DMR MORTGAGE OPPORTUNITY FUND LP AMENDED AND RESTATED LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT Dated as of May 15, 2008 DECLARATION MANAGEMENT & RESEARCH LLC General Partner
Exhibit
99.2(a)(ii)
INTERESTS
HAVE INITIALLY BEEN PRIVATELY OFFERED AND
CANNOT
BE TRANSFERRED WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE
GENERAL
PARTNER AND COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE
SECURITIES
LAW EXEMPTIONS.
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AMENDED
AND RESTATED
Dated
as of May 15, 2008
DECLARATION
MANAGEMENT & RESEARCH LLC
General
Partner
AMENDED
AND RESTATED
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Section
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ARTICLE
I ORGANIZATION
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1.1 Name; General Partner.
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Section
1.2 Purposes.
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Section
1.3 Principal Office; Registered Office; Registered Agent.
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Section
1.4 Term.
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Section
1.5 Limited Partners.
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Section
1.6 Definitions.
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Section
1.7 Rules of Interpretation.
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ARTICLE
II MANAGEMENT
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Section
2.1 Authority of the General Partner and the Directors.
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2.2 Powers Reserved by the General Partner.
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Section
2.3 Actions by the Board.
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2.4 Meetings of Partners.
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Section
2.5 Other Activities.
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Section
2.6 No Borrowings Permitted.
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Section
2.7 Declaration Parties’ Liabilities.
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Section
2.8 Declaration Parties’ Indemnification.
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Section
2.9 Limited Liability of Limited Partners.
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Section
2.10 Directors.
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Section
2.11 The Investment Advisory Agreement; Removal and Replacement of the
General Partner.
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ARTICLE
III CAPITAL COMMITMENTS; CAPITAL CALLS; CAPITAL
CONTRIBUTIONS
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Section
3.1 Admission of Limited Partners; Capital Commitments; Capital
Contributions.
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Section
3.2 Capital Commitments by Declaration.
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Section
3.3 Drawdown Procedures.
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Section
3.4 Permitted Purposes for Capital Calls.
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Section
3.5 Key Person Event.
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ARTICLE
IV CAPITAL ACCOUNTS; ALLOCATIONS
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Section
4.1 Capital Accounts.
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Section
4.2 Financial Allocations.
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Section
4.3 Determination of Net Asset Value.
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ARTICLE
V TAX ALLOCATIONS
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Section
5.1 Tax Allocations.
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Section
5.2 Consistent Tax Reporting.
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Section
5.3 “Tax Matters Partner”
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Section
5.4 Determinations by the General Partner Pursuant to Article
V.
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ARTICLE
VI DISTRIBUTIONS
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Section
6.1 Reinvestment.
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Section
6.2 Distributions.
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Section
6.3 Withholding and Income Taxes.
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Section
6.4 Form and Manner of Distributions.
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Section
6.5 Transfers.
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ARTICLE
VII DISSOLUTION
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Section
7.1 Post-Distribution Period; Dissolution.
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ARTICLE
VIII EXPENSES; MANAGEMENT FEE
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Section
8.1 Fund Expenses.
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Section
8.2 Management Fee.
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ARTICLE
IX BROKERAGE ARRANGEMENTS
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Section
9.1 Brokerage Arrangements.
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ARTICLE
X BOOKS OF ACCOUNT; REPORTS
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Section
10.1 Books of Account.
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Section
10.2 Reports.
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TABLE
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(Cont.)
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ARTICLE
XI MISCELLANEOUS
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Section
11.1 Binding Effect.
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Section
11.2 Notices.
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Section
11.3 Counterparts; Facsimiles; Power of Attorney.
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Section
11.4 Entire Agreement.
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Section
11.5 Amendment.
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Section
11.6 No Partition.
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Section
11.7 Power of Attorney.
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Section
11.8 Voluntary Limitation on a Limited Partner’s Voting
Rights.
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Section
11.9 Governing Law; Venue.
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Section
11.10 “Declaration” Name and Declaration Intellectual
Property.
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Section
11.11 Severability.
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11.12 Survival.
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Section
11.13 Equitable Relief.
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Section
11.14 Compliance with the Advisers Act and the 1940 Act.
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11.15 No Waiver of Federal or State Securities Law Claims.
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11.16 Exclusions.
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AMENDED
AND RESTATED
of
(the
“Fund”)
This
Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement (this “Agreement”) dated as
of May 15, 2008 supersedes the Limited Partnership Agreement of the Fund dated
as of April 10, 2008, which shall be of no further force or effect, and provides
for the governance of the Fund as follows:
ARTICLE
I
ORGANIZATION
Section
1.1 Name; General
Partner.
The Fund
shall do business under the name of “DMR Mortgage Opportunity Fund
LP.” Declaration Management & Research LLC (“Declaration”) shall
act as the general partner of the Fund (in such capacity, the “General Partner”);
provided that the board of directors of the Fund (the “Board”) has overall
responsibility to oversee the business operations of the Fund on behalf of the
limited partners (the “Limited
Partners”).
Section
1.2 Purposes.
(a) The
Fund shall register as a closed-end, non-diversified management investment
company (a “CNMIC”) under the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940
Act”). Under the direction of Declaration, acting in its
capacity as investment adviser to the Fund pursuant to the Investment Advisory
Agreement (in such capacity, the “Investment Adviser”)
and subject to the supervision of the Directors, the Fund may engage, directly
and indirectly, in all aspects of investing and trading as permissible for a
CNMIC. The Fund’s investment objective is to provide investors with
attractive returns through long biased opportunistic investing in stressed,
distressed and other undervalued mortgage-backed securities and related
fixed-income assets. Within the scope of this purpose and
the applicable CNMIC restrictions, there is no limitation imposed by this
Agreement on the markets or instruments in which the Fund may trade, the market
sectors of the issuers of securities in which the Fund may invest or trade or
the investment or trading strategies that the Fund may apply.
(b) The
Fund shall operate as a CNMIC in accordance with the 1940 Act and subject to the
fundamental policies and investment restrictions described in the Fund’s Form
N-2, as filed with the SEC and as set forth in the Investment
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Advisory
Agreement, as may be amended from time to time (the “Investment
Guidelines”).
(c) Subject
to Sections 1.2(a)
and (b), the Fund
may trade and invest in all manner of Investment Assets to the fullest extent
permitted for a CNMIC.
(d) The
Fund may not incur any indebtedness for borrowed money.
(e) The
Fund may designate from time to time persons to act as signatories for the Fund,
including persons authorized to execute and deliver any filings with the SEC or
applicable federal or state regulatory authorities or self-regulatory
organizations.
(f) The
Administrator/Custodian shall serve as the Fund’s administrator and
custodian. The Administrator/Custodian shall clear and settle all
securities transactions for the Fund and shall also serve as the custodian of
the Fund’s assets, assist the Fund in its day-to-day administration and act as
the Fund’s registrar and transfer agent.
Section
1.3 Principal Office; Registered
Office; Registered Agent.
The
principal office of the Fund shall be at 0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx 000,
XxXxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000. The registered office of the Fund shall be at
such location, and its registered agent for service of process shall be such
entity, as is set forth in the Certificate of Formation. Such
principal office and/or registered agent may be changed by the General Partner
subject to the approval of the Board and notice to all Limited
Partners.
Section
1.4 Term.
The term
of the Fund shall continue until the Fund is dissolved and wound up as provided
in Section
7.1.
Section
1.5 Limited
Partners.
(a) The
Limited Partners, in their capacity as such, shall have only the powers
specifically enumerated in this Agreement and shall not have any control over
the business or operations of the Fund, any power to bind the Fund or any right
to remove or replace the General Partner.
(b) The
General Partner has delegated authority over the management and operations of
the Fund to the Board, as set forth herein.
(c) A
Partner may be simultaneously a General Partner and a Limited Partner, in which
event the Partner’s rights and obligations in each capacity will
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be
determined separately in accordance with the terms and provisions of this
Agreement and as provided in the Act.
Section
1.6 Definitions.
For the
purposes of this Agreement, the following terms — and, as appropriate,
derivatives of such terms — shall have the meanings set forth below, unless
the context otherwise requires:
“Act” shall mean the
Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act.
“Administrator/Custodian”
shall mean LaSalle Bank National Association or such other Person chosen from
time to time by the General Partner, subject to the approval of the Board, as
the administrator and custodian of the Fund.
“Advisers Act” shall
mean the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
“Affiliate” of a
Person shall mean a Person controlling, controlled by or under common control
with, that Person, either directly or indirectly through one or more
intermediaries.
“Available Capital
Commitment” shall mean a Limited Partner’s Capital Commitment less all Capital
Contributions made by such Limited Partner.
“Available Capital”
shall mean cash held by the Fund in excess of any Reserves.
“Bankruptcy” shall
mean, with respect to any Person, an adjudication that such Person is bankrupt
or insolvent, such Person’s admission of such Person’s inability to pay such
Person’s debts as they mature, its making a general assignment for the benefit
of creditors, its filing a petition in bankruptcy or a petition for relief under
any section of the United States Bankruptcy Code or any other bankruptcy or
insolvency Law, or the filing against such Person of any such petition which is
not discharged within 60 days after such filing.
“Board” means the
board of the directors of the Fund who have been delegated the authority over
the Fund’s management and operations as set forth in this
Agreement.
“Business Day” shall
mean any day other than a day on which commercial banks in New York City are
authorized or required to be closed.
“Capital Account”
shall mean, with respect to each Partner, the capital account established and
maintained on the books of the Fund in accordance with this
Agreement.
“Capital Call” shall
mean a notice given by the General Partner to each Limited Partner to make a
Capital Contribution pursuant to such Limited Partner’s Capital
Commitment. Capital Calls must be made at least ten Business Days
prior to the due date for the applicable Capital Contribution.
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“Capital Commitment”
shall mean the amount of Capital Contributions which each Limited Partner
agrees, in such Limited Partner’s Subscription and Capital Commitment Agreement,
to make to the Fund.
“Capital Contribution”
shall mean, with respect to each Limited Partner, the cash contributed to the
Fund in response to Capital Calls by such Limited Partner as set forth in the
books and records of the Fund.
“Capital
Termination.” See Section 3.5.
“Carried Interest” See
Section
6.2.
“Chairman” means the
chairman of the Board, as elected from time to time by action of the
Board.
“Closing Dates” shall
mean May 15, 2008 and a date in June or July 2008 to be determined by the
General Partner.
“CNMIC” See Section 1.2(a).
“Code” shall mean the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
“Declaration” See
Section
1.1.
“Declaration Client”
shall mean each Person (including Affiliates of Declaration) whose investments
or trading activities are directed by Declaration. Limited Partners
shall not be deemed to be Declaration Clients solely by virtue of owning an
Interest.
“Declaration Party”
shall mean (a) Declaration, (b) any Affiliate of Declaration, and (c) any owner,
director, officer, portfolio manager, employee or any Person acting in a similar
capacity of any of the foregoing. For the avoidance of doubt, no
Declaration Client or Limited Partner shall, solely in its capacity as such, be
deemed to be a Declaration Party.
“Director”;
“Directors” means a director of the Fund that was appointed in accordance
with this Agreement (and includes Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Xx. as the initial
Director); references to the Directors shall, as appropriate, refer to the Board
acting in such capacity. At least a majority of the Directors must be
Independent Directors.
“Distribution” means a
distribution made by the Fund in accordance with the provisions of this
Agreement. Distributions may be made by the General Partner, subject
to the ultimate authority of the Board, at any time and from time to time after
the Reinvestment Period.
“Distribution Date”
means the scheduled date that the General Partner, subject to the ultimate
authority of the Board, determines that any Distribution is to be made by the
Fund.
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“Distribution Period”
shall mean the period from the end of the Reinvestment Period through May 15,
2013, subject to extension at the option of the General Partner under the
supervision of the Board, through May 15, 2014.
“Distribution
Proceeds” means the amount due to a Limited Partner in respect of a
Distribution.
“Draw Period” shall
mean the period from the first Closing Date through the earlier of (a) the date
that all Capital Commitments have been drawn down and (b) May 15, 2009, except
as otherwise provided in Section 3.5(e).
“Drawdown” shall mean
making a Capital Contribution pursuant to a Capital Call.
“Drawdown Date” shall
mean the due date for a Capital Contribution.
“Eligible Investor”
shall mean: (A) a Person (1) that meets the qualifications specified in the
Subscription and Capital Commitment Agreement, including that such Person be an
institutional “accredited investor” as defined in Regulation D under the
Securities Act and a “qualified client” as defined in Rule 205-3 under the
Advisers Act and (2) the ownership of an Interest by which will not have an
adverse effect on the Fund or other Limited Partners, including the occurrence
of an Impermissible Event; and (B) any other Person as determined by the General
Partner; provided that no Person which has not executed and delivered a
Subscription and Capital Commitment Agreement accepted by the Fund shall be
considered an Eligible Investor whether or not otherwise so qualified, unless
the General Partner otherwise determines with the approval of the
Board.
“ERISA” shall mean the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
“Exchange Act” shall
mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
“Expenses” shall mean
the expenses of operating the Fund.
“Finally Determined”
shall mean found by a court or arbitral tribunal of competent jurisdiction upon
entry of a final, non-appealable judgment.
“Fiscal Year” shall
mean the calendar year, unless the Board elects a different Fiscal
Year.
“Form N-2” means the
Fund’s Registration Statement on Form N-2 filed with the SEC, as may be amended
from time to time.
“Fund” shall mean DMR
Mortgage Opportunity Fund LP, the Delaware limited partnership whose governance
is provided for by this Agreement.
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“Fund Percentage”
shall mean, with respect to each Limited Partner and each Valuation Date, the
fraction the numerator of which is the Net Asset Value of such Limited Partner’s
Capital Account as of such Valuation Date and the denominator of which is the
Net Asset Value of the Fund as of such Valuation Date, in each case determined
without reduction for any Carried Interest not yet allocated. The sum
of all Fund Percentages determined as of any Valuation Date shall equal
100%. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for voting purposes, a Limited
Partner may waive its right to vote all or part of its Fund Percentage as set
forth in Section
11.8.
“GAAP” shall mean
generally accepted accounting standards as in effect in the United
States.
“General
Partner” See Section 1.1.
“Hard Hurdle Return”
shall mean an 8% annualized return on all Capital Contributions from the date
each such Capital Contribution is made through each Distribution Date,
compounded semi-annually.
“IAA End
Date” See Section 2.11(c).
“Impermissible Event”
shall mean any event which would cause: (A) the Fund not to qualify
for an exemption from regulation under the Commodity Exchange Act (if the Fund
is then relying on such exemption); (B) a violation under any Law or any
contractual provision to which the Fund or any of its property is subject; or
(C) a Limited Partner to breach any of such Limited Partner’s representations,
warranties or covenants set forth in this Agreement or in such Limited Partner’s
Subscription and Capital Commitment Agreement.
“Independent Director”
means a Director who is not an “interested person” within the meaning of Section
2(a)(19) of the 1940 Act.
“Interest” shall mean,
with respect to any Limited Partner, the interest in the Fund owned by that
Limited Partner, including all rights and obligations provided under this
Agreement and, to the extent not superseded by this Agreement, under the
Act.
“Investment
Adviser.” See Section 1.2(a).
“Investment Advisory
Agreement” shall mean the investment advisory agreement between the
Investment Adviser and the Fund.
“Investment Assets”
means all assets, instruments, contracts, rights, undertakings and other
property which may be acquired, traded, held, borrowed, lent, invested in or
sold (including short sales), including securities, loans, loan participations,
futures contracts, puts and calls, swaps and other derivatives; provided that
the Investment Assets in which the Fund trades or invests shall be consistent
with the Investment Guidelines.
“Investment
Guidelines.” See Section 1.2.
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“Key Person Event”
shall mean the occurrence of (a) Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx, and (b) any two of Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxxx, Xx., Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx and Bond Xxxxxxx, becoming
permanently unavailable to manage the Fund’s portfolio by reason of their death,
disability or cessation of employment by Declaration. For this
purpose, “disability” means the physical or mental inability of a person to
discharge his or her obligations to Declaration, whether in its capacity as
General Partner or as Investment Adviser to the Fund, for 90 consecutive
calendar days (calendar days to be considered consecutive unless separated by at
least 10 Business Days during which such person did discharge his or her
obligations to Declaration with respect to the Fund).
“Law” shall mean any
law, regulation (proposed, temporary or final), administrative rule or
procedure, self-regulatory organization rule or interpretation, or exchange rule
or procedure binding upon, or which the Directors reasonably determine may be
binding upon (in each case, as applicable in light of the context), any Limited
Partner, the Fund, any Declaration Party or any Affiliate of any of the
foregoing or to which any of their property is subject.
“LIBOR” means the
London Inter-Bank offered rate for U.S. dollars, as determined by an
internationally recognized financial service chosen by Declaration from time to
time.
“Limited Partner”
shall mean a limited partner of the Fund.
“Liquidator” See Section 7.1(c).
“Management Fee” shall
mean the management fee payable by the Fund to the Investment Adviser pursuant
to the Investment Advisory Agreement.
“Net Asset
Value” See Section 4.3.
“Net Asset Value Carried
Interest.” See Section 2.11(c).
“1940 Act” shall mean
the Investment Company Act of 1940.
“Partners” shall mean
the General Partner and the Limited Partners.
“Person” shall mean
any individual, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture,
corporation, trust, unincorporated organization, government (or any agency or
political subdivision thereof) or other entity, whether or not having legal
personality.
“Private Placement
Memorandum” shall mean the Fund’s Confidential Private Placement
Memorandum pursuant to which Interests are offered to Eligible Investors, as may
be supplemented from time to time.
“Public Offering”
shall mean the public offering of up to $50 million of Interests, which the
General Partner and the Board currently intend to cause the Fund to make on or
around the end of the Draw Period, unless at such time the Board determines that
adequate investment opportunities for the Fund are no longer
available. The Public Offering will be made with the
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subscribers
in such Public Offering acquiring Interests (which may be unitized for such
purposes) in accordance with the Fund’s Net Asset Value (plus any applicable
sales charge).
“Reinvestment Period”
shall mean the period from the first Closing Date through the earlier of: (a)
the date, if any, on which the General Partner determines that adequate
investment opportunities for the Fund are no longer available and (b) May 15,
2010, except as otherwise provided in Section 3.5(d), (e) or (f).
“Reserves” shall mean
reserves (funded or unfunded) established by the General Partner (subject to the
ultimate authority of the Board) to reflect contingent, uncertain, established
or other potential liabilities and/or for any other reason. For the
avoidance of doubt, any amounts paid out to a Limited Partner shall in all cases
be reduced by any Reserves allocable to such Limited Partner.
“SEC” means the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Securities Act” shall
mean the Securities Act of 1933.
“Subscription and Capital
Commitment Agreement” shall mean a written agreement or instrument in
form and substance acceptable to the Directors, whereby each Limited Partner
subscribes for or otherwise acquires an Interest and agrees to a Capital
Commitment.
“Tax Items” shall mean
items of income, gain, loss, deduction and credit determined for income tax
reporting purposes.
“Transfer,” “Transferee,” “Transferor” shall
mean any transfer or assignment of an Interest (or the Person making or
receiving such transfer or assignment, as the case may be), including any
dealing of whatsoever nature affecting the legal and/or beneficial interest
(whether vested or contingent) in any Interest including sales, donative
transactions, testamentary transactions, granting a charge, pledge or other
security or permitting the same to arise on or over any Interest.
“Treasury Regulations”
shall mean the regulations (final, proposed and/or temporary) of the Department
of the Treasury and/or Internal Revenue Service promulgated under or in respect
of the Code.
“Valuation Date” shall
mean (a) such date as the General Partner may determine, generally at least
quarterly as of the last Business Day of each quarter, for reporting purposes;
and (b) the date of any Capital Contribution.
Section
1.7 Rules
of Interpretation.
(a) References
to sections shall be to sections of this Agreement unless otherwise
specified.
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(b) “May”
shall be construed as permissive.
(c) A
“month” or a “quarter” means a calendar month or quarter (as the case may
be).
(d) A
“notice” means written notice unless otherwise stated.
(e) “Shall”
shall be construed as imperative.
(f) The
masculine includes the feminine and neuter respectively.
(g) Writing
includes typewriting, printing, lithography, photography and other modes of
representing or reproducing words in a legible and non-transitory
form.
(h) Any
reference to a Law, agreement or a document shall be deemed also to refer to any
amendment, supplement or replacement thereof.
(i) Whenever
this Agreement refers to a number of days, such number shall refer to calendar
days unless such reference specifies Business Days.
(j) The
term “and/or” is used herein to mean both “and” as well as “or.” The
use of “and/or” in certain contexts in no respects qualifies or modifies the use
of the terms “and” or “or” in others. “Or” shall not be interpreted
to be exclusive, and “and” shall not be interpreted to require the conjunctive —
in each case, unless the context otherwise requires.
(k) Article
and section headings herein have been inserted for convenience of reference
only, are not a part of this Agreement and shall not be used in construing this
Agreement.
(l) The
terms “include” and “including” and words of similar import are to be construed
as non-exclusive (so that, by way of example and for the avoidance of doubt,
“including” shall mean “including without limitation”).
(m) Unless
the context of this Agreement otherwise requires (i) words using singular or
plural number also include the plural or singular number, respectively, (ii) the
terms “hereof,” herein,” “hereby” and derivative or similar words refer to the
entire Agreement, (iii) the masculine gender shall include the feminine and
neuter, (iv) any reference to a Law, agreement or a document shall be deemed to
also refer to any amendment, supplement or replacement thereof, and (v) whenever
this Agreement refers to a number of days, such number shall refer to calendar
days unless such reference specifies Business Days.
(n) Terms
defined in this Agreement by reference to any other agreement, document or
instrument shall have the meanings assigned to them in such
agreement,
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document
or instrument whether or not such agreement, document or instrument is then in
effect.
(o) No
provision of this Agreement shall be construed in favor of or against any Person
by reason of the extent to which any such Person, its Affiliates or their
respective employees or counsel participated in the drafting
thereof.
ARTICLE
II
MANAGEMENT
Section
2.1 Authority of the General
Partner and the Directors.
(a) Under
the Act, the General Partner shall have full and complete charge of all affairs
of the Fund. The management and control of the Fund’s business and
operations shall rest exclusively with the General Partner to the extent not
delegated to the Directors.
(b) The
General Partner delegates to the Directors those rights and powers of the
General Partner necessary for the Directors to manage and control the business
affairs of the Fund and to carry out their oversight obligations with respect to
the Fund required under the 1940 Act, state law, and any other applicable laws
or regulations. The Directors are hereby granted the right, power and
authority to do, on behalf of the Fund, all things which in their sole judgment
are necessary or appropriate to manage the Fund’s affairs and fulfill the
purposes of the Fund. Rights and powers delegated to the Directors
include the authority as Directors to oversee and to establish policies
regarding the management, conduct and operation of the Fund’s business, and to
do all things necessary and proper as Directors to carry out the objective and
business of the Fund, including the power to engage an investment adviser to
provide advice and management and to remove such an investment adviser, as well
as to exercise any other rights and powers expressly given to the Directors
under this Agreement. The Partners intend that, to the fullest extent permitted
by law, and except to the extent otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement,
(1) each Director is vested with the same powers and authority on behalf of the
Fund as are customarily vested in each director of a Delaware corporation and
(2) each Independent Director is vested with the same powers and authority on
behalf of the Fund as are customarily vested in each director who is not an
“interested person” (as that term is defined in Section 2(a)(19) the 0000 Xxx)
of a CNMIC registered under the 1940 Act. During any period in which
the Fund has no Directors, the General Partner shall manage and control the
Fund. Each Director will be the agent of the Fund but will not, for any purpose,
be a general partner of the Fund. Notwithstanding the delegation
described in this Section
2.1(b), the General Partner will not cease to be the Fund’s general
partner and will continue to be liable as such and in no event will a Director
be considered a general partner of the Fund by agreement, estoppel or otherwise
as a result of the performance of his or her duties under this Agreement or
otherwise.
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The
General Partner retains those rights, powers and duties that have not been
delegated under this Agreement. Any Director may be admitted to the Fund in
accordance with Section
2.10 of this Agreement and make Capital Commitments and own an Interest,
in which case the Director will also become a Limited Partner.
Section
2.2 Powers
Reserved by the General Partner.
Notwithstanding
anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the General Partner retains all
rights, duties and powers to manage the affairs of the Fund that may not be
delegated under Delaware law, and that are not otherwise delegated by the
General Partner to the Directors or assumed by any investment adviser engaged
pursuant to Section
2.1(b) of this Agreement or any other Person under the terms of any
agreement between the Fund and such investment adviser or any other Person.
Specifically, and without limitation, the General Partner will retain full power
and authority on behalf of and in the name of the Fund:
(i) to
call and conduct meetings of Partners at the Fund’s principal office or
elsewhere as it may determine, and to assist the Directors in calling and
conducting meetings of the Directors;
(ii) to
admit Limited Partners;
(iii) as
directed by the Directors, to commence, defend and conclude any action, suit,
investigation or other proceeding that pertains to the Fund or any assets of the
Fund; and
(iv) to
execute, amend, supplement, acknowledge and deliver any and all contracts,
agreements or other instructions necessary for the performance of the General
Partner’s functions;
(v) as
directed by the Directors, to arrange for the purchase of any insurance covering
the potential liabilities of the Fund or relating to the performance of the
Directors and any investment adviser engaged pursuant to Section 2.1(a) of this
Agreement or any of their principals, partners, directors, officers, members,
employees and agents.
Section
2.3 Actions
by the Board.
(a) Unless
provided otherwise in this Agreement, the Board shall act only: (1) by the
affirmative vote of a majority of the Directors (which majority will include any
requisite number of Independent Directors required by the 0000 Xxx) present at a
meeting duly called at which a quorum of the Directors is present either in
person or, to the extent consistent with the provisions of the 1940 Act, by
conference telephone or other communications equipment by means of which all
Persons participating in the meeting can hear each other; or (2) by unanimous
written consent of all of the Directors without a
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meeting,
if permissible under the 1940 Act. A majority of the Directors then in office
will constitute a quorum at any meeting of Directors.
(b) Meetings
of the Directors may be called by the General Partner, the Chairman or any two
Directors, and may be held on any date and at any time and place determined by
the Directors. Each Director will be entitled to receive written notice of the
date, time and place of a meeting within a reasonable time in advance of the
meeting. Notice need not be given to any Director who attends a
meeting without objecting to the lack of notice or who executes a written waiver
of notice with respect to the meeting.
(c) The
Directors may appoint from time to time agents and employees of the Fund who
will have the same powers and duties on behalf of the Fund as are customarily
vested in officers of a corporation incorporated under Delaware law, or such
other powers and duties as may be designated by the Directors, in their sole
discretion, and designate them as officers or agents of the Fund by resolution
of the Directors specifying their titles or functions.
Section
2.4 Meetings of
Partners.
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(a)
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(i)
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Actions
requiring the vote of the Partners may be taken at any duly constituted
meeting of the Partners at which a quorum is present or by means of a
written consent. Meetings of the Partners may be called by the General
Partner, by action of the Directors or by Partners holding at least a
majority of the total number of votes eligible to be cast by all Partners
(or, with respect to any such meeting called to consider the termination
or continuance of the Investment Advisory Agreement, at least 10% of such
vote as determined in accordance with Section 2.11(b)), and
may be held at any time, date and place determined by the General Partner
in the case of meetings called by the General Partner or the Partners and
at any time, date and place determined by the Directors in the case of
meetings called by the Directors. In each case, the General Partner shall
provide notice of the meeting, stating the date, time and place of the
meeting and the record date for the meeting, to each Partner entitled to
vote at the meeting within a reasonable time prior to the meeting. Failure
to receive notice of a meeting on the part of any Partner shall not affect
the validity of any act or proceeding of the meeting, so long as a quorum
is present at the meeting. Except as otherwise required by applicable law,
only matters set out in the notice of a meeting may be voted on by the
Partners at the meeting. The presence in person or by proxy of Partners
holding at least a majority of the total number of votes eligible to be
cast by all Partners (or, with respect to any such meeting called to
consider the termination or continuance of
the.
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Investment
Advisory Agreement, at least a majority of the total number of votes
eligible to be cast by all Partners as determined in accordance with Section 2.11(b)) as of
the record date shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of Partners. In
the absence of a quorum, a meeting may be adjourned to the time or times
as determined by the General Partner and communicated to the Directors and
the Limited Partners in the manner described above in this Section 2.4(a). Except
as otherwise required by any provision of this Agreement or of the 1940
Act, (1) those candidates receiving a plurality of the votes cast at any
meeting of Partners called pursuant to Section 2.10(c) of this
Agreement or elected pursuant to the requirement of Section 2.10(b) will be
elected as Directors and (2) all other actions of the Partners taken at a
meeting will require the affirmative vote of Partners holding at least a
majority of the total number of votes eligible to be cast by all Partners
(or, with respect to any such meeting called to consider the termination
or continuance of the Investment Advisory Agreement, at least a majority
of the total number of votes eligible to be cast by all Partners as
determined in accordance with Section
2.11(b)).
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(ii)
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The
General Partner shall provide, within a reasonable period of time, to any
Limited Partner that so requests such information as is reasonably
necessary for such Limited Partner to contact other Limited Partners for
purposes of initiating a meeting of Partners to consider the termination
or continuance of the Investment Advisory Agreement pursuant to Section
2.4(a)(ii). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained herein, the General Partner shall not unreasonably limit or
restrict, or otherwise in any respect attempt to hinder or interfere with,
a Limited Partner’s rights to vote with respect the termination or
continuance of the Investment Advisory
Agreement.
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(b) Subject
to Sections 2.11 and
11.8, each Partner shall
be entitled to cast at any meeting of Partners or pursuant to written consent a
number of votes equivalent to the Partner’s Fund Percentage as of the record
date for the meeting or the date of the written consent. The General Partner
shall establish a record date not less than 10 nor more than 60 days prior to
the date of any meeting of Partners or mailing (including by electronic
transmission) to the Partners of any written consent, to determine eligibility
to vote at the meeting and the number of votes that each Partner shall be
entitled to cast at the meeting, and shall maintain for each record date a list
setting out the name of each Partner and the number of votes that each Partner
shall be entitled to cast at the meeting.
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(c) A
Partner may vote at any meeting of Partners by a properly executed proxy
transmitted to the Fund at any time at or before the time of the meeting by
telegram, telecopier or other means of electronic communication or other
readable reproduction as contemplated by the provisions relating to proxies
applicable to corporations incorporated under the laws of Delaware now or in the
future in effect. A proxy may be suspended or revoked, as the case may be, by
the Partner executing the proxy by a later writing delivered to the Fund at any
time prior to exercise of the proxy or if the Partner executing the proxy is
present at the meeting and votes in person. Any action of the Partners that is
permitted to be taken at a meeting of the Partners may be taken without a
meeting if consents in writing, setting out the action to be taken, are signed
by Partners holding a majority of the total number of votes eligible to be cast
or any other percentage as may be required under this Agreement to approve the
action. Any solicitation of any proxy from a Partner shall be done in
accordance with the 1940 Act and the Exchange Act.
Section
2.5 Other
Activities.
(a) Without
in any respect limiting the effect of Section 3.5, none of the
General Partner, any Declaration Party or any Director shall be required to
devote full time to the affairs of the Fund, but each shall devote such time as
each believes may reasonably be required to perform such Person’s obligations
under this Agreement and under the 1940 Act.
(b) In
addition to serving as General Partner and Investment Adviser, Declaration may
also manage certain institutional managed accounts or parallel investment
vehicles which will trade pari
passu with the Fund.
(c) Declaration
Parties may have investments of their own, and a Declaration Party may be acting
as an operator, administrator, trading advisor or investment manager for others.
The Declaration Parties may be or become associated with other investment
entities and act as a general partner to, and engage in investment advisement
for others. Except to the extent necessary to perform the General
Partner’s obligations hereunder, nothing herein shall be deemed to limit or
restrict the right of any Declaration Party to engage in, or to devote time and
attention to the management of any other business, whether of a similar or
dissimilar nature, or to render services of any kind to any other
Person. For the avoidance of doubt, Declaration Parties may engage in
all activities and transactions contemplated by or described in the Private
Placement Memorandum.
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(i)
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The
Declaration Parties (i) may engage in or possess an interest, direct or
indirect, in any business venture of any nature or description (including
other investment funds) for their own respective accounts, independently
or with others, including any business, industry or activity in which the
Fund may be interested in investing or may also have investments, and (ii)
may do so.
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without
any obligation to report the same to the Fund or to afford the Fund any
opportunity to participate therein. The Fund shall not have any
rights in or to any such independent venture or investment in any of the
revenues or profits derived therefrom.
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(ii)
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Among
Declaration Clients, including the Fund, Declaration as the Investment
Adviser shall allocate assets to each Declaration Client account in light
of its investment objectives and guidelines, cash position and other
factors. It is Declaration’s policy (i) to allocate investment
opportunities to the extent practicable to the accounts of Declaration
Clients over time in a manner that Declaration believes is fair and
equitable and (ii) not to intentionally favor or disfavor any Declaration
Client.
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(e) To
the extent that at law or in equity the Directors or any Declaration Party have
duties (including fiduciary duties) and liabilities relating to the Fund or to
any other Partner or other Person bound by this Agreement, any such Person
acting under this Agreement shall not be liable to the Fund or to any other
Partner or other Person bound by this Agreement for the good faith reliance of
the foregoing on the provisions of this Agreement. The provisions of this
Agreement, to the extent that they restrict the duties and liabilities of the
General Partner or the Directors otherwise existing at law or in equity, are
agreed by the Partners to replace the other duties and liabilities of the
General Partner or the Directors.
(f) From
time to time, a Declaration Client may invest in, or withdraw an investment
from, an investment in which the Fund is invested, is withdrawing its investment
from, or is not invested. In addition, a Declaration Party may
recommend that the Fund purchase or sell an investment that is being sold or
purchased by another Declaration Client or otherwise give advice or take action
with regard to other Declaration Clients that differs from the advice given with
respect, or action taken with regard, to the Fund.
(g) Each
Limited Partner specifically agrees and consents to the conflicts of interest to
which the Declaration Parties may be subject in operating the Fund (as described
in the Private Placement Memorandum). Each Limited Partner covenants,
to the fullest extent permitted by law (including the 1940 Act and the Advisers
Act), not to object to or bring any proceedings against any of the foregoing
relating to any such conflicts of interest, provided that the relevant
Declaration Parties comply with the standard of liability set forth in Section 2.7 of this Agreement;
and provided further that nothing herein shall be construed as waiving any of
the Limited Partner’s rights under any federal or state securities
law
Section
2.6 No
Borrowings Permitted.
The Fund
will not borrow money for any purpose.
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Section
2.7 Declaration Parties’
Liabilities.
(a) No
Declaration Party or Director shall be personally liable for the return or
payment of all or any portion of the capital of or profits allocable to any
Limited Partner, it being expressly agreed that any return of capital or payment
of profits made pursuant to this Agreement shall be made solely from the assets
of the Fund (which shall not include any right of contribution from any
Declaration Party).
(b) No
Declaration Party or Director shall have any liability to the Fund, any Limited
Partner or any former Limited Partner for: (i) any act performed, or the
omission to perform any act, within the scope of the power and authority
conferred on the General Partner by this Agreement and/or by the Act, except by
reason of acts or omissions of a Declaration Party Finally Determined to
constitute fraud, willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless
disregard; (ii) the termination of the Fund and this Agreement pursuant to the
terms hereof; (iii) the performance by a Declaration Party of, or the omission
by a Declaration Party to perform, any act which such Declaration Party
reasonably believed to be consistent with the advice of attorneys, accountants
or other professional advisers to the Fund or to such Declaration Party with
respect to matters relating to the Fund; (iv) the conduct of any Person selected
or engaged and monitored by such Declaration Party with due care; (v) any tax
imposed on the Fund or the Limited Partners in any jurisdiction, or any costs
incurred in respect of a tax audit or similar procedure; or (vi) any tax
position taken by the General Partner in good faith and which was not clearly
contrary to Law when taken.
(c) No
Independent Director shall have any liability to the Fund, the General Partner,
any Limited Partner or any former Limited Partner for conduct Finally Determined
to have constituted a violation of Law, provided that such Independent Director
reasonably believed such conduct to be lawful and in the interest of the Fund at
the time of such conduct.
(d) No
Director who has been designated an “audit committee financial expert” (for
purposes of Section 407 of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 or any successor
provision thereto, and any rules issued thereunder by the SEC) in the Fund’s
Form N-2 or other reports required to be filed with the SEC shall be subject to
any greater duty of care in discharging such Director’s duties and
responsibilities by virtue of such designation than is any Director who has not
been so designated.
Section
2.8 Declaration Parties’
Indemnification.
(a) The
Fund shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless each Declaration Party, the
Directors and, as the General Partner may determine, the agents, advisors, and
consultants of the Fund (each also an “Indemnified Party”),
from and against any loss, cost, expense, liability, fees (including attorneys’
fees and expenses), and damages suffered or sustained by such Indemnified Party
by reason of any acts or omissions, or alleged acts or omissions, arising out of
the activities of an Indemnified Party, reasonably
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believed
by such Indemnified Party to be on behalf of the Fund or in furtherance of the
interests of the Fund, provided that those acts or omissions are not Finally
Determined to constitute conduct for which such Indemnified Party would be
subject to liability under the standard of liability set forth in Section 2.7.
(b) An
Indemnified Party shall be entitled to receive advances from the Fund to cover
the cost of defending any claim or action against such Indemnified Party;
provided, that such Indemnified Party enters into a written agreement that all
such advances shall be repaid to the Fund (without interest) if it is Finally
Determined that such Indemnified Party is not entitled to indemnity under Section 2.8(a) and
otherwise complies with the requirements of the 1940 Act.
(c) The
rights of an Indemnified Party to indemnification shall survive the dissolution
of the Fund and the death, withdrawal, declaration of legal incapacity,
dissolution or Bankruptcy of such Indemnified Party.
Section
2.9 Limited
Liability of Limited Partners.
(a) No
Limited Partner (including Declaration) shall be personally liable for or
subject to any liability or obligation whatsoever of the
Fund. Irrespective of whether one or more Limited Partners may have
deficit Capital Accounts, no Limited Partner(s) shall have any obligation to
make any Capital Contribution with respect to such deficit(s), and no such
deficit(s) shall be considered a debt owed by any such Limited Partner(s) to the
Fund or to any other Limited Partner(s) for any purpose whatsoever.
(b) In
no event shall any person other than the General Partner be authorized to make
any Capital Calls, and the Capital Commitments shall not be considered to
constitute an asset of the Fund.
Section
2.10 Directors.
(a) The
number of Directors at the date of this Agreement is fixed at not more than
seven Directors and no fewer than two. After the Closing Date, the
number of Directors shall be fixed from time to time by the Directors then in
office, which number may be greater, or lesser, than seven, but no fewer than
the minimum number of directors permitted to corporations organized under the
laws of the State of Delaware, except that no reduction in the number of
Directors shall serve to effect the removal of any Director. Each Partner
approves the delegation by the General Partner to the Directors, in accordance
with Section 2.1 of this
Agreement, of certain of the General Partner’s rights and powers.
(b) The
term of office of each Director shall be from the time of such Director’s
election and qualification until his or her successor shall have been elected
and shall have qualified, or until his or her status as a Director is terminated
sooner in accordance with Section 2.10(d) of this
Agreement. Except to the extent the 1940 Act
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requires
election by Limited Partners, if any vacancy in the position of a Director
occurs, including by reason of an increase in the number of Directors as
contemplated by Section 2.10(a)
of this Agreement, the remaining Directors may appoint an individual to
serve in that capacity in accordance with the provisions of the 1940 Act. An
Independent Director shall be replaced by another Independent Director selected
and nominated by the remaining Independent Directors, or in a manner otherwise
permissible under the 1940 Act.
(c) If
no Director remains, the General Partner shall promptly call a meeting of the
Partners, to be held within 60 days after the date on which the last Director
ceased to act in that capacity, for the purpose of determining whether to
continue the business of the Fund and, if the business is to be continued,
approving the appointment of the requisite number of Directors. If the Partners
determine at the meeting not to continue the business of the Fund, or if the
approval of the appointment of the requisite number of Directors is not approved
within 60 days after the date on which the last Director ceased to act in that
capacity, then the Fund shall be dissolved in accordance with Section 7.1 of this Agreement
and the assets of the Fund shall be liquidated and distributed in accordance
with Section 7.1 of this
Agreement.
(d) The
status of a Director shall terminate (1) if the Director dies; (2) if the
Director resigns as a Director; or (3) if the Director is removed in accordance
with Section 2.10(e) of
this Agreement.
(e) Any
Director may be removed with or without cause by a vote of a majority of the
other Directors or by the majority vote (as defined in the 1940 Act), including
by written consent, of the Limited Partners.
(f) The
Directors may establish and maintain committees of the Board, and the Directors
may grant to such committees the authority to, among other things: value the
assets of the Fund; select and nominate the Independent Directors of the Fund;
recommend to the Board the compensation to be paid to the Independent Directors;
and recommend to the Board the firm of certified public accountants that shall
conduct the Fund’s audits.
(g) The
Directors may establish or designate committees of the Board or the Fund, whose
members may include the Directors and/or other Persons who are not Directors, to
provide advice and other services to the Fund, which committees may include (but
are not limited to) a committee that will value the assets of the
Fund.
(h) The
Independent Directors shall receive compensation for their services as
Independent Directors, as determined by the Board.
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Section
2.11 The
Investment Advisory Agreement; Removal and Replacement of the General
Partner.
(a) Each
Limited Partner specifically agrees and consents to the terms of the Investment
Advisory Agreement.
(b) Declaration,
other Declaration Parties and Declaration Clients (other than the Fund) hereby
agree to waive their respective voting rights regarding termination or
continuance of the Investment Advisory Agreement and agree that their Interests
in the Fund will be voted in identical proportion as the other Limited Partners
in respect of such matters submitted for a vote of Limited
Partners.
(c) In
the event that notice has been given pursuant to Section 10(a) of the Investment
Advisory Agreement that the Investment Advisory Agreement shall be terminated or
expire:
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The
General Partner shall undertake procedures to determine the Net Asset
Value of the Fund as well as of each Partner’s Capital Account as of the
date that the Investment Advisory Agreement is scheduled to terminate or
expire (the “IAA End Date”) — such determination to be made as
contemplated by Section
4.3.
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(B)
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The
General Partner and designees of the Board shall prepare “issuer tender
offer” materials under the 1940 Act and Rule 13e-4 under the Exchange Act
in anticipation of the in-kind tender offer to be made to all Partners
following the removal of the General Partner on the IAA End Date (see
below).
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(C)
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Declaration,
as the Investment Adviser, shall continue to manage the Fund’s portfolio
under the Investment Advisory Agreement giving due consideration to (among
other things) its impending removal as investment adviser to and general
partner of the Fund, payment to Declaration as General Partner of the
Carried Interest (as well as the balance of the General Partner Capital
Account) in cash as of the IAA End Date, and the in-kind tender offer to
be made to all Partners following such removal (see
below).
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(ii)
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(A)
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As
of the IAA End Date, the General Partner shall be removed as the Fund’s
general partner (except to the extent that it may be necessary for
Declaration to remain in such capacity in order to prevent dissolution of
the Fund so as to
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ensure
that the procedures set forth below in this Section 2.11 may be duly
completed).
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(B)
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A
Net Asset Value Carried Interest shall be calculated with respect to each
Limited Partner’s Capital Account as of the IAA End Date. Such
Net Asset Value Carried Interest shall equal 20% of the excess of (1) the
Net Asset Value of such Capital Account as of the IAA End Date, prior to
deduction of the Net Asset Value Carried Interest being calculated, plus the aggregate
distributions previously made with respect to such Capital Account, minus (2) the aggregate
Capital Contributions made to such Capital Account, plus the Hard Hurdle
Return on such Capital Contributions through the IAA End
Date.
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(C)
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The
Net Asset Value Carried Interest determined in Section 2.11(c)(ii)(B),
as well as the Net Asset Value of the General Partner Capital Account,
shall be paid out by the Fund to the General Partner in cash on the IAA
End Date.
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(iii)
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The
Board shall cause the Fund to offer — within 25 days after the date that
notice is given of the termination or expiration of the Investment
Advisory Agreement as contemplated by the introductory sentence to this
Section 2.11(c) —
to repurchase all Interests held by Limited Partners in exchange for their
respective Fund Percentages of the Fund’s Investment Assets, such
repurchase to be effected pursuant to an “issuer tender offer” conducted
in accordance with the requirements of the Exchange Act and the 0000
Xxx.
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Pursuant
to the Fund’s issuer tender offer contemplated by Section 2.11(c)(iii)(A),
each Limited Partner shall have 25 days from the commencement of such
issuer tender offer to elect to participate, but only with respect to the
entirety (not any portion thereof) of such Limited Partner’s
Interests.
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Upon
conclusion of the foregoing issuer tender offer, those Limited Partners
which elected to participate shall have distributions in-kind (and
partially in-cash if entirely in-kind distributions are infeasible) made
to them equal to their respective Fund Percentages of the Fund’s
Investment Assets, whereupon their Interests, Fund Percentages
and
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Capital
Contributions shall be cancelled and they shall no longer be Limited
Partners.
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(A)
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the
Limited Partners which have not accepted the issuer tender offer may,
within 90 days of the IAA End Date, elect a replacement General Partner,
such election to require a majority (as defined in the 0000 Xxx) of the
number of votes eligible to be cast by such Limited Partners;
and
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(B)
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The
Fund may enter into an investment advisory agreement with a successor
investment adviser upon the affirmative vote of (A) a majority of the
Fund’s Directors and a majority of the members of the Fund’s Directors who
are not parties to this Agreement or interested persons (as defined in the
0000 Xxx) of any party to this Agreement, or of any entity regularly
furnishing investment advisory services with respect to the Fund pursuant
to an agreement with any party to this Agreement, cast in person at a
meeting called for the purpose of voting on such approval; and (B) the
holders of a majority (as defined in the 0000 Xxx) of the number of votes
eligible to be cast by such Limited Partners;
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provided, that: if no
replacement General Partner is appointed within 90 days following the IAA End
Date, or if, prior to the expiration of such 90-day period Limited Partners
holding a majority (as defined in the 0000 Xxx) of the number of votes eligible
to be cast by such Limited Partners vote to dissolve the Fund, the Fund shall be
dissolved in such manner as the Board may determine.
ARTICLE
III
CAPITAL
COMMITMENTS; CAPITAL CALLS; CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Section
3.1 Admission of Limited
Partners; Capital Commitments; Capital Contributions.
(a) Prior
to the Public Offering, the minimum Capital Commitment that may be made by any
Limited Partner shall be $5 million, subject to waiver by the General Partner in
its discretion.
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(b) There
is no minimum or maximum amount of Capital Commitments which the Fund may
accept, either prior to or in the course of the Public Offering.
(c) The
General Partner may accept or reject Capital Commitments, in whole or in part,
in its discretion.
(d) Capital
Commitments may be accepted as of each Closing Date. Limited Partners
making Capital Commitments as of the second Closing Date shall make a Capital
Contribution to the Fund in accordance with the current Net Asset Value of the
Fund as determined by the General Partner, pursuant to Board-approved procedures
and subject to the Board’s review. Such Capital Contributions shall
equal the aggregate Net Asset Value of the Fund as of such date multiplied by the fraction
the numerator of which is each such Limited Partner’s Capital Commitment and the
denominator of which is the aggregate of all Partners’ Capital
Commitments.
(e) Each
Limited Partner agrees to make Capital Contributions during the Draw Period as
provided in Sections 3.3 and
3.4.
(f) At
the end of the Reinvestment Period, each Limited Partner agrees to make a
Capital Contribution to establish a reserve to pay future Management Fees and
Expenses as provided in Section
3.4(c).
(g) Prior
to admission to the Fund, each new Limited Partner shall enter into a
Subscription and Capital Commitment Agreement whereby such Limited Partner
agrees to be bound by and subject to all of the terms and conditions of this
Agreement.
(h) The
amount of each Limited Partner’s Capital Commitment shall be set forth in such
Limited Partner’s Subscription and Capital Commitment Agreement.
Section
3.2 Capital
Commitments by Declaration.
(a) Declaration,
as General Partner, shall make a Capital Commitment.
(b) Declaration,
as a Limited Partner, may make a Capital Commitment (in addition to the Capital
Commitment made by Declaration as General Partner, pursuant to Section 3.2(a)).
(c) For
the avoidance of doubt, the Capital Commitments of Declaration pursuant to Sections 3.2(a) and (b) shall
not be subject to the $5 million minimum contemplated by Section 3.1(a).
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Section
3.3 Drawdown
Procedures.
(a) Each
Limited Partner shall make Capital Contributions in such amounts and at such
times as the General Partner shall specify in Capital Calls delivered from time
to time to such Limited Partner.
(b) Subject
to one or more Limited Partners electing Capital Termination, Capital Calls will
be made by the General Partner pro rata in accordance with
each Limited Partner’s Available Capital Commitment; provided, however, that the
Capital Calls of Limited Partners making Capital Commitments as of the second
Closing Date shall include such additional amounts so that, immediately
following the relevant Drawdown Date, all Limited Partners shall have each made
Capital Contributions pro
rata in accordance with their respective Capital
Commitments.
(c) Each
Capital Call shall specify the Drawdown Date on which the related Capital
Contribution is due, which will be at least ten (10) Business Days following the
delivery of the Capital Call. Normally, a Capital Call will require
that Capital Contributions be made in immediately available funds as of the
first Business Day of a calendar month.
(d) In
no event shall a Limited Partner be required to make a Capital Contribution in
response to a Capital Call in an amount in excess of such Limited Partner’s
Available Capital Commitment at the time such Capital Call is
received.
(e) Each
Capital Contribution made by a Partner shall be added to the current Net Asset
Value of such Partner’s Interest.
Section
3.4 Permitted Purposes for
Capital Calls.
(a) Capital
Calls may be made during the Draw Period to pay expenses and Management
Fees.
(b) After
the end of the Draw Period, the Limited Partners will be released from any
further obligation with respect to their Available Capital Commitments, except
that the General Partner may continue to issue Capital Calls to: (i)
cover Expenses (including Management Fees) and any other obligations of the
Fund; and (ii) complete investments by the Fund in transactions which were in
process as of the end of the Draw Period; provided that such transactions are
completed within ninety (90) days of the end of the Draw Period (or such longer
period as the General Partner may reasonably determine).
(c) At
the end of the Reinvestment Period, the General Partner may make a Capital Call
(to the extent of any remaining Available Capital Commitments) in order to
establish a reserve to pay costs incurred by the Fund during the Distribution
Period. The
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General
Partner may also pay Fund expenses from the Fund’s current income, principal
payments and sale proceeds.
Section
3.5 Key
Person Event.
(a) The
General Partner shall deliver a written notice to all Limited Partners within
ten (10) Business Days after a Key Person Event.
(b) If
a Key Person Event occurs during the Draw Period, each Limited Partner shall
have the right, exercisable by written notice to the Fund received no later than
ten (10) Business Days after the General Partner’s delivery of such Key Person
Event notice, to discontinue making any additional Capital Contributions
effective immediately (a “Capital Termination”).
(c) No
Capital Calls may be made during the twenty (20) Business Day period following a
Key Person Event.
(d) If
a Key Person Event occurs during the Draw Period, and fewer than all Limited
Partners have elected a Capital Termination, then:
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(i)
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the
Draw Period shall continue and the Fund shall continue to make Capital
Calls on those Limited Partners that have not elected a Capital
Termination;
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(ii)
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the
Reinvestment Period shall terminate thirty (30) calendar days after the
end of the Draw Period; and
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(iii)
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Limited
Partners which have elected Capital Termination shall continue to be
responsible for Management Fees and expenses and to participate in new
Investment Assets acquired by the Fund, although the respective Fund
Percentages of such Limited Partners shall decline as Limited Partners
which have not elected Capital Termination continue to make Capital
Contributions while the Limited Partners which elected Capital Termination
do not.
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(e) If
a Key Person Event occurs during the Draw Period, and all Limited Partners have
elected Capital Termination, then the Draw Period and the Reinvestment Period
shall terminate on the date twenty (20) Business Days after the Key Person
Event.
(f) If
a Key Person Event occurs after the end of the Draw Period but before the end of
the Reinvestment Period, the Reinvestment Period shall terminate
immediately.
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ARTICLE
IV
CAPITAL
ACCOUNTS; ALLOCATIONS
Section
4.1 Capital
Accounts.
There
shall be established for each Partner on the books and records of the Fund a
capital account (a “Capital Account”),
which shall initially be zero. The Capital Account of each Partner
shall be:
(a) credited
with any Capital Contributions made by such Partner;
(b) credited
with any allocations of income or gain of the Fund to such Partner;
(c) debited
by the amount of cash (or the fair market value of other property, less any
liabilities that such Partner is deemed to assume or take pursuant to Section
752 of the Code) distributed by the Fund to such Partner; and
(d) debited
by any allocations of deduction or loss of the Fund to such
Partner.
Section
4.2 Financial
Allocations.
At the
end of each Fiscal Year, after adjusting Capital Accounts for all Capital
Contributions and distributions during such Fiscal Year pursuant to Section 4.1, all income, gain,
deduction and loss of the Fund shall be allocated among the Partners’ Capital
Accounts in a manner such that the Capital Account of each Partner, immediately
after giving effect to such allocation, is, as close as possible, equal
(proportionately) to the amount of the distributions that would be made to such
Partner during such Fiscal Year pursuant to Article VII if (i) the Fund
were dissolved and terminated; (ii) its affairs were wound up and each Fund
asset was sold for cash equal to its book value (except that any Fund asset that
was sold or otherwise disposed of in such Fiscal Year shall be treated as if
sold or disposed of for an amount of cash equal to the sum of (x) the amount of
any net cash proceeds actually received by the Fund in connection with such
disposition and (y) the fair market value of any property actually received by
the Fund in connection with such disposition); (iii) all Fund liabilities were
satisfied (limited with respect to each nonrecourse liability to the book value
of the assets securing such liability); and (iv) the net assets of the Fund were
distributed in accordance with Article VII to the Partners
immediately after giving effect to such allocation. The General
Partner may, in its discretion, make such other assumptions (whether or not
consistent with the above assumptions) as it deems necessary or appropriate in
order to effectuate the intended economic arrangement of the
Partners. All Limited Partners — irrespective of the Closing Date as
of which they invest — shall participate pro rata in the Fund’s
investments in accordance with their respective Fund Percentages.
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Section
4.3 Determination of Net Asset
Value.
(a) Net
Asset Value shall be calculated as of each Valuation Date. Net Asset
Value shall be calculated taking into account all assets and liabilities of the
Fund, including administration, insurance, legal, audit and other professional
fees and expenses. The calculation of the Fund’s Net Asset Value has
been delegated by the Board to the Administrator/Custodian and the General
Partner, subject to the ultimate supervision of the Board. The Board
shall approve procedures pursuant to which the Fund will determine the fair
value of its investments. The objective of such procedures shall be
compliance with GAAP, as well as with Financial Accounting Standards Board,
Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 157, “Fair Value
Measurements.”
(b) In
general, the Net Asset Value of the Fund will be determined according to the
following principles.
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(i)
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Loans
will be valued at their fair value. In many cases, cost less
any impairment reserves may be considered the best approximation of fair
value.
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(ii)
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Securities
which are listed and traded predominantly on one or more securities
exchanges will be valued at the price, as disseminated by quotation
services, on the principal exchange on which such securities are traded at
a pre-determined time on each selected Valuation Date as appropriate for
each type of security. If no sale occurred on the Valuation
Date, such securities will be valued at the mean of the closing bid and
ask prices.
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(iii)
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Securities
that trade predominantly in the over-the-counter market will be generally
valued at the mean of their closing bid and ask prices as obtained from or
confirmed by dealers or pricing
services.
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Over-the-counter
derivatives will be generally valued: (A) at the mean of their
closing bid and ask prices as obtained from or confirmed by dealers; (B)
based on models that are generally recognized by the industry with the
inputs to the models being obtained from or confirmed by brokers or
quotation reporting systems; or (C) by pricing
services.
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(v)
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Investment
assets initially valued in currencies other than U.S. Dollars will be
converted to U.S. Dollars at exchange rates quoted by established market
makers at a time on each Valuation Date that is generally accepted by the
industry as appropriate for each different
currency.
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(vi)
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Futures
and options on futures which are listed on one or more exchanges will be
valued at the closing price on the principal exchange on each Valuation
Date. If a future or option on a future is still trading, the
Administrator/Custodian will value it at the average of its bid and ask
price on the principal exchange at a predetermined time on each Valuation
Date.
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(vii)
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All
options which are listed on one or more exchanges will be valued at the
mean of their closing bid and ask prices on the principal
exchange. If an option is still trading, the
Administrator/Custodian will value the option at the average of its bid
and ask price on the principal exchange at a predetermined time on each
Valuation Date.
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(viii)
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Non-U.S.
income and withholding taxes imposed on the Fund are treated as an expense
as such taxes accrue.
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(ix)
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The
Administrator/Custodian and/or the General Partner may determine to use a
different value for any asset than would be assigned pursuant to paragraphs (i)–(viii)
above, if the General Partner determines, in good faith, that to do
so would better reflect fair value.
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(c) Net
Asset Value shall be reduced by any Net Asset Value Carried Interest that would
have been paid had the Valuation Date been the IAA End Date as contemplated by
Section
2.11(c)(ii).
(d) The
General Partner may determine in good faith in accordance with procedures
approved by the Board, the price of a particular security, which valuation is
subject to ratification by the Board at its next regular meeting.
(e) The
Board may postpone the determination of Net Asset Value in the event that it, in
consultation with the General Partner, determines that it is not reasonably
practicable to value a material portion of the Fund’s
investments. The General Partner will give prompt notice of any such
postponement to all Limited Partners and will use reasonable efforts to bring
any such postponement to an end as soon as practicable.
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ARTICLE
V
TAX
ALLOCATIONS
Section
5.1 Tax
Allocations.
(a) For
U.S. Federal, state and local income tax purposes, each item of income, gain,
loss, deduction and credit of the Fund shall be allocated among the Partners as
nearly as possible in the same manner as the corresponding item of income,
deduction, gain or loss is allocated for Capital Account purposes pursuant to
Article IV and Section 6.3. It is
intended that the Capital Accounts will be maintained at all times in accordance
with Section 704 of the Code and applicable Treasury Regulations thereunder, and
that the provisions hereof relating to the Capital Accounts be interpreted in a
manner consistent therewith. The General Partner, under the ultimate
supervision of the Board, shall be authorized to make appropriate adjustments to
the allocations of items to comply with Section 704 of the Code or applicable
Treasury Regulations thereunder, including a “qualified income offset”; provided
that no such change shall have an adverse effect upon the amount distributable
to any Partner hereunder.
(b) Notwithstanding
anything else contained in this Article V, if any Partner has
a deficit Capital Account for any fiscal period as a result of any adjustment of
the type described in Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(d)(4)
through (6), then the Fund’s income and gain will be specially allocated to such
Partner in an amount and manner sufficient to eliminate such deficit as quickly
as possible. Any special allocation of items of income or gain
pursuant to this paragraph shall be taken into account in computing subsequent
allocations pursuant to this Article V so that the
cumulative net amount of all items allocated to each Partner shall, to the
extent possible, be equal to the amount that would have been allocated to such
Partner if there had never been any allocation pursuant to this
paragraph.
Section
5.2 Consistent Tax
Reporting.
Except as
otherwise agreed to in writing by the General Partner, all Partners shall report
all Tax Items (including the character and timing of such Tax Items) related to
the Fund in a manner consistent with the manner in which such Tax Items are
reported by the Fund.
Section
5.3 “Tax
Matters Partner”
(a) For
purposes of Section 6231(a)(7) of the Code, or any corresponding provision of
any future Law, the “Tax Matters Partner” of the Fund shall be the General
Partner.
(b) The
General Partner shall also have the power to make or revoke all tax elections
and determinations for the Fund and to take any and all actions necessary or
permitted under the Code, the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder, or
other
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applicable
Law to effect those elections, determinations and allocations. All
elections, determinations and allocations by the General Partner shall be
binding upon all Limited Partners and their respective successors, assigns and
heirs.
(c) The
General Partner shall have comparable authority in respect of any state, local
or foreign tax, tax law or tax claim relating to the Fund and the Limited
Partners as the General Partner has under the Code as the Tax Matters
Partner.
(d) The
cost of any examination or audit of, and of any adjustment to, a Limited
Partner’s tax return shall be borne solely by the affected Limited
Partner.
(e) The
General Partner shall be entitled, subject to the approval of the Directors, to
be reimbursed for all expenses incurred by the General Partner in performing its
services as Tax Matters Partner, as well as to be indemnified for liabilities
and losses incurred in performing such services, subject to the standard set
forth in Section
2.8.
Section
5.4 Determinations by the
General Partner Pursuant to Article V.
All
matters concerning the determination and allocation among the Partners of the
amounts to be determined and allocated pursuant to this Article V, including any
accounting procedures applicable with respect to tax items, shall be determined
by the General Partner, under the supervision of the Board, unless specifically
and expressly otherwise provided for by the provisions of this Agreement or as
required by Law. Any such determinations and allocations shall be
final and binding on all of the Partners.
ARTICLE
VI
DISTRIBUTIONS
Section
6.1 Reinvestment.
During
the Reinvestment Period, the Fund shall reinvest the proceeds of its investments
and shall not be obligated to distribute any amounts (including Available
Capital) to the Limited Partners. The General Partner does not intend
to cause the Fund to make any Distributions during the Reinvestment
Period.
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Section
6.2 Distributions.
(a) After
the Reinvestment Period (i.e., both during and after
the Distribution Period), the Fund shall distribute Available Capital as soon as
reasonably practicable after receipt, subject to Sections 6.2(e) and (f).
(b) Distributions
of Available Capital both during and after the Distribution Period shall be
allocated among the Limited Partners pro rata in accordance with
the Limited Partners’ respective Fund Percentages. Available Capital
allocated under this Section
6.2(b) to a Limited Partner shall be distributed between such Limited
Partner and the General Partner, in the following order of
priority:
(i) first, 100% to such Limited
Partner until such Limited Partner has received 100% of such Limited Partner’s
Capital Contributions (irrespective of whether such Capital Contributions were
used to make investments, pay Management Fees and expenses or any other
purpose);
(ii) second, 100% to such Limited
Partner, until such Limited Partner has received the Hard Hurdle Return;
and
(iii) third, any balance, (a) 80%
to such Limited Partner and (b) 20% to the General Partner (the amounts
distributed to Declaration under this clause (iii) being referred to
as the “Carried
Interest”).
(c) Distributions
to Declaration with respect to its Capital Contributions as General Partner made
as a result of its Capital Commitment under Section 3.2(a) shall be made
100% to the General Partner, without regard to Sections 6.2(b)(ii) and (iii). Distributions
to Declaration as a Limited Partner shall be made in the same manner as to all
other Limited Partners.
(d) The
Carried Interest shall be first allocated and then distributed by the Fund to
Declaration as an allocable share of the Fund’s gain, not as a performance fee
paid to a third party.
(e) No
Distributions shall be made by the Fund to cover any taxes due on Limited
Partners’ investments in the Fund.
(f) During
any Fiscal Year, the Fund generally shall make no more than one distribution
representing “long-term capital gains,” as defined in the Code, in order to
comply with Rule 19b-1 under the 1940 Act. However, the Fund may make
more than one distribution in a Fiscal Year representing a “return of
capital.”
(g) Notwithstanding
the foregoing provisions of this Section 6.2, the Fund may
retain sufficient funds to ensure that there is Available Capital to pay the
ongoing expenses of the Fund.
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Section
6.3 Withholding and Income
Taxes.
(a) Allocation of Withholding
and Income Taxes. Any withholding or income taxes imposed by
any jurisdiction on distributions hereunder or related items of income, gain,
loss or deduction of the Fund, or incurred directly or indirectly by the Fund
with respect to its interest in any Investment Asset, shall be allocated to each
Limited Partner pro
rata in accordance with its Capital Contributions attributable to the
Investment Asset giving rise to such distributions, or related items of income,
gain, loss or deduction; provided, however, that any increase or decrease in
such taxes resulting from the identity, nationality, residence or status of a
Limited Partner will be specially allocated to that Limited
Partner.
(b) Calculation of Distributions
Before Withholding and Income Taxes. The amount of any
distribution to the Limited Partners pursuant to Section 6.2, and the amount of
any item of Fund income, gain, loss or deduction allocable to the Limited
Partners, shall be determined (for purposes of the Fund’s accounting and without
limiting the General Partner’s authority to make payments under Section 6.3(c) or a Limited
Partner’s liability under Section 6.3(d)) without regard
to any withholding or income taxes (i.e., as if the Fund had
distributed or allocated, as the case may be, such amount or items of income,
gain, loss or deduction, without diminution by the amount of such withholding or
income taxes).
(c) Payment of Withholding and
Income Taxes. The General Partner shall withhold from amounts
distributable to the Limited Partners or otherwise pay over to the appropriate
taxing authorities amounts of withholding or income tax required to be so
withheld or paid over. The General Partner shall use reasonable
efforts to obtain a receipt with respect to all such withholding or income taxes
paid and to forward to each Limited Partner a copy of such
receipt. Any amounts so withheld shall be deemed to have been
distributed to the applicable Limited Partners.
(d) Liability for Withholding
and Income Taxes. Except as otherwise set forth in Section 11.16, each Limited
Partner agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Fund and the General Partner
from and against any liability with respect to its allocable share of any
withholding or income taxes as determined under Section 6.3(a). If
the Fund is required to pay over any withholding or income taxes as provided in
Section 6.3(c) with
respect to a Limited Partner as to whom there are insufficient distributable
amounts to pay such Limited Partner’s allocable share of such withholding or
income taxes, the General Partner shall promptly notify such Limited Partner of
the amount of withholding or income taxes due from such Limited Partner (i.e., the amount by which the
Limited Partner’s allocable share of such withholding or income taxes exceeds
the amount otherwise distributable to such Limited Partner) and the date (the
“Due Date”)
such taxes are required to be paid by the Fund to the relevant taxing
authorities. Such Limited Partner shall pay to the Fund its allocable
share of such taxes no later than the later of (i) two Business Days before the
Due Date of the relevant withholding or income
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tax or
(ii) ten Business Days after notice was sent to the Limited Partner as described
above. If the Limited Partner fails to pay its allocable share of the
withholding or income taxes by the date described in the preceding sentence (the
“Payment
Date”), (i) such amount shall bear interest from the Payment Date until
the date actually paid at a rate equal to the lesser of (a) the greater of 10%
or one-month LIBOR plus 4% and (b) the maximum lawful rate of interest,
compounded annually, (ii) the Fund shall be entitled to collect such sum from
amounts otherwise distributable to such Limited Partner pursuant to Section 6.2 and (iii) the Fund
may exercise any and all rights and remedies to collect such sum from such
Limited Partner that a creditor would have to collect a debt from a debtor under
applicable law. Any payment made by a Limited Partner to the Fund
pursuant to this Section
6.3(d) shall not constitute a Capital Contribution.
Section
6.4 Form
and Manner of Distributions.
The Fund
will use reasonable best efforts to make all Distributions in cash and to have
distributed the proceeds of the Fund’s entire portfolio by the end of the
Distribution Period. Subject to the foregoing, the Board has the right to cause
Distributions to be made in-kind to the Limited Partners.
Section
6.5 Transfers.
(a) Any
Interest or portion of any Interest held by a Limited Partner may be transferred
only if the Board, or the General Partner as its delegate, consents to such
Transfer. Such consent will be granted if (i) such Transfer is to an
Eligible Investor and the Transfer is permitted under applicable securities law
restrictions, and (ii) such Transfer (1) is made at death, including from an
estate or testamentary trust; (2) is between members of a family (as defined in
section 267(c)(4) of the Code); (3) is by a Limited Partner in one or more
transactions within a 30-day period in which Interests in the Fund representing
in the aggregate more than two percent of the total interests in the Fund’s
capital or profits are transferred by such Limited Partner; (4) is to a trust of
which the Transferor is the sole owner (within the meaning of section 671 of the
Code); (5) is one in which the tax basis of the Interest in the hands of the
Transferee is determined, in whole or in part, by reference to its tax basis in
the hands of the Transferor Limited Partner (e.g., certain Transfers to
affiliates, gifts and contributions to family entities); (6) involves the
issuance of Interests by the Fund in exchange for cash, property or services;
(7) is a distribution from a qualified retirement plan or an individual
retirement account; (8) would not result in more than 2 percent of the total
interests in the Fund’s capital or profits having been transferred during the
Fund’s taxable year during which such Transfer would occur, without taking into
account any Transfers described in clauses (1) through (7) above; or (9) is made
after the General Partner receives a written opinion of counsel to the effect
that the proposed Transfer will not cause the Fund to be a publicly traded
partnership taxable as a corporation under section 7704 of the
Code.
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(b) Any
permitted Transferee will be entitled to the allocations and distributions
allocable to the Interest or portion of an Interest so acquired and to Transfer
the Interest or portion of an Interest in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement, but will not be entitled to the other rights of a Limited Partner
unless and until the Transferee becomes a substituted Limited
Partner.
(c) If
a Limited Partner Transfers an Interest or portion of an Interest with the
approval of the Board or the General Partner as its delegate, the Board, or the
General Partner as its delegate, shall promptly take all necessary actions so
that each Transferee is admitted to the Fund as a Limited Partner. The admission
of any transferee as a substituted Limited Partner will be effective upon the
execution and delivery by, or on behalf of, the substituted Limited Partner of
this Agreement or an instrument that constitutes the execution and delivery of
this Agreement as well as of a Subscription and Capital Commitment Agreement.
Each Limited Partner and transferee agrees to pay all expenses, including
attorneys’ and accountants’ fees, incurred by the Fund in connection with any
Transfer. In connection with any request to Transfer an Interest or portion of
an Interest, the Fund may require the Limited Partner requesting the Transfer to
obtain, at the Limited Partner’s expense, an opinion of counsel selected by the
General Partner as to such matters as the General Partner may reasonably
request. If a Limited Partner Transfers its entire Interest as a Limited
Partner, it will not cease to be a Limited Partner unless and until the
transferee is admitted to the Fund as a substituted Limited Partner in
accordance with this Section
6.5.
(d) Any
transfer, pledge or assignment in violation of this Section 6.5 shall be null and
void ab
initio.
ARTICLE
VII
DISSOLUTION
Section
7.1 Post-Distribution Period;
Dissolution.
(a) Any
Investment Assets remaining in the Fund’s portfolio after the Distribution
Period shall be held by the Fund until liquidated or distributed to the Partners
in kind. If held until liquidation, the Fund will disburse the
current income and principal payments generated by such investments as received,
except that the Fund may retain sufficient funds in order to ensure that there
is Available Capital to pay the ongoing Expenses of the Fund. For the
avoidance of doubt, if any Investment Assets remain in the Fund after the
Distribution Period, (i) as provided in the Investment Advisory Agreement, no
Management Fee shall be paid after the Distribution Period, and (ii)
distributions of Available Capital after the Distribution Period will be made
according to Section
6.2, such that the Carried Interest with respect to any Investment Assets
remaining in the Fund after the Distribution Period shall be allocated to the
General Partner at the time that any distribution is made with respect to such
Investment Assets.
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(b) The
Fund shall be dissolved only upon the occurrence of one of the following
events:
(i) the
withdrawal, Bankruptcy, or dissolution of the last remaining General Partner,
unless the business of the Fund is continued within 90 days following the
occurrence of such event by the vote or written consent of a majority (as
defined in the 0000 Xxx) of the Fund Percentages;
(ii) upon
the recommendation of the General Partner and the affirmative vote to dissolve
the Fund by a majority of the Directors (including the vote of a majority of the
Independent Directors);
(iii) upon
the failure of Partners to approve successor Directors at a meeting called by
the General Partner in accordance with Section 2.10(c) of this
Agreement when no Director remains to continue the business of the Fund;
or
(c) (4) upon
dissolution of the Fund for any reason, the Fund shall continue in existence for
the purpose of winding up its affairs, and the assets of the Fund shall be
liquidated by the General Partner.
(ii) If
the General Partner is unable or unwilling to act, the property and business of
the Fund shall be liquidated by such other Person elected by the vote or
consent, by any of the methods provided in Section 11.5, of a majority
(as defined in the 0000 Xxx) of the Fund Percentages (the General Partner or
such other Person presiding over the dissolution and liquidation of the Fund
being referred to in this Article VII as the “Liquidator”). The
Liquidator shall be entitled to reasonable compensation for its services in
winding up the business of the Fund and liquidating its assets and shall be
indemnified for expenses and losses incurred by it in performing such services,
subject to the standard of care set forth in Section 2.8).
(d) The
Liquidator may postpone notice of the liquidation or proposed liquidation of the
Fund to Limited Partners and/or third parties until such time as the Liquidator
determines that doing so would not adversely affect the Fund or any Limited
Partner.
(e) Dissolution
of the Fund shall be conducted in accordance with the 1940 Act and Delaware
law.
(f) Any
distributions that would otherwise be made to a Limited Partner shall be
retained by the Fund (for distribution to the Limited Partners) to the extent of
any amounts which the Liquidator estimates are or shall be owed by such Limited
Partner to the Fund or to any third party.
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(g) As
soon as the Liquidator deems reasonably practicable after the dissolution of the
Fund, all income, gain, deduction and loss realized by the Fund since the last
allocation of such items pursuant to Section 4.2 shall be allocated
to the Partners in accordance with Section 4.2, and upon
liquidation of the Fund, distributions to the Partners shall be made as set
forth in Article VI,
after provision for creditors in the order and priority provided by Law as well
as for Reserves.
(h) Upon
the dissolution of the Fund, neither the name of the Fund nor its good-will, if
any, shall be considered to be an asset of the Fund, such name and its
derivatives to be the sole property of one or more Declaration Parties, as
provided in Section
11.10. No value shall be placed on the Fund name or good-will
for the purpose of liquidation and Distribution or for any other purpose during
the continuation of the Fund.
(i) All
distributions shall be subject to any reserves that the Liquidator may
establish.
(j) Upon
dissolution of the Fund, no Limited Partner shall have any obligation to make
any Capital Contribution with respect to any deficit Capital Account balance,
and no such deficit balance shall be considered a debt owed by any such Limited
Partner to the Fund or to any other Limited Partner for any purpose
whatsoever.
ARTICLE
VIII
EXPENSES;
MANAGEMENT FEE
Section
8.1 Fund
Expenses.
(a) The
organizational costs of the Fund shall be paid by the General
Partner.
(b) The
costs of the Public Offering will be paid from its proceeds or by the General
Partner (and for the avoidance of doubt, not by deduction from the Capital
Account of any Limited Partners which were Limited Partners prior to the Public
Offering).
(c) The
Fund will compensate each Independent Director for his or her services rendered
in connection with the Fund as may be agreed to by the Independent Directors,
and as described in the Private Placement Memorandum. In addition, the Fund will
reimburse the Directors for reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by them
in performing their duties with respect to the Fund, including the
following:
(i) fees
of Independent Directors and travel expenses of Directors relating to meetings
of the Board and committees thereof, and costs and expenses of holding meetings
of the Board and meetings of the Partners; and
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(ii) any
other expenses as may be approved from time to time by the Directors, other than
those required to be borne by an investment adviser or the General
Partner.
(d) The
Fund shall bear all expenses incurred in engaging in the activities of the Fund
as contemplated hereby, all indemnification expenses referred to in Section 2.8, and all expenses
of any nature related to the Fund’s operations and business (including any
expenses related to investing or trading). The operating costs paid
by the Fund could be significant and may include trading, financing, insurance,
legal, accounting, auditing, reporting and filing costs, as well as the
customary fees and expenses of the Fund’s Administrator/Custodian, as well as
any extraordinary expenses.
(e) The
Fund will also bear its brokerage commissions and other transaction fees in
connection with the acquisition and disposition of its positions, as well as
administrative and custodian fees for the Fund’s assets.
(f) The
Fund shall not bear any of the internal operating costs of
Declaration (e.g., salaries, bonuses or
office rent).
(g) Except
as otherwise set forth in this Agreement, all Expenses borne by the Fund
(including the Management Fee) are paid from Available Capital.
Section
8.2 Management
Fee.
The Fund
shall pay Declaration the Management Fee set forth in the Investment Advisory
Agreement.
ARTICLE
IX
BROKERAGE
ARRANGEMENTS
Section
9.1 Brokerage
Arrangements.
The Fund
shall maintain brokerage and custody arrangements with the
Administrator/Custodian, subject to the approval of the Board. The
Administrator/Custodian shall clear and settle all securities transactions and
shall also serve as the custodian of the Fund’s assets. All custodied
assets shall be held in the name of the Fund. Certain of the Fund’s
Investment Assets held by custodians shall be segregated from the custodians’
own property, while other Fund Investment Assets held as collateral or margin
shall not be (and, accordingly, may not be) recoverable in the event of the
custodian’s insolvency).
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ARTICLE
X
BOOKS OF
ACCOUNT; REPORTS
Section
10.1 Books
of Account.
(a) The
General Partner (or the Administrator/Custodian as its delegate)
shall keep the Fund’s books of account at its principal place of business (or at
such other location as the Directors may designate) using the accrual method of
accounting.
(b) The
accounts of the Fund shall be audited (at the expense of the Fund) as of the
close of each Fiscal Year by a nationally recognized independent public
accounting firm selected by the General Partner.
Section
10.2 Reports.
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The
Administrator/Custodian, with support from the General Partner, shall send
to each Limited Partner, on a quarterly basis, a report on the Fund’s
performance, investment activity, portfolio holdings and
characteristics. Such reports shall also include market
commentary from the Investment Adviser as well as (A) the Fund’s Net Asset
Value, cumulative Capital Contributions, and cumulative distributions, and
(B) for each Limited Partner, its own Capital Contributions and cumulative
distributions. Net Asset Value so reported shall separately
identify the Net Asset Value calculated as set forth in Section 4.3(a), (b) and
(c), as well as the Net Asset Value Carried Interest applicable to
the Fund as a whole and to each recipient Limited Partner’s Capital
Account, calculated as set forth in Section
4.3(c).
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quarterly reports will be signed by the President/Chief Executive Officer
and the Chief Financial Officer of the
Fund.
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(b)
The Fund shall make quarterly holdings and semi-annual and annual report filings
with the SEC as required by the 1940 Act.
(c) The
Fund shall make annual report filings with the SEC as required by the 1940 Act
and shall prepare the audited balance sheet and income statement of the Fund as
of the end of and for each Fiscal Year. Such reports shall be filed
with the SEC and delivered to Limited Partners within 60 days after the end of
such Fiscal Year.
(d) The
Fund’s audited financial statements will be prepared in accordance with
GAAP.
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(e) As
soon as reasonably practicable after the end of each Fiscal Year, the Fund shall
also furnish to each Limited Partner (on an unaudited basis):
(i) such
Limited Partner’s Capital Account as of the end of such Fiscal Year;
and
(ii) a
copy of Schedule K-l to the Fund’s federal income tax return for the fiscal
year, in a form sufficient to enable the Limited Partner to determine its share,
for federal income tax purposes, of all items of Fund income, deduction, gain,
loss, preference and credit.
ARTICLE
XI
MISCELLANEOUS
Section
11.1 Binding
Effect.
This
Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Limited
Partners, the parties indemnified hereunder and their respective successors,
permitted assigns, heirs and legal representatives.
Section
11.2 Notices.
All
notices under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have
been duly given if (a) personally delivered (with receipt thereof
acknowledged in writing), (b) sent by facsimile, e-mail, digital image file
or any other electronic format (collectively, “facsimile”), in each
case with receipt of the transmission confirmed (and, unless waived by the
recipient upon such receipt, confirmed by delivery in another manner permitted
hereunder), (c) if mailed by pre-paid certified mail, return receipt
requested or (d) sent by reputable overnight courier (receipt confirmed),
in each case to the parties at the following addresses (or at such other address
as the Fund or a Limited Partner may have specified to the other by notice as
provided herein):
(a) If
to the Fund or the General Partner, to Declaration Management & Research
LLC, 0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx 000, XxXxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, facsimile number:
(000) 000-0000; e-mail: xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.
(b) If
to a Limited Partner, to such Limited Partner at the address set forth in such
Limited Partner’s Subscription and Capital Commitment Agreement or other written
instrument acceptable to the General Partner.
(c) Notices
given in accordance with this Section 11.2 shall be deemed
given on the date of receipt, if delivered personally or by facsimile, on the
first Business Day
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after
being sent by a reputable courier service and on the third Business Day after
being posted.
(d) Any
notice required hereunder need not be prior notice unless expressly so
specified. Any notice period specified herein shall end on the Close of Business
on the day that is the prescribed number of days following the first day of the
relevant period, unless that day is not a Business Day, in which case, as of the
next succeeding Business Day.
Section
11.3 Counterparts; Facsimiles;
Power of Attorney.
(a) This
Agreement may be executed in counterparts with the same effect as if the parties
had all executed the same copy. Facsimiles, digital image files or
any other electronic format of executed documents shall, for all purposes of
this Agreement and all transactions into which the Fund enters, have the same
force and effect as executed originals.
(b) The
Fund shall be authorized to accept and execute any instructions given by a
Limited Partner in respect of such Limited Partner’s Interest, either in
original signed form or by facsimile. If instructions are given by
facsimile, the Limited Partner shall promptly courier the original signed form
to the General Partner and, except as otherwise set forth in Section 11.16, will indemnify
the General Partner, the Fund and the Declaration Parties for any losses or
damages suffered by the General Partner, the Fund or any Declaration Party as a
result of acting on facsimile instructions rather than instructions in original
signed form; provided, however, the failure of a Limited Partner to deliver the
original signed form shall not vitiate the instructions contained in the
facsimile. The General Partner, the Fund and the Declaration Parties
are entitled to rely conclusively, and shall incur no liability in respect of
any action taken or omitted, on the basis of any notice, consent, request,
instruction or other instrument believed in good faith to be genuine or to be
signed by properly authorized persons.
(c) This
Agreement may be executed by power-of-attorney embodied in a Subscription and
Capital Commitment Agreement or other written instrument with the same effect as
if the parties executing the Subscription and Capital Commitment Agreement or
other written instrument had all executed the same copy.
Section
11.4 Entire
Agreement.
This
Agreement, together with the Subscription and Capital Commitment Agreement
executed and delivered by each Limited Partner (other than Declaration), sets
forth the entire understanding of all the parties with respect to its subject
matter and supersedes all prior agreements and undertakings with respect
hereto.
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Section
11.5 Amendment.
(a) This
Agreement may be amended, in whole or in part, with the approval of a majority
of the Directors (including the vote of a majority of the Independent Directors,
but only if such vote is required by the 1940 Act), provided that:
(i) any
amendment also must be approved by Limited Partners representing a majority (as
defined in the 0000 Xxx) of the Fund Percentages if (A) such approval by the
Limited Partners is required by the 1940 Act or (B) such amendment would
adversely affect in any material respect the rights of the Limited
Partners;
(ii) any
amendment also must be approved by all of the Limited Partners if such amendment
would (A) adversely affect the limited liability of the Limited Partners under
applicable Law; (B) cause the Fund to cease to be treated as a partnership for
federal income tax purposes (unless doing so would increase the net after-tax
return of the Fund’s trading to investors); (C) alter the provisions of this
Section 11.5 relating to
the amendment of this Agreement; or (D) alter the provisions of Section 2.8 of this Agreement
relating to indemnification; and
(iii) for
purposes of the Partners voting on amendments or other Fund action, if the
calculation of Net Asset Value is suspended as of the date of such vote, the
Fund Percentage shall be determined as of the most recent date that Net Asset
Value was determined, subject to adjustment as the General Partner may
reasonably determine to reflect subsequent Capital Contributions and
distributions.
(b) The
General Partner shall promptly notify all Limited Partners of all
amendments.
Section
11.6 No
Partition.
(a) Each
Limited Partner irrevocably waives any right that such Limited Partner might
otherwise have had to maintain any claim for partition with respect to any
property of the Fund or to compel any sale or appraisal of any Fund asset or any
sale or appraisal of a deceased Limited Partner’s Interest.
(b) The
Limited Partners shall not hold undivided interests in any asset of the Fund,
but rather an interest in the Fund itself, which shall for all purposes be
considered to constitute personal property.
Section
11.7 Power
of Attorney.
Each
Limited Partner hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints the General Partner
to be such Limited Partner’s true and lawful attorney, in such Limited Partner’s
name, place, and stead, to make, execute, acknowledge, file and publish, as the
General Partner may deem necessary or advisable:
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(a) any
certificates and other instruments that may be required to be filed by the Fund
under the laws of the State of Delaware or any other governmental authority
having jurisdiction, or which the General Partner shall deem necessary or
advisable to file;
(b) any
certificate or other instruments amending or modifying the Certificate of
Limited Partnership of the Fund to evidence any changes in that Certificate in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(c) any
certificates or other instruments that may be required to effect the dissolution
and termination of the Fund and the cancellation of the Certificate of Limited
Partnership of the Fund;
(d) this
Agreement and any amendment to this Agreement that the General Partner is
authorized to make in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(e) any
documents required in connection with brokerage or other accounts of the Fund;
and
(f) any
other documents which the General Partner may deem necessary or advisable for
the conduct of the business of the Fund.
This
power of attorney is coupled with an interest, and all Limited Partners will
collectively rely on the effectiveness hereof. This power of attorney
shall be irrevocable and shall survive the death or disability of a Limited
Partner and any assignment of the whole or any part of the Interest held by a
Limited Partner and shall be binding upon the assignee thereof.
Section
11.8 Voluntary Limitation on a
Limited Partner’s Voting Rights.
In the
event that a Limited Partner indicates in such Limited Partner’s Subscription
and Capital Commitment Agreement or by other written notice to the General
Partner that such Limited Partner does not wish, for voting purposes, to hold a
Fund Percentage in excess of a specified percentage (which may be 0%), the
General Partner, by accepting such Subscription and Capital Commitment Agreement
or other written notice, shall agree to such Limited Partner waiving, in whole
or in part, what would otherwise have been such Limited Partner’s Fund
Percentage for voting purposes, and such waiver shall be irrevocable and such
Limited Partner shall not exercise any voting rights in excess of such specified
percentage. The voting rights so waived shall thereupon be deemed to
be held by the other Limited Partners, subject to whatever limitation on their
Fund Percentages for voting purposes they may elect by the same process, pro
rata in accordance with their respective Fund Percentages (after giving effect
to all other limitations imposed on the Fund Percentages for voting purposes of
such Limited Partners).
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Section
11.9 Governing Law;
Venue.
(a) THIS
AGREEMENT IS MADE PURSUANT TO AND SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF
DELAWARE, NOTWITHSTANDING THE PLACE WHERE THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY SUBSCRIPTION AND
CAPITAL COMMITMENT AGREEMENT IS EXECUTED BY ANY PARTNER OR PROSPECTIVE PARTNER
OR THE LOCATION OF ANY OFFICE, VENTURE OR OPERATION OF THE FUND OR ANY
PARTNER. EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE SET FORTH IN SECTION 11.16, ANY ACTION OR
PROCEEDING BROUGHT BY ANY DECLARATION PARTY AGAINST ONE OR MORE PARTNERS OR THE
FUND RELATING IN ANY RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE OPERATION OF THE FUND OR THE
OFFERING OF THE INTERESTS MAY, AND ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING BROUGHT BY ANY OTHER
PARTY AGAINST ANY DECLARATION PARTY OR THE FUND RELATING IN ANY RESPECT TO THIS
AGREEMENT, THE OPERATION OF THE FUND OR THE OFFERING OF THE INTERESTS MAY ALSO,
BE BROUGHT AND ENFORCED IN THE CITY, COUNTY AND STATE OF NEW YORK OR (TO THE
EXTENT SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION EXISTS THEREFOR) IN THE COURTS OF THE UNITED
STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, AND THE PARTNERS AND THE FUND
IRREVOCABLY SUBMIT TO THE NON-EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF BOTH SUCH STATE AND
FEDERAL COURTS IN RESPECT OF ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING. EXCEPT AS
OTHERWISE SET FORTH IN SECTION
11.16, THE PARTNERS AND THE FUND IRREVOCABLY WAIVE ANY OBJECTION THAT
THEY MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO LAYING THE VENUE OF ANY SUCH ACTION OR
PROCEEDING IN THE COURTS OF THE CITY, COUNTY AND STATE OF NEW YORK OR IN THE
COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK AND ANY CLAIM
THAT ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN ANY SUCH COURT HAS BEEN BROUGHT IN
AN INCONVENIENT FORUM.
(b) EXCEPT
AS OTHERWISE SET FORTH IN SECTION 11.16, EACH PARTNER
HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY WITH RESPECT TO ANY CLAIM
AGAINST ANY DECLARATION PARTY OR THE FUND RELATING IN ANY WAY TO THIS AGREEMENT,
THE OPERATION OF THE FUND OR THE OFFERING OF THE INTERESTS.
(c) EACH
PARTNER HEREBY AGREES THAT SERVICE OF PROCESS MAY BE EFFECTED ON SUCH PARTNER IN
THE SAME MANNER AS NOTICES ARE GIVEN PURSUANT TO SECTION 11.2.
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Section
11.10 “Declaration” Name and
Declaration Intellectual Property.
Neither
the Fund nor any Limited Partner in such Limited Partner’s capacity as such
shall have, in the absence of a written agreement with Declaration or its
designee(s) to the contrary, any title to or right to use the name “Declaration”
or any derivative thereof or any trademark used in connection with the name
“Declaration.” In addition, neither the Fund nor any Limited Partner
in such Limited Partner’s capacity as such shall have, in the absence of a
written agreement with Declaration or its designee(s) to the contrary, any title
to, interest in, or right to use any Declaration Intellectual Property nor shall
such Declaration Intellectual Property become the property of the Fund or any
Limited Partner. The Declaration Intellectual Property does not
belong to the Fund or any Trading Entity, but rather is made available to the
Fund by one or more Declaration Parties which retain full ownership rights in
such Declaration Intellectual Property, regardless of the fact that such items
may be paid for, directly or indirectly, by the Fund. Declaration
covenants, however, that so long as it or any of its Affiliates is the
investment adviser of the Fund, the Fund shall have a royalty-free license to
use the Declaration Intellectual Property solely in connection with the business
activities of the Fund, which license shall not be transferable or
assignable.
Section
11.11 Severability.
In the
event that any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or
unenforceable in any jurisdiction, such provision shall be deemed modified to
the minimum extent necessary so that such provision, as so modified, shall no
longer be held to be invalid or unenforceable. Any such modification,
invalidity or unenforceability shall be strictly limited both to such provision
and to such jurisdiction, and in each case to no other. Furthermore,
in the event of any such modification, invalidity or unenforceability, this
Agreement shall be interpreted so as to achieve the intent expressed herein to
the greatest extent possible in the jurisdiction in question and otherwise as
set forth herein.
Section
11.12 Survival.
Those
agreements and undertakings set forth herein which by their terms contemplate
that they shall survive the withdrawal of a Limited Partner or the termination
of the Fund shall do so.
Section
11.13 Equitable
Relief.
Each
Limited Partner agrees that, subject to Section 11.16, the Fund and
General Partner would be subject to potentially irreparable injury as a result
of any breach by such Limited Partner of the covenants and agreements set forth
in this Agreement, and that monetary damages would not be sufficient to
compensate or make whole either the Fund or the General Partner for any such
breach. Accordingly, each Limited Partner agrees that, subject to
Section 11.16, the Fund
and General Partner, separately or together, shall be entitled to equitable and
injunctive relief, on an emergency, temporary, preliminary and/or permanent
basis, to prevent any such breach or the continuation thereof.
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Section
11.14 Compliance with the Advisers
Act and the 1940 Act.
All
Limited Partners acknowledge and agree that Declaration is registered as an
“investment adviser” under the Advisers Act and the Fund as a CNMIC under the
1940 Act and that, accordingly, the provisions of this Agreement are in all
cases to be interpreted in a manner consistent with Declaration’s obligations
under the Advisers Act and so that the Fund is operated in a manner consistent
with the 1940 Act (even if doing so effectively amends the terms of this
Agreement).
Section
11.15 No
Waiver of Federal or State Securities Law Claims.
None of
the various exculpatory or indemnification provisions of this Agreement are to
be interpreted as in any respect resulting in a Limited Partner waiving any
rights or claims which such Limited Partner may have under any federal or state
securities laws.
Section
11.16 Exclusions.
In the
event that a Limited Partner is prevented or constricted by Law or governmental
policy from providing indemnification or set-off, being subject to a penalty,
waiving trial by jury, consenting to a given venue in the case of a proceeding
or agreeing to be subject to equitable relief, such Limited Partner shall be
excused from such provisions (unless otherwise permitted to be subject
thereto).
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the
parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above
written.
THE
GENERAL PARTNER
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