Common use of Disclosure Claims Clause in Contracts

Disclosure Claims. The releases and waivers in Article III do not include any direct individual claims for securities fraud or other alleged disclosure violations (“Disclosure Claims”) that an Investor may seek to assert based upon such Investor’s purchase or sale of Securities; provided, however, that the question of the extent to which any payment made or benefit conferred pursuant to this Settlement Agreement may constitute an offset or credit against, or a reduction in the gross amount of, any such claim shall be determined in the action in which such claim is raised, and, notwithstanding any other provision in this Settlement Agreement, the Parties reserve all rights with respect to the position they may take on that question in those actions and acknowledge that all other Persons similarly reserve such rights. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Investment Advisers for themselves, and not for any individual clients or funds they advise, state that they do not own any Disclosure Claims and hereby irrevocably, fully and finally release any Disclosure Claims to the extent they own such claims personally, and such Investment Advisers agree not to assist or advise any of the individual clients or funds that they advise in bringing any Disclosure Claim except to the extent legally required. Nothing in this provision shall bar any individual client, or any fund advised by an Investment Adviser, from asserting its own Disclosure Claims on its own behalf.