Pricing Agreement

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Exhibit 1.2

 

Pricing Agreement

 

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
60 Wall Street, 19th Floor
New York, New York 10005

 

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
250 Vesey Street
New York, NY 10080

 

and

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated
1585 Broadway
New York, New York 10036

 

 

June 23, 2004

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

SLM Funding LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Company”), and the Student Loan Marketing Association, a corporation formed under the laws of the United States of America (“SLMA”), propose, subject to the terms and conditions stated herein and in the Underwriting Agreement, dated June 23, 2004 (the “Underwriting Agreement”), between the Company and SLMA, on the one hand, and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, on the other hand, that the Company, (i) having caused the formation of the trust (the “Trust”) pursuant to a trust agreement, dated of June 10, 2004 (the “Initial Trust Agreement”), between the Company and Chase Manhattan Bank USA, National Association, as eligible lender trustee (the “Eligible Lender Trustee”), will cause the Initial Trust Agreement to be amended and restated by an Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of the Time of Delivery, among the Company, the Eligible Lender Trustee and the Indenture Trustee (defined below) and (ii) will issue and sell to the Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto (the “Underwriters”) the Student Loan-Backed Notes (the “Notes”) specified in Schedule II hereto (the “Designated Securities”).  The Notes will be issued and secured pursuant to the Indenture, dated as of June 1, 2004 (the “Indenture”), among the Trust, the Eligible Lender Trustee and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”).

 

Except as modified pursuant to Schedule II hereto, each of the provisions of the Underwriting Agreement is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety, and shall be deemed to be a part of this Pricing Agreement to the same extent as if such provisions had been set forth

 



 

in full herein; and each of the representations and warranties set forth therein shall be deemed to have been made at and as of the date of this Pricing Agreement, except that each representation and warranty which refers to the Prospectus in Section 2 of the Underwriting Agreement shall be deemed to be a representation or warranty as of the date of the Underwriting Agreement in relation to the Prospectus (as therein defined), and also a representation and warranty as of the date of this Pricing Agreement in relation to the Prospectus as amended or supplemented relating to the Designated Securities which are the subject of this Pricing Agreement.  Each reference to the Representatives herein and in the provisions of the Underwriting Agreement so incorporated by reference shall be deemed to refer to you.  Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Underwriting Agreement are used herein as therein defined.

 

The Representatives designated to act on behalf of each of the Underwriters of the Designated Securities pursuant to Section 12 of the Underwriting Agreement and the address of the Representatives referred to in such Section 12 are set forth at the end of Schedule II hereto.

 

An amendment to the Registration Statement, or a supplement to the Prospectus, as the case may be, relating to the Designated Securities, in the form to be delivered to you is proposed to be filed with the Commission.

 

Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Underwriting Agreement incorporated herein by reference, the Company agrees to cause the Trust to issue and sell to each of the Underwriters, and each of the Underwriters agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Trust, at the time and place and at the purchase price to the Underwriters set forth in Schedule II hereto, the amount of Designated Securities set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule I hereto, less the amount of Designated Securities covered by Delayed Delivery Contracts, if any, as may be specified in Schedule II.

 

During the period beginning from the date of this Pricing Agreement for the Designated Securities and continuing to and including the Time of Delivery, the Company agrees, and SLMA agrees that it will cause the Company, not to, and not to permit any affiliated entity to, offer, sell, or contract to sell or otherwise dispose of, securities substantially similar to the Designated Securities (other than the Designated Securities) evidencing an ownership in, or any securities (other than the related Notes) collateralized by, Student Loans, without the prior written consent of the Representatives.

 

Each Underwriter represents and agrees that (a) it has not offered or sold and will not offer or sell any Notes to persons in the United Kingdom prior to the expiration of the period of six months from the issue date of the Notes except to persons whose ordinary activities involve them in acquiring, holding, managing or disposing of investments (as principal or agent) for the purposes of their businesses or otherwise in circumstances which have not resulted and will not result in an offer to the public in the United Kingdom within the meaning of the Public Offers of Securities Regulations 1995, as amended; (b) it has only communicated or caused to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated any invitation or

 



 

inducement to engage in investment activity, within the meaning of Section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the “FSMA”), received by it in connection with the issue or sale of any notes in circumstances in which Section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to the Trust; and (c) it has complied and will comply with all applicable provisions of the FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to the Notes in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom.

 

If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please sign and return to us nine counterparts hereof, and upon acceptance hereof by you, this letter and such acceptance hereof, including the provisions of the Underwriting Agreement incorporated herein by reference, shall constitute a binding agreement between each of the Underwriters and the Company and SLMA.  It is understood that your acceptance of this letter is or will be pursuant to the authority set forth in a form of Agreement among Underwriters, the form of which shall be submitted to the Company and SLMA for examination upon request, but without warranty on the part of the Underwriters as to the authority of the signers thereof.

 

 

Very truly yours,

 

 

 

 

SLM Funding LLC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/  MARK L. HELEEN

 

 

 

Name:  Mark L. Heleen

 

 

Title:    Vice President

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Student Loan Marketing Association

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/   MICHAEL E. SHEEHAN

 

 

 

Name:   Michael E. Sheehan

 

 

Title:     Vice President

 



 

Accepted as of the date hereof:

 

 

 

 

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

 

 

By:

/s/  PETER J. CERWIN

 

 

Name:   Peter J. Cerwin

 

Title:     Director

 

 

By:

/s/  NITA SUE CHERRY

 

 

Name:   Nita Sue Cherry

 

Title:     Managing Director

 

 

 

 

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated

 

 

By:

/s/  GEOFFREY R. WITT

 

 

Name:   Geoffrey R. Witt

 

Title:     Authorized Signatory

 

 

 

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated

 

 

By:

/s/  PETER CHAI

 

 

Name:   Peter Chai

 

Title:     Managing Director

 



 

SCHEDULE I

 

Amount of Designated Securities to be Purchased

 

 

Underwriter

 

Class A-1

 

Class A-2

 

Class A-3

 

Class A-4

 

Class A-5

 

Class B

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

 

$

218,000,000

 

$

299,000,000

 

$

155,800,000

 

$

193,000,000

 

$

114,221,000

 

$

30,306,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated

 

$

218,000,000

 

$

299,000,000

 

$

155,600,000

 

$

193,000,000

 

$

114,221,000

 

$

30,306,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated

 

$

218,000,000

 

$

299,000,000

 

$

155,600,000

 

$

193,000,000

 

$

114,222,000

 

$

30,306,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

$

654,000,000

 

$

897,000,000

 

$

467,000,000

 

$

579,000,000

 

$

342,664,000

 

$

90,918,000

 

 



 

SCHEDULE II

 

Title of each Class of Designated Securities:

 

 

Floating Rate Class A-1 Student Loan-Backed Notes

 

(for purposes of this Schedule II, “Class A-1”)

 

Floating Rate Class A-2 Student Loan-Backed Notes

 

(for purposes of this Schedule II, “Class A-2”)

 

Floating Rate Class A-3 Student Loan-Backed Notes

 

(for purposes of this Schedule II, “Class A-3”)

 

Floating Rate Class A-4 Student Loan-Backed Notes

 

(for purposes of this Schedule II, “Class A-4”)

 

Floating Rate Class A-5 Student Loan-Backed Notes

 

(for purposes of this Schedule II, “Class A-5”)

 

Floating Rate Class B Student Loan-Backed Notes

 

(for purposes of this Schedule II, “Class B”)

 

Aggregate principal amount of each Class:

 

Class A-1:

 

$

654,000,000

 

Class A-2:

 

$

897,000,000

 

Class A-3:

 

$

467,000,000

 

Class A-4:

 

$

579,000,000

 

Class A-5:

 

$

342,664,000

 

Class B:

 

$

90,918,000

 

 

Price to Public of each Class:

 

Class A-1:

 

100.00

%

Class A-2:

 

100.00

%

Class A-3:

 

100.00

%

Class A-4:

 

100.00

%

Class A-5:

 

100.00

%

Class B:

 

100.00

%

 

Purchase Price by Underwriters of each Class:

 

Class A-1:

 

99.875

%

Class A-2:

 

99.820

%

Class A-3:

 

99.800

%

Class A-4:

 

99.780

%

Class A-5:

 

99.750

%

Class B:

 

99.710

%

 



 

Specified funds for payment of purchase price:

 

Same Day Funds

 

 

Indenture:             Indenture, dated as of June 1, 2004, among Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Indenture Trustee, the SLM Student Loan Trust 2004-6, and Chase Manhattan Bank USA, National Association, as Eligible Lender Trustee.

 

Maturity:

 

Class A-1:

 

January 2010 Distribution Date

 

Class A-2:

 

January 2013 Distribution Date

 

Class A-3:

 

July 2014 Distribution Date

 

Class A-4:

 

January 2017 Distribution Date

 

Class A-5:

 

April 2020 Distribution Date

 

Class B:

 

April 2025 Distribution Date

 

 

Interest Rate:

 

Class A-1:

 

interpolated  3-month/4-month LIBOR* plus 0.00%

 

Class A-2:

 

interpolated  3-month/4-month LIBOR* plus 0.04%

 

Class A-3:

 

interpolated  3-month/4-month LIBOR* plus 0.10%

 

Class A-4:

 

interpolated  3-month/4-month LIBOR* plus 0.15%

 

Class A-5:

 

interpolated  3-month/4-month LIBOR* plus 0.17%

 

Class B:

 

interpolated  3-month/4-month LIBOR* plus 0.38%

 

 


*  As to initial Accrual Period; thereafter, Three-month LIBOR.

 

Form of Designated Securities:       Book-Entry (DTC)

 

Time of Delivery: June 30, 2004

 

Closing location for delivery of Designated Securities:

 

Sallie Mae, Inc.
11600 Sallie Mae Drive
Reston, VA  20193

 

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Names and addresses of Representatives:

 

Designated Representatives:

 

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

 

 

 

Address for Notices, etc.:

 

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

60 Wall Street, 19th Floor

 

 

New York, NY 10005

 

 

Facsimile: (212) 797-5152

 

 

Attn:   Nita Cherry

 

 

 

 

 

 

Designated Representatives:

 

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated

 

 

 

Address for Notices, etc.:

 

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated

 

 

 

 

 

250 Vesey Street

 

 

New York, NY 10080

 

 

 

 

 

Facsimile: (212) 449-9015

 

 

Attn:   Geoffrey R. Witt

 

 

 

Designated Representatives:

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated

 

 

 

Address for Notices, etc.:

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated

 

 

 

 

 

1585 Broadway

 

 

New York, NY 10036

 

 

 

 

 

Facsimile: (212) 761-1850

 

 

Attn:   Jack Kattan

 

Modifications to the Underwriting Agreement (solely for the purposes of this Pricing Agreement):

 

1.     The following sentence is hereby added to the end of the second paragraph of the Underwriting Agreement:

 

In addition, the Trust will enter into an interest rate cap agreement (the “Interest Rate Cap Agreement”) with Swiss Re Financial Products Corporation (“SRFP”).

 

2.  The following paragraph is hereby added to Section 7 of the Underwriting Agreement:

 

(n)           The Interest Rate Cap Agreement shall have been entered into by the Trust and SRPF, and the Underwriters shall have received a copy, addressed to them or on which they are otherwise entitled to rely, of each opinion of counsel required to be delivered thereunder at or before

 

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the Time of Delivery, and a copy of each certificate required to be delivered thereunder at or before the Time of Delivery.

 

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