Exhibit 10.15
E XECUTION C OPY
FIRST AMENDMENT AGREEMENT
To Pledge and Security Agreement and Irrevocable
Proxy
Dated as of March 18,
2009
by and among
RFC ASSET HOLDINGS II,
LLC,
PASSIVE ASSET TRANSACTIONS, LLC
AND CERTAIN
AFFILIATES THEREOF FROM
TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO,
as Grantors,
and
GMAC LLC,
as Lender Agent
This FIRST AMENDMENT AGREEMENT (this
“ Agreement ”) dated as of March 18, 2009
(the “ Amendment Effective Date ”), is by and
among RFC Asset Holdings II, LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company (“ RAHI ”), and Passive Asset
Transactions, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
(“ PATI ”; and together with RAHI, each a
“ Borrower ” and collectively, the “
Borrowers ”); Residential Capital, LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company (“ ResCap ”),
Residential Funding Company, LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company (“ RFC ”), and GMAC Mortgage, LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company (“
GMAC Mortgage ”; and together with ResCap and
RFC, each herein a “ Guarantor ” and
collectively, the “ Guarantors ”), and the other
parties hereto as Grantors (each, together with each Borrower and
each Guarantor, a “ Grantor ” and collectively,
the “ Grantors ”); and GMAC LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company, as Lender Agent for the Lender
Parties.
Reference is hereby made to the
Pledge and Security Agreement and Irrevocable Proxy dated as of
November 20, 2008 among the Grantors and the Lender Agent (as
modified by the deletion and joinder of parties prior to the date
hereof and as otherwise amended through the date hereof, the
“ Security Agreement ”).
RECITALS
1. Each of the parties hereto is a
party to the Security Agreement.
2. The parties hereto desire to make
certain amendments to the Security Agreement.
3. Each of the parties hereto, by
its signature hereto, hereby acknowledges, consents and agrees to
the changes set forth herein.
4. In consideration of the promises
and mutual agreements herein contained and for good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby
acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINED TERMS
SECTION 1.1 Capitalized terms used
herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meaning set forth
in the Security Agreement.
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ARTICLE II
AMENDMENTS TO THE SECURITY AGREEMENT
SECTION 2.1 Amendment to
Section 1 . Section 1 of the Security Agreement is
hereby amended by inserting the following definitions in proper
alphabetical order:
Flume No. 8 Deed of Charge
and Assignment means the
Deed of Charge and Assignment, dated as of November 14, 2008,
between the Flume No. 8 SPE, the Flume No. 8 Security
Trustee, ResCap, GMAC-RFC Limited, Barclays Bank PLC and SFM
Corporate Services Limited.
Omnibus Security
Agreement means the
Omnibus Pledge and Security Agreement and Irrevocable Proxy, dated
as of March 18, 2009, by and among RAHI, PATI and certain of
their Affiliates from time to time party thereto, as grantors,
GMAC IM, as secured party, and GMAC LLC, as Omnibus Agent,
Lender Agent, Lender under the MSR Loan Agreement and as a Secured
Party, as the same may be amended, supplemented, restated or
otherwise modified from time to time.
Specified Documents
shall have the meaning given such
term in the Omnibus Security Agreement.
SECTION 2.2 Amendments to
Section 1 . Section 1 of the Security Agreement is
hereby amended as follows:
(a) The definition of “Flume
No. 8 Deed of Assignment” is hereby amended and restated
in its entirety to read as follows:
“ Flume No. 8 Deed of
Assignment means the Deed of Assignment, dated as of
November 21, 2008, between PATI and the Lender Agent, as the
same may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified
from time to time.”
(b) The definition of “
Flume No. 8 Loan Sale and Purchase Agreement ” is
hereby amended by replacing the phrase “Flume No. 8
Sellers” with “Flume No. 8 Seller” where it
appears therein.
(c) The definition of “
Flume No. 8 Security Documents ” is hereby
amended and restated in full to read as follows:
“ Flume No. 8 Security
Documents means the Flume No. 8 Notes, the Flume
No. 8 Loan Sale and Purchase Agreement, the Flume No. 8
Note Issuance Facility Deed, the Flume No. 8
Administration Agreement, the Flume No. 8 Bank Agreement,
the Flume No. 8 GIC Agreement, the Flume No. 8 Deed
of Assignment, the Flume No. 8 Deed of Charge and Assignment,
and each and every other document, agreement and deed entered into
by ResCap, its Subsidiary and/or the Flume No. 8 Security
Trustee in connection with the purchase of certain residential
mortgage loans, the issuance of the Flume No. 8 Notes and
creation of security in respect of the Flume No. 8 Notes in
favor of the Flume No. 8 Security Trustee, in each case, by
the Flume No. 8 SPE, as all of the foregoing may be amended,
supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time, and
in each case if and to the extent any of the foregoing evidence or
relate to the Flume No. 8 Notes.”
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(d) The definition of “
Flume No. 8 Sellers ” is hereby amended and
restated in full to read as follows:
“ Flume No. 8
Seller means GMAC-RFC Limited.”
(e) The definition of
“Obligations” is hereby amended and restated in its
entirety to read as follows:
“ Obligations means
obligations, indebtedness, fees, expenses (including, without
limitation, attorneys’ fees and expenses) and liabilities of
any ResCap Counterparty or Grantor to any “Secured
Party” (as such term is defined in the Omnibus Security
Agreement) under any Specified Document, now existing or hereafter
arising under or in connection with the Specified Documents,
whether monetary or otherwise, matured or unmatured, direct,
indirect, related, unrelated, fixed, contingent, liquidated,
unliquidated, joint, several, or joint and several, and any
interest accruing thereon (including any interest that accrues
after the commencement of any proceeding by or against any ResCap
Counterparty or any other Person under any bankruptcy, insolvency,
liquidation, moratorium, receivership, reorganization or other
debtor relief law) and all attorneys’ fees and other expenses
incurred in the collection or enforcement thereof; including
without limitation (a) the obligations, indebtedness and
liabilities of the ResCap Counterparties under the Master Netting
Agreement or otherwise pursuant to the terms of the other
Derivative Documents, (b) all other “Obligations”
as defined in the Loan Agreement and (c) all other
“Secured Obligations” as defined in the MSR Loan
Agreement.”
SECTION 2.3 Amendment to
Section 3 . Section 3(a)(i) of the Security Agreement
is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as
follows:
“(i) no financing statement
(other than the UCC financing statements filed in connection with
the Contribution Agreements or any other UCC financing statements
which may have been filed on behalf of GMAC LLC, in any capacity,
or in connection with Permitted Liens) covering any of the
Collateral will be on file in any public office;”
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SECTION 2.4 Amendment to Schedule
IV . The table set forth on Schedule IV ,
Exhibit A, Section I of the Security Agreement is hereby
amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:
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Account Owner
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Financial
Institution
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Account Number
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Account Name
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Residential
Funding Company, LLC
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JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
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646926915
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Resi
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