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• Effects of the Mergers As a result of the mergers, the partners in the participating partnerships will have no continuing interest in those partnerships. Following the mergers, there will be no trading market for the partnership interests in, and no further distributions paid to the former partners of, the participating partnerships. In addition, following the consummation of the mergers, the registration of any partnership interests in participating partnerships under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 will be terminated. CONDUCT OF BUSINESS PRIOR TO THE MERGERS From the date of the merger agreement until the effective time of the mergers, Pioneer, Pioneer USA and the partnerships are required: - to conduct their businesses only in the ordinary course consistent with past practice; and - to use their reasonable best efforts: - to preserve intact their business organizations; - to keep available the services of their officers, employees and consultants; and - to preserve their relationships with customers, suppliers and other persons with which they have significant business dealings. Pioneer USA has suspended cash distributions to partners until after the effective time of the mergers. Partners of nonparticipating partnerships will receive cash distributions that are delayed for administrative purposes at the same time Pioneer USA mails checks to the partners of participating partnerships in payment of merger values.

• Shareholder Transactions Ultimus shall provide the Trust with shareholder transaction services, including: 1.1. process shareholder purchase, redemption, exchange, and transfer orders in accordance with conditions set forth in the applicable Fund’s prospectus(es) applying all applicable redemption or other miscellaneous fees; 1.2. set up of account information, including address, account designations, dividend and capital gains options, taxpayer identification numbers, banking instructions, automatic investment plans, systematic withdrawal plans and cost basis disposition method, 1.3. assist shareholders making changes to their account information included in 1.2; 1.4. issue trade confirmations in compliance with Rule 10b-10 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”); 1.5. issue quarterly statements for shareholders, interested parties, broker firms, branch offices and registered representatives; 1.6. act as a service agent and process income dividend and capital gains distributions, including the purchase of new shares, through dividend reimbursement and appropriate application of backup withholding, non-resident alien withholding and Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (“FATCA”) withholding; 1.7. record the issuance of shares and maintain pursuant to Rule 17Ad-10(e) of the 1934 Act a record of the total number of shares of each Fund which are authorized, based upon data provided to it by the Trust, and issued and outstanding; 1.8. perform such services as are required to comply with Rules 17a-24 and 17Ad-17 of the 1934 Act (the “Lost Shareholder Rules”); 1.9. provide cost basis reporting to shareholders on covered shares (shares purchased after 1/1/2012), as required; 1.10. withholding taxes on non-resident alien accounts, pension accounts and in accordance with state requirements; 1.11. produce, print, mail and file U.S. Treasury Department Forms 1099 and other appropriate forms required by federal authorities with respect to distributions for shareholders; 1.12. administer and perform all other customary services of a transfer agent, including, but not limited to, answering routine customer inquiries regarding shares; and 1.13. process all standing instruction orders (Automatic Investment Plans (“AIPs”) and Systematic Withdrawal Plan (“SWPs”)) including the debit of shareholder bank information for automatic purchases.

• Effects of the Merger The Merger shall have the effects set forth in the DGCL. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, and subject thereto, at the Effective Time, all the properties, rights, privileges, powers and franchises of the Company and Merger Sub shall vest in the Surviving Corporation, and all debts, liabilities and duties of the Company and Merger Sub shall become the debts, liabilities and duties of the Surviving Corporation.

• Mergers, Recapitalizations, Stock Splits, Etc Pursuant and subject to Section 12 of the Plan, certain changes in the number or character of the Common Stock of the Company (through sale, merger, consolidation, exchange, reorganization, divestiture (including a spin-off), liquidation, recapitalization, stock split, stock dividend or otherwise) shall result in an adjustment, reduction or enlargement, as appropriate, in Participant’s rights with respect to any unexercised portion of the Option (i.e., Participant shall have such “anti-dilution” rights under the Option with respect to such events, but shall not have “preemptive” rights).

• The Merger Closing Effective Time 1.1. The Merger 1 1.2. Closing 2 1.3. Effective Time 2

• The Mergers (a) Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement and in accordance with the DGCL, at the Effective Time, Parent Sub shall be merged with and into the Company. Following the First Company Merger, the separate corporate existence of Parent Sub shall cease, and the Company shall continue as the Surviving Corporation and a direct, wholly owned Subsidiary of Parent. Upon the terms and subject to the provisions of this Agreement, as soon as practicable on the Closing Date, the applicable parties hereto shall file a certificate of merger (the “First Certificate of Merger”) with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware (the “Delaware Secretary of State”), executed in accordance with the relevant provisions of the DGCL, to effect the First Company Merger. The First Company Merger shall become effective at such time on the Closing Date as the applicable parties hereto shall agree in writing and shall specify in the First Certificate of Merger (the time the First Company Merger becomes effective being the “Effective Time”). (b) Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement and in accordance with the DGCL and the DLLCA, at the Second Company Merger Effective Time, the Surviving Corporation shall be merged with and into LLC Sub. Following the Second Company Merger, the separate corporate existence of the Surviving Corporation shall cease, and LLC Sub shall be the Surviving Company and a direct, wholly owned Subsidiary of Parent. Upon the terms and subject to the provisions of this Agreement, as soon as practicable on the Closing Date, the applicable parties hereto shall file a certificate of merger (the “Second Certificate of Merger”) with the Delaware Secretary of State, executed in accordance with the relevant provisions of the DGCL and DLLCA, to effect the Second Company Merger. The Second Company Merger shall become effective one minute after the Effective Time (the time the Second Company Merger becomes effective being the “Second Company Merger Effective Time”), which the applicable parties hereto shall specify in the Second Certificate of Merger.

• Effect of the Merger on Capital Stock At the Effective Time, by virtue of the Merger and without any action on the part of Parent, Merger Sub, the Company, or any holder of any securities of Parent, Merger Sub or the Company:

• Mergers and Acquisitions The Loan Parties shall not, and shall ensure their Subsidiaries do not, liquidate or dissolve; or enter into any consolidation, merger or other combination in which the stockholders of the Loan Parties or their Subsidiaries (as the case may be) immediately prior to such transaction own less than 50% of the voting stock of such Loan Party or of such Subsidiary (as the case may be) immediately after giving effect to such transaction or related series of such transactions; or sell all, or substantially all, of the Loan Party’s or any of their Subsidiary’s assets in a single transaction or related series of transactions, except for the ITAC/IXI Merger pursuant to the Merger Agreement as in effect on the Closing Date, so long as (A)-(B) are met in the following sentence. Additionally, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Loan Parties or their Subsidiaries (as the case may be) may consolidate, merge or sell all or substantially all its assets so long as: (A) the entity that results from such merger or consolidation, or proposes to purchase all, or substantially all, of the Company’s or the Parent Guarantor’s assets (as applicable, the “Surviving Entity”), shall have executed and delivered to the Lenders an agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Lenders, containing an assumption by the Surviving Entity of the due and punctual payment and performance of all Obligations and performance and observance of each covenant and condition of the Company and the Parent Guarantor in the Loan Documents to which each is a party; (B) all such obligations of the Surviving Entity to the Lenders shall be guaranteed by any entity that directly or indirectly owns or controls more than 50% of the voting stock of the Surviving Entity; (C) immediately after giving effect to such merger, consolidation or sale of assets, no Event of Default or, event which with the lapse of time or giving of notice or both, would result in an Event of Default shall have occurred; and (D) the credit risk to the Lenders, as determined in its sole discretion, of the Surviving Entity shall not be increased. In determining whether the proposed merger, consolidation or sale of assets, would result in an increased credit risk, the Lenders may consider, among other things, changes in the Loan Parties’ (as the case may be) management team, employee base, access to equity markets, venture capital support, financial position and/or disposition of Intellectual Property Rights which may reasonably be anticipated as a result of the transaction. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 7.11: (a) changes in ownership resulting from additional bona fide private equity financings by financial investors shall be permitted so long as all rights and obligations thereunder are subordinated to the rights and Obligations owed to the Lenders; and (b) the Parent Guarantor, the Company and their Subsidiaries shall be permitted to create additional direct or indirect subsidiaries so long as the Parent Guarantor, the Company or their Subsidiaries, as applicable, promptly pledges to the Lenders its ownership interest in each such subsidiary to secure the timely payment and performance of the Obligations and such Subsidiary guarantees the Obligations under the Loan documents by executing a Guaranty Joinder.

• Insider Transactions There are no outstanding loans, advances (except normal advances for business expenses in the ordinary course of business) or guarantees of indebtedness by the Company or any of its subsidiaries to or for the benefit of any of the officers or directors of the Company, any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective family members, except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus. All transactions by the Company with office holders or control persons of the Company have been duly approved by the board of directors of the Company, or duly appointed committees or officers thereof, if and to the extent required under applicable law.

• Limitations of Liability of the Board and Shareholders of the Investment Company The execution and delivery of this Agreement have been authorized by the Board of the Investment Company and signed by an authorized officer of the Investment Company, acting as such, and neither such authorization by the Board nor such execution and delivery by such officer shall be deemed to have been made by any of them individually or to impose any liability on any of them personally, and the obligations of this Agreement are not binding upon any member of the Board or Shareholders of the Investment Company, but bind only the property of the Fund, or Class, as provided in the Declaration of Trust.