DEFINITIONS
“ United States person” shall mean an individual who is a citizen of the United States or a resident alien for U.S. federal income tax purposes; a corporation, an entity taxable as a corporation, or a partnership created or organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state or political subdivision thereof or therein (including the District of Columbia); an estate, the income of which is subject to U.S. federal income taxation regardless of its source; or a trust if (y) a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over its administration and one or more United States persons have the authority to control all of its substantial decisions or (z) such trust was in existence on August 20, 1996 and was treated as a domestic trust on August 19, 1996 and such trust has a valid election in effect under applicable U.S. Treasury regulations to be treated as a United States person.
“ Net Worth” shall mean, in calculating the Investor’s “net worth”: (i) the Investor’s primary residence shall not be included as an asset; (ii) indebtedness that is secured by the Investor’s primary residence, up to the estimated fair market value of the primary residence at the time of the closing on the Investor’s investment in the Fund (the “Closing”), shall not be included as a liability (except that if the amount of such indebtedness outstanding at the time of the Closing exceeds the amount outstanding 60 days before such time, other than as a result of the acquisition of the primary residence, the amount of such excess shall be included as a liability); and (iii) indebtedness that is secured by the Investor’s primary residence in excess of the estimated fair market value of the primary residence at the time of the Closing shall be included as a liability. In calculating the Investor’s joint net worth with the Investor’s spouse, the Investor’s spouse’s primary residence (if different from the Investor’s own primary residence) and indebtedness secured by such primary residence should be treated in a similar manner.
“ Investments” shall mean any of the following:
(1) “Securities” as such term is defined by Section 2(a)(1) of the Securities Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, securities of an issuer that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the Investor shall not be deemed Investments unless the issuer is:
(i) An investment company or a company that would be an investment company but for the exclusions provided by Sections 3(c)(1) through 3(c)(9) of the Companies Act, a foreign bank or insurance company, an issuer of asset-backed securities that meets certain requirements or a commodity pool;
(ii) A company whose equity securities are listed on a national securities exchange, traded on Nasdaq or listed on a “designated offshore securities market” (as defined by Regulation S promulgated pursuant to the Securities Act); or
(iii) A company with shareholders’ equity of not less than $50,000,000 (determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) as reflected on the company’s most recent financial statements (provided such financial statements present information as of a date not more than sixteen (16) months preceding the Investor’s investment in the Fund).
(2) Real estate held for investment purposes (i.e., not used by the undersigned for personal purposes or as a place of business or in connection with the trade or business of the undersigned).
(3) “Commodity Interest” (i.e., commodities futures contracts, options on such contracts or options on commodities that are traded on or subject to the rules of (i) any contract market designated for trading under the Commodity Exchange Act and rules thereunder or (ii) any board of trade or exchange outside the United States, as contemplated in Part 30 of the rules under the Commodity Exchange Act) held for investment purposes.
(4) Physical commodities (with respect to which a Commodity Interest is traded on a market specified in paragraph 3 above) held for investment purposes.
(5) Financial contracts within the meaning of Section 3(c)(2)(B)(ii) of the Companies Act held for investment purposes.
(6) If the Investor is a company that would be an investment company but for the exclusion provided by Section 3(c)(1) or 3(c)(7) of the Companies Act, or a commodity pool, any amounts payable to the Investor pursuant to a binding commitment pursuant to which a person has agreed to acquire an interest in, or make capital contributions to, the Investor upon demand by the Investor.
(7) Cash and cash equivalents (including bank deposits, certificates of deposit, bankers acceptances and similar bank instruments held for investment purposes and the net cash surrender value of insurance policies).
“ Valued” shall mean either the fair market value or cost of Investments net of the following deductions:
(1) the amount of any outstanding indebtedness incurred to acquire such Investments; and
(2) if the holder of the Investment is a company, any outstanding indebtedness incurred by any owner of such company to acquire such Investments.