Exhibit 10.13
EXECUTION COPY
WAIVER AND AMENDMENT TO
GUARANTEE
THIS WAIVER AND AMENDMENT TO
GUARANTEE (“ Waiver and Amendment Agreement ”)
is made as of May 27, 2009 with respect to the Guarantee,
dated as of April 18, 2008 (the “ Guarantee
”), of Residential Capital, LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company, as Guarantor (the “Guarantor”), in favor of
GMAC LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as lender (the
“ Lender ”) pursuant to the Loan and Security
Agreement, dated as of April 18, 2008 (the “ Loan
Agreement ”), among GMAC and Guarantor’s affiliates
Residential Funding Company, LLC and GMAC Mortgage, LLC, as
Borrowers. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined
herein shall have the respective meanings given to them in the Loan
Agreement.
WHEREAS, Residential Capital, LLC is
a wholly-owned subsidiary of GMAC; and
WHEREAS, significant equity
investments have been and may be made directly and indirectly by
the U.S. Department of Treasury (“ UST ”) into
GMAC and certain other ownership and governance changes with
respect to GMAC have, will or may take place in the form of
(1) the direct acquisition by the UST of equity interests in
GMAC; (2) the contribution (directly or indirectly) by General
Motors Corporation (“ GM ”) of GMAC equity (a
portion of which was purchased with the proceeds of a loan made by
the UST to GM) into one or more trusts naming GM as beneficiary
(the “ GM Trusts ”); (3) disposition by GM
of its beneficial interest in the GM Trusts; and (4) any
transactions or agreements entered into in connection therewith
including the appointment, designation or election of directors (or
the equivalent) (collectively, the “ Specified
Transactions ”); and
WHEREAS, the Specified Transactions
will enhance the creditworthiness of GMAC, and with respect to
which the parties agree that the Change of Control provision should
not apply with respect thereto and the definition of Change of
Control should therefore be amended as provided below;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of
the premises set forth above, the terms and conditions contained
herein, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto
have agreed to enter into this Waiver and Amendment
Agreement.
1. Waiver . The Lender hereby
agrees that, notwithstanding any provision of the Guarantee to the
contrary, the occurrence of any or all of the Specified
Transactions shall not be deemed to be a Change of Control or a
Guarantee Event of Default under the Guarantee.
2. Amendments . In
furtherance of paragraph 1 above, (a) The definition of
“Change of Control” in the Guarantee is hereby deleted
in its entirety and replaced with the following:
“ Change of Control
” means the acquisition of ownership, directly or indirectly,
beneficially or of record, by any Person or group (within the
meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules of the
Securities and Exchange Commission
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thereunder as in effect on the date
hereof) other than the Investors, the United States Department of
the Treasury, the GM Trusts, or any purchaser of the beneficial
interest of General Motors in the GM Trusts