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Class A Common Stock Subject to applicable law and the rights, if any, of the holders of any outstanding series of Preferred Stock having a preference over or the right to participate with the Class A Common Stock with respect to the payment of dividends and other distributions in cash, stock of any corporation or property of the Corporation, the holders of Class A Common Stock shall be entitled to receive ratably, taken together as a single class, in proportion to the number of shares held by each such stockholder such dividends and other distributions as may from time to time be declared by the Board in its discretion out of the assets of the Corporation that are by law available therefor at such times and in such amounts as the Board in its discretion shall determine.
Class A Shares Shares of the Company’s $0.01 par value common stock that have been designated as Class A.
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Series A Preferred Units (a) The authorized number of Series A Preferred Units shall be unlimited. Series A Preferred Units that are purchased or otherwise acquired by the Partnership shall be cancelled.
Class B Units The term “Class B Units” means the Units having the privileges, preferences, and rights specified with respect to “Class B Units” in this Agreement, including those described in Section 7.1(c)(3).
Series A Preferred Stock On the Closing Date, each Subscriber shall purchase and the Company shall sell to each such Subscriber, the number of shares of Preferred Stock designated on such Subscriber’s signature page hereto for such Subscriber’s Purchase Price indicated thereon.
Class B Shares As of December 1, 2009, Class B shares of the Virtus Mutual Funds are no longer available for purchase by new or existing shareholders, except for the reinvestment of dividends or capital gains distributions into existing Class B share accounts, and for exchanges from existing Class B share accounts to other Virtus Mutual Funds with Class B shares.
Series C Preferred Stock The holders of outstanding shares of Series C Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive dividends, when and as declared by the Board of Directors, out of any assets at the time legally available therefor, at the Dividend Rate specified for such shares of Preferred Stock payable in preference and priority to any declaration or payment of any distribution on Series A Preferred Stock, Series B Preferred Stock or Common Stock of the Corporation other than a dividend payable solely in Common Stock. No distributions shall be made with respect to the Series A Preferred Stock, Series B Preferred Stock or Common Stock during any fiscal year of the Corporation, other than dividends on the Common Stock payable solely in Common Stock, until all dividends at the applicable Dividend Rate on the Series C Preferred Stock have been declared and paid or set apart for payment to the holders of Series C Preferred Stock. The right to receive dividends on shares of Series C Preferred Stock shall not be cumulative, and no right to such dividends shall accrue to holders of Series C Preferred Stock by reason of the fact that dividends on said shares are not declared or paid in any year.
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