EX-1 2 algftrust20073exh1.txt EXHIBIT 1 SERIES INSTRUMENT ================================================================================ ALLSTATE LIFE GLOBAL FUNDING TRUST 2007-3 SERIES INSTRUMENT ================================================================================ i
TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE PART A TRUST AGREEMENT............................................................................. 1 PART B ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AGREEMENT........................................................... 3 PART C SUPPORT AND EXPENSES AGREEMENT.............................................................. 5 PART D NAME LICENSING AGREEMENT.................................................................... 7 PART E TERMS AGREEMENT............................................................................. 9 PART F COORDINATION AGREEMENT...................................................................... 13 PART G INDENTURE................................................................................... 18 PART H FUNDING NOTE INDENTURE...................................................................... 20 PART I MISCELLANEOUS AND EXECUTION PAGES........................................................... 22 EXHIBIT A STANDARD TRUST AGREEMENT TERMS............................................................. A-1 EXHIBIT B STANDARD ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AGREEMENT TERMS........................................... B-1 EXHIBIT C STANDARD SUPPORT AND EXPENSES AGREEMENT TERMS.............................................. C-1 EXHIBIT D STANDARD NAME LICENSING AGREEMENT TERMS.................................................... D-1 EXHIBIT E DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT..................................................................... E-1 EXHIBIT F CERTIFICATE OF TRUST....................................................................... F-1 EXHIBIT G STANDARD INDENTURE TERMS................................................................... G-1 EXHIBIT H STANDARD FUNDING NOTE INDENTURE TERMS...................................................... H-1 ANNEX A PRICING SUPPLEMENT...................................................................... A-A-1 ANNEX B DELAWARE TRUSTEE SERVICE FEE SCHEDULE................................................... A-B-1 ANNEX C ADMINISTRATOR SERVICE FEE SCHEDULE...................................................... A-C-1 ANNEX D AGENT NOTICE INFORMATION................................................................ A-D-1 ANNEX E INDENTURE SERVICE FEE SCHEDULE.......................................................... A-E-1
WHEREAS, the parties named herein desire to enter into certain documents relating to the issuance by Allstate Life Global Funding Trust 2007-3 (the "Trust") of Notes to investors under Allstate Life Global Funding's ("Global Funding") secured medium term notes program; WHEREAS, the Trust will be created under and its activities will be governed by (i) the provisions of the Trust Agreement (set forth in Part A of this Series Instrument), dated as of the date of the Pricing Supplement (attached to this Series Instrument as Annex A) (the "Pricing Supplement"), between the parties thereto indicated in Part I hereof, and (ii) the Certificate of Trust (attached as Exhibit F to this Series Instrument); WHEREAS, the Trust will be administered pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Services Agreement (set forth in Part B of this Series Instrument), dated as of the date of the Pricing Supplement, between the parties thereto indicated in Part I hereof; WHEREAS, certain costs and expenses of the Trust and the service providers to the Trust will be paid pursuant to the Support and Expenses Agreement (set forth in Part C of this Series Instrument), dated as of the date of the Pricing Supplement, between the parties thereto indicated in Part I hereof; WHEREAS, certain licensing arrangements between the Trust and Allstate Insurance Company will be governed pursuant to the provisions of the Name Licensing Agreement (set forth in Part D of this Series Instrument), dated as of the date of the Pricing Supplement, between the parties thereto indicated in Part I hereof; WHEREAS, the sale of the Notes will be governed by the Terms Agreement (set forth in Part E of this Series Instrument), dated as of the date of the Pricing Supplement, among the parties thereto indicated in Part I hereof; WHEREAS, certain agreements relating to the Notes and the Funding Agreement(s) are set forth in the Coordination Agreement (set forth in Part F of this Series Instrument), dated as of the date of the Pricing Supplement, among the parties thereto indicated in Part I hereof; WHEREAS, the Notes will be issued pursuant to the Indenture (set forth in Part G hereof) (the "Indenture"), effective as of the Original Issue Date specified in the Pricing Supplement (the "Original Issue Date"), between the parties thereto indicated in Part I hereof; WHEREAS, the Funding Note will be issued pursuant to the Funding Note Indenture (set forth in Part H hereof), effective as of the Original Issue Date, between the parties thereto indicated in Part I hereof; and All capitalized terms used in the above recitals and not otherwise defined will have the meanings set forth in the Indenture. PART A TRUST AGREEMENT This TRUST AGREEMENT, dated as of the date of the Pricing Supplement attached to the Series Instrument as Annex A (the "Pricing Supplement"), among Allstate Life Global Funding, a Delaware statutory trust, as trust beneficial owner (the "Trust Beneficial Owner"), AMACAR Pacific Corp., a Delaware corporation, as the sole administrator of the Trust (the "Administrator") and Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, as Delaware trustee (the "Delaware Trustee"), W I T N E S S E T H: WHEREAS, the Trust Beneficial Owner, the Administrator and the Delaware Trustee desire to authorize the issuance of Notes in connection with the entry into this Trust Agreement; WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Trust Agreement a valid and legally binding agreement of the Delaware Trustee, the Administrator and the Trust Beneficial Owner, enforceable in accordance with its terms, have been done; WHEREAS, the parties intend to provide for, among other things, (i) the issuance and sale of the Notes (pursuant to the Indenture set forth in Part G of the Series Instrument and the Terms Agreement set forth in Part E of the Series Instrument), (ii) the use of the proceeds of the sale of the Notes to acquire the Funding Note, which will be surrendered in consideration for the Funding Agreement(s), and (iii) all other actions deemed necessary or desirable in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Trust Agreement; and WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to incorporate by reference the Standard Trust Agreement Terms attached to the Series Instrument as Exhibit A (the "Standard Trust Agreement Terms," together with this Trust Agreement, collectively, the "Trust Agreement"); NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements and obligations set forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, each party hereby agrees as follows: ARTICLE 1 SECTION 1.1 Incorporation by Reference. All terms, provisions and agreements of the Standard Trust Agreement Terms (except to the extent expressly modified herein) are hereby incorporated herein by reference with the same force and effect as though fully set forth herein. To the extent that the terms set forth in Article 2 of this Trust Agreement are inconsistent with the terms of the Standard Trust Agreement Terms, the terms set forth in Article 2 hereof shall apply. SECTION 1.2 Definitions. "Series Instrument" means the Series Instrument in which this Trust Agreement is included as Part A. All capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this Trust Agreement shall have the meanings set forth in the Standard Trust Agreement Terms. ARTICLE 2 SECTION 2.1 Name. The Trust created and governed by this Trust Agreement shall have the name specified in the Series Instrument. SECTION 2.2 Ownership of the Trust. Upon the creation of the Trust, Global Funding shall be the sole beneficial owner of the Trust. SECTION 2.3 Acknowledgment. The Delaware Trustee, the Trust Beneficial Owner and the Administrator expressly acknowledge their duties and obligations set forth in the Standard Trust Agreement Terms incorporated herein. SECTION 2.4 Compensation. The Delaware Trustee shall be entitled to receive the fees specified in the Delaware Trustee Service Fee Schedule, which is attached as Annex B to the Series Instrument. SECTION 2.5 Additional Terms. None. SECTION 2.6 Series Instrument; Execution and Incorporation of Terms. The parties to this Trust Agreement will enter into this Trust Agreement by executing the Series Instrument. By executing the Series Instrument, the Delaware Trustee, the Administrator and the Trust Beneficial Owner hereby agree that this Trust Agreement will constitute a legal, valid and binding agreement among the Delaware Trustee, the Administrator and the Trust Beneficial Owner. All terms relating to the Trust or the Notes not otherwise included in this Trust Agreement will be as specified in the Series Instrument or the Pricing Supplement. SECTION 2.7 Counterparts. This Trust Agreement, through the Series Instrument, may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which counterparts shall be deemed to be an original, and all of which counterparts shall constitute but one and the same instrument. PART B ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AGREEMENT This ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AGREEMENT, dated as of the date of the Pricing Supplement attached to the Series Instrument as Annex A (the "Pricing Supplement"), between the Allstate Life Global Funding Trust specified in the Series Instrument (the "Trust") and AMACAR Pacific Corp., a Delaware corporation (the "Administrator"), W I T N E S S E T H: WHEREAS, the Trust has requested that the Administrator perform various services for the Trust; WHEREAS, the Trust desires to have the Administrator perform various financial, statistical, accounting and other services for the Trust, and the Administrator is willing to furnish such services on the terms and conditions herein set forth; and WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to incorporate by reference those certain Standard Administrative Services Agreement Terms attached to the Series Instrument as Exhibit B (the "Standard Administrative Services Agreement Terms," together with this Administrative Services Agreement, collectively, the "Administrative Services Agreement"); NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements and obligations set forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, each party hereby agrees as follows: ARTICLE 1 SECTION 1.1 Incorporation by Reference. All terms, provisions and agreements of the Standard Administrative Services Agreement Terms (except to the extent expressly modified herein) are hereby incorporated herein by reference with the same force and effect as though fully set forth herein. To the extent that the terms set forth in Article 2 of this Administrative Services Agreement are inconsistent with the terms of the Standard Administrative Services Agreement Terms, the terms set forth in Article 2 hereof shall apply. SECTION 1.2 Definitions. "Series Instrument" means the Series Instrument in which this Administrative Services Agreement is included as Part B. All capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this Administrative Services Agreement shall have the meanings set forth in the Standard Administrative Services Agreement Terms. ARTICLE 2 SECTION 2.1 Compensation. The Administrator shall be entitled to receive the fees specified in the Administrator Service Fee Schedule, which is attached as Annex C to the Series Instrument. SECTION 2.2 Additional Terms. None. SECTION 2.3 Series Instrument; Execution and Incorporation of Terms. The parties to this Administrative Services Agreement will enter into this Administrative Services Agreement by executing the Series Instrument. By executing the Series Instrument, Wilmington Trust Company (the "Delaware Trustee"), on behalf of the Trust, and the Administrator hereby agree that this Administrative Services Agreement will constitute a legal, valid and binding agreement between the Trust and the Administrator. All terms relating to the Trust or the Notes not otherwise included in this Administrative Services Agreement will be as specified in the Series Instrument or Pricing Supplement. SECTION 2.4 Counterparts. This Administrative Services Agreement, through the Series Instrument, may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which counterparts shall be deemed to be an original, and all of which counterparts shall constitute but one and the same instrument. SECTION 2.5 Third Party Beneficiary. The parties hereto acknowledge that the Delaware Trustee shall be an express third party beneficiary of this Administrative Services Agreement, entitled in its own name and on its own behalf to enforce the provisions hereof against the Trust and the Administrator with respect to obligations owed to the Delaware Trustee by either the Trust or the Administrator; provided, however, that such right shall be valid only for so long as the Delaware Trustee has any outstanding obligations or potential obligations under the Trust Agreement. PART C SUPPORT AND EXPENSES AGREEMENT This SUPPORT AND EXPENSES AGREEMENT, dated as of the date of the Pricing Supplement attached to the Series Instrument as Annex A (the "Pricing Supplement"), between Allstate Life Insurance Company, an Illinois stock life insurance company ("Allstate Life") and the Allstate Life Global Funding Trust specified in the Series Instrument (the "Trust"), W I T N E S S E T H: WHEREAS, in consideration of the Service Providers providing services to the Trust in connection with the Program and pursuant to the agreements and other documents contained in the Series Instrument and the Closing Instrument to be executed for the Trust, under which the Service Providers will have certain duties and obligations, Allstate Life hereby agrees to the following compensation arrangements and terms of indemnity; and WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to incorporate by reference the Standard Support and Expenses Agreement Terms attached to the Series Instrument as Exhibit C (the "Standard Support Agreement Terms," together with this Support and Expenses Agreement, collectively, the "Support Agreement"); NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements and obligations set forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, each party hereby agrees as follows: ARTICLE 1 SECTION 1.1 Incorporation by Reference. All terms, provisions and agreements of the Standard Support Agreement Terms (except to the extent expressly modified herein) are hereby incorporated herein by reference with the same force and effect as though fully set forth herein. To the extent that the terms set forth in Article 2 of this Support Agreement are inconsistent with the terms of the Standard Support Agreement Terms, the terms set forth in Article 2 hereof shall apply. SECTION 1.2 Definitions. "Series Instrument" means the Series Instrument in which this Support Agreement is included as Part C. All capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this Support Agreement shall have the meanings set forth in the Standard Support Agreement Terms. ARTICLE 2 SECTION 2.1 Additional Terms. None. SECTION 2.2 Series Instrument; Execution and Incorporation of Terms. The parties to this Support Agreement will enter into this Support Agreement by executing the Series Instrument. By executing the Series Instrument, each party hereto agrees that this Support Agreement will constitute a legal, valid and binding agreement by and among such parties. All terms relating to the Trust or the Notes not otherwise included in this Support Agreement will be as specified in the Series Instrument or Pricing Supplement. SECTION 2.3 Counterparts. This Support Agreement, through the Series Instrument, may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which counterparts shall be deemed to be an original, and all of which counterparts shall constitute but one and the same instrument. PART D NAME LICENSING AGREEMENT This NAME LICENSING AGREEMENT, dated as of the date of the Pricing Supplement attached to the Series Instrument as Annex A (the "Pricing Supplement"), between Allstate Insurance Company (the "Licensor"), an Illinois stock life insurance company, and the Allstate Life Global Funding Trust specified in the Series Instrument (the "Licensee"), W I T N E S S E T H: WHEREAS, Licensor is the owner of certain tradenames, trademarks and service marks and registrations and pending applications therefor, and may acquire additional tradenames, trademarks and service marks in the future (collectively, "Licensor's Marks"); WHEREAS, Licensee desires to use certain of Licensor's Marks and use Allstate Life as part of its company name; WHEREAS, Licensor and Licensee wish to formalize the agreement between them regarding Licensee's use of Licensor's Marks; and WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to incorporate by reference those certain Standard Name Licensing Agreement Terms attached to the Series Instrument as Exhibit D (the "Standard Name Licensing Agreement Terms," together with this Name Licensing Agreement, collectively, the "Name Licensing Agreement"); NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises set forth in this Name Licensing Agreement and other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency and receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties agree as follows: ARTICLE 1 SECTION 1.1 Incorporation by Reference. All terms, provisions and agreements set forth in the Standard Name Licensing Agreement Terms (except to the extent expressly modified herein) are hereby incorporated herein by reference with the same force and effect as though fully set forth herein. To the extent that the terms set forth in Article 2 of this Name Licensing Agreement are inconsistent with the terms of the Standard Name Licensing Agreement Terms, the terms set forth in Article 2 hereof shall apply. SECTION 1.2 Definitions. "Series Instrument" means the Series Instrument in which this Name Licensing Agreement is included as Part D. All capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this Name Licensing Agreement shall have the meanings set forth in the Standard Name Licensing Agreement Terms. ARTICLE 2 SECTION 2.1 Additional Terms. None. SECTION 2.2 Series Instrument; Execution and Incorporation of Terms. The parties to this Name Licensing Agreement will enter into this Name Licensing Agreement by executing the Series Instrument. By executing the Series Instrument, Licensor and the Licensee hereby agree that this Name Licensing Agreement will constitute a legal, valid and binding agreement between Licensor and the Licensee. All terms relating to the Trust or the Notes not otherwise included in this Name Licensing Agreement will be as specified in the Series Instrument or Pricing Supplement. SECTION 2.3 Counterparts. This Name Licensing Agreement, through the Series Instrument, may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which counterparts shall be deemed to be an original, and all of which counterparts shall constitute but one and the same instrument. PART E TERMS AGREEMENT This TERMS AGREEMENT, dated as of the date of the Pricing Supplement attached to the Series Instrument as Annex A (the "Pricing Supplement"), among each agent specified in the Pricing Supplement (each, an "Agent"), Allstate Life Global Funding, a Delaware statutory trust ("Global Funding") and the Allstate Life Global Funding Trust specified in the Series Instrument (the "Trust"), W I T N E S S E T H: WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Terms Agreement a valid and legally binding agreement of the Trust, Global Funding and the other parties to this Terms Agreement, enforceable in accordance with its terms, have been done, and the Trust proposes to do all things necessary to make the notes referred to in Section 1.4 below (the "Notes"), when executed by the Trust and authenticated and delivered pursuant hereto and the Indenture set forth in Part G of the Series Instrument, valid and legally binding obligations of the Trust as hereinafter provided; and WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to incorporate by reference the Distribution Agreement attached to the Series Instrument as Exhibit E (the "Distribution Agreement", together with this Terms Agreement, collectively, the "Terms Agreement"); NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the premises and the issuance of the Notes by the Trust, it is mutually agreed by the parties hereto as follows: ARTICLE 1 SECTION 1.1 Agreement to Be Bound. Global Funding, the Trust and each Agent hereby agree to be bound by all of the terms, provisions and agreements set forth herein, with respect to all matters contemplated herein, including, without limitation, those relating to the issuance of the Notes. SECTION 1.2 Incorporation by Reference. All terms, provisions and agreements set forth in the Distribution Agreement (except to the extent expressly modified hereby) are hereby incorporated herein by reference (as if fully set forth herein). Should any portion of the Distribution Agreement conflict with the terms of this Terms Agreement, the terms of this Terms Agreement shall prevail. References herein to Sections or Exhibits shall refer respectively to the sections or exhibits of the Distribution Agreement, unless otherwise expressly provided. SECTION 1.3 Addition of Trust as Party to Distribution Agreement. Pursuant to the Distribution Agreement, each of the parties hereto acknowledges and agrees that the Trust, upon execution hereof by the Trust, Global Funding and the applicable Agent(s), shall become an "Issuing Trust" for purposes of the Distribution Agreement in accordance with the terms thereof, in respect of the Notes, with all the authority, rights, powers, duties and obligations of an "Issuing Trust" under the Distribution Agreement. The Trust confirms that any agreement, covenant, acknowledgment, representation or warranty under the Distribution Agreement applicable to the Trust is made by the Trust at the date hereof, unless another time or times are specified in the Distribution Agreement, in which case such agreement, covenant, acknowledgment, representation or warranty shall be deemed to be confirmed by the Trust at such specified time or times. SECTION 1.4 Designation of the Trust and the Notes. The Trust referred to in this Terms Agreement is the Allstate Life Global Funding Trust specified in the Series Instrument. The Notes issued by the Trust pursuant to the Terms Agreement shall be the notes specified in the Pricing Supplement. SECTION 1.5 Additional Terms. None. SECTION 1.6 Definitions. "Series Instrument" means the Series Instrument in which this Terms Agreement is included as Part E. All capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this Terms Agreement shall have the meanings set forth in the Distribution Agreement. SECTION 1.7 Applicable Time. For purposes of the Distribution Agreement, the Applicable Time shall be February 14, 2007 at 12:15 P.M. EST. SECTION 1.8 Free Writing Prospectuses. The parties have prepared a final term sheet (the "Final Term Sheet") reflecting the final terms of the Notes, which is attached as Exhibit A hereto, and which will constitute a part of the Time of Sale Prospectus relating to the offer and sale of the Notes. Global Funding, on behalf of the Trust, shall file the Final Term Sheet in accordance with, and to the extent required by, Rule 433 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, within the time period required thereunder. ARTICLE 2 SECTION 2.1 Purchase/Solicitation of Purchases of Notes. (a) If specified in the Pricing Supplement, the Notes are being purchased by the Agent(s) as principal. If the Notes are to be purchased by the Agent(s) as principal, the Agent(s) specified in the Pricing Supplement severally and not jointly agree to purchase the Notes having the terms and in the amounts specified in the Pricing Supplement. (b) If specified in the Pricing Supplement, the Agent(s) will be acting as agent. If the Agent(s) are to solicit the purchase of the Notes acting as agents, the Agent(s) will solicit the purchase of Notes pursuant to Section 1(d) of the Distribution Agreement. SECTION 2.2 Patriot Act. Each of the Agents hereby represents and warrants that it has in place and makes every effort to comply with anti-money laundering policies and procedures in accordance with the requirements imposed by the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act), Pub. L, 107-56, 115 Stat. 380 (October 26, 2001), or any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder, and the Foreign Assets Control Regulations issued by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury (31 CFR Part 500), in each case to the extent applicable to it. Each of the Agents also represents and warrants that it has implemented and makes every effort to comply with an anti-money laundering compliance program pursuant to NASD Rule 3011. SECTION 2.3 Funding Agreement(s). On the Original Issue Date set forth in the Pricing Supplement, Global Funding will grant a security interest in, pledge and collaterally assign the Funding Agreement(s) identified in the Pricing Supplement to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and will immediately thereafter assign absolutely to and deposit into the Trust each such Funding Agreement. SECTION 2.4 Agent Notice Information. As specified in Annex D to the Series Instrument. ARTICLE 3 SECTION 3.1 Series Instrument; Execution and Incorporation of Terms. The parties to this Terms Agreement will enter into this Terms Agreement by executing the Series Instrument. By executing the Series Instrument, each party hereto agrees that this Terms Agreement will constitute a legal, valid and binding agreement by and among the Trust, Allstate Life Global Funding and the Agent(s). All terms relating to the Trust or the Notes not otherwise included in this Terms Agreement will be as specified in the Series Instrument or Pricing Supplement. SECTION 3.2 Counterparts. This Terms Agreement, through the Series Instrument, may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which counterparts shall be deemed to be an original, and all of which counterparts shall constitute but one and the same instrument. EXHIBIT A TO PART E Issuer: Allstate Life Global Funding Trust 2007-3 Ratings: Aa2 (Stable) /AA (Negative) Format: SEC Registered Ranking: FA-Backed Notes Size: $150 million Coupon: Floating Monthly LIB-1 Settle Date: 02/21/2007 (T+4) Final Maturity: 02/20/2009 Bookrunners: ML PART F COORDINATION AGREEMENT This COORDINATION AGREEMENT (this "Coordination Agreement"), dated as of the date of the Pricing Supplement attached to the Series Instrument as Annex A (the "Pricing Supplement"), among Allstate Life Insurance Company ("Allstate Life"), Allstate Life Global Funding ("Global Funding"), the Allstate Life Global Funding Trust specified in the Series Instrument (the "Trust"), The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. (the "Indenture Trustee") and the Collateral Custodian (as defined below), W I T N E S S E T H: WHEREAS, the Trust intends to issue the Notes specified in the Pricing Supplement (the "Notes") in accordance with the Indenture set forth in Part G of the Series Instrument (the "Indenture"); WHEREAS, the Agent(s) have agreed to sell the Notes in accordance with the Registration Statement; WHEREAS, the Trust intends to purchase the Funding Note issued by Global Funding and dated as of the Original Issue Date specified in the Pricing Supplement (the "Funding Note") with the net proceeds from the sale of the Notes; WHEREAS, Global Funding intends to sell the Funding Note to the Trust and use the proceeds therefrom to purchase the Funding Agreement(s) described in the Pricing Supplement (the "Funding Agreement(s)") from Allstate Life; WHEREAS, Allstate Life intends to sell the Funding Agreement(s) to Global Funding in consideration for the proceeds Global Funding receives from the sale of the Funding Note; WHEREAS, Global Funding intends to immediately assign absolutely to, and deposit into, the Trust the Funding Agreement(s), and the Funding Note will be surrendered; WHEREAS, the Trust intends to issue the Notes and to collaterally assign the Funding Agreement(s) to the Indenture Trustee to secure payment of the Notes; and WHEREAS, the Trust intends to grant a security interest in the Funding Agreement(s) to the Indenture Trustee; NOW, THEREFORE, to give effect to the agreements and arrangements established under the Terms Agreement set forth in Part E of the Series Instrument, the Trust Agreement set forth in Part A of the Series Instrument, the Indenture set forth in Part G of the Series Instrument, and the Notes, and in consideration of the agreements and obligations set forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, each party hereby agrees as follows: ARTICLE 1 PURCHASE OF FUNDING NOTE The Trust hereby agrees to purchase the Funding Note from Global Funding with the net proceeds from the sale of the Notes. Global Funding hereby agrees to sell the Funding Note to the Trust in consideration for the net proceeds from the sale of the Notes. ARTICLE 2 PURCHASE OF FUNDING AGREEMENT(S) Allstate Life hereby agrees to sell the Funding Agreement(s) to Global Funding in consideration for the proceeds Global Funding receives from the sale of the Funding Note. Global Funding hereby agrees to immediately purchase the Funding Agreement(s) with the proceeds Global Funding receives from the sale of the Funding Note. ARTICLE 3 SALE OF FUNDING AGREEMENT(S); CANCELLATION OF FUNDING NOTE Global Funding hereby agrees to assign absolutely to and deposit into the Trust the Funding Agreement(s), and the Funding Note will be surrendered. The Trust hereby agrees to accept the Funding Agreement(s) from Global Funding in consideration for the Trust's surrender of the Funding Note. The Funding Note shall be cancelled by Global Funding immediately upon such surrender, and such cancellation shall operate as a redemption and satisfaction of the Funding Note. ARTICLE 4 DELIVERY OF THE FUNDING AGREEMENT(S) Global Funding, the Trust, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and the Indenture Trustee hereby appoint the Chicago, Illinois office of The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., to act as custodian for the Funding Agreement(s) (the "Collateral Custodian") in connection with (i) the sale of the Funding Agreement(s) by Allstate Life to Global Funding pursuant to Article 2 above, (ii) the sale and deposit of the Funding Agreement(s) by Global Funding to the Trust pursuant to Article 3 above, (iii) the collateral assignment of the Funding Agreement(s) by the Trust to the Indenture Trustee and (iv) any subsequent permitted transfer of the Funding Agreement(s) by the Indenture Trustee, and in such capacity to accept and hold in its physical custody the Funding Agreement(s) in the State of Illinois until such time when the Indenture Trustee notifies the Collateral Custodian in writing to the contrary, in connection with the release of the Funding Agreement(s) in accordance with the terms of the Indenture or upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default (as defined in the Standard Indenture Terms attached as Exhibit G to the Series Instrument) whereupon such physical custody and possession of the Funding Agreement(s) will be transferred to the Indenture Trustee or another person in the manner directed by the Indenture Trustee. The Collateral Custodian, hereby accepts such appointment and agrees to perform all of its obligations as Collateral Custodian for the Funding Agreement(s). ARTICLE 5 PERIODIC PAYMENTS; MATURITY SECTION 5.1 Directions Regarding Periodic Payments. As registered owner of the Funding Agreement(s) as collateral securing payments on the Notes, the Indenture Trustee will receive payments on the Funding Agreement(s) on behalf of the Trust. The Trust hereby directs the Indenture Trustee to use such funds to make payments on behalf of the Trust pursuant to the Trust Agreement and the Indenture. SECTION 5.2 Amendment to Directions. (a) The Trust may, at any time and at its sole discretion, amend the directions set forth in Section 5.1 in accordance with the Trust Agreement and the Indenture. (b) Any notice to a payor of the change in identity of any payee or the appointment of any successor payee, which notice is acknowledged by the Trust, shall be deemed to be an amendment to these directions which replaces such new payee for the payee named in these directions. SECTION 5.3 Maturity of the Funding Agreement(s). Upon the maturity of the Funding Agreement(s) and the return of funds thereunder, the Trust hereby directs the Indenture Trustee to set aside from such funds an amount sufficient for the repayment of the outstanding amounts on the Notes when due. ARTICLE 6 MISCELLANEOUS SECTION 6.1 No Additional Liability. Nothing in this Coordination Agreement shall impose any liability or obligation on the part of any party to this Coordination Agreement to make any payment or disbursement in addition to any liability or obligation such party has under the other documents related to the Program Documents (as defined in the Standard Administrative Services Agreement Terms set forth as Exhibit B to the Series Instrument), except to the extent that a party has actually received funds which it is obligated to disburse pursuant to this Coordination Agreement. SECTION 6.2 No Conflict. This Coordination Agreement is intended to be in furtherance of the agreements reflected in the documents related to the Program Documents, and not in conflict. To the extent that a provision of this Coordination Agreement conflicts with the provisions of one or more Program Documents, the provisions of such Program Documents shall govern. SECTION 6.3 Governing Law. This Coordination Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York without regard to the principles of conflicts of laws thereof. SECTION 6.4 Definitions. "Series Instrument" means the Series Instrument in which this Coordination Agreement is included as Part F. All capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this Coordination Agreement shall have the meanings set forth in the Distribution Agreement. SECTION 6.5 Severability. If any provision of this Coordination Agreement shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, such provisions shall be deemed severable from the remaining provisions of this Coordination Agreement and shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of such other provisions of this Coordination Agreement. SECTION 6.6 Counterparts. This Coordination Agreement, through the Series Instrument, may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which counterparts shall be deemed to be an original, and all of which counterparts shall constitute but one and the same instrument. SECTION 6.7 Notices. All demands, notices and communications under this Coordination Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given upon receipt at the addresses set forth below: if to Allstate Life, at Allstate Life Insurance Company 3100 Sanders Road Northbrook, IL 60062 Attention: Secretary if to Global Funding, at Allstate Life Global Funding c/o AMACAR Pacific Corp. 6525 Morrison Boulevard, Suite 318 Charlotte, NC 28211 Attention: President if to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, at The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. 700 South Flower Street, Suite 500 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Attention: Global Corporate Trust if to the Trust, at Allstate Life Global Funding Trust c/o AMACAR Pacific Corp. 6525 Morrison Boulevard, Suite 318 Charlotte, NC 28211 Attention: President if to the Indenture Trustee, at The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. 700 South Flower Street, Suite 500 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Attention: Global Corporate Trust or at such other address as shall be designated by any such party in a written notice to the other parties. PART G INDENTURE This INDENTURE (together with the Standard Indenture Terms (as defined below), the "Indenture"), entered into as of the Original Issue Date specified in the Pricing Supplement attached to the Series Instrument as Annex A (the "Pricing Supplement"), among the Allstate Life Global Funding Trust specified in the Series Instrument (the "Trust") and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as Indenture Trustee, Registrar, Exchange Rate Agent, Paying Agent and Calculation Agent hereunder, W I T N E S S E T H: WHEREAS, the Trust has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance of the secured notes referred to in Section 2.2 below (the "Notes"); WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Indenture a valid and legally binding agreement of the Trust and the other parties to this Indenture, enforceable in accordance with its terms, have been done, and the Trust proposes to do all things necessary to make the Notes, when executed by the Trust and authenticated and delivered pursuant hereto, valid and legally binding obligations of the Trust as hereinafter provided; and WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to incorporate by reference those certain Standard Indenture Terms attached to the Series Instrument as Exhibit G (the "Standard Indenture Terms"); NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Notes by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed by the parties hereto as follows: ARTICLE 1 SECTION 1.1 Incorporation by Reference. All terms, provisions and agreements set forth in the Standard Indenture Terms (except to the extent expressly modified hereby) are hereby incorporated herein by reference (as if fully set forth herein). Should any portion of the Standard Indenture Terms conflict with the terms of this Indenture, the terms of this Indenture shall prevail. References herein to Articles, Sections or Exhibits shall refer respectively to the articles, sections or exhibits of the Standard Indenture Terms, unless otherwise expressly provided. SECTION 1.2 Definitions. "Series Instrument" means the Series Instrument in which this Indenture is included as Part G. All capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this Indenture shall have the meanings set forth in the Standard Indenture Terms. ARTICLE 2 SECTION 2.1 Agreement to Be Bound. Each of the Trust, the Indenture Trustee, the Registrar, the Exchange Rate Agent, the Paying Agent and the Calculation Agent hereby agrees to be bound by all of the terms, provisions and agreements set forth herein, with respect to all matters contemplated herein, including, without limitation, those relating to the issuance of the Notes. SECTION 2.2 Designation of the Trust and the Notes. The Trust referred to in this Indenture is the Allstate Life Global Funding Trust specified in the Series Instrument. The Notes issued by the Trust and governed by this Indenture shall be the Notes specified in the Pricing Supplement. SECTION 2.3 Compensation. The Indenture Trustee, the Registrar, the Exchange Rate Agent, the Paying Agent and the Calculation Agent shall be entitled to receive the fees specified in the Indenture Service Fee Schedule, which is attached as Annex E to the Series Instrument. SECTION 2.4 Additional Terms. None. SECTION 2.5 Series Instrument; Execution and Incorporation of Terms. The parties to this Indenture will enter into this Indenture by executing the Series Instrument. By executing the signature page thereto, the parties hereby agree that this Indenture will constitute a legal, valid and binding agreement among the parties hereto. All terms relating to the Trust or the Notes not otherwise included in this Indenture will be as specified in the Series Instrument or the Pricing Supplement. SECTION 2.6 Counterparts. This Indenture, through the Series Instrument, may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which counterparts shall be deemed to be an original, and all of which counterparts shall constitute one and the same instrument. PART H FUNDING NOTE INDENTURE This FUNDING NOTE INDENTURE (together with the Standard Funding Note Indenture Terms (as defined below), the "Funding Note Indenture"), entered into as of the Original Issue Date specified in the Pricing Supplement attached to the Series Instrument as Annex A (the "Pricing Supplement"), among Allstate Life Global Funding ("Global Funding") and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as Funding Note Indenture Trustee, Funding Note Registrar, Funding Note Exchange Rate Agent, Funding Note Paying Agent and Funding Note Calculation Agent, W I T N E S S E T H: WHEREAS, Global Funding has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Funding Note Indenture to provide for the issuance of the funding note referred to in Section 2.2 below (the "Funding Note"); WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Funding Note Indenture a valid and legally binding agreement of Global Funding and the other parties to this Funding Note Indenture, enforceable in accordance with its terms, have been done, and Global Funding proposes to do all things necessary to make the Funding Note, when executed by Global Funding and authenticated and delivered pursuant hereto, valid and legally binding obligation of Global Funding as hereinafter provided; and WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to incorporate by reference those certain Standard Funding Note Indenture Terms attached to the Series Instrument as Exhibit H (the "Standard Funding Note Indenture Terms"); NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Funding Note by the Holder thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed by the parties hereto as follows: ARTICLE 1 SECTION 1.1 Incorporation by Reference. All terms, provisions and agreements set forth in the Standard Funding Note Indenture Terms (except to the extent expressly modified hereby) are hereby incorporated herein by reference (as if fully set forth herein). Should any portion of the Standard Funding Note Indenture Terms conflict with the terms of this Funding Note Indenture, the terms of this Funding Note Indenture shall prevail. References herein to Articles, Sections or Exhibits shall refer respectively to the articles, sections or exhibits of the Standard Funding Note Indenture Terms, unless otherwise expressly provided. SECTION 1.2 Definitions. "Series Instrument" means the Series Instrument in which this Funding Note Indenture is included as Part H. All capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this Funding Note Indenture shall have the meanings set forth in the Standard Funding Note Indenture Terms. ARTICLE 2 SECTION 2.1 Agreement to Be Bound. Each of Global Funding, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, the Funding Note Registrar, the Funding Note Exchange Rate Agent, the Funding Note Paying Agent and the Funding Note Calculation Agent hereby agrees to be bound by all of the terms, provisions and agreements set forth herein, with respect to all matters contemplated herein, including, without limitation, those relating to the issuance of the Funding Note. SECTION 2.2 Additional Terms. None. SECTION 2.3 Series Instrument; Execution and Incorporation of Terms. The parties to this Funding Note Indenture will enter into this Funding Note Indenture by executing this Series Instrument. By executing the signature page thereto, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and Global Funding hereby agree that this Funding Note Indenture will constitute a legal, valid and binding agreement among the parties hereto. All terms relating to Global Funding or the Funding Note not otherwise included in this Funding Note Indenture will be as specified in the Series Instrument. SECTION 2.4 Counterparts. This Funding Note Indenture, through the Series Instrument, may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which counterparts shall be deemed to be an original, and all of which counterparts shall constitute one and the same instrument. PART I MISCELLANEOUS AND EXECUTION PAGES The Series Instrument may be executed by each of the parties hereto in any number of counterparts, and by each of the parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which counterparts, when so executed and delivered, shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. Facsimile signatures shall be deemed original signatures. Each signatory, by its execution hereof, does hereby become a party to, or executes, each of the agreements and certificates identified below for such signatory as of the date specified in such agreements and certificates. It is expressly understood and agreed by the parties that (a) Wilmington Trust Company (the "Delaware Trustee") is hereby instructed by Global Funding and the Trust to execute the Series Instrument on their behalf, (b) the Series Instrument is executed and delivered by the Delaware Trustee, not individually or personally, but solely as Delaware Trustee, in the exercise of the powers and authority conferred and vested in it, pursuant to the Trust Agreement set forth in Part A of the Series Instrument (the "Trust Agreement"), (c) each of the representations, undertakings and agreements made on the part of the Trust in the Series Instrument is made and intended not as personal representations, undertakings and agreements by the Delaware Trustee but is made and intended for the purpose of binding only the Trust, (d) nothing contained herein shall be construed as creating any liability on the Delaware Trustee individually or personally, to perform any covenant either expressed or implied contained herein, all such liability, if any, being expressly waived by the parties hereto and by any person claiming by, through or under the parties hereto, and (e) under no circumstances shall the Delaware Trustee be personally liable for the payment of any indebtedness or expenses of the Trust or be liable for any breach or failure of any obligation, representation, warranty or covenant to be made or undertaken by the Trust under the Indenture set forth in Part G to the Series Instrument or any other related documents; provided, however, that such waiver shall not affect the liability of the Delaware Trustee (or any entity acting as successor or additional trustee) to any person under any other agreement to the extent expressly agreed to in its individual capacity under the Trust Agreement. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Series Instrument. ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY (for purposes of the Name Licensing Agreement set forth in Part D hereof) By: /s/ Mary J. McGinn Name: Mary J. McGinn Title: Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Secretary ALLSTATE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (for purposes of (i) the Support Agreement set forth in Part C hereof and (ii) the Coordination Agreement set forth in Part F hereof) By: /s/ John C. Lounds Name: John C. Lounds Title: Senior Vice President ALLSTATE LIFE GLOBAL FUNDING (for purposes of (i) the Trust Agreement set forth in Part A hereof, (ii) the Terms Agreement set forth in Part E hereof, (iii) the Coordination Agreement set forth in Part F hereof and (iv) the Funding Note Indenture set forth in Part H hereof) By: Wilmington Trust Company, solely in its capacity as Delaware Trustee By: /s/ Charisse L. Rodgers Name: Charisse L. Rodgers Title: Vice President
ALGF 2007-3 THE ALLSTATE LIFE GLOBAL FUNDING TRUST SPECIFIED ABOVE (for purposes of (i) the Administrative Services Agreement set forth in Part B hereof, (ii) the Support Agreement set forth in Part C hereof, (iii) the Name Licensing Agreement set forth in Part D hereof, (iv) the Terms Agreement set forth in Part E hereof, (v) the Coordination Agreement set forth in Part F hereof and (vi) the Indenture set forth in Part G hereof) By: Wilmington Trust Company, solely in its capacity as Delaware Trustee By: /s/ Charisse L. Rodgers Name: Charisse L. Rodgers Title: Vice President WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY (for purposes of the Trust Agreement set forth in Part A hereof as Delaware Trustee) By: /s/ Charisse L. Rodgers Name: Charisse L. Rodgers Title: Vice President THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A. (for purposes of (i) the Coordination Agreement set forth in Part F hereof, (ii) the Indenture set forth in Part G hereof and (iii) the Funding Note Indenture set forth in Part H hereof) By: /s/ Janice Ott Rotunno Name: Janice Ott Rotunno Title: Vice President
ALGF 2007-3 THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A. Chicago, Illinois office, as Collateral Custodian (for purposes of the Coordination Agreement set forth in Part F hereof) By: /s/ Janice Ott Rotunno Name: Janice Ott Rotunno Title: Vice President AMACAR PACIFIC CORP. (for purposes of (i) the Trust Agreement set forth in Part A hereof and (ii) the Administrative Services Agreement set forth in Part B hereof as Administrator) By: /s/ Evelyn Echevarria Name: Evelyn Echevarria Title: Vice President MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED (for purposes of the Terms Agreement set forth in Part E hereof) By: /s/ Scott G. Primrose Name: Scott G. Primrose Title: Authorized Signatory
ALGF 2007-3 EXHIBIT A =============================================================================== STANDARD TRUST AGREEMENT TERMS with respect to ALLSTATE LIFE GLOBAL FUNDING TRUSTS ===============================================================================
TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS SECTION 1.1 Definitions....................................................................1 SECTION 1.2 Other Definitional Provisions..................................................7 ARTICLE 2 CREATION OF TRUST SECTION 2.1 Name of the Trust..............................................................7 SECTION 2.2 Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of Business....................8 SECTION 2.3 Statutory Trust................................................................8 SECTION 2.4 Trust Beneficial Owner.........................................................8 SECTION 2.5 Purposes of the Trust..........................................................8 SECTION 2.6 Allocation of Trust Expenses...................................................9 SECTION 2.7 Liability......................................................................9 SECTION 2.8 Income Tax Treatment...........................................................9 SECTION 2.9 Situs of Trust.................................................................9 ARTICLE 3 PAYMENT ACCOUNT SECTION 3.1 Payment Account...............................................................10 ARTICLE 4 NOTES; COLLATERAL SECTION 4.1 Issuance of Notes.............................................................11 SECTION 4.2 Acquisition of Funding Note And Funding Agreements............................11 SECTION 4.3 Security Interest in the Collateral...........................................11 ARTICLE 5 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES BY THE DELAWARE TRUSTEE ARTICLE 6 DELAWARE TRUSTEE SECTION 6.1 General Authority.............................................................13 SECTION 6.2 General Duties................................................................19 SECTION 6.3 Specific Duties...............................................................20 SECTION 6.4 Acceptance of Trust and Duties; Limitation on Liability.......................20 i SECTION 6.5 Reliance; Advice of Counsel...................................................25 SECTION 6.6 Delegation of Authorities and Duties..........................................25 SECTION 6.7 Indemnification...............................................................25 ARTICLE 7 TERMINATION OF AGREEMENT; DISSOLUTION OF THE TRUST SECTION 7.1 Termination of Agreement......................................................26 ARTICLE 8 SUCCESSOR AND ADDITIONAL DELAWARE TRUSTEES SECTION 8.1 Eligibility Requirements for the Delaware Trustee.............................27 SECTION 8.2 Resignation or Removal of the Delaware Trustee................................28 SECTION 8.3 Successor Delaware Trustee....................................................29 SECTION 8.4 Merger or Consolidation of Delaware Trustee...................................30 SECTION 8.5 Appointment of Co-Delaware Trustee or Separate Delaware Trustee..............30 SECTION 8.6 Delaware Trustee May Own Notes................................................32 ARTICLE 9 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS SECTION 9.1 Limitation on Rights of Others................................................33 SECTION 9.2 Amendments....................................................................33 SECTION 9.3 Notices.......................................................................34 SECTION 9.4 No Recourse to Certain Persons................................................36 SECTION 9.5 Limited Recourse..............................................................36 SECTION 9.6 No Petition...................................................................37 SECTION 9.7 Governing Law.................................................................37 SECTION 9.8 Severability..................................................................37 SECTION 9.9 No Third Party Beneficiaries..................................................37 SECTION 9.10 Counterparts..................................................................37 ii This document constitutes the Standard Trust Agreement Terms, which will be incorporated by reference in, and form a part of, the Trust Agreement (as defined below) among the Delaware Trustee (as defined below), the Administrator (as defined below) and Allstate Life Global Funding, a statutory trust formed under the laws of the State of Delaware, as the sole beneficial owner of the Trust (the "Trust Beneficial Owner"). These Standard Trust Agreement Terms shall not in and of itself create a trust and shall be of no force and effect unless and until incorporated by reference in, and then only to the extent not modified by, the Trust Agreement. The following terms and provisions shall govern the activities of the Trust, subject to contrary terms and provisions expressly adopted in the Trust Agreement, which contrary terms shall be controlling. ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS SECTION 1.1 Definitions. The following terms have the meanings set forth below: "Administrative Services Agreement" means that certain Administrative Services Agreement, included in Part B of the Series Instrument, between the Administrator and the Trust, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Additional Amounts" has the meaning ascribed in the Indenture. "Administrator" means the party named as such in the Trust Agreement, in its capacity as the sole administrator of the Trust pursuant to the Administrative Services Agreement, and its successors. "Affiliate" means, as applied to any Person, any other Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with, that Person and, in the case of an individual, any spouse or other member of that individual's immediate family. For the purposes of this definition, "control" (including, with correlative meanings, the terms "controlling," "controlled by" and "under common control with"), as applied to any Person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of that Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise. "Agents" has the meaning ascribed in the Distribution Agreement. "Allstate Life" means Allstate Life Insurance Company, a stock life insurance company organized and licensed under the laws of the State of Illinois, and any successor. 1 "Business Day" has the meaning ascribed in the Indenture. "Calculation Agent" has the meaning ascribed in the Indenture. "Certificate of Trust" means the Certificate of Trust of the Trust as filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware. "Closing Instrument" means the Closing Instrument of the Trust, pursuant to which certain documents are executed in connection with the issuance of the Notes by the Trust. "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, including any successor or amendatory statutes and any applicable rules, regulations, notices or orders promulgated thereunder. "Collateral" has the meaning ascribed in the Indenture. "Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor body. "Coordination Agreement" means that certain Coordination Agreement included in Part F of the Series Instrument, among the Trust and the other parties specified therein, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the Delaware Trustee located at Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890-0001 or at such other address as may be specified by the Delaware Trustee in the Trust Agreement or in a written notice provided in accordance with Section 9.3. "Debt" of any Person means, at any date, without duplication, (i) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money, (ii) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, (iii) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services, except trade accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of business, all obligations of such Person as lessee which are capitalized in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, (iv) all contingent and non-contingent obligations of such Person to reimburse any bank or other Person in respect of amounts paid under a letter of credit or similar instrument, (v) all Debt secured by a Lien on any asset of such Person, whether or not such Debt is otherwise an obligation of such Person, and (vi) all Guarantees by such Person of Debt of another Person (each such Guarantee to constitute Debt in an amount equal to the amount of such other Person's Debt Guaranteed thereby). "Delaware Statutory Trust Act" means Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware Code, 12 Del. C. Section 3801, et seq., as amended from time to time. 2 "Delaware Trustee" means the party named as such in the Trust Agreement, in its capacity as the sole Delaware trustee of the Trust, and its successors. If there shall be at any time more than one Delaware Trustee under the Trust Agreement, "Delaware Trustee" shall mean each such Delaware Trustee. "Distribution Agreement" means that certain Distribution Agreement dated -, 2006 by and among Global Funding and the Agents named therein, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "DTC" means The Depository Trust Company and its successors and assigns. "Funding Agreement" means, with respect to any Trust, each funding agreement issued by Allstate Life to Global Funding, which is immediately pledged and collaterally assigned by Global Funding to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and immediately thereafter assigned absolutely to, and deposited into, the Trust by Global Funding, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof. "Funding Agreement Event of Default" means an "Event of Default" as defined in the applicable Funding Agreement. "Funding Note" has the meaning ascribed in the Funding Note Indenture. "Funding Note Indenture" means that certain Funding Note Indenture included in Part H of the Series Instrument for the Trust, among Global Funding and the other parties specified therein, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Funding Note Indenture Trustee" means the party named as such in the Funding Note Indenture, and, subject to the applicable provisions of the Funding Note Indenture, its successors. "Global Funding" means Allstate Life Global Funding, a statutory trust formed under the laws of the State of Delaware. "Guarantee" by any Person means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Debt of any other Person and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, of such Person (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Debt (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, by virtue of an agreement to keep-well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to take-or-pay, or to maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise), (ii) to reimburse a bank for amounts drawn under a letter of credit for the purpose of paying such Debt or (iii) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the holder of such Debt of the payment thereof or to protect such holder against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part); provided that the term 3 "Guarantee" shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. "Holder" has the meaning ascribed in the Indenture. "Indemnified Person" has the meaning ascribed in Section 6.7. "Indenture" means that certain Indenture included in Part G of the Series Instrument, among the Trust and the other parties specified therein, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Indenture Trustee" means the party named as such in the Indenture, and, subject to the applicable provisions of the Indenture, its successors. "Investment Company Act" means the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and any successor statute thereto, and the rules, regulations and published interpretations of the Commission promulgated thereunder from time to time. "Lien" means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind, or any other type of preferential arrangement that has substantially the same practical effect as a security interest, in respect of such asset. For purposes hereof, the Trust shall be deemed to own subject to a Lien any asset which it has acquired or holds subject to the interest of a vendor or lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or other title retention agreement relating to such asset. "Moody's" means Moody's Investors Service, Inc. "Name Licensing Agreement" means that certain Name Licensing Agreement included in Part D of the Series Instrument, between Allstate Insurance Company and the Trust, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Notes" has the meaning set forth in the Indenture. "Note Certificate" has the meaning set forth in the Indenture. "Obligations" means the obligations of the Trust secured under the Notes and the Indenture, including (a) all principal of, any premium and interest (including, without limitation, any interest which accrues after the commencement of any case, proceeding or other action relating to the bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Trust, whether or not allowed or allowable as a claim in any such proceeding) on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to, the Notes or pursuant to the Indenture, (b) all other amounts payable by the Trust under the Indenture or under the Notes including all costs and expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred by the Indenture Trustee or any Holder 4 thereof in realizing on the Collateral to satisfy such obligations and (c) any renewals or extensions of the foregoing. "Original Issue Date" has the meaning ascribed in the Pricing Supplement. "Paying Agent" has the meaning ascribed in the Indenture. "Payment Account" means the segregated non-interest-bearing corporate trust account for the Trust maintained by the Delaware Trustee or by another financial institution designated by the Delaware Trustee, which shall be controlled by the Delaware Trustee; provided that the rating of the entity maintaining such account shall be at least equal to the rating of the Notes by Moody's and Standard & Poor's, in which all amounts paid to the Delaware Trustee in respect of the Notes or any Collateral related thereto will be held and from which the Delaware Trustee shall make any payments pursuant to Section 3.1(b) and Article 7 of these Standard Trust Agreement Terms, to the extent such amounts are paid to the Delaware Trustee and deposited in the applicable Payment Account. "Person" means any natural person, corporation, limited partnership, general partnership, joint stock company, joint venture, association, company, limited liability company, trust (including any beneficiary thereof), bank, trust company, land trust, business trust, statutory trust or other organization, whether or not a legal entity, and governments and agencies and political subdivisions thereof. "Pricing Supplement" means the pricing supplement attached to the Series Instrument as Annex A, as prepared by the Trust in connection with the issuance of the Notes. "Program" has the meaning ascribed in the Indenture. "Program Documents" means each Note, the Series Instrument, the Closing Instrument, the Indenture, the Trust Agreement, the Administrative Services Agreement, the Support Agreement, the Name Licensing Agreement, the Distribution Agreement, the Terms Agreement, each Funding Agreement and any other documents, certificates, agreements or instruments entered into by, or with respect to, or on behalf of, the Trust. "Rating Agency" means each of Moody's, S&P and any other rating agency which provides a rating of any Notes. "Registrar" has the meaning ascribed in the Indenture. "Responsible Officer" means any vice president, assistant vice president, any assistant secretary, any assistant treasurer, any trust officer or assistant trust officer, or any other officer of the Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and also, with respect to a particular corporate trust 5 matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject. "S&P" means Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. "Secretary of State" means the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware. "Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any successor statute thereto, and the rules, regulations and published interpretations of the Commission promulgated thereunder from time to time. "Security Interest" has the meaning ascribed in the Indenture. "Series Instrument" means the Series Instrument of the Trust, pursuant to which the Administrative Services Agreement, the Coordination Agreement, the Funding Note Indenture, the Indenture, the Name Licensing Agreement, the Support Agreement, the Terms Agreement and the Trust Agreement are entered into, and certain other documents are executed, in connection with the issuance of the Notes by the Trust. "Standard Trust Agreement Terms" means these Standard Trust Agreement Terms. "Standing Order" has the meaning ascribed in Section 3.1(d). "Supplemental Indenture" has the meaning set forth in the Indenture. "Support Agreement" means that certain Support and Expenses Agreement included in Part C of the Series Instrument, by and between Allstate Life and the Trust, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Terms Agreement" means that certain Terms Agreement included in Part E of the Series Instrument, by and among Global Funding, the Trust and each Agent named therein, which will incorporate by reference the terms of the Distribution Agreement. "Trust" means the Allstate Life Global Funding Trust specified in the Series Instrument, together with its permitted successors and assigns. "Trust Agreement" means that certain Trust Agreement included in Part A of the Series Instrument, and which incorporates by reference these Standard Trust Agreement Terms, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Trust Beneficial Owner" means the party named as such in the Trust Agreement, in its capacity as the sole beneficial owner of the Trust, and its successors. 6 "Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and any successor statute thereto, and the rules, regulations and published interpretations of the Commission promulgated thereunder from time to time. "UCC" means the Uniform Commercial Code, as from time to time in effect in the State of New York; provided that, with respect to the perfection, effect of perfection or non-perfection, or priority of any security interest in the Collateral, "UCC" shall mean the applicable jurisdiction whose law governs such perfection, non-perfection or priority. SECTION 1.2 Other Definitional Provisions. For all purposes of the Trust Agreement except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires: (a) the terms defined in this Article shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Article and shall include the plural as well as the singular; (b) all accounting terms not otherwise defined in the Trust Agreement have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States and, except as otherwise expressly provided in the Trust Agreement, the term "generally accepted accounting principles" with respect to any computation required or permitted under the Trust Agreement shall mean such accounting principles as are generally accepted at the date of such computation in the United States; (c) the words "include", "includes" and "including" shall be construed to be followed by the words "without limitation"; (d) Article and Section headings are for the convenience of the reader and shall not be considered in interpreting the Trust Agreement or the intent of the parties to the Trust Agreement; and (e) capitalized terms not otherwise defined in the Trust Agreement will have the respective meanings set forth in the Indenture. ARTICLE 2 CREATION OF TRUST SECTION 2.1 Name of the Trust. The Trust created under the Trust Agreement shall have the name specified in or pursuant to the Series Instrument. The Trust's activities shall be conducted under the name of the Trust. 7 SECTION 2.2 Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of Business. The principal office of the Trust shall be in care of the Delaware Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office, or such other address in the State of Delaware as the Delaware Trustee may designate by written notice to the Trust Beneficial Owner, the Indenture Trustee, the Administrator and the Rating Agencies. The Trust shall also maintain an office in care of the Administrator at: c/o AMACAR Pacific Corp. 6525 Morrison Boulevard, Suite 318 Charlotte, North Carolina 28211 Attention: President or at such other address as the Administrator may designate by written notice to the Trust Beneficial Owner, the Indenture Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and the Rating Agencies. SECTION 2.3 Statutory Trust. It is the intention of the parties that the Trust constitute a statutory trust organized under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act and that the Trust Agreement constitute the governing instrument of the Trust. Pursuant to Section 3810 of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act, on or before the date of the Trust Agreement, the Delaware Trustee shall file a Certificate of Trust with the Secretary of State to form the Trust. The parties to the Trust Agreement hereby appoint the Delaware Trustee as trustee of the Trust, to have all rights, powers and duties set forth in the Trust Agreement and in accordance with the applicable law, subject to modification by the Trust Agreement, with respect to accomplishing the purposes of the Trust. SECTION 2.4 Trust Beneficial Owner. The Trust Beneficial Owner shall not be required to make any deposit, perform any service or otherwise provide any consideration in exchange for its beneficial interest in the Trust. The beneficial interest of the Trust Beneficial Owner in the Trust will not be represented by any certificate or other instrument. Upon the creation of the Trust, the Trust Beneficial Owner shall be the beneficial owner of the Trust and shall have an undivided beneficial ownership interest in the property related to the Trust. To the fullest extent permitted by law, any attempted transfer of the Trust Beneficial Owner's interest in the Trust shall be void. SECTION 2.5 Purposes of the Trust. The exclusive purposes and functions of the Trust are, and the Trust shall have the power and authority, to: (a) issue and sell the Notes, (b) use the net proceeds from the sale of the Notes to acquire the Funding Note, (c) receive one or more Funding Agreements from Global Funding pursuant to the terms of the Funding Note, 8 (d) grant a security interest in, and pledge and collaterally assign, the rights, title and interest of the Trust in the Collateral to the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes and any other Person for whose benefit the Indenture Trustee is or will be holding the Collateral, (e) make, or cause to be made, all payments due in respect of the Notes, in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, and (f) engage in other activities and enter into other agreements, in each case that are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish the foregoing or are incidental to or connected with those activities, including the execution, delivery and performance of the Series Instrument, the Closing Instrument and the Program Documents to which it is a signatory. SECTION 2.6 Allocation of Trust Expenses. Any costs and expenses of the Trust shall be paid by Allstate Life pursuant to the Support Agreement to the extent provided therein. SECTION 2.7 Liability. None of the Delaware Trustee, the Administrator, the Trust Beneficial Owner or the Holders shall have any personal liability for any liability or obligation of the Trust. SECTION 2.8 Income Tax Treatment. The parties agree, and each Holder and beneficial owner of Notes by purchasing the Notes agrees, for all United States Federal, state and local income and franchise tax purposes (i) to treat the Notes as indebtedness of Allstate Life, (ii) that Global Funding and the Trust will be ignored and will not be treated as an association or a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation and (iii) to not take any action inconsistent with the treatment described in (i) and (ii) unless otherwise required by law. SECTION 2.9 Situs of Trust. The Trust shall be located in the State of Delaware. The Trust shall have the right, upon consent of the Indenture Trustee, and under certain circumstances set forth in the Indenture, to change its domicile from Delaware to any other jurisdiction. All bank accounts maintained by the Delaware Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall be located in the State of Delaware except that those accounts established under the Indenture shall be maintained with the Indenture Trustee in accordance with the Indenture. The Trust shall not have any employees in any state other than in the State of Delaware. 9 ARTICLE 3 PAYMENT ACCOUNT SECTION 3.1 Payment Account. (a) On the Original Issue Date, the Delaware Trustee shall establish the Payment Account. The Delaware Trustee and any agent of the Delaware Trustee shall have exclusive control and sole right of withdrawal with respect to the Payment Account for the purpose of making deposits in and withdrawals from the Payment Account in accordance with the Trust Agreement and the Indenture. Subject to the Indenture, all funds or other property received by the Delaware Trustee on behalf of the Trust in respect of the Collateral will be deposited in the Payment Account. All funds and other property deposited or held from time to time in the Payment Account shall be held by the Delaware Trustee in the Payment Account for the exclusive benefit of the Trust Beneficial Owner, subject to the security interest in the Collateral in favor of the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Holders of the Notes and any other Person for whose benefit the Indenture Trustee is or will be holding the Collateral, and for distribution by the Delaware Trustee as provided in the Trust Agreement, including (and subject to) any priority of payments provided for in the Trust Agreement. (b) All funds and other property deposited into the Payment Account shall be distributed by the Trust as follows: First, to the Indenture Trustee for the payment of all amounts then due and unpaid upon the Notes and any other amounts due and payable in accordance with the Indenture; and Second, upon the final redemption of the Notes and payment of any amounts payable in respect thereof, any remaining funds and other property deposited into the Payment Account shall be distributed to the Delaware Trustee for distribution pursuant to Section 7.1. (c) The Delaware Trustee shall deposit in the Payment Account, promptly upon receipt, any payments received with respect to the Collateral. Amounts held in the Payment Account shall not be invested by the Delaware Trustee. (d) Notwithstanding anything in the Trust Agreement to the contrary, the Delaware Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall execute a standing order (the "Standing Order") to the Indenture Trustee 10 pursuant to which the Indenture Trustee, either directly or through a Paying Agent, shall distribute all amounts due and unpaid under Section 3.1(b); provided, however, that all payments to be made pursuant to Section 7.1 shall be made by the Delaware Trustee on behalf of the Trust. For so long as (i) the Delaware Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, has not rescinded the Standing Order and (ii) the Indenture Trustee, either directly or through a Paying Agent, is able to, and does, comply with the Standing Order, the Delaware Trustee will not be required to establish a separate Payment Account in accordance with Section 3.1; provided, however, that the Delaware Trustee shall establish a separate payment account to facilitate payments made pursuant to Section 7.1. ARTICLE 4 NOTES; COLLATERAL SECTION 4.1 Issuance of Notes. The Trust shall, in accordance with the Indenture, issue and deliver or cause to be issued and delivered the aggregate principal amount of the Notes specified in the Pricing Supplement against payment therefor. The Holders of the Notes shall only have a right to receive payments from the Collateral as described in the Indenture and shall have no right to receive payments from the assets of Global Funding or the assets held in any other trust organized under the Program. SECTION 4.2 Acquisition of Funding Note And Funding Agreements. In connection with the issuance and sale of the Notes, pursuant to Articles 2 and 3 of the Coordination Agreement: (i) the Trust will use the net proceeds received from the offering of Notes to purchase the Funding Note from Global Funding; (ii) Global Funding will use the net proceeds received from the sale of the Funding Note to purchase one or more Funding Agreements; and (iii) Global Funding will assign absolutely to, and deposit into, the Trust each such Funding Agreement, and the relevant Funding Note will be surrendered pursuant to the terms of the Funding Note and cancelled by Global Funding immediately upon such surrender. Such cancellation shall operate as a redemption and satisfaction of the Funding Note. SECTION 4.3 Security Interest in the Collateral. Simultaneously with the issuance and sale of the Notes, pursuant to the Indenture, the Trust shall pledge and collaterally assign to the Indenture Trustee, and will grant to the Indenture Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes and any other Person for whose benefit the Indenture Trustee is or will be holding the Collateral, a security interest in and to the Collateral, including, without limitation, each Funding Agreement purchased by the Trust. 11 ARTICLE 5 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES BY THE DELAWARE TRUSTEE The Delaware Trustee represents and warrants for the benefit of the Holders and the Trust Beneficial Owner as follows: (a) it is a banking corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and it is a "bank" within the meaning of Section 581 of the Code; (b) it is a "United States person" within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code; (c) it has full corporate or other power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Trust Agreement and has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it of the Trust Agreement; (d) the Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by it and constitutes the valid and legally binding agreement of it enforceable against it in accordance with its terms; (e) neither the execution or delivery by it of the Trust Agreement, nor the performance by it of its obligations under the Trust Agreement, will (i) violate its organizational documents, (ii) violate any provision of, or constitute, with or without notice or lapse of time, a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any properties or assets held in the Trust pursuant to the provisions of, any indenture, mortgage, credit agreement, license or other contract, agreement, judgment, order or instrument to which it is a party or by which it is bound, or (iii) violate any law, governmental rule or regulation of the State of Delaware or the United States governing the banking, trust or general powers of it or any order, judgment or decree applicable to it; (f) the authorization, execution or delivery by it of the Trust Agreement and the consummation of any of the transactions by it contemplated by the Trust Agreement do not require the consent or approval of, the giving of notice to, the registration with or the taking of any other action with respect to any governmental authority or agency (other than the filing of the Certificate of Trust with the Secretary of State); and 12 (g) there are no proceedings pending or, to the best of its knowledge, threatened against or affecting it in any court or before any governmental authority, agency or arbitration board or tribunal which, individually or in the aggregate, would materially and adversely affect the Trust or would question the right, power and authority of it to enter into or perform its obligations under the Trust Agreement. ARTICLE 6 DELAWARE TRUSTEE SECTION 6.1 General Authority. (a) The Delaware Trustee is authorized and empowered, among other things, to (a) execute and deliver on behalf of the Trust the Program Documents and each certificate or other document attached as an exhibit to, or contemplated by, the Program Documents and any amendment or other agreement to any of the Program Documents, (b) take all actions required of the Trust pursuant to the Program Documents including, but not limited to (i) paying, or causing to be paid, on behalf of the Trust any amounts due and owing by the Trust under the Program Documents or any other documents or instruments to which the Trust is a party, (ii) providing certificates required under the Program Documents or other documents or instruments to which the Trust is a party and (iii) preparing for execution or executing amendments to and waivers under the Program Documents or any other documents or instruments deliverable by the Trust thereunder or in connection therewith or with the Trust Agreement, (c) cause the Trust to perform under the Program Documents and (d) engage in those activities, including entering into agreements, that are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish the foregoing or any other of the purposes of the Trust or are incidental thereto or connected therewith including, from time to time, taking such action on behalf of the Trust as is permitted by the Program Documents. In addition to any other duties under the Trust Agreement, the Delaware Trustee shall be the trustee of the Trust for the purpose of fulfilling the requirements of Section 3807 of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act. Subject to the limitations set forth in Section 6.1(b), the Delaware Trustee shall have the power and authority to act on behalf of the Trust, with respect to the following matters: (i) to execute and deliver on behalf of the Trust the Notes in accordance with the Trust Agreement and the Indenture; 13 (ii) to cause the Trust to perform the Trust Agreement and to enter into, and to execute, deliver and perform on behalf of the Trust, the documents contained in the Series Instrument and the Closing Instrument, the Distribution Agreement, the Notes, each Funding Agreement and such other certificates, other documents or agreements as may be necessary, contemplated by or desirable in connection with the purposes and function of the Trust or any of the above-referenced documents; (iii) subject to the applicable provisions of the Indenture, to receive and maintain custody of each Funding Agreement and to exercise all of the rights, powers and privileges of an owner or policyholder of each Funding Agreement; (iv) to grant to the Indenture Trustee a security interest in the Collateral and to pledge and collaterally assign the rights, title and interest of the Trust in the Collateral to the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of Notes and any other Person on whose behalf the Indenture Trustee is or will be holding the Collateral, and to seek release of such security interest upon payment in full of all amounts required to be paid with respect to the Notes pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Notes and the Indenture; (v) to establish the Payment Account; (vi) to send notices regarding the Notes and the Funding Agreement(s) to Allstate Life, the Indenture Trustee, the Rating Agencies, the Trust Beneficial Owner, the applicable Agent(s) and any other Person entitled thereto, in accordance with the terms of the Notes, the Indenture, each Funding Agreement and the Trust Agreement; (vii) to take all actions necessary or appropriate to enable the Trust to comply with Section 2.8 regarding income tax treatment; (viii) after the occurrence of a Funding Agreement Event of Default actually known to a Responsible Officer, subject to the applicable provisions of the Indenture, to take any action as it may from time to time determine (based solely upon the advice of counsel) is necessary or advisable to give effect to the terms of the Trust Agreement and to 14 protect and conserve the Collateral for the benefit of the Holders of Notes and any other Person for whose benefit the Indenture Trustee is or will be holding the Collateral and, within five Business Days after the occurrence of a Funding Agreement Event of Default actually known to a Responsible Officer, to give notice thereof to the Administrator, the Trust Beneficial Owner and the Indenture Trustee; (ix) to the extent permitted by the Trust Agreement, to participate in the winding up of the affairs of and liquidation of the Trust and assist with the preparation, execution and filing of a certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State; (x) subject to the applicable provisions of the Indenture, to take any action and to execute any documents on behalf of the Trust, incidental to the foregoing as the Delaware Trustee may from time to time determine (based on the advice of counsel) is necessary or advisable to give effect to the terms of the Trust Agreement; (xi) to execute and file documents with the Secretary of State; and (xii) to accept service of process on behalf of the Trust in the State of Delaware. It is expressly understood and agreed that the Delaware Trustee shall be entitled to engage outside counsel, independent accountants and other experts appointed with due care to assist the Delaware Trustee in connection with the performance of its duties and powers set forth in this Section 6.1(a), including, without limitation, certificates, reports, opinions, notices or any other documents. The Delaware Trustee shall be entitled to rely conclusively on the advice of such counsel, accountants and other experts in the performance of all its duties under the Trust Agreement and shall have no liability for any documents prepared by such counsel, accountants or experts or any action or inaction taken pursuant to the advice of such counsel, accountants or experts. Any expenses of such counsel, accountants and experts shall be paid by the Trust. (b) So long as the Trust Agreement remains in effect, the Trust (and the Delaware Trustee and the Administrator acting on behalf of the Trust) shall not undertake any business, activity or transaction except as expressly provided for or contemplated by the Trust Agreement or the Indenture. In particular, the Trust shall not, except as otherwise contemplated by the Trust 15 Agreement or the Indenture: (i) sell, transfer, exchange, assign, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of any assets held in the Trust (as of the date of the Trust Agreement or thereafter acquired), including, without limitation, any portion of the Collateral; (ii) engage in any business or activity other than in connection with, or relating to, (A) the performance of the Trust Agreement and the execution, delivery and performance of any documents, including the Program Documents (other than the Trust Agreement as set forth above), relating to the Notes and the transactions contemplated thereby, (B) the issuance of the Notes pursuant to the Indenture and (C) any activities, including entering into agreements, that are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish the purposes of the Trust specified in Section 2.5; (iii) incur, directly or indirectly, any Debt except for the Notes; (iv) amend, modify or fail to comply with any material provision of the Trust Agreement, except for any amendment or modification of the Trust Agreement expressly permitted under the Trust Agreement or under the Indenture or the Funding Agreement(s); (v) own any subsidiary or lend or advance any funds to, or make any investment in, any Person, except for an investment in the Funding Agreement(s), the Funding Note or the investment of any funds of the Trust held by the Indenture Trustee, a Paying Agent, the Registrar, the Delaware Trustee or the Administrator as provided in (or in the documents or agreements contained in) the Series Instrument or the Closing Instrument, or in any Funding Agreement; (vi) directly or indirectly declare or pay a distribution or make any distribution or other payment, or redeem or otherwise acquire or retire for value any securities other than the Notes, provided that the Trust may declare or pay a distribution or make any distribution or other payment to the Trust Beneficial Owner in compliance with the Trust Agreement if the Trust has paid or made provision for the 16 payment of all amounts due to be paid on the Notes, and pay all of its debt, liabilities, obligations and expenses, the payment of which is provided for under the Support Agreement; (vii) become required to register as an "investment company" under and as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act; (viii) enter into any transaction of merger or consolidation or liquidate or dissolve itself (or, to the fullest extent permitted by law, suffer any liquidation or dissolution), or acquire by purchase or otherwise all or substantially all the business or assets of, or any stock or other evidence of beneficial ownership of, any Person; (ix) take any action that would cause the Trust not to be either ignored or treated as a "grantor trust" for United States Federal income tax purposes; (x) have any employees other than the Delaware Trustee, the Administrator and any other Persons necessary to conduct its business and enter into transactions contemplated under the Program Documents; (xi) have an interest in any bank account other than (A) those accounts contemplated by the Program Documents, and (B) those accounts expressly permitted by the Indenture Trustee; provided that any such further account or such interest of the Trust therein shall be charged or otherwise secured in favor of the Indenture Trustee on terms acceptable to the Indenture Trustee; (xii) permit any Affiliate, employee or officer of Allstate Life or any agent of Allstate Life or Agent to be a trustee of the Trust; (xiii) issue any Notes unless Allstate Life has affirmed in writing to the Trust that it has made changes to its books and records to reflect the grant of a security interest in, and the making of an assignment for collateral purposes of, the relevant Funding Agreement(s) by the Trust to the Indenture Trustee in accordance with the terms of such Funding Agreement(s) and the Trust has taken such other steps as may be necessary to cause the Security Interest in 17 or assignment for all collateral purposes of, the Collateral to be perfected for purposes of the UCC or effective against its creditors and subsequent purchasers of the Collateral pursuant to insurance or other state laws; (xiv) make any deduction or withholding from any payment of principal of or interest on the Notes (other than amounts that may be required to be withheld or deducted from such payments under the Code or any other applicable tax law) by reason of the payment of any taxes levied or assessed upon any portion of the Collateral except to the extent specified in the Indenture or a Note Certificate or Supplemental Indenture; (xv) commingle any of its assets with assets of any of the Trust's Affiliates, or guarantee any obligation of any of the Trust's Affiliates; or (xvi) (A) permit the validity or effectiveness of the Indenture or the Security Interest securing the Notes to be impaired, or permit such Security Interest to be amended, hypothecated, subordinated, terminated or discharged, (B) permit any Person to be released from any covenants or obligations under any Funding Agreement, except as expressly permitted thereunder, under the Indenture, the Trust Agreement, or any Funding Agreement, (C) create, incur, assume, or permit any Lien or other encumbrance (other than the Security Interest) on any of its properties or assets, or any interest therein or the proceeds thereof, or (D) permit a Lien with respect to the Collateral not to constitute a valid first priority perfected security interest in the Collateral. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Trust Agreement, the Delaware Trustee and the Administrator, acting on behalf of the Trust, shall not take any action that would cause the Trust not to be either ignored or treated as a "grantor trust" for United States Federal income tax purposes. (d) The Delaware Trustee shall, based on the advice of counsel, defend against all claims and demands of all Persons at any time claiming any Lien on any of the assets of the Trust adverse to the interest of the Trust or any Holder, other than the Security Interest in the Collateral granted in favor of the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of each Holder of the Notes and any other Person 18 for whose benefit the Indenture Trustee is or will be holding the Collateral. (e) If and for so long as any Funding Agreement is held by the Delaware Trustee for the benefit of the Trust, the Delaware Trustee shall not (i) waive any default under any Funding Agreement or (ii) consent to any amendment, modification or termination of any Funding Agreement, without, in each case, obtaining the prior approval of the Indenture Trustee in accordance with the Indenture and an opinion of counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that any such action shall not cause the Trust not to be either ignored or treated as a "grantor trust" for United States Federal income tax purposes. The Delaware Trustee, upon a Responsible Officer obtaining actual knowledge of the occurrence of a Funding Agreement Event of Default, will notify the Indenture Trustee of any such Funding Agreement Event of Default. (f) The Delaware Trustee is authorized and directed to conduct the affairs of the Trust and to operate the Trust so that the Trust will not (i) become required to register as an "investment company" under the Investment Company Act or (ii) fail to be either ignored or treated as a "grantor trust" for United States Federal income tax purposes. In connection with the preceding sentence, the Delaware Trustee shall have no duty to determine whether any action it takes complies with the preceding sentence and shall be entitled to rely conclusively on an opinion of counsel with respect to any such matters. SECTION 6.2 General Duties. It shall be the duty of the Delaware Trustee to discharge, or cause to be discharged, all of its responsibilities pursuant to the terms of the Trust Agreement, or any other documents or instruments to which it is a party, and to administer the Trust, in accordance with the provisions of the Trust Agreement and the other Program Documents and any other documents or instruments to which the Trust is a party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Delaware Trustee shall be deemed to have discharged its duties and responsibilities under the Trust Agreement and any other documents or instruments to which the Trust is a party to the extent (a) such duties and responsibilities shall have been performed by the Administrator and (b) the Administrator is required or permitted under the Trust Agreement, under the Administrative Services Agreement or under any other documents or instruments to which the Trust is a party, to perform such act or discharge such duty of the Delaware Trustee or the Trust; provided, however, that the Delaware Trustee shall not be held liable for the default or failure of the Administrator to carry out its required obligations under the Trust Agreement or thereunder but only to the extent such obligations are not also required to be carried out by the Delaware Trustee. 19 SECTION 6.3 Specific Duties. (a) The Delaware Trustee will manage the business and affairs of the Trust in accordance with the terms of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act; provided, however, that the Delaware Trustee undertakes to perform only such duties as are specifically set forth in the Trust Agreement and as it may be directed from time to time by the Administrator, the Trust Beneficial Owner and the Indenture Trustee in accordance with the terms of the Trust Agreement and the Indenture. (b) The Delaware Trustee agrees that it will not manage, control, use, sell, dispose of or otherwise deal with the Collateral except as expressly required or permitted by the terms of the Trust Agreement and the Indenture. (c) The Delaware Trustee shall not take any action, or direct the Administrator to take any action, which would be inconsistent with Section 2.8 of the Trust Agreement. SECTION 6.4 Acceptance of Trust and Duties; Limitation on Liability. The Delaware Trustee accepts the trust created by the Trust Agreement and agrees to perform its duties under the Trust Agreement with respect to the same, but only upon the terms of the Trust Agreement. No implied covenants or obligations shall be read into the Trust Agreement. The Delaware Trustee shall not be liable under the Trust Agreement under any circumstances except for (i) its own willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence, (ii) its failure to use ordinary care to disburse funds, or (iii) the inaccuracy of any representation or warranty contained in the Trust Agreement expressly made by the Delaware Trustee. In particular (but without limitation), subject to the exceptions set forth in the preceding sentence: (a) the Delaware Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless such error of judgment constitutes gross negligence; (b) the Delaware Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the written instructions of the Administrator, the Trust Beneficial Owner or the Indenture Trustee or pursuant to the advice of counsel, accountants or other experts selected by it in good faith, so long as such action or omission is consistent with the terms of the Trust Agreement and the Indenture; (c) no provision of the Trust Agreement shall require the Delaware Trustee to expend or risk personal funds or otherwise incur any 20 financial liability in the performance of any of its rights or powers under the Trust Agreement if the Delaware 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 Delaware Trustee be liable for indebtedness or other obligations evidenced by or arising under the Trust Agreement, any Funding Agreement or any related document, including the principal of and interest on the Notes; (e) the Delaware Trustee shall not be responsible for, or in respect of, the validity or sufficiency of the Trust Agreement or any related document or for the due execution of the Trust Agreement or thereof by any party (except by the Delaware Trustee itself) or for the form, character, genuineness, sufficiency, value or validity of any of the Collateral, other than the signature and countersignature of the Delaware Trustee on any of the Program Documents and the execution of any certificate; (f) the Delaware Trustee shall (i) not be liable for any action, inaction, default or misconduct of the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent under the Indenture, the Notes or any related documents or otherwise, and (ii) not have any obligation or liability to perform the obligations of the Trust under the Trust Agreement or any related document or under any Federal, state, foreign or local tax or securities law, in each case, that are required to be performed by other Persons, including the Administrator under the Trust Agreement or under the Administrative Services Agreement or the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture; (g) the Delaware Trustee shall not be liable for any action, inaction, default or misconduct of Allstate Life, and the Delaware Trustee shall not have any obligation or liability to perform the obligations of Allstate Life under any Funding Agreement or any related documents; (h) the Delaware Trustee shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by the Trust Agreement, or to institute, conduct or defend any litigation under the Trust Agreement or otherwise or in relation to the Trust Agreement or any related document, at the request, order or direction of any Person unless such Person has offered to the Delaware Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it against 21 the costs, expenses and liabilities that may be incurred by the Delaware Trustee. The right of the Delaware Trustee to perform any discretionary act enumerated in the Trust Agreement or in any related document shall not be construed as a duty, and the Delaware Trustee shall not be answerable in connection therewith other than for its gross negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of any such act; (i) except as expressly provided in the Trust Agreement, in accepting the trusts created by the Trust Agreement, the Delaware Trustee acts solely as trustee under the Trust Agreement and not in its individual capacity, and all Persons having any claim against the Delaware Trustee by reason of the transactions contemplated by the Trust Agreement shall look only to the Trust's property for payment or satisfaction thereof; (j) the Delaware Trustee shall not have any responsibility or liability for or with respect to the genuineness, value, sufficiency or validity of any Collateral, and the Delaware Trustee shall in no event assume or incur any liability, duty or obligation to the Administrator, the Trust Beneficial Owner or any other Person other than as expressly provided for in the Trust Agreement; (k) the Delaware 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, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note or other paper or document; (l) every provision of the Trust Agreement relating to the Delaware Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Article 6; (m) except in accordance with the written instructions furnished by the Trust Beneficial Owner or as provided in the Trust Agreement, the Delaware Trustee shall have no duty (i) to see to any recording or filing of any document, (ii) to confirm or verify any financial statements of the Administrator, the Trust Beneficial Owner or the Indenture Trustee, (iii) to inspect the Administrator's, the Trust Beneficial Owner's or the Indenture Trustee's books and records at any time or (iv) to see to the payment or discharge of any tax, assessment or other governmental charge or any lien or encumbrance of any kind owing with respect to, assessed or levied against any part of the Trust, except to the extent the Delaware Trustee has received funds, on behalf of the Trust, pursuant to the Support Agreement from Allstate Life 22 in satisfaction of any such tax, assessment or other governmental charge or any lien or encumbrance of any kind and in accordance with payment or transfer instructions provided by Allstate Life; (n) the Delaware Trustee shall have no duty or obligation to manage, control, use, sell, dispose of or otherwise deal with the Trust or to otherwise take or refrain from taking any action under the Trust Agreement, except as expressly required by the terms of the Trust Agreement, or as expressly provided in written instructions from the Administrator, and in no event shall the Delaware Trustee have any implied duties or obligations under the Trust Agreement; the Delaware Trustee nevertheless agrees that it will, at its own cost and expense, promptly take all action as may be necessary to discharge any liens on any part of the property of the Trust which result from claims against the Delaware Trustee personally that are not related to the ownership or the administration of the property of the Trust or the transactions contemplated by the Program Documents; (o) the Delaware Trustee shall not be required to take any action under the Trust Agreement unless the Delaware Trustee shall have been indemnified by the Trust, in manner and form satisfactory to the Delaware Trustee, against any liability, cost or expenses (including counsel fees and disbursements) which may be incurred in connection therewith, and, in addition, the Trust shall pay the reasonable compensation of the Delaware Trustee for the services performed, as specified in and pursuant to the Series Instrument; provided, that the Delaware Trustee shall not be indemnified by any Person for the Delaware Trustee's willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence, its failure to use ordinary care to disburse funds or the inaccuracy of its own representations or warranties, made in its individual capacity, contained in the Trust Agreement; (p) the Delaware Trustee shall not be required to take any action under the Trust Agreement if the Delaware Trustee shall reasonably determine or shall have been advised by counsel that such action is contrary to the terms of the Trust Agreement or is otherwise contrary to law; (q) the Delaware Trustee may fully rely upon and shall have no liability in connection with calculations or instructions forwarded to the Delaware Trustee by the Administrator or the Indenture Trustee, nor shall the Delaware Trustee have any obligation to 23 furnish information to any Person if it has not received such information as it may need from the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee or any other Person; (r) the Delaware Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any act or omission in good faith in accordance with the advice or direction of the Administrator or the Indenture Trustee. Whenever the Delaware Trustee is unable to decide between alternative courses of action permitted or required by the terms of the Trust Agreement, or is unsure as to the application, intent, interpretation or meaning of any provision of the Trust Agreement, the Delaware Trustee may give notice (in such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the Administrator requesting instructions as to the course of action to be adopted, and, to the extent the Delaware Trustee acts in good faith in accordance with any such instruction received, the Delaware Trustee shall not be liable on account of such action to any Person. If the Delaware Trustee shall not have received appropriate instructions within ten days of such notice (or within such shorter period of time as reasonably may be specified in such notice or may be necessary under the circumstances), it may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking such action which is consistent, in its view, with the Trust Agreement and as it shall deem to be in the best interest of the Trust Beneficial Owner, and the Delaware Trustee shall have no liability to any Person for such action or inaction; (s) in no event whatsoever shall the Delaware Trustee be personally liable for any representation, warranty, covenant, agreement, indebtedness or other obligation of the Trust; (t) the Delaware Trustee shall incur no liability if, by reason of any provision of any present or future law or regulation thereunder, or by any force majeure event, including but not limited to natural disaster, war or other circumstances beyond its control, the Delaware Trustee shall be prevented or forbidden from doing or performing any act or thing which the terms of the Trust Agreement provide shall or may be done or performed; and (u) notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Delaware Trustee shall not be required to execute, deliver or certify on behalf of the Trust any filings, certificates, affidavits or other instruments required under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. 24 SECTION 6.5 Reliance; Advice of Counsel. (a) The Delaware Trustee shall incur no liability to anyone in acting upon any signature, instrument, notice, resolution, request, consent, order, certificate, report, opinion, bond or other document or paper reasonably believed by it in good faith to be genuine and signed by the proper party or parties. The Delaware Trustee may accept a certified copy of a resolution of the board of directors or other governing body of any corporate party as conclusive evidence that such resolution has been duly adopted by such body and that the same is in full force and effect. As to any fact or matter the manner of ascertainment of which is not specifically prescribed in the Trust Agreement, the Delaware Trustee may for all purposes of the Trust Agreement rely on a certificate, signed by the president or any vice president or by the treasurer or any assistant treasurer or the secretary or any assistant secretary of the relevant party, as to such fact or matter, and such certificate shall constitute full protection to the Delaware 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 Trust, the Delaware Trustee (i) may act directly or through its agents or attorneys pursuant to agreements entered into with any of them; provided that, the Delaware 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 Delaware Trustee in good faith and with reasonable care, and (ii) may consult with counsel, accountants and other skilled Persons to be selected in good faith and with reasonable care and employed by it, and it shall not be liable for anything done, suffered or omitted to be done in good faith by it in accordance with the written opinion or advice of any such counsel, accountants or other skilled Persons. SECTION 6.6 Delegation of Authorities and Duties. The Delaware Trustee delegates to the Administrator all duties required to be performed by the Administrator pursuant to the terms of the Trust Agreement and the Administrative Services Agreement. The Delaware Trustee undertakes no responsibility for the performance, or non-performance, of any duties delegated to the Administrator under the Trust Agreement, the Administrative Services Agreement or the Indenture, as applicable. SECTION 6.7 Indemnification. The Trust hereby agrees, whether or not any of the transactions contemplated by the Trust Agreement shall be consummated, to assume liability for, and hereby indemnifies, protects, saves and keeps harmless the Delaware Trustee, and its officers, directors, successors, assigns, legal 25 representatives, agents and servants (each an "Indemnified Person"), from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, taxes (excluding any taxes payable by the Delaware Trustee on or measured by any compensation received by the Delaware Trustee), claims, actions, investigations, proceedings, costs, expenses or disbursements (including, without limitation, reasonable legal fees and expenses, subject to the limitations imposed in this Agreement) of any kind and nature whatsoever which may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted at any time against an Indemnified Person (whether or not also indemnified against by any other person but in all cases subject to the limitations imposed in this Agreement) in any way relating to or arising out of the Trust Agreement or any of the other agreements to which the Trust is or becomes a party or the enforcement of any of the terms of any thereof or the administration of the assets of the Trust or the action or inaction of the Delaware Trustee under the Trust Agreement, except where any such claim for indemnification has arisen as a result of the willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of the Indemnified Person, or the Indemnified Person's failure to use ordinary care to disburse funds or the performance or nonperformance of its duties under the Trust Agreement or any of the other agreements to which the Trust becomes a party. ARTICLE 7 TERMINATION OF AGREEMENT; DISSOLUTION OF THE TRUST SECTION 7.1 Termination of Agreement. The Trust Agreement shall terminate and the Trust shall dissolve, wind-up and terminate in accordance with Section 3808 of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act upon the latest to occur of: (a) the payment to the Holders of any outstanding Notes and to the Trust Beneficial Owner of all amounts required to be paid pursuant to any Funding Notes, any Notes, the Indenture, the Trust Agreement and the Program Documents; (b) the payment of, or reasonable provision for payment of, all expenses and other liabilities owed by the Trust; and (c) the performance of all administrative actions by the Delaware Trustee and the Administrator necessary to accomplish the purposes of the Trust, including the performance of any tax reporting obligations with respect to the Trust. Any insolvency event, liquidation, dissolution, death or incapacity with respect to the Trust Beneficial Owner, the Delaware Trustee, the Administrator or any of the other agents of the Trust or any Holder shall not (i) operate to terminate the Trust Agreement or the Trust, (ii) entitle any of their 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 Trust, (iii) otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the 26 Holders or the parties hereto or any other document or any instrument entered into by the Trust or (iv) dissolve the Trust. The Trust shall dissolve only as provided in this Section 7.1, and otherwise no Person, including the Administrator and the Trust Beneficial Owner, shall be entitled to revoke or dissolve the Trust. The Administrator shall act as the liquidator of the Trust and shall be responsible for directing the Delaware Trustee to take all required actions in connection with winding up the Trust. The Delaware Trustee shall have no liability for following such direction to the extent it acts in good faith. Upon the last event to occur as described above, the Delaware Trustee shall cause the Certificate of Trust to be canceled by filing a certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State in accordance with the provisions of Section 3810 of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act, at which time the Trust and the Trust Agreement shall terminate. In connection with the termination of the Trust and the distribution of all amounts from each Payment Account in accordance with the priority set forth in Section 3.1(b), the Delaware Trustee will distribute any amounts received pursuant to Section 3.1(b) (clause Second) and any other remaining assets of the Trust in the following order of priority: First, to pay all expenses and other liabilities owed by the Trust; and Second, any remaining funds and other property shall be paid to the Trust Beneficial Owner. ARTICLE 8 SUCCESSOR AND ADDITIONAL DELAWARE TRUSTEES SECTION 8.1 Eligibility Requirements for the Delaware Trustee. The Delaware Trustee shall at all times (a) be a Person satisfying the provisions of Section 3807(a) of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act, (b) be authorized to exercise corporate trust powers, (c) have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and be subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authorities, (d) have (or have a parent which has) a rating of at least Baa3 by Moody's or BBB- by Standard & Poor's, (e) be a "bank" within the meaning of Section 581 of the Code and (f) be a "United States person" within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. In addition, the Delaware Trustee shall be an entity with its Corporate Trust Office in the State of Delaware. If the Delaware Trustee shall publish reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to applicable law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purpose of this Section 8.1, the combined capital and surplus of the Delaware Trustee shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so 27 published. If at any time the Delaware Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 8.1, the Delaware Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 8.2. SECTION 8.2 Resignation or Removal of the Delaware Trustee. (a) The Delaware Trustee may resign as Delaware Trustee, or the Administrator, acting on behalf of the Trust, may, in its sole discretion, remove the Delaware Trustee, in each case upon not less than 30 days' prior notice to the Delaware Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency then rating the Program or the Notes. Upon any resignation or removal of the Delaware Trustee, the Administrator, acting on behalf of the Trust, shall appoint a successor Delaware Trustee whereupon such successor Delaware Trustee shall succeed to the rights, powers and duties of the Delaware Trustee, and the term "Delaware Trustee" shall thereupon mean such successor Delaware Trustee effective upon such appointment and approval, and the predecessor Delaware Trustee's powers and duties as Delaware Trustee shall be terminated, without any other or further act or deed on the part of such predecessor Delaware Trustee or any of the parties to the Trust Agreement or any holders of the obligations owing hereunder; provided, that if at any time the Delaware Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with Section 8.1 and shall have not resigned, or if at any time the Delaware Trustee, shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver for the Delaware Trustee or for its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Delaware Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then the Administrator may remove the Delaware Trustee. On and after the effective date of any resignation or removal of the Delaware Trustee hereunder, the provisions of this Article 8 shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was Delaware Trustee under the Trust Agreement. Any such resignation or removal shall become effective following the appointment of a successor Delaware Trustee in accordance with the provisions of this Section 8.2. (b) If no successor Delaware Trustee shall be appointed and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the aforesaid notice of resignation or removal, the Trust (or the Administrator, acting on its behalf) or the resigning Delaware Trustee may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction to 28 appoint a successor Delaware Trustee to act until such time, if any, as a successor Delaware Trustee shall have been appointed as provided in this Section 8.2. Any successor so appointed by such court shall immediately and without further act be superseded by any successor Delaware Trustee appointed pursuant to this Section 8.2. (c) Any resignation or removal of the Delaware Trustee and appointment of a successor Delaware Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 8.2 shall not become effective until all fees and expenses, including any indemnity payments, due to the outgoing Delaware Trustee have been paid and until acceptance of appointment by the successor Delaware Trustee pursuant to Section 8.3. (d) If at any time the Delaware Trustee shall resign or be removed or otherwise become incapable of acting, or if at any time a vacancy shall occur in the office of the Delaware Trustee for any other cause, a successor Delaware Trustee shall be appointed as set forth in this Section 8.2. The powers, duties, authority and title of the predecessor Delaware Trustee shall be terminated and canceled without any formality (except as may be required by applicable law) other than appointment and designation of a successor Delaware Trustee in writing duly acknowledged and delivered to the predecessor Delaware Trustee and the Trust. SECTION 8.3 Successor Delaware Trustee. (a) Each successor Delaware Trustee appointed pursuant to Section 8.2 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Administrator, the Trust Beneficial Owner and the predecessor Delaware Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment under the Trust Agreement, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor Delaware Trustee shall become effective, the resigning Delaware Trustee shall be released of all duties and trusts under the Trust Agreement and such successor Delaware Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become fully vested with all the rights, powers, duties, and obligations of its predecessor under the Trust Agreement, with like effect as if originally named as Delaware Trustee. The predecessor Delaware Trustee shall deliver to the successor Delaware Trustee all documents and statements and funds held by it under the Trust Agreement; and the Administrator and the predecessor Delaware Trustee shall execute and deliver such instruments and do such 29 other things as may reasonably be required for fully and certainly vesting and confirming in the successor Delaware Trustee all such rights, powers, duties and obligations. (b) Any successor Delaware Trustee appointed under the Trust Agreement shall promptly file an amendment to the Certificate of Trust with the Secretary of State identifying the name and principal place of business of such successor Delaware Trustee in the State of Delaware. (c) No successor Delaware Trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this Section 8.3 unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Delaware Trustee shall be eligible pursuant to Section 8.1. (d) Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Delaware Trustee pursuant to this Section 8.3, the Administrator shall mail notice of such appointment to the Indenture Trustee and each Rating Agency then rating the Program or the Notes. If the Administrator shall fail to mail such notice within ten days after acceptance of appointment by the successor Delaware Trustee, the successor Delaware Trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed in the manner aforesaid. SECTION 8.4 Merger or Consolidation of Delaware Trustee. Any Person into which the Delaware Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Delaware Trustee shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Delaware Trustee, shall, without the execution or filing of any instrument or any further act on the part of any of the parties to the Trust Agreement, anything in the Trust Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, be the successor of the Delaware Trustee under the Trust Agreement; provided, such Person shall be eligible pursuant to Section 8.1. SECTION 8.5 Appointment of Co-Delaware Trustee or Separate Delaware Trustee. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Trust Agreement, at any time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any part of any Collateral may at the time be located, the Administrator and the Delaware Trustee shall at any time have the power and shall execute and deliver all instruments necessary to appoint one or more Persons approved by the Delaware Trustee to act as co-Delaware Trustee, jointly with it, or as separate Delaware Trustee or separate Delaware 30 Trustees, of all or any part of any Collateral and, subject to Section 4.4 of the Trust Agreement, to vest in such Person, in such capacity, such title to any Collateral, or any part thereof, and, subject to the other provisions of this Section 8.5, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Administrator and the Delaware Trustee may deem necessary or desirable. If the Administrator shall not have joined in such appointment within 15 days after the receipt by it of a request so to do, the Delaware Trustee alone shall have the power to make such appointment. No co-Delaware Trustee or separate Delaware Trustee under the Trust Agreement shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor Delaware Trustee pursuant to Section 8.1 and no notice of the appointment of any co-Delaware Trustee or separate Delaware Trustee shall be required; provided, however, that any co-Delaware Trustee or separate Delaware Trustee must be a "United States person" within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and a "bank" within the meaning of Section 581 of the Code. (b) Each separate Delaware Trustee and co-Delaware 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 Delaware Trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Delaware Trustee and such separate Delaware Trustee or co-Delaware Trustee jointly (it being understood that such separate Delaware Trustee or co-Delaware Trustee is not authorized to act separately without the Delaware 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 Delaware 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 Trust or any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed by such separate Delaware Trustee or co-Delaware Trustee, but solely at the discretion of the Delaware Trustee; (ii) the Administrator and the Delaware Trustee acting jointly may at any time accept the resignation of or remove any separate Delaware Trustee or co-Delaware Trustee; and 31 (iii) no Delaware Trustee shall be personally liable by reason of the act or omission of any other Delaware Trustee under the Trust Agreement. (c) Any notice, request or other writing given to the Delaware Trustee shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then acting separate Delaware Trustee and co-Delaware Trustee, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument appointing any separate Delaware Trustee or co-Delaware Trustee shall refer to this Section 8.5 and the conditions of this Article 8. Each separate Delaware Trustee and co-Delaware Trustee, upon its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property specified in its instruments of appointment, either jointly with the Delaware Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions of the Trust Agreement, specifically including every provision of the Trust Agreement relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the Delaware Trustee. Each such instrument shall be filed with the Delaware Trustee and a copy thereof shall be given to the Administrator. (d) Any separate Delaware Trustee or co-Delaware Trustee may at any time appoint the Delaware Trustee as 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 the Trust Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate Delaware Trustee or co-Delaware Trustee shall 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 Delaware Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or successor Delaware Trustee. SECTION 8.6 Delaware Trustee May Own Notes. Except to the extent prohibited under the terms of the Notes, the Delaware Trustee, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the beneficial owner or pledgee of Notes, to the extent that such ownership does not inhibit the Trust from relying on the applicable exemption from registration as an "investment company" under the Investment Company Act, with the same rights as it would have if it were not the Delaware Trustee; provided, that any Notes so owned or pledged shall not be entitled to participate in any decisions made or instructions given to the Delaware Trustee or the Indenture Trustee by the Holders as a group. Except as otherwise provided in this Section 8.6, the Delaware Trustee may deal with the Trust and the Trust Beneficial Owner in banking and trustee transactions with the same rights as it would have if it were not the Delaware Trustee. 32 ARTICLE 9 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS SECTION 9.1 Limitation on Rights of Others. The death, bankruptcy, termination, dissolution or incapacity of any Person having an interest, beneficial or otherwise, in the Trust shall not operate to terminate the Trust Agreement, nor to annul, dissolve or terminate the Trust, nor to entitle the legal successors, representatives or heirs of any such Person, to claim an accounting, take any action or bring any proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up of the arrangements contemplated by the Trust Agreement, nor otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties to the Trust Agreement or any of them. SECTION 9.2 Amendments. (a) The Trust Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Delaware Trustee and the Administrator by a written instrument executed by the Delaware Trustee and the Administrator, in any way that is not inconsistent with the intent of the Trust Agreement, including, without limitation to: (i) cure any ambiguity, (ii) correct, supplement or modify any provision of the Trust Agreement that is inconsistent with another provision of the Trust Agreement or (iii) modify, eliminate or add to any provisions of the Trust Agreement to the extent necessary to ensure that the Trust will, at all times, for United States Federal income tax purposes will be either ignored or treated as a "grantor trust" or to ensure that the Trust will not be required to register as an "investment company" under the Investment Company Act and no such amendment shall require the consent of any other Person, except to the extent specified in Sections 9.2(c) and 9.2(d). (b) So long as any Notes remain outstanding, except as provided in Sections 9.2(c) and 9.2(d), any amendment to the Trust Agreement that would adversely affect, in any material respect, the terms of any Notes, other than any amendment of the type contemplated by clause (iii) of Section 9.2(a), shall require the prior consent of the Holders of a majority of the outstanding principal amount of the Notes. (c) So long as any Notes remain outstanding, the Trust Agreement may not be amended to (i) change the amount or timing of any payment of any Notes or (ii) impair the right of any Holder to institute suit for the enforcement of any right for principal and interest 33 or other distribution, in each case without the consent of each affected Holder. (d) The Delaware Trustee shall not be required to enter into any amendment to the Trust Agreement which adversely affects its own rights, duties or immunities under the Trust Agreement. (e) Prior to the execution of any amendment to the Trust Agreement, the Delaware Trustee shall be entitled to an opinion of counsel as to whether such amendment is permitted by the terms of the Trust Agreement and whether all conditions precedent to such amendment have been met, in each case under the laws of the State of Delaware. (f) Promptly after the execution of any such amendment or consent, the Administrator shall furnish a copy of such amendment or consent (including those obtained or effected by the Trust Agreement) to the Indenture Trustee, the Trust Beneficial Owner, the Agents and the Rating Agencies. (g) Contemporaneously with, or promptly after, the execution of any amendment to the Trust Agreement requiring amendment to the Certificate of Trust, the Delaware Trustee shall cause the filing of such amendment to the Certificate of Trust with the Secretary of State. (h) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Trust Agreement, no amendment to the Trust Agreement may be made (i) if such amendment would cause (A) the Trust not to be either ignored or treated as a "grantor trust" for United States Federal income tax purposes or (B) the Notes to be treated as other than indebtedness of Allstate Life and (ii) no amendment to the Trust Agreement may be made without the prior consent of Allstate Life. SECTION 9.3 Notices. All demands, notices, instructions and other communications shall be in writing (including telecopied or telegraphic communications) and shall be personally delivered, mailed or transmitted by telecopy or telegraph, respectively, addressed as set forth below (or, in the case of any other relevant party, addressed as set forth in a separate notice delivered to all relevant parties): 34 If to Delaware Trustee: Wilmington Trust Company Rodney Square North 1100 North Market Street Wilmington, DE 19890-0001 Attention: Corporate Trust Administration Facsimile: (302) 636-4140 If to the Trust Beneficial Owner: Allstate Life Global Funding c/o AMACAR Pacific Corp. 6525 Morrison Boulevard, Suite 318 Charlotte, North Carolina 28211 Attention: President Facsimile: (704) 365-1632 If to the Administrator: AMACAR Pacific Corp. 6525 Morrison Blvd., Suite 318 Charlotte, North Carolina 28211 Attention: Douglas K. Johnson Facsimile: (704) 365-1632 with a copy to: Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP 900 3rd Avenue New York, NY 10022 Attention: Stephen Rosenberg Facsimile: - If to the Indenture Trustee: The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. 700 South Flower Street, Suite 500 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Attention: - Facsimile: - 35 If to the Rating Agencies: Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 55 Water Street New York, NY 10041 Attention: Capital Markets Facsimile: (212) 438-5215 Moody's Investors Service Inc. 99 Church Street New York, NY 10007 Attention: Life Insurance Group Facsimile: (212) 553-4805 or at such other address as shall be designated by any such person in a written notice to each other person required to give or entitled to receive any notices hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any notice required or permitted to be mailed to the Trust Beneficial Owner shall be given by first class mail, postage prepaid, at the then current address of the Administrator, and any notices mailed within the time prescribed in the Trust Agreement shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Trust Beneficial Owner received such notice. Any notice required or permitted to be mailed to any Holder of a Note shall be given as specified in the Indenture. SECTION 9.4 No Recourse to Certain Persons. The Trust Beneficial Owner acknowledges that its beneficial interest in the Trust does not represent an obligation of Allstate Life, the Delaware Trustee, the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing and no recourse may be had against such parties or their assets, except as may be expressly set forth or contemplated in the Trust Agreement or the Indenture. SECTION 9.5 Limited Recourse. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Trust Agreement, the obligations of the Trust under the Trust Agreement and all Program Documents and other documents or instruments entered into by the Trust, are solely the obligations of the Trust and shall be payable solely to the extent of funds received by and available to the Trust under the Funding Agreements, the other Collateral and the Support Agreement. No recourse shall be had for the payment of any amount owing in respect of any obligation of, or claim against, the Trust arising out of or based upon the Trust Agreement, the Notes or any other Program Document against any holder of a beneficial interest, employee, agent, officer or Affiliate of the Trust and, except as specifically provided in the Trust Agreement and in the other Program Documents, no recourse shall be had for the payment of any amount owing in respect of any obligation of, or claim against, the Trust arising out of or based upon the Trust Agreement, the Notes or any other Program Documents against 36 the Indenture Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, the Administrator, Allstate Life, the Agents or any of their respective holders of beneficial interests, employees, agents, officers, directors, incorporators or Affiliates. SECTION 9.6 No Petition. To the extent permitted by applicable law, each of the Delaware Trustee and the Administrator covenants and agrees, and the Trust Beneficial Owner by its acceptance of a beneficial interest in the Trust will be deemed to have covenanted and agreed, that it will not institute against, or join with any other Person in instituting against, the Trust any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under any applicable bankruptcy or similar law. This Section 9.6 shall survive any termination of the Trust Agreement. SECTION 9.7 Governing Law. The Trust Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its choice of law principles. SECTION 9.8 Severability. If any provision in the Trust Agreement shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, such provisions shall be deemed severable from the remaining provisions of the Trust Agreement and shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of such other provisions of the Trust Agreement. SECTION 9.9 No Third Party Beneficiaries. The Trust Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties to the Trust Agreement and their respective successors and permitted assigns. Except as otherwise provided in the Trust Agreement, no other Person shall have any right or obligation under the Trust Agreement. SECTION 9.10 Counterparts. The Trust Agreement and any amendments, supplements, modifications, restatements or replacements of the Trust Agreement, or waivers or consents to the Trust Agreement, may be executed in any number of counterparts, and by different parties to the Trust Agreement in separate counterparts, each of which, when so executed and delivered, shall be deemed to be an original and all of which counterparts, when taken together, shall constitute one and the same instrument. The Trust Agreement shall become effective upon the execution of a counterpart to each of the parties to the Trust Agreement. 37
EXHIBIT B =============================================================================== STANDARD ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AGREEMENT TERMS with respect to ALLSTATE LIFE GLOBAL FUNDING TRUSTS ===============================================================================
TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS; OTHER DEFINITIONAL PROVISIONS SECTION 1.1 Definitions....................................................................1 SECTION 1.2 Other Definitional Provisions..................................................4 ARTICLE 2 APPOINTMENT; ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES SECTION 2.1 Appointment....................................................................5 SECTION 2.2 Administrative Services........................................................5 ARTICLE 3 ACTIVITIES OF THE TRUST; EMPLOYEES; OFFICES. SECTION 3.1 Activities of the Trust........................................................8 SECTION 3.2 Employees......................................................................8 SECTION 3.3 Offices........................................................................9 ARTICLE 4 COMPENSATION; INDEMNITIES SECTION 4.1 Compensation...................................................................9 SECTION 4.2 Indemnities....................................................................9 ARTICLE 5 TERM SECTION 5.1 Term...........................................................................9 ARTICLE 6 OBLIGATION TO SUPPLY INFORMATION; RELIANCE ON INFORMATION; COVENANTS SECTION 6.1 Obligation to Supply Information..............................................10 SECTION 6.2 Reliance on Information.......................................................10 SECTION 6.3 Covenants.....................................................................10 ARTICLE 7 LIABILITY OF ADMINISTRATOR; STANDARD OF CARE SECTION 7.1 Liability of Administrator....................................................10 SECTION 7.2 No Implied Obligations........................................................11 i SECTION 7.3 Standard of Care..............................................................11 ARTICLE 8 LIMITED RECOURSE SECTION 8.1 Limited Recourse to Trust.....................................................11 SECTION 8.2 No Recourse Against Certain Persons...........................................11 ARTICLE 9 TAX MATTERS SECTION 9.1 Income Tax Treatment..........................................................11 ARTICLE 10 MISCELLANEOUS SECTION 10.1 Amendments....................................................................12 SECTION 10.2 No Joint Venture..............................................................12 SECTION 10.3 Assignment....................................................................12 SECTION 10.4 Governing Law, Consent to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial..................12 SECTION 10.5 Counterparts..................................................................13 SECTION 10.6 Limitation of Delaware Trustee Liability......................................13 SECTION 10.7 No Petition...................................................................14 SECTION 10.8 Severability..................................................................14 SECTION 10.9 Entire Agreement..............................................................14 SECTION 10.10 Administrator to Provide Access to Books and Records..........................14 SECTION 10.11 No Waiver.....................................................................14 SECTION 10.12 Remedies Cumulative...........................................................15 SECTION 10.13 Notices.......................................................................15
ii This document constitutes the Standard Administrative Services Agreement Terms, which will be incorporated by reference in, and form a part of, the Administrative Services Agreement (as defined below). These Standard Administrative Services Agreement Terms shall be of no force and effect unless and until incorporated by reference in, and then only to the extent not modified by, the Administrative Services Agreement. These Standard Administrative Services Agreement Terms shall govern the administration of the activities of the Trust, subject to contrary terms and provisions expressly adopted in the Administrative Services Agreement, which contrary terms shall be controlling. ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS; OTHER DEFINITIONAL PROVISIONS SECTION 1.1 Definitions. "Administration Fee" has the meaning ascribed in Section 4.1. "Administrative Services Agreement" means that certain Administrative Services Agreement included in Part B of the Series Instrument, and which incorporates by reference these Standard Administrative Services Agreement Terms, by and between the Trust and the Administrator, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Administrator" means AMACAR Pacific Corp., a Delaware corporation, in its capacity as the sole administrator of the Trust pursuant to the Administrative Services Agreement, or another entity specified as the Administrator in the Administrative Services Agreement, and, in each case, its successors. "Affiliate" means, as applied to any Person, any other Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with, that Person and, in the case of an individual, any spouse or other member of that individual's immediate family. For the purposes of this definition, "control" (including with correlative meanings, the terms "controlling", "controlled by" and "under common control with"), as applied to any Person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of that Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities or by contract or otherwise. "Agents" has the meaning set forth in the Distribution Agreement. "Allstate Life" means Allstate Life Insurance Company, a stock life insurance company organized and licensed under the laws of the State of Illinois, and any successor. 1 "Calculation Agent" has the meaning ascribed in the Indenture. "Closing Instrument" means the Closing Instrument of the Trust, pursuant to which certain documents are executed in connection with the issuance of the Notes by the Trust. "Commission" has the meaning ascribed in Section 2.2(d). "Coordination Agreement" means that certain Coordination Agreement included in Part F of the Series Instrument, among the Trust and the other parties specified therein, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Delaware Trustee" means Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, in its capacity as the sole Delaware trustee of the Trust, or another entity specified as the Delaware Trustee in the Trust Agreement, and, in each case, its successors. "Distribution Agreement" means that certain Distribution Agreement dated as of -, 2006, by and among Global Funding and the other parties specified therein, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Exchange Rate Agent" has the meaning ascribed in the Indenture. "Funding Agreement" means each funding agreement issued by Allstate Life to Global Funding, which is immediately pledged and collaterally assigned by Global Funding to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, and immediately thereafter assigned absolutely to and deposited into the Trust by Global Funding, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Funding Note Indenture" means that certain Funding Note Indenture included in Part H of the Series Instrument, among the Trust and the other parties specified therein, as the same may be amended, restated, modified, supplemented or replaced from time to time. "Global Funding" means Allstate Life Global Funding, a statutory trust formed under the laws of the State of Delaware. "Indenture" means that certain Indenture included in Part G of the Series Instrument, among the Trust and the other parties specified therein, as the same may be amended, restated, modified, supplemented or replaced from time to time. "Indenture Trustee" means The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., in its capacity as the Indenture Trustee, or another entity specified as the Indenture Trustee in the Indenture, and, in each case, its successors. 2 "Loss and Expense" has the meaning ascribed in Section 4.2. "Moody's" means Moody's Investors Service, Inc. "Name Licensing Agreement" means that certain Name Licensing Agreement included in Part D of the Series Instrument, between Allstate Insurance Company and the Trust, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Notes" has the meaning set forth in the Indenture. "Paying Agent" has the meaning set forth in the Indenture. "Person" means any natural person, corporation, limited partnership, general partnership, joint stock company, joint venture, association, company, limited liability company, trust (including any beneficiary thereof), bank, trust company, land trust, business trust or other organization, whether or not a legal entity, and any government or any agency or political subdivision thereof. "Pricing Supplement" means the pricing supplement included as Annex A to the Series Instrument. "Program" means the program for the issuance, from time to time, of secured medium term notes of the Allstate Life Global Funding Trusts. "Program Documents" means the Notes, the Series Instrument, the Closing Instrument, the Indenture, the Trust Agreement, the Administrative Services Agreement, the Support Agreement, the Name Licensing Agreement, the Distribution Agreement, the Terms Agreement, each Funding Agreement and any other documents or instruments entered into by, or with respect to, or on behalf of, the Trust. "Rating Agency" means each of Moody's, S&P, and any other rating agency which provides a rating of the Notes. "Registrar" has the meaning set forth in the Indenture. "Responsible Officer" when used with respect to any Person means the chairman of the board of directors or any vice chairman of the board of directors or the president or any vice president (whether or not designated by a number or numbers or a word or words added before or after the title "vice president") of such Person. With respect to the Trust, Responsible Officer means any Responsible Officer (as defined in the preceding sentence) plus any assistant secretary and any financial services officer of the Delaware Trustee, and with respect to the Delaware Trustee, Responsible Officer means any Responsible Officer (as defined in the first sentence of this definition) plus the chairman of the trust committee, the chairman of the executive committee, any vice chairman of the executive committee, the cashier, the secretary, the 3 treasurer, any trust officer, any assistant trust officer, any assistant vice president, any assistant cashier, any assistant secretary, any assistant treasurer, or any other authorized officer of the Delaware Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by the Persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject. "S&P" means Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. "Series Instrument" means the Series Instrument of the Trust, pursuant to which the Administrative Services Agreement, the Coordination Agreement, the Funding Note Indenture, the Indenture, the Name Licensing Agreement, the Support Agreement, the Terms Agreement and the Trust Agreement are entered into, and certain other documents are executed, in connection with the issuance of the Notes by the Trust. "Service Provider" has the meaning set forth in the Support Agreement. "Support Agreement" means that certain Support and Expenses Agreement included in Part C of the Series Instrument, by and between Allstate Life and the Trust, as the same may be amended, restated, modified, supplemented or replaced from time to time. "Support Obligation" has the meaning ascribed in the Support Agreement. "Survivor's Option" means the provision, if any, in the Notes permitting optional repayment of such Notes prior to maturity, if requested, following the death of the beneficial owner of such Notes, in accordance with the terms of the Notes. "Terms Agreement" means that certain Terms Agreement related to the offering of the Notes, included in Part E of the Series Instrument, by and among Global Funding, the Trust and each Agent specified therein, which will incorporate by reference the terms of the Distribution Agreement. "Trust" means the Allstate Life Global Funding Trust specified in the Series Instrument, together with its permitted successors and assigns. "Trust Agreement" means that certain Trust Agreement, included in Part A of the Series Instrument, pursuant to which the Trust is created. SECTION 1.2 Other Definitional Provisions. For all purposes of the Administrative Services Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires: 4 (a) the terms defined in this Article shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Article and shall include the plural as well as the singular; provided, that all capitalized terms used in and not otherwise defined in the Administrative Services Agreement will have the meanings set forth in the Indenture; (b) the words "include", "includes" and "including" shall be construed to be followed by the words "without limitation"; (c) Article and Section headings are for the convenience of the reader and shall not be considered in interpreting the Administrative Services Agreement or the intent of the parties to the Administrative Services Agreement; and (d) capitalized terms not otherwise defined in the Administrative Services Agreement will have the respective meanings set forth in the Indenture. ARTICLE 2 APPOINTMENT; ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES SECTION 2.1 Appointment. Pursuant to Section 3806(b)(7) of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act, the Administrator is hereby appointed, as an agent of the Trust with full power and authority, and agrees to carry out all of the duties and responsibilities: (a) of the Trust under the Program Documents and any other document to which the Trust is a party; and (b) of the Administrator under the Administrative Services Agreement. SECTION 2.2 Administrative Services. Without limiting the generality of Section 2.1, the Trust authorizes and empowers the Administrator, as its agent, to perform, and the Administrator agrees to perform, the following services: (a) subject to the timely receipt of all necessary information, providing, or causing to be provided, all clerical, and bookkeeping services necessary and appropriate for the administration of the Trust, including, without limitation, the following services as well as those other services specified in the following subsections: (i) maintenance of all books and records of the Trust relating to the fees, costs and expenses of the Trust which books and records shall be maintained separately from those of the Administrator; (ii) maintenance of records of cash payments and disbursements (excluding principal and interest on any Funding Agreement) of the Trust in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and preparation for audit of such periodic financial statements as may be necessary or appropriate; 5 (iii) upon request, preparing for, and causing, execution by the Trust, through a Responsible Officer, of the Program Documents, any amendments to and waivers under the Program Documents and any other documents or instruments deliverable by the Trust thereunder or in connection therewith; (iv) holding, maintaining, and preserving executed copies of the Program Documents and other documents or instruments executed by the Trust thereunder or in connection therewith, which shall be maintained separately from those of the Administrator; (v) upon receipt of notice, taking such action as may be reasonably necessary to enforce the performance by the other parties to agreements to which the Trust is a party, and enforce the obligations of those parties to the Trust under such agreements; (vi) upon request, preparing for execution by a Responsible Officer such notices, consents, instructions and other communications that the Trust may from time to time be required or permitted to give under the Program Documents or any other document executed by the Trust; (vii) obtaining services of outside counsel, accountants and other Service Providers on behalf of the Trust; (viii) preparing for execution by a Responsible Officer any instruction for payment of any amounts due and owing by the Trust under the Program Documents to which the Trust is a party or any other document to which the Trust is a party; provided that the foregoing shall not obligate the Administrator to advance any of its own monies for such purpose, it being understood that such amounts shall be payable only to the extent assets held in the Trust are available therefor and at such times and in such amounts as shall be permitted by the Program Documents; (ix) preparing for execution by a Responsible Officer any instruction for payment of any amounts due and owing by the Trust to the Indenture Trustee, any Paying Agent, the Registrar, the Exchange Agent, the Calculation Agent, other Service Providers and any other Person on request for all expenses, disbursements and advances to the extent not paid pursuant to the Support Agreement; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not obligate the Administrator to advance any of its own monies for such purpose, it being understood that such amounts shall be 6 payable only to the extent assets held in the Trust are available therefor and at such times and in such amounts as shall be permitted by the Program Documents; and (x) taking such other actions as may be incidental or reasonably necessary: (A) to the accomplishment of the actions of the Administrator authorized in this subsection (a); or (B) upon receipt of notice from a Responsible Officer directing specifically the Administrator to do so, to the accomplishment of the duties and responsibilities, and compliance with the obligations, of the Trust, under the Program Documents and under any other document to which the Trust is or may be a party to the extent not otherwise performed by the Indenture Trustee, a Paying Agent, the Registrar, the Exchange Rate Agent, the Calculation Agent or the Delaware Trustee; provided that no such duties or responsibilities shall materially enlarge the duties and responsibilities of the Administrator which are set forth specifically in the Administrative Services Agreement; (b) upon the issuance of the Notes, directing the Indenture Trustee to pay the expenses of the Trust relating to the Notes to the extent not paid under the Support Agreement; (c) performing the administrative services to ensure compliance with all of the obligations, representations, covenants and agreements of the Trust set forth in the Program Documents; (d) subject to the timely receipt of all necessary information or notices from the Delaware Trustee, and based on the advice of counsel, on behalf of the Trust, (i) the preparation and filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") and, if necessary, executing, in each case solely on behalf of the Trust and not in the Administrator's individual capacity such documents, forms, certifications and filings as may be required by the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, or other securities laws, in each case relating to the Program and/or the Notes; (ii) the preparation and filing of any documents or forms required to be filed by any rules or regulations of any securities exchange, including without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, or market quotation dealer system or the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. in connection with the listing of the Notes thereon; (iii) preparing, filing and executing solely on behalf of the Trust and not in the Administrator's individual capacity, such filings, applications, reports, surety bonds, irrevocable consents, appointments of attorney for service of process and other papers and documents as may be 7 necessary or desirable to register, or establish the exemption from registration of, the Notes under the securities or "Blue Sky" laws of any relevant jurisdictions; and (iv) executing and delivering, solely on behalf of the Trust and not in the Administrator's individual capacity, letters or documents to, or instruments for filing with, a depositary relating to the Notes; (e) if the Pricing Supplement relating to the Notes provides for a Survivor's Option, taking such actions as may be incidental or reasonably necessary to administer the Survivor's Option; and (f) undertaking such other administrative services as may be reasonably requested by the Trust or the Delaware Trustee, including: (i) causing the preparation by the Trust of any prospectus, prospectus supplement, pricing supplement, registration statement, amendments, including any exhibits and schedules thereto, any reports or other filings or documents, or supplement thereto; or (ii) securing and maintaining the listing of the Notes on any securities exchange or complying with the securities or "Blue Sky" laws of any relevant jurisdictions, in connection with the performance by the Trust of its obligations under the Program Documents or any other document to which the Trust is a party or other documents executed thereunder or in connection therewith. Any of the above services (other than those described in Sections 2.2(c), 2.2(d) and 2.2(e)) may, if the Administrator or the Trust deems it necessary or desirable, be subcontracted by the Administrator; provided that notice is given to the Trust of such subcontract and, notwithstanding such subcontract, the Administrator shall remain responsible for performance of the services set forth above unless such services are subcontracted to accountants or legal counsel selected with due care by the Administrator and reasonably satisfactory to the Trust and in which case the Administrator shall not remain responsible for the performance of such services and the Administrator shall not, in any event, be responsible for the costs, fees or expenses in connection therewith. ARTICLE 3 ACTIVITIES OF THE TRUST; EMPLOYEES; OFFICES. SECTION 3.1 Activities of the Trust. The Administrator agrees to carry out and perform the administrative activities of the Trust set forth in Article 2 in the name and on behalf of the Trust as its agent. SECTION 3.2 Employees. All services to be furnished by the Administrator under the Administrative Services Agreement may be furnished by an officer or employee of the Administrator, an officer or employee of any Affiliate of the Administrator, or, subject to Article 2, any other person or agent designated or retained 8 by it; provided that the Administrator shall remain ultimately responsible for the provision of such services by an officer or employee of the Administrator or any of its Affiliates or any other person or agent designated or retained by it, unless selected with due care and reasonably satisfactory to the Trust in accordance with the last paragraph of Article 2. No director, officer or employee of the Administrator or any Affiliate of the Administrator shall receive from the Trust a salary or other compensation. SECTION 3.3 Offices. The Administrator agrees to provide its own office space, together with appropriate materials and any necessary support personnel, for the day to day activities of the Trust set forth in Article 2 to be carried out and performed by the Administrator, all for the compensation specified in Article 4. Unless otherwise specified in the Administrative Services Agreement, all services to be furnished by the Administrator under the Administrative Services Agreement shall be performed from the Administrator's office in North Carolina. ARTICLE 4 COMPENSATION; INDEMNITIES SECTION 4.1 Compensation. The Trust agrees to pay the Administrator the fees set forth in or pursuant to the Administrative Services Agreement (the "Administration Fee"). SECTION 4.2 Indemnities. To the fullest extent permitted under applicable law and subject to limitations imposed by public policy, the Trust agrees to indemnify the Administrator, and hold the Administrator harmless, from and against any and all losses, liabilities (including liabilities for penalties), actions, suits, judgments, demands, damages, out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including, without limitation, interest and reasonable attorneys fees, but excluding costs and expenses attributable solely to administrative overhead) arising out of, in connection with, or resulting from the exercise of the Administrator's rights and/or the performance of the Administrator's duties, by the Administrator or its agents and employees, under the Administrative Services Agreement (collectively, "Loss and Expense"); provided, however, that the Trust shall not be liable to indemnify the Administrator, or hold the Administrator harmless, from and against any and all Loss and Expense resulting from or attributable to the negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of the Administrator. ARTICLE 5 TERM SECTION 5.1 Term. The Administrator may terminate the Administrative Services Agreement upon at least 30 days' written notice to the Trust and Allstate Life and the Trust may terminate the Administrative Services Agreement upon at least 30 days' notice to the Administrator (copies of any notice of termination shall also be sent to the Indenture Trustee). Such termination will not become effective until (a) the Trust appoints a successor Administrator; (b) the successor Administrator accepts such appointment; (c) the Administrator has 9 obtained the prior written confirmation of each Rating Agency that such action will not result in a reduction or withdrawal of its then current ratings, if any, of the Program and/or the Notes, as applicable; and (d) the Trust has paid all accrued and unpaid amounts owed to the Administrator under the Administrative Services Agreement. ARTICLE 6 OBLIGATION TO SUPPLY INFORMATION; RELIANCE ON INFORMATION; COVENANTS SECTION 6.1 Obligation to Supply Information. The Delaware Trustee shall forward to the Administrator such information (which is in the possession of the Trust) in connection with the Program Documents and the Administrative Services Agreement as the Administrator may from time to time reasonably request in connection with the performance of its obligations under the Administrative Services Agreement. The Administrator will: (a) hold and safely maintain all records, files, Program Documents and other material of the Trust; and (b) permit the Trust, the Delaware Trustee, and each of their respective officers, directors, agents and consultants on reasonable notice at any time and from time to time during normal business hours to inspect, audit, check and make abstracts from the accounts, records, correspondence, documents and other materials of the Trust, or relating to the provision of services and facilities under the Administrative Services Agreement. SECTION 6.2 Reliance on Information. The Trust recognizes that the accuracy and completeness of the records maintained and the information supplied by the Administrator under the Administrative Services Agreement is dependent upon the accuracy and completeness of the information obtained by the Administrator from the parties to the Program Documents and other sources and the Administrator shall not be responsible for any inaccurate or incomplete information so obtained or for any inaccurate or incomplete records maintained by the Administrator under the Administrative Services Agreement that may result therefrom. The Administrator shall have no duty to investigate the accuracy or completeness of any information provided to it and shall be entitled to fully rely on all such information provided to it. SECTION 6.3 Covenants. The Trust repeats and reaffirms to the Administrator the covenants of the Trust set forth in Article 4 of the Indenture. ARTICLE 7 LIABILITY OF ADMINISTRATOR; STANDARD OF CARE SECTION 7.1 Liability of Administrator. The Administrator assumes no liability for anything other than the services rendered by it pursuant to Articles 2, 3, 6 and 9, and neither the Administrator nor any of its directors, officers, employees or Affiliates shall be responsible for any action of the Trust, the Delaware Trustee or the officers or employees thereof taken outside the scope of Articles 2, 3, 6 and 9 and without direction from the Administrator. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, it is agreed 10 that the Administrator assumes no liability with respect to any of the Trust's obligations under the Program Documents. SECTION 7.2 No Implied Obligations. The Administrator shall not perform, endeavor to perform or agree to perform any act on behalf of the Trust not specifically required or permitted under the Program Documents. SECTION 7.3 Standard of Care. The Administrator shall perform its duties under the Administrative Services Agreement diligently, in conformity with the Trust's obligations under the Program Documents and applicable laws and regulations and in accordance with the same standard of care exercised by a prudent person in connection with the performance of the same or similar duties and, in no event with less care than the Administrator exercises or would exercise in connection with the same or similar obligations if those obligations were the direct obligations of the Administrator. ARTICLE 8 LIMITED RECOURSE SECTION 8.1 Limited Recourse to Trust. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Administrative Services Agreement, all obligations of the Trust under the Administrative Services Agreement shall be payable: (i) to the extent any such obligation constitutes a Support Obligation, by Allstate Life pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the Support Agreement; and (ii) to the extent any such obligation does not constitute a Support Obligation, by Global Funding, only to the extent of funds available therefor under and in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and, to the extent such funds are not available or are insufficient for the payment thereof, such unavailability or insufficiency of funds shall not constitute a claim against the Trust to the extent of such unavailability or insufficiency. This Section 8.1 shall survive the termination of the Administrative Services Agreement. SECTION 8.2 No Recourse Against Certain Persons. The obligations of the Trust under the Administrative Services Agreement are solely the obligations of the Trust and no recourse shall be had with respect to the Administrative Services Agreement or any of the obligations of the Trust under the Administrative Services Agreement or for the payment of any fee or other amount payable under the Administrative Services Agreement or for any claim based on, arising out of or relating to any provision of the Administrative Services Agreement against any trustee, employee, settlor, Affiliate, agent or servant of the Trust. This Section 8.2 shall survive the termination of the Administrative Services Agreement. ARTICLE 9 TAX MATTERS SECTION 9.1 Income Tax Treatment. The Administrator agrees that for all United States Federal, state and local income and franchise tax purposes: (i) 11 the Notes will be treated as indebtedness of Allstate Life; and (ii) Global Funding and the Trust will be ignored and will not be treated as an association or a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation. The Administrator will not take any action inconsistent with the treatment described in the immediately preceding sentence unless otherwise required by applicable law. ARTICLE 10 MISCELLANEOUS SECTION 10.1 Amendments. No waiver, alteration, modification, amendment or supplement of the terms of the Administrative Services Agreement shall be effective unless: (a) accomplished by written instrument signed by the parties to the Administrative Services Agreement; and (b) for so long as any Notes remain outstanding, each of Moody's and S&P has confirmed in writing that such action will not result in reduction or withdrawal of its then current ratings, if any, of the Program and/or the Trust's Notes, as applicable. The Trust shall provide each of Moody's and S&P with a copy of each such waiver, alteration, modification, amendment or supplement. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 10.1 to the contrary, no waiver, alteration, modification, amendment or supplement to the terms of the Administrative Services Agreement shall be effective without the prior written consent of Allstate Life. SECTION 10.2 No Joint Venture. Nothing contained in the Administrative Services Agreement shall constitute the Trust and the Administrator as members of any partnership, joint venture, association, syndicate or unincorporated business. SECTION 10.3 Assignment. Except as set forth in this Section 10.3, and subject to the rights of the Administrator to subcontract its services under the Administrative Services Agreement pursuant to Article 2, the Administrative Services Agreement may not be assigned by either party without: (i) the prior written consent of the other party and Allstate Life; and (ii) the prior written confirmation of each of Moody's and S&P that such action will not result in a reduction or withdrawal of its then current ratings, if any, of the Program and/or the Notes, as applicable. Subject to the foregoing, the Administrative Services Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties to the Administrative Services Agreement and their respective successors and assigns. Any party's transfer or assignment of the Administrative Services Agreement in violation of this Section 10.3 shall be void as to the other party. SECTION 10.4 Governing Law, Consent to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial. (a) Pursuant to Section 5-1401 of the General Obligations Law of the State of New York, the Administrative Services Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York. Each party to the Administrative Services Agreement submits to the 12 nonexclusive jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and of any New York State Court sitting in New York City for purposes of all legal proceeding arising out of or relating to the Administrative Services Agreement or the transactions contemplated by the Administrative Services Agreement. Each party to the Administrative Services Agreement irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection which it may have to the laying of the venue of any such proceeding brought in such a court and any claim that any such proceeding brought in such a court has been brought in an inconvenient forum. Each party to the Administrative Services Agreement consents to process being served in any suit, action or proceeding with respect to the Administrative Services Agreement, or any document delivered pursuant to the Administrative Services Agreement by the mailing of a copy thereof by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested, to its respective address specified at the time for notices under the Administrative Services Agreement or to any other address of which it shall have given written notice to the other party. The foregoing shall not limit the ability of any party to the Administrative Services Agreement to bring suit in the courts of any other jurisdiction. (b) Each of the parties irrevocably waives any and all right to a trial by jury with respect to any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to the Administrative Services Agreement or any transaction. Each of the parties to the Administrative Services Agreement acknowledges that such waiver is made with full understanding and knowledge of the nature of the rights and benefits waived. SECTION 10.5 Counterparts. The Administrative Services Agreement and any amendments, supplements, modifications, restatements or replacements of the Administrative Services Agreement, or waivers or consents to the Administrative Services Agreement, may be executed in any number of counterparts, and by different parties to the Administrative Services Agreement in separate counterparts, each of which, when so executed and delivered, shall be deemed to be an original and all of which counterparts, when taken together, shall constitute one and the same instrument. The Administrative Services Agreement shall become effective upon the execution of a counterpart by each of the parties. SECTION 10.6 Limitation of Delaware Trustee Liability. Notwithstanding any provision of the Administrative Services Agreement to the contrary, it is expressly understood and agreed by the parties that: (a) the Administrative Services Agreement is executed and delivered by the Delaware Trustee, not individually or personally, but solely as trustee, as applicable, in the exercise of the powers and authority conferred and vested in it, pursuant to the Trust Agreement; (b) each of the representations, undertakings and agreements in the Administrative Services Agreement made on the part 13 of the Trust is made and intended not as personal representations, undertakings and agreements by the Delaware Trustee but is made and intended for the purpose of binding only the Trust; (c) nothing contained in the Administrative Services Agreement shall be construed as creating any liability on the Delaware Trustee, individually or personally, to perform any covenant either expressed or implied contained in the Administrative Services Agreement, all such liability, if any, being expressly waived by the parties to the Administrative Services Agreement and by any person claiming by, through or under the parties to the Administrative Services Agreement; and (d) under no circumstances shall the Delaware Trustee be personally liable for the payment of any indebtedness or expenses of the Trust or be liable for the breach or failure of any obligation, representation, warranty or covenant made or undertaken by the Trust under the Administrative Services Agreement or any other related documents. SECTION 10.7 No Petition. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Administrator covenants and agrees that it will not institute against, or join with any other Person in instituting against, the Trust any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under any applicable bankruptcy or similar law. This Section 10.7 shall survive termination of the Administrative Services Agreement. SECTION 10.8 Severability. If any provision in the Administrative Services Agreement shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, such provisions shall be deemed severable from the remaining provisions of the Administrative Services Agreement and shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of such other provisions of the Administrative Services Agreement. SECTION 10.9 Entire Agreement. The Administrative Services Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties with respect to matters covered by the Administrative Services Agreement and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings with respect to such matters between the parties whether written or oral. SECTION 10.10 Administrator to Provide Access to Books and Records. The Administrator shall provide the Indenture Trustee with access to the books and records of the Trust, without charge, but only: (a) upon the reasonable request of the Indenture Trustee (for which purpose one Business Day shall be deemed reasonable); (b) during normal business hours; (c) subject to the Administrator's normal security and confidentiality procedures; and (d) at offices designated by the Administrator. SECTION 10.11 No Waiver. No failure on the part of the parties to the Administrative Services Agreement to exercise, and no delay in exercising, and no course of dealing with respect to, any right, power or privilege under the Administrative Services Agreement shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege operate as such a waiver. 14 SECTION 10.12 Remedies Cumulative. No right, power or remedy of the parties under the Administrative Services Agreement shall be exclusive of any other right, power or remedy, but shall be cumulative and in addition to any other right, power or remedy thereunder or existing by law or in equity. SECTION 10.13 Notices. All notices, demands, instructions and other communications required or permitted to be given to or made upon either party to the Administrative Services Agreement shall be in writing (including by facsimile transmission) and shall be personally delivered or sent by guaranteed overnight delivery or by facsimile transmission (to be followed by personal or guaranteed overnight delivery) and shall be deemed to be given for purposes of the Administrative Services Agreement on the day that such writing is received by the intended recipient thereof in accordance with the provisions of this Section 10.13. Unless otherwise specified in a notice sent or delivered in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section 10.13, notices, demands, instructions and other communications in writing shall be given to or made upon the respective parties thereto at their respective addresses (or their respective telecopy numbers) indicated below: If to the Trust: c/o Wilmington Trust Company Rodney Square North 1100 North Market Street Wilmington, DE 19890 Attention: Corporate Trust Administration Facsimile: (302) 636-4140 If to the Administrator: AMACAR Pacific Corp. 6525 Morrison Blvd., Suite 318 Charlotte, North Carolina 28211 Attention: Douglas K. Johnson Facsimile: (704) 365-1632 or at such other address as shall be designated by any party in a written notice to the other party. 15 EXHIBIT C ============================================================================= STANDARD SUPPORT AND EXPENSES AGREEMENT TERMS with respect to ALLSTATE LIFE GLOBAL FUNDING TRUSTS =============================================================================== C-1 TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS; OTHER DEFINITIONAL PROVISIONS SECTION 1.1 Definitions......................................................................1 SECTION 1.2 Other Definitional Provisions....................................................4 ARTICLE 2 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES SECTION 2.1 Representations and Warranties...................................................4 ARTICLE 3 SUPPORT OBLIGATIONS SECTION 3.1 Payment of Support Obligations...................................................5 SECTION 3.2 Amended or Additional Arrangements...............................................6 SECTION 3.3 Waiver of Notice.................................................................6 SECTION 3.4 No Impairment....................................................................6 SECTION 3.5 Enforcement......................................................................6 SECTION 3.6 Subrogation......................................................................7 SECTION 3.7 Actions; Notification............................................................7 SECTION 3.8 Settlement Without Consent.......................................................8 SECTION 3.9 Third Party Beneficiaries........................................................8 ARTICLE 4 GENERAL PROVISIONS SECTION 4.1 Binding Effect...................................................................8 SECTION 4.2 Amendments; Assignments..........................................................8 SECTION 4.3 Term of Support Agreement........................................................8 SECTION 4.4 Notices..........................................................................8 SECTION 4.5 Governing Law....................................................................9 SECTION 4.6 Consent to Jurisdiction..........................................................9 SECTION 4.7 Waiver of Jury Trial............................................................10 SECTION 4.8 Counterparts....................................................................10 SECTION 4.9 Severability....................................................................10 SECTION 4.10 Entire Agreement................................................................10 SECTION 4.11 No Waiver.......................................................................10 SECTION 4.12 Remedies Cumulative.............................................................10 SECTION 4.13 Limitation of Delaware Trustee Liability........................................10 EXHIBIT A Notice of Obligation...........................................................A-1
i This document constitutes the Standard Support and Expenses Agreement Terms, which will be incorporated by reference in, and form a part of, the Support Agreement (as defined below) by and between Allstate Life Insurance Company, an Illinois stock life insurance company (including any successor, "Allstate Life") and the Trust (as defined below). These Standard Support and Expenses Terms shall be of no force and effect unless and until incorporated by reference in and then only to the extent not modified by, the Support Agreement. The following terms and provisions shall govern the reimbursement arrangement and terms of indemnity with respect to the Trust, subject to contrary terms and provisions expressly adopted in the Support Agreement, which contrary terms shall be controlling. ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS; OTHER DEFINITIONAL PROVISIONS SECTION 1.1 Definitions. The following terms, as used in the Support Agreement, have the following meanings: "Additional Amounts" has the meaning set forth in the Indenture. "Administrative Services Agreement" means that certain Administrative Services Agreement included in Part B of the Series Instrument, by and between the Trust and the Administrator, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Administrator" means the party named as such in the Administrative Services Agreement, and its successors. "Agents" has the meaning set forth in the Distribution Agreement. "Allstate Life" has the meaning ascribed in the introductory paragraph. "Business Day" means a day (other than a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday) on which commercial banks in the City of New York, the Borough of Manhattan and Cook County, State of Illinois, are open for business. "Coordination Agreement" means that certain Coordination Agreement included in Part F of the Series Instrument, among the Trust and the other parties specified therein, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Delaware Trustee" means the party named as such in the Trust Agreement, not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee of the Trust, and its successors. 1 "Distribution Agreement" means that certain Distribution Agreement dated March 15, 2006, by and among Global Funding and the Agents named therein, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Excluded Amounts" means (i) any obligation of Global Funding or the Trust to make any payment in accordance with the terms of the Funding Note or the Notes, (ii) any obligation or expense of Global Funding or the Trust to the extent that such obligation or expense has actually been paid utilizing funds from payments under the Funding Agreement(s) or the Funding Note, as applicable, (iii) any cost, loss, damage, claim, action, suit, expense, disbursement, tax, penalty and liability of any kind or nature whatsoever resulting from or relating to any insurance regulatory or other governmental authority asserting that: (a) the Funding Note or the Notes are, or are deemed to be, (1) participations in the Funding Agreement(s) or (2) contracts of insurance, or (b) the offer, purchase, sale or transfer of the Funding Notes or the Notes, or the pledge and collateral assignment of, or the grant of a security interest in, the Funding Agreement(s), (1) constitute the conduct of the business of insurance or reinsurance in any jurisdiction or (2) require Global Funding, the Trust or any Holder to be licensed as an insurer, insurance agent or broker in any jurisdiction, (iv) any cost, loss, damage, claim, action, suit, expense, disbursement, tax, penalty and liability of any kind imposed on a Service Provider resulting from the bad faith, misconduct or negligence of such Service Provider, (v) any income taxes or overhead expenses of any Service Provider, (vi) any withholding taxes imposed with respect to payments made under any Funding Agreement(s), the Funding Note or the Notes, or (viii) any obligation to pay Additional Amounts. With respect to any Support Obligation owed to the Delaware Trustee and the Administrator, clause (iii) of the definition of "Excluded Amounts" shall not apply. "Funding Agreement" means each funding agreement issued by Allstate Life to Global Funding, which is immediately pledged and collaterally assigned by Global Funding to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, and immediately thereafter assigned absolutely to, and deposited into, the Trust by Global Funding, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Funding Note" has the meaning set forth in the Funding Note Indenture. "Funding Note Indenture" means that certain Funding Note Indenture included in Part H of the Series Instrument, among Global Funding and the other parties specified therein, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Funding Note Indenture Trustee" means the party specified as such in the Funding Note Indenture, solely as the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, and its successors. 2 "Global Funding" means Allstate Life Global Funding, a statutory trust formed under the laws of the State of Delaware. "Holder" means any holder of the Notes. "Indenture" means that certain Indenture included in Part G of the Series Instrument, among the Trust and the other parties specified therein, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Indenture Trustee" means the party specified as such in the Indenture, solely as the Indenture Trustee, and its successors. "Name Licensing Agreement" means that certain Name Licensing Agreement included in Part D of the Series Instrument, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Notes" has the meaning ascribed in the Indenture. "Notice of Obligation" means the instrument evidencing a Support Obligation of the Trust in, or substantially in, the form attached as Exhibit A. "Proceeding" has the meaning ascribed in Section 3.7(a). "Program" means the program for the issuance, from time to time, of secured medium term notes of the Allstate Life Global Funding Trusts. "Series Instrument" means the Series Instrument of the Trust, pursuant to which the Administrative Services Agreement, the Coordination Agreement, the Funding Note Indenture, the Indenture, the Name Licensing Agreement, the Support Agreement, the Terms Agreement and the Trust Agreement are entered into, and certain other documents are executed, in connection with the issuance of the Notes by the Trust. "Service Provider" means each of the Delaware Trustee, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Administrator and any other agent or provider of services to the Trust (other than the Agents), in each case acting in such capacity with respect to the Notes. "Support Agreement" means the Support and Expenses Agreement with respect to the Trust included in Part C of the Series Instrument, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time, which Support Agreement incorporates by reference these Standard Support and Expenses Agreement Terms. "Support Obligations" means any and all (i) reasonable costs and expenses reasonably incurred (including the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel), relating to 3 the offering, sale and issuance of the Notes by the Trust and (ii) costs, expenses and taxes of the Trust; in each case except the Excluded Amounts. "Terms Agreement" means that certain Terms Agreement related to the offering of the Notes included in Part E of the Series Instrument, by and among Global Funding, the Trust and each Agent named therein, which will incorporate by reference the terms of the Distribution Agreement. "Trust" means the Allstate Life Global Funding Trust specified in the Series Instrument, together with its permitted successors and assigns. "Trust Agreement" means that certain Trust Agreement included in Part A of the Series Instrument, pursuant to which the Trust is created. SECTION 1.2 Other Definitional Provisions. For all purposes of the Support Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires: (a) the terms defined in this Article shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Article and shall include the plural as well as the singular; (b) the words "include", "includes" and "including" shall be construed to be followed by the words "without limitation"; (c) Article and Section headings are for the convenience of the reader and shall not be considered in interpreting the Support Agreement or the intent of the parties to the Support Agreement; and (d) capitalized terms not otherwise defined in the Support Agreement will have the respective meanings set forth in the Indenture. ARTICLE 2 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES SECTION 2.1 Representations and Warranties. Each party to the Support Agreement represents and warrants to the other that as of the date of the Support Agreement: (a) it has the power to enter into the Support Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Support Agreement; (b) it has duly authorized, executed and delivered the Support Agreement; (c) assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of the Support Agreement by the other party, the Support Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the representing party; 4 (d) the Support Agreement is enforceable against the representing party in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors' rights, and subject as to enforceability to general principles of equity, regardless of whether enforcement is sought in a proceeding in equity or at law; (e) its execution and delivery of the Support Agreement, consummation by it of the transactions contemplated by the Support Agreement and the performance of its obligations under the Support Agreement do not and will not constitute or result in a default, breach or violation of the terms or provisions of its organizational documents or any material indenture, contract, agreement, instrument, mortgage, judgment, injunction or order applicable to which it is a party or by which any of its properties may be bound; and (f) no filing with or authorization, order, consent, permit or approval of any federal or state governmental authority or agency or political subdivision thereof is required for the execution, delivery and performance of the Support Agreement that has not been already obtained or acquired. ARTICLE 3 SUPPORT OBLIGATIONS SECTION 3.1 Payment of Support Obligations. (a) Allstate Life irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to (i) indemnify the Trust against, and pay, all Support Obligations and (ii) without duplication, indemnify each Service Provider against, and pay, all Support Obligations due and payable by the Trust to such Service Provider, in each case within two Business Days of receipt of the applicable Notice of Obligation, subject only to the terms and conditions of the Support Agreement. (b) Allstate Life agrees to pay any amount due under the Support Agreement in the currency in which the related Support Obligation originated. (c) Allstate Life and the Trust agree that all payments due under this Section 3.1 in respect of any Support Obligation shall be effected, and any responsibility of Allstate Life to pay such Support Obligation pursuant to the indemnity provided to the Trust in the Support Agreement shall be discharged, by the payment by Allstate Life, at the order of the Trust, to the account of the person to whom such Support Obligation is owed, as specified in the applicable Notice of Obligation. 5 SECTION 3.2 Amended or Additional Arrangements. The Trust will not, without the prior written approval of Allstate Life (a) enter into or amend, modify, restate, and/or supplement any compensation or indemnification arrangements with respect to the Program or (b) waive any of its rights under any compensation or indemnification provisions under the Program. SECTION 3.3 Waiver of Notice. Allstate Life waives notice of any fact or circumstance that could give rise to the payment of any Support Obligation under Section 3.1 and, except as otherwise provided in the Support Agreement, Allstate Life also waives presentment, demand for payment, protest, notice of nonpayment, notice of dishonor, notice of redemption and all other notices and demands. SECTION 3.4 No Impairment. The obligations, covenants, agreements and duties of Allstate Life under the Support Agreement will in no way be affected or impaired by reason of the happening from time to time of any of: (a) the extension of time for the payment of all or any portion of any Support Obligation or for the performance of any other obligation arising under, out of, or in connection with, any Support Obligation; (b) any failure, omission, delay or lack of diligence on the part of the Trust to enforce, assert or exercise any right, privilege, power or remedy conferred on the Trust with respect to any Support Obligation or any action on the part of the Trust granting indulgence or extension of any kind; (c) the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, sale of any collateral, receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, reorganization, arrangement, composition or readjustment of debt of, or other similar proceedings affecting, the Trust or any of the assets of the Trust; (d) the existence of any claim, set-off or other rights that Allstate Life may have at any time against the Trust; provided, that nothing in the Support Agreement shall prevent the assertion of any such claim by separate suit or compulsory counterclaim; or (e) any other act or omission to act or delay of any kind by the Trust or any other Person or any other circumstance whatsoever which might, but for the provisions of this Section 3.4(e), constitute a legal or equitable discharge of or defense to Allstate Life's obligations under the Support Agreement. SECTION 3.5 Enforcement. Notwithstanding any rights granted to Allstate Life under Section 3.7, Allstate Life waives any right or remedy to require that 6 any action be brought against any Person prior to the assertion of a claim under the Support Agreement. SECTION 3.6 Subrogation. Upon, and subject to, the payment by Allstate Life of any Support Obligation: (a) Allstate Life shall be subrogated to all of the rights, interests and remedies, if any, of the Trust in respect of such Support Obligation; and (b) the Trust will (i) from time to time execute all such instruments and other agreements and take all such other actions as may be necessary or desirable, or that Allstate Life may request, to protect any interest of Allstate Life with respect to any Support Obligation or to enable Allstate Life to exercise or enforce any right, interest or remedy it may have with respect to any such Support Obligation and (ii) release to Allstate Life any amount received relating to any Support Obligation, or any portion of any Support Obligation, immediately after any such amount relating to such Support Obligation, or any portion of any such Support Obligation, is received by the Trust. SECTION 3.7 Actions; Notification. (a) The Trust shall give prompt written notice to Allstate Life of any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body or other Person, whether commenced or threatened, against the Trust that may give rise to any Support Obligation (each, a "Proceeding"), but the Trust's failure to so notify Allstate Life shall not relieve Allstate Life from any liability which it may have otherwise under the Support Agreement unless the failure to so notify had an adverse impact on Allstate Life. (b) Allstate Life may, in its sole discretion, elect to assume the defense of the Trust in any Proceeding that could give rise to any Support Obligation, and if it so elects, Allstate Life shall select counsel reasonably acceptable to the Trust to represent the Trust in such Proceeding and pay the fees and expenses of such counsel. In any Proceeding, the Trust shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and disbursements of such counsel shall not constitute a Support Obligation unless (i) Allstate Life and the Trust shall have mutually agreed to the retention of such counsel or (ii) the named parties to any such Proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both Allstate Life and the Trust, and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them. In no event shall Allstate Life be liable for fees and expenses of more than one counsel (in addition to any local counsel) for the Trust in connection with any 7 one action or separate but similar or related actions in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances. SECTION 3.8 Settlement Without Consent. The Trust may not settle any Proceeding without the consent of Allstate Life. SECTION 3.9 Third Party Beneficiaries. Allstate Life understands and agrees that each Service Provider (including such parties in their respective individual capacity) shall be a third party beneficiary of the indemnity provided under the Support Agreement, subject to the limitations on such indemnity provided in the Support Agreement. No other Person shall have any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of the Support Agreement or any covenants, conditions or provisions contained in the Support Agreement. ARTICLE 4 GENERAL PROVISIONS SECTION 4.1 Binding Effect. All obligations, covenants, agreements and duties contained in the Support Agreement shall bind the permitted successors and assigns, and receivers, trustees and representatives of each of Allstate Life and the Trust. SECTION 4.2 Amendments; Assignments. (a) The Support Agreement will not be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced in any manner, except with the unanimous written consent of the Trust, Allstate Life, the Administrator, the Delaware Trustee and the Indenture Trustee. (b) Neither the Support Agreement nor any title, right or interest in the Support Agreement may be sold, transferred, assigned, hypothecated or alienated in any manner whatsoever, except with the express written consent of the Trust and Allstate Life. SECTION 4.3 Term of Support Agreement. The Support Agreement shall terminate and be of no further force and effect upon the later of (a) the date on which full payment has been made of all amounts payable to each Holder in accordance with the terms of the Notes, whether upon maturity, redemption or otherwise, and (b) the date on which the Trust Agreement and the Trust created by the Trust Agreement terminate. Unless and until the Support Agreement is terminated as specified in this Section 4.3, the Support Agreement will be continuing, irrevocable, unconditional and absolute. SECTION 4.4 Notices. All demands, notices, instructions or other communications required or permitted to be given under the Support Agreement 8 shall be given in writing by delivering the same against receipt by facsimile transmission (confirmed by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested), or by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested, addressed as follows (and if so given, shall be deemed given when mailed or upon receipt of a confirmation, if sent by facsimile): If to the Trust, to: c/o AMACAR Pacific Corp. 6525 Morrison Boulevard, Suite 318 Charlotte, North Carolina 28211 Attention: Douglas K. Johnson Facsimile: (704) 365-1632 If to Allstate Life, to: Allstate Life Insurance Company 3100 Sanders Road, Suite M3A Northbrook, Illinois 60062 Attention: Assistant Vice President, Institutional Markets Facsimile: (847) 326-6289 or such other address previously furnished in writing to the other party. SECTION 4.5 Governing Law. Pursuant to Section 5-1401 of the General Obligations Law of the State of New York, the Support Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York. SECTION 4.6 Consent to Jurisdiction. Each party to the Support Agreement submits for itself and in connection with its properties, generally and unconditionally, to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of the United States Federal court located in the City of New York, the Borough of Manhattan for purposes of any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to the Support Agreement or the transactions contemplated by the Support Agreement. Each party to the Support Agreement irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection which it may have to the laying of the venue of any such proceeding brought in such a court and any claim that any such proceeding brought in such a court has been brought in an inconvenient forum. Each party to the Support Agreement consents to process being served in any suit, action or proceeding with respect to the Support Agreement, or any document delivered pursuant to the Support Agreement by the mailing of a copy thereof by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested, to its respective address specified at the time for notices under the Support Agreement or to any other address of which it shall have given written notice to the other party. The foregoing shall not limit the ability of any party to the Support Agreement to bring suit in the courts of any other jurisdiction. 9 SECTION 4.7 Waiver of Jury Trial. Each of the parties to the Support Agreement irrevocably and expressly waives any and all right to a trial by jury with respect to any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to the Support Agreement or any claims or transactions in connection with the Support Agreement. Each of the parties to the Support Agreement acknowledges that such waiver is made with full understanding and knowledge of the nature of the rights and benefits waived. SECTION 4.8 Counterparts. The Support Agreement and any amendments, supplements, modifications, restatements or replacements of the Support Agreement, or waivers or consents to the Support Agreement, may be executed in any number of counterparts, and by parties to the Support Agreement in separate counterparts, each of which, when so executed and delivered, shall be deemed to be an original and all of which counterparts, when taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument. The Support Agreement shall become effective upon the execution of a counterpart by each of the parties to the Support Agreement. SECTION 4.9 Severability. In the event any provision or obligation of the Support Agreement shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions or obligations, or of such provision or obligation in any other jurisdiction, shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law. SECTION 4.10 Entire Agreement. The Support Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties relating to its subject matter, and supersedes all previous agreements between the parties, whether written or oral. SECTION 4.11 No Waiver. No failure on the part of the parties to the Support Agreement to exercise, and no delay in exercising, and no course of dealing with respect to, any right, power or privilege under the Support Agreement shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege operate as such a waiver. SECTION 4.12 Remedies Cumulative. No right, power or remedy of the parties under the Support Agreement shall be exclusive of any other right, power or remedy, but shall be cumulative and in addition to any other right, power or remedy thereunder or existing by law or in equity. SECTION 4.13 Limitation of Delaware Trustee Liability. Notwithstanding any provision of the Support Agreement to the contrary, it is expressly understood and agreed by the parties that (a) the Support Agreement is executed and delivered by Wilmington Trust Company, not individually or personally, but solely as Delaware Trustee, in the exercise of the powers and authority conferred and vested in it pursuant to the Trust Agreement, (b) each of the representations, undertakings and agreements in the Support Agreement made on the part of the Trust is made and intended not as personal representations, undertakings and agreements by Wilmington Trust Company, but is made and 10 intended for the purpose of binding only the Trust, (c) nothing contained in the Support Agreement shall be construed as creating any liability on Wilmington Trust Company, individually or personally, to perform any covenant either expressed or implied in the Support Agreement, all such liability, if any, being expressly waived by the parties to the Support Agreement and by any person claiming by, through or under the parties to the Support Agreement and (d) under no circumstances shall Wilmington Trust Company be personally liable for the payment of any indebtedness or expenses of the Trust or be liable for the breach or failure of any obligation, representation, warranty or covenant made or undertaken by the Trust under the Support Agreement or any other related documents. 11 EXHIBIT A NOTICE OF OBLIGATION DATE: - BY [HAND OR OVERNIGHT] DELIVERY AND/OR FACSIMILE Allstate Life Insurance Company Office of the General Counsel 3100 Sanders Road Northbrook, Illinois 60062 Telephone: - Facsimile: - Ladies and Gentlemen: Reference is hereby made to the Support and Expenses Agreement dated as of - (the "Support Agreement") entered into between Allstate Life Insurance Company, an Illinois stock life insurance company ("Allstate Life") and Allstate Life Global Funding Trust -, a statutory trust organized under the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Trust"). Capitalized terms used in this notice (this "Notice of Obligation") and not otherwise defined have the respective meanings ascribed in the Support Agreement. The Trust hereby represents to Allstate Life that: (a) on -, the Trust incurred a Support Obligation in an amount of $-; (b) the Support Obligation resulted from -; and (c) all documents and instruments evidencing the Support Obligation are attached to this Notice of Obligation. The Trust hereby requests Allstate Life to pay the Support Obligation in accordance with the Support Agreement to the following account: [Name of Bank: Account No.: Reference No.:] A-1 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trust has executed and delivered this Notice of Obligation as of the date first written above. ALLSTATE LIFE GLOBAL FUNDING TRUST - By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Delaware Trustee By: --------------------------------------------- Name: Title: A-2 EXHIBIT D =============================================================================== STANDARD NAME LICENSING AGREEMENT TERMS with respect to ALLSTATE LIFE GLOBAL FUNDING TRUSTS =============================================================================== D-1
TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS SECTION 1.1 Definitions......................................................................1 SECTION 1.2 Other Definitional Provisions....................................................3 ARTICLE 2 GRANT OF LICENSE; INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS SECTION 2.1 Grant of License.................................................................4 SECTION 2.2 Independent Contractors..........................................................4 ARTICLE 3 AGREEMENTS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF LICENSEE SECTION 3.1 Agreements and Acknowledgements of Licensee......................................4 ARTICLE 4 INFRINGEMENT PROCEEDINGS SECTION 4.1 Notification of Unauthorized Use.................................................6 SECTION 4.2 Payments for Damages.............................................................6 ARTICLE 5 TERM AND TERMINATION SECTION 5.1 Term.............................................................................6 SECTION 5.2 Automatic Termination............................................................6 SECTION 5.3 Immediate Termination............................................................7 SECTION 5.4 Termination on Notice............................................................7 ARTICLE 6 EFFECT OF TERMINATION SECTION 6.1 Change of Licensee Marks.........................................................7 SECTION 6.2 Licensee Cooperation.............................................................7 SECTION 6.3 Rights in Licensed Marks.........................................................7 ARTICLE 7 MISCELLANEOUS SECTION 7.1 Enforcement......................................................................7 i SECTION 7.2 Severability.....................................................................7 SECTION 7.3 Entire Agreement.................................................................8 SECTION 7.4 Amendment of Name Licensing Agreement............................................8 SECTION 7.5 Governing Law....................................................................8 SECTION 7.6 Consent to Jurisdiction..........................................................8 SECTION 7.7 Waiver of Jury Trial.............................................................8 SECTION 7.8 No Waiver........................................................................8 SECTION 7.9 Remedies Cumulative..............................................................9 SECTION 7.10 Notices..........................................................................9 SECTION 7.11 Counterparts.....................................................................9 APPENDIX A LICENSED MARKS.................................................................A-1 ii
This document constitutes the STANDARD NAME LICENSING AGREEMENT TERMS which will be incorporated by reference in the Name Licensing Agreement (as defined below) between Allstate Insurance Company (the "Licensor") and the Trust (as defined below) (the "Licensee"). These Standard Name Licensing Agreement Terms shall be of no force and effect unless and until incorporated by reference in, and then only to the extent not modified by, the Name Licensing Agreement. The following terms and provisions shall govern the use of the Licensor's Licensed Marks (as defined below) by the Licensee, subject to contrary terms and provisions expressly adopted in the Name Licensing Agreement, which contrary terms shall be controlling. ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS SECTION 1.1.......Definitions. The following terms, as used herein, have the following meanings: "Administrative Services Agreement" means that certain Administrative Services Agreement included in Part B of the Series Instrument, by and between the Trust and the Administrator, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Administrator" means AMACAR Pacific Corp., a Delaware corporation, in its capacity as the sole administrator of the Trust, or another entity specified in the Indenture as the Administrator, and, in each case, its permitted successors and assigns. "Agents" has the meaning ascribed in the Distribution Agreement. "Coordination Agreement" means that certain Coordination Agreement included in Part F of the Series Instrument, among the Trust and the other parties specified therein, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Delaware Trustee" means Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, or another entity specified in the Indenture as the Delaware Trustee, in each case not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee, and its successors. "Distribution Agreement" means that certain Distribution Agreement dated as of March 15, 2006, by and among Allstate Life Global Funding and the Agents named therein, as the same may be amended, restated, modified or supplemented from time to time. "Funding Note Indenture" means that certain Funding Note Indenture included in Part H of the Series Instrument, among Global Funding and the other parties 1 specified therein, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Indenture" means that certain Indenture included in Part G of the Series Instrument, among the Trust and the other parties specified therein, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Licensed Marks" shall include all marks listed on Appendix A attached hereto as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Licensed Services" means the activities necessary to accomplish all purposes of the Trust as set forth in the Trust Agreement. "Licensee" means the Trust. "Licensor" means Allstate Insurance Company, an Illinois stock insurance company, and its successors. "Name Licensing Agreement" means that certain Name Licensing Agreement included in Part D of the Series Instrument, between Licensor and Licensee, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Note" means each medium term note issued by the Trust under the Indenture, each in an authorized denomination and represented, individually or collectively, by a Note Certificate authenticated by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the terms of the Indenture. "Note Certificate" means a security certificate representing one or more Notes. "Person" means any natural person, corporation, limited partnership, general partnership, joint stock company, limited liability company, joint venture, association, company, trust (including any beneficiary thereof), bank, trust company, land trust, business trust or other organization, whether or not a legal entity, and governments and agencies and political subdivisions thereof. "Series Instrument" means the series instrument of the Trust, pursuant to which the Administrative Services Agreement, the Coordination Agreement, the Funding Note Indenture, the Indenture, the Name Licensing Agreement, the Support Agreement, the Terms Agreement and the Trust Agreement are entered into, and certain other documents are executed, in connection with the issuance of the Notes by the Trust. "Support Agreement" means that certain Support and Expenses Agreement included in Part C of the Series Instrument, by and between Allstate Life Insurance 2 Company and the Trust, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Terms Agreement" means that certain Terms Agreement included in Part E of the Series Instrument, by and among Allstate Life Global Funding, the Trust and each Agent named therein, which will incorporate by reference the terms of the Distribution Agreement. "Territory" shall mean worldwide. "Trust" means the Allstate Life Global Funding Trust specified in the Series Instrument, together with its permitted successors and assigns. "Trust Agreement" means that certain Trust Agreement included in Part A of the Series Instrument, among the Trust Beneficial Owner, the Administrator and the Delaware Trustee, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Trust Beneficial Owner" means Allstate Life Global Funding, a Delaware statutory trust, in its capacity as trust beneficial owner. SECTION 1.2.......Other Definitional Provisions. For all purposes of the Name Licensing Agreement except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires: (a) the terms defined in this Article shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Article and shall include the plural as well as the singular; (b) the words "include", "includes" and "including" shall be construed to be followed by the words "without limitation"; (c) Article and Section headings are for the convenience of the reader and shall not be considered in interpreting the Name Licensing Agreement or the intent of the parties to the Name Licensing Agreement; (d) the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of similar import refer to the Name Licensing Agreement as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section, Appendix or other subdivision; and (e) references herein to Articles, Sections and Appendices shall, unless otherwise specified, refer respectively to Articles, Sections and Appendices 3 ARTICLE 2 GRANT OF LICENSE; INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS SECTION 2.1.......Grant of License. Licensor hereby grants to Licensee for the term of the Name Licensing Agreement a nonexclusive, nontransferable right and license to use the Licensed Marks for the Licensed Services within the Territory. Licensor is not representing that it has rights with respect to Licensed Marks or the Licensed Marks in every jurisdiction within the Territory. SECTION 2.2.......Independent Contractors. Licensor and Licensee are independent contractors and are not, and shall not, represent themselves as principal and agent, partners or joint venturers. ARTICLE 3 AGREEMENTS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF LICENSEE SECTION 3.1.......Agreements and Acknowledgements of Licensee. Licensee acknowledges and agrees that: (a) Licensor is the sole owner of the Licensed Marks; (b) Licensee shall do nothing inconsistent with the ownership of the Licensed Marks by Licensor; (c) all use of the Licensed Marks by Licensee shall inure only to the benefit of and be on behalf of Licensor; (d) Licensee shall assist Licensor in executing any additional documents that may be necessary or desirable to effect the protection of Licensor's interests in Licensed Marks, including, but not limited to, the execution of any and all documents required by governmental agencies in order to register or maintain trademark and service mark registrations; in addition, Licensee shall not oppose Licensor's registration of the Licensed Marks nor take action that jeopardizes Licensor's rights in Licensed Marks; (e) nothing in the Name Licensing Agreement shall give Licensee any right, title or interest in Licensed Marks other than the license granted in the Name Licensing Agreement; (f) Licensee shall not attack or challenge in any way Licensor's rights in and to Licensed Marks or the validity or enforceability of the Name Licensing Agreement; 4 (g) Licensee shall not assign any of the rights granted under the Name Licensing Agreement without the prior express written consent of Licensor; (h) Licensee shall not grant to any Person a right and license to use the Licensed Marks without the prior express written consent of Licensor; (i) Licensee shall not use any Licensor's Mark not covered by the Name Licensing Agreement which is the property or is claimed as the property of Licensor or Licensor's subsidiaries or affiliates, except with the prior express written consent of Licensor; (j) Licensee shall comply with all applicable law, rules and regulations pertaining to its business; (k) Licensor has the sole and exclusive right to control the appearance of the Licensed Marks, including the quality of the mark in the Licensed Marks; (l) the nature and quality of the business conducted by Licensee under the Licensed Marks, and all related advertising, promotional and other uses of Licensed Marks by Licensee shall conform to standards set by and under the control of Licensor and communicated to Licensee from time to time; (m) except as otherwise agreed in writing by Licensor from time to time, Licensee shall submit to Casey Mangan, or successor in the Corporate Law Division of Licensor for Licensor's prior approval representative samples of all proposed materials bearing the Licensed Marks, to the extent that such materials are not contained in the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-129157), as amended and exhibits thereto; (n) Licensor shall have the right to inspect, upon reasonable notice, the business facilities of Licensee and to request submission of written materials at any time during the term of the Name Licensing Agreement so that Licensor may satisfy itself that quality standards are being appropriately complied with and will immediately modify or discontinue any use of Licensed Marks that Licensor deems not to be in compliance with its quality standards; 5 (o) the standards of conduct of Licensee's business shall be equivalent to the high standards of quality and ethics characteristic of the businesses conducted by Licensor; (p) the value and goodwill of the Licensed Marks accrues solely to Licensor; and (q) Licensee will not act or use Licensed Marks in any manner which may, in Licensor's judgment, be in bad taste, be inconsistent with Licensor's public image or which may in any way disparage Licensor or its reputation including, but not limited to, types and placement of advertising, or take any action which will harm or jeopardize the Licensed Marks or Licensor's ownership thereof. ARTICLE 4 INFRINGEMENT PROCEEDINGS SECTION 4.1.......Notification of Unauthorized Use. Licensee agrees to promptly notify Licensor of any unauthorized use of any of Licensed Marks as such unauthorized use comes to Licensee's attention. Licensor shall have the sole right and discretion to take any action relating to Licensed Marks; provided, that Licensee agrees to cooperate fully, should Licensor decide to take any such action. SECTION 4.2.......Payments for Damages. If infringement proceedings result in an award of damages or the payment of any sums to Licensor, any such damages or payments shall belong solely to Licensor. ARTICLE 5 TERM AND TERMINATION SECTION 5.1.......Term. The Name Licensing Agreement shall continue in force and effect for so long as Licensee continues to exist in accordance with the terms of the Trust Agreement, unless it is sooner terminated as provided for in the Name Licensing Agreement. SECTION 5.2.......Automatic Termination. The Name Licensing Agreement shall automatically terminate upon the happening of any of the following events: (a) Licensee is ordered or adjudged bankrupt, is placed under the supervision of a receiver, or enters into any scheme or composition with creditors to make an assignment for the benefit of creditors; (b) any assets of Licensee are seized or attached in conjunction with any action against Licensee by a third party; or 6 (c) any of the assets of Licensee are seized or appropriated by any governmental authority, whether or not compensation for such action is offered to Licensee. SECTION 5.3.......Immediate Termination. Licensor shall have the right, but not the obligation, to immediately terminate the Name Licensing Agreement and all rights granted under the Name Licensing Agreement in the event that Licensee (a) ceases to conduct business as a statutory trust, (b) breaches any of its representations, agreements, covenants and undertakings in the Name Licensing Agreement, (c) fails to comply with laws, rules and regulations applicable to it or the conduct of its business to the complete satisfaction of Licensor, (d) acts in a manner that impugns Licensor's reputation or (e) uses the Licensed Marks in a manner that is inconsistent with or beyond the scope of the license granted herein. SECTION 5.4.......Termination on Notice. Licensor may terminate the Name Licensing Agreement without cause upon the provision of ten days' prior written notice to Licensee. ARTICLE 6 EFFECT OF TERMINATION SECTION 6.1.......Change of Licensee Marks. Upon termination of the Name Licensing Agreement, Licensee agrees to immediately change Licensee's name as to not include any Licensed Marks, and to discontinue and not to use in the future any of the Licensed Marks, any trade name incorporating any of the Licensed Marks, or any terms confusingly similar to any of Licensed Marks. SECTION 6.2.......Licensee Cooperation. Upon termination of the Name Licensing Agreement, Licensee agrees to cooperate fully with Licensor to amend or cancel any governmental recordations or approvals pertaining to any tradenames, trademarks or servicemarks which consist of or include any of Licensed Marks. SECTION 6.3.......Rights in Licensed Marks. Upon termination of the Name Licensing Agreement, any and all rights in the Licensed Marks heretofor granted to Licensee and the goodwill connected therewith shall remain the property of Licensor. ARTICLE 7 MISCELLANEOUS SECTION 7.1.......Enforcement. The parties agree that any breaches of the Name Licensing Agreement shall cause irreparable injury to the nonbreaching party and that an injunction shall be an appropriate remedy. SECTION 7.2.......Severability. In the event any provision of, or obligation under, the Name Licensing Agreement shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, in any jurisdiction, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions or 7 obligations, or of such provision or obligation in any other jurisdiction, shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law. SECTION 7.3.......Entire Agreement. The Name Licensing Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties hereto relating to the subject matter of the Name Licensing Agreement, and supersedes all previous agreements between the parties, whether written or oral. SECTION 7.4.......Amendment of Name Licensing Agreement. Any amendments, supplements, modifications, restatements or replacements of the Name Licensing Agreement, or waivers or consents to the Name Licensing Agreement, shall be in writing signed by the parties. SECTION 7.5.......Governing Law. The Name Licensing Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to its choice of law principles. SECTION 7.6.......Consent to Jurisdiction. Each party to the Name Licensing Agreement submits to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of the United States Federal court located in Cook County, Illinois, for purposes of any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to the Name Licensing Agreement or the transactions contemplated by the Name Licensing Agreement. Each party to the Name Licensing Agreement irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of the venue of any such proceeding brought in such a court and any claim that any such proceeding brought in such a court has been brought in an inconvenient forum. Each party to the Name Licensing Agreement consents to process being served in any suit, action or proceeding with respect to the Name Licensing Agreement, or any document delivered pursuant to the Name Licensing Agreement by the mailing of a copy thereof by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested, to its respective address specified at the time for notices under the Name Licensing Agreement or to any other address of which it shall have given written notice to the other party. The foregoing shall not limit the ability of any party to the Name Licensing Agreement to bring suit in the courts of any other jurisdiction. SECTION 7.7.......Waiver of Jury Trial. Each of the parties to the Name Licensing Agreement irrevocably waives any and all right to a trial by jury with respect to any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to the Name Licensing Agreement or any claims or transactions in connection with the Name Licensing Agreement. Each of the parties to the Name Licensing Agreement hereby acknowledges that such waiver is made with full understanding and knowledge of the nature of the rights and benefits waived hereby. SECTION 7.8.......No Waiver. No failure on the part of Licensor to exercise, and no delay in exercising, and no course of dealing with respect to, any right, power or privilege under the Name Licensing Agreement shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor 8 shall any single or partial exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege operate as such a waiver. SECTION 7.9.......Remedies Cumulative. No right, power or remedy of Licensor under the Name Licensing Agreement shall be exclusive of any other right, power or remedy, but shall be cumulative and in addition to any other right, power or remedy thereunder or existing by law or in equity. SECTION 7.10......Notices. All notices, demands, or other communications required or permitted to be given under the Name Licensing Agreement shall be given in writing by delivering the same against receipt thereof by facsimile transmission (confirmed by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested), or by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested, addressed as follows (and if so given, shall be deemed given when mailed or upon receipt of a confirmation, if sent by facsimile): If to Licensor: Allstate Insurance Company 3100 Sanders Road Northbrook, Illinois 60062 Attention: Michael J. Velotta, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Secretary Facsimile: (847) 326-6742 If to Licensee: Allstate Life Global Funding c/o AMACAR Pacific Corp. 6525 Morrison Boulevard, Suite 318 Charlotte, North Carolina 28211 Attention: President Facsimile: (704) 365-1362 or at such other address as shall be designated by any party in a written notice to the other party. SECTION 7.11......Counterparts. The Name Licensing Agreement and any amendments, supplements, modifications, restatements or replacements of the Name Licensing Agreement, or waivers or consents to the Name Licensing Agreement, may be executed in any number of counterparts, and by different parties to the Name Licensing Agreement in separate counterparts, each of which, when so executed and delivered, shall be deemed to be an original and all of which counterparts, when taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument. The Name Licensing Agreement shall become effective upon the execution of a counterpart by each of the parties. 9 APPENDIX A LICENSED MARKS Allstate Allstate Life [ALLSTATE(R) LOGO] A-1 EXHIBIT E Execution Copy =============================================================================== ALLSTATE LIFE GLOBAL FUNDING $5,000,000,000 SECURED MEDIUM TERM NOTE PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT =============================================================================== E-1 March 15, 2006 Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. Banc of America Securities LLC Barclays Capital Inc. Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. Citigroup Global Markets Inc. Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. Goldman, Sachs & Co. Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc. J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. Lehman Brothers Inc. Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated UBS Securities LLC Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC Ladies and Gentlemen: Allstate Life Global Funding, a Delaware statutory trust ("Global Funding"), formed pursuant to a Trust Agreement, dated June 24, 2002, as amended, restated or modified from time to time (the "Global Funding Trust Agreement"), between Wilmington Trust Company, as Delaware trustee (the "Global Funding Delaware Trustee"), and AMACAR Pacific Corp., as trust beneficial owner, in connection with the Allstate Life Global Funding Secured Medium Term Note Program (the "Institutional Program") and the Allstate Life(R) CoreNotes(R) Program (the "Retail Program" and, together with the Institutional Program, the "Programs"), confirms its agreement with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and each other institution named on Schedule 1 hereto (each, an "Agent") with respect to the issue and sale, from time to time by separate and distinct Delaware statutory trusts formed and beneficially owned by Global Funding (each, an "Issuing Trust" and, collectively, the "Issuing Trusts"), of notes due between nine months and thirty years from the date of issuance (the "Notes"). As of the date ------------------------ Allstate Life(R) is a registered service mark of Allstate Insurance Company. CoreNotes(R) is a registered service mark of Merrill Lynch & Co. hereof, the Issuing Trusts are authorized to issue collectively up to U.S. $5,000,000,000 aggregate initial offering price of Notes (or its equivalent as determined in Section 4(s)). From time to time, upon the formation of a new Issuing Trust, in connection with the offer and sale of Notes by such Issuing Trust, upon execution and delivery by such Issuing Trust and the applicable Agent or Agents of the terms agreement (the "Terms Agreement") set forth in Part E of the series instrument to be executed by Global Funding, such Issuing Trust and the applicable Agent or Agents, among others (the "Series Instrument"), such Issuing Trust shall become a party hereto in relation to its Notes (the time of such execution and delivery referred to herein as such Issuing Trust's "Trust Effective Time"), with all the authority, rights, powers, duties and obligations of an Issuing Trust as if originally named as an Issuing Trust hereunder. Any agreement, covenant, acknowledgment, representation or warranty made by an Issuing Trust hereunder shall be deemed to have been made by each Issuing Trust at its Trust Effective Time and at the Applicable Time (as defined in the applicable Terms Agreement for such Issuing Trust, the "Applicable Time") unless another time or times are specified herein, in which case such specified time or times shall instead apply. The Notes of each Issuing Trust will be issued pursuant to an indenture, as amended or modified from time to time, which will adopt and incorporate the standard indenture terms (each, an "Indenture" and, collectively, the "Indentures") between the relevant Issuing Trust and J.P. Morgan Trust Company, National Association, as indenture trustee (the "Indenture Trustee"). Each Issuing Trust shall issue only one series of Notes. Each Issuing Trust will immediately use the proceeds from the sale of its Notes to purchase a funding note (each a "Funding Note") from Global Funding. Each Funding Note will be issued pursuant to a funding note indenture, as amended or modified from time to time, which will adopt and incorporate the standard funding note indenture terms (each, a "Funding Note Indenture") between Global Funding and J.P. Morgan Trust Company, National Association, as the funding note indenture trustee (the "Funding Note Indenture Trustee"). Global Funding will immediately use the net proceeds received from the sale of the Funding Note to purchase one or more funding agreements (the "Funding Agreement(s)") issued by Allstate Life Insurance Company, an Illinois stock life insurance company (the "Company"). Global Funding will immediately assign absolutely to, and deposit into the relevant Issuing Trust, the relevant Funding Agreement(s) and the relevant Funding Note will be surrendered. The Notes of the Issuing Trust will be secured by the relevant Funding Agreement(s). The Issuing Trust will immediately collaterally assign, and grant a first priority perfected security interest in, the Funding Agreement(s) to the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the holders of the Notes of the Issuing Trust pursuant to the terms of the Indenture. In connection with the sale of its Notes, the Issuing Trust will prepare a Pricing Supplement (the "Pricing Supplement") including or incorporating by reference a description of the terms of the Notes and the terms of the offering. The Agents include those institutions named from time to time in Schedule 1 hereto and any institution appointed as an Agent pursuant to Section 20 below. If any institution is appointed as an Agent only with respect to the Notes of a particular Issuing Trust, such institution shall only be an Agent with respect to Notes of such Issuing Trust. 2 This Agreement specifies the terms and conditions on which Notes may be sold by an Issuing Trust (i) to one or more Agents as principal for resale to investors, (ii) directly to investors through the applicable Agent as an agent of such Issuing Trust in soliciting offers for the purchase of Notes and (iii) to such other investors in compliance with all applicable securities laws as such Issuing Trust may determine from time to time. The Company has registered shares of its common stock with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "1934 Act"), on Form 10 under the 1934 Act. Pursuant to Rule 429 of the rules and regulations of the Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act Regulations"), the Company and Global Funding have filed with the Commission (i) a registration statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-129157) and pre-effective amendment No. 1 thereto under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"), for the registration of the Funding Agreement(s), the Funding Notes, and the Notes, and the offering thereof in accordance with Rule 415 of the 1933 Act Regulations; (ii) the related prospectus dated March 15, 2006 covering the Notes offered under the Programs (the "Base Prospectus"); (iii) the prospectus supplement to the Base Prospectus, dated March 15, 2006, covering the Notes offered under the Institutional Program (the "Institutional Prospectus Supplement" and together with the Base Prospectus, the "Institutional Base Prospectus"); and (iv) the prospectus supplement to the Base Prospectus, dated March 15, 2006, covering the Notes offered under the Retail Program (the "Retail Prospectus Supplement" and, together with the Base Prospectus, the "Retail Base Prospectus"). Such registration statement (as so amended, if applicable), is also the first post-effective amendment to registration statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-125937) filed by the Company and Global Funding. The registration statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-129157) (as so amended, if applicable) has been declared effective by the Commission, and the form of Indenture and the form of Funding Note Indenture have been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the "1939 Act"), and the Company and Global Funding have filed such post-effective amendments thereto as may be required prior to the acceptance by Global Funding and any Issuing Trust of any offer for the purchase of Notes and each such post-effective amendment has been declared effective by the Commission. Such registration statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-129157), at any relevant time, including the amendments thereto to such time, the exhibits and any schedules thereto at such time, the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the 1933 Act at such time and the documents otherwise deemed to be a part thereof or included therein by the 1933 Act Regulations is referred to herein as the "Registration Statement". If the Company or Global Funding file a registration statement with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the 1933 Act Regulations (the "Rule 462(b) Registration Statement"), then, after such filing, all references to the "Registration Statement" shall also be deemed to include the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement. With respect to the offering of a series of Notes under the Institutional Program, the Institutional Base Prospectus, and with respect to the offering of a series of Notes under the Retail Program, the Retail Base Prospectus, in each case including the Pricing Supplement relating to the offering of such series of Notes, in the form first filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the 1933 Act Regulations (or in the form first made available to the applicable Agent(s) by the Company and the applicable Issuing Trust to meet requests of purchasers pursuant to Rule 173 under the 1933 Act Regulations), are referred to herein as the "Prospectus." The term "preliminary prospectus" means any preliminary form of the Prospectus. For all purposes of this Agreement, the term "free writing prospectus" has 3 the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the 1933 Act Regulations and the term "Time of Sale Prospectus" means (i) with respect to the offer and sale of any series of Notes under the Institutional Program, the Institutional Base Prospectus and (ii) with respect to the offer and sale of any series of Notes under the Retail Program, the Retail Base Prospectus in each case as amended or supplemented from time to time, together with any other preliminary prospectus relating to the offer and sale of such series of Notes, any Pricing Supplement relating to the offer and sale of such series of Notes filed with the Commission prior to the Applicable Time and each free writing prospectus (including any final term sheet relating to such series of Notes) attached as, or identified in, Exhibit A to the applicable Terms Agreement and any other information identified in Exhibit A to the applicable Terms Agreement. All references to the "Registration Statement", the "Institutional Base Prospectus", the "Retail Base Prospectus", any "preliminary prospectus", the "Time of Sale Prospectus" and the "Prospectus" shall also be deemed to include all amendments and supplements thereto and all documents incorporated by reference therein. For purposes of this Agreement, all references to the Registration Statement, Time of Sale Prospectus, Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus or free writing prospectus, or to any amendment or supplement thereto shall be deemed to include any copy filed with the Commission pursuant to its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system ("EDGAR"). All references in this Agreement to financial statements and schedules and other information which is "disclosed", "contained", "included" or "stated" (or other references of like import) in the Registration Statement, Time of Sale Prospectus, Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus or free writing prospectus shall be deemed to include all such financial statements and schedules and other information which is incorporated by reference in or otherwise deemed by the 1933 Act Regulations to be a part of or included in the Registration Statement, Time of Sale Prospectus, Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus or free writing prospectus, as the case may be; and all references in this Agreement to amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement, Time of Sale Prospectus, Institutional Base Prospectus, Retail Base Prospectus, Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus or free writing prospectus shall be deemed to include all documents subsequently filed with the Commission pursuant to the 1934 Act which are incorporated by reference in or otherwise deemed by the 1933 Act Regulations to be part of or included in the Registration Statement, Time of Sale Prospectus, Institutional Base Prospectus, Retail Base Prospectus, Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus or free writing prospectus, as the case may be. SECTION 1. Appointment as Agent. (a) Appointment. Subject to the terms and conditions stated herein, Global Funding and the relevant Issuing Trust hereby agree that the Notes of such Issuing Trust will be sold to or through the Agents pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. Global Funding and the relevant Issuing Trust agree that they will not appoint any other agents to act on an Issuing Trust's behalf or to assist an Issuing Trust, in the placement of the Notes; provided, however that with respect to transactions in which the sales of Notes will be targeted to institutional purchasers under the Institutional Program, Global Funding and an Issuing Trust may enter into arrangements with other agent(s) not a party to this Agreement provided that such agent(s) enter into an agreement with terms substantially identical to those contained herein. Global Funding and each Issuing Trust agree that they hereby appoint only Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated 4 (the "Purchasing Agent") to act on an Issuing Trust's behalf or to assist an Issuing Trust in connection with transactions in which the sale of Notes will be targeted to retail purchasers under the Retail Program. For purposes of this Agreement, all references to any Agent shall be deemed to include the Purchasing Agent. (b) Sale of Notes. Each Issuing Trust shall not sell or approve the solicitation of offers for the purchase of Notes in excess of the aggregate initial offering price of Notes registered pursuant to the Registration Statement. The Agents shall have no responsibility for maintaining records with respect to the aggregate initial offering price of Notes sold, or of otherwise monitoring the availability of Notes for sale, under the Registration Statement. (c) Purchases as Principal. The Agents shall not have any obligation to purchase Notes issued through any Issuing Trust as principal. However, absent an agreement by and between Global Funding and the relevant Issuing Trust, on the one hand, and an Agent, on the other hand, for such Agent to act as an agent for the relevant Issuing Trust, such Agent shall be deemed to be acting as principal in connection with any offering of Notes by such Issuing Trust. Accordingly, the Agents, individually or in a syndicate, may agree from time to time to purchase Notes from an Issuing Trust as principal for resale to investors determined by such Agents. Any purchase of Notes from an Issuing Trust by an Agent as principal shall be made in accordance with Section 3(a) hereof. (d) Solicitations as Agent. If agreed upon between an Agent, on the one hand, and Global Funding and an Issuing Trust, on the other hand, then such Agent, acting solely as an agent for such Issuing Trust and not as principal, will solicit offers for the purchase of Notes. Such Agent will communicate to such Issuing Trust, orally, each offer for the purchase of Notes solicited by it on an agency basis other than those offers rejected by such Agent. Such Agent shall have the right, in its discretion reasonably exercised, to reject any offer for the purchase of Notes, in whole or in part, and any such rejection shall not be deemed a breach of its agreement contained herein. Such Issuing Trust may accept or reject any offer for the purchase of Notes, in whole or in part. Such Agent shall make reasonable efforts to assist such Issuing Trust in obtaining performance by each purchaser whose offer for the purchase of Notes has been solicited by it on an agency basis and accepted by such Issuing Trust. Such Agent shall not have any liability to such Issuing Trust in the event that any such purchase is not consummated for any reason. If such Issuing Trust shall default on its obligation to deliver Notes to a purchaser whose offer has been solicited by an Agent on an agency basis and accepted by such Issuing Trust, then (i) such Issuing Trust shall hold such Agent harmless against any loss, claim or damage arising from or as a result of such default by such Issuing Trust and (ii) the Issuing Trust shall be responsible to pay to such Agent any commission to which such Agent would otherwise be entitled absent such default. (e) Reliance. Each Issuing Trust and Global Funding, on the one hand, and the Agents, on the other hand, agree that any Notes purchased from an Issuing Trust by one or more Agents as principal shall be purchased, and any Notes the placement of which an Agent arranges as an agent of such Issuing Trust shall be placed by such Agent, in reliance on the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of Global Funding and such Issuing Trust contained herein and on the terms and conditions and in the manner provided herein. 5 SECTION 2. Representations and Warranties. (a) Representations and Warranties of Global Funding. Global Funding represents and warrants to each Agent as of the date hereof, to the applicable Agent(s) as of the Applicable Time for the relevant Issuing Trust, to the applicable Agent(s) as of the date of each delivery of Notes (whether to such Agent as principal or through such Agent as agent) (the date of each such delivery is referred to herein as a "Settlement Date"), to each Agent as of any time the Time of Sale Prospectus shall be amended or supplemented and to each Agent as of any time that the Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall be amended or supplemented (each of the times referenced above is referred to herein as a "Global Funding Representation Date"), as follows: (i) Due Formation and Good Standing of Global Funding. Global Funding is a statutory trust, duly formed under Delaware law pursuant to the Global Funding Trust Agreement and the filing of a certificate of trust with the Delaware Secretary of State, which is validly existing and in good standing as a statutory trust under the laws of the State of Delaware. (ii) Registration Statement, Preliminary Prospectuses, Time of Sale Prospectus, and Prospectus; Filing Status. Global Funding meets the requirements for use of Form S-3 under the 1933 Act; the Registration Statement has become effective under the 1933 Act and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued under the 1933 Act and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or, to the knowledge of Global Funding, are contemplated by the Commission, and any request on the part of the Commission for additional information has been complied with; the form of Indenture has been duly qualified under the 1939 Act; the form of Funding Note Indenture has been duly qualified under the 1939 Act; at the respective times that each part of the Registration Statement became effective and at each Global Funding Representation Date, the Registration Statement complied and will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Regulations, the 1934 Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission under the 1934 Act (the "1934 Act Regulations") and the 1939 Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission under the 1939 Act (the "1939 Act Regulations") and did not and will not contain an 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; each preliminary prospectus and Prospectus filed as part of the Registration Statement as originally filed or as part of any amendment thereto, or filed pursuant to Rule 424 under the 1933 Act Regulations, complied when so filed in all material respects with the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Regulations; each preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus delivered to an Agent for use in connection with the offering of Notes are identical in all material respects to any electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T; and at the date hereof, at the date of the Base Prospectus and each amendment or supplement thereto and at each Global Funding Representation Date, neither the Base Prospectus nor any amendment or supplement thereto included or will include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or will 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. The Time of Sale Prospectus does not, and at the Applicable 6 Time and at the applicable Settlement Date, the Time of Sale Prospectus, as then amended or supplemented by Global Funding, if applicable, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the representations and warranties in this subsection shall not apply to (i) statements in or omissions from the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished to Global Funding in writing by the applicable Agents concerning such Agents expressly for use in the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus or (ii) the parts of the Registration Statement which constitute the Statement of Eligibility and Qualification (Form T-1) of the Indenture Trustee and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee under the 1939 Act. (iii) Incorporated Documents; 1934 Act Filings. The documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Base Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, at the time they were or hereafter are filed with the Commission, complied and will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the 1934 Act and the 1934 Act Regulations and, when read together with the other information in the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Base Prospectus, at the date hereof, at the date of the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Base Prospectus and at each Global Funding Representation Date, did not and will not include an 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. Any reports, filings or other documents, exhibits or schedules filed by Global Funding and each Issuing Trust pursuant to the 1934 Act comply in all material respects with the requirements of the 1934 Act and the 1934 Act Regulations. (iv) Free Writing Prospectuses. At the time of initial filing of the Registration Statement, at the earliest time thereafter that Global Funding or another offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2) of the 1933 Act Regulations) of any Notes and at each Global Funding Representation Date, Global Funding was not and is not an "ineligible issuer," as defined in Rule 405 of the 1933 Act Regulations. Any free writing prospectus that Global Funding is required to file pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the 1933 Act Regulations has been, or will be, filed with the Commission in accordance with the requirements of the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Regulations. Each free writing prospectus that Global Funding has filed, or is required to file, pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the 1933 Act Regulations or that was prepared by or on behalf of or used by Global Funding complies or will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the applicable 1933 Act Regulations. Except with respect to the offering of any series of Notes, the free writing prospectuses attached as, or identified in, Exhibit A to the applicable Terms Agreement, Global Funding and the Issuing Trusts have not prepared, used or referred to, and will not, without the prior consent of the applicable Agents, prepare, use or refer to, any free writing prospectus or any other marketing materials other than the preliminary prospectus relating to or to be used in connection with any offer or sale of the Notes. No free writing prospectus used in 7 connection with the offering of a series of Notes will conflict with either the Registration Statement or the Base Prospectus. (v) Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The accounting firm which certified the financial statements and any supporting schedules thereto included in the Registration Statement and the Base Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, is an independent registered public accounting firm to the extent required by the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Regulations. (vi) Global Funding Financial Statements. The consolidated financial statements of Global Funding, if any, included in any report or filing under the 1934 Act, together with the related schedules and notes present fairly the consolidated financial position of Global Funding at the dates indicated to the extent required under the 1934 Act; such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved; the supporting schedules, if any, present fairly in accordance with GAAP the information required to be stated therein; the selected financial data and the summary financial information included in the Registration Statement and the Time of Sale Prospectus present fairly the information shown therein. (vii) No Material Changes. Since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Time of Sale Prospectus, except as otherwise stated therein, (1) there has been no event or occurrence that would result in a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise) of Global Funding or on the power or ability of Global Funding to perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Global Funding Trust Agreement, any Funding Note or the Administrative Services Agreement (the "Global Funding Administration Agreement"), dated June 24, 2002, as amended, restated or modified from time to time, between the Global Funding Delaware Trustee, on behalf of Global Funding, and AMACAR Pacific Corp., as administrator (the "Global Funding Administrator"), or to consummate the transactions to be performed by it as contemplated in the Time of Sale Prospectus (a "Global Funding Material Adverse Effect") and (2) there have been no transactions entered into by Global Funding, other than those in the ordinary course of business, which are material with respect to Global Funding. (viii) Authorization of this Agreement, each Funding Agreement, Global Funding Trust Agreement, Global Funding Administration Agreement, the Funding Note Indenture and the Funding Notes. This Agreement, the Global Funding Trust Agreement and Global Funding Administration Agreement have been, and each Funding Note Indenture, Funding Note and relevant Funding Agreement will be, duly authorized, executed and delivered by Global Funding and this Agreement, each relevant Funding Agreement, the Global Funding Trust Agreement, the Global Funding Administration Agreement, the Funding Note Indenture and the Funding Notes will each be a valid and legally binding agreement of Global Funding enforceable against Global Funding in accordance with its terms, as applicable, except as enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally or by general equitable principles (regardless 8 of whether enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law), and except further as enforcement thereof may be limited by requirements that a claim with respect to any Funding Note that is payable in a foreign or composite currency (or a foreign or composite currency judgment in respect of such claim) be converted into U.S. dollars at a rate of exchange prevailing on a date determined pursuant to applicable law or by governmental authority to limit, delay or prohibit the making of payments outside the United States. The holder of the Funding Notes will be entitled to the benefits of the Funding Note Indenture. (ix) Absence of Defaults and Conflicts. Global Funding is not in violation of its certificate of trust or in default in the performance or observance of any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any contract, indenture, mortgage, loan or credit agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which Global Funding is a party or by which it may be bound or to which any of the property or assets of Global Funding is subject (the "Global Funding Agreements and Instruments"), except for such violations or defaults that would not result in a Global Funding Material Adverse Effect; and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the Global Funding Trust Agreement, the Funding Agreement(s), Global Funding Administration Agreement and each Funding Note and any other agreement or instrument entered into or issued or to be entered into or issued by Global Funding in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Time of Sale Prospectus (collectively, the "Global Funding Program Documents"), the consummation of the transactions contemplated in the Time of Sale Prospectus (including the issuance and sale of the Notes by an Issuing Trust and the use of proceeds therefrom as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus) and the compliance by Global Funding with its obligations hereunder and under Global Funding Program Documents, have been duly authorized by all necessary action and do not and will not, whether with or without the giving of notice or the passage of time or both, conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default or event or condition which gives the holder of any note, debenture or other evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder's behalf) the right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of such indebtedness by Global Funding under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any assets, properties or operations of any Issuing Trust or Global Funding pursuant to, any Global Funding Agreements and Instruments, nor will such action result in any violation of Global Funding's certificate of trust, the Global Funding Trust Agreement or Global Funding Administration Agreement which may reasonably be expected to result in a Global Funding Material Adverse Effect and Global Funding is not in default in the performance or observance of any applicable law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ or decree of any government, government instrumentality or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over Global Funding or any of its assets, properties or operations, except for such defaults which would not reasonably be expected to result in a Global Funding Material Adverse Effect. (x) Absence of Proceedings. There is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation before or brought by any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, now pending, or to the knowledge of Global Funding threatened, against or affecting Global Funding which is required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Base Prospectus, as amended or supplemented (other than as stated therein), or 9 which may reasonably be expected to result in a Global Funding Material Adverse Effect; and the aggregate of all pending legal or governmental proceedings to which Global Funding is a party or of which any of its assets, properties or operations is the subject which are not described in the Registration Statement and the Base Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, including ordinary routine litigation incidental to the business, may not reasonably be expected to result in a Global Funding Material Adverse Effect. (xi) Possession of Licenses and Permits. Global Funding possesses such permits, licenses, approvals, consents and other authorizations (collectively, "Governmental Licenses") issued by the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign regulatory agencies or bodies necessary to conduct the business now operated by it; Global Funding is in compliance with the terms and conditions of all such Governmental Licenses, except where the failure so to comply would not, singly or in the aggregate, result in a Global Funding Material Adverse Effect; all of the Governmental Licenses are valid and in full force and effect, except where the invalidity of such Governmental Licenses or the failure of such Governmental Licenses to be in full force and effect would not result in a Global Funding Material Adverse Effect. Except as set forth in the Time of Sale Prospectus, Global Funding has not received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such Governmental Licenses which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would result in a Global Funding Material Adverse Effect. (xii) No Filings, Regulatory Approvals etc. No filing with, or approval, authorization, consent, license, registration, qualification, order or decree of, any court or governmental authority or agency, domestic or foreign, is necessary or required for the due authorization, execution and delivery by Global Funding of Global Funding Program Documents or for the performance by Global Funding of the transactions contemplated in Global Funding Program Documents, except such as have been previously made, obtained or rendered, as applicable. (xiii) Investment Company Act. Neither Global Funding nor any Issuing Trust is, and upon any sale of Funding Notes and the Notes as herein contemplated and the application of the net proceeds therefrom as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus, will not be an "investment company" within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act"). (xiv) Ratings. The Programs are (A) expected to be rated Aa2 by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. ("Moody's") and (B) rated AA by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. ("Standard & Poor's") (Moody's and Standard & Poor's are referred to herein as the "Ratings Agencies"), or, in each case, such other rating as to which Global Funding shall have most recently notified the Agents pursuant to Section 4(u) hereof. (xv) Notes Listed on any Stock Exchange. If specified in a Pricing Supplement, the Notes described in such Pricing Supplement shall be listed on the securities exchange designated in the Pricing Supplement. 10 (xvi) Relationship between Global Funding and the Agents. Global Funding acknowledges and agrees that (i) the purchase and sale of the Notes pursuant to this Agreement, including the determination of the offering price of the Notes and any related discounts and commissions, is an arm's-length commercial transaction between Global Funding, on the one hand, and the several Agents, on the other hand, (ii) in connection with the offerings contemplated hereby and the process leading to such transactions each Agent is and has been acting solely as a principal and is not the agent or fiduciary of Global Funding, or its stockholders, creditors, employees or any other party, (iii) no Agent has assumed or will assume an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of Global Funding with respect to the offerings contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether such Agent has advised or is currently advising Global Funding on other matters) and no Agent has any obligation to Global Funding with respect to the offerings contemplated hereby except the obligations expressly set forth in this Agreement, (iv) the Agents and their respective affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of Global Funding, and (v) the Agents have not provided any legal, accounting, regulatory or tax advice with respect to the offerings contemplated hereby and Global Funding has consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it deemed appropriate. (b) Representations and Warranties of the relevant Issuing Trust. Each Issuing Trust represents and warrants, only as to itself, to each applicable Agent as of the such Issuing Trust's Trust Effective Time, as of its Applicable Time and as of the date of each delivery of its Notes (whether to each such Agent as principal or through each such Agent as agent) (the date of each such delivery is referred to herein as a "Settlement Date") (each of the times referenced above is referred to herein as an "Issuing Trust Representation Date"), as follows: (i) Due Formation and Good Standing of the Issuing Trust. Such Issuing Trust is a statutory trust, duly formed under Delaware law pursuant to the trust agreement between Wilmington Trust Company, as Delaware trustee (the "Relevant Issuing Trust Trustee") and Global Funding (the "Issuing Trust Agreement") and the filing of a certificate of trust with the Delaware Secretary of State, which is validly existing and in good standing as a statutory trust under the laws of the State of Delaware. (ii) No Material Changes. Since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Trust Effective Time, whichever is later, except as otherwise stated therein, (1) there has been no event or occurrence that would result in a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise) of such Issuing Trust or on the power or ability of such Issuing Trust to perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Issuing Trust Agreement, its Notes, any Funding Agreement, the Indenture or the Issuing Trust Administrative Services Agreement (the "Issuing Trust Administration Agreement"), as amended or modified from time to time, between the Relevant Issuing Trust Trustee, on behalf of such Issuing Trust, and AMACAR Pacific Corp., as administrator (the "Issuing Trust Administrator"), or to consummate the transactions to be performed by it as contemplated in the Time of Sale Prospectus (an "Issuing Trust Material Adverse Effect") and (2) there have been no transactions entered into by such Issuing Trust, other 11 than those in the ordinary course of business, which are material with respect to such Issuing Trust. (iii) Authorization of this Agreement, the Issuing Trust Agreement, the Issuing Trust Administration Agreement, the Indenture and the Notes. This Agreement, the Issuing Trust Agreement, the Issuing Trust Administration Agreement and the relevant Indenture have been or will be, duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Issuing Trust and each is or will be a valid and legally binding agreement of the Issuing Trust enforceable against the Issuing Trust in accordance with its terms, as applicable, except as enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally or by general equitable principles (regardless of whether enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law), and except further as enforcement thereof may be limited by requirements that a claim with respect to any Notes issued under the Indenture that are payable in a foreign or composite currency (or a foreign or composite currency judgment in respect of such claim) be converted into U.S. dollars at a rate of exchange prevailing on a date determined pursuant to applicable law or by governmental authority to limit, delay or prohibit the making of payments outside the United States; the Notes have been duly authorized by such Issuing Trust for offer, sale, issuance and delivery pursuant to this Agreement and, when issued, authenticated and delivered in the manner provided for in the Indenture and delivered against payment of the consideration therefor, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of such Issuing Trust, enforceable against such Issuing Trust in accordance with their terms, except as enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally or by general equitable principles (regardless of whether enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law); the Notes will be substantially in a form previously certified to the Agents and contemplated by the Indenture; and each holder of Notes will be entitled to the benefits set forth in the Indenture. (iv) Absence of Defaults and Conflicts. Such Issuing Trust is not in violation of its certificate of trust or in default in the performance or observance of any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any contract, indenture, mortgage, loan or credit agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which such Issuing Trust is a party or by which it may be bound or to which any of the property or assets of such Issuing Trust is subject (the "Issuing Trust Agreements and Instruments"), except for such violations or defaults that would not result in an Issuing Trust Material Adverse Effect; and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the Issuing Trust Agreement, the Issuing Trust Administration Agreement, its Notes and the Indenture and any other agreement or instrument entered into or issued or to be entered into or issued by such Issuing Trust in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Time of Sale Prospectus, the consummation of the transactions contemplated in the Time of Sale Prospectus (including the issuance and sale of the Notes by an Issuing Trust and the use of proceeds therefrom as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus) (collectively, the "Issuing Trust Program Documents") and the compliance by such Issuing Trust with its obligations hereunder and under the Issuing Trust Program Documents, have been duly authorized by all necessary action and do not and will not, 12 whether with or without the giving of notice or the passage of time or both, conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default or event or condition which gives the holder of any note, debenture or other evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder's behalf) the right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of such indebtedness by such Issuing Trust under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any assets, properties or operations of any Issuing Trust or such Issuing Trust pursuant to, any Issuing Trust Agreements and Instruments, nor will such action result in any violation of such Issuing Trust's certificate of trust, the Issuing Trust Agreement or the Issuing Trust Administration Agreement which may reasonably be expected to result in an Issuing Trust Material Adverse Effect and such Issuing Trust is not in default in the performance or observance of any applicable law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ or decree of any government, government instrumentality or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over such Issuing Trust or any of its assets, properties or operations, except for such defaults which would not reasonably be expected to result in an Issuing Trust Material Adverse Effect. (v) Absence of Proceedings. There is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation before or brought by any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, now pending, or to the knowledge of such Issuing Trust threatened, against or affecting such Issuing Trust which is required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Base Prospectus, as amended or supplemented (other than as stated therein), or which may reasonably be expected to result in an Issuing Trust Material Adverse Effect; and the aggregate of all pending legal or governmental proceedings to which such Issuing Trust is a party or of which any of its assets, properties or operations is the subject which are not described in the Registration Statement and the Time of Sale Prospectus, including ordinary routine litigation incidental to the business, may not reasonably be expected to result in an Issuing Trust Material Adverse Effect. (vi) Possession of Licenses and Permits. Such Issuing Trust possesses such Governmental Licenses issued by the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign regulatory agencies or bodies necessary to conduct the business now operated by it; such Issuing Trust is in compliance with the terms and conditions of all such Governmental Licenses, except where the failure so to comply would not, singly or in the aggregate, result in an Issuing Trust Material Adverse Effect; all of the Governmental Licenses are valid and in full force and effect, except where the invalidity of such Governmental Licenses or the failure of such Governmental Licenses to be in full force and effect would not result in an Issuing Trust Material Adverse Effect. Except as otherwise set forth in the Time of Sale Prospectus, such Issuing Trust has not received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such Governmental Licenses which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would result in an Issuing Trust Material Adverse Effect. (vii) No Filings, Regulatory Approvals etc. Other than the filing of the applicable financing statements, if any, no filing with, or approval, authorization, consent, license, registration, qualification, order or decree of, any court or governmental authority or agency, domestic or foreign, is necessary or required for the due authorization, execution and delivery by such Issuing Trust of the Issuing Trust Program 13 Documents or for the performance by such Issuing Trust of the transactions contemplated in the Issuing Trust Program Documents, except such as have been previously made, obtained or rendered, as applicable. (viii) Investment Company Act. Such Issuing Trust is not, and upon any sale of Notes by such Issuing Trust as herein contemplated and the application of the net proceeds therefrom as described in the Time of Sale Prospectus will not be, an "investment company" within the meaning of the 1940 Act. (ix) Notes Listed on any Stock Exchange. If specified in a Pricing Supplement, such Issuing Trust's Notes described in such Pricing Supplement shall be listed on the securities exchange designated in the Pricing Supplement. (c) Additional Certifications. Any certificate signed by any officer of the Global Funding Delaware Trustee, on behalf of Global Funding or any officer of the Delaware Issuing Trustee, on behalf of the applicable Issuing Trust, and delivered to one or more Agents or to counsel for the Agents in connection with an offering of Notes to one or more Agents as principal or through an Agent as agent shall be deemed a representation and warranty by Global Funding or Issuing Trust (as applicable) to such Agent(s) as to the matters covered thereby on the date of such certificate and, unless subsequently amended or supplemented, at each Representation Date subsequent thereto. SECTION 3. Purchases as Principal; Solicitations as Agent; Other Sales. (a) Purchases as Principal. Notes purchased from an Issuing Trust by the Agents, individually or in a syndicate, as principal shall be made in accordance with terms agreed upon between such Agent(s), on one hand, and Global Funding and such Issuing Trust, on the other hand, specified in the Terms Agreement. An Agent's commitment to purchase Notes as principal shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations and warranties of Global Funding and Issuing Trust herein contained and shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth. Unless the context otherwise requires, references herein to "this Agreement" shall include the applicable Terms Agreement Each purchase of Notes by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, as the Purchasing Agent, unless otherwise agreed, shall be at a discount from the principal amount of each such Note equivalent to the applicable commission set forth in Schedule 2 hereto. Any other purchase of Notes, unless otherwise agreed, shall be at a discount from the principal amount of each such Note equivalent to the applicable commission set forth in Schedule 3 hereto. The Agents may engage the services of any broker or dealer in connection with the resale of the Notes purchased by them as principal and may allow all or any portion of the discount received by them in connection with such purchases to any broker or dealer. If Global Funding and an Issuing Trust, on one hand, and two or more Agents, on the other hand, enter into a Terms Agreement pursuant to which such Agents agree to purchase Notes from such Issuing Trust as principal and one or more of such Agents shall fail at the Settlement Date to purchase the Notes which it or they are obligated to purchase (the "Defaulted Notes"), then the nondefaulting Agents shall have the right, within 24 hours thereafter, to make arrangements for one of them or one or more other Agents or underwriters to purchase all, but not less than all, of the 14 Defaulted Notes in such amounts as may be agreed upon and upon the terms herein set forth; provided, however, that if such arrangements shall not have been completed within such 24-hour period, then: (i) if the aggregate principal amount of Defaulted Notes does not exceed 10% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes to be so purchased by all of such Agents on the Settlement Date, the nondefaulting Agents shall be obligated, severally and not jointly, to purchase the full amount thereof in the proportions that their respective initial underwriting obligations bear to the underwriting obligations of all nondefaulting Agents; or (ii) if the aggregate principal amount of Defaulted Notes exceeds 10% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes to be so purchased by all of such Agents on the Settlement Date, such agreement shall terminate without liability on the part of any nondefaulting Agent. No action taken pursuant to this paragraph shall relieve any defaulting Agent from liability in respect of its default. In the event of any such default which does not result in a termination of such Terms Agreement, either the nondefaulting Agents, on one hand, or Global Funding and such Issuing Trust, on the other hand, shall have the right to postpone the Settlement Date for a period not exceeding seven days in order to effect any required changes in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements. (b) Solicitations as Agent. On the basis of the representations and warranties herein contained, but subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, when agreed by an Issuing Trust, on one hand, and an Agent, on the other hand, such Agent, as an agent of the such Issuing Trust, will use its reasonable efforts to solicit offers for the purchase of such Issuing Trust's Notes upon the terms set forth in the Registration Statement. Unless the context otherwise requires, references herein to "this Agreement" shall include the applicable Terms Agreement. Such Agent is authorized to appoint any sub-agent with respect to solicitations of offers to purchase Notes; provided, however, that any such appointment of a sub-agent shall be subject to the prior consent of the Company and such Issuing Trust. All Notes sold through such Agent as agent will be sold at one hundred percent (100%) of their principal amount unless otherwise agreed upon between the relevant Issuing Trust, on one hand, and such Agent, on the other hand. An Issuing Trust reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to suspend solicitation of offers for the purchase of Notes through an Agent, as an agent of such Issuing Trust, commencing at any time for any period of time or permanently. As soon as practicable after receipt of instructions from such Issuing Trust, such Agent will suspend solicitation of offers for the purchase of Notes issued through such Issuing Trust until such time as such Issuing Trust has advised such Agent that such solicitation may be resumed. Each Issuing Trust agrees to pay Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, for acting as the Purchasing Agent, as consideration for soliciting offers to purchase its Notes as an agent of such Issuing Trust, a commission, in the form of a discount, equal to the applicable percentage of the principal amount of each Note sold by such Issuing Trust as a result of any such solicitation made by the Purchasing Agent, as set forth in Schedule 2 hereto. 15 Each Issuing Trust agrees to pay the Agent, as consideration for soliciting offers to purchase Notes as an agent of such Issuing Trust, a commission, in the form of a discount, equal to the applicable percentage of the principal amount of each Note sold by such Issuing Trust as a result of any such solicitation made by such Agent, as set forth in Schedule 3 hereto. (c) Administrative Procedures. The purchase price, interest rate or formula, maturity date and other terms of the Notes shall be agreed upon between Global Funding and the relevant Issuing Trust, on one hand, and the applicable Agent(s), on the other hand, and specified in a Pricing Supplement prepared in connection with each sale of Notes. Except as otherwise specified in the applicable Pricing Supplement, the Notes will be issued in denominations of U.S. $1,000 or any larger amount that is an integral multiple of U.S. $1,000. Administrative procedures with respect to the issuance and sale of the Notes (the "Administrative Procedures") shall be agreed upon from time to time among Global Funding, the relevant Issuing Trust, the Agent(s), the relevant Issuing Trust Administrator and the Indenture Trustee. The Agents, Global Funding and each Issuing Trust agree to perform and Global Funding agrees to cause the Company, and the Issuing Trust agrees to cause the Issuing Trust Administrator and the Indenture Trustee to agree to perform, their respective duties and obligations specifically provided to be performed by them in the Administrative Procedures. (d) Obligations Several. Global Funding and each Issuing Trust acknowledge that the obligations of the Agents under this Agreement are several and not joint. (e) Other Sales. Subject to the terms and conditions of Sections 1(a), 4(n) and 4(o), Global Funding and each Issuing Trust reserves the right, to be exercised in their sole discretion, to sell Notes of such Issuing Trust, in compliance with all applicable securities laws, to other investors without the assistance of any Agent. SECTION 4. Covenants of Global Funding. Global Funding covenants and agrees with each Agent as follows: (a) Notice of Certain Events. Global Funding will notify the Agents immediately, and confirm such notice in writing of (i) the effectiveness of any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement or the filing of any amendment or supplement to the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus (other than any amendment or supplement thereto providing solely for the determination of the variable terms of the Notes), (ii) the receipt of any comments from the Commission with respect to the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus, (iii) any request by the Commission for any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Base Prospectus, in each case as amended or supplemented, (iv) the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus or Prospectus, or of the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose or (v) the failure of the Notes of any Issuing Trust to be qualified for offer and sale under the securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdiction as the Agents may request pursuant to Section 4(t). With respect to the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus, Global Funding will make every reasonable effort to prevent the issuance of any stop order (or any similar order under blue sky laws) and, if any stop order (or 16 any similar order under blue sky laws) is issued, to obtain the lifting thereof at the earliest possible moment. (b) Filing or Use of Amendments. Global Funding will give each Agent advance notice of its intention to file or prepare any additional registration statement with respect to the registration of additional Notes, any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to any preliminary prospectus, or to the Prospectus (other than an amendment or supplement thereto providing solely for the determination of the variable terms of the Notes), whether pursuant to the 1933 Act, the 1934 Act or otherwise, and will provide immediate notice to each relevant Agent of any intention to prepare an amendment or supplement to the Time of Sale Prospectus and, if applicable to file such amendment or supplement pursuant to the 1933 Act, and will furnish to such Agents copies of any such document a reasonable amount of time prior to such proposed filing or the use of such material, as the case may be, and will not file or use any such document to which an Agent or counsel for the Agents shall object. (c) Revisions of Registration Statement. If at any time during the term of this Agreement any event shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which it is necessary, in the reasonable opinion of counsel for the Agents or counsel for Global Funding, to amend the Registration Statement in order that the Registration Statement will not contain an 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, or if it shall be necessary, in the reasonable opinion of either such counsel, to amend the Registration Statement in order to comply with the requirements of the 1933 Act or the 1933 Act Regulations, Global Funding shall give immediate notice, confirmed in writing, to the Agents to cease the solicitation of offers for the purchase of Notes and to cease sales of any Notes they may then own, and Global Funding will promptly prepare and file with the Commission, subject to Section 4(b) hereof, such amendment as may be necessary to correct such statement or omission or to make the Registration Statement comply with such requirements, and Global Funding will furnish to the Agents, without charge, such number of copies of such amendment as the Agents may reasonably request. (d) Use of Free Writing Prospectuses. Global Funding and the Issuing Trusts will not take any action that would result in an Agent being required to file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the 1933 Act Regulations a free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of an Agent that such Agent otherwise would not have been required to file thereunder. (e) Revisions of Time of Sale Prospectuses. If the Time of Sale Prospectus is being used to solicit offers to buy any Notes of a series at a time when the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers and any event shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which it is necessary, in the reasonable opinion of counsel for the applicable Agent(s) or counsel for Global Funding, to amend or supplement the Time of Sale Prospectus in writing in order that the Time of Sale Prospectus will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading in the light of the circumstances existing at the time the Time of Sale Prospectus is conveyed to a prospective purchaser, or if, in the reasonable opinion of either such counsel, it is necessary to amend or supplement the Time of Sale Prospectus to comply with the 1933 Act or 1933 Act Regulations, Global Funding shall give notice, confirmed in writing, to each of the applicable 17 Agents and Global Funding will promptly prepare and, if applicable, file with the Commission such amendment or supplement as may be necessary to correct such statement or omission or to make the Time of Sale Prospectus comply with such requirements, and Global Funding will furnish to each of the applicable Agents, without charge, such number of copies of such amendment or supplement, as the relevant Agents may reasonably require. (f) Revisions of Prospectus. If at any time when, in the reasonable opinion of counsel to the Agents or counsel to the Company, the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the 1933 Act Regulations) is required to be delivered, any event shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which it is necessary, in the opinion of counsel for the Agents or counsel for Global Funding, to amend or supplement the Prospectus in order that the Prospectus will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading in the light of the circumstances existing at the time the Prospectus or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) of the 1933 Act Regulations, is delivered to a purchaser, or if it shall be necessary, in the opinion of any such counsel, to amend the Registration Statement or amend or supplement the Prospectus in order to comply with the requirements of the 1933 Act or the 1933 Act Regulations, as applicable, Global Funding shall give immediate notice, confirmed in writing, to the Agents to cease the solicitation of offers for the purchase of Notes in their capacity as agent and to cease sales of any Notes they may then own as principal, and Global Funding will promptly prepare and file with the Commission, subject to Section 4(b) hereof, such amendment or supplement as may be necessary to correct such statement or omission or to make the Prospectus comply with such requirements, and Global Funding will furnish to the Agents, without charge, such number of copies of such amendment or supplement as the Agents may reasonably request. In addition, Global Funding will comply with the 1933 Act, the 1933 Act Regulations, the 1934 Act and the 1934 Act Regulations so as to permit the completion of the distribution of each offering of Notes. (g) Delivery of the Registration Statement. Global Funding will furnish to the Agents and to counsel for the Agents, without charge, signed and conformed copies of the Registration Statement and conformed copies of all consents and certificates of experts. The Registration Statement furnished to an Agent will be identical in all material respects to any electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T. (h) Delivery of the Preliminary Prospectus and Time of Sale Prospectus. Global Funding will deliver to each applicable Agent, without charge, as many copies of each preliminary prospectus as such Agent may reasonably request, and Global Funding hereby consents to the use of such copies for purposes permitted by the 1933 Act. Global Funding will furnish to each applicable Agent, without charge, such number of copies of the applicable Time of Sale Prospectus (as amended or supplemented) as such Agent may reasonably request. Each such document furnished to the applicable Agents will be identical to any electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T. (i) Delivery of Free Writing Prospectuses. Global Funding will deliver to each applicable Agent and, without charge, as many copies of each free writing prospectus, prepared 18 by or on behalf of, used by, or referred to by Global Funding. To the extent applicable, each such document furnished to the Agents will be identical to any electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T. (j) Delivery of the Prospectus. Global Funding will deliver to each applicable Agent, without charge, as many copies of the Base Prospectus (as amended or supplemented) as such Agent may reasonably request, and Global Funding hereby consents to the use of such copies for purposes permitted by the 1933 Act. It is hereby acknowledged that Global Funding intends to rely on the provisions of Rule 172 of the 1933 Act Regulations with respect to the delivery of the Prospectus. The Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto furnished to such Agent will be identical in all material respects to any electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T. (k) Preparation of Pricing Supplements. Global Funding will prepare, with respect to any Notes to be sold pursuant to this Agreement, a Pricing Supplement with respect to such Notes in a form previously approved by the Agents. Global Funding will deliver such Pricing Supplement no later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the business day following the Applicable Time for the relevant Issuing Trust and will file such Pricing Supplement pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the 1933 Act Regulations. (l) Reporting Requirements. Global Funding will file, or cause to be filed, all documents required to be filed on its behalf or on behalf of the Issuing Trusts with the Commission pursuant to the 1934 Act within the time periods prescribed by the 1934 Act and the 1934 Act Regulations. (m) Restrictions on the Offer and Sale of Securities to Institutional Purchasers. Unless otherwise agreed upon between one or more Agents, on one hand, and the Company and Global Funding, on the other hand, from the date of the agreement by such Agent(s) to purchase Notes from an Issuing Trust to and including the Settlement Date with respect thereto, Global Funding will not, and will cause all Issuing Trusts not to, without the prior written consent of such Agent(s), issue, sell, offer or contract to sell, grant any option for the sale of, or otherwise dispose of, any substantially similar debt securities of each such Issuing Trust to the same potential institutional investors (other than Notes to be offered and/or sold to or through such Agent(s)). (n) Restrictions on the Offer and Sale of Securities to Retail Purchasers. Unless otherwise agreed upon between the Purchasing Agent, on the one hand, and the Company and Global Funding, on the other hand, from the date the retail pricing levels are posted out to the selling group members through and including the applicable Settlement Date with respect thereto, Global Funding will not, and will cause all Issuing Trusts not to, without the prior written consent of the Purchasing Agent, issue, sell, offer or contract to sell, grant any option for the sale of, or otherwise dispose of, any substantially similar debt securities of each such Issuing Trust to the same potential retail investors (other than Notes to be offered and/or sold to or through the Purchasing Agent). 19 (o) Use of Proceeds. Global Funding shall cause each Issuing Trust to use the net proceeds received by it from the issuance and sale of the Notes in the manner specified in the Time of Sale Prospectus. (p) Listing. Global Funding shall use reasonable efforts to obtain and maintain approval for the listing of at least one series of Notes of an Issuing Trust on a national securities exchange as defined in Section 18(a)(3)(B) of the 1933 Act as long as Notes of any Issuing Trust are outstanding. (q) Outstanding Aggregate Principal Amount of Notes. Global Funding will promptly, upon request by an Agent notify such Agent of the aggregate principal amount of Notes from time to time outstanding under the Programs in their currency of denomination and (if so requested) expressed in United States dollars. For the purpose of determining the aggregate principal amount of Notes outstanding (i) the principal amount of Notes, denominated in a currency other than United States dollars shall be converted into United States dollars using the spot rate of exchange for the purchase of the relevant currency against payment of United States dollars being quoted by the Paying Agent or Calculation Agent, as applicable (each as defined in the Indenture), on the date on which the relevant Notes were initially offered, (ii) any Notes which provide for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon redemption following an Event of Default as defined in the Indenture in respect of such Notes, shall have a principal amount equal to their redemption amount, (iii) any zero coupon (and any other Notes issued at a discount or premium) shall have a principal amount equal to their issue amount and (iv) the currency in which any Notes are payable, if different from the currency of their denomination, shall be disregarded. (r) Blue Sky Qualifications. Global Funding shall endeavor, and shall cause the applicable Issuing Trust, to qualify the Notes for offer and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as the Agents shall reasonably request and to maintain such qualifications for as long as such Agents shall reasonably request. (s) Depository Trust Company. Global Funding shall endeavor to assist the Agents in arranging to cause the Notes to be eligible for settlement through the facilities of the Depository Trust Company ("DTC"). (t) Notice of Amendment to Global Funding Trust Agreement. Global Funding will give the Agents at least three (3) business days' prior notice in writing of any proposed amendment to the Global Funding Trust Agreement and, except in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Global Funding Trust Agreement, not make or permit to become effective any amendment to Global Funding Trust Agreement which may adversely affect the interests of the Agents or any holder of any outstanding Notes without the consent of the affected party. (u) Authorization to Act on Behalf of Global Funding. Global Funding will, from time to time, without request, deliver to the Agents a certificate as to the names and signatures of those persons authorized to act on behalf of Global Funding in relation to the Programs if such information has changed. 20 (v) Notice of Meeting. Global Funding will furnish to the Agents, at the same time as it is dispatched, a copy of notice of any meeting of the holders of Notes which is called to consider any matter which is material in the context of Global Funding. (w) Notices Regarding Ratings. Global Funding will notify the Agents immediately, and confirm such notice in writing, of any change in the rating assigned by Moody's or Standard & Poor's to the Program or the Notes issued pursuant to the Registration Statement as applicable. SECTION 5. Covenants of the Issuing Trusts. Each Issuing Trust, only with respect to itself, covenants and agrees with each Agent as follows: (a) Use of Proceeds. Such Issuing Trust shall use the net proceeds received by it from the issuance and sale of the Notes in the manner specified in the Time of Sale Prospectus. (b) Blue Sky Qualifications. Such Issuing Trust shall endeavor to qualify the Notes for offer and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as the Agents shall reasonably request and to maintain such qualifications for as long as such Agents shall reasonably request. (c) Depository Trust Company. Such Issuing Trust shall endeavor to assist the Agents in arranging to cause the Notes to be eligible for settlement through the facilities of DTC. (d) Notice of Amendment to Indenture and Issuing Trust Agreement. Such Issuing Trust will give the Agents at least three (3) business days' prior notice in writing of any proposed amendment to the relevant Indenture and relevant Issuing Trust Agreement and, except in accordance with the applicable provisions of the relevant Indenture and relevant Issuing Trust Agreement, not make or permit to become effective any amendment to such Indenture or such Issuing Trust Agreement which may adversely affect the interests of the Agents or any holder of any outstanding Notes without the consent of the affected party. (e) Authorization to Act on Behalf of the Issuing Trust. Such Issuing Trust will, from time to time, without request, deliver to the Agents a certificate as to the names and signatures of those persons authorized to act on behalf of such Issuing Trust in relation to the Programs if such information has changed. (f) Notice of Meeting. Such Issuing Trust will furnish to the Agents, at the same time as it is dispatched, a copy of notice of any meeting of the holders of Notes which is called to consider any matter which is material in the context of such Issuing Trust. SECTION 6. Covenants of the Agents. Each Agent covenants with Global Funding: (a) Delivery of Free Writing Prospectuses and Other Marketing Materials. Except as otherwise provided in the applicable Terms Agreement, such Agent will, prior to its first use, furnish Global Funding with a copy of each proposed free writing prospectus that is required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the 1933 Act Regulations or is or will be part of the Time of Sale Prospectus and any other marketing materials (other than (x) any free writing prospectus 21 that is not required to be filed or will not be part of the Time of Sale Prospectus or (y) any marketing material that complies with Rule 134 of the 1933 Act Regulations) relating to or to be used in connection with any offer or sale of the Notes, in each case prepared by or on behalf of such Agents and will not use any such free writing prospectus or other marketing materials to which Global Funding reasonably objects. (b) Use of Free Writing Prospectuses and Other Marketing Materials. Such Agent may use a free writing prospectus or any other marketing materials prepared by or on behalf of such Agent, only if such free writing prospectus or such marketing materials complies in all material respects with the requirements of the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Regulations. (c) Distribution of Free Writing Prospectuses and Other Marketing Materials. Such Agent will not distribute any free writing prospectus or any other marketing materials (other than any marketing material that complies with Rule 134 of the 1933 Act Regulations) used or referred to by such Agent in a manner reasonably designed to lead to its broad unrestricted dissemination; provided that this covenant shall not apply to any free writing prospectus or such marketing materials forming part of the Time of Sale Prospectus or any free writing prospectus or such marketing materials prepared or approved by Global Funding for broad unrestricted dissemination. SECTION 7. Conditions of Agent's Obligations. The obligations of one or more Agents to purchase Notes from an Issuing Trust as principal, the obligations of an Agent to solicit offers for the purchase of Notes as an agent of an Issuing Trust and the obligations of any purchasers of Notes sold through an Agent as an agent of an Issuing Trust, will be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of Global Funding and such Issuing Trust herein contained, and the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company contained in the Representations and Indemnity Agreement entered into, as of even date herewith, by and among the Company and the Agents, as amended, restated or modified from time to time (the "Representations and Indemnity Agreement") or contained in any certificate of an officer or trustee of Global Funding, Issuing Trust or the Company delivered pursuant to the provisions hereof and thereof, as applicable, to the performance and observance by Global Funding and such Issuing Trust of its covenants and other obligations hereunder or the performance and observance by the Company of its covenants and other obligations under the Representations and Indemnity Agreement, and to the following additional conditions precedent: (a) Effectiveness of the Registration Statement. The Registration Statement has become effective under the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act, as applicable, and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued under the 1933 Act or the 1934 Act, as applicable, and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted or shall be pending or threatened by the Commission, and any request on the part of the Commission for additional information shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of counsel to the Agents. (b) Legal Opinions, Memoranda and Negative Assurance Letters. On the date hereof (or in the case of the negative assurance and opinion letters specified in clauses (ii), (viii) and 22 (xi) below, prior to the Applicable Time for the first issuance of Notes following the date of this Agreement), the Agents shall have received the following legal opinions, memoranda and negative assurance letters dated as of the date hereof (or in the case of the negative assurance and opinion letters specified in clauses (ii), (viii) and (xi) below, as of the date of such negative assurance letter or opinion letter, as the case may be) and in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent: (i) Opinion of Internal Counsel for the Company. The opinion of internal Counsel for the Company, to the effect set forth in Exhibit A hereto and to such further effect as the Agents may reasonably request; (ii) Negative Assurance Letter of Company's Internal Counsel or Other Legal Counsel for the Company. The negative assurance letter of the General Counsel of the Company or other legal counsel selected by the Company and reasonably satisfactory to the Agents to the effect set forth in Exhibit B hereto and to such further effect as the Agents may reasonably request; (iii) Opinion of Counsel for the Company Concerning Certain Insolvency, Funding Agreement Authority and Funding Agreement Enforceability Matters. The opinion of Lord, Bissell & Brook or other legal counsel selected by the Company and reasonably satisfactory to the Agents to the effect set forth in Exhibit C hereto and to such further effect as the Agents may reasonably request; (iv) Opinion of Counsel for the Company Concerning Certain Illinois Security Interest Matters. The opinion of Lord, Bissell & Brook, counsel for the Company, to the effect set forth in Exhibit D hereto and to such further effect as the Agents may reasonably request; (v) Opinion of Counsel for the Company Concerning Certain Federal Securities and New York Matters. The opinion of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, L.L.P. or other legal counsel selected by the Company and reasonably satisfactory to the Agents ("Company Counsel") to the effect set forth in Exhibit E hereto and to such further effect as the Agents may reasonably request; (vi) Opinion of Counsel for the Company Concerning Certain Tax Matters. The opinion of Company Counsel to the effect set forth in Exhibit F hereto and to such further effect as the Agents may reasonably request; (vii) Memorandum of Counsel for the Company Concerning Certain Insurance Matters. The memorandum of Company Counsel to the effect set forth in Exhibit G hereto and to such further effect as the Agents may reasonably request; (viii) Negative Assurance Letter of Counsel for the Agents. The negative assurance letter of Sidley Austin LLP or other legal counsel selected by the Agents and reasonably satisfactory to Global Funding and the Company, with respect to the matters set forth in Exhibit H hereto; 23 (ix) Opinion of Counsel for the Global Funding Delaware Trustee and the Relevant Issuing Trust Trustee. The opinion of Richards, Layton & Finger, counsel for the Global Funding Delaware Trustee, to the effect set forth in Exhibit I hereto and to such further effect as the Agents may reasonably request; (x) Opinion of Counsel for Global Funding Administrator and Issuing Trust Administrator. The opinion of counsel for Global Funding Administrator, to the effect set forth in Exhibit J hereto and to such further effect as the Agents may reasonably request; (xi) Opinion of Counsel for the Indenture Trustee. The opinion of counsel for the Indenture Trustee to the effect set forth in Exhibit K hereto and to such further effect as the Agents may reasonably request; (xii) Opinion of Counsel for Global Funding and relevant Issuing Trust Concerning Certain Delaware Security Interest Matters. The opinion of Richards, Layton & Finger or other legal counsel selected by the Global Funding Delaware Trustee and reasonably satisfactory to the Agents, to the effect set forth in Exhibit L hereto and to such further effect as the Agents may reasonably request; (xiii) Opinion of Counsel for Global Funding. The opinion of Richards, Layton & Finger or other legal counsel selected by the Global Funding Delaware Trustee and reasonably satisfactory to the Agents, to the effect set forth in Exhibit M hereto and to such further effect as the Agents may reasonably request; and (xiv) Opinion of Counsel for the relevant Issuing Trust. The opinion of Richards, Layton & Finger or other legal counsel selected by the Global Funding Delaware Trustee and reasonably satisfactory to the Agents, to the effect set forth in Exhibit N hereto and to such further effect as the Agents may reasonably request. Unless otherwise agreed among the relevant Issuing Trust and the Agents, each of the opinions set forth in Section 7(b) above will be delivered as of each March 31st, commencing March 31, 2006, modified as necessary to relate to such time of delivery. (c) Global Funding Certificate. Global Funding shall have furnished to the Agents a certificate of Global Funding, signed by Global Funding Administrator of Global Funding, dated the date of such certificate, to the effect that: (i) the representations and warranties of Global Funding and, if applicable, the relevant Issuing Trust in this Agreement are true and correct on and as of the date of such certificate with the same effect as if made on the date hereof and Global Funding and, if applicable, relevant Issuing Trust have complied with all agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the date of such certificate; (ii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or, to Global Funding's knowledge, threatened; and 24 (iii) since the date of the Prospectus there has occurred no event required to be set forth in an amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or Prospectus, and there has been no document required to be filed under the 1933 Act, the 1933 Act Regulations, the 1934 Act or the 1934 Act Regulations which, upon filing, would be deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Prospectus which has not been so filed. (d) Company Officer's Certificate. The Company shall have furnished to the Agents a certificate of the Company, signed by either the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary, General Counsel or Treasurer of the Company, dated the date of such certificate, to the effect set forth in Section 4(c) of the Representations and Indemnity Agreement. (e) Comfort Letter of Accountants to the Company. Prior to the first issuance of Notes under the Program, the Agents shall have received a letter from Deloitte &Touchee LLP or its successor, as the independent registered public accounting firm to the Company (the "Accountants"), , and in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent, to the effect set forth in Exhibit O hereto. (f) Additional Documents. On the date hereof, counsel to the Agents shall have been furnished with such documents and opinions as such counsel may require for the purpose of enabling such counsel to pass upon the issuance and sale of Notes as herein contemplated and related proceedings, or in order to evidence the accuracy of any of the representations and warranties, or the fulfillment of any of the conditions, herein contained; and all proceedings taken by the Company and Global Funding in connection with the issuance and sale of the Notes as herein contemplated shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the Agents and to counsel to the Agents. If any condition specified in this Section 7 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required to be fulfilled, this Agreement may be terminated by the applicable Agent(s) by notice to Global Funding or relevant Issuing Trust at any time and any such termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party except as provided in Section 12 hereof and except that Sections 10, 11, 13, 16 and 17 hereof shall survive any such termination and remain in full force and effect. SECTION 8. Delivery of and Payment for Notes Sold through an Agent as Agent. Delivery of Notes sold through an Agent as an agent of an Issuing Trust shall be made by the Issuing Trust to such Agent for the account of any purchaser only against payment therefor in immediately available funds. In the event that a purchaser shall fail either to accept delivery of or to make payment for a Note on the date fixed for settlement, such Agent shall promptly notify such Issuing Trust and deliver such Note to such Issuing Trust and, if such Agent has theretofore paid such Issuing Trust for such Note, such Issuing Trust will promptly return such funds to such Agent. If such failure has occurred for any reason other than default by such Agent in the performance of its obligations hereunder, such Issuing Trust will reimburse such Agent on an equitable basis for its loss of the use of the funds for the period such funds were credited to such Issuing Trust's account. 25 SECTION 9. Additional Covenants of Global Funding and Issuing Trust. Global Funding and each Issuing Trust (only with respect to itself) further covenants and agrees with each Agent as follows: (a) Reaffirmation of Representations and Warranties. Each acceptance by an Issuing Trust of an offer for the purchase of Notes (whether to one or more Agents as principal or through one or more Agents as agent), and each delivery of Notes (whether to one or more Agents as principal or through an Agent as agent) shall be deemed to be an affirmation that the representations and warranties of Global Funding and such Issuing Trust contained in any certificate theretofore delivered to such Agent pursuant hereto are true and correct at the time of such acceptance or sale, as the case may be, and an undertaking that such representations and warranties will be true and correct at the time of delivery to such Agent(s) or to the purchaser or its agent, as the case may be, of the Notes relating to such acceptance or sale, as the case may be, as though made at and as of each such time (it being understood that such representations and warranties shall relate to the Registration Statement and Prospectus as amended and supplemented to each such time). (b) Subsequent Delivery of Certificates. At (i) each time that the Registration Statement or Base Prospectus shall be amended or supplemented (other than by (A) an amendment or supplement providing solely for the determination of the variable terms of the Notes and (B) an amendment deemed to have occurred as a result of a periodic filing by the Company, Global Funding or any Issuing Trust under the 1934 Act or the 1934 Act Regulations, except any quarterly report of the Company on Form 10-Q or any annual report of the Company on Form 10-K (any such report, an "SEC Periodic Report")), and (ii) each Settlement Date, Global Funding shall, and agrees to cause the Company to, furnish or cause to be furnished to the Agents, forthwith a certificate dated the date of filing with the Commission or the date of effectiveness of such amendment or supplement, as applicable, or the date of such sale, as the case may be, in form satisfactory to the Agents to the effect that the statements contained in the certificate referred to in Sections 7(c) and 7(d) hereof which were last furnished to the Agents are true and correct at the time of the filing or effectiveness of such amendment or supplement, as applicable, or the time of such sale, as the case may be, as though made at and as of such time (except that such statements shall be deemed to relate to the Registration Statement as amended and supplemented to such time) or, in lieu of such certificate, a certificate of the same tenor as the certificate referred to in Sections 7(c) and 7(d) hereof, modified as necessary to relate to the Registration Statement as amended and supplemented to the time of delivery of such certificate (it being understood that, in the case of clause (ii) above, any such certificate shall also include a certification that there has been no material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise or of Global Funding or any Issuing Trust since the date of the agreement by such Agent to purchase Notes from such Issuing Trust as principal); provided, however, that any delivery of certificates as required by this Section 9(b) due to the filing of an SEC Periodic Report shall only be required to be delivered prior to the pricing date for such Issuing Trust's Notes issued immediately after such SEC Periodic Report. (c) Subsequent Delivery of Legal Opinions. As agreed to from time to time by the Agents and Global Funding, Global Funding shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Agents 26 legal opinions of internal counsel for the Company, counsel for the Company, counsel for the Global Funding Delaware Trustee and the Relevant Issuing Trust Trustee, counsel for Global Funding and the relevant Issuing Trust, counsel for the Indenture Trustee and counsel for Global Funding Administrator and the Issuing Trust Administrator, as applicable, dated the date agreed to by the Agents and Global Funding, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agents, of substantially the same tenor as the legal opinions referred to in Section 7(b)(i), Section 7(b)(iii), Section 7(b)(iv), Section 7(b)(v), Section 7(b)(vi), Section 7(b)(viii), Section 7(b)(ix), Section 7(b)(x), Section 7(b)(xi), Section 7(b)(xii), Section 7(b)(xiii) and Section 7(b)(xiv) hereof, as applicable, modified as necessary to relate to any report filed by the Company under Section 14 or Section 16(d) of the 1934 Act, to the time of delivery of such legal opinions or, in lieu of such legal opinions, counsel last furnishing such legal opinions to the Agents shall furnish such Agents with a letter substantially to the effect that the Agents may rely on such last legal opinions to the same extent as though it was dated the date of such letter authorizing reliance (except that statements in such last legal opinions shall be deemed to relate to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as amended and supplemented to the time of delivery of such letter authorizing reliance). (d) Subsequent Delivery of Negative Assurance Letter of Internal Counsel or Other Counsel for the Company. Each time that (i) the Registration Statement or Prospectus shall be amended or supplemented (other than by (A) an amendment or supplement providing solely for the determination of the variable terms of the Notes and (B) an amendment deemed to have occurred as a result of a periodic filing by the Company, Global Funding or any Issuing Trust under the 1934 Act or the 1934 Act Regulations, except any SEC Periodic Report), (ii) (if required in connection with the purchase of Notes from an Issuing Trust by one or more Agents as principal) an Issuing Trust sells Notes to one or more Agents as principal or (iii) an Issuing Trust sells Notes in a form not previously certified to the Agents by such Issuing Trust, Global Funding agrees to cause the Company to furnish or cause to be furnished forthwith to the Agents and to counsel to the Agents, a negative assurance letter of the General Counsel of the Company or other legal counsel for the Company selected by the Company and reasonably satisfactory to the Agents dated the date of filing with the Commission or the date of effectiveness of such amendment or supplement, as applicable, or the date of such sale, as the case may be, in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent, of the same tenor as the negative assurance letter referred to in Section 7(b)(ii) hereof, but modified, as necessary, to relate to the Registration Statement and the Base Prospectus, as amended and supplemented, to the time of delivery of such negative assurance letter or, in lieu of such negative assurance letter, counsel last furnishing such negative assurance letter to the Agents shall furnish such Agents with a letter substantially to the effect that the Agents may rely on such last negative assurance letter to the same extent as though it was dated the date of such letter authorizing reliance (except that statements in such last negative assurance letter shall be deemed to relate to the Registration Statement and the Base Prospectus, as amended and supplemented, to the time of delivery of such letter authorizing reliance); provided, however, that any negative assurance letter to be delivered pursuant to Section 9(d)(ii) in connection with the proposed issuance of a series of Notes will be further modified, as necessary, to also relate to the applicable Time of Sale Prospectus, and provided, further, that any delivery of a negative assurance letter as required by this Section 9(d) due to the filing of an SEC Periodic Report shall only be required to be delivered prior to the pricing date for an Issuing Trust's Notes to be issued immediately after such SEC Periodic Report. Global Funding agrees to furnish or cause to be furnished forthwith to the Agents the negative assurance 27 letter of Sidley Austin LLP, counsel to the Agents, or such other counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Agents, dated within ten (10) days of the date of the filing of the Company's Form 10-K with the Commission, of the same tenor as the opinion referred to in Section 7(b)(viii) hereof, but modified, as necessary, to relate to the Registration Statement and Prospectus as amended and supplemented to the time of delivery of such negative assurance letter. (e) Delivery of Legal Opinions or Reliance Letters Upon Issuance of Notes. Unless otherwise agreed to among the Company, Global Funding and the applicable Agent(s), Global Funding shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the applicable Agent(s) in connection with each issuance of Notes by an Issuing Trust (i) an opinion of internal counsel for the Company (or a reliance letter authorizing reliance by such Agent(s) on an opinion of like tenor) as to the validity and enforceability of the Funding Agreement(s) being issued in connection therewith and (ii) an opinion of counsel for the Company (or a reliance letter authorizing reliance by such Agent(s) on an opinion of like tenor) as to the validity and enforceability of the Funding Notes of Global Funding and of the Notes of the relevant Issuing Trust, in each case, dated the date of such issuance, and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agents. (f) Subsequent Delivery of Comfort Letters. Each time that (i) the Registration Statement or the Base Prospectus shall be amended or supplemented to include additional financial information (other than by an amendment deemed to have occurred as a result of a periodic filing by the Company, Global Funding or any Issuing Trust under the 1934 Act or the 1934 Act Regulations, except any SEC Periodic Report) or (ii) (if required in connection with the purchase of Notes from an Issuing Trust by one or more Agents as principal) an Issuing Trust sells Notes to one or more Agents as principal, such Issuing Trust agrees to cause the Company to cause the Accountants forthwith to furnish to the Agents a letter, dated the date of filing with the Commission or the date of effectiveness of such amendment or supplement, as applicable, or the date of such sale, as the case may be, in form satisfactory to the Agents, of the same tenor as the letter referred to in Section 7(e) hereof but modified to relate to the Registration Statement and Prospectus as amended and supplemented to the date of such letter; provided, however, that any comfort letter to be delivered pursuant to Section 9(f)(ii) in connection with the proposed issuance of a series of Notes will be further modified, if applicable, to also relate to the applicable Time of Sale Prospectus, and provided, further, that any delivery of any letter as required by this Section 9(f) due to the filing of an SEC Periodic Report shall only be required to be delivered prior to the pricing date for an Issuing Trust's Notes issued immediately after such SEC Periodic Report. SECTION 10. Indemnification. (a) Indemnification of the Agent. With respect to any series of Notes, Global Funding and the relevant Issuing Trust (only as to itself in connection with the issuance of its Notes and without respect to any other Issuing Trust) agree to indemnify and hold harmless each applicable Agent, its directors and officers and each person, if any, who controls such Agent within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act as follows: (i) against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense whatsoever, as incurred, arising out of an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto) or the omission 28 or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or arising out of an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact included in any preliminary prospectus, the applicable Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; (ii) against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense whatsoever, as incurred, to the extent of the aggregate amount paid in settlement of any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue statement or omission, or any such alleged untrue statement or omission, provided that (subject to Section 10(d) hereof) any such settlement is effected with the written consent of Global Funding and the relevant Issuing Trust; and (iii) against any and all expense whatsoever, as incurred (including the fees and disbursements of counsel chosen by such Agent), reasonably incurred in investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue statement or omission, or any such alleged untrue statement or omission, to the extent that any such expense is not paid under subparagraph (i) or (ii) above; provided, however, that this indemnity does not apply to any loss, liability, claim, damage or expense to the extent arising out of (i) an untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to Global Funding by the applicable Agents concerning such Agents expressly for use in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto) or any preliminary prospectus, the applicable Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), (ii) any use of the Prospectus by the Agents to sell Notes or solicit offers for the purchase of Notes (x) after such time as Global Funding shall have provided written notice pursuant to Section 4(f) hereunder or the Company shall have provided written notice pursuant to Section 2(f) of the Representations and Indemnity Agreement, to the Agents to cease the sale of Notes and solicitation of offers for the purchase of Notes and (y) before such time as the relevant Issuing Trust shall have advised such Agent as the case may be, that such solicitation may be resumed or (iii) a claim for indemnity made under the Representations and Indemnity Agreement, only to the extent such claim has previously been satisfied by the Company pursuant to the terms of the Representations and Indemnity Agreement. (b) Indemnification of Global Funding and Issuing Trusts. With respect to any series of Notes, each Agent agrees, severally but not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless Global Funding and each Issuing Trust, their administrator, directors, officers and trustees (if applicable) who signed the Registration Statement and each person, if any, who controls Global Funding and any Issuing Trust within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense described in the indemnity contained in Section 10(a) hereof, as incurred, but only with respect to untrue 29 statements or omissions, or alleged untrue statements or omissions, made in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto) or any preliminary prospectus, the applicable Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to Global Funding by such Agent concerning such Agent expressly for use in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto) or Registration Statement Amendment (or any amendment thereto) or such preliminary prospectus, the applicable Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto). (c) Actions Against Parties; Notification. Each indemnified party shall give notice as promptly as reasonably practicable to each indemnifying party of any action commenced against it in respect of which indemnity may be sought hereunder, but failure to so notify an indemnifying party shall not relieve such indemnifying party from any liability hereunder to the extent it is not materially prejudiced as a result thereof and in any event shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have otherwise than on account of this indemnity agreement. In the case of parties indemnified pursuant to Section 10(a) hereof or Section 5(a) of the Representations and Indemnity Agreement, counsel to the indemnified parties shall be selected by the applicable Agent(s) and, in the case of parties indemnified pursuant to Section 10(b) hereof or Section 5(b) of the Representations and Indemnity Agreement, counsel to the indemnified shall be selected by Global Funding, the relevant Issuing Trust and the Company. An indemnifying party may participate at its own expense in the defense of any such action; provided, however, that counsel to the indemnifying party shall not (except with the consent of the indemnified party) also be counsel to the indemnified party. In no event shall the indemnifying parties (collectively with any other indemnifying parties in connection with the Representations and Indemnity Agreement), whether such indemnity is claimed hereunder or under the Representations and Indemnity Agreement, be liable for fees and expenses of more than one counsel (in addition to any local counsel) separate from their own counsel for all indemnified parties in connection with any one action or separate but similar or related actions in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances. No indemnifying party under this Agreement or the Representations and Indemnity Agreement shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified parties under this Agreement and the Representations and Indemnity Agreement, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever in respect of which indemnification or contribution could be sought under this Section 10 or Section 11 hereof (whether or not the indemnified parties are actual or potential parties thereto), unless such settlement, compromise or consent (i) includes an unconditional release of each indemnified party from all liability arising out of such litigation, investigation, proceeding or claim and (ii) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party. (d) Settlement without Consent if Failure to Reimburse. If at any time an indemnified party shall have requested in writing an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel, such indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of the nature contemplated by Section 10(a)(ii) effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 45 days after receipt by such 30 indemnifying party of the aforesaid request, (ii) such indemnifying party shall have received notice of the terms of such settlement at least 30 days prior to such settlement being entered into and (iii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed such indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement. SECTION 11. Contribution. If the indemnification provided for in Section 10 hereof is for any reason unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party in respect of any losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the aggregate amount of such losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses incurred by such indemnified party, as incurred, (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by Global Funding and the relevant Issuing Trust, on one hand, and the applicable Agent(s), on the other hand, from the offering of the Notes that were the subject of the claim for indemnification or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of Global Funding and the relevant Issuing Trust, on one hand, and the applicable Agent(s), on the other hand, in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by Global Funding and the relevant Issuing Trust, on the one hand, and the applicable Agent(s), on the other hand, in connection with the offering of the Notes that were the subject of the claim for indemnification shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the total net proceeds from the offering of such Notes (before deducting expenses) received by the relevant Issuing Trust and the total discount or commission received by the applicable Agent(s), as the case may be, bears to the aggregate initial offering price of such Notes. The relative fault of Global Funding and the relevant Issuing Trust, on one hand, and the applicable Agent(s), on the other hand, shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by Global Funding and the relevant Issuing Trust, on one hand, or by the applicable Agent(s), on the other hand, and the parties' relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The parties agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 11 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Agents were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above in this Section 11. The aggregate amount of losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses incurred by an indemnified party and referred to above in this Section 11 shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever based upon any applicable untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. 31 Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 11, (i) no Agent shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total discount or commission received by such Agent in connection with the offering of the Notes that were the subject of the claim for indemnification exceeds the amount of any damages which such Agent has otherwise been required to pay by reason of any applicable untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission and (ii) no person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the 1933 Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. In addition, in connection with an offering of Notes purchased from an Issuing Trust by two or more Agents as principal, the respective obligations of such Agents to contribute pursuant to this Section 11 are several, and not joint, in proportion to the aggregate principal amount of Notes that each such Agent has agreed to purchase from such Issuing Trust. For purposes of this Section 11, each director, officer and person, if any, who controls an Agent within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act shall have the same rights to contribution as such Agent, and each director, officer and trustee (if applicable) of Global Funding and relevant Issuing Trust, and each person, if any, who controls Global Funding and the relevant Issuing Trust within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act shall have the same rights to contribution as Global Funding and relevant Issuing Trust. SECTION 12. Payment of Expenses. Global Funding will pay all expenses incident to the performance of the obligations of the Company, Global Funding and the relevant Issuing Trust under this Agreement, including: (a) The preparation, filing, printing and delivery of the Registration Statement as originally filed and all amendments thereto and any preliminary prospectus, free writing prospectus, Time of Sale Prospectus, the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto; (b) The preparation, printing and delivery of Global Funding Program Documents and the Issuing Trust Program Documents; (c) The preparation, issuance and delivery of the Notes, including any fees and expenses relating to the eligibility and issuance of Notes in book-entry form and the cost of obtaining CUSIP or other identification numbers for the Notes; (d) The fees and disbursements of the Company's, Global Funding's and each Issuing Trust's accountants, counsel and other advisors or agents (including any calculation agent or exchange rate agent) and of the Global Funding Delaware Trustee, Relevant Issuing Trust Trustee, Global Funding Administrator, Issuing Trust Administrator, Indenture Trustee and Funding Note Indenture Trustee and their counsel; (e) The reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the Agents incurred in connection with the maintenance of the Programs and, unless otherwise agreed, incurred from time to time in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby; 32 (f) The fees charged by the nationally recognized statistical rating organizations for the rating of the Programs and the Notes; (g) The fees and expenses incurred in connection with any listing of Notes on a securities exchange; (h) The filing fees incident to, and the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the Agents in connection with, the review, if any, by the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the "NASD"); and (i) Any reasonable advertising and other out-of-pocket expenses of the Agents incurred with the approval of the Company, Global Funding and the Issuing Trust. SECTION 13. Representations, Warranties and Agreements to Survive Delivery. All representations, warranties and agreements contained in this Agreement, in certificates of the officers of Global Funding Administrator, the Issuing Trust Administrator, the Global Funding Delaware Trustee and the Relevant Issuing Trust Trustee submitted pursuant hereto or thereto shall remain operative and in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the Agents or any controlling person of the Agents, or by or on behalf of the Company, Global Funding or the Issuing Trust, and shall survive each delivery of and payment for the Notes. SECTION 14. Termination. (a)Termination of this Agreement. This Agreement (excluding any agreement by one or more Agents to purchase Notes from an Issuing Trust as principal) may be terminated for any reason, at any time by (i) Global Funding as to all the Agents or one or more but less than all the Agents, or (ii) an Agent as to itself, upon the giving of thirty (30) days' prior written notice of such termination to the other parties hereto. (b) Termination of Agreement to Purchase Notes as Principal. The applicable Agent(s) may terminate any agreement by such Agent(s) to purchase Notes from an Issuing Trust as principal, immediately upon notice to such Issuing Trust, at any time on or prior to the Settlement Date relating thereto, if (i) there has been, since the date of such agreement or since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Time of Sale Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), any material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, or of Global Funding or such Issuing Trust, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, or (ii) there has occurred any material adverse change in the financial markets in the United States or any outbreak of hostilities or escalation thereof or other calamity or crisis or any change or development or event involving a prospective change in national or international political, financial or economic conditions, in each case the effect of which is such as to make it, in the judgment of such Agent(s), impracticable or inadvisable to market such Notes or enforce contracts for the sale of such Notes, (iii) trading in any securities of The Allstate Corporation, a publicly owned holding company incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Corporation"), Allstate Insurance Company, a stock property-liability insurance company incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois ("AIC"), the Company, 33 Global Funding or such Issuing Trust has been suspended or materially limited by the Commission or a national securities exchange, or if trading generally on the New York Stock Exchange or the American Stock Exchange or in the Nasdaq National Market has been suspended or materially limited, or minimum or maximum prices for trading have been fixed, or maximum ranges for prices have been required, by either of said exchanges or by such system or by order of the Commission, the NASD or any other governmental authority, or a material disruption has occurred in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services in the United States, (iv) a banking moratorium has been declared by either Federal or New York authorities or by the relevant authorities in the country or countries of origin of any foreign or composite currency in which such Notes are denominated or payable or (v) the rating assigned by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization to the Programs or any other debt securities (including the Notes) of any Issuing Trust or the financial strength of the Company as of the date of such agreement shall have been lowered or withdrawn since that date or if any such rating organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review its rating, with possible negative implications, of the Programs or any such debt securities (including the Notes) of any Issuing Trust or the financial strength of the Company. (c) General. In the event of any such termination, neither party will have any liability to the other party hereto, except that (i) the Agent(s) shall be entitled to any commissions earned in accordance with the third paragraph of Section 3(b) hereof, (ii) if at the time of termination (a) any Agent shall own any Notes purchased by it from an Issuing Trust as principal or (b) an offer to purchase any of the Notes has been accepted by an Issuing Trust but the time of delivery to the purchaser or his agent of such Notes relating thereto has not occurred, the covenants set forth in Sections 4, 5 and 9 hereof shall remain in effect until such Notes are so resold or delivered, as the case may be, and (iii) the provisions of Section 12 hereof, the indemnity and contribution agreements set forth in Sections 10 and 11 hereof, and the provisions of Sections 13, 16 and 17 hereof shall remain in effect. SECTION 15. Notices. Unless otherwise provided herein, all notices required under the terms and provisions hereof shall be in writing, either delivered by hand, by mail or by telex, telecopier or telegram, and any such notice shall be effective when received at the address specified below. If to Global Funding or any Issuing Trust: Allstate Life Global Funding c/o AMACAR Pacific Corp. 6525 Morrison Boulevard Suite 318 Charlotte, NC 28211 Attention: President Telecopy No.: (704) 365-1632 With a copy to the Company at the address set forth below. 34 If to the Agents: To each Agent at the address specified in Schedule 1. With a copy to the Company at the address set forth below. Address of the Company: Allstate Life Insurance Company 3100 Sanders Road Northbrook, IL 60062 Attention: Assistant Vice President, Institutional Markets Telecopy No.: (847) 326-6289 or at such other address as such party or the Company may designate from time to time by notice duly given in accordance with the terms of this Section 15. SECTION 16. Parties. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors. Nothing expressed or mentioned in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any person, firm or corporation, other than the parties hereto and their respective successors and the controlling persons, officers and directors referred to in Sections 10 and 11 hereof and their heirs and legal representatives, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision herein contained. This Agreement and all conditions and provisions hereof are intended to be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors, and said controlling persons, officers and directors and their heirs and legal representatives, and for the benefit of no other person, firm or corporation. No purchaser of Notes shall be deemed to be a successor by reason merely of such purchase. SECTION 17. GOVERNING LAW; FORUM. PURSUANT TO SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, THIS AGREEMENT AND ALL THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAW PRINCIPLES. ANY SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING BROUGHT BY THE TRUST AGAINST ANY AGENT IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING UNDER THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE BROUGHT SOLELY IN THE STATE OR FEDERAL COURT OF APPROPRIATE JURISDICTION LOCATED IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, THE CITY OF NEW YORK. SECTION 18. Effect of Headings. The Article and Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof. 35 SECTION 19. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts and, if executed in more than one counterpart, the executed counterparts hereof shall constitute a single instrument. SECTION 20. Amendments. (a) This Agreement may be amended or supplemented if, but only if, such amendment or supplement is in writing and is signed by Global Funding and the Agents. Global Funding and any Issuing Trust may from time to time nominate any institution as a new Agent hereunder either in respect of the Programs generally or in relation to a particular Issuing Trust's Notes only; in which event, upon confirmation by such institution of an initial purchaser accession letter (the "Agent Accession Letter") in the terms or substantially in the form of Exhibit P, such institution shall become a party hereto, subject as provided below, with all the authority, rights, powers, duties and obligations of an Agent as if originally named as an Agent hereunder; provided further that, in the case of an institution which has become an Agent in relation to a particular Issuing Trust's Notes, following the issue of the relevant Notes, the relevant new Agent shall have no further authority rights, powers, duties or obligations except such as may have accrued or been incurred prior to, or in connection with, the issue of such Issuing Trust's Notes. Any Agent that executes a counterpart to this Agreement shall simultaneously execute a counterpart to the Representations and Indemnity Agreement. (b) The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that a copy of each amendment to this Agreement effected pursuant to this Section 20 shall be provided promptly by Global Funding to the following Ratings Agencies at the following addresses: Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 55 Water Street New York, New York 10041 Attention: Capital Markets Facsimile: (212) 438-5215 Moody's Investors Service, Inc. 99 Church Street New York, New York 10007 Attention: Moody's Investors Service Life Insurance Group Facsimile: (212) 553-4805 or such other addresses previously furnished in writing to Global Funding by any Rating Agency in the future; provided, however, that any failure by Global Funding to deliver copies of any amendment required to be delivered pursuant to this Section 20 shall not constitute a breach of or an event of default under this Agreement. The term "Rating Agency", for purposes of this Section 20, means any of Standard & Poor's, Moody's or any other "nationally recognized statistical rating organization" (as such term is defined in Rule 436(g)(2) of the 1933 Act Regulations). 36 SECTION 21. Separate Nature of Each Issuing Trust. The Agents agree and acknowledge that, as a separate and distinct special purpose statutory trusts, the debts, liabilities, obligations and expenses incurred, contracted for or otherwise existing with respect to a particular Issuing Trust, including such Issuing Trust's obligations under this Agreement and the applicable Terms Agreement, will be enforceable only against such Issuing Trust and not against any other Issuing Trust. SECTION 22 Stabilization. The Agent(s) may, to the extent permitted by applicable laws, over-allot and effect transactions in any over-the-counter market or otherwise in connection with the distribution of the Notes with a view to supporting the market price of Notes at levels higher than those that might otherwise prevail in the open market. Such transactions, if commenced, may be discontinued at any time. In such circumstances, as between an Issuing Trust, on one hand, and one or more Agents, on the other hand, such Agent(s) shall act as principal, and any loss resulting from stabilization shall be borne, and any profit arising therefrom and any sum received by such Agent(s) shall be beneficially retained by such Agent(s), as the case may be, for such Agents' own account. SECTION 23. Liability of Delaware Trustee. It is expressly understood and agreed by the parties that (a) this document is executed and delivered by Wilmington Trust Company, not individually or personally, but solely as Delaware Trustee, in the exercise of the powers and authority conferred and vested in it, pursuant to the Global Funding Trust Agreement and the relevant Issuing Trust Agreements, (b) each of the representations, undertakings and agreements herein made on the part of Global Funding and any Issuing Trust is made and intended not as personal representations, undertakings and agreements by Wilmington Trust Company but is made and intended for the purpose for binding only Global Funding and the relevant Issuing Trust, as applicable, (c) nothing herein contained shall be construed as creating any liability on Wilmington Trust Company, individually or personally, to perform any covenant either expressed or implied contained herein, all such liability, if any, being expressly waived by the parties hereto and by any person claiming by, through or under the parties hereto, and (d) under no circumstances shall Wilmington Trust Company be personally liable for the payment of any indebtedness or expenses of Global Funding or any Issuing Trust or be liable for the breach or failure of any obligation, representation, warranty or covenant made or undertaken by Global Funding or any Issuing Trust under this Agreement or any other related documents. ***SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW*** 37 If the foregoing is in accordance with the Agents' understanding of our agreement, please sign and return to Global Funding a counterpart hereof, whereupon this Agreement, along with all counterparts, will become a binding agreement by and between the Agents and Global Funding in accordance with its terms. Very truly yours, ALLSTATE LIFE GLOBAL FUNDING By Wilmington Trust Company, not in its individual capacity but solely as Delaware Trustee By: ------------------------------------------- Name: Title: CONFIRMED AND ACCEPTED, as of the date first above written: MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED By: --------------------------------------------------------- Authorized Signatory A.G. EDWARDS & SONS, INC. By: --------------------------------------------------------- Authorized Signatory BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC By: --------------------------------------------------------- Authorized Signatory *Signature Page to Distribution Agreement, Part 1 of 4* BARCLAYS CAPITAL INC. By: --------------------------------------------------------- Authorized Signatory BEAR, STEARNS & CO. INC. By: --------------------------------------------------------- Authorized Signatory CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC. By: --------------------------------------------------------- Authorized Signatory CREDIT SUISSE SECURITIES (USA) LLC By: --------------------------------------------------------- Authorized Signatory DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC. By: --------------------------------------------------------- Authorized Signatory By: --------------------------------------------------------- Authorized Signatory *Signature Page to Distribution Agreement, Part 2 of 4* GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. By: --------------------------------------------------------- Authorized Signatory GREENWICH CAPITAL MARKETS, INC. By: --------------------------------------------------------- Authorized Signatory J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC. By: --------------------------------------------------------- Authorized Signatory LEHMAN BROTHERS INC. By: --------------------------------------------------------- Authorized Signatory MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INCORPORATED By: --------------------------------------------------------- Authorized Signatory UBS SECURITIES LLC By: --------------------------------------------------------- Authorized Signatory By: --------------------------------------------------------- Authorized Signatory *Signature Page to Distribution Agreement, Part 3 of 4* WACHOVIA CAPITAL MARKETS, LLC By: --------------------------------------------------------- Authorized Signatory *Signature Page to Distribution Agreement, Part 4 of 4* Index of Exhibits and Schedules Exhibits Exhibit A - Opinion of Internal Counsel for the Company Exhibit B - Negative Assurance Letter of Counsel for the Company Exhibit C - Opinion of Counsel for the Company Concerning Certain Insolvency, Funding Agreement Authority and Funding Agreement Enforceability Matters Exhibit D - Opinion of Counsel for the Company Concerning Certain Illinois Security Interest Matters Exhibit E - Opinion of Counsel for the Company Concerning Certain Federal Securities and New York Matters Exhibit F - Opinion of Counsel for the Company Concerning Certain Tax Matters Exhibit G - Memorandum of Counsel for the Company Concerning Certain Insurance Matters Exhibit H - Negative Assurance Letter of Counsel for the Agents Exhibit I - Opinion of Counsel for the Global Funding Delaware Trustee and the Relevant Issuing Trust Trustee Exhibit J - Opinion of Counsel for Global Funding Administrator and the Issuing Trust Administrator Exhibit K - Opinion of Counsel for the Indenture Trustee Exhibit L - Opinion of Counsel for Global Funding and the relevant Issuing Trust Concerning Certain Delaware Security Interest Matters Exhibit M - Opinion of Counsel for Global Funding Exhibit N - Opinion of Counsel for the relevant Issuing Trust Exhibit O - Form of Comfort Letter of Deloitte & Touche LLP, Accountants to the Company Exhibit P - Form of Agent Accession Letter Schedules Schedule 1 - List of Agents Schedule 2 - Commission/Discount Schedule for Retail Sales Schedule 3 - Commission/Discount Schedule for Institutional Sales i Exhibit A - Opinion of Internal Counsel for the Company [To Be Attached] A-1 Exhibit B - Negative Assurance Letter of Counsel for the Company [To Be Attached] B-1 Exhibit C - Opinion of Counsel for the Company Concerning Certain Insolvency, Funding Agreement Authority and Funding Agreement Enforceability Matters [To Be Attached] C-1 Exhibit D - Opinion of Counsel for the Company Concerning Certain Illinois Security Interest Matters [To Be Attached] D-1 Exhibit E - Opinion of Counsel for the Company Concerning Certain Federal Securities and New York Matters [To Be Attached] E-1 Exhibit F - Opinion of Counsel for the Company Concerning Certain Tax Matters [To Be Attached] F-1 Exhibit G- Memorandum of Counsel for the Company Concerning Certain Insurance Matters [To Be Attached] G-1 Exhibit H - Negative Assurance Letter of Counsel for the Agents [To Be Attached] H-1 Exhibit I - Opinion of Counsel for the Global Funding Delaware Trustee and the Relevant Issuing Trust Trustee [To Be Attached] I-1 Exhibit J - Opinion of Counsel for Global Funding Administrator and the Issuing Trust Administrator [To Be Attached] J-1 Exhibit K - Opinion of Counsel for the Indenture Trustee [To Be Attached] K-1 Exhibit L - Opinion of Counsel for Global Funding and the relevant Issuing Trust Concerning Certain Delaware Security Interest Matters [To Be Attached] L-1 Exhibit M - Opinion of Counsel for Global Funding [To Be Attached] M-1 Exhibit N - Opinion of Counsel for the relevant Issuing Trust [To Be Attached] N-1 Exhibit O - Form of Comfort Letter of Deloitte & Touche LLP, Accountants to the Company [To Be Attached] O-1 Exhibit P - Form of Agent Accession Letter [Name of new Agent] [Address] Ladies and Gentlemen: We refer to the Distribution Agreement, dated February [ ], 2006, entered into in respect of the Secured Medium-Term Note Program (such agreement, as amended, restated or modified from time to time, the "Distribution Agreement") among ourselves and the Agents from time to time party thereto, and have the pleasure of inviting you to become an Agent [but only in respect of [specify Issuing Trust's Notes (the "Notes")]](1) subject to and in accordance with the terms of the Distribution Agreement, a copy of which has been supplied to you by us. In addition, we enclose letters from counsel to [__________] entitling you to rely on the original letters referred to in Section 7(b) to the Distribution Agreement, as such letters may have been amended or supplemented, together with copies of such original, amended or supplemented letters. Please return to us a copy of this letter signed by an authorized signatory whereupon you will become an Agent for the purposes of the Distribution Agreement, with all the authority, rights, powers, duties and obligations of an Agent under the Distribution Agreement [except that, following the issue of the Notes, you shall have no further authority, rights, powers, duties or obligations except such as may have accrued or been incurred prior to, or in connection with, the issue of the Notes].(2) This letter is governed by, and shall be construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York. Yours faithfully, ALLSTATE LIFE GLOBAL FUNDING By:_________________________________ Name: Title: (1) Insert where the new Agent is being appointed only in relation to a particular Issuing Trust. (2) Insert where the new Agent is being appointed only in relation to a particular Issuing Trust. P-1 CONFIRMATION We hereby accept the appointment as an Agent and accept all of the duties and obligations under, and the terms and conditions of, the Distribution Agreement upon the terms of this letter and affirm all representations, warranties and covenants contained therein as of the applicable date [but only in respect of [specify Issuing Trust's Notes]].(3) We confirm that we are in receipt of all the documents which we have requested and have found them to be satisfactory. For the purposes of the Distribution Agreement, our communications details are as set out below. [NEW AGENT] By:________________________________ Name: Title: Date: [__________] Address: [__________] Facsimile: [__________] Attention: [__________] Copies to: The Indenture Trustee and the existing Paying Agent [All existing Agents who have been appointed in respect of the Programs generally](4) (3) Insert where the new Agent is being appointed only in relation to a particular Issuing Trust. (4) Insert where the incoming Agent is being appointed in respect of the Program generally. P-2 Schedule 1 Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated 250 Vesey Street New York, NY 10080 A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. One North Jefferson Avenue Saint Louis, MO 63103 Banc of America Securities LLC 9 West 57th Street New York, NY 10019 Barclays Capital Inc. 200 Park Avenue New York, NY 10166 Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. 383 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10174 Citigroup Global Markets Inc. 388 Greenwich Street New York, NY 10013 Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC Eleven Madison Avenue New York, NY 10010 Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. 60 Wall Street New York, NY 10005 Goldman, Sachs & Co. 85 Broad Street New York, NY 10004 Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc. 600 Steamboat Road Greenwich, CT 06830 J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. 270 Park Avenue New York, NY 10017 Schedule 1-1 Lehman Brothers Inc. 745 7th Avenue New York, NY 10019 Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated 1585 Broadway New York, NY 10036 UBS Securities LLC 677 Washington Blvd. Stamford, CT 06901 Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC 301 South College Street Charlotte, North Carolina 28288 Schedule 1-2 Schedule 2 PERCENT OF MATURITY RANGES PRINCIPAL AMOUNT ---------------- ---------------- From 9 months to less than 1.5 years .125% From 1.5 years to less than 2 years .200 From 2 years to less than 3 years .400 From 3 years to less than 4 years .625 From 4 years to less than 5 years .750 From 5 years to less than 6 years 1.000 From 6 years to less than 7 years 1.100 From 7 years to less than 8 years 1.200 From 8 years to less than 9 years 1.300 From 9 years to less than 10 years 1.400 From 10 years to less than 11 years 1.500 From 11 years to less than 12 years 1.600 From 12 years to less than 15 years 1.750 From 15 years to less than 20 years 2.000 From 20 years to 30 years 2.500 Schedule 2-1 Schedule 3 PERCENT OF MATURITY RANGES PRINCIPAL AMOUNT --------------- ---------------- From 9 months to less than 2 years .150% From 2 years to less than 3 years .200 From 3 years to less than 4 years .250 From 4 years to less than 5 years .300 From 5 years to less than 7 years .350 From 7 years to less than 10 years .400 From 10 years to less than 12 years .450 From 12 years to less than 15 years .475 From 15 years to less than 20 years .500 From 20 years to 30 years .875 Schedule 3-1 F-1 EXHIBIT F CERTIFICATE OF TRUST OF ALLSTATE LIFE GLOBAL FUNDING TRUST 2007-3 THIS Certificate of Trust of Allstate Life Global Funding Trust 2007-3 (the "Trust"), is being duly executed and filed by the undersigned trustees to form a statutory trust under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act (12 Del. Code, ss. 3801 et seq.) (the "Act"). 1. Name. The name of the statutory trust formed hereby is Allstate Life Global Funding Trust 2007-3. 2. Delaware Trustee. The name and business address of the trustee of the Trust with its principal place of business in the State of Delaware is Wilmington Trust Company, Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware, 19890-0001, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration. 3. Effective Time. This Certificate of Trust will be effective upon its filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being all of the trustees of the Trust as of the date of filing of this Certificate of Trust, have executed this Certificate of Trust in accordance with ss. 3811(a)(1) of the Act. Wilmington Trust Company, not in its individual capacity but solely as Delaware Trustee By: /s/ Michele C. Harra Name: Michele C. Harra Title: Financial Services Officer EXHIBIT G =============================================================================== STANDARD INDENTURE TERMS with respect to ALLSTATE LIFE GLOBAL FUNDING TRUSTS SECURED MEDIUM-TERM NOTES and ALLSTATE LIFE(R) CORENOTES(R) =============================================================================== Allstate Life(R) is a registered service mark of Allstate Insurance Company. CoreNotes(R) is a registered service mark of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS SECTION 1.1 Certain Terms Defined............................................................1 SECTION 1.2 Interpretation..................................................................12 ARTICLE 2 THE NOTES SECTION 2.1 Amount Unlimited................................................................12 SECTION 2.2 Status of Notes.................................................................13 SECTION 2.3 Forms Generally.................................................................13 SECTION 2.4 Currency; Denominations.........................................................13 SECTION 2.5 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Date....................................14 SECTION 2.6 Registration, Transfer and Exchange.............................................15 SECTION 2.7 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Note Certificates..........................17 SECTION 2.8 Interest Record Dates...........................................................18 SECTION 2.9 Cancellation....................................................................19 SECTION 2.10 Global Securities...............................................................19 SECTION 2.11 Withholding Tax.................................................................21 SECTION 2.12 Tax Treatment...................................................................21 ARTICLE 3 REDEMPTION, REPAYMENT AND REPURCHASE OF NOTES; SINKING FUNDS SECTION 3.1 Redemption of Notes.............................................................22 SECTION 3.2 Repayment at the Option of the Holder...........................................26 SECTION 3.3 Repurchase of Notes.............................................................26 SECTION 3.4 Sinking Funds...................................................................27 ARTICLE 4 PAYMENTS; PAYING AGENTS AND CALCULATION AGENT; COVENANTS SECTION 4.1 Payment of Principal and Interest...............................................27 SECTION 4.2 Collection Account..............................................................31 SECTION 4.3 Offices for Payments, Etc.......................................................31 SECTION 4.4 Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in Office of Indenture Trustee....................32 SECTION 4.5 Paying Agents...................................................................32 SECTION 4.6 Calculation Agent...............................................................36 SECTION 4.7 Certificate to Indenture Trustee................................................39 SECTION 4.8 Negative Covenants..............................................................39 SECTION 4.9 Non-Petition....................................................................39 SECTION 4.10 Additional Amounts..............................................................39 ARTICLE 5 REMEDIES OF THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND HOLDERS ON EVENT OF DEFAULT SECTION 5.1 Event of Default Defined; Acceleration of Maturity; Waiver of Default...........41 SECTION 5.2 Collection of Indebtedness by Indenture Trustee; Indenture Trustee May Prove Debt..........................................................45 SECTION 5.3 Application of Proceeds.........................................................47 SECTION 5.4 Suits for Enforcement...........................................................49 SECTION 5.5 Restoration of Rights on Abandonment of Proceedings.............................49 SECTION 5.6 Limitations on Suits by Holders.................................................49 SECTION 5.7 Powers and Remedies Cumulative; Delay or Omission Not Waiver of Default.........50 SECTION 5.8 Control by the Holders..........................................................51 SECTION 5.9 Waiver of Past Defaults.........................................................51 ARTICLE 6 THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE SECTION 6.1 Certain Duties and Responsibilities.............................................52 SECTION 6.2 Certain Rights of the Indenture Trustee.........................................53 SECTION 6.3 Not Responsible for Recitals, Validity of the Notes or Application of the Proceeds.....................................................55 SECTION 6.4 May Hold Notes; Collections, Etc................................................55 SECTION 6.5 Funds Held By Indenture Trustee.................................................55 SECTION 6.6 Compensation; Reimbursement; Indemnification....................................55 SECTION 6.7 Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.........................................56 SECTION 6.8 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor Trustee.......................57 SECTION 6.9 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Trustee..................................59 SECTION 6.10 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business of Indenture Trustee............................................................60 SECTION 6.11 Limitations on Rights of Indenture Trustee as Creditor..........................61 ARTICLE 7 HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND TRUST SECTION 7.1 Trust To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names And Addresses Of Holders...............61 SECTION 7.2 Preservation of Information; Communication to Holders...........................61 SECTION 7.3 Reports by Indenture Trustee....................................................61 SECTION 7.4 Reports and Opinions by Trust...................................................62 ii SECTION 7.5 Reports on Assessment of Compliance with Servicing Criteria and Compliance Statements; Attestation Reports of Registered Public Accounting Firm..........................................................64 ARTICLE 8 CONCERNING EACH HOLDER SECTION 8.1 Evidence of Action Taken by a Holder............................................64 SECTION 8.2 Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of Notes.......................65 SECTION 8.3 Voting Record Date..............................................................65 SECTION 8.4 Persons Deemed to be Owners.....................................................65 SECTION 8.5 Notes Owned by Trust Deemed Not Outstanding.....................................66 SECTION 8.6 Right of Revocation of Action Taken; Binding Effect of Actions by Holders......................................................................66 ARTICLE 9 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES SECTION 9.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders..............................67 SECTION 9.2 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.................................68 SECTION 9.3 Compliance with Trust Indenture Act; Effect of Supplemental Indentures..........69 SECTION 9.4 Documents to Be Given to Indenture Trustee......................................70 SECTION 9.5 Notation on Note Certificates in Respect of Supplemental Indentures.............70 SECTION 9.6 Amendment to Funding Agreements.................................................70 ARTICLE 10 CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE SECTION 10.1 Trust May Merge, Consolidate, Sell Or Convey Property Under Certain Circumstances.....................................................72 ARTICLE 11 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; UNCLAIMED FUNDS SECTION 11.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.........................................72 SECTION 11.2 Application by Indenture Trustee of Funds Deposited for Payment of Notes................................................................73 SECTION 11.3 Repayment of Funds Held by Paying Agent.........................................73 SECTION 11.4 Return of Funds Held by Indenture Trustee and Paying Agent......................74 ARTICLE 12 MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF NOTES SECTION 12.1 Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called.......................................74 iii SECTION 12.2 Call, Notice and Place of Meetings..............................................74 SECTION 12.3 Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings............................................75 SECTION 12.4 Quorum; Action..................................................................75 SECTION 12.5 Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct of Adjournment of Meetings........................................................................76 SECTION 12.6 Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings.................................77 ARTICLE 13 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS SECTION 13.1 No Recourse.....................................................................78 SECTION 13.2 Provisions of Indenture for the Sole Benefit of Parties and Holders.....................................................................78 SECTION 13.3 Successors and Assigns of Trust Bound by Indenture..............................78 SECTION 13.4 Notices and Demands on Trust, Indenture Trustee and any Holder..........................................................................79 SECTION 13.5 Trust Certificates and Opinions of Counsel; Statements to be Contained Therein...............................................................80 SECTION 13.6 Governing Law...................................................................82 SECTION 13.7 Counterparts....................................................................82 SECTION 13.8 Trust Indenture Act to Control..................................................82 SECTION 13.9 Judgment Currency...............................................................82 ARTICLE 14 SECURITY INTEREST SECTION 14.1 Security Interest...............................................................83 SECTION 14.2 Representations and Warranties..................................................84 SECTION 14.3 Additional Representations and Warranties.......................................85 SECTION 14.4 Further Assurances; Covenants...................................................86 SECTION 14.5 General Authority...............................................................88 SECTION 14.6 Remedies Upon Event of Default..................................................88 SECTION 14.7 Limitation on Duties of Indenture Trustee with Respect to Collateral......................................................................89 SECTION 14.8 Concerning the Indenture Trustee................................................89 SECTION 14.9 Termination of Security Interest................................................90 EXHIBIT A-1 Form of Global Security for Secured Medium Term Notes Program A-1-1 EXHIBIT A-2 Form of Definitive Security for Secured Medium Term Notes Program A-2-1 EXHIBIT A-3 Form of Global Security for Allstate Life(R) CoreNotes(R) Program A-3-1 EXHIBIT A-4 Form of Definitive Security for Allstate Life(R) CoreNotes(R) Program A-4-1 iv EXHIBIT B Form of Certificate of Authentication B-1 EXHIBIT C Form of Indenture Trustee Report Pursuant to Section 7.3(f) C-1
v RECONCILIATION TABLE
Trust Indenture Act Section Standard Indenture Terms Section ss.310(a)(1)..............................................................................................6.7 (a)(2).............................................................................................6.7 (b)................................................................................................6.8 ss.311(a)................................................................................................6.11 ss.312(a) ................................................................................................7.1 (b)................................................................................................7.2 (c)................................................................................................7.2 ss.313(a).................................................................................................7.3(b) (b)................................................................................................7.3(c) (c)................................................................................................7.3(d) (d)................................................................................................7.3(d) ss.314(a) ................................................................................................7.4 (b)................................................................................................7.4(d) (c)(1) ...........................................................................................13.5(a) (c)(2) ...........................................................................................13.5(a) (e)...............................................................................................13.5(b) (f)...............................................................................................13.5(a) ss.315(c) ................................................................................................6.1(b) ss.316(a) (last sentence) ................................................................................8.5 (a)(1)(A)..........................................................................................5.8 (a)(1)(B)..........................................................................................5.9 (b)................................................................................................5.6 ss.317(a)(1)..............................................................................................5.2(c) (a)(2) ............................................................................................5.2(c) (b)................................................................................................4.5(a) ss.318(a) ...............................................................................................13.8 (c) ..............................................................................................13.8
This reconciliation table shall not be deemed to be part of the Indenture for any purpose. Attention should also be directed to Section 318(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, which provides that certain provisions of Sections 310 to and including 317 are a part of and govern every qualified indenture, whether or not physically contained in the Indenture. vi This document constitutes the Standard Indenture Terms, which will be incorporated by reference in, and form a part of, the Indenture (as defined below), by and among the Trust (as defined below) and the Indenture Trustee, Calculation Agent, Exchange Rate Agent, Paying Agent, Registrar and Transfer Agent (as defined below). These Standard Indenture Terms shall be of no force and effect unless and until incorporated by reference into, and then only to the extent not modified by, such Indenture. The following Standard Indenture Terms shall govern the Notes subject to contrary terms and provisions expressly adopted in the Indenture, any Supplemental Indenture or the Notes, which contrary terms shall be controlling. ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS SECTION 1.1 Certain Terms Defined. The following terms shall have the meanings specified in this Section for all purposes of the Indenture and the Notes, unless otherwise expressly provided. All other terms used in the Indenture which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act or which are by reference therein defined in the Securities Act shall have the meanings (except as otherwise expressly provided in the Indenture or unless the context otherwise clearly requires) assigned to such terms in the Trust Indenture Act and in the Securities Act as in force at the date of the Indenture as originally executed. "Additional Amounts" means any additional amounts which may be required by the Notes, under circumstances specified in a Note Certificate or Supplemental Indenture, to be paid by the Trust in respect of certain taxes, assessments or other governmental charges imposed on Holders specified therein and which are owing to such Holders. "Administrative Services Agreement" means that certain administrative services agreement included in Part B of the Series Instrument, by and between the Trust and the Administrator, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Administrator" means AMACAR Pacific Corp., a Delaware corporation, in its capacity as the sole administrator of the Trust, or another entity specified in the Indenture as the Administrator, and, in each case, its permitted successors and assigns. "Affiliate" means, as applied to any Person, any other Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with, that Person and, in the case of an individual, any spouse or other member of that individual's immediate family. For the purposes of this definition, "control" (including with correlative meanings, the terms "controlling", "controlled by" and "under common control with"), 1 as applied to any Person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of that Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities or by contract or otherwise. "Agents" has the meaning ascribed in the Distribution Agreement. "Amended and Restated Administrative Services Agreement" means that certain Amended and Restated Administrative Services Agreement dated as of -, 2006, between AMACAR Pacific Corp. and Global Funding, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Annual Redemption Percentage Reduction" has the meaning ascribed in the Note Certificate(s) or the Indenture. "Annual Report" has the meaning ascribed in Section 7.5. "Book-Entry Note" means a Note, the registered ownership of which is represented by a Global Security. "Business Day" means (except as otherwise provided in the Pricing Supplement) any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which commercial banks are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close in The City of New York; provided, however, that, if the Specified Currency of the Notes is other than U.S. Dollars, the day must also not be a day on which commercial banks are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close in the Principal Financial Center of the country issuing the Specified Currency (or, if the Specified Currency is Euro, the day must also be a day on which the Target System is open). "Calculation Agent" means the Indenture Trustee in its capacity as calculation agent with respect to the Notes, or any other Person specified as calculation agent with respect to any Notes in the Note Certificate(s) or the Indenture, and, in each case, it successor in such capacity. "Certificated Note" means a Note represented by a Definitive Security. "Clearing Corporation" means DTC, or any other clearing system specified in the Note Certificate(s) and their respective successors and "Clearing Corporations" means all of the foregoing. "Closing Instrument" means the closing instrument of the Trust, pursuant to which certain documents are executed in connection with the issuance of the Notes by the Trust. 2 "Code" means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, including any successor statutes and any applicable rules, regulations, notices or orders promulgated thereunder. "Collateral" means, with respect to the Notes, the right, title and interest of the Trust in and to (i) each Funding Agreement held in the Trust, (ii) all Proceeds in respect of each such Funding Agreement and (iii) all books and records (including without limitation, computer programs, printouts and other computer materials and files) of the Trust pertaining to the Funding Agreement(s). "Collection Account" has the meaning ascribed in Section 4.2. "Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor body. "Compliance Report" has the meaning ascribed in Section 7.5. "Coordination Agreement" means that certain Coordination Agreement included in Part F of the Series Instrument, among the Trust and the other parties specified therein, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Indenture Trustee at which the Indenture shall, at any particular time, be administered, which office is, at the date as of which the Indenture is executed located at 700 South Flower Street, Suite 500, Los Angeles, CA 90017, except that for the purposes of Section 4.3 it shall be 4 New York Plaza, 1st Floor, New York, New York 10004, or such other location as may be specified in or pursuant to the Note Certificate(s) or the Indenture. "Custodian" has the meaning ascribed in Section 14.3(e). "Debt" of any Person means, at any date, without duplication, (i) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money, (ii) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, (iii) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services, except trade accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of business, all obligations of such Person as lessee which are capitalized in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, (iv) all contingent and non-contingent obligations of such Person to reimburse any bank or other Person in respect of amounts paid under a letter of credit or similar instrument, (v) all Debt secured by a Lien on any asset of such Person, whether or not such Debt is otherwise an obligation of such Person, and (vi) all Guarantees by such Person of Debt of another Person (each such Guarantee to constitute Debt in an amount equal to the amount of such other Person's Debt Guaranteed thereby). "Defaulted Interest" has the meaning ascribed in Section 2.8(b). 3 "Definitive Security" means any Note Certificate which is not a Global Security. "Delaware Trustee" means Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, or another entity specified in the Indenture as the Delaware Trustee, in each case not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee, and its successors. "Depositary" shall mean, if the Notes are represented by one or more Global Securities, the Clearing Corporation or its agent or nominee designated as Depositary by the Trust pursuant to Section 2.10 until a successor Depositary shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Indenture, and thereafter "Depositary" shall mean or include each Person who is then a Depositary under the Indenture. The Depositary must, at the time of its designation and at all times while it serves as Depositary, be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act and any other applicable statute or regulation. Unless otherwise specified in the Note Certificate(s), the "Depositary" shall initially be DTC. "Distribution Agreement" means that certain Distribution Agreement dated as of -, 2006, by and among Global Funding and the Agents named therein, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "DTC" means The Depository Trust Company and its successors and assigns. "Entitlement Holder" means any Person in whose name Notes are credited to a securities account maintained in the name of such Person on the books and records of a Clearing Corporation or other Securities Intermediary. "Euro" means the currency introduced at the start of the third stage of the European economic and monetary union pursuant to the treaty establishing the European Community, as amended by the Treaty on European Union. "Event of Default" means any event or condition specified as such in Section 5.1 which shall have continued for the period of time, if any, therein designated. "Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, and any successor statute thereto, and the rules, regulations and published interpretations of the Commission promulgated thereunder from time to time. "Exchange Event" has the meaning ascribed in Section 2.10(b). "Exchange Rate Agent" means the Indenture Trustee in its capacity as exchange rate agent with respect to the Notes, or any other person specified as exchange rate agent with respect to any Notes in the Note Certificate(s) or the Indenture, and, in each case, its successors in such capacity. 4 "Foreign Currency Note" means a Note the Specified Currency of which is other than U.S. Dollars. "Funding Agreement" means each funding agreement issued by the Funding Agreement Provider to Global Funding, which is immediately pledged and collaterally assigned by Global Funding to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and immediately thereafter assigned absolutely to, and deposited into, the Trust by Global Funding, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof. "Funding Agreement Provider" means Allstate Life Insurance Company, a stock life insurance company organized under the laws of the State of Illinois, and its successors. "Funding Note" has the meaning ascribed in the Funding Note Indenture. "Funding Note Indenture" means that certain Funding Note Indenture included in Part H of the Series Instrument, among Global Funding and the other parties specified therein, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Funding Note Indenture Trustee" has the meaning ascribed in the Funding Note Indenture. "Global Funding" means Allstate Life Global Funding, a statutory trust formed under the laws of the State of Delaware. "Global Security" means a single Note Certificate deposited with the Depositary and registered in the name of a Clearing Corporation or its agent or nominee representing the entire issue of Book-Entry Notes, or if the rules of the applicable Clearing Corporation or the applicable securities laws or regulations of any jurisdiction limit the maximum principal amount of Note Certificates, each of the minimum number of Note Certificates so deposited and registered that are required to comply with such laws, regulations and rules while representing in the aggregate the entire issue of Book-Entry Notes. "Guarantee" by any Person means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Debt of any other Person and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, of such Person (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Debt (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, by virtue of an agreement to keep-well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to take-or-pay, or to maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise), (ii) to reimburse a bank for amounts drawn under a letter of credit for the purpose of paying such Debt or (iii) entered into for the purpose of 5 assuring in any other manner the holder of such Debt of the payment thereof or to protect such holder against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part); provided that the term "Guarantee" shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. The term "Guarantee" used as a verb has a corresponding meaning. "Holder" means, with respect to any Note, the Person in whose name such Note is registered in the Note Register. "Holder Representative" has the meaning ascribed in Section 5.8(a). "Indenture" means that certain Indenture included in Part G of the Series Instrument, and which incorporates by reference these Standard Indenture Terms, among the Trust and the other parties specified therein, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Indenture Trustee" means The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., or another entity specified as the Indenture Trustee in the Indenture, and, in each case, its successors. "Initial Redemption Date" means, with respect to any Note or portion thereof to be redeemed pursuant to Section 3.1(b), the date on or after which such Note or portion thereof may be redeemed as determined by or pursuant to the Indenture or a Note Certificate of Supplemental Indenture. "Initial Redemption Percentage" has the meaning specified in the Note Certificate(s). "Interest Payment Date" has the meaning ascribed in Section 2.8(a). "Interest Reset Date" has the meaning ascribed in the Note Certificate(s). "Investment Company Act" has the meaning ascribed in Section 4.8. "Judgment Currency" has the meaning ascribed in Section 13.9. "LIBOR", has the meaning ascribed in the Note Certificate(s). "LIBOR Currency" means the currency specified in the Note Certificate(s) as to which LIBOR shall be calculated or, if no currency is specified in the applicable Note Certificate, United States dollars. "Lien" means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind, or any other type of preferential arrangement that has substantially the same practical effect as a security interest, in 6 respect of such asset. For purposes hereof, the Trust shall be deemed to own subject to a Lien any asset which it has acquired or holds subject to the interest of a vendor or lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or other title retention agreement relating to such asset. "Market Exchange Rate" for a Specified Currency other than United States dollars means the noon dollar buying rate in The City of New York for cable transfers for the Specified Currency as certified for customs purposes (or, if not so certified, as otherwise determined) by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. "Maturity Date" means, with respect to the principal (or any installment of principal) of the Notes, any date prior to the Stated Maturity Date on which the principal (or such installment of principal) of the Notes becomes due and payable whether, as applicable, by the declaration of acceleration of maturity, notice of redemption at the option of the Trust, notice of the Holder's option to elect repayment or otherwise. "Name Licensing Agreement" means that certain Name Licensing Agreement included in Part D of the Series Instrument, between Allstate Insurance Company and the Trust, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Nonrecourse Parties" has the meaning ascribed in Section 13.1. "Notes" means any Secured Medium Term Notes or Allstate Life(R) CoreNotes(R), as the case may be, issued By the Trust under the Indenture, each in an authorized denomination and represented, individually or collectively, by one or more Note Certificates authenticated by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the terms of the Indenture. "Note Certificate" means a security certificate representing one or more Notes. "Note Register" has the meaning ascribed in Section 2.6(a). "Obligations" means the obligations of the Trust secured under the Notes and the Indenture, including (a) all principal of, any premium and interest payable (including, without limitation, any interest which accrues after the commencement of any case, proceeding or other action relating to the bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Trust, whether or not allowed or allowable as a claim in any such proceeding) on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to, the Notes or pursuant to the Indenture, (b) all other amounts payable by the Trust under the Indenture or under the Notes including all costs and expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred by the Indenture Trustee or any Holder thereof in realizing on the Collateral to satisfy such obligations and (c) any renewals or extensions of the foregoing. 7 "Opinion of Counsel" means an opinion in writing signed by legal counsel who may be an employee of or counsel to the Trust or the Indenture Trustee or who may be other counsel satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee. Each such opinion shall include the statements provided for in Section 13.5 hereof, if and to the extent required hereby. "Original Issue Date" has the meaning ascribed in the Pricing Supplement. "Outstanding" shall, subject to the provisions of Section 8.5, mean, as of any particular time, all Notes represented by Note Certificates executed by the Trust and authenticated and delivered by the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture, except (a) any Note represented by a Note Certificate theretofore cancelled by the Indenture Trustee or delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation; (b) any Note as to which funds for the full payment or redemption of which in the necessary amount shall have been deposited in trust with the Indenture Trustee or with any Paying Agent; provided that if such Note is to be redeemed prior to the maturity thereof, notice of such redemption shall have been given as provided in or pursuant to the Indenture, or provision satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee shall have been made for giving such notice; and (c) any Note represented by a Note Certificate in substitution for which one or more other Note Certificates shall have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the terms of Section 2.5 or which shall have been paid (unless proof satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee is presented that any of such Note is held by a Person in whose hands such Note is a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Trust). "Owner" shall, with respect to each Funding Agreement, have the meaning ascribed in such Funding Agreement. "Paying Agent" means the Indenture Trustee in its capacity as paying agent with respect to the Notes, and/or any other Person specified as paying agent with respect to any Notes in the Note Certificate(s) or the Indenture, and, in each case, its successors in such capacity. "Person" means any natural person, corporation, limited partnership, general partnership, joint stock company, joint venture, association, company, limited liability company, trust (including any beneficiary thereof), bank, trust company, land trust, trust or other organization, whether or not a legal entity, and any government or any agency or political subdivision thereof. "Pricing Supplement" means the pricing supplement included as Annex A to the Series Instrument. "Principal Amount" with respect to a Funding Agreement, has the meaning ascribed in such Funding Agreement. "Principal Financial Center" means, as applicable (i) the capital city of the country issuing the Specified Currency; or (ii) the capital city of the country to which 8 the LIBOR Currency relates; provided, however, that with respect to United States dollars, Australian dollars, Canadian dollars, Euro, South African rands and Swiss francs, the "Principal Financial Center" shall be The City of New York, Sydney, Toronto, London (solely in the case of the LIBOR Currency), Johannesburg and Zurich, respectively. "Proceeds" means all of the proceeds of, and all other profits, products, rents, principal payments, interest payments or other receipts, in whatever form, arising from the collection, sale, lease, exchange, assignment, licensing or other disposition or maturity of, or other realization upon, a Funding Agreement, including without limitation all claims of the Trust against third parties for loss of, damage to or destruction of, or for proceeds payable under, such Funding Agreement, in each case whether now existing or hereafter arising. "Program" means the program for issuance, from time to time, of Secured Medium Term Notes and Allstate Life(R) CoreNotes(R) through Allstate Life Global Funding Trusts, as described in the Registration Statement. "Redemption Date" means, with respect to any Note to be redeemed, pursuant to Section 3.1(b) or Section 3.1(c), the date of redemption of such Note specified in the relevant notice of redemption provided to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 3.1(d). "Redemption Price" means, with respect to the Notes, an amount equal to the Initial Redemption Percentage specified in the Note Certificate(s) (as adjusted by the Annual Redemption Percentage Reduction, if applicable) multiplied by the unpaid principal amount thereof to be redeemed. "Registrar" has the meaning ascribed in Section 2.6(a). "Registration Statement" means the Registration Statement relating to the Program (File No. 333-129157), filed with the Commission by the Funding Agreement Provider and Global Funding on October 20, 2005, as amended by Amendment No. 1 filed with the Commission on November 29, 2005, and Amendment No. 2 filed with the Commission on -, 2006, and as it may further be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Regular Interest Record Date" has the meaning ascribed in Section 2.8(a). "Regulation AB" has the meaning ascribed in Section 7.5. "Repayment Date" means, with respect to any Note or portion thereof to be repaid pursuant to Section 3.2, the date for the repayment of such Note or portion thereof as determined by or pursuant to the Indenture or a Note Certificate or Supplemental Indenture. 9 "Repayment Price" means, with respect to any Note or portion thereof to be repaid pursuant to Section 3.2, the price for repayment of such Note or portion thereof as determined by, or pursuant to, the Indenture or an applicable Note Certificate or Supplemental Indenture. "Responsible Officer" when used with respect to any Person means the chairman of the board of directors or any vice chairman of the board of directors or the president or any vice president (whether or not designated by a number or numbers or a word or words added before or after the title "vice president") of such Person. With respect to the Trust, Responsible Officer means any Responsible Officer (as defined in the preceding sentence) plus any assistant secretary and any financial services officer of the Delaware Trustee, and with respect to the Indenture Trustee, Responsible Officer means any Responsible Officer (as defined in the first sentence of this definition) plus the chairman of the trust committee, the chairman of the executive committee, any vice chairman of the executive committee, the cashier, the secretary, the treasurer, any trust officer, any assistant trust officer, any assistant vice president, any assistant cashier, any assistant secretary, any assistant treasurer, or any other authorized officer of the Indenture Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by the Persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject. "Secured Parties" has the meaning ascribed in Section 14.1(a). "Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any successor statute thereto, and the rules, regulations and published interpretations of the Commission promulgated thereunder from time to time. "Securities Intermediary" means any Person, including any Clearing Corporation, bank or broker, that in the ordinary course of its business maintains securities accounts for others and is acting in that capacity. "Security Interest" has the meaning ascribed in Section 14.1(a). "Series Instrument" means the series instrument of the Trust, pursuant to which the Administrative Services Agreement, the Coordination Agreement, the Funding Note Indenture, the Indenture, the Name Licensing Agreement, the Support Agreement, the Terms Agreement and the Trust Agreement are entered into, and certain other documents are executed, in connection with the issuance of the Notes by the Trust. "Special Interest Record Date" has the meaning ascribed in Section 2.8(b). "Specified Currency" has the meaning ascribed in Section 2.4. 10 "Standard Trust Terms" means those certain Standard Trust Agreement Terms, which will be incorporated by reference in and form a part of the Trust Agreement. "Stated Maturity Date," means with respect to any Note, any installment of principal thereof, or interest thereon, any premium thereon or any Additional Amounts with respect thereto, the date established by or pursuant to the Indenture or Note Certificate or Supplemental Indenture as the date on which the principal of such Note or such installment of principal or interest or such premium is, or such Additional Amounts are, due and payable. "Supplemental Indenture" has the meaning ascribed in Section 9.1(a). "Support Agreement" means that certain Support and Expenses Agreement included in Part C of the Series Instrument, by and between the Funding Agreement Provider and the Trust, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Target System" means the Trans-European Automated Real Time Gross Settlement Express Transfer (TARGET) System. "Tax Event" has the meaning ascribed in Section 3.1(c). "Terms Agreement" means that certain Terms Agreement included in Part E of the Series Instrument, by and among Global Funding, the Trust and each Agent named therein, which will incorporate by reference the terms of the Distribution Agreement. "Trust" means the Allstate Life Global Funding Trust specified in the Series Instrument, together with its permitted successors and assigns. "Trust Agreement" means that certain Trust Agreement included in Part A of the Series Instrument, among the Delaware Trustee, the Administrator and the Trust Beneficial Owner. "Trust Beneficial Owner" means Global Funding, in its capacity as the sole beneficial owner of the Trust, and its successors. "Trust Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Administrator on behalf of the Trust and delivered to the Indenture Trustee. Each such certificate shall include the statements provided for in Section 13.5. "Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and any successor statute thereto, and the rules, regulations and published interpretations of the Commission promulgated thereunder from time to time. 11 "UCC" means the Uniform Commercial Code, as from time to time in effect in the State of New York; provided that, with respect to the perfection, effect of perfection or non-perfection, or priority of any security interest in the Collateral, "UCC" shall mean the applicable jurisdiction whose law governs such perfection, non-perfection or priority. "United States", except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to the Indenture or any Note Certificate, means the United States of America (including the states thereof and the District of Columbia), its territories and possessions and other areas subject to its jurisdiction. "United States Dollars", "U.S. Dollars" or "$" means lawful currency of the United States. SECTION 1.2 Interpretation. For all purposes of the Indenture except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires: (a) the terms defined in this Article shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Article and shall include the plural as well as the singular; (b) all accounting terms used and not expressly defined shall have the meanings given to them in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles, and the term "generally accepted accounting principles" shall mean such accounting principles which are generally accepted at the date or time of any computation or at the date of the Indenture; (c) references to Exhibits, Articles, Sections, paragraphs, subparagraphs and clauses shall be construed as references to the Exhibits, Articles, Sections, paragraphs, subparagraphs and clauses of the Indenture; (d) the words "include", "includes" and "including" shall be construed to be followed by the words "without limitation"; and (e) Article and Section headings are for the convenience of the reader and shall not be considered in interpreting the Indenture or the intent of the parties. ARTICLE 2 THE NOTES SECTION 2.1 Amount Unlimited. The aggregate principal amount of Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under the Indenture shall be the principal amount of the Notes set forth in the Pricing Supplement. 12 SECTION 2.2 Status of Notes. The Notes constitute direct, unconditional, unsubordinated and secured non-recourse obligations of the Trust and rank equally among themselves. SECTION 2.3 Forms Generally. (a) The Note Certificates, shall be in, or substantially in, the form set forth in Exhibit A-1, Exhibit A-2, Exhibit A-3 and Exhibit A-4 attached hereto, as applicable, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by the Indenture or as may in the Trust's judgment be necessary, appropriate or convenient to permit the Notes to be issued and sold, or to comply, or facilitate compliance, with applicable laws, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange on which the Notes may be listed, or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the Responsible Officer of the Trust executing such Note Certificates, with the approval of the Indenture Trustee, as evidenced by his or her execution thereof. (b) Note Certificates may be printed, lithographed, engraved, typewritten, photocopied or otherwise produced in any manner as the Responsible Officer of the Trust executing such Notes may determine. (c) The terms and provisions contained in the Note Certificates and in any Supplemental Indenture shall constitute, and are expressly made, a part of the Indenture and, to the extent applicable, the Trust and the Indenture Trustee, by their execution and delivery of the Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. SECTION 2.4 Currency; Denominations. (a) Unless otherwise specified in the Note Certificates or in any Supplemental Indenture, Notes will be denominated in, and payments of principal of, premium and interest on, and Additional Amounts in respect to, the Notes will be made in, U.S. dollars. The currency in which the Notes are denominated (or, if such currency is no longer legal tender for the payment of public and private debts in the country issuing such currency or, in the case of Euro, in the member states of the European Union that have adopted the single currency in accordance with the Treaty 13 establishing the European Community, as amended by the Treaty on European Union, such currency which is then such legal tender) is in the Indenture referred to as the "Specified Currency". (b) Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to the Indenture, the Trust appoints the Indenture Trustee as Exchange Rate Agent with respect to the Notes and the Indenture Trustee accepts such appointment. (c) Unless otherwise specified in the Note Certificates or in a Supplemental Indenture, Notes shall be issued in minimum denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof or equivalent denominations in other currencies. (d) The Trust may (if so specified in a Note Certificate or Supplemental Indenture) without the consent of the Holder of any Note, redenominate all, but not less than all, of the Notes on or after the date on which the member state of the European Union in whose national currency the Notes are denominated has become a participant member in the third stage of the European economic and monetary union as more fully set out in a Note Certificate or Supplemental Indenture. (e) Unless otherwise specified in a Note Certificate or Supplemental Indenture, if the Specified Currency of the Notes is other than U.S. Dollars, the Trust shall not sell the Notes in, or to residents of, the country issuing such Specified Currency. SECTION 2.5 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Date. (a) Each Note Certificate shall be executed on behalf of the Trust by any Responsible Officer of the Delaware Trustee. The signature of any Responsible Officer of the Delaware Trustee may be manual, in facsimile form, imprinted or otherwise reproduced and may, but need not, be attested. (b) Each Note Certificate bearing the signature of a Person who was at any time a Responsible Officer of the Delaware Trustee shall bind the Trust, notwithstanding that such Person has ceased to hold such office prior to the authentication and delivery of such Note Certificate or did not hold such office at the date of such Note Certificate. 14 (c) At any time, and from time to time, after the execution and delivery of the Indenture, the Trust may deliver Note Certificates executed by or on behalf of the Trust to the Indenture Trustee for authentication, and the Indenture Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and deliver such Note Certificates as provided in the Indenture and not otherwise. (d) The Indenture Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and deliver any Note Certificates under this Section if the Indenture Trustee has obtained an Opinion of Counsel reasonably acceptable to the Trust, to the effect that the issuance of the Notes will adversely affect the Indenture Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under the Indenture. (e) The Note Certificates shall be dated the date of their authentication. (f) No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on the Note Certificate representing such Note a certificate of authentication substantially in the form attached as Exhibit B executed by the Indenture Trustee by manual signature of one of its authorized signatories. Such certificate upon any Note Certificate shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note Certificate has been duly authenticated and delivered under the Indenture. SECTION 2.6 Registration, Transfer and Exchange. (a) The Indenture Trustee will serve initially as registrar (in such capacity, and together with any successor registrar, the "Registrar") for the Notes. In such capacity, the Indenture Trustee will cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee a register (the "Note Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Indenture Trustee will provide for the registration of the Notes and of transfers of the Notes. The Note Register shall be in written form in the English language or in any other form capable of being converted into such form within a reasonable time. (b) Subject to Section 2.10, upon surrender of a Note Certificate for registration of transfer of any Note represented thereby, together with the form of transfer endorsed thereon duly completed and executed, at the designated office of the Registrar or of any applicable transfer agent, each as provided in a Note Certificate 15 or Supplemental Indenture, the Delaware Trustee, on behalf of the Trust shall execute, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Note Certificates representing an aggregate principal amount of Notes equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Notes represented by such Note Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer. (c) Subject to Section 2.10, at the option of the applicable Holder, any Note Certificate may be exchanged for one or more new Note Certificates, and any two or more Note Certificates may be consolidated into and exchanged for a single Note Certificate or fewer than the number of Note Certificates duly presented for exchange, in each case representing one or more Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Notes represented by the Note Certificate or Note Certificates duly presented for exchange. Each Note Certificate to be exchanged shall be surrendered at the designated office of the Registrar or of any applicable transfer agent, each as provided in a Note Certificate or Supplemental Indenture. Whenever any Note Certificate is so surrendered for exchange, the Delaware Trustee, on behalf of the Trust shall execute, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Note Certificate or Note Certificates which the applicable Holder is entitled to receive, bearing numbers, letters or other designating marks not contemporaneously outstanding. (d) Each Note Certificate executed, authenticated and delivered upon any transfer or exchange shall be a valid obligation of the Trust, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture, as the Note Certificates surrendered in connection with any such transfer or exchange. Upon surrender, transfer or exchange of a Note Certificate pursuant to this Section 2.6, each new Note Certificate will, within three Business Days of the receipt of the applicable form of transfer or the applicable surrender, as the case may be, be delivered to the designated office of the Registrar or of any applicable transfer agent, each as provided in a Note Certificate or Supplemental Indenture, or mailed at the risk of the Person entitled to such Note Certificate to such address as may be specified in the form of transfer or in written instructions of the applicable Holder upon surrender for exchange. (e) Every Note Certificate presented or surrendered in connection with any transfer or exchange shall (if so required by the Trust or 16 the Indenture Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trust and the Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the applicable Holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing. (f) No service charge shall be made in connection with any transfer of Notes or exchange of Note Certificates, but the Trust or the Indenture Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer of Notes or exchange of Note Certificates. (g) Except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to the Indenture, the Trust and the Indenture Trustee shall not be required to (i) upon presentation or surrender of a Note Certificate in connection with any transfer or exchange during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the selection for redemption of Notes under Section 3.1 and ending at the close of business on the day of such selection, exchange any Note Certificate representing any Note selected for redemption, register the transfer of any such Note, or portion thereof, except in the case of any Note to be redeemed in part, with respect to the portion of such Note not to be redeemed, or (ii) exchange any Note Certificate representing any Note the Holder or Holders of which shall have exercised the option pursuant to Section 3.2 to require the Trust to repay any such Note prior to its Stated Maturity Date or register the transfer of any such Note except, in the case of any Note to be repaid in part, with respect to the portion of such Note not to be repaid. SECTION 2.7 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Note Certificates. (a) If (i) any Note Certificate is mutilated and is surrendered to the Indenture Trustee or the Trust, or the Indenture Trustee and the Trust receive evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note Certificate, and (ii) there is delivered to the Trust and the Indenture Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Trust or the Indenture Trustee that such Note Certificate has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Trust shall execute and upon its request the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note Certificate, a new Note Certificate representing Notes of like tenor and principal amount, bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding. 17 (b) If any Note represented by any such mutilated or apparently destroyed, lost or stolen Note Certificate has become or is about to become due and payable, the Trust in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Note Certificate, pay such amounts in respect of the Notes represented by such Note Certificate. (c) Upon the execution, authentication and delivery of any new Note Certificate under this Section, the Indenture Trustee or the Trust may require the Holder to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Indenture Trustee) connected therewith. (d) The Notes represented by every Note Certificate executed, authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Section in lieu of any apparently destroyed, lost or stolen Note Certificate shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Trust, whether or not any obligation with respect to the Notes represented by the apparently destroyed, lost or stolen Note Certificate shall be at any time enforceable by any Person, and shall be entitled to all of the benefits of the Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued under the Indenture. (e) The provisions of this Section are exclusive with respect to the replacement of any mutilated or apparently destroyed, lost or stolen Note Certificate or the payment of the Notes represented thereby and shall preclude all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement of any mutilated or apparently destroyed, lost or stolen Note Certificate or the payment of the Notes represented thereby. SECTION 2.8 Interest Record Dates. (a) Interest on and Additional Amounts with respect to any Note which is payable, on any interest payment date specified in the Note Certificates or in any Supplemental Indenture (each such date, an "Interest Payment Date") shall be paid to the Holder of such Note at the close of business on the date specified as the regular interest record date in the Note Certificates or Supplemental Indenture (the "Regular Interest Record Date") or, if no such date is specified, the date that is 15 calendar days preceding such Interest Payment Date. 18 (b) Unless otherwise provided in the Note Certificates or in any Supplemental Indenture, any interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to, any Note which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date specified in the Note Certificates or Supplemental Indenture (the "Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder of such Note on the relevant Regular Interest Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest shall be paid by the Trust to the Holder of such Note at the close of business on a special record date (the "Special Interest Record Date") established by the Trust by notice to each applicable Holder and the Indenture Trustee in accordance with Section 13.4, which Special Interest Record Date shall be not more than 15 nor less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment of Defaulted Interest and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Indenture Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment of Defaulted Interest. SECTION 2.9 Cancellation. Each Note Certificate surrendered for exchange or in connection with any payment, redemption, transfer of any Note represented thereby shall be delivered to the Indenture Trustee and, if not already cancelled, shall be promptly cancelled by it. The Trust may at any time deliver to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation any Note Certificate previously authenticated and delivered under the Indenture which the Trust may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and each Note Certificate so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Indenture Trustee. No Note Certificates shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Note Certificate cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by the Indenture. The Indenture Trustee shall destroy all cancelled Note Certificates held by it and deliver a certificate of destruction to the Trust. If the Trust shall acquire any of the Notes, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Notes unless and until each Note Certificate representing such Notes is delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation. SECTION 2.10 Global Securities. (a) Unless (i) permitted by applicable law and (ii) an Exchange Event shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to Book-Entry Notes represented by one or more Global Securities, no Book-Entry Note represented by any such Global Security shall be exchangeable for Certificated Notes. (b) For purposes of the Indenture, the term "Exchange Event" means any of the following: 19 (i) the Depositary with which any Global Security is deposited shall have notified the Trust that it is unwilling or unable to continue as the Depositary for any Global Security or the Trust becomes aware that the Depository has ceased to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act and, in any such case, the Trust fails to appoint a successor to the Depositary within 60 calendar days; (ii) Subject to the procedures of the DTC, the Trust, in its sole discretion, determines that the Notes should no longer be represented solely by one or more Global Securities; or (iii) an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to the Notes and the maturity of the Notes shall have been accelerated in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and the Notes. (c) If any Exchange Event shall have occurred and be continuing, then: (i) with respect to each Global Security deposited with, and registered in the name of, the applicable Depositary or its nominee, the Delaware Trustee, on behalf of the Trust shall promptly, and in any event not later than 10 Business Days after the occurrence of such Exchange Event, cause to be executed, authenticated and delivered to the applicable Depositary or its nominee, against surrender by the applicable Depositary or its nominee of such Global Security, which shall thereupon be cancelled by the Indenture Trustee, a Definitive Security or a Definitive Securities each representing such number of Notes as may be specified by the applicable Depositary in an aggregate principal amount equal to the (Outstanding principal amount of Notes that shall have been represented by such Global Security and shall register the Certificated Notes in such names and in such authorized denominations as may be specified by the Depositary for the Global Security; and (ii) if any Certificated Note is issued in exchange for any portion of or all Book-Entry Notes represented by a Global Security after the close of business at the office or agency for such Note where such exchange occurs on (A) any Regular Interest Record Date for such Notes and 20 before the opening of business at such office or agency on the next Interest Payment Date, or (B) any Special Interest Record Date for such Notes and before the opening of business at such office or agency on the related proposed date for payment of interest, any Additional Amounts or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, interest, Additional Amounts or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, shall not be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, in respect of such Notes, but shall be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, only to the Person to whom interest and any Additional Amounts or Defaulted Interest, as applicable, in respect of such portion of or all Book-Entry Notes, as the case may be, represented by such Global Security shall be payable in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture. (d) The Certificated Notes issued in exchange for any Book-Entry Notes represented by a Global Security shall be of like tenor and of an equal aggregate principal amount, in authorized denominations. Such Certificated Notes shall be registered in the name or names of such person or persons as the applicable Depository shall instruct the Registrar. SECTION 2.11 Withholding Tax. All amounts due in respect of the Notes will be made without withholding or deduction for or on account of any present or future taxes, duties, levies, assessments or other governmental charges of whatever nature imposed or levied by or on behalf of any governmental authority in the United States having the power to tax payments on the notes unless the withholding or deduction is required by law. Unless otherwise specified in the Note Certificate(s), the Trust will not pay any Additional Amounts to Holders of Notes in the event that any withholding or deduction is so required by law, regulation or official interpretation thereof, and the imposition of a requirement to make any such withholding or deduction will not give rise to any independent right or obligation to redeem or repay the Notes and shall not constitute an Event of Default. SECTION 2.12 Tax Treatment. The parties agree, and each Holder and beneficial owner of Notes by purchasing the Notes agrees, for all United States Federal, state and local income and franchise tax purposes (i) to treat the Notes as indebtedness of the Funding Agreement Provider, (ii) Global Funding and the Trust will be ignored and will not be treated as an association or a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation and (iii) to not take any action inconsistent with the treatment described in (i) and (ii) unless otherwise required by law. 21 ARTICLE 3 REDEMPTION, REPAYMENT AND REPURCHASE OF NOTES; SINKING FUNDS SECTION 3.1 Redemption of Notes. (a) Redemption of Notes by the Trust as permitted or required by the Indenture and the Note Certificate(s) will be made in accordance with the terms of the Notes and (except as otherwise provided in the Indenture or pursuant to the Indenture) this Section. (b) If any Initial Redemption Date is specified in the Note Certificate(s), the Trust may redeem Notes prior to the Stated Maturity Date at its option, on, or on any Business Day after, the Initial Redemption Date in whole or from time to time in part in increments of $1,000 or any other integral multiple of an authorized denomination of the Notes at the applicable Redemption Price together with any unpaid interest accrued thereon, any Additional Amounts and other amounts payable with respect thereto, as of the Redemption Date. (c) If (i) the Trust is required at any time to pay Additional Amounts or if the Trust is obligated to withhold or deduct any United States taxes with respect to any payment under the Notes, as set forth in the Note Certificate(s), or if there is a material probability that the Trust will become obligated to withhold or deduct any such United States taxes or otherwise pay Additional Amounts (in the opinion of independent legal counsel selected by the Funding Agreement Provider), in each case pursuant to any change in or amendment to any United States tax laws (or any regulations or rulings thereunder) or any change in position of the Internal Revenue Service regarding the application or interpretation thereof (including, but not limited to, the Funding Agreement Provider's or the Trust's receipt of a written adjustment from the Internal Revenue Service in connection with an audit) (a "Tax Event"), and (ii) the Funding Agreement Provider, pursuant to the terms of the relevant Funding Agreement, has delivered to the Owner notice that the Funding Agreement Provider intends to terminate the relevant Funding Agreement pursuant to the terms of such Funding Agreement, then the Trust will redeem the Notes on the Redemption Date at the Redemption Price together with any unpaid interest accrued thereon, any Additional Amounts and other amounts payable with respect thereto, as of the Redemption Date. 22 (d) Unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the Trust shall provide to the Indenture Trustee a notice of redemption of any Notes (i) in case of any redemption at the election of the Trust, not more than 60 days nor less than 35 days prior to the Redemption Date and (ii) in case of any mandatory redemption pursuant to Section 3.1(c), at least 75 days prior to the Redemption Date. In case of any redemption at the election of the Trust of less than all of the Notes such notice shall specify the aggregate principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed. (e) If less than all of the Notes are to be redeemed at the option of the Trust, the particular Notes to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Indenture Trustee from the Outstanding Notes not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Indenture Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate, acting in accordance with its obligations under the Indenture, and which may provide for the selection for redemption of portions of the principal amount of Notes; provided, however, that no such partial redemption shall reduce the portion of the principal amount of a Note not redeemed to less than the minimum denomination for a Note established in or pursuant to the Indenture; provided further, that if at the time of redemption such Notes are registered as Global Securities, the Depositary shall determine, in accordance with its procedures, the principal amount of such Notes to be redeemed by each of the Depositary's participants. The Indenture Trustee shall promptly notify the Trust and the Registrar (if other than itself) in writing of the Notes selected for redemption and, in the case of any Notes selected for partial redemption, of the aggregate principal amount thereof to be redeemed. For all purposes of the Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Notes shall relate, in the case of any Notes redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal of such Notes which has been or is to be redeemed. (f) Unless otherwise specified in the Indenture or the Note Certificate(s) the Trust shall give a notice of redemption to each Holder of the Notes to be redeemed at the Trust's option (i) in case of any redemption at the election of the Trust, not more than 60 days nor less than 30 days prior to the Redemption Date and (ii) in case of any mandatory redemption pursuant to Section 3.1(c), not more than 75 days nor less than 30 days prior to the Redemption Date; provided, that in the case of any notice of redemption given pursuant to clause (ii) no such notice of 23 redemption may be given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest day on which the Trust would become obligated to pay the applicable Additional Amounts were a payment in respect of Notes then due. Failure to give such notice to the Holder of any Note designated for redemption in whole or in part, or any defect in the notice to any such Holder, shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Note or any portion thereof. Any notice that is mailed to the Holder of any Notes in the manner provided for in Section 13.4 shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not such Holder receives the notice. All notices of redemption shall state: (i) the Redemption Date, (ii) the Redemption Price or, if not then ascertainable, the manner of calculation thereof, (iii) in case of any redemption at the election of the Trust, if less than all Outstanding Notes are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the principal amount) of the particular Note or Notes to be redeemed, (iv) in case any Note is to be redeemed in part only at the election of the Trust, the notice which relates to such Note shall state that on and after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of the Note Certificate representing such Note, the Holder of such Note will receive, without charge, a new Note Certificate representing an authorized denomination of the principal amount of such Note remaining unredeemed, (v) that, on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price shall become due and payable upon each such Note or portion thereof to be redeemed, and, if applicable, that interest thereon shall cease to accrue on and after the Redemption Date, the place or places where each Note Certificate representing such Note or Notes is to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price together with any unpaid interest accrued thereon through the Redemption Date and any Additional Amounts payable with respect thereto, 24 (vi) if applicable, in case of any redemption at the election of the Trust, that the redemption is for a sinking fund, and (vii) the CUSIP number or any other numbers used to identify such Notes. (g) On or prior to any Redemption Date, the Trust shall deposit, with respect to any Notes called for redemption pursuant to this Section, with the Paying Agent an amount of money in the Specified Currency sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date, unless otherwise specified in the Note Certificate(s)) any unpaid interest accrued through the Redemption Date on, and any Additional Amounts payable with respect to, all such Notes or portions thereof which are to be redeemed on the Redemption Date. (h) On the Redemption Date, the Notes to be redeemed shall become due and payable at the Redemption Price together with any unpaid interest accrued through the Redemption Date on, and any Additional Amounts payable with respect to, such Notes, and from and after such date (unless the Trust shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and any unpaid interest accrued on such Notes through the Redemption Date) such Notes shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any Note Certificate for redemption of any Note or Notes represented thereby in accordance with the applicable notice of redemption, such Note shall be paid by the Trust at the Redemption Price, together with any unpaid interest accrued thereon through the Redemption Date and any Additional Amounts payable with respect thereto. (i) If any Note called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender of the applicable Note Certificate for redemption, the principal and any premium, until paid, shall bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate specified in the Note Certificate(s). Upon surrender of any Note Certificate for partial redemption of any Note or Notes represented thereby in accordance with this Section, the Trust shall execute and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver one or more new Note Certificates of any authorized denomination representing an aggregate principal amount of Notes equal to the unredeemed portion of the applicable Note or Notes. 25 SECTION 3.2 Repayment at the Option of the Holder. (a) If so specified in the Note Certificate(s), the Holder or Holders of the Notes may require the Trust to repay the Notes prior to the Stated Maturity Date in whole or from time to time in part in increments of $1,000 or any other integral multiple of an authorized denomination specified in the Note Certificate(s) (provided that any remaining principal amount thereof shall be at least $1,000 or other minimum authorized denomination applicable thereto). (b) Notes which are repayable at the option of the Holder or Holders thereof before the Stated Maturity Date shall be repaid in accordance with the terms of the Notes. (c) The repayment of any principal amount of Notes pursuant to any option of the applicable Holder or Holders to require repayment of any Notes before the Stated Maturity Date shall not operate as a payment, redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Notes unless and until the Trust, at its option, shall deliver or surrender each Note Certificate representing such Notes to the Indenture Trustee with a directive that such Note Certificates be cancelled. (d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section, in connection with any repayment of Notes, the Trust may arrange for the purchase of any Notes by an agreement with one or more investment bankers or other purchasers to purchase such Notes by paying the Holder or Holders of such Notes on or before the close of business on the Repayment Date an amount not less than the Repayment Price payable by the Trust on repayment of such Notes, and the obligation of the Trust to pay the Repayment Price of such Notes shall be satisfied and discharged to the extent such payment is so paid by such purchasers. (e) Any exercise of the repayment option will be irrevocable. SECTION 3.3 Repurchase of Notes. (a) The Trust may purchase some or all Notes in the open market or otherwise at any time, and from time to time, with the prior written consent of the Funding Agreement Provider as to both the making of such purchase and the purchase price to be paid for such Notes. 26 (b) If the Funding Agreement Provider, in its sole discretion, consents to such purchase of Notes by the Trust, the parties to the Indenture agree to take such actions as may be necessary or desirable to effect the prepayment of such portion, or the entirety, of the current Principal Amount, under each applicable Funding Agreement as may be necessary to provide for the payment of the purchase price for such Notes. Upon such payment, the Principal Amount under each Funding Agreement shall be reduced (i) if Notes bear interest at fixed or floating rates, by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Notes so purchased (or the portion thereof applicable to such Funding Agreement) and (ii) if Notes do not bear interest at fixed or floating rates, by an amount to be agreed between the Trust and the Funding Agreement Provider to reflect such prepayment under the Funding Agreement(s). (c) The parties acknowledge and agree that (i) notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture, any repurchase of Notes in compliance with this Section 3.3 shall not violate any provision of the Indenture or the Trust Agreement and (ii) no Opinion of Counsel, Trust Certificate or any other document or instrument shall be required to be provided in connection with any repurchase of Notes pursuant to this Section 3.3. (d) If applicable, the Trust will comply with the requirements of Section 14(e) of the Exchange Act, and the rules promulgated thereunder, and any other applicable securities laws or regulations in connection with any repurchase pursuant to this Section 3.3. SECTION 3.4 Sinking Funds. Unless otherwise provided in the Note Certificate(s), the Notes will not be subject to, or entitled to the benefit of, any sinking fund. ARTICLE 4 PAYMENTS; PAYING AGENTS AND CALCULATION AGENT; COVENANTS SECTION 4.1 Payment of Principal and Interest. (a) The Trust will duly and punctually pay or cause to be paid the principal of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to, each of the Notes, in accordance with the terms of the Notes and the Indenture. 27 (b) Unless otherwise specified in the Note Certificate(s), upon the receipt of the funds necessary therefor, the applicable Paying Agent shall duly and punctually make payments, payable on the Maturity Date, of principal in respect of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts payable with respect to, any Certificated Notes in immediately available funds against presentation and surrender of the applicable Definitive Security (and in the case of any repayment of a Note pursuant to Section 3.2, upon submission of a duly completed election form at an office or agency of such Paying Agent maintained for such purpose pursuant to Section 4.3). The applicable Paying Agent (unless such Paying Agent is the Indenture Trustee) shall promptly forward each Definitive Security surrendered to it in connection with any payment pursuant to this Section for cancellation in accordance with Section 2.9. Unless otherwise specified in the Note Certificate(s), upon the receipt of the funds necessary therefor, the applicable Paying Agent shall duly and punctually make payments of principal of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts in respect of, Certificated Notes payable on any date other than the Maturity Date by check mailed to the Holder (or to the first named of joint Holders) of such Certificated Note at the close of business on the Regular Interest Record Date or Special Interest Record Date, as the case may be, at its address appearing in the applicable Note Register. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the applicable Paying Agent shall make payments of principal, any interest, any premium, and any Additional Amounts on any date other than the Maturity Date to each Holder entitled thereto (or to the first named of joint Holders) at the close of business on the applicable Regular Interest Record Date or Special Interest Record Date, as the case may be, of $10,000,000 (or, if the Specified Currency is other than United States dollars, the equivalent thereof in the particular Specified Currency) or more in aggregate principal amount of Certificated Notes by wire transfer of immediately available funds if the applicable Holder has delivered appropriate wire transfer instructions in writing to the applicable Paying Agent not less than 15 days prior to the date on which the applicable payment of principal, interest, premium or Additional Amounts is scheduled to be made. Any wire transfer instructions received by the applicable Paying Agent shall remain in effect until revoked by the applicable Holder. (c) Unless otherwise specified in the Note Certificate(s), upon receipt of the funds necessary therefor, on the Maturity Date the applicable Paying Agent shall (in the absence of any other 28 arrangements between the applicable Paying Agent and the applicable Holder) duly and punctually make payments, payable on the Maturity Date, of principal in respect of, any premium and interest payable on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to, any Book-Entry Notes to the account of the Depositary or its nominee at the close of business on the applicable Maturity Date. The applicable Paying Agent (unless such Paying Agent is the Indenture Trustee) shall promptly forward to the Indenture Trustee each Global Security surrendered to it in connection with any payment pursuant to this section for cancellation in accordance with Section 2.9. Unless otherwise specified in the Note Certificate(s), upon the receipt of the funds necessary therefor in accordance with Section 4.5(b), the applicable Paying Agent shall duly and punctually make payments of principal of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts in respect of, any Book-Entry Notes payable on any date other than the Maturity Date to the Holder of such Book-Entry Notes by 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the applicable Regular Interest Record Date or Special Interest Record Date, as the case may be, to the account of the Depositary or its nominee. (d) Unless otherwise specified in the Note Certificate(s), the Trust shall be obligated to make, or cause to be made, payments of principal of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to, a Foreign Currency Note in the Specified Currency. Any amounts so payable by the Trust in the Specified Currency will be converted by the Exchange Rate Agent into United States dollars for payment to the Holder or Holders thereof unless otherwise specified in the Note Certificate(s) or a Holder elects to receive such amounts in the Specified Currency as provided below. (e) Unless otherwise specified in the Note Certificate(s), any United States dollar amount to be received by the Holder or Holders of Foreign Currency Notes will be based on the highest bid quotation in The City of New York received by the Exchange Rate Agent at approximately 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the second Business Day preceding the applicable payment date from three recognized foreign exchange dealers (one of whom may be the Exchange Rate Agent) selected by the Exchange Rate Agent and approved by the Trust for the purchase by the quoting dealer of the Specified Currency for United States dollars for settlement on that payment date in the aggregate amount of the Specified Currency payable to the Holder or Holders of Foreign Currency Notes scheduled to receive United States dollar 29 payments and at which the applicable dealer commits to execute a contract. All currency exchange costs will be borne by the relevant Holder or Holders of Foreign Currency Notes by deductions from any payments. If three bid quotations are not available, payments will be made in the Specified Currency. (f) Holders of Foreign Currency Notes may elect to receive all or a specified portion of any payment of principal and/or any interest, premium and Additional Amounts in the Specified Currency by submitting a written request to the Indenture Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office in The City of New York on or prior to the applicable Regular Interest Record Date or Special Interest Record Date or at least 15 calendar days prior to the Maturity Date, as the case may be. Such written request may be mailed or hand delivered or sent by cable, telex or other form of facsimile transmission. Such election will remain in effect until revoked by written notice delivered to the Indenture Trustee on or prior to the applicable Regular Interest Record Date or Special Interest Record Date or at least 15 calendar days prior to the Maturity Date, as the case may be. (g) Unless otherwise specified in the Note Certificate(s), an Entitlement Holder with respect to a Foreign Currency Note represented by a Global Security which elects to receive payments of principal, and/or any interest, premium and Additional Amounts in the Specified Currency must notify the applicable Depositary's participant through which it owns its interest on or prior to the applicable Regular Interest Record Date or Special Interest Record Date, or at least 15 calendar days prior to the Maturity Date, as the case may be, of its election. The applicable participant must notify the Depositary of such election on or prior to the third Business Day after the applicable Regular Interest Record Date or Special Interest Record Date, or at least 12 calendar days prior to the Maturity Date, as the case may be, and the Depositary will notify the Indenture Trustee of that election on or prior to the fifth Business Day after the applicable Regular Interest Record Date or Special Interest Record Date, or at least 10 calendar days prior to the Maturity Date, as the case may be. If complete instructions are received by the applicable Depositary's participant from the applicable Entitlement Holder and forwarded by the participant to the Depositary, and by the Depositary to the Indenture Trustee, on or prior to such dates, then the applicable Entitlement Holder will receive payments in the Specified Currency. 30 (h) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture, if the Specified Currency for Foreign Currency Notes is not available for any required payment of principal and/or any interest, premium and Additional Amounts due to the imposition of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond the Trust's control, the Trust will be entitled to satisfy its obligations with respect to such Foreign Currency Notes by making, or causing to be made, payments in United States dollars based on the Market Exchange Rate computed by the Exchange Rate Agent on the second Business Day prior to the particular payment date or, if the Market Exchange Rate is not then available, on the basis of the most recently available Market Exchange Rate. (i) All determinations made by the Exchange Rate Agent shall be at its sole discretion and shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the Holder or Holders of Foreign Currency Notes and any applicable Entitlement Holders. SECTION 4.2 Collection Account. Global Funding shall, on or prior to the Original Issue Date, establish a non-interest bearing account with the Indenture Trustee or such other depository institution that is rated at least AA by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. or Aa2 by Moody's Investors Services, Inc., or has an equivalent rating from another nationally recognized statistical rating organization as may be designated by the Trust (the "Collection Account"), into which account shall be deposited payments received under the applicable Funding Agreement(s) and which account shall be segregated from other accounts held by the Indenture Trustee or such other depositary institution. SECTION 4.3 Offices for Payments, Etc. (a) So long as any of the Notes remain Outstanding, the Trust will maintain in New York and in any other city that may be required by any stock exchange on which the Notes may be listed, and in any city specified in the Note Certificate(s) the following: (i) an office or agency where the Notes may be presented for payment, (ii) an office or agency where the Notes may be presented for registration of transfer and for exchange as provided in the Indenture and (iii) an office or agency where notices and demands to or upon the Trust in respect of the Notes or of the Indenture may be served. The Trust will give to the Indenture Trustee written notice of the location of any such office or agency and of any change of location thereof. The Trust initially designates the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee as the office or agency for each such purpose. In case the Trust shall 31 fail to maintain any such office or agency or shall fail to give such notice of the location or of any change in the location thereof, presentations and demands may be made and notices may be served at the Corporate Trust Office. (b) The Trust hereby agrees to issue a standing order to the Indenture Trustee, pursuant to which the Indenture Trustee, either directly or through any Paying Agent, shall distribute all amounts due and unpaid under Section 3.1(b) of the Standard Trust Terms. For so long as (i) the Trust has not rescinded the standing order (notice of such rescission to be promptly given by the Trust to the Indenture Trustee) and (ii) the Indenture Trustee, either directly or through any Paying Agent is able to, and does, comply with the standing order, the Trust will not be required to establish a Payment Account (as defined in the Standard Trust Terms) in accordance with Section 3.1 of the Standard Trust Terms. SECTION 4.4 Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in Office of Indenture Trustee. The Trust, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the office of Indenture Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 6.8, a trustee, so that there shall at all times be a trustee under the Indenture. SECTION 4.5 Paying Agents. (a) Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to the Indenture, the Trust appoints the Indenture Trustee as Paying Agent with respect to the Notes and the Indenture Trustee accepts such appointment. The Indenture Trustee, in its capacity as Paying Agent, agrees, and, whenever the Trust shall appoint a Paying Agent other than the Indenture Trustee with respect to the Notes, the Trust will cause such Paying Agent to execute and deliver to the Trust and the Indenture Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trust and the Indenture Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that it will: (i) hold all sums received by it as such agent for the payment of the principal of, any premium or interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to, the Notes (whether such sums have been paid to it by the Funding Agreement Provider, the Trust or by any other obligor on the Notes) in trust for the benefit of each Holder of the Notes; (ii) give the Indenture Trustee notice of any failure by the Trust (or by any other obligor on the Notes) to make any payment of the principal of, any premium and interest on, 32 or any Additional Amounts with respect to, the Notes when the same shall be due and payable; (iii) pay any such sums so held in trust by it to the Indenture Trustee upon the Indenture Trustee's written request at any time during the continuance of the failure referred to in clause (ii) above; (iv) in the absence of the failure referred in clause (ii) above, pay any such sums so held in trust by it in accordance with the Indenture and the terms of the Notes; and (v) comply with all agreements of Paying Agents in, and perform all functions and obligations imposed on Paying Agents by or pursuant to, the Indenture and a Note Certificate or Supplemental Indenture. (b) At or prior to 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) on each due date of the principal of, any premium and interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to, the Notes, the Trust will deposit or cause to be deposited with the applicable Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such principal, any interest or premium, and any Additional Amounts, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Indenture Trustee) the Trust will promptly notify the Indenture Trustee of any failure to take such action. (c) Anything in this Section to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trust may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a satisfaction and discharge of the Notes under the Indenture, pay or cause to be paid to the Indenture Trustee all sums held in trust by the Trust or any Paying Agent under the Indenture, as required by this Section, such sums to be held by the Indenture Trustee upon the terms contained in the Indenture. (d) Anything in this Section to the contrary notwithstanding, the agreement to hold sums in trust as provided in this Section are subject to the provisions of Sections 11.3 and 11.4. (e) The applicable Paying Agent shall (i) collect all forms from Holders of Notes (or from such other Persons as are relevant) that are required to exempt payments under the Notes and/or the related Funding Agreement(s) from United States Federal income tax withholding, (ii) withhold and pay over to the Internal Revenue Service or other taxing authority with respect to payments under the Notes any amount of taxes required to be 33 withheld by any United States Federal, state or local statute, rule or regulation and (iii) forward copies of such forms to the Trust and the Funding Agreement Provider. (f) Each Paying Agent shall forward to the Trust at least monthly a bank statement in its possession with respect to the performance of its functions and obligations with respect to any Notes. (g) The Trust shall pay the compensation of each Paying Agent at such rates as shall be agreed upon in writing by the Trust and the relevant Paying Agent from time to time and shall reimburse each Paying Agent for reasonable expenses properly incurred by such Paying Agent in connection with the performance of its duties upon receipt of such invoices as the Trust shall reasonably require. (h) Subject as provided below, each Paying Agent may at any time resign as Paying Agent by giving not less than 60 days' written notice to the Trust and the Indenture Trustee (unless the Indenture Trustee is such Paying Agent) of such intention on its part, specifying the date on which its resignation shall become effective. Except as provided below, the Trust may remove a Paying Agent by giving not less than 20 days' written notice specifying such removal and the date when it shall become effective. Any such resignation or removal shall take effect upon: (i) the appointment by the Trust of a successor Paying Agent; and (ii) the acceptance of such appointment by such successor Paying Agent, provided that with respect to any Paying Agent who timely receives any amount with respect to any Notes and fails duly to pay any such amounts when due and payable in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and such Notes, any such removal will take effect immediately upon such appointment of, and acceptance thereof by, a successor Paying Agent approved by the Indenture Trustee (unless the Indenture Trustee is such Paying Agent), in which event notice of such appointment shall be given to each Holder of the Notes as soon as practicable thereafter. The Trust agrees with each Paying Agent that if, by the day falling 10 days before the expiration of any notice given pursuant to this Section 4.5(i), the Trust has not appointed a replacement Paying Agent, then the Paying Agent shall be entitled, on behalf of the 34 Trust, to appoint in its place a reputable financial institution of good standing reasonably acceptable to the Trust and the Indenture Trustee (unless the Indenture Trustee is such Paying Agent); provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, the resignation or removal of the relevant Paying Agent shall not be effective unless, upon the expiration of the notice given pursuant to this Section 4.5(i), the successor Paying Agent shall have accepted its appointment. Upon its resignation or removal becoming effective, the retiring Paying Agent shall be entitled to the payment of its compensation and reimbursement of all expenses incurred by such retiring Paying Agent pursuant to Section 4.5(h) up to the effective date of such resignation or removal. (i) If at any time a Paying Agent shall resign or be removed, or shall become incapable of acting with respect to the Notes, or shall be adjudged as bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver or liquidator of such Paying Agent or of its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of such Paying Agent or its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then a successor Paying Agent shall be appointed by the Trust by an instrument in writing filed with the successor Paying Agent. Upon any such appointment of, and the acceptance of such appointment by, a successor Paying Agent and (except in cases of removal for failure to timely pay any amounts as required by or pursuant to the Indenture or a Note Certificate or Supplemental Indenture) the giving of notice to each Holder of the Notes, the retiring Paying Agent shall cease to be Paying Agent under the Indenture. (j) Any successor Paying Agent appointed under the Indenture shall execute and deliver to its predecessor, the Trust and the Indenture Trustee (unless the Indenture Trustee is such Paying Agent) a reasonably acceptable instrument accepting such appointment under the Indenture, and thereupon such successor Paying Agent, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the authority, rights, powers, trusts, immunities, duties and obligations of such predecessor with like effect as if originally named as a Paying Agent under the Indenture, and such predecessor, upon payment of any amounts due pursuant to Section 4.5(h) and unpaid, shall thereupon become obliged to transfer and deliver, and such successor Paying Agent shall be entitled to receive, copies of any relevant records maintained by such predecessor Paying Agent. 35 (k) Any entity into which a Paying Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated or any entity resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Paying Agent shall be a party, or any entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the paying agency business of such Paying Agent shall be a successor Paying Agent under the Indenture without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties, anything in the Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding. At least 30 days' prior notice of any such merger, conversion or consolidation shall be given to the Trust and the Indenture Trustee (unless the Indenture Trustee is such Paying Agent). SECTION 4.6 Calculation Agent. (a) Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to the Indenture, the Trust appoints the Indenture Trustee as Calculation Agent, and the Indenture Trustee accepts such appointment. (b) The relevant Calculation Agent shall perform all functions and obligations imposed on such Calculation Agent by or pursuant to the Indenture, and a Note Certificate or Supplemental Indenture. (c) Each Calculation Agent, excluding the Indenture Trustee, shall forward to the Trust at least monthly a report providing details with respect to the performance of its functions and obligations with respect to the Notes which shall include dates and amounts of forthcoming payments with respect to the Notes. (d) The relevant Calculation Agent shall, upon the request of any relevant Holder of the Notes, provide the interest rate then in effect and, if determined, the interest rate that will become effective as a result of a determination made for the next succeeding Interest Reset Date with respect to the Notes. (e) All determinations of interest by the Calculation Agent shall, in the absence of manifest errors, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the Holders of the Notes. (f) The Trust shall pay the compensation of each Calculation Agent at such rates as shall be agreed upon in writing by the Trust and the relevant Calculation Agent from time to time and shall reimburse each Calculation Agent for reasonable expenses properly incurred by such Calculation Agent in connection with the performance of its duties upon receipt of such invoices as the 36 Trust shall reasonably require. The Trust also agrees to indemnify each Calculation Agent for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of its duties under the Indenture, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against or investigating any claim of liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties under the Indenture. (g) Subject as provided below, each Calculation Agent may at any time resign as Calculation Agent by giving not less than 60 days' written notice to the Trust and the Indenture Trustee (unless the Indenture Trustee is such Calculation Agent) of such intention on its part, specifying the date on which its resignation shall become effective. Except as provided below, the Trust may remove a Calculation Agent by giving not less than 20 days' written notice specifying such removal and the date when it shall become effective. Any such resignation or removal shall take effect upon: (i) the appointment by the Trust of a successor Calculation Agent; and (ii) the acceptance of such appointment by such successor Calculation Agent, provided that with respect to any Calculation Agent who fails duly to establish the interest rate or amount for any Interest Reset Period, any such removal will take effect immediately upon such appointment of, and acceptance thereof by, a successor Calculation Agent approved by the Indenture Trustee (unless the Indenture Trustee is such Calculation Agent), in which event notice of such appointment shall be given to each Holder of the Notes as soon as practicable thereafter. The Trust agrees with each Calculation Agent that if, by the day falling 10 days before the expiration of any notice given pursuant to this Section 4.6(g), the Trust has not appointed a replacement Calculation Agent, then the Calculation Agent shall be entitled, on behalf of the Trust, to appoint in its place a reputable financial institution of good standing reasonably acceptable to the Trust and the Indenture Trustee (unless the Indenture Trustee is such Calculation Agent); provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, the resignation or removal of the relevant Calculation Agent shall not be effective unless, upon the expiration of the notice given pursuant to this Section 4.6(g), the successor Calculation Agent shall have accepted its appointment. Upon its 37 resignation or removal becoming effective, the retiring Calculation Agent shall be entitled to the payment of its compensation and reimbursement of all expenses incurred by such retiring Calculation Agent pursuant to Section 4.6(f) up to the effective date of such resignation or removal. (h) If at any time a Calculation Agent shall resign or be removed, or shall become incapable of acting with respect to the Notes, or shall be adjudged as bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver or liquidator of such Calculation Agent or of its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of such Calculation Agent or its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then a successor Calculation Agent shall be appointed by the Trust by an instrument in writing filed with the successor Calculation Agent. Upon any such appointment of, and the acceptance of such appointment by, a successor Calculation Agent and (except in cases of removal for failure to establish the amount of interest) the giving of notice to each Holder of the Notes, the retiring Calculation Agent shall cease to be Calculation Agent under the Indenture. (i) Any successor Calculation Agent appointed under the Indenture shall execute and deliver to its predecessor, the Trust and the Indenture Trustee (unless the Indenture Trustee is such Calculation Agent) a reasonably acceptable instrument, accepting such appointment under the Indenture, and thereupon such successor Calculation Agent, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the authority, rights, powers, trusts, immunities, duties and obligations of such predecessor with like effect as if originally named as a Calculation Agent under the Indenture, and such predecessor, upon payment of any amounts due pursuant to Section 4.6(f) and unpaid, shall thereupon become obliged to transfer and deliver, and such successor Calculation Agent shall be entitled to receive, copies of any relevant records maintained by such predecessor Calculation Agent. (j) Any entity into which a Calculation Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated or any entity resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Calculation Agent shall be a party, or an entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the paying agency business of such Calculation Agent shall be a successor Calculation Agent under the Indenture without the execution or filing of any paper or any 38 further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything in the Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding. At least 30 days' prior notice of any such merger, conversion or consolidation shall be given to the Trust and the Indenture Trustee (unless the Indenture Trustee is such Calculation Agent). SECTION 4.7 Certificate to Indenture Trustee. The Trust will furnish to the Indenture Trustee on or before May 15 of each year commencing with the first May 15 following the issuance of any Notes a brief certificate (which need not comply with Section 13.5) as to its knowledge of the Trust's compliance with all conditions and covenants under the Indenture (which will be determined without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided under the Indenture). SECTION 4.8 Negative Covenants. So long as any Notes are Outstanding, the Trust will comply with all of its covenants set forth in Section 6.1(b) of the Standard Trust Terms. SECTION 4.9 Non-Petition. Each of the Indenture Trustee, each other party hereto and each Holder covenants and agrees that, for a period of one year plus one day after payment in full of all amounts payable under or in respect of the Indenture and the Notes, it will not institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against, the Trust any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under any federal or state bankruptcy or similar law. The immediately preceding sentence shall survive any termination of the Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each of the Indenture Trustee and each other party hereto covenants and agrees that it will not institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against, the Trust any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under any federal or state bankruptcy or similar law, as a result of the failure to pay fees or expenses pursuant to Section 6.6 to any party entitled thereto. Moreover, each of the Indenture Trustee and each other party hereto covenants and agrees that it will not cause an Event of Default as a result of the Trust's failure to pay any fees or expenses to any party entitled thereto under the Indenture. SECTION 4.10 Additional Amounts. If the Note Certificate(s) provide for the payment of Additional Amounts, the Trust agrees to pay to the Holder of any such Note Additional Amounts as provided in the Note Certificate(s). Whenever in the Indenture there is mentioned, in any context, the payment of the principal of, or interest or premium on, or in respect of, any Note or the net proceeds received on the sale or exchange of any Note, such reference shall be 39 deemed to include reference to the payment of Additional Amounts provided by the terms established by the Indenture or pursuant to the Indenture to the extent that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be payable in respect thereof pursuant to such terms, and express reference to the payment of Additional Amounts in any provision of the Indenture shall not be construed as excluding Additional Amounts in those provisions hereof where such express reference is not made. If the Note Certificate(s) provide for the payment of Additional Amounts, the Note Certificate will provide that the Trust will pay, or cause to be paid, Additional Amounts to a Holder of Notes to compensate for any withholding or deduction for or on account of any present or future taxes, duties, levies, assessments or governmental charges of whatever nature imposed or levied on payments on the Notes by or on behalf of any governmental authority in the United States having the power to tax, so that the net amount received by the Holder of the Notes, after giving effect to such withholding or deduction, whether or not currently payable, will equal the amount that would have been received under the Notes were no such deduction or withholding required; provided that no such Additional Amounts shall be required for or on account of: (a) any tax, duty, levy, assessment or other governmental charge imposed which would not have been imposed but for a Holder or beneficial owner of one or more of the Notes, (i) having any present or former connection with the United States, including, without limitation, being or having been a citizen or resident thereof, or having been present, having been incorporated in, having engaged in a trade or business or having (or having had) a permanent establishment or principal office therein, (ii) being a controlled foreign corporation within the meaning of Section 957(a) of the Code related (within the meaning of Section 864(d)(4) of the Code) to the Funding Agreement Provider, (iii) being a bank for United States Federal income tax purposes whose receipt of interest on the Notes is described in Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iv) being an actual or constructive owner of 10 percent or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Funding Agreement Provider entitled to vote within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3) of the Code and Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder or (v) being subject to backup withholding as of the date of the purchase by the Holder of the Notes; (b) any tax, duty, levy, assessment or other governmental charge which would not have been imposed but for the presentation of any Note (where presentation is required) for payment on a date more than 30 days after the date on which such payment becomes due and payable or the date on which payment is duly provided for, whichever occurs later; 40 (c) any tax, duty, levy, assessment or other governmental charge which is imposed or withheld solely by reason of the failure of the beneficial owner or a Holder of Notes to comply with certification, identification or information reporting requirements concerning the nationality, residence, identity or connection with the United States of the beneficial owner or a Holder of Notes, if compliance is required by statute, by regulation of the United States Treasury Department, judicial or administrative interpretation, other law or by an applicable income tax treaty to which the United States is a party as a condition to exemption from such tax, duty, levy, assessment or other governmental charge; (d) any inheritance, gift, estate, personal property, sales, transfer or similar tax, duty, levy, assessment, or similar governmental charge; (e) any tax, duty, levy, assessment or other governmental charge that is payable otherwise than by withholding from payments in respect of the Notes; (f) any tax, duty, levy, assessment or other governmental charge imposed by reason of payments on the Notes being treated as contingent interest described in Section 871(h)(4) of the Code for United States Federal income tax purposes provided that such treatment was described in the Pricing Supplement; (g) any tax, duty, levy, assessment or other governmental charge that would not have been imposed but for an election by the Holder of the Notes, the effect of which is to make payment in respect of the Notes subject to United States Federal income tax or withholding tax provisions; or (h) any combination of items (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) or (g) above. ARTICLE 5 REMEDIES OF THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND HOLDERS ON EVENT OF DEFAULT SECTION 5.1 Event of Default Defined; Acceleration of Maturity; Waiver of Default. (a) "Event of Default" with respect to the Notes wherever used in the Indenture, means each of the following events which shall have occurred and be continuing (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary 41 or be 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): (i) default in the payment when due and payable of the principal of, or any premium on, any Note; (ii) default in the payment, when due and payable, of any interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to, any Note and continuance of such default for a period of five Business Days; (iii) any "Event of Default", as such term is defined in any Funding Agreement securing the Notes, by the Funding Agreement Provider under such Funding Agreement or any "Event of Default", as such term is defined in any Funding Note, under such Funding Note; (iv) the Trust shall fail to observe or perform any covenant contained in the Notes or in the Indenture for a period of 30 days after the date on which written notice specifying such failure, stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default" under the Indenture and demanding that the Trust remedy the same, will have been given by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the Trust by the Indenture Trustee, or to the Trust and the Indenture Trustee by the Holder or Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes Outstanding; or (v) the Indenture for any reason shall cease to be in full force and effect or shall be declared null and void, or the Indenture Trustee shall fail to have or maintain a validly created and first priority perfected security interest (or the equivalent thereof) in the Collateral; or any Person shall successfully claim, as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction that any Lien for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes and any other Person for whose benefit the Indenture Trustee is or will be holding the Collateral, that the Collateral is void or is junior to any other Lien or that the enforcement thereof is materially limited because of any preference, fraudulent transfer, conveyance or similar law; (vi) an involuntary case or other proceeding shall be commenced against the Trust seeking liquidation, 42 reorganization or other relief with respect to it or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of it or any substantial part of its property, and such involuntary case or other proceeding shall remain undismissed and unstayed for a period of 60 days; or an order for relief shall be entered against the Trust under the Federal bankruptcy laws as now or hereafter in effect; (vii) the Trust commences a voluntary case or other proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to itself or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of it or any substantial part of its property, or consents to any such relief or to the appointment of or taking possession by any such official in an involuntary case or other proceeding commenced against it, or makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or fails generally to pay its debts as they become due, or takes any action to authorize any of the foregoing; or (viii) any other Event of Default provided in any Supplemental Indenture or in a Note Certificate. (b) If one or more Events of Default shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to the Notes, then, and in every such event, unless the principal of all of the Notes shall have already become due and payable, either the Indenture Trustee or the Holder or Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes Outstanding under the Indenture by notice in writing to the Trust (and to the Indenture Trustee if given by such Holder or Holders), may declare the entire principal and premium (if any) of all the Notes, any interest accrued thereon, and any Additional Amounts due and owing and any other amounts payable with respect thereto, to be due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall become immediately due and payable; provided that, if any Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(a)(vi) or 5.1(a)(vii) occurs with respect to the Trust, or if any Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(a)(iii) that would cause any Funding Agreement securing the Notes to become immediately due and payable occurs with respect to the Funding Agreement Provider, then 43 without any notice to the Trust or any other act by the Indenture Trustee or any Holder of any Notes, the entire principal and premium (if any) of all the Notes, any interest accrued thereon, and any Additional Amounts due and owing, and any other amounts payable with respect thereto, shall become immediately due and payable without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Trust. (c) Notwithstanding Section 5.1(b), if at any time after the principal and premium of the Notes, any interest accrued thereon, and any Additional Amounts due and owing and any other amounts payable with respect thereto shall have been so declared due and payable and before any judgment or decree for the payment of the funds due shall have been obtained or entered as provided in the Indenture, the Trust shall pay or shall deposit with the Indenture Trustee a sum sufficient to pay all due and payable interest on, and any Additional Amounts due and owing and any other amounts payable with respect to, the Notes and the principal and premium (if any) of any and all Notes which shall have become due and payable otherwise than by acceleration pursuant to Section 5.1(b) above (with interest on such principal and, to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law, on any overdue interest and any other amounts payable, at the same rate as the rate of interest specified in each Note Certificate to the date of such payment or deposit) and such amount as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee, their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee except as a result of negligence or bad faith, and if any and all Events of Default under the Indenture, other than the non-payment of the principal of and premium (if any) on the Notes which shall have become due by acceleration, shall have been cured, waived or otherwise remedied as provided in the Indenture, then and in every such case the Holder Representative (as defined in Section 5.8(a) hereof), by written notice to the Trust and to the Indenture Trustee, may waive all defaults and rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences, but no such waiver or rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any subsequent default or shall impair any right consequent thereon. 44 SECTION 5.2 Collection of Indebtedness by Indenture Trustee; Indenture Trustee May Prove Debt. (a) Subject to Section 5.1(c), if any Event of Default contained in Section 5.1(a)(i) or (ii) shall have occurred and be continuing, the Trust will, upon demand by the Indenture Trustee, pay to the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of each Holder of the Notes the whole amount that then shall have become due and payable of the principal of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts due and owing and any other amounts payable with respect to, the Notes (with interest to the date of such payment upon the overdue principal and, to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law, on overdue interest and any other amounts payable at the same rate as the rate of interest specified in the Notes); and in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee, their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and any expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee except as a result of its negligence or bad faith. (b) Until such demand is made by the Indenture Trustee, the Trust may pay the principal of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts due and owing and any other amounts payable with respect to, the Notes to the Holders, whether or not the Notes be overdue. (c) If the Trust shall fail to pay such amounts upon such demand, the Indenture Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, shall be entitled and empowered to institute any action or proceedings at law or in equity for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute any such action or proceedings to judgment or final decree, and may enforce any such judgment or final decree against the Trust or other obligor upon the Notes and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Trust or other obligor upon the Notes, wherever the funds adjudged or decreed to be payable are situated. If there shall be pending proceedings relative to the Trust or any other obligor upon the Notes under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or if a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or 45 taken possession of the Trust or its property or such other obligor, or in case of any other comparable judicial proceedings relative to the Trust or other obligor upon the Notes, or to the creditors or property of the Trust or such other obligor, the Indenture Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of the 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 such proofs of a claim or claims 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 made, by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee, except as those adjudicated in a court of competent jurisdiction to be the result of any such Indenture Trustee's negligence or bad faith) and of the Holders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Trust or other obligor upon the Notes, or to the creditors or property of the Trust or such other obligor, (ii) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on behalf of the Holders of the Notes in any election of a trustee or a standby trustee in arrangement, reorganization, liquidation or other bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings or Person performing similar functions in comparable proceedings, and (iii) to collect and receive any funds or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute all amounts received with respect to the claims of each Holder and of the Indenture Trustee on each Holder's behalf; and any trustee, receiver, or liquidator, custodian or other similar official is hereby authorized by each Holder to make payments to the Indenture Trustee, and, in the event that the Indenture Trustee shall consent to the making of payments directly to any Holder, to pay to the Indenture Trustee such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee, 46 each predecessor Indenture Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee except as those adjudicated in a court of competent jurisdiction to be the result of any such Indenture Trustee's negligence or bad faith. (d) Nothing contained in the Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the Indenture Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan or reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Indenture Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar Person. (e) All rights of action and of asserting claims under the Indenture, or under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Indenture Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes or the production thereof on 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, disbursements and compensation of the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor Indenture Trustee and their respective agents and attorneys, shall be for the ratable benefit of each Holder. (f) In any proceedings brought by the Indenture Trustee (and also any proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of the Indenture to which the Indenture Trustee shall be a party) the Indenture Trustee shall be held to represent every Holder of the Notes, and it shall not be necessary to make any Holder of the Notes party to any such proceedings. SECTION 5.3 Application of Proceeds. (a) Any funds collected by the Indenture Trustee following an Event of Default, and during the continuance thereof, pursuant to this Article or otherwise under the Indenture and any applicable Supplemental Indenture in respect of the Notes shall be held in trust in the Collection Account and be applied in the following order at the date or dates fixed by the Indenture Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such funds on account of principal, any 47 premium and interest and any Additional Amounts, upon presentation of the Note Certificate or Note Certificates representing the Notes and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid or upon the surrender thereof if fully paid: First: To the payment of costs and expenses, including reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee and their respective agents and attorneys and of all expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee except as those adjudicated in a court of competent jurisdiction to be the result of any such Indenture Trustee's negligence or bad faith, in an aggregate amount of no more than $250,000 for all series of Secured Medium Term Notes and Allstate Life(R) CoreNotes(R) (including the Notes) issued under the Program, to the extent not paid pursuant to the Support Agreement; Second: To the payment of principal, any premium and interest, any Additional Amounts and any other amounts then due and owing on the Notes, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the aggregate principal amounts due and payable on the Notes; Third: To the payment of any other Obligations then due and owing with respect to the Notes, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind; and Fourth: To the payment of any remaining balance to the Trust for distribution by the Delaware Trustee in accordance with the provisions of the Trust Agreement. (b) All funds deposited with the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Indenture, except when an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, shall be held in trust in the Collection Account and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Notes and the Indenture, to the payment through any Paying Agent, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal, premium, if any, interest and Additional Amounts, if any, for whose payment such money has been deposited with or received by the Indenture Trustee. If no Event of Default with respect to the Notes has occurred and is continuing, the following priority of payments shall apply: First: To the payment of principal, any premium and interest, any Additional Amounts, and any other amounts then due and owing on the Notes, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the aggregate principal amounts due and payable on the Notes; 48 Second: To the payment of any other Obligations then due and owing with respect to the Notes, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind; and Third: To the payment of any remaining balance to the Trust for distribution by the Delaware Trustee in accordance with the provisions of the Trust Agreement. SECTION 5.4 Suits for Enforcement. If an Event of Default has occurred, has not been waived and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by the Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Indenture Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any of such rights, either at law or in equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement contained in the Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in the Indenture or to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Indenture Trustee by the Indenture or by law. SECTION 5.5 Restoration of Rights on Abandonment of Proceedings. If the Indenture Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under the Indenture and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or shall have been determined adversely to the Indenture Trustee, then and in every such case the Trust and the Indenture Trustee shall be restored respectively to their former positions and rights under the Indenture, and all rights, remedies and powers of the Trust, the Indenture Trustee and each Holder shall continue as though no such proceedings had been taken. SECTION 5.6 Limitations on Suits by Holders. No Holder of any Note shall have any right by virtue or by availing of any provision of the Indenture to institute any action or proceeding at law or in equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise upon or under or with respect to the Indenture, or for the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official or for any other remedy under the Indenture, unless: (i) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Indenture Trustee of a continuing Event of Default; (ii) the Holder or Holders of Notes representing not less than 25% of the aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes shall have made written request to the Indenture Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as the Indenture Trustee; (iii) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Indenture Trustee indemnity or security satisfactory to it against the 49 costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request; (iv) the Indenture Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity shall have failed to institute any such action or proceedings; and (v) no direction inconsistent with such written request shall have been given to the Indenture Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holder or Holders of Notes representing at least 66 2/3% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then Outstanding; it being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by each Holder of a Note with each other Holder of a Note and the Indenture Trustee, that no Holder or Holders of Notes shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of the Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holder of any Note, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other Holder of any Note or to enforce any right under the Indenture, except in the manner provided herein and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all the Holders of the Notes. For the protection and enforcement of the provisions of this Section, each Holder and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity. Notwithstanding any other provisions in the Indenture, however, the right of any Holder of any Note, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of (and premium, if any), and interest on, if any, and Additional Amounts with respect to, if any, such Note, on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Note, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder. SECTION 5.7 Powers and Remedies Cumulative; Delay or Omission Not Waiver of Default. (a) Except as provided in Section 2.7, no right or remedy in the Indenture conferred upon or reserved to the Indenture Trustee or to any Holder 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 under the Indenture or existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy under the Indenture, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy. 50 (b) No delay or omission of the Indenture Trustee or of any Holder of any Note to exercise any right or power accruing upon any Event of Default occurring and continuing as aforesaid shall impair any such right or power or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein; and, subject to Section 5.6, every power and remedy given by the Indenture or by law to the Indenture Trustee or to any Holder may be exercised from time to time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Indenture Trustee or by such Holder. SECTION 5.8 Control by the Holders. (a) The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding shall have the right to elect a holder representative (the "Holder Representative") who shall have binding authority upon all the Holders and shall replace any Holder Representative then acting in such capacity, and who shall direct the time, method, and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Indenture Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Indenture Trustee by the Indenture, provided that: (i) such direction shall not be otherwise than in accordance with law and the provisions of the Indenture; and (ii) subject to the provisions of Section 6.1, the Indenture Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the Indenture Trustee, being advised by counsel, shall determine that the action or proceeding so directed may not lawfully be taken or if the Indenture Trustee in good faith by its board of directors, the executive committee, or a trust committee of directors or Responsible Officers of the Indenture Trustee shall determine that the action or proceedings so directed would involve the Indenture Trustee in personal liability. (b) Nothing in the Indenture shall impair the right of the Indenture Trustee in its discretion to take any action deemed proper by the Indenture Trustee and which is not inconsistent with such direction by the Holders. SECTION 5.9 Waiver of Past Defaults. Prior to the declaration of the maturity of the Notes as provided in Section 5.1, the Holder Representative may on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes waive any past default or Event of Default under the Indenture and its consequences, except a default: 51 (i) in the payment of principal of, any premium or interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to, any of the Notes; or (ii) in respect of a covenant or provision of the Indenture which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Note. Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist and be deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, and not to have occurred for every purpose of the Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon. ARTICLE 6 THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE SECTION 6.1 Certain Duties and Responsibilities. (a) Except if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (and it has not been cured or waived), the Indenture Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties with respect to such Notes as are specifically set forth in the Indenture. No implied covenants or obligations shall be read into the Indenture against the Indenture Trustee. (b) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (and it has not been cured or waived), the Indenture Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers with respect to the Notes vested in it by the Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs. (c) No provision of the Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Indenture Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that: (i) this subsection (c) shall not be construed to limit the effect of subsection (a) of this Section; (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 52 the Indenture unless a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee has actual knowledge that such statements or opinions are false; provided that the Indenture Trustee must examine such certificates and opinions to determine whether they conform to the requirements of the Indenture; (iii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by any Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee, unless it is proved that the Indenture Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; (iv) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holder Representative relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Indenture Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Indenture Trustee, under the Indenture with respect to the Notes; and (v) no provision of the Indenture shall require the Indenture Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties under the Indenture, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such liability is not reasonably assured to it. (d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of the 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. SECTION 6.2 Certain Rights of the Indenture Trustee. Subject to Section 6.1: (a) the Indenture Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, coupon, security or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties; 53 (b) any request, direction, order or demand of the Trust mentioned in the Indenture shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Trust Certificate (unless other evidence in respect thereof be specifically prescribed in the Indenture); (c) the Indenture Trustee may consult with counsel and any advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it under the Indenture in good faith and in reliance on such advice or Opinion of Counsel; (d) the Indenture Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the trusts or powers vested in it by the Indenture at the request, order or direction of any Holder Representative pursuant to the provisions of the Indenture, unless such Holder Representative shall have offered to the Indenture Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request, order or direction; (e) whenever in the administration of the Indenture the Indenture Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking or suffering or omitting any action under the Indenture, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be specifically prescribed in the Indenture) may, in the absence of negligence or bad faith on its part, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by a Trust Certificate delivered to the Indenture Trustee; (f) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted by it in good faith and believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion, rights or powers conferred upon it by the Indenture; (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, appraisal, bond, debenture, note, coupon, security, or other paper or document unless requested in writing so to do by the Holder Representative; provided 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 the Indenture, the Indenture 54 Trustee may require reasonable indemnity against such expenses or liabilities as a condition to proceeding; the reasonable expenses of every such examination shall be paid by the Trust or, if paid by the Indenture Trustee or any predecessor trustee, shall be repaid by the Trust upon demand; and (h) the Indenture Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers under the Indenture or perform any duties under the Indenture either directly or by or through agents or attorneys not regularly in its employ and the Indenture Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any such agent or attorney appointed with due care by it under the Indenture. SECTION 6.3 Not Responsible for Recitals, Validity of the Notes or Application of the Proceeds. The recitals contained in the Indenture and in the Notes, except the Indenture Trustee's certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Trust, and the Indenture Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the same. The Indenture Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of the Indenture or of the Notes, or of any Funding Agreement, or of the Collateral. The Indenture Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Funding Agreement Provider of the proceeds of the Funding Agreement(s). SECTION 6.4 May Hold Notes; Collections, Etc. The Indenture Trustee or any agent of the Trust or the Indenture Trustee, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes with the same rights it would have if it were not the Indenture Trustee or such agent and, subject to Section 6.7, Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, and Rule 3a-7 of the Investment Company Act, may otherwise deal with the Trust, the Administrator, the Funding Agreement Provider and any other interested party, and receive, collect, hold and retain collections from the Trust with the same rights it would have if it were not the Indenture Trustee or such agent. SECTION 6.5 Funds Held By Indenture Trustee. Subject to the provisions of Section 11.4, all funds received by the Indenture Trustee shall, until used or applied as provided in the Indenture, be held in trust for the purposes for which they were received. The Indenture Trustee (and each of its agents and Affiliates) shall deposit all cash amounts received by it (or any such agents or Affiliates) that are derived from the Collateral for the benefit of the Holders of Notes in the Collection Account. Neither the Indenture Trustee nor any agent of the Trust or the Indenture Trustee shall be under any liability for interest on any funds received by it under the Indenture. SECTION 6.6 Compensation; Reimbursement; Indemnification. (a) The Trust covenants and agrees: 55 (i) to pay to the Indenture Trustee from time to time, and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to, reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it under the Indenture (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust); (ii) except as otherwise provided in the Indenture, to pay or reimburse the Indenture Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Indenture Trustee in accordance with any provision of the Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may arise from its negligence or bad faith; and (iii) to indemnify the Indenture Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the Indenture or the trusts under the Indenture and its duties under the Indenture, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against or investigating any claim of liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties under the Indenture. (b) The obligations of the Trust under this Section to compensate and indemnify the Indenture Trustee and to pay or reimburse the Indenture Trustee for expenses, disbursements and advances shall constitute additional indebtedness under the Indenture and shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture and any resignation or removal of the Indenture Trustee. SECTION 6.7 Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility. (a) There shall at all times be an Indenture Trustee under the Indenture which shall: (i) be a banking corporation or national association authorized under its laws of incorporation or formation and the laws of the jurisdiction in which it administers the Indenture and any Supplemental Indenture to exercise corporate trust powers, having an aggregate capital, 56 surplus of at least $50,000,000; provided that if such banking corporation or national association publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of its Federal, State or other governmental supervisor, then for the purposes of this Section, the aggregate capital, surplus and undivided profits of such banking corporation or national association shall be deemed to be its aggregate capital, surplus and undivided profits as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published; (ii) not be affiliated (as such term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) with the Trust or with any Person involved in the organization or operation of the Trust; and (iii) not offer or provide credit or credit enhancement to the Trust. (b) If at any time the Indenture Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.7(a) or the requirements of Section 310 of the Trust Indenture Act, the Indenture Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 6.8. SECTION 6.8 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor Trustee. (a) The Indenture Trustee may at any time resign by giving not less than 90 days' prior written notice of resignation to the Trust and to the Holders of Notes as provided in the Indenture. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Trust shall promptly cause a successor trustee to be appointed by written instrument in duplicate, executed by the Trust, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning trustee and one copy to the successor indenture trustee. If no successor trustee shall have been so appointed and have accepted appointment within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor indenture trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, appoint a successor trustee. (b) If at any time: 57 (i) the Indenture Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.7(a) or the requirements of Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act or any applicable Supplemental Indenture and shall fail to resign pursuant to Section 6.7(b) or following written request therefor by the Trust or by any such Holder pursuant to Section 6.8(c); (ii) the Indenture Trustee shall become incapable of acting with respect to the Notes, or shall be adjudged as bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver or liquidator of the Indenture Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Indenture Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation; (iii) the Indenture Trustee shall fail to comply with the obligations imposed upon it under Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to the Notes after written request therefor by the Trust or any Holder of a Note who has been a bona fide Holder of a Note for at least six months; then, in any such case, except during the existence of an Event of Default, the Trust may remove the Indenture Trustee and appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Indenture Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor trustee. (c) In addition to the right of petition given to the resigning trustee and the right of removal given to the Trust under Sections 6.8(a) and 6.8(b), respectively, any Holder who has been a Holder of Notes for at least six months may, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee or the removal of the Indenture Trustee and the appointment of a successor trustee, as the case may be. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, appoint a successor trustee or remove the Indenture Trustee and appoint a successor trustee, as the case may be. (d) The Holder Representative may at any time remove the Indenture Trustee and appoint a successor trustee by delivering to the Indenture Trustee so removed, to the successor trustee so 58 appointed and to the Trust the evidence provided for in Section 8.1 of the action in that regard taken by a Holder. (e) Any resignation or removal of the Indenture Trustee and any appointment of a successor trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 6.8 shall only become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as provided in Section 6.9. SECTION 6.9 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Trustee. (a) Every successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 6.8 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Trust and to its predecessor indenture trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor indenture trustee shall become effective and such successor indenture trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor under the Indenture, with like effect as if originally named as indenture trustee under the Indenture; but, nevertheless, on the written request of the Trust or of the successor indenture trustee, upon payment of its charges then unpaid, the indenture trustee ceasing to act shall, subject to Section 11.4, pay over to the successor indenture trustee all funds at the time held by it under the Indenture and shall execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor indenture trustee all such rights, powers, duties and obligations. Upon request of any such successor indenture trustee, the Trust shall execute any and all instruments in writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor indenture trustee all such rights and powers. Subject to the Lien created under the Indenture, any indenture trustee ceasing to act shall, nevertheless, retain a claim upon all property or funds held or collected by such indenture trustee to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.6. (b) Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Indenture Trustee as provided in this Section 6.9, the Trust shall notify each Holder of any Note and each rating agency then rating any Notes at the request of the Trust. If the acceptance of appointment is substantially contemporaneous with the resignation, then the notice called for by the preceding sentence may be combined with the notice called for by Section 6.8. If the Trust fails to make such notice within 10 days after acceptance of appointment by the successor Indenture Trustee, the successor Indenture 59 Trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the expense of the Trust. SECTION 6.10 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business of Indenture Trustee. (a) Any corporation or entity into which the Indenture Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation or entity resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Indenture Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation or entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Indenture Trustee, shall be the successor of the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture, provided that such corporation or entity shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 6.7, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties to the Indenture, anything in the Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding. (b) In case at the time such successor to the Indenture Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by the Indenture any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Indenture Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Indenture Trustee and deliver such Notes so authenticated; and, in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Indenture Trustee may authenticate such Notes either in the name of any predecessor under the Indenture or in the name of the successor Indenture Trustee; and in all such cases such certificate shall have the full force; provided, that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Indenture Trustee or to authenticate Notes in the name of any predecessor Indenture Trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation. 60 SECTION 6.11 Limitations on Rights of Indenture Trustee as Creditor. The Indenture Trustee shall comply with Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture Act. ARTICLE 7 HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND TRUST SECTION 7.1 Trust To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names And Addresses Of Holders. In accordance with Section 312(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trust shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Indenture Trustee: (a) semi-annually not later than June 30 and December 31 of the year or upon such other dates as are set forth in or pursuant to a Note Certificate or Supplemental Indenture, a list, in each case in such form as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of Holders as of the applicable date, and (b) at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Trust of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished, provided, however, that so long as the Indenture Trustee is the Registrar no such list shall be required to be furnished. SECTION 7.2 Preservation of Information; Communication to Holders. The Indenture Trustee shall comply with the obligations imposed upon it pursuant to Section 312 of the Trust Indenture Act. Every Holder of Notes, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Trust and the Indenture Trustee that neither the Trust, the Indenture Trustee, any Paying Agent or any Registrar shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes in accordance with Section 312(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, regardless of the source from which such information was derived, and that the Indenture Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under Section 312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. SECTION 7.3 Reports by Indenture Trustee. (a) Within 60 days after May 15 of each year commencing with the first May 15 following the issuance of Notes, if required by Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Indenture Trustee shall transmit, pursuant to Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, a brief report dated as of May 15 with respect to any of the events specified in Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act 61 which may have occurred since the later of the immediately preceding May 15 and the date of the Indenture. (b) The Indenture Trustee shall transmit the reports required by Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act at the time specified therein. (c) The Indenture Trustee shall comply with Section 313(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. (d) Reports pursuant to this Section shall be transmitted in the manner and to the Persons required by Sections 313(c) and 313(d) of the Trust Indenture Act. (e) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the Indenture Trustee with each stock exchange upon which the Notes are listed, with the Commission and the Trust. The Trust will notify the Indenture Trustee whether the Notes are listed on any stock exchange. (f) Within ten days following any distribution made or scheduled to be made on the Notes, including any Interest Payment Date or the Maturity Date, and only to the extent the Trust is required to file reports under the Exchange Act, the Indenture Trustee will deliver to the Funding Agreement Provider and the Holders a report substantially in the form attached as Exhibit C. SECTION 7.4 Reports and Opinions by Trust. Pursuant to Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trust shall: (a) file, or cause to be filed, with the Indenture Trustee, within 15 days after the Trust or Global Funding is required to file the same with the Commission and to the extent available to the Trust, 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 rules and regulations prescribe) which the Trust or Global Funding may be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act; or, if the Trust is not required to file information, documents or reports pursuant to either of said Sections, then it shall file, or cause to be filed, with the Indenture Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such of the supplementary and periodic information, documents 62 and reports which may be required pursuant to Section 13 of the Exchange Act in respect of a security listed and registered on a national securities exchange as may be prescribed form time to time in such rules and regulations; provided that if, pursuant to any publicly available interpretations of the Commission, the Trust or Global Funding would not be required to make such filings under Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, then the Trust or Global Funding shall not be required to make such filings; (b) file, or cause to be filed on its behalf, with the Indenture Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such additional information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by the Trust, with the conditions and covenants of the Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules and regulations; and (c) transmit within 30 days after the filing thereof with the Indenture Trustee, in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, such summaries of any information, documents and reports required to be filed by or on behalf of the Trust pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Section as may be required by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission. (d) The Trust shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee: (i) promptly after the execution and delivery of the Indenture, an Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, the Indenture has been properly recorded, registered and filed to the extent necessary to make effective the Security Interest intended to be created by the Indenture, and reciting the details of such action or referring to prior Opinions of Counsel in which such details are given, or stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no such action is necessary to make the Security Interest effective; and (ii) at least annually, an Opinion of Counsel, dated as of such date, either stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, such action has been taken with respect to the recording, filing, re-recording and re-filing of the Indenture, as is necessary to maintain the Security Interest of the Indenture and reciting the details of such action or 63 referring to prior Opinions of Counsel in which such details are given, or stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no such action is necessary to maintain the Security Interest. SECTION 7.5 Reports on Assessment of Compliance with Servicing Criteria and Compliance Statements; Attestation Reports of Registered Public Accounting Firm. In connection with the filing of any Annual Report on Form 10-K of the Trust filed under the Exchange Act (each, an "Annual Report"), each of the Indenture Trustee and each Paying Agent (unless the Indenture Trustee is the only Paying Agent) shall (a) provide to the Funding Agreement Provider, the Trust and Global Funding (i) a report required pursuant to Item 1122(a) of Regulation AB (17 CFR 229.1100 - 1123)("Regulation AB") on an assessment of compliance with the servicing criteria set forth in Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB (each a "Compliance Report") and (ii) a statement of compliance required pursuant to Item 1123 of Regulation AB, each of which shall be dated the date of, and shall be filed as an exhibit to, the applicable Annual Report; and (b) cause, at the expense of the Funding Agreement Provider, a registered public accounting firm to provide to the Funding Agreement Provider, the Trust and Global Funding an attestation report on the applicable Compliance Report as required pursuant to Item 1122(b) of Regulation AB, which shall be dated the date of, and shall be filed as an exhibit to, the applicable Annual Report. ARTICLE 8 CONCERNING EACH HOLDER SECTION 8.1 Evidence of Action Taken by a Holder. (a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by the Indenture to be given or taken by any Holder may be embodied in and evidenced (i) by any instrument or any number of instruments of similar tenor executed by Holders in person or by agent or proxy appointed in writing, or (ii) by the record of the Holders of Notes voting in favor thereof at any meeting of Holders duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article 12, or (iii) by a combination of such instrument or instruments and any such record of such meeting of Holders. Except as otherwise expressly provided in the Indenture, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Indenture Trustee. Proof of execution of any instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of the Indenture and (subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2) conclusive in favor of the Indenture Trustee and the Trust, if made in the manner provided in this Article. The record of any 64 meeting of Holders of Notes shall be proved in the manner provided in Section 12.6. (b) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action of the Holder of any Note shall bind every future Holder of the same Note and the Holder of every Note issued upon the registration of transfer 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 Trust in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon the applicable Note Certificate. SECTION 8.2 Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of Notes. (a) Subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, the execution of any instrument by a Holder or its agent or proxy may be proved in accordance with such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Indenture Trustee or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee. (b) The ownership, principal amount and CUSIP numbers of Notes shall be proved by the Note Register or by a certificate of the Indenture Trustee. SECTION 8.3 Voting Record Date. The Trust may set a record date for purposes of determining the identity of each Holder of a Note entitled to vote or consent to any action referred to in Section 8.1, which record date may be set at any time or from time to time by notice to the Indenture Trustee, for any date or dates (in the case of any adjournment or resolicitation) not more than 60 days nor less than 5 days prior to the proposed date of such vote or consent, and thereafter, notwithstanding any other provisions of the Indenture, only a Holder of any Note on such record date shall be entitled to so vote or give such consent or to withdraw such vote or consent. SECTION 8.4 Persons Deemed to be Owners. The Trust, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Trust or the Indenture Trustee may deem and treat the Holder of any Note of as the absolute owner of such Note (whether or not such Note shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing on the applicable Note Certificate) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal of, any premium on, and, subject to the provisions of the Indenture, any interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to, such Note and for all other purposes; and neither the Trust nor the Indenture Trustee nor any agent of the Trust or the Indenture Trustee shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. All such payments so made to any such Person, or upon such Person's order, shall be valid, and, to the extent of the sum or sums so paid, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for funds payable upon any such Note. 65 SECTION 8.5 Notes Owned by Trust Deemed Not Outstanding. In determining whether the Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of Notes have concurred in any direction, consent or waiver under the Indenture, Notes which are owned by the Trust or any other obligor on the Notes or by any Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Trust or any other obligor on the Notes shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding for the purpose of any such determination, except that for the purpose of determining whether the Indenture Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, consent or waiver only Notes which the Indenture Trustee knows are so owned shall be so disregarded. Notes so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Indenture Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Notes and that the pledgee is not the Trust or any other obligor upon the Notes or any Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Trust or any other obligor on the Notes. In case of a dispute as to such right, the advice of counsel shall be full protection in respect of any decision made by the Indenture Trustee in accordance with such advice. Upon request of the Indenture Trustee, the Trust shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee promptly a Trust Certificate listing and identifying all Notes, if any, known by the Trust to be owned or held by or for the account of any of the above-described Persons; and, subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to accept such Trust Certificate as conclusive evidence of the facts therein set forth and of the fact that all Notes not listed therein are Outstanding for the purpose of any such determination. SECTION 8.6 Right of Revocation of Action Taken; Binding Effect of Actions by Holders. (a) At any time prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Indenture Trustee, as provided in Section 8.1, of the taking of any action by the Holders of the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Notes specified in the Indenture in connection with such action, any Holder of a Note represented by a Note Certificate the serial number of which is shown by the evidence to be included among the serial numbers of the Note Certificates representing Notes the Holders of which have consented to such action may, by filing written notice at the Corporate Trust Office and upon proof of holding as provided in this Article, revoke such action so far as concerns such Note. (b) Any action taken by the Holders of the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Notes specified in the Indenture in connection with such action shall be conclusively binding upon the Trust, the Indenture Trustee and all present and future Holders of the Notes, irrespective of whether or not any notation 66 in regard of any such action is made on any applicable Note Certificate. ARTICLE 9 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES SECTION 9.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders. (a) The Trust and the Indenture Trustee may from time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental to the Indenture (each, a "Supplemental Indenture") (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act) for one or more of the following purposes without the consent of any Holder: (i) for the Trust to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge to the Indenture Trustee as security for the Notes any property or assets; (ii) to add to the covenants of the Trust such further covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions as the Trust and the Indenture Trustee shall consider to be for the protection of each Holder of any Note, and to make the occurrence, or the occurrence and continuance, of a default in any such additional covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions an Event of Default permitting the enforcement of all or any of the several remedies provided in the Indenture as set forth in the Indenture; provided, that in respect of any such additional covenant, restriction, condition or provision such Supplemental Indenture may provide for a particular period of grace after default (which period may be shorter or longer than that allowed in the case of other defaults) or may provide for an immediate enforcement upon such an Event of Default or may limit the remedies available to the Indenture Trustee upon such an Event of Default or may limit the right of the Holder Representative to waive such an Event of Default; (iii) to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provision contained in the Indenture or in any Supplemental Indenture or Note Certificate which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision contained in the Indenture or in any Supplemental Indenture or Note Certificate; or to make such other 67 provisions in regard to matters or questions arising under the Indenture or under any Supplemental Indenture or Note Certificate which shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Notes in any material respect; or (iv) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment under the Indenture by a successor trustee and to add to or change any of the provisions of the Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts under the Indenture by more than one trustee. (b) The Indenture Trustee is authorized to join with the Trust in the execution of any such Supplemental Indenture, and to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations which may be therein contained, but the Indenture Trustee shall not be obligated to enter into any such Supplemental Indenture which affects the Indenture Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under the Indenture or otherwise. (c) Any Supplemental Indenture authorized by the provisions of this Section may be executed without the consent of any Holder of any Note at the time Outstanding, notwithstanding any of the provisions of Section 9.2. SECTION 9.2 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders. (a) With the consent (evidenced as provided in Article 8) of the Holders of not less than 66 2/3% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding, the Trust and the Indenture Trustee may, from time to time and at any time, enter into a Supplemental Indenture for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of the Indenture or of any Supplemental Indenture or Note Certificate or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Notes; provided, that no such Supplemental Indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Note so affected: (i) change the final maturity of any Note, or reduce the principal amount thereof, or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of interest or any other amount payable thereon, or impair or affect the right of any Holder to institute suit for the payment thereof or modify any 68 redemption or repayment provisions applicable to the Notes; (ii) permit the creation of any Lien on the Collateral or any part thereof (other than the Security Interest) or terminate the Security Interest as to any part of the Collateral, except as permitted by the Indenture; or (iii) modify any of the provisions of this Section 9.2 except to increase the aforementioned percentage of Notes required to approve any Supplemental Indenture. (b) Upon the request of the Trust, and upon the filing with the Indenture Trustee of evidence of the consent of each Holder and other documents, if any, required by Section 8.1 the Indenture Trustee shall join with the Trust in the execution of such Supplemental Indenture unless such Supplemental Indenture affects the Indenture Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under the Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Indenture Trustee may in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such Supplemental Indenture. (c) It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed Supplemental Indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. (d) Promptly after the execution by the Trust and the Indenture Trustee of any Supplemental Indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Section, the Indenture Trustee shall notify the Holders of each Note, as provided in the Indenture, setting forth in general terms the substance of such Supplemental Indenture. Any failure of the Indenture Trustee to provide such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such Supplemental Indenture. SECTION 9.3 Compliance with Trust Indenture Act; Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Any Supplemental Indenture executed pursuant to the provisions of this Article shall comply with the Trust Indenture Act. Upon the execution of any Supplemental Indenture pursuant to the provisions of the Indenture, the Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith and the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities under the Indenture of the Indenture Trustee, the Trust, each agent of the Trust and each Holder of Notes shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced under the Indenture subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments, and all 69 the terms and conditions of any such Supplemental Indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of the Indenture for any and all purposes. SECTION 9.4 Documents to Be Given to Indenture Trustee. The Indenture Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 6.1 and 6.2, may receive a Trust Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any such Supplemental Indenture complies with the applicable provisions of the Indenture. SECTION 9.5 Notation on Note Certificates in Respect of Supplemental Indentures. Any Note Certificate authenticated and delivered after the execution of any Supplemental Indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article may bear a notation in form approved by the Indenture Trustee as to any matter provided for by such Supplemental Indenture or as to any action taken at any such meeting. If the Trust or the Indenture Trustee shall so determine, a new Note Certificate representing Notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Indenture Trustee and the Trust, to any modification of the Indenture contained in any such Supplemental Indenture may be prepared by the Trust, authenticated by the Indenture Trustee and delivered in exchange for each Note Certificate representing Notes then Outstanding. SECTION 9.6 Amendment to Funding Agreements. (a) The Trust and the Indenture Trustee may from time to time and at any time enter into or consent to one or more amendments to any Funding Agreement for one or more of the following purposes without the consent of any Holder: to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provision contained in such Funding Agreement which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision contained in such Funding Agreement, or with any provision of the Indenture, the Notes, the Funding Note, the Distribution Agreement, the Trust Agreement, the Administrative Services Agreement, the Coordination Agreement, the Name Licensing Agreement, the Support Agreement, the Terms Agreement or the Pricing Supplement, or to make such other provisions in regard to matters or questions arising under such Funding Agreement or the Indenture which shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Notes in any material respect. (b) With the consent (evidenced as provided in Article 8) of the Holders of not less than 66 2/3% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding, the Trust and the Indenture Trustee may, from time to time and at any time, enter into or consent to one or more amendments to any Funding Agreement for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of such Funding 70 Agreement; provided, that no such amendment shall change the Maturity Date (as defined in such Funding Agreement) of such Funding Agreement, or reduce the principal amount thereof, or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of interest or any other amount payable thereon, or impair or affect the right of the Indenture Trustee or the Trust to institute suit for the payment thereof or modify any redemption or repayment provisions applicable to such Funding Agreement without the consent of the Holder of each Note affected thereby. (c) The Indenture Trustee may receive and conclusively rely upon an Opinion of Counsel stating whether or not any Notes would be affected by any amendment of a Funding Agreement and any such Opinion of Counsel shall be conclusive upon all the Holders of the Notes. (d) Notwithstanding any other provision, the Trust and the Indenture Trustee will not enter into or consent to any amendment to any Funding Agreement with the Funding Agreement Provider or permit any Funding Agreement to be amended or modified if such amendment or modification would cause the Trust not to be ignored or treated as a "grantor trust" for United States federal income tax purposes (as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel). Furthermore, the Trust and the Indenture Trustee will not enter into or consent to any agreement or take any action which would cause the Trust to become required to be registered as an "investment company", or come under the "control" of an "investment company," as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act. (e) The Indenture Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 6.1 and 6.2, may receive an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any such amendment to a Funding Agreement complies with the requirements of Section 9.6(a) or (b), as applicable, and any such Opinion of Counsel shall be conclusive on the Holders of the Notes. (f) It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment to a Funding Agreement, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. 71 ARTICLE 10 CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE SECTION 10.1 Trust May Merge, Consolidate, Sell Or Convey Property Under Certain Circumstances. The Trust may not consolidate with, or merge into, any entity (whether or not affiliated with the Trust), or sell, lease or convey the property of the Trust as an entirety or substantially as an entirety, unless: (a) the entity formed by such consolidation or into which the Trust is merged or the entity which acquires by conveyance or transfer the properties and assets of the Trust substantially as an entirety shall be a statutory trust formed under the laws of the State of Delaware or a corporation or other entity 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 a Supplemental Indenture, executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to, the Notes and the performance of every covenant of the Indenture on the part of the Trust to be performed or observed; (b) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have happened and be continuing; (c) the Trust has received written confirmation from any rating agency then rating any Notes at the request of the Trust that such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer shall not cause the rating on the then Outstanding Notes to be downgraded or withdrawn; and (d) the Trust has delivered to the Indenture Trustee a Trust Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer and such Supplemental Indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent provided for in the Indenture relating to such transaction have been complied with. ARTICLE 11 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; UNCLAIMED FUNDS SECTION 11.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. If at any time (a) the Trust shall have paid or caused to be paid all outstanding principal of, any premium 72 and interest on, and any Additional Amounts and other amounts payable with respect to, all the Notes Outstanding under the Indenture, as and when the same shall have become due and payable, or (b) the Trust shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation all Note Certificates representing Notes theretofore authenticated (other than any Note Certificate which shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.7) or (c) the Trust shall have irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Indenture Trustee as trust funds the entire amount in cash (other than funds repaid by the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent to the Trust in accordance with Section 11.4) sufficient to pay at maturity all amounts payable at maturity on the Notes represented by each Note Certificate not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation, including any outstanding principal, interest, premium, Additional Amounts and other amounts due or to become due to such date of maturity as the case may be, and if, in any such case, the Trust shall also pay or cause to be paid all other sums payable under the Indenture by the Trust, then the Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to (i) rights of registration of transfer and exchange, (ii) substitution of apparently mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Note Certificates, (iii) rights of Holders to receive payments of principal of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts and other amounts payable with respect to, the Notes, (iv) the rights, obligations and immunities of the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture and (v) the rights of each Holder as beneficiary of the Indenture 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 Trust accompanied by a Trust Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel and at the cost and expense of the Trust, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging such satisfaction of and discharging the Indenture. The Trust agrees to reimburse the Indenture Trustee for any costs or expenses thereafter reasonably and properly incurred and to compensate the Indenture Trustee for any services thereafter reasonably and properly rendered by the Indenture Trustee in connection with the Indenture or the Notes. SECTION 11.2 Application by Indenture Trustee of Funds Deposited for Payment of Notes. Subject to Section 11.4, all funds deposited with the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 11.1 shall be held in trust in the Collection Account in accordance with Section 6.5 and applied by it to the payment, either directly, in its capacity as the Paying Agent, or through any other Paying Agent, to each Holder of any Note for the payment or redemption of which such funds have been deposited with the Indenture Trustee, of all sums due and to become due thereon for any principal, interest, premium, Additional Amounts or other amounts. SECTION 11.3 Repayment of Funds Held by Paying Agent. In connection with the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture, all funds then held by any Paying Agent under the provisions of the Indenture shall, upon demand of the Trust, be repaid to the Trust or paid to the Indenture Trustee and thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such funds. 73 SECTION 11.4 Return of Funds Held by Indenture Trustee and Paying Agent. Any funds deposited with or paid to the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent for the payment of the principal of, any interest or premium on, or any Additional Amounts or any other amounts with respect to, any Note and not applied but remaining unclaimed for three years after the date upon which such principal, interest, premium, Additional Amounts or any other amount shall have become due and payable, shall, upon the written request of the Trust and unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property law, be repaid to the Trust by the Indenture Trustee or such Paying Agent, and the Holder of such Note shall, unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property laws, thereafter look only to the Trust for any payment which such Holder may be entitled to collect, and all liability of the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent with respect to such funds shall thereupon cease. ARTICLE 12 MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF NOTES SECTION 12.1 Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called. A meeting of Holders of Notes may be called at any time and from time to time pursuant to this Article to make, give or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by the Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders of Notes. SECTION 12.2 Call, Notice and Place of Meetings. (a) Unless otherwise provided in a Note Certificate, the Indenture Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders of Notes for any purpose specified in Section 12.1, to be held at such time and at such place in the City of New York or the city in which the Corporate Trust Office is located. Notice of every meeting of Holders of Notes, setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and in general terms the action proposed to be taken at such meeting, shall be given in the manner provided in Section 13.4, not less than 21 nor more than 180 days prior to the date fixed for the meeting. (b) In case at any time the Trust or the Holder or Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the Notes shall have requested the Indenture Trustee to call a meeting of the Holders of Notes for any purpose specified in Section 12.1, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the Indenture Trustee shall not have made the first publication or mailing of the notice of such meeting within 21 days after receipt of such request or shall not thereafter proceed to cause the meeting to be held as provided in the Indenture, then 74 the Trust or the Holder or Holders of Notes in the amount above specified, as the case may be, may determine the time and the place in the City of New York or the city in which the Corporate Trust Office is located for such meeting and may call such meeting for such purposes by giving notice thereof as provided in Section 12.2. SECTION 12.3 Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings. To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders of Notes, a Person shall be (a) a Holder of one or more Notes then Outstanding, or (b) a Person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy for a Holder or Holders of one or more Notes then Outstanding by such Holder or Holders. The only Persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak at any meeting of Holders of Notes shall be the Persons entitled to vote at such meeting and their counsel, any representatives of the Indenture Trustee and its counsel and any representatives of the Trust and its counsel. SECTION 12.4 Quorum; Action. (a) The Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Notes then Outstanding shall constitute a quorum for a meeting of Holders of Notes; provided, however, that if any action is to be taken at such meeting with respect to a consent or waiver which the Indenture expressly provides may be given by the Holders of not less than 66 2/3% in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes, then Persons entitled to vote 66-% in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes shall constitute a quorum. In the absence of a quorum within 30 minutes after the time appointed for any such meeting, the meeting shall, if convened at the request of Holders of Notes, be dissolved. In any other case the meeting may be adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such meeting. In the absence of a quorum at any such adjourned meeting, such adjourned meeting may be further adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such adjourned meeting. Notice of the reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall be given as provided in Section 12.2, except that such notice need be given only once not less than five days prior to the date on which the meeting is scheduled to be reconvened. Notice of the reconvening of an adjourned meeting shall state expressly the percentage, as provided above, of the principal amount of the Outstanding Notes which shall constitute a quorum. 75 (b) Except as limited by the proviso to Section 9.2(a), any resolution presented to a meeting or adjourned meeting duly reconvened at which a quorum is present as aforesaid may be adopted only by the affirmative vote of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes; provided, however, that, except as limited by the proviso to Section 9.2(a), any resolution with respect to any consent or waiver which the Indenture expressly provides may be given by the Holders of not less than 66-% in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes may be adopted at a meeting or an adjourned meeting duly convened and at which a quorum is present as aforesaid only by the affirmative vote of the Holders of 66 2/3% in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes; and provided, further, that, except as limited by the proviso to Section 9.2(a), any resolution with respect to any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action which the Indenture expressly provides may be made, given or taken by the Holders of a specified percentage, which is less than a majority, in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes may be adopted at a meeting or an adjourned meeting duly reconvened and at which a quorum is present as aforesaid by the affirmative vote of the Holders of such specified percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes. (c) Any resolution passed or decision taken at any meeting of Holders of Notes duly held in accordance with this Section shall be binding on all the Holders of Notes, whether or not such Holders were present or represented at the meeting. SECTION 12.5 Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct of Adjournment of Meetings. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Indenture, the Indenture Trustee may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of Holders of Notes in regard to proof of the holding of Notes and of the appointment of proxies and in regard to the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall deem appropriate. Except as otherwise permitted or required by any such regulations, the holding of Notes shall be proved in the manner specified in Section 8.4 and the appointment of any proxy shall be proved in the manner specified in Section 8.2. Such regulations may provide that written instruments appointing 76 proxies, regular on their face, may be presumed valid and genuine without the proof specified in Section 8.2 or other proof. (b) The Indenture Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the Trust or by Holders of Notes as provided in Section 12.2(b), in which case the Trust or the Holders of Notes calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like manner appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by vote of the Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes represented at the meeting. (c) At any meeting, each Holder of a Note or proxy shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 of principal amount of Notes held or represented by such Holder or proxy; provided, however, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any Note challenged as not Outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not Outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote, except as a Holder of a Note or proxy. (d) Any meeting of Holders of Notes duly called pursuant to Section 12.2 at which a quorum is present may be adjourned from time to time by Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes represented at the meeting; and the meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice. SECTION 12.6 Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings. The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders of Notes shall be (a) by written ballots on which shall be subscribed the signatures of the Holders of Notes or of their representatives by proxy and the principal amounts and serial numbers of the Outstanding Notes held or represented by them or (b) by such other procedures adopted by the Indenture Trustee in its discretion. The permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make and file with the secretary of the meeting their verified written reports in triplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A record, at least in triplicate, of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders of Notes shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more persons having knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and showing that said notice was given as provided in Section 12.2 and, if applicable, Section 12.4. Each copy shall be signed and verified by the affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one such copy shall be delivered to the Trust, and another to the Indenture Trustee to be preserved by the Indenture Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted at the meeting. 77 Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated. ARTICLE 13 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS SECTION 13.1 No Recourse. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Indenture, or any relevant Note Certificate or Supplemental Indenture, none of the Funding Agreement Provider, its officers, directors, affiliates, employees or agents, or any of the Delaware Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Trust Beneficial Owner, or any of their officers, directors, affiliates, employees or agents (the "Nonrecourse Parties") will be personally liable for the payment of any principal, interest or any other sums at any time owing under the terms of the Notes. If any Event of Default shall occur with respect to the Notes, the right of the Holders of the Notes and the Indenture Trustee on behalf of such Holders in connection with a claim on the Notes shall be limited solely to a proceeding against the Collateral. Neither the Holders nor the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Holders will have the right to proceed against the Nonrecourse Parties to enforce the Notes (except that to the extent they exercise their rights, if any, to seize the relevant Funding Agreement(s), they may enforce the relevant Funding Agreement(s) against the Funding Agreement Provider) or for any deficiency judgment remaining after foreclosure of any property included in the relevant Collateral. It is expressly understood and agreed that nothing contained in this Section shall in any manner or way constitute or be deemed a release of the debt or other obligations evidenced by the Notes or otherwise affect or impair the enforceability against the Trust of the liens, assignments, rights and the Security Interest created by or pursuant to the Indenture, the relevant Collateral or any other instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating to the indebtedness or the obligations evidenced by the Notes. Nothing in this Section shall preclude the Holders from foreclosing upon any property included in the Collateral or any other rights or remedies in law or in equity against the Trust. SECTION 13.2 Provisions of Indenture for the Sole Benefit of Parties and Holders. Nothing in the Indenture or in the Notes, expressed or implied, shall give or be construed to give to any Person, other than the parties to the Indenture and their successors and the Holders of the Notes, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under the Indenture or under any covenant or provision contained in the Indenture, all such covenants and provisions being for the sole benefit of the parties to the Indenture and their successors and of the Holders of the Notes. SECTION 13.3 Successors and Assigns of Trust Bound by Indenture. All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements in the Indenture contained by or in behalf of the Trust shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. 78 SECTION 13.4 Notices and Demands on Trust, Indenture Trustee and any Holder. (a) Except as otherwise provided by this Section, any notice or demand which by any provision of the Indenture is required or permitted to be given or served by the Indenture Trustee or by any Holder of any Note to or on the Trust may be given or served by being deposited postage prepaid, first-class mail (except as otherwise specifically provided in the Indenture) addressed (until another address of the Trust is filed by the Trust with the Indenture Trustee) to the Delaware Trustee. Any notice, direction, request or demand by the Trust or any Holder to or upon the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, if given or made at the Corporate Trust Office. (b) Where the Indenture provides for notice to any Holder, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise expressly provided in the Indenture) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder entitled thereto, at such Holder's last address as it appears in the Note Register. In any case where notice to any Holder is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to any other Holder. (c) Where the Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the 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 any Holder 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 waiver. (d) If, by reason of the suspension of or irregularities in regular mail service, it shall be impracticable to mail notice to the Trust and each Holder when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of the 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. (e) The Trust shall deliver promptly to each rating agency then rating the Notes copies of each of the following: (i) any repurchase of Notes pursuant to Section 3.3; 79 (ii) any notice of any default or Event of Default; (iii) any notice of redemption provided by the Trust pursuant to Section 3.1(d); (iv) any notice of change in name, identity, organizational structure, chief executive office, or chief place of business of the Trust provided by the Trust pursuant to Section 14.4(a); (v) any Supplemental Indenture; (vi) any resignation, removal or appointment under this Indenture; (vii) any amendment to any Funding Agreement; and (viii) any other information reasonably requested by such rating agency. Any such notice shall be addressed to: Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 55 Water Street New York, NY 10041 Attention: Capital Markets Facsimile: (212) 438-5215 Moody's Investors Service Inc. 99 Church Street New York, NY 10007 Attention: Life Insurance Group Facsimile: (212) 553-4805 or such other address previously furnished in writing to the Trust by the applicable rating agency. SECTION 13.5 Trust Certificates and Opinions of Counsel; Statements to be Contained Therein. (a) Except as otherwise expressly provided in the Indenture, upon any application or demand by the Trust to the Indenture Trustee to take any action under any of the provisions of the Indenture, the Trust shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee a Trust Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in the 80 Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of the applicable counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that in the case of any such application or demand as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of the Indenture relating to such particular application or demand, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished. (b) Each certificate or opinion provided for in the Indenture and delivered to the Indenture Trustee with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in the Indenture shall include: (i) a statement that the Person making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition; (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 such Person, he has made such examination or investigation or has received such certificates, opinions, representations or statements of counsel or accountants pursuant to paragraphs (c) or (d) of this Section, as are necessary to enable him 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 or not, in the opinion of such Person, such condition or covenant has been complied with. (c) Any certificate, statement or opinion of the Trust may be based upon a certificate or opinion of or representations by counsel, unless the Trust knows that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his certificate, statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know that the same are erroneous. Any certificate, statement or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters information with respect to which is in the possession of the Trust, upon the certificate, statement or opinion of or representations by the Trust, unless such counsel knows that the 81 certificate, statement or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which the certificate, statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know that the same are erroneous. (d) Any certificate, statement or opinion of the Trust or of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to accounting matters, upon a certificate or opinion of or representations by an accountant or firm of accountants in the employ of the Trust, unless such officer or counsel, as the case may be, knows that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the accounting matters upon which the certificate, statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know that the same are erroneous. (e) Any certificate or opinion of any independent firm of public accountants filed with the Indenture Trustee shall contain a statement that such firm is independent. SECTION 13.6 Governing Law. Pursuant to Section 5-1401 of the General Obligations Law of the State of New York, the Indenture and the Notes shall (unless specified otherwise in the Note Certificate) be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, except as required by mandatory provisions of law and except to the extent that the validity or perfection of the Trust's ownership of and security interest in the Funding Agreement(s) or remedies under the Indenture in respect thereof may be governed by the laws of a jurisdiction other than the State of New York. All judicial proceedings brought against the Trust or the Indenture Trustee arising out of or relating to the Indenture, any Note or any portion of the Collateral or other assets of the Trust may be brought in any state or Federal court in the State of New York, provided that a Note Certificate may specify other jurisdictions as to which the Trust may consent to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of its courts with respect to the Notes. SECTION 13.7 Counterparts. The Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original; but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. SECTION 13.8 Trust Indenture Act to Control. If and to the extent that any provision of the Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with any duties under any required provision of the Trust Indenture Act imposed on the Indenture by Section 318(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, such provision of the Trust Indenture Act shall control. SECTION 13.9 Judgment Currency. The Trust will indemnify the Holder of any Note against any loss incurred as a result of any judgment or order being given 82 or made for any amount due under such Note and that judgment or order requiring payment in a currency (the "Judgment Currency") other than the Specified Currency, and as a result of any variation between: (a) the rate of exchange at which the Specified Currency amount is converted into the Judgment Currency for the purpose of that judgment or order; and (b) the rate of exchange at which the Holder, on the date of payment of that judgment or order, is able to purchase the Specified Currency with the amount of the Judgment Currency actually received. ARTICLE 14 SECURITY INTEREST SECTION 14.1 Security Interest. (a) To secure the full and punctual payment of the Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and to secure the performance of the Trust's obligations under the Notes and the Indenture, the Trust pledges and collaterally assigns to and with the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of each Holder of each Note and any other Person for whose benefit the Indenture Trustee is or will be holding the Collateral (the "Secured Parties"), and grants to the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of each Secured Party, a security interest in the Collateral, and all of the rights and privileges of the Trust in and to the Collateral (the "Security Interest"), effective as of the Original Issue Date of the Notes. (b) It is expressly agreed that anything therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trust shall remain liable under each Funding Agreement to perform all the obligations assumed by it thereunder, all in accordance with and pursuant to the terms and provisions thereof, and the Indenture Trustee shall not have any obligations or liabilities by reason of or arising out of the Indenture, nor shall the Indenture Trustee be required or obligated in any manner to perform or fulfill any obligations of the Trust under or pursuant to such Funding Agreement or to make any payment, to make any inquiry as to the nature or sufficiency of any payment received by it, or, prior to the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default, to present or file any claim, or to take any action to collect or enforce the payment of any amounts that may have been assigned to it or to which it may be entitled at any time or times. 83 (c) The Indenture Trustee acknowledges the grant of the Security Interest upon the issuance of the Notes, accepts the trusts under the Indenture in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and agrees to perform its duties in the Indenture to the end that the interests of each Secured Party may be adequately and effectively protected. SECTION 14.2 Representations and Warranties. The Trust represents and warrants as of the date of the Indenture as follows: (a) The Trust owns each Funding Agreement that secures the Obligations and all of the rest of the Collateral, free and clear of any Liens other than the Security Interest in the Collateral. (b) The Trust has not performed any acts which might prevent the Indenture Trustee from enforcing any of the terms of the Indenture or which would limit the Indenture Trustee in any such enforcement. Other than financing statements or other similar or equivalent documents or instruments with respect to the Security Interest, no financing statement, mortgage, security agreement or similar or equivalent document or instrument covering all or any part of the Collateral is on file or of record in any jurisdiction in which such filing or recording would be effective to perfect a Lien on such Collateral. No Collateral is in the possession of any Person (other than the Trust or its agent) asserting any claim thereto or security interest therein, except that the Indenture Trustee or its designee may have possession of Collateral as contemplated by the Indenture. (c) Each Security Interest constitutes a valid security interest securing the Obligations. When (i) the financing statements shall have been filed in the appropriate offices in Illinois, Delaware and New York, (ii) the Indenture Trustee or its agent shall have taken possession of each applicable Funding Agreement, (iii) the Trust shall have pledged and collaterally assigned each applicable Funding Agreement to the Indenture Trustee and given written notice to the Funding Agreement Provider of each such assignment to the Indenture Trustee and (iv) the Funding Agreement Provider shall have given its express written consent to such pledge and collateral assignment and affirmed in writing that the Funding Agreement Provider has changed its books and records to reflect such pledge and collateral assignment to the Indenture Trustee, such Security Interest shall constitute a first priority perfected security interest in the Collateral, enforceable 84 against the Trust, the Trust's creditors and any purchaser from the Trust. SECTION 14.3 Additional Representations and Warranties. The Trust represents and warrants as of the date of the Indenture that: (a) to the extent the creation of a security interest in any Funding Agreement is governed by the applicable UCC, the Indenture creates a valid security interest (as defined in the applicable UCC) in each Funding Agreement in favor of the Indenture Trustee for the benefit and security of the Secured Parties, which security interest is prior to all other Liens; (b) to the extent the UCC applies, each Funding Agreement consists of "general intangibles," "payment intangibles" and/or "instruments" within the meaning of the applicable UCC; (c) subject to the grant of security interest, pledge and collateral assignment of the Trust's estate, right, title and interest in each Funding Agreement, the Trust is a party to and is the Person entitled to payment under each Funding Agreement on the date of the Indenture free and clear of any Lien, claim or encumbrance of any Person, other then the Lien created under the Indenture or any Lien otherwise permitted under the Indenture; (d) to the extent the UCC applies, the Trust has caused or will have caused, within ten days after the 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 each Funding Agreement granted to the Indenture Trustee for the benefit and security of the Secured Parties under the Indenture; (e) all original executed copies of each instrument that constitutes or evidences each Funding Agreement have been delivered to the Indenture Trustee or a custodian for the Indenture Trustee (the "Custodian"); (f) where all original executed copies of each instrument that constitutes or evidences each Funding Agreement have been delivered to the Custodian, the Trust has received a written acknowledgment from the Custodian that the Custodian is holding the instruments that constitute or evidence each Funding Agreement solely on behalf of the Indenture Trustee; 85 (g) other than the security interest granted to the Indenture Trustee for the benefit and security of the Secured Parties pursuant to the Indenture, the Trust has not pledged, assigned, sold, granted a security interest in, or otherwise conveyed any of the Funding Agreements; (h) the Trust has not authorized the filing of and is not aware of any financing statements against the Trust that include a description of collateral covering the Funding Agreement other than any financing statement relating to the security interest granted to the Indenture Trustee for the benefit and security of the Secured Parties under the Indenture or that has been terminated; (i) the Trust is not aware of any judgment or tax lien filings against the Trust; and (j) none of the instruments that constitute or evidence the Funding Agreements has any marks or notations indicating that they have been pledged, assigned or otherwise conveyed to any Person other than the Indenture Trustee for the benefit and security of the Secured Parties. The foregoing representations and warranties shall survive the execution and delivery of the Notes. No party to the Indenture shall waive any of the foregoing representations and warranties. Subject to Section 14.9, The Trust shall maintain the perfection and priority of the security interest in each Funding Agreement. SECTION 14.4 Further Assurances; Covenants. (a) The Trust will not change its name, identity or organizational structure in any manner unless it shall have given the Indenture Trustee at least 30 days' prior notice thereof. The Trust will not change the location of its chief executive office or chief place of business unless it shall have given the Indenture Trustee at least 30 days' prior notice thereof. (b) The Trust will, from time to time and upon advice of counsel, at the Trust's expense, execute, deliver, file and record any statement, assignment, instrument, document, agreement or other paper and take any other action, (including, without limitation, any filings of financing or continuation statements) that from time to time may be necessary or desirable, or that the Indenture Trustee may reasonably request, in order to create, preserve, perfect, confirm or validate a Security Interest or to enable the Holders of Notes to obtain the full benefits of the Indenture, or to 86 enable the Indenture Trustee to exercise and enforce any of its rights, powers and remedies under the Indenture with respect to any Collateral. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Trust authorizes the Indenture Trustee to execute and file financing statements or continuation statements without the Trust's signature appearing thereon. The Trust agrees that a carbon, photographic, photostatic or other reproduction of the Indenture or of a financing statement is sufficient as a financing statement. The Trust shall pay the costs of, or incidental to, any recording or filing of any financing or continuation statements concerning any Collateral. (c) If any Collateral is at any time in the possession or control of any warehouseman, bailee or any of the Trust's agents or processors, the Trust shall notify such warehouseman, bailee, agent or processor of the Security Interest created by the Indenture and to hold all such Collateral for the Indenture Trustee's account subject to the Indenture Trustee's instructions. (d) The Trust will, promptly upon request, provide to the Indenture Trustee all information and evidence it may reasonably request concerning the Collateral to enable the Indenture Trustee to enforce the provisions of the Indenture. (e) Not more than six months nor less than 30 days prior to each date on which the Trust proposes to take any action contemplated by Section 14.4(a), the Trust shall, at its cost and expense, cause to be delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel, satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, to the effect that all financing statements and amendments or supplements thereto, continuation statements and other documents required to be recorded or filed in order to perfect and protect the Security Interest for a period, specified in such Opinion of Counsel, continuing until a date not earlier than 18 months from the date of such Opinion of Counsel, against all creditors of and purchasers from the Trust have been filed in each filing office necessary for such purpose and that all filing fees and taxes, if any, payable in connection with such filings have been paid in full. (f) From time to time upon request by the Indenture Trustee, the Trust shall, at its cost and expense, cause to be delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee as to such matters relating to the Security Interest as the Indenture Trustee or the Holder Representative may reasonably request. 87 SECTION 14.5 General Authority. The Trust irrevocably appoints the Indenture Trustee its true and lawful attorney, with full power of substitution, in the name of the Trust, the Indenture Trustee, the Holders of Notes or otherwise, for the sole use and benefit of the Secured Parties, but at the Trust's expense, to the extent permitted by law to exercise, at any time and from time to time while an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, all or any of the following powers with respect to all or any of the Collateral: (a) to demand, sue for, collect, receive and give acquittance for any and all monies due or to become due thereon or by virtue thereof, (b) to settle, compromise, compound, prosecute or defend any action or proceeding with respect thereto, (c) to sell, transfer, assign or otherwise deal in or with the same or the proceeds or avails thereof, as fully and effectually as if the Indenture Trustee were the absolute owner thereof, and (d) to extend the time of payment of any or all thereof and to make any allowance and other adjustments with reference thereto; provided that the Indenture Trustee shall give the Trust not less than 10 days' prior notice of the time and place of any sale or other intended disposition of any of the Collateral, except any part of the Collateral which threatens to decline speedily in value or is of a type customarily sold on a recognized market. SECTION 14.6 Remedies Upon Event of Default. If any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee may exercise on behalf of the Secured Parties all rights of a secured party under applicable law and, in addition, the Indenture Trustee may, without being required to give any notice, except as provided in the Indenture or as may be required by mandatory provisions of law, (i) apply all cash, if any, then held by it as all or part of the Collateral as specified in Section 5.3 and (ii) if there shall be no such cash or if such cash shall be insufficient to pay all the Obligations in full, sell the Collateral (including each applicable Funding Agreement) or any part thereof at public or private sale, for cash, upon credit or for future delivery, and at such price or prices as the Indenture Trustee may deem satisfactory. Any Holder may be the purchaser of any or all of the Collateral so sold at any public sale (or, if the Collateral is of a type customarily sold in a recognized market or is of a type which is the subject of widely distributed standard price quotations, at any private sale). The Trust will execute and deliver such documents and take such other action as the Indenture Trustee deems necessary or advisable in order that any such sale may be made in compliance with law. Upon any such sale the Indenture Trustee shall have the right to deliver, assign and transfer to the purchaser thereof the Collateral so sold. Each purchaser at any such sale shall hold the Collateral so sold to it absolutely and free from any claim or right of whatsoever kind, including any equity or right of redemption of the Trust which may be 88 waived, and the Trust, to the extent permitted by law, specifically waives all rights of redemption, stay or appraisal which it has or may have under any law. The notice (if any) of such sale shall (A) in the case of a public sale, state the time and place fixed for such sale, and (B) in the case of a private sale, state the day after which such sale may be consummated. Any such public sale shall be held at such time or times within ordinary business hours and at such place or places as the Indenture Trustee may fix in the notice of such sale. At any such sale the Collateral may be sold in one lot as an entirety or in separate parcels, as the Indenture Trustee may determine. The Indenture Trustee shall not be obligated to make any such sale pursuant to any such notice. The Indenture Trustee may, without notice or publication, adjourn any public or private sale or cause the same to be adjourned from time to time by announcement at the time and place fixed for the sale, and such sale may be made at any time or place to which the same may be so adjourned. In the case of any sale of all or any part of the Collateral on credit or for future delivery, the Collateral so sold may be retained by the Indenture Trustee until the selling price is paid by the purchaser thereof, but the Indenture Trustee shall not incur any liability in the case of the failure of such purchaser to take up and pay for the Collateral so sold and, in the case of any such failure, such Collateral may again be sold upon like notice. The Indenture Trustee, instead of exercising the power of sale conferred upon it in the Indenture, may proceed by a suit or suits at law or in equity to foreclose a Security Interest and sell any Collateral, or any portion thereof, under a judgment or decree of a court or courts of competent jurisdiction. SECTION 14.7 Limitation on Duties of Indenture Trustee with Respect to Collateral. Beyond the exercise of reasonable care in the custody thereof, the Indenture Trustee shall have no duty as to any portion of the Collateral in its possession or control or in the possession or control of any agent or bailee or as to the preservation of rights against prior parties or any other rights pertaining thereto. The Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to have exercised reasonable care in the custody of the Collateral in its possession if the Collateral is accorded treatment substantially equal to that which it accords property it holds in its fiduciary capacity generally, and shall not be liable or responsible for any loss or damage to any of the Collateral, or for any diminution in the value thereof, by reason of the act or omission of any warehouseman, carrier, forwarding agency, consignee or other agent or bailee selected by the Indenture Trustee in good faith. SECTION 14.8 Concerning the Indenture Trustee. In furtherance and not in derogation of the rights, privileges and immunities of the Indenture Trustee specified in the Indenture: (a) the Indenture Trustee is authorized to take all such action as is provided to be taken by it as Indenture Trustee under this Article and all other action reasonably incidental thereto. As to any matters not expressly provided for in this Article (including, without limitation, the timing and methods of realization upon any Collateral) the Indenture Trustee shall act or refrain from 89 acting in accordance with written instructions from the Holder or Holders of the required percentage of aggregate principal amount of Notes for any instructions or, in the absence of such instructions, in accordance with its discretion; and (b) the Indenture Trustee shall not be responsible for the existence, genuineness or value of any of the Collateral or for the validity, perfection, priority or enforceability of the Security Interest in any of the Collateral, whether impaired by operation of law or by reason of any action or omission to act on its part under the Indenture. SECTION 14.9 Termination of Security Interest. Upon the repayment in full of all Obligations, the Security Interest shall terminate and all rights to the Collateral shall revert to the Trust. Upon such termination of a Security Interest, and delivery of a certificate by the Trust to such effect, the Indenture Trustee will, at the expense of the Trust, execute and deliver to the Trust such documents as the Trust shall reasonably request to evidence the termination of the Security Interest. 90 EXHIBIT A-1 FORM OF GLOBAL SECURITY FOR SECURED MEDIUM TERM NOTES PROGRAM A1-1 EXHIBIT A-2 FORM OF DEFINITIVE SECURITY FOR SECURED MEDIUM TERM NOTES PROGRAM A2-1 EXHIBIT A-3 FORM OF GLOBAL SECURITY FOR ALLSTATE LIFE(R) CORENOTES(R) PROGRAM A3-1 EXHIBIT A-4 FORM OF DEFINITIVE SECURITY FOR ALLSTATE LIFE(R) CORENOTES(R) PROGRAM A4-1 EXHIBIT B FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION This Note Certificate is one of the Note Certificates representing Notes described in the within-mentioned Indenture. THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A., as Indenture Trustee By: ---------------------------- Authorized Signatory Dated: B-1 EXHIBIT C FORM OF INDENTURE TRUSTEE REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 7.3(f) Allstate Life Global Funding Trusts Indenture Trustee Report for Payment Date -: (i) the amount received by the Indenture Trustee as of the last Payment Date in respect of the principal, interest and premium, if any, on Funding Agreements issued by Allstate Life Insurance Company ("Allstate Life"), (ii) the amount of payment on such Payment Date to holders allocable to principal and premium, if any, and interest on the Notes of the Trusts and the amount of aggregate unpaid interest accrued on such Notes as of such Payment Date. (iii) the aggregate original stated principal amount of the Funding Agreements, the current interest rate thereon at the close of business on such Payment Date, and (iv) the aggregate principal balance of the Notes at the close of business on such Payment Date. TRUST NO. / FUNDING AGREEMENT NO(S). / CUSIP / ISSUE DATE / MATURITY / TYPE / RATE / INTEREST DUE / UNPAID INTEREST ACCRUED / * PRINCIPAL DUE / ORIGINAL OUTSTANDING / CURRENT OUTSTANDING(1) (v) the amounts of compensation received by the Indenture Trustee during the period relating to such Payment Date. Paid by the Trust: - Paid by Allstate Life: - * Principal Due includes any applicable premium. -------- (1) To be in chart format on actual report. These items are column titles. C-1 EXHIBIT H =============================================================================== STANDARD FUNDING NOTE INDENTURE TERMS with respect to ALLSTATE LIFE GLOBAL FUNDING SECURED MEDIUM-TERM NOTES and ALLSTATE LIFE(R) CORENOTES(R) =============================================================================== Allstate Life(R) is a registered service mark of Allstate Insurance Company. CoreNotes(R) is a registered service mark of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS SECTION 1.1 Certain Terms Defined.......................................................1 SECTION 1.2 Interpretation.............................................................11 ARTICLE 2 THE FUNDING NOTE SECTION 2.1 Amount Unlimited...........................................................12 SECTION 2.2 Status of Funding Note.....................................................12 SECTION 2.3 Forms Generally............................................................12 SECTION 2.4 Currency; Denominations....................................................13 SECTION 2.5 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Date...............................14 SECTION 2.6 Registration, Transfer and Exchange........................................15 SECTION 2.7 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Funding Note Certificates.............16 SECTION 2.8 Interest Record Dates......................................................18 SECTION 2.9 Cancellation...............................................................18 SECTION 2.10 Withholding Tax............................................................19 SECTION 2.11 Tax Treatment..............................................................19 ARTICLE 3 REDEMPTION, REPAYMENT AND REPURCHASE OF FUNDING NOTE; SINKING FUNDS SECTION 3.1 Redemption of Funding Note.................................................20 SECTION 3.2 Repayment at the Option of the Holder......................................23 SECTION 3.3 Repurchase of Funding Note.................................................24 SECTION 3.4 Sinking Funds..............................................................25 ARTICLE 4 PAYMENTS; FUNDING NOTE PAYING AGENTS AND FUNDING NOTE CALCULATION AGENT; COVENANTS SECTION 4.1 Payment of Principal and Interest..........................................26 SECTION 4.2 Collection Account.........................................................28 SECTION 4.3 Offices for Payments, Etc..................................................29 SECTION 4.4 Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in Office of Funding Note Indenture Trustee....................................................................29 SECTION 4.5 Funding Note Paying Agents.................................................30 SECTION 4.6 Funding Note Calculation Agent.............................................34 SECTION 4.7 Certificate to Funding Note Indenture Trustee..............................37 i SECTION 4.8 Negative Covenants.........................................................37 SECTION 4.9 Non-Petition...............................................................37 SECTION 4.10 Additional Amounts.........................................................38 ARTICLE 5 REMEDIES OF THE FUNDING NOTE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND HOLDERS ON EVENT OF DEFAULT SECTION 5.1 Event of Default Defined; Acceleration of Maturity; Waiver of Default..........................................................40 SECTION 5.2 Collection of Indebtedness by Funding Note Indenture Trustee; Funding Note Indenture Trustee May Prove Debt.......................................................................43 SECTION 5.3 Application of Proceeds....................................................46 SECTION 5.4 Suits for Enforcement......................................................48 SECTION 5.5 Restoration of Rights on Abandonment of Proceedings........................48 SECTION 5.6 Limitations on Suits by Holders............................................48 SECTION 5.7 Powers and Remedies Cumulative; Delay or Omission Not Waiver of Default......................................................49 SECTION 5.8 Control by the Holders.....................................................50 SECTION 5.9 Waiver of Past Defaults....................................................51 ARTICLE 6 THE FUNDING NOTE INDENTURE TRUSTEE SECTION 6.1 Certain Duties and Responsibilities........................................51 SECTION 6.2 Certain Rights of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee.......................53 SECTION 6.3 Not Responsible for Recitals, Validity of the Funding Note or Application of the Proceeds................................................54 SECTION 6.4 May Hold Funding Note; Collections, Etc....................................55 SECTION 6.5 Funds Held by Funding Note Indenture Trustee...............................55 SECTION 6.6 Compensation; Reimbursement; Indemnification...............................55 SECTION 6.7 Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility....................................56 SECTION 6.8 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor Trustee..................57 SECTION 6.9 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Funding Note Trustee................59 SECTION 6.10 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business of Funding Note Indenture Trustee.............................................60 SECTION 6.11 Limitations on Rights of Funding Note Indenture Trustee as Creditor........60 ii ARTICLE 7 HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY FUNDING NOTE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND GLOBAL FUNDING SECTION 7.1 Global Funding to Furnish Funding Note Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.......................................................61 SECTION 7.2 Preservation of Information; Communication to Holders......................61 SECTION 7.3 Reports by Funding Note Indenture Trustee..................................61 SECTION 7.4 Reports by Global Funding..................................................62 SECTION 7.5 Reports on Assessment of Compliance with Servicing Criteria and Compliance Statements; Attestation Reports of Registered Public Accounting Firm............................................................63 ARTICLE 8 CONCERNING EACH HOLDER SECTION 8.1 Evidence of Action Taken by a Holder.......................................64 SECTION 8.2 Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of Funding Note...........65 SECTION 8.3 Voting Record Date.........................................................65 SECTION 8.4 Persons Deemed to be Owners................................................65 SECTION 8.5 Right of Revocation of Action Taken; Binding Effect of Actions by Holders....................................................................65 ARTICLE 9 SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING NOTE INDENTURES SECTION 9.1 Supplemental Funding Note Indentures Without Consent of Holders............66 SECTION 9.2 Supplemental Funding Note Indentures with Consent of Holders...............68 SECTION 9.3 Compliance with Trust Indenture Act; Effect of Supplemental Funding Note Indentures............................................................69 SECTION 9.4 Documents to Be Given to Funding Note Indenture Trustee....................69 SECTION 9.5 Notation on Funding Note Certificate in Respect of Supplemental Funding Note Indentures....................................................69 SECTION 9.6 Amendment to Funding Agreement(s)..........................................70 ARTICLE 10 CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE SECTION 10.1 Global Funding May Merge, Consolidate, Sell or Convey Property Under Certain Circumstances................................................71 iii ARTICLE 11 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF FUNDING NOTE INDENTURE; UNCLAIMED FUNDS SECTION 11.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Funding Note Indenture.......................72 SECTION 11.2 Application by Funding Note Indenture Trustee of Funds Deposited for Payment of Funding Note................................................73 SECTION 11.3 Repayment of Funds Held by Funding Note Paying Agent.......................73 SECTION 11.4 Return of Funds Held by Funding Note Indenture Trustee and Funding Note Paying Agent..........................................................73 ARTICLE 12 MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF FUNDING NOTE SECTION 12.1 Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called..................................74 SECTION 12.2 Call, Notice and Place of Meetings.........................................74 SECTION 12.3 Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings.......................................75 SECTION 12.4 Quorum; Action.............................................................75 SECTION 12.5 Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct of Adjournment of Meetings.........76 SECTION 12.6 Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings............................77 ARTICLE 13 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS SECTION 13.1 No Recourse................................................................78 SECTION 13.2 Provisions of Funding Note Indenture for the Sole Benefit of Parties and Holders........................................................78 SECTION 13.3 Successors and Assigns of Global Funding Bound by Indenture................79 SECTION 13.4 Notices and Demands on Global Funding, Funding Note Indenture Trustee and any Holder.....................................................79 SECTION 13.5 Trust Certificates and Opinions of Counsel; Statements to be Contained Therein..........................................................81 SECTION 13.6 Governing Law..............................................................82 SECTION 13.7 Counterparts...............................................................83 SECTION 13.8 Trust Indenture Act to Control.............................................83 SECTION 13.9 Judgment Currency..........................................................83 ARTICLE 14 SECURITY INTEREST SECTION 14.1 Security Interest..........................................................83 SECTION 14.2 Representations and Warranties.............................................84 SECTION 14.3 Additional Representations and Warranties..................................85 SECTION 14.4 Further Assurances; Covenants..............................................87 iv SECTION 14.5 General Authority..........................................................88 SECTION 14.6 Remedies Upon Event of Default.............................................89 SECTION 14.7 Limitation on Duties of Funding Note Indenture Trustee with Respect to Collateral..............................................................90 SECTION 14.8 Concerning the Funding Note Indenture Trustee..............................90 SECTION 14.9 Termination of Security Interest...........................................91 EXHIBIT A-1 Form of Funding Note Certificate Related to Secured Medium Term Notes A-1-1 Issued Under the Secured Medium Term Notes Program EXHIBIT A-2 Form of Funding Note Certificate Related to Secured Medium Term Notes A-2-1 Issued Under The Allstate Life(R) CoreNotes(R) Program EXHIBIT B Form of Certificate of Authentication B-1 EXHIBIT C Form of Funding Note Indenture Trustee Report Pursuant to Section 7.3(f) C-1
v RECONCILIATION TABLE
Trust Indenture Act Section Standard Funding Note Indenture Terms Section ss.310(a)(1)..............................................................................................6.7 (a)(2).............................................................................................6.7 (b)................................................................................................6.8 ss.311(a)................................................................................................6.11 ss.312(a) ................................................................................................7.1 (b)................................................................................................7.2 (c)................................................................................................7.2 ss.313(a).................................................................................................7.3(b) (b)................................................................................................7.3(c) (c)................................................................................................7.3(d) (d)................................................................................................7.3(d) ss.314(a) ................................................................................................7.4 (b)................................................................................................7.4(d) (c)(1) ...........................................................................................13.5(a) (c)(2) ...........................................................................................13.5(a) (e)...............................................................................................13.5(b) (f)...............................................................................................13.5(a) ss.315(c) ................................................................................................6.1(b) ss.316(a) (last sentence) ................................................................................8.5 (a)(1)(A)..........................................................................................5.8 (a)(1)(B)..........................................................................................5.9 (b)................................................................................................5.6 ss.317(a)(1)..............................................................................................5.2(c) (a)(2) ............................................................................................5.2(c) (b)................................................................................................4.5(a) ss.318(a) ...............................................................................................13.8 (c) ..............................................................................................13.8
This reconciliation table shall not be deemed to be part of the Funding Note Indenture for any purpose. Attention should also be directed to Section 318(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, which provides that certain provisions of Sections 310 to and including 317 are a part of and govern every qualified indenture, whether or not physically contained in the Funding Note Indenture. vi This document constitutes the Standard Funding Note Indenture Terms, which will be incorporated by reference in the Funding Note Indenture (as defined below), by and among Global Funding (as defined below) and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, Funding Note Calculation Agent, Funding Note Exchange Rate Agent, Funding Note Paying Agent and Funding Note Registrar (as defined below). These Standard Funding Note Indenture Terms shall be of no force and effect unless and until incorporated by reference into, and then only to the extent not modified by, such Funding Note Indenture. The following Standard Funding Note Indenture Terms shall govern the Funding Note subject to contrary terms and provisions expressly adopted in the Funding Note Indenture, any Supplemental Funding Note Indenture or the Funding Note, which contrary terms shall be controlling. ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS SECTION 1.1 Certain Terms Defined. The following terms shall have the meanings specified in this Section for all purposes of the Funding Note Indenture and the Funding Note, unless otherwise expressly provided. All other terms used in the Funding Note Indenture which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act or which are by reference therein defined in the Securities Act shall have the meanings (except as otherwise expressly provided in the Funding Note Indenture or unless the context otherwise clearly requires) assigned to such terms in the Trust Indenture Act and in the Securities Act as in force at the date of the Funding Note Indenture as originally executed. "Additional Amounts" means any additional amounts which may be required by the Funding Note, under circumstances specified in the Funding Note Certificate or Supplemental Funding Note Indenture, to be paid by Global Funding in respect of certain taxes, assessments or other governmental charges imposed on Holders specified therein and which are owing to such Holders. "Administrative Services Agreement" means that certain administrative services agreement included in Part B of the Series Instrument, by and between the Trust and the Administrator, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Administrator" means AMACAR Pacific Corp., a Delaware corporation, in its capacity as the sole administrator of the Trust, or another entity specified in the Funding Note Indenture as the Administrator, and, in each case, its permitted successors and assigns. 1 "Affiliate" means, as applied to any Person, any other Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with, that Person and, in the case of an individual, any spouse or other member of that individual's immediate family. For the purposes of this definition, "control" (including with correlative meanings, the terms "controlling", "controlled by" and "under common control with"), as applied to any Person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of that Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities or by contract or otherwise. "Agents" has the meaning ascribed in the Distribution Agreement. "Amended and Restated Administrative Services Agreement" means that certain Amended and Restated Administrative Services Agreement dated as of -, 2006, between the Global Funding Administrator and Global Funding, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Amended and Restated Support Agreement" means that certain Amended and Restated Support and Expenses Agreement dated as of -, 2006, between the Funding Agreement Provider and Global Funding, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Amended and Restated Trust Agreement" means that certain Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of Global Funding dated as of -, 2006, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Annual Redemption Percentage Reduction" has the meaning ascribed in the Funding Note Certificate or the Funding Note Indenture. "Annual Report" has the meaning ascribed in Section 7.5. "Business Day" means (except as otherwise provided in the Pricing Supplement) any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which commercial banks are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close in The City of New York; provided, however, that, if the Specified Currency of the Funding Note is other than U.S. Dollars, the day must also not be a day on which commercial banks are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close in the Principal Financial Center of the country issuing the Specified Currency (or, if the Specified Currency is Euro, the day must also be a day on which the Target System is open). "Closing Instrument" means the closing instrument of the Trust, pursuant to which certain documents are executed, in connection with the issuance of the Notes by the Trust and the issuance of the Funding Note by Global Funding. 2 "Code" means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, including any successor statutes and any applicable rules, regulations, notices or orders promulgated thereunder. "Collateral" means, with respect to the Funding Note, the right, title and interest of Global Funding in and to (i) each Funding Agreement issued to Global Funding, (ii) all Proceeds in respect of each such Funding Agreement and (iii) all books and records (including without limitation, computer programs, printouts and other computer materials and files) of Global Funding pertaining to the Funding Agreement(s). "Collection Account" has the meaning ascribed in Section 4.2. "Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor body. "Compliance Report" has the meaning ascribed in Section 7.5. "Coordination Agreement" means that certain Coordination Agreement included in Part F of the Series Instrument, among the Trust and the other parties specified therein, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee at which the Funding Note Indenture shall, at any particular time, be principally administered, which office is, at the date as of which the Funding Note Indenture is executed, located at 700 South Flower Street, Suite 500, Los Angeles, CA 90017, except that for the purposes of Section 4.3 it shall be 4 New York Plaza, 1st Floor, New York, NY 10004, or such other location as may be specified in or pursuant to the Funding Note Certificate or the Funding Note Indenture. "Debt" of any Person means, at any date, without duplication, (i) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money, (ii) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, (iii) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services, except trade accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of business, all obligations of such Person as lessee which are capitalized in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, (iv) all contingent and non-contingent obligations of such Person to reimburse any bank or other Person in respect of amounts paid under a letter of credit or similar instrument, (v) all Debt secured by a Lien on any asset of such Person, whether or not such Debt is otherwise an obligation of such Person, and (vi) all Guarantees by such Person of Debt of another Person (each such Guarantee to constitute Debt in an amount equal to the amount of such other Person's Debt Guaranteed thereby). "Defaulted Interest" has the meaning ascribed in Section 2.8(b). 3 "Delaware Trustee" means Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, or another entity specified in the Funding Note Indenture as the Delaware Trustee, in each case not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee and its successors. "Distribution Agreement" means that certain Distribution Agreement dated as of -, 2006, by and among Global Funding and the Agents named therein, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Euro" means the currency introduced at the start of the third stage of the European economic and monetary union pursuant to the treaty establishing the European Community, as amended by the Treaty on European Union. "Event of Default" means any event or condition specified as such in Section 5.1 which shall have continued for the period of time, if any, therein designated. "Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. "Funding Agreement" means each funding agreement issued by the Funding Agreement Provider to Global Funding, which is immediately pledged and collaterally assigned to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee by Global Funding, and immediately thereafter assigned absolutely to, and deposited into, the Trust by Global Funding, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof. "Funding Agreement Provider" means Allstate Life Insurance Company, a stock life insurance company organized under the laws of the State of Illinois, and its successors. "Funding Note" means the funding note issued by Global Funding and authenticated by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee under the Funding Note Indenture, in an authorized denomination and represented by the Funding Note Certificate. "Funding Note Calculation Agent" means the Funding Note Indenture Trustee in its capacity as calculation agent with respect to the Funding Note or any other Person specified as calculation agent with respect to the Funding Note in the Funding Note Certificate or the Funding Note Indenture, and, in each case, its successors in such capacity. "Funding Note Certificate" means a security certificate representing the Funding Note. "Funding Note Exchange Rate Agent" means the Funding Note Indenture Trustee in its capacity as exchange rate agent with respect to the Funding Note or any other Person specified as exchange rate agent with respect to the Funding Note in the 4 Funding Note Certificate or the Funding Note Indenture, and, in each case, its successors in such capacity. "Funding Note Indenture" means that certain Funding Note Indenture included in Part H of the Series Instrument, among Global Funding and the other parties specified therein, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Funding Note Indenture Trustee" means The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., or another entity specified as the Funding Note Indenture Trustee in the Funding Note Indenture, and, in each case, its successors. "Funding Note Paying Agent" means the Funding Note Indenture Trustee in its capacity as paying agent with respect to the Funding Note and/or any other Person specified as paying agent with respect to the Funding Note in the Funding Note Certificate or the Funding Note Indenture, and, in each case, its successors in such capacity. "Funding Note Register" has the meaning ascribed in Section 2.6(a). "Funding Note Registrar" has the meaning ascribed in Section 2.6(a). "Global Funding" means Allstate Life Global Funding, a statutory trust formed under the laws of the State of Delaware. "Global Funding Administrator" means AMACAR Pacific Corp., a Delaware corporation, in its capacity as the sole administrator of Global Funding, and its permitted successors and assigns. "Global Funding Trust Beneficial Owner" means AMACAR Pacific Corp., in its capacity as the sole beneficial owner of Global Funding, and its successors. "Guarantee" by any Person means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Debt of any other Person and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, of such Person (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Debt (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, by virtue of an agreement to keep-well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to take-or-pay, or to maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise), (ii) to reimburse a bank for amounts drawn under a letter of credit for the purpose of paying such Debt or (iii) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the holder of such Debt of the payment thereof or to protect such holder against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part); provided that the term "Guarantee" shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. 5 The term "Guarantee" used as a verb has a corresponding meaning. "Holder" means each Person in whose name the Funding Note is registered in the Funding Note Register. "Holder Representative" has the meaning ascribed in Section 5.8(a). "Immediate Redemption Price" has the meaning ascribed in Section 3.1(i). "Indenture" means that certain Indenture included in Part G of the Series Instrument, among the Trust and the other parties specified therein, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Indenture Trustee" means The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., or another entity specified as the Indenture Trustee in the Indenture, and, in each case, its successors. "Initial Redemption Date" means, with respect to the Funding Note or portion thereof to be redeemed pursuant to Section 3.1(b), the date on or after which such Funding Note or portion thereof may be redeemed as determined by or pursuant to the Funding Note Indenture or the Funding Note Certificate or Supplemental Funding Note Indenture. "Initial Redemption Percentage" has the meaning specified in the Funding Note Certificate. "Interest Payment Date" has the meaning ascribed in Section 2.8(a). "Interest Reset Date" has the meaning ascribed in the Funding Note Certificate. "Investment Company Act" means the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. "Judgment Currency" has the meaning ascribed in Section 13.9. "LIBOR", has the meaning ascribed in the Funding Note Certificate. "LIBOR Currency" means the currency specified in the Funding Note Certificate as to which LIBOR shall be calculated or, if no currency is specified in the applicable Funding Note Certificate, United States dollars. "Lien" means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind, or any other type of preferential arrangement that has substantially the same practical effect as a security interest, in respect of such asset. For purposes hereof, Global Funding shall be deemed to own subject to a Lien any asset which it has acquired or holds subject to the interest of a 6 vendor or lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or other title retention agreement relating to such asset. "Market Exchange Rate" for a Specified Currency other than United States dollars means the noon dollar buying rate in The City of New York for cable transfers for the Specified Currency as certified for customs purposes (or, if not so certified, as otherwise determined) by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. "Maturity Date" means, with respect to the principal (or any installment of principal) of the Funding Note, any date prior to the Stated Maturity Date on which the principal (or such installment of principal) of the Funding Note becomes due and payable whether, as applicable, by the declaration of acceleration of maturity, notice of redemption at the option of Global Funding, notice of the Holder's option to elect repayment or otherwise. "Name Licensing Agreement" means that certain Name Licensing Agreement included in Part D of the Series Instrument, between Allstate Insurance Company and the Trust, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Nonrecourse Parties" has the meaning ascribed in Section 13.1. "Notes" has the meaning ascribed in the Indenture. "Note Certificate" means a security certificate representing one or more Notes. "Obligations" means the obligations of Global Funding secured under the Funding Note and the Funding Note Indenture, including (a) all principal of, any premium and interest payable (including, without limitation, any interest which accrues after the commencement of any case, proceeding or other action relating to the bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of Global Funding, whether or not allowed or allowable as a claim in any such proceeding) on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to, the Funding Note or pursuant to the Funding Note Indenture, (b) all other amounts payable by Global Funding under the Funding Note Indenture or under the Funding Note including all costs and expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or any Holder thereof in realizing on the Collateral to satisfy such obligations and (c) any renewals or extensions of the foregoing. "Opinion of Counsel" means an opinion in writing signed by legal counsel who may be an employee of or counsel to Global Funding or the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or who may be other counsel satisfactory to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee. Each such opinion shall include the statements provided for in Section 13.5 hereof, if and to the extent required hereby. "Original Issue Date" shall have the meaning set forth in the Pricing Supplement. 7 "Owner" shall, with respect to each Funding Agreement, have the meaning ascribed in such Funding Agreement. "Person" means any natural person, corporation, limited partnership, general partnership, joint stock company, joint venture, association, company, limited liability company, trust (including any beneficiary thereof), bank, trust company, land trust, trust or other organization, whether or not a legal entity, and any government or any agency or political subdivision thereof. "Pricing Supplement" means the pricing supplement included as Annex A to the Series Instrument. "Principal Amount" with respect to a Funding Agreement, has the meaning ascribed in such Funding Agreement. "Principal Financial Center" means, as applicable (i) the capital city of the country issuing the Specified Currency; or (ii) the capital city of the country to which the LIBOR Currency relates; provided, however, that with respect to United States dollars, Australian dollars, Canadian dollars, Euros, South African rands and Swiss francs, the "Principal Financial Center" shall be The City of New York, Sydney, Toronto, London (solely in the case of the LIBOR Currency), Johannesburg and Zurich, respectively. "Proceeds" means all of the proceeds of, and all other profits, products, rents, principal payments, interest payments or other receipts, in whatever form, arising from the collection, sale, lease, exchange, assignment, licensing or other disposition or maturity of, or other realization upon, a Funding Agreement, including without limitation all claims of Global Funding against third parties for loss of, damage to or destruction of, or for proceeds payable under, such Funding Agreement, in each case whether now existing or hereafter arising. "Program" means the program for issuance, from time to time, of Secured Medium Term Notes and Allstate Life(R) CoreNotes(R) through Allstate Life Global Funding Trusts, as described in the Registration Statement. "Program Funding Notes" means all funding notes issued, from time to time, by Global Funding in connection with the Program. "Redemption Date" means, with respect to the Funding Note to be redeemed, pursuant to Section 3.1(b) or Section 3.1(c), the date of redemption of the Funding Note, or such portion thereof, specified in the relevant notice of redemption provided to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 3.1(d). "Redemption Price" means an amount equal to the Initial Redemption Percentage specified in the Funding Note Certificate (as adjusted by the Annual 8 Redemption Percentage Reduction, if applicable) multiplied by the unpaid principal amount of the Funding Note to be redeemed. "Registration Statement" means the Registration Statement relating to the Program (File No. 333-129157), filed with the Commission by the Funding Agreement Provider and Global Funding on October 20, 2005, as amended by Amendment No. 1 filed with the Commission on November 29, 2005, and Amendment No. 2 filed with the Commission on -, 2006, and as it may further be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "Regular Interest Record Date" has the meaning ascirbed in Section 2.8(a). "Regulation AB" has the meaning ascribed in Section 7.5. "Repayment Date" means, with respect to a Funding Note or any portion thereof to be repaid pursuant to Section 3.2, the date for the repayment of such Funding Note or such portion thereof as determined by, or pursuant to, the Funding Note Indenture or the Funding Note Certificate or Supplemental Funding Note Indenture. "Repayment Price" means, with respect to the Funding Note or any portion thereof to be repaid pursuant to Section 3.2, the price for repayment of such Funding Note or such portion thereof as determined by, or pursuant to, the Funding Note Indenture or the Funding Note Certificate or Supplemental Funding Note Indenture. "Responsible Officer" when used with respect to any Person means the chairman of the board of directors or any vice chairman of the board of directors or the president or any vice president (whether or not designated by a number or numbers or a word or words added before or after the title "vice president") of such Person. With respect to Global Funding, Responsible Officer means any Responsible Officer (as defined in the preceding sentence) plus any assistant secretary and any financial services officer of the Delaware Trustee, and with respect to the Delaware Trustee or the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, Responsible Officer means any Responsible Officer (as defined in the first sentence of this definition) plus the chairman of the trust committee, the chairman of the executive committee, any vice chairman of the executive committee, the cashier, the secretary, the treasurer, any trust officer, any assistant trust officer, any assistant vice president, any assistant cashier, any assistant secretary, any assistant treasurer, or any other authorized officer of the Delaware Trustee or Funding Note Indenture Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by the Persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject. "Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any successor statute thereto, and the rules, regulations and published interpretations of the Commission promulgated thereunder from time to time. 9 "Security Interest" has the meaning ascribed in Section 14.1(a). "Series Instrument" means the series instrument of the Trust, pursuant to which the Administrative Services Agreement, the Coordination Agreement, the Funding Note Indenture, the Indenture, the Name Licensing Agreement, the Support Agreement, the Terms Agreement and the Trust Agreement are entered into, and certain other documents are executed, in connection with the issuance of the Notes by the Trust. "Special Interest Record Date" has the meaning ascribed in Section 2.8(b). "Specified Currency" has the meaning ascribed in Section 2.4. "Standard Trust Terms" means those Standard Trust Terms, dated as of -, 2006, which will be incorporated by reference in the Trust Agreement. "Stated Maturity Date," means with respect to the Funding Note, any installment of principal thereof, or interest thereon, any premium thereon or any Additional Amounts with respect thereto, the date established by or pursuant to the Funding Note Indenture or Funding Note Certificate or Supplemental Funding Note Indenture as the date on which the principal of such Funding Note or such installment of principal or interest or such premium is, or such Additional Amounts are, due and payable. "Supplemental Funding Note Indenture" has the meaning ascribed in Section 9.1(a). "Support Agreement" means that certain Support and Expenses Agreement included in Part C of the Series Instrument, by and between the Funding Agreement Provider and the Trust, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified, restated or replaced from time to time. "TARGET System" means the Trans-European Automated Real Time Gross Settlement Express Transfer (TARGET) System. "Tax Event" has the meaning ascribed in Section 3.1(c). "Terms Agreement" means that certain Terms Agreement included in Part E of the Series Instrument, by and among Global Funding, the Trust and each Agent named therein, which will incorporate by reference the terms of the Distribution Agreement. "Trust" means the Allstate Life Global Funding Trust specified in the Series Instrument, together with its permitted successors and assigns. 10 "Trust Agreement" means that certain Trust Agreement included in Part A of the Series Instrument, among the Delaware Trustee, the Administrator and the Trust Beneficial Owner. "Trust Beneficial Owner" means Global Funding, in its capacity as the sole beneficial owner of the Trust, and its successors. "Trust Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Global Funding Administrator on behalf of Global Funding and delivered to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee. Each such certificate shall include the statements provided for in Section 13.5. "Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and any successor statute thereto, and the rules, regulations and published interpretations of the Commission promulgated thereunder from time to time. "UCC" means the Uniform Commercial Code, as from time to time in effect in the State of New York; provided that, with respect to the perfection, effect of perfection or non-perfection, or priority of any security interest in the Collateral, "UCC" shall mean the applicable jurisdiction whose law governs such perfection, non-perfection or priority. "United States", except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to the Funding Note Indenture or the Funding Note Certificate, means the United States of America (including the states thereof and the District of Columbia), its territories and possessions and other areas subject to its jurisdiction. "United States Dollars", "U.S. Dollars" or "$" means lawful currency of the United States. SECTION 1.2 Interpretation. For all purposes of the Funding Note Indenture except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires: (a) the terms defined in this Article shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Article and shall include the plural as well as the singular; (b) all accounting terms used and not expressly defined shall have the meanings given to them in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles, and the term "generally accepted accounting principles" shall mean such accounting principles which are generally accepted at the date or time of any computation or at the date of the Funding Note Indenture; (c) references to Exhibits, Articles, Sections, paragraphs, subparagraphs and clauses shall be construed as references to the 11 Exhibits, Articles, Sections, paragraphs, subparagraphs and clauses of the Funding Note Indenture; (d) the words "include", "includes" and "including" shall be construed to be followed by the words "without limitation"; and (e) Article and Section headings are for the convenience of the reader and shall not be considered in interpreting the Funding Note Indenture or the intent of the parties. ARTICLE 2 THE FUNDING NOTE SECTION 2.1 Amount Unlimited. The principal amount of the Funding Note that may be authenticated and delivered under the Funding Note Indenture shall be the principal amount of the Funding Note set forth in the Pricing Supplement. SECTION 2.2 Status of Funding Note. The Funding Note constitutes a direct, unconditional, unsubordinated and secured non-recourse obligation of Global Funding. SECTION 2.3 Forms Generally. (a) The Funding Note Certificate, shall be in, or substantially in, the form set forth in Exhibit A-1 or Exhibit A-2, as applicable, with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by the Funding Note Indenture or as may in Global Funding's judgment be necessary, appropriate or convenient to permit the Funding Note to be issued and sold, or to comply, or facilitate compliance, with applicable laws, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange on which the Funding Note may be listed, or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the Responsible Officer of Global Funding executing such Funding Note Certificate, with the approval of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, as evidenced by his or her execution thereof. (b) The Funding Note Certificate may be printed, lithographed, engraved, typewritten, photocopied or otherwise produced in any manner as the Responsible Officer of Global Funding executing such Funding Note Certificate may determine. (c) The terms and provisions contained in the Funding Note Certificate and in any Supplemental Funding Note Indenture shall 12 constitute, and are expressly made, a part of the Funding Note Indenture and, to the extent applicable, Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, by their execution and delivery of the Funding Note Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. SECTION 2.4 Currency; Denominations. (a) Unless otherwise specified in the Funding Note Certificate or in any Supplemental Funding Note Indenture, the Funding Note will be denominated in, and payments of principal of, premium and interest on, and Additional Amounts in respect to, the Funding Note will be made in, U.S. dollars. The currency in which the Funding Note is denominated (or, if such currency is no longer legal tender for the payment of public and private debts in the country issuing such currency or, in the case of Euro, in the member states of the European Union that have adopted the single currency in accordance with the Treaty establishing the European Community, as amended by the Treaty on European Union, such currency which is then such legal tender) is in the Funding Note Indenture referred to as the "Specified Currency". (b) Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to the Funding Note Indenture, Global Funding appoints the Funding Note Indenture Trustee as Funding Note Exchange Rate Agent with respect to the Funding Note and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee accepts such appointment. (c) Unless otherwise specified in a Funding Note Certificate or in a Supplemental Funding Note Indenture, the Funding Note shall be issued in a minimum denomination of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof or equivalent denominations in other currencies. (d) Global Funding may (if so specified in a Funding Note Certificate or Supplemental Funding Note Indenture) without the consent of the Holder of the Funding Note, redenominate the Funding Note on or after the date on which the member state of the European Union in whose national currency the Funding Note is denominated has become a participant member in the third stage of the European economic and monetary union as more fully set out in the Funding Note Certificate or Supplemental Funding Note Indenture. 13 (e) Unless otherwise specified in the Funding Note Certificate or Supplemental Funding Note Indenture, if the Specified Currency of the Funding Note is other than U.S. Dollars, Global Funding shall not sell a Funding Note in, or to residents of, the country issuing such Specified Currency. SECTION 2.5 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Date. (a) The Funding Note Certificate shall be executed on behalf of Global Funding by any Responsible Officer of the Delaware Trustee. The signature of any Responsible Officer of the Delaware Trustee may be manual, in facsimile form, imprinted or otherwise reproduced and may, but need not, be attested. (b) The Funding Note Certificate bearing the signature of a Person who was at any time a Responsible Officer of the Delaware Trustee shall bind Global Funding, notwithstanding that such Person has ceased to hold such office prior to the authentication and delivery of such Funding Note Certificate or did not hold such office at the date of such Funding Note Certificate. (c) At any time, and from time to time, after the execution and delivery of the Funding Note Indenture, Global Funding may deliver the Funding Note Certificate executed by or on behalf of Global Funding to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee for authentication, and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and deliver such Funding Note Certificate as provided in the Funding Note Indenture and not otherwise. (d) The Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and deliver the Funding Note Certificate under this Section if the Funding Note Indenture Trustee has obtained an Opinion of Counsel reasonably acceptable to Global Funding, to the effect that the issuance of the Funding Note will adversely affect the Funding Note Indenture Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under the Funding Note Indenture. (e) The Funding Note Certificate shall be dated the date of its authentication. (f) The Funding Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Funding Note Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on the Funding Note Certificate representing the Funding Note a certificate of authentication substantially in the form attached as Exhibit B executed by the Funding Note 14 Indenture Trustee by manual signature of one of its authorized signatories. Such certificate upon the Funding Note Certificate shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Funding Note Certificate has been duly authenticated and delivered under the Funding Note Indenture. SECTION 2.6 Registration, Transfer and Exchange. (a) The Funding Note Indenture Trustee will serve initially as registrar (in such capacity, and together with any successor registrar, the "Funding Note Registrar") for the Funding Note. In such capacity, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee will cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee a register (the "Funding Note Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee will provide for the registration of the Funding Note and of transfers of the Funding Note. The Funding Note Register shall be in written form in the English language or in any other form capable of being converted into such form within a reasonable time. (b) Upon surrender of the Funding Note Certificate for registration of transfer of the Funding Note represented thereby, together with the form of transfer endorsed thereon duly completed and executed, at the designated office of the Funding Note Registrar or of any applicable transfer agent, each as provided in the Funding Note Certificate or Supplemental Funding Note Indenture, the Delaware Trustee, on behalf of Global Funding shall execute, and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, a new Funding Note Certificate representing the Funding Note. (c) The Funding Note Certificate executed, authenticated and delivered upon any transfer or exchange shall be a valid obligation of Global Funding, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under the Funding Note Indenture, as the Funding Note Certificate surrendered in connection with any such transfer or exchange. Upon surrender or transfer of the Funding Note Certificate pursuant to this Section 2.6, each new Funding Note Certificate will, within three Business Days of the receipt of the applicable form of transfer or the applicable surrender, as the case may be, be delivered to the designated office of the Funding Note Registrar or of any applicable transfer agent, each as provided in the Funding Note Certificate or 15 Supplemental Funding Note Indenture, or mailed at the risk of the Person entitled to such Funding Note Certificate to such address as may be specified in the form of transfer. (d) The Funding Note Certificate presented or surrendered in connection with a transfer shall (if so required by Global Funding or the Funding Note Indenture Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the applicable Holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing. (e) No service charge shall be made in connection with any transfer of the Funding Note or the Funding Note Certificate, but Global Funding or the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with a transfer of the Funding Note or exchange of the Funding Note Certificate. (f) Except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to the Funding Note Indenture, Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall not be required to (i) upon presentation or surrender of the Funding Note Certificate in connection with any transfer during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the selection for redemption of the Funding Note or any portion thereof under Section 3.1 and ending at the close of business on the day of such selection, register the transfer of the Funding Note, or portion thereof, except if the Funding Note is to be redeemed in part, with respect to the portion of the Funding Note not to be redeemed, or (ii) exchange the Funding Note Certificate representing the Funding Note the Holder or Holders of which Funding Note shall have exercised the option pursuant to Section 3.2 to require Global Funding to repay the Funding Note prior to its Stated Maturity Date or register the transfer of the Funding Note except, if the Funding Note is to be repaid in part, with respect to the portion of the Funding Note not to be repaid. (g) No exchanges of the Funding Note shall be permitted other than exchanges of the Funding Note pursuant to Sections 2.7, 3.1, 3.2 or 9.5. SECTION 2.7 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Funding Note Certificates. 16 (a) If (i) the Funding Note Certificate is mutilated and is surrendered to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or Global Funding, or the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and Global Funding receive evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of the Funding Note Certificate, and (ii) there is delivered to Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to Global Funding or the Funding Note Indenture Trustee that the Funding Note Certificate has been acquired by a protected purchaser, Global Funding shall execute and upon its request the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Funding Note Certificate, a new Funding Note Certificate representing the Funding Note. (b) If the Funding Note has become or is about to become due and payable, Global Funding in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Funding Note Certificate, pay such amounts in respect of the Funding Note. (c) Upon the execution, authentication and delivery of the new Funding Note Certificate under this Section, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or Global Funding may require the Holder to pay a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee) connected therewith. (d) The Funding Note represented by the Funding Note Certificate executed, authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Section in lieu of the apparently destroyed, lost or stolen Funding Note Certificate shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of Global Funding, whether or not any obligation with respect to the Funding Note represented by the apparently destroyed, lost or stolen Funding Note Certificate shall be at any time enforceable by any Person, and shall be entitled to all of the benefits of the Funding Note Indenture equally and proportionately with the Funding Note duly issued under the Funding Note Indenture. (e) The provisions of this Section are exclusive with respect to the replacement of the mutilated or apparently destroyed, lost or stolen Funding Note Certificate or the payment of the Funding Note represented thereby and shall preclude all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement of the mutilated or 17 apparently destroyed, lost or stolen Funding Note Certificate or the payment of the Funding Note represented thereby. SECTION 2.8 Interest Record Dates. (a) Interest on and Additional Amounts with respect to the Funding Note which is payable, on any interest payment date specified in the Funding Note Certificate or in any Supplemental Funding Note Indenture (each such date, an "Interest Payment Date") shall be paid to the Holder of the Funding Note at the close of business on the date specified as the regular interest record date in the Funding Note Certificate or Supplemental Funding Note Indenture (the "Regular Interest Record Date") or, if no such date is specified, the date that is 15 calendar days preceding such Interest Payment Date. (b) Unless otherwise provided in the Funding Note Certificate or in any Supplemental Funding Note Indenture, any interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to, the Funding Note which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date specified in the Funding Note Certificate or Supplemental Funding Note Indenture (the "Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder of the Funding Note on the relevant Regular Interest Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest shall be paid by Global Funding to the Holder of the Funding Note at the close of business on a special record date (the "Special Interest Record Date") established by Global Funding by notice to each applicable Holder and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee in accordance with Section 13.4, which Special Interest Record Date shall be not more than 15 nor less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment of Defaulted Interest and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment of Defaulted Interest. SECTION 2.9 Cancellation. (a) The Funding Note shall be cancelled immediately upon the transfer by Global Funding to, or as directed by, the Trust of each Funding Agreement, and such cancellation shall operate as a redemption and satisfaction of the Funding Note. 18 (b) In case the Funding Note Certificate shall be surrendered for exchange or in connection with any payment, redemption or transfer of the Funding Note represented thereby, the Funding Note Certificate shall be delivered to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and, if not already cancelled, shall be promptly cancelled by it. Global Funding may at any time deliver to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee for cancellation the Funding Note Certificate previously authenticated and delivered under the Funding Note Indenture which Global Funding may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and the Funding Note Certificate so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee. No Funding Note Certificates shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for the Funding Note Certificate cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by the Funding Note Indenture. The Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall destroy the cancelled Funding Note Certificate held by it and deliver a certificate of destruction to Global Funding. If Global Funding shall acquire the Funding Note, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by the Funding Note unless and until the Funding Note Certificate representing the Funding Note is delivered to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee for cancellation. SECTION 2.10 Withholding Tax. All amounts due in respect of the Funding Note will be made without withholding or deduction for or on account of any present or future taxes, duties, levies, assessments or other governmental charges of whatever nature imposed or levied by or on behalf of any governmental authority in the United States having the power to tax payments on the Funding Note unless the withholding or deduction is required by law. Unless otherwise specified in the Funding Note Certificate, Global Funding will not pay any Additional Amounts to the Holders of the Funding Note in the event that any withholding or deduction is so required by law, regulation or official interpretation thereof, and the imposition of a requirement to make any such withholding or deduction will not give rise to any independent right or obligation to redeem or repay the Funding Note and shall not constitute an Event of Default. SECTION 2.11 Tax Treatment. The parties agree, and each Holder and beneficial owner of the Funding Note by purchasing the Funding Note agrees, for all United States Federal, state and local income and franchise tax purposes (i) to treat the Funding Note as indebtedness of the Funding Agreement Provider, (ii) Global Funding and each Trust will be ignored and will not be treated as an association or a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation and (iii) to not take any action inconsistent with the treatment described in (i) and (ii) unless otherwise required by law. 19 ARTICLE 3 REDEMPTION, REPAYMENT AND REPURCHASE OF FUNDING NOTE; SINKING FUNDS SECTION 3.1 Redemption of Funding Note. (a) Redemption of the Funding Note by Global Funding as permitted or required by the Funding Note Indenture and the Funding Note Certificate will be made in accordance with the terms of the Funding Note and (except as otherwise provided in the Funding Note Indenture or pursuant to the Funding Note Indenture) this Section. (b) If any Initial Redemption Date is specified in the Funding Note Certificate, Global Funding may redeem the Funding Note prior to the Stated Maturity Date at its option, on, or on any Business Day after, the Initial Redemption Date in whole or from time to time in part in increments of $1,000 or any other integral multiple of an authorized denomination of the Funding Note at the applicable Redemption Price together with any unpaid interest accrued thereon, any Additional Amounts and other amounts payable with respect thereto, as of the Redemption Date. (c) If (i) Global Funding is required at any time to pay Additional Amounts or if Global Funding is obligated to withhold or deduct any United States taxes with respect to any payment under the Funding Note, as set forth in the Funding Note Certificate, or if there is a material probability that Global Funding will become obligated to withhold or deduct any such United States taxes or otherwise pay Additional Amounts (in the opinion of independent legal counsel selected by the Funding Agreement Provider), in each case pursuant to any change in or amendment to any United States tax laws (or any regulations or rulings thereunder) or any change in position of the Internal Revenue Service regarding the application or interpretation thereof (including, but not limited to, the Funding Agreement Provider's or Global Funding's receipt of a written adjustment from the Internal Revenue Service in connection with an audit) (a "Tax Event"), and (ii) the Funding Agreement Provider, pursuant to the terms of the relevant Funding Agreement, has delivered to the Owner notice that the Funding Agreement Provider intends to terminate the relevant Funding Agreement pursuant to the terms of such Funding Agreement, then Global Funding will redeem the Funding Note on the Redemption Date at the Redemption Price together with any unpaid interest accrued thereon, any Additional Amounts and 20 other amounts payable with respect thereto, as of the Redemption Date. (d) Unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, Global Funding shall provide to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee a notice of redemption of the Funding Note (i) in case of any redemption at the election of Global Funding, not more than 60 days nor less than 35 days prior to the Redemption Date and (ii) in case of any mandatory redemption pursuant to Section 3.1(c), at least 75 days prior to the Redemption Date. (e) Unless otherwise specified in the Funding Note Indenture or the Funding Note Certificate, Global Funding shall give a notice of redemption to the Holder of the Funding Note or any portion thereof to be redeemed at Global Funding's option (i) in case of any redemption at the election of Global Funding, not more than 60 days nor less than 30 days prior to the Redemption Date and (ii) in case of any mandatory redemption pursuant to Section 3.1(c), not more than 75 days nor less than 30 days prior to the Redemption Date; provided, that in the case of any notice of redemption given pursuant to clause (ii) no such notice of redemption may be given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest day on which Global Funding would become obligated to pay the applicable Additional Amounts were a payment in respect of the Funding Note then due. Failure to give such notice to the Holder of any portion of the Funding Note designated for redemption, or any defect in the notice to any such Holder, shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other portion of the Funding Note. Any notice that is mailed to the Holder of the Funding Note in the manner provided for in Section 13.4 shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not such Holder receives the notice. All notices of redemption shall state: (i) the Redemption Date, (ii) the Redemption Price or, if not then ascertainable, the manner of calculation thereof, (iii) the principal amount of the Funding Note to be redeemed, 21 (iv) in case the Funding Note is to be redeemed in part only at the election of Global Funding, the notice shall state that on and after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of the Funding Note Certificate representing the Funding Note, a new Funding Note Certificate representing an authorized denomination of the principal amount of the Funding Note remaining unredeemed will be delivered by Global Funding, (v) that, on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price shall become due and payable upon the Funding Note or portion thereof to be redeemed, and, if applicable, that interest thereon shall cease to accrue on and after the Redemption Date, (vi) the place or places where the Funding Note Certificate representing the Funding Note is to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price together with any unpaid interest accrued thereon through the Redemption Date and any Additional Amounts payable with respect thereto, (vii) if applicable, in case of any redemption at the election of Global Funding, that the redemption is for a sinking fund, and (viii) the CUSIP number or any other numbers used to identify the Funding Note. (f) On or prior to any Redemption Date, Global Funding shall deposit, with respect to the Funding Note or any portion thereof called for redemption pursuant to this Section, with the Funding Note Paying Agent an amount of money in the Specified Currency sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date, unless otherwise specified in the Funding Note Certificate) any unpaid interest accrued through the Redemption Date on, and any Additional Amounts payable with respect to, the Funding Note or such portion thereof which is to be redeemed on the Redemption Date. (g) On the Redemption Date, the Funding Note or any portion thereof to be redeemed shall, become due and payable at the Redemption Price together with any unpaid interest accrued through the Redemption Date on, and any Additional Amounts 22 payable with respect to, the Funding Note or such portion thereof, and from and after such date (unless Global Funding shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and any unpaid interest accrued on the Funding Note or such portion thereof through the Redemption Date) the Funding Note or such portion thereof shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of the Funding Note Certificate for redemption of the Funding Note or any portion thereof represented thereby in accordance with the applicable notice of redemption, the Funding Note or such portion thereof shall be paid by Global Funding at the Redemption Price, together with any unpaid interest accrued thereon through the Redemption Date and any Additional Amounts payable with respect thereto. (h) If the Funding Note or any portion thereof called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender of the Funding Note Certificate for redemption, the principal and any premium, until paid, shall bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate specified in the Funding Note Certificate. (i) Notwithstanding anything herein to contrary, Global Funding may redeem the Funding Note on the Original Issue Date without notice at a price equal to the principal amount of the Funding Note (the "Immediate Redemption Price"). Global Funding may pay the Redemption Price or the Immediate Redemption Price in cash or Funding Agreement(s). Upon surrender of the Funding Note Certificate for partial redemption of the Funding Note in accordance with this Section, Global Funding shall execute and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver one or more new Funding Note Certificates of any authorized denomination representing an aggregate principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Funding Note. SECTION 3.2 Repayment at the Option of the Holder. (a) If so specified in the Funding Note Certificate, the Holder or Holders of the Funding Note may require Global Funding to repay the Funding Note prior to the Stated Maturity Date in whole or from time to time in part in increments of $1,000 or any other integral multiple of an authorized denomination specified in the Funding Note Certificate (provided that any remaining principal amount thereof shall be at least $1,000 or other minimum authorized denomination applicable thereto). 23 (b) If the Funding Note is repayable at the option of the Holder or Holders thereof before the Stated Maturity Date, the Funding Note shall be repaid in accordance with its terms. (c) The repayment of any principal amount of the Funding Note pursuant to any option of the Holder or Holders to require repayment of the Funding Note before the Stated Maturity Date shall not operate as a payment, redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by the Funding Note unless and until Global Funding, at its option, shall deliver or surrender the Funding Note Certificate representing the Funding Note to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee with a directive that the Funding Note Certificate be cancelled. (d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section, in connection with any repayment of the Funding Note, Global Funding may arrange for the purchase of the Funding Note by an agreement with one or more investment bankers or other purchasers to purchase the Funding Note by paying the Holder or Holders of the Funding Note on or before the close of business on the Repayment Date an amount not less than the Repayment Price payable by Global Funding on repayment of the Funding Note, and the obligation of Global Funding to pay the Repayment Price of the Funding Note shall be satisfied and discharged to the extent such payment is so paid by such purchasers. (e) Any exercise of the repayment option will be irrevocable. Upon surrender of the Funding Note Certificate for partial repayment of the Funding Note in accordance with this Section, Global Funding shall execute and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver one or more new Funding Note Certificates of any authorized denomination representing an aggregate principal amount equal to the outstanding portion of the Funding Note. SECTION 3.3 Repurchase of Funding Note. (a) Global Funding may purchase the Funding Note or any portion thereof in the open market or otherwise at any time, and from time to time, with the prior written consent of the Funding Agreement Provider as to both the making of such purchase and the purchase price to be paid for such Funding Note or such portion thereof. 24 (b) If the Funding Agreement Provider, in its sole discretion, consents to such purchase of the Funding Note or any portion thereof by Global Funding, the parties to the Funding Note Indenture agree to take such actions as may be necessary or desirable to effect the prepayment of such portion, or the entirety, of the current Principal Amount, under each applicable Funding Agreement as may be necessary to provide for the payment of the purchase price for the Funding Note or such portion thereof. Upon such payment, the Principal Amount under each Funding Agreement shall be reduced (i) if the Funding Note bears interest at fixed or floating rates, by an amount equal to the principal amount of the Funding Note or such portion thereof so purchased (or the portion thereof applicable to such Funding Agreement) and (ii) if the Funding Note does not bear interest at fixed or floating rates, by an amount to be agreed between Global Funding and the Funding Agreement Provider to reflect such prepayment under the Funding Agreement(s). (c) The parties acknowledge and agree that (i) notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Funding Note Indenture, any repurchase of the Funding Note or any portion thereof in compliance with this Section 3.3 shall not violate any provision of the Funding Note Indenture or the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement and (ii) no Opinion of Counsel, Trust Certificate or any other document or instrument shall be required to be provided in connection with any repurchase of the Funding Note or any portion thereof pursuant to this Section 3.3. (d) If applicable, Global Funding will comply with the requirements of Section 14(e) of the Exchange Act, and the rules promulgated thereunder, and any other applicable securities laws or regulations in connection with any repurchase pursuant to this Section 3.3. SECTION 3.4 Sinking Funds. Unless otherwise provided in the Funding Note Certificate, the Funding Note will not be subject to, or entitled to the benefit of, any sinking fund. 25 ARTICLE 4 PAYMENTS; FUNDING NOTE PAYING AGENTS AND FUNDING NOTE CALCULATION AGENT; COVENANTS SECTION 4.1 Payment of Principal and Interest. (a) Global Funding will duly and punctually pay or cause to be paid the principal of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to, the Funding Note, in accordance with the terms of the Funding Note and the Funding Note Indenture. (b) Unless otherwise specified in the Funding Note Certificate, upon the receipt of the funds necessary therefor, the applicable Funding Note Paying Agent shall duly and punctually make payments, payable on the Maturity Date, of principal in respect of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts payable with respect to, the Funding Note in immediately available funds against presentation and surrender of the Funding Note Certificate (and in the case of any repayment of the Funding Note or any portion thereof pursuant to Section 3.2, upon submission of a duly completed election form at an office or agency of such Funding Note Paying Agent maintained for such purpose pursuant to Section 4.3). The applicable Funding Note Paying Agent (unless such Funding Note Paying Agent is the Funding Note Indenture Trustee) shall promptly forward the Funding Note Certificate surrendered to it in connection with any payment pursuant to this Section for cancellation in accordance with Section 2.9. Unless otherwise specified in the Funding Note Certificate, upon the receipt of the funds necessary therefor, the applicable Funding Note Paying Agent shall duly and punctually make payments of principal of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts in respect of, the Funding Note payable on any date other than the Maturity Date by check mailed to the Holder (or to the first named of joint Holders) of the Funding Note at the close of business on the Regular Interest Record Date or Special Interest Record Date, as the case may be, at its address appearing in the Funding Note Register. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the applicable Funding Note Paying Agent shall make payments of principal, any interest, any premium, and any Additional Amounts on any date other than the Maturity Date to each Holder entitled thereto (or to the first named of joint Holders) at the close of business on the applicable Regular Interest Record Date or Special Interest Record Date, as the case may be, of $10,000,000 (or, if the Specified Currency is other than United States dollars, the equivalent thereof in the particular 26 Specified Currency) or more in principal amount of the Funding Note by wire transfer of immediately available funds if the applicable Holder has delivered appropriate wire transfer instructions in writing to the applicable Funding Note Paying Agent not less than 15 days prior to the date on which the applicable payment of principal, interest, premium or Additional Amounts is scheduled to be made. Any wire transfer instructions received by the applicable Funding Note Paying Agent shall remain in effect until revoked by the applicable Holder. (c) Unless otherwise specified in the Funding Note Certificate, if the Specified Currency of the Funding Note is other than U.S. Dollars, Global Funding shall be obligated to make, or cause to be made, payments of principal of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to, the Funding Note in such Specified Currency. Any amounts so payable by Global Funding in such Specified Currency will be converted by the Funding Note Exchange Rate Agent into United States dollars for payment to the Holder or Holders thereof unless otherwise specified in the Funding Note Certificate or a Holder elects to receive such amounts in such Specified Currency as provided below. (d) Unless otherwise specified in the Funding Note Certificate, if the Specified Currency of the Funding Note is other than U.S. dollars, any United States dollar amount to be received by the Holder or Holders of the Funding Note will be based on the highest bid quotation in The City of New York received by the Funding Note Exchange Rate Agent at approximately 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the second Business Day preceding the applicable payment date from three recognized foreign exchange dealers (one of whom may be the Funding Note Exchange Rate Agent) selected by the Funding Note Exchange Rate Agent and approved by Global Funding for the purchase by the quoting dealer of the Specified Currency for United States dollars for settlement on that payment date in the aggregate amount of such Specified Currency payable to the Holder or Holders of the Funding Note scheduled to receive United States dollar payments and at which the applicable dealer commits to execute a contract. All currency exchange costs will be borne by the relevant Holder or Holders of the Funding Note by deductions from any payments. If three bid quotations are not available, payments will be made in the Specified Currency. 27 (e) If the Specified Currency of the Funding Note is other than U.S. Dollars, Holders of the Funding Note may elect to receive all or a specified portion of any payment of principal and/or any interest, premium and Additional Amounts in the Specified Currency by submitting a written request therefor to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office in The City of New York on or prior to the applicable Regular Interest Record Date or Special Interest Record Date or at least 15 calendar days prior to the Maturity Date, as the case may be. Such written request may be mailed or hand delivered or sent by cable, telex or other form of facsimile transmission. Such election will remain in effect until revoked by written notice delivered to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee on or prior to the applicable Regular Interest Record Date or Special Interest Record Date or at least 15 calendar days prior to the Maturity Date, as the case may be. (f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Funding Note Indenture, if the Specified Currency for the Funding Note is other than U.S. Dollars and the Specified Currency is not available for any required payment of principal and/or any interest, premium and Additional Amounts due to the imposition of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond Global Funding's control, Global Funding will be entitled to satisfy its obligations with respect to the Funding Note by making, or causing to be made, payments in United States dollars based on the Market Exchange Rate, computed by the Funding Note Exchange Rate Agent, on the second Business Day prior to the particular payment date or, if the Market Exchange Rate is not then available, on the basis of the most recently available Market Exchange Rate. (g) All determinations made by the Funding Note Exchange Rate Agent shall be at its sole discretion and shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the Holder or Holders of the Funding Note. SECTION 4.2 Collection Account. Global Funding shall, on or prior to the Original Issue Date, establish a non-interest bearing account with the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or such other depository institution that is rated at least AA by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. or Aa2 by Moody's Investors Services, Inc., or has an equivalent rating from another nationally recognized statistical rating organization as may be designated by Global Funding (the "Collection Account"), into which account shall be deposited payments received under the applicable Funding Agreement(s) and which account shall be segregated from other accounts held by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or such other depositary institution. 28 SECTION 4.3 Offices for Payments, Etc. (a) So long as the Funding Note remains outstanding, Global Funding will maintain in New York and in any other city that may be required by any stock exchange on which the Funding Note may be listed, and in any city specified in the Funding Note Certificate the following: (i) an office or agency where the Funding Note may be presented for payment, (ii) an office or agency where the Funding Note may be presented for registration of transfer and for exchange as provided in the Funding Note Indenture and (iii) an office or agency where notices and demands to or upon Global Funding in respect of the Funding Note or of the Funding Note Indenture may be served. Global Funding will give to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee written notice of the location of any such office or agency and of any change of location thereof. Global Funding initially designates the Corporate Trust Office of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee as the office or agency for each such purpose. In case Global Funding shall fail to maintain any such office or agency or shall fail to give such notice of the location or of any change in the location thereof, presentations and demands may be made and notices may be served at the Corporate Trust Office. (b) Global Funding hereby agrees to issue a standing order to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, pursuant to which the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, directly or through any Funding Note Paying Agent, shall distribute all amounts due and unpaid under Section 3.1(b) of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement. For so long as (i) Global Funding has not rescinded the standing order (notice of such rescission to be promptly given by Global Funding to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee) and (ii) the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, either directly or through any Funding Note Paying Agent is able to, and does, comply with the standing order, Global Funding will not be required to establish a Payment Account (as defined in the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement) in accordance with Section 3.1 of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement. SECTION 4.4 Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in Office of Funding Note Indenture Trustee. Global Funding, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the office of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 6.8, a trustee, so that there shall at all times be a trustee under the Funding Note Indenture. 29 SECTION 4.5 Funding Note Paying Agents. (a) Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to the Funding Note Indenture, Global Funding appoints the Funding Note Indenture Trustee as Funding Note Paying Agent with respect to the Funding Note and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee accepts such appointment. The Funding Note Indenture Trustee, in its capacity as Funding Note Paying Agent, agrees, and, whenever Global Funding shall appoint a Funding Note Paying Agent other than the Funding Note Indenture Trustee with respect to the Funding Note, Global Funding will cause such Funding Note Paying Agent to execute and deliver to Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee an instrument in which such Funding Note Paying Agent shall agree with Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that it will: (i) hold all sums received by it as such agent for the payment of the principal of, any premium or interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to, the Funding Note (whether such sums have been paid to it by the Funding Agreement Provider, Global Funding or by any other obligor on the Funding Note) in trust for the benefit of each Holder of the Funding Note; (ii) give the Funding Note Indenture Trustee notice of any failure by Global Funding (or by any other obligor on the Funding Note) to make any payment of the principal of, any premium and interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to, the Funding Note when the same shall be due and payable; (iii) pay any such sums so held in trust by it to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee upon the Funding Note Indenture Trustee's written request at any time during the continuance of the failure referred to in clause (ii) above; (iv) in the absence of the failure referred in clause (ii) above, pay any such sums so held in trust by it in accordance with the Funding Note Indenture and the terms of the Funding Note; and (v) comply with all agreements of Funding Note Paying Agents in, and perform all functions and obligations imposed on Funding Note Paying Agents by or pursuant 30 to, the Funding Note Indenture and the Funding Note Certificate or Supplemental Funding Note Indenture. (b) At or prior to 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) on each due date of the principal of, any premium and interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to, the Funding Note, Global Funding will deposit or cause to be deposited with the applicable Funding Note Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such principal, any interest or premium, and any Additional Amounts, and (unless such Funding Note Paying Agent is the Funding Note Indenture Trustee) Global Funding will promptly notify the Funding Note Indenture Trustee of any failure to take such action. (c) Anything in this Section to the contrary notwithstanding, Global Funding may at any time, for purpose of obtaining satisfaction and discharge of the Funding Note under the Funding Note Indenture, pay or cause to be paid to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee all sums held in trust by Global Funding or any Funding Note Paying Agent under the Funding Note Indenture, as required by this Section, such sums to be held by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee upon the terms contained in the Funding Note Indenture. (d) Anything in this Section to the contrary notwithstanding, the agreement to hold sums in trust as provided in this Section are subject to the provisions of Sections 11.3 and 11.4. (e) The applicable Funding Note Paying Agent shall (i) collect all forms from Holders of the Funding Note (or from such other Persons as are relevant) that are required to exempt payments under the Funding Note and/or the related Funding Agreement(s) from United States Federal income tax withholding, (ii) withhold and pay over to the Internal Revenue Service or other taxing authority with respect to payments under the Funding Note any amount of taxes required to be withheld by any United States Federal, state or local statute, rule or regulation and (iii) forward copies of such forms to Global Funding and the Funding Agreement Provider. (f) Each Funding Note Paying Agent shall forward to Global Funding at least monthly a bank statement in its possession with respect to the performance of its functions and obligations with respect to the Funding Note. 31 (g) Global Funding shall pay the compensation of each Funding Note Paying Agent at such rates as shall be agreed upon in writing by Global Funding and the relevant Funding Note Paying Agent from time to time and shall reimburse each Funding Note Paying Agent for reasonable expenses properly incurred by such Funding Note Paying Agent in connection with the performance of its duties upon receipt of such invoices as Global Funding shall reasonably require. (h) Subject as provided below, each Funding Note Paying Agent may at any time resign as Funding Note Paying Agent by giving not less than 60 days' written notice to Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee (unless the Funding Note Indenture Trustee is such Funding Note Paying Agent) of such intention on its part, specifying the date on which its resignation shall become effective. Except as provided below, Global Funding may remove a Funding Note Paying Agent by giving not less than 20 days' written notice specifying such removal and the date when it shall become effective. Any such resignation or removal shall take effect upon: (i) the appointment by Global Funding of a successor Funding Note Paying Agent; and (ii) the acceptance of such appointment by such successor Funding Note Paying Agent, provided that with respect to any Funding Note Paying Agent who timely receives any amount with respect to the Funding Note and fails duly to pay any such amounts when due and payable in accordance with the terms of the Funding Note Indenture and the Funding Note, any such removal will take effect immediately upon such appointment of, and acceptance thereof by, a successor Funding Note Paying Agent approved by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee (unless the Funding Note Indenture Trustee is such Funding Note Paying Agent), in which event notice of such appointment shall be given to each Holder of the Funding Note as soon as practicable thereafter. Global Funding agrees with each Funding Note Paying Agent that if, by the day falling 10 days before the expiration of any notice given pursuant to this Section 4.5(h), Global Funding has not appointed a replacement Funding Note Paying Agent, then the Funding Note Paying Agent shall be entitled, on behalf of Global Funding, to appoint in its place a reputable financial institution of good standing reasonably acceptable to Global Funding and the Funding Note 32 Indenture Trustee (unless the Funding Note Indenture Trustee is such Funding Note Paying Agent); provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, the resignation or removal of the relevant Funding Note Paying Agent shall not be effective unless, upon the expiration of the notice given pursuant to this Section 4.5(h), the successor Funding Note Paying Agent shall have accepted its appointment. Upon its resignation or removal becoming effective, the retiring Funding Note Paying Agent shall be entitled to the payment of its compensation and reimbursement of all expenses incurred by such retiring Funding Note Paying Agent pursuant to Section 4.4(g) up to the effective date of such resignation or removal. (i) If at any time a Funding Note Paying Agent shall resign or be removed, or shall become incapable of acting with respect to the Funding Note, or shall be adjudged as bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver or liquidator of such Funding Note Paying Agent or of its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of such Funding Note Paying Agent or its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then a successor Funding Note Paying Agent shall be appointed by Global Funding by an instrument in writing filed with the successor Funding Note Paying Agent. Upon any such appointment of, and the acceptance of such appointment by, a successor Funding Note Paying Agent and (except in cases of removal for failure to timely pay any amounts as required by or pursuant to the Funding Note Indenture or the Funding Note Certificate or Supplemental Funding Note Indenture) the giving of notice to each Holder of the Funding Note, the retiring Funding Note Paying Agent shall cease to be Funding Note Paying Agent under the Funding Note Indenture. (j) Any successor Funding Note Paying Agent appointed under the Funding Note Indenture shall execute and deliver to its predecessor, Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee (unless the Funding Note Indenture Trustee is such Funding Note Paying Agent) a reasonably acceptable instrument accepting such appointment under the Funding Note Indenture, and thereupon such successor Funding Note Paying Agent, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the authority, rights, powers, trusts, immunities, duties and obligations of such predecessor with like effect as if originally named as a Funding Note Paying Agent under the Funding Note Indenture, and such predecessor, upon payment of any amounts due pursuant to Section 4.5(g) and unpaid, shall 33 thereupon become obliged to transfer and deliver, and such successor Funding Note Paying Agent shall be entitled to receive, copies of any relevant records maintained by such predecessor Funding Note Paying Agent. (k) Any entity into which a Funding Note Paying Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated or any entity resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Funding Note Paying Agent shall be a party, or any entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the paying agency business of such Funding Note Paying Agent shall be a successor Funding Note Paying Agent under the Funding Note Indenture without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties, anything in the Funding Note Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding. At least 30 days' prior notice of any such merger, conversion or consolidation shall be given to Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee (unless the Funding Note Indenture Trustee is such Funding Note Paying Agent). SECTION 4.6 Funding Note Calculation Agent. (a) Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to the Funding Note Indenture, Global Funding appoints the Funding Note Indenture Trustee as Funding Note Calculation Agent, and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee accepts such appointment. (b) The relevant Funding Note Calculation Agent shall perform all functions and obligations imposed on such Funding Note Calculation Agent by or pursuant to the Funding Note Indenture, and the Funding Note Certificate or supplemental Funding Note Indenture. (c) Each Funding Note Calculation Agent, excluding the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, shall forward to Global Funding at least monthly a report providing details with respect to the performance of its functions and obligations with respect to the Funding Note which shall include dates and amounts of forthcoming payments with respect to the Funding Note. (d) The relevant Funding Note Calculation Agent shall, upon the request of any relevant Holder of the Funding Note, provide the interest rate then in effect and, if determined, the interest rate that will become effective as a result of a determination made for the 34 next succeeding Interest Reset Date with respect to the Funding Note. (e) All determinations of interest by the Funding Note Calculation Agent shall, in the absence of manifest errors, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the Holders of the Funding Note. (f) Global Funding shall pay the compensation of each Funding Note Calculation Agent at such rates as shall be agreed upon in writing by Global Funding and the relevant Funding Note Calculation Agent from time to time and shall reimburse each Funding Note Calculation Agent for reasonable expenses properly incurred by such Funding Note Calculation Agent in connection with the performance of its duties upon receipt of such invoices as Global Funding shall reasonably require. (g) Subject as provided below, each Funding Note Calculation Agent may at any time resign as Funding Note Calculation Agent by giving not less than 60 days' written notice to Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee (unless the Funding Note Indenture Trustee is such Funding Note Calculation Agent) of such intention on its part, specifying the date on which its resignation shall become effective. Except as provided below, Global Funding may remove a Funding Note Calculation Agent by giving not less than 20 days' written notice specifying such removal and the date when it shall become effective. Any such resignation or removal shall take effect upon: (i) the appointment by Global Funding of a successor Funding Note Calculation Agent; and (ii) the acceptance of such appointment by such successor Funding Note Calculation Agent, provided that with respect to any Funding Note Calculation Agent who fails duly to establish the interest rate or amount for any Interest Reset Period, any such removal will take effect immediately upon such appointment of, and acceptance thereof by, a successor Funding Note Calculation Agent approved by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee (unless the Funding Note Indenture Trustee is such Funding Note Calculation Agent), in which event notice of such appointment shall be given to each Holder of the Funding Note as soon as practicable thereafter. Global Funding agrees with each Funding Note Calculation Agent that if, by the day falling 10 days before the expiration of 35 any notice given pursuant to this Section 4.6(g), Global Funding has not appointed a replacement Funding Note Calculation Agent, then the Funding Note Calculation Agent shall be entitled, on behalf of Global Funding, to appoint in its place a reputable financial institution of good standing reasonably acceptable to Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee (unless the Funding Note Indenture Trustee is such Funding Note Calculation Agent); provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, the resignation or removal of the relevant Funding Note Calculation Agent shall not be effective unless, upon the expiration of the notice given pursuant to this Section 4.6(g), the successor Funding Note Calculation Agent shall have accepted its appointment. Upon its resignation or removal becoming effective, the retiring Funding Note Calculation Agent shall be entitled to the payment of its compensation and reimbursement of all expenses incurred by such retiring Funding Note Calculation Agent pursuant to Section 4.6(f) up to the effective date of such resignation or removal. (h) If at any time a Funding Note Calculation Agent shall resign or be removed, or shall become incapable of acting with respect to the Funding Note, or shall be adjudged as bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver or liquidator of such Funding Note Calculation Agent or of its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of such Funding Note Calculation Agent or its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then a successor Funding Note Calculation Agent shall be appointed by Global Funding by an instrument in writing filed with the successor Funding Note Calculation Agent. Upon any such appointment of, and the acceptance of such appointment by, a successor Funding Note Calculation Agent and (except in cases of removal for failure to establish the amount of interest) the giving of notice to each Holder of the Funding Note, the retiring Funding Note Calculation Agent shall cease to be Funding Note Calculation Agent under the Funding Note Indenture. (i) Any successor Funding Note Calculation Agent appointed under the Funding Note Indenture shall execute and deliver to its predecessor, Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee (unless the Funding Note Indenture Trustee is such Funding Note Calculation Agent) a reasonably acceptable instrument, accepting such appointment under the Funding Note Indenture, and thereupon such successor Funding Note Calculation Agent, without any further act, deed or conveyance, 36 shall become vested with all the authority, rights, powers, trusts, immunities, duties and obligations of such predecessor with like effect as if originally named as a Funding Note Calculation Agent under the Funding Note Indenture, and such predecessor, upon payment of any amounts due pursuant to Section 4.6(f) and unpaid, shall thereupon become obliged to transfer and deliver, and such successor Funding Note Calculation Agent shall be entitled to receive, copies of any relevant records maintained by such predecessor Funding Note Calculation Agent. (j) Any entity into which a Funding Note Calculation Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated or any entity resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Funding Note Calculation Agent shall be a party, or an entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the paying agency business of such Funding Note Calculation Agent shall be a successor Funding Note Calculation Agent under the Funding Note Indenture without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything in the Funding Note Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding. At least 30 days' prior notice of any such merger, conversion or consolidation shall be given to Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee (unless the Funding Note Indenture Trustee is such Funding Note Calculation Agent). SECTION 4.7 Certificate to Funding Note Indenture Trustee. Global Funding will furnish to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee on or before May 15 of each year commencing with the first May 15 following the issuance of the Funding Note a brief certificate (which need not comply with Section 13.5) as to its knowledge of Global Funding's compliance with all conditions and covenants under the Funding Note Indenture (which will be determined without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided under the Funding Note Indenture). SECTION 4.8 Negative Covenants. So long as the Funding Note is outstanding, Global Funding will comply with all of its covenants set forth in Section 6.1(b) of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement. SECTION 4.9 Non-Petition. Each of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, each other party hereto and each Holder covenants and agrees that, for a period of one year plus one day after payment in full of all amounts payable under or in respect of the Funding Note Indenture and the Funding Note, it will not institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against, Global Funding any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under any federal or state bankruptcy or similar law. 37 The immediately preceding sentence shall survive any termination of the Funding Note Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and each other party hereto covenants and agrees that it will not institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against, Global Funding any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under any federal or state bankruptcy or similar law, as a result of the failure to pay fees or expenses pursuant to Section 6.6 to any party entitled thereto. Moreover, each of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and each other party hereto covenants and agrees that it will not cause an Event of Default as a result of Global Funding's failure to pay any fees or expenses to any party entitled thereto under the Funding Note Indenture. SECTION 4.10 Additional Amounts. If the Funding Note Certificate provide for the payment of Additional Amounts, Global Funding agrees to pay to the Holder of the Funding Note Additional Amounts as provided in the Funding Note Certificate. Whenever in the Funding Note Indenture there is mentioned, in any context, the payment of the principal of, or interest or premium on, or in respect of, the Funding Note or the net proceeds received on the sale or exchange of the Funding Note, such reference shall be deemed to include reference to the payment of Additional Amounts provided by the terms established by the Funding Note Indenture or pursuant to the Funding Note Indenture to the extent that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be payable in respect thereof pursuant to such terms, and express reference to the payment of Additional Amounts in any provision of the Funding Note Indenture shall not be construed as excluding Additional Amounts in those provisions hereof where such express reference is not made. If the Funding Note Certificate provides for the payment of Additional Amounts, the Funding Note Certificate will provide that Global Funding will pay, or cause to be paid, Additional Amounts to a Holder of the Funding Note to compensate for any withholding or deduction for or on account of any present or future taxes, duties, levies, assessments or governmental charges of whatever nature imposed or levied on payments on the Funding Note by or on behalf of any governmental authority in the United States having the power to tax, so that the net amount received by the Holder of the Funding Note, after giving effect to such withholding or deduction, whether or not currently payable, will equal the amount that would have been received under the Funding Note were no such deduction or withholding required; provided that no such Additional Amounts shall be required for or on account of: (a) any tax, duty, levy, assessment or other governmental charge imposed which would not have been imposed but for a Holder or 38 beneficial owner of the Funding Note, (i) having any present or former connection with the United States, including, without limitation, being or having been a citizen or resident thereof, or having been present, having been incorporated in, having engaged in a trade or business or having (or having had) a permanent establishment or principal office therein, (ii) being a controlled foreign corporation within the meaning of Section 957(a) of the Code related within the meaning of Section 864(d)(4) of the Code, to the Funding Agreement Provider, (iii) being a bank for United States Federal income tax purposes whose receipt of interest on the Funding Note is described in Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iv) being an actual or constructive owner of 10 percent or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Funding Agreement Provider entitled to vote within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3) of the Code and Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder or (v) being subject to backup withholding as of the date of the purchase by the Holder of the Funding Note; (b) any tax, duty, levy, assessment or other governmental charge which would not have been imposed but for the presentation of any Funding Note (where presentation is required) for payment on a date more than 30 days after the date on which such payment becomes due and payable or the date on which payment is duly provided for, whichever occurs later; (c) any tax, duty, levy, assessment or other governmental charge which is imposed or withheld solely by reason of the failure of the beneficial owner or a Holder of the Funding Note to comply with certification, identification or information reporting requirements concerning the nationality, residence, identity or connection with the United States of the beneficial owner or a Holder of the Funding Note, if compliance is required by statute, by regulation of the United States Treasury Department, judicial or administrative interpretation, other law or by an applicable income tax treaty to which the United States is a party as a condition to exemption from such tax, duty, levy, assessment or other governmental charge; (d) any inheritance, gift, estate, personal property, sales, transfer or similar tax, duty, levy, assessment, or similar governmental charge; 39 (e) any tax, duty, levy, assessment or other governmental charge that is payable otherwise than by withholding from payments in respect of the Funding Note; (f) any tax, duty, levy, assessment or other governmental charge imposed by reason of payments on the Funding Note being treated as contingent interest described in Section 871(h)(4) of the Code for United States Federal income tax purposes provided that such treatment was described in the Pricing Supplement; (g) any tax, duty, levy, assessment or other governmental charge that would not have been imposed but for an election by the Holder of the Funding Note, the effect of which is to make payment in respect of the Funding Note subject to United States Federal income tax or withholding tax provisions; or (h) any combination of items (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) or (g) above. ARTICLE 5 REMEDIES OF THE FUNDING NOTE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND HOLDERS ON EVENT OF DEFAULT SECTION 5.1 Event of Default Defined; Acceleration of Maturity; Waiver of Default. (a) "Event of Default" with respect to the Funding Note wherever used in the Funding Note Indenture, means each of the following events which shall have occurred and be continuing (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be 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): (i) default in the payment when due and payable of the principal of, or any premium on, the Funding Note; (ii) default in the payment, when due and payable, of any interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to, the Funding Note and continuance of such default for a period of five Business Days; (iii) any "Event of Default", as such term is defined in any Funding Agreement securing the Funding Note, by the Funding Agreement Provider under such Funding Agreement; 40 (iv) Global Funding shall fail to observe or perform any covenant contained in the Funding Note or in the Funding Note Indenture for a period of 30 days after the date on which written notice specifying such failure, stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default" under the Funding Note Indenture and demanding that Global Funding remedy the same, will have been given by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to Global Funding by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, or to Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee by the Holder or Holders of at least 25% of the outstanding principal amount of the Funding Note; or (v) the Funding Note Indenture for any reason shall cease to be in full force and effect or shall be declared null and void, or the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall fail to have or maintain a validly created and first priority perfected security interest (or the equivalent thereof) in the Collateral; or any Person shall successfully claim, as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction that any Lien for the benefit of the Holders of the Funding Note and any other Person for whose benefit the Funding Note Indenture Trustee is or will be holding the Collateral, that the Collateral is void or is junior to any other Lien or that the enforcement thereof is materially limited because of any preference, fraudulent transfer, conveyance or similar law; (vi) an involuntary case or other proceeding shall be commenced against Global Funding seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to it or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of it or any substantial part of its property, and such involuntary case or other proceeding shall remain undismissed and unstayed for a period of 60 days; or an order for relief shall be entered against Global Funding under the Federal bankruptcy laws as now or hereafter in effect; (vii) Global Funding commences a voluntary case or other proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to itself or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar 41 law or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of it or any substantial part of its property, or consents to any such relief or to the appointment of or taking possession by any such official in an involuntary case or other proceeding commenced against it, or makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or fails generally to pay its debts as they become due, or takes any action to authorize any of the foregoing; and (viii) any other Event of Default provided in any Supplemental Funding Note Indenture or in the Funding Note Certificate. (b) If one or more Events of Default shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to the Funding Note, then, and in every such event, unless the principal of the Funding Note shall have already become due and payable, either the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or the Holder or Holders of not less than 25% of the outstanding principal amount of the Funding Note under the Funding Note Indenture by notice in writing to Global Funding (and to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee if given by such Holder or Holders), may declare the entire principal and premium (if any) of the Funding Note, any interest accrued thereon, and any Additional Amounts due and owing and any other amounts payable with respect thereto, to be due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall become immediately due and payable; provided that, if any Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(a)(vi) or 5.1(a)(vii) occurs with respect to Global Funding, or if any Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(a)(iii) that would cause any Funding Agreement securing the Funding Note to become immediately due and payable occurs with respect to the Funding Agreement Provider, then without any notice to Global Funding or any other act by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or any Holder of the Funding Note, the entire principal and premium (if any) of the Funding Note, any interest accrued thereon, and any Additional Amounts due and owing, and any other amounts payable with respect thereto, shall become immediately due and payable without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by Global Funding. (c) Notwithstanding Section 5.1(b), if at any time after the principal and premium of the Funding Note, any interest accrued thereon, and any Additional Amounts due and owing and any other 42 amounts payable with respect thereto shall have been so declared due and payable and before any judgment or decree for the payment of the funds due shall have been obtained or entered as provided in the Funding Note Indenture, Global Funding shall pay or shall deposit with the Funding Note Indenture Trustee a sum sufficient to pay all due and payable interest on, and any Additional Amounts due and owing and any other amounts payable with respect to, the Funding Note and the principal and premium (if any) of the Funding Note which shall have become due and payable otherwise than by acceleration pursuant to Section 5.1(b) above (with interest on such principal and, to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law, on any overdue interest and any other amounts payable, at the same rate as the rate of interest specified in the Funding Note Certificate to the date of such payment or deposit) and such amount as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Funding Note Indenture Trustee, their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Funding Note Indenture Trustee except as a result of negligence or bad faith, and if any and all Events of Default under the Funding Note Indenture, other than the non-payment of the principal of and premium (if any) on the Funding Note which shall have become due by acceleration, shall have been cured, waived or otherwise remedied as provided in the Funding Note Indenture, then and in every such case the Holder Representative (as defined in Section 5.8(a) hereof), by written notice to Global Funding and to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, may waive all defaults and rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences, but no such waiver or rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any subsequent default or shall impair any right consequent thereon. SECTION 5.2 Collection of Indebtedness by Funding Note Indenture Trustee; Funding Note Indenture Trustee May Prove Debt. (a) Subject to Section 5.1(c), if any Event of Default contained in Section 5.1(a)(i) or (ii) shall have occurred and be continuing, Global Funding will, upon demand by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, pay to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee for the benefit of each Holder of the Funding Note the whole amount that then shall have become due and payable of the principal of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts due 43 and owing and any other amounts payable with respect to, the Funding Note (with interest to the date of such payment upon the overdue principal and, to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law, on overdue interest and any other amounts payable at the same rate as the rate of interest specified in the Funding Note); and in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including reasonable compensation to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Funding Note Indenture Trustee, their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and any expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Funding Note Indenture Trustee except as a result of its negligence or bad faith. (b) Until such demand is made by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, Global Funding may pay the principal of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts due and owing and any other amounts payable with respect to, the Funding Note to the Holders, whether or not the Funding Note be overdue. (c) If Global Funding shall fail to pay such amounts upon such demand, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, shall be entitled and empowered to institute any action or proceedings at law or in equity for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute any such action or proceedings to judgment or final decree, and may enforce any such judgment or final decree against Global Funding or other obligor upon the Funding Note and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of Global Funding or other obligor upon the Funding Note, wherever the funds adjudged or decreed to be payable are situated. If there shall be pending proceedings relative to Global Funding or any other obligor upon the Funding Note under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or if a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of Global Funding or its property or such other obligor, or in case of any other comparable judicial proceedings relative to Global Funding or other obligor upon the Funding Note, or to the creditors or property of Global Funding or such other obligor, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of the Funding Note shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by 44 declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Funding Note 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 such proofs of a claim or claims and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee (including any claim for reasonable compensation to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Funding Note Indenture Trustee, and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of all expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Funding Note Indenture Trustee, except as those adjudicated in a court of competent jurisdiction to be the result of any such Funding Note Indenture Trustee's negligence or bad faith) and of the Holders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to Global Funding or other obligor upon the Funding Note, or to the creditors or property of Global Funding or such other obligor, (ii) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on behalf of the Holders of the Funding Note in any election of a trustee or a standby trustee in arrangement, reorganization, liquidation or other bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings or Person performing similar functions in comparable proceedings, and (iii) to collect and receive any funds or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute all amounts received with respect to the claims of each Holder and of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee on each Holder's behalf; and any trustee, receiver, or liquidator, custodian or other similar official is hereby authorized by each Holder to make payments to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, and, in the event that the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall consent to the making of payments directly to any Holder, to pay to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, each predecessor Funding Note Indenture Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and 45 liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Funding Note Indenture Trustee except as those adjudicated in a court of competent jurisdiction to be the result of any such Funding Note Indenture Trustee's negligence or bad faith. (d) Nothing contained in the Funding Note Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the Funding Note Indenture Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan or reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Funding Note or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Funding Note Indenture Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar Person. (e) All rights of action and of asserting claims under the Funding Note Indenture, or under the Funding Note, may be enforced by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee without the possession of the Funding Note or the production thereof on any trial or other proceedings relative thereto, and any such action or proceedings instituted by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment, subject to the payment of the expenses, disbursements and compensation of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, each predecessor Funding Note Indenture Trustee and their respective agents and attorneys, shall be for the ratable benefit of each Holder. (f) In any proceedings brought by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee (and also any proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of the Funding Note Indenture to which the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall be a party) the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall be held to represent every Holder of the Funding Note, and it shall not be necessary to make any Holder of the Funding Note party to any such proceedings. SECTION 5.3 Application of Proceeds. (a) Any funds collected by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee following an Event of Default pursuant to this Article or otherwise under the Funding Note Indenture and any applicable Supplemental Funding Note Indenture in respect of the Funding Note shall be held in trust in the Collection Account and be applied in the following order at the date or dates fixed by the 46 Funding Note Indenture Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such funds on account of principal, any premium and interest and any Additional Amounts, upon presentation of the Funding Note Certificate representing the Funding Note and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid or upon the surrender thereof if fully paid: First: To the payment of costs and expenses, including reasonable compensation to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Funding Note Indenture Trustee and their respective agents and attorneys and of all expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Funding Note Indenture Trustee except those adjudicated in a court of competent jurisdiction to be the result of any such Funding Note Indenture Trustee's negligence or bad faith, in an aggregate amount of no more than $250,000 for all Program Funding Notes, the extent not paid pursuant to the Amended and Restated Support Agreement; Second: To the payment of principal, any premium and interest, any Additional Amounts and any other amounts then due and owing on the Funding Note; Third: To the payment of any other Obligations then due and owing with respect to the Funding Note; and To the payment of any remaining balance to Global Funding for Fourth: distribution by the Delaware Trustee in accordance with the provisions of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement. (b) All funds deposited with the Funding Note Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Funding Note Indenture, except when an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, shall be held in trust in the Collection Account and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Funding Note and the Funding Note Indenture, to the payment through any Funding Note Paying Agent, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal, premium, if any, interest and Additional Amounts, if any, for whose payment such money has been deposited with or received by the Funding Note Trustee. If no Event of Default with respect to he Funding Note has occurred and is continuing, the following priority of payments shall apply: First: To the payment of principal, any premium and interest, any Additional Amounts, and any other amounts then due and owing on the Funding Note; 47 Second: To the payment of any other Obligations then due and owing with respect to the Funding Note; and Third: To the payment of any remaining balance to Global Funding for distribution by the Delaware Trustee in accordance with the provisions of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement. The Funding Note Indenture Trustee may make distributions under the Funding Note Indenture in cash or in kind or, on a ratable basis, in any combination thereof. SECTION 5.4 Suits for Enforcement. If an Event of Default has occurred, has not been waived and is continuing, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by the Funding Note Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any of such rights, either at law or in equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement contained in the Funding Note Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in the Funding Note Indenture or to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Funding Note Indenture Trustee by the Funding Note Indenture or by law. SECTION 5.5 Restoration of Rights on Abandonment of Proceedings. If the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under the Funding Note Indenture and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or shall have been determined adversely to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, then and in every such case Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall be restored respectively to their former positions and rights under the Funding Note Indenture, and all rights, remedies and powers of Global Funding, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and each Holder shall continue as though no such proceedings had been taken. SECTION 5.6 Limitations on Suits by Holders. No Holder of the Funding Note shall have any right by virtue or by availing of any provision of the Funding Note Indenture to institute any action or proceeding at law or in equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise upon or under or with respect to the Funding Note Indenture, or for the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official or for any other remedy under the Funding Note Indenture, unless: (i) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee of a continuing Event of Default; (ii) the Holder or Holders of the Funding Note representing not less than 25% of the outstanding principal amount of the Funding Note shall have made written request to the 48 Funding Note Indenture Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as the Funding Note Indenture Trustee; (iii) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee indemnity or security satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request; (iv) the Funding Note Indenture Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity shall have failed to institute any such action or proceedings; and (v) no direction inconsistent with such written request shall have been given to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holder or Holders of the Funding Note representing at least 66 2/3% of the outstanding principal amount of the Funding Note; it being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by each Holder of the Funding Note with each other Holder of the Funding Note and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, that no Holder or Holders of the Funding Note shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of the Funding Note Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holder of the Funding Note, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other Holder of the Funding Note or to enforce any right under the Funding Note Indenture, except in the manner provided herein and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all the Holders of the Funding Note. For the protection and enforcement of the provisions of this Section, each Holder and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity. Notwithstanding any other provisions in the Funding Note Indenture, however, the right of any Holder of the Funding Note, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of (and premium, if any), and interest on, if any, and Additional Amounts, if any, with respect to the Funding Note, on or after the respective due dates expressed in the Funding Note, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder. SECTION 5.7 Powers and Remedies Cumulative; Delay or Omission Not Waiver of Default. (a) Except as provided in Section 2.7, no right or remedy in the Funding Note Indenture conferred upon or reserved to the 49 Funding Note Indenture Trustee or to any Holder 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 under the Funding Note Indenture or existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy under the Funding Note Indenture, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy. (b) No delay or omission of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or of any Holder of the Funding Note to exercise any right or power accruing upon any Event of Default occurring and continuing as aforesaid shall impair any such right or power or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein; and, subject to Section 5.6, every power and remedy given by the Funding Note Indenture or by law to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or to any Holder may be exercised from time to time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or by such Holder. SECTION 5.8 Control by the Holders. (a) The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Funding Note at the time outstanding shall have the right to elect a holder representative (the "Holder Representative") who shall have binding authority upon all the Holders and shall replace any Holder Representative then acting in such capacity, and who shall direct the time, method, and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Funding Note Indenture Trustee by the Funding Note Indenture, provided that: (i) such direction shall not be otherwise than in accordance with law and the provisions of the Funding Note Indenture; and (ii) subject to the provisions of Section 6.1, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, being advised by counsel, shall determine that the action or proceeding so directed may not lawfully be taken or if the Funding Note Indenture Trustee in good faith by its board of directors, the executive committee, or a trust 50 committee of directors or Responsible Officers of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall determine that the action or proceedings so directed would involve the Funding Note Indenture Trustee in personal liability. (b) Nothing in the Funding Note Indenture shall impair the right of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee in its discretion to take any action deemed proper by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and which is not inconsistent with such direction by the Holders. SECTION 5.9 Waiver of Past Defaults. Prior to the declaration of the maturity of the Funding Note as provided in Section 5.1, the Holder Representative may on behalf of the Holders of the Funding Note waive any past default or Event of Default under the Funding Note Indenture and its consequences, except a default: (i) in the payment of principal of, any premium or interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to, the Funding Note; or (ii) in respect of a covenant or provision of the Funding Note Indenture which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of the Funding Note. Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist and be deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, and not to have occurred for every purpose of the Funding Note Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon. ARTICLE 6 THE FUNDING NOTE INDENTURE TRUSTEE SECTION 6.1 Certain Duties and Responsibilities. (a) Except if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (and it has not been cured or waived), the Funding Note Indenture Trustee undertakes to perform in a prudent manner such duties and only such duties with respect to the Funding Note as are specifically set forth in the Funding Note Indenture. No implied covenants or obligations shall be read into the Funding Note Indenture against the Funding Note Indenture Trustee. (b) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (and it has not been cured or waived), the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers with respect to the Funding Note vested in it by the Funding Note Indenture, and use 51 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 his or her own affairs. (c) No provision of the Funding Note Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Funding Note Indenture Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that: (i) this subsection (c) shall not be construed to limit the effect of subsection (a) of this Section; (ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Funding Note 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 Funding Note Indenture Trustee and conforming to the requirements of the Funding Note Indenture unless a Responsible Officer of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee has actual knowledge that such statements or opinions are false; provided that the Funding Note Indenture Trustee must examine such certificates and opinions to determine whether they conform to the requirements of the Funding Note Indenture; (iii) the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by any Responsible Officer of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, unless it is proved that the Funding Note Indenture Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; (iv) the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holder Representative relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, under the Funding Note Indenture with respect to the Funding Note; and (v) no provision of the Funding Note Indenture shall require the Funding Note Indenture Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the 52 performance of any of its duties under the Funding Note Indenture, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such liability is not reasonably assured to it. (d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of the Funding Note Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section. SECTION 6.2 Certain Rights of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee. Subject to Section 6.1: (a) the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, coupon, security or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties; (b) any request, direction, order or demand of Global Funding mentioned in the Funding Note Indenture shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Trust Certificate (unless other evidence in respect thereof be specifically prescribed in the Funding Note Indenture); (c) the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may consult with counsel and any advice or Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it under the Funding Note Indenture in good faith and in reliance on such advice or Opinion of Counsel; (d) the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the trusts or powers vested in it by the Funding Note Indenture at the request, order or direction of any Holder Representative pursuant to the provisions of the Funding Note Indenture, unless such Holder Representative shall have offered to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request, order or direction; 53 (e) whenever in the administration of the Funding Note Indenture the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking or suffering or omitting any action under the Funding Note Indenture, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be specifically prescribed in the Funding Note Indenture) may, in the absence of negligence or bad faith on its part, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by a Trust Certificate delivered to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee; (f) the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted by it in good faith and believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion, rights or powers conferred upon it by the Funding Note Indenture; (g) the Funding Note 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, appraisal, bond, debenture, note, coupon, security, or other paper or document unless requested in writing so to do by the Holder Representative; provided that, if the payment within a reasonable time to the Funding Note 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 Funding Note Indenture Trustee, not reasonably assured to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee by the security afforded to it by the terms of the Funding Note Indenture, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may require reasonable indemnity against such expenses or liabilities as a condition to proceeding; the reasonable expenses of every such examination shall be paid by Global Funding or, if paid by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or any predecessor trustee, shall be repaid by Global Funding upon demand; and (h) the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers under the Funding Note Indenture or perform any duties under the Funding Note Indenture either directly or by or through agents or attorneys not regularly in its employ and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any such agent or attorney appointed with due care by it under the Funding Note Indenture. SECTION 6.3 Not Responsible for Recitals, Validity of the Funding Note or Application of the Proceeds. The recitals contained in the Funding Note Indenture 54 and in the Funding Note, except the Funding Note Indenture Trustee's certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of Global Funding, and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the same. The Funding Note Indenture Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of the Funding Note Indenture or of the Funding Note. The Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Funding Agreement Provider of the proceeds of the Funding Agreement(s). SECTION 6.4 May Hold Funding Note; Collections, Etc. The Funding Note Indenture Trustee or any agent of Global Funding or the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of the Funding Note with the same rights it would have if it were not the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or such agent and, subject to Section 6.7, Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, and Rule 3a-7 of the Investment Company Act, may otherwise deal with Global Funding and receive, collect, hold and retain collections from Global Funding with the same rights it would have if it were not the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or such agent. SECTION 6.5 Funds Held by Funding Note Indenture Trustee. Subject to the provisions of Section 11.4, all funds received by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall, until used or applied as provided in the Funding Note Indenture, be held in trust for the purposes for which they were received. The Funding Note Indenture Trustee (and each of its agents and Affiliates) shall deposit all cash amounts received by it (or any such agents or Affiliates) that are derived from the Collateral for the benefit of the Holders of the Funding Note in the Collection Account. Neither the Funding Note Indenture Trustee nor any agent of Global Funding or the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall be under any liability for interest on any funds received by it under the Funding Note Indenture. SECTION 6.6 Compensation; Reimbursement; Indemnification. (a) Global Funding covenants and agrees: (i) to pay to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee from time to time, and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to, reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it under the Funding Note Indenture (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust); (ii) except as otherwise provided in the Funding Note Indenture, to pay or reimburse the Funding Note Indenture Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made 55 by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee in accordance with any provision of the Funding Note Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may arise from its negligence or bad faith; and (iii) to indemnify the Funding Note Indenture Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the Funding Note Indenture or the trusts under the Funding Note Indenture and its duties under the Funding Note Indenture, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against or investigating any claim of liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties under the Funding Note Indenture. (b) The obligations of Global Funding under this Section to compensate and indemnify the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and to pay or reimburse the Funding Note Indenture Trustee for expenses, disbursements and advances shall constitute additional indebtedness under the Funding Note Indenture and shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of the Funding Note Indenture and any resignation or removal of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee. SECTION 6.7 Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility. (a) There shall at all times be a Funding Note Indenture Trustee under the Funding Note Indenture which shall: (i) be a banking corporation or national association authorized under its laws of incorporation or formation and the laws of the jurisdiction in which it administers the Funding Note Indenture and any Supplemental Funding Note Indenture to exercise corporate trust powers, having an aggregate capital, surplus of at least $50,000,000; provided that if such banking corporation or national association publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of its Federal, State or other governmental supervisor, then for the purposes of this Section, the aggregate capital, surplus and undivided profits of such banking corporation or 56 national association shall be deemed to be its aggregate capital, surplus and undivided profits as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published; (ii) not be affiliated (as such term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) with Global Funding or with any Person involved in the organization or operation of Global Funding; and (iii) not offer or provide credit or credit enhancement to Global Funding. (b) If at any time the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.7(a) or the requirements of Section 310 of the Trust Indenture Act, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 6.8. SECTION 6.8 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor Trustee. (a) The Funding Note Indenture Trustee may at any time resign by giving not less than 90 days' prior written notice of resignation to Global Funding and to the Holders of the Funding Note as provided in the Funding Note Indenture. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, Global Funding shall promptly cause a successor trustee with respect to the applicable series to be appointed by written instrument in duplicate, executed by Global Funding, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning trustee and one copy to the successor trustee. If no successor trustee shall have been so appointed and have accepted appointment within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, appoint a successor trustee. (b) If at any time: (i) the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.7(a) or the requirements of Section 310 of the Trust Indenture Act or any applicable Supplemental Funding Note Indenture and shall fail to resign pursuant to Section 57 6.7(b) or following written request therefor by Global Funding or by any such Holder pursuant to Section 6.8(c); (ii) the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall become incapable of acting with respect to the Funding Note, or shall be adjudged as bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver or liquidator of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation; or (iii) the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall fail to comply with the obligations imposed upon it under Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to the Funding Note after written request therefor by Global Funding or any Holder of the Funding Note who has been a bona fide Holder of the Funding Note for at least six months; then, in any such case, except during the existence of an Event of Default, Global Funding may remove the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor trustee. (c) In addition to the right of petition given to the resigning trustee and the right of removal given to Global Funding under Sections 6.8(a) and 6.8(b), respectively, any Holder who has been a Holder of the Funding Note for at least six months may, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee or the removal of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and the appointment of a successor trustee, as the case may be. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, appoint a successor trustee or remove the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and appoint a successor trustee, as the case may be. (d) The Holder Representative may at any time remove the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and appoint a successor trustee by delivering to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee so removed, to the successor trustee so appointed and to Global Funding the evidence provided for in Section 8.1 of the action in that regard taken by a Holder. 58 (e) Any resignation or removal of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and any appointment of a successor trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 6.8 shall only become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as provided in Section 6.9. SECTION 6.9 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Funding Note Trustee. (a) Every successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 6.8 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to Global Funding and to its predecessor trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor trustee shall become effective and such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor under the Funding Note Indenture, with like effect as if originally named as trustee under the Funding Note Indenture; but, nevertheless, on the written request of Global Funding or of the successor trustee, upon payment of its charges then unpaid, the trustee ceasing to act shall, subject to Section 11.4, pay over to the successor trustee all funds at the time held by it under the Funding Note Indenture and shall execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor trustee all such rights, powers, duties and obligations. Upon request of any such successor trustee, Global Funding shall execute any and all instruments in writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor trustee all such rights and powers. Subject to the Lien created under the Funding Note Indenture, any trustee ceasing to act shall, nevertheless, retain a claim upon all property or funds held or collected by such trustee to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.6. (b) Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Funding Note Indenture Trustee as provided in this Section 6.9, Global Funding shall notify each Holder of the Funding Note and each rating agency then rating the Funding Note at the request of Global Funding. If the acceptance of appointment is substantially contemporaneous with the resignation, then the notice called for by the preceding sentence may be combined with the notice called for by Section 6.8. If Global Funding fails to make such notice within 10 days after acceptance of appointment by the successor Funding Note Indenture Trustee, the successor Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the expense of Global Funding. 59 SECTION 6.10 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business of Funding Note Indenture Trustee. (a) Any corporation or entity into which the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation or entity resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation or entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, shall be the successor of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee under the Funding Note Indenture, provided that such corporation or entity shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 6.7, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties to the Funding Note Indenture, anything in the Funding Note Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding. (b) In case at the time such successor to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by the Funding Note Indenture the Funding Note shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Funding Note Indenture Trustee and deliver such Funding Note so authenticated; and, in case at that time the Funding Note shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may authenticate such Funding Note either in the name of any predecessor under the Funding Note Indenture or in the name of the successor Funding Note Indenture Trustee; and in all such cases such certificate shall have the full force; provided, that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Funding Note Indenture Trustee or to authenticate the Funding Note in the name of any predecessor Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation. SECTION 6.11 Limitations on Rights of Funding Note Indenture Trustee as Creditor. The Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall comply with Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture Act. 60 ARTICLE 7 HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY FUNDING NOTE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND GLOBAL FUNDING SECTION 7.1 Global Funding to Furnish Funding Note Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders. In accordance with Section 312(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, Global Funding shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee: (a) semi-annually not later than June 30 and December 31 of the year or upon such other dates as are set forth in or pursuant to the Funding Note Certificate or Supplemental Funding Note Indenture, a list, in each case in such form as the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of Holders as of the applicable date, and (b) at such other times as the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by Global Funding of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished, provided, however, that so long as the Funding Note Indenture Trustee is the Funding Note Registrar no such list shall be required to be furnished. SECTION 7.2 Preservation of Information; Communication to Holders. The Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall comply with the obligations imposed upon it pursuant to Section 312 of the Trust Indenture Act. Every Holder of the Funding Note, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee that neither Global Funding, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, any Funding Note Paying Agent or any Funding Note Registrar shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses of the Holders of the Funding Note in accordance with Section 312(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, regardless of the source from which such information was derived, and that the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under Section 312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. SECTION 7.3 Reports by Funding Note Indenture Trustee. (a) Within 60 days after May 15 of each year commencing with the first May 15 following the issuance of the Funding Note, if required by Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall transmit, pursuant to 61 Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, a brief report dated as of May 15 with respect to any of the events specified in Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act which may have occurred since the later of the immediately preceding May 15 and the date of the Funding Note Indenture. (b) The Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall transmit the reports required by Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act at the time specified therein. (c) The Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall comply with Section 313(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. (d) Reports pursuant to this Section shall be transmitted in the manner and to the Persons required by Sections 313(c) and 313(d) of the Trust Indenture Act. (e) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee with each stock exchange upon which the Funding Note is listed, with the Commission and Global Funding. Global Funding will notify the Funding Note Indenture Trustee whether the Funding Note is listed on any stock exchange. (f) Within ten days following any distribution made or scheduled to be made on the Funding Note, including any Interest Payment Date or the Maturity Date, and only to the extent Global Funding is required to file reports under the Exchange Act on its own behalf, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee will deliver to the Funding Agreement Provider and each Holder a report substantially in the form attached as Exhibit C. SECTION 7.4 Reports by Global Funding. Pursuant to Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, Global Funding shall: (a) file, or cause to be filed, with the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, within 15 days after Global Funding 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 rules and regulations prescribe) which Global Funding may be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act; or, 62 if Global Funding is not required to file information, documents or reports pursuant to either of said Sections, then it shall file, or cause to be filed, with the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such of the supplementary and periodic information, documents and reports which may be required pursuant to Section 13 of the Exchange Act in respect of a security listed and registered on a national securities exchange as may be prescribed form time to time in such rules and regulations; provided that if, pursuant to any publicly available interpretations of the Commission, Global Funding would not be required to make such filings under Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, then Global Funding shall not be required to make such filings; (b) file, or cause to be filed on its behalf, with the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such additional information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by Global Funding, with the conditions and covenants of the Funding Note Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules and regulations; and (c) transmit within 30 days after the filing thereof with the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, such summaries of any information, documents and reports required to be filed by or on behalf of Global Funding pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section as may be required by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission. SECTION 7.5 Reports on Assessment of Compliance with Servicing Criteria and Compliance Statements; Attestation Reports of Registered Public Accounting Firm. To the extent Global Funding is required to file reports under the Exchange Act on its behalf, in connection with the filing of any Annual Report on Form 10-K of Global Funding filed under the Exchange Act (each, an "Annual Report"), each of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and each Funding Note Paying Agent (unless the Funding Note Indenture Trustee is the only Funding Note Paying Agent) shall (a) provide to the Funding Agreement Provider and Global Funding (i) a report required pursuant to Item 1122(a) of Regulation AB (17 CFR 229.1100 - 1123)("Regulation AB") on an assessment of compliance with the servicing criteria set forth in Item 1122(d) of Regulation AB (each a "Compliance Report") and (ii) a statement of compliance required pursuant to Item 1123 of Regulation AB, each of which shall be dated the date of, and shall be filed as an exhibit to, the applicable Annual Report; and (b) cause, at the expense of the Funding Agreement Provider, a 63 registered public accounting firm to provide to the Funding Agreement Provider and Global Funding an attestation report on the applicable Compliance Report as required pursuant to Item 1122(b) of Regulation AB, which shall be dated the date of, and shall be filed as an exhibit to, the applicable Annual Report. ARTICLE 8 CONCERNING EACH HOLDER SECTION 8.1 Evidence of Action Taken by a Holder. (a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by the Funding Note Indenture to be given or taken by any Holder may be embodied in and evidenced (i) by any instrument or any number of instruments of similar tenor executed by Holders in person or by agent or proxy appointed in writing, or (ii) by the record of the Holders of the Funding Note voting in favor thereof at any meeting of Holders duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article 12, or (iii) by a combination of such instrument or instruments and any such record of such meeting of Holders. Except as otherwise expressly provided in the Funding Note Indenture, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee. Proof of execution of any instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of the Funding Note Indenture and (subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2) conclusive in favor of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and Global Funding, if made in the manner provided in this Article. The record of any meeting of Holders of the Funding Note shall be proved in the manner provided in Section 12.6. (b) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action of a Holder of the Funding Note shall bind every future Holder of the same Funding Note and the Holder of every Funding Note issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or Global Funding in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon the Funding Note. 64 SECTION 8.2 Proof of Execution of Instruments and of Holding of Funding Note. (a) Subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, the execution of any instrument by a Holder or its agent or proxy may be proved in accordance with such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee. (b) The ownership, principal amount and CUSIP number of the Funding Note shall be proved by the Funding Note Register or by a certificate of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee. SECTION 8.3 Voting Record Date. Global Funding may set a record date for purposes of determining the identity of each Holder of the Funding Note entitled to vote or consent to any action referred to in Section 8.1, which record date may be set at any time or from time to time by notice to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, for any date or dates (in the case of any adjournment or resolicitation) not more than 60 days nor less than 5 days prior to the proposed date of such vote or consent, and thereafter, notwithstanding any other provisions of the Funding Note Indenture, only a Holder of the Funding Note on such record date shall be entitled to so vote or give such consent or to withdraw such vote or consent. SECTION 8.4 Persons Deemed to be Owners. Global Funding, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and any agent of Global Funding or the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may deem and treat the Holder of the Funding Note as the absolute owner of the Funding Note (whether or not the Funding Note shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing on the Funding Note Certificate) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal of, any premium on, and, subject to the provisions of the Funding Note Indenture, any interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to, the Funding Note and for all other purposes; and neither Global Funding nor the Funding Note Indenture Trustee nor any agent of Global Funding or the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. All such payments so made to any such Person, or upon such Person's order, shall be valid, and, to the extent of the sum or sums so paid, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for funds payable upon the Funding Note. SECTION 8.5 Right of Revocation of Action Taken; Binding Effect of Actions by Holders. (a) At any time prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, as provided in Section 8.1, of the taking of any action by the Holders of the percentage of the principal amount of the Funding Note specified in the Funding Note Indenture in connection with such action, any Holder of the 65 Funding Note may, by filing written notice at the Corporate Trust Office and upon proof of holding as provided in this Article, revoke such action so far as concerns such Holder's interest in the Funding Note. (b) Any action taken by the Holders of the percentage of the principal amount of the Funding Note specified in the Funding Note Indenture in connection with such action shall be conclusively binding upon Global Funding, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and all present and future Holders of the Funding Note, of the Funding Note issued in exchange for the Funding Note or the Funding Note represented by the Funding Note Certificate executed, authenticated and delivered in exchange for the Funding Note Certificate representing the Funding Note, irrespective of whether or not any notation in regard of any such action is made on the applicable Funding Note Certificate. ARTICLE 9 SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING NOTE INDENTURES SECTION 9.1 Supplemental Funding Note Indentures Without Consent of Holders. (a) Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may from time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental to the Funding Note Indenture (each, a "Supplemental Funding Note Indenture") (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act) for one or more of the following purposes without the consent of any Holder: (i) for Global Funding to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee as security for the Funding Note any property or assets; (ii) to add to the covenants of Global Funding such further covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions as Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall consider to be for the protection of each Holder of the Funding Note, and to make the occurrence, or the occurrence and continuance, of a default in any such additional covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions an Event of Default permitting the enforcement of all or any of the several remedies provided in the Funding Note 66 Indenture as set forth in the Funding Note Indenture; provided, that in respect of any such additional covenant, restriction, condition or provision such Supplemental Funding Note Indenture may provide for a particular period of grace after default (which period may be shorter or longer than that allowed in the case of other defaults) or may provide for an immediate enforcement upon such an Event of Default or may limit the remedies available to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee upon such an Event of Default or may limit the right of the Holder Representative to waive such an Event of Default; (iii) to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provision contained in the Funding Note Indenture or in any Supplemental Funding Note Indenture or the Funding Note Certificate which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision contained in the Funding Note Indenture or in any Supplemental Funding Note Indenture or the Funding Note Certificate; or to make such other provisions in regard to matters or questions arising under the Funding Note Indenture or under any Supplemental Funding Note Indenture or the Funding Note Certificate which shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Funding Note in any material respect; or (iv) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment under the Funding Note Indenture by a successor trustee and to add to or change any of the provisions of the Funding Note Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts under the Funding Note Indenture by more than one trustee. (b) The Funding Note Indenture Trustee is authorized to join with Global Funding in the execution of any such Supplemental Funding Note Indenture, and to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations which may be therein contained, but the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall not be obligated to enter into any such Supplemental Funding Note Indenture which affects the Funding Note Indenture Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under the Funding Note Indenture or otherwise. (c) Any Supplemental Funding Note Indenture authorized by the provisions of this Section may be executed without the consent of 67 any Holder of the Funding Note at the time outstanding, notwithstanding any of the provisions of Section 9.2. SECTION 9.2 Supplemental Funding Note Indentures with Consent of Holders. (a) With the consent (evidenced as provided in Article 8) of the Holders of not less than 66 2/3% of the outstanding principal amount of the Funding Note, Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may, from time to time and at any time, enter into a Supplemental Funding Note Indenture for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of the Funding Note Indenture or of any Supplemental Funding Note Indenture or Funding Note Certificate or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Funding Note; provided, that no such Supplemental Funding Note Indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of the Funding Note: (i) change the final maturity of the Funding Note, or reduce the principal amount thereof, or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of interest or any other amount payable thereon, or impair or affect the right of any Holder to institute suit for the payment thereof or modify any redemption or repayment provisions applicable to the Funding Note; (ii) permit the creation of any Lien on the Collateral or any part thereof (other than the Security Interest) or terminate the Security Interest as to any part of the Collateral, except as permitted by the Funding Note Indenture; or (iii) modify any of the provisions of this Section 9.2 except to increase the aforementioned percentage of the Funding Note required to approve any Supplemental Funding Note Indenture. (b) Upon the request of Global Funding, and upon the filing with the Funding Note Indenture Trustee of evidence of the consent of each Holder and other documents, if any, required by Section 8.1 the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall join with Global Funding in the execution of such Supplemental Funding Note Indenture unless such Supplemental Funding Note Indenture affects the Funding Note Indenture Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under the Funding Note Indenture or otherwise, in 68 which case the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such Supplemental Funding Note Indenture. (c) It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed Supplemental Funding Note Indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. (d) Promptly after the execution by Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee of any Supplemental Funding Note Indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Section, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall notify the Holders of the Funding Note, as provided in the Funding Note Indenture, setting forth in general terms the substance of such Supplemental Funding Note Indenture. Any failure of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee to provide such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such Supplemental Funding Note Indenture. SECTION 9.3 Compliance with Trust Indenture Act; Effect of Supplemental Funding Note Indentures. Any Supplemental Funding Note Indenture executed pursuant to the provisions of this Article shall comply with the Trust Indenture Act. Upon the execution of any Supplemental Funding Note Indenture pursuant to the provisions of the Funding Note Indenture, the Funding Note Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith and the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities under the Funding Note Indenture of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, Global Funding, each agent of Global Funding and each Holder of the Funding Note shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced under the Funding Note Indenture subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments, and all the terms and conditions of any such Supplemental Funding Note Indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of the Funding Note Indenture for any and all purposes. SECTION 9.4 Documents to Be Given to Funding Note Indenture Trustee. The Funding Note Indenture Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 6.1 and 6.2, may receive a Trust Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any such Supplemental Funding Note Indenture complies with the applicable provisions of the Funding Note Indenture. SECTION 9.5 Notation on Funding Note Certificate in Respect of Supplemental Funding Note Indentures. The Funding Note Certificate may bear a notation in form approved by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee as to any matter provided for by any Supplemental Funding Note Indenture or as to any action taken at any such meeting. If Global Funding or the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall so 69 determine, a new Funding Note Certificate representing the Funding Note so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and Global Funding, to any modification of the Funding Note Indenture contained in any such Supplemental Funding Note Indenture may be prepared by Global Funding, authenticated by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and delivered in exchange for the Funding Note Certificate then representing the Funding Note. SECTION 9.6 Amendment to Funding Agreement(s). (a) Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may from time to time and at any time enter into or consent to one or more amendments to any Funding Agreement for one or more of the following purposes without the consent of any Holder: to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provision contained in such Funding Agreement which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision contained in such Funding Agreement, or with any provision of the Funding Note Indenture, the Funding Note, the Notes, the Distribution Agreement, the Trust Agreement, the Administrative Services Agreement, the Coordination Agreement, the Name Licensing Agreement, the Support Agreement, the Terms Agreement or the Pricing Supplement, or to make such other provisions in regard to matters or questions arising under such Funding Agreement or the Funding Note Indenture which shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Funding Note in any material respect. (b) With the consent (evidenced as provided in Article 8) of the Holders of not less than 66 2/3% of the outstanding principal amount of the Funding Note, Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may, from time to time and at any time, enter into or consent to one or more amendments to any Funding Agreement for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of such Funding Agreement; provided, that no such amendment shall change the Maturity Date (as defined in such Funding Agreement) of such Funding Agreement, or reduce the principal amount thereof, or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of interest or any other amount payable thereon, or impair or affect the right of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or Global Funding to institute suit for the payment thereof or modify any redemption or repayment provisions applicable to such Funding Agreement without the consent of the Holder of any Funding Note affected thereby. 70 (c) The Funding Note Indenture Trustee may receive and conclusively rely upon an Opinion of Counsel stating whether or not the Funding Note would be affected by any amendment of a Funding Agreement and any such Opinion of Counsel shall be conclusive upon all the Holders of the Funding Note. (d) Notwithstanding any other provision, Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee will not enter into or consent to any amendment to any Funding Agreement with the Funding Agreement Provider or permit any Funding Agreement to be amended or modified if such amendment or modification would cause Global Funding not to be ignored or treated as a "grantor trust" for United States federal income tax purposes (as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel). Furthermore, Global Funding and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee will not enter into or consent to any agreement or take any action which would cause Global Funding to become required to be registered as an "investment company", or come under the "control" of an "investment company," as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act. (e) The Funding Note Indenture Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 6.1 and 6.2, may receive an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any such amendment to a Funding Agreement complies with the requirements of Section 9.6(a) or (b), as applicable, and any such Opinion of Counsel shall be conclusive on the Holders of the Funding Note. (f) It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment to a Funding Agreement, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. ARTICLE 10 CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE SECTION 10.1 Global Funding May Merge, Consolidate, Sell or Convey Property Under Certain Circumstances. Global Funding may not consolidate with, or merge into, any entity (whether or not affiliated with Global Funding), or sell, lease or convey the property of Global Funding as an entirety or substantially as an entirety, unless: (a) the entity formed by such consolidation or into which Global Funding is merged or the entity which acquires by conveyance or transfer the properties and assets of Global Funding substantially 71 as an entirety shall be a statutory trust formed under the laws of the State of Delaware or a corporation or other entity 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 a Supplemental Funding Note Indenture, executed and delivered to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to, the Funding Note and the performance of every covenant of the Funding Note Indenture on the part of Global Funding to be performed or observed; (b) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have happened and be continuing; (c) Global Funding has received written confirmation from any rating agency then rating the Funding Note at the request of Global Funding that such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer shall not cause the rating on the then outstanding Funding Note to be downgraded or withdrawn; and (d) Global Funding has delivered to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee a Trust Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer and such Supplemental Funding Note Indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent provided for in the Funding Note Indenture relating to such transaction have been complied with. ARTICLE 11 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF FUNDING NOTE INDENTURE; UNCLAIMED FUNDS SECTION 11.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Funding Note Indenture. If at any time (a) Global Funding shall have paid or caused to be paid all outstanding principal of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts and other amounts payable with respect to, the Funding Note, as and when the same shall have become due and payable, or (b) Global Funding shall have delivered to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee for cancellation the Funding Note Certificate representing the Funding Note theretofore authenticated (other than the Funding Note Certificate which shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.7) or (c) Global Funding shall have irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Funding Note Indenture Trustee as trust funds the entire 72 amount in cash (other than funds repaid by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or any Funding Note Paying Agent to Global Funding in accordance with Section 11.4) sufficient to pay at maturity all amounts payable at maturity on the Funding Note, including any outstanding principal, interest, premium, Additional Amounts and other amounts due or to become due to such date of maturity as the case may be, and if, in any such case, Global Funding shall also pay or cause to be paid all other sums payable under the Funding Note Indenture by Global Funding, then the Funding Note Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to (i) rights of registration of transfer and exchange, (ii) substitution of an apparently mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Funding Note Certificate, (iii) rights of Holders to receive payments of principal of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts and other amounts payable with respect to, the Funding Note, (iv) the rights, obligations and immunities of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee under the Funding Note Indenture and (v) the rights of each Holder as beneficiary of the Funding Note Indenture with respect to the property so deposited with the Funding Note Indenture Trustee payable to all or any of them), and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, on demand of Global Funding accompanied by a Trust Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel and at the cost and expense of Global Funding, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging such satisfaction of and discharging the Funding Note Indenture. Global Funding agrees to reimburse the Funding Note Indenture Trustee for any costs or expenses thereafter reasonably and properly incurred and to compensate the Funding Note Indenture Trustee for any services thereafter reasonably and properly rendered by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee in connection with the Funding Note Indenture or the Funding Note. SECTION 11.2 Application by Funding Note Indenture Trustee of Funds Deposited for Payment of Funding Note. Subject to Section 11.4, all funds deposited with the Funding Note Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 11.1 shall be held in trust in the Collection Account in accordance with Section 6.5 and applied by it to the payment, either directly, in its capacity as the Funding Note Paying Agent, or through any other Funding Note Paying Agent, to each Holder of the Funding Note for the payment or redemption of which such funds have been deposited with the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, of all sums due and to become due thereon for any principal, interest, premium, Additional Amounts or other amounts. SECTION 11.3 Repayment of Funds Held by Funding Note Paying Agent. In connection with the satisfaction and discharge of the Funding Note Indenture, all funds then held by any Funding Note Paying Agent under the provisions of the Funding Note Indenture shall, upon demand of Global Funding, be repaid to Global Funding or paid to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and thereupon such Funding Note Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such funds. SECTION 11.4 Return of Funds Held by Funding Note Indenture Trustee and Funding Note Paying Agent. Any funds deposited with or paid to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or any Funding Note Paying Agent for the payment of the principal of, any interest or premium on, or any Additional Amounts or any other amounts with 73 respect to, the Funding Note and not applied but remaining unclaimed for three years after the date upon which such principal, interest, premium, Additional Amounts or any other amount shall have become due and payable, shall, upon the written request of Global Funding and unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property law, be repaid to Global Funding by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or such Funding Note Paying Agent, and each Holder of the Funding Note shall, unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property laws, thereafter look only to Global Funding for any payment which such Holder may be entitled to collect, and all liability of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or any Funding Note Paying Agent with respect to such funds shall thereupon cease. ARTICLE 12 MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF FUNDING NOTE SECTION 12.1 Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called. A meeting of Holders of the Funding Note may be called at any time and from time to time pursuant to this Article to make, give or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by the Funding Note Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders of the Funding Note. SECTION 12.2 Call, Notice and Place of Meetings. (a) Unless otherwise provided in the Funding Note Certificate, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders of the Funding Note for any purpose specified in Section 12.1, to be held at such time and at such place in the City of New York or the city in which the Corporate Trust Office is located. Notice of every meeting of Holders of the Funding Note, setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and in general terms the action proposed to be taken at such meeting, shall be given in the manner provided in Section 13.4, not less than 21 nor more than 180 days prior to the date fixed for the meeting. (b) In case at any time Global Funding or the Holder or Holders of at least 10% of the principal amount of the Funding Note shall have requested the Funding Note Indenture Trustee to call a meeting of the Holders of the Funding Note for any purpose specified in Section 12.1, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall not have made the first publication or mailing of the notice of such meeting within 21 days after receipt of such request or shall not thereafter proceed to cause the meeting to be held as provided in the Funding Note Indenture, 74 then Global Funding or the Holder or Holders of the Funding Note in the amount above specified, as the case may be, may determine the time and the place in the City of New York or the city in which the Corporate Trust Office is located for such meeting and may call such meeting for such purposes by giving notice thereof as provided in Section 12.2. SECTION 12.3 Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings. To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders of the Funding Note, a Person shall be (a) a Holder of the Funding Note, or (b) a Person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy for a Holder or Holders of the Funding Note by such Holder or Holders. The only Persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak at any meeting of Holders of the Funding Note shall be the Persons entitled to vote at such meeting and their counsel, any representatives of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and its counsel and any representatives of Global Funding and its counsel. SECTION 12.4 Quorum; Action. (a) The Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Funding Note then outstanding shall constitute a quorum for a meeting of Holders of the Funding Note; provided, however, that if any action is to be taken at such meeting with respect to a consent or waiver which the Funding Note Indenture expressly provides may be given by the Holders of not less than 66 2/3% of the outstanding principal amount of the Funding Note, then Persons entitled to vote 66 2/3% of the outstanding principal amount of the Funding Note shall constitute a quorum. In the absence of a quorum within 30 minutes after the time appointed for any such meeting, the meeting shall, if convened at the request of Holders of the Funding Note, be dissolved. In any other case the meeting may be adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such meeting. In the absence of a quorum at any such adjourned meeting, such adjourned meeting may be further adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such adjourned meeting. Notice of the reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall be given as provided in Section 12.2, except that such notice need be given only once not less than five days prior to the date on which the meeting is scheduled to be reconvened. Notice of the reconvening of an adjourned meeting shall state expressly the percentage, as provided above, of the principal amount of the outstanding Funding Note which shall constitute a quorum. 75 (b) Except as limited by the proviso to Section 9.2(a), any resolution presented to a meeting or adjourned meeting duly reconvened at which a quorum is present as aforesaid may be adopted only by the affirmative vote of the Holders of a majority of the outstanding principal amount of the Funding Note; provided, however, that, except as limited by the proviso to Section 9.2(a), any resolution with respect to any consent or waiver which the Funding Note Indenture expressly provides may be given by the Holders of not less than 66 2/3% of the outstanding principal amount of the Funding Note may be adopted at a meeting or an adjourned meeting duly convened and at which a quorum is present as aforesaid only by the affirmative vote of the Holders of 66 2/3% of the outstanding principal amount of the Funding Note; and provided, further, that, except as limited by the proviso to Section 9.2(a), any resolution with respect to any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action which the Funding Note Indenture expressly provides may be made, given or taken by the Holders of a specified percentage, which is less than a majority, of the outstanding principal amount of the Funding Note may be adopted at a meeting or an adjourned meeting duly reconvened and at which a quorum is present as aforesaid by the affirmative vote of the Holders of such specified percentage of the outstanding principal amount of the Funding Note. (c) Any resolution passed or decision taken at any meeting of Holders of the Funding Note duly held in accordance with this Section shall be binding on all the Holders of Funding Note, whether or not such Holders were present or represented at the meeting. SECTION 12.5 Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct of Adjournment of Meetings. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Funding Note Indenture, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of Holders of the Funding Note in regard to proof of the holding of the Funding Note and of the appointment of proxies and in regard to the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall deem appropriate. Except as otherwise permitted or required by any such regulations, the holding of the Funding Note shall be proved in the manner 76 specified in Section 8.4 and the appointment of any proxy shall be proved in the manner specified in Section 8.2. Such regulations may provide that written instruments appointing proxies, regular on their face, may be presumed valid and genuine without the proof specified in Section 8.2 or other proof. (b) The Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by Global Funding or by Holders of the Funding Note as provided in Section 12.2(b), in which case Global Funding or the Holders of the Funding Note calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like manner appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by vote of the Persons entitled to vote a majority of the outstanding principal amount of the Funding Note represented at the meeting. (c) At any meeting, each Holder of the Funding Note or proxy shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 of principal amount of the Funding Note held or represented by such Holder or proxy. The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote, except as a Holder of the Funding Note or proxy. (d) Any meeting of Holders of the Funding Note duly called pursuant to Section 12.2 at which a quorum is present may be adjourned from time to time by Persons entitled to vote a majority of the outstanding principal amount of the Funding Note represented at the meeting; and the meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice. SECTION 12.6 Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings. The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders of the Funding Note shall be (a) by written ballots on which shall be subscribed the signatures of the Holders of the Funding Note or of their representatives by proxy and the principal amounts and serial numbers of the outstanding Funding Note held or represented by them or (b) by such other procedures adopted by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee in its discretion. The permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make and file with the secretary of the meeting their verified written reports in triplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A record, at least in triplicate, of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders of the Funding Note shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more persons having knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and showing that said notice was given as provided in Section 12.2 and, if applicable, 77 Section 12.4. Each copy shall be signed and verified by the affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one such copy shall be delivered to Global Funding, and another to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee to be preserved by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted at the meeting. Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated. ARTICLE 13 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS SECTION 13.1 No Recourse. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Funding Note Indenture, or the Funding Note Certificate or Supplemental Funding Note Indenture, none of the Funding Agreement Provider, its officers, directors, affiliates, employees or agents, or any of the Delaware Trustee, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or the Global Funding Trust Beneficial Owner, or any of their officers, directors, affiliates, employees or agents (the "Nonrecourse Parties") will be personally liable for the payment of any principal, interest or any other sums at any time owing under the terms of the Funding Note. If any Event of Default shall occur with respect to the Funding Note, the right of the Holders of the Funding Note and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee on behalf of such Holders in connection with a claim on the Funding Note shall be limited solely to a proceeding against the Collateral. Neither the Holders nor the Funding Note Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Holders will have the right to proceed against the Nonrecourse Parties to enforce the Funding Note (except that to the extent they exercise their rights, if any, to seize the relevant Funding Agreement(s), they may enforce the relevant Funding Agreement(s) against the Funding Agreement Provider) or for any deficiency judgment remaining after foreclosure of any property included in the relevant Collateral. It is expressly understood and agreed that nothing contained in this Section shall in any manner or way constitute or be deemed a release of the debt or other obligations evidenced by the Funding Note or otherwise affect or impair the enforceability against Global Funding of the liens, assignments, rights and the Security Interest created by or pursuant to the Funding Note Indenture, the relevant Collateral or any other instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating to the indebtedness or the obligations evidenced by the Funding Note. Nothing in this Section shall preclude the Holders from foreclosing upon any property included in the Collateral or any other rights or remedies in law or in equity against Global Funding. SECTION 13.2 Provisions of Funding Note Indenture for the Sole Benefit of Parties and Holders. Nothing in the Funding Note Indenture or in the Funding Note, expressed or implied, shall give or be construed to give to any Person, other than the parties to the Funding Note Indenture and their successors and the Holders of the Funding Note, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under the Funding Note Indenture or under any covenant or provision contained in the Funding Note Indenture, 78 all such covenants and provisions being for the sole benefit of the parties to the Funding Note Indenture and their successors and of the Holders of the Funding Note. SECTION 13.3 Successors and Assigns of Global Funding Bound by Indenture. All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements in the Funding Note Indenture contained by or in behalf of Global Funding shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. SECTION 13.4 Notices and Demands on Global Funding, Funding Note Indenture Trustee and any Holder. (a) Except as otherwise provided by this Section, any notice or demand which by any provision of the Funding Note Indenture is required or permitted to be given or served by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or by any Holder of the Funding Note to or on Global Funding may be given or served by being deposited postage prepaid, first-class mail (except as otherwise specifically provided in the Funding Note Indenture) addressed (until another address of Global Funding is filed by Global Funding with the Funding Note Indenture Trustee) to the Delaware Trustee. Any notice, direction, request or demand by Global Funding or any Holder to or upon the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, if given or made at the Corporate Trust Office. (b) Where the Funding Note Indenture provides for notice to any Holder, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise expressly provided in the Funding Note Indenture) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder entitled thereto, at such Holder's last address as it appears in the Note Register. In any case where notice to any Holder is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to any other Holder. (c) Where the Funding Note Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the 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 any Holder shall be filed with the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver. 79 (d) If, by reason of the suspension of or irregularities in regular mail service, it shall be impracticable to mail notice to Global Funding and each Holder when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of the Funding Note Indenture, then any manner of giving such notice as shall be satisfactory to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice. (e) Global Funding shall deliver promptly to each rating agency then rating the Funding Note copies of each of the following: (i) any repurchase of the Funding Note or any portion thereof pursuant to Section 3.3; (ii) any notice of any default or Event of Default; (iii) any notice of redemption provided by Global Funding pursuant to Section 3.1(d); (iv) any notice of change in name, identity, organizational structure, chief executive office, or chief place of business of Global Funding provided by Global Funding pursuant to Section 14.4(a); (v) any Supplemental Funding Note Indenture; (vi) any resignation, removal or appointment under the Funding Note Indenture; (vii) any amendment to any Funding Agreement; and (viii) any other information reasonably requested by such rating agency. Any such notice shall be addressed to: Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 55 Water Street New York, NY 10041 Attention: Capital Markets Facsimile: (212) 438-5215 80 Moody's Investors Service Inc. 99 Church Street New York, NY 10007 Attention: Life Insurance Group Facsimile: (212) 553-4805 or such other address previously furnished in writing to Global Funding by the applicable rating agency. SECTION 13.5 Trust Certificates and Opinions of Counsel; Statements to be Contained Therein. (a) Except as otherwise expressly provided in the Funding Note Indenture, upon any application or demand by Global Funding to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee to take any action under any of the provisions of the Funding Note Indenture, Global Funding shall furnish to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee a Trust Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in the Funding Note Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of the applicable counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that in the case of any such application or demand as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of the Funding Note Indenture relating to such particular application or demand, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished. (b) Each certificate or opinion provided for in the Funding Note Indenture and delivered to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in the Funding Note Indenture shall include: (i) a statement that the Person making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition; (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 such Person, he has made such examination or investigation or has received such certificates, opinions, representations or statements of counsel or accountants pursuant to paragraphs (c) or 81 (d) of this Section, as are necessary to enable him 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 or not, in the opinion of such Person, such condition or covenant has been complied with. (c) Any certificate, statement or opinion of Global Funding may be based upon a certificate or opinion of or representations by counsel, unless Global Funding knows that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his certificate, statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know that the same are erroneous. Any certificate, statement or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters information with respect to which is in the possession of Global Funding, upon the certificate, statement or opinion of or representations by Global Funding, unless such counsel knows that the certificate, statement or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which the certificate, statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know that the same are erroneous. (d) Any certificate, statement or opinion of Global Funding or of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to accounting matters, upon a certificate or opinion of or representations by an accountant or firm of accountants in the employ of Global Funding, unless such officer or counsel, as the case may be, knows that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the accounting matters upon which the certificate, statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know that the same are erroneous. (e) Any certificate or opinion of any independent firm of public accountants filed with the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall contain a statement that such firm is independent. SECTION 13.6 Governing Law. Pursuant to Section 5-1401 of the General Obligations Law of the State of New York, the Funding Note Indenture and the Funding Note shall (unless specified otherwise in the Funding Note Certificate) be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, except as required by mandatory provisions of law and except to the extent that the validity or perfection 82 of Global Funding's ownership of and security interest in the Funding Agreement(s) or remedies under the Funding Note Indenture in respect thereof may be governed by the laws of a jurisdiction other than the State of New York. All judicial proceedings brought against Global Funding or the Funding Note Indenture Trustee arising out of or relating to the Funding Note Indenture, the Funding Note or any portion of the Collateral or other assets of Global Funding may be brought in any state or Federal court in the State of New York, provided that the Funding Note Certificate may specify other jurisdictions as to which Global Funding may consent to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of its courts with respect to the Funding Note. SECTION 13.7 Counterparts. The Funding Note Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original; but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. SECTION 13.8 Trust Indenture Act to Control. If and to the extent that any provision of the Funding Note Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with any duties under any required provision of the Trust Indenture Act imposed on the Funding Note Indenture by Section 318(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, such provision of the Trust Indenture Act shall control. SECTION 13.9 Judgment Currency. Global Funding will indemnify the Holder of the Funding Note against any judgment or order being given or made for any amount due under such Funding Note and that judgment or order requiring payment in a currency (the "Judgment Currency") other than the Specified Currency, and as a result of any variation between: (a) the rate of exchange at which the Specified Currency amount is converted into the Judgment Currency for the purpose of that judgment or order; and (b) the rate of exchange at which the Holder, on the date of payment of that judgment or order, is able to purchase the Specified Currency with the amount of the Judgment Currency actually received. ARTICLE 14 SECURITY INTEREST SECTION 14.1 Security Interest. (a) To secure the full and punctual payment of the Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Funding Note Indenture and to secure the performance of Global Funding's obligations under the Funding Note and the Funding Note Indenture, Global Funding pledges and collaterally assigns to and with the Funding Note 83 Indenture Trustee for the benefit of each Holder of the Funding Note and any other Person for whose benefit the Funding Note Indenture Trustee is or will be holding the Collateral (the "Secured Parties"), and grants to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee for the benefit of each Secured Party, a security interest in the Collateral, and all of the rights and privileges of Global Funding in and to the Collateral (the "Security Interest"), effective as of the Original Issue Date of the Funding Note. (b) It is expressly agreed that anything therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, Global Funding shall remain liable under each Funding Agreement to perform all the obligations assumed by it thereunder, all in accordance with and pursuant to the terms and provisions thereof, and the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall not have any obligations or liabilities by reason of or arising out of the Funding Note Indenture, nor shall the Funding Note Indenture Trustee be required or obligated in any manner to perform or fulfill any obligations of Global Funding under or pursuant to such Funding Agreement or to make any payment, to make any inquiry as to the nature or sufficiency of any payment received by it, or, prior to the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default, to present or file any claim, or to take any action to collect or enforce the payment of any amounts that may have been assigned to it or to which it may be entitled at any time or times. (c) The Funding Note Indenture Trustee acknowledges the grant of the Security Interest upon the issuance of the Funding Note, accepts the trusts under the Funding Note Indenture in accordance with the provisions of the Funding Note Indenture and agrees to perform its duties in the Funding Note Indenture to the end that the interests of each Secured Party may be adequately and effectively protected. SECTION 14.2 Representations and Warranties. Global Funding represents and warrants as of the date of the Funding Note Indenture as follows: (a) Global Funding owns each Funding Agreement that secures the Obligations and all of the rest of the Collateral, free and clear of any Liens other than the Security Interest in the Collateral. (b) Global Funding has not performed any acts which might prevent the Funding Note Indenture Trustee from enforcing any of the terms of the Funding Note Indenture or which would limit the Funding Note Indenture Trustee in any such enforcement. Other 84 than financing statements or other similar or equivalent documents or instruments with respect to the Security Interest, no financing statement, mortgage, security agreement or similar or equivalent document or instrument covering all or any part of the Collateral is on file or of record in any jurisdiction in which such filing or recording would be effective to perfect a Lien on such Collateral. No Collateral is in the possession of any Person (other than Global Funding or its agent) asserting any claim thereto or security interest therein, except that the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or its designee may have possession of Collateral as contemplated by the Funding Note Indenture. (c) Each Security Interest constitutes a valid security interest securing the Obligations. When (i) the financing statements shall have been filed in the appropriate offices in Illinois, Delaware and New York, (ii) the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or its agent shall have taken possession of each applicable Funding Agreement, (iii) Global Funding shall have pledged and collaterally assigned each applicable Funding Agreement to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and given written notice to the Funding Agreement Provider of each such assignment to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee and (iv) the Funding Agreement Provider shall have given its express written consent to such pledge and collateral assignment and affirmed in writing that the Funding Agreement Provider has changed its books and records to reflect such pledge and collateral assignment to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, such Security Interest shall constitute a first priority perfected security interest in the Collateral, enforceable against Global Funding, Global Funding's creditors and any purchaser from Global Funding. SECTION 14.3 Additional Representations and Warranties. Global Funding represents and warrants as of the date of the Funding Note Indenture that: (a) to the extent the creation of a security interest in any Funding Agreement is governed by the applicable UCC, the Funding Note Indenture creates a valid security interest (as defined in the applicable UCC) in each Funding Agreement in favor of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee for the benefit and security of the Secured Parties, which security interest is prior to all other Liens; (b) to the extent the UCC applies, each Funding Agreement consists of "general intangibles," "payment intangibles" and/or "instruments" within the meaning of the applicable UCC; 85 (c) subject to the grant of security interest, pledge and collateral assignment of Global Funding's estate, right, title and interest in each Funding Agreement, Global Funding is a party to and is the Person entitled to payment under each Funding Agreement on the date of the Funding Note Indenture free and clear of any Lien, claim or encumbrance of any Person, other then the Lien created under the Funding Note Indenture or any Lien otherwise permitted under the Funding Note Indenture; (d) to the extent the UCC applies, Global Funding has caused or will have caused, within ten days after the date of the Funding Note 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 each Funding Agreement granted to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee for the benefit and security of the Secured Parties under the Funding Note Indenture; (e) all original executed copies of each instrument that constitutes or evidences each Funding Agreement have been delivered to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or a custodian for the Funding Note Indenture Trustee (the "Custodian"); (f) where all original executed copies of each instrument that constitutes or evidences each Funding Agreement have been delivered to the Custodian, Global Funding has received a written acknowledgment from the Custodian that, for so long as the Security Interest has not been terminated pursuant to Section 14.9, the Custodian is holding the instruments that constitute or evidence each Funding Agreement solely on behalf of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee; (g) other than the security interest granted to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee for the benefit and security of the Secured Parties pursuant to the Funding Note Indenture, Global Funding has not pledged, assigned, sold, granted a security interest in, or otherwise conveyed any of the Funding Agreements; (h) Global Funding has not authorized the filing of and is not aware of any financing statements against Global Funding that include a description of collateral covering the Funding Agreement other than any financing statement relating to the security interest granted to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee for the benefit and security of the Secured Parties under the Funding Note Indenture or that has been terminated; 86 (i) Global Funding is not aware of any judgment or tax lien filings against Global Funding; and (j) none of the instruments that constitute or evidence any Funding Agreement has any marks or notations indicating that they have been pledged, assigned or otherwise conveyed to any Person other than the Funding Note Indenture Trustee for the benefit and security of the Secured Parties. The foregoing representations and warranties shall survive the execution and delivery of the Funding Note. No party to the Funding Note Indenture shall waive any of the foregoing representations and warranties. Subject to Section 14.9, Global Funding shall maintain the perfection and priority of the security interest in each Funding Agreement. SECTION 14.4 Further Assurances; Covenants. (a) Global Funding will not change its name, identity or organizational structure in any manner unless it shall have given the Funding Note Indenture Trustee at least 30 days' prior notice thereof. Global Funding will not change the location of its chief executive office or chief place of business unless it shall have given the Funding Note Indenture Trustee at least 30 days' prior notice thereof. (b) Global Funding will, from time to time and upon advice of counsel, at Global Funding's expense, execute, deliver, file and record any statement, assignment, instrument, document, agreement or other paper and take any other action, (including, without limitation, any filings of financing or continuation statements) that from time to time may be necessary or desirable, or that the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may reasonably request, in order to create, preserve, perfect, confirm or validate the Security Interest or to enable the Holders of the Funding Note to obtain the full benefits of the Funding Note Indenture, or to enable the Funding Note Indenture Trustee to exercise and enforce any of its rights, powers and remedies under the Funding Note Indenture with respect to any Collateral. To the extent permitted by applicable law, Global Funding authorizes the Funding Note Indenture Trustee to execute and file financing statements or continuation statements without Global Funding's signature appearing thereon. Global Funding agrees that a carbon, photographic, photostatic or other reproduction of the Funding Note Indenture or of a financing statement is sufficient as a financing statement. Global Funding shall pay the costs of, 87 or incidental to, any recording or filing of any financing or continuation statements concerning any Collateral. (c) If any Collateral is at any time in the possession or control of any warehouseman, bailee or any of Global Funding's agents or processors, Global Funding shall notify such warehouseman, bailee, agent or processor of the Security Interest created by the Funding Note Indenture and to hold all such Collateral for the Funding Note Indenture Trustee's account subject to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee's instructions. (d) Global Funding will, promptly upon request, provide to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee all information and evidence it may reasonably request concerning the Collateral to enable the Funding Note Indenture Trustee to enforce the provisions of the Funding Note Indenture. (e) Not more than six months nor less than 30 days prior to each date on which Global Funding proposes to take any action contemplated by Section 14.4(a), Global Funding shall, at its cost and expense, cause to be delivered to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel, satisfactory to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, to the effect that all financing statements and amendments or supplements thereto, continuation statements and other documents required to be recorded or filed in order to perfect and protect the Security Interest for a period, specified in such Opinion of Counsel, continuing until a date not earlier than 18 months from the date of such Opinion of Counsel, against all creditors of and purchasers from Global Funding have been filed in each filing office necessary for such purpose and that all filing fees and taxes, if any, payable in connection with such filings have been paid in full. (f) From time to time upon request by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, Global Funding shall, at its cost and expense, cause to be delivered to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to the Funding Note Indenture Trustee as to such matters relating to the Security Interest as the Funding Note Indenture Trustee or the Holder Representative may reasonably request. SECTION 14.5 General Authority. Global Funding irrevocably appoints the Funding Note Indenture Trustee its true and lawful attorney, with full power of substitution, in the name of Global Funding, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee, the Holders of the Funding Note or otherwise, for the sole use and benefit of the Secured 88 Parties, but at Global Funding's expense, to the extent permitted by law to exercise, at any time and from time to time while an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, all or any of the following powers with respect to all or any of the Collateral: (a) to demand, sue for, collect, receive and give acquittance for any and all monies due or to become due thereon or by virtue thereof, (b) to settle, compromise, compound, prosecute or defend any action or proceeding with respect thereto, (c) to sell, transfer, assign or otherwise deal in or with the same or the proceeds or avails thereof, as fully and effectually as if the Funding Note Indenture Trustee were the absolute owner thereof, and (d) to extend the time of payment of any or all thereof and to make any allowance and other adjustments with reference thereto; provided that the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall give Global Funding not less than 10 days' prior notice of the time and place of any sale or other intended disposition of any of the Collateral, except any part of the Collateral which threatens to decline speedily in value or is of a type customarily sold on a recognized market. SECTION 14.6 Remedies Upon Event of Default. If any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may exercise on behalf of the Secured Parties all rights of a secured party under applicable law and, in addition, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may, without being required to give any notice, except as provided in the Funding Note Indenture or as may be required by mandatory provisions of law, (i) apply all cash, if any, then held by it as all or part of the Collateral as specified in Section 5.3 and (ii) if there shall be no such cash or if such cash shall be insufficient to pay all the Obligations in full, sell the Collateral (including each applicable Funding Agreement) or any part thereof at public or private sale, for cash, upon credit or for future delivery, and at such price or prices as the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may deem satisfactory. Any Holder may be the purchaser of any or all of the Collateral so sold at any public sale (or, if the Collateral is of a type customarily sold in a recognized market or is of a type which is the subject of widely distributed standard price quotations, at any private sale). Global Funding will execute and deliver such documents and take such other action as the Funding Note Indenture Trustee deems necessary or advisable in order that any such sale may be made in compliance with law. Upon any such sale the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall have the right to deliver, assign and transfer to the purchaser thereof the Collateral so sold. Each purchaser at any such sale shall hold the Collateral so sold to it absolutely and free from any claim or right of whatsoever kind, including any equity or right of redemption of Global Funding which may be waived, and Global Funding, to the extent 89 permitted by law, specifically waives all rights of redemption, stay or appraisal which it has or may have under any law. The notice (if any) of such sale shall (A) in the case of a public sale, state the time and place fixed for such sale, and (B) in the case of a private sale, state the day after which such sale may be consummated. Any such public sale shall be held at such time or times within ordinary business hours and at such place or places as the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may fix in the notice of such sale. At any such sale the Collateral may be sold in one lot as an entirety or in separate parcels, as the Funding Note Indenture Trustee may determine. The Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall not be obligated to make any such sale pursuant to any such notice. The Funding Note Indenture Trustee may, without notice or publication, adjourn any public or private sale or cause the same to be adjourned from time to time by announcement at the time and place fixed for the sale, and such sale may be made at any time or place to which the same may be so adjourned. In the case of any sale of all or any part of the Collateral on credit or for future delivery, the Collateral so sold may be retained by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee until the selling price is paid by the purchaser thereof, but the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall not incur any liability in the case of the failure of such purchaser to take up and pay for the Collateral so sold and, in the case of any such failure, such Collateral may again be sold upon like notice. The Funding Note Indenture Trustee, instead of exercising the power of sale conferred upon it in the Funding Note Indenture, may proceed by a suit or suits at law or in equity to foreclose a Security Interest and sell any Collateral, or any portion thereof, under a judgment or decree of a court or courts of competent jurisdiction. SECTION 14.7 Limitation on Duties of Funding Note Indenture Trustee with Respect to Collateral. Beyond the exercise of reasonable care in the custody thereof, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall have no duty as to any portion of the Collateral in its possession or control or in the possession or control of any agent or bailee or as to the preservation of rights against prior parties or any other rights pertaining thereto. The Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to have exercised reasonable care in the custody of the Collateral in its possession if the Collateral is accorded treatment substantially equal to that which it accords its own property, and shall not be liable or responsible for any loss or damage to any of the Collateral, or for any diminution in the value thereof, by reason of the act or omission of any warehouseman, carrier, forwarding agency, consignee or other agent or bailee selected by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee in good faith. SECTION 14.8 Concerning the Funding Note Indenture Trustee. In furtherance and not in derogation of the rights, privileges and immunities of the Funding Note Indenture Trustee specified in the Funding Note Indenture: (a) the Funding Note Indenture Trustee is authorized to take all such action as is provided to be taken by it as Funding Note Indenture Trustee under this Article and all other action reasonably incidental thereto. As to any matters not expressly provided for in this Article (including, without limitation, the timing and 90 methods of realization upon any Collateral) the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall act or refrain from acting in accordance with written instructions from the Holder or Holders of the required percentage of the principal amount of the Funding Note for any instructions or, in the absence of such instructions, in accordance with its discretion; and (b) the Funding Note Indenture Trustee shall not be responsible for the existence, genuineness or value of any of the Collateral or for the validity, perfection, priority or enforceability of the Security Interest in any of the Collateral, whether impaired by operation of law or by reason of any action or omission to act on its part under the Funding Note Indenture. SECTION 14.9 Termination of Security Interest. The Security Interest shall terminate and all rights to the Collateral shall revert to Global Funding upon: (i) the repayment in full of all Obligations; or (ii) concurrently with the payment of the Immediate Redemption Price pursuant to Section 3.1(i). Upon such termination of the Security Interest, and delivery of a certificate by Global Funding to such effect, the Funding Note Indenture Trustee will, at the expense of Global Funding, execute and deliver to Global Funding such documents as Global Funding shall reasonably request to evidence the termination of the Security Interest. 91 EXHIBIT A-1 FORM OF FUNDING NOTE CERTIFICATE RELATED TO SECURED MEDIUM TERM NOTES ISSUED UNDER THE SECURED MEDIUM TERM NOTES PROGRAM A-1-1 EXHIBIT A-2 FORM OF FUNDING NOTE CERTIFICATE RELATED TO SECURED MEDIUM TERM NOTES ISSUED UNDER THE ALLSTATE LIFE(R) CORENOTES(R) PROGRAM A-2-1 EXHIBIT B FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION This Funding Note Certificate is the Funding Note Certificate representing the Funding Note described in the within-mentioned Funding Note Indenture. THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A., as Funding Note Indenture Trustee By: -------------------------------- Authorized Signatory Dated: B-1 EXHIBIT C FORM OF FUNDING NOTE INDENTURE TRUSTEE REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 7.3(f) Allstate Life Global Funding Funding Note Indenture Trustee Report for Payment Date -: 1. the amount received by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee as of the last Payment Date in respect of the principal, interest and premium, if any, on Funding Agreements issued by Allstate Life Insurance Company ("Allstate Life"), 2. the amount of payment on such Payment Date to holders allocable to principal and premium, if any, and interest on the Funding Notes of Allstate Life Global Funding and the amount of unpaid interest accrued on such Funding Notes as of such Payment Date. 3. the aggregate original stated principal amount of the Funding Agreements, the current interest rate thereon at the close of business on such Payment Date, and 4. the aggregate principal balance of the Funding Notes at the close of business on such Payment Date. FUNDING NOTE NO. / FUNDING AGREEMENT NO(S). / CUSIP / ISSUE DATE / MATURITY / TYPE / RATE / INTEREST DUE / UNPAID INTEREST ACCRUED / * PRINCIPAL DUE / ORIGINAL OUTSTANDING / CURRENT OUTSTANDING(1) 5. the amounts of compensation received by the Funding Note Indenture Trustee during the period relating to such Payment Date. Paid by Global Funding: - Paid by Allstate Life: - * Principal Due includes any applicable premium. -------- (1) To be in chart format on actual report. These items are column titles. C-1 A-A-1 ANNEX A PRICING SUPPLEMENT Filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(5) Registration Statement Nos. 333-129157 and 333-129157-01 Pricing Supplement No. 7 Dated February 14, 2007 (To Prospectus dated March 15, 2006 and Prospectus Supplement dated March 15, 2006) CUSIP: 02003MAY0 Allstate Life Global Funding Secured Medium Term Notes Issued Through Allstate Life Global Funding Trust 2007-3 The description in this pricing supplement of the particular terms of the Secured Medium Term Notes offered hereby (the "Notes"), the Funding Agreement(s) (specified below) issued by Allstate Life Insurance Company ("Allstate Life") and deposited into Allstate Life Global Funding Trust 2007-3 (the "Trust") by Allstate Life Global Funding ("Global Funding") and the Funding Note (specified below) issued by Global Funding to the Trust supplements the description of the general terms and provisions of the notes, the funding agreements and the funding notes set forth in the accompanying prospectus and prospectus supplement, to which reference is hereby made. The Notes will represent the obligations of the issuing entity only and will not represent the obligations of, or interest in, any other person or entity, including Global Funding, Allstate Life or any of their respective affiliates. The Notes will constitute asset-backed securities within the meaning of Regulation AB under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
THE NOTES Principal Amount: $150,000,000 Agent(s) Discount: 0.02000% Issue Price: 100.00% Original Issue Date: February 21, 2007 Net Proceeds to the Trust: $149,970,000 Stated Maturity Date: February 20, 2009, subject to the Modified Following Business Day Convention. Specified Currency: U.S. Dollars Depositary: The Depository Trust Company Interest Payment Dates: The 21st of each month, subject to Interest Reset Dates: The 21st of each month, subject to the the Modified Following Business Day Convention. Modified Following Business Day Convention. Initial Interest Payment Date: March 21, 2007, subject to Initial Interest Reset Date: March 21, 2007, subject to the the Modified Following Business Day Convention. Modified Following Business Day Convention. Regular Record Date: 15 calendar days prior to the Interest Payment Date Modified Following Business Day Convention: If any Interest Payment Date or Interest Reset Date would otherwise be a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Payment Date or Interest Reset Date, as the case may be, will be postponed to the next succeeding Business Day, except that, if such Business Day is in the succeeding calendar month, such Interest Payment Date or Interest Reset Date will be the immediately preceding Business Day. The final Interest Payment Date for the Notes will be the maturity date and interest for the final Interest Period will accrue from and including the Interest Payment Date immediately preceding the maturity date to but excluding the maturity date. If the maturity date would otherwise be a day that is not a Business Day, any payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest or other amounts, will be made on the immediately succeeding Business Day, and no additional interest will accrue in respect of the payment made on that next succeeding Business Day. Business Day: Any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which commercial banks are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close in London and New York, New York. Fiscal Year of Trust (not applicable unless different than as specified in the prospectus and prospectus supplement): Type of Interest Rate: [ ] Fixed Rate [X] Floating Rate Fixed Rate Notes: [ ] Yes [X] No. If, Yes, Interest Rate: Floating Rate Notes: [X] Yes [ ] No. If, Yes, Regular Floating Rate Notes: [X] Yes [ ] No. If, Yes, Interest Rate: Interest Rate Basis plus Spread Interest Rate Basis(es): See below Inverse Floating Rate Notes: [ ] Yes [X] No. If, Yes, Fixed Interest Rate: Floating Interest Rate: Interest Rate Basis(es): Floating Rate/Fixed Rate Notes: [ ] Yes [X] No. If, Yes, Floating Interest Rate: Interest Rate Basis(es): Fixed Interest Rate: Fixed Rate Commencement Date: Initial Interest Rate, if any: The Initial Interest Rate for the Notes offered by this Pricing Supplement will be the Interest Rate Basis plus the Spread determined in accordance with the provisions of this Pricing Supplement and the Prospectus Supplements, subject to adjustment in accordance with the Modified Following Business Day Convention. Interest Rate Basis(es). Check all that apply: [ ] Federal Funds Rate [ ] CD Rate [X] LIBOR [ ] CMT Rate [ ] EURIBOR [ ] Commercial Paper Rate [ ] Prime Rate [ ] Constant Maturity Swap Rate [ ] Treasury Rate [ ] Eleventh District Cost of Funds [ ] Federal Fund Open Rate If LIBOR: LIBOR Page: 3750 [X] LIBOR Moneyline Telerate: [ ] LIBOR Reuters: LIBOR Currency: U.S. Dollars If CMT Rate: Designated CMT Moneyline Telerate Page: Not applicable If CMT Moneyline Telerate Page 7052: [ ] Weekly Average [ ] Monthly Average Designated CMT Maturity Index: Not applicable Index Maturity: One month Spread (+/-): -0.01% Spread Multiplier: Not applicable Interest Reset Date(s): Each Interest Payment Date Interest Determination Date(s): The second London banking day preceding the related Interest Reset Date Maximum Interest Rate, if any: Not applicable Minimum Interest Rate, if any: Not applicable Calculation Agent, if any: The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. Exchange Rate Agent, if any: Not applicable Computation of Interest (not applicable unless different than as specified in the prospectus and prospectus supplement): Day Count Convention (not applicable unless different than as specified in the prospectus and prospectus supplement): Amortizing Notes: [ ] Yes [X] No. If, Yes, Amortizing Schedule: Additional/Other Terms: Discount Notes: [ ] Yes [X] No. If, Yes, Total Amount of Discount: Initial Accrual Period of Discount: Additional/Other Terms: Redemption Provisions: [ ] Yes [X] No. If, Yes, Initial Redemption Date: Initial Redemption Percentage: Annual Redemption Percentage Reduction (if any): Redemption: [ ] In whole only and not in part [ ] May be in whole or in part Additional/Other Terms: Repayment: [ ] Yes [X] No. If, Yes, Repayment Date(s): Repayment Price: Repayment: [ ] In whole only and not in part [ ] May be in whole or in part Additional/Other Terms: Sinking Fund (not applicable unless specified): Additional Amounts to be Paid for Withholding Tax (not applicable unless specified): Securities Exchange Listing: [ ] Yes [X] No. If Yes, Name of Exchange: Authorized Denominations: $1,000 Ratings: The Notes issued under the Program are rated "AA" by Standard & Poor's, a division of The Mc-Graw Hill Companies, Inc. ("S&P"). It is anticipated that Moody's Investors Service, Inc. ("Moody's") will rate the Notes "Aa2" on the Original Issue Date. Agent(s) Purchasing Notes as Principal: [X ] Yes [ ] No. If Yes, Agent(s) Principal Amount Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith Inc. $150,000,000 Total: $150,000,000 Agent(s) Acting as Agent: [ ] Yes [X ] No. If Yes, Additional/Other Terms: None Special Tax Considerations: None
THE FUNDING AGREEMENT(S) Funding Agreement Issuer: Allstate Life Insurance Company Funding Agreement No.: FA - 41097 Deposit Amount: $150,000,000 Issue Price: 100.00% Net Deposit Amount: $149,970,000 Effective Date: February 21, 2007 Specified Currency: U.S. Dollars Interest Payment Dates: The 21st of each month, subject to the Funding Agreement Modified Following Business Day Convention. Initial Interest Payment Date: March 21, 2007, subject to the Funding Agreement Modified Following Business Day Convention. Interest Reset Dates: The 21st of each month, subject to the Funding Agreement Modified Following Business Day Convention. Initial Interest Reset Date: March 21, 2007, subject to the Funding Agreement Modified Following Business Day Convention. Funding Agreement Modified Following Business Day If any Interest Payment Date or Interest Reset Date would Convention: otherwise be a day that is not a Funding Agreement Business Day, such Interest Payment Date or Interest Reset Date, as the case may be, will be postponed to the next succeeding Funding Agreement Business Day, except that, if such Funding Agreement Business Day is in the succeeding calendar month, such Interest Payment Date or Interest Reset Date will be the immediately preceding Funding Agreement Business Day. The final Interest Payment Date for the Funding Agreement will be the maturity date and interest for the final Interest Period will accrue from and including the Interest Payment Date immediately preceding the maturity date to but excluding the maturity date. If the maturity date would otherwise be a day that is not a Funding Agreement Business Day, any payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest or other amounts, will be made on the immediately succeeding Funding Agreement Business Day, and no additional interest will accrue in respect of the payment made on that next succeeding Funding Agreement Business Day. Funding Agreement Business Day: Any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which commercial banks are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close in London and New York, New York. Type of Interest Rate: [ ] Fixed Rate [X ] Floating Rate Fixed Rate Funding Agreement: [ ] Yes [X] No. If Yes, Interest Rate: Floating Rate Funding Agreement: [X] Yes [ ] No. If Yes, Interest Rate: Interest Rate Basis(es): Inverse Floating Rate Funding Agreement: [ ] Yes [X] No. If Yes, Fixed Interest Rate: Floating Interest Rate: Interest Rate Basis(es): Floating Rate/Fixed Rate Funding Agreement: [ ] Yes [X] No. If Yes, Floating Interest Rate: Interest Rate Basis(es): Fixed Interest Rate: Fixed Rate Commencement Date: Initial Interest Rate, if any: The Initial Interest Rate for the Funding Agreement offered by this Pricing Supplement will be the Interest Rate Basis plus the Spread determined in accordance with the provisions of this Pricing Supplement and the Prospectus Supplements, subject to adjustment in accordance with the Funding Agreement Modified Following Business Day Convention. Interest Rate Basis(es). Check all that apply: [ ] CD Rate [ ] CMT Rate [ ] Commercial Paper Rate [ ] Constant Maturity Swap Rate [ ] Eleventh District Cost of Funds Rate [X] LIBOR [ ] Federal Funds Open Rate [ ] EURIBOR [ ] Federal Funds Rate [ ] Prime Rate [ ] Treasury Rate If LIBOR: LIBOR Page: 3750 [X] LIBOR Moneyline Telerate: [ ] LIBOR Reuters: LIBOR Currency: U.S. Dollars If CMT Rate: Designated CMT Moneyline Telerate Page: Not applicable [ ] Weekly Average If CMT Moneyline Telerate Page 7052: [ ] Monthly Average Designated CMT Maturity Index: Not applicable Index Maturity: One month Spread (+/-): -0.01% Spread Multiplier: Not applicable Interest Reset Date(s): Each Interest Payment Date Interest Determination Date(s): The second London banking day preceding the related Interest Reset Date Maximum Interest Rate, if any: Not applicable Minimum Interest Rate, if any: Not applicable Calculation Agent, if any: The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. Day Count Convention: Actual/360 Amortizing Funding Agreement: [ ] Yes [X] No. If Yes, Amortizing Schedule: Additional/Other Terms: Discount Funding Agreement: [ ] Yes [X] No. If Yes, Total Amount of Discount: Initial Accrual Period of Discount: Additional/Other Terms: Redemption Provisions: [ ] Yes [X] No. If Yes, Initial Redemption Date: Initial Redemption Percentage: Annual Redemption Percentage Reduction (if any): Redemption: [ ] In whole only and not in part [ ] May be in whole or in part Additional/Other Terms: Repayment: [ ] Yes [X] No. If Yes, Repayment Date(s): Repayment Price: Repayment: [ ] In whole only and not in part [ ] May be in whole or in part Additional/Other Terms: Sinking Fund (not applicable unless specified): Additional Amounts to be Paid For Withholding Tax (not applicable unless specified): Ratings: The Funding Agreements issued under the Program are rated AA by S&P. It is anticipated that the Funding Agreement(s) will be rated Aa2 by Moody's on the Original Issue Date. Additional/Other Terms, if any: None Special Tax Considerations: None
THE FUNDING NOTE Funding Note Issuer: Allstate Life Global Funding Funding Note No.: FA - 41097 Principal Amount: $150,000,000
The Funding Note will otherwise have payment and other terms substantially similar to the Funding Agreement(s) and the Notes, except that the terms of the Funding Note will provide that it will be cancelled immediately upon the sale of, and deposit into, the Trust by Global Funding of the Funding Agreement(s). A-B-1 ANNEX B DELAWARE TRUSTEE SERVICE FEE SCHEDULE A-C-1 ANNEX C ADMINISTRATOR SERVICE FEE SCHEDULE A-D-1 ANNEX D AGENT NOTICE INFORMATION A-E-1 ANNEX E INDENTURE SERVICE FEE SCHEDULE Acceptance Fee: $1,500 Annual Administration Fee: $1,500 Calculation Agent Fee: $5,000 annually for the MTN Program Annual SEC Compliance Fee: $10,000 annually for the MTN Program