expenses incurred in connection with litigation, proceedings, other claims, and the legal obligations of the Fund to indemnify its Trustees, officers, employees, shareholders, distributors, and agents with respect thereto; fees and expenses, including legal, printing and mailing, solicitation and other fees and expenses associated with and incident to shareholder meetings and proxy solicitations, shareholder proposals or other non-routine matters that are not initiated or proposed by Fund management organizational and offering expenses of the Fund, including registration (including Shares registration fees), legal, marketing, printing, accounting and other expenses, associated with organizing the Fund in its state of jurisdiction and in connection with the initial registration of the Fund under the 1940 Act and the initial registration of its Common Shares under the 1933 Act (i.e., through the effectiveness of the Fund's initial registration statement on Form N-2) and fees and expenses associated with seeking, applying for and obtaining formal exemptive, no-action and/or other relief from the SEC in connection with (i) the ability of the Fund to participate in certain co-investment transactions; and (ii) other types of exemptive relief that the Fund may pursue from the SEC in the future except as otherwise specified herein as an expense of PIMCO, any expenses allocated or allocable to a specific class of shares, including without limitation the Sub-Transfer Agency Expenses and distribution and/or service fees paid pursuant to a Rule 12b-1 or similar plan adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Fund for a particular share class; expenses of the Fund that are capitalized in accordance with U.S. GAAP; and expenses incurred, either directly or indirectly, through contracts or other arrangements with PIMCO or an affiliated or unaffiliated third-party.
The Fund (and/or one more of its special purpose entities) will engage or otherwise transact with one or more Service Providers (as defined below) in connection with its ongoing operations, including in respect of portfolio investments. “Service Providers” include consultants, advisors, transaction finders or sourcers, operating partners, loan and other servicers, loan and other originators, collateral managers, program managers, property and other asset managers, leasing agents, asset monitors and administrators (including copyright administrators), developers, project managers, investment bankers, brokers, accountants, valuation agents, waterfall agents, calculation agents, paying agents, billing and collection agents, trustees, master servicers, software providers, tax preparers and consultants, analytic service providers, technology professionals, pricing/modeling service providers, insurance providers, legal counsel, appraisers, industry or sector experts, joint venture partners and development partners, regulatory and compliance service providers, contract employees, outside legal counsel and/or temporary employees (as well as secondees of any of the foregoing), and other persons providing similar types of services, whether working onsite at PIMCO offices or offsite. Service Providers will provide services in respect of the Fund, its portfolio investments and/or the other entities in which the Fund invests.
Affiliated Service Providers; Dual Service Providers. Certain Service Providers are expected to be owned by or otherwise related to the Fund or another PIMCO client (e.g., originators and servicers), and in certain cases, Service Providers are expected to be, or be owned by, employed by, or otherwise related to, the Investment Manager, its affiliates and/or its respective employees, consultants and other personnel (See “— Services Company” below). In certain cases, Service Providers or personnel thereof will not be employees of PIMCO or its affiliates notwithstanding the fact that they will have attributes of “employees” of the Investment Manager or its affiliates (e.g., they will have dedicated offices at the Investment Manager or an affiliate thereof, use email addresses, telephone numbers and other contact information that are similar to those used by personnel of the Investment Manager or its affiliates, participate in general meetings and events for personnel of the Investment Manager or its affiliates, work on matters for the Investment Manager or its affiliates as their primary or sole business activity and/or be compensated on a weekly or monthly basis rather than on a project basis), and in other cases, such Service Providers will be an employee of the Investment Manager or its affiliates with respect to certain activities, even though they are not considered Investment Manager employees, affiliates or personnel for purposes of certain provisions of this prospectus and the Investment Management Agreement, including the portions thereof relating to Investment Manager expenses and Transaction Fees (“Dual Service Providers”).
Dual Service Providers will have a variety of roles and titles with respect to their employment with the Investment Manager or its affiliates, and will include legal, paralegal, finance, tax, accounting, technology, compliance, operational and asset management professionals and employees, among others. Portfolio managers, analysts and other investment professionals of the Investment Manager or its affiliates will also serve as Dual Service Providers.
Services Company. The Investment Manager has formed PIMCO Services LLC, a subsidiary of the Investment Manager (the “Services Company”), to serve as a Service Provider. Currently, all personnel of the Services Company are employees of the Investment Manager or an indirect subsidiary thereof and these individuals will be providing services on behalf of both the entity that employs them and the Services Company. In the future, some individuals may be employed by and provide services exclusively on behalf of the Services Company, while others will continue to be dual personnel of the Services Company and the Investment Manager or an affiliate thereof. The Fund may in the future use other affiliated Service Providers. For example, the Fund expects that it will retain a subsidiary of Columbia Property Trust (a REIT owned by certain affiliates of the Investment Manager).
The Services Company and/or other affiliated Service Providers may provide services in addition to those listed in this Prospectus, and if the costs of those services could be Fund expenses if provided by a third-party service provider then they will be Fund expenses when provided by the Services Company and/or any other affiliated Service Provider. Fees paid to the Services Company (and other affiliated Service Providers (including Dual Service Providers)) will not offset or otherwise reduce the fees payable to the Investment Manager. Although the Investment Manager has adopted various policies and procedures intended to mitigate or otherwise manage conflicts of interest, there can be no guarantee that such policies and procedures (which may be modified or terminated at any time in the Investment Manager’s sole discretion) will be successful.