Seventh Amendment to Master Repurchase and Securities Contract Agreement, dated as of December 23, 2020, by and between Morgan Stanley Bank, N.A. and TPG RE Finance 12, Ltd

Exhibit 10.7(h)

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SEVENTH AMENDMENT TO MASTER REPURCHASE AND SECURITIES CONTRACT AGREEMENT

This SEVENTH AMENDMENT TO MASTER REPURCHASE AND SECURITIES CONTRACT AGREEMENT, dated as of December 23, 2020 (this “Amendment”), is made by and between TPG RE FINANCE 12, LTD., a Cayman Islands exempted company (“Seller”), and MORGAN STANLEY BANK, N.A., a national banking association (“Buyer”).  Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Repurchase Agreement (as defined below).

RECITALS

WHEREAS, Seller and Buyer are parties to that certain Master Repurchase and Securities Contract Agreement, dated as of May 4, 2016 (as amended by that certain First Amendment to Master Repurchase and Securities Contract Agreement, dated as of February 10, 2017, as further amended by that certain Second Amendment to Master Repurchase and Securities Contract Agreement, dated as of July 21, 2017, as further amended by that certain Third Amendment to Master Repurchase and Securities Contract Agreement, dated as of December 27, 2017, as further amended by that certain Fourth Amendment to Master Repurchase and Securities Contract Agreement, dated as of February 14, 2018, as further amended by that certain Fifth Amendment to Master Repurchase and Securities Contract Agreement, dated as of May 4, 2018, as further amended by that certain Sixth Amendment to Master Repurchase and Securities Contract Agreement, dated as of January 10, 2020, as further amended by that certain letter agreement, dated as of May 4, 2020 (the “Extension Letter Agreement”), as amended hereby and as further amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect from time to time, the “Repurchase Agreement”); and

WHEREAS, Seller and Buyer have agreed, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, that the Repurchase Agreement shall be amended as set forth in this Amendment; and TPG RE Finance Trust Holdco, LLC (“Guarantor”) has agreed, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, to make the acknowledgements set forth herein.

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Seller and Buyer hereby agree as follows:

Section 1.Repurchase Agreement Amendments.  The Repurchase Agreement is hereby amended as follows:  

(a)Section 2 of the Repurchase Agreement is hereby amended by adding the following definitions in correct alphabetical order:

“Available Tenor” means, as of any date of determination and with respect to the then-current Benchmark, any tenor for such Benchmark or payment period for price differential calculated with reference to such Benchmark, as applicable, that is or

may be used for determining the length of a Pricing Period pursuant to this Agreement as of such date.

“Benchmark” means, initially, LIBOR; provided that, if a Benchmark Transition Event or, as the case may be, an Early Opt-in Election and the Benchmark Replacement Date with respect thereto have occurred with respect to LIBOR or the then-current Benchmark, then “Benchmark” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement.

“Benchmark Replacement” means, for any Available Tenor, the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Buyer on the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date:

(1)the sum of: (a) Term SOFR and (b) the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment with respect thereto;

(2)the sum of: (a) either of (i) Compounded SOFR or (ii) Daily Simple SOFR, as selected by the Buyer to be the then-prevailing market convention for determining a benchmark rate as a replacement for the then-current Benchmark for the applicable loan market and (b) the applicable Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;

(3)the sum of: (a) the alternate rate of interest that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body as the replacement for the then-current Benchmark for the applicable Corresponding Tenor and (b) the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;

(4)the sum of: (a) the alternate rate of interest that has been selected by the Buyer as the replacement for the then-current Benchmark for the applicable Corresponding Tenor giving due consideration to any industry-accepted rate of interest as a replacement for the then-current Benchmark for U.S. dollar denominated secured financings or securitizations relating to the relevant asset class, as applicable at such time and (b) the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;

provided that, in the case of clause (1) of this definition, such Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement is displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Buyer in its reasonable discretion.

If at any time the Benchmark Replacement as determined pursuant to clause (1), (2), (3) or (4) of this definition would be less than the Floor, the Benchmark Replacement will be deemed to be the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement.

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“Benchmark Replacement Adjustment” means the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Buyer as of the Benchmark Replacement Date:

(1)the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected, endorsed or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement;

(2)the spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by the Buyer giving due consideration to any industry-accepted spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of the then-current Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for U.S. dollar denominated secured financing or securitization transactions relating to the relevant asset class, as applicable at such time.

“Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes” means, with respect to any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including but not limited to changes to the definition of “Business Day,” the definition of “Pricing Period,” timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of price differential, timing of Transaction requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, length of lookback periods, the applicability of breakage provisions, and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Buyer decides may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of such Benchmark Replacement and to permit the administration thereof by the Buyer in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Buyer decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Buyer determines that no market practice for the administration of such Benchmark Replacement exists, in such other manner of administration as the Buyer determines is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement.

“Benchmark Replacement Date” means the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:

(1)in the case of clause (1) or (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the later of (a) the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein and (b) the date on which the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof);

(2)in the case of clause (3) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein; or

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(3)in the case of an Early Opt-in Election, the date set forth in the notice of such Early Opt-in Election that is provided by Buyer to the Seller.

For the avoidance of doubt, (i) if the event giving rise to the Benchmark Replacement Date occurs on the same day as, but earlier than, the Reference Time in respect of any determination, the Benchmark Replacement Date will be deemed to have occurred prior to the Reference Time for such determination and (ii) the “Benchmark Replacement Date” will be deemed to have occurred in the case of clause (1) or (2) with respect to any Benchmark upon the occurrence of the applicable event or events set forth therein with respect to all then-current Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).

“Benchmark Transition Event” means the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:

(1)a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof), permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof);

(2)a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component) or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), which states that the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component) has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or

(3)a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) are no longer representative.

For the avoidance of doubt, a “Benchmark Transition Event” will be deemed to have occurred with respect to any Benchmark if a public statement or publication of information set forth above has occurred with respect to each then-current

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Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).

“Corresponding Tenor” with respect to any Available Tenor means, as applicable, either a tenor (including overnight) or a price differential payment period having approximately the same length (disregarding business day adjustment) as such Available Tenor.

“Daily Simple SOFR” means, for any day, SOFR, with the conventions for this rate (which may include a lookback) being established by the Buyer in accordance with the conventions for this rate selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for determining “Daily Simple SOFR” for business loans at such times; provided that, if the Buyer decides that any such convention is not administratively feasible, then the Buyer may establish another convention in its reasonable discretion.

“Early Opt-in Election” means, if the then-current Benchmark is LIBOR, the occurrence of the joint election by the Buyer and Seller to trigger a fallback from LIBOR and the provision by the Buyer of written notice of such election to other parties hereto.

“Floor” means, for any Transaction under this Agreement, the benchmark rate floor (which may be zero), if any, provided for in this Agreement with respect to LIBOR as determined for such Transaction.

“Reference Time” with respect to any setting of the then-current Benchmark means (1) if such Benchmark is LIBOR, 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the day that is two London banking days preceding the date of such setting, and (2) if such Benchmark is not LIBOR, the time determined by the Buyer in accordance with the Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes.

“Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement excluding the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment with respect thereto.

(b)Section 2 of the Repurchase Agreement is hereby further amended by amending and restating the following definitions as follows:

“Compounded SOFR” means the compounded average of SOFRs for the applicable Corresponding Tenor, with the rate, or methodology for this rate, and conventions for this rate (which, for example, may be compounded in arrears with a lookback and/or suspension period as a mechanism to determine the interest amount payable prior to the end of each Pricing Period or compounded in advance) being established by the Buyer in accordance with:  

(1)the rate, or methodology for this rate, and conventions for this rate selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for determining compounded SOFR; provided that:

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(2)if, and to the extent that, the Buyer determines that Compounded SOFR cannot be determined in accordance with clause (1) above, then the rate, or methodology for this rate, and conventions for this rate that have been selected by the Buyer giving due consideration to any industry-accepted market practice for similar U.S. dollar denominated secured financing or securitization transactions relating to the relevant asset class, as applicable at such time.

“Concentration Limit” shall mean, with respect to any New Asset, as of any date of determination (a) the Purchase Price of such New Asset does not exceed 35% of the Facility Amount, and (b) the aggregate Purchase Price of all Purchased Assets that are secured by hospitality and retail properties does not exceed 20% of the Facility Amount (or such higher limit as may be approved by Buyer in its sole discretion).

“Facility Termination Date” shall mean May 4, 2021, as the same may be extended in accordance with Section 9(a) of this Agreement.

“LIBOR” shall mean, for any Pricing Period with respect to a Purchased Asset, the per annum rate for deposits in U.S. Dollars that appears on Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page (or the successor thereto) as one-month LIBOR as of 11:00 a.m., London time, on the Pricing Rate Reset Date, but in no event, less than zero (0) or such other rate with respect to a Transaction as set forth in the related Confirmation.

“Relevant Governmental Body” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or any successor thereto.

“SOFR” with respect to any day means the secured overnight financing rate published for such day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as the administrator of the benchmark, (or a successor administrator) on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Website.

“Term SOFR” means, for the applicable Corresponding Tenor as of the applicable Reference Time, the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body.

“Pricing Rate” shall mean, for any Pricing Period with respect to a Purchased Asset, an annual rate equal to the Benchmark for such Pricing Period, plus the Applicable Spread for the related Purchased Asset (subject to adjustment and/or conversion as provided in Sections 3(l), 3(m), and 3(p) of this Agreement).

“Pricing Rate Reset Date” shall mean, with respect to a Purchased Asset, i. in the case of the first (1st) Pricing Period for such Purchased Asset, the original Purchase Date for such Purchased Asset, and ii. in the case of each subsequent Pricing Period, two (2) Business Days preceding the Remittance Date on which such Pricing Period begins.

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(c)Section 2 of the Repurchase Agreement is hereby further amended by deleting the following definitions contained therein: “Applicable Index”; “Conforming Changes”; “Index”; “Index Rate”; “Index Transition”; “Index Transition Date”; “Index Transition Event”; “Index Transition Notice”; “Interest Determination”; “ISDA”; “ISDA Definitions”; “ISDA Fallback Adjustment”; “ISDA Fallback Rate”; “Federal Funds Rate”; “LIBOR Rate”; “LIBOR Rate Reserve Percentage”; “LIBOR Transaction”; “Market Practice”; “Rate Adjustment”; “Replacement Index”; “Replacement Index Transaction”

(d)The last sentence of Section 3(a) of the Repurchase Agreement is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

“Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary herein or in any other Transaction Document, Buyer shall be entitled to determine, in its sole discretion, whether a New Asset qualifies as an Eligible Asset or whether to reject any New Asset proposed to be sold to Buyer by Seller, and the Buyer shall have no obligation to enter into any Transactions, which Transactions shall be entered into in the sole discretion of the Buyer.”

(e)Section 3(l) of the Repurchase Agreement is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

“(l) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Transaction Document, if:

(i)(A) a Benchmark Transition Event or, as the case may be, an Early Opt-in Election and (B) a Benchmark Replacement Date with respect thereto have occurred prior to the Reference Time in connection with any setting of the then-current Benchmark, then such Benchmark Replacement will replace the then-current Benchmark for all purposes under this Agreement and under any other Transaction Document in respect of such Benchmark setting and subsequent Benchmark settings without requiring any amendment to, or requiring any further action by or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Transaction Document; or

(ii)(A) a Benchmark Transition Event or, as the case may be, an Early Opt-in Election and the Benchmark Replacement Date with respect thereto has already occurred prior to the Reference Time for any setting of the then-current Benchmark and as a result the then-current Benchmark is being determined in accordance with clauses (2), (3) or (4) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement”; and

(B) the Buyer subsequently determines, that (w) Term SOFR and a Benchmark Replacement Adjustment with respect thereto is or has becomes available and the Benchmark Replacement Date with respect thereto has occurred, (x) there is currently a market for U.S. dollar-denominated transactions utilizing Term SOFR as a Benchmark and for determining the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment with respect thereto, (y) Term SOFR

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is being recommended as the Benchmark for U.S. dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities by the Relevant Government Authority and (z) in any event, Term SOFR, the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment with respect thereto and the application thereof is administratively feasible for the Buyer (as determined by the Buyer), then clause (1) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” will, without requiring any amendment to, or requiring any further action by or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, replace such then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any other Transaction Document in respect of such Benchmark setting and subsequent Benchmark settings on and from the beginning of the next Pricing Period or, as the case may be, Available Tenor so long as the Buyer notifies Seller prior to the commencement of such next Pricing Period or, as the case may be, Available Tenor.”

(f)Section 3(m) of the Repurchase Agreement is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

“(m)In connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Buyer will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Transaction Document, any amendments implementing such Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes will become effective without requiring any further action by or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Transaction Document.  The Buyer will promptly notify Seller of (i) any occurrence of (A) a Benchmark Transition Event or, as the case may be, an Early Opt-in Election and (B) the Benchmark Replacement Date with respect thereto, (ii) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement, and (iii) the effectiveness of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Buyer pursuant to this Section, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in the Buyer’s sole discretion and without consent from Seller or any other party to any other Transaction Document.”

Section 2.Facility Termination Date; Extensions.  For purposes of clarity, Buyer and Seller hereby agree that notwithstanding the extension of the Facility Termination Date (i.e., as so extended, May 4, 2021) pursuant to the Extension Letter Agreement, as of the date of this Amendment, Seller shall be deemed to have the option to further extend the current Facility Termination Date for two (2) successive Extension Periods pursuant to Section 9(a) of the Repurchase Agreement (i.e., to May 4, 2022 and May 4, 2023, respectively).

Section 3.Conditions Precedent.  This Amendment shall become effective on the date hereof provided that the following condition precedent is satisfied:  

(a)this Amendment is duly executed and delivered by each of Seller and Buyer

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Section 4..Representations and Warranties.  On and as of the date first above written, Seller hereby represents and warrants to Buyer that (a) it is in compliance with all the terms and provisions set forth in the Repurchase Agreement on its part to be observed or performed, (b) after giving effect to this Amendment, no Default or Event of Default under the Repurchase Agreement has occurred and is continuing, (c) after giving effect to this Amendment, the representations and warranties contained in Article 9 of the Repurchase Agreement are true and correct in all respects as though made on such date (except for any such representation or warranty that by its terms refers to a specific date other than the date first above written, in which case it shall be true and correct in all respects as of such other date), (f) no amendments have been made to the organizational documents of Seller since May 4, 2016; and (g) Seller is duly authorized to executed and deliver this Amendment.

Section 5.Acknowledgments of Guarantor.  Guarantor hereby acknowledges the execution and delivery of this Amendment by Seller and Buyer and agrees that it continues to be bound by that certain Amended and Restated Guaranty, dated as of May 4, 2018 (as may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Guaranty”), made by Guarantor in favor of Buyer, notwithstanding the execution and delivery of this Amendment and the impact of the changes set forth herein and therein.

Section 6.Limited Effect.  Except as expressly amended and modified by this Amendment, the Repurchase Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents shall continue to be, and shall remain, in full force and effect in accordance with their respective terms; provided, however, that upon the date hereof, (a) all references in the Repurchase Agreement to the “Transaction Documents” shall be deemed to include, in any event, this Amendment, and (b) each reference to the “Repurchase Agreement” in any of the Transaction Documents shall be deemed to be a reference to the Repurchase Agreement as amended hereby.

Section 7.Counterparts.  This Amendment may be executed in counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all of such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.  Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Amendment in Portable Document Format (.PDF) or by facsimile transmission shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed original counterpart thereof.

Section 8.Costs and Expenses.  Seller shall pay Buyer’s reasonable actual out of pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection with the preparation, negotiation, execution and consummation of this Amendment in accordance with the Repurchase Agreement.  

Section 9.Submission to Jurisdiction.  Each party irrevocably and unconditionally (i) submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of any United States Federal or New York State court sitting in Manhattan, and any appellate court from any such court, solely for the purpose of any suit, action or proceeding brought to enforce its obligations under this Amendment or relating in any way to this Amendment and (ii) waives, to the fullest extent it may effectively do so, any defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court and any right of jurisdiction on account of its place of residence or domicile.

To the extent that either party has or hereafter may acquire any immunity (sovereign or otherwise) from any legal action, suit or proceeding, from jurisdiction of any court or from set

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off or any legal process (whether service or notice, attachment prior to judgment, attachment in aid of execution of judgment, execution of judgment or otherwise) with respect to itself or any of its property, such party hereby irrevocably waives and agrees not to plead or claim such immunity in respect of any action brought to enforce its obligations under this Amendment or relating in any way to this Amendment.

The parties hereby irrevocably waive, to the fullest extent each may effectively do so, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding and irrevocably consent to the service of any summons and complaint and any other process by the mailing of copies of such process to them at their respective address specified in the Repurchase Agreement.  The parties hereby agree that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law.  Nothing in this Section 8 shall affect the right of Buyer to serve legal process in any other manner permitted by law or affect the right of Buyer to bring any action or proceeding against Seller or its property in the courts of other jurisdictions.

Section 10.WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.  EACH OF THE PARTIES HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AMENDMENT.

Section 11.GOVERNING LAW.  THIS AMENDMENT AND ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE ARISING UNDER OR RELATED TO THIS AMENDMENT, THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE PARTIES TO THIS AMENDMENT, AND/OR THE INTERPRETATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE PARTIES TO THIS AMENDMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS AND DECISIONS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CHOICE OF LAW RULES THEREOF.  THE PARTIES HERETO INTEND THAT THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5-1401 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW SHALL APPLY TO THIS AMENDMENT. 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be duly executed and delivered as of the day and year first above written.

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