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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors
U.S. Bank National Association
We have examined management's assertion, included in the accompanying Report on Assessment of Compliance with Applicable Servicing Criteria, that U.S. Bank National Association (the "Company") complied with the servicing criteria set forth in Item 1122 (d) of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Regulation AB for the U.S. Bank Corporate Trust Repackaging Platform (the "Platform"), for which the company provides servicing functions for publicly issued transactions comprised of the repackaging of corporate debt and/or other agency securities, as of and for the year ended December 31, 2017, except for servicing criteria 1122 (d)(1)(i), 1122 (d)(1)(iii), 1122 (d)(1)(v), 1122 (d)(2)(iii), 1122 (d)(4)(i), 1122 (d)(4)(vi) and 1122 (d)(4)(ix)-(xv), which the Company has determined are not applicable to the activities performed by them with respect to the servicing platform covered by this report. Management is responsible for the Company's compliance with those servicing criteria. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on management's assertion about the Company's compliance with the servicing criteria based on our examination.
Our examination was conducted in accordance with
attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, as adopted by the Public Company Accounting
Oversight Board (United States) and, accordingly, included examining, on a test basis, evidence about the Company's compliance with the
applicable servicing criteria and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. Our examination
included testing of less than all of the individual asset-backed transactions and securities that comprise the Platform, testing of less
than all of the servicing activities related to the Platform, and determining whether the Company processed those selected transactions
and performed those selected activities in compliance with the servicing criteria. Furthermore, our procedures were limited to the selected
transactions and servicing activities performed by the Company during the period covered by this report. Our procedures were not designed
to determine whether errors may have occurred either prior to or subsequent to our tests that may have affected the balances or amounts
calculated or reported by the Company during the period covered by this report for the selected transactions or any other transactions.
Although the Company is responsible for assessing compliance with Items 1122 (d)(1)(ii), 1122 (d)(4)(iii), 1122 (d)(4)(vii) and 1122
(d)(4)(viii) of Regulation AB, there were no servicing activities performed by the Company as of and for the year ended December 31,
2017, that required these servicing criteria to be complied with. We believe that our examination provides a reasonable basis for our
opinion.
Our examination does not provide a legal determination on the Company's compliance with the servicing criteria.
In
our opinion, management’s assertion that the Company complied with the aforementioned servicing criteria as of and for the
year ended December 31, 2017, for the U.S. Bank
Corporate Trust Asset-Backed Securities Platform is fairly stated, in all material respects.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
Minneapolis, Minnesota
February 28, 2018