Upload
others
View
1
Download
0
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
- i-
The IIFM Sukuk Al Ijarah Standard Document Templates have been developed by the IIFM to facilitate and ease the issuance of Sukuk Al Ijarah in a Shari‘ah compliant manner. IIFM hereby authorizes any Islamic financial institution and any other Islamic financial industry
participant to use the IIFM Sukuk Al Ijarah Standard Document Templates and its use is not restricted to IIFM members only. The IIFM
Sukuk Al Ijarah Standard Document Templates are accompanied by Prospectus which covers an explanation of the structure and operational
guidance to be implemented by potential users.
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.
[SPV LIMITED]
[•] TRUST CERTIFICATES DUE [•]
[•]
………………………………………………………
DECLARATION OF TRUST
وثيقة إإعالن إلإئامتن
…………………………………………………… DISCLAIMER
The sukuk al ijarah document templates ("IIFM Sukuk Al Ijarah Standard Document Templates") comprise the following:
• Prospectus
• Sale and Purchase Agreement
• Lease Agreement
• Service Agency Agreement
• Purchase Undertaking
• Sale and Substitution Undertaking
• Declaration of Trust
The main objective of the IIFM Sukuk Al Ijarah Standard Document Templates is to facilitate and ease the issuance of Sukuk Al
Ijarah in a Shari‘ah compliant manner. IIFM hereby authorizes any Islamic financial institution and any other Islamic financial industry participant to use the IIFM Sukuk Al Ijarah Standard Document Templates and its use is not restricted to IIFM members
only.
Users of the IIFM Sukuk Al Ijarah Standard Document Templates should note that, when entering into issuances of trust certificates
("Issuances") under or in relation to the IIFM Sukuk Al Ijarah Standard Document Templates or making any amendment or addition
to the IIFM Sukuk Al Ijarah Standard Document Templates, they must first take all action required to satisfy themselves as to the Shari'ah compliance of the IIFM Sukuk Al Ijarah Standard Document Templates and the Issuance thereunder.
The IIFM Sukuk Al Ijarah Standard Document Templates have been approved by the IIFM Shari‘ah Board and any user who proposes to use them, without any fundamental amendments, may request a copy of the IIFM Shari‘ah Board Approval
Pronouncement. Potential users are requested to contact IIFM in order to complete certain formalities to obtain a copy of the IIFM
Shari‘ah Board Approval Pronouncement. The IIFM Shari‘ah Board Approval Pronouncement is in relation to the IIFM Sukuk Al Ijarah Standard Document Templates only and shall not cover any specific transactions.
IIFM is not responsible for the use of the IIFM Sukuk Al Ijarah Standard Document Templates or for any damages or losses resulting from the use of the IIFM Sukuk Al Ijarah Standard Document Templates or any specific transactions thereunder. All potential users
are urged to undertake their own evaluation of the IIFM Sukuk Al Ijarah Standard Document Templates to ensure that they are
appropriate for use by them in their particular circumstances or in a particular transaction and to ensure that their interests will be
protected by its use. Potential users of the IIFM Sukuk Al Ijarah Standard Document Templates agree that it is the responsibility of
such user to ensure that the terms, provisions and conditions of the IIFM Sukuk Al Ijarah Standard Document Templates are
appropriate and protect the user’s interests in all respects, and to modify any such terms, provisions and conditions as appropriate in the circumstances.
The attention of users of this document is drawn to the footnotes to this document, which provide explanatory information but do not constitute a part of the applicable IIFM Sukuk Al Ijarah Standard Document Templates itself. Also, the attention of users of this
document is drawn that recognized Fiqh Academies, institutions and relevant AAOIFI Shari’ah standards as well as market practice,
have been used as a reference in the drafting of these IIFM Sukuk Al Ijarah Standard Document Templates as at the date of launch of the documents.
Copyright© 2020 by International Islamic Financial Market
- ii -
CONTENTS
Clause Page
1. Definitions, Interpretation and Construction ..................................................................... 1
2. Declaration of Trust ........................................................................................................... 6
3. Form and Issue of Certificates ........................................................................................... 7
4. Entitlement to Treat Registered Certificateholder as Absolute Owner ............................. 7
5. Appointment of Agents ..................................................................................................... 7
6. Powers Vested in the Delegate .......................................................................................... 8
7. Delegation of Authority to the Delegate ......................................................................... 10
8. The Delegate .................................................................................................................... 10
9. Duties of the Trustee and the Delegate ........................................................................... 10
10. Protection of Delegate or Trustee .................................................................................... 10
11. Investment ....................................................................................................................... 10
12. Application of Moneys .................................................................................................... 10
13. Representations and Warranties ...................................................................................... 10
14. Undertakings ................................................................................................................... 11
15. Termination ..................................................................................................................... 11
16. Appointment, Removal or Retirement of Delegate ......................................................... 11
17. Notices ............................................................................................................................. 12
18. Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 .................................................................. 13
19. Counterparts, Severability and Taxes .............................................................................. 13
20. Shari'ah Compliance ........................................................................................................ 13
21. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution ......................................................................... 14
22. Waiver of Interest ............................................................................................................ 15
Schedule 1 Form of Certificates .............................................................................................. 16
Part A Form of Definitive Certificate .............................................................................. 17
Part B Form of Global Certificate ................................................................................... 18
Schedule 2 Terms and Conditions of the Certificates .............................................................. 19
Schedule 3 Provisions for Meetings of Certificateholders ...................................................... 20
- 1-
THIS DECLARATION OF TRUST (the "Declaration of Trust") is made by way of deed is
dated [•] and made
BETWEEN:
(1) 1[SPV LIMITED], in its capacity as issuer of the Certificates and as trustee for the
Certificateholders (the "Trustee");
(2) [COMPANY] (the "Company"); and
(3) [INSERT NAME OF DELEGATE], in its capacity as: (i) donee of the powers set out
in Clause 6 (Powers Vested in the Delegate) of this Declaration of Trust; and (ii) as
delegate of the Trustee pursuant to Clause 7 (Delegation of Authority to the Delegate)
of this Declaration of Trust, in each case in relation to the trusts created by these
presents of which the Trustee is the trustee (the "Delegate", which expression shall
include any co-delegate, any replacement Delegate and any successor thereto).
WHEREAS:
(A) The Trustee has authorised the issue of its [•] trust certificates due [•].
(B) The Trustee proposes to apply the sums settled upon the Trust created by this
Declaration of Trust towards the acquisition of the Trust Assets as authorised and
directed by the Certificateholders in the Conditions, and the Certificates issued to the
Certificateholders will represent, inter alia, a pro rata undivided ownership interest in
the Trust Assets.
(C) The Trustee agrees to hold the Trust Assets upon trust (the "Trust") absolutely for the
Certificateholders as beneficiaries in accordance with the provisions of this Declaration
of Trust.
(D) In respect of the Trust created by this Declaration of Trust, the Trustee intends to confer
certain powers and to delegate certain other powers to the Delegate as provided in
Clause 6 (Powers vested in the Delegate) and Clause 7 (Delegation of Authority to the
Delegate), respectively.
NOW THIS DECLARATION OF TRUST WITNESSES AND IT IS AGREED AND
DECLARED as follows:
1. DEFINITIONS, INTERPRETATION AND CONSTRUCTION
1.1 Definitions
Except where the context requires otherwise, in this Declaration of Trust, capitalised
terms and expressions which are not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned
to them in the Conditions. In addition, in this Declaration of Trust:
1 Note: To be considered on a transaction specific basis whether the SPV is to be owned by a charitable trust which would be preferable,
or whether the SPV would need to be owned by the Company (or the originating entity) which would may be required for public policy
or legislative/taxation reasons.
- 2-
"Accountholder" means each person who is for the time being shown in the records of
[insert name of clearing system(s)] as entitled to a particular face amount of the
Certificates (in which regard any certificate or other document issued by [insert name
of clearing system(s)] as to the face amount of such Certificates standing to the account
of any person shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes save in the case of
manifest error);
"Agency Agreement" means the agreement dated on or about the date of this
Declaration of Trust between the Trustee, Company, the Delegate and the Agents;
"Agents" means the financial institutions named as Agents in the Agency Agreement
or their successors;
"Appointee" means any attorney, manager, agent, delegate, nominee, custodian or
other person appointed or employed by the Trustee in connection with the performance
by the Trustee of its obligations under these presents;
"Assets" means each of the assets described in schedule 1 (Assets) to the Sale and
Purchase Agreement;
"Authorisation" means an authorisation, consent, approval, resolution, licence,
exemption, filing, notarisation or registration;
"Business Day" means a day (other than a Friday, Saturday or Sunday) on which
commercial banks and foreign exchange markets settle payments in [•];
"Certificates" means the [•] trust certificates due [•] (representing undivided ownership
interests in the Trust Assets) to be issued on [•] and constituted by this Declaration of
Trust and includes any replacements for Certificates issued pursuant to Condition 17
(Replacement of Definitive Certificates) being in definitive or global form, as the
context may require;
"Certificateholders" means the several persons in whose names the Trust Certificates
are for the time being registered (as set out in the Register) save that for so long as the
Trust Certificates or any part of them are represented by a Global Certificate held on
behalf of [insert name of clearing system(s)] or [insert name of clearing system(s)] each
Accountholder shall be deemed to be the holder of the aggregate face amount of Trust
Certificates held in its securities accounts with [insert name of clearing system(s)] and
[insert name of clearing system(s)] (and the person in whose name the Global
Certificate is registered (as set out in the Register) shall not be deemed to be the holder)
for all purposes other than with respect to payments on the Trust Certificates, the right
to which shall be vested, as against the Trustee, solely in the registered holder of the
Global Certificate in accordance with and subject to its terms and the expressions
"Certificateholder" and "holders of Certificates" and related expressions shall (where
appropriate) be construed accordingly;
"Conditions" means the terms and conditions in the form set out in Schedule 2 (Terms
and Conditions of the Certificates) as the same may from time to time be modified in
accordance with these presents and any reference in these presents to a specified
Condition or paragraph of a Condition shall be construed accordingly;
- 3-
"Definitive Certificate" means a Definitive Certificate in the form or substantially in
the form set out in Part A (Form of Definitive Certificate) of Schedule 1 (Form of
Certificates);
"Dissolution Date" has the meaning given to the term in the Conditions;
"FSMA" means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, as amended;
"Definitive Certificate" means a Global Certificate in the form or substantially in the
form set out in Part B (Form of Global Certificate) of Schedule 1 (Form of Certificates);
"Lease Assets" has the meaning given to the term in the Lease Agreement;
"Liabilities" means, in respect of any person, any losses, damages, costs, charges,
awards, claims, demands, expenses, judgments, actions, proceedings (or threats of any
actions or proceedings) or other liabilities whatsoever including legal fees, travelling
expenses and any Taxes and penalties incurred by that person;
"Official List" means the official list of securities of the Stock Exchange;
"outstanding" means [•];
"Parties" means the parties to this Declaration of Trust;
"Proceeds" means the proceeds of the issue of the Certificates;
"Prospectus" means the prospectus dated [•];
"Purchase Undertaking" means the purchase undertaking dated on or about the date
hereof and executed by Company (acting in its capacity as company thereunder) in
favour of the Trustee and the Delegate and includes the form of Sale Agreement to be
entered into in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Undertaking;
"Receiver" means any receiver, manager or administrative receiver or any other
analogous officer appointed in respect of the Trustee by the Delegate in accordance
with this Declaration of Trust;
"Registrar" means in relation to the Certificates, the institution at its specified office
initially appointed as registrar pursuant to the Agency Agreement or, if applicable, any
successor registrar at its specified office;
"Rental" has the meaning given to it in the Lease Agreement;
"Rental Notice" has the meaning given to it in the Lease Agreement;
"Rental Payment Date" has the meaning given to it in the Lease Agreement;
"Rental Period" has the meaning given to it in the Lease Agreement;
"Sale Agreement" means a sale agreement substantially in the form set out in schedule
2 (Form of Sale Agreement) to the Purchase Undertaking or schedule 4 (Form of Sale
Agreement) to the Sale and Substitution Undertaking, as applicable;
- 4-
"Sale and Substitution Undertaking" means the sale and substitution undertaking
dated on or about the date hereof and executed by the Trustee in favour of Company
and includes the form of Sale Agreement to be entered into in accordance with the terms
of the Sale and Substitution Undertaking;
"Service Agency Agreement" means the service agency agreement dated on or about
the date hereof between the Trustee and Company (acting in its capacity as Service
Agent) with respect to the Lease Assets;
"Service Agent" means Company in its capacity as service agent for and on behalf of
the Trustee under the Service Agency Agreement;
"Stock Exchange" means [•];
"Subscription Agreement" means the agreement dated [•] between the Trustee,
Company and the financial institutions named therein as dealers concerning the
purchase of the Certificates;
"these presents" means this Declaration of Trust and the Schedules hereto, the
Certificates and the Conditions, all as from time to time modified in accordance with
the provisions herein or therein contained;
"Transaction Document" has the meaning given to the term in the Conditions;
"Trust Assets" means:
(a) all of the Trustee’s ownership rights, title, interest and benefit, present and
future, in, to and under the Lease Assets;
(b) all of the Trustee's ownership rights, title, interest and benefit, present and future,
in, to and under the Transaction Documents (excluding: (i) any representations
given by Company to the Trustee and the Delegate pursuant to any of the
Transaction Documents and any rights which have been expressly waived by
the Trustee or the Delegate in any of the Transaction Documents; and (ii) the
covenant given to the Trustee pursuant to Clause [•] (Remuneration and
Indemnification of the Trustee and the Delegate)); and
(c) all monies standing to the credit of the Transaction Account (as defined in
Condition 1 (Interpretation)), in each case and all proceeds of the foregoing
which are held by the Trustee upon trust absolutely for the Certificateholders
pro rata according to the face amount of Certificates held by each holder in
accordance with the terms herein and the Conditions;
"Trustee Acts" means the Trustee Act 1925 and the Trustee Act 2000 of England and
Wales; and
1.2 Interpretation and Construction
1.2.1 In this Declaration of Trust, unless the contrary intention appears, a reference
to:
- 5-
(a) an "amendment" includes a supplement, restatement or novation and
"amended" is to be construed accordingly;
(b) a "person" includes:
(i) any individual, company, unincorporated association,
government, state agency, international organisation or other
entity; and
(ii) its successors and assigns;
(c) a "successor" shall include any entity to whom the business of a person
has been transferred under the applicable law;
(d) a Clause, a paragraph or a Schedule is a reference to a clause or
paragraph of, or a schedule to, this Declaration of Trust;
(e) any Transaction Document or a "document" or any "provision" of any
such Transaction Document or other document is a reference to that
Transaction Document or other document or provision as amended,
novated, supplemented, extended, replaced or restated from time to time;
(f) a time of day is a reference to [•] time; and
(g) the Trustee or the Delegate includes any replacement Trustee and/or
co-trustee or, respectively, any replacement Delegate and/or co-delegate
appointed pursuant to this Declaration of Trust and any successor thereto.
1.2.2 The headings in this Declaration of Trust are for ease of reference only and do
not affect its interpretation.
1.2.3 In this Declaration of Trust, words denoting:
(a) the singular shall include the plural and vice versa;
(b) one gender only shall include the other gender; and
(c) persons only shall include firms and corporations and vice versa.
1.2.4 All references in these presents or any other Transaction Document involving
compliance by the Trustee or the Delegate with a test of reasonableness shall be
deemed to include a reference to a requirement that such reasonableness shall
be determined by reference solely to the interests of the Certificateholders as a
class and in the event of any conflict between such interests and the interests of
any other person, the former shall prevail as being paramount.
1.2.5 All references in these presents to any action, remedy or method of proceeding
for the enforcement of the rights of creditors shall be deemed to include, in
respect of any jurisdiction other than England, references to such action, remedy
or method of proceeding for the enforcement of the rights of creditors available
or appropriate in such jurisdiction as shall most nearly approximate to such
- 6-
action, remedy or method of proceeding described or referred to in these
presents.
1.2.6 All references in these presents to any statute or any provision of any statute
shall be deemed also to refer to any statutory modification or re-enactment
thereof or any statutory instrument, order or regulation made thereunder or
under any such modification or re-enactment.
1.2.7 Unless the context otherwise requires words or expressions used in these
presents shall bear the same meanings as in the Companies Act 2006 of England
and Wales.
1.2.8 All references to an amount falling due in respect of the Certificates shall be
deemed to include any amounts which are expressed to be payable under the
Certificates.
1.2.9 All references in these presents to costs or charges or expenses shall include any
value added tax or similar tax charged or chargeable in respect thereof.
1.2.10 All references in these presents to any moneys payable by the Trustee under
these presents shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed so that
such money shall be payable in accordance with Condition 9 (Payments)
mutatis mutandis.
1.2.11 All references in these presents to [insert name of clearing system(s)] shall,
wherever the context so admits, be deemed to include references to any
additional or alternative clearing system in which the Certificates are from time
to time accepted for clearance.
1.2.12 Time, where referred to in these presents, shall be of the essence.
2. DECLARATION OF TRUST
The Trustee hereby declares that:
2.1.1 it will with effect from the execution of this Declaration of Trust, hold the Trust
Assets on trust absolutely for the Certificateholders pro rata on an undivided
basis according to the face amount of Certificates held by each such
Certificateholder, in accordance with and subject to these presents;
2.1.2 subject to its being indemnified and/or secured and/or pre-funded to its
satisfaction, it shall, in its capacity as Trustee, exercise on behalf of and for the
benefit of the Certificateholders all of its rights under the Transaction
Documents and appoint such delegates and agents as it deems necessary in
respect of the Certificates (including pursuant to the Agency Agreement) in
accordance with its obligations under the Transaction Documents;
2.1.3 it will comply with and perform its obligations, or cause such obligations to be
complied with and performed on its behalf, in accordance with the terms of the
Certificates, the Conditions and the Transaction Documents and observe all the
provisions of the Transaction Documents which are expressed to be binding on
- 7-
it and, in particular but without limitation, shall maintain proper books of
account in respect of the Trust;
2.1.4 it shall act as trustee in respect of the Trust Assets, distribute the income from
the Trust Assets and perform its duties in accordance with the provisions of
these presents;
2.1.5 subject to it being indemnified and/or secured and/or pre-funded to its
satisfaction it shall enforce the Trust Assets including, insofar as it is able,
taking all reasonably necessary steps to enforce each of this Declaration of Trust,
the Purchase Undertaking and the Service Agency Agreement if Company shall
have at any time failed to perform its obligations under it;
2.1.6 it shall collect the proceeds of the Trust Assets in accordance with the terms of
this Declaration of Trust;
2.1.7 it shall distribute the proceeds of any enforcement of the Trust Assets, in
accordance with the terms of this Declaration of Trust, the Conditions, the
Purchase Undertaking and the Sale and Substitution Undertaking; and
2.1.8 it shall subject to its being indemnified and/or secured and/or pre-funded to its
satisfaction, take such other steps as are reasonably necessary to ensure that the
Certificateholders receive the distributions to be made to them in accordance
with the Transaction Documents.
3. FORM AND ISSUE OF CERTIFICATES
[TO BE AGREED BETWEEN PARITES ON THE RELEVANT TRANSACTION]
4. ENTITLEMENT TO TREAT REGISTERED CERTIFICATEHOLDER AS
ABSOLUTE OWNER
Subject as otherwise provided in the Global Certificate and the definition of
"Certificateholders", the Trustee and/or the Delegate may (to the fullest extent
permitted by applicable laws) deem and treat those persons in whose names any
outstanding Certificates are for the time being registered (as set out in the Register) as
the holder of any Certificate or of a particular face amount of Certificates, for all
purposes (whether or not such Certificate or face amount shall be overdue and
notwithstanding any notice of ownership thereof or of any trust or other interest with
regard thereto, and any notice of loss or theft or any writing thereon), and the Trustee
and/or the Delegate shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary. All payments
made to such holder shall be valid and, to the extent of the sums so paid, effective to
satisfy and discharge the liability for moneys payable in respect of such Certificate or
face amount.
5. APPOINTMENT OF AGENTS
2The Trustee has initially appointed the persons named as Registrar, Transfer Agent,
Paying Agent, Principal Paying Agent and Calculation Agent in the Agency Agreement,
2 Note: Roles and responsibilities of each Agent to be agreed between the parties on each relevant transaction.
- 8-
as its agents, each acting through its specified office set out therein. The Trustee
reserves the right, at any time in accordance with the terms of the Agency Agreement,
to terminate the appointment of any Agent and to appoint replacement or additional
agents provided that it will at all times maintain any Agent required by the Conditions
to be maintained. Notice of any termination or appointment of Agents and of any
changes in their respective specified offices will be given to Certificateholders by the
Trustee (or Company on its behalf) in accordance with Condition 18 (Notices) and to
the Delegate as soon as practicable thereafter. The Trustee shall procure that each of
the Paying Agents makes available for inspection by Certificateholders at its specified
office copies of the documents required by the Prospectus to be made available.
6. POWERS VESTED IN THE DELEGATE
6.1 Meetings Provisions
The Delegate (subject to it being indemnified and/or secured and/or prefunded to its
satisfaction) shall have: (i) the power to convene Meetings of Certificateholders as set
out in Schedule 3 (Provisions for Meetings of Certificateholders); and (ii) the power to
act upon the instructions of Certificateholders in accordance with any resolution,
decision or Extraordinary Resolution of Certificateholders, subject to and as more
particularly described in Schedule 3 (Provisions for Meetings of Certificateholders).
6.2 Dissolution Event
The Delegate shall have the powers set out in Condition [15] (Dissolution Events) to
make the determinations, send the notices and to determine pursuant and subject to the
provisions therein whether, in the case of a Dissolution Event only, the Certificates
should become immediately due and payable.
6.3 Negative Pledge
The Delegate shall have the power to determine, in its absolute discretion, in accordance
with Condition [5] (Negative Pledge), whether the security accorded to the Certificates
is not materially less beneficial to the interests of the Certificateholders than that of any
Security Interest (as defined in the Conditions) that is created or is outstanding upon
the whole or any part of any present or future property, revenues or assets of Company.
6.4 Amendments, Waiver, Authorisation and Determination
This Declaration of Trust, any other Transaction Document and the Trustee's
memorandum and articles of association may only be amended by the Trustee with the
consent of the Delegate and the Delegate may agree, without the consent or sanction of
the Certificateholders, to any modification of, or to the waiver or authorisation of any
breach or proposed breach of, or give any consent required under, any of the Conditions
or any of the provisions of the Declaration of Trust or the other Transaction Documents
to which the Trustee or the Delegate is a party or determine, without any such consent
or sanction as aforesaid, that any Dissolution Event or an event which, with the giving
of notice, lapse of time, determination of materiality or fulfilment of any other
applicable condition (or any combination of the foregoing), would constitute a
Dissolution Event shall not be treated as such if, in the sole opinion of the Delegate:
- 9-
6.4.1 such modification is of a formal, minor or technical nature; or
6.4.2 such modification is made to correct a manifest error; or
6.4.3 such modification, waiver, authorisation or determination is not, in the sole
opinion of the Delegate, materially prejudicial to the interests of the
Certificateholders and is other than in respect of a Reserved Matter (as defined
in Schedule 3 (Provisions for Meetings of Certificateholders)) or any provision
of these presents referred to in the definition of a Reserved Matter or other than
in contravention of an express direction from the Certificateholders representing
not less than 25 per cent. of the aggregate face amount of the outstanding
Certificates.
No such direction or request will affect a previous consent, waiver, authorisation or
determination. Any such modification, waiver, authorisation or determination shall be
made in accordance with these presents and may be made on such terms and subject to
such conditions (if any) as the Delegate may determine, shall be binding on the
Certificateholders and, unless the Delegate otherwise decides, shall be notified by the
Trustee (or Company on its behalf) to the Certificateholders in accordance with
Condition [18] (Notices) as soon as practicable thereafter.
6.5 Agents
At any time after a Dissolution Event shall have occurred, or the Certificates shall
otherwise become due and payable, the Delegate may:
6.5.1 by notice in writing to the Trustee and each Agent require each Agent pursuant
to the Agency Agreement to act thereafter, until notified in writing by the
Delegate to the contrary, so far as permitted by applicable law, as an agent of
the Delegate, under the provisions of the Declaration of Trust and the
Certificates mutatis mutandis on the terms provided in the Agency Agreement
(save that the Delegate's Liability under any provision of the Agency Agreement
for the indemnification, remuneration and payment of out-of-pocket expenses
of each Agent shall be limited to the amounts for the time being held on trust
pursuant to these presents relating to the Certificates for such purpose and such
Agents' expenses as agent of the Delegate are to be treated as expenses incurred
by the Delegate) and thereafter:
(a) to hold all Certificates and all sums, documents and records held by them
in respect of Certificates to the order of the Delegate; or
(b) to deliver up all Certificates and all sums, documents and records held
by them in respect of Certificates to the Delegate or as the Delegate shall
direct in such notice provided that such notice shall be deemed not to
apply to any documents or records which the relevant Agent is obliged
not to release by any law or regulation; and/or
6.5.2 by notice in writing to the Trustee and Company require any of them to make
all subsequent payments in respect of the Certificates to or to the order of the
Delegate and not to the Principal Paying Agent with effect from the issue of any
such notice to the Trustee and Company and until such notice is withdrawn.
- 10-
6.6 New Trustee
The power to remove the Trustee and to appoint a new trustee of these presents shall
be vested in the Delegate, but the Trustee shall not be removed and no person shall be
appointed as new trustee of these presents unless such removal and appointment shall
previously have been approved by an Extraordinary Resolution.
6.7 Other Powers of the Delegate
The Delegate shall have the other powers granted to it in these presents including those
set out in Clause 14.1 (Undertakings) and shall also have such other powers, authorities
and discretions as expressly specified in these presents and in the other Transaction
Documents. The powers conferred by these presents upon the Delegate shall be in
addition to any powers which may from time to time be vested in it by general law or
as a Certificateholder.
6.8 Benefit of the Vesting
It is hereby declared that the powers conferred on the Delegate in this Clause 6 shall be
exercised in the interests of the Delegate and the Certificateholders, subject to the terms
of these presents.
7. DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY TO THE DELEGATE
[TO BE AGREED BETWEEN PARITES ON THE RELEVANT TRANSACTION]
8. THE DELEGATE
[TO BE AGREED BETWEEN PARITES ON THE RELEVANT TRANSACTION]
9. DUTIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND THE DELEGATE
[TO BE AGREED BETWEEN PARITES ON THE RELEVANT TRANSACTION]
10. PROTECTION OF DELEGATE OR TRUSTEE
[TO BE AGREED BETWEEN PARITES ON THE RELEVANT TRANSACTION]
11. INVESTMENT
[TO BE AGREED BETWEEN PARITES ON THE RELEVANT TRANSACTION]
12. APPLICATION OF MONEYS
[TO BE AGREED BETWEEN PARITES ON THE RELEVANT TRANSACTION]
13. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
The Trustee hereby represents and warrants to the Delegate that:
13.1.1 it is duly incorporated as a [•] company with limited liability under the laws of
[•] and is validly existing in [•];
- 11-
13.1.2 it has the power to own its assets and carry on its business as it is being
conducted;
13.1.3 the transactions contemplated by, and all obligations expressed to be assumed
by it in, the Transaction Documents constitute its legal, valid, binding and
enforceable obligations subject only to the laws of bankruptcy and other laws
affecting the rights of creditors generally and subject to the qualifications as to
enforceability set out in the legal opinions referred to in clause [•] (Conditions
Precedent – Legal Opinions) of the Subscription Agreement;
13.1.4 its entry into, and the transactions contemplated by, the Transaction Documents
(and the rights afforded to it under the Purchase Undertaking) do not and will
not conflict with:
(a) any law or regulation in [•] applicable to it; or
(b) its constitutional documents; or
(c) any agreement or instrument binding upon it or any of its assets;
13.1.5 it has the power to enter into, perform and deliver, and has taken all necessary
action to authorise its entry into, performance and delivery of, these presents,
and all other Transaction Documents to which it is a party; and
13.1.6 all Authorisations required under the laws of [•]:
(a) to enable it lawfully to enter into, exercise its rights and comply with its
obligations in these presents; and
(b) to make these presents admissible in evidence in its jurisdiction of incorporation,
have been obtained or effected and are in full force and effect.
[TO BE AGREED BETWEEN PARITES ON THE RELEVANT TRANSACTION]
14. UNDERTAKINGS
14.1 Each of the Trustee and the Company hereby undertakes that it will:
[TO BE AGREED BETWEEN PARITES ON THE RELEVANT TRANSACTION]
14.2 Remuneration and Indemnification of the Trustee and the Delegate
[TO BE AGREED BETWEEN PARITES ON THE RELEVANT TRANSACTION]
15. TERMINATION
[TO BE AGREED BETWEEN PARITES ON THE RELEVANT TRANSACTION]
16. APPOINTMENT, REMOVAL OR RETIREMENT OF DELEGATE
[TO BE AGREED BETWEEN PARITES ON THE RELEVANT TRANSACTION]
- 12-
17. NOTICES
17.1 All notices or other communications required to be given in connection with these
presents shall given in writing or facsimile in the English language. Any such notice
will be deemed to be given as follows:
17.1.1 if delivered in person, at the time of delivery;
17.1.2 if sent by registered post, 5 business days after dispatch; and
17.1.3 if by facsimile, when a transmission report showing the successful transmission
of the facsimile is received by the sender.
However, a notice given in accordance with the above but received on a day which is
not a Business Day or after business hours in the place of receipt will only be deemed
to be given on the next Business Day.
17.2 The addresses, email addresses and facsimile numbers for the delivery of all notices
under or in connection with these presents are:
17.2.1 in the case of Company:
Address: Company
Facsimile: [•]
Attention: [•]
17.2.2 in the case of the Trustee:
Address: [SPV LIMITED]
Facsimile: [•]
Attention: [•]
with a copy to the Delegate;
17.2.3 in the case of the Delegate:
Address: [•]
Facsimile: [•]
Attention: [•]
or to such other address or facsimile number or marked for the attention of such other
person or department as may from time to time be notified by any party to the other(s)
by not less than 5 business days' written notice in accordance with the provisions of this
Clause. In this Clause 17 (Notices), "business day" in relation to any place means a day
on which commercial banks are open for general business in the place of the addressee.
- 13-
17.3 The Trustee shall without delay send a copy to Company and the Delegate of:
17.3.1 every notice, certificate, opinion, document, information or communication
received by it pursuant to the terms of any Transaction Document; and
17.3.2 every notice, certificate, opinion, document, information or communication
given by it pursuant to the terms of any Transaction Document.
18. CONTRACTS (RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES) ACT 1999
18.1 A person who is not a party to these presents has no right under the Contracts (Rights
of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term of these presents, except and to the extent
that these presents expressly provide for such Act to apply to any of its terms, but this
does not affect any right or remedy of a third party which exists or is available apart
from that Act.
18.2 For the avoidance of doubt, the consent to any amendment, modification, waiver or
termination of any provision of these presents shall not be required of any persons who
have been granted third party rights herein.
19. COUNTERPARTS, SEVERABILITY AND TAXES
19.1 This Declaration of Trust may be executed in any number of counterparts, and this has
the same effect as if the signatures on the counterparts were on a single copy of this
Declaration of Trust.
19.2 If any provision in or obligation under this Declaration of Trust shall be invalid, illegal
or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the validity, legality and enforceability of the
remaining provisions or obligations under this Declaration of Trust, or of such provision
or obligation in any other jurisdiction, shall not be affected or impaired thereby.
19.3 Company will promptly, and before any charges or penalties become payable, pay any
stamp, issue, registration, documentary and other fees, duties and taxes (including
mandatory payments arising as a matter of law, regulation or court order) payable on
or in connection with: (a) the execution and delivery of these presents; (b) the
constitution and original issue of the Certificates; and (c) any action taken by or on
behalf of the Delegate or (where permitted under these presents so to do) any
Certificateholder to enforce, or to resolve any doubt concerning, or for any other
purpose in relation to these presents.
20. SHARI'AH COMPLIANCE
Each of the Trustee and the Company agrees that it has accepted the Shari'ah compliant
nature of this Agreement; and
(a) it shall not claim that any of its obligations under this Agreement (or any
provision thereof) is ultra vires or not compliant with the principles of Shari'ah;
(b) it shall not take any steps or bring any proceedings in any forum to challenge
the Shari'ah compliance of this Agreement; and
- 14-
(c) to the extent permitted by law, none of its obligations under this Agreement
shall in any way be diminished, abrogated, impaired, invalidated or otherwise
adversely affected by any finding, declaration, pronouncement, order or
judgment of any court, tribunal or other body that this Agreement is not
compliant with the principles of Shari'ah.
21. GOVERNING LAW AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION
21.1 This Declaration of Trust (including the remaining provisions of this Clause 20) and
any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with this Declaration of
Trust are governed by, and shall be construed in accordance with, English law.
21.2 Subject to Clause 21.3, any dispute, claim, difference or controversy arising out of,
relating to or having any connection with this Declaration of Trust (including any
dispute as to its existence, validity, interpretation, performance, breach or termination
or the consequences of its nullity or any dispute relating to any non-contractual
obligations arising out of or in connection with it) (a "Dispute") shall be referred to and
finally resolved by arbitration under the Arbitration Rules of [•] (the "Rules"), which
Rules (as amended from time to time) are incorporated by reference into this Clause
21.2. For these purposes:
(a) the place of arbitration shall be [•];
(b) there shall be [three] arbitrators, each of whom shall be disinterested in the
arbitration, shall have no connection with any party thereto and shall be an
attorney experienced in international securities transactions; and
(c) the language of the arbitration shall be English.
21.3 The Trustee or the Delegate may, in the alternative, irrevocably elect that a Dispute be
heard by a court of law and not determined by arbitration. The Trustee or the Delegate
must make the election before commencing arbitration or by giving written notice to
the Trustee and Company within [•] days of receipt of the document by which the
Trustee and Company commenced arbitration. If an election is made, the Dispute shall
then be determined in accordance with Clause 21.4.
21.4 Subject to an election having been made under Clause 21.3, the following provisions
shall apply:
(a) subject to paragraph (c) below, the courts of [•] shall have exclusive jurisdiction
to settle any Dispute and the Company submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of
such courts;
(b) the Company agrees that the courts of [•] are the most appropriate and
convenient courts to settle any Dispute and, accordingly, that it will not argue
to the contrary; and
(c) this Clause 21.4 is for the benefit of the Trustee and the Delegate only. As a
result, and notwithstanding paragraph (a) above, the Trustee or the Delegate
may take proceedings relating to a Dispute ("Proceedings") in any other courts
with jurisdiction. To the extent allowed by law, the Trustee or the Delegate may
take concurrent Proceedings in any number of jurisdictions.
- 15-
21.5 Without prejudice to any other mode of service allowed under any relevant law, each
of the Trustee and Company:
(a) irrevocably appoints [•] as its agent for service of process in relation to any
Proceedings before the English courts in connection with this Declaration of
Trust; and
(b) agrees that failure by the agent to notify the Trustee or the Company (as
applicable) of the process will not invalidate the Proceedings concerned.
22. WAIVER OF INTEREST
Each Party irrevocably agrees that no interest will be payable or receivable under or in
connection with this Declaration of Trust or any other Transaction Document and in
the event that it is determined that any interest is payable or receivable in connection
with this Declaration of Trust or any other Transaction Document by a Party, whether
as a result of any judicial award or by operation of any applicable law or otherwise,
such Party agrees to waive any rights it may have to claim or receive such interest and
agrees that if any such interest is actually received by it, it shall promptly donate the
same to a registered or otherwise officially recognised charitable organisation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF this Declaration of Trust has been executed as a deed by the
Parties on the day and year first above written.
- 16-
SCHEDULE 1
FORM OF CERTIFICATES
- 17-
PART A
FORM OF DEFINITIVE CERTIFICATE
- 18-
PART B
FORM OF GLOBAL CERTIFICATE
- 19-
SCHEDULE 2
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE CERTIFICATES
[TO BE INSERTED]
- 20-
SCHEDULE 3
PROVISIONS FOR MEETINGS OF CERTIFICATEHOLDERS
[TO BE AGREED BETWEEN PARITES ON THE RELEVANT TRANSACTION]
SIGNATURE PAGE TO THE DECLARATION OF TRUST
SIGNATORIES TO THE DECLARATION OF TRUST
EXECUTED and DELIVERED as a DEED by )
[SPV LIMITED] )
acting by )
acting under the authority of that company )
in the presence of: )
Witness signature: .......................................................
Name: ..........................................................................
Address: ......................................................................
EXECUTED and DELIVERED as a DEED by )
Company
)
acting by )
acting under the authority of that government )
in the presence of: )
Witness signature: .......................................................
Name: ..........................................................................
Address: ......................................................................
EXECUTED and DELIVERED as a DEED by )
[•] )
acting by )
acting under the authority of that company )
in the presence of: )
Witness signature: .......................................................
Name: ..........................................................................
Address: ......................................................................