Exhibit 10.1
MASTER REPURCHASE AGREEMENT
(for Pulte
Mortgage LLC)
dated as of May 15, 2009
among
COMERICA BANK,
as Agent,
Co-Lead Arranger and a Buyer,
BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Co-Lead
Arranger and a Buyer
THE OTHER BUYERS PARTY HERETO
and
PULTE MORTGAGE LLC, as Seller
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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MASTER REPURCHASE AGREEMENT
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1
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1
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APPLICABILITY AND DEFINED TERMS
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1
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1.1.
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Applicability
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1
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1.2.
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Defined Terms
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2
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2
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THE BUYERS’ COMMITMENTS
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28
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2.1.
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The Buyers’ Commitments to Purchase
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28
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2.2.
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Expiration or Termination of the
Commitments
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29
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2.3.
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Request for Increase in Maximum Aggregate
Commitment
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29
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2.4.
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Swing Line Facility
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29
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2.5.
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Swing Line Transactions
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29
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2.6.
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Optional Reduction or Termination of
Buyers’ Commitments
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32
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3
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INITIATION; TERMINATION.
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3.1.
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Seller Request; Agent Confirmation
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32
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3.2.
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Request/Confirmation
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3.3.
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Transaction Termination; Purchase Price
Decrease
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33
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3.4.
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Place for Payments of Repurchase Prices
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34
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3.5.
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Withdrawals from and Credits to Operating
Account
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3.6.
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Transfer of Existing Mortgage Loan
Portfolio
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34
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3.7.
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Special Terms Applicable to the Existing
Mortgage Loan Portfolio
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35
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3.8.
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Delivery of Additional Mortgage Loans
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36
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3.9.
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Application of Purchase Price Decreases and
Repurchase Price Payments
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36
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3.10.
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Defaulting Buyers
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4
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TRANSACTION
LIMITS AND SUBLIMITS
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38
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4.1.
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Transaction Limits
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38
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4.2.
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Transaction Sublimits
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39
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4.3.
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Compliance
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5
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PRICE
DIFFERENTIAL
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39
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5.1.
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Pricing Rate
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5.2.
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Pricing Rate for Default Pricing Rate
Purchased Loans
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40
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5.3.
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Price Differential Payment Due Dates
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40
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6
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MARGIN
MAINTENANCE
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40
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6.1.
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Margin Deficit
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40
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6.2.
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Margin Call Deadline
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41
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6.3.
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Application of Cash
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6.4.
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Increased Cost
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6.5.
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Capital Adequacy
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42
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6.6.
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Eligible Loans Report
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42
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6.7.
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Provisions Relating to Daily Adjusting LIBOR
Rate
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42
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7
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TAXES
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7.1.
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Payments to be
Free of Taxes; Withholding
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7.2.
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Other Taxes
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44
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7.3.
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Taxes
Indemnity
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44
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7.4.
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Receipt
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7.5.
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Non-Exempt
Buyer
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7.6.
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If Buyer Fails to
Provide Form
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46
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7.7.
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Refunds
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7.8.
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Survival
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INCOME AND ESCROW
PAYMENTS; CONTROL
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8.1.
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Income and Escrow
Payments
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8.2.
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Income and Escrow
Accounts
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47
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8.3.
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Income and Escrow
Accounts after Default
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FACILITY FEE;
AGENT’S FEE
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47
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9.1.
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Facility Fee
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47
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9.2.
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Agent’s
Fee
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48
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10
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SECURITY
INTEREST; LICENSE
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48
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10.1.
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Intent of the
Parties
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10.2.
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Remedies
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SUBSTITUTION
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11.1.
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Seller May
Substitute Other Mortgage Loans with Notice to and Approval of
Agent
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11.2.
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Payment to
Accompany Substitution
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PAYMENT AND
TRANSFER
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12.1.
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Immediately
Available Funds; Notice to Custodian
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12.2.
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Payments to the
Agent
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12.3.
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If Payment Not
Made When Due
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12.4.
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Payments Valid
and Effective
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12.5.
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Pro Rata
Distribution of Payments
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SEGREGATION OF
DOCUMENTS RELATING TO PURCHASED LOANS
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53
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CONDITIONS
PRECEDENT
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14.1.
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Initial
Purchase
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14.2.
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Each Purchase
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REPRESENTATIONS,
WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS
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15.1.
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Buyers, Agent and
Seller Representations
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15.2.
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Additional Seller
Representations
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15.3.
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Special
Representations Relating to the Purchased Loans
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15.4.
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Representations
and Warranties Relating to Specific Transactions
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15.5.
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Survival
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AFFIRMATIVE
COVENANTS
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16.1.
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Office of Foreign
Assets Control and USA Patriot Act
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16.2.
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Financial
Statements
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16.3.
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Financial
Statements Will Be Accurate
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65
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16.4.
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Other Reports
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65
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16.5.
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Maintain
Existence and Statuses; Conduct of Business
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66
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16.6.
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Compliance with
Applicable Laws
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66
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16.7.
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Inspection of
Properties and Books; Protection of Seller’s Proprietary
Information; Buyers’ Due Diligence of Seller
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66
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16.8.
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Notice of Suits,
Etc.
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68
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16.9.
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Payment of Taxes,
Etc.
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69
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16.10.
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Insurance;
Fidelity Bond
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69
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16.11.
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[Reserved.]
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70
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16.12.
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Subordination of
Certain Indebtedness
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70
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16.13.
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Certain Debt to
Remain Unsecured
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70
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16.14.
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Promptly Correct
Escrow Imbalances
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70
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16.15.
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MERS
Covenants
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70
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16.16.
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Special
Affirmative Covenants Concerning Purchased Loans
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71
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16.17.
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Coordination with
Other Lenders/Repo Purchasers and Their Custodians
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72
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17
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NEGATIVE
COVENANTS
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72
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17.1.
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No Merger
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72
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17.2.
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Limitation on
Debt and Contingent Indebtedness
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72
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17.3.
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Business
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73
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17.4.
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Liquidations,
Dispositions of Substantial Assets
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73
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17.5.
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Loans, Advances,
and Investments
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73
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17.6.
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Use of
Proceeds
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74
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17.7.
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Transactions with
Affiliates
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74
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17.8.
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Liens
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74
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17.9.
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ERISA Plans
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74
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17.10.
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Change of
Principal Office
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74
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17.11.
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Distributions
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75
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17.12.
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Financial
Covenants
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75
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17.13.
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Limitations on
Payments of Certain Debt
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76
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17.14.
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No Changes in
Accounting Practices or Fiscal Year
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76
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EVENTS OF
DEFAULT; EVENT OF TERMINATION
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76
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18.1.
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Events of
Default
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76
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18.2.
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Transaction
Termination
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78
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18.3.
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Termination by
the Agent
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79
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18.4.
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Remedies
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79
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18.5.
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Liability for
Expenses and Damages
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80
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18.6.
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Liability for
Interest
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80
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18.7.
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Other Rights
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80
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18.8.
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Seller’s
Repurchase Rights
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80
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18.9.
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Sale of Purchased
Loans
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80
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19
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SERVICING OF THE
PURCHASED LOANS
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81
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19.1.
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Servicing
Released Basis
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81
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19.2.
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Servicing and
Subservicing
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81
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19.3.
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Escrow
Payments
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81
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19.4.
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Escrow and Income
after Event of Default
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81
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19.5.
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Servicing
Records
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82
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19.6.
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Subservicer
Instruction Letter
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82
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19.7.
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Termination of
Servicing
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82
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19.8.
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Notice from
Seller
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83
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19.9.
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Seller Remains
Liable
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83
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19.10.
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Backup
Servicer
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83
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19.11.
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Successor
Servicer
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84
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20
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PAYMENT OF
EXPENSES; INDEMNITY
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84
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20.1.
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Expenses
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84
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20.2.
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Indemnity
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85
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21
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SINGLE
AGREEMENT
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85
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22
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RELATIONSHIPS
AMONG THE AGENT AND THE BUYERS
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86
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22.1.
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Appointment of
Agent
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86
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22.2.
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Scope of
Agent’s Duties
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86
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22.3.
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Limitation on
Duty to Disclose
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87
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22.4.
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Authority of
Agent to Enforce this Agreement
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87
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22.5.
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Agent in its
Individual Capacity
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87
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22.6.
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Actions Requiring
All Buyers’ Consent
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88
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22.7.
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Actions Requiring
Required Buyers’ Consent
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89
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22.8.
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Agent’s
Discretionary Actions
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89
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22.9.
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Buyers’
Cooperation
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89
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22.10.
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Buyers’
Sharing Arrangement
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90
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22.11.
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Buyers’
Acknowledgment
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90
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22.12.
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Agent Market
Value Determinations
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91
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22.13.
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Agent’s
Duty of Care, Express Negligence Waiver and Release
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91
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22.14.
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Calculations of
Shares of Principal and Other Sums
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92
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22.15.
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Successor
Agent
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92
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22.16.
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Merger of the
Agent
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93
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22.17.
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Participation;
Assignment by Buyers
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93
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22.18.
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The Agent and the
Buyers are the only Beneficiaries of this Section
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96
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22.19.
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Knowledge of
Default
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96
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22.20.
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No Reliance on
Agent’s Customer Identification Program
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96
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22.21.
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Other Titles
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97
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23
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NOTICES AND OTHER
COMMUNICATIONS; ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSIONS
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97
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24
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MISCELLANEOUS
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100
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24.1.
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Further
Assurances
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100
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24.2.
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Agent as Attorney
in Fact
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100
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24.3.
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Wires to
Seller
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100
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24.4.
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Wires to
Agent
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100
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24.5.
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Receipt;
Available Funds
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100
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24.6.
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Privacy of
Customer Information
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100
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25
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ENTIRE AGREEMENT;
SEVERABILITY
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101
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26
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NON-ASSIGNABILITY; TERMINATION
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101
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26.1.
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Limited
Assignment
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101
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26.2.
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Remedies
Exception
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102
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26.3.
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Agreement
Termination
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102
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27
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COUNTERPARTS
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102
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28
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GOVERNING LAW,
JURISDICTION AND VENUE
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102
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29
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WAIVER OF JURY
TRIAL
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103
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30
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RELATIONSHIP OF
THE PARTIES
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103
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31
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NO WAIVERS,
ETC
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104
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32
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USE OF EMPLOYEE
PLAN ASSETS
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104
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32.1.
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Prohibited
Transactions
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104
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32.2.
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Audited Financial
Statements Required
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104
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32.3.
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Representations
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104
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33
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INTENT
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104
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33.1.
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Transactions are
Repurchase Agreements and Securities Contracts
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104
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33.2.
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Contractual
Rights, Etc.
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105
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33.3.
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FDIA
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105
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33.4.
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Master Netting
Agreement
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105
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34
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DISCLOSURE
RELATING TO CERTAIN FEDERAL PROTECTIONS
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105
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34.1.
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Parties not
Protected by SIPA or Insured by FDIC or NCUSIF
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105
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34.2.
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SIPA Does Not
Protect Government Securities Broker or Dealer Counterparty
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105
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34.3.
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Transaction Funds
Are Not Insured Deposits
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106
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35
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USA PATRIOT ACT
NOTIFICATION
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106
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EXHIBITS AND
SCHEDULES
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Exhibit A
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Form of Request/Confirmation
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Exhibit B
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Form of Compliance Certificate
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Exhibit C
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List of Subsidiaries of the Seller as of the
Effective Date
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Exhibit D
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Form of Corporation Tax Treatment
Certificate
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Exhibit E
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Form of Assignment and Assumption
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Schedule AI
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Approved Investors
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Schedule AR
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Authorized Seller Representatives List
Effective as of May 15, 2009
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Schedule BC
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The Buyers’ Committed Sums
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Schedule BP
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List of Basic Papers
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Schedule DQ
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Disqualifiers
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Schedule EL
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Eligible Loans
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Schedule 1.2
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Deposit Accounts
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Schedule 15.2(f)
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Material Adverse Changes and Contingent
Liabilities
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Schedule 15.2(g)
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Pending Litigation
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Schedule 15.2(n)
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Existing Liens
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Schedule 15.2(s)
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Compliance Information
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Schedule 15.3
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Special Representations and Warranties with
Respect to each Purchased Loan
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Schedule 23
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Buyers’ Addresses for Notice as of May
15, 2009
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MASTER
REPURCHASE AGREEMENT
THIS MASTER REPURCHASE AGREEMENT is made and entered into as of
May 15, 2009, between and among Pulte Mortgage LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company (the “ Seller ”),
Comerica Bank, as Agent and representative of itself as a Buyer and
the other Buyers (the “ Agent ” and sometimes
“ Comerica Bank ”), Bank of America, National
Association, as Co-Lead Arranger and the other Buyers, as defined
in Section 1.2 .
RECITALS
1 Applicability
and Defined Terms.
1.1. Applicability .
From time to time the parties hereto may enter into transactions in
which the Seller agrees to transfer to the Agent on behalf of the
Buyers, Eligible Loans on a servicing released basis against the
transfer of funds by the Buyers, with a simultaneous agreement by
the Buyers to transfer to the Seller such Eligible Loans at a date
certain or on demand in the event of termination pursuant to
Section 18.2 hereof, or if no demand is sooner made, on
the Termination Date, against the transfer of funds by the Seller.
Each such transaction shall be referred to herein as a
“Transaction” and shall be governed by this Agreement,
as hereinafter defined.
Comerica Bank has also agreed to provide a separate revolving swing
line repurchase facility to initially and temporarily purchase
Eligible Loans pending their purchase by all of the Buyers pursuant
to this Agreement.
The parties hereby specifically declare that it is their intention
that this Master Repurchase Agreement (as amended, restated,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the
“Agreement,” which term includes the preamble above)
and the purchases of Eligible Loans made pursuant to it (under both
its regular and swing line provisions) are to be treated as
repurchase transactions under the Title 11 of the United States
Code, as amended (the “ Bankruptcy Code ”),
including all rights that accrue to the Buyers by virtue of
sections 559, 561 and 562 of the Bankruptcy Code. This Agreement
also contains lien provisions with respect to the Purchased Loans
so that if, contrary to the intent of the parties, any court of
competent jurisdiction characterizes any Transaction as a
financing, rather than a purchase, under applicable law, including
the applicable provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, the Agent is
deemed to have a first priority perfected security interest in and
to the Purchased Loans to secure the payment and performance of all
of the Seller’s Obligations under this Agreement and the
other Repurchase Documents.
The Buyers’ agreement to establish and continue the revolving
repurchase facilities, and Comerica Bank’s agreement to
establish and continue such revolving swing line repurchase
facility, are each made upon and subject to the terms and
conditions of this Agreement. If there is any conflict or
inconsistency between any of the terms or provisions of this
Agreement and any of the other Repurchase Documents, this Agreement
shall govern and control. If there is any conflict between any
provision of this Agreement and any later supplement, amendment,
restatement or replacement of it, then the latter shall govern and
control.
1.2. Defined Terms .
Except where otherwise specifically stated, capitalized terms used
in this Agreement and the other Repurchase Documents have the
meanings assigned to them below or elsewhere in this Agreement.
“ Accepted Servicing Practices ” means, with
respect to any Mortgage Loan, (a) those mortgage loan
servicing standards and procedures in accordance with all
applicable state, local and federal laws, rules and regulations and
(b)(i) the mortgage loan servicing standards and procedures
prescribed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, in each case as set forth
in the Fannie Mae Servicing Guide or Freddie Mac Servicing Guide,
as applicable, and in the directives or applicable publications of
such agencies, as such may be amended or supplemented from time to
time, or (ii) with respect to any Mortgage Loans and any
matters or circumstances as to which no such standard or procedure
applies, the servicing standards, procedures and practices the
Seller uses with respect to its own assets as of the date of this
Agreement, subject to reasonable changes.
“ Additional Purchased Loans ” means Eligible
Loans transferred by the Seller to the Buyers pursuant to, and as
defined in, Section 6.1(a) .
“ Adjusted Tangible Net Worth ” means, as of any
date, the sum of (a) all assets of the Seller and the
Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis, minus (b) the sum of
(i) Total Liabilities (excluding Qualified Subordinated Debt),
(ii) all assets of the Seller and the Subsidiaries that would
be classified as intangible assets under GAAP, including, but not
limited to, subscribed stock, goodwill (whether representing the
excess of cost over book value of assets acquired or otherwise),
patents, trademarks, trade names, copyrights, franchises, and the
investment held in trust of the Seller in Joliet Mortgage
Reinsurance Company, and (iii) unsecured notes and accounts
receivable due from stockholders, directors, officers, members,
employees, Affiliates or other related Persons (other than Parent
and Subsidiaries).
“ Affiliate ” means and includes, with respect
to a specified Person, any other Person:
(a) that directly or
indirectly through one or more intermediaries Controls, is
Controlled by or is under common Control with the specified Person
(in this definition only, the term “Control” means
having the power to set or direct management policies, directly or
indirectly);
(b) that is a
director, trustee, partner, member or executive officer of the
specified Person or serves in a similar capacity in respect of the
specified Person;
(c) of which the
specified Person is a director, trustee, partner, member or
executive officer or with respect to which the specified Person
serves in a similar capacity and over whom the specified Person,
either alone or together with one or more other Persons similarly
situated, has Control;
(d) that, directly
or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, is the beneficial
owner of ten percent (10%) or more of any class of equity
securities — which does not include any MBS — of the
specified Person; or
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(e) of which the
specified Person is directly or indirectly the owner of ten percent
(10%) or more of any class of equity securities of the
specified Person.
“ Agency ” means Ginnie Mae, Fannie Mae or
Freddie Mac.
“ Agency MBS ” means MBS issued or guaranteed as
to timely payment of principal and interest by Ginnie Mae, Fannie
Mae or Freddie Mac.
“ Agent ” is defined above.
“ Agent’s Fee ” is defined in the Fee
Letter.
“ Aggregate Outstanding Purchase Price ” means
as of any Determination Date, an amount equal to the sum of the
Purchase Prices for all Purchased Loans included in all Open
Transactions.
“ Agreement ” is defined in the Recitals.
“ Applicable Margin ” means two and five tenths
percent (2.5%) per annum.
“ Applicable Measuring Period ” means for any
quarter ending before March 31, 2010, the period beginning
April 1, 2009 and ending on the last day of such quarter and
for any date of determination ending on or after March 31,
2010, the four (4) preceding fiscal quarters ending on such
date.
“ Approved Investor ” means Ginnie Mae, Fannie
Mae, Freddie Mac and any of the Persons listed on
Schedule AI , as it may be supplemented or amended from
time to time by agreement of the Seller and the Agent;
provided , that (a) persons listed on
Schedule AI shall be Approved Investors only with respect to
the type(s) of Mortgage Loans for which they are specified as an
“Approved Investor” on Schedule AI , and
(b) if the Agent shall give notice to the Seller of the
Agent’s reasonable disapproval of any Approved Investor(s)
named in the notice, the Approved Investor(s) so named shall no
longer be (an) Approved Investor(s) from and after the time when
the Agent sends that notice to the Seller or such later date as may
be specified by the Agent in its sole discretion.
“ Authorized Seller Representative ” means a
representative of the Seller duly designated by all requisite
corporate action to execute any certificate, schedule or other
document contemplated or required by this Agreement or the Custody
Agreement on behalf of the Seller and as its act and deed. A list
of Authorized Seller Representatives current as of the Effective
Date is attached as Schedule AR . The Seller will
provide an updated list of Authorized Seller Representatives to the
Agent and the Custodian promptly following each addition to or
subtraction from such list, and the Agent, the Buyers and the
Custodian shall be entitled to rely on each such list until such an
updated list is received by the Agent and the Custodian.
“ Backup Servicer ” means any Person designated
by the Agent, in its sole discretion, to act as a backup servicer
of the Purchased Loans in accordance with Section 19.10
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“ Bankruptcy Code ” is defined in the
Recitals.
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“ Basic Papers ” means all of the Loan Papers
that must be delivered to the Custodian (in the case of Dry Loans,
prior to the related Purchase Date and, in the case of Wet Loans,
on or before the seventh (7th) Business Day after the related
Purchase Date) in order for any particular Purchased Loan to
continue to have Market Value. Schedule BP lists the
Basic Papers.
“ Business Day ” means any day, other than a
Saturday, Sunday or any other day designated as a holiday under
Federal or applicable State statute or regulation, on which Agent
is open for all or substantially all of its domestic and
international business (including dealings in foreign exchange) in
Detroit, Michigan, and, in respect of notices and determinations
relating to the Daily Adjusting LIBOR Rate, also a day on which
dealings in dollar deposits are also carried on in the London
interbank market and on which banks are open for business in
London, England.
“ Buyer ” means Comerica Bank and such other
Person from time to time party to this agreement as a
“Buyer.” Persons who are currently Buyers on any day
shall be listed as Buyers in Schedule BC in effect for
that day.
“ Buyer Affiliate ” means (a) with respect
to any Buyer, (i) an Affiliate of such Buyer or (ii) any
entity (whether a corporation, partnership, trust or otherwise)
that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise
investing in securities and mortgage reverse repurchase agreements,
bank loans and similar financial arrangements in the ordinary
course of its business and is administered or managed by such Buyer
or an Affiliate of such Buyer and (b) with respect to any
Buyer that is a fund which invests in securities and mortgage
reverse repurchase agreements, bank loans and similar financial
arrangements, any other fund that invests in securities and
mortgage reverse repurchase agreements, bank loans and similar
financial arrangements and is managed by the same investment
advisor as such Buyer or by an Affiliate of such investment
advisor.
“ Buyers’ Margin Percentage ” means:
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for all Conforming Mortgage Loans, ninety-seven percent
(97%);
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for Jumbo Mortgage Loans, ninety-five percent (95%);
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(iii)
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for Super Jumbo Mortgage Loans, ninety percent (90%);
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(iv)
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for Discretionary Loans, the Buyer’s Margin Percentage for
the underlying type of Purchased Loan which would apply if no
Disqualifiers existed; and
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for Wet Loans, the Buyer’s Margin Percentage for the
underlying type of Purchased Loan which would apply if such
Purchased Loan were a Dry Loan.
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“ Capitalized Servicing Rights ” means for any
Person, all rights to service Mortgage Loans that would be
capitalized under GAAP (regardless of whether such rights result
from asset securitizations, whole loan sales or originations of
Mortgage Loans).
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“ Cash Equivalents ” means and includes, on any
day:
(a) any evidence of
debt issued by the United States government or any agency thereof,
or guaranteed as to the timely payment of principal and interest by
the United States government, and maturing ninety (90) days or
less after that day; and
(b) any demand
deposit, time deposit, certificate of deposit or banker’s
acceptance maturing not more than ninety (90) days after that
day and issued by a commercial bank that either (i) is insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or (ii) is a
member of the Federal Reserve System and has a combined unimpaired
capital and surplus and unimpaired undivided profits of not less
than Two Hundred Fifty Million Dollars ($250,000,000); and
(c) money market and
cash accounts and money market funds which are invested in
investments of the types described above or in commercial paper
maturing no more than 90 days from the date of creation thereof and
which is rated at least “A-1” by Standard &
Poor’s Corporation or at least “P-1” by
Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.
“ Central Elements ” means and includes the
value of a substantial part of the Purchased Loans; the prospects
for payment of each portion of the Repurchase Price, both Purchase
Price and Price Differential, when due; the validity or
enforceability of this Agreement and the other Repurchase Documents
and, as to any Person referred to in any reference to the Central
Elements, such Person’s property, business operations,
financial condition and ability to fulfill and perform its
obligations under this Agreement and the other Repurchase Documents
to which it is a party, each taken as a whole, and such
Person’s prospects of continuing in business as a going
concern.
“ Certified Copy ” means a copy of an original
Basic Paper or Supplemental Paper accompanied by (or on which there
is stamped) a certification by an officer of either a title insurer
or an agent of a title insurer (whether a title agency or a closing
attorney) or, except where otherwise specified below, by an
Authorized Seller Representative or an officer of the Servicer (if
other than the Seller) or subservicer of the relevant Mortgage
Loan, that such copy is a true copy of the original and (if
applicable) that the original has been sent to the appropriate
governmental filing office for recording in the jurisdiction where
the related Mortgaged Premises are located. Each such certification
shall be conclusively deemed to be a representation and warranty by
the certifying officer, agent, Authorized Seller Representative or
officer of the relevant Servicer or subservicer, as applicable, to
the Agent, the Buyers and the Custodian upon which each may
rely.
“ Change in Law ” means (a) the adoption of
any applicable Legal Requirement after the Effective Date,
(b) any change in any applicable Legal Requirement or in the
interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority
after the Effective Date, or (c) reasonable compliance by any
Buyer (or by any applicable office of any Buyer) with any request,
guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of
any Governmental Authority made or issued after the Effective
Date.
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“ Change of Control ” in respect of the Seller
means the occurrence of Parent not owning directly, or indirectly,
100% of the issued and outstanding ownership interests of the
Seller.
“ Collateral ” has the meaning given the term in
Section 10.1 .
“ Commitment ” means, for each Buyer, its
commitment under Section 2.1 , subject to reduction as
described in Section 2.6 , to fund its Funding Share of
Transactions, limited to such Buyer’s Committed Sum.
“ Committed Sum ” means, for any day, the
maximum total amount a Buyer is committed to fund for the purchase
from the Seller of Eligible Loans on a revolving basis pursuant to
this Agreement, on its terms and subject to its conditions. From
the Effective Date of this Agreement through the Termination Date
or such other date (if any) when all or any of them is changed by
operation of the provisions of any agreement or Legal Requirement,
the Committed Sums for the Buyers are as set forth on
Schedule BC , as it may be amended and restated from
time to time.
“ Conforming Mortgage Loan ” means a first
priority Single-family residential Mortgage Loan that is
(a) FHA insured, (b) VA guaranteed, or (c) a
conventional mortgage loan that fully conforms to all Agency
underwriting and other requirements.
“ Conforming Loan Sublimit ” is defined in the
table set forth in Section 4.2(a) .
“ Consolidated ” refers to the consolidation of
any Person, in accordance with GAAP, with its properly consolidated
subsidiaries. References herein to a Person’s Consolidated
financial statements refer to the consolidated financial statements
of such Person and its properly consolidated subsidiaries.
“ Contingent Indebtedness ” of any Person at a
particular date means the sum (without duplication) at such date of
(a) all obligations of such Person in respect of letters of
credit, acceptances, or similar obligations issued or created for
the account of such Person, (b) all obligations of such Person
under any contract, agreement or understanding of such Person
pursuant to which such Person guarantees, or in effect guarantees,
any indebtedness or other obligations of any other Person in any
matter, whether directly or indirectly, contingently or absolutely,
in whole or in part (excluding such Person’s contingent
liability as endorser of negotiable instruments for collection in
the ordinary course of business), (c) all liabilities secured
by any Lien on any property owned by such Person, whether or not
such Person has assumed or otherwise become liable for the payment
thereof and (d) any liability of such Person or any Affiliate
thereof in respect of unfunded vested benefits under any ERISA
Plan, in each case excluding any such liabilities or obligations
that constitute Debt.
“ Corporation Tax Treatment Certificate ” is
defined in Section 7.5(a) .
“ Currency Agreement ” means any foreign
exchange contract, currency swap agreement, futures contract,
option contract, synthetic cap or other similar agreement or
arrangement for the purpose of hedging the currency risk associated
with the Seller’s and its Subsidiaries’ operations and
not for speculative purposes.
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“ Custodian ” means Bank of America, National
Association, as Custodian under the Custody Agreement, or any
successor custodian under the Custody Agreement acceptable to the
Agent.
“ Custodian’s Fees ” are the fees to be
paid by the Seller to the Custodian for its services under the
Custody Agreement, as provided for in the Custody Agreement or by a
separate agreement. Such fees are separate from and in addition to
other fees to be paid to the Buyers and the Agent provided for in
this Agreement.
“ Custody Agreement ” means the Custody
Agreement dated as of the Effective Date among the Agent, the
Seller and the Custodian, as it may be supplemented, amended or
restated from time to time.
“ Customer ” means and includes each maker of a
Mortgage Note and each cosigner, guarantor, endorser, surety and
assumptor thereof, and each mortgagor or grantor under a Mortgage,
whether or not such Person has personal liability for its payment
of the Mortgage Loan evidenced or secured thereby, in whole or in
part.
“ Daily Adjusting LIBOR Rate ” means, for any
day, a per annum interest rate which is equal to the Applicable
Margin plus quotient of the following:
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for any day, the per annum rate of interest determined on the
basis of the rate for deposits in United States Dollars for a
period equal to one (1) month appearing on Page BBAM of the
Bloomberg Financial Markets Information Service as of 11:00 a.m.
(Detroit, Michigan time) (or as soon thereafter as practical) on
such day, or if such day is not a Business Day, on the immediately
preceding Business Day. In the event that such rate does not appear
on Page BBAM of the Bloomberg Financial Markets Information Service
(or otherwise on such Service) on any day, the “Daily
Adjusting LIBOR Rate” for such day shall be determined by
reference to such other publicly available service for displaying
eurodollar rates as may be reasonably selected by Agent, or, in the
absence of such other service, the “Daily Adjusting LIBOR
Rate” for such day shall, instead, be determined based upon
the average of the rates at which Agent is offered dollar deposits
at or about 11:00 a.m. (Detroit, Michigan time) (or as soon
thereafter as practical), on such day, or if such day is not a
Business Day, on the immediately preceding Business Day, in the
interbank eurodollar market in an amount comparable to the
principal amount outstanding hereunder and for a period of one
(1) month;
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1.00 minus the maximum rate (expressed as a decimal) on such day
at which Agent is required to maintain reserves on
“Euro-currency Liabilities” as defined in and pursuant
to Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System or, if such regulation or definition is modified, and as
long as Agent is required to maintain reserves against a category
of liabilities which includes eurodollar deposits or includes a
category of assets which includes eurodollar loans, the rate at
which such reserves are required to be maintained on such
category;
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provided ,
however , in no event and at no time shall the Daily
Adjusting LIBOR Rate be less than the Applicable Margin plus the
LIBOR Rate Floor.
“ Debt ” means, with respect to any Person, on
any day, the sum of the following (without duplication):
(a) all of that
Person’s debt or other obligations which, in accordance with
GAAP, should be included in determining total liabilities as shown
on the liabilities side of that Person’s balance sheet for
that day;
(b) all of that
Person’s debt or other obligations for borrowed money or for
the deferred purchase price of property or services, except that
non-recourse MBS Debt arising out of transactions structured to
qualify for GAAP sale treatment shall be excluded;
(c) all of any other
Person’s debt or other obligations for borrowed money or for
the deferred purchase price of property or services in respect of
which such Person is liable, contingently or otherwise, to pay or
advance money or property as guarantor, surety, endorser or
otherwise (excluding such Person’s contingent liability as
endorser of negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary
course of business), or which such Person has agreed to purchase or
otherwise acquire;
(d) the aggregate
principal balance, or repurchase price obligation, of that Person
under repurchase agreements, reverse repurchase agreements,
mortgage warehouse lines of credit, sale/buy-back agreements or
like arrangements;
(e) all debt for
borrowed money or for the deferred purchase price of property or
services secured by a Lien on any property owned or being purchased
by that Person (even though that Person has not assumed or
otherwise become liable for the payment of such debt) to the extent
that such debt would not be otherwise counted as a liability for
purposes of determining that Person’s net worth and to the
extent that such debt is less than or equal to the net book value
of such property; and
(f) net payment
obligations of that Person in respect of any exchange traded or
over the counter derivative transaction, including any Hedge
Agreement whether entered into for hedging or speculative
purposes;
provided that, for purposes of this Agreement, there shall
be excluded from the calculation of Debt for that day both
(i) such Person’s obligations to pay to another Person
any sums collected and held by the subject Person (as loan
servicer, escrow agent or collection agent or in a similar
capacity) for the account of such other Person, and
(ii) Qualified Subordinated Debt.
“ Default ” means the occurrence of any event or
existence of any condition that, but for the giving of notice, the
lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default.
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“ Default Pricing Rate ” means, on any day and
with respect to any Transaction, a rate per annum equal to the
otherwise applicable Pricing Rate plus three percent
(3.0%) per annum.
“ Defaulting Buyer ” means any Buyer, as
determined by the Agent, that has (a) failed to fund any
portion of its Transactions (including any Swing Line Transactions
syndicated pursuant to Section 2.5) within one Business Day of
the date required to be funded by it hereunder, (b) notified
the Seller, the Agent or any Buyer in writing that it does not
intend to comply with any of its funding obligations under this
Agreement or has made a public statement to the effect that it does
not intend to comply with its funding obligations under this
Agreement, other mortgage repurchase agreements or any agreements
in which it commits to extend credit, (c) failed, within one
Business Day after request by the Agent, to confirm that it will
comply with the terms of this Agreement relating to its obligations
to fund prospective Transactions and participations in then
outstanding Swing Line Transactions, (d) otherwise failed to
pay over to the Agent or any other Buyer any other amount required
to be paid by it hereunder within one Business Day of the date when
due, unless the subject of a good faith dispute, or
(e) (i) become or is insolvent or has a parent company
that has become or is insolvent or (ii) become the subject of
a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, or has had a receiver,
conservator, trustee or custodian appointed for it, or has taken
any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to,
approval of or acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment
or has a parent company that has become the subject of a bankruptcy
or insolvency proceeding, or has had a receiver, conservator,
trustee or custodian appointed for it, or has taken any action in
furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of or
acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment.
“ Determination Date ” means the date as of, or
for, which a specified characteristic of a Mortgage Loan or other
subject matter is being determined for purposes of a provision of
this Agreement or another Repurchase Document.
“ Discretionary Loans ” means Mortgage Loans
approved for purchase by the Agent in the exercise of its
discretion pursuant to Section 22.8 .
“ Discretionary Loan Sublimit ” is defined in
the table set forth in Section 4.2(c) .
“ Disqualifier ” means any of the circumstances
or events affecting Purchased Loans that are described on
Schedule DQ .
“ Dry Loan ” means an Eligible Loan originated
by the Seller that has been closed, funded and qualifies without
exception as an Eligible Loan, including satisfying the requirement
that all of its Basic Papers have been delivered to the
Custodian.
“ Effective Date ” means May 15, 2009.
“ Electronic Agent ” means MERSCORP, Inc. or its
successor in interest or assigns.
“ Electronic Tracking Agreement ” means a
written Electronic Tracking Agreement among the Seller, the Agent,
MERS and the Electronic Agent, in form and substance acceptable to
the Seller and the Agent, as it may be supplemented, amended,
restated or replaced from time to time.
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“ Electronic Transmission ” means each document,
instruction, authorization, file, information and any other
communication transmitted, posted or otherwise made or communicated
by e-mail or E-Fax, or otherwise to or from an E-System or other
equivalent service.
“ Eligible Assignee ” means (a) a Buyer;
(b) a Buyer Affiliate; or (c) any other Person (other
than a natural person) approved by the (i) Agent and Swing
Line Buyer, and (ii) unless a Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing, the Seller (each such approval not to be
unreasonably withheld or delayed); provided that notwithstanding
the foregoing, “Eligible Assignee” shall not include
the Seller, or any of the Seller’s Affiliates or
Subsidiaries; and provided further that notwithstanding clause
(c)(ii) of this definition, no assignment shall be made to an
entity which is a competitor of the Seller without the consent of
the Seller, which consent may be withheld in its sole
discretion.
“ Eligible Loans ” is defined on
Schedule EL .
“ Eligible Loans Report” is defined in the
Custody Agreement.
“ ERISA ” means the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974 and any successor statute, as amended from
time to time, and all rules and regulations promulgated under
it.
“ ERISA Affiliates ” means all members of the
group of corporations and trades or businesses (whether or not
incorporated) that, together with the Seller, are treated as a
single employer under Section 414 of the Internal Revenue
Code.
“ ERISA Plan ” means any pension benefit plan
subject to Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Internal
Revenue Code maintained or contributed to by the Seller or any
ERISA Affiliate with respect to which the Seller has a fixed or
contingent liability.
“ Escrow Account ” means the Escrow Account
established by the Seller with a bank reasonably satisfactory to
the Agent under Section 8 , and subject to the control
of the Agent into which amounts paid for escrow accumulation under
Purchased Loans are paid for purposes of paying taxes, insurance
and other appropriate escrow charges.
“ E-System ” means any electronic system and any
other Internet or extranet-based site, whether such electronic
system is owned, operated or hosted by the Agent, any of its
Affiliates or any other Person, providing for access to data
protected by passcodes or other security system.
“ Event of Default ” is defined in
Section 18.1 .
“ Event of Insolvency ” means, as to any
Person:
(a) such Person has
commenced as debtor any case or proceeding under any bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, delinquency, arrangement,
readjustment of debt, liquidation, dissolution, or similar law of
any jurisdiction whether now or hereafter in effect, or consents to
the filing of any petition against it under such law, or petitions
for, causes or consents to the appointment or election of a
receiver,
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conservator, liquidator, trustee, sequestrator, custodian or
similar official for such Person or any substantial part of its
property, or an order for relief is entered under the Bankruptcy
Code; or any of such Person’s property is sequestered by
court or order; or the convening by such Person of any meeting of
creditors for purposes of commencing any such case or proceeding or
seeking such an appointment or election;
(b) the commencement
of any such case or proceeding against such Person, or another
Person’s seeking an appointment or election of a receiver,
conservator, liquidator, trustee, sequestrator, custodian or
similar official for such Person, or any substantial part of its
property, or the filing against the such Person of an application
for a protective decree under the provisions of SIPA which
(i) is consented to or not timely contested by such Person,
(ii) results in the entry of an order for relief, such an
appointment or election, the issuance of such a protective decree,
or the entry of an order having a similar effect or (iii) is
not dismissed within sixty (60) days;
(c) the making by
such Person of a general assignment for the benefit of creditors;
or
(d) the inability of
such Person to, or the admission by such Person of its inability or
its intention not to, pay its debts as they become due.
“ Excluded Taxes ” is defined in
Section 7.5 .
“ Facility Fee ” is defined in
Section 9.1 .
“Fannie Mae” means Federal National Mortgage
Association and any successor thereto or to the functions
thereof.
“ Federal Funds Effective Rate ” means, for any
day, a fluctuating interest rate per annum equal to the weighted
average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with
members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds
brokers, as published for such day (or, if such day is not a
Business Day, for the next preceding Business Day) by the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for
any day which is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for
such day on such transactions received by Agent from three Federal
funds brokers of recognized standing selected by Agent, all as
conclusively determined by the Agent, such sum to be rounded
upward, if necessary, in the discretion of the Agent, to the
nearest whole multiple of 1/100th of 1%.
“ Fee Letter ” means that certain letter dated
as of March 18, 2009, from the Agent to the Seller.
“ FHA ” means the Federal Housing Administration
and any successor.
“Freddie Mac” means the Federal Home Loan
Mortgage Corporation and any successor thereto or to the functions
thereof.
“ FICA ” means the Federal Insurance
Contributions Act.
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“ FICO ” means Fair Isaac Corporation and, where
used in this Agreement, refers to the credit scoring system
developed by that company or to any other Customer credit scoring
system whose use by the Seller (for purposes of this Agreement and
the Transactions) has been specifically approved in writing by the
Agent.
“ File ” means a file in the possession of the
Custodian or its designee (other than the Seller or an Affiliate of
the Seller) containing all of the Loan Papers for the relevant type
of Mortgage Loan.
“ Financial Statements ” is defined in
Section 15.2(f) .
“ Funding Account ” means the Seller’s
non-interest bearing demand deposit account maintained with
Comerica Bank and described in Schedule 1.2 into which the Agent
may transfer funds (funds paid by the Buyers as Purchase Price) and
from which the Agent is authorized to disburse funds to the Seller
or its designee (such as its agents) for the funding of
Transactions. The Funding Account shall be subject to setoff by the
Agent for Pro Rata distribution to the Buyers and shall be subject
to the control of the Agent.
“ Funding Share ” means, for each Buyer, that
proportion of the sum of the original Purchase Prices for the
Mortgage Loans to be purchased in a Transaction that bears the same
ratio to the total amount of such sum as that Buyer’s
Committed Sum bears to the Maximum Aggregate Commitment.
“ GAAP ” means, for any day, generally accepted
accounting principles, applied on a consistent basis, stated in the
opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and
the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, or in
statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards
Board or in such other statements by another entity or entities as
may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting
profession, that are applicable to the circumstances for that day.
The requirement that such principles be applied on a consistent
basis means that the accounting principles observed in a current
period shall be comparable in all material respects to those
applied in an earlier period, with the exception of changes in
application to which the Seller’s independent certified
public accountants have agreed and which changes and their effects
are summarized in the subject company’s financial statements
following such changes. If (a) during the term of this
Agreement any change(s) in such principles occur(s) that materially
changes the meaning or effect of any provision of this Agreement
and (b) the Seller or the Required Buyers regard such
change(s) as adverse to their respective interests, then upon
written notice by the Seller to the Agent, or by the Agent or the
Required Buyers to the Seller, the parties to this Agreement shall
negotiate promptly and in good faith a supplement or amendment to
this Agreement to achieve as nearly as possible preservation and
continuity of the business substance of this Agreement in light of
such change; provided that neither the Agent nor any of the
Buyers shall be obligated to commence, continue or conclude any
such negotiation or to execute any such supplement or amendment
after any Event of Default has occurred (other than an Event of
Default caused by such change) that has not been cured by the
Seller or that the Agent has not declared in writing to have been
waived in accordance with Section 22 .
“ Ginnie Mae ” means the Government National
Mortgage Association and any successor.
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“ Governmental Authority ” means any foreign
governmental authority, the United States of America, any state of
the United States and any political subdivision of any of the
foregoing, and any agency, department, commission, board, bureau,
court or other tribunal.
“ Hazard Insurance Policy ” means, with respect
to each Purchased Loan, the policy of fire and extended coverage
insurance required to be maintained for the related Mortgaged
Premises’ improvements (and, if the related Mortgaged
Premises are located in a federally-designated special flood area,
federal flood insurance issued in accordance with the Flood
Disaster Protection Act of 1973, as amended from time to time, or,
if repealed, any superseding legislation governing similar
insurance coverage, or similar coverage against loss sustained by
floods or similar hazards that conforms to the flood insurance
requirements prescribed by Fannie Mae guidelines, which may be
provided under a separate insurance policy), which insurance may be
a blanket mortgage impairment policy.
“ Hedge Agreement ” means an Interest Rate
Protection Agreement, a Currency Agreement or a forward sales
agreement entered into in the ordinary course of the Seller’s
or any of its Subsidiaries’ businesses to protect the Seller
against changes in interest rates or the market value of
assets.
“ HUD ” means the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development and any successor.
“ In Default ” means that, as to any Mortgage
Loan, any Mortgage Note payment or escrow payment is unpaid for
thirty (30) days or more after its due date (whether or not
the Seller has allowed any grace period or extended the due date
thereof by any means) or another material default has occurred and
is continuing, including the commencement of foreclosure or the
commencement of a case in bankruptcy for any Customer in respect of
such Mortgage Loan.
“ Income ” means, with respect to any Purchased
Loan on any day, all payments of principal, interest and other
distributions thereon or proceeds thereof paid to the relevant
party.
“ Income Account ” means a demand deposit
account established by the Seller with a bank reasonably
satisfactory to the Agent under the provisions of
Section 8 , which shall be subject to the control of
the Agent.
“ Indemnified Liabilities ” is defined in
Section 20.2 .
“ Indemnified Parties ” is defined in
Section 20.2 .
“ Interest Rate Protection Agreement ” means,
with respect to any or all of the Purchased Loans, any short sale
of any U.S. Treasury securities, futures contract, mortgage related
security, Eurodollar futures contract, options related contract,
interest rate swap, cap or collar agreement or similar arrangement
providing for protection against fluctuations in interest rates or
the exchange of nominal interest obligations, either generally or
under specific contingencies, that is entered into by the Seller
and a financial institution and is reasonably acceptable to the
Agent.
“ Internal Revenue Code ” means the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 or any subsequent federal income tax law or
laws, as amended from time to time.
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“ Investor Commitment ” means an unexpired
written commitment held by the Seller from an Approved Investor to
buy Purchased Loans, and that specifies (a) the type or
item(s) of Purchased Loan, (b) a purchase date or purchase
deadline date and (c) a purchase price or the criteria by
which the purchase price will be determined.
“ Jumbo Mortgage Loan ” means a Mortgage Loan
that would otherwise be a Conforming Mortgage Loan secured by a
first Lien Mortgage except that the original principal amount is
more than the maximum Agency loan amount but not more than One
Million Dollars ($1,000,000).
“ Jumbo Loan Sublimit ” is defined in the table
set forth in Section 4.2(c) .
“ Jumbo/Super Jumbo Loan Sublimit ” is defined
in Section 4.2(d) .
“ Legal Requirement ” means any law, statute,
ordinance, decree, ruling, requirement, order, judgment, rule or
regulation (or interpretation of any of them), including any of the
foregoing that relate to environmental standards or controls,
energy regulations and occupational safety and health standards or
controls, of any (domestic or foreign) court or other Governmental
Authority, and the terms of any license, permit, consent or
approval issued by any Governmental Authority.
“ LIBOR Lending Office ” means Agent’s
office located in the Cayman Islands, British West Indies, or such
other branch of Agent, domestic or foreign, as it may hereafter
designate as its LIBOR Lending Office by notice to the Seller.
“LIBOR Rate Floor ” means two percent
(2%) per annum
“ Lien ” means any lien, mortgage, deed of
trust, pledge, security interest, charge or encumbrance of any kind
(including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement,
any lease in the nature thereof and any agreement to give any
security interest).
“ Liquidity ” means the sum of (a) the
market value, as reasonably determined by Agent, of Seller’s
unencumbered and unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents (including
any amounts held in the Funding Account, Operating Account or
Income Account), plus (b) the market value, as reasonably
determined by Agent of Seller’s unencumbered and unrestricted
Marketable Securities, plus (c) the amount by which the
aggregate Purchase Value of all Purchased Loans at such time
exceeds the aggregate Purchase Price outstanding for all Open
Transactions at such time.
“ Loan Papers ” means the Mortgage Note and all
of the other papers related to the establishment of a Purchased
Loan and the creation, perfection and maintenance of its lien and
lien priority for such Purchased Loan, including its Basic Papers
and its Supplemental Papers and including any papers securing,
guaranteeing or otherwise related to or delivered in connection
with any Purchased Loan, in a form reasonably acceptable to the
Agent (including any guaranties, lien priority agreements, security
agreements, mortgages, deeds of trust, collateral assignments of
the Seller’s interest in underlying obligations or security,
subordination agreements, intercreditor agreements, negative pledge
agreements, loan agreements, management agreements, development
agreements, design professional agreements, payment,
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performance or
completion bonds, mortgage security and insurance contracts, title,
mortgage, pool, casualty, flood and earthquake insurance policies,
binders and commitments, FHA insurance and VA guaranties,
participation certificates and agreements, financing statements and
investor or purchase commitments), as any such Loan Paper may be
supplemented, amended, restated or replaced from time to time.
“ Loan Records ” means books, records, ledger
cards, files, papers, documents, instruments, certificates,
appraisal reports, surveys, bonds, journals, reports,
correspondence, customer lists, information and data that
describes, catalogs or lists such information or data, computer
printouts, media (tapes, discs, cards, drives, flash memory or any
other kind of physical, electronic or virtual data or information
storage media or systems) and related data processing software
(subject to any licensing restrictions) and similar items that at
any time evidence or contain information relating to any of the
Purchased Loans, and other information and data that is used or
useful for managing and administering the Purchased Loans, together
with the nonexclusive right to use (in common with the Seller and
any repurchase agreement counterparty or secured party that has a
valid and enforceable interest therein and that agrees that its
interest is similarly nonexclusive) the Seller’s operating
systems to manage and administer any of the Purchased Loans and any
of the related data and information described above, or that
otherwise relates to the Purchased Loans, together with the media
on which the same are stored to the extent stored with material
information or data that relates to property other than the
Purchased Loans (tapes, discs, cards, drives, flash memory or any
other kind of physical or virtual data or information storage media
or systems), and the Seller’s rights to access the same,
whether exclusive or nonexclusive, to the extent that such access
rights may lawfully be transferred or used by the Seller’s
permittees, and any computer programs that are owned by the Seller
(or licensed to the Seller under licenses that may lawfully be
transferred or used by the Seller’s permittees) and that are
used or useful to access, organize, input, read, print or otherwise
output and otherwise handle or use such information and data.
“ Margin Call ” is defined in
Section 6.1(a) .
“ Margin Deficit ” is defined in
Section 6.1(a) .
“ Margin Excess” is defined in
Section 6.1(b) .
“ Margin Stock ” has the meaning assigned to
that term in Regulation U as in effect from time to time.
“ Marketable Securities ” means common stock or
other securities traded on the New York Stock Exchange, American
Stock Exchange, NASDAQ or other recognized exchange acceptable to
Agent.
“ Market Value ” means what the Agent determines
as the market value of any Purchased Loan, using a commercially
reasonable methodology that is, in its sole discretion, in
accordance with standards customarily applicable in the financial
industry to third party service providers providing values on
comparable assets to be used in connection with the financing of
such assets, without reference to Hedge Agreements or Investor
Commitments. The Agent’s determination of Market Value
hereunder shall be conclusive and binding upon the parties, absent
manifest error.
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“ Maximum Aggregate Commitment ” means the
maximum Aggregate Outstanding Purchase Price that is allowed to be
outstanding under this Agreement on any day, being the amount set
forth in Schedule BC in effect for that day, as it may
be increased pursuant to Section 2.3 or decreased
pursuant to Section 2.6 . The Maximum Aggregate
Commitment on the Effective Date is Seventy Million Dollars
($70,000,000.00) . If and when some or all of the Buyers
then party to this Agreement agree in writing to increase their
Committed Sums, or if a new Buyer or Buyers joins the syndicate of
Buyers, or if there is both such an increase and a new
Buyer’s joinder, the Agent shall execute an updated
Schedule BC reflecting the new Maximum Aggregate
Commitment and deliver it to the Seller and the Buyers, and that
updated Schedule BC shall thereupon be substituted for
and supersede the prior Schedule BC .
“ MBS ” means a mortgage pass-through security,
collateralized mortgage obligation, REMIC or other security that
(a) is based on and backed by an underlying pool of Mortgage
Loans and (b) provides for payment by its issuer to its holder
of specified principal installments and/or a fixed or floating rate
of interest on the unpaid balance and for all prepayments to be
passed through to the holder, whether issued in certificated or
book-entry form and whether or not issued, guaranteed, insured or
bonded by Ginnie Mae, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, an insurance
company, a private issuer or any other investor.
“ Merger ” is defined in
Section 17.1 .
“ MERS ” means Mortgage Electronic Registration
Systems, Inc., a Delaware corporation, or its successors or
assigns.
“ MERS Designated Loan ” means a Purchased Loan
registered to the Seller on the MERS® System.
“ MERS Procedures Manual ” means the MERS
Procedures Manual, as it may be amended from time to time.
“ MERS® System ” means the Electronic
Agent’s mortgage electronic registry system, as more
particularly described in the MERS Procedures Manual.
“ Mortgage ” means a mortgage, deed of trust,
deed to secure debt, security deed or other mortgage instrument or
similar evidence of lien legally effective in the U.S. jurisdiction
where the relevant real property is located to create and
constitute a valid and enforceable Lien, subject only to Permitted
Encumbrances, on the fee simple estate in improved real
property.
“ Mortgage Assignment ” means an assignment of a
Mortgage, in form sufficient under the Legal Requirements of the
U.S. jurisdiction where the real property covered by such Mortgage
is located to give record notice of the assignment of such
Mortgage, perfect the assignment and establish its priority
relative to other transactions in respect of the Mortgage assigned
(no Mortgage Assignment is required for any Mortgage that has been
originated in the name of MERS and registered under the MERS®
System).
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“ Mortgage Loan ” means any loan evidenced by a
Mortgage Note and includes all right, title and interest of the
lender or mortgagee of such loan as a holder of both the beneficial
and legal title to such loan, including (a) all Loan Papers,
Loan Records or other loan documents, files and records of the
lender or mortgagee for such loan, (b) the monthly payments,
any prepayments, insurance and other proceeds, (c) all
Servicing Rights related to such loan and (d) all other
rights, interests, benefits, security, proceeds, remedies and
claims (including, without limitation, REO) in favor or for the
benefit of the lender or mortgagee arising out of or in connection
with such loan.
“ Mortgage Loan Transmission File ” means a file
containing all information concerning each Mortgage Loan required
by the “ Record Layout, ” as defined and
provided for in (and attached as an exhibit to) the Custody
Agreement, one of which shall be delivered by the Seller to the
Custodian for each Purchased Loan on its Purchase Date, both by
electronic, computer readable transmission in accordance with such
Record Layout and, in the event such electronic transmission
is not possible, by faxing a hard copy thereof to the
Custodian.
“ Mortgage Note ” means a promissory note
secured by a Mortgage.
“ Mortgaged Premises ” means the Property
securing a Mortgage Loan.
“ Multiemployer Plan ” means any
“multiemployer plan,” as defined in
Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, which is maintained for employees
of the Seller or any of the Seller’s Subsidiaries.
“ Net Income ” means for any period, the net
income (or loss) of the Seller and the Subsidiaries, determined on
a Consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided that there
shall be excluded (a) the income (or deficit) of any Person
accrued prior to the date it becomes a Subsidiary or is merged into
or consolidated with the Seller or any Subsidiary, (b) the
income (or deficit) of any Person in which any Person (other than
the Seller and any Subsidiaries) has a joint interest, except to
the extent that any such income is actually received by the Seller
or any Subsidiary from such Person in the form of dividends or
similar distributions and (c) the undistributed earnings of
any Subsidiary to the extent that the declaration or payment of
dividends or similar distributions by such Subsidiary is not at the
time permitted by the terms of any contractual obligation or by law
applicable to such Subsidiary.
“ Non-excluded Taxes ” is defined in
Section 7.1 .
“ Non-exempt Buyer ” is defined in
Section 7.5 .
“ Nonfunding Buyer ” is defined in
Section 2.1 .
“ Obligations ” means all of the Seller’s
present and future obligations, liabilities and indebtedness under
this Agreement or any of the other Repurchase Documents, or in
respect of any Products, or any Hedge Agreement entered into with
the Agent or any Buyer, whether for Repurchase Price, Price
Differential, Margin Call, premium, fees, costs, attorneys’
fees or other obligation or liability, and whether absolute or
contingent, and all renewals, extensions, modifications and
increases of any of them.
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“ Officer’s Certificate ” means a
certificate executed on behalf of the Seller or another relevant
Person by a Responsible Officer.
“ Open Transaction ” means a Transaction in
which the Buyers have purchased and paid for the related Purchased
Loans but the Seller has not repurchased all of them, such that the
remaining Purchased Loans not repurchased by the Seller of the
subject Transaction would be an Open Transaction.
“ Operating Account ” means the Seller’s
non-interest bearing demand deposit account maintained with Agent
and described on Schedule 1.2, from which the Agent is authorized
pursuant to Section 3.5 to withdraw funds on any day in
an amount equal to the aggregate Repurchase Prices of all Purchased
Loans that are Past Due on that day. The Operating Account shall be
subject to setoff by the Agent for Pro Rata distribution to the
Buyers and, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an
Event of Default, the Agent may also terminate the Seller’s
right to withdraw, or direct the payment of funds in the Operating
Account until the Obligations have been paid in full.
“ Organizational Documents ” means as to any
Person other than a natural Person, its articles or certificate of
incorporation, organization, limited partnership or other document
filed with a Governmental Authority evidencing the organization of
such entity and any bylaws, operating agreement or other governance
document governing the rights of the holders of the ownership
interests in such Person.
“ Other Taxes ” is defined in
Section 7.2 .
“ Parent ” means Pulte Homes, Inc., a Delaware
corporation.
“ Past Due ” means that the Seller has not
repurchased the subject Purchased Loan on or before its Repurchase
Date.
“ Permitted Encumbrances ” means, in respect of
the Mortgaged Premises securing a Purchased Loan, (a) tax
Liens for real property taxes and government-improvement
assessments that are not delinquent; (b) easements and
restrictions that do not materially and adversely affect the title
to, marketability of or value of such Mortgaged Premises or
prohibit or interfere with the use of such Mortgaged Premises as a
one-to-four family residential dwelling; (c) reservations as
to oil, gas or mineral rights, provided such rights do not include
the right to remove buildings or other material improvements on or
near the surface of such Mortgaged Premises or to mine or drill on
the surface thereof or otherwise enter the surface for purposes of
mining, drilling or exploring for, or producing, transporting or
otherwise handling oil, gas or other minerals of any kind;
(d) agreements for the installation, maintenance or repair of
public utilities, provided such agreements do not create or
evidence Liens on such Mortgaged Premises or authorize or permit
any Person to file or acquire claims of Liens against such
Mortgaged Premises; and (e) such other exceptions (if any) as
are acceptable under relevant Agency guidelines; provided
that any encumbrance that is not permitted pursuant to the
standards of any relevant Investor Commitment by which the subject
Purchased Loan is covered shall not be a Permitted Encumbrance.
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“ Person ” means and includes natural persons,
corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships,
registered limited liability partnerships, general partnerships,
joint stock companies, joint ventures, associations, companies,
trusts, banks, trust companies, land trusts, business trusts or
other organizations, whether or not legal entities, and governments
and agencies and political subdivisions of them.
“ Plan ” means an employee pension benefit plan
of a type described in Section 3(2) of ERISA and that is
subject to Title IV of ERISA in respect of which the Seller is an
“employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of
ERISA.
“ Plan Party ” is defined in
Section 32.1 .
“ Price Differential ” means, with respect to
any Transaction hereunder for any day, the aggregate amount
obtained by multiplication of the Pricing Rate for each day by the
Purchase Price for such Transaction, based on a three hundred sixty
(360) day per year basis for the actual number of days during
the period commencing on (and including) the Purchase Date for such
Transaction and ending on (but excluding) the Determination Date,
reduced by any such amount previously paid by the Seller to the
Agent (for Pro Rata distribution to the Buyers) with respect to
such Transaction.
“ Pricing Rate ” means the Daily Adjusting LIBOR
Rate (or, if applicable under Section 6.7, the Prime
Referenced Rate), or the Default Pricing Rate, as determined under
this Agreement.
“ Prime Rate ” means the per annum interest rate
established by the Agent as its prime rate for its borrowers, as
such rate may vary from time to time, which rate is not necessarily
the lowest rate on loans made by the Agent at any such time,
provided that in no event shall the Prime Rate be less than two and
one-half percent (2.50%) per annum.
“ Prime Referenced Rate ” means a per annum
interest rate which is equal to the Applicable Margin plus the
Prime Rate.
“ Principal Balance ” means, for any day, the
advanced and unpaid principal balance of a Purchased Loan on that
day.
“ Privacy Requirements ” means (a) Title V
of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, 15 U.S.C. 6801 et seq.,
(b) federal regulations implementing such act codified at 12
CFR Parts 40, 216, 332 and 573, (c) the Interagency Guidelines
Establishing Standards For Safeguarding Customer Information and
codified at 12 CFR Parts 30, 208, 211, 225, 263, 308, 364, 568 and
570 and (d) any other applicable federal, state and local
laws, rules, regulations and orders relating to the privacy and
security of Seller’s Customer Information, as such statutes,
regulations, guidelines, laws, rules and orders may be amended from
time to time.
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“ Pro Rata ” means in accordance with the
Buyers’ respective ownership interests in the Purchased
Loans. On any day, the Buyers will each own an undivided fractional
ownership interest in and to each Purchased Loan:
(a) if the
Commitments of the Buyers are outstanding on that day,
(i) whose numerator is that Buyer’s Committed Sum for
that day and (ii) whose denominator is the Maximum Aggregate
Commitment for that day; or
(b) if the
Commitments have expired or have been terminated and have not been
reinstated, (i) whose numerator is the aggregate sum of the
portions of the Purchase Prices paid by that Buyer in all Regular
Transactions outstanding on that day plus such Buyer’s
Funding Share of the Purchase Prices paid by the Swing Line Buyer
in all Swing Line Transactions outstanding on that date and
(ii) whose denominator is the aggregate sum of the Purchase
Prices paid by all Buyers in all such Transactions (including all
Swing Line Transactions) outstanding on the day;
subject to adjustment pursuant to Section 3.10 .
“ Products ” means any one or more of the
following types of services or facilities extended to the Seller by
the Agent or any Buyer: (i) credit cards, (ii) credit
card processing services, (iii) debit cards,
(iv) purchase cards, (v) Automated Clearing House (ACH)
transactions, (vi) cash management, including controlled
disbursement services, and (vii) establishing and maintaining
deposit accounts.
“ Property ” means any interest of a Person in
any kind of property, whether real, personal or mixed, tangible or
intangible, including the Mortgage Loans.
“ Purchase Date ” means, for any Transaction,
the date on which the Seller is to convey the subject Purchased
Loans to the Buyers.
“ Purchase Price ” means (a) on the
relevant Purchase Date, the price at which the Purchased Loans in a
Transaction are sold by the Seller to the Buyers, such price being
the Purchased Loans’ initial Purchase Value, and
(b) thereafter, except where the Agent and the Seller agree
otherwise, such Purchased Loans’ Purchase Value decreased by
the amount of any cash transferred in respect of such Purchased
Loans (as determined by the Agent) by the Seller to the Agent
pursuant to Sections 3.3 and 6.1 (absent manifest
error, the Agent’s determination of for which Transaction(s)
cash was transferred by the Seller to the Agent shall be conclusive
and binding).
“ Purchase Price Decrease” means a reduction in
the outstanding Purchase Price for Purchased Loans without a
termination of a Transaction or portion thereof as described in
Section 3.3(d) .
“ Purchase Value ” means the lesser of
(a) (i) the Buyers’ Margin Percentage for a
Purchased Loan multiplied by (ii) the least of:
(A) the face
principal amount of the related Mortgage Note;
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(B) the unpaid
Principal Balance of such Purchased Loan;
(C) the price to be
paid for such Purchased Loan under an Investor Commitment or the
weighted average price under unused Investor Commitments into which
such Purchased Loan is eligible for delivery; and
(D) the
Seller’s origination or acquisition price for such Purchased
Loan.
and, (b) at the discretion of the Agent, the Buyer’s
Margin Percentage of the Market Value of such Purchased Loan;
provided , that (i) the Purchase Value for Purchased
Loans in excess of the sublimits set forth in
Section 4.2 shall be zero and, (ii) the Purchase
Value for any Purchased Loan that is not an Eligible Loan shall be
zero.
“ Purchased Loans ” means the Eligible Loans
sold by the Seller to the Buyers in Transactions, and any Eligible
Loans substituted therefor in accordance with
Section 11 . The term “Purchased Loans”
with respect to any Transaction at any time shall also include
Additional Purchased Loans delivered pursuant to
Section 3.8 and Section 6.1 .
“ Purchased Loans Support ” means all property
(real or personal) assigned, hypothecated or securing any Purchased
Loans, or otherwise pertaining to any Purchased Loans, including
without limitation:
(1) all Loan Papers,
whether now owned or hereafter acquired, related to, and all
private mortgage insurance on, any Purchased Loans, and all
renewals, extensions, modifications and replacements of any of
them;
(2) all rights,
liens, security interests, guarantees, insurance agreements and
assignments accruing or to accrue to the benefit of the Seller in
respect of any Purchased Loan;
(3) all of the
Seller’s rights (including but not limited to rights to
payment), powers, privileges, benefits and remedies under each and
every paper now or hereafter securing, insuring, guaranteeing or
otherwise relating to or delivered in connection with any Purchased
Loan, including all Loan Papers and Loan Records;
(4) all of the
Seller’s rights, to the extent assignable, in, to and under
all Investor Commitments and any and all other commitments issued
by (i) Ginnie Mae, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, another mortgage
company or any other investor or any Buyer or securities issuer to
guarantee, purchase or invest in any of the Purchased Loans or any
MBS based on or backed by any of them or (ii) any broker or
investor to purchase any MBS, whether evidenced by book entry or
certificate, representing or secured by any interest in any of the
Purchased Loans, together with the proceeds arising from or
pursuant to any and all such commitments; and all rights to deliver
Purchased Loans to investors or purchasers, and all rights to
proceeds resulting from the disposition of such Purchased
Loans;
(5) all rights under
every Hazard Insurance Policy relating to real estate securing a
Purchased Loan for the benefit of the creditor of such Purchased
Loan, the
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proceeds of all errors and omissions insurance policies and all
rights under any blanket hazard insurance policies to the extent
they relate to any Purchased Loan or its security and all hazard
insurance or condemnation proceeds paid or payable with respect to
any of the Purchased Loans and/or any of the property securing
payment of any of the Purchased Loans or covered by any related
instrument;
(6) all present and
future claims and rights of the Seller to have, demand, receive,
recover, obtain and retain payments from, and all proceeds of any
nature paid or payable by, any governmental, quasi-governmental or
private mortgage guarantor or insurer (including VA, FHA or any
other Person) with respect to any of the Purchased Loans;
(7) all tax,
insurance, maintenance fee and other escrow deposits or payments
made by the Customers under such Purchased Loans (the Buyers’
Agent and the Buyers acknowledge that the Seller’s rights in
such deposits are limited to the rights of an escrow agent and such
other rights, if any, in and to such deposits as are accorded by
the Purchased Loans and related papers); and
(8) all monies,
accounts, deposit accounts, payment intangibles and general
intangibles, however designated or maintained, constituting or
representing so-called “completion escrow” funds or
“holdbacks,” and being Purchased Loans’ proceeds
recorded as disbursed but that have not been paid over to the
seller of the subject Mortgaged Premises (the purchase of which is
financed by such Purchased Loan), but that are instead being held
by the Seller or by a third party escrow agent pending completion
of specified improvements or landscaping requirements for such
Mortgaged Premises.
“ Qualified Subordinated Debt ” means unsecured
Debt of the Seller to any Person as to which (a) the papers
evidencing, securing, governing or otherwise related to such Debt
are reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to Agent and
(b) that is subordinated to the Obligations pursuant to a
currently effective and irrevocable Subordination Agreement,
including standstill and blockage provisions, reasonably approved
by the Agent.
“ Recourse Servicing ” means Servicing Rights
under a Servicing Agreement with respect to which the Servicer is
obligated to repurchase or indemnify the holder of the related
Mortgage Loans in respect of defaults on such Mortgage Loans at any
time during the term of such Mortgage Loans.
“ Register ” is defined in
Section 22.17(d) .
“ Regular Transaction ” means a Transaction
funded by all Buyers, rather than by Comerica Bank under the Swing
Line.
“ Regulation T” means Regulation T promulgated
by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 12 C.F.R.
Part 220, or any other regulation when promulgated to replace the
prior Regulation T and having substantially the same function.
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“ Regulation U ” means Regulation U promulgated
by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 12 C.F.R.
Part 221, or any other regulation when promulgated to replace the
prior Regulation U and having substantially the same function.
“ Regulation X ” means Regulation X promulgated
by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 12 C.F.R.
Part 224, or any other regulation when promulgated to replace the
prior Regulation X and having substantially the same function.
“ REO ” means real property improved by a
one-through four-family residence owned following judicial or
nonjudicial foreclosure (or conveyance by deed in lieu of
foreclosure) of a Mortgage securing a Single-family Loan.
“ Repurchase Date ” means the date on which the
Seller is to repurchase Purchased Loans from the Buyers, being the
earlier of (a) the date when the Approved Investor is to
purchase such Purchased Loans and (b) any date determined by
application of the provisions of Section 3.3 or 18.
“ Repurchase Documents ” means and includes this
Agreement, the Custody Agreement, any Subordination Agreement(s),
any financing statements or other papers now or hereafter
authorized, executed or issued pursuant to this Agreement, and all
other documents, instruments and agreements at any time evidencing,
governing, securing or otherwise relating to any of the
Obligations, and any renewal, extension, rearrangement, increase,
supplement, modification or restatement of any of them.
“ Repurchase Price ” means the price at which
Purchased Loans are to be resold by the Buyers to the Seller upon
termination of a Transaction (including Transactions terminable
upon demand), which will be determined in each case as the sum of
(a) the Purchase Price and (b) the Price Differential as
of the date of such determination.
“ Repurchase Settlement Account ” means the
Seller’s non-interest bearing demand deposit account to be
maintained with Comerica Bank and described on Schedule 1.2, to be
used for (a) the Agent’s and the Buyers’ deposits
of Purchase Price payments for Purchased Loans (including any Swing
Line Purchases) to the extent not deposited directly in the Funding
Account; (b) any principal payments received by the Agent or
the Custodian (other than regular principal and interest payments)
on any Purchased Loans; (c) the Agent’s deposit of
Repurchase Price payments received from the Seller or from an
Approved Investor for the Seller’s account for distribution
to the Buyers; and (d) only if and when (i) no Default
has occurred unless it has been either cured by the Seller or
waived in writing by the Agent (acting with the requisite consent
of the Buyers as provided in this Agreement) and (ii) no Event
of Default has occurred unless it has been either cured by the
Seller or waived in writing by the Agent (acting with the requisite
consent of the Buyers as provided in this Agreement), transfer to
the Operating Account of proceeds of sales or other dispositions of
Purchased Loans to an Approved Investor in excess (if any) of the
Repurchase Price of such Purchased Loan. The Repurchase Settlement
Account shall be a blocked account from which the Seller shall have
no right to directly withdraw funds, but instead such funds may be
withdrawn or paid out only against the order of an authorized
officer of the Agent (acting with the requisite consent of the
Buyers as provided herein).
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“ Request/Confirmation ” means letters
substantially in the form of Exhibit A , delivered pursuant
to Section 3.1 and their related Mortgage Transmission
Files.
“ Required Buyers ” means, for any day, Buyers
(a) whose Commitments comprise at least sixty-six and
two-thirds percent (66-2/3%) of the Maximum Aggregate Commitment
under this Agreement, or (b) who own at least sixty-six and
two-thirds percent (66-2/3%) of the Purchased Loans owned by the
Buyers on that day if on or before that day the Commitments have
expired or have been terminated and have not been reinstated;
provided however, that so long as there are fewer than three
Buyers, considering any Buyer and its Buyer Affiliates as a single
Buyer, “Required Buyers” means all Buyers.
“ Responsible Officer ” means a duly authorized
member, manager or officer of Seller acceptable to Agent.
“ Seller’s Customer ” means any natural
person who has applied to the Seller for a financial product or
service, has obtained any financial product or service from the
Seller or has a Mortgage Loan that is serviced or subserviced by
the Seller.
“ Seller’s Customer Information ” means
any information or records in any form (written, electronic or
otherwise) containing a Seller’s Customer’s personal
information or identity, including such Seller’s
Customer’s name, address, telephone number, loan number, loan
payment history, delinquency status, insurance carrier or payment
information, tax amount or payment information and the fact that
such Seller’s Customer has a relationship with the
Seller.
“ Serviced Loans” means all Mortgage Loans
serviced or required to be serviced by the Seller under any
Servicing Agreement, irrespective of whether the actual servicing
is done by another Person (a subservicer) retained by the Seller
for that purpose.
“ Servicer ” means, initially the Seller, and
upon termination of the Seller’s right to service the
Purchase Loans pursuant to the provisions of
Section 19.7 , the Backup Servicer or such other Person
(including the Agent) as the Agent may appoint as Servicer.
“ Servicing Agreement ” means, with respect to
any Person, the arrangement, whether or not in writing, pursuant to
which that Person acts as servicer of Mortgage Loans, whether owned
by that Person or by others.
“ Servicing Functions ” means, with respect to
the servicing of Mortgage Loans, the collection of payments for the
reduction of principal and application of interest, collection of
amounts held or to be held in escrow for payment of taxes,
insurance and other escrow items and payment of such taxes and
insurance from amounts so collected, foreclosure services, and all
other actions required to conform with Accepted Servicing
Practices.
“ Servicing Records ” has the meaning given the
term in Section 19.5 hereof.
“ Servicing Rights ” means the rights and
obligations to administer and service a Mortgage Loan, including,
without limitation, the rights and obligations to: ensure the taxes
and insurance are paid, provide foreclosure services, provide full
escrow administration and perform any other obligations required by
any owner of a Mortgage Loan, collect the payments for the
reduction of principal and application of interest, and manage and
remit collected payments.
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“ Single-family Loan” means a Mortgage Loan that
is secured by a Mortgage covering real property improved by a one-,
two-, three- or four-family residence.
“ SIPA ” means the Securities Investors
Protection Act of 1970, 15 U.S.C. §78a et. seq ., as
amended.
“ Solvent ” means, for any Person, that
(a) the fair market value of its assets exceeds its
liabilities, (b) it has sufficient cash flow to enable it to
pay its debts as they mature, and (c) it does not have
unreasonably small capital to conduct its business.
“ Statement Date ” means December 31,
2008.
“ Statement Date Financial Statements ” is
defined in Section 15.2(f) .
“ Sublimit ” means one or more (as the context
requires) of the sublimits described in Section 4.2
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“ Subordination Agreement ” means a written
subordination agreement in form and substance satisfactory to and
approved by the Agent that subordinates (a) all present and
future debts and obligations owing by the Seller to the Person
signing such subordination agreement to (b) the Obligations,
in both right of payment and lien priority, including standstill
and blockage provisions approved by the Agent.
“ Subservicer ” means any entity permitted by
the Agent to act as a subservicer of the Servicer (which permission
shall not be unreasonably withheld) who shall perform Servicing
Functions under a Subservicer Instruction Letter.
“ Subservicer Instruction Letter ” means an
instruction letter to a Subservicer in form and substance
reasonably agreed to by the Seller and the Agent.
“ Subsidiary ” means any corporation,
association or other business entity (including a trust) in which
any Person (directly or through one or more other Subsidiaries or
other types of intermediaries), owns or controls:
(a) more than fifty
percent (50%) of the total voting power or shares of stock
entitled to vote in the election of its directors, managers or
trustees; or
(b) more than ninety
percent (90%) of the total assets and more than ninety percent
(90%) of the total equity through the ownership of capital
stock (which may be non-voting) or a similar device or indicia of
equity ownership.
“ Super Jumbo Mortgage Loan ” means a Mortgage
Loan that would otherwise be a Conforming Mortgage Loan secured by
a first Lien Mortgage except that the original principal amount is
more than the maximum Agency loan amount, more than One Million
Dollars ($1,000,000), but not more than One Million Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($1,500,000) unless approved by Agent.
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“ Supplemental Papers ” means the Loan Papers
for a particular Loan other than its Basic Papers.
“ Swing Line ” means the short term revolving
discretionary Mortgage Loans purchase facility provided for in
Section 2.4 under which Comerica Bank may, in its sole
discretion, fund (as “ Swing Line Purchases ”)
purchases of Eligible Loans to bridge the Seller’s daily
Transactions.
“ Swing Line Buyer ” means Comerica Bank in its
role as Buyer for Swing Line Transactions.
“ Swing Line Limit ” means, for any day, the
greater of (a) Fifteen Million Dollars ($15,000,000), or
(b) (i) the Committed Sum of Comerica Bank, minus
(ii) Comerica Bank’s Funding Share of the Purchase
Prices for all Purchased Loans included in all Open Transactions,
being the maximum amount that may be funded and outstanding on that
day under the Swing Line.
“ Swing Line Refunding Due Date ” for each
Transaction funded under the Swing Line means the Business Day on
which the Swing Line Buyer shall elect to have such Swing Line
Transaction funded by the Buyers pursuant to
Section 2.5 , or on the next Business Day thereafter if
the Buyers are notified of such request after 3:30 p.m. (Detroit,
Michigan time) on such Business Day.
“ Swing Line Transaction ” means a Transaction
funded by the Swing Line Buyer under the Swing Line.
“ Taxes ” is defined in Section 7.1
.
“ Termination Date ” means the earlier of
(a) May 14, 2010 or (b) the date when the
Buyers’ Commitments are terminated pursuant to this
Agreement, by order of any Governmental Authority or by operation
of law.
“ Total Liabilities ” means all liabilities of
the Seller and its Subsidiaries, including nonrecourse debt and
also including all contingent liabilities and obligations
(including Recourse Servicing, recourse sale and other recourse
obligations, and guaranty, indemnity and mortgage loan repurchase
obligations), in each case as are reflected on the Seller’s
Consolidated balance sheet as liabilities in accordance with GAAP,
but excluding Qualified Subordinated Debt.
“ Transaction ” is defined in the Recitals.
“ UCC ” means the Uniform Commercial Code or
similar laws of the applicable jurisdiction, as amended from time
to time.
“ VA ” means the Department of Veterans Affairs
and any successor.
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“ Wet Loan ” means a Purchased Loan originated
and owned by the Seller immediately prior to being purchased by the
Buyers:
(a) that has been
closed on or prior to the Business Day on which the Purchase Price
is paid therefor, by a title agency or closing attorney, and that
would qualify as an Eligible Loan except that some or all of its
Basic Papers are in transit to, but have not yet been received by,
the Custodian so as to satisfy all requirements to permit the
Seller to sell it pursuant to this Agreement without
restriction;
(b) that will fully
qualify as an Eligible Loan when the original Basic Papers have
been received by the Custodian;
(c) as to which such
full qualification can and will be achieved on or before seven
(7) Business Days after the relevant Purchase Date; and
(d) for which the
Seller has delivered to the Custodian a Mortgage Loan Transmission
File on or before the Purchase Date, submission of which to the
Custodian shall constitute the Seller’s certification to the
Custodian, the Buyers and the Agent that a complete File as to such
Purchased Loan, including the Basic Papers, exists and that such
File is in the possession of either the title agent or closing
attorney that closed such Purchased Loan, the Seller or that such
File has been or will be shipped to the Custodian.
Each Wet Loan that satisfies the foregoing requirements shall be an
Eligible Loan subject to the condition subsequent of physical
delivery of its Mortgage Note, Mortgage and all other Basic Papers,
to the Custodian on or before seven (7) Business Days after
the relevant Purchase Date. Each Wet Loan sold by the Seller shall
be irrevocably deemed purchased by the Buyers and shall
automatically become a Purchased Loan effective on the date of the
related Transaction, and the Seller shall take all steps necessary
or appropriate to cause the sale to the Buyers and delivery to the
Custodian of such Wet Loan and its Basic Papers to be completed,
perfected and continued in all respects, including causing the
original promissory note evidencing such Purchased Loan to be
physically delivered to the Custodian within seven
(7) Business Days after the relevant Purchase Date, and, if
requested by the Agent, to give written notice to any title agent,
closing attorney or other Person in possession of the Basic Papers
for such Purchased Loan of the Buyers’ purchase of such
Purchased Loan. Upon the Custodian’s receipt of the Basic
Papers relative to a Wet Loan such Purchased Loan shall no longer
be considered a Wet Loan.
“ Wet Loans Sublimit ” is defined in
Section 4.2 .
Other Definitional Provisions . Accounting terms not
otherwise defined shall have the meanings given them under
GAAP.
(a) Defined terms
may be used in the singular or the plural, as the context
requires.
(b) Except where
otherwise specified, all times of day used in the Repurchase
Documents are local (U.S. Eastern Time Zone) times in Detroit,
Michigan.
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(c) Unless the
context plainly otherwise requires (e.g., if preceded by the word
“not”), wherever the word “including” or a
similar word is used in the Repurchase Documents, it shall be read
as if it were written, “including by way of example but
without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing concept
or description”.
(d) Unless the
context plainly otherwise requires, wherever the term
“Agent” is used in this Agreement (excluding
Section 22 ), it shall be read as if it were written
“the Agent (as agent and representative of the
Buyers).”
2 The
Buyers’ Commitments.
2.1. The
Buyers’ Commitments to Purchase . Subject to the terms
and conditions of this Agreement (including without limitation the
terms and conditions set forth in Section 4 and
Section 14 ) and provided no Default or Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing that has not been waived by
the Buyers or the Required Buyers, as applicable (or, if one has
occurred and not been so cured or declared waived, if all of the
Buyers, in their sole discretion and with or without waiving such
Default or Event of Default, have elected in writing that
Transactions under this Agreement shall continue nonetheless), the
Buyers agree to make revolving purchases of Eligible Loans on a
servicing released basis through the Termination Date, so long as
the Aggregate Outstanding Purchase Price does not exceed the
Maximum Aggregate Commitment and so long as each Buyer’s
Committed Sum is not exceeded. The Buyers’ respective
Committed Sums and the Maximum Aggregate Commitment are set forth
on Schedule BC in effect at the relevant time, as it
may have been amended or restated pursuant to this Agreement. Upon
the joinder of additional Buyer(s), if any, the parties agree to
approve in writing revised and updated versions of
Schedule BC . The fractions to be applied to determine
the respective Funding Shares of the Buyers for any day are their
respective Committed Sums divided by the Maximum Aggregate
Commitment for that day. Each Buyer shall be obligated to fund only
that Buyer’s own Funding Share of any Transaction requested,
and no Buyer shall be obligated to the Seller or any other Buyer to
fund a greater share of any Transaction. No Buyer shall be excused
from funding its applicable Funding Share of any Transaction merely
because any other Buyer has failed or refused to fund its relevant
Funding Share of that or any other Transaction. If any Buyer fails
to fund its Funding Share of any Transaction (a “Nonfunding
Buyer”), the Agent (in its sole and absolute discretion) may
choose to fund the amount that such Nonfunding Buyer failed or
refused to fund, or the Agent as a Buyer and the other Buyers who
are willing to do so may (in each of their sole and absolute
discretion) do so in the proportion that the Committed Sum of each
bears to the total Committed Sums of all Buyers that have funded
(or are funding) their own Funding Shares of that Transaction and
that are willing to fund part of the Funding Share of such
Nonfunding Buyer. Should the Agent and/or any other Buyer(s) fund
any or all of the Nonfunding Buyer’s Funding Share of any
Transaction, then the Nonfunding Buyer shall have the obligation to
deliver such amount to the Agent (for its own account and/or for
distribution to the Buyer(s) who funded it, as the case may be) in
immediately available funds on the next Business Day. Regardless of
whether the other Buyers fund the Funding Share of the Nonfunding
Buyer, the respective ownership interests of the Buyers in the
Transaction shall be adjusted as provided in
Section 3.10 . The obligations of the Buyers hereunder
are several and not joint.
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2.2. Expiration
or Termination of the Commitments . Unless extended in writing
or terminated earlier in accordance with this Agreement, the
Buyers’ Commitments (including Comerica Bank’s Swing
Line Commitment) shall automatically expire at the close of
business on the Termination Date, without any requirement for
notice or any other action by the Agent, any of the Buyers or any
other Person.
2.3. Request for
Increase in Maximum Aggregate Commitment . If the Seller shall
request to the Agent an increase in the Maximum Aggregate
Commitment to a specified amount up to One Hundred Forty Million
Dollars ($140,000,000.00), the Agent shall use its best efforts to
obtain increased Committed Sums from existing Buyers, new
Commitments from prospective new Buyers or such combination thereof
as the Agent shall elect, to achieve such requested increase;
provided that no Default has occurred that has not been
cured before it has become an Event of Default, and no Event of
Default has occurred that the Seller has not cured or that the
Agent has not declared in writing to have been waived in accordance
with Section 22 . No Buyer will have any obligation to
increase its Committed Sum. If an increase in the Maximum Aggregate
Commitment is achieved, then (a) the Pro Rata ownership
interest in the Purchased Loans of each Buyer shall, following
funding by the Buyers increasing their Commitment Sums or by the
new Buyers, automatically be adjusted proportionately and (b)
Schedule BC shall be updated and the update executed and
delivered by the Agent to the Seller and each of the Buyers and,
effective as of the date specified on such update, shall each
automatically supersede and replace the then-existing corresponding
schedule for all purposes.
2.4. Swing Line
Facility . In addition to its Commitment under
Section 2.1 , the Swing Line Buyer may, in its
discretion, fund revolving Swing Line Transactions for aggregate
Purchase Prices which do not on any day exceed the Swing Line Limit
for the purpose of initially funding requested Transactions.
2.5. Swing Line
Transactions .
(a) The
Seller shall have the right to request a Swing Line Transaction and
Swing Line Buyer may, in its discretion, agree to fund such Swing
Line Transaction:
(i) only if such
Swing Line Transaction fully qualifies in all respects for funding
as Regular Transaction under this Agreement;
(ii) provided that
no Default has occurred that has not been cured before it has
become an Event of Default, and no Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing that has not been waived by the Buyers or the
Required Buyers, as applicable and all conditions precedent in
Section 14.1 (with respect to the initial purchase
hereunder) and Section 14.2 have been satisfied;
(iii) so long as
(A) the Swing Line Limit is not exceeded and (B) such
Swing Line Transaction will not cause the sum of Comerica
Bank’s Funding Share of the Swing Line Transactions plus
Comerica Bank’s Funding Share of all Open Transactions to
exceed Comerica Bank’s Commitment;
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(iv) so long as,
after giving effect to the proposed Swing Line Transaction, the
Aggregate Outstanding Purchase Price would not exceed the Maximum
Aggregate Commitment;
(v) provided
that a Request/Confirmation has been received by the Agent and the
Swing Line Buyer by no later than 3:30 p.m. (Detroit, Michigan
time) on the Business Day such Transaction is to be funded;
(vi) provided that
the Agent has received a satisfactory Eligible Loans Report from
the Custodian on such date; and
(vii) provided that the
Seller is not aware of any reason why the requested Transaction
cannot or will not be fully funded by the Buyers on the first Swing
Line Refunding Due Date following the Business Day on which the
Swing Line Transaction is to be funded.
(b) All
Swing Line Transactions shall have a Price Differential from the
date funded until the date repaid and the Repurchase Price therefor
shall be due and payable to Comerica Bank at the same rate(s) as
would be applicable if such Swing Line Transactions had been funded
as Regular Transactions by all Buyers, instead of having been
funded by the Swing Line Buyer alone as Swing Line
Transactions.
(c) On
each Swing Line Refunding Due Date, each Swing Line Transaction
shall terminate and the Seller shall repurchase all Purchased Loans
subject to such Swing Line Transaction to the extent such
Transaction is not converted to a Regular Transaction pursuant to
this Section 2.5 .
(d) The
Swing Line Buyer may at any time in its sole discretion with
respect to any outstanding Swing Line Transaction, require each
Buyer (including the Swing Line Buyer) to fund such Swing Line
Transaction, by delivering notice to each Buyer. Unless an Event of
Default under Section 18.1(b) shall have occurred and be
continuing on such Swing Line Refunding Due Date (in which event
the procedures under clause (e) shall apply), no later than
4:00 p.m. (Detroit, Michigan time) on such Swing Line Refunding Due
Date, each Buyer shall transfer its Funding Share in immediately
available funds to the Repurchased Settlement Account for
application against the Swing Line Transaction, whereupon the Swing
Line Transaction shall be deemed a Regular Transaction.
(e) If,
on any Swing Line Refunding Due Date, an Event of Default under
Section 18.1(b) shall have occurred and be continuing, each
Buyer shall, no later than 4:00 p.m. (Detroit, Michigan time) on
such Swing Line Refunding Due Date, purchase a participation in the
Swing Line Transaction by immediately transferring to the Agent,
for the benefit of the Swing Line Buyer, in immediately available
funds, an amount equal to its Funding Share of the Purchase Price
of such Swing Line Transaction, and upon its receipt thereof, the
Agent shall deliver to such Buyer a certificate evidencing such
participation.
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(f) Unless a Buyer
shall have notified the Swing Line Buyer, prior to any Swing Line
Transaction, that any applicable condition precedent set forth in
Sections 14.1 or 14.2 had not then been satisfied, such
Buyer’s obligation to convert the Swing Line Transaction to a
Regular Transaction pursuant to clause (d) of this
Section 2.5 or to purchase a participation in respect
of such Swing Line Transaction pursuant to clause (e) of this
Section 2.5 shall be unconditional, continuing,
irrevocable and absolute and shall not be affected by any
circumstances, including, without limitation, (i) any set-off,
counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Buyer
may have against the Agent, the Swing Line Buyer or any other
Person, (ii) the occurrence or continuance of a Default or
Event of Default, (iii) any adverse change in the condition
(financial or otherwise) of the Seller, (iv) the expiration,
cancellation or termination, with or without cause of some or all
of such Buyers’ Commitments or if such Commitment has been
waived, released or excused for any reason whatsoeveor or
(v) any other circumstances, happening or event whatsoever. In
the event that any Buyer fails to make payment to the Agent of any
amount due under this Section 2.5 , the Agent shall be
entitled to receive, retain and apply against such obligation the
Repurchase Prices (including Price Differential) otherwise payable
to such Buyer hereunder until the Agent receives such payment from
such Buyer or such obligation is otherwise fully satisfied. In
addition to the foregoing, if for any reason any Buyer fails to
make payment to the Agent of any amount due under this
Section 2.5 , such Buyer shall be deemed, at the option
of the Agent, to have unconditionally and irrevocably purchased
from the Swing Line Buyer, without recourse or warranty, an
undivided interest and participation in the applicable Swing Line
Transaction in the amount of such Buyer’s Funding Share of
that Transaction, and such interest and participation may be
recovered from such Buyer together with interest thereon at the
Federal Funds Rate for each day during the period commencing on the
date of demand and ending on the date such amount is received. On
the Termination Date, the Seller shall repurchase all Purchased
Loans then subject to a Swing Line Transaction.
(g) The Agent shall
disburse to the Swing Line Buyer from the Repurchase Settlement
Account an amount equal to the sum of the Funding Shares funded by
all of the other Buyers in respect of the refunding of any Swing
Line Transaction; provided that if a Buyer other than the
Swing Line Buyer advises the Agent by telephone and confirms the
advice by fax that such Buyer has placed all of its Funding Share
on the federal funds wire to the Repurchase Settlement Account, the
Agent shall continue to keep the Swing Line Transaction outstanding
to the extent of that Buyer’s Funding Share so wired until
such Buyer’s Funding Share is received in the Repurchase
Settlement Account, and the Agent shall then repay the Swing Line
Buyer that still-outstanding portion of the Swing Line Transaction
from the Repurchase Settlement Account, and the Price Differential
accrued at the Pricing Rate(s) applicable to the Transaction on
that Funding Share for the period from (and including) the relevant
Swing Line Refunding Due Date to (but excluding) the date such
Buyer’s Funding Share is received by the Agent shall belong
to the Swing Line Buyer. If any Buyer fails to fund its Funding
Share to fund a Swing Line Transaction in accordance with clause
(d) of this Section 2.5 , or fails to fund its
Funding Share to purchase a participation in a Swing Line
Transaction in accordance with clause (e) of this
Section 2.5 , then that Buyer shall also be obligated
to pay to the Swing Line Buyer interest on the Funding Share so due
from such Buyer to the Swing Line Buyer at the Federal Funds Rate
from (and including) such Swing Line Refunding Due Date to (but
excluding) the date of payment of such required amount.
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(h) All
accrued Price Differential on Swing Line Transactions shall be due
and payable by the Seller to the Agent (for distribution to the
Swing Line Buyer) on the Price Differential payment due date
(determined under Section 5 ) next following the date
of the Swing Line Transaction. All Price Differential accrued on
Swing Line Transactions through the applicable Swing Line Refunding
Due Date shall be due and payable by the Seller to the Agent (for
distribution to the Swing Line Buyer) no later than two
(2) Business Days after the applicable Swing Line Refunding
Due Date, but in no than event later the Termination Date.
2.6. Optional
Reduction or Termination of Buyers’ Commitments . The
Seller may, at any time, without premium or penalty, upon not less
than five (5) Business Days prior written notice to the Agent,
reduce or terminate the Maximum Aggregate Commitment, ratably, with
any such reduction in a minimum aggregate amount for all the Buyers
of Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000), or, if more, in an integral
multiple of or a larger integral multiple of One Hundred Thousand
Dollars ($100,000); provided , however , that
(a) at no time may the Aggregate Outstanding Purchase Price
exceed the Maximum Aggregate Commitment after giving effect to any
such reduction, and (b) unless terminated in full, the Maximum
Aggregate Commitment shall not be reduced to less than Thirty
Million Dollars ($30,000,000). Upon termination in full of the
Buyers’ Commitments pursuant to this Section 2.6
, the Seller shall pay to the Agent for the ratable benefit of the
Buyers the full amount of all outstanding Obligations under the
Repurchase Documents.
3 Initiation;
Termination.
3.1. Seller
Request; Agent Confirmation .
(a) Subject
to the terms and conditions of this Agreement (including, without
limitation, the terms and conditions set forth in
Section 2.1 and Section 14 ), the Seller
may request a Regular Transaction and the Buyers shall fund such
Regular Transaction, subject to the following:
(i) Agent and
Custodian shall have received a Request/Confirmation in accordance
with Section 3.2 hereof by no later than 1:00 p.m. on the
proposed Purchase Date; and
(ii) Agent shall have
received a satisfactory Eligible Loans Report from the Custodian on
the proposed Purchase Date;
Provided that if such items are received by the
applicable parties on any Business Day, but are not received by the
times specified above, the Transaction may be funded on the same
day, at the Swing Line Buyer’s option, as a Swing Line
Transaction (subject to the conditions set forth in
Section 2.5 above), or on the next Business Day as a Regular
Transaction, subject in each case to the other terms and conditions
of this Agreement.
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(b) Upon
receiving any Request/Confirmation for any Regular Transaction
under Section 3.1 hereof, Agent shall promptly notify
each Buyer by wire, telex or telephone (confirmed by wire, telecopy
or telex). Unless such Buyer’s commitment to make purchases
hereunder shall have been suspended or terminated in accordance
with this Agreement, each such Buyer shall make available the
amount of its respective Funding Share of each requested
Transaction in immediately available funds to the Agent no later
than 4:00 p.m. on the date of such Transaction. Any Buyer that
fails to fund its Funding Share of any Transaction shall be deemed
to be a Nonfunding Buyer and a Defaulting Buyer under the terms of
this Agreement.
3.2. Request/Confirmation . Each
Request/Confirmation shall identify the Agent and the Seller and
set forth:
(a) the
Purchase Date applicable to the relevant Transaction;
(b) for each
of the Eligible Loans to be sold, the Purchase Price; and
(c) any
additional terms or conditions of the Transaction mutually agreed
to by the Agent and the Seller.
Each Request/Confirmation shall be binding on the parties, unless
written notice of objection is received by the Agent prior to the
funding of any related Transaction by any Buyer. In the event of
any conflict between the terms of a Request/Confirmation and this
Agreement, this Agreement shall prevail.
3.3. Transaction Termination; Purchase
Price Decrease .
(a)
Automatic Termination . Each
Transaction, or applicable portion thereof, will automatically
terminate on the earlier of (i) the date or dates when the
subject Purchased Loans are purchased by Approved Investor(s) and
(ii) the Termination Date. Upon any such automatic
termination, the Seller shall repurchase all applicable Purchased
Loans in accordance with Section 3.3(c) .
(b)
Termination Upon Occurrence of Disqualifier . If any
Disqualifier occurs in respect of a Purchased Loan, (i) the
Buyers shall reconvey to the Seller or its designee the applicable
Purchased Loan, servicing released, and (ii) if and only to
the extent of any Margin Deficit that exists as determined in
accordance with Section 6.1 , the Seller shall
immediately pay the Repurchase Price with respect to the applicable
Purchased Loan (but only to the extent of the Margin Deficit) in
immediately available funds to the account referred to in
Section 3.4 .
(c) How
Terminations will be Effected . Termination of a Transaction
(or the applicable portion thereof) will be effected by
(i) the Buyers’ reconveyance to the Seller or its
designee of applicable Purchased Loans, servicing released, and
payment of any Income in respect thereof received by the Agent and
not previously either paid to the Seller or applied as a credit to
the Seller’s Obligations, and (ii) payment of the
Repurchase Price with respect to the applicable Purchased Loans in
immediately available funds to the account referred to in
Section 3.4 on the Repurchase Date, so that
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the Agent receives the Repurchase Price (for Pro Rata distribution
to the Buyers) in immediately available funds on that same Business
Day; provided that the portion of the Repurchase Price
attributable to accrued and unpaid Price Differential for the
Repurchased Loan shall be due on the next Price Differential
payment date in accordance with Section 5.3 ;
provided further that all accrued and unpaid Price
Differential shall be due and payable on the Termination Date.
(d)
Purchase Price Decrease . The Seller may effectuate a
Purchase Price Decrease on any Business Day by delivery to the
Agent in immediately available funds of an amount specified by the
Seller as a Purchase Price Decrease on that Business Day. No
Purchased Loans shall be, or be deemed to be, repurchased in
connection with a Purchase Price Decrease.
3.4. Place for Payments of Repurchase
Prices . All Repurchase Price payments shall be paid to the
Repurchase Settlement Account.
3.5. Withdrawals from and Credits to
Operating Account . If the Seller fails for any reason to
repurchase any one or more Purchased Loans on the relevant
Repurchase Date, to pay any Price Differential or fees when due or
to satisfy any Margin Call in the manner and by the time specified
in Sections 3.3 and 3.4 , the Agent is hereby
specifically and irrevocably authorized to withdraw funds from the
Operating Account or any other account of the Seller in an amount
equal to the sum of the Repurchase Prices of all Purchased Loans
that are Past Due, plus accrued, unpaid Price Differential or fees,
plus Margin Deficit (if applicable), on that day and cause
application of such funds withdrawn to the payment of the
Repurchase Prices of such Purchased Loans, Price Differential or
fees, and Margin Deficit (if applicable) in such order and manner
as the Agent may elect and, if funds in the Operating Account or
any other account of the Seller are insufficient to pay the such
amounts, the Seller shall pay the amount due hereunder on demand by
wire to the Repurchase Settlement Account. As long as no Default or
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, or thereafter with
the consent of the Required Buyers, the Agent shall, at the written
request of the Seller, cause any amount deposited in the Repurchase
Settlement Account in excess of amounts required hereunder to be
transferred to the Operating Account.
3.6. Transfer of Existing Mortgage Loan
Portfolio .
(a) Some of the Buyers and the Seller
are also parties to the Sixth Amended and Restated Revolving Credit
Agreement dated as of May 16, 2006 (as amended, the “
Warehousing Credit Agreement ”), pursuant to which
such Buyers and the other lenders party thereto (the “
Existing Lenders ”) and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (in
its capacity as agent for the lenders party to the Warehousing
Credit Agreement, the “Warehousing Credit Agreement
Agent”) have made Advances (defined in the Warehousing Credit
Agreement) in the nature of loans to the Seller. Repayment of these
Advances and all interest accrued thereon, and payment and
performance of the other obligations of the Seller under the
Warehousing Credit Agreement, are secured by a pledge and grant of
a first priority security interest in certain Mortgage Loans and
related collateral delivered by the Seller to the Warehousing
Credit Agreement Agent under the Warehousing Credit Agreement
(collectively, the “ Existing Mortgage Loan Portfolio
”), all on the terms and
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conditions set forth therein and in the Pledge and Security
Agreement referred to therein. The Seller has requested that it be
permitted to sell the Existing Mortgage Loan Portfolio, on the
terms and conditions set forth herein, to the Agent for the benefit
of the Buyers on the Effective Date, and this
Section 3.6 and Section 3.7 memorialize the
parties’ further agreements on that subject.
(b) Concurrently with the initial
Transaction hereunder, the Seller shall cause the disbursement of
the proceeds of such Transaction and additional funds made
available by the Seller, if required, to the Existing Lenders
ratably in accordance with their advances against the Existing
Mortgage Loan Portfolio. The Warehousing Credit Agreement shall
thereupon be terminated (except for any provisions thereof that by
their terms survive termination of said agreement).
(c) As part of the initial Transaction
hereunder, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement,
the Buyers shall purchase all Eligible Loans in the Existing
Mortgage Loan Portfolio on the terms set forth in this
Agreement.
3.7. Special Terms Applicable to the
Existing Mortgage Loan Portfolio . The following changes in the
terms and conditions of this Agreement are applicable to the
Existing Mortgage Loan Portfolio and the Mortgage Loans
therein:
(a) The
Repurchase Date for each such Mortgage Loan under
Section 3.3 (and as set forth in the Disqualifiers on
Schedule DQ ) shall be measured from the date on which the
Mortgage Loan was first pledged by the Seller pursuant to the
Warehousing Credit Agreement. The requirement of Schedule EL
(8) that each Eligible Loan be originated no more than 45
days prior to its Purchase Date shall be measured from the date on
which the Mortgage Loan was first pledged by the Seller pursuant to
the Warehousing Credit Agreement (i.e. that it was originated no
more than 45 days prior to the date it was first pledged by the
Seller pursuant to the Warehousing Credit Agreement). The prior
pledge of an Eligible Loan that is a part of the Existing Mortgage
Loan Portfolio pursuant to the Warehousing Credit Agreement shall
not violate any covenant, representation or warranty under this
Agreement regarding a prior pledge of any Eligible Loan.
(b) Each such
Mortgage Loan must be an Eligible Loan at the time of purchase
under this Agreement unless otherwise agreed by all Buyers and the
Seller.
(c) The Seller
makes the following additional representations and warranties in
connection with the sale and purchase of the Existing Mortgage Loan
Portfolio: the Seller has not filed a petition in any case, action
or proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code or any similar state law;
no petition in any case, action or proceeding under the Bankruptcy
Code or any similar state laws have been filed against the Seller
that has not been dismissed or vacated; and the Seller has not
filed any answer or otherwise admitted in writing any insolvency or
inability to pay its debts or has made an assignment for the
benefit of creditors or consented to the appointment of a receiver
or trustee of all or a material part of its property. The Seller
has no intention to make any such filing or admission in the next
ninety (90) days. The sale and purchase of the Existing
Mortgage Loan Portfolio will not be a preference, voidable
transfer, fraudulent conveyance, or otherwise in violation of the
Bankruptcy Code or any similar state or federal law.
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3.8. Delivery of Additional Mortgage
Loans . The Seller may from time to time deliver to the Agent
Mortgage Loans that are also Eligible Loans without entering into a
new Transaction by providing to the Agent the documents required
under Section 3.1(a) with respect to such Mortgage
Loans. The Seller and the Buyers agree that such Mortgage Loans
delivered pursuant to this Section 3.8 shall be treated
as Purchased Loans subject to the existing Transactions hereunder
from the date of such delivery.
3.9. Application of Purchase Price
Decreases and Repurchase Price Payments . Upon receipt by the
Agent of amounts paid or prepaid as Purchase Price Decreases or
Repurchase Price (except upon the exercise of remedies provided in
Section 18 ) the Agent shall apply amounts so received
to the payment of all Obligations that are then due, then, at the
option of the Swing Line Buyer, to the payment of all Swing Line
Transactions, with the balance deposited into the Operating Account
unless otherwise agreed by the Buyers.
3.10. Defaulting Buyers . Notwithstanding any
provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if any Buyer becomes a
Defaulting Buyer, then the following provisions shall apply for so
long as such Buyer is a Defaulting Buyer:
(a) applicable
fees shall cease to accrue on the unfunded portion of the
Commitment of such Defaulting Buyer pursuant to
Section 9.1 ;
(b) the
Commitment of and the outstanding Purchase Prices paid by such
Defaulting Buyer shall not be included in determining whether all
Buyers or the Required Buyers have taken or may take any action
hereunder (including any consent to any amendment or waiver
pursuant to Section 22 ), provided that any waiver,
amendment or modification requiring the consent of all Buyers or
each affected Buyer which affects such Defaulting Buyer differently
than other affected Buyers shall require the consent of such
Defaulting Buyer;
(c) if any
Swing Line Transactions shall exist at the time a Buyer becomes a
Defaulting Buyer then the Seller shall within one Business Day
following notice by the Agent repurchase the Purchased Loans
subject to such Swing Line Transactions;
(d) the
respective ownership interests of both (i) the Defaulting
Buyer and (ii) the Buyer (or Buyers) that funded the
Defaulting Buyer’s Funding Share(s) of any Transaction shall
be proportionately decreased and increased, respectively, to the
same extent as if their respective Committed Sums were changed in
direct proportion to the unreimbursed balance outstanding from time
to time thereafter of the amount so funded;
(e) if no
other Buyer funds any of the Defaulting Buyer’s Funding
Share, then the Pro Rata ownership interests of the Buyers in the
Purchased Loans shall be changed, so that each Buyer’s Pro
Rata ownership interest in the Purchased Loans is equal to the
ratio of (i) the sum of the portions of the Purchase Prices
paid by that Buyer in all Open Transactions on that day to
(ii) the total of the Purchase Prices paid by all Buyers in
all
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Open Transactions on that day, but the Defaulting Buyer’s
share of all subsequent distributions of any Repurchase Price and
Margin Deficit payments shall be paid to the other Buyers, pro rata
among them in the ratio that the Pro Rata ownership interest in the
Purchased Loans owned by each bears to the aggregate Pro Rata
ownership interests in the Purchased Loans of all such other
Buyers, and the Buyers’ respective Pro Rata ownership
interests in the Purchased Loans shall be readjusted after each
such payment, until their Pro Rata ownership interests are restored
to what they were before any Defaulting Buyer failed to fund.
Notwithstanding any such changes in the Buyers’ Pro Rata
ownership interests in any Purchased Loan due to any Buyer’s
failure to fund its Funding Share(s) of any Transaction, such
failure to fund shall not diminish any Buyer’s Funding
Share(s) for subsequent Transactions.
(f) any amount
payable to such Defaulting Buyer hereunder (whether on account of
Repurchase Price, Price Differential, Margin Deficits, Purchase
Price Decrease, fees or otherwise and including any amount that
would otherwise be payable to such Defaulting Buyer pursuant to
Section 20.2 but excluding Section 6.4 )
shall, in lieu of being distributed to such Defaulting Buyer, be
retained by the Agent in a segregated account and, subject to any
applicable requirements of law, be applied at such time or times as
may be determined by the Agent (i) first, to the payment of
any amounts owing by such Defaulting Buyer to the Agent hereunder,
(ii) second, pro rata, to the payment of any amounts owing by
such Defaulting Buyer to the Swing Line Buyer hereunder,
(iii) third, to the funding of any Transaction or the funding
of any participating interest in any Swing Line Transaction in
respect of which such Defaulting Buyer has failed to fund its
portion thereof as required by this Agreement, as determined by the
Agent, (iv) fourth, if so determined by the Agent and the
Seller, held in such account as cash collateral for future funding
obligations of the Defaulting Buyer under this Agreement,
(v) fifth, pro rata, to the payment of any amounts owing to
the Seller or the Buyers as a result of any judgment of a court of
competent jurisdiction obtained by the Seller or any Buyer against
such Defaulting Buyer as a result of such Defaulting Buyer’s
breach of its obligations under this Agreement, and
(vi) sixth, to such Defaulting Buyer or as otherwise directed
by a court of competent jurisdiction; provided , that if
such payment is (x) a Purchase Price Decrease and
(y) made at a time when the conditions set forth in
Section 14.2 are satisfied, such payment shall be
applied solely to reduce the Purchase Prices owed to all Buyers
that are not Defaulting Buyers Pro Rata prior to being applied to
any Purchase Prices owed to any Defaulting Buyer.
In the event that the Agent, the Seller and the Swing Line Buyer
each agrees that a Defaulting Buyer has adequately remedied all
matters that caused such Buyer to be a Defaulting Buyer
(“Redeemed Buyer”), then the Swing Line Exposure of the
other Buyers shall be readjusted to reflect the inclusion of such
Redeemed Buyer’s Commitment and on such date such Redeemed
Buyer shall purchase from the other Buyers at par a portion of the
Open Transactions as the Agent shall determine may be necessary in
order for such Redeemed Buyer to participate in such Open
Transactions in accordance with its Pro Rata share. For purposes of
this Section 3.11 , “Swing Line Exposure”
means, with respect to any Buyer at any time, such Buyer’s
Pro Rata share of the aggregate Purchase Prices of all Swing Line
Transactions outstanding at such time.
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Nothing contained in
the foregoing shall be deemed to constitute a waiver by the Seller
of any of its rights or remedies (whether in equity or law) against
any Buyer which fails to fund any Transaction hereunder at the time
or in the amount required to be funded under the terms of this
Agreement.
4 Transaction
Limits and Sublimits.
4.1. Transaction Limits . Each
Transaction shall be subject to the limitation that no purchase
will be made if at the time of or after such purchase, the
Aggregate Outstanding Purchase Price exceeds or would exceed the
lesser of:
(a) the Maximum Aggregate Commitment;
or
(b) the sum of the following, without
duplication:
(i) For Purchased Loans which
are Conforming Mortgage Loans, the lesser of (A) the Purchase
Value all such Conforming Mortgage Loans, or (B) the
Conforming Loan Sublimit, plus
(ii) For Purchased Loans which are
Jumbo Mortgage Loans or Super Jumbo Mortgage Loans, the lesser
of:
(A) The sum of the
following:
(1) For Jumbo
Mortgage Loans, the lesser of (I) Purchase Value of all such
Jumbo Mortgage Loans, or (II) the Jumbo Loans Sublimit, plus
(2) For Super Jumbo
Mortgage Loans, the lesser of (I) the Purchase Value of all
such Super Jumbo Mortgage Loans, or (II) the Super Jumbo Loans
Sublimit; or
(B) The Jumbo/Super Jumbo Loans
Sublimit.
(iv) For Purchased Loans which are Wet
Loans, the lesser of (A) the Purchase Value of all such Wet
Loans, or (B) the Wet Loans Sublimit, plus
(v) For Purchased Loans which
are Discretionary Loans, the lesser of (A) the Purchase Value
of all such Discretionary Loans, or (B) the Discretionary
Loans Sublimit.
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4.2. Transaction
Sublimits . The following sublimits shall also be applicable to
the Transactions hereunder such that after giving effect to any
proposed Transaction and after giving effect to any repurchase,
addition or substitution of any Mortgage Loan hereunder, the
following shall be true:
(a) The Aggregate
Outstanding Purchase Price of Conforming Mortgage Loans may be as
much as one hundred percent (100%) of the Maximum Aggregate
Commitment (the “ Conforming Loan Sublimit
”).
(b) The Aggregate
Outstanding Purchase Price of all Purchased Loans that are Wet
Loans shall not exceed (x) fifty percent (50%) of the
Maximum Aggregate Commitment on any of the first five and last five
Business Days of any month or (y) thirty-five percent
(35%) of the Maximum Aggregate Commitment on any other day
(the “ Wet Loans Sublimit ”).
(c) The Aggregate
Outstanding Purchase Price of all Purchased Loans that are of the
type listed in the first column of the following table shall not
exceed the percentage of the Maximum Aggregate Commitment or amount
listed in the second column of the table (the name of that Sublimit
is set forth in the third column).
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Type of
Purchased
Loan
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Maximum
percentage/amount of
Maximum Aggregate Commitment
|
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Name of Sublimit
|
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Jumbo
Mortgage Loans
|
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Greater of
Five Million
Dollars
($5,000,000) or 5%
|
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“Jumbo Loans Sublimit”
|
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Super Jumbo Mortgage
Loans
|
|
Greater of
Five Million
Dollars
($5,000,000) or 5%
|
|
“Super Jumbo Loans
Sublimit”
|
|
Discretionary Loans
|
|
5%
|
|
“Discretionary Loans
Sublimit”
|
(d) The Aggregate
Outstanding Purchase Price of all Purchased Loans that are Jumbo
Mortgage Loans or Super Jumbo Loans shall not exceed the greater of
Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000) or five percent (5%) of the
Maximum Aggregate Commitment on any day (“ Jumbo/Super
Jumbo Loans Sublimit ”).
4.3. Compliance . Seller
shall immediately repurchase Purchased Loans necessary to comply
with all of the requirements of Section 4.1 and
Section 4.2 of this Agreement.
5 Price
Differential.
5.1. Pricing Rate .
Except as otherwise provided herein with respect to the Default
Pricing Rate, the Pricing Rate to be applied to the Purchase Prices
of Purchased Loans to determine the Price Differential in all Open
Transactions shall be the applicable from time to time.
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5.2.
Pricing Rate for Default
Pricing Rate Purchased Loans . Notwithstanding any contrary or
inconsistent provision of this Section 5 , the Pricing
Rate to be multiplied by the Purchase Prices of all Purchased Loans
shall be the Default Pricing Rate from (and including) (a) the
day immediately following the Repurchase Date for any Past Due
Purchased Loan and until (but excluding) the date on which such
Past Due Purchased Loan is repurchased by transfer to the Agent
(for Pro Rata distribution to the Buyers) of its full Repurchase
Price in immediately available funds; and (b) the date
designated by the Agent to the Seller after the occurrence and
during the continuance of an Event of Default under
Section 18.1 .
5.3. Price Differential
Payment Due Dates . Price Differential on each Open Transaction
accrued and unpaid to the end of each month before the Termination
Date shall be due and payable five (5) Business Days
after the end of each month, whether or not such Transaction is
still an Open Transaction on such payment due date; provided
that (a) all accrued and unpaid Price Differential on all
Transactions shall be due on the Termination Date, and (b) all
Pricing Differential calculated at the Default Pricing Rate shall
be due on demand.
6 Margin
Maintenance.
6.1. Margin Deficit
.
(a) If at any time the
aggregate Purchase Value of all Purchased Loans subject to all
Transactions hereunder is less than the aggregate Repurchase Price
(excluding Price Differential), minus, without duplication, cash
transfers previously made from the Seller to the Agent in response
to previous Margin Calls, if any, for all such Transactions (a
“ Margin Deficit ”), then by notice to the
Seller (a “ Margin Call ”), the Agent shall
require the Seller to transfer (for the account of the Buyers) to
the Agent or the Custodian, as appropriate, either (at the
Seller’s option) cash, additional Eligible Loans reasonably
acceptable to the Agent (“ Additional Purchased Loans
”), or a combination of cash and Additional Purchased Loans,
so that the cash and the aggregate Purchase Value of the Purchased
Loans, including any such Additional Purchased Loans, will
thereupon at least equal the then aggregate Repurchase Price
(excluding Price Differential). The Agent will request a
recalculation of the Purchase Value of all or a portion of the
Purchased Loans from the Custodian at the times it deems
appropriate in its sole discretion and at any other time at the
request of the Required Buyers; provided that, other than during
the existence of a Default or Event of Default, the Purchase Values
shall not be recalculated on less than a weekly basis.
(b) On any Business Day on
which the Purchase Value of the Purchased Loans subject to
Transactions exceeds the then outstanding aggregate Repurchase
Price (excluding Price Differential) of all Transactions (a “
Margin Excess ”), so long as no Default or Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing or will result therefrom,
the Agent shall, upon receipt of a written request from the Seller,
remit cash or release Purchased Loans, as requested by the Seller,
in either case in an amount equal to the lesser of (i) the
amount requested by the Seller and (ii) such Margin Excess,
subject
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always to the other limitations of this Agreement. If cash is to be
remitted the Agent shall treat the receipt of the written request
of the Seller under this Section 6.1(b) as if it were a
request for a Transaction. To the extent the Agent remits cash to
the Seller, such cash shall be (A) additional Purchase Price
with respect to the Transactions, and (B) subject in all
respects to the provisions and limitations of this Agreement. Each
Buyer shall fund its Pro Rata share of such additional Purchase
Price as if the remission of such Margin Excess were the initiation
of a Transaction hereunder.
6.2. Margin Call
Deadline . If the Agent delivers a Margin Call to the Seller at
or before 11:00 a.m. (Detroit, Michigan time) on any Business Day,
then the Seller shall transfer cash and/or Additional Purchased
Loans as provided in Section 6.1 on the same Business
Day. If the Agent delivers a Margin Call to the Seller after 11:00
a.m. (Detroit, Michigan time) on any Business Day, then the Seller
shall transfer cash and/or Additional Purchased Loans by no later
than 11:00 a.m. (Detroit, Michigan time) on the next following
Business Day.
6.3. Application of Cash
. Any cash transferred to the Agent (for Pro Rata distribution to
the Buyers) pursuant to this Section 6 shall be applied
by the Buyers on receipt from the Agent which shall occur on the
date received from the Seller or the next Business Day if received
after 1:00 p.m. (Detroit, Michigan time)
6.4. Increased Cost . If
the adoption of, or any change in, any applicable law, rule or
regulation (whether domestic or foreign) of any governmental
authority, central bank or comparable agency charged with the
interpretation or administration thereof, or compliance by any
Buyer (or its LIBOR Lending Office) with any request or directive
(whether or not having the force of law) made by any such
authority, central bank or comparable agency after the Effective
Date:
(a) shall subject such Buyer (or its LIBOR Lending Office) to any
tax, duty or other charge with respect with respect to this
Agreement or any Transaction or change the basis of taxation of
payments to the Buyer in respect thereof (except for changes in the
rate of tax on the overall net income of Buyer or its LIBOR Lending
Office imposed by the jurisdiction in which Buyer’s principal
executive office or LIBOR Lending Office is located);
(b) shall impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve (including,
without limitation, any imposed by the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System), special deposit or similar requirement
against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit
extended by Buyer (or its LIBOR Lending Office), or shall impose on
Buyer (or its LIBOR Lending Office) or the foreign exchange and
interbank markets any other condition affecting this Agreement or
the making or maintaining of Transactions hereunder; or
(c) shall impose on the Buyer any other condition:
and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to
such Buyer, by an amount which the Buyer deems to be material, of
entering, continuing or maintaining any Transaction or to reduce
any amount due or owing hereunder in respect thereof, then in any
such case, the Seller shall promptly pay the Agent (for
distribution to such Buyer) such additional amount or amounts as
calculated by the Buyer in good faith as will compensate the Buyer
for such increased cost or
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reduced amount. A
certificate of a Buyer, prepared in good faith and in reasonable
detail by such Buyer and submitted to the Seller and the Agent,
setting forth the basis for determining such additional amount or
amounts necessary to compensate such Buyer shall be conclusive and
binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.
6.5. Capital Adequacy .
In the event that any applicable law, treaty, rule or regulation
(whether domestic or foreign) now or hereafter in effect and
whether or not presently applicable to a Buyer, or any
interpretation or administration thereof by any governmental
authority charged with the interpretation or administration
thereof, or compliance by a Buyer with any guideline, request or
directive of any such authority (whether or not having the force of
law), including any risk-based capital guidelines, affects or would
affect the amount of capital required or expected to be maintained
by such Buyer (or any corporation controlling such Buyer), and such
Buyer determines that the amount of such capital is increased by or
based upon the existence of any its obligations hereunder or the
maintaining of any Transactions, and such increase has the effect
of reducing the rate of return on such Buyer’s (or such
controlling corporation’s) capital as a consequence of such
obligations or the maintaining of such Transactions to a level
below that which such Buyer (or such controlling corporation) could
have achieved but for such circumstances (taking into consideration
its policies with respect to capital adequacy), then the Seller
shall pay to such Buyer, within fifteen (15) days of the
Seller’s receipt of written notice from such Buyer demanding
such compensation, additional amounts as are sufficient to
compensate such Buyer (or such controlling corporation) for any
increase in the amount of capital and reduced rate of return which
Buyer reasonably determines to be allocable to the existence of any
obligations of the Buyer hereunder or to maintaining any
Transactions hereunder. A certificate of a Buyer as to the amount
of such compensation, prepared in good faith and in reasonable
detail by the Buyer and submitted to the Seller, shall be
conclusive and binding for all purposes absent manifest error.
6.6. Eligible Loans
Report . In the discretion of the Agent or Required Buyers if
it or they reasonably determine that market conditions warrant
(except that the Agent shall have no obligation to make such
determination more frequently than once per day), the Agent may
request that the Custodian: (a) make a determination of the
aggregate Market Values for the Purchased Loans (which may include
the Purchase Value of any Mortgage Loans purchased on that day) by
summing the values of the individual Purchased Loans as reported on
(and recorded by the Custodian from) the Mortgage Loan Transmission
Files, valuing at zero Purchased Loans for which the Custodian has
current actual knowledge that a Disqualifier exists; and
(b) issue and provide a copy to the Agent and the Seller of a
statement of the value of the Purchased Loans as so determined.
6.7. Provisions Relating to
Daily Adjusting LIBOR Rate .
(a) If the Agent or the
Required Buyers (after consultation with the Agent) shall determine
in good faith that, (a) it is or they are unable to determine
or ascertain the Daily Adjusting LIBOR Rate, or (b) by reason
of circumstances affecting the foreign exchange and interbank
markets generally, deposits in eurodollars in the applicable
amounts or for the relative maturities are not being offered to
Agent or such Buyers, or (c) the Daily Adjusting LIBOR Rate
will not accurately or fairly cover or reflect the cost of making,
maintaining or funding any Transaction based upon the Daily
Adjusting
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LIBOR Rate, then Agent shall forthwith give notice thereof to the
Seller. Thereafter, until Agent notifies the
Seller that such conditions or circumstances no longer exist, the
Prime Referenced Rate shall be the applicable interest rate for all
Transactions during such period of time, and each Transaction which
bears interest at or by reference to the Daily Adjusting LIBOR Rate
shall automatically be converted into an Advance which bears
interest at or by reference to the Daily Adjusting LIBOR Rate.
(b) If, after the date of
this Agreement, the adoption or introduction of, or any change in,
any applicable law, rule or regulation or in the interpretation or
administration thereof by any governmental authority charged with
the interpretation or administration thereof, or compliance by any
of the Buyers (or any of their respective LIBOR Lending Offices)
with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of
law) of any such authority, shall make it unlawful or impossible
for any of the Buyers (or any of their respective LIBOR Lending
Offices) to honor its obligations hereunder to make or maintain any
Transaction which bears interest at or by reference to the Daily
Adjusting LIBOR Rate, such Buyer shall give notice thereof to the
Seller and the Agent. Thereafter, until such Buyer notifies the
Seller that such conditions or circumstances no longer exist, the
Prime Referenced Rate shall be the applicable interest rate for all
Transactions hereunder during such period of time, and if any of
the Buyers may not lawfully continue to maintain any existing
Transaction which bears interest at or by reference to the Daily
Adjusting LIBOR Rate, the applicable Transaction shall immediately
be converted to an Advance which bears interest at or by reference
to the Prime Referenced Rate. For purposes of this Section, a
change in law, rule, regulation, interpretation or administration
shall include, without limitation, any change made or which becomes
effective on the basis of a law, rule, regulation, interpretation
or administration presently in force, the effective date of which
change is delayed by the terms of such law, rule, regulation,
interpretation or administration.
7 Taxes.
7.1. Payments to be Free of
Taxes; Withholding . Any and all payments by the Seller under
or in respect of this Agreement or any other Repurchase Documents
to which the Seller is a party shall be made free and clear of, and
without deduction or withholding for or on account of, any and all
present or future taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges or
withholdings, and all liabilities (including penalties, interest
and additions to tax) with respect thereto, whether now or
hereafter imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by any
taxation authority or other Governmental Authority (collectively,
“ Taxes ”), unless required by any Legal
Requirement. If the Seller shall be required under any applicable
Legal Requirement to deduct or withhold any Taxes from or in
respect of any sum payable under or in respect of this Agreement or
any of the other Repurchase Documents to the Agent (for the account
of the Buyers), (a) the Seller shall make all such deductions
and withholdings in respect of Taxes, (b) the Seller shall pay
the full amount deducted or withheld in respect of Taxes to the
relevant taxation authority or other Governmental Authority in
accordance with any applicable Legal Requirement and (c) the
sum payable by the Seller shall be increased as may be necessary so
that after the Seller has made all required deductions and
withholdings (including deductions and withholdings applicable to
additional amounts payable under this Section 7 ) each
Buyer receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received
had no such deductions or withholdings been made in respect of
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Non-excluded Taxes. For
purposes of this Agreement the term “ Non-excluded
Taxes ” means Taxes other than, in the case of any
Person, Taxes that are imposed on its overall net income (and
franchise taxes imposed in lieu thereof) by the jurisdiction under
the laws of which such Person is organized or of its applicable
lending office, or any political subdivision thereof.
7.2. Other Taxes . In
addition, the Seller hereby agrees to pay any present or future
stamp, recording, documentary, excise, property or value-added
taxes, or similar taxes, charges or levies (including any interest
or penalties arising in connection therewith) that arise from any
payment made under or in respect of this Agreement or any other
Repurchase Document or from the execution, delivery or registration
of, any performance under, or otherwise with respect to, this
Agreement or any other Repurchase Documents (collectively, “
Other Taxes ”).
7.3. Taxes Indemnity .
The Seller hereby agrees to indemnify the Buyers and the Agent for,
and to hold each of them harmless against, the full amount of
Non-excluded Taxes and Other Taxes, and the full amount of Taxes
(other than Taxes that are imposed on its overall net income (and
franchise taxes imposed in lieu thereof) by the jurisdiction under
the laws of which such Person is organized or of its applicable
lending office, or any political subdivision thereof) of any kind
imposed by any jurisdiction on amounts payable under this
Section 7 imposed on or paid by the Buyers or the Agent
and any liability (including penalties, additions to tax, interest
and expenses) arising therefrom or with respect thereto. The
indemnity by the Seller provided for in this
Section 7.3 shall apply and be made whether or not the
Non-excluded Taxes or Other Taxes for which indemnification
hereunder is sought have been correctly or legally asserted.
Amounts payable by the Seller under the indemnity set forth in this
Section 7.3 shall be paid within fifteen (15) days
from the date on which the Agent makes written demand therefor.
7.4. Receipt . Within
thirty (30) days after the date of any payment of Taxes, the
Seller (or any Person making such payment on behalf of the Seller)
shall furnish to the Agent for each Buyer’s account a
certified copy of the original official receipt evidencing payment
thereof.
7.5. Non-Exempt Buyer .
For purposes of this Section 7.5 , the terms
“United States” and “United States person”
shall have the meanings specified in Section 7701 of the
Internal Revenue Code. Each Buyer (including, for avoidance of
doubt, any assignee, successor or participant) that either
(x) is not incorporated under the laws of the United States,
any State thereof or the District of Columbia or (y) whose
name does not include “Incorporated”,
“Inc.”, “Corporation”, “Corp.”,
“P.C.”, “insurance company” or
“assurance company” (a “ Non-Exempt Buyer
”) shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Agent two
originals of each of the following properly completed and duly
executed documents:
(a) in the case of a
Non-Exempt Buyer that is not a United States person, (i) a
complete and executed (A) U.S. Internal Revenue Form W-8BEN
with Part II completed in which the Buyer claims the benefits of a
tax treaty with the United States providing for a zero or reduced
rate of withholding (or any successor forms thereto), including all
appropriate attachments or (B) U.S. Internal Revenue Service
Form W-8ECI (or any successor forms thereto) and (ii) if such
Non-Exempt Buyer is treated as a corporation for United States
federal tax purposes, a certificate substantially in the form of
Exhibit D (a “ Corporation Tax Treatment
Certificate ”); or
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(b) in the case of an
individual, (i) a complete and executed U.S. Internal Revenue
Service Form W-8BEN (or any successor forms thereto) and a
Corporation Tax Treatment Certificate or (ii) a complete and
executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (or any successor
forms thereto); or
(c) in the case of a
Non-Exempt Buyer that is organized under the laws of the United
States, any State thereof, or the District of Columbia, (i) a
complete and executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (or
any successor forms thereto), including all appropriate
attachments, and (ii) if such Non-Exempt Buyer is treated as a
corporation for United States federal tax purposes, a Corporation
Tax Treatment Certificate; or
(d) in the case of a
Non-Exempt Buyer that (i) is not organized under the laws of
the United States, any State thereof, or the District of Columbia
and (ii) is treated as a corporation for U. S. federal income
tax purposes, a complete and executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service
Form W-8BEN claiming a zero rate of withholding (or any successor
forms thereto) and a Corporation Tax Treatment Certificate; or
(e) in the case of a
Non-Exempt Buyer that (i) is treated for U.S. federal income
tax purposes as a partnership or other non-corporate entity, and
(ii) is not organized under the laws of the United States, any
State thereof, or the District of Columbia, (A)(1) a complete
and executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-8IMY (or any
successor forms thereto) (including all required documents and
attachments) and (2) a Corporation Tax Treatment Certificate,
and (ii) without duplication, with respect to each of its
beneficial owners and the beneficial owners of such beneficial
owners looking through chains of owners to individuals or entities
that are treated as corporations for U.S. federal income tax
purposes (all such owners, “ Beneficial Owners
”), the documents that would be required by this
Section 7.5 with respect to each such Beneficial Owner
if such Beneficial Owner were a Buyer, provided that no such
documents will be required with respect to a Beneficial Owner to
the extent the actual Buyer is determined to be in compliance with
the requirements for certification on behalf of its Beneficial
Owner as may be provided in applicable U.S. Treasury regulations,
or the requirements of this Section 7.5 are otherwise
determined to be unnecessary, all such determinations under this
Section 7.5 to be made in the sole discretion of the
Seller, provided that each such Buyer shall be provided an
opportunity to establish such compliance as reasonable; or
(f) in the case of a
Non-Exempt Buyer that is disregarded for U.S. federal income tax
purposes, the document that would be required by this
Section 7.5 with respect to its Beneficial Owner if
such Beneficial Owner were a Buyer; or
(g) in the case of a
Non-Exempt Buyer that (i) is not a United States person and
(ii) is acting in the capacity as an
“intermediary” (as defined in U.S. Treasury
regulations), (A)(1) a U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form
W-8IMY (or any successor form thereto) (including all required
documents and attachments) and (2) a Corporation Tax Treatment
Certificate, and (B) if the intermediary is a
“non-qualified intermediary” (as defined in U.S.
Treasury regulations), from each person upon whose behalf the
“non-qualified intermediary” is acting the documents
that would be required by this Section 7.5 with respect
to each such person if each such person were a Buyer.
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If the forms referred
to in this Section 7.5 that are provided by a Buyer at
the time such Buyer first becomes a party to this Agreement, a
successor to a Buyer or, with respect to a permitted assignment of
or a grant of a participation in the interests of a Buyer
hereunder, the effective date thereof, indicate a United States
interest withholding tax rate in excess of zero, withholding tax at
such rate shall be treated as Taxes other than Non-excluded Taxes
(“ Excluded Taxes ”) and shall not qualify as
Non-Excluded Taxes unless and until such Buyer provides the
appropriate form certifying that a lesser rate applies, whereupon
withholding tax at such lesser rate shall be considered Excluded
Taxes solely for the periods governed by such form. If, however, on
the date a Person becomes an assignee, successor or participant to
this Agreement, the Buyer transferor was entitled to
indemnification or additional amounts under this
Section 7 , then the Buyer assignee, successor or
participant shall be entitled to indemnification or additional
amounts to the extent (and only to the extent), that the Buyer
transferor was entitled to such indemnification or additional
amounts for Non-excluded Taxes, and the Buyer assignee, successor
or participant shall be entitled to additional indemnification or
additional amounts for any other or additional Non-excluded
Taxes.
7.6. If Buyer Fails to
Provide Form . For any period with respect to which a Buyer
required to do so has failed to provide the Seller with the
appropriate form, certificate or other document described in
Section 7.5 (other than (a) if such failure is due
to a change in any applicable Legal Requirement, or in the
interpretation or application thereof, occurring after the date on
which a form, certificate or other document originally was required
to be provided, (b) if such form, certificate or other
document otherwise is not required under Section 7.5 or
(c) if it is legally inadvisable or otherwise commercially
disadvantageous for such Buyer to deliver such form, certificate or
other document), such Buyer shall not be entitled to
indemnification or additional amounts under Section 7.2
or Section 7.3 with respect to Non-excluded Taxes
imposed by the United States by reason of such failure;
provided that should a Buyer become subject to Non-excluded
Taxes because of its failure to deliver a form, certificate or
other document required hereunder, the Seller shall take such steps
as such Buyer shall reasonably request, to assist such Buyer in
recovering such Non-excluded Taxes.
7.7. Refunds . If the
Agent or any Buyer, in its sole opinion, determines that it has
finally and irrevocably received or been granted a refund in
respect of any Taxes paid as to which indemnification has been paid
by the Seller pursuant to this Section, it shall promptly remit
such refund, net of all reasonable out of pocket costs and
expenses, to the Seller; provided, that the Seller agrees to
promptly return any such refund to the Agent or such Buyer, as
applicable, if such person is required to repay such refund to the
relevant taxing authority. Nothing contained herein shall impose an
obligation on the Agent or any Buyer to apply for any such
refund.
7.8. Survival . Without
prejudice to the survival of any other agreement of the Seller
hereunder, the agreements and obligations of the Seller contained
in this Section 7 shall survive the termination of this
Agreement. Nothing contained in this Section 7 shall
require the Buyer to make available any of its tax returns or any
other information that it deems to be confidential or
proprietary.
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8 Income and
Escrow Payments; Control.
8.1. Income and Escrow
Payments . Notwithstanding that the Buyers, the Agent and the
Seller intend that the Transactions be sales to the Buyers of the
Purchased Loans, where a particular Transaction’s term
extends over an Income payment date on the Purchased Loans subject
to that Transaction, all payments and distributions, whether in
cash or in kind, made on or with respect to the Purchased Loans
shall be paid directly to the Seller or its designee by the
relevant Customer, and the Agent (and the Buyers) shall have no
obligation to collect or apply any Income to prevent or reduce any
Margin Deficit, unless the Seller (a) arranges for such Income
to be paid to the Agent (for Pro Rata distribution to the Buyers),
(b) requests that the Agent apply such Income when received
against the Seller’s Margin Deficit(s) and
(c) concurrently transfers to the Agent either (i) cash
or (ii) at the Agent’s option and with the Agent’s
written approval, Additional Purchased Loans, sufficient to
eliminate such Margin Deficit. Amounts paid to the Seller by the
relevant Customer shall be deposited by the Seller into the Income
Account within two (2) Business Days of receipt by the Seller
and, as to amounts so paid to the Seller for escrow payments, into
the Escrow Account. The Income Account and the Escrow Account shall
be maintained by the Seller with a bank reasonably satisfactory to
the Agent and shall be subject to the control of the Agent. The
Income Account and Escrow Account may be interest bearing accounts
if allowed or required by applicable law. At all times, other than
during the existence of an Event of Default, the Seller may have
full use of all Income and amounts on deposit in the Income
Account, subject to the provisions of Section 8.2 .
8.2. Income and Escrow
Accounts . Other than during the existence of an Event of
Default and so long as the Seller is also the Servicer, the Seller
shall make payments from the Escrow Account of all appropriate
amounts payable with respect to each Purchased Loan for taxes,
insurance and other purposes for which the funds are paid into the
Escrow Account. Subject to Section 8.3 , amounts on
deposit in the Income Account shall be used by the Seller to pay
its fees as Servicer while it serves in such capacity, and may be
used to pay to the Agent amounts due under this Agreement for
Margin Deficit or Price Differential and for any other lawful
purpose.
8.3. Income and Escrow
Accounts after Default . Upon the occurrence and during the
continuation of an Event of Default, the Seller shall have no right
to direct withdrawal or application of funds in the Income Account
and the Escrow Account unless authorized to do so in writing by the
Agent. The Agent may cause all amounts on deposit in the Income
Account to be paid to it or its designee for application as
provided in Section 18.4 . The Agent or its designee
shall direct payments from the Escrow Account for the purposes for
which such funds are deposited into the Escrow Account and shall
comply with all Legal Requirements applicable to the operation of
the Income Account and the Escrow Account, including any Agency
guidelines with respect thereto.
9 Facility Fee;
Agent’s Fee.
9.1. Facility Fee . The
Seller agrees to pay to the Agent (for Pro Rata distribution to the
Buyers) a facility fee (the “ Facility Fee ”) in
an amount equal to the sum of one quarter of one percent (0.25%) of
the Maximum Aggregate Commitment. The Facility Fee shall be
payable
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concurrently with the
execution hereof, and shall be deemed fully earned upon receipt by
Agent. The Facility Fee is compensation to the Buyers for
committing to make funds available for revolving purchases of
Eligible Loans on the terms and subject to the conditions of this
Agreement, and are not compensation for the use or forbearance or
detention of money. The calculation by the Agent of the amount of
the Facility Fee shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest
error.
9.2. Agent’s Fee .
As set forth in the Fee Letter.
10 Security
Interest; License.
10.1. Intent of the Parties . The
parties intend that all Transactions hereunder be sales and
purchases (other than for accounting and tax purposes) and not
loans; nonetheless, as a security agreement under the UCC and as a
security agreement or other arrangement or other credit enhancement
related to this Agreement and transactions hereunder as provided
for in Section 101(47) (A)(v) of the Bankruptcy Code, the
Seller hereby pledges to the Agent for the benefit of the Buyers as
security for the performance by the Seller of the Obligations and
hereby grants, assigns and pledges to the Agent for the benefit of
the Buyers a fully perfected first priority security interest in
all of the following, whether now owned or hereafter acquired,
wherever located (the “Collateral”):
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Purchased Loans: All of the Purchased Loans and all
Income and proceeds from the Purchased Loans, including all of the
property, rights and other items described in the definition of
“ Mortgage Loan ” in Section 1.12
for each such Purchased Loan and all rights to have, receive and
retain the return or refund of funds transferred from any account
with the Agent to any title company, title agent, escrow agent or
other Person for the purpose of originating or funding a Mortgage
Loan that did not close (for any reason) and that would have been a
Purchased Loan if it had closed (all funds so transferred
continuously remain the property of the Agent and the Buyers until
disbursed by such agent to or for the account of the related
Customer upon the closing of his or her Mortgage Loan);
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With respect to Purchased Loans : With respect to the
Purchased Loans:
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(i) all Purchased Loans
Support;
(ii) all of the Seller’s right,
title and interest in all Mortgaged Premises related to the
Purchased Loans;
(iii) all rights to deliver Purchased Loans
to investors and other purchasers and all proceeds resulting from
the disposition of Purchased Loans pursuant thereto, including the
Seller’s right and entitlement to receive the entire purchase
price paid for Purchased Loans sold;
(iv) all Hedge Agreements relating to or
constituting any and all of the foregoing or relating to the
Obligations, including all rights to payment arising under such
Hedge Agreements;
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(v) all Servicing Rights and
Servicing Records in respect of any of the Purchased Loans; and
(vi) all of the Seller’s rights
now or hereafter existing in, to or under any MBS secured by,
created from or representing any interest in any of the Purchased
Loans, whether now owned or hereafter acquired by the Seller, and
whether such MBS are evidenced by book entry or certificate (the
Buyers’ Agent’s ownership interest and security
interest in each MBS created from, based on or backed by Purchased
Loans shall automatically exist in, attach to, cover and affect all
of the Seller’s right, title and interest in that MBS when
issued and its proceeds and the Buyers’ Agent’s
ownership interest and security interest in the Purchased Loans
from which such MBS was so created shall automatically terminate
and be released when such MBS is issued, subject to automatic
reinstatement if such issuance is voided or set aside by any court
of competent jurisdiction), all right to the payment of monies and
non-cash distributions on account of any of such MBS and all new,
substituted and additional securities at any time issued with
respect thereto;
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intangibles, general intangibles, documents (including documents of
title), chattel paper (including without limit electronic chattel
paper and tangible chattel paper), contract rights and proceeds,
whether now or hereafter existing (including all of the
Seller’s present and future rights to have and receive
interest and other compensation, whether or not yet accrued,
earned, due or payable, and all other rights to payment), under or
arising out of or relating to the Purchased Loans;
(ii) all instruments, documents or
writings evidencing any such accounts, payment intangibles, general
intangibles, instruments, chattel paper, contra