Exhibit 3.37
AMENDED AND RESTATED LIMITED
LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT
OF
W2007 ACEP FIRST MEZZANINE B
GEN-PAR, L.L.C.
This LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
AGREEMENT of W2007 ACEP First Mezzanine B Gen-Par, L.L.C. (the
“ Company ”), dated and effective as of
June 25, 2009 (as amended from time to time, this “
Agreement ”), by and among (i) Aquarius Gaming
LLC, a Nevada limited liability company (“ Aquarius
LLC ”), Arizona Charlie’s, LLC, a Nevada limited
liability company (“ Arizona LLC ”), and Fresca,
LLC, a Nevada limited liability company (“ Fresca LLC
”), individually in their capacity as the economic members of
the Company (collectively, the “ Economic Members
”); and (ii) Robert K. Rowell and Carolyn Danielsson
individually in their capacity as the non-economic members of the
Company (the “ Non-Economic Members ”) (the
Economic Members and the Non-Economic Members, and any additional
or substitute members of the Company are hereinafter each referred
to as a “Member” and collectively referred to as the
“ Members ” of the Company).
R E C I
T A L
S
WHEREAS, the Company was formed by
W2007 ACEP Second Mezzanine B Borrower, L.P., a Delaware limited
partnership (“ ACEP Second ”), as its sole
economic member, and Robert K. Powell and Carolyn Danielsson, as
its non-economic members (together with ACEP Second, the “
Original Members ”) pursuant to the statutes and laws
of the State of Delaware relating to limited liability companies,
including, without limitation, the Delaware Limited Liability
Company Act (6 Del. C. Section 18-101, et seq.), as amended
from time to time (the “ Act ”), by (i) the
filing of a Certificate of Formation of the Company, dated as of
February 7, 2008, in the Office of the Secretary of State of
the State of Delaware on February 7, 2008 (the “
Certificate of Formation ”) and (ii) the
execution of that certain Limited Liability Company Agreement dated
as of February 20, 2008 (the “ Original Agreement
”);
WHEREAS, the Company is the sole
general partner of W2007 ACEP First Mezzanine B Borrower, L.P., a
Delaware limited partnership (the “ Partnership
”), pursuant to the terms of the Amended and Restated Limited
Partnership Agreement of the Partnership, dated and effective as of
the date hereof (as amended from time to time, the “
Partnership Agreement ”);
WHEREAS, pursuant to that certain
Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of the date hereof, between
W2007 ACEP Ninth Mezzanine B Gen-Par, L.L.C., a Delaware limited
liability company, W2007 ACEP Eighth Mezzanine B Gen-Par, L.L.C., a
Delaware limited liability company, W2007 ACEP Seventh Mezzanine B
Gen-Par, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company, W2007 ACEP
Sixth Mezzanine B Gen-Par, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability
company, W2007 ACEP Fifth Mezzanine B
Gen-Par, L.L.C., a Delaware limited
liability company, W2007 ACEP Fourth Mezzanine B Gen-Par, L.L.C., a
Delaware limited liability company, W2007 ACEP Third Mezzanine B
Gen-Par, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company, W2007 ACEP
Second Mezzanine B Gen-Par, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability
company, and the Company (the “ Merger Agreement
”), among other things, the parties to the Merger Agreement
merged with and into the Company;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Merger
Agreement ACEP Second assigned, transferred and conveyed a 100%
limited liability company interest in the Company to the Economic
Members and the Economic Members were admitted to the Company as
members and, immediately following such admissions, ACEP Second
ceased to be a member of the Company; and
WHEREAS, the parties hereto now
desire to amend and restate the Original Agreement in its entirety
to reflect that the Economic Members, rather than ACEP Second, are
now the Company’s economic members and to continue the
Company as a limited liability company for the purposes and on the
terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in order to carry
out their intent as expressed above and in consideration of the
mutual agreements hereinafter contained and other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, the parties hereby covenant and agree as
follows:
1.
Name . The name of the
Company continued hereby is W2007 ACEP First Mezzanine B Gen-Par,
L.L.C.
2.
Company
Purpose . (a) The Company
is formed solely for the purpose of acquiring, financing,
refinancing, holding, owning, selling, transferring, exchanging,
managing and maintaining all of the general partner interests (the
“ General Partner Interest ”) in the
Partnership, acting as the general partner of the Partnership,
executing and performing the obligations of the general partner
under the Partnership Agreement and transacting any and all lawful
business that is incident, necessary and appropriate to accomplish
the foregoing. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to
the contrary, unless and until that certain loan in the original
principal amount of three hundred and fifty million dollars
($350,000,000) (the “ Loan ”) and evidenced by
that certain Loan Agreement, dated as of the date hereof (as the
same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time
to time in accordance with the terms thereof, the “ Loan
Agreement ”), among Goldman Sachs Commercial Mortgage
Capital, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (together with its
successors and assigns, “ Lender ”), Archon
Group, L.P., as administrative agent, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as
collateral agent, and American Casino & Entertainment
Properties LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Arizona LLC,
Fresca LLC, Stratosphere Gaming LLC, a Nevada limited
liability company, Aquarius LLC, the Partnership, the Company,
W2007 ACEP First Mezzanine B Borrower, L.P., a Delaware limited
partnership, W2007 Aquarius Propco,
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L.P., a Delaware limited
partnership, W2007 Stratosphere Propco, L.P., a Delaware limited
partnership, W2007 Stratosphere Land Propco, L.P., a Delaware
limited partnership, W2007 Arizona Charlie’s Propco, L.P., a
Delaware limited partnership, and W2007 Fresca Propco, L.P., a
Delaware limited partnership, as borrowers, is no longer
outstanding, or unless otherwise approved in writing by Lender or
Administrative Agent (as directed by the Required Lenders), the
Company shall not engage in any business, and it shall have no
purpose, unrelated to that described in the first sentence of this
Section 2(a) and shall not acquire any real property or
own assets other than such assets and interests as are necessary or
desirable and are not prohibited by the terms of the Loan Agreement
for the Company to own in conjunction with carrying out the
purposes of the Company. Except to the extent permitted in
the Loan Agreement, the Company shall not engage in any business
other than the acquisition, financing, refinancing, holding,
ownership, sale, transferring, exchanging, management and
maintenance of the General Partner Interest.
(b)
The Company, any
Economic Member, any Manager (as defined hereinafter) or any
Officer (as defined hereinafter) on behalf of the Company, are
hereby authorized to execute, deliver and perform its obligations
under all the organizational documents of the Partnership (any such
actions taken prior to the date hereof are hereby ratified and
confirmed in all respects) and to cause the Partnership to enter
into, execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the
agreements set forth in Exhibit A attached to the Partnership
Agreement and any and all other documents, instruments, contracts,
papers, certificates, guaranties, indemnities or agreements
necessary, appropriate or desirable to effect, consummate or
facilitate the transactions and arrangements contemplated by the
Loan Agreement (including, without limitation, financing
statements) (the “ Loan Documents ”) without any
further act, vote or approval of any Person (as defined herein),
notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the
contrary. The foregoing authorization shall not be deemed a
restriction on the power of any Economic Member or any Manager or
any Officer to enter into other agreements on behalf of the Company
in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Loan
Agreement.
(c)
Authorized
Persons . Alan Kava was an
“authorized person” within the meaning of the Act, for
the purposes of delivering and filing the Certificate of Formation
with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware. Each of
the Economic Member, Steven Angel, Adam Brooks, Elizabeth Burban,
Anthony Cacioppo, Brahm Cramer, Jerome Karr, Alan Kava, Jonathan
Langer, Roy Lapidus, Josephine Scesney, Lauren Wainwright and Peter
Weidman is hereby designated as an “authorized person”
within the meaning of the Act and any one of such authorized
persons is hereby authorized and shall execute, deliver and file
any other certificates or documents (and any amendments and/or
restatements thereof) on behalf of the Company, including, but not
limited to, those that are necessary for the appointment and
engagement of the individuals acting as the Non-Economic
Members. The existence of the Company as a separate legal
entity shall continue until cancellation of the Certificate of
Formation of the Company as provided in this Agreement and under
the Act.
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3.
Registered
Office; Registered Agent . The address of the
registered office of the Company in the State of Delaware is c/o
The Corporation Trust Company, Corporation Trust Center, 1209
Orange Street, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware 19801.
The name and address of the registered agent of the Company for
service of process on the Company in the State of Delaware is The
Corporation Trust Company, Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange
Street, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware 19801.
4.
Principal
Place of Business . The principal place
of business of the Company is 85 Broad Street, 10
th
Floor, New
York, New York 10004.
5.
Members
. (a)
The names of the Economic Members of the Company are Aquarius
Gaming LLC, Arizona Charlie’s LLC and Fresca, LLC. The
names of the initial Non-Economic Members of the Company are Robert
K. Rowell and Carolyn Danielsson. The Non-Economic Members
shall be appointed by the Economic Members and shall fulfill the
independence requirements set forth in
Section 5(d) hereof. The Economic Members shall at
all times cause there to be at least two non-economic members who
fulfill the independence requirements set forth in
Section 5(d) hereof, who, to the fullest extent permitted
by law, including Section 18-1101(c) of the Act, shall
consider only the interests of the Company in acting or otherwise
voting on matters referred to in Section 11 and who is bound
by this Agreement.
(b)
Upon the
occurrence of any event that causes a Non-Economic Member to cease
to be a member of the Company, unless and until the Loan is no
longer outstanding, a new Non-Economic Member, who shall
fulfill the independence requirements set forth in
Section 5(d) hereof, shall be automatically appointed and
admitted to the Company forthwith and no decision requiring the
consent of a Non-Economic Member shall be taken in the interim
period before a new Non-Economic Member is appointed and
admitted. No resignation or removal of a Non-Economic Member,
and no appointment and admission of a successor Non-Economic
Member, shall be effective until such successor shall have
accepted his or her appointment and admission as a
Non-Economic Member by a written instrument in which he or she
agrees to be bound by all of the terms and conditions of this
Agreement applicable to a Non-Economic Member. All
right, power and authority of a Non-Economic Member shall be
limited to the extent necessary to exercise those rights and
perform those duties specifically set forth in this
Agreement. In exercising its rights and performing its duties
under this Agreement, each Non-Economic Member shall have a
fiduciary duty of loyalty similar to that of a director of a
business corporation organized under the General Corporation Law of
the State of Delaware. No Non-Economic Member shall at any
time serve as trustee in bankruptcy for any Affiliate (as defined
herein) of the Company.
(c)
For the purposes
of this Agreement, “ Affiliate ” shall mean, as
to any Person (as defined herein), any other Person that, directly
or indirectly, is in control of, is controlled by or is under
common control with, such Person. As used in this definition,
the term “control” means the ownership, directly or
indirectly, of at least 51% of the equity interests in, and the
right to at least 51%
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of distributions from such
Person and/or the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power
to direct or cause the direction of management, policies or
activities of a Person, whether through ownership of voting
securities, by contract or otherwise.
(d)
Each of the
Non-Economic Members shall be an individual who is duly appointed
as a member of the Company and who is not, and has not been at any
time during the five (5) years preceding such appointment, and
will not while serving as a Non-Economic Member, be any of the
following:
(i)
a member,
partner, equityholder, manager, director, officer or employee of
the Partnership, the Company (other than as a Non-Economic Member),
the Economic Members or any of their respective equityholders or
Affiliates (other than as an independent director, manager or
member of an Affiliate of the Company or the Economic Members that
is required by a creditor to be a single purpose bankruptcy remote
entity, provided that such independent director, manager or member
is employed by a company that routinely provides professional
independent directors, managers or members);
(ii)
a creditor,
supplier or service provider (including provider of professional
services) to the Partnership, the Company, the Economic Members or
any of their respective equityholders or Affiliates (other than a
company that routinely provides professional independent managers,
directors or members and which also provides lien search and other
similar services to the Partnership, the Company, the Economic
Member or any of their respective equityholders or Affiliates in
the ordinary course of business);
(iii)
a member of the
immediate family by blood, marriage or adoption of any such member,
partner, equityholder, manager, director, officer, employee,
creditor, supplier or service provider; or
(iv)
a Person that
controls (whether directly, indirectly or otherwise) any of (i),
(ii) or (iii) above.
Notwithstanding anything herein to
the contrary, a Non-Economic Member may not simultaneously serve as
a Non-Economic Member of the Company and a non-economic member or
independent director of a special purpose entity that owns a direct
or indirect equity interest in any other Borrower (as defined in
the Loan Agreement); provided, however, that one Non-Economic
Member of the Company (but not both Non-Economic Members
simultaneously) may serve as an independent director of the
Single-Purpose Equityholders (as defined in the Loan Agreement) of
each Mezzanine Borrower (as defined in the Loan
Agreement).
(e)
For the purposes
of this Agreement, “ Person ” shall mean any
individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited
liability company, estate, trust, unincorporated association, any
federal, state, county or municipal government or any
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bureau, department or agency
thereof and any fiduciary acting in such capacity on behalf of any
of the foregoing.
(f)
Subject to the
express terms of this Agreement, which shall take precedence, the
Members shall have all of the rights and powers granted to the
Members pursuant to the Act.
(g)
To the fullest
extent permitted by law, each Member waives any and all rights that
it may have to maintain an action for partition of the
Company’s property.
(h)
No Member shall
have the right, privilege, or power to perform any act on behalf of
the Company, including, without limitation, executing or delivering
any contracts, agreements, assignments, leases, mortgages and other
security instruments and deeds and all other documents and
instruments, except to the extent expressly provided in this
Agreement.
(i)
Each of the
Non-Economic Members agrees to remain independent from the Economic
Members and perform its obligations under this Agreement, agrees to
be a member of the Company for the limited purposes provided herein
and to perform its obligations as a Non-Economic Member hereunder,
and the Company and the Economic Members agree that the
Non-Economic Members will be members of the Company for such
limited purposes. The Company, the Economic Members and the
Non-Economic Members agree that the Non-Economic Members:
(i) will not make, and will not be obligated to make, a
contribution to the Company; (ii) will not own, and will not
be obligated to acquire an interest in the Company; and
(iii) will have no management, approval, voting, consent or
veto rights in the Company, other than to the extent that their
affirmative vote, approval or consent is required for the Company
or the Economic Members to perform certain acts or take certain
actions as expressly provided in this Agreement. The
Non-Economic Members may not bind the Company.
6.
Management and
Control . The Company
shall be managed by one or more managers appointed by the Economic
Members (each, a “ Manager ”) (with the initial
such appointment being effective pursuant to Section 7
hereto), each of which shall have the right, power, authority and
discretion acting alone to conduct the business and affairs of the
Company, subject to Section 21, to take any and all actions
(including, without limitation, executing, delivering and
performing on behalf of the Company (in its individual capacity or
as the general partner of the Partnership) any and all agreements,
instruments, certificates or other documents) and do any and all
things necessary, desirable, convenient or incidental to carry on
the business and purposes of the Company, including, without
limitation, in all cases subject to Section 21 (i) to
incur debt on behalf of the Company, (ii) to acquire or sell
any assets of the Company, (iii) to provide indemnities or
guaranties in the name and on behalf of the Company, (iv) to
enter into, perform and carry out agreements, instruments,
guaranties, indemnities, and contracts of any kind, including,
without limitation, contracts with any Person or entity
Affiliated
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with the Company, necessary
to, in connection with, convenient to or incidental to the
accomplishment of the purposes of the Company set forth in
Section 2(a), (v) to take any and all actions (including,
without limitation, executing, delivering and performing on behalf
of the Company (in its individual capacity or as the general
partner of the Partnership) any and all agreements, instruments,
certificates or other documents) necessary, desirable, convenient
or incidental for the purpose of carrying out or exercising any of
the powers of the Company described in
Section 2(a) above, (vi) to carry out or exercise
any of the rights, powers or authority of the Partnership under the
Partnership Agreement or any other agreement, instrument or
document and (vii) to take any and all other actions such
Manager deems necessary, desirable, convenient or incidental for
the furtherance of the objects and purposes of the Company or the
Partnership, and shall have and may exercise all of the powers and
rights conferred upon a manager of a limited liability company
formed pursuant to the Act. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Agreement or any provision of the Act or other
applicable law, rule or regulation, if there is more than one
Manager appointed, then each Manager shall have the right, power,
authority, and discretion to act alone and to take and exercise any
or all of the foregoing rights, powers, authority and discretion in
carrying out activities and conducting business in the name, or on
behalf, of the Company without any further act, vote or approval of
any Person or entity. As provided in Section 18-402 of
the Act, each Manager shall have the authority to bind the
Company. Any Person or entity dealing with the Company may
conclusively presume that a Manager (or any Person to whom such
Manager delegates authority) who executes a contract, certificate,
agreement, instrument or other document on behalf of the Company
has the full power and authority to do so and each such document
shall, for all purposes, be duly authorized, executed and delivered
by the Company upon execution and delivery by such Manager (or
an
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