EX-99 5 legal3.txt LEGAL ATTACHMEN INTERIM INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION CONTRACT Contract made as of October 10, 2000, between PAINEWEBBER SECURITIES TRUST, a Massachusetts business trust (Trust), and MITCHELL HUTCHINS ASSET MANAGEMENT INC. (Mitchell Hutchins), a Delaware corporation registered as an investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (Advisers Act), and as a broker-dealer under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (1934 Act); WHEREAS the Trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (1940 Act), as an open-end management investment company, and is authorized to offer for public sale distinct series of shares of beneficial interest; and WHEREAS the Trust desires and intends to have one or more investment advisers (Sub- Advisers) provide investment advisory and portfolio management services with respect to the series of shares of beneficial interest of the Trust designated as PaineWebber Small Cap Fund and PaineWebber Strategic Income Fund (each a Series); and WHEREAS the Trust desires to retain Mitchell Hutchins as investment manager and administrator to furnish certain administrative and portfolio management services to the Trust with respect to the Series, and Mitchell Hutchins is willing to furnish such services; NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and mutual covenants herein contained, it is agreed between the parties hereto as follows: 1. Appointment. The Trust hereby appoints Mitchell Hutchins as investment manager and administrator of the Trust and each Series for the period and on the terms set forth in this Contract. Mitchell Hutchins accepts such appointment and agrees to render the services herein set forth, for the compensation herein provided. 2. Duties as Investment Manager; Appointment of Sub-Advisers (a) Subject to the oversight and direction of the Trusts Board of Trustees (Board), Mitchell Hutchins will provide to the Trust investment management evaluation services principally by performing initial reviews of prospective Sub- Advisers for each Series and supervising and monitoring performance of the Sub-Advisers thereafter. Mitchell Hutchins agrees to report to the Trust the results of its evaluation, supervision and monitoring functions and to keep certain books and records of the Trust in connection therewith. Mitchell Hutchins further agrees to communicate performance expectations and evaluations to the Sub-Advisers, and to recommend to the Trust whether agreements with Sub-Advisers should be renewed, modified or terminated. (b) Mitchell Hutchins is responsible for informing the Sub-Advisers of the investment objective(s), policies and restrictions of the Series for which the Sub-Adviser is responsible, for informing or ascertaining that it is aware of other legal and regulatory responsibilities applicable to the Sub-Adviser with respect to the Series for which the Sub-Adviser is responsible, and for monitoring the Sub-Advisers discharge of their duties; but Mitchell Hutchins is not responsible for the specific actions (or inactions) of a Sub-Adviser in the performance of the duties assigned to it. (c) With respect to each Sub-Adviser for a Series, Mitchell Hutchins shall enter into an agreement (Sub-Advisory Agreement) with the Sub-Adviser in substantially the form previously approved by the Board. (d) Mitchell Hutchins shall be responsible for the fees payable to and shall pay the Sub-Adviser of a Series the fee as specified in the Sub-Advisory Agreement relating thereto. 3. Duties as Administrator. Mitchell Hutchins will administer the affairs of the Trust and Series subject to the oversight and direction of the Board and the following understandings: (a) Mitchell Hutchins will supervise all aspects of the operations of the Trust and the Series, including oversight of transfer agency, custodial and accounting services, except as hereinafter set forth; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to relieve or deprive the Board of its responsibility for and control of the conduct of the affairs of the Trust and the Series. (b) Mitchell Hutchins will provide the Trust and the Series with such corporate, administrative and clerical personnel (including officers of the Trust) and services as are reasonably deemed necessary or advisable by the Board, including the maintenance of certain books and records of the Trust and Series. (c) Mitchell Hutchins will arrange, but not pay, for the periodic preparation, updating, filing and dissemination (as applicable) of the Trusts Registration Statement, proxy material, tax returns and required reports to shareholders of the Series and the Securities and Exchange Commission and other appropriate federal or state regulatory authorities. (d) Mitchell Hutchins will provide the Trust and the Series with, or obtain for it, adequate office space and all necessary office equipment and services, including telephone service, heat, utilities, stationery supplies and similar items. (e) Mitchell Hutchins will provide the Board on a regular basis with economic and investment analyses and reports and make available to the Board upon request any economic, statistical and investment services normally available to institutional or other customers of Mitchell Hutchins. 4. Further Duties. In all matters relating to the performance of this Contract, Mitchell Hutchins will act in conformity with the Declaration of Trust, By-Laws and the currently effective registration statement of the Trust and any amendments or supplements thereto (Registration Statement) and with the instructions and directions of the Board and will comply with the requirements of the 1940 Act, the Advisers Act, and the rules under each, and all other applicable federal and state laws and regulations. 5. Services Not Exclusive. The services furnished by Mitchell Hutchins hereunder are not to be deemed exclusive and Mitchell Hutchins shall be free to furnish similar services to others so long as its services under this Contract are not impaired thereby. Nothing in this Contract shall limit or restrict the right of any director, officer or employee of Mitchell Hutchins, who may also be a Trustee, officer or employee of the Trust, to engage in any other business or to devote his or her time and attention in part to the management or other aspects of any other business, whether of a similar nature or a dissimilar nature. 6. Expenses. (a) During the term of this Contract, each Series will bear all expenses, not specifically assumed by Mitchell Hutchins, incurred in its operations and the offering of its shares. (b) Expenses borne by each Series will include but not be limited to the following (or the Series proportionate share of the following): (i) the cost (including brokerage commissions) of securities purchased or sold by the Series and any losses incurred in connection therewith; (ii) fees payable to and expenses incurred on behalf of the Series by Mitchell Hutchins under this Contract; (iii) filing fees and expenses relating to the registrations and qualification of the Series shares and the Trust under federal and/or state securities laws and maintaining such registration and qualifications; (iv) fees and salaries payable to the Trusts Trustees and officers who are not interested persons of the Trust or Mitchell Hutchins; (v) all expenses incurred in connection with the Trustees services, including travel expenses; (vi) taxes (including any income or franchise taxes) and governmental fees; (vii) costs of any liability, uncollectible items of deposit and other insurance and fidelity bonds; (viii) any costs, expenses or losses arising out of a liability of or claim for damages or other relief asserted against the Trust or the Series for violation of any law; (ix) legal, accounting and auditing expenses, including legal fees of special counsel for those Trustees of the Trust who are not interested persons of the Trust; (x) charges of custodians, transfer agents and other agents; (xi) costs of preparing share certificates; (xii) expenses of setting in type and printing prospectuses and supplements thereto, statements of additional information and supplements thereto, reports and proxy materials for existing shareholders; (xiii) costs of mailing prospectuses and supplements thereto, statements of additional information and supplements thereto, reports and proxy materials to existing shareholders; (xiv) any extraordinary expenses (including fees and disbursements of counsel, costs of actions, suits or proceedings to which the Trust is a party and the expenses the Trust may incur as a result of its legal obligation to provide indemnification to its officers, Trustees, agents and shareholders) incurred by the Trust or the Series; (xv) fees, voluntary assessments and other expenses incurred in connection with membership in investment company organizations; (xvi) costs of mailing and tabulating proxies and costs of meetings of shareholders, the Board and any committees thereof; (xvii) the cost of investment company literature and other publications provided by the Trust to its Trustees and officers; (xviii) costs of mailing, stationery and communications equipment; (xix) expenses incident to any dividend, withdrawal or redemption options; (xx) charges and expenses of any outside pricing service used to value portfolio securities; (xxi) interest on borrowings of the Trust; and (xxii) fees or expenses related to license agreements with respect to securities indices. (c) The Trust or a Series may pay directly any expenses incurred by it in its normal operations and, if any such payment is consented to by Mitchell Hutchins and acknowledged as otherwise payable by Mitchell Hutchins pursuant to this Contract, a Series may reduce the fee payable to Mitchell Hutchins pursuant to Paragraph 7 thereof by such amount. To the extent that such deductions exceed the fee payable to Mitchell Hutchins on any monthly payment date, such excess shall be carried forward and deducted in the same manner from the fee payable on succeeding monthly payment dates. (d) Mitchell Hutchins will assume the cost of any compensation for services provided to the Trust received by the officers of the Trust and by those Trustees who are interested persons of the Trust. (e) The payment or assumption by Mitchell Hutchins of any expenses of the Trust or a Series that Mitchell Hutchins is not required by this Contract to pay or assume shall not obligate Mitchell Hutchins to pay or assume the same or any similar expense of the Trust or a Series on any subsequent occasion. 7. Compensation. (a) For the services provided and the expenses assumed pursuant to this Contract, with respect to the Series, the Trust will pay to Mitchell Hutchins a fee, computed daily and paid monthly, at an annual rate as set forth below, expressed as a percentage of average daily net assets of the applicable Series: PaineWebber Small Cap Fund.................................. 1.00% PaineWebber Strategic Income Fund....................... 0.75% (b) The fee shall be computed daily and paid monthly to Mitchell Hutchins on or before the first business day of the next succeeding calendar month. (c) If this Contract becomes effective or terminates before the end of any month, the fee for the period from the effective day to the end of the month or from the beginning of such month to the date of termination, as the case may be, shall be prorated according to the proportion which such period bears to the full month in which such effectiveness or termination occurs. 8. Limitation of Liability of Mitchell Hutchins. Mitchell Hutchins and its officers, directors, employees and delegates, including any Sub-Adviser to a Series, shall not be liable for any error of judgment or mistake of law or for any loss suffered by the Trust, the Series or any of its shareholders, in connection with the matters to which this Contract relates, except to the extent that such a loss results from willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence on its part in the performance of its duties or from reckless disregard by it of its obligations and duties under this Contract. Any person, even though also an officer, director, employee, or agent of Mitchell Hutchins, who may be or become an officer, Trustee, employee or agent of the Trust shall be deemed, when rendering services to a Series or the Trust or acting with respect to any business of the Series or the Trust, to be rendering such service to or acting solely for the Series or the Trust and not as an officer, director, employee, or agent or one under the control or direction of Mitchell Hutchins even though paid by it. 9. Limitation of Liability of the Trustees and Shareholders of the Trust. The Trustees of the Trust and the shareholders of any Series shall not be liable for any obligations of any Series or the Trust under this Agreement and Mitchell Hutchins agrees that, in asserting any rights or claims under this Agreement, it shall look only to the assets and property of the Trust in settlement of such right or claim, and not to such Trustees or shareholders. 10. Duration and Termination. (a) This Contract shall become effective for each Series upon the day and year first written above, provided that this Contract has been approved for the Series by a vote of a majority of those Trustees of the Trust who are not parties to this Contract or interested persons of any such party cast at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on such approval and in which the Trustees may participate by any means of communication that allows all Trustees participating to hear each other simultaneously during the meeting. (b) Unless sooner terminated as provided herein, this Contract shall continue in effect for the Series for a period of 150 days after the day and year first above written. (c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to a Series, this Contract may be terminated at any time, without the payment of any penalty, by vote of the Board or by a vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Series on ten days written notice to Mitchell Hutchins and may be terminated by Mitchell Hutchins at any time, without the payment of any penalty, on sixty days written notice to the Trust. Termination of this Contract with respect to a Series shall in no way affect the continued validity of this Contract or the performance thereunder with respect to any other Series. 11. Amendment of this Contract. No provision of this Contract may be changed, waived, discharged or terminated orally, but only by an instrument in writing signed by the party against which enforcement of the change, waiver, discharge or termination is sought, and no amendment of this contract as to a Series shall be effective until approved by vote of the Independent Trustees or a majority of the Series outstanding voting securities. 12. Governing Law. This Contract shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to the conflicts of laws principles thereof, and in accordance with the 1940 Act, provided, however, that section 9 above will be construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. To the extent that the applicable laws of the State of New York or the Commonwealth of Massachusetts conflict with the applicable provisions of the 1940 Act, the latter shall control. 13. Miscellaneous. The captions in this Contract are included for convenience of reference only and in no way define or delimit any of the provisions hereof or otherwise affect their construction or effect. If any provision of this Contract shall be held or made invalid by a court decision, statute, rule or otherwise, the remainder of this Contract shall not be affected thereby. This Contract shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors. As used in this Contract, the terms majority of the outstanding voting securities, affiliated person, interested person, assignment, broker, investment adviser, national securities exchange, net assets, prospectus, sale, sell and security shall have the same meaning as such terms have in the 1940 Act, subject to such exemption as may be granted by the Securities and Exchange Commission by any rule, regulation or order. Where the effect of a requirement of the 1940 Act reflected in any provision of this contract is relaxed by a rule, regulation or order of the Securities and Exchange Commission, whether of special or general application, such provision shall be deemed to incorporate the effect of such rule, regulation or order. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this instrument to be executed by their officers designated as of the day and year first above written. PAINEWEBBER SECURITIES TRUST Attest: /s/ Cristina Paradiso Assistant Secretary By /s/ Dianne E. ODonnell Name: Dianne E. ODonnell Title: Vice President and Secretary MITCHELL HUTCHINS ASSET MANAGEMENT INC. Attest: /s/ Keith A. Weller First Vice President and Associate General Counsel By /s/ Amy R. Doberman Name: Amy R. Doberman Title: Senior Vice President and General Counsel (..continued) 4 DC - 407387.1