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EXHIBIT 4.3
EXECUTION COPY
POOLING AND SERVICING
AGREEMENT
among
CIT EQUIPMENT COLLATERAL 2006-VT2,
as Trust,
CIT FUNDING COMPANY, LLC,
as Depositor, and
CIT FINANCIAL USA, INC.,
in its individual capacity, and as Servicer
Dated as of October 1, 2006
TABLE OF
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ARTICLE I
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DEFINITIONS
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Section 1.01
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Definitions
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Section 1.02
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Usage of Terms
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Section 1.03
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Section References
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Section 1.04
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Accounting Terms
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Section 1.05
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Undefined Capitalized Terms
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ARTICLE II
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FUNDINGS OF TRUST; TRANSFERS OF
CONTRACTS
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Section 2.01
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Creation and Funding of Trust; Transfer of
Transferred Assets to Trust
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Section 2.02
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Acceptance by Trust
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Section 2.03
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Conveyance of Substitute Contracts
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Section 2.04
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Release of Excluded Amounts
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Section 2.05
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Waiver
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ARTICLE III
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REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
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Section 3.01
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Representations and Warranties of
CFUSA
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Section 3.02
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Representations and Warranties of the
Depositor
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Section 3.03
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Representations and Warranties of the
Servicer
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ARTICLE IV
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PERFECTION OF TRANSFERS AND PROTECTION OF
SECURITY INTERESTS
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Section 4.01
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Custody of Contracts
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Section 4.02
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Filings
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Section 4.03
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Name Change or Relocation
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ARTICLE V
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SERVICING OF CONTRACTS
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Section 5.01
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Initial Servicer’s Appointment and
Acceptance; Responsibility for Contract Administration
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Section 5.02
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General Duties
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Section 5.03
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Assignment or Replacement
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Section 5.04
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Disposition Upon Termination of
Contract
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Section 5.05
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Subservicers
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Section 5.06
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Further Assurance
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Section 5.07
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Notice to Obligors
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Section 5.08
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Collection Efforts; Modification of
Contracts
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Section 5.09
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Prepayments of Certain Contracts
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Section 5.10
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Certain Extensions; Acceleration
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Section 5.11
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Taxes and Other Amounts
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Section 5.12
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Suits by Servicer
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Section 5.13
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Remittances
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)
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Section 5.14
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Servicer Advances
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Section 5.15
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Realization Upon Defaulted Contract
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Section 5.16
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Maintenance of Insurance Policies
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Section 5.17
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Certain Other Duties With Respect to
Trust
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Section 5.18
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Servicing Compensation
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Section 5.19
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Payment of Certain Expenses by
Servicer
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Section 5.20
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Records
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Section 5.21
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Inspection
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Section 5.22
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Trust To Cooperate in Releases
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Section 5.23
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Separate Entity Existence
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Section 5.24
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Assignment of Servicing
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Section 5.25
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Optional Repurchase of Defaulted
Contracts
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ARTICLE VI
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COVENANTS OF THE DEPOSITOR
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Section 6.01
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LLC Existence
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Section 6.02
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Contracts Not to be Evidenced by Promissory
Notes
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Section 6.03
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Security Interests
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Section 6.04
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Delivery of Collections
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Section 6.05
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Regulatory Filings
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Section 6.06
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Compliance With Law
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Section 6.07
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Activities
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Section 6.08
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Indebtedness
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Section 6.09
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Guarantees
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Section 6.10
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Investments
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Section 6.11
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Merger; Transfers
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Section 6.12
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Payments
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Section 6.13
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Other Agreements
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Section 6.14
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Separate Entity Existence
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Section 6.15
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Location; Records
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Section 6.16
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Liability of Depositor; Indemnities
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Section 6.17
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Bankruptcy Limitations
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Section 6.18
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Limitation on Liability of Depositor and
Others
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ARTICLE VII
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ESTABLISHMENT OF ACCOUNTS; PAYMENTS
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Section 7.01
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Trust Accounts; Collections
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Section 7.02
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Reserve Account
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Section 7.03
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Trust Account Procedures
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Section 7.04
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Securityholder Payments
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Section 7.05
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Allocations and Payments
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Section 7.06
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Repurchases of, or Substitution for, Contracts
for Breach of Representations and Warranties
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Section 7.07
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Reassignment of Repurchased or Substituted
Contracts
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)
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Section 7.08
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The Servicer’s Purchase Option
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ARTICLE VIII SERVICER DEFAULTS; SERVICING
TRANSFER
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Section 8.01
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Servicer Default
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Section 8.02
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Servicing Transfer
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Section 8.03
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Appointment of Successor Servicer; Reconveyance;
Successor Servicer to Act
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Section 8.04
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Notifications to Noteholders and the Equity
Certificateholders
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Section 8.05
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Effect of Transfer
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Section 8.06
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Database File
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Section 8.07
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Successor Servicer Indemnification
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Section 8.08
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Responsibilities of the Successor
Servicer
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Section 8.09
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Servicer Not to Resign
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ARTICLE IX
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SERVICER REPORTING
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Section 9.01
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Monthly Servicer’s Reports
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Section 9.02
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Officer’s Certificate
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Section 9.03
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Other Data
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Section 9.04
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Annual Reporting; Evidence as to
Compliance
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Section 9.05
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Annual Statement of Compliance from
Servicer
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Section 9.06
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Reports to the Commission
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ARTICLE X
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TERMINATION
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Section 10.01
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Sale of Trust Assets
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ARTICLE XI
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MISCELLANEOUS
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Section 11.01
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Amendments
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Section 11.02
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Governing Law
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Section 11.03
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Notices
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Section 11.04
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Severability of Provisions
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Section 11.05
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Third Party Beneficiaries
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Section 11.06
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Counterparts
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Section 11.07
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Headings
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Section 11.08
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No Bankruptcy Petition; Disclaimer and
Subordination
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Section 11.09
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Jurisdiction
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Section 11.10
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Servicer Indemnity
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Section 11.11
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Limitation of Liability of Owner
Trustee
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Section 11.12
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WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)
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EXHIBITS
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Exhibit A
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Form of VFC Assignment
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A-1
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Exhibit B
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Initial Schedule of Contracts
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B-1
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Exhibit C
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Form of Monthly Servicer’s
Report
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C-1
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Exhibit D
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Form of Substitution Transfer
Agreement
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D-1
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Exhibit E
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Schedule of Representations and
Warranties
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E-1
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Exhibit F
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Minimum Value Filing Exceptions
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F-1
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This
POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT dated as of October 1, 2006 (as
amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time in accordance with the terms hereof, this "Agreement"),
is among CIT Equipment Collateral 2006-VT2, a Delaware
statutory trust (together with its successors and assigns, the
"Trust"), CIT Funding Company, LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company (together with its successors and assigns, the "Depositor")
and CIT Financial USA, Inc., a Delaware corporation (together with
its successors and assigns, "CFUSA" and in its capacity as servicer
hereunder the "Servicer").
WHEREAS
the Depositor desires to fund the Trust by selling, conveying and
assigning from time to time, pursuant hereto or pursuant to
Substitution Transfer Agreements hereunder, designated Contracts or
pools of Contracts together with certain related security therefor
and other related rights and property as further described herein,
which Contracts were originated by one or more Financing
Originators, or acquired by purchase and assignment by a Financing
Originator from the prior owner thereof, and subsequently conveyed
(i) by the Financing Originators to CFUSA; (ii) by CFUSA to the
Depositor, with respect to Contracts and related assets acquired by
CFUSA from Financing Originators as described in clause (i) above;
(iii) in the case of the VFC Contracts, by the Depositor to
the VFC Trust (as defined herein); and (iv) in the case of the
VFC Contracts warehoused in the VFC Trust, by the VFC Trust back to
the Depositor;
WHEREAS
the Trust is willing to purchase and accept assignment of such
Contracts and related assets; and
WHEREAS
the Servicer is willing to service such Contracts and related
assets for the benefit and account of the Trust and the Holders
pursuant to the terms hereof.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual
covenants herein contained, the parties hereto agree as
follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Section
1.01 Definitions . Whenever used in this Agreement, the
following words and phrases, unless the context otherwise requires,
shall have the following meanings:
"Accounting
Date" means, with respect to a Payment Date, the last day of the
preceding calendar month.
"Accountant’s
Report" has the meaning specified in Section 9.04.
"Accrual Period" means, with respect to any Payment Date, with
respect to the Class A-1 Notes, the period from and including
the immediately preceding Payment Date to but excluding such
Payment Date (or, in the case of the initial Accrual Period, from
and including the Closing Date to but excluding the first Payment
Date following the Closing Date), and with respect to each other
Class of Notes, the period from and including the 20th day of
the immediately preceding calendar month to but excluding the 20th
day of the related calendar
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month, provided, that in each case, the initial
Accrual Period following the Closing Date shall be the period from
and including the Closing Date to but excluding December 20,
2006.
"Addition Notice" means, with respect to any transfer of Subsequent
Contracts to the Trust pursuant to Section 2.03 (and the
Depositor’s corresponding prior purchase of such Contracts
from CFUSA), a notice, which shall be given at least five days
prior to the related Subsequent Transfer Date, identifying the
Subsequent Contracts to be transferred, the Contract Principal
Balance of such Subsequent Contracts and the related Substitution
Event (with respect to an identified Contract or Contracts then in
the Contract Pool) to which such Subsequent Contract relates, with
such notice to be signed both by the Depositor and CFUSA.
"Administration
Agreement" means the Administration Agreement dated as of October
1, 2006 (as amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified
from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof) by and
among the Trust, CFUSA, the Depositor and the Indenture
Trustee.
"Administrator"
shall be the party named as such under the Administration
Agreement.
"Affiliate"
of any specified Person means 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" or "controlled" have
meanings correlative to the foregoing.
"Aggregate
Principal Amount" means, with respect to any group of Notes of any
Class, at any date of determination, the sum of the Principal
Amounts of such Notes on such date of determination.
"Agreement"
means this Pooling and Servicing Agreement, as amended, restated,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance
with the terms hereof.
"Allocation
Criteria" means, with respect to the allocation of Insurance
Proceeds or Liquidation Proceeds between the Trust (for inclusion
as Collections) and the Depositor, as contemplated in the
definition of Available Funds, that Insurance Proceeds or
Liquidation Proceeds with respect to the Contracts consisting of
Leases are allocable pro rata between inclusion as Available Funds
in respect of the Contract Pool, on the one hand, and directly to
the Depositor, on the other, based upon (i) for allocation to
Available Funds, the Required Payoff Amount for such Lease
(determined as of the last day of the Collection Period during
which such Lease became a Liquidated Contract), and (ii) for
allocation to the Depositor, the Book Value of the related
Equipment; provided, that in the event the Insurance Proceeds or
Liquidation Proceeds in respect of a particular Lease exceed the
sum of such Required Payoff Amount for such Lease plus the
Book Value of the related Equipment, any such excess shall be
allocated solely to the Depositor.
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"Applicable
Security" means, with respect to a Vendor Loan, any (i) Secondary
Contract securing such Vendor Loan and (ii) Equipment securing such
Vendor Loan or a related Secondary Contract.
"Available
Funds" means, as to any Payment Date, the sum of (i) the Related
Collection Period Collections for such Payment Date, (ii) any
Servicer Advances on deposit in the Collection Account as of the
immediately preceding Deposit Date and (iii) to the extent
necessary to pay interest, amounts of the type described in clause
(i) above that the Trust received after the end of the related
Collection Period; provided, however, that Available Funds shall
not include any amount allocable to the Depositor as representing
Excluded Residual Investments.
"Available
Reserve Amount" means, with respect to a Payment Date, the amount
of funds equal to the lesser of (i) the amount on deposit in the
Reserve Account (determined (a) exclusive of any Investment
Earnings thereon and (b) before giving effect to any deposit to be
made or withdrawals from the Reserve Account with respect to such
Payment Date), and (ii) the Specified Reserve Account Balance.
"Bankruptcy
Code" means the United States Bankruptcy Code, Title 11 et seq., of
the United States Code, as amended from time to time.
"Book
Value" means, with respect to any Equipment subject to a Lease, the
value of such Equipment as shown on the accounting books and
records of the applicable Financing Originator (or the Depositor,
in the case of Equipment relating to Contracts being transferred
pursuant to the VFC Assignment), as of the Cut-Off Date for the
related Lease (it being understood that Book Value constitutes a
measure of the lessor’s residual interest in the Equipment as
shown on its books and records as of such date, net of the
financial asset shown on such books and records represented by the
discounted Scheduled Payments owing on the Lease).
"Business
Day" means any day which is neither a Saturday or a Sunday,
nor another day on which banking institutions in the states of
New Jersey, New York or Texas are authorized or obligated by law,
executive order, or governmental decree to be closed.
"Casualty
Loss" means, with respect to any item of Equipment, the loss,
theft, damage beyond repair or governmental condemnation or seizure
of such item of Equipment.
"Certificate
of Formation" means the limited liability company Certificate of
Formation of the Depositor.
"Certificate
of Trust" has the meaning given such term in the Trust
Agreement.
"Certificate
Register" has the meaning specified in the Trust Agreement.
"CFUSA"
means CIT Financial USA, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
"CFUSA
Contract" means a Contract originated or acquired by CFUSA, but
which is not a VFC Contract.
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"Class"
means any of the group of Notes, or the Equity Certificate
identified herein as the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2
Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4 Notes, the
Class B Notes, the Class C Notes and the
Class D Notes or the Equity Certificate, as
applicable.
"Class A
Notes" means the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes,
the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes.
"Class A
Percentage" means 92.00%.
"Class A
Principal Payment Amount" means: (a) with respect to any Payment
Date on or prior to the Payment Date on which the Principal Amount
of the Class A-1 Notes has been reduced to zero, the greater
of (i) the excess , of (1) the Principal Amount of the Class
A-1 Notes over (2) the Class A-1 Scheduled Principal Balance
and (ii) the excess , of (1) the sum of the Principal Amount
of the Class A-1, Class A-2, Class A-3 and Class A-4 Notes
over (2) the Class A Target Principal Amount; and (b) with
respect to any Payment Date thereafter, the excess of (i)
the sum of the Principal Amount of the Class A-2, Class A-3 and
Class A-4 Notes over (ii) the Class A Target Principal
Amount.
"Class A
Target Principal Amount" means, with respect to any Payment Date,
the product of (i) the Class A Percentage and (ii) the Contract
Pool Principal Balance as of the related Accounting Date.
"Class A-1
Interest Carryover Shortfall" means, with respect to any Payment
Date, the excess, if any, of the Class A-1 Interest Payment
Amount for the preceding Payment Date over the amount that was
actually paid in respect of interest on the Class A-1 Notes on
such preceding Payment Date, plus , to the extent permitted
by law, an amount equal to the product of (i) the Class A-1
Interest Rate, (ii) such excess, and (iii) a fraction equal to the
number of days in the related Accrual Period divided by 360.
"Class A-1
Interest Payment Amount" means, with respect to any Payment Date,
the sum of the Class A-1 Monthly Interest Payment Amount and
the Class A-1 Interest Carryover Shortfall for such Payment
Date.
"Class A-1
Interest Rate" means 5.34435% per annum.
"Class A-1
Maturity Date" means November 20, 2007 (or, if such day is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day).
"Class A-1
Monthly Interest Payment Amount" means (a) with respect to the
first Accrual Period and the related Payment Date, an amount equal
to the product of (i) the Class A-1 Interest Rate, (ii) the
Initial Class A-1 Principal Amount, and (iii) a fraction equal
to the number of days in such Accrual Period divided by 360, and
(b) with respect to each subsequent Accrual Period and the related
Payment Date, an amount equal to the product of (i) the
Class A-1 Interest Rate, (ii) the Principal Amount of the
Class A-1 Notes on the immediately preceding Payment Date, after
giving effect to all payments of principal to Class A-1
Noteholders on or prior to such immediately preceding Payment Date,
and (iii) a fraction equal to the number of days in such
Accrual Period divided by 360.
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"Class
A-1 Notes" means the 5.34435% Class A-1 Receivable-Backed Notes in
the Aggregate Principal Amount of $258,000,000, issued pursuant to
the Indenture.
"Class A-1
Scheduled Principal Balance" means, with respect to each Payment
Date, the balance for such Payment Date as set forth in the
following table.
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Payment Date
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Class A-1 Scheduled Principal
Balance
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December 2006
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$214,932,550.88
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January 2007
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$194,932,007.81
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February 2007
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$170,871,140.26
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March 2007
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$151,438,923.94
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April 2007
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$131,541,781.13
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May 2007
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$107,134,518.57
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June 2007
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$ 87,487,564.58
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July 2007
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$ 66,647,595.88
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August 2007
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$ 41,572,421.89
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September 2007
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$ 20,299,204.25
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"Class
A-2 Interest Carryover Shortfall" means, with respect to any
Payment Date, the excess, if any, of the Class A-2 Interest Payment
Amount for the preceding Payment Date over the amount that was
actually paid in respect of interest on the Class A-2 Notes on
such preceding Payment Date, plus , to the extent permitted
by law, an amount equal to the product of (i) the Class A-2
Interest Rate, (ii) such excess, and (iii) a fraction equal to
one-twelfth.
"Class A-2
Interest Payment Amount" means, with respect to any Payment Date,
the sum of the Class A-2 Monthly Interest Payment Amount and
the Class A-2 Interest Carryover Shortfall for such Payment
Date.
"Class A-2
Interest Rate" means 5.19% per annum.
"Class A-2
Maturity Date" means January 20, 2009 (or, if such day is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day thereafter).
"Class A-2
Monthly Interest Payment Amount" means (a) with respect to the
first Accrual Period and the related Payment Date, an amount equal
to the product of (i) the Class A-2 Interest Rate, (ii) the
Initial Class A-2 Principal Amount, and (iii) a fraction equal
to the number of days in such Accrual Period divided by 360, and
(b) with respect to each subsequent Accrual Period and the related
Payment Date, an amount equal to the product of (i) the
Class A-2 Interest Rate, (ii) the Principal Amount of the
Class A-2 Notes on the immediately preceding Payment Date, after
giving effect to all payments of principal to Class A-2
Noteholders on or prior to such immediately preceding Payment Date,
and (iii) a fraction equal to one-twelfth.
"Class A-2
Notes" means the 5.19% Class A-2 Receivable-Backed Notes in the
Aggregate Principal Amount of $144,000,000, issued pursuant to the
Indenture.
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"Class A-3
Interest Carryover Shortfall" means, with respect to any Payment
Date, the excess, if any, of the Class A-3 Interest Payment
Amount for the preceding Payment Date over the amount that was
actually paid in respect of interest on the Class A-3 Notes on
such preceding Payment Date, plus , to the extent permitted
by law, an amount equal to the product of (i) the
Class A-3 Interest Rate, (ii) such excess, and (iii) a
fraction equal to one-twelfth.
"Class A-3
Interest Payment Amount" means, with respect to any Payment Date,
the sum of the Class A-3 Monthly Interest Payment Amount and
the Class A-3 Interest Carryover Shortfall for such Payment
Date.
"Class A-3
Interest Rate" means 5.07% per annum.
"Class A-3
Maturity Date" means February 20, 2010 (or, if such day is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day thereafter).
"Class A-3
Monthly Interest Payment Amount" means (a) with respect to the
first Accrual Period and the related Payment Date, an amount equal
to the product of (i) the Class A-3 Interest Rate, (ii) the
Initial Class A-3 Principal Amount, and (iii) a fraction equal
to the number of days in such Accrual Period divided by 360, and
(b) with respect to each subsequent Accrual Period and the related
Payment Date, an amount equal to the product of (i) the
Class A-3 Interest Rate, (ii) the Principal Amount of the
Class A-3 Notes on the immediately preceding Payment Date,
after giving effect to all payments of principal to Class A-3
Noteholders on or prior to such immediately preceding Payment Date,
and (iii) a fraction equal to one-twelfth.
"Class A-3
Notes" means the 5.07% Class A-3 Receivable-Backed Notes in the
Aggregate Principal Amount of $180,000,000, issued pursuant to the
Indenture.
"Class A-4
Interest Carryover Shortfall" means, with respect to any Payment
Date, the excess, if any, of the Class A-4 Interest Payment
Amount for the preceding Payment Date over the amount that was
actually paid in respect of interest on the Class A-4 Notes on
such preceding Payment Date, plus , to the extent permitted
by law, an amount equal to the product of (i) the
Class A-4 Interest Rate, (ii) such excess, and (iii) a
fraction equal to one-twelfth.
"Class A-4
Interest Payment Amount" means, with respect to any Payment Date,
the sum of the Class A-4 Monthly Interest Payment Amount and
the Class A-4 Interest Carryover Shortfall for such Payment
Date.
"Class A-4
Interest Rate" means 5.05% per annum.
"Class A-4
Maturity Date" means April 20, 2014 or, if such day is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day thereafter).
"Class A-4
Monthly Interest Payment Amount" means (a) with respect to the
first Accrual Period and the related Payment Date, an amount equal
to the product of (i) the Class A-4 Interest Rate, (ii) the
Initial Class A-4 Principal Amount, and (iii) a fraction equal
to the number of days in such Accrual Period divided by 360, (b)
with respect to each subsequent Accrual Period and the related
Payment Date, an amount equal to the product of (i) the
Class A-4 Interest Rate, (ii) the Principal Amount of the
Class A-4 Notes on the immediately preceding Payment
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Date, after giving effect to all payments of
principal to Class A-4 Noteholders on or prior to such
immediately preceding Payment Date, and (iii) a fraction equal
to one-twelfth.
"Class A-4
Notes" means the 5.05% Class A-4 Receivable-Backed Notes in the
Aggregate Principal Amount of $100,524,000, issued pursuant to the
Indenture.
"Class
B Floor" means, with respect to any Payment Date, an amount equal
to (i) 3.00% of the Initial Contract Pool Principal Balance,
plus (ii) the Unfunded Loss Amount, if any, for such Payment
Date, minus (iii) the sum of the Principal Amount of the
Class C Notes and the Principal Amount of the Class D Notes (prior
to giving effect to any payments of principal on the Class C Notes
or the Class D Notes on such Payment Date) and the amount on
deposit in the Reserve Account (after giving effect to withdrawals
and releases to be made on such Payment Date); provided ,
however , that in no event will the Class B Floor be greater
than the Principal Amount of the Class B Notes immediately prior to
such Payment Date or less than zero.
"Class B
Interest Carryover Shortfall" means, with respect to any Payment
Date, the excess, if any, of the Class B Interest Payment
Amount for the preceding Payment Date over the amount that was
actually paid in respect of interest on the Class B Notes on
such preceding Payment Date, plus , to the extent permitted
by law, an amount equal to the product of (i) the Class B
Interest Rate, (ii) such excess, and (iii) a fraction equal to
one-twelfth.
"Class B
Interest Payment Amount" means, with respect to any Payment Date,
the sum of the Class B Monthly Interest Payment Amount and the
Class B Interest Carryover Shortfall for such Payment
Date.
"Class B
Interest Rate" means 5.24% per annum.
"Class B
Maturity Date" means April 20, 2014 or, if such day is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day thereafter).
"Class B
Monthly Interest Payment Amount" means (a) with respect to the
first Accrual Period and the related Payment Date, an amount equal
to the product of (i) the Class B Interest Rate, (ii) the
Initial Class B Principal Amount, and (iii) a fraction equal
to the number of days in such Accrual Period divided by 360, and
(b) with respect to each subsequent Accrual Period and the related
Payment Date, an amount equal to the product of (i) the
Class B Interest Rate, (ii) the Principal Amount of the
Class B Notes on the immediately preceding Payment Date, after
giving effect to all payments of principal to Class B
Noteholders on or prior to such immediately preceding Payment Date,
and (iii) a fraction equal to one-twelfth.
"Class B
Notes" means the 5.24% Class B Receivable-Backed Notes in the
Aggregate Principal Amount of $16,689,000, issued pursuant to the
Indenture.
"Class B
Percentage" means 2.25%.
"Class B
Principal Payment Amount" means the lesser of (a) the excess, if
any, of (i) the Total Principal Payment Amount over (ii) the
Class A Principal Payment Amount and (b) the excess, if any,
of (i) the Principal Amount of the Class B Notes over (ii) the
greater of (1) the Class B Target Principal Amount and (2) the
Class B Floor; provided, however, that in no
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event will the Class B Principal Payment Amount
exceed the Principal Amount of the Class B Notes.
"Class B
Target Principal Amount" means, with respect to any Payment Date,
the product of (i) the Class B Percentage and (ii) the Contract
Pool Principal Balance as of the related Accounting Date.
"Class
C Floor" means, with respect to any Payment Date, an amount equal
to (i) 2.3125% of the Initial Contract Pool Principal Balance,
plus (ii) the Unfunded Loss Amount, if any, for such Payment
Date, minus (iii) the sum of the Principal Amount of the
Class D Notes (prior to giving effect to any payments of principal
on the Class D Notes on such Payment Date) and the amount on
deposit in the Reserve Account (after giving effect to withdrawals
and releases to be made on such Payment Date); provided ,
however , that in no event will the Class C Floor be greater
than the Principal Amount of the Class C Notes immediately prior to
such Payment Date or less than zero; provided ,
further , that if the Principal Amount of the Class B Notes
immediately prior to any Payment Date is less than or equal to the
Class B Floor for such Payment Date, the Class C Floor with respect
to such Payment Date will equal the Principal Amount of the Class C
Notes immediately prior to such Payment Date.
"Class C
Interest Carryover Shortfall" means, with respect to any Payment
Date, the excess, if any, of the Class C Interest Payment
Amount for the preceding Payment Date over the amount that was
actually paid in respect of interest on the Class C Notes on
such preceding Payment Date, plus , to the extent permitted
by law, an amount equal to the product of (i) the Class C
Interest Rate, (ii) such excess, and (iii) a fraction equal to
one-twelfth.
"Class C
Interest Payment Amount" means, with respect to any Payment Date,
the sum of the Class C Monthly Interest Payment Amount and the
Class C Interest Carryover Shortfall for such Payment
Date.
"Class C
Interest Rate" means 5.29% per annum.
"Class C
Maturity Date" means April 20, 2014 (or, if such day is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day thereafter).
"Class C
Monthly Interest Payment Amount" means (a) with respect to the
first Accrual Period and the related Payment Date, an amount equal
to the product of (i) the Class C Interest Rate, (ii) the
Initial Class C Principal Amount, and (iii) a fraction equal
to the number of days in such Accrual Period divided by 360, and
(b) with respect to each subsequent Accrual Period and the related
Payment Date, an amount equal to the product of (i) the
Class C Interest Rate, (ii) the Principal Amount of the
Class C Notes on the immediately preceding Payment Date, after
giving effect to all payments of principal to Class C
Noteholders on or prior to such immediately preceding Payment Date,
and (iii) a fraction equal to one-twelfth.
"Class C
Notes" means the 5.29% Class C Receivable-Backed Notes in the
Aggregate Principal Amount of $20,397,000 issued pursuant to the
Indenture.
"Class C
Percentage" means 2.75%.
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"Class C
Principal Payment Amount" means the lesser of (a) the excess, if
any, of (i) the Total Principal Payment Amount over (ii) the
sum of the Class A Principal Payment Amount and the Class B
Principal Payment Amount and (b) the excess, if any, of (i) the
Principal Amount of the Class C Notes over (ii) the greater of (1)
the Class C Target Principal Amount and (2) the Class C Floor;
provided, however, that in no event will the Class C Principal
Payment Amount exceed the Principal Amount of the Class C
Notes.
"Class C
Target Principal Amount" means, with respect to any Payment Date,
the product of (i) the Class C Percentage and (ii) the Contract
Pool Principal Balance as of the related Accounting Date.
"Class
D Floor" means, with respect to any Payment Date, an amount equal
to (i) 1.5625% of the Initial Contract Pool Principal Balance,
plus (ii) the Unfunded Loss Amount, if any, for such Payment
Date, minus (iii) the amount on deposit in the Reserve
Account (after giving effect to withdrawals and releases to be made
on such Payment Date); provided , however , that in
no event will the Class D Floor be greater than the Principal
Amount of the Class D Notes immediately prior to such Payment Date
or less than zero; provided , further , that if the
Principal Amount of the Class C Notes immediately prior to any
Payment Date is less than or equal to the Class C Floor for such
Payment Date, the Class D Floor with respect to such Payment Date
will equal the Principal Amount of the Class D Notes immediately
prior to such Payment Date.
"Class D
Interest Carryover Shortfall" means, with respect to any Payment
Date, the excess, if any, of the Class D Interest Payment
Amount for the preceding Payment Date over the amount that was
actually paid in respect of interest on the Class D Notes on
such preceding Payment Date, plus , to the extent permitted
by law, an amount equal to the product of (i) the Class D
Interest Rate, (ii) such excess, and (iii) a fraction equal to
one-twelfth.
"Class D
Interest Payment Amount" means, with respect to any Payment Date,
the sum of the Class D Monthly Interest Payment Amount and the
Class D Interest Carryover Shortfall for such Payment
Date.
"Class D
Interest Rate" means 5.46% per annum.
"Class D
Maturity Date" means April 20, 2014 (or, if such day is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day thereafter).
"Class D
Monthly Interest Payment Amount" means (a) with respect to the
first Accrual Period and the related Payment Date, an amount equal
to the product of (i) the Class D Interest Rate, (ii) the
Initial Class D Principal Amount, and (iii) a fraction equal
to the number of days in such Accrual Period divided by 360, and
(b) with respect to each subsequent Accrual Period and the related
Payment Date, an amount equal to the product of (i) the
Class D Interest Rate, (ii) the Principal Amount of the
Class D Notes on the immediately preceding Payment Date, after
giving effect to all payments of principal to Class D
Noteholders on or prior to such immediately preceding Payment Date,
and (iii) a fraction equal to one-twelfth
"Class D
Notes" means the 5.46% Class D Receivable-Backed Notes in the
Aggregate Principal Amount of $22,264,116, issued pursuant to the
Indenture.
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"Class D
Percentage" means 3.00%.
"Class D
Principal Payment Amount" means the lesser of (a) the excess, if
any, of (i) the Total Principal Payment Amount over (ii) the
sum of the Class A Principal Payment Amount, the Class B Principal
Payment Amount and the Class C Principal Payment Amount and
(b) the excess, if any, of (i) the Principal Amount of the
Class D Notes over (ii) the greater of (1) the Class D Target
Principal Amount and (2) the Class D Floor; provided, however, that
in no event will the Class D Principal Payment Amount exceed the
Principal Amount of the Class D Notes.
"Class D
Target Principal Amount" means, with respect to any Payment Date,
the product of (i) the Class D Percentage and (ii) the Contract
Pool Principal Balance as of the related Accounting Date.
"Closing
Date" means November 22, 2006.
"Code"
means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
"Collection
Account" means the account so designated established pursuant to
Section 7.01.
"Collection
Account Property" means the Collection Account, all amounts and
investments held from time to time in the Collection Account
(whether in the form of deposit accounts, physical property,
book-entry securities, uncertificated securities or otherwise), and
all proceeds of the foregoing.
"Collection
Period" means a period beginning on the first day of a calendar
month and ending on, but not including, the first day of the next
calendar month, provided that the first Collection Period shall be
the two calendar months preceding the month in which the first
Payment Date occurs.
"Collections"
means the sum of (i) all Scheduled Payments on the Contracts,
including (without duplication) Scheduled Payments on Defaulted
Contracts, received on or after the Cut-Off Date (excluding the
Excluded Amounts); (ii) any Prepayments received on the Contracts
on or after the Cut-Off Date (other than (a) in the case of a
Lease, any Excluded Residual Investment which shall be allocated to
the Depositor, or (b) in the case of a Prepaid Contract for which a
substitution has been made in accordance with Section 2.03 of this
Agreement, that portion thereof to which the Depositor is entitled
pursuant to Section 2.03); (iii) the Purchase Amount of any
Contracts purchased by CFUSA in accordance with Section 7.06
of this Agreement (other than any portion thereof attributable in
the case of a Lease to the Excluded Residual Investments); (iv) the
amount paid by CFUSA or the Depositor to purchase the Contracts
pursuant to Section 7.08 of this Agreement; (v) that portion
of the Liquidation Proceeds received in respect of any Contracts
and the disposition of the related Equipment on or after the
Cut-Off Date allocated to the Trust; and any earnings on the
investment of amounts credited to amounts of deposit in the
Collection Account; provided that, Collections shall not include
any amounts received with respect to any Excluded Residual
Investment.
"Commission"
means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
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"Computer
Disk" means the computer disk generated by the Servicer (or any
subservicer under Section 5.05), which provides information
relating to Contracts in the Contract Pool and which was used by
such party in selecting the related Contracts for conveyance and
inclusion in such Contract Pool, and includes the master file and
the history file as well as servicing information with respect to
such Contracts.
"Contract"
means each End-User Contract and each Vendor Loan listed on any
Schedule of Contracts but, unless otherwise specified herein, shall
not refer to any Secondary Contract.
"Contract
Assets" means, with respect to any Contracts (including Substitute
Contracts) and related assets conveyed or being conveyed to the
Depositor pursuant to a Substitution Assignment Agreement, the VFC
Assignment or the Non-VFC Purchase Agreement, and concurrently
conveyed or being conveyed by the Depositor to the Trust pursuant
to this Agreement or a Substitution Transfer Agreement, all right,
title and interest of CFUSA or the VFC Trust, as the case may be,
in, to and under:
(i)
such Contracts, and all monies due or to become due in payment of
such Contracts on and after the relevant Cut-Off Date, and
including Scheduled Payments due but not yet received prior to the
relevant Cut-Off Date and all other Scheduled Payments (including
in respect of any Guaranteed Residual Investment) due or becoming
due on or after the relevant Cut-Off Date, any Prepayments, any
payments in respect of a casualty or early termination, any
Liquidation Proceeds received with respect thereto, but excluding
any Scheduled Payments both due and actually received and processed
prior to the related Cut-Off Date and any Excluded Amounts;
(ii)
the Financed Items related to such Contracts and, in the case of
any Vendor Loan, related Applicable Security, including all
proceeds from any sale or other disposition of such Financed Items
(but subject to the exclusion and release herein of Excluded
Amounts) and any Guaranteed Residual Investment;
(iii)
the related Contract Files;
(iv)
all payments made or to be made in the future with respect to such
Contracts or the Obligor thereunder under any Vendor Agreements
with the relevant Financing Originator and under any guarantee or
similar credit enhancement with respect to such Contracts;
(v)
all Insurance Proceeds with respect to each such Contract; and
(vi)
all income from and proceeds of the foregoing.
"Contract
File" means, with respect to each Contract, the fully executed
original counterpart (for UCC purposes) of the Contract, the
original certificate of title or other title document with respect
to the related Equipment (if applicable) or, in each case, if (but
only if) such original documents are intangible documents, the
electronic files of such originals, and otherwise such documents or
electronic entries, if any, that the Servicer (or applicable
Financing
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Originator) keeps on file in accordance with
Customary Policies and Procedures evidencing such Contracts or such
ownership of such Equipment (if applicable), and all other
documents originally delivered to the Financing Originator or
held by the Servicer (or subservicer under Section 5.05)
with respect to any Contract.
"Contract
Pool" means, as of any date of determination, the aggregate of the
Contracts which have been conveyed to the Trust and which
constitute as of such date Trust Assets under the terms and
provisions hereof.
"Contract
Pool Principal Balance" means with respect to any Payment Date, the
sum of the Contract Principal Balances (computed as of the related
Accounting Date) for all Contracts; provided that, on any Payment
Date on which the Contract Pool Principal Balance is determined to
be less than or equal to $10,000,000, then the Contract Pool
Principal Balance will be deemed equal to $0.
"Contract
Principal Balance" means as of any Accounting Date, with respect to
any Contract, the present value of the unpaid Scheduled Payments
due on such Contract after such Accounting Date (excluding all
Scheduled Payments due on or prior to, but not received as of, such
Accounting Date, as well as any Scheduled Payments due after, but
received as of, such Accounting Date), after giving effect to any
Prepayments received on or prior to such Accounting Date,
discounted monthly at the Discount Rate (assuming, for purposes of
such calculation, that each Scheduled Payment is due on the last
day of the applicable Collection Period); provided that, for
purposes of computing the Total Principal Payment Amount, the
Unfunded Loss Amount, or the Specified Reserve Account Balance for
a given Payment Date (as well as all Payment Dates thereafter), the
Contract Principal Balance of any Contract, which became a
Defaulted Contract or a Liquidated Contract during the related
Collection Period or was required to be purchased by CFUSA as of
the last day of the related Collection Period in accordance with
Section 5.01 of the Purchase and Sale Agreement, will be deemed to
be zero on and after the last day of such Collection Period.
"Corporate
Trust Office" means the corporate trust office of the Owner
Trustee, which office initially shall be located at White Clay
Center, Route 273, Newark, Delaware 19711, or such other office at
such other address as the Owner Trustee may designate from time to
time by notice to the Equity Certificateholder, the Servicer, the
Administrator and the Depositor.
"CSA"
means each conditional sales agreement, including, as applicable,
schedules, subschedules, supplements and amendments to a master
conditional sales agreement, pursuant to which specified assets
were conditionally sold to an Obligor at specified monthly,
quarterly, semi-annual or annual payments.
"Cumulative
Net Loss Event" means, with respect to any Collection Period, the
Cumulative Net Loss Ratio for such Collection Period exceeds the
Cumulative Net Loss Trigger for such Collection Period.
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"Cumulative
Net Loss Ratio" means the ratio of (a) the Cumulative Reported Net
Losses recognized with respect to the Contracts in the Contract
Pool since the Initial Cut-Off Date over (b) the Initial Contract
Pool Principal Balance.
"Cumulative
Net Loss Trigger" means, for each of the Collection Periods set
forth below, the Cumulative Net Loss Ratio percentage opposite such
Collection Period (and measured on each of the Payment Dates
following the Collection Periods specified below):
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Collection Period
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Cumulative Net Loss
Ratio
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November 2006
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0.50
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%
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December 2006
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0.50
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%
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March 2007
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1.00
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%
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June 2007
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1.75
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%
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September 2007
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2.75
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%
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December 2007
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3.25
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%
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March 2008
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4.00
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%
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June 2008
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4.25
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%
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September 2008
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5.00
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%
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December 2008
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5.25
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%
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March 2009
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5.25
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%
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June 2009
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5.50
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%
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September 2009 and each collection period
thereafter
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5.50
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%
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"Cumulative
Reported Net Losses" means, with respect to any Collection Period,
the aggregate Contract Principal Balances of Defaulted Contracts
(immediately prior to the applicable default) minus the sum of any
subsequent cash collections on Defaulted Contracts, including
Liquidation Proceeds.
"Customary
Policies and Procedures" means, with respect to any Contract
Assets, the customary standards, policies and procedures of the
relevant Financing Originator with respect to such Contract Assets
in effect at the time of the Cut-Off Date with respect thereto, as
the same may be changed from time to time (provided that any such
change does not materially impair (i) the collectibility of
the related Contract, or (ii) the Servicer’s ability to
perform its obligations under this Agreement with respect
thereto).
"Cut-Off
Date" means October 1, 2006, and with respect to any Substitute
Contract, the Substitution Cut-Off Date (as the context may
require).
"Date
of Processing" means, with respect to any transaction or
Collection, the date on which such transaction or Collection is
first recorded (and, in the case of a transaction or Collection
related to a particular Contract, identified as to such particular
Contract as part of Available Funds) on the related Financing
Originator’s or the Servicer’s computer master file of
Contracts (without regard to the effective date of such
recordation).
"DFS"
means Dell Financial Services L.P.
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"Defaulted
Contract" means as to any Collection Period, any Contract (a) which
the Servicer has determined in its sole discretion, in accordance
with Customary Policies and Procedures (and taking into account any
available Vendor recourse), that such Contract is not collectible;
or, (b) the End-User under such Contract (or applicable Vendor, if
such Contract is a Vendor Loan) becomes the subject of an
Insolvency Event or, (c) as to which during the Collection Period
10% or more of a Scheduled Payment shall have become delinquent 180
days or more.
"Delaware
Statutory Trust Act" has the meaning specified in the Trust
Agreement.
"Delinquent
Contract" means any Contract as to which all or a portion of a
Scheduled Payment (constituting at least $25 of such Scheduled
Payment due) is more than 60 days delinquent from its original
due date.
"Deposit
Date" means the Business Day immediately preceding each Payment
Date.
"Depositor"
means the "Depositor" as defined in the preamble hereto, or any
successor entity thereto.
"Determination
Date" means, with respect to any Payment Date, the second Business
Day prior to such Payment Date.
"Discount
Rate" means 5.886%.
"Dollar"
and "$" means lawful currency of the United States of America.
"Eligible
Contract" means each Contract owned (prior to its conveyance by a
Financing Originator to CFUSA under the VFC Conveyancing Agreement
or the Non-VFC Conveyancing Agreement, as the case may be; prior to
its conveyance by CFUSA to the Depositor under the VFC Purchase
Agreement or the Non-VFC Purchase Agreement, as the case may be,
and prior to its conveyance by the VFC Trust to the Depositor
pursuant to the VFC Assignment, if a VFC Contract) by a Financing
Originator, CFUSA or the VFC Trust, as the case may be, and with
respect to which each of the following is true (to the extent
applicable to such type of Contract) at the time of its conveyance
to the Trust on the Closing Date (or Substitution Transfer
Date, as applicable):
(a)
the information with respect to the Contract, any Secondary
Contract securing the obligations under such Contract, and the
Financed Items related to the Contract, delivered to the Servicer
by or at the direction of CFUSA under the Series 2006-VT2 VFC
Purchase Agreement or the Non-VFC Purchase Agreement, as the case
may be, or by or at the direction of the VFC Trust pursuant to the
VFC Assignment is true and correct in all material respects;
(b)
immediately prior to the transfer of such Contract and any related
Equipment (or security interest therein) or Applicable Security to
the Depositor (and the Depositor’s concurrent transfer
thereof to the Trust), CFUSA or the VFC Trust owned and had
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good and marketable title to (and following the
transfer by CFUSA or the VFC Trust, the Depositor owns and has good
and marketable title to) the Contracts, free and clear of any
Liens, other than Permitted Liens; and immediately prior to the
transfer of such Contract and any related Equipment (or security
interest therein) or Applicable Security by the applicable
Financing Originator to CFUSA, such Contract was owned by the
applicable Financing Originator free and clear of any Liens, other
than Permitted Liens;
(c)
the Contract is neither a Defaulted Contract nor a Delinquent
Contract;
(d)
no provision of the Contract has been waived, altered or modified
in any material respect, except as indicated in the Contract
File;
(e)
the Contract is a valid and binding payment obligation of the
Obligor and is enforceable in accordance with its terms (except as
may be limited by applicable Insolvency Laws and the availability
of equitable remedies);
(f)
the Contract is not subject to litigation, or to rights of
rescission, setoff, counterclaim or defense and, to CFUSA’s
or the Servicer’s knowledge, no such rights have been
asserted or threatened with respect to the Contract;
(g)
the Contract, at the time it was made, had been originated in
compliance (in all material respects) with applicable law, and did
not violate the laws of the United States of America or any state
in any material respect;
(h)
(i) the Contract and any related Financed Item or interest therein
(other than Excluded Residual Investments) have not been sold,
transferred, assigned or pledged by the Financing Originator or,
CFUSA or the VFC Trust to any other Person (other than (a) the sale
of Contracts and any Financed Item financed or interest therein to
CFUSA or to the Depositor and then the VFC Trust and (b) the
financed sale of Equipment to an End-User effected through an
End-User Contract), or (ii) if such Contract finances Equipment,
such Contract is secured by a fully perfected lien or ownership
interest in favor of the Financing Originator or, in the case of
Equipment relating to the VFC Contracts, the Depositor, on or in
respect of the related Equipment (other than as contemplated by the
Minimum Value Filing Exception), or, if the Contract is a Vendor
Loan, the Vendor Loan is secured by a fully perfected lien or
ownership interest in favor of the Financing Originator or the VFC
Trust in the related Applicable Security;
(i)
if the Contract constitutes an "instrument" or "tangible chattel
paper" for purposes of the UCC, there is not more than one "secured
party’s original" counterpart of the Contract and such
original counterpart is in the Contract File;
(j)
all filings (including filings of UCC financing statements)
necessary (i) in respect of all Contracts, to evidence or perfect
the conveyance or transfer of the relevant Financing
Originator’s ownership interest in the Contract, and the
Financing Originator’s corresponding interest in the related
Equipment or Applicable Security, as applicable, to CFUSA, and
(ii) in respect of all Contracts, to evidence or perfect the
conveyance or transfer of CFUSA’s or
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the VFC Trust’s ownership interest in the
Contract, and CFUSA’s or the VFC Trust’s corresponding
interest in the related Equipment or Applicable Security, as
applicable, to the Depositor (as well as the concurrent conveyance
of such property hereunder, other than ownership interests in
Equipment, from the Depositor to the Trust), have been made or
provided for in all appropriate jurisdictions; provided, that UCC
financing statement filings with respect to Equipment or Applicable
Security which name the Financing Originator as secured party have
not been amended to indicate either CFUSA, the Depositor or the
Trust as an assignee (although separate UCC filings were made
against the relevant Financing Originator’s interest in
Applicable Security in each jurisdiction where a related Vendor is
located); and provided further, that only filings in the State of
Delaware have been made in favor of the Trust as secured party
against the Depositor as debtor describing as collateral (among
other things) the Depositor’s ownership interest in
Equipment, in respect of the security interest in Equipment owned
by the Depositor which has been granted to the Trust pursuant to
Section 2.01 hereof.
(k)
the Obligor is not, to CFUSA’s knowledge, subject to
bankruptcy or other insolvency proceedings;
(l)
the Obligor’s billing address is in the United States of
America or Puerto Rico, and the Contract is a U.S.
dollar-denominated obligation;
(m)
the Contract does not require the prior written notification to or
consent of an Obligor or contain any other restriction on the
transfer or assignment of the Contract, or all consents and
approvals required by the terms of the Contract for the sale of the
Contract hereunder have been received;
(n)
either (x) the obligations of the related Obligor under such
Contract are irrevocable and unconditional and non-cancelable (it
being understood that Contracts which are prepayable in accordance
with their terms shall not, by virtue of that fact alone, be deemed
revocable, conditional or cancelable) or, if not irrevocable and
unconditional, have the benefit of a Vendor Guarantee or (y) with
respect to Leases with Lessees that are governmental entities or
municipalities, if such Lease is canceled in accordance with its
terms, either (1) the Vendor that assigned such Lease to the
applicable Financing Originator is unconditionally obligated to
repurchase such lease from the Financing Originator for a purchase
price not less than the Contract Principal Balance of such Lease
(as of the date of cancellation), or (2) pursuant to the Purchase
and Sale Agreements, CFUSA has indemnified the Depositor against
such cancellation in an amount at least equal to the Contract
Principal Balance of such Lease (as of the date of cancellation),
less any amounts paid by the Vendor pursuant to clause (y)(1);
(o)
no selection procedure adverse to the interests of the Trust or the
Equity Certificateholder was used in selecting the Contract for the
Contract Pool;
(p)
the Obligor under the Contract is required to maintain casualty
insurance or to self-insure with respect to the related Equipment
in accordance with the Customary Policies and Procedures;
(q)
the Contract constitutes tangible chattel paper, an account,
an instrument or a general intangible, in each case as defined
under the UCC;
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(r)
the Contract is not a "consumer lease" as defined in
Section 2A-103(1)(e) of the UCC;
(s)
if such Contract is a Lease, to the best knowledge of the relevant
Financing Originator, the Lessee thereunder has accepted and has
had reasonable opportunity to inspect the related Equipment;
(t)
except as provided in clause (n) above, the Contract is not subject
to any guarantee by the relevant Financing Originator, nor has the
relevant Financing Originator established any specific credit
reserve with respect to the related Obligor;
(u)
if such Contract is a Lease, such Lease is a "triple net lease"
under which the Obligor is responsible for the maintenance, taxes
and insurance with respect to the related Equipment in accordance
with general industry standards applicable to such item of
Equipment;
(v)
if such Contract is a Vendor Loan, such Vendor Loan is secured by
an Eligible Secondary Contract having an aggregate Contract
Principal Balance for such Eligible Secondary Contract (determined
as of the relevant Cut-Off Date for such Vendor Loan) not less than
the outstanding principal amount of such Vendor Loan;
(w)
such Contract is not an obligation of the United States of America
or an agency, department, or instrumentality of the United States
of America;
(x)
such Contract contains provisions customary to similar financing
agreements for Financed Items, which provisions are sufficient and
enforceable (except as may be limited by applicable Insolvency Laws
and the availability of equitable remedies) to enable the relevant
Financing Originator (or its assignees, including CFUSA, the VFC
Trust, the Depositor and the Trust) to realize against the Financed
Items related thereto (to the extent such Financed Items secure or
support the payment of the Contract);
(y)
if the Obligor in respect of such Contract is a state or local
governmental entity or municipality, the conveyance of such a
Contract under and pursuant to the Transaction Documents does not
violate applicable state or municipal laws or regulations
(if any) restricting or prohibiting the assignment of claims
against or obligations of such Obligor; and
(z)
such Contract was originated or acquired by the applicable
Financing Originator in accordance with its Customary Policies and
Procedures as in effect at the time of such origination or
acquisition.
"Eligible
Investments" means any of the following:
(i)
direct obligations of, and obligations fully guaranteed by, the
United States of America, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage
Corporation (if then rated "Aaa" by Moody’s), the Federal
National Mortgage Association, or any agency or instrumentality of
the United States of America the obligations of which are backed by
the full faith and credit of the United States of America and which
are non-callable;
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(ii)
demand and time deposits in, certificates of deposit of,
bankers’ acceptances issued by, or federal funds sold by any
depository institution or trust company (including the Trustees or
any Affiliate of the Trustees, acting in their commercial capacity)
incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or any
state thereof or the District of Columbia (or any domestic branch
or agency of a foreign bank) and subject to supervision and
examination by federal and/or state authorities, so long as, at the
time of such investment or contractual commitment providing for
such investment, the commercial paper or other short-term debt
obligations of such depository institution or trust company have
been rated at least "P-1" or higher from Moody’s, "A-1+" from
Standard & Poor’s and, if rated by Fitch, "F1+" from
Fitch; or any other demand or time deposit or certificate of
deposit which is fully insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation and which is rated at least "P-1" by Moody’s
or A-1+ from Standard & Poor’s.
(iii)
repurchase obligations with respect to any security described in
either clause (i) or (ii) above and entered into with any
institution whose commercial paper is at least rated "P-1" from
Moody’s, at least "A-1+" by Standard & Poor’s and,
if rated by Fitch, at least "F1+" by Fitch;
(iv)
securities bearing interest or sold at a discount issued by any
corporation incorporated under the laws of the United States of
America or any state thereof which have a credit rating of at least
"A2" or "P-1" from Moody’s, at least "AAA" from Standard
& Poor’s and, if rated by Fitch, at least "AAA" from
Fitch, at the time of such investment;
(v)
commercial paper (which may be issued by CIT Group Inc.) having a
rating of at least "P-1" from Moody’s, at least "A-1+" from
Standard & Poor’s and, if rated by Fitch, at least "F1+"
from Fitch, at the time of such investment;
(vi)
money market funds which are rated "Aaa" by Moody’s,
at least "AAAm" or "AAAm-G" by Standard & Poor’s
and, if rated by Fitch, at least "AAA" by Fitch, including funds
which meet such rating requirements for which the Trustees or an
affiliate of the Trustees serves as an investment advisor,
administrator, shareholder servicing agent and/or custodian or
subcustodian, notwithstanding that (i) such Trustee or an affiliate
of such Trustee charges and collects fees and expenses from such
funds for services rendered, (ii) such Trustee charges and collects
fees and expenses for services rendered pursuant to this
instrument, and (iii) services performed for such funds and
pursuant to this instrument may converge at any time. (The
Depositor and the Servicer specifically authorize such Trustee or
an affiliate of such Trustee to charge and collect all fees and
expenses from such funds for services rendered to such funds, in
addition to any fees and expenses such Trustee may charge and
collect for services rendered pursuant to this instrument); and
(vii)
any other investments that satisfy the Rating Agency Condition.
"Eligible
Secondary Contract" shall mean each Secondary Contract
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(i)
that satisfies all the criteria set forth in the definition of
"Eligible Contract" except clauses (b) and (h) (in each case, with
respect to ownership by the Financing Originator, CFUSA, the
Depositor, or the VFC Trust of the Contract) and (w) thereof, and
except that the term "Obligor" shall mean "End-User" in all such
criteria;
(ii)
with respect to which Secondary Contract and the proceeds thereof
the Financing Originator (or, in the case of VFC Contracts, the VFC
Trust, as assignee) has a duly perfected first priority lien;
and
(iii)
with respect to which if such Secondary Contract secures a Vendor
Loan constituting a Contract, the transfer of the applicable
Financing Originator’s security interest in such Secondary
Contract and the proceeds thereof to CFUSA, the transfer of
CFUSA’s interest so acquired to the Depositor, and, if
applicable, the Depositor’s transfer of its interest therein
to the VFC Trust and the VFC Trust’s transfer of such
interest back to the Depositor, is effective to create in favor of
the Depositor a lien therein and such lien has been duly
perfected.
"Eligible
Servicer" means CFUSA or any of its Affiliates, the Trustees or any
other Person qualified to act as Servicer of the Contracts under
applicable federal and state laws and regulations, which Person
services not less than $100,000,000 in outstanding principal amount
of equipment financing contracts.
"End-User"
shall mean any party that uses the Financed Items pursuant to an
End-User Contract.
"End-User
Contract" shall mean any CSA, Secured Note, Lease, IPA, or other
Financing Agreement covering Financed Items originated or acquired
by an Originator.
"Equipment"
means with respect to any Contract, the tangible assets
constituting "goods" within the meaning of the UCC, in each case
financed or leased by an Obligor pursuant to a Contract, or which
otherwise provide security for the payment of amounts payable
thereunder.
"Equity
Certificate" has the meaning specified in the Trust Agreement.
"Equity
Certificateholder" means the Person in whose name the Equity
Certificate is registered in the Certificate Register, which
initially shall be the Depositor.
"ERISA"
means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
as amended from time to time.
"Event
of Default" has the meaning specified in the Indenture.
"Exchange
Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended or
supplemented from time to time.
"Excluded
Amounts" means (i) any collections on deposit in the Collection
Account or otherwise received by the Servicer on or with respect to
the Contract Pool or related
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Equipment, which collections are attributable to
any taxes, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental
Authority, (ii) any collections representing reimbursements of
insurance premiums or payments for services that were not financed
by the applicable Originator, (iii) collections relating to
security deposits, and (iv) collections representing Late Charges,
documentation fees, administrative charges or extension fees on any
Contract, or maintenance premiums in respect of related
Equipment.
"Excluded
Residual Investments" means Residual Investments, other than
Guaranteed Residual Investments.
"FDIC"
shall mean the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or any
successor thereto.
"Financed
Items" means Equipment and other property and services that are
permitted to be financed under Contracts in accordance with
Customary Policies and Procedures of the applicable Financing
Originator.
"Financing
Agreement" means each financing agreement covering Financed Items,
other than a CSA, a Secured Note, a Lease or an IPA.
"Financing
Originator" means CIT Communications Finance Corporation, CIT
Technology Financing Services, Inc., DFS-SPV L.P., and Snap-On
Credit, LLC.
"Fitch"
means Fitch, Inc., or any successor thereto.
"Governmental
Authority" means the United States of America, any state or other
political subdivision thereof, and any entity exercising executive,
legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of,
or pertaining to, government.
"Guaranteed
Residual Investment" means each Residual Investment with respect to
which the applicable Financing Originator has an agreement with
either the Vendor or the related Obligor on an End-User Contract
for payment of such Residual Investment.
"Holder"
has the meaning specified in the Indenture.
"Indebtedness"
means, with respect to any Person at any date, without duplication,
(a) all indebtedness of such person for borrowed money or for the
deferred purchase price of property or services (other than current
liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business and payable
in accordance with customary trade practices) or which is evidenced
by a note, bond, debenture or similar instrument, (b) all
obligations of such Person under capital leases, (c) all
obligations of such Person in respect of acceptances or letters of
credit issued or created for the account of such Person, (d) all
liabilities secured by any Lien on any property owned by such
Person even though such Person has not assumed or otherwise become
liable for the payment thereof, and (e) obligations of such Person
under direct or indirect guaranties in respect of, and obligations
(contingent or otherwise) to purchase or otherwise acquire, or
otherwise to assure a creditor against loss in respect of,
indebtedness or obligations of others of the kinds referred to in
clauses (a) through (d) above.
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"Indenture"
means the Indenture, dated as of the date hereof, between the Trust
and the Indenture Trustee, as amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time.
"Indenture
Trustee" means the Person acting as Indenture Trustee under the
Indenture, its successors in interest and any successor trustee
under the Indenture.
"Independent",
when used with respect to any specified Person, means such a Person
who (i) is in fact independent of the Trust, the Depositor or the
Servicer, (ii) is not a director, officer or employee of any
Affiliate of the Trust, the Depositor or the Servicer, (iii) is not
a person related to any officer or director of the Trust, the
Depositor or the Servicer or any of their respective Affiliates,
(iv) is not a holder (directly or indirectly) of more than 10% of
any voting securities of the Trust, the Depositor or the Servicer
or any of their respective Affiliates, and (v) is not connected
with the Trust, the Depositor or the Servicer as an officer,
employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director or
person performing similar functions.
"Independent
Accountants" has the meaning specified in Section 9.04.
"Ineligible
Contract" has the meaning specified in Section 7.06.
"Initial
Class A-1 Principal Amount" means $258,000,000.
"Initial
Class A-2 Principal Amount" means $144,000,000.
"Initial
Class A-3 Principal Amount" means $180,000,000.
"Initial
Class A-4 Principal Amount" means $100,524,000.
"Initial
Class B Principal Amount" means $16,689,000.
"Initial
Class C Principal Amount" means $20,397,000.
"Initial
Class D Principal Amount" means $22,264,116.
"Initial
Contract Assets" means those Contract Assets conveyed to the Trust
on the Closing Date.
"Initial
Contract Pool Principal Balance" means $741,874,116.
"Initial
Contracts" means those Contracts conveyed to the Trust on the
Closing Date.
"Initial
Principal Amount" means, when used in the context of a reference to
an individual Class of Notes, the initial principal amount
applicable to such Class as defined above.
"Insolvency
Event" means, with respect to a specified Person, (a) the filing of
a decree or the entry of an order for relief by a court having
jurisdiction in the premises in respect of such Person or any
substantial part of its property in an involuntary case under any
applicable Insolvency Law now or hereafter in effect, or appointing
a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator
or similar official for such Person or for any substantial part of
its
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property, or ordering the winding-up or
liquidation of such Person’s affairs, and such decree or
order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 60
consecutive days; or (b) the commencement by such Person of a
voluntary case under any applicable Insolvency Law now or hereafter
in effect, or the consent by such Person to the entry of an order
for relief in an involuntary case under such law, taking possession
by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee,
sequestrator or similar official for such Person or for any
substantial part of its property; or (c) the making by such Person
of any general assignment for the benefit of creditors; or
(d) the failure by such Person generally to pay its debts as
such debts become due; or (e) the admission by such Person in
writing of its inability generally to pay its debts when the same
become due; or (f) the taking of action by such Person in
furtherance of any of the foregoing.
"Insolvency
Laws" means the Bankruptcy Code and all other applicable
liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, moratorium,
rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, suspension
of payments, or similar debtor relief laws from time to time in
effect affecting the rights of creditors generally.
"Insolvency
Proceeds" has the meaning specified in Section 10.01.
"Insurance
Policy" means, with respect to any Contract, an insurance policy
covering physical damage to or loss of the related Equipment.
"Insurance
Proceeds" means, depending on the context, any amounts payable or
any payments made, to the Servicer (or applicable Financing
Originator) under any Insurance Policy.
"Internal
Revenue Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
from time to time.
"Investment
Earnings" means, the investment earnings (net of losses and
investment expenses) on amounts on deposit in the Collection
Account and the Reserve Account.
"IPA"
means each installment payment agreement, including as applicable,
schedules, subschedules, supplements and amendments, pursuant to
which the relevant Originator financed the purchase or acquisition
of specified assets by an Obligor for specified monthly, quarterly,
semiannual or annual payments.
"Late
Charges" means any late payment fees paid by Obligors on
Contracts.
"Lease"
means each lease agreement granting the use of equipment or other
assets for a specified time in exchange for payments and including,
as applicable, schedules, subschedules, supplements and amendments
to a master lease, pursuant to which the Originator, as lessor,
leased specified assets to a Lessee at a specified monthly,
quarterly, semiannual or annual rental.
"Lessee"
means, with respect to any Lease, the Obligor with respect to such
Lease.
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"Lien"
means any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation,
assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or
otherwise), equity interest, participation interest, preference,
priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement of
any kind or nature whatsoever, including, without limitation, any
conditional transfer or other title retention agreement, and any
financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as
any of the foregoing.
"Liquidated
Contract" means, as to any Collection Period, any Contract or
Defaulted Contract (a) which the Servicer has determined is
uncollectible in accordance with the Customary Policies and
Procedures, (b) for which the Equipment or any Applicable Security
securing such Contract has been disposed or (c) has been
repurchased by the Servicer pursuant to Section 5.25.
"Liquidation
Expenses" means, with respect to any Liquidated Contract, the
aggregate amount of all out-of-pocket expenses reasonably incurred
by the Servicer (including amounts paid to or expenses incurred by
any subservicer, other than subservicing fees, if any) in
accordance with Customary Policies and Procedures in connection
with the repossession, refurbishing and disposition of any related
Equipment or any other Applicable Security, and other out-of-pocket
costs related to the liquidation of any such Equipment or such
other Applicable Security, including reasonable attorneys’
fees incurred in the attempted collection of any amount owing
pursuant to such Liquidated Contract, and including amounts
determined by the Servicer in its reasonable discretion as payable
in respect of any sales, use, personal property or other taxes
assessed or to be assessed on repossessed or liquidated Equipment
or any other Applicable Security.
"Liquidation
Proceeds" means, with respect to a Liquidated Contract, proceeds
from the transfer, lease or re-lease of the related Financed Items
or other Applicable Security, Insurance Proceeds, and any other
recoveries with respect to such Liquidated Contract and the related
Financed Items or other Applicable Security (including, without
limitation, amounts received pursuant to a Program Agreement and
Scheduled Payments received on such Defaulted Contracts), but net
of Liquidation Expenses, Late Charges, amounts payable to a Vendor
in respect of (and in amounts not exceeding) amounts previously
paid by such Vendor in respect of such Contract under Vendor
recourse provisions, and amounts, if any, so received that are
required to be refunded to the Obligor on such Contract.
"Material
Adverse Effect" means, with respect to any event or circumstance,
a material adverse effect on:
(i)
the ability of CFUSA, any Financing Originator, the VFC Trust, the
Depositor, the Trust or the Servicer to perform in all material
respects its obligations under this Agreement or any other
Transaction Document;
(ii)
the validity or enforceability of this Agreement, any other
Transaction Document, or the Contracts, or the collectibility of
the Contracts; or
(iii)
the status, existence, perfection, priority or enforceability of
the Trust’s interest in the Contracts and the other Trust
Assets.
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"Material
Modification" means a termination or release (including pursuant to
prepayment), or an amendment, modification or waiver, or equivalent
similar undertaking or agreement, by the Servicer with respect to a
Contract which would not otherwise be permitted under the standards
and criteria set forth in Sections 5.08, 5.09 and/or 5.10
hereof.
"Maturity
Date" means, as applicable, the Class A-1 Maturity Date,
Class A-2 Maturity Date, Class A-3 Maturity Date, Class
A-4 Maturity Date, Class B Maturity Date, Class C
Maturity Date or Class D Maturity Date.
"Minimum
Value Filing Exception" means the variation from the relevant
Financing Originator’s normal policies and practices with
respect to filing UCC financing statements against an Obligor
describing Equipment which is the subject of a Contract, in each
case as set forth in Exhibit F hereto.
"Monthly
Servicer’s Report" has the meaning specified in
Section 9.01.
"Moody’s"
means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., or any successor
thereto.
"Nonrecoverable
Advance" means with respect to any Determination Date and any
Contract, the amount, if any, advanced by the Servicer pursuant to
Section 5.14 which the Servicer has as of such Determination
Date determined in good faith will not be ultimately recoverable by
the Servicer.
"Non-VFC
Contract Assets" means the Contract Assets pertaining to the
Non-VFC Contracts.
"Non-VFC
Contracts" means Contracts conveyed by CFUSA to the Depositor
pursuant to the Non-VFC Purchase Agreement, as listed in Schedule A
to the Non-VFC Purchase Agreement.
"Non-VFC
Conveyancing Agreement" means the Non-VFC Conveyancing Agreement,
dated as of October 1, 2006, by and among CIT Communications
Finance Corporation, CIT Technology Financing Services, Inc. and
CFUSA, as the same may be amended, supplemented, restated or
otherwise modified from time to time.
"Non-VFC
Purchase Agreement" means the Non-VFC Purchase and Sale Agreement,
dated October 1, 2006, by and among CFUSA, as the seller, and the
Depositor, as purchaser, as the same may be amended,
supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time.
"Note"
means any one of the notes of the Trust of any Class executed
and authenticated in accordance with the Indenture.
"Noteholder"
means any registered holder of a Note.
"Note
Register" has the meaning specified in the Indenture.
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"Notes"
means the Class A-1 Notes, Class A-2 Notes,
Class A-3 Notes, Class A-4 Notes, Class B Notes,
Class C Notes, and Class D Notes.
"Obligor"
means, with respect to any Contract, the Person or Persons
obligated to make payments with respect to such Contract, including
any guarantor thereof (and including, with respect to a Contract
consisting of a Vendor Loan, the Vendor obligated in respect of
such Vendor Loan).
"Officer’s
Certificate" means, with respect to any Person, a certificate
signed by an authorized officer of such Person and delivered to the
party entitled to receipt thereof under any applicable Transaction
Document.
"Opinion
of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel
(including internal counsel) for the Depositor or the Servicer and
who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trust and the Indenture
Trustee.
"Originator"
means, with respect to each Contract, the party that is the
original lessor or financing party thereunder.
"Outstanding"
has the meaning specified in the Indenture.
"Owner
Trustee" means The Bank of New York (Delaware), not in its
individual capacity, but solely as Owner Trustee under the Trust
Agreement, its successors in interest and any successor owner
trustee under the Trust Agreement.
"Payment
Date" shall mean the twentieth (20th) day of each calendar month
or, if such twentieth (20th) day is not a Business Day, the
next succeeding Business Day, with the first such Payment Date
being December 20, 2006.
"Paying
Agent" means any Person described as such in
Section 7.04(b).
"Permitted
Liens" means
(a)
with respect to Contracts in the Contract Pool:
(i)
Liens for state, municipal or other local taxes if such taxes shall
not at the time be due and payable or if the Depositor shall
currently be contesting the validity thereof in good faith by
appropriate proceedings and shall have set aside on its books
adequate reserves with respect thereto;
(ii)
Liens in favor of CFUSA created by a Financing Originator, or Liens
in favor of the Depositor created pursuant to the Purchase and Sale
Agreements or Liens in favor of the VFC Trust created pursuant to
the VFC Pooling Agreement, in each case transferred to the Trust
pursuant hereto;
(iii)
Liens in favor of a Financing Originator in respect of Contracts
which have been transferred to such Financing Originator or the VFC
Trust and pursuant to the Purchase and Sale Agreements by such
Financing Originator or the VFC Trust to
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the Depositor (through CFUSA and the VFC
Conveyancing Agreement or the Non-VFC Conveyancing Agreement, as
the case may be, in the case of CFUSA Contracts, and through CFUSA,
the Depositor and the VFC Trust and the VFC Assignment in the case
of the VFC Contracts) and in each case transferred to the Trust
pursuant hereto;
(iv)
Liens created pursuant to this Agreement in favor of the Trust;
and
(v)
Liens in favor of the Indenture Trustee created pursuant to the
Indenture and/or this Agreement; and
(b)
with respect to the related Equipment or to any other Applicable
Security (to the extent applicable):
(i)
materialmen’s, warehousemen’s, mechanics’ and
other liens arising by operation of law in the ordinary course of
business for sums not due;
(ii)
Liens for state, municipal or other local taxes if such taxes shall
not at the time be due and payable or if the Depositor shall
currently be contesting the validity thereof in good faith by
appropriate proceedings and shall have set aside on its books
adequate reserves with respect thereto;
(iii)
Liens in favor of CFUSA created by a Financing Originator, as the
case may be, or Liens in favor of the Depositor created pursuant to
the Purchase and Sale Agreements, in each case transferred to the
Trust pursuant hereto or Liens in favor of the Depositor created
pursuant to the VFC Purchase Agreement;
(iv)
Liens created pursuant to this Agreement in favor of the Trust;
(v)
Liens in favor of an Originator which have been transferred to the
applicable Financing Originator or the VFC Trust and pursuant to
the Purchase and Sale Agreements by such Financing Originator or
the VFC Trust to the Depositor (through CFUSA and the VFC
Conveyancing Agreement or the Non-VFC Conveyancing Agreement, as
the case may be, in the case of CFUSA Contracts, and through CFUSA,
the Depositor and the VFC Trust and the VFC Assignment in the case
of the VFC Contracts) and in each case transferred to the Trust
pursuant hereto;
(vi)
Liens in favor of the Indenture Trustee created pursuant to the
Indenture and/or this Agreement;
(vii)
Liens created pursuant to the underlying loan documents relative to
Contracts;
(viii)
interests in favor of (A) Dell Financial Services, L.P. ("DFS") and
which have been transferred by DFS along with the related Contract
to its limited purpose affiliate, DFS-SPV L.P. and subsequently
transferred by DFS-SPV L.P. to DFS Equipment Holdings L.P., (B)
Snap-On Credit LLC; (C) any other Financing Originator; and (D)
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a Vendor, which, in each case, are subject to the
prior payment of all Obligor obligations in respect of Scheduled
Payments on the related Contract; and
(ix)
Liens granted by the End-Users which are subordinated to the
interest of the Trust in such Equipment.
"Person"
means any individual, corporation, estate, partnership, limited
liability company, joint venture, association, joint stock company,
trust (including any beneficiary thereof), unincorporated
organization or government or any agency or political subdivision
thereof.
"Prepaid
Contract" means any Contract that has terminated or been prepaid in
full prior to its scheduled expiration date (including because of a
Casualty Loss), other than a Defaulted Contract.
"Prepayment"
means with respect to any Collection Period for any Contract,
a partial or full prepayment of amounts due and owing under
such Contract.
"Principal
Amount" means, with respect to a Class of Notes, the aggregate
Initial Principal Amount thereof reduced by the aggregate amount of
any payments applied in reduction of such principal amount.
"Program
Agreement" means each vendor finance program agreement pursuant to
which End-User Contracts originated by a Vendor are assigned to the
applicable Financing Originator.
"Purchase
Amount" means, with respect to Ineligible Contracts, on any date of
determination, the aggregate Required Payoff Amount for such
Ineligible Contracts as of the related Accounting Date.
"Purchase
and Sale Agreements" means, collectively, the Non-VFC Purchase
Agreement, the VFC Purchase Agreement, and the Series 2006-VT2 VFC
Purchase Agreement.
"Purchase
Price" means, with respect to any Contract conveyed on the Closing
Date (or any Subsequent Transfer Date, as applicable), an amount
equal to the Contract Principal Balance of such Contract as of the
applicable Cut-Off Date.
"Qualified
Institution" means (a) the corporate trust department of the
Indenture Trustee or (b) a depository institution organized under
the laws of the United States of America or any one of the states
thereof or the District of Columbia (or any domestic branch of a
foreign bank), (i) (A) which has (or the parent corporation of
which has) either (1) a long-term unsecured debt rating acceptable
to the Rating Agencies or (2) a short-term unsecured debt rating or
certificate of deposit rating acceptable to the Rating Agencies or
(B) which is otherwise acceptable to the Rating Agencies and (ii)
whose deposits are insured by the FDIC.
"Rating
Agency" as of any date means each of the nationally recognized
statistical rating organizations requested by the Depositor to
provide ratings on the Notes which is rating the Notes on such
date.
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"Rating
Agency Condition" means, with respect to any action or series of
related actions or proposed transaction or series of related
proposed transactions, that each Rating Agency, after being
notified in writing of such action or series of related actions or
proposed transaction or series of related proposed transactions,
shall have notified the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the
Indenture Trustee in writing that such action or series of related
actions or the consummation of such proposed transaction or series
of related transactions will not result in a Ratings
Effect.
"Ratings
Effect" means, with respect to any action or series of related
actions or proposed transaction or series of related proposed
transactions, a reduction or withdrawal of the rating of any
outstanding Class with respect to which a Rating Agency has
previously issued a rating as a result of such action or series of
related actions or the consummation of such proposed transaction or
series of related transactions.
"Reallocated
Principal" means, with respect to any Payment Date, an amount equal
to (a) the Total Principal Payment Amount, less (b) the sum of the
Class A Principal Payment Amount, the Class B Principal Payment
Amount, the Class C Principal Payment Amount and the Class D
Principal Payment Amount.
"Receivables
System" means the accounting system administered and utilized by
the Servicer, including all accounting data inputs therein,
including those relating to the accounting for the Contracts.
"Record
Date" means, with respect to any Payment Date, the Business Day
immediately preceding such Payment Date (so long as the Notes are
in book-entry form) or the last day of the prior calendar month (if
certificated Notes have been issued).
"Redemption
Date" has the meaning specified in Section 7.08 hereof.
"Redemption
Price" has the meaning specified in Section 7.08 hereof.
"Regulation
AB" means the rule codified at 17 CFR § 229.110 et
seq. , promulgated by the Commission for the registration,
disclosure and reporting of asset-backed securities under the
Securities Act and the Exchange Act.
"Related
Collection Period Collections" means, as of any Payment Date, the
amount of Collections on deposit in the Collection Account as of
the Deposit Date which were received and processed by the Servicer
during the related Collection Period, including all Liquidation
Proceeds as to Defaulted or Liquidated Contracts (other than in
respect of an Excluded Residual Investment) so received but
excluding any Purchase Amounts.
"Replaced
Assets" has the meaning assigned such term in
Section 2.03.
"Replaced
Contracts" has the meaning assigned such term in
Section 2.03.
"Required
Holders" means (i) prior to the payment in full of the
Class A-Notes, Class A-1 Noteholders, Class A-2
Noteholders, Class A-3 Noteholders and/or Class A-4
Noteholders, holding Class A-1 Notes, Class A-2 Notes,
Class A-3 Notes and/or Class A-4
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Notes, respectively, evidencing more than 66 2/3%
of the Aggregate Principal Amount of all Class A-Notes
Outstanding, (ii) from and after the payment in full of the
Class A-Notes, Holders of Class B Notes holding
Class B Notes evidencing more than 66 2/3% of the Aggregate
Principal Amount of all Class B Notes Outstanding, (iii) from
and after the payment in full of the Class B Notes, Holders of
Class C Notes holding Class C Notes evidencing more than
66 2/3% of the Aggregate Principal Amount of all Class C Notes
Outstanding, and (iv) from and after the payment in full of the
Class C Notes, Holders of the Class D Notes holding
Class D Notes evidencing more than 66 2/3% of the Aggregate
Principal Amount of all Class D Notes Outstanding.
"Required
Payoff Amount" means (a) with respect to any Collection Period for
a Contract (other than a Defaulted Contract), the sum of (i) the
Scheduled Payment due in such Collection Period, together with any
Scheduled Payments due in prior Collection Periods but not yet
received, plus (ii) the Contract Principal Balance of such
Contract (after taking into account the Scheduled Payment due in
such Collection Period and any Scheduled Payments due in prior
Collection Periods whether or not actually received) and, (b) with
respect to Contracts that are Defaulted Contracts, zero.
"Requirements
of Law" for any Person means the certificate of incorporation or
articles of association and by-laws or other organizational or
governing documents of such Person, and any law, treaty, rule or
regulation, or order or determination of an arbitrator or
Governmental Authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon
such Person or to which such Person is subject, whether Federal,
state or local (including, without limitation, usury laws, the
Federal Truth in Lending Act and Regulation Z and Regulation B of
the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System).
"Reserve
Account" means the Reserve Account established and maintained
pursuant to Section 7.01 hereof.
"Reserve
Account Amount" means, as of any Payment Date, the current amount
then on deposit in the Reserve Account.
"Reserve
Account Floor" means 3.00% of the Initial Contract Pool Principal
Balance, provided that, the Reserve Account Floor shall be
reduced by an amount equal to 0.25% of the Initial Contract Pool
Principal Balance on each of the Payment Dates following the
Collection Periods below if the Cumulative Net Loss Ratio is less
than the percentage set forth opposite such Collection Period
below:
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Collection Period
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Reserve Account Cumulative
Net Loss Trigger
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June 2008
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2.50
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September 2008
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2.75
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March 2009
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"Residual
Investment" means, with respect to certain Leases, any funds that
the applicable Financing Originator shall have advanced against all
or any portion of the anticipated
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residual value of the leased Equipment upon the
expiration of such Lease in accordance with its terms in excess of
the Contract Principal Balance of such Lease.
"Responsible
Officer" means, with respect to the Owner Trustee, any officer in
its Corporate Trust Administration Department (or any similar group
of a successor Owner Trustee) who has primary responsibility for
administering the Trust or the Trust Agreement, or to whom a
corporate trust matter is referred because of knowledge of,
familiarity with, and authority to act with respect to a particular
matter.
"Scheduled
Payment" means, with respect to any Contract, the monthly or
quarterly or semi-annual or annual rent or financing (whether
principal or principal and interest) payment or other payment
scheduled to be made by the related Obligor under the terms of such
Contract; it being understood that Scheduled Payments do not
include any Excluded Amount or Excluded Residual Investment.
"Schedule
of Contracts" means the schedule of Contracts which are conveyed to
the Trust pursuant to this Agreement, executed and delivered on the
Closing Date, which schedule shall identify by any reasonable means
or designation the applicable Financing Originator with respect to
each Contract identified in such Schedule, and which includes the
Contracts listed on Exhibit B hereto (which may be in
electronic form rather than as an exhibit hereto). Such Schedule
shall be supplemented from time to time (a) by each subsequent
Substitution Schedule of Contracts with respect to each
Substitution Transfer Agreement and related Substitute Contracts,
which Schedules of Contracts shall be deemed incorporated and made
a part of the original Schedule of Contracts on Exhibit B
hereto; and (b) by the Servicer from time to time to reflect the
release by and removal from the Trust Assets of (i) Contracts
released in connection with (A) in respect of a Contract becoming a
Prepaid Contract in accordance herewith or having its final
Scheduled Payment paid in full in accordance with the Contract, or
(B) in respect of a repurchase from the Trust through payment of a
Purchase Amount, and (ii) Replaced Contracts. The Schedule of
Contracts is to be maintained by the Servicer (with copies thereof,
as the same shall be supplemented or amended as described above, to
be provided promptly to the Trust).
"Schedule
of Representations" means the Schedule of Representations and
Warranties set forth on Exhibit E hereto.
"Secondary
Contract" shall mean, with respect to a Vendor Loan, each End-User
Contract securing such Vendor Loan.
"Secured
Note" means each promissory note with a related security interest
evidenced by written agreement, pursuant to which the purchase of
specified assets by an Obligor or End-User is financed for
specified monthly, quarterly, semiannual or annual payments.
"Securities"
means the Notes and the Equity Certificate, or any of them.
"Securities
Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to
time.
"Securityholders"
means the Holders of the Notes or the Equity Certificate.
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"Series
2006-VT2 VFC Purchase Agreement" means the Series 2006-VT2 VFC
Purchase and Sale Agreement, dated as of October 1, 2006, among
CFUSA and the Depositor, as the same may be amended, supplemented,
restated or otherwise modified from time to time.
"Servicer"
means initially CFUSA, until any Successor Servicer is appointed
pursuant to Article VIII hereof, and thereafter, means the
Successor Servicer so appointed.
"Servicer
Advance" means, with respect to any Payment Date, the amounts,
if any, deposited by the Servicer in the Collection Account
for such Payment Date in respect of Scheduled Payments pursuant to
Section 5.14 hereof.
"Servicer
Default" has the meaning given such term in Section 8.01.
"Servicer
Letter of Credit" has the meaning given such term in
Section 7.01(b)(ii)(B) hereof.
"Services
" means, in connection with the financing of Software by an
Originator, the support and consulting services related to such
Software, the procurement of which was also financed by such
Originator pursuant to a Contract.
"Servicing
Fee" has the meaning specified in Section 5.18 hereof.
"Servicing
Fee Percentage" means 0.75%.
"Servicing
Officer" means any officer of the Servicer involved in, or
responsible for, the administration and servicing of Contracts.
"Servicing
Standard" means, with respect to the servicing and collection
activities of the Servicer concerning the Contract Assets, the
conduct of such activities with reasonable care, using that degree
of skill and attention that the relevant Financing Originator for
such Contract Assets exercises with respect to all comparable
contracts and related assets that it services for itself or others,
and in accordance with Customary Policies and Procedures and
applicable law.
"Servicing
Transfer" is defined in Section 8.02(b).
"Software"
means the telephone switching or networking systems operating
software financed or leased by an Obligor pursuant to a
Contract.
"Solvent" means, as to any Person at any time, that (a) the fair
value of the property of such Person is greater than the amount of
such Person’s liabilities (including disputed, contingent and
unliquidated liabilities) as such value is established or such
liabilities evaluated for purposes of Section 101(32) of the
Bankruptcy Code; (b) the present fair saleable value of the
property of such Person in an orderly liquidation of such Person is
not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable
liability of such Person on its debts as they become absolute and
matured; (c) such Person is able to realize upon its property and
pay its debts and other liabilities (including disputed, contingent
and unliquidated liabilities) as they mature in the normal course
of business; (d) such Person does not intend to, and does not
believe
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that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond
such Person’s ability to pay as such debts and liabilities
mature; and (e) such Person is not engaged in business or a
transaction, and is not about to engage in a business or a
transaction, for which such Person’s property would
constitute unreasonably small capital.
"Specified
Reserve Account Balance" means with respect to any Payment Date, an
amount equal to the greater of (a) the sum of (i) an amount
equal to 7.25% of the Contract Pool Principal Balance as of the
related Accounting Date plus (ii) the excess, if any, of (A) the
sum of the Principal Amounts of the Notes, after giving effect to
all payments of principal on such Payment Date, over (B) the
Contract Pool Principal Balance as of the related Accounting Date,
and (b) the Reserve Account Floor.
"Standard
& Poor’s" means Standard & Poor’s Ratings
Service, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, or any
successor thereto.
"Subsidiary"
means with respect to a Person, any corporation or other entity of
which securities or other ownership interests (whether directly or
indirectly in connection with contract rights) having ordinary
voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors or other
persons performing similar functions are at the time directly or
indirectly owned by such Person.
"Substitute
Contract" means any Contract conveyed, assigned and transferred by
the Depositor or CFUSA to the Trust pursuant to
Section 2.03.
"Substitute
Contract Assets" means Contract Assets relating to Substitute
Contracts.
"Substitute
Contract Qualification Conditions" means, with respect to any
Substitute Contract being transferred to the Trust pursuant to
Section 2.03, the accuracy of each of the following statements
as of the related Cut-Off Date for such Contract: (a) the Contract
Principal Balance of such Substitute Contract is not less than that
of the related Replaced Contract(s); (b) no adverse selection
procedure shall have been employed in the selection of such
Substitute Contract from the applicable Financing
Originator’s portfolio; and (c) each such Substitute Contract
satisfied the criteria set forth in the definition of Eligible
Contract herein.
With
respect to any such Substitute Contract which is replacing a
Replaced Contract of the type described in clause (a) of the
definition of Substitution Event, the condition that after giving
effect to such transfer, the Contract Pool Principal Balance of all
Substitute Contracts transferred to the Trust since the Closing
Date in respect of Replaced Contracts of the same type shall not
exceed 10% of the Initial Contract Pool Principal Balance.
"Substitute
Transferred Assets" has the meaning assigned such term in
Section 2.03.
"Substitution
Assignment Agreement" means, with respect to any Substitute
Contracts, the agreement between CFUSA and the Depositor pursuant
to which CFUSA transfers the identified Substitute Contracts to the
Depositor pursuant to the Non-VFC Purchase Agreement or the Series
2006-VT2 VFC Purchase Agreement, as the case may be.
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"Substitution
Cut-Off Date" means the date specified as such for the relevant
Substitute Contracts, in the related Substitution Transfer
Agreement.
"Substitution
Event" means, with respect to any transfer of a related Substitute
Contract to the Trust under Section 2.03, the occurrence of
any of the following: (a) one or more Contracts identified in the
related Substitution Notice as being an intended Replaced Contract
with respect to such Substitute Contract, has become a Defaulted
Contract, (b) one or more Contracts identified in the related
Substitution Notice as being an intended Replaced Contract with
respect to such Substitute Contract, has been subjected to a
Material Modification, (c) one or more Contracts identified in the
related Substitution Notice as being an intended Replaced Contract
with respect to such Substitute Contract, has become an Ineligible
Contract, or (d) one or more Contracts identified in the related
Substitution Notice as being an intended Replaced Contract with
respect to such Substitute Contract, has become a Prepaid Contract
and the Trust has not yet received the related Prepayment.
"Substitution
Notice" means, with respect to any transfer of Substitute Contracts
to the Trust pursuant to Section 2.03 (and the applicable
Financing Originator’s corresponding conveyance and
assignment of such Substitute Contracts), a notice, which shall be
given at least five days prior to the related Substitution Transfer
Date, identifying the Substitute Contracts to be transferred, the
Contract Principal Balance of such Substitute Contracts and the
related Substitution Event (with respect to an identified Contract
or Contracts then in the Contract Pool, which will upon such
substitution become a Replaced Contract) to which such Substitute
Contract relates, with such notice to be signed both by the
Depositor and the applicable Financing Originator(s).
"Substitution
Schedule of Contracts" means a schedule or list, substantially in
the form of the initial Schedule of Contracts delivered on the
Closing Date, but listing each Substitute Contract being
transferred to the Trust pursuant to a related Substitution
Transfer Agreement, as well as the related Replaced Contracts being
removed from the existing Contract Pool by virtue of such
substitution.
"Substitution
Transfer Agreement" means the agreement identified as such in
Section 2.03(b)(iv) hereof.
"Substitution
Transfer Date" means any date on which Substitute Contracts are
transferred to the Trust.
"Successor
Servicer" has the meaning given such term in
Section 8.02(b).
"Tax
Opinion" means, with respect to any action, an Opinion of Counsel
to the effect that, for federal income tax purposes, (i) following
such action the Trust will not be deemed to be an association (or
publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation,
(ii) following such action the Trust will be disregarded as a
separate entity from the Depositor, and (iii) such action will not
affect the tax characterization as debt of Notes of any outstanding
Class issued by the Trust for which an Opinion of Counsel has
been provided that such Notes are debt.
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"Third
Party Source" means any affiliate of CFUSA, Vendor or other
manufacturer, dealer, lender or intermediary from which CFUSA
purchased a Contract.
"Total
Principal Payment Amount" means, with respect to any Payment Date,
the difference between (a) the aggregate Principal Amount of all
Classes of Notes immediately prior to that Payment Date and (b) the
Contract Pool Principal Balance as of the related Accounting
Date.
"Transaction
Documents" means this Agreement, any Substitution Transfer
Agreement, the VFC Conveyancing Agreement, the VFC Purchase
Agreement, the VFC Assignment, the VFC Pooling Agreement, the
Non-VFC Conveyancing Agreement, the Non-VFC Purchase Agreement, the
Series 2006-VT2 VFC Purchase Agreement, the Trust Agreement, the
Administration Agreement, the Indenture and any other agreements
contemplated herein or therein.
"Transferred
Assets" means with respect to any Contracts (including Substitute
Contracts) conveyed or being conveyed to the Trust pursuant to this
Agreement, all right and interest of the Depositor in, to and under
the following:
(i)
such Contracts and other related Contract Assets (subject to the
proviso below);
(ii)
related rights of the Depositor under the Purchase and Sale
Agreements and Substitution Assignment Agreement (if any) and the
VFC Assignment, including, without limitation, in respect of the
obligation of CFUSA to repurchase or substitute for such Contracts
under certain circumstances as specified therein;
(iii)
rights under this Agreement and each Substitution Transfer
Agreement; and
(iv)
all income from and proceeds of the foregoing;
provided, that Transferred Assets shall not include any title to
or ownership interest (other than any Guaranteed Residual
Investment) in the Equipment related to such Contracts (although
security interests in such Equipment established pursuant to the
related Contract, and proceeds thereof, shall constitute
Transferred Assets), and provided further, that the security
interest granted by the Depositor pursuant to Section 2.01
hereof in related Equipment owned by it, shall constitute part of
Transferred Assets.
"Trust"
means the trust governed by the Trust Agreement, the assets and
property of which consists of the Trust Assets.
"Trust
Account Property" means the Trust Accounts, all amounts and
investments held from time to time in any Trust Account (whether in
the form of deposit accounts, physical property, book-entry
securities, uncertificated securities or otherwise), and all
proceeds of the foregoing.
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"Trust
Accounts" means, collectively, the Collection Account and the
Reserve Account, or either of them.
"Trust
Agreement" means the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as
of the date hereof, between the Depositor and the Owner Trustee, as
amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time.
"Trust
Assets" has the meaning given to such term in the Trust
Agreement.
"Trust
Estate" has the meaning given to such term in the Trust
Agreement.
"Trustees"
means the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, or any of them
individually as the context may require.
"UCC"
means the Uniform Commercial Code as enacted from time to time in
the State of New York.
"Unfunded
Loss Amount" means, for any Payment Date, an amount equal to any
excess of: (a) the Aggregate Principal Amount of the Notes, prior
to giving effect to the payment of principal on the Notes on that
Payment Date (or as of the Closing Date, in the case of the first
Payment Date), minus (b) the lesser of (i) the Contract Pool
Principal Balance as of the last day of the Collection Period
immediately preceding the preceding Payment Date, minus the
Contract Pool Principal Balance as of the last day of the
Collection Period immediately preceding the current Payment Date;
or (ii) the Available Funds remaining after payment of amounts
owing to the Servicer and interest due on the Notes on the Payment
Date plus any withdrawal from the Reserve Account for payment of
principal on the Notes on the Payment Date, minus (c) the Contract
Pool Principal Balance as of the last day of the related Collection
Period.
"Unreimbursed
Servicer Advances" means, at any time, the amount of all previous
Servicer Advances (or portions thereof) as to which the Servicer
has not been reimbursed as of such time pursuant to
Section 7.05 and which the Servicer has determined in its sole
discretion are Nonrecoverable Advances, and with respect to which
the Servicer has given a written certification to such effect to
the Trust (which certification may take the form of an entry on a
Monthly Servicer’s Report identifying Unreimbursed Servicer
Advances).
"Vendor" means, with respect to a Contract, the equipment
manufacturer, dealer or distributor, or software licensor or
distributor, or other Person that provided financing under such
Contract in connection with the acquisition or use by an End-User
of such party’s Equipment, Software, Services or other
products.
"Vendor
Agreements" means, collectively, Vendor Assignments and Program
Agreements.
"Vendor
Assignment" means each assignment agreement pursuant to which an
individual End-User Contract originated by a Vendor is assigned by
such Vendor to a Financing Originator.
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"Vendor
Guarantee" means the irrevocable obligation of a Vendor to pay to a
Financing Originator the aggregate outstanding principal amount of
a Contract which has been canceled by the related Obligor pursuant
to the terms of such Contract.
"Vendor
Loan" means a limited recourse loan agreement payable by a Vendor
and secured by the Vendor’s interest in Secondary Contracts
and by the Equipment, if any, related thereto.
"VFC
Assignment" means the Release and Assignment instrument dated the
Closing Date, substantially in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit A , executed by the VFC Trust conveying, assigning
and releasing the VFC Contract Assets to the Depositor.
"VFC
Contract Assets" means the Contract Assets pertaining to the VFC
Contracts.
"VFC
Contracts" means Contracts conveyed by the VFC Trust to the
Depositor pursuant to the VFC Assignment, as listed in the Schedule
of Contracts attached to the VFC Assignment.
"VFC
Conveyancing Agreement" means the Amended and Restated Conveyancing
Agreement dated as of March 2, 1999, as amended and restated as of
June 29, 2000 among the TCC Financing Originators (as defined
therein) and CFUSA, as the same has been or may be amended,
supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time.
"VFC
Pooling Agreement" means the Second Amended and Restated Pooling
and Servicing Agreement dated as of March 2, 1999, as amended and
restated as of June 29, 2000, as further amended and restated
as of August 21, 2006, by and among the VFC Trust, the
Depositor and Capita Corporation, as the same has been or may be
amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to
time.
"VFC
Purchase Agreement" means the Amended and Restated Sale and
Contribution Agreement dated as of March 2, 1999, as amended and
restated as of June 29, 2000, by and among CFUSA, Capita
Corporation, and the Depositor, as the same has been or may be
amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to
time.
"VFC
Trust" means the CIT Equipment Trust – VFC Series created and
existing pursuant to the Trust Agreement dated as of February 25,
1999, as amended by Amendment No. 1 dated as of June 27, 2000,
by and between the Depositor and The Bank of New York (Delaware),
as owner trustee, as the same has been or may be amended,
supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time.
"Vice
President" of any Person means any vice president of such Person,
whether or not designated by a number or words before or after the
title "Vice President," who is a duly elected officer of such
Person.
"Voting
Power" means, with respect to any outstanding membership interest
of the Depositor, the power (expressed as a percentage) represented
by such membership interest of the aggregate voting power of all
outstanding membership interests of the Depositor having
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ordinary voting power, including the power to
vote for election of members of the Board of Directors (and, if any
class thereof has power to designate members of the Board of
Directors or any special committee thereof, the power so to
designate).
Section
1.02 Usage of Terms . With respect to all terms in this
Agreement, the singular includes the plural and the plural the
singular; words importing any gender include each other gender;
references to "writing" include printing, typing, lithography and
other means of reproducing words in a visible form; references to
agreements and other contractual instruments include all
amendments, modifications and supplements thereto or any changes
therein entered into in accordance with their respective terms and
not prohibited by this Agreement; references to Persons include
their permitted successors and assigns; and the term "including"
means "including without limitation."
Section
1.03 Section References . All section references, unless
otherwise indicated, shall be to Sections in this Agreement.
Section
1.04 Accounting Terms . All accounting terms used but not
specifically defined herein shall be construed in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of
America.
Section
1.05 Undefined Capitalized Terms . Except as otherwise
specified herein or as the context may otherwise require,
capitalized terms used herein that are not otherwise defined shall
have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture.
ARTICLE II
FUNDINGS OF TRUST; TRANSFERS OF CONTRACTS
Section
2.01 Creation and Funding of Trust ; Transfer of
Transferred Assets to Trust . (a) The Trust has been created
(i) pursuant to an initial trust agreement as amended and restated
by the Trust Agreement, and (ii) by the filing by the Owner Trustee
of an appropriately completed Certificate of Trust under the
Delaware Statutory Trust Act. The Depositor, as settlor of the
Trust, shall fund and convey assets to the Trust pursuant to the
terms and provisions hereof. The Trust shall be administered
pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, the Administration
Agreement and the Trust Agreement for the benefit of the
Noteholders and the Equity Certificateholder. Each of the Owner
Trustee and the Administrator (as defined in the Administration
Agreement) is hereby specifically recognized by the parties hereto
as empowered to conduct business dealings on behalf of the Trust in
accordance with the terms hereof and of the Trust Agreement and
Administration Agreement.
(b)
Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the
Depositor, in consideration of the purchase price of the Contracts
and the related Transferred Assets and the retention of the Equity
Certificate, does hereby transfer, assign, set over and otherwise
convey to the Trust, on the Closing Date, by execution of this
Agreement, without recourse (other than as expressly provided
herein), (i) all the right, title and interest of the Depositor in
and to the Contracts and the related Transferred Assets identified
in this Agreement, and (ii) all income
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from and proceeds of the foregoing. The "purchase
price" for the Contracts and the related Transferred Assets shall
be an amount equal to $740,558,450.01. Such purchase price shall be
payable in immediately available funds on the Closing
Date.
(c)
The parties hereto hereby agree and acknowledge that title to or
ownership of any related Equipment shall not be transferred to the
Trust upon such conveyance and that the Depositor shall retain its
ownership interest (to the extent the same has been so conveyed to
the Depositor pursuant to the VFC Purchase Agreement, the Non-VFC
Purchase Agreement, the Series 2006-VT2 VFC Purchase Agreement and
the VFC Assignment) in such Equipment (provided, that the parties
agree and intend that any mere security interest, as opposed to
title or ownership interest, in the related Equipment which secures
the Contract pursuant to the terms thereof, is being assigned and
conveyed as part of the Transferred Assets in accordance with the
definition thereof). The Depositor and the Trust further intend and
agree that, except as described in the preceding sentence with
respect to ownership interests in related Equipment, any such
transfer is intended to be a conveyance and transfer of ownership
of the Contracts and the related Transferred Assets (or Substitute
Transferred Assets conveyed as described in Section 2.03 below) and
that such Contracts and the related Transferred Assets shall not be
part of the Depositor’s estate in the event of the filing of
a bankruptcy petition by or against the Depositor under any
bankruptcy law. In the event, however, that notwithstanding such
intent and agreement, a transfer and assignment contemplated hereby
(or Substitution Transfer Agreement, as applicable) is determined
not to be a conveyance of ownership, the Depositor hereby grants to
the Trust a first priority perfected security interest in (i) the
right, title, and interest of the Depositor in and to such
Contracts and the related Transferred Assets identified herein (or
Substitution Transfer Agreement, as applicable), and (ii) all
income from and proceeds of the foregoing, and this Agreement (or
Substitution Transfer Agreement, as applicable), collectively,
shall constitute a security agreement under applicable law,
securing the related obligations of the Trust to the Noteholders
and the Equity Certificateholder, in the order and priorities, and
subject to the other terms and conditions of, this Agreement and
the other Transaction Documents, together with such other
obligations or interests as may arise hereunder and thereunder with
respect to such Contracts and the related Transferred Assets in
favor of the parties hereto and thereto.
(d)
In furtherance of and not in limitation of any of the foregoing,
the Depositor with respect to each item of Equipment owned by it as
described above, by execution and delivery of this Agreement (or
Substitution Transfer Agreement, as applicable), hereby on and as
of the Closing Date (or Substitution Transfer Date, as applicable)
grants to the Trust and the Indenture Trustee a first priority
perfected security interest in the right, title, and interest of
the Depositor in and to such item of owned Equipment, securing in
each case an amount payable by the Trust in respect of the Notes
corresponding to the Contract Principal Balance from time to time
of the related Contract; it being understood, however, that (i)
recourse to such Equipment in realization of the benefits of such
security interest shall only occur if the related Contract has
become a Liquidated Contract, and (ii) the application of
Liquidation Proceeds realized therefrom shall be governed in
accordance with the provisions hereof generally applicable to such
Collections and allocated in accordance with the Allocation
Criteria.
(e)
The Depositor, by execution and delivery of this Agreement (or
Substitution Transfer Agreement, as applicable) authorizes the
Trust to file UCC financing
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statements naming the Depositor as Debtor, the
Trust as Secured Party and the Indenture Trustee as Assignee in
each jurisdiction that the Depositor deems necessary in order to
protect its security interests in the Contracts and
Equipment.
Section
2.02 Acceptance by Trust . On the Closing Date the Trust
shall issue, and the Owner Trustee, or the Indenture Trustee as its
authenticating agent under the Trust Agreement, shall authenticate,
to, or upon the order of, the Depositor and in accordance with the
Trust Agreement, the Equity Certificate representing ownership of a
beneficial interest in 100% of the Trust and the Trust shall issue,
and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate, to, or upon the order
of, the Depositor in accordance with the terms of the Indenture the
Notes secured by the Collateral. The Trust hereby acknowledges its
acceptance of the Trust Assets, and declares that it shall maintain
such right and interest in the Trust Assets in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement and the Trust Agreement upon the trust
herein and therein set forth.
Section
2.03 Conveyance of Substitute Contracts . (a) Subject to the
limitations set forth in (and the other terms and conditions of)
this
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