Exhibit (l)(17)
PURCHASE AGREEMENT
The RBB Fund, Inc. (the "Fund"), a Maryland corporation, and Boston
Partners Asset Management, L.P. ("Boston Partners") intending to be legally
bound, hereby agree with each other as follows:
1. The Fund hereby offers Boston Partners and Boston Partners hereby
purchases $____ worth of shares of each of Classes VV and WW Common Stock of the
Boston Partners All-Cap Value Fund (par value $.001 per share) (such shares
hereinafter sometimes collectively known as "Shares") at price per Share of
$10.00.
2. The Fund hereby acknowledges receipt from Boston Partners of funds in
the amount of $_____ in full payment for the Shares.
3. Boston Partners represents and warrants to the Fund that the Shares are
being acquired for investment purposes and not with a view to the distribution
thereof.
4. This agreement may be executed in counterparts, and all such
counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same
instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of
the __ day of ______, 2002.
THE RBB FUND, INC.
By:_________________________________
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
President & Treasurer
BOSTON PARTNERS ASSET MANAGEMENT, L.P., by
BOSTON PARTNERS, INC., its General Partner
By:_________________________________
