The General Partner shall be entitled to reimbursement from the Partnership for the General Partner’s operating expenses, overhead and other fees and expenses. Without limiting the foregoing sentence, at the General Partner’s sole discretion, cash distributions may be made to the General Partner (which distributions shall be made without pro rata distributions to the other Partnership Unit Holders) in amounts required for the General Partner to pay (a) operating, administrative and other similar costs incurred by the General Partner, including payments representing interest with respect to payments not made when due under the terms of the Tax Receivable Agreements and payments pursuant to any legal, tax, accounting and other professional fees and expenses, (b) any judgments, settlements, penalties, fines or other costs and expenses in respect of any claims against, or any litigation or proceedings involving, the General Partner, (c) fees and expenses related to any securities offering, investment or acquisition transaction (whether or not successful) authorized by the board of directors of the General Partner and (d) other fees and expenses in connection with the maintenance of the existence of the General Partner (including any costs or expenses associated with being a public company listed on a national securities exchange). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, any distributions made to the General Partner pursuant to this Section 9.6 shall be in addition to any distributions the General Partner is otherwise entitled to as a Partnership Unit Holder and shall create no obligation for the Partnership to make any additional distribution to the Limited Partners.