GMSLA Anatomy™
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- Addendum 4. Allocation of Agency Loans
- 4.1 The Agent undertakes that if, at the time of entering into an Agency Loan, the Agent has not allocated the Loan to a Principal, it will allocate the Loan before the Settlement Date for that Agency Loan either to a single Principal or to several Principals, each of whom shall be responsible for only that part of the Agency Loan which has been allocated to it. Promptly following such allocation, the Agent shall notify Borrower of the Principal or Principals (whether by name or reference to a code or identifier which the Parties have agreed will be used to refer to a specified Principal) to which that Loan or part of that Loan has been allocated.
- 4.2 Upon allocation of a Loan in accordance with paragraph 4.1 above or otherwise, with effect from the date on which the Loan was entered into:
- (a) where the allocation is to a single Principal, the Loan shall be deemed to have been entered into between Borrower and that Principal; and
- (b) where the allocation is to two or more Principals, a separate Loan shall be deemed to have been entered into between Borrower and each such Principal with respect to the appropriate proportion of the Loan.
- 4.3 If the Agent shall fail to perform its obligations under paragraph 4.2 above then for the purposes of assessing any damage suffered by Borrower (but for no other purpose) it shall be assumed that, if the Loan concerned (to the extent not allocated) had been allocated in accordance with that paragraph, all the terms of the Loan would have been duly performed.
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This bit gives the Borrower the comfort that the it will find out who the Principal Lender even is - if it doesn't then there's a bit of a practical problem knowing who to sue if yon Lender neglects to return its collateral which, in the ordinary course, it will have over-margined with a haricut of 5 percent or so. So this is a live issue, especially if, as many institutional Borrowers do, you borrow from agent lenders in BIG SIZE.
Yours truly has waxed really rather lyrical about this conundrum in the modern asset management industry elsewhere on this wiki - try, for example, undisclosed principal, undisclosed agency.