Common use of Required Votes Clause in Contracts

Required Votes. The affirmative vote of stockholders entitled to cast at least 80% of the votes entitled to be cast on the matter, each voting as a separate class, shall be necessary to effect: (i) Any amendment to the Charter to make the Common Stock a “redeemable security” or to convert the Corporation, whether by merger or otherwise, from a “closed-end company” to an “open-end company” (as such terms are defined in the 1940 Act); (ii) The liquidation or dissolution of the Corporation and any amendment to the Charter to effect any such liquidation or dissolution; and (iii) Any amendment to Section 5.1, Section 5.2, Section 5.6, Section 7.1 or this Section 7.2; provided, however, that, if the Continuing Directors (as defined herein), by a vote of at least two-thirds of such Continuing Directors, in addition to approval by the Board of Directors, approve such proposal or amendment, the affirmative vote of stockholders entitled to cast a majority of all the votes entitled to be cast shall be required to approve such matter.