81_FR_65869 81 FR 65684 - Altegris KKR Commitments Master Fund, et al.; Notice of Application

81 FR 65684 - Altegris KKR Commitments Master Fund, et al.; Notice of Application

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 185 (September 23, 2016)

Page Range65684-65689
FR Document2016-22905

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 185 (Friday, September 23, 2016)
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 185 (Friday, September 23, 2016)]
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[FR Doc No: 2016-22905]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. IC-32265; File No. 812-14410]


Altegris KKR Commitments Master Fund, et al.; Notice of 
Application

September 19, 2016.
AGENCY: Securities and Exchange Commission (``Commission'').

ACTION: Notice of application for an order under sections 17(d) and 
57(i) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the ``Act'') and rule 17d-
1 under the Act to permit certain joint transactions otherwise 
prohibited by sections 17(d) and 57(a)(4) of the Act and rule 17d-1 
under the Act.

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Summary of Application: Applicants request an order to permit certain 
business development companies (``BDC'') and closed-end management 
investment companies to co-invest in portfolio companies with each 
other and with affiliated investment funds.

Applicants: Altegris KKR Commitments Master Fund (the ``Company''); 
Altegris Advisors, L.L.C.; StepStone Group LP (``StepStone Group''); 
StepStone Group Real Assets LP, StepStone Group Real Estate LP, 
StepStone AMP (GP), LLC, StepStone Atlantic (GP), L.P., StepStone 
Capital III (GP), LLC, StepStone European Fund GP S.[agrave] r.l., 
StepStone Ferro (GP), LLC, StepStone K Opportunities (GP), LLC, 
StepStone Secondaries II (GP), LLC, StepStone Secondaries III (GP), 
S.[agrave] r.l., StepStone Secondaries III (GP), LLC, StepStone UWF 
Secondaries (GP), L.P., StepStone KF (GP), LLC, StepStone NPS Siera 
(GP), LLC, StepStone NPS PE (GP), LLC, StepStone Rivas (GP), LLC, 
StepStone FSS (GP), LLC, StepStone REP III (GP), LLC (collectively, 
with StepStone Group, the ``Existing StepStone Affiliated Advisers''); 
CGR/PE, LLC, StepStone AMP Opportunities Fund, L.P., StepStone Atlantic 
Fund, L.P. -- Private Markets Series 1 2014, StepStone Capital Partners 
III, L.P., StepStone Capital Partners III Offshore Holdings, L.P., SCP 
III Holding SCS, StepStone Ferro Opportunities Fund, L.P., StepStone K 
Strategic Opportunities Fund II, L.P., StepStone Secondary 
Opportunities Fund II Offshore Holdings, L.P., StepStone Secondary 
Opportunities Fund II, L.P., StepStone Secondary Opportunities Fund III 
Offshore Holdings, SCSp, StepStone Secondary Opportunities Fund, III, 
L.P., StepStone UWF Secondary Opportunities Fund, L.P., StepStone KF 
Infrastructure Fund, L.P., StepStone KF Private Equity Fund, L.P., 
StepStone NPS Infrastructure Fund, L.P., StepStone NPS Private Equity 
Fund, L.P., StepStone Rivas Private Equity Fund, L.P., StepStone FSS 
Opportunities Fund, L.P., Lexington C/RE, LLC, and StepStone Real 
Estate Partners III, L.P. (collectively, the ``Existing Affiliated 
Investors'').

Filing Dates: The application was filed on December 31, 2014, and 
amended on May 21, 2015, August 6, 2015, October 6, 2015, April 29, 
2016, July 6, 2016 and September 16, 2016.

Hearing or Notification of Hearing: An order granting the requested 
relief 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 October 14, 2016, and should be accompanied by proof of 
service on applicants, in the form of an affidavit or, for lawyers, a 
certificate of service. Pursuant to rule 0-5 under the Act, hearing 
requests should state the nature of the writer's interest, any facts 
bearing upon the desirability of a hearing on the matter, 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, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 100 F 
St. NE., Washington, DC 20549-1090. Applicants: Altegris Advisors, 
L.L.C. and the Company: 1200 Prospect Street, Suite 400, La Jolla, CA 
92037; the Existing StepStone Affiliated Advisers and the Existing 
Affiliated Investors: 885 Third Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Shapiro, Senior Counsel, at 
(202) 551-7758 or Mary Kay Frech, Branch Chief, at (202) 551-6821 
(Chief Counsel's Office, Division of Investment Management).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The following is a summary of the 
application. The complete application may be obtained via the 
Commission's Web site by searching for the file number, or for an 
applicant using the Company name box, at http://www.sec.gov/search/search.htm or by calling (202) 551-8090.

Applicants' Representations

    1. The Company was organized under Delaware law as a statutory 
trust for the purpose of operating as an externally-managed, non-
diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Company is a 
registered investment company under the Act. The Company's Objectives 
and Strategies \1\ are to seek long-term capital appreciation and the 
Company intends to allocate at least 80% of its assets to private 
equity-type investments sponsored or advised by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts 
& Co. L.P. (``Kohlberg Kravis Roberts'') or an affiliate of Kohlberg 
Kravis Roberts (collectively with its affiliates, ``KKR''), including 
primary offerings and secondary acquisitions of interests in

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alternative investment funds that pursue private equity strategies and 
co-investment opportunities in operating companies presented by such 
KKR investment funds. The Company may at any time determine to allocate 
its assets to investments not sponsored, issued by or otherwise linked 
to, KKR, or its affiliates and to strategies and asset classes not 
representative of private equity. The Company has a five member 
Board,\2\ which currently includes four persons who are not 
``interested persons'' of the Company within the meaning of section 
2(a)(19) of the Act.
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    \1\ ``Objectives and Strategies'' means a Regulated Entity's (as 
defined below) investment objectives and strategies, as described in 
the Regulated Entity's registration statement on Form N-2, other 
filings the Regulated Entity has made with the Commission under the 
Securities Act of 1933 (the ``Securities Act''), or under the 
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the Regulated Entity's reports 
to shareholders.
    \2\ The term ``Board'' refers to the board of trustees of the 
Company and the board of directors or trustees of any other 
Regulated Entity.
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    2. Altegris Advisors, L.L.C. is a Delaware limited liability 
company and is registered with the Commission as an investment adviser 
under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the ``Advisers Act''). 
Altegris Advisors, L.L.C. serves as the investment adviser to the 
Company.
    3. StepStone Group is a Delaware limited partnership and is 
registered with the Commission as an investment adviser under the 
Advisers Act. StepStone Group serves as the sub-adviser to the Company.
    4. Each Existing Affiliated Investor is a privately-offered fund 
that would be an investment company but for section 3(c)(1) or 3(c)(7) 
of the Act. An Existing StepStone Affiliated Adviser serves as the 
investment adviser to each Existing Affiliated Investor. Each Existing 
StepStone Affiliated Adviser either directly or indirectly controls, is 
controlled by, or is under common control with StepStone Group, and is 
registered as an investment adviser under the Advisers Act.
    5. Applicants seek an order (``Order'') to permit one or more 
Regulated Entities \3\ and/or one or more Affiliated Investors \4\ to 
participate in the same investment opportunities through a proposed co-
investment program (the ``Co-Investment Program'') where such 
participation would otherwise be prohibited under sections 17(d) and 
57(a)(4) and the rules under the Act. For purposes of the application, 
``Co-Investment Transaction'' means any transaction in which a 
Regulated Entity (or its Wholly-Owned Investment Subsidiary, as defined 
below) participated together with one or more other Regulated Entities 
and/or one or more Affiliated Investors in reliance on the requested 
Order. ``Potential Co-Investment Transaction'' means any investment 
opportunity in which a Regulated Entity (or its Wholly-Owned Investment 
Subsidiary) could not participate together with one or more Affiliated 
Investors and/or one or more other Regulated Entities without obtaining 
and relying on the Order.\5\ The term ``Advisor'' means any Altegris 
Advisor or any StepStone Affiliated Adviser.
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    \3\ ``Regulated Entity'' means the Company and any Future 
Regulated Entity. ``Future Regulated Entity'' means a closed-end 
management investment company (a) that is registered under the Act 
or has elected to be regulated as a BDC, (b) whose investment 
adviser is an Altegris Advisor and (c) whose investment sub-adviser 
is a StepStone Affiliated Adviser. ``Altegris Advisor'' means 
Altegris Advisors, L.L.C. or any future investment adviser that (i) 
controls, is controlled by or is under common control with Altegris 
Advisors, L.L.C., (ii) is registered as an investment adviser under 
the Advisers Act and (iii) is not a Regulated Entity or a subsidiary 
of a Regulated Entity. ``StepStone Affiliated Adviser'' means any 
Existing StepStone Affiliated Adviser or any future investment 
adviser that (i) controls, is controlled by or is under common 
control with StepStone Group, (ii) is registered as an investment 
adviser under the Advisers Act, and (iii) is not a Regulated Entity 
or a subsidiary of a Regulated Entity.
    \4\ ``Affiliated Investors'' means the Existing Affiliated 
Investors and any Future Affiliated Investor. ``Future Affiliated 
Investor'' means an entity (a) whose investment adviser is a 
StepStone Affiliated Adviser and (b) that would be an investment 
company but for section 3(c)(1) or 3(c)(7) of the Act.
    \5\ All existing entities that currently intend to rely upon the 
requested Order have been named as applicants. Any other existing or 
future entity that subsequently relies on the Order will comply with 
the terms and conditions of the application.
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    6. Applicants state that a Regulated Entity may, from time to time, 
form a Wholly-Owned Investment Subsidiary.\6\ Such a subsidiary would 
be prohibited from investing in a Co-Investment Transaction with any 
Affiliated Investor because it would be a company controlled by its 
parent Regulated Entity for purposes of section 57(a)(4) and rule 17d-
1. Applicants request that each Wholly-Owned Investment Subsidiary be 
permitted to participate in Co-Investment Transactions in lieu of its 
parent Regulated Entity and that the Wholly-Owned Investment 
Subsidiary's participation in any such transaction be treated, for 
purposes of the requested Order, as though the parent Regulated Entity 
were participating directly. Applicants represent that this treatment 
is justified because a Wholly-Owned Investment Subsidiary would have no 
purpose other than serving as a holding vehicle for the Regulated 
Entity's investments and, therefore, no conflicts of interest could 
arise between the Regulated Entity and the Wholly-Owned Investment 
Subsidiary. The Regulated Entity's Board would make all relevant 
determinations under the conditions with regard to a Wholly-Owned 
Investment Subsidiary's participation in a Co-Investment Transaction, 
and the Regulated Entity's Board would be informed of, and take into 
consideration, any proposed use of a Wholly-Owned Investment Subsidiary 
in the Regulated Entity's place. If the Regulated Entity proposes to 
participate in the same Co-Investment Transaction with any of its 
Wholly-Owned Investment Subsidiaries, the Board will also be informed 
of, and take into consideration, the relative participation of the 
Regulated Entity and the Wholly-Owned Investment Subsidiary.
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    \6\ The term ``Wholly-Owned Investment Subsidiary'' means an 
entity (i) that is wholly-owned by a Regulated Entity (with such 
Regulated Entity at all times holding, beneficially and of record, 
100% of the voting and economic interests); (ii) whose sole business 
purpose is to hold one or more investments on behalf of the 
Regulated Entity (and, in the case of an entity that is licensed by 
the Small Business Administration to operate under the Small 
Business Investment Act of 1958, as amended (the ``SBA Act''), as a 
small business investment company (an ``SBIC''), to maintain a 
license under the SBA Act and issue debentures guaranteed by the 
Small Business Administration); (iii) with respect to which the 
Regulated Entity's Board has the sole authority to make all 
determinations with respect to the entity's participation under the 
conditions of the application; and (iv) that would be an investment 
company but for section 3(c)(1) or 3(c)(7) of the Act. All 
subsidiaries participating in the Co-Investment Program will be 
Wholly-Owned Investment Subsidiaries and will have Objectives and 
Strategies that are either substantially the same as, or a subset 
of, their parent Regulated Entity's Objectives and Strategies. A 
subsidiary that is an SBIC may be a Wholly-Owned Investment 
Subsidiary if it satisfies the conditions in this definition.
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    7. It is anticipated that the StepStone Affiliated Advisers will 
periodically determine that certain investments a StepStone Affiliated 
Adviser recommends for a Regulated Entity would also be appropriate 
investments for one or more other Regulated Entities and/or one or more 
Affiliated Investors as Potential Co-Investment Transactions. Such a 
determination may result in the Regulated Entity, one or more other 
Regulated Entities and/or one or more Affiliated Investors co-investing 
in certain investment opportunities. For each such investment 
opportunity, the Advisors to each Regulated Entity will independently 
analyze and evaluate the investment opportunity as to its 
appropriateness for such Regulated Entity taking into consideration the 
Regulated Entity's Objectives and Strategies.
    8. Applicants state that Altegris Advisors, L.L.C. serves as the 
Company's investment adviser and either it or another Altegris Advisor 
will serve in the same capacity to any Future Regulated Entity, and 
that StepStone Group serves as the Company's sub-adviser and either it 
or another StepStone Affiliated Adviser will serve in the same capacity 
to any Future Regulated Entity. Applicants represent that although a 
StepStone Affiliated Adviser will identify and recommend

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investments \7\ for each Regulated Entity, prior to any investment by 
the Regulated Entity, the StepStone Affiliated Advisers will present 
each proposed investment to the relevant Altegris Advisor which has the 
authority to approve or reject all investments proposed for the 
Regulated Entity by a StepStone Affiliated Adviser.
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    \7\ Applicants represent that the Altegris Advisors will not 
source any Potential Co-Investment Transactions under the requested 
Order.
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    9. Applicants state that StepStone Group has an investment 
committee through which it will carry out its obligation under 
condition 1 to make a determination as to the appropriateness of a 
Potential Co-Investment Transaction for each Regulated Entity. 
Applicants represent that each StepStone Affiliated Adviser has 
developed a robust allocation process as part of its overall compliance 
policies and procedures. Applicants state that, in the case of a 
Potential Co-Investment Transaction, the applicable StepStone 
Affiliated Adviser would apply its allocation policies and procedures 
in determining the proposed allocation for the Regulated Entity 
consistent with the requirements of condition 2(a).
    10. Applicants state that, once the applicable StepStone Affiliated 
Adviser determined a proposed allocation for a Regulated Entity, such 
StepStone Affiliated Adviser would notify the applicable Altegris 
Advisor of the Potential Co-Investment Transaction and the StepStone 
Affiliated Adviser's recommended allocation for such Regulated Entity. 
Applicants further state that the applicable Altegris Advisor would 
review the StepStone Affiliated Adviser's recommendation for the 
Regulated Entity and would have the ability to ask questions of the 
StepStone Affiliated Adviser and request additional information from 
the StepStone Affiliated Adviser. Applicants further submit that if the 
applicable Altegris Advisor approved the investment for the Regulated 
Entity, the investment and all relevant allocation information would 
then be presented to the Regulated Entity's Board for its approval in 
accordance with the conditions to the application. Applicants state 
that they believe the investment process that will unfold between the 
StepStone Affiliated Adviser and the Altegris Advisors, prior to 
seeking approval from the Regulated Entity's Board (which is in 
addition to, rather than in lieu of, the procedures required under the 
conditions of the application), is significant and provides for 
additional procedures and processes to ensure that the Regulated Entity 
is being treated fairly in respect of Potential Co-Investment 
Transactions.
    11. If the Advisors to a Regulated Entity determine that a 
Potential Co-Investment Transaction is appropriate for the Regulated 
Entity (and the applicable Altegris Advisor approves the investment for 
such Regulated Entity), and one or more other Regulated Entities and/or 
one or more Affiliated Investors may also participate, the Advisors 
will present the investment opportunity to the Eligible Trustees \8\ of 
the Regulated Entity prior to the actual investment by the Regulated 
Entity. As to any Regulated Entity, a Co-Investment Transaction will be 
consummated only upon approval by a required majority of the Eligible 
Trustees of such Regulated Entity within the meaning of section 57(o) 
of the Act (``Required Majority'').\9\
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    \8\ ``Eligible Trustees'' means the trustees or directors of a 
Regulated Entity that are eligible to vote under section 57(o) of 
the Act.
    \9\ In the case of a Regulated Entity that is a registered 
closed-end fund, the trustees or directors that make up the Required 
Majority will be determined as if the Regulated Entity were a BDC 
subject to section 57(o). As defined in section 57(o), ``required 
majority'' means ``both a majority of a business development 
company's directors or general partners who have no financial 
interest in such transaction, plan, or arrangement and a majority of 
such directors or general partners who are not interested persons of 
such company.''
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    12. With respect to the pro rata dispositions and follow-on 
investments provided in conditions 7 and 8, a Regulated Entity may 
participate in a pro rata disposition or follow-on investment without 
obtaining prior approval of the Required Majority if, among other 
things: (i) The proposed participation of each Regulated Entity and 
Affiliated Investor in such disposition is proportionate to its 
outstanding investments in the issuer immediately preceding the 
disposition or follow-on investment, as the case may be; and (ii) each 
Regulated Entity's Board has approved that Regulated Entity's 
participation in pro rata dispositions and follow-on investments as 
being in the best interests of the Regulated Entity. If the Board does 
not so approve, any such disposition or follow-on investment will be 
submitted to the Regulated Entity's Eligible Trustees. The Board of any 
Regulated Entity may at any time rescind, suspend or qualify its 
approval of pro rata dispositions and follow-on investments with the 
result that all dispositions and/or follow-on investments must be 
submitted to the Eligible Trustees.
    13. No Independent Trustee of a Regulated Entity will have a 
financial interest in any Co-Investment Transaction.
    14. Under condition 15, if an Advisor or its principals, or any 
person controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the 
Advisor or its the principals, and any Affiliated Investors 
(collectively, the ``Holders'') own in the aggregate more than 25% of 
the outstanding voting securities of a Regulated Entity (``Shares''), 
then the Holders will vote such Shares as directed by an independent 
third party when voting on matters specified in the condition. 
Applicants believe that this condition will ensure that the Independent 
Trustees will act independently in evaluating the Co-Investment 
Program, because the ability of the Advisor or its principals to 
influence the Independent Trustees by a suggestion, explicit or 
implied, that the Independent Trustees can be removed will be limited 
significantly. Applicants represent that the Independent Trustees shall 
evaluate and approve any such independent third party, taking into 
account its qualifications, reputation for independence, cost to the 
shareholders, and other factors that they deem relevant.

Applicants' Legal Analysis

    1. Section 17(d) of the Act and rule 17d-1 under the Act prohibit 
participation by a registered investment company and an affiliated 
person in any ``joint enterprise or other joint arrangement or profit-
sharing plan,'' as defined in the rule, without prior approval by the 
Commission by order upon application. Section 17(d) of the Act and rule 
17d-1 under the Act are applicable to Regulated Entities that are 
registered closed-end investment companies. Similarly, with regard to 
BDCs, section 57(a)(4) of the Act makes it unlawful for any person who 
is related to a BDC in a manner described in section 57(b), acting as 
principal, knowingly to effect any transaction in which the BDC (or a 
company controlled by such BDC) is a joint or a joint and several 
participant with that person in contravention of rules as prescribed by 
the Commission. Because the Commission has not adopted any rules 
expressly under section 57(a)(4), section 57(i) provides that the rules 
under section 17(d) applicable to registered closed-end investment 
companies (e.g., rule 17d-1) are, in the interim, deemed to apply to 
transactions subject to section 57(a). Rule 17d-1, as made applicable 
to BDCs by section 57(i), prohibits any person who is related to a BDC 
in a manner described in section 57(b), as modified by rule 57b-1, from 
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participating in, or effecting any transaction in connection with, any 
joint enterprise or other joint arrangement or profit-sharing plan in 
which the BDC (or a company controlled by such BDC) is a participant, 
unless an application regarding the joint enterprise, arrangement, or 
profit-sharing plan has been filed with the Commission and has been 
granted by an order entered prior to the submission of the plan or any 
modification thereof, to security holders for approval, or prior to its 
adoption or modification if not so submitted.
    2. In passing upon applications under rule 17d-1, the Commission 
considers whether the company's participation in the joint transaction 
is consistent with the provisions, policies, and purposes of the Act 
and the extent to which such participation is on a basis different from 
or less advantageous than that of other participants.
    3. Applicants state that the Regulated Entities, by virtue of each 
having an Altegris Advisor, may be deemed to be under common control, 
and thus affiliated persons of each other under section 2(a)(3)(C) of 
the Act. Section 17(d) and section 57(b) apply to any investment 
adviser to a closed-end fund or a BDC, respectively, including the sub-
adviser. Thus, a StepStone Affiliated Adviser and any Affiliated 
Investors that it advises could be deemed to be persons related to 
Regulated Entities in a manner described by sections 17(d) and 57(b) 
and therefore prohibited by sections 17(d) and 57(a)(4) and rule 17d-1 
from participating in the Co-Investment Program. Applicants further 
submit that, because the StepStone Affiliated Advisers are ``affiliated 
persons'' of other StepStone Affiliated Advisers, Affiliated Investors 
advised by any of them could be deemed to be persons related to 
Regulated Entities (or a company controlled by a Regulated Entity) in a 
manner described by sections 17(d) and 57(b) and also prohibited from 
participating in the Co-Investment Program.
    4. Applicants state that they expect that that co-investment in 
portfolio investments by a Regulated Entity, one or more other 
Regulated Entities and/or one or more Affiliated Investors will 
increase favorable investment opportunities for each Regulated Entity.
    5. Applicants submit that the fact that the Required Majority will 
approve each Co-Investment Transaction before investment (except for 
certain dispositions or follow-on investments, as described in the 
conditions), and other protective conditions set forth in the 
application, will ensure that each Regulated Entity will be treated 
fairly. Applicants state that each Regulated Entity's participation in 
the Co-Investment Transactions will be consistent with the provisions, 
policies and purposes of the Act and on a basis that is not different 
from or less advantageous than that of other participants. Applicants 
further state that the terms and conditions proposed herein will ensure 
that all such transactions are reasonable and fair to each Regulated 
Entity and the Affiliated Investors and do not involve overreaching by 
any person concerned, including Altegris Advisors or the StepStone 
Affiliated Advisers.

Applicants' Conditions

    Applicants agree that the Order will be subject to the following 
conditions:
    1. Each time a StepStone Affiliated Adviser considers a Potential 
Co-Investment Transaction for an Affiliated Investor or another 
Regulated Entity that falls within a Regulated Entity's then-current 
Objectives and Strategies, the Advisors to the Regulated Entity will 
make an independent determination of the appropriateness of the 
investment for the Regulated Entity in light of the Regulated Entity's 
then-current circumstances.
    2. a. If the Advisors to a Regulated Entity deem participation in 
any Potential Co-Investment Transaction to be appropriate for the 
Regulated Entity, the Advisors will then determine an appropriate level 
of investment for such Regulated Entity.
    b. If the aggregate amount recommended by the Advisors to a 
Regulated Entity to be invested by the Regulated Entity in the 
Potential Co-Investment Transaction, together with the amount proposed 
to be invested by the other participating Regulated Entities and 
Affiliated Investors, collectively, in the same transaction, exceeds 
the amount of the investment opportunity, the amount of the investment 
opportunity will be allocated among the Regulated Entities and such 
Affiliated Investors, pro rata based on each participant's Available 
Capital \10\ for investment in the asset class being allocated, up to 
the amount proposed to be invested by each. The Advisors to each 
participating Regulated Entity will provide the Eligible Trustees of 
each participating Regulated Entity with information concerning each 
participating party's Available Capital to assist the Eligible Trustees 
with their review of the Regulated Entity's investments for compliance 
with these allocation procedures.
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    \10\ ``Available Capital'' means (a) for each Regulated Entity, 
the amount of capital available for investment determined based on 
the amount of cash on hand, existing commitments and reserves, if 
any, the targeted leverage level, targeted asset mix and other 
investment policies and restrictions set from time to time by the 
Board of the applicable Regulated Entity or imposed by applicable 
laws, rules, regulations or interpretations and (b) for each 
Affiliated Investor, the amount of capital available for investment 
determined based on the amount of cash on hand, existing commitments 
and reserves, if any, the targeted leverage level, targeted asset 
mix and other investment policies and restrictions set by the 
Affiliated Investor's directors, general partners or adviser or 
imposed by applicable laws, rules, regulations or interpretations.
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    c. After making the determinations required in conditions 1 and 
2(a) above, the Advisors to the Regulated Entity will distribute 
written information concerning the Potential Co-Investment Transaction, 
including the amount proposed to be invested by each Regulated Entity 
and any Affiliated Investor, to the Eligible Trustees of each 
participating Regulated Entity for their consideration. A Regulated 
Entity will co-invest with one or more other Regulated Entities and/or 
an Affiliated Investor only if, prior to the Regulated Entities' and 
the Affiliated Investors' participation in the Potential Co-Investment 
Transaction, a Required Majority concludes that:
    (i) The terms of the Potential Co-Investment Transaction, including 
the consideration to be paid, are reasonable and fair to the Regulated 
Entity and its shareholders and do not involve overreaching in respect 
of the Regulated Entity or its shareholders on the part of any person 
concerned;
    (ii) the Potential Co-Investment Transaction is consistent with:
    (A) The interests of the Regulated Entity's shareholders; and
    (B) the Regulated Entity's then-current Objectives and Strategies;
    (iii) the investment by any other Regulated Entity or an Affiliated 
Investor would not disadvantage the Regulated Entity, and participation 
by the Regulated Entity would not be on a basis different from or less 
advantageous than that of any other Regulated Entity or Affiliated 
Investor; provided, that if another Regulated Entity or Affiliated 
Investor, but not the Regulated Entity itself, gains the right to 
nominate a director for election to a portfolio company's board of 
directors or the right to have a board observer, or any similar right 
to participate in the governance or management of the portfolio 
company, such event shall not be interpreted to prohibit a Required 
Majority from reaching the conclusions required by this condition 
2(c)(iii), if:

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    (A) The Eligible Trustees will have the right to ratify the 
selection of such director or board observer, if any; and
    (B) the Advisors to the Regulated Entity agree to, and do, provide 
periodic reports to the Regulated Entity's Board with respect to the 
actions of such director or the information received by such board 
observer or obtained through the exercise of any similar right to 
participate in the governance or management of the portfolio company; 
and
    (C) any fees or other compensation that any other Regulated Entity 
or any Affiliated Investor or any affiliated person of any other 
Regulated Entity or an Affiliated Investor receives in connection with 
the right of one or more Regulated Entities or Affiliated Investors to 
nominate a director or appoint a board observer or otherwise to 
participate in the governance or management of the portfolio company 
will be shared proportionately among the participating Affiliated 
Investors (who may, in turn, share their portion with their affiliated 
persons) and any participating Regulated Entity in accordance with the 
amount of each party's investment; and
    (iv) the proposed investment by the Regulated Entity will not 
benefit the Advisors, any other Regulated Entity or the Affiliated 
Investors or any affiliated person of any of them (other than the 
parties to the Co-Investment Transaction), except (A) to the extent 
permitted by condition 13, (B) to the extent permitted under sections 
17(e) and 57(k) of the Act, as applicable, (C) in the case of fees or 
other compensation described in condition 2(c)(iii)(C), or (D) 
indirectly, as a result of an interest in the securities issued by one 
of the parties to the Co-Investment Transaction.
    3. Each Regulated Entity will have the right to decline to 
participate in any Potential Co-Investment Transaction or to invest 
less than the amount proposed.
    4. The Advisors will present to the Board of each Regulated Entity, 
on a quarterly basis, a record of all investments in Potential Co-
Investment Transactions made by any of the other Regulated Entities or 
any of the Affiliated Investors during the preceding quarter that fell 
within the Regulated Entity's then-current Objectives and Strategies 
that were not made available to the Regulated Entity, and an 
explanation of why the investment opportunities were not offered to the 
Regulated Entity. All information presented to the Board pursuant to 
this condition will be kept for the life of the Regulated Entity and at 
least two years thereafter, and will be subject to examination by the 
Commission and its staff.
    5. Except for follow-on investments made in accordance with 
condition 8,\11\ a Regulated Entity will not invest in reliance on the 
Order in any issuer in which another Regulated Entity or an Affiliated 
Investor or any affiliated person of another Regulated Entity or an 
Affiliated Investor is an existing investor.
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Regulated Entity in issuers in which that Regulated Entity already 
holds investments.
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    6. A Regulated Entity will not participate in any Potential Co-
Investment Transaction unless the terms, conditions, price, class of 
securities to be purchased, settlement date, and registration rights 
will be the same for each participating Regulated Entity and Affiliated 
Investor. The grant to one or more Regulated Entities or Affiliated 
Investors, but not the Regulated Entity itself, of the right to 
nominate a director for election to a portfolio company's board of 
directors, the right to have an observer on the board of directors or 
similar rights to participate in the governance or management of the 
portfolio company will not be interpreted so as to violate this 
condition 6, if conditions 2(c)(iii)(A), (B) and (C) are met.
    7. a. If any Regulated Entity or Affiliated Investor elects to 
sell, exchange or otherwise dispose of an interest in a security that 
was acquired by one or more Regulated Entities and/or Affiliated 
Investors in a Co-Investment Transaction, the Advisors will:
    (i) Notify each Regulated Entity that participated in the Co-
Investment Transaction of the proposed disposition at the earliest 
practical time; and
    (ii) formulate a recommendation as to participation by each 
Regulated Entity in the disposition.
    b. Each Regulated Entity will have the right to participate in such 
disposition on a proportionate basis, at the same price and on the same 
terms and conditions as those applicable to the Affiliated Investors 
and any other Regulated Entity.
    c. A Regulated Entity may participate in such disposition without 
obtaining prior approval of the Required Majority if: (i) The proposed 
participation of each Regulated Entity and each Affiliated Investor in 
such disposition is proportionate to its outstanding investments in the 
issuer immediately preceding the disposition; (ii) the Regulated 
Entity's Board has approved as being in the best interests of the 
Regulated Entity the ability to participate in such dispositions on a 
pro rata basis (as described in greater detail in the application); and 
(iii) the Regulated Entity's Board is provided on a quarterly basis 
with a list of all dispositions made in accordance with this condition. 
In all other cases, the Advisors will provide their written 
recommendation as to the Regulated Entity's participation to the 
Eligible Trustees, and the Regulated Entity will participate in such 
disposition solely to the extent that a Required Majority determines 
that it is in the Regulated Entity's best interests.
    d. Each Regulated Entity and each Affiliated Investor will bear its 
own expenses in connection with the disposition.
    8. a. If any Regulated Entity or Affiliated Investor desires to 
make a ``follow-on investment'' (i.e., an additional investment in the 
same entity, including through the exercise of warrants or other rights 
to purchase securities of the issuer) in a portfolio company whose 
securities were acquired by the Regulated Entity and the Affiliated 
Investor in a Co-Investment Transaction, the Advisors will:
    (i) Notify each Regulated Entity of the proposed transaction at the 
earliest practical time; and
    (ii) formulate a recommendation as to the proposed participation, 
including the amount of the proposed follow-on investment, by each 
Regulated Entity.
    b. A Regulated Entity may participate in such follow-on investment 
without obtaining prior approval of the Required Majority if: (i) The 
proposed participation of each Regulated Entity and each Affiliated 
Investor in such investment is proportionate to its outstanding 
investments in the issuer immediately preceding the follow-on 
investment; and (ii) the Regulated Entity's Board has approved as being 
in the best interests of such Regulated Entity the ability to 
participate in follow-on investments on a pro rata basis (as described 
in greater detail in the application). In all other cases, the Advisors 
will provide their written recommendation as to such Regulated Entity's 
participation to the Eligible Trustees, and the Regulated Entity will 
participate in such follow-on investment solely to the extent that the 
Required Majority determines that it is in such Regulated Entity's best 
interests.
    c. If, with respect to any follow-on investment:
    (i) The amount of a follow-on investment is not based on the 
Regulated Entities' and the Affiliated Investors' outstanding 
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immediately preceding the follow-on investment; and
    (ii) the aggregate amount recommended by the Advisors to be 
invested by the Regulated Entity in the follow-on investment, together 
with the amount proposed to be invested by the other participating 
Regulated Entities and the Affiliated Investors in the same 
transaction, exceeds the amount of the opportunity; then the amount 
invested by each such party will be allocated among them pro rata based 
on each participant's Available Capital for investment in the asset 
class being allocated, up to the amount proposed to be invested by 
each.
    d. The acquisition of follow-on investments as permitted by this 
condition will be considered a Co-Investment Transaction for all 
purposes and be subject to the other conditions set forth in the 
application.
    9. The Independent Trustees of each Regulated Entity will be 
provided quarterly for review all information concerning Potential Co-
Investment Transactions and Co-Investment Transactions, including 
investments made by other Regulated Entities or Affiliated Investors 
that a Regulated Entity considered but declined to participate in, so 
that the Independent Trustees may determine whether all investments 
made during the preceding quarter, including those investments which 
the Regulated Entity considered but declined to participate in, comply 
with the conditions of the Order. In addition, the Independent Trustees 
will consider at least annually the continued appropriateness for such 
Regulated Entity of participating in new and existing Co-Investment 
Transactions.
    10. Each Regulated Entity will maintain the records required by 
section 57(f)(3) of the Act as if each of the Regulated Entities were a 
BDC and each of the investments permitted under these conditions were 
approved by a Required Majority under section 57(f).
    11. No Independent Trustee of a Regulated Entity will also be a 
trustee, director, general partner, managing member or principal, or 
otherwise an ``affiliated person'' (as defined in the Act) of any 
Affiliated Investor.
    12. The expenses, if any, associated with acquiring, holding or 
disposing of any securities acquired in a Co-Investment Transaction 
(including, without limitation, the expenses of the distribution of any 
such securities registered for sale under the Securities Act) shall, to 
the extent not payable by the Advisors under their respective advisory 
agreements with the Regulated Entities and the Affiliated Investors, be 
shared by the Regulated Entities and the Affiliated Investors in 
proportion to the relative amounts of the securities held or to be 
acquired or disposed of, as the case may be.
    13. Any transaction fee (including break-up or commitment fees but 
excluding brokers' fees contemplated by section 17(e) or 57(k) of the 
Act, as applicable) \12\ received in connection with a Co-Investment 
Transaction will be distributed to the participating Regulated Entities 
and Affiliated Investors on a pro rata basis based on the amount they 
invested or committed, as the case may be, in such Co-Investment 
Transaction. If any transaction fee is to be held by an Advisor pending 
consummation of the transaction, the fee will be deposited into an 
account maintained by the Advisor at a bank or banks having the 
qualifications prescribed in section 26(a)(1) of the Act, and the 
account will earn a competitive rate of interest that will also be 
divided pro rata among the participating Regulated Entities and 
Affiliated Investors based on the amount they invest in the Co-
Investment Transaction. None of the other Regulated Entities, 
Affiliated Investors, the Advisors nor any affiliated person of the 
Regulated Entities or the Affiliated Investors will receive additional 
compensation or remuneration of any kind as a result of or in 
connection with a Co-Investment Transaction (other than (a) in the case 
of the Regulated Entities and the Affiliated Investors, the pro rata 
transaction fees described above and fees or other compensation 
described in condition 2(c)(iii)(c) and (b) in the case of the 
Advisors, investment advisory fees paid in accordance with the 
Regulated Entities' and the Affiliated Investors' investment advisory 
agreements).
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providing any relief for transaction fees received in connection 
with any Co-Investment Transaction.
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    14. The Advisors to the Regulated Entities and Affiliated Investors 
will maintain written policies and procedures reasonably designed to 
ensure compliance with the foregoing conditions. These policies and 
procedures will require, among other things, that each of the Advisors 
to each Regulated Entity will be notified of all Potential Co-
Investment Transactions that fall within a Regulated Entity's then-
current Objectives and Strategies and will be given sufficient 
information to make its independent determination and recommendations 
under conditions 1, 2(a), 7 and 8.
    15. If the Holders own in the aggregate more than 25 percent of the 
shares of a Regulated Entity, then the Holders will vote such shares as 
directed by an independent third party when voting on (1) the election 
of directors or trustees; (2) the removal of one or more directors or 
trustees; or (3) any matters requiring approval by the vote of a 
majority of the outstanding voting securities, as defined in section 
2(a)(42) of the Act.

    For the Commission, by the Division of Investment Management, 
under delegated authority.
Robert W. Errett,
Deputy Secretary.
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                                                II. EA Summary                                          SUMMARY OF APPLICATION:      Applicants               personally or by mail. Hearing requests
                                                   The NRC has prepared the EA to                       request an order to permit certain                    should be received by the Commission
                                                evaluate the potential environmental                    business development companies                        by 5:30 p.m. on October 14, 2016, and
                                                impacts of the excavation of four                       (‘‘BDC’’) and closed-end management                   should be accompanied by proof of
                                                trenches at the project site. In                        investment companies to co-invest in                  service on applicants, in the form of an
                                                                                                        portfolio companies with each other and               affidavit or, for lawyers, a certificate of
                                                accordance with Section 7 of the
                                                                                                        with affiliated investment funds.                     service. Pursuant to rule 0–5 under the
                                                Endangered Species Act of 1973, as
                                                                                                        APPLICANTS: Altegris KKR Commitments                  Act, hearing requests should state the
                                                amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), the
                                                                                                        Master Fund (the ‘‘Company’’); Altegris               nature of the writer’s interest, any facts
                                                NRC staff requested informal
                                                                                                        Advisors, L.L.C.; StepStone Group LP                  bearing upon the desirability of a
                                                consultation with the United States Fish
                                                                                                        (‘‘StepStone Group’’); StepStone Group                hearing on the matter, the reason for the
                                                and Wildlife Service. No concerns were
                                                                                                        Real Assets LP, StepStone Group Real                  request, and the issues contested.
                                                identified for Federally listed species or
                                                                                                        Estate LP, StepStone AMP (GP), LLC,                   Persons who wish to be notified of a
                                                designated critical habitat. This project
                                                                                                        StepStone Atlantic (GP), L.P., StepStone              hearing may request notification by
                                                is temporary, minimally invasive, and
                                                                                                        Capital III (GP), LLC, StepStone                      writing to the Commission’s Secretary.
                                                will occur outside the critical nesting
                                                times for migratory birds.                              European Fund GP S.à r.l., StepStone                 ADDRESSES: Secretary, U.S. Securities
                                                   The NRC determined that there will                   Ferro (GP), LLC, StepStone K                          and Exchange Commission, 100 F St.
                                                be no adverse effects to any historic or                Opportunities (GP), LLC, StepStone                    NE., Washington, DC 20549–1090.
                                                cultural resources that may be located at               Secondaries II (GP), LLC, StepStone                   Applicants: Altegris Advisors, L.L.C.
                                                                                                        Secondaries III (GP), S.à r.l., StepStone            and the Company: 1200 Prospect Street,
                                                the Pritchett site.
                                                                                                        Secondaries III (GP), LLC, StepStone                  Suite 400, La Jolla, CA 92037; the
                                                   The NRC has determined that there
                                                                                                        UWF Secondaries (GP), L.P., StepStone                 Existing StepStone Affiliated Advisers
                                                will be no significant impacts to any
                                                                                                        KF (GP), LLC, StepStone NPS Siera                     and the Existing Affiliated Investors:
                                                other resource areas (e.g., surface water,
                                                                                                        (GP), LLC, StepStone NPS PE (GP), LLC,                885 Third Avenue, 17th Floor, New
                                                groundwater, air quality) as a result of
                                                                                                        StepStone Rivas (GP), LLC, StepStone                  York, NY 10022.
                                                the proposed trench excavations,
                                                followed by the backfilling of these                    FSS (GP), LLC, StepStone REP III (GP),                FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
                                                trenches at the conclusion of the study.                LLC (collectively, with StepStone                     Robert Shapiro, Senior Counsel, at (202)
                                                                                                        Group, the ‘‘Existing StepStone                       551–7758 or Mary Kay Frech, Branch
                                                III. Finding of No Significant Impact                   Affiliated Advisers’’); CGR/PE, LLC,                  Chief, at (202) 551–6821 (Chief
                                                  On the basis of the EA, the NRC has                   StepStone AMP Opportunities Fund,                     Counsel’s Office, Division of Investment
                                                concluded that there are no significant                 L.P., StepStone Atlantic Fund, L.P. —                 Management).
                                                environmental impacts from the                          Private Markets Series 1 2014,                        SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
                                                proposed work and has determined not                    StepStone Capital Partners III, L.P.,                 following is a summary of the
                                                to prepare an environmental impact                      StepStone Capital Partners III Offshore               application. The complete application
                                                statement. The EA and the associated                    Holdings, L.P., SCP III Holding SCS,                  may be obtained via the Commission’s
                                                FONSI are publicly available in ADAMS                   StepStone Ferro Opportunities Fund,                   Web site by searching for the file
                                                under Accession No. ML16257A012.                        L.P., StepStone K Strategic                           number, or for an applicant using the
                                                                                                        Opportunities Fund II, L.P., StepStone                Company name box, at http://
                                                  Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 15 day              Secondary Opportunities Fund II                       www.sec.gov/search/search.htm or by
                                                of September, 2016.
                                                  For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
                                                                                                        Offshore Holdings, L.P., StepStone                    calling (202) 551–8090.
                                                                                                        Secondary Opportunities Fund II, L.P.,
                                                John P. Burke,
                                                                                                        StepStone Secondary Opportunities                     Applicants’ Representations
                                                Chief, Structural, Geotechnical, and Seismic            Fund III Offshore Holdings, SCSp,                        1. The Company was organized under
                                                Engineering Branch, Division of Engineering,                                                                  Delaware law as a statutory trust for the
                                                Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
                                                                                                        StepStone Secondary Opportunities
                                                                                                        Fund, III, L.P., StepStone UWF                        purpose of operating as an externally-
                                                [FR Doc. 2016–22987 Filed 9–22–16; 8:45 am]                                                                   managed, non-diversified, closed-end
                                                                                                        Secondary Opportunities Fund, L.P.,
                                                BILLING CODE 7590–01–P                                                                                        management investment company. The
                                                                                                        StepStone KF Infrastructure Fund, L.P.,
                                                                                                        StepStone KF Private Equity Fund, L.P.,               Company is a registered investment
                                                                                                        StepStone NPS Infrastructure Fund,                    company under the Act. The Company’s
                                                SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE                                 L.P., StepStone NPS Private Equity                    Objectives and Strategies 1 are to seek
                                                COMMISSION                                              Fund, L.P., StepStone Rivas Private                   long-term capital appreciation and the
                                                                                                        Equity Fund, L.P., StepStone FSS                      Company intends to allocate at least
                                                [Release No. IC–32265; File No. 812–14410]              Opportunities Fund, L.P., Lexington C/                80% of its assets to private equity-type
                                                                                                        RE, LLC, and StepStone Real Estate                    investments sponsored or advised by
                                                Altegris KKR Commitments Master                         Partners III, L.P. (collectively, the                 Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P.
                                                Fund, et al.; Notice of Application                     ‘‘Existing Affiliated Investors’’).                   (‘‘Kohlberg Kravis Roberts’’) or an
                                                                                                        FILING DATES: The application was filed               affiliate of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
                                                September 19, 2016.
                                                                                                        on December 31, 2014, and amended on                  (collectively with its affiliates, ‘‘KKR’’),
                                                AGENCY:  Securities and Exchange                                                                              including primary offerings and
                                                Commission (‘‘Commission’’).                            May 21, 2015, August 6, 2015, October
                                                                                                        6, 2015, April 29, 2016, July 6, 2016 and             secondary acquisitions of interests in
                                                ACTION: Notice of application for an
                                                                                                        September 16, 2016.
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                                                order under sections 17(d) and 57(i) of                                                                          1 ‘‘Objectives and Strategies’’ means a Regulated
                                                                                                        HEARING OR NOTIFICATION OF HEARING: An
                                                the Investment Company Act of 1940                                                                            Entity’s (as defined below) investment objectives
                                                                                                        order granting the requested relief will              and strategies, as described in the Regulated
                                                (the ‘‘Act’’) and rule 17d–1 under the
                                                                                                        be issued unless the Commission orders                Entity’s registration statement on Form N–2, other
                                                Act to permit certain joint transactions                                                                      filings the Regulated Entity has made with the
                                                                                                        a hearing. Interested persons may
                                                otherwise prohibited by sections 17(d)                                                                        Commission under the Securities Act of 1933 (the
                                                                                                        request a hearing by writing to the
                                                and 57(a)(4) of the Act and rule 17d–1                                                                        ‘‘Securities Act’’), or under the Securities Exchange
                                                                                                        Commission’s Secretary and serving                    Act of 1934, and the Regulated Entity’s reports to
                                                under the Act.
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                                                alternative investment funds that pursue                  investment opportunities through a                         Investment Transactions in lieu of its
                                                private equity strategies and co-                         proposed co-investment program (the                        parent Regulated Entity and that the
                                                investment opportunities in operating                     ‘‘Co-Investment Program’’) where such                      Wholly-Owned Investment Subsidiary’s
                                                companies presented by such KKR                           participation would otherwise be                           participation in any such transaction be
                                                investment funds. The Company may at                      prohibited under sections 17(d) and                        treated, for purposes of the requested
                                                any time determine to allocate its assets                 57(a)(4) and the rules under the Act. For                  Order, as though the parent Regulated
                                                to investments not sponsored, issued by                   purposes of the application, ‘‘Co-                         Entity were participating directly.
                                                or otherwise linked to, KKR, or its                       Investment Transaction’’ means any                         Applicants represent that this treatment
                                                affiliates and to strategies and asset                    transaction in which a Regulated Entity                    is justified because a Wholly-Owned
                                                classes not representative of private                     (or its Wholly-Owned Investment                            Investment Subsidiary would have no
                                                equity. The Company has a five member                     Subsidiary, as defined below)                              purpose other than serving as a holding
                                                Board,2 which currently includes four                     participated together with one or more                     vehicle for the Regulated Entity’s
                                                persons who are not ‘‘interested                          other Regulated Entities and/or one or                     investments and, therefore, no conflicts
                                                persons’’ of the Company within the                       more Affiliated Investors in reliance on                   of interest could arise between the
                                                meaning of section 2(a)(19) of the Act.                   the requested Order. ‘‘Potential Co-                       Regulated Entity and the Wholly-Owned
                                                   2. Altegris Advisors, L.L.C. is a                      Investment Transaction’’ means any                         Investment Subsidiary. The Regulated
                                                Delaware limited liability company and                    investment opportunity in which a                          Entity’s Board would make all relevant
                                                is registered with the Commission as an                   Regulated Entity (or its Wholly-Owned                      determinations under the conditions
                                                investment adviser under the                              Investment Subsidiary) could not                           with regard to a Wholly-Owned
                                                Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the                      participate together with one or more                      Investment Subsidiary’s participation in
                                                ‘‘Advisers Act’’). Altegris Advisors,                     Affiliated Investors and/or one or more                    a Co-Investment Transaction, and the
                                                L.L.C. serves as the investment adviser                   other Regulated Entities without                           Regulated Entity’s Board would be
                                                to the Company.                                           obtaining and relying on the Order.5                       informed of, and take into
                                                   3. StepStone Group is a Delaware                       The term ‘‘Advisor’’ means any Altegris                    consideration, any proposed use of a
                                                limited partnership and is registered                     Advisor or any StepStone Affiliated                        Wholly-Owned Investment Subsidiary
                                                with the Commission as an investment                      Adviser.                                                   in the Regulated Entity’s place. If the
                                                adviser under the Advisers Act.                              6. Applicants state that a Regulated                    Regulated Entity proposes to participate
                                                StepStone Group serves as the sub-                        Entity may, from time to time, form a                      in the same Co-Investment Transaction
                                                adviser to the Company.                                   Wholly-Owned Investment Subsidiary.6                       with any of its Wholly-Owned
                                                   4. Each Existing Affiliated Investor is                Such a subsidiary would be prohibited                      Investment Subsidiaries, the Board will
                                                a privately-offered fund that would be                    from investing in a Co-Investment                          also be informed of, and take into
                                                an investment company but for section                     Transaction with any Affiliated Investor                   consideration, the relative participation
                                                3(c)(1) or 3(c)(7) of the Act. An Existing                because it would be a company                              of the Regulated Entity and the Wholly-
                                                StepStone Affiliated Adviser serves as                    controlled by its parent Regulated Entity                  Owned Investment Subsidiary.
                                                the investment adviser to each Existing                   for purposes of section 57(a)(4) and rule                     7. It is anticipated that the StepStone
                                                Affiliated Investor. Each Existing                        17d–1. Applicants request that each                        Affiliated Advisers will periodically
                                                StepStone Affiliated Adviser either                       Wholly-Owned Investment Subsidiary                         determine that certain investments a
                                                directly or indirectly controls, is                       be permitted to participate in Co-                         StepStone Affiliated Adviser
                                                controlled by, or is under common                                                                                    recommends for a Regulated Entity
                                                control with StepStone Group, and is                      entity (a) whose investment adviser is a StepStone         would also be appropriate investments
                                                registered as an investment adviser                       Affiliated Adviser and (b) that would be an                for one or more other Regulated Entities
                                                under the Advisers Act.                                   investment company but for section 3(c)(1) or
                                                                                                          3(c)(7) of the Act.
                                                                                                                                                                     and/or one or more Affiliated Investors
                                                   5. Applicants seek an order (‘‘Order’’)                   5 All existing entities that currently intend to rely   as Potential Co-Investment
                                                to permit one or more Regulated                           upon the requested Order have been named as                Transactions. Such a determination may
                                                Entities 3 and/or one or more Affiliated                  applicants. Any other existing or future entity that       result in the Regulated Entity, one or
                                                Investors 4 to participate in the same                    subsequently relies on the Order will comply with          more other Regulated Entities and/or
                                                                                                          the terms and conditions of the application.
                                                                                                             6 The term ‘‘Wholly-Owned Investment                    one or more Affiliated Investors co-
                                                   2 The term ‘‘Board’’ refers to the board of trustees
                                                                                                          Subsidiary’’ means an entity (i) that is wholly-           investing in certain investment
                                                of the Company and the board of directors or
                                                trustees of any other Regulated Entity.
                                                                                                          owned by a Regulated Entity (with such Regulated           opportunities. For each such investment
                                                   3 ‘‘Regulated Entity’’ means the Company and any
                                                                                                          Entity at all times holding, beneficially and of           opportunity, the Advisors to each
                                                                                                          record, 100% of the voting and economic interests);
                                                Future Regulated Entity. ‘‘Future Regulated Entity’’      (ii) whose sole business purpose is to hold one or         Regulated Entity will independently
                                                means a closed-end management investment                  more investments on behalf of the Regulated Entity         analyze and evaluate the investment
                                                company (a) that is registered under the Act or has       (and, in the case of an entity that is licensed by the     opportunity as to its appropriateness for
                                                elected to be regulated as a BDC, (b) whose               Small Business Administration to operate under the
                                                investment adviser is an Altegris Advisor and (c)                                                                    such Regulated Entity taking into
                                                                                                          Small Business Investment Act of 1958, as amended
                                                whose investment sub-adviser is a StepStone               (the ‘‘SBA Act’’), as a small business investment          consideration the Regulated Entity’s
                                                Affiliated Adviser. ‘‘Altegris Advisor’’ means            company (an ‘‘SBIC’’), to maintain a license under         Objectives and Strategies.
                                                Altegris Advisors, L.L.C. or any future investment        the SBA Act and issue debentures guaranteed by                8. Applicants state that Altegris
                                                adviser that (i) controls, is controlled by or is under   the Small Business Administration); (iii) with
                                                common control with Altegris Advisors, L.L.C., (ii)
                                                                                                                                                                     Advisors, L.L.C. serves as the
                                                                                                          respect to which the Regulated Entity’s Board has
                                                is registered as an investment adviser under the          the sole authority to make all determinations with
                                                                                                                                                                     Company’s investment adviser and
                                                Advisers Act and (iii) is not a Regulated Entity or       respect to the entity’s participation under the            either it or another Altegris Advisor will
                                                a subsidiary of a Regulated Entity. ‘‘StepStone           conditions of the application; and (iv) that would         serve in the same capacity to any Future
                                                Affiliated Adviser’’ means any Existing StepStone         be an investment company but for section 3(c)(1) or
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                                                Affiliated Adviser or any future investment adviser
                                                                                                                                                                     Regulated Entity, and that StepStone
                                                                                                          3(c)(7) of the Act. All subsidiaries participating in
                                                that (i) controls, is controlled by or is under           the Co-Investment Program will be Wholly-Owned
                                                                                                                                                                     Group serves as the Company’s sub-
                                                common control with StepStone Group, (ii) is              Investment Subsidiaries and will have Objectives           adviser and either it or another
                                                registered as an investment adviser under the             and Strategies that are either substantially the same      StepStone Affiliated Adviser will serve
                                                Advisers Act, and (iii) is not a Regulated Entity or      as, or a subset of, their parent Regulated Entity’s        in the same capacity to any Future
                                                a subsidiary of a Regulated Entity.                       Objectives and Strategies. A subsidiary that is an
                                                   4 ‘‘Affiliated Investors’’ means the Existing          SBIC may be a Wholly-Owned Investment
                                                                                                                                                                     Regulated Entity. Applicants represent
                                                Affiliated Investors and any Future Affiliated            Subsidiary if it satisfies the conditions in this          that although a StepStone Affiliated
                                                Investor. ‘‘Future Affiliated Investor’’ means an         definition.                                                Adviser will identify and recommend


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                                                investments 7 for each Regulated Entity,                to ensure that the Regulated Entity is                   interest in any Co-Investment
                                                prior to any investment by the                          being treated fairly in respect of                       Transaction.
                                                Regulated Entity, the StepStone                         Potential Co-Investment Transactions.                      14. Under condition 15, if an Advisor
                                                Affiliated Advisers will present each                     11. If the Advisors to a Regulated                     or its principals, or any person
                                                proposed investment to the relevant                     Entity determine that a Potential Co-                    controlling, controlled by, or under
                                                Altegris Advisor which has the                          Investment Transaction is appropriate                    common control with the Advisor or its
                                                authority to approve or reject all                      for the Regulated Entity (and the                        the principals, and any Affiliated
                                                investments proposed for the Regulated                  applicable Altegris Advisor approves                     Investors (collectively, the ‘‘Holders’’)
                                                Entity by a StepStone Affiliated                        the investment for such Regulated                        own in the aggregate more than 25% of
                                                Adviser.                                                Entity), and one or more other Regulated                 the outstanding voting securities of a
                                                   9. Applicants state that StepStone                   Entities and/or one or more Affiliated                   Regulated Entity (‘‘Shares’’), then the
                                                Group has an investment committee                       Investors may also participate, the                      Holders will vote such Shares as
                                                through which it will carry out its                     Advisors will present the investment                     directed by an independent third party
                                                obligation under condition 1 to make a                  opportunity to the Eligible Trustees 8 of                when voting on matters specified in the
                                                determination as to the appropriateness                 the Regulated Entity prior to the actual                 condition. Applicants believe that this
                                                of a Potential Co-Investment                            investment by the Regulated Entity. As                   condition will ensure that the
                                                Transaction for each Regulated Entity.                  to any Regulated Entity, a Co-                           Independent Trustees will act
                                                Applicants represent that each                          Investment Transaction will be                           independently in evaluating the Co-
                                                StepStone Affiliated Adviser has                                                                                 Investment Program, because the ability
                                                                                                        consummated only upon approval by a
                                                developed a robust allocation process as                                                                         of the Advisor or its principals to
                                                                                                        required majority of the Eligible
                                                part of its overall compliance policies                                                                          influence the Independent Trustees by a
                                                                                                        Trustees of such Regulated Entity
                                                and procedures. Applicants state that, in                                                                        suggestion, explicit or implied, that the
                                                                                                        within the meaning of section 57(o) of
                                                the case of a Potential Co-Investment                                                                            Independent Trustees can be removed
                                                                                                        the Act (‘‘Required Majority’’).9
                                                Transaction, the applicable StepStone                                                                            will be limited significantly. Applicants
                                                Affiliated Adviser would apply its                        12. With respect to the pro rata                       represent that the Independent Trustees
                                                allocation policies and procedures in                   dispositions and follow-on investments                   shall evaluate and approve any such
                                                determining the proposed allocation for                 provided in conditions 7 and 8, a                        independent third party, taking into
                                                the Regulated Entity consistent with the                Regulated Entity may participate in a                    account its qualifications, reputation for
                                                requirements of condition 2(a).                         pro rata disposition or follow-on                        independence, cost to the shareholders,
                                                   10. Applicants state that, once the                  investment without obtaining prior                       and other factors that they deem
                                                applicable StepStone Affiliated Adviser                 approval of the Required Majority if,                    relevant.
                                                determined a proposed allocation for a                  among other things: (i) The proposed
                                                                                                        participation of each Regulated Entity                   Applicants’ Legal Analysis
                                                Regulated Entity, such StepStone
                                                Affiliated Adviser would notify the                     and Affiliated Investor in such                             1. Section 17(d) of the Act and rule
                                                applicable Altegris Advisor of the                      disposition is proportionate to its                      17d–1 under the Act prohibit
                                                Potential Co-Investment Transaction                     outstanding investments in the issuer                    participation by a registered investment
                                                and the StepStone Affiliated Adviser’s                  immediately preceding the disposition                    company and an affiliated person in any
                                                recommended allocation for such                         or follow-on investment, as the case                     ‘‘joint enterprise or other joint
                                                Regulated Entity. Applicants further                    may be; and (ii) each Regulated Entity’s                 arrangement or profit-sharing plan,’’ as
                                                state that the applicable Altegris                      Board has approved that Regulated                        defined in the rule, without prior
                                                Advisor would review the StepStone                      Entity’s participation in pro rata                       approval by the Commission by order
                                                Affiliated Adviser’s recommendation for                 dispositions and follow-on investments                   upon application. Section 17(d) of the
                                                the Regulated Entity and would have                     as being in the best interests of the                    Act and rule 17d–1 under the Act are
                                                the ability to ask questions of the                     Regulated Entity. If the Board does not                  applicable to Regulated Entities that are
                                                StepStone Affiliated Adviser and                        so approve, any such disposition or                      registered closed-end investment
                                                request additional information from the                 follow-on investment will be submitted                   companies. Similarly, with regard to
                                                StepStone Affiliated Adviser.                           to the Regulated Entity’s Eligible                       BDCs, section 57(a)(4) of the Act makes
                                                Applicants further submit that if the                   Trustees. The Board of any Regulated                     it unlawful for any person who is
                                                applicable Altegris Advisor approved                    Entity may at any time rescind, suspend                  related to a BDC in a manner described
                                                the investment for the Regulated Entity,                or qualify its approval of pro rata                      in section 57(b), acting as principal,
                                                the investment and all relevant                         dispositions and follow-on investments                   knowingly to effect any transaction in
                                                allocation information would then be                    with the result that all dispositions and/               which the BDC (or a company
                                                presented to the Regulated Entity’s                     or follow-on investments must be                         controlled by such BDC) is a joint or a
                                                Board for its approval in accordance                    submitted to the Eligible Trustees.                      joint and several participant with that
                                                with the conditions to the application.                   13. No Independent Trustee of a                        person in contravention of rules as
                                                Applicants state that they believe the                  Regulated Entity will have a financial                   prescribed by the Commission. Because
                                                                                                                                                                 the Commission has not adopted any
                                                investment process that will unfold
                                                                                                                                                                 rules expressly under section 57(a)(4),
                                                between the StepStone Affiliated                           8 ‘‘Eligible Trustees’’ means the trustees or

                                                                                                        directors of a Regulated Entity that are eligible to     section 57(i) provides that the rules
                                                Adviser and the Altegris Advisors, prior
                                                                                                        vote under section 57(o) of the Act.                     under section 17(d) applicable to
                                                to seeking approval from the Regulated                     9 In the case of a Regulated Entity that is a         registered closed-end investment
                                                Entity’s Board (which is in addition to,                registered closed-end fund, the trustees or directors    companies (e.g., rule 17d–1) are, in the
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                                                rather than in lieu of, the procedures                  that make up the Required Majority will be
                                                                                                                                                                 interim, deemed to apply to transactions
                                                required under the conditions of the                    determined as if the Regulated Entity were a BDC
                                                                                                        subject to section 57(o). As defined in section 57(o),   subject to section 57(a). Rule 17d–1, as
                                                application), is significant and provides
                                                                                                        ‘‘required majority’’ means ‘‘both a majority of a       made applicable to BDCs by section
                                                for additional procedures and processes                 business development company’s directors or              57(i), prohibits any person who is
                                                                                                        general partners who have no financial interest in
                                                  7 Applicants represent that the Altegris Advisors     such transaction, plan, or arrangement and a
                                                                                                                                                                 related to a BDC in a manner described
                                                will not source any Potential Co-Investment             majority of such directors or general partners who       in section 57(b), as modified by rule
                                                Transactions under the requested Order.                 are not interested persons of such company.’’            57b–1, from acting as principal, from


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                                                participating in, or effecting any                      Regulated Entity will be treated fairly.                  class being allocated, up to the amount
                                                transaction in connection with, any                     Applicants state that each Regulated                      proposed to be invested by each. The
                                                joint enterprise or other joint                         Entity’s participation in the Co-                         Advisors to each participating Regulated
                                                arrangement or profit-sharing plan in                   Investment Transactions will be                           Entity will provide the Eligible Trustees
                                                which the BDC (or a company                             consistent with the provisions, policies                  of each participating Regulated Entity
                                                controlled by such BDC) is a participant,               and purposes of the Act and on a basis                    with information concerning each
                                                unless an application regarding the joint               that is not different from or less                        participating party’s Available Capital to
                                                enterprise, arrangement, or profit-                     advantageous than that of other                           assist the Eligible Trustees with their
                                                sharing plan has been filed with the                    participants. Applicants further state                    review of the Regulated Entity’s
                                                Commission and has been granted by an                   that the terms and conditions proposed                    investments for compliance with these
                                                order entered prior to the submission of                herein will ensure that all such                          allocation procedures.
                                                the plan or any modification thereof, to                transactions are reasonable and fair to                      c. After making the determinations
                                                security holders for approval, or prior to              each Regulated Entity and the Affiliated                  required in conditions 1 and 2(a) above,
                                                its adoption or modification if not so                  Investors and do not involve                              the Advisors to the Regulated Entity
                                                submitted.                                              overreaching by any person concerned,                     will distribute written information
                                                   2. In passing upon applications under                including Altegris Advisors or the                        concerning the Potential Co-Investment
                                                rule 17d–1, the Commission considers                    StepStone Affiliated Advisers.                            Transaction, including the amount
                                                whether the company’s participation in
                                                                                                        Applicants’ Conditions                                    proposed to be invested by each
                                                the joint transaction is consistent with
                                                                                                                                                                  Regulated Entity and any Affiliated
                                                the provisions, policies, and purposes of                  Applicants agree that the Order will                   Investor, to the Eligible Trustees of each
                                                the Act and the extent to which such                    be subject to the following conditions:                   participating Regulated Entity for their
                                                participation is on a basis different from                 1. Each time a StepStone Affiliated                    consideration. A Regulated Entity will
                                                or less advantageous than that of other                 Adviser considers a Potential Co-                         co-invest with one or more other
                                                participants.                                           Investment Transaction for an Affiliated
                                                   3. Applicants state that the Regulated                                                                         Regulated Entities and/or an Affiliated
                                                                                                        Investor or another Regulated Entity that                 Investor only if, prior to the Regulated
                                                Entities, by virtue of each having an                   falls within a Regulated Entity’s then-
                                                Altegris Advisor, may be deemed to be                                                                             Entities’ and the Affiliated Investors’
                                                                                                        current Objectives and Strategies, the                    participation in the Potential Co-
                                                under common control, and thus                          Advisors to the Regulated Entity will
                                                affiliated persons of each other under                                                                            Investment Transaction, a Required
                                                                                                        make an independent determination of                      Majority concludes that:
                                                section 2(a)(3)(C) of the Act. Section                  the appropriateness of the investment
                                                17(d) and section 57(b) apply to any                    for the Regulated Entity in light of the                     (i) The terms of the Potential Co-
                                                investment adviser to a closed-end fund                 Regulated Entity’s then-current                           Investment Transaction, including the
                                                or a BDC, respectively, including the                   circumstances.                                            consideration to be paid, are reasonable
                                                sub-adviser. Thus, a StepStone                             2. a. If the Advisors to a Regulated                   and fair to the Regulated Entity and its
                                                Affiliated Adviser and any Affiliated                   Entity deem participation in any                          shareholders and do not involve
                                                Investors that it advises could be                      Potential Co-Investment Transaction to                    overreaching in respect of the Regulated
                                                deemed to be persons related to                         be appropriate for the Regulated Entity,                  Entity or its shareholders on the part of
                                                Regulated Entities in a manner                          the Advisors will then determine an                       any person concerned;
                                                described by sections 17(d) and 57(b)                   appropriate level of investment for such                     (ii) the Potential Co-Investment
                                                and therefore prohibited by sections                    Regulated Entity.                                         Transaction is consistent with:
                                                17(d) and 57(a)(4) and rule 17d–1 from                     b. If the aggregate amount                                (A) The interests of the Regulated
                                                participating in the Co-Investment                      recommended by the Advisors to a
                                                Program. Applicants further submit that,                                                                          Entity’s shareholders; and
                                                                                                        Regulated Entity to be invested by the                       (B) the Regulated Entity’s then-current
                                                because the StepStone Affiliated
                                                                                                        Regulated Entity in the Potential Co-                     Objectives and Strategies;
                                                Advisers are ‘‘affiliated persons’’ of
                                                                                                        Investment Transaction, together with
                                                other StepStone Affiliated Advisers,                                                                                 (iii) the investment by any other
                                                                                                        the amount proposed to be invested by
                                                Affiliated Investors advised by any of                                                                            Regulated Entity or an Affiliated
                                                                                                        the other participating Regulated
                                                them could be deemed to be persons                                                                                Investor would not disadvantage the
                                                                                                        Entities and Affiliated Investors,
                                                related to Regulated Entities (or a                                                                               Regulated Entity, and participation by
                                                                                                        collectively, in the same transaction,
                                                company controlled by a Regulated                                                                                 the Regulated Entity would not be on a
                                                                                                        exceeds the amount of the investment
                                                Entity) in a manner described by                                                                                  basis different from or less advantageous
                                                                                                        opportunity, the amount of the
                                                sections 17(d) and 57(b) and also                                                                                 than that of any other Regulated Entity
                                                                                                        investment opportunity will be
                                                prohibited from participating in the Co-                                                                          or Affiliated Investor; provided, that if
                                                                                                        allocated among the Regulated Entities
                                                Investment Program.                                                                                               another Regulated Entity or Affiliated
                                                   4. Applicants state that they expect                 and such Affiliated Investors, pro rata
                                                                                                        based on each participant’s Available                     Investor, but not the Regulated Entity
                                                that that co-investment in portfolio                                                                              itself, gains the right to nominate a
                                                investments by a Regulated Entity, one                  Capital 10 for investment in the asset
                                                                                                                                                                  director for election to a portfolio
                                                or more other Regulated Entities and/or                    10 ‘‘Available Capital’’ means (a) for each            company’s board of directors or the
                                                one or more Affiliated Investors will                   Regulated Entity, the amount of capital available for     right to have a board observer, or any
                                                increase favorable investment                           investment determined based on the amount of cash         similar right to participate in the
                                                opportunities for each Regulated Entity.                on hand, existing commitments and reserves, if any,       governance or management of the
                                                   5. Applicants submit that the fact that              the targeted leverage level, targeted asset mix and
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                                                                                                        other investment policies and restrictions set from       portfolio company, such event shall not
                                                the Required Majority will approve each                 time to time by the Board of the applicable               be interpreted to prohibit a Required
                                                Co-Investment Transaction before                        Regulated Entity or imposed by applicable laws,           Majority from reaching the conclusions
                                                investment (except for certain                          rules, regulations or interpretations and (b) for each    required by this condition 2(c)(iii), if:
                                                dispositions or follow-on investments,                  Affiliated Investor, the amount of capital available
                                                                                                        for investment determined based on the amount of
                                                as described in the conditions), and                    cash on hand, existing commitments and reserves,          by the Affiliated Investor’s directors, general
                                                other protective conditions set forth in                if any, the targeted leverage level, targeted asset mix   partners or adviser or imposed by applicable laws,
                                                the application, will ensure that each                  and other investment policies and restrictions set        rules, regulations or interpretations.



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                                                   (A) The Eligible Trustees will have                  subject to examination by the                         Regulated Entity the ability to
                                                the right to ratify the selection of such               Commission and its staff.                             participate in such dispositions on a pro
                                                director or board observer, if any; and                    5. Except for follow-on investments                rata basis (as described in greater detail
                                                   (B) the Advisors to the Regulated                    made in accordance with condition 8,11                in the application); and (iii) the
                                                Entity agree to, and do, provide periodic               a Regulated Entity will not invest in                 Regulated Entity’s Board is provided on
                                                reports to the Regulated Entity’s Board                 reliance on the Order in any issuer in                a quarterly basis with a list of all
                                                with respect to the actions of such                     which another Regulated Entity or an                  dispositions made in accordance with
                                                director or the information received by                 Affiliated Investor or any affiliated                 this condition. In all other cases, the
                                                such board observer or obtained through                 person of another Regulated Entity or an              Advisors will provide their written
                                                the exercise of any similar right to                    Affiliated Investor is an existing                    recommendation as to the Regulated
                                                participate in the governance or                        investor.                                             Entity’s participation to the Eligible
                                                management of the portfolio company;                       6. A Regulated Entity will not                     Trustees, and the Regulated Entity will
                                                and                                                     participate in any Potential Co-                      participate in such disposition solely to
                                                   (C) any fees or other compensation                   Investment Transaction unless the                     the extent that a Required Majority
                                                that any other Regulated Entity or any                  terms, conditions, price, class of                    determines that it is in the Regulated
                                                Affiliated Investor or any affiliated                   securities to be purchased, settlement                Entity’s best interests.
                                                person of any other Regulated Entity or                 date, and registration rights will be the                d. Each Regulated Entity and each
                                                an Affiliated Investor receives in                      same for each participating Regulated                 Affiliated Investor will bear its own
                                                connection with the right of one or more                Entity and Affiliated Investor. The grant             expenses in connection with the
                                                Regulated Entities or Affiliated Investors              to one or more Regulated Entities or                  disposition.
                                                to nominate a director or appoint a                     Affiliated Investors, but not the                        8. a. If any Regulated Entity or
                                                board observer or otherwise to                          Regulated Entity itself, of the right to              Affiliated Investor desires to make a
                                                participate in the governance or                        nominate a director for election to a                 ‘‘follow-on investment’’ (i.e., an
                                                management of the portfolio company                     portfolio company’s board of directors,               additional investment in the same
                                                will be shared proportionately among                    the right to have an observer on the                  entity, including through the exercise of
                                                the participating Affiliated Investors                  board of directors or similar rights to               warrants or other rights to purchase
                                                (who may, in turn, share their portion                  participate in the governance or                      securities of the issuer) in a portfolio
                                                with their affiliated persons) and any                  management of the portfolio company                   company whose securities were
                                                participating Regulated Entity in                       will not be interpreted so as to violate              acquired by the Regulated Entity and
                                                accordance with the amount of each                      this condition 6, if conditions                       the Affiliated Investor in a Co-
                                                party’s investment; and                                 2(c)(iii)(A), (B) and (C) are met.                    Investment Transaction, the Advisors
                                                   (iv) the proposed investment by the                     7. a. If any Regulated Entity or                   will:
                                                Regulated Entity will not benefit the                                                                            (i) Notify each Regulated Entity of the
                                                                                                        Affiliated Investor elects to sell,
                                                Advisors, any other Regulated Entity or                                                                       proposed transaction at the earliest
                                                                                                        exchange or otherwise dispose of an
                                                the Affiliated Investors or any affiliated                                                                    practical time; and
                                                                                                        interest in a security that was acquired
                                                person of any of them (other than the                                                                            (ii) formulate a recommendation as to
                                                                                                        by one or more Regulated Entities and/
                                                parties to the Co-Investment                                                                                  the proposed participation, including
                                                                                                        or Affiliated Investors in a Co-
                                                Transaction), except (A) to the extent                                                                        the amount of the proposed follow-on
                                                                                                        Investment Transaction, the Advisors
                                                permitted by condition 13, (B) to the                                                                         investment, by each Regulated Entity.
                                                                                                        will:                                                    b. A Regulated Entity may participate
                                                extent permitted under sections 17(e)
                                                                                                           (i) Notify each Regulated Entity that              in such follow-on investment without
                                                and 57(k) of the Act, as applicable, (C)
                                                                                                        participated in the Co-Investment                     obtaining prior approval of the Required
                                                in the case of fees or other
                                                                                                        Transaction of the proposed disposition               Majority if: (i) The proposed
                                                compensation described in condition
                                                                                                        at the earliest practical time; and                   participation of each Regulated Entity
                                                2(c)(iii)(C), or (D) indirectly, as a result
                                                                                                           (ii) formulate a recommendation as to
                                                of an interest in the securities issued by                                                                    and each Affiliated Investor in such
                                                                                                        participation by each Regulated Entity
                                                one of the parties to the Co-Investment                                                                       investment is proportionate to its
                                                                                                        in the disposition.
                                                Transaction.                                                                                                  outstanding investments in the issuer
                                                   3. Each Regulated Entity will have the                  b. Each Regulated Entity will have the
                                                                                                                                                              immediately preceding the follow-on
                                                right to decline to participate in any                  right to participate in such disposition
                                                                                                                                                              investment; and (ii) the Regulated
                                                Potential Co-Investment Transaction or                  on a proportionate basis, at the same
                                                                                                                                                              Entity’s Board has approved as being in
                                                to invest less than the amount proposed.                price and on the same terms and
                                                                                                                                                              the best interests of such Regulated
                                                   4. The Advisors will present to the                  conditions as those applicable to the
                                                                                                                                                              Entity the ability to participate in
                                                Board of each Regulated Entity, on a                    Affiliated Investors and any other
                                                                                                                                                              follow-on investments on a pro rata
                                                quarterly basis, a record of all                        Regulated Entity.
                                                                                                                                                              basis (as described in greater detail in
                                                investments in Potential Co-Investment                     c. A Regulated Entity may participate
                                                                                                                                                              the application). In all other cases, the
                                                Transactions made by any of the other                   in such disposition without obtaining
                                                                                                                                                              Advisors will provide their written
                                                Regulated Entities or any of the                        prior approval of the Required Majority
                                                                                                                                                              recommendation as to such Regulated
                                                Affiliated Investors during the                         if: (i) The proposed participation of each
                                                                                                                                                              Entity’s participation to the Eligible
                                                preceding quarter that fell within the                  Regulated Entity and each Affiliated
                                                                                                                                                              Trustees, and the Regulated Entity will
                                                Regulated Entity’s then-current                         Investor in such disposition is
                                                                                                                                                              participate in such follow-on
                                                Objectives and Strategies that were not                 proportionate to its outstanding
                                                                                                                                                              investment solely to the extent that the
                                                made available to the Regulated Entity,                 investments in the issuer immediately
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                                                                                                                                                              Required Majority determines that it is
                                                and an explanation of why the                           preceding the disposition; (ii) the
                                                                                                                                                              in such Regulated Entity’s best interests.
                                                investment opportunities were not                       Regulated Entity’s Board has approved                    c. If, with respect to any follow-on
                                                offered to the Regulated Entity. All                    as being in the best interests of the                 investment:
                                                information presented to the Board                        11 This exception applies only to follow-on
                                                                                                                                                                 (i) The amount of a follow-on
                                                pursuant to this condition will be kept                 investments by a Regulated Entity in issuers in
                                                                                                                                                              investment is not based on the
                                                for the life of the Regulated Entity and                which that Regulated Entity already holds             Regulated Entities’ and the Affiliated
                                                at least two years thereafter, and will be              investments.                                          Investors’ outstanding investments


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                                                immediately preceding the follow-on                     Affiliated Investors in proportion to the             Regulated Entity, then the Holders will
                                                investment; and                                         relative amounts of the securities held               vote such shares as directed by an
                                                   (ii) the aggregate amount                            or to be acquired or disposed of, as the              independent third party when voting on
                                                recommended by the Advisors to be                       case may be.                                          (1) the election of directors or trustees;
                                                invested by the Regulated Entity in the                    13. Any transaction fee (including                 (2) the removal of one or more directors
                                                follow-on investment, together with the                 break-up or commitment fees but                       or trustees; or (3) any matters requiring
                                                amount proposed to be invested by the                   excluding brokers’ fees contemplated by               approval by the vote of a majority of the
                                                other participating Regulated Entities                  section 17(e) or 57(k) of the Act, as                 outstanding voting securities, as defined
                                                and the Affiliated Investors in the same                applicable) 12 received in connection                 in section 2(a)(42) of the Act.
                                                transaction, exceeds the amount of the                  with a Co-Investment Transaction will
                                                opportunity; then the amount invested                   be distributed to the participating                     For the Commission, by the Division of
                                                by each such party will be allocated                    Regulated Entities and Affiliated                     Investment Management, under delegated
                                                among them pro rata based on each                       Investors on a pro rata basis based on                authority.
                                                participant’s Available Capital for                     the amount they invested or committed,                Robert W. Errett,
                                                investment in the asset class being                     as the case may be, in such Co-                       Deputy Secretary.
                                                allocated, up to the amount proposed to                 Investment Transaction. If any                        [FR Doc. 2016–22905 Filed 9–22–16; 8:45 am]
                                                be invested by each.                                    transaction fee is to be held by an                   BILLING CODE 8011–01–P
                                                   d. The acquisition of follow-on                      Advisor pending consummation of the
                                                investments as permitted by this                        transaction, the fee will be deposited
                                                condition will be considered a Co-                      into an account maintained by the
                                                Investment Transaction for all purposes                                                                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
                                                                                                        Advisor at a bank or banks having the                 COMMISSION
                                                and be subject to the other conditions                  qualifications prescribed in section
                                                set forth in the application.                           26(a)(1) of the Act, and the account will
                                                   9. The Independent Trustees of each                  earn a competitive rate of interest that
                                                                                                                                                              [Release No. 34–78874; File No. SR–ICEEU–
                                                Regulated Entity will be provided                       will also be divided pro rata among the
                                                                                                                                                              2016–011]
                                                quarterly for review all information                    participating Regulated Entities and
                                                concerning Potential Co-Investment                                                                            Self-Regulatory Organizations; ICE
                                                                                                        Affiliated Investors based on the amount              Clear Europe Limited; Notice of Filing
                                                Transactions and Co-Investment                          they invest in the Co-Investment
                                                Transactions, including investments                                                                           and Immediate Effectiveness of a
                                                                                                        Transaction. None of the other
                                                made by other Regulated Entities or                                                                           Proposed Rule Change Relating to the
                                                                                                        Regulated Entities, Affiliated Investors,
                                                Affiliated Investors that a Regulated                                                                         F&O Intraday Risk Management Policy
                                                                                                        the Advisors nor any affiliated person of
                                                Entity considered but declined to
                                                                                                        the Regulated Entities or the Affiliated              September 19, 2016.
                                                participate in, so that the Independent
                                                                                                        Investors will receive additional
                                                Trustees may determine whether all                                                                               Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the
                                                                                                        compensation or remuneration of any
                                                investments made during the preceding                                                                         Securities Exchange Act of 1934
                                                                                                        kind as a result of or in connection with
                                                quarter, including those investments                                                                          (‘‘Act’’),1 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,2
                                                                                                        a Co-Investment Transaction (other than
                                                which the Regulated Entity considered                                                                         notice is hereby given that on
                                                                                                        (a) in the case of the Regulated Entities
                                                but declined to participate in, comply                                                                        September 9, 2016, ICE Clear Europe
                                                                                                        and the Affiliated Investors, the pro rata
                                                with the conditions of the Order. In                                                                          Limited (‘‘ICE Clear Europe’’ or the
                                                                                                        transaction fees described above and
                                                addition, the Independent Trustees will                                                                       ‘‘clearing house’’) filed with the
                                                                                                        fees or other compensation described in
                                                consider at least annually the continued
                                                                                                        condition 2(c)(iii)(c) and (b) in the case            Securities and Exchange Commission
                                                appropriateness for such Regulated
                                                                                                        of the Advisors, investment advisory                  (‘‘Commission’’) the proposed rule
                                                Entity of participating in new and
                                                                                                        fees paid in accordance with the                      changes described in Items I, II and III
                                                existing Co-Investment Transactions.
                                                   10. Each Regulated Entity will                       Regulated Entities’ and the Affiliated                below, which Items have been prepared
                                                maintain the records required by section                Investors’ investment advisory                        primarily by ICE Clear Europe. ICE Clear
                                                57(f)(3) of the Act as if each of the                   agreements).                                          Europe filed the proposed rule changes
                                                                                                           14. The Advisors to the Regulated                  pursuant to Section 19(b)(3)(A) of the
                                                Regulated Entities were a BDC and each
                                                                                                        Entities and Affiliated Investors will                Act,3 and Rule 19b–4(f)(4)(ii) 4
                                                of the investments permitted under
                                                                                                        maintain written policies and                         thereunder, so that the proposal was
                                                these conditions were approved by a
                                                                                                        procedures reasonably designed to                     effective upon filing with the
                                                Required Majority under section 57(f).
                                                   11. No Independent Trustee of a                      ensure compliance with the foregoing                  Commission. The Commission is
                                                Regulated Entity will also be a trustee,                conditions. These policies and                        publishing this notice to solicit
                                                director, general partner, managing                     procedures will require, among other
                                                                                                                                                              comments on the proposed rule changes
                                                member or principal, or otherwise an                    things, that each of the Advisors to each
                                                                                                                                                              from interested persons.
                                                ‘‘affiliated person’’ (as defined in the                Regulated Entity will be notified of all
                                                Act) of any Affiliated Investor.                        Potential Co-Investment Transactions                  I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
                                                   12. The expenses, if any, associated                 that fall within a Regulated Entity’s                 Statement of the Terms of Substance of
                                                with acquiring, holding or disposing of                 then-current Objectives and Strategies                the Proposed Rule Change
                                                any securities acquired in a Co-                        and will be given sufficient information
                                                Investment Transaction (including,                      to make its independent determination                    The principal purpose of the changes
                                                without limitation, the expenses of the                 and recommendations under conditions                  is to make certain enhancements to ICE
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                                                distribution of any such securities                     1, 2(a), 7 and 8.                                     Clear Europe’s F&O intraday risk
                                                registered for sale under the Securities                   15. If the Holders own in the aggregate            management policy.
                                                Act) shall, to the extent not payable by                more than 25 percent of the shares of a
                                                the Advisors under their respective                       12 Applicants
                                                                                                                                                                1 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
                                                                                                                         are not requesting and the
                                                advisory agreements with the Regulated                  Commission is not providing any relief for
                                                                                                                                                                2 17 CFR 240.19b–4.
                                                Entities and the Affiliated Investors, be               transaction fees received in connection with any
                                                                                                                                                                3 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A).

                                                shared by the Regulated Entities and the                Co-Investment Transaction.                              4 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(4)(ii).




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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of application for an order under sections 17(d) and 57(i) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the ``Act'') and rule 17d- 1 under the Act to permit certain joint transactions otherwise prohibited by sections 17(d) and 57(a)(4) of the Act and rule 17d-1 under the Act.
DatesThe application was filed on December 31, 2014, and amended on May 21, 2015, August 6, 2015, October 6, 2015, April 29, 2016, July 6, 2016 and September 16, 2016.
ContactRobert Shapiro, Senior Counsel, at (202) 551-7758 or Mary Kay Frech, Branch Chief, at (202) 551-6821 (Chief Counsel's Office, Division of Investment Management).
FR Citation81 FR 65684 

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