Item 1. Business.
Omitted.
Item 1A.
Item 1A. Risk Factors.
Omitted.
Item 1B.
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments.
None.
Item 2.
Item 2. Properties.
Omitted.
Item 3.
Item 3. Legal Proceedings.
Omitted.
Item 4.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures.
Not applicable.
PART II
Item 5.
Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.
Omitted.
Item 6.
Item 6. Selected Financial Data.
Omitted.
Item 7.
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
Omitted.
Item 7A.
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.
Omitted.
Item 8.
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.
Omitted.
Item 9.
Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure.
Omitted.
Item 9A.
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures.
Omitted.
Item 9B.
Item 9B. Other Information.
None.
PART III
Item 10.
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance.
Omitted.
Item 11.
Item 11. Executive Compensation.
Omitted.
Item 12.
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters.
Omitted.
Item 13.
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence.
Omitted.
Item 14.
Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services.
Omitted.
ADDITIONAL DISCLOSURE ITEMS FOR REGULATION AB
Item 1112(b) of Regulation AB, Significant Obligor Financial Information.
The Outlet Collection | Jersey Gardens Mortgage Loan, which represented 10% or more of the pool assets held by the issuing entity as of its cut-off date, is no longer a pool asset.
Item 1114(b)(2) of Regulation AB, Significant Enhancement Provider Financial Information.
No entity or group of affiliated entities provides any external credit enhancement or other support for the certificates within this transaction as described under Item 1114(a) of Regulation AB.
Item 1115(b) of Regulation AB, Certain Derivatives Instruments (Financial Information).
No entity or group of affiliated entities provides any derivative instruments or other support for the certificates within this transaction as described under Item 1115 of Regulation AB.
Item 1117 of Regulation AB, Legal Proceedings.
The registrant knows of no material pending legal proceeding involving the trust or any party related to the trust, other than routine litigation incidental to the duties of those respective parties, and the following, with respect to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as certificate administrator and as custodian, and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee.
Beginning on June 18, 2014, a group of institutional investors filed civil complaints in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, and later the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, against Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., (“Wells Fargo Bank”) in its capacity as trustee for certain residential mortgage backed securities (“RMBS”) trusts. The complaints against Wells Fargo Bank alleged that the trustee caused losses to investors and asserted causes of action based upon, among other things, the trustee's alleged failure to: (i) notify and enforce repurchase obligations of mortgage loan sellers for purported breaches of representations and warranties, (ii) notify investors of alleged events of default, and (iii) abide by appropriate standards of care following alleged events of default. Relief sought included money damages in an unspecified amount, reimbursement of expenses, and equitable relief. In November 2018, Wells Fargo Bank reached an agreement, in which it denied any wrongdoing, to resolve such claims on a classwide basis for the 271 RMBS trusts at issue. On May 6, 2019, the court entered an order approving the settlement agreement. Separate lawsuits against Wells Fargo Bank making similar allegations filed by certain other institutional investors concerning several RMBS trusts in New York federal and state court are not covered by the settlement agreement. In addition to the foregoing cases, in August 2014 and August 2015 Nomura Credit & Capital Inc. (“Nomura”) and Natixis Real Estate Holdings, LLC (“Natixis”) filed a total of seven third-party complaints against Wells Fargo Bank in New York state court. In the underlying first-party actions, Nomura and Natixis have been sued for alleged breaches of representations and warranties made in connection with residential mortgage-backed securities sponsored by them. In the third-party actions, Nomura and Natixis allege that Wells Fargo Bank, as master servicer, primary servicer or securities administrator, failed to notify Nomura and Natixis of their own breaches, failed to properly oversee the primary servicers, and failed to adhere to accepted servicing practices. Natixis additionally alleges that Wells Fargo Bank failed to perform default oversight duties. Wells Fargo Bank has asserted counterclaims alleging that Nomura and Natixis failed to provide Wells Fargo Bank notice of their representation and warranty breaches. With respect to each of the foregoing litigations, Wells Fargo Bank believes plaintiffs' claims are without merit and intends to contest the claims vigorously, but there can be no assurances as to the outcome of the litigations or the possible impact of the litigations on Wells Fargo Bank or the related RMBS trusts.
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (“DBTCA”) and Deutsche Bank National Trust Company (“DBNTC”) have been sued by investors in civil litigation concerning their role as trustees of certain residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”) trusts.
On June 18, 2014, a group of investors, including funds managed by Blackrock Advisors, LLC, PIMCO-Advisors, L.P., and others, filed an action against DBNTC and DBTCA in New York State Supreme Court alleging that DBNTC and DBTCA failed to perform purported duties, as trustees for 544 private-label RMBS trusts, to enforce breaches of representations and warranties as to mortgage loans held by the trusts and to enforce breaches by servicers of their mortgage loan servicing obligations for the trusts. During the course of the litigation, plaintiffs dismissed the case from New York State Supreme Court and refiled two separate cases, one in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “BlackRock SDNY Case”) and the other in the Superior Court of California, Orange County (the “BlackRock California Case”). Pursuant to a settlement among the parties, the BlackRock SDNY Case was dismissed on December 6, 2018 and the BlackRock California Case was dismissed on January 11, 2019.
On September 27, 2017, DBTCA was added as a defendant to a case brought by certain special purpose entities including Phoenix Light SF Limited in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, in which the plaintiffs previously alleged incorrectly that DBNTC served as trustee for all 43 of the trusts at issue. On September 27, 2017, plaintiffs filed a third amended complaint that names DBTCA as a defendant in addition to DBNTC. DBTCA serves as trustee for one of the 43 trusts at issue. DBNTC serves as trustee for the other 42 trusts at issue. Plaintiffs’ third amended complaint brings claims for violation of the U.S. Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (“TIA”); breach of contract; breach of fiduciary duty; negligence and gross negligence; violation of New York’s Streit Act; and breach of the covenant of good faith. However, in the third amended complaint, plaintiffs acknowledge that, before DBTCA was added to the case, the court dismissed plaintiffs’ TIA Act claims, negligence and gross negligence claims, Streit Act claims, claims for breach of the covenant of good faith, and certain theories of plaintiffs’ breach of contract claims, and plaintiffs only include these claims to preserve any rights on appeal. Plaintiffs allege damages of “hundreds of millions of dollars.” On November 13, 2017, DBNTC and DBTCA filed an answer to the third amended complaint. On December 7, 2018, DBNTC and DBTCA filed a motion for summary judgment. Also on December 7, 2018, plaintiffs, jointly with Commerzbank AG (see description of Commerzbank case below), filed a motion for partial summary judgment. As of March 1, 2021, both motions for summary judgment have been briefed and are awaiting decision by the court.
On November 30, 2017, DBTCA was added as a defendant to a case brought by Commerzbank AG (“Commerzbank”) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, in which Commerzbank previously alleged incorrectly that DBNTC served as trustee for all 50 of the trusts at issue. On November 30, 2017, Commerzbank filed a second amended complaint that names DBTCA as a defendant in addition to DBNTC. DBTCA serves as trustee for 1 of the 50 trusts at issue. DBNTC serves as trustee for the other 49 trusts at issue. Commerzbank’s second amended complaint brings claims for violation of the TIA; breach of contract; breach of fiduciary duty; negligence; violation of the Streit Act; and breach of the covenant of good faith. However, in the second amended complaint, Commerzbank acknowledges that, before DBTCA was added to the case, the court dismissed Commerzbank’s TIA claims for the trusts governed by pooling and servicing agreements, as well as its Streit Act claims and claims for breach of the covenant of good faith, and Commerzbank only includes these claims to preserve any rights on appeal. The second amended complaint alleges that DBNTC and DBTCA caused Commerzbank to suffer “hundreds of millions of dollars in losses,” but the complaint does not include a demand for money damages in a sum certain. On January 29, 2018, DBNTC and DBTCA filed an answer to the second amended complaint. On December 7, 2018, DBNTC and DBTCA filed a motion for summary judgment. Also on December 7, 2018, Commerzbank, jointly with the Phoenix Light plaintiffs, filed a motion for partial summary judgment. As of March 1, 2021, both motions for summary judgment have been briefed and are awaiting decision by the court.
On December 30, 2015, IKB International, S.A. in Liquidation and IKB Deutsche Industriebank A.G. (collectively, “IKB”), as an investor in 37 RMBS trusts, filed a summons with notice in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, against DBNTC and DBTCA as trustees of the trusts. On May 27, 2016, IKB served its complaint asserting claims for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of duty to avoid conflicts of interest, violation of the Streit Act, violation of the TIA, violation of Regulation AB, and violation of Section 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. IKB alleges that DBNTC and DBTCA are liable for over U.S. $268 million in damages. On October 5, 2016, DBNTC and DBTCA, together with several other trustees defending lawsuits by IKB, filed a joint motion to dismiss. On January 6, 2017 and June 20, 2017, IKB voluntarily dismissed with prejudice all claims as to seven trusts. On January 27, 2021, the court granted in part and denied in part DBNTC and DBTCA’s motion to dismiss. The court granted the motion to dismiss with respect to IKB’s claims for violations of the Streit Act, Regulation AB, and Section 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, as well as certain aspects of IKB’s claims for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and violation of the TIA. The court denied the remainder of the motion to dismiss. IKB’s remaining claims for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of duty to avoid conflicts of interest, and violation of the TIA will proceed.
It is DBTCA’s belief that it has no pending legal proceedings (including, based on DBTCA’s present evaluation, the litigation disclosed in the foregoing paragraphs) that would materially affect its ability to perform its duties under the related servicing agreement for this transaction.
Item 1119 of Regulation AB, Affiliations and Certain Relationships and Related Transactions.
The information regarding this Item has been previously provided in a prospectus supplement of the Registrant relating to the issuing entity filed on December 10, 2013 pursuant to Rule 424(b)(5).
Item 1122 of Regulation AB, Compliance with Applicable Servicing Criteria.
The reports on assessments of compliance with the servicing criteria for asset-backed securities and related attestation reports on such assessments of compliance with respect to the mortgage loans are attached hereto under Item 15
Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules
(a) The following is a list of documents filed as part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K:
(1) Not applicable
(2) Not applicable
(3) See below
4.1 Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated as of December 1, 2013, by and among Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Securities, Inc., as Depositor, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Master Servicer, CWCapital Asset Management LLC, as Special Servicer, Park Bridge Lender Services LLC, as Trust Advisor, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Certificate Administrator, as Tax Administrator and as Custodian, and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee (filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K/A filed on February 14, 2014 under Commission File No. 333-172366-10 and incorporated by reference herein).
4.2 Pooling and Servicing Agreement, dated as of December 1, 2013, by and among Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Securities, Inc., as Depositor, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as General Master Servicer, Midland Loan Services, a Division of PNC Bank, National Association, as General Special Servicer, NCB, FSB, as NCB Master Servicer, NCB, FSB as Co-op Special Servicer, Pentalpha Surveillance LLC, as Trust Advisor, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Certificate Administrator, as Tax Administrator and as Custodian, and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee (filed as Exhibit 99.5 to the registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K/A filed on February 14, 2014 under Commission File No. 333-172366-10 and incorporated by reference herein).
Rule 13a-14(d)/15d-14(d) Certifications.
Reports on assessment of compliance with servicing criteria for asset-backed securities.
33.1 Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Master Servicer
33.2 CWCapital Asset Management LLC, as Special Servicer
33.3 Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee (Omitted. See Explanatory Notes.)
33.4 Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Certificate Administrator
33.5 Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Custodian
33.6 Park Bridge Lender Services LLC, as Trust Advisor
33.7 CoreLogic Commercial Real Estate Services, Inc., as Servicing Function Participant
33.8 National Tax Search, LLC, as Servicing Function Participant
33.9 Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Primary Servicer of The Outlet Collection | Jersey Gardens Mortgage Loan (see Exhibit 33.1)
33.10 LNR Partners, LLC, as Special Servicer of The Outlet Collection | Jersey Gardens Mortgage Loan
33.11 Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee of The Outlet Collection | Jersey Gardens Mortgage Loan (Omitted. See Explanatory Notes.)
33.12 Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Custodian of The Outlet Collection | Jersey Gardens Mortgage Loan (see Exhibit 33.5)
33.13 Pentalpha Surveillance LLC, as Trust Advisor of The Outlet Collection | Jersey Gardens Mortgage Loan
33.14 CoreLogic Commercial Real Estate Services, Inc., as Servicing Function Participant of The Outlet Collection | Jersey Gardens Mortgage Loan (see Exhibit 33.7)
33.15 National Tax Search, LLC, as Servicing Function Participant of The Outlet Collection | Jersey Gardens Mortgage Loan (see Exhibit 33.8)
Attestation reports on assessment of compliance with servicing criteria for asset-backed securities.
34.1 Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Master Servicer
34.2 CWCapital Asset Management LLC, as Special Servicer
34.3 Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee (Omitted. See Explanatory Notes.)
34.4 Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Certificate Administrator
34.5 Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Custodian
34.6 Park Bridge Lender Services LLC, as Trust Advisor
34.7 CoreLogic Commercial Real Estate Services, Inc., as Servicing Function Participant
34.8 National Tax Search, LLC, as Servicing Function Participant
34.9 Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Primary Servicer of The Outlet Collection | Jersey Gardens Mortgage Loan (see Exhibit 34.1)
34.10 LNR Partners, LLC, as Special Servicer of The Outlet Collection | Jersey Gardens Mortgage Loan
34.11 Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee of The Outlet Collection | Jersey Gardens Mortgage Loan (Omitted. See Explanatory Notes.)
34.12 Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Custodian of The Outlet Collection | Jersey Gardens Mortgage Loan (see Exhibit 34.5)
34.13 Pentalpha Surveillance LLC, as Trust Advisor of The Outlet Collection | Jersey Gardens Mortgage Loan
34.14 CoreLogic Commercial Real Estate Services, Inc., as Servicing Function Participant of The Outlet Collection | Jersey Gardens Mortgage Loan (see Exhibit 34.7)
34.15 National Tax Search, LLC, as Servicing Function Participant of The Outlet Collection | Jersey Gardens Mortgage Loan (see Exhibit 34.8)
Servicer compliance statements.
35.1 Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Master Servicer
35.2 CWCapital Asset Management LLC, as Special Servicer
35.3 Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Certificate Administrator
35.4 Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Primary Servicer of The Outlet Collection | Jersey Gardens Mortgage Loan (see Exhibit 35.1)
35.5 LNR Partners, LLC, as Special Servicer of The Outlet Collection | Jersey Gardens Mortgage Loan
99.1 Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, dated as of November 22, 2013, between Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Securities, Inc. and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (filed as Exhibit 99.1 to the registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K/A filed on February 14, 2014 under Commission File No. 333-172366-10 and incorporated by reference herein)
99.2 Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, dated as of November 22, 2013, between Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Securities, Inc. and UBS Real Estate Securities Inc. (filed as Exhibit 99.2 to the registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K/A filed on February 14, 2014 under Commission File No. 333-172366-10 and incorporated by reference herein)
99.3 Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, dated as of November 22, 2013, between Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Securities, Inc. and Rialto Mortgage Finance, LLC (filed as Exhibit 99.3 to the registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K/A filed on February 14, 2014 under Commission File No. 333-172366-10 and incorporated by reference herein)
99.4 Mortgage Loan Purchase Agreement, dated as of November 22, 2013, between Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Securities, Inc. and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc (filed as Exhibit 99.4 to the registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K/A filed on February 14, 2014 under Commission File No. 333-172366-10 and incorporated by reference herein)
(b) The exhibits required to be filed by the Registrant pursuant to Item 601 of Regulation S-K are listed above.
(c) Not Applicable.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Securities, Inc.
(Depositor)
/s/ Anthony Sfarra
Anthony Sfarra, President
(senior officer in charge of securitization of the depositor)
Date: March 15, 2021