As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 5, 2020

Securities Act File No. 333-221337

Investment Company Act File No. 811-21698

 

 

 

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

Form N-2

 

 

☑  Registration Statement under the Securities Act of 1933

☐  Pre-Effective Amendment No.

☒  Post-Effective Amendment No. 6

and/or

☑  Registration Statement under the Investment Company Act of 1940

☑  Amendment No. 47

(Check Appropriate Box or Boxes)

 

 

GAMCO GLOBAL GOLD, NATURAL RESOURCES & INCOME TRUST

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in the Declaration of Trust)

One Corporate Center

Rye, New York 10580-1422

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code: (800) 422-3554

Bruce N. Alpert

GAMCO Global Gold, Natural Resources & Income Trust

One Corporate Center

Rye, New York 10580-1422

(914) 921-5100

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

 

 

Copies to:

 

Andrea R. Mango, Esq.

GAMCO Global Gold, Natural

Resources & Income Trust

One Corporate Center

Rye, New York 10580-1422

 

Thomas A. DeCapo, Esq.

Kenneth E. Burdon, Esq.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &

Flom LLP

500 Boylston Street

Boston, Massachusetts 02116

 

 

Approximate Date of Proposed Public Offering:    From time to time after the effective date of this Registration Statement.

If any securities being registered on this form will be offered on a delayed or continuous basis in reliance on Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, other than securities offered in connection with a dividend reinvestment plan, check the following box.    ☑

 

 

 

 

 


Explanatory Note

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 6 to the Registration Statement on Form N-2 (File No. 333-221337) of GAMCO Global Gold, Natural Resources & Income Trust (the “Registration Statement”) is being filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), solely for the purpose of filing exhibits to the Registration Statement. Accordingly, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 6 consists only of a facing page, this explanatory note and Part C of the Registration Statement on Form N-2 setting forth the exhibits to the Registration Statement. This Post-Effective Amendment No. 6 does not modify any other part of the Registration Statement. Pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 6 shall become effective immediately upon filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The contents of the Registration Statement are hereby incorporated by reference.


PART C

OTHER INFORMATION

 

Item 25.

Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

  (1)

Financial Statements

Part A

The unaudited financial statements included in the semiannual report to the Fund’s shareholders for the six months ended June 30, 2019 are incorporated by reference to the Fund’s semiannual report to shareholders in Part A.

Part B

The audited financial statements included in the annual report to the Fund’s shareholders for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018, together with the report of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP thereon, are incorporated by reference to the Fund’s annual report to shareholders in Part B.

 

  (2)

Exhibits

 

  (a)   (i)    Third Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust of Registrant (1)
    (ii)    Statement of Preferences of Series B Cumulative Preferred Shares (2)
  (b)   Third Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Registrant dated as of March 28, 2014 (3)
  (c)   Not applicable
  (d)   (i)    Form of Specimen Common Share Certificate (4)
    (ii)    Form of Specimen Preferred Share Certificate for the Series B Cumulative Preferred Shares (2)
  (e)   Automatic Dividend Reinvestment and Voluntary Cash Purchase Plan (5)
  (f)   Not applicable
  (g)   Investment Advisory Agreement between Registrant and Gabelli Funds, LLC (6)
  (h)   (i)    Sales Agreement (7)
    (ii)    Underwriting Agreement †
  (i)   Not applicable
  (j)   Custodian Agreement (6)
  (k)   Form of Registrar, Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (4)
  (l)   (i)    Opinion and Consent of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (8)
    (ii)    Opinion and Consent of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (7)
    (iii)    Opinion and Consent of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (13)
    (iv)    Opinion and Consent of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (14)
    (v)    Opinion and Consent of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (15)
    (vi)    Opinion and Consent of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP*


  (m)   Not applicable
  (n)   Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (12)
  (o)   Not applicable
  (p)   Form of Initial Subscription Agreement (9)
  (q)   Not applicable
  (r)   (i)    Code of Ethics of the Fund and the Investment Adviser (10)
  (s)   (i)    Powers of Attorney, except Anthony S. Colavita (11)
    (ii)    Power of Attorney of Anthony S. Colavita (7)

 

*

Filed herewith.

 

To be filed by amendment

 

(1)

Previously filed with the Registrant’s Annual Report for Management Companies on Form NSAR-B filed on March 1, 2011 (811-21698).

 

(2)

Previously filed with Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form N-2 filed on May 7, 2013 (333-186097).

 

(3)

Previously filed with Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 to the Registration Statement on Form N-2 filed on April 28, 2016 (333-198978).

 

(4)

Previously filed with Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form N-2 filed on March 23, 2005 (333-121998).

 

(5)

Included in Prospectus.

 

(6)

Previously filed with Pre-Effective Amendment No. 4 to the Registration Statement on Form N-2 filed on March 28, 2005 (333-121998).

 

(7)

Previously filed with Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form N-2 filed on September 12, 2018 (333-221337).

 

(8)

Previously filed with Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form N-2 filed on April 5, 2018 (333-221337).

 

(9)

Previously filed with Pre-Effective Amendment No. 3 to the Registration Statement on Form N-2 filed on March 24, 2005 (333-121998).

 

(10)

Previously filed with Post-Effective Amendment No. 6 to the Registration Statement on Form N-2 filed on April 25, 2017.

 

(11)

Previously filed with the Registration Statement on Form N-2 filed on November 3, 2017 (333-221337).

 

(12)

Previously filed with Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form N-2 filed on May 28, 2019 (333-221337).

 

(13)

Previously filed with Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 to the Registration Statement on Form N-2 filed on June 27, 2019 (333-221337).

 

(14)

Previously filed with Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 to the Registration Statement on Form N-2 filed on July 19, 2019 (333-221337).

 

(15)

Previously filed with Post-Effective Amendment No. 5 to the Registration Statement on Form N-2 filed on October 9, 2019 (333-221337).

 

Item 26.

Marketing Arrangements

The information contained under the heading “Plan of Distribution” on page 71 of the Prospectus is incorporated by reference, and any information concerning any underwriters will be contained in the accompanying Prospectus Supplement, if any.

 

Item 27.

Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution

The following table sets forth the estimated expenses to be incurred in connection with the offering described in this Registration Statement:

 

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Accounting fees

   $ 56,000  

Legal fees

     465,000  

NYSE American listing fee

     20,000  

Printing expenses

     191,000  

Rating Agency fees

     50,000  

SEC registration fee

     57,950  

Miscellaneous

     105,000  
  

 

 

 

Total

   $ 944,950  

 

Item 28.

Persons Controlled by or Under Common Control with Registrant

None

 

Item 29.

Number of Holders of Securities as of December 31, 2019

 

Title of Class

   Number of Record
Holders
 

Common Shares of Beneficial Interest

     91  

Series B Cumulative Preferred Shares

     1  

 

Item 30.

Indemnification

Article IV of the Registrant’s Third Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust provides as follows:

4.1  No Personal Liability of Shareholders, Trustees, etc. No Shareholder of the Trust shall be subject in such capacity to any personal liability whatsoever to any Person in connection with Trust Property or the acts, obligations or affairs of the Trust. Shareholders shall have the same limitation of personal liability as is extended to stockholders of a private corporation for profit incorporated under the general corporation law of the State of Delaware. No Trustee or officer of the Trust shall be subject in such capacity to any personal liability whatsoever to any Person, other than the Trust or its Shareholders, in connection with Trust Property or the affairs of the Trust, save only liability to the Trust or its Shareholders arising from bad faith, willful misfeasance, gross negligence or reckless disregard for his duty to such Person; and, subject to the foregoing exception, all such Persons shall look solely to the Trust Property for satisfaction of claims of any nature arising in connection with the affairs of the Trust. If any Shareholder, Trustee or officer, as such, of the Trust, is made a party to any suit or proceeding to enforce any such liability, subject to the foregoing exception, he shall not, on account thereof, be held to any personal liability.

4.2  Mandatory Indemnification. (a) The Trust shall indemnify the Trustees and officers of the Trust (each such person being an “indemnitee”) against any liabilities and expenses, including amounts paid in satisfaction of judgments, in compromise or as fines and penalties, and reasonable counsel fees reasonably incurred by such indemnitee in connection with the defense or disposition of any action, suit or other proceeding, whether civil or criminal, before any court or administrative or investigative body in which he may be or may have been involved as a party or otherwise (other than, except as authorized by the Trustees, as the plaintiff or complainant) or with which he may be or may have been threatened, while acting in any capacity set forth above in this Section 4.2 by reason of his having acted in any such capacity, except with respect to any matter as to which he shall not have acted in good faith in the reasonable belief that his action was in the best interest of the Trust or, in the case of any criminal proceeding, as to which he shall have had reasonable cause to believe that the conduct was unlawful, provided, however, that no indemnitee shall be indemnified hereunder against any liability to any person or any expense of such indemnitee arising by reason of (i) willful misfeasance, (ii) bad faith, (iii) gross negligence (negligence in the case of Affiliated Indemnitees), or (iv) reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of his position (the conduct referred to in such clauses (i) through (iv) being sometimes referred to herein as “disabling conduct”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any action, suit or other proceeding voluntarily prosecuted by any indemnitee as plaintiff, indemnification shall be mandatory only if the prosecution of such action, suit or other proceeding by such indemnitee was authorized by a majority of the Trustees.

 

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(b)  Notwithstanding the foregoing, no indemnification shall be made hereunder unless there has been a determination (1) by a final decision on the merits by a court or other body of competent jurisdiction before whom the issue of entitlement to indemnification hereunder was brought that such indemnitee is entitled to indemnification hereunder or, (2) in the absence of such a decision, by (i) a majority vote of a quorum of those Trustees who are neither Interested Persons of the Trust nor parties to the proceeding (“Disinterested Non-Party Trustees”), that the indemnitee is entitled to indemnification hereunder, or (ii) if such quorum is not obtainable or even if obtainable, if such majority so directs, independent legal counsel in a written opinion conclude that the indemnitee should be entitled to indemnification hereunder. All determinations to make advance payments in connection with the expense of defending any proceeding shall be authorized and made in accordance with the immediately succeeding paragraph (c) below.

(c)  The Trust shall make advance payments in connection with the expenses of defending any action with respect to which indemnification might be sought hereunder if the Trust receives a written affirmation by the indemnitee of the indemnitee’s good faith belief that the standards of conduct necessary for indemnification have been met and a written undertaking to reimburse the Trust unless it is subsequently determined that he is entitled to such indemnification and if a majority of the Trustees determine that the applicable standards of conduct necessary for indemnification appear to have been met. In addition, at least one of the following conditions must be met: (1) the indemnitee shall provide adequate security for his undertaking, (2) the Trust shall be insured against losses arising by reason of any lawful advances, or (3) a majority of a quorum of the Disinterested Non-Party Trustees, or if a majority vote of such quorum so direct, independent legal counsel in a written opinion, shall conclude, based on a review of readily available facts (as opposed to a full trial-type inquiry), that there is substantial reason to believe that the indemnitee ultimately will be found entitled to indemnification.

(d)  The rights accruing to any indemnitee under these provisions shall not exclude any other right to which he may be lawfully entitled.

(e)  Notwithstanding the foregoing, subject to any limitations provided by the 1940 Act and this Declaration, the Trust shall have the power and authority to indemnify Persons providing services to the Trust to the full extent provided by law as if the Trust were a corporation organized under the Delaware General Corporation Law provided that such indemnification has been approved by a majority of the Trustees.

4.3  No Duty of Investigation; Notice in Trust Instruments, etc. No purchaser, lender, transfer agent or other person dealing with the Trustees or with any officer, employee or agent of the Trust shall be bound to make any inquiry concerning the validity of any transaction purporting to be made by the Trustees or by said officer, employee or agent or be liable for the application of money or property paid, loaned, or delivered to or on the order of the Trustees or of said officer, employee or agent. Every obligation, contract, undertaking, instrument, certificate, Share, other security of the Trust, and every other act or thing whatsoever executed in connection with the Trust shall be conclusively taken to have been executed or done by the executors thereof only in their capacity as Trustees under this Declaration or in their capacity as officers, employees or agents of the Trust. The Trustees may maintain insurance for the protection of the Trust Property, its Shareholders, Trustees, officers, employees and agents in such amount as the Trustees shall deem adequate to cover possible liability, and such other insurance as the Trustees in their sole judgment shall deem advisable or is required by the 1940 Act.

4.4  Reliance on Experts, etc. Each Trustee and officer or employee of the Trust shall, in the performance of its duties, be fully and completely justified and protected with regard to any act or any failure to act resulting from reliance in good faith upon the books of account or other records of the Trust, upon an opinion of counsel, or upon reports made to the Trust by any of the Trust’s officers or employees or by any advisor, administrator, manager, distributor, selected dealer, accountant, appraiser or other expert or consultant selected with reasonable care by the Trustees, officers or employees of the Trust, regardless of whether such counsel or other person may also be a Trustee.

 

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Section 9 of the Registrant’s Investment Advisory Agreement provides as follows:

9.  Indemnity

(a)  The Fund hereby agrees to indemnify the Adviser and each of the Adviser’s trustees, officers, employees, and agents (including any individual who serves at the Adviser’s request as director, officer, partner, trustee or the like of another corporation) and controlling persons (each such person being an “indemnitee”) against any liabilities and expenses, including amounts paid in satisfaction of judgments, in compromise or as fines and penalties, and counsel fees (all as provided in accordance with applicable corporate law) reasonably incurred by such indemnitee in connection with the defense or disposition of any action, suit or other proceeding, whether civil or criminal, before any court or administrative or investigative body in which he may be or may have been involved as a party or otherwise or with which he may be or may have been threatened, while acting in any capacity set forth above in this paragraph or thereafter by reason of his having acted in any such capacity, except with respect to any matter as to which he shall have been adjudicated not to have acted in good faith in the reasonable belief that his action was in the best interest of the Fund and furthermore, in the case of any criminal proceeding, so long as he had no reasonable cause to believe that the conduct was unlawful, provided, however, that (1) no indemnitee shall be indemnified hereunder against any liability to the Fund or its shareholders or any expense of such indemnitee arising by reason of (i) willful misfeasance, (ii) bad faith, (iii) gross negligence, (iv) reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of his position (the conduct referred to in such clauses (i) through (iv) being sometimes referred to herein as “disabling conduct”), (2) as to any matter disposed of by settlement or a compromise payment by such indemnitee, pursuant to a consent decree or otherwise, no indemnification either for said payment or for any other expenses shall be provided unless there has been a determination that such settlement or compromise is in the best interests of the Fund and that such indemnitee appears to have acted in good faith in the reasonable belief that his action was in the best interest of the Fund and did not involve disabling conduct by such indemnitee and (3) with respect to any action, suit or other proceeding voluntarily prosecuted by any indemnitee as plaintiff, indemnification shall be mandatory only if the prosecution of such action, suit or other proceeding by such indemnitee was authorized by a majority of the full Board of the Fund. Notwithstanding the foregoing the Fund shall not be obligated to provide any such indemnification to the extent such provision would waive any right which the Fund cannot lawfully waive.

(b)  The Fund shall make advance payments in connection with the expenses of defending any action with respect to which indemnification might be sought hereunder if the Fund receives a written affirmation of the indemnitee’s good faith belief that the standard of conduct necessary for indemnification has been met and a written undertaking to reimburse the Fund unless it is subsequently determined that he is entitled to such indemnification and if the trustees of the Fund determine that the facts then known to them would not preclude indemnification. In addition, at least one of the following conditions must be met: (A) the indemnitee shall provide a security for his undertaking, (B) the Fund shall be insured against losses arising by reason of any lawful advances, or (C) a majority of a quorum of trustees of the Fund who are neither “interested persons” of the Fund (as defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the Act) nor parties to the proceeding (“Disinterested Non-Party Trustees”) or an independent legal counsel in a written opinion, shall determine, based on a review of readily available facts (as opposed to a full trial-type inquiry), that there is reason to believe that the indemnitee ultimately will be found entitled to indemnification.

(c)  All determinations with respect to indemnification hereunder shall be made (1) by a final decision on the merits by a court or other body before whom the proceeding was brought that such indemnitee is not liable by reason of disabling conduct or, (2) in the absence of such a decision, by (i) a majority vote of a quorum of the Disinterested Non-party Trustees of the Fund, or (ii) if such a quorum is not obtainable or even, if obtainable, if a majority vote of such quorum so directs, independent legal counsel in a written opinion.

The rights accruing to any indemnitee under these provisions shall not exclude any other right to which he may be lawfully entitled.

Other

Reference is made to Section 7 of the Sales Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit (h)(i) to this Registration Statement.

Additional underwriting indemnification provisions, if any, to be added by amendment.

Additionally, the Registrant and the other funds in the Gabelli/GAMCO Fund Complex jointly maintain, at their own expense, E&O/D&O insurance policies for the benefit of its directors/trustees, officers and certain affiliated persons. The Registrant pays a pro rata portion of the premium on such insurance policies.

 

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Insofar as indemnification for liability arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

 

Item 31.

Business and Other Connections of Investment Adviser

The Investment Adviser, a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of New York, acts as investment adviser to the Registrant. The Registrant is fulfilling the requirement of this Item 31 to provide a list of the officers of the Investment Adviser, together with information as to any other business, profession, vocation or employment of a substantial nature engaged in by the Investment Adviser or those officers during the past two years, by incorporating by reference the information contained in the Form ADV of the Investment Adviser filed with the commission pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (Commission File No. 801-26202).

 

Item 32.

Location of Accounts and Records

The accounts and records of the Registrant are maintained in part at the office of the Investment Adviser at One Corporate Center, Rye, New York 10580-1422, in part at the offices of the Registrant’s custodian, The Bank of New York Mellon, at 135 Santilli Highway, Everett, Massachusetts 02149, in part at the offices of the Registrant’s sub-administrator, BNY Mellon Investment Servicing (US) Inc., at 760 Moore Road, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania 19406, and in part at the offices of the Registrant’s transfer agent, American Stock Transfer, at 6201 15th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11219.

 

Item 33.

Management Services

Not applicable.

 

Item 34.

Undertakings

1.  Registrant undertakes to suspend the offering of shares until it amends its prospectus if (a) subsequent to the effective date of its Registration Statement, the net asset value declines more than ten percent from the later of its net asset value as of the effective date of the Registration Statement or the filing of a prospectus supplement pursuant to Rule 497, under the Securities Act of 1933, setting forth the terms of the offering or (b) the net asset value increases to an amount greater than its net proceeds as stated in the prospectus.

2.  Not applicable.

3.  Not applicable.

4.  Registrant hereby undertakes:

(a)  to file, during and period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:

(1)  to include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

(2)  to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events after the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the Registration Statement; and

 

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(3)  to include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change to such information in the Registration Statement.

(b)  that for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “1933 Act”), each post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof;

(c)  to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering; and

(d)  that, for the purpose of determining liability under the 1933 Act to any purchaser, if the Registrant is subject to Rule 430C: Each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 497(b), (c), (d) or (e) under the 1933 Act as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A under the 1933 Act shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use.

(e)  that for the purpose of determining liability of the Registrant under the 1933 Act to any purchaser in the initial distribution of securities:

The undersigned Registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned Registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned Registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to the purchaser:

(1)  any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned Registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 497 under the 1933 Act.

(2)  the portion of any advertisement pursuant to Rule 482 under the 1933 Act relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned Registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned Registrant; and

(3)  any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned Registrant to the purchaser.

5.  Registrant undertakes that, for the purpose of determining any liability under the 1933 Act, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of the Registration Statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in the form of prospectus filed by the Registrant pursuant to Rule 497(h) will be deemed to be a part of the Registration Statement as of the time it was declared effective.

Registrant undertakes that, for the purpose of determining any liability under the 1933 Act, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus will be deemed to be a new Registration Statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time will be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

6.  Registrant undertakes to send by first class mail or other means designed to ensure equally prompt delivery, within two business days of receipt of a written or oral request, any Statement of Additional Information constituting Part B of this Registration Statement.

 

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SIGNATURES

As required by the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this Registration Statement on Form N-2 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, in the City of Rye, State of New York, on the 5th day of February, 2020.

GAMCO GLOBAL GOLD, NATURAL RESOURCES & INCOME TRUST

By: /s/  BRUCE N. ALPERT

 

 

Bruce N. Alpert

President

As required by the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities set forth below on the 5th day of February, 2020.

 

NAME

  

TITLE

*

Anthony S. Colavita

   Trustee

*

James P. Conn

   Trustee

*

Vincent D. Enright

   Trustee

*

Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr.

   Trustee

*

Michael J. Melarkey

   Trustee

*

Salvatore M. Salibello

   Trustee

*

Anthonie C. van Ekris

   Trustee

*

Salvatore J. Zizza

   Trustee

/s/  BRUCE N. ALPERT

Bruce N. Alpert

   President (Principal Executive Officer)

/s/  JOHN C. BALL

John C. Ball

   Treasurer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

/s/  BRUCE N. ALPERT

Bruce N. Alpert

   Attorney-in-Fact

 

*

Pursuant to a Power of Attorney


EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No.

 

Description

Ex. 99(l)(vi)   Opinion and Consent of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Exhibit (l)(vi)

[Letterhead of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP]

February 5, 2020

GAMCO Global Gold, Natural Resources & Income Trust

One Corporate Center

Rye, New York 10580-1422

 

  RE:

GAMCO Global Gold, Natural Resources & Income Trust

    

Common Shares Shelf Takedown

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as special counsel to GAMCO Global Gold, Natural Resources & Income Trust, a statutory trust (the “Trust”), created under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act (the “DSTA”), in connection with the issuance and sale by the Trust of up to 20,000,000 shares (the “Shares”) of the Trust’s common shares of beneficial interest, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Shares”), pursuant to the Sales Agreement, dated September 10, 2018, among G.research, LLC, the Trust and Gabelli Funds, LLC, a New York limited liability company and the investment adviser to the Trust (the “Sales Agreement”).

This opinion is being furnished in accordance with the requirements of sub-paragraph (l) of item 25.2 of part C of Form N-2 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”).

In rendering the opinions stated herein, we have examined and relied upon the following:

(i)      an executed copy of the Sales Agreement;

(ii)     the shelf registration statement on Form N-2 (File Nos. 333-221337 and 811-21698) of the Trust, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on November 3, 2017, under the Securities Act and the 1940 Act, allowing for delayed offerings pursuant to Rule 415 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Act (the “Securities Act Rules and Regulations”), as amended by Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 thereto,


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February 5, 2020

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including information deemed to be a part of the registration statement pursuant to Rule 430B of the Securities Act Rules and Regulations; the Notice of Effectiveness of the Commission posted on its website declaring such registration statement effective on April 9, 2018; Post-Effective Amendments No. 1 through 5 thereto, and Post-Effective Amendment No. 6 thereto, proposed to be filed with the Commission as of the date hereof pursuant to Rule 462(d) of the Securities Act Rules and Regulations (such registration statement, as so amended and proposed to be amended, being hereinafter referred to as the “Registration Statement”);

(iii)      the prospectus and Statement of Additional Information of the Trust, each dated May 28, 2019, in the form filed with the Commission on the date hereof pursuant to Rule 497 of the Securities Act Rules and Regulations;

(iv)      the prospectus supplement of the Trust, dated February 5, 2020, relating to the offering of the Shares, filed with the Commission on the date hereof pursuant to Rule 497 of the Securities Act Rules and Regulations;

(v)       an executed copy of a certificate of Andrea Mango, Secretary of the Trust, dated the date hereof (the “Secretary’s Certificate”);

(vi)      a copy of the Trust’s Certificate of Trust, dated January 4, 2005, and each Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Trust, dated January 12, 2005, September 12, 2007, December 1, 2011 and March 26, 2014, respectively (as so amended, the “Certificate of Trust”), certified by the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware as of February 5, 2020 and certified pursuant to the Secretary’s Certificate;

(vii)     a copy of the Trust’s Third Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust, by the trustees of the Trust, dated as of February 16, 2011, as amended and supplemented by the Statement of Preferences of the 5.00% Series B Cumulative Preferred Shares, dated as of May 7, 2013 (as so amended and supplemented, the “Declaration of Trust”), certified pursuant to the Secretary’s Certificate;

(viii)    a copy of the Trust’s Third Amended and Restated By-Laws, as amended and in effect as of the date hereof (the “By-Laws”), certified pursuant to the Secretary’s Certificate;

(ix)      copies of certain resolutions relating to the issuance, sale and registration of the Shares and related matters, adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Trust (the “Board of Trustees”) on August 24, 2017 and August 23, 2018, and by the Pricing Committee of the Board of Trustees on February 4, 2020 (collectively, the “Board Resolutions”), certified pursuant to the Secretary’s Certificate; and


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(x)        a copy of a certificate, dated the date hereof, from the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware with respect to the Trust’s existence and good standing in the State of Delaware.

We have also examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such records of the Trust and such agreements, certificates and receipts of public officials, certificates of officers or other representatives of the Trust and others, and such other documents as we have deemed necessary or appropriate as a basis for the opinions stated below.

In our examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, including electronic signatures, the legal capacity and competency of all natural persons, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as facsimile, electronic, certified or photocopied copies, and the authenticity of the originals of such copies. As to any facts relevant to the opinions stated herein that we did not independently establish or verify, we have relied upon statements and representations of officers and other representatives of the Trust and others and of public officials, including the facts and conclusions set forth in the Secretary’s Certificate and the factual representations and warranties contained in the Sales Agreement.

We do not express any opinion as to any laws other than the DSTA.

Based upon the foregoing and subject to the qualifications and assumptions stated herein, we are of the opinion that the Shares have been duly authorized by all requisite statutory trust action on the part of the Trust under the DSTA and when the issuance of the Shares has been duly registered in the share record books of the Trust and the Shares are delivered to and paid for in accordance with the Sales Agreement and Board Resolutions, the Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

In rendering the foregoing opinion, we have assumed that:

(a)        the Certificate of Trust, the Declaration of Trust and the By-Laws are the only governing instruments, as defined under the DSTA, of the Trust; the Trust has, and since the time of its formation has had, at least one validly admitted and existing trustee of the Trust and (i) no procedures have been instituted for, and no other event has occurred, including, without limitation, any action taken by the Trust or its Board of Trustees or shareholders, as applicable, that would result in the liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Trust, (ii) no event has occurred that has adversely affected the good standing of the Trust under the laws of its jurisdiction of formation, and the Trust has taken all actions required by the laws of its jurisdiction of formation to maintain such good standing and (iii) no grounds exist for the revocation or forfeiture of the Certificate of Trust; and

(b)         any Shares issued and sold pursuant to the Sales Agreement are sold at a price that is not below either (i) the $0.001 par value per Common Share or (ii) the then current net


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asset value per Common Share, exclusive of any distributing commission or discount, which net asset value shall be determined as of a time within forty-eight hours, excluding Sundays and holidays, next preceding the time of such determination.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion with the Commission as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. We also hereby consent to the reference to our firm under the heading “Legal Matters” in the prospectus forming part of the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the Securities Act Rules and Regulations. This opinion is expressed as of the date hereof unless otherwise expressly stated, and we disclaim any undertaking to advise you of any subsequent changes in the facts stated or assumed herein or of any subsequent changes in applicable laws.

    Very truly yours,

/s/ Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

T.A.D.