- 6 - Foreign Equipment between Systems and Equilease C.V. We shall refer to all Equilease entities as Equilease. Under each master lease, Systems, as lessor, leased the equipment to Equilease, as lessee, and assigned to Equilease all of the lessor's rights under the initial user leases. The term of both master leases was 96 months. In return, Equilease agreed to pay fixed rent, contingent rent, and taxes. Generally, fixed rent refers to the rent to be paid by Equilease. The amount of the fixed rent was equal to the payments the Trust was required to make under the Trust Note, as further discussed below. Contingent rent refers to the rent that might be received from re-leasing the equipment between expiration of the initial user leases and the end of the master leases. Under the terms of the master leases, the Trust and Equilease shared any contingent rent. Under the Sale Agreement, the Trust purchased an interest in the subject computer equipment and received assignment of Systems' interest in the master leases. The stated purchase price was $5,170,392. The Trust paid Systems $954,000 in cash, of which $917,392 was characterized as a downpayment and $36,608 was characterized as a prepayment of interest due on the Trust Note in 1983. The Trust issued a promissory notePage: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next
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