NAVISTAR FINANCIAL 2009-A OWNER TRUST

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EX-10.3 4 dex103.htm INDENTURE Indenture

Exhibit 10.3

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NAVISTAR FINANCIAL 2009-A OWNER TRUST

Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes

 

 

INDENTURE

Dated as of April 30, 2009

 

 

The Bank of New York Mellon,

a New York banking corporation,

Indenture Trustee


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE    2

Section 1.1 Definitions

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ARTICLE II THE NOTES    2

Section 2.1 Form

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Section 2.2 Execution, Authentication and Delivery

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Section 2.3 [Reserved].

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Section 2.4 Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes

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Section 2.5 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes

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Section 2.6 Persons Deemed Noteholders

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Section 2.7 Payment of Principal and Interest

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Section 2.8 Cancellation of Notes

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Section 2.9 [Reserved]

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Section 2.10 [Reserved]

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Section 2.11 [Reserved]

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Section 2.12 [Reserved]

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Section 2.13 Seller as Noteholder

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Section 2.14 Tax Treatment

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Section 2.15 Private Placement of Notes

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ARTICLE III COVENANTS    7

Section 3.1 Payment of Principal and Interest

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Section 3.2 Maintenance of Agency Office

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Section 3.3 Money for Payments to Be Held in Trust

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Section 3.4 Existence

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Section 3.5 Protection of Collateral; Acknowledgment of Pledge

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Section 3.6 Opinions as to Collateral

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Section 3.7 Performance of Obligations; Servicing of Receivables.

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Section 3.8 Negative Covenants

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Section 3.9 Annual Statement as to Compliance

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Section 3.10 Consolidation, Merger, etc., of the Issuer; Disposition of Trust Assets

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Section 3.11 Successor or Transferee

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Section 3.12 No Other Business

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Section 3.13 No Borrowing

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Section 3.14 Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities

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Section 3.15 Servicer’s Obligations

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Section 3.16 Capital Expenditures

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Section 3.17 Removal of Administrator

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Section 3.18 Restricted Payments

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Section 3.19 Notice of Events of Default

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Section 3.20 Further Instruments and Acts

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Section 3.21 Indenture Trustee’s Assignment of Administrative Receivables and Warranty Receivables

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Section 3.22 Representations and Warranties by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee

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ARTICLE IV SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE    16

Section 4.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture

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Section 4.2 Application of Trust Money

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Section 4.3 Repayment of Monies Held by Paying Agent

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Section 4.4 Duration of Position of Indenture Trustee for Benefit of Certificateholders

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ARTICLE V DEFAULT AND REMEDIES    18

Section 5.1 Events of Default

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Section 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment

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Section 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture Trustee

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Section 5.4 Remedies; Priorities

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Section 5.5 Optional Preservation of the Collateral

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Section 5.6 Limitation of Suits

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Section 5.7 Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal, Interest and Other Amounts

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Section 5.8 Restoration of Rights and Remedies

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Section 5.9 Rights and Remedies Cumulative

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Section 5.10 Delay or Omission Not a Waiver

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Section 5.11 Control by Noteholders

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Section 5.12 Waiver of Past Defaults

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Section 5.13 Undertaking for Costs

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Section 5.14 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws

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Section 5.15 Action on Notes

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Section 5.16 Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations

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ARTICLE VI THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE    27

Section 6.1 Duties of Indenture Trustee

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Section 6.2 Rights of Indenture Trustee

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Section 6.3 Indenture Trustee May Own Notes

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Section 6.4 Indenture Trustee’s Disclaimer

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Section 6.5 Notice of Defaults

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Section 6.6 Reports by Indenture Trustee to Holders

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Section 6.7 Compensation; Indemnity

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Section 6.8 Replacement of Indenture Trustee

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Section 6.9 Merger or Consolidation of Indenture Trustee

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Section 6.10 Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture Trustee

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Section 6.11 Eligibility; Disqualification

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Section 6.12 [Reserved]

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Section 6.13 Representations and Warranties of Indenture Trustee

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Section 6.14 Indenture Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Notes

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Section 6.15 [Reserved]

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Section 6.16 Rights of Agent to Direct Indenture Trustee

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ARTICLE VII NOTEHOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS    33

Section 7.1 Issuer To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of Noteholders

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Section 7.2 Preservation of Information, Communications to Noteholders

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ARTICLE VIII ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES    34

Section 8.1 Collection of Money

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Section 8.2 Designated Accounts; Payments

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Section 8.3 General Provisions Regarding Accounts

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Section 8.4 Release of Collateral

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Section 8.5 Opinion of Counsel

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Section 8.6 Investment Earnings and Supplemental Servicing Fees

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Section 8.7 Net Deposits

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Section 8.8 Statements to Securityholders

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Section 8.9 Designated Accounts

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Section 8.10 Reserve Account

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Section 8.11 [Reserved]

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Section 8.12 Yield Supplement Account

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Section 8.13 Termination

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ARTICLE IX SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES    40

Section 9.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders

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Section 9.2 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Noteholders

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Section 9.3 Execution of Supplemental Indentures

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Section 9.4 Effect of Supplemental Indenture

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Section 9.5 [Reserved]

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Section 9.6 Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures

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ARTICLE X REDEMPTION OF NOTES    43

Section 10.1 Redemption

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Section 10.2 Form of Redemption Notice

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Section 10.3 Notes Payable on Redemption Date or Optional Purchase Date

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ARTICLE XI MISCELLANEOUS    45

Section 11.1 Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc.

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Section 11.2 Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee

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Section 11.3 Acts of Noteholders

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Section 11.4 Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Issuer, Rating Agencies and Agent

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Section 11.5 Notices to Noteholders; Waiver

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Section 11.6 Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions

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Section 11.7 [Reserved]

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Section 11.8 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents

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Section 11.9 Successors and Assigns

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Section 11.10 Separability

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Section 11.11 Benefits of Indenture

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Section 11.12 Legal Holidays

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Section 11.13 Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction

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Section 11.14 Counterparts

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Section 11.15 Recording of Indenture

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Section 11.16 No Recourse

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Section 11.17 No Petition

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Section 11.18 Inspection

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EXHIBIT A:    Locations of Schedule of Retail Notes
EXHIBIT B:    Form of Floating Rate Asset Backed Note

 

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INDENTURE, dated as of April 30, 2009, between NAVISTAR FINANCIAL 2009-A OWNER TRUST, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Issuer”), and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, a New York banking corporation, as indenture trustee and not in its individual capacity (the “Indenture Trustee”).

Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Financial Parties:

GRANTING CLAUSE

The Issuer hereby grants to the Indenture Trustee on the Closing Date, as trustee for the benefit of the Financial Parties, including the Certificateholder (except with respect to the Note Distribution Account, the Yield Supplement Account and the Reserve Account Property) and the Swap Counterparty (except with respect to the Note Distribution Account), all right, title and interest of the Issuer, whether now existing or hereafter arising or acquired, in, to and under (a) the Receivables listed on the Schedule of Retail Notes which is on file at the locations listed on Exhibit A hereto, whether now existing or hereafter acquired and all Related Security; (b) the Collection Account and the Note Distribution Account and all amounts, investments and investment property held from time to time in the Collection Account and the Note Distribution Account (whether in the form of deposit accounts, Physical Property, book-entry securities, uncertificated securities, or otherwise) and all proceeds of the foregoing; (c) the Reserve Account and all amounts, investments and investment property held from time to time in the Reserve Account (whether in the form of deposit accounts, Physical Property, book-entry securities, uncertificated securities, or otherwise) and all proceeds of the foregoing; (d) the Reserve Account Initial Deposit with respect to the Closing Date, any funds deposited in the Reserve Account pursuant to Section 2.07 of the Pooling Agreement and all proceeds thereof ((c) and (d), collectively, the “Reserve Account Property”); (e) the Pooling Agreement and the PSA Assignment (including all rights of NFRRC under the Purchase Agreement and the PA Assignment assigned to the Issuer pursuant to the Pooling Agreement); (f) the Servicing Agreement; (g) all Collections; (h) all right, title and interest of the Issuer in, to and under the Interest Rate Swap and the Swap Counterparty Rights Agreement; (i) the Yield Supplement Account and all funds on deposit from time to time in the Yield Supplement Account (other than any Investment Earnings from amounts on deposit in the Yield Supplement Account) and all proceeds thereof, including all other amounts and investments held from time to time in the Yield Supplement Account (whether in the form of deposit accounts, Physical Property, book-entry securities, uncertificated securities or otherwise); (j) the Yield Supplement Deposit Amount with respect to the Closing Date and all proceeds thereof and (k) all present and future claims, demands, causes and choses in action in respect of any or all of the foregoing and all payments on or under and all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in respect of any or all of the foregoing, including all proceeds of the conversion, voluntary or involuntary, into cash or other liquid property, all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes, drafts, acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit accounts, insurance proceeds, condemnation awards, rights to payment of any and every kind and other forms of obligations and receivables, instruments and other property which at any time constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the foregoing (collectively, the “Collateral”).

The foregoing Grant is made in trust to secure the payment of principal of and interest on, and any other amounts owing in respect of, the Notes, equally and ratably without prejudice, priority or distinction, subject to the priority set forth in Section 8.2(d) of this Indenture, to secure any amounts owing from the Issuer to the Swap Counterparty under the Interest Rate Swap, subject to the priority set forth in Section 8.2(c) of this Indenture, and to secure compliance with the provisions of this Indenture, all as provided in this Indenture. This Indenture constitutes a security agreement under the UCC.


The foregoing Grant includes all rights, powers and options (but none of the obligations, if any) of the Issuer under any agreement or instrument included in the Collateral, including the immediate and continuing right to claim for, collect, receive and give receipt for principal, interest and other Scheduled Payments in respect of the Receivables included in the Collateral and all other monies payable under the Collateral, to give and receive notices and other communications, to make waivers or other agreements, to exercise all rights and options, to bring Proceedings in the name of the Issuer or otherwise and generally to do and receive anything that the Issuer is or may be entitled to do or receive under or with respect to the Collateral.

The Indenture Trustee, as trustee on behalf of the Financial Parties, acknowledges such Grant and accepts the trusts under this Indenture in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

Section 1.1 Definitions. Certain capitalized terms used in this Indenture shall have the respective meanings assigned them in Part I of Appendix A to the Pooling Agreement of even date herewith between the Issuer and NFRRC (as it may be amended, supplemented or modified from time to time, the “Pooling Agreement”). All references herein to “the Indenture” or “this Indenture” are to this Indenture as it may be amended, supplemented or modified from time to time, the exhibits hereto and the capitalized terms used herein which are defined in such Appendix A. All references herein to Articles, Sections, subsections and exhibits are to Articles, Sections, subsections and exhibits contained in or attached to this Indenture unless otherwise specified. All terms defined in this Indenture shall have the defined meanings when used in any certificate, notice, Note or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto unless otherwise defined therein. The rules of construction set forth in Part II of such Appendix A shall be applicable to this Indenture.

ARTICLE II

THE NOTES

Section 2.1 Form.

(a) Each Note, together with the Indenture Trustee’s certificate of authentication, shall be substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit B, with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and each such Note may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of the Notes. Any portion of the text of any Note may be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an appropriate reference thereto on the face of the Note.

(b) The Notes shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods (with or without steel engraved borders), all as determined by the officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.

(c) Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. The terms of the Notes as provided for in Exhibit B hereto are part of the terms of this Indenture.

Section 2.2 Execution, Authentication and Delivery.

(a) Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication, and shall be issuable as a registered Note in the minimum denomination of $1,000 and in integral multiples thereof (except, if applicable, for one Note representing a residual portion of the Notes which may be issued in a different denomination).

 

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(b) The Notes shall be executed on behalf of the Issuer by any of its Authorized Officers. The signature of any such Authorized Officer on the Notes may be manual or facsimile.

(c) Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signature of individuals who were at any time Authorized Officers of the Issuer shall bind the Issuer, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such office prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or did not hold such office at the date of such Notes.

(d) The Indenture Trustee shall upon Issuer Order authenticate and deliver to or upon the order of the Issuer, the Notes for original issue in the aggregate principal amount of $298,639,300.17 except as provided in Section 2.5.

(e) No Notes shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Note a certificate of authentication substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit B, executed by the Indenture Trustee by the manual signature of one of its authorized signatories, and such certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.

Section 2.3 [Reserved].

Section 2.4 Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes.

(a) The Issuer shall cause to be kept the Note Register, in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as the Issuer may prescribe, the Issuer shall provide for the registration of the Notes and the registration of transfers and exchanges of the Notes. The Indenture Trustee shall initially be the Note Registrar for the purpose of registering the Notes and transfers of the Notes as herein provided. Upon any resignation of any Note Registrar, the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor Note Registrar or, if it elects not to make such an appointment, assume the duties of the Note Registrar.

(b) If a Person other than the Indenture Trustee is appointed by the Issuer as Note Registrar, the Issuer will give the Indenture Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Note Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the Note Register. The Indenture Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof. The Indenture Trustee shall have the right to rely upon a certificate executed on behalf of the Note Registrar by an Executive Officer thereof as to the names and addresses of the Noteholders and the principal amounts and number of such Notes.

(c) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee or the Agency Office of the Issuer (and following the delivery, in the former case, of such Notes to the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee), the Issuer shall execute, the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and the Noteholder shall obtain from the Indenture Trustee, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes in any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount.

(d) At the option of the Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes in any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee or the Agency Office of the Issuer (and following the delivery, in the former case, of such Notes to the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee), the Issuer shall execute, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and the Noteholder shall obtain from the Indenture Trustee, the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

 

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(e) All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuer, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

(f) [Reserved].

(g) No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Issuer or Indenture Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 9.6 not involving any transfer.

(h) The preceding provisions of this Section 2.4 notwithstanding, the Issuer shall not be required to transfer or make exchanges, and the Note Registrar need not register transfers or exchanges, of Notes that: (i) have been selected for redemption pursuant to Article X, if applicable, or (ii) are due for repayment in full within 15 days of surrender to the Corporate Trust Office or the Agency Office.

Section 2.5 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes.

(a) If (i) any mutilated Note is surrendered to the Indenture Trustee, or the Indenture Trustee receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note, and (ii) there is delivered to the Indenture Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by it to hold the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Issuer, the Note Registrar or the Indenture Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Issuer shall execute and upon the Issuer’s request the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a replacement Note of a like Note and aggregate principal amount; provided, however, that if any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note, but not a mutilated Note, shall have become or within seven days shall be due and payable in full, or shall have been called for redemption, instead of issuing a replacement Note, the Issuer may make payment to the Holder of such destroyed, lost or stolen Note when so due or payable or upon the Redemption Date (if applicable) or Optional Purchase Date (if applicable) without surrender thereof.

(b) If, after the delivery of a replacement Note or payment in respect of a destroyed, lost or stolen Note pursuant to Section 2.5(a), any protected purchaser of the original Note in lieu of which such replacement Note was issued presents for payment such original Note, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to recover such replacement Note (or such payment) from (i) any Person to whom it was delivered, (ii) the Person taking such replacement Note from the Person to whom such replacement Note was delivered, or (iii) any assignee of such Person, except any protected purchaser, and the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee in connection therewith.

(c) In connection with the issuance of any replacement Note under this Section 2.5, the Issuer may require the payment by the Holder of such Note of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other reasonable expenses (including all fees and expenses of the Indenture Trustee) connected therewith.

 

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(d) Any duplicate Note issued pursuant to this Section 2.5 in replacement for any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Issuer, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be found at any time or be enforced by any Person, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder.

(e) The provisions of this Section 2.5 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes.

Section 2.6 Persons Deemed Noteholders. Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer of any Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any of their agents may treat the Person in whose name any Note is registered (as of the day of determination) as the Noteholder for the purpose of receiving payments of principal of and interest on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note be overdue, and neither the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee nor any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

Section 2.7 Payment of Principal and Interest.

(a) Interest on the Notes shall accrue in the manner set forth in the Note Purchase Agreement, and such interest shall be payable to each Noteholder on a pro rata basis (based on the aggregate fractional undivided interests in the Notes held by such Noteholder) on each Distribution Date, in accordance with the priorities set forth in Sections 8.2(c) and 8.2(d), as specified in the form of Note set forth in Exhibit B. Any installment of interest payable on any Note shall be punctually paid or duly provided for by a deposit by or at the direction of the Issuer or the Servicer into the Note Distribution Account before each Distribution Date for payment to Noteholders on the related Distribution Date and shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered on the applicable Record Date, by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by the applicable Noteholder.

(b) Prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and a declaration in accordance with Section 5.2(a) that the Notes have become immediately due and payable, the principal of the Notes shall be payable in full on the Final Scheduled Distribution Date and, to the extent of funds available therefor, to each Noteholder on a pro rata basis in installments on the Distribution Dates (if any) preceding the Final Scheduled Distribution Date, in the amounts and in accordance with the priorities set forth in Sections 8.2(c) and 8.2(d). Any installment of principal payable on any Note shall be punctually paid or duly provided for by a deposit by the Indenture Trustee in accordance with the provisions of Section 8.2 into the Note Distribution Account prior to the applicable Distribution Date and shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered on the applicable Record Date, by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by the Noteholder, except for: (i) the final installment of principal on any Note; and (ii) the Redemption Price for the Notes redeemed pursuant to Section 10.1, which, in each case, shall be payable as provided herein. The funds represented by checks, if any, in respect of interest or principal returned undelivered shall be held in accordance with Section 3.3.

(c) [Reserved].

(d) From and after the occurrence of an Event of Default and a declaration in accordance with Section 5.2(a) that the Notes have become immediately due and payable, principal on the Notes shall be payable to each Noteholder on a pro rata basis as provided in Section 8.2(d).

 

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(e) With respect to any Distribution Date on which the final installment of principal and interest on the Notes is to be paid, the Indenture Trustee shall notify each Noteholder of record as of the Record Date for such Distribution Date of the fact that the final installment of principal of and interest on such Note is to be paid on such Distribution Date. Such notice shall be sent not later than three Business Days after such Record Date in accordance with Section 11.5(a), and shall specify that such final installment shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of such Note and shall specify the place where such Note may be presented and surrendered for payment of such installment and the manner in which such payment shall be made. Notices in connection with redemptions of Notes shall be mailed to Noteholders as provided in Section 10.2. Within sixty days of the surrender pursuant to this Section 2.7(e) or cancellation pursuant to Section 2.8 of all of the Notes, the Indenture Trustee shall provide the Agent and the Rating Agencies with written notice stating that all Notes have been surrendered or canceled.

Section 2.8 Cancellation of Notes. All Notes surrendered for payment, redemption, exchange or registration of transfer shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Indenture Trustee, be delivered to the Indenture Trustee and shall be promptly canceled by the Indenture Trustee. The Issuer may at any time deliver to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation any Notes previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Issuer may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Notes so delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Indenture Trustee. No Notes shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Notes canceled as provided in this Section 2.8, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Notes may be held or disposed of by the Indenture Trustee in accordance with its standard retention or disposal policy as in effect at the time unless the Issuer shall direct by an Issuer Order that they be returned to it; provided, however, that such Issuer Order is timely and the Notes have not been previously disposed of by the Indenture Trustee. The Indenture Trustee shall certify to the Issuer that surrendered Notes have been duly canceled and retained or destroyed, as the case may be.

Section 2.9 [Reserved].

Section 2.10 [Reserved].

Section 2.11 [Reserved].

Section 2.12 [Reserved].

Section 2.13 Seller as Noteholder. The Seller in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Issuer or its affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not the Seller.

Section 2.14 Tax Treatment. The Issuer in entering into this Indenture, and the Noteholders, by acquiring any Note or interest therein, (i) express their intention that the Notes qualify under applicable tax law as indebtedness secured by the Collateral and, (ii) unless otherwise required by appropriate taxing authorities, agree to treat the Notes as indebtedness secured by the Collateral for the purpose of federal income taxes, state and local income and franchise taxes, and any other taxes imposed upon, measured by or based upon gross or net income.

Section 2.15 Private Placement of Notes.

(a) None of the Notes have been or will be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction. Consequently, the Notes are not transferable other than pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and satisfaction of certain other provisions specified herein. The Notes or an interest in the Notes are being sold in a private placement pursuant to Section 4(2) of the Securities Act on the date

 

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hereof. Thereafter, no further sale, pledge or other transfer of any Note (or interest therein) may be made by any person unless either (i) such sale, pledge or other transfer is made to a “qualified institutional buyer” that executes a certificate, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer, to the effect that (A) it is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined under Rule 144A under the Securities Act, acting for its own account or the accounts of other “qualified institutional buyers” as defined under Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and (B) it is aware that the transferor of such Note intends to rely on the exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act provided by Rule 144A under the Securities Act, or (ii) such sale, pledge or other transfer is otherwise made in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, in which case (A) the Indenture Trustee shall require that both the prospective transferor and the prospective transferee certify to the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding such transfer, which certification shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer, and (B) the Indenture Trustee shall require a written opinion of counsel (which will not be at the expense of the Issuer, the Servicer or the Indenture Trustee) satisfactory to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee to the effect that such transfer will not violate the Securities Act. Neither the Issuer nor the Indenture Trustee will register any of the Notes under the Securities Act, qualify any of the Notes under the securities laws of any state or provide registration rights to any purchaser or holder thereof.

(b) Each Note shall bear a legend to the effect set forth in Section 2.15(a) above.

ARTICLE III

COVENANTS

Section 3.1 Payment of Principal and Interest. The Issuer shall duly and punctually pay the principal of and interest on the Notes in accordance with the terms of the Notes and this Indenture and make any payments required under the Interest Rate Swap to the extent provided pursuant to this Indenture. On each Distribution Date, on the Redemption Date (if applicable) and on the Optional Purchase Date (if applicable) the Indenture Trustee shall distribute amounts on deposit in the Note Distribution Account to the Noteholders in accordance with Sections 2.7 and 8.2, less amounts properly withheld under the Code by any Person from a payment to any Noteholder of interest and/or principal. Any amounts so withheld shall be considered as having been paid by the Issuer to such Noteholder for all purposes of this Indenture but shall not affect indemnification or payment of other amounts required to be paid pursuant to the terms of the Note Purchase Agreement. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary (including Section 8.2(b)), amounts payable on any Distribution Date in respect of Noteholders’ Interest Distributable Amount and/or Principal Distribution Amount shall be due and payable on each such Distribution Date whether or not there are Total Available Amounts available therefor at such time in accordance with the terms of the Notes and this Indenture.

Section 3.2 Maintenance of Agency Office. As long as any of the Notes remains outstanding, the Issuer shall maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, an office (the “Agency Office”), being an office or agency where Notes may be surrendered to the Issuer for registration of transfer or exchange, and where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Issuer hereby initially appoints the Indenture Trustee to serve as its agent for the foregoing purposes. The Issuer shall give prompt written notice to the Indenture Trustee of the location, and of any change in the location, of the Agency Office. If at any time the Issuer shall fail to maintain any such office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Indenture Trustee with the address thereof, such surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee, and the Issuer hereby appoints the Indenture Trustee as its agent to receive all such surrenders, notices and demands.

 

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Section 3.3 Money for Payments to Be Held in Trust.

(a) As provided in Section 8.2, all payments of amounts due and payable with respect to any Notes that are to be made from amounts withdrawn from the Note Distribution Account pursuant to Section 8.2(d) shall be made on behalf of the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or by another Paying Agent, and no amounts so withdrawn from the Note Distribution Account for payments of Notes shall be paid over to the Issuer except as provided in this Section 3.3.

(b) On or before each Distribution Date, the Redemption Date (if applicable) and the Optional Purchase Date (if applicable), the Indenture Trustee shall deposit in the Note Distribution Account an aggregate sum sufficient to pay the amounts then becoming due with respect to the Notes and all accrued and unpaid Other Obligations, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto.

(c) The Issuer shall cause each Paying Agent other than the Indenture Trustee to execute and deliver to the Indenture Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Indenture Trustee (and if the Indenture Trustee acts as Paying Agent, it hereby so agrees), subject to the provisions of this Section 3.3, that such Paying Agent shall:

(i) hold all sums held by it for the payment of amounts due with respect to the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and pay such sums to such Persons as herein provided;

(ii) give the Indenture Trustee notice of any default by the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes) of which it has actual knowledge in the making of any payment required to be made with respect to the Notes;

(iii) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Indenture Trustee, forthwith pay to the Indenture Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent;

(iv) immediately resign as a Paying Agent and forthwith pay to the Indenture Trustee all sums held by it in trust for the payment of Notes if at any time it ceases to meet the standards required to be met by a Paying Agent in effect at the time of determination; and

(v) comply with all requirements of the Code with respect to the withholding from any payments made by it on any Notes of any applicable withholding taxes imposed thereon and with respect to any applicable reporting requirements in connection therewith.

(d) The Issuer may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, by Issuer Order direct any Paying Agent to pay to the Indenture Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Indenture Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which the sums were held by such Paying Agent; and upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Indenture Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money.

(e) Subject to applicable laws with respect to escheat of funds, any money held by the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the payment of any amount due with respect to any Note and remaining unclaimed for one year after such amount

 

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has become due and payable shall be discharged from such trust and be paid by the Indenture Trustee to the Issuer on Issuer Request; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Issuer for payment thereof (but only to the extent of the amounts so paid to the Issuer), and all liability of the Indenture Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such payment, may at the expense of the Issuer cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general circulation in the City of New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining shall be paid to the Issuer. The Indenture Trustee may also adopt and employ, at the expense of the Issuer, any other reasonable means of notification of such payment (including, but not limited to, mailing notice of such payment to Holders whose Notes have been called but have not been surrendered for redemption or whose right to or interest in monies due and payable but not claimed is determinable from the records of the Indenture Trustee or of any Paying Agent, at the last address of record for each such Holder).

Section 3.4 Existence. The Issuer shall keep in full effect its existence, rights and franchises as a statutory trust under the laws of the State of Delaware (unless it becomes, or any successor Issuer hereunder is or becomes, organized under the laws of any other State or of the United States of America, in which case the Issuer shall keep in full effect its existence, rights and franchises under the laws of such other jurisdiction) and shall obtain and preserve its qualification to do business in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be necessary to protect the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes, the Collateral and each other instrument or agreement included in the Collateral. The Issuer shall maintain all necessary licenses and approvals in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of property or the conduct or its business requires or shall require such licenses and approvals.

Section 3.5 Protection of Collateral; Acknowledgment of Pledge. The Issuer shall from time to time, as promptly as reasonably possible, execute and deliver all such supplements and amendments hereto and all such financing statements, amendments thereto, continuation statements, assignments, certificates, instruments of further assurance and other instruments, and shall, as promptly as reasonably possible, take such other action as may be determined to be necessary or advisable in an Opinion of Counsel to either the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee to:

(a) maintain or preserve the lien and security interest (and the priority thereof) of this Indenture or carry out more effectively the purposes hereof including by making the necessary filings of financing statements or amendments thereto within sixty days after the occurrence of any of the following: (i) any change in the name of the Issuer (or its successor), (ii) any change in the jurisdiction of formation of the Issuer (or its successor), and (iii) any merger or consolidation or other change in the identity or organizational structure of the Issuer and by promptly notifying the Indenture Trustee of any such filings;

(b) perfect, publish notice of or protect the validity of any Grant made or to be made by this Indenture;

(c) enforce the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders in any of the Collateral; or

(d) preserve and defend title to the Collateral and the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders in such Collateral against the claims of all Persons and parties, and the Issuer hereby authorizes the Indenture Trustee to execute and file any financing statement, continuation statement or other instrument required by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section 3.5.

 

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Section 3.6 Opinions as to Collateral.

(a) On the Closing Date, the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, such action has been taken with respect to the recording and filing of this Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto and any other requisite documents, and with respect to the execution and filing of any financing statements and continuation statements as are necessary to perfect and make effective the lien and security interest of this Indenture and reciting the details of such action, or stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no such action is necessary to make such lien and security interest effective.

(b) On or before April 15 in each calendar year, beginning April 15, 2010, the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, such action has been taken with respect to the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of this Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto and any other requisite documents and with respect to the execution and filing of any financing statements and continuation statements as is necessary to maintain the lien and security interest created by this Indenture and reciting the details of such action or stating that in the opinion of such counsel no such action is necessary to maintain the lien and security interest created by this Indenture. Such Opinion of Counsel shall also describe the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of this Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto and any other requisite documents and the execution and filing of any financing statements and continuation statements that will, in the opinion of such counsel, be required to maintain the lien and security interest of this Indenture until April 15 in the following calendar year.

Section 3.7 Performance of Obligations; Servicing of Receivables.

(a) The Issuer shall not take any action and shall use its reasonable efforts not to permit any action to be taken by others that would release any Person from any of such Person’s material covenants or obligations under any instrument or agreement included in the Collateral or that would result in the amendment, hypothecation, subordination, termination or discharge of, or impair the validity or effectiveness of, any such instrument or agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, the Pooling Agreement, the Servicing Agreement, the Purchase Agreement, the Administration Agreement or such other instrument or agreement.

(b) The Issuer may contract with other Persons to assist it in performing its duties under this Indenture, and any performance of such duties by a Person identified to the Indenture Trustee in the Basic Documents or an Officers’ Certificate of the Issuer shall be deemed to be action taken by the Issuer. Initially, the Issuer has contracted with the Servicer and the Administrator to assist the Issuer in performing its duties under this Indenture.

(c) The Issuer shall punctually perform and observe all of its obligations and agreements contained in this Indenture, the Basic Documents and in the instruments and agreements included in the Collateral, including but not limited to filing or causing to be filed all UCC financing statements and continuation statements required to be filed under the terms of this Indenture, the Pooling Agreement and the Purchase Agreement in accordance with and within the time periods provided for herein and therein.

(d) If the Issuer shall have knowledge of the occurrence of a Servicer Default under the Servicing Agreement, the Issuer shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee, the Rating Agencies and the Agent thereof, and shall specify in such notice the

 

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response or action, if any, the Issuer has taken or is taking with respect to such default. If a Servicer Default shall arise from the failure of the Servicer to perform any of its duties or obligations under the Servicing Agreement with respect to the Receivables, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee shall take all reasonable steps available to them pursuant to the Servicing Agreement to remedy such failure.

(e) Without derogating from the absolute nature of the assignment granted to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture or the rights of the Indenture Trustee hereunder, the Issuer agrees that it shall not consent so as to permit NFRRC or NFC to, without the prior written consent of the Indenture Trustee and the Agent, amend, modify, waive, supplement, terminate or surrender, or agree to any amendment, modification, supplement, termination, waiver or surrender of, the terms of any Collateral or any of the Basic Documents, or waive timely performance or observance by the Seller under the Pooling Agreement or the Purchase Agreement, the Servicer under the Servicing Agreement, the Administrator under the Administration Agreement or NFC under the Purchase Agreement, except as specifically permitted under the Basic Documents; provided, however, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, no action specified in the proviso to Section 9.2(a) shall be taken except in compliance with Section 9.2. If any such amendment, modification, supplement or waiver shall be so consented to by the Indenture Trustee and the Agent, the Issuer agrees, promptly following a request by the Indenture Trustee to do so, to execute and deliver, in its own name and at its own expense, such agreements, instruments, consents and other documents as the Indenture Trustee may deem necessary or appropriate in the circumstances.

Section 3.8 Negative Covenants. So long as any Notes are Outstanding or any amounts are owed under the Interest Rate Swap, the Issuer shall not:

(a) sell, transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of any of the properties or assets of the Issuer, except the Issuer may (i) collect, and, subject in all respects to Section 3.10(b), liquidate, sell or otherwise dispose of Receivables (including Warranty Receivables, Administrative Receivables and Liquidating Receivables), (ii) make cash payments out of the Designated Accounts and the Certificate Distribution Account as contemplated by the Basic Documents, and (iii) take other actions, in each case as contemplated by the Basic Documents;

(b) claim any credit on, or make any deduction from the principal or interest payable in respect of the Notes (other than amounts properly withheld from such payments under the Code or applicable state law) or assert any claim against any present or former Noteholder by reason of the payment of the taxes levied or assessed upon any part of the Collateral;

(c) voluntarily commence any insolvency, readjustment of debt, marshaling of assets and liabilities or other proceeding, or apply for an order by a court or agency or supervisory authority for the winding-up or liquidation of its affairs or any other event specified in Section 5.1(f); or

(d) either (i) permit the validity or effectiveness of this Indenture to be impaired, or permit the lien of this Indenture to be amended, hypothecated, subordinated, terminated or discharged, or permit any Person to be released from any covenants or obligations with respect to the Notes under this Indenture except as may be expressly permitted hereby, (ii) permit any lien, charge, excise, claim, security interest, mortgage or other encumbrance (other than the lien of this Indenture) to be created on or extend to or otherwise arise upon or burden the Collateral or any part thereof or any interest therein or the proceeds thereof (other than tax liens, mechanics’ liens and other liens that arise by operation of law, in each case on a Financed Vehicle and arising solely as a result of an action or omission of the related Obligor), or (iii) permit the lien of this Indenture not to constitute a valid first priority, perfected security interest in the Collateral (to the extent the Collateral constitutes Code Collateral) (other than with respect to any such tax, mechanics’ or other lien).

 

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Section 3.9 Annual Statement as to Compliance. The Issuer shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee, with a copy to the Agent, the Rating Agencies and the Swap Counterparty on or before February 1 of each year, beginning February 1, 2010, an Officer’s Certificate signed by an Authorized Officer, dated as of the immediately preceding October 31, stating that:

(a) a review of the activities of the Issuer during such fiscal year and of performance by the Issuer under this Indenture has been made under such Authorized Officer’s supervision; and

(b) to the best of such Authorized Officer’s knowledge, based on such review, the Issuer has fulfilled in all material respects all of its obligations under this Indenture throughout such year, or, if there has been a default in the fulfillment of any such obligation, specifying each such default known to such Authorized Officer and the nature and status thereof.

Section 3.10 Consolidation, Merger, etc., of the Issuer; Disposition of Trust Assets.

(a) The Issuer shall not consolidate or merge with or into any other Person, unless:

(i) the Person (if other than the Issuer) formed by or surviving such consolidation or merger shall be a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America or any State and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the due and timely payment of the principal of and interest on all Notes and the performance or observance of every agreement and covenant of this Indenture and the other Basic Documents on the part of the Issuer to be performed or observed, all as provided herein;

(ii) immediately after giving effect to such merger or consolidation, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

(iii) the Agent shall have consented in writing and the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with respect to such transaction and such Person;

(iv) any action as is necessary to maintain the lien and security interest created by this Indenture shall have been completed; and

(v) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee and the Agent an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Issuer, each stating:

(A) that such consolidation or merger and such supplemental indenture comply with this Section 3.10(a),

(B) that such consolidation or merger and such supplemental indenture shall have no material adverse tax consequence to the Issuer or any Securityholder, and

(C) that all conditions precedent herein provided for in this Section 3.10(a) have been complied with.

 

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(b) Except as otherwise expressly permitted by this Indenture or the other Basic Documents, the Issuer shall not sell, convey, exchange, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets, including those included in the Collateral, to any Person, unless:

(i) the Person that acquires such properties or assets of the Issuer (x) shall be a United States citizen or a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America or any State and (y) by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee and the Agent, in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee and the Agent:

(A) expressly assumes the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all Notes and the performance or observance of every agreement and covenant of this Indenture and the other Basic Documents on the part of the Issuer to be performed or observed, all as provided herein or therein,

(B) expressly agrees that all right, title and interest so sold, conveyed, exchanged, transferred or otherwise disposed of shall be subject and subordinate to the rights of Noteholders,

(C) unless otherwise provided in such supplemental indenture, expressly agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Issuer against and from any loss, liability or expense arising under or related to this Indenture and the Notes, and

(D) expressly agrees that such Person (or if a group of Persons, then one specified Person) shall make all filings with the Commission (and any other appropriate Person) required by the Exchange Act in connection with the Notes;

(ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

(iii) the Agent shall have consented in writing and the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with respect to such transaction and such Person;

(iv) any action as is necessary to maintain the lien and security interest created by this Indenture shall have been taken; and

(v) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee and the Agent an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel addressed to the Issuer, each stating that:

(A) such sale, conveyance, exchange, transfer or disposition and such supplemental indenture comply with this Section 3.10(b),

(B) such sale, conveyance, exchange, transfer or disposition and such supplemental indenture have no material adverse tax consequence to the Issuer or to any Noteholders or Certificateholders, and

(C) that all conditions precedent herein provided for in this Section 3.10(b) have been complied with.

 

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Section 3.11 Successor or Transferee.

(a) Upon any consolidation or merger of the Issuer in accordance with Section 3.10(a), the Person formed by or surviving such consolidation or merger (if other than the Issuer) shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Issuer under this Indenture with the same effect as if such Person had been named as the Issuer herein.

(b) Upon a conveyance or transfer of all the assets and properties of the Issuer pursuant to Section 3.10(b), the Issuer shall be released from every covenant and agreement of this Indenture to be observed or performed on the part of the Issuer with respect to the Securityholders immediately upon the delivery of written notice to the Indenture Trustee from the Person acquiring such assets and properties stating that the Issuer is to be so released.

Section 3.12 No Other Business. The Issuer shall not engage in any business or activity other than acquiring, holding and managing the Collateral and the proceeds therefrom in the manner contemplated by the Basic Documents, issuing the Securities, making payments on the Securities and such other activities that are necessary, suitable, desirable or convenient to accomplish the foregoing or are incidental thereto, as set forth in Section 2.3 of the Trust Agreement. After the Closing Date, the Issuer shall not fund the purchase of any new Receivables.

Section 3.13 No Borrowing. The Issuer shall not issue, incur, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable, directly or indirectly, for any indebtedness for money borrowed other than indebtedness for money borrowed in respect of the Notes or otherwise in accordance with the Basic Documents.

Section 3.14 Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities. Except as contemplated by this Indenture or the other Basic Documents, the Issuer shall not make any loan or advance or credit to, or guarantee (directly or indirectly or by an instrument having the effect of assuring another’s payment or performance on any obligation or capability of so doing or otherwise), endorse or otherwise become contingently liable, directly or indirectly, in connection with the obligations, stocks or dividends of, or own, purchase, repurchase or acquire (or agree contingently to do so) any stock, obligations, assets or securities of, or any other interest in, or make any capital contribution to, any other Person.

Section 3.15 Servicer’s Obligations. The Issuer shall use its best efforts to cause the Servicer to comply with its obligations under Sections 2.17, 3.01 and 3.02 of the Servicing Agreement.

Section 3.16 Capital Expenditures. The Issuer shall not make any expenditure (whether by long-term or operating lease or otherwise) for capital assets (either real, personal or intangible property) other than the purchase of the Receivables and other property and rights from the Seller pursuant to the Pooling Agreement.

Section 3.17 Removal of Administrator. So long as any Notes are Outstanding, the Issuer shall not remove the Administrator without cause unless the Agent shall have consented in writing and the Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied in connection with such removal.

 

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Section 3.18 Restricted Payments. Except for payments of principal or interest on or redemption of the Notes, the Other Obligations and other amounts set forth in the Note Purchase Agreement, so long as any Notes are Outstanding, the Issuer shall not, directly or indirectly:

(a) pay any dividend or make any distribution (by reduction of capital or otherwise), whether in cash, property, securities or a combination thereof, to the Owner Trustee or any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or otherwise, in each case with respect to any ownership or equity interest or similar security in or of the Issuer;

(b) redeem, purchase, retire or otherwise acquire for value any such ownership or equity interest or similar security; or

(c) set aside or otherwise segregate any amounts for any such purpose;

provided, however, that the Issuer may make, or cause to be made, distributions to the Servicer, the Seller, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the Swap Counterparty and the Certificateholders as permitted by, and to the extent funds are available for such purpose hereunder or under, the Pooling Agreement, the Servicing Agreement, the Trust Agreement or the other Basic Documents. The Issuer shall not, directly or indirectly, make payments to or distributions from the Collection Account except in accordance with the Basic Documents.

Section 3.19 Notice of Events of Default. The Issuer agrees to give the Indenture Trustee, the Rating Agencies and the Agent prompt written notice of each Event of Default hereunder, each Servicer Default under the Servicing Agreement, each default on the part of the Seller of its obligations under the Pooling Agreement and each default on the part of NFC of its obligations under the Purchase Agreement.

Section 3.20 Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer shall, as promptly as reasonably possible, execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purpose of this Indenture and the other Basic Documents to which the Issuer is a party.

Section 3.21 Indenture Trustee’s Assignment of Administrative Receivables and Warranty Receivables. Upon receipt of the Administrative Purchase Payment or the Warranty Payment with respect to an Administrative Receivable or a Warranty Receivable, as the case may be, the Indenture Trustee shall release to the Servicer or the Warranty Purchaser, as applicable, all of the Indenture Trustee’s right, title and interest in and to such repurchased Receivable and the Related Security with respect thereto and any documents relating thereto, and the Servicer or the Warranty Purchaser, as applicable, shall thereupon own such Receivable and the Related Security with respect thereto free of any further obligation to the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders with respect thereto. If in any enforcement suit or legal proceeding it is held that the Servicer may not enforce a Receivable on the ground that it is not a real party in interest or a holder entitled to enforce such Receivable, the Indenture Trustee shall, at the Servicer’s expense, take such steps as the Servicer deems necessary to enforce the Receivable, including bringing suit in the Indenture Trustee’s name or the names of the Securityholders.

Section 3.22 Representations and Warranties by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee. The Issuer hereby represents and warrants to the Indenture Trustee (for the benefit of the Financial Parties, including the Certificateholders and the Swap Counterparty) as follows:

(a) Good Title. No Receivable has been sold, transferred, assigned or pledged by the Issuer to any Person other than the Indenture Trustee; immediately prior to the grant of a security interest in the Receivable pursuant to this Indenture, the Issuer had

 

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good and marketable title thereto, free of any Lien; and, upon execution and delivery of this Indenture by the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee shall have all of the right, title and interest of the Issuer in, to and under the Collateral, free of any Lien (except for any Permitted Liens);

(b) All Filings Made. All filings necessary under the UCC in any jurisdiction to give the Indenture Trustee a first priority perfected security interest in the Receivables and, to the extent constituting Code Collateral, the other Collateral shall have been made. The Receivables constitute Code Collateral;

(c) [Reserved]; and

(d) Lien of Indenture. This Indenture constitutes a valid and continuing Lien on the Collateral in favor of the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Financial Parties, which Lien will be prior to all other Liens (other than Permitted Liens), will be enforceable as such as against creditors of and purchasers from the Issuer in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights in general and by general principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law, and all action necessary to perfect such prior security interest has been duly taken.

ARTICLE IV

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

Section 4.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture shall cease to be of further effect with respect to the Notes except as to: (i) rights of registration of transfer and exchange; (ii) substitution of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes; (iii) rights of Noteholders to receive payments of principal thereof and interest thereon; (iv) Sections 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.8, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14, 3.16, 3.17, 3.19 and 3.21; (v) the rights, obligations and immunities of the Indenture Trustee hereunder (including the rights of the Indenture Trustee under Section 6.7 and the obligations of the Indenture Trustee under Sections 4.2 and 4.4); and (vi) the rights of Noteholders as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property so deposited with the Indenture Trustee payable to all or any of them, and the Indenture Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Issuer shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes, if:

(a) either:

(i) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (A) Notes that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.5 and (B) Notes for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Issuer and thereafter repaid to the Issuer or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 3.3) have been delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation; or

(ii) all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation:

(A) have become due and payable,

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(C) are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Indenture Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Issuer.

and the Issuer, in the case of clauses (A), (B) or (C) of Section 4.1(a)(ii) above, has irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Indenture Trustee cash or direct obligations of or obligations guaranteed by the United States of America (which will mature prior to the date such amounts are payable), in trust for such purpose, in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire unpaid principal and accrued interest on such Notes not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation when due on the Final Scheduled Distribution Date for such Notes or the Redemption Date or Optional Purchase Date for such Notes (if such Notes are to be called for redemption pursuant to Section 10.1(a)), as the case may be;

(b) the Issuer has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder, under or in connection with the Note Purchase Agreement and under the Interest Rate Swap by the Issuer; and

(c) the Issuer has delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuer, an Opinion of Counsel and (if required by the Indenture Trustee) an Independent Certificate from a firm of certified public accountants, each meeting the applicable requirements of Section 11.1(a) and each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.

Section 4.2 Application of Trust Money. All monies deposited with the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 4.1 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Notes and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent, as the Indenture Trustee may determine, (i) to the Holders of the particular Notes for the payment or redemption of which such monies have been deposited with the Indenture Trustee, of all sums due and to become due thereon or with respect thereto, including for principal and interest, and (ii) to the Swap Counterparty of all sums, if any, payable by the Issuer to the Swap Counterparty under the Interest Rate Swap and distributable in accordance with this Indenture; but such monies need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required herein or in the Servicing Agreement or by applicable law.

Section 4.3 Repayment of Monies Held by Paying Agent. In connection with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes, all monies then held by any Paying Agent other than the Indenture Trustee under the provisions of this Indenture with respect to the Notes shall, upon demand of the Issuer, be paid to the Indenture Trustee to be held and applied according to Section 3.3 and thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such monies.

Section 4.4 Duration of Position of Indenture Trustee for Benefit of Certificateholders. Notwithstanding (i) the earlier payment in full of all principal and interest due to the Noteholders under the terms of Notes, (ii) the cancellation of such Notes pursuant to Section 2.8, (iii) the discharge of the Indenture Trustee’s duties hereunder with respect to such Notes, and (iv) the payment of all sums payable to the Swap Counterparty under the Interest Rate Swap and termination of the Interest Rate Swap, the Indenture Trustee shall continue to act in the capacity as Indenture Trustee hereunder for the benefit of the Certificateholders and the Indenture Trustee, for the benefit of the Certificateholders, shall comply with its obligations under Sections 2.02, 7.02 and 7.03 of the Servicing Agreement, as appropriate, until such time as all distributions in respect of the Certificates have been paid in full.

 

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ARTICLE V

DEFAULT AND REMEDIES

Section 5.1 Events of Default. For the purposes of this Indenture, “Event of Default” wherever used herein or in any other Basic Document, means any one of the following events:

(a) failure to pay any interest on any Note (other than as a result of the Interest Cap) or (other than as a result of the payment of any Subordinated Swap Termination Payment) the Other Obligations as and when the same becomes due and payable, and such default shall continue unremedied until the earlier of (y) three (3) days after the earlier of (i) a Responsible Officer of the Servicer (or, if NFC is no longer the Servicer, NFC) obtains actual knowledge of such failure or (ii) there shall have been given to the Servicer (or, if NFC is no longer the Servicer, NFC) by the Indenture Trustee or the Agent, a written notice specifying such default, demanding that it be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder or (z) fifteen (15) days; or

(b) except as set forth in Section 5.1(c), failure to pay any installment of the principal of any Note as and when the same becomes due and payable, and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of three (3) days after the earlier of (i) a Responsible Officer of the Servicer (or, if NFC is no longer the Servicer, NFC) obtaining actual knowledge of such failure or (ii) there shall have been given to the Servicer (or, if NFC is no longer the Servicer, NFC) by the Indenture Trustee or the Agent, a written notice specifying such default, demanding that it be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or

(c) failure to pay in full the outstanding principal balance of the Notes by the Final Scheduled Distribution Date; or

(d) default in the observance or performance in any material respect of any covenant or agreement of the Issuer made in this Indenture (other than a covenant or agreement, a default in the observance or performance of which is specifically dealt with elsewhere in this Section 5.1) which failure materially and adversely affects the rights of the Noteholders, and such default shall continue or not be cured for a period of thirty (30) days (or (y) in the case of the failure of the Indenture Trustee to have a first priority perfected security interest in the Collateral, two (2) Business Days, or (z) in the case of Sections 3.5, 3.6(b), 3.7(a), 3.7(d), 3.9, 3.10(b), 3.12, 3.13, 3.14, 3.15, 3.16, 3.17, 3.19 and 3.20 of this Indenture, 15 days) after the earlier of (i) a Responsible Officer of the Servicer (or, if NFC is no longer the Servicer, NFC) obtaining actual knowledge of such default or (ii) there shall have been given to the Servicer (or, if NFC is no longer the Servicer, NFC) by the Indenture Trustee or the Agent, a written notice specifying such default, demanding that it be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or

(e) the filing of a decree or order for relief by a court having jurisdiction in the premises in respect of the Issuer, the Seller or NFC or any substantial part of its property in an involuntary case under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Issuer (other than as Owner Trustee) or for any substantial part of the Collateral, the Seller or NFC or ordering the winding-up or liquidation of the Issuer’s, the Seller’s or NFC’s affairs, and such decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of sixty (60) consecutive days; or

(f) the commencement by the Issuer, the Seller or NFC of a voluntary case under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or the consent by the Issuer, the Seller or NFC to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case under any such law, or the consent by the Issuer, the Seller or NFC to the appointment or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Issuer, the Seller or NFC

 

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or for any substantial part of its property, or the making by the Issuer, the Seller or NFC of any general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the failure by the Issuer, the Seller or NFC generally to pay its debts as such debts become due, or the taking of action by the Issuer in furtherance of any of the foregoing; or

(g) any representation, warranty, certification or statement made by the Issuer under this Indenture or in any agreement, certificate, report, appendix, schedule or document furnished by the Issuer to the Agent pursuant to or in connection with this Indenture shall prove to have been false or misleading in any material respect as of the time made or deemed made (including by omission of material information necessary to make such representation, warranty, certification or statement not misleading) and such false or misleading representation, warranty, certification or statement made by the Issuer shall continue or not be cured for a period of thirty (30) days after the earlier of (i) a Responsible Officer of the Servicer (or, if NFC is no longer the Servicer, NFC) obtaining actual knowledge thereof or (ii) there shall have been given to the Servicer (or, if NFC is no longer the Servicer, NFC) by the Indenture Trustee or the Agent, a written notice specifying such false or misleading representation, warranty, certification or statement made by the Issuer, demanding that it be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or

(h) there shall be a “change of control” with respect to the Seller or the Issuer (for purposes of this clause only, a “change of control” shall mean (i) the failure of NFC to own, on a fully diluted basis, 100% of the outstanding shares of voting stock of the Seller or (ii) the failure of the Seller to own, on a fully diluted basis, 100% of the outstanding shares of voting stock (or its equivalent) of the Issuer; provided, however, that, with respect to clause (h)(ii), the Seller may transfer such voting stock (or its equivalent) to a bankruptcy remote special purpose entity of which the Seller owns 100% of the voting stock (or its equivalent)); or

(i) any provision of this Indenture or any other Basic Document to which the Issuer, NFC or the Seller is a party shall cease to be in full force and effect and the parties thereto shall not within thirty (30) days thereafter have amended such agreement to the satisfaction of the Agent to eliminate such non-enforceability or the Issuer, NFC or the Seller shall so state in writing and, in either case, such non-enforceability would have a Material Adverse Effect on the interests of the Noteholders; or

(j) the failure of the Issuer to make any payment required under the Interest Rate Swap to the extent provided pursuant to this Indenture or the failure of the Swap Counterparty to make any payment required to be made thereunder, in either case, other than as a result of any action or inaction on the part of the Swap Counterparty, if the swap counterparty under the Interest Rate Swap is Royal Bank of Canada; or

(k) a default by NFC in the performance of any term, provision or condition contained in any agreement under which any indebtedness of NFC in excess of $10 million was created or is governed, the effect of which is to cause any such indebtedness to become due prior to its stated maturity; or any such indebtedness shall be declared to be due and payable or required to be prepaid (other than by a regularly scheduled payment or as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the property or assets) prior to the stated maturity date thereof, and the failure of NFC to repay such indebtedness in full or otherwise caused such indebtedness to be reinstated within 30 days after such indebtedness shall be declared to be due and payable or required to be prepaid; or

(l) a Servicer Default pursuant to Section 7.01(a), 7.01(c), 7.01(d) or 7.01(g) of the Servicing Agreement shall have occurred and be continuing; or

 

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(m) the failure by any Warranty Purchaser to make any Warranty Payment when due or the failure of the Servicer to make any Administrative Payment when due or the failure of NFC or the Seller to deposit into the Collection Account any proceeds from the Navistar Purchase Obligations when received, and any such failure shall continue until, or not be cured by, the Transfer Date related to the Monthly Period in which such amount is collected, after the earlier of (i) a Responsible Officer of the Servicer (or, if NFC is no longer the Servicer, NFC) obtaining actual knowledge of such failure or (ii) there shall have been given to the Warranty Purchaser, NFC, the Servicer (or, if NFC is no longer the Servicer, NFC) or the Seller and such Person shall have received, as applicable, by the Indenture Trustee or the Agent, a written notice specifying such failure, demanding that it be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or

(n) default in the observance or performance in any material respect of any covenant or agreement of (i) NFC made in Section 5.02 or Section 6.11 of the Purchase Agreement, (ii) the Seller made in Section 3.03 or Sections 5.02(a), 5.02(b) or 5.02(c) of the Pooling Agreement, or (iii) the Seller made in Section 5.03 of the Note Purchase Agreement, as applicable, which failure materially and adversely affects the rights of the Noteholders, and such default shall continue or not be cured for a period of thirty (30) days after the earlier of (x) a Responsible Officer of the Servicer (or, if NFC is no longer the Servicer, NFC) obtaining actual knowledge of such default or (y) there shall have been given, to NFC or the Seller, as applicable, by the Indenture Trustee or the Agent, a written notice specifying such default, demanding that it be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or

(o) if on three (3) consecutive Distribution Dates (including the first such Distribution Date), the result of (i) the sum of (x) the Aggregate Receivables Balance as of the related Accounting Date and (y) amounts on deposit in the Reserve Account on the applicable Distribution Date (after giving effect to any deposits or withdrawals therefrom on such date) minus (ii) the Outstanding Amount of the Notes on the applicable Distribution Date (after giving effect to any payments of principal on the Notes on such date), fails to exceed 9.00% of the Aggregate Starting Receivables Balance of all Receivables transferred to the Issuer on or prior to the applicable Distribution Date; or

(p) on any Distribution Date (after giving effect to any payments of principal on the Notes on such Distribution Date), the Outstanding Amount of the Notes exceeds the Aggregate Receivables Balance as of the close of business on the last day of the preceding Monthly Period; or

(q) the rating of the Notes by S&P is lower than “A” or S&P has withdrawn its rating of the Notes; or

(r) NFC, as Servicer, shall have failed to enter into a Backup Servicing Agreement with a Backup Servicer pursuant to Section 6.06 of the Servicing Agreement, and there shall have been given, to NFC by the Indenture Trustee or the Agent, a written notice specifying such default, demanding that it be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder.

The Issuer shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee and the Agent, within five (5) Business Days after learning of the occurrence thereof, written notice in the form of an Officer’s Certificate of any Default under Section 5.1(a), 5.1(b), 5.1(d), 5.1(g), 5.1(m), 5.1(n) or 5.1(r), its status and what action the Issuer is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.

Section 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.

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immediately due and payable, by a notice in writing to the Issuer (and to the Indenture Trustee if given by the Noteholders) and NFC setting forth the Event or Events of Default, and upon any such declaration the unpaid principal amount of the Notes together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon through the date of acceleration, shall become immediately due and payable; provided, that if an Event of Default shall occur under Section 5.1(e) or 5.1(f) hereof, then all the Notes shall be immediately due and payable without notice.

(b) At any time after such declaration of acceleration of maturity of the Notes has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due thereunder has been obtained by the Indenture Trustee as hereinafter provided in this Article V, the Agent, by written notice to the Issuer, NFC and the Indenture Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences with respect to the Notes; provided, that no such rescission and annulment shall extend to or affect any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereto; provided, further, that if the Indenture Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under this Indenture and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned because of such rescission and annulment or for any other reason, or such proceedings shall have been determined adversely to the Indenture Trustee, then and in every such case, the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer and the Noteholders, as the case may be, shall be restored to their respective former positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers of the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer and the Noteholders, as the case may be, shall continue as though no such proceedings had been commenced.

Section 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture Trustee.

(a) The Issuer covenants that if there shall occur an Event of Default under Sections 5.1(a), 5.1(b) or 5.1(c), the Issuer shall, upon demand of the Agent and in accordance with Section 8.2, pay to the Indenture Trustee, for the benefit of the Noteholders in accordance with their respective outstanding principal amounts, the entire amount then due and payable on the Notes for principal and interest and all accrued and unpaid Other Obligations, with interest through the date of such payment on the overdue principal amount of the Notes, at the rate applicable to the Notes, and in addition thereto such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee and its agents and counsel.

(b) If the Issuer shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts upon such demand, the Indenture Trustee may, or upon demand of the Agent, shall, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, institute a Proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute such Proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same against the Issuer or other obligor upon such Notes and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Issuer or other obligor upon the Notes, wherever situated, the monies adjudged or decreed to be payable.

(c) If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee may, or upon demand of the Agent, shall, as more particularly provided in Section 5.4, in its discretion, proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Noteholders, by such appropriate Proceedings as the Agent shall deem most effective to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy or legal or equitable right vested in the Indenture Trustee by this Indenture or by applicable law.

(d) If there shall be pending, relative to the Issuer or any other obligor upon the Notes or any Person having or claiming an ownership interest in the Collateral, Proceedings under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or if a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator,

 

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sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Issuer or its property or such other obligor or Person, or in case of any other comparable judicial Proceedings relative to the Issuer or other obligor upon the Notes, or to the creditors or property of the Issuer or such other obligor, the Indenture Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of any Notes shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Indenture Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.3, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such Proceedings or otherwise:

(i) to file and prove a claim or claims for the entire amount of the unpaid principal and interest owing in respect of the Notes and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Indenture Trustee (including any claim for reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor trustee, and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of all expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor trustee, except as a result of negligence or bad faith), the Agent and of the Noteholders allowed in such Proceedings;

(ii) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on behalf of the Holders of Notes in any election of a trustee, a standby trustee or Person performing similar functions in any such Proceedings;

(iii) to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute all amounts received with respect to the claims of the Noteholders, the Agent and of the Indenture Trustee on their behalf; and

(iv) to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Indenture Trustee, the Agent or the Holders of Notes allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Issuer, its creditors and its property;

and any trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official in any such Proceeding is hereby authorized by the Agent, each of such Noteholders to make payments to the Indenture Trustee, and, if the Indenture Trustee shall consent to the making of payments directly to the Agent or such Noteholders, to pay to the Indenture Trustee such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor trustee, except as a result of negligence or bad faith.

(e) Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Indenture Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of any Noteholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Indenture Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Noteholder in any such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar Person.

(f) All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Indenture Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes or the production thereof in any trial or other Proceedings relative thereto, and any such Proceedings instituted by the Indenture Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment, subject to the payment of the expenses, disbursements and compensation of the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor trustee and their respective agents and attorneys, shall be applied in accordance with Section 5.4(b).

 

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(g) In any Proceedings brought by the Indenture Trustee (and also any Proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the Indenture Trustee shall be a party), the Indenture Trustee shall be held to represent all the Noteholders, and it shall not be necessary to make any Noteholder a party to any such Proceedings.

Section 5.4 Remedies; Priorities.

(a) If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the Notes have been accelerated under Section 5.2(a), the Indenture Trustee may do one or more of the following (subject to Section 5.5):

(i) institute Proceedings in its own name and as trustee of an express trust for the collection of all amounts then due and payable on the Notes or to the Swap Counterparty or under this Indenture or the other Basic Documents with respect thereto, whether by declaration of acceleration or otherwise, enforce any judgment obtained, and collect from the Issuer and any other obligor upon such Notes monies adjudged due;

(ii) institute Proceedings from time to time for the complete or partial foreclosure of this Indenture with respect to the Collateral;

(iii) subject to Section 5.4(a)(iv) below, exercise any remedies of a secured party under the UCC and take any other appropriate action to protect and enforce the rights and remedies of the Indenture Trustee, the Agent and the Noteholders; and

(iv) sell the Collateral or any portion thereof or rights or interest therein, at one or more public or private sales called and conducted in any manner permitted by law or elect to have the Issuer maintain possession of the Collateral, including the Receivables included therein and continue to apply collections on such Receivables as if there had been no declaration of acceleration; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee may not sell or otherwise liquidate the Collateral following an Event of Default and acceleration of the Notes, unless the Agent consents thereto.

(b) If the Indenture Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to this Article V, it shall pay out or deposit such money or property in the following order:

FIRST: to the extent not paid by the Servicer as contemplated in Section 6.7 hereof or in Section 6.05 of the Servicing Agreement, to the Indenture Trustee for amounts due under Section 6.7 hereof and to the Owner Trustee for amounts due under Section 6.9 of the Trust Agreement;

SECOND: to the Collection Account, for distribution pursuant to, first, Section 8.2(c) hereof and, second, to the extent that funds are available, pursuant to Section 8.2(d) of this Indenture; and

THIRD: from the Collection Account to the Certificate Distribution Account, for distribution pursuant to Section 4.02 of the Pooling Agreement.

 

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Section 5.5 Optional Preservation of the Collateral. If the Notes have been declared to be due and payable under Section 5.2(a) following an Event of Default and such declaration and its consequences have not been rescinded and annulled in accordance with Section 5.2(b), then the Indenture Trustee may, or upon demand of the Agent, shall, elect to take and maintain possession of the Collateral. It is the desire of the parties hereto and the Noteholders that there be at all times sufficient funds for the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes and all other amounts payable with respect to the Notes, and the Indenture Trustee shall take such desire into account when determining whether or not to take and maintain possession of the Collateral. In determining whether to take and maintain possession of the Collateral, the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, obtain and rely upon an opinion of an Independent investment banking or accounting firm of national reputation as to the feasibility of such proposed action and as to the sufficiency of the Collateral for such purpose.

Section 5.6 Limitation of Suits. No Holder of any Note shall have any right to institute any Proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:

(a) the Agent or such Holder has previously given written notice to the Indenture Trustee of a continuing Event of Default;

(b) the Holders of not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class have made written request to the Indenture Trustee to institute such Proceeding in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Indenture Trustee hereunder;

(c) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Indenture Trustee reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in complying with such request;

(d) the Indenture Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute such Proceedings; and

(e) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Indenture Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class;

it being understood and intended that no Holder or Holders of Notes shall have any right in any manner whatsoever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders of Notes or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders of Notes or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable (on the basis of the respective aggregate amount of principal and interest, respectively, due and unpaid on the Notes held by each Noteholder) and common benefit of all Noteholders. For the protection and enforcement of the provisions of this Section 5.6, each and every Noteholder shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.

If the Indenture Trustee shall receive conflicting or inconsistent requests and indemnity from two or more groups of Holders of Notes, each representing less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, the Indenture Trustee in its sole discretion may determine what action, if any, shall be taken, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture.

Section 5.7 Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal, Interest and Other Amounts. Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture, the Holder of any Note shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and interest on such Note in accordance with Section 8.2 hereof on or after the respective due dates thereof expressed in such Note or in this Indenture (or, in the case of redemption, if applicable, on or after the Redemption Date or

 

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Optional Purchase Date, as applicable), together with payment of all other amounts payable with respect to the Notes, and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.

Section 5.8 Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Indenture Trustee or the Agent or any Noteholder has instituted any Proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such Proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason or has been determined adversely to the Indenture Trustee or to the Agent or such Noteholder, then and in every such case the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, the Agent and the Noteholders shall, subject to any determination in such Proceeding, be restored severally to their respective former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Indenture Trustee, the Agent and the Noteholders shall continue as though no such Proceeding had been instituted.

Section 5.9 Rights and Remedies Cumulative. No right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Indenture Trustee, the Agent or to the Noteholders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

Section 5.10 Delay or Omission Not a Waiver. No delay or omission of the Indenture Trustee, the Agent or any Holder of any Note to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article V or by law to the Indenture Trustee, the Agent or to the Noteholders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Indenture Trustee, the Agent or by the Noteholders, as the case may be.

Section 5.11 Control by Noteholders. The Holders of a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class shall, subject to provision being made for indemnification against costs, expenses and liabilities in a form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any Proceeding for any remedy available to the Indenture Trustee with respect to the Notes or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Indenture Trustee; provided, however, that:

(i) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with any other express provision of this Indenture; and

(ii) the Indenture Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Indenture Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction;

provided, however, that, subject to Section 6.1, the Indenture Trustee need not take any action that it determines might cause it to incur any liability (a) with respect to which the Indenture Trustee shall have reasonable grounds to believe that adequate indemnity against such liability in not assured to it and (b) which might materially adversely affect the rights of any Noteholders not consenting to such action.

Section 5.12 Waiver of Past Defaults.

(a) Prior to the declaration of the acceleration of the maturity of the Notes as provided in Section 5.2(a), the Agent may waive any past Default and its consequences except a Default (i) in the payment of principal of or interest on any of the Notes or (ii) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each

 

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Note. In the case of any such waiver, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee, the Agent and the Noteholders shall be restored to their respective former positions and rights hereunder; but no such waiver shall extend to or affect any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereto.

(b) Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist and be deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, for every purpose of this Indenture; provided, however, no such waiver shall extend to or affect any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereto.

Section 5.13 Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Note by such Holder’s acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any Proceeding for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any Proceeding against the Indenture Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Indenture Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such Proceeding of an undertaking to pay the costs of such Proceeding, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such Proceeding, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section 5.13 shall not apply to:

(a) any Proceeding instituted by the Indenture Trustee;

(b) any Proceeding instituted by any Noteholder, or group of Noteholders, in each case holding in the aggregate more than 10% of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class; or

(c) any Proceeding instituted by the Agent or any Noteholder for the enforcement of the payment of principal of or interest on any Note on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Note and in this Indenture (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date or Optional Purchase Date, as applicable).

Section 5.14 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Issuer, covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, or plead or in any manner whatsoever, claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, that may adversely affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture. The Issuer (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it shall not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Indenture Trustee, the Agent or any Noteholder, but shall suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

Section 5.15 Action on Notes. The Indenture Trustee’s right to seek and recover judgment on the Notes or under this Indenture shall not be affected by the seeking, obtaining or application of any other relief under or with respect to this Indenture. Neither the lien of this Indenture nor any rights or remedies of the Indenture Trustee, the Agent or the Noteholders shall be impaired by the recovery of any judgment by the Indenture Trustee against the Issuer or by the levy of any execution under such judgment upon any portion of the Collateral or upon any of the assets of the Issuer. Any money or property collected by the Indenture Trustee shall be applied in accordance with Section 5.4(b).

 

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Section 5.16 Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations.

(a) Promptly following a request from the Indenture Trustee to do so and at the Administrator’s expense, the Issuer agrees to take, as promptly as reasonably possible, all such lawful action as the Indenture Trustee may, or at the direction of the Agent, shall request to compel or secure the performance and observance by the Seller of its obligations to the Issuer under or in connection with the Pooling Agreement and the Purchase Agreement, by the Servicer of its obligations to the Issuer under or in connection with the Servicing Agreement, by NFC of its obligations under or in connection with the Purchase Agreement, or by any obligor under the Interest Rate Swap of its obligations under or in accordance with the Interest Rate Swap in accordance with the terms thereof, and to exercise, as promptly as reasonably possible, any and all rights, remedies, powers and privileges lawfully available to the Issuer under or in connection with the Pooling Agreement, the Servicing Agreement, the Purchase Agreement and the Interest Rate Swap to the extent and in the manner directed by the Indenture Trustee, including the transmission of notices of default on the part of the Seller, the Servicer or NFC, any obligor under the Interest Rate Swap thereunder and the institution of legal or administrative actions or proceedings to compel or secure performance by the Seller, the Servicer, NFC or any obligor under the Interest Rate Swap of each of their respective obligations under the Pooling Agreement, the Servicing Agreement, the Purchase Agreement and the Interest Rate Swap.

(b) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee may, and, at the direction (which direction shall be in writing or by telephone (confirmed in writing promptly thereafter)) of the Agent shall, exercise all rights, remedies, powers, privileges and claims of the Issuer against the Seller under or in connection with the Pooling Agreement and the Purchase Agreement, the Servicer under or in connection with the Servicing Agreement, NFC under or in connection with the Purchase Agreement or any obligor under the Interest Rate Swap, including the right or power to take any action to compel or secure performance or observance by the Seller, the Servicer, NFC or such party of each of their obligations to the Issuer thereunder and to give any consent, request, notice, direction, approval, extension or waiver under the Pooling Agreement, the Servicing Agreement, the Purchase Agreement and the Interest Rate Swap, and any right of the Issuer to take such action shall be suspended.

ARTICLE VI

THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE

Section 6.1 Duties of Indenture Trustee.

(a) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs.

(b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:

(i) the Indenture Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, the Servicing Agreement and any other Basic Document to which it is a party and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture, the Servicing Agreement or any other Basic Document against the Indenture Trustee; and

(ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Indenture Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Indenture Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they conform to any applicable requirements of this Indenture.

 

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(c) The Indenture Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:

(i) this Section 6.1(c) does not limit the effect of Section 6.1(b);

(ii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer unless it is proved that the Indenture Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and

(iii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section 5.11.

(d) The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Indenture Trustee may agree in writing with the Issuer.

(e) Money held in trust by the Indenture Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law or the terms of this Indenture or the Servicing Agreement.

(f) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Indenture Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds to believe that repayments of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

(g) The Indenture Trustee shall reimburse the Seller and any director, officer, employee or agent of the Seller for any contractual damages, liability or expense incurred by reason of the Indenture Trustee’s willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence (except errors in judgment) in the performance of its duties under any of the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements, or by reason of reckless disregard of its obligations and duties under any of the Further Transfer and Servicing Agreements.

(h) Every provision of this Indenture relating to the Indenture Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 6.1.

Section 6.2 Rights of Indenture Trustee.

(a) The Indenture Trustee may rely on any document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper Person. The Indenture Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document.

(b) Before the Indenture Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officer’s Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel that such action or omission is required or permissible hereunder. The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on such Officer’s Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.

 

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(c) The Indenture Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys or a custodian or nominee, and the Indenture Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of, or for the supervision of, any such agent, attorney, custodian or nominee appointed with due care by it hereunder.

(d) The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee’s conduct does not constitute willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith.

(e) The Indenture Trustee may consult with counsel, and the advice or opinion of counsel with respect to legal matters relating to this Indenture and the Notes shall be full and complete authorization and protection from liability in respect to any action taken, omitted or suffered by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the advice or opinion of such counsel.

Section 6.3 Indenture Trustee May Own Notes. The Indenture Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Issuer, the Servicer or any of their respective Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Indenture Trustee; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee shall comply with Sections 6.10 and 6.11. Any Paying Agent, Note Registrar, co-registrar or co-paying agent may do the same with like rights.

Section 6.4 Indenture Trustee’s Disclaimer. The Indenture Trustee shall not be responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the Notes, it shall not be accountable for the Issuer’s use of the proceeds from the Notes, and it shall not be responsible for any statement of the Issuer in the Indenture or in any document issued in connection with the sale of the Notes or in the Notes other than the Indenture Trustee’s certificate of authentication.

Section 6.5 Notice of Defaults. If a Default occurs and is continuing and if it is known to a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to the Agent notice of the Default within ten (10) Business Days after such Responsible Officer obtained knowledge of such Default. Except in the case of a Default in payment of principal of or interest on any Note, the Indenture Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as a committee of its Responsible Officers in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the best interest of Noteholders.

Section 6.6 Reports by Indenture Trustee to Holders. The Indenture Trustee shall deliver to the Agent and each Noteholder the information and documents set forth in Article VII and Section 8.8, and, in addition, all such information with respect to the Notes as may be required, as specified by the Servicer, to enable such Holder to prepare its federal and state income tax returns.

Section 6.7 Compensation; Indemnity.

(a) The Issuer shall cause the Servicer pursuant to the Servicing Agreement to pay to the Indenture Trustee from time to time such compensation for its services as shall be agreed upon in writing. The Indenture Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. The Issuer shall cause the Servicer pursuant to the Servicing Agreement to reimburse the Indenture Trustee for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred or made by it, including costs of collection, in addition to the compensation for its services. Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses, disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee’s agents, counsel, accountants and experts. The Issuer shall cause the Servicer pursuant to the Servicing Agreement to indemnify the Indenture Trustee in accordance with Section 6.05 of the Servicing Agreement. The Issuer shall have no obligation to pay, reimburse or indemnify the Indenture Trustee, except as specifically provided herein.

 

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(b) The Issuer’s obligations to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.7 shall survive the discharge of this Indenture. When the Indenture Trustee incurs expenses after the occurrence of a Default specified in Section 5.1(e) or 5.1(f), the expenses are intended to constitute expenses of administration under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law.

Section 6.8 Replacement of Indenture Trustee.

(a) The Indenture Trustee may at any time give notice of its intent to resign by so notifying the Issuer, the Swap Counterparty and the Agent; provided, however, that no such resignation shall become effective and the Indenture Trustee shall not resign prior to the time set forth in Section 6.8(c). The Holders of a majority in Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class may remove the Indenture Trustee by so notifying the Indenture Trustee and may appoint a successor Indenture Trustee. Such resignation or removal shall become effective in accordance with Section 6.8(c). The Issuer shall remove the Indenture Trustee if:

(i) the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11;

(ii) the Indenture Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent;

(iii) a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the Indenture Trustee or its property; or

(iv) the Indenture Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of acting.

(b) If the Indenture Trustee gives notice of its intent to resign or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of the Indenture Trustee for any reason (the Indenture Trustee in such event being referred to herein as the retiring Indenture Trustee), the Issuer (with the consent of the Agent) shall promptly appoint and designate a successor Indenture Trustee which complies with Section 6.11.

(c) A successor Indenture Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment and designation to the retiring Indenture Trustee and to the Issuer. Thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Indenture Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Indenture Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture. The successor Indenture Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to Noteholders, the Swap Counterparty, the Rating Agencies and to the Agent. The retiring Indenture Trustee shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Indenture Trustee to the successor Indenture Trustee.

(d) If a successor Indenture Trustee does not take office within 60 days after the retiring Indenture Trustee gives notice of its intent to resign or is removed, the retiring Indenture Trustee, the Issuer, the Agent or the Holders of a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment and designation of a successor Indenture Trustee which complies with Section 6.11.

(e) If the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11, any Noteholder may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Indenture Trustee and the appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee which complies with Section 6.11.

 

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(f) Notwithstanding the replacement of the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.8, the Issuer’s obligations under Section 6.7 and the Servicer’s corresponding obligations under the Servicing Agreement shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Indenture Trustee.

Section 6.9 Merger or Consolidation of Indenture Trustee.

(a) Any Person into which the Indenture Trustee may be merged or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger or consolidation to which the Indenture Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate trust business of the Indenture Trustee, shall be the successor of the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture; provided, however, that such Person shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 6.11, without the execution or filing of any instrument or any further act on the part of any of the parties to this Indenture, anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding. Following such merger or consolidation, the successor Indenture Trustee shall mail a notice of such merger or consolidation to the Agent and the Rating Agencies.

(b) If at the time such successor or successors by merger or consolidation to the Indenture Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture, any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Indenture Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee, and deliver such Notes so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Indenture Trustee may authenticate such Notes either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor to the Indenture Trustee. In all such cases such certificate of authentication shall have the same full force as is provided anywhere in the Notes or herein with respect to the certificate of authentication of the Indenture Trustee.

Section 6.10 Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture Trustee.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, at any time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirement of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Collateral or any Financed Vehicle may at the time be located, the Indenture Trustee shall have the power and may execute and deliver, with notice to the Agent and the Swap Counterparty, all instruments to appoint one or more Persons to act as a co-trustee or co-trustees, or separate trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part of the Collateral, and to vest in such Person or Persons, in such capacity and for the benefit of the Financial Parties, such title to the Collateral, or any part hereof, and, subject to the other provisions of this Section 6.10, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Indenture Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor trustee under Section 6.11 and no notice to Noteholders of the appointment of any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required under Section 6.8.

(b) Every separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and conditions:

(i) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed upon the Indenture Trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Indenture Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee is not authorized to act separately without the Indenture Trustee joining in such act), except to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be performed the Indenture Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties and obligations (including the holding of title to the Collateral or any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction of the Indenture Trustee;

 

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(ii) no trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of any other trustee hereunder; and

(iii) the Indenture Trustee may at any time accept the resignation of or remove any separate trustee or co-trustee.

(c) Any notice, request or other writing given to the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Indenture and the conditions of this Article VI. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Indenture Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions of this Indenture, specifically including every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the Indenture Trustee. Every such instrument shall be filed with the Indenture Trustee.

(d) Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time constitute the Indenture Trustee, its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of this Indenture on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the Indenture Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or successor trustee.

Section 6.11 Eligibility; Disqualification. The Indenture Trustee shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition and (unless waived by the Agent) it shall have a long term unsecured debt rating of “Baa3” or better by Moody’s.

Section 6.12 [Reserved].

Section 6.13 Representations and Warranties of Indenture Trustee. The Indenture Trustee represents and warrants as of the Closing Date that:

(a) the Indenture Trustee is a New York banking corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of New York and the eligibility requirements set forth in Section 6.11 are satisfied with respect to the Indenture Trustee;

(b) the Indenture Trustee has full power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver and perform this Indenture, and has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it of this Indenture;

(c) the execution, delivery and performance by the Indenture Trustee of this Indenture (i) shall not violate any provision of any law or regulation governing the banking and trust powers of the Indenture Trustee or any order, writ, judgment or decree of any court, arbitrator, or governmental authority applicable to the Indenture Trustee or any of its assets, (ii) shall not violate any provision of the corporate charter or by-laws of the Indenture Trustee or (iii) shall not violate any provision of, or constitute, with or without notice or lapse of time, a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien on any properties included in the Collateral pursuant to the provisions of any mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement or other undertaking to which it is a party,

 

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which violation, default or lien could reasonably be expected to have a materially adverse effect on the Indenture Trustee’s performance or ability to perform its duties under this Indenture or on the transactions contemplated in this Indenture;

(d) the execution, delivery and performance by the Indenture Trustee of this Indenture shall not require the authorization, consent or approval of, the giving of notice to, the filing or registration with, or the taking of any other action in respect of, any governmental authority or agency regulating the banking and corporate trust activities of the Indenture Trustee; and

(e) this Indenture has been duly executed and delivered by the Indenture Trustee and constitutes the legal, valid and binding agreement of the Indenture Trustee, enforceable in accordance with its terms.

Section 6.14 Indenture Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Notes. All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Notes may be prosecuted and enforced by the Indenture Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Indenture Trustee shall be brought in its own name as Indenture Trustee. Any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Financial Parties in respect of which such judgment has been obtained.

Section 6.15 [Reserved].

Section 6.16 Rights of Agent to Direct Indenture Trustee. The Agent, on behalf of the Holders of Notes, shall have the right to direct in writing the time, method and place of conducting any Proceeding for any remedy available to the Indenture Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Indenture, any other Basic Document or otherwise; provided, however, that subject to Section 6.1, the Indenture Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the Indenture Trustee being advised by counsel determines that the action so directed may not lawfully be taken, or if the Indenture Trustee in good faith shall, by a Responsible Officer, determine that the proceedings so directed would be illegal or subject it to personal liability or be unduly prejudicial to the rights of Noteholders not parties to such direction; provided, further, that nothing in this Indenture shall impair the right of the Indenture Trustee to take any action deemed proper by the Indenture Trustee and which is not inconsistent with such direction by the Agent.

ARTICLE VII

NOTEHOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS

Section 7.1 Issuer To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of Noteholders. The Issuer shall furnish or cause to be furnished by the Servicer to the Indenture Trustee (a) not more than five days before each Distribution Date, a list, in such form as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes as of the close of business on the Record Date, and (b) at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may request in writing, within 14 days after receipt by the Issuer of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 10 days prior to the time such list is furnished; provided, however, that so long as the Indenture Trustee is the Note Registrar, no such list shall be required to be furnished.

Section 7.2 Preservation of Information, Communications to Noteholders. The Indenture Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes contained in the most recent list

 

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furnished to the Indenture Trustee as provided in Section 7.1 and the names and addresses of Holders of Notes received by the Indenture Trustee in its capacity as Note Registrar. The Indenture Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in such Section 7.1 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

ARTICLE VIII

ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES

Section 8.1 Collection of Money. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein or in the other Basic Documents, the Indenture Trustee may demand payment or delivery of, and shall receive and collect, directly and without intervention or assistance of any fiscal agent or other intermediary, all money and other property payable to or receivable by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Indenture. The Indenture Trustee shall apply all such money received by it as provided in this Indenture and the Servicing Agreement. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture or in Article II of the Servicing Agreement, if any default occurs in the making of any payment or performance under any agreement or instrument that is part of the Collateral, the Indenture Trustee may take such action as may be appropriate to enforce such payment or performance, including the institution and prosecution of appropriate Proceedings. Any such action shall be without prejudice to any right to claim an Event of Default under this Indenture and any right to proceed thereafter as provided in Article V.

Section 8.2 Designated Accounts; Payments.

(a) On or before each Determination Date, with respect to the preceding Monthly Period and the related Distribution Date, the Servicer shall calculate the Collected Amount, the Total Available Amount, the Total Servicing Fee, the Noteholders’ Interest Distributable Amount (based on information provided by the Agent), the Reserve Account Deposit Amount, the net amount, if any, payable by or to the Issuer under the Interest Rate Swap (including the amount of termination payments and the amount of any payments that are not termination payments), the Principal Distribution Amount, the Yield Supplement Release Amount and all other amounts required to determine the amounts to be deposited in or paid from each of the Collection Account, the Note Distribution Account, the Certificate Distribution Account, the Yield Supplement Account and the Reserve Account on the next succeeding Transfer Date or Distribution Date, as applicable, and supply such information to the Issuer, the Agent and the Indenture Trustee.

(b) On or before each Transfer Date, the Indenture Trustee shall cause to be made the following withdrawals, deposits, transfers and distributions in the amounts set forth in the Servicer’s Certificate delivered to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 2.17 of the Servicing Agreement:

(i) from the Collection Account to the Servicer, in immediately available funds, reimbursement of Outstanding Monthly Advances pursuant to Section 2.14 of the Servicing Agreement, payments of Liquidation Expenses with respect to Receivables which became Liquidating Receivables during the related Monthly Period pursuant to Section 2.04 of the Servicing Agreement and any unpaid Liquidation Expenses from prior periods;

(ii) from the Reserve Account to the Collection Account, (x) if the related Distribution Date is not the Final Scheduled Distribution Date or a date on or after which the Notes have been accelerated (unless such acceleration has been rescinded or annulled as provided herein), the lesser of (A) the amount of cash or other immediately available funds therein

 

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on such Transfer Date and (B) the amount, if any, by which (I) the amount required to be paid pursuant to Section 8.2(c)(i) through 8.2(c)(iii) exceeds (II) the Total Available Amount (excluding funds from the Reserve Account) for the related Distribution Date and (y) if the related Distribution Date is the Final Scheduled Distribution Date or a date on or after which the Notes have been accelerated (and such acceleration has not been rescinded or annulled as provided herein), the amount of cash or other immediately available funds therein on such Transfer Date; and

(iii) from the Yield Supplement Account (x) to the Collection Account, (A) if the related Distribution Date is not the Final Scheduled Distribution Date or a date on or after which the Notes have been accelerated (unless such acceleration has been rescinded or annulled as provided herein), the Yield Supplement Release Amount for the related Distribution Date or (B) if the related Distribution Date is the Final Scheduled Distribution Date or a date on or after which the Notes have been accelerated (and such acceleration has not been rescinded or annulled as provided herein), the amount of cash or other immediately available funds therein (other than Investment Earnings) on such Transfer Date and (y) to the Certificate Distribution Account, the Investment Earnings on the Yield Supplement Account for the related Monthly Period.

(c) Before 12:00 noon, New York City time, on each Transfer Date, the Indenture Trustee (based on the information contained in the Servicer’s Certificate delivered to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 2.17 of the Servicing Agreement) shall make the following distributions from the Collection Account (after the withdrawals, deposits and transfers specified in Section 8.2(b) have been made) in the following order of priority:

(i) first, to the Servicer, to the extent of the Total Available Amount, the Total Servicing Fee;

(ii) second, to the Swap Counterparty, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clause (c)(i) above), the net monthly amount, if any, payable by the Issuer under the Interest Rate Swap;

(iii) third, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (c)(i) and (c)(ii) above), first, to the Note Distribution Account, the Noteholders’ Interest Distributable Amount and fees payable to the Noteholders under the Fee Letter, but not in excess of the Interest Cap, and then, second, to the Swap Counterparty, any due and unpaid Senior Swap Termination Payments;

(iv) fourth, if the related Distribution Date is not the Final Scheduled Distribution Date or a date on or after which the Notes have been accelerated (unless such acceleration has been rescinded or annulled as provided herein), to the Reserve Account, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (c)(i) through (c)(iii) above), the Reserve Account Deposit Amount;

(v) fifth, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (c)(i) through (c)(iv) above), first, to the Note Distribution Account, the Principal Distribution Amount and then second, to the Swap Counterparty, any due and unpaid Subordinated Swap Termination Payments and any other amounts owed to the Swap Counterparty to the extent not paid under Section 8.2(c)(ii) or 8.2(c)(iii) hereof;

 

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(vi) sixth, to the Note Distribution Account, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (c)(i) through (c)(v) above), the Other Obligations (other than Other Obligations payable under the Fee Letter) then due and payable in accordance with the Note Purchase Agreement;

(vii) seventh, to the Note Distribution Account, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (c)(i) through (c)(vi) above), for the payment of outstanding principal on the Notes; and

(viii) eighth, to the Note Distribution Account, to the extent of the Total Available Amount (as such amount has been reduced by the distributions described in clauses (c)(i) through (c)(vii) above), for the payment of any portion of the Noteholders’ Interest Distributable Amount and fees payable to the Noteholders under the Fee Letter not paid under Section 8.2(c)(iii) hereof; and

(ix) ninth, to the Certificate Distribution Account, any portion of the Total Available Amount remaining after the distributions described in clauses (c)(i) through (c)(viii) above.

(d) On each Distribution Date, the Indenture Trustee shall distribute all amounts on deposit in the Note Distribution Account to the Noteholders to the extent of amounts due and unpaid on the Notes for the following purposes, in the following amounts, and in the following order of priority:

(i) to accrued and unpaid interest and fees on the Notes as specified hereunder, under the Note Purchase Agreement and under the Fee Letter; provided, however, that if there are not sufficient funds in the Note Distribution Account to pay the entire amount of such accrued and unpaid interest and fees then due on the Notes, the amount in the Note Distribution Account shall be applied to the payment of such interest and fees on each Note pro rata on the basis of the respective aggregate amount of such interest and fees due on each such Notes;

(ii) the Principal Payment Amount shall be applied on each Distribution Date to reduce the Outstanding Amount of the Notes;

(iii) to Other Obligations then due and payable in accordance with the Note Purchase Agreement; and

(iv) to reduce the Outstanding Amount of the Notes until the Notes have been paid in full, all amounts remaining on deposit in the Note Distribution Account after the distributions described in clauses (d)(i) through (d)(iii) above.

(e) Pursuant to Section 5.2(a) of the Trust Agreement, on each Distribution Date, the Paying Agent under the Trust Agreement shall distribute all amounts on deposit in the Certificate Distribution Account to the Certificateholders.

Section 8.3 General Provisions Regarding Accounts.

(a) Subject to Section 6.1(c), the Indenture Trustee shall not in any way be held liable by reason of any insufficiency in any of the Designated Accounts resulting from any loss on any Eligible Investment included therein except for losses attributable to the Indenture Trustee’s failure to make payments on such Eligible Investments issued by the Indenture Trustee, in its commercial capacity as principal obligor and not as trustee, in accordance with their terms.

 

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(b) If (i) the Servicer shall have failed to give investment directions for any funds on deposit in the Designated Accounts to the Indenture Trustee by 11:00 a.m., New York City time (or such other time as may be agreed by the Servicer and the Indenture Trustee) on any Business Day; or (ii) a Default shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to the Notes but the Notes shall not have been declared due and payable pursuant to Section 5.2(a), or, if such Notes shall have been declared due and payable following an Event of Default, but amounts collected or receivable from the Collateral are being applied in accordance with Section 5.5 as if there had not been such a declaration; then the Indenture Trustee shall, to the fullest extent practicable, invest and reinvest funds in the Designated Accounts in one or more Eligible Investments selected by the Indenture Trustee.

Section 8.4 Release of Collateral.

(a) Subject to the payment of its fees and expenses pursuant to Section 6.7, the Indenture Trustee may, and when required by the provisions of this Indenture shall, execute instruments to release property in the Collateral from the lien of this Indenture, or convey the Indenture Trustee’s interest in the same, all in a manner and under circumstances that are consistent with the provisions of this Indenture. No party relying upon an instrument executed by the Indenture Trustee as provided in this Article VIII shall be bound to ascertain the Indenture Trustee’s authority, inquire into the satisfaction of any conditions precedent or see to the application of any monies.

(b) The Indenture Trustee shall, at such time as there are no Notes Outstanding, all Other Obligations have been paid in full, all sums due to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 6.7 have been paid, and all amounts owing by the Issuer under the Interest Rate Swap have been paid, notify the Issuer thereof in writing and upon receipt of an Issuer Request, release any remaining portion of the Collateral that secured the Notes from the lien of this Indenture and release to the Issuer or any other Person entitled thereto any funds then on deposit in the Note Distribution Account. The Indenture Trustee shall (i) release any remaining portion of the Collateral that secured the Certificates from the lien of this Indenture and (ii) deposit in the Certificate Distribution Account any funds then on deposit in the Reserve Account, the Yield Supplement Account or the Collection Account only at such time as (x) there are no Notes Outstanding, (y) all Other Obligations have been paid in full and all amounts owing by the Issuer under the Interest Rate Swap have been paid in full and (z) all sums due to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 6.7 have been paid.

Section 8.5 Opinion of Counsel. The Indenture Trustee shall receive at least seven days’ notice when requested by the Issuer to take any action pursuant to Section 8.4(a), accompanied by copies of any instruments involved, and the Indenture Trustee shall also require as a condition to such action, an Opinion of Counsel, in form and substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, stating the legal effect of any such action, outlining the steps required to complete the same, and concluding that all conditions precedent to the taking of such action have been complied with and such action shall not materially and adversely impair the security for the Notes or the rights of the Noteholders in contravention of the provisions of this Indenture; provided, however, that such Opinion of Counsel shall not be required to express an opinion as to the fair value of the Collateral. Counsel rendering any such opinion may rely, without independent investigation, on the accuracy and validity of any certificate or other instrument delivered to the Indenture Trustee in connection with any such action.

Section 8.6 Investment Earnings and Supplemental Servicing Fees. All Investment Earnings on funds deposited in the Designated Accounts shall be deposited into the Collection Account on or before each Transfer Date for distribution in accordance with Section 8.2; provided that the Certificateholders (via the Certificate Distribution Account or such other account as shall be

 

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designated in writing by the Certificateholders to the Servicer) shall be entitled to receive all Investment Earnings from amounts on deposit in the Yield Supplement Account, when and as paid. The Servicer shall be entitled to retain all Supplemental Servicing Fees. To the extent that any such amount shall be held in any account (other than, with respect to amounts to be distributed to the Certificateholders, the Certificate Distribution Account) held by either Trustee, or otherwise established hereunder, such amount will be withdrawn therefrom and paid to the Servicer or deposited in the Certificate Distribution Account for distribution to the Certificateholders, as applicable, upon presentation of a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Servicer setting forth, in reasonable detail, the amount of such Supplemental Servicing Fees or such Investment Earnings, respectively.

Section 8.7 Net Deposits. At any time that (i) NFC shall be the Servicer and (ii) the Servicer shall be permitted by Section 2.12 of the Servicing Agreement to remit collections on a basis other than a daily basis, the Indenture Trustee at the written request of the Servicer may make any remittances pursuant to this Article VIII net of amounts to be distributed by the Indenture Trustee to such remitting party. Nonetheless, the Indenture Trustee shall account for all of the above described remittances and distributions as if the amounts were deposited and/or transferred separately.

Section 8.8 Statements to Securityholders.

(a) On each Distribution Date, the Issuer shall include with each distribution to each Certificateholder, and the Indenture Trustee shall include with each distribution to each Noteholder, a statement (which statement shall also be provided to the Agent, the Rating Agencies and Swap Counterparty) based on (subject to the last sentence of this paragraph (a)) information in the Servicer’s Certificate furnished pursuant to Section 2.17 of the Servicing Agreement. Each such statement shall set forth the following information as to the Notes and the Receivables with respect to such Distribution Date or the preceding Monthly Period, as applicable:

(i) the amount of the distribution allocable to interest on or with respect to the Notes;

(ii) the Aggregate Receivables Balance as of the close of business on the last day of such Monthly Period;

(iii) the amount of Outstanding Monthly Advances with respect to all Receivables on such Distribution Date;

(iv) the amount of the Total Servicing Fee paid or payable to the Servicer with respect to the related Monthly Period;

(v) the amount of Aggregate Losses for the related Monthly Period;

(vi) the Delinquency Percentage and Loss Percentage for the related Monthly Period;

(vii) the sum of all Administrative Purchase Payments and all Warranty Payments made for the related Monthly Period;

(viii) the amount of the distribution allocable to principal of the Notes;

 

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(ix) the Note Principal Balance and the Note Pool Factor for the Notes, both after giving effect to all payments reported under clause (a)(viii) above on such date;

(x) the amounts, if any, paid to the Certificateholders or distributed to Noteholders from amounts on deposit in the Reserve Account;

(xi) the Specified Reserve Account Balance and the balance (if any) of the Reserve Account on such date, after giving effect to distributions, withdrawals, transfers and deposits made on such date, and the change in such balance from that of the prior Distribution Date;

(xii) the net amount, if any, payable by the Issuer under the Interest Rate Swap (other than payments due as a result of the occurrence of an Early Termination Date under the Interest Rate Swap) and the amount payable by the Issuer under the Interest Rate Swap as a result of the occurrence of an Early Termination Date thereunder;

(xiii) the Yield Supplement Release Amount, the balance (if any) of the Yield Supplement Account on such date, after giving effect to distributions, withdrawals, transfers and deposits made on such date, and the change in such balance from that of the prior Distribution Date, and the Investment Earnings on amounts on deposit in the Yield Supplement Account (if any) for the related Monthly Period; and

(xiv) calculations in detail sufficient to determine whether a Servicer Default exists under Section 7.01(h) of the Servicing Agreement or a Default or Event of Default exists under Section 5.01(o) of this Indenture.

In lieu of preparing and delivering a separate statement to Securityholders pursuant to this Section 8.8(a), a Trustee may deliver a copy of the Servicer’s Certificate furnished pursuant to Section 2.17 of the Servicing Agreement.

(b) Within the prescribed period of time for tax reporting purposes after the end of each calendar year during the term of this Agreement, the Servicer shall prepare and execute and the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee shall mail to the Swap Counterparty and each Person who at any time during such calendar year shall have been a holder of Notes or Certificates, respectively, and received any payments thereon, a statement prepared and supplied by the Servicer containing the amounts set forth in each of Sections 8.8(a)(i) and 8.8(a)(viii) above, for such calendar year or, if such Person shall have been a Securityholder during a portion of such calendar year and received any payments thereon, for the applicable portion of such year, for the purposes of such Securityholder’s preparation of federal income tax returns.

Section 8.9 Designated Accounts. On or prior to the Closing Date, the Issuer shall cause the Servicer to establish and maintain, in the name of the Indenture Trustee, for the benefit of the Financial Parties (including, with respect to the Collection Account, Yield Supplement Amount and Reserve Account only, the Swap Counterparty), the Designated Accounts as provided in Section 2.02 of the Servicing Agreement.

Section 8.10 Reserve Account.

(a) On the Closing Date, the Seller shall cause the Reserve Account Initial Deposit to be deposited into the Reserve Account. In addition, the Seller may from time to time deposit funds into the Reserve Account in accordance with Section 2.07 of the Pooling Agreement. The Reserve Account shall be the property of the Issuer, subject to the rights of the Indenture Trustee in the Reserve Account Property.

 

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(b) Amounts shall be withdrawn from the Reserve Account from time to time as provided in Section 8.2. If the amount on deposit in the Reserve Account on any Distribution Date (after giving effect to all deposits therein or withdrawals therefrom on such Distribution Date) exceeds the Specified Reserve Account Balance for such Distribution Date, the Indenture Trustee shall, upon receipt of instruction from the Servicer, deposit into the Certificate Distribution Account an amount equal to any such excess for distribution to the Certificateholders. If there are any amounts on deposit in the Reserve Account on the Final Scheduled Distribution Date after giving effect to any withdrawals required to be made on such date, the Indenture Trustee shall deposit such excess into the Certificate Distribution Account for distribution to the Certificateholders.

Section 8.11 [Reserved].

Section 8.12 Yield Supplement Account.

(a) On the Closing Date, the Seller shall cause the Yield Supplement Deposit Amount to be deposited into the Yield Supplement Account. The Yield Supplement Account shall be the property of the Issuer, subject to the rights of the Indenture Trustee in the Yield Supplement Account and amounts on deposit therein.

(b) Amounts shall be withdrawn from the Yield Supplement Account from time to time as provided in Section 8.2. If there are any amounts on deposit in the Yield Supplement Account on the Final Scheduled Distribution Date after giving effect to any withdrawals required to be made on such date, the Indenture Trustee shall deposit such excess into the Certificate Distribution Account for distribution to the Certificateholders.

Section 8.13 Termination.

(a) [Reserved].

(b) Notice of any termination of the Trust shall be given by the Servicer to each Trustee as soon as practicable after the Servicer has received notice thereof.

ARTICLE IX

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

Section 9.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders.

(a) Without the consent of the Holders of any Notes, but with the prior consent of the Agent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld) and notice to the Swap Counterparty, the Issuer, the Rating Agencies and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, for any of the following purposes:

(i) to correct or amplify the description of any property at any time subject to the lien of this Indenture, or better to assure, convey and confirm unto the Indenture Trustee any property subject or required to be subjected to the lien of this Indenture, or to subject additional property to the lien of this Indenture;

 

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(ii) to evidence the succession, in compliance with Section 3.11 and the applicable provisions hereof, of another Person to the Issuer, and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Issuer contained herein and in the Notes;

(iii) to add to the covenants of the Issuer for the benefit of the Securityholders, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Issuer;

(iv) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property to or with the Indenture Trustee;

(v) to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provision herein or in any supplemental indenture which may be inconsistent with any other provision herein, in any supplemental indenture or in any other Basic Document; or

(vi) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of the appointment hereunder by a successor or additional Indenture Trustee with respect to the Notes and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Article VI.

(b) The Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, also may, without the consent of any of the Noteholders but with the prior consent of the Agent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld) and notice to the Rating Agencies, at any time and from time to time enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to, changing in any manner, or eliminating any of the provisions of, this Indenture or modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders under this Indenture; provided, however, that such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Noteholder.

(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, if the consent of the Swap Counterparty is required pursuant to the Swap Counterparty Rights Agreement to enter into a supplemental indenture, any such purported supplemental indenture shall be null and void ab initio unless the Swap Counterparty consents in writing to such supplemental indenture. Any such supplemental indenture shall include the same requirement of the Swap Counterparty to consent to further supplemental indentures.

Section 9.2 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Noteholders.

(a) The Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, also may, with the consent of the Agent and of the Holders of not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class and notice to the Rating Agencies, by Act of such Holders delivered to the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to, changing in any manner, or eliminating any of the provisions of, this Indenture or modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby:

(i) change the due date of any installment of principal of or interest on any Note, or reduce the principal amount thereof, the interest rate applicable thereto, or the Redemption Price with respect thereto, change any place of payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Note or any interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the

 

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enforcement of the provisions of this Indenture requiring the application of funds available therefor, as provided in Article V, to the payment of any such amount due on the Notes on or after the respective due dates thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date or Optional Purchase Date, as applicable);

(ii) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, the consent of the Holders of which is required for (a) any such supplemental indenture, (b) any waiver of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture, certain defaults hereunder and their consequences as provided for in this Indenture, or (c) any action described in Section 3.7(e), 5.2, 5.6, 5.11, 5.12(a), 6.8 or 6.16;

(iii) modify or alter the provisions of the proviso to the definition of the term “Outstanding”;

(iv) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes required to direct the Indenture Trustee to sell or liquidate the Collateral pursuant to Section 5.4 if the proceeds of such sale would be insufficient to pay the principal amount of and accrued but unpaid interest on the Outstanding Notes;

(v) modify any provision of this Section 9.2 to decrease the required minimum percentage necessary to approve any amendments to any provisions of this Indenture or any of the Basic Documents;

(vi) modify any of the provisions of this Indenture in such manner as to affect the calculation of the amount of any payment of interest or principal due on any Note on any Distribution Date (including the calculation of any of the individual components of such calculation), or modify or alter the provisions of the Indenture regarding the voting of Notes held by the Issuer, the Seller or any Affiliate of either of them; or

(vii) permit the creation of any Lien (other than Permitted Liens) ranking prior to or on a parity with the lien of this Indenture with respect to any part of the Collateral or, except as otherwise permitted or contemplated herein, terminate the lien of this Indenture on any property at any time subject to the lien of this Indenture or deprive the Holder of any Note of the security afforded by the lien of this Indenture.

(b) The Indenture Trustee may in its discretion determine whether or not any Notes would be affected (such that the consent of each Noteholder would be required) by any supplemental indenture proposed pursuant to this Section 9.2 and any such determination shall be conclusive and binding upon all of the Noteholders, whether authenticated and delivered thereunder before or after the date upon which such supplemental indenture becomes effective. The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any such determination made in good faith.

(c) It shall be sufficient if an Act of Noteholders approves the substance, but not the form, of any proposed supplemental indenture.

(d) Promptly after the execution by the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Section 9.2, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to the Noteholders to which such amendment or supplemental indenture relates a notice setting forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental indenture. Any failure of the Indenture Trustee to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture.

 

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(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, if the consent of the Swap Counterparty is required pursuant to the Swap Counterparty Rights Agreement to enter into a supplemental indenture, any such purported supplemental indenture shall be null and void ab initio unless the Swap Counterparty consents in writing to such supplemental indenture. Any such supplemental indenture shall include the same requirement of the Swap Counterparty to consent to further supplemental indentures.

Section 9.3 Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In executing, or permitting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article IX or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture and that all conditions precedent to such execution have been satisfied. The Indenture Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture that affects the Indenture Trustee’s own rights, duties, liabilities or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

Section 9.4 Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith with respect to the Notes affected thereby, and the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties, liabilities and immunities under this Indenture of the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer, the Agent and the Noteholders shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments, and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.

Section 9.5 [Reserved].

Section 9.6 Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures. Notes authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article IX may, and if required by the Indenture Trustee shall, bear a notation in form approved by the Indenture Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee shall so determine, new Notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Issuer and authenticated and delivered by the Indenture Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Notes.

ARTICLE X

REDEMPTION OF NOTES

Section 10.1 Redemption. The Notes are subject to redemption in whole, but not in part, upon the exercise by (i) the Servicer of its option to purchase the Receivables pursuant to Section 4.01 of the Pooling Agreement or (ii) the Seller of its option to purchase the Receivables pursuant to Section 4.03 of the Pooling Agreement. The purchase price for the Notes to be redeemed shall be equal to the applicable Redemption Price therefor, together with all amounts due the Swap Counterparty, in each case, to the Redemption Date or Optional Purchase Date, as applicable, provided the Issuer has available funds sufficient to pay such amount. If the Notes are to be redeemed pursuant to this Section 10.1, the Issuer shall furnish notice thereof to the Indenture Trustee, the Rating Agencies and the Agent not later than 25 days prior to the Redemption Date or Optional Purchase Date, as applicable, and the Issuer shall deposit into the Note Distribution Account, before the Redemption Date or Optional Purchase Date, as applicable, the aggregate Redemption Price of the Notes, together with all amounts due the Swap Counterparty, in each case, to the Redemption Date or Optional Purchase Date, as applicable, whereupon all of the Notes shall be due and payable on the Redemption Date or Optional Purchase Date, as applicable.

 

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Section 10.2 Form of Redemption Notice.

(a) Notice of redemption of the Notes under Section 10.1 shall be given by the Indenture Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than five days prior to the applicable Redemption Date or Optional Purchase Date, as applicable, to the Agent and the Swap Counterparty.

(b) All notices of redemption shall state:

(i) the Redemption Date or Optional Purchase Date, as applicable;

(ii) the Redemption Price; and

(iii) the place where the Notes are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price, together with all amounts due the Swap Counterparty, in each case, on the Redemption Date or Optional Purchase Date, as applicable (which shall be the Agency Office to be maintained as provided in Section 3.2).

(c) Notice of redemption of the Notes shall be given by the Indenture Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Issuer. Failure to give notice of redemption, or any defect therein, to any Holder of any Note to be redeemed shall not impair or affect the validity of the redemption of any other Note to be redeemed.

(d) [Reserved].

Section 10.3 Notes Payable on Redemption Date or Optional Purchase Date. The Notes to be redeemed shall, following notice of redemption as required by Section 10.2, on the Redemption Date or Optional Purchase Date, as applicable, cease to be Outstanding for purposes of this Indenture and shall thereafter represent only the right to receive the applicable Redemption Price through the Redemption Date or Optional Purchase Date, as applicable, and (unless the Issuer shall default in the payment of such Redemption Price) no interest shall accrue on such Redemption Price for any period after the date to which accrued interest is calculated for purposes of calculating such Redemption Price.

 

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ARTICLE XI

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 11.1 Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc.

(a) Upon any application or request by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee: (x) an Officer’s Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with and (y) an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that, in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished. Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:

(i) a statement that each signatory of such certificate or opinion has read or has caused to be read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;

(ii) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;

(iii) a statement that, in the judgment of each such signatory, such signatory has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable such signatory to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and

(iv) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such signatory, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

(b) (i) Prior to the deposit with the Indenture Trustee of any Collateral or other property or securities that is to be made the basis for the release of any property or securities subject to the lien of this Indenture, the Issuer shall, in addition to any obligation imposed in Section 11.1(a) or elsewhere in this Indenture, furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each Person signing such certificate as to the fair value (within 60 days of such deposit) to the Issuer of the Collateral or other property or securities to be so deposited.

(ii) Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of any signer thereof as to the matters described in clause (b)(i) above, the Issuer shall also deliver to the Indenture Trustee an Independent Certificate as to the same matters, if the fair value to the Issuer of the securities to be so deposited and of all other such securities made on the basis of any such withdrawal or release since the commencement of the then current fiscal year of the Issuer, as set forth in the certificates delivered pursuant to clause (b)(i) above and this clause (b)(ii), is 10% or more of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, but such a certificate need not be furnished with respect to any securities so deposited if the fair value thereof to the Issuer as set forth in the related Officer’s Certificate is less than $25,000 or less than one percent of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes.

(iii) Other than with respect to the release of any Warranty Receivables, Administrative Receivables or Liquidating Receivables, whenever any property or securities are to be released from the lien of this Indenture, the Issuer shall also furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each Person signing such

 

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certificate as to the fair value (within 60 days of such release) of the property or securities proposed to be released and stating that in the opinion of such Person the proposed release will not impair the security under this Indenture in contravention of the provisions hereof.

(iv) Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of any signatory thereof as to the matters described in clause (b)(iii) above, the Issuer shall also furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Independent Certificate as to the same matters if the fair value of the property or securities and of all other property, other than Warranty Receivables, Administrative Receivables and Liquidating Receivables, or securities released from the lien of this Indenture since the commencement of the then current calendar year, as set forth in the certificates required by clause (b)(iii) above and this clause (b)(iv), equals 10% or more of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, but such certificate need not be furnished in the case of any release of property or securities if the fair value thereof as set forth in the related Officer’s Certificate is less than $25,000 or less than one percent of the then Outstanding Amount of the Notes.

(v) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 11.1, the Issuer may (A) collect, liquidate, sell or otherwise dispose of Receivables as and to the extent permitted or required by the Basic Documents and (B) make cash payments out of the Designated Accounts and the Certificate Distribution Account as and to the extent permitted or required by the Basic Documents.

Section 11.2 Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee.

(a) In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.

(b) Any certificate or opinion of an Authorized Officer of the Issuer may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate of an Authorized Officer or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the Servicer, the Seller, the Issuer or the Administrator, stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Servicer, the Seller, the Issuer or the Administrator, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.

(c) Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.

(d) Whenever in this Indenture, in connection with any application or certificate or report to the Indenture Trustee, it is provided that the Issuer shall deliver any document as a condition of the granting of such application, or as evidence of the Issuer’s compliance with any term hereof, it is intended that the truth and accuracy, at the time of the granting of such application or at the

 

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effective date of such certificate or report (as the case may be), of the facts and opinions stated in such document shall in such case be conditions precedent to the right of the Issuer to have such application granted or to the sufficiency of such certificate or report. The foregoing shall not, however, be construed to affect the Indenture Trustee’s right to rely upon the truth and accuracy of any statement or opinion contained in any such document as provided in Article VI.

Section 11.3 Acts of Noteholders.

(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Noteholders or the Agent may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by the Noteholders or the Agent in person or by agents duly appointed in writing. Except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Indenture Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Issuer. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Noteholders or the Agent signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 6.1) conclusive in favor of the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer, if made in the manner provided in this Section 11.3.

(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved in any manner that the Indenture Trustee deems sufficient.

(c) The ownership of Notes shall be proved by the Note Register.

(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action by the Holder of any Notes (or any one or more predecessor Notes) shall bind the Holder of every Note issued upon the registration thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Indenture Trustee or the Issuer in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Note.

Section 11.4 Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Issuer, Rating Agencies and Agent. Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Noteholders or other documents required or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to or filed with the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer, the Swap Counterparty, the Rating Agencies or the Agent under this Indenture shall be made upon, given or furnished to or filed with such party as specified in Appendix B to the Pooling Agreement.

Section 11.5 Notices to Noteholders; Waiver.

(a) Where this Indenture provides for notice to Noteholders of any condition or event, such notice shall be given as specified in Appendix B to the Pooling Agreement.

(b) Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by any Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Noteholders shall be filed with the Indenture Trustee but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such a waiver.

(c) In case, by reason of the suspension of regular mail service as a result of a strike, work stoppage or similar activity, it shall be impractical to mail notice of any event to Noteholders when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any manner of giving such notice as shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice.

 

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(d) Where this Indenture provides for notice to the Rating Agencies, failure to give such notice shall not affect any other rights or obligations created hereunder and shall not under any circumstance constitute an Event of Default. For the avoidance of doubt, notwithstanding the foregoing, the failure to obtain the consent of the Agent or satisfy the Rating Agency Condition when required by this Indenture may result in an Event of Default in accordance with (and subject to) the terms of this Indenture.

Section 11.6 Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions. Notwithstanding any provision of this Indenture or any of the Notes to the contrary, the Issuer may enter into any agreement with any Holder of a Note providing for a method of payment, or notice by the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent to such Holder, that is different from the methods provided for in this Indenture for such payments or notices. The Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee a copy of each such agreement and the Indenture Trustee shall cause payments to be made and notices to be given in accordance with such agreements.

Section 11.7 [Reserved].

Section 11.8 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents. The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

Section 11.9 Successors and Assigns.

(a) All covenants and agreements in this Indenture and the Notes by the Issuer shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

(b) All covenants and agreements of the Indenture Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

Section 11.10 Separability. In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality, and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

Section 11.11 Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder, the Financial Parties, any other party secured hereunder and any other Person with an ownership interest in any part of the Collateral, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture. The Swap Counterparty shall be a third-party beneficiary to this Indenture only to the extent that it has any rights specified herein or rights with respect to this Indenture specified under the Swap Counterparty Rights Agreement.

Section 11.12 Legal Holidays. If the date on which any payment is due shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of the Notes or this Indenture) payment need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on the date on which nominally due, and no interest shall accrue for the period from and after any such nominal date.

 

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Section 11.13 Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction.

(a) This Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois, without reference to its conflict of law provisions, except that the obligations, rights and remedies of the Indenture Trustee hereunder shall be determined in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without reference to its conflict of law provisions.

(b) EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO OTHER THAN THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE HEREBY SUBMITS TO THE NONEXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS AND OF ANY ILLINOIS STATE COURT SITTING IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO FOR PURPOSES OF ALL LEGAL PROCEEDINGS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT IT MAY EFFECTIVELY DO SO, ANY OBJECTION WHICH IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF THE VENUE OF ANY SUCH PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN SUCH A COURT AND ANY CLAIM THAT ANY SUCH PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN SUCH A COURT HAS BEEN BROUGHT IN AN INCONVENIENT FORUM. NOTHING IN THIS SECTION 11.13 SHALL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF ANY PARTY TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY OR ITS RESPECTIVE PROPERTIES IN THE COURTS OF OTHER JURISDICTIONS.

Section 11.14 Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

Section 11.15 Recording of Indenture. If this Indenture is subject to recording in any appropriate public recording offices, such recording is to be effected by the Issuer and at its expense accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel (which may be counsel to the Indenture Trustee or any other counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee) to the effect that such recording is necessary either for the protection of the Noteholders or any other Person secured hereunder or for the enforcement of any right or remedy granted to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.

Section 11.16 No Recourse. No recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under this Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection herewith or therewith, against:

(i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity;

(ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer; or

(iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director, employee or agent of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities (or any of their successors or assigns), except as any such Person may have expressly agreed (it being understood that the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee have no such obligations in their individual capacities) and except that any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity. For all purposes of this Indenture, in the performance of any duties or obligations of the Issuer hereunder, the Owner Trustee shall be subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the terms and provisions of Articles VI, VII and VIII of the Trust Agreement.

 

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Section 11.17 No Petition. The Indenture Trustee, by entering into this Indenture, and each Noteholder, by accepting a Note (or interest therein) issued hereunder, hereby covenant and agree that they shall not, prior to the date which is one year and one day after the final distribution with respect to the Notes, acquiesce, petition or otherwise invoke or cause the Seller or the Issuer to invoke the process of any court or government authority for the purpose of commencing or sustaining a case against the Seller or the Issuer under any federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official of the Seller or the Issuer or any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the Seller or the Issuer.

Section 11.18 Inspection. The Issuer agrees that, on reasonable prior notice, it shall permit any representative of the Indenture Trustee and the Agent, during the Issuer’s normal business hours, to examine all the books of account, records, reports and other papers of the Issuer to make copies and extracts therefrom, to cause such books to be audited by Independent certified public accountants, and to discuss the Issuer’s affairs, finances and accounts with the Issuer’s officers, employees and Independent certified public accountants, all at such reasonable times and as often as may be reasonably requested. The Indenture Trustee and the Agent shall and shall cause its representatives to hold in confidence all such information except to the extent disclosure may be required by law (and all reasonable applications for confidential treatment are unavailing) and except to the extent that the Indenture Trustee and the Agent may reasonably determine that such disclosure is consistent with its obligations hereunder.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee have caused this Indenture to be duly executed by their respective officers, thereunto duly authorized, all as of the day and year first above written.

 

NAVISTAR FINANCIAL 2009-A OWNER TRUST
By:  

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY DELAWARE, not in its individual capacity but

solely as Owner Trustee

By:  

/s/    Michele H. Y. Voon

Name:   Michele H. Y. Voon
Title:   Attorney-in-Fact
By:  

/s/    Susan Barstock

Name:   Susan Barstock
Title:   Attorney-in-Fact

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, as Indenture

Trustee

By:  

/s/    Michael Burack

Name:   Michael Burack
Title:   Assistant Treasurer


STATE OF    )   
   )    ss.
COUNTY OF    )   

BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, a Notary Public in and for said county and state, on this day personally appeared Michele H. Y. Voon and Susan Barstock, known to me to be the persons and officers whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that the same was the act of the Navistar Financial 2009-A Owner Trust and that such person executed the same as the act of said statutory trust for the purpose and consideration therein expressed, and in the capacities therein stated.

GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, this the 30th day of April, 2009.

Notary Public in and for the State of New Jersey.

 

My commission expires:

 


STATE OF    )   
   )    ss.
COUNTY OF    )   

BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, a Notary Public in and for said county and state, on this day personally appeared Michael Burack, known to me to be the person and officer whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that the same was the act of the said The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York banking corporation, and that such person executed the same as the act of said New York banking corporation for the purpose and consideration therein stated.

GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE, this the 30th day of April, 2009.

Notary Public in and for the State of New York.

 

My commission expires:

 


EXHIBIT A

LOCATIONS OF

SCHEDULE OF RETAIL NOTES

The Schedule of Retail Notes is on file at the offices of:

 

1. The Indenture Trustee

 

2. The Owner Trustee

 

3. Navistar Financial Corporation

 

4. Navistar Financial Retail Receivables Corporation

 

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EXHIBIT B

FORM OF

FLOATING RATE ASSET BACKED NOTE

 

  $        

No. R-             

 

SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS NOTE WERE ISSUED ON                  ,         , AND THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION. CONSEQUENTLY, THIS NOTE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE OTHER THAN PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND SATISFACTION OF CERTAIN OTHER PROVISIONS SPECIFIED IN THE INDENTURE (AS DEFINED ON THE REVERSE). THIS NOTE OR AN INTEREST IN THIS NOTE IS BEING SOLD IN A PRIVATE PLACEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 4(2) OF THE SECURITIES ACT ON THE DATE HEREOF. THEREAFTER, NO FURTHER SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE (OR INTEREST THEREIN) MAY BE MADE BY ANY PERSON UNLESS EITHER (I) SUCH SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS MADE TO A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” THAT EXECUTES A CERTIFICATE, IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE (AS DEFINED ON THE REVERSE) AND THE ISSUER (AS DEFINED BELOW), TO THE EFFECT THAT (A) IT IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED UNDER RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, ACTING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR THE ACCOUNTS OF OTHER “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYERS” AS DEFINED UNDER RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, AND (B) IT IS AWARE THAT THE TRANSFEROR OF THIS NOTE INTENDS TO RELY ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (II) SUCH SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS OTHERWISE MADE IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, IN WHICH CASE (A) THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE SHALL REQUIRE THAT BOTH THE PROSPECTIVE TRANSFEROR AND THE PROSPECTIVE TRANSFEREE CERTIFY TO THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND THE ISSUER IN WRITING THE FACTS SURROUNDING SUCH TRANSFER, WHICH CERTIFICATION SHALL BE IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE SATISFACTORY TO THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND THE ISSUER, AND (B) THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE SHALL REQUIRE A WRITTEN OPINION OF COUNSEL (WHICH WILL NOT BE AT THE EXPENSE OF THE ISSUER, THE SERVICER OR THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE) SATISFACTORY TO THE ISSUER AND THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE TO

 

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THE EFFECT THAT SUCH TRANSFER WILL NOT VIOLATE THE SECURITIES ACT. NEITHER THE ISSUER NOR THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE WILL REGISTER THIS NOTE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, QUALIFY THIS NOTE UNDER THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR PROVIDE REGISTRATION RIGHTS TO ANY PURCHASER OR HOLDER THEREOF.

THIS NOTE (AND INTERESTS THEREIN) IS ALSO SUBJECT TO THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE.

THE FUNDED AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE MAY DECREASE OVER TIME. ACCORDINGLY, THE FUNDED AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.

NAVISTAR FINANCIAL 2009-A OWNER TRUST

FLOATING RATE ASSET BACKED NOTES

NAVISTAR FINANCIAL 2009-A OWNER TRUST, a statutory trust organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the “Issuer”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to                      the lesser of the principal sum of                              DOLLARS ($        ) and the aggregate unpaid Funded Amount of this Note payable in accordance with the Indenture on each Distribution Date in an amount equal to the result obtained by multiplying (i) a fraction, the numerator of which is the Funded Amount of this Note on such Distribution Date and the denominator of which is the aggregate Funded Amount on such Distribution Date by (ii) the aggregate amount, if any, payable from the Note Distribution Account in respect of principal on the Notes pursuant to Sections 2.7, 3.1 and 8.2 of the Indenture; provided, however, that the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the Distribution Date in                       (the “Final Scheduled Distribution Date”). The Issuer shall pay interest on this Note on each Distribution Date in accordance with the terms of the Indenture. Interest on this Note will accrue for each Distribution Date from and including the Closing Date at the applicable interest rate and will be payable on each Distribution Date. Other Obligations shall also be paid in connection with this Note pursuant to the terms of the Note Purchase Agreement (as referred to in the Indenture). Such principal of, interest on and Other Obligations on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified in the Indenture and on the reverse hereof.

The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin or currency of the United States of America which, at the time of payment, is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though fully set forth on the face of this Note.

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer.

 

      NAVISTAR FINANCIAL 2009-A OWNER TRUST
      By:  

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY DELAWARE,

not in its individual capacity, but solely as

Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement

      By:  

 

      Name:  
      Title:  

 

INDENTURE TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

This is one of the Notes designated above and referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Date:                         

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON,

not in its individual capacity, but solely as

Indenture Trustee

      By:  

 

      Name:  
      Title:  

 

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REVERSE OF NOTE

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer designated as its Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (herein called the “Notes”), all issued under an Indenture, dated as of                  , 2009 (the “Closing Date” and such Indenture, as supplemented or amended, is herein called the “Indenture”), between the Issuer and The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York banking corporation, as trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”, which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders. The Notes are governed by and subject to all terms of the Indenture (which terms are incorporated herein and made a part hereof) and the Note Purchase Agreement, to which Indenture and Note Purchase Agreement the holder of this Note by virtue of acceptance hereof assents and by which such holder is bound. All capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined in this Note that are defined in the Indenture, as supplemented or amended, shall have the meanings assigned to them in or pursuant to the Indenture.

The Indenture secures in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture the payment of principal and interest on, and any other amounts owing in respect of the Notes, equally and ratably without prejudice, priority or distinction, and to secure compliance with the provisions of the Indenture, as provided therein.

Each Noteholder or other Investor, by acceptance of a Note (or a beneficial interest in a Note), covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed (it being understood that the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee have no such obligations in their individual capacities) and except that any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity.

Each Noteholder or other Investor, by acceptance of a Note (or a beneficial interest in a Note), covenants and agrees that by accepting the benefits of the Indenture such Noteholder will not, prior to the date which is one year and one day after the final distribution with respect to the Notes, acquiesce, petition or otherwise invoke or cause the Seller or the Issuer to invoke the process of any court or government authority for the purpose of commencing or sustaining a case against the Seller or the Issuer under any federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official of the Seller or the Issuer or any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the Seller or the Issuer.

 

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Each Noteholder or other Investor, by acceptance of a Note (or a beneficial interest in a Note), unless otherwise required by appropriate taxing authorities, agrees to treat the Notes as indebtedness secured by the Receivables for the purpose of federal income taxes, state and local income and franchise taxes, and any other taxes imposed upon, measured by or based upon gross or net income.

Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note shall be overdue, and neither the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Noteholders under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Agent and the Holders of Notes representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of all the Controlling Class. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Agent and the Holders of Notes representing specified percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note (or any one of more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee, with the consent of the Agent, to amend or waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of the Noteholders.

The term “Issuer” as used in this Note includes any successor to the Issuer under the Indenture.

The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain circumstances, to merge or consolidate, subject to the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the Holders of Notes under the Indenture.

The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations therein set forth.

This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois, without reference to its conflict of law provisions, and the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws, except that the obligations, rights and remedies of the Indenture Trustee hereunder shall be determined in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York.

No reference herein to the Indenture or the Note Purchase Agreement and no provision of this Note, the Indenture or the Note Purchase Agreement shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.

 

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Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, neither the Seller, the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee nor the Owner Trustee in their respective individual capacities, any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, nor any of their respective partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, employees or successors or assigns, shall be personally liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of them for, the payment of principal of or interest on, or performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or indemnifications contained in this Note or the Indenture, it being expressly understood that said covenants, obligations and indemnifications have been made by the Issuer. The Holder of this Note by the acceptance hereof agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the Holder shall have no claim against any of the foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the Issuer for any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this Note.

 

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ASSIGNMENT

Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee

                                                                             

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto

                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                                                                   

(name and address of assignee)

the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints                                                                          , as attorney, to transfer said Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:                                                                                                              

1

      Signature Guaranteed:        
                                                                                                                                               

 

1

NOTE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatsoever.

 

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