will be entitled to the same
rights and privileges, as the Certificates surrendered. No
service charge shall be made to a Certificateholder for any
exchange of Certificates, but the Certificate Registrar may require
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge
that may be imposed in connection with any exchange of
Certificates. Whenever any Definitive Certificates are so
surrendered for exchange, the Trustee or the Securities
Administrator on behalf of the Trustee shall execute, and the
Authenticating Agent shall authenticate, date and deliver the
Certificates which the Certificateholder making the exchange is
entitled to receive.
(c)
By acceptance of a Restricted
Certificate, whether upon original issuance or subsequent transfer,
each Holder of such a Certificate acknowledges the restrictions on
the transfer of such Certificate set forth thereon and agrees that
it will transfer such a Certificate only as provided
herein.
The following restrictions shall apply
with respect to the transfer and registration of transfer of a
Restricted Certificate:
(i)
The Certificate Registrar shall register
the transfer of a Restricted Certificate if the requested transfer
is (x) to the Depositor or an affiliate (as defined in
Rule 405 under the Act) of the Depositor or (y) being
made to a “qualified institutional buyer” (a
“QIB”) as defined in Rule 144A under the Act by a
transferor that has provided the Certificate Registrar with a
certificate in the form of Exhibit H hereto; and
(ii)
The Certificate Registrar shall register
the transfer of a Restricted Certificate if the requested transfer
is being made to an “accredited investor” under
Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Act, or to any
Person all of the equity owners in which are such accredited
investors, by a transferor who furnishes to the Certificate
Registrar a letter of the transferee substantially in the form of
Exhibit I hereto.
(d)
No transfer of an ERISA-Restricted
Certificate in the form of a Definitive Certificate or that is an
Uncertificated Interest shall be made to any Person or shall be
effective unless the Certificate Registrar, on behalf of the
Trustee, has received (A) a certificate substantially in the
form of Exhibit J hereto (or Exhibit B, in the case of a
Residual Interest) from such transferee or (B) an Opinion of
Counsel satisfactory to the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar
to the effect that the purchase and holding of such a Certificate
will not constitute or result in any nonexempt prohibited
transactions under Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of
the Code and will not subject the Certificate Registrar, the
Trustee, the Master Servicer, the Servicer, the Depositor or the
Securities Administrator to any obligation in addition to those
undertaken in the Agreement; provided , however ,
that the Certificate Registrar will not require such certificate or
opinion in the event that, as a result of a change of law or
otherwise, counsel satisfactory to the Certificate Registrar has
rendered an opinion to the effect that the purchase and holding of
an ERISA-Restricted Certificate by a Plan or a Person that is
purchasing or holding such a Certificate with the assets of a Plan
will not constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under
Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and will not
subject the Certificate Registrar, the Trustee, the Master
Servicer, the Servicer, the Depositor, the Securities Administrator
or the Servicer to any obligation in addition to those undertaken
in this Agreement. Each Transferee of an ERISA-Restricted
Certificate that is a Book-Entry Certificate shall be deemed to
have made the representations set forth in Exhibit J.
The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions
referred to above shall not be an expense of the Trust Fund, the
Certificate Registrar, the Trustee, the Master Servicer, the
Depositor or the Securities Administrator.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no opinion
or certificate shall be required for the initial transfer of the
ERISA-Restricted Certificates. The Certificate Registrar
shall have no obligation to monitor transfers of Book-Entry
Certificates that are ERISA-Restricted Certificates and shall have
no liability for transfers of such Certificates in violation of the
transfer restrictions. The Certificate Registrar shall be
under no liability to any Person for any registration of transfer
of any ERISA-Restricted Certificate that is in fact not permitted
by this Section 3.03(d) and none of the Securities
Administrator, the Trustee or the Paying Agent shall have any
liability for making any payments due on such Certificate to the
Holder thereof or taking any other action with respect to such
Holder under the provisions of this Agreement so long as the
transfer was registered by the Certificate Registrar in accordance
with the foregoing requirements. The Securities
Administrator, on behalf of the Trustee, shall be entitled, but not
obligated, to recover from any Holder of any ERISA-Restricted
Certificate that was in fact a Plan or a Person acting on behalf of
a Plan any payments made on such ERISA-Restricted Certificate at
and after either such time. Any such payments so recovered by
the Securities Administrator, on behalf of the Trustee, shall be
paid and delivered by the Securities Administrator, on behalf of
the Trustee, to the last preceding Holder of such Certificate that
is not such a Plan or Person acting on behalf of a Plan.
(e)
As a condition of the registration of
transfer or exchange of any Certificate, the Certificate Registrar
may require the certified taxpayer identification number of the
owner of the Certificate and the payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge imposed in connection
therewith; provided , however , that the Certificate
Registrar shall have no obligation to require such payment or to
determine whether or not any such tax or charge may be applicable.
No service charge shall be made to the Certificateholder for
any registration, transfer or exchange of a Certificate.
(f)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained herein, no Residual Interest may be owned, pledged or
transferred, directly or indirectly, by or to (i) a
Disqualified Organization or (ii) an individual, corporation
or partnership or other person unless such person is (A) not a
Non-U.S. Person or (B) is a Non-U.S. Person that holds a
Residual Interest in connection with the conduct of a trade or
business within the United States and has furnished the transferor
and the Certificate Registrar with an effective Internal Revenue
Service Form W-8ECI or successor form at the time and in the
manner required by the Code (any such person who is not covered by
clause (A) or (B) above is referred to herein as a
“Non-permitted Foreign Holder”).
Prior to and as a condition of the
registration of any transfer, sale or other disposition of a
Residual Interest, the proposed transferee shall deliver to the
Trustee and the Certificate Registrar an affidavit in substantially
the form attached hereto as Exhibit B representing and
warranting, among other things, that such transferee is neither a
Disqualified Organization, an agent or nominee acting on behalf of
a Disqualified Organization, nor a Non-permitted Foreign Holder
(any such transferee, a “Permitted Transferee”), and
the proposed transferor shall deliver to the Trustee and the
Certificate Registrar an affidavit in substantially the form
attached hereto as Exhibit C. In addition, the Trustee
or the Certificate Registrar may (but shall have no obligation to)
require, prior to and as a condition of any such transfer, the
delivery by the proposed transferee of an Opinion of Counsel,
addressed to the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar, that such
proposed transferee or, if the proposed transferee is an agent or
nominee, the proposed beneficial owner, is not a Disqualified
Organization, agent or nominee thereof, or a Non-permitted Foreign
Holder. Notwithstanding the registration in the Certificate
Register of any transfer, sale, or other disposition of a Residual
Interest to a Disqualified Organization, an agent or nominee
thereof, or Non-permitted Foreign Holder, such registration shall
be deemed to be of no legal force or effect whatsoever and such
Disqualified Organization, agent or nominee thereof, or
Non-permitted Foreign Holder shall not be deemed to be a
Certificateholder for any purpose hereunder, including, but not
limited to, the receipt of distributions on such Residual
Certificate. The Depositor, the Certificate Registrar and the
Trustee shall be under no liability to any Person for any
registration or transfer of a Residual Interest to a Disqualified
Organization, agent or nominee thereof or Non-permitted Foreign
Holder or for the Paying Agent making any payments due on such
Residual Interest to the Holder thereof or for taking any other
action with respect to such Holder under the provisions of the
Agreement, so long as the transfer was effected in accordance with
this Section 3.03(f), unless the Certificate Registrar shall
have actual knowledge at the time of such transfer or the time of
such payment or other action that the transferee is a Disqualified
Organization, or an agent or nominee thereof, or Non-permitted
Foreign Holder. The Certificate Registrar shall be entitled
to recover from any Holder of a Residual Interest that was a
Disqualified Organization, agent or nominee thereof, or
Non-permitted Foreign Holder at the time it became a Holder or any
subsequent time it became a Disqualified Organization, agent or
nominee thereof, or Non-permitted Foreign Holder, all payments made
on such Residual Interest at and after either such times (and all
costs and expenses, including but not limited to attorneys’
fees, incurred in connection therewith). Any payment (not
including any such costs and expenses) so recovered by the
Certificate Registrar shall be paid and delivered to the last
preceding Holder of such Residual Interest.
If any purported transferee shall become
a registered Residual Interest Holder in violation of the
provisions of this Section 3.03(f), then upon receipt of
written notice to the Certificate Registrar that the registration
of transfer of such Residual Interest was not in fact permitted by
this Section 3.03(f), the last preceding Permitted Transferee
shall be restored to all rights as Holder thereof retroactive to
the date of such registration of transfer of such Residual
Interest. The Depositor, the Certificate Registrar and the
Trustee shall be under no liability to any Person for any
registration of transfer of a Residual Interest that is in fact not
permitted by this Section 3.03(f), or for the Paying Agent
making any payment due on such Certificate to the registered Holder
thereof or for taking any other action with respect to such Holder
under the provisions of this Agreement so long as the transfer was
registered upon receipt of the affidavit described in the preceding
paragraph of this Section 3.03(f).
(g)
Each Holder or Certificate Owner of a
Restricted Certificate, ERISA-Restricted Certificate, Residual
Interest, or an interest therein, by such Holder’s or
Owner’s acceptance thereof, shall be deemed for all purposes
to have consented to the provisions of this section.
Section
3.04
Cancellation of Certificates.
Any Certificate surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and
retained in accordance with normal retention policies with respect
to cancelled certificates maintained by the Certificate
Registrar.
Section
3.05
Replacement of Certificates.
If (i) any Certificate is mutilated
and is surrendered to the Certificate Registrar or (ii) the
Trustee or the Certificate Registrar receives evidence to its
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Certificate,
and there is delivered to the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar
such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each
of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Depositor,
the Trustee or the Certificate Registrar that such destroyed, lost
or stolen Certificate has been acquired by a protected purchaser,
the Trustee or the Securities Administrator on behalf of the
Trustee shall execute and the Authenticating Agent shall
authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate, a new Certificate
of like tenor and Certificate Principal Amount. Upon the
issuance of any new Certificate under this Section 3.05, the
Trustee, the Depositor or the Certificate Registrar may require the
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee, the
Depositor or the Certificate Registrar) connected therewith.
Any replacement Certificate issued pursuant to this
Section 3.05 shall constitute complete and indefeasible
evidence of ownership in the applicable Trust Fund, as if
originally issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed
Certificate shall be found at any time.
If after the delivery of such new
Certificate, a protected purchaser of the original Certificate in
lieu of which such new Certificate was issued presents for payment
such original Certificate, the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar
and the Trustee or any agent shall be entitled to recover such new
Certificate from the Person to whom it was delivered or any Person
taking therefrom, except a protected purchaser, and shall be
entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided
therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expenses
incurred by the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Trustee
or any agent in connection therewith.
Section
3.06
Persons Deemed Owners.
Subject to the provisions of
Section 3.09 with respect to Book-Entry Certificates, the
Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee, the Certificate
Registrar, the Paying Agent and any agent of any of them shall
treat the Person in whose name any Certificate is registered upon
the books of the Certificate Registrar as the owner of such
Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions pursuant to
Sections 5.01 and 5.02 and for all other purposes whatsoever,
and neither the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Trustee, the
Certificate Registrar, the Paying Agent nor any agent of any of
them shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
Section
3.07
Temporary Certificates.
(a)
Pending the preparation of Definitive
Certificates, upon the order of the Depositor, the Securities
Administrator on behalf of the Trustee shall execute and the
Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and deliver temporary
Certificates that are printed, lithographed, typewritten,
mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination,
substantially of the tenor of the Definitive Certificates in lieu
of which they are issued and with such variations as the authorized
officers executing such Certificates may determine, as evidenced by
their execution of such Certificates.
(b)
If temporary Certificates are issued, the
Depositor will cause Definitive Certificates to be prepared without
unreasonable delay. After the preparation of Definitive
Certificates, the temporary Certificates shall be exchangeable for
Definitive Certificates upon surrender of the temporary
Certificates at the office or agency of the Certificate Registrar
without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation
of any one or more temporary Certificates, the Securities
Administrator on behalf of the Trustee shall execute and the
Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor a like aggregate Certificate Principal Amount of
Definitive Certificates of the same Class in the authorized
denominations. Until so exchanged, the temporary Certificates
shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this
Agreement as Definitive Certificates of the same Class.
Section
3.08
Appointment of Paying Agent.
The Trustee may appoint a Paying Agent
(which may be the Trustee) for the purpose of making distributions
to the Certificateholders hereunder. The Trustee hereby
appoints the Securities Administrator as the initial Paying Agent.
The Trustee shall cause any Paying Agent, other than the
Securities Administrator, to execute and deliver to the Trustee an
instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee
that such Paying Agent will hold all sums held by it for the
payment to the Certificateholders in an Eligible Account (which
shall be the Distribution Account) in trust for the benefit of the
Certificateholders entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid
to the Certificateholders. All funds remitted by the
Securities Administrator to any such Paying Agent for the purpose
of making distributions shall be paid to the Certificateholders on
each Distribution Date and any amounts not so paid shall be
returned on such Distribution Date to the Securities Administrator.
If the Paying Agent is not the Trustee or the Securities
Administrator, the Trustee shall cause to be remitted to the Paying
Agent on or before the Business Day prior to each Distribution
Date, by wire transfer in immediately available funds, the funds to
be distributed on such Distribution Date. Any Paying Agent
shall be either a bank or trust company or otherwise authorized
under law to exercise corporate trust powers.
Section
3.09
Book-Entry Certificates.
(a)
Each Class of Book-Entry Certificates,
upon original issuance, shall be issued in the form of one or more
typewritten Certificates representing the Book-Entry Certificates.
The Book-Entry Certificates shall initially be registered on
the Certificate Register in the name of the nominee of the Clearing
Agency, and no Certificate Owner will receive a Definitive
Certificate representing such Certificate Owner’s interest in
the Book-Entry Certificates, except as provided in
Section 3.09(c). Unless Definitive Certificates have
been issued to Certificate Owners of Book-Entry Certificates
pursuant to Section 3.09(c):
(i)
the provisions of this Section 3.09
shall be in full force and effect;
(ii)
the Certificate Registrar, the Paying
Agent and the Trustee shall deal with the Clearing Agency for all
purposes (including the making of distributions on the Book-Entry
Certificates) as the authorized representatives of the Certificate
Owners and the Clearing Agency and shall be responsible for
crediting the amount of such distributions to the accounts of such
Persons entitled thereto, in accordance with the Clearing
Agency’s normal procedures;
(iii)
to the extent that the provisions of this
Section 3.09 conflict with any other provisions of this
Agreement, the provisions of this Section 3.09 shall control;
and
(iv)
the rights of Certificate Owners shall be
exercised only through the Clearing Agency and the Clearing Agency
Participants and shall be limited to those established by law and
agreements between such Certificate Owners and the Clearing Agency
and/or the Clearing Agency Participants. Unless and until
Definitive Certificates are issued pursuant to
Section 3.09(c), the initial Clearing Agency will make
book-entry transfers among the Clearing Agency Participants and
receive and transmit distributions of principal and interest on the
Book-Entry Certificates to such Clearing Agency
Participants.
(b)
Whenever notice or other communication to
the Certificateholders is required under this Agreement, unless and
until Definitive Certificates shall have been issued to Certificate
Owners pursuant to Section 3.09(c), the Securities
Administrator shall give all such notices and communications
specified herein to be given to Holders of the Book-Entry
Certificates to the Clearing Agency.
(c)
If (i) (A) the Clearing Agency
or the Depositor advises the Paying Agent in writing that the
Clearing Agency is no longer willing or able to discharge properly
its responsibilities with respect to the Book-Entry Certificates,
and (B) the Depositor is unable to locate a qualified
successor satisfactory to the Depositor and the Paying Agent or
(ii) after the occurrence of an Event of Default, Certificate
Owners representing beneficial interests aggregating not less than
50% of the Class Principal Amount of a Class of Book-Entry
Certificates advise the Paying Agent and the Clearing Agency
through the Clearing Agency Participants in writing that the
continuation of a book-entry system through the Clearing Agency is
no longer in the best interests of the Certificate Owners of a
Class of Book-Entry Certificates, the Certificate Registrar shall
notify the Clearing Agency to effect notification to all
Certificate Owners, through the Clearing Agency, of the occurrence
of any such event and of the availability of Definitive
Certificates to Certificate Owners requesting the same. Upon
surrender to the Certificate Registrar of the Book-Entry
Certificates by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration
instructions from the Clearing Agency for registration, the
Certificate Registrar shall issue the Definitive Certificates.
Neither the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar nor the
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. Upon the issuance of
Definitive Certificates all references herein to obligations
imposed upon or to be performed by the Clearing Agency shall be
deemed to be imposed upon and performed by the Certificate
Registrar, to the extent applicable, with respect to such
Definitive Certificates and the Certificate Registrar shall
recognize the holders of the Definitive Certificates as
Certificateholders hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
the Certificate Registrar, upon the instruction of the Depositor,
shall have the right to issue Definitive Certificates on the
Closing Date in connection with credit enhancement
programs.
ARTICLE IV
ADMINISTRATION OF THE TRUST FUND
Section
4.01
Custodial Accounts; Distribution Account.
(a)
The Master Servicer shall enforce the
obligations of the Servicer to establish and maintain one or more
Custodial Accounts, as provided in the related Purchase and
Servicing Agreement or Servicing Agreement, as applicable, into
which all Scheduled Payments and unscheduled payments with respect
to the related Mortgage Loans, net of any deductions or
reimbursements permitted under the related Purchase and Servicing
Agreement, shall be deposited. On each Distribution Account
Deposit Date, the Servicer shall remit to the Securities
Administrator for deposit into the Distribution Account, all
amounts so required to be deposited into such account in accordance
with the terms of the related Purchase and Servicing Agreements or
Servicing Agreement, as applicable.
(b)
The Securities Administrator, as Paying
Agent on behalf of the Trustee, shall establish and maintain an
Eligible Account entitled “Distribution Account of HSBC Bank
USA, National Association, as Trustee for the benefit of J.P.
Morgan Mortgage Trust 2007-A1, Holders of Mortgage Pass-Through
Certificates.” The Securities Administrator shall,
promptly upon receipt from the Servicer on each Distribution
Account Deposit Date, deposit into the Distribution Account and
retain on deposit until the related Distribution Date the following
amounts:
(i)
the aggregate of collections with respect
to the Mortgage Loans remitted by the Servicer from the Custodial
Accounts in accordance with the Purchase and Servicing Agreements
and Servicing Agreements;
(ii)
any amounts required to be deposited by
the Master Servicer with respect to the Mortgage Loans for the
related Due Period pursuant to this Agreement, including the amount
of any Advances or Compensating Interest Payments with respect to
the Mortgage Loans not paid by the Servicer; and
(iii)
any other amounts so required to be
deposited in the Distribution Account in the related Due Period
pursuant to this Agreement.
(c)
In the event the Master Servicer or the
Servicer has remitted in error to the Distribution Account any
amount not required to be remitted in accordance with the
definition of Available Distribution Amount, it may at any time
direct the Securities Administrator to withdraw such amount from
the Distribution Account for repayment to the Master Servicer or
Servicer, as applicable, by delivery of an Officer’s
Certificate to the Securities Administrator and the Trustee which
describes the amount deposited in error.
(d)
On each Distribution Date and the related
Redemption Date, the Securities Administrator, as Paying Agent,
shall withdraw from funds available in the Distribution Account and
distribute the Available Distribution Amount to the related
Certificateholders and any other parties entitled thereto in the
amounts and priorities set forth in Section 5.02. The
Securities Administrator may from time to time withdraw from the
Distribution Account and pay the Master Servicer, the Trustee, the
Securities Administrator or the Servicer any amounts permitted to
be paid or reimbursed to such Person from funds in the Distribution
Account pursuant to the clauses (A) through (D) of the
definition of Available Distribution Amount.
(e)
Funds in the Distribution Account may be
invested in Permitted Investments selected by and at the written
direction of the Depositor, which shall ma