E xhibit 10.26
Execution Copy
CAPMARK STRUCTURED REAL ESTATE FUND INCENTIVE
VEHICLE, L.P.
LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
THE PARTNERSHIP
INTERESTS ISSUED PURSUANT TO THIS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED, OR UNDER THE SECURITIES OR “BLUE SKY” LAWS OF
ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION, AND MAY NOT BE SOLD OR TRANSFERRED
UNLESS THEY ARE REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED, AND ANY OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES OR “BLUE
SKY” LAWS, OR UNLESS AN EXEMPTION FROM SUCH REGISTRATION IS
AVAILABLE. SUCH PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS ARE SUBJECT TO
THE RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER SET FORTH IN THIS
AGREEMENT.
Capmark Structured Real Estate Fund Incentive
Vehicle, L.P.
Limited Partnership Agreement
Table of Contents
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1.
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Recitals and Definitions
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1.1
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Recitals
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1.2
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Definitions
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2.
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Formation of Limited Partnership
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2.1
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Organization
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2.2
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Partnership
Name
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2.3
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Purposes and
Business
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2.4
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Principal Business
Office; Registered Office and Registered Agent
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2.5
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Qualification in Other
Jurisdictions
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2.6
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Powers
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2.7
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Application of the
Act
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3.
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Management of the
Partnership
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3.1
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General
Authority
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3.2
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Reliance by Third
Parties
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9
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3.3
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Partnership
Classification
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9
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3.4
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Exculpation
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3.5
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Indemnification
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3.6
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Payment of
Indemnification Expenses
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3.7
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Insurance
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3.8
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Indemnification
Agreements
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11
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4.
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Capital Contributions and
Defaulting Partners
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11
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4.1
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Capital
Calls
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11
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4.2
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Reinvestment of
Proceeds; Recall of Distributed Capital
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11
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4.3
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Procedure for Capital
Calls
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4.4
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Interest
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4.5
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Fund
Borrowings
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12
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4.6
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Defaulting
Partners
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4.7
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Further
Actions
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5.
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Distributions; Capital
Accounts; Allocations; Clawback
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5.1
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Distributions
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5.2
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Capital
Accounts
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5.3
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Allocation of Income
and Loss
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5.4
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Special
Allocations
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5.5
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Excess Nonrecourse
Liabilities
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5.6
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Code Section 704(b)
Compliance
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5.7
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Tax Elections and
Decisions
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5.8
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Safe Harbor Election
and Forfeiture Allocations
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(i)
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5.9
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Allocations and
Distributions on Transfer of Compensatory Interests from the
Company
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Controlled Limited
Partner
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5.10
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Clawback.
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6.
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Effect
of Employment Termination and Limited Partner Withdrawal; Vesting;
Forfeiture;
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Repurchase
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6.1
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Cessation of
Employment; Limited Partner Withdrawal
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6.2
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Vesting
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7.
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Transfers of Limited
Partnership Interests; Withdrawal
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7.1
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Assignability of
Interests
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7.2
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Substitute Limited
Partners
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7.3
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Legal
Representatives
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7.4
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Obligations of
Assignee
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7.5
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Additional
Requirements
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7.6
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Allocation of
Distributions Between Assignor and Assignee
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7.7
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Death or Incapacity of
a Limited Partner
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7.8
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Pledged
Interest
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7.9
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Withdrawal of a Limited
Partner
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8.
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Admission of
Partners
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9.
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Rights
and Obligations of the Limited Partners
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9.1
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Limited
Liability
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9.2
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Authority of Limited
Partners
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9.3
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Voting Rights of
Limited Partners
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9.4
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General
Release
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9.5
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Confidentiality
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9.6
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Non-Disparagement
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9.7
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No Right to Continued
Employment
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10.
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Duration and Termination of
the Partnership
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10.1
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Duration and
Dissolution
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10.2
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Bankruptcy of Limited
Partner
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10.3
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Effect of Admission or
Withdrawal of Limited Partner
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11.
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Liquidation of the
Partnership
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11.1
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General
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11.2
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Priority on
Liquidation; Distributions
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11.3
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Orderly
Liquidation
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11.4
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Source of
Distributions
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11.5
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Statements on
Termination
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12.
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Books
and Records; Tax Matters
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12.1
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Books and
Accounts
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12.2
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Records
Available
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(ii)
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12.3
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Tax Matters Partner;
Filing of Returns
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12.4
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Fiscal Year
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12.5
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Tax Consequences to
U.S. Taxpayers
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13.
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Power
of Attorney
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13.1
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General
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14.
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Compensation of the General
Partner and Partnership Expenses
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14.1
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No
Compensation
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14.2
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Partnership
Expenses
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15.
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Miscellaneous
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15.1
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Further
Assurances
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15.2
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Successors and
Assigns
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15.3
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Applicable
Law
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15.4
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Severability
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15.5
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Counterparts
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15.6
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Entire
Agreement
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15.7
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Amendment
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15.8
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Construction
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15.9
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Force
Majeure
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15.10
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Notices
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15.11
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No Right of Partition
for Redemption
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15.12
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Third-Party
Beneficiaries
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15.13
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General Partner as
Limited Partner
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15.14
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Survival
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Schedules:
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Schedule A
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List of Limited
Partners, Capital Commitments, Capital Commitment
Percentages,
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Carried Interest
Percentages and Commencement Dates
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(iii)
Capmark Structured Real Estate Fund Incentive
Vehicle, L.P.
Limited Partnership Agreement
1.
Recitals and
Definitions
1.1
Recitals . This Limited Partnership Agreement (this
“Agreement”) has been entered into as of December 1,
2006 (the “Effective Date”) by and among
Capmark Carried Interest,
L.L.C. , a Delaware
limited liability company, as the sole general partner (the
“General Partner”), and the persons listed from time to
time in Schedule A of this Agreement as Class A Limited
Partners (the “Class A Limited Partners”) and Class B
Limited Partners (the “Class B Limited Partners” which,
together with the Class A Limited Partners, are collectively
referred to as the “Limited Partners”).
The Class A
Limited Partners are the limited partners that are required to make
capital contributions to the Partnership in accordance with the
terms hereof.
The Class B
Limited Partners are the limited partners that will be entitled to
the Carried Interest Revenue in accordance with the terms
hereof.
1.2
Definitions
. Capitalized terms
used in this Agreement shall have the meanings set forth or
referred to below.
“Act”
shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.1.
“Adjusted
Capital Account” means, with respect to any Partner, such
Partner’s Capital Account balance as increased by such
Partner’s obligation to restore a deficit in its Capital
Account, including any deemed obligation pursuant to the
penultimate sentences of Treasury Regulations Sections
1.704-2(g)(1) and 1.704-2(i)(5), and decreased by the amounts
described in Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(
d )( 4 ), ( 5 ), or ( 6 ). The
foregoing definition of Adjusted Capital Account and the provisions
of Sections 5.4(a) and 5.4(e) are intended to comply with the
provisions of Treasury Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(
d ) and shall be interpreted and applied consistently
therewith.
“Affiliate” of any Person means any
Person that directly or indirectly through one or more
intermediaries, controls, is controlled by or is under common
control with, the Person specified. For the purposes of this
definition, “control” (including, with correlative
meanings, the terms “controlled by” and “under
common control with”) means the possession, directly or
indirectly, of the power, alone or together with others, to direct
or cause the direction of the management and policies of such
Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by
contract, or otherwise.
“Agreement” shall have the meaning
set forth in Section 1.1.
“Assign” or
“Assignment” means any direct or indirect sale,
transfer, assignment, hypothecation, pledge or other disposition or
encumbrance of all or any part of a Partner’s interest in the
Partnership.
“Business
Day” means
any day on which commercial banks located in the City of New York
are open for business, other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day
on which they are permitted to be closed for a federal or state
declared holiday.
“Capital
Account” shall have the meaning set forth in Section
5.2.
“Capital
Call” shall have the meaning set forth on Section
4.1.
“Capital
Commitment Percentage” means, for each Class A Limited
Partner, the ratio that the Capital Commitment of such Class A
Limited Partner bears to the aggregate Capital Commitments of all
Class A Limited Partners, as set forth on Schedule A on
the page applicable to such Class A Limited Partner, subject to
modification as set forth herein.
“Capital
Commitment” means, for each Class A Limited Partner, the
aggregate contribution which such Class A Limited Partner has
agreed to make to the Partnership, whether or not contributed,
which is shown on Schedule A on the page applicable to such
Class A limited Partner, subject to modification as set forth
herein.
“Capital
Contribution” means, as to each Class A Limited Partner, the
amount of its Capital Commitment actually contributed in cash or
deemed to have been contributed under the terms of this Agreement
to the Partnership by such Class A Limited Partner as of the time
the determination is made.
“Carried
Interest Distributions” means any distributions which are
paid to the Class B Limited Partners pursuant to this
Agreement.
“Carried
Interest Percentage” means, for each Class B Limited Partner,
the percentage set forth on Schedule A on the page
applicable to such Class B Limited Partner, subject to modification
as set forth herein.
“Carried
Interest Revenue” means the Incentive Distributions and
Special Tax Distributions received by the Fund GP from the Fund and
distributed by the Fund GP to the Partnership pursuant to the Fund
GP Agreement, which shall be 100% of the Incentive Distributions
and Special Tax Distributions received by the Fund GP.
Carried Interest Revenue shall also include all additional revenue
attributable to Carried Interest Revenue such as earnings on any
escrow of Carried Interest Revenue set aside pursuant to
Section 5.1(a)(i) .
“Cause” shall exist if the Capmark
Financial Group Inc. or its Affiliates reasonably determine that
any one or more of the following events has occurred while the
Partner has been employed by the Capmark Financial Group Inc. or
one of its affiliates: (i) the Partner’s willful and
continued failure (except where due to a physical or mental
incapacity) to substantially perform his material duties with
respect to the Capmark Financial Group Inc. or one of its
affiliates which continues beyond ten (10) days after a written
demand for substantial performance is delivered to the Partner by
Capmark Financial Group Inc. or one of its affiliates (such
ten-day period, the “Cure Period”); (ii) any gross
misconduct of the Partner that causes material and demonstrable
injury, monetarily or otherwise, to Capmark Financial Group Inc. or
any of its affiliates or any conduct that causes the Fund GP to be
removed for “cause” as defined
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in the Fund GP
Agreement; (iii) conviction of, or plea of guilty or nolo contendere to, the commission of
(x) a felony by the Partner or (y) any misdemeanor involving theft,
fraud, misappropriation or moral turpitude (other than in
connection with any traffic violations); (iv) the Partner’s
disqualification or bar by any governmental or self-regulatory
authority from serving in his position with the applicable Capmark
Financial Group Inc. Affiliate or Capmark Financial Group
Inc.’s (including any of its Affiliates) loss of any
governmental or self-regulatory license that is reasonably
necessary for the Partner to perform his material duties with
respect to the Capmark Financial Group Inc. or any of its
Affiliates in any such case, as a result of misconduct by the
Partner; (v) the Partner’s willful obstruction of, or willful
failure to cooperate with (except where due to a physical or mental
incapacity), any investigation authorized by Capmark Financial
Group Inc. or any of its Affiliates; provided that exercise by the
Partner of his constitutional rights under the Fifth Amendment of
the United States Constitution in the event of any criminal
investigation of the Partner shall not be treated as obstruction of
or failure to cooperate with any such investigation; (vi) the
Partner’s material breach, if any, of Capmark Financial Group
Inc.’s or any of its Affiliates’ written code of
conduct and business ethics, which breach is customarily punishable
by termination of employment by Capmark Financial Group Inc. or any
of its Affiliates; or (vii) a material breach or a default by
Partner of this Agreement or any documents or agreements entered
into or delivered in connection with the Fund.
“Cessation
Event” shall have the meaning set forth in Section
6.1(a).
“Class A
Capital Contribution Revenue” means all distributions that
(a) are received by the Fund GP from the Fund with respect to the
Fund GP’s capital commitments or capital contributions made
to the Fund, and (b) are distributed by the Fund GP to the
Partnership pursuant to the Fund GP Agreement.
“Change in
Control” shall have the meaning set forth in the
Stockholder’s Agreement.
“Class A
Limited Partners” has the meaning set forth in Section
1.1.
“Class B
Limited Partners” has the meaning set forth in Section
1.1.
“Code”
shall mean the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as from
time to time amended, and any successor thereto.
“Company
Controlled Limited Partner” means Capmark Structured Fund
Carried Interest LP, a Delaware limited partnership.
“Confidential Information” shall
have the meaning set forth in Section 9.5(a).
“Credit
Facility” shall have the meaning set forth in Section
4.5.
“Defaulting
Limited Partner” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 4.6(a).
“Disabled
Limited Partner” has the meaning set forth in Section
7.3.
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“Distributable Proceeds”
means all cash of the
Partnership derived directly or indirectly from the Fund or in
connection with the Fund’s operations, Investments (as
defined in the Fund Agreement), refinancings or other sources,
which the General Partner determines is available for distribution
to the Partners pursuant to and in accordance with this
Agreement.
“Effective
Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 1.1.
“Employee
Limited Partners” mean the Limited Partners other than the
Company Controlled Limited Partner.
“Equity
Interest” with respect to any Partner shall mean the entire
right, title and interest of such Partner in the Partnership and
any appurtenant rights, including, without limitation, any right or
obligation to contribute capital to the Partnership.
“Estimated
Value Capital Account” means, with respect to any Partner,
the amount such Partner would receive in a hypothetical liquidation
of the Partnership, the Fund GP and the Fund following a
hypothetical sale of all of the assets of the Fund (and any assets
of the Fund GP and the Partnership, other than their direct or
indirect interests in the Fund) at prices equal to their most
recent Fair Market Value (subject to adjustment by the General
Partner, in its sole and absolute discretion, for significant
events occurring subsequent to such valuations), and the
distribution of the proceeds thereof to the partners of the Fund,
the Fund GP and the Partners pursuant to the Fund Agreement, the
Fund GP Agreement and this Agreement, respectively (after the
hypothetical payment of all actual Fund, Fund GP and Partnership
indebtedness, assumed closing costs (as estimated by the General
Partner) and any other liabilities related to the Fund’s, the
Fund GP’s and the Partnership’s assets, limited, in the
case of nonrecourse liabilities, to the collateral securing or
otherwise available to satisfy such liabilities).
“Fair Market
Value” means the marked-to-market value of the investments in
the Fund (on a fair value basis) as determined by
Capmark Investments
LP in accordance
with the Fund documents and Capmark Investments LP’s
valuation
policy.
“Final
Closing Date” has the meaning set forth in the Fund
Agreement.
“Fiscal
Year” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 12.4.
“Former
Partner” shall have the meaning set forth in Section
6.1(a)(i)
“Fund
Agreement” means the Limited Partnership Agreement of the
Fund, as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from
time to time.
“Fund GP
Agreement” means the Limited Partnership Agreement of Fund
GP, as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from
time to time.
“Fund
GP” means Capmark Structured GP, L.P., a Delaware limited
partnership.
“Fund”
means Capmark Structured Real Estate Partners, L.P., a Delaware
limited partnership.
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“General
Partner” means Capmark Carried Interest, L.L.C., a Delaware
limited liability company, or any Person substituted for or who
succeeds Capmark Carried Interest, L.L.C. as such General Partner
pursuant to this Agreement.
“Good
Reason” has the meaning set forth in the Stockholder’s
Agreement.
“Incentive
Distributions” has the meaning set forth in the Fund
Agreement.
“Indemnified
Party” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 3.4.
“Investment” shall have the meaning
set forth in the Fund Agreement.
“Investment
Company Act” means the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended from time to time.
“Investment
Manager” shall mean Capmark Investments LP.
“Investment
Period” has the meaning set forth in the Fund
Agreement.
“Investment
Team Members” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2.3(a) hereof.
“Limited
Partners” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 1.1.
“Liquidating
Agent” shall have the meaning set forth in Section
11.1.
“Management
Fees” shall have the meaning set forth in the Fund
Agreement.
“Non-Affiliated Carried Interest
Revenue” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(a)
hereof.
“Non-Affiliated Fund Partners”
means those limited partners of the Fund who are not Affiliates of
Capmark Financial Group Inc. (without limiting the foregoing,
Affiliates of Capmark Financial Group Inc. shall include Capmark
Finance Inc., a California corporation, its subsidiaries and
officers and employees of Capmark Finance Inc., a California
corporation, the Investment Manager and their Affiliates) (which
defined terms shall have the meaning set forth in the Fund
Agreement).
“Non-Defaulting Partner” means any
Partner that is not a Defaulting Partner.
“Organization Expenses” shall have
the meaning set forth in the Fund Agreement.
“Partner
Nonrecourse Debt” shall have the meaning set forth in Section
5.4(d).
“Partner
Nonrecourse Debt Minimum Gain” shall have the meaning set
forth in Section 5.4(d).
“Partners” shall mean the General
Partner and the Limited Partners.
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“Partnership” shall mean Capmark
Structured Real Estate Fund Incentive Vehicle, L.P., a Delaware
limited partnership.
“Partnership
Expenses” shall have the meaning set forth in the Fund
Agreement.
“Partnership
Minimum Gain” shall have the meaning set forth in Section
5.4(c).
“Permitted
Purpose” shall have the meaning set forth in Section
9.5(b).
“Person” shall mean a corporation,
association, retirement system, international organization, joint
venture, partnership, limited liability company, trust or
individual.
“Pledged
Interest” shall have the meaning in Section 7.8.
“Portfolio
Investment” shall have the meaning set forth in the Fund
Agreement.
“Predecessor
In Interest,” as to the Equity Interest of any Partner, shall
mean any Partner which was the prior holder of all or any portion
of such Equity Interest.
“President” shall mean the
President, Capmark Investments, LP who shall initially be Brian
DiDonato.
“Reference
Employee” means a Person that is an employee of Capmark
Financial Group Inc., the Partnership, the Fund, the Fund GP, the
General Partner or one of their Affiliates and that either (i) is a
Limited Partner or (ii) was a Limited Partner, and, in the case of
either (i) or (ii) has assigned all or part of his or her
rights, benefits and obligations as a Limited Partner to a family
trust or other tax or estate planning vehicle in accordance with
Sections 7 and 8 hereof.
“Securities
Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time
to time.
“Stockholder’s Agreement”
shall mean that certain Management Stockholder’s Agreement
between GMAC Commercial Holding Corp., a Nevada corporation, and
such person listed as undersigned to such agreement.
“Subscription Agreement”
means the form of
subscription agreement used by the Partnership pursuant to which
Class A Limited Partners shall subscribe in exchange for interests
in the Partnership and shall make Capital Commitments proposed by
the Partnership or the Fund to be secured by the Class A
Partners’ Capital Commitments.
“Treasury
Regulations” mean the regulations promulgated under the Code,
as such regulations may be amended from time to time (including
corresponding provisions of succeeding regulations).
“Uncontributed Capital Commitment”
means (a) any portion of an Class A Limited Partner’s Capital
Commitment that has not been contributed to the Partnership plus
(b) any portion of an Class A Limited Partner’s Capital
Commitment that has been contributed to the
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Partnership and
has been subsequently returned to such Class A Limited Partner and
may be recalled pursuant to Section 4.6.
2.
Formation of Limited
Partnership
2.1
Organization . The Partnership has been formed by the
filing of the certificate of limited partnership (as it may be
amended or restated from time to time, the
“Certificate”) for the Partnership required under the
Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (as in effect from
time to time, the “Act”), with the Delaware Secretary
of State pursuant to the Act. Without the consent or approval
of any Limited Partner, the Certificate may be restated by the
General Partner as provided in the Act or amended by the General
Partner to change the address of the office of the Partnership in
Delaware or the name and address of its resident agent in Delaware
or to make corrections required by the Act. The General
Partner shall deliver a copy of the Certificate and any amendment
thereto to any Limited Partner who so requests.
2.2
Partnership Name . The name of the Partnership shall
be “Capmark Structured Real Estate Fund Incentive Vehicle,
L.P.” The business of the Partnership may be conducted,
upon compliance with all applicable laws, under the Partnership
name or any other name or names designated by the General
Partner. The General Partner in its sole discretion may
change the name of the Partnership. The General Partner shall
execute, file, record and publish as appropriate any such
amendments to the Certificate of Limited Partnership and other
documents in connection therewith as are or become necessary or
advisable as determined by the General Partner in its sole
discretion. The General Partner shall promptly notify the
Limited Partners of any such change in the name of the
Partnership.
2.3
Purposes and Business .
(a)
The purpose and principal business activity of the Partnership is
to serve as a limited partner of Fund GP and to serve as the
vehicle through which the Fund GP’s Carried Interest Revenue
will be shared with the Company Controlled Limited Partner and
certain individuals providing services to or on behalf of the Fund
and the Fund GP. The Carried Interest Percentages initially
allocated to the members of the Investment Manager’s
portfolio team (the “Investment Team Members”) and
those Carried Interest Percentages which the General Partner will
cause the Company Controlled Limited Partner to transfer to
Investment Team Members will initially aggregate twenty-five (25%)
of the Carried Interest Revenue attributable to Non-Affiliated Fund
Partners (“Non-Affiliated Carried Interest
Revenue”). The General Partner will cause the Company
Controlled Limited Partner to transfer Carried Interest Percentages
representing an additional (i) ten percent (10%) of the
Non-Affiliated Carried Interest Revenue to Investment Team Members
during the Investment Period (as defined in the Fund Agreement) and
(ii) a minimum of five percent (5%) up to a maximum of fifteen
percent (15%) (such percentage to be determined in accordance with
Section 7.1(c) of the Non-Affiliated Carried Interest Revenue to
Investment Team Members and/or others employees of Capmark
Financial (as defined in the Fund
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Agreement) and its Affiliates who the General
Partner determines have added value to the Fund.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, once the initial
allocations have been transferred by the Company Controlled Limited
Partner in accordance with Section 7.1(c) and if any Class B
Limited Partner forfeits or otherwise transfers such Carried
Interest percentage to the Company Controlled Limited Partner,
regardless of the reason, neither the General Partner nor the
Company Controlled Limited Partner shall be under any obligation to
reissue or reallocate such Carried Interest Percentages to achieve
the percentage allocations noted above.
(b)
The Partnership shall make and perform all contracts and engage in
all activities and transactions necessary or advisable in
connection therewith, subject to and in accordance with the Fund
Agreement and the Fund GP Agreement. In addition, the
Partnership shall have the authority to and may exercise all of the
powers that can be conferred upon and exercised by a limited
partnership formed pursuant to the Act, including, without
limitation, the authority to borrow money and incur
debt.
2.4
Principal Business Office; Registered Office and Registered
Agent . The principal business office of the Partnership
shall be located at c/o Capmark Carried Interest, L.L.C., 200
Witmer Road, Horsham, PA 19044. The principal business office
of the Partnership may be changed from time to time by the General
Partner. The General Partner shall notify the Limited
Partners of any change in such principal business office. The
registered office of the Partnership in the State of Delaware shall
be c/o The Corporation Trust Company, Corporation Trust Center,
1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801. The agent for
service of process on the Partnership pursuant to the Act shall be
The Corporation Trust Company, Corporation Trust Center, 1209
Orange Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801. The registered
agent and registered office of the Partnership may be changed by
the General Partner from time to time. The General Partner
shall promptly notify the Limited Partners of any such
change.
2.5
Qualification in Other Jurisdictions . The General
Partner may cause the Partnership to be qualified or registered
under applicable laws in such states as the General Partner
determines appropriate to avoid any material adverse effect on the
business of the Partnership and shall be authorized to execute,
deliver and file any certificates and documents necessary to effect
such qualification or registration, including, without limitation,
the appointment of agents for service of process in such
jurisdictions.
2.6
Powers . Subject to all of the provisions of this
Agreement, the Partnership shall have the power to do any and all
acts necessary, appropriate, advisable, incidental or convenient to
or in furtherance of the purposes and business described herein,
and shall have and may exercise all of the powers and rights that
can be conferred upon limited partnerships formed pursuant to the
Act.
2.7
Application of the Act . Except as expressly provided
in this Agreement, the rights and liabilities of the Partners shall
be as provided in the Act. In the event of any inconsistency
between any terms and conditions contained in this Agreement and
any non-mandatory provisions of the Act, the terms of this
Agreement shall govern.
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3.
Management of the
Partnership
3.1
General Authority . The management and operation of
the Partnership and its business and affairs shall be, and hereby
are, vested solely in the General Partner. The General
Partner shall have full, complete and exclusive control of the
management and conduct of the business of the Partnership and the
authority to do all things necessary or appropriate to carry out
the purposes, business and powers of the Partnership as described
herein, with full discretion and without any further act, vote or
approval of any Limited Partner (except as specifically provided in
this Agreement). Except as expressly limited in this
Agreement, the General Partner shall possess and enjoy with respect
to the Partnership all of the rights and powers of a partner of a
partnership without limited partners to the extent permitted by
Delaware law. Except as otherwise set forth herein, the
Partnership hereby irrevocably delegates to the General Partner,
without limitation, the power and authority to act on behalf of and
in the name of the Partnership, without obtaining the consent of or
consulting with any other Person to take any and all actions on
behalf of the Partnership set forth in this Agreement. The
General Partner, to the extent of its powers set forth herein, is
an agent of the Partnership for the purpose of the
Partnership’s business and the actions of the General Partner
taken in accordance with such powers shall bind the
Partnership.
3.2
Reliance by Third Parties . Any contract, instrument
or act of the General Partner on behalf of the Partnership shall be
conclusive evidence in favor of any third party dealing with the
Partnership that the General Partner has the authority, power, and
right to execute and deliver such contract or instrument and to
take such action on behalf of the Partnership. This
Section 3.2 shall not be deemed to limit the liabilities and
obligations of the General Partner as set forth in this
Agreement.
3.3
Partnership Classification . The General Partner shall
use its best efforts to cause the Partnership to be treated for
federal income tax purposes as a partnership and not as an
association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a
corporation. The Partnership shall not elect to be treated
other than as a partnership for federal income tax
purposes.
3.4
Exculpation . Neither the General Partner nor its
Affiliates nor any of their respective principals, heirs,
executors, administrators, partners, members, stockholders,
employees, employers, officers, directors, managers, agents,
advisors, successors or assigns (each an “Indemnified
Party”) shall have any liability to the Partnership or any
Partner for any loss suffered by the Partnership or any Partner
which arises out of any action or inaction of an Indemnified Party,
unless such action or inaction (a) is undertaken or omitted in
connection with providing services to the Partnership or the
performance of the General Partner’s duties under this
Agreement and (b) is finally adjudicated by a court of competent
jurisdiction to constitute fraud, gross negligence or willful
misconduct of such Indemnified Party. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
in this Agreement, to the extent that, at law or in equity, a
Partner has duties (including fiduciary duties) and liabilities
relating thereto to the Partnership, any Partner or any other
Person, such Partner acting under this Agreement shall not be
liable to the Partnership, any Partner or any other Person for
breach of fiduciary duty for its good faith reliance on the
provisions of this Agreement, and the provisions of this Agreement,
to the extent that they explicitly restrict or eliminate the duties
(including fiduciary duties) and liability of a
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Partner otherwise
existing at law or in equity, are agreed by each Partner to replace
such other duties and liabilities of such Partner. In
addition, an Indemnified Party shall not be liable to the
Partnership, any Partner or any other Person for its good faith
reliance on the advice of any counsel, accountant or other advisor
retained by the Partnership.
3.5
Indemnification .
(a)
Subject to the limitations contained in this Section 3.5, the
Partnership shall indemnify each Indemnified Party against all
losses, liabilities, damages and expenses incurred by such
Indemnified Party as a result of any actions or omissions taken or
omitted in connection with providing services to the Partnership or
the performance of the General Partner’s duties under this
Agreement or by reason of any action or omission taken or omitted
on behalf of the Partnership. Such indemnity shall cover,
without implied limitation, judgments, settlements, fines,
penalties and counsel fees incurred in connection with the defense
or disposition of any action, suit or other proceeding, whether
civil or criminal, before or threatened to be brought before any
court or administrative body, in which an Indemnified Party may be
or may have been involved as a party or otherwise, or with which it
may have been threatened, by reason of being or having been an
Indemnified Party, or by reason of any act or omission on behalf of
the Partnership or otherwise taken or omitted in connection with
providing services to the Partnership or the performance of the
General Partner’s duties under this Agreement; provided,
however, that an Indemnified Party shall not be entitled to
indemnification pursuant to this Section 3.5 with respect to
any matter as to which such Indemnified Party shall have been
finally adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction in any
such action, suit or other proceeding to have committed an act or
omission that (i) was undertaken or omitted in connection with
providing services to the Partnership or the performance of the
General Partner’s duties under this Agreement and (ii)
constituted fraud , gross negligence or willful
misconduct. The right of indemnification provided hereby
shall not be exclusive of, and shall not affect, any other rights
to which any Indemnified Party may be entitled and nothing
contained in this Section 3.5 shall limit any lawful rights to
indemnification existing independently of this
Section 3.5.
(b)
In the event that for any reason the indemnification called for by
this Section 3.5 is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an
Indemnified Party in accordance with the terms hereof (other than
as a result of a failure to satisfy the conditions to such
indemnification as set forth in Section 3.5(a)), then the
Partnership shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such
Indemnified Party (which contribution may equal up to 100% of such
amount) as a result of any losses, judgments, liabilities, fines,
penalties, expenses and
amounts paid in settlement referred to in Section 3.5(a) such that
the Indemnified Party would be in the same financial
position it would have been in if the indemnification called for by
this Section 3.5 were available and sufficient.
3.6
Payment of Indemnification Expenses . Prior to the
final disposition of any claim or proceeding with respect to which
any Indemnified Party may be entitled to indemnification hereunder,
in the General Partner’s sole and absolute discretion the
Partnership
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may pay to the
Indemnified Party, in advance of such final disposition, an amount
equal to all expenses of such Indemnified Party reasonably incurred
in the defense of such claim or proceeding so long as the
Partnership has received a written undertaking of such Indemnified
Party to repay to the Partnership the amount so advanced if it
shall be finally determined that such Indemnified Party was not
entitled to indemnification hereunder.
3.7
Insurance . The General Partner, in its sole and
absolute discretion, may cause the Partnership to purchase and
maintain insurance on behalf of any Indemnified Party against any
liability or cost incurred by such Indemnified Party in any such
capacity or arising out of its status as such, whether or not the
Partnership would have the power to indemnify against such
liability or cost.
3.8
Indemnification Agreements . The General Partner, in
its sole and absolute discretion, may cause the Partnership to
enter into agreements with any Indemnified Party setting forth
procedures consistent with applicable law for implementing the
indemnities provided in this Article 3.
4.
Capital Contributions and
Defaulting Partners
4.1
Capital Calls . Each Class A Limited Partner agrees to
pay to the Partnership an aggregate amount in cash equal to its
Capital Commitment set forth opposite such Class A Limited
Partner’s name on Schedule A on the page
applicable to such Class A Limited Partner, subject to modification
as set forth herein. All or any portion of each Class A
Limited Partner’s Capital Commitment shall be payable upon
not less than nine (9) Business Days’ prior written notice (a
“Capital Call”) from the General Partner in accordance
with Section 4.2(a) below. Each Class A Limited Partner shall
be required to contribute such Partner’s Capital Commitment
Percentage of the Capital Call on the due date specified in the
Capital Call. All Capital Contributions from Class A Limited
Partners, as applicable, shall be contributed to the Fund GP
promptly upon receipt by the Partnership in accordance with the
Fund GP Agreement. Except as otherwise provided below in this
Section 4.1, no Capital Calls may be made after Investment
Period. Capital Calls may be made to the extent permitted or
required under the Fund GP Agreement. No Partner shall have
any right to make any Capital Contribution that has not been called
by the General Partner pursuant to this Section 4.1. The
General Partner shall not have any Capital Commitment in its
capacity as General Partner, but the General Partner shall make
such contributions as may be needed to timely pay Partnership
expenses in accordance with Section 14.2. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in this Agreement, in no event shall any
Class A Limited Partner be required to make Capital Contributions
to the Partnership in respect of its Capital Commitment in excess
of its Capital Commitment.
4.2
Reinvestment of Proceeds; Recall of Distributed Capital
.
(a)
Prior to December 1, 2010, the General Partner may recall from the
Class A Limited Partners such Distributable Proceeds as
contemplated below.
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(b)
The Distributable Proceeds from any Target Investment (as defined
in the Fund Agreement) that may be reinvested may, at the
discretion of the Fund GP, be distributed to the Class A Limited
Partners, subject to the right of the General Partner and the Fund
GP to make a Capital Call prior to the fourth anniversary of the
Final Closing Date (as defined in the Fund Agreement) with respect
to such amounts previously distributed (the “Class A Returned
Contributions”). Any Capital Contribution made by a
Class A Limited Partner pursuant to this Section 4.2(b) shall not
reduce the outstanding unpaid balance of such Class A Limited
Partner’s Capital Commitment. The obligation to make
Capital Contributions pursuant to this Section 4.2(b) shall not
increase the Capital Commitment of any Class A Limited
Partner.
4.3
Procedure for Capital Calls . A Capital Call shall be
in the form of a written notice to all Class A Limited Partners
specifying the general purpose of such Capital Call and an
aggregate dollar amount and a date on which payment shall be due,
which date shall be no less than nine (9) Business Days after the
date of receipt of such notice. Each Class A Limited Partner
shall be required to contribute an amount equal to the product of
its Capital Commitment Percentage multiplied by the aggregate
amount of such Capital Call. The General Partner may, subject
to compliance with the above advance notice requirements, amend,
delay or rescind Capital Calls at any time prior to the payment due
date thereof. The amendment, delay or rescission of a Capital
Call shall not affect or abridge the right of the General Partner
to make any subsequent Capital Call.
4.4
Interest . No Class A Limited Partner shall be
entitled to receive any interest on any Capital Contributions to
the Partnership.
4.5
Fund Borrowings . In the sole discretion of the Fund
GP, the Fund may obtain a credit facility in order to finance the
Portfolio Investments, and to pay Fund Expenses, Organizational
Expenses or Management Fees as a short term bridge facility in
advance of calling for capital contributions from the Fund’s
limited partners (the “Credit Facility”). The
Fund may secure such Credit Facility by pledging assets of the
Fund, including without limitation, an assignment of the
Partnership’s capital commitment to the Fund which the
Partnership will fund from the Capital Commitments, and each Class
A Limited Partner shall, at the request of the General Partner, (a)
confirm that except as otherwise provided in Section 5 of the Fund
Agreement, such Class A Limited Partner’s obligation to make
Capital Contributions is unconditional and that such Class A
Limited Partner will honor calls for Capital Contributions by the
lender or the General Partner in order to fund calls for capital
contributions to the Fund made by the Lender, (b) if the lender
shall so request, such Class A Limited Partner shall confirm to the
lender the amount of such Class A Limited Partner’s Capital
Commitment, and (c) execute such documents, security agreements,
instruments, certificates and agreements and deliver such opinions
with respect to the Class A Limited Partner as shall be required by
the lender, provided , that lender’s recourse against
a Class A Limited Partner with respect to such Fund borrowings
shall be limited to such Class A Limited Partner’s respective
Uncontributed Capital Commitment. The Fund’s use of the
proceeds of any borrowing obtained pursuant to this Section 4.5
shall comply with the terms of the Fund Agreements as if such
proceeds constituted
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capital contributions
by the Partnership to the Fund, but such use of proceeds shall not
in any way reduce any Class A Limited Partner’s Capital
Commitment.
4.6
Defaulting Partners .
(a)
Pledge of Partnership Interests to the Partnership .
Each Class A Limited Partner (including the General Partner to the
extent it holds any Class A Limited Partner interests) hereby
grants to the Partnership a security interest in its Equity
Interest as a Class A Limited Partner to secure payment of its
Capital Commitment. Each Class A Limited Partner agrees to
execute such further security agreements and such Uniform
Commercial Code financing statements as the General Partner may
reasonably request to more completely document and to perfect such
security interest. Except as provided above, no Class A
Limited Partner shall pledge or grant a security interest in its
Equity Interest without the prior approval of the General Partner,
with such approval to be granted or withheld in the sole discretion
of the General Partner.
(b)
Notice of Default and Interest . If a Class A Limited
Partner fails to pay any installment of its Capital Commitment when
due, then a notice of default shall be given to such Class A
Limited Partner (a “Defaulting Partner”) by or on
behalf of the General Partner. To the extent the installment
is not received by the Partnership when due, then such amount shall
bear interest payable to the Partnership at the lower of (i) the
rate of eighteen percent (18%) per annum, compounded monthly, or
(ii) the highest rate of interest permitted under applicable law,
from and after the original due date of such installment until the
earliest of (A) the payment of such installment, including any
interest accruing under this Section 4.6(b), (B) the purchase of
such Defaulting Partner’s Defaulted Interest under Section
4.6(c) or (C) the conclusion of foreclosure proceedings of the
security interest granted under this Section 4.6. Any interest paid
by a Defaulting Partner pursuant to this Section 4.6(b) shall not
be treated as a Capital Contribution but shall be treated as Class
A Capital Contribution Revenue of the Partnership. A copy of
any notice of default provided to a Defaulting Partner pursuant to
this Section 4.6(b) shall be transmitted promptly to all other
Class A Limited Partners.
(c)
Additional Remedies . In addition to, and not in
limitation of, the foregoing Section 4.6(a) and Section 4.6(b),
upon five (5) Business Days’ written notice to any Partner
that becomes a Defaulting Partner (and provided that such default
has not been cured by the Defaulting Partner, together with the
payment of interest in accordance with Section 4.6(b), within such
five (5) Business Day period), the General Partner, in its sole
discretion, must first offer the right to the Company Controlled
Limited Partner to purchase all or any portion of the Equity
Interest of the Defaulting Partner in the Partnership (a
“Defaulted Interest”); provided that the Company
Controlled Limited Partner is not a Defaulting Partner. In
the event that such Defaulted Interest is not purchased by the
Company Controlled Limited Partner pursuant to this Section 4.6(c),
then the General Partner may:
(i)
offer to all non-defaulting Class A Limited Partners the right to
acquire, but not the obligation, (subject to the terms of this
Agreement) on
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a pro rata basis in accordance with their
Capital Commitment Percentage all or any portion of the Defaulted
Interest, and (ii) in the event any non-defaulting Class A Limited
Partners or the Company Controlled Limited Partner do not elect in
writing within five (5) Business Days of such notice to acquire
their entire pro rata portions of such Defaulted Interest pursuant
to Section 4.6(c) and this Section 4.6(c)(i), respectively, offer
to the non-defaulting Class A Limited Partners who have elected to
acquire their full pro rata portions the opportunity for an
additional three (3) Business Day period to acquire, on a pro rata
basis with any other Class A Limited Partner who so elects, the
remaining portion of the Defaulted Interest;
(ii)
in the event that the entire Defaulted Interest of the Defaulting
Partner is not acquired by the Company Controlled Limited Partner
or the Class A Limited Partners as provided in 4.6(c) or this
Section 4.6(c)(ii), respectively and the foregoing clause (a),
cause the Partnership to acquire all or a portion of the portion of
such Defaulting Partner’s Defaulted Interest not so acquired;
provided, however, that the aggregate amount of the Defaulting
Partner’s Defaulted Interest purchased by the Class A Limited
Partners pursuant to clause (a) and by the Partnership pursuant to
this clause (b) must be equal to the entire Defaulted Interest of
the Defaulting Partner, unless the remainder of such Defaulted
Interest is acquired pursuant to clause (c) below;
and/or
(iii)
in the event that the entire Defaulted Interest of the Defaulting
Partner is not acquired by the Company Controlled Limited Partner
or the Class A Limited Partners as provided in Section 4.6(c) or
this Section 4.6(c)(iii) and pursuant to clause (a) above and/or by
the Partnership pursuant to clause (b) above, designate one or more
third parties, which parties may be Partners, to acquire (subject
to the terms of Article 5 hereof) all, but not less than all, of
the Defaulting Partner’s Defaulted Interest not so acquired
by the Class A Limited Partners and/or the Partnership.
The General Partner
shall not permit any party to acquire a Defaulting Partner’s
Defaulted Interest if such acquisition would cause the assets of
the Partnership to be deemed “plan assets” within the
meaning of ERISA and the regulations thereunder.
(d)
Purchase of Defaulted Interest . With respect to any
acquisition made pursuant to Section 4.6(c) above, the aggregate
consideration payable to the Defaulting Partner shall be a cash
payment (or to the extent of a purchase by the Partnership, may be
by an unsecured promissory note of the Partnership, at the election
of the General Partner) in an amount equal to fifty percent (50%)
of such Defaulting Partner’s Estimated Equity Interest Value;
in all cases net of all costs and expenses incurred by the
Partnership, the General Partner and all acquiring parties in
connection with such default and the acquisition of such Defaulted
Interest. Each acquiring party shall be obligated, severally
and not jointly, to pay its pro rata portion of such consideration
based on the percentage of the Defaulting Partner’s Defaulted
Interest acquired by such party. In the event that the
General Partner exercises its right to cause
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the
Partnership to acquire all or a portion of a Defaulting
Partner’s Defaulted Interest pursuant to Section 4.6(c)(ii),
for purposes of determining each Class A Limited Partner’s
liability for any resulting Capital Calls made in connection
therewith, the Capital Commitment Percentage of the Class A Limited
Partners shall be calculated assuming that the Partnership’s
proposed purchase of all or a portion of the Defaulted Interest has
been completed. Any non-defaulting Class A Limited Partner
that acquires all or a portion of a Defaulting Partner’s
Defaulted Interest shall also assume the portion of the Defaulting
Partner’s Capital Commitment corresponding to the acquired
portion of the Defaulted Interest and shall pay to the Partnership,
concurrently with the payment of the purchase price to the
Defaulting Partner, an amount representing the portion of the
Defaulting Partner’s Capital Call that is then due and unpaid
that corresponds to the acquired portion of the Defaulted
Interest. Any interest that accrues under Section 4.6(c) with
respect to a Defaulting Partner’s Defaulted Interest prior to
the acquisition of such Defaulted Interest pursuant to Section
4.6(c), will remain an obligation of the Defaulting Partner and
will not be assumed by any Person acquiring the Defaulted
Interest.
(e)
Collection of Capital Commitment . In addition to, and
not in limitation of, any of the foregoing, upon termination of the
five (5) Business Day period provided in Section 4.6(c), the
General Partner, in its sole discretion, may commence proceedings
to collect any due and unpaid installment of the Defaulting
Partner’s Capital Commitment and any additional Capital
Contribution, as applicable (plus interest in accordance with
Section 4.6(c) and the expenses of collection, including court
costs and attorneys’ fees and disbursements).
(f)
Additional Damages . Any actions taken by the General
Partner or the Partnership pursuant to this Section 4.6 shall be in
addition to, and not in limitation of, any other rights or remedies
that the Partnership or the General Partner may have against the
Defaulting Partner, including the right to hold the Defaulting
Partner responsible for any damages or liabilities (including
attorneys’ fees and expenses) to which the Partnership or the
General Partner may be subjected (in whole or in part) as a result
of the default by the Defaulting Partner.
(g)
Cooperation in Sale . Each Class A Limited Partner
hereby agrees that, in the event that such Class A Limited Partner
shall fail to pay when due any installment of its Capital
Commitment required pursuant to Section 4.1, and the General
Partner elects to pursue any remedy set forth in Section 4.6(c),
such Class A Limited Partner shall sell, assign, transfer and
convey to the Partnership, any designee of the General Partner or
any and all Class A Limited Partners making the election
contemplated by Section 4.6(c), its entire Equity Interest in the
Partnership, in consideration of the amount specified in Section
4.6(d). Upon consummation of such sale, assignment, transfer
or conveyance, Schedule A to this Agreement will be appropriately
modified by the General Partner and delivered to the
Partners.
(h)
Voting By Defaulting Partner . Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary herein, so long as a Defaulting Partner
remains a Defaulting Partner, such Partner shall not be entitled to
exercise any voting rights otherwise granted to such
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