EXHIBIT 1
GS MORTGAGE SECURITIES CORP.
GSAMP TRUST 2007-HE1
MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-HE1
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Underwriting Agreement
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Dated as of February 22, 2007
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx & Co.
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Ladies and Gentlemen:
GS Mortgage Securities Corp. (the "Company") proposes to cause GSAMP
Trust 2007-HE1 (the "Trust") to issue its Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates,
Series 2007-HE1 (the "Certificates"), pursuant to a Pooling and Servicing
Agreement, dated as of February 1, 2007 (the "Pooling and Servicing Agreement"),
by and among the Company, as depositor, Avelo Mortgage, L.L.C., as servicer (the
"Servicer"), Xxxxx Fargo Bank, N.A., as master servicer (in such capacity, the
"Master Servicer") and as securities administrator (in such capacity, the
"Securities Administrator"), U.S. Bank National Association, as a custodian
("U.S. Bank"), Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as a custodian (together
with U.S. Bank, the "Custodians") and LaSalle Bank National Association, as
trustee (the "Trustee"), and proposes to sell to you (the "Underwriter") the
Certificates specified on Schedule I hereto. The Class A-1, Class A-2A, Class
A-2B, Class A-2C, Class A-2D, Class M-1, Class M-2, Class M-3, Class M-4, Class
M-5, Class M-6, Class M-7, Class M-8, Class M-9, Class R, Class RC and Class RX
Certificates identified on Schedule I hereto are the "Publicly Offered
Certificates." The Publicly Offered Certificates, together with the Trust's
Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Class B-1, Class B-2, Class P and Class X
Certificates, will represent in the aggregate the entire beneficial ownership
interest in the assets of the Trust primarily consisting of a segregated pool of
mortgage loans and certain other related assets.
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Mortgage Company ("GSMC") purchased certain mortgage
loans (the "Mortgage Loans") from (1) Aames Capital Corporation ("Aames"),
pursuant to the Flow Mortgage Loan Purchase and Warranties Agreement, dated as
of April 1, 2006, by and between GSMC and Aames, (2) Decision One Mortgage
Company, LLC ("Decision One"), pursuant to the Flow Mortgage Loan Purchase and
Warranties Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2006, by and between GSMC and Decision
One, (3) First Horizon Home Loan Corporation ("First Horizon"), pursuant to the
Flow Mortgage Loan Purchase and Warranties Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2006,
by and between GSMC and First Horizon, (4) MILA, Inc. ("MILA"), pursuant to the
Second Amended and Restated Flow Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, dated as of
June 1, 2006, by and between GSMC and MILA, (5) NovaStar Mortgage, Inc.
("NovaStar"), pursuant to the Flow Mortgage Loan Purchase and Warranties
Agreement, dated May 1, 2006, by and between GSMC and NovaStar, (6) Quicken
Loans, Inc. ("Quicken"), pursuant to the Amended and Restated Seller's Purchase,
Warranties and Interim Servicing Agreement, dated as of June 1, 2006, as amended
by Amendment No. 1, dated as of October 30, 2006, by and between GSMC and
Quicken, (7) Senderra Funding LLC ("Senderra"), pursuant to the Flow Mortgage
Loan Purchase and Warranties Agreement, dated as of March 1, 2006, as amended by
Amendment No. 1, dated as of June 28, 2006, by and between GSMC and Senderra,
(8) Wilmington Finance, Inc. ("Wilmington"), pursuant to the Flow Mortgage Loan
Purchase, Warranties and Servicing Agreement,, dated as of November 1, 2006, by
and between GSMC and Wilmington, and (9) certain conduit loan sellers, pursuant
to certain Master Loan Purchase Agreements, each between GSMC and the related
conduit loan seller.
The Company will acquire the Mortgage Loans from GSMC pursuant to
(1) an Assignment, Assumption and Recognition Agreement, dated February 23, 2007
(the "Aames Assignment Agreement"), by and among Aames Capital Corporation, the
Company and GSMC, (2) an Assignment, Assumption and Recognition Agreement, dated
February 23, 2007 (the "Decision One Assignment Agreement"), by and among
Decision One, the Company and GSMC, (3) an Assignment, Assumption and
Recognition Agreement, dated February 23, 2007 (the "NovaStar Assignment
Agreement"), by and among NovaStar, the Company and GSMC, (4) an Assignment,
Assumption and Recognition Agreement, dated February 23, 2007 (and together with
the Aames Assignment Agreement, the Decision One Assignment Agreement and the
NovaStar Assignment Agreeemnt, the "Assignment Agreements"), by and among First
Horizon, the Company and GSMC and (5) a Bill of Sale, dated as of February 23,
2007 (the "Bill of Sale"), by and between the Company and GSMC.
At or prior to the time when sales to investors of the Publicly
Offered Certificates were first made (the "Time of Sale"), the Company had
prepared the following information (collectively, the "Time of Sale
Information"): the GSAMP 2007-HE1 Free Writing Prospectus, dated February 16,
2007 (the "Transaction FWP"), the Company's Prospectus, dated February 13, 2007,
and any other "free writing prospectus" (as defined pursuant to Rule 405 under
the Act (as defined herein)) (a "Free Writing Prospectus") listed on Schedule IV
hereto. If, subsequent to the date of this Agreement, the Company and the
Underwriter determine that such information included an untrue statement of
material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading and terminate their old purchase contracts and entered into
new purchase contracts with purchasers of the Publicly Offered Certificates,
then "Time of Sale Information" will refer to the information available to
purchasers at the time of entry into the first such new purchase contract,
including any information that corrects such material misstatements or omissions
("Corrective Information") and "Time of Sale" will refer to the time and date on
which such new purchase contracts were entered into.
Certain Mortgage Loan documents, including the mortgage notes and
mortgages, will be held by the Trustee pursuant to the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement. The Publicly Offered Certificates are described more fully in
Schedule I hereto and in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus (as
defined herein). Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the
meanings given to them in the Pooling and Servicing Agreement.
1. The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, the
Underwriter that:
(a) A registration statement on Form S-3 (Commission File No.
333-139817), including a form of prospectus and such amendments thereto as may
have been required to the date hereof, relating to the Publicly Offered
Certificates and the offering thereof from time to time in accordance with Rule
415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), has been filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") and such
registration statement, as amended, has become effective. Such registration
statement, as amended or supplemented as of the date of the Prospectus (as
defined below), including the exhibits thereto and information that is contained
in the Prospectus and is deemed to be part of and included in such registration
statement as such registration statement may have been amended or supplemented
as of the date of the Prospectus, is hereinafter referred to as the
"Registration Statement"; the prospectus first required to be filed to satisfy
the condition set forth in Rule 172(c) and pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the
Act, is hereinafter referred to as the "Base Prospectus"; such form of
supplement to the Base Prospectus relating to the Publicly Offered Certificates,
in the form first required to be filed to satisfy the condition set forth in
Rule 172(c) and pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act (including the Base
Prospectus as so supplemented) is hereinafter referred to as the "Prospectus
Supplement"; and the Base Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement, together,
are hereinafter referred to as the "Prospectus". For purposes of this Agreement,
"Effective Time" means the date and time as of which such Registration
Statement, or the most recent post-effective amendment thereto, is declared
effective by the Commission or is deemed effective pursuant to Rule 430B under
the Act, and "Effective Date" means the date of the Effective Time or deemed
effective date pursuant to Rule 430B under the Act;
(b) On the Effective Date, the Registration Statement did conform in
all material respects to the requirements of the Act, the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), where applicable, and the rules
and regulations of the Commission under the Act or the Exchange Act, as
applicable, and did not, as of the Effective Date, contain any untrue statement
of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; provided,
however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statement
or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished
in writing to the Company by the Underwriter for use in the Registration
Statement;
(c) On the date of this Agreement, the Registration Statement
conforms, and at the time of the last filing of the Prospectus pursuant to Rule
424(b), the Registration Statement and the Prospectus will conform, in all
material respects to the requirements of the Act and the rules and regulations
of the Commission thereunder (the "Rules and Regulations"), and, except as
aforesaid, neither of such documents includes, or will include, any untrue
statement of a material fact or omits, or will omit, to state any material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not
apply to any statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with
information furnished in writing to the Company by the Underwriter for use in
the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Time of Sale Information (such
information being collectively referred to as "Underwriter Statements");
(d) The documents incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, when
they were filed with the Commission conformed in all material respects to the
requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder; and
any further documents so filed and incorporated by reference in the Prospectus,
when such documents are filed with the Commission, will conform in all material
respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations
thereunder; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not
apply to any statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with
the Underwriter Statements;
(e) The Time of Sale Information, at the Time of Sale, did not, and
at the Closing Date will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or
omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein,
in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
provided that the Company makes no representation or warranty with respect to
any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with the
Underwriter Statements;
(f) Other than the Prospectus, the Company (including its agents and
representatives other than the Underwriter in its capacity as such) has not
made, used, prepared, authorized, approved or referred to and will not make,
use, prepare, authorize, approve or refer to any "written communication" (as
defined in Rule 405 under the Act) that constitutes an offer to sell or
solicitation of an offer to buy the Publicly Offered Certificates other than (i)
any document not constituting a prospectus pursuant to Section 2(a)(10)(a) of
the Act or Rule 134 under the Act, (ii) the Time of Sale Information and (iii)
each other written communication of the Company or its agents and
representatives approved in writing in advance by the Underwriter or in any
other manner mutually agreed by the Underwriter and the Company (each such
communication referred to in clause (ii) and this clause (iii) constituting an
"issuer free writing prospectus," as defined in Rule 433(h) under the Act, being
referred to as an "Issuer Free Writing Prospectus"). Each such Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus complied or, if used after the date hereof, will comply, in
all material respects with the Act and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder, has been filed or will be filed in accordance with Section 5(a) (to
the extent required thereby) and did not at the Time of Sale, and at the Closing
Date will not, contain any untrue statements of a material fact or (when read in
conjunction with the other Time of Sale Information) omit to state a material
fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that the
Company makes no representation and warranty with respect to any statements or
omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with the Underwriter
Statements;
(g) Since the respective dates as of which information is given in
the Time of Sale Information, Registration Statement or the Prospectus, there
has not been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or
any of its subsidiaries or any material adverse change, or any development
involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the general
affairs, management, financial position, shareholders' equity or results of
operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, otherwise than as set forth or
contemplated in the Time of Sale Information, Registration Statement or the
Prospectus;
(h) The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing
as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and
has all requisite power and authority (corporate and other) to own its
properties and to conduct its business as described in the Time of Sale
Information and the Prospectus;
(i) At the Time of Delivery (as defined herein), the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement, the Bill of Sale and the Assignment Agreements will have
been duly authorized, executed and delivered and will constitute a valid and
legally binding obligation of the Company, enforceable in accordance with its
terms, subject, as to enforcement, to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and
other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors' rights
and to general principles of equity;
(j) When the Publicly Offered Certificates are issued, executed,
authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Agreement and the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement, the Publicly Offered Certificates will have been duly
authorized, executed, authenticated, issued and delivered and will be entitled
to the benefits of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement; and the Publicly Offered
Certificates and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement will conform to the
descriptions thereof in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus;
(k) The issue and sale of the Publicly Offered Certificates, the
compliance by the Company with all of the provisions of this Agreement, the
Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Bill of Sale and the Assignment Agreements,
and the consummation of the transactions herein and therein contemplated, will
not conflict with or result in a breach of any of the terms or provisions of, or
constitute a default under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan
agreement or other material agreement or instrument to which the Company is a
party or by which the Company is bound or to which any of the property or assets
of the Company is subject, nor will such action result in any violation of the
provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation or the By-Laws of the Company or
any statute or any order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency
or body having jurisdiction over the Company, or any of its properties; and no
consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or
with any such court or governmental agency or body is required for the issue and
sale of the Publicly Offered Certificates or the consummation by the Company of
the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Pooling and Servicing
Agreement, the Bill of Sale or the Assignment Agreements except such as have
been obtained under the Act, and such consents, approvals, authorizations,
registrations or qualifications as may be required under state securities or
Blue Sky laws in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Publicly
Offered Certificates by the Underwriter;
(l) The statements set forth in the Transaction FWP and the
Prospectus under the caption "Description of the Certificates," insofar as they
purport to constitute a summary of the terms of the Publicly Offered
Certificates and insofar as they purport to describe the provisions of the
documents referred to therein, are accurate, complete and fair;
(m) Other than as set forth or contemplated in the Time of Sale
Information or the Prospectus, there are no legal or governmental proceedings
pending to which the Company is a party or of which any property of the Company
is the subject that, if determined adversely to the Company, would individually
or in the aggregate have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial
or otherwise), earnings, affairs, business, properties or prospects of the
Company, and, to the best of the Company's knowledge, no such proceedings are
threatened or contemplated by governmental authorities or threatened by others;
(n) The Company will, at the Time of Delivery, own the Mortgage
Loans, free and clear of any lien, mortgage, pledge, charge, security interest
or other encumbrance, and, at the Time of Delivery, the Company will have full
power and authority to sell and deliver the Mortgage Loans to the Trustee under
the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and at the Time of Delivery will have duly
authorized such assignment and delivery to the Trustee by all necessary action;
(o) Any taxes, fees and other governmental charges in connection
with the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement, the Bill of Sale, the Assignment Agreements and the
Publicly Offered Certificates will have been paid at or prior to the Time of
Delivery;
(p) At the Time of Delivery, the Mortgage Loans will have been duly
and validly assigned and delivered by the Company to the Trustee;
(q) The Company is not, and on the date on which the first bona fide
offer of the Publicly Offered Certificates is made (within the meaning of Rule
164(h)(2) under the Act) will not be, an "ineligible issuer," as defined in Rule
405 under the Act.
(r) The Trust created by the Pooling and Servicing Agreement will
not at the Time of Delivery be required to be registered under the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "Investment Company Act"); and
(s) The Company is not and at the Time of Delivery will not be an
"investment company," as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act.
2. The Underwriter represents and warrants to, and agrees with, the
Company, that:
(a) In relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area
which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a "Relevant Member
State"), the Underwriter has not made and will not make an offer of
Publicly Offered Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State
prior to the publication of a prospectus in relation to the Publicly
Offered Certificates which has been approved by the competent authority in
that Relevant Member State or, where appropriate, approved in another
Relevant Member State and notified to the competent authority in that
Relevant Member State, all in accordance with the Prospectus Directive,
except that it may, with effect from and including the relevant
implementation date, make an offer of Publicly Offered Certificates to the
public in that Relevant Member State at any time:
(A) to legal entities which are authorized or regulated
to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized
or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in
securities;
(B) to any legal entity which has two or more of (1) an
average of at least 250 employees during the last financial
year, (2) a total balance sheet of more than (euro)43,000,000
and (3) an annual net turnover of more than (euro)50,000,000,
as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts; or
(C) in any other circumstances which do not require the
publication by the issuer of a prospectus pursuant to Article
3 of the Prospectus Directive.
For the purposes of this provision, the expression "offer of
Publicly Offered Certificates to the public" in relation to any Publicly Offered
Certificates in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form
and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the
Publicly Offered Certificates to be offered so as to enable an investor to
decide to purchase or subscribe the Publicly Offered Certificates, as the same
may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus
Directive in that Member State and the expression "Prospectus Directive" means
the European Commission Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant
implementing measure in each Relevant Member State.
(b) (i) The Underwriter's ordinary activities involve it in
acquiring, holding, managing or disposing of investments (as principal or
agent) for the purposes of its business and (ii) the Underwriter has not
offered or sold and will not offer or sell the Publicly Offered
Certificates other than to persons whose ordinary activities involve them
in acquiring, holding, managing or disposing of investments (as principal
or agent) for the purposes of their businesses or who it is reasonable to
expect will acquire, hold, manage or dispose of investments (as principal
or agent) for the purposes of their businesses where the issue of the
certificates would otherwise constitute a contravention of Section 19 of
the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the "FSMA");
(c) The Underwriter has only communicated or caused to be
communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated an
invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the
meaning of Section 21 of the FSMA) received by it in connection with the
issue or sale of the Publicly Offered Certificates in circumstances in
which Section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to the issuer.
(d) The Underwriter has complied and will comply with all applicable
provisions of the FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to
the Publicly Offered Certificates in, from or otherwise involving the
United Kingdom.
3. Subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company
agrees to sell to the Underwriter, and the Underwriter agrees to purchase from
the Company, at a purchase price determined in accordance with Schedule II
hereto, the principal amount of the Publicly Offered Certificates in accordance
with Schedule III hereto. Upon the authorization by the Company of the release
of the Publicly Offered Certificates, the Underwriter proposes to offer the
Publicly Offered Certificates for sale to the public (which may include selected
dealers) upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Time of Sale Information
and the Prospectus.
4. (a) The Class A-1, Class A-2A, Class A-2B, Class A-2C, Class
A-2D, Class M-1, Class M-2, Class M-3, Class M-4, Class M-5, Class M-6, Class
M-7, Class M-8 and Class M-9 Certificates to be purchased by the Underwriter
will be represented by one or more definitive global Certificates in book-entry
form, which will be deposited by or on behalf of the Company with The Depository
Trust Company ("DTC") or its designated custodian. The Company will deliver such
Publicly Offered Certificates to the Underwriter, against payment by or on
behalf of the Underwriter of the purchase price therefor by wire transfer to the
Company of Federal (same day) funds, by causing DTC to credit such Publicly
Offered Certificates to the account of the Underwriter at DTC. The Class R,
Class RC and Class RX Certificates will be represented by one or more definitive
Certificates in the physical form. The Company will cause the certificates
representing such Publicly Offered Certificates to be made available to the
Underwriter for checking at least twenty-four hours prior to the Time of
Delivery at an office designated by the Underwriter (the "Designated Office").
The time and date of such delivery and payment shall be 10:00 a.m., New York
City time, on February 23, 2007, or such other time and date as the Underwriter
and the Company may agree upon in writing. Such time and date are herein called
the "Time of Delivery" and such date is herein called the "Closing Date."
(b) The documents to be delivered at the Time of Delivery by or on
behalf of the parties hereto pursuant to Section 7 hereof, including the
cross-receipt for the Publicly Offered Certificates and any additional documents
requested by the Underwriter pursuant to Section 7(t) hereof, will be delivered
at the offices of Cadwalader, Xxxxxxxxxx & Xxxx LLP ("Cadwalader") at One World
Financial Center, New York, New York 10281 (the "Closing Location"), and the
Publicly Offered Certificates will be delivered at the Designated Office, all at
the Time of Delivery. A meeting will be held at the Closing Location at 3:00
p.m., New York City time, on the New York Business Day next preceding the Time
of Delivery, at which meeting the final drafts of the documents to be delivered
pursuant to the preceding sentence will be available for review by the parties
hereto. For the purposes of this Section 4, "New York Business Day" shall mean
each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday that is not a day on which
banking institutions in New York City are generally authorized or obligated by
law or executive order to close.
5. The Company agrees with the Underwriter:
(a) If required, to file the Prospectus with the Commission pursuant
to and in accordance with Rule 424(b) not later than the time specified therein,
and, if required, subject to Section 11, to file any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus to the extent required by Rule 433 under the Act. The Company will
advise the Underwriter promptly of any such filing pursuant to Rule 424(b) or
Rule 433;
(b) To make no amendment or any supplement to the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus as amended or supplemented, or to prepare, use,
authorize, approve, refer to or file any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, in each
case prior to the Closing Date, without furnishing the Underwriter with a copy
of the proposed form thereof and providing the Underwriter with a reasonable
opportunity to review the same; and during such same period to advise the
Underwriter, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the time when any
amendment to the Registration Statement has been filed or becomes effective or
any supplement to the Prospectus as amended or supplemented or any amended
Prospectus has been filed or mailed for filing or any such Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus has been prepared, used, authorized, approved, referred to or filed,
of the issuance of any stop order by the Commission, of the suspension of the
qualification of any of the Publicly Offered Certificates for offering or sale
in any jurisdiction, of the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for any
such purpose, or of any request by the Commission for the amending or
supplementing of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or an Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus as amended or supplemented or for additional information;
and, in the event of the issuance of any such stop order or of any order
preventing or suspending the use of any prospectus relating to the Publicly
Offered Certificates or suspending any such qualification, to use promptly its
best efforts to obtain its withdrawal;
(c) Promptly from time to time to take such action as the
Underwriter may reasonably request in order to qualify the Publicly Offered
Certificates for offering and sale under the securities laws of such states as
the Underwriter may request and to continue such qualifications in effect so
long as necessary under such laws for the distribution of such Publicly Offered
Certificates; provided, that in connection therewith neither the Trust nor the
Company shall be required to qualify to do business, or to file a general
consent to service of process in any jurisdiction, and provided, further, that
the expense of maintaining any such qualification more than one year from the
Closing Date with respect to such Publicly Offered Certificates shall be at the
Underwriter's expense;
(d) To furnish the Underwriter with copies of the Registration
Statement (including exhibits) and copies of the Prospectus and each Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus as amended or supplemented in such quantities as the
Underwriter may from time to time reasonably request; and if, before a period of
six months shall have elapsed after the Closing Date and the delivery of a
prospectus shall be at the time required by law (or required to be delivered but
for Rule 172 under the Act) in connection with sales of any Publicly Offered
Certificates, either (i) any event shall have occurred as a result of which the
Prospectus or an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as the case may be, would
include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material
fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or (ii) for any other
reason it shall be necessary during such same period to amend or supplement the
Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, or an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as
the case may be, to notify the Underwriter and upon its request to prepare and
furnish without charge to the Underwriter and to any dealer in securities as
many copies as the Underwriter may from time to time reasonably request an
amendment or a supplement to the Prospectus or an Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus, as the case may be, which will correct such statement or omission or
effect such compliance; and in case the Underwriter is required by law to
deliver a prospectus in connection with sales of any of such Publicly Offered
Certificates at any time six months or more after the Closing Date, upon the
Underwriter's request, but at its own expense, to prepare and deliver to the
Underwriter as many copies as the Underwriter may request of an amended or
supplemented prospectus complying with the Act;
(e) To make generally available upon request to holders of the
Publicly Offered Certificates as soon as practicable, but in any event no later
than eighteen months after the Closing Date, an earnings statement of the
Company complying with Rule 158 under the Act and covering a period of at least
twelve consecutive months beginning after the Closing Date;
(f) So long as any of the Publicly Offered Certificates are
outstanding, to furnish the Underwriter copies of all reports or other
communications (financial or other) furnished to holders of Certificates, and to
deliver to the Underwriter during such same period, (i) as soon as they are
available, copies of any reports and financial statements furnished to or filed
with the Commission; (ii) copies of each amendment to any of the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement and the Assignment Agreement; and (iii) such additional
information concerning the business and financial condition of the Company or
the Trust as the Underwriter may from time to time reasonably request; and
(g) Not to be or become an open-end investment company, unit
investment trust, closed-end investment company or face-amount certificate
company that is or is required to be registered under Section 8 of the
Investment Company Act.
6. The Company covenants and agrees with the Underwriter that the
Company will pay or cause to be paid the following: (i) the Commission's filing
fees with respect to the Publicly Offered Certificates; (ii) the fees,
disbursements and expenses of counsel and accountants for the Company in
connection with the issue of the Publicly Offered Certificates and all other
expenses in connection with the preparation and printing of all amendments and
supplements thereto and the mailing and delivery of copies thereof to the
Underwriter and dealers; (iii) the cost of printing or producing this Agreement,
the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, any Blue Sky Supplement and any term
sheets, computational materials, preliminary and final prospectus supplements
and any other document produced in connection with the offering, purchase, sale
and delivery of the Publicly Offered Certificates; (iv) all expenses in
connection with the qualification of the Publicly Offered Certificates for
offering and sale under state securities laws as provided in Section 5(c)
hereof, including the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriter in
connection with such qualification and in connection with the Blue Sky
Supplement; (v) any fees charged by securities rating services for rating the
Publicly Offered Certificates; (vi) the cost of preparing the Publicly Offered
Certificates; (vii) the fees and expenses of the Trustee and of any agent of the
Trustee and the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Trustee in connection
with the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the Publicly Offered Certificates;
(viii) any cost incurred in connection with the designation of the Publicly
Offered Certificates for trading in PORTAL; and (ix) all other costs and
expenses incident to the performance of the Company's obligations hereunder that
are not otherwise specifically provided for in this Section. It is understood,
however, that, except as provided in this Section 6, Section 8 and Section 10
hereof, the Underwriter will pay all of its own costs and expenses, including
the fees of its counsel, transfer taxes on resale of any of the Publicly Offered
Certificates by it and any advertising expenses connected with any offers it may
make.
7. The obligations of the Underwriter hereunder shall be subject, in
its discretion, to the condition that all representations and warranties and
other statements of the Company herein are, at and as of the Time of Delivery,
true and correct, the condition that the Company shall have performed all of its
obligations hereunder theretofore to be performed, and the following additional
conditions:
(a) The Pooling and Servicing Agreement, the Bill of Sale, the
Assignment Agreements and all of the other agreements identified in such
agreements shall have been duly entered into by all of the respective parties;
(b) Cadwalader, counsel to the Company and the Underwriter, shall
have furnished to the Underwriter its written opinions, dated the Time of
Delivery, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriter;
(c) In-house counsel for the Company shall have furnished to the
Underwriter a written opinion, dated the Time of Delivery, in form and substance
satisfactory to the Underwriter;
(d) Counsel for Aames satisfactory to the Underwriter shall have
furnished to the Underwriter its written opinion, dated the Time of Delivery, in
form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriter and counsel for the
Underwriter;
(e) Counsel for Decision One satisfactory to the Underwriter shall
have furnished to the Underwriter its written opinion, dated the Time of
Delivery, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriter and counsel for
the Underwriter;
(f) Counsel for NovaStar satisfactory to the Underwriter shall have
furnished to the Underwriter its officer's certificate, dated the Time of
Delivery, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriter and counsel for
the Underwriter;
(g) Counsel for the Servicer satisfactory to the Underwriter shall
have furnished to the Underwriter its written opinion, dated the Time of
Delivery, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriter and counsel for
the Underwriter;
(h) Counsel for each Custodian satisfactory to the Underwriter shall
have furnished to the Underwriter its written opinion, dated the Time of
Delivery, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriter and counsel for
the Underwriter;
(i) Counsel for the Securities Administrator satisfactory to the
Underwriter shall have furnished to the Underwriter its written opinion, dated
the Time of Delivery, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriter and
counsel for the Underwriter;
(j) Counsel for the Master Servicer satisfactory to the Underwriter
shall have furnished to the Underwriter its written opinion, dated the Time of
Delivery, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriter and counsel for
the Underwriter;
(k) Counsel for the Trustee satisfactory to the Underwriter shall
have furnished to the Underwriter its written opinion, dated as of the Time of
Delivery, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriter and counsel for
the Underwriter;
(l) The independent accountants of the Company or other accountants
acceptable to the Underwriter shall have furnished to the Underwriter a letter
or letters, dated on the date hereof, and a letter or letters, dated the Time of
Delivery, respectively, containing statements and information of the type
customarily included in accountants' "comfort letters" and "agreed upon
procedures letters" with respect to certain financial information contained in
the Prospectus, in each case as to such matters as the Underwriter may
reasonably request and in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriter;
(m) (i) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall have
sustained since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or
incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus as
amended prior to the Time of Delivery any loss or interference with its business
from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by
insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or
decree, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Time of Sale
Information or the Prospectus as amended prior to the Time of Delivery and (ii)
since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Time of Sale
Information or the Prospectus as amended prior to the Time of Delivery there
shall not have been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries or any change, or any development involving a
prospective change, in or affecting the general affairs, management, financial
position, shareholders' equity or results of operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Time of Sale
Information or the Prospectus as amended prior to the Time of Delivery, the
effect of which, in any such case described in clause (i) or (ii), is in the
judgment of the Underwriter so material and adverse as to make it impracticable
or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or the delivery of the Publicly
Offered Certificates on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of
Sale Information or the Prospectus as first amended or supplemented;
(n) On or after the date hereof (i) no downgrading shall have
occurred in the rating accorded the Company's debt securities or preferred stock
by any "nationally recognized statistical rating organization," as that term is
defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2)
under the Act, and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that
it has under surveillance or review, with possible negative implications, its
rating of any of the Company's debt securities or preferred stock;
(o) On or after the date hereof, there shall not have occurred any
of the following: (i) a suspension or material limitation in trading in
securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange; (ii) a general moratorium
on commercial banking activities in New York declared by either Federal or New
York State authorities or any material disruption in commercial banking or
securities settlement or clearance services in the United States; or (iii) the
outbreak or escalation of hostilities involving the United States or the
declaration by the United States of a national emergency or war; or (iv) the
occurrence of any other calamity or crisis or any change in the financial,
political or economic conditions in the United States or elsewhere, if the
effect of any such event specified in clause (iii) or (iv) in the judgment of
the Underwriter makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public
offering or the delivery of the Publicly Offered Certificates on the terms and
in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus;
(p) The Company shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to
the Underwriter at the Time of Delivery certificates of its officers
satisfactory to the Underwriter as to the accuracy in all material respects of
its representations and warranties herein at and as of such Time of Delivery, as
to the performance of all of its obligations hereunder to be performed at or
prior to such Time of Delivery, as to the matters set forth in Section 7(a)
above and as to such other matters as the Underwriter may reasonably request;
(q) The Underwriter shall have received evidence satisfactory to it
that the Publicly Offered Certificates are rated not lower than the ratings set
forth in the Prospectus Supplement under the heading "Ratings";
(r) All opinions, certificates and other documents incident to, and
all proceedings in connection with the transactions contemplated by, this
Agreement, the Assignment Agreements, the Bill of Sale and the Pooling and
Servicing Agreement shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the
Underwriter and its special counsel;
(s) The Registration Statement shall be effective under the Act and
no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has
been issued and no proceeding for that purpose has been instituted or threatened
by the Commission and the Prospectus Supplement and each Free Writing Prospectus
required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Section 5(a) shall have been
filed or transmitted for filing by means reasonably calculated to result in a
filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Act or Rule 433
under the Act, as applicable; and
(t) The Underwriter and its special counsel shall have received
copies of all documents and other information as they may reasonably request, in
form and substance satisfactory, to the Underwriter and its special counsel,
with respect to such transactions and the taking of all proceedings in
connection therewith.
8. (a) The Company will indemnify and hold harmless the Underwriter
against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which
the Underwriter may become subject, under the Act, the Exchange Act or
otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in
respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon (1) an untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration
Statement or Prospectus or arise out of or are based upon the omission or
alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein
or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and, in the case of
clauses (1), (2) and (3), will reimburse the Underwriter for any legal or other
expenses reasonably incurred by the Underwriter in connection with investigating
or defending any such action or claim or (2) any untrue statement or alleged
untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus or any Issuer Information contained in any Underwriter Free Writing
Prospectus (as defined herein), or the omission or alleged omission to state a
material fact necessary to make the statements therein (when read in conjunction
with the other Time of Sale Information), in light of the circumstances under
which they were made, not misleading, which was not corrected by Corrective
Information subsequently supplied by the Company to the Underwriter within a
reasonable period of time prior to the Time of Sale, or (3) any breach of the
representation and warranty in Section 1(q), and, in the case of clauses (1),
(2) and (3), will reimburse the Underwriter for any legal or other expenses
reasonably incurred by the Underwriter in connection with investigating or
defending any such action or claim; provided, however, that the Company shall
not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage
or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged
untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in reliance upon and in
conformity with (i) information with respect to which the Underwriter has agreed
to indemnify the Company pursuant to Section 8(b).
(b) The Underwriter will indemnify and hold harmless the Company
against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which the Company may
become subject, under the Act, the Exchange Act or otherwise, insofar as such
losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out
of or are based upon (i) any untrue statements or alleged untrue statements of a
material fact, or omissions or alleged omissions to state a material fact
necessary to make the statements therein (when read in conjunction with the Time
of Sale Information), in the light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading, in the Underwriter Statements and (ii) any untrue
statements or alleged untrue statements of a material fact in any Underwriter
Free Writing Prospectus or any omission or alleged omission to state in such
Underwriter Free Writing Prospectus a material fact necessary in order to make
the statements therein (when read in conjunction with the Time of Sale
Information), in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading; provided, that the Underwriter shall not be obligated to so
indemnify and hold harmless (A) to the extent such loss, liability, claim,
damage or expense is caused by a misstatement or omission resulting from an
error or omission in the Issuer Information which was not corrected by
Corrective Information subsequently supplied by the Company to the Underwriter
within a reasonable period of time prior to the Time of Sale or (B) with respect
to information that is also contained in the Time of Sale Information.
(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under subsection
(a) or (b) above of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified
party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the
indemnifying party under such subsection, notify the indemnifying party in
writing of the commencement thereof; but the omission so to notify the
indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have to
any indemnified party otherwise than under such subsection. In case any such
action shall be brought against any indemnified party and it shall notify the
indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party shall be
entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it shall wish, jointly
with any other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense
thereof, with counsel satisfactory to such indemnified party (who shall not,
except with the consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying
party), and, after notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party
of its election so to assume the defense thereof the indemnifying party shall
not be liable to such indemnified party under such subsection for any legal
expenses of other counsel or any other expenses, in each case subsequently
incurred by such indemnified party, in connection with the defense thereof other
than reasonable costs of investigation.
(d) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 8 is
unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under
subsection (a) or (b) above in respect of any losses, claims, damages or
liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to therein, then each
indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such
indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or
actions in respect thereof) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the
relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriter on
the other from the offering of the Publicly Offered Certificates to which such
loss, claim, damage or liability (or actions in respect thereof) relates. If,
however, the allocation provided by the immediately preceding sentence is not
permitted by applicable law or if the indemnified party failed to give the
notice required under subsection (c) above, then each indemnifying party shall
contribute to such amount paid or payable by such indemnified party in such
proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only such relative benefits but also
the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Underwriter on the
other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such
losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof), as well
as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received
by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriter on the other shall be deemed
to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from such offering
(before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear to the total
underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriter. The relative
fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the
untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged
omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company
on the one hand or the Underwriter on the other and the parties' relative
intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent
such statement or omission. The Company and the Underwriter agree that it would
not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this subsection (d) were
determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation which
does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above in this
subsection (d). The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result
of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof)
referred to above in this subsection (d) shall be deemed to include any legal or
other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with
investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the
provisions of this subsection (d), the Underwriter shall not be required to
contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which
the Publicly Offered Certificates underwritten by it and distributed to the
public were offered to the public exceeds the amount of any damages which the
Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or
alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of
fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act)
shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such
fraudulent misrepresentation.
(e) The obligations of the Company under this Section 8 shall be in
addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have and shall extend,
upon the same terms and conditions, to each person, if any, who controls the
Underwriter within the meaning of the Act; and the obligations of the
Underwriter with respect to any Publicly Offered Certificates under this Section
8 shall be in addition to any liability which the Underwriter may otherwise have
and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each officer and
director of the Company and to each person, if any, who controls the Company
within the meaning of the Act.
9. The respective indemnities, agreements, representations,
warranties and other statements of the Company and the Underwriter as set forth
in this Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any
investigation (or any statement as to the results thereof) made in connection
with the issuance of the Certificates by or on behalf of the Underwriter or any
controlling person of the Underwriter, or the Company, or any officer or
director or controlling person of the Company and shall survive delivery of and
payment for the Publicly Offered Certificates.
10. If for any reason the Publicly Offered Certificates are not
delivered by or on behalf of the Securities Administrator as provided herein,
other than by the Underwriter's failure to comply with its obligations
hereunder, the Company will reimburse the Underwriter for all out-of-pocket
expenses, including fees and disbursements of counsel, reasonably incurred by
the Underwriter in making preparations for the purchase, sale and delivery of
the Publicly Offered Certificates, but the Company shall be under no further
liability to the Underwriter with respect to such Publicly Offered Certificates
except as provided in Section 6 and Section 8 hereof.
11. (a) In connection with the offering of the Publicly Offered
Certificates, the Underwriter may prepare and provide to prospective investors
Free Writing Prospectuses (as defined below), or portions thereof, which the
Company is required to file with the Commission in electronic format and will
use reasonable efforts to provide to the Company such Free Writing Prospectuses,
or portions thereof, in either Microsoft Word(R) or Microsoft Excel(R) format
and not in a PDF, except to the extent that the Company, in its sole discretion,
waives such requirements, subject to the following conditions (to which such
conditions the Underwriter agrees):
(i) Unless preceded or accompanied by the Prospectus, the
Underwriter shall not convey or deliver any written communication to any
person in connection with the initial offering of the Publicly Offered
Certificates, unless such written communication (1) is made in reliance on
Rule 134 under the Act, (2) constitutes a prospectus satisfying the
requirements of Rule 430B under the Act or (3) constitutes Time of Sale
Information or a Free Writing Prospectus that does not constitute Time of
Sale Information. Without the Company's prior written consent, the
Underwriter shall not convey or deliver in connection with the initial
offering of the Publicly Offered Certificates any "ABS informational and
computational material," as defined in Item 1101(a) of Regulation AB under
the Act ("ABS Informational and Computational Material"), in reliance upon
Rules 167 and 426 under the Act.
(ii) The Underwriter shall deliver to the Company, no later than two
business days prior to the date of first use thereof or such later date as
may be agreed to by the Company, (a) any Free Writing Prospectus that was
prepared by or on behalf of the Underwriter (an "Underwriter Free Writing
Prospectus") and contains any "issuer information," as defined in Rule
433(h) under the Act and footnote 271 of the Commission's Securities
Offering Reform Release No. 33-8591 ("Issuer Information"), and (b) any
Free Writing Prospectus or portion thereof that contains only a
description of the final terms of the Publicly Offered Certificates.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Free Writing Prospectus that contains
only ABS Informational and Computational Materials may be delivered by the
Underwriter to the Company not later than the later of (A) two business
days prior to the due date for filing of the Prospectus pursuant to Rule
424(b) under the Act or (B) the date of first use of such Free Writing
Prospectus.
(iii) The Underwriter represents and warrants to the Company that
the Free Writing Prospectuses to be furnished to the Company by the
Underwriter pursuant to Section 11(a)(ii) will constitute all Free Writing
Prospectuses of the type described therein that were furnished to
prospective purchasers of Publicly Offered Certificates by the Underwriter
in connection with its offer and sale of the Publicly Offered
Certificates.
(iv) The Underwriter represents and warrants to the Company that
each Free Writing Prospectus required to be provided by it to the Company
pursuant to Section 11(a)(ii), when read in conjunction with the Time of
Sale Information, did not, as of the Time of Sale, and will not as of the
Closing Date, include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit any
material fact necessary to make the statements contained therein (when
read in conjunction with the Time of Sale Information), in light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided
however, that the Underwriter makes no representation to the extent such
misstatements or omissions were the result of any inaccurate Issuer
Information, which information was not corrected by Corrective Information
subsequently supplied by the Company to the Underwriter within a
reasonable period of time prior to the Time of Sale.
(v) The Company agrees to file with the Commission the following:
(A) any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus; (B) any Free Writing Prospectus or
portion thereof delivered by the Underwriter to the Company pursuant to
Section 11(a)(ii); and (C) any Free Writing Prospectus for which the
Company or any person acting on its behalf provided, authorized or
approved information that is prepared and published or disseminated by a
person unaffiliated with the Company or any other offering participant
that is in the business of publishing, radio or television broadcasting or
otherwise disseminating communications. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
Company shall not be required to file (1) Issuer Information contained in
any Underwriter Free Writing Prospectus or Free Writing Prospectus of any
other offering participant other than the Company, if such information is
included or incorporated by reference in a prospectus or Free Writing
Prospectus previously filed with the Commission that relates to the
offering of the Publicly Offered Certificates, or (2) any Free Writing
Prospectus or portion thereof that contains a description of the Publicly
Offered Certificates or the offering of the Publicly Offered Certificates
which does not reflect the final terms thereof.
(vi) Any Free Writing Prospectus required to be filed pursuant to
Section 11(a)(v) by the Company shall be filed with the Commission not
later than the date of first use of the Free Writing Prospectus, except
that: (A) any Free Writing Prospectus or portion thereof required to be
filed that contains only the description of the final terms of the
Publicly Offered Certificates shall be filed by the Company with the
Commission within two days of the later of the date such final terms have
been established for all classes of Publicly Offered Certificates and the
date of first use; (B) any Free Writing Prospectus or portion thereof
required to be filed that contains only ABS Informational and
Computational Material shall be filed by the Company with the Commission
not later than the later of the due date for filing the final Prospectus
relating to the Publicly Offered Certificates pursuant to Rule 424(b)
under the Act or two business days after the first use of such Free
Writing Prospectus; (C) any Free Writing Prospectus required to be filed
pursuant to Section 11(a)(v)(C) shall, if no payment has been made or
consideration has been given by or on behalf of the Company for the Free
Writing Prospectus or its dissemination, be filed by the Company with the
Commission not later than four business days after the Company becomes
aware of the publication, radio or television broadcast or other
dissemination of the Free Writing Prospectus.
(vii) The Underwriter shall file with the Commission any Free
Writing Prospectus that is used or referred to by it and distributed by or
on behalf of the Underwriter in a manner reasonably designed to lead to
its broad, unrestricted dissemination not later than the date of the first
use of such Free Writing Prospectus. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
Underwriter shall file with the Commission any Free Writing Prospectus for
which the Underwriter or any person acting on its behalf provided,
authorized or approved information that is prepared and published or
disseminated by a person unaffiliated with the Company or any other
offering participant that is in the business of publishing, radio or
television broadcasting or otherwise disseminating written communications
and for which no payment was made or consideration given by or on behalf
of the Company or any other offering participant, not later than four
business days after the Underwriter becomes aware of the publication,
radio or television broadcast or other dissemination of the Free Writing
Prospectus.
(viii) Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 11(a)(v) and
11(a)(vii), neither the Company nor the Underwriter shall be required to
file any Free Writing Prospectus that does not contain substantive changes
from or additions to a Free Writing Prospectus previously filed with the
Commission, and the Underwriter shall not be required to file any Free
Writing Prospectus to the extent that the information contained therein is
included in a prospectus or Free Writing Prospectus previously filed that
relates to the offering of the Publicly Offered Certificates.
(ix) The Company and the Underwriter each agree that any Free
Writing Prospectuses prepared by it shall contain the following legend:
The depositor has filed a registration statement (including a
prospectus) with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the
offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you
should read the prospectus in that registration statement and other
documents the depositor has filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission for more complete information about the issuer and this
offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting XXXXX on
the Securities and Exchange Commission web site at xxx.xxx.xxx.
Alternatively, the depositor, any underwriter or any dealer
participating in the offering will arrange to send you the
prospectus if you request it by calling toll-free 0-000-000-0000.
(x) (A) In the event that the Company becomes aware that, as of the
Time of Sale, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus contains any untrue
statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary
in order to make the statements contained therein (when read in
conjunction with the Time of Sale Information), in light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading (a "Defective
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus"), the Company shall notify the Underwriter
of such untrue statement or omission within one business day after
discovery and the Company shall, if requested by the Underwriter, prepare
and deliver to the Underwriter a Free Writing Prospectus that corrects the
material misstatement or omission in the Defective Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus (such corrected Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, a "Corrected
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus").
(B) In the event that the Underwriter becomes aware that, as
of the Time of Sale, any Underwriter Free Writing Prospectus
delivered to an investor in any Publicly Offered Certificates
contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to
state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements
contained therein (when read in conjunction with the Time of Sale
Information), in light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading, when considered in conjunction with the Time
of Sale Information (together with a Defective Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus, a "Defective Free Writing Prospectus"), the Underwriter
shall notify the Company of such untrue statement or omission within
one business day after discovery.
(C) The Underwriter shall, if requested by the Company:
(1) if the Defective Free Writing Prospectus was an
Underwriter Free Writing Prospectus, prepare a Free Writing
Prospectus which corrects the material misstatement in or
omission from the Defective Free Writing Prospectus (together
with a Corrected Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, a "Corrected
Free Writing Prospectus");
(2) deliver the Corrected Free Writing Prospectus to
each investor which received the Defective Free Writing
Prospectus prior to entering into a contract of sale with such
investor;
(3) notify such investor in a prominent fashion that the
prior contract of sale with the investor has been terminated,
and of the investor's rights as a result of termination of
such agreement;
(4) provide such investor with an opportunity to
affirmatively agree to purchase the Publicly Offered
Certificates on the terms described in the Corrected Free
Writing Prospectus; and
(5) comply with any other requirements for reformation
of the original contract of sale with such investor, as
described in Section IV.A.2.c of the Commission's Securities
Offering Reform Release No. 33-8591.
(D) In the event that the Defective Free Writing Prospectus
was an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and the Underwriter shall in
good faith incur any costs to an investor in connection with the
reformation of the contract of sale with the investor, the Company
agrees to reimburse the Underwriter for such costs; provided that,
before incurring such costs, the Underwriter first permits the
Company access to the applicable investor and an opportunity to
attempt to mitigate such costs through direct negotiation with such
investor.
(xi) The Underwriter covenants with the Company that after the final
Prospectus is available the Underwriter shall not distribute any written
information concerning the Publicly Offered Certificates that contains
Issuer Information to a prospective purchaser of Publicly Offered
Certificates unless such information is preceded or accompanied by the
final Prospectus.
12. All statements, requests, notices and agreements hereunder shall
be in writing or by telegram if promptly confirmed in writing, and shall be
sufficient in all respects, if delivered or sent by registered mail to the
Underwriter, to the address of the Underwriter, Attention: Registration
Department, set forth above; if to the Company, to the address of the Company
set forth in the Prospectus, Attention: President.
13. This Agreement shall be binding upon, and inure solely to the
benefit of the Underwriter, the Company and, to the extent provided in Section 8
hereof, the officers and directors of the Company and each person who controls
the Company or the Underwriter, and their respective heirs, executors,
administrators, successors and assigns, and no other person shall acquire or
have any right under or by virtue of this Agreement. No purchaser of any of the
Publicly Offered Certificates from the Underwriter shall be deemed a successor
or assign merely by reason of such purchase.
14. Time shall be of the essence of this Agreement.
15. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
16. This Agreement may be executed by any one or more of the parties
hereto in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an
original, but all such respective counterparts shall together constitute one and
the same instrument.
17. The Company is authorized, subject to applicable law, to
disclose any and all aspects of this potential transaction that are necessary to
support any U.S. federal income tax benefits expected to be claimed with respect
to such transaction, and all materials of any kind (including tax opinions and
other tax analyses) related to those benefits, without the Underwriter imposing
any limitations of any kind.
[SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS]
If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our
agreement, please sign and return to the undersigned two counterparts hereof,
whereupon this letter and your acceptance shall represent a binding agreement
between the Company and the Underwriter.
Very truly yours,
GS MORTGAGE SECURITIES CORP.
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Title: Vice President
Accepted as of the date hereof:
XXXXXXX, XXXXX & CO.
By: /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxx
Title: Managing Director
SCHEDULE I
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Approximate
Initial Class Pass-Through Ratings
Class Principal Balance(1) Rate Type (Fitch/Xxxxx'x)
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A-1 $ 39,569,000 Variable(1) Senior AAA/Aaa
A-2A $ 26,640,000 Variable(2) Senior AAA/Aaa
A-2B $ 10,651,000 Variable(3) Senior AAA/Aaa
A-2C $ 42,000,000 Variable(4) Senior AAA/Aaa
A-2D $ 30,472,000 Variable(5) Senior AAA/Aaa
M-1 $ 10,157,000 Variable(6) Subordinate AA+/Aa1
M-2 $ 61,559,000 Variable(7) Subordinate AA/Aa2
M-3 $ 12,480,000 Variable(8) Subordinate AA-/Aa3
M-4 $ 11,532,000 Variable(9) Subordinate A+/A1
M-5 $ 10,622,000 Variable(10) Subordinate A/A2
M-6 $ 6,069,000 Variable(11) Subordinate A-/A3
M-7 $ 5,615,000 Variable(12) Subordinate BBB+/Baa1
M-8 $ 5,614,000 Variable(13) Subordinate BBB/Baa2
M-9 $ 5,007,000 Variable(14) Subordinate BBB-/Baa3
R $ 4,553,000 N/A(15) Senior/Residual AAA/N/A
RC $ 4,248,000 N/A(15) Senior/Residual AAA/N/A
RX $ 4,401,000 N/A(15) Senior/Residual AAA/N/A
(1) The Class A-1 certificates will have a pass-through rate equal to the
least of (i) one-month LIBOR plus 0.140% (0.280% after the first
distribution date on which the optional clean-up call is exercisable),
(ii) the Loan Group I Cap, as described in the Prospectus Supplement under
"Description of the Certificates--Calculation of Interest and Principal"
and (iii) the WAC Cap, as described in the Prospectus Supplement under
"Description of the Certificates--Calculation of Interest and Principal."
(2) The Class A-2A certificates will have a pass-through rate equal to the
least of (i) one-month LIBOR plus 0.060% (0.120% after the first
distribution date on which the optional clean-up call is exercisable),
(ii) the Loan Group II Cap, as described in the Prospectus Supplement
under "Description of the Certificates--Calculation of Interest and
Principal" and (iii) the WAC Cap.
(3) The Class A-2B certificates will have a pass-through rate equal to the
least of (i) one-month LIBOR plus 0.100% (0.200% after the first
distribution date on which the optional clean-up call is exercisable),
(ii) the Loan Group II Cap and (iii) the WAC Cap.
(4) The Class A-2C certificates will have a pass-through rate equal to the
least of (i) one-month LIBOR plus 0.150% (0.300% after the first
distribution date on which the optional clean-up call is exercisable),
(ii) the Loan Group II Cap and (iii) the WAC Cap.
(5) The Class A-2D certificates will have a pass-through rate equal to the
least of (i) one-month LIBOR plus 0.230% (0.460% after the first
distribution date on which the optional clean-up call is exercisable),
(ii) the Loan Group II Cap and (iii) the WAC Cap.
(6) The Class M-1 certificates will have a pass-through rate equal to the
lesser of (i) one-month LIBOR plus 0.250% (0.375% after the first
distribution date on which the optional clean-up call is exercisable) and
(ii) the WAC Cap.
(7) The Class M-2 certificates will have a pass-through rate equal to the
lesser of (i) one-month LIBOR plus 0.320% (0.480% after the first
distribution date on which the optional clean-up call is exercisable) and
(ii) the WAC Cap.
(8) The Class M-3 certificates will have a pass-through rate equal to the
lesser of (i) one-month LIBOR plus 0.340% (0.510% after the first
distribution date on which the optional clean-up call is exercisable) and
(ii) the WAC Cap.
(9) The Class M-4 certificates will have a pass-through rate equal to the
lesser of (i) one-month LIBOR plus 0.410% (0.615% after the first
distribution date on which the optional clean-up call is exercisable) and
(ii) the WAC Cap.
(10) The Class M-5 certificates will have a pass-through rate equal to the
lesser of (i) one-month LIBOR plus 0.470% (0.705% after the first
distribution date on which the optional clean-up call is exercisable) and
(ii) the WAC Cap.
(11) The Class M-6 certificates will have a pass-through rate equal to the
lesser of (i) one-month LIBOR plus 0.520% (0.780% after the first
distribution date on which the optional clean-up call is exercisable) and
(ii) the WAC Cap.
(12) The Class M-7 certificates will have a pass-through rate equal to the
lesser of (i) one-month LIBOR plus 1.200% (1.800% after the first
distribution date on which the optional clean-up call is exercisable) and
(ii) the WAC Cap.
(13) The Class M-8 certificates will have a pass-through rate equal to the
lesser of (i) one-month LIBOR plus 1.750% (2.625% after the first
distribution date on which the optional clean-up call is exercisable) and
(ii) the WAC Cap.
(14) The Class M-9 certificates will have a pass-through rate equal to the
lesser of (i) one-month LIBOR plus 2.500% (3.750% after the first
distribution date on which the optional clean-up call is exercisable) and
(ii) the WAC Cap.
(15) The Class R, Class RC and Class RX certificates are not entitled to
receive any distributions of interest.
SCHEDULE II
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Purchase Price
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The purchase price for the Publicly Offered Certificates shall equal
approximately 99.594% of the aggregate class principal balance of the Publicly
Offered Certificates set forth on Schedule I.
SCHEDULE III
Principal Amount of Certificates
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Principal Principal Principal Principal Principal Principal Principal
Amount of Amount of Amount of Amount of Amount of Amount of Amount of
Underwriter Class A-1 Class A-2A Class A-2B Class A-2C Class A-2D Class M-1 Class M-2
-------------------- ------------ ------------ ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- -----------
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx & Co. $205,454,000 $149,399,000 $44,191,000 $59,585,000 $15,726,000 $25,691,000 $32,668,000
Total .............. $205,454,000 $149,399,000 $44,191,000 $59,585,000 $15,726,000 $25,691,000 $32,668,000
Principal Principal Principal Principal Principal Principal Principal
Amount of Amount of Amount of Amount of Amount of Amount of Amount of
Underwriter Class M-3 Class M-4 Class M-5 Class M-6 Class M-7 Class M-8 Class M-9
-------------------- ------------ ------------ ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- -----------
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx & Co. $13,367,000 $12,063,000 $14,019,000 $9,129,000 $9,129,000 $8,150,000 $9,129,000
Total .............. $13,367,000 $12,063,000 $14,019,000 $9,129,000 $9,129,000 $8,150,000 $9,129,000
Principal Principal Principal
Amount of Amount of Amount of
Underwriter Class R Class RC Class RX
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Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx & Co. $50 $100 $50
Total .............. $50 $100 $50
SCHEDULE IV
Other Free Writing Prospectuses
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None.
