Document:

EX-4.1

 Exhibit 4.1 

EXECUTION VERSION 
  

 
  

INDENTURE 
 by and between

 HERCULES CAPITAL FUNDING TRUST 2018-1, 

as the Issuer, 
 and 

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, 

as the Trustee 
 Dated as of
November 1, 2018 
  
  

 
 Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 
 Notes 

 TABLE OF CONTENTS 

 
  

							
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	 ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS
	  	 	2	 
			
	 Section 1.01
	  	Definitions	  	 	2	 
	 Section 1.02
	  	Rules of Construction	  	 	10	 
		
	 ARTICLE II THE NOTES
	  	 	11	 
			
	 Section 2.01
	  	Form	  	 	11	 
	 Section 2.02
	  	Execution, Authentication and Delivery	  	 	11	 
	 Section 2.03
	  	Opinions of Counsel	  	 	12	 
		
	 ARTICLE III COVENANTS
	  	 	12	 
			
	 Section 3.01
	  	Transaction Accounts	  	 	12	 
	 Section 3.02
	  	Maintenance of Office or Agency	  	 	12	 
	 Section 3.03
	  	Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust; Paying Agent	  	 	13	 
	 Section 3.04
	  	Existence; Separate Legal Existence	  	 	14	 
	 Section 3.05
	  	Payment of Principal and Interest	  	 	15	 
	 Section 3.06
	  	Protection of Indenture Collateral	  	 	16	 
	 Section 3.07
	  	Opinions as to Indenture Collateral	  	 	17	 
	 Section 3.08
	  	Furnishing of Rule 144A Information	  	 	17	 
	 Section 3.09
	  	Performance of Obligations; Sale and Servicing Agreement	  	 	18	 
	 Section 3.10
	  	Negative Covenants	  	 	18	 
	 Section 3.11
	  	Annual Statement as to Compliance	  	 	19	 
	 Section 3.12
	  	[Reserved]	  	 	20	 
	 Section 3.13
	  	Representations and Warranties Concerning the Loans	  	 	20	 
	 Section 3.14
	  	Trustee’s Review of Loan Files	  	 	20	 
	 Section 3.15
	  	Sale and Servicing Agreement	  	 	20	 
	 Section 3.16
	  	Amendments to Sale and Servicing Agreement	  	 	20	 
	 Section 3.17
	  	Servicer as Agent and Bailee of Trustee	  	 	20	 
	 Section 3.18
	  	Investment Company Act of 1940	  	 	21	 
	 Section 3.19
	  	Issuer May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms	  	 	21	 
	 Section 3.20
	  	Successor or Transferee	  	 	23	 
	 Section 3.21
	  	No Other Business	  	 	23	 
	 Section 3.22
	  	No Borrowing; Use of Proceeds	  	 	23	 
	 Section 3.23
	  	Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities	  	 	23	 

  
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	 Section 3.24
	  	Capital Expenditures	  	 	24	 
	 Section 3.25
	  	Representations and Warranties of the Issuer	  	 	24	 
	 Section 3.26
	  	Restricted Payments	  	 	26	 
	 Section 3.27
	  	Notice of Events of Default, Amendments and Waivers	  	 	26	 
	 Section 3.28
	  	Further Instruments and Acts	  	 	27	 
	 Section 3.29
	  	Statements to Noteholders	  	 	27	 
	 Section 3.30
	  	Grant of Substitute Loans and Additional Loans	  	 	28	 
		
	 ARTICLE IV THE NOTES; SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE
	  	 	28	 
			
	 Section 4.01
	  	The Notes	  	 	28	 
	 Section 4.02
	  	Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes	  	 	28	 
	 Section 4.03
	  	Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes	  	 	38	 
	 Section 4.04
	  	Payment of Principal and Interest; Defaulted Interest	  	 	38	 
	 Section 4.05
	  	Tax Treatment	  	 	39	 
	 Section 4.06
	  	Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture	  	 	40	 
	 Section 4.07
	  	Application of Trust Money	  	 	42	 
	 Section 4.08
	  	Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent	  	 	42	 
		
	 ARTICLE V REMEDIES
	  	 	42	 
			
	 Section 5.01
	  	Events of Default	  	 	42	 
	 Section 5.02
	  	Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment	  	 	44	 
	 Section 5.03
	  	Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee	  	 	45	 
	 Section 5.04
	  	Remedies; Priorities	  	 	47	 
	 Section 5.05
	  	[Reserved]	  	 	48	 
	 Section 5.06
	  	Limitation of Suits	  	 	48	 
	 Section 5.07
	  	Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal and Interest	  	 	49	 
	 Section 5.08
	  	Restoration of Rights and Remedies	  	 	49	 
	 Section 5.09
	  	Rights and Remedies Cumulative	  	 	49	 
	 Section 5.10
	  	Delay or Omission Not a Waiver	  	 	49	 
	 Section 5.11
	  	Control by Noteholders	  	 	49	 
	 Section 5.12
	  	Waiver of Past Defaults	  	 	50	 

  
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	 Section 5.13
	  	Undertaking for Costs	  	 	50	 
	 Section 5.14
	  	Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws	  	 	51	 
	 Section 5.15
	  	Sale of Indenture Collateral	  	 	51	 
	 Section 5.16
	  	Action on Notes	  	 	52	 
	 Section 5.17
	  	Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations	  	 	52	 
		
	 ARTICLE VI THE TRUSTEE
	  	 	53	 
			
	 Section 6.01
	  	Duties of Trustee	  	 	53	 
	 Section 6.02
	  	Rights of Trustee	  	 	54	 
	 Section 6.03
	  	Individual Rights of Trustee	  	 	56	 
	 Section 6.04
	  	Trustee’s Disclaimer	  	 	56	 
	 Section 6.05
	  	Notice of Event of Default	  	 	57	 
	 Section 6.06
	  	Reports by Trustee to Holders	  	 	57	 
	 Section 6.07
	  	Compensation and Indemnity	  	 	57	 
	 Section 6.08
	  	Replacement of Trustee	  	 	59	 
	 Section 6.09
	  	Successor Trustee by Merger	  	 	60	 
	 Section 6.10
	  	Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee	  	 	60	 
	 Section 6.11
	  	Eligibility; Disqualification	  	 	61	 
	 Section 6.12
	  	Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Trustee	  	 	61	 
	 Section 6.13
	  	Directions to Trustee	  	 	62	 
	 Section 6.14
	  	Conflicts	  	 	63	 
		
	 ARTICLE VII NOTEHOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS
	  	 	63	 
			
	 Section 7.01
	  	Issuer To Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Noteholders	  	 	63	 
	 Section 7.02
	  	Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders	  	 	63	 
	 Section 7.03
	  	Fiscal Year	  	 	63	 
		
	 ARTICLE VIII TRANSACTION ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES
	  	 	64	 
			
	 Section 8.01
	  	Collection of Money	  	 	64	 
	 Section 8.02
	  	Transaction Accounts	  	 	64	 
	 Section 8.03
	  	Officer’s Certificate	  	 	65	 
	 Section 8.04
	  	Termination Upon Distribution to Noteholders	  	 	65	 
	 Section 8.05
	  	Release of Indenture Collateral	  	 	65	 

  
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	 ARTICLE IX SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
	  	 	66	 
			
	 Section 9.01
	  	Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders	  	 	66	 
	 Section 9.02
	  	Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Noteholders	  	 	68	 
	 Section 9.03
	  	Execution of Supplemental Indentures	  	 	70	 
	 Section 9.04
	  	Effect of Supplemental Indenture	  	 	70	 
	 Section 9.05
	  	Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures	  	 	70	 
	 Section 9.06
	  	Consent of the Servicer and Owner Trustee	  	 	70	 
		
	 ARTICLE X OPTIONAL REDEMPTION
	  	 	70	 
			
	 Section 10.01
	  	Optional Redemption	  	 	70	 
	 Section 10.02
	  	Form of Redemption Notice by Trustee	  	 	71	 
		
	 ARTICLE XI MISCELLANEOUS
	  	 	72	 
			
	 Section 11.01
	  	Confidentiality	  	 	72	 
	 Section 11.02
	  	Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee	  	 	73	 
	 Section 11.03
	  	Acts of Noteholders	  	 	73	 
	 Section 11.04
	  	Notices, etc., to Trustee and Others	  	 	74	 
	 Section 11.05
	  	Notices to Noteholders; Waiver	  	 	75	 
	 Section 11.06
	  	Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions	  	 	76	 
	 Section 11.07
	  	Effect of Headings	  	 	76	 
	 Section 11.08
	  	Successors and Assigns	  	 	76	 
	 Section 11.09
	  	Severability	  	 	76	 
	 Section 11.10
	  	Benefits of Indenture	  	 	77	 
	 Section 11.11
	  	Legal Holidays	  	 	77	 
	 Section 11.12
	  	GOVERNING LAW	  	 	77	 
	 Section 11.13
	  	Counterparts	  	 	77	 
	 Section 11.14
	  	Issuer Obligation	  	 	77	 
	 Section 11.15
	  	No Petition; Limited Recourse	  	 	78	 
	 Section 11.16
	  	Inspection; Confidentiality	  	 	78	 
	 Section 11.17
	  	Limitation of Liability	  	 	79	 
	 Section 11.18
	  	Disclaimer	  	 	79	 

  
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	EXHIBITS	  		  	
	Exhibit A	  	—	  	Form of Note
	Exhibit B	  	—	  	List of Loans
	Exhibit C	  	—	  	Form of Wiring Instructions
	Exhibit D-1	  	—	  	Form of Transferee Letter Non-Rule 144A
	Exhibit D-2	  	—	  	Form of Rule 144A Certification
	Exhibit E	  	—	  	Form of Transfer Certificate for Rule 144A Global Note to Regulation S Global Note during Distribution Compliance Period
	Exhibit F	  	—	  	Form of Transfer Certificate for Rule 144A Global Note to Regulation S Global Note after Distribution Compliance Period
	Exhibit G	  	—	  	Form of Transfer Certificate for Regulation S Global Note to Rule 144A Global Note during Distribution Compliance Period
	Exhibit H	  	—	  	Form of Transfer Certificate for Regulation S Global Note during Distribution Compliance Period

  
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 INDENTURE 

THIS INDENTURE, dated as of November 1, 2018 (as amended, modified, restated, supplemented or waived from time to time, this
“Indenture”), is by and between HERCULES CAPITAL FUNDING TRUST 2018-1, a Delaware statutory trust, as the issuer (together with its successors and assigns, in such capacity, the “Issuer”), and U.S. BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, a national banking association (“U.S. Bank”) not in its individual capacity, but solely in its capacity as the trustee (together with its successors and assigns, in such capacity, the “Trustee”). 

Each party hereto agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the
Issuer’s Notes. 
 GRANTING CLAUSE 

The Issuer hereby Grants to the Trustee, on behalf of and for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, without recourse, subject to the terms
of this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents, a continuing security interest in and lien on all of its right, title and interest in and to all accounts, cash and currency, chattel paper, copyrights, copyright licenses, equipment, fixtures,
general intangibles, instruments, commercial tort claims, deposit accounts, inventory, investment property, letter of credit rights, software, supporting obligations, accessions, and other property consisting of, arising out of, or related to
(i) the Loans and all Related Property included or to be included from time to time in the Loan Assets, whether now existing or hereafter arising or acquired; (ii) Collections on the Loans received after the Cutoff Date (with respect to
the Loans acquired by the Issuer on the Closing Date) or the applicable Transfer Date (with respect to each Additional Loan and Substitute Loan); (iii) the security interests in Related Property securing the Loans; (iv) the Loan Files relating
to the Loans; (v) an assignment of all rights to Proceeds from liquidating the Loans; (vi) an assignment of the Trust Depositor’s rights against Obligors under agreements between the Seller and the Obligors under the Loans;
(vii) the Collection Account, the Reserve Account, the Lockbox Account, the Reinvestment Account and the Distribution Account, all amounts deposited therein or credited thereto, the Permitted Investments purchased with funds therefrom or
deposited therein and all income from the investment of funds therein; (viii) other rights under the Transaction Documents; (ix) all proceeds from the items described above; and (x) all present and future claims, demands, causes and
choses in action in respect of any or all of the foregoing and all payments on or under and all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in respect of any or all of the foregoing, including all proceeds of the conversion, voluntary or
involuntary, into cash or other liquid property, all cash proceeds, accounts, accounts receivable, notes, drafts, acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit accounts, insurance proceeds, condemnation awards, rights to payment of any and every kind
and other forms of obligations and receivables, instruments and other property which at any time constitute all or part of or are included in the proceeds of any of the foregoing; provided that all right, title and interest of the Issuer in
and to each Excluded Amount, the Certificate Account and any and all proceeds of any Excluded Amount or the Certificate Account (collectively, the “Excluded Property”) shall be excluded from the foregoing Grant by the Issuer
(collectively, the “Indenture Collateral”). 

 The foregoing Grant is made in trust to secure (x) the payment of principal of and
interest on, and any other amounts owing in respect of, the Notes and all other sums owing by the Issuer hereunder or under any other Transaction Document, and (y) to secure compliance with the covenants and agreement in this Indenture and the
other Transaction Documents. 
 The Trustee, on behalf of the Noteholders (1) acknowledges such Grant, and (2) accepts the trusts
under this Indenture in accordance with this Indenture and agrees to perform its duties required in this Indenture to the best of its ability to the end that the interests of the Noteholders may be adequately and effectively protected. 

ARTICLE I 
 DEFINITIONS

 Section 1.01 Definitions. 

Certain defined terms used throughout this Indenture are defined above or in this Section 1.01. In addition, except
as otherwise expressly provided herein or unless the context otherwise requires, capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Sale and Servicing Agreement (as defined below), which are
incorporated by reference herein. 
 “Applicable Procedures” has the meaning provided in
Section 4.02(l)(i). 
 “Authorized Newspaper” means a newspaper of general circulation in the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, printed in the English language and customarily published on each Business Day, whether or not published on Saturdays, Sundays or holidays. 

“Beneficial Owner” means, with respect to a Global Note, the Person who is the beneficial owner of such Note, as reflected on
the books of DTC or on the books of a Person maintaining an account with such Depository (directly or as an indirect participant, in accordance with the rules of such Depository), as the case may be. 

“Certificate Registrar” means initially, the Trustee, and thereafter, any successor appointed pursuant to the Trust
Agreement. 
 “Clearstream” means Clearstream Banking, a société anonyme, a limited liability company
organized under the laws of Luxembourg. 
 “Confidential Information” means any and all information concerning any
Disclosing Party disclosed by, or at the request or on behalf of, any Disclosing Party to any Receiving Party or its representatives pursuant to this Indenture, excluding, however, any information that at the time of disclosure: (a) was
generally available to the public, other than as a result of a disclosure by any Receiving Party or its representatives in violation of this Indenture; (b) was available to any Receiving Party on a
non-confidential basis from a source other than the Disclosing Party or its representatives; (c) was already known to the Receiving Party and not subject to restrictions on use or disclosure; or
(d) was independently developed by or on behalf of the Receiving Party (other than at the request of or for the benefit of the Disclosing Party) by individuals who did not directly or indirectly receive Confidential Information. 

  
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 “Corporate Trust Office” means the principal office of the Trustee
currently located at (a) for Note transfer purposes and presentment of the Notes for final payment thereon, the corporate office of the Trustee located at 111 Fillmore Avenue East, Attention: Bondholder Services-EP-MNWS2N, St. Paul, MN 55107, Reference: Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 and (b) for all other purposes, the corporate office of the Trustee
located at One Federal Street, 3rd Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02110, Attention: Jack Lindsay, Reference: Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1, telephone number (617)
603-6789, facsimile number (855) 869-2187, email: jack.lindsay@usbank.com or at such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the
Issuer, or the principal corporate trust officer of any successor Trustee at the address designated by such successor by notice to the Issuer. 

“Default” means any occurrence that is, or with notice or the lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default. 

“Direct Participant” means any broker-dealer, bank or other financial institution for whom the nominee of DTC holds an
interest in any Note. 
 “Disclosing Party” means each of the Issuer, the Trust Depositor, the Servicer and the Seller and
“Disclosing Parties” means collectively all such parties. 
 “Distribution Compliance Period” means the 40
day period prescribed by Regulation S commencing on the later of (a) the date upon which Notes are first offered to Persons other than the Initial Purchaser and any other distributor (as such term is defined in Regulation S) of the Notes and
(b) the Closing Date. 
 “DTC” or the “Depository” means The Depository Trust Company, and its
successors. 
 “DTC Custodian” means the Trustee as a custodian for DTC. 

“DTC Participant” means a Person for whom, from time to time, DTC effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities
deposited with DTC. 
 “ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time, or
any successor legislation thereto and the regulations promulgated and the rulings issued thereunder. 
 “Euroclear” means
the Euroclear System, operated by Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Brussels office. 
 “Excluded Property” has
the meaning provided in the Granting Clause. 
 “Event of Default” has the meaning provided in
Section 5.01. 
 “FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this
Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable) and any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof. 

  
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 “Global Note” means any Note registered in the name of DTC or its nominee,
beneficial interests in which are reflected on the books of DTC or on the books of a Person maintaining any account with such Depository (directly or as an indirect participant in accordance with the rules of such Depository). The definition of
“Global Note” shall include the Rule 144A Global Notes and the Regulation S Global Notes. 
 “Grant” means to
mortgage, pledge, sell, bargain, warrant, alienate, remise, release, convey, assign, transfer, create, and grant a lien upon and a security interest in and right of set-off against, deposit, set over and
confirm pursuant to this Indenture. A Grant of Indenture Collateral or of any other agreement or instrument shall include all rights, powers and options (but none of the obligations) of the granting party thereunder, including the immediate and
continuing right to claim for, collect, receive and give receipt for principal and interest payments in respect of such collateral or other agreement or instrument and all other moneys payable thereunder, to give and receive notices and other
communications, to make waivers or other agreements, to exercise all rights and options, to bring proceedings in the name of the granting party or otherwise, and generally to do and receive anything that the granting party is or may be entitled to
do or receive thereunder or with respect thereto. 
 “Indenture Collateral” has the meaning provided in the Granting
Clause. 
 “Indirect Participant” means any financial institution for whom any Direct Participant holds an interest in
any Note. 
 “Initial Purchaser” means Guggenheim Securities, LLC. 

“Institutional Accredited Investor” means any Person meeting the requirements of Rule 501 (a) (1), (2), (3) or (7) of
Regulation D under the Securities Act. 
 “Issuer Documents” has the meaning provided in
Section 3.25(a). 
 “Issuer Order” means a written order or request signed in the name of the
Issuer by any one of its Responsible Officers or by the Servicer or the Administrator on behalf of the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee. An Issuer Order or request provided in an email by a Responsible Officer of the Issuer or the Administrator
on behalf of the Issuer shall constitute an Issuer Order in each case except to the extent the Trustee requests otherwise. 
 “Legal
Final Payment Date” means November 22, 2027. 
 “Letter of Representations” means the Letter of
Representations, dated as of November 1, 2018 by the Issuer. 
 “Minimum Denomination” of any Note shall mean,
(x) in respect of Notes purchased by the Initial Purchaser and subsequently retransferred to the first transferee thereof (provided that such initial transferee provides to the Initial Purchaser and the Issuer a written certification that such
transferee is both a Qualified Purchaser and a Qualified Institutional Buyer), a minimum denomination of $10,000 initial principal amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof and (y) with respect to all subsequent transfers of
Notes, a minimum denomination of $10,000 initial principal amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof; provided that one Note may be in a smaller multiple in excess of the minimum denomination. 

  
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 “Non-Permitted Holder” has the
meaning provided in Section 4.02(s)(ii). 
 “Note Register” has the meaning provided in
Section 4.02(a). 
 “Note Registrar” has the meaning provided in
Section 4.02(a). 
 “Outstanding” means, as of any date of determination, all Notes theretofore
executed, authenticated and delivered under this Indenture except: (i) Notes in exchange for or in lieu of which other Notes have been executed, authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture unless proof satisfactory to the Trustee is
presented that any such Notes are held by a holder in due course; (ii) Notes to be redeemed in connection with an Optional Redemption and in respect of which money in the necessary amount to pay the Redemption Price, has been theretofore
deposited with the Trustee in trust for the Noteholders; and (iii) Notes otherwise cancelled by the Note Registrar in accordance with the express terms of this Indenture; provided that, in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
amount of any Notes have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, (1) Notes beneficially owned by the Issuer shall be disregarded and deemed not to be
Outstanding and (2) Notes beneficially owned by the Servicer, Seller, any Affiliate of the Seller or the Servicer or any account managed on a discretionary basis by the Servicer or an Affiliate of the Servicer shall be disregarded and deemed
not to be Outstanding with respect to any assignment by the Servicer or termination of the Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement or this Indenture (including the exercise of any rights to remove the Servicer or approve or object to a
Successor Servicer); except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Notes that the Trustee knows to be beneficially owned
in the manner indicated above shall be so disregarded; provided that the Trustee shall be entitled to rely on a certificate of the Servicer attesting to the ownership of Notes by the Seller, the Servicer, any of their respective Affiliates or
any account managed on a discretionary basis by the Servicer or an Affiliate of the Servicer, if any. 
 “Owner” means each
Holder of a Note. 
 “Owner Trustee” means Wilmington Trust, National Association, not in its individual capacity but
solely as owner trustee under the Trust Agreement, and any successor Owner Trustee thereunder. 
 “Participant” means a
Person that has an account with DTC. 
 “Physical Note” means any Note in certificated form registered in the name of a
holder other than DTC or its nominee. 
 “Plan” has the meaning provided in Section 4.02(t). 

“Proceeding” means any suit in equity, action at law or other judicial or administrative proceeding. 

“PTCE” has the meaning provided in Section 4.02(t). 

  
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 “Qualified Institutional Buyer” has the meaning provided in Rule 144A under
the Securities Act. 
 “Qualified Purchaser” has the meaning provided in Section 2(a)(51) under the 1940 Act. 

“Rating Agency Confirmation” means, with respect to any action, that (i) the Rating Agency shall have been notified and
has not confirmed in writing within ten (10) Business Days of receipt of such notice that such action will result in a reduction, withdrawal or qualification of the then current rating of the Notes with respect to which it is a rating agency,
unless otherwise specified and (ii) the Trustee has received an Officer’s Certificate from the Issuer that such notice has been provided to the Rating Agency and such confirmation has not been received within such ten (10) Business
Day period. 
 “Receiving Party” means each Holder of a Note, the Trustee and the Owner Trustee. 

“Regulation S” means Regulation S under the Securities Act. 

“Regulation S Global Notes” means the Notes sold in offshore transactions in reliance on Regulation S and represented by one
or more Global Notes deposited with the Trustee as custodian for DTC. 
 “Replacement Notes” has the meaning provided in
Section 10.02. 
 “Rule 144A Certification” means a letter substantially in the form attached to
this Indenture as Exhibit D-2. 
 “Rule 144A Global Notes” means the Notes
initially sold to Qualified Institutional Buyers who are Qualified Purchasers represented by one or more Global Notes in fully registered form without interest coupons, deposited with the Trustee as custodian for DTC and registered in the name of
Cede & Co., as nominee of DTC. 
 “Sale” has the meaning provided in Section 5.15. 

“Sale and Contribution Agreement” means the Sale and Contribution Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and between
Hercules Capital, Inc., as Seller, and Hercules Capital Funding 2018-1 LLC, as the Trust Depositor. 

“Sale and Servicing Agreement” means the Sale and Servicing Agreement, dated as of date hereof, by and among Hercules Capital
Funding Trust 2018-1, as the Issuer, Hercules Capital Funding 2018-1 LLC, as the Trust Depositor, Hercules Capital, Inc., as the Seller and as the Servicer, and U.S.
Bank National Association, as the Trustee, Backup Servicer, Custodian and Paying Agent. 
 “Securities Legend” means a
legend that reads as follows: “THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE. ACCORDINGLY, TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE
IS SUBJECT TO CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN SECTION 4.02 OF THE INDENTURE. BY ITS ACCEPTANCE OF THIS NOTE, THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE IS DEEMED TO 

  
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REPRESENT TO THE ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE THAT IT IS (I) IF LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS A
“QUALIFIED PURCHASER” AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2(A)(51) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 (EACH SUCH PERSON, A “QUALIFIED PURCHASER”) AND IS ACQUIRING SUCH NOTE FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT (AND NOT FOR THE ACCOUNT OF OTHERS) OR AS A
FIDUCIARY OR AGENT FOR OTHERS, PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; OR (II) A NON-U.S. PERSON ACQUIRING INTEREST IN THIS NOTE OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN
ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S OF THE SECURITIES ACT (“REGULATION S”) THAT IS A QUALIFIED PURCHASER. 
 NO SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER
TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE SHALL BE MADE UNLESS SUCH SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS (A) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (B) FOR SO LONG AS THE NOTES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, TO A PERSON THE TRANSFEROR REASONABLY BELIEVES AFTER DUE INQUIRY IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A WHO IS A QUALIFIED PURCHASER AND THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT
OF A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, OR (C) TO A NON-U.S. PERSON THAT IS A QUALIFIED PURCHASER ACQUIRING AN
INTEREST IN THIS NOTE IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 903 OR 904 (AS APPLICABLE) OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT. THE TRUSTEE MAY REQUIRE AN OPINION OF COUNSEL TO BE DELIVERED TO IT IN CONNECTION WITH ANY SALE, PLEDGE OR
OTHER TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (A), (B) OR (C) ABOVE. ALL OPINIONS OF COUNSEL REQUIRED IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER SHALL BE IN A FORM REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE TRUSTEE. IN CONNECTION WITH A TRANSFER UNDER CLAUSES
(B) OR (C) ABOVE, THE TRUSTEE SHALL REQUIRE THAT THE PROSPECTIVE TRANSFEREE CERTIFY TO THE TRUSTEE AND THE SELLER, IN WRITING THE FACTS SURROUNDING SUCH TRANSFER, WHICH CERTIFICATION SHALL BE IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.
ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER IN CONTRAVENTION OF THE IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING RESTRICTION WILL BE VOID AB INITIO AND THE PURPORTED TRANSFEROR WILL CONTINUE TO BE TREATED AS THE OWNER OF THE NOTES FOR ALL PURPOSES.” 

In addition, the Notes will include the following: 

“EACH INVESTOR IN THIS NOTE OR ANY INTEREST HEREIN WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED AND WARRANTED THAT EITHER (I) IT IS NOT, AND IS
NOT DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ACQUIRING THIS NOTE FOR, ON BEHALF OF OR WITH ANY ASSETS OF, AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR OTHER ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO PART 4, SUBTITLE B, TITLE I OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED
(“ERISA”), A PLAN, ACCOUNT OR ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL 

  
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REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”), OR AN ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE PLAN ASSETS OF ANY SUCH PLANS (COLLECTIVELY, A “BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR”) OR A PLAN
OR OTHER ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO ANY PROVISIONS UNDER ANY FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL, NON-U.S. OR OTHER LAWS OR REGULATIONS THAT ARE SUBSTANTIVELY SIMILAR TO SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE
(“SIMILAR LAW”) OR (II) ITS ACQUISITION, HOLDING AND DISPOSITION OF SUCH NOTE OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN DOES NOT AND WILL NOT CONSTITUTE OR RESULT IN A NON-EXEMPT PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER
SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE, OR A NON-EXEMPT VIOLATION OF SIMILAR LAW. 
 EACH
PURCHASER OR TRANSFEREE OF ANY NOTE OR BENEFICIAL INTEREST THEREIN THAT IS A BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR WILL BE REQUIRED OR DEEMED TO REPRESENT, WARRANT AND AGREE THAT (I) NONE OF THE ISSUER, THE DEPOSITOR, THE SERVICER, THE TRUSTEE, THE OWNER
TRUSTEE, THE TRUST DEPOSITOR, THE SELLER OR THE INITIAL PURCHASER (THE “TRANSACTION PARTIES”) NOR ANY OF THEIR AFFILIATES, HAS PROVIDED ANY INVESTMENT ADVICE WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 3(21) OF ERISA TO THE BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR, OR TO
ANY FIDUCIARY OR OTHER PERSON INVESTING THE ASSETS OF THE BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR (“FIDUCIARY”), IN CONNECTION WITH THE BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR’S ACQUISITION OF NOTES, AND (II) THE FIDUCIARY IS EXERCISING ITS OWN INDEPENDENT JUDGMENT
IN EVALUATING THE TRANSACTION. 
 THE ISSUER HAS THE RIGHT, UNDER THE INDENTURE, TO COMPEL ANY BENEFICIAL OWNER OF AN INTEREST IN THIS NOTE
THAT IS NOT BOTH (A) A QUALIFIED PURCHASER OR A CORPORATION, PARTNERSHIP, LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY OR OTHER ENTITY (OTHER THAN A TRUST) EACH SHAREHOLDER, PARTNER, MEMBER OR OTHER EQUITY OWNER OF WHICH IS A QUALIFIED PURCHASER AND (B)(1) A
QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER OR (2) A NON-U.S. PERSON IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN RELIANCE ON REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, TO SELL ITS INTEREST IN THIS NOTE, OR MAY SELL SUCH INTEREST ON
BEHALF OF SUCH OWNER. 
 THE FAILURE TO PROVIDE THE ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE (AND ANY OF THEIR AGENTS) WITH THE PROPERLY COMPLETED AND SIGNED
TAX CERTIFICATIONS (GENERALLY, IN THE CASE OF U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX, AN INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE FORM W-9 (OR APPLICABLE SUCCESSOR FORM) IN THE CASE OF A PERSON THAT IS A “UNITED STATES PERSON”
WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 7701(a)(30) OF THE CODE OR THE APPROPRIATE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE FORM W-8 (OR APPLICABLE SUCCESSOR FORM) IN THE CASE OF A PERSON THAT IS NOT A “UNITED STATES PERSON”
WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 7701(a)(30) OF THE CODE) MAY RESULT IN WITHHOLDING FROM PAYMENTS IN RESPECT OF SUCH NOTE, INCLUDING U.S. FEDERAL WITHHOLDING OR BACK-UP WITHHOLDING. 

EACH HOLDER OF THIS NOTE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN) WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED AND AGREED TO TREAT SUCH NOTE AS INDEBTEDNESS FOR U.S.
FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL INCOME AND FRANCHISE TAX PURPOSES, EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY LAW. 

  
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 THIS NOTE MAY BE ISSUED WITH ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT (“OID”) FOR U.S. FEDERAL
INCOME TAX PURPOSES. THE ISSUE PRICE, AMOUNT OF OID, ISSUE DATE AND YIELD TO MATURITY OF THIS NOTE MAY BE OBTAINED BY WRITING TO THE SERVICER.” 

In addition, each Regulation S Global Note will include the following: 

“THIS REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE IS A GLOBAL NOTE WHICH IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR INTERESTS IN OTHER GLOBAL NOTES SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND
CONDITIONS SET FORTH HEREIN AND IN THE INDENTURE (AS DEFINED HEREIN). EACH HOLDER OF THIS REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE (OR A BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP INTEREST THEREIN) MUST PROVIDE A WRITTEN CERTIFICATION TO THE ISSUER THAT SUCH HOLDER (OR BENEFICIAL OWNER)
IS A “QUALIFIED PURCHASER” AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2(A)(51) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 AND MAY NOT TRANSFER ITS INTEREST IN SUCH NOTE UNLESS IT REASONABLY BELIEVES THAT THE TRANSFEREE IS ALSO A “QUALIFIED PURCHASER” AS
DEFINED IN SECTION 2(A)(51) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940. 
 IN CONNECTION WITH THE OFFERING OF THE NOTES IN THE UNITED STATES FROM
OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES, UNTIL 40 DAYS AFTER THE ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE OF THE NOTES (THE “RESTRICTED PERIOD”), THE SALE, PLEDGE OR TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE IS SUBJECT TO CERTAIN CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS. THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING
OR OTHERWISE ACQUIRING THIS NOTE, ACKNOWLEDGES THAT SUCH HOLDER IS A QUALIFIED PURCHASER OR AN AFFILIATE OF THE ISSUER, AND THAT THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ISSUER THAT THIS NOTE MAY
BE TRANSFERRED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY TO A QUALIFIED PURCHASER AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS OF THE STATES, TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNING THE OFFER AND SALE
OF SECURITIES, AND PRIOR TO THE EXPIRATION OF THE RESTRICTED PERIOD, ONLY (I) IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (II) PURSUANT TO AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT.” 
 In addition, each Global Note will include the following: 

“THIS NOTE IS A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITORY
TRUST COMPANY (“DTC”), A NEW YORK CORPORATION, 55 WATER STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10004, OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE IN WHOLE OR IN PART
MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN DTC OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN 

  
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THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE. UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC TO THE ISSUER OR THE REGISTRAR, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE
NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC, AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC, ANY TRANSFER,
PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL BECAUSE THE REGISTERED OWNER, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.” 

“Series” means 2018-1. 

“Similar Law” has the meaning provided in Section 4.02(t). 

“Super-Majority Noteholders” means the Noteholders evidencing more than 66 2/3% of
the Aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance of Notes. 
 “Transferee Letter” means the letter set forth in Exhibit D-1 to this Indenture. 
 “Trust Certificate” means a certificate evidencing
ownership of the beneficial interest of a Certificateholder in the Issuer, substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached to the Trust Agreement. 

“Trust Company” means Wilmington Trust, National Association (and any successor thereto or assign thereof), in its individual
capacity, and any other Person who shall act as Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement, in its individual capacity. 
 “Trust
Indenture Act” or “TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended from time to time, as in effect on any relevant date. 

“Trustee” has the meaning provided in the Preamble. 

“USA PATRIOT Act” means, collectively, the United States Uniting and Strengthening America By Providing Appropriate Tools
Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, signed into law on and effective as of October 26, 2001, which, among other things, requires that financial institutions, a term that includes banks, broker-dealers and investment
companies, establish and maintain compliance programs to guard against money laundering activities, and the laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions and money laundering. 

Section 1.02 Rules of Construction. 

Unless the context otherwise requires: 

(i) a term has the meaning given to it; 

(ii) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning given to it in accordance with generally accepted accounting
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 (iii) “or” is not exclusive; 

(iv) “including” means including without limitation; 

(v) words in the singular include the plural and words in the plural include the singular; 

(vi) any pronouns shall be deemed to cover all genders; and 

(vii) any agreement, instrument or statute defined or referred to herein or in any instrument or certificate delivered in
connection herewith means such agreement, instrument or statute as from time to time amended, modified, waived or supplemented and includes (in the case of agreements or instruments) references to all attachments thereto and instruments incorporated
therein; references to a Person are also to its permitted successors and assigns. 
 ARTICLE II 

THE NOTES 

Section 2.01 Form. 

The Notes, together with the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, shall be in substantially the forms set forth as Exhibits A-1 and A-2 to this Indenture with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture and may
have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the appropriate Responsible Officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of
the Notes. Any portion of the text of any Note may be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an appropriate reference thereto on the face of the Note. 

The Notes shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods (with or without steel
engraved borders), all as determined by the Responsible Officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes. 
 The
terms of the Notes set forth in Exhibits A-1 and A-2 are part of the terms of this Indenture. 

Section 2.02 Execution, Authentication and Delivery. 

The Notes shall be executed on behalf of the Issuer by any of its Responsible Officers. The signature of any such Responsible Officer on the
Notes may be manual or facsimile. 
 Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signature of individuals who were at any time Responsible
Officers of the Issuer shall bind the Issuer, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or did not hold such offices at the date of such Notes. 

The Trustee shall upon receipt of an Issuer Order authenticate and deliver the Notes for original issue in an aggregate amount equal to the
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 Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. The Notes shall be issued in fully
registered form in minimum initial denominations equal to the applicable Minimum Denomination and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof; provided that one Note may be issued in a smaller multiple in excess of the minimum
denomination. 
 No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there
appears on such Note a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the Trustee by the manual signature of one of its authorized signatories, and such certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive evidence,
and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. 
 Section 2.03 Opinions of
Counsel. 
 On the Closing Date, the Trustee shall have received: (i) an Opinion of Counsel, with respect to securities law
matters; (ii) an Opinion of Counsel, with respect to the tax status of the arrangement created by this Indenture and the tax treatment of the Notes; (iii) an Opinion of Counsel to the Issuer, with respect to the due authorization, valid
execution and delivery of this Indenture and with respect to its binding effect on the Issuer; (iv) an Opinion of Counsel with respect to certain “true sale” and “non-consolidation”
issues relating to Seller and Trust Depositor; and (v) an Opinion of Counsel with respect to certain trust and limited liability matters and with respect to certain “perfection and priority” issues. 

ARTICLE III 
 COVENANTS

 Section 3.01 Transaction Accounts. 

The Trustee shall establish and maintain as required therein or herein, as applicable, the Lockbox Account, Collection Account, the Reserve
Account, the Reinvestment Account and the Distribution Account specified in Sections 7.01, 7.02, 7.03, and 7.04 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. On the Closing Date, the Issuer will deposit, or cause to be deposited,
an initial deposit of $500,000 from proceeds of the issuance and sale of the Notes into the Reserve Account. Subject to the Priority of Payments, the Trustee shall make all payments of principal of and interest on the Notes, subject to
Section 3.03 and as provided in Section 3.05, from moneys on deposit in the Distribution Account in accordance with the instructions of the Servicer pursuant to Section 7.06 of
the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 
 Section 3.02 Maintenance of Office or Agency. 

The Issuer will maintain with the Trustee an office or agency where, subject to satisfaction of conditions set forth herein, Notes may be
surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, and where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Issuer hereby initially appoints the Trustee to serve as its agent for the
foregoing purposes. The Issuer will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and of any change in the location, of any such office or agency. If at any time the Issuer shall fail to maintain any such office or agency or shall fail
to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof (if such office or agency is no longer maintained with the Trustee), such surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Issuer hereby
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 Section 3.03 Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust; Paying Agent. 

The Issuer hereby appoints the Trustee to act as agent for the payment (the “Paying Agent”) of principal and interest on the
Notes and all other amounts payable pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement (including without limitation the Priority of Payments) and this Indenture. As provided in Section 3.01, all payments of amounts due and
payable with respect to any Notes that are to be made from amounts withdrawn from the Distribution Account shall be made on behalf of the Issuer by the Paying Agent, and no amounts so withdrawn from the Distribution Account for payments of Notes
shall be paid over to the Issuer except as provided in this Section 3.03 and in Section 3.05. 

The Issuer may at any time and from time to time vary or terminate the appointment of any such agent or appoint any additional agents for any
or all of such purposes; provided that no Paying Agent shall be appointed in a jurisdiction that subjects payments on the Notes to withholding tax; provided that unless such agent has short-term debt rated “P-1” or the equivalent thereof by the Rating Agency it may not hold funds pursuant to this Indenture overnight. The Issuer shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee, the Rating Agency and the
Noteholders of the appointment or termination of any such agent and of the location and any change in the location of any such office or agency. 

By no later than 10:00 a.m. (New York, New York time) on the Business Day prior to each Payment Date, and by no later than 12:00 noon (New
York, New York time) on any Redemption Date, as applicable, the Paying Agent (provided that sufficient funds therefor are available) shall deposit or cause to be deposited in the Distribution Account from amounts on deposit in the Collection Account
an aggregate sum sufficient to pay the amounts then becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto and (unless the Trustee is the Paying Agent) shall promptly notify the Issuer in writing of its action or
failure so to act. 
 The Issuer will cause each party other than the Trustee that it appoints as Paying Agent to execute and deliver to the
Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee (and if the Trustee acts as Paying Agent, it hereby so agrees), subject to the provisions of this Section 3.03, that such Paying Agent will: 

(i) hold all sums held by it for the payment of amounts due with respect to the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Persons
entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and pay such sums to such Persons as herein provided; 

(ii) at any time during the continuance of any Event of Default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the
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 (iii) immediately resign as Paying Agent and forthwith pay to the Trustee
all sums held by it in trust for the payment of Notes if at any time it ceases to meet the standards required to be met by a Paying Agent at the time of its appointment; and 

(iv) to the extent such Paying Agent is located in, or makes payments within, the United States, comply with all requirements
of the Code with respect to the withholding from any payments made by it on any Notes of any applicable withholding taxes imposed thereon and with respect to any applicable reporting requirements in connection therewith. 

The Issuer may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, by Issuer
Order direct any Paying Agent to pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which the sums were held by such Paying Agent; and upon such payment by any
Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money. 
 Subject to
applicable laws with respect to escheat of funds, any money held by the Paying Agent in trust for the payment of any amount due with respect to any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after such amount has become due and payable shall be
discharged from such trust and be paid to the Issuer on an Issuer Order; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Issuer for payment thereof (but only to the extent of the amounts so paid to
the Issuer), and all liability of the Paying Agent with respect to such trust money shall thereupon cease; provided that the Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, shall at the expense and direction of the Issuer
cause to be published once, in an Authorized Newspaper, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money
then remaining will be repaid to the Issuer. The Trustee shall also adopt and employ, at the expense and direction of the Issuer, any other reasonable means of notification of such repayment (including, but not limited to, mailing notice of such
repayment to Holders whose Notes have been called but have not been surrendered for redemption or whose right to or interest in moneys due and payable but not claimed is determinable from the records of the Trustee or of any other party acting as
Paying Agent, at the last address of record for each such Holder). 
 Section 3.04 Existence; Separate Legal Existence.

 (a) The Issuer will keep in full effect its existence, rights and franchises as a statutory trust under the laws of the State of
Delaware (unless it becomes, or any successor Issuer hereunder is or becomes, organized under the laws of any other state or of the United States, in which case the Issuer will keep in full effect its existence, rights and franchises under the laws
of such other jurisdiction) and will obtain and preserve its qualification to do business in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be necessary to protect the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes, the other
Transaction Documents, the Indenture Collateral and each other instrument or agreement included in the Indenture Collateral. 

  
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 (b) The Issuer shall: 

(i) Maintain its own deposit account or accounts, separate from those of any Affiliate, with commercial banking institutions
and in accordance with the terms of this Indenture. The funds of the Issuer will not be diverted to any other Person or for other than authorized uses of the Issuer. 

(ii) Ensure that it is at all times in compliance with Section 4.01 of the Trust Agreement. 

(iii) Ensure that, to the extent that it jointly contracts with any of its beneficial owners or Affiliates to do business with
vendors or service providers or to share overhead expenses, the costs incurred in so doing shall be allocated fairly among such entities, and each such entity shall bear its fair share of such costs. To the extent that the Issuer contracts or does
business with vendors or service providers when the goods and services provided are partially for the benefit of any other Person, the costs incurred in so doing shall be fairly allocated to or among such entities for whose benefit the goods and
services are provided, and each such entity shall bear its fair share of such costs. All material transactions between Issuer and any of its Affiliates shall be only at fair market value on an arm’s length basis and, as applicable thereto, in
accordance with the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 
 (iv) Conduct its affairs strictly in accordance with its organizational
documents and observe all necessary, appropriate and customary statutory trust formalities, including, but not limited to, holding all regular and special board of trustees meetings, if any, as required under the terms of the Trust Agreement
appropriate to authorize all statutory trust action, keeping separate and accurate minutes of its meetings, passing all resolutions or consents necessary to authorize actions taken or to be taken, and maintaining accurate and separate books, records
and accounts, including, but not limited to, payroll and intercompany transaction accounts. 
 (v) Conduct its affairs in its
own name, duly correct any known misunderstandings regarding its separate identity and shall not take any action or conduct its affairs in a manner that is likely to result in its separate existence being ignored or its assets and liabilities being
substantively consolidated with any other Person in a bankruptcy, reorganization or other insolvency proceeding. 
 Section 3.05
Payment of Principal and Interest. 
 The Issuer will duly and punctually pay the principal of and interest on the Notes, in
accordance with the terms of such Notes, this Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement (including the Priority of Payments therein). The Issuer will cause to be distributed all amounts on deposit in the Distribution Account on a Payment Date,
or such other date selected by the Trustee pursuant to Section 5.04(b), deposited therein pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement for the benefit of the Notes, to the applicable Noteholders. Amounts properly withheld
under the Code or any applicable state law by any Person from a payment to any Noteholder of interest and/or principal shall be considered as having been paid by the Issuer to such Noteholder for all purposes of this Indenture. 

  
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 Section 3.06 Protection of Indenture Collateral. 

(a) The Issuer intends the security interest Granted pursuant to this Indenture in favor of the Trustee on behalf of the Noteholders to be
prior to all other liens in respect of the Indenture Collateral other than Permitted Liens, and the Issuer shall take or shall cause the Servicer to take all actions necessary to obtain and maintain, for the benefit of the Trustee on behalf of the
Noteholders, a first lien on and a first priority, perfected security interest in the Indenture Collateral, subject to any Permitted Liens with respect thereto. In connection therewith, pursuant to Section 2.09 of the Sale
and Servicing Agreement, the Issuer shall cause to be delivered into the possession of the Trustee (or to the Custodian on behalf of the Trustee) as pledgee hereunder, indorsed in blank, any “instruments” (within the meaning of the UCC),
not constituting part of chattel paper, evidencing any Loan which is part of the Indenture Collateral and all other portions of the Loan Files. The Trustee acknowledges and agrees that (i) it holds the Loan Assets delivered to it (or to the
Custodian) (i) under the Sale and Contribution Agreement for the benefit of the Trust Depositor, and (ii) under the Sale and Servicing Agreement for the benefit of the Issuer, and that it holds the Indenture Collateral delivered to it (or
the Custodian) pursuant to this Indenture for the benefit of the Noteholders. The Trustee (through the Custodian) agrees to maintain continuous possession of such delivered instruments and the Loan Files as pledgee hereunder until this Indenture
shall have terminated in accordance with its terms or until, pursuant to the terms hereof or of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Trustee is otherwise authorized to release such instrument from the Indenture Collateral. The Issuer will or will
cause the Servicer from time to time to prepare (or shall cause to be prepared), execute and deliver all such supplements and amendments hereto and all such financing statements, continuation statements, instruments of further assurance and other
instruments, and will take such other action necessary or advisable to: 
 (i) maintain or preserve the lien and security
interest (and the priority thereof) of this Indenture or carry out more effectively the purposes hereof; 
 (ii) perfect,
publish notice of or protect the validity of any Grant made or to be made by this Indenture; 
 (iii) enforce any of the
Loans transferred to the Issuer as and to the extent commercially reasonable and in accordance with the Sale and Servicing Agreement; or 

(iv) preserve and defend title to the Indenture Collateral and the rights of the Trustee and the Noteholders in such Indenture
Collateral against the claims of all persons and parties. 
 Except as otherwise provided in or permitted by the Sale and Servicing
Agreement or this Indenture, the Trustee shall not remove any portion of the Indenture Collateral held by it that consists of money or is evidenced by an instrument, certificate or other writing from the jurisdiction in which it was held at the date
of the most recent Opinion of Counsel delivered pursuant to Section 3.07 (or from the jurisdiction in which it was held as described in the Opinion of Counsel delivered at the Closing Date pursuant to
Section 3.07(a), if no Opinion of Counsel has yet been delivered pursuant to Section 3.07(b)) unless the Trustee shall have first received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the lien and
security interest created by this Indenture with respect to such property will continue to be maintained after giving effect to such action or actions. 

  
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 The Issuer hereby designates the Trustee its agent and attorney-in-fact to execute any financing statement, continuation statement or other instrument required to be executed pursuant to this Section 3.06; provided that such
designation shall not impose upon the Trustee any of the Issuer’s or Servicer’s obligations under this Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 

Section 3.07 Opinions as to Indenture Collateral. 

(a) On or before the Closing Date, the Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the opinion of such
counsel, such action has been taken with respect to the delivery of the Underlying Notes and any other requisite documents, and with respect to the execution and filing of any financing statements and continuation statements, as is necessary to
perfect and make effective the lien and security interest of this Indenture and reciting the details of such action, or stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no such action is necessary to make such lien and security interest effective. 

(b) On or before June 30 in each calendar year, beginning in 2019, the Servicer on behalf of the Issuer will furnish to the Trustee and
the Rating Agency an Opinion of Counsel at the expense of the Issuer either stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, such action has been taken with respect to any other requisite documents and with respect to the execution and filing of any
financing statements and continuation statements as is necessary to maintain the perfection of the lien and security interest created by this Indenture and reciting the details of such action or stating that in the opinion of such counsel no such
action is necessary to maintain the perfection of such lien and security interest. Such Opinion of Counsel shall also describe any other requisite documents and the execution and filing of any financing statements and continuation statements that
will, in the opinion of such counsel, be required to maintain the lien and security interest of this Indenture until June 30 in the following calendar year. 

Section 3.08 Furnishing of Rule 144A Information. 

The Issuer will furnish, upon the written request of any Noteholder or of any owner of a beneficial interest therein, such information as is
specified in paragraph (d)(4) of Rule 144A under the Securities Act (i) to such Noteholder or beneficial owner, (ii) to a prospective purchaser of such Note or interest therein who is a Qualified Institutional Buyer and a Qualified
Purchaser designated by such Noteholder or beneficial owner, or (iii) to the Trustee for delivery to such Noteholder, beneficial owner or prospective purchaser, in order to permit compliance by such Noteholder or beneficial owner with Rule 144A
in connection with the resale of such Note or beneficial interest therein by such Noteholder or beneficial owner in reliance on Rule 144A unless, at the time of such request, the Issuer is subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or
15(d) of the Exchange Act, or exempt from reporting pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Exchange Act. 

  
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 Section 3.09 Performance of Obligations; Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 (a) The Issuer will punctually perform and observe all of its obligations and agreements contained in this Indenture, the other
Transaction Documents and in the instruments and agreements included in the Indenture Collateral. 
 (b) The Issuer may contract with other
Persons to assist it in performing its duties under this Indenture, the other Transaction Documents and the instruments and agreements included in the Indenture Collateral, and any performance of such duties by a Person identified to the Trustee in
an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuer shall be deemed to be action taken by the Issuer. Initially, the Issuer has contracted with the Servicer and the Administrator to assist the Issuer in performing its duties under this Indenture, the other
Transaction Documents and the instruments and agreements included in the Indenture Collateral. 
 (c) The Issuer will not take any action or
permit any action to be taken by others which would release any Person from any of such Person’s covenants or obligations under any of the documents relating to the Loans or under any instrument included in the Indenture Collateral, or which
would result in the amendment, hypothecation, subordination, termination or discharge of, or impair the validity or effectiveness of, any of the documents relating to the Loans or any such instrument, except such actions as the Servicer is expressly
permitted to take in the Transaction Documents. 
 (d) If a Responsible Officer of the Issuer shall have knowledge of the occurrence of a
Servicer Default, the Issuer shall promptly notify in writing the Trustee, the Backup Servicer and the Rating Agency thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Issuer is taking in respect of such Servicer Default. If such
Servicer Default arises from the failure of the Servicer to perform any of its duties or obligations under the Sale and Servicing Agreement with respect to the Indenture Collateral, the Issuer may, and shall pursuant to direction of the Majority
Noteholders, remedy such failure. So long as any such Servicer Default shall be continuing, the Trustee may, and shall pursuant to direction of the Super-Majority Noteholders, exercise its remedies set forth in Section 8.02
of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. Unless granted or permitted by the Holders of the Notes to the extent provided in Article VIII of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuer may not waive any such Servicer Default or terminate the
rights and powers of the Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 
 Section 3.10 Negative Covenants. 

So long as any Notes are Outstanding, the Issuer shall not: 

(i) except as expressly permitted by this Indenture or any other Transaction Document, sell, transfer, exchange or otherwise
dispose of any portion the Indenture Collateral, unless directed to do so by the Trustee; 
 (ii) claim any credit on, or
make any deduction from the principal or interest payable in respect of, the Notes (other than amounts properly withheld from such payments under the Code or applicable state law), or assert any claim against any present or former Noteholder by
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 (iii) permit the validity or effectiveness of this Indenture to be impaired,
or permit the lien of this Indenture to be amended, hypothecated, subordinated, terminated or discharged, or permit any Person to be released from any covenants or obligations with respect to the Notes under this Indenture except as may be expressly
permitted hereby, permit any lien, charge, excise, claim, security interest, mortgage or other encumbrance (other than the lien of this Indenture or any other Transaction Document) to be created on or extend to or otherwise arise upon or burden the
Indenture Collateral or any part thereof or any interest therein or the proceeds thereof (except for Permitted Liens) or permit the lien of this Indenture not to constitute a valid first priority security interest in the Indenture Collateral
(subject to Permitted Liens); 
 (iv) except as contemplated in the Transaction Documents, dissolve or liquidate in whole or
in part; 
 (v) engage in any activities other than financing, acquiring, owning, pledging and managing the Loans as
contemplated by the Transaction Documents and activities incidental to those activities; 
 (vi) incur, assume or guarantee
any indebtedness other than indebtedness evidenced by the Notes or indebtedness otherwise permitted by the Transaction Documents; 

(vii) have any employees, it being understood that the Issuer’s officers shall not be considered employees; or 

(viii) establish, maintain, contribute to, or incur any liability in respect of any Plan or any similar such plan subject to
Similar Law. 
 Section 3.11 Annual Statement as to Compliance. 

The Issuer will deliver to the Trustee and the Rating Agency, within 90 days after the end of each calendar year (commencing with the calendar
year ending December 31, 2019), an Officer’s Certificate stating, as to the Person signing such Officer’s Certificate, that: 

(i) a review of the activities of the Issuer during such year and of its performance under this Indenture has been made under
such Person’s supervision or direction; and 
 (ii) to the best of such Person’s knowledge, based on such review,
the Issuer has complied with all conditions and covenants under this Indenture throughout such year, or, if there has been such a default in its compliance with any such condition or covenant, specifying each such default known to such Person and
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 Section 3.12 [Reserved]. 

Section 3.13 Representations and Warranties Concerning the Loans. 

The Issuer has pledged to the Trustee for the benefit of the Noteholders all of its rights under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the
Sale and Servicing Agreement (except for the Excluded Property) and the Trustee has the benefit of the representations and warranties made by the Seller and the Trust Depositor in such documents concerning the Loans transferred into the Loan Assets
and the right to enforce any remedy against the Seller and the Trust Depositor provided in the Sale and Contribution Agreement and the Sale and Servicing Agreement, to the same extent as though such representations and warranties were made directly
to the Trustee. 
 Section 3.14 Trustee’s Review of Loan Files. 

The Custodian, on behalf of the Trustee, agrees, for the benefit of the Noteholders, to review the Required Loan Documents that are part of the
Loan Files as provided in Section 2.11 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 
 Section 3.15 Sale and
Servicing Agreement. 
 In order to facilitate the servicing of the Loans, the Trustee and the Issuer authorize the Servicer, in the
name and on behalf of the Trustee and the Issuer, to perform its respective duties and obligations under the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the rights of the Trustee pursuant to the third sentence of Section 8.01 hereof.
The Trustee agrees to perform its express obligations under the Sale and Servicing Agreement in accordance with the terms thereof subject to Section 6.01 hereof. 

Section 3.16 Amendments to Sale and Servicing Agreement. 

The Trustee may enter into any amendment or supplement to the Sale and Servicing Agreement only in accordance with
Section 13.01 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. The Trustee may, in its reasonable discretion, decline to enter into or consent to any such supplement or amendment if its own rights, duties or immunities shall be
adversely affected in any material respect. 
 Section 3.17 Servicer as Agent and Bailee of Trustee. 

(a) Solely for purposes of perfection under Section 9-313 of the UCC or other similar applicable
law, rule or regulation of the state in which such property is held by the Servicer, the Trustee hereby acknowledges that the Servicer is acting as agent and bailee of the Trustee in holding any documents released to the Servicer pursuant to the
Sale and Servicing Agreement as well as any other items constituting a part of the Indenture Collateral which from time to time come into the possession of the Servicer. It is intended that, by the Servicer’s execution and delivery of the Sale
and Servicing Agreement, the Trustee, as a secured party, will be deemed to have possession of such documents, such moneys and such other items for purposes of Section 9-313 of the UCC of the state in
which such property is held by the Servicer. 

  
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 (b) Solely for purposes of perfection under
Section 9-313 of the UCC or other similar applicable law, rule or regulation of the state in which such property is held by the Trustee, if the transfer of the Loans and the other assets in the Indenture
Collateral by the Trust Depositor to the Issuer is deemed to be a loan, the Custodian hereby acknowledges it is acting as agent and bailee of the Issuer in holding items constituting a part of the Indenture Collateral which from time to time come
into the possession of the Trustee. 
 Section 3.18 Investment Company Act of 1940. 

The Issuer shall not and the Trustee shall not knowingly take any action that would cause the Issuer or the pool of Indenture Collateral to be
required to register as an “investment company” under the 1940 Act (or any successor or amendatory statute). 

Section 3.19 Issuer May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms. 

(a) The Issuer shall not consolidate or merge with or into any other Person, unless: 

(i) the Person (if other than the Issuer) formed by or surviving such consolidation or merger shall be a Person organized and
existing under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and
punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all Notes, and the performance or observance of every agreement and covenant of this Indenture, the Notes, the Trust Certificate and each other Transaction Document on the part of the Issuer to be
performed or observed, all as provided herein and therein; 
 (ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; 
 (iii) each Holder of a Note has consented in writing to
such transaction (and notice thereof has been provided to the Rating Agency); 
 (iv) the Issuer shall have received written
advice from Dechert LLP or an opinion of tax counsel of nationally recognized standing in the United States experiences in such matters (and shall have delivered copies thereof to the Trustee on which the Trustee may conclusively rely) to the effect
that such transaction will not (1) cause the Issuer to be treated as an association, publicly traded partnership or taxable mortgage pool, in each case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (2) cause the Notes to
be deemed to have been sold or exchanged under Section 1001 of the Code or (3) cause any Notes that were characterized as indebtedness at the time of issuance to be characterized as other than indebtedness; 

(v) any action that is necessary to maintain the lien and security interest created by this Indenture shall have been taken;
and 
 (vi) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel (which may
conclusively rely on the Officer’s Certificate with respect to clauses (ii) and (iii) above and as to the taking of any action required by such Opinion of Counsel as it relates to clause (v) above) each stating that such
consolidation or merger complies with this Section 3.19 and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with. 

  
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 (b) Except as otherwise permitted hereunder or under the Transaction Documents, the Issuer
shall not convey or transfer all or substantially all of its properties or assets, including those included in the Indenture Collateral, to any Person, unless: 

(i) the Person that acquires by conveyance or transfer the properties and assets of the Issuer the conveyance or transfer of
which is hereby restricted shall be a United States citizen or a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia, expressly assumes, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and
delivered to the Trustee, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all Notes, and the performance of each other Transaction Document, and the performance or
observance of every agreement and covenant of this Indenture, the Notes, the Trust Certificate and each other Transaction Document on the part of the Issuer to be performed or observed, all as provided herein, expressly agrees by means of such
supplemental indenture that all right, title and interest so conveyed or transferred shall be subject and subordinate to the rights of the Holders of the Notes as provided in the Transaction Documents, and unless otherwise provided in such
supplemental indenture, expressly agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Issuer against and from any loss, liability or expense arising under or related to this Indenture and the Notes arising from such transfer; 

(ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

 (iii) each Holder of a Note has consented in writing to such transaction (and notice thereof has been provided to Rating
Agency); 
 (iv) the Issuer shall have received written advice from Dechert LLP or an opinion of tax counsel of nationally
recognized standing in the United States experienced in such matters (and shall have delivered copies thereof to the Trustee on which the Trustee shall be entitled to rely) to the effect that such transaction will not (1) cause the Issuer to be
treated as an association, publicly traded partnership or taxable mortgage pool, in each case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (2) cause the Notes to be deemed to have been sold or exchanged under
Section 1001 of the Code or (3) cause any Notes that were characterized as indebtedness at the time of issuance to be characterized as other than indebtedness; 

(v) any action that is necessary to maintain the lien and security interest created by this Indenture shall have been taken;
and 
 (vi) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel (which may
conclusively rely on a certificate of the transferee as to the transferee’s citizenship, if applicable, and on the Officer’s Certificate with respect to clauses (ii) and (iii) above and to the taking of any action required by such
Opinion of Counsel as it relates to clause (v) above) each stating that such conveyance or transfer, and such supplemental indenture, comply with this Section 3.19 and that all conditions precedent herein provided for
relating to such transaction have been complied with. 

  
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 Section 3.20 Successor or Transferee. 

(a) Upon any consolidation or merger of the Issuer in accordance with Section 3.19(a), the Person formed by or
surviving such consolidation or merger (if other than the Issuer) shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Issuer under this Indenture with the same effect as if such Person had been named as the
Issuer herein. 
 (b) Upon a conveyance or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets and properties of the Issuer pursuant to
Section 3.19(b), the Issuer will be released from every covenant and agreement of this Indenture to be observed or performed on the part of the Issuer with respect to the Notes immediately upon the delivery of written
notice to the Trustee stating that the Issuer is to be so released. 
 Section 3.21 No Other Business. 

The Issuer shall not engage in any business other than financing, purchasing, owning, selling, managing and enforcing the Loans and Related
Property, including through any subsidiaries permitted pursuant to Section 5.10 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, in the manner contemplated by this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents and all activities
incidental thereto, issuing the Notes and the Trust Certificate and as otherwise expressly permitted in the Trust Agreement or the other Transaction Documents. 

Section 3.22 No Borrowing; Use of Proceeds. 

The Issuer shall not issue, incur, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable, directly or indirectly, for any indebtedness except for the
Notes and any other indebtedness permitted by the Transaction Documents. In consideration of the Trust Depositor’s transfer of the Initial Loans to the Issuer, the Issuer will transfer the net cash proceeds from the sale of the Notes to the
Trust Depositor, together with the Trust Certificate. The Trust Depositor will use a portion of the net proceeds to acquire the Initial Loans from the Seller on the Closing Date. 

Section 3.23 Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities. 

Except as contemplated by this Indenture or the other Transaction Documents, the Issuer shall not make any loan or advance or credit to, or
guarantee (directly or indirectly or by an instrument having the effect of assuring another’s payment or performance on any obligation or capability of so doing or otherwise), endorse or otherwise become contingently liable, directly or
indirectly, in connection with the obligations, stocks or dividends of, or own, purchase, repurchase or acquire (or agree contingently to do so) any stock, obligations, assets or securities of, or any other interest in, or make any capital
contribution to, any other Person, other than any subsidiary established by the Issuer pursuant to Section 5.10 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 

  
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 Section 3.24 Capital Expenditures. 

The Issuer shall not make any expenditure (by long-term or operating lease or otherwise) for capital assets (either realty or personalty). 

Section 3.25 Representations and Warranties of the Issuer. 

The Issuer represents and warrants as of the date hereof and as of the date of any subsequent acquisition of a Substitute Loan, as applicable,
as follows: 
 (a) Power and Authority. It has full power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver and perform its obligations
as Issuer under this Indenture and the Notes (the foregoing documents, the “Issuer Documents”) and under each of the other Transaction Documents to which the Issuer is a party. 

(b) Due Authorization and Binding Obligation. The execution and delivery of the Issuer Documents and the other Transaction Documents to
which the Issuer is a party, and the consummation of the transactions provided for therein have been duly authorized by all necessary action on its part. Each of the Issuer Documents and the other Transaction Documents to which the Issuer is a party
constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Issuer and is enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement of such terms may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of
creditors’ rights generally and by the availability of equitable remedies. 
 (c) No Conflict. The execution and delivery of the
Issuer Documents and the other Transaction Documents to which the Issuer is a party, the performance of the transactions contemplated thereby and the fulfillment of the terms thereof will not conflict with, result in any material breach of any of
the terms and provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time or both) a default under, any indenture, contract, agreement, mortgage, deed of trust, or other instrument to which the Issuer is a party or by which it or any of
its property is bound. 
 (d) No Violation. The execution and delivery of the Issuer Documents and the other Transaction Documents to
which the Issuer is a party, the performance of the transactions contemplated thereby and the fulfillment of the terms thereof will not conflict with or violate, in any material respect, any Applicable Law. 

(e) All Consents Required. All approvals, authorizations, consents, orders or other actions of any Person or any Governmental Authority
required in connection with the execution and delivery of the Issuer Documents and the other Transaction Documents to which the Issuer is a party, the performance of the transactions contemplated thereby and the fulfillment of the terms thereof have
been obtained. 
 (f) No Proceedings. No litigation or administrative proceeding of or before any court, tribunal or governmental
body is currently pending, or to the knowledge of the Issuer, threatened, against the Issuer or any of its respective properties or with respect to the Issuer Documents or any other Transaction Document to which the Issuer is a party that, if
adversely determined, would have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, assets or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Issuer or the transactions contemplated by the Issuer Documents or any of the other Transaction Documents to
which the Issuer is a party. 

  
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 (g) Organization and Good Standing. The Issuer is a statutory trust duly organized,
validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and has the requisite power to own its assets and to transact the business in which it is currently engaged, and had at all relevant times, and now has, all necessary
power, authority and legal right under its organizational documents and under Applicable Law to acquire, own and pledge the Indenture Collateral. 

(h) 1940 Act. The Issuer is not an “investment company” within the meaning of the 1940 Act. The Issuer will rely on an
exclusion or exemption from the definition of “investment company” under the 1940 Act contained in Section 3(c)7 thereof and Rule 3a-7 thereof, and will qualify for the “loan
securitization” exemption set forth in the implementing regulations of the Volcker Rule. The Issuer is not a “covered fund” for purposes of the regulations adopted to implement Section 619 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and
Consumer Protection Act (such statutory provision together with such implementing regulations, the “Volcker Rule”). 
 (i)
Location. The Issuer is located (within the meaning of Article 9 of the UCC) in the State of Delaware. The Issuer agrees that it will not change its location (within the meaning of Article 9 of the UCC) without at least 30 days prior written
notice to the Seller, the Servicer, the Trustee and the Rating Agency. 
 (j) Security Interest in Collateral. 

(i) This Indenture creates a valid, continuing and enforceable security interest (as defined in the applicable UCC) in the
Indenture Collateral in favor of the Trustee, which security interest is prior to all other Liens (except for Permitted Liens), and is enforceable as such against creditors of and purchasers from the Issuer; 

(ii) the Indenture Collateral constitutes “general intangibles,” “instruments,” “accounts,”
“investment property,” or “chattel paper,” within the meaning of the applicable UCC; 
 (iii) the Issuer
owns and has good and marketable title to the Indenture Collateral free and clear of any Lien (other than Permitted Liens), claim or encumbrance of any Person; 

(iv) the Issuer has received all consents and approvals required by the terms of the Indenture Collateral to the pledge of the
Indenture Collateral hereunder to the Trustee; 
 (v) the Issuer has caused 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 the Indenture Collateral granted to the Trustee under this Indenture; 

  
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 (vi) other than the security interest granted by the Issuer pursuant to this
Indenture and any Permitted Liens, the Issuer has not pledged, assigned, sold, granted a security interest in or otherwise conveyed any of the Indenture Collateral. The Issuer has not authorized the filing of and is not aware of any financing
statements against the Issuer that include a description of collateral covering the Indenture Collateral other than any financing statement (A) relating to the security interest granted by the Issuer under this Indenture, or (B) that has
been terminated or for which a release or partial release has been filed. The Issuer is not aware of the filing of any judgment or tax Lien filings against the Issuer; 

(vii) all original executed copies of each Underlying Note that constitute or evidence the Indenture Collateral have been
delivered to and are in the possession of the Trustee; 
 (viii) the Issuer has received a written acknowledgment from the
Trustee that the Trustee or its bailee is holding the Underlying Notes that constitute or evidence the Indenture Collateral solely on behalf of and for the benefit of the Securityholders; and 

none of the Underlying Notes that constitute or evidence the Indenture Collateral has any marks or notations indicating that they have been pledged, assigned
or otherwise conveyed to any Person other than the Issuer and the Trustee. 
 The representations and warranties in
Section 3.25(j) shall survive the termination of this Indenture. 
 Section 3.26 Restricted
Payments. 
 The Issuer shall not, directly or indirectly, (i) pay any dividend or make any distribution (by reduction of
capital or otherwise), whether in cash, property, securities or a combination thereof, to the Owner Trustee or any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or otherwise with respect to any ownership or equity interest or security in or of the
Issuer, (ii) redeem, purchase, retire or otherwise acquire for value any such ownership or equity interest or security or (iii) set aside or otherwise segregate any amounts for any such purpose; provided that the Issuer may make, or
cause to be made, (w) distributions to the Owner Trustee, the Trust Depositor and the Certificateholder as contemplated by, and to the extent funds are available for such purpose under, the Trust Agreement and the Sale and Servicing Agreement,
(x) payments to the Servicer and/or Trust Depositor pursuant to the terms of the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the other Transaction Documents and (y) payments to the Trustee and other Persons entitled thereto pursuant to terms of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement. The Issuer will not, directly or indirectly, make payments to or distributions from the Distribution Account except in accordance with this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents. 

Section 3.27 Notice of Events of Default, Amendments and Waivers. 

Promptly, but in any case no later than within two (2) Business Days of discovery by a Responsible Officer of the Issuer (or receipt of
notice thereof by the Issuer), the Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee (with a copy to the Backup Servicer), (i) in the case of any proposed or pending litigation or investigation relating to it by any governmental authority or any legal

  
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proceeding which involve or may involve the possibility of materially and adversely affecting the Issuer, a written notice specifying the nature of such litigation, investigation or proceeding or
the action the Issuer is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto, (ii) written notice of the occurrence of any Event of Default or Servicer Default or of any situation which the Issuer reasonably expects to develop into an Event of
Default or Servicer Default, or (iii) written notice of any event or occurrence (including changes in applicable law) of which the Servicer or Issuer (as applicable) has knowledge that may reasonably affect, materially and adversely, the
ability of the Servicer to service the Loans or to otherwise perform and carry out its duties, responsibilities and obligations under the Transaction Documents, provided, that in the case of any notice required pursuant to (ii) or (iii) above,
the Servicer or the Issuer, as applicable, shall provide a copy of such notice to the Rating Agency. The Trustee shall make available to Holders any notice delivered to it pursuant to (i), (ii) or (iii) above (including posting to its website),
but shall not be under any obligation to review or evaluate any such notice, or to investigate or inquire further into any matter described therein. 

Section 3.28 Further Instruments and Acts. 

Upon request of the Trustee, the Issuer will execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably
necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purpose of this Indenture (provided nothing herein shall be deemed to impose an obligation on the Trustee to so request). 

Section 3.29 Statements to Noteholders. 

The Trustee shall make available on its secure internet website to each Noteholder and the Rating Agency, the Monthly Reports prepared by the
Servicer pursuant to Article IX of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. The Trustee shall make available to the Noteholders, the parties to the Transaction Documents and the Rating Agency, via the Trustee’s internet website, a copy of the
Transaction Documents, each Monthly Report and, with the consent or at the direction of the Trust Depositor, such other information regarding the Notes and/or the Loans as the Trustee may have in its possession or as may be provided to the Trustee
by the Servicer or the Trust Depositor, but only with the use of its secured internet website; provided the Trustee shall have no obligation to provide such information described in this Section 3.29 until it has
received the requisite information from the Trust Depositor or the Servicer. The Trustee will make no representation or warranties as to the accuracy or completeness of such documents posted to its website and will assume no responsibility therefor.

 The Trustee’s secure internet website shall be initially located at http://pivot.usbank.com or at such other address as shall be
specified by the Trustee from time to time in writing to the Noteholders, the parties to the Transaction Documents and the Issuer (who shall promptly forward the same to the Rating Agency). In connection with providing access to the Trustee’s
internet website, the Trustee shall (other than with respect to the parties to the Transaction Documents and the Rating Agency) require registration and the acceptance of a disclaimer. The Trustee shall be permitted to change the method by which the
Monthly Reports are distributed in order to make such distributions more convenient and/or more accessible to the Holders. The Trustee shall not be liable for the dissemination of information in accordance with this Indenture. 

  
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 Section 3.30 Grant of Substitute Loans and Additional Loans 

In consideration of the delivery or acquisition of Loans transferred on each Substitute Loan Cutoff Date or each Additional Loan Cutoff Date,
as applicable, pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of Section 2.04, Section 2.06 or Section 2.07, as applicable, of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuer
grants to the Trustee a security interest in all of its right, title and interest in the Loans transferred on such Substitute Loan Cutoff Date or such Additional Loan Cutoff Date, as applicable, and simultaneously with the transfer of the Substitute
Loans and Additional Loans, as applicable, the Issuer will cause the related Loan File to be delivered to the Trustee or the Custodian on its behalf. 

ARTICLE IV 
 THE NOTES;
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE 
 Section 4.01 The Notes. 

The Notes shall be registered initially in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of DTC. Beneficial Owners will hold interests in such
Notes through the book-entry facilities of DTC in minimum denominations equal to the applicable Minimum Denomination for such Notes. 
 The
Notes shall, on original issue, be executed on behalf of the Issuer by the Owner Trustee, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee, authenticated and delivered by the Trustee upon receipt of an Issuer Order. 

Section 4.02 Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Notes. 

(a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept a Note Register (the “Note Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations
as it may prescribe, the Issuer shall provide for the registration of Notes and the registration of transfers and exchanges of Notes as herein provided. The Trustee shall be “Note Registrar” for the purpose of registering Notes and
transfers of Notes as herein provided. The Note Register shall contain the name, remittance instructions, as well as the Series and the number in the Series. 

(b) Each Note shall be issued in minimum denominations of not less than the Minimum Denomination, so that on the Closing Date the sum of the
denominations of all outstanding Notes shall equal the applicable Initial Note Principal Balance. On the Closing Date and pursuant to an Issuer Order, the Trustee will execute and authenticate (i) one or more Global Notes and/or
(ii) Physical Notes all in an aggregate principal amount that shall equal the Initial Note Principal Balance. 
 (c) The Global Notes
(i) shall be delivered by the Issuer to DTC or, pursuant to DTC’s instructions, shall be delivered by the Issuer on behalf of DTC to and deposited with the DTC Custodian, and in each case shall be registered in the name of Cede &
Co. and (ii) with respect to the Rule 144A Global Notes, shall bear a legend substantially to the following effect: 
 “Unless this
Note is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (“DTC”), to the Note Registrar or its agent for registration of 

  
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transfer, exchange or payment, and any Note issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment
is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof,
Cede & Co., has an interest herein.” 
 The Global Notes may be deposited with such other depository as the Issuer may from
time to time designate, and shall bear such legend as may be appropriate; provided that such successor depository maintains a book-entry system that qualifies to be treated as “registered form” under Section 163(f)(3) of the
Code. 
 The Issuer is hereby authorized to execute and deliver a Letter of Representations with DTC relating to the Notes. 

(d) With respect to Notes registered in the Note Register in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of DTC, the Issuer, the Servicer, the
Owner Trustee (as such and in its individual capacity) and the Trustee shall have no responsibility or obligation to Direct or Indirect Participants or Beneficial Owners for which DTC holds Notes from time to time as a Depository. Without limiting
the immediately preceding sentence, the Issuer, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee (as such and in its individual capacity), and the Trustee shall have no responsibility or obligation with respect to (i) the accuracy of the records of DTC,
Cede & Co., or any Direct or Indirect Participant with respect to the ownership interest in the Notes, (ii) the delivery to any Direct or Indirect Participant or any other Person, other than a registered Holder, of a Note,
(iii) the payment to any Direct or Indirect Participant or any other Person, other than a registered Holder of a Note as shown in the Note Register, of any amount with respect to any distribution of principal or interest on the Notes or
(iv) the making of book-entry transfers among Participants of DTC with respect to Notes registered in the Note Register in the name of the nominee of DTC. No Person other than a registered Holder of a Note as shown in the Note Register shall
receive a physical Note evidencing such Note. 
 (e) Upon delivery by DTC to the Trustee of written notice to the effect that DTC has
determined to substitute a new nominee in place of Cede & Co., and subject to the provisions hereof with respect to the payment of distributions by the mailing of checks or drafts to the registered Holders of Notes appearing as registered
Owners in the Note Register on a Record Date, the name “Cede & Co.” in this Indenture shall refer to such new nominee of DTC. 

(f) In the event that (i) DTC or the Servicer advises the Trustee in writing that DTC is no longer willing or able to discharge properly
its responsibilities as nominee and depository with respect to the Global Notes and the Servicer is unable to locate a qualified successor or (ii) the Servicer at its sole option elects to terminate the book-entry system through DTC, the Global
Notes shall no longer be restricted to being registered in the Note Register in the name of Cede & Co. (or a successor nominee) as nominee of DTC. At that time, the Servicer may determine that the Global Notes shall be registered in the
name of and deposited with a successor depository operating a global book-entry system, as may be acceptable to the Servicer, or such depository’s agent or designee but, if the Servicer does not select such alternative global book-entry system,

  
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then upon surrender to the Note Registrar of the Global Notes by DTC, accompanied by the registration instructions from DTC for registration, the Trustee shall at the Servicer’s expense
authenticate Physical Notes. Neither the Servicer nor the Trustee shall be liable for any delay in DTC’s delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such instructions. Upon the issuance of
Physical Notes, the Trustee, the Note Registrar, the Servicer, the Paying Agent and the Issuer shall recognize the Holders of the Physical Notes as Noteholders hereunder. 

(g) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture to the contrary, so long as any Global Notes are registered in the name of
Cede & Co., as nominee of DTC, all distributions of principal and interest on such Global Notes and all notices with respect to such Global Notes shall be made and given, respectively, in the manner provided in the Letter of
Representations. 
 (h) Subject to the preceding paragraphs, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office of the
Note Registrar and, upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth below, the Issuer shall execute, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, a new Note and of the same aggregate Percentage Interest and dated the date of authentication
by the Trustee. The Note Registrar shall maintain a record of any such transfer and deliver it to the Issuer, Servicer or Trustee upon request. 

(i) At the option of the Noteholders, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes in authorized denominations, upon surrender of the Notes to be
exchanged at the Corporate Trust Office. Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Issuer shall execute the Notes which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Note presented or surrendered for transfer or
exchange shall be accompanied by wiring instructions, if applicable, in the form of Exhibit C. The preceding provisions of this section notwithstanding, the Issuer shall not be required to make and the Note Registrar shall not register
transfers or exchanges of Notes called for redemption. 
 (j) No service charge shall be made for any transfer or exchange of Notes, but
prior to transfer the Note Registrar may require payment by the transferor of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Notes. 

All Notes surrendered for payment, transfer and exchange or redemption shall be marked canceled by the Note Registrar and retained and
destroyed in accordance with its policies and procedures. 
 (k) By acceptance of a Physical Note, whether upon original issuance or
subsequent transfer, each Holder of such a Note acknowledges the restrictions on the transfer of such Note set forth in the Securities Legend and agrees that it will transfer such Note only as provided herein. In addition to the provisions of
Sections 4.02(m) and (n), the following restrictions shall apply with respect to the transfer and registration of transfer of a Physical Note to a transferee that takes delivery in the form of a Physical Note: 

(i) The Note Registrar shall register the transfer of a Physical Note if the requested transfer is being made to a transferee
who has provided the Note Registrar with a Rule 144A Certification or to a transferee who is an Affiliate of the Seller in a transfer which otherwise complies with Section 4.02(s); or 

  
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 (ii) The Note Registrar shall register the transfer of any Physical Note if
(x) the transferor has advised the Note Registrar in writing that the Note is being transferred to a Person that is both an Institutional Accredited Investor and a Qualified Purchaser; (y) prior to the transfer the transferee furnishes to
the Note Registrar a Transferee Letter; and (z) such transfer otherwise complies with Section 4.02(s). 
 (l)
Subject to Section 4.02(n), so long as a Global Note remains outstanding and is held by or on behalf of DTC, transfers of beneficial interests in the Global Note, or transfers by Holders of Physical Notes to transferees
that take delivery in the form of beneficial interests in the Global Note, may be made only in accordance with this Section 4.02(l) and in accordance with the rules of DTC. 

(i) Rule 144A Global Note to Regulation S Global Note During the Distribution Compliance Period. If, during the
Distribution Compliance Period, a Beneficial Owner of an interest in a Rule 144A Global Note wishes at any time to transfer its beneficial interest in such Rule 144A Global Note to a Person who wishes to take delivery thereof in the form of a
beneficial interest in a Regulation S Global Note, such Beneficial Owner may, in addition to complying with all applicable rules and procedures of DTC and Clearstream or Euroclear applicable to transfers by their respective participants (the
“Applicable Procedures”), transfer or cause the transfer of such beneficial interest for an equivalent beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note only upon compliance with the provisions of this
Section 4.02(l)(i). Upon receipt by the Note Registrar at its Corporate Trust Office of (1) written instructions given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures from a Depository Participant directing the Note
Registrar to credit or cause to be credited to another specified Depository Participant’s account a beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note in an amount equal to the Note balance of the beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global
Note to be transferred, (2) a written order given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures containing information regarding the account of the DTC Participant (and the Euroclear or Clearstream account, as the case may be) to be credited
with, and the account of the DTC Participant to be debited for, such beneficial interest, and (3) a certificate in the form of Exhibit E hereto given by the Beneficial Owner that is transferring such interest, the Note Registrar shall
instruct DTC to reduce the denomination of the Rule 144A Global Note by the Note balance of the beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note to be so transferred and, concurrently with such reduction, to increase the denomination of the
Regulation S Global Note by the Note balance of the beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note to be so transferred, and to credit or cause to be credited to the account of the Person specified in such instructions (who shall be a Depository
Participant acting for or on behalf of Euroclear or Clearstream, or both, as the case may be) a beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note having a Note balance equal to the amount by which the denomination of the Rule 144A Global Note was
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 (ii) Rule 144A Global Note to Regulation S Global Note After the
Distribution Compliance Period. If, after the Distribution Compliance Period, a Beneficial Owner of an interest in a Rule 144A Global Note wishes at any time to transfer its beneficial interest in such Rule 144A Global Note to a Person who
wishes to take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in a Regulation S Global Note, such Holder may, in addition to complying with all Applicable Procedures, transfer or cause the transfer of such beneficial interest for an
equivalent beneficial interest in a Regulation S Global Note only upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 4.02(l)(ii). Upon receipt by the Note Registrar at its Corporate Trust Office of (1) written
instructions given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures from a Depository Participant directing the Note Registrar to credit or cause to be credited to another specified Depository Participant’s account a beneficial interest in the
Regulation S Global Note in an amount equal to the Note balance of the beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note to be transferred, (2) a written order given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures containing information regarding
the account of the DTC Participant (and, in the case of a transfer pursuant to and in accordance with Regulation S, the Euroclear or Clearstream account, as the case may be) to be credited with, and the account of the DTC Participant to be debited
for, such beneficial interest, and (3) a certificate in the form of Exhibit F hereto given by the Beneficial Owner that is transferring such interest, the Note Registrar shall instruct DTC to reduce the denomination of the Rule 144A
Global Note by the Note balance of the beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note to be so transferred and, concurrently with such reduction, to increase the denomination of the Regulation S Global Note by the Note balance of the beneficial
interest in the Rule 144A Global Note to be so transferred, and to credit or cause to be credited to the account of the Person specified in such instructions (who shall be a Depository Participant acting for or on behalf of Euroclear or Clearstream,
or both, as the case may be) a beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note having a Note balance equal to the amount by which the denomination of the Rule 144A Global Note was reduced upon such transfer. 

(iii) Regulation S Global Note to Rule 144A Global Note. If the Beneficial Owner of an interest in a Regulation S Global
Note wishes at any time to transfer its beneficial interest in such Regulation S Global Note to a Person who wishes to take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, such Holder may, in addition to complying
with all Applicable Procedures, transfer or cause the transfer of such beneficial interest for an equivalent beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note only upon compliance with the provisions of this
Section 4.02(l)(iii). Upon receipt by the Note Registrar at its Corporate Trust Office of (1) written instructions given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures from a Depository Participant directing the Note
Registrar to credit or cause to be credited to another specified Depository Participant’s account a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note in an amount equal to the Note balance of the beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global
Note to be transferred, (2) a written order given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures containing information regarding the account of the DTC Participant to be credited with, and the account of the DTC Participant (or, if such account
is held for Euroclear or Clearstream, the Euroclear or Clearstream account, as the case may be) to be debited for such beneficial interest, and (3) with respect to a transfer of a beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note for a
beneficial interest in the related Rule 144A Global Note (i) during the Distribution Compliance Period, a certificate in the form of Exhibit G hereto given by the Beneficial Owner, or (ii) after the Distribution Compliance Period, a
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such transferee is a Qualified Institutional Buyer and a Qualified Purchaser, the Note Registrar shall instruct DTC to reduce the denomination of the Regulation S Global Note by the Note balance
of the beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note to be transferred and, concurrently with such reduction, to increase the denomination of the Rule 144A Global Note by the Note balance of the beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global
Note to be so transferred, and to credit or cause to be credited to the account of the Person specified in such instructions (who shall be a Depository Participant acting for or on behalf of Euroclear or Clearstream, or both, as the case may be) a
beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note having a Note balance equal to the amount by which the denomination of the Regulation S Global Note was reduced upon such transfer. 

(iv) Transfers Within Regulation S Global Notes During Distribution Compliance Period. If, during the Distribution
Compliance Period, the Beneficial Owner of an interest in a Regulation S Global Note wishes at any time to transfer its beneficial interest in such Regulation S Global Note to a Person who wishes to take delivery thereof in the form of a Regulation
S Global Note, such Beneficial Owner may transfer or cause the transfer of such beneficial interest for an equivalent beneficial interest in such Regulation S Global Note only upon compliance with the provisions of this
Section 4.02(l)(iv) and all Applicable Procedures. Upon receipt by the Note Registrar at its Corporate Trust Office of (1) written instructions given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures from a Depository
Participant directing the Note Registrar to credit or cause to be credited to another specified Depository Participant’s account a beneficial interest in such Regulation S Global Note in an amount equal to the Note balance of the beneficial
interest to be transferred, (2) a written order given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures containing information regarding the account of the DTC Participant to be credited with (or, if such account is held for Euroclear or
Clearstream, the Euroclear or Clearstream account, as the case may be), and the account of the DTC Participant (or, if such account is held for Euroclear or Clearstream, the Euroclear or Clearstream account, as the case may be) to be debited for,
such beneficial interest and (3) a certificate in the form of Exhibit H hereto given by the transferor, the Note Registrar shall instruct DTC to credit or cause to be credited to the account of the Person specified in such instructions
(who shall be a Depository Participant acting for or on behalf of Euroclear or Clearstream, or both, as the case may be) a beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note having a Note balance equal to the amount specified in such instructions
by which the account to be debited was reduced upon such transfer. The Note Registrar shall not be required to monitor compliance by Beneficial Owners with the provisions of this Section 4.02(l)(iv). 

(m) Transfers of Interests in Global Notes to Physical Notes. Any and all transfers from a Global Note to a transferee wishing to take
delivery in the form of a Physical Note will require the transferee to take delivery subject to the restrictions on the transfer of such Physical Note described on the face of such Note, and such transferee agrees that it will transfer such Physical
Note only as provided therein and herein. No such transfer shall be made and the Note Registrar shall not register any such transfer unless such transfer is made in accordance with this Section 4.02(m) or is made to an
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 (i) Transfers of a beneficial interest in a Global Note to a Person who is
both an Institutional Accredited Investor and a Qualified Purchaser will require delivery of such Note to the transferee in the form of a Physical Note and the Note Registrar shall register such transfer only if prior to the transfer such transferee
furnishes to the Note Registrar (1) a Transferee Letter to the effect that the transfer is being made to an Institutional Accredited Investor and a Qualified Purchaser in accordance with an applicable exemption under the Securities Act, and
(2) an Opinion of Counsel acceptable to the Trustee that such transfer is in compliance with the Securities Act. 
 (ii)
Upon acceptance for exchange or transfer of a beneficial interest in a Global Note for a Physical Note, as provided herein, the Note Registrar shall endorse on the schedule affixed to the related Global Note Registrar (or on a continuation of such
schedule affixed to such Global Note Registrar and made a part thereof) an appropriate notation evidencing the date of such exchange or transfer and a decrease in the denomination of such Global Note equal to the Note balance of such Physical Note
issued in exchange therefor or upon transfer thereof. Unless determined otherwise by the Servicer and the Issuer in accordance with applicable law, a Physical Note issued upon transfer of or exchange for a beneficial interest in the Global Note
shall bear the Securities Legend. 
 (n) Transfers of Physical Notes to the Global Notes. If a Holder of a Physical Note wishes at
any time to transfer such Note to a Person who wishes to take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in the related Regulation S Global Note or the related Rule 144A Global Note, such transfer may be effected only in accordance with
the Applicable Procedures and this Section 4.02(n). Upon receipt by the Note Registrar at the Corporate Trust Office of (1) the Physical Note to be transferred with an instrument of assignment and transfer,
(2) written instructions given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures from the Holder of such Physical Note directing the Note Registrar to credit or cause to be credited to the applicable Participant’s account a beneficial interest
in such Regulation S Global Note or such Rule 144A Global Note, as the case may be, in an amount equal to the Note balance of the Physical Note to be so transferred, (3) a written order given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures
containing information regarding the account of the DTC Participant (and, in the case of any transfer pursuant to Regulation S, the Euroclear or Clearstream account, as the case may be) to be credited with such beneficial interest, and (4) (x) a
certificate in the form of Exhibit F or Exhibit H, as applicable, hereto, given by the Holder of such Physical Note, if delivery is to be taken in the form of a beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note or (y) a Rule
144A Certification from the transferee to the effect that such transferee is a Qualified Institutional Buyer who is a Qualified Purchaser, if delivery is to be taken in the form of a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, the Note
Registrar shall cancel such Physical Note, execute and deliver a new Physical Note for that portion, if any, of the Note balance of the Physical Note not so transferred, registered in the name of the Holder, and the Note Registrar shall instruct DTC
to increase the denomination of the Regulation S Global Note or the Rule 144A Global Note, as the case may be, by the Note balance of the Physical Note to be so transferred, and to credit or cause to be credited to the account of the Person
specified in such instructions (who, in the case of any increase in the Regulation S Global Note during the Distribution Compliance Period, shall be a Depository Participant acting for or on behalf of Euroclear or Clearstream, or both, as the case
may be) a corresponding Note balance of the Rule 144A Global Note or the Regulation S Global Note, as the case may be. 

  
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 Under no circumstances may an Institutional Accredited Investor that is not a Qualified
Institutional Buyer take delivery in the form of a beneficial interest in a Global Note. 
 (o) An exchange of a beneficial interest in a
Global Note for a Physical Note or Notes, an exchange of a Physical Note or Notes for a beneficial interest in a Global Note and an exchange of a Physical Note or Notes for another Physical Note or Notes (in each case, whether or not such exchange
is made in anticipation of subsequent transfer, and in the case of the Global Notes, so long as the Global Notes remain outstanding and are held by or on behalf of DTC), may be made only in accordance with this Section 4.02
and in accordance with the rules of DTC and Applicable Procedures (to the extent applicable). 
 (p) (i) Upon acceptance for exchange or
transfer of a Physical Note for a beneficial interest in a Global Note as provided herein, the Note Registrar shall cancel such Physical Note and shall (or shall request DTC to) endorse on the schedule affixed to such Global Note (or on a
continuation of such schedule affixed to such Global Note and made a part thereof) an appropriate notation evidencing the date of such exchange or transfer and an increase in the denomination of such Global Note equal to the Note balance of such
Physical Note exchanged or transferred therefor. 
 (ii) Upon acceptance for exchange or transfer of a beneficial interest in
a Global Note for a Physical Note as provided herein, the Note Registrar shall (or shall request DTC to) endorse on the schedule affixed to such Global Note (or on a continuation of such schedule affixed to such Global Note and made a part thereof)
an appropriate notation evidencing the date of such exchange or transfer and a decrease in the denomination of such Global Note equal to the Note balance of such Physical Note issued in exchange therefor or upon transfer thereof. 

(q) Unless determined otherwise by the Servicer and the Issuer in accordance with applicable law, the Securities Legend shall be placed on any
Physical Note issued in exchange for or upon transfer of another Physical Note or of a beneficial interest in a Global Note. 
 (r) Subject
to the restrictions on transfer and exchange set forth in this Section 4.02, the Holder of any Physical Note may transfer or exchange the same in whole or in part (in a Note balance amount or amounts not less than the
applicable Minimum Denomination) by surrendering such Note at the Corporate Trust Office, or at the office of any transfer agent, together with an executed instrument of assignment and transfer reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the
Note Registrar in the case of transfer and a written request for exchange in the case of exchange. The Holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Note may, subject to the rules and procedures of DTC, cause DTC (or its nominee) to notify the Note
Registrar in writing of a request for transfer or exchange of such beneficial interest for a Physical Note or Notes. Following a proper request for transfer or exchange, the Note Registrar shall, within five Business Days of such request made at
such Corporate Trust Office, cause the Trustee to authenticate and the Note Registrar to deliver at such Corporate Trust Office, to the transferee (in the case of transfer) or Holder (in the case of exchange) or send by first-class mail or by
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case of exchange) to such address as the transferee or Holder, as applicable, may request, a Physical Note or Notes, as the case may require, for a like aggregate Percentage Interest and in such
Note balance amount or amounts and authorized denomination or denominations as may be requested. The presentation for transfer or exchange of any Physical Note shall not be valid unless made at the Corporate Trust Office by the registered Holder in
person, or by a duly authorized attorney-in-fact. 
 (s) (i)
No transfer of any Note shall be made unless such transfer is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is made in accordance with the Securities Act and such laws. No transfer of any
Note shall be made if such transfer would require the Issuer to register as an “investment company” under the 1940 Act. In the event of any such transfer, unless such transfer is made in reliance upon Rule 144A under the Securities Act or
Regulation S under the Securities Act or is a transfer of a Physical Note to an Affiliate of the Seller, (i) the Trustee may require a written Opinion of Counsel acceptable to and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee
that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption, describing the applicable exemption and the basis therefor, from said Act and laws or is being made pursuant to said Act and laws, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense of the
Trustee, the Issuer, or the Servicer and (ii) the Trustee shall require the transferee to execute a Transferee Letter certifying to the Issuer and the Trustee the facts surrounding such transfer, which Transferee Letter or certification shall
not be an expense of the Trustee, the Issuer or the Servicer. The Holder of a Note desiring to effect such transfer shall, and by accepting a Note and the benefits of this Indenture does hereby agree to, indemnify the Trustee, the Issuer, the
Servicer and the Initial Purchaser against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with such federal and state laws. None of the Issuer, the Trustee, the Servicer, the Trust Depositor or the
Initial Purchaser is obligated to register or qualify any Note under the Securities Act or any state or international securities laws. 

(ii) If, at any time, any Holder of any Note is not both a Qualified Purchaser and either (1) a Qualified Institutional Buyer,
(2) an Institutional Accredited Investor or (3) a non-U.S. Person that acquired such Note outside of the United States in compliance with Regulation S (any such person, a “Non-Permitted Holder”), the Issuer shall, promptly after obtaining actual knowledge that such person is a Non-Permitted Holder, send notice to such Non-Permitted Holder demanding that such Non-Permitted Holder transfer its interest to a Person that is not a Non-Permitted Holder
within thirty (30) days of the date of such notice. If such Non-Permitted Holder fails to transfer such Notes, the Issuer shall have the right, without further notice to the
Non-Permitted Holder, to sell such Notes or interests in such Notes to a purchaser selected by the Issuer that is not a Non-Permitted Holder on such terms and by such
means as the Issuer may choose in its sole discretion. The Holder of each Note, the Non-Permitted Holder and each other Person in the chain of title from the Holder to the
Non-Permitted Holder, by its acceptance of an interest in the Notes, agrees to cooperate with the Issuer and the Trustee to effect such transfers. The proceeds of such sale, net of any commissions, expenses
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 (t) No Note, or any interest therein, may be acquired directly or indirectly by, for, on
behalf of or with any assets of an employee benefit plan as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA that is subject to Part 4, Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA, any plan, account or arrangement described in and subject to Section 4975 of the Code,
or an entity whose underlying assets include “plan assets” (as defined in 29 CFR Section 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA) of any plan, account or arrangement covered by
ERISA or the Code (collectively, a “Plan”) or governmental, non-U.S. or church plan or arrangement subject to any federal, state, local or non-U.S. law
or regulation substantively similar or of similar effect to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) unless it represents or is deemed to represent that its acquisition, holding and disposition of
the Note will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code by reason of any of Section 408(b)(17) of ERISA or
Section 4975(d)(20) of the Code, Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption (“PTCE”) 96-23, PTCE 95-60, PTCE
91-38, PTCE 90-1, PTCE 84-14, each as amended, or otherwise or, in the case of a governmental,
non-U.S. or church plan or arrangement subject to Similar Law, will not constitute or result in a non-exempt violation of Similar Law. In the case of a Physical Note,
such representation shall be made in a certification from the transferee to the Trustee; in the case of a Note other than a Physical Note, the transferee shall be deemed to have made such representation. 

(u) The Trustee, Note Registrar and Certificate Registrar shall not be responsible for ascertaining whether any transfer complies with, or
otherwise monitoring or determining compliance with, the requirements or terms of the Securities Act, applicable state or international securities laws, ERISA, the Code or the 1940 Act; except that if a transfer certificate or opinion is
specifically required by the terms of this Section (or, with respect to the Certificates, by the terms of the Trust Agreement, as applicable) to be provided to the Trustee, Note Registrar or Certificate Registrar by a prospective transferee or
transferor, the Trustee, Note Registrar or Certificate Registrar, as applicable, shall be under a duty to receive and examine the same to determine whether it conforms substantially on its face to the applicable requirements of this Section (or the
Trust Agreement, as applicable). 
 (v) Any Note may be cancelled by the Note Registrar without any notice to or approval of any Noteholder
in accordance with Section 4.03 or once such Note has been properly surrendered for (i) final payment, (ii) transfer and exchange or (iii) redemption. Any Note acquired by the Issuer or otherwise surrendered
for cancellation or marked as abandoned by Holder thereof will be cancelled by the Note Registrar only upon receipt of written consent thereto from both the Servicer and the Super-Majority Noteholders. 

(w) Each Noteholder and each beneficial owner of a Note shall be deemed to acknowledge that (i) none of the Issuer, the Servicer, the
Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the Custodian, or any of their respective affiliates is acting as a fiduciary or financial or investment adviser for such beneficial owner; and (ii) such beneficial owner has consulted with its own legal, regulatory,
tax, business, investment, financial and accounting advisors to the extent it has deemed necessary and has made its own investment decisions (including decisions regarding the suitability of any transaction pursuant to the Indenture) based upon its
own judgment and upon any advice from such advisors as it has deemed necessary and not upon any view expressed by the Issuer, the Servicer, the Backup Servicer, the Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the Custodian or any of their respective affiliates.

 (x) Each Noteholder and each beneficial owner of a Note shall be deemed to acknowledge that (i) such beneficial owner was not formed
for the purpose of investing in the Global Notes; and (ii) such beneficial owner understands that the Issuer may receive a list of participants holding interests in the Global Notes from one or more book-entry depositories. 

  
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 Section 4.03 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes. 

If (i) any mutilated Note is surrendered to the Trustee, or the Trustee receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or
theft of any Note, and (ii) there is delivered to the Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by it to hold the Issuer and the Trustee harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Issuer, the Note Registrar or the Trustee that
such Note has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Issuer shall execute, and upon its request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a replacement Note;
provided that if any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note, but not a mutilated Note, shall have become or within seven days shall be due and payable, or shall have been called for redemption, instead of issuing a replacement Note, the Issuer
may pay such destroyed, lost or stolen Note when so due without surrender thereof. If, after the delivery of such replacement Note or payment of a destroyed, lost or stolen Note pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, a protected
purchaser of the original Note in lieu of which such replacement Note was issued presents for payment such original Note, the Issuer and the Trustee shall be entitled to recover such replacement Note (or such payment) from the Person to whom it was
delivered or any Person taking such replacement Note from such Person to whom such replacement Note was delivered or any assignee of such Person, except a protected purchaser, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided
therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Issuer or the Trustee in connection therewith. 
 Upon the
issuance of any replacement Note under this Section 4.03, the Issuer may require the payment by the Holder of such Note of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation
thereto and any other reasonable expenses (including the fees and reasonable expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith. 
 Every
replacement Note issued pursuant to this Section 4.03 in replacement of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Issuer, whether or not the
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder. 

The provisions of this Section 4.03 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and
remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes. 
 Section 4.04 Payment of
Principal and Interest; Defaulted Interest. 
 (a) The Notes shall accrue interest during each Interest Period on the basis of a 360
day year consisting of twelve 30-day months (or in the case of the first Payment Date, an accrual period of thirty (30) days). Any installment of interest or principal, if any, payable on any Note which
is punctually paid or duly provided for by the Issuer on the applicable Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Note is registered on the Record Date, by check mailed first-class, postage prepaid, to such Person’s address as
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such Record Date, except that (i) with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of the nominee of DTC (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), such payment will
be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by such Person and except for the final installment of principal payable with respect to such Note on a Payment Date or on the Legal Final Payment Date and
(ii) the Redemption Price for any Note called for redemption pursuant to Article X hereof shall be payable as provided in Section 4.04(b) or Article X hereof, as applicable. The funds represented by any
such checks returned undelivered shall be held in accordance with Section 3.03. 
 (b) The principal of each Note
shall be payable on each Payment Date to the extent of funds available therefor in accordance with the Priority of Payments as provided in the Sale and Servicing Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal amount of the
Notes shall be due and payable, if not previously paid, on the date on which an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, if the Trustee with the consent or at the direction of the Majority Noteholders has declared the Notes to be
immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.02. All principal payments among the Notes shall be made in the order and priorities set forth herein and in the Sale and Servicing Agreement and all principal
payments on the Notes shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders. The Trustee shall notify the Person in whose name a Note is registered at the close of business on the Record Date preceding the Payment Date on which the Issuer expects
that the final installment of principal of and interest on such Note will be paid; provided that the Issuer or Servicer shall have provided the Trustee with timely notice of such expectation. Such notice shall be mailed or transmitted by
facsimile or other electronic mail prior to such final Payment Date and shall specify that such final installment will be payable only upon presentation and surrender of such Note and shall specify the place where such Note may be presented and
surrendered for payment of such installment. Notices in connection with a redemption shall be given to Noteholders as provided in Article X. 

Section 4.05 Tax Treatment. 

(a) The Issuer has entered into this Indenture, and the Notes will be issued, with the intention that, for federal, state and local income and
franchise tax purposes, (i) the Notes will be treated as indebtedness secured by the Indenture Collateral and (ii) the Issuer shall not be treated as an association, taxable mortgage pool or publicly traded partnership taxable as a
corporation. The Issuer, by entering into this Indenture, and each Noteholder, by the acceptance of any such Note (and each beneficial owner of a Note, by its acceptance of an interest in the applicable Note), agree to treat such Notes for federal,
state and local income and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness. Each Holder of any such Note agrees that it will cause any beneficial owner of such Note acquiring an interest in a Note through it to comply with this Indenture as to treatment of
indebtedness under applicable tax law, as described in this Section 4.05. The parties hereto agree that they shall not cause or permit the making, as applicable, of any election under Treasury Regulation Section 301.7701-3 whereby the Issuer or any portion thereof would be treated as a corporation for federal income tax purposes and, except as required by the terms of this Indenture or applicable law, shall not
file tax returns for the Issuer, but shall treat the Issuer as a disregarded entity for federal income tax purposes (unless, pursuant to Section 4.05(b)(ii), the Issuer is treated as a partnership). The provisions of this
Indenture shall be construed in furtherance of the foregoing intended tax treatment. 

  
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 (b) It is the intent of the Trust Depositor, the Servicer and the Certificateholder that,
for federal income tax purposes, (i) in the event that the Trust Certificate is owned by a single beneficial owner, for federal income tax purposes, the Issuer will be disregarded as an entity separate from such beneficial owner, and the
Certificateholder (and the beneficial owner of the Trust Certificate), by acceptance of the Trust Certificate (or a beneficial interest therein), agrees to take no action inconsistent with such treatment and (ii) in the event that the Trust
Certificate is owned by more than one beneficial owner for federal income tax purposes, the Issuer will be treated as a partnership, the partners of which are the beneficial owners of the Trust Certificate, and each Certificateholder (and beneficial
owner of the Trust Certificate), by acceptance of a Trust Certificate (or beneficial interest therein), agrees to treat the Trust Certificate as equity and to take no action inconsistent with such treatment. 

(c) All payments made by the Issuer under the Notes will be made without any deduction or withholding for or on account of any tax unless such
deduction or withholding is required by applicable law, as modified by the practice of any relevant governmental revenue authority, then in effect. If the Issuer is so required to deduct or withhold it will provide notice to the Trustee of such
requirement promptly after a Responsible Officer becomes aware thereof and the Issuer will not be obligated to pay to the holder of any such Note any additional amounts in respect of such withholding or deduction. 

(d) Each Holder and each beneficial owner of a Note, by acceptance of such Note or its interest in such Note, shall be deemed to understand
and acknowledge that failure to provide the Issuer, the Trustee or any other party acting as Paying Agent with the applicable U.S. federal income tax certifications (generally, an Internal Revenue Service Form
W-9 (or successor applicable form) in the case of a person that is a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code or an appropriate Internal Revenue Service Form W-8 (or successor applicable form) in the case of a person that is not a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) or any other form prescribed by Applicable Law as
a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. withholding tax (including, but not limited to, any withholding tax imposed under FATCA), duly completed together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by Applicable Law
to permit the Issuer to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made, may result in amounts being withheld from payments in respect of such Note. 

Section 4.06 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. 

(a) The following shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture: (i) rights of registration of transfer and exchange,
(ii) substitution of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes pursuant to Section 4.03, (iii) rights of Noteholders to receive payments of principal thereof and interest thereon, (iv) Sections 3.03,
3.04, 3.06, 3.10, 3.19, 3.21, 3.22, 4.05, 6.07, 11.15 and the second sentence of 11.16, (v) the rights, obligations and immunities of the Trustee hereunder (including the rights
of the Trustee under Section 6.07 and the obligations of the Trustee under Section 4.07) and (vi) the rights of Noteholders as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property so deposited
with the Trustee payable to all or any of them. This Indenture shall cease to be of further effect with respect to the Notes (and the Trustee, on written demand of and at the expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes) when: 

  
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 (A) either 

(1) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i) Notes that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been
replaced or paid as provided in Section 4.03 and (ii) Notes for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Issuer and thereafter repaid to the Issuer or
discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 3.03) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation (two Business Days prior to the final Payment Date) pursuant to Section 4.02(v); or 

(2) all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation: 

(i) have become due and payable; or 

(ii) mature within one year or are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee
for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Issuer; 
 and the Issuer, in the case of
(2)(i) or (ii) above, has irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Trustee cash or direct obligations of or obligations guaranteed by the United States of America (which will mature prior to the date such amounts are
payable), in trust for such purpose, in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation when due to the Stated Maturity therefor, Redemption Date (if Notes
shall have been called for redemption pursuant to Article X), as the case may be and, unless each Holder of each Note has consented to such deposit and satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the Issuer has delivered to the Trustee an
opinion of U.S. tax counsel of nationally recognized standing in the United States experienced in such matters to the effect that the Holders of the Notes would recognized no gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes solely as a result of
such deposit and satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture; and 
 (B) the Issuer has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, which may be internal counsel to the Issuer or the Servicer and if requested by the Trustee, a certificate from a firm of acceptable public accountants, meeting the applicable requirements of
Section 11.02 and, subject to Section 11.02, stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes have
been complied with; 
 (C) [reserved]; and 

(D) the Issuer has made payment of all other sums due under this Indenture, the Trust Agreement and the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 

(b) By acceptance of any Note, the Holder thereof agrees to surrender such Note to the Trustee promptly upon such Noteholder’s receipt of
the final payment thereon or as otherwise provided in the Transaction Documents. 

  
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 Section 4.07 Application of Trust Money. 

All moneys deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.06 hereof shall be held in trust and applied by it, in
accordance with the provisions of the Notes and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent, as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of Notes for the payment or redemption for which such moneys have been
deposited with the Trustee, of all sums due and to become due thereon for principal and interest; but such moneys need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required herein or in the Sale and Servicing Agreement or required by law.

 Section 4.08 Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent. 

In connection with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes, all moneys then held by any Paying Agent other
than the Trustee under the provisions of this Indenture with respect to such Notes shall, upon demand of the Issuer, be paid to the Trustee to be held and applied according to Section 3.05 and thereupon such Paying Agent
shall be released from all further liability with respect to such moneys. 
 ARTICLE V 

REMEDIES 

Section 5.01 Events of Default. 

Any one of the following events (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) shall constitute an “Event of Default”: 

(i) failure to pay all accrued interest on the Notes on any Payment Date and such failure continues unremedied for two
(2) Business Days; 
 (ii) failure to pay the Outstanding Principal Balance of the Notes by the Legal Final Payment
Date; 
 (iii) a default in the observance or performance of any covenant or agreement of the Seller, the Trust Depositor or
the Issuer made in this Indenture or any other Transaction Document, and such default has a material adverse effect on the Noteholders, which default continues unremedied for a period of 30 days after the first to occur of (i) actual knowledge
thereof by a Responsible Officer of the Seller, the Trust Depositor or the Issuer, as applicable, or (ii) there shall have been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Issuer by the Trustee (upon receipt of actual knowledge by a
Responsible Officer thereof), a written notice specifying such default and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a notice of default hereunder; 

(iv) any representation, warranty, certification or written statement of the Seller, the Trust Depositor or the Issuer in this
Indenture or any other Transaction Document or in any certificate delivered under this Indenture shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when made, and such incorrect representation or

  
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warranty has a material adverse effect on the Noteholders, and which default continues unremedied for a period of 30 days after the first to occur of (i) actual knowledge thereof by a
Responsible Officer of the Seller, the Trust Depositor or the Issuer, as applicable, or (ii) the delivery to the Issuer by the Trustee, by registered or certified mail, of written notice specifying such incorrect representation or warranty and
requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a notice of default hereunder; 
 (v) there occurs the filing of
a decree or order for relief by a court having jurisdiction in the premises in respect of the Trust Depositor, the Issuer or any substantial part of the Indenture Collateral in an involuntary case under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Trust Depositor, the Issuer or for any substantial part of the Indenture
Collateral, or ordering the winding-up or liquidation of the Trust Depositor’s or the Issuer’s affairs, and such decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 30 consecutive
days; 
 (vi) there occurs the commencement by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of a voluntary case under any applicable
federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or the consent by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case under any such law, or the consent by the Trust
Depositor or the Issuer to the appointment or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Trust Depositor or the Issuer or for any substantial part of the Indenture Collateral,
or the making by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer of any general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the failure by the Trust Depositor or the Issuer generally to pay its debts as such debts become due, or the taking of any action by the
Trust Depositor or the Issuer in furtherance of any of the foregoing; 
 (vii) the Trustee, on behalf of the Noteholders,
shall fail to have a valid and perfected first priority security interest in the Indenture Collateral except as otherwise expressly permitted to be released in accordance with the applicable Transaction Document, and such failure to have a perfected
first priority security interest shall have a material adverse effect on the Noteholders; 
 (viii) one or more final, non-appealable judgment(s) against the Issuer in excess of $1,000,000 individually or in the aggregate and the continuance of such judgment(s) unsatisfied and in effect for any period of more than 60 consecutive
days without a stay of execution; 
 (ix) the Issuer becomes subject to registration as an “investment company”
under the 1940 Act for any period of more than 45 consecutive days; 
 (x) any of this Indenture, the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, the Sale and Contribution Agreement or the Note Purchase Agreement is terminated (other than in accordance with its terms) or fails to be in full force and effect which has a material adverse effect on the Issuer or its ability to make
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 (xi) the Seller or the Trust Depositor shall fail to cure, repurchase or
replace a Defective Loan in accordance with the Transaction Documents and such failure shall continue unremedied for 30 days after the earliest to occur of (i) written notice of such failure is given to the Issuer by the Trustee (upon receipt
by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee of actual knowledge or written notice of such failure) or (ii) knowledge of a Responsible Officer of the Trust Depositor or Seller of such failure. 

The Issuer shall deliver to the Trustee, the Backup Servicer and the Rating Agency, within two (2) Business Days after the occurrence of
an Event of Default, written notice in the form of an Officer’s Certificate, including a description of its nature and period of existence and what action the Issuer is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto. 

Section 5.02 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. 

If an Event of Default should occur and be continuing, (other than an Event of Default specified in Sections 5.01(v) or (vi)),
then and in every such case the Trustee may, and shall at the direction of the Super-Majority Noteholders, declare the Notes to be immediately due and payable by a notice in writing to the Issuer (who shall promptly forward the same to the Rating
Agency) and the Owner Trustee (and to the Trustee if given by Noteholders), and upon any such declaration the unpaid principal amount of the Notes, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon, through the date of acceleration, shall become
immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Sections 5.01(v) or (vi) occurs, the unpaid principal amount of the Notes, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon, through the date of acceleration, shall
automatically, and without any notice to the Issuer, become immediately due and payable. 
 At any time after such declaration or automatic
occurrence of acceleration of maturity and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article V provided, the Super-Majority Noteholders, by written notice to the Issuer
and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if: 
 (A) the Issuer has paid or deposited with
the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay: 
 (i) all payments of principal of and interest on the Notes, and all other amounts
that would then be due hereunder, upon the Notes if the Event of Default giving rise to such acceleration had not occurred; and 

(ii) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances
of the Trustee and its agents and counsel; and 
 (B) all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the principal of
the Notes that has become due solely by such acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.12. 

No such rescission or annulment shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereto. 

  
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 If the Notes are accelerated following an Event of Default, then on each Payment Date on or
after such Event of Default, payments will be made by the Trustee from all funds available to it in the same order of priority as that provided for in Section 7.06(c) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 

Section 5.03 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee. 

(a) The Issuer covenants that if (i) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Note, or (ii) default is made in the
payment of the principal of or any installment of the principal of any Note, when the same becomes due and payable, and in each case such default continues for a period of two (2) Business Days, the Issuer will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay
to it, for the benefit of the Noteholders, the whole amount then due and payable on the Notes for principal and interest, with interest upon the overdue principal, and in addition thereto such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs
and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee and its agents and counsel. 

(b) In case the Issuer shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express
trust, with the consent of the Majority Noteholders and subject to the provisions of Section 11.15 hereof may institute a Proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute such Proceeding to
judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same against the Issuer or other obligor upon the Notes and collect in the manner provided by law out of the Indenture Collateral, wherever situated, the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable. 

(c) If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, and the Notes have been declared due and payable and such declaration and its
consequences have not been rescinded and annulled, the Trustee subject to the provisions of Section 5.04 and Section 11.15 hereof may, as more particularly provided in
Section 5.04, in its discretion, proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Noteholders by such appropriate Proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effective to protect and enforce any such rights,
whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy or legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or
by law. 
 (d) In case there shall be pending, relative to the Issuer or any Person having or claiming an ownership interest in the
Indenture Collateral, Proceedings under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator,
sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Issuer or its property or such other Person, or in case of any other comparable judicial Proceedings relative to the Issuer, or to the creditors or property of
the Issuer, the Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of any Notes shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to the
provisions of this Section 5.03, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such Proceedings or otherwise: 

 (i) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal
and interest, as applicable, owing and unpaid in respect of the Notes and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for reasonable compensation to the
Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of all reasonable expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, except as a
result of negligence or bad faith) and of the Noteholders allowed in such Proceedings; 
 (ii) unless prohibited by
applicable law and regulations, to vote on behalf of the Holders of Notes in any election of a trustee, a standby trustee or Person performing similar functions in any such Proceedings; 

(iii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute all
amounts received with respect to the claims of the Noteholders and of the Trustee on their behalf; 
 (iv) to file such
proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee or the Noteholders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Issuer, its creditors and its property; and 

(v) to participate as a member, voting or otherwise, of any official committee of creditors appointed in such matter; 

and any trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official in any such Proceeding is hereby authorized by each of such Noteholders to make
payments to the Trustee, and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of payments directly to such Noteholders, to pay to the Trustee such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Trustee, each
predecessor Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other reasonable expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee except as a result of negligence or bad faith.

 (e) Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf
of any Noteholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Noteholder in any such proceeding except,
as aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar Person. 
 (f) All rights of action and of asserting claims
under this Indenture, or under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes or the production thereof in any trial or other Proceedings relative thereto, and any such action or proceedings instituted by
the 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 Trustee, each predecessor Trustee and their respective agents
and attorneys, shall be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes. 

  
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 (g) In any Proceedings brought by the Trustee (and also any Proceedings involving the
interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the Trustee shall be a party), the Trustee shall be held to represent all the Holders of the Notes, and it shall not be necessary to make any Noteholder a party to any such Proceedings. 

Section 5.04 Remedies; Priorities. 

(a) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, and the Notes have been declared due and payable and such declaration and its
consequences have not been rescinded and annulled, subject to the provisions of Section 11.15 hereof, the Trustee may do one or more of the following (subject to the provisions of this Section 5.04
and Section 5.15): 
 (i) institute Proceedings in its own name and as trustee of an express trust
for the collection of all amounts then payable on the Notes or under this Indenture with respect thereto, whether by declaration or otherwise, enforce any judgment obtained, and collect from the Issuer and any other obligor upon such Notes moneys
adjudged due; 
 (ii) institute Proceedings from time to time for the complete or partial foreclosure of this Indenture with
respect to the Indenture Collateral; 
 (iii) exercise any remedies of a secured party under the UCC and take any other
appropriate action to protect and enforce the rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes; and 
 (iv)
sell the Indenture Collateral or any portion thereof or rights or interest therein at one or more public or private sales called and conducted in any matter permitted by law; 

provided, however, that the Trustee may not sell or otherwise liquidate the Indenture Collateral following and during the continuance of an
Event of Default unless (A) the Notes have been declared or otherwise become immediately due and payable in accordance with Section 5.02 and such declaration or acceleration and its consequences have not been rescinded
and annulled and (B) either (1) the proceeds of such Sale or liquidation are sufficient to discharge in full all amounts then due and unpaid upon the Notes for principal and interest (including any interest payable pursuant to
Section 7.05(a)(6) or 7.05(c)(4)), (2) the Trustee determines that the Indenture Collateral would not be sufficient on an ongoing basis to make all payments on the Notes as those payments would have become due had
the Notes not been declared due and payable and the Super-Majority Noteholders (excluding Notes held by the Trust Depositor, the Seller, the Servicer or any of their respective affiliates) consent to such Sale or (3) 100% of the holders of the
outstanding Notes (excluding Notes held by the Trust Depositor, the Seller, the Servicer or any of their respective affiliates) consent to such Sale. In determining whether the proceeds of such Sale or liquidation distributable to the Noteholders
and the other parties entitled thereto are sufficient to discharge in full the amounts referenced in clause (B)(1) above, the Trustee may, but need not, obtain, at the Issuer’s expense, and rely upon an opinion of an independent
accountant or an investment banking firm of national reputation as to the feasibility of such proposed action and as to the sufficiency of the expected sales proceeds of the Indenture Collateral for such purpose. 

  
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 (b) If the Trustee collects any money pursuant to this Article V, it shall distribute
such money in accordance with Section 7.06(c) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. The Trustee may fix a record date and distribution date (which may be a date other than a Payment Date) for any payment to Noteholders
pursuant to this Section 5.04. At least five days before such record date, the Issuer shall mail to each Noteholder and the Trustee a notice that states the record date, the distribution date and the amount to be paid. 

Section 5.05 [Reserved]. 

Section 5.06 Limitation of Suits. 

No Holder of any Note shall have any right to institute any Proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the
appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless and subject to the provisions of Section 11.15 hereof: 

(i) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default; 

(ii) prior to the payment in full of Notes, the Noteholders evidencing not less than 25% of the Aggregate Outstanding Principal
Balance of the Notes have made written request to the Trustee to institute such Proceeding in respect of such Event of Default in its capacity as Trustee hereunder; 

(iii) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be
incurred in complying with such request; 
 (iv) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer
of indemnity has failed to institute such Proceedings; and 
 (v) prior to the payment in full of the Notes, no direction
inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 60 day period by the Holders of a majority of the Outstanding Principal Balance of the Notes. 

It is understood and intended that no one or more of the Holders of Notes shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any
provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders of Notes or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner
herein provided. 
 In the event the Trustee shall receive conflicting or inconsistent requests and indemnity from two or more groups of
Holders of Notes, each representing less than a majority of the Aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance of the Notes then entitled to make such request, the Trustee in its sole discretion may determine what action, if any, shall be taken,
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 Section 5.07 Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal and
Interest. 
 Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture, but subject to Section 11.15 hereof,
the Holder of any Note shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on such Note on or after the respective due dates thereof expressed in such Note or in this Indenture and
such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder. 
 Section 5.08 Restoration of Rights and Remedies.

 If the Trustee or any Noteholder has instituted any Proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such Proceeding
has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Noteholder, then and in every such case the Issuer, the Trustee and the Noteholders shall, subject to any determination in such Proceeding,
be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Noteholders shall continue as though no such Proceeding had been instituted. 

Section 5.09 Rights and Remedies Cumulative. 

No right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Noteholders 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 hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any
right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy. 

Section 5.10 Delay or Omission Not a Waiver. 

No delay or omission of the Trustee or any Holder of any Note in the exercise of any right or remedy accruing upon any Default or Event of
Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Default or Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article V or by law to the Trustee or to the Noteholders may be
exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Noteholders, as the case may be. 

Section 5.11 Control by Noteholders. 

The Majority Noteholders shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any Proceeding for any remedy available to the
Trustee with respect to the Notes or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee; provided that: 
 (i)
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 (ii) the Super-Majority Noteholders or 100% of the Noteholders (as
applicable) may provide any direction to the Trustee to sell or liquidate the Indenture Collateral pursuant to the express terms of Section 5.04; and 

(iii) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction. 

Notwithstanding the rights of Noteholders set forth in this Section 5.11, subject to
Section 6.01(g), the Trustee need not take any action that it determines might involve it in liability. 

Section 5.12 Waiver of Past Defaults. 

Prior to the declaration of the acceleration of the maturity of the Notes as provided in Section 5.02, the Majority
Noteholders may waive any past Event of Default and its consequences except an Event of Default with respect to payment of principal or interest, as applicable, on any of the Notes or in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which cannot be
modified or amended without the waiver or consent of each of the Holders of the Outstanding Notes affected thereby. In the case of any such waiver, the Issuer, the Trustee and the Noteholders shall be restored to their former positions and rights
hereunder, respectively; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereto. 

Upon any such waiver, any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, for every purpose of
this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereto. 

Section 5.13 Undertaking for Costs. 

All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Note by such Holder’s acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that
any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in
such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and
good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section 5.13 shall not apply to (i) any suit instituted by the Trustee, (ii) any suit instituted by any Noteholder, or
group of Noteholders, in each case holding in the aggregate more than 25% of the Aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance or (iii) any suit instituted by any Noteholder for the enforcement of the payment of principal or interest, as applicable,
on any Note on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Note and in this Indenture. 

  
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 Section 5.14 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. 

The Issuer covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead or in any manner whatsoever,
claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Issuer (to the extent that it may lawfully do
so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as
though no such law had been enacted. 
 Section 5.15 Sale of Indenture Collateral. 

(a) The power to effect any sale or other disposition (a “Sale”) of any portion of the Indenture Collateral pursuant to
Section 5.04 is expressly subject to the provisions of Section 5.11 and this Section 5.15. The power to effect any such Sale shall not be exhausted by any one or more
Sales as to any portion of the Indenture Collateral remaining unsold, but shall continue unimpaired until the entire Indenture Collateral shall have been sold or all amounts payable on the Notes and under this Indenture shall have been paid. The
Trustee hereby expressly waives its right to any amount fixed by law as compensation for any Sale. 
 (b) The Trustee shall not in any
private Sale sell the Indenture Collateral, or any portion thereof, unless the Majority Noteholders consent to or such Noteholders as required by Section 5.11 direct the Trustee to make such Sale and: 

(i) the proceeds of such Sale or liquidation are sufficient to discharge in full all amounts then due and unpaid upon the Notes
for principal and interest, as applicable, to pay all amounts then due and payable to the Trustee and to reimburse the Servicer for any outstanding unreimbursed Servicing Advances and Scheduled Payment Advances; or 

(ii) the Trustee determines, at the direction of Noteholders representing at least 25% of the Aggregate Outstanding Principal
Balance of the Notes, that the conditions for liquidation of the Indenture Collateral set forth in Section 5.04 are satisfied (in making any such determination, the Trustee may rely upon an opinion of an Independent
investment banking firm obtained and delivered as provided in Section 5.04). 
 (c) In connection with a Sale of
all or any portion of the Indenture Collateral: 
 (i) other than in the case of a Sale of any Loan as contemplated by the
Sale and Servicing Agreement, any Holder or Holders of Notes (other than the Trust Depositor) may bid for and purchase the property offered for Sale, and upon compliance with the terms of Sale may hold, retain and possess and dispose of such
property, without further accountability, and may, in paying the purchase money therefor, deliver any Notes or claims for interest thereon in lieu of cash up to the amount which shall, upon distribution of the net proceeds of such Sale, be payable
thereon, and such Notes, in case the amounts so payable thereon shall be less than the amount due thereon, shall be returned to the Holders thereof after being appropriately stamped to show such partial payment; 

  
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 (ii) other than in the case of a Sale of any Loan as contemplated by the
Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Trustee may bid for and acquire the property offered for Sale in connection with any Sale thereof, and, subject to any requirements of, and to the extent permitted by, Requirements of Law in connection therewith,
may purchase all or any portion of the Indenture Collateral in a private sale, and, in lieu of paying cash therefor, may make settlement for the purchase price by crediting the gross Sale price against the sum of (A) the amount which would be
distributable to the Holders of the Notes as a result of such Sale in accordance with Section 5.04(b) on the Payment Date next succeeding the date of such Sale and (B) the expenses of the Sale and of any Proceedings in
connection therewith which are reimbursable to it, without being required to produce the Notes in order to complete any such Sale or in order for the net Sale price to be credited against such Notes, and any property so acquired by the Trustee shall
be held and dealt with by it in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture; 
 (iii) the Trustee shall execute and
deliver an appropriate instrument of conveyance transferring its interest in any portion of the Indenture Collateral in connection with a Sale thereof; 

(iv) the Trustee is hereby irrevocably appointed the agent and
attorney-in-fact of the Issuer to transfer and convey its interest in any portion of the Indenture Collateral in connection with a Sale thereof, and to take all action
necessary to effect such Sale; 
 (v) the Trustee shall use commercially reasonable efforts to maximize the proceeds of any
such Sale of the Indenture Collateral; 
 (vi) no purchaser or transferee at such a Sale shall be bound to ascertain the
Trustee’s authority, inquire into the satisfaction of any conditions precedent or see to the application of any moneys; and 

(vii) all proceeds received by the Trustee in connection with the liquidation or sale of the Indenture Collateral shall be
deposited into the Collection Account no later than two (2) Business Days following receipt thereof. 
 Section 5.16 Action
on Notes. 
 The Trustee’s right to seek and recover judgment on the Notes or under this Indenture shall not be affected by the
seeking, obtaining or application of any other relief under or with respect to this Indenture. Neither the lien of this Indenture nor any rights or remedies of the Trustee or the Noteholders shall be impaired by the recovery of any judgment by the
Trustee against the Issuer or by the levy of any execution under such judgment upon any portion of the Indenture Collateral or upon any of the assets of the Issuer. Any money or property collected by the Trustee shall be applied in accordance with
Section 5.04(b). 
 Section 5.17 Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations. 

(a) Promptly following a request from the Trustee to do so, the Issuer shall take all such lawful action as the Trustee at the direction of the
Majority Noteholders may request to compel or secure the performance and observance by the Seller, the Trust Depositor and the Servicer, as applicable, of each of their obligations to the Issuer under or in connection with the Transaction Documents,
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extent and in the manner directed by the Trustee, including the transmission of notices of default to the Seller, the Trust Depositor or the Servicer thereunder and the institution of legal or
administrative actions or proceedings to compel or secure performance by the Seller, the Trust Depositor or the Servicer of each of their obligations under the Transaction Documents. 

(b) If a Servicer Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee, at the direction of the Majority Noteholders, shall exercise all
rights, remedies, powers, privileges and claims of the Issuer against the Servicer under or in connection with the Sale and Servicing Agreement, including the right or power to take any action to compel or secure performance or observance by the
Servicer, of its obligations to the Issuer thereunder and to give any consent, request, notice, direction, approval, extension or waiver under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and any right of the Issuer to take such action shall not be suspended.

 ARTICLE VI 
 THE
TRUSTEE 
 Section 6.01 Duties of Trustee. 

(a) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this 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 such person’s own affairs with respect to the Indenture Collateral. 

(b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default: 

(i) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no
implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and 
 (ii) in the absence of bad
faith on its part, the 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 Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this
Indenture; however, the Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture. 

(c) The Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful
misconduct, except that: 
 (i) this paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this
Section 6.01; 
 (ii) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith
by a Responsible Officer unless it is proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and 
 (iii)
the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section 5.11. 

  
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 (d) Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee is subject to
paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (g) and (i) of this Section 6.01. 
 (e) The Trustee
shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Trustee may agree in writing with the Issuer. 
 (f) Money held
in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law or the terms of this Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 

(g) The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture, to expend or risk its own
funds or otherwise incur financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or to honor the request or direction of any of the Noteholders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Noteholder or Noteholders shall have offered to the
Trustee security or indemnity reasonably acceptable to the Trustee against the costs, expenses, and liabilities (including the fees and expenses of its attorneys and agents) that might be incurred by it in compliance with the request or direction.
Anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, in no event shall the Trustee be liable for special, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including but not limited to lost profits). 

(h) Every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be
subject to the provisions of this Section 6.01. 
 (i) The Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Event
of Default or Servicer Default or any other matter under a Transaction Document unless a Responsible Officer assigned to and working in the Trustee’s Corporate Trust Office has actual knowledge thereof or has received written notice thereof in
accordance with this Indenture. 
 Section 6.02 Rights of Trustee. 

(a) The Trustee may rely on any document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper person. The Trustee
need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document. 
 (b) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an
Officer’s Certificate. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on an Officer’s Certificate. 

(c) The Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or
attorneys or a custodian or nominee, and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of, or for the supervision of, any such agent, attorney, custodian or nominee appointed with due care by it hereunder. 

(d) The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or within its
rights or powers; provided that the Trustee’s conduct does not constitute willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith. 

  
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 (e) The Trustee may consult with counsel, and the advice of counsel or an Opinion of Counsel
with respect to legal matters relating to this Indenture and the Notes shall be full and complete authorization and protection from liability in respect to any action taken, omitted or suffered by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with
such advice of counsel or such Opinion of Counsel. 
 (f) The Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the performance of
the Seller, Trust Depositor, Issuer or the Servicer under this Indenture or any other Transaction Document or into the matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order,
bond, note or other document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make any further inquiry or investigation into those matters that it deems appropriate, and if the Trustee determines to inquire further, it shall be entitled to examine the
books, records and premises of the Issuer and the Servicer, personally or by agent or attorney; provided that any such examination shall be upon reasonable prior notice and at a time acceptable to the Issuer or the Servicer in their
reasonable judgment during normal business hours; provided, further, that the Trustee shall, and shall cause its agents, to hold in confidence any and all such information, except (i) to the extent disclosure may be required by
law by any regulatory authority and (ii) to the extent that the Trustee, in its reasonable judgment, may determine that such disclosure is consistent with its obligations hereunder; provided that all such persons agree in writing with
the Issuer to hold such information as confidential. A Noteholder may only disclose such information obtained from the Trustee to any prospective transferee and to such Noteholder’s and transferee’s accountants, consultants, attorneys and
similar agents; provided that all such persons agree in writing with the Issuer and the Trustee to hold such information as confidential. 

(g) The Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the performance of its powers and duties hereunder. 

(h) Except as expressly provided herein or in any other Transaction Document, nothing herein shall be construed to impose an obligation on the
part of the Trustee to recalculate, evaluate or verify any report, certificate or information received by it from the Issuer or Servicer or to otherwise monitor the activities of the Issuer, Servicer or any other Party. 

(i) In the event that the Trustee is also acting in the capacity of Custodian, Backup Servicer, Paying Agent, Note Registrar or Certificate
Registrar hereunder or under the other Transaction Documents, the rights, protections, immunities and indemnities afforded the Trustee pursuant to this Article VI shall also be afforded to the Trustee in such capacities. 

(j) Whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall (i) deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior
to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officer’s Certificate or (ii) be required to determine
the value of any Indenture Collateral or funds hereunder or the cash flows projected to be received therefrom, the Trustee may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely on reports of nationally recognized accountants (which may or may not be
the Independent Accountants appointed by the Issuer pursuant to Section 9.05 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement), investment bankers or other persons qualified to provide the information required to make such determination,
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 (k) Nothing herein shall be construed to impose an obligation on the part of the Trustee to
recalculate, evaluate or verify or independently determine the accuracy of any report, certificate or information received from the Issuer or Servicer (unless and except to the extent otherwise expressly set forth herein). 

(l) Any permissive right of the Trustee to take or refrain from taking actions enumerated in this Indenture or other Transaction Document
shall not be construed as a duty. 
 (m) The Trustee shall not be responsible for delays or failures in performance resulting from acts
beyond its control. 
 (n) The Trustee and Custodian shall be without liability for any damage or loss resulting from or caused by events or
circumstances beyond it’s reasonable control including nationalization, expropriation, currency restrictions, the interruption, disruption or suspension of the normal procedures and practices of any securities market, power, mechanical,
communications or other technological failures or interruptions, computer viruses or the like, fires, floods, earthquakes or other natural disasters, civil and military disturbance, acts of war or terrorism, riots, revolution, acts of God, work
stoppages, strikes, national disasters of any kind, or other similar events or acts; errors by the Issuer or Servicer (including any Responsible Officer) in its instructions to the Trustee or Custodian; or changes in applicable law, regulation or
orders. 
 In order to comply with the USA PATRIOT Act, including Section 326 thereof, the Trustee (including in its capacity as
Certificate Registrar) is required to obtain, verify, record and update certain information relating to individuals and entities which maintain a business relationship with the Trustee. Accordingly, the Issuer and each of the parties to the other
Transaction Documents agrees to provide to the Trustee upon its their request from time to time such identifying information and documentation as may be available for such party in order to enable the Trustee to comply with the USA PATRIOT Act. 

Section 6.03 Individual Rights of Trustee. 

The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Issuer or its
Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee. Any Note Registrar, co-registrar, Paying Agent or co-paying agent may do the same with like rights.
However, the Trustee must comply with Section 6.11. 
 Section 6.04 Trustee’s
Disclaimer. 
 The Trustee shall not be responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture,
the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Trust Agreement, the Notes or any other Transaction Document, the validity or sufficiency of any security interest intended to be created or the characterization of the Notes for tax purposes, it shall not be
accountable for the Issuer’s use of the proceeds from the Notes, and it shall not be responsible for any statement of the Issuer in this Indenture or in any document issued in connection with the sale of the Notes or in the Notes other than the
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 Section 6.05 Notice of Event of Default. 

The Trustee shall mail to each Noteholder, the Servicer (who shall promptly forward the same to the Rating Agency, for so long as any of the
Notes are Outstanding) and the Owner Trustee notice of an Event of Default within 30 days after the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof in accordance with Section 6.01. 

Section 6.06 Reports by Trustee to Holders. 

The Trustee shall deliver to each Noteholder such information in its possession as may be required to enable such holder to prepare its federal
and state income tax returns. In addition, upon the Issuer’s or a Noteholder’s written request, the Trustee shall promptly furnish information reasonably requested by the Issuer or such Noteholder that is reasonably available to the
Trustee to enable the Issuer or such Noteholder to perform its federal and state income tax reporting obligations. 
 The Trustee shall not
be responsible for any tax reporting, disclosure, record keeping or list maintenance requirements of the Issuer under Internal Revenue Code sections 6011(a), 6111 or 6112, including, but not limited to, the preparation of IRS Form 8886 pursuant to
Treasury Regulations Section 1.6011-4(d) or any successor provision and any required list maintenance under Treasury Regulations Section 301.6112-1 or any
successor provision. 
 Section 6.07 Compensation and Indemnity. 

The Issuer shall pay to the Trustee on each Payment Date reasonable compensation for its services under this Indenture and the other
Transaction Documents in accordance with the Priority of Payments and pursuant to the separate fee agreement between the Trustee and the Issuer. The Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an
express trust. The Issuer shall reimburse the Trustee for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred or made by it, including costs of collection, in addition to the
compensation for its services. Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee’s agents, counsel, accountants and experts. The Issuer shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the
Trustee and its officers, directors, employees and agents for and against any and all loss, liability or expense (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by it in connection with the administration of this Indenture and the performance of its
duties hereunder and under the other Transaction Documents. The Trustee shall notify the Issuer and the Trust Depositor promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity. Failure by the Trustee to so notify the Issuer and the Trust Depositor
shall not relieve the Issuer of its obligations hereunder or under the Trust Agreement. The Issuer need not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss, liability or expense incurred by the Trustee through the Trustee’s own willful
misconduct, negligence or bad faith, except that the Trustee shall not be liable (i) for any error of judgment made by it in good faith unless it is proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts, (ii) for any
action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with directions received by it from the Holders of the Notes in accordance with the terms hereunder, or (iii) for interest on any money received by it except as the Trustee and the

  
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Issuer may agree in writing. The Issuer shall assume (with the consent of the Trustee, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) the defense of claim for indemnification hereunder and any
settlement of any such claim and pay all expenses in connection therewith, including reasonable counsel fees. If the consent of the Trustee required in the immediately preceding sentence is unreasonably withheld, the Issuer is relieved of its
indemnification obligations hereunder with respect thereto. The obligations of the Issuer set forth in this Section 6.07 are subject in all respects to Section 11.15(b). 

The Trustee hereby agrees not to cause the filing of a petition in bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, receivership,
conservatorship or other similar laws now or hereafter in effect against the Issuer for the non-payment to the Trustee of any amounts provided by this Section 6.07 until at least one
year and one day, or, if longer, the applicable preference period then in effect, after the payment in full of all Notes issued under this Indenture. 

The amounts payable to the Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.07 shall not, except as provided by
Section 7.06 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, exceed on any Payment Date the limitation on the amount thereof described in the Priority of Payments for such Payment Date and in the definition of Administrative Expenses
in the Sale and Servicing Agreement; provided that (i) the Trustee shall not institute any proceeding for payment of any amount payable hereunder except in connection with an action pursuant to
Section 5.03 or 5.04 for the enforcement of the lien of this Indenture for the benefit of the Noteholders and (ii) the Trustee may only seek to enforce payment of such amounts in conjunction with the enforcement
of the rights of the Noteholders in the manner set forth in Section 5.04. 
 The Trustee shall, subject to the
Priority of Payments, receive amounts pursuant to this Section 6.07 and Section 7.06 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and only to the extent that the payment thereof would not result in an
Event of Default and the failure to pay such amounts to the Trustee will not, by itself, constitute an Event of Default. Subject to Section 6.08, the Trustee shall continue to serve as Trustee under this Indenture
notwithstanding the fact that the Trustee shall not have received amounts due it hereunder and hereby agrees not to cause the filing of a petition in bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, receivership, conservatorship or other similar
laws now or hereafter in effect against the Issuer for the nonpayment to the Trustee of any amounts provided by this Section 6.07 until at least one year and one day, or, if longer, the applicable preference period then in
effect, after the payment in full of all Notes issued under this Indenture. 
 The Issuer’s payment obligations and indemnity to the
Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.07 shall survive the discharge of this Indenture and resignation or removal of the Trustee. When the Trustee incurs expenses after the occurrence of an Event of Default specified in
clauses (vi) or (vii) of the definition of “Event of Default” with respect to the Issuer, the expenses are intended to constitute expenses of administration under Title 11 of the United States Code or any other
applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law. 

  
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 Section 6.08 Replacement of Trustee. 

No resignation or removal of the Trustee shall become effective until the appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this
Section 6.08 and that meets the criteria set forth in Section 6.11 has become effective. The Trustee may resign at any time with thirty (30) days prior written notice to the Issuer, the
Noteholders, the Trust Depositor and the Servicer. The Majority Noteholders or the Issuer, with the written consent of the Majority Noteholders, may remove the Trustee with thirty (30) days prior written notice to the Trustee (a copy of which
notice shall promptly be provided by the Issuer to the Rating Agency). The Issuer shall remove the Trustee if: 
 (i) the
Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11; 
 (ii) the Trustee is adjudged bankrupt or insolvent;

 (iii) a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the Trustee or its property; 

(iv) the Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of acting; or 

(v) the Trustee defaults in any of its obligations under the Transaction Documents and such default is not cured within 30 days
after a Responsible Officer of the Trustee receives written notice of such default. 
 If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy
exists in the office of Trustee for any reason (the Trustee in such event being referred to herein as the retiring Trustee), the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee. 

A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Issuer. Upon the appointment
becoming effective, the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee under this Indenture. No successor Trustee shall accept appointment
as provided in this Section 6.08 unless at the time of such appointment becoming effective such Person shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 6.11. The retiring Trustee shall promptly
transfer all property (including all Indenture Collateral) held by it as Trustee to the successor Trustee and shall execute and deliver such instruments and such other documents as may reasonably be required to more fully and certainly vest and
confirm in the successor Trustee all such rights, powers, duties and obligations. 
 If a successor Trustee does not take office within 60
days after the retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the Issuer or the Majority Noteholders may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee. 

Notwithstanding the replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.08, the Issuer’s obligations under
Section 6.07 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee. 
 Upon the appointment of a successor
Trustee as provided in this Section 6.08, the successor Trustee shall mail notice of such succession hereunder at the expense of the Issuer to all Holders of Notes at their addresses as shown in the Note Register. 

  
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 Section 6.09 Successor Trustee by Merger. 

If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all its corporate trust business or assets to,
another corporation or banking association, the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation without any further act shall be the successor Trustee; provided that such corporation or banking association shall be otherwise qualified and
eligible under Section 6.11. 
 In case at the time such successor or successors by merger, conversion or
consolidation to the Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor
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 Trustee may authenticate such Notes either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of
the successor to the Trustee; and in all such cases such certificates shall have the full force which it is anywhere provided for in the Notes or in this Indenture. 

Section 6.10 Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee. 

(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, at any time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirement of any jurisdiction
in which any part of the Indenture Collateral may at the time be located, the Trustee shall have the power and may execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons to act as a co-trustee or co-trustees, or separate trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part of the Indenture Collateral, and to vest in such Person or Persons, in such capacity and for the benefit of the Noteholders, such interest to
the Indenture Collateral, or any part hereof, and, subject to the other provisions of this Section 6.10, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor Trustee under Section 6.11 and no notice to the Noteholders of the appointment of
any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required under Section 6.08 hereof. No appointment of a co-trustee or a separate trustee shall
relieve the Trustee of its duties and obligations hereunder. 
 (b) Every separate trustee and
co-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 Trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon and
exercised or performed by the Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee is not authorized to
act separately without the 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 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 Indenture Collateral or any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction of the Trustee; 
 (ii) no trustee hereunder shall
be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of any other trustee hereunder; and 
 (iii) the Trustee may at any
time accept the resignation of or remove any separate trustee or co-trustee. 

  
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 (c) Any notice, request or other writing given to the Trustee shall be deemed to have been
given to each of the then separate trustees and co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee
shall refer to this Indenture and the conditions of this Article VI. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property
specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions of this Indenture, specifically including every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct
of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the Trustee. Every such instrument shall be filed with the Trustee. 
 (d) Any
separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time constitute the Trustee, 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 this Indenture on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or co-trustee shall die, 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 Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or successor trustee. 

Section 6.11 Eligibility; Disqualification. 

The Trustee hereunder shall at all times (i) be a national banking association or banking corporation or trust company organized and doing
business under the laws of any state or the United States, (ii) be authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, (iii) have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, (iv) have unsecured and unguaranteed
long-term debt obligations rating of at least investment grade or better by the Rating Agency or another nationally recognized statistical rating organization, or otherwise does not result in a withdrawal or reduction in rating by the Rating Agency
on the Notes, and (v) be subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority. If such banking association publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to Applicable Law or the requirements of the aforesaid
supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 6.11 its combined capital and surplus shall be deemed to be as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. In case at any time the
Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6.11, the Trustee shall give prompt notice to the Issuer (who shall promptly forward the same to the Rating Agency), the Trust Depositor,
the Servicer and the Noteholders that it has so ceased to be eligible to be the Trustee. 
 Section 6.12 Representations,
Warranties and Covenants of the Trustee. 
 The Trustee hereby makes the following representations, warranties and covenants on which
the Issuer, the Trust Depositor, the Servicer and the Noteholders shall rely: 
 (a) The Trustee is a national banking association and trust
company duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the United States. 
 (b) The Trustee satisfies the criteria
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 (c) The Trustee has full power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver and perform
this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party and has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution, deliver and performance by it of this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party. 

(d) The execution, delivery and performance by the Trustee of this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party shall
not (i) violate any provision of any law or any order, writ, judgment or decree of any court, arbitrator or governmental authority applicable to it or any of its assets, (ii) violate any provision of the corporate charter or by-laws of the Trustee or (iii) 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 included
in the Indenture Collateral pursuant to the provisions of, any mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement or other undertaking to which it is a party, which violation, default or lien could reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the
Trustee’s performance or ability to perform its duties as Trustee under this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party or the transactions contemplated in this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents to which it
is a party. 
 (e) The execution, delivery and performance by the Trustee of this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents to which it
is a party shall not require the authorization, consent or approval of, the giving of notice to, the filing or registration with or the taking of any other action in respect of any governmental authority or agency regulating the banking and
corporate trust activities of the Trustee. 
 (f) This Indenture and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party have been duly
executed and delivered by the Trustee and constitute the legal, valid and binding agreements of the Trustee enforceable in accordance with their respective terms, subject to the effect of bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other
similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally or the application of equitable principles in any proceeding, whether at law or in equity. U.S. Bank hereby agrees and covenants that it will not, at any time in the future, deny
that this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party constitute its legal, valid and binding agreements. 
 (g)
The Trustee is not affiliated, as that term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act, with the Issuer. 
 Section 6.13
Directions to Trustee. 
 The Trustee is hereby directed and authorized: 

(i) to accept a collateral assignment of the Loans, and hold the assets of the Indenture Collateral as security for the
Noteholders; 
 (ii) to authenticate and deliver the Notes substantially in the forms prescribed by Exhibits A-1 through A-2 in accordance with the terms of this Indenture; 

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 (iv) to take all other actions as shall be required to be taken by it by the
terms of this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents to which it is party. 
 For avoidance of doubt, in entering into and performing
under the Transaction Documents to which it is a party, the Trustee (in all its capacities) shall be subject to the protections, rights, indemnities and immunities afforded it under Article VI of this Indenture. 

Section 6.14 Conflicts. 

If a Default occurs and is continuing and the Trustee is deemed to have a “conflicting interest” (as defined in the TIA) as a result
of acting as trustee for the Notes, the Issuer, at its expense, shall appoint a successor Trustee for the affected Notes so that there will be a separate Trustee for such affected Notes. No such event shall alter the voting rights of the Noteholders
under this Indenture or under any of the other Transaction Documents. 
 ARTICLE VII 

NOTEHOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS 

Section 7.01 Issuer To Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Noteholders. 

The Issuer will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee (a) within five (5) days after each Record Date, a list, in such form
as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes as of such Record Date and (b) at such other times as the Trustee may reasonably request in writing, within 30 days after receipt by the Issuer of any
such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 10 days prior to the time such list is furnished; provided that so long as the Trustee is the Note Registrar, no such list shall be required to be furnished. 

Section 7.02 Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders. 

(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes contained in
the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 7.01 and the names and addresses of Holders of Notes received by the Trustee in its capacity as Note Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished
to it as provided in such Section 7.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished. 
 (b) The Trustee shall furnish
to the Noteholders promptly upon receipt of a written request therefor, duplicates or copies of all reports, notices, requests, demands, certificates and financial statements of the Issuer or of the Servicer furnished to the Trustee under the
Transaction Documents. 
 (c) With respect to the Notes issued in book-entry form, at the request of the Issuer or the Servicer, the Trustee
will request and upon receipt make available to the Issuer and the Servicer a list of DTC participants holding interests in the Notes. 

Section 7.03 Fiscal Year. 

Unless the Issuer otherwise determines, the fiscal year of the Issuer shall end on December 31 of each year. The Issuer shall notify the
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 ARTICLE VIII 

TRANSACTION ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES 

Section 8.01 Collection of Money. 

Except as otherwise expressly provided herein or in the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Trustee may demand payment or delivery of, and shall
receive and collect, directly and without intervention or assistance of any fiscal agent or other intermediary, all money and other property payable to or receivable by the Trustee pursuant to this Indenture. The Trustee shall apply all such money
received by it as provided in this Indenture. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture or in the Sale and Servicing Agreement, if any event of default occurs in the making of any payment or performance under any agreement or
instrument that is part of the Indenture Collateral, the Trustee (at the direction of the Servicer pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement) may take such action as may be appropriate to enforce such payment or performance, including the
institution and prosecution of appropriate Proceedings. Any such action shall be without prejudice to any right to claim a Default or Event of Default under this Indenture and any right to proceed thereafter as provided in Article V. 

Section 8.02 Transaction Accounts. 

(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall establish and maintain, in the name of the Issuer, for the
benefit of the Trustee and the Noteholders, the Lockbox Account, the Distribution Account, the Reinvestment Account, the Reserve Account and the Collection Account, in each case, as provided in Sections 7.01, 7.02, 7.03 and
7.04 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 
 (b) All funds required to be deposited in the Collection Account with respect to the
preceding Collection Period will be deposited in the Collection Account as provided in Section 7.03 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. On or before the last day of each Collection Period or such other date as determined
by the Trustee pursuant to Section 7.06(c) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Collections with respect to the preceding Collection Period on deposit in the Collection Account will be transferred from the
Collection Account to the Distribution Account as provided in Section 7.06 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. On or before the Business Day immediately preceding each Payment Date, all other amounts then on deposit
in the Collection Account (including, without limitation, any amounts deposited into the Collection Account from the Reserve Account pursuant to Section 7.02 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement) will be deposited into the
Distribution Account and will remain uninvested while deposited in the Distribution Account. The Trustee shall invest any funds in the Reserve Account as provided in the Sale and Servicing Agreement. Funds will be deposited into the Reserve Account
as provided in Section 7.06 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 
 (c) On each Payment Date or such other
date as determined by the Trustee pursuant to Section 5.04(b), the Trustee, as Paying Agent, shall distribute all amounts on deposit in the Distribution Account to Noteholders in respect of Notes and any other parties
specified in the Priority of Payments, and to the Trustee, as Paying Agent under the Trust Agreement, for distribution to the Holders of the Trust Certificates in accordance with the Priority of Payments. 

  
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 (d) All moneys deposited from time to time in the Distribution Account and the Reserve
Account pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement and all deposits therein pursuant to this Indenture are for the benefit of the Securityholders and all investments made with such moneys including all income or other gain from such investments
are for the benefit of the Securityholders as provided by the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 
 (e) The Redemption Price described in
Section 10.01 hereof shall be deposited in the Distribution Account. 
 Section 8.03
Officer’s Certificate. 
 Except for releases or conveyances required or permitted by the Sale and Servicing
Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, the Trustee shall receive at least two Business Days’ notice when requested by the Issuer to take any action pursuant to Section 8.05(a), accompanied by copies of any
instruments to be executed, and the Trustee shall also require, as a condition to such action, an Officer’s Certificate, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, stating the effect of any such action, outlining the steps
required to complete the same, and concluding that all conditions precedent to the taking of such action have been complied with and such action will not materially and adversely impair the security for the Notes or the rights of the Noteholders in
contravention of the provisions of this Indenture. 
 Section 8.04 Termination Upon Distribution to Noteholders. 

Subject to Section 4.06, this Indenture and the respective obligations and responsibilities of the Issuer and the
Trustee created hereby shall terminate upon the distribution to the Noteholders and the Trustee of all amounts required to be distributed to such parties pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

 Section 8.05 Release of Indenture Collateral. 

(a) Subject to the payment of its fees and reasonable expenses, the Trustee may, and when required by the provisions of this Indenture shall,
execute instruments to release property from the lien of this Indenture, or convey the Trustee’s interest in the same, in a manner and under circumstances that are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, the Sale and Servicing
Agreement and the other Transaction Documents. No party relying upon an instrument executed by the Trustee as provided in Article IV hereunder shall be bound to ascertain the Trustee’s authority, inquire into the satisfaction of any
conditions precedent, or see to the application of any moneys. The Trustee shall not release any Loan from the lien of this Indenture in connection with a sale of such Loan to an Affiliate of the Servicer or the Issuer without first receiving an
Officer’s Certificate of the Servicer in the form of Exhibit F and a Request for Release in the form of Exhibit M to the Sale and Servicing Agreement. The Trustee shall make copies of any such Officer’s Certificate available to any
Noteholder upon written request of such Noteholder, subject to Section 11.01. 
 (b) The Trustee shall, at such
time as (i) there are no Notes Outstanding and (ii) all sums due the Trustee pursuant to this Indenture have been paid, release any remaining portion of the Indenture Collateral that secured the Notes from the lien of this Indenture. The
Trustee shall release property from the lien of this Indenture pursuant to this Section 8.05(b) only upon receipt of a request from the Issuer accompanied by an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating
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 ARTICLE IX 

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES 

Section 9.01 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders. 

(a) Without the consent of the Holders of any Notes but with prior written notice to all Noteholders, the Rating Agency and the Servicer, the
Issuer and the Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, at any time and from time to time, may enter into a supplemental indenture, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes; provided that the
Issuer shall only enter into a supplemental indenture in compliance with Section 4.01(c) and (d) of the Trust Agreement and Section 9.06 hereof: 

(i) to correct or amplify the description of any property at any time subject to the lien of this Indenture, or better to
assure, convey and confirm unto the Trustee any property subject or required to be subjected to the lien of this Indenture, or to subject to the lien of this Indenture additional property; 

(ii) to evidence the succession, in compliance with the applicable provisions hereof, of another Person to the Issuer, and the
assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Issuer herein and in the Notes; 
 (iii) to add to the covenants of
the Issuer, for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Issuer; 

(iv) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property to or with the Trustee; 

(v) to cure any ambiguity or manifest error, to correct or supplement any provision in this Indenture or in any supplemental
indenture that may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein or in any supplemental indenture or to make any modification that is of a formal, minor or technical nature; 

(vi) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of the appointment hereunder by a successor trustee with respect to the Notes
and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Article VI; 

(vii) to add to the conditions, limitations and restrictions on the authorized amount, terms and purposes of the issuance,
authentication and delivery of Notes, as herein set forth, additional conditions, limitations and restrictions thereafter to be observed; 

(viii) to modify the restrictions on and procedures for resales and other transfers of the Notes to reflect any changes in
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 (ix) to enable the Issuer or the Trustee to rely upon any exemption from
registration under the Securities Act or the 1940 Act or to remove restrictions on resale or transfer to the extent required under Applicable Law or otherwise make any changes necessary to comply with changes to U.S. securities laws or the
regulations implementing such laws; 
 (x) to evidence or implement any change to this Indenture required by regulations or
guidelines enacted to support the USA PATRIOT Act; 
 (xi) to comply with any changes to the Code or the regulations
implementing the Code; 
 (xii) to reflect any written change to the guidelines, methodology or standards established by any
Rating Agency that are applicable to this Indenture; 
 (xiii) to conform this Indenture to the Offering Memorandum; 

(xiv) to amend, modify or otherwise accommodate changes to this Indenture relating to compliance with Rule 17g-5 under the Exchange Act or to permit compliance with the Dodd-Frank Act (including, without limitation, the Volcker Rule), as applicable to the Issuer, the Trustee, the Servicer or the Notes, or to comply with
any rule or regulation enacted by regulatory agencies of the United States federal government after the Closing Date that are applicable to the Notes or the transactions contemplated by this Indenture; and 

(xv) to add any new provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture or in any supplemental
indenture that will not be inconsistent with any existing provisions of this Indenture or such supplemental indenture; provided that such action shall not, as evidenced by an Officer’s Certificate delivered to the Trustee, adversely
affect in any material respect the interests of the Noteholders. 
 The Trustee is hereby authorized to join in the execution of any such
supplemental indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations that may be therein contained. 
 (b) The Issuer and
the Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, may also, without the consent of any of the Holders of the Notes but with Rating Agency Confirmation, 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, this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders under this Indenture (other than as included in clauses (i) through (xv) of
Section 9.01(a) above); provided that such action (A) shall not, as evidenced by an Officer’s Certificate of the Servicer, materially adversely affect the interest of any Noteholder, and (B) shall be
in compliance with Section 4.01(c) and (d) of the Trust Agreement and Sections 9.02(a) and 9.06 hereof. 

  
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 (c) The Issuer and the Trustee may only enter into one or more supplemental indentures
pursuant to this Section 9.01, with or without the consent of the Noteholders, to the extent that an Opinion of Counsel is delivered to the Issuer (with a copy to the Trustee) to the effect that such supplemental indenture
will not (i) cause the Issuer to be treated as an association, publicly traded partnership or taxable mortgage pool, in each case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (ii) cause the Notes to be deemed to have
been sold or exchanged under Section 1001 of the Code or (iii) cause any Notes that were characterized as indebtedness at the time of issuance to be characterized as other than indebtedness (which Opinion of Counsel may rely upon an
Officer’s Certificate of the Servicer with respect to the effect of any such amendment on the economic interests of any Noteholder). 

(d) In the event that any proposed supplemental indenture pursuant to this Section 9.01, in the reasonable judgment
of the Servicer (on behalf of the Issuer) does not satisfy the proviso in Section 9.01(b), such amendment may become effective with the consent of each Holder of a Note. It shall not be necessary for the Noteholders to
approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. 

Section 9.02 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Noteholders. 

(a) No supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Note adversely affected thereby: 

(i) change the Legal Final Payment Date or the due date of any payment of principal of or interest, as applicable, on any Note,
reduce the principal amount of any Note or any rate of interest or the portion of the Redemption Price payable to the Holders of the Notes, change the earliest date on which any Note may be redeemed, change the provisions of this Indenture relating
to the application of proceeds of any Loan Assets to the payment of principal, interest or of distributions pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement, change any place where, or the coin or currency in which, any Note or the principal thereof, or
interest thereon, is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any provisions of the Indenture regarding payment on the Notes; 

(ii) reduce the percentage of the Aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance of the Notes, the consent of the Holders of which is
required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of the Holders of which is required for any waiver of compliance with any provision of this Indenture or defaults hereunder and their consequences provided for in this Indenture; 

(iii) modify or alter the provisions of the proviso to the definition of the term “Outstanding” or modify or alter
the provisions of the proviso to the definition of the term “Holder”; 
 (iv) modify or alter the provisions
hereunder regarding the voting of Notes held by the Issuer, the Seller, the Servicer, an affiliate of any of them or any obligor on the Notes; 

(v) modify any provisions hereunder in such a manner as to affect the calculation of the amount of any payment of interest or
principal due on any Note on any Payment Date or to affect the rights of the Noteholders to the benefit of any provisions for the mandatory redemption of the Notes contained in the Indenture; or 

  
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 (vi) reduce the percentage of the Aggregate Outstanding Principal Balance of
the Notes, the consent of the Holders of which is required to direct the Trustee to sell or liquidate the Indenture Collateral pursuant to Section 5.04; 

(vii) modify any provision of this Section 9.02 except to increase any percentage specified herein or
to provide that certain additional provisions of this Indenture or the other Transaction Documents cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Note affected thereby; or 

(viii) permit the creation of any lien ranking prior to or on a parity with the lien of this Indenture with respect to any part
of the Indenture Collateral or, except as otherwise permitted or contemplated herein or by any other Transaction Document, terminate the lien of this Indenture on any property at any time subject hereto or deprive any Noteholder of the security
provided by the lien of this Indenture. 
 (b) The Issuer shall only enter into a supplemental indenture in compliance with
Section 4.01(c) of the Trust Agreement and Section 9.06 hereof; provided that such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, (i) cause the Issuer to be treated as an association, publicly
traded partnership or taxable mortgage pool, in each case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (ii) cause the Notes to be deemed to have been sold or exchanged under Section 1001 of the Code or (iii) cause
any Notes that were characterized as indebtedness at the time of issuance to be characterized as other than indebtedness (which Opinion of Counsel may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of the Servicer with respect to the effect of any such
amendment on the economic interests of any Noteholder). 
 (c) Promptly after the execution by the Issuer and the Trustee of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to this Section 9.02, the Trustee shall mail to the Servicer (who shall promptly forward the same to the Rating Agency) and the Holders of the Notes to which such amendment or supplemental
indenture relates a copy of such supplemental indenture or a notice setting forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental indenture. Any failure of the Trustee to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way
impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture. 
 (d) The Issuer and the Trustee may only enter into one or more
supplemental indentures pursuant to this Section 9.02 to the extent that written advice from Dechert LLP or an opinion of tax counsel of nationally recognized standing in the United States experienced in such matters is
delivered to the Issuer (with a copy to the Trustee) to the effect that such supplemental indenture will not (i) cause the Issuer to be treated as an association, publicly traded partnership or taxable mortgage pool, in each case, taxable as a
corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (ii) cause the Notes to be deemed to have been sold or exchanged under Section 1001 of the Code or (iii) cause any Notes that were characterized as indebtedness at the time of issuance
to be characterized as other than indebtedness. 

  
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 Section 9.03 Execution of Supplemental Indentures. 

In executing, or permitting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article IX or the
modification thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and subject to Sections 6.01 and 6.02, shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution
of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture, which Opinion of Counsel may rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of the Servicer with respect to the effect of any such supplemental indenture on the economic interests
of the Holders of the Notes. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture that affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties, liabilities or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise. The Issuer shall
provide copies of each supplemental indenture to the Rating Agency. 
 Section 9.04 Effect of Supplemental Indenture.

 Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this Indenture shall be and shall be deemed to be
modified and amended in accordance therewith with respect to the Notes affected thereby, and the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties, liabilities and immunities under this Indenture of the Trustee, the Issuer and the
Noteholders shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments, and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the
terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes. 
 Section 9.05 Reference in Notes to Supplemental
Indentures. 
 Notes authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article IX
may, and if required by the Trustee shall, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Issuer or the Trustee shall so determine, new Notes so modified as to conform, in the
opinion of the Trustee and the Issuer, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Issuer and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Notes. 

Section 9.06 Consent of the Servicer and Owner Trustee. 

The Issuer agrees that it will not permit to become effective any supplemental indenture that adversely affects the obligations or rights of
the Servicer or the Owner Trustee or the amount or priority or payment of any fees or other amounts payable to the Servicer or the Owner Trustee unless, in each such case, the Servicer or the Owner Trustee has been given prior written notice of such
supplemental indenture and has consented thereto in writing. 
 ARTICLE X 

OPTIONAL REDEMPTION 

Section 10.01 Optional Redemption. 

(a) The Issuer may, where the Aggregate Outstanding Loan Balance as of the last day of any Collection Period shall be less than or equal to 10%
of the Cutoff Date Pool Balance, effect an Optional Redemption, in whole but not in part, on any Redemption Date (such Redemption Date shall be a Payment Date to be specified in a notice to be delivered to the Issuer and the Trustee at least 15
Business Days prior to such Redemption Date) by deposit in full of the Redemption Price in the Distribution Account for distribution to the Holders of the Notes and other persons entitled thereto by 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the business
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the applicable Payment Date whereupon all such Notes shall be due and payable on the applicable Payment Date, in connection with which the Issuer shall comply with the provisions of this
Section 10.01 and Section 10.02. The Servicer or the Issuer will furnish notice of such election to the Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Rating Agency no later than 10 Business Days prior to the
proposed Redemption Date and, provided that sufficient funds are received by the Servicer, the Servicer on behalf of the Issuer shall deposit in the Distribution Account an amount equal to the Redemption Price of the Notes to be redeemed on the
Redemption Date. 
 (b) The Notes to be redeemed shall, following delivery of a notice of an Optional Redemption complying with
Section 10.02, on the Redemption Date become due and payable at the Redemption Price with respect thereto and (unless such Redemption Price is not paid) no interest shall accrue on such Redemption Price for any period after
the date to which accrued interest is calculated for purposes of calculating the Redemption Price. On the Redemption Date, upon deposit in full by the Servicer in the Distribution Account of an amount equal to the Redemption Price, the Indenture
Collateral (other than the Transaction Accounts) shall cease to constitute assets of the Issuer and the Noteholders shall have no interest therein nor any claim to any distributions in respect of the Indenture Collateral (other than the Transaction
Accounts). 
 (c) The portion of the Redemption Price constituting payment of principal of the Notes shall be distributed to Noteholders in
accordance with Section 7.06(b) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement and all other amounts included in the Redemption Price shall be distributed in accordance with Section 7.06(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 

(d) The Issuer or the Servicer may withdraw any notice of Optional Redemption or specify a new Redemption Date at any time prior to the
proposed Redemption Date set forth in any prior notice of Optional Redemption by providing written notice to the Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Rating Agency by no later than the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date. A withdrawal
of such notice of Optional Redemption or the inability of the Issuer to complete an Optional Redemption of the Notes will not constitute an Event of Default. 

Section 10.02 Form of Redemption Notice by Trustee. 

(a) Notice of redemption under Section 10.01 shall be given by the Trustee by facsimile, electronic mail, overnight
courier or by first-class mail, postage prepaid, transmitted or mailed prior to the applicable Redemption Date, to each Holder of Notes, as of the close of business on the Record Date preceding the applicable Redemption Date at such Holder’s
address appearing in the Note Register. 
 (b) All notices of redemption shall state: 

(i) the Redemption Date; 

(ii) the Redemption Price; 

(iii) that the Record Date otherwise applicable to such Redemption Date, is not applicable and that, unless waived by the
Issuer, payments shall be made only upon presentation and surrender of such Notes and the place where such Notes are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price with respect thereto (which shall be the office or agency of the Issuer to be
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 (iv) that interest on the Notes shall cease to accrue on the Redemption
Date, as applicable; provided that the Redemption, as applicable, occurs on such date. 
 (c) Notice of redemption of the Notes shall
be given by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Issuer. Failure to give notice of redemption, or any defect therein, to any Holder of any Note shall not impair or affect the validity of the redemption of any other Note. 

ARTICLE XI 

MISCELLANEOUS 

Section 11.01 Confidentiality. 

(a) No Receiving Party shall use any Confidential Information except to the extent necessary to evaluate and monitor the transaction
represented by the Transaction Documents. Each Receiving Party agrees (and each Holder of a Note is deemed to agree) that it will make available Confidential Information only to (i) its officers, employees, directors, affiliates, advisors,
agents, shareholders, members, partners and managers who have a need to know such Confidential Information for the purpose of evaluating or monitoring the transaction, (ii) its accounting firms and legal counsel (and their respective officers,
employees, directors, agents, affiliates and advisors) and (iii) any prospective purchasers of a Note, in each case who have need to know such Confidential Information for the purposes of evaluating or monitoring the transaction (collectively,
“representatives”), and that all persons to whom such Confidential Information is made available will be made aware of the confidential nature of such Confidential Information and agree to be bound by the restrictions imposed by
this Indenture on the use of Confidential Information. This Section 11.01 shall constitute a confidentiality agreement for purposes of Regulation FD under the Exchange Act. 

(b) No Receiving Party or any of its representatives will disclose any Confidential Information to any third party, except as may be required
by law or expressly permitted pursuant to this Section 11.01. 
 (c) Each Receiving Party acknowledges and agrees
that the breach or threatened breach of this Section 11.01 by it may result in irreparable and continuing damage to the Disclosing Parties, for which there will be no adequate remedy at law. Accordingly, each Receiving
Party agrees that the Disclosing Parties shall be entitled, without prejudice, to all the rights and remedies available to each of them, including an injunction or specific performance to prevent breaches or threatened breaches of any of the
provisions of this Indenture by an action instituted in a court having proper jurisdiction. 
 (d) The confidentiality provisions of this
Section 11.01 shall remain in effect for a period commencing on the date hereof and end two years after the Legal Final Payment Date. 

(e) If any Receiving Party or any of its affiliates or representatives is required by legal process to disclose any of the Confidential
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protective order or other appropriate remedy or waive compliance with the provisions of this Indenture. If a protective order or other remedy is not obtained, such Receiving Party, its affiliates
and representatives may, without violating this Indenture, disclose that portion of the Confidential Information that such party is legally required to disclose. 

Section 11.02 Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee. 

In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that
all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other
such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents. 
 Any
certificate or opinion of a Responsible Officer of the Issuer may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows that the certificate or opinion or
representations with respect to the matters upon which the certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate of a Responsible Officer or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate
or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the Servicer, the Issuer, the Trust Depositor, or any other appropriate Person, stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Servicer,
the Issuer, the Trust Depositor or such other Person, unless such counsel knows that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous. 

Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or
other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument. 
 Whenever in this Indenture, in
connection with any application or certificate or report to the Trustee, it is provided that the Issuer shall deliver any document as a condition of the granting of such application, or as evidence of the Issuer’s compliance with any term
hereof, it is intended that the truth and accuracy in all material respects, at the time of the granting of such application or at the effective date of such certificate or report (as the case may be), of the facts and opinions stated in such
document shall in such case be conditions precedent to the right of the Issuer to have such application granted or to the sufficiency of such certificate or report. The foregoing shall not, however, be construed to affect the Trustee’s right to
rely upon the truth and accuracy of any statement or opinion contained in any such document as provided in Article VI. 

Section 11.03 Acts of Noteholders. 

(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by
Noteholders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Noteholders in person or by agents duly appointed in writing; and except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall
become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Issuer. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes

  
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referred to as the “Act” of the Noteholders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be
sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 6.01) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Issuer, if made in the manner provided in this Section 11.03. 

(b) The fact and date of the execution by any person of any such instrument or writing may be proved in any manner that the Trustee deems
sufficient. 
 (c) The ownership of Notes shall be proved by the Note Register; provided that in all cases except where otherwise
required by law or regulation, any act by a Holder of a Note may be taken by the Beneficial Owner of such Note. 
 (d) Any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action by the Holder of any Notes shall bind the Holder of every Note issued upon the registration thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, in respect of anything done, omitted or
suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Issuer in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Note. 

Section 11.04 Notices, etc., to Trustee and Others. 

(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Noteholders or other documents provided or permitted by
this Indenture shall be in writing and if such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Noteholders is to be made upon, given or furnished to or filed with: 

(i) the Trustee by any Noteholder or by the Issuer, shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished
or filed in writing to and mailed, by certified mail, return receipt requested, hand delivered, sent by overnight courier service guaranteeing next day delivery or by telecopy in legible form, to the Trustee addressed to it at U.S. Bank National
Association, Global Corporate Trust, One Federal Street 3rd Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02110, Attention: Jack Lindsay, Ref: Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1, Tel: (617)
603-6789, Fax: (855) 869-2187; Email: jack.lindsay@usbank.com or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Issuer, the Noteholder, or the Servicer by
the Trustee; 
 (ii) the Issuer by the Trustee or by any Noteholder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless
otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, hand delivered, sent by overnight courier service or by telecopy in legible form, to the Issuer addressed to it at c/o Wilmington Trust, National
Association, Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, Facsimile No.: (302) 636-4140, or at any other address previously furnished in
writing to the Trustee by the Issuer; 
 (iii) the Servicer by the Issuer or the Trustee shall be sufficient for every
purpose hereunder if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, hand delivered, sent by overnight courier service or by telecopy in legible form, to the Servicer addressed to Hercules Capital, Inc., 400 Hamilton Avenue, Suite 310, Palo
Alto, California 94301, Attention: Chief Financial Officer, Re: Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1, 

  
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Telephone: (650) 289-3060, Facsimile No.: (650) 473-9194; with a copy to Hercules Capital, Inc., 400 Hamilton
Avenue, Suite 310, Palo Alto, California 94301, Attention: General Counsel, Re: Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1, Telephone: (650) 289-3060, Facsimile No.: (650) 473-9194; or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Issuer or the Trustee by the Servicer; and 

(iv) the Owner Trustee by the Issuer or the Trustee shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if in writing and mailed,
first-class postage prepaid, hand delivered, sent by overnight courier service or by telecopy in legible form, to the Owner Trustee addressed to Wilmington Trust, National Association, Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington,
Delaware 19890; Attention: Corporate Trust Administration; Facsimile No.: (302) 636-4140. 
 (b)
Notices required to be given to the Rating Agency shall be in writing, personally delivered or mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the Rating Agency, at the following address: Kroll Bond Rating Agency, Inc., 805 Third Avenue, 29th Floor, New York, New York 10022, Attn: ABS Surveillance; or as to each of the foregoing, at such other address as shall be designated by written notice to the other parties; provided that no
notice shall be required to be given to the Rating Agency unless the Outstanding Notes are rated by the Rating Agency. 
 (c) Delivery of
any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Noteholders or other documents made as provided above will be deemed effective: (i) if in writing and delivered in Person or by overnight courier service, on the
date it is delivered; (ii) if sent by facsimile transmission, on the date that transmission is received by the recipient in legible form (it being agreed that the burden of proving receipt will be on the sender and will not be met by a
transmission report generated by the sender’s facsimile machine); (iii) if sent by mail, on the date that mail is delivered or its delivery is attempted; and (iv) if sent by email, on the date of transmission; in each case, unless the
date of that delivery (or attempted delivery) or that receipt, as applicable, is not a Business Day or that communication is delivered (or attempted) or received, as applicable, after the close of business on a Business Day, in which case that
communication shall be deemed given and effective on the first following day that is a Business Day. 
 Section 11.05 Notices to
Noteholders; Waiver. 
 Where this Indenture provides for notice to Noteholders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given
(unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, by nationally recognized overnight courier or by first-class, postage prepaid to each Noteholder affected by such event, at his address as it appears on the Note Register, not
later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, if any, prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Noteholders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice nor any defect in any notice so
mailed to any particular Noteholder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Noteholders, and any notice that is mailed in the manner herein provided shall conclusively be presumed to have been duly given. Whenever a notice
or other communication to the Noteholders is required under this Indenture, unless and until definitive Notes shall have been issued to such Noteholders, the Trustee shall give all such notices and communications specified herein to be given to
Noteholders of the book entry Notes to DTC, and shall have no obligation to such holders of the book entry Notes. 

  
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 Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing
by any 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 Noteholders shall be filed with the Trustee but such filing shall not be a condition
precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such a waiver. 
 In case, by reason of the suspension of regular mail
service as a result of a strike, work stoppage or similar activity, it shall be impractical to mail notice of any event to Noteholders when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any manner of giving
such notice as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice. 
 Where this Indenture
provides for notice to the Rating Agency, failure to give such notice shall not affect any other rights or obligations created hereunder, and shall not under any circumstance constitute an Event of Default. 

Section 11.06 Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions. 

Notwithstanding any provision of this Indenture or any of the Notes to the contrary, the Issuer may enter into any agreement with any Holder of
a Note providing for a method of payment, or notice by the Trustee or any other party acting as paying agent to such Holder, that is different from the methods provided for in this Indenture for such payments or notices. The Issuer will furnish to
the Trustee a copy of each such agreement and the Trustee, at the expense of the Issuer, will cause payments to be made and notices to be given in accordance with such agreements. 

Section 11.07 Effect of Headings. 

The Article and Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof. 

Section 11.08 Successors and Assigns. 

All covenants and agreements in this Indenture and the Notes by the Issuer shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successors, co-trustees and agents. 

Section 11.09 Severability. 

In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality, and enforceability
of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. 

  
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 Section 11.10 Benefits of Indenture. 

Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes shall give to any Person, other than the parties
hereto and their successors hereunder, the Owner Trustee and the Noteholders, and any other party secured hereunder, and any other Person with an ownership interest in any part of the Indenture Collateral, any benefit or any legal or equitable
right, remedy or claim under this Indenture. 
 Section 11.11 Legal Holidays. 

In any case where the date on which any payment is due shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of the Notes or
this Indenture) payment need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on the date on which nominally due, and no interest shall accrue for the period from and after any
such nominal date. 
 Section 11.12 GOVERNING LAW. 

(a) THIS INDENTURE, EACH SUPPLEMENT AND THE NOTES SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO
ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS (OTHER THAN SECTIONS 5-1401 AND 5-1402 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW), AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES
HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS. 
 (b) EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY
APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LITIGATION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF, UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS INDENTURE. Each party hereto (i) certifies that no representative, agent or attorney
of any other party has represented, expressly or otherwise, that such other party would not, in the event of litigation, seek to enforce the foregoing waiver and (ii) acknowledges that it and the other parties hereto have been induced to enter
into this Indenture by, among other things, the mutual waivers and certifications in this Section 11.12(b). 

Section 11.13 Counterparts. 

This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts (including by facsimile), each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an
original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. 
 Section 11.14 Issuer
Obligation. 
 No recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or
the Trustee on the Notes or under this Indenture or any of the other Transaction Documents or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection herewith or therewith, against (i) the Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual
capacity, (ii) any of the Trust Depositor, the Seller, the Servicer and any holder of a Trust Certificate or (iii) any partner, owner, beneficiary, stockholder, manager, member, officer, director, employee or agent of any of

  
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the parties identified in clauses (i) and (ii) or of any successor or assign of any such Person. For all purposes of this Indenture, in the performance of any duties or
obligations of the Issuer hereunder, the Owner Trustee and the Trust Company shall be subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the terms and provisions of the Trust Agreement. 

Section 11.15 No Petition; Limited Recourse. 

(a) The Trustee, by entering into this Indenture, and each Noteholder, by accepting a Note, hereby covenant and agree that they will not prior
to the date which is one year and one day or, if longer, the preference period then in effect after payment in full of the Notes rated by any Rating Agency, institute against the Trust Depositor or the Issuer, or join in any institution against the
Trust Depositor or the Issuer of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations relating
to the Notes, this Indenture or any of the other Transaction Documents. 
 (b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Notes, this
Indenture or any other Transaction Document, the obligations of the Issuer under the Notes and this Indenture and any other Transaction Document are limited recourse obligations of the Issuer payable solely from the Indenture Collateral in
accordance with the Priority of Payments and, following realization of the Indenture Collateral and distribution in accordance with the Priority of Payments, any claims of the Noteholders, and any other parties to any Transaction Document shall be
extinguished. No recourse shall be had against any officer, administrator, member, director, employee, security holder, holder of a beneficial interest in or incorporator of the Issuer or their respective successors or assigns for the payment of any
amounts payable under the Notes, this Indenture or any other Transaction Document. It is understood that the foregoing provisions of this Section 11.15(b) shall not (i) prevent recourse to the Loan Assets or the
Indenture Collateral for the sums due or to become due under any security, instrument or agreement which is part of the Loan Assets or the Indenture Collateral or (ii) constitute a waiver, release or discharge of any indebtedness or obligation
evidenced by the Notes or secured by this Indenture or payable under any other Transaction Document until such Loan Assets and such Indenture Collateral have been realized and distributed in accordance with the Priority of Payments and the other
applicable provisions of the Transaction Documents, whereupon any such outstanding indebtedness or obligation shall be extinguished. Except as otherwise provided hereunder or agreed in writing among the parties hereto, the Issuer shall retain the
authority to institute, participate and join in any plan of reorganization, readjustment, merger or consolidation with respect to the issuer of any securities held hereunder, and, in general, to exercise each and every other power or right with
respect to each such asset or investment as individuals generally have and enjoy with respect to their own assets and investment, including power to vote upon any securities. 

Section 11.16 Inspection; Confidentiality. 

The Issuer agrees that, on reasonable prior notice, it will permit any representative of the Trustee, upon reasonable notice and during the
Issuer’s normal business hours, and in a manner that does not unreasonably interfere with the Issuer’s normal operations, to examine all the books of account, records, reports and other papers of the Issuer, to make copies and extracts
therefrom, to cause such books to be audited by Independent certified public accountants, and to discuss the Issuer’s affairs, finances and accounts with the Issuer’s officers, employees, and Independent

  
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certified public accountants, all at such reasonable times, in such reasonable manner, and as often as may be reasonably requested. The Trustee shall and shall cause its representatives, its
legal counsel and its auditors to hold in confidence all such information except to the extent disclosure may be required by law (and all reasonable applications for confidential treatment are unavailing) and except to the extent that the Trustee
may reasonably determine that such disclosure is consistent with its obligations hereunder and under Applicable Law. 

Section 11.17 Limitation of Liability. 

It is expressly understood and agreed by the parties hereto that (i) this Indenture is executed and delivered by Wilmington Trust,
National Association, not individually or personally but solely as Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer under the Trust Agreement, in the exercise of the powers and authority conferred and vested in it, (ii) each of the representations,
undertakings and agreements herein made on the part of the Issuer is made and intended not as personal representations, undertakings and agreements by Wilmington Trust, National Association but is made and intended for the purpose of binding only
the Issuer, (iii) nothing herein contained shall be construed as creating any liability on Wilmington Trust, National Association individually or personally, to perform any covenant either expressed or implied contained herein, all such
liability, if any, being expressly waived by the parties to this Indenture and by any person claiming by, through or under them and (iv) under no circumstances shall Wilmington Trust, National Association be personally liable for the payment of
any indebtedness or expenses of the Issuer or be liable for the breach or failure of any obligation, representation, warranty or covenant made or undertaking by the Issuer under this Indenture or any related documents. 

Section 11.18 Disclaimer. 

Each Noteholder by accepting a Note and by accepting the benefits of this Indenture acknowledges and agrees that this Indenture and the Notes
represent a debt obligation of the Issuer only and do not represent an interest in any assets (other than the Indenture Collateral) of the Trust Depositor or any holder of a Trust Certificate (including by virtue of any deficiency claim in respect
of obligations not paid or otherwise satisfied from the Trust Assets and proceeds thereof). 

  
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer and the Trustee have caused their names to be signed
hereto by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, all as of the day and year first above written. 
  

			
	HERCULES CAPITAL FUNDING TRUST 2018-1
		
	By:	 	Wilmington Trust, National Association, not in its Individual Capacity, but solely as Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer
		
	By:	 	/s/ Roseline K. Maney
	Name:	 	Roseline K. Maney
	Title:	 	Administrative Vice President

 Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 

Indenture 

 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer and the Trustee have caused their names to be signed
hereto by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, all as of the day and year first above written. 
  

			
	U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
	 not in its individual capacity, except as expressly set forth herein, but solely as the
Trustee

 
			
		
	By:	 	/s/ Ralph J. Creasia, Jr.

 
			
	Name:	 	Ralph J. Creasia, Jr.

 
			
	Title:	 	Senior Vice President

 Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 

Indenture 

 EXHIBIT A-1 

FORM OF 144A NOTE 
 HERCULES
CAPITAL FUNDING TRUST 2018-1 4.605% ASSET-BACKED NOTE 
 THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE
REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE. ACCORDINGLY, TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE IS SUBJECT TO CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN SECTION 4.02 OF THE
INDENTURE. BY ITS ACCEPTANCE OF THIS NOTE, THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE IS DEEMED TO REPRESENT TO THE ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE THAT IT IS (I) IF LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT THAT IS A “QUALIFIED PURCHASER” AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2(A)(51) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 (EACH SUCH PERSON, A “QUALIFIED PURCHASER”) AND IS ACQUIRING SUCH NOTE FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT (AND NOT FOR THE
ACCOUNT OF OTHERS) OR AS A FIDUCIARY OR AGENT FOR OTHERS, PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; OR (II) A NON-U.S. PERSON ACQUIRING INTEREST IN THIS NOTE
OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S OF THE SECURITIES ACT (“REGULATION S”) THAT IS A QUALIFIED PURCHASER. 

NO SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE SHALL BE MADE UNLESS SUCH SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS (A) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (B) FOR SO LONG AS THE NOTES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, TO A PERSON THE TRANSFEROR REASONABLY BELIEVES AFTER DUE INQUIRY IS A “QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A WHO IS A QUALIFIED PURCHASER AND THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN
RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, OR (C) TO A NON-U.S. PERSON THAT IS A QUALIFIED PURCHASER ACQUIRING AN INTEREST IN THIS NOTE IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 903 OR 904 (AS APPLICABLE) OF
REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT. THE TRUSTEE MAY REQUIRE AN OPINION OF COUNSEL TO BE DELIVERED TO IT IN CONNECTION WITH ANY SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (A), (B) OR (C) ABOVE. ALL OPINIONS OF COUNSEL
REQUIRED IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER SHALL BE IN A FORM REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE TRUSTEE. IN CONNECTION WITH A TRANSFER UNDER CLAUSES (B) OR (C) ABOVE, THE TRUSTEE SHALL REQUIRE THAT THE PROSPECTIVE TRANSFEREE CERTIFY TO THE TRUSTEE AND
THE SELLER, IN WRITING THE FACTS SURROUNDING SUCH TRANSFER, WHICH CERTIFICATION SHALL BE IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE. ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER IN CONTRAVENTION OF THE IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING RESTRICTION WILL BE VOID AB INITIO AND
THE PURPORTED TRANSFEROR WILL CONTINUE TO BE TREATED AS THE OWNER OF THE NOTES FOR ALL PURPOSES. 

  
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 EACH INVESTOR IN THIS NOTE OR ANY INTEREST HEREIN WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED AND
WARRANTED THAT EITHER (I) IT IS NOT, AND IS NOT DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ACQUIRING THIS NOTE FOR, ON BEHALF OF OR WITH ANY ASSETS OF, AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR OTHER ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO PART 4, SUBTITLE B, TITLE I OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT
INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”), A PLAN, ACCOUNT OR ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”), OR AN ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE PLAN ASSETS OF
ANY SUCH PLANS (COLLECTIVELY, A “BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR”) OR A PLAN OR OTHER ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO ANY PROVISIONS UNDER ANY FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL, NON-U.S. OR OTHER LAWS OR REGULATIONS THAT ARE
SUBSTANTIVELY SIMILAR TO SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE (“SIMILAR LAW”) OR (II) ITS ACQUISITION, HOLDING AND DISPOSITION OF SUCH NOTE OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN DOES NOT AND WILL NOT CONSTITUTE OR RESULT IN A NON-EXEMPT PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE, OR A NON-EXEMPT VIOLATION OF SIMILAR LAW. 

EACH PURCHASER OR TRANSFEREE OF ANY NOTE OR BENEFICIAL INTEREST THEREIN THAT IS A BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR WILL BE REQUIRED OR DEEMED TO
REPRESENT, WARRANT AND AGREE THAT (I) NONE OF THE ISSUER, THE DEPOSITOR, THE SERVICER, THE TRUSTEE, THE OWNER TRUSTEE, THE TRUST DEPOSITOR, THE SELLER OR THE INITIAL PURCHASER (THE “TRANSACTION PARTIES”) NOR ANY OF THEIR AFFILIATES,
HAS PROVIDED ANY INVESTMENT ADVICE WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 3(21) OF ERISA TO THE BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR, OR TO ANY FIDUCIARY OR OTHER PERSON INVESTING THE ASSETS OF THE BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR (“FIDUCIARY”), IN CONNECTION WITH THE
BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR’S ACQUISITION OF NOTES, AND (II) THE FIDUCIARY IS EXERCISING ITS OWN INDEPENDENT JUDGMENT IN EVALUATING THE TRANSACTION. 

THE ISSUER HAS THE RIGHT, UNDER THE INDENTURE, TO COMPEL ANY BENEFICIAL OWNER OF AN INTEREST IN THIS NOTE THAT IS NOT BOTH (A) A
QUALIFIED PURCHASER OR A CORPORATION, PARTNERSHIP, LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY OR OTHER ENTITY (OTHER THAN A TRUST) EACH SHAREHOLDER, PARTNER, MEMBER OR OTHER EQUITY OWNER OF WHICH IS A QUALIFIED PURCHASER AND (B)(1) A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER OR
(2) A NON-U.S. PERSON IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN RELIANCE ON REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, TO SELL ITS INTEREST IN THIS NOTE, OR MAY SELL SUCH INTEREST ON BEHALF OF SUCH OWNER. 

THE FAILURE TO PROVIDE THE ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE (AND ANY OF THEIR AGENTS) WITH THE PROPERLY COMPLETED AND SIGNED TAX CERTIFICATIONS
(GENERALLY, IN THE CASE OF U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX, AN INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE FORM W-9 (OR APPLICABLE SUCCESSOR FORM) IN 

  
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THE CASE OF A PERSON THAT IS A “UNITED STATES PERSON” WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 7701(a)(30) OF THE CODE OR THE APPROPRIATE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE FORM W-8 (OR APPLICABLE SUCCESSOR FORM) IN THE CASE OF A PERSON THAT IS NOT A “UNITED STATES PERSON” WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 7701(a)(30) OF THE CODE) MAY RESULT IN WITHHOLDING FROM PAYMENTS IN RESPECT OF
SUCH NOTE, INCLUDING U.S. FEDERAL WITHHOLDING OR BACK-UP WITHHOLDING. 
 EACH HOLDER OF THIS NOTE
(AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN) WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED AND AGREED TO TREAT SUCH NOTE AS INDEBTEDNESS FOR U.S. FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL INCOME AND FRANCHISE TAX PURPOSES, EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY LAW. 

THIS NOTE MAY BE ISSUED WITH ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT (“OID”) FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES. THE ISSUE PRICE, AMOUNT OF OID,
ISSUE DATE AND YIELD TO MATURITY OF THIS NOTE MAY BE OBTAINED BY WRITING TO THE SERVICER. 
 UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN
SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR
VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN. 

THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY
TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF. 
 THIS NOTE (AND ANY INTEREST HEREIN) MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED IN AN AMOUNT LESS
THAN THE MINIMUM DENOMINATION APPLICABLE TO SUCH NOTE. 
 AS A CONDITION TO THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT HEREUNDER WITHOUT THE IMPOSITION OF
WITHHOLDING TAX, THE TRUSTEE SHALL REQUIRE CERTIFICATION ACCEPTABLE TO IT TO ENABLE THE ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE TO DETERMINE THEIR DUTIES AND LIABILITIES WITH RESPECT TO ANY TAXES THAT THEY MAY BE REQUIRED TO PAY, DEDUCT OR WITHHOLD IN RESPECT OF
THIS NOTE OR THE HOLDER HEREOF UNDER ANY PRESENT OR FUTURE LAW OR REGULATION OF THE UNITED STATES OR ANY PRESENT OR FUTURE LAW OR REGULATION OF ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION THEREOF OR TAXING AUTHORITY THEREIN OR TO COMPLY WITH ANY REPORTING OR OTHER
REQUIREMENTS UNDER ANY SUCH LAW OR REGULATION. 

  
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 REGISTERED            up to $200,000,000 

 

			
	No. A-1	  	November 1, 2018

 SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS 

Rule 144A CUSIP NO. 42710VAA2 

Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1, a statutory trust organized and existing under the laws of the
State of Delaware (herein referred to as the “Issuer”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO, or registered assigns, the principal sum of up to TWO HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS payable in accordance with the
Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement on each Payment Date on which principal is required to be paid in an amount equal to the result obtained by multiplying (i) a fraction, the numerator of which is the initial principal balance of
this Note and the denominator of which is the Initial Note Principal Balance by (ii) the aggregate amount, if any, payable from the Distribution Account in respect of principal on the Notes. 

The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin or currency of the United States as at the time of payment is legal tender
for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note. 

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though fully set
forth on the face of this Note. 
 Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee whose name appears below
by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. 

  
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be signed, manually or in
facsimile, by its Responsible Officer as of the date set forth above. 
  

			
	HERCULES CAPITAL FUNDING TRUST 2018-1
		
	By:	 	WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement

 
			
		
	 By:
	 	 
		 	Authorized Signatory

 TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION 

This is one of the Notes of Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 designated above and referred to in
the within-mentioned Indenture. 
  

			
	U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee,

 
			
		
	By:	 	 
		 	Authorized Signatory

  
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 [REVERSE OF NOTE] 

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 Notes (herein called the “Notes”), all issued under an Indenture, dated as of November 1, 2018 (such indenture, as supplemented or amended, is herein called the
“Indenture”), between the Issuer and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor Trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental
thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes. The Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture. All terms used in this Note that are
defined in the Indenture, as supplemented or amended, shall have the meanings assigned to them in or pursuant to the Indenture, as so supplemented or amended. 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal amount of the Notes shall be due and payable on the date on which an Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the Trustee or the Majority Noteholders have declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable (or such Notes have become automatically due and payable) in the manner provided in
Section 5.02 of the Indenture. All principal payments on the Notes shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders entitled thereto. 

Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the
obligations of the Issuer under the Indenture on the Notes or under any certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against any holder of a Trust Certificate, the Trust Depositor, the Servicer, the Trustee or the Owner Trustee in
its individual capacity. 
 On each Payment Date, commencing on the Payment Date occurring on November 20, 2018, the Trustee or paying
agent shall distribute to the Person in whose name this Note is registered on the close of business on the Record Date an amount equal to the product of the Percentage Interest of the Notes evidenced by this Note and the amount required to be
distributed to Holders of Notes on such Payment Date pursuant to Section 3.05 of the Indenture. 
 During each
Interest Period, this Note will bear interest at the Interest Rate. 
 Distributions on this Note will be made by the Trustee or paying
agent by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such name and address shall appear on the Note Register or, upon written request to the Trustee, by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Person
entitled thereto as shall appear on the Note Register without the presentation or surrender of this Note or the making of any notation thereon, at a bank or other entity having appropriate facilities therefor, and, in the case of wire transfers, at
the expense of such Person unless such Person shall own of record Notes which have Initial Note Principal Balances aggregating at least $10,000. 

Notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this Note will be made after due notice by the Trustee of the pendency of such
distribution and only upon presentation and surrender of this Note at the office or agency maintained for that purpose by the Note Registrar. 

  
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 As provided in the Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement, deposits and withdrawals
from the Distribution Account and the Collection Account may be made by the Servicer or the Trustee from time to time for purposes other than distributions to Noteholders, such purposes including reimbursement to the Servicer of advances made, or
certain expenses incurred, by it, and to the extent applicable, investment in Permitted Investments. 
 As provided in the Indenture and
subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Note Register upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the offices or agencies maintained by the Note Registrar, duly endorsed by,
or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the holder hereof or such holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes in authorized denominations
evidencing the same aggregate undivided Percentage Interest will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. 
 The Note is
issuable only as a registered Note. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the Note is exchangeable for a new Note evidencing the same aggregate principal amount, as requested by the holder surrendering
the same. 
 No service charge will be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Note Registrar may require payment of
a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith. 
 The Servicer, the Trust Depositor, the
Owner Trustee, the Trustee and the Note Registrar, and any agent of any of the foregoing, may treat the person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and none of the foregoing shall be affected by notice to the
contrary. 
 The obligations and responsibilities created by the Indenture shall terminate upon the payment to Noteholders of all amounts
required to be paid to them pursuant to the Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the disposition of all property held as part of the Indenture Collateral. 

  
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 SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF INTERESTS IN THE GLOBAL NOTE 

The following exchanges of a part of this Global Note for an interest in another Global Note or for an Individual Note, or exchanges of a part
of another Global Note or Individual Note for an interest in this Global Note, have been made: 
  

									
	 Date of

Exchange
	  	Amount of
decrease in
Principal
Amount of this
Global Note	  	Amount of
increase in
Principal
Amount of this
Global Note	  	Principal
Amount of this
Global Note
following such
decrease (or
increase)	  	Signature of
Responsible
Officer of Note
Registrar

  
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 ASSIGNMENT 

Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto 
  

									
	 
	 

 (name and address of assignee) 

the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints _____________, attorney, to transfer said Note on the books kept
for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises. 
  

													
	Dated:    	 	 	 		 		 	    	 	  	1     	  

 Signature Guaranteed: 

 

	1 	 NOTE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the registered owner as it appears on
the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatsoever. 

  
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 EXHIBIT A-2 

FORM OF REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE 

HERCULES CAPITAL FUNDING TRUST 2018-1 4.605% ASSET-BACKED NOTE 

THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE
APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE. ACCORDINGLY, TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE IS SUBJECT TO CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN SECTION 4.02 OF THE INDENTURE. BY ITS ACCEPTANCE OF THIS NOTE, THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE IS DEEMED TO REPRESENT TO THE ISSUER
AND THE TRUSTEE THAT IT IS (I) IF LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS A “QUALIFIED PURCHASER” AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2(A)(51) OF THE
INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 (EACH SUCH PERSON, A “QUALIFIED PURCHASER”) AND IS ACQUIRING SUCH NOTE FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT (AND NOT FOR THE ACCOUNT OF OTHERS) OR AS A FIDUCIARY OR AGENT FOR OTHERS, PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; OR (II) A NON-U.S. PERSON ACQUIRING INTEREST IN THIS NOTE OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S OF THE SECURITIES ACT (“REGULATION S”)
THAT IS A QUALIFIED PURCHASER. 
 NO SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE SHALL BE MADE UNLESS SUCH SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS
(A) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (B) FOR SO LONG AS THE NOTES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, TO A PERSON THE TRANSFEROR REASONABLY BELIEVES AFTER DUE
INQUIRY IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A WHO IS A QUALIFIED PURCHASER AND THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE
TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, OR (C) TO A NON-U.S. PERSON THAT IS A QUALIFIED PURCHASER ACQUIRING AN INTEREST IN THIS NOTE IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 903 OR 904
(AS APPLICABLE) OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT. THE TRUSTEE MAY REQUIRE AN OPINION OF COUNSEL TO BE DELIVERED TO IT IN CONNECTION WITH ANY SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (A), (B) OR (C) ABOVE. ALL
OPINIONS OF COUNSEL REQUIRED IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER SHALL BE IN A FORM REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE TRUSTEE. IN CONNECTION WITH A TRANSFER UNDER CLAUSES (B) OR (C) ABOVE, THE TRUSTEE SHALL REQUIRE THAT THE PROSPECTIVE TRANSFEREE
CERTIFY TO THE TRUSTEE AND THE SELLER, IN WRITING THE FACTS SURROUNDING SUCH TRANSFER, WHICH CERTIFICATION SHALL BE IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE. ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER IN CONTRAVENTION OF THE IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING RESTRICTION
WILL BE VOID AB INITIO AND THE PURPORTED TRANSFEROR WILL CONTINUE TO BE TREATED AS THE OWNER OF THE NOTES FOR ALL PURPOSES.” 

  
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 EACH INVESTOR IN THIS NOTE OR ANY INTEREST HEREIN WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED AND
WARRANTED THAT EITHER (I) IT IS NOT, AND IS NOT DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ACQUIRING THIS NOTE FOR, ON BEHALF OF OR WITH ANY ASSETS OF, AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR OTHER ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO PART 4, SUBTITLE B, TITLE I OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT
INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”), A PLAN, ACCOUNT OR ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”), OR AN ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE PLAN ASSETS OF
ANY SUCH PLANS (COLLECTIVELY, A “BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR”) OR A PLAN OR OTHER ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO ANY PROVISIONS UNDER ANY FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL, NON-U.S. OR OTHER LAWS OR REGULATIONS THAT ARE
SUBSTANTIVELY SIMILAR TO SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE (“SIMILAR LAW”) OR (II) ITS ACQUISITION, HOLDING AND DISPOSITION OF SUCH NOTE OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN DOES NOT AND WILL NOT CONSTITUTE OR RESULT IN A NON-EXEMPT PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE, OR A NON-EXEMPT VIOLATION OF SIMILAR LAW. 

EACH PURCHASER OR TRANSFEREE OF ANY NOTE OR BENEFICIAL INTEREST THEREIN THAT IS A BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR WILL BE REQUIRED OR DEEMED TO
REPRESENT, WARRANT AND AGREE THAT (I) NONE OF THE ISSUER, THE DEPOSITOR, THE SERVICER, THE TRUSTEE, THE OWNER TRUSTEE, THE TRUST DEPOSITOR, THE SELLER OR THE INITIAL PURCHASER (THE “TRANSACTION PARTIES”) NOR ANY OF THEIR AFFILIATES,
HAS PROVIDED ANY INVESTMENT ADVICE WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 3(21) OF ERISA TO THE BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR, OR TO ANY FIDUCIARY OR OTHER PERSON INVESTING THE ASSETS OF THE BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR (“FIDUCIARY”), IN CONNECTION WITH THE
BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR’S ACQUISITION OF NOTES, AND (II) THE FIDUCIARY IS EXERCISING ITS OWN INDEPENDENT JUDGMENT IN EVALUATING THE TRANSACTION. 

THE ISSUER HAS THE RIGHT, UNDER THE INDENTURE, TO COMPEL ANY BENEFICIAL OWNER OF AN INTEREST IN THIS NOTE THAT IS NOT BOTH (A) A
QUALIFIED PURCHASER OR A CORPORATION, PARTNERSHIP, LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY OR OTHER ENTITY (OTHER THAN A TRUST) EACH SHAREHOLDER, PARTNER, MEMBER OR OTHER EQUITY OWNER OF WHICH IS A QUALIFIED PURCHASER AND (B)(1) A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER OR
(2) A NON-U.S. PERSON IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN RELIANCE ON REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, TO SELL ITS INTEREST IN THIS NOTE, OR MAY SELL SUCH INTEREST ON BEHALF OF SUCH OWNER. 

THE FAILURE TO PROVIDE THE ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE (AND ANY OF THEIR AGENTS) WITH THE PROPERLY COMPLETED AND SIGNED TAX CERTIFICATIONS
(GENERALLY, IN THE CASE OF U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX, AN INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE FORM W-9 (OR APPLICABLE SUCCESSOR FORM) IN THE CASE OF A PERSON THAT IS A “UNITED STATES PERSON” WITHIN THE MEANING OF
SECTION 7701(a)(30) OF THE CODE OR THE APPROPRIATE INTERNAL 

  
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REVENUE SERVICE FORM W-8 (OR APPLICABLE SUCCESSOR FORM) IN THE CASE OF A PERSON THAT IS NOT A “UNITED STATES PERSON” WITHIN THE MEANING OF
SECTION 7701(a)(30) OF THE CODE) MAY RESULT IN WITHHOLDING FROM PAYMENTS IN RESPECT OF SUCH NOTE, INCLUDING U.S. FEDERAL WITHHOLDING OR BACK-UP WITHHOLDING. 

EACH HOLDER OF THIS NOTE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN) WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED AND AGREED TO TREAT SUCH NOTE AS INDEBTEDNESS FOR U.S.
FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL INCOME AND FRANCHISE TAX PURPOSES, EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY LAW. 
 THIS NOTE MAY BE ISSUED WITH ORIGINAL
ISSUE DISCOUNT (“OID”) FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES. THE ISSUE PRICE, AMOUNT OF OID, ISSUE DATE AND YIELD TO MATURITY OF THIS NOTE MAY BE OBTAINED BY WRITING TO THE SERVICER. 

THIS NOTE IS A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST
COMPANY (“DTC”), A NEW YORK CORPORATION, 55 WATER STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10004, OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE
REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN DTC OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE. UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC TO THE ISSUER OR THE REGISTRAR, AND ANY
NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC, AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC, ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL BECAUSE THE REGISTERED OWNER, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN. 

THIS REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE IS A GLOBAL NOTE WHICH IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR INTERESTS IN OTHER GLOBAL NOTES SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
SET FORTH HEREIN AND IN THE INDENTURE (AS DEFINED HEREIN). EACH HOLDER OF THIS REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE (OR A BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP INTEREST THEREIN) MUST PROVIDE A WRITTEN CERTIFICATION TO THE ISSUER THAT SUCH HOLDER (OR BENEFICIAL OWNER) IS A
“QUALIFIED PURCHASER” AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2(A)(51) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 AND MAY NOT TRANSFER ITS INTEREST IN SUCH NOTE UNLESS IT REASONABLY BELIEVES THAT THE TRANSFEREE IS ALSO A “QUALIFIED PURCHASER” AS
DEFINED IN SECTION 2(A)(51) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940. 

  
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 IN CONNECTION WITH THE OFFERING OF THE NOTES IN THE UNITED STATES FROM OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED
STATES, UNTIL 40 DAYS AFTER THE ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE OF THE NOTES (THE “RESTRICTED PERIOD”), THE SALE, PLEDGE OR TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE IS SUBJECT TO CERTAIN CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS. THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING OR OTHERWISE
ACQUIRING THIS NOTE, ACKNOWLEDGES THAT SUCH HOLDER IS A QUALIFIED PURCHASER OR AN AFFILIATE OF THE ISSUER, AND THAT THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ISSUER THAT THIS NOTE MAY BE
TRANSFERRED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY TO A QUALIFIED PURCHASER AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS OF THE STATES, TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNING THE OFFER AND SALE OF
SECURITIES, AND PRIOR TO THE EXPIRATION OF THE RESTRICTED PERIOD, ONLY (I) IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (II) PURSUANT TO AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.

 THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT
ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF. 
 THIS NOTE (AND ANY INTEREST HEREIN) MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED IN AN AMOUNT
LESS THAN THE MINIMUM DENOMINATION APPLICABLE TO SUCH NOTE. 
 AS A CONDITION TO THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT HEREUNDER WITHOUT THE IMPOSITION
OF WITHHOLDING TAX, THE TRUSTEE SHALL REQUIRE CERTIFICATION ACCEPTABLE TO IT TO ENABLE THE ISSUER AND THE TRUSTEE TO DETERMINE THEIR DUTIES AND LIABILITIES WITH RESPECT TO ANY TAXES THAT THEY MAY BE REQUIRED TO PAY, DEDUCT OR WITHHOLD IN RESPECT OF
THIS NOTE OR THE HOLDER HEREOF UNDER ANY PRESENT OR FUTURE LAW OR REGULATION OF THE UNITED STATES OR ANY PRESENT OR FUTURE LAW OR REGULATION OF ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION THEREOF OR TAXING AUTHORITY THEREIN OR TO COMPLY WITH ANY REPORTING OR OTHER
REQUIREMENTS UNDER ANY SUCH LAW OR REGULATION. 

  
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 REGISTERED                up
to $200,000,000 
  

			
	No. A-1	  	November 1, 2018

 SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS 

Reg S CUSIP NO. U4261PAA5 

Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1, a statutory trust organized and existing under the laws of the
State of Delaware (herein referred to as the “Issuer”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO, or registered assigns, the principal sum of up to TWO HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS payable in accordance with the
Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement on each Payment Date on which principal is required to be paid in an amount equal to the result obtained by multiplying (i) a fraction, the numerator of which is the initial principal balance of
this Note and the denominator of which is the Initial Note Principal Balance by (ii) the aggregate amount, if any, payable from the Distribution Account in respect of principal on the Notes. 

The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin or currency of the United States as at the time of payment is legal tender
for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note. 

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though fully set
forth on the face of this Note. 
 Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee whose name appears below
by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. 

  
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be signed, manually or in
facsimile, by its Responsible Officer as of the date set forth above. 
  

			
	HERCULES CAPITAL FUNDING TRUST 2018-1
		
	By:	 	WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement
		
	By: 	 	 
		 	Authorized Signatory

 TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION 

This is one of the Notes of Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 designated above and referred to in
the within-mentioned Indenture. 
  

			
	U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee,
		
	By:	 	 
		 	Authorized Signatory

  
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 [REVERSE OF NOTE] 

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 Notes (herein called the “Notes”), all issued under an Indenture, dated as of November 1, 2018 (such indenture, as supplemented or amended, is herein called the
“Indenture”), between the Issuer and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor Trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental
thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes. The Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture. All terms used in this Note that are
defined in the Indenture, as supplemented or amended, shall have the meanings assigned to them in or pursuant to the Indenture, as so supplemented or amended. 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal amount of the Notes shall be due and payable on the date on which an Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the Trustee or the Majority Noteholders have declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable (or such Notes have become automatically due and payable) in the manner provided in
Section 5.02 of the Indenture. All principal payments on the Notes shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders entitled thereto. 

Each Noteholder, by acceptance of a Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, with respect to the
obligations of the Issuer under the Indenture on the Notes or under any certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against any holder of a Trust Certificate, the Trust Depositor, the Servicer, the Trustee or the Owner Trustee in
its individual capacity. 
 On each Payment Date, commencing on the Payment Date occurring on November 20, 2018, the Trustee or paying
agent shall distribute to the Person in whose name this Note is registered on the close of business on the Record Date an amount equal to the product of the Percentage Interest of the Notes evidenced by this Note and the amount required to be
distributed to Holders of Notes on such Payment Date pursuant to Section 3.05 of the Indenture. 
 During each
Interest Period, this Note will bear interest at the Interest Rate. 
 Distributions on this Note will be made by the Trustee or paying
agent by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such name and address shall appear on the Note Register or, upon written request to the Trustee, by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Person
entitled thereto as shall appear on the Note Register without the presentation or surrender of this Note or the making of any notation thereon, at a bank or other entity having appropriate facilities therefor, and, in the case of wire transfers, at
the expense of such Person unless such Person shall own of record Notes which have Initial Note Principal Balances aggregating at least $10,000. 

Notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this Note will be made after due notice by the Trustee of the pendency of such
distribution and only upon presentation and surrender of this Note at the office or agency maintained for that purpose by the Note Registrar. 

  
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 As provided in the Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement, deposits and withdrawals
from the Distribution Account and the Collection Account may be made by the Servicer or the Trustee from time to time for purposes other than distributions to Noteholders, such purposes including reimbursement to the Servicer of advances made, or
certain expenses incurred, by it, and to the extent applicable, investment in Permitted Investments. 
 As provided in the Indenture and
subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Note Register upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the offices or agencies maintained by the Note Registrar, duly endorsed by,
or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by, the holder hereof or such holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes in authorized denominations
evidencing the same aggregate undivided Percentage Interest will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. 
 The Note is
issuable only as a registered Note. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the Note is exchangeable for a new Note evidencing the same aggregate principal amount, as requested by the holder surrendering
the same. 
 No service charge will be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Note Registrar may require payment of
a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith. 
 The Servicer, the Trust Depositor, the
Owner Trustee, the Trustee and the Note Registrar, and any agent of any of the foregoing, may treat the person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and none of the foregoing shall be affected by notice to the
contrary. 
 The obligations and responsibilities created by the Indenture shall terminate upon the payment to Noteholders of all amounts
required to be paid to them pursuant to the Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the disposition of all property held as part of the Indenture Collateral. 

  
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 SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF INTERESTS IN THE GLOBAL NOTE 

The following exchanges of a part of this Global Note for an interest in another Global Note or for an Individual Note, or exchanges of a part
of another Global Note or Individual Note for an interest in this Global Note, have been made: 
  

									
	 Date of

Exchange
	  	 Amount of

decrease in

Principal

Amount of this

Global Note
	  	 Amount of

increase in

Principal

Amount of this

Global Note
	  	 Principal

Amount of this

Global Note
 following
such
 decrease (or

increase)
	  	 Signature of

Responsible

Officer of Note

Registrar

  
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 ASSIGNMENT 

Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto 
  

			
	 
	 

 (name and address of assignee) 

the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints _____________, attorney, to transfer said Note on the books kept
for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises. 
  

													
	Dated:    	 	 	 		 		 	     	 			

 Signature Guaranteed: 
  

 

	2 	 NOTE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the registered owner as it appears on
the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatsoever. 

  
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 EXHIBIT B 

LIST OF LOANS 
 See Exhibit G of
the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 

  
 B-1 

 EXHIBIT C 

FORM OF WIRING INSTRUCTIONS 

_______________, 2018 
 [Paying Agent] 

[Trustee] 

	
	 
	   

	 

  

	Re:	 Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 Notes

 Dear Sir: 
 In connection with the sale
of the above-captioned Note by __________________________ to _____________________________, (“Transferee”) you, as paying agent, are instructed to make all remittances to Transferee as Noteholder as of ____________, ____ by wire
transfer. For such wire transfer, the wiring instructions are as follows: 
  

					
		  	 	  	
		  	 	  	
		  	 	  	

  

	
	   

	Transferee

 Noteholder’s mailing address: 

Name: 
 Address: 

  
 C-1 

 EXHIBIT D-1 

FORM OF TRANSFEREE LETTER 
  

	 	•	 	 Hercules Capital, Inc. 

as the Servicer 
  

	 	•	 	 400 Hamilton Avenue, Suite 310 

 

	 	•	 	 Palo Alto, California 94301 

 

	 	•	 	 Attention: Chief Financial Officer 

 

	 	•	 	 Re: Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 

U.S. Bank National Association, 
 as the Trustee 

111 Fillmore Avenue East 
 Attn: Bondholder Services—EP-MN-WS2N 
 St. Paul, Minnesota, 55107 

Ref: Hercules 2018-1 

__________, 20__ 
  

	 	Re:	 Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 Notes 

Ladies and Gentlemen: 
 In connection with our
acquisition of the above-captioned Notes, we certify that (a) we understand that the Notes are not being registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), or any state securities laws and are being
transferred to us in a transaction that is exempt from the registration requirements of the Act and any such laws, (b) we are an Institutional Accredited Investor who is a Qualified Purchaser, as defined in the Indenture pursuant to which the
Notes were issued (the “Indenture”), and have such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters that we are capable of evaluating the merits and risks of investments in the Notes, (c) we have had the opportunity
to ask questions of and receive answers from the Seller and the Servicer concerning the purchase of the Notes and all matters relating thereto or any additional information deemed necessary to our decision to purchase the Notes, (d) we are
acquiring the Notes for investment for our own account and not with a view to any distribution of such Notes (but without prejudice to our right at all times to sell or otherwise dispose of the Notes in accordance with clause (f) below),
(e) we have not offered or sold any Notes to, or solicited offers to buy any Notes from, any person, or otherwise approached or negotiated with any person with respect thereto, or taken any other action which would result in a violation of
Section 5 of the Act, (f) we will not sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any Notes unless (1) such sale, transfer or other disposition is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Act or is exempt from such
registration requirements, and if requested, we will at our expense provide an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the addressees of this certificate that such sale, transfer or other disposition may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Act,
(2) the purchaser or transferee of such Note has executed and delivered to you a certificate to 

  
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substantially the same effect as this certificate if required by the Indenture, and (3) the purchaser or transferee has otherwise complied with any conditions for transfer set forth in the
Indenture, and (g) the purchaser is not, and is not directly or indirectly acquiring or holding a Note or any interest therein on behalf of or with any assets of an employee benefit plan as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), that is subject to Part 4, Subtitle B, Title I of ERISA, a “plan” described in and subject to Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
(the “Code”) or an entity whose underlying assets include “plan assets” (as defined in 29 CFR Section 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA) of any plan,
account or arrangement covered by ERISA or the Code (collectively, a “Plan”) or governmental, non-U.S. or church plan or arrangement subject to any federal, state, local or non-U.S. law or regulation substantively similar or of similar effect to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (collectively, “Similar Law”); or its acquisition, holding and
disposition of such Note (1) will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code by reason of any of
Section 408(b)(17) of ERISA or Section 4975(d)(20) of the Code, Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption (“PTCE”) 96-23, PTCE 95-60, PTCE 91-38, PTCE 90-1, PTCE 84-14, each as amended, or otherwise, or (2) in the case of a governmental,
non-U.S. or church plan or arrangement subject to Similar Law, will not constitute or result in a non-exempt violation of Similar Law. 

 

			
	Very truly yours,
	
	 
	Print Name of Transferee

 
			
		
	By: 	 	 

 
			
	Responsible Officer

  
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 EXHIBIT D-2 

FORM OF RULE 144A CERTIFICATION 
  

	 	•	 	 Hercules Capital, Inc. 

as the Servicer 
  

	 	•	 	 400 Hamilton Avenue, Suite 310 

 

	 	•	 	 Palo Alto, California 94301 

 

	 	•	 	 Attention: Chief Financial Officer 

 

	 	•	 	 Re: Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 

U.S. Bank National Association, 
 as the Trustee 

111 Fillmore Avenue East 
 Attn: Bondholder Services - EP-MN-WS2N 
 St. Paul, Minnesota, 55107 

Ref: Hercules 2018-1 

                    ,
20         
  

	 	Re:	 Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 Notes 

Ladies and Gentlemen: 
 In connection with our
acquisition any of the above Notes we certify that (a) we understand that the Notes are not being registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), or any state securities laws and are being transferred to us
in a transaction that is exempt from the registration requirements of the Act and any such laws, (b) we have had the opportunity to ask questions of and receive answers from the Seller and the Servicer concerning the purchase of the Notes and
all matters relating thereto or any additional information deemed necessary to our decision to purchase the Notes, (c) we have not, nor has anyone acting on our behalf offered, transferred, pledged, sold or otherwise disposed of the Notes, any
interest in the Notes or any other similar security to, or solicited any offer to buy or accept a transfer, pledge or other disposition of the Notes, any interest in the Notes or any other similar security from, or otherwise approached or negotiated
with respect to the Notes, any interest in the Notes or any other similar security with, any person in any manner, or made any general solicitation by means of general advertising or in any other manner, or taken any other action, that would
constitute a distribution of the Notes under the Act or that would render the disposition of the Notes a violation of Section 5 of the Act or require registration pursuant thereto, nor will act, nor has authorized or will authorize any person
to act, in such manner with respect to the Notes, (d) we are a “Qualified Institutional Buyer” as that term is defined in Rule 144A under the Act who is a “Qualified Purchaser” as that term is defined in
Section 2(a)(51) of the 1940 Act and have completed the form of certification to that effect attached hereto as Annex 1, and (e) we are not directly or indirectly acquiring or holding a Note or any interest therein on behalf of or with any

  
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assets of an employee benefit plan as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), that is subject to Part 4,
Subtitle B, Title I of ERISA, a “plan” described in and subject to Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) or an entity whose underlying assets include “plan assets” (as
define in 29 CFR Section 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA) of any plan, account or arrangement covered by ERISA or the Code (collectively, a “Plan”) or governmental,
non-U.S. or church plan or arrangement subject to any federal, state, local or non-U.S. law or regulation substantively similar or of similar effect to Section 406
of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (collectively, “Similar Law”); or its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Note (1) will not constitute or result in a non-exempt
prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code by reason of any of Section 408(b)(17) of ERISA or Section 4975(d)(20) of the Code, Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption (“PTCE”) 96-23, PTCE 95-60, PTCE 91-38, PTCE 90-1, PTCE 84-14,
each as amended, or otherwise, or (2) in the case of a governmental, non-U.S. or church plan or arrangement subject to Similar Law, will not constitute or result in a
non-exempt violation of Similar Law. 
 We are acquiring the Notes for our own account or for resale
pursuant to Rule 144A and further, understand that such Notes may be resold, pledged or transferred only (i) to a person reasonably believed to be a Qualified Institutional Buyer who is a Qualified Purchaser that purchases for its own account
or for the account of a Qualified Institutional Buyer to whom notice is given that the resale, pledge or transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, or (ii) pursuant to another exemption from registration under the Act. 

 

			
	Very truly yours,
	
	 
	Print Name of Transferee

 
			
		
	By:	 	 

 
			
	Responsible Officer

  
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 ANNEX 1 TO EXHIBIT D-2 

FORM OF CERTIFICATION 
 [Date] 

Hercules Capital, Inc. 
 as the Servicer 

400 Hamilton Avenue, Suite 310 
 Palo Alto, California 94301 

Attention: Chief Financial Officer 
 Re: Hercules Capital Funding
Trust 2018-1 
 U.S. Bank National Association, 

as the Trustee 
 111 Fillmore Avenue East 

Attn: Bondholder Services - EP-MN-WS2N 

St. Paul, Minnesota, 55107 
 Ref: Hercules 2018-1 
  

	 	Re:	 Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 Notes 

Ladies and Gentlemen: 
 In connection with our purchase of the
above-captioned Notes, the undersigned certifies to each of the parties to whom this letter is addressed that it is a qualified institutional buyer (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”))
who is a qualified purchaser (as defined in Section 2(a)(51) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “1940 Act”) as follows: 
  

	1.	 It owns and/or invests on a discretionary basis eligible securities (excluding affiliate’s securities,
bank deposit notes and CD’s, loan participations, repurchase agreements, securities owned but subject to a repurchase agreement and currency, interest rate and commodity swaps), as described below: 

Amount:
$                         ; and 

  
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	2.	 The dollar amount set forth above is: 

a. greater than $100 million and the undersigned is one of the following entities: 

 

							
		 	 (1)
	  	☐	  	an insurance company as defined in Section 2(13) of the Act*; or
				
		 	 (2)
	  	☐	  	an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act or any business development company as defined in Section 2(a)(48) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 or as defined in Section 202(a)(22) of the
Investment Advisers Act of 1940; or
				
		 	 (3)
	  	☐	  	a Small Business Investment Company licensed by the U.S. Small Business Administration under Section 301(c) or (d) of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958; or
				
		 	 (4)
	  	☐	  	a plan (i) established and maintained by a state, its political subdivisions, or any agency or instrumentality of a state or its political subdivisions, the laws of which permit the purchase of securities of this type, for the
benefit of its employees and (ii) the governing investment guidelines of which permit the purchase of securities of this type; or
				
		 	 (5)
	  	☐	  	a corporation (other than a United States bank, savings and loan association or equivalent foreign institution), partnership, Massachusetts or similar statutory or business trust, or an organization described in
Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; or
				
		 	 (6)
	  	☐	  	a United States bank, savings and loan association or equivalent foreign institution, which has an audited net worth of at least $25 million as demonstrated in its latest annual financial statements as of a date not more than
16 months preceding the date of sale in the case of a U.S. institution or 18 months in the case of a foreign institution; or
				
		 	 (7)
	  	☐	  	an investment adviser registered under the Investment Advisers Act; or
				
	 b.
	 	 ☐
	  		  	greater than $25 million, and the undersigned is a broker-dealer registered with the SEC; or
				
	 c.
	 	 ☐
	  		  	[Reserved]
				
	 d.
	 	 ☐
	  		  	less than $100 million, and the undersigned is an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, which, together with one or more registered investment companies having the same or an affiliated
investment adviser, owns at least $100 million of eligible securities; or
				
	 e.
	 	 ☐
	  		  	less than $100 million, and the undersigned is an entity, all the equity owners of which are qualified institutional buyers.

  

	* 	 A purchase by an insurance company for one or more of its separate accounts, as defined by section 2(a)(37) of
the Investment Company Act of 1940, which are neither registered nor required to be registered thereunder, shall be deemed to be a purchase for the account of such insurance company. 

	 	

	 	

	 	

	 	

	 	

	 	

	 	

	 	

	 	

	 	

  
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 The undersigned further certifies that it is purchasing Notes for its own account or for the
account of others that independently qualify as “Qualified Institutional Buyers” as defined in Rule 144A who are “Qualified Purchasers” as defined in the 1940 Act. It is aware that the sale of the Notes is being made in reliance
on its continued compliance with Rule 144A. It is aware that the transferor may rely on the exemption from the provisions of Section 5 of the Act provided by Rule 144A. The undersigned understands that the Notes may be resold, pledged or
transferred pursuant to Rule 144A only to a person reasonably believed to be a Qualified Institutional Buyer who is a Qualified Purchaser that purchases for its own account or for the account of a Qualified Institutional Buyer who is a Qualified
Purchaser to whom notice is given that the resale, pledge or transfer is being made in reliance in Rule 144A. 
 The undersigned agrees that
if at some time before the expiration of the holding period described in Rule 144 it wishes to dispose of or exchange any of the Notes, it will not transfer or exchange any of the Notes to a Qualified Institutional Buyer without first obtaining a
letter in the form hereof from the transferee and delivering such certificate to the addressees hereof. 
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this document
has been executed by the undersigned who is duly authorized to do so on behalf of the undersigned Qualified Institutional Buyer who is a Qualified Purchaser on the
                 day of                     ,
                . 
  

			
	Name of Institution
		
	Signature	 	
	Name	 	
	Title**	 	

  
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 EXHIBIT E 

FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE FOR RULE 144A GLOBAL NOTE TO 

REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE DURING DISTRIBUTION COMPLIANCE PERIOD 

(Pursuant to Section 4.02(l)(i) of the Indenture) 

U.S. Bank National Association, 
 as the Trustee 

111 Fillmore Avenue East 
 Attn: Bondholder Services - EP-MN-WS2N 
 St. Paul, Minnesota, 55107 

Ref: Hercules 2018-1 
  

	 	Re:	 Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 Notes 

Ladies and Gentlemen: 
 Reference is hereby made
to the Indenture, dated as of November 1, 2018 (as amended, modified, waived, supplemented or restated from time to time, the “Agreement”), between Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1,
as the issuer (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “Issuer”), and U.S. Bank National Association, as the trustee (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “Trustee”).
Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Agreement. 
 This letter relates to US
$__________ aggregate current principal amount of Notes (the “Notes”) which are held in the form of the Rule 144A Global Note (CUSIP No. [__________]) with the Depository in the name of [insert name of transferor] (the
“Transferor”). The Transferor has requested a transfer of such beneficial interest in the Notes for an interest in the Regulation S Global Note (CUSIP No. [__________]) to be held with [Euroclear] [Clearstream] (Common Code No.
[_______]) through the Depository. 
 In connection with such request and in respect of such Notes, the Transferor does hereby certify that
such transfer has been effected in accordance with the transfer restrictions set forth in the Agreement and pursuant to and in accordance with Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and
accordingly the Transferor does hereby certify that: 
  

	 	(1)	 the offer of the Notes was not made to a person in the United States; 

 

	 	(2)	 [at the time the buy order was originated, the transferee was outside the United States or the Transferor and
any person acting on its behalf reasonably believed that the transferee was outside the United States] [the transaction was executed in, on or through the facilities of a designated offshore securities market and neither the Transferor nor any
person acting on its behalf knows that the transaction was pre-arranged with a buyer in the United States]; 

  
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	 	(3)	 the transferee is not a U.S. Person within the meaning of Rule 902(o) of Regulation S nor a Person acting for
the account or benefit of a U.S. Person; 

  

	 	(4)	 The transferee, and any account on behalf of which the transferee is acquiring the Notes, is a “Qualified
Purchaser” within the meaning of Section 2(a)(51) of the 1940 Act; 

  

	 	(5)	 no directed selling efforts have been made in contravention of the requirements of Rule 903(b) or Rule 904(b)
of Regulation S, as applicable; 

  

	 	(6)	 the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to evade the registration requirements of the Securities Act;
and 

  

	 	(7)	 upon completion of the transaction, the beneficial interest being transferred as described above will be held
with the Depository through [Euroclear] [Clearstream]. 

 This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit
and the benefit of the Trustee, the Issuer and the Initial Purchaser of the offering of the Notes. 
  

			
	[Insert Name of Transferor]

 
			
		
	 By:
	 	 

 
			
	 Name:
	 	 

 
			
	Title:	 	

 Dated: 

 EXHIBIT F 

FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE FOR RULE 144A GLOBAL NOTE TO 

REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE AFTER DISTRIBUTION COMPLIANCE PERIOD 

(Pursuant to Section 4.02(l)(ii) of the Indenture) 

U.S. Bank National Association, 
 as the Trustee 

111 Fillmore Avenue East 
 Attn: Bondholder Services - EP-MN-WS2N 
 St. Paul, Minnesota, 55107 

Ref: Hercules 2018-1 
  

	 	Re:	 Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 Notes 

Ladies and Gentlemen: 
 Reference is hereby made to the
Indenture, dated as of November 1, 2018 (as amended, modified, waived, supplemented or restated from time to time, the “Agreement”), between Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1, as the
issuer (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “Issuer”), and U.S. Bank National Association, as the trustee (the “Trustee”). Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the
meanings given to them in the Agreement. 
 This letter relates to US
$                         aggregate current principal amount of Notes (the “Notes”) which are held in the
form of the Rule 144A Global Note (CUSIP No. [)                     with the Depository in the name of [insert name of transferor] (the
“Transferor”). The Transferor has requested a transfer of such beneficial interest in the Notes for an interest in the Regulation S Global Note (Common Code No.
[                        ]). 

In connection with such request, and in respect of such Notes, the Transferor does hereby certify that such transfer has been effected in accordance with the
transfer restrictions set forth in the Agreement and, (i) with respect to transfers made in reliance on Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), the Transferor does hereby certify that:

  

	 	(1)	 the offer of the Notes was not made to a person in the United States; 

 

	 	(2)	 [at the time the buy order was originated, the transferee was outside the United States or the Transferor and
any person acting on its behalf reasonably believed that the transferee was outside the United States] [the transaction was executed in, on or through the facilities of a designated offshore securities market and neither the Transferor nor any
person acting on its behalf knows that the transaction was pre-arranged with a buyer in the United States]; 

  

	 	(3)	 no directed selling efforts have been made in contravention of the requirements of Rule 903(b) or Rule 904(b)
of Regulation S, as applicable; 

  
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	 	(4)	 The transferee, and any account on behalf of which the transferee is acquiring the Notes, is a “Qualified
Purchaser” within the meaning of Section 2(a)(51) of the 1940 Act; and 

  

	 	(5)	 the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to evade the registration requirements of the Securities Act;

 or (ii) with respect to transfers made in reliance on Rule 144 under the Securities Act, the Transferor does hereby certify that
the Notes that are being transferred are not “restricted securities” as defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act. 
 This certificate and the
statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Trustee, the Issuer and the Initial Purchaser of the offering of the Notes. 
  

			
	[Insert Name of Transferor]

 
			
		
	By: 	 	 

 
			
	Name:	 	 
	Title:	 	

 Dated: 

  
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 EXHIBIT G 

FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE 

TO RULE 144A GLOBAL NOTE DURING DISTRIBUTION COMPLIANCE PERIOD 

(Pursuant to Section 4.02(l)(iii)(3)(i) of the Indenture) 

U.S. Bank National Association, 
 as the Trustee 

111 Fillmore Avenue East 
 Attn: Bondholder Services - EP-MN-WS2N 
 St. Paul, Minnesota, 55107 

Ref: Hercules 2018-1 
  

	 	Re:	 Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 Notes 

Ladies and Gentlemen: 
 Reference is hereby made to the
Indenture, dated as of November 1, 2018 (as amended, modified, waived, supplemented or restated from time to time, the “Agreement”), between Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1, as the
issuer (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “Issuer”), and U.S. Bank National Association, as the trustee (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “Trustee”).
Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Agreement. 
 This letter relates to US $__________ aggregate
current principal amount of Notes (the “Notes”) which are held in the form of the Regulation S Global Note (CUSIP No. [__________]) with [Euroclear] [Clearstream] (Common Code No. [______]) through the Depository in the name of
[insert name of transferor] (the “Transferor”). The Transferor has requested a transfer of such beneficial interest in the Notes for an interest in the Regulation 144A Global Note (CUSIP No. [__________]). 

In connection with such request, and in respect of such Notes, the Transferor does hereby certify that such Notes are being transferred in accordance with
(i) the transfer restrictions set forth in the Agreement and (ii) Rule 144A under the Securities Act to a transferee that the Transferor reasonably believes is purchasing the Notes for its own account with respect to which the transferee
exercises sole investment discretion and the transferee and any such account is a “Qualified Institutional Buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A who is a “Qualified Purchaser” under the 1940 Act, in each case in a transaction
meeting the requirements of Rule 144A and in accordance with any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States or any jurisdiction. 

  
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 This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the
benefit of the Trustee, the Issuer and the Initial Purchaser of the offering of the Notes. 
  

			
	[Insert Name of Transferor]

 
			
		
	By:	 	 

 
			
	Name:	 	 
	Title:	 	

 Dated: 

  
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 EXHIBIT H 

FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE FOR REGULATION S 

GLOBAL NOTE DURING DISTRIBUTION COMPLIANCE PERIOD 

(Pursuant to Section 4.02(l)(iv)(3) of the Indenture) 

U.S. Bank National Association, 
 as the Trustee 

111 Fillmore Avenue East 
 Attn: Bondholder Services - EP-MN-WS2N 
 St. Paul, Minnesota, 55107 

Ref: Hercules 2018-1 
  

	 	Re:	 Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 Notes 

Ladies and Gentlemen: 
 This certificate is delivered pursuant to
Section 4.02 of the Indenture, dated as of November 1, 2018 (as amended, modified, waived, supplemented or restated from time to time, the “Agreement”), between Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1, as the issuer (together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “Issuer”), and U.S. Bank National Association, as the trustee (together with its successors and assigns in such
capacity, the “Trustee”), in connection with the transfer by the undersigned (the “Transferor”) to _________________ (the “Transferee”) of $__________________ current principal amount of Notes, in
fully registered form (each, an “Individual Note”), or a beneficial interest of such aggregate current principal amount in the Regulation S Global Note (the “Global Note”) maintained by The Depository Trust Company
or its successor as Depository under the Agreement (such transferred interest, in either form, being the “Transferred Interest”). 

In connection with such transfer, the Transferor does hereby certify that such transfer has been effected in accordance with the transfer
restrictions set forth in the Agreement and the Notes and (i) with respect to transfers made in accordance with Regulation S (“Regulation S”) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities
Act”), the Transferor does hereby certify that: 
  

	 	(1)	 the offer of the Transferred Interest was not made to a person in the United States; 

 

	 	(2)	 [at the time the buy order was originated, the Transferee was outside the United States or the Transferor and
any person acting on its behalf reasonably believed that the Transferee was outside the United States] [the transaction was executed in, on or through the facilities of a designated offshore securities market and neither the undersigned nor any
person acting on its behalf knows that the transaction was pre-arranged with a buyer in the United States]; 

  

	 	(3)	 the transferee is not a U.S. Person within the meaning of Rule 902(o) of Regulation S nor a person acting for
the account or benefit of a U.S. Person, and upon completion of the transaction, the Transferred Interest will be held with the Depository through [Euroclear] [Clearstream]; 

  
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	 	(4)	 The transferee, and any account on behalf of which the transferee is acquiring the Notes, is a “Qualified
Purchaser” within the meaning of Section 2(a)(51) of the 1940 Act; 

  

	 	(5)	 no directed selling efforts have been made in contravention of the requirements of Rule 903(b) or Rule 904(b)
of Regulation S, as applicable; and 

  

	 	(6)	 the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to evade the registration requirements of the Securities Act;

 or (ii) with respect to transfers made in reliance on Rule 144 under the Securities Act, the Transferor does hereby certify that
such Notes that are being transferred are not “restricted securities” as defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act. 
 This certificate and the
statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Trustee, the Issuer and the Initial Purchaser of the offering of the Notes. 
  

			
	[Insert Name of Transferor]

 
			
		
	By:	 	 

 
			
	Name:	 	 
	Title:	 	

 Dated: 

  
 H-2EX-4.2

 Exhibit 4.2 

EXECUTION COPY 
  

 
  

AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT 

by and between 
 HERCULES
CAPITAL FUNDING 2018-1 LLC, 
 as the Trust Depositor 

and 
 WILMINGTON TRUST,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, 
 as the Owner Trustee 

Dated as of November 1, 2018 
  

 
  

Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 

Asset-Backed Notes 

 TABLE OF CONTENTS 

 

							
	 	  	 	  	Page	 
	 ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS
	  	 	1	 
			
	 Section 1.01
	  	Definitions	  	 	1	 
	 Section 1.02
	  	Other Terms	  	 	4	 
	 Section 1.03
	  	Computation of Time Periods	  	 	4	 
	 Section 1.04
	  	Interpretation	  	 	4	 
	 Section 1.05
	  	References	  	 	5	 
	 Section 1.06
	  	Calculations	  	 	5	 
		
	 ARTICLE II ORGANIZATION
	  	 	5	 
			
	 Section 2.01
	  	Name	  	 	5	 
	 Section 2.02
	  	Office	  	 	6	 
	 Section 2.03
	  	Purposes and Powers	  	 	6	 
	 Section 2.04
	  	Appointment of Owner Trustee	  	 	7	 
	 Section 2.05
	  	Initial Capital Contribution of Trust Estate	  	 	7	 
	 Section 2.06
	  	Declaration of Trust	  	 	7	 
	 Section 2.07
	  	Liability of the Certificateholders	  	 	8	 
	 Section 2.08
	  	Title to Trust Property	  	 	8	 
	 Section 2.09
	  	Situs of Trust	  	 	8	 
	 Section 2.10
	  	Representations and Warranties of the Trust Depositor	  	 	8	 
	 Section 2.11
	  	Federal Income Tax Allocations	  	 	9	 
	 Section 2.12
	  	Covenant of Certificateholders	  	 	11	 
		
	 ARTICLE III TRUST CERTIFICATES AND TRANSFER OF INTERESTS
	  	 	12	 
			
	 Section 3.01
	  	Initial Ownership	  	 	12	 
	 Section 3.02
	  	The Trust Certificates	  	 	12	 
	 Section 3.03
	  	Authentication of Trust Certificates	  	 	12	 
	 Section 3.04
	  	Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates	  	 	13	 
	 Section 3.05
	  	Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Certificates	  	 	13	 
	 Section 3.06
	  	Persons Deemed Owners	  	 	14	 
	 Section 3.07
	  	Access to List of Certificateholders’ Names and Addresses	  	 	14	 
	 Section 3.08
	  	Maintenance of Office or Agency	  	 	14	 
	 Section 3.09
	  	Appointment of Trustee as Paying Agent	  	 	15	 
	 Section 3.10
	  	Transfer Restrictions	  	 	15	 
		
	 ARTICLE IV ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE
	  	 	19	 
			
	 Section 4.01
	  	Prior Notice to and Consent by Certificateholders with Respect to Certain Matters	  	 	19	 
	 Section 4.02
	  	Action by Certificateholders with Respect to Bankruptcy	  	 	20	 
	 Section 4.03
	  	Restrictions on Certificateholders’ Power	  	 	21	 
	 Section 4.04
	  	Majority Control	  	 	21	 
		
	 ARTICLE V APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES
	  	 	21	 
			
	 Section 5.01
	  	Establishment of Trust Account	  	 	21	 

  
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	 Section 5.02
	  	Application of Trust Funds	  	 	21	 
	 Section 5.03
	  	Method of Payment	  	 	22	 
	 Section 5.04
	  	No Segregation of Moneys; No Interest	  	 	22	 
	 Section 5.05
	  	Accounting and Reports to the Certificateholders, the Internal Revenue Service and Others	  	 	23	 
	 Section 5.06
	  	Signature on Returns; Partnership Representative	  	 	23	 
		
	 ARTICLE VI AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE
	  	 	24	 
			
	 Section 6.01
	  	General Authority	  	 	24	 
	 Section 6.02
	  	General Duties	  	 	24	 
	 Section 6.03
	  	Action upon Instruction	  	 	24	 
	 Section 6.04
	  	No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement or in Instructions	  	 	26	 
	 Section 6.05
	  	Restrictions	  	 	26	 
		
	 ARTICLE VII CONCERNING THE OWNER TRUSTEE
	  	 	26	 
			
	 Section 7.01
	  	Acceptance of Trusts and Duties	  	 	26	 
	 Section 7.02
	  	Furnishing of Documents	  	 	28	 
	 Section 7.03
	  	Representations and Warranties	  	 	28	 
	 Section 7.04
	  	Reliance; Advice of Counsel	  	 	29	 
	 Section 7.05
	  	Not Acting in Individual Capacity	  	 	29	 
	 Section 7.06
	  	Owner Trustee Not Liable for Trust Certificates or Loans	  	 	29	 
	 Section 7.07
	  	Owner Trustee May Own Trust Certificates and Notes	  	 	30	 
		
	 ARTICLE VIII COMPENSATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE
	  	 	30	 
			
	 Section 8.01
	  	Owner Trustee’s Fees and Expenses	  	 	30	 
	 Section 8.02
	  	Indemnification	  	 	30	 
	 Section 8.03
	  	Payments to the Owner Trustee	  	 	31	 
		
	 ARTICLE IX TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT
	  	 	31	 
			
	 Section 9.01
	  	Termination of Trust Agreement	  	 	31	 
		
	 ARTICLE X SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES
	  	 	32	 
			
	 Section 10.01
	  	Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee	  	 	32	 
	 Section 10.02
	  	Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee	  	 	33	 
	 Section 10.03
	  	Successor Owner Trustee	  	 	34	 
	 Section 10.04
	  	Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee	  	 	34	 
	 Section 10.05
	  	Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee	  	 	34	 
		
	 ARTICLE XI MISCELLANEOUS
	  	 	36	 
			
	 Section 11.01
	  	Supplements and Amendments	  	 	36	 
	 Section 11.02
	  	No Legal Title to Trust Estate in Certificateholders	  	 	37	 
	 Section 11.03
	  	Limitations on Rights of Others	  	 	38	 

  
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	 Section 11.04
	  	Notices	  	 	38	 
	 Section 11.05
	  	Severability	  	 	38	 
	 Section 11.06
	  	Separate Counterparts	  	 	39	 
	 Section 11.07
	  	Successors and Assigns	  	 	39	 
	 Section 11.08
	  	No Petition	  	 	39	 
	 Section 11.09
	  	No Recourse	  	 	39	 
	 Section 11.10
	  	Headings	  	 	40	 
	 Section 11.11
	  	GOVERNING LAW; SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL	  	 	40	 
	 Section 11.12
	  	Termination of Original Trust Agreement	  	 	40	 

  
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 EXHIBITS 

 

					
	 Exhibit A
	  	Form of Trust Certificate (Physical)	  	A
			
	 Exhibit B
	  	Form of Certificate of Trust	  	B
			
	 Exhibit C
	  	Form of Purchaser’s Representation and Warranty Letter	  	C

  
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 TRUST AGREEMENT 

THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT (such agreement as amended, modified, waived, supplemented or restated from time to time, the
“Trust Agreement” or this “Agreement”), dated as of November 1, 2018, is between HERCULES CAPITAL FUNDING 2018-1 LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as trust
depositor (the “Trust Depositor”), and WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association (in its individual capacity, together with its successors and assigns, the “Trust Company”), as owner
trustee (solely in such capacity, the “Owner Trustee”). 
 R E C I T A L S 

WHEREAS, the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee have heretofore established a trust known as the Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 (the “Trust”) pursuant to the Trust Agreement dated as of June 11, 2018 (the “Original Trust Agreement”) and the Certificate of Trust (as defined below); and 

WHEREAS, the Trust Depositor desires to continue the Trust; and 

WHEREAS, the Trust Depositor desires to retain the Owner Trustee as the trustee of the Trust; and 

WHEREAS, the Owner Trustee is willing to continue to serve as trustee of the Trust; and 

WHEREAS, each of the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee consents to the amendment and restatement on the Original Trust Agreement pursuant
to this Agreement. 
 NOW, THEREFORE, based upon the above recitals, the mutual promises and agreements contained herein, and other good and
valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows: 

ARTICLE I 
 DEFINITIONS

 Section 1.01 Definitions. 

For all purposes of this Trust Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided below or unless the context otherwise requires, capitalized
terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Sale and Servicing Agreement, dated as of November 1, 2018 (the “Sale and Servicing Agreement”), among Hercules Capital Funding
Trust 2018-1, as the Issuer, Hercules Capital Funding 2018-1 LLC, as the Trust Depositor, Hercules Capital, Inc., as the Seller and as the Servicer and U.S. Bank
National Association, as the Trustee, Backup Servicer, Custodian and Paying Agent which capitalized terms are incorporated by reference herein. All other capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings specified herein or below. 

 

 “Agreement” shall have the meaning given to such term in the Preamble of this Trust
Agreement. 
 “Bankruptcy Action” shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 4.02 of this Agreement.

 “Benefit Plan” shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 3.10(b) of this Trust Agreement. 

“Capital Account” shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 2.11(d) of this Trust Agreement. 

“Certificate Account” shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 5.01(a) of this Trust Agreement. 

“Certificate Register” shall mean the Certificate Register established and maintained in accordance with this Trust Agreement. 

“Certificate Registrar” shall mean, initially, the Trustee, and thereafter, any successor appointed pursuant to this Trust Agreement. 

“Certificate of Trust” shall mean a certificate of trust duly executed in the form of Exhibit B attached hereto.

 “Corporate Trust Office” shall mean (a) in the case of Owner Trustee: Wilmington Trust, National Association, Rodney Square North,
1100 Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration and in the case of the Trustee/Certificate Registrar: U.S. Bank National Association, 111 Fillmore Avenue East, Attn: Bondholder
Services—EP-MN-WS2N, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55107, Ref: Hercules 2018-1; (b) in the case of the Trustee: the principal office
of the Trustee currently located at (i) for Note transfer purposes and presentment of the Notes for final payment thereon, the corporate office of the Trustee located at 111 Fillmore Avenue East, Attention: Bondholder Services-EP-MNWS2N, St. Paul, MN 55107, Reference: Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 and (ii) for all other purposes, the
corporate office of the Trustee located at One Federal Street, 3rd Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02110, Attention: Jack Lindsay, Reference: Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 telephone number (617) 603-6789, facsimile number (855) 869-2187, email: jack.lindsay@usbank.com; and (c) at such other address as the Owner Trustee or the Trustee may designate from time to
time by notice to the Issuer. 
 “Domestic Corporation” shall mean an entity that is treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax
purposes and is created or organized in, or under the laws of, the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia. 

“Expenses” shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 8.02 of this Trust Agreement. 

“Fiscal Year” shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 2.11(e) of this Trust Agreement. 

  
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 “Indemnified Parties” shall have the meaning given to such term in
Section 8.02 of this Trust Agreement. 
 “Majority Certificateholders” means the Holder or Holders of Trust
Certificates evidencing an aggregate Percentage Interest in excess of 50%. 
 “Non-Foreign Status
Certificate” shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 3.10(g) of this Trust Agreement. 
 “Original
Trust Agreement” shall have the meaning given to such term in the recitals of this Trust Agreement. 
 “Owner Trustee” shall have
the meaning given to such term in the Preamble of this Trust Agreement. 
 “Percentage Interest” shall mean with respect to a Trust
Certificate, the percentage set forth on the face thereof. 
 “QIBs” shall have the meaning given to such term in
Section 3.10 of this Trust Agreement. 
 “S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC.

 “Sale and Servicing Agreement” shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 1.01 of this Trust
Agreement. 
 “Secretary of State” shall have the meaning given to such term in Section 2.02 of this Agreement.

 “Section 385 Certificateholder” shall mean a holder of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) that is (a) a
Domestic Corporation, (b) an entity that is treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes and has an expanded group partner (as defined in Treasury Regulations Section 1.385-3(g)(12))
that is a Domestic Corporation or (c) a disregarded entity or grantor trust of an entity described in clause (a) or (b). 

“Section 385 Controlled Partnership” shall have the meaning set forth in Treasury Regulations Section 1.385-1(c)(1) for a “controlled partnership”. 
 “Transfer” shall have the meaning
given to such term in Section 3.10(d) of this Trust Agreement. 
 “Treasury Regulations” or “Treas.
Regs.” shall mean regulations, including proposed or temporary regulations, promulgated under the Code. References herein to specific provisions of proposed or temporary Treasury Regulations shall include analogous provisions of final
Treasury Regulations or other successor Treasury Regulations. 
 “Trust” shall have the meaning given to such term in the recitals of this
Trust Agreement. 

  
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 “Trust Agreement” shall have the meaning given to such term in the Preamble of this
Trust Agreement. 
 “Trust Certificate” shall mean a trust certificate representing a beneficial interest in the Trust executed and
authenticated in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto. 
 “Trust Company” shall have the meaning given to such term in the
Preamble of this Trust Agreement. 
 “Trust Depositor” shall have the meaning given to such term in the Preamble of this
Trust Agreement. 
 “Trust Estate” shall mean all right, title and interest of the Trust in and to the Loan Assets and all other property
and rights assigned to the Trust pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement, all funds on deposit from time to time in the Transaction Accounts and the Certificate Account, and all other property of the Trust from time to time, including any
rights of the Owner Trustee and the Trust pursuant to the Transaction Documents. 
 Section 1.02 Other
Terms. 
 All accounting terms used but not specifically defined herein shall be construed in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles in the United States. The symbol “$” shall mean the lawful currency of the United States of America. All terms used in Article 9 of the UCC in the State of Delaware, and not specifically defined herein, are used
herein as defined in such Article 9. 
 Section 1.03 Computation of Time Periods. 

Unless otherwise stated in this Agreement, in the computation of a period of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word
“from” means “from and including”, the words “to” and “until” each mean “to but excluding”, and the word “within” means “from and excluding a specified date and to and including a
later specified date”. 
 Section 1.04 Interpretation. 

In this Agreement, unless a contrary intention appears: 

(i) the singular number includes the plural number and vice versa; 

(ii) reference to any Person includes such Person’s successors and assigns but, if applicable, only if such successors and
assigns are permitted by the Transaction Documents; 
 (iii) reference to any gender includes each other gender; 

(iv) reference to day or days without further qualification means calendar days; 

  
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 (v) unless otherwise stated, reference to any time means New York, New York
time; 
 (vi) references to “writing” include printing, typing, lithography, electronic or other means of
reproducing words in a visible form; 
 (vii) reference to any agreement (including any Transaction Document), document or
instrument means such agreement, document or instrument as amended, modified, supplemented, replaced, restated, waived or extended and in effect from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof and, if applicable, the terms of the other
Transaction Documents, and reference to any promissory note includes any promissory note that is an extension or renewal thereof or a substitute or replacement therefor; and 

(viii) reference to any Applicable Law means such Applicable Law as amended, modified, codified, replaced or reenacted, in
whole or in part, and in effect from time to time, including rules and regulations promulgated thereunder and reference to any Section or other provision of any Applicable Law means that provision of such Applicable Law from time to time in effect
and constituting the substantive amendment, modification, codification, replacement or reenactment of such Section or other provision. 

Section 1.05 References. 

All Section references (including references to the Preamble), unless otherwise indicated, shall be to Sections (and the
Preamble) in this Agreement. 
 Section 1.06 Calculations. 

Except as otherwise provided herein, all interest rate and basis point calculations hereunder will be made on the basis of a 360 day year
consisting of twelve 30-day months and will be carried out to at least three decimal places. 

ARTICLE II 

ORGANIZATION 

Section 2.01 Name. 

The Trust created and continued hereby shall be known as the “Hercules Capital Funding Trust
2018-1,” in which name the Trust shall have power and authority and is hereby authorized and empowered, without the need for further action on the part of the Trust, and the Owner Trustee shall have power
and authority, and is hereby authorized and empowered, to conduct the business of the Trust, make and execute contracts and other instruments on behalf of the Trust and sue and be sued. 

  
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 Section 2.02 Office. 

The office of the Trust shall be in care of the Owner Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office or at such other address in the State of Delaware
as the Owner Trustee may designate by written notice to the Certificateholders and the Trust Depositor. The Trust shall constitute a statutory trust within the meaning of Section 3801(g) of the Statutory Trust Statute for which the Owner
Trustee has filed a Certificate of Trust with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware (the “Secretary of State”) pursuant to Section 3810(a) of the Statutory Trust Statute. The execution and filing of the Certificate of
Trust by the Owner Trustee is hereby ratified, authorized, and approved. The Owner Trustee shall have power and authority, and is hereby authorized and empowered, to execute and file with the Secretary of State any other certificate required or
permitted under the Statutory Trust Statute to be filed with the Secretary of State. It is the intention of the parties hereto that this Trust Agreement constitute the governing instrument of such statutory trust. 

Section 2.03 Purposes and Powers. 

The purpose of the Trust is, and the Trust shall have the power and authority and is hereby authorized and empowered, without the need for
further action on the part of the Trust, and the Owner Trustee shall have power and authority, and is hereby authorized and empowered (but shall not be obligated), in the name and on behalf of the Trust, to do or cause to be done all acts and things
necessary, appropriate or convenient to cause the Trust, to engage in the following activities: 
 (a) to execute, authenticate, deliver, and
issue from time to time the Notes pursuant to the Indenture and the Trust Certificates pursuant to this Trust Agreement and, if applicable, a supplement hereto, and to sell the Notes and to transfer the Trust Certificates pursuant to such agreements
and the other Transaction Documents; 
 (b) with the proceeds of the sale of the Notes, to purchase the Initial Loans, to pay the
organizational, start-up and transactional expenses of the Trust and to fund the Transaction Accounts then permitted or required to be funded pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the Indenture; 

(c) as permitted under the Transaction Documents, to purchase, acquire, own, hold, receive, manage, exercise rights and remedies with respect
to, sell, transfer and dispose of, the Trust Estate or any portion thereof as well as any permitted Trust subsidiary; 
 (d) to assign,
grant, transfer, pledge, mortgage, convey and grant a security interest in the Trust Estate pursuant to the Indenture and to hold, manage, transfer and distribute to the Certificateholders pursuant to the terms of this Trust Agreement and the Sale
and Servicing Agreement any portion of the Trust Estate released from the lien of, and remitted to the Trust pursuant to, the Indenture; 

(e) to enter into, execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Transaction Documents to which it is to be a party and to exercise
its rights and remedies thereunder; 

  
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 (f) subject to compliance with the Transaction Documents, to engage in such other activities
as may be required in connection with the conservation of the Trust Estate and the making of distributions to the Certificateholders, the Noteholders and others specified in the Transaction Documents; and 

(g) to engage in those activities, including entering into agreements, that are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish the foregoing
or are incidental thereto or connected therewith. 
 The Trust is hereby authorized to engage in the foregoing activities. The Trust shall not engage in any
activity other than in connection with the foregoing or other than as required or authorized by the terms of this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Owner Trustee on behalf of the
Trust to engage in any other business operations or any activities other than those set forth in this Section 2.03. Specifically, the Owner Trustee shall have no authority on behalf of the Trust to engage in any business
operations, or acquire any assets other than those specifically included in the Trust Estate from time to time in accordance with the Transaction Documents. Similarly, the Owner Trustee shall have no discretionary duties other than performing those
acts necessary to accomplish the purpose of this Trust as set forth in this Section 2.03, certain of which may be delegated to the Servicer or the Administrator. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein,
the Trust may hold the Notes prior to their sale by the Initial Purchaser. 
 Section 2.04 Appointment of
Owner Trustee. 
 The Trust Depositor hereby appoints the Owner Trustee as trustee of the Trust effective as of the date hereof, to
have all the rights, powers and duties set forth herein, and the Owner Trustee hereby accepts such appointment. 

Section 2.05 Initial Capital Contribution of Trust Estate. 

The Trust Depositor hereby sells, assigns, transfers, conveys and sets over to the Owner Trustee, as of the date hereof, the sum of ten dollars
($10.00). The Owner Trustee hereby acknowledges receipt from the Trust Depositor, as of the date hereof, of the foregoing contribution, which shall constitute the initial Trust Estate (prior to giving effect to the conveyances described in the Sale
and Servicing Agreement) and shall be deposited in the Certificate Account. The Trust Depositor shall pay organizational expenses of the Trust as they may arise or shall, upon the request of the Owner Trustee, promptly reimburse the Owner Trustee
for any such expenses paid by the Owner Trustee. 
 Section 2.06 Declaration of Trust. 

The Owner Trustee hereby declares that it will hold the Trust Estate in trust upon and subject to the conditions set forth herein for the use
and benefit of the Certificateholders, subject to the obligations of the Trust under the Transaction Documents. It is the intention of the parties hereto that the Trust constitute a statutory trust under the Statutory Trust Statute and that this
Trust Agreement constitute the governing instrument of such statutory trust. It is the intention of the parties hereto that, solely for federal income tax purposes, the Trust shall be treated as set forth in Section 2.11 of
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appropriate tax authorities, the Trust will file or cause to be filed annual or other necessary returns, reports and other forms consistent with the characterization of the Trust as set forth in
Section 2.11 of this Agreement. Effective as of the date hereof, the Owner Trustee shall have all rights, powers and authority set forth herein and in the Statutory Trust Statute with respect to accomplishing the purposes
of the Trust. 
 Section 2.07 Liability of the Certificateholders. 

No Certificateholder shall have any personal liability for any liability or obligation of the Trust. 

Section 2.08 Title to Trust Property. 

Legal title to all of the Trust Estate shall be vested at all times in the Trust as a separate legal entity except where Applicable Law in any
jurisdiction requires title to any part of the Trust Estate to be vested in a trustee or trustees, in which case title shall be deemed to be vested in the Owner Trustee, a co-trustee and/or a separate trustee,
as the case may be. If any portion of the Trust Estate is deemed to be vested in the Owner Trustee, a co-trustee and/or a separate trustee, (a) the Trust Depositor or the Owner Trustee, upon having actual
knowledge thereof, will immediately notify the Trustee and the Servicer and (b) the Servicer will cause to be filed such UCC financing statements and related filings, documents or writings as are necessary (or as shall be reasonably requested
by the Trustee) to maintain the Trustee’s security interest in the Collateral under the Indenture. 

Section 2.09 Situs of Trust. 

All bank accounts maintained by the Owner Trustee or the Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall be located in the State of Delaware or such other
state in which the Corporate Trust Office of the Owner Trustee or the Trustee may be located. The Trust shall not have any employees in any state other than Delaware; provided that nothing herein shall restrict or prohibit the Owner Trustee
from having employees within or without the State of Delaware. Payments will be received by the Trust only in Delaware or such other state in which the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee may be located, and payments will be made by the Trust only
from Delaware or such other state in which the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee may be located. The only office of the Trust will be at the Corporate Trust Office in Delaware. 

Section 2.10 Representations and Warranties of the Trust Depositor. 

The Trust Depositor hereby represents and warrants to the Owner Trustee that: 

(a) The Trust Depositor is duly organized and validly existing as a limited liability company in good standing under the laws of the State of
Delaware, with power and authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as such properties are currently owned and such business is presently conducted. 

(b) The Trust Depositor has the power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to carry out its terms. The Trust Depositor has
full power and authority to sell and assign the property to be sold and assigned to and deposited with the Trust and the Trust Depositor has duly authorized such sale and assignment and deposit to the Trust by all necessary limited liability company
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 (c) The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement have been duly authorized by
the Trust Depositor by all necessary limited liability company action. 
 (d) This Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and binding
obligation of the Trust Depositor enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and similar laws relating to creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of equity. 

(e) The execution, delivery and performance of this Trust Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party by the Trust
Depositor, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, will not violate any material Applicable Law applicable to the Trust Depositor, or constitute a material breach of any mortgage, indenture, contract or other
agreement to which the Trust Depositor is a party or by which the Trust Depositor or any of the Trust Depositor’s properties may be bound, or result in the creation or imposition of any security interest, lien, charge, pledge, preference,
equity or encumbrance of any kind upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any such mortgage, indenture, contract or other agreement, other than as contemplated by the Transaction Documents. 

(f) To the Trust Depositor’s best knowledge, there are no proceedings or investigations pending, or to the Trust Depositor’s
knowledge threatened, before any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Trust Depositor or its properties: (A) asserting the invalidity of this Trust Agreement,
(B) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this Trust Agreement or (C) seeking any determination or ruling that might materially and adversely affect the performance by the Trust Depositor of its
obligations under, or the validity or enforceability of, this Trust Agreement. 
 Section 2.11 Federal
Income Tax Allocations. 
 (a) It is the intent of the Trust Depositor and the Certificateholders that (i) for any period that
the Trust Certificates are owned by a single beneficial owner for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the Trust will be disregarded as an entity separate from such beneficial owner for U.S. federal income tax purposes, and the Certificateholders (and
the beneficial owner of the Trust Certificates), by acceptance of the Trust Certificates (or a beneficial interest therein), agree to take no action inconsistent with such treatment and (ii) for any period that the Trust Certificates are owned
by more than one beneficial owner for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the Trust will be treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, other than a publicly traded partnership, the partners of which are the beneficial owners of the
Trust Certificates, and the Certificateholders (and beneficial owners of the Trust Certificates), by acceptance of a Trust Certificate (or beneficial interest therein) agree to treat the Trust Certificates as equity and to take no action
inconsistent with such treatment. 
 (b) Neither the Trust Depositor nor any Certificateholder will, under any circumstances, and at any
time, make an election on Internal Revenue Service Form 8832 or otherwise take any action that would cause the Trust to be treated as an association, publicly traded partnership or taxable mortgage pool taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal
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 (c) For any period that the Trust has two or more equity owners and is treated as a
partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the provisions of Section 2.11(d)-(g) shall apply. 
 (d) With respect to each taxable
year (or portion thereof) in which the Trust is classified as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (i) a capital account (“Capital Account”) will be maintained by the Trust for each Certificateholder with respect
to all items of income, deduction, gain, loss or credit and such items will be allocated to such Capital Accounts in a manner consistent with Section 704 of the Code, and (ii) without limiting the foregoing, upon liquidation of the Trust
or at such time as a Certificateholder ceases to hold any Trust Certificates in the Trust, liquidating distributions will be made in accordance with the Capital Account balances of the Certificateholders (as determined after taking into account all
required Capital Account adjustments for the taxable year during which such liquidation occurs) by the later of the end of the taxable year or, the date which is 90 days after the date of such liquidation. The provisions of this Section relating to
Capital Accounts are intended to comply with such provisions and related provisions issued with respect to Section 704 of the Code and shall be interpreted consistently therewith. The Trust shall have the authority to make such adjustments to
the Certificateholder’s Capital Accounts as may be required to cause the allocations made by the Trust to comply with such provisions. 

(e) With respect to each taxable year (or portion thereof) in which the Trust is classified as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax
purposes, at least once each such taxable year of the Trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes (as determined under Section 706 of the Code, a “Fiscal Year”), after adjusting each Certificateholder’s Capital Account for
all contributions and distributions with respect to such Fiscal Year, the Trust shall allocate all profits and losses and items thereof in the following order of priority: (i) first, profits and losses and items thereof shall be allocated in
the manner and to the extent provided by (A) Treas. Regs. §1.704-1(b)(4), (B) Treas. Regs. §1.704-1(b)(2) (to comply with the substantial economic effect
safe harbors), including, without limitation, Treas. Regs. §1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(d) (the “qualified income offset”) and Treas. Regs. §1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)
(capital accounting requirements) and (C) Treas. Regs. §1.704-2, including, without limitation, Treas. Regs. §§1.704-2(e) (provided that allocations
pursuant to Treas. Regs. §1.704-2(e) shall be made to the Certificateholders pro rata in accordance with the capital each Certificateholder has contributed to the Trust),
1.704-2(i)(2), and 1.704-2(i)(4); and (ii) all remaining profits and losses and items thereof shall be allocated to the Certificateholders’ Capital Accounts in
a manner such that, after such allocations have been made, the balance of each Certificateholder’s Capital Account (which may be a positive, negative, or zero balance) shall equal (A) the amount that would be distributed to such
Certificateholder, determined as if the Trust were to sell all of its assets for the Section 704(b) Book Value (as defined below) thereof and distribute the proceeds thereof (net of any sales commissions and other similar transaction fees and
payments required to be made to creditors) pursuant to the relevant legal documents setting forth such distributions, minus (B) the sum of (I) such Certificateholder’s share of the “partnership minimum gain” (as determined
under Treas. Regs. §§1.704-2(d) and (g)(3)) and “partner minimum gain” (as determined under Treas. Regs. 

  
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§1.704-2(i)), and (II) the amount, if any, that such Certificateholder is obligated (or is deemed for U.S. federal income tax purposes to be
obligated) to contribute, in its capacity as a Certificateholder, to the capital of the Trust as of the last day of such Fiscal Year. For purposes of this Section 2.11, (i) the term “Section 704(b) Book
Value” means, with respect to any Trust property, the Trust’s adjusted basis for U.S. federal income tax purposes, adjusted from time to time to reflect the adjustments required or permitted by Treas. Regs. §§1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(d) through (g), provided that on the date of the contribution of an asset to the Trust, the Section 704(b) Book Value of any asset contributed to the Trust shall be equal to the
fair market value of such asset on the date of such contribution, and (ii) the term “profits and losses” shall mean the items of profit and loss of the Trust (including separately stated items) as computed under Treas. Regs. §1.704-1(b)(2)(iv). 
 (f) With respect to each taxable year (or portion thereof) in which the Trust
is classified as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, except as provided in this Section 2.11(f), each item of taxable income, gain, loss, deduction, or credit shall be allocated in the same manner as its correlative item of
“book” items allocated pursuant to Section 2.11(e). In accordance with Section 704(c)(1)(A) of the Code (and the principles thereof) and Treas. Regs. §1.704-3, income, gain, loss and
deduction with respect to any property contributed to the capital of the Trust, or after Trust property has been revalued under Treas. Regs. §1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(f), shall, solely for U.S. federal, state
and local tax purposes, be allocated among the Certificateholders so as to take into account any variation between the adjusted basis of such Trust property to the Trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes and its value as so determined at the time
of the contribution or revaluation of Trust property. 
 (g) In the event that the Trust is treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income
tax purposes, the Servicer shall be the partnership representative within the meaning of Section 6223(a) of the Code. The partnership representative may, in its sole discretion, cause the Trust to make an election under Section 754 of the
Code. The partnership representative shall (i) if the Trust is eligible, cause the Trust to elect, pursuant to Section 6221(b) of the Code, that Section 6221(a) of the Code shall not apply to the Trust or (ii) if the election in
Section 6221(b) of the Code is not available, to the extent applicable, cause the Trust to make the election under Section 6226(a) of the Code. 

Section 2.12 Covenant of Certificateholders. 

Each Certificateholder agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions of the Trust Certificates and of this Trust Agreement, including any
supplements or amendments hereto, and to perform the obligations of a Certificateholder as set forth therein or herein, in all respects as if it were a signatory hereto. This undertaking is made for the benefit of the Trust Depositor, the Trust, the
Owner Trustee, the Trust Company and all other Certificateholders present and future. 

  
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 ARTICLE III 

TRUST CERTIFICATES AND TRANSFER OF INTERESTS 

Section 3.01 Initial Ownership. 

Upon the formation of the Trust by the contribution by the Trust Depositor pursuant to Section 2.05 and until the
issuance of the Trust Certificates, the Trust Depositor shall be the sole beneficiary of the Trust. 
 Section 3.02
The Trust Certificates. 
 (a) The Trust Certificates shall be substantially in the form set forth in
Exhibit A hereto, with such changes as may be specified in a supplement to this Trust Agreement. Except as otherwise set forth in a supplement to this Trust Agreement, the Trust Certificates shall be issued from time to
time in minimum Percentage Interests of 10% and integral multiples of 1% in excess thereof; provided that one Trust Certificate may be issued in a different denomination. The Trust Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Trust by
manual or facsimile signature of an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee. Trust Certificates bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were, at the time when such signatures shall have been affixed, authorized to sign on
behalf of the Trust, shall be validly issued and entitled to the benefit of this Trust Agreement, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall have ceased to be so authorized prior to the authentication and delivery of such Trust
Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of authentication and delivery of such Trust Certificates. 
 (b) A transferee of a
Trust Certificate shall become a Certificateholder and shall be entitled to the rights and subject to the obligations of a Certificateholder hereunder upon such transferee’s acceptance of a Trust Certificate duly registered in such
transferee’s name pursuant to Section 3.04. 
 Section 3.03 Authentication of
Trust Certificates. 
 Concurrently with the initial transfer of the Initial Loans to the Trust pursuant to the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, the Trust shall issue the Trust Certificates, in an aggregate Percentage Interest equal to 100%, executed by the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust, authenticated by the Certificate Registrar and delivered to or upon the written order
of the Trust Depositor, signed by its chairman of the board, its chief executive officer, its chief financial officer, its president, any vice president, secretary or any assistant treasurer, without further limited liability company action by the
Trust Depositor, in authorized denominations. No Trust Certificate shall entitle its Holder to any benefit under this Agreement or be valid for any purpose unless there shall appear on such Trust Certificate a certificate of authentication
substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A, executed by the Certificate Registrar, by manual signature; such authentication shall constitute conclusive evidence that such Trust Certificate has been duly and validly
authorized, issued, authenticated and delivered hereunder and, subject to the terms of this Agreement, fully paid and non-assessable. All Trust Certificates shall be dated the date of their authentication.

  
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 Section 3.04 Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust
Certificates. 
 (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to
Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and, subject to
Section 3.10 hereof, of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Trustee shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. Promptly upon written request therefor from the Owner Trustee, the
Certificate Registrar shall provide to the Owner Trustee in writing such information regarding or contained in the Certificate Register as the Owner Trustee may reasonably request. The Owner Trustee shall be entitled to rely (and shall be fully
protected in relying) on such information. 
 (b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or
agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Certificate Registrar shall cause the Owner Trustee to execute on behalf of the Trust and the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the
designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Certificate Registrar or any authenticating agent. At the option of a
Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to
Section 3.08. 
 (c) Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange
shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer and accompanied by IRS Form W-8 BEN, W-8 ECI or W-9, as applicable, and
such other documentation as may be required by the Owner Trustee in order to comply with Applicable Law, each in a form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the registered Certificateholder or such
registered Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its
customary practice. 
 (d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner
Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. 

Section 3.05 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Certificates. 

If (a) any mutilated Trust Certificate shall be surrendered to the Certificate Registrar, or if the Certificate Registrar and the Owner
Trustee shall receive evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Trust Certificate, and (b) there shall be delivered to the Certificate Registrar and the Owner Trustee such security or indemnity as may be reasonably
required by them to save each of them harmless, then in the absence of notice to the Trust that such Trust Certificate has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Certificate Registrar shall cause the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust to
execute and the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Trust Certificate, a new Trust Certificate of like tenor and denomination. The Holder of

  
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such Trust Certificate shall pay the reasonable expenses and charges of the Certificate Registrar and the Owner Trustee in connection therewith. In connection with the issuance of any new Trust
Certificate under this Section 3.05, the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith. Any
duplicate Trust Certificate issued pursuant to this Section 3.05 shall constitute conclusive evidence of ownership of a beneficial interest in the Trust, as if originally issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed
Trust Certificate shall be found at any time. 
 Section 3.06 Persons Deemed Owners. 

Prior to due presentation of a Trust Certificate for registration of transfer, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any paying agent
or other agent thereof may treat the Person in whose name any Trust Certificate is registered in the Certificate Register as the owner of such Trust Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions pursuant to
Section 5.02 and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any paying agent or other agent thereof shall be bound by any notice to the contrary. 

Section 3.07 Access to List of Certificateholders’ Names and
Addresses. 
 The Certificate Registrar shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee or any other party acting as paying
agent, the Owner Trustee, the Servicer and the Trust Depositor, within ten (10) Business Days after receipt by the Certificate Registrar of a written request therefor from the Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the Servicer or the Trust Depositor, a
list, in such form as the Trustee or any other party acting as paying agent, the Owner Trustee, the Servicer or the Trust Depositor may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Certificateholders as of the most recent Record Date. If
three or more Certificateholders or one or more Holders of Trust Certificates evidencing not less than 25% of the Percentage Interests apply in writing to the Certificate Registrar, and such application states that the applicants desire to
communicate with other Certificateholders with respect to their rights under this Trust Agreement or under the Trust Certificates and such application is accompanied by a copy of the communication that such applicants propose to transmit, then the
Certificate Registrar shall, within five (5) Business Days after the receipt of such application, afford such applicants access during normal business hours to the current list of Certificateholders. Upon receipt of any such application, the
Certificate Registrar will promptly notify the Trust Depositor by providing a copy of such application and a copy of the list of Certificateholders produced in response thereto. Each Certificateholder, by receiving and holding a Trust Certificate,
shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold any of the Trust Depositor, the Certificate Registrar and the Owner Trustee accountable by reason of the disclosure of its name and address, regardless of the source from which such information was derived.

 Section 3.08 Maintenance of Office or Agency. 

The Certificate Registrar shall maintain an office or offices or agency or agencies where Trust Certificates may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Certificate Registrar in respect of the Trust Certificates and the Transaction Documents may be served. The Certificate Registrar initially designates the office

  
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of the Certificate Registrar at the Corporate Trust Office as its office for such purposes. The Certificate Registrar shall give prompt written notice to the Trust Depositor, any paying agent,
the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders of any change in the location of the Certificate Register or any such office or agency. 

Section 3.09 Appointment of Trustee as Paying Agent. 

The Trustee shall make distributions to Certificateholders from the Certificate Account pursuant to Section 5.02 and
shall report the amounts of such distributions to the Owner Trustee. Any paying agent of the Trustee shall have the revocable power to withdraw funds from the Certificate Account for the purpose of making the distributions referred to above. The
Owner Trustee (acting at the written direction of the Administrator or the Certificateholder) may revoke such power and remove the Trustee or any other party acting as paying agent of the Trustee, if the Administrator or the Certificateholder
determines in its sole discretion that the Trustee or any other party acting as paying agent shall have failed to perform its obligations under this Trust Agreement in any material respect. The paying agent initially shall be U.S. Bank National
Association, as Trustee under the Indenture. U.S. Bank National Association shall be permitted to resign as paying agent upon 30 days’ written notice to the Owner Trustee and the Servicer. In the event that U.S. Bank National Association
shall no longer be the paying agent, the Owner Trustee (acting at the written direction of the Administrator or the Certificateholder) shall appoint a successor to act as paying agent (which shall be a bank or trust company). The Owner Trustee shall
cause the Trustee and such successor paying agent or any additional paying agent appointed by the Owner Trustee to execute and deliver to the Owner Trustee an instrument in which the Trustee and such successor paying agent or additional paying agent
shall agree with the Owner Trustee that, as paying agent, the Trustee and such successor paying agent or additional paying agent will hold all sums, if any, held by it for payment to the Certificateholders in trust for the benefit of the
Certificateholders entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Certificateholders. The Trustee or any other party acting as paying agent, shall return all unclaimed funds to the Owner Trustee and upon removal of a paying agent such paying
agent shall also return all funds in its possession to the Owner Trustee. The provisions of Sections 7.01, 7.04, 7.05, 7.06, 8.01 and 8.02 shall apply to U.S. Bank National Association or
the Owner Trustee also in its role as paying agent and Certificate Registrar as if U.S. Bank National Association and the Owner Trustee were named in such Sections, for so long as U.S. Bank National Association or the Owner Trustee shall act as
paying agent or Certificate Registrar and, to the extent applicable, to any other paying agent or certificate registrar appointed hereunder. Any reference in this Agreement to the paying agent shall include any
co-paying agent unless the context requires otherwise. 
 Section 3.10
Transfer Restrictions. 
 The Trust Certificates may not be offered, transferred or sold except to the Trust Depositor or
an Affiliate thereof or to Qualified Institutional Buyers (“QIBs”) for purposes of Rule 144A under the Securities Act who are Qualified Purchasers for purposes of Section 3(c)(7) under the 1940 Act, and who are United
States persons (as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) in reliance on an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. 

  
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 (a) The Trust Certificates have not been registered or qualified under the Securities Act,
or any state securities law. No transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition of any Trust Certificate shall be made unless such disposition is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and effective registration or
qualification under applicable state securities laws, or is made in a transaction which does not require such registration or qualification. No transfer of any Trust Certificates shall be made if such transfer would require the Trust to register as
an “investment company” under the 1940 Act. In the event that a transfer is to be made, the transferee shall execute and deliver to the Owner Trustee and Certificate Registrar a certification substantially in the form of
Exhibit C hereto. In the event that such transfer is to be made in reliance on the availability of an exemption under the Securities Act, the Owner Trustee may require the prospective transferee to provide an Opinion of
Counsel satisfactory to it that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense of the Owner Trustee or of the Trust. 

(b) Neither the Trust Certificates nor any beneficial interest in such Trust Certificates may be acquired or held by or with plan assets of
any employee benefit plans, retirement arrangements, individual retirement accounts or Keogh plans subject to either Part 4, Subtitle B of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or Section 4975 of
the Code (a “Benefit Plan”) and any such purported transfer shall not be effective. Each transferee of a Trust Certificate shall be required to represent (a) that it is not a Benefit Plan and is not acquiring such Trust
Certificate with the plan assets of a Benefit Plan and (b) that if such Trust Certificate is subsequently deemed to be a plan asset of such a Benefit Plan, it will dispose of such Trust Certificate. 

(c) Each Trust Certificate will bear the legends set forth in paragraph 6 of Exhibit C
hereto. 
 (d) No transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition of one or more Trust Certificates (a “Transfer”) shall be made
unless the Percentage Interest of the Trust Certificates so Transferred is no less than ten (10%) percent. 
 (e) Notwithstanding any other
provision herein or elsewhere, other than to determine that any certification delivered to the Owner Trustee or Certificate Registrar, as the case may be, pursuant to Section 3.10(a) hereof is substantially in the form of
Exhibit C hereto and to determine (including, without limitation, based on one or more certificates from the Person transferring such Trust Certificate and/or the Note Registrar) that any transfer of a Trust Certificate
described in such certification delivered to the Owner Trustee complies with Section 3.10(d), the Owner Trustee and Certificate Registrar shall have no obligation to determine whether or not any transfer or exchange or
proposed or purported transfer or exchange of a Trust Certificate is permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement, the Securities Act or applicable state securities laws, and the Owner Trustee and Certificate Registrar shall have no personal
liability to any Person in connection with any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer or exchange (and/or registration thereof). 

(f) No Transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless the Trust and the Owner Trustee (and any of their agents)
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in section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and a correct, complete and properly executed Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (or applicable successor form). If any
holder of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein (other than the Trust Depositor as the initial Certificateholder) fails to provide the Trust and the Owner Trustee (and any of their agents) with the properly completed and signed tax
certification specified above, the acquisition of its interest in the Trust Certificates shall be void ab initio. 
 (g) No Transfer
of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless the transferor delivers to the transferee, with a copy to the Trust and the Owner Trustee, prior to the Transfer of the Trust Certificate or any interest therein, a properly
completed certificate, in a form reasonably acceptable to the transferee and the Trust, stating, under penalty of perjury, the transferor’s United States taxpayer identification number and that the transferor is not a foreign person within the
meaning of Section 1446(f)(2) of the Code (such certificate, a “Non-Foreign Status Certificate”). Each transferor of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein acknowledges, or by
acquiring the Trust Certificate or any interest therein will be deemed to acknowledge, that the failure to provide a Non-Foreign Status Certificate to the transferee may result in withholding on the amount
realized on its disposition of the Trust Certificate. 
 (h) No Transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein, including the
initial issuance to the Trust Depositor, shall be made, unless the prospective transferee acknowledges (other than the Trust Depositor) and agrees that no Trust Certificate or any interest therein may be acquired or owned by any Person that is
classified for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a partnership, subchapter S corporation or grantor trust unless (i)(A) none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners of any interest in such Person have or ever will have more than 40% of the
value of its interest in such Person attributable to the aggregate interest of such Person in the Trust Certificates and any other equity interests of the Trust, and (B) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving
the investment of such Person in the Trust Certificates and any other equity interests of the Trust to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner limitation of Treasury Regulation
Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) or (ii) such Person obtains an opinion of nationally recognized U.S. tax counsel reasonably acceptable to the Trust that such transfer will not cause the Trust to be
treated as a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation. 
 (i) No Transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein,
including the initial issuance to the Trust Depositor, shall be made unless the prospective transferee acknowledges and agrees that no Trust Certificate may be acquired, and no Certificateholder (or holder of an interest in a Trust Certificate) may
sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) or other equity interest in the Trust or cause a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) or other equity interest in the Trust to
be marketed, (i) on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code and Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(b), including without
limitation, an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations or (ii) if such acquisition, sale, transfer, assignment, participation, pledge or other disposition would cause the combined number of holders
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 (j) No Transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein, including the initial
issuance to the Trust Depositor, shall be made unless the prospective transferee acknowledges and agrees that it will not participate in the creation or other transfer of any financial instrument or contract the value of which is determined in whole
or in part by reference to the Trust (including the amount of distributions by the Trust, the value of the Trust’s assets, the results of the Trust’s operation or the Trust Certificates). 

(k) No Transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein, including the initial issuance to the Trust Depositor, shall be made unless the
prospective transferee acknowledges and agrees that any sale, transfer, assignment, participation, pledge, or other disposition of a Trust Certificate that would violate any of the three preceding paragraphs above or otherwise cause the Trust to be
unable to rely on the “private placement” safe harbor of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h) will be void and of no force or effect, and it will not transfer any interest in its Trust
Certificates to any person that does not agree to be bound by the three preceding paragraphs above or by this paragraph. 
 (l) Unless the
Trust Depositor, Trust and Owner Trustee have received an Opinion of Counsel from Dechert LLP or other nationally recognized tax counsel that the restriction on the proposed acquisition of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) described by
this paragraph is no longer necessary to conclude that any such acquisition (and subsequent resale of the applicable Notes described below) will not cause the Treasury Regulations under Section 385 of the Code to apply to such Notes in a manner
that could cause a material adverse effect on the Trust or the Trust to be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (i) a Section 385 Certificateholder cannot
acquire a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) if (A) a member of any “expanded group” (as defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-1(c)(4)) that includes such Section 385
Certificateholder owns any Notes or (B) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such expanded group owns any Notes and (ii) a Section 385 Certificateholder cannot hold a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) if (A) a
member of any “expanded group” (as defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-1(c)(4)) that includes such Section 385 Certificateholder acquires any Notes from the Trust, any Affiliate of
the Trust or any other subsequent transferor of a Note or (B) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such expanded group acquires any Notes from the Trust, any Affiliate of the Trust or any other subsequent transferor of a Note. The
preceding sentence shall not apply if the Noteholder or potential Noteholder is a U.S. corporate member of the same U.S. corporate “affiliated group” (as defined in Section 1504 of the Code) filing a consolidated federal income tax
return that includes each of any applicable related Section 385 Certificateholders (including in the case of a partnership, the relevant “expanded group partner” (as defined in Treasury Regulation
Section 1.385-3(g)(12)). If a Certificateholder (or holder of an interest in a Trust Certificate) fails to comply with the foregoing requirements, the Trust and Depositor are authorized, at their
discretion, to compel such Certificateholder (or holder of an interest in a Trust Certificate) to sell its Trust Certificate (or interest therein) to a Person whose ownership complies with this subsection so long as such sale does not otherwise
cause a material adverse effect on the Trust or cause the Trust to be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes. 

  
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 ARTICLE IV 

ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE 

Section 4.01 Prior Notice to and Consent by Certificateholders with Respect to Certain Matters. 

With respect to the following matters, the Trust shall not take action unless either (i), at least ten (10) Business Days before the
taking of such action, the Owner Trustee shall have notified the Certificateholders and the Trust Depositor (who shall promptly forward such notice to any Rating Agency) in writing of the proposed action and the Certificateholders holding a
Percentage Interest of not less than 66-2/3% shall not, prior to the tenth (10th) Business Day after such notice is given, have notified the Owner Trustee in writing that such Certificateholders have withheld
consent or provided alternative direction or (ii) Certificateholders holding a Percentage Interest of not less than 66-2/3% direct the Owner Trustee to take action with respect to: 

(a) the initiation of any claim or lawsuit by the Trust and the compromise of any action, claim or lawsuit brought by or against the Trust;

 (b) the election by the Trust to file an amendment to the Certificate of Trust (unless such amendment is required to be filed under the
Statutory Trust Statute); 
 (c) the amendment of the Indenture or any other Transaction Document in circumstances where the consent of any
Noteholder is required; 
 (d) the amendment of the Indenture or any other Transaction Document in circumstances where the consent of any
Noteholder is not required and such amendment may reasonably be expected to adversely affect the interest of the Certificateholders; 
 (e)
such Certificateholders direct the Owner Trustee to initiate any amendment to any Transaction Document or to seek any waiver or other modification thereof; 

(f) the appointment pursuant to the Indenture of a successor paying agent or Trustee or pursuant to this Trust Agreement of a successor
Certificate Registrar, or paying agent, or the consent to the assignment by the Trustee or Certificate Registrar of its obligations under the Indenture or this Trust Agreement, as applicable; 

(g) the consent to the calling or waiver of any Event of Default of any Transaction Document or such Certificateholders direct the Owner
Trustee to call or waive any such Event of Default; 
 (h) the consent to the assignment of the Trustee or Servicer of their respective
obligations under any Transaction Document; 
 (i) except as provided in Article IX hereof, the dissolution,
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 (j) the merger or consolidation of the Trust with or into any other entity, or conveyance or
transfer of all or substantially all of the Trust’s assets to any other entity; 
 (k) the incurrence, assumption or guaranty by the
Trust of any indebtedness other than as set forth in this Agreement or the Transaction Documents; 
 (l) the doing of any act which would
make it impossible to carry on the ordinary business of the Trust as described in Section 2.03 hereof; 
 (m) the
confession of a judgment against the Trust; 
 (n) the possession of Loan Assets or other Collateral, or assignment of the Trust’s right
to property, for other than a purpose permitted under Section 2.03; 
 (o) the lending by the Trust of any funds to
any entity, except as permitted or required under the Sale and Servicing Agreement with respect to the Loan Assets or other Collateral; 

(p) the change in the Trust’s purpose and powers from those set forth in this Trust Agreement; or 

(q) the removal or replacement of the Servicer or the Trustee. 

In addition, the Trust shall not commingle its assets with those of any other entity other than as permitted under the Transaction Documents.
The Trust shall maintain its financial and accounting books and records separate from those of any other entity; provided that the Trust may be consolidated with another entity in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles
and, when so consolidated will note on its consolidated financial statement that the Trust’s assets are not available to satisfy the claims of creditors of such consolidating Person. Except as expressly set forth herein, the Trust shall pay its
indebtedness, operating expenses and liabilities from its own funds, and the Trust shall not pay the indebtedness, operating expenses and liabilities of any other entity. 

Section 4.02 Action by Certificateholders with Respect to Bankruptcy. 

To the extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Trust shall not have the power, without the unanimous prior written approval of the
Certificateholders, and to the extent otherwise consistent with the Transaction Documents, to (i) institute proceedings to have the Trust declared or adjudicated as bankrupt or insolvent, (ii) consent to the institution of bankruptcy or
insolvency proceedings against the Trust, (iii) file a petition or consent to a petition seeking reorganization or relief on behalf of the Trust under any applicable federal or state law relating to bankruptcy, (iv) consent to the
appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or any similar official) of the Trust or a substantial portion of the property of the Trust, (v) make any assignment for the benefit of the Trust’s creditors,
(vi) cause the Trust to admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or (vii) take any action, or cause the Trust to take any action, in furtherance of any of the foregoing (any of the above, a
“Bankruptcy Action”). So long as the Indenture remains in effect, and to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, no Certificateholder shall have the power to take and shall not take any Bankruptcy Action with respect to the Trust or
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 Section 4.03 Restrictions on Certificateholders’
Power. 
 The Certificateholders shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take or to refrain from taking any action if such action or
inaction would be contrary to any obligation of the Trust or the Owner Trustee under this Trust Agreement or any of the Transaction Documents or would cause a violation of any of the Transaction Documents or would be contrary to or inconsistent with
Section 2.03, nor shall the Owner Trustee be obligated to follow any such direction, if given. 

Section 4.04 Majority Control. 

Except as expressly provided herein or in any supplement to this Trust Agreement, any action or direction that may be taken or given by the
Certificateholders under this Trust Agreement may not be taken or given unless agreed to or directed by the Majority Certificateholders. Except as expressly provided herein or in any supplement to this Trust Agreement, any written notice of the
Certificateholders delivered pursuant to this Trust Agreement shall be effective if signed by Majority Certificateholders at the time of the delivery of such notice. 

ARTICLE V 
 APPLICATION
OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES 
 Section 5.01 Establishment of Trust Account. 

(a) For the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall establish and maintain in the name of the Trust an
Eligible Deposit Account with the Trustee (the “Certificate Account”), bearing a designation clearly indicating that the funds deposited therein are held for the benefit of the Certificateholders. Each Qualified Institution
maintaining the Certificate Account shall agree in writing (and the Trustee does hereby so agree) to comply with all instructions originated by the Trustee or any other party acting as paying agent, or Owner Trustee directing the disposition of
funds in the account without the further consent of the Trust. 
 (b) The Trust shall possess all right, title and interest in all funds on
deposit from time to time in the Certificate Account and in all proceeds thereof. Except as provided in Section 3.09 or as otherwise expressly provided herein, the Certificate Account shall be under the sole dominion and
control of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. If, at any time, the Certificate Account ceases to be an Eligible Deposit Account, the Trustee shall within ten (10) Business Days (or such longer period, not to exceed
30 calendar days, as to which any Rating Agency may consent) establish a new Certificate Account as an Eligible Deposit Account and shall transfer any cash and/or any investments to such new Certificate Account. 

Section 5.02 Application of Trust Funds. 

(a) On each Payment Date and at and in accordance with the instruction of the Servicer, the Trustee shall distribute to the Certificateholders,
pro rata based on their respective Percentage Interests, the amounts deposited in the Certificate Account received from the Trustee pursuant to the Indenture or the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 

  
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 (b) On each Payment Date, the Trustee shall, or shall cause the Servicer to, make available
to each Certificateholder via its website at http://pivot.usbank.com the statement or statements provided to the Trustee by the Servicer pursuant to the Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement with respect to such Payment Date. 

(c) In the event that any withholding tax is imposed on the Trust’s payment (or allocations of income) to a Certificateholder, such tax
shall reduce the amount otherwise distributable to the Certificateholder in accordance with this Section 5.02. The Trustee is hereby authorized and directed to retain from amounts otherwise distributable to the
Certificateholders sufficient funds for the payment of any tax that is legally owed by the Trust (but such authorization shall not prevent the Owner Trustee or the Trustee from contesting any such tax in appropriate proceedings, and withholding
payment of such tax, if permitted by Applicable Law, pending the outcome of such proceedings); provided that the Trustee shall not be responsible for determining whether any such tax is owed and may rely for such purposes on the written
direction of the Trust Depositor or Servicer. The amount of any withholding tax imposed with respect to a Certificateholder shall be treated as cash distributed to such Certificateholder at the time it is withheld by the Trust and remitted to the
appropriate taxing authority. If there is a possibility that withholding tax is payable with respect to a distribution, the Trustee may in its sole discretion withhold such amounts in accordance with this Section 5.02(c).
In the event that a Certificateholder wishes to apply for a refund of any such withholding tax, the Owner Trustee or the Trustee shall reasonably cooperate with such Certificateholder in making such claim so long as such Certificateholder agrees to
reimburse the Owner Trustee and the Trustee, in its capacity as paying agent, for any out-of-pocket expenses incurred. The Certificateholders shall supply the Owner
Trustee, the Trustee and any paying agent with Internal Revenue Service forms, with appropriate supporting documentation, and such other certificates, information or forms that the Owner Trustee, the Trustee or any paying agent may request from time
to time in connection with any withholding tax or the application for a refund thereof. 
 Section 5.03
Method of Payment. 
 Subject to Section 9.01(c), distributions required to be made to
Certificateholders on any Payment Date shall be made to each Certificateholder of record on the preceding Record Date either by wire transfer, in immediately available funds, to the account of such Certificateholder at a bank or other entity having
appropriate facilities therefor, if such Certificateholder shall have provided to the Certificate Registrar and the Trustee or any other party acting as paying agent appropriate written instructions at least five (5) Business Days prior to such
Payment Date or, if not, by check mailed to such Certificateholder at the address of such holder appearing in the Certificate Register. 

Section 5.04 No Segregation of Moneys; No Interest. 

Subject to Sections 5.01 and 5.02, moneys received by the Owner Trustee, the Trustee or any paying agent
hereunder need not be segregated in any manner except to the extent required by any Applicable Law or the Sale and Servicing Agreement and may be deposited under such general conditions as may be prescribed by any Applicable Law, and neither a
paying agent, the Trustee, the Trust Company nor the Owner Trustee shall be liable for any interest thereon. 

  
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 Section 5.05 Accounting and Reports to the
Certificateholders, the Internal Revenue Service and Others. 
 The Trust Depositor shall (a) maintain (or cause to be
maintained) the books of the Trust on a calendar year basis on the accrual method of accounting, (b) deliver (or cause to be delivered) to each Certificateholder, as may be required by the Code and applicable Treasury Regulations, such
information as may be required (including, if applicable, Schedule K-1) to enable each Certificateholder to prepare its federal and state income tax returns, (c) prepare or cause to be prepared, and
file, or cause to be filed, all tax returns, if any, relating to the Trust (including, if applicable, a partnership information return, IRS Form 1065) and in writing direct the Owner Trustee to make such elections as from time to time may be
required or appropriate under any applicable state or federal statute or any rule or regulation thereunder so as to maintain the Trust’s characterization as a partnership for federal income tax purposes or an entity that is disregarded as
separate from its sole beneficial owner for federal income tax purposes, (d) collect or cause to be collected any withholding tax as described in and in accordance with Section 5.02(c) with respect to income or
distributions to Certificateholders and (e) upon the request of the Trust, provide to necessary parties such reasonably current information as is specified in paragraph (d)(4) of Rule 144A under the Securities Act. The Owner Trustee shall make
all elections pursuant to this Section 5.05 as directed by the Trust Depositor in writing. 

Section 5.06 Signature on Returns; Partnership Representative. 

(a) The Servicer shall sign on behalf of the Trust the tax returns of the Trust, and any other returns as may be required by law if any, as the
same shall be furnished to it in execution form by the Trust Depositor, unless Applicable Law requires a Certificateholder to sign such documents, in which case such documents shall not be furnished to the Servicer, but shall be furnished to and
signed by the Trust Depositor so long as it is a Certificateholder, in its capacity as “partnership representative” (if applicable), or such other Certificateholder as may have been designated “partnership representative” (if
applicable). In executing any such return, the Servicer shall rely entirely upon, and shall have no personal liability for, information or calculations provided by the Trust Depositor. 

(b) In the event the Trust Depositor is a Certificateholder and the Trust is characterized as a partnership, the Trust Depositor shall be the
“partnership representative” of the Trust pursuant to the Code. In the event the Trust receives a notice of final partnership administrative adjustment under Section 6231(a)(3) of the Code, the Trust shall make an election pursuant to
Section 6226 of the Code and shall comply with all of the requirements and procedures required in connection with such election. 

  
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 ARTICLE VI 

AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE 

Section 6.01 General Authority. 

Each of the Owner Trustee, the Servicer, the Administrator and the Trust Depositor shall have power and authority, and each is hereby
authorized and empowered, in the name and on behalf of the Trust, to execute and deliver the Transaction Documents to which the Trust is to be a party and each certificate or other document attached as an Exhibit to or contemplated by the
Transaction Documents to which the Trust is to be a party and any amendment or other agreement or instrument, in each case, in such form as the Owner Trustee, the Servicer, the Administrator or the Trust Depositor shall approve, as evidenced
conclusively by the Owner Trustee’s, the Servicer’s, the Administrator’s or the Trust Depositor’s execution thereof. In addition to the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall have power and authority and hereby is further authorized
(but shall not be obligated) to take all actions required of the Trust pursuant to the Transaction Documents. The Trust and the Owner Trustee are hereby authorized to delegate such power and authority, or any portion thereof, with respect to the
duties and obligations of the Trust and/or the Owner Trustee under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to the Servicer and the Administrator. The Owner Trustee shall have power and authority and hereby is further authorized from time
to time to take such action as the Servicer, the Trust Depositor or the Administrator recommends and directs with respect to the Transaction Documents. 

Section 6.02 General Duties. 

It shall be the duty of the Owner Trustee to discharge (or cause to be discharged) all of the duties expressly required to be performed by the
Owner Trustee under the terms of this Agreement in the interest of the Certificateholders, subject to the Transaction Documents and in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall be deemed
to have discharged its duties and responsibilities hereunder and under the Transaction Documents to the extent the Trust Depositor has agreed hereunder or the Servicer has agreed in the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the Administrator has agreed in
the Administration Agreement to perform any act or to discharge any duty of the Owner Trustee or of the Trust under any Transaction Document, and the Owner Trustee shall not be held personally liable for the default or failure of the Trust
Depositor, the Administrator or the Servicer to carry out its obligations under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Administration Agreement or this Trust Agreement, as applicable. 

Section 6.03 Action upon Instruction. 

(a) Subject to Article IV and Section 7.01 and in accordance with the terms of the
Transaction Documents, the Certificateholders may by written instruction direct the Owner Trustee in the management of the Trust. Such direction may be exercised at any time by written instruction to the Owner Trustee of the Certificateholders
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 (b) The Owner Trustee shall not be required to take any action hereunder or under any
Transaction Document if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonably determined, or shall have been advised by counsel, that such action is likely to result in personal liability on the part of the Owner Trustee or is contrary to the terms hereof or of
any Transaction Document or is otherwise contrary to Applicable Law. 
 (c) Whenever the Owner Trustee is unable to decide between
alternative courses of action permitted or required by the terms of this Trust Agreement or under any Transaction Document, the Owner Trustee shall promptly give notice (in such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the
Certificateholders requesting instruction as to the course of action to be adopted and stating that if the Owner Trustee shall not have received appropriate instruction within ten (10) Business 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 not inconsistent with this Agreement and the other Transaction
Documents as it shall deem to be in the best interests of the Certificateholders and shall have no personal liability to any Person for such action or inaction. To the extent the Owner Trustee acts or refrains from acting in good faith in accordance
with any written instruction received from Majority Certificateholders, the Owner Trustee shall not be personally liable on account of such action or inaction to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall not have received appropriate instruction within
ten (10) Business 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 not inconsistent with this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents as it shall deem to be in the best interests of the Certificateholders and shall have no personal liability to any Person for such action or inaction. 

(d) In the event that the Owner Trustee is unsure as to the application of any provision of this Trust Agreement or any Transaction Document or
any such provision is ambiguous as to its application, or is, or appears to be, in conflict with any other applicable provision, or in the event that this Trust Agreement permits any determination by the Owner Trustee or is silent or is incomplete
as to the course of action that the Owner Trustee is required or permitted to take with respect to a particular set of facts, the Owner Trustee may give notice (in such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the Certificateholders
requesting instruction and stating that if the Owner Trustee shall not have received appropriate instruction within ten (10) Business 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 not inconsistent with this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents as it shall deem to be in the best interests of the
Certificateholders, and shall have no personal liability to any Person for such action or inaction. To the extent that the Owner Trustee acts or refrains from acting in good faith in accordance with any such instruction received from Majority
Certificateholders, the Owner Trustee shall not be personally liable, on account of such action or inaction, to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall not have received appropriate instruction within ten (10) Business 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 not inconsistent with this Agreement or the
other Transaction Documents as it shall deem to be in the best interests of the Certificateholders, and shall have no personal liability to any Person for such action or inaction. 

  
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 Section 6.04 No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement
or in Instructions. 
 The Owner Trustee shall not have any duty or obligation to manage, make any payment with respect to, register,
record, sell, dispose of, or otherwise deal with the Trust Estate, or to otherwise take or refrain from taking any action under, or in connection with, the Transaction Documents or any document contemplated hereby or thereby, except as expressly
provided by the terms of this Trust Agreement or in any document or written instruction received by the Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 6.03; and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Trust Agreement or
any other Transaction Document against the Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall have no responsibility for filing any financing or continuation statement in any public office at any time or to otherwise perfect or maintain the perfection of any
security interest or lien granted to it hereunder or to prepare or file any Commission filing for the Trust or to record this Trust Agreement or any Transaction Document. The Owner 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 Trust Estate that result from actions by, or claims against, the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity that are not related to the Trust, this Trust
Agreement, the Trust Company’s serving as Owner Trustee or the ownership or the administration of the Trust Estate. 

Section 6.05 Restrictions. 

The Owner Trustee shall not take any action that, (i) is inconsistent with the purposes of the Trust set forth in
Section 2.03 or (ii) to the actual knowledge of a Responsible Officer of the Owner Trustee, would result in the Trust’s becoming taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes. The Certificateholders
shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take action that would violate the provisions of this Section 6.05. 

ARTICLE VII 
 CONCERNING
THE OWNER TRUSTEE 
 Section 7.01 Acceptance of Trusts and Duties. 

The Owner Trustee accepts the trusts hereby created and agrees to perform its duties hereunder but only upon the terms of this Trust Agreement.
The Owner Trustee also agrees to disburse all moneys actually received by it constituting part of the Trust Estate upon the terms of this Trust Agreement and the other Transaction Documents. The Owner Trustee shall not be personally answerable or
accountable hereunder or under any other Transaction Document under any circumstances, except to the Trust and the Certificateholders (i) for its own willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence or (ii) in the case of the inaccuracy
of any representation or warranty contained in Section 7.03 expressly made by the Owner Trustee. In particular, but not by way of limitation (and subject to the exceptions set forth in the preceding sentence): 

  
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 (a) the Owner Trustee shall not be personally liable for any error of judgment made by a
Responsible Officer of the Owner Trustee which did not result from gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of such Responsible Officer; 

(b) the Owner Trustee shall not be personally liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in accordance with the
instructions of the Trust Depositor, the Servicer or of Certificateholders holding such Percentage Interest as is required with respect thereto under this Agreement or the applicable Transaction Documents; 

(c) no provision of this Trust Agreement or any other Transaction Document shall require the Owner Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or
otherwise incur any personal financial liability in the performance of any of its rights or powers hereunder or under any Transaction Document if the Owner 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 Owner Trustee
be personally liable for indebtedness evidenced by or arising under any of the Transaction Documents, including the principal of and interest on the Notes; 

(e) the Owner Trustee shall not be personally responsible (i) for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Trust Agreement or
for the due execution hereof by the Trust Depositor, (ii) for the form, character, genuineness, sufficiency, value or validity of any of the Trust Estate, or (iii) for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of the Transaction
Documents, other than the Owner Trustee’s due execution of the Trust Certificate on behalf of the Trust, and the Owner Trustee shall in no event assume or incur any personal liability, duty, or obligation to any Noteholder or any
Certificateholder other than as expressly provided for herein or expressly agreed to in the Transaction Documents; 
 (f) the Owner Trustee
shall not be personally liable for the default or misconduct of the Trust Depositor, the Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Administrator or the Servicer or any other Person under any of the Transaction Documents or otherwise and the Owner
Trustee shall have no obligation or personal liability to monitor or perform the obligations of the Trust or the Certificate Registrar under this Trust Agreement or the other Transaction Documents that are required to be performed by the Trustee
under the Indenture, the Administrator under the Administration Agreement or the Servicer or the Trust Depositor under the Sale and Servicing Agreement; and 

(g) the Owner Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement, or to
institute, conduct or defend any litigation under this Trust Agreement or otherwise or in relation to this Trust Agreement or any other Transaction Document, at the request, order or direction of any of the Certificateholders, unless such
Certificateholders have offered to the Owner Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities that may be incurred by the Owner Trustee therein or thereby. The right of the Owner Trustee to perform any
discretionary act enumerated in this Trust Agreement or in any other Transaction Document shall not be construed as a duty, and the Owner Trustee shall not be personally answerable therefor other than to the Trust and the Certificateholders for its
willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence in the performance of any such act. 

  
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 Section 7.02 Furnishing of Documents. 

The Owner Trustee shall furnish to the Certificateholders duplicates or copies of all reports, notices, requests, demands, certificates,
financial statements and any other instruments furnished to the Owner Trustee under the Transaction Documents. 

Section 7.03 Representations and Warranties. 

The Owner Trustee hereby represents and warrants to the Trust Depositor, for the benefit of the Trust Depositor and Certificateholders, that:

 (a) It is national banking association, duly organized and validly existing in good standing under the laws of the United States of
America. It has all requisite power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Trust Agreement. 
 (b) It has
taken all action necessary to authorize the execution and delivery by it of this Trust Agreement, and this Trust Agreement will be executed and delivered by one of its officers who is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Trust Agreement on
its behalf. 
 (c) Neither the execution nor the delivery by it of this Trust Agreement, nor the consummation by it of the transactions
contemplated hereby nor compliance by it with any of the terms or provisions hereof, will (i) contravene any federal or Delaware state law, governmental rule or regulation governing the trust powers of the Trust Company or any judgment or order
binding on it, (ii) constitute any default under its charter documents or organizational documents or any indenture, mortgage, contract, long-term lease, license or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which any of its
properties may be bound or (iii) result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance on the Trust Estate resulting from actions by or claims against the Owner Trustee individually which are unrelated to this Agreement or the
other Transaction Documents. 
 (d) This Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Owner Trustee enforceable in
accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and similar laws relating to creditors’ rights generally and creditors of national banking associations and subject to general principles of equity. 

(e) To the Owner Trustee’s best knowledge, there are no proceedings or investigations pending, or to the Owner Trustee’s knowledge
threatened, before any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Owner Trustee or its properties: (A) asserting the invalidity of this Trust Agreement, (B) seeking to
prevent the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this Trust Agreement or (C) seeking any determination or ruling that might materially and adversely affect the performance by the Owner Trustee of its obligations under, or the
validity or enforceability of, this Trust Agreement. 

  
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 Section 7.04 Reliance; Advice of Counsel. 

(a) The Owner Trustee shall incur no personal liability to anyone in acting upon any signature, instrument, notice, resolution, request,
consent, order, certificate, report, opinion, bond or other document or paper believed by it to be genuine and believed by it to be signed by an appropriate Person or Persons. The Owner Trustee may accept a certified copy of a resolution of the
board of directors or other governing body of any Person 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 method of determination of which is
not specifically prescribed herein, the Owner Trustee may for all purposes hereof require and rely on a certificate, signed by the president or any vice president or by the treasurer or other authorized officer or agent of an appropriate Person or
Persons or of any manager thereof, as to such fact or matter and such certificate shall constitute full protection to the Owner 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 trusts hereunder and in the performance of its duties and obligations under this Trust Agreement
or the other Transaction Documents, the Owner Trustee may act directly or through its agents or attorneys pursuant to agreements entered into with any of them, and the Owner Trustee shall not be personally liable for the conduct or misconduct of
such agents or attorneys if such agents or attorneys shall have been selected by the Owner Trustee with reasonable care, and may consult with counsel, accountants and other skilled Persons to be selected with reasonable care and employed by it. The
Owner Trustee shall not be personally liable for anything done, suffered or omitted in good faith by it in accordance with the written opinion or advice of any such counsel, accountants or other such Persons. The Owner Trustee shall have no duty to
monitor or supervise any other trustee, the Certificate Registrar, a paying agent, the Trust Depositor, the Holders, the Servicer, any Subservicer, the Trustee, the Administrator, any agent, independent contractor, officer, employee or manager of
the Trust, any delegatee of any trustee, or any other Person. 
 Section 7.05 Not Acting in Individual
Capacity. 
 Except as provided in this Article VII, in performing its duties hereunder, the Trust Company
acts solely as Owner Trustee hereunder and not in its individual capacity, and all Persons having any claim against the Owner Trustee by reason of the transactions contemplated by this Trust Agreement or any Transaction Document shall look only to
the Trust Estate for payment or satisfaction thereof. 
 Section 7.06 Owner Trustee Not Liable for Trust
Certificates or Loans. 
 The recitals contained herein and in the Trust Certificates shall be taken as the statements of the Trust
Depositor and the Owner Trustee assumes no personal responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Owner Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Trust Agreement, of any other Transaction Document or of the Trust
Certificates (other than as to the due execution by the Owner Trustee of the Trust Certificates on behalf of the Trust) or the Notes, or of any Loan or related documents. The Owner Trustee shall at no time have any personal responsibility or
liability for or with respect to the legality, validity and enforceability of any Loan, or for or with respect to the sufficiency of the Trust Estate or its 

  
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ability to generate the payments to be distributed to Certificateholders under this Trust Agreement or the Noteholders under the Indenture, including, without limitation: (a) the existence,
condition and ownership of any collateral securing a Loan; (b) the existence and enforceability of any insurance thereon; (c) the validity of the assignment of any Loan to the Trust or of any intervening assignment; (d) the
performance or enforcement of any Loan; and (e) the compliance by the Trust Depositor or the Servicer with any warranty or representation made under any Transaction Document or in any related document or the accuracy of any such warranty or
representation, or any action of the Trust Depositor, the Trustee, the Administrator or the Servicer or any subservicer taken in the name of the Owner Trustee. 

Section 7.07 Owner Trustee May Own Trust Certificates and Notes. 

The Owner Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Trust Certificates or Notes and may deal with the
Trust Depositor, the Trustee and the Servicer in banking transactions with the same rights as it would have if it were not Owner Trustee. 

ARTICLE VIII 

COMPENSATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE 

Section 8.01 Owner Trustee’s Fees and Expenses. 

The Owner Trustee shall receive as compensation for its services hereunder such fees as have been separately agreed upon before the date hereof
between the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee, and the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed by the Trust Depositor for its other reasonable expenses hereunder, including, but not limited to, the reasonable compensation, expenses and
disbursements of such agents, representatives, experts and counsel as the Owner Trustee may employ in connection with the exercise and performance of its rights and its duties hereunder. The Trust Depositor shall be responsible for such fees and
expenses only to the extent the same are not paid pursuant to the Priority of Payments, such fees and expenses to be paid to the Owner Trustee in accordance with the Priority of Payments. 

Section 8.02 Indemnification. 

Trust Depositor shall be liable as primary obligor for, and shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Owner Trustee (in its individual
capacity and in its capacity as Owner Trustee) and its successors, assigns, agents and servants (collectively, the “Indemnified Parties”) from and against, any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, taxes, claims,
actions and suits (provided that any indemnification for damages is limited to actual damages, not consequential, special or punitive damages), and any and all reasonable costs, expenses and disbursements (including reasonable legal fees and
expenses and fees and expenses incurred in connection with the enforcement of indemnification rights) of any kind and nature whatsoever (collectively, “Expenses”) which may at any time be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against
an Indemnified Party in any way relating to or arising out of this Trust Agreement, the Transaction Documents, the Trust Estate, the administration of the Trust Estate or the action or inaction of the Owner Trustee hereunder, except only that the
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required to indemnify an Indemnified Party from and against Expenses arising or resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnified Party. The indemnities contained in
this Section shall survive the resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee and the termination of this Trust Agreement. If an Indemnified Party seeks indemnification hereunder it shall promptly notify the Trust Depositor if a Responsible Officer of
the Indemnified Party receives a complaint, claim, compulsory process or other notice of any loss, claim, damage or liability giving rise to a claim of indemnification hereunder but failure to provide such notice shall not relieve the Trust
Depositor of its indemnification obligations hereunder unless the Trust Depositor is deprived of material substantive or procedural rights or defenses as a result thereof. The Trust Depositor shall assume (with the consent of the Indemnified Party,
such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) the defense and any settlement of any such claim and pay all expenses in connection therewith, including reasonable counsel fees, and promptly pay, discharge and satisfy any judgment or decree which may
be entered against the Indemnified Party in respect of such claim; provided that the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to retain separate counsel at the expense of the Trust Depositor in the event that a conflict of interest or the possible imposition
of criminal liability. If the consent of the Indemnified Party required in the immediately preceding sentence is unreasonably withheld, the Trust Depositor is relieved of its indemnification obligations hereunder with respect to such Person to the
extent its defense of its claims are prejudiced thereby. The Trust Depositor shall be responsible for such indemnification to the extent the same is not paid pursuant to the Priority of Payments, such indemnification to be paid first in accordance
with the Priority of Payments. 
 Section 8.03 Payments to the Owner Trustee. 

Any amounts paid to the Owner Trustee pursuant to this Article VIII shall be deemed not to be a part of the Trust
Estate immediately after such payment. 
 ARTICLE IX 

TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT 

Section 9.01 Termination of Trust Agreement. 

(a) The Trust shall dissolve, liquidate and be wound up in accordance with Section 3808 of the Statutory Trust Statute upon (i) the
final distribution by the Trustee or any other party acting as paying agent of all moneys or other property or proceeds of the Trust Estate in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, the Sale and Servicing Agreement and
Article V, upon which the Trustee or any other party acting as paying agent shall notify the Owner Trustee and the Trust Depositor in writing and (ii) the written consent of the Certificateholders. The bankruptcy,
liquidation, termination, dissolution, death or incapacity of any Certificateholder shall not (x) operate to dissolve or terminate this Trust Agreement or the Trust or (y) entitle such Certificateholder’s 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 or Trust Estate or (z) otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto.

 (b) Except as provided in Section 9.01(a), neither the Trust Depositor nor any Certificateholder shall be
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 (c) Notice of any termination of the Trust, specifying the Payment Date upon which the
Certificateholders shall surrender their Trust Certificates to the Trustee or any other party acting as paying agent of the Trustee for payment of the final distribution and cancellation, shall be given by the Trustee or any other party acting as
paying agent by letter to Certificateholders mailed within five (5) Business Days of receipt of written notice of such termination from the Servicer stating, as set forth in such notice from the Servicer, (i) the Payment Date upon or with
respect to which final payment of the Trust Certificates shall be made upon presentation and surrender of the Trust Certificates at the office of the Trustee therein designated, (ii) the amount of any such final payment and (iii) that the
Record Date otherwise applicable to such Payment Date is not applicable, payments being made only upon presentation and surrender of the Trust Certificates at the office of the Trustee therein specified. The Trustee shall give such notice to the
Certificate Registrar (if other than the Owner Trustee) and the Owner Trustee at the time such notice is given to Certificateholders. Upon presentation and surrender of the Trust Certificates, the Trustee shall cause to be distributed to
Certificateholders amounts distributable on such Payment Date pursuant to Section 5.02. 
 In the event that all
of the Certificateholders shall not surrender their Trust Certificates for cancellation within six months after the date specified in the above mentioned written notice, the Trustee shall give a second written notice to the remaining
Certificateholders to surrender their Trust Certificates for cancellation and receive the final distribution with respect thereto. If within one year after the second notice all the Trust Certificates shall not have been surrendered for
cancellation, the Trustee may take appropriate steps, or may appoint an agent to take appropriate steps, to contact the remaining Certificateholders concerning surrender of their Trust Certificates, and the cost thereof shall be paid out of the
funds and other assets that shall remain subject to this Trust Agreement. Any funds remaining in the Trust after exhaustion of such remedies shall be distributed by the Trustee or any other party acting as paying agent, to the Trust Depositor.
Certificateholders shall thereafter look solely to the Trust Depositor as general unsecured creditors. 
 (d) Upon the winding up of the
Trust and payment of all liabilities in accordance with Section 3808 of the Statutory Trust Statute, the paying agent shall make a final distribution to the Certificateholders in accordance with Article V and
Section 9.01(c) above and the Administrator shall instruct the Owner Trustee to cause the Certificate of Trust to be cancelled by filing a certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State in accordance with the
provisions of Section 3810 of the Statutory Trust Statute. Thereupon, the Trust and this Trust Agreement (other than the rights, benefits, protections, privileges and immunities of the Owner Trustee and the Trust Company) shall terminate. 

ARTICLE X 
 SUCCESSOR
OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES 
 Section 10.01 Eligibility Requirements for Owner
Trustee. 
 The Owner Trustee shall at all times be a Person (a) satisfying the provisions of Section 3807(a) of the
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surplus of) at least $100,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by federal or state banking authorities; and (d) having (or having a parent that has) an investment grade rating
with respect to S&P and Moody’s. If such Person shall publish reports of condition at least annually pursuant to Applicable Law or the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purpose of this
Section 10.01, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. In case at any time the Owner Trustee
shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 10.01, the Owner Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 10.02. 

Section 10.02 Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee. 

(a) The Owner Trustee may at any time resign and be discharged from the trusts hereby created by giving written notice thereof to the Trust
Depositor. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Trust Depositor shall promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Owner Trustee and one
copy shall be delivered to the successor Owner Trustee. If no successor Owner Trustee shall have been so appointed and have accepted appointment within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Owner Trustee, at the
expense of the Trust Depositor, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Owner Trustee. 
 (b) The
Trust Depositor may remove the Owner Trustee at any time without cause or at any time (1) that the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.01 and shall fail to resign
after written request therefor by the Trust Depositor or (2) the Owner Trustee shall be legally unable to act, or shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Owner Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any public
officer shall take charge or control of the Owner Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation. If the Trust Depositor shall remove the Owner Trustee under the authority of the immediately
preceding sentence, the Trust Depositor shall promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one (1) copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the outgoing Owner Trustee so removed, and one (1) copy
shall be delivered to the successor Owner Trustee, and shall pay all fees owed to the outgoing Owner Trustee in its individual capacity. 

(c) Any resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee and appointment of a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this
Section shall not become effective until the appointment by the successor Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 10.03 has become effective and, in the case of removal, payment of all accrued and unpaid fees and expenses owed to
the outgoing Owner Trustee in its individual capacity. The Trust Depositor shall provide notice of such resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee to all Holders, the Trustee, the Servicer and any Rating Agency. 

  
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 Section 10.03 Successor Owner Trustee. 

(a) Any successor Owner Trustee appointed pursuant to Section 10.02 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the
Trust Depositor and to its predecessor Owner Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment under this Trust Agreement, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor Owner Trustee shall become effective, and such successor Owner
Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become fully vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor under this Trust Agreement, with like effect as if originally named as Owner Trustee. The
predecessor Owner Trustee shall upon payment of fees, expenses and indemnity owing to it in its individual capacity deliver to the successor Owner Trustee all documents and statements and monies held by it under this Trust Agreement; and the Trust
Depositor and the predecessor Owner Trustee shall execute and deliver such instruments and do such other things as may reasonably be required for fully and certainly vesting and confirming in the successor Owner Trustee all such rights, powers,
duties and obligations. 
 (b) No successor Owner Trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this
Section 10.03 unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Owner Trustee shall be eligible pursuant to Section 10.01. 

(c) Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to this Section 10.03, the Trust Depositor
shall mail notice thereof to all Holders, the Trustee, the Servicer and any Rating Agency. If the Trust Depositor shall fail to mail such notice within ten (10) Business Days after acceptance of such appointment by the successor Owner Trustee,
the successor Owner Trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the expense of the Trust Depositor. Furthermore, upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to this Section 10.03, such successor
Owner Trustee shall file an amendment to the Certificate of Trust with the Secretary of State in accordance with the provisions of Section 3810 of the Statutory Trust Statute. 

Section 10.04 Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee. 

Any Person into which the Owner 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 Owner Trustee shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Owner Trustee, shall be the successor of the Owner Trustee hereunder,
without the execution or filing of any instrument or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding; provided that such Person shall be eligible pursuant to
Section 10.01; provided, further, that the Owner Trustee shall mail notice of such merger or consolidation to all Holders, the Trustee, the Servicer and the Trust Depositor (who shall promptly forward such
notice to any Rating Agency) and file an amendment to the Certificate of Trust with the Secretary of State in accordance with the provisions of Section 3810 of the Statutory Trust Statute. 

Section 10.05 Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee.

 (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Trust Agreement, at any time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirements of any
jurisdiction in which any part of the Trust Estate may at the time be located, the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee acting jointly shall have the power and authority to execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons approved
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Owner Trustee, or as separate trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part of the Trust Estate, and to vest in such Person, in such capacity, such title to the Trust Estate or any part
thereof and, subject to the other provisions of this Section, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. If the Trust Depositor shall not have joined in such
appointment within 15 Business Days after the receipt by it of a request so to do, the Owner Trustee alone shall have the power, authority and authorization to make such appointment. No co-trustee or separate
trustee under this Trust Agreement shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 10.01 and no notice of the appointment of any
co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required pursuant to Section 10.03. 

(b) Each separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by any Applicable Law, be
appointed and act subject to the following provisions and conditions: 
 (i) all rights, powers, duties and obligations
conferred or imposed upon the Owner Trustee shall be conferred upon and exercised or performed by the Owner Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being understood that such separate
trustee or co-trustee is not authorized to act separately without the Owner Trustee joining in such act), except to the extent that under any Applicable Law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or
acts are to be performed, the Owner 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 Estate or any portion thereof in any
such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction of the Owner Trustee; 

(ii) no separate trustee or co-trustee under this Trust Agreement or the Owner Trustee
shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of any other trustee under this Trust Agreement; and 
 (iii) the
Trust Depositor and the Owner Trustee acting jointly may at any time accept the resignation of or remove any separate trustee or co-trustee. 

(c) Any notice, request or other writing given to the Owner Trustee shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees
and co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Trust Agreement and the
conditions of this Article X. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property specified in its
instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Owner Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions of this Trust Agreement, specifically including every provision of this Agreement relating to the conduct of,
affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the Owner Trustee. Each such instrument shall be filed with the Owner Trustee and a copy thereof given to each of the Trust Depositor, the Trustee and the Servicer. 

(d) Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time appoint the Owner 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 this Trust Agreement on its behalf and in its
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Servicer as provided for herein and in the other Transaction Documents. If any separate trustee or co-trustee shall die, 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 Owner Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or successor
co-trustee or separate trustee. 
 ARTICLE XI 

MISCELLANEOUS 

Section 11.01 Supplements and Amendments. 

(a) This Trust Agreement may be amended by the Trust Depositor, the Trust Company, and the Owner Trustee, with the consent of the Majority
Noteholders (so long as the Notes are outstanding) and the consent of the Majority Certificateholders for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions in this Trust Agreement or of modifying
in any manner the rights of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders; provided that such action shall not, as evidenced by an Officer’s Certificate of the Servicer, materially adversely affect the interests of any Noteholder or
Certificateholder. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, this Trust Agreement may be amended by the Trust Depositor, the Trust Company, and the Owner Trustee without the consent of any Noteholder or Certificateholder to cure any
ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provisions in this Trust Agreement in a manner consistent with the intent of this Trust Agreement and the Transaction Documents. 

(b) Except as provided in Section 11.01(a) hereof, this Trust Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Trust
Depositor, the Trust Company, and the Owner Trustee, with the consent of the Majority Noteholders (so long as the Notes are outstanding) and the consent of the Majority Certificateholders, for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in
any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Trust Agreement or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders hereunder; provided that no such amendment shall (a) increase or reduce in any
manner the amount of, or accelerate or delay the timing of any amounts received on the Loans which are required to be distributed on any Note or Trust Certificate without the consent of the Holder of that Note or Trust Certificate or (b) reduce
the aforesaid percentage of Noteholders and the aggregate Percentage Interest of Certificateholders required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the holders of all the outstanding Notes and Trust Certificates. 

(c) Promptly after the execution of any such amendment or consent, the Owner Trustee shall furnish written notification of the substance of
such amendment or consent to the Trustee and the Trust Depositor (who shall promptly forward such notice to any Rating Agency) and the Trustee shall furnish written notification of the substance of such amendment or consent to each Certificateholder
and Noteholder. 
 (d) It shall not be necessary for the consent of Certificateholders or Noteholders pursuant to this
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manner of obtaining such consents (and any other consents of Certificateholders or Noteholders provided for in this Trust Agreement or in any other Transaction Document) and of evidencing the
authorization of the execution thereof by Certificateholders or Noteholders shall be subject to such reasonable requirements as the Owner Trustee may prescribe. 

(e) Promptly after the execution of any amendment to the Certificate of Trust, the Owner Trustee shall cause the filing of such amendment with
the Secretary of State of Delaware. 
 (f) Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Trust Agreement or the Certificate of Trust, the
Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive and rely upon an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amendment is authorized or permitted by this Trust Agreement and an officer’s certificate of the Trust Depositor that all
conditions precedent to the execution and delivery of such amendment have been met. The Owner Trustee and the Trust Company may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment that affects the Owner Trustee’s or the Trust
Company’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Trust Agreement or otherwise. Notwithstanding any other provision herein or elsewhere, no provision, amendment, supplement, waiver, or consent of or with respect to any of the Transaction
Documents that affects any right, power, authority, duty, benefit, protection, privilege, immunity or indemnity of the Owner Trustee or the Trust Company shall be binding on the Owner Trustee or the Trust Company unless the Owner Trustee and the
Trust Company shall have expressly consented thereto in writing. 
 (g) This Trust Agreement may only be amended to the extent that written
advice from Dechert LLP or an opinion of tax counsel of nationally recognized standing in the United States experienced in such matters is delivered to the Issuer (with a copy to the Owner Trustee) to the effect that such amendment will not
(i) cause the Trust to be treated as an association, publicly traded partnership or taxable mortgage pool, in each case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (ii) cause the Notes to be deemed to have been sold or
exchanged under Section 1001 of the Code or (iii) cause any Notes that were characterized as indebtedness at the time of issuance to be characterized as other than indebtedness. 

Section 11.02 Customer Identification Program. 

Pursuant to Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee is required to obtain on or before closing, and from time to time thereafter, documentation to
verify and record information that identifies each person who opens an account. For a non-individual person such as a business entity, a charity, a trust or other legal entity, the Owner Trustee will ask for
documentation to verify the entity’s formation and existence, its financial statements, licenses, tax identification documents, identification and authorization documents from individuals claiming authority to represent the entity and other
relevant documentation and information (including beneficial owners of such entities). To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected and indemnified in relying on, any
such information received. Failure to provide such information may result in an inability of the Owner Trustee to perform its obligations hereunder, which, at the sole option of the Owner Trustee, may result in the Owner Trustee’s resignation
in accordance with the terms hereof.    The parties hereto agree that for purposes of Applicable Law, (a) Ownership Prong: The Trust Depositor is and shall be deemed to be the sole beneficial owner of the Trust, and
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 Section 11.03 No Legal
Title to Trust Estate in Certificateholders. 
 The Certificateholders shall not have legal title to
any part of the Trust Estate. The Certificateholders shall be entitled to receive distributions with respect to their undivided beneficial ownership interest therein only in accordance with Articles V and IX. No
transfer, by operation of law or otherwise, of any right, title or interest of the Certificateholders to and in their beneficial ownership interest in the Trust Estate shall operate to dissolve the Trust or terminate this Agreement or the trusts
hereunder or entitle any transferee to an accounting or to the transfer to it of legal title to any part of the Trust Estate. 

Section 11.04 Limitations on Rights of Others. 

The provisions of this Trust Agreement are solely for the benefit of the Owner Trustee, the Trust Company, the Indemnified Parties, the Trust
Depositor, the Certificateholders and, to the extent expressly provided herein, the Trustee and the Noteholders, and nothing in this Trust Agreement, whether express or implied, shall be construed to give to any other Person any legal or equitable
right, remedy or claim in the Trust Estate or under or in respect of this Trust Agreement or any covenants, conditions or provisions contained herein. 

Section 11.05 Notices. 

(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Certificateholders or other documents provided or
permitted by this Trust Agreement shall be in writing to and mailed, return receipt requested, hand delivered, sent by overnight courier service guaranteeing next day delivery or by facsimile or telecopy in legible form, if to the Owner Trustee,
addressed to its Corporate Trust Office; or if to the Trust Depositor, addressed to Hercules Capital Funding 2018-1 LLC, c/o Hercules Capital, Inc., 400 Hamilton Avenue, Suite 310, Palo Alto, California 94301,
Attention: Chief Financial Officer, Re: Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1, Telephone: (650) 289-3060, Facsimile No.: (650)
473-9194; with a copy to Hercules Capital Funding 2018-1 LLC, c/o Hercules Capital, Inc., 400 Hamilton Avenue, Suite 310, Palo Alto, California 94301, Attention: General
Counsel, Re: Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1, Telephone: (650) 289-3060, Facsimile No.: (650) 473-9194 or if to a
Certificateholder shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, at the address of such Certificateholder as shown in the Certificate Register. 

(b) Delivery of any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Noteholders or other documents made as
provided above will be deemed effective (except that notice to the Owner Trustee shall be deemed given only upon actual receipt by the Owner Trustee): (i) if in writing and delivered in Person or by overnight courier service, on the date it is
delivered; (ii) if sent by facsimile transmission, on the date that transmission is received by the recipient in legible form (it being agreed that the burden of proving receipt will be on the sender and will not be met by a transmission
report generated by the sender’s facsimile machine); and (iii) if sent by mail, on the date that mail is delivered or its delivery is attempted; in each case, unless the date of that delivery (or attempted delivery) or that receipt, as
applicable, is not a Business Day or that communication is delivered (or attempted) or received, as applicable, after the close of business on a Business Day, in which case that communication shall be deemed given and effective on the first
following day that is a Business Day. 

  
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 Section 11.06 Severability. 

Any provision of this Trust Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to
the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other
jurisdiction. 
 Section 11.07 Separate Counterparts. 

This Trust Agreement may be executed by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an
original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. 
 Section 11.08
Successors and Assigns. 
 All covenants and agreements contained herein shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit
of, each of the Trust Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Trust Company, each Certificateholder and their respective successors and permitted assigns, all as herein provided. Any request, notice, direction, consent, waiver or other instrument or
action by a Certificateholder shall bind the successors and assigns of such Certificateholder. 
 Section 11.09
No Petition. 
 (a) To the extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Trust Depositor will not, prior to the date which is one
(1) year and one (1) day (or, if longer, the applicable preference period then in effect) after payment in full of the Notes rated by any Rating Agency (or such longer preference period as shall then be in effect), institute against the
Trust any bankruptcy proceedings under any United States Federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Trust Certificates, the Notes, this Trust Agreement or any of the other Transaction Documents.

 (b) To the extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Owner Trustee, by entering into this Trust Agreement, each Certificateholder, by
accepting a Trust Certificate, and the Trustee and each Noteholder, by accepting the benefits of this Trust Agreement, hereby covenant and agree that they will not, prior to the date which is one (1) year and one (1) day (or if longer, the
applicable preference period as shall then be in effect) after payment in full of the Notes rated by any Rating Agency (or such longer preference period as shall then be in effect), institute against the Trust, or join in any institution against the
Trust of, any bankruptcy proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Trust Certificates, the Notes, this Trust Agreement or any of the other Transaction Documents;
provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall prevent the Owner Trustee from filing a proof of claim in any such proceeding. 

  
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 (c) The provisions of this Section 11.08 shall survive the
termination of this Trust Agreement for any reason whatsoever. 
 Section 11.10 No Recourse. 

To the extent permitted by Applicable Law, each Certificateholder by accepting a Trust Certificate acknowledges that such
Certificateholder’s Trust Certificates represent beneficial interests in the Trust only and do not represent interests in or obligations of the Trust Depositor, the Servicer, the Seller, the Owner Trustee, the Trust Company, the Trustee,
Certificate Registrar or any Affiliate thereof and no recourse may be had against such parties or their assets, except as may be expressly set forth or contemplated in this Trust Agreement, the Trust Certificates or the Transaction Documents. Each
Certificateholder by accepting a Trust Certificate (i) acknowledges that such Trust Certificate represents a beneficial interest in the Trust only and does not represent an interest in or an obligation of the Trust Depositor, the Servicer, the
Seller, the Owner Trustee, the Trustee, or any Affiliate of the foregoing, and no recourse may be had against any such party or their assets, except as may be expressly set forth or contemplated in the Transaction Documents and (ii) enters into
the undertakings and agreements provided for such Certificateholder set forth in Section 13.09 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. The right to distributions of the assets of the Trust or the proceeds thereof arising under this Agreement or
the Trust Certificates shall be payable solely in accordance with the priority set forth in Section 7.06 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement until the final discharge of the Indenture, and no Certificateholder shall have
any recourse against the Trust except in accordance therewith. The provisions of this Section 11.09 shall survive any termination of this Agreement. 

Section 11.11 Headings. 

The headings of the various Articles and Sections herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit any of the terms
or provisions hereof. 
 Section 11.12 GOVERNING LAW; SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; WAIVER OF JURY
TRIAL. 
 THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT
OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS. SECTION 3540 OF TITLE 12 OF THE DELAWARE CODE SHALL NOT APPLY TO THIS TRUST. 

ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING WITH RESPECT TO THIS TRUST AGREEMENT MAY BE BROUGHT IN THE COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF
DELAWARE, AND BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS TRUST AGREEMENT, EACH PARTY HERETO CONSENTS, FOR ITSELF AND IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, TO THE NON-EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THOSE COURTS. EACH SUCH PARTY
IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION, INCLUDING ANY OBJECTION TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OR BASED ON THE GROUNDS OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS, WHICH IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE BRINGING OF ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN SUCH JURISDICTION IN RESPECT OF THIS
TRUST AGREEMENT OR ANY DOCUMENT RELATED HERETO. 

  
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 TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL RIGHT OF
TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM BASED ON, OR ARISING OUT OF, UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY MATTER ARISING HEREUNDER. 

Section 11.13 Termination of Original Trust Agreement. 

The parties hereto agree that the Original Trust Agreement is hereby superseded in its entirety by this Agreement. 

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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Trust Agreement to be duly
executed by their respective officers hereunto duly authorized, as of the day and year first above written. 
  

			
	HERCULES CAPITAL FUNDING 2018-1 LLC, as Trust Depositor
		
	 By:
	 	 /s/ Melanie Grace

	Name: Melanie Grace
	Title: General Counsel

  
 Hercules Capital Funding
Trust 2018-1 
 A&R Trust Agreement 

 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Trust Agreement to be duly
executed by their respective officers hereunto duly authorized, as of the day and year first above written. 
  

			
	WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Owner Trustee and as the Trust Company
		
	By:	 	 /s/ Roseline K. Maney

	Name: Roseline K. Maney
	Title: Administrative Vice President

  
 Hercules Capital Funding
Trust 2018-1 
 A&R Trust Agreement 

 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Trust Agreement to be duly
executed by their respective officers hereunto duly authorized, as of the day and year first above written. 
  

			
	U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee, hereby accepts the appointment as Certificate Registrar and paying agent pursuant to Sections 3.04 and 3.09 hereof and agrees to be bound by the
obligations expressly set forth herein applicable to it in such capacities.
		
	By:	 	 /s/ Ralph J. Creasia, Jr.

	Name:	 	 Ralph J. Creasia, Jr.

	Title:	 	 Senior Vice President

  

  
 Hercules Capital Funding
Trust 2018-1 
 A&R Trust Agreement 

 EXHIBIT A 

FORM OF TRUST CERTIFICATE 
 THIS
TRUST CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”) OR STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE, AGREES THAT THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE MAY
BE MAY BE REOFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAW AND ONLY TO (1) A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER,” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT
IS A “QUALIFIED PURCHASER” AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2(A)(51) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 (EACH SUCH PERSON, A “QUALIFIED PURCHASER”), (2) AN INSTITUTION THAT QUALIFIES AS AN “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” MEETING
THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 501(A)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) OF REGULATION D UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (AN “INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR”) THAT IS A QUALIFIED PURCHASER PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND, IN
EITHER CASE, IS ACQUIRING SUCH TRUST CERTIFICATE FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT (AND NOT FOR THE ACCOUNT OF OTHERS) OR AS A FIDUCIARY OR AGENT FOR OTHERS (WHICH OTHERS ALSO ARE INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTORS), PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN EACH CASE, SUBJECT TO (A) THE RECEIPT BY THE OWNER TRUSTEE AND THE CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR OF A LETTER SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM PROVIDED IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT AND (B) THE RECEIPT BY THE OWNER
TRUSTEE AND THE CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR OF SUCH OTHER EVIDENCE ACCEPTABLE TO THE OWNER TRUSTEE THAT SUCH REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAW OR IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL
APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND SECURITIES AND BLUE SKY LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES AND ANY OTHER APPLICABLE JURISDICTION, (3) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER EXEMPTION AVAILABLE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE
WITH ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, OR (4) PURSUANT TO A VALID REGISTRATION STATEMENT. EACH INVESTOR IN THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED AND WARRANTED THAT EITHER (I) IT IS NOT, AND IS NOT DIRECTLY OR
INDIRECTLY ACQUIRING THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE FOR, ON BEHALF OF OR WITH ANY ASSETS OF, AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR OTHER ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO PART 4, SUBTITLE B, TITLE I OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED
(“ERISA”), A PLAN SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”), OR AN ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE PLAN ASSETS OF ANY SUCH PLANS (COLLECTIVELY, A “BENEFIT
PLAN INVESTOR”) OR A PLAN OR OTHER ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO ANY PROVISIONS UNDER ANY FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL, NON-U.S. OR OTHER LAWS OR REGULATIONS THAT ARE 

 SUBSTANTIVELY SIMILAR TO SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE (“SIMILAR
LAW”) OR (II) IT IS A PLAN SUBJECT TO SIMILAR LAW AND ITS ACQUISITION, HOLDING AND DISPOSITION OF SUCH TRUST CERTIFICATE OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN WILL NOT CONSTITUTE OR RESULT IN A NON-EXEMPT
VIOLATION OF SIMILAR LAW. SUCH REPRESENTATION SHALL BE DEEMED MADE ON EACH DAY FROM THE DATE ON WHICH THE ACQUIRER ACQUIRES ITS INTEREST IN THE TRUST CERTIFICATE THROUGH AND INCLUDING THE DATE ON WHICH THE ACQUIRER DISPOSES OF ITS INTEREST IN THE
TRUST CERTIFICATE. 
 THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE IS NOT GUARANTEED OR INSURED BY ANY GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY. 

NO TRANSFER, SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER DISPOSITION OF ONE OR MORE TRUST CERTIFICATES (A “TRANSFER”) SHALL BE MADE UNLESS SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH
THE TRANSFER THE PERCENTAGE INTEREST OF THE TRUST CERTIFICATES SO TRANSFERRED IS NO LESS THAN TEN (10%) PERCENT. 
 EACH HOLDER OF THIS TRUST
CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN) REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IT IS A “UNITED STATES PERSON” AS DEFINED IN SECTION 7701(a)(30) OF THE CODE AND WILL PROVIDE THE TRUST AND THE OWNER TRUSTEE (AND ANY OF THEIR AGENTS) WITH A CORRECT,
COMPLETE AND PROPERLY EXECUTED INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE FORM W-9 (OR APPLICABLE SUCCESSOR FORM). IF ANY HOLDER OF THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE (OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN) (OTHER THAN THE INITIAL HOLDER) FAILS TO
PROVIDE THE TRUST AND THE OWNER TRUST (AND ANY OF THEIR AGENTS) WITH THE PROPERLY COMPLETED AND SIGNED TAX CERTIFICATIONS SPECIFIED ABOVE, THE ACQUISITION OF ITS INTEREST IN THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE SHALL BE VOID AB INITIO.

 EACH TRANSFEROR OF THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN) WILL AGREE, OR BY ACQUIRING THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE OR AN INTEREST THEREIN
WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE AGREED, TO DELIVER TO THE TRANSFEREE, WITH A COPY TO THE TRUST AND THE OWNER TRUSTEE, PRIOR TO THE TRANSFER OF THE TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN), A PROPERLY COMPLETED CERTIFICATE, IN A FORM REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE
TO THE TRANSFEREE AND THE TRUST, STATING, UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY, THE TRANSFEROR’S UNITED STATES TAXPAYER IDENTIFICATION NUMBER AND THAT THE TRANSFEROR IS NOT A FOREIGN PERSON WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 1446(f)(2) OF THE CODE (SUCH
CERTIFICATE, A “NON-FOREIGN STATUS CERTIFICATE”). EACH TRANSFEROR OF THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN) ACKNOWLEDGES, OR BY ACQUIRING THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE OR AN INTEREST
THEREIN WILL BE DEEMED TO ACKNOWLEDGE, THAT THE FAILURE TO PROVIDE A NON-FOREIGN STATUS CERTIFICATE TO THE TRANSFEREE MAY RESULT IN WITHHOLDING ON THE AMOUNT REALIZED ON ITS DISPOSITION OF THE TRUST
CERTIFICATE. 

  
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 THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN) MAY NOT BE ACQUIRED OR OWNED BY ANY PERSON (OTHER THAN
THE TRUST DEPOSITOR) THAT IS CLASSIFIED FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES AS A PARTNERSHIP, SUBCHAPTER S CORPORATION OR GRANTOR TRUST UNLESS (I) (A) NONE OF THE DIRECT OR INDIRECT BENEFICIAL OWNERS OF ANY INTEREST IN SUCH PERSON HAVE OR EVER
WILL HAVE MORE THAN 40% OF THE VALUE OF ITS INTEREST IN SUCH PERSON ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE AGGREGATE INTEREST OF SUCH PERSON IN THE TRUST CERTIFICATES AND ANY OTHER EQUITY INTERESTS OF THE TRUST, AND (B) IT IS NOT AND WILL NOT BE A PRINCIPAL
PURPOSE OF THE ARRANGEMENT INVOLVING THE INVESTMENT OF SUCH PERSON IN THE TRUST CERTIFICATES AND ANY OTHER EQUITY INTERESTS OF THE TRUST TO PERMIT ANY PARTNERSHIP TO SATISFY THE 100 PARTNER LIMITATION OF TREAS. REG. § 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) OR (II) SUCH PERSON OBTAINS AN OPINION OF NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED U.S. TAX COUNSEL REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE TRUST THAT SUCH TRANSFER WILL NOT CAUSE THE TRUST TO BE TREATED AS A PUBLICLY
TRADED PARTNERSHIP TAXABLE AS A CORPORATION. 
 THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN) MAY NOT BE ACQUIRED, AND NO CERTIFICATEHOLDER MAY
SELL, TRANSFER, ASSIGN, PARTICIPATE, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE DISPOSE OF THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN) OR CAUSE THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN) TO BE MARKETED, (I) ON OR THROUGH AN “ESTABLISHED SECURITIES
MARKET” WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 7704(b)(1) OF THE CODE AND TREAS. REG. § 1.7704-1(b), INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, AN INTERDEALER QUOTATION SYSTEM THAT REGULARLY DISSEMINATES FIRM BUY OR
SELL QUOTATIONS, OR (II) IF SUCH ACQUISITION, SALE, TRANSFER, ASSIGNMENT, PARTICIPATION, PLEDGE OR OTHER DISPOSITION WOULD CAUSE THE COMBINED NUMBER OF HOLDERS OF TRUST CERTIFICATES AND OTHER EQUITY INTERESTS IN THE TRUST TO BE MORE THAN 88.

 NO HOLDER OF THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN) WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE CREATION OR OTHER TRANSFER OF ANY FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT OR
CONTRACT THE VALUE OF WHICH IS DETERMINED IN WHOLE OR IN PART BY REFERENCE TO THE TRUST (INCLUDING THE AMOUNT OF DISTRIBUTIONS BY THE TRUST, THE VALUE OF THE TRUST’S ASSETS, THE RESULTS OF THE TRUST’S OPERATIONS OR THE TRUST CERTIFICATES).

 EACH HOLDER OF THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN) ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ANY SALE, TRANSFER, ASSIGNMENT, PARTICIPATION,
PLEDGE, OR OTHER DISPOSITION OF THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE THAT WOULD VIOLATE ANY OF THE THREE PRECEDING 

  
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PARAGRAPHS ABOVE OR OTHERWISE CAUSE THE TRUST TO BE UNABLE TO RELY ON THE “PRIVATE PLACEMENT” SAFE HARBOR OF TREAS. REG. § 1.7704-1(h) WILL
BE VOID AND OF NO FORCE OR EFFECT, AND IT WILL NOT TRANSFER ANY INTEREST IN THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE TO ANY PERSON THAT DOES NOT AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE THREE PRECEDING PARAGRAPHS ABOVE OR BY THIS PARAGRAPH. 

UNLESS THE TRUST DEPOSITOR, TRUST AND OWNER TRUSTEE HAVE RECEIVED AN OPINION OF COUNSEL FROM DECHERT LLP OR OTHER NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED TAX COUNSEL THAT
THE RESTRICTION ON THE PROPOSED ACQUISITION OF THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN) DESCRIBED BY THIS PARAGRAPH IS NO LONGER NECESSARY TO CONCLUDE THAT ANY SUCH ACQUISITION (AND SUBSEQUENT RESALE OF THE APPLICABLE NOTES DESCRIBED BELOW)
WILL NOT CAUSE THE TREASURY REGULATIONS UNDER SECTION 385 OF THE CODE TO APPLY TO SUCH NOTES IN A MANNER THAT COULD CAUSE A MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT ON THE TRUST OR THE TRUST TO BE TREATED AS AN ASSOCIATION OR PUBLICLY TRADED PARTNERSHIP TAXABLE
AS A CORPORATION FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, (I) A SECTION 385 CERTIFICATEHOLDER CANNOT ACQUIRE A TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN) IF (A) A MEMBER OF ANY “EXPANDED GROUP” (AS DEFINED IN TREASURY
REGULATION SECTION 1.385-1(c)(4)) THAT INCLUDES SUCH SECTION 385 CERTIFICATEHOLDER OWNS ANY NOTES OR (B) A SECTION 385 CONTROLLED PARTNERSHIP OF SUCH EXPANDED GROUP OWNS ANY NOTES AND
(II) A SECTION 385 CERTIFICATEHOLDER CANNOT HOLD A TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN) IF (A) A MEMBER OF ANY “EXPANDED GROUP” (AS DEFINED IN TREASURY REGULATION
SECTION 1.385-1(c)(4)) THAT INCLUDES SUCH SECTION 385 CERTIFICATEHOLDER ACQUIRES ANY NOTES FROM THE TRUST, ANY AFFILIATE OF THE TRUST OR ANY OTHER SUBSEQUENT TRANSFEROR OF A NOTE OR (B) A
SECTION 385 CONTROLLED PARTNERSHIP OF SUCH EXPANDED GROUP ACQUIRES ANY NOTES FROM THE TRUST, ANY AFFILIATE OF THE TRUST OR ANY OTHER SUBSEQUENT TRANSFEROR OF A NOTE. THE PRECEDING SENTENCE SHALL NOT APPLY IF THE NOTEHOLDER OR POTENTIAL
NOTEHOLDER IS A U.S. CORPORATE MEMBER OF THE SAME U.S. CORPORATE “AFFILIATED GROUP” (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 1504 OF THE CODE) FILING A CONSOLIDATED FEDERAL INCOME TAX RETURN THAT INCLUDES EACH OF ANY APPLICABLE RELATED SECTION 385
CERTIFICATEHOLDERS (INCLUDING IN THE CASE OF A PARTNERSHIP, THE RELEVANT “EXPANDED GROUP PARTNER” (AS DEFINED IN TREASURY REGULATION SECTION 1.385-3(g)(12)). IF A CERTIFICATEHOLDER (OR
HOLDER OF AN INTEREST IN A TRUST CERTIFICATE) FAILS TO COMPLY WITH THE FOREGOING REQUIREMENTS, THE TRUST AND DEPOSITOR ARE AUTHORIZED, AT THEIR DISCRETION, TO COMPEL SUCH CERTIFICATEHOLDER (OR HOLDER OF AN INTEREST IN A TRUST CERTIFICATE) TO SELL
ITS TRUST CERTIFICATE (OR INTEREST THEREIN) TO A PERSON WHOSE OWNERSHIP COMPLIES WITH THIS PARAGRAPH SO LONG AS SUCH SALE DOES NOT OTHERWISE CAUSE A MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT 

  
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ON THE TRUST OR CAUSE THE TRUST TO BE TREATED AS AN ASSOCIATION OR PUBLICLY TRADED PARTNERSHIP TAXABLE AS A CORPORATION FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES. 

 

			
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 HERCULES CAPITAL FUNDING TRUST 2018-1 

TRUST CERTIFICATE 

Evidencing a beneficial ownership interest in the Trust, as defined below, the property of which includes primarily the Loans transferred to
the Trust by Hercules Capital Funding 2018-1 LLC. 
 (This Trust Certificate does not represent
an interest in or obligation of Hercules Capital Funding 2018-1 LLC, Hercules Capital, Inc. (the “Servicer”) or the Owner Trustee (as defined below) (as such or in its individual capacity) or
any of their respective affiliates, except to the extent described below.) 
 THIS CERTIFIES THAT HERCULES CAPITAL FUNDING 2018-1 LLC is the registered owner of the nonassessable, fully paid, beneficial ownership interest in HERCULES CAPITAL FUNDING TRUST 2018-1 (the “Trust”)
formed by Hercules Capital Funding 2018-1 LLC, in the Percentage Interest evidenced hereby. 
 The
Trust was created pursuant to a Trust Agreement, dated as of June 11, 2018 (as amended and restated as of November 1, 2018 and as further amended, modified, restated, waived, substituted or supplemented from time to time, the
“Trust Agreement”), between Hercules Capital Funding 2018-1 LLC, as trust depositor (the “Trust Depositor”), and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as owner trustee (the
“Owner Trustee”), a summary of certain of the pertinent provisions of which is set forth below and a Certificate of Trust filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on June 11, 2018. To the extent not otherwise
defined herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Trust Agreement. 
 This Trust Certificate is
one of a duly authorized issue of Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 Certificates (herein called the “Trust Certificates”). This Trust Certificate is issued under and is subject to the
terms, provisions and conditions of the Trust Agreement, to which Trust Agreement the holder of this Trust Certificate by virtue of its acceptance hereof assents and by which such holder is bound. 

Under the Trust Agreement, there will be distributions on the 20th day of each month or, if such 20th day is not a Business Day, the next
Business Day (each, a “Payment Date”), commencing on November 20, 2018, to the Person in whose name this Trust Certificate is registered at the close of business on the last Business Day of the month immediately preceding the
Payment Date (the “Record Date”), such Certificateholder’s Percentage Interest in the amount to be distributed to Certificateholders on such Payment Date pursuant to the terms of the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the
Indenture. 
 The Holder of this Trust Certificate acknowledges and agrees that its rights to receive distributions in respect of this Trust
Certificate are subordinated to the rights of the Noteholders as described in the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Indenture. 
 It is
the intent of the Trust Depositor and the Certificateholders that (i) for any period that the Trust Certificates are owned by a single beneficial owner, for U.S. federal income tax 

  
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purposes, the Trust will be disregarded as an entity separate from such beneficial owner for U.S. federal income tax purposes, and the Certificateholders (and the beneficial owner of the Trust
Certificates), by acceptance of the Trust Certificates (or a beneficial interest therein), agree to take no action inconsistent with such treatment and (ii) for any period that the Trust Certificates are owned by more than one beneficial owner
fore U.S. federal income tax purposes, the Trust will be treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, other than a publicly traded partnership, the partners of which are the beneficial owners of the Trust Certificates, and the
Certificateholders (and beneficial owners of the Trust Certificates), by acceptance of a Trust Certificate (or beneficial interest therein) agree to treat the Trust Certificates as equity and to take no action inconsistent with such treatment. 

To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, each Certificateholder, by its acceptance of a Trust Certificate, covenants and agrees that
such Certificateholder, will not prior to the date which is one (1) year and one (1) day (or, if longer, the applicable preference period then in effect) after the payment in full of the Notes rated by any Rating Agency, institute against
the Trust, or join in any institution against the Trust of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection
with any obligations relating to the Trust Certificates, the Notes, the Trust Agreement or any of the other Transaction Documents. 

Distributions on this Trust Certificate will be made as provided in the Trust Agreement by the Trustee or any other party acting as paying
agent by wire transfer or check mailed to the Certificateholder of record in the Certificate Register without the presentation or surrender of this Trust Certificate or the making of any notation hereon. Except as otherwise provided in the Trust
Agreement and notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this Trust Certificate will be made after due notice by the Trustee or any other party acting as paying agent of the pendency of such distribution and only upon presentation and
surrender of this Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained for that purpose by the Trustee or any other party acting as paying agent. 

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Trust Certificate set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall
for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place. 
 Unless the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been
executed by an authorized officer of the Certificate Registrar, by manual signature, this Trust Certificate shall not entitle the Holder hereof to any benefit under the Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement or be valid for any purpose.

 THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF
LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS. 

  
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust and not in its
individual capacity, has caused this Trust Certificate to be duly executed. 
  

			
	HERCULES CAPITAL FUNDING TRUST 2018-1
		
	By:	 	WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, solely as Owner Trustee and not in its individual capacity
		
	By:	 	  

		 	Authorized Signatory

 CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION 

This is one of the Trust Certificates of Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 referred to in the
within-mentioned Trust Agreement. 
  

			
	U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Certificate Registrar
		
	By:	 	  

		 	Authorized Signatory

  
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 [REVERSE OF TRUST CERTIFICATE] 

The Trust Certificates do not represent an obligation of, or an interest in, the Trust Depositor, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee or any
affiliates of any of them and no recourse may be had against such parties or their assets, except as expressly set forth or contemplated herein or in the Trust Agreement, the Indenture or the Transaction Documents. In addition, this Trust
Certificate is not guaranteed by any governmental agency or instrumentality and is limited in right of payment to certain collections and recoveries with respect to the Loans (and certain other amounts), all as more specifically set forth herein and
in the Transaction Documents. A copy of each of the Transaction Documents may be examined by any Certificateholder upon written request during normal business hours at the principal office of the Trust Depositor and at such other places, if any,
designated by the Trust Depositor. 
 The Trust Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein provided, the amendment thereof and the
modification of the rights and obligations of the Trust Depositor and the rights of the Certificateholders under the Trust Agreement at any time, by the Trust Depositor, the Trust Company and the Owner Trustee with the consent of the holders of the
Trust Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the outstanding Percentage Interest and of the holders of the Majority Noteholders. Any such consent by the holder of this Trust Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such holder and
on all future holders of this Trust Certificate and of any Trust Certificate issued upon the transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent is made upon this Trust Certificate. The Trust Agreement
also permits the amendment thereof, in certain limited circumstances, without the consent of the holders of any of the Trust Certificates. 

As provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Trust Certificate is
registerable in the Certificate Register upon surrender of this Trust Certificate for registration of transfer at the offices or agencies of the Certificate Registrar, accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner
Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the holder hereof or such holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Trust Certificates of authorized denominations evidencing the same aggregate interest
in the Trust will be issued to the designated transferee. The initial Certificate Registrar appointed under the Trust Agreement is U.S. Bank National Association. 

The Trust Certificates are issuable only as registered Trust Certificates without coupons in minimum Percentage Interests of ten (10%) percent
and integral multiples of one (1%) percent in excess thereof; provided that one Trust Certificate may be issued in a different denomination. As provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Trust
Certificates are exchangeable for new Trust Certificates of authorized denominations evidencing the same aggregate denomination, as requested by the holder surrendering the same. No service charge will be made for any such registration of transfer
or exchange, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge payable in connection therewith. 

  
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 The Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and any agent of the Owner Trustee or the
Certificate Registrar may treat the Person in whose name this Trust Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and none of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any such agent shall be affected by any notice to the
contrary. 
 This Trust Certificate may not be acquired directly or indirectly by, or held by or with plan assets of any employee benefit
plans, retirement arrangements, individual retirement accounts or Keogh plans subject to either Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
By accepting and holding this Trust Certificate, the Holder hereof shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that it is not any of the foregoing entities. 

This Trust Certificate may not be transferred to any person who is not a U.S. Person, as such term is defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of
the Internal Revenue Code, as amended. 
 Each purchaser of the Trust Certificates shall be required, prior to purchasing a Trust
Certificate, to execute the Purchaser’s Representation and Warranty Letter in the form attached to the Trust Agreement as Exhibit C. 

The obligations and responsibilities created by the Trust Agreement and the Trust created thereby shall terminate upon (i) the payment to
Certificateholders of all amounts required to be paid to them pursuant to the Trust Agreement and the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the disposition of all property held as part of the Trust and (ii) the written consent of the
Certificateholders. The Servicer on behalf of the Trustee has the option to cause the sale of the corpus of the Trust at a price and pursuant to procedures specified in the Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and such sale of the
receivables and other property of the Trust will effect early retirement of the Trust Certificates. 

  
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 ASSIGNMENT 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto 

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR 
 OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF
ASSIGNEE 
  
  

(Please print or type name and address, including postal zip code, of assignee) 
  

 
 the within Trust Certificate, and all rights
thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing 
  
  

to transfer said Trust Certificate on the books of the Certificate Registrar, with full power of substitution in the premises. 

Dated: 
  

					
		 	  
	 	*
		 	Signature Guaranteed:
			
		 	  
	 	*

  
  

	*	 NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the
within Trust Certificate in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange or a commercial bank or trust company. 

  
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 EXHIBIT B 

CERTIFICATE OF TRUST OF 

HERCULES CAPITAL FUNDING TRUST 2018-1 

This Certificate of Trust of HERCULES CAPITAL FUNDING TRUST 2018-1 (the “Trust”), is
being duly executed and filed by the undersigned, as owner trustee, to form a statutory trust under the Statutory Trust Statute (12 Del. Code, § 3801 et seq.) (the “Act”). 

1. Name. The name of the statutory trust formed hereby is HERCULES CAPITAL FUNDING TRUST
2018-1. 
 2. Delaware Trustee. The name and business address of a trustee of the Trust having
its principal place of business in the State of Delaware is Wilmington Trust, National Association, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration. 

3. Effective Date. This Certificate of Trust shall be effective upon its filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware.

 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being the only owner trustee of the Trust, has duly executed this Certificate of Trust in
accordance with Section 3811(a)(1) of the Act. 
  

			
	WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity, but solely as owner trustee of the Trust
		
	By:	 	              

	Name:	 	  

	Title:	 	  

 EXHIBIT C 

Form of Purchaser’s Representation and Warranty Letter 

Dated: November 1, 2018 
 Hercules Capital
Funding Trust 2018-1 
 c/o Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Owner Trustee 

1100 North Market Street 
 Wilmington, Delaware 19890 

Attention: Corporate Trust Administration 
 U.S. Bank National
Association, as Certificate Registrar 
 111 Fillmore Avenue East 

Attn: Bondholder Services—EP-MN-WS2N 

St. Paul, Minnesota, 55107 
 Ref: Hercules 2018-1 
  

	Re:	 Hercules Capital Funding Trust 2018-1 (the
“Trust”) 

 Ladies and Gentlemen: 

In connection with our proposed acquisition of Trust Certificates (the “Trust Certificates”) issued under the Trust Agreement,
dated as of June 11, 2018 (as amended and restated as of November 1, 2018 and as further amended, modified, restated, replaced, waived, substituted, supplemented or extended from time to time, the “Agreement”; capitalized
terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Agreement), between Hercules Capital Funding 2018-1 LLC, as Trust Depositor (the “Trust Depositor”), and
Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Owner Trustee, the undersigned (the “Purchaser”) represents, warrants and agrees that: 

1. It is (1) the Trust Depositor or an Affiliate thereof, (2) a Qualified Institutional Buyer (a “QIB”) for purposes
of Rule 144A under the Securities Act and is acquiring the Trust Certificates for its own institutional account or for the account of a QIB or (3) an Institutional “Accredited Investor” (within the meaning of Rule 501 (a)(1)-(3) or
(7) under the Securities Act) purchasing for investment and not for distribution in violation of the act. 
 2. It is not an employee
benefit plan, retirement arrangement, individual retirement account or Keogh plan subject to either Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended and is not acquiring Trust Certificates with plan assets of any of the foregoing. 
 3. It has such knowledge and experience in
evaluating business and financial matters so that it is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of an investment in the Trust Certificates. It understands the full nature and risks of an investment in the Trust Certificates and based upon its
present and projected net income and net worth, it believes that it can bear the economic risk of an immediate or future loss of its entire investment in the Trust Certificates. 

  
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 4. It understands that the Trust Certificates will be offered in a transaction not involving
any public offering within the meaning of the Securities Act, and that, if in the future it decides to resell, pledge or otherwise transfer any Trust Certificates, such Trust Certificates may be resold, pledged or transferred only (a) to a
person who the seller reasonably believes is a QIB/QP that purchases for its own account or for the account of another QIB/QP or (b) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act. 

5. It understands that each Trust Certificate will bear legends substantially to the following effect: 

THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “ACT”) OR STATE SECURITIES LAWS.
THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE, AGREES THAT THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE MAY BE MAY BE REOFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAW AND ONLY (1) A
“QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER,” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS A “QUALIFIED PURCHASER” AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2(A)(51) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 (EACH SUCH PERSON, A “QUALIFIED
PURCHASER”) , (2) AN INSTITUTION THAT QUALIFIES AS AN “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 501(A)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) OF REGULATION D UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR”) THAT
IS A QUALIFIED PURCHASER PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND, IN EITHER CASE, IS ACQUIRING SUCH TRUST CERTIFICATE FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT (AND NOT FOR THE ACCOUNT OF OTHERS) OR AS A FIDUCIARY OR AGENT FOR OTHERS (WHICH OTHERS ALSO ARE
INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTORS), PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN EACH CASE, SUBJECT TO (A) THE RECEIPT BY THE OWNER TRUSTEE AND THE CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR OF A LETTER SUBSTANTIALLY IN
THE FORM PROVIDED IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT AND (B) THE RECEIPT BY THE OWNER TRUSTEE AND THE CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR OF SUCH OTHER EVIDENCE ACCEPTABLE TO THE OWNER TRUSTEE THAT SUCH REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE ACT
AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAW OR IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND SECURITIES AND BLUE SKY LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES AND ANY OTHER APPLICABLE JURISDICTION, (3) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER
EXEMPTION AVAILABLE UNDER THE ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, OR (4) PURSUANT TO A VALID REGISTRATION STATEMENT. EACH INVESTOR IN THIS TRUST 

  
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CERTIFICATE WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED AND WARRANTED THAT EITHER (I) IT IS NOT, AND IS NOT DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ACQUIRING THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE FOR, ON BEHALF OF OR WITH ANY
ASSETS OF, AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR OTHER ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO PART 4, SUBTITLE B, TITLE I OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”), A PLAN SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF
1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”), OR AN ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE PLAN ASSETS OF ANY SUCH PLANS (COLLECTIVELY, A “BENEFIT PLAN INVESTOR”) OR A PLAN OR OTHER ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO ANY PROVISIONS UNDER ANY FEDERAL,
STATE, LOCAL, NON-U.S. OR OTHER LAWS OR REGULATIONS THAT ARE SUBSTANTIVELY SIMILAR TO SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE (“SIMILAR LAW”) OR (II) IT IS A PLAN SUBJECT TO SIMILAR LAW
AND ITS ACQUISITION, HOLDING AND DISPOSITION OF SUCH TRUST CERTIFICATE OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN WILL NOT CONSTITUTE OR RESULT IN A NON-EXEMPT VIOLATION OF SIMILAR LAW. SUCH REPRESENTATION SHALL BE DEEMED MADE
ON EACH DAY FROM THE DATE ON WHICH THE ACQUIRER ACQUIRES ITS INTEREST IN THE TRUST CERTIFICATE THROUGH AND INCLUDING THE DATE ON WHICH THE ACQUIRER DISPOSES OF ITS INTEREST IN THE TRUST CERTIFICATE. 

THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE IS NOT GUARANTEED OR INSURED BY ANY GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY. 

NO TRANSFER, SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER DISPOSITION OF ONE OR MORE TRUST CERTIFICATES (A “TRANSFER”) SHALL BE MADE UNLESS
SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH THE TRANSFER THE PERCENTAGE INTEREST OF THE TRUST CERTIFICATES SO TRANSFERRED IS NO LESS THAN TEN (10%) PERCENT. 

EACH HOLDER OF THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN) REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IT IS A “UNITED STATES PERSON” AS
DEFINED IN SECTION 7701(a)(30) OF THE CODE AND WILL PROVIDE THE TRUST AND THE OWNER TRUSTEE (AND ANY OF THEIR AGENTS) WITH A CORRECT, COMPLETE AND PROPERLY EXECUTED INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE FORM W-9 (OR
APPLICABLE SUCCESSOR FORM). IF ANY HOLDER OF THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE (OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN) (OTHER THAN THE INITIAL HOLDER) FAILS TO PROVIDE THE TRUST AND THE OWNER TRUST (AND ANY OF THEIR AGENTS) WITH THE PROPERLY COMPLETED AND SIGNED TAX
CERTIFICATIONS SPECIFIED ABOVE, THE ACQUISITION OF ITS INTEREST IN THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE SHALL BE VOID AB INITIO. 

  
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 EACH TRANSFEROR OF THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN) WILL AGREE, OR BY
ACQUIRING THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE OR AN INTEREST THEREIN WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE AGREED, TO DELIVER TO THE TRANSFEREE, WITH A COPY TO THE TRUST AND THE OWNER TRUSTEE, PRIOR TO THE TRANSFER OF THE TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN), A
PROPERLY COMPLETED CERTIFICATE, IN A FORM REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE TRANSFEREE AND THE TRUST, STATING, UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY, THE TRANSFEROR’S UNITED STATES TAXPAYER IDENTIFICATION NUMBER AND THAT THE TRANSFEROR IS NOT A FOREIGN PERSON
WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 1446(f)(2) OF THE CODE (SUCH CERTIFICATE, A “NON-FOREIGN STATUS CERTIFICATE”). EACH TRANSFEROR OF THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN)
ACKNOWLEDGES, OR BY ACQUIRING THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE OR AN INTEREST THEREIN WILL BE DEEMED TO ACKNOWLEDGE, THAT THE FAILURE TO PROVIDE A NON-FOREIGN STATUS CERTIFICATE TO THE TRANSFEREE MAY RESULT IN
WITHHOLDING ON THE AMOUNT REALIZED ON ITS DISPOSITION OF THE TRUST CERTIFICATE. 
 THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN)
MAY NOT BE ACQUIRED OR OWNED BY ANY PERSON (OTHER THAN THE TRUST DEPOSITOR) THAT IS CLASSIFIED FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES AS A PARTNERSHIP, SUBCHAPTER S CORPORATION OR GRANTOR TRUST UNLESS (I) (A) NONE OF THE DIRECT OR INDIRECT
BENEFICIAL OWNERS OF ANY INTEREST IN SUCH PERSON HAVE OR EVER WILL HAVE MORE THAN 40% OF THE VALUE OF ITS INTEREST IN SUCH PERSON ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE AGGREGATE INTEREST OF SUCH PERSON IN THE TRUST CERTIFICATES AND ANY OTHER EQUITY INTERESTS OF THE
TRUST, AND (B) IT IS NOT AND WILL NOT BE A PRINCIPAL PURPOSE OF THE ARRANGEMENT INVOLVING THE INVESTMENT OF SUCH PERSON IN THE TRUST CERTIFICATES AND ANY OTHER EQUITY INTERESTS OF THE TRUST TO PERMIT ANY PARTNERSHIP TO SATISFY THE 100 PARTNER
LIMITATION OF TREAS. REG. § 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) OR (II) SUCH PERSON OBTAINS AN OPINION OF NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED U.S. TAX COUNSEL REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE TRUST THAT SUCH TRANSFER WILL NOT CAUSE
THE TRUST TO BE TREATED AS A PUBLICLY TRADED PARTNERSHIP TAXABLE AS A CORPORATION. 
 THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST
THEREIN) MAY NOT BE ACQUIRED, AND NO CERTIFICATEHOLDER MAY SELL, TRANSFER, ASSIGN, PARTICIPATE, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE DISPOSE OF THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN) OR CAUSE THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN) TO BE
MARKETED, (I) ON OR THROUGH AN “ESTABLISHED SECURITIES MARKET” WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 7704(b)(1) OF THE CODE AND TREAS. REG. § 1.7704-1(b), INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, AN
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SELL QUOTATIONS, OR (II) IF SUCH ACQUISITION, SALE, TRANSFER, ASSIGNMENT, PARTICIPATION, PLEDGE OR OTHER DISPOSITION WOULD CAUSE THE COMBINED NUMBER OF HOLDERS OF TRUST CERTIFICATES AND
OTHER EQUITY INTERESTS IN THE TRUST TO BE MORE THAN 88. 
 NO HOLDER OF THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN) WILL
PARTICIPATE IN THE CREATION OR OTHER TRANSFER OF ANY FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT OR CONTRACT THE VALUE OF WHICH IS DETERMINED IN WHOLE OR IN PART BY REFERENCE TO THE TRUST (INCLUDING THE AMOUNT OF DISTRIBUTIONS BY THE TRUST, THE VALUE OF THE TRUST’S
ASSETS, THE RESULTS OF THE TRUST’S OPERATIONS OR THE TRUST CERTIFICATES). 
 EACH HOLDER OF THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY
INTEREST THEREIN) ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ANY SALE, TRANSFER, ASSIGNMENT, PARTICIPATION, PLEDGE, OR OTHER DISPOSITION OF THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE THAT WOULD VIOLATE ANY OF THE THREE PRECEDING PARAGRAPHS ABOVE OR OTHERWISE CAUSE THE TRUST TO BE
UNABLE TO RELY ON THE “PRIVATE PLACEMENT” SAFE HARBOR OF TREAS. REG. § 1.7704-1(h) WILL BE VOID AND OF NO FORCE OR EFFECT, AND IT WILL NOT TRANSFER ANY INTEREST IN THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE TO ANY
PERSON THAT DOES NOT AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE THREE PRECEDING PARAGRAPHS ABOVE OR BY THIS PARAGRAPH. 
 UNLESS THE TRUST DEPOSITOR,
TRUST AND OWNER TRUSTEE HAVE RECEIVED AN OPINION OF COUNSEL FROM DECHERT LLP OR OTHER NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED TAX COUNSEL THAT THE RESTRICTION ON THE PROPOSED ACQUISITION OF THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN) DESCRIBED BY THIS PARAGRAPH
IS NO LONGER NECESSARY TO CONCLUDE THAT ANY SUCH ACQUISITION (AND SUBSEQUENT RESALE OF THE APPLICABLE NOTES DESCRIBED BELOW) WILL NOT CAUSE THE TREASURY REGULATIONS UNDER SECTION 385 OF THE CODE TO APPLY TO SUCH NOTES IN A MANNER THAT COULD
CAUSE A MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT ON THE TRUST OR THE TRUST TO BE TREATED AS AN ASSOCIATION OR PUBLICLY TRADED PARTNERSHIP TAXABLE AS A CORPORATION FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, (I) A SECTION 385 CERTIFICATEHOLDER CANNOT ACQUIRE A
TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN) IF (A) A MEMBER OF ANY “EXPANDED GROUP” (AS DEFINED IN TREASURY REGULATION SECTION 1.385-1(c)(4)) THAT INCLUDES SUCH SECTION 385
CERTIFICATEHOLDER OWNS ANY NOTES OR (B) A SECTION 385 CONTROLLED PARTNERSHIP OF SUCH EXPANDED GROUP OWNS ANY NOTES AND (II) A SECTION 385 CERTIFICATEHOLDER CANNOT HOLD A TRUST CERTIFICATE (AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN) IF (A) A
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TREASURY REGULATION SECTION 1.385-1(c)(4)) THAT INCLUDES SUCH SECTION 385 CERTIFICATEHOLDER ACQUIRES ANY NOTES FROM THE TRUST, ANY AFFILIATE OF
THE TRUST OR ANY OTHER SUBSEQUENT TRANSFEROR OF A NOTE OR (B) A SECTION 385 CONTROLLED PARTNERSHIP OF SUCH EXPANDED GROUP ACQUIRES ANY NOTES FROM THE TRUST, ANY AFFILIATE OF THE TRUST OR ANY OTHER SUBSEQUENT TRANSFEROR OF A NOTE. THE
PRECEDING SENTENCE SHALL NOT APPLY IF THE NOTEHOLDER OR POTENTIAL NOTEHOLDER IS A U.S. CORPORATE MEMBER OF THE SAME U.S. CORPORATE “AFFILIATED GROUP” (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 1504 OF THE CODE) FILING A CONSOLIDATED FEDERAL INCOME TAX
RETURN THAT INCLUDES EACH OF ANY APPLICABLE RELATED SECTION 385 CERTIFICATEHOLDERS (INCLUDING IN THE CASE OF A PARTNERSHIP, THE RELEVANT “EXPANDED GROUP PARTNER” (AS DEFINED IN TREASURY REGULATION
SECTION 1.385-3(g)(12)). IF A CERTIFICATEHOLDER (OR HOLDER OF AN INTEREST IN A TRUST CERTIFICATE) FAILS TO COMPLY WITH THE FOREGOING REQUIREMENTS, THE TRUST AND DEPOSITOR ARE AUTHORIZED, AT THEIR
DISCRETION, TO COMPEL SUCH CERTIFICATEHOLDER (OR HOLDER OF AN INTEREST IN A TRUST CERTIFICATE) TO SELL ITS TRUST CERTIFICATE (OR INTEREST THEREIN) TO A PERSON WHOSE OWNERSHIP COMPLIES WITH THIS PARAGRAPH SO LONG AS SUCH SALE DOES NOT OTHERWISE CAUSE
A MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT ON THE TRUST OR CAUSE THE TRUST TO BE TREATED AS AN ASSOCIATION OR PUBLICLY TRADED PARTNERSHIP TAXABLE AS A CORPORATION FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES. 

6. It is acquiring the Trust Certificates for its own account and not with a view to the public offering thereof in violation of the Securities
Act (subject, nevertheless, to the understanding that disposition of its property shall at all times be and remain within its control). 

7. It has been furnished with all information regarding the Trust and Trust Certificates which it has requested from the Trust and the Trust
Depositor. 
 8. Neither it nor anyone acting on its behalf has offered, transferred, pledged, sold or otherwise disposed of any Trust
Certificate, any interest in any Trust Certificate or any other similar security to, or solicited any offer to buy or accept a transfer, pledge or other disposition of any Trust Certificate, any interest in any Trust Certificate or any other similar
security from, or otherwise approached or negotiated with respect to any Trust Certificate, any interest in any Trust Certificate or any other similar security with, any person in any manner or made any general solicitation by means of general
advertising or in any other manner, which would constitute a distribution of the Trust Certificates under the Securities Act or which would require registration pursuant to the Securities Act nor will it act, nor has it authorized or will authorize
any person to act, in such manner with respect to any Trust Certificate. 
 9. It is a Qualified Purchaser (“QP”) for
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 10. It acknowledges and agrees that it is a “United States person” as defined in
section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and it has provided to the Trust and the Owner Trustee (and any of their agents) a correct, complete and properly executed Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (or applicable
successor form) and any transfer of the Trust Certificates to any person that fails to provide such form shall be void ab initio. 

11. It acknowledges and agrees that, no transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless the transferor delivers to
the transferee, with a copy to the Trust, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar, prior to the Transfer of the Trust Certificate or any interest therein, a properly completed certificate, in a form reasonably acceptable to the transferee
and the Trust, stating, under penalty of perjury, the transferor’s United States taxpayer identification number and that the transferor is not a foreign person within the meaning of Section 1446(f)(2) of the Code (such certificate, a “Non-Foreign Status Certificate”). It acknowledges that the failure to provide a Non-Foreign Status Certificate to the transferee may result in withholding on the
amount realized on its disposition of the Trust Certificate. 
 12. It is not, and it agrees that no Trust Certificate or any interest
therein may be acquired or owned by any Person (other than the Trust Depositor) that is, classified for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a partnership, subchapter S corporation or grantor trust unless (i)(A) none of the direct or indirect
beneficial owners of any interest in such Person have or ever will have more than 40% of the value of its interest in such Person attributable to the aggregate interest of such Person in the Trust Certificates and any other equity interests of the
Trust, and (B) it is not and will not be a principal purpose of the arrangement involving the investment of such Person in the Trust Certificates and any other equity interests of the Trust to permit any partnership to satisfy the 100 partner
limitation of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h)(1)(ii) or (ii) such Person obtains an opinion of nationally recognized U.S. tax counsel reasonably acceptable to the Trust that such transfer
will not cause the Trust to be treated as a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation. 
 13. It acknowledges and agrees that no
Trust Certificate may be acquired, and no Certificateholder (or holder of an interest in a Trust Certificate) may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) or other equity
interest in the Trust or cause a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) or other equity interest in the Trust to be marketed, (i) on or through an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of
the Code and Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(b), including without limitation, an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations or (ii) if such
acquisition, sale, transfer, assignment, participation, pledge or other disposition would cause the combined number of holders of Trust Certificates and other equity interests in the Trust to be more than 88. 

14. It acknowledges and agrees that it will not participate in the creation or other transfer of any financial instrument or contract the value
of which is determined in whole or in part by reference to the Trust (including the amount of distributions by the Trust, the value of the Trust’s assets, the results of the Trust’s operation or the Trust Certificates). 

  
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 15. It acknowledges and agrees that any sale, transfer, assignment, participation, pledge,
or other disposition of a Trust Certificate that would violate any of the three preceding paragraphs above or otherwise cause the Trust to be unable to rely on the “private placement” safe harbor of Treasury Regulation Section 1.7704-1(h) will be void and of no force or effect, and it will not transfer any interest in its Trust Certificates to any person that does not agree to be bound by the three preceding paragraphs above
or by this paragraph. 
 16. It acknowledges and agrees that, unless the Trust Depositor, Trust and Owner Trustee have received an Opinion of
Counsel from Dechert LLP or other nationally recognized tax counsel that the restriction on the proposed acquisition of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) described by this paragraph is no longer necessary to conclude that any such
acquisition (and subsequent resale of the applicable Notes described below) will not cause the Treasury Regulations under Section 385 of the Code to apply to such Notes in a manner that could cause a material adverse effect on the Trust or the
Trust to be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (i) a Section 385 Certificateholder cannot acquire a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) if
(A) a member of any “expanded group” (as defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-1(c)(4)) that includes such Section 385 Certificateholder owns any Notes or (B) a
Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such expanded group owns any Notes and (ii) a Section 385 Certificateholder cannot hold a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) if (A) a member of any “expanded group” (as
defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-1(c)(4)) that includes such Section 385 Certificateholder acquires any Notes from the Trust, any Affiliate of the Trust or any other subsequent transferor
of a Note or (B) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such expanded group acquires any Notes from the Trust, any Affiliate of the Trust or any other subsequent transferor of a Note. The preceding sentence shall not apply if the
Noteholder or potential Noteholder is a U.S. corporate member of the same U.S. corporate “affiliated group” (as defined in Section 1504 of the Code) filing a consolidated federal income tax return that includes each of any applicable
related Section 385 Certificateholders (including in the case of a partnership, the relevant “expanded group partner” (as defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.385-3(g)(12)). It
understands that if it fails to comply with the foregoing requirements, the Trust and Depositor are authorized, at their discretion, to compel it to sell its Trust Certificate (or interest therein) to a Person whose ownership complies with this
subsection so long as such sale does not otherwise cause a material adverse effect on the Trust or cause the Trust to be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes. 

  
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	Very truly yours,
	
	HERCULES CAPITAL FUNDING 2018-1 LLC
		
	By:	 	  

	Name:	 	
	Title:	 	

  
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