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Reporting Covenants Financial Statements - 45 Days after Quarter End Audited Financial Statements - 90 Days after Quarter End TBD Reporting covenants on Guarantor 7. Client details Navarro Relationship Overview: Joanne Jensen has known Ben Navarro since 1993, when she worked for him on the Institutional Fixed Income Sales desk at Citi In 2008, Joanne provided Ben with $440MM for the acquisition MGIC and Radian's interest in Sherman In 2013, Joanne introduce Ben to DB WM client Jules Kroll as a potential investor in Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA). Ben acquired a 10% interest in the company. In 2015, Deutsche Bank advised Kroll on the sale of his remaining stake in KBRA, which Ben acquired for $320MM. Client Background: Ben Navarro is the Founder and CEO of Sherman Financial Group ("SFG"). Prior to SFG, he was the Co-Head of Mortgage Sales and Trading for Citicorp, with responsibility for the firm's purchases, securitizations, and sales of residential mortgages to institutional clients Top 10 salesperson on Wall Street, focused on credit-sensitive assets Navarro spent three years with Goldman Sachs on the Whole Loan and Agency MBS desks Started his career at Chemical Bank, where he completed the credit-training program and spent two years issuing loans to mortgage banks and thrifts Active philanthropist, establishing a S90MM foundation for education related endeavours Prominent member of the Charleston community, funding three schools in the area and residing on the board of the Medical University of South Carolina Sherman Financial Group: The nation's largest privately held consumer finance company, generating over $2B in revenue in 2017 Major underlying companies are: Credit One Bank, Resurgent Capital Services, Kroll Bond Rating Agency, and a small Real Estate business (not included in this transaction): Credit One Bank: OCC-regulated national bank, issues and services near-prime credit cards, operates under a CEBA charter (no bank holding company treatment) 'Highly (OCC) rated institution" with no Matters Requiring Attention (MRA)s in the past 8 years Credit One has been extraordinarily successful, generating $956.9MM pre-tax earnings in 2017 and an estimated $1.1B and $1.2B in 2018 and 2019, respectively. JP Morgan recently valued them at $1.1B. 91b largest MasterCardNisa issuer, with over 9 million customers, portfolio totalling approximately $5.8B The Bank exclusively originates and services the portfolio, then sells it at par to a SPV under Sherrnan's ownership The company employs low leverage, with a Debt/Equity of 2.1x, which is below 2.4x of comparable public companies Resurgent Capital Partners Resurgent is a CFPB-regulated purchaser of distressed consumer debt. They have spent $5.8B purchasing over $280B of distressed consumer debt, and have generated cash recoveries of 512.68. In 2017, Resurgent saw revenues of $515MM and pre-tax eamings of S109MM For internal use only CONFIDENTIAL - PURSUANT TO FED. R. CRIM. P. 6(e) DB-SDNY-0042815 CONFIDENTIAL SDNY_GM_00188999 EFTA01356766

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