Allocation of Costs and Expenses The Company shall bear all costs and expenses for the administration of its business and shall reimburse the Co-Advisor for any such costs and expenses that have been paid by the Co-Advisor, or by any affiliate thereof, on behalf of the Company on the terms and conditions set forth in Section 6. These costs and expenses shall include, but not be limited to:
(a) organizational expenses relating to borrowings and offerings of the Company’s securities and incurrences of indebtedness, subject to limitations included in this Agreement;
(b) the cost of effecting sales and repurchases of any securities of the Company;
(c) expenses incurred by the Co-Advisor or any affiliate thereof payable to third parties, including agents, consultants or other advisors (such as accountants and legal counsel);
(d) fees payable to third parties relating to, or associated with, making, monitoring and disposing of investments, and valuing investments and enforcing contractual rights, including fees and expenses associated with performing due diligence reviews of prospective investments;
(e) professional fees relating to investments, including expenses of consultants, investment bankers, attorneys, accountants and other experts;
(f) fees payable to third parties relating to, or associated with, making, monitoring, servicing and disposing of a Subsidiary’s investments, and valuing investments and enforcing contractual rights, including fees and expenses associated with performing due diligence reviews of prospective investments for a Subsidiary;
(g) fees, expenses, and costs relating to or associated with software tools, programs or other technology (including risk management software, fees to risk management services providers, third-party software licensing, implementation, data management and recovery services and custom development costs);
(h) research and market data (including news and quotation equipment and services, and any computer hardware and connectivity hardware (e.g., telephone and fiber optic lines) incorporated into the cost of obtaining such research and market data);
(i) all costs and charges for equipment or services used in communicating information regarding the Company’s transactions among the Co-Advisor and any custodian or other agent engaged by the Company
(j) all costs associated with the provision of information technology services;
(k) federal and any state registration or notification fees;
(l) the costs of preparing, printing and mailing reports and other communications, including shareholder reports and notices or similar materials, to shareholders;
(m) interest payable on debt, if any, incurred to finance the Company’s investments;
(n) transfer agent and custodial fees;
(o) federal, state and local taxes;
(p) fees and expenses of Independent Trustees (as defined below);
(q) overhead costs, including rent, office supplies, utilities and capital equipment;
(r) costs of preparing and filing reports or other documents required by the any governmental agency;
(s) costs of fidelity bond, directors and officers/errors and omissions liability insurance and other insurance premiums;
(t) direct costs and expenses of administration, including those relating to printing, mailing, long distance telephone, copying, secretarial and other and staff, independent auditors and outside legal costs;
(u) fees and expenses associated with independent audits, outside legal costs, and tax returns, including compliance with applicable federal and state laws;
(v) internal legal expenses (including those expenses associated with attending and preparing for board meetings, as applicable, and generally serving as counsel to the Company)
(w) costs associated with the Company’s reporting and compliance obligations under applicable federal and state securities laws, including the cost of third-party service providers and any compliance program audit programs;
(x) brokerage commissions for the Company’s investments;
(y) computer software specific to the business of the Company;
(z) any unreimbursed expenses incurred in connection with transactions not consummated;
(aa) the costs of responding to regulatory requests;
(bb) routine non-compensation overhead expenses of the Co-Advisor and or any affiliate thereof in connection with administering the Company’s business;
(cc) all other expenses incurred by the Company or the Co-Advisor, or by any affiliate thereof that the Co-Advisor has arranged to provide services to the Company, in connection with the administration of the Company’s business, including expenses incurred by the Co-Advisor or any affiliate thereof in performing the Co-Advisor’s obligations under this Agreement and the reimbursement of the allocable portion of the compensation of the Company’s chief financial officer, chief compliance officer and administrative support staff attributable to the Company, to the extent that they are not a person with a controlling interest in the Co-Advisor or any of its affiliates, subject to the limitations included in this Agreement, as applicable; and
(dd) any expenses incurred outside of the ordinary course of business, including, without limitation, costs incurred in connection with any claim, litigation, arbitration, mediation, government investigation or similar proceeding and indemnification expenses as provided for in the Company’s respective organizational documents.
Compensation; Allocation of Costs and Expenses (a) In full consideration of the provision of the services of the Administrator, the Corporation shall reimburse the Administrator for the costs and expenses incurred by the Administrator in performing its obligations and providing personnel and facilities hereunder, including the costs and expenses charged by any sub-administrator that may be retained by the Administrator to provide services to the Corporation or on the Administrator’s behalf.
(b) The Corporation will bear all costs and expenses that are incurred in its operation, administration, and transactions and not specifically assumed by the Corporation’s investment adviser (the “Adviser”), pursuant to that certain Investment Advisory Agreement, dated as of [•], 2021, by and between the Corporation and the Adviser (the “Advisory Agreement”). Costs and expenses to be borne by the Corporation include, but are not limited to, those relating to: expenses deemed to be “organization and offering expenses” of the Corporation for purposes of Conduct Rule 2310(a)(12) of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (for purposes of this Agreement, such expenses, exclusive of commissions, the dealer manager fee and any discounts, are hereinafter referred to as “Organization and Offering Expenses”); expenses incurred by the Adviser and payable to third parties, including agents, consultants and other advisors, in monitoring the financial and legal affairs of the Corporation, and news and quotation subscriptions; the cost of calculating the Corporation’s net asset value; the cost of effecting sales and repurchases of shares of the Corporation’s common stock and other securities; management and incentive fees payable pursuant to the Advisory Agreement; fees payable to third parties, including agents, consultants and other advisors, relating to, or associated with, making investments, and, if necessary, enforcing its rights, and valuing investments (including third-party valuation firms); placement agent fees and expenses, rating agency expenses; fees to arrange debt financings for the Corporation; distributions on the Corporation’s shares; administration fees payable under this Agreement; the allocated costs incurred by the Administrator in providing managerial assistance to those portfolio companies that request it; transfer agent and custodial fees; fees and expenses associated with marketing efforts (including attendance at investment conferences and similar events); federal and state registration fees; any exchange listing fees; federal, state, local, and other taxes; independent directors’ fees and expenses, including any legal counsel or other advisors retained by, or at the discretion or for the benefit of, the independent directors; brokerage commissions; costs of proxy statements, stockholders’ reports and notices; costs of preparing government filings, including periodic and current reports with the SEC; the Corporation’s fidelity bond, directors and officers/errors and omissions liability insurance, and any other insurance premiums; indemnification payments; expenses relating to the development and maintenance of the Corporation’s website; other operations and technology costs; direct costs and expenses of administration, including printing, mailing, copying, telephone, fees of independent accountants and outside legal costs; and all other expenses incurred by the Corporation or the Administrator in connection with administering the Corporation’s business, including, but not limited to, payments under this Agreement based upon the Corporation’s allocable portion of the Administrator’s overhead in performing its obligations under this Agreement, including rent, travel and the allocable portion of the cost of the Corporation’s chief compliance officer and chief financial officer and their respective staffs, including operations and tax professionals, and administrative staff providing support services in respect of the Corporation.
Allocation of Costs The Fund shall pay the cost of composition and printing of sufficient copies of its Prospectus and SAI as shall be required for periodic distribution to its shareholders and the expense of registering Shares for sale under federal securities laws. You shall pay the expenses normally attributable to the sale of Shares, other than as paid under the Fund's Distribution Plan under Rule 12b-1 of the 1940 Act, including the cost of printing and mailing of the Prospectus (other than those furnished to existing shareholders) and any sales literature used by you in the public sale of the Shares and for registering such shares under state blue sky laws pursuant to paragraph 8.
Selection of currency A Borrower (or the Company on behalf of a Borrower) shall select the currency of a Loan in a Utilisation Request.
Costs and Expenses: Allocation of Costs A. The Transfer Agent will be responsible for all expenses, costs and other charges arising out of the performance of its obligations pursuant to this Contract, including the fees and disbursements of any third party retained to perform any of the services to the Fund on behalf of the Transfer Agent; all paper, typesetting, printing, stationery, envelopes, postage, labeling costs, mail sorting and other similar costs of preparing and mailing any dividend or redemption payment, all shareholder reports (including the cost of printing and mailing prospectuses sent to current shareholders, including the beneficial owners of Accounts), tax statements, confirmations, notices and statements of account; all telephone and computer equipment and usage charges; all personnel expenses, heat, light, rent, utilities, equipment purchases or rentals; all insurance premiums associated with FIIOC’s provision of services under this Contract, unless the Trustees of the Fund shall have specifically authorized an allocation of all or a portion of the premium to the Fund; all costs associated with the provision of check redemption services (including, the costs of printing and mailing of checks and checkbooks to shareholders, the charges of any vendor retained by the Fund to process checks for payment, and the charges of sending canceled checks to shareholders); and all other necessary expenses associated with the provision of services under the Contract.
B. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Fund shall be required to bear all expenses for all Accounts associated with: (i) all fees and expenses of registering shares for sale under the state securities laws (“blue sky charges”); and (ii) the holding of annual or special meetings of Fund shareholders, including: the costs of typesetting, printing, postage and mailing of notices, proxy cards and proxy statements (and, if requested by a shareholder, annual reports sent to those shareholders that have opened accounts subsequent to the last regular mailing date of such reports to shareholders); the fees and other disbursements of any agent hired to mail proxy materials and/or tabulate proxies; all charges incurred by any proxy soliciting agent; the reasonable and customary fees and handling charges of brokers, banks and other intermediaries for forwarding proxy materials; all other customary expenses associated with the holding of shareholder meetings.
C. The Fund shall not bear expenses for Accounts associated with charges of any bank for establishing and operating accounts for the receipt of funds for share purchases and the payment of dividends, distributions and redemption proceeds (together, “bank charges”). The Transfer Agent shall look exclusively to FMR for payment of bank charges.
D. Any amounts earned by the bank accounts established pursuant to paragraph 3(D) above on overnight repurchase agreements or money market funds shall be allocated to the Fund on a pro rata basis based on the amount of moneys attributable to the Fund invested in such repurchase agreements or money market funds.
Substitution of Currency If a change in any Committed Currency occurs pursuant to any applicable law, rule or regulation of any governmental, monetary or multi-national authority, this Agreement (including, without limitation, the definition of Eurocurrency Rate) will be amended to the extent determined by the Agent (acting reasonably and in consultation with the Company) to be necessary to reflect the change in currency and to put the Lenders and the Borrowers in the same position, so far as possible, that they would have been in if no change in such Committed Currency had occurred.
Payment of Costs and Expenses The Borrower agrees to pay on demand all reasonable expenses of each of the Agents and the Arranger (including the reasonable fees and out-of-pocket expenses of counsel to the Agents and the Arranger and of local or foreign counsel, if any, who may be retained by counsel to the Agents) in connection with
(a) the syndication by the Syndication Agent and the Arranger of the Loans, the negotiation, preparation, execution and delivery of this Agreement and of each other Loan Document, including schedules and exhibits, and any amendments, waivers, consents, supplements or other modifications to this Agreement or any other Loan Document as may from time to time hereafter be required, whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated;
(b) the filing, recording, refiling or rerecording of each Pledge Agreement and each Security Agreement and/or any Uniform Commercial Code financing statements relating thereto and all amendments, supplements and modifications to any thereof and any and all other documents or instruments of further assurance required to be filed or recorded or refiled or rerecorded by the terms hereof or of such Pledge Agreement, Security Agreement or Uniform Commercial Code financial statements; and
(c) the preparation and review of the form of any document or instrument relevant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document. The Borrower further agrees to pay, and to save the Agents, the Documentation Agent, the Arranger, the Issuer and the Lenders harmless from all liability for, any stamp or other similar taxes which may be payable in connection with the execution or delivery of this Agreement, the Credit Extensions made hereunder or the issuance of the Notes or Letters of Credit or any other Loan Documents. The Borrower also agrees to reimburse each Agent, the Documentation Agent, the Arranger, the Issuer and each Lender upon demand for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and legal expenses) incurred by such Agent, the Documentation Agent, the Arranger, the Issuer or such Lender in connection with (x) the negotiation of any restructuring or "work-out", whether or not consummated, of any Obligations and (y) the enforcement of any Obligations.
Attorneys’ Fees and Cost of Collection In the event any suit, action or arbitration is filed by either party against the other to interpret or enforce any of the Transaction Documents, the unsuccessful party to such action agrees to pay to the prevailing party all costs and expenses, including attorneys’ fees incurred therein, including the same with respect to an appeal. The “prevailing party” shall be the party in whose favor a judgment is entered, regardless of whether judgment is entered on all claims asserted by such party and regardless of the amount of the judgment; or where, due to the assertion of counterclaims, judgments are entered in favor of and against both parties, then the arbitrator shall determine the “prevailing party” by taking into account the relative dollar amounts of the judgments or, if the judgments involve nonmonetary relief, the relative importance and value of such relief. Nothing herein shall restrict or impair an arbitrator’s or a court’s power to award fees and expenses for frivolous or bad faith pleading. If (i) the Note is placed in the hands of an attorney for collection or enforcement prior to commencing arbitration or legal proceedings, or is collected or enforced through any arbitration or legal proceeding, or Investor otherwise takes action to collect amounts due under the Note or to enforce the provisions of the Note, or (ii) there occurs any bankruptcy, reorganization, receivership of Company or other proceedings affecting Company’s creditors’ rights and involving a claim under the Note; then Company shall pay the costs incurred by Investor for such collection, enforcement or action or in connection with such bankruptcy, reorganization, receivership or other proceeding, including, without limitation, attorneys’ fees, expenses, deposition costs, and disbursements.
Increased Costs Reserves on Eurodollar Rate Loans (a) If any Change in Law shall:
(i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan, insurance charge or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended or participated in by, any Lender (except any reserve requirement reflected in the Eurodollar Rate) or the L/C Issuer;
(ii) subject any Lender or any L/C Issuer to any tax of any kind whatsoever with respect to this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, any participation in a Letter of Credit or any Eurodollar Rate Loan made by it, or change the basis of taxation of payments to such Lender or any L/C Issuer in respect thereof 068800 000057 DALLAS 1872243.4 (except for Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes covered by Section 3.01 and the imposition of, or any change in the rate of, any Excluded Tax payable by such Lender or any L/C Issuer); or
(iii) impose on any Lender or any L/C Issuer or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense affecting this Agreement or Eurodollar Rate Loans made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit or participation therein; and the result of any of the fgoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making or maintaining any Eurodollar Rate Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan), or to increase the cost to such Lender or such L/C Issuer of participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit (or of maintaining its obligation to participate in or to issue any Letter of Credit), or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or such L/C Issuer hereunder (whether of principal, interest or any other amount) then, upon request of such Lender or such L/C Issuer, the Borrower will pay to such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as the case may be, for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.
(b) If any Lender or any L/C Issuer determines that any Change in Law affecting such Lender or such L/C Issuer or any Lending Office of such Lender or such Lender’s or such L/C Issuer’s holding company, if any, regarding capital requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or such L/C Issuer’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s or such L/C Issuer’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement, the Commitments of such Lender or the Loans made by, or participations in Letters of Credit held by, such Lender, or the Letters of Credit issued by such L/C Issuer, to a level below that which such Lender or such L/C Issuer or such Lender’s or such L/C Issuer’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s or such L/C Issuer’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s or such L/C Issuer’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy), then from time to time the Borrower will pay to such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such L/C Issuer or such Lender’s or such L/C Issuer’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.
(c) A certificate of a Lender or a L/C Issuer setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or such L/C Issuer or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in subsection (a) or (b) of this Section and delivered to the Borrower shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as the case may be, the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.
(d) Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or any L/C Issuer to demand compensation pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or such L/C Issuer’s right to demand such compensation, provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender or a L/C Issuer pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section for any increased costs incurred or 068800 000057 DALLAS 1872243.4 reductions suffered more than nine months prior to the date that such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as the case may be, notifies the Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s or such L/C Issuer’s intention to claim compensation therefor (except that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the nine-month period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof).
PAYMENT OF COSTS AND LEGAL FEES All reasonable costs and legal fees paid or incurred by Executive pursuant to any dispute or question of interpretation relating to this Agreement shall be paid or reimbursed by the Bank if Executive is successful on the merits pursuant to a legal judgment, arbitration or settlement.
