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LG's View is as I have said many times - ALL ROADS To Wealth LEAD To (DSTs) Delaware Statutory Trusts For Marker Holders

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I want to point out the very first document filed by Washington Mutual Incorporated Investment Corp. (WMIIC)

http://www.kccllc.net/wamu/document/0812228080926000000000001

PDF page 1 of 10 (bottom of page):

“Estimated Assets ________X $500,000,001 to $1 billion

Estimatesd Liabilities ______ X $0 to $50,000”

PDF page 9 of 10:

Stewart M. Landefeld (Executive Vice President) filed and stated:

“WMI Investment Corp. in the above-captioned case, certifies that Washington Mutual, Inc. Owns 100% of the equity interests in WMI Investment Corp.”

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https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/wmih-corp-announces-dissolution-of-wmi-investment-corp-300584678.html

“SEATTLE, Jan. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- WMIH Corp. (Nasdaq: WMIH) (the "Company") today announced that it has completed the dissolution of its wholly-owned subsidiary WMI Investment Corp. ("WMIIC"). Earlier today, WMIIC filed a Certificate of Dissolution of WMIIC with the Office of the Delaware Secretary of State. The dissolution of WMIIC was effective immediately upon the filing of such certificate.

Prior to September 26, 2008, WMIIC held a variety of securities and investments; however, such securities and investments were liquidated and the value thereof distributed in connection with implementing the Company's Seventh Amended Joint Plan of Affiliated Debtors Pursuant to Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. As such, WMIIC did not have any assets or operations at the time of its dissolution. “

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IMO...conclusions as of December 08, 2018:

1) WMI owns 100% equity of WMIIC, not the assets of WMIIC. Thus WMILT/WMI Escrow Marker Holders owns 100% equity of WMIIC, not the assets of WMIIC.

2) WMIIC did declare assets

3) upon dissolution, WMIIC owned no assets.

So, why is this so important?

IMO...WMIIC was or it became a Special Purpose Vehicle/ Special Purpose Entity (SPV/SPE)

The following is a description of what a SPV/SPE actually is, and how it is required in securitizations of assets.

The following are cited from “Securitization: The Financial Instrument of the Furure” by Vinod Kothari (2nd edition 2006).

Page 11-12

Another phrase commonly used in securitization exercises is bankruptcy remoteness. This means the transfer of the assets by the originator goes bankrupt, or falls into other financial difficulties, the rights of the investors on the assets held by the SPV are not affected. In other words, the investors would continue to have a paramount interest in the assets irrespective of the difficulties, distress or bankruptcy of the originator. Bankruptcy remoteness could also be related to the issuer, that is, the special purpose vehicle is ideally so structured that it cannot go bankrupt. Technically, it is never possible to guarantee that the SPV will not go bankrupt, but the structural protection against bankruptcy relies on a basic tenet of life that we often forget. All worries are associated with wealth. If the SPV is so structured that it can have no wealth and no liabilities, it obviously can have no worries, including worries as to bankruptcy.

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Box 1.3 Why Special Purpose Vehicles?
Special purpose vehicle is a transformation device, it is not an entity with substance, assets or income. It is a mere legal fiction that holds assets and issues securities.
It does not add any credit, value or support to the assets.
The results is that assets get converted into securities, the special purpose entity acting as a conversion device.
The only backing of the securities issued by the entity is the assets, so these securities are asset-backed securities.

Special Purpose Vehicle
A vehicle, whether special purpose or general purpose, is not required in case of asset sales in general, but is required for securitization transactions.
Creation of marketable securities is not possible without a conduit or vehicle that will house the assets transferred by the originator and create securities based on such assets. Therefore, a vehicle is required to serve as an intermediary between the originator and the investors. But or such a vehicle, a transfer of assets between the originator and the investors will be a direct bilateral transfer and any further disposal thereof by the investors will be fraught with problems. We will discuss more of these problems later.
That is why we need a vehicle, but why a special purpose vehicle? The idea of a special purpose vehicle is to clothe an asset(s) with the garb of incorporation, so that one who owns the securities of the vehicle really owns the assets, no more and no less. A general purpose, or operating company, is not fit to hold securitized assets as such a company might have other assets and other liabilities, each of which might interfere with the exclusivity of rights over the assets that the transaction intends to give to the investors.
If an operating company holds assets, it might incur expenses, and/or incur liabilities, and might go bankrupt, thereby destroying the transaction. By its very nature, a special purpose vehicle is a legal shell with only the specific assets transferred by the originator, and those assets are either beneficially held by the investors or collateralize the securities of the vehicle; there is nothing left in the vehicle for anyone to have an interest in. A special purpose vehicle is a legal entity, but a substantive non-entity. This is what makes a special purpose vehicle bankruptcy-remote: Taking the special purpose vehicle to bankruptcy is almost the same as taking legal action against a pauper.

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The following limitations should be imposed in the constitutional documents to make the SPV bankruptcy remote:
The company’s purpose should be limited. The purpose will depend on the function of the SPV. Issuer SPVs will have the purpose of acquiring the assets of the originator, issuing securities and all ancillary functions.
The company’s ability to incur indebtedness should be limited. The nature of the limitation will depend on the limited liability company’s role in the transaction.
The company should be prohibited from engaging in any dissolution, liquidation, consolidation, merger or asset sale and amendment of its articles of organization as long as the rated obligations are outstanding.
The company must have an independent director. Preferably, the majority of the Board must be independent.
The unanimous consent of the independent directors and members should be required to (i) file, or consent to the filing of, a bankruptcy or insolvency petition or otherwise institute insolvency proceedings; (ii) dissolve, liquidate, consolidate, merge or sell all or substantially al of the assets of the corporation; (iii) engage in any other business activity; and (iv) amend the company’s organizational documents.
The company should agree to observe the “Separateness Covenants” (see above).

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Safe Harbor
Delaware

On January 17, 2002, the state of Delaware enacted the Asset-Backed Securities Facilitation Act, 6 Del.C. 2703A (the “ASBFA”). The ABSFA effectively creates a safe harbor under Delaware state law for determining what constitutes a true sale in securitization transaction.
?The ABSFA first provides that any “property, assets or rights purported to be transferred, in whole or in part, in the securitization transaction shall be deemed to no longer be the property, assets or rights of the transferor.” Given the foregoing provision, to the extent Delaware law applies, the traditional legal criteria used in determining what constitutes a true sale in the context of a securitization is intended to be irrelevant.
?The ABSFA further states that a “transferor in the securitization transaction…to the extent the issue is governed by Delaware law, shall have no rights, legal or equitable, whatsoever to reacquire, reclaim, recover, repudiate, disaffirm, redeem or recharacterize as property of the transferor any property, assets or rights purported to be transferred, in whole or in party, by the transferor.” The ABSFA also provides that in “the event of a bankruptcy, receivership or other insolvency proceeding with respect to the transferor of the transferor’s property, to the extent the issue is governed by Delaware law, such property, assents and rights shall not be deemed party of the transferor’s property, assets, rights or estate.”
?Thus, effectively, the state law makes a securitization transaction completely free from risk of recharacterization.
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IMO...overall conclusions:

1) WMIIC was a SPV/SPE which bought assets in order to transfer them to another SPV/SPE (which specifically are in Delaware Statutory Trusts (DST) such as Thackeray III).

March 05, 2012 —WMI/WMIIC contracts CSC Trust Company of Delaware as Delaware resident trustee. Therefore, WMILT can function as a proper liquidation trust.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/933136/000090951812000131/mm03-1212_8ke101.htm

“WMI LIQUIDATING TRUST AGREEMENT, dated as of March 5, 2012 (this “Trust Agreement”), is by and among Washington Mutual, Inc. (“WMI”) and WMI Investment Corp. (“WMI Investment” and, together with WMI, the “Debtors”), as debtors and debtors-in-possession, William C. Kosturos, as liquidating trustee (together with any successor or additional trustee appointed under the terms hereof, the “Liquidating Trustee”), and CSC Trust Company of Delaware as the Delaware resident trustee (together with any successor Delaware resident trustee appointed under the terms hereof, the “Resident Trustee” and collectively with the Liquidating Trustee, the “Trustees”) of the WMI Liquidating Trust (the “Liquidating Trust”). Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Debtors’ Seventh Amended Joint Plan of Affiliated Debtors Pursuant to Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code, dated December 12, 2011, as confirmed (including all exhibits thereto, as the same may be further amended, modified, or supplemented from time to time, the “Plan”).”

March 19, 2012–Effective Date of POR7

June 27, 2017– WaMu 1031 Exchange creation in Delaware

December 08, 2017–
a) WaMu 1031 dissolution in California
b) Long Beach, Wamu Capital Corp., WMMSC, WMAAC, and one other WMB subsidiary merged with JPMC

December 11, 2017– DB Globic letter to investors stating distribution from MBS Trusts starting after January 2018

January 18, 2018– WMIIC dissolution in Delaware

IMO...WMIIC was the conduit SPV/SPE which transfered all assets from all subsidiaries to DST such as Thackeray III Bridge.

WMI/WMILT/WMI Escrow Marker Holders are 100% the rightful equity beneficial owners of all assets in DST which hold all the assets and non-banking assets (i.e. real estate, mineral rights, beneficial interests of certificate participation in MBS Trusts created by WMI subsidiaries)

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Per the Delaware Secretary of State website:

https://icis.corp.delaware.gov/Ecorp/EntitySearch/NameSearch.aspx

Thackeray III Bridge, LLC was incorporated: November 17, 2011.

Registered Agent: CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY


IMO...my conclusions as of May 06, 2019:

1) Thackeray III Bridge, LLC is aka CSC Trust Company of Delaware (resident trustee)

2) Kosturos (liquidation trustee)

3) Beneficial owners of Thackeray III Bridge, LLC are the WMI Escrow Marker Holders

4) Thackeray III Bridge, LLC was incorporated in Delaware on November 17, 2011

5) POR 7 mediation didn’t start until December 2011.

6) WMIIC was able to transfer all WMI non-banking assets (i.e. retained interests in MBS Trusts created by WMI subsidiaries, mineral rights, CDS, real estate, etc) into a DST such as Thackeray III Bridge, LLC before WMIIC was dissolved in January 18, 2018.

7) Per DST Act of 2002:

Per the article by Morris James

https://www.morrisjames.com/newsroom-articles-292.html


“Bankruptcy Remote Characteristics.

A DST is a legal entity separate and distinct from its owners and managers, and this separateness lessens the likelihood that a bankruptcy court will consolidate the assets and liabilities of the DST with those of the trustor.

No creditor of a beneficial owner of the DST has any right to obtain possession of or exercise any legal or equitable remedies with respect to the property of the DST, and a beneficial owner generally has no interest in specific property of the DST.

A DST may not be terminated or revoked by a beneficial owner or other person except in accordance with the terms of its trust agreement. A DST has perpetual existence and will not be terminated or dissolved by the dissolution, termination or bankruptcy of a beneficial owner unless the terms of the trust agreement provide otherwise.

The contractual flexibility provided by the DST Act allows parties to restrict the ability of the DST to voluntarily commence bankruptcy proceedings through the designation of an “independent trustee”. This “independent trustee” may agree in the trust agreement to be responsible for making the determination to seek bankruptcy protection, and any fiduciary duties the independent trustee might otherwise owe to the beneficial owner can be contractually limited. Additionally, in appropriate circumstances, the power and authority of a DST may be limited (e.g., by limiting such power and authority to the preservation of the assets of the DST) so as to render the DST ineligible to file as a debtor under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

Insulation Of Trust Assets From Attachment

10 Del. C. §3502(b) ("Section 3502") provides that banks and trust companies are not subject to the legal remedy of attachment, therefore money and other assets in the custody and control of a bank or trust company are exempt from seizure by attachment

Case law has extended the protection of Section 3502 to equitable remedies sought by creditors ("[P]roperty, which is exempt from levy and sale under legal process . . . cannot be reached by a creditor's bill.")

Therefore, a beneficial owner's interest in a DST is protected from all judgment creditors of such beneficial owner so long as the trust assets are held in Delaware by a bank or trust company”

IMO...my conclusions from above article:

A) WMI non-banking assets transferred into a DST cannot be consolidated to the transferor’s (WMI/WMIIC) balance sheet

B) All assets in a DST is bankruptcy remote.

Overall conclusions:

1) WMI transferred all assets to a DST like Thackeray III Bridge, LLC (which are bankruptcy remote),

2) WMIIC was then dissolved on January 18, 2018 (without any assets upon dissolution),

3) assets within the DST will be returned to WMI Escrow Marker Holders when the BK cases are closed.

4) FDIC has no control of the assets in a DST such as Thackeray III Bridge, LLC.

5) it is true that the BK estate (WMI/WMILT) does not have any hidden significant amounts of assets because they are in a DST such as Thackeray III Bridge, LLC.


Draw your own conclusions!