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EXHIBIT 10.2
GUARANTY OF PAYMENT
GUARANTY OF PAYMENT (this "Guaranty"), made as of June 29th, 2004,
jointly and severally by AMB PROPERTY, L.P. ("AMB LP"), a Delaware limited
partnership, having an address at Pier 1, Bay 1, San Francisco, California
94111, and AMB PROPERTY CORPORATION ("AMB Corporation"), a Maryland corporation,
having an address at Pier 1, Bay 1, San Francisco, California 94111
(collectively, the "Guarantors"), for the benefit of SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING
CORPORATION, as Administrative Agent and Sole Lead Arranger and Bookmanager (the
"Administrative Agent"), for the banks (the "Banks") that are from time to time
parties to that certain Revolving Credit Agreement (the "Credit Agreement"),
dated as of the date hereof, among AMB Japan Finance Y.K. (the "Initial
Borrower"), the Guarantors, the Banks and the Administrative Agent.
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the Banks have agreed to make loans to Initial Borrower and
to one or more Qualified Borrowers for so long as such entities remain Qualified
Borrowers under the Credit Agreement (Initial Borrower and such Qualified
Borrowers are hereinafter referred to collectively as the "Borrowers") in the
aggregate principal amount not to exceed Twenty-Four Billion Yen
(JPY24,000,000,000) (hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Loans");
WHEREAS, the Loans are and will be evidenced by (i) certain
promissory notes of Initial Borrower, and each Qualified Borrower that is not a
TMK, made to Administrative Agent or to each of the Banks in accordance with
Section 2.6 of the Credit Agreement and (ii) certain qualified borrower
undertakings of each Qualified Borrower that is a TMK made to Administrative
Agent or to each of the Banks in accordance with Section 2.6 of the Credit
Agreement (collectively, the "Notes");
WHEREAS, the Credit Agreement, the Security Documents, the Notes and
any other documents executed in connection therewith are hereinafter
collectively referred to as the "Loan Documents";
WHEREAS, capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined
shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Credit Agreement;
WHEREAS, each of AMB LP and AMB Corporation is the direct or
indirect owner of equity interests of the Initial Borrower and each Qualified
Borrower;
WHEREAS, as a condition to the execution and delivery of the Loan
Documents, the Banks have required that the Guarantors execute and deliver this
Guaranty; and
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the benefits to
be derived from the making of the Loans by the Banks to the Borrowers, and in
order to induce the Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent and the Banks
to enter into the Credit
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Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and for other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the
Guarantors hereby agree as follows:
1. Each Guarantor, on behalf of itself and its successors and
assigns, hereby irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees the full
and punctual payment when due, whether at stated maturity or otherwise, of all
Obligations of the Borrowers now or hereafter existing under the Notes and the
Credit Agreement, and any and all reasonable costs and expenses (including,
without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees and disbursements) incurred by
the Administrative Agent and/or the Banks in enforcing their rights under this
Guaranty (all of the foregoing obligations being the "Guaranteed Obligations").
2. It is agreed that the Guaranteed Obligations of each Guarantor
hereunder are primary, and this Guaranty shall be enforceable, jointly and
severally, against each Guarantor and its respective successors and assigns
without the necessity for any suit or proceeding of any kind or nature
whatsoever brought by the Administrative Agent or any of the Banks against one
or more of the Borrowers or their respective successors or assigns or any other
party or against any security for the payment and performance of the Guaranteed
Obligations and without the necessity of any notice of non-payment or
non-observance or of any notice of acceptance of this Guaranty or of any notice
or demand to which the Guarantors might otherwise be entitled (including,
without limitation, diligence, presentment, notice of maturity, extension of
time, change in nature or form of the Guaranteed Obligations, acceptance of
further security, release of further security, imposition or agreement arrived
at as to the amount of or the terms of the Guaranteed Obligations, notice of
adverse change in any Borrower's financial condition and any other fact which
might materially increase the risk to each Guarantor), all of which each
Guarantor hereby expressly waives; and each Guarantor hereby expressly agrees
that the validity of this Guaranty and the obligations of each Guarantor
hereunder shall in no way be terminated, affected, diminished, modified or
impaired by reason of the assertion of or the failure to assert by the
Administrative Agent or any of the Banks against one or more of the Borrowers or
their respective successors or assigns, any of the rights or remedies reserved
to the Administrative Agent or any of the Banks pursuant to the provisions of
the Loan Documents. Each Guarantor agrees that any notice or directive given at
any time to the Administrative Agent or any of the Banks which is inconsistent
with the waiver in the immediately preceding sentence shall be void and may be
ignored by the Administrative Agent and the Banks, and, in addition, may not be
pleaded or introduced as evidence in any litigation relating to this Guaranty
for the reason that such pleading or introduction would be at variance with the
written terms of this Guaranty, unless the Administrative Agent has specifically
agreed otherwise in a writing, signed by a duly authorized officer. Each
Guarantor specifically acknowledges and agrees that the foregoing waivers are of
the essence of this transaction and that, but for this Guaranty and such
waivers, the Administrative Agent and the Banks would not make the requested
Loan to the Borrowers.
3. Each Guarantor waives, and covenants and agrees that it will not
at any time insist upon, plead or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the
benefit or advantage of,
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any and all appraisal, valuation, stay, extension, marshaling-of-assets or
redemption laws, or right of homestead or exemption, whether now or at any time
hereafter in force, which may delay, prevent or otherwise affect the performance
by each Guarantor of its obligations under, or the enforcement by the
Administrative Agent or any of the Banks of, this Guaranty. Each Guarantor
further covenants and agrees not to set up or claim any defense, counterclaim,
offset, setoff or other objection of any kind to any action, suit or proceeding
in law, equity or otherwise, or to any demand or claim that may be instituted or
made by the Administrative Agent or any of the Banks other than the defense of
the actual timely payment and performance by the Borrowers of the Guaranteed
Obligations hereunder; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not be deemed
a waiver of each Guarantor's right to assert any compulsory counterclaim, if
such counterclaim is compelled under local law or rule of procedure, nor shall
the foregoing be deemed a waiver of each Guarantor's right to assert any claim
which would constitute a defense, setoff, counterclaim or crossclaim of any
nature whatsoever against the Administrative Agent or any Bank in any separate
action or proceeding. Each Guarantor represents, warrants and agrees that, as of
the date hereof, its obligations under this Guaranty are not subject to any
counterclaims, offsets or defenses against the Administrative Agent or any Bank
of any kind.
4. The provisions of this Guaranty are for the benefit of the
Administrative Agent and the Banks and their successors and permitted assigns,
and nothing herein contained shall impair as between any Borrower and the
Administrative Agent and the Banks the obligations of any Borrower under the
Loan Documents.
5. This Guaranty shall be a continuing, unconditional and absolute
guaranty and the liability of each Guarantor hereunder shall in no way be
terminated, affected, modified, impaired or diminished by reason of the
happening, from time to time, of any of the following, all without notice or the
further consent of the Guarantors:
(a) any assignment, amendment, modification or waiver of or change
in any of the terms, covenants, conditions or provisions of any of the
Guaranteed Obligations or the Loan Documents or the invalidity or
unenforceability of any of the foregoing; or
(b) any extension of time that may be granted by the Administrative
Agent to any Borrower, any Guarantor, or their respective successors or
assigns, heirs, executors, administrators or personal representatives; or
(c) any action which the Administrative Agent may take or fail to
take under or in respect of any of the Loan Documents or by reason of any
waiver of, or failure to enforce any of the rights, remedies, powers or
privileges available to the Administrative Agent under this Guaranty or
available to the Administrative Agent at law, equity or otherwise, or any
action on the part of the Administrative Agent granting indulgence or
extension in any form whatsoever; or
(d) any sale, exchange, release, or other disposition of any
property pledged,
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mortgaged or conveyed, or any property in which the Administrative Agent
and/or the Banks have been granted a lien or security interest to secure
any indebtedness of any Borrower to the Administrative Agent and/or the
Banks; or
(e) any release of any person or entity who may be liable in any
manner for the payment and collection of any amounts owed by any Borrower
to the Administrative Agent and/or the Banks; or
(f) the application of any sums by whomsoever paid or however
realized to any amounts owing by any Borrower to the Administrative Agent
and/or the Banks under the Loan Documents in such manner as the
Administrative Agent shall determine in its sole discretion; or
(g) any Borrower's or any Guarantor's voluntary or involuntary
liquidation, dissolution, sale of all or substantially all of their
respective assets and liabilities, appointment of a trustee, receiver,
liquidator, sequestrator or conservator for all or any part of any
Borrower's or any Guarantor's assets, insolvency, bankruptcy, assignment
for the benefit of creditors, reorganization, arrangement, composition or
readjustment, or the commencement of other similar proceedings affecting
any Borrower or any Guarantor or any of the assets of any of them,
including, without limitation, (i) the release or discharge of any
Borrower or any Guarantor from the payment and performance of their
respective obligations under any of the Loan Documents by operation of
law, or (ii) the impairment, limitation or modification of the liability
of any Borrower or any Guarantor in bankruptcy, or of any remedy for the
enforcement of the Guaranteed Obligations under any of the Loan Documents,
or any Guarantor's liability under this Guaranty, resulting from the
operation of any present or future provisions of the Bankruptcy Code or
other present or future federal, state or applicable statute or law or
from the decision in any court; or
(h) any improper disposition by any Borrower of the proceeds of the
Loans, it being acknowledged by each Guarantor that the Administrative
Agent or any Bank shall be entitled to honor any request made by any
Borrower for a disbursement of such proceeds and that neither the
Administrative Agent nor any Bank shall have any obligation to see the
proper disposition by any Borrower of such proceeds.
6. Each Guarantor agrees that if at any time all or any part of any
payment at any time received by the Administrative Agent from any Borrower or
any Guarantor under or with respect to this Guaranty is or must be rescinded or
returned by the Administrative Agent or any Bank for any reason whatsoever
(including, without limitation, the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of
any Borrower or any Guarantor), then such Guarantor's obligations hereunder
shall, to the extent of the payment rescinded or returned, be deemed to have
continued in existence notwithstanding such previous receipt by such party, and
such Guarantor's obligations hereunder shall continue to be effective or
reinstated, as the case may be, as to such payment, as
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though such previous payment had never been made.
7. Until this Guaranty is terminated pursuant to the terms hereof,
each Guarantor (i) shall have no right of subrogation against any Borrower or
any entity comprising same by reason of any payments or acts of performance by
such Guarantor in compliance with the obligations of such Guarantor hereunder,
(ii) waives any right to enforce any remedy which such Guarantor now or
hereafter shall have against any Borrower or any entity comprising same by
reason of any one or more payment or acts of performance in compliance with the
obligations of such Guarantor hereunder and (iii) from and after an Event of
Default (as defined in the Credit Agreement), subordinates any liability or
indebtedness of any Borrower or any entity comprising same now o






