Prospectus excerpt: Nuveen Dividend Advantage Municipal Fund is offering 13,330,000 MuniFund Term Preferred Shares, 2.70% Series 2015 (ÙSeries 2015 MTP Sharesˆ), with a liquidation preference of $10 per share (ÙMTP Sharesˆ). The Fund intends to use the net proceeds from the sale of MTP Shares to refinance and redeem a portion of the Fund?s outstanding Municipal Auction Rate Cumulative Preferred Shares (ÙMuniPreferred÷ sharesˆ), and to maintain the Fund?s leveraged capital structure. Certain of the underwriters and their affiliates or their customers own or are obligated to repurchase in the future MuniPreferred shares and, as a result, may benefit from any such redemption. See ÙProspectus Summary?The Offering.ˆ
Dividends on the MTP Shares will be payable monthly. The first dividend period for the MTP Shares will commence on the first date of original issuance of MTP Shares and end on April 30, 2010 and each subsequent dividend period will be a calendar month (or the portion thereof occurring prior to the redemption of such MTP Shares). Dividends will be paid on the first business day of the month next following a dividend period and upon redemption of the MTP Shares, except that dividends paid with respect to any dividend period consisting of the month of December in any year will be paid on the last business day of December. Except for the first dividend period, dividends with respect to any monthly dividend period will be declared and paid to holders of record of MTP Shares as their names shall appear on the registration books of the Fund at the close of business on the 15th day of such monthly dividend period (or if such day is not a business day, the next preceding business day). Dividends with respect to the first dividend period for the MTP Shares will be declared and paid to holders of record of such MTP Shares as their names appear on the registration books of the Fund at the close of business on April 29, 2010.