Covenants of the Partner Counterparty Clause Samples
Covenants of the Partner Counterparty
Covenants of the Partnership The Partnership covenants with the Underwriters as follows: (a) The Partnership, subject to Section 5(b), will comply with the requirements of Rule 430A under the Securities Act or Rule 430B under the Securities Act, as applicable, and, during the period mentioned in Section 5(g) below, will notify the Underwriters promptly, and confirm the notice in writing, (i) when any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement shall become effective, or any supplement to the Prospectus or any amended Prospectus shall have been filed, (ii) of the receipt of any comments from the Commission, (iii) of any request by the Commission for any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or for additional information and (iv) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or of any order by any Governmental Authority or regulatory authority preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus, or of the suspension of the qualification of the Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, or of the initiation or threatening of any proceedings for any of such purposes. The Partnership will make every reasonable effort to prevent the issuance of any order referred to in clause (iv) of the preceding sentence and, if any such order is issued, to obtain the lifting thereof at the earliest possible moment. The Partnership will promptly effect the filings necessary pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act and will take such steps as it deems necessary to ascertain promptly whether the form of prospectus transmitted for filing under Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act was received for filing by the Commission and, in the event that it was not, it will promptly file such prospectus. (b) To furnish to you, without charge, a signed copy of the Registration Statement (including exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference) and to deliver to you as many copies of the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Prospectus, any documents incorporated by reference therein and any supplements and amendments thereto or to the Registration Statement as you may reasonably request. (c) Before amending or supplementing the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus during the period mentioned in Section 5(g) below, to furnish to you a copy of each such proposed amendment or supplement and not to file any such proposed amendment or supplement to which you reasonably object, and to file with the Commission within the applicable period specified in Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act any prospectus required to be filed pursuant to such Rule. (d) During the period mentioned in Section 5(g) below, to furnish to you a copy of each proposed free writing prospectus to be prepared by or on behalf of, used by, or referred to by the Partnership and not to use or refer to any proposed free writing prospectus to which you reasonably object. (e) Not to take any action that would result in the Underwriters or the Partnership being required to file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act a free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of the Underwriters that the Underwriters otherwise would not have been required to file thereunder. (f) If the Time of Sale Prospectus is being used to solicit offers to buy the Securities at a time when the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers and any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which it is necessary to amend or supplement the Time of Sale Prospectus so that the Time of Sale Prospectus will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or if it is necessary to amend or supplement the Time of Sale Prospectus to comply with applicable law, forthwith to prepare, file with the Commission and furnish, at its own expense, to the Underwriters and to any dealer upon request, either amendments or supplements to the Time of Sale Prospectus so that the statements in the Time of Sale Prospectus as so amended or supplemented will not, include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or so that the Time of Sale Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, will comply with applicable law. (g) If, during such period after the first date of the public offering of the Securities as the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Securities Act) is required by law to be delivered in connection with sales by the Underwriters or a dealer, any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus so that the Prospectus will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or if it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus to comply with applicable law, forthwith to prepare, file with the Commission and furnish, at its own expense, to the Underwriters and to the dealers (whose names and addresses you will furnish to the Partnership) to which Securities may have been sold by you on behalf of the Underwriters and to any other dealers upon request, either amendments or supplements to the Prospectus so that the statements in the Prospectus as so amended or supplemented will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading or so that the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, will comply with law. (h) To endeavor to qualify the Securities for offer and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions within the United States and its territories as you shall reasonably request; provided that in no event shall the Partnership be obligated to qualify to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not now so qualified or take any action that would subject it to general service of process suits, other than those arising out of the offering or sale of the Securities as contemplated by this Agreement and the Prospectus, in any jurisdiction where it is not now subject. (i) The Partnership will timely file such reports pursuant to the Exchange Act as are necessary in order to make generally available to its security holders and to you an earnings statement for the purpose of, and to provide the benefits contemplated by, the last paragraph of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations. (j) Through the Closing Date, the Partnership will not, without the prior written consent of the Managers, (i) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase or otherwise transfer or dispose of any debt securities, (ii) enter into any swap or any other agreement or any transaction that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequence of ownership of the Securities, or (iii) file with the Commission a registration statement, prospectus or prospectus supplement under the Securities Act relating to any debt securities, or publicly disclose the intention to effect any transaction described in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii), whether any such transaction described in clauses (i) or (ii) above is to be settled by delivery of debt securities, in cash or otherwise.
Covenants of the Parties The parties hereto agree that:
Covenants of the Fund The Fund covenants with the Underwriter as follows: (a) The Fund will use its best efforts (i) to cause the Registration Statement to become effective under the Securities Act, and will advise the Underwriter promptly as to the time at which the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto (including any post-effective amendment) becomes so effective and (ii) if required, to cause the issuance of any orders exempting the Fund from any provisions of the Investment Company Act, and the Fund will advise the Underwriter promptly as to the time at which any such orders are granted. (b) The Fund will notify the Underwriter immediately, and will confirm the notice in writing, (i) of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto (including any post-effective amendment), (ii) of the receipt of any comments from the Commission, (iii) of any request by the Commission for any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or for additional information, (iv) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose, and (v) of the issuance by the Commission of an order of suspension or revocation of the notification on Form N-8A of registration of the Fund as an investment company under the Investment Company Act or the initiation of any proceeding for that purpose. The Fund will make every reasonable effort to prevent the issuance of any stop order described in subsection (iv) hereunder or any order of suspension or revocation described in subsection (v) hereunder and, if any such stop order or order of suspension or revocation is issued, to obtain the lifting thereof at the earliest possible moment. If the Fund elects to rely on Rule 434 under the Rules and Regulations, the fund will prepare a term sheet that complies with the requirements of Rule 434 under the Rules and Regulations and the Fund will provide the Underwriter with copies of the form of Rule 434 Prospectus, in such number as the Underwriter may reasonably request by the close of business in New York on the business day immediately succeeding the date of the Pricing Agreement. (c) The Fund will give the Underwriter notice of its intention to file any amendment to the Registration Statement (including any post-effective amendment) or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus (including any revised prospectus which the Fund proposes for use by the Underwriter in connection with the offering of the Shares, which differs from the prospectus on file at the Commission at the time the Registration Statement becomes effective, whether such revised prospectus is required to be filed pursuant to Rule 497(c) or Rule 497(h) of the Rules and Regulations or any term sheet prepared in reliance on Rule 434 of the Rules and Regulations), whether pursuant to the Investment Company Act, the Securities Act, or otherwise, and will furnish the Underwriter with copies of any such amendment or supplement a reasonable amount of time prior to such proposed filing or use, as the case may be, and will not file any such amendment or supplement to which the Underwriter reasonably shall object. (d) The Fund will deliver to the Underwriter, as soon as practicable, two signed copies of the notification of registration and registration statement as originally filed and of each amendment thereto, in each case with two sets of the exhibits filed therewith, and also will deliver to the Underwriter a conformed copy of the registration statement as originally filed and of each amendment thereto (but without exhibits to the registration statement or any such amendment) for the Underwriter. (e) The Fund will furnish to the Underwriter, from time to time during the period when the Prospectus is required to be delivered under the Securities Act, such number of copies of the Prospectus (as amended or supplemented) as the Underwriter reasonably may request for the purposes contemplated by the Securities Act, or the Rules and Regulations. (f) If any event shall occur as a result of which it is necessary, in the opinion of counsel to the Fund and the Underwriter, to amend or supplement the Prospectus in order to make the Prospectus not misleading in the light of the circumstances existing at the time it is delivered to a purchaser, the Fund forthwith will amend or supplement the Prospectus by preparing and furnishing to the Underwriter a reasonable number of copies of an amendment or amendments of or a supplement or supplements to, the Prospectus (in form and substance satisfactory to counsel to the Fund and the Underwriter), so that, as so amended or supplemented, the Prospectus will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing at the time the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading. (g) The Fund will endeavor, in cooperation with the Underwriter, to qualify the Shares for offering and sale under the applicable securities laws of such states and other jurisdictions of the United States as the Underwriter may designate, and will maintain such qualifications in effect for a period of not less than one year after the date hereof. The Fund will file such statements and reports as may be required by the laws of each jurisdiction in which the Shares have been qualified as above provided. (h) The Fund will make generally available to its security holders as soon as practicable, but no later than 60 days after the close of the period covered thereby, an earnings statement (in form complying with the provisions of Rule 158 of the Rules and Regulations) covering a twelve-month period beginning not later than the first day of the Fund's fiscal quarter next following the "effective" date (as defined in said Rule 158) of the Registration Statement. (i) Between the date of this Agreement and the termination of any trading restrictions or Closing Time, whichever is later, the Fund will not, without your prior consent, offer or sell, or enter into any agreement to sell, any equity or equity related securities of the Fund other than the Shares and the Common Shares issued in reinvestment of dividends or distributions. (j) If, at the time that the Registration Statement becomes effective, any information shall have been omitted therefrom in reliance upon Rule 430A of the Rules and Regulations, then immediately following the execution of the Pricing Agreement, the Fund will prepare, and file or transmit for filing with the Commission in accordance with such Rule 430A and Rule 497(h) of the Rules and Regulations, copies of the amended Prospectus, or, if required by such Rule 430A, a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement (including an amended Prospectus), containing all information so omitted. (k) The Fund will use its best efforts to maintain its qualification as a regulated investment company under Subchapter M of the Code.
Covenants of the Manager The Manager covenants with the Company not to take any action that would result in the Company being required to file with the Commission under Rule 433(d) a free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of the Manager that otherwise would not be required to be filed by the Company thereunder, but for the action of the Manager.
Covenants of the Purchasers Each Purchaser covenants and agrees with the Company as follows: