Commingling and Investment The Trustee is expressly authorized in its discretion: (a) To transfer from time to time any or all of the assets of the Fund to any common, commingled, or collective trust fund created by the Trustee in which the Fund is eligible to participate, subject to all of the provisions thereof, to be commingled with the assets of other trusts participating therein; and (b) To purchase shares in any investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, 15 U.S.C. 80a-1 et seq., including one which may be created, managed, underwritten, or to which investment advice is rendered or the shares of which are sold by the Trustee. The Trustee may vote such shares in its discretion.
Loans and Investments No Credit Party shall and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to make any Investments, except for: (a) Investments in cash and Cash Equivalents; (b) Investments (i) by the Borrower or any other Credit Party in the Borrower or any Credit Party and (ii) by any Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party in any other Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party; (c) loans or advances to officers, directors and employees of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party (i) for reasonable and customary business-related travel, entertainment, relocation and analogous ordinary business purposes and (ii) in connection with such Person’s purchase of Equity Interests of Borrower (or any direct or indirect parent that wholly-owns the Borrower) to the extent the amount of such loans and advances shall be substantially contemporaneously contributed to the Borrower in cash as common equity, or substantially contemporaneously paid to the Borrower in connection with such purchase of Equity Interests; provided, that, the aggregate principal amount of all loans and advances made pursuant to this clause (c) shall not exceed $2,500,000 at any time outstanding; (d) Investments received as the non-cash portion of consideration received in connection with transactions permitted pursuant to subsection 5.2(b); (e) Investments acquired in connection with the settlement of delinquent Accounts in the Ordinary Course of Business or in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of suppliers or customers; (f) Investments consisting of non-cash loans made to officers, directors and employees of any Credit Party or any of their Subsidiaries that are used by such Persons to purchase simultaneously Equity Interests of any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower; (g) Investments existing on the Closing Date and set forth in Schedule 5.4 or an Investment consisting of any extension, modification, replacement, renewal or reinvestment of any such Investment; (h) guarantees of Indebtedness permitted under Section 5.5(k), performance guarantees and Contingent Obligations incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business (as long as the primary obligor with respect to such Contingent Obligation is the Borrower or any Subsidiary) and the creation of Liens on the assets of the Borrower or any Subsidiary in compliance with Section 5.1 (other than subsection 5.1(v) and/or 5.1(z)(i)); (i) [reserved]; (j) [reserved]Investments in SPV Subsidiaries and/or ABS Note Subsidiaries that are required pursuant to the terms of (x) the ABS Documentation or (y) Permitted Receivables Facility Documents in connection with a Permitted Receivables Facility; (k) the maintenance of deposit accounts and securities accounts in the Ordinary Course of Business; (l) Investments constituting (i) accounts receivable arising, (ii) trade debt granted or (iii) deposits made in connection with the purchase price of goods or services, in each case, in the Ordinary Course of Business; (m) [reserved]; (n) Investments by way of contributions to capital or purchases of Equity Interests by any Credit Party in any of its Subsidiaries that are Credit Parties; (o) Investments in hedging contracts entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business for bona fide hedging purposes and not for speculation; (p) so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would occur as a result thereof, other Investments in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding $5,000,000, in each case determined as of the date of such Investment; (q) Investments in Non-Credit Parties in an amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in the aggregate; (r) Rate Contract obligations; (s) [reserved]; (t) [reserved]; (u) Investments (including debt obligations and Equity Interests) received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of suppliers and customers or in settlement of delinquent obligations of, or other disputes with, customers and suppliers arising in the Ordinary Course of Business or upon the foreclosure with respect to any secured Investment or other transfer of title with respect to any secured Investment; (v) endorsements of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection in the Ordinary Course of Business; (w) deposits of cash made in the Ordinary Course of Business to secure performance of leases; (x) Investments to the extent that payment for such Investments is made solely with Equity Interests (other than any Disqualified Equity) of the Borrower (or Equity Interests of any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower, or with the proceeds of any substantially contemporaneous sale of Equity Interests, other than Disqualified Equity, of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower) not resulting in a Change of Control[reserved]; (y) to the extent constituting Investments, the creation of Liens, the making of fundamental changes, the consummation of Dispositions, and the making of Restricted Payments permitted under Sections 5.1 (other than subsections 5.1(v) and/or 5.1(z)(i)), 5.2, 5.3 (other than subsections 5.3(a), 5.3(c) and/or 5.3(e)) and 5.7 (other than subsection 5.7(g)), respectively; and (z) Guarantees by any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries of leases (other than Capital Leases) or of other obligations that do not constitute Indebtedness. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 5.4 to the contrary, no Credit Party shall make, and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to make, Investments in any Person who is an Affiliate of the Borrower, other than the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.