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Form 8-K Nissan Auto Lease Trust For: Jun 29 Filed by: NISSAN AUTO LEASING LLC II

June 29, 2022 3:42 PM EDT

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D)

OF THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): June 29, 2022

 

 

NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2022-A

(Exact name of Issuing Entity as specified in its charter with respect to the Notes)

Central Index Key Number: 0001930284

 

 

NISSAN AUTO LEASING LLC II

(Exact name of Depositor as specified in its charter and Transferor of the Series Certificate to the Issuing Entity)

Central Index Key Number: 0001244832

 

 

NISSAN-INFINITI LT LLC

(Exact name of Issuer as specified in its charter with respect to the Series Certificate)

Central Index Key Number: 0001244827

 

 

NISSAN MOTOR ACCEPTANCE COMPANY LLC

(Exact name of Sponsor as specified in its charter)

Central Index Key Number: 0001540639

 

 

 

DELAWARE   333-258304-03   88-6436082
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation of Issuing Entity)
  (Commission
File Number of Issuing Entity)
  (IRS Employer
Identification No. of Issuing Entity)

ONE NISSAN WAY

ROOM 5-124

FRANKLIN, TENNESSEE

  37067
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

(615) 725-1127

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934:

 

Title of each class

 

Trading
Symbol(s)

 

Name of each exchange
on which registered

N/A   N/A   N/A

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

 

 

 


ITEM 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

On June 29, 2022 (the “Closing Date”), NILT LLC (defined below) created a separate series of limited liability company interest (the “2022-A Series”) in Nissan-Infiniti LT LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Nissan-Infiniti LT”), including certain closed-end retail vehicle lease contracts (the “Leases”), the related Nissan and Infiniti vehicles leased under the Leases (the “Leased Vehicles”) and related property (collectively, the “2022-A Series Assets”) pursuant to the Limited Liability Company Agreement of Nissan-Infiniti LT, dated as of May 20, 2022, between Nissan Motor Acceptance Company LLC (“NMAC”), as servicer, NILT LLC, as member, and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (“U.S. Bank”), as titling company registrar, as supplemented by a 2022-A Series Supplement dated as of the Closing Date (the “2022-A Series Supplement”).

Also on the Closing Date, NMAC, as servicer, NILT LLC, as member, and Nissan-Infiniti LT entered into a 2022-A Series Servicing Supplement, dated as of the Closing Date (the “2022-A Series Servicing Supplement”) and supplementing the Amended and Restated Servicing Agreement, dated as of April 1, 2021 (the “Servicing Agreement”), to provide for the servicing obligations of the 2022-A Series Assets. In connection with the creation of the 2022-A Series, Nissan-Infiniti LT issued to NILT LLC a certificate evidencing a 100 percent interest in the 2022-A Series (the “2022-A Series Certificate”).

On the Closing Date, NILT LLC sold the 2022-A Series Certificate to Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II (“NALL II”) pursuant to a Series Certificate Sale Agreement by and between NILT LLC, as transferor, and NALL II, as transferee. NALL II further sold the 2022-A Series Certificate to Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2022-A, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Issuing Entity”), pursuant to a Series Certificate Transfer Agreement by and between NALL II, as transferor, and the Issuing Entity, as transferee. The Issuing Entity was created pursuant to a Trust Agreement, dated as of May 20, 2022, as amended and restated by the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date (the “Amended and Restated Trust Agreement”), by and between NALL II, as transferor, and Wilmington Trust, National Association (“WTNA”), as owner trustee (the “Owner Trustee”).

On the Closing Date, the Issuing Entity caused the issuance, pursuant to an Indenture, dated as of the Closing Date (the “Indenture”), by and between the Issuing Entity, as issuer, and U.S. Bank, as indenture trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”), of $118,300,000 aggregate principal amount of the Class A-1 Asset Backed Notes, $209,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Class A-2a Asset Backed Notes, $175,100,000 aggregate principal amount of the Class A-2b Asset Backed Notes, $362,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Class A-3 Asset Backed Notes and $75,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Class A-4 Asset Backed Notes (collectively, the “Notes”). The Issuing Entity, NMAC, as administrative agent, NALL II, as transferor, and U.S. Bank, as Indenture Trustee, entered into that certain Trust Administration Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date (the “Trust Administration Agreement”), relating to the provision by NMAC of certain services relating to the Notes. On the Closing Date, the Issuing Entity, as issuer, NMAC, as sponsor and servicer, and Clayton Fixed Income Services LLC, as asset representations reviewer, entered into that certain Asset Representations Review Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date (the “Asset Representations Review Agreement”), relating to the review of certain representations relating to the Leases and the Leased Vehicles.

Also on the Closing Date, the Issuing Entity, NMAC, as the servicer, the Indenture Trustee, as the secured party, and U.S. Bank National Association, as intermediary (the “Securities Intermediary”), entered into that certain Securities Account Control Agreement (the “Securities Account Control Agreement”) pursuant to which the Securities Intermediary will maintain certain accounts.

The Notes, with an aggregate principal balance of $939,400,000 were sold to Citigroup Global Markets Inc., as the representative of several underwriters (the “Underwriters”), pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement. The Notes have been registered pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, under a Registration Statement on Form SF-3, as amended (Commission File No. 333-258304-01).

Attached as Exhibit 4.1 is the Indenture, as Exhibit 10.1 is the 2022-A Series Supplement, as Exhibit 10.2 is the 2022-A Series Servicing Supplement, as Exhibit 10.3 is the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement for the Issuing Entity, as Exhibit 10.4 is the Trust Administration Agreement, as Exhibit 10.5 is the Series Certificate Transfer Agreement, as Exhibit 10.6 is the Series Certificate Sale Agreement, as Exhibit 10.7 is the Asset Representations Review Agreement and as Exhibit 10.8 is the Securities Account Control Agreement.


ITEM 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits

(a) Not applicable.

(b) Not applicable.

(c) Not applicable.

(d) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit No.   

Document Description

4.1    Indenture, dated as of June 29, 2022, by and between the Issuing Entity, as issuer, and U.S. Bank, as Indenture Trustee.
10.1    2022-A Series Supplement, dated as of June 29, 2022, by NILT LLC, as member of the titling company.
10.2    2022-A Series Servicing Supplement, dated as of June  29, 2022, by and among Nissan-Infiniti LT, as titling company, NILT LLC, as member, and NMAC, as servicer.
10.3    Amended and Restated Trust Agreement for the Issuing Entity, dated as of June 29, 2022, by and between NALL II, as transferor, and WTNA, as Owner Trustee.
10.4    Trust Administration Agreement, dated as of June 29, 2022, by and among the Issuing Entity, NMAC, as administrative agent, NALL II, as transferor, and U.S. Bank, as Indenture Trustee.
10.5    Series Certificate Transfer Agreement, dated as of June 29, 2022, by and between NALL II, as transferor, and the Issuing Entity, as transferee.
10.6    Series Certificate Sale Agreement, dated as of June 29, 2022, by and between NILT LLC, as transferor, and NALL II, as transferee.
10.7    Asset Representations Review Agreement, dated as of June  29, 2022, by and among the Issuing Entity, as issuer, NMAC, as sponsor and servicer, and Clayton Fixed Income Services LLC, as asset representations reviewer.
10.8    Securities Account Control Agreement, to be dated as of June  29, 2022, by and among the Issuing Entity, NMAC, as servicer, U.S. Bank, as Indenture Trustee, and U.S. Bank National Association, as Securities Intermediary.


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Date: June 29, 2022     NISSAN AUTO LEASING LLC II
    By:  

/s/ Douglas E. Gwin, Jr.

    Name: Douglas E. Gwin, Jr.
    Title: Assistant Treasurer

Exhibit 4.1

 

 

NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2022-A

$118,300,000

2.021% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-1

$209,000,000

3.45% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-2a

$175,100,000

SOFR Rate + 0.68% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-2b

$362,000,000

3.81% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-3

$75,000,000

3.87% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-4

NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2022-A

and

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Indenture Trustee

 

 

INDENTURE

Dated as of June 29, 2022

 

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

         Page  
ARTICLE ONE  

DEFINITIONS

     1  
  SECTION 1.01  

Capitalized Terms

     1  
  SECTION 1.02  

Interpretation

     2  
  SECTION 1.03  

Incorporation by Reference Trust Indenture Act

     2  
ARTICLE TWO  

THE NOTES

     2  
  SECTION 2.01  

Form

     2  
  SECTION 2.02  

Execution, Authentication and Delivery

     3  
  SECTION 2.03  

Temporary Notes

     3  
           SECTION 2.04  

Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange

     4  
  SECTION 2.05  

Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes

     6  
  SECTION 2.06  

Persons Deemed Owners

     7  
  SECTION 2.07  

Cancellation

     7  
  SECTION 2.08  

Release of Collateral

     7  
  SECTION 2.09  

Book-Entry Notes

     7  
  SECTION 2.10  

Notices to Clearing Agency

     8  
  SECTION 2.11  

Definitive Notes

     8  
  SECTION 2.12  

Authenticating Agents

     9  
  SECTION 2.13  

Tax Treatment

     10  
  SECTION 2.14  

Tax Forms

     10  
  SECTION 2.15  

Retained Notes

     10  
  SECTION 2.16  

Calculation Agent

     12  
  SECTION 2.17  

Determination of SOFR

     12  
ARTICLE THREE  

COVENANTS

     13  
  SECTION 3.01  

Payments to Noteholders, Trust Certificateholders and Depositor

     13  
  SECTION 3.02  

Maintenance of Office or Agency

     13  
  SECTION 3.03  

Money for Payments to be Held in Trust

     14  
  SECTION 3.04  

Existence

     15  
  SECTION 3.05  

Protection of Owner Trust Estate

     15  
  SECTION 3.06  

Opinions as to Owner Trust Estate

     16  
  SECTION 3.07  

Performance of Obligations; Servicing of the 2022-A Series Assets

     16  
  SECTION 3.08  

Negative Covenants

     17  
  SECTION 3.09  

Annual Statement as to Compliance

     18  
  SECTION 3.10  

Restrictions on Certain Other Activities

     19  
  SECTION 3.11  

Notice of Defaults

     19  
  SECTION 3.12  

Further Instruments and Acts

     19  
  SECTION 3.13  

Delivery of the 2022-A Series Certificate

     19  
  SECTION 3.14  

Compliance with Laws

     19  
  SECTION 3.15  

Issuing Entity May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms

     19  
  SECTION 3.16  

Successor or Transferee

     21  
  SECTION 3.17  

Removal of the Administrative Agent

     22  

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

(continued)

 

          Page  
  SECTION 3.18   

Perfection Representations

     22  
  SECTION 3.19   

Securities Exchange Act Filings

     22  
  SECTION 3.20   

Regulation AB Representations, Warranties and Covenants

     22  
ARTICLE FOUR   

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

     22  
  SECTION 4.01   

Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture

     22  
           SECTION 4.02   

Application of Trust Money

     23  
  SECTION 4.03   

Repayment of Monies Held by Paying Agent

     24  
ARTICLE FIVE   

INDENTURE DEFAULT

     24  
  SECTION 5.01   

Indenture Defaults

     24  
  SECTION 5.02   

Acceleration of Maturity; Waiver of Indenture Default

     25  
  SECTION 5.03   

Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture Trustee

     26  
  SECTION 5.04   

Remedies; Priorities

     28  
  SECTION 5.05   

Optional Preservation of the Collateral

     29  
  SECTION 5.06   

Limitation of Suits

     30  
  SECTION 5.07   

Rights of Noteholders to Receive Principal and Interest

     30  
  SECTION 5.08   

Restoration of Rights and Remedies

     30  
  SECTION 5.09   

Rights and Remedies Cumulative

     31  
  SECTION 5.10   

Delay or Omission Not a Waiver

     31  
  SECTION 5.11   

Control by Noteholders

     31  
  SECTION 5.12   

[Reserved]

     31  
  SECTION 5.13   

Undertaking for Costs

     32  
  SECTION 5.14   

Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws

     32  
  SECTION 5.15   

Action on Notes

     32  
  SECTION 5.16   

Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations

     32  
  SECTION 5.17   

Sale of Collateral

     33  
ARTICLE SIX   

THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE

     33  
  SECTION 6.01   

Duties of Indenture Trustee

     33  
  SECTION 6.02   

Rights of Indenture Trustee

     35  
  SECTION 6.03   

Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee

     37  
  SECTION 6.04   

Indenture Trustee’s Disclaimer

     37  
  SECTION 6.05   

Notice of Defaults

     37  
  SECTION 6.06   

Reports by Indenture Trustee to Noteholders

     37  
  SECTION 6.07   

Compensation and Indemnity

     38  
  SECTION 6.08   

Replacement of Indenture Trustee

     39  
  SECTION 6.09   

Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger

     40  
  SECTION 6.10   

Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee

     41  
  SECTION 6.11   

Eligibility; Disqualification

     42  
  SECTION 6.12   

Issuing Entity as Holder of the 2022-A Series Certificate

     42  
  SECTION 6.13   

Representations and Warranties of Indenture Trustee

     43  
  SECTION 6.14   

Furnishing of Documents

     43  
  SECTION 6.15   

Preferred Collection of Claims Against Issuing Entity

     43  

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

(continued)

 

         Page  
ARTICLE SEVEN  

NOTEHOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS

     43  
  SECTION 7.01  

Note Registrar to Furnish Noteholder Names and Addresses

     43  
           SECTION 7.02  

Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders

     44  
  SECTION 7.03  

Reports by Issuing Entity

     45  
  SECTION 7.04  

Reports by Indenture Trustee

     45  
  SECTION 7.05  

Indenture Trustee Website

     46  
  SECTION 7.06  

Information to be Provided by the Indenture Trustee

     46  
  SECTION 7.07  

Noteholder Demand for Repurchase; Dispute Resolution

     46  
  SECTION 7.08  

Asset Review Voting

     47  
ARTICLE EIGHT  

ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES

     48  
  SECTION 8.01  

Collection of Money

     48  
  SECTION 8.02  

Accounts

     48  
  SECTION 8.03  

Payment Date Certificate

     51  
  SECTION 8.04  

Disbursement of Funds

     53  
  SECTION 8.05  

General Provisions Regarding Accounts

     56  
  SECTION 8.06  

Release of Owner Trust Estate

     57  
  SECTION 8.07  

Release of Interest In 2022-A Leases and 2022-A Vehicles Upon Purchase or Reallocation by the Servicer

     58  
  SECTION 8.08  

Opinion of Counsel

     58  
ARTICLE NINE  

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

     58  
  SECTION 9.01  

Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders

     58  
  SECTION 9.02  

Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Noteholders

     60  
  SECTION 9.03  

Execution of Supplemental Indentures

     61  
  SECTION 9.04  

Effect of Supplemental Indenture

     61  
  SECTION 9.05  

Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures

     62  
ARTICLE TEN  

REDEMPTION OF NOTES

     62  
  SECTION 10.01  

Redemption

     62  
  SECTION 10.02  

Form of Redemption Notice

     63  
  SECTION 10.03  

Notes Payable on Redemption Date

     63  
ARTICLE ELEVEN  

MISCELLANEOUS

     63  
  SECTION 11.01  

Compliance Certificates and Opinions

     63  
  SECTION 11.02  

Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee

     65  
  SECTION 11.03  

Acts of Noteholders

     66  
  SECTION 11.04  

Notices

     66  
  SECTION 11.05  

Notices to Noteholders; Waiver

     67  
  SECTION 11.06  

Effect of Headings and Table of Contents

     67  

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

(continued)

 

         Page  
  SECTION 11.07  

Successors and Assigns

     67  
  SECTION 11.08  

Severability

     67  
  SECTION 11.09  

Benefits of Indenture

     67  
  SECTION 11.10  

Legal Holidays

     68  
           SECTION 11.11  

Governing Law

     68  
  SECTION 11.12  

Counterparts and Electronic Signatures

     68  
  SECTION 11.13  

Recording of Indenture

     68  
  SECTION 11.14  

Trust Obligation

     68  
  SECTION 11.15  

No Petition

     69  
  SECTION 11.16  

No Recourse

     69  
  SECTION 11.17  

Inspection

     69  
  SECTION 11.18  

Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee

     70  
  SECTION 11.19  

Conflict with Trust Indenture Act

     70  
  SECTION 11.20  

Intent of the Parties; Reasonableness

     70  
  SECTION 11.21  

Dispute Resolution

     70  

SCHEDULE

Schedule I     Perfection Representations, Warranties and Covenants

EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit A – Form of Notes    A-1
Exhibit B – Applicable Servicing Criteria    B-1
Exhibit C – Asset Repurchase Demand Activity Report    C-1

 

iv


Reconciliation and Tie between the Trust Indenture Act

of 1939 and Indenture

 

TIA Section    

Indenture

Section

310   (a) (1)   6.08, 6.11
  (a) (2)   6.08, 6.11
  (a) (3)   6.10(b)(i)
  (a) (4)   6.12
  (a) (5)   6.11
  (b)   6.08, 6.11, 11.05
311   (a)   6.15
  (b)   6.15
312   (a)   7.01
  (b)   7.01, 7.02(b)
  (c)   7.02(c)
313   (a)   7.04
  (b) (1)   7.04
  (b) (2)   7.04
  (c)   7.03, 7.04, 11.05
  (d)   7.04
314   (a)   3.09, 7.03, 11.05
  (b)   3.06
  (c) (1)   11.01
  (c) (2)   8.08, 11.01
  (c) (3)   11.01
  (d)   11.01(b)
  (e)   11.01
  (f)   N.A.
315   (a)   6.01(b)
  (b)   6.05
  (c)   6.01(a)
  (d)   6.01(c)
  (e)   5.13
316   (a)(1) (A)   5.11, 6.01(c)
  (a) (1) (B)   5.02
  (a) (2)   N.A.
  (b)   5.07
  (c)   N.A.
317   (a) (1)   5.04
  (a) (2)   5.03(d)
  (b)   3.03
318   (a)   11.19

——————

  (1)

This reconciliation table and tie shall not, for any purpose be deemed to be part of the Indenture.

  (2)

N.A. means not applicable.

 

 

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INDENTURE

This Indenture, dated as of June 29, 2022 (this “Indenture”), is between the Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2022-A, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Issuing Entity”), and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, a national banking association (“U.S. Bank”), as trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”).

Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Issuing Entity’s 2.021% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-1 (the “Class A-1 Notes”), 3.45% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-2a (the “Class A-2a Notes”), SOFR Rate + 0.68% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-2b (the “Class A-2b Notes”), 3.81% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-3 (the “Class A-3 Notes”) and 3.87% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-4 (the “Class A-4 Notes”, and collectively with the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes and the Class A-3 Notes, the “Notes”):

GRANTING CLAUSE

The Issuing Entity hereby Grants in trust to the Indenture Trustee on the Closing Date, as trustee for the benefit of the Noteholders all of the Issuing Entity’s right, title and interest, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in and to (i) the Owner Trust Estate, and (ii) 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, securities, financial assets and other property that at any time constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the foregoing (collectively, the “Collateral”), in each case as such terms are defined herein.

The Indenture Trustee, as trustee on behalf of the Noteholders, acknowledges the foregoing Grant, accepts the trusts under this Indenture in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and agrees to perform its duties required in this Indenture to the best of its ability to the end that the interests of the Noteholders may be adequately and effectively protected.

ARTICLE ONE

DEFINITIONS

SECTION 1.01 Capitalized Terms. Capitalized terms used herein that are not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in Annex A to the Series Certificate Sale Agreement dated as of the date hereof, by and between NILT LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II, a Delaware limited liability company.

 

      (NALT 2022-A Indenture)


SECTION 1.02 Interpretation. For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires, (i) terms used herein include, as appropriate, all genders and the plural as well as the singular, (ii) references to words such as “herein,” “hereof” and the like shall refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular part, Article or Section within this Indenture, (iii) references to an Article or Section such as “Article Twelve” or “Section 12.01” shall refer to the applicable Article or Section of this Indenture, (iv) the term “include” and all variations thereof shall mean “include without limitation,” (v) the term “or” shall include “and/or,” (vi) the term “proceeds” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the UCC, (vii) references to Persons include their permitted successors and assigns, (viii) references to agreements and other contractual instruments include all subsequent amendments, amendments and restatements and supplements thereto or changes therein entered into in accordance with their respective terms and not prohibited by this Indenture, except that references to the Series LLC Agreement include only such items as related to the 2022-A Series and the Titling Company, (ix) references to laws include their amendments and supplements, the rules and regulations thereunder and any successors thereto, (x) references to this Indenture include all Exhibits hereto, and (xi) in the computation of a period of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” shall mean “from and including” and the words “to” and “until” shall mean “to but excluding.”

SECTION 1.03 Incorporation by Reference Trust Indenture Act. Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:

Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

indenture securities” means the Notes.

indenture security holder” means a Noteholder.

indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture.

indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the Indenture Trustee.

obligor” on the indenture securities means the Issuing Entity and any other obligor on the indenture securities.

All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined in the TIA, defined in the TIA by reference to another statute or defined by Commission rule have the meanings so assigned to them.

ARTICLE TWO

THE NOTES

SECTION 2.01 Form. The Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes, in each case, together with the Indenture Trustee’s certificate of authentication, shall be in substantially the form set forth as Exhibit A hereto, with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture and 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 such 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 such Note.

 

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The terms of the Notes set forth in Exhibit A hereto are part of the terms of this Indenture.

SECTION 2.02 Execution, Authentication and Delivery. The Notes shall be executed by the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuing Entity. The signature of any authorized officer of the Owner Trustee on the Notes may be manual or by facsimile. Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signature of individuals who were at any time authorized officers of the Owner Trustee shall bind the Issuing Entity, notwithstanding that any such individuals have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or did not hold such offices at the date of such Notes.

The Indenture Trustee shall, upon receipt of an Issuing Entity Order, authenticate and deliver for original issue the following aggregate principal amounts of the Notes: (i) $118,300,000 of Class A-1 Notes, (ii) $209,000,000 of Class A-2a Notes, (iii) $175,100,000 of Class A-2b Notes, (iv) $362,000,000 of Class A-3 Notes and (v) $75,000,000 of Class A-4 Notes. The aggregate principal amount of Class A-1 Notes, Class A-2a Notes, Class A-2b Notes, Class A-3 Notes and Class A-4 Notes outstanding at any time may not exceed such respective amounts, except as provided in Section 2.05.

Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. The Notes shall be issuable as registered notes in book-entry form in minimum denominations of $25,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof; provided, that the Retained Notes, if any, shall be issued as Definitive Notes and the holder of such Retained Notes shall be a Note Owner and a Noteholder for all purposes of this Indenture.

No Note may be sold, pledged or otherwise transferred to any Person except in accordance with Section 2.04 and any attempted sale, pledge or transfer in violation of such Section shall be null and void.

No Note 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 provided for herein 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 2.03 Temporary Notes. Pending the preparation of Definitive Notes, the Owner Trustee may execute, on behalf of the Issuing Entity, and upon receipt of an Issuing Entity Order, the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Notes that are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, substantially of the tenor of the Definitive Notes in lieu of which they are issued and with such variations not inconsistent with the terms of this Indenture as the officers executing such Notes may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.

 

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If temporary Notes are issued, the Issuing Entity shall cause Definitive Notes to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of Definitive Notes, the temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for Definitive Notes upon surrender of such temporary Notes at the office or agency of the Issuing Entity to be maintained as provided in Section 3.02, without charge to the related Noteholder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Notes, the Owner Trustee shall execute, on behalf of the Issuing Entity, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor, a like principal amount of Definitive Notes of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged, such temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as Definitive Notes.

SECTION 2.04 Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange.

(a) The Issuing Entity shall cause to be kept a register (the “Note Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuing Entity shall provide for the registration of Notes and the registration of transfers of Notes by the Note Registrar. The Indenture Trustee is hereby initially appointed the “Note Registrar” for the purpose of registering Notes and transfers of Notes as herein provided. In the event, subsequent to the Closing Date, the Indenture Trustee notifies the Issuing Entity that it is unable to act as Note Registrar, the Issuing Entity shall appoint another bank or trust company, having an office located in St. Paul, Minnesota, agreeing to act in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it, and otherwise acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to act as successor Note Registrar under this Indenture. Upon any resignation of any Note Registrar, the Issuing Entity shall promptly appoint a successor or, if it elects not to make such an appointment, assume the duties of Note Registrar.

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

(b) Upon the proper surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Issuing Entity to be maintained as provided in Section 3.02, if the requirements of Section 8-401 of the UCC are met, the Owner Trustee shall execute, on behalf of the Issuing Entity, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and the related Noteholder shall obtain from the Indenture Trustee, in the name of the designated transferee, one or more new Notes in any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount.

(c) At the option of the related Noteholder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes in any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of such Notes at such office or agency. Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401 of the UCC are met, the Owner Trustee shall execute, on behalf of the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and the Noteholder shall obtain from the Indenture Trustee the Notes that the Noteholder making such exchange is entitled to receive. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall (if so required by the Issuing Entity or the Indenture Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form and substance satisfactory to the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee, including appropriate tax documentation, duly executed by the Noteholder thereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing.

 

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

(e) No service charge shall be made to a Noteholder for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Issuing Entity may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith, other than exchanges pursuant to Sections 2.03 or 9.05 not involving any transfer.

(f) By acquiring a Note (or interest therein), each Noteholder (and if the Noteholder is a Plan, its fiduciary) is deemed to represent and warrant that either (i) such Noteholder is not acquiring the Note (or interest therein) with the assets of a Benefit Plan Investor or Plan subject to Similar Law or (ii) the acquisition and holding of the Note (or interest therein) will not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of any Similar Law. Benefit Plan Investors and Plans that are subject to Similar Law may not acquire the Notes at any time that the rating on such Notes is below “investment grade” or such Notes have been characterized as other than indebtedness for applicable local law purposes.

(g) The Tax Retained Notes, if any, will not be transferred for U.S. federal income tax purposes unless a written opinion of counsel, which counsel and opinion shall be acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, is delivered to the Indenture Trustee prior to and in connection with such transfer that either (A) such Notes will be debt for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) the transfer of such Notes will not cause (i) the Issuing Entity to be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation (ii) any Outstanding Notes (other than any Tax Retained Notes) that were characterized as debt at the time of their issuance (based upon an opinion of a nationally recognized tax counsel) to be treated as other than debt for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (iii) an event in which gain or loss would be recognized by any holder in respect of any Outstanding Notes (other than any Tax Retained Notes) that were characterized as debt at the time of their issuance (based upon an opinion of a nationally recognized tax counsel). With respect to any transfer of the Tax Retained Notes (other than to a Person specified in the definition of Tax Retained Notes) for which no written opinion of counsel is provided pursuant to the preceding sentence as described in clause (A), the transfer of such Notes must be to a “United States person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code unless otherwise provided in a written opinion of nationally recognized tax counsel. If there are other Notes of the same Class as such transferred Notes which are not Tax Retained Notes prior to such transfer, such transfer will not be effective unless (i) the Tax Retained Notes are part of the same issue (as described in United States Treasury Regulation Section 1.1275-2(k)) as the other Notes from the same Class, (ii) neither the Tax Retained Notes nor such other Notes from the same Class will be treated as issued with original issue discount for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (iii) the Tax Retained Notes and such other Notes from the same Class can be tracked in a manner that will allow each holder of any such Note to identify the information described in United States Treasury Regulation Section 1.1275-3(b)(1)(i) with respect to each such Note.

 

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The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Issuing Entity shall not be required to make, and the Note Registrar need not register, transfers or exchanges of any Note (i) selected for redemption, or (ii) for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to such Note.

SECTION 2.05 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes. 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 Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Owner Trustee, the Note Registrar or the Indenture Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a “protected purchaser” (as contemplated by Article 8 of the UCC), and provided that the requirements of Section 8-405 of the UCC are met, the Owner Trustee shall execute, on behalf of the Issuing Entity, and upon receipt of an Issuing Entity 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; provided, however, that if any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note (but not a mutilated Note) shall have become or within seven days shall become due and payable, or shall have been called for redemption, instead of issuing a replacement Note, the Issuing Entity may pay such destroyed, lost or stolen Note when so due or payable or upon the Redemption Date without the surrender thereof. If, after the delivery of such replacement Note or payment of a destroyed, lost or stolen Note pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, a “protected purchaser” (as contemplated by Article 8 of the UCC) of the original Note in lieu of which such replacement Note was issued presents for payment such original Note, the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to recover such replacement Note (or such payment) from the Person to whom it was delivered or any Person taking such replacement Note from such Person to whom such replacement Note was delivered or any assignee of such Person, except a “protected purchaser” (as contemplated by Article 8 of the UCC), and 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 Issuing Entity or the Indenture Trustee in connection therewith.

Upon the issuance of any replacement Note under this Section, the Issuing Entity or the Indenture Trustee may require the payment by the related Noteholder 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 the fees and expenses of the Indenture Trustee or the Note Registrar) connected therewith.

Every replacement Note issued pursuant to this Section in replacement of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Issuing Entity, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder.

 

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The provisions of this Section 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 2.06 Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer of any Note, the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee and their respective agents shall treat the Person in whose name any Note is registered (as of the date of determination) as the owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payments of principal of and interest, if any, on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note is overdue, and none of the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee or any of their respective agents shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

SECTION 2.07 Cancellation. All Notes surrendered for payment, registration of transfer, exchange or redemption shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Indenture Trustee, be delivered to the Indenture Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled by the Indenture Trustee. The Issuing Entity may at any time deliver to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation any Notes previously authenticated and delivered hereunder that the Issuing Entity may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Notes so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Indenture Trustee. No Notes shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Notes cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled 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 Issuing Entity shall direct by an Issuing Entity Order that they be destroyed or returned to it; provided, that such Issuing Entity Order is timely and that such Notes have not been previously disposed of by the Indenture Trustee.

SECTION 2.08 Release of Collateral. Subject to Section 11.01 and the terms of the other Basic Documents, the Indenture Trustee shall release property from the Lien of this Indenture only upon receipt of an Issuing Entity Request, accompanied by (i) an Officer’s Certificate, (ii) an Opinion of Counsel and (iii) unless such release is in connection with a redemption of the Notes in accordance with Section 10.01, Independent Certificates in accordance with TIA Sections 314(c) and 314(d)(1) or an Opinion of Counsel in lieu of such Independent Certificates to the effect that the TIA does not require any such Independent Certificates.

SECTION 2.09 Book-Entry Notes. Unless otherwise specified, the Notes (other than the Retained Notes, if any), upon original issuance, will be issued in the form of one or more typewritten Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes, to be delivered to the Indenture Trustee, as agent for DTC, the initial Clearing Agency, or a custodian therefor, by, or on behalf of, the Issuing Entity. For each Class of Book-Entry Notes, one fully registered Note shall be issued with respect to each $500 million in principal amount of each Class of Notes or such lesser amount as necessary. Such Notes shall initially be registered on the Note Register in the name of Cede & Co., the nominee of the initial Clearing Agency, and no Note Owner shall receive a Definitive Note representing such Note Owner’s interest in such Note (other than in the case of the Retained Notes, if any), except as provided in Section 2.11. Except with respect to the Retained Notes, if any, and otherwise, unless and until Definitive Notes have been issued to Note Owners pursuant to Section 2.11:

 

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(a) the provisions of this Section shall be in full force and effect;

(b) the Note Registrar and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this Indenture (including the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes and the giving of instructions or directions hereunder) as the sole Noteholder, and shall have no obligation to Note Owners;

(c) to the extent that the provisions of this Section conflict with any other provisions of this Indenture, the provisions of this Section shall control;

(d) the rights of Note Owners shall be exercised only through the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those established by law and agreements between or among such Note Owners and the Clearing Agency or Clearing Agency Participants; pursuant to the Depository Agreement, unless and until Definitive Notes are issued pursuant to Section 2.11, the initial Clearing Agency will make book-entry transfers among the Clearing Agency Participants and receive and transmit payments of principal of and interest on the Notes to such Clearing Agency Participants; and

(e) whenever this Indenture requires or permits actions to be taken based upon instructions or directions of Noteholders evidencing a specified percentage of the Outstanding Amount, the Clearing Agency shall be deemed to represent such percentage only to the extent that it has received instructions to such effect from Note Owners and/or Clearing Agency Participants owning or representing, respectively, such required percentage of the beneficial interest in the Notes and has delivered such instructions to the Indenture Trustee.

SECTION 2.10 Notices to Clearing Agency. Whenever a notice or other communication to Noteholders is required under this Indenture, except with respect to the Retained Notes, if any, and otherwise, unless and until Definitive Notes shall have been issued to Note Owners pursuant to Section 2.11, the Indenture Trustee shall give all such notices and communications specified herein to be given to Noteholders to the Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligation to the Note Owners.

SECTION 2.11 Definitive Notes. Except with respect to the Retained Notes, if any (which shall be originally issued as Definitive Notes), if (i) (A) the Depositor, the Owner Trustee or the Administrative Agent advises the Indenture Trustee in writing that the Clearing Agency is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its responsibilities as described in the Depository Agreement and (B) the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee or the Administrative Agent is unable to locate a qualified successor (and if the Administrative Agent has made such determination, the Administrative Agent has given written notice thereof to the Indenture Trustee), (ii) the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee or the Administrative Agent, to the extent permitted by applicable law, at its option advises the Indenture Trustee in writing that it elects to terminate the book-entry system through the Clearing Agency or (iii) after an Indenture Default, Note Owners representing in the aggregate not less than 51% of the Outstanding Amount, voting as a single class, advise the Indenture Trustee through the Clearing Agency and Clearing Agency Participants in writing that the continuation of a book-entry system through the Clearing Agency or its successor is no longer in the best interest of Note Owners, the Indenture Trustee shall be required to notify all Note Owners, through the Clearing Agency, of the occurrence of such event

 

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and the availability through the Clearing Agency of Definitive Notes to Note Owners requesting the same. Upon surrender to the Indenture Trustee by the Clearing Agency of the Note or Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes and the receipt of instructions for re-registration, the Indenture Trustee shall issue Definitive Notes to Note Owners, who thereupon shall become Noteholders for all purposes of this Indenture. None of the Issuing Entity, Owner Trustee, the Note Registrar or the Indenture Trustee shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such instructions.

The Indenture Trustee, the Issuing Entity and the Administrative Agent shall not be liable if the Indenture Trustee or the Administrative Agent is unable to locate a qualified successor Clearing Agency. The Definitive Notes shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of such methods (with or without steel engraved borders), all as determined by the officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes. From and after the date of issuance of Definitive Notes, all notices to be given to Noteholders shall be mailed to their addresses of record in the Note Register as of the relevant Deposit Date. Such notices shall be deemed to have been given as of the date of mailing.

If Definitive Notes are issued and the Indenture Trustee is not the Note Registrar, the Issuing Entity shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Indenture Trustee a list of the names and addresses of the Noteholders (i) as of each Deposit Date, within five days thereafter and (ii) as of not more than ten days prior to the time such list is furnished, within 30 days after receipt by the Owner Trustee of a written request therefor.

SECTION 2.12 Authenticating Agents. Upon the request of the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee shall, and if the Indenture Trustee so chooses the Indenture Trustee may, appoint one or more Authenticating Agents with power to act on its behalf and subject to its direction in the authentication of Notes in connection with issuance, transfers and exchanges under Sections 2.02, 2.04, 2.05 and 9.05, as fully to all intents and purposes as though each such Authenticating Agent had been expressly authorized by such Sections to authenticate such Notes. For all purposes of this Indenture, the authentication of Notes by an Authenticating Agent pursuant to this Section shall be deemed to be the authentication of Notes by the Indenture Trustee.

Any corporation into which any Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, consolidation or conversion to which any Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate trust business of any Authenticating Agent, shall be the successor of such Authenticating Agent hereunder, without the execution or filing of any further act on the part of the parties hereto or such Authenticating Agent or such successor corporation.

Any Authenticating Agent may at any time resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Indenture Trustee and the Issuing Entity. The Indenture Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of any Authenticating Agent by giving written notice of termination to such Authenticating Agent and the Issuing Entity. Upon receiving such notice of resignation or upon such termination, the Indenture Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor Authenticating Agent and shall give written notice of such appointment to the Issuing Entity.

 

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The Indenture Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services and reimbursement for its reasonable expenses relating thereto, and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed for all such payments, subject to Section 6.07. The provisions of Sections 2.07 and 6.04 shall be applicable to any Authenticating Agent.

SECTION 2.13 Tax Treatment. The Issuing Entity has entered into this Indenture, and the Notes (other than the Tax Retained Notes, if any), will be issued, with the intention that, for U.S. federal, state and local income, single business and franchise tax purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness. The Issuing Entity, by entering into this Indenture, and each Noteholder, by its acceptance of a Note (and each Note Owner by its acceptance of an interest in the applicable Book-Entry Note), agrees to treat the Notes (other than the Tax Retained Notes, if any), for U.S. federal, state and local income, single business and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent the Issuing Entity is treated as a partnership for federal, state or local income or franchise purposes and a Noteholder (or a Note Owner, as applicable) is treated as a partner in such partnership, the Noteholders (and Note Owners, as applicable) agree that any tax, penalty, interest or other obligation imposed under the Code with respect to the income tax items arising from such partnership shall be the sole obligation of the Noteholder (or Note Owner, as applicable) to whom such items are allocated and not of such partnership.

SECTION 2.14 Tax Forms. Promptly upon request, each Noteholder and Note Owner shall provide to the Indenture Trustee, Paying Agent and/or the Issuing Entity (or other person responsible for withholding of taxes) with the Tax Information. Each Note Owner and each Noteholder agrees and understands that if it ceases to satisfy the foregoing requirements or provide requested documentation or is otherwise subject to withholding under applicable law, payments to it under the Notes may be subject to United States withholding tax (without any corresponding gross-up).

SECTION 2.15 Retained Notes.

(a) No Retained Note has been or will be registered under the Securities Act or any other applicable securities or “blue sky” laws of any state or other jurisdiction, and no Retained Note or any interest therein may be resold, assigned, pledged or otherwise transferred except in compliance with the registration requirements of the Securities Act or any other applicable Securities or “blue sky” laws, pursuant to an exemption therefrom or in a transaction not subject thereto.

(b) Each Retained Note will bear a legend to the following effect:

THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES OR “BLUE SKY” LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION, AND MAY NOT BE RESOLD, ASSIGNED, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES OR “BLUE SKY” LAWS, PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION THEREFROM OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT THERETO.

 

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(c) Prior to any sale or transfer of any Tax Retained Note (or interest therein) that did not receive the written opinion of counsel described in clause (A) of Section 2.04(g), each prospective transferee of such Tax Retained Note (or interest therein) (except for transfers to a Person specified in the definition of Tax Retained Notes) (such Note, a “Restricted Note”) shall provide a written representation letter to the Depositor and Indenture Trustee in a form that substantially provides the representations set forth in this Section 2.15(c) and will hereby be deemed to have represented and agreed as follows:

(i) The interests in the Restricted Notes and any interests in the Issuing Entity treated as equity for U.S. federal income tax purposes together may at no time be held by more than 95 Persons. No transfer of Restricted Notes (or any interest therein) will be permitted to the extent that such transfer would cause the number of direct or indirect holders of an interest in the Restricted Notes and any interests in the Issuing Entity treated as equity for U.S. federal income tax purposes to exceed a number equal to 95 Persons and any such transfers shall be void ab initio. The Depositor shall have the duty and obligation to ascertain the number of direct or indirect holders of an interest in the Restricted Notes and any interests in the Issuing Entity treated as equity for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

(ii) No holder of a Restricted Note (or interest therein) shall acquire or transfer any Restricted Note (or any interest therein) or cause any Restricted Note (or any interest therein) to be marketed on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code, including, without limitation, an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations.

(iii) Each holder of a Restricted Note (or any interest therein) shall represent and warrant that it (i) is not, and will not become, a partnership, a corporation taxed under Subchapter S of the Code or a grantor trust (or disregarded entity the single owner of which is any of the foregoing) for U.S. federal income tax purposes, or (ii) is such an entity and (x) at no time will more than 50% of the value of any interest in such entity (or the single owner in the case of a disregarded entity described above) be attributable to such entity’s interest in the Restricted Notes and any interests in the Issuing Entity treated as equity for U.S. federal income tax purposes that it holds or beneficially owns and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such holder’s interest in any Restricted Notes or interests in the Issuing Entity to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code.

(iv) The provisions of this Section of the Indenture generally are intended to prevent the Issuing Entity from being characterized as a “publicly traded partnership” within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code, and the Indenture Trustee shall take such intent into account in determining whether or not the requirements of this Section 2.15 have been complied with in connection with any proposed transfer of any Restricted Note (or interest therein).

 

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(v) Each holder of a Restricted Note (i) is a “United States person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (ii) shall provide a certification of non-foreign status, in such form as may be requested by the Depositor or the Indenture Trustee (e.g., IRS Form W-9), signed under penalties of perjury (and such other certification, representations or Opinion of Counsel as may be requested in this regard by the Depositor or the Indenture Trustee).

SECTION 2.16 Calculation Agent. The Calculation Agent will obtain the SOFR Rate and calculate the Interest Rates on the Floating Rate Notes and deliver to the Servicer written notice on each Interest Determination Date of such rates (which may be in electronic form). All determinations of interest by the Calculation Agent shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the holder of the Floating Rate Notes. All percentages resulting from any calculation on the Floating Rate Notes will be rounded to the nearest one hundredth-thousandth of a percentage point, with five-millionths of a percentage point rounded upwards (e.g., 9.876545% (or 0.09876545) would be rounded to 9.87655% (or 0.0987655)), and all dollar amounts used in or resulting from that calculation on the Floating Rate Note will be rounded to the nearest cent (with one-half cent being rounded upwards). If the Calculation Agent is unable or unwilling to act as such, the Administrative Agent will promptly appoint a replacement Calculation Agent or, if it elects to not make such an appointment, assume the duties of Calculation Agent.

SECTION 2.17 Determination of SOFR.

(a) So long as the Class A-2b Notes are Outstanding, the Calculation Agent shall obtain SOFR in accordance with the definition of “SOFR Rate” on each SOFR Adjustment Date and shall promptly provide such rate to the Administrative Agent or such person as directed by the Administrative Agent. All determinations of SOFR by the Calculation Agent, in the absence of manifest error, will be conclusive and binding on the Noteholders.

(b) The Basic Documents may be amended to make any technical, administrative or operational changes that, from time to time, may be appropriate to adjust such SOFR Rate in a manner substantially consistent with or conforming to market practice for asset-backed securities.

(c) All percentages resulting from any calculation on the Class A-2b Notes shall be rounded to the nearest one hundred-thousandth of a percentage point, with five-millionths of a percentage point rounded upwards (e.g., 9.8765445% (or 0.098765445) would be rounded to 9.87655% (or 0.0987655)), and all dollar amounts used in or resulting from that calculation on the Class A-2b Notes will be rounded to the nearest cent (with one-half cent being rounded upwards).

 

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(d) None of the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Calculation Agent shall be under any obligation (i) to monitor, determine or verify the unavailability of the SOFR Rate or whether clause (2) of the definition of “Compounded SOFR” is applicable or whether or when to give notice to any other transaction party of such applicability or (ii) to determine whether any technical, administrative or operational changes are necessary or advisable, if any, to adjust the SOFR Rate in a manner substantially consistent with or conforming to market practice for asset-backed securities.

(e) None of the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Calculation Agent shall be liable for any inability, failure or delay on its part to perform any of its duties set forth in this Agreement or any of the other Basic Documents as a result of the unavailability of SOFR Rate and absence of a designated replacement benchmark, including as a result of any inability, delay, error or inaccuracy on the part of any other transaction party, including without limitation the Administrative Agent, in providing any direction, instruction, notice or information required or contemplated by the terms of this Agreement or any of the other Basic Documents and reasonably required for the performance of such duties.

ARTICLE THREE

COVENANTS

SECTION 3.01 Payments to Noteholders, Trust Certificateholders and Depositor. The Issuing Entity shall duly and punctually (i) pay the principal of and interest on the Notes in accordance with the terms of the Notes and this Indenture and (ii) cause the Servicer to direct the Indenture Trustee to release from the Note Distribution Account all other amounts distributable or payable from the Owner Trust Estate (including distributions to be made to the Trust Certificateholders on any Payment Date) under the Trust Agreement and the Servicing Agreement. Without limiting the foregoing, subject to Section 8.04, the Issuing Entity shall cause the Servicer to direct the Indenture Trustee to apply all amounts on deposit in the Note Distribution Account on each Payment Date that have been deposited therein for the benefit of the Notes. Amounts properly withheld under the Code by any Person from a payment to any Noteholder or Trust Certificateholder of interest or principal (or other amounts) shall be considered to have been paid by the Issuing Entity to such Noteholder or Trust Certificateholder for all purposes of this Indenture.

SECTION 3.02 Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Note Registrar, on behalf of the Issuing Entity, shall maintain at the Corporate Trust Office or at such other location in St. Paul, Minnesota, chosen by the Note Registrar, acting for the Issuing Entity, an office or agency where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, and where notices to and demands upon the Issuing Entity in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Issuing Entity hereby initially appoints the Indenture Trustee as its agent to receive all such surrenders, notices and demands. The Issuing Entity shall give prompt written notice to the Indenture Trustee of the location, and of any change in the location, of any such office or agency. If at any time the Issuing Entity 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, and the Issuing Entity hereby appoints the Indenture Trustee as its agent to receive all such surrenders, notices and demands.

 

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SECTION 3.03 Money for Payments to be Held in Trust. As provided in Sections 5.04(b) and 8.04, 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 or the Reserve Account, if any, shall be made on behalf of the Issuing Entity by the Indenture Trustee or by another Paying Agent, and no amounts so withdrawn therefrom for payments on Notes shall be paid over to the Issuing Entity except as provided in this Section. All payments of amounts due and payable with respect to any Notes or Trust Certificates that are to be made from amounts withdrawn from the Note Distribution Account or Reserve Account pursuant to Sections 3.01, 4.02 and 4.03 shall be made on behalf of the Issuing Entity by the Indenture Trustee or by a Paying Agent, and no amounts so withdrawn from such accounts for payments of Notes or Trust Certificates shall be paid over to the Issuing Entity or the Owner Trustee, except as provided by this Section.

On each Payment Date and Redemption Date, the Issuing Entity shall deposit or cause to be deposited (including the provision of instructions to the Indenture Trustee to make any required withdrawals from the Reserve Account) into the Note Distribution Account an aggregate sum sufficient to pay the amounts then becoming due under the Notes, and the Paying Agent shall hold such sum in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto and (unless the Paying Agent is the Indenture Trustee) shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee of any failure by the Issuing Entity to effect such deposit.

The Indenture Trustee, as Paying Agent, hereby agrees with the Issuing Entity that it will, and the Issuing Entity will cause each Paying Agent other than the Indenture Trustee, as a condition to its acceptance of its appointment as Paying Agent, to execute and deliver to the Indenture Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Indenture Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent shall:

(a) 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;

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

(c) 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;

(d) 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 at the time of its appointment; and

(e) 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.

 

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The Issuing Entity may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, by Issuing Entity 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 such 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.

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 after such amount has become due and payable and after the Indenture Trustee has taken the steps described in this paragraph shall be discharged from such trust and be paid to Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee upon presentation thereto of an Issuing Entity Order, and the related Noteholder shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Issuing Entity for payment thereof, and all liability of the Indenture Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money shall thereupon cease. If any Noteholder shall not surrender its Notes for retirement within six months after the date specified in the written notice of final payment described in Section 8.04(e), the Indenture Trustee will give a second written notice to the registered Noteholders that have not surrendered their Notes for final payment and retirement. If within one year after such second notice any Notes have not been surrendered, the Indenture Trustee shall, at the expense and direction of the Issuing Entity, cause to be published once, in an Authorized Newspaper, 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 will be paid to Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee. The Indenture Trustee shall also adopt and employ, at the expense and direction of the Issuing Entity, any other reasonable means of notification of such repayment specified by the Issuing Entity or the Administrative Agent.

SECTION 3.04 Existence. The Issuing Entity shall keep in full effect its existence, rights and franchises as a trust under the laws of the State of Delaware (unless it becomes, or any successor Issuing Entity hereunder is or becomes, organized under the laws of any other state or of the United States, in which case the Issuing Entity 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 Owner Trust Estate.

SECTION 3.05 Protection of Owner Trust Estate. The Issuing Entity intends the security interest Granted pursuant to this Indenture in favor of the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Noteholders to be prior to all other liens in respect of the Owner Trust Estate, and the Issuing Entity shall take all actions necessary to obtain and maintain, for the benefit of the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Noteholders, a first lien on and a first priority, perfected security interest in the Owner Trust Estate. The Issuing Entity shall from time to time execute and deliver all such supplements and amendments hereto and all such financing statements, continuation statements, instruments of further assurance and other instruments, all as prepared by the Administrative Agent and delivered to the Issuing Entity, and shall take such other action necessary or advisable to:

 

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(a) Grant more effectively all or any portion of the Collateral;

(b) maintain or preserve the lien and security interest (and the priority thereof) created by this Indenture or carry out more effectively the purposes hereof;

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

(d) enforce any of the Collateral;

(e) preserve and defend title to the Collateral and the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders in the Collateral against the claims of all Persons; or

(f) pay all taxes or assessments levied or assessed upon the Collateral when due.

The Issuing Entity hereby designates the Indenture Trustee its agent and attorney-in-fact to authorize, file and/or execute all financing statements, continuation statements or other instruments required to be authorized, executed and/or filed pursuant to this Section.

SECTION 3.06 Opinions as to Owner Trust Estate.

(a) On the Closing Date, the Issuing Entity shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Indenture Trustee, an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that, in the opinion of such counsel (subject to standard limitations, qualifications and assumptions), the provisions of the Indenture are effective under the New York UCC to create in favor of the Indenture Trustee a security interest in the Issuing Entity’s rights in the Collateral and in identifiable proceeds thereof, and upon filing of the applicable financing statement, the Indenture Trustee’s security interest in the Issuing Entity’s rights in the Collateral and in identifiable proceeds thereof will be perfected.

(b) On or before June 30 of each calendar year, beginning with June 30, 2023, the Issuing Entity shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating either (i) 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 first priority lien and security interest of this Indenture and reciting the details of such action, or (ii) that, in the opinion of such counsel, no such action is necessary to make such lien and security interest effective.

SECTION 3.07 Performance of Obligations; Servicing of the 2022-A Series Assets.

(a) The Issuing Entity shall not take any action and shall use its best efforts not to permit any action to be taken by others, including the Administrative Agent, that would release any Person from any of such Person’s material covenants or obligations under any instrument or agreement included in the Owner Trust Estate 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 expressly provided in the Basic Documents or such other instrument or agreement.

 

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(b) The Issuing Entity 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 an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuing Entity shall be deemed to be action taken by the Issuing Entity. Initially, the Issuing Entity has contracted with the Administrative Agent, and the Administrative Agent has agreed, to assist the Issuing Entity in performing its duties under this Indenture.

(c) The Issuing Entity shall punctually perform and observe all of its obligations and agreements contained in this Indenture, the other Basic Documents and the instruments and agreements included in the Owner Trust Estate, including filing or causing to be filed all UCC financing statements and continuation statements required to be filed by the terms of this Indenture and the other Basic Documents in accordance with and within the time periods provided for herein and therein. The Issuing Entity, as a party to the Basic Documents and as Holder of the 2022-A Series Certificate, shall not modify, amend, supplement, waive or terminate any Basic Document or any provision thereof other than in accordance with the applicable amendment provisions set forth in such Basic Document.

(d) If a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee or an Authorized Officer of the Issuing Entity shall have actual knowledge of the occurrence of a Servicer Default, such entity shall promptly notify the other entity and the Administrative Agent thereof (and the Administrative Agent will provide each Rating Agency with notice thereof pursuant to Section 1.02(k) of the Trust Administration Agreement), and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the other entity is taking in respect of 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 2022-A Series Assets, the Issuing Entity shall take all reasonable steps available to it to remedy such failure. Upon the occurrence of a Servicer Default with respect to the 2022-A Series or the Titling Company Assets allocated thereto or associated therewith, the Indenture Trustee may terminate all of the rights and obligations of the Servicer with respect to the 2022-A Series and the Titling Company Assets allocated thereto and associated therewith only, and a successor Servicer shall be appointed pursuant to the Servicing Agreement.

(e) Upon any termination of the Servicer’s rights and powers or resignation of the Servicer pursuant to the Servicing Agreement, the Issuing Entity or the Indenture Trustee shall promptly notify the other entity thereof. As soon as a successor Servicer is appointed pursuant to the Servicing Agreement, the Issuing Entity or the Indenture Trustee shall notify the other entity of such appointment, specifying in such notice the name and address of such successor Servicer.

SECTION 3.08 Negative Covenants. So long as any Notes are Outstanding, the Issuing Entity shall not:

(a) engage in any activities other than financing, acquiring, owning, pledging and managing the 2022-A Series Certificate as contemplated by this Indenture and the other Basic Documents;

(b) except as expressly permitted herein and in the other Basic Documents, sell, transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of any of the assets of the Issuing Entity, including those assets included in the Owner Trust Estate, unless directed to do so by the Indenture Trustee;

 

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(c) 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 Owner Trust Estate;

(d) except as may be permitted expressly hereby (i) permit the validity or effectiveness of this Indenture to be impaired, 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 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 Owner Trust Estate, 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 any 2022-A Series Asset and arising solely as a result of an action or omission of the related Lessee) or (iii) except as otherwise provided in the Basic Documents, permit the lien of this Indenture not to constitute a valid first priority (other than with respect to any such tax, mechanics’ or other lien) security interest in the Owner Trust Estate;

(e) incur, assume or guarantee any indebtedness other than indebtedness incurred in accordance with the Basic Documents; or

(f) except as otherwise permitted by the Basic Documents, dissolve or liquidate in whole or in part.

SECTION 3.09 Annual Statement as to Compliance. The Issuing Entity will cause the Servicer to deliver to the Indenture Trustee concurrently with its delivery thereof to the Issuing Entity the annual statement of compliance described in Section 8.11 of the 2022-A Servicing Supplement. In addition, on the same date annually upon which such annual statement of compliance is to be delivered by the Servicer, the Issuing Entity shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating, as to the Authorized Officer signing such Officer’s Certificate, that:

(a) a review of the activities of the Issuing Entity during such year and of its performance 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 Issuing Entity has complied with all conditions and covenants under this Indenture in all material respects throughout such year, or, if there has been a default in its compliance with any such condition or covenant, specifying each such default known to such Authorized Officer and the nature and status thereof.

On or before June 15th of each calendar year in which a Form 10-K is required to be filed on behalf of the Issuing Entity, commencing in 2023, the Indenture Trustee shall deliver to the Issuing Entity and the Servicer a report regarding the Indenture Trustee’s assessment of compliance with each of the Servicing Criteria specified on Exhibit B hereto during the immediately preceding reporting year accompanied by an attestation report by a registered public

 

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accounting firm, in each case as required under Rules 13a-18 and 15d-18 of the Exchange Act and Item 1122 of Regulation AB. Such report shall be addressed to the Issuing Entity and signed by an authorized officer of the Indenture Trustee, and shall address each of the Servicing Criteria specified on Exhibit B hereto.

SECTION 3.10 Restrictions on Certain Other Activities. Except as otherwise provided in the Basic Documents, unless and until the Issuing Entity shall have been released from its duties and obligations hereunder, the Issuing Entity shall not: (i) engage in any activities other than financing, acquiring, owning, leasing (subject to the lien of this Indenture), pledging and managing the 2022-A Series Certificate in the manner contemplated by the Basic Documents and activities incidental thereto; (ii) issue, incur, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable, directly or indirectly, for any indebtedness; (iii) make any loan, advance or credit to, 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; or (iv) make any expenditure (by long-term or operating lease or otherwise) for capital assets (either realty or personalty).

SECTION 3.11 Notice of Defaults. The Issuing Entity agrees to give the Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency prompt written notice of each Indenture Default hereunder.

SECTION 3.12 Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Indenture Trustee, the Issuing Entity shall execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purposes of this Indenture.

SECTION 3.13 Delivery of the 2022-A Series Certificate. On the Closing Date, the Issuing Entity shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Indenture Trustee as security for its obligations hereunder, the 2022-A Series Certificate. The Indenture Trustee shall take possession of the 2022-A Series Certificate in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York and shall at all times during the period of this Indenture maintain custody of the 2022-A Series Certificate in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York.

SECTION 3.14 Compliance with Laws. The Issuing Entity shall comply with the requirements of all applicable laws, the non-compliance with which would, individually or in the aggregate, materially and adversely affect the ability of the Issuing Entity to perform its obligations under the Notes, this Indenture or any other Basic Document.

SECTION 3.15 Issuing Entity May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms.

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

(i) the Person (if other than the Issuing Entity) 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 or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the duty to make 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 on the part of the Issuing Entity to be performed or observed, all as provided herein;

 

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

(iii) the Issuing Entity shall have provided each Rating Agency 10 days’ prior written notice thereof, and no Rating Agency shall have notified the Indenture Trustee, the Administrative Agent or the Owner Trustee that such transaction might or would result in the removal or reduction of the rating then assigned thereby to any Class of Notes;

(iv) the Issuing Entity shall have received an Opinion of Counsel (and shall have delivered copies thereof to the Indenture Trustee) to the effect that such transaction will not (A) affect the treatment of the Notes (other than the Tax Retained Notes, if any) as debt for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (B) be deemed to cause a taxable exchange of the Notes (other than the Tax Retained Notes, if any) for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (C) cause the Issuing Entity, the Depositor or the Titling Company to be taxable as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes;

(v) any action that is necessary to maintain each lien and security interest created by the Trust Agreement or this Indenture shall have been taken; and

(vi) the Issuing Entity shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such consolidation or merger and any related supplemental indenture complies with this Article III and that all conditions precedent provided in this Indenture relating to such transaction have been complied with (including any filing required by the Exchange Act).

(b) The Issuing Entity shall not convey or transfer any of its properties or assets, including those included in the Owner Trust Estate, to any Person other than pursuant to the terms of the Basic Documents, unless:

(i) the Person that acquires by conveyance or transfer such properties and assets of the Issuing Entity shall (A) be a United States citizen or a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America or any state or the District of Columbia, (B) expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the duty to make 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 on the part of the Issuing Entity to be performed or observed, all as provided herein, (C) expressly agree by means of such supplemental indenture that all right, title and interest so conveyed or transferred shall be subject and subordinate to the rights of Noteholders, (D)

 

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unless otherwise provided in such supplemental indenture, expressly agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee against and from any loss, liability or expense arising under or related to this Indenture and the Notes and (E) expressly agree by means of such supplemental indenture that such Person (or if a group of Persons, then one specified Person) shall make all filings that counsel satisfactory to such purchaser or transferee and the Indenture Trustee determines must be made with (1) the Commission (and any other appropriate Person) required by the Exchange Act or the appropriate authorities in any state in which the Notes have been sold pursuant to any qualification or exemption under the securities or “blue sky” laws of such state, in connection with the Notes or (2) the Internal Revenue Service or the relevant state or local taxing authorities of any jurisdiction;

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

(iii) the Issuing Entity shall have provided each Rating Agency 10 days’ prior written notice thereof, no Rating Agency shall have notified the Indenture Trustee, the Administrative Agent or the Owner Trustee that such transaction might or would result in the removal or reduction of the rating then assigned thereby to any Class of Notes;

(iv) the Issuing Entity shall have received an Opinion of Counsel (and shall have delivered copies thereof to the Indenture Trustee) to the effect that such transaction will not (A) affect the treatment of the Notes as debt for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (B) be deemed to cause a taxable exchange of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (C) cause the Issuing Entity, the Depositor or the Titling Company to be taxable as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes;

(v) any action that is necessary to maintain each lien and security interest created by the Trust Agreement or this Indenture shall have been taken; and

(vi) the Issuing Entity shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such conveyance or transfer and such supplemental indenture comply with this Article III and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with (including any filing required by the Exchange Act).

SECTION 3.16 Successor or Transferee.

(a) Upon any consolidation or merger of the Issuing Entity in accordance with Section 3.15(a), the Person formed by or surviving such consolidation or merger (if other than the Issuing Entity) shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Issuing Entity under this Indenture with the same effect as if such Person had been named as the Issuing Entity herein.

(b) Upon a conveyance or transfer of all the assets and properties of the Issuing Entity pursuant to Section 3.15(b), Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2022-A will be released from every covenant and agreement of this Indenture to be observed or performed on the part of the Issuing Entity with respect to the Notes and the Trust Certificates immediately upon the delivery of written notice to the Indenture Trustee stating that Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2022-A is to be so released.

 

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SECTION 3.17 Removal of the Administrative Agent. So long as any Notes are Outstanding, the Issuing Entity shall not remove the Administrative Agent without cause unless so instructed by the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or in accordance with Section 1.09 of the Trust Administration Agreement.

SECTION 3.18 Perfection Representations.

(a) The representations, warranties and covenants set forth in Schedule I hereto shall be a part of this Indenture for all purposes.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or any other Basic Document, the perfection representations contained in Schedule I hereto shall be continuing, and remain in full force and effect until such time as all obligations under this Indenture have been finally and fully paid and performed.

(c) The parties to this Indenture: (i) shall not waive any of the perfection representations contained in Schedule I hereto; (ii) shall provide the Administrative Agent with prompt written notice of any breach of perfection representations contained in Schedule I hereto (and the Administrative Agent will provide each Rating Agency with notice thereof pursuant to Section 1.02(k) of the Trust Administration Agreement); and (iii) shall not waive a breach of any of the perfection representations contained in Schedule I hereto.

SECTION 3.19 Securities Exchange Act Filings. The Issuing Entity hereby authorizes the Servicer and the Depositor, or either of them, to prepare, sign, certify and file any and all reports, statements and information related to the Issuing Entity or the Notes required to be filed pursuant to the Exchange Act, and the rules and regulations thereunder.

SECTION 3.20 Regulation AB Representations, Warranties and Covenants. The Issuing Entity agrees to perform all duties and obligations applicable to or required of the Issuing Entity set forth in Schedule A to the 2022-A Servicing Supplement and makes the representations and warranties therein applicable to it.

ARTICLE FOUR

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

SECTION 4.01 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture shall discharge with respect to the Collateral securing the Notes and cease to be of further effect with respect to the Notes, except as to (a) rights of registration of transfer and exchange, (b) substitution of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes, (c) rights of Noteholders to receive payments of principal thereof and interest thereon, (d) Sections 3.03, 3.04, 3.05, 3.08, 3.10(i), 3.10(ii) and 3.15, (e) the rights, obligations and immunities of the Indenture Trustee hereunder (including the rights of the Indenture Trustee under Section 6.07 and the obligations of the Indenture Trustee under Sections 3.03 and 4.02) and (f) the rights of the Noteholders as

 

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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 the Issuing Entity and at the expense and on behalf of the Issuing Entity, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when:

(i) either (A) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (1) Notes that have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.05 and (2) Notes for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Issuing Entity and thereafter paid to the Persons entitled thereto or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 3.03) have been delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation; or (B) all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation (1) have become due and payable, (2) will become due and payable on the applicable Note Final Scheduled Payment Date within one year or (3) 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 Issuing Entity, and the Issuing Entity, in the case of clauses (1), (2) or (3) 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 (that 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 indebtedness on such Notes (including interest and any fees due and payable to the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee) not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation, when due, to the applicable Note Final Scheduled Payment Date for each Class, or to the Redemption Date (if Notes shall have been called for redemption pursuant to Section 10.01), as the case may be;

(ii) the Issuing Entity has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Issuing Entity; and

(iii) the Issuing Entity has delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and an Independent Certificate from a firm of certified public accountants (if required by the TIA and if such discharge is not related to a redemption of the Notes in accordance with Section 10.01), each meeting the applicable requirements of Section 11.01 and, subject to Section 11.02, stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with and, to the extent the Notes are still outstanding, stating that the Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied.

SECTION 4.02 Application of Trust Money. All monies deposited with the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 4.01 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, to the Noteholders 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 for principal and interest. Such monies need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required herein or in the Servicing Agreement or as required by law.

 

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SECTION 4.03 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 such Notes shall, upon demand of the Issuing Entity, be paid to the Indenture Trustee to be held and applied according to Section 3.03 and such Paying Agent shall thereupon be released from all further liability with respect to such monies.

ARTICLE FIVE

INDENTURE DEFAULT

SECTION 5.01 Indenture Defaults. Any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Indenture Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body) shall constitute a default under this Indenture (each, an “Indenture Default”):

(a) default in the payment of any interest on any Note when the same becomes due and payable, and such default shall continue for a period of five Business Days or more;

(b) default in the payment of principal of any Note on the related Note Final Scheduled Payment Date or the Redemption Date;

(c) material default in the observance or performance of any covenant or agreement of the Issuing Entity made in this Indenture (other than a covenant or agreement, a default in the observance or performance of which is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with), or any representation or warranty of the Issuing Entity made in this Indenture or in any certificate or other writing delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith proving to have been inaccurate in any material respect as of the time when the same shall have been made, which default or inaccuracy materially and adversely affects the interests of the Noteholders and such default or inaccuracy shall continue or not be cured, or the circumstance or condition in respect of which such misrepresentation or warranty was inaccurate shall not have been eliminated or otherwise cured, for a period of 60 days (or for such longer period not in excess of 90 days as may be reasonably necessary to remedy such failure; provided that (1) such failure is capable of remedy within 90 days or less and (2) a majority of the Outstanding Amount of Notes, voting as a single class, consent to such longer cure period) after there shall have been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Issuing Entity by the Indenture Trustee or to the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee by Noteholders representing at least the majority of the Outstanding Amount of Notes, voting as single class, a written notice specifying such default or inaccurate representation or warranty and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder;

(d) the filing of a petition seeking entry of a decree or order for relief by a court having jurisdiction in the premises in respect of the Issuing Entity or any substantial part of the Owner Trust Estate in an involuntary case under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, liquidation, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Issuing Entity or for any substantial part of the Owner Trust Estate, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of the Issuing Entity’s affairs, and such proceeding shall remain unstayed, undismissed and in effect for a period of 90 consecutive days or immediately upon entry of any such decree or order; or

 

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(e) the commencement by the Issuing Entity 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 Issuing Entity to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case under any such law, the consent by the Issuing Entity to the appointment of or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Issuing Entity or for any substantial part of the Owner Trust Estate, the making by the Issuing Entity of any general assignment for the benefit of creditors, the failure by the Issuing Entity generally to pay its debts as such debts become due or the taking of action by the Issuing Entity in furtherance of any of the foregoing.

The Issuing Entity shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee, each Rating Agency and each Noteholder, within five (5) Business Days after obtaining actual knowledge of the occurrence thereof, written notice in the form of an Officer’s Certificate of any event that with the giving of notice and the lapse of time would become an Indenture Default under clauses (c) or (d), its status and what action the Issuing Entity is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.

Subject to the provisions herein relating to the duties of the Indenture Trustee, if an Indenture Default occurs and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers under this Indenture at the request or direction of any Noteholder, if the Indenture Trustee reasonably believes that it will not be adequately indemnified against the costs, expenses and liabilities that might be incurred by it in complying with such request. Subject to such provisions for indemnification and certain limitations contained herein, Noteholders holding not less than a Majority Interest of the Notes voting as a single class shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding or any remedy available to the Indenture Trustee or exercising any trust power conferred on the Indenture Trustee.

SECTION 5.02 Acceleration of Maturity; Waiver of Indenture Default. If an Indenture Default should occur and be continuing, the Indenture Trustee or Noteholders representing a Majority Interest voting as a single class may declare the principal of the Notes and all accrued and unpaid interest thereon to be immediately due and payable. Upon such declaration, the Indenture Trustee shall promptly provide written notice to the Administrative Agent (and the Administrative Agent will provide each Rating Agency with notice thereof pursuant to Section 1.02(k) of the Trust Administration Agreement). Such declaration may be rescinded by Noteholders holding a Majority Interest voting as a single class before a judgment or decree for payment of the amount due has been obtained by the Indenture Trustee if (a) the Issuing Entity has deposited with the Indenture Trustee an amount sufficient to pay (i) all interest on and principal of the Notes and all other amounts that would then be due hereunder as if the Indenture Default giving rise to such declaration had not occurred and (ii) all amounts paid or advanced by the Indenture Trustee and the reasonable compensation, expenses and advances of the Indenture Trustee and its agents and counsel; and (b) all Indenture Defaults (other than the nonpayment of principal of the Notes that has become due solely by such acceleration) have been cured or waived.

 

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Prior to the acceleration of the maturity of the Notes as provided in this Section 5.02, Noteholders holding not less than a Majority Interest of the Notes voting as a single class may waive any past Indenture Default and its consequences except an Indenture Default (i) in payment of principal of or interest on the Notes or (ii) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof that cannot be modified or amended without the consent of each Noteholder. In the case of any such waiver, the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Indenture Default or impair any right consequent thereto.

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

If the Notes have been declared due and payable following an Indenture Default, the Indenture Trustee may institute proceedings to collect amounts due, exercise remedies as a secured party (including foreclosure or sale of the Owner Trust Estate) or elect to maintain the Owner Trust Estate and continue to apply the proceeds from the Owner Trust Estate as if there had been no declaration of acceleration. Any sale of the Owner Trust Estate by the Indenture Trustee will be subject to the terms and conditions of Section 5.04.

SECTION 5.03 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture Trustee.

(a) The Issuing Entity covenants that if there is a default in the payment of (i) any interest on the Notes when the same becomes due and payable, and such default continues for a period of five days or (ii) the principal of any Notes at the related Note Final Scheduled Payment Date or the Redemption Date, the Issuing Entity shall, upon demand of the Indenture Trustee, pay to the Indenture Trustee, for the benefit of such Noteholders, the entire amount then due and payable on such Notes for principal and interest, with interest on the overdue principal, and, to the extent payment at such rate of interest shall be legally enforceable, upon overdue installments of interest, at the Overdue Interest Rate 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, attorneys and counsel.

(b) In case the Issuing Entity shall fail forthwith to pay amounts described in Section 5.03(a) upon demand, the Indenture Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may 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 Issuing Entity or other obligor upon such Notes and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Issuing Entity or other obligor upon such Notes, wherever situated, the monies adjudged or decreed to be payable.

 

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(c) If an Indenture Default occurs and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee may, in its discretion, proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Noteholders, by such appropriate Proceedings as the Indenture Trustee 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 law.

(d) In case there shall be pending, relative to the Issuing Entity or any other obligor upon the Notes or any Person having or claiming an ownership interest in the Owner Trust Estate, Proceedings under the Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Issuing Entity or its property or such other obligor or Person, or in case of any other comparable judicial Proceedings relative to the Issuing Entity or other obligor upon the Notes, or to the creditors or property of the Issuing Entity 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, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such Proceedings or otherwise:

(i) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid 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 Indenture Trustee, and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of all expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances and disbursements made, by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee, except as a result of negligence or bad faith) and of the Noteholders allowed in such Proceedings;

(ii) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on behalf of the Noteholders 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 and 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 or the Noteholders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Issuing Entity, its creditors and its property;

and any trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official in any such Proceeding is hereby authorized by each Noteholder to make payments to the Indenture Trustee and, if the Indenture Trustee shall consent to the making of payments directly to such Noteholders to pay to the Indenture Trustee such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor Indenture Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and liabilities incurred and all advances and disbursements made by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee except as a result of negligence or bad faith, and any other amounts due the Indenture Trustee under Section 6.07.

 

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(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 Noteholder or 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 the Notes, may be enforced by the Indenture Trustee without the possession of the Notes or the production thereof in any trial or other Proceedings relative thereto, and any such action or 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, advances, disbursements and compensation of the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor Indenture Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel shall be for the ratable benefit of the Noteholders in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.

(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 5.04 Remedies; Priorities.

(a) If an Indenture Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Indenture Trustee may do one or more of the following (subject to Sections 5.02 and 5.05):

(i) institute Proceedings in its own name and as trustee of an express trust for the collection of all amounts then payable on the Notes or under this Indenture with respect thereto, whether by declaration or otherwise, enforce any judgment obtained, and collect from the Issuing Entity 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) 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 and the Noteholders; and

(iv) subject to Section 5.17, and, if applicable, giving effect to any direction of the Holder of the 2022-A Series Certificate (acting in accordance with instructions from the Registered Pledgee) pursuant to the 2022-A Series Supplement, after an acceleration of the maturity of the Notes pursuant to Section 5.02, 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; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee

 

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may not sell or otherwise liquidate the Collateral following an Indenture Default, other than an Indenture Default described in Section 5.01(a) or (b), unless (A) Noteholders holding 100% of the Outstanding Amount of Notes consent thereto, (B) the proceeds of such sale or liquidation are sufficient to discharge in full all amounts then due and unpaid upon all outstanding Notes or (C) the Indenture Trustee determines that the Owner Trust Estate will not continue to provide sufficient funds for the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes as they would have become due if the Notes had not been declared due and payable and the Indenture Trustee obtains the consent of Noteholders holding not less than 6623% of the Outstanding Amount of Notes, voting together as a single class; and provided further, that the Indenture Trustee may not sell or otherwise liquidate the Collateral, other than a sale or liquidation resulting from the bankruptcy, insolvency or termination of the Issuing Entity, unless it shall first have obtained an Opinion of Counsel that such sale or liquidation will not cause the Titling Company or an interest therein or portion thereof to be classified as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes. In determining such sufficiency or insufficiency with respect to clauses (B) and (C) of the preceding sentence, the Indenture Trustee may but need not obtain (at the expense of the Issuing Entity) 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 Owner Trust Estate for such purpose.

(b) After an acceleration of the maturity of the Notes pursuant to Section 5.02, the Indenture Trustee shall pay out money or property held as Collateral (including available monies on deposit in the Reserve Account and any money or property collected pursuant to this Article Five upon sale of all or part of the Collateral) and deposited in the Note Distribution Account in accordance with Section 8.04(b).

(c) The Indenture Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to Noteholders pursuant to this Section. At least 15 days before such record date, the Issuing Entity shall mail to each Noteholder and the Indenture Trustee a notice that states the record date, the payment date and the amount to be paid.

SECTION 5.05 Optional Preservation of the Collateral. If the Notes have been declared to be due and payable under Section 5.02 following an Indenture Default and such declaration and its consequences have not been rescinded and annulled, the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, elect to maintain possession of the Collateral and continue to apply the proceeds thereof in accordance with Sections 3.01 and 8.04. It is the intent of the parties hereto and the Noteholders that there be at all times sufficient funds for the payment of principal and interest on the Notes, and the Indenture Trustee shall take such intent into account when determining whether or not to maintain possession of the Collateral. In determining whether to maintain possession of the Collateral, the Indenture Trustee may but need not obtain (at the expense of the Issuing Entity) 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.

 

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SECTION 5.06 Limitation of Suits.

(i) Except to the extent expressly set forth in Sections 7.07 or 11.21 of this Indenture, no Noteholder shall have any right to institute any Proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture or the other Basic Documents, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless: (i) such Noteholder previously has given to the Indenture Trustee written notice of a continuing Indenture Default or a breach of the Basic Documents by a party thereto (an “Action”), (ii) Noteholders holding not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of Notes, voting together as a single class, have made written request to the Indenture Trustee to institute such Proceeding in respect of such Indenture Default or Action, as applicable, in its own name as Indenture Trustee, (iii) such Noteholder has offered the Indenture Trustee reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in complying with such request, (iv) the Indenture Trustee has for 60 days after receipt of such notice failed to institute such Proceedings and (v) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Indenture Trustee during such 60-day period by Noteholders holding at least a Majority Interest, voting together as a single class.

No Noteholder or group of Noteholders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Noteholders or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Noteholder or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided.

In the event the Indenture Trustee shall receive conflicting or inconsistent requests and indemnity from two or more groups of Noteholders, each representing less than a Majority Interest of the Notes, the Indenture Trustee in its sole discretion may determine what action, if any, shall be taken, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture.

(ii) No Noteholder shall have any right to vote except as provided pursuant to this Indenture and the Notes, nor any right in any manner to otherwise control the operation and management of the Issuing Entity.

SECTION 5.07 Rights of Noteholders to Receive Principal and Interest. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, any Noteholder shall have the right to receive payment of the principal of and interest on, if any, such Note on or after the respective due dates thereof expressed in such Note or this Indenture (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Noteholder.

SECTION 5.08 Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Indenture Trustee 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 such Noteholder, then and in every such case the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders shall, subject to any determination in such Proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders shall continue as though no such Proceeding had been instituted.

 

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SECTION 5.09 Rights and Remedies Cumulative. No right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Indenture Trustee or 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, 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 or any Noteholder to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Default or Indenture Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Default or Indenture Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Indenture Trustee or by the Noteholders, as the case may be.

SECTION 5.11 Control by Noteholders. Subject to the provisions of Sections 5.04, 5.06, 6.02(d) and 6.02(e), Noteholders holding at least a Majority Interest voting as a single class shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any Proceeding or any remedy available to the Indenture Trustee with respect to the Notes or with respect to the exercise of any trust or power conferred on the Indenture Trustee, provided that:

(a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or this Indenture;

(b) subject to Section 5.04, any direction to the Indenture Trustee to, sell or liquidate the Collateral shall be made by Noteholders holding not less than 100% of the Outstanding Amount;

(c) if the conditions set forth in Section 5.05 have been satisfied and the Indenture Trustee elects to retain the Collateral pursuant to such Section, then any direction to the Indenture Trustee by Noteholders holding less than 100% of the Outstanding Amount to sell or liquidate the Collateral shall be of no force and effect; and

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

Notwithstanding the rights of Noteholders set forth in this Section, subject to Section 6.01, the Indenture Trustee need not take any action it determines might expose it to personal liability or might materially adversely affect or unduly prejudice the rights of any Noteholders not consenting to such action.

SECTION 5.12 [Reserved].

 

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SECTION 5.13 Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Noteholder by such Noteholder’s acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Indenture Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Indenture Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit, 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 shall not apply to (a) any suit instituted by the Indenture Trustee, (b) any suit instituted by any Noteholder or group of Noteholders, in each case holding Notes evidencing more than 10% of the Outstanding Amount of Notes, voting together as a single class or (c) any suit instituted by any Noteholder for the enforcement of the payment of principal of or interest on any Note on or after the related due dates expressed in such Note and in this Indenture (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date).

SECTION 5.14 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Issuing Entity covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will 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 affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture, and the Issuing Entity (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Indenture Trustee, but will 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 or the Noteholders shall be impaired by the recovery of any judgment by the Indenture Trustee against the Issuing Entity or by the levy of any execution under such judgment upon any portion of the Owner Trust Estate or upon any of the assets of the Issuing Entity. Any money or property collected by the Indenture Trustee shall be applied in accordance with Section 5.04(b).

SECTION 5.16 Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations.

(a) Promptly following a request from the Indenture Trustee to do so, the Issuing Entity shall take all such lawful action as the Indenture Trustee may request to compel or secure the performance and observance by the Depositor and the Servicer, as applicable, of each of their obligations to the Issuing Entity under or in connection with the Servicing Agreement, in accordance with the terms thereof, and to exercise any and all rights, remedies, powers and privileges lawfully available to the Issuing Entity under or in connection with each such agreement to the extent and in the manner directed by the Indenture Trustee, including the transmission of notices of default on the part of the Servicer thereunder and the institution of legal or administrative actions or proceedings to compel or secure performance by the Servicer of its obligations under the Servicing Agreement.

 

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(b) If an Indenture 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 Noteholders holding not less than a Majority Interest of the Notes voting as a single class, shall, exercise all rights, remedies, powers, privileges and claims of the Issuing Entity against the Depositor and the Servicer under or in connection with the Servicing Agreement, including the right or power to take any action to compel or secure performance or observance by the Servicer of its obligations to the Issuing Entity thereunder and to give any consent, request, notice, direction, approval, extension or waiver under the Servicing Agreement, and any right of the Issuing Entity to take such action shall be suspended.

SECTION 5.17 Sale of Collateral. If the Indenture Trustee acts to sell the Collateral or any part thereof, pursuant to Section 5.04(a), the Indenture Trustee shall effect such a sale at one or more public or private sales called and conducted in any manner permitted by law in a commercially reasonable manner and on commercially reasonable terms, which shall include the solicitation of competitive bids. Unless otherwise prohibited by applicable law from any such action, the Indenture Trustee shall sell the Collateral or any part thereof, in such manner to the highest bidder; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee may from time to time postpone any sale. The Indenture Trustee shall give notice to the Depositor and Servicer of any proposed sale, and the Depositor and Servicer shall be permitted to bid for the Collateral at any such sale. The Indenture Trustee may obtain a prior determination from a conservator, receiver or trustee in bankruptcy of the Issuing Entity that the terms and manner of any proposed sale are commercially reasonable. The power to effect any sale of any portion of the Collateral pursuant to Section 5.04 and this Section shall not be exhausted by any one or more sales as to any portion of the Collateral remaining unsold, but shall continue unimpaired until the entire Collateral shall has been sold or all amounts payable on the Notes shall have been paid. The Indenture Trustee shall cause the proceeds of any such sale to be deposited into the 2022-A Series Collection Account.

ARTICLE SIX

THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE

SECTION 6.01 Duties of Indenture Trustee.

(a) If an Indenture Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and in 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 Indenture Default:

(i) the Indenture Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Indenture Trustee, and any permissive right of the Indenture Trustee shall not be construed as a duty; and

 

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(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; however, the Indenture Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they conform on their face to the requirements of this Indenture and the other Basic Documents to which the Indenture Trustee is a party.

(c) The Indenture Trustee shall 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 paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b);

(ii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith 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) Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Indenture Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a), (b) and (c).

(e) 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 Issuing Entity.

(f) 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.

(g) 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.

(h) Every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Indenture Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section.

(i) The Indenture Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any Indenture Default, breach of any representation or warranty, or other event unless a Responsible Officer has actual knowledge thereof or has received written notice thereof in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture. For the avoidance of doubt, receipt by the Indenture Trustee of a Review Report shall not constitute actual knowledge of any breach of a representation or warranty.

 

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(j) In no event shall the Indenture Trustee be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages, acts of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, epidemics or pandemics, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications systems or services; provided, that the Indenture Trustee shall use reasonable efforts consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.

(k) In no event shall the Indenture Trustee be liable for any costs, expenses and/or liabilities that could be allocated to a Requesting Party.

(l) The Indenture Trustee shall not be obligated to monitor, supervise or enforce the performance of the Depositor or NMAC under the Basic Documents, except as otherwise expressly specified herein and in the other Basic Documents.

SECTION 6.02 Rights of Indenture Trustee.

(a) Except as provided by the second succeeding sentence, the Indenture Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be protected in acting upon or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, note, direction, demand, election or other paper or 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. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Indenture Trustee, upon receipt of all resolutions, certificates, statements, opinions, reports, documents, orders or other instruments furnished to the Indenture Trustee that shall be specifically required to be furnished pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, shall examine them to determine whether they comply on their face as to form to the requirements of this Indenture.

(b) Before the Indenture Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officer’s Certificate (with respect to factual matters) or an Opinion of Counsel, as applicable. 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.

(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, the Administrative Agent, any co-trustee or separate trustee appointed in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.10 or any other such agent, attorney, custodian or nominee appointed with due care by it hereunder.

(d) The Indenture Trustee will be liable for any loss, liability or expense incurred by it through its own willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith, except that the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for (i) any error of judgment made by it in good faith, unless it is proved that the Indenture Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts, (ii) any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction received by it from the Noteholders in accordance with the terms of this Indenture or (iii) interest on any money received by it except as the Indenture Trustee and the Issuing Entity may agree in writing.

 

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(e) The Indenture Trustee may consult with counsel, and the advice of such counsel or any 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. The Indenture Trustee may consult with investment banking firms, accountants and other experts with respect to the performance of its duties under this Indenture, and the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on the advice of such investment banking firms, accountants or other experts.

(f) Other than in connection with any actions expressly required to be taken by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 7.08, the Indenture Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture or to institute, conduct or defend any litigation under this Indenture or in relation to this Indenture or to honor the request or direction of any of the Noteholders pursuant to this Indenture unless such Noteholders shall have offered to the Indenture Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the reasonable costs, expenses, disbursements, advances and liabilities that might be incurred by it, its agents and its counsel in compliance with such request or direction.

(g) The Indenture Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond or other paper or document, unless requested in writing to do so by the holders of Notes evidencing not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of Notes voting together as a single class; provided, however, that if the payment within a reasonable time to the Indenture Trustee of the costs, expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by it in the making of such investigation is, in the opinion of the Indenture Trustee, not reasonably assured to the Indenture Trustee by the security afforded to it by the terms of this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee may require reasonable indemnity against such cost, expense or liability as a condition to so proceeding. The reasonable expense of each such investigation shall be paid by the Person making such request, or, if paid by the Indenture Trustee, shall be reimbursed by the Person making such request upon demand.

(h) Any request or direction of the Issuing Entity mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Issuing Entity Request.

(i) The Indenture Trustee shall, for so long as any Notes are outstanding, be entitled to exercise all of the rights and powers of a Beneficiary under the Basic Documents.

(j) The Indenture Trustee will not be responsible for special, indirect, punitive or consequential damages.

(k) In order to comply with laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions, including those relating to the funding of terrorist activities and money laundering (“Applicable Law”), the Indenture Trustee is required to obtain, verify and record certain information relating to individuals and entities which maintain a business relationship with the Indenture Trustee. Accordingly, each of the parties agrees to provide the Indenture Trustee upon its reasonable request from time to time such identifying information and documentation as may be reasonably available for such party in order to enable the Indenture Trustee to comply with Applicable Law.

 

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(l) The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Indenture Trustee herein, including the right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Indenture Trustee in its capacities as Indenture Trustee, Paying Agent, Securities Intermediary, and Secured Party under the Basic Documents.

No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to impose any duty or obligation on the Indenture Trustee or take or omit to take any action, suffer any action to be taken or omitted, in the performance of its duties, or to exercise any right or power hereunder, to the extent that taking or omitting to take such action or suffering such action to be taken or omitted would, in the judgment of the Indenture Trustee, expose it to liability or violate applicable law binding upon it (which determination may be based on an Opinion of Counsel).

SECTION 6.03 Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee. The Indenture Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Issuing Entity or its Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Indenture Trustee. Any Paying Agent, Note Registrar, co-registrar, co-paying agent, co-trustee or separate trustee may do the same with like rights. The Indenture Trustee must, however, comply with Section 6.11.

SECTION 6.04 Indenture Trustees Disclaimer. The Indenture Trustee shall not be responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture, the Owner Trust Estate or the Notes (other than the certificate of authentication on the Notes), shall not be accountable for the Issuing Entity’s use of the proceeds from the Notes and shall not be responsible for any statement in this Indenture or in any document issued in connection with the sale of the Notes or in the Notes, all of which shall be taken as the statements of the Issuing Entity, other than the Indenture Trustee’s certificate of authentication.

SECTION 6.05 Notice of Defaults. If an Indenture Default occurs and is continuing, and if a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee has actual knowledge thereof, the Indenture Trustee shall mail notice of such Indenture Default within 60 days after it occurs to each Noteholder and to the Administrative Agent (and the Administrative Agent will provide each Rating Agency with notice thereof pursuant to Section 1.02(k) of the Trust Administration Agreement). Except in the case of an Indenture Default with respect to payment of principal of or interest on any Note (including payments pursuant to the redemption of Notes), the Indenture Trustee may withhold such notice if and so long as a committee of its Responsible Officers in good faith determines that withholding such notice is in the interests of the Noteholders; provided, however, that in the case of any Indenture Default of the character specified in Section 5.01(d), no such notice shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof.

SECTION 6.06 Reports by Indenture Trustee to Noteholders. The Indenture Trustee, at the expense of the Issuing Entity, shall deliver to each Noteholder, not later than the latest date permitted by law, such information as may be reasonably requested (and reasonably available to the Indenture Trustee) to enable such holder to prepare its U.S. federal and state income tax returns.

 

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SECTION 6.07 Compensation and Indemnity. The Administrative Agent shall pay to the Indenture Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for its services as have been separately agreed upon between the Administrative Agent and the Indenture Trustee. The Indenture Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. The Administrative Agent shall indemnify each of the Indenture Trustee and the Calculation Agent for, and hold it harmless against, any and all Expenses incurred by it in connection with the performance of its duties (including the costs of defending any claim or bringing any claim to enforce the indemnification obligations of the Administrative Agent hereunder). The Indenture Trustee or the Calculation Agent, as applicable, shall notify the Issuing Entity and the Administrative Agent promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity. Failure by the Indenture Trustee or the Calculation Agent, as applicable, to so notify the Issuing Entity and the Administrative Agent shall not relieve the Issuing Entity or the Administrative Agent of its obligations hereunder. The Administrative Agent shall defend any such claim, and the Indenture Trustee or the Calculation Agent, as applicable, may have separate counsel and the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be paid as provided above. Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Calculation Agent shall be indemnified by the Issuing Entity or the Administrative Agent against any loss, liability or expense incurred by it (a) through its own willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith, except that (i) the Indenture Trustee and the Calculation Agent shall not be liable for any error of judgment made by it in good faith unless it is proved that the Indenture Trustee or the Calculation Agent, as applicable, was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts, (ii) 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 from the Noteholders in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and (iii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Indenture Trustee and the Issuing Entity may agree in writing; (b) relating to any income or similar taxes on any fees payable to the Indenture Trustee or the Calculation Agent; (c) arising from the breach by the Indenture Trustee or the Calculation Agent of any of its representations or warranties set forth in the Basic Documents; or (d) arising in connection with the performance by the Indenture Trustee of the duties of a successor servicer under the Servicing Agreement. Neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Calculation Agent shall be deemed to have knowledge of any event unless a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee or the Calculation Agent has actual knowledge thereof or has received written notice thereof. To the extent not paid by the Administrative Agent and outstanding for at least 60 days, such fees and indemnities, as applicable, shall be paid by the Issuing Entity pursuant to Sections 8.04(a) or 8.04(b), provided, that prior to such payment pursuant to the Indenture, the Indenture Trustee or the Calculation Agent, as applicable, shall notify the Administrative Agent in writing that such fees and indemnities, as applicable, have been outstanding for at least 60 days. If such fees and indemnities, as applicable, are paid pursuant to Sections 8.04(a) or 8.04(b), the Administrative Agent shall reimburse the Issuing Entity in full for such payments.

The Administrative Agent’s payment obligations to the Indenture Trustee and the Calculation Agent pursuant to this Section shall survive the discharge of this Indenture and the resignation or removal of the Indenture Trustee and the Calculation Agent. When the Indenture Trustee incurs expenses after the occurrence of an Indenture Default set forth in Section 5.01(d) or (e) with respect to the Issuing Entity, the expenses are intended to constitute expenses of administration under the Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law.

 

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SECTION 6.08 Replacement of Indenture Trustee. Noteholders holding not less than a Majority Interest of the Notes, voting together as a single class, may remove the Indenture Trustee without cause by so notifying in writing the Indenture Trustee and the Issuing Entity at least 30 days prior to the effective date of such removal, and following such removal may appoint a successor Indenture Trustee. The Issuing Entity shall give prompt written notice to each Rating Agency of such removal. The Indenture Trustee may resign at any time by so notifying in writing the Issuing Entity and the Servicer at least 30 days prior to the effective date of such resignation. The Servicer will thereafter deliver a copy of such notice to each Rating Agency. The Issuing Entity shall remove the Indenture Trustee with 30 days prior written notice if:

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

(ii) a court having jurisdiction in the premises in respect of the Indenture Trustee in an involuntary case or proceeding under federal or state banking or bankruptcy laws, as now or hereafter constituted, or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, shall have entered a decree or order granting relief or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, conservator, sequestrator (or similar official) for the Indenture Trustee or for any substantial part of the Indenture Trustee’s property, or ordering the winding-up or liquidation of the Indenture Trustee’s affairs, provided any such decree or order shall have continued unstayed and in effect for a period of 30 consecutive days;

(iii) the Indenture Trustee commences a voluntary case under any federal or state banking or bankruptcy laws, as now or hereafter constituted, or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or consents to the appointment of or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, conservator, sequestrator or other similar official for the Indenture Trustee or for any substantial part of the Indenture Trustee’s property, or makes any assignment for the benefit of creditors or fails generally to pay its debts as such debts become due or takes any corporate action in furtherance of any of the foregoing; or

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

Upon the resignation or required removal of the Indenture Trustee, or the failure of the Noteholders to appoint a successor Indenture Trustee following the removal without cause of the Indenture Trustee (the Indenture Trustee in any such event being referred to herein as the retiring Indenture Trustee), the Issuing Entity shall be required promptly to appoint a successor Indenture Trustee. Any successor Indenture Trustee shall at all times satisfy the requirements of Section 310(a) of the TIA and shall in addition have (a) a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 (as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition) and (b) a long-term debt rating of “Baa3” or its equivalent by each Rating Agency or otherwise satisfy the Rating Agency Condition.

 

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A successor Indenture Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Indenture Trustee and to the Issuing Entity. Thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Indenture Trustee shall become effective and the successor Indenture Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture, subject to satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition. The successor Indenture Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to the Noteholders. The retiring Indenture Trustee shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Indenture Trustee to the successor Indenture Trustee.

If a successor Indenture Trustee does not take office within 30 days after the retiring Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Indenture Trustee, the Issuing Entity or Noteholders holding not less than a Majority Interest of the Notes, voting together as a single class, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee.

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.

Any resignation or removal of the Indenture Trustee and appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section shall not become effective until acceptance of appointment by the successor Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section and payment of all fees and expenses owed to the outgoing Indenture Trustee. Notwithstanding the replacement of the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section, the retiring Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to payment or reimbursement of such amounts as such Person is entitled pursuant to Section 6.07. The successor Indenture Trustee shall pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred in connection with transferring the predecessor Indenture Trustee’s duties and obligations to the successor Indenture Trustee.

SECTION 6.09 Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger. If the Indenture Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all its corporate trust business or assets to another corporation or depository institution the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation, without any further act, shall be the successor Indenture Trustee; provided, that such corporation or depository institution shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under Section 6.11. The Indenture Trustee shall provide prompt written notice of any such transaction to the Administrative Agent (and the Administrative Agent will provide each Rating Agency with notice thereof pursuant to Section 1.02(k) of the Trust Administration Agreement).

In case at the time such successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation to the Indenture Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture, 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 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, and in all such cases such certificates shall have the full force that it is anywhere in the Notes or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Indenture Trustee shall have.

 

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SECTION 6.10 Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate 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 Owner Trust Estate may at the time be located, the Indenture Trustee and the Administrative Agent acting jointly shall have the power and may execute and deliver 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 Noteholders, such title to the Owner Trust Estate or any part hereof and, subject to the other provisions of this Section, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Indenture Trustee and the Administrative Agent may consider necessary or desirable. If the Administrative Agent shall not have joined in such appointment within 15 days after it received a request that it so join, the Indenture Trustee alone shall have the power to make such appointment. 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 6.08.

(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 intended 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;

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

(iii) the Indenture Trustee and the Administrative Agent 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. 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 and 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 and a copy thereof given to the Administrative Agent.

 

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(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, then 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. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture, the appointment of any separate trustee or co-trustee shall not relieve the Indenture Trustee of its obligations and duties under this Indenture.

SECTION 6.11 Eligibility; Disqualification. The Indenture Trustee shall at all times satisfy the requirements of Section 310(a) of the TIA and shall in addition 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 a long-term debt rating of at least “Baa3” or its equivalent by the Rating Agencies or satisfies the Rating Agency Condition. The Indenture Trustee shall also satisfy the requirements of Section 310(b) of the TIA, including the optional provision permitted by the second sentence of TIA Section 310(b)(9); provided, however, that there shall be excluded from the operation of TIA Section 310(b)(1) any indenture or indentures under which other securities of the Issuing Entity are outstanding if the requirements for such exclusions set forth in TIA Section 310(b)(1) are met. The Depositor, the Administrative Agent, the Servicer and their respective Affiliates may maintain normal commercial banking relationships with the Indenture Trustee and its Affiliates, but neither the Issuing Entity nor any Affiliate of the Issuing Entity may serve as Indenture Trustee.

SECTION 6.12 Issuing Entity as Holder of the 2022-A Series Certificate. So long as any Notes are Outstanding, to the extent that the Issuing Entity has rights as a Holder of the 2022-A Series Certificate, including rights to distributions and notice, or is entitled to consent to any actions taken by the Trust Certificateholders pursuant to Section 4.02(a) of the Trust Agreement, the Issuing Entity may initiate such action or grant such consent only with consent of the Administrator, provided, that after the occurrence of an Indenture Default or with respect to any other action that has a Material Adverse Effect on the Noteholders, the Issuing Entity may initiate such action or grant such consent only with the consent of the Indenture Trustee. To the extent that, following the occurrence of an Indenture Default or other Material Adverse Effect on the Noteholders, the Indenture Trustee has rights as a Holder of the 2022-A Series Certificate or has the right to consent or withhold consent with respect to actions taken by the Trust Certificateholders pursuant to Section 4.02(a) of the Trust Agreement, the Servicer or the Issuing Entity, such rights shall be exercised or consent granted (or withheld) upon the written direction of Holders not less than a Majority Interest of the Notes voting together as a single class; provided, however, that subject to Section 3.07, any direction to the Indenture Trustee to remove or replace the Servicer upon a Servicer Default shall be made by Noteholders holding not less than 6623% of the Outstanding Amount, voting together as a single class, and with respect to Section 11.15, such direction shall require the written direction of Noteholders holding 100% of the Outstanding Amount.

 

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SECTION 6.13 Representations and Warranties of Indenture Trustee. The Indenture Trustee hereby makes the following representations and warranties on which the Issuing Entity and Noteholders shall rely:

(i) the Indenture Trustee is a national banking association duly organized, validly existing under the laws of the United States; and

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

SECTION 6.14 Furnishing of Documents. The Indenture Trustee shall furnish to any Noteholder promptly upon receipt of a written request by such Noteholder (at the expense of the requesting Noteholder) therefor, duplicates or copies of all reports, notices, requests, demands, certificates and any other instruments furnished to the Indenture Trustee under the Basic Documents; provided, however, the Indenture Trustee may require such Noteholder to deliver the Indenture Trustee a nondisclosure agreement in a form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee with respect to the information contained in any such requested document; provided further, however, that no such nondisclosure agreement shall be required for any lists of Noteholders requested to be furnished pursuant to Section 7.01 hereof or any documents that are publicly available.

SECTION 6.15 Preferred Collection of Claims Against Issuing Entity. The Indenture Trustee shall comply with TIA Section 311(a), excluding any creditor relationship listed in TIA Section 311(b). An Indenture Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA Section 311(a) to the extent indicated.

ARTICLE SEVEN

NOTEHOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS

SECTION 7.01 Note Registrar to Furnish Noteholder Names and Addresses. The Note Registrar shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the Servicer or the Administrative Agent, within 15 days after receipt by the Note Registrar of a written request therefrom, a list of the names and addresses of the Noteholders of any Class as of the most recent Record Date. If three or more Noteholders, or one or more Holders evidencing not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes (hereinafter referred to as “Applicants”), apply in writing to the Indenture Trustee, and such application states that the Applicants desire to communicate with other Noteholders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Notes and such application is accompanied by a copy of the communication that such Applicants propose to transmit, then the Indenture Trustee shall, within five Business Days after the receipt of such application, afford such Applicants access, during normal business hours, to the current list of Noteholders. The Indenture Trustee may elect not to afford the requesting Noteholders access to the list of Noteholders if it agrees to mail the desired communication by proxy, on behalf of and at the expense of the requesting Noteholders, to all Noteholders. Every Noteholder, by receiving and holding a Note, agrees with the Indenture Trustee and the Issuing Entity that none of the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the Issuing Entity, the Servicer or the Administrative Agent shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses of the Noteholders under this Indenture, regardless of the source from which such information was derived.

 

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If the Indenture Trustee shall cease to be the Note Registrar, then thereafter the Issuing Entity shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Indenture Trustee (i) not more than five days after each Record Date a list, in such form as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Noteholders as of such Record Date and (ii) at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after receipt by the Issuing Entity of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than ten days prior to the time such list is furnished.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as the Indenture Trustee is the Note Registrar no such list shall be required to be furnished to the Indenture Trustee, and so long as the Notes are issued as Book-Entry Notes, no such list shall be required to be furnished to the Indenture Trustee, Owner Trustee, Servicer or Administrative Agent.

SECTION 7.02 Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders.

(a) The Indenture Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the names and addresses of the Noteholders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Indenture Trustee as provided in Section 7.01 and the names and addresses of Noteholders received by the Indenture Trustee in its capacity as Note Registrar. The Indenture Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 7.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

(b) Noteholders may communicate pursuant to TIA Section 312(b) with other Noteholders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Notes.

(c) The Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar shall have the protection of TIA Section 312(c).

(d) A Noteholder (if the Notes are represented by Definitive Notes) or a Note Owner (if the Notes are represented by Book-Entry Notes) may send a request to the Depositor at any time notifying the Depositor that such Noteholder or Note Owner, as applicable, would like to communicate with other Noteholders or Note Owners, as applicable, with respect to an exercise of their rights under the terms of the Basic Documents. If the requesting party is not a Noteholder as reflected on the Note Register, the Depositor may require that the requesting party provide Verification Documents. Each request must include (i) the name of the requesting Noteholder or Note Owner, and (ii) a description of the method by which other Noteholders or Note Owners, as applicable, may contact the requesting Noteholder or Note Owner. A Noteholder or Note Owner, as applicable, that delivers a request under this Section 7.02 will be deemed to have certified to the Issuing Entity and the Servicer that its request to communicate with other Noteholders or Note Owners, as applicable, relates solely to a possible exercise of rights under this Indenture or the other Basic Documents, and will not be used for other purposes. In each monthly distribution report on Form 10-D under the Exchange Act with respect to the Issuing Entity, the Depositor shall include disclosure regarding any request that complies with the requirements of this Section 7.02 received during the related Collection Period from a Noteholder or Note Owner to communicate with other Noteholders or Note Owners, as applicable, related to the Noteholders or Note Owners exercising their rights under the terms of the Basic Documents. The disclosure in such Form 10-D regarding the request to communicate shall include (w) the name of the

 

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investor making the request, (x) the date the request was received, (y) a statement to the effect that the Issuing Entity has received a request from such Noteholder or Note Owner, as applicable, stating that such Noteholder or Note Owner, as applicable, is interested in communicating with other Noteholders or Note Owners, as applicable, with regard to the possible exercise of rights under the Basic Documents, and (z) a description of the method other Noteholders or Note Owners, as applicable, may use to contact the requesting Noteholder or Note Owner. NMAC and the Depositor will be responsible for any expenses incurred in connection with the filing of such disclosure and the reimbursement of any costs incurred by the Indenture Trustee in connection with the preparation thereof.

SECTION 7.03 Reports by Issuing Entity.

(a) The Issuing Entity shall:

(i) file with the Indenture Trustee, within 15 days after the Issuing Entity is required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time to time by the rules and regulations prescribe) that the Issuing Entity may be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act;

(ii) file with the Indenture Trustee and the Commission in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission such additional information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by the Issuing Entity with the conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules and regulations; and

(iii) supply to the Indenture Trustee (and the Indenture Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Noteholders described in TIA Section 313(c)) such summaries of any information, documents and reports required to be filed by the Issuing Entity pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) of this Section 7.03(a) and by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission.

(b) Unless the Issuing Entity otherwise determines, the fiscal year of the Issuing Entity shall end on March 31 of each year, unless the fiscal year of the Servicer ends on some other date, in which case, the fiscal year of the Issuing Entity shall be the same as the fiscal year of the Servicer.

SECTION 7.04 Reports by Indenture Trustee. If required by TIA Section 313(a), within 60 days after each fiscal year of the Issuing Entity, beginning with the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to each Noteholder as required by TIA Section 313(c) a brief report dated as of such date that sets forth the information required by TIA Section 313(a), including any change to its eligibility and qualification to continue as Indenture Trustee under this Indenture, any amounts advanced by it under this Indenture, the amount, interest rate and maturity date of certain indebtedness owed by the Issuing Entity to the Indenture Trustee, in its individual capacity, the property and funds physically held by the Indenture Trustee in its capacity as such, and any action taken by it that materially affects the Notes and that has not been previously reported. The Indenture Trustee also shall comply with TIA Section 313(b).

 

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A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Noteholders shall be filed by the Indenture Trustee with the Commission and each stock exchange, if any, on which the Notes are listed. The Issuing Entity shall notify the Indenture Trustee if and when the Notes are listed on any stock exchange.

SECTION 7.05 Indenture Trustee Website. The Indenture Trustee may make available to the Noteholders, via the Indenture Trustee’s website, all reports or notices required to be provided by the Indenture Trustee under the terms of this Indenture and, with the consent or at the direction of the Servicer, such other information regarding the Notes as the Indenture Trustee may have in its possession. Any information that is disseminated in accordance with the provisions of this Section 7.05 shall not be required to be disseminated in any other form or manner. Except for documents prepared by the Indenture Trustee and subject to its obligations under this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee will make no representation or warranties as to the accuracy or completeness of such documents and will assume no responsibility therefor.

The Indenture Trustee’s internet website shall be initially located at https://pivot.usbank.com or at such other address as shall be specified by the Indenture Trustee from time to time in writing to the parties hereto. In connection with providing access to the Trustee’s internet website, the Indenture Trustee may require registration and the acceptance of a disclaimer.

SECTION 7.06 Information to be Provided by the Indenture Trustee. The Indenture Trustee shall provide the Issuing Entity and the Servicer (each, a “Nissan Party” and collectively the “Nissan Parties”) with (i) notification as soon as practicable and in any event within ten Business Days, of all demands communicated to a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee for the repurchase or replacement of any Lease and the Related Vehicle pursuant to Section 8.02 of the 2022-A Servicing Supplement, (ii) not later than the tenth day of each calendar month (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately following Business Day), beginning July 11, 2022, a report substantially in the Form of Exhibit C with respect to any demands described in clause (i) during the immediately preceding calendar month (or, in the case of the initial notice, since the Closing Date) and (iii) promptly upon receipt of a written request by a Nissan Party, any other information in its possession reasonably requested by a Nissan Party to facilitate compliance by the Nissan Parties with Rule 15Ga-1 under the Exchange Act and Items 1104(e) and 1121(c) of Regulation AB. In no event shall the Indenture Trustee be deemed to be a “securitizer” as defined in Section 15G(a) of the Exchange Act, nor shall it have any responsibility for making any filing required to be made by a securitizer under the Exchange Act or Regulation AB.

SECTION 7.07 Noteholder Demand for Repurchase; Dispute Resolution.

(a) If an Investor becomes aware of a breach of NMAC’s representations and warranties in Section 8.02(b) of the Servicing Agreement that would require NMAC to purchase or reallocate a 2022-A Lease and the related 2022-A Vehicle from the 2022-A Series to the Unallocated Assets Series or an Other Series pursuant to Section 8.02(b) of the Servicing

 

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Agreement, such Investor (the “Requesting Investor”) may or, by written notice to the Indenture Trustee, may direct the Indenture Trustee to notify NMAC in writing of such breach and request that NMAC purchase or reallocate the related 2022-A Lease and the related 2022-A Vehicle from the 2022-A Series to the Unallocated Assets Series or an Other Series. Any such request, and any related direction to the Indenture Trustee, shall identify the 2022-A Lease and the related 2022-A Vehicle, as well as the related breach of representation or warranty. If the Requesting Investor is a Note Owner, then each written notice from such Requesting Investor must be accompanied by Verification Documents. Upon receipt of any written notice of a request that complies with the requirements of this Section 7.07(a), the Indenture Trustee shall forward such written notice to NMAC and request that NMAC purchase or reallocate such 2022-A Lease and the related 2022-A Vehicle from the 2022-A Series to the Unallocated Assets Series or an Other Series pursuant to Section 8.02(b) of the Servicing Agreement. For avoidance of doubt, following delivery of such notice and request to NMAC, the Indenture Trustee shall have no responsibility or liability for the determination by NMAC whether or not to purchase or reallocate the related 2022-A Lease and the related 2022-A Vehicle from the 2022-A Series to the Unallocated Assets Series or an Other Series, or for monitoring whether or not such purchase or reallocation occurs.

(b) If a Requesting Investor requests, or directs the Indenture Trustee to request the purchase or reallocation of a 2022-A Lease and the related 2022-A Vehicle from the 2022-A Series to the Unallocated Assets Series or an Other Series pursuant to clause (a) above, and the request has not been fulfilled or otherwise resolved to the reasonable satisfaction of such Requesting Investor, within 180 days of the receipt of notice of the request by NMAC, the Requesting Investor may, or by written notice to the Indenture Trustee, may direct the Indenture Trustee to, refer the matter to either mediation or arbitration pursuant to Section 11.21. The Requesting Investor shall instruct the Indenture Trustee as to the selection of mediation or arbitration as the means of dispute resolution.

SECTION 7.08 Asset Review Voting.

If the Delinquency Percentage on any Payment Date exceeds the Delinquency Trigger, then Noteholders (if the Notes are represented by Definitive Notes) or Note Owners (if the Notes are represented by Book-Entry Notes) holding at least 5% of the Outstanding Amount as of the filing of the Form 10-D disclosing that the Delinquency Percentage exceeds the Delinquency Trigger (the “Instituting Noteholders”) may elect to initiate a vote to determine whether the Asset Representations Reviewer should conduct an Asset Review by giving written notice to the Indenture Trustee of their desire to institute such a vote within 90 days after the filing of the Form 10-D disclosing that the Delinquency Percentage exceeds the Delinquency Trigger. If any Instituting Noteholder is not a Noteholder as reflected on the Note Register, the Indenture Trustee may require such Instituting Noteholder to provide Verification Documents to confirm that the Instituting Noteholder is, in fact, a Note Owner. If the Instituting Noteholders initiate a vote as described above, the Indenture Trustee shall submit the matter to a vote of all Noteholders, which shall be through the Clearing Agency if the Notes are represented by Book-Entry Notes). The Record Date for purposes of determining the identity of Noteholders or Note Owners, as applicable, entitled to vote shall be the date of filing of the Form 10-D disclosing that the Delinquency Percentage exceeds the Delinquency Trigger. The vote will remain open until the 120th day after the filing of the Form 10-D disclosing that the Delinquency Percentage

 

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exceeds the Delinquency Trigger. The “Noteholder Direction” shall be deemed to have occurred if Noteholders representing at least a majority of the voting Noteholders vote in favor of directing an Asset Review of the Subject Leases by the Asset Representations Reviewer. Following the completion of the voting process, the next Form 10-D filed by the Depositor will disclose whether or not a Noteholder Direction has occurred. Each of NMAC, the Depositor and the Issuing Entity hereby acknowledges and agrees that it shall reasonably cooperate with the Indenture Trustee to facilitate any vote by the Instituting Noteholders pursuant to terms of this Section 7.08.

Within five Business Days of the Review Satisfaction Date, the Indenture Trustee will send a Review Notice to NMAC, the Depositor, the Servicer and the Asset Representations Reviewer.

For the avoidance of doubt, the Indenture Trustee shall not be required to (i) determine whether, or give notice to Noteholders that, a Delinquency Trigger has occurred or (ii) determine which assets are subject to an Asset Review by the Asset Representations Reviewer.

Notwithstanding the preceding clauses of this Section 7.08, a Noteholder (if the Notes are represented by Definitive Notes) or Note Owner (if the Notes are represented by Book-Entry Notes) need not direct an Asset Review be performed prior to (i) notifying (or directing the Indenture Trustee to notify) NMAC of a breach of NMAC’s representations and warranties in Section 8.02(b) of the Servicing Agreement that would require NMAC to purchase or reallocate a 2022-A Lease and the related 2022-A Vehicle from the 2022-A Series to the Unallocated Assets Series or an Other Series or (ii) referring the matter, at its discretion, to either mediation or arbitration pursuant to Section 11.21 of this Indenture.

ARTICLE EIGHT

ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES

SECTION 8.01 Collection of Money. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, 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. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, if any default occurs in the making of any payment or performance under any agreement or instrument that is part of the Owner Trust Estate, 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 Indenture Default under this Indenture and any right to proceed thereafter as provided in Article Five.

 

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SECTION 8.02 Accounts.

(a) Pursuant to the 2022-A Series Supplement, there has been established and there shall be maintained an Eligible Account (initially at U.S. Bank National Association) in the name of the Indenture Trustee until the Outstanding Amount of the Notes is zero, and thereafter, in the name of the Issuing Entity, which is designated as the “2022-A Series Collection Account.” The 2022-A Series Collection Account shall be held for the benefit of the Securityholders, and shall bear a designation clearly indicating that the funds on deposit therein are held for the benefit of the Securityholders. The 2022-A Series Collection Account shall be under the sole dominion and control of the Indenture Trustee until the Outstanding Amount of the Notes has been reduced to zero, and thereafter under the sole dominion and control of the Issuing Entity.

(b) Pursuant to Section 5.01 of the Trust Agreement, there has been established and there shall be maintained an Eligible Account (initially at U.S. Bank National Association) in the name of the Indenture Trustee until the Outstanding Amount of Notes is reduced to zero, and thereafter, in the name of the Issuing Entity, which is designated as the “Reserve Account.” The Reserve Account shall be held for the benefit of the Securityholders, and shall bear a designation clearly indicating that the funds on deposit therein are held for the benefit of the Securityholders. The Reserve Account shall be under the sole dominion and control of the Indenture Trustee until the Outstanding Amount of Notes has been reduced to zero, and thereafter under the sole dominion and control of the Issuing Entity.

(c) The Issuing Entity shall cause the Depositor, on or prior to the Closing Date, to establish and maintain an Eligible Account in the name of the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Noteholders, which shall be designated as the “Note Distribution Account.” The Note Distribution Account shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Noteholders. The Note Distribution Account shall be under the sole dominion and control of the Indenture Trustee.

(d) All monies deposited from time to time in the Accounts pursuant to this Indenture or the 2022-A Servicing Supplement shall be held by the Indenture Trustee as part of the Collateral and shall be applied to the purposes herein provided. If any Account shall cease to be an Eligible Account or if the Servicer, in its sole discretion, notifies the Indenture Trustee in writing that an Account should be moved, then, the Indenture Trustee, until the Outstanding Amount of Notes has been reduced to zero, and thereafter, the Issuing Entity shall, as necessary, assist the Servicer in causing each Account to be moved to an institution selected by the Servicer at which it shall be an Eligible Account.

(e) The Securities Intermediary.

(i) The Securities Intermediary with respect to the 2022-A Series Collection Account, the Reserve Account and the Note Distribution Account shall, and U.S. Bank National Association as initial Securities Intermediary does, agree with the parties hereto that the jurisdiction of the Securities Intermediary with respect to the 2022-A Series Collection Account, the Reserve Account and the Note Distribution Account shall be the State of New York. The Securities Intermediary shall, and U.S. Bank National Association as initial Securities Intermediary does, represent and covenant that it is not and will not be (as long as it is the Securities Intermediary hereunder) a party to any agreement that is inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture. The Securities Intermediary shall, and U.S. Bank National Association as initial Securities Intermediary does, covenant that it will not take any action inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture applicable to it. The Securities Intermediary shall, and U.S. Bank National Association as initial Securities Intermediary does, agree that any item of property

 

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credited to the 2022-A Series Collection Account, the Reserve Account or the Note Distribution Account shall not be subject to any security interest, lien, encumbrance or right of setoff in favor of the Securities Intermediary or anyone claiming through the Securities Intermediary (other than the Indenture Trustee).

(ii) It is the intent of the Indenture Trustee and the Issuing Entity that each of the 2022-A Series Collection Account, the Reserve Account and the Note Distribution Account shall be a securities account of the Indenture Trustee and not an account of the Issuing Entity. Nonetheless, the Securities Intermediary shall agree to comply with entitlement orders with respect to the 2022-A Series Collection Account, the Reserve Account and the Note Distribution Account originated by the Indenture Trustee without further consent by the Issuing Entity or any other person or entity, and U.S. Bank National Association as initial Securities Intermediary agrees that, for so long as it is the Securities Intermediary hereunder, it will comply with entitlement orders regarding the disposition of funds held in or credited to the 2022-A Series Collection Account, the Reserve Account and the Note Distribution Account originated by the Indenture Trustee without further consent by the Issuing Entity or any other person or entity. The Securities Intermediary shall covenant that it will not agree with any person or entity other than the Indenture Trustee that it will comply with entitlement orders originated by any person or entity other than the Indenture Trustee, and U.S. Bank National Association as initial Securities Intermediary hereby covenants that, for so long as it is the Securities Intermediary hereunder, it will not agree with any person or entity other than the Indenture Trustee that it will comply with entitlement orders originated by any person or entity other than the Indenture Trustee. The Securities Intermediary shall agree to treat all assets credited to the 2022-A Series Collection Account, the Reserve Account and the Note Distribution Account as “financial assets” within the meaning of the UCC, and U.S. Bank National Association as initial Securities Intermediary agrees that, for so long as it is the Securities Intermediary hereunder, it will treat all assets credited to the 2022-A Series Collection Account, the Reserve Account and the Note Distribution Account as “financial assets” within the meaning of the UCC.

(iii) Nothing herein shall imply or impose upon the Securities Intermediary any duties or obligations other than those expressly set forth herein and those applicable to a securities intermediary under the UCC (and the Securities Intermediary shall be entitled to all of the protections available to a securities intermediary under the UCC). Without limiting the foregoing, nothing herein shall imply or impose upon the Securities Intermediary any duties of a fiduciary nature.

(iv) The rights and powers granted herein to the Indenture Trustee, and the covenants and obligations of the Securities Intermediary hereunder, have been granted in order to perfect the Indenture Trustee’s security interest in the 2022-A Series Collection Account, the Reserve Account and the Note Distribution Account, and such rights, powers, covenants and obligations hereunder shall continue in effect with respect to the 2022-A Series Collection Account, the Reserve Account and the Note Distribution Account until the Outstanding Amount of the Notes has been reduced to zero.

 

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(f) The Issuing Entity and the Securities Intermediary agree that, to the extent any agreement covering the 2022-A Series Accounts to which the Issuing Entity and the Securities Intermediary are parties is not currently governed by the law of the state of New York, such agreement is hereby amended so that the law of the state of New York governs the 2022-A Series Accounts, including, without limitation, all issues specified in Article 2(1) of the Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in Respect of Securities Held with an Intermediary (the “Hague Securities Convention”) and the Indenture Trustee has control within the meaning of Section 8-106(d)(2) of the UCC. The Issuing Entity and the Securities Intermediary agree that no such governing law provision may be amended or modified without the written consent of the Indenture Trustee. To the extent that any 2022-A Series Account, or any agreement between the Securities Intermediary and the Issuing Entity with respect to the 2022-A Series Accounts, is at any time governed by laws other than the laws of the state of New York, the parties hereto do not consent to the new governing law for the purposes of Article 7 of the Hague Securities Convention.

SECTION 8.03 Payment Date Certificate.

(a) The Issuing Entity shall cause the Servicer to agree to deliver to the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee and each Paying Agent hereunder or under the Trust Agreement, a certificate (the “Payment Date Certificate”) prior to 3:00 p.m., New York City time on or prior to the tenth calendar day of each month or, if the 10th day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, including, among other things, the following information with respect to the Payment Date in such month and the related Collection Period and Accrual Period:

(i) the amount of Series Collections allocable to the 2022-A Series Certificate;

(ii) Available Funds, including amounts with respect to each of items (i) through (iv) of the definition thereof;

(iii) the amount of interest accrued during such Accrual Period on each Class of the Notes and, for any classes of Floating Rate Notes, the applicable Note Rate for the related Accrual Period for such Payment Date for such classes of Floating Rate Notes, respectively, if any;

(iv) the Class A-1 Note Balance, the Class A-2a Note Balance, the Class A-2b Note Balance, the Class A-3 Note Balance, the Class A-4 Note Balance and the Certificate Balance, in each case on the day immediately preceding such Payment Date;

(v) (A) the Reserve Account Requirement, (B) the Reserve Account Deposit Amount, if any, (C) the Reserve Account Draw Amount, if any, (D) the balance on deposit in the Reserve Account on such Payment Date after giving effect to withdrawals therefrom and deposits thereto in respect of such Payment Date and (E) the change in such balance from the immediately preceding Payment Date;

(vi) the Note Distribution Amount for each Class of Notes and the Certificate Distribution Amount;

 

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(vii) the amount of the Note Distribution Amount allocable to interest on and principal of the Notes and any Principal Carryover Shortfall for each Class of the Notes;

(viii) the amount of any principal paid on, and Principal Carryover Shortfall for, the Trust Certificates;

(ix) the Monthly Principal Distributable Amount and the Optimal Principal Distributable Amount;

(x) the Note Factor for each Class of the Notes and the Certificate Factor for the Trust Certificates after giving effect to the distribution of the Note Distribution Amount and the Certificate Distribution Amount, respectively;

(xi) the aggregate Securitization Value of 60-Day Delinquent Leases and related leased vehicles as of that payment date;

(xii) the Delinquency Percentage;

(xiii) the Delinquency Trigger;

(xiv) the aggregate amount of Residual Value Losses and Residual Value Surplus for such Collection Period;

(xv) the amount of Sales Proceeds Advances and Monthly Payment Advances included in Available Funds;

(xvi) the amount of any Payment Date Advance Reimbursement for such Collection Period;

(xvii) [Reserved];

(xviii) [Reserved];

(xix) the Servicing Fee for such Collection Period;

(xx) delinquency and loss information for the Collection Period;

(xxi) any material changes in practices with respect to charge-offs, collection and management of delinquent Leases, and the effect of any grace period, re-aging, re-structure, partial payments or other practices on delinquency and loss experience;

(xxii) any material modifications, extensions or waivers to Lease terms, fees, penalties or payments during the Collection Period;

(xxiii) any material breaches of representations, warranties or covenants contained in the Leases;

(xxiv) any new issuance of notes or other securities backed by the 2022-A Series Assets (if applicable); and

 

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(xxv) any material additions, removals or substitutions of 2022-A Series Assets, repurchases of 2022-A Series Assets.

Each amount set forth pursuant to clauses (iii), (iv), (vi), (vii) and (viii) above shall be expressed in the aggregate and as a dollar amount per $1,000 of original principal balance of a Note or Trust Certificate, as applicable.

(b) The Indenture Trustee shall have no duty or obligation to verify or confirm the accuracy of any of the information or numbers set forth in the Payment Date Certificate delivered to the Indenture Trustee in accordance with this Section, and the Indenture Trustee shall be fully protected in relying upon such Payment Date Certificate.

SECTION 8.04 Disbursement of Funds.

(a) Subject to Section 8.04(b), on each Payment Date (so long as the maturity of the Notes has not been accelerated pursuant to Section 5.02 or, if the maturity of the Notes has been accelerated and such acceleration has been rescinded), prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, or such other time as may be agreed to by the applicable Noteholder, the Indenture Trustee shall, in accordance with the related Payment Date Certificate and pursuant to the instructions of the Servicer, transfer from the 2022-A Series Collection Account all Securityholder Available Funds and apply such amount in accordance with the following priorities:

(i) to the Note Distribution Account, to pay, on a pro rata basis, based on the amount distributable to each class of Notes, an amount equal to the interest accrued at the applicable Interest Rate for such Class of Notes during the related Accrual Period on the applicable Outstanding Amount of Notes (plus any accrued and unpaid interest with respect to any prior Accrual Period) for such Class (and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, interest on any overdue interest at the applicable Overdue Interest Rate);

(ii) to the Note Distribution Account, the Monthly Principal Distributable Amount distributable to each Class of Notes, in the following order of priority:

 

  (A)

to the Class A-1 Notes until the Class A-1 Notes have been paid in full;

 

  (B)

after the principal amount of the Class A-1 Notes is reduced to zero, to the Class A-2 Notes (pro rata among the Class A-2a Notes and the Class A-2b Notes) until the Class A-2 Notes have been paid in full;

 

  (C)

after the principal amount of the Class A-2 Notes is reduced to zero, to the Class A-3 Notes until the Class A-3 Notes have been paid in full; and

 

  (D)

after the principal amount of the Class A-3 Notes is reduced to zero, to the Class A-4 Notes until the Class A-4 Notes have been paid in full.

 

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(iii) until all Classes of Notes have been paid in full, to the Reserve Account, any remaining funds, until the Reserve Account Requirement has been satisfied;

(iv) pro rata, to the Indenture Trustee and the Calculation Agent, any accrued and unpaid fees, expenses and indemnity payments, as applicable, due pursuant to the Indenture but only to the extent that such fees, expenses or indemnity payments, as applicable, have been outstanding for at least sixty (60) days;

(v) to the Owner Trustee, any accrued and unpaid fees, expenses and indemnity payments due pursuant to the Trust Agreement but only to the extent that such fees, expenses or indemnity payments have been outstanding for at least sixty (60) days;

(vi) to the Asset Representations Reviewer, any accrued and unpaid fees, expenses and indemnity payments due pursuant to the Asset Representations Review Agreement, but only to the extent that such fees, expenses or indemnity payments have been outstanding for at least sixty (60) days, such amounts to be paid from any remaining Available Amounts; and

(vii) any remaining funds to the Certificate Distribution Account for distribution to the Trust Certificateholders, as beneficial owners of the Issuing Entity.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 8.04(a), and subject to the provisions of Section 5.04(b), after the occurrence of an Indenture Default that results in the acceleration of any Notes and unless and until such acceleration has been rescinded, on each Payment Date, prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, or such other time as may be agreed to by the applicable Noteholder, the Indenture Trustee shall, in accordance with the related Payment Date Certificate and pursuant to the instructions of the Servicer, transfer from the 2022-A Series Collection Account all Securityholder Available Funds and apply such amount in accordance with the following priorities:

(i) pro rata, to the Indenture Trustee and the Calculation Agent, all amounts required to be paid under Section 6.07, and to the Owner Trustee, all amounts required to be paid under Section 8.01 of the Trust Agreement, as the case may be;

(ii) to the Asset Representations Reviewer, any accrued and unpaid fees, expenses and indemnity payments due pursuant to the Asset Representations Review Agreement, but only to the extent that such fees, expenses or indemnity payments have been outstanding for at least sixty (60) days, such amounts to be paid from any remaining Available Amounts;

(iii) to the Note Distribution Account, to pay, on a pro rata basis, based on the amount distributable to each class of Notes, an amount equal to the interest accrued at the applicable Interest Rate for such Class of Notes during the related Accrual Period on the applicable Outstanding Amount of Notes (plus any accrued and unpaid interest with respect to any prior Accrual Period) for such Class (and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, interest on any overdue interest at the applicable Overdue Interest Rate);

 

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(iv) to the Note Distribution Account, the Monthly Principal Distributable Amount distributable to each Class of Notes, in the following order of priority:

 

  (A)

first, to the Class A-1 Noteholders (until the Class A-1 Notes have been paid in full); and

 

  (B)

second, to the Class A-2 Noteholders (pro rata among the Class A-2a Notes and the Class A-2b Notes), the Class A-3 Noteholders and the Class A-4 Noteholders, pro rata (based on the Outstanding Amount of Notes of each such Class on such Payment Date), until all of the Class A Notes have been paid in full; and

(v) any remaining funds to the Certificate Distribution Account for distribution to the Trust Certificateholders, as beneficial owners of the Issuing Entity.

Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 8.04(b), in accordance with Section 5.02, after the occurrence of an Indenture Default that results in the acceleration of any Notes, on and after the date on which such acceleration has been rescinded, on each Payment Date, the Indenture Trustee shall, in accordance with the related Payment Date Certificate and pursuant to the instructions of the Servicer, transfer from the 2022-A Series Collection Account all Securityholder Available Funds and apply such amount in accordance with the provisions of Section 8.04(a).

(c) On each Payment Date, after taking into account amounts to be distributed to Securityholders from the 2022-A Series Collection Account, the Servicer will allocate the Reserve Account Draw Amount, if any, reflected in the Payment Date Certificate with respect to the related Collection Period and will instruct the Indenture Trustee to make the following deposits and distributions from the Reserve Account in the following amounts (but not to exceed the Reserve Account Draw Amount) and order of priority:

(i) to the Note Distribution Account, to pay, on a pro rata basis, based on the amount distributable to each class of Notes, any remaining interest due on the outstanding Notes on that Payment Date and, to the extent permitted under applicable law, interest on any overdue interest at the applicable Overdue Interest Rate; and

(ii) to the Note Distribution Account, to pay any remaining Monthly Principal Distributable Amount of the Notes in the amounts and order of priority set forth in Section 8.04(a)(ii).

(d) If on any Payment Date, after giving effect to all deposits to and withdrawals from the Reserve Account, the amount on deposit in the Reserve Account exceeds the Reserve Account Requirement, the Indenture Trustee shall distribute any such excess amounts to the Certificate Distribution Account for distribution to the Trust Certificateholder. Upon any such distributions, the Noteholders will have no further rights in, or claims to, such amounts.

 

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(e) On each Payment Date or Redemption Date, from the amounts on deposit in the Note Distribution Account, the Indenture Trustee shall duly and punctually distribute payments of principal and interest on the Notes due and by check mailed to the Person whose name appears as the registered holder of a Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on the Note Register as of the close of business on the related Record Date, except that with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of (i) the nominee of DTC (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), and (ii) a Person (other than the nominee of DTC) that holds Notes with original denominations aggregating at least $1 million and has given the Indenture Trustee appropriate written instructions at least five (5) Business Days prior to the related Record Date (which instructions, until revised, shall remain operative for all Payment Dates thereafter), payments will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by such nominee or Person. Such checks shall be mailed to the Person entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note Register as of the related Record Date without requiring that the Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal amount of any Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) affected by any payments made on any Payment Date or Redemption Date shall be binding upon all future holders of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not noted thereon. Amounts properly withheld under the Code by any Person from payment to any Noteholder of interest or principal shall be considered to have been paid by the Indenture Trustee to such Noteholder for purposes of this Indenture. If funds are expected to be available for payment in full of the remaining unpaid principal amount of the Notes on a Payment Date or Redemption Date, then the Issuing Entity or the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Indenture Trustee not less than 10 but no more than 30 days prior to such Payment Date or Redemption Date and, within two (2) Business Days following receipt of such notice, the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuing Entity, will notify each Person who was the registered holder of a Note as of the Record Date preceding the most recent Payment Date or Redemption Date and the amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of the Note at the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee or at the office of the Indenture Trustee’s agent appointed for such purposes located in The Borough of Manhattan in The City of New York.

(f) On each Payment Date, the Indenture Trustee shall include with each distribution an unaudited report (which may be based upon the Payment Date Certificate prepared by the Servicer) to each Person that was a Noteholder as of the close of business on the related Record Date (which shall be Cede & Co. as the nominee of DTC unless Definitive Notes are issued under the limited circumstances described herein) and the Servicer and the Administrative Agent (and the Administrative Agent will provide each Rating Agency with notice thereof pursuant to Section 1.02(k) of the Trust Administration Agreement setting forth the information provided in the Payment Date Certificate to be delivered in accordance with Section 8.03(a), with respect to such Payment Date or the related Record Date or Collection Period, as the case may be.

SECTION 8.05 General Provisions Regarding Accounts.

(a) For so long as no Default or Indenture Default shall have occurred and be continuing, all or a portion of the funds in the 2022-A Series Accounts shall be invested and reinvested by the Indenture Trustee, until the Outstanding Amount of the Notes has been reduced to zero, and thereafter by the Owner Trustee, at the direction of the Administrative Agent in Permitted Investments as set forth in Section 12 of the 2022-A Series Supplement, which mature no later than the Deposit Date succeeding the date of such investment, including those offered by the Indenture Trustee or an Affiliate thereof. No such investment shall be sold prior to maturity.

 

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On each Payment Date, interest and investment earnings on the 2022-A Series Accounts shall be deposited by the Indenture Trustee in the applicable 2022-A Series Account and paid to the Servicer as servicing compensation on any Business Day on or after which such amount is deposited in such account, and any investment expenses and losses resulting from such investment shall be charged to such account.

(b) Subject to Section 6.01(c), the Indenture Trustee shall not in any way be held liable by reason of any insufficiency in the 2022-A Series Accounts resulting from any loss on any Permitted Investment included therein, except for losses attributable to the Indenture Trustee’s failure to make payments on any such Permitted Investments issued by the Indenture Trustee in its commercial capacity as principal obligor and not as trustee, in accordance with their terms.

(c) If (i) the Administrative Agent shall have failed to give investment directions for any funds on deposit in the Reserve Account to the Indenture Trustee by 3:00 p.m., New York City time (or such other time as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent and Indenture Trustee), on any Business Day or (ii) a Default or Indenture 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 5.02 or (iii) if the Notes shall have been declared due and payable following an Indenture Default, amounts collected or receivable from the Owner Trust Estate are being applied in accordance with Section 5.05 as if there had not been such a declaration, then the Indenture Trustee shall, to the fullest extent practicable, invest and reinvest funds in investments that are Permitted Investments as set forth in paragraph (vi) of the definition thereof.

(d) Except as otherwise provided hereunder or agreed in writing among the parties hereto, the Administrative Agent shall retain the authority to institute, participate and join in any plan of reorganization, readjustment, merger or consolidation with respect to the issuer of any securities held hereunder, and, in general, to exercise each and every other power or right with respect to each such asset or investment as individuals generally have and enjoy with respect to their own assets and investment, including power to vote upon any securities.

SECTION 8.06 Release of Owner Trust Estate.

(a) Subject to the payment of its fees and expenses pursuant to Section 6.07, the Indenture Trustee may, and when required by the provisions of this Indenture shall, execute instruments to release property from the lien of this Indenture, or convey the Indenture Trustee’s interest in the same, in a manner and under circumstances that are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture. No party relying upon an instrument executed by the Indenture Trustee as provided in this Article 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 and all sums due the Indenture Trustee have been paid pursuant to Section 6.07, release any remaining portion of the Owner Trust Estate that secured the Notes from the lien of this Indenture and release to the Issuing Entity or any other Person entitled thereto any funds then on deposit in the Series Accounts. Such release shall include delivery to the Issuing Entity or its designee of the 2022-A Series Certificate and transfer of dominion and control over the Reserve Account to the Issuing Entity. The Indenture Trustee shall release property from the lien of this Indenture pursuant to this Section only upon receipt of the Officer’s Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 4.01(iii) hereof.

 

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SECTION 8.07 Release of Interest In 2022-A Leases and 2022-A Vehicles Upon Purchase or Reallocation by the Servicer.

(a) Upon the reallocation from the 2022-A Series to the Unallocated Assets Series or an Other Series, or purchase, of any 2022-A Lease and related 2022-A Vehicle by the Servicer pursuant to Section 8.02 of the Servicing Agreement, the Indenture Trustee, on behalf of the Noteholders, shall, without further action, be deemed to release from the lien of this Indenture any and all rights to receive monies due or to become due with respect to such purchased or reallocated 2022-A Lease and related 2022-A Vehicle and all proceeds thereof and the other property with respect to such 2022-A Lease and related 2022-A Vehicle, and all security and any documents relating thereto, and such 2022-A Lease and related 2022-A Vehicle and all such related security and documents shall be free of any further obligation to the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders.

(b) The Indenture Trustee shall execute such documents and instruments and take such other actions as shall be reasonably requested by the Servicer to effect the release of such rights with respect to such 2022-A Lease and related 2022-A Vehicle pursuant hereto and the assignment of such 2022-A Lease and 2022-A Vehicle by the Issuing Entity.

SECTION 8.08 Opinion of Counsel. The Indenture Trustee shall receive at least seven days’ notice when requested by the Issuing Entity to take any action pursuant to Section 8.06(a) (provided that the Indenture Trustee in its discretion may waive such notice), accompanied by copies of any instruments involved, and the Indenture Trustee may also require (and shall require, to the extent required by the TIA), except in connection with any action contemplated by Section 8.06(b), 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 will 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 Owner Trust Estate. 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.

 

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ARTICLE NINE

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

SECTION 9.01 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders.

(a) Except as provided in Section 9.02, without the consent of any other Person, the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee (when so directed by an Issuing Entity Request), may enter into one or more amendments or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to, or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of, this Indenture or for the purpose of modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders under this Indenture; provided that (i) either (A) any amendment or supplemental indenture that materially and adversely affects the Noteholders shall require the consent of Noteholders holding not less than a Majority Interest of the Notes voting together as a single class, or (B) such amendment or supplemental indenture shall not materially and adversely affect the Noteholders, and (ii) any amendment or supplemental indenture that adversely affects the interests of the Servicer, the Trust Certificateholder, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee or the Administrative Agent shall require the prior consent of the Persons whose interests are adversely affected, provided that the consent of the Servicer, the Trust Certificateholder, the Owner Trustee or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, shall be deemed to have been given if the Depositor does not receive a written objection from such Person within 10 Business Days after a written request for such consent shall have been given. A supplement or amendment shall be deemed not to materially and adversely affect the interests of the Noteholders if (i) the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied with respect to such supplement or amendment, or (ii) the Depositor delivers an Officer’s Certificate to the Indenture Trustee stating that such supplement or amendment will not materially and adversely affect the Noteholders.

(b) It shall not be necessary for the consent of any Person pursuant to this Section for such Person to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment or supplement, but it shall be sufficient if such Person consents to the substance thereof.

(c) Prior to the execution of any amendment or supplemental indenture pursuant to this Section or Section 9.02, the Issuing Entity shall provide each Rating Agency, the Trust Certificateholder, the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee with written notice of the substance of such supplement. No later than 10 Business Days after the execution of any supplemental indenture, the Issuing Entity shall furnish a copy of such supplement to each Rating Agency, the Servicer, the Trust Certificateholder, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee.

(d) The Indenture Trustee is hereby authorized to join in the execution of any such supplemental indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations as may be therein contained.

(e) Prior to the execution of any amendment or supplemental indenture the Indenture Trustee shall receive an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such action shall not (A) affect the treatment of the Notes as debt for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (B) be deemed to cause a taxable exchange of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (C) cause the Issuing Entity, the Depositor or the Titling Company to be taxable as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

(f) Promptly after the execution by the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Section, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to the Noteholders to which such amendment or supplemental indenture relates a notice (to be provided by the Issuing Entity) 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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(g) The Indenture Trustee shall be under no obligation to ascertain whether a Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied with respect to any amendment or supplemental indenture. When the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied with respect to such amendment or supplemental indenture, the Servicer shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate to that effect, and the Indenture Trustee may conclusively rely upon the Officer’s Certificate from the Servicer that a Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied with respect to such amendment or supplemental indenture.

SECTION 9.02 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Noteholders. The Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee, when requested by an Issuing Entity Request, also may, with the consent of Noteholders holding not less than a Majority Interest of the Notes voting together as a single class, by Act of such Noteholders delivered to the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee, enter into one or more amendments or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to, or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of, this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders under this Indenture, subject to prior notice to the Rating Agencies and provided that no such supplemental indenture entered into in accordance with this Section 9.02 shall, without the consent of the Noteholder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby:

(a) change the Note Final Scheduled Payment Date of or the date of payment of any installment of principal of or interest on any Note, or reduce the principal amount thereof, the interest rate thereon or the Redemption Price with respect thereto;

(b) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount, the consent of the Noteholders of which is required for any such amendment or supplemental indenture or the consent of the Noteholders of which is required for any waiver of compliance with provisions of this Indenture or Indenture Defaults hereunder and their consequences provided for in this Indenture;

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

(d) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount required to direct the Indenture Trustee to direct the Issuing Entity to sell the Owner Trust Estate pursuant to Section 5.04, if the proceeds of such sale would be insufficient to pay the Outstanding Amount plus accrued but unpaid interest on the Notes;

(e) modify any provision of this Section, except to increase any percentage specified herein or to provide that certain additional provisions of this Indenture or the other Basic Documents cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Noteholder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby;

(f) 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 Payment Date (including the calculation of any of the individual components of such calculation);

 

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(g) permit the creation of any lien ranking prior to or on a parity with the lien of this Indenture with respect to any part of the Owner Trust Estate or, except as otherwise permitted or contemplated herein, terminate the lien of this Indenture on any property at any time subject hereto or deprive any Noteholder of the security provided by the lien of this Indenture; or

(h) impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of payment as provided in Section 5.07.

Any such amendment or supplemental indenture shall be executed only upon delivery of an Opinion of Counsel to the same effect as in Section 9.01(e). The Indenture Trustee may in its discretion determine whether or not any Notes would be affected by any amendment or supplemental indenture and any such determination shall be conclusive upon all Noteholders, whether theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder. The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any such determination made in good faith.

It shall not be necessary for any Act of Noteholders under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.

Promptly after the execution by the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee of any amendment or supplemental indenture pursuant to this Section, 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 amendment or 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 amendment or supplemental indenture.

SECTION 9.03 Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In executing, or permitting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and subject to Sections 6.01 and 6.02, 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 all conditions precedent 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 indemnities under this Indenture or otherwise. No amendment of this Indenture which adversely affects the Owner Trustee shall be effective without its prior written consent.

SECTION 9.04 Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Upon the execution of any amendment or supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this Indenture shall 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 Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee 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 shall be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.

 

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SECTION 9.05 Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures. Notes authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article 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 Issuing Entity or the Indenture Trustee shall so determine, new Notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Indenture Trustee and the Issuing Entity, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Issuing Entity and authenticated and delivered by the Indenture Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Notes.

ARTICLE TEN

REDEMPTION OF NOTES

SECTION 10.01 Redemption.

(a) Pursuant to Section 9.03 of the Trust Agreement, the Servicer shall be permitted at its option to purchase the 2022-A Series Certificate from the Issuing Entity on any Payment Date if, either before or after giving effect to any payment of principal required to be made on such Payment Date, (a) the aggregate Securitization Value of the 2022-A Series Assets is less than or equal to 10% of the initial aggregate Securitization Value of the 2022-A Series Assets as of the Cutoff Date, or (b) the Outstanding Amount of the Notes is reduced to zero and the holders of 100% of the outstanding Trust Certificates consent thereto. In connection with the exercise of an Optional Purchase, the Servicer will deposit, subject to Section 8.04 of the Servicing Agreement, the Optional Purchase Price into the 2022-A Series Collection Account on the Deposit Date relating to the Redemption Date. In connection with an Optional Purchase, all outstanding Notes shall be redeemed on the related Payment Date in whole, but not in part, for the Redemption Price and the 2022-A Series Certificate shall be delivered to or upon the order of the Servicer.

(b) In connection with the exercise of an Optional Purchase, on the Redemption Date, prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, the Indenture Trustee shall apply the Optional Purchase Price as part of the Available Funds from the 2022-A Series Collection Account as follows: (i) to the Note Distribution Account, the Redemption Price, (ii) to the Servicer, unpaid portions of any outstanding Sales Proceeds Advances and Monthly Payment Advances, and the Servicing Fee in respect of the related Collection Period, together with any unpaid Servicing Fees in respect of one or more prior Collection Periods; and (iii) any remaining funds to the Certificate Distribution Account.

(c) If the Notes are to be redeemed pursuant to this Section, the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Entity shall provide at least 10 days’ prior notice (or such longer time period as required by the Depository Agreement) of the redemption of the Notes to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee, and the Indenture Trustee shall provide at least 10 days’ (but no more than 30 days’) notice thereof to the Noteholders.

 

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SECTION 10.02 Form of Redemption Notice. Notice of redemption under Section 10.01 shall be given by the Indenture Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed to each Noteholder as of the close of business on the Record Date of the month preceding the month of the applicable Redemption Date at such Holder’s address appearing in the Note Register. In addition, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Rating Agency upon the redemption of the Notes, pursuant to the Trust Administration Agreement.

All notices of redemption shall state:

(a) the Redemption Date;

(b) the Redemption Price;

(c) the place where the Notes to be redeemed are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price (which shall be the office or agency of the Issuing Entity to be maintained as provided in Section 3.02); and

(d) that on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each such Note and that interest thereon shall cease to accrue from and after the Redemption Date.

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

SECTION 10.03 Notes Payable on Redemption Date. The Notes to be redeemed shall, following notice of redemption as required by Section 10.02, become due and payable on the Redemption Date at the Redemption Price and (unless the Issuing Entity shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price) no interest shall accrue on the Redemption Price for any period after the date to which accrued interest is calculated for purposes of calculating the Redemption Price.

ARTICLE ELEVEN

MISCELLANEOUS

SECTION 11.01 Compliance Certificates and Opinions.

(a) Upon any application or request by the Issuing Entity to the Indenture Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, unless elsewhere specifically provided for herein, the Issuing Entity shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency (i) 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 (ii) an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with and (iii) if required by the TIA, an Independent Certificate from a firm of certified public accountants meeting the applicable requirements of this Section, 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.

 

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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 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 opinion 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) In addition to any obligation imposed in Section 11.01(a) or elsewhere in this Indenture:

(i) Prior to the deposit of any Collateral or other property or securities with the Indenture Trustee that is to be made the basis for the release of any property or securities subject to the lien of this Indenture, the Issuing Entity shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee (if so requested by the Indenture Trustee or required by the TIA) an Officer’s Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each Person signing such certificate as to the fair value (within 90 days of such deposit) to the Issuing Entity of the Collateral or other property or securities to be so deposited.

(ii) Whenever the Issuing Entity would be 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 (i) above if such an Officer’s Certificate had been required by the Indenture Trustee or required by the TIA, regardless of whether such an Officer’s Certificate was so requested or required, the Issuing Entity shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee an Independent Certificate as to the same matters, if the fair value of the property or securities to be so deposited and of all other such securities made the basis of any such withdrawal or release since the commencement of the then-current calendar year of the Issuing Entity, as set forth in the Officer’s Certificate delivered pursuant to clause (i) above, is 10% or more of the Outstanding Amount; provided, however, such Independent Certificate need not be furnished with respect to any securities so deposited, if the fair value thereof to the Issuing Entity as set forth in the related Officer’s Certificate is less than $25,000 or less than 1% of the Outstanding Amount.

(iii) Other than with respect to any release described in clause (A) or (B) of Section 11.01(b)(v), whenever any property or securities are to be released from the lien of this Indenture, the Issuing Entity shall also furnish to the Indenture Trustee (if so requested by the Indenture Trustee or required by the TIA) an Officer’s Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each Person signing such certificate as to the fair value (within 90 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.

 

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(iv) Whenever the Issuing Entity would be 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 (iii) above if such an Officer’s Certificate had been required by the Indenture Trustee or required by the TIA, regardless of whether such an Officer’s Certificate was so requested or required, the Issuing Entity shall 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, or securities (other than property described in clauses (A) or (B) of Section 11.01(b)(v)) released from the lien of this Indenture since the commencement of the then current calendar year, as set forth in the Officer’s Certificates required by clause (iii) above and this clause, equals 10% or more of the Outstanding Amount, but such Officer’s 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 1% of the Outstanding Amount.

(v) Notwithstanding Section 2.08 or any other provision of this Section, the Issuing Entity may (A) collect, liquidate, sell or otherwise dispose of the Collateral as and to the extent permitted or required by the Basic Documents and (B) make cash payments out of the Accounts as and to the extent permitted or required by the Basic Documents.

SECTION 11.02 Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee. 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.

Any certificate or opinion of an Authorized Officer 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 Administrative Agent, the Depositor or the Issuing Entity, stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Administrative Agent, the Depositor or the Issuing Entity, unless such officer or 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.

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.

 

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Whenever in this Indenture, in connection with any application or certificate or report to the Indenture Trustee, it is provided that the Issuing Entity shall deliver any document as a condition of the granting of such application, or as evidence of the Issuing Entity’s compliance with any terms hereof, it is intended that the truth and accuracy, at the time of the granting of such application or at the 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 Issuing Entity 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 Six.

SECTION 11.03 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 may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Noteholders in person or by agents duly appointed in writing; and 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 Issuing Entity. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Noteholders 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 6.01) conclusive in favor of the Indenture Trustee and the Issuing Entity, if made in the manner provided in this Section.

(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 Note 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 Issuing Entity in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Note.

SECTION 11.04 Notices. All demands, notices and communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be delivered or mailed by registered or certified first-class United States mail, postage prepaid, hand delivery, prepaid courier service, by facsimile or electronically by email (if an email address is provided), and addressed in each case as specified on Schedule II to the Series Certificate Sale Agreement or at such other address as shall be designated by any of the specified addressees in a written notice to the other parties hereto. Delivery shall occur only when delivered by hand or, in the case of mail, email or facsimile notice, upon actual receipt or reported tender of such communication by an officer of the intended recipient entitled to receive such notices located at the address of such recipient for notices hereunder; provided, however, any demand, notice or communication to be delivered pursuant to this Indenture to any Rating Agency shall be deemed to be delivered if a copy of such demand, notice or communication has been posted on any web site maintained by NMAC pursuant to a commitment to any Rating Agency relating to the Notes in accordance with 17 C.F.R. 240 17g-5(a)(3).

 

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SECTION 11.05 Notices to Noteholders; Waiver. Where this Indenture provides for notice to Noteholders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first class, postage prepaid to each Noteholder affected by such event, at its address as it appears on the Note Register, not later than the latest and not earlier than the earliest date prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Noteholders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice nor any defect in any notice so mailed to any particular Noteholder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Noteholders, and any notice that is mailed in the manner herein provided shall conclusively be presumed to have been duly given.

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.

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 of 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.

Where this Indenture provides for notice to each Rating Agency, failure to give such notice shall not affect any other rights or obligations created hereunder, and shall not under any circumstance constitute an Indenture Default.

SECTION 11.06 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 11.07 Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in this Indenture and the Notes by the Issuing Entity shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so express or not. All agreements of the Indenture Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successors.

SECTION 11.08 Severability. If any one or more of the covenants, agreement, provisions or terms of this Indenture shall be for any reason whatsoever held invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, then such covenants, agreements, provisions or terms shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants, agreements provisions or terms of this Indenture and shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of the other provisions of this Indenture or of the Notes or the Trust Certificates or the rights of the Holders thereof.

SECTION 11.09 Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or the Notes, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto, the Owner Trustee and their successors hereunder, the Noteholders (and, with respect to Sections 8.03 and 8.04, the Trust Certificateholders), any other party secured hereunder, and any other Person with an ownership interest in any part of the Owner Trust Estate, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.

 

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SECTION 11.10 Legal Holidays. In any case where 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.

SECTION 11.11 Governing Law. THIS INDENTURE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS (OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK), AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

SECTION 11.12 Counterparts and Electronic Signatures. 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. Each party agrees that this Indenture and any other documents to be delivered in connection herewith may be digitally or electronically signed, and that any digital or electronic signatures (including pdf, facsimile or electronically imaged signatures provided by a digital signature provider as specified in writing to the Indenture Trustee) appearing on this Indenture or such other documents shall have the same effect as manual signatures for the purpose of validity, enforceability and admissibility; provided, however, that any documentation with respect to the transfer of Notes or other securities presented to the Indenture Trustee, the Note Registrar or any other transfer agent must contain original, manually executed signatures. Other than with respect to instances in which manual signatures are expressly required by this paragraph, each party hereto shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon, and shall have no liability with respect to, any digital or electronic signature appearing on this Indenture or any other documents to be delivered in connection herewith and shall have no duty to investigate, confirm or otherwise verify the validity or authenticity thereof.

SECTION 11.13 Recording of Indenture. If this Indenture is subject to recording in any appropriate public recording offices, such recording is to be effected by the Issuing Entity accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel (who 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 11.14 Trust Obligation. No recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuing Entity, 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 Trust Certificateholder, (iii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuing Entity or (iv) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director, employee or agent of the

 

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Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, any Trust Certificateholder, the Owner Trustee or of the Indenture Trustee or any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, 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 capacity) 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.

SECTION 11.15 No Petition. The Indenture Trustee, by entering into this Indenture, and each Noteholder or Note Owner, by accepting a Note or in the case of a Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note hereby covenant and agree that prior to the date that is one year and one day after the date upon which all obligations under each Securitized Financing have been paid in full, they will not (and, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Indenture Trustee shall not have the power to) institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against, the Member, the Titling Company, the Depositor, the Issuing Entity, any other Special Purpose Affiliate or any Beneficiary, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation Proceeding or other Proceeding under any federal or state bankruptcy or similar law.

SECTION 11.16 No Recourse. Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, 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 Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Titling Company Registrar 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, the Titling Company Registrar or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuing Entity or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee, the Titling Company Registrar or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity or any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Titling Company Registrar or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee, the Titling Company Registrar or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed 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.

SECTION 11.17 Inspection. The Issuing Entity agrees that on reasonable prior notice it will permit any representative of the Indenture Trustee, during the Issuing Entity’s normal business hours, to examine all the books of account, records, reports and other papers of the Issuing Entity, to make copies and extracts therefrom, to cause such books to be audited by Independent certified public accountants and to discuss the Issuing Entity’s affairs, finances and accounts with the Issuing Entity’s officers, employees and Independent certified public accountants, all at such reasonable times and as often as may be reasonably requested. The Indenture Trustee 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 the Indenture Trustee may reasonably determine that such disclosure is consistent with its obligations hereunder.

 

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SECTION 11.18 Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, this instrument has been countersigned by Wilmington Trust, National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely in its capacity as Owner Trustee of the Issuing Entity and in no event shall Wilmington Trust, National Association in its individual capacity or any beneficial owner of the Issuing Entity have any liability for the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements or other obligations of the Issuing Entity hereunder, as to all of which recourse shall be had solely to the assets of the Issuing Entity. For all purposes of this Indenture, in the performance of any duties or obligations of the Issuing Entity hereunder, the Owner Trustee shall be subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the terms and provisions of Articles Six, Seven and Ten of the Trust Agreement.

SECTION 11.19 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof that is required to be included in this Indenture by any of the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required provision shall control.

SECTION 11.20 Intent of the Parties; Reasonableness. The Indenture Trustee and Issuing Entity acknowledge and agree that the purpose of Section 3.09 and this Section 11.20 is to facilitate compliance by the Issuing Entity and the Depositor with the provisions of Regulation AB and related rules and regulations of the Commission.

Neither the Issuing Entity nor the Administrative Agent (acting on behalf of the Issuing Entity) shall exercise its right to request delivery of information or other performance under these provisions other than in good faith, or for purposes other than compliance with the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. Each of the parties hereto agrees that (a) the obligations of the parties hereunder shall be interpreted in such a manner as to accomplish compliance with Regulation AB, (b) the parties’ obligations hereunder will be supplemented and modified as necessary to be consistent with any such amendments, interpretive advice or guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission, convention or consensus among active participants in the asset-backed securities markets, or otherwise in respect of the requirements of Regulation AB as they may be applied by the Securities and Exchange Commission to the Issuing Entity in connection with the Notes and (c) the parties shall comply with reasonable requests made by or on behalf of the Issuing Entity or the Indenture Trustee for delivery of additional or different information, to the extent such information is available, as the person requesting such information may determine in good faith is necessary for it to comply with the provisions of Regulation AB.

The Issuing Entity (or the Administrative Agent, acting on behalf of the Issuing Entity) shall cooperate with the Indenture Trustee by providing timely notice of requests for information under these provisions and by reasonably limiting such requests to information required, in the reasonable judgment of the Issuing Entity to comply with Regulation AB.

 

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SECTION 11.21 Dispute Resolution.

(a) If the Depositor, Issuing Entity, an Investor, the Owner Trustee (acting at the direction of a Trust Certificateholder) or the Indenture Trustee (acting at the direction of an Investor pursuant to Section 7.07) (the “Requesting Party”) requests that the Servicer purchase or reallocate a 2022-A Lease and the related 2022-A Vehicle from the 2022-A Series to the Unallocated Assets Series or an Other Series pursuant to Section 8.02(b) of the Servicing Agreement and the request has not been fulfilled or otherwise resolved to the reasonable satisfaction of the Requesting Party within 180 days of the receipt of notice of the request by the Servicer, the Requesting Party will have the right to refer the matter, at its discretion, to either mediation or arbitration pursuant to this Section 11.21. If the Requesting Party is the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, as applicable, will follow the direction of the related Investor or Trust Certificateholder, as applicable, during the mediation or arbitration. If both the Owner Trustee (on behalf of one or more Trust Certificateholders) and the Indenture Trustee (on behalf of one or more Investors) are Requesting Parties, then the Indenture Trustee as Requesting Party (at the direction of the Investor that directed the Indenture Trustee to make the request) shall have the right to make the selection of mediation or arbitration.

(b) The Requesting Party will provide notice in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.04 of its intention to refer the matter to mediation or arbitration, as applicable, to the Servicer, with a copy to the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee. The Servicer agrees that it will participate in the resolution method selected by the Requesting Party. The Servicer shall provide notice to the Depositor, Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, and the Indenture Trustee that the Servicer has received a request to mediate or arbitrate a reallocation request. Upon receipt of such notice, the Depositor, the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee (acting at the direction of a Trust Certificateholder) and the Indenture Trustee (acting at the direction of Noteholders or Note Owners pursuant to Section 7.07) shall advise the Requesting Party and the Servicer of an intent to join in the mediation or arbitration, which shall result in their being joined as a Requesting Party in the proceeding. A Requesting Party may not initiate a mediation or arbitration pursuant to this Section 11.21 with respect to a 2022-A Lease that is, or has been, the subject of an ongoing or previous mediation or arbitration (whether by that Requesting Party or another Requesting Party) but will have the right to join an existing mediation or arbitration with respect to that 2022-A Lease if the mediation or arbitration has not yet concluded, subject to a determination by the parties to the existing mediation or arbitration that such joinder would not prejudice the rights of the participants to such existing mediation or arbitration or unduly delay such proceeding.

(c) If the Requesting Party selects mediation as the resolution method, the following provisions will apply:

(i) The mediation will be administered by a nationally recognized arbitration and mediation association selected by the Requesting Party and conducted pursuant to such association’s mediation procedures in effect at such time.

(ii) The fees and expenses of the mediation will be allocated as mutually agreed by the parties as part of the mediation.

(iii) The mediator will be impartial, knowledgeable about and experienced with the laws of the State of New York that are relevant to the dispute and will be appointed from a list of neutrals maintained by the American Arbitration Association (the “AAA”).

 

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(d) If the Requesting Party selects arbitration as the resolution method, the following provisions will apply:

(i) The arbitration will be administered by a nationally recognized arbitration and mediation association jointly selected by the parties, and if the parties are unable to agree on an association, by the AAA, and conducted pursuant to such association’s arbitration procedures in effect at such time.

(ii) The arbitrator will be impartial, knowledgeable about and experienced with the laws of the State of New York that are relevant to the dispute and will be appointed from a list of neutrals maintained by AAA.

(iii) The arbitrator will make its final determination no later than ninety days after appointment or as soon as practicable thereafter. The arbitrator will resolve the dispute in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, and may not modify or change this Agreement in any way. The arbitrator will not have the power to award punitive damages or consequential damages in any arbitration conducted by it, and the Servicer shall not be required to pay more than the applicable Repurchase Payment with respect to any 2022-A Lease and the related 2022-A Vehicle which the Servicer is required to purchase or reallocate from the 2022-A Series to the Unallocated Assets Series or an Other Series under the terms of the Servicing Agreement. In its final determination, the arbitrator will determine and award the costs of the arbitration (including the fees of the arbitrator, cost of any record or transcript of the arbitration, and administrative fees) and reasonable attorneys’ fees to the parties as determined by the arbitrator in its reasonable discretion. If an Asset Review was conducted in connection with the 2022-A Leases that are the subject of the arbitration, then the arbitrator will determine the party or parties required to pay the related Asset Reviewer Fee. The determination of the arbitrator will be in writing and counterpart copies will be promptly delivered to the parties. The determination will be final and non-appealable absent manifest error and may be enforced in any court of competent jurisdiction.

(iv) By selecting arbitration, the Requesting Party is waiving the right to sue in court, including the right to a trial by jury.

(v) No person may bring a putative or certified class action to arbitration.

(e) For the avoidance of doubt, neither the Owner Trustee nor the Indenture Trustee shall be responsible for evaluating the qualification of any mediator or arbitrator or paying the costs, expenses and fees of any mediation or arbitration initiated by a Requesting Party in accordance with this Section 11.21.

(f) The following provisions will apply to both mediations and arbitrations:

(i) Any mediation or arbitration will be held in New York, New York or such other location mutually agreed to by the parties;

(ii) Notwithstanding this dispute resolution provision, the parties will have the right to seek provisional relief from a competent court of law, including a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction or attachment order, provided such relief would otherwise be available by law;

 

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(iii) The details and/or existence of any unfulfilled repurchase request, any meetings or discussions regarding any unfulfilled repurchase request, mediations or arbitration proceedings conducted under this Section 11.21, including all offers, promises, conduct and statements, whether oral or written, made in the course of the parties’ attempt to resolve an unfulfilled repurchase request, any information exchanged in connection with any mediation, and any discovery taken in connection with any arbitration (collectively, “Confidential Information”), shall be and remain confidential and inadmissible (except disclosures required by Applicable Law) for any purpose, including impeachment, in any mediation, arbitration or litigation, or other proceeding (including any proceeding under this Section 11.21) other than as required to be disclosed in accordance with applicable law, regulatory requirements, or court order or to the extent that the Servicer, in its sole discretion, elects to disclose such information. Such information will be kept strictly confidential and will not be disclosed or discussed with any third party,, and except that a party may disclose such information to its own attorneys, experts, accountants and other agents and representatives (collectively “Representatives”), as reasonably required in connection with any resolution procedure under this Section 11.21, and the Asset Representations Reviewer, if an Asset Review has been conducted), if the disclosing Party (a) directs such Representatives to keep the information confidential, (b) is responsible for any disclosure by its Representatives of such information and (c) takes at its sole expense all reasonable measures to restrain such Representatives from disclosing such information. If any party receives a subpoena or other request for information from a third party (other than a governmental regulatory body) for Confidential Information, the recipient will promptly notify the other party and will provide the other party with the opportunity to object to the production of its Confidential Information or seek other appropriate protective remedies, consistent with the applicable requirements of law and regulation. If, in the absence of a protective order, such party or any of its representatives are compelled as a matter of law, regulation, legal process or by regulatory authority to disclose any portion of the Confidential Information, such party may disclose to the party compelling disclosure only the part of such Confidential Information that is required to be disclosed.

[Signature Page to Follow]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuing Entity 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.

 

NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2022-A
By: WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
  not in its individual capacity, but solely as Owner Trustee
By  

/s/ Dorri Costello

  Name: Dorri Costello
  Title:   Vice President

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

as Indenture Trustee

By:  

/s/ Juan S. Hernandez

  Name: Juan S. Hernandez
  Title:   Assistant Vice President

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

as Securities Intermediary

By:  

/s/ Juan S. Hernandez

  Name: Juan S. Hernandez
  Title:   Assistant Vice President

 

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Acknowledged and agreed for purposes of Section 2.19 and Section 11.21 hereof:

 

NISSAN MOTOR ACCEPTANCE COMPANY LLC,

as Servicer

By

 

/s/ Kevin J. Cullum

  Name:  Kevin J. Cullum
  Title:    President

 

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Acknowledged and agreed for purposes of Section 11.21 hereof:

 

NISSAN AUTO LEASING LLC II, as Depositor

By

 

/s/ Douglas E. Gwin, Jr.

  Name:  Douglas E. Gwin, Jr.
  Title:    Assistant Treasurer

 

  

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SCHEDULE I

PERFECTION REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS

In addition to the representations, warranties and covenants contained in this Indenture, the Issuing Entity hereby represents, warrants, and covenants to the Indenture Trustee as follows on the Closing Date:

(1) The Indenture creates a valid and continuing security interest (as defined in the applicable UCC) in the Collateral in favor of the Indenture Trustee, which security interest is prior to all other Liens and is enforceable as such as against creditors of and purchasers from the Issuing Entity.

(2) The 2022-A Series Certificate constitutes a “general intangible,” “instrument,” “certificated security” or “tangible chattel paper,” within the meaning of the applicable UCC. The Accounts and all subaccounts thereof, constitute either deposit accounts or securities accounts.

(3) All of the Collateral that constitutes securities entitlements (other than the 2022-A Series Certificate to the extent the 2022-A Series Certificate constitutes a certificated security) has been or will have been credited to one of the Accounts. The securities intermediary for each Account has agreed to treat all assets credited to the Accounts as “financial assets” within the meaning of the applicable UCC.

(4) The Issuing Entity owns and has good and marketable title to the Collateral free and clear of any Liens, claim or encumbrance of any Person, excepting only liens for taxes, assessments or similar governmental charges or levies incurred in the ordinary course of business that are not yet due and payable or as to which any applicable grace period shall not have expired, or that are being contested in good faith by proper proceedings and for which adequate reserves have been established, but only so long as foreclosure with respect to such a lien is not imminent and the use and value of the property to which the Liens attaches is not impaired during the pendency of such proceeding.

(5) The Issuing Entity has received all consents and approvals to the grant of the security interest in the Collateral hereunder to the Indenture Trustee required by the terms of the Collateral that constitutes instruments or payment intangibles.

(6) The Issuing Entity has received all consents and approvals required by the terms of the Collateral that constitutes securities entitlements, certificated securities or uncertificated securities to the transfer to the Indenture Trustee of its interest and rights in the Collateral hereunder.

(7) The Issuing Entity has caused or will have caused, within ten days after the effective date of the Indenture, the filing of all appropriate financing statements in the proper filing office in the appropriate jurisdictions under applicable law in order to perfect the security interest in the Collateral (to the extent such security interest can be perfected by the filing of a financing statement) granted to the Indenture Trustee hereunder.

 

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(8) With respect to Collateral that constitutes an instrument or tangible chattel paper, either:

a. All original executed copies of each such instrument or tangible chattel paper have been delivered to the Indenture Trustee; or

b. Such instruments or tangible chattel paper are in the possession of a custodian and the Indenture Trustee has received a written acknowledgment from such custodian that such custodian is holding such instruments or tangible chattel paper solely on behalf and for the benefit of the Indenture Trustee; or

c. A custodian received possession of such instruments or tangible chattel paper after the Indenture Trustee received a written acknowledgment from such custodian that such custodian is acting solely as agent of the Indenture Trustee.

(9) With respect to Collateral that constitutes electronic chattel paper, the Servicer, as an agent of the Issuing Entity, and to the extent allowed by law:

a. Maintains “control,” as defined in Section 9-105 of the UCC, of all electronic chattel paper.

(10) With respect to the Accounts and all subaccounts thereof that constitute deposit accounts, either:

a. The Issuing Entity has delivered to the Indenture Trustee a fully executed agreement pursuant to which the bank maintaining the deposit accounts has agreed to comply with all instructions originated by the Indenture Trustee directing disposition of the funds in the Accounts without further consent by the Issuing Entity; or

b. The Issuing Entity has taken all steps necessary to cause the Indenture Trustee to become the account holder of the Accounts.

(11) With respect to Collateral or Accounts or subaccounts thereof that constitute securities accounts or securities entitlements, either:

a. The Issuing Entity has caused or will have caused, within ten days after the effective date of the Indenture, the filing of all appropriate financing statements in the proper filing office in the appropriate jurisdictions under applicable law in order to perfect the security interest granted in the Collateral to the Indenture Trustee; or

b. The Issuing Entity has delivered to the Indenture Trustee a fully executed agreement pursuant to which the securities intermediary has agreed to comply with all instructions originated by the Indenture Trustee relating to the Accounts without further consent by the Issuing Entity; or

c. The Issuing Entity has taken all steps necessary to cause the securities intermediary to identify in its records the Indenture Trustee as the person having a security entitlement against the securities intermediary in the Accounts.

(12) With respect to Collateral that constitutes certificated securities (other than securities entitlements), all original executed copies of each security certificate that constitutes or evidences the Collateral have been delivered to the Indenture Trustee, and each such security certificate either (i) is in bearer form, (ii) has been indorsed by an effective endorsement to the Indenture Trustee or in blank, or (iii) has been registered in the name of the Indenture Trustee.

 

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Other than the transfer of the 2022-A Series and the 2022-A Series Certificate from NILT LLC to the Depositor under the Series Certificate Sale Agreement, the transfer of the 2022-A Series and the 2022-A Series Certificate from the Depositor to the Issuing Entity under the Series Certificate Transfer Agreement and the security interest in the Collateral granted to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Indenture, none of NILT LLC, the Depositor or the Issuing Entity has pledged, assigned, sold, granted a security interest in, or otherwise conveyed any of the Collateral or the Accounts or any subaccounts thereof. The Issuing Entity has not authorized the filing of, or is aware of any financing statements against the Issuing Entity that include a description of collateral covering the Collateral or the Accounts or any subaccount thereof other than any financing statement relating to the security interest granted to the Indenture Trustee hereunder or that has been terminated.

(13) None of the instruments, certificated securities or tangible chattel paper that constitute or evidence the Collateral has any marks or notations indicating that they have been pledged, assigned or otherwise conveyed to any Person other than the Indenture Trustee.

(14) Neither the Accounts nor any subaccounts thereof are in the name of any person other than the Issuing Entity or the Indenture Trustee. The Issuing Entity has not consented to the securities intermediary of any Account to comply with entitlement orders of any person other than the Indenture Trustee.

As used in this Schedule I, “Collateral” has the meaning set forth in the Granting Clause of the Indenture.

 

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EXHIBIT A

FORM OF CLASS [A-1] [A-2a] [A-2b] [A-3] [A-4] NOTE

SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

[UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUING ENTITY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.]1

THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE AS SET FORTH HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.

TRANSFERS OF THE NOTES MUST GENERALLY BE ACCOMPANIED BY APPROPRIATE TAX TRANSFER DOCUMENTATION AND ARE SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS AS PROVIDED IN THE INDENTURE.

THE HOLDER, BY ACCEPTANCE OF THIS NOTE, SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE AGREED TO TREAT THE NOTES AS DEBT FOR UNITED STATES FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL INCOME, SINGLE BUSINESS AND FRANCHISE TAX PURPOSES.

THIS NOTE IS SOLELY AN OBLIGATION OF THE ISSUING ENTITY AND IS NOT AN OBLIGATION OF, AND WILL NOT BE INSURED OR GUARANTEED BY, ANY GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY OR NISSAN AUTO LEASING LLC II, NISSAN MOTOR ACCEPTANCE COMPANY LLC, NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC., NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD., ANY TRUSTEE OR ANY OF THEIR AFFILIATES.

BY ITS ACQUISITION OF THIS NOTE (OR INTEREST HEREIN), EACH PURCHASER AND TRANSFEREE (AND IF THE PURCHASER OR TRANSFEREE IS A PLAN (AS DEFINED BELOW), ITS FIDUCIARY) IS DEEMED TO REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT EITHER (A) SUCH PURCHASER OR TRANSFEREE IS NOT ACQUIRING THIS NOTE (OR INTEREST HEREIN) WITH THE ASSETS OF A PLAN (AS DEFINED BELOW) SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”), SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”) OR ANY LAW THAT IS SIMILAR TO THE FIDUCIARY AND PROHIBITED TRANSACTION PROVISIONS OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE (“SIMILAR LAW”) OR (B) THE ACQUISITION AND HOLDING OF THIS NOTE (OR INTEREST HEREIN) WILL NOT GIVE RISE TO A

 

1 

For Book-Entry Notes only.

 

   A-1    (NALT 2022-A Indenture)


NONEXEMPT PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE OR A VIOLATION OF SIMILAR LAW. PLANS (AS DEFINED BELOW) THAT ARE SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF ERISA, SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE, OR SIMILAR LAW MAY NOT ACQUIRE THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME THAT THE RATINGS ON THIS NOTE IS BELOW INVESTMENT GRADE OR THIS NOTE HAS BEEN CHARACTERIZED AS OTHER THAN INDEBTEDNESS FOR APPLICABLE LOCAL LAW PURPOSES. A “PLAN” MEANS AN “EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN” AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA WHETHER OR NOT SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF ERISA, A “PLAN” AS DEFINED IN SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE, OR AN ENTITY DEEMED TO HOLD PLAN ASSETS OF THE FOREGOING.

[THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES OR “BLUE SKY” LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION, AND MAY NOT BE RESOLD, ASSIGNED, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES OR “BLUE SKY” LAWS, PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION THEREFROM OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT THERETO.]

 

   A-2    (NALT 2022-A Indenture)


NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2022-A

[SOFR Rate +] [•]% ASSET BACKED NOTE,

CLASS [A-1] [A-2a] [A-2b] [A-3] [A-4]

 

REGISTERED
No. R-___
   $_________
CUSIP NO._________

Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2022-A, a statutory trust organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (including any permitted successors and assigns, the “Issuing Entity”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of _______________________ ($_____________) in monthly installments on the 15th day of each month, or if such day is not a Business Day, on the immediately succeeding Business Day, commencing on July 15, 2022 (each, a “Payment Date”), until the principal of this Note is paid or made available for payment, and to pay interest on each Payment Date on the Outstanding Class [A-1] [A-2a] [A-2b] [A-3] [A-4] Note Balance as of the preceding Payment Date (after giving effect to all payments of principal made on the preceding Payment Date), or as of the Closing Date in the case of the first Payment Date or if no interest has yet been paid, [for the Class [A-1] and [A-2b] Notes, during the period from and including the previous Payment Date on which interest was paid, or as of the Closing Date if no interest has yet been paid, to but excluding the current Payment Date] [for the Class [A-2a], [A-3] and [A-4] Notes, during the period from and including the 15th day of the preceding calendar month, or as of the Closing Date if no interest has yet been paid, to but excluding the 15th day of the month in which such Payment Date occurs] at the rate [per annum shown above] [of the SOFR Rate plus [_]%] (the “Interest Rate”), in each case as and to the extent described below; provided, however, that the entire Class [A-1] [A-2a] [A-2b] [A-3] [A-4] Note Balance shall be due and payable on the earlier of [•], [•] (the “Note Final Scheduled Payment Date”) and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.01 of the Indenture. The Issuing Entity shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the Interest Rate to the extent lawful. Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the reverse hereof.

The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin or currency of the United States as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Issuing Entity 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 the name of which 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.

 

   A-3    (NALT 2022-A Indenture)


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuing Entity has caused this instrument to be signed, manually or by facsimile, by its Authorized Officer as of the date set forth below.

 

Dated: _________________, 2022

 

NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2022-A,

By: WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee

By:    
  Name:
  Title:

 

   A-4    (NALT 2022-A Indenture)


INDENTURE TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

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

 

Dated: _________________, 2022    

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Indenture Trustee

 

    By:    

 

      Name:
      Title:

 

   A-5    (NALT 2022-A Indenture)


REVERSE OF NOTE

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuing Entity, designated as its “[SOFR Rate +][•]% Asset Backed Notes, Class [A-1] [A-2a] [A-2b] [A-3] [A-4]” (herein called the “Notes”) issued under an Indenture, dated as of June 29, 2022 (such indenture, as supplemented or amended, is herein called the “Indenture”), between the Issuing Entity and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”, which term includes any successor Indenture 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 Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders. The Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture. All terms used 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, as so supplemented or amended.

The Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes are and will be equally and ratably secured by the Collateral pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture. However, to the extent provided in the Indenture, each Class will receive principal payment sequentially so that, except as otherwise provided in the Indenture, no principal payments shall be made in respect of (i) the Class A-2 Notes until the Class A-1 Notes have been paid in full, (ii) the Class A-3 Notes until the Class A-2 Notes have been paid in full and (iii) the Class A-4 Notes until the Class A-3 Notes have been paid in full.

Principal payable on the Notes will be paid on each Payment Date in the amount specified in the Indenture. As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note will be payable on the earlier of the Note Final Scheduled Payment Date and the Redemption Date, if any, selected pursuant to the Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, under certain circumstances, the entire unpaid principal amount of the Notes shall be due and payable following the occurrence and continuance of an Indenture Default, as described in the Indenture. In such an event, first, principal payments on the Class A-1 Notes shall be made, and second, principal payments on the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes shall be made pro rata, in each case, to the Noteholders entitled thereto.

Payments of principal and interest on this Note due and payable on each Payment Date or Redemption Date shall be made by check mailed to the Person whose name appears as the registered holder of this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on the Note Register as of the close of business on the related Record Date, except that with respect to Notes registered on the Deposit Date in the name of (i) the nominee of DTC (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), and (ii) a Person (other than the nominee of DTC) that holds Notes with original denominations aggregating at least $1 million and has given the Indenture Trustee appropriate written instructions at least five Business Days prior to the related Record Date (which instructions, until revised, shall remain operative for all Payment Dates thereafter), payments will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by such nominee or Person. Such checks shall be mailed to the Person entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note Register as of the related Record Date without requiring that this Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal amount of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) affected by any payments made on any Payment Date or Redemption Date shall be binding upon all future holders of this Note and of any Note issued

 

   A-6    (NALT 2022-A Indenture)


A-7upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be available, pursuant to the notice delivered to the Indenture Trustee, for payment in full of the remaining unpaid principal amount of this Note on a Payment Date or Redemption Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuing Entity, will notify the Person who was the registered holder hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Payment Date or Redemption Date by notice mailed within 10 days of such Payment Date or Redemption Date (or such longer time period as required by the Depository Agreement) and the amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Note at the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee or at the office of the Indenture Trustee’s agent appointed for such purposes located in The City of New York.

Pursuant to Section 9.03 of the Trust Agreement, the Servicer will be permitted at its option to purchase the 2022-A Series Certificate from the Issuing Entity on any Payment Date if the conditions set forth therein are satisfied.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations set forth therein, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the Issuing Entity pursuant to the Indenture. No service charge will be charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this Note, but the transferor may be required to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any such registration of transfer or exchange.

Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of this Note or, in the case of this Note Owner, a beneficial interest in this Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuing Entity, 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 its individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuing Entity or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed 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.

The Notes represent obligations of the Issuing Entity only and do not represent interests in, recourse to or obligations of the Depositor, the Member or any of their respective Affiliates.

Each Noteholder by acceptance of this Note, or in the case of this Note Owner, by acceptance of a beneficial interest in the Notes, hereby covenants and agrees that prior to the date that is one year and one day after the date upon which all obligations under each Securitized Financing have been paid in full, it will not institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against the Member, the Titling Company, the Depositor, the Issuing Entity and any other Special Purpose Affiliate, any member of any Special Purpose Affiliate or any Beneficiary, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation Proceeding or other Proceeding under any federal or state bankruptcy or similar law.

 

   A-7    (NALT 2022-A Indenture)


Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee and their respective agents shall 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 whatsoever, whether or not this Note be overdue, and none of the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee or any of their respective agents 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 Issuing Entity and the rights of the Noteholders under the Indenture at any time by the Issuing Entity with the consent of Noteholders representing not less than a Majority Interest of the Notes. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting Noteholders representing specified percentages of the Outstanding Amount, on behalf of all Noteholders, to waive compliance by the Issuing Entity with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past Defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Noteholder of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Noteholder and upon all future Noteholders 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 to amend or waive certain terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of the Noteholders.

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 New York, and the obligations, rights and remedies of the parties hereunder and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuing Entity, 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.

 

   A-8    (NALT 2022-A Indenture)


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 attorney, to transfer said Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

 

Dated:

        

 

Signature Guaranteed:

   

 

   A-9    (NALT 2022-A Indenture)


EXHIBIT B

Servicing Criteria To Be Addressed In Assessment Of Compliance

The assessment of compliance to be delivered by the Indenture Trustee, shall address, and be limited to, the criteria identified below as “Applicable Servicing Criteria”:

 

Reference    Criteria
     Cash Collection and Administration
1122(d)(2)(ii)    Disbursements made via wire transfer on behalf of an obligor or to an investor are made only by authorized personnel.
1122(d)(2)(iv)    The related accounts for the transaction, such as cash reserve accounts or accounts established as a form of overcollateralization, are separately maintained (e.g., with respect to commingling of cash) as set forth in the transaction agreements.
     Investor Remittances and Reporting
1122(d)(3)(ii)    Amounts due to investors are allocated and remitted in accordance with timeframes, distribution priority and other terms set forth in the transaction agreements.
1122(d)(3)(iii)    Disbursements made to an investor are posted within two business days to the Servicer’s investor records, or such other number of days specified in the transaction agreements.
1122(d)(3)(iv)    Amounts remitted to investors per the investor reports agree with cancelled checks, or other form of payment, or custodial bank statements.

 

   B-1    (NALT 2022-A Indenture)


EXHIBIT C

ASSET REPURCHASE DEMAND ACTIVITY REPORT

Reporting Period:

[    ] Check here if nothing to report.

 

Transaction

  

Lease No.

 

Activity During Period

 

Date of Reputed Demand

  

Party Making Reputed Demand

 

Date of Withdrawal of Reputed Demand

NALT 2022-A

                 
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   

 

 

 

 

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Exhibit 10.1

NISSAN-INFINITI LT LLC

2022-A SERIES SUPPLEMENT

June 29, 2022

 

To:

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association,

as Titling Company Registrar of Nissan-Infiniti LT LLC (the “Company”)

 

Re:

Designation of 2022-A Series Interest

 

cc:

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, not in its individual capacity, but as Indenture Trustee, as Registered Pledgee; Nissan Motor Acceptance Company LLC, as Administrator

Reference is made to the Limited Liability Company Agreement of the Company, dated as of April 1, 2021 (as amended from time to time, the “Titling Company Agreement”), among NILT LLC, as member of the Company (in such capacity, the “Member”), Nissan Motor Acceptance Company LLC (“NMAC”), as manager (in such capacity, the “Administrator”), and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, a national banking association, as Titling Company Registrar (in such capacity, the “Titling Company Registrar”). Unless otherwise defined herein, all capitalized terms will have the meanings ascribed thereto in Annex A to the Series Certificate Sale Agreement dated as of the date hereof, by and between NILT LLC and Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II, and, if not defined therein, will have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Titling Company Agreement, which also contains rules as to usage that are applicable herein.

1. Pursuant to Section 4.1(a) of the Titling Company Agreement, a new Series Interest, to be known as the “Nissan-Infiniti LT LLC—2022-A Series Interest” (the “2022-A Series Interest”) is hereby established and formed, and there shall be issued a Certificate representing the 2022-A Series Interest (the “2022-A Series Certificate”), substantially in the form of Exhibit A, representing the entire 2022-A Series Interest. The 2022-A Series Interest shall have the Series Assets allocated to and associated with from time to time such Series Interest and listed in the Schedule of 2022-A Series Assets (the “2022-A Series Assets”).

2. The 2022-A Series Interest is a separate protected series of the Company within the meaning of Section 18-215(b) of the Act.

3. Pursuant to Section 4.1(c)(i) of the Titling Company Agreement, the Series Issue Date of the 2022-A Series Interest is June 29, 2022 (the “2022-A Series Issue Date”).

4. Pursuant to Section 4.1(c)(iv) of the Titling Company Agreement, Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2022-A is designated as the registered Holder of the entire 2022-A Series Interest as of the 2022-A Series Issue Date. You are directed to authenticate, as of the 2022-A Series Issue Date, the following Series Certificates: (i) the initial 2022-A Series Certificate issued to NILT LLC designated as 2022-A Series Certificate No. 1, which will represent the entire 2022-A Series Interest (the “Initial 2022-A Series Certificate”); (ii) and immediately thereafter the 2022-A Series Certificate issued to Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II designated as 2022-A Series Certificate No. 2, which will represent the entire 2022-A Series Interest (the “Depositor 2022-A Series Certificate”); and (iii) immediately thereafter, the final 2022-A Series Certificate issued to the Issuing Entity designated as 2022-A Series Certificate No. 3, which will represent the entire 2022-A Series Interest.

 

      (NALT 2022-A Series Supplement)


The Initial 2022-A Series Certificate and Depositor 2022-A Series Certificate shall be submitted for cancellation pursuant to Section 5.4(c) of the Titling Company Agreement. For purposes of transfer of the Initial 2022-A Series Certificate to Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II and the transfer of the Depositor 2022-A Series Certificate to the Issuing Entity on the date hereof, the instruments of transfer and certifications regarding representations and warranties referenced in Sections 5.4(a) and 5.4(e) of the Titling Company Agreement shall not be required.

5. The 2022-A Series Interest is a Fixed Series Interest.

6. The 2022-A Series Certificate is issued as a single class.

7. Pursuant to Section 4.1(c)(v) of the Titling Company Agreement, the Series Cutoff Date for the 2022-A Series Interest will be May 31, 2022.

8. Rights in Respect of the 2022-A Series Interest: Each Holder and Registered Pledgee of the 2022-A Series Certificate is a third-party beneficiary of this Series Supplement and the Titling Company Agreement insofar as this 2022-A Series Supplement and the Titling Company Agreement apply to the 2022-A Series Interest, the Holders of the 2022-A Series Certificate and the Registered Pledgees of the 2022-A Series Certificate. Therefore, to the extent references in the Titling Company Agreement to the ability of a “Holder” or a “Registered Pledgee” of a Series Certificate to take any action shall be deemed to refer to the Indenture Trustee (as Registered Pledgee of the 2022-A Series Certificate), acting at the direction of the Required Percentage of the Noteholders and thereafter, the Owner Trustee, acting at the direction of the Required Percentage of the Trust Certificateholders (which for this purpose shall include the Trust Certificates owned by the Issuing Entity, the Depositor, the Servicer (so long as NMAC or an Affiliate is the Servicer) and any of their respective Affiliates) until the final distribution is made with respect to the 2022-A Series Assets.

9. Transfer Restrictions.

(a) The 2022-A Series Certificate (or the 2022-A Series Interest represented thereby) may not be acquired or held by or on behalf of any Benefit Plan Investor. The 2022-A Series Certificate (or the 2022-A Series Interest represented thereby) may not be acquired or held by or on behalf of a Plan that is subject to Similar Law if the acquisition, holding and disposition of the 2022-A Series Certificate (or the 2022-A Series Interest represented thereby) would result in a violation of Similar Law or would result in the assets of the Company being (i) considered plan assets of such Plan or (ii) subject to Similar Law.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision herein, no transfer or assignment of the 2022-A Series Certificate or the 2022-A Series Interest represented thereby (other than transfer or assignments to the Depositor or the Issuing Entity and the related pledge to the Indenture Trustee) will be valid, and any such purported transfer or assignment shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be deemed null, void, and of no effect herewith, unless the purported transferee first shall have certified in writing to the Titling Company and the Administrator that, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the transferee is not a partnership, S Corporation (as defined in the Code), or grantor trust having more than one beneficial owner or having a single beneficial owner that is a partnership or S Corporation.

 

   2    (NALT 2022-A Series Supplement)


10. 2022-A Series Collection Account.

(a) With respect to the 2022-A Series Interest, the Servicer, on or prior to the Closing Date, shall establish and maintain in the name of the Registered Pledgee until the Outstanding Amount of the Notes is zero, and thereafter in the name of the Holder, the 2022-A Series Collection Account (the “2022-A Series Collection Account”). The 2022-A Series Collection Account shall be initially established with the Registered Pledgee. If the 2022-A Series Collection Account shall cease to be an Eligible Account or if the Servicer, in its sole discretion, notifies the Registered Pledgee in writing that the 2022-A Series Collection Account should be moved, then the Servicer shall, with the assistance of the Registered Pledgee, as necessary, cause such 2022-A Series Collection Account to be moved to an alternate institution selected by the Servicer. The 2022-A Series Collection Account shall be related solely to the 2022-A Series and the 2022-A Series Assets, and funds therein shall not be commingled with any other monies, except as otherwise provided for in, or contemplated by, the Titling Company Agreement or in the Servicing Agreement. All deposits into the 2022-A Series Collection Account shall be made as described in the Servicing Agreement.

(b) On each Deposit Date and Payment Date, pursuant to the instructions from the Servicer, the Registered Pledgee shall make deposits and withdrawals from the 2022-A Series Collection Account as set forth in the 2022-A Series Servicing Supplement.

(c) Any transfer of funds to a Holder of a 2022-A Series Certificate shall be made as directed pursuant to the Basic Documents.

11. 2022-A Reserve Account. Pursuant to Section 5.01(b) of the Trust Agreement, the Servicer, on behalf of the Issuing Entity, on or prior to the Closing Date, shall establish and maintain the Reserve Account (i) with the Indenture Trustee, until the Outstanding Amount is reduced to zero, and (ii) thereafter with the Owner Trustee. Deposits to and withdrawals from the Reserve Account shall be made as directed pursuant to the Basic Documents, including Section 8.04(c) of the Indenture, Section 8.03 of the 2022-A Series Servicing Supplement and Section 12 of this 2022-A Series Supplement.

12. Investment of Monies in 2022-A Series Accounts. All amounts held in the 2022-A Series Collection Account and the Reserve Account shall be invested in Permitted Investments in accordance with Section 8.05(a) of the Indenture.

13. Termination of 2022-A Series.

(a) If all of the Series Assets allocated to or associated with the 2022-A Series Interest have been liquidated into cash and all such cash shall have been distributed, then, at the direction of the Holder of the 2022-A Series Certificate, the 2022-A Series Interest shall be terminated and the 2022-A Series Certificate shall be returned to the Titling Company Registrar and canceled.

 

   3    (NALT 2022-A Series Supplement)


(b) Upon a written direction to the Administrator from the Holder of the 2022-A Series Certificate (subject to the rights of the Registered Pledgee), the Administrator shall (at the expense of the Holder of the 2022-A Series Certificate), subject to the Act, either (i) distribute the 2022-A Series Assets to the Holder of the 2022-A Series Certificate or (ii) allocate to, and associate with, the 2022-A Series Assets to the Unallocated Assets Series or to an Other Series, as directed by such Holder; provided, however, that the 2022-A Series Assets shall not be subject to such distribution or allocation and association prior to the earlier of (x) the acceleration of the Notes under Section 5.02 of the Indenture following an Indenture Default or (y) payment in full of principal of, and accrued interest on, the Notes.

14. Amendments.

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of the Titling Company Agreement, the Titling Company Agreement, as supplemented by this 2022-A Series Supplement, to the extent that it relates solely to the 2022-A Series, may be amended in accordance with this Section 14.

(b) Any term or provision of this 2022-A Series Supplement may be amended by the parties hereto, without the consent of any other Person; provided that (i) either (A) any amendment that materially and adversely affects the Noteholders shall require the consent of Noteholders evidencing not less than a Majority Interest of the Notes voting together as a single class, or (B) such amendment shall not materially and adversely affect the Noteholders, and (ii) any amendment that adversely affects the interests of the Trust Certificateholder, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee shall require the prior written consent of each Person whose interests are adversely affected. An amendment shall be deemed not to materially and adversely affect the Noteholders if (i) the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied with respect to such amendment, or (ii) the Member delivers an Officer’s Certificate to the Indenture Trustee stating that such amendment shall not materially and adversely affect the Noteholders. The consent of the Trust Certificateholder or the Owner Trustee shall be deemed to have been given if the Member does not receive a written objection from such Person within ten (10) Business Days after a written request for such consent shall have been given. The Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee may, but shall not be obliged to, enter into or consent to any such amendment that affects the Indenture Trustee’s or the Owner Trustee’s own rights, duties, liabilities or immunities under this Series Supplement or otherwise.

(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, no amendment shall (i) reduce the interest rate or principal amount of any Note, or change the due date of any installment of principal of or interest in any Note, or the Redemption Price with respect thereto, without the consent of the Noteholder, or (ii) reduce the Outstanding Amount, the Holders of which are required to consent to any matter without the consent of the Holders of at least a Majority Interest of the Notes which were required to consent to such matter before giving effect to such amendment.

(d) It shall not be necessary for the consent of any Person pursuant to this Section for such Person to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, but it shall be sufficient if such Person consents to the substance thereof.

(e) Prior to the execution of any amendment to this 2022-A Series Supplement, the Member shall provide each Rating Agency, the Trust Certificateholder, the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee with written notice of the substance of such amendment. No later than 10 Business Days after the execution of any amendment to this 2022-A Series Supplement, the Member shall furnish a copy of such amendment to each Rating Agency, the Issuing Entity, the Trust Certificateholder, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee.

 

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(f) Prior to the execution of any amendment to this 2022-A Series Supplement, the Member shall provide an Opinion of Counsel to the Titling Company Registrar to the effect that after such amendment, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the Company will not be treated as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation and the Notes (other than Tax Retained Notes) will properly be characterized as indebtedness.

(g) The Indenture Trustee shall not be under any obligation to ascertain whether a Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied with respect to any amendment. When the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied with respect to such amendment, the Member shall deliver to a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate to that effect, and the Indenture Trustee may conclusively rely upon the Officer’s Certificate from the Member that a Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied with respect to such amendment.

15. Governing Law. THIS 2022-A SERIES SUPPLEMENT WILL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE (WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAWS PRINCIPLES), ALL RIGHTS AND REMEDIES BEING GOVERNED BY SAID LAWS.

16. LLC Agreement. For all purposes of the Act, the Titling Company Agreement, together with each Series Supplement (including this 2022-A Series Supplement) and Series Designation Notice, shall constitute the “limited liability company agreement” of the Company within the meaning of the Act. The terms and provisions of each Series Supplement (including this Series Supplement) and Series Designation Notice may have the effect of altering, supplementing or amending the terms and provisions of the Titling Company Agreement with respect to the Series governed or established thereby, but shall not alter, supplement or amend the terms of the Titling Company Agreement with respect to any other Series. To the extent that any of the terms or provisions of a Series Supplement or Series Designation Notice conflict with any of the terms or provisions of the Titling Company Agreement, the terms or provisions of such Series Supplement or Series Designation Notice shall control with respect to such Series. The Holder hereby agrees that it is bound by the Titling Company Agreement.

17. Third Party Beneficiaries. Each of the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee shall be a third-party beneficiary hereof with the right to enforce this 2022-A Series Supplement to the same extent as if a party hereto.

18. Limitation on Owner Trustee Liability. It is expressly understood and agreed by the parties hereto that (a) this 2022-A Series Supplement is executed and delivered by Wilmington Trust, National Association (“WTNA”), not individually or personally, but solely as Owner Trustee of the Holder, in the exercise of the powers and authority conferred and vested in it, (b) each of the representations, undertakings and agreements herein made on the part of the Holder is made and intended not as a personal representation, undertaking or agreement by WTNA, but is made and intended for the purpose of binding only the Holder, (c) nothing herein contained shall be construed as creating any liability on WTNA, individually or personally, to perform any covenant either expressed or implied contained herein, all such liability, if any, being expressly

 

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waived by the parties hereto and by any Person claiming by, through or under the parties hereto and (d) under no circumstances shall WTNA be personally liable for the payment of any indebtedness or expenses of the Holder or be liable for the breach or failure of any obligation, representation, warranty or covenant made or undertaken by the Holder under this 2022-A Series Supplement or any other related documents.

19. Counterparts; Electronic Signatures. This 2022-A Series Supplement may be executed (including by way of electronic or facsimile transmission) in any number of counterparts and by separate parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which when executed shall be deemed an original, but all counterparts taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument. The parties acknowledge and agree that they may execute this 2022-A Series Supplement and any variation or amendment to the same, by electronic instrument. The parties agree that the electronic signatures appearing on the document shall have the same effect as handwritten signatures and the use of an electronic signature on this 2022-A Series Supplement shall have the same validity and legal effect as the use of a signature affixed by hand and is made with the intention of authenticating this 2022-A Series Supplement, and evidencing the parties’ intention to be bound by the terms and conditions contained herein. For the purposes of using an electronic signature, the parties authorize each other to the lawful processing of personal data of the signers for contract performance and their legitimate interests including contract management.

20. Notices: The notice provisions of Section 11.3 of the Titling Company Agreement shall apply equally to this 2022-A Series Supplement. A copy of each notice or other writing required to be delivered pursuant to this 2022-A Series Supplement shall be in writing and, unless otherwise expressly provided herein, shall be deemed to have been duly given or made when delivered by hand or, in the case of mail, email (if an email address is provided) or facsimile notice, when actually received by the intended recipient, and addressed in each case as specified on Schedule II to the Series Certificate Sale Agreement or at such other address as shall be designated by any of the specified addressees in a written notice to the other parties hereto; provided, however, any demand, notice or communication to be delivered pursuant to the Series LLC Agreement to any Rating Agency shall be deemed to be delivered if a copy of such demand, notice or communication has been posted on any web site maintained by NMAC pursuant to a commitment to any Rating Agency relating to the Notes in accordance with 17 C.F.R. 240 17g-5(a)(3).

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Member has caused this 2022-A Series Supplement to be duly executed and delivered by its officer hereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above written.

 

NILT LLC, as Member

By:  

/s/ Douglas E. Gwin, Jr.

Name:

  Douglas E. Gwin, Jr.

Title:

  Assistant Treasurer

 

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Acknowledged and Agreed:

 

NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2022-A,

as Holder

By:   WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION,
  not in its individual capacity, but solely as Owner Trustee
By:  

/s/ Dorri Costello

Name:

  Dorri Costello

Title:

  Vice President

 

NILT LLC,

as Holder

By:  

/s/ Douglas E. Gwin, Jr.

Name:

  Douglas E. Gwin, Jr.

Title:

  Assistant Treasurer

 

Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II,

as Holder

By:  

/s/ Douglas E. Gwin, Jr.

Name:

  Douglas E. Gwin, Jr.

Title:

  Assistant Treasurer

 

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EXHIBIT A

[Form of Certificate]

NISSAN-INFINITI LT LLC

NISSAN-INFINITI LT LLC – SERIES 2022-A CERTIFICATE

 

Certificate No. [        ]    Percentage: 100%

(This Certificate does not represent an interest in or obligation of Nissan Motor Acceptance Company LLC, U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association or any of their respective affiliates, except to the extent described below.)

The Series Interest represented by this Certificate shall constitute a “security” within the meaning of, and governed by, (i) Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code (including Section 8-102(a)(15) thereof) as in effect from time to time in the State of Delaware, and (ii) the corresponding provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code of any other applicable jurisdiction that now or hereafter substantially includes the 1994 revisions to Article 8 thereof as adopted by the American Law Institute and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and approved by the American Bar Association on February 14, 1995.

THIS CERTIFIES THAT [ ] is the registered owner of 100% of Nissan-Infiniti LT LLC – 2022-A Series Interest (the “2022-A Series Interest”), a designated series of limited liability company interests in Nissan-Infiniti LT LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Company”). The Series Interests represented by this Certificate shall be nonassessable and fully paid.

The Company is a Delaware limited liability company governed by the Limited Liability Company Agreement of the Company, dated as of April 1, 2021 (as supplemented or amended from time to time, the “Titling Company Agreement”), among NILT LLC, as member (in such capacity, the “Member”), Nissan Motor Acceptance Company LLC (“NMAC”) as administrator (in such capacity, the “Administrator”), the Independent Manager (as defined therein), and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, a national banking association, as Titling Company Registrar (in such capacity, the “Titling Company Registrar”). Unless otherwise defined herein, all capitalized terms used but not defined in this Certificate will have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Titling Company Agreement, which also contains rules as to usage that are applicable herein. The Holder agrees that it is bound by the Titling Company Agreement.

This Certificate is one of a duly authorized Certificates. This Certificate is issued under and is subject to the Titling Company Agreement and the Amended and Restated Servicing Agreement, dated as of April 1, 2021, between the Company, NILT LLC, as Member and NMAC, as Servicer, as supplemented by that certain 2022-A Series Servicing Supplement, dated as of June 29, 2022, between the Company, NILT LLC, as Member and NMAC, as Servicer (collectively, the “Servicing Agreement”).

Any rights of the Holder of this Certificate are limited to the Series Interest represented hereby (and will include the right to receive all Collections on the related Series Assets pursuant to Section 4.3(b)(iii) of the Titling Company Agreement). The Holder of this Certificate,

 

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by acceptance of this Certificate, agrees to release all Claims to the Unallocated Assets and any Other Series Assets, respectively, and, in the event such release is not given effect, to subordinate fully all Claims it may be deemed to have against the Unallocated Assets or such Other Series Assets, as the case may be.

Each Holder and Registered Pledgee of this Certificate, by acceptance of this Certificate or pledge thereof, covenants and agrees that prior to the date which is one year and one day after the date upon which all obligations under each Securitized Financing have been paid in full, it will not institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against, the Member, the Company, any Special Purpose Affiliate or any Beneficiary any involuntary bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation Proceeding or other Proceeding under any federal or state bankruptcy or similar law.

This Certificate, and the Series Interest represented hereby, may be transferred only in accordance with the Titling Company Agreement.

THIS CERTIFICATE WILL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

Unless this Certificate is executed by an Authorized Officer of the Company and authenticated by an Authorized Officer of the Titling Company Registrar on behalf of the Titling Company Registrar, this Certificate will not entitle the Holder thereof to any benefit under the Titling Company Agreement or be valid for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Certificate to be duly executed.

 

  NISSAN-INFINITI LT LLC
Dated:                                                                  , 2022   By:    
    Name:
    Title:

 

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TITLING COMPANY REGISTRAR’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

This is the 2022-A Series Certificate referred to in the within mentioned 2022-A Series Supplement.

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL

ASSOCIATION,

not in its individual capacity but solely

as Titling Company Registrar

By:    
 

Authorized Officer

 

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FORM OF ASSIGNMENT

_______________, 20___

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned transfers and assigns unto                                 the Nissan-Infiniti LT LLC—2022-A Series Interest, and all rights thereunder, irrevocably constituting and appointing                             as Attorney to transfer said Nissan-Infiniti LT LLC—2022-A Series Interest on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises. The effectiveness of a transfer pursuant to this irrevocable assignment shall be subject to any and all transfer restrictions referenced on the face of the Certificate or in the organizational documents of the subject company, to the extent they may from time to time exist.

 

Dated: ______________________   By:    

 

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Exhibit 10.2

 

 

NISSAN-INFINITI LT LLC,

as Titling Company,

NILT LLC,

as Member,

and

NISSAN MOTOR ACCEPTANCE COMPANY LLC,

as Servicer

 

 

2022-A SERIES

SERVICING SUPPLEMENT

Dated as of June 29, 2022

 

 

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

          Page  
ARTICLE SEVEN    DEFINITIONS      1  

Section 7.01

   Definitions      1  

Secti1on 7.02

   Interpretative Provisions      1  
ARTICLE EIGHT    SERVICING OF THE 2022-A LEASES AND 2022-A VEHICLES      2  

Section 8.01

   Identification of 2022-A Leases and 2022-A Vehicles; Securitization Value      2  

Section 8.02

   Reallocation and Repurchase of 2022-A Leases and 2022-A Vehicles; Purchase of Matured Vehicles; Lease Pull-Forwards      2  

Section 8.03

   Collections and Payment Date Advance Reimbursement      3  

Section 8.04

   Net Deposits      5  

Section 8.05

   Servicing Compensation      5  

Section 8.06

   Advances      6  

Section 8.07

   Third Party Claims      6  

Section 8.08

   Contingent and Excess Liability Insurance Policy      6  

Section 8.09

   Reporting by the Servicer; Delivery of Certain Documentation      7  

Section 8.10

   Accountants’ Attestation      7  

Section 8.11

   Servicer’s Assessment Report; Annual Servicer’s Compliance Statement; Officer’s Certificate; Administrative Agent Compensation      7  

Section 8.12

   Servicer Defaults; Termination of Servicer      8  

Section 8.13

   Servicer Representations and Warranties      11  

Section 8.14

   Compliance with Regulation AB      11  

Section 8.15

   Possession of Lease Documents      11  

Section 8.16

   Option to Purchase the 2022-A Series Certificate      11  
ARTICLE NINE    MISCELLANEOUS      11  

Section 9.01

   Termination of Servicing Supplement      11  

Section 9.02

   Governing Law      11  

Section 9.03

   Amendment      12  

Section 9.04

   Relationship of this 2022-A Servicing Supplement to Other Titling Company Documents      13  

Section 9.05

   Binding Effect      13  

Section 9.06

   Table of Contents and Headings      13  

Section 9.07

   Counterparts and Electronic Signature      13  

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

(continued)

 

          Page  

Section 9.08

   Further Assurances      13  

Section 9.09

   Third-Party Beneficiaries      14  

Section 9.10

   No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies      14  

Section 9.11

   No Petition      14  

Section 9.12

   [Reserved]      14  

Section 9.13

   Notices      14  

Section 9.14

   Compliance with EU Securitization Regulation and UK Securitization Regulation      14  

EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit A – Form of Payment Date Certificate

     A-1  

Exhibit B – Form of Annual ERISA Certification

     B-1  

SCHEDULES

 

Schedule A – Regulation AB Representations, Warranties and Covenants

 

 

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2022-A SERIES SERVICING SUPPLEMENT

This 2022-A Series Servicing Supplement, dated as of June 29, 2022 (this “2022-A Servicing Supplement”), is by and between Nissan-Infiniti LT LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Titling Company”), NILT LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as the member of the Titling Company (in such capacity, the “Member”), and Nissan Motor Acceptance Company, a Delaware limited liability company (“NMAC”), as servicer (the “Servicer”).

RECITALS

A. The Titling Company exists for the purpose of, among other things, taking assignments and conveyances of leases and the related leased vehicles and related rights (collectively, the “Titling Company Assets”) for the benefit of the holders of the limited liability company interests in the Titling Company;

B. The parties hereto have entered into the Amended and Restated Servicing Agreement, dated as of April 1, 2021 (the “Titling Company Servicing Agreement” and, as supplemented hereby, the “Servicing Agreement”), which provides for certain servicing obligations with respect to the Titling Company and the Titling Company Assets; and

C. The parties acknowledge that in connection with the execution of the 2022-A Series Supplement, dated as of the date hereof (the “2022-A Series Supplement”, and together with the Titling Company Agreement, the “Series LLC Agreement”), pursuant to which a limited liability company series interest in the Titling Company (the “2022-A Series”) will be created, it is necessary and desirable to enter into a supplemental agreement to the Titling Company Servicing Agreement providing for specific servicing obligations in connection with the Titling Company Assets allocable to the 2022-A Series.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained, and of other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

ARTICLE SEVEN

DEFINITIONS

Section 7.01 Definitions. Capitalized terms used herein that are not otherwise defined shall have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in Annex A to the Series Certificate Sale Agreement, dated as of the date hereof (the “Definitions Annex”), by and between NILT LLC and Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II.

Section 7.02 Interpretative Provisions. For all purposes of this 2022-A Servicing Supplement, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires, (i) terms used herein include, as appropriate, all genders and the plural as well as the singular, (ii) references to words such as “herein,” “hereof” and the like shall refer to this 2022-A Servicing Supplement as a whole and not to any particular part, Article or Section within this 2022-A Servicing Supplement, (iii) references to an Article or Section such as “Article Eight” or “Section 8.01” shall refer to the applicable Article or Section of this 2022-A Servicing Supplement, (iv) the

 

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term “include” and all variations thereof shall mean “include without limitation,” (v) the term “or” shall include “and/or,” (vi) the term “proceeds” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the UCC, (vii) references to Persons include their permitted successors and assigns, (viii) references to agreements and other contractual instruments include all subsequent amendments, amendments and restatements and supplements thereto or changes therein entered into in accordance with their respective terms and not prohibited by this 2022-A Servicing Supplement, except that references to the Series LLC Agreement include only such items as related to the 2022-A Series and the Titling Company, (ix) references to laws include their amendments and supplements, the rules and regulations thereunder and any successors thereto, (x) references to this 2022-A Servicing Supplement include all Exhibits hereto, and (xi) in the computation of a period of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” shall mean “from and including” and the words “to” and “until” shall mean “to but excluding.”

ARTICLE EIGHT

SERVICING OF THE 2022-A LEASES AND 2022-A VEHICLES

Section 8.01 Identification of 2022-A Leases and 2022-A Vehicles; Securitization Value. The Servicer hereby identifies as 2022-A Series Assets the Leased Vehicles and the Leases relating to such Leased Vehicles more particularly described in the Schedule of 2022-A Leases and 2022-A Vehicles (respectively, the “2022-A Vehicles” and the “2022-A Leases”). The Servicer shall calculate the Securitization Value for each 2022-A Lease as of the Cutoff Date.

Section 8.02 Reallocation and Repurchase of 2022-A Leases and 2022-A Vehicles; Purchase of Matured Vehicles; Lease Pull-Forwards.

(a) If the Servicer grants a lease term extension with respect to any 2022-A Lease that extends the lease term beyond the Note Final Scheduled Payment Date for the Class A-4 Notes (other than any lease term extension that is in accordance with the Servicer’s Customary Servicing Practices made after a default, breach, delinquency or event permitting acceleration under the terms of the related 2022-A Lease shall have occurred or, in the judgment of the Servicer, is imminent), the Servicer shall, on or before the last day of the second Collection Period following the Collection Period in which such extension was granted, (A) deposit or cause to be deposited into the 2022-A Series Collection Account an amount equal to the Repurchase Payment and (B) direct the Titling Company to either reallocate such 2022-A Lease and the related 2022-A Vehicle from the 2022-A Series to the Unallocated Assets Series or an Other Series.

(b) The Servicer hereby represents and warrants that each 2022-A Lease is a 2022-A Eligible Lease. Upon discovery by the Servicer, the Administrator, the Issuing Entity or the Depositor or upon actual knowledge by a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee of a breach of any representation or warranty in this Section 8.02(b) that materially adversely affects the interest of the Securityholders in the related 2022-A Lease or 2022-A Vehicle, the entity discovering such breach shall give prompt written notice to the other parties to this Agreement and to the Indenture Trustee. Any such breach will be deemed not to have a material and adverse effect if such breach does not affect the ability of the Issuing Entity to receive and retain timely payments in full on such 2022-A Lease or receive and retain the proceeds of such 2022-A Leased Vehicle. If the Servicer does not cure any such breach that materially adversely affects the interest of the

 

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Securityholders in the related 2022-A Lease or 2022-A Vehicle in all material respects prior to the end of the Collection Period which includes the 60th day (or, if the Servicer elects, the end of the first Collection Period following discovery) after the date that the Servicer discovers such breach (whether pursuant to such notice or otherwise), then the Servicer shall (i) deposit (or cause to be deposited) into the 2022-A Series Collection Account an amount equal to the Repurchase Payment on or prior to the Deposit Date following the end of such Collection Period, and (ii) direct the Administrator to either reallocate such 2022-A Lease and the related 2022-A Vehicle from the 2022-A Series to the Unallocated Assets Series or an Other Series or cause such 2022-A Lease and 2022-A Vehicle to be conveyed to the Servicer on the Deposit Date.

(c) The Servicer hereby represents and warrants that it used no adverse selection procedures in selecting any of the 2022-A Leases or any of the 2022-A Vehicles for allocation to the 2022-A Series.

(d) In connection with the purchase by the Servicer of a Matured Vehicle relating to a 2022-A Lease pursuant to Section 2.06(b) of the Titling Company Servicing Agreement, if (i) no Sales Proceeds Advance has been made, the purchase price of such Matured Vehicle will equal the Securitization Value of such 2022-A Lease as of the date of expiration and (ii) a Sales Proceeds Advance has been made, (A) the purchase price will equal the amount of the Sales Proceeds Advance, (B) no additional amounts need be remitted by the Servicer, and (C) the Servicer shall be deemed to have been reimbursed for such Sales Proceeds Advance.

(e) If any 2022-A Lease and the related 2022-A Vehicle are reallocated to the Unallocated Asset Series, until such time thereafter, if ever, as such Lease and Leased Vehicle are allocated to an Other Series, the Servicer shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Depositor, the Issuing Entity and the Titling Company from and against any and all loss or liability with respect to or resulting from such 2022-A Lease or 2022-A Vehicle (including the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) except the Servicer shall not be liable for or required to indemnify the Depositor, the Issuing Entity and the Titling Company from and against any and all special, indirect, consequential or punitive losses or liabilities.

(f) If the Servicer permits a Lease Pull-Forward, all Pull-Forward Payments due and payable by the Lessee under the Lease will be paid and deposited in the Series Collection Account within the time period required for the Servicer to deposit collections into the Series Collection Account; provided that, if the Servicer waives the Pull-Forward Payment (or any portion thereof) payable by the Lessee during any Collection Period, the Servicer will be required to deposit the waived amount of the Pull-Forward Payment into the Series Collection Account by the next Deposit Date related to such Collection Period.

Section 8.03 Collections and Payment Date Advance Reimbursement.

(a) The Servicer shall, with respect to Series Collections and amounts in respect of the 2022-A Series Certificate, from time to time, determine the respective amounts and recipients and:

(i) during each Collection Period, in addition to the deposits required by Section 2.07 of the Titling Company Servicing Agreement, deposit into the 2022-A Series Collection Account all Repurchase Payments pursuant to Section 8.02(a) and Section 8.02(b);

 

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(ii) on, or prior to each Deposit Date, deposit into the 2022-A Series Collection Account all Advances, any Residual Value Surplus from the sale of a Matured Vehicle for which the Servicer made a Sales Proceeds Advance and any Net Auction Proceeds from the disposition of a Matured Vehicle at auction for which the Servicer was reimbursed during the related Collection Period pursuant to Section 8.06; and

(iii) on each Payment Date, pursuant to the related Payment Date Certificate, allocate Available Funds on deposit in the 2022-A Series Collection Account with respect to the related Collection Period and instruct the Indenture Trustee to make, no later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, or such other time as may be agreed to by the applicable parties, the following deposits and distributions in the following amounts and order of priority:

(A) to the Servicer the sum of outstanding (1) Sales Proceeds Advances (x) in respect of 2022-A Vehicles that were sold during the related Collection Period (other than a sale to the Servicer pursuant to Section 8.02(d)(ii)), and (y) that have been outstanding as of the end of that Collection Period for at least 90 days and (2) Monthly Payment Advances as to which the related Lessee has made all or a portion of the advanced Monthly Payment or that have been outstanding as of the end of the Collection Period for at least 90 days (collectively, the “Payment Date Advance Reimbursement”);

(B) to or on behalf of the Servicer, the Servicing Fee in respect of the related Collection Period, together with any unpaid Servicing Fees in respect of one or more prior Collection Periods; and

(C) to the Note Distribution Account, the Reserve Account and Certificate Distribution Account, as applicable, such distributions in the amounts and order of priority as set forth in Sections 8.04(a), 8.04(b) and 10.01 of the Indenture.

(D) Notwithstanding Section 2.07 of the Titling Company Servicing Agreement, the Servicer shall remit into the Series Collection Account the amounts provided for in such Section received during a Collection Period, by (subject to Section 8.03(c)) the close of business on the second Business Day after identification.

(b) Notwithstanding Sections 8.02(c) or 8.03(b) hereof, the Servicer shall be permitted to retain the amounts provided for in such subsections received during a Collection Period until the Business Day preceding the Payment Date on which such amounts are required to be disbursed (or such other date as provided in the Public ABS Transaction referred to below), for so long as no Servicer Default has occurred and is continuing, and the following requirements are met (collectively, the “Monthly Remittance Condition”):

 

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(i) (A) NMAC (or its successors pursuant to Section 5.03(b) of the Titling Company Servicing Agreement) is the Servicer, and (B) NMAC’s short-term unsecured debt obligations are rated at least “Prime-1” by Moody’s and “A-1” by S&P (in each case, so long as Moody’s or S&P is a Rating Agency);

(ii) the Servicer obtains a Servicer Letter of Credit or certain other arrangements are made and the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied;

(iii) the Servicer otherwise satisfies each Rating Agency’s requirements; or

(iv) if the Outstanding Amount of the Notes is reduced to zero and 100% of the outstanding Trust Certificates are owned by the Trust, the Depositor, the Servicer (so long as NMAC or an Affiliate is the Servicer) and their respective Affiliates.

Pending deposit into the 2022-A Series Collection Account, Series Collections may be employed by the Servicer at its own risk and for its own benefit and shall not be segregated from its own funds. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if a subsequent Public ABS Transaction calls for changes in making monthly deposits to the related collection account, then, if the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied, the Servicer will no longer be bound by the Monthly Remittance Condition hereunder, and will instead be subject to the conditions to making monthly deposits as required by the subsequent Public ABS Transaction.

(c) Notwithstanding Sections 2.07(a) and 2.11(a) of the Titling Company Servicing Agreement, the Servicer shall use commercially reasonable efforts in accordance with its Customary Servicing Practices to (i) collect all payments required under each Lease and (ii) cause each Lessee to make all payments required under its Lease, accompanied by an invoice, payment coupon or electronic funds transfer notice bearing the lease number to which such payment relates.

Section 8.04 Net Deposits. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this 2022-A Servicing Supplement, NMAC (as Servicer or in any other capacity) shall be permitted to deposit into the 2022-A Series Collection Account only the net amount distributable to the Issuing Entity, as holder of the 2022-A Series Certificate on the related Deposit Date and may pay the Optional Purchase Price pursuant to Section 9.03 of the Trust Agreement net of amounts to be distributed to the Servicer or its Affiliates. The Servicer shall, however, account to the Issuing Entity, the Administrator, the Titling Company Registrar, the Indenture Trustee (or any successor to the duties of the Indenture Trustee), the Owner Trustee and the Holders of the Securities as if all of the deposits and distributions described herein were made individually.

Section 8.05 Servicing Compensation.

(a) As compensation for the performance of its obligations under the Servicing Agreement, the Servicer shall be entitled to receive the Servicing Fee.

(b) The Servicer shall also be entitled to additional servicing compensation with respect to the 2022-A Series Assets in the form of (i) interest and earnings on investment of funds in the 2022-A Series Accounts, provided that any losses and investment expenses shall be charged against the funds on deposit in the applicable 2022-A Series Account, and (ii) Administrative Charges to the extent not required for the payment of insurance premiums, taxes, or similar charges allocable to the 2022-A Leases; provided, however, that the Servicer may in its sole discretion waive any Administrative Charges, in whole or in part, in connection with any delinquent payments due on a Lease.

 

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Section 8.06 Advances.

(a) If during a Collection Period a Lessee makes a Lessee Partial Monthly Payment, the Servicer shall make, by deposit into the 2022-A Series Collection Account on the related Deposit Date, a Monthly Payment Advance, unless such Advance is not required to be made pursuant to Section 8.06(c).

(b) On each Deposit Date, the Servicer shall make, by deposit into the 2022-A Series Collection Account, Sales Proceeds Advances, unless such Advance is not required to be made pursuant to Section 8.06(c). After the Servicer has made a Sales Proceeds Advance with respect to a Matured Vehicle, the Issuing Entity shall have no claim against or interest in such Matured Vehicle or any Net Auction Proceeds resulting from the sale or other disposition thereof, except with respect to any related Residual Value Surplus. If the Servicer shall sell or otherwise dispose of a Matured Vehicle after having made a Sales Proceeds Advance, the Issuing Entity may retain all of such Sales Proceeds Advance, and the Servicer shall retain the related Net Auction Proceeds up to the Securitization Value of the related 2022-A Lease, and shall deposit the Residual Value Surplus, if any, into the 2022-A Series Collection Account. If the Net Auction Proceeds are less than the Securitization Value of the related 2022-A Lease, the Servicer may deduct the difference from Series Collections in respect of one or more future Collection Periods and retain such amount as reimbursement for the outstanding portion of the related Sales Proceeds Advance. If the Servicer has not sold a Matured Vehicle within six calendar months after it has made a Sales Proceeds Advance, it shall be reimbursed for such Sales Proceeds Advance from the 2022-A Series Collection Account. Within six months of receiving such reimbursement, if the related 2022-A Vehicle has not been sold, the Servicer shall, if permitted by applicable law, cause such 2022-A Vehicle to be sold at auction and shall remit the proceeds (less Disposition Expenses and Liquidation Expenses) associated with such auction sale to the 2022-A Series Collection Account.

(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Servicing Agreement, the Servicer shall be required to make an Advance only to the extent that it determines that such Advance will be recoverable from future payments on or in respect of the related 2022-A Lease or 2022-A Vehicle.

Section 8.07 Third Party Claims. In addition to the requirements set forth in Section 2.14 of the Titling Company Servicing Agreement, the Servicer shall immediately notify the Depositor (in the event that NMAC is not acting as Servicer) and the Indenture Trustee (or any successor to the duties of the Indenture Trustee) upon learning of a claim or Lien of whatever kind of a third party that would materially and adversely affect the interests of the Depositor or the Issuing Entity with respect to the 2022-A Series Assets.

Section 8.08 Contingent and Excess Liability Insurance Policy. So long as any Securities are outstanding, the Servicer shall maintain and pay when due all premiums with respect to, and the Servicer may not terminate or cause the termination of, the Contingent and Excess Liability Insurance Policy unless (i) a replacement Insurance Policy is obtained that provides coverage

 

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against third party claims that may be raised against the Titling Company or the Issuing Entity in an amount at least equal to $1 million combined single limit per occurrence and excess coverage of at least $15 million combined single limit each occurrence and in the aggregate, without limit on the number of occurrences in any policy period (which Insurance Policy may be a blanket Insurance Policy covering the Servicer and one or more of its Affiliates) and (ii) each Rating Agency receives prior written notice of such termination and any replacement insurance policy. The obligations of the Servicer pursuant to this Section shall survive any termination of the Servicer’s other obligations under the Servicing Agreement until such time as claims can no longer be brought that would be covered by such Insurance Policies, whether as a result of the expiration of relevant statutes of limitations or otherwise. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Servicer shall only be required to maintain the Contingent and Excess Liability Insurance Policy that is required to be maintained by the Servicer in the most recent Public ABS Transaction; provided, that if no such Contingent and Excess Liability Insurance Policy is required to be maintained in the most recent Public ABS Transaction, then no such Contingent and Excess Liability Insurance Policy shall be required hereunder.

Section 8.09 Reporting by the Servicer; Delivery of Certain Documentation. On the tenth calendar day of each month (or, if the 10th day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day), the Servicer shall furnish to the Administrator, the Titling Company Registrar and the Depositor, a Payment Date Certificate, substantially in the form as set forth in Exhibit A hereto for the immediately preceding Collection Period.

Section 8.10 Accountants Attestation. So long as the Depositor is filing the attestation report with respect to the Issuing Entity under the Exchange Act, on or before the last day of the third month after the end of each fiscal year of the Servicer, beginning with June 30, 2023, the Servicer shall cause a firm of independent certified public accountants to furnish an attestation report to the Issuing Entity, Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency as to the Servicer’s Assessment Report of its compliance with the applicable servicing criteria set forth under Item 1122 of Regulation AB during the Servicer’s preceding fiscal year (or since the date of the issuance of the Notes in the case of the first such statement), which shall be deemed furnished upon filing such report with the Commission. The form of attestation report may be deleted or replaced by any similar form using any standards that are now or in the future in use by servicers of comparable assets or which otherwise comply with any note, regulation, “no action” letter or similar guidelines promulgated by the Commission.

Section 8.11 Servicers Assessment Report; Annual Servicers Compliance Statement; Officers Certificate; Administrative Agent Compensation.

(a) The Servicer shall deliver to the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and each of the Rating Agencies, which shall be deemed to be delivered upon filing such report with the Commission, on or before the last day of the third month after the end of each fiscal year of the Servicer, beginning with June 30, 2023, a report assessing the Servicer’s compliance with the servicing criteria set forth in the relevant SEC regulations for asset-backed securities transactions, including Item 1122 of Regulation AB, as of and for the period ending the end of each fiscal year of the Issuing Entity (the “Servicer’s Assessment Report”) and such Servicer’s Assessment Report will identify any material instance of noncompliance, so long as the Depositor is filing the Servicer’s Assessment Report with respect to the Issuing Entity under the Exchange Act. The

 

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form of Servicer’s Assessment Report may be deleted or replaced by any similar form using any standards that are now or in the future in use by servicers of comparable assets or which otherwise comply with any rule, regulation, “no action” letter or similar guidelines promulgated by the Commission.

(b) The Servicer shall also deliver to the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and each of the Rating Agencies, on or before the last day of the third month after the end of each fiscal year of the Servicer, beginning with June 30, 2023, an Officer’s Certificate with respect to the prior fiscal year of the Servicer (or with respect to the initial Officer’s Certificate, the period from the date of the initial issuance of the Notes to March 31, 2023), stating that (i) a review of the activities of the Servicer during the preceding 12-month (or shorter) period and of its performance under this Agreement has been made under such officer’s supervision and (ii) to the best of such officer’s knowledge, based on such review, the Servicer has fulfilled all its obligations under this Agreement throughout such twelve-month (or shorter) period in all material respects, or, if there has been a failure to fulfill any such obligation, specifying each such failure known to such officer and the nature and status thereof. Copies of such statements, certificates and reports may be obtained by the Noteholders or the Trust Certificateholder by a request in writing addressed to the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee.

(c) On or before the last day of the third month after the end of each fiscal year of the Servicer, beginning with June 30, 2023, for as long as NMAC continues to act as the Servicer, the Servicer shall deliver an Officer’s Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit B with respect to the Employee Benefit Plans to each Rating Agency, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee.

(d) The Servicer shall pay the Administrative Agent a monthly payment of compensation in an amount to be agreed to between the Administrative Agent and the Servicer pursuant to Section 1.04 of the Trust Administration Agreement.

Section 8.12 Servicer Defaults; Termination of Servicer.

(a) Each of the following acts or occurrences constitutes a “Servicer Default” under the Servicing Agreement with respect to the 2022-A Series:

(i) the Servicer fails to deliver, or cause to be delivered, any required payment to the Indenture Trustee for distribution to the Noteholders or to the Owner Trustee for distribution to the Trust Certificateholders, which failure continues for five Business Days after discovery of such failure by an officer of the Servicer or receipt by the Servicer of written notice thereof from the Indenture Trustee, or Noteholders or Trust Certificateholders, as applicable, evidencing at least a Majority Interest in the applicable Securities (which for this purpose includes Trust Certificates held by the Issuing Entity, the Depositor, the Servicer (so long as NMAC or an Affiliate is the Servicer) and their respective Affiliates), voting together as a single class; provided, however, that a failure under this clause (i) that continues unremedied for a period of ten Business Days or less will not constitute a Servicer Default if such failure was caused by a force majeure or other similar occurrence,

 

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(ii) the Servicer fails to duly observe or perform in any material respect any of its covenants or agreements in the Servicing Agreement not otherwise covered in this Section 8.12(a), which failure materially and adversely affects the rights of a Holder of the 2022-A Series Certificate, the Noteholders or Trust Certificateholders, as applicable, and which continues unremedied for 60 days (or for such longer period not in excess of 90 days as may be reasonably necessary to remedy such failure; provided that (A) such failure is capable of remedy within 90 days or less and (B) a Majority Interest in the applicable Securities consents to such longer cure period) after receipt by the Servicer of written notice thereof from the Indenture Trustee or the related holders evidencing at least a Majority Interest in the applicable Securities or such default becomes known to the Servicer (it being understood that the making of a Repurchase Payment and reallocation of a 2022-A Lease and the related 2022-A Vehicle by the Servicer pursuant to Section 8.02(a) shall be the sole remedy available with respect to a breach of Section 8.02(a)); provided, however, that a failure under this clause (ii) that continues unremedied for a period of 150 days or less will not constitute a Servicer Default if such failure was caused by a force majeure or other similar occurrence,

(iii) any representation, warranty, or statement of the Servicer made in the Servicing Agreement, any other Basic Document to which the Servicer is a party or by which it is bound or any certificate, report or other writing delivered pursuant to the Servicing Agreement that proves to be incorrect in any material respect when made, which failure materially and adversely affects the rights of a Holder of the 2022-A Series Certificate or the holders of the Notes, or the Trust Certificateholders, continues unremedied for 60 days (or for such longer period not in excess of 90 days as may be reasonably necessary to remedy such failure; provided that (A) such failure is capable of remedy within 90 days or less and (B) a Majority Interest in the applicable Securities consents to such longer cure period) after receipt by the Servicer of written notice thereof from the Titling Company Registrar or the related holders evidencing a Majority Interest in the applicable Securities, or such default becomes known to the Servicer (it being understood that the making of a Repurchase Payment and reallocation of a 2022-A Lease and the related 2022-A Vehicle by the Servicer pursuant to Section 8.02(b) shall be the sole remedy available with respect to a breach of the representations and warranties of the Servicer in Section 8.02(b) with respect to such 2022-A Lease); provided, however, that a failure under this clause (iii) that continues unremedied for a period of 150 days or less will not constitute a Servicer Default if such failure was caused by a force majeure or other similar occurrence, or

(iv) (A) the existence of any Proceeding in, or the entry of a decree or order for relief by, a court or regulatory authority having jurisdiction over the Servicer in an involuntary case under the federal bankruptcy laws, as now or hereafter in effect, (B) the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, or other similar official with respect to the Servicer or of any substantial part of its property or (C) the ordering of the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the Servicer, and in each case, the continuance of any such Proceeding unstayed and in effect for a period of 90 consecutive days, or immediately upon entry of any decree or order, or

 

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(v) the Servicer (A) applies for or consents to the appointment of, or the taking of possession by, a receiver, custodian, trustee, or liquidator of itself or of all or a substantial part of its property, (B) fails to pay, or is generally unable to pay, its debts as they become due, (C) makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, (D) commences a voluntary case under the federal bankruptcy laws (E) is adjudicated to be bankrupt or insolvent, (F) files a petition seeking to take advantage of any other law providing for the relief of debtors, or (G) takes any corporate action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing, and in each case, the continuance of any such event remains unstayed and in effect for a period of 90 consecutive days;

provided, however, that notwithstanding any other provision of the Servicing Agreement, any Servicer Default with respect to the 2022-A Series shall not constitute a Servicer Default with respect to any Other Series and any servicer default with respect to any Other Series shall constitute a servicer default only with respect to such Series and not with respect to the 2022-A Series.

(b) Upon the occurrence of any Servicer Default, the Servicer shall provide to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee prompt notice of any (i) Servicer Default or (ii) event or condition that, with the giving of notice or the passage of time, or both, would become a Servicer Default, accompanied in each case by a description of the nature of the default and the Servicer’s efforts to remedy the same.

(c) If a Servicer Default shall have occurred and is continuing with respect to the 2022-A Series, the Titling Company Registrar, on behalf of the Titling Company, shall, at the direction of the Required Related Holders, by notice given to the Servicer, the Administrative Agent (and the Administrative Agent will provide each Rating Agency with notice thereof pursuant to Section 1.02(k) of the Trust Administration Agreement), the Depositor and the holders of the Rated Securities affected by that Servicer Default, terminate the rights and obligations of the Servicer under this 2022-A Servicing Supplement. In the event that the Servicer is removed as servicer with respect to servicing the 2022-A Series Assets, subject to the consent of the Titling Company Registrar, the Required Related Holders shall appoint a successor Servicer. The successor Servicer shall accept its appointment by a written assumption in a form acceptable to the Titling Company Registrar. Such successor Servicer shall be approved by the Titling Company Registrar, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld. The Titling Company Registrar, acting on the direction of the Required Related Holders, may waive any default of the Servicer in the performance of its obligations under the Servicing Agreement and its consequences with respect to the 2022-A Series and, upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist and any Servicer Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been remedied for every purpose of the Servicing Agreement. No such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereto. For purposes of this Section, so long as the Lien of the Indenture is in place, the Required Related Holders shall be deemed to be the Indenture Trustee (as Registered Pledgee of the 2022-A Series Certificate), acting at the direction of the Required Percentage of the Noteholders and thereafter, the Owner Trustee, acting at the direction of the Required Percentage of the Trust Certificateholders (which for this purpose shall include Trust Certificates owned by the Issuing Entity, the Depositor, the Servicer (so long as NMAC or an Affiliate is the Servicer) and any of their respective Affiliates) until the final distribution is made with respect to the 2022-A Series Assets.

 

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(d) If the Servicer is removed with respect to servicing the 2022-A Series Assets, the Servicer shall be entitled to reimbursement for any outstanding Advances made pursuant to this 2022-A Servicing Supplement, to the extent of the funds available therefor with respect to all Advances made by the Servicer.

Section 8.13 Servicer Representations and Warranties. Effective as of the date hereof, the Servicer hereby reaffirms the representations and warranties set forth in Section 5.01 of the Titling Company Servicing Agreement, except that references to “this Agreement” shall be deemed to refer to the Servicing Agreement, as such term is defined herein.

Section 8.14 Compliance with Regulation AB. The Servicer agrees to perform all duties and obligations applicable to or required of the Issuing Entity set forth in Schedule A attached hereto and made a part hereof in all respects and makes the representations and warranties therein applicable to it.

Section 8.15 Possession of Lease Documents. The Servicer or its designee may hold the Lease Documents at locations in the continental United States. The Servicer will furnish to the Administrative Agent, as soon as practicable after receiving a request therefor, a list of all locations where Lease Documents are kept.

Section 8.16 Option to Purchase the 2022-A Series Certificate. The Servicer shall be a third party beneficiary of its option to purchase, or cause to be purchased, the 2022-A Series Certificate from the Issuing Entity in accordance with Section 9.03 of the Trust Agreement.

ARTICLE NINE

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 9.01 Termination of Servicing Supplement. This 2022-A Servicing Supplement shall terminate upon the earlier to occur of (i) the termination of the 2022-A Series or (ii) with respect to the Servicer, but not as to the applicable successor Servicer, the resignation or removal of the Servicer with respect to the 2022-A Series in accordance with the terms of the Servicing Agreement. Any such termination hereunder shall effect a termination only with respect to the 2022-A Series Assets and not as to Titling Company Assets allocated to any Other Series, and shall not effect a termination of the Titling Company Servicing Agreement or any other supplement to the Titling Company Servicing Agreement.

Section 9.02 Governing Law. THIS 2022-A SERVICING SUPPLEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO ANY OTHERWISE APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICT OF LAWS (OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW).

 

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Section 9.03 Amendment.

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of the Titling Company Servicing Agreement, the Titling Company Servicing Agreement, as supplemented by this 2022-A Servicing Supplement, to the extent that it relates solely to the 2022-A Series and the 2022-A Series Assets, may be amended in accordance with this Section 9.03.

(b) Any term or provision of this 2022-A Servicing Supplement may be amended by the parties hereto, without the consent of any other Person; provided that (i) either (A) any amendment that materially and adversely affects the Noteholders shall require the consent of Noteholders evidencing not less than a Majority Interest of the Notes voting together as a single class or (B) such amendment shall not materially and adversely affect the Noteholders, and (ii) any amendment that materially and adversely affects the interests of the Trust Certificateholder, Titling Company Registrar, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee shall require the prior written consent of the Persons whose interests are adversely affected; provided, further that an opinion of counsel is delivered to the Titling Company Registrar to the effect that after such amendment, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the Titling Company will not be treated as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation and Notes (other than Tax Retained Notes) will properly be characterized as indebtedness that is secured by the assets of the Issuing Entity. An amendment shall be deemed not to materially and adversely affect the Noteholders if (i) the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied with respect to such amendment, or (ii) the Servicer delivers an Officer’s Certificate to the Indenture Trustee stating that such amendment shall not materially and adversely affect the Noteholders. The consent of the Trust Certificateholder or the Owner Trustee shall be deemed to have been given if the Servicer does not receive a written objection from such Person within ten (10) Business Days after a written request for such consent shall have been given. The Titling Company Registrar and the Indenture Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment that affects the Titling Company Registrar’s or the Indenture Trustee’s own rights, duties, liabilities or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.

(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, no amendment shall (i) reduce the interest rate or principal amount of any Note, or change the due date of any installment of principal of or interest in any Note, or the Redemption Price with respect thereto, without the consent of the Noteholder or (ii) reduce the Outstanding Amount, the Holders of which are required to consent to any matter without the consent of the Holders of at least a Majority Interest of the Notes which were required to consent to such matter before giving effect to such amendment.

(d) It shall not be necessary for the consent of any Person pursuant to this Section for such Person to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, but it shall be sufficient if such Person consents to the substance thereof.

(e) Prior to the execution of any amendment to this 2022-A Series Servicing Supplement, the Servicer shall provide each Rating Agency, the Trust Certificateholder, the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee with written notice of the substance of such amendment. No later than 10 Business Days after the execution of any amendment to this 2022-A Series Servicing Supplement, the Servicer shall furnish a copy of such amendment to each Rating Agency, the Trust Certificateholder, Titling Company Registrar, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee.

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Servicer shall deliver to a Responsible Officer of the Titling Company Registrar and the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate to that effect, and the Titling Company Registrar and the Indenture Trustee may conclusively rely upon the Officer’s Certificate from the Servicer that a Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied with respect to such amendment.

Section 9.04 Relationship of this 2022-A Servicing Supplement to Other Titling Company Documents. Unless the context otherwise requires, this 2022-A Servicing Supplement and the other Titling Company Documents shall be interpreted so as to give full effect to all provisions hereof and thereof. In the event of any actual conflict between the provisions of this 2022-A Servicing Supplement and (i) the Titling Company Agreement, with respect to the servicing of any Titling Company Assets, the provisions of this 2022-A Servicing Supplement shall prevail and (ii) the Titling Company Servicing Agreement, the provisions of this 2022-A Servicing Supplement shall control.

Section 9.05 Binding Effect. The provisions of this 2022-A Servicing Supplement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their permitted successors and assigns, and all such provisions shall inure to the benefit of the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuing Entity.

Section 9.06 Table of Contents and Headings. The Table of Contents and Article and Section headings herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.

Section 9.07 Counterparts and Electronic Signature. This 2022-A Servicing Supplement 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. Each party agrees that this 2022-A Servicing Supplement and any other documents to be delivered in connection herewith may be digitally or electronically signed, and that any digital or electronic signatures (including pdf, facsimile or electronically imaged signatures provided by a digital signature provider as specified in writing to the Indenture Trustee) appearing on this 2022-A Servicing Supplement or such other documents shall have the same effect as manual signatures for the purpose of validity, enforceability and admissibility; provided, however, that any documentation with respect to the transfer of Notes or other securities presented to the Indenture Trustee, the Note Registrar or any other transfer agent must contain original, manually executed signatures. Other than with respect to instances in which manual signatures are expressly required by this paragraph, each party hereto shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon, and shall have no liability with respect to, any digital or electronic signature appearing on this Indenture or any other documents to be delivered in connection herewith and shall have no duty to investigate, confirm or otherwise verify the validity or authenticity thereof.

Section 9.08 Further Assurances. Each party will do such acts, and execute and deliver to any other party such additional documents or instruments, as may be reasonably requested in order to effect the purposes of this 2022-A Servicing Supplement and to better assure and confirm unto the requesting party its rights, powers, and remedies hereunder.

 

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Section 9.09 Third-Party Beneficiaries. The Issuing Entity, each Holder of the 2022-A Series, the Depositor, and each Registered Pledgee shall be third-party beneficiaries of the Servicing Agreement. Except as otherwise provided in the Servicing Agreement, no other Person shall have any rights hereunder. For purposes of the Servicing Agreement, this Section replaces Section 6.12 of the Titling Company Servicing Agreement in its entirety.

Section 9.10 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure to exercise and no delay in exercising, on the part of any party hereto, any right, remedy, power, or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power, or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power, or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers, and privileges herein provided are cumulative and not exhaustive of any rights, remedies, powers, and privileges provided at law, in equity or otherwise.

Section 9.11 No Petition. Each of the parties hereto, by entering into this 2022-A Servicing Supplement, in addition to provisions of Section 6.14 of the Titling Company Servicing Agreement, hereby covenants and agrees that prior to the date that is one year and one day after the date upon which all obligations under each Securitized Financing have been paid in full, it will not institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against the Member, the Depositor, the Titling Company, the Issuing Entity, any other Special Purpose Affiliate or any Beneficiary, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation Proceeding or other Proceeding under any federal or state bankruptcy or similar law. This Section shall survive the complete or partial termination or assignment of this 2022-A Servicing Supplement.

Section 9.12 [Reserved].

Section 9.13 Notices. The notice provisions of Section 6.05 of the Titling Company Servicing Agreement shall apply equally to this 2022-A Servicing Supplement. A copy of each notice or other writing required to be delivered to the Servicer pursuant to the Servicing Agreement also shall be in writing and, unless otherwise expressly provided herein, shall be deemed to have been duly given or made when delivered by hand or, in the case of mail, email (if an email address is provided) or facsimile notice, when actually received by the intended recipient, and addressed in each case as specified on Schedule II to the Series Certificate Sale Agreement or at such other address as shall be designated by any of the specified addressees in a written notice to the other parties hereto; provided, however, any demand, notice or communication to be delivered pursuant to the Servicing Agreement to any Rating Agency shall be deemed to be delivered if a copy of such demand, notice or communication has been posted on any web site maintained by NMAC pursuant to a commitment to any Rating Agency relating to the Notes in accordance with 17 C.F.R. 240 17g-5(a)(3).

Section 9.14 Compliance with EU Securitization Regulation and UK Securitization Regulation. NMAC represents and confirms, covenants and agrees, solely for the benefit of those holders of beneficial interests in any Notes which are institutional investors to which any of the EU SR Rules or the UK SR Rules applies, with reference to the EU Securitization Regulation and the UK Securitization Regulation, in each case, as in effect and applicable on the date of this 2022-A Servicing Supplement, that:

 

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(a) NMAC, as an “originator” (as such term is defined for the purposes of the EU Securitization Regulation and the UK Securitization Regulation), will retain, upon issuance of the Notes and on an ongoing basis, a material net economic interest (the “SR Retained Interest”) of not less than 5% in the securitization transaction described in the prospectus, in the form of retention of the first loss tranche in accordance with paragraph (d) of Article 6(3) of the EU Securitization Regulation and paragraph (d) of Article 6(3) of the UK Securitization Regulation, in each case as in effect on the Closing Date by holding all the membership interest in the Depositor (or one or more other wholly-owned special purpose subsidiaries of NMAC), which in turn will retain a portion of the Trust Certificates to be issued by the Issuing Entity, such portion representing at least 5% of the nominal value of the securitized exposures;

(b) NMAC will not (and will not permit the Depositor or any of its other Affiliates to) hedge or otherwise mitigate its credit risk under or associated with the SR Retained Interest, or sell, transfer or otherwise surrender all or part of the rights, benefits or obligations arising from the SR Retained Interest, except to the extent permitted in accordance with those SR Rules;

(c) NMAC will not change the manner in which it retains or the method of calculating the SR Retained Interest while any Notes are Outstanding, except to the extent permitted in accordance with the SR Rules; and

(d) NMAC will provide ongoing confirmation of its continued compliance with its obligations in the foregoing clauses (a), (b) and (c) in or concurrently with the delivery of each Payment Date Certificate.

For purposes of the foregoing, the “nominal value of the securitized exposures” shall be treated as equal to the aggregate Securitization Value of the leases and leased vehicles allocated to, and associated with, the 2022-A Series, and the amount of the SR Retained Interest shall be treated as equal to the excess of that aggregate Securitization Value over the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Notes.

[Signature Pages to Follow]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this 2022-A Servicing Supplement to be duly executed by their respective officers duly authorized as of the day and year first above written.

 

NISSAN-INFINITI LT LLC, as Titling Company
By:  

/s/ Kevin J. Cullum

Name:   /s/ Kevin J. Cullum
Title:   President

 

NILT LLC, as Member
By:  

/s/ Douglas E. Gwin, Jr.

Name:   Douglas E. Gwin, Jr.
Title:   Assistant Treasurer

 

NISSAN MOTOR ACCEPTANCE
COMPANY LLC, as Servicer
By:  

/s/ Kevin J. Cullum

Name:   Kevin J. Cullum
Title:   President

 

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EXHIBIT A

FORM OF PAYMENT DATE CERTIFICATE

(On file with the Servicer)

 

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EXHIBIT B

FORM OF ANNUAL ERISA CERTIFICATION

(As required to be delivered on or before June 30 of each

calendar year beginning with June 30, 2023, pursuant to

Section 8.11 of the 2022-A Servicing Supplement)

NISSAN MOTOR ACCEPTANCE COMPANY LLC

 

 

NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2022-A

 

 

The undersigned, duly authorized representative of Nissan Motor Acceptance Company LLC (“NMAC”), as Servicer, pursuant to the 2022-A Series Servicing Supplement to the Titling Company Servicing Agreement dated as of June 29, 2022 (as amended and supplemented, or otherwise modified and in effect from time to time, the “2022-A Servicing Supplement”), by and between NISSAN-INFINITI LLC, NILT LLC and NMAC, as Servicer, does hereby certify that:

1. The undersigned is an Authorized Officer of NMAC.

2. As of the end of NMAC’s preceding fiscal year, with respect to Employee Benefit Plans:

(a) [Employee Benefit Plan assets exceed the present value of accrued benefits][The present value of the accrued benefits exceeds plan assets] under each of the Employee Benefit Plans as of the close of the most recent Employee Benefit Plan year, as required to be reported in the financial statements for such Employee Benefit Plan filed with the most recent Form 5500 for such Employee Benefit Plan (the “Most Recent Plan Financial Statements”).

[Select from the following statements]

(b) [Neither NMAC nor any of its ERISA Affiliates (i) anticipates that the value of the assets of any Employee Benefit Plan it maintains would not be sufficient to cover any Funding Target; or (ii) is contemplating benefit improvements with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan then maintained by any such entity or the establishment of any new Employee Benefit Plan, either of which would cause any such entity to maintain an Employee Benefit Plan with a Funding Target in excess of plan assets. The term “Funding Target” has the meaning set forth in section 430(d) of the Internal Revenue Code.][Describe any failure of the certifications in clauses (i) and (ii) to be true.]

 

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(c) [If all of the Employee Benefit Plans were terminated (disregarding any Employee Benefit Plans with surpluses), the unfunded liabilities at such date with respect to such Employee Benefit Plans, their participants or beneficiaries, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, would not have exceeded [5%] of the consolidated net worth of Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. or [25%] of the consolidated net worth of Nissan North America, Inc. at such date.]

(d) [There are no unpaid minimum required contributions with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan as disclosed on the Most Recent Plan Financial Statements.]

(e) [Describe any facts that would cause the statements in clauses (b), (c) or (d) to be incorrect.]

Capitalized terms used but not defined herein are used as defined in the 2022-A Servicing Supplement, and if not defined therein, as defined in Annex A to the Series Certificate Sale Agreement, dated as of June 29, 2022, by and between NILT LLC and Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has duly executed this Certificate this ____ day of __________.

 

By:____________________________________
Name:
Title:

 

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SCHEDULE A

REGULATION AB REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS

PART I

DEFINED TERMS

Section 1.01. As used in this Schedule A, the following terms shall have the following meanings (such meanings to be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the terms defined); unless otherwise defined herein, terms used in this Schedule A that are defined in the Agreement to which this Schedule A is attached shall have the same meanings herein as in the Agreement:

Commission”: The United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Regulation AB”: Subpart 229.1100 – Asset Backed Securities (Regulation AB), 17 C.F.R. §§229.1100-229.1125, as such may be amended from time to time, and subject to such clarification and interpretation as has been provided by the Commission, including without limitation in the adopting releases Asset-Backed Securities, Securities Act Release No. 33-8518, Securities Exchange Act Release No. 34-50905, 70 Fed. Reg. 1,506, 1,531 (January 7, 2005) and Asset-Backed Securities Disclosure and Registration, Securities Act Release No. 33-9638, Securities Exchange Act Release No. 34-72982, 79 Fed. Reg. 57184 (September 24, 2014) or by the staff of the Commission, or as may be provided in writing by the Commission or its staff from time to time.

Securities Act”: The Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

PART II

COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATION AB

Section 2.01. Intent of the Parties; Reasonableness.

Each of the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee, the Member and the Servicer acknowledges and agrees that the purpose of Part II of this Schedule A is to facilitate compliance by the Issuing Entity and the Servicer with the provisions of Regulation AB and related rules and regulations of the Commission.

Each of the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee, the Member and the Servicer acknowledge that their respective obligations hereunder may be supplemented and modified as reasonably necessary to be consistent with any amendments, interpretive advice or guidance, convention or consensus among active participants in the asset-backed securities markets, in respect of the requirements of Regulation AB. In addition, each of the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee, the Member and the Servicer shall comply with reasonable requests made by the Issuing Entity for delivery of additional or different information as the Issuing Entity may determine in good faith is necessary to comply with the provisions of Regulation AB, provided that such information is available to such party without unreasonable effort or expense and within such timeframe as may be reasonably requested.

 

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Exhibit 10.3

 

 

NISSAN AUTO LEASING LLC II,

as Depositor,

and

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Owner Trustee

 

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED

TRUST AGREEMENT

Dated as of June 29, 2022

 

 

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

          Page  
ARTICLE ONE    DEFINITIONS      1  

Section 1.01

   Definitions      1  

Section 1.02

   Interpretive Provisions      1  
ARTICLE TWO    ORGANIZATION      2  

Section 2.01

   Name and Status      2  

Section 2.02

   Office      2  

Section 2.03

   Purposes and Powers      2  

Section 2.04

   Appointment of Owner Trustee      3  

Section 2.05

   Liability of the Trust Certificateholders      3  

Section 2.06

   Initial Capital Contribution of Owner Trust Estate      3  

Section 2.07

   Declaration of Trust      3  

Section 2.08

   Title to Issuing Entity Property      3  

Section 2.09

   Situs of Issuing Entity      3  

Section 2.10

   Representations and Warranties of the Depositor      4  

Section 2.11

   Power of Attorney      5  
ARTICLE THREE    TRUST CERTIFICATES AND TRANSFER OF INTERESTS      5  

Section 3.01

   Initial Ownership      5  

Section 3.02

   The Trust Certificates      5  

Section 3.03

   Authentication and Delivery of Trust Certificates      6  

Section 3.04

   Registration of Transfer and Exchange      6  

Section 3.05

   Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Certificates      10  

Section 3.06

   Persons Deemed Trust Certificateholders      10  

Section 3.07

   Access to List of Trust Certificateholders’ Names and Addresses      11  

Section 3.08

   Maintenance of Office or Agency      11  

Section 3.09

   Appointment of Paying Agent      11  

Section 3.10

   Ownership by the Depositor of Trust Certificates      12  
ARTICLE FOUR    ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE OR TRUST CERTIFICATEHOLDERS      12  

Section 4.01

   Prior Notice to Trust Certificateholders With Respect to Certain Matters      12  

 

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Section 4.02

   Action by Trust Certificateholders With Respect to Certain Matters      12  

Section 4.03

   Action by Owner Trustee With Respect to Bankruptcy      13  

Section 4.04

   Restrictions on Trust Certificateholders’ Power      13  

Section 4.05

   Majority Control      13  
ARTICLE FIVE    APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES      13  

Section 5.01

   Establishment of Certificate Distribution Account and Reserve Account      13  

Section 5.02

   Application of Issuing Entity Funds      15  

Section 5.03

   Method of Payment      16  

Section 5.04

   Duties of Depositor on Behalf of Issuing Entity      16  
ARTICLE SIX    AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE      16  

Section 6.01

   General Authority      16  

Section 6.02

   General Duties      17  

Section 6.03

   Action Upon Instruction      17  

Section 6.04

   No Duties Except as Specified      18  

Section 6.05

   No Action Unless Specifically Authorized      19  

Section 6.06

   Restrictions      19  

Section 6.07

   Information to be Provided by the Owner Trustee      19  
ARTICLE SEVEN    CONCERNING THE OWNER TRUSTEE      20  

Section 7.01

   Acceptance of Trusts and Duties      20  

Section 7.02

   Furnishing of Documents      21  

Section 7.03

   Representations and Warranties      22  

Section 7.04

   Reliance; Advice of Counsel      22  

Section 7.05

   Not Acting in Individual Capacity      23  

Section 7.06

   Owner Trustee Not Liable for Trust Certificates      23  

Section 7.07

   Owner Trustee May Own Trust Certificates and Notes      24  
ARTICLE EIGHT    COMPENSATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE      24  

Section 8.01

   Owner Trustee’s Compensation and Indemnification      24  
ARTICLE NINE    TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT      25  

Section 9.01

   Termination of Trust Agreement      25  

 

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Section 9.02

   [Reserved]      26  

Section 9.03

   Purchase of the 2022-A Series Certificate; Repayment of the Trust Certificates      26  

ARTICLE TEN

   SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES      26  

Section 10.01

   Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee      26  

Section 10.02

   Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee      27  

Section 10.03

   Successor Owner Trustee      27  

Section 10.04

   Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee      28  

Section 10.05

   Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee      28  
ARTICLE ELEVEN    TAX MATTERS      29  

Section 11.01

   Tax and Accounting Characterization      29  

Section 11.02

   Signature on Returns; Partnership Representative      30  

Section 11.03

   Tax Reporting      31  

ARTICLE TWELVE

   MISCELLANEOUS      31  

Section 12.01

   Supplements and Amendments      31  

Section 12.02

   No Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate      32  

Section 12.03

   Limitations on Rights of Others      33  

Section 12.04

   Notices      33  

Section 12.05

   Severability      33  

Section 12.06

   Counterparts and Electronic Signature      33  

Section 12.07

   Successors and Assigns      34  

Section 12.08

   No Petition      34  

Section 12.09

   No Recourse      34  

Section 12.10

   Headings      34  

Section 12.11

   GOVERNING LAW      34  

Section 12.12

   WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL      34  

Section 12.13

   Trust Certificates Nonassessable and Fully Paid      35  

Section 12.14

   Furnishing of Basic Documents      35  

Section 12.15

   USA PATRIOT Act Compliance      35  

 

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EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit A – Form of Trust Certificate
Exhibit B – Form of Transferee Representation Letter

 

 

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AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT

This Amended and Restated Trust Agreement (this “Agreement”), dated as of June 29, 2022, is between Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II, a Delaware limited liability company (“NALL II”), as depositor (the “Depositor”), and Wilmington Trust, National Association, a national banking association (“Wilmington Trust”), as trustee (the “Owner Trustee”).

WHEREAS, the parties hereto entered into a trust agreement, dated as of May 20, 2022 (the “Initial Trust Agreement”) pursuant to which the Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2022-A (the “Issuing Entity”) was created; and

WHEREAS, in connection with the issuance of the Notes, the parties hereto are entering into this Agreement pursuant to which, among other things, the Initial Trust Agreement will be amended and restated, and the Trust Certificates will be issued.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained, and of other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

ARTICLE ONE

DEFINITIONS

Section 1.01 Definitions. Capitalized terms used herein that are not otherwise defined shall have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in Annex A to the Series Certificate Sale Agreement, by and between NILT LLC and NALL II, dated as of the date hereof (the “Definitions Annex”).

Section 1.02 Interpretive Provisions. For all purposes of this Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires, (i) terms used herein include, as appropriate, all genders and the plural as well as the singular, (ii) references to words such as “herein,” “hereof” and the like shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular part, Article or Section within this Agreement, (iii) references to an Article or Section such as “Article Twelve” or “Section 12.01” shall refer to the applicable Article or Section of this Agreement, (iv) the term “include” and all variations thereof shall mean “include without limitation,” (v) the term “or” shall include “and/or,” (vi) the term “proceeds” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the UCC, (vii) references to Persons include their permitted successors and assigns, (viii) references to agreements and other contractual instruments include all subsequent amendments, amendments and restatements and supplements thereto or changes therein entered into in accordance with their respective terms and not prohibited by this Agreement, except that references to the Series LLC Agreement include only such items as related to the 2022-A Series and the Titling Company, (ix) references to laws include their amendments and supplements, the rules and regulations thereunder and any successors thereto, (x) references to this Agreement include all Exhibits hereto, and (xi) in the computation of a period of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” shall mean “from and including” and the words “to” and “until” shall mean “to but excluding.”

 

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ARTICLE TWO

ORGANIZATION

Section 2.01 Name and Status. The trust created hereby shall be known as “Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2022-A,” in which name the Issuing Entity may engage in activities as permitted by the Basic Documents, make and execute contracts and other instruments and sue and be sued, to the extent provided herein. It is the intention of the parties hereto that the Issuing Entity shall be a statutory trust under the Statutory Trust Statute, and that this Agreement shall constitute the governing instrument of that statutory trust.

Section 2.02 Office. The chief executive office and principal place of business of the Issuing Entity shall be in care of the Owner Trustee, initially at the Owner Corporate Trust Office and thereafter at such other address as the Owner Trustee may designate by written notice to the Trust Certificateholders and the Depositor.

Section 2.03 Purposes and Powers.

(a) The purpose of the Issuing Entity is, and the Issuing Entity shall have the power and authority and is authorized, to engage in the following activities:

(i) to issue Notes pursuant to the Indenture and Trust Certificates pursuant to this Agreement;

(ii) to acquire the 2022-A Series Certificate from the Depositor and the other property of the Owner Trust Estate in exchange for (A) the issuance of the Notes to the Depositor, (B) certain capital contributions from the Depositor and (C) the issuance of the Trust Certificate to the Depositor;

(iii) to pay interest on and principal of the Notes;

(iv) to assign, grant, transfer, pledge mortgage and convey the Owner Trust Estate pursuant to the Indenture to the Indenture Trustee as security for the Notes and to hold, manage and distribute to the Trust Certificateholders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement any portion of the Owner Trust Estate released from the Lien of, and remitted to the Issuing Entity pursuant to, the Indenture;

(v) to enter into and perform its obligations under the Basic Documents to which the Issuing Entity is a party;

(vi) to engage in other transactions, including entering into agreements, that are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish the foregoing or that are incidental thereto or connected therewith; and

(vii) subject to compliance with the Basic Documents, to engage in such other activities as may be required in connection with conservation of the Owner Trust Estate and the making of distributions to the Trust Certificateholders and the Noteholders and in respect of amounts to be released to the Servicer, and the Administrative Agent and third parties, if any.

 

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(b) The Issuing Entity shall not engage in any activity other than in connection with the foregoing or other than as required or authorized by the terms of this Agreement or the other Basic Documents.

Section 2.04 Appointment of Owner Trustee. The Depositor hereby appoints the Owner Trustee as trustee of the Issuing Entity effective as of the date hereof, to have all the rights, powers and duties set forth herein, and the Owner Trustee hereby accepts such appointment.

Section 2.05 Liability of the Trust Certificateholders. No Trust Certificateholder shall have any personal liability for any liability or obligation of the Issuing Entity, solely by reason of it being a Trust Certificateholder.

Section 2.06 Initial Capital Contribution of Owner Trust Estate. The Owner Trustee hereby acknowledges receipt from the Depositor in connection with the Initial Trust Agreement of the sum of $1.00, which constituted the initial Owner Trust Estate and shall be deposited in the Certificate Distribution Account. The Depositor shall pay organizational expenses of the Issuing Entity as they may arise or shall, upon the request of the Owner Trustee, promptly reimburse the Owner Trustee for any such expenses paid by the Owner Trustee.

Section 2.07 Declaration of Trust. The Owner Trustee hereby declares that it will hold the Owner Trust Estate in trust upon and subject to the conditions set forth herein for the sole purpose of conserving the Owner Trust Estate and collecting and disbursing the periodic income therefrom for the use and benefit of the Trust Certificateholders, who are intended to be “beneficial owners” within the meaning of the Statutory Trust Statute, subject to the Lien of the Indenture Trustee and the obligations of the Issuing Entity under the Basic Documents. Consistent with Section 11.01, it is the intention of the parties hereto that, solely for income and franchise tax purposes, the Issuing Entity shall be treated as a division or branch of the Trust Certificateholder. Effective as of the date hereof, the Owner Trustee shall have all rights, powers and duties set forth herein and to the extent not inconsistent herewith, under the Statutory Trust Statute for the purpose and to the extent necessary to accomplish the purpose of the Issuing Entity as set forth in Sections 2.03(a) and 2.03(b). At the direction of the Depositor, the Owner Trustee caused to be filed the Certificate of Trust pursuant to the Statutory Trust Statute, and the Owner Trustee shall file or cause to be filed such amendments thereto as shall be necessary or appropriate to satisfy the purposes of this Agreement and as shall be consistent with the provisions hereof.

Section 2.08 Title to Issuing Entity Property. Legal title to the Owner Trust Estate shall be vested at all times in the Issuing Entity as a separate legal entity.

Section 2.09 Situs of Issuing Entity. The Issuing Entity shall be located in the State of Delaware and shall be administered in the States of Delaware or New York. All bank accounts maintained by the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuing Entity shall be located in the States of Delaware or New York. The Issuing Entity shall not have any employees in any state other than Delaware; provided, however, that nothing herein shall restrict or prohibit the Owner Trustee from having employees within or without the state of Delaware.

 

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Section 2.10 Representations and Warranties of the Depositor. The Depositor hereby represents and warrants to the Owner Trustee as of the Closing Date that:

(a) Organization and Good Standing. The Depositor is duly formed, validly existing, and in good standing under the laws of the state of its formation, and has the power and the authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as such properties are currently owned and such business is presently conducted.

(b) Due Qualification. The Depositor is duly qualified to do business as a foreign entity in good standing, and has obtained all necessary licenses and approvals in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business shall require such qualifications, except where the failure to have any such license, approval, or qualification would not have a Material Adverse Effect on the Depositor.

(c) Power and Authority. The Depositor has the power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to carry out its terms, and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement has been duly authorized by the Depositor by all necessary action.

(d) Binding Obligation. This Agreement constitutes a legal, valid, and binding obligation of the Depositor, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be subject to or limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights in general and by general principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability shall be considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

(e) No Violation. The execution, delivery, and performance by the Depositor of this Agreement, the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and the fulfillment of the terms hereof do not (A) conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the governing documents of the Depositor, (B) conflict with or breach any of the material terms or provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, any indenture, agreement or other instrument to which the Depositor is a party or by which it may be bound or any of its properties are subject, (C) result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any material indenture, agreement, or other instrument (other than as permitted by the Basic Documents), (D) violate any law or, to the knowledge of the Depositor, any order, rule or regulation applicable to it or its properties, or (E) contravene, violate, or result in a default under any judgment, injunction, order, decree, or other instrument of any court or of any federal or state regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Depositor or any of its properties; except, in the case of clauses (B), (C), (D) and (E) of this Section 2.10(e), to the extent it would not reasonably be likely to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Depositor.

 

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(f) No Proceedings. There are no proceedings in which the Depositor has been served or, to the knowledge of the Depositor, proceedings or investigations that are pending or threatened, in each case against the Depositor, before any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other tribunal, or governmental instrumentality (A) asserting the invalidity of this Agreement, (B) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Basic Document or (C) seeking any determination or ruling that, in the reasonable judgment of the Depositor, would materially and adversely affect the performance by the Depositor of its obligations under this Agreement.

(g) Independent Manager. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the certificate of formation or limited liability company agreement of the Depositor, the Depositor shall ensure that at least one manager of the Depositor shall be an Independent Manager.

Section 2.11 Power of Attorney. Pursuant to the Trust Administration Agreement, the Owner Trustee has authorized the Administrative Agent to perform certain of its administrative duties hereunder, including duties with respect to the management of the Owner Trust Estate, and in connection therewith hereby grants the Administrative Agent its revocable power of attorney. Each Trust Certificateholder by such Certificateholder’s acceptance of any Trust Certificate or beneficial interest therein, as the case may be, shall be deemed to have granted power of attorney to the Administrative Agent for purposes of actions taken or to be taken with respect to the Trust Certificates.

ARTICLE THREE

TRUST CERTIFICATES AND TRANSFER OF INTERESTS

Section 3.01 Initial Ownership. Upon the formation of the Issuing Entity by the contribution by the Depositor pursuant to Section 2.06 and until the issuance of the Trust Certificates, the Depositor shall be sole beneficiary of the Issuing Entity.

Section 3.02 The Trust Certificates.

(a) The Trust Certificates shall be issued with an initial face amount equal to the Initial Trust Certificate Balance, substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A, in minimum denominations of $250,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof; provided, that the final $272,735,507.43 distributed to the Trust Certificateholders under the Basic Documents shall be deemed to repay the Certificate Balance in full and reduce the face amount of the Trust Certificates to $0. Except for the issuance of the Trust Certificate to the Depositor, no Trust Certificate may be sold, pledged, exchanged or otherwise transferred to any Person except in accordance with Sections 3.04 and 3.10 and any attempted sale, pledge, exchange or transfer (each referred to hereinafter as a “transfer”) in violation of such Sections shall be null and void.

(b) The Trust Certificates may be printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, and may be executed on behalf of the Issuing Entity by manual or facsimile signature of an Authenticating Agent. Trust Certificates bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were, at the time when such signatures shall have been affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Issuing Entity, shall be validly issued and entitled to the benefits of this Agreement, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall have ceased to be so authorized prior to the authentication and delivery of such Trust Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of authentication and delivery of such Trust Certificates.

 

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If registration of a transfer of a Trust Certificate is permitted pursuant to Section 3.04 and Section 3.10, the transferee of such Trust Certificate shall become a Trust Certificateholder and shall be entitled to the rights and subject to the obligations of a Trust Certificateholder hereunder, upon such transferee’s acceptance of a Trust Certificate duly registered in such transferee’s name pursuant to Section 3.04.

Section 3.03 Authentication and Delivery of Trust Certificates. Concurrently with the transfer of the 2022-A Series Certificate to the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee shall cause to be executed on behalf of the Issuing Entity the Trust Certificate in an aggregate principal amount equal to the Initial Trust Certificate Balance, authenticated and delivered to or upon the written order of the Depositor, in authorized denominations, evidencing the entire ownership of the Issuing Entity. No Trust Certificate shall entitle its holder to any benefit under this Agreement, or shall be valid for any purpose, unless there shall appear on such Trust Certificate a certificate of authentication, substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A, executed by the Owner Trustee or its Authenticating Agent, by manual or facsimile signature; and such authentication shall constitute conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Trust Certificate shall have been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. All Trust Certificates shall be dated the date of their authentication. Upon issuance, execution and delivery pursuant to the terms hereof, the Trust Certificates shall be entitled to the benefits of this Agreement. Wilmington Trust shall be the initial Authenticating Agent of the Owner Trustee hereunder, and all references herein to authentication by the Owner Trustee shall be deemed to include the Authenticating Agent.

Section 3.04 Registration of Transfer and Exchange.

(a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a register (the “Certificate Register”), in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and, if and to the extent transfers are permitted pursuant to Section 3.04(b) and Section 3.10, the registration of transfers of Trust Certificates. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be recognized except upon registration of such transfer. Wilmington Trust is hereby appointed as the initial Certificate Registrar. The Certificate Registrar hereby agrees to notify the Paying Agent in writing of any changes to the registered holders of the Trust Certificates. If the Certificate Registrar shall for any reason become unable to act as Certificate Registrar, the Certificate Registrar shall give prompt written notice to such effect to the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. The Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor, which shall be another trust company or bank, and shall agree to act in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement applicable to it as successor Certificate Registrar under this Agreement.

(b) Each Trust Certificate shall bear a legend regarding transfers to the effect of the legend on the form of Trust Certificate attached as Exhibit A hereto, unless determined otherwise by the Servicer (as certified to the Certificate Registrar in an Officer’s Certificate) consistent with applicable law.

 

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If and to the extent transfers are permitted pursuant to Section 3.10, as a condition to the registration of any transfer of a Trust Certificate, the prospective transferee shall be required to represent in writing to the Owner Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificate Registrar the following (except that any restriction or requirement described below may be removed or modified if the Depositor has received an opinion from a nationally recognized tax counsel (which, for the avoidance of doubt, may rely on reasonable representations of the applicable transferee or other applicable persons) that such restriction or requirement is not necessary to conclude that any such transfer would not cause any of the tax opinions that were rendered on the Closing Date to be inaccurate if rendered as of the transfer date and will not cause a material adverse effect on any Noteholder):

(i) It has neither acquired through nor will it transfer any Trust Certificate it purchases (or any interest therein) through or cause any such Trust Certificates (or any interest therein) to be traded or readily available on or through (A) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code, including, without limitation, an over-the counter-market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations, or (B) a “secondary market” (or the substantial equivalent thereof) within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(2) of the Code.

(ii) It either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to such transferee’s ownership of Trust Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving such entity’s beneficial interest in any Trust Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code.

(iii) It understands that no subsequent transfer of the Trust Certificates is permitted unless (A) such transfer is of a Trust Certificate with a denomination of at least $250,000 and (B) it causes its proposed transferee to provide the Issuing Entity and the Certificate Registrar a letter substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto; provided, however, that any attempted transfer that would either cause (1) the aggregate number of registered holders of Trust Certificates and holders of interests in Restricted Notes to exceed 95 or (2) the number of holders of direct or indirect interests in the Titling Company to exceed 50, shall be a void transfer.

(iv) It understands that no transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuing Entity to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuing Entity’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii)

 

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either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in the Section 385 Controlled Partnership, is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). It understands that no transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuing Entity becoming an entity disregarded as separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership) is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). For purposes of determining the Issuing Entity’s ownership interests in this paragraph, any Restricted Notes shall be taken into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuing Entity being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership or a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Restricted Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Restricted Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph).

(v) It understands that the Opinion of Counsel to the Issuing Entity that the Issuing Entity is not a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of the representations in paragraphs (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) above.

(vi) (A) It shall provide to the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Issuing Entity and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuing Entity to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code (and any corresponding provision of state law) and (B) if it is not the beneficial owner of a Trust Certificate, such beneficial owner shall provide to the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Issuing Entity and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuing Entity to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code (and any corresponding provision of state law) and, to the extent the Issuing Entity determines such appointment necessary for it to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code (or any corresponding provision of state law), hereby appoints the transferee as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code (and any corresponding provision of state law).

(vii) It understands that complying with Section 1446(f) of the Code is not the responsibility of the Issuing Entity, and that a transferor and transferee of a Trust Certificate may be subject to withholding or a withholding obligation, as the case may be, in the event that the Issuing Entity is treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes and there is a failure to comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code.

 

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If and to the extent transfers are permitted pursuant to Section 3.10, as a condition to the registration of any transfer of a Trust Certificate, the prospective transferee shall be required to represent in writing to the Owner Trustee, the Depositor and the Certificate Registrar substantially in the form of Exhibit B to the effect that: (i) such transferee is not a Non-U.S. Person, (ii) such transferee is not, and will not be, acquiring or holding the Trust Certificate for, on behalf of, or with the assets of a Benefit Plan Investor, and (iii) if such transferee is acquiring or holding the Trust Certificate for, on behalf of, or with the assets of a Plan that is subject to Similar Law, its acquisition, holding and disposition of the Trust Certificates (or interest therein) will not result in a violation of Similar Law and will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being (a) plan assets of such Plan or (b) subject to Similar Law. A “Non-U.S. Person” means any Person who is not (a) a citizen or resident of the United States who is a natural person, (b) a corporation or partnership (or an entity treated as a corporation or partnership) created or organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state thereof, including the District of Columbia (unless, in the case of a partnership, Treasury Regulations are adopted that provide otherwise), (c) an estate, the income of which is subject to U.S. federal income taxation, regardless of its source, (d) a trust, if a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over the administration of the trust and one or more United States persons (as defined in the Code and Treasury Regulations) have the authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust; or (e) a trust that was in existence prior to August 20, 1996 and that, under Treasury Regulations, is eligible to elect, and does validly elect, to be treated as a United States person (as defined in the Code and Treasury Regulations) despite not meeting the requirements of clause (d).

(c) By acceptance of any Trust Certificate, the related Trust Certificateholder specifically agrees with and represents to the Depositor, the Issuing Entity and Certificate Registrar that no transfer of such Trust Certificate shall be made unless the registration requirements of the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws are complied with, or such transfer is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act.

(d) Upon surrender for registration of transfer or exchange of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and upon compliance with the provisions of this Agreement relating to such transfer or exchange the Owner Trustee shall execute and shall, or shall cause the Authenticating Agent to, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate face amount dated the date of such authentication or the Trust Certificates that the Trust Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive, as the case may be.

The Certificate Registrar shall require that every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer and accompanied by IRS Form W-9 or such other form as may be reasonably required in order to comply with applicable law, and to establish such transferee’s complete exemption from deduction or withholding (including backup withholding) of U.S. federal income tax in form satisfactory to the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Trust Certificateholder or such Person’s attorney duly authorized in writing.

 

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No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates.

The Certificate Registrar shall cancel and retain or destroy, in accordance with the Certificate Registrar’s retention policy then in effect, all Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and shall upon written request certify to the Depositor as to such retention or destruction. No transfer will be effectuated hereunder unless the Certificate Registrar has received the transfer documentation required hereunder.

(e) The provisions of this Section generally are intended, among other things, to prevent the Issuing Entity from being characterized as a “publicly traded partnership,” within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code, in reliance on Treasury Regulations Section 1.7704-1 (e) and (h), and the Depositor shall take such intent into account in determining whether or not to consent to any proposed transfer of any Trust Certificate.

The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.

Section 3.05 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Certificates. If any mutilated Trust Certificate is surrendered to the Certificate Registrar, or if the Certificate Registrar receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Trust Certificate and there is delivered to the Certificate Registrar and the Owner Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then in the absence of notice that such Trust Certificate has been transferred to a protected purchaser and provided that the requirements of Section 8-405 of the UCC are met, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuing Entity shall execute and the Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Trust Certificate, a new Trust Certificate of like tenor and denomination. In connection with the issuance of any new Trust Certificate under this Section, the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith. Any duplicate Trust Certificate issued pursuant to this Section shall constitute conclusive evidence of an ownership interest in the Issuing Entity, as if originally issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust Certificate shall be found at any time.

Section 3.06 Persons Deemed Trust Certificateholders. Prior to due presentation of a Trust Certificate for registration of transfer, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, any Paying Agent and any of their respective agents may treat the Person in whose name any Trust Certificate is registered in the Certificate Register as the owner of such Trust Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions pursuant to Section 5.02 and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, any Paying Agent or any of their respective agents shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.

 

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Section 3.07 Access to List of Trust Certificateholders Names and Addresses. The Certificate Registrar shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Owner Trustee, the Servicer and the Depositor or the Indenture Trustee, as the case may be, within fifteen (15) days after its receipt of a request therefor from the Owner Trustee, the Servicer, the Depositor or the Indenture Trustee in writing, a list, in such form as the requesting party may reasonably request, of the names and addresses of the Trust Certificateholders as of the most recent Record Date. If (i) two or more Trust Certificateholders or (ii) one or more Trust Certificateholders evidencing not less than 25% of the Certificate Balance apply in writing to the Owner Trustee, and such application states that the applicants desire to communicate with other Trust Certificateholders with respect to their rights under this Agreement or under the Trust Certificates and such application is accompanied by a copy of the communication that such applicants propose to transmit, then the Owner Trustee shall, within five (5) Business Days after the receipt of such application, afford such applicants access during normal business hours to the current list of Trust Certificateholders. Each Trust Certificateholder, by receiving and holding a Trust Certificate, shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold any of the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Servicer, as the case may be, accountable by reason of the disclosure of its name and address, regardless of the source from which such information was derived.

Section 3.08 Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Owner Trustee shall maintain an office or offices or agency or agencies where Trust Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Owner Trustee in respect of the Trust Certificates and the other Basic Documents to which the Issuing Entity is a party may be served. The Owner Trustee initially designates the Owner Corporate Trust Office, as the office for such purposes. The Owner Trustee shall give prompt written notice to the Depositor and the other Trust Certificateholders of any change in the location of the Certificate Register or any such office or agency.

Section 3.09 Appointment of Paying Agent. The Paying Agent shall make distributions to the Trust Certificateholders pursuant to Section 5.02, and shall report the amounts of such distributions to the Owner Trustee. Any Paying Agent shall have the revocable power to withdraw funds from the Certificate Distribution Account for the purpose of making the distributions referred to above. The Paying Agent initially shall be U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association. The Owner Trustee may revoke such power and remove the Paying Agent if the Owner Trustee determines in its sole discretion that the Paying Agent has failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect. Any co-paying agent chosen by the Depositor and acceptable to the Owner Trustee shall also be a Paying Agent. Each Paying Agent may resign upon thirty (30) days’ written notice to the Owner Trustee. In the event that a Paying Agent may no longer act as Paying Agent, the Owner Trustee shall appoint a successor to act as Paying Agent (which shall be a bank or trust company). The Owner Trustee shall cause such successor Paying Agent or any additional Paying Agent appointed by the Owner Trustee to execute and deliver to the Owner Trustee an instrument in which such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent shall agree with the Owner Trustee that as Paying Agent, such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent shall hold all sums, if any, held by it for payment to the Trust Certificateholders in trust for the benefit of the Trust Certificateholders entitled thereto until such sums are paid to the Trust Certificateholders. The Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to the Owner Trustee and upon removal of a Paying Agent such Paying Agent shall also return all funds in its possession to the Owner Trustee. The provisions of Sections

 

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7.01, 7.03, 7.04 and 8.01 shall apply to the Owner Trustee also in its role as Paying Agent, for so long as the Owner Trustee shall act as Paying Agent and, to the extent applicable, to any other paying agent appointed hereunder. Any reference in this Agreement to the Paying Agent shall include any co-paying agent unless the context requires otherwise.

Section 3.10 Ownership by the Depositor of Trust Certificates. The Depositor shall receive on the Closing Date in accordance with Section 3.02 beneficial and record ownership of Trust Certificates representing 100% of the Certificate Balance. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, the Depositor may not transfer any Trust Certificate prior to payment in full of the Notes unless the Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied with respect to such transfer.

ARTICLE FOUR

ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE OR TRUST CERTIFICATEHOLDERS

Section 4.01 Prior Notice to Trust Certificateholders With Respect to Certain Matters. Subject to the provisions and limitations of Section 4.04, with respect to the following matters, the Owner Trustee shall not take action unless (i) the Owner Trustee has notified the Trust Certificateholders in writing of the proposed action (or such shorter period as shall be agreed to in writing by all Trust Certificateholders) at least thirty (30) days before the taking of such action and (ii) the Owner Trustee has not received written notification from Trust Certificateholders representing at least 25% of the Certificate Balance prior to the thirtieth (30th) day after such notice is given that such Trust Certificateholders have withheld consent or provided alternative direction:

(a) the initiation of any claim or lawsuit by the Issuing Entity or the settlement or compromise of any action, claim or lawsuit involving the Issuing Entity (other than an action brought by the Servicer on behalf of the Titling Company and Persons having interests in the 2022-A Series Certificate to collect amounts owed under a 2022-A Lease or 2022-A Vehicle);

(b) the amendment to the Certificate of Trust (unless such amendment is required to be filed under the Statutory Trust Statute);

(c) the amendment of the Indenture in circumstances where the consent of the Trust Certificateholder is required and such consent has not been granted;

(d) the amendment of any Basic Document other than pursuant to, and in accordance with, the amendment provision set forth in such Basic Document; or

(e) the appointment of a successor Owner Trustee or successor Indenture Trustee.

Section 4.02 Action by Trust Certificateholders With Respect to Certain Matters.

(a) Except as set forth in Section 4.02(b) and subject to the provisions and limitations of Section 4.04, to the extent the Issuing Entity is deemed to be the Certificateholder of the 2022-A Series Certificate pursuant to the Series LLC Agreement, the Issuing Entity shall take such actions as directed in writing by Trust Certificateholders holding Trust Certificates evidencing an interest of at least 50% of the outstanding Certificate Balance.

 

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(b) The Owner Trustee shall not have the power, except upon the direction of the Trust Certificateholders, to (a) remove the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 1.09 of the Trust Administration Agreement, (b) appoint a successor Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 1.09 of the Trust Administration Agreement, (c) remove the Servicer pursuant to Section 8.12(c) of the 2022-A Servicing Supplement or (d) except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, sell the 2022-A Series Certificate after the termination of the Indenture. The Owner Trustee shall take the actions referred to in the preceding sentence only upon written instructions signed by the authorized representative of 100% of the Trust Certificateholders.

Section 4.03 Action by Owner Trustee With Respect to Bankruptcy. The Owner Trustee shall not have the power to commence a voluntary proceeding in bankruptcy relating to the Issuing Entity without the unanimous prior approval of all Trust Certificateholders (including the board of managers of the Depositor (including the Independent Managers, as such term is defined in the Depositor’s limited liability company agreement) and the delivery to the Owner Trustee of a written certification by each Trust Certificateholder that such Trust Certificateholder reasonably believes that the Issuing Entity is insolvent.

Section 4.04 Restrictions on Trust Certificateholders Power. The Trust Certificateholders shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take or refrain from taking any action if such action or inaction would be contrary to any obligation of the Issuing Entity or the Owner Trustee under this Agreement or any of the other Basic Documents or would be contrary to the purpose of the Issuing Entity as set forth in Section 2.03, or applicable law, nor shall the Owner Trustee be obligated to follow any such direction, if given.

Section 4.05 Majority Control. Except as expressly provided herein, any action that may be taken by the Trust Certificateholders under this Agreement may be taken by the Trust Certificateholders holding not less than a Majority Interest of the Trust Certificates. Except as expressly provided herein, any written notice of the Trust Certificateholders delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall be effective if signed by Trust Certificateholders holding not less than a Majority Interest of the Trust Certificates at the time of delivery of such notice.

ARTICLE FIVE

APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES

Section 5.01 Establishment of Certificate Distribution Account and Reserve Account.

(a) The Owner Trustee, for the benefit of the Trust Certificateholders, shall establish and maintain, or cause to be established and maintained, at the direction of the Depositor, an Eligible Account with and in the name of the Owner Trustee which shall be designated the “Certificate Distribution Account.” The Owner Trustee and the Depositor hereby authorize and direct U.S. Bank National Association to establish the Certificate Distribution Account for the benefit of the Owner Trustee. The Certificate Distribution Account shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Trust Certificateholders and shall bear a designation clearly indicating that the funds deposited therein are held for the benefit of the Trust Certificateholders.

 

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The Owner Trustee shall possess all right, title and interest in all funds on deposit from time to time in the Certificate Distribution Account and in all proceeds thereof. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Certificate Distribution Account shall be under the sole dominion and control of the Owner Trustee for the benefit of the Trust Certificateholders. If at any time the Certificate Distribution Account ceases to be an Eligible Account or if the majority of Trust Certificateholders, in their sole discretion, notify the Owner Trustee in writing that the Certificate Distribution Account should be moved, then the Owner Trustee (or the Depositor on behalf of the Owner Trustee, if the Certificate Distribution Account is not then held by the Owner Trustee or an Affiliate thereof) shall, within ten (10) Business Days following notification of such occurrence (or such longer period, not to exceed thirty (30) calendar days, as to which the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied), establish a new Certificate Distribution Account as an Eligible Account at a depository institution or trust company selected by a majority of the Trust Certificateholders and shall transfer any cash or investments to such new Certificate Distribution Account.

(b) The Servicer, on behalf of the Issuing Entity, shall establish and maintain an Eligible Account (initially at U.S. Bank National Association) in the name of the Indenture Trustee until the Outstanding Amount is reduced to zero, and thereafter, in the name of the Owner Trustee, which is designated as the “Reserve Account”. The Reserve Account shall be held for the benefit of the Securityholders, and shall bear a designation clearly indicating that the funds on deposit therein are held for the benefit of the Securityholder.

The Reserve Account shall be under the sole dominion and control of the Indenture Trustee until the Outstanding Amount of Notes has been reduced to zero, and thereafter under the sole dominion and control of the Issuing Entity. On the Closing Date, the Depositor will use the net proceeds of the sale of the Notes and the Trust Certificates to make a capital contribution to the Issuing Entity, which the Issuing Entity shall use to cause the Initial Deposit Amount to be deposited into the Reserve Account. All deposits to and withdrawals from the Reserve Account shall be made only upon the terms and conditions of the Basic Documents.

(c) The Issuing Entity shall take or cause to be taken such further actions, to execute, deliver and file or cause to be executed, delivered and filed such further documents and instruments (including, without limitation, any UCC financing statements) as may be determined to be reasonably necessary by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Issuing Entity, in order to perfect the interests created by Section 5.01(b) and otherwise fully effectuate the purposes, terms and conditions of this Section. The Issuing Entity (or Administrative Agent on behalf of the Issuing Entity) shall:

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(ii) make the necessary filings of financing statements or amendments thereto within five (5) days after the occurrence of any of the following (and promptly notify the Owner Trustee of each such filing): (A) any change in the Depositor’s corporate name or any trade name, (B) any change in the location of is chief executive office or principal place of business or (C) any merger or consolidation or other change in its identity or corporate structure.

Section 5.02 Application of Issuing Entity Funds.

(a) On each Payment Date, the Paying Agent (or the Owner Trustee, if there is no Paying Agent) shall distribute, to the extent of funds available, the amount on deposit in the Certificate Distribution Account (after giving effect to all deposits to the Certificate Distribution Account on such date), (i) first, if all Classes of Notes have been paid in full, for the payment of principal of the Trust Certificates on such Payment Date, pro rata to the Trust Certificateholders of record at the close of business on the Record Date with respect to such Payment Date until the Certificate Balance is zero and (ii) second, any remaining amounts to the Trust Certificateholders.

(b) On or after the date on which the Outstanding Amount of the Notes has been reduced to zero, pursuant to the Indenture, dominion and control over the Reserve Account shall be transferred to the Owner Trustee. On each Payment Date thereafter, all amounts distributable to the Trust Certificateholders shall be distributed by the Paying Agent in the order and priority set forth in Section 8.04(a) of the Indenture and the Owner Trustee and the Paying Agent shall comply with Sections 8.04(d) and 8.05(a) of the Indenture.

On the Payment Date on which the Certificate Balance has been reduced to zero, the Owner Trustee shall release to the Trust Certificateholder, as beneficial owner of the Issuing Entity, without recourse, representation or warranty (except as set forth in Section 7.03), all of the Issuing Entity’s right, title, and interest in, to and under the Reserve Account Property and all other remaining assets of the Issuing Entity.

(c) If requested by the Trust Certificateholder, for any Payment Date, the Owner Trustee shall send to each Trust Certificateholder a copy of the Payment Date Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 8.03 of the Indenture.

(d) If any withholding tax is imposed on the Issuing Entity’s payment (or, if the Issuing Entity is treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, allocations of income) to a Trust Certificateholder, such tax shall reduce the amount otherwise distributable to such Trust Certificateholder in accordance with this Section. The Owner Trustee is hereby authorized and directed to retain from amounts otherwise distributable to such Trust Certificateholders, sufficient funds for the payment of any withholding tax that is legally owed by the Issuing Entity (but such authorization shall not prevent the Owner Trustee from contesting any such tax in appropriate proceedings, and withholding payment of such tax, if permitted by law, pending the outcome of such proceedings). The amount of any withholding tax imposed with respect to a Trust Certificateholder shall be treated as cash distributed to such Trust Certificateholders, at the time it is withheld by the Issuing Entity for remittance to the appropriate taxing authority. If the Owner Trustee determines that there is a possibility that

 

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withholding tax is payable with respect to a distribution (such as any distribution to a Person other than a “United States person” (as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code)), the Owner Trustee may in its sole discretion withhold such amounts in accordance with this Section. If a Trust Certificateholder wishes to apply for a refund of any such withholding tax, the Owner Trustee shall reasonably cooperate with such Trust Certificateholder in making such claim so long as such Trust Certificateholder agrees to reimburse the Owner Trustee for any out-of-pocket expenses incurred.

(e) Subject to Section 6.07 of the Indenture and 8.01 hereof, as the case may be, neither the Indenture Trustee nor the Owner Trustee, as the case may be, shall in any way be held liable by reason of any insufficiency in the Reserve Account resulting from any loss on any Permitted Investment included therein, except for losses attributable to the Indenture Trustee’s or the Owner Trustee’s, as the case may be, failure to make payments on any such Permitted Investments issued by the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, as the case may be, in its commercial capacity as principal obligor and not as trustee, in accordance with their terms.

Section 5.03 Method of Payment. Subject to Section 9.01(c) respecting the final payment upon retirement of the Trust Certificates, distributions required to be made to Trust Certificateholders on any Payment Date shall be made to each Trust Certificateholder of record on the related Record Date by check mailed to such Trust Certificateholder at the address of such holder appearing on the Certificate Register, except that a Trust Certificateholder having original denominations aggregating at least $1 million may request payment by wire transfer of funds pursuant to written instructions delivered to the Owner Trustee at least five (5) Business Days prior to the Record Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the final payment on the Trust Certificates shall be made only upon presentation and surrender of such Trust Certificates at the office or agency specified in the notice of final payment to the Trust Certificateholders delivered pursuant to Section 9.01(c).

Section 5.04 Duties of Depositor on Behalf of Issuing Entity. On behalf of the Issuing Entity, the Depositor shall prepare or cause the Servicer to prepare and, after execution by the Issuing Entity, file with the Commission and any applicable state agencies all documents required to be filed by the Issuing Entity on a periodic basis with the Commission and any applicable state agencies (including any summaries thereof required by rules and regulations prescribed thereby), and transmit such summaries to the Noteholders, pursuant to Section 7.03 of the Indenture.

ARTICLE SIX

AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE

Section 6.01 General Authority. The Owner Trustee shall administer the Issuing Entity in the interest of the Trust Certificateholders, subject to the Lien of the Indenture Trustee, in accordance with the Basic Documents. Subject to the provisions and limitations of Sections 2.03 and 2.07, the Owner Trustee is authorized and directed to execute and deliver on behalf of the Issuing Entity the Basic Documents to which the Issuing Entity is to be a party and each certificate or other document attached as an exhibit to or contemplated by the Basic Documents to which the Issuing Entity is to be a party, in each case in such form as the Depositor shall

 

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approve as evidenced conclusively by the Owner Trustee’s execution thereof and the Depositor’s execution of this Agreement, and on behalf of the Issuing Entity, to direct the Indenture Trustee to authenticate and deliver Class A-1 Notes in the aggregate principal amount of $118,300,000, Class A-2a Notes in the aggregate principal amount of $209,000,000, Class A-2b Notes in the aggregate principal amount of $175,100,000, Class A-3 Notes in the aggregate principal amount of $362,000,000 and Class A-4 Notes in the aggregate principal amount of $75,000,000. In addition to the foregoing, the Owner Trustee is authorized to take all actions required of the Issuing Entity pursuant to the Basic Documents. The Owner Trustee is further authorized from time to time to take such action on behalf of the Issuing Entity as is permitted by the Basic Documents and that the Servicer or the Administrative Agent recommends with respect to the Basic Documents, except to the extent this Agreement expressly requires the consent of the Trust Certificateholders for such action.

Section 6.02 General Duties. Subject to the provisions and limitations of Sections 2.03 and 2.07, it shall be the duty of the Owner Trustee to discharge or cause to be discharged all of its responsibilities pursuant to the terms of the Basic Documents to which the Issuing Entity is a party and to administer the Issuing Entity in the interest of the Trust Certificateholders, subject to the Lien of the Indenture Trustee and in accordance with the provisions of the Basic Documents. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall be deemed to have discharged its duties and responsibilities hereunder and under the other Basic Documents to the extent the Administrative Agent has agreed in the Trust Administration Agreement to perform any act or to discharge any duty of the Issuing Entity or the Owner Trustee hereunder or under any other Basic Document, and the Owner Trustee shall not be held liable for the default or failure of the Administrative Agent to carry out its obligations under the Trust Administration Agreement.

Section 6.03 Action Upon Instruction.

(a) Subject to Article Four and in accordance with the terms of the Basic Documents, the Depositor may by written instruction direct the Owner Trustee in the administration of the Issuing Entity subject to, and in accordance with, the terms of the Basic Documents. The Owner Trustee, upon receipt of all resolutions, certificates, statements, opinions, reports, documents, orders or other instruments furnished to the Owner Trustee that shall be specifically required to be furnished pursuant to any provision of this Agreement, shall examine them to determine whether they conform on their face to the requirements of this Agreement.

(b) The Owner Trustee shall not be required to take any action hereunder or under any other Basic Document if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonably determined, or shall have been advised by counsel, that such action is likely to result in liability (unless provided adequate indemnity) on the part of the Owner Trustee, is contrary to the terms hereof or of any other Basic Document or is otherwise contrary to law or any obligation of the Owner Trustee or the Issuing Entity.

(c) Whenever the Owner Trustee is unable to decide between alternative courses of action permitted or required by the terms of this Agreement or any other Basic Document, the Owner Trustee shall promptly give notice (in such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the Trust Certificateholders requesting instruction as to the course of action to

 

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be adopted, and to the extent the Owner Trustee acts in good faith in accordance with any written instruction of Trust Certificateholders holding not less than a Majority Interest of the Trust Certificates, the Owner Trustee shall not be liable on account of such action to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall not have received appropriate instruction within ten (10) days of such notice (or within such shorter period of time as reasonably may be specified in such notice as may be necessary under the circumstances), it may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking such action not inconsistent with this Agreement or the other Basic Documents as it shall deem to be in the best interests of the Trust Certificateholders, and shall have no liability to any Person for such action or inaction.

(d) If the Owner Trustee is unsure as to the application of any provision of this Agreement or any other Basic Document or any such provision is ambiguous as to its application, or is, or appears to be, in conflict with any other applicable provision, or in the event that this Agreement or any other Basic Document permits any determination by the Owner Trustee or is silent or is incomplete as to the course of action the Owner Trustee is required to take with respect to a particular set of facts, the Owner Trustee may give notice (in such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the Trust Certificateholders requesting instruction and, to the extent the Owner Trustee acts or refrains from acting in good faith in accordance with any such instruction received from Trust Certificateholders holding not less than a Majority Interest of the Trust Certificates and in accordance with Sections 6.04 and 6.05, the Owner Trustee shall not be liable, on account of such action or inaction, to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall not have received appropriate instruction within ten (10) days of such notice (or within such shorter period of time as reasonably may be specified in such notice or as may be necessary under the circumstances) it may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking such action, not inconsistent with this Agreement or the other Basic Documents, as it shall deem to be in the best interests of the Trust Certificateholders, and shall have no liability to any Person for such action or inaction.

(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the right of the Depositor or the Trust Certificateholders to take any action affecting the Owner Trust Estate shall be subject to the rights of the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture.

Section 6.04 No Duties Except as Specified. The Owner Trustee shall not be required to perform any of the obligations of the Issuing Entity under this Agreement or the other Basic Documents that are required to be performed by (i) the Servicer under the Servicing Agreement or the 2022-A Series Supplement, (ii) the Depositor under this Agreement, the Servicing Agreement, the Indenture or the Series Certificate Sale Agreement, (iii) the Administrative Agent under the Trust Administration Agreement, (iv) the Asset Representations Reviewer under the Asset Representations Review Agreement, or (v) the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture. The Owner Trustee shall not have any duty or obligation to manage, make any payment with respect to, register, record, sell, dispose of or otherwise deal with the Owner Trust Estate, or to otherwise take or refrain from taking any action under, or in connection with, any document contemplated hereby to which the Issuing Entity is a party, except as expressly provided by the terms of this Agreement or in any document or written instruction received by the Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 6.03; and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or any other Basic Document against the Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall have no responsibility for filing any financing or continuation statement in any public office

 

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at any time or to otherwise perfect or maintain the perfection of any ownership or security interest in the Owner Trust Estate or to record this Agreement or any other Basic Document. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any Basic Document, neither the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, nor the Titling Company Registrar shall be required to execute, deliver or certify on behalf of the Issuing Entity or any other person any filings, certificates, affidavits or other instruments required under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, to the extent permitted by applicable law. The Owner Trustee nevertheless agrees that it will, at its own cost and expense, promptly take all action as may be necessary to discharge any Liens (other than the Lien of the Indenture) on any part of the Owner Trust Estate that result from actions by or claims against the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity that are not related to the ownership or the administration of the Owner Trust Estate. The Owner Trustee shall have no duty to monitor or investigate the accuracy of any of NMAC’s or the Servicer’s representations, warranties or covenants in the Servicing Agreement or the other Basic Documents or to determine whether any breach of NMAC’s or the Servicer’s representation, warranties or covenants adversely affects any Securityholder.

Section 6.05 No Action Unless Specifically Authorized. The Owner Trustee shall not manage, control, use, sell, dispose of or otherwise deal with any part of the Owner Trust Estate except in accordance with (i) the powers granted to and the authority conferred upon the Owner Trustee pursuant to this Agreement, (ii) the other Basic Documents to which the Issuing Entity or the Owner Trustee is a party and (iii) any document or instruction delivered to the Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 6.03. In particular, the Owner Trustee shall not transfer, sell, pledge, assign or convey the 2022-A Series Certificate, except as specifically required or permitted by the Basic Documents.

Section 6.06 Restrictions. The Owner Trustee shall not take any action (i) that is contrary to the purposes of the Issuing Entity set forth in Section 2.03 or (ii) that, to the actual knowledge of the Owner Trustee, would (a) affect the treatment of the Notes as debt for federal income tax purposes, (b) be deemed to result in gain or loss for the Noteholders or Note Owners for federal income tax purposes or (c) cause the Issuing Entity, the Depositor or the Titling Company or any portion thereof to be taxable as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal or state income or franchise tax purposes. The Trust Certificateholders and the Depositor shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take action that would violate the provisions of this Section. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Depositor, the Servicer, the Asset Representations Reviewer and their respective Affiliates may maintain normal commercial banking relationships with the Owner Trustee and its Affiliates.

Section 6.07 Information to be Provided by the Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall provide the Issuing Entity and the Servicer (each, a “Nissan Party” and collectively the “Nissan Parties”) with (i) notification, as soon as practicable and in any event within ten (10) Business Days, of all demands communicated to a Responsible Officer of the Owner Trustee for the repurchase or replacement of any Receivable pursuant to Section 8.02 of the 2022-A Servicing Supplement, and (ii) promptly upon the receipt of a written request by a Nissan Party, any other information in its possession reasonably requested by a Nissan Party to facilitate compliance by the Nissan Parties with Rule 15Ga-1 under the Exchange Act and Items 1104(e) and 1121(c) of Regulation AB. In no event shall the Owner Trustee be deemed to be a “securitizer” as defined in Section 15G(a) of the Exchange Act, nor shall it have any responsibility for making any filing required to be made by a securitizer under the Exchange Act or Regulation AB.

 

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ARTICLE SEVEN

CONCERNING THE OWNER TRUSTEE

Section 7.01 Acceptance of Trusts and Duties. The Owner Trustee accepts the trusts hereby created and agrees to perform its duties hereunder with respect to such trusts but only upon the terms of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee also agrees to disburse all monies actually received by it constituting part of the Owner Trust Estate upon the terms of the Basic Documents to which the Issuing Entity or the Owner Trustee is a party. The Owner Trustee shall not be answerable or accountable hereunder or under any other Basic Document under any circumstances, except (i) for its own willful misconduct, bad faith or negligence or (ii) in the case of the inaccuracy of any representation or warranty contained in Section 7.03 made by the Owner Trustee. In addition:

(a) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for any error in judgment of an officer of the Owner Trustee made in good faith, unless it is proved that such officer was negligent in ascertaining the facts;

(b) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in accordance with the instructions of any Trust Certificateholder, the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee, the Administrative Agent, the Asset Representations Reviewer or the Servicer;

(c) no provision of this Agreement or any other Basic Document shall require the Owner Trustee to expend or risk funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its rights or powers hereunder or under any other Basic Document if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured or provided to it;

(d) under no circumstances shall the Owner Trustee be liable for indebtedness evidenced by or arising under any of the Basic Documents, including the principal of and interest on the Notes or the principal of the Trust Certificates;

(e) the Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement or for the due execution hereof by the Depositor or for the form, character, genuineness, sufficiency, value or validity of any of the Owner Trust Estate or for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of the other Basic Documents, other than the execution of and the certificate of authentication on the Trust Certificates, and the Owner Trustee shall in no event be deemed to have assumed or incurred any liability, duty or obligation to any Securityholder or any third party dealing with the Issuing Entity or the Owner Trust Estate, other than as expressly provided for herein and in the other Basic Documents;

(f) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the default or misconduct of the Servicer, the Asset Representations Reviewer, the Administrative Agent, the Depositor or the Indenture Trustee under any of the Basic Documents or otherwise, and the Owner Trustee shall

 

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have no obligation or liability to perform the obligations of the Issuing Entity or the Depositor under this Agreement or the Basic Documents that are required to be performed by the Servicer under the Servicing Agreement or the Series LLC Agreement, the Administrative Agent under the Trust Administration Agreement, the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture or the Asset Representations Reviewer under the Asset Representations Review Agreement;

(g) the Owner Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement, or to institute, conduct or defend any litigation under this Agreement or otherwise or in relation to this Agreement or any other Basic Document, at the request, order or direction of any Trust Certificateholder unless such Trust Certificateholder have offered to the Owner Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the Expenses that may be incurred by the Owner Trustee therein or thereby; the right of the Owner Trustee to perform any discretionary act enumerated in this Agreement or in any other Basic Document shall not be construed as a duty, and the Owner Trustee shall not be answerable for other than its bad faith, negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of any such act;

(h) no provision of the Basic Documents shall be deemed to impose any duty or obligation on the Owner Trustee to take or omit to take any action, suffer any action to be taken or omitted, in the performance of its duties, or to exercise any right or power hereunder, to the extent that taking or omitting to take such action or suffering such action to be taken or omitted would, in the judgment of the Owner Trustee, expose it to liability or violate applicable law binding upon it (which determination may be based on an Opinion of Counsel);

(i) the Owner Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any breach of any representation or warranty, or other event unless the Owner Trustee has received written notice thereof in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, receipt by the Owner Trustee of a Review Report shall not constitute actual or constructive knowledge of any breach of a representation or warranty;

(j) the Owner Trustee shall not be personally liable for (x) special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages, however styled, including, without limitation, lost profits, (y) the acts or omissions of any nominee, correspondent, clearing agency or securities depository through which it holds the Trust’s securities or assets or (z) any losses due to forces beyond the reasonable control of the Owner Trustee, including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages, acts of war or terrorism, insurrection, revolution, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, epidemic or pandemic, quarantine, shelter in place or similar directive, guidance, policy or other action by any governmental authorities and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software and hardware) services; and

(k) the Owner Trustee shall not be obligated to monitor, supervise or enforce the performance of the Depositor or NMAC under the Basic Documents, except as otherwise expressly specified herein and in the other Basic Documents.

Section 7.02 Furnishing of Documents. The Owner Trustee shall furnish to any Trust Certificateholder promptly upon receipt of a written request therefor (at the expense of the Trust Certificateholder), duplicates or copies of all reports, notices, requests, demands, certificates and any other instruments furnished to the Owner Trustee under the Basic

 

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Documents; provided, however, that the Owner Trustee may require such Trust Certificateholder to deliver to the Owner Trustee a nondisclosure agreement in a form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee with respect to the information contained in any such requested document; provided further, however, that no such nondisclosure agreement shall be required for any lists of Trust Certificateholders requested to be furnished pursuant to this Agreement or any documents that are publicly available.

Section 7.03 Representations and Warranties. The Owner Trustee hereby represents and warrants to the Depositor and the Trust Certificateholders, that:

(a) It is a national banking association with trust powers duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America. It has all requisite power, right and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement.

(b) It has taken all action necessary to authorize the execution and delivery by it of this Agreement and each other Basic Document to which it is a party, and this Agreement and each other Basic Document to which it is a party will be executed and delivered by one of its officers who is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Agreement and each other Basic Document to which it is a party on its behalf.

(c) Neither the execution nor the delivery by it of this Agreement and each other Basic Document to which it is a party, nor the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby nor compliance by it with any of the terms or provisions hereof or thereof will contravene any federal or Delaware law, governmental rule or regulation governing the banking or trust powers of the Owner Trustee or any judgment or order binding on it, or constitute any default under its charter documents or bylaws or any indenture, mortgage, contract, agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which any of its properties may be bound or result in the creation or imposition of any Lien, charge or encumbrance on the Owner Trust Estate resulting from actions by or claims against the Owner Trustee individually that are unrelated to this Agreement or the other Basic Documents.

(d) This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by it and constitutes the legal, valid and binding agreement of it, enforceable against the Owner Trustee in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, liquidation, 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.

(e) It is authorized to exercise trust powers in the State of Delaware as and to the extent contemplated herein or has appointed a Delaware trustee that is so authorized and it has a principal place of business in the state of Delaware or has appointed a Delaware trustee that has such a principal place of business.

Section 7.04 Reliance; Advice of Counsel.

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paper believed by it to be genuine and believed by it to be signed by the proper party or parties. The Owner Trustee may accept a certified copy of a board resolution or documents of any other governing body of any corporate party as conclusive evidence that such board resolution or other document has been duly adopted by such body and that the same is in full force and effect. As to any fact or matter the method of the determination of which is not specifically prescribed herein, the Owner Trustee may for all purposes hereof rely on a certificate, signed by the president, any vice president, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer or any other authorized officers of the relevant party as to such fact or matter, and such certificate shall constitute full protection to the Owner Trustee for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in reliance thereon.

(b) In the exercise or administration of the trusts hereunder and in the performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement and the other Basic Documents, the Owner Trustee (i) may act directly or through its agents or attorneys pursuant to agreements entered into with any of them, and the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the conduct or misconduct of such agents or attorneys if such agents or attorneys shall have been selected by the Owner Trustee with reasonable care and (ii) may consult with counsel, accountants and other skilled Persons to be selected with reasonable care and employed by it. The Owner Trustee shall not be liable for anything done, suffered or omitted in good faith by it in accordance with the opinion or advice of any such counsel, accountants or other such Persons and not, to the actual knowledge of the Owner Trustee, contrary to this Agreement or any other Basic Document.

Section 7.05 Not Acting in Individual Capacity. Except as provided in this Article, in accepting the trusts hereby created, Wilmington Trust acts solely as Owner Trustee hereunder and not in its individual capacity and all Persons having any claim against the Owner Trustee by reason of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any Basic Document shall look only to the Owner Trust Estate for payment or satisfaction thereof.

Section 7.06 Owner Trustee Not Liable for Trust Certificates. The recitals contained herein and in the Trust Certificates (other than the signature of the Owner Trustee and the certificate of authentication on the Trust Certificates and its representations and warranties in Section 7.03) shall be taken as the statements of the Depositor, and the Owner Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Owner Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement, any other Basic Document or the Trust Certificates (other than the signature of the Owner Trustee and the certificate of authentication on the Trust Certificates) or the Notes or any offering document relating to either of them. The Owner Trustee shall at no time have any responsibility or liability for or with respect to the legality, validity or enforceability of any Basic Document to which the Owner Trustee is to be a party (except for enforceability against the Owner Trustee), or the perfection and priority of any security interest created by or under any Basic Document, or the maintenance of any such perfection and priority, or for or with respect to the sufficiency of the Owner Trust Estate or its ability to generate the payments to be distributed to Trust Certificateholders under this Agreement or the Noteholders under the Indenture, the validity of the transfer of the 2022-A Series Certificate, or for the compliance by the Depositor, the Administrative Agent or the Servicer with any warranty or representation made under any Basic Document or for the accuracy of any such warranty or representation or for any action of the Administrative Agent, the Servicer or the Indenture Trustee taken in the name of the Owner Trustee; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not relieve the Owner Trustee of its obligation to perform its duties under this Agreement.

 

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Section 7.07 Owner Trustee May Own Trust Certificates and Notes. The Owner Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Trust Certificates or Notes and may deal with the Depositor, the Servicer, the Administrative Agent, the Indenture Trustee, the Asset Representations Reviewer and their respective Affiliates, in banking transactions with the same rights as it would have if it were not the Owner Trustee.

ARTICLE EIGHT

COMPENSATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE

Section 8.01 Owner Trustees Compensation and Indemnification. The Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and any Paying Agent shall receive as compensation from Administrative Agent (without duplication) for its services hereunder such fees as have been separately agreed upon before the date hereof between the Administrative Agent and the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the Paying Agent. The Administrative Agent shall indemnify the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and any Paying Agent and their respective successors, assigns, agents, servants, officers and employees (collectively, the “Indemnified Parties”) from and against, any Expenses that may at any time be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the Owner Trustee or any other Indemnified Party in any way relating to or arising out of the Basic Documents (including the costs of defending any claim or bringing any claim to enforce the indemnification obligations of the Administrative Agent hereunder), the Owner Trust Estate, the administration of the Owner Trust Estate or the action or inaction of the Owner Trustee hereunder, except that the Administrative Agent shall not be liable for or required to indemnify any Indemnified Party from and against Expenses arising or resulting from any income or similar taxes on any fees payable to any Indemnified Party, for any willful misconduct, bad faith or negligence on the part any Indemnified Party, or with respect to the Owner Trustee only, in the case of the inaccuracy of any representation or warranty of the Owner Trustee made in Section 7.03. The indemnities contained in this Section shall survive the resignation or termination of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any Paying Agent or the termination of this Agreement. In any event of any claim, action or proceeding for which indemnity will be sought pursuant to this Section, the Indemnified Party’s choice of legal counsel shall be subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld. Any amounts due and owing to the Indemnified Parties pursuant to this Section 8.01 shall constitute an obligation of the Trust and a claim upon the Owner Trust Estate only to the extent such amounts are payable pursuant to the Basic Documents. The Administrative Agent will not be entitled to make any claim upon the Owner Trust Estate for the reimbursement of any payments made by the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 8.01(a). To the extent not paid by the Administrative Agent and outstanding for at least 60 days, such fees and indemnities shall be paid pursuant to Sections 8.04(a) or 8.04(b) of the Indenture, provided, that prior to such payment pursuant to the Indenture, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the Paying Agent, as applicable, shall notify the Administrative Agent in writing that such fees and indemnities have been outstanding for at least 60 days. If such fees and indemnities are paid pursuant to Sections 8.04(a) or 8.04(b) of the Indenture, the Administrative Agent shall reimburse the Issuing Entity in full for such payments.

 

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ARTICLE NINE

TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT

Section 9.01 Termination of Trust Agreement.

(a) This Agreement (other than Article Eight) shall terminate and the Issuing Entity shall dissolve and be wound up in accordance with Section 3808 of the Statutory Trust Statute, upon the earlier of (i) the final distribution by the Owner Trustee or the Paying Agent of all funds or other property or proceeds of the Owner Trust Estate in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and this Agreement and (ii) the election by the Servicer to purchase the 2022-A Series Certificate pursuant to Section 9.03 and the payment or distribution to all securityholders of all amounts required to be paid to them under the Indenture and this Agreement. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Owner Trustee upon the occurrence of either of the events described in clauses (i) or (ii) above. The bankruptcy, liquidation, dissolution, or termination, death or incapacity of any Trust Certificateholder shall not (x) operate to terminate this Agreement or the Issuing Entity, (y) entitle such Trust Certificateholder’s legal representatives or heirs to claim an accounting or to take any action or proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up of all or any part of the Issuing Entity or Owner Trust Estate nor (z) otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto.

(b) Except as provided in Section 9.01(a), neither the Depositor nor any other Trust Certificateholder shall be entitled to revoke or terminate the Issuing Entity.

(c) Notice of any termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 9.01(a), specifying the Payment Date upon which the Trust Certificateholders shall surrender their Trust Certificates to the Paying Agent for final payment and cancellation, shall, if any Trust Certificates are then held by anyone other than the Depositor or its Affiliates, be given by the Owner Trustee by letter to Trust Certificateholders mailed within five Business Days of receipt of notice of such termination from the Administrative Agent, stating (i) the Payment Date upon or with respect to which final payment of the Trust Certificates shall be made upon presentation and surrender of the Trust Certificates at the office of the Paying Agent therein designated, (ii) the amount of any such final payment and (iii) that the Record Date otherwise applicable to such Payment Date is not applicable, payments being made only upon presentation and surrender of the Trust Certificates at the office of the Paying Agent therein specified. The Owner Trustee shall give such notice to the Certificate Registrar (if other than the Owner Trustee) and the Paying Agent at the time such notice is given to Trust Certificateholders. Upon presentation and surrender of the Trust Certificates (or, in the case of any Trust Certificates held by Depositor or its Affiliates, presentation of proof of cancellation of such Trust Certificates), the Paying Agent shall cause to be distributed to Trust Certificateholders amounts distributable on such Payment Date pursuant to Section 5.02.

(d) If one or more of the Trust Certificateholders shall not surrender their Trust Certificates for cancellation within six months after the date specified in the above-mentioned written notice, the Owner Trustee shall give a second written notice to the remaining Trust Certificateholders to surrender their Trust Certificates for cancellation and receive the final distribution with respect thereto. If within one year after the second notice, all of the Trust

 

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Certificates shall not have been surrendered for cancellation, the Owner Trustee may take appropriate steps, or may appoint an agent to take appropriate steps, to contact the remaining Trust Certificateholders concerning surrender of their Trust Certificates, and the cost thereof shall be paid out of the funds and other assets that shall remain subject to this Agreement. Any funds remaining in the Issuing Entity after exhaustion of such remedies shall be distributed by the Owner Trustee to the Administrative Agent.

(e) Upon the winding up of the Issuing Entity and its termination, the Owner Trustee shall cause the Certificate of Trust to be cancelled by filing a certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State in accordance with Section 3810 of the Statutory Trust Statute.

Section 9.02 [Reserved].

Section 9.03 Purchase of the 2022-A Series Certificate; Repayment of the Trust Certificates. The Servicer shall be permitted at its option to purchase, or cause to be purchased, the 2022-A Series Certificate from the Issuing Entity on any Payment Date if, either before or after giving effect to any payment of principal required to be made on such Payment Date, (a) the aggregate Securitization Value of the 2022-A Series Assets is less than or equal to 10% of the initial aggregate Securitization Value of the 2022-A Series Assets as of the Cutoff Date or (b) the Outstanding Amount of the Notes is reduced to zero and the holders of 100% of the outstanding Trust Certificates consent thereto (the exercise of such option is referred to as an “Optional Purchase”). The purchase price (the “Optional Purchase Price”) shall be equal to the greater of (i) the fair market value of the 2022-A Series Assets (which, with the consent of the Servicer and 100% of the Trust Certificateholders, may be deemed to be the aggregate Securitization Value of the 2022-A Series Assets) and (ii) the sum of (A) the Redemption Price, (B) unpaid portions of any outstanding Sales Proceeds Advances and Monthly Payment Advances, and (C) the Servicing Fee in respect of the related Collection Period, together with any unpaid Servicing Fees in respect of one or more prior Collection Periods, in each case, after giving effect to any distributions of Available Funds required to be made on such Payment Date pursuant to Section 8.04 of the Indenture. If the Servicer exercises the Optional Purchase, the Servicer will deposit, subject to Section 8.04 of the Servicing Agreement, the Optional Purchase Price into the 2022-A Series Collection Account on the Deposit Date relating to the related Payment Date. The Servicer shall be a third party beneficiary of this Section 9.03.

ARTICLE TEN

SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES

Section 10.01 Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall (i) at all times be an entity having a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, (ii) be subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authorities, and (iii) be an entity authorized to exercise trust powers in the State of Delaware. If such entity shall publish reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purpose of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such entity shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. In case at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Owner Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 10.02.

 

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Section 10.02 Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee may at any time resign and be discharged from the trusts hereby created by giving written notice thereof to the Administrative Agent (and the Administrative Agent will provide each Rating Agency with notice thereof pursuant to Section 1.02(k) of the Trust Administration Agreement), the Servicer, the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee and the Trust Certificateholders. If, for any reason, Wilmington Trust or any of its Affiliates should assume the duties of the Indenture Trustee, then from that time forward Wilmington Trust, in its capacity as Owner Trustee, shall resign as Owner Trustee hereunder if any Event of Default under the Indenture occurs and is necessary to eliminate any conflict of interest under the TIA with the Indenture Trustee or any other trustee under the Indenture. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Depositor shall promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Owner Trustee and one copy to the successor Owner Trustee. If no successor Owner Trustee shall have been so appointed and have accepted appointment within thirty (30) days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Owner Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Owner Trustee.

If at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.01 or if the Depositor, by unilateral act, decides to remove the Owner Trustee, and the Owner Trustee shall fail to resign after receipt of written notice thereof from the Depositor or if the Owner Trustee shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Administrative Agent, the Depositor or Trust Certificateholders holding not less than a Majority Interest of the Trust Certificates, or if at any time the Owner Trustee shall be legally unable to act, or shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Owner Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Owner Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then the Depositor or such Trust Certificateholders may remove the Owner Trustee. If the Owner Trustee shall be removed pursuant to the preceding sentence, the Depositor shall promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the outgoing Owner Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor Owner Trustee.

Any resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee and appointment of a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section shall not become effective until acceptance of appointment by the successor Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 10.03 and payment of all fees and expenses owed to the outgoing Owner Trustee.

Section 10.03 Successor Owner Trustee. Any successor Owner Trustee appointed pursuant to Section 10.02 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Administrative Agent and to its predecessor Owner Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment under this Agreement, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor Owner Trustee shall become effective and such successor Owner Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become fully vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor under this Agreement, with like effect as if originally named as Owner Trustee. The

 

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predecessor Owner Trustee shall, upon payment of its fees and expenses, deliver to the successor Owner Trustee all documents and statements and monies held by it under this Agreement; and the Depositor, the Administrative Agent and the predecessor Owner Trustee shall execute and deliver such instruments and do such other things as may reasonably be required for fully and certainly vesting and confirming in the successor Owner Trustee all such rights, powers, duties and obligations. The successor Owner Trustee shall pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred in connection with transferring the predecessor Owner Trustee’s duties and obligations to the successor Owner Trustee.

No successor Owner Trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this Section unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Owner Trustee shall be eligible pursuant to Section 10.01.

Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to this Section, the Depositor shall mail notice of the successor of such Owner Trustee to all Trust Certificateholders, the Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency. If the Depositor shall fail to mail such notice within ten days after acceptance of appointment by the successor Owner Trustee, the successor Owner Trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the expense of the Depositor.

Section 10.04 Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee. Any Person (i) into which the Owner Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, (ii) resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Owner Trustee shall be a party or (iii) succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Owner Trustee, shall be the successor of the Owner Trustee hereunder, without the execution or filing of any instrument or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, provided, that such Person shall be eligible pursuant to Section 10.01 anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding. The Owner Trustee shall mail notice of such merger, conversion, or consolidation to the Administrative Agent (and the Administrative Agent will provide each Rating Agency with notice thereof pursuant to Section 1.02(k) of the Trust Administration Agreement), the Indenture Trustee and the Trust Certificateholders.

Section 10.05 Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, at any time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Owner Trust Estate may at the time be located, the Depositor and the Owner Trustee acting jointly shall have the power and shall execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons to act as co-trustee, jointly with the Owner Trustee, or separate trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part of the Owner Trust Estate, and to vest in such Person, in such capacity, such title to the Issuing Entity, or any part thereof, and, subject to the other provisions of this Section, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Depositor and the Owner Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. If the Depositor shall not have joined in such appointment within 15 days after the receipt by it of a request to do so, the Owner Trustee alone shall have the power to make such appointment. No co-trustee or separate trustee under this Agreement shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a trustee pursuant to Section 10.01 and no notice of the appointment of any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required pursuant to Section 10.03.

 

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

(a) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed upon the Owner Trustee shall be conferred upon and exercised or performed by the Owner 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 Owner 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 Owner 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 Owner Trust Estate 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 Owner Trustee;

(b) no trustee under this Agreement shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of any other trustee under this Agreement; and

(c) the Depositor and the Owner Trustee acting jointly may at any time accept the resignation of or remove any separate trustee or co-trustee.

Any notice, request or other writing given to the Owner 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 Agreement and the conditions of this Article. 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 Owner Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions of this Agreement, specifically including every provision of this Agreement relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection to the Owner Trustee. Each such instrument shall be filed with the Owner Trustee and a copy thereof given to the Administrative Agent, the Servicer and the Depositor.

Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time appoint the Owner 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 Agreement 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 Owner Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or successor trustee.

ARTICLE ELEVEN

TAX MATTERS

Section 11.01 Tax and Accounting Characterization.

(a) It is the intent of the parties hereto that, for purposes of U.S. federal income tax, state and local income tax, any state single business tax and any other income taxes, the Issuing Entity will be treated as a division or branch of the Person holding the beneficial ownership interests in the Issuing Entity for any period during which the beneficial ownership interests in

 

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the Issuing Entity are held by one person for U.S. federal income tax purposes, and will be treated as a partnership, and the Trust Certificateholders will be treated as partners in that partnership, for any period during which the beneficial ownership interests in the Issuing Entity are held by more than one person for U.S. federal income tax purposes. For any such period during which the beneficial ownership interests in the Issuing Entity are held by more than one person for U.S. federal income tax purposes, each Trust Certificateholder, by acceptance of a Trust Certificate or any beneficial interest on a Trust Certificate, agrees to treat, and to take no action inconsistent with the treatment of, the Trust Certificates as partnership interests in the Issuing Entity for such tax purposes.

The Depositor and each Trust Certificateholder, by acceptance of a Trust Certificate, agree to take no action inconsistent with the foregoing intention, except as may otherwise be required by applicable law.

(b) It is the intent of each Trust Certificateholder to treat the Trust Certificates as equity interests in the Issuing Entity for financial accounting purposes.

Section 11.02 Signature on Returns; Partnership Representative.

(a) If the Issuing Entity shall be required to file U.S. federal or other income tax returns as a partnership, such returns shall be signed by an authorized signatory for the Depositor or such other Person as shall be required by law to sign such returns of the Issuing Entity.

(b) In the event that the Issuing Entity is classified as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the Depositor (or a U.S. Affiliate of the Depositor if the Depositor is ineligible) is hereby designated as the partnership representative under Section 6223(a) of the Code (and any corresponding provision of state law) to the extent allowed under the law (and as the tax matters partner for any applicable state law purposes), and the Issuing Entity shall take any action necessary to effect such designation (including working with the Depositor to designate any designated individual required under the law). The Issuing Entity shall or the Depositor or the Administrative Agent shall cause the Issuing Entity to, to the extent eligible, make the election under Section 6221(b) of the Code (and any corresponding provision of state law) with respect to determinations of adjustments at the partnership level and take any other action such as disclosures and notifications necessary to effectuate such election. If the election described in the preceding sentence is not available, to the extent applicable, the Issuing Entity shall or the Depositor or the Administrative Agent shall cause the Issuing Entity to make the election under Section 6226(a) of the Code (and any corresponding provision of state law) with respect to the alternative to payment of imputed underpayment by partnership and take any other action such as filings, disclosures and notifications necessary to effectuate such election. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Issuing Entity, Depositor and Administrative Agent are each authorized, in its sole discretion, to make any available election related to Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code (and any corresponding provision of state law) and take any action it deems necessary or appropriate to comply with the requirements of Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code (and any corresponding provision of state law) and conduct the Issuing Entity’s affairs under Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code (and any corresponding provision of state law). Each Trust Certificateholder and, if different, each beneficial owner of a Trust Certificate shall promptly provide the Issuing Entity, Depositor and Administrative Agent any requested

 

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information, documentation or material to enable the Issuing Entity to make any of the elections described in this clause (b) and otherwise comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code (and any corresponding provision of state law). Each Trust Certificateholder and, if different, each beneficial owner of a Trust Certificate, shall hold the Issuing Entity and its affiliates harmless for any expenses or losses (i) resulting from a beneficial owner of a Trust Certificate not properly taking into account or paying its allocated adjustment or liability under Section 6226 of the Code (or any corresponding provision of state law) or (ii) suffered that are attributable to the management or defense of an audit under Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code (or any corresponding provision of state law) or otherwise due to actions the Issuing Entity and its affiliates take with respect to and to comply with the rules under Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code (and any corresponding provision of state law).

Section 11.03 Tax Reporting. Unless otherwise required by appropriate tax authorities, the Issuing Entity shall not file or cause to be filed annual or other income or franchise tax returns and shall not be required to obtain any taxpayer identification number.

ARTICLE TWELVE

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 12.01 Supplements and Amendments.

(a) Any term or provision of this Agreement may be amended by the parties hereto, without the consent of any other Person; provided that (i) either (A) any amendment that materially and adversely affects the Noteholders shall require the consent of Noteholders evidencing not less than a Majority Interest of the Notes voting together as a single class, or (B) such amendment shall not materially and adversely affect the Noteholders and (ii) any amendment that materially and adversely affects the interests of the Trust Certificateholders, the Servicer or the Indenture Trustee shall require the prior written consent of the Persons whose interests are materially and adversely affected, provided, further that an Opinion of Counsel shall be furnished to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee to the effect that such amendment or supplement shall not affect the treatment of any outstanding Notes as debt for U.S. federal income tax purposes, or cause the Issuing Entity or the Titling Company to be classified as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes. An amendment shall be deemed not to materially and adversely affect the Noteholders if (i) the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied with respect to such amendment, or (ii) the Depositor delivers an Officer’s Certificate to the Indenture Trustee stating that such amendment will not materially and adversely affect the Noteholders. The consent of the Servicer and each Trust Certificateholder shall be deemed to have been given if the Depositor does not receive a written objection from such Person within 10 Business Days after a written request for such consent shall have been given. The Indenture Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into or consent to any such amendment that affects the Indenture Trustee’s own rights, duties, liabilities or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.

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(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, no amendment shall (i) reduce the interest rate or principal amount of any Note, or change the due date of any installment of principal of or interest in any Note, or the Redemption Price with respect thereto, without the consent of the Holder of such Note, or (ii) reduce the Outstanding Amount, the Holders of which are required to consent to any matter without the consent of the Holders of at least a Majority Interest of the Notes which were required to consent to such mater before giving effect to such amendment.

(d) Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement, the Depositor shall provide each Rating Agency, the Trust Certificateholder, the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee with written notice of the substance of such amendment. No later than ten (10) Business Days after the execution of any amendment to this Agreement, the Depositor shall furnish a copy of such amendment to each Rating Agency, the Trust Certificateholders, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee.

(e) This Agreement may also be amended or supplemented from time to time, at the request of the holders of no less than 6623% of all Outstanding Trust Certificates, to approve any trust purpose with respect to the Issuing Entity in addition to the purpose authorized pursuant to Section 2.03(a), upon not less than 90 days’ notice from the Depositor to each Rating Agency and each Noteholder and subject to each of (1) the prior written notice to each Rating Agency of such action, and (2) the consent of the holders of at least 6623% of all outstanding Notes (including such Notes, if any, owned by the Issuing Entity, the Depositor, the Servicer (as long as NMAC or an Affiliate is the Servicer) and their respective Affiliates), and provided, further that an Opinion of Counsel shall be furnished to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee to the effect that such amendment or supplement shall not affect the treatment of any outstanding Notes as debt for U.S. federal income tax purposes, or cause the Issuing Entity or the Titling Company to be classified as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

(f) Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive and rely upon an opinion of counsel stating that the execution of such amendment is authorized or permitted by this Agreement and that all conditions precedent to the execution and delivery of such amendment have been satisfied. The Owner Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment which affects the Owner Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.

(g) The Owner Trustee shall be under no obligation to ascertain whether a Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied with respect to any amendment. When the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied with respect to such amendment, the Servicer shall deliver to a Responsible Officer of the Owner Trustee an Officer’s Certificate to that effect, and the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely upon the Officer’ Certificate from the Servicer that a Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied with respect to such amendment.

Section 12.02 No Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate. The Trust Certificateholders shall not have legal title to any part of the Owner Trust Estate. The Trust Certificateholders shall be entitled to receive distributions with respect to their Trust Certificates only in accordance with Articles Five and Nine. No transfer, by operation of law or otherwise, of any right, title or interest of the Trust Certificateholders to and in their ownership interest in the Owner Trust Estate shall operate to terminate this Agreement or the trusts hereunder or entitle any transferee to an accounting or to the transfer to it of legal title to any part of the Owner Trust Estate.

 

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Section 12.03 Limitations on Rights of Others. The provisions of this Agreement are solely for the benefit of the Owner Trustee, the Depositor, the Trust Certificateholders, the Administrative Agent, the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders, and nothing in this Agreement, whether express or implied, shall be construed to give to any other Person any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim in the Owner Trust Estate or under or in respect of this Agreement or any covenants, conditions or provisions contained herein.

Section 12.04 Notices. All demands, notices and communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be delivered, sent electronically by email (if an email address is provided) or facsimile or mailed by registered or certified first-class United States mail, postage prepaid, hand delivery, prepaid courier service, and addressed in each case as specified on Schedule II to the Series Certificate Sale Agreement or at such other address as shall be designated by any of the specified addressees in a written notice to the other parties hereto. Delivery shall occur only when delivered by hand or, in the case of mail, email or facsimile notice, upon actual receipt or reported tender of such communication by an officer of the recipient entitled to receive such notices located at the address of such recipient for notices hereunder; provided, however, any demand, notice or communication to be delivered pursuant to this Agreement to any Rating Agency shall be deemed to be delivered if a copy of such demand, notice or communication has been posted on any web site maintained by NMAC pursuant to a commitment to any Rating Agency relating to the Notes in accordance with 17 C.F.R. 240 17g-5(a)(3).

Any notice required or permitted to be given to a Trust Certificateholder shall be given by first-class mail, confirmed, facsimile or overnight courier, postage prepaid, at the address of such Trust Certificateholder as shown in the Certificate Register. Any notice so mailed within the time prescribed in this Agreement shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not such Trust Certificateholder receives such notice.

Section 12.05 Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.

Section 12.06 Counterparts and Electronic Signature. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed and delivered shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. Each party agrees that this Agreement and any other documents to be delivered in connection herewith may be electronically signed, and that any digital or electronic signatures (including pdf, facsimile or electronically imaged signatures provided by a digital signature provider as specified in writing to the Certificate Registrar) appearing on this Agreement or such other documents shall have the same effect as manual signatures for the purpose of validity, enforceability and admissibility; provided, however, that any documentation with respect to the transfer of the Trust Certificates or other securities presented to the Certificate Registrar or any other transfer agent must contain original, manually executed signatures. Other

 

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than with respect to instances in which manual signatures are expressly required by this paragraph, each party hereto shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon, and shall have no liability with respect to, any digital or electronic signature appearing on this Agreement or any other documents to be delivered in connection herewith and shall have no duty to investigate, confirm or otherwise verify the validity or authenticity thereof.

Section 12.07 Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements contained herein shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, and each Trust Certificateholder and their respective successors and permitted assigns, all to the extent as herein provided. Any request, notice, direction, consent, waiver or other instrument or action by a Trust Certificateholder shall bind the successors and assigns of the Depositor or such Trust Certificateholder.

Section 12.08 No Petition. The Owner Trustee, any Paying Agent, the Depositor and each Trust Certificateholder by accepting a Trust Certificate, covenant and agree that prior to the date that is one year and one day after the date upon which all obligations under each Securitized Financing have been paid in full, they will not institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against the Member, the Depositor, the Titling Company, the Issuing Entity, any other Special Purpose Affiliate or any Beneficiary, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation Proceeding or other Proceeding under any federal or state bankruptcy or similar law.

Section 12.09 No Recourse. Each Trust Certificate entitles the holder thereof to the respective rights and benefits set forth in this Agreement and in the Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates do not represent interests in or obligations of the Servicer, the Depositor, the Owner Trustee, any Paying Agent, the Indenture Trustee or any Affiliate thereof and no recourse may be had against such parties or their assets, except as may be expressly set forth or contemplated in this Agreement, the Trust Certificates or the other Basic Documents.

Section 12.10 Headings. The headings of the various Articles and Sections herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.

Section 12.11 GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICTS OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

Section 12.12 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH OF THE PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE NOTES OR THE TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

 

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Section 12.13 Trust Certificates Nonassessable and Fully Paid. Trust Certificateholders shall not be personally liable for obligations of the Issuing Entity. The interests represented by the Trust Certificates shall be nonassessable for any losses or expenses of the Issuing Entity or for any reason whatsoever, and, upon authentication thereof pursuant to Section 3.03, 3.04 and 3.05, the Trust Certificates shall be deemed fully paid.

Section 12.14 Furnishing of Basic Documents. The Depositor shall furnish to any Trust Certificateholder promptly upon receipt of a written request by such Trust Certificateholder (at the expense of the requesting Trust Certificateholder) therefor, duplicates or copies of all Basic Documents.

Section 12.15 USA PATRIOT Act Compliance. To help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, the Customer Identification Program requirements established under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) and its implementing regulations (collectively, the “USA PATRIOT Act”), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s Customer Due Diligence Requirements and such other laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions (“Applicable Anti-Money Laundering Law”), requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each person who opens an account. Accordingly, in order to comply with Applicable Anti-Money Laundering Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to verify and record information that identifies each person who opens an account. For a non-individual person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust, or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for documentation to verify its formation and existence as a legal entity, financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, and identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). The Owner Trustee may, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, including Applicable Anti-Money Laundering Law, conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any information received, and failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the resignation of the Owner Trustee, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. The parties hereto agree for purposes of Applicable Anti-Money Laundering Law, (a) each Trust Certificateholder owning twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the beneficial interest in the Trust is and shall be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the Trust for purposes of providing the information required under Applicable Anti-Money Laundering Law, and (b) each such Trust Certificateholder is and shall be deemed to be the party with the power and authority to control the Trust.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers hereunto duly authorized, as of the day and year first above written.

 

NISSAN AUTO LEASING LLC II,
as Depositor

By:

 

/s/ Douglas E. Gwin, Jr.

 

Name: Douglas E. Gwin, Jr.

 

Title:   Assistant Treasurer

 

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Owner Trustee

By:

 

/s/ Dorri Costello

 

Name: Dorri Costello

 

Title:   Vice President

 

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Acknowledged with respect to Sections 3.09 and 5.01(a):

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

 

By:

 

/s/ Juan S. Hernandez

Name:

 

Juan S. Hernandez

Title:

 

Assistant Vice President

 

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Each of the Servicer and the Administrative Agent agrees to undertake to perform each of its duties as Servicer and Administrative Agent, as applicable, including obligations under Section 8.01, as are specifically set forth in this Agreement.

Accepted and Agreed:

 

NISSAN MOTOR ACCEPTANCE COMPANY LLC,

as Servicer

By:  

/s/ Kevin J. Cullum

  Name: Kevin J. Cullum
  Title:   President

 

NISSAN MOTOR ACCEPTANCE COMPANY LLC,
as Administrative Agent
By:  

/s/ Kevin J. Cullum

  Name: Kevin J. Cullum
  Title:   President

 

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EXHIBIT A

FORM OF TRUST CERTIFICATE

TRUST CERTIFICATE

SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

THIS CERTIFICATE IS NON-TRANSFERABLE OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH HEREIN AND IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT (AS DEFINED BELOW).

THIS CERTIFICATE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN OBLIGATION OF OR AN INTEREST IN THE DEPOSITOR, THE OWNER TRUSTEE, THE SERVICER, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, NMAC, NALL II, NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC. OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE AFFILIATES, AND WILL NOT BE INSURED OR GUARANTEED BY ANY SUCH ENTITY OR BY ANY GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY.

EACH PURCHASER AND TRANSFEREE OF THIS CERTIFICATE WILL BE DEEMED TO REPRESENT, WARRANT AND COVENANT THAT IT IS NOT AND WILL NOT BE ACQUIRING OR HOLDING THE CERTIFICATE FOR, ON BEHALF OF OR WITH THE ASSETS OF AN “EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN” AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(3) OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”), THAT IS SUBJECT TO THE TITLE I OF ERISA, A “PLAN” AS DEFINED IN SECTION 4975(e)(1) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”), THAT IS SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE, AN ENTITY DEEMED TO HOLD THE PLAN ASSETS OF ANY OF THE FOREGOING AND, IF THE PURCHASER OR TRANSFEREE IS A PLAN (AS DEFINED BELOW) THAT IS SUBJECT TO ANY STATE, LOCAL OR OTHER LAW THAT IS SIMILAR TO THE FIDUCIARY AND PROHIBITED TRANSACTION PROVISIONS OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE (“SIMILAR LAW”), ITS ACQUISITION, HOLDING AND DISPOSITION OF THIS CERTIFICATE (OR INTEREST THEREIN) WILL NOT RESULT IN A VIOLATION OF SIMILAR LAW AND WILL NOT RESULT IN THE ASSETS OF THE ISSUING ENTITY BEING (I) CONSIDERED PLAN ASSETS OF SUCH PLAN OR (II) SUBJECT TO SIMILAR LAW. A “PLAN” MEANS AN “EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN” AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA WHETHER OR NOT SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF ERISA, A “PLAN” AS DEFINED IN SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE, OR AN ENTITY DEEMED TO HOLD PLAN ASSETS OF THE FOREGOING.

 

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NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2022-A

ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATE

evidencing a beneficial interest in the Issuing Entity, as defined below, the property of which includes, among other things, the 2022-A Series Certificate, evidencing the 2022-A Series Interest. The property of the Issuing Entity has been pledged to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Indenture to secure the payment of the Notes issued thereunder.

This Trust Certificate does not represent an interest in or obligation of the Depositor, Nissan Motor Acceptance Company LLC, the Owner Trustee or any of their respective Affiliates, except to the extent described below.

 

 

NUMBER

    $                       
    R-                             

This certifies that _________________ is the registered owner of a ______________ dollars nonassessable, fully-paid, beneficial ownership interest in the Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2022-A (the “Issuing Entity”) formed by Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Depositor”).

The Issuing Entity was created pursuant to a trust agreement, as amended and restated as of June 29, 2022 (the “Trust Agreement”), between the Depositor and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “Owner Trustee”), a summary of certain of the pertinent provisions of which is set forth below. Capitalized terms used herein that are not otherwise defined shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Definitions Annex.

This Trust Certificate is one of the duly authorized Trust Certificates designated as “Asset Backed Certificates” (the “Trust Certificates”). Also issued under an indenture, dated as of June 29, 2022 (the “Indenture”), between the Issuing Entity and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as indenture trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”), are the 2.021% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-1, the 3.45% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-2a, the SOFR Rate + 0.68% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-2b, the 3.81% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-3 and the 3.87% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-4. This Trust Certificate is issued under and is subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Trust Agreement, to which Trust Agreement the holder of this Trust Certificate by virtue of the acceptance hereof assents and by which such Trust Certificateholder is bound. The property of the Issuing Entity primarily includes, among other things, (i) the 2022-A Series Certificate, evidencing the 2022-A Series Interest, and (ii) all proceeds of the foregoing. The rights of the Issuing Entity in the foregoing property have been pledged by the Issuing Entity to the Indenture Trustee to secure the payment of the Notes.

The Trust Certificates represent obligations of the Issuing Entity only and do not represent interests in, recourse to or obligations of the Depositor, the Member or any of their respective Affiliates.

Under the Trust Agreement, there will be distributed on the 15th day of each month (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next Business Day), commencing July 15, 2022 (each, a “Payment Date”), to the Person in whose name this Trust Certificate is registered at the close of business on the day preceding each Payment Date (each, a “Record Date”) such Trust Certificateholder’s percentage interest in the amount to be distributed with respect to the Trust Certificates on such Payment Date.

 

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The holder of this Trust Certificate acknowledges and agrees that its rights to receive payments in respect of this Trust Certificate are subordinated to the rights of the Noteholders as described in the Indenture.

It is the intent of the Depositor and Trust Certificateholders that for purposes of U.S. federal income tax, state and local income tax, any state single business tax and any other income taxes, the Issuing Entity will be treated as a division or branch of the Person holding the beneficial ownership interests in the Issuing Entity for any period during which the beneficial ownership interests in the Issuing Entity are held by one person, and will be treated as a partnership, and the Trust Certificateholders will be treated as partners in that partnership, for any period during which the beneficial ownership interests in the Issuing Entity are held by more than one person. Each Trust Certificateholder, by acceptance of a Trust Certificate or any beneficial interest on a Trust Certificate, agrees to treat, and to take no action inconsistent with the foregoing intention, except as may otherwise be required by applicable law.

Each Trust Certificateholder by accepting a Trust Certificate, covenants and agrees that prior to the date that is one year and one day after the date upon which all obligations under each Securitized Financing have been paid in full, it will not institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against the Member, the Depositor, the Titling Company, the Issuing Entity, any Special Purpose Affiliate or any Beneficiary, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation Proceeding or other Proceeding under any federal or state bankruptcy or similar law.

Distributions on this Trust Certificate will be made as provided in the Trust Agreement by check mailed to the Trust Certificateholder of record in the Certificate Register without the presentation or surrender of this Trust Certificate or the making of any notation hereon. A Trust Certificateholder having original denominations aggregating at least $1 million may request payment by wire transfer of funds pursuant to written instructions delivered to the Owner Trustee at least five (5) Business Days prior to the Record Date. Except as otherwise provided in the Trust Agreement and notwithstanding the above, the final payment on this Trust Certificate will be made after due notice by the Owner Trustee of the pendency of such payment and only upon presentation and surrender of this Trust Certificate at the office or agency specified in the notice of final payment to the Trust Certificateholders.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Trust Certificate set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been executed by an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee, by manual signature, this Trust Certificate shall not entitle the holder hereof to any benefit under the Trust Agreement or be valid for any purpose.

 

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(NALT 2022-A

Amended and Restated Trust Agreement)


THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICTS OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

 

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(NALT 2022-A

Amended and Restated Trust Agreement)


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Issuing Entity and not in its individual capacity, has caused this Trust Certificate to be duly executed.

 

Dated:                                  , 2022    

NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2022-A

   

By:

  WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
   

By:

   
     

Name:

     

Title:

OWNER TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the Trust Certificates referred to in the within-mentioned Trust Agreement.

 

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,   Or     WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Owner Trustee       as Owner Trustee
By:                                                                                             By:    
        Authenticating Agent
      By:    
       

 

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(NALT 2022-A

Amended and Restated Trust Agreement)


[Reverse of Trust Certificate]

The Trust Certificates do not represent an obligation of or an interest in the Depositor, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee or any of their respective Affiliates, and no recourse may be had against such parties or their assets, except as may be expressly set forth or contemplated herein or in the Trust Agreement or the other Basic Documents. In addition, this Trust Certificate is not guaranteed by any governmental agency or instrumentality and is limited in right of payment to certain collections and recoveries and certain other amounts respecting the assets of the Issuing Entity, all as more specifically set forth in the Indenture. The Depositor will furnish, upon the request of any holder of a Trust Certificate, such information as is specified in paragraph (d)(4) of Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, with respect to the Issuing Entity.

The Trust Agreement may be amended by the parties thereto, without the consent of any other Person in the manner set forth in Section 12.01 of the Trust Agreement.

As provided in the Trust Agreement, if and to the extent transfers are permitted and if the Depositor delivers an Opinion of Counsel that the Trust Certificates are transferable in accordance with the terms set forth therein, which opinion the Depositor has not determined can be given under the Internal Revenue Code and existing and proposed regulations thereunder, the transfer of this Trust Certificate is registerable in the Certificate Register upon surrender of this Trust Certificate for registration of transfer at the offices or agencies of the Certificate Registrar maintained by the Owner Trustee, accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Trust Certificateholder hereof or such Trust Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Trust Certificates of the same class and in authorized denominations evidencing the same aggregate interest in the Issuing Entity will be issued to the designated transferee. The initial Certificate Registrar appointed under the Trust Agreement is Wilmington Trust, National Association, Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890.

The Trust Certificates are issuable only as registered Trust Certificates without coupons in minimum denominations of $250,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Trust Certificates are exchangeable for new Trust Certificates of authorized denominations evidencing the same aggregate denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same. No service charge will be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

The Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, any Paying Agent and any of their respective agents may treat the Person in whose name this Trust Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and none of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, any Paying Agent and any of their respective agents shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.

The obligations and responsibilities created by the Trust Agreement and the trust created thereby shall terminate upon the payment to Trust Certificateholders of all amounts required to be paid to them pursuant to the Trust Agreement and the Indenture and the disposition of all property held as part of the Owner Trust Estate.

 

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(NALT 2022-A

Amended and Restated Trust Agreement)


Any prospective transferee of a Trust Certificate will be required to deliver a letter to the Depositor and the Certificate Registrar substantially in the form of Exhibit B to the Trust Agreement, which letter includes a representation that such prospective transferee is not a Benefit Plan Investor. The Trust Certificates may not be transferred, sold, pledged or otherwise disposed to or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor.

The Trust Certificates may not be acquired by a Benefit Plan Investor. By accepting and holding this Trust Certificate, the holder hereof shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor and is not, and will not be, acquiring or holding this Trust Certificate or an interest therein for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor. If the holder hereof is a Plan that is subject to Similar Law, it shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that its acquisition, holding and disposition of this Trust Certificate or an interest therein will not result in a violation of Similar Law and will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being considered (a) plan assets of such Plan or (b) subject to Similar Law.

 

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(NALT 2022-A

Amended and Restated Trust Agreement)


ASSIGNMENT

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

 

 

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE

 
 
 

(Please print or type name and address, including postal zip code, of assignee)

the within Trust Certificate, and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing attorney to transfer said Trust Certificate on the books of the Certificate Registrar, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:    

 

 *

Signature Guaranteed:

 

 *

 

*

NOTICE: The signatures(s) on this Assignment must correspond with the name(s) as written on the face of the within Trust Certificate in every particular without alteration, enlargement or any change whatsoever. Such signature must be guaranteed by a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange or a commercial bank or trust company.

 

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(NALT 2022-A

Amended and Restated Trust Agreement)


EXHIBIT B

FORM OF TRANSFEREE REPRESENTATION LETTER

                                          ,                 

Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II

One Nissan Way

Franklin, Tennessee 37067

Wilmington Trust, National Association,

as Owner Trustee and Certificate Registrar

Rodney Square North

1100 N. Market Street

Wilmington, Delaware 19890

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

Attention:        

Corporate Trust Services — Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2022-A

 

                Re:    

Transfer of Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2022-A Certificates, (the “Trust Certificates”)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

This letter is delivered pursuant to Section 3.04 of the Trust Agreement, dated as of June 29, 2022 (the “Trust Agreement”), between Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II, as Depositor, and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Owner Trustee (the “Owner Trustee”), in connection with the transfer by [•] (the “Seller”) to the undersigned (the “Purchaser”) of $[•] balance of the Trust Certificates. Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Trust Agreement.

In connection with such transfer, the undersigned hereby represents and warrants to you and the addressees hereof as follows:

 

 

The Purchaser is not a Non-U.S. Person as defined in the Trust Agreement;

 

 

The Purchaser is not the Depositor and the Purchaser received beneficial and record ownership of Trust Certificates representing less than 100% of the Certificate Balance, and the transfer restrictions set forth in Section 3.10 of the Trust Agreement do not apply to this transfer of Trust Certificates; and

 

 

The Purchaser is not (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” as defined in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), that is subject to Section 4975 of the Code, or (iii) an entity deemed to hold the plan assets of any of the foregoing.

 

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(NALT 2022-A

Amended and Restated Trust Agreement)


 

If the Purchaser is an “employee benefit plan” (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA), that is not subject to ERISA, any “plan” as defined in Section 4975 of the Code that is not subject to Section 4975 of the Code or an entity deemed to hold plan assets of the foregoing (each, a “Plan”) that is subject to any state, local or other law that is similar to the fiduciary and prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”), the Purchaser’s acquisition, holding and disposition of this Trust Certificate (or interest therein) will not result in a violation of, Similar Law and will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being considered (i) plan assets of such Plan or (ii) subject to Similar Law.

 

 

The Purchaser has neither acquired nor will it transfer any Trust Certificate it purchases (or any interest therein) or cause any such Trust Certificates (or any interest therein) to be traded or readily available on or through (A) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code, including, without limitation, an over-the-counter-market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations, or (B) a “secondary market” (or the substantial equivalent thereof) within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(2) of the Code.

 

 

The Purchaser either (A) is not, and will not become, a partnership, Subchapter S corporation, grantor trust or an entity disregarded as a separate entity from any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (B) is such an entity, but (x) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in the Purchaser have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 50% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the time of such proposed transfer) of the value of such interests to be attributable to the Purchaser’s ownership of Trust Certificates and (y) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving the Purchaser’s beneficial interest in any Trust Certificates to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) necessary for such partnership not to be classified as a publicly traded partnership under the Code.

 

 

The Purchaser understands that no subsequent transfer of the Trust Certificates is permitted unless (A) such transfer is of a Trust Certificate with a denomination of at least $250,000 and (B) it causes its proposed transferee to provide to the Issuing Entity and the Certificate Registrar a letter substantially in the form of Exhibit B to the Trust Agreement, as applicable; provided, however, that any attempted transfer that would either cause (1) the aggregate number of registered holders of Trust Certificates and holders of interests in Restricted Notes to exceed 95 or (2) the number of holders of direct or indirect interests in the Titling Company to exceed 50, shall be a void transfer.

 

 

The Purchaser understands that no transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) is permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuing Entity to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuing Entity’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by

 

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(NALT 2022-A

Amended and Restated Trust Agreement)


  one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded group that is a partner in the Section 385 Controlled Partnership, is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). For purposes of determining the Issuing Entity’s ownership interests in clause (i) of the first sentence of this paragraph, any Restricted Notes shall be taken into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuing Entity being treated as a Section 385 Controlled Partnership for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Restricted Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Restricted Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph).

 

 

The Purchaser understands that no transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuing Entity becoming an entity disregarded as separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership) is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). For purposes of determining the Issuing Entity’s ownership interests in clause (i) of the first sentence of this paragraph, any Restricted Notes shall be taken into account either as debt interests or ownership interests based on whichever treatment, if any, would result in the Issuing Entity being treated as a disregarded entity for purposes of applying this paragraph’s restriction (it being understood that if the Restricted Notes are taken into account as ownership interests for this purpose then the Restricted Notes are not also considered Notes for the Note ownership restriction of this paragraph).

 

 

The Purchaser understands that if it is acquiring the Trust Certificates as agent or nominee for any other person(s), such person(s) confirm the representations in the above five paragraphs as such representations apply to such person(s).

 

 

The Purchaser understands that the Opinion of Counsel to the Issuing Entity that the Issuing Entity is not a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of the representations in the six preceding paragraphs.

 

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(NALT 2022-A

Amended and Restated Trust Agreement)


 

(A) The Purchaser shall provide to the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Issuing Entity and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuing Entity to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code (and any corresponding provision of state law) and (B) if the Purchaser is not the beneficial owner of the Trust Certificates, such beneficial owner shall provide to the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Issuing Entity and the Depositor any further information required by the Issuing Entity to comply with Sections 6221 through 6241 of the Code, including Section 6226(a) of the Code (and any corresponding provision of state law) and, to the extent the Issuing Entity determines such appointment necessary for it to make an election under Section 6226(a) of the Code (or any corresponding provision of state law), hereby appoints the Purchaser as its agent for purposes of receiving any notifications or information pursuant to the notice requirements under Section 6226(a)(2) of the Code (and any corresponding provision of state law).

 

 

The Purchaser understands that complying with Section 1446(f) of the Code is not the responsibility of the Issuing Entity, and that a transferor and transferee of a Trust Certificate may be subject to withholding or a withholding obligation, as the case may be, in the event that the Issuing Entity is treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes and there is a failure to comply with Section 1446(f) of the Code.

Signature appears on next page

 

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(NALT 2022-A

Amended and Restated Trust Agreement)


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Purchaser hereby executes this Transferee Representation Letter on the ___ day of _______________.

 

Very truly yours,
 
The Purchaser

 

By:    
Name:  

 

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(NALT 2022-A

Amended and Restated Trust Agreement)

Exhibit 10.4

 

 

NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2022-A,

NISSAN MOTOR ACCEPTANCE COMPANY LLC,

as Administrative Agent,

NISSAN AUTO LEASING LLC II,

as Depositor,

and

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Indenture Trustee

 

 

TRUST ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENT

Dated as of June 29, 2022

 

 

 

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

 

Section 1.01

  

Capitalized Terms; Interpretive Provisions

     1  

Section 1.02

  

Duties of the Administrative Agent

     2  

Section 1.03

  

Records

     5  

Section 1.04

  

Compensation

     5  

Section 1.05

  

Additional Information to be Furnished to the Issuing Entity

     5  

Section 1.06

  

Independence of the Administrative Agent

     5  

Section 1.07

  

No Joint Venture

     5  

Section 1.08

  

Other Activities of Administrative Agent

     5  

Section 1.09

  

Term of Agreement; Resignation and Removal of Administrative Agent

     6  

Section 1.10

  

Action Upon Termination, Resignation or Removal

     7  

Section 1.11

  

Notices

     7  

Section 1.12

  

Amendments

     7  

Section 1.13

  

Successors and Assigns

     8  

Section 1.14

  

Governing Law

     8  

Section 1.15

  

Headings

     8  

Section 1.16

  

Counterparts and Electronic Signature

     8  

Section 1.17

  

Severability

     9  

Section 1.18

  

Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee and Indenture Trustee

     9  

Section 1.19

  

Third-Party Beneficiary

     9  

Section 1.20

  

No Petition

     9  

 

 

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TRUST ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENT

This Trust Administration Agreement, dated as of June 29, 2022 (this “Agreement”), is among Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2022-A, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Issuing Entity”), Nissan Motor Acceptance Company LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“NMAC”), as administrative agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”), Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II, a Delaware limited liability company (“NALL II”), as depositor (the “Depositor”), and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, a national banking association (“U.S. Bank”), as indenture trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”).

RECITALS

WHEREAS, the Issuing Entity was formed pursuant to a trust agreement, dated as of May 20, 2022, as amended and restated by the amended and restated trust agreement, dated as of June 29, 2022 (the “Trust Agreement”), between the Depositor and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “Owner Trustee”);

WHEREAS, the Issuing Entity has issued the Notes pursuant to the Indenture and has entered into certain agreements in connection therewith, including, (i) the Series Certificate Sale Agreement, (ii) the Indenture, (iii) the Note Depository Agreement and (iv) the Asset Representations Review Agreement (the Trust Agreement and each of the agreements referred to in clauses (i) through (iv) are referred to herein collectively as the “Issuing Entity Documents”);

WHEREAS, the parties desire to enter into this agreement to provide for, among other things, the Administrative Agent’s provision of certain services to the Issuing Entity.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained, and of other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

Section 1.01 Capitalized Terms; Interpretive Provisions.

(a) Capitalized terms used herein that are not otherwise defined shall have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in Annex A to the Series Certificate Sale Agreement, dated as of the date hereof (the “Definitions Annex”), by and between NILT LLC and NALL II.

(b) For all purposes of this Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires, (i) terms used herein include, as appropriate, all genders and the plural as well as the singular, (ii) references to words such as “herein,” “hereof” and the like shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular part, Article or Section within this Agreement, (iii) references to an Article or Section such as “Article One” or “Section 1.01” shall refer to the applicable Article or Section of this Agreement, (iv) the term “include” and all variations thereof shall mean “include without limitation,” (v) the term “or” shall include “and/or,” (vi) the term “proceeds” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the UCC, (vii) references to Persons include their permitted successors and assigns, (viii) references to agreements and other contractual instruments include all subsequent amendments, amendments and restatements and supplements thereto or changes therein entered into in accordance with their respective terms and not prohibited by this Agreement, except that references to the Series

 

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LLC Agreement include only such items as related to the 2022-A Series and the Titling Company, (ix) references to laws include their amendments and supplements, the rules and regulations thereunder and any successors thereto, (x) references to this Agreement include all Exhibits hereto, and (xi) in the computation of a period of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” shall mean “from and including” and the words “to” and “until” shall mean “to but excluding.”

Section 1.02 Duties of the Administrative Agent.

(a) Duties with respect to the Issuing Entity Documents.

(i) Subject to the limitations set forth in clause (c) below, the Administrative Agent agrees to perform all its duties as Administrative Agent under the Basic Documents and the duties of the Issuing Entity under the Issuing Entity Documents. In addition, the Administrative Agent shall consult with the Owner Trustee regarding the duties of the Issuing Entity under the Issuing Entity Documents. The Administrative Agent shall monitor the performance of the Issuing Entity and shall advise the Issuing Entity when action by the Issuing Entity is necessary to comply with the Issuing Entity’s duties under the Issuing Entity Documents. The Administrative Agent shall prepare for execution by the Issuing Entity or shall cause the preparation by other appropriate persons of all such documents, reports, filings, instruments, certificates and opinions as it shall be the duty of the Issuing Entity to prepare, file or deliver pursuant to the Issuing Entity Documents. In furtherance of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent shall take all appropriate action that is the duty of the Issuing Entity to take pursuant to the Basic Documents and shall prepare, obtain, execute, file and deliver on behalf of the Issuing Entity all such documents, reports, filings, instruments, certificates, notices and opinions as it shall be the duty of the Issuing Entity to prepare, file or deliver pursuant to the Basic Documents or otherwise by law.

(ii) The Administrative Agent shall also:

(A) pay the Indenture Trustee from time to time the reasonable compensation provided for in the Indenture with respect to services rendered by the Indenture Trustee;

(B) pay the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Paying Agent from time to time reasonable compensation provided for in the Trust Agreement for all services rendered by the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Paying Agent (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation for a trustee of an express trust);

(C) provide the indemnification specified in Section 8.01 of the Trust Agreement, and Section 6.07 of the Indenture; and

(D) cause the Servicer to provide the indemnification specified in Section 8.02(f) of the Servicing Agreement.

 

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(b) Additional Duties.

(i) In addition to the duties of the Administrative Agent set forth above, the Administrative Agent shall perform such calculations, and shall prepare for execution by the Issuing Entity or the Owner Trustee or shall cause the preparation by other appropriate Persons of, all such documents, notices, reports, filings, instruments, certificates and opinions as it shall be the duty of the Issuing Entity or the Owner Trustee to prepare, file or deliver pursuant to the Basic Documents (other than any notice required to be delivered by the Owner Trustee pursuant to Sections 3.08 and 10.04 of the Trust Agreement), and at the request of the Owner Trustee shall take all appropriate action that it is the duty of the Issuing Entity or the Owner Trustee to take pursuant to the Basic Documents; provided, however, that the Administrative Agent shall have no obligation to make any payment required to be made by the Issuing Entity under any Basic Document (except as specified in Section 1(a)(ii) above); provided, further, that the Administrative Agent shall have no obligation, and the Owner Trustee shall be required to fully perform its duties, with respect to the obligations of the Owner Trustee specified under the Trust Agreement and to otherwise comply with the requirements of the Owner Trustee pursuant to or related to Regulation AB. Subject to Section 1.06 of this Agreement, and in accordance with the reasonable written directions of the Owner Trustee, the Administrative Agent shall administer, perform or supervise the performance of such other activities in connection with the Collateral (including the Basic Documents) as are not covered by any of the foregoing provisions and as are expressly requested by the Owner Trustee and are reasonably within the capability of the Administrative Agent.

(ii) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or the Basic Documents to the contrary, the Administrative Agent shall be responsible for promptly notifying the Owner Trustee if any withholding tax is imposed on the Issuing Entity’s payments (or allocations of income) to a Trust Certificateholder as contemplated in Section 5.02(c) of the Trust Agreement. Any such notice shall specify the amount of any withholding tax required to be withheld by the Owner Trustee pursuant to such provision.

(iii) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or the other Basic Documents to the contrary, the Administrative Agent shall be responsible for performance of the duties of the Owner Trustee set forth in Sections 5.03 and 9.01(c) of the Trust Agreement with respect to notifying the Trust Certificateholders of the Payment Date on which their Trust Certificates will be repaid and Section 5.04 of the Trust Agreement with respect to accounting and reports to the Trust Certificateholders; provided, however, that the Owner Trustee shall retain responsibility for the distribution of the documentation necessary to enable each Trust Certificateholder to prepare its federal and state income tax returns.

(iv) The Administrative Agent shall satisfy its obligations with respect to clauses (ii) and (iii) above by retaining, at the expense of the Administrative Agent, Accountants acceptable to the Owner Trustee, which shall perform the obligations of the Administrative Agent thereunder.

(v) The Administrative Agent shall perform any duties expressly required to be performed by the Administrative Agent under the Trust Agreement. The Administrative Agent shall perform all duties and obligations applicable to or required of the Issuing Entity set forth in Schedule A to the 2022-A Servicing Supplement in accordance with the terms and conditions thereof.

 

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(vi) In carrying out the foregoing duties or any of its other obligations under this Agreement, the Administrative Agent may enter into transactions or otherwise deal with any of its Affiliates; provided, however, that the terms of any such transactions or dealings shall be in accordance with any directions received from the Issuing Entity and shall be, in the Administrative Agent’s opinion, no less favorable to the Issuing Entity than would be available from unaffiliated parties.

(c) Non-Ministerial Matters.

(i) With respect to matters that in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent are non-ministerial, the Administrative Agent shall not take any action unless within a reasonable time before the taking of such action the Administrative Agent shall have notified the Owner Trustee of the proposed action and the Owner Trustee shall not have withheld consent or provided an alternative direction. For the purpose of the preceding sentence, “non-ministerial matters” shall include, without limitation:

(A) amendment of or any supplement to the Indenture;

(B) the initiation of any claim or lawsuit by the Issuing Entity and the compromise of any action, claim or lawsuit brought by or against the Issuing Entity (other than in connection with the collection of the Leases);

(C) the amendment, change or modification of the Basic Documents;

(D) the appointment of successor Note Registrars, successor Paying Agents and successor Indenture Trustees pursuant to the Indenture or the appointment of successor Administrative Agents or successor Servicers, or the consent to the assignment by the Note Registrar, any Paying Agent or Indenture Trustee of its obligations under the Indenture; and

(E) the removal of the Indenture Trustee.

(ii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall not be obligated to, and shall not, (A) make any payments to the Noteholders under the Basic Documents, (B) sell the Owner Trust Estate pursuant to Section 5.02 of the Indenture, (C) take any other action that the Issuing Entity directs the Administrative Agent not to take on its behalf or (D) take any other action which may be construed as having the effect of varying the investment of the Trust Certificateholders.

(d) Notices to Rating Agencies. The Administrative Agent will deliver to each Rating Agency notice (which notice shall be deemed to be delivered if a copy of such notice has been posted on any web site maintained by NMAC pursuant to a commitment to any Rating Agency relating to the Notes in accordance with 17 C.F.R. 240.17g-5(a)(3)) of (i) any Servicer Default pursuant to Section 3.07(d) of the Indenture; (ii) any breach of perfection representations pursuant to Section 3.18(c) of the Indenture; (iii) any declaration that the principal of the Notes

 

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has been accelerated pursuant to Section 5.02 of the Indenture; (iv) any Indenture Default of which it has been provided notice pursuant to Section 6.05 of the Indenture; (v) any merger or consolidation of the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 6.09 of the Indenture; (vi) unaudited report it has been provided pursuant to Section 8.04(f) of the Indenture; (vii) any final payment of Trust Certificates pursuant to Section 9.01(c) of the Trust Agreement; (viii) any resignation of the Owner Trustee of which it has been provided notice pursuant to Section 10.02 of the Trust Agreement; (ix) any resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 10.02 of the Trust Agreement; (x) any merger or consolidation of the Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 10.04 of the Trust Agreement; and (xi) any Servicer Default of which it has been provided notice pursuant to Section 8.12(c) of the 2022-A Servicing Supplement.

Section 1.03 Records. The Administrative Agent shall maintain appropriate books of account and records relating to services performed hereunder, which books of account and records shall be accessible for inspection by the Issuing Entity and the Depositor at any time during normal business hours upon reasonable prior written notice.

Section 1.04 Compensation. As compensation for the performance of the Administrative Agent’s obligations under this Agreement and as reimbursement for its expenses related thereto, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to a monthly payment of compensation in an amount to be agreed to between the Administrative Agent and the Servicer, which shall be solely an obligation of the Servicer and which shall not be paid from the proceeds of the Leases, Leased Vehicles or other Titling Company Assets.

Section 1.05 Additional Information to be Furnished to the Issuing Entity. The Administrative Agent shall furnish to the Issuing Entity from time to time such additional information regarding the Collateral as the Issuing Entity shall reasonably request.

Section 1.06 Independence of the Administrative Agent. For all purposes of this Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall be an independent contractor and shall not be subject to the supervision of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee with respect to the manner in which it accomplishes the performance of its obligations hereunder. Unless expressly authorized by the Issuing Entity, the Administrative Agent shall have no authority to act for or represent the Issuing Entity or the Owner Trustee in any way and shall not otherwise be deemed an agent of the Issuing Entity or the Owner Trustee.

Section 1.07 No Joint Venture. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall (i) constitute the Administrative Agent and either of the Issuing Entity or the Owner Trustee as members of any partnership, joint venture, association, syndicate, unincorporated business or other separate entity, (ii) be construed to impose any liability as such on any of them or (iii) be deemed to confer on any of them any express, implied or apparent authority to incur any obligation or liability on behalf of the others.

Section 1.08 Other Activities of Administrative Agent. Nothing herein shall prevent the Administrative Agent or its Affiliates from engaging in other businesses or, in its or their sole discretion, from acting in a similar capacity as an Administrative Agent for any other Person or entity, even though such person or entity may engage in business activities similar to those of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee.

 

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Section 1.09 Term of Agreement; Resignation and Removal of Administrative Agent. This Agreement shall continue in force until the dissolution of the Issuing Entity, upon which event this Agreement shall automatically terminate.

(a) Subject to Sections 1.09(d) and 1.09(e) of this Agreement, the Administrative Agent may resign its duties hereunder by providing the Issuing Entity with at least 60 days’ prior written notice.

(b) Subject to Sections 1.09(d) and 1.09(e) of this Agreement, the Issuing Entity may remove the Administrative Agent without cause by providing the Administrative Agent with at least 60 days’ prior written notice.

(c) Subject to Sections 1.09(d) and 1.09(e) of this Agreement, at the sole option of the Issuing Entity, the Administrative Agent may be removed immediately upon written notice of termination from the Issuing Entity to the Administrative Agent if any of the following events shall occur:

(i) the Administrative Agent shall default in the performance of any of its duties under this Agreement and which, after notice of such default, continues unremedied for 60 days (or for such longer period not in excess of 90 days as may be reasonably necessary to remedy such failure);

(ii) (A) the existence of any Proceeding in, or the entry of a decree or order for relief by, a court or regulatory authority having jurisdiction over the Administrative Agent in an involuntary case under the federal bankruptcy laws, as now or hereafter in effect, (B) the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, or other similar official with respect to the Administrative Agent or of any substantial part of its property or (C) the ordering of the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the Administrative Agent, and in each case, the continuance of any such Proceeding unstayed and in effect for a period of 90 consecutive days, or immediately upon entry of any decree or order; or

(iii) the Administrative Agent (A) applies for or consents to the appointment of, or the taking of possession by, a receiver, custodian, trustee, or liquidator of itself or of all or a substantial part of its property, (B) fails to pay, or is generally unable to pay, its debts as they become due, (C) makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, (D) commences a voluntary case under the federal bankruptcy laws (E) is adjudicated to be bankrupt or insolvent, (F) files a petition seeking to take advantage of any other law providing for the relief of debtors, or (G) takes any corporate action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing, and in each case, the continuance of any such event remains unstayed and in effect for a period of 90 consecutive days.

The Administrative Agent agrees that if any of the events specified in clauses (ii) or (iii) above shall occur, it shall give written notice thereof to the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee within seven days after the occurrence of such event.

(d) No resignation or removal of the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section shall be effective until (i) a successor Administrative Agent shall have been appointed by the Issuing Entity and (ii) such successor Administrative Agent shall have agreed in writing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement in the same manner as the Administrative Agent is bound hereunder.

 

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(e) The appointment of any successor Administrative Agent shall be effective only after satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition with respect to the proposed appointment.

(f) Subject to Sections 1.09(d) and 1.09(e), the Administrative Agent acknowledges that upon the appointment of a successor Servicer pursuant to the Servicing Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall immediately resign and such successor Servicer shall automatically become the Administrative Agent under this Agreement.

Section 1.10 Action Upon Termination, Resignation or Removal. Promptly upon the effective date of termination of this Agreement pursuant to the first sentence of Section 1.09 or the resignation or removal of the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 1.09(a), (b) or (c), respectively, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to be paid all fees and reimbursable expenses accruing to it to the date of such termination, resignation or removal. The Administrative Agent shall forthwith upon such termination pursuant to the first sentence of Section 1.09 deliver to the Issuing Entity all property and documents representing or relating to the Collateral then in the custody of the Administrative Agent. In the event of the resignation or removal of the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 1.09(a), (b) or (c), respectively, the Administrative Agent shall cooperate with the Issuing Entity and take all reasonable steps requested to assist the Issuing Entity in making an orderly transfer of the duties of the Administrative Agent.

Section 1.11 Notices. All demands, notices and communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be delivered, sent electronically by facsimile or email (if an email address is provided), or mailed by registered or certified first-class United States mail, postage prepaid, hand delivery, prepaid courier service, and addressed in each case as specified on Schedule II to the Series Certificate Sale Agreement or at such other address as shall be designated by any of the specified addressees in a written notice to the other parties hereto. Delivery shall occur only when delivered by hand or, in the case of mail, email or facsimile notice, upon actual receipt or reported tender of such communication by an officer of the intended recipient entitled to receive such notices located at the address of such recipient for notices hereunder; provided, however, any demand, notice or communication to be delivered pursuant to this Trust Administration Agreement to any Rating Agency shall be deemed to be delivered if a copy of such demand, notice or communication has been posted on any web site maintained by NMAC pursuant to a commitment to any Rating Agency relating to the Notes in accordance with 17 C.F.R. 240 17g-5(a)(3).

Section 1.12 Amendments. This Agreement may be amended from time to time by a written amendment duly executed and delivered by the parties hereto, with the written consent of the Owner Trustee but without the consent of the Securityholders, for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Securityholders; provided, that such amendment will not materially and adversely affect any Noteholder. An amendment shall be deemed not to materially and adversely affect the Noteholders if (i) the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied with respect to such amendment, or (ii) the Administrative Agent or the Depositor

 

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delivers an Officer’s Certificate to the Indenture Trustee stating that such amendment will not materially and adversely affect the Noteholders. This Agreement may also be amended by the parties hereto with the written consent of the Owner Trustee and (a) the holders of Notes evidencing at least a majority of the Outstanding Amount, or (b) in the case of any amendment that does not materially and adversely affect the Noteholders, the holders of Trust Certificates evidencing at least a majority of the Certificate Balance, for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement or of modifying in any manner the rights of Securityholders; provided however, that no such amendment may (i) increase or reduce in any manner the amount of, or accelerate or delay the timing of, collections of payments on the 2022-A Leases or distributions that are required to be made for the benefit of the Securityholders, or (ii) reduce the aforesaid percentage of the holders of Notes and Trust Certificates which are required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the holders of all outstanding Notes and Trust Certificates. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Administrative Agent may not amend this Agreement without the permission of the Depositor, which permission shall not be unreasonably withheld.

Section 1.13 Successors and Assigns. This Agreement may not be assigned by the Administrative Agent unless such assignment is previously consented to in writing by the Issuing Entity and the Owner Trustee and subject to the satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition in respect thereof. An assignment with such consent and satisfaction, if accepted by the assignee, shall bind the assignee hereunder in the same manner as the Administrative Agent is bound hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Agreement may be assigned by the Administrative Agent without the consent of the Issuing Entity or the Owner Trustee to a corporation or other organization that is a successor (by merger, consolidation or purchase of assets) to the Administrative Agent; provided, that such successor organization executes and delivers to the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee an agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, in which such corporation or other organization agrees to be bound hereunder by the terms of said assignment in the same manner as the Administrative Agent is bound hereunder. Subject to the foregoing, this Agreement shall bind any successors or assigns of the parties hereto.

Section 1.14 Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS (OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK).

Section 1.15 Headings. The headings of the various Sections herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.

Section 1.16 Counterparts and Electronic Signature. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed and delivered shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. Each party agrees that this Agreement and any other documents to be delivered in connection herewith may be digitally or electronically signed, and that any digital or electronic signatures (including pdf, facsimile or electronically imaged signatures provided by a digital signature provider as specified in writing to the Indenture Trustee) appearing on this

 

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Agreement or such other documents shall have the same effect as manual signatures for the purpose of validity, enforceability and admissibility. Other than with respect to instances in which manual signatures are expressly required by this paragraph, each party hereto shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon, and shall have no liability with respect to, any digital or electronic signature appearing on this Agreement or any other documents to be delivered in connection herewith and shall have no duty to investigate, confirm or otherwise verify the validity or authenticity thereof.

Section 1.17 Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.

Section 1.18 Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee and Indenture Trustee.

(a) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, this instrument has been countersigned by Wilmington Trust, National Association, not in its individual capacity, but solely in its capacity as Owner Trustee of the Issuing Entity and in no event shall Wilmington Trust, National Association in its individual capacity or any beneficial owner of the Issuing Entity have any liability for the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements or other obligations of the Issuing Entity hereunder or in any of the certificates, notices or agreements delivered pursuant hereto, as to all of which recourse shall be had solely to the assets of the Issuing Entity. For all purposes of this Agreement, in the performance of any duties or obligations of the Issuing Entity hereunder, the Owner Trustee shall be subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the terms and provisions of Articles Six, Seven and Eight of the Trust Agreement.

(b) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, this Agreement has been executed by U.S. Bank as Indenture Trustee and in no event shall U.S. Bank have any liability for the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements or other obligations of the Issuing Entity hereunder or in any of the certificates, notices or agreements delivered pursuant hereto, as to all of which recourse shall be had solely to the assets of the Issuing Entity.

Section 1.19 Third-Party Beneficiary. The Owner Trustee is a third-party beneficiary to this Agreement and is entitled to the rights and benefits hereunder and may enforce the provisions hereof as if it were a party hereto.

Section 1.20 No Petition. Each of the parties hereto covenants and agrees that prior to the date that is one year and one day after the date upon which all obligations under each Securitized Financing have been paid in full, it will not institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against the Member, the Depositor, the Titling Company, the Issuing Entity, any other Special Purpose Affiliate or any Beneficiary, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation Proceeding or other Proceeding under any federal or state bankruptcy or similar law.

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

 

NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2022-A,

as Issuing Entity

By: WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

not in its individual capacity,

but solely as Owner Trustee

By:  

/s/ Dorri Costello                                      

Name:   Dorri Costello
Title:   Vice President

NISSAN AUTO LEASING LLC II,

as Depositor

By:  

/s/ Douglas E. Gwin, Jr.                                 

Name:   Douglas E. Gwin, Jr.
Title:   Assistant Treasurer

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Indenture Trustee

By:  

/s/ Juan S. Hernandez                                 

Name:   Juan S. Hernandez
Title:   Assistant Vice President

NISSAN MOTOR ACCEPTANCE COMPANY LLC,

as Administrative Agent

By:  

/s/ Kevin J. Cullum                                   

Name:   Kevin J. Cullum
Title:   President

 

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Exhibit 10.5

 

 

NISSAN AUTO LEASING LLC II,

as Depositor,

and

NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2022-A,

as Transferee

 

 

SERIES CERTIFICATE

TRANSFER AGREEMENT

Dated as of June 29, 2022

 

 

 

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

     Page  

ARTICLEONE     DEFINITIONS

     2  

Section 1.01

   Definitions      2  

Section 1.02

   Interpretive Provisions      2  

ARTICLE TWO     TRANSFER OF 2022-A SERIES CERTIFICATE

     3  

Section 2.01

   Transfer of 2022-A Series Certificate      3  

Section 2.02

   True Sale      3  

Section 2.03

   Representations and Warranties of the Depositor and the Transferee      4  

Section 2.04

   Financing Statement and Books and Records      7  

Section 2.05

   Acceptance by the Transferee      7  

Section 2.06

   Release of Claims      7  

ARTICLE THREE     MISCELLANEOUS

     7  

Section 3.01

   Amendment      7  

Section 3.02

   Governing Law      8  

Section 3.03

   Severability      9  

Section 3.04

   Binding Effect      9  

Section 3.05

   Headings      9  

Section 3.06

   Counterparts and Electronic Signature      9  

Section 3.07

   Further Assurances      9  

Section 3.08

   Third-Party Beneficiaries      9  

Section 3.09

   No Petition      10  

Section 3.10

   Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee      10  

Section 3.11

   Notices      10  

SCHEDULE I

   PERFECTION REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS

 

 

 

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SERIES CERTIFICATE TRANSFER AGREEMENT

This Series Certificate Transfer Agreement, dated as of June 29, 2022 (this “Agreement”), is between Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II, a Delaware limited liability company (“NALL II”), as depositor (the “Depositor”), and Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2022-A, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Issuing Entity”), as transferee (in such capacity, the “Transferee”).

RECITALS

A. Nissan-Infiniti LT LLC (the “Titling Company”) is a Delaware limited liability company governed by the Limited Liability Company Agreement, dated as of April 1, 2021 (the “Titling Company Agreement”), by and between NILT LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“NILT LLC”), as member (in such capacity, the “Member”), Nissan Motor Acceptance Company LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“NMAC”), as administrator (the “Administrator”), and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, a national banking association, as titling company registrar (the “Titling Company Registrar”);

B. Pursuant to the Titling Company Agreement, the purposes of the Titling Company include taking assignments and conveyances of and holding in trust various assets (the “Titling Company Assets”);

C. As contemplated by the Titling Company Agreement and pursuant to the 2022-A Series Supplement thereto, entered into as of the date hereof, by and between the Member, Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2022-A, as holder, and the Titling Company Registrar (the “2022-A Series Supplement” and, together with the Titling Company Agreement, the “Series LLC Agreement”), the Member (i) has established and formed a separate series interest of the Titling Company (the “2022-A Series”), and (ii) shall identify and allocate certain Titling Company Assets to, and associate such Titling Company Assets with, the 2022-A Series;

D. Pursuant to the Series LLC Agreement a separate portfolio of leases (the “2022-A Leases”), the vehicles that are leased under the 2022-A Leases (the “2022-A Vehicles”), and certain other related Titling Company Assets have been allocated to and associated with the 2022-A Series;

E. The Titling Company has issued a certificate representing the entire 2022-A Series Interest (the “2022-A Series Certificate”) to NILT LLC;

F. NILT LLC has transferred and assigned, without recourse, all of its right, title, and interest in and to the 2022-A Series Certificate to the Depositor pursuant to the Series Certificate Sale Agreement, dated as of the date hereof (the “Series Certificate Sale Agreement”), between NILT LLC and the Depositor;

G. The Issuing Entity was formed pursuant to a trust agreement, dated as of May 20, 2022, as amended and restated by the amended and restated trust agreement, dated as of the date hereof (the “Trust Agreement”), each, between the Depositor and Wilmington Trust, National Association, a national banking association, as owner trustee (the “Owner Trustee”);

 

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H. The Depositor and the Transferee desire to provide for the sale, transfer and assignment by the Depositor to the Transferee, without recourse, of all of the Depositor’s right, title and interest in and to the 2022-A Series Certificate; and

I. Immediately after the transfer and assignment of the 2022-A Series Certificate to the Transferee, the Transferee shall pledge the 2022-A Series Certificate to U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as indenture trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”), pursuant to an indenture, dated as of the date hereof (the “Indenture”), between the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained, and of other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

ARTICLE ONE

DEFINITIONS

Section 1.01 Definitions. Capitalized terms used herein that are not otherwise defined shall have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in Annex A to the Series Certificate Sale Agreement dated as of the date hereof, by and between NILT LLC, as transferor, and NALL II, as the transferee.

Section 1.02 Interpretive Provisions. For all purposes of this Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires, (i) terms used herein include, as appropriate, all genders and the plural as well as the singular, (ii) references to words such as “herein,” “hereof” and the like shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular part, Article or Section within this Agreement, (iii) references to an Article or Section such as “Article One” or “Section 1.01” shall refer to the applicable Article or Section of this Agreement, (iv) the term “include” and all variations thereof shall mean “include without limitation,” (v) the term “or” shall include “and/or,” (vi) the term “proceeds” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the UCC, (vii) references to Persons include their permitted successors and assigns, (viii) references to agreements and other contractual instruments include all subsequent amendments, amendments and restatements and supplements thereto or changes therein entered into in accordance with their respective terms and not prohibited by this Agreement, except that references to the Series LLC Agreement include only such items as related to the 2022-A Series and the Titling Company, (ix) references to laws include their amendments and supplements, the rules and regulations thereunder and any successors thereto, (x) references to this Agreement include all Exhibits hereto, and (xi) in the computation of a period of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” shall mean “from and including” and the words “to” and “until” shall mean “to but excluding.”

 

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ARTICLE TWO

TRANSFER OF 2022-A SERIES CERTIFICATE

Section 2.01 Transfer of 2022-A Series Certificate. In consideration of the Transferee’s delivery to, or upon the order of, the Depositor of the Notes and the Trust Certificate, the Depositor hereby absolutely sells, transfers, assigns and otherwise conveys to the Transferee, without recourse, and the Transferee does hereby purchase and acquire, as of the date set forth above, all of the Depositor’s right, title and interest in and to the following (collectively, the “Assets”):

(i) the 2022-A Series Certificate and the interest in the 2022-A Series represented thereby, including all monies due and paid or to become due and paid or payable thereon or in respect thereof after the Cutoff Date;

(ii) all of the Depositor’s rights and benefits as holder of the 2022-A Series Certificate under the Servicing Agreement and the Series LLC Agreement;

(iii) the right to realize upon any property that underlies or may be deemed to secure the interest in the 2022-A Series represented by the 2022-A Series Certificate, as granted in the 2022-A Series Supplement and in the 2022-A Series Certificate;

(iv) all general intangibles, chattel paper, instruments, documents, money, deposit accounts, certificates of deposit, securities accounts, investment property, financial assets, goods, letters of credit, letters of credit rights, advices of credit and uncertificated securities, and other property consisting of, arising from, or relating or credited to the foregoing;

(v) all rights of the Depositor under the Series Certificate Sale Agreement; and

(vi) all cash and non-cash proceeds of all of the foregoing.

Section 2.02 True Sale. The parties hereto intend that the sale, transfer, and assignment of the Assets constitutes a true sale and assignment of the Assets such that any interest in and title to the Assets would not be property of the Depositor’s estate in the event that the Depositor becomes a debtor in a case under any bankruptcy law. To the extent that the conveyance of the Assets hereunder is characterized by a court or similar governmental authority as a financing (i) it is intended by the Depositor and the Transferee that the interest conveyed constitutes a grant of a security interest by the Depositor to the Transferee to secure the obligations of the Depositor hereunder, which security interest shall be perfected and of a first priority, (ii) the Depositor hereby grants to the Transferee a security interest in all of its right, title, and privilege and interest in and to the Assets and the parties hereto agree that this Agreement constitutes a “security agreement” under all applicable laws, and (iii) the possession by the Transferee or its agent of the 2022-A Series Certificate shall be deemed to be “possession by the secured party” or possession by the purchaser or a Person designated by such purchaser, for purposes of perfecting the security interest pursuant to the New York UCC and the UCC of any other applicable jurisdiction.

 

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Section 2.03 Representations and Warranties of the Depositor and the Transferee.

(a) The Depositor hereby represents and warrants to the Transferee as of the Closing Date that:

(i) Organization and Good Standing. The Depositor is duly formed, validly existing, and in good standing under the laws of the state of its formation, and has the power and the authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as such properties are currently owned and such business is presently conducted, and had at all relevant times, and shall have, the power, the authority and the legal right to acquire, own and sell the Assets.

(ii) Due Qualification. The Depositor is duly qualified to do business as a foreign entity in good standing, and has obtained all necessary licenses and approvals in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business shall require such qualifications, except where the failure to have any such license, approval, or qualification would not have a Material Adverse Effect on the Depositor.

(iii) Power and Authority. The Depositor has the power and the authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to carry out its terms; and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement has been duly authorized by the Depositor by all necessary action.

(iv) Binding Obligation. This Agreement constitutes a legal, valid, and binding obligation of the Depositor, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be subject to or limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation, or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights in general and by general principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability shall be considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

(v) No Violation. The execution, delivery, and performance by the Depositor of this Agreement, the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and the fulfillment of the terms hereof do not (A) conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the governing documents of the Depositor, (B) conflict with or breach any of the material terms or provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, any indenture, agreement or other instrument to which the Depositor is a party or by which it may be bound or any of its properties are subject, (C) result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any material indenture, agreement, or other instrument (other than as permitted by the Basic Documents), (D) violate any law or, to the knowledge of the Depositor, any order, rule or regulation applicable to it or its properties, or (E) contravene, violate, or result in a default under any judgment, injunction, order, decree, or other instrument of any court or of any federal or state regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Depositor or any of its properties; except, in the case of clauses (B), (C), (D) and (E) of this Section 2.03(a)(v), to the extent it would not reasonably be likely to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Depositor.

 

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(vi) No Proceedings. There are no proceedings in which the Depositor has been served or, to the knowledge of the Depositor, proceedings or investigations that are pending or threatened, in each case against the Depositor, before any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other tribunal, or governmental instrumentality (A) asserting the invalidity of this Agreement, (B) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Basic Document or (C) seeking any determination or ruling that, in the reasonable judgment of the Depositor, would materially and adversely affect the performance by the Depositor of its obligations under this Agreement.

(vii) Title to 2022-A Series Certificate. Immediately prior to the transfer of the 2022-A Series Certificate pursuant to this Agreement, the Depositor (A) is the true and lawful owner of the 2022-A Series Certificate and has the legal right to transfer the 2022-A Series Certificate, (B) has good and valid title to the 2022-A Series Certificate and the 2022-A Series Certificate is on the date hereof free and clear of all Liens, and (C) will convey good, valid, and indefeasible title to the 2022-A Series Certificate to the Transferee under this Agreement.

(b) Perfection Representations. The representations, warranties and covenants set forth on Schedule I hereto shall be a part of this Agreement for all purposes. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any other Basic Document, the perfection representations contained in Schedule I shall be continuing, and remain in full force and effect until such time as all obligations under the Indenture have been finally and fully paid and performed. The parties to this Agreement: (i) shall not waive any of the perfection representations contained in Schedule I, (ii) shall provide the Rating Agencies with prompt written notice of any breach of perfection representations contained in Schedule I, and (iii) shall not waive a breach of any of the perfection representations contained in Schedule I.

(c) The Transferee hereby represents and warrants to the Depositor as of the Closing Date that:

(i) Organization and Good Standing. The Transferee is duly formed, validly existing, and in good standing under the laws of the state of its formation, has the power and the authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as such properties are currently owned and such business is presently conducted, and had at all relevant times, and shall have, the power, the authority and the legal right to acquire, own and sell the Assets.

(ii) Due Qualification. The Transferee is duly qualified to do business as a foreign entity in good standing, and has obtained all necessary licenses and approvals in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business shall require such qualifications, except where the failure to have any such license, approval or qualification would not have a Material Adverse Effect on the Transferee.

 

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(iii) Power and Authority. The Transferee has the power and the authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to carry out its terms; and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement has been duly authorized by the Transferee by all necessary action.

(iv) Binding Obligation. This Agreement constitutes a legal, valid, and binding obligation of the Transferee, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be subject to or limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation, or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights in general and by general principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability shall be considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

(v) No Violation. The execution, delivery, and performance of this Agreement by the Transferee and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the fulfillment of the terms hereof do not (A) conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the governing documents of the Transferee, (B) conflict with or breach any of the material terms or provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, any indenture, agreement or other instrument to which the Transferee is a party or by which it may be bound or any of its properties are subject, (C) result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any material indenture, agreement or other instrument (other than as permitted by the Basic Documents), (D) violate any law or, to the knowledge of the Transferee, any order, rule or regulation applicable to it or its properties, or (E) contravene, violate, or result in a default under any judgment, injunction, order, decree, or other instrument of any court or of any federal or state regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Transferee or any of its properties; except, in the case of clauses (B), (C), (D) and (E) of this Section 2.03(c)(v), to the extent it would not reasonably be likely to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Transferee.

(vi) No Proceedings. There are no proceedings in which the Transferee has been served or, to the knowledge of the Transferee, proceedings or investigations that are pending or threatened, in each case against the Transferee, before any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other tribunal or governmental instrumentality (A) asserting the invalidity of this Agreement, (B) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, or (C) seeking any determination or ruling that, in the reasonable judgment of the Transferee, would materially and adversely affect the performance by the Transferee of its obligations under this Agreement.

(d) The representations and warranties set forth in this Section shall survive the sale of the Assets by the Depositor to the Transferee and the pledge and grant of a security interest in the Assets by the Transferee to the Indenture Trustee (for the benefit of the Noteholders) pursuant to the Indenture. Upon discovery by the Depositor or the Transferee or upon a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee having actual knowledge of a breach of any of the foregoing representations and warranties, the party discovering such breach shall give prompt written notice to the others.

 

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Section 2.04 Financing Statement and Books and Records.

(a) In connection with the conveyance of the Assets hereunder, the Depositor agrees that on or prior to the Closing Date it will deliver to or at the direction of the Transferee, with all requisite endorsements, the 2022-A Series Certificate and will file on or within ten days after the Closing Date, at its own expense, one or more financing statements with respect to the Assets meeting the requirements of applicable state law in such manner as necessary to perfect, preserve, maintain and protect the interest of the Transferee in the Assets (to the extent such security interest can be perfected by the filing of a financing statement), and the proceeds thereof to the Depositor (and any continuation statements as are required by applicable state law), and to deliver a file-stamped copy of each such financing statement (or continuation statement) or other evidence of such filings (which may, for purposes of this Section 2.04, consist of telephone confirmation of such filings with the file stamped copy of each such filing to be provided to the Transferee in due course), as soon as is practicable after receipt by the Depositor thereof.

(b) The Depositor further agrees that it will, take no actions inconsistent with the Transferee’s ownership of the Assets and on or prior to the Closing Date indicate on its books, records and statements that the Assets have been sold to the Transferee.

Section 2.05 Acceptance by the Transferee. The Transferee agrees to comply with all covenants and restrictions applicable to a Holder of the 2022-A Series Certificate and the interest in the 2022-A Series represented thereby, whether set forth in the 2022-A Series Certificate, in the Series LLC Agreement or otherwise, and assumes all obligations and liabilities, if any, associated therewith.

Section 2.06 Release of Claims. Pursuant to Sections 4.1(f), 4.1(g) and 10.1 of the Titling Company Agreement, the Transferee hereby covenants and agrees for the express benefit of the Member and each holder from time to time of the Unallocated Assets Certificate and any Series Certificate that the Transferee shall release all claims to the Unallocated Assets and the related Other Series Assets, respectively, and, in the event such release is not given effect, to subordinate fully all claims it may be deemed to have against the Unallocated Assets or such Other Series Assets, as the case may be.

ARTICLE THREE

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 3.01 Amendment.

(a) Any term or provision of this Agreement may be amended by the parties hereto, without the consent of any other Person; provided that (i) either (A) any amendment that materially and adversely affects the Noteholders shall require the consent of Noteholders evidencing not less than a Majority Interest of the Notes voting together as a single class, or (B) such amendment shall not materially and adversely affect the Noteholders, and (ii) any amendment that adversely affects the interests of the Trust Certificateholder, the Indenture

 

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Trustee or the Owner Trustee shall require the prior written consent of each Person whose interests are adversely affected. An amendment shall be deemed not to materially and adversely affect the Noteholders if (i) the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied with respect to such amendment, or (ii) the Depositor delivers an Officer’s Certificate to the Indenture Trustee stating that such amendment shall not materially and adversely affect the Noteholders. The consent of the Trust Certificateholder or the Owner Trustee shall be deemed to have been given if the Depositor does not receive a written objection from such Person within 10 Business Days after a written request for such consent shall have been given. The Indenture Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into or consent to any such amendment that affects the Indenture Trustee’s own rights, duties, liabilities or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.

(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, no amendment shall (i) reduce the interest rate or principal amount of any Note, or change the due date of any installment of principal of or interest in any Note, or the Redemption Price with respect thereto, without the consent of the Noteholder, or (ii) reduce the Outstanding Amount, the Holders of which are required to consent to any matter without the consent of the Holders of at least a Majority Interest of the Notes which were required to consent to such matter before giving effect to such amendment.

(c) It shall not be necessary for the consent of any Person pursuant to this Section for such Person to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, but it shall be sufficient if such Person consents to the substance thereof.

(d) Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement, the Depositor shall provide each Rating Agency, the Trust Certificateholder, the Transferee, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee with written notice of the substance of such amendment. No later than 10 Business Days after the execution of any amendment to this Agreement, the Depositor shall furnish a copy of such amendment to each Rating Agency, the Transferee, the Trust Certificateholder, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee. Any such notice to be delivered pursuant to this Agreement to any Rating Agency shall be deemed to be delivered if a copy of such notice has been posted on any web site maintained by NMAC pursuant to a commitment to any Rating Agency relating to the Notes in accordance with 17 C.F.R. 240 17g-5(a)(3).

(e) The Indenture Trustee shall be under no obligation to ascertain whether a Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied with respect to any amendment. When the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied with respect to such amendment, the Depositor shall cause to be delivered to a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate to that effect, and the Indenture Trustee may conclusively rely upon the Officer’s Certificate from the Depositor that a Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied with respect to such amendment.

Section 3.02 Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO ANY OTHERWISE APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICT OF LAWS (OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW).

 

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Section 3.03 Severability. If one or more of the covenants, agreements, or provisions of this Agreement shall be for any reason whatever held invalid or unenforceable, such provisions shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants, agreements, and provisions of this Agreement, and such invalidity or unenforceability shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of such remaining covenants, agreements and provisions, or the rights of any parties hereto. To the extent permitted by law, the parties hereto waive any provision of law that renders any provision of this Agreement invalid or unenforceable in any respect.

Section 3.04 Binding Effect. The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their permitted successors and assigns.

The Depositor acknowledges and agrees that (a) the Transferee may, pursuant to the Indenture, pledge and grant a security interest in the 2022-A Series and the 2022-A Series Assets represented thereby and assign its rights under this Agreement to the Indenture Trustee (for the benefit of the holders of the Notes), and (b) the representation, warranties and covenants contained in this Agreement and the rights of the Transferee under this Agreement are intended to benefit the Indenture Trustee (for the benefit of the holders of the Notes). The Depositor hereby consents to all such pledges and grants.

Section 3.05 Headings. The Article and Section headings are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.

Section 3.06 Counterparts and Electronic Signature. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed and delivered shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. Each party agrees that this Agreement and any other documents to be delivered in connection herewith may be electronically signed, and that any digital or electronic signatures (including pdf, facsimile or electronically imaged signatures provided by a digital signature provider as specified in writing to the Titling Company Registrar) appearing on this Agreement or such other documents shall have the same effect as manual signatures for the purpose of validity, enforceability and admissibility; provided, however, that any documentation with respect to the transfer of the 2022-A Series Certificate or other securities presented to the Titling Company Registrar, the Titling Company Registrar or any other transfer agent must contain original, manually executed signatures. Other than with respect to instances in which manual signatures are expressly required by this paragraph, each party hereto shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon, and shall have no liability with respect to, any digital or electronic signature appearing on this Agreement or any other documents to be delivered in connection herewith and shall have no duty to investigate, confirm or otherwise verify the validity or authenticity thereof.

Section 3.07 Further Assurances. Each party hereto shall do such acts, and execute and deliver to the other party such additional documents or instruments as may be reasonably requested, in order to effect the purposes of this Agreement and to better assure and confirm unto the requesting party its rights, powers and remedies hereunder.

Section 3.08 Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and each Holder of the 2022-A Series Certificate and each Registered Pledgee, who shall be considered third-party beneficiaries hereof. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, no other Person shall have any right or obligation hereunder.

 

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Section 3.09 No Petition. Each of the parties hereto covenants and agrees that prior to the date that is one year and one day after the date upon which all obligations under each Securitized Financing have been paid in full, it will not institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against the Member, the Depositor, the Titling Company, the Issuing Entity, any other Special Purpose Affiliate or any Beneficiary, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation Proceeding or other Proceeding under any federal or state bankruptcy or similar law.

This Section shall survive the complete or partial termination or assignment of this Agreement.

Section 3.10 Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, this instrument has been countersigned by Wilmington Trust, National Association not in its individual capacity but solely in its capacity as Owner Trustee of the Issuing Entity and in no event shall Wilmington Trust, National Association in its individual capacity or any beneficial owner of the Issuing Entity have any liability for the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements, or other obligations of the Issuing Entity hereunder, as to all of which recourse shall be had solely to the assets of the Issuing Entity. For all purposes of this Agreement, in the performance of any duties or obligations of the Issuing Entity hereunder, the Owner Trustee shall be subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the terms and provisions of Articles Six, Seven and Ten of the Trust Agreement.

Section 3.11 Notices. All demands, notices and communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be delivered or mailed by registered or certified first-class United States mail, postage prepaid, hand delivery, prepaid courier service, by facsimile or electronically by email (if an email address is provided), and addressed in each case as specified on Schedule II to the Series Certificate Sale Agreement or at such other address as shall be designated by any of the specified addressees in a written notice to the other parties hereto. Delivery shall occur only when delivered by hand or, in the case of mail, email or facsimile notice, upon actual receipt or reported tender of such communication by an officer of the intended recipient entitled to receive such notices located at the address of such recipient for notices hereunder; provided, however, any demand, notice or communication to be delivered pursuant to this Agreement to any Rating Agency shall be deemed to be delivered if a copy of such demand, notice or communication has been posted on any web site maintained by NMAC pursuant to a commitment to any Rating Agency relating to the Notes in accordance with 17 C.F.R. 240 17g-5(a)(3).

[Signature Page to Follow]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers duly authorized as of the day and year first above written.

 

NISSAN AUTO LEASING LLC II, as Depositor
By:   /s/ Douglas E. Gwin, Jr.
  Name:   Douglas E. Gwin, Jr.
  Title:   Assistant Treasurer

NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2022-A,

as Transferee

By:   WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
  not in its individual capacity, but solely as Owner Trustee
By:   /s/ Dorri Costello
  Name:   Dorri Costello
  Title:   Vice President

 

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SCHEDULE I

PERFECTION REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS

In addition to the representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Series Certificate Transfer Agreement, Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II, as depositor (the “Depositor”), hereby represents, warrants, and covenants to Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2022-A, as transferee (the “Transferee”), as follows on the Closing Date:

1. The Series Certificate Transfer Agreement creates a valid and continuing security interest (as defined in the applicable UCC) in the 2022-A Series Certificate in favor of the Transferee, which security interest is prior to all other Liens and is enforceable as such as against creditors of and purchasers from the Depositor.

2. The 2022-A Series Certificate constitutes a “general intangible” or “certificated security,” within the meaning of the applicable UCC.

3. Immediately prior to the transfer thereof to the Transferee, the Depositor owns and has good and marketable title to the 2022-A Series Certificate free and clear of any Liens, claim or encumbrance of any Person, excepting only liens for taxes, assessments or similar governmental charges or levies incurred in the ordinary course of business that are not yet due and payable or as to which any applicable grace period shall not have expired, or that are being contested in good faith by proper proceedings and for which adequate reserves have been established, but only so long as foreclosure with respect to such a lien is not imminent and the use and value of the property to which the Lien attaches is not impaired during the pendency of such proceeding.

4. The Depositor has received all consents and approvals to the sale of the 2022-A Series Certificate under the Series Certificate Transfer Agreement to the Transferee required by the terms of the 2022-A Series Certificate to the extent that it constitutes an instrument or a payment intangible.

5. The Depositor has received all consents and approvals required by the terms of the 2022-A Series Certificate, to the extent that it constitutes a securities entitlement, certificated security or uncertificated security, to the transfer to the Transferee of its interest and rights in the 2022-A Series Certificate under the Series Certificate Sale Agreement.

6. The Depositor has caused or will have caused, within ten days after the effective date of the Series Certificate Transfer Agreement, the filing of all appropriate financing statements in the proper filing office in the appropriate jurisdictions under applicable law in order to perfect the sale of the 2022-A Series Certificate from the Depositor to the Transferee and the security interest in the 2022-A Series Certificate (to the extent such security interest can be perfected by the filing of a financing statement) granted to the Transferee under the Series Certificate Transfer Agreement.

7. To the extent that the 2022-A Series Certificate constitutes an instrument or tangible chattel paper, all original executed copies of each such instrument or tangible chattel paper have been delivered to the Transferee or its assignee.

 

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8. Other than the transfer of the 2022-A Series Certificate from NILT LLC to the Depositor under the Series Certificate Sale Agreement and from the Depositor to the Transferee under the Series Certificate Transfer Agreement and the security interest granted to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Indenture, the Depositor has not pledged, assigned, sold, granted a security interest in, or otherwise conveyed the 2022-A Series Certificate. The Depositor has not authorized the filing of, nor is aware of, any financing statements against the Depositor that include a description of collateral covering the 2022-A Series Certificate other than any financing statement relating to any security interest granted pursuant to the Basic Documents or that has been terminated.

9. No instrument or tangible chattel paper that constitutes or evidences the 2022-A Series Certificate has any marks or notations indicating that it has been pledged, assigned or otherwise conveyed to any Person other than the Indenture Trustee.

 

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Exhibit 10.6

 

 

NILT LLC,

as Transferor,

and

NISSAN AUTO LEASING LLC II,

as Transferee

 

 

SERIES CERTIFICATE

SALE AGREEMENT

Dated as of June 29, 2022

 

 

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

 

ARTICLE ONE     DEFINITIONS

     2  

Section 1.01

   Definitions      2  

Section 1.02

   Interpretive Provisions      2  

ARTICLE TWO     TRANSFER OF 2022-A SERIES CERTIFICATE

     2  

Section 2.01

   Transfer of 2022-A Series Certificate      2  

Section 2.02

   True Sale      3  

Section 2.03

   Representations and Warranties of the Transferor and the Transferee      3  

Section 2.04

   Financing Statement and Books and Records      6  

Section 2.05

   Acceptance by the Transferee      7  

Section 2.06

   Release of Claims      7  

ARTICLE THREE     MISCELLANEOUS

     7  

Section 3.01

   Amendment      7  

Section 3.02

   Governing Law      8  

Section 3.03

   Severability      8  

Section 3.04

   Binding Effect      8  

Section 3.05

   Headings      9  

Section 3.06

   Counterparts and Electronic Signature      9  

Section 3.07

   Further Assurances      9  

Section 3.08

   Third-Party Beneficiaries      9  

Section 3.09

   No Petition      9  

Section 3.10

   Notices      9  

SCHEDULE I

   PERFECTION REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS

 

SCHEDULE II

   NOTICE ADDRESSES

 

ANNEX A

   DEFINITIONS

 

 


SERIES CERTIFICATE SALE AGREEMENT

This Series Certificate Sale Agreement, dated as of June 29, 2022 (this “Agreement”), is between NILT LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“NILT LLC”), as transferor (the “Transferor”), and Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II, a Delaware limited liability company (“NALL II”), as transferee (the “Transferee”).

RECITALS

A. Nissan-Infiniti LT LLC (the “Titling Company”) is a Delaware limited liability company governed by the Limited Liability Company Agreement, dated as of April 1, 2021 (the “Titling Company Agreement”), by and between NILT LLC, as member (in such capacity, the “Member”), Nissan Motor Acceptance Company LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“NMAC”), as administrator (the “Administrator”), and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, a national banking association (“U.S. Bank”), as titling company registrar (the “Titling Company Registrar”);

B. Pursuant to the Titling Company Agreement, the purposes of the Titling Company include taking assignments and conveyances of and holding in trust various assets (the “Titling Company Assets”);

C. As contemplated by the Titling Company Agreement and pursuant to the 2022-A Series Supplement thereto, entered into as of the date hereof, by and between the Member, Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2022-A, as holder, and the Titling Company Registrar (the “2022-A Series Supplement” and, together with the Titling Company Agreement, the “Series LLC Agreement”), the Member (i) has established and formed a separate series interest of the Titling Company (the “2022-A Series”), and (ii) shall identify and allocate certain Titling Company Assets to, and associate such Titling Company Assets with, the 2022-A Series;

D. Pursuant to the Series LLC Agreement a separate portfolio of leases (the “2022-A Leases”), the vehicles that are leased under the 2022-A Leases (the “2022-A Vehicles”), and certain other related Titling Company Assets have been allocated to and associated with the 2022-A Series;

E. The Titling Company has issued a certificate representing the entire 2022-A Series Interest (the “2022-A Series Certificate”) to the Transferor;

F. The Transferor and the Transferee desire to provide for the sale, transfer and assignment by the Transferor to the Transferee, without recourse, of all of the Transferor’s right, title and interest in and to the 2022-A Series Certificate; and

G. Immediately after the transfer and assignment of the 2022-A Series Certificate to the Transferee, the Transferee shall sell, transfer, and assign all of its right, title and interest in the 2022-A Series Certificate to Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2022-A, as issuer (the “Issuing Entity”) in connection with a securitization.

 

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NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained, and of other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

ARTICLE ONE

DEFINITIONS

Section 1.01 Definitions. Capitalized terms used herein that are not otherwise defined shall have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in Annex A hereto.

Section 1.02 Interpretive Provisions. For all purposes of this Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires, (i) terms used herein include, as appropriate, all genders and the plural as well as the singular, (ii) references to words such as “herein,” “hereof” and the like shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular part, Article or Section within this Agreement, (iii) references to an Article or Section such as “Article One” or “Section 1.01” shall refer to the applicable Article or Section of this Agreement, (iv) the term “include” and all variations thereof shall mean “include without limitation,” (v) the term “or” shall include “and/or,” (vi) the term “proceeds” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the UCC, (vii) references to Persons include their permitted successors and assigns, (viii) references to agreements and other contractual instruments include all subsequent amendments, amendments and restatements and supplements thereto or changes therein entered into in accordance with their respective terms and not prohibited by this Agreement, except that references to the Series LLC Agreement include only such items as related to the 2022-A Series and the Titling Company, (ix) references to laws include their amendments and supplements, the rules and regulations thereunder and any successors thereto, (x) references to this Agreement include all Exhibits hereto, and (xi) in the computation of a period of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” shall mean “from and including” and the words “to” and “until” shall mean “to but excluding.”

ARTICLE TWO

TRANSFER OF 2022-A SERIES CERTIFICATE

Section 2.01 Transfer of 2022-A Series Certificate.

In consideration of the Transferee delivering (or causing to be delivered) to, or upon the order of, the Transferor of an amount equal to the fair market value of the Assets (as defined below) as of the Closing Date, the Transferor hereby absolutely sells, transfers, assigns and otherwise conveys to the Transferee, without recourse, and the Transferee does hereby purchase and acquire, as of the date set forth above, all of the Transferor’s right, title and interest in and to the following (collectively, the “Assets”):

(i) the 2022-A Series Certificate and the interest in the 2022-A Series represented thereby, including all monies due and paid or to become due and paid or payable thereon or in respect thereof after the Cutoff Date;

(ii) all of the Transferor’s rights and benefits as holder of the 2022-A Series Certificate under the Servicing Agreement and the Series LLC Agreement;

 

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(iii) the right to realize upon any property that underlies or may be deemed to secure the interest in the 2022-A Series represented by the 2022-A Series Certificate, as granted in the 2022-A Series Supplement and in the 2022-A Series Certificate;

(iv) all general intangibles, chattel paper, instruments, documents, money, deposit accounts, certificates of deposit, securities accounts, investment property, financial assets, goods, letters of credit, letters of credit rights, advices of credit and uncertificated securities, and other property consisting of, arising from, or relating or credited to the foregoing; and

(v) all cash and non-cash proceeds of all of the foregoing.

Section 2.02 True Sale. The parties hereto intend that the sale, transfer, and assignment of the Assets constitutes a true sale and assignment of the Assets such that any interest in and title to the Assets would not be property of the Transferor’s estate in the event that the Transferor becomes a debtor in a case under any bankruptcy law. To the extent that the conveyance of the Assets hereunder is characterized by a court or similar governmental authority as a financing (i) it is intended by the Transferor and the Transferee that the interest conveyed constitutes a grant of a security interest by the Transferor to the Transferee to secure the Transfer Price to the Transferor, which security interest shall be perfected and of a first priority, (ii) the Transferor hereby grants to the Transferee a security interest in all of its right, title, and privilege and interest in and to the Assets and the parties hereto agree that this Agreement constitutes a “security agreement” under all applicable laws, and (iii) the possession by the Transferee or its agent of the 2022-A Series Certificate shall be deemed to be “possession by the secured party” or possession by the purchaser or a Person designated by such purchaser, for purposes of perfecting the security interest pursuant to the New York UCC and the UCC of any other applicable jurisdiction.

Section 2.03 Representations and Warranties of the Transferor and the Transferee.

(a) The Transferor hereby represents and warrants to the Transferee as of the Closing Date that:

(i) Organization and Good Standing. The Transferor is duly formed, validly existing, and in good standing under the laws of the state of its formation, and has the power and the authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as such properties are currently owned and such business is presently conducted, and had at all relevant times, and shall have, the power, the authority and the legal right to acquire, own and sell the Assets.

(ii) Due Qualification. The Transferor is duly qualified to do business as a foreign entity in good standing, and has obtained all necessary licenses and approvals in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business shall require such qualifications, except where the failure to have any such license, approval, or qualification would not have a Material Adverse Effect on the Transferor.

(iii) Power and Authority. The Transferor has the power and the authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to carry out its terms; and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement has been duly authorized by the Transferor by all necessary action.

 

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(iv) Binding Obligation. This Agreement constitutes a legal, valid, and binding obligation of the Transferor, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be subject to or limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation, or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights in general and by general principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability shall be considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

(v) No Violation. The execution, delivery, and performance by the Transferor of this Agreement, the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and the fulfillment of the terms hereof do not (A) conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the Transferor’s governing documents, (B) conflict with or breach any of the material terms or provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, any indenture, agreement or other instrument to which the Transferor is a party or by which it may be bound or any of its properties are subject, (C) result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any material indenture, agreement, or other instrument (other than as permitted by the Basic Documents), (D) violate any law or, to the knowledge of the Transferor, any order, rule, or regulation applicable to it or its properties, or (E) contravene, violate, or result in a default under any judgment, injunction, order, decree, or other instrument of any court or of any federal or state regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Transferor or any of its properties; except, in the case of clauses (B), (C), (D) and (E) of this Section 2.03(a)(v), to the extent it would not reasonably be likely to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Transferor.

(vi) No Proceedings. There are no proceedings in which the Transferor has been served or, to the knowledge of the Transferor, proceedings or investigations that are pending or threatened, in each case against the Transferor, before any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other tribunal, or governmental instrumentality (A) asserting the invalidity of this Agreement, (B) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Basic Document or (C) seeking any determination or ruling that, in the reasonable judgment of the Transferor, would materially and adversely affect the performance by the Transferor of its obligations under this Agreement.

(vii) Title to 2022-A Series Certificate. Immediately prior to the transfer of the 2022-A Series Certificate pursuant to this Agreement, the Transferor (A) is the true and lawful owner of the 2022-A Series Certificate and has the legal right to transfer the 2022-A Series Certificate, (B) has good and valid title to the 2022-A Series Certificate and the 2022-A Series Certificate is on the date hereof free and clear of all Liens, and (C) will convey good, valid, and indefeasible title to the 2022-A Series Certificate to the Transferee under this Agreement.

 

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(b) Perfection Representations. The representations, warranties and covenants set forth on Schedule I hereto shall be a part of this Agreement for all purposes. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any other Basic Document, the perfection representations contained in Schedule I shall be continuing, and remain in full force and effect until such time as all obligations under the Indenture have been finally and fully paid and performed. The parties to this Agreement: (i) shall not waive any of the perfection representations contained in Schedule I, (ii) shall provide the Rating Agencies with prompt written notice of any breach of perfection representations contained in Schedule I, and (iii) shall not waive a breach of any of the perfection representations contained in Schedule I.

(c) The Transferee hereby represents and warrants to the Transferor as of the Closing Date that:

(i) Organization and Good Standing. The Transferee is duly formed, validly existing, and in good standing under the laws of the state of its formation, has the power and the authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as such properties are currently owned and such business is presently conducted, and had at all relevant times, and shall have, the power, the authority and the legal right to acquire, own and sell the Assets.

(ii) Due Qualification. The Transferee is duly qualified to do business as a foreign entity in good standing, and has obtained all necessary licenses and approvals in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business shall require such qualifications, except where the failure to have any such license, approval or qualification would not have a Material Adverse Effect on the Transferee.

(iii) Power and Authority. The Transferee has the power and the authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to carry out its terms; and the execution, delivery, and performance of this Agreement has been duly authorized by the Transferee by all necessary action.

(iv) Binding Obligation. This Agreement constitutes a legal, valid, and binding obligation of the Transferee, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be subject to or limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation, or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights in general and by general principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability shall be considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

(v) No Violation. The execution, delivery, and performance of this Agreement by the Transferee and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the fulfillment of the terms hereof do not (A) conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the governing documents of the Transferee, (B) conflict with or breach any of the material terms or provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, any indenture, agreement, or other instrument to which the Transferee is a party or by which it may be bound or any of its properties are subject, (C) result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of its properties pursuant to

 

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the terms of any material indenture, agreement, or other instrument (other than as permitted by the Basic Documents), (D) violate any law or, to the knowledge of the Transferee, any order, rule, or regulation applicable to it or its properties, or (E) contravene, violate, or result in a default under any judgment, injunction, order, decree, or other instrument of any court or of any federal or state regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Transferee or any of its properties; except, in the case of clauses (B), (C), (D) and (E) of this Section 2.03(c)(v), to the extent it would not reasonably be likely to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Transferee.

(vi) No Proceedings. There are no proceedings in which the Transferee has been served or, to the knowledge of the Transferee, proceedings or investigations that are pending or threatened, in each case against the Transferee, before any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other tribunal or governmental instrumentality (A) asserting the invalidity of this Agreement, (B) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, or (C) seeking any determination or ruling that, in the reasonable judgment of the Transferee, would materially and adversely affect the performance by the Transferee of its obligations under this Agreement.

(d) The representations and warranties set forth in this Section shall survive the sale of the Assets by the Transferor to the Transferee, the sale of the Assets by the Transferee to the Issuing Entity and the pledge and grant of a security interest in the Assets by the Issuing Entity to the Indenture Trustee (for the benefit of the Noteholders) pursuant to the Indenture. Upon discovery by the Transferor or the Transferee, or upon a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee having actual knowledge of a breach of any of the foregoing representations and warranties, the party discovering such breach shall give prompt written notice to the others.

Section 2.04 Financing Statement and Books and Records.

(a) In connection with the conveyance of the Assets hereunder, the Transferor agrees that on or prior to the Closing Date it will deliver to or at the direction of the Transferee, with all requisite endorsements, the 2022-A Series Certificate and will file on or within ten days after the Closing Date, at its own expense, one or more financing statements with respect to the Assets meeting the requirements of applicable state law in such manner as necessary to perfect, preserve, maintain and protect the interest of the Transferee in the Assets (to the extent such security interest can be perfected by the filing of a financing statement), and the proceeds thereof to the Transferor (and any continuation statements as are required by applicable state law), and to deliver a file-stamped copy of each such financing statement (or continuation statement) or other evidence of such filings (which may, for purposes of this Section 2.04, consist of telephone confirmation of such filings with the file stamped copy of each such filing to be provided to the Transferee in due course), as soon as is practicable after receipt by the Transferor thereof.

(b) The Transferor further agrees that it will take no actions inconsistent with the Transferee’s ownership of the Assets and on or prior to the Closing Date indicate on its books, records, and statements that the Assets have been sold to the Transferee.

 

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Section 2.05 Acceptance by the Transferee. The Transferee agrees to comply with all covenants and restrictions applicable to a Holder of the 2022-A Series Certificate and the interest in the 2022-A Series represented thereby, whether set forth in the 2022-A Series Certificate, in the Series LLC Agreement, or otherwise, and assumes all obligations and liabilities, if any, associated therewith.

Section 2.06 Release of Claims. Pursuant to Sections 4.1(f), 4.1(g) and 10.1 of the Titling Company Agreement, the Transferee hereby covenants and agrees for the express benefit of the Member and each holder from time to time of the Unallocated Assets Certificate and any Series Certificate that the Transferee shall release all claims to the Unallocated Assets and the related Other Series Assets, respectively, and, in the event such release is not given effect, to subordinate fully all claims it may be deemed to have against the Unallocated Assets or such Other Series Assets, as the case may be.

ARTICLE THREE

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 3.01 Amendment.

(a) Any term or provision of this Agreement (including Annex A) may be amended by the parties hereto, without the consent of any other Person; provided, that (i) either (A) any amendment that materially and adversely affects the Noteholders shall require the consent of Noteholders evidencing not less than a Majority Interest of the Notes voting together as a single class, or (B) such amendment shall not materially and adversely affect the Noteholders, and (ii) any amendment that adversely affects the interests of the Trust Certificateholder, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee shall require the prior written consent of each Person whose interests are adversely affected. An amendment shall be deemed not to materially and adversely affect the Noteholders if (i) the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied with respect to such amendment, or (ii) NALL II delivers an Officer’s Certificate to the Indenture Trustee stating that such amendment shall not materially and adversely affect the Noteholders. The consent of the Trust Certificateholder or the Owner Trustee shall be deemed to have been given if NALL II does not receive a written objection from such Person within 10 Business Days after a written request for such consent shall have been given. The Indenture Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into or consent to any such amendment that affects the Indenture Trustee’s own rights, duties, liabilities or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.

(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, no amendment shall (i) reduce the interest rate or principal amount of any Note or change the due date of any installment of principal of or interest in any Note, or the Redemption Price with respect thereto, without the consent of the Noteholder, or (ii) reduce the Outstanding Amount, the Holders of which are required to consent to any matter without the consent of the Holders of at least a Majority Interest of the Notes which were required to consent to such matter before giving effect to such amendment.

(c) It shall not be necessary for the consent of any Person pursuant to this Section for such Person to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, but it shall be sufficient if such Person consents to the substance thereof.

 

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(d) Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement, NALL II shall provide each Rating Agency, the Trust Certificateholder, the Transferor, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee with written notice of the substance of such amendment. No later than 10 Business Days after the execution of any amendment to this Agreement, NALL II shall furnish a copy of such amendment to each Rating Agency, the Trust Certificateholder, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee. Any such notice to be delivered pursuant to this Agreement to any Rating Agency shall be deemed to be delivered if a copy of such notice has been posted on any web site maintained by NMAC pursuant to a commitment to any Rating Agency relating to the Notes in accordance with 17 C.F.R. 240 17g-5(a)(3).

(e) The Indenture Trustee shall be under no obligation to ascertain whether a Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied with respect to any amendment. When the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied with respect to such amendment, the Transferee shall cause to be delivered to a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate to that effect, and the Indenture Trustee may conclusively rely upon the Officer’s Certificate from the Transferee that a Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied with respect to such amendment.

Section 3.02 Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO ANY OTHERWISE APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICT OF LAWS (OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW).

Section 3.03 Severability. If one or more of the covenants, agreements, or provisions of this Agreement shall be, for any reason whatever, held invalid or unenforceable, such provisions shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants, agreements, and provisions of this Agreement, and such invalidity or unenforceability shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of such remaining covenants, agreements, and provisions, or the rights of any parties hereto. To the extent permitted by law, the parties hereto waive any provision of law that renders any provision of this Agreement invalid or unenforceable in any respect.

Section 3.04 Binding Effect. The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their permitted successors and assigns.

The Transferor acknowledges and agrees that (a) (i) the Transferee may, pursuant to the Series Certificate Transfer Agreement, transfer and assign the 2022-A Series and the 2022-A Series Assets represented thereby and assign its rights under this Agreement to the Issuing Entity, and (ii) the representation, warranties and covenants contained in this Agreement and the rights of the Transferee under this Agreement are intended to benefit the Issuing Entity, and (b) the Issuing Entity may, pursuant to the Indenture, pledge and grant a security interest in the 2022-A Series and the 2022-A Series Assets represented thereby and assign the Transferee’s rights under this Agreement to the Indenture Trustee, and (ii) the representation, warranties, and covenants contained in this Agreement and the rights of the Transferee under this Agreement are intended to benefit the Indenture Trustee (for the benefit of the holders of the Notes). The Transferor hereby consents to all such transfers, assignments, pledges and grants.

 

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Section 3.05 Headings. The Article and Section headings are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.

Section 3.06 Counterparts and Electronic Signature. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed and delivered shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. Each party agrees that this Agreement and any other documents to be delivered in connection herewith may be electronically signed, and that any digital or electronic signatures (including pdf, facsimile or electronically imaged signatures provided by a digital signature provider as specified in writing to the Titling Company Registrar) appearing on this Agreement or such other documents shall have the same effect as manual signatures for the purpose of validity, enforceability and admissibility; provided, however, that any documentation with respect to the transfer of the 2022-A Series Certificate or other securities presented to the Titling Company Registrar, the Titling Company Registrar or any other transfer agent must contain original, manually executed signatures. Other than with respect to instances in which manual signatures are expressly required by this paragraph, each party hereto shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon, and shall have no liability with respect to, any digital or electronic signature appearing on this Agreement or any other documents to be delivered in connection herewith and shall have no duty to investigate, confirm or otherwise verify the validity or authenticity thereof.

Section 3.07 Further Assurances. Each party hereto shall do such acts, and execute and deliver to the other party such additional documents or instruments as may be reasonably requested, in order to effect the purposes of this Agreement and to better assure and confirm unto the requesting party its rights, powers and remedies hereunder.

Section 3.08 Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and each Holder of the 2022-A Series Certificate and each Registered Pledgee, who shall be considered third-party beneficiaries hereof. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, no other Person shall have any right or obligation hereunder.

Section 3.09 No Petition. Each of the parties hereto covenants and agrees that prior to the date that is one year and one day after the date upon which all obligations under each Securitized Financing have been paid in full, it will not institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against the Member, the Transferee, the Titling Company, the Issuing Entity, any other Special Purpose Affiliate or any Beneficiary, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation Proceeding or other Proceeding under any federal or state bankruptcy or similar law.

This Section shall survive the complete or partial termination or assignment of this Agreement.

Section 3.10 Notices. All demands, notices and communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be delivered or mailed by registered or certified first-class United States mail, postage prepaid, hand delivery, prepaid courier service, by facsimile or electronically by email (if an email address is provided), and addressed in each case as specified on Schedule II to this Agreement or at such other address as shall be designated by any of the foregoing in a written

 

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notice to the other parties hereto. Delivery shall occur only when delivered by hand or, in the case of mail, email or facsimile notice, upon actual receipt or reported tender of such communication by an officer of the intended recipient entitled to receive such notices located at the address of such recipient for notices hereunder; provided, however, any demand, notice or communication to be delivered pursuant to this Agreement to any Rating Agency shall be deemed to be delivered if a copy of such demand, notice or communication has been posted on any web site maintained by NMAC pursuant to a commitment to any Rating Agency relating to the Notes in accordance with 17 C.F.R. 240 17g-5(a)(3).

[Signature Page to Follow]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers duly authorized as of the day and year first above written.

 

NILT LLC, as Transferor
By:   /s/ Douglas E. Gwin, Jr.
  Name:   Douglas E. Gwin, Jr.
  Title:   Assistant Treasurer
NISSAN AUTO LEASING LLC II, as Transferee
By:   /s/ Douglas E. Gwin, Jr.
  Name:   Douglas E. Gwin, Jr.
  Title:   Assistant Treasurer

 

 

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SCHEDULE I

PERFECTION REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS

In addition to the representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Series Certificate Sale Agreement, the Transferor hereby represents, warrants, and covenants to the Transferee as follows on the Closing Date:

1. The Series Certificate Sale Agreement creates a valid and continuing security interest (as defined in the applicable UCC) in the 2022-A Series Certificate in favor of the Transferee, which security interest is prior to all other Liens and is enforceable as such as against creditors of and purchasers from NILT LLC.

2. The 2022-A Series Certificate constitutes a “general intangible” or “certificated security,” within the meaning of the applicable UCC.

3. Immediately prior to the transfer thereof to the Transferee, the Transferor owns and has good and marketable title to the 2022-A Series Certificate free and clear of any Liens, claim or encumbrance of any Person, excepting only liens for taxes, assessments or similar governmental charges or levies incurred in the ordinary course of business that are not yet due and payable or as to which any applicable grace period shall not have expired, or that are being contested in good faith by proper proceedings and for which adequate reserves have been established, but only so long as foreclosure with respect to such a lien is not imminent and the use and value of the property to which the Lien attaches is not impaired during the pendency of such proceeding.

4. The Transferor has received all consents and approvals to the sale of the 2022-A Series Certificate hereunder to the Transferee required by the terms of the 2022-A Series Certificate to the extent that it constitutes an instrument or a payment intangible.

5. The Transferor has received all consents and approvals required by the terms of the 2022-A Series Certificate, to the extent that it constitutes a securities entitlement, certificated security or uncertificated security, to the transfer to the Transferee of its interest and rights in the 2022-A Series Certificate hereunder.

6. The Transferor has caused or will have caused, within ten days after the effective date of the Series Certificate Sale Agreement, the filing of all appropriate financing statements in the proper filing office in the appropriate jurisdictions under applicable law in order to perfect the sale of the 2022-A Series Certificate from the Transferor to the Transferee and the security interest in the 2022-A Series Certificate (to the extent such security interest can be perfected by the filing of a financing statement) granted to the Transferee hereunder.

7. To the extent that the 2022-A Series Certificate constitutes an instrument or tangible chattel paper, all original executed copies of each such instrument or tangible chattel paper have been delivered to the Transferee or its assignee.

8. Other than the transfer of the 2022-A Series Certificate from the Transferor to the Transferee under the Series Certificate Sale Agreement and from the Transferee to the Issuing Entity under the Series Certificate Transfer Agreement and the security interest granted to the

 

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Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Indenture, the Transferor has not pledged, assigned, sold, granted a security interest in, or otherwise conveyed the 2022-A Series Certificate. The Transferor has not authorized the filing of, nor is aware of, any financing statements against the Transferor that include a description of collateral covering the 2022-A Series Certificate other than any financing statement relating to any security interest granted pursuant to the Basic Documents or that has been terminated.

9. No instrument or tangible chattel paper that constitutes or evidences the 2022-A Series Certificate has any marks or notations indicating that it has been pledged, assigned or otherwise conveyed to any Person other than the Indenture Trustee.

 

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SCHEDULE II

NOTICE ADDRESSES

If to the Issuing Entity:

Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2022-A

c/o Wilmington Trust, National Association

Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street

Wilmington, Delaware 19890

Facsimile no.: (302) 636-4140

Email: [email protected]

Attention: Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2022-A

If to the Transferee and the Depositor:

Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II

One Nissan Way

Franklin, Tennessee 37067

Facsimile no.: (615) 725-1720

Email: [email protected]

Attention: Treasurer

If to NMAC, the Administrative Agent or the Servicer:

Nissan Motor Acceptance Company LLC

One Nissan Way

Franklin, Tennessee 37067

Facsimile no.: (615) 725-1720

Email: [email protected]

Attention: Treasurer

If to NILT LLC:

NILT LLC

One Nissan Way

Franklin, Tennessee 37067

Facsimile no.: (615) 725-1720

Email: [email protected]

Attention: Treasurer

 

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If to the Owner Trustee:

Wilmington Trust, National Association

Rodney Square North, 1100 N. Market Street

Wilmington, Delaware 19890

Facsimile no.: (302) 636-4140

Email: [email protected])

Attention: Corporate Trust Administration

If to the Indenture Trustee:

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

190 South LaSalle Street, 7th Floor

Chicago, IL 60603

Facsimile no.: (312) 332-7493

Email: [email protected]

Attention: Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2022-A

If to the Titling Company Registrar:

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

190 South LaSalle Street, 7th Floor

Chicago, IL 60603

Facsimile no.: (312) 332-7996

Email: [email protected]

Attention: NILT LLC

If to the Asset Representations Reviewer:

Clayton Fixed Income Services LLC

2638 South Falkenburg Road

Riverview, Florida 33578

Email: [email protected]

Attention: SVP

with a copy to:

Covius Services, LLC

720 S. Colorado Blvd., Suite 200

Glendale, Colorado 80246

Attention: Legal Department

Email: [email protected]

 

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If to Moody’s:

Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.

7 World Trade Center

250 Greenwich Street

New York, New York 10007

Facsimile no. (212) 553-7820

Email: [email protected]

Attention: ABS Monitoring Department

If to S&P:

S&P Global Ratings

55 Water Street,

New York, New York, 10041

Email: [email protected]

 

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ANNEX A

TO SERIES CERTIFICATE SALE AGREEMENT

DEFINITIONS

In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between a definition set forth both herein and in any of the Basic Documents, the definitions set forth in each such Basic Document shall prevail with respect to such Basic Document. Whenever any agreement relates to the Basic Documents or to the transactions contemplated by the Basic Documents, subject to the preceding sentence, the capitalized terms used without definition in such agreement shall have the following meanings:

60-Day Delinquent Leases” means, as of any date of determination, all 2022-A Leases (other than any Liquidated Leases, Repurchased Leases or Defaulted Leases) that are sixty (60) or more days delinquent as of such date (or, if such date is not the last day of a Collection Period, as of the last day of the Collection Period immediately preceding such date), as determined in accordance with the Servicer’s Customary Servicing Practices.

2022-A Eligible Lease” means a Lease as to which the following are true as of the Cutoff Date:

(i) such Lease relates to a Nissan or an Infiniti automobile, light duty truck, minivan, or sport utility vehicle, of a model year of 2017 or later;

(ii) such Lease is written with respect to a Leased Vehicle that was at the time of the origination of the related Lease a new Nissan or Infiniti motor vehicle;

(iii) such Lease was originated in the United States on or after June 16, 2018, by a Dealer for a Lessee with a United States address;

(iv) such Lease is payable solely in United States dollars;

(v) such Lease and the related Leased Vehicle are owned by the Titling Company, free of all liens, other than any lien placed upon a Certificate of Title in connection with the delivery of title documentation to the Titling Company Registrar in accordance with Customary Servicing Practices in effect at the time of origination;

(vi) such Lease has a remaining term to maturity of not less than 12 months and not greater than 54 months;

(vii) such Lease provides for level payments (exclusive of taxes) that fully amortize the adjusted capitalized cost of the Lease to the related Contract Residual over the lease term at a rate implicit in the Lease and corresponding to the disclosed rent charge and, in the event of a Lessee initiated early termination, provides for payment of the Early Termination Charge;

(viii) such Lease was originated in compliance with, and complies in all material respects with, all material applicable legal requirements;


(ix) such Lease is not more than 29 days past due;

(x) such Lease is the valid, legal and binding full-recourse payment obligation of the related Lessee, enforceable against such Lessee in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by (i) applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, or other similar laws, now or hereafter in effect, affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights in general or (ii) general principles of equity;

(xi) the records of the Servicer do not reflect that such Lease has been satisfied, subordinated, rescinded, canceled or terminated;

(xii) the records of the Servicer do not reflect that such Lease is subject to any asserted or threatened right of rescission, setoff, counterclaim or defense;

(xiii) the records of the Servicer reflect that, other than payment defaults continuing for a period of no more than 29 days as of the Cutoff Date, no default, breach or violation has of such Lease occurred;

(xiv) the records of the Servicer do not reflect that any default, breach or violation of such Lease has been waived (other than deferrals and waivers of late payment charges or fees permitted under the Servicing Agreement);

(xv) such Lease is not a Defaulted Lease;

(xvi) the related Lessee with respect to such Lease is a person located in one or more of the 50 states of the United States or the District of Columbia and is not (i) NMAC or any of its Affiliates, or (ii) the United States or any State or any agency or potential subdivision thereof;

(xvii) such Lease constitutes either “tangible chattel paper” or “electronic chattel paper,” as defined in the UCC;

(xviii) in the case of each 2022-A Lease that constitutes tangible chattel paper, there is only one original executed copy of each tangible “record” constituting or forming a part of such Lease; and in the case of each 2022-A Lease that constitutes electronic chattel paper, there is only a single “authoritative copy” (as such term is used in Section 9-105 of the UCC) of each electronic “record” constituting or forming a part of such Lease;

(xix) such Lease has an original term of not less than 24 months and not greater than 60 months;

(xx) under the terms of such Lease, the related Lessee is required to maintain physical damage insurance covering the related Leased Vehicle; and

(xxi) has a Securitization Value, as of the Cutoff Date, of no greater than $83,181.57.

 

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2022-A Lease” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.01 of the 2022-A Servicing Supplement.

2022-A Servicing Supplement” means the 2022-A Series Servicing Supplement to the Titling Company Servicing Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, among the parties to the Titling Company Servicing Agreement.

2022-A Series” has the meaning set forth in the 2022-A Series Servicing Supplement.

2022-A Series Assets” has the meaning set forth in the 2022-A Series Supplement.

2022-A Series Account” means the 2022-A Series Collection Account, and any other Series Account established with respect to the 2022-A Series, as the context may require.

2022-A Series Certificate” has the meaning set forth in the 2022-A Series Supplement.

2022-A Series Collection Account” means the account established pursuant to the 2022-A Series Supplement.

2022-A Series Supplement” means the 2022-A Series Supplement to the Titling Company Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, among the parties to the Titling Company Agreement.

2022-A Vehicles” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.01 to the 2022-A Servicing Supplement.

Accountant” means a firm of public accountants of nationally recognized standing.

Accounts” means the Note Distribution Account and the Reserve Account.

Accrual Period” means (i) with respect to any Payment Date and the Class A-1 Notes and each Class of Floating Rate Notes, the period from and including the immediately preceding Payment Date to but excluding the current Payment Date, or, in the case of the first Payment Date or if no interest has yet been paid, from and including the Closing Date to, but excluding, the first Payment Date and (ii) with respect to any Payment Date and each Class of Fixed Rate Notes (other than the Class A-1 Notes), the period from and including the 15th day of the preceding calendar month to but excluding the 15th day of the month of such Payment Date, or with respect to the first Payment Date, from and including the Closing Date, to but excluding July 15, 2022.

Act” has the meaning set forth in Section 11.03(a) of the Indenture.

Administrative Agent” means NMAC, as administrative agent under the Trust Administration Agreement.

 

   A-3    (NALT 2022-A Definitions Annex)


Administrative Charge” means, with respect to any Lease, any payment (whether or not part of the fixed monthly payment) payable to the related Lessor representing a disposition fee, a late payment fee, an Extension Fee, an allocation to the related Lessee of insurance premiums, sales, personal property or excise taxes or any other similar charge.

Administrator” means NMAC, in its capacity as the administrator of the Titling Company.

Advance” means a Sales Proceeds Advance or a Monthly Payment Advance, as the context may require.

Affiliate” of any Person means any other Person that (i) directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by or is under common control with such Person (excluding any trustee under, or any committee with responsibility for administering, any employee benefit plan) or (ii) is an officer, director, member or partner of such Person. For purposes of this definition, a Person shall be deemed to be “controlled by” another Person if such Person possesses, directly or indirectly, the power (i) to vote 5% or more of the securities (on a fully diluted basis, having ordinary voting power for the election of directors, members or managing partners of such Person) or (ii) to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether by contract or otherwise.

ALG Residual” means, with respect to any Lease, the expected value of the related Leased Vehicle at the related Maturity Date calculated by using a residual value estimate produced by Automotive Lease Guide in May 2022 as a “mark-to-market” value (assuming that the vehicle is in “average” rather than “clean” condition) based on the total MSRP of the vehicle and all NMAC authorized options, without making a distinction between value adding options and non-value adding options.

Asset Representations Review Agreement” means the Asset Representations Review Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, between the Issuing Entity, the Servicer and the Asset Representations Reviewer.

Asset Representations Reviewer” means Clayton Fixed Income Services LLC, or any successor Asset Representations Reviewer under the Asset Representations Review Agreement.

Asset Review” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Asset Representations Review Agreement.

Assets” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.01 to the Series Certificate Sale Agreement.

Auction Proceeds” means, with respect to a Collection Period, all amounts received by the Servicer in connection with the sale or disposition of any 2022-A Vehicle which is sold at auction or otherwise disposed of by the Servicer during such Collection Period, other than Insurance Proceeds.

Authenticating Agent” means any Person authorized by the Indenture Trustee to act on behalf of the Indenture Trustee to authenticate and deliver the Notes or any Person authorized by the Owner Trustee to act on behalf of the Owner Trustee to authenticate and deliver the Trust Certificates, as the context may require.

 

   A-4    (NALT 2022-A Definitions Annex)


Authorized Newspaper” means a newspaper of general circulation in The City of New York, printed in the English language and customarily published on each Business Day, whether or not published on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.

Authorized Officer” means (a) with respect to the Issuing Entity, (i) any officer of the Owner Trustee who is authorized to act for the Owner Trustee in matters relating to the Issuing Entity and who is identified on the list of Authorized Officers delivered by the Owner Trustee to the Indenture Trustee on the Closing Date and (ii) so long as the Trust Administration Agreement is in effect, the President, any Vice President, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary, and any Assistant Secretary of the Administrative Agent, and (b) with respect to the Servicer, the President, any Vice President, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary, and any Assistant Secretary of the Servicer.

Automotive Lease Guide” means the publication of such name, which includes residual factors, or any successor publication.

Available Funds” means, for any Payment Date and the related Collection Period, the sum of the following amounts: (i) Series Collections, (ii) Advances and (iii) in the case of an Optional Purchase, if any, the Optional Purchase Price.

Available Funds Shortfall Amount” means, for any Payment Date and the related Collection Period, the amount, if any, by which Available Funds are less than the sum of (a) the Servicer Monthly Payment and (b) the amount necessary to make the distributions in clauses (ii) and (iii) of Section 8.04(a) of the Indenture, except that the Principal Distribution Amount rather than the Monthly Principal Distributable Amount shall be used for purposes of clause (iii).

Available Principal Distribution Amount” means, for any Payment Date and the related Collection Period, an amount equal to the excess, if any, of (a) the sum of (i) Available Funds remaining after the Servicer has been paid the Servicer Monthly Payment and (ii) the Reserve Account Draw Amount over (b) accrued interest paid on the Notes on such Payment Date.

Bankruptcy Code” means the United States Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. Section 101 et seq.

Base Residual” means the lowest of (i) the Contract Residual, (ii) the ALG Residual, and (iii) the MRM Residual.

Basic Documents” means the Servicing Agreement, the Series LLC Agreement, the Trust Agreement, the Trust Administration Agreement, the Indenture, the Securities Account Control Agreement, the Series Certificate Sale Agreement, the Series Certificate Transfer Agreement, the Asset Representations Review Agreement, the Underwriting Agreement, the 2022-A Series Certificate and the Securities.

Beneficiaries” means, collectively, the Related Beneficiaries of all Series, and “Beneficiary” means any of such Beneficiaries.

Benefit Plan Investor” means (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA, that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” as defined in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code, that is subject to Section 4975 of the Code, or (iii) an entity deemed to hold the “plan assets” of any of the foregoing.

 

   A-5    (NALT 2022-A Definitions Annex)


Book-Entry Notes” means a beneficial interest in the Notes, ownership and transfers of which shall be made through book entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 2.09 of the Indenture.

Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in New York, New York, Wilmington, Delaware, Irving, Texas, Franklin, Tennessee, or the city and state where the Corporate Trust Office is located are authorized or obligated by law, executive order or government decree to be closed; provided that, when used in the context of a Payment Date, “Business Day” means any day other than (i) a Saturday or Sunday or (ii) a day on which the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is closed.

Calculation Agent” means U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association and any successor calculation agent.

Casualty Termination” as of any date means any Lease that has been terminated prior to its Maturity Date if the related Leased Vehicle has been lost, stolen or damaged beyond economic repair.

Certificate Balance” means, as of any date, the aggregate principal amount of the Trust Certificates as of such date.

Certificate Distribution Account” means the account established pursuant to Section 5.01(a) to the Trust Agreement.

Certificate Distribution Amount” means, as of any Payment Date, the amount being distributed to the Trust Certificateholders on such Payment Date.

Certificate Factor” means, with respect to the Trust Certificates on any Payment Date, the seven digit decimal equivalent of a fraction, the numerator of which is the Certificate Balance on such Payment Date (after giving effect to any payment of principal on such Payment Date), and the denominator of which is the Certificate Balance on the Closing Date.

Certificate of Title” has the meaning set forth in the Titling Company Agreement.

Certificate of Trust” means the Certificate of Trust filed for the Issuing Entity pursuant to Section 3810(a) of the Statutory Trust Statute.

Certificate Register” and “Certificate Registrar” mean the register mentioned in and the registrar appointed pursuant to Section 3.04 of the Trust Agreement.

Claims” means all liabilities, claims and expenses (including reasonable legal and other professional fees and expenses).

Class” means a group of Notes the form of which is identical except for variation in denomination, principal amount or owner, and references to “each Class” means each of the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2a Notes, the Class A-2b Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes.

 

   A-6    (NALT 2022-A Definitions Annex)


Class A-1 Interest Rate” means 2.021% per annum (computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed, but assuming a 360-day year).

Class A-1 Note Balance” means, as of any date, the Initial Class A-1 Note Balance reduced by all payments of principal made on or prior to such date on the Class A-1 Notes.

Class A-1 Noteholder” means, as of any date, the Person in whose name a Class A-1 Note is registered on the Note Register on such date.

Class A-1 Notes” means the $118,300,000 aggregate principal amount of 2.021% asset-backed notes, Class A-1, issued by the Issuing Entity.

Class A-2a Interest Rate” means 3.45% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months).

Class A-2a Note Balance” means, as of any date, the Initial Class A-2a Note Balance reduced by all payments of principal made on or prior to such date on the Class A-2a Notes.

Class A-2a Noteholder” means, as of any date, the Person in whose name a Class A-2a Note is registered on the Note Register on such date.

Class A-2a Notes” means the $209,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.45% asset-backed notes, Class A-2a, issued by the Issuing Entity.

Class A-2b Interest Rate” means the SOFR Rate + 0.68% per annum (computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed, but assuming a 360-day year); provided, however, if the sum of the SOFR Rate + 0.68% is less than 0.00% for any Accrual Period, then the Class A-2b Interest Rate for such Accrual Period will be deemed to be 0.00%.

Class A-2b Note Balance” means, as of any date, the Initial Class A-2b Note Balance reduced by all payments of principal made on or prior to such date on the Class A-2b Notes.

Class A-2b Noteholder” means, as of any date, the Person in whose name a Class A-2b Note is registered on the Note Register on such date.

Class A-2b Notes” means the $175,100,000 aggregate principal amount of SOFR Rate + 0.68% asset-backed notes, Class A-2b, issued by the Issuing Entity.

Class A-2 Notes” means, collectively, the Class A-2a Notes and the Class A-2b Notes.

Class A-3 Interest Rate” means 3.81% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months).

Class A-3 Note Balance” means, as of any date, the Initial Class A-3 Note Balance reduced by all payments of principal made on or prior to such date on the Class A-3 Notes.

 

   A-7    (NALT 2022-A Definitions Annex)


Class A-3 Noteholder” means, as of any date, the Person in whose name a Class A-3 Note is registered on the Note Register on such date.

Class A-3 Notes” means the $362,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.81% asset-backed notes, Class A-3, issued by the Issuing Entity.

Class A-4 Interest Rate” means 3.87% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months).

Class A-4 Note Balance” means, as of any date, the Initial Class A-4 Note Balance reduced by all payments of principal made on or prior to such date on the Class A-4 Notes.

Class A-4 Noteholder” means, as of any date, the Person in whose name a Class A-4 Note is registered on the Note Register on such date.

Class A-4 Notes” means the $75,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.87% asset-backed notes, Class A-4, issued by the Issuing Entity.

Class Balance” means, as of any date, the Class A-1 Note Balance, the Class A-2a Note Balance, the Class A-2b Note Balance, the Class A-3 Note Balance or the Class A-4 Note Balance, as applicable.

Clearing Agency” means an organization registered as a “clearing agency” pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act and shall initially be DTC.

Clearing Agency Participant” means a broker, dealer, bank, or other financial institution or other Person for which from time to time a Clearing Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the Clearing Agency.

Closing Date” means June 29, 2022.

Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

Collateral” has the meaning set forth in the Granting Clause of the Indenture.

Collection Period” has the meaning set forth in the Titling Company Servicing Agreement.

Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Compounded SOFR” means with respect to any U.S. Government Securities Business Day:

(1) the applicable compounded average of SOFR for a tenor of 30 days as published on such U.S. Government Securities Business Day at the SOFR Determination Time; or

(2) if the rate specified in (1) above does not so appear, the applicable compounded average of SOFR for a tenor of 30 days as published in respect of the first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day for which such rate appeared on the FRBNY’s Website.

 

   A-8    (NALT 2022-A Definitions Annex)


The specific Compounded SOFR rate is referred to by its tenor. For example, “30-day Average SOFR” refers to the compounded average SOFR over a rolling 30-calendar day period as published on the FRBNY’s Website.

Contingent and Excess Liability Insurance Policy” has the meaning set forth in the Titling Company Servicing Agreement.

Contract Residual” means, with respect to any Lease, the residual value of the related Leased Vehicle at the Maturity Date as established or assigned by the Servicer at the time of origination of such Lease in accordance with its Customary Servicing Practices for the purpose of determining the Monthly Payment or at the date the Lease was terminated by the Lessee.

Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the Indenture Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office at the date of the execution of the Indenture is located at: (i) for note transfer or surrender purposes, U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, 111 Fillmore Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota 55107, Attention: Bondholder Services, and (ii) for all other purposes, 190 South LaSalle Street, 7th Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60603; or at such other address as the Indenture Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Noteholders and the Issuing Entity, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Indenture Trustee (the address of which the successor Indenture Trustee shall notify the Noteholders and the Issuing Entity).

Credit and Collection Policy” has the meaning set forth in the Titling Company Servicing Agreement.

Customary Servicing Practices” means the customary practices of the Servicer with respect to Leased Vehicles and Leases held by the Titling Company, without regard to whether such Leased Vehicles and Leases have been identified and allocated into a portfolio of Titling Company Assets allocated to and associated with the 2022-A Series or any Other Series, as such practices may be changed from time to time.

Cutoff Date” means the close of business on May 31, 2022.

Dealer” has the meaning set forth in the Titling Company Agreement.

Dealer Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the Titling Company Agreement.

Default” means any occurrence that is, or with notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Indenture Default.

Defaulted Lease” means any Lease that (a) by its terms, is delinquent 120 days or more or (b) by its terms is delinquent less than 120 days and the Servicer has (i) determined, in accordance with the Credit and Collection Policy, that eventual payment in full is unlikely or (ii) repossessed the related Leased Vehicle (including, but not limited to, as a result of the Lessee’s failure to maintain insurance coverage required by the Lease, the failure of the Lessee to timely or properly perform any obligation under the Lease, or any other act by the Lessee constituting a default under applicable law).

 

   A-9    (NALT 2022-A Definitions Annex)


Defaulted Vehicle” means the Leased Vehicle related to a Defaulted Lease.

Definitions Annex” means this Annex A to the Series Certificate Sale Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, by and between NILT LLC and Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II.

Definitive Note” means a definitive fully registered Note.

Delinquency Percentage” means, for any Payment Date and the related Collection Period, an amount equal to the ratio (expressed as a percentage) of (i) the aggregate Principal Balance of all 60-Day Delinquent Leases as of the last day of such Collection Period to (ii) the Pool Balance as of the last day of such Collection Period.

Delinquency Trigger” means, 4.40% for any Payment Date and the related Collection Period.

Deposit Date” means, with respect to a Payment Date or Redemption Date, the close of business on the day immediately preceding such Payment Date or Redemption Date, as the case may be.

Depositor” means Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II.

Depositor’s Formation Documents” means the Certificate of Formation of Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II, dated as of October 24, 2001, and the Limited Liability Company Agreement of Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II, dated as of October 29, 2001.

Depository Agreement” means the agreement executed by the Issuing Entity in favor of DTC, as initial Clearing Agency, relating to the Notes, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time, dated as of the Closing Date.

Disposition Expenses” means reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Servicer in connection with the sale at auction or other disposition of a Leased Vehicle by the Servicer.

Domestic Corporation” means an entity that is treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and is a United States person under Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.

DTC” means The Depository Trust Company.

Early Termination Charge” means, with respect to any 2022-A Lease that is terminated prior to its Maturity Date, an amount equal to the lesser of (a) the present value (discounted at the implicit rate of such 2022-A Lease) of all remaining Monthly Payments and (b) the excess, if any, of the adjusted 2022-A Lease balance over the related 2022-A Vehicle’s fair market wholesale value in accordance with accepted practices in the automobile industry (or by written agreement between the Servicer, on behalf of the Titling Company, and the Lessee).

 

   A-10    (NALT 2022-A Definitions Annex)


Early Termination Purchase Option Price” means, with respect to any 2022-A Lease that is terminated prior to its Maturity Date, the amount paid by the related Lessee or a Dealer to purchase the related 2022-A Vehicle.

Eligible Account” means an account maintained with a depository institution or trust company having the Required Deposit Rating.

Employee Benefit Plan” means any “employee benefit plan,” as such term is defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA subject to Title IV of ERISA, maintained or sponsored by the Servicer or any of its ERISA Affiliates.

ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.

ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) under common control with the Servicer within the meaning of Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code (and Sections 414(m) and (o) of the Code for purposes of provisions relating to Section 412 of the Code).

EU” means the European Union.

EU Securitization Regulation” means Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 of the European Parliament and of the Council of December 12, 2017 laying down a general framework for securitisation and creating a specific framework for simple, transparent and standardised securitisation and amending certain other European Union directives and regulations, as amended.

EU SR Rules” means the EU Securitization Regulation, together with all relevant implementing regulations in relation thereto, all regulatory technical standards and implementing technical standards in relation thereto, or applicable in relation thereto pursuant to any transitional arrangements made pursuant to the EU Securitization Regulation, and, in each case, any relevant guidance and direction published in relation thereto by the European Banking Authority, the European Securities and Markets Authority and the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (or in each case, any predecessor or any other applicable regulatory authority) or by the European Commission, in each case, as amended and in effect from time to time.

EUWA means the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, as amended.

Excess Amounts” means, as of any Payment Date, the amount remaining in the 2022-A Series Collection Account after the distributions provided for in clause (iii) of Section 8.04(a) of the Indenture have been made.

Excess Mileage and Excess Wear and Tear Charges” means, with respect to any 2022-A Lease or 2022-A Vehicle, any applicable charge for excess mileage or excess wear and tear.

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

 

   A-11    (NALT 2022-A Definitions Annex)


Executive Officer” means, with respect to any (i) corporation or depository institution, the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, President, Executive Vice President, any Vice President, the Secretary, or the Treasurer of such corporation or depository institution, and (ii) partnership, any general partner thereof.

Expenses” means all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, taxes, claims, actions and suits, and any and all reasonable costs, expenses, and disbursements (including reasonable legal fees and expenses and the costs of enforcing an indemnifying party’s obligations) of any kind and nature whatsoever.

Extended Lease” means any Lease that has had its original Maturity Date extended by the Servicer.

Extension Fee” means, with respect to any Extended Lease, any payment required to be made by the Lessee in connection with the extension of such Lease.

Fixed Rate Note” means any Class A-1 Note, Class A-2a Note, Class A-3 Note or Class A-4 Note.

Floating Rate Note” means any Class A-2b Note.

Force Majeure Event” has the meaning set forth in the Titling Company Servicing Agreement.

FRBNY’s Website” means the website of the FRBNY, currently at https://apps.newyorkfed.org/markets/autorates/sofr-avg-ind or at such other page as may replace such page on the FRBNY’s website.

Grant” means to mortgage, pledge, bargain, sell, warrant, alienate, remise, release, convey, assign, transfer, create and grant a lien upon and a security interest in and right of set-off against, deposit, set over and confirm pursuant to the Indenture, and, with respect to the Collateral or any other agreement or instrument, shall include all rights, powers and options (but none of the obligations) of the granting party thereunder, including the immediate and continuing right to claim for, collect, receive and give receipt for principal and interest payments in respect of the Collateral and all other monies payable thereunder, 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 granting party or otherwise and generally to do and receive anything that the granting party is or may be entitled to do or receive thereunder or with respect thereto.

Holder” has the meaning set forth in the Titling Company Agreement.

Indemnified Parties” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.01 to the Trust Agreement.

Indenture” means the indenture, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Issuing Entity and the Indenture Trustee.

Indenture Default” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.01 of the Indenture.

 

   A-12    (NALT 2022-A Definitions Annex)


Indenture Trustee” means U.S. Bank, as Indenture Trustee under the Indenture.

Independent” means, when used with respect to any specified Person, that such Person (i) is in fact independent of the Issuing Entity, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Administrative Agent and any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons, (ii) does not have any direct financial interest or any material indirect financial interest in the Issuing Entity, any such other obligor, the Administrative Agent or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons and (iii) is not connected with the Issuing Entity, any such other obligor, the Administrative Agent or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons as an officer, employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director, or Person performing similar functions.

Independent Certificate” means a certificate or opinion to be delivered to the Indenture Trustee under the circumstances described in, and otherwise complying with, the applicable requirements of Section 11.01(b) of the Indenture, made by an Independent appraiser or other expert appointed by a Trust Order, and such opinion or certificate shall state that the signer has read the definition of “Independent” in this Indenture and that the signer is Independent within the meaning thereof.

Independent Manager” means an individual who was not at any time during the preceding five years (i) a director (other than during his tenure as an Independent Manager of the Depositor or for one or more affiliates of the Depositor), officer, employee or affiliate of the Depositor or any of its affiliates (other than any limited purpose or special purpose corporation or limited liability company similar to the Depositor), (ii) a person related to any officer or director of any affiliate of the Depositor (other than any limited purpose or special purpose corporation or limited liability company similar to the Depositor), (iii) a direct or indirect holder of one or more than 5% of any voting securities of any affiliate of the Depositor, (iv) a person related to a direct or indirect holder of 5% or more of the any voting securities of any Affiliate of the Depositor, (v) a material creditor, material supplier, family member, manager, or contractor of the Depositor, or (vi) a person who controls (whether directly, indirectly, or otherwise) the Depositor or its affiliates or any material creditor, material supplier, employee, officer, director (other than during his tenure as an Independent Manager of the Depositor or for one or more affiliates of the Depositor), manager or material contractor of the Depositor or its affiliates.

Initial Class A-1 Note Balance” means $118,300,000.

Initial Class A-2a Note Balance” means $209,000,000.

Initial Class A-2b Note Balance” means $175,100,000.

Initial Class A-3 Note Balance” means $362,000,000.

Initial Class A-4 Note Balance” means $75,000,000.

Initial Class Balance” means the Initial Class A-1 Note Balance, the Initial Class A-2a Note Balance, the Initial Class A-2b Note Balance, the Initial Class A-3 Note Balance or the Initial Class A-4 Note Balance, as applicable.

 

   A-13    (NALT 2022-A Definitions Annex)


Initial Deposit Amount” means the Issuing Entity’s deposit to the Reserve Account, on or before the Closing Date, of $4,848,542.03.

Initial Securities Balance” means the initial principal amount of the Notes and the Trust Certificates.

Initial Trust Certificate Balance” means $272,735,507.43.

Insurance Expenses” with respect to any 2022-A Vehicle, 2022-A Lease or Lessee, means any Insurance Proceeds (i) applied to the repair of the related Leased Vehicle, (ii) released to the related Lessee in accordance with applicable law or the Customary Servicing Practices of the Servicer, or (iii) representing other related expenses incurred by the Servicer not otherwise included in Liquidation Expenses or Disposition Expenses and recoverable by the Servicer under the Series LLC Agreement.

Insurance Policy” means any insurance policy (including any self-insurance), including any residual value insurance policy, guaranteed automobile protection policy, comprehensive, collision, public liability, physical damage, personal liability, contingent and excess liability, accident, health, credit, life, or unemployment insurance or any other form of insurance or self-insurance, to the extent such insurance policy relates to the 2022-A Vehicles or the ability of a Lessee to make required payments with respect to the related 2022-A Lease.

Insurance Proceeds” means, with respect to any 2022-A Vehicle, 2022-A Lease or Lessee, recoveries paid to the Servicer, the Titling Company or the Titling Company Registrar on behalf of the Titling Company under an Insurance Policy and any rights thereunder or proceeds therefrom (including any self-insurance or applicable deductible).

Interest” means, as of any date, the ownership interest of a Trust Certificateholder (including the interest of the Depositor as holder of the Trust Certificate) in the Issuing Entity as of such date, including the right of such Trust Certificateholder to any and all benefits to which such Trust Certificateholder may be entitled as provided in the Trust Agreement and any other Basic Document, together with the obligations of such Trust Certificateholder to comply with all the terms and provisions of the Trust Agreement and the other Basic Documents.

Interest Rate” means the Class A-1 Interest Rate, the Class A-2a Interest Rate, the Class A-2b Interest Rate, the Class A-3 Interest Rate, the Class A-4 Interest Rate or the Overdue Interest Rate, as applicable.

Investment Company Act” means the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

Investor” means (a) with respect to any Book-Entry Note, each related Note Owner and (b) with respect to any Definitive Note, each related Noteholder.

Issuing Entity” means Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2022-A, a Delaware statutory trust, until a successor replaces it and, thereafter, means the successor and, for purposes of any provision contained herein, each other obligor on the Notes.

 

   A-14    (NALT 2022-A Definitions Annex)


Issuing Entity Order” or “Issuing Entity Request” means a written order or request of the Issuing Entity signed in the name of the Issuing Entity by any one of its Authorized Officers and delivered to the Indenture Trustee.

Lease” means any lease contract for a Leased Vehicle assigned.

Lease Documents” means, with respect to each 2022-A Lease, (i) in the case of each Lease that constitutes tangible chattel paper, the original executed copy of each tangible “record” constituting or forming a part of such Lease; and in the case of each Lease that constitutes electronic chattel paper, the single “authoritative copy” (as such term is used in Section 9-105 of the UCC) of each electronic “record” constituting or forming a part of such Lease, (ii) the Agreement to Provide Insurance and any other documentation of the Lessee’s insurance coverage customarily maintained by the Servicer, (iii) a copy of the application or application information of the related Lessee, together with supporting information customarily maintained by the Servicer which may include factory invoices related to new vehicles, credit scoring information or Dealer purchase documentation and odometer statements required by Applicable Law, (iv) the original Certificate of Title (or a copy of the application therefor if the Certificate of Title has not yet been delivered by the applicable Registrar of Titles) or such other documents, if any, that the Servicer keeps on file in accordance with its customary practices indicating that title to the related Leased Vehicle is in the name of the Titling Company (or such other name as directed by the Servicer pursuant to Section 2.04(a) of the Titling Company Servicing Agreement) and noting thereon any Administrative Lien, if required, and (v) any and all other documents that the Servicer keeps on file in accordance with its customary practices related to such Lease or the related Leased Vehicle or Lessee, including any written agreements modifying such Lease (including any extension agreements).

Lease Pull-Forward” means, as of any date, any Lease that has been terminated by the related Lessee before the related Maturity Date under NMAC’s pull-forward program in order to allow such Lessee, among other things, (i) to enter into a new lease contract for a new Nissan or Infiniti vehicle, or (ii) to purchase a new Nissan or Infiniti vehicle, provided that the Lessee is not in default on any of its obligations under the related Lease and the financing of the related vehicle is provided by NMAC.

Leased Vehicle” means a new or used Nissan or Infiniti automobile, sport utility vehicle, minivan or light-duty truck, together with all accessories, parts and additions constituting a part thereof, and all accessions thereto, leased to a Lessee pursuant to a Lease.

Lessee” means each Person that is a lessee under a Lease, including any Person that executes a guarantee on behalf of such lessee; provided that such definition shall refer only to Lessees of Leases allocated to and associated with the 2022-A Series.

Lessee Initiated Early Termination” as of any date means any Lease that has been terminated by the related Lessee before the related Maturity Date, provided that the Lessee is not in default.

 

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Lessee Partial Monthly Payment” means, in connection with the payment by a Lessee of less than 100% of the Monthly Payment due with respect to a 2022-A Lease, the actual amount paid by the Lessee toward such Monthly Payment.

Lessor” means each Person that is a lessor under a Lease or assignee thereof.

Liability” means any liability or expense, including any indemnification obligation.

Lien” means any security interest, lien, charge, pledge, equity or encumbrance of any kind, other than tax liens, mechanics’ liens, any liens that attach to property by operation of law and statutory purchase liens to the extent not past due.

Liquidated Lease” means a Defaulted Lease that is terminated and charged off by the Servicer prior to its Maturity Date.

Liquidated Vehicle” means the 2022-A Vehicle related to a Liquidated Lease.

Liquidation Expenses” means reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Servicer in connection with the attempted realization of the full amounts due or to become due under any Liquidated Lease, including expenses of any collection effort (whether or not resulting in a lawsuit against the Lessee under such Lease) or other expenses incurred prior to repossession, recovery or return of the Liquidated Vehicle, expenses incurred in connection with the sale or other disposition of a Liquidated Vehicle that has been repossessed or recovered or has reached its Maturity Date, expenses incurred in connection with making claims under any related Insurance Policy and expenses incurred in connection with making claims for any Liquidation Expenses.

Liquidation Proceeds” will mean the gross amount received by the Servicer in connection with the attempted realization of the full amounts due or to become due under any Lease and of the Base Residual of the Leased Vehicle, whether from the sale or other disposition of the related Leased Vehicle (irrespective of whether or not such proceeds exceed the related Base Residual), the proceeds of any repossession, recovery or collection effort, the proceeds of recourse or similar payments payable under the related dealer agreement, receipt of insurance proceeds and application of the related security deposit and the proceeds of any disposition fees or other related proceeds.

Majority Interest” means Notes, Trust Certificates or Securities, as the case may be, evidencing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the related Notes, Trust Certificates or Securities, except that, except as otherwise provided in the Basic Documents, Securities owned by the Issuing Entity, the Depositor, the Servicer (so long as NMAC or an Affiliate is the Servicer) or any of their respective Affiliates will not be included in such determination for the purpose of making requests, demands, authorizations, directions, notices, consents or other action under the Basic Documents.

Material Adverse Effect” means, with respect to any Person, a material adverse effect on (i) the financial condition or operations of such Person and its Affiliates, taken as one enterprise, (ii) the ability of such Person to perform its material obligations under any of the Basic Documents to which such Person is a party, (iii) the legality, validity or enforceability of any

 

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material provision of the Basic Documents to which such Person is a party, (iv) the 2022-A Series Certificate’s interest in any significant portion of the 2022-A Series Assets or the Indenture Trustee’s security interest in the 2022-A Series Certificate and all or any significant portion of the 2022-A Series Assets, or (v) the collectibility or the credit worthiness of all or any significant portion of the 2022-A Leases and the 2022-A Vehicles, other than, in the case of clauses (i) through (v), such Material Adverse Effect which are the direct result of actions or omissions of the party seeking relief under any of the Basic Documents in connection therewith.

Matured Vehicle” as of any date means any Leased Vehicle the related Lease of which has reached its Maturity Date or has been terminated in connection with a Lessee Initiated Early Termination (and the Lessee is not in default under such Lease) or in connection with a Casualty Termination, which Leased Vehicle has been returned to the Servicer on behalf of the Titling Company, if applicable.

Maturity Date” means, with respect to any Lease, the date on which such Lease is scheduled to terminate as set forth in such Lease at its date of origination or, in the case of an Extended Lease, the revised termination date.

Member” means NILT LLC, in its capacity as the member of the Titling Company.

Monthly Early Termination Sale Proceeds” means, with respect to a Collection Period, all (i) amounts paid by Lessees or Dealers with respect to Early Termination Purchase Option Price payments during such Collection Period and (ii) Net Auction Proceeds received by the Servicer in such Collection Period for 2022-A Vehicles with respect to which the related 2022-A Lease was terminated and which were sold in such Collection Period on or after the termination of the related 2022-A Leases prior to their respective Maturity Dates, reduced by amounts required to be remitted to the related Lessees under applicable law.

Monthly Payment Advance” means, with respect to any 2022-A Lease and any Collection Period, an amount equal to the difference between the Monthly Payment due and the Lessee Partial Monthly Payment.

Monthly Payment” means, with respect to any Lease, the amount of each fixed monthly payment payable to the Lessor in accordance with the terms thereof, net of any portion of such fixed monthly payment that represents an Administrative Charge.

Monthly Principal Distributable Amount” means, for any Payment Date and the related Collection Period, an amount equal to (a) the lesser of (i) the Principal Distribution Amount and (ii) the Available Principal Distribution Amount or (b) after the occurrence of an Indenture Default that results in acceleration of the Notes, unless and until such acceleration has been rescinded, the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Notes.

Monthly Remittance Condition” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.03(c) of the 2022-A Servicing Supplement.

 

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Monthly Scheduled Termination Sale Proceeds” means, with respect to a Collection Period, all (i) amounts paid by Lessees or Dealers in the event that either the Lessee or a Dealer elects to purchase a 2022-A Vehicle for its Contract Residual following a termination of the related 2022-A Lease at its Maturity Date and (ii) Net Auction Proceeds received by the Servicer in such Collection Period for 2022-A Vehicles which matured and were sold in such Collection Period on or after the termination of the related 2022-A Leases at their respective Maturity Dates plus all Net Insurance Proceeds, reduced by amounts required to be remitted to the related Lessees under applicable law.

Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.

MRM Residual” means, with respect to any Lease, the expected value of the related Leased Vehicle at the related Maturity Date calculated by using a residual value estimate produced by Automotive Lease Guide in May 2022 as a “mark-to-market” value (assuming that the vehicle is in “average” condition rather than “clean” condition) based on the “Maximum Residualizable MSRP,” which consists of the MSRP of the typically equipped vehicle and value adding options, giving only partial credit or no credit for those options that add little or no value to the resale price of the vehicle.

MSRP” means, with respect to any Leased Vehicle, the manufacturer’s suggested retail price.

NALL II” means Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II, a Delaware limited liability company.

Net Auction Proceeds” means Auction Proceeds net of related Disposition Expenses and, in the case of a Matured Vehicle, any outstanding Sales Proceeds Advance.

Net Insurance Proceeds” means Insurance Proceeds net of related Insurance Expenses.

Net Liquidation Proceeds” means the Liquidation Proceeds net of related Liquidation Expenses.

NILT LLC” means NILT LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

NMAC” means Nissan Motor Acceptance Company LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

Note” or “Notes” means a Class A-1 Note, a Class A-2 Note, a Class A-3 Note or a Class A-4 Note, as the context may require.

Note Balance” means the sum of the Class A-1 Note Balance, the Class A-2a Note Balance, the Class A-2b Note Balance, the Class A-3 Note Balance and the Class A-4 Note Balance.

Note Distribution Account” means the series account established by the Depositor, on behalf of the Issuing Entity pursuant to Section 8.02(c) of the Indenture, into which amounts released from the 2022-A Series Collection Account and the Reserve Account for distribution to Noteholders shall be deposited and from which all distributions to Noteholders shall be made.

Note Distribution Amount” means, as of any Payment Date, the amount being distributed to the Noteholders on such Payment Date.

 

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Note Factor” means, with respect to any Class on any Payment Date, the seven digit decimal equivalent of a fraction the numerator of which is the Class Balance for such Class on such Payment Date (after giving effect to any payment of principal on such Payment Date) and the denominator of which is the related Initial Class Balance.

Note Final Scheduled Payment Date” means, with respect to (i) a Class A-1 Note, July 17, 2023, (ii) a Class A-2a Note, August 15, 2024, (iii) a Class A-2b Note, August 15, 2024 (iv) a Class A-3 Note, May 15, 2025 and (v) a Class A-4 Note, July 15, 2027.

Noteholder” means, as of any date, the Person in whose name a Class A-1 Note, Class A-2 Note, Class A-3 Note or a Class A-4 Note is registered on the Note Register on such date, as the context may require.

Note Owner” means, with respect to a Book-Entry Note, the Person who is the beneficial owner of such Book-Entry Note, as reflected on the books of the Clearing Agency or a Person maintaining an account with such Clearing Agency (directly as a Clearing Agency Participant or as an indirect participant, in each case in accordance with the rules of such Clearing Agency).

Note Register” and “Note Registrar” have the respective meanings set forth in Section 2.04 of the Indenture.

Officer’s Certificate” means (a) with respect to the Issuing Entity, a certificate signed by an Authorized Officer of the Issuing Entity, under the circumstances described in, and otherwise complying with, the applicable requirements of Section 11.01 of the Indenture, and delivered to, the Indenture Trustee, and (b) with respect to the Servicer, a certificate signed by an Authorized Officer or the Servicer, under the circumstances described in, and otherwise complying with, the applicable requirements of Sections 8.09 and 8.11 of the 2022-A Servicing Supplement.

Opinion of Counsel” in relation to the Trust Agreement, means one or more written opinions of counsel who may, except as otherwise expressly provided in the Trust Agreement, be employees of or counsel to the Depositor, the Administrative Agent, or any of their respective Affiliates, and which opinion shall be addressed to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Owner Trustee. In relation to the Indenture, “Opinion of Counsel” means one or more written opinions of counsel who may, except as otherwise expressly provided in the Indenture, be employees of or counsel to the Issuing Entity or the Administrative Agent, and who shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, and which opinion or opinions shall be addressed to the Indenture Trustee, comply with any applicable requirements of Section 11.01 of the Indenture, and be in form and substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee.

Optimal Principal Distributable Amount” means, for any Payment Date and the related Collection Period, an amount equal to the sum of the following amounts:

(i) for each 2022-A Vehicle for which the related 2022-A Lease did not terminate during such Collection Period, the difference between the Securitization Value of such 2022-A Lease at the beginning and at the end of such Collection Period;

 

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(ii) for each 2022-A Vehicle for which the related 2022-A Lease reached its Maturity Date during such Collection Period, the Securitization Value of such 2022-A Lease as of such Maturity Date;

(iii) for each 2022-A Vehicle purchased by the Servicer before its Maturity Date during such Collection Period, the Repurchase Payment with respect to the related 2022-A Lease; and

(iv) for each 2022-A Lease terminated prior to its Maturity Date that becomes a Defaulted Lease during such Collection Period or is terminated by the related Lessee or the Servicer during such Collection Period pursuant to a Lessee Initiated Early Termination or a Casualty Termination, the Securitization Value of the related 2022-A Lease as of the effective date of termination of such 2022-A Lease.

Optional Purchase” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.03 of the Trust Agreement.

Optional Purchase Price” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.03 of the Trust Agreement.

Other Series” means any Series other than the 2022-A Series.

Outstanding” means, as of any date, all Notes (or all Notes of an applicable Class), all Trust Certificates or all Securities, as the case may be, theretofore authenticated and delivered under the Indenture and/or the Trust Agreement, as applicable, except:

(i) Notes (or Notes of an applicable Class) theretofore cancelled by the Note Registrar or delivered to the Note Registrar for cancellation or Trust Certificates theretofore cancelled by the Certificate Registrar or delivered to the Certificate Registrar for cancellation;

(ii) Notes (or Notes of an applicable Class) or portions thereof the payment for which money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the related Noteholders (provided, however, that if such Notes are to be redeemed pursuant to an Optional Purchase, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to the Indenture or provision therefor, satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, has been made) or Trust Certificates or portions thereof the payment for which money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the related Trust Certificateholders (provided, however, that if the principal with respect to such Trust Certificates will be paid pursuant to an Optional Purchase, notice of such payment has been duly given pursuant to the Trust Agreement or provision therefor, satisfactory to the Owner Trustee); and

 

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(iii) Notes (or Notes of an applicable Class) in exchange for or in lieu of other Notes (or Notes of such Class) that have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the Indenture unless proof satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee is presented that any such Notes are held by a bona fide purchaser or Trust Certificates in exchange for or in lieu of other Trust Certificates that have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the Trust Agreement unless proof satisfactory to the Owner Trustee is presented that any such Trust Certificates are held by a bona fide purchaser, to the extent that the Trust Certificates are transferable;

provided, that, unless otherwise specified in the Indenture, with respect to the Notes, or the Trust Agreement, with respect to the Trust Certificates, or in another Basic Document, in determining whether Noteholders or Trust Certificateholders holding the requisite Outstanding Amount have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, or other action hereunder or under any Basic Document, Notes or Trust Certificates owned by the Issuing Entity, the Depositor, the Servicer (so long as NMAC or an Affiliate thereof is the Servicer) or any of their respective Affiliates shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, unless all such Notes or Trust Certificates Outstanding are owned by the Issuing Entity, the Depositor, the Servicer (so long as NMAC or an Affiliate thereof is the Servicer), or any of their respective Affiliates; provided, further, that, in determining whether the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, as applicable, shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, or waiver, only Notes or Trust Certificates, as applicable, that a Responsible Officer knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Notes or Trust Certificates so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee thereof establishes to the satisfaction of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, as the case may be, such pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Notes or such Trust Certificates and that such pledgee is not the Issuing Entity, the Depositor, the Administrative Agent, or any of their respective Affiliates.

Outstanding Amount” means, as of any date, the aggregate principal amount of the applicable Notes or Certificates Outstanding on the Closing, as applicable, reduced by all payments of principal made in respect thereof on or prior to such date.

Overdue Interest Rate” means, with respect to any Class, the Interest Rate applicable to such Class.

Owner Corporate Trust Office” means the principal office of the Owner Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office is located at Wilmington Trust, National Association, Rodney Square North, 1100 N. Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890; or at such other address as the Owner Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Trust Certificateholders and the Indenture Trustee, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Owner Trustee (the address of which the successor Owner Trustee shall notify the Trust Certificateholders and the Indenture Trustee).

Owner Trust Estate” means the property of the Issuing Entity, including (i) the 2022-A Series Certificate, evidencing the 2022-A Series Interest, including the right to payments thereunder after the Cutoff Date from certain amounts in respect of the 2022-A Leases and received from the sale or other disposition of the 2022-A Vehicles, including the rights of the Issuing Entity to the funds on deposit from time to time in the 2022-A Series Collection Account (but excluding amounts retained by the Servicer in the form of Liquidation Expenses,

 

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Disposition Expenses, Insurance Expenses, and other related expenses incurred by the Servicer not otherwise included in Liquidation Expenses, Disposition Expenses or Insurance Expenses and permitted to be retained by the Servicer under the Basic Documents), and investment earnings, net of losses and investment expenses, on amounts on deposit in the 2022-A Series Collection Account, (ii) the rights of the Issuing Entity to the funds on deposit from time to time in the Reserve Account and any amounts deposited therein, including investment earnings, net of losses and investment expenses, on amounts on deposit therein, (iii) the rights of the Issuing Entity to the funds on deposit from time to time in the Note Distribution Account and any other account or accounts established pursuant to the Indenture and all cash, investment property and other property from time to time deposited therein or credited thereto and all proceeds thereof, (iv) the rights of the Depositor, as transferee, under the Series Certificate Sale Agreement, (v) the rights of the Issuing Entity, as transferee, under the Series Certificate Transfer Agreement, (vi) the rights of the Issuing Entity as a third-party beneficiary of the Servicing Agreement, to the extent relating to the 2022-A Series Assets, including rights to certain Advances, and the Series LLC Agreement, and (vii) all proceeds, accounts, money, general intangibles, instruments, chattel paper, goods, investment property, securities, deposit accounts and other property consisting of, arising from or relating to the foregoing.

Owner Trustee” means Wilmington Trust, National Association, a national banking association, as trustee of the Issuing Entity under the Trust Agreement.

Paying Agent” means, (i) under the Indenture, U.S. Bank, as Indenture Trustee, or any other Person that meets the eligibility standards for the Indenture Trustee set forth in Section 6.11 of the Indenture and is authorized by the Issuing Entity to make the payments to and distributions from the Note Distribution Account, including the payment of principal of or interest on the Notes on behalf of the Issuing Entity, and (ii) under the Trust Agreement, any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed pursuant to Section 3.09 of the of the Trust Agreement and shall initially be U.S. Bank.

Payment Date” means the 15th day of each month, or if such day is not a Business Day, then the next succeeding Business Day, beginning on July 15, 2022.

Payment Date Advance Reimbursement” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.03(a)(iii)(A) of the 2022-A Servicing Supplement.

Payment Date Certificate” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.03(a) of the Indenture.

Payoff” means amounts paid to the Servicer to purchase a 2022-A Vehicle.

Permitted Investments” means any one or more of the following obligations, instruments or securities:

(i) obligations of, and obligations fully guaranteed as to timely payment of principal and interest by, the United States or any agency thereof, provided such obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States;

 

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(ii) general obligations of or obligations guaranteed by FNMA or any State; provided that, if any related Rated Securities are outstanding, such obligations have the highest available credit rating from each Rating Agency for such obligations;

(iii) securities bearing interest or sold at a discount issued by any corporation incorporated under the laws of the United States or of any State; provided, that if any related Rated Securities are outstanding, at the time of such investment or contractual commitment providing for such investment, either (a) the long-term unsecured debt of such corporation has the highest available rating from each Rating Agency for such obligations or (b) the commercial paper or other short-term debt of such corporation that is then rated has the highest available credit rating of each Rating Agency for such obligations;

(iv) certificates of deposit issued by any depository institution or trust company (including the Registered Pledgee) incorporated under the laws of the United States or any State and subject to supervision and examination by banking authorities of one or more of such jurisdictions; provided that, if any related Rated Securities are outstanding, the short-term unsecured debt obligations of such depository institution or trust company has the highest available credit rating of each Rating Agency for such obligations;

(v) certificates of deposit that are issued by any bank, trust company, savings bank or other savings institution and fully insured by the FDIC;

(vi) investments in money market funds (including funds for which the Registered Pledgee or any of its Affiliates is investment manager or advisor) having a rating from S&P of AAA-m or AAAm-G and from Moody’s of Aaa;

(vii) repurchase obligations held by the Registered Pledgee, with respect to any obligation or security described in clauses (i), (ii) or (viii) hereof or any other obligation or security issued or guaranteed by any other agency or instrumentality of the United States, in either case entered into with a federal agency or a depository institution or trust company (acting as principal) described in clause (iv) above; and

(viii) such other obligations, instruments or securities as may be directed by the Servicer; provided, that if any Rated Securities are outstanding, such obligations, instruments or securities shall be acceptable to each relevant Rating Agency, as evidenced by a letter from such Rating Agency to the Registered Pledgee to the effect that investments of such type will not result in a Ratings Effect;

provided, that, each of the foregoing obligations, instruments and securities shall mature no later than the Business Day prior to the Payment Date (other than in the case of the investment of monies in obligations, instruments or securities of which the entity at which the related account is located is the obligor, which may mature on such date), and shall be required to be held to such maturity.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) no Permitted Investment may be purchased at a premium and (ii) no obligation or security may be a “Permitted Investment” unless (a) the Registered Pledgee has control (within the meaning of Section 8-106 of the UCC) over such obligation or security and (b) at the time such obligation or security was delivered to the

 

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Registered Pledgee or the Registered Pledgee became the related Entitlement Holder, the Registered Pledgee did not have notice of any adverse claim with respect thereto within the meaning of Section 8-105 of the UCC.

For purposes of this definition, any reference to the highest available credit rating of an obligation shall mean the highest available credit rating for such obligation (excluding any “+” signs associated with such rating) or such lower credit rating (as approved in writing by each Rating Agency) as will not result in a Rating Event.

Person” means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, estate, partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock company, trust (including any beneficiary thereof), unincorporated organization, or government, or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

Plan” means an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA whether or not subject to Title I of ERISA, a “plan” as defined in Section 4975 of the Code, or an entity deemed to hold plan assets of the foregoing.

Predecessor Note” means, with respect to any particular Note, every previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Note; and, for the purpose of this definition, any Note authenticated and delivered under Section 2.05 of the Indenture in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note.

Principal Carryover Shortfall” means, as of the close of business on any Payment Date, the excess, if any, of the Principal Distribution Amount over the Monthly Principal Distributable Amount.

Principal Distribution Amount” means, for any Payment Date, the aggregate amount of principal payable on the Securities, equal to the sum of (i) the Optimal Principal Distributable Amount and (ii) any Principal Carryover Shortfall as of the preceding Payment Date; provided, however, that on or after the Note Final Scheduled Payment Date for any Class of Notes and so long as no Indenture Default has been declared, the Principal Distribution Amount shall equal, until the Class Balance of such Class is reduced to zero, the greater of (i) such Class Balance and (ii) the sum of (A) the Optimal Principal Distributable Amount and (B) any Principal Carryover Shortfall as of the preceding Payment Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Principal Distribution Amount shall not exceed the outstanding Securities Balance and the aggregate amount of principal paid in respect of a Class shall not exceed the related Initial Class Balance.

Proceeding” means any suit or action at law or in equity or any other judicial or administrative proceeding, including any bankruptcy proceeding.

Public ABS Transaction” means any publicly registered issuance of securities backed by (i) a certificate representing the beneficial interest or limited liability company series interest in a pool of vehicle leases originated in the United States for a lessee with a United States address and the related leased vehicles or (ii) motor vehicle retail installment contracts originated in the United States and, for both clause (i) and (ii), for which NALL II, or any United States Affiliate thereof, acts as a depositor.

 

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Pull-Forward Payment” means, with respect to any Lease Pull-Forward, the Monthly Payments not yet due with respect to that Lease.

Rated Securities” means, with respect to a Securitized Financing, each class or series of securities that has been rated by one or more Rating Agencies at the request of the Member, a Beneficiary or any of their respective Affiliates.

Rating Agency” means, with respect to the 2022-A Series, as of any date, any of the nationally recognized statistical rating organizations that has been requested by NMAC or one of its Affiliates to rate any Class of Notes and that is rating such Class of Notes on such date.

Rating Agency Condition” means, with respect to any event or action and each Rating Agency, either (a) written confirmation (which may be in the form of a letter, a press release or other publication, or a change in such Rating Agency’s published ratings criteria to this effect) by such Rating Agency that the occurrence of such event or action will not cause it to downgrade, qualify or withdraw its rating assigned to the Notes or (b) that such Rating Agency shall have been given notice of such event or action at least ten (10) days prior to such event or action (or, if ten (10) days’ advance notice is impracticable, as much advance notice as is practicable) and such Rating Agency shall not have issued any written notice that the occurrence of such event or action will cause it to downgrade, qualify or withdraw its rating assigned to the Notes. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Rating Agency has any duty to review any notice given with respect to any event or action, and it is understood that such Rating Agency may not actually review notices received by it prior to or after the expiration of the notice period described in (b) above. Further, each Rating Agency retains the right to downgrade, qualify or withdraw its rating assigned to all or any of the Notes at any time in its sole judgment even if the Rating Agency Condition with respect to an event or action had been previously satisfied pursuant to clause (a) or clause (b) above.

Ratings Effect” means, with respect to any Rated Securities, the qualification, downgrading or withdrawal of the rating then assigned to such Rated Securities by a related Rating Agency.

Record Date” means, with respect to any Payment Date, the close of business on the day immediately preceding such Payment Date or Redemption Date, as the case may be.

Recoveries” means, with respect to a Collection Period, the sum of all amounts received (net of taxes) with respect to all 2022-A Leases which (i) became Liquidated Leases before such Collection Period and (ii) have reached or were terminated prior to their respective Maturity Dates before such Collection Period and with respect to which the proceeds from the sale of the related 2022-A Vehicles were received before such Collection Period, minus any amounts remitted to the related Lessees as required by law.

Redemption Date” means in the case of a redemption of the Notes pursuant to Section 10.01 of the Indenture, the Payment Date specified by the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Entity pursuant to Section 10.01 of the Indenture.

Redemption Price” means an amount equal to the Note Balance plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon at the applicable Interest Rate for the Notes being so redeemed (including, to the extent allowed by law, interest on overdue interest, if applicable), up to but excluding the Redemption Date.

 

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Registered Pledgee” means the Indenture Trustee or any subsequent Registered Pledgee of the 2022-A Series Certificate.

Regulation AB” means Subpart 229.1100 – Asset Backed Securities (Regulation AB), 17 C.F.R. §§229.1100-229.1125, as such regulation may be amended from time to time and subject to such clarification and interpretation as have been provided by the Commission, including without limitation in the adopting releases Asset-Backed Securities, Securities Act Release No. 33-8518, Securities Exchange Act Release No. 34-50905, 70 Fed. Reg. 1,506, 1,531 (January 7, 2005) and Asset-Backed Securities Disclosure and Registration, Securities Act Release No. 33-9638, Securities Exchange Act Release No. 34-72982, 79 Fed. Reg. 57184 (September 24, 2014) or by the staff of the Commission, or as may be provided in writing by the Commission or its staff from time to time.

Related Beneficiary” has the meaning set forth in the Titling Company Servicing Agreement.

Remaining Net Auction Proceeds” means Net Auction Proceeds, less amounts included in Monthly Scheduled Termination Sale Proceeds, Monthly Early Termination Sale Proceeds and Liquidation Proceeds.

Remaining Payoffs” means Payoffs, less amounts included in Monthly Scheduled Termination Sale Proceeds and Monthly Early Termination Sale Proceeds.

Repurchase Payment” means, with respect to a 2022-A Lease and the related 2022-A Vehicle required to be reallocated by the Servicer pursuant to Section 8.02(a) and Section 8.02(b) of the 2022-A Servicing Supplement, the sum of (i) the Securitization Value of the 2022-A Lease as of the end of the Collection Period preceding the Collection Period in which the Servicer granted an extension with respect to such 2022-A Lease or discovers a breach of representations or warranties pursuant to Section 8.02(b) of the 2022-A Servicing Supplement and (ii) any delinquent Monthly Payments which have not been paid by the related Lessee by the end of the Collection Period relating to the Deposit Date on which the Repurchase Payment will be made.

Repurchased Lease” means a 2022-A Lease reallocated to the Unallocated Assets Series or Other Series or reallocated as of the close of business on the last day of a Collection Period by the Servicer pursuant to Section 8.02 of the Servicing Agreement.

Required Deposit Rating” means, with respect to any entity and any Series Account, that (i) the short-term unsecured debt obligations of such entity are rated in the highest short-term rating category by each Rating Agency (excluding any “+” signs associated with such rating) or (ii) such entity is a depository institution or trust company having a long-term unsecured debt rating acceptable to each Rating Agency and corporate trust powers and the related Series Account is maintained in a segregated trust account in the corporate trust department of the related entity.

 

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Required Percentage” means the holders of not less than 6623% of the (i) Outstanding Amount in the case of the Notes or (ii) Certificate Balance in the case of the Trust Certificates.

Required Related Holders” means the Issuing Entity; provided that so long as the Lien of the Indenture is in place, the “Required Related Holders” shall be deemed to be the Indenture Trustee (as Registered Pledgee of the 2022-A Series Certificate), acting at the direction of the Required Percentage of the Noteholders and thereafter, the Owner Trustee, acting at the direction of the Required Percentage of the Trust Certificateholders (which for this purpose shall include the Trust Certificates owned by the Issuing Entity, the Depositor, the Servicer (so long as NMAC or an Affiliate is the Servicer) and any of their respective Affiliates) until the final distribution is made with respect to the 2022-A Series Assets.

Reserve Account” means the account established pursuant to Section 5.01(b) of the Trust Agreement.

Reserve Account Deposit Amount” means, (i) on the Closing Date, the Initial Deposit Amount and (ii) thereafter, for any Payment Date and the related Collection Period to the extent the amounts on deposit in the Reserve Account are less than the Reserve Account Requirement, an amount equal to the lesser of (a) the amount of such shortfall and (b) the amount of any Excess Amounts with respect to the related Collection Period.

Reserve Account Draw Amount” means, for any Payment Date, the amount withdrawn from the Reserve Account, equal to (i) the lesser of (a) the Available Funds Shortfall Amount, if any, or (b) the amount on deposit in the Reserve Account or (ii) after the occurrence of an Indenture Default that results in the acceleration of any Notes, unless and until the date on which such acceleration has been rescinded, the entire amount on deposit in the Reserve Account. In addition, except in the circumstances described in clause (ii) of this definition, the sum of the amounts in the Reserve Account and the remaining Available Funds after the payments under clauses (ii) and (iii) of Section 8.04(a) of the Indenture would be sufficient to pay in full the aggregate unpaid Note Balance of all of the outstanding Notes, then the Reserve Account Draw Amount will, if so specified by the Servicer in the Payment Date Certificate, include such additional amounts as may be necessary to pay all Outstanding Notes in full.

Reserve Account Property” means the Reserve Account and all cash, investment property and other property from time to time deposited or credited to the Reserve Account and all proceeds thereof, including, without limitation, the Initial Deposit Amount.

Reserve Account Requirement” means, (a) on any Payment Date on or prior to the payment in full of the Class A-2 Notes, an amount equal to at least 0.65% of the aggregate Securitization Value of the 2022-A Leases and 2022-A Vehicles as of the Cutoff Date, and (b) on any Payment Date following the payment in full of the Class A-2 Notes, an amount equal to at least 0.50% of the aggregate Securitization Value of the 2022-A Leases and 2022-A Vehicles as of the Cutoff Date; provided, however, that on any Payment Date (after taking into account all distributions from the 2022-A Series Collection Account on such date) on which the Note Balance is zero, the “Reserve Account Requirement” shall be an amount equal to $0.

 

   A-27    (NALT 2022-A Definitions Annex)


Residual Value Loss” means, with respect to any Matured Vehicle or Defaulted Vehicle, the excess, if any, of (a) the Base Residual of the related 2022-A Vehicle, over (b) the sum of (without duplication) all related Net Auction Proceeds or Net Liquidation Proceeds, as the case may be, and all Net Insurance Proceeds.

Residual Value Surplus” means, with respect to any Matured Vehicle or Defaulted Vehicle, the excess, if any, of (i) the sum (without duplication) of all related Net Auction Proceeds and Net Insurance Proceeds, over (ii) the Securitization Value of the related 2022-A Vehicle at (a) the Maturity Date of the related 2022-A Lease, or (b) the date the related 2022-A Lease was terminated by the Lessee.

Responsible Officer” means, with respect to the Indenture Trustee, any officer within the Corporate Trust Office (or any successor group of the Indenture Trustee), including any Vice President, Assistant Secretary, or other officer or assistant officer of the Indenture Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by the people who at such time shall be officers, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred within Corporate Trust Department because of his knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and who, in each case, shall have direct responsibility for the Administration of the Indenture.

Restricted Note” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.15(c) of the Indenture.

Retained Notes” if any, means any Notes retained in the initial offering thereof by the Depositor or NMAC or conveyed to an Affiliate.

Review Notice” means the notice delivered by the Indenture Trustee in accordance with Section 7.08 of the Indenture to the Asset Representations Reviewer and the Servicer.

Review Report” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.5 of the Asset Representations Review Agreement.

Review Satisfaction Date” means, with respect to any Asset Review, the first date on which (a) the Delinquency Percentage for any Payment Date exceeds the Delinquency Trigger and (b) a Noteholder Direction with respect to such Asset Review has occurred.

Rule 144A” means Rule 144A promulgated by the Commission under the Securities Act.

Rule 144A Information” means information requested of the Depositor, in connection with the proposed transfer of a Trust Certificate, to satisfy the requirements of paragraph (d)(4) of Rule 144A.

S&P” means S&P Global Ratings.

Sales Proceeds Advance” means the amount advanced by the Servicer to the Issuing Entity on a Deposit Date equal to the Securitization Value of each 2022-A Lease relating to a 2022-A Vehicle that terminated early (but was not a Lease in default) and the amount equal to the Base Residual of each 2022-A Lease relating to a 2022-A Vehicle that matured on its scheduled termination date.

 

   A-28    (NALT 2022-A Definitions Annex)


Schedule of 2022-A Leases and 2022-A Vehicles” means the schedule of 2022-A Leases and 2022-A Vehicles on file with the Indenture Trustee, as it may be amended from time to time (which may be supplied in CD-Rom form) which shall set forth as to each 2022-A Lease or 2022-A Vehicle, as the case may be, (i) the identification number of the 2022-A Lease, (ii) the identification number of the 2022-A Vehicle, (iii) the related Maturity Date and (iv) the value of the 2022-A Lease and the related 2022-A Vehicle on the Servicer’s books as of the Cutoff Date.

Secretary of State” means the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware.

Section 385 Controlled Partnership” has the meaning set forth in Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-1(c)(1) for a “controlled partnership”.

Section 385 Expanded Group” has the meaning set forth in Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-1(c)(4) for an “expanded group”.

Securities” means the Trust Certificates and the Notes, collectively.

Securities Account Control Agreement” means the Securities Account Control Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, among the Issuer, the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, as the Secured Party, and U.S. Bank National Association, as Securities Intermediary.

Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933.

Securities Balance” means, as of any date, the unpaid principal amount of the Securities as of such date.

Securities Intermediary” means U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association, as the intermediary under the Securities Account Control Agreement.

Securities Intermediary” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.02(e) of the Indenture.

Securitization Rate” means, with respect to a 2022-A Lease, an annualized rate that is equal to 7.00%.

Securitization Value” means, with respect to any 2022-A Lease, the value calculated by the Servicer equal to, (i) as of its Maturity Date, the Base Residual and (ii) as of any date other than its Maturity Date, the sum of the present value, discounted at the Securitization Rate, of (a) the aggregate Monthly Payments remaining to be made and (b) the Base Residual.

Securitized Financing” has the meaning set forth in the Titling Company Agreement.

Securitized Financing Documents” has the meaning set forth in the Titling Company Agreement.

Securityholder” means each registered holder of a Note or a Trust Certificate.

Securityholder Available Funds” means, for any Payment Date, all remaining Available Funds after giving effect to the payment to the Servicer of the Servicer Monthly Payment, if any.

 

   A-29    (NALT 2022-A Definitions Annex)


Series” has the meaning set forth in the Titling Company Agreement.

Series Account” has the meaning set forth in the Titling Company Agreement.

Series Certificate” has the meaning set forth in the Titling Company Agreement.

Series Certificate Sale Agreement” means the Series Certificate Sale Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between NILT LLC, as transferor, and NALL II, as transferee.

Series Certificate Transfer Agreement” means the Series Certificate Transfer Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Depositor, and the Issuing Entity, as transferee.

Series Collection Account” means, with respect to a Series, the related Collection Account created, designated and maintained as such pursuant the related Series Supplement.

Series Collections” means, with respect to any Collection Period, the net amount collected or received by the Servicer in respect of the 2022-A Series Assets during the Collection Period, including: (i) Monthly Payments (including Payments Ahead and Pull-Forward Payments, when received), Payoffs, and any other payments under the 2022-A Leases (excluding any Administrative Charges); (ii) Repurchase Payments made by the Servicer; (iii) Monthly Scheduled Termination Sale Proceeds; (iv) Monthly Early Termination Sale Proceeds (which includes Early Termination Charges); (v) Net Liquidation Proceeds; (vi) Net Insurance Proceeds; (vii) Remaining Net Auction Proceeds; (viii) Remaining Payoffs; (ix) Excess Mileage and Excess Wear and Tear Charges; (x) Recoveries; and (xi) Residual Value Surplus; in each case to the extent not duplicative with any other clause of this definition.

Series Interest” has the meaning set forth in the Titling Company Agreement.

Series LLC Agreement” means the Titling Company Agreement, as supplemented by a 2022-A Series Supplement.

Servicer” means NMAC, as Servicer under the Servicing Agreement.

Servicer Default” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.12 of the 2022-A Servicing Supplement.

Servicer Letter of Credit” means a letter of credit, surety bond or insurance policy issued by a depository institution, insurance company, or financial institution having a short-term credit rating at least equal to the Required Deposit Rating and providing that the Indenture Trustee or Trust Agent, as the case may be, may draw thereupon in the event the Servicer satisfies the Monthly Remittance Condition but fails to deposit Series Collections into the 2022-A Series Collection Account by the related Deposit Date.

Servicer Monthly Payment” means, with respect to a Payment Date and the related Collection Period, the amount to be paid to the Servicer pursuant to Section 8.03(a)(iii) of the 2022-A Servicing Supplement in respect of (i) the Payment Date Advance Reimbursement and (ii) the Servicing Fee, together with any unpaid Servicing Fees in respect of one or more prior Collection Periods.

 

   A-30    (NALT 2022-A Definitions Annex)


Servicing Agreement” means the Titling Company Servicing Agreement, as supplemented by the 2022-A Servicing Supplement.

Servicing Criteria” means those criteria listed in Exhibit B to the Indenture that are to be addressed in the assessment of compliance pursuant to Section 3.09 of the Indenture.

Servicing Fee” means, with respect to the 2022-A Series Assets, the fee payable on each Payment Date equal to, for the related Collection Period, one-twelfth of the product of (i) 1.00% and (ii) the aggregate Securitization Value of all 2022-A Leases as of the first day of such Collection Period.

Similar Law” means any state, local or other law that is similar to the fiduciary and prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code.

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

SOFR Adjustment Date” means the second U.S. Government Securities Business Day before the first day of such Accrual Period.

SOFR Determination Time” means 3:00 p.m. (New York time) on the U.S. Government Securities Business Day, at which time Compounded SOFR is published on the FRBNY’s Website.

SOFR Rate” means the rate that will be obtained by the Calculation Agent for each Accrual Period on the SOFR Adjustment Date as of the SOFR Determination Time and shall mean, with respect to the Class A-2b Notes as of any SOFR Adjustment Date, a rate equal to Compounded SOFR; provided, however, that the Basic Documents may be amended to make any technical, administrative or operational changes that, from time to time, may be appropriate to adjust such SOFR Rate in a manner substantially consistent with or conforming to market practice for asset-backed securities.

Special Purpose Affiliate” means a special purpose entity that is an Affiliate of a Beneficiary and was created for the purposes of one or more Securitized Financings.

SR Retained Interest” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.14 of the Series 2022-A Servicing Supplement.

SR Rules” means the EU SR Rules and the UK SR Rules.

State” means any state of the United States, Puerto Rico, or the District of Columbia.

Statutory Trust Statute” means Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware Code, 12 Del. C. Section 3801 et seq.

 

   A-31    (NALT 2022-A Definitions Annex)


Subject Leases” means, for any Asset Review, all 2022-A Leases which are 60-Day Delinquent Leases as of the end of the Collection Period immediately preceding the related Review Satisfaction Date.

Tax Information” means complete and accurate information and documentation requested by the Issuing Entity (or its agents or delegates), the Indenture Trustee or Paying Agent (or an agent thereof) to be provided to the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee or Paying Agent to enable the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee or a Paying Agent to comply with U.S. tax law (including FATCA). For these purposes, “FATCA” means sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code and the Treasury regulations (and any notices or official pronouncements) promulgated thereunder, any agreement thereunder and any law implementing an intergovernmental agreement or approach thereto.

Tax Retained Notes” if any, means any Retained Notes retained by the issuer of the Notes (or an entity which for U.S. federal income tax purposes is considered the same Person as such issuer) until such time as such Notes are the subject of an opinion pursuant to Section 2.04(g) of the Indenture.

TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.

Titling Company” means Nissan-Infiniti LT LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

Titling Company Agreement” means the Limited Liability Company Agreement of the Titling Company, dated as of April 1, 2021, among the Member, the Administrative Agent, and the Titling Company Registrar.

Titling Company Assets” has the meaning set forth in the Titling Company Agreement.

Titling Company Documents” has the meaning set forth in the Titling Company Agreement.

Titling Company Registrar” means U.S. Bank, as the titling company registrar of the Titling Company.

Titling Company Servicing Agreement” means the amended and restated servicing agreement, dated as of April 1, 2021, among the Titling Company, the Member and the Servicer.

Treasury Regulations” means regulations, including proposed or temporary regulations, promulgated under the Code. References herein to specific provisions of proposed or temporary regulations shall include analogous provisions of final Treasury Regulations or other successor Treasury Regulations.

Trust Administration Agreement” means the Trust Administration Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, among the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Entity, the Depositor and the Indenture Trustee.

 

   A-32    (NALT 2022-A Definitions Annex)


Trust Agreement” means the trust agreement, dated as of May 20, 2022, as amended and restated by the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Depositor and the Owner Trustee.

Trust Certificateholder” means the Person in whose name a Trust Certificate is registered on the Certificate Register.

Trust Certificates” means the asset backed certificates issued pursuant to the Trust Agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit A to the Trust Agreement.

UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the applicable jurisdiction.

Underwriting Agreement” means the underwriting agreement relating to the Notes dated June 23, 2022, among Citigroup Global Markets Inc., as Representative, on behalf of the several underwriters, NMAC and the Depositor.

United States” means the United States of America, its territories and possessions and areas subject to its jurisdiction.

UK” means the United Kingdom.

UK Securitization Regulation” means, with respect to the UK, relevant UK established or UK regulated persons who are subject to the restrictions and obligations of Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 as it forms part of UK domestic law as “retained EU law” by operation of the EUWA, and as amended by the Securitisation (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 and as further amended.

UK SR Rules” means the UK Securitization Regulation, together with (a) all applicable binding technical standards made under the UK Securitization Regulation, (b) any EU regulatory technical standards or implementing technical standards relating to the EU Securitization Regulation (including such regulatory technical standards or implementing technical standards which are applicable pursuant to any transitional provisions of the EU Securitization Regulation) forming part of UK domestic law by operation of the EUWA, (c) relevant guidance, policy statements or directions relating to the application of the UK Securitization Regulation (or any binding technical standards) published by the Financial Conduct Authority and/or Prudential Regulation Authority (or their successors), (d) any guidelines relating to the application of the EU Securitization Regulation which are applicable in the UK, (e) any other transitional, saving or other provision relevant to the UK Securitization Regulation by virtue of the operation of the EUWA and (f) any other applicable laws, acts, statutory instruments, rules, guidance or policy statements published or enacted relating to the UK Securitization Regulation, in each case, as amended from time to time.

U.S. Bank” means U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, a national banking association.

U.S. Government Securities Business Day” means any day except for a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association

 

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recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in U.S. government securities.

Unallocated Assets” has the meaning set forth in the Titling Company Agreement.

Unallocated Assets Certificate” has the meaning set forth in the Titling Company Agreement.

Unallocated Assets Series” has the meaning set forth in the Titling Company Agreement.

Unallocated Assets Supplement” has the meaning set forth in the Titling Company Agreement.

Verification Documents” means, with respect to any Note Owner, a certification from such Note Owner certifying that such Person is in fact, a Note Owner, as well as an additional piece of documentation reasonably satisfactory to the recipient, such as a trade confirmation, account statement, letter from a broker or dealer or other similar document.

 

   A-34    (NALT 2022-A Definitions Annex)

Exhibit 10.7

ASSET REPRESENTATIONS REVIEW AGREEMENT

among

NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2022-A,

as Issuing Entity

NISSAN MOTOR ACCEPTANCE COMPANY LLC,

as Sponsor and Servicer

and

CLAYTON FIXED INCOME SERVICES LLC,

as Asset Representations Reviewer

Dated as of June 29, 2022

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

 

ARTICLE I     USAGE AND DEFINITIONS

     1  

Section 1.1.

   Usage and Definitions      1  

Section 1.2.

   Additional Definitions      2  

ARTICLE II     ENGAGEMENT OF ASSET REPRESENTATIONS REVIEWER

     3  

Section 2.1.

   Engagement; Acceptance      3  

Section 2.2.

   Confirmation of Scope      3  

ARTICLE III     ASSET REPRESENTATIONS REVIEW PROCESS

     3  

Section 3.1.

   Review Notices      3  

Section 3.2.

   Identification of Subject Leases      3  

Section 3.3.

   Review Materials      3  

Section 3.4.

   Performance of Reviews      4  

Section 3.5.

   Review Reports      4  

Section 3.6.

   Dispute Resolution      5  

Section 3.7.

   Limitations on Review Obligations      5  

ARTICLE IV     ASSET REPRESENTATIONS REVIEWER

     6  

Section 4.1.

   Representations and Warranties      6  

Section 4.2.

   Covenants      7  

Section 4.3.

   Fees, Expenses and Indemnities      7  

Section 4.4.

   Limitation on Liability      8  

Section 4.5.

   Indemnification by Asset Representations Reviewer      8  

Section 4.6.

   Inspections of Asset Representations Reviewer      9  

Section 4.7.

   Delegation of Obligations      9  

Section 4.8.

   Confidential Information      9  

Section 4.9.

   Personally Identifiable Information      11  

ARTICLE V     RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; SUCCESSOR ASSET REPRESENTATIONS REVIEWER

     13  

Section 5.1.

   Eligibility Requirements for Asset Representations Reviewer      13  

Section 5.2.

   Resignation and Removal of Asset Representations Reviewer      13  

Section 5.3.

   Successor Asset Representations Reviewer      14  

Section 5.4.

   Merger, Consolidation or Succession      14  

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ARTICLE VI     OTHER AGREEMENTS

     14  

Section 6.1.

   Independence of Asset Representations Reviewer      14  

Section 6.2.

   No Petition      15  

Section 6.3.

   Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee      15  

Section 6.4.

   Termination of Agreement      15  

ARTICLE VII     MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

     15  

Section 7.1.

   Amendments      15  

Section 7.2.

   Notices      16  

Section 7.3.

   Limitations on Rights of Others      17  

Section 7.4.

   Severability      17  

Section 7.5.

   Separate Counterparts and Electronic Signature      17  

Section 7.6.

   Headings      17  

Section 7.7.

   Governing Law      17  

Section 7.8.

   Waivers      17  

Schedule A

   Representations and Warranties, Review Materials and Tests   

 

 

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(NALT 2022-A

Asset Representations Review Agreement)


ASSET REPRESENTATIONS REVIEW AGREEMENT, dated as of June 29, 2022 (this “Agreement”), among NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2022-A, a Delaware statutory trust, as Issuing Entity (the “Issuing Entity”), NISSAN MOTOR ACCEPTANCE COMPANY LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“NMAC”), as Sponsor and Servicer, and CLAYTON FIXED INCOME SERVICES LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Clayton”), as Asset Representations Reviewer (the “Asset Representations Reviewer”).

BACKGROUND

WHEREAS, in the regular course of business, motor vehicle dealers in the NMAC network of dealers assign certain retail closed-end motor vehicle lease contracts to Nissan-Infiniti LT LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Titling Company”).

WHEREAS, in connection with a securitization transaction sponsored by NMAC, the Titling Company established and formed a separate limited liability company series interest (the “2022-A Series”) and allocated to and associated with the 2022-A Series certain leases and related leased vehicles owned by the Titling Company, which are represented by a 2022-A Series certificate evidencing the 2022-A Series Interest (the “2022-A Series Certificate”).

WHEREAS, the Titling Company issued the 2022-A Series Certificate to NILT LLC, and NILT LLC sold the 2022-A Series Certificate to Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II (the “Depositor”), which in turn transferred the 2022-A Series Certificate to the Issuing Entity pursuant to a Series Certificate Transfer Agreement, in exchange for the notes and certificates issued by the Issuing Entity.

WHEREAS, the Issuing Entity has granted a security interest in the 2022-A Series Certificate to the Indenture Trustee, for the benefit of the Noteholders, as security for the Notes issued by the Issuing Entity under the Indenture.

WHEREAS, the Issuing Entity desires to engage the Asset Representations Reviewer to perform reviews of certain Leases for compliance with the representations and warranties made by NMAC about the Leases in the pool after certain conditions precedent to such review are satisfied.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing, other good and valuable consideration, and the mutual terms and conditions contained herein, the parties hereto agree as follows.

ARTICLE I

USAGE AND DEFINITIONS

Section 1.1. Usage and Definitions. Except as otherwise specified herein or if the context may otherwise require, capitalized terms not defined in this Agreement shall have the respective meanings assigned such terms set forth in Annex A to the Series Certificate Sale Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and between NILT LLC and Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II.

 

     

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Asset Representations Review Agreement)


With respect to all terms in this Agreement, the singular includes the plural and the plural the singular; words importing any gender include the other genders; references to “writing” include printing, typing, lithography and other means of reproducing words in a visible form; references to agreements and other contractual instruments include all subsequent amendments, amendments and restatements, and supplements thereto or changes therein entered into in accordance with their respective terms and not prohibited by this Agreement; references to Persons include their permitted successors and assigns; references to laws include their amendments and supplements, the rules and regulations thereunder and any successors thereto; the term “including” means “including without limitation;” and the term “or” is not exclusive.

Section 1.2. Additional Definitions. The following terms have the meanings given below:

Asset Review” means the performance by the Asset Representations Reviewer of the testing procedures for each Test and each Subject Lease according to Section 3.4.

Confidential Information” has the meaning stated in Section 4.8(b).

Information Recipients” has the meaning stated in Section 4.8(a).

Issuing Entity PII” has the meaning stated in Section 4.9(a).

Personally Identifiable Information” or “PII” has the meaning stated in Section 4.9(a).

Review Fee” has the meaning stated in Section 4.3(b).

Review Materials” means, for an Asset Review and a Subject Lease, the documents and other materials for each Test listed under “Review Materials” in Schedule A.

Review Report” means, for an Asset Review, the report of the Asset Representations Reviewer prepared according to Section 3.5.

Test” has the meaning stated in Section 3.4(a).

Test Complete” has the meaning stated in Section 3.4(c).

Test Fail” has the meaning stated in Section 3.4(a).

Test Pass” has the meaning stated in Section 3.4(a).

Underwriter” means, any of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., SG Americas Securities, LLC, BNP Paribas Securities Corp., MUFG Securities Americas Inc., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., Mizuho Securities USA LLC, U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, in its capacity as underwriter or representative of the underwriters pursuant to the underwriting agreement, dated as of June 23, 2022, among Citigroup Global Markets Inc., NMAC and the Depositor.

 

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ARTICLE II

ENGAGEMENT OF ASSET REPRESENTATIONS REVIEWER

Section 2.1. Engagement; Acceptance. The Issuing Entity engages Clayton to act as the Asset Representations Reviewer for the Issuing Entity. Clayton accepts the engagement and agrees to perform the obligations of the Asset Representations Reviewer on the terms in this Agreement.

Section 2.2. Confirmation of Scope. The parties confirm that the Asset Representations Reviewer is not responsible for (a) reviewing the Leases for compliance with the representations and warranties under the Transaction Documents, except as described in this Agreement, or (b) determining whether noncompliance with the representations or warranties constitutes a breach of the Transaction Documents.

ARTICLE III

ASSET REPRESENTATIONS REVIEW PROCESS

Section 3.1. Review Notices. On receipt of a Review Notice from the Indenture Trustee according to Section 7.08 of the Indenture, the Asset Representations Reviewer will start an Asset Review. The Asset Representations Reviewer will have no obligation to start an Asset Review until a Review Notice is received.

Section 3.2. Identification of Subject Leases . Within ten (10) Business Days after receipt of a Review Notice, the Servicer will deliver to the Asset Representations Reviewer, with a copy to the Indenture Trustee, a list of the Subject Leases.

Section 3.3. Review Materials.

(a) Access to Review Materials. The Servicer will render reasonable assistance to the Asset Representations Reviewer to facilitate the Asset Review. The Servicer will give the Asset Representations Reviewer access to the Review Materials for all of the Subject Leases within ten (10) days after receipt of the Review Notice in one or more of the following ways in the Servicer’s reasonable discretion: (i) by providing access to the Servicer’s lease systems, either remotely or at one of the properties of the Servicer, (ii) by electronic posting of Review Materials to a password-protected website to which the Asset Representations Reviewer has access, (iii) by providing originals or photocopies at one of the properties of the Servicer where the Lease Documents are located or (iv) in another manner agreed by the Servicer and the Asset Representations Reviewer. The Servicer may redact or remove PII from the Review Materials so long as all information in the Review Materials necessary for the Asset Representations Reviewer to complete the Asset Review remains intact and unchanged.

(b) Missing or Insufficient Review Materials. If any of the Review Materials are missing or insufficient for the Asset Representations Reviewer to perform any Test, the Asset Representations Reviewer will notify the Servicer promptly, and in any event no less than twenty (20) days before completing the Review, and the Servicer will have fifteen (15) days to provide the Asset Representations Reviewer access to such missing Review Materials or other documents or information to correct the insufficiency. If the missing or insufficient Review Materials have not been provided by the Servicer within fifteen (15) days, the parties agree that the Subject Lease will have a Test Fail for the related Test(s) and the Test(s) will be considered a Test Complete and the Review Report will indicate the reason for the Test Fail.

 

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Section 3.4. Performance of Reviews.

(a) Test Procedures. For an Asset Review, the Asset Representations Reviewer will perform for each Subject Lease the procedures listed under “Tests” in Schedule A for each representation and warranty (each, a “Test”), using the Review Materials listed for each such Test in Schedule A. For each Test and Subject Lease, the Asset Representations Reviewer will determine if the Test has been satisfied (a “Test Pass”) or if the Test has not been satisfied (a “Test Fail”).

(b) Review Period. The Asset Representations Reviewer will complete the Review of all of the Subject Leases within sixty (60) days after receiving access to the Review Materials under Section 3.3(a). However, if additional Review Materials are provided to the Asset Representations Reviewer under Section 3.3(b), the Review period will be extended for an additional thirty (30) days.

(c) Completion of Review for Certain Subject Leases. Following the delivery of the list of the Subject Leases and before the delivery of the Review Report by the Asset Representations Reviewer, the Servicer may notify the Asset Representations Reviewer if a Subject Lease is pre-paid in full by the Obligor or reallocated from the 2022-A Series to the Unallocated Assets Series or an Other Series by the Servicer according to the Basic Documents. On receipt of notice, the Asset Representations Reviewer will immediately terminate all Tests of such Leases and the Review of such Leases will be considered complete (a “Test Complete”). In this case, the Review Report will indicate a Test Complete for the Leases and the related reason.

(d) Previously Reviewed Lease. If any Subject Lease was included in a prior Asset Review (the “Prior Review”), the Asset Representations Reviewer will perform Tests on such Subject Lease only if the Asset Representations Reviewer has reason to believe that the Prior Review was conducted in a manner that would not have ascertained compliance with one or more of the representations and warranties set forth on Schedule A hereto; otherwise, the Asset Representations Reviewer will include in the Review Report for the Asset Review the results of the Tests with respect to such Subject Lease from the Prior Review.

(e) Termination of Review. If an Asset Review is in process and the Notes will be paid in full on the next Payment Date, the Servicer will notify the Asset Representations Reviewer and the Indenture Trustee no less than ten (10) days before that Payment Date. On receipt of notice, the Asset Representations Reviewer will terminate the Asset Review immediately and will have no obligation to deliver a Review Report.

Section 3.5. Review Reports. (a) Within five (5) days after the end of the Asset Review period under Section 3.4(b), the Asset Representations Reviewer will deliver to the Issuing Entity, the Servicer and the Indenture Trustee a Review Report indicating for each Subject Lease whether there was a Test Pass or a Test Fail for each Test, or whether the Subject Lease was a Test Complete and the related reason. The Review Report will contain a summary of the findings and conclusions of the Asset Representations Reviewer with respect to the Asset Review to be included in the Issuing Entity’s Form 10-D report for the Collection Period in which the Review Report is received. The Asset Representations Reviewer will ensure that the Review Report does not contain any Issuing Entity PII.

 

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(b) Questions About Review. The Asset Representations Reviewer will make appropriate personnel available to respond in writing to written questions or requests for clarification of any Review Report from the Indenture Trustee or the Servicer until the earlier of (i) payment in full of the Notes and (ii) one year after the delivery of the Review Report. The Asset Representations Reviewer will have no obligation to respond to questions or requests for clarification from Noteholders or any Person other than the Indenture Trustee or the Servicer and will direct such Persons to submit written questions or requests to the Servicer.

Section 3.6. Dispute Resolution. If a Lease that was reviewed by the Asset Representations Reviewer is the subject of a dispute resolution proceeding under Section 7.07 of the Indenture, the Asset Representations Reviewer will participate in the dispute resolution proceeding on request of a party to the proceeding. The reasonable out-of-pocket expenses of the Asset Representations Reviewer together with reasonable compensation for the time it incurs in connection with its participation in any dispute resolution proceeding will be considered expenses of the Requesting Party for the dispute resolution and will be paid by a party to the dispute resolution as determined by the mediator or arbitrator for the dispute resolution according to Section 7.07 of the Indenture. If not paid by a party to the dispute resolution, the expenses will be reimbursed by the Issuing Entity according to Section 4.3(a).

Section 3.7. Limitations on Review Obligations.

(a) Review Process Limitations. The Asset Representations Reviewer will have no obligation:

(i) to determine whether a Delinquency Trigger has occurred or whether the required percentage of Noteholders has voted to direct an Asset Review under the Indenture, and may rely on the information in any Review Notice delivered by the Indenture Trustee;

(ii) to determine which Leases are subject to an Asset Review, and may rely on the lists of Subject Leases provided by the Servicer;

(iii) to obtain or confirm the validity of the Review Materials and no liability for any errors in the Review Materials and may rely on the accuracy and completeness of the Review Materials;

(iv) to obtain missing or insufficient Review Materials from any party or any other source;

(v) to take any action or cause any other party to take any action under any of the Basic Documents or otherwise to enforce any remedies against any Person for breaches of representations or warranties about the Subject Leases; or

(vi) to establish cause, materiality or recourse for any failed Test.

 

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(b) Testing Procedure Limitations. The Asset Representations Reviewer will only be required to perform the testing procedures listed under “Tests” in Schedule A, and will have no obligation to perform additional procedures on any Subject Lease or to provide any information other than a Review Report indicating for each Subject Lease whether there was a Test Pass or a Test Fail for each Test, or whether the Subject Lease was a Test Complete and the related reason. However, the Asset Representations Reviewer may provide additional information about any Subject Lease that it determines in good faith to be material to the Review.

ARTICLE IV

ASSET REPRESENTATIONS REVIEWER

Section 4.1. Representations and Warranties. The Asset Representations Reviewer represents and warrants to the Issuing Entity as of the Closing Date:

(a) Organization and Qualification. The Asset Representations Reviewer is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization. The Asset Representations Reviewer is qualified as a foreign entity in good standing and has obtained all necessary licenses and approvals in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of its properties or the conduct of its activities requires the qualification, license or approval, unless the failure to obtain the qualifications, licenses or approvals would not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Asset Representations Reviewer’s ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement.

(b) Power, Authority and Enforceability. The Asset Representations Reviewer has the power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement. The Asset Representations Reviewer has authorized the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement. This Agreement is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Asset Representations Reviewer enforceable against the Asset Representations Reviewer, except as may be limited by insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other laws relating to the enforcement of creditors’ rights or by general equitable principles.

(c) No Conflicts and No Violation. The completion of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the performance of the Asset Representations Reviewer’s obligations under this Agreement will not (A) conflict with, or be a breach or default under, any indenture, agreement, guarantee or similar agreement or instrument under which the Asset Representations Reviewer is a party, (B) result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any of the assets of the Asset Representations Reviewer under the terms of any indenture, agreement, guarantee or similar agreement or instrument, (C) violate the organizational documents of the Asset Representations Reviewer or (D) violate any law or, to the Asset Representations Reviewer’s knowledge, any order, rule or regulation of a federal or State court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Asset Representations Reviewer that applies to the Asset Representations Reviewer, which, in each case, would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Asset Representations Reviewer’s ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement.

 

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(d) No Proceedings. To the Asset Representations Reviewer’s knowledge, there are no proceedings or investigations pending or threatened in writing before a federal or State court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Asset Representations Reviewer or its properties (A) asserting the invalidity of this Agreement, (B) seeking to prevent the completion of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or (C) seeking any determination or ruling that would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Asset Representations Reviewer’s ability to perform its obligations under, or the validity or enforceability of, this Agreement.

(e) Eligibility. The Asset Representations Reviewer meets the eligibility requirements in Section 5.1.

Section 4.2. Covenants. The Asset Representations Reviewer covenants and agrees that:

(a) Eligibility. It will notify the Issuing Entity and the Servicer promptly if it no longer meets the eligibility requirements in Section 5.1.

(b) Review Systems; Personnel. It will maintain business process management and/or other systems necessary to ensure that it can perform each Test and, on execution of this Agreement, will load each Test into these systems. The Asset Representations Reviewer will ensure that these systems allow for each Subject Lease and the related Review Materials to be individually tracked and stored as contemplated by this Agreement. The Asset Representations Reviewer will maintain adequate staff that is properly trained to conduct Asset Reviews as required by this Agreement.

(c) Maintenance of Review Materials. It will maintain copies of any Review Materials, Review Reports and other documents relating to an Asset Review, including internal correspondence and work papers, for a period of two (2) years after the termination of this Agreement.

Section 4.3. Fees, Expenses and Indemnities.

(a) Annual Fee. The Sponsor shall pay to the Asset Representations Reviewer, as reasonable compensation for its services, an annual fee in the amount of $5,000 (the “Annual Fee”). The Annual Fee shall be payable on the Closing Date and on each anniversary thereof until this Agreement is terminated in accordance with Section 6.4. The Sponsor shall reimburse the Asset Representations Reviewer for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred or made by it, in addition to the compensation for its services. Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses, disbursements and advances of the Asset Representations Reviewer’s agents, counsel, accountants and experts.

(b) Review Fee. Following the completion of an Asset Review and the delivery to the Indenture Trustee of the Review Report, or the termination of an Asset Review according to Section 3.4(e), and the delivery to the Sponsor and the Servicer of a detailed invoice, the Sponsor shall pay to the Asset Representations Reviewer a fee of $200 for each Subject Lease for which the Asset Review was started (the “Review Fee”). However, no Review Fee will be charged for any Subject Lease which was included in a prior Asset Review or for which no Tests were completed prior to the Asset Representations Reviewer being notified of a termination of the Asset Review according to Section 3.4(e). To the extent not paid by the Sponsor and outstanding for at least sixty (60) days, the Review Fee shall be paid by the Issuing Entity pursuant to Section 8.04 of the Indenture.

 

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(c) Indemnification. The Sponsor shall indemnify the Asset Representations Reviewer against any and all loss, liability or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) incurred by the Asset Representations Reviewer in connection with the administration of this Agreement and the performance of its duties hereunder. The Asset Representations Reviewer shall notify the Sponsor promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity. Failure by the Asset Representations Reviewer to so notify the Sponsor shall not relieve the Sponsor of its obligations hereunder. The Sponsor shall defend any such claim, and the Asset Representations Reviewer may have separate counsel and the Sponsor shall pay the fees and expenses of such counsel. The Sponsor shall not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss, liability or expense incurred by the Asset Representations Reviewer through the Asset Representations Reviewer’s own bad faith, willful misfeasance, negligence in performing its obligations under this Agreement or breach of this Agreement. The indemnification provided in this Section 4.3(c) shall survive the termination of this Agreement, the termination of the Issuing Entity and the resignation or removal of the Asset Representations Reviewer. The Sponsor acknowledges and agrees that amounts owing to the Asset Representations Reviewer in respect of the indemnification provided hereunder shall not be limited to or reduced by the amount of Available Amounts on deposit in the Collection Account, except to the extent that such Available Amounts have been allocated to make a payment to the Asset Representations Reviewer on the next-occurring Payment Date pursuant to Section 8.04 of the Indenture.

(d) Payment of Fees and Indemnities. The Asset Representations Reviewer shall submit reasonably detailed invoices to the Sponsor for any amounts owed to it under this Agreement. To the extent not paid by the Sponsor and outstanding for at least sixty (60) days, the fees and indemnities provided for in this Section 4.3 shall be paid by the Issuing Entity pursuant to Section 8.04 of the Indenture; provided, that prior to such payment pursuant to the Indenture, the Asset Representations Reviewer shall notify the Sponsor in writing that such fees and indemnities have been outstanding for at least sixty (60) days. If such fees and indemnities are paid pursuant to Section 8.04 of the Indenture, the Sponsor shall reimburse the Issuing Entity in full for such payments.

Section 4.4. Limitation on Liability. The Asset Representations Reviewer will not be liable to any Person for any action taken, or not taken, in good faith under this Agreement or for errors in judgment. However, the Asset Representations Reviewer will be liable for its willful misfeasance, bad faith, or negligence in performing its obligations under this Agreement. In no event will the Asset Representations Reviewer be liable for special, indirect or consequential losses or damages (including lost profit), even if the Asset Representations Reviewer has been advised of the likelihood of the loss or damage and regardless of the form of action.

Section 4.5. Indemnification by Asset Representations Reviewer. The Asset Representations Reviewer will indemnify each of the Issuing Entity, the Depositor, the Servicer, the Sponsor, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents for all costs, expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses), losses, damages and liabilities, including legal fees and expenses incurred in connection with the enforcement by such Person of any indemnification or other obligation of the Asset

 

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Representations Reviewer, resulting from (a) the willful misconduct, bad faith or negligence of the Asset Representations Reviewer in performing its obligations under this Agreement or (b) the Asset Representations Reviewer’s breach of any of its representations or warranties in this Agreement. The Asset Representations Reviewer’s obligations under this Section 4.5 will survive the termination of this Agreement, the termination of the Issuing Entity and the resignation or removal of the Asset Representations Reviewer.

Section 4.6. Inspections of Asset Representations Reviewer. The Asset Representations Reviewer agrees that, with reasonable prior notice not more than once during any year, it will permit authorized representatives of the Issuing Entity, the Servicer, the Sponsor or the Administrator, during the Asset Representations Reviewer’s normal business hours, to examine and review the books of account, records, reports and other documents and materials of the Asset Representations Reviewer relating to (a) the performance of the Asset Representations Reviewer’s obligations under this Agreement, (b) payments of fees and expenses of the Asset Representations Reviewer for its performance and (c) a claim made by the Asset Representations Reviewer under this Agreement. In addition, the Asset Representations Reviewer will permit the Issuing Entity’s, the Servicer’s, the Sponsor’s or the Administrator’s representatives to make copies and extracts of any of those documents and to discuss them with the Asset Representations Reviewer’s officers and employees. Each of the Issuing Entity, the Servicer, the Sponsor and the Administrator will, and will cause its authorized representatives to, hold in confidence the information except if disclosure may be required by law or if the Issuing Entity, the Servicer, the Sponsor or the Administrator reasonably determines that it is required to make the disclosure under this Agreement or the other Basic Documents. The Asset Representations Reviewer will maintain all relevant books, records, reports and other documents and materials for a period of at least two years after the termination of its obligations under this Agreement.

Section 4.7. Delegation of Obligations. The Asset Representations Reviewer may not delegate or subcontract its obligations under this Agreement to any Person without the consent of the Issuing Entity, the Sponsor and the Servicer.

Section 4.8. Confidential Information.

(a) Treatment. The Asset Representations Reviewer agrees to hold and treat Confidential Information given to it under this Agreement in confidence and under the terms and conditions of this Section 4.8, and will implement and maintain safeguards to further assure the confidentiality of the Confidential Information. The Confidential Information will not, without the prior consent of the Issuing Entity, the Sponsor and the Servicer, be disclosed or used by the Asset Representations Reviewer, or its officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives or affiliates, including legal counsel (collectively, the “Information Recipients”) other than for the purposes of performing Asset Reviews of Subject Leases or performing its obligations under this Agreement. The Asset Representations Reviewer agrees that it will not, and will cause its Affiliates to not (i) purchase or sell securities issued by NMAC or its Affiliates or special purpose entities on the basis of Confidential Information or (ii) use the Confidential Information for the preparation of research reports, newsletters or other publications or similar communications.

 

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(b) Definition. “Confidential Information” means oral, written and electronic materials (irrespective of its source or form of communication) furnished before, on or after the date of this Agreement to the Asset Representations Reviewer for the purposes contemplated by this Agreement, including:

(i) lists of Subject Leases and any related Review Materials;

(ii) origination and servicing guidelines, policies and procedures and form contracts; and

(iii) notes, analyses, compilations, studies or other documents or records prepared by the Sponsor or the Servicer, which contain information supplied by or on behalf of the Sponsor or the Servicer or their representatives.

However, Confidential Information will not include information that (A) is or becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of disclosure by the Information Recipients, (B) was available to, or becomes available to, the Information Recipients on a non-confidential basis from a Person or entity other than the Issuing Entity, the Sponsor or the Servicer before its disclosure to the Information Recipients who, to the knowledge of the Information Recipient is not bound by a confidentiality agreement with the Issuing Entity, the Sponsor or the Servicer and is not prohibited from transmitting the information to the Information Recipients, (C) is independently developed by the Information Recipients without the use of the Confidential Information, as shown by the Information Recipients’ files and records or other evidence in the Information Recipients’ possession or (D) the Issuing Entity, the Sponsor or the Servicer provides permission to the applicable Information Recipients to release.

(c) Protection. The Asset Representations Reviewer will take reasonable measures to protect the secrecy of and avoid disclosure and unauthorized use of Confidential Information, including those measures that it takes to protect its own confidential information and not less than a reasonable standard of care. The Asset Representations Reviewer acknowledges that Personally Identifiable Information is also subject to the additional requirements in Section 4.9.

(d) Disclosure. If the Asset Representations Reviewer is required by applicable law, regulation, rule or order issued by an administrative, governmental, regulatory or judicial authority to disclose part of the Confidential Information, it may disclose the Confidential Information. However, before a required disclosure, the Asset Representations Reviewer, if permitted by law, regulation, rule or order, will use its reasonable efforts to provide the Issuing Entity, the Sponsor and the Servicer with notice of the requirement and will cooperate, at the Sponsor’s expense, in the Issuing Entity’s and the Sponsor’s pursuit of a proper protective order or other relief for the disclosure of the Confidential Information. If the Issuing Entity or the Sponsor is unable to obtain a protective order or other proper remedy by the date that the information is required to be disclosed, the Asset Representations Reviewer will disclose only that part of the Confidential Information that it is advised by its legal counsel it is legally required to disclose.

(e) Responsibility for Information Recipients. The Asset Representations Reviewer will be responsible for a breach of this Section 4.8 by its Information Recipients.

 

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(f) Violation. The Asset Representations Reviewer agrees that a violation of this Agreement may cause irreparable injury to the Issuing Entity, the Sponsor and the Servicer and the Issuing Entity, the Sponsor and the Servicer may seek injunctive relief in addition to legal remedies. If an action is initiated by the Issuing Entity or the Servicer to enforce this Section 4.8, the prevailing party will be entitled to reimbursement of costs and expenses, including reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses, incurred by it for the enforcement.

Section 4.9. Personally Identifiable Information.

(a) Definitions. “Personally Identifiable Information” or “PII” means information in any format about an identifiable individual, including, name, address, phone number, e-mail address, account number(s), identification number(s), vehicle identification number or “VIN”, any other actual or assigned attribute associated with or identifiable to an individual and any information that when used separately or in combination with other information could identify an individual. “Issuing Entity PII” means PII furnished by the Issuing Entity, the Servicer or their Affiliates to the Asset Representations Reviewer and PII developed or otherwise collected or acquired by the Asset Representations Reviewer in performing its obligations under this Agreement.

(b) Use of Issuing Entity PII. The Issuing Entity does not grant the Asset Representations Reviewer any rights to Issuing Entity PII except as provided in this Agreement. The Asset Representations Reviewer will use Issuing Entity PII only to perform its obligations under this Agreement or as specifically directed in writing by the Issuing Entity and will only reproduce Issuing Entity PII to the extent necessary for these purposes. The Asset Representations Reviewer must comply with all laws applicable to PII, Issuing Entity PII and the Asset Representations Reviewer’s business, including any legally required codes of conduct, including those relating to privacy, security and data protection. The Asset Representations Reviewer will protect and secure Issuing Entity PII. The Asset Representations Reviewer will implement privacy or data protection policies and procedures that comply with applicable law and this Agreement. The Asset Representations Reviewer will implement and maintain reasonable and appropriate practices, procedures and systems, including administrative, technical and physical safeguards to (i) protect the security, confidentiality and integrity of Issuing Entity PII, (ii) ensure against anticipated threats or hazards to the security or integrity of Issuing Entity PII, (iii) protect against unauthorized access to or use of Issuing Entity PII and (iv) otherwise comply with its obligations under this Agreement. These safeguards include a written data security plan, employee training, information access controls, restricted disclosures, systems protections (e.g., intrusion protection, data storage protection and data transmission protection) and physical security measures.

(c) Additional Limitations. In addition to the use and protection requirements described in Section 4.9(b), the Asset Representations Reviewer’s disclosure of Issuing Entity PII is also subject to the following requirements:

(i) The Asset Representations Reviewer will not disclose Issuing Entity PII to its personnel or allow its personnel access to Issuing Entity PII except (A) for the Asset Representations Reviewer personnel who require Issuing Entity PII to perform an Asset Review, (B) with the prior consent of the Issuing Entity or (C) as required by applicable

 

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law. When permitted, the disclosure of or access to Issuing Entity PII will be limited to the specific information necessary for the individual to complete the assigned task. The Asset Representations Reviewer will inform personnel with access to Issuing Entity PII of the confidentiality requirements in this Agreement and train its personnel with access to Issuing Entity PII on the proper use and protection of Issuing Entity PII.

(ii) The Asset Representations Reviewer will not sell, disclose, provide or exchange Issuing Entity PII with or to any third party without the prior consent of the Issuing Entity.

(d) Notice of Breach. The Asset Representations Reviewer will notify the Issuing Entity promptly in the event of an actual or reasonably suspected security breach, unauthorized access, misappropriation or other compromise of the security, confidentiality or integrity of Issuing Entity PII and, where applicable, immediately take action to prevent any further breach.

(e) Return or Disposal of Issuing Entity PII. Except where return or disposal is prohibited by applicable law, promptly on the earlier of the completion of the Review or the request of the Issuing Entity, all Issuing Entity PII in any medium in the Asset Representations Reviewer’s possession or under its control will be (i) destroyed in a manner that prevents its recovery or restoration or (ii) if so directed by the Issuing Entity, returned to the Issuing Entity without the Asset Representations Reviewer retaining any actual or recoverable copies, in both cases, without charge to the Issuing Entity. Where the Asset Representations Reviewer retains Issuing Entity PII, the Asset Representations Reviewer will limit the Asset Representations Reviewer’s further use or disclosure of Issuing Entity PII to that required by applicable law.

(f) Compliance; Modification. The Asset Representations Reviewer will cooperate with and provide information to the Issuing Entity regarding the Asset Representations Reviewer’s compliance with this Section 4.9. The Asset Representations Reviewer and the Issuing Entity agree to modify this Section 4.9 as necessary from time to time for either party to comply with applicable law.

(g) Audit of Asset Representations Reviewer. The Asset Representations Reviewer will permit the Issuing Entity and its authorized representatives to audit the Asset Representations Reviewer’s compliance with this Section 4.9 during the Asset Representations Reviewer’s normal business hours on reasonable advance notice to the Asset Representations Reviewer, and not more than once during any year unless circumstances necessitate additional audits. The Issuing Entity agrees to make reasonable efforts to schedule any audit described in this Section 4.9 with the inspections described in Section 4.6. The Asset Representations Reviewer will also permit the Issuing Entity and its authorized representatives during normal business hours on reasonable advance written notice to audit any service providers used by the Asset Representations Reviewer to fulfill the Asset Representations Reviewer’s obligations under this Agreement.

(h) Affiliates and Third Parties. If the Asset Representations Reviewer processes the PII of the Issuing Entity’s Affiliates or a third party when performing an Asset Review, and if such Affiliate or third party is identified to the Asset Representations Reviewer, such Affiliate or third party is an intended third-party beneficiary of this Section 4.9, and this Agreement is intended to benefit the Affiliate or third party. The Affiliate or third party will be entitled to enforce the PII related terms of this Section 4.9 against the Asset Representations Reviewer as if each were a signatory to this Agreement.

 

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ARTICLE V

RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL;

SUCCESSOR ASSET REPRESENTATIONS REVIEWER

Section 5.1. Eligibility Requirements for Asset Representations Reviewer. The Asset Representations Reviewer must be a Person who (a) is not Affiliated with the Sponsor, the Depositor, the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee or any of their Affiliates and (b) was not, and is not Affiliated with a Person that was, engaged by the Sponsor or any Underwriter to perform any due diligence on the Leases prior to the Closing Date.

Section 5.2. Resignation and Removal of Asset Representations Reviewer.

(a) No Resignation of Asset Representations Reviewer. The Asset Representations Reviewer will not resign as Asset Representations Reviewer except (i) if the Asset Representations Reviewer is merged into or becomes an Affiliate of the Sponsor, the Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, (ii) the Asset Representations Reviewer no longer meets the eligibility requirements in Section 5.1, or (iii) upon a determination that the performance of its duties under this Agreement is no longer permissible under applicable law and there is no reasonable action that it could take to make the performance of its obligations under this Agreement permitted under applicable law. Upon the occurrence of one of the foregoing events, the Asset Representations Reviewer shall promptly resign and the Sponsor shall appoint a successor Asset Representations Reviewer. The Asset Representations Reviewer will deliver a notice of its resignation to the Issuing Entity, the Sponsor and the Servicer, and if the Asset Representation Reviewer resigns pursuant to clause (b) above, an Opinion of Counsel supporting its determination.

(b) Removal of Asset Representations Reviewer. If any of the following events occur, the Indenture Trustee, at the direction of Noteholders evidencing a majority of the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Notes, by notice to the Asset Representations Reviewer, shall remove the Asset Representations Reviewer and terminate its rights and obligations under this Agreement:

(i) the Asset Representations Reviewer no longer meets the eligibility requirements in Section 5.1;

(ii) the Asset Representations Reviewer breaches any of its representations, warranties, covenants or obligations in this Agreement; or

(iii) an Insolvency Event of the Asset Representations Reviewer occurs.

(c) Notice of Resignation or Removal. The Servicer will notify the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Depositor and the Indenture Trustee of any resignation or removal of the Asset Representations Reviewer. The Depositor will report any resignation or removal of the Asset Representations Reviewer, or any appointment of a successor Asset Representations Reviewer, in the Issuing Entity’s Form 10-D report related to the Collection Period in which such resignation, removal or appointment took place.

 

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Section 5.3. Successor Asset Representations Reviewer.

(a) Engagement of Successor Asset Representations Reviewer. Following the resignation or removal of the Asset Representations Reviewer, the Sponsor will appoint a successor Asset Representations Reviewer who meets the eligibility requirements of Section 5.1.

(b) Effectiveness of Resignation or Removal. No resignation or removal of the Asset Representations Reviewer will be effective until the successor Asset Representations Reviewer has executed and delivered to the Issuing Entity and the Servicer an agreement accepting its engagement and agreeing to perform the obligations of the Asset Representations Reviewer under this Agreement or entered into a new agreement with the Issuing Entity on substantially the same terms as this Agreement.

(c) Transition and Expenses. If the Asset Representations Review resigns or is removed, the Asset Representations Reviewer will cooperate with the Issuing Entity and take all actions reasonably requested to assist the Issuing Entity in making an orderly transition of the Asset Representations Reviewer’s rights and obligations under this Agreement to the successor Asset Representations Reviewer. The Asset Representations Reviewer will pay the reasonable expenses of transitioning the Asset Representations Reviewer’s obligations under this Agreement and preparing the successor Asset Representations Reviewer to take on such obligations on receipt of an invoice with reasonable detail of the expenses from the Issuing Entity or the successor Asset Representations Reviewer.

Section 5.4. Merger, Consolidation or Succession. Any Person (a) into which the Asset Representations Reviewer is merged or consolidated, (b) resulting from any merger or consolidation to which the Asset Representations Reviewer is a party or (c) succeeding to the business of the Asset Representations Reviewer, if that Person meets the eligibility requirements in Section 5.1, will be the successor to the Asset Representations Reviewer under this Agreement. Such Person will execute and deliver to the Issuing Entity and the Servicer an agreement to assume the Asset Representations Reviewer’s obligations under this Agreement (unless the assumption happens by operation of law).

ARTICLE VI

OTHER AGREEMENTS

Section 6.1. Independence of Asset Representations Reviewer. The Asset Representations Reviewer will be an independent contractor and will not be subject to the supervision of, or deemed to be the agent of, the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee for the manner in which it accomplishes the performance of its obligations under this Agreement. None of the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee shall be responsible for monitoring the performance of the Asset Representations Reviewer or liable to any Person for the failure of the Asset Representations Reviewer to perform its obligations hereunder. Unless authorized by the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, respectively, the Asset Representations Reviewer will have no authority to act for or represent

 

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the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee and will not be considered an agent of the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee. Nothing in this Agreement will make the Asset Representations Reviewer and either of the Issuing Entity, the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee members of any partnership, joint venture or other separate entity or impose any liability as such on any of them.

Section 6.2. No Petition. Each party hereto, by entering into this Agreement, hereby covenants and agrees that, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the date upon which all obligations under each Securitized Financing have been paid in full, it will not (and, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Indenture Trustee shall not have the power to) institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against, the Member, the Titling Company, the Depositor, the Issuing Entity, any other Special Purpose Affiliate or any Beneficiary, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation Proceeding or other Proceeding under any federal or state bankruptcy or similar law.

Section 6.3. Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee. This Agreement has been signed on behalf of the Issuing Entity by Wilmington Trust, National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely in its capacity as Owner Trustee of the Issuing Entity. In no event will Wilmington Trust, National Association in its individual capacity or a beneficial owner of the Issuing Entity have any liability for the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements or other obligations of the Issuing Entity under this Agreement, as to all of which recourse shall be had solely to the assets of the Issuing Entity. For all purposes under this Agreement, the Owner Trustee will be subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the Trust Agreement.

Section 6.4. Termination of Agreement. This Agreement will terminate, except for the obligations under Section 4.5, on the earlier of (a) the payment in full of all outstanding Notes and the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture and (b) the date the Issuing Entity is terminated under the Trust Agreement.

ARTICLE VII

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Section 7.1. Amendments.

(a) Any term or provision of this Agreement may be amended by the parties hereto, without the consent of any other Person subject to the satisfaction of one of the following conditions:

(i) the Seller or the Servicer delivers an Officer’s Certificate or Opinion of Counsel to the Indenture Trustee to the effect that such amendment will not materially and adversely affect the interests of the Noteholders; or

(ii) the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied with respect to such amendment;

provided, that no amendment pursuant to this Section 7.1 shall be effective which affects the rights, protections or duties of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee without the prior written consent of such Person, (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed); provided, further, that in the event that any Certificates are held by anyone other

 

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than the Administrator or any of its Affiliates, this Agreement may only be amended by the parties hereto if, in addition, (i) the Certificateholders evidencing a majority of the Certificate Balance of the Certificates consent to such amendment or (ii) such amendment shall not, as evidenced by an Officer’s Certificate of the Administrator or an Opinion of Counsel delivered to the Owner Trustee, materially and adversely affect the interests of the Certificateholders.

(b) This Agreement may also be amended by the parties hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders with the consent of:

(i) the Noteholders evidencing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes; and

(ii) the Certificateholders evidencing a majority of the Certificate Balance.

It will not be necessary for the consent of Noteholders or Certificateholders to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment or consent, but it will be sufficient if such consent approves the substance thereof.

(c) Promptly after the execution of any such amendment or consent, the Servicer shall furnish written notification of the substance of such amendment or consent to each Rating Agency.

(d) Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to receive and rely upon an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amendment is authorized or permitted by this Agreement. The Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment which adversely affects the Owner Trustee’s or the Indenture Trustee’s, as applicable, own rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement.

Section 7.2. Notices. All demands, notices and communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be delivered or mailed by registered or certified first-class United States mail, postage prepaid, hand delivery, prepaid courier service, by facsimile or electronically by email (if an email address is provided), and addressed in each case as specified on Schedule II to the Series Certificate Sale Agreement or at such other address as shall be designated by any of the specified addressees in a written notice to the other parties hereto. Delivery shall occur only when delivered by hand or, in the case of mail, email or facsimile notice, upon actual receipt or reported tender of such communication by an officer of the intended recipient entitled to receive such notices located at the address of such recipient for notices hereunder; provided, however, any demand, notice or communication to be delivered pursuant to this Agreement to any Rating Agency shall be deemed to be delivered if a copy of such demand, notice or communication has been posted on any website maintained by NMAC pursuant to a commitment to any Rating Agency relating to the Notes in accordance with 17 C.F.R. 240 17g-5(a)(3).

 

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Section 7.3. Limitations on Rights of Others. The provisions of this Agreement are solely for the benefit of the Sponsor, the Servicer, the Issuing Entity and the Asset Representations Reviewer. The Indenture Trustee (for the benefit of itself and the Noteholders) will be an express third-party beneficiary of this Agreement and entitled to enforce this agreement against the parties hereto. Nothing in this Agreement, whether express or implied, shall be construed to give to any other Person any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim in the Owner Trust Estate or under or in respect of this Agreement or any covenants, conditions or provisions contained herein.

Section 7.4. Severability. If any one or more of the covenants, agreement, provisions or terms of this Agreement shall be for any reason whatsoever held invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, then such covenants, agreements, provisions or terms shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants, agreements provisions or terms of this Agreement and shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of the other provisions of this Agreement.

Section 7.5. Separate Counterparts and Electronic Signature. This Agreement 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. Each party agrees that this Agreement and any other documents to be delivered in connection herewith may be electronically signed, and that any electronic signatures appearing on this Agreement or such other documents shall have the same effect as manual signatures for the purpose of validity, enforceability and admissibility.

Section 7.6. Headings. The headings of the various Articles and Sections herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.

Section 7.7. Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS (OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK), AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

Section 7.8. Waivers. No failure or delay on the part of any party hereto in exercising any power, right or remedy under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver hereof or thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such power, right or remedy preclude any other or further exercise hereof or thereof or the exercise of any such power, right or remedy preclude any other or further exercise hereof or thereof or the exercise of any other power, right or remedy.

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EXECUTED BY:

 

NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2022-A,

 

as Issuing Entity

By:

 

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL

ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity,

 

but solely as Owner Trustee

 

By:   /s/ Dorri Costello
  Name: Dorri Costello
  Title:   Vice President

 

NISSAN MOTOR ACCEPTANCE COMPANY LLC,
  as Servicer
By:   /s/ Kevin J. Cullum
  Name: Kevin J. Cullum
  Title:   President

 

CLAYTON FIXED INCOME SERVICES LLC,

as Asset Representations Reviewer

By:   /s/ Anthony Neske
  Name: Anthony Neske
  Title:   Senior Vice President

 

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Schedule A

Representations and Warranties, Review Materials and Tests

Representation and Warranty

(a) Such Lease relates to a Nissan or an Infiniti automobile, light duty truck, minivan or sport utility vehicle, of a model year of 2017 or later;

Review Materials

Lease Agreement

Tests

 

  i)

Confirm the Lease Agreement indicates the Leased Vehicle is a Nissan or Infinity automobile, light duty truck, minivan or sport utility vehicle

 

  ii)

Confirm the Lease Agreement indicates the Leased Vehicle is a model year 2017 or later

 

  iii)

If Steps (i) and (ii) are confirmed, then Test Pass

 

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Representation and Warranty

(b) Such Lease is written with respect to a Leased Vehicle that was at the time of the origination of the related Lease a new Nissan or Infiniti motor vehicle;

Review Materials

Lease Agreement

Tests

 

  i)

Confirm the Leased Vehicle is identified in the Lease Agreement as a new Nissan or Infinity motor vehicle at the time of origination

 

  ii)

If confirmed, then Test Pass

 

   Sch. A-2   


Representation and Warranty

(c) Such Lease was originated in the United States on or after June 16, 2018, by a Dealer for a Lessee with a United States address;

Review Materials

Lease Agreement

Tests

 

  i)

Confirm the Lease Agreement was executed on or after the oldest allowable date of execution

 

  ii)

Confirm the Lessee’s address as stated on the Lease Agreement is located within the United States

 

  iii)

If Steps (i) and (ii) are confirmed, then Test Pass

 

   Sch. A-3   


Representation and Warranty

(d) Such Lease is payable solely in United States dollars;

Review Materials

Lease Agreement

Tests

 

  i)

Confirm the Lease Agreement is payable in U.S. Dollars

 

  ii)

If confirmed, then Test Pass

 

Sch. A-4


Representation and Warranty

(e) Such Lease and the related Leased Vehicle are owned by the Titling Company, free of all liens, other than any lien placed upon a Certificate of Title in connection with the delivery of title documentation to the Titling Company Registrar in accordance with Customary Servicing Practices in effect at the time of origination;

Review Materials

Lease Agreement

Tests

 

  i)

Confirm the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) on the Lease Agreement matches the VIN on the Title Documents

 

  ii)

Confirm the Title Documents designate the Titling Company as the owner of the Leased Vehicle

 

  iii)

Confirm the Title Documents do not report any additional security parties or liens tied to the Leased Vehicle

 

  iv)

If Steps (i) through (iii) are confirmed, the Test Pass

 

Sch. A-5


Representation and Warranty

(f) Such Lease has a remaining term to maturity, of not less than 12 months and not greater than 54 months;

Review Materials

Data Tape

Tests

 

  i)

Confirm the remaining number of payments is within the allowable limits

 

  ii)

If confirmed, then Test Pass

 

Sch. A-6


Representation and Warranty

(g) Such Lease provides for level payments (exclusive of taxes) that fully amortize the adjusted capitalized cost of the Lease to the related Contract Residual over the lease term at a rate implicit in the Lease and corresponding to the disclosed rent charge and, in the event of a Lessee initiated early termination, provides for payment of the Early Termination Charge;

Review Materials

Lease Agreement

Tests

 

  i)

Confirm that all lease payments are equal

 

  ii)

Confirm the total of the number of payments and amount of payments, with any first and last payment (if applicable) is equal to the Adjusted Capitalized cost minus the residual value of the Leased Vehicle plus the rent charge

 

  iii)

Confirm the Lease Agreement requires an Early Termination Charge be paid in the event that the Lessee initiates early termination of the Lease

 

  iv)

If Steps (i) through (iii) are confirmed, then Test Pass

 

Sch. A-7


Representation and Warranty

(h) Such Lease was originated in compliance with, and complies in all material respects with, all material applicable legal requirements;

Review Materials

Lease Agreement

Tests

 

  i)

Confirm the Lease Agreement form number and revision date are on the List of Approved Forms

 

  ii)

If confirmed, then Test Pass

 

Sch. A-8


Representation and Warranty

(i) Such Lease is not more than 29 days past due;

Review Materials

Data Tape

Tests

 

  i)

Confirm the Lease was not more than 29 days past due

 

  ii)

If confirmed, then Test Pass

 

Sch. A-9


Representation and Warranty

(j) Such Lease (A) is the valid, legal and binding full-recourse payment obligation of the related Lessee, enforceable against such Lessee in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by (i) applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, or other similar laws, now or hereafter in effect, affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights in general or (ii) general principles of equity;

Review Materials

Lease Agreement

Data Tape

Lease File

Tests

 

  i)

Confirm the Lease Agreement form number and revision date are on the List of Approved Forms

 

  ii)

If confirmed, then Test Pass

 

Sch. A-10


Representation and Warranty

(k) the records of the Servicer do not reflect that such Lease has been satisfied, subordinated, rescinded, canceled or terminated

Review Materials

Lease Agreement

Data Tape

Lease File

Tests

 

  i)

Confirm there is no indication within the Lease File that the Lease has been subordinated, rescinded, cancelled or terminated

 

  ii)

If confirmed, then Test Pass

 

Sch. A-11


Representation and Warranty

(l) the records of the Servicer do not reflect that such Lease is subject to any asserted or threatened right of rescission, setoff, counterclaim or defense;

Review Materials

Lease Agreement

Data Tape

Lease File

Tests

 

  i)

Confirm there is no indication within the Lease File that the Lease is subject to any asserted or threatened right of rescission, setoff counterclaim or defense

 

  ii)

If confirmed, then Test Pass

 

Sch. A-12


Representation and Warranty

(m) the records of the Servicer reflect that, other than payment defaults continuing for a period of no more than 29 days as of the Cutoff Date, no default, breach or violation of such Lease occurred

Review Materials

Lease Agreement

Data Tape

Lease File

Tests

 

  i)

Confirm there is no indication within the Lease File of any past or current default, breach or violation other than a payment default of no more than 29 days

 

  ii)

If confirmed, then Test Pass

 

Sch. A-13


Representation and Warranty

(n) the records of the Servicer do not reflect that any default, breach or violation of such Lease has been waived (other than deferrals and waivers of late payment charges or fees permitted under the Servicing Agreement);

Review Materials

Lease Agreement

Data Tape

Lease File

Tests

 

  i)

Confirm there is no indication within the Lease File of any waiver or deferrals of any breach or violation of the Lease other than deferrals and waivers of late payment charges or fee permitted under the Servicing Agreement

 

  ii)

If confirmed, then Test Pass

 

Sch. A-14


Representation and Warranty

(o) Such Lease is not a Defaulted Lease;

Review Materials

Data Tape

Tests

 

  i)

Confirm the Lease is not a defaulted Lease

 

  ii)

If confirmed, then Test Pass

 

Sch. A-15


Representation and Warranty

(p) the related Lessee with respect to such Lease is a person located in one or more of the 50 states of the United States or the District of Columbia and is not (i) NMAC or any of its Affiliates, or (ii) the United States or any State or any agency or potential subdivision thereof;

Review Materials

Lease Agreement

Tests

 

  i)

Confirm the Lessee’s physical address is located within the United States

 

  ii)

Confirm the Lessee is a natural person, and not NMAC or any of its Affiliates, the United States or any State or any agency or potential subdivision thereof

 

  iii)

If Steps (i) and (ii) are confirmed, then Test Pass

 

Sch. A-16


Representation and Warranty

(q) such Lease constitutes either “tangible chattel paper” or “electronic chattel paper”, as defined in the UCC;

Review Materials

Lease Agreement

Tests

 

  i)

If the Lease Agreement is considered tangible chattel paper, confirm there is one original executed copy

 

  ii)

If the Lease Agreement is considered electronic chattel paper, confirm it was completed electronically and is identified as being held in NMAC’s electronic vault at Dealertrack

 

  iii)

Confirm the Lease Agreement was manually executed or completed electronically, as applicable, by the Lessee and Lessor.

 

  iv)

If Steps (i) or (ii) and (iii) are confirmed, then Test Pass

 

Sch. A-17


Representation and Warranty

(r) in the case of each 2022-A Lease that constitutes tangible chattel paper, there is only one original executed copy of each tangible “record” constituting or forming a part of such Lease; and in the case of each 2022-A Lease that constitutes electronic chattel paper, there is only a single “authoritative copy” (as such term is used in Section 9-105 of the UCC) of each electronic “record” constituting or forming a part of such Lease ;

Review Materials

Lease Agreement

Tests

 

  i)

If the Lease Agreement is considered tangible chattel paper, confirm there is one original copy

 

  ii)

If the Lease Agreement is considered electronic chattel paper, confirm it was completed electronically and is identified as being held in NMAC’s electronic vault at Dealertrack

 

  iii)

If Steps (i) and (ii) are confirmed, then Test Pass

 

Sch. A-18


Representation and Warranty

(s) such Lease has an original term of not less than 24 months and not greater than 60 months;

Review Materials

Lease Agreement

Tests

 

  i)

Confirm the Number of Payments on the Lease Agreement is within the allowable limits

 

  ii)

If confirmed, then Test Pass

 

Sch. A-19


Representation and Warranty

(t) under the terms of such Lease, the related Lessee is required to maintain physical damage insurance covering the related Leased Vehicle; and

Review Materials

Lease Agreement

Tests

 

  i)

Confirm the Lease Agreement requires the Lessee to obtain and maintain physical damage insurance covering the related Leased Vehicle

 

  ii)

If confirmed, then Test Pass

 

Sch. A-20


Representation and Warranty

(u) has a Securitization Value, as of the Cutoff Date, of no greater than $83,181.57.

Review Materials

Data Tape

Tests

 

  i)

Confirm the Securitization Value of the Leased Vehicle within the Data Tape is below the maximum allowable limit

 

  ii)

If confirmed, then Test Pass

 

Sch. A-21

Exhibit 10.8

 

 

SECURITIES ACCOUNT CONTROL AGREEMENT

among

NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2022-A,

as Issuing Entity,

NISSAN MOTOR ACCEPTANCE COMPANY LLC,

as Servicer,

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

in its capacity as Indenture Trustee

and

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Intermediary

Dated as of June 29, 2022

 

 

 

     

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

         Page  
ARTICLE I   DEFINITIONS      1  

Section 1.1

  Defined Terms      1  
ARTICLE II   ACCOUNTS      1  

Section 2.1

  Accounts      1  
ARTICLE III   RIGHTS OF THE SECURED PARTY      2  

Section 3.1

  Control of Accounts by Secured Party      2  

Section 3.2

  No Control by Issuing Entity or Third Parties Concerning Accounts      2  

Section 3.3

  Perfection of Security Interests in Accounts      3  

Section 3.4

  Notices of Adverse Claims      3  
ARTICLE IV   RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF INTERMEDIARY      3  

Section 4.1

  Limited Obligations      3  
ARTICLE V   MISCELLANEOUS      3  

Section 5.1

  Amendment and Other Modifications      3  

Section 5.2

  Termination; Survival      3  

Section 5.3

  Governing Law      3  

Section 5.4

  Submission to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial      4  

Section 5.5

  Binding Agreement; Successors and Assigns      4  

Section 5.6

  Severability      5  

Section 5.7

  Notices      5  

Section 5.8

  Headings      5  

Section 5.9

  Counterparts and Electronic Signature      5  

Section 5.10

  Concerning the Secured Party      5  

Section 5.11

  Indemnification      5  

Section 5.12

  No Proceedings      6  

Section 5.13

  Limited Recourse      6  

Section 5.14

  Limitations on Liability of Intermediary      7  

Section 5.15

  Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee      8  

 

 

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SECURITIES ACCOUNT CONTROL AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of June 29, 2022, among NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2022-A, as Issuing Entity (the “Issuing Entity”), NISSAN MOTOR ACCEPTANCE COMPANY LLC, as Servicer (the “Servicer”), U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Intermediary (the “Intermediary”) and U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, in its capacity as Indenture Trustee (the “Secured Party”).

PREAMBLE

Pursuant to the Indenture, dated as of June 29, 2022, by and between the Issuing Entity and the Secured Party, as Indenture Trustee (as amended or modified from time to time, the “Indenture”), the Issuing Entity has granted to the Secured Party, for the benefit of the Noteholders, a first priority security interest in the Accounts (as defined below) and all funds, Owner Trust Estate or other property on deposit from time to time in or credited to the Accounts, including all investments and Proceeds thereof and all income thereon (collectively, the “Account Property”). The Accounts currently existing under the Indenture are the 2022-A Series Collection Account, Reserve Account and the Note Distribution Account (collectively, the “Accounts”) maintained and held at the Intermediary by the Issuing Entity in the name of the Secured Party, subject to the first priority security interest of the Secured Party for the benefit of the Noteholders in the Accounts granted by the Issuing Entity to the Secured Party to secure payment of the Notes.

The parties hereto are entering into this Agreement to perfect the Secured Party’s security interest in the Accounts by “control,” within the meaning of Articles 8 and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York (the “UCC”).

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

Section 1.1 Defined Terms. Except as otherwise specified herein or if the context may otherwise require, capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein have the meanings ascribed thereto in Annex A to the Series Certificate Sale Agreement, dated as of the date hereof (as amended or modified from time to time, the “Series Certificate Sale Agreement”), between NILT LLC and Nissan Auto Leasing LLC II.

ARTICLE II

ACCOUNTS

Section 2.1 Accounts.

(a) The Intermediary represents and warrants to each of the Secured Party, the Servicer and the Issuing Entity that the Intermediary does not know of any claim to or interest in the Accounts, except the first priority security interest of the Secured Party in the Accounts for the benefit of the Noteholders and the other claims and interests of the parties referred to in this Agreement. The Intermediary does not have and shall not have in the future, any security interest, lien or right of setoff on or against the Accounts.

(b) The Intermediary, the Issuing Entity, the Servicer and the Secured Party agree that the Intermediary is the securities intermediary and the Secured Party is the entitlement holder as to each Account subject to the first priority security interest of the Secured Party.

 

     

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(c) The Intermediary, the Issuing Entity, the Servicer and the Secured Party agree that all property credited to the Accounts shall be treated as “financial assets” under Article 8 of the UCC.

(d) The Intermediary shall not accept any “entitlement order,” within the meaning of Section 8-102(a)(8) of the UCC, or other instruction regarding the Accounts except from the Secured Party.

(e) The Intermediary, the Issuing Entity, the Servicer and the Secured Party agree that, with respect to the Accounts, the jurisdiction of the Intermediary for purposes of Articles 8 and 9 of the UCC shall be the State of New York.

(f) The Intermediary shall at all times be a “participant” (as such term is defined in the Federal Book-Entry Regulations) in the Federal Reserve System.

(g) The Intermediary hereby agrees to maintain the Accounts in accordance with and subject to the express terms of the 2022-A Servicing Supplement and the Indenture.

(h) The Intermediary agrees that all Permitted Investments, securities and other property underlying any financial asset from time to time credited to the Accounts shall be registered in the name of Intermediary or indorsed to Intermediary or in blank, and in no case shall any financial asset credited to the Accounts be registered in the name of Issuing Entity, payable to the order of Issuing Entity or specially indorsed to Issuing Entity, except to the extent that the foregoing have been specially indorsed to the Intermediary or in blank.

ARTICLE III

RIGHTS OF THE SECURED PARTY

Section 3.1 Control of Accounts by Secured Party. The Intermediary, the Issuing Entity and the Secured Party agree that the Intermediary shall comply with each entitlement order originated by the Secured Party without further consent of the Issuing Entity or the Servicer or any other person or entity.

Section 3.2 No Control by Issuing Entity or Third Parties Concerning Accounts. The Intermediary shall not comply with any instructions of the Issuing Entity or the Servicer or any other person or entity (other than the Secured Party) concerning the Accounts (including any order that is originated by the Issuing Entity or the Servicer and that would require the Intermediary to make a free delivery of Accounts to the Issuing Entity or any other person). Additionally, the Intermediary shall not agree with any third party (other than the Secured Party) that the Intermediary will comply with orders originated by such third party concerning the Accounts.

 

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Section 3.3 Perfection of Security Interests in Accounts. It is intended that the first priority security interest of the Secured Party in the Accounts be perfected by control of the Accounts under Sections 8-106(d), 9-106(a) and 9-314(a) of the UCC. In addition, it is intended for purposes of Articles 8 and 9 of the UCC that (i) the Secured Party be deemed to be the related “entitlement holder”, (ii) the Intermediary be deemed to be the related “securities intermediary”, (iii) all such property held by the Intermediary in the Accounts and all rights of the Secured Party or the Issuing Entity against the Intermediary arising out of such property, including any free credit balances, be deemed to be “financial assets”, and (iv) the Secured Party be deemed to have “control” of such Accounts under Section 8-106(d) of the UCC with respect to the first priority security interest therein granted to the Secured Party pursuant to the Indenture. With respect to any proceeds of the Account Property that constitute a Deposit Account, it is intended for purposes of Article 9 of the UCC that (i) the Intermediary is the bank with which the Deposit Account is maintained and the Secured Party is the bank’s customer with respect to the Deposit Account, and (ii) the Issuing Entity, the Secured Party, the Servicer and the Intermediary agree that the Intermediary will comply with instructions originated by the Secured Party directing disposition of funds in the Deposit Accounts without further consent of the Issuing Entity or the Servicer.

Section 3.4 Notices of Adverse Claims. The Intermediary shall promptly notify the Secured Party, the Servicer and the Issuing Entity if any other person claims that it has a property interest in the Accounts or that it is a violation of such person’s rights for anyone else to hold, transfer or deal with the Accounts.

ARTICLE IV

RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF INTERMEDIARY

Section 4.1 Limited Obligations. This Agreement does not create any obligation of the Intermediary except for those expressly set forth in this Agreement. The Intermediary may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon notices and communications it believes to be genuine and given by the appropriate party. Except for permitting a withdrawal, delivery or payment in violation of Article III, the Intermediary shall not be liable to the Secured Party, the Servicer or the Issuing Entity for any error of judgment made in good faith and in accordance with this Agreement, nor shall it otherwise be liable under this Agreement except as a result of its own willful misconduct, bad faith or negligence.

ARTICLE V

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 5.1 Amendment and Other Modifications. This Agreement may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, and the observance of any term of this Agreement may be waived, by the parties hereto. Any such modification or waiver of this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be signed by all the parties hereto.

Section 5.2 Termination; Survival. This Agreement shall terminate upon satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture. However, Article IV shall survive termination of this Agreement.

Section 5.3 Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS (OTHER THAN SECTION 5-

 

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1401 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK), AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS. The Issuing Entity, the Servicer and the Intermediary agree that, to the extent any agreement covering the Accounts is not currently governed by the law of the State of New York, such agreement is hereby amended so that the law of the State of New York governs the Accounts, including, without limitation, all issues specified in Article 2(1) of the Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in Respect of Securities held with an Intermediary (the “Hague Securities Convention”). The Issuing Entity, the Servicer and the Intermediary agree that no such governing law provision may be amended or modified without the written consent of the Secured Party. To the extent that the Accounts, or any agreements between the Intermediary, the Servicer, the Issuing Entity and the Secured Party with respect to the Accounts, are at any time governed by laws other than the laws of the State of New York, the parties hereto do not consent to the new governing law for the purposes of Article 7 of the Hague Securities Convention.

Section 5.4 Submission to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial. Each of the parties hereto hereby, irrevocably and unconditionally:

(a) submits for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any documents executed and delivered in connection herewith, or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof, to the nonexclusive general jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York, the courts of the United States of America for the Southern District of New York and appellate courts from any thereof;

(b) consents that any such action or proceeding may be brought and maintained in such courts and waives any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of such action or proceeding in any such court or that such action or proceeding was brought in an inconvenient court and agrees not to plead or claim the same;

(c) agrees that service of process in any such action or proceeding may be effected by mailing a copy thereof by registered or certified mail (or any substantially similar form of mail), postage prepaid, to such Person at its address as set forth in Section 5.7;

(d) agrees that nothing herein shall affect the right to effect service of process in any other manner permitted by law or shall limit the right to sue in any other jurisdiction; and

(e) to the extent permitted by applicable law, waives all right of trial by jury in any action, proceeding or counterclaim based on, or arising out of, under or in connection with this Agreement, any other Basic Document, or any matter arising hereunder or thereunder.

Section 5.5 Binding Agreement; Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in this Agreement by the Issuing Entity shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. All agreements of the Secured Party, the Servicer or the Intermediary in this Agreement shall bind their respective successors, co-trustees and agents.

 

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Section 5.6 Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.

Section 5.7 Notices. All demands, notices and communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be delivered, sent electronically by facsimile or email (if an email address is provided), or mailed by registered or certified first-class United States mail, postage prepaid, hand delivery, prepaid courier service, and addressed in each case as specified on Schedule II to the Series Certificate Sale Agreement or at such other address as shall be designated by any of the specified addressees in a written notice to the other parties hereto. Delivery shall occur only when delivered by hand or, in the case of mail, email or facsimile notice, upon actual receipt or reported tender of such communication by an officer of the intended recipient entitled to receive such notices located at the address of such recipient for notices hereunder; provided, however, any demand, notice or communication to be delivered pursuant to this Securities Account Control Agreement to any Rating Agency shall be deemed to be delivered if a copy of such demand, notice or communication has been posted on any web site maintained by NMAC pursuant to a commitment to any Rating Agency relating to the Notes in accordance with 17 C.F.R. 240 17g-5(a)(3).

Section 5.8 Headings. The headings of the various Articles and Sections herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.

Section 5.9 Counterparts and Electronic Signature. This Agreement may be executed by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. Each party agrees that this Agreement and any other documents to be delivered in connection herewith may be digitally or electronically signed, and that any digital or electronic signatures (including pdf, facsimile or electronically imaged signatures provided by a digital signature provider as specified in writing to the Secured Party) appearing on this Agreement or such other documents shall have the same effect as manual signatures for the purpose of validity, enforceability and admissibility. Other than with respect to instances in which manual signatures are expressly required by this paragraph, each party hereto shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon, and shall have no liability with respect to, any digital or electronic signature appearing on this Agreement or any other documents to be delivered in connection herewith and shall have no duty to investigate, confirm or otherwise verify the validity or authenticity thereof.

Section 5.10 Concerning the Secured Party. To the extent that the rights, protections and immunities of the Secured Party are not explicitly stated herein, the Secured Party shall enjoy the same rights, protections and immunities afforded to it in the Indenture.

Section 5.11 Indemnification. The indemnification furnished to the Secured Party under Section 6.07 of the Indenture shall extend to and cover the exercise of its respective rights and the performance of its respective obligations under this Agreement. To the extent U.S. Bank National Association is acting as Intermediary, such indemnification furnished to the Secured Party under Section 6.07 of the Indenture shall also extend to and cover the exercise of the Intermediary’s rights and the performance of its obligations under this Agreement. This Section 5.11 shall survive the resignation or removal of the parties and the termination of this Agreement.

 

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Section 5.12 No Proceedings. Each of the Intermediary and the Secured Party hereby agree that, from and after the Closing Date and until the date one (1) year plus one (1) day following the date on which all amounts due with respect to the Notes have been paid in full in cash, it will not directly, or indirectly, institute or cause to be instituted against the Issuing Entity any proceedings of the type referred to in the definition of “Insolvency Event”; provided, that the foregoing shall not in any way limit the Intermediary’s or the Secured Party’s right to pursue any claims against the Issuing Entity in any proceeding voluntarily commenced by the Issuing Entity or in any proceeding commenced by a Person other than the Secured Party or other creditor rights or remedies that the Intermediary or the Secured Party may have for claims against the Issuing Entity under Applicable Law.

Section 5.13 Limited Recourse. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Notes or the Indenture, the obligations of the Issuing Entity hereunder and thereunder are limited-recourse obligations of the Issuing Entity. Such obligations are non-recourse to the Issuing Entity, its assets and its property other than the Collateral, and are payable solely from the Collateral, subject to any prior security interests therein, and following realization of the Collateral, any claims of any party hereto under this Agreement, the Notes or the Indenture (other than the Issuing Entity) shall be extinguished and shall not thereafter be reinstated. No recourse shall be had against any principal, director, officer, employee, beneficiary, shareholder, partner, member, trustee, agent or affiliate of the Issuing Entity or any person owning, directly or indirectly, any legal or beneficial interest in the Issuing Entity, or any successors or assigns of any of the foregoing (the “Exculpated Parties”) for the payment of any amounts payable hereunder or thereunder. No party hereto (other than the Issuing Entity) shall enforce the liability and obligation of the Issuing Entity to perform and observe the obligations contained in this Agreement, the Notes and the Basic Documents to which the Issuing Entity is a party by any action or proceeding wherein a money judgment establishing any personal liability shall be sought against the Issuing Entity, subject to the following sentence, or the Exculpated Parties. It is understood that the foregoing provisions of this Section 5.13 shall not (i) prevent recourse to the Collateral for the sums due or to become due under any security, instrument or agreement which is part of the Collateral, (ii) constitute a waiver, release or discharge of any indebtedness or obligation of the Issuing Entity under the Notes, or secured by the Indenture, until the Collateral has been realized, whereupon any such outstanding indebtedness or obligation shall be extinguished, (iii) limit the right of any Person to name the Issuing Entity as a party defendant in any action or suit or in the exercise of any other remedy under this Agreement and the Basic Documents, so long as no judgment in the nature of a deficiency judgment or seeking personal liability shall be asked for or (if obtained) enforced against the Issuing Entity, (iv) impair the right of any party hereto (other than the Issuing Entity) to obtain the appointment of a receiver or (v) constitute a waiver of any right which any party hereto (other than the Issuing Entity) may have under any applicable insolvency laws to file a claim for the full amount of the indebtedness or obligations secured by the Indenture or to require that the Collateral shall continue to secure all of the indebtedness or obligations owing to the Noteholders in accordance with the Notes and the Basic Documents to which the Issuing Entity is a party.

Section 5.14 Limitations on Liability of Intermediary.

 

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(a) This Agreement shall not subject the Intermediary to any duty, obligation or liability except as is expressly set forth herein. In particular (without implied limitation), the Intermediary need not investigate whether the Secured Party is entitled under the Basic Documents, or otherwise, to give any entitlement order or any other directions, instructions or other orders in any instance.

(b) The Intermediary shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any written notice, certificate, instruction, request or other paper or document, as to the due execution thereof and the validity and effectiveness of the provisions thereof and as to the truth of any information therein contained, which the Intermediary in good faith believes to be genuine.

(c) The Intermediary may consult with and obtain advice from counsel, accountants or other experts of its own choice in the event of any dispute or question as to the construction of any provision hereof or otherwise in connection with its duties hereunder, and any action taken or omitted by the Intermediary in reasonable reliance upon such advice shall be full justification and protection to it. The Intermediary shall not be liable for any error of judgment or for any act done or step taken or omitted except in the case of its willful misconduct, bad faith or negligence.

(d) The Intermediary shall have no duties hereunder except those which are expressly set forth herein and in any modification or amendment hereof. For the avoidance of doubt, nothing herein shall impose or imply on the part of the Intermediary any duties of a fiduciary nature.

(e) The Intermediary may engage or be interested in any financial or other transactions with any party hereto and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of obligations of such Persons as freely as if it were not the Intermediary hereunder.

(f) The Intermediary shall not be obligated to take any action which in its reasonable judgment would cause it to incur any expense or liability not otherwise contemplated hereunder unless it has been furnished with an indemnity with respect thereto which is reasonably satisfactory to the Intermediary.

(g) The Intermediary may rely upon the contents of any notice, consent, instruction or other communication or document from the Indenture Trustee, for the benefit of the Secured Party, the Issuing Entity or the Servicer that the Intermediary believes in good faith to be genuine and from the proper Person, without any further duty of inquiry or independent investigation on its part.

(h) The Intermediary shall not be deemed to have notice or knowledge of any Indenture Default or any other default under any other Basic Document unless an Authorized Officer of the Intermediary has actual knowledge or Intermediary shall have received written notice thereof. In the absence of such actual knowledge or receipt of such notice, the Intermediary may conclusively assume that none of such events have occurred and the Intermediary shall not have any obligation or duty to determine whether any Indenture Default or any other default under any other Basic Document has occurred or is continuing.

 

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(i) No provision of this Agreement or any other Basic Document shall be construed to require the Intermediary to perform, supervise, monitor or accept any responsibility for the performance of, the obligations of the Issuing Entity or the Servicer hereunder or under any other Basic Document or any Person other than itself under any other Basic Document.

(j) The Intermediary shall not be liable for any delays in performance for causes beyond its reasonable control, including acts of declared or undeclared war (including acts of terrorism), public disorder, rebellion, sabotage, fire, flood, epidemic, pandemic, landslide, lightning, fire, hurricane, earthquake, flood, strike, restriction by civil or military authority in their sovereign or contractual capacities, transportation failure, loss or malfunctions of communications or computer (software and hardware) services, power line or other utility failures or interruptions, or inability to obtain labor.

(k) In no event shall the Intermediary be liable for any special, indirect, punitive or consequential damages (including lost profits).

Section 5.15 Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, this Agreement has been executed by Wilmington Trust, National Association, not in its individual capacity, but solely in its capacity as Owner Trustee of the Issuing Entity. In no event shall Wilmington Trust, National Association have any liability for the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements or other obligations of the Issuing Entity hereunder or in any of the certificates, notices or agreements delivered by the Seller or the Servicer, or prepared by the Seller or the Servicer for delivery by the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuing Entity, pursuant hereto, as to all of which recourse shall be had solely to the assets of the Issuing Entity. For all purposes of this Agreement, in the performance of its duties or obligations hereunder or in the performance of any duties or obligations of the Issuing Entity 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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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, all as of the day and year first above written.

 

NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2022-A, as Issuing Entity

By:   WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee

By:

 

/s/ Dorri Costello                    

Name:

  Dorri Costello

Title:

 

Vice President

NISSAN MOTOR ACCEPTANCE COMPANY LLC,

as Servicer

By:

 

/s/ Kevin J. Cullum                    

Name:

  Kevin J. Cullum

Title:

  President
U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
not in its individual capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee, as Secured Party

By:

 

/s/ Juan S. Hernandez                    

Name:

  Juan S. Hernandez

Title:

  Assistant Vice President

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Intermediary

By:

 

/s/ Juan S. Hernandez                    

Name:

  Juan S. Hernandez

Title:

  Assistant Vice President

 

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