Borrower Assets. With respect to each Receivable and the 2023-1B SUBI Certificate, the Borrower will: # acquire such Receivable and the 2023-1B SUBI Certificate pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the Second Tier Purchase Agreement, # take all action necessary to perfect, protect and more fully evidence the Borrower’s ownership of such Receivable and the 2023-1B SUBI Certificate, including # filing and maintaining effective financing statements (Form UCC-1) listing ​ as debtor in all necessary or appropriate filing offices (and will cause ​ to obtain similar financing statements from each Originator from which it acquired the Receivables), and filing continuation statements, amendments or assignments with respect thereto in such filing offices, # registering the 2023-1B SUBI Certificate in the name of the Borrower and delivering the 2023-1B SUBI Certificate to the Administrative Agent, endorsed in blank, and # executing or causing to be executed such other instruments or notices as may be necessary or appropriate and # take all additional action that the Administrative Agent or any Lender may reasonably request, including the filing of financing statements (Form UCC-1) listing the Administrative

Excluded Assets. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the following assets of Sellers shall be retained by Sellers and are not being sold, assigned, transferred or conveyed to Purchaser hereunder, and Sellers shall retain all right, title and interest to, in and under the following assets, properties, interests and rights of Sellers (all of the following are referred to collectively as the “Excluded Assets”):

Transferred Assets. The definition of “Transferred Assets” in [Section 1.01(a)] of the Purchase Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:

Plan Assets. Each Lender as of the Closing Date represents and warrants as of the Closing Date to the Administrative Agent and the Arrangers and their respective Affiliates, and not, for the avoidance of doubt, for the benefit of the Borrower, that such Lender is not and will not be # an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of ERISA, # a plan or account subject to Section 4975 of the Code; # an entity deemed to hold “plan assets” of any such plans or accounts for purposes of ERISA or the Code; or # a “governmental plan” within the meaning of ERISA.

General Assets. Each Participating Employer will pay, from its general assets, the distribution of the Participant’s Account under Section 6, and all costs, charges and expenses relating thereto.

Purchased Assets. The Assets to be purchased from Sellers shall be limited to the following:

Portfolios are established within each Separate Account in order to identify the specific assets intended to support obligations associated with different contract forms. The assets within a portfolio intended to support a new product may not be diversified among the asset classes described above until the assets within that portfolio total $100 million. However, the total assets within the Separate Account will comply with these Investment Guidelines at all times

Amendments. This Agreement may not be amended, modified or terminated except by an agreement in writing signed by Assignor and Assignee, and consented to by Agent.

Amendments. The Committee may at any time alter or amend this Award to the extent # permitted by law, # permitted by the rules of any stock exchange on which the Common Stock or any other security of the Corporation is listed, and # permitted under applicable provisions of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (including rule 16b-3 thereof).

Amendments. No provision of this Agreement may be amended unless such amendment is approved in writing by each of the Corporation and by TRA Parties who would be entitled to receive more than fifty percent (50%) of the aggregate amount of the Early Termination Payments payable to all TRA Parties hereunder if the Corporation had exercised its right of Early Termination on the date of the most recent Exchange prior to such amendment (excluding, for purposes of this sentence, all payments made to any TRA Party pursuant to this Agreement since the date of such most recent Exchange); provided, however, that no such amendment shall be effective if such amendment would have a disproportionate effect on the payments certain TRA Parties will or may receive under this Agreement unless all such disproportionately affected TRA Parties consent in writing to such amendment; provided, further, that amendment of the definition of Change of Control or any approval rights granted to the Independent Directors will also require the written approval of a majority of the Independent Directors.