Each Member agrees that such Member will, upon reasonable request by the Company, execute any forms or documents (including a power of attorney or settlement or closing agreement), provide any information (including an appropriate completed and executed Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 or W-8, as applicable) and take any further action reasonably requested by the Company, and that the Company may execute any forms or documents or obtain any information that the Company determines in good faith is reasonably necessary or advisable to execute or obtain on such Member’s behalf that relate to such Member’s investment in the Company, in connection with any tax matter affecting the Company; provided, that nothing in this Agreement or any Subscription Agreement shall require any Member to consent to the Company declaring or making a consent dividend under Section 561 of the Code.
12.7 GENERAL PROVISIONS.
12.7.1 Power of Attorney.
Each Member, by execution of this Agreement (including by execution of counterpart signature page hereto directly or via an attorney-in-fact), hereby constitutes and appoints any duly authorized representative of the Company as its true and lawful representative and its attorney-in-fact, in its name, place and stead (i) to make, execute, sign and file any amendment to the Certificate of the Company required because of an amendment to this Agreement, in order to effectuate any change in the Members or in the Commitments or Undrawn Commitments of the Members or otherwise, and all such other instruments, documents and certificates which may from time to time be required by the laws of the U.S., the State of Delaware, or any other state or any non-U.S. jurisdiction in which the Company shall determine to do business, or any political subdivision or agency thereof, to effectuate, implement, and continue the valid and subsisting existence of the Company, or in connection with any tax filings of the Company, or any and all instruments, certificates, and other documents that may be deemed necessary or desirable to effect the dissolution and winding-up of the Company (including a Certificate of Cancellation of the Company’s Certificate); (ii) to effect any amendment to this Agreement adopted in accordance with its terms; and (iii) to file, prosecute, defend, settle or compromise litigation, other claims or arbitration on behalf of the Company. The Company will promptly deliver to a Member a copy of each instrument, certificate or agreement executed by the Company or any of its representatives pursuant to any power of attorney granted to it by such Member pursuant to this Agreement or its Subscription Agreement.
Such representatives and attorneys-in-fact shall not, however, have any right, power or authority to amend or modify this Agreement when acting in such capacities, except as contemplated by clause (ii) of the immediately preceding paragraph. For the avoidance of doubt, any power of attorney granted by a Member under this Agreement is intended to be ministerial in scope and limited solely to those items permitted under the relevant grant of authority, and such powers of attorney are not intended to be a general grant of power to independently exercise discretionary judgment on the Member’s behalf or to vary the economic terms of the Member’s investment in the Company, reduce the Member’s legal liability protection, increase the Member’s liability exposure to third parties, or undertake any new obligations, undertakings or investments on behalf of the Member (in each case to the extent not already specifically provided for in this Agreement).
The power of attorney granted hereby is coupled with an interest and shall (i) be irrevocable for so long as a Member remains a Member, (ii) be deemed to be given to secure a proprietary interest of the donee of the power or performance of an obligation owed to the donee, (iii) survive and shall not be affected by the subsequent death, lack of capacity, dissolution, insolvency, termination or bankruptcy of any Member granting the same, and (iv) extend to such Member’s successors, assigns and legal representatives. In the event of any conflict between this Agreement and any instruments executed, delivered, or filed by the Company pursuant to this power of attorney, this Agreement shall prevail. The Company may exercise this power of attorney by listing all of the Members executing any agreement, certificate, instrument, or document with the single signature of the attorney-in-fact as attorney-in-fact for all Members. The Company’s and the Investment Adviser’s (and their representatives’) right to exercise the power of attorney set out in the Subscription Agreement and this Agreement in respect of a Member shall automatically terminate upon the termination of the Investment Advisory Agreement.
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