“Qualified institutional buyer”
means:
(1) Any of the following entities, acting for its own account or the accounts of other qualified institutional buyers, that in the aggregate owns and invests on a discretionary
basis at least $100 million in securities of issuers that are not affiliated with the entity:
(a) Any insurance company as defined in Section 2(a)(13) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”)
(Note: A purchase by an insurance company for one or more of its separate accounts, as defined by section 2(a)(37) of the Investment Company Act of 1940,
as amended (the “Investment Company Act”), which are neither registered under Section 8 of the Investment Company Act nor required to be so registered, shall be
deemed to be a purchase for the account of such insurance company);
(b)
Any investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, or any business development company as defined in Section 2(a)(48)
of the Investment Company Act;
(c) Any Small Business Investment Company licensed by the
U.S. Small Business Administration under Section 301(c) or (d) of the
Small Business Investment Act of 1958 or any Rural Business
Investment Company as defined in section 384A of the Consolidated
Farm and Rural Development Act;
(d) Any
plan established and maintained by a state, its political subdivisions, or any
agency or instrumentality of a state or its political subdivisions, for the
benefit of its employees
(e) Any
employee benefit plan within the meaning of Title I of the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974 as amended;
(f)
Any trust fund whose trustee is a bank or trust company and whose participants are exclusively plans of the types identified in paragraphs (D) or (E) above,
except trust funds that include as participants individual retirement accounts or H.R. 10 plans.
(g)
Any business development company as defined in section 202(a)(22) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Advisers Act”);
(h)
Any organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, corporation
(other than a bank as defined in section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act or a savings and loan
association or other institution referenced in section 3(a)(5)(A) of the Securities Act or a foreign
bank or savings and loan association or equivalent institution), partnership, limited liability
company, or Massachusetts or similar business trust;
(i)
Any investment adviser registered under the Investment
Advisers Act; and
(j)
Any institutional accredited investor, as defined in rule 501(a) under the Act (17 CFR 230.501(a)), of a type not listed in paragraphs (A) through (I) above or
paragraphs (2) through (6) below.
(2)
Any dealer registered pursuant to section 15 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), acting for its own account or the
accounts of other qualified institutional buyers, that in the aggregate owns and invests on a discretionary basis at least $ 10 million of securities of
issuers that are not affiliated with the dealer; provided, that securities constituting the whole or a part of an unsold allotment to or subscription by a
dealer as a participant in a public offering shall not be deemed to be owned by such dealer;
(3)
Any dealer registered pursuant to Section 15 of the Exchange Act
acting in a riskless principal transaction on behalf of a
Qualified Institutional Buyer;
(4)
Any investment company registered under the Investment Company Act, acting for its own account or for the accounts of other qualified institutional buyers,
that is part of a family of investment companies which own in the aggregate at least $ 100 million in securities of issuers, other than issuers that are
affiliated with the investment company or are part of such family of investment companies. Family of investment companies means any two or more investment
companies registered under the Investment Company Act, except for a unit investment trust whose assets consist solely of shares of one or more registered
investment companies, that have the same investment adviser (or, in the case of unit investment trusts, the same depositor), provided that, for purposes of this
section:
(a)
Each series of a series company (as defined in Rule 18f-2 under the Investment Company Act) shall be deemed to be a separate investment company; and
(b)
Investment companies shall be deemed to have the same adviser (or depositor) if their advisers (or depositors) are majority-owned subsidiaries of the same parent, or if one investment company’s adviser (or depositor) is a majority-owned subsidiary of the other investment company’s adviser (or depositor);
(5) Any entity, all of the equity owners of which are qualified institutional buyers, acting for its own account or the accounts of other qualified institutional buyers; and
(6) Any bank as defined in section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act, any savings and loan association or other institution as referenced in section 3(a)(5)(A)
of the Securities Act, or any foreign bank or savings and loan association or equivalent institution, acting for its own account or the accounts of other
qualified institutional buyers, that in the aggregate owns and invests on a discretionary basis at least $ 100 million in securities of issuers that are not
affiliated with it and that has an audited net worth of at least $ 25 million as demonstrated in its latest annual financial statements, as of a date not more
than 16 months preceding the date of sale under the rule in the case of a U.S. bank or savings and loan association, and not more than 18 months preceding such
date of sale for a foreign bank or savings and loan association or equivalent institution.
For purposes of the foregoing definition:
(1) In determining the
aggregate amount of securities owned and invested on a discretionary basis by an
entity, the following instruments and interests shall be excluded: bank deposit
notes and certificates of deposit; loan participations; repurchase agreements;
securities owned but subject to a repurchase agreement; and currency, interest
rate and commodity swaps.
(2) The aggregate value of securities owned and invested on a discretionary basis by an entity shall be the cost of such securities, except where the entity
reports its securities holdings in its financial statements on the basis of their market value, and no current information with respect to the cost of those
securities has been published. In the latter event, the securities may be valued at market for purposes of the foregoing definition.
(3) In determining the
aggregate amount of securities owned by an entity and invested on a
discretionary basis, securities owned by subsidiaries of the entity that are
consolidated with the entity in its financial statements prepared in accordance
with generally accepted accounting principles may be included if the investments
of such subsidiaries are managed under the direction of the entity, except that,
unless the entity is a reporting company under Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act, securities owned by such subsidiaries may not be included if the
entity itself is a majority-owned subsidiary that would be included in the
consolidated financial statements of another enterprise.
(4) “Riskless principal transaction” means a transaction in which a dealer buys a security from any person and makes a simultaneous offsetting sale of such
security to a qualified institutional buyer, including another dealer acting as riskless principal for a qualified institutional buyer.