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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Investment Company Act Release No. 27747; 813-284]

 
SA Investment Partners LLC, et al.; Notice of Application

March 5, 2007.
AGENCY: Securities and Exchange Commission (``Commission'').

ACTION: Notice of an application for an order under sections 6(b) and 
6(e) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the ``Act'') granting an 
exemption from all provisions of the Act, except section 9, and 
sections 36 through 53, and the rules and regulations under the Act. 
With respect to sections 17 and 30 of the Act, and the rules and 
regulations thereunder, and rule 38a-1 under the Act, the exemption is 
limited as set forth in the application.

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Summary of Application: Applicants request an order to exempt certain 
investment funds formed for the benefit of eligible current and former 
employees of Sidley Austin LLP and its affiliates from certain 
provisions of the Act. Each fund will be an employees' securities 
company within the meaning of section 2(a)(13) of the Act.

Applicants: SA Investment Partnership LLC (the ``Investment Fund''), 
and Sidley Austin LLP and any entity controlling, controlled by, or 
under common control with Sidley Austin LLP (the ``Firm'').

Filing Dates: The application was filed on July 26, 2000, and amended 
on March 8, 2001, March 23, 2001, November 14, 2003, and November 13, 
2006. Applicants have agreed to file an amendment during the notice 
period, the substance of which is reflected in this notice.

Hearing or Notification of Hearing: An order granting the application 
will be issued unless the Commission orders a hearing. Interested 
persons may request a hearing by writing to the Commission's Secretary 
and serving applicants with a copy of the request, personally or by 
mail. Hearing requests should be received by the Commission by 5:30 
p.m. on, March 30, 2007, and should be accompanied by proof of service 
on applicants, in the form of an affidavit, or for lawyers, a 
certificate of service. Hearing requests should state the nature of the 
writer's interest, the reason for the request, and the issues 
contested. Persons who wish to be notified of a hearing may request 
notification by writing to the Commission's Secretary.

ADDRESSES: Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street, 
NE., Washington, DC 20549-1090; Applicants: One South Dearborn, 
Chicago, IL 60603.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Deepak T. Pai, Senior Counsel, at 
(202) 551-6876 or Julia Kim Gilmer, Branch Chief, at (202) 551-6821, 
(Division of Investment Management, Office of Investment Company 
Regulation).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The following is a summary of the 
application. The complete application may be obtained for a fee at the 
Commission's Public Reference Branch, 100 F Street, NE., Washington, DC 
20549-0102 (telephone (202) 551-5850).

Applicants' Representations

    1. The Firm is a law firm organized as a Delaware limited liability 
partnership. The Investment Fund is a Delaware limited liability 
company. Applicants may offer additional pooled investment vehicles to 
the same class of investors eligible to invest in the Investment Fund 
(the ``Subsequent Funds,'' and together with the Investment Fund, the 
``Funds'') which will be substantially similar in all material respects 
to the Investment Fund except for investment objectives and strategies, 
operational differences related to the form of organization, and 
differences which reflect revisions to applicable law. Each Subsequent 
Fund, if any, will be structured as a general partnership, limited 
partnership or limited liability company, although a Subsequent Fund 
could be structured as a corporation, trust or other entity. The Funds 
will operate as non-diversified, closed-end management investment 
companies.
    2. The Funds will enable Eligible Investors to participate in 
investment opportunities that come to the attention of the Firm. Each 
entity in which a Fund invests is referred to as a ``Portfolio 
Company.'' Participation as investors in a Fund will allow Eligible 
Investors (defined below) to diversify their investments and to have 
the opportunity to participate in investments that might not otherwise 
be available to them or that might be beyond their individual means.
    3. Interests in each Fund (``Interests'') will be offered and sold 
in reliance upon the exemption from registration contained in Section 
4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 (the ``Securities Act'') or 
Regulation D under the Securities Act. Interests will be offered solely 
to investors who, at the time of the offer, are: (a) Eligible Employees 
(defined below); (b) trusts of which the trustees and/or grantors are 
Eligible Employees or of which the sole beneficiaries are Eligible 
Employees and their immediate family members (spouses, parents, 
brothers, sisters, children, spouses of children, and grandchildren) 
(``Eligible Trusts''); (c) entities, all of the voting power of which 
is controlled by Eligible Employees \1\ (together with Eligible Trusts, 
``Qualified Investment Vehicles''); (d) spouses of Eligible Employees; 
and (e) the Firm (collectively, ``Eligible Investors'').
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    \1\ The inclusion of entities controlled by an Eligible Employee 
in the definition of Eligible Investor is intended to enable 
Eligible Employees and their immediate family members to make 
investments in the Funds through private investment vehicles for the 
purpose of personal and family investment and estate planning 
objectives. Eligible Employees will exercise investment discretion 
and control over these investment vehicles, thereby creating a close 
nexus between the Firm and these investment vehicles.
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    4. ``Eligible Employees'' are current or former partners of the 
Firm, lawyers and other professionals employed by the Firm, and certain 
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employees of the Firm involved in managing the day-to-day affairs of 
the Funds.\2\ An Eligible Employee must be either an accredited 
investor who meets the income requirements in rule 501(a)(6) of 
regulation D under the Securities Act, or, one of a maximum of 35 
people (collectively, ``Non-Accredited Investors'') who: (a) Meets the 
sophistication requirements in rule 506(b)(2)(ii) of regulation D under 
the Securities Act, has a graduate degree, a minimum of five years of 
legal or business experience, and compensation of at least $150,000 in 
the prior year and a reasonable expectation of at least $150,000 in 
each of the two immediately succeeding years; \3\ or (b) meets the 
definition of a knowledgeable employee in rule 3c-5 under the Act (with 
a Fund treated as though it were a covered company for purposes of the 
rule. Qualified Investment Vehicles that are not accredited investors 
must (a) have an Eligible Employee or a spouse of an Eligible Employee 
as the settlor, and the Eligible Employee as principal investment 
decision maker, and (b) be counted as one of the 35 Non-Accredited 
Investors.\4\ A spouse of an Eligible Employee must be an accredited 
investor who meets the requirements of rule 501(a)(5) or 501(a)(6) of 
regulation D under the Securities Act. Any other Eligible Investor must 
be an accredited investor as defined in rule 501(a) of Regulation D. 
Prior to offering Interests in a Fund to an Eligible Employee or a 
spouse of an Eligible Employee, the Managing Members (defined below) 
must reasonably believe that such individual has such knowledge, 
sophistication, and experience in business and financial matters to be 
capable of evaluating the merits and risks of participating in the 
Fund, is able to bear the economic risk of the investment and is able 
to afford a complete loss of the investment. Each investor in a Fund 
shall be a (``Member'') of such Fund.
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    \2\ Any such former partners, lawyers or employees will maintain 
a sufficiently close nexus with the Firm so as to preserve the 
community of interest between the Eligible Employee and the Firm.
    \3\ In addition, such Eligible Employee may not invest or commit 
to invest (as applicable) in any year more than 10% of such person's 
income from all sources for the immediately preceding year, in the 
aggregate in a Fund and in all other Funds in which that Eligible 
Employee has previously invested.
    \4\ If such Qualified Investment Vehicle is an entity other than 
a trust, the reference to ``settlor'' shall be construed to mean a 
person who created the vehicle, alone or together with others and 
who contributed funds or other assets to the vehicle.
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    5. Administration of the Funds, including the screening of 
investment opportunities, will be vested in one or more (``Managing 
Members'') who are also Eligible Investors. Managing Members may 
delegate certain functions to one or more investment committees 
consisting of partners or employees of the Firm or delegate investment 
decisions to one or more advisers (each, an ``Adviser''). An Adviser 
will either be an individual that is a Managing Member, or an entity 
that is wholly-owned by the Firm.\5\ An Eligible Investor who is a 
Managing Member will not receive any form of compensation for acting as 
a Managing Member.
    6. The Investment Fund will bear its own expenses. No fees or 
compensation shall be paid to the Firm by the Funds, except for the 
reimbursement of direct out of pocket costs of disbursements and 
expenses incurred on behalf of such Funds. These direct out of pocket 
expenses will not include any markup or profit component.
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    \5\ An Adviser will register as an investment adviser under the 
Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (``Advisers Act'') if required. Any 
performance fee or carried interest payable by a Fund to an Adviser 
(a) will be charged only if permitted by rule 205-3 under the 
Advisers Act if paid to an Adviser registered under the Advisers 
Act, and (b) will comply with section 205(b)(3) of the Advisers Act 
(with the Fund treated as if it were a business development company 
solely for the purpose of that section) if paid to an Adviser not 
registered under the Advisers Act. A `carried interest' is an 
allocation to an Adviser based on the net gains in addition to the 
amount allocable to the Adviser that is in proportion to its capital 
contributions, if any.
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    7. Each Eligible Investor will receive a copy of the organizational 
documents and offering memorandum for a Fund, which will disclose the 
Fund's specific investment objective and strategies and other material 
terms of the Fund, before investing in such Fund. Each Fund will send 
its Members an annual report regarding its operations which will 
contain audited financial statements. Each Fund will also transmit a 
report to each Member containing information on that Member's 
distributive share of income, gains, losses, credits and other items 
for federal and state income tax purposes, resulting from operations of 
the Fund that year. Members will not be entitled to redeem their 
Interests in the Investment Fund, but the Investment Fund may in the 
future be restructured to periodically repurchase Interests from 
Members. Subsequent Funds may also periodically repurchase Interests 
from Members. Except in the case of death, a Member will not be 
permitted to transfer or assign his or her Interest in the Investment 
Fund absent approval of a Managing Member. No fee will be charged in 
connection with the sale or a Fund's repurchase of Interests of the 
Funds.
    8. A Member may be required to withdraw from a Fund if that 
Member's continued participation would subject the Fund to possible 
adverse tax consequences, or violate applicable law or regulations. 
Upon withdrawal, the Member shall receive an amount equal to the 
Member's net capital contributions (capital contributions less all 
distributions received to the date of withdrawal) plus interest from 
the date each capital contribution was made at the prime rate.
    9. A Fund will not acquire any security issued by a registered 
investment company if immediately after the acquisition such Fund would 
own more than 3% of the total outstanding voting securities of the 
registered investment company.
    10. A Fund or Member will not borrow from any person if such 
borrowing would cause any person not named in section 2(a)(13) of the 
Act to own outstanding securities of the Fund (other than short term 
paper). Any borrowing by a Fund will be non-recourse to the Fund's 
Members.
    11. The applicants reserve the right to impose vesting provisions 
on a Member's investments in a Fund. In an investment program that 
provides for vesting, all or a portion of a Member's Interests would be 
treated as unvested, and vesting would occur over a specified period of 
time. To the extent a Member's Interests are or become vested, the 
termination of the Member's association or employment with the Firm 
would not affect the Member's rights with respect to the vested 
Interests. The portion of a Member's Interests that are unvested at the 
time of the termination of a Member's association or employment with 
the Firm may be subject to repurchase or cancellation by the Fund. Upon 
any repurchase or cancellation of all or a portion of a Member's 
Interests, the Fund will at a minimum pay to the Member the lesser of 
(a) the amount actually paid by the Member to acquire the Interests 
(plus interest at or above the prime rate, as determined by the 
Managing Members); and (b) the fair market value of the Interests 
determined at the time of repurchase or cancellation, as the case may 
be, as determined in good faith by the Managing Members. Any interest 
owed to a Member pursuant to (a) above will begin to accrue at the end 
of the investment period.

Applicants' Legal Analysis

    1. Section 6(b) of the Act provides, in part, that the Commission 
will exempt employees' securities companies from the provisions of the 
Act to the extent that the exemption is consistent with the protection 
of investors. Section 6(b)

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provides that the Commission will consider, in determining the 
provisions of the Act from which the company should be exempt, the 
company's form of organization and capital structure, the persons 
owning and controlling its securities, the price of the company's 
securities and the amount of any sales load, how the company's funds 
are invested, and the relationship between the company and the issuers 
of the securities in which it invests. Section 2(a)(13) defines an 
employees' securities company, in relevant part, as any investment 
company all of whose securities are beneficially owned (a) by current 
or former employees, or persons on retainer, of one or more affiliated 
employers, (b) by immediate family members of such persons, or (c) by 
such employer or employers together with any of the persons in (a) or 
(b).
    2. Section 7 of the Act generally prohibits an investment company 
that is not registered under section 8 of the Act from selling or 
redeeming its securities. Section 6(e) provides that, in connection 
with any order exempting an investment company from any provision of 
section 7, certain provisions of the Act, as specified by the 
Commission, will be applicable to the company and other persons dealing 
with the company as though the company were registered under the Act. 
Applicants request relief under sections 6(b) and 6(e) of the Act for 
an exemption from all provisions of the Act except section 9 and 
sections 36 through 53, and the rules and regulations under the Act. 
With respect to sections 17 and 30 of the Act, and the rules and 
regulations thereunder, and rule 38a-1 under the Act, the exemption is 
limited as set forth in the application.
    3. Section 17(a) generally prohibits any affiliated person of a 
registered investment company, or any affiliated person of such an 
affiliated person, acting as principal, from knowingly selling or 
purchasing any security or other property to or from the company. 
Applicants request an exemption from section 17(a) to the extent 
necessary to permit a Fund: (a) To purchase, from the Firm or any 
affiliated person thereof, securities or interests in properties 
acquired for the account of the Firm or any affiliated person thereof; 
(b) to sell, to the Firm or any affiliated person thereof, securities 
or interests in properties previously acquired by the Funds; (c) to 
invest in companies, partnerships, or other investment vehicles 
offered, sponsored or managed by the Firm or any affiliated person 
thereof; (d) to invest in securities of issuers for which the Firm or 
any affiliated person thereof have performed services and from which 
they may have received fees; (e) to purchase interests in any company 
or other investment vehicle: (i) In which the Firm or its partners or 
employees own 5% or more of the voting securities, or (ii) that is 
otherwise an affiliated person of the Fund or the Firm (or any 
affiliated person of the Fund); and (f) to participate as a selling 
security holder in a public offering in which the Firm or any 
affiliated person thereof acts as or represents as counsel a member of 
the selling group or the issuer or underwriter.
    4. Applicants state that an exemption from Section 17(a) is 
consistent with the purposes of the Act and the protection of 
investors. Applicants state that the risks associated with a Fund 
engaging in transactions with affiliated parties will be disclosed to 
Eligible Investors. Applicants state that Eligible Investors, as 
financially sophisticated persons, will be able to understand and 
evaluate the risks associated with those dealings. Applicants also 
assert that the community of interest among the Members and the Firm 
will serve to reduce the risk of abuse in transactions involving a Fund 
and the Firm or any affiliated person thereof.
    5. Section 17(d) and rule 17d-1 thereunder prohibit any affiliated 
person of a registered investment company, or any affiliated person of 
such person, acting as principal, from participating in any joint 
arrangement with the company unless authorized by the Commission. 
Applicants request relief under section 17(d) and rule 17d-1 to the 
extent necessary to permit a Fund to engage in transactions in which an 
affiliated person of the Fund or an affiliated person of such person 
participates as a joint, or a joint and several participants with such 
Fund.
    6. Applicants submit that compliance with section 17(d) would cause 
the Funds to forgo investment opportunities simply because a Member, 
the Firm, or another affiliated person of a Fund made, or is 
concurrently making, an investment. Applicants also state that because 
certain attractive investment opportunities often require that each 
participant make available funds in an amount that may be substantially 
greater than that available to one Fund alone, there may be attractive 
opportunities that a Fund may be unable to take advantage of except as 
a co-participant with other persons, including affiliated persons. 
Applicants assert that the flexibility to structure co-investments and 
joint investments will not involve abuses of the type section 17(d) and 
rule 17d-1 were designed to prevent.
    7. Section 17(f) of the Act designates the entities that may act as 
investment company custodians, and rule 17f-2 allows an investment 
company to act as self-custodian, subject to certain requirements. 
Applicants request an exemption from section 17(f) and rule 17f-2 to 
permit the following exceptions from the requirements of rule 17f-2: 
(a) Compliance with paragraph (b) of the rule may be achieved through 
safekeeping in the locked files of the Firm, a partner of the Firm, or 
a senior administrator of the Firm; (b) for purposes of paragraph (d) 
of the rule, (i) employees of the Firm will be deemed employees of the 
Funds, (ii) officers and Managing Members of a Fund will be deemed to 
be officers of such Fund, and (iii) the Managing Members of a Fund will 
be deemed to be the board of directors of such Fund; and (c) instead of 
the verifications procedure under paragraph (f) of the rule, the 
verification will be effected quarterly by no fewer than two employees 
of the Firm. Applicants state that they expect that many of the Funds' 
investments are most suitably kept in the Firm's files where they can 
be referred to as necessary.
    8. Section 17(g) and rule 17g-1 generally require the bonding of 
officers and employees of a registered investment company who have 
access to its securities or funds. Rule 17g-1 requires that a majority 
of directors who are not interested persons take certain actions and 
give certain approvals relating to fidelity bonding. Paragraph (g) of 
rule 17g-1 sets forth certain materials relating to the fidelity bond 
that must be filed with the Commission and certain notices relating to 
the fidelity bond that must be given to each member of the investment 
company's board of directors. Paragraph (h) of rule 17g-1 provides that 
an investment company must designate one of its officers to make the 
filings and give the notices required by paragraph (g). Paragraph (j) 
of rule 17g-1 exempts a joint insured bond provided and maintained by 
an investment company and one or more other parties from section 17(d) 
of the Act and the rules thereunder, but also requires, in 17g-1(j)(3), 
that the board of directors of such company satisfy the fund governance 
standards in rule 0-1(a)(7).
    9. Applicants request an exemption from section 17(g) and rule 17g-
1 to the extent necessary to permit the Managing Members, who would all 
be considered interested persons of the Funds, to take the actions and 
make the approvals set forth in rule 17g-1. Applicants could not comply 
with rule 17g-1 absent such relief. Applicants also request an 
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believe that they are burdensome and unnecessary as applied to the 
Funds. The Managing Members will retain the materials required to be 
filed under 17g-1(g) and designate a person to maintain such records. 
Finally, applicants request an exemption from section 17g-1(j)(3) 
because the Funds will not have boards of directors. Additionally, in 
light of the purpose of the Funds and the community of interest among 
the Funds, and between the Funds and the Managing Members, applicants 
believe that little purpose would be served by this requirement.
    10. Section 17(j) and paragraph (b) of rule 17j-1 make it unlawful 
for certain enumerated persons to engage in fraudulent or deceptive 
practices in connection with the purchase or sale of a security held or 
to be acquired by a registered investment company. Rule 17j-1 also 
requires that every registered investment company adopt a written code 
of ethics and that every access person of a registered investment 
company report personal securities transactions. Applicants request an 
exemption from the requirements of rule 17j-1, except for the anti-
fraud provisions of paragraph (b), because they are unnecessarily 
burdensome as applied to the Funds and would serve little purpose in 
light of the community of interests among the Members of the Funds by 
virtue of their common association with the Firm.
    11. Applicants request an exemption from the requirements in 
sections 30(a), 30(b) and 30(e) of the Act, and the rules and 
regulations thereunder, that registered investment companies file with 
the Commission and mail their shareholders certain periodic reports and 
financial statements. Applicants contend that the forms prescribed by 
the Commission for periodic reports have little relevance to a Fund and 
would entail administrative and legal costs that outweigh any benefit 
to the Members. Applicants request exemptive relief to the extent 
necessary to permit a Fund to report annually to its Members in the 
manner described in the application. Applicants also request an 
exemption from section 30(h) of the Act to the extent necessary to 
exempt the Managing Members and any other persons who may be deemed to 
be members of an advisory board of a Fund from filing Forms 3, 4, and 
5, under Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended 
(``Exchange Act'') with respect to their ownership of Interests in a 
Fund. Applicants assert that, because there is no trading market for 
Interests and the transferability of Interests is severely restricted, 
these filings are unnecessary for the protection of investors and 
burdensome to those required to file them.
    12. Rule 38a-1 requires investment companies to adopt, implement 
and periodically review written policies and procedures reasonably 
designed to prevent violation of the federal securities laws, appoint a 
chief compliance officer and maintain certain records. The Funds will 
comply with rule 38a-1(a), (c) and (d), except that the Managing 
Members of each Fund will fulfill the responsibilities assigned to a 
Fund's board of directors under the rule, and since all Managing 
Members would be considered interested persons of the Funds, approval 
by a majority of the disinterested directors required by rule 38a-1 
will not be obtained.

Applicants' Conditions

    Applicants agree that any order granting the requested relief will 
be subject to the following conditions:
    1. Each proposed transaction to which a Fund is a party otherwise 
prohibited by section 17(a) or section 17(d) and Rule 17d-1 (the 
``Section 17 Transactions'') will be effected only if the Managing 
Members determine that: (a) The terms of the Section 17 Transaction, 
including the consideration to be paid or received, are fair and 
reasonable to the Members of the participating Fund and do not involve 
overreaching of the Fund or its Members on the part of any person 
concerned, and (b) the Section 17 Transaction is consistent with the 
interests of the Members of the participating Fund, the Fund's 
organizational documents and the Fund's reports to its Members. In 
addition, the Managing Members will record and preserve a description 
of Section 17 Transactions, their findings, the information or 
materials upon which their findings are based and the basis therefore. 
All such records will be maintained for the life of a Fund and at least 
six years thereafter, and will be subject to examination by the 
Commission and its staff. All such records will be maintained in an 
easily accessible place for at least the first two years.
    2. If purchases or sales are made by a Fund from or to a Portfolio 
Company affiliated with the Fund by reason of a partner or employee of 
the Firm (a) serving as officer, director, general partner or 
investment adviser of the Portfolio Company, or (b) having a 5% or more 
investment in the Portfolio Company, such individual will not 
participate in the Fund's determination of whether or not to effect the 
purchase or sale.
    3. The Managing Members will adopt, and periodically review and 
update, procedures designed to ensure that reasonable inquiry is made, 
prior to the consummation of any Section 17 Transaction, with respect 
to the possible involvement in the transaction of any affiliated person 
or promoter of or principal underwriter for the Funds, or any 
affiliated person of such a person, promoter, or principal underwriter.
    4. The Managing Members will not make available to the Members of a 
Fund any investment in which a Co-Investor (as defined below), with 
respect to any Fund, has or proposes to acquire the same class of 
securities of the same issuer, where the investment may involve a joint 
enterprise or other joint arrangement within the meaning of rule 17d-1 
in which the Fund and the Co-Investor are participants, unless any such 
Co-Investor, prior to disposing of all or part of its investment: (a) 
Gives the Managing Members of the participating Fund holding such 
investment sufficient, but not less than one day's, notice of its 
intent to dispose of its investment, and (b) refrains from disposing of 
its investment unless the participating Fund holding such investment 
has the opportunity to dispose of its investment prior to or 
concurrently with, on the same terms as, and on a pro rata basis with, 
the Co-Investor. The term (``Co-Investor'') with respect to any Fund, 
means any person who is: (a) An ``affiliated person'' (as such term is 
defined in section 2(a)(3) of the Act) of the Fund, (b) the Firm and 
any entities controlled by the Firm, (c) a current or former partner or 
employee of the Firm, (d) an investment vehicle offered, sponsored, or 
managed by the Firm or an affiliated person of the Firm, or (e) a 
company in which the Firm or a Managing Member acts as an officer, 
director, or general partner, or has a similar capacity to control the 
sale or disposition of the company's securities.
    The restrictions contained in this condition, however, shall not be 
deemed to limit or prevent the disposition of an investment by a Co-
Investor: (a) To its direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, to any 
company (a ``parent'') of which the Co-Investor is a direct or indirect 
wholly-owned subsidiary, or to a direct or indirect wholly-owned 
subsidiary of its parent, (b) to immediate family members of the Co-
Investor or a trust established for any such family member, (c) when 
the investment is comprised of securities that are listed on a national 
securities exchange registered under section 6 of the Exchange Act, or 
(d) when the investment is composed of securities that are national 
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system securities pursuant to section 11A(a)(2) of the Exchange Act and 
rule 11Aa2-1 thereunder.
    5. The Managing Members of each Fund will send to each Member who 
had an Interest in that Fund, at any time during the fiscal year then 
ended, Fund financial statements. Such financial statements shall be 
audited by independent accountants in accordance with United States 
generally accepted accounting principles. At the end of each fiscal 
year, the Managing Members will make a valuation or have a valuation 
made of all of the assets of the Fund as of such fiscal year end in a 
manner consistent with customary practice with respect to the valuation 
of assets of the kind held by the Fund. In addition, within 90 days 
after the end of each tax year of the Fund, or as promptly as 
practicable thereafter, the Managing Members shall send a report to 
each person who was a Member at any time during the fiscal year then 
ended, setting forth such tax information as shall be necessary for the 
preparation by the Member of his or her federal and state income tax 
returns and a report of the investment activities of the Fund during 
such year.
    6. Each Fund and its Managing Members will maintain and preserve, 
for the life of each such Fund and at least six years thereafter, such 
accounts, books, and other documents as constitute the record forming 
the basis for the financial statements and annual reports of such Fund 
to be provided to its Members, and agree that all such records will be 
subject to examination by the Commission and its staff. All such 
records will be maintained in an easily accessible place for at least 
the first two years.

    For the Commission, by the Division of Investment Management, 
under delegated authority.
Florence E. Harmon,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. E7-4291 Filed 3-9-07; 8:45 am]

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