Investments Make any Investments, except:
Investments and Subsidiaries The Borrower will not make or permit to exist any loans or advances to, or make any investment or acquire any interest whatsoever in, any other Person or Affiliate, including any partnership or joint venture, nor purchase or hold beneficially any stock or other securities or evidence of indebtedness of any other Person or Affiliate, except:
Directors, Trustees and Shareholders and Massachusetts Business Trust It is understood and is expressly stipulated that neither the holders of shares in the Fund nor any Directors or Trustees of the Fund shall be personally liable hereunder. With respect to any Fund which is a party to this Agreement and which is organized as a Massachusetts business trust (“Trust”), the term “Fund” means and refers to the trust established by its applicable trust agreement (Declaration of Trust) as the same may be amended from time to time. It is expressly agreed that the obligations of any such Trust hereunder shall not be binding upon any of the trustees, shareholders, nominees, officers, agents or employees of the Trust, personally, but bind only the trust property of the Trust, as provided in the Declaration of Trust of the Trust. The execution and delivery of this Agreement has been authorized by the trustees and signed by an authorized officer of the Trust, acting as such, and neither such authorization by such Trustees nor such execution and delivery by such officer shall be deemed to have been made by any of them, but shall bind only the trust property of the Trust as provided in its Declaration of Trust.
Holding Company and Investment Company Acts Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is a "holding company", or a "subsidiary company" of a "holding company", or an "affiliate" of a "holding company", as such terms are defined in the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935; nor is it an "investment company", or an "affiliated company" or a "principal underwriter" of an "investment company", as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940.
Nationwide Variable Insurance Trust and its Trustees The terms “Nationwide Variable Insurance Trust” and the “Trustees of Nationwide Variable Insurance Trust” refer respectively to the Trust created and the Trustees, as trustees but not individually or personally, acting from time to time under the Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust made and dated as of October 28, 2004, as has been or may be amended and/or restated from time to time, and to which reference is hereby made.
Subsidiaries and Equity Investments (a) Section 3.3 of the Company Disclosure Schedule sets forth (i) the name of each corporation that is a "Significant Subsidiary" (as such term is defined in Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") (such subsidiaries hereinafter referred to collectively as "Subsidiaries" and individually as a "Subsidiary", and collectively with the Company, the "Companies")), (ii) the name of each corporation, partnership, joint venture or other entity (other than the Subsidiaries) in which any of the Companies has, or pursuant to any agreement has the right or obligation to acquire at any time by any means, directly or indirectly, an equity interest or investment; (iii) in the case of each of such corporations described in clauses (i) and (ii) above, (A) the jurisdiction of incorporation, (B) the capitalization thereof and the percentage of each class of voting capital stock owned by any of the Companies, (C) a description of any contractual limitations on the holder's ability to vote or alienate such securities, (D) a description of any outstanding options or other rights to acquire securities of such corporation, and (E) a description of any other contractual charge or impediment which would materially limit or impair any of the Companies' ownership of such entity or interest or its ability effectively to exercise the full rights of ownership of such entity or interest; and (iv) in the case of each of such unincorporated entities, information substantially equivalent to that provided pursuant to clause (iii) above with regard to corporate entities.
Subsidiaries and Investments The Company does not own, directly or indirectly, any capital stock or other equity, ownership or proprietary interest in any corporation, partnership, association, trust, joint venture or other entity (each a "Company Subsidiary").
Affiliates and Subsidiaries Borrower's affiliates and subsidiaries (those entities in which Borrower has either a controlling interest or at least a 25% ownership interest) and their addresses, and the names of Borrower's principal shareholders, are as provided on a schedule delivered to Bank on or before the date of this Agreement.
The Investment Adviser The Investment Adviser shall provide the staff and personnel necessary to perform its obligations under this Agreement, shall assume and pay or cause to be paid all expenses incurred in connection with the maintenance of such staff and personnel, and, at its own expense, shall provide the office space, facilities, equipment and necessary personnel which it is obligated to provide under Article I hereof. The Investment Adviser shall pay, or cause affiliates to pay, compensation of all officers of the Fund and all Directors of the Fund who are affiliated persons of the Investment Adviser or any sub-adviser, or an affiliate of the Investment Adviser or any sub-adviser.
Other Investments Other than equity securities held in the ordinary course of business for cash management purposes, the Company does not own or hold the right to acquire any equity securities, ownership interests or voting interests (including voting debt) of, or securities exchangeable or exercisable therefor, or investments in, any other Person.
