Compensation; Allocation of Costs and Expenses In full consideration of the provision of the services of the Administrator, the Company shall reimburse the Administrator for the costs and expenses incurred by the Administrator in performing its obligations and providing personnel and facilities hereunder. The Company will bear all costs and expenses that are incurred in its operation and transactions that are not specifically assumed by the Company’s investment adviser, Gladstone Management Corporation (the “Adviser”), pursuant to that certain Amended and Restated Investment Advisory Agreement, dated the same date hereof by and between the Company and the Adviser. Costs and expenses to be borne by the Company include, but are not limited to, those relating to: organization and offering; expenses incurred by the Adviser payable to third parties, including agents, consultants or other advisors (such as independent valuation firms, accountants and legal counsel), in monitoring financial and legal affairs for the Company and in monitoring the Company’s investments and performing due diligence on its prospective portfolio companies; interest and fees payable on debt, if any, incurred to finance the Company’s investments; offerings of the Company’s common stock, preferred stock and other securities; investment advisory and management fees; administration fees, if any, payable under this Agreement; fees payable to third parties, including agents, consultants or other advisors, relating to, or associated with, evaluating and making investments; transfer agent and custodial fees; federal and state registration fees; all costs of registration and listing the Company’s shares on any securities exchange; federal, state and local taxes; independent directors’ fees and expenses; costs of preparing and filing reports or other documents required by the SEC; costs of any reports, proxy statements or other notices to stockholders, including printing costs; the Company’s allocable portion of the fidelity bond, directors and officers and errors and omissions liability insurance, and any other insurance premiums; direct costs and expenses of administration, including printing, mailing, long distance telephone, copying, secretarial and other staff, independent auditors and outside legal costs; and all other expenses incurred by the Company or the Administrator in connection with administering the Company’s business, including payments under this Agreement based upon the Company’s allocable portion of the Administrator’s overhead in performing its obligations under this Agreement, including rent, and the allocable portion of the salaries and benefits expenses of the Company’s chief compliance officer, treasurer, chief financial officer and controller and their respective staffs.
Costs and Expenses: Allocation of Costs A. The Transfer Agent will be responsible for all expenses, costs and other charges arising out of the performance of its obligations pursuant to this Contract, including the fees and disbursements of any third party retained to perform any of the services to the Fund on behalf of the Transfer Agent; all paper, typesetting, printing, stationery, envelopes, postage, labeling costs, mail sorting and other similar costs of preparing and mailing any dividend or redemption payment, all shareholder reports (including the cost of printing and mailing prospectuses sent to current shareholders, including the beneficial owners of Accounts), tax statements, confirmations, notices and statements of account; all telephone and computer equipment and usage charges; all personnel expenses, heat, light, rent, utilities, equipment purchases or rentals; all insurance premiums associated with FIIOC’s provision of services under this Contract, unless the Trustees of the Fund shall have specifically authorized an allocation of all or a portion of the premium to the Fund; all costs associated with the provision of check redemption services (including, the costs of printing and mailing of checks and checkbooks to shareholders, the charges of any vendor retained by the Fund to process checks for payment, and the charges of sending canceled checks to shareholders); and all other necessary expenses associated with the provision of services under the Contract. B. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Fund shall be required to bear all expenses for all Accounts associated with: (i) all fees and expenses of registering shares for sale under the state securities laws (“blue sky charges”); and (ii) the holding of annual or special meetings of Fund shareholders, including: the costs of typesetting, printing, postage and mailing of notices, proxy cards and proxy statements (and, if requested by a shareholder, annual reports sent to those shareholders that have opened accounts subsequent to the last regular mailing date of such reports to shareholders); the fees and other disbursements of any agent hired to mail proxy materials and/or tabulate proxies; all charges incurred by any proxy soliciting agent; the reasonable and customary fees and handling charges of brokers, banks and other intermediaries for forwarding proxy materials; all other customary expenses associated with the holding of shareholder meetings. C. The Fund shall not bear expenses for Accounts associated with charges of any bank for establishing and operating accounts for the receipt of funds for share purchases and the payment of dividends, distributions and redemption proceeds (together, “bank charges”). The Transfer Agent shall look exclusively to FMR for payment of bank charges. D. Any amounts earned by the bank accounts established pursuant to paragraph 3(D) above on overnight repurchase agreements or money market funds shall be allocated to the Fund on a pro rata basis based on the amount of moneys attributable to the Fund invested in such repurchase agreements or money market funds.
Allocation of Costs and Expenses The Company shall bear all costs and expenses for the administration of its business and shall reimburse the Adviser for any such costs and expenses that have been paid by the Adviser, or by any affiliate thereof, on behalf of the Company on the terms and conditions set forth in Section 6. These costs and expenses shall include, but not be limited to: (a) trust and organizational expenses relating to borrowings and offerings of the Shares and the Company’s other securities and incurrences of indebtedness, subject to limitations included in this Agreement; (b) the cost of calculating the Company’s net asset value, including the cost and expenses of any third-party valuation services; (c) the cost of effecting sales and repurchases of the Shares and any other securities of the Company; (d) expenses incurred by the Adviser or any affiliate thereof payable to third parties, including agents, consultants or other advisors (such as accountants and legal counsel); (e) fees payable to third parties relating to, or associated with, making, monitoring and disposing of investments, and valuing investments and enforcing contractual rights, including fees and expenses associated with performing due diligence reviews of prospective investments; (f) professional fees relating to investments, including expenses of consultants, investment bankers, attorneys, accountants and other experts; (g) fees, expenses, and costs relating to or associated with software tools, programs or other technology (including risk management software, fees to risk management services providers, third-party software licensing, implementation, data management and recovery services and custom development costs); (h) research and market data (including news and quotation equipment and services, and any computer hardware and connectivity hardware (e.g., telephone and fiber optic lines) incorporated into the cost of obtaining such research and market data); (i) all costs and charges for equipment or services used in communicating information regarding the Company’s transactions among the Adviser and any custodian or other agent engaged by the Company (j) all costs associated with the provision of information technology services; (k) federal and any state registration or notification fees; (l) the costs of preparing, printing and mailing reports and other communications, including tender offer correspondence, proxy statements, shareholder reports and notices or similar materials, to shareholders; (m) interest payable on debt, if any, incurred to finance the Company’s investments; (n) transfer agent and custodial fees; (o) fees and expenses associated with the Company’s marketing efforts (including travel and attendance at investment conferences and similar events); (p) all costs of registration and listing the Company’s securities on any securities exchange; (q) federal, state and local taxes; (r) fees and expenses of Independent Trustees (as defined below); (s) overhead costs, including rent, office supplies, utilities and capital equipment; (t) costs of preparing and filing reports or other documents required by the SEC or any other governmental agency; (u) costs of fidelity bond, trustees and officers/errors and omissions liability insurance and other insurance premiums; (v) direct costs and expenses of administration, including those relating to printing, mailing, long distance telephone, copying, secretarial and other and staff, independent auditors and outside legal costs; (w) fees and expenses associated with independent audits, outside legal costs, and tax returns, including compliance with the S▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ Act of 2002, the 1940 Act and applicable federal and state securities laws; (x) internal legal expenses (including those expenses associated with preparing the Company’s public filings, attending and preparing for board meetings, as applicable, and generally serving as counsel to the Company) (y) costs associated with the Company’s reporting and compliance obligations under the 1940 Act and applicable federal and state securities laws, including the cost of third-party service providers and any compliance program audit programs; (z) brokerage commissions for the Company’s investments; (aa) computer software specific to the business of the Company; (bb) any unreimbursed expenses incurred in connection with transactions not consummated; (cc) research and market data (including news and quotation equipment and services, and any computer hardware and connectivity hardware (e.g., telephone and fiber optic lines) incorporated into the cost of obtaining such research and market data); (dd) the costs of responding to regulatory requests; (ee) routine non-compensation overhead expenses of the Adviser and or any affiliate thereof in connection with administering the Company’s business; (ff) all other expenses incurred by the Company or the Adviser, or by any affiliate thereof that the Adviser has arranged to provide services to the Company, in connection with the administration of the Company’s business, including expenses incurred by the Adviser or any affiliate thereof in performing the Adviser’s obligations under this Agreement and the reimbursement of the allocable portion of the compensation of the Company’s chief financial officer, chief compliance officer and administrative support staff attributable to the Company, to the extent that they are not a person with a controlling interest in the Adviser or any of its affiliates, subject to the limitations included in this Agreement, as applicable; and (gg) any expenses incurred outside of the ordinary course of business, including, without limitation, costs incurred in connection with any claim, litigation, arbitration, mediation, government investigation or similar proceeding and indemnification expenses as provided for in the Fund’s and the Master Fund’s respective organizational documents.
CONTRACT LIMIT, FEES AND EXPENSES changing the not-to-exceed amount of the Contract from ONE MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED NINTY THOUSAND DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ($1,790,000.00) to TWO MILLION ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ($2,100,000.00), as approved by the Executive Director on October 22, 2021.
Delivery of Mortgage Loan Documents; Additional Costs and Expenses (a) The Purchaser hereby directs the Seller, and the Seller hereby agrees, such agreement effective upon the transfer of the Mortgage Loans as contemplated herein, to deliver to and deposit with (or to cause to be delivered to and deposited with) the Custodian (on behalf of the Trustee), with copies (other than with respect to an Outside Serviced Mortgage Loan) to be delivered to the Master Servicer, on the dates set forth in Section 2.01 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, all documents, instruments and agreements required to be delivered by the Purchaser, or contemplated to be delivered by the Seller (whether at the direction of the Purchaser or otherwise), to the Custodian and the Master Servicer, with respect to the Mortgage Loans under Section 2.01 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, and meeting all the requirements of such Section 2.01 of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement; provided that the Seller shall not be required to deliver any draft documents, privileged or other related Seller communications, credit underwriting, due diligence analyses or data, or internal worksheets, memoranda, communications or evaluations. With respect to letters of credit (exclusive of those relating to an Outside Serviced Mortgage Loan), the Seller shall deliver to the Master Servicer, and the Pooling and Servicing Agreement shall require the Master Servicer to hold, the original (or copy, if such original has been submitted by the Seller to the issuing bank to effect an assignment or amendment of such letter of credit (changing the beneficiary thereof to the Trustee (in care of the Master Servicer) for the benefit of Certificateholders and, if applicable, the related Serviced Companion Loan Holder(s), to the extent required in order for the Master Servicer to draw on such letter of credit on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of Certificateholders and, if applicable, the related Serviced Companion Loan Holder(s) in accordance with the applicable terms thereof and/or of the related Loan Documents)) and the Seller shall be deemed to have satisfied any such delivery requirements by delivering with respect to any letter(s) of credit a copy thereof to the Custodian together with an Officer’s Certificate of the Seller certifying that such document has been delivered to the Master Servicer or an Officer’s Certificate from the Master Servicer certifying that it holds the letter(s) of credit pursuant to Section 2.01(b) of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. If a letter of credit referred to in the previous sentence is not in a form that would allow the Master Servicer to draw on such letter of credit on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of Certificateholders and, if applicable, the related Serviced Companion Loan Holder(s) in accordance with the applicable terms thereof and/or of the related Loan Documents, the Seller shall deliver the appropriate assignment or amendment documents (or copies of such assignment or amendment documents if the Seller has submitted the originals to the related issuer of such letter of credit for processing) to the Master Servicer within 90 days of the Closing Date. The Seller shall pay any costs of assignment or amendment of such letter(s) of credit required in order for the Master Servicer to draw on such letter(s) of credit on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of Certificateholders and, if applicable, the related Serviced Companion Loan Holder(s), and shall cooperate with the reasonable requests of the Master Servicer or the Special Servicer, as applicable, in connection with effectuating a draw under any such letter of credit prior to the date such letter of credit is assigned or amended in order that it may be drawn by the Master Servicer on behalf of the Trustee for the benefit of Certificateholders and, if applicable, the related Serviced Companion Loan Holder(s). (b) Except with respect to any Outside Serviced Mortgage Loan, the Seller shall deliver to and deposit with (or cause to be delivered to and deposited with) the Master Servicer within five (5) Business Days after the Closing Date: (i) a copy of the Mortgage File; (ii) all documents and records not otherwise required to be contained in the Mortgage File that (A) relate to the origination and/or servicing and administration of the Mortgage Loans and any related Serviced Companion Loan(s), (B) are reasonably necessary for the ongoing administration and/or servicing of the Mortgage Loans (including any related asset summaries that were delivered to the Rating Agencies in connection with the rating of the Certificates, material notices related to tenant leases, and any related operating statements, financial statements, appraisals or similar reports) or any related Serviced Companion Loans or for evidencing or enforcing any of the rights of the holder of the Mortgage Loans or any related Serviced Companion Loans or holders of interests therein, and (C) are in the possession or under the control of the Seller; and (iii) all unapplied Escrow Payments and reserve funds in the possession or under control of the Seller that relate to the Mortgage Loans and any related Serviced Companion Loans together with a statement indicating which Escrow Payments and reserve funds are allocable to each Mortgage Loan or any related Serviced Companion Loan(s); provided that the Seller shall not be required to deliver any draft documents, privileged or other related Seller communications, credit underwriting, due diligence analyses or data, or internal worksheets, memoranda, communications or evaluations. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section 3(b) shall not apply to any Outside Serviced Mortgage Loan. (c) With respect to any Mortgage Loan secured by any Mortgaged Property that is subject to a franchise agreement with a related comfort letter in favor of the Seller that requires notice to or request of the related franchisor to transfer or assign any such related comfort letter to the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders or have a new comfort letter (or any such new document or acknowledgement as may be contemplated under the existing comfort letter) issued in the name of the Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders, the Seller or its designee shall, within 45 days of the Closing Date (or any shorter period if required by the applicable comfort letter), provide any such required notice or make any such required request to the related franchisor for the transfer or assignment of such comfort letter or issuance of a new comfort letter (or any such new document or acknowledgement as may be contemplated under the existing comfort letter), with a copy of such notice or request to the Custodian (who shall include such document in the related Mortgage File) and the Master Servicer, and the Master Servicer shall use reasonable efforts in accordance with the Servicing Standard to acquire such replacement comfort letter, if necessary (or to acquire any such new document or acknowledgement as may be contemplated under the existing comfort letter), and the Master Servicer shall, as soon as reasonably practicable following receipt thereof, deliver the original of such replacement comfort letter, new document or acknowledgement, as applicable, to the Custodian for inclusion in the Mortgage File. (d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, with respect to each Co-sponsored Mortgage Loan, the obligations of each of the Applicable Co-sponsors to deliver Mortgage Note(s) to the Custodian shall be limited to delivery to the Custodian of only the Mortgage Note(s) held by such Applicable Co-sponsor. With respect to each Co-sponsored Mortgage Loan, the obligations of each of the Applicable Co-sponsors to deliver the remaining portion of the related Mortgage File or any remaining document required to be delivered with respect thereto shall be joint and several, provided that any one of the Applicable Co-sponsors may deliver one Mortgage File (exclusive of the related Mortgage Notes) or one of any other remaining document required to be delivered with respect to such Co-sponsored Mortgage Loan hereunder and under the mortgage loan purchase agreement(s) between the Purchaser and the other Applicable Co-sponsor(s), and such delivery shall satisfy the corresponding delivery requirements for both the Seller and the other Applicable Co-sponsor(s). (e) Upon written request from the Special Servicer, the Seller shall deliver a power of attorney substantially in the form of Exhibit G to this Agreement to the Special Servicer, that permits the Special Servicer to take such other action as is necessary to effect the delivery, assignment and/or recordation of any documents and/or instruments relating to any Mortgage Loan which have not been delivered, assigned or recorded at the time required for enforcement actions by the Special Servicer on behalf of the Trust Fund.