Resolutions for Winding-up

BLACKROCK EMPLOYEE TRUST CO. LIMITED

(Company Number 02075567 )

Previous Name of Company: Merrill Lynch Investment Managers Employee Trust Co. Limited (until 02/10/2006); Mercury Asset Management Employee Trust Co. Ltd (until 29/09/2000); Trushelfco (No. 1029) Limited (until 02/02/1987)

Registered office: 12 Throgmorton Avenue, London, EC2N 2DL

Principal trading address: 12 Throgmorton Avenue, London, EC2N 2DL

Pursuant to chapter 2 of part 13 of the Companies Act 2006, the following written resolutions were passed on 06 September 2011, as a Special Resolution and as an Ordinary Resolution:

“That the Company be wound up voluntarily; and that Jeremy Simon Spratt and John David Thomas Milsom, both of KPMG LLP, 8 Salisbury Square, London EC4Y 8BB, (IP Nos. 8914 and 9241) be and are hereby appointed joint liquidators for the purpose of such winding up and that any power conferred on them by the Company, or by law, be exercisable by them jointly, or by either of them alone.”

Further details contact: Jacqueline Edwards, email: jacqueline.edwards2@kpmg.co.uk Tel: +44 (0) 20 7311 8563

Colin Roy Thomson, Director

09 September 2011