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Form N-SAR, Sub-Item 77E
Legal Proceedings



Nuveen Insured Tax-Free Advantage Municipal Fund

811-21213

    Thirty-three Nuveen leveraged closed-end funds (including
the Nuveen Insured Tax-Free Advantage Municipal Fund (symbol
 NEA ) (hereafter, the  Fund )) have each received a demand
letter from a law firm on behalf of purported holders of the funds
common shares. Each letter alleged that Nuveen Fund Advisors
(the funds investment adviser) and the funds officers and Board
of Directors or Trustees, as applicable (the  Board of Trustees )
breached their fiduciary duties by favoring the interests of holders
of the funds auction rate preferred shares ( ARPS ) over those of
its common shareholders in connection with each funds ARPS
refinancing and/or redemption activities, and demanded that the
Board take action to remedy those alleged breaches. In response to
the demand letters, each funds Board of Trustees established a
Demand Committee of certain of its disinterested and independent
members to investigate the claims. The Demand Committee, for
each fund, retained independent counsel to assist it in conducting
its investigation. Based upon its investigation, the Demand
Committee, for each fund, found that it was not in the best interests
of each fund or its shareholders to take the actions suggested in the
demand letters, and recommended that the full Board reject the
demands made in the demand letters. After reviewing the findings
and recommendation of each Demand Committee, the full Board
of each fund unanimously adopted the Demand Committees
recommendation and each of the thirty-three funds has since
rejected the demands made in the demand letters.

    Subsequently, all thirty-three funds that received demand
letters (including the Fund) and one fund that did not receive a
demand letter were named as nominal defendants in four putative
shareholder derivative action complaints filed in the Circuit Court
of Cook County, Illinois, Chancery Division (the  Cook County
Chancery Court ). The four putative shareholder actions have
since been consolidated into one shareholder derivative action
complaint captioned Martin Safier, et al., v. Nuveen Asset
Management, et al., filed with the Cook County Chancery Court on
February 18, 2011 (the  Complaint ). The Complaint was filed on
behalf of purported holders of each funds common shares and also
names Nuveen Fund Advisors as a defendant, together with current
and former officers and a trustee of each of the funds (together
with the nominal defendants, collectively, the  Defendants ). The
Complaint contains the same basic allegations contained in the
demand letters. The suit seeks a declaration that the Defendants
have breached their fiduciary duties, an order directing the
Defendants not to redeem any ARPS at their liquidation value
using fund assets, indeterminate monetary damages in favor of the
funds and an award of plaintiffs costs and disbursements in
pursuing the action. The plaintiffs filed a motion for preliminary
injunction to stop the funds subject to the lawsuits from redeeming
additional ARPS during the pendency of the lawsuits. The court
rejected that motion on November 23, 2010.

    On April 29, 2011, each of the Defendants filed a motion to
dismiss the Complaint, which remains pending before the court.

    By decision dated December 16, 2011, the Court granted the
Defendants Motion to Dismiss with prejudice. It is not known
whether the plaintiffs intend to file an appeal of the Courts
decision.


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