Exhibit 10.2
FIRST AMENDED AND RESTATED
SECURED TERM LOAN AGREEMENT
DATED AS OF AUGUST 1, 2007
AMONG
BIOMED REALTY, L.P.,
AS BORROWER
AND
KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND LEAD ARRANGER
AND
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AND WACHOVIA BANK, N.A.
AS CO-SYNDICATION AGENTS
AND
LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AND SOCIETE GENERAL
AS CO-DOCUMENTATION AGENTS
AND
THE
SEVERAL LENDERS
FROM TIME TO TIME PARTIES HERETO,
AS LENDERS
FIRST AMENDED AND RESTATED
SECURED TERM LOAN AGREEMENT
Dated as of August 1, 2007
This FIRST AMENDED AND RESTATED
SECURED TERM LOAN AGREEMENT is entered into as of August 1,
2007 (the “Agreement Effective Date”) by and among
BIOMED REALTY, L.P., a Maryland limited partnership
(“Borrower” or “Operating Partnership”),
KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association
(“KeyBank”), each lender whose name is set forth on the
signature pages of this Agreement, and each lender which may
hereafter become a party to this Agreement pursuant to
Section 11.8 (collectively, together with KeyBank, the
“Lenders” and, individually, a “Lender”)
and KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not individually but as
“Administrative Agent.”
RECITALS
WHEREAS, certain of the Lenders have
previously provided a secured term loan facility to Borrower
pursuant to a Secured Term Loan Agreement dated as of May 31,
2005, as amended by a First Amendment thereto dated as of
June 28, 2006 and a Second Amendment thereto dated as of
November 3, 2006 (collectively, the “Prior
Agreement”);
WHEREAS, Borrower has requested that
the Lenders amend and restate the Prior Agreement to extend the
maturity date thereof and make certain other modifications thereto;
and
WHEREAS, the Lenders are willing to
do so on the terms set forth in this Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of
the recitals herein and the mutual covenants contained herein, the
parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
1.1 Defined Terms . As used in
this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set
forth below:
“ Account Agreement
” means the Amended and Restated Account Security, Pledge,
Assignment and Control Agreement dated of even date herewith among
Borrower, the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders,
and KeyBank, as depository bank with respect to the payment of
Excess Funds by Borrower and the Subject Property Owners to the
Deposit Account, as the same may be modified, amended or restated
from time to time.
“ Acknowledgments
” means collectively, the Acknowledgments, which have been
incorporated in the Assignment of Interests, executed by the
Subject Property Owners in favor of the Administrative Agent, for
the benefit of Lenders, as the same may be modified, amended or
restated from time to time.
“ Adjusted EBITDA
” means, as of any date, (a) EBITDA with respect to the
Consolidated Group for the most recent Fiscal Quarter for which
financial results have been reported less (b) Capital Reserves
divided by four (4).
“ Adjusted NOI ”
means, as of any date with respect to any Project or group of
Projects, an annualized amount determined by multiplying four
(4) times NOI of such Project or group of Projects for the
most recent Fiscal Quarter for which financial results have been
reported and deducting therefrom the then-current annualized
Capital Reserves with respect to such Project or group of
Projects.
“ Administrative Agent
” means KeyBank, when acting in its capacity as the
Administrative Agent under any of the Loan Documents, or any
successor Administrative Agent.
“ Administrative
Agent’s Office ” means the Administrative
Agent’s office located at 127 Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio
44114, or such other office as the Administrative Agent hereafter
may designate by written notice to Borrower and the Lenders.
“ Advance ” means
that portion of any Loan funded by a single Lender.
“ Affiliate ”
means, as to any Person, any other Person which directly or
indirectly controls, or is under common control with, or is
controlled by, such Person. As used in this definition,
“control” (and the correlative terms, “controlled
by” and “under common control with”) shall mean
possession, directly or indirectly, of power to direct or cause the
direction of management or policies (whether through ownership of
securities or partnership or other ownership interests, by contract
or otherwise); provided that, in any event, any Person which
owns, directly or indirectly, 10% or more of the securities having
ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other
governing body of a corporation, or 10% or more of the partnership
or other ownership interests of any other Person, will be deemed to
be an Affiliate of such corporation, partnership or other
Person.
“ Aggregate Subject
Properties Value ” means, as of any date, that portion of
Gross Asset Value attributable to Subject Properties.
“ Agreement ”
means this First Amended and Restated Secured Term Loan Agreement,
either as originally executed or as it may from time to time be
extended, supplemented, consolidated, amended, restated, increased,
renewed or modified.
“ Alternate Base Rate
” means, as of any date of determination, the rate per annum
equal to the higher of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such
date and (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on
such date plus one-half of 1% (50 basis points) plus, in either
case, the Applicable Margin.
“ Alternate Base Rate
Advance ” means an Advance made hereunder and specified
to be an Alternate Base Rate Advance in accordance with
Article 2 .
“ Alternate Base Rate
Loan ” means a Loan made hereunder and specified to be an
Alternate Base Rate Loan in accordance with Article 2
.
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“ Applicable Margin
” means one and sixty-five one hundredths of one percent
(1.65%) per annum with respect to LIBOR Rate Loans and one-quarter
of one percent (0.25%) per annum with respect to Alternate Base
Rate Loans, as the case may be.
“ Assignment of
Interests ” means, collectively, (i) the Amended and
Restated Collateral Assignments of Interests dated of even date
herewith from Borrower to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit
of the Lenders, as the same may be modified, amended or restated,
pursuant to which there shall be granted to the Administrative
Agent a first priority lien and security interest in the applicable
Equity Interests and the other interests of Borrower in the
Collateral described therein, and (ii) each additional
Collateral Assignment of Interests in favor of Administrative
Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, delivered pursuant to the
terms of Section 2A.2 , as the same may be modified,
amended or restated, and any further assignments, certificates,
powers, consents, acknowledgments, estoppels or UCC-1 financing
statements that may be delivered in connection therewith.
“ Assignors ”
means, collectively, Borrower and each Person executing an
Assignment of Interests as an assignor after the date hereof.
“ Banking Day ”
means (i) with respect to any borrowing, payment or rate
selection of LIBOR Rate Advances, a day (other than a Saturday or
Sunday) on which banks generally are open in Cleveland, Ohio, and
New York, New York for the conduct of substantially all of their
commercial lending activities and on which dealings in Dollars are
carried on in the London interbank market and (ii) for all
other purposes, a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which
banks generally are open in Cleveland, Ohio, and New York, New York
for the conduct of substantially all of their commercial lending
activities.
“ Bayshore Project
” means the Project currently owned by Borrower and located
in Brisbane, California.
“ Capital Lease
Obligations ” means all monetary obligations of a Person
under any leasing or similar arrangement which, in accordance with
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, is classified as a
capital lease, other than those obligations so classified solely as
a result of FAS 141.
“ Capital Reserves
” means, as of any date with respect to any Income-Producing
Project or group of Income-Producing Projects, an annual amount
equal to (i) $0.30 per square foot of the aggregate Net Rentable
Area of those Income-Producing Projects owned by a member of the
Consolidated Group as of the last day of the most recent Fiscal
Quarter for which financial results have been reported and
(ii) the applicable Consolidated Group Pro Rata Share of $0.30
per square foot of the Net Rentable Area of those Income-Producing
Projects owned by an Investment Affiliate as of the last day of
such Fiscal Quarter.
“ Capitalization Rate
” means eight and one-quarter of one percent (8.25%). The
Capitalization Rate shall be reviewed annually by the Lenders and
may be adjusted (upward or downward) effective as of each
anniversary of the date of this Agreement to such percentage
as
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the
Requisite Lenders may determine, in good faith and in their
reasonable discretion, after consultation with Borrower, to reflect
then-current capitalization rates for similar assets.
“ Cash
Equivalents ” means, as of any date:
(i) securities issued or directly and
fully guaranteed or insured by the United States of America
government or any agency or instrumentality thereof having
maturities of not more than one year from such date;
(ii) mutual funds organized under the
United States Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, rated AAm
or AAm-G by S&P and P-1 by Moody’s;
(iii) certificates of deposit or
other interest-bearing obligations of a bank or trust company which
is a member in good standing of the Federal Reserve System having a
short term unsecured debt rating of not less than A-1 by S&P
and not less than P-1 by Moody’s (or in each case, if no bank
or trust company is so rated, the highest comparable rating then
given to any bank or trust company, but in such case only for funds
invested overnight or over a weekend) provided that such
investments shall mature or be redeemable upon the option of the
holders thereof on or prior to a date one month from the date of
their purchase;
(iv) certificates of deposit or other
interest-bearing obligations of a bank or trust company which is a
member in good standing of the Federal Reserve System having a
short term unsecured debt rating of not less than A-1+ by S&P,
and not less than P-1 by Moody’s and which has a long term
unsecured debt rating of not less than A1 by Moody’s (or in
each case, if no bank or trust company is so rated, the highest
comparable rating then given to any bank or trust company, but in
such case only for funds invested overnight or over a weekend)
provided that such investments shall mature or be redeemable upon
the option of the holders thereof on or prior to a date three
months from the date of their purchase;
(v) bonds or other obligations having
a short term unsecured debt rating of not less than A-1+ by S&P
and P-1+ by Moody’s and having a long term debt rating of not
less than A1 by Moody’s issued by or by authority of any
state of the United States of America, any territory or possession
of the United States of America, including the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico and agencies thereof, or any political subdivision of
any of the foregoing;
(vi) repurchase agreements issued by
an entity rated not less than A-1+ by S&P, and not less than
P-1 by Moody’s which are secured by United States of America
government securities of the type described in clause (i) of
this definition maturing on or prior to a date one month from the
date the repurchase agreement is entered into;
(vii) short term promissory notes
rated not less than A-1+ by S&P, and not less than P-1 by
Moody’s maturing or to be redeemable upon the option of the
holders thereof on or prior to a date one month from the date of
their purchase; and
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(viii) commercial paper (having
original maturities of not more than 365 days) rated at least
A-1+ by S&P and P-1 by Moody’s and issued by a foreign or
domestic issuer who, at the time of the investment, has outstanding
long-term unsecured debt obligations rated at least A1 by
Moody’s.
“ Certificate ”
means a certificate signed by a Senior Officer or Responsible
Official (as applicable) of the Person providing the
certificate.
“ CFLS Project ”
means that certain Project known as the Center for Life Sciences
Building located at 3 Blackfan Street, Boston, Massachusetts,
consisting of approximately 1.520 acres of land on which an
eighteen (18) story office building/laboratory research center
containing approximately 705,642 rentable square feet is under
construction and which is owned in fee simple by a Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary of Borrower.
“ Changeover Date
” is defined in Section 6.12 .
“ Closing Date ”
means the time and Banking Day on which the conditions set forth in
Section 8.1 are satisfied or waived. The Administrative
Agent shall notify Borrower and the Lenders of the date that is the
Closing Date.
“ Code ” means the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended or replaced and as in
effect from time to time.
“ Collateral ”
means all of the property, rights and interests of Borrower and its
Subsidiaries that are subject to the security interests and Liens
created by the Security Documents.
“ Commitments ”
means the commitments of each of the Lenders (as initially
specified in Schedule 1.1 hereto) to make Advances
under this Agreement.
“ Commitments Assignment and
Acceptance ” means an assignment and acceptance agreement
substantially in the form of Exhibit A .
“ Compliance Certificate
” means a certificate in the form of Exhibit B ,
properly completed and signed by a Senior Officer of
Borrower.
“ Confidential
Information ” means (i) all of the terms, covenants,
conditions or agreements set forth in this Agreement or any
amendments hereto and any related agreements of whatever nature,
(ii) the information and reports provided in compliance with
Article 7 of this Agreement, (iii) any and all
information provided, disclosed or otherwise made available to the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders including, without limitation,
any and all plans, maps, studies (including market studies),
reports or other data, operating expense information, as-built
plans, specifications, site plans, drawings, notes, analyses,
compilations, or other documents or materials relating to the
Projects or their condition or use, whether prepared by Borrower or
others, which use, or reflect, or that are based on, derived from,
or are in any way related to the foregoing, and (iv) any and
all other information of Parent, its Subsidiaries or the Investment
Affiliates that the Administrative Agent or any Lender may have
access to including, without
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limitation, ideas, samples, media, techniques, sketches,
specifications, designs, plans, forecasts, financial information,
technical information, drawings, works of authorship, models,
inventions, know-how, processes, apparatuses, equipment,
algorithms, financial models and databases, software programs,
software source documents, manuals, documents, properties, names of
tenants or potential tenants, vendors, suppliers, distributors and
consultants, and formulae related to the current, future, and
proposed products and services of Parent, its Subsidiaries, the
Investment Affiliates, tenants or potential tenants (including,
without limitation, information concerning research, experimental
work, development, design details and specifications, engineering,
procurement requirements, purchasing, manufacturing, customer
lists, investors, employees, clients, business and contractual
relationships, business forecasts, and sales and marketing plans).
Such Confidential Information may be disclosed or accessible to the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders as embodied within tangible
material (such as documents, drawings, pictures, graphics,
software, hardware, graphs, charts, or disks), orally, or
visually.
“ Consolidated Group
” means Parent, Borrower and all Subsidiaries of Borrower
which are consolidated with Parent and Borrower for financial
reporting purposes under GAAP.
“ Consolidated Group Pro
Rata Share ” means, with respect to any Investment
Affiliate, the percentage of the issued and outstanding stock,
partnership interests or membership interests held by the
Consolidated Group in the aggregate in such Investment
Affiliate.
“ Consolidated Outstanding
Indebtedness ” means, as of any date of determination,
without duplication, the sum of (a) all Indebtedness of the
Consolidated Group outstanding at such date, determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (whether recourse or
non-recourse), plus, without duplication, (b) the applicable
Consolidated Group Pro Rata Share of any Indebtedness of each
Investment Affiliate other than Indebtedness of such Investment
Affiliate to a member of the Consolidated Group.
“ Continuing Tenant
” means, with respect to any Income-Producing Project for any
Fiscal Quarter, a tenant of such Project which was leasing space in
such Project at all times during such Fiscal Quarter and paying
rent.
“ Contractual Obligation
” means, as to any Person, any provision of any outstanding
security issued by that Person or of any material agreement,
instrument or undertaking to which that Person is a party or by
which it or any of its Property is bound.
“ Controlled Entity
” means a Person (a) that is a Subsidiary of Parent,
(b) that is a general partnership or a limited partnership in
which Borrower or a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Borrower is the sole
managing general partner and such managing general partner has the
sole power to (i) sell all or substantially all of the assets
of such Person, (ii) incur Indebtedness in the name of such
Person, (iii) grant a Lien on all or any portion of the assets
of such Person and (iv) otherwise generally manage the business and
assets of such Person or (c) that is a limited liability
company for which Borrower or a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Borrower
is the sole manager and such manager has the sole power to do the
acts described in subclauses (i) through (iv) of
clause (b) above.
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“ Debt Offering ”
means the issuance and sale by any member of the Consolidated Group
of any debt securities of such member, excluding debt securities
issued to and retained by another member of the Consolidated
Group.
“ Debt Service ”
means, for any Fiscal Quarter, the sum of all Interest Expense and
all mandatory or regularly scheduled principal payments due and
payable during such period on the related Indebtedness, excluding
any balloon payments due upon maturity of such Indebtedness
(provided that Debt Service with respect to the Consolidated Group
shall include only the applicable Consolidated Group Pro Rata share
of all such principal payments for such Fiscal Quarter with respect
to Indebtedness of Investment Affiliates). Debt Service shall
include the portion of rent payable by a Person during such Fiscal
Quarter under Capital Lease Obligations that should be treated as
principal in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles.
“ Debtor Relief Laws
” means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States of America,
as amended from time to time, and all other applicable liquidation,
conservatorship, bankruptcy, moratorium, rearrangement,
receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief
Laws from time to time in effect affecting the rights of creditors
generally.
“ Default ” means
any event that, with the giving of any applicable notice or passage
of time specified in Section 9.1 or both, would be an
Event of Default.
“ Defaulting Lender
” means (a) any Lender that has failed to fund any
Advance within two (2) Banking Days after such funding is
required pursuant to this Agreement; or (b) any Lender that
has (i) breached any other material term or condition of this
Agreement or (ii) failed to make any other payment to the
Administrative Agent (whether such payment is a reimbursement for
costs, expenses or attorneys’ fees, an indemnity payment, the
repayment of erroneously paid funds, a portion of any set-off to be
turned over to the Administrative Agent or otherwise) when such
payment is due and payable under this Agreement or any other Loan
Document, if such breach or failure has not been cured or paid
within ten (10) days after notice thereof from the
Administrative Agent to such Lender.
“ Default Rate ”
means the interest rate prescribed in Section 3.6
.
“ Deposit Account
” means a collateral account to be maintained by KeyBank
pursuant to the Account Agreement, and any replacement or
substitution account thereafter established with the prior written
consent of Administrative Agent.
“ Distribution ”
means, with respect to any shares of capital stock or any warrant
or option to purchase an equity security or other equity security
or interest issued by a Person, (i) the retirement, redemption,
purchase or other acquisition for cash or for Property by such
Person of any such security or interest, (ii) the payment by
such Person of any dividend in cash or in Property on or with
respect to any such security or interest, (iii) any Investment
by such Person in the holder of 5% or more of any such security or
interest if a purpose of such Investment is to avoid
characterization of the transaction as a Distribution or
(iv) any other payment in cash or Property by such Person
constituting a distribution under applicable Laws with respect to
such security or interest.
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“ Dollars ” or
“ $ ” means United States of America
dollars.
“ EBITDA ” means,
with respect to any Person for any Fiscal Quarter, the Net Income
of such Person (from operations and from discontinued operations)
for that Fiscal Quarter, before (i) interest, income taxes,
minority interests, depreciation, amortization and all other
non-cash expenses (including non-cash compensation, to the extent
not actually paid as a cash expense) of such Person for that Fiscal
Quarter and (ii) extraordinary gains (and losses) of such
Person, in each case as determined on a consolidated basis in
accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles;
provided , that in performing the foregoing calculation of
EBITDA with respect to the Consolidated Group, that portion of
EBITDA attributable to the Consolidated Group’s equity
interests in any Investment Affiliates shall be deducted, and the
applicable Consolidated Group Pro Rata Share of EBITDA in each such
Investment Affiliate shall be added back into the
calculation.
“ Eligible Assignee
” means (a) any Lender, (b) any Lender, any
Affiliate of any Lender and any Related Fund of any Lender (any two
or more Related Funds being treated as a single Eligible Assignee
for all purposes hereof), (c) any commercial bank having a
combined capital and surplus of $5,000,000,000 or more,
(d) the central bank of any country which is a member of the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, (e) any
savings bank, savings and loan association or similar financial
institution which (A) has a net worth of $500,000,000 or more,
(B) is engaged in the business of lending money and extending
credit under credit facilities substantially similar to those
extended under this Agreement and (C) is operationally and
procedurally able to meet the obligations of a Lender hereunder to
the same degree as a commercial bank, and (f) any other
financial institution (including a mutual fund or other fund)
approved by the Administrative Agent and, unless an Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, Borrower (such
approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) having total
assets of $500,000,000 or more which meets the requirements set
forth in subclauses (B) and (C) of clause (e)
above; provided that each Eligible Assignee must either
(a) be organized under the Laws of the United States of
America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia or
(b) be organized under the Laws of the Cayman Islands or any
country which is a member of the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development, or a political subdivision of such a
country, and (i) act hereunder through a branch, agency or
funding office located in the United States of America and
(ii) be exempt from withholding of tax on interest and deliver
the documents related thereto pursuant to Section 11.21
.
“ Employee Plan ”
means any (a) employee benefit plan (as defined in
Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to Title I of ERISA,
(b) any plan (as defined in Section 4975(e)(1) of the
Code) that is subject to Section 4975 of the Code,
(c) any entity the underlying assets of which include plan
assets (as defined in 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101 or
otherwise under ERISA) by reason of a plan’s investment in
such entity (including an insurance company general account), or
(d) a governmental plan (as defined in Section 3(32) of
ERISA or Section 414(d) of the Code) organized in a jurisdiction
within the United States of America having prohibitions on
transactions with such governmental plan substantially similar to
those contained in Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975
of the Code.
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“ Equity Interests
” means the legal, equitable and beneficial ownership
interest of Borrower (or any Subsidiaries of Borrower) in any
Subsidiary of Borrower which is a direct owner of a Subject
Property that is not subject to any agreement, document or
instrument that prohibits the pledge, assignment and/or transfer of
such interests as reasonably determined by Borrower and confirmed
by Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion. As of the
Agreement Effective Date, Equity Interests includes only
(i) Borrower’s 100% Equity Interest in BMR-7 Lucent
Drive LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and (ii) 49%
of the Equity Interest in BMR-Shady Grove Road HQ LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company.
“ Equity Offering
” means the issuance and sale by any member of the
Consolidated Group of any equity securities of such member,
excluding equity securities issued to and retained by another
member of the Consolidated Group.
“ ERISA ” means
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and any
regulations issued pursuant thereto, as amended or replaced and as
in effect from time to time.
“ ERISA Affiliate
” means each Person (whether or not incorporated) which is
required to be aggregated with Parent pursuant to Section 414
of the Code.
“ Event of Default
” shall have the meaning provided in Section 9.1
.
“ Excess Funds ”
means all profits, proceeds or other income relating to or arising
from each Subject Property Owner’s use, operation, financing,
refinancing, sale or other disposition of its Subject Property
after (a) the payment by such Subject Property Owner of debt
service on its Indebtedness, including all applicable Subject
Property Indebtedness, and operating expenses then due and payable
and (b) the establishment of reserves in amounts reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent for the payment of operating
expenses and capital improvements to be made to such Subject
Property Owner’s assets and properties as required by the
Subject Property Owner in the ordinary course of business
consistent with past practices.
“ Excluded Tenant
” means, with respect to any Income-Producing Project for any
Fiscal Quarter, a tenant of such Project (i) whose lease
expired or was terminated during such Fiscal Quarter or within
thirty (30) days after the expiration of such Fiscal Quarter
or (ii) which either defaulted in the payment of any of its
lease obligations during such Fiscal Quarter (and such payment
default is continuing after all required notices have been given
and all applicable cure periods provided for in such lease have
expired) or was the debtor in a voluntary or involuntary proceeding
under any Debtor Relief Law during such Fiscal Quarter.
“ FAS 141 ” means
Statement No. 141 issued by the Financial Accounting Standards
Board.
“ Federal Funds Effective
Rate ” shall mean, for any day, the rate per annum
announced by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland on such day as
being the weighted average of the rates on overnight federal funds
transactions arranged by federal funds brokers on the previous
trading day, as computed and announced by such Federal Reserve Bank
in substantially the same manner as such Federal Reserve Bank
computes and announces the weighted average it refers to as the
“Federal Funds Effective Rate.”
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“ Fee Letter ”
means that certain fee letter dated as of June 29, 2007 among
the Parent, Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
“ Fiscal Quarter ”
means the fiscal quarter of the Consolidated Group ending on each
March 31, June 30, September 30 and
December 31.
“ Fiscal Year ”
means the fiscal year of Borrower ending on each
December 31.
“ Fixed Charge Coverage
Ratio ” means, as of any date, (a) Adjusted EBITDA
divided by (b) the sum of (i) Debt Service with
respect to the Consolidated Group plus (ii) all Preferred
Distributions of the Consolidated Group plus (iii) the
Consolidated Group Pro Rata Share of all Preferred Distributions of
Investment Affiliates, in each case based on the most recent Fiscal
Quarter for which financial results have been reported.
“ Funds From Operations
” with respect to any fiscal period shall have the same
meaning determined from time to time by the National Association of
Real Estate Investment Trusts to be the meaning most commonly used
by its members.
“ Generally Accepted
Accounting Principles ” or “ GAAP ”
means, as of any date of determination, accounting principles
(a) set forth as generally accepted in then currently
effective Opinions of the Accounting Principles Board of the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, (b) set
forth as generally accepted in then currently effective Statements
of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or (c) that are
then approved by such other entity as may be approved by a
significant segment of the accounting profession in the United
States of America. The term “consistently applied,” as
used in connection therewith, means that the accounting principles
applied are consistent in all material respects with those applied
at prior dates or for prior periods.
“ Governmental Agency
” means (a) any international, foreign, federal, state,
county or municipal government, or political subdivision thereof,
(b) any governmental or quasi-governmental agency, authority,
board, bureau, commission, department, instrumentality or public
body or (c) any court or administrative tribunal, each of
competent jurisdiction.
“ Gross Asset Value
” means, as of any day, an amount equal to the sum of the
following assets then owned by a member of the Consolidated Group
or an Investment Affiliate and valued as follows: (i) Adjusted
NOI attributable to Projects owned by a member of the Consolidated
Group (or the Consolidated Group Pro Rata Share thereof with
respect to Projects owned by an Investment Affiliate) (excluding
any such portion of such Adjusted NOI attributable to (a) the
HGS Borrowing Base Project, (b) those buildings in the Sun
Campus Project not yet designated by Borrower to be valued based on
Adjusted NOI as described below, (c) the CFLS Project,
(d) Projects that were Unstabilized Projects at any time
during the Fiscal Quarter with respect to which Adjusted NOI is
determined, (e) Projects acquired after the first day of such
Fiscal Quarter, or (f) Projects disposed of during or after
such Fiscal Quarter), divided by the Capitalization Rate;
plus , without duplication, (ii) with respect to the
CFLS Project and each such Project that was an Unstabilized
Project, the greater of (a) the portion of such Adjusted NOI
attributable to such Project (or the Consolidated Group Pro Rata
Share thereof with respect to
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any such
excluded Project owned by an Investment Affiliate), divided
by the Capitalization Rate and (b) the Consolidated
Group’s GAAP cost basis (or the Consolidated Group Pro Rata
Share thereof with respect to any such excluded Project owned by an
Investment Affiliate) in such Project; plus
(iii) either (x) until the repurchase right held by the
former owner of the HGS Borrowing Base Project has expired
unexercised or otherwise been terminated, the lesser of
(a) the Net HGS Repurchase Price and (b) the Adjusted NOI
attributable to the HGS Borrowing Base Project divided by the
Capitalization Rate, or (y) thereafter, the Adjusted NOI
attributable to the HGS Borrowing Base Project divided by the
Capitalization Rate plus (iv) the applicable aggregate
acquisition cost as shown on Exhibit H for those
buildings in the Sun Campus Project Borrower has not yet designated
for valuation based on Adjusted NOI by giving an irrevocable
written notice to such effect to the Administrative Agent;
plus (v) the acquisition cost of all Projects acquired
after the first day of such Fiscal Quarter and on or prior to such
date of determination (or the Consolidated Group Pro Rata Share
thereof with respect to any such acquired Project owned by an
Investment Affiliate); plus (vi) the acquisition cost
of all raw land held for development as of such date (or the
Consolidated Group Pro Rata Share thereof with respect to any such
land owned by an Investment Affiliate) (provided that the amount
contributed to Gross Asset Value under this clause (vi) shall
not exceed 10% of the total Gross Asset Value); plus
(vii) cash and Cash Equivalents of the Consolidated Group as
of such date of determination.
“ Guarantee” or
“Guaranteed Obligation ” means, as to any Person,
any (a) guarantee by that Person of Indebtedness of, or other
obligation performable by, any other Person or (b) assurance given
by that Person to an obligee of any other Person with respect to
the performance of an obligation by, or the financial condition of,
such other Person, whether direct, indirect or contingent,
including any purchase or repurchase agreement covering such
obligation or any collateral security therefor, any agreement to
provide funds (by means of loans, capital contributions or
otherwise) to such other Person, any agreement to support the
solvency or level of any balance sheet item of such other Person or
any “keep-well” or other arrangement of whatever nature
given for the purpose of assuring or holding harmless such obligee
against loss with respect to any obligation of such other Person;
provided , however , that the term Guarantee
Obligation shall not include endorsements of instruments for
deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business. The
amount of any Guarantee Obligation in respect of Indebtedness shall
be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable
amount of the related Indebtedness (unless the Guarantee Obligation
is limited by its terms to a lesser amount, in which case to the
extent of such amount) or, if not stated or determinable, the
reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined
by the Person in good faith pursuant to Generally Accepted
Accounting Principles.
“ Guarantors ”
means, as of any date, collectively, (a) Parent,
(b) those Subsidiaries of the Borrower listed on
Schedule 1.2 and (c) those Subsidiaries of
Borrower which subsequently become parties to the Subsidiary
Guaranty by executing and delivering a Joinder Agreement.
“ Guaranty ”
means, collectively, that certain Amended and Restated Parent
Guaranty dated as of the Agreement Effective Date executed by
Parent in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C-1 and
made a part hereof, and that certain Amended and Restated
Subsidiary Guaranty dated as of the Agreement Effective Date
executed by the initial Subsidiary Guarantors in the
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form
attached hereto as Exhibit C-2 and made a part hereof,
as such Subsidiary Guaranty may be amended from time to time
including by the joinder of additional Subsidiary Guarantors
therein pursuant to a Joinder Agreement, as required by
Section 2A.2 .
“ Hazardous Materials
” means substances defined as “hazardous
substances” pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C.
§9601 et seq., or as “hazardous”,
“toxic” or “pollutant” substances or as
“solid waste” pursuant to the Hazardous Materials
Transportation Act, 49 U.S.C. §1801, et seq., the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. §6901, et seq., or as
“friable asbestos” pursuant to the Toxic Substances
Control Act, 15 U.S.C. §2601 et seq. or any other applicable
Hazardous Materials Law, in each case as such Laws are amended from
time to time.
“ Hazardous Materials
Laws ” means all Laws governing the treatment,
transportation or disposal of Hazardous Materials applicable to any
of the Projects.
“ HGS Borrowing Base
Project ” means that certain Project located at 9911
Belward Campus Drive, Rockville, Maryland consisting of
approximately nine and one-half acres of land improved with a
building containing approximately 289,912 gross square feet of
laboratory manufacturing space and owned in fee simple by a
Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Borrower.
“ Income-Producing
Project ” means any Project other than an Unstabilized
Project.
“ Indebtedness ”
means, with respect to a Person, at the time of computation
thereof, all of the following (without duplication): (a) all
obligations of such Person in respect of money borrowed;
(b) all obligations of such Person, whether or not for money
borrowed (i) represented by notes payable, or drafts accepted,
in each case representing extensions of credit, (ii) evidenced
by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, or
(iii) constituting purchase money indebtedness, conditional
sales contracts or other similar instruments, upon which interest
charges are customarily paid or that are issued or assumed as full
or partial payment for Property or services rendered;
(c) Capital Lease Obligations of such Person; (d) all
reimbursement obligations of such Person under any letters of
credit or acceptances (whether or not the same have been presented
for payment); (e) all off-balance sheet obligations of such
Person; (f) all obligations of such Person in respect of any
repurchase obligation, takeout commitment or forward equity
commitment, in each case evidenced by a binding agreement (it being
understood that the term “Indebtedness” shall not
include trade payables incurred in the ordinary course of business
or obligations of such Person under purchase agreements pertaining
to potential acquisition by such Person of additional real
properties (and related assets)); (g) net mark to market
exposure of such Person under any interest rate protection
agreement (including, without limitation, any interest rate swaps,
caps, floors, collars and similar agreements) and currency swaps
and similar agreements; (h) all Indebtedness of other Persons
which such Person has Guaranteed or is otherwise recourse to such
Person (except for guaranties of customary non-recourse
“carve-out” exceptions for fraud, misapplication of
funds, environmental indemnities and other similar exceptions to
recourse liability (but not exceptions relating to bankruptcy,
insolvency, receivership or other similar events)); and
(i) all Indebtedness of another Person secured by any Lien on
Property owned by such Person, even though such Person has not
assumed or become liable for the payment of such Indebtedness or
other payment obligation.
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For the
avoidance of doubt, Indebtedness shall not include premiums
required by FAS 141 as a result of the assumption of Indebtedness
bearing an interest rate that was above market interest rates at
the time of assumption.
“ Intangible Assets
” means assets that are considered intangible assets under
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, including customer
lists, goodwill, copyrights, trade names, trademarks and
patents.
“ Interest Expense
” means, with respect to the Consolidated Group and measured
as of the last day of the most recent Fiscal Quarter for which
financial results have been reported, the sum of (a) all
interest of the Consolidated Group (whether accrued or paid,
without duplication) for such Fiscal Quarter, excluding any
non-cash interest expense, but including capitalized interest due
to any Person who is not a member of the Consolidated Group which
is not funded from the proceeds of a construction loan, plus
(b) the portion of rent paid or payable by the Consolidated
Group (without duplication) for such Fiscal Quarter under Capital
Lease Obligations that should be treated as interest in accordance
with Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 13,
plus (c) the Consolidated Group Pro Rata Share of any interest
expense of the type described in clause (a) and clause
(b) above of each Investment Affiliate for such Fiscal
Quarter.
“ Investment ”
means, when used in connection with any Person, any investment by
or of that Person, whether by means of purchase or other
acquisition of stock or other securities of any other Person or by
means of a loan, advance creating a debt, capital contribution,
guaranty or other debt or equity participation or interest in any
other Person, including any partnership and joint venture interests
of such Person. The amount of any Investment shall be the amount
actually invested ( minus any return of capital with respect
to such Investment which has actually been received in cash or Cash
Equivalents or has been converted into cash or Cash Equivalents),
without adjustment for subsequent increases or decreases in the
value of such Investment.
“ Investment Affiliate
” means any Person in which the Consolidated Group, directly
or indirectly, has either a controlling interest or a ten percent
(10%) or greater ownership interest, whose financial results, in
either case, are not consolidated under GAAP with the financial
results of the Consolidated Group.
“ Joinder Agreement
” means the joinder agreement with respect to the Guaranty to
be executed and delivered pursuant to Section 2A.2 by
any additional Subsidiary Guarantor in the form of
Exhibit C-3 (with such changes thereto as the
Administrative Agent shall in its discretion reasonably require)
either as originally executed or as it may from time to time be
supplemented, modified, amended, extended or supplanted.
“ KOP Project ”
means that certain Project currently owned by a member of the
Consolidated Group (sometimes referred to by the Parties as the
“King of Prussia Project”) and located in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
“ Laws ” means,
collectively, all international, foreign, federal, state and local
statutes, treaties, rules, regulations, ordinances, codes and
administrative or judicial precedents.
“ Lead Arranger ”
means KeyBank.
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“ Lender ” means
each lender whose name is set forth in the signature pages of this
Agreement and each lender which may hereafter become a party to
this Agreement pursuant to Section 11.8 .
“ Leverage Ratio ”
means, as of any day, (a) Consolidated Outstanding
Indebtedness as of such date less Qualifying Trust Preferred
Obligations as of such date, divided by (b) Gross Asset Value
as of such date, expressed as a percentage.
“ LIBOR Base Rate
” means, with respect to a LIBOR Rate Advance for the
relevant LIBOR Period, the applicable British Bankers’
Association LIBOR rate for deposits in Dollars as reported by any
generally recognized financial information service as of
11:00 a.m. (London time) two Banking Days prior to the first
day of such LIBOR Period, and having a maturity equal to such LIBOR
Period, provided that, if no such British Bankers’
Association LIBOR rate is available to the Administrative Agent,
the applicable LIBOR Base Rate for the relevant LIBOR Period shall
instead be the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be
the rate at which KeyBank or one of its Affiliate banks offers to
place deposits in Dollars with first class banks in the London
interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two
Banking Days prior to the first day of such LIBOR Period, in the
approximate amount of the relevant LIBOR Rate Advance and having a
maturity equal to such LIBOR Period.
“ LIBOR Lending Office
” means, as to each Lender, its office or branch so
designated by written notice to Borrower and the Administrative
Agent as its LIBOR Lending Office. If no LIBOR Lending Office is
designated by a Lender, its LIBOR Lending Office shall be its
office at its address for purposes of notices hereunder.
“ LIBOR Period ”
means, as to each LIBOR Rate Loan, the period commencing on the
date specified by Borrower pursuant to Section 2.1(d)
and ending 1, 2, 3 or 6 months (or, if available from all
Lenders, 12 months) thereafter, as specified by Borrower in
the applicable Request for Loan; provided that:
(a) the first day of any LIBOR
Period shall be a Banking Day;
(b) any LIBOR Period that would
otherwise end on a day that is not a Banking Day shall be extended
to the next succeeding Banking Day unless such Banking Day falls in
another calendar month, in which case such LIBOR Period shall end
on the next preceding Banking Day;
(c) any LIBOR Period which
begins on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding
date in the calendar month in which such LIBOR Period would
otherwise end shall instead end on the last Banking Day of such
calendar month; and
(d) no LIBOR Period shall extend
beyond the Maturity Date.
“ LIBOR Rate ”
means, as of any date during any LIBOR Period, the sum of
(A) the LIBOR Base Rate applicable to such LIBOR Period
divided by one minus the then-current Reserve Percentage and
(B) the Applicable Margin with respect to LIBOR Rate
Loans.
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“ LIBOR Rate Advance
” means an Advance made hereunder and specified to be a LIBOR
Rate Advance in accordance with Article 2 .
“ LIBOR Rate Loan
” means a Loan made hereunder and specified to be a LIBOR
Rate Loan in accordance with Article 2 .
“ Lien ” means any
mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation, assignment for
security, security interest, encumbrance, lien or charge of any
kind, whether voluntarily incurred or arising by operation of Law
or otherwise, affecting any Property, including any
conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any lease in
the nature of a security interest, and/or the filing of any
financing statement ( other than a precautionary
financing statement with respect to a lease that is not in the
nature of a security interest) under the Uniform Commercial Code or
comparable Law of any jurisdiction with respect to any
Property.
“ Life Sciences
Buildings ” means (i) office buildings,
office/laboratory buildings and research or manufacturing/warehouse
buildings, leased primarily to medical, pharmaceutical, biotech or
other life sciences companies, or to companies which are otherwise
affiliated with the life sciences industry, and
(ii) traditional office buildings intended to be redeveloped
and converted to buildings leased primarily to the companies
described in clause (i) of this definition.
“ Loan ” means the
advance made by the Lenders to Borrower as provided in Section
2.1 , and thereafter shall mean each Alternate Base Rate Loan
and LIBOR Rate Loan that is a continuation or conversion of such
advance as determined pursuant to Article 2 .
“ Loan Commitment
” means Two Hundred Fifty Million Dollars ($250,000,000). The
respective Percentages of the Lenders with respect to the Loan
Commitment are set forth in Schedule 1.1 .
“ Loan Documents ”
means, collectively, this Agreement, the Notes, the Guaranties and
each Joinder Agreement, the Security Documents, the
Acknowledgements and any other agreements of any type or nature
hereafter executed and delivered by Borrower or Guarantors to the
Administrative Agent or to any Lender in any way relating to or in
furtherance of this Agreement, in each case either as originally
executed or as the same may from time to time be supplemented,
modified, amended, restated, extended or supplanted.
“ Loan Parties ”
means, collectively, as of any date, Borrower, the Guarantors and
the Assignors.
“ Lockout Period ”
means the period from the Agreement Effective Date through
August 1, 2008, which is the day immediately preceding the
first anniversary of the Agreement Effective Date.
“ Margin Stock ”
means “margin stock” as such term is defined in
Regulation T, U or X.
“ Material Adverse
Effect ” means (a) a material adverse change in the
status of the business, results of operations or condition
(financial or otherwise) of the Consolidated Group taken as a
whole, and/or (b) any set of circumstances or events which
(i) has had or would
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reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect upon the
Collateral, the Subject Properties or the validity or
enforceability of any Loan Document (other than as a result of any
action or inaction of the Administrative Agent or any Lender), or
(ii) has materially impaired or would reasonably be expected
to materially impair the ability of the Loan Parties to perform the
Obligations.
“ Maturity Date ”
means August 1, 2012, which is the day immediately preceding
the fifth anniversary of the Agreement Effective Date.
“ Monthly Payment Date
” means the first day of each calendar month.
“ Moody’s ”
means Moody’s Investor Service, Inc. and its
successors.
“ Multiemployer Plan
” means any employee benefit plan of the type described in
Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA to which one or more members of the
Consolidated Group or any of their ERISA Affiliates contribute or
are obligated to contribute.
“ Negative Pledge
” means a Contractual Obligation (other than the Loan
Documents and the documents executed in connection with the Related
Facility) that contains a covenant binding on any owner of a
Project that prohibits Liens on any of such owner’s Projects,
other than any such covenant contained in a Contractual Obligation
(other than the Loan Documents and the documents executed in
connection with the Related Facility) granting or relating to a
particular Lien on a Project which prohibits further Liens on such
Project and on the direct or indirect ownership interests in the
entity owning such Project.
“ Net HGS Repurchase
Price ” means, as of any date, the net price that the
Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Borrower owning the HGS Borrowing Base
Project would have received if such Project had been repurchased by
the former owner thereof on the last day of the most recent Fiscal
Quarter for which financial results have been reported pursuant to
the exercise of such former owner’s rights as evidenced by
that certain Memorandum of Option dated as of May 1, 2006 and
recorded among the Land Records of Montgomery County in Liber
32247, folio 445 as corrected by Corrective Memorandum of Option
dated as of May 22, 2006 and recorded among such Land Records
in Liber ______, folio ______, after applying all credits that
would have then been due to such former owner on account of rents
paid as described in such Memorandum of Option.
“ Net Capital
Expenditures ” means with respect to any Person for any
fiscal period, an amount equal to the sum of the amount of capital
expenditures paid in cash by such Person in order to maintain the
general condition and operation of its Projects during such fiscal
period, excluding (i) any non-recurring capital expenditures
made to update or enhance building infrastructure or building
systems on such Projects, (ii) expenditures for tenant
improvements or allowances made or given to induce such tenant to
lease such Person’s Property and (iii) expenditures directly
recoverable from tenants of such Person’s Property promptly
after such expenditures have been incurred.
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“ Net Income ”
means, with respect to any Person and with respect to any fiscal
period, the net income of that Person for that period, determined
in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles,
consistently applied.
“ Net Rentable Area
” means with respect to any Project, the floor area of any
buildings, structures or improvements available for leasing to
tenants (excluding storage lockers and parking spaces), as
reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent, the manner of
such determination to be consistent for all Projects unless
otherwise approved by the Administrative Agent.
“ Net Worth “
means, as of any day, (a) Gross Asset Value as of such date,
minus (b) Consolidated Outstanding Indebtedness as of
such date.
“ New Tenant ”
means, with respect to any Income-Producing Project for any Fiscal
Quarter, a tenant of such Project which first commenced leasing its
premises at such Project and commenced paying rent at any time
during the period from the second day of such Fiscal Quarter
through and including the thirtieth (30 th ) day after the
end of such Fiscal Quarter.
“ NOI ” means,
with respect to any Project for any applicable Fiscal Quarter, the
sum of (i) actual rental income for such Fiscal Quarter
attributable to Continuing Tenants and New Tenants; (ii) with
respect to any New Tenant, an imputed amount of net rental income
for those days during such Fiscal Quarter during which such New
Tenant was not leasing space and paying rent based on the per diem
net rental income being paid by such New Tenant as of the
commencement of its obligation to pay rent on its lease;
(iii) all actual expense reimbursements received from such
tenants for such Fiscal Quarter; and (iv) all actual other
income for such Fiscal Quarter less (A) actual
operating expenses for such Fiscal Quarter (excluding from
operating expenses, any allocation of general and administrative
expenses related to the operations of the Consolidated Group and
its Investment Affiliates), (B) actual management fees payable
with respect to such Project for such Fiscal Quarter and
(C) any actual or imputed rental income for such Fiscal
Quarter attributable to Excluded Tenants, provided, however, that
in the case of any such Project owned by an Investment Affiliate,
only the Consolidated Group Pro Rata Share of the foregoing amount
attributable to such Project shall be included in
“NOI”.
“ Non-Recourse
Indebtedness ” means Indebtedness for which the liability
of the obligor thereunder ( except with respect to fraud,
Hazardous Materials Laws liability and other customary non-recourse
“carve-out” exceptions) either is contractually limited
to collateral securing such Indebtedness or is so limited by
operation of Law.
“ Note ” means any
of the promissory notes made by Borrower to a Lender evidencing
Loans made under that Lender’s Percentage of the Loan
Commitment, substantially in the form of Exhibit D ,
either as originally executed or as the same may from time to time
be supplemented, modified, amended, renewed, extended or
supplanted.
“ Obligations ”
means all present and future obligations of every kind or nature of
the Loan Parties at any time and from time to time owed to the
Administrative Agent or the Lenders or any one or more of them,
under any one or more of the Loan Documents, whether due or
to
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become
due, matured or unmatured, liquidated or unliquidated, or
contingent or noncontingent, including obligations of
performance as well as obligations of payment, and including
interest that accrues after the commencement of any proceeding
under any Debtor Relief Law by or against any member of the
Consolidated Group.
“ Opinions of Counsel
” means the favorable written legal opinions of Latham &
Watkins LLP and Venable LLP, counsel to Borrower, in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent.
“ Outstanding Loan
Amount ” means, as of any date, the aggregate of all
Advances outstanding on such date.
“ Parent ” means
BioMed Realty Trust, Inc., a Maryland corporation.
“ Party ” means
any Person other than the Administrative Agent and the Lenders,
which now or hereafter is a party to any of the Loan
Documents.
“ PBGC ” means the
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any successor thereof
established under ERISA.
“ Pension Plan ”
means any “employee pension benefit plan” (as such term
is defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA), other than
a Multiemployer Plan, which is subject to Title IV of ERISA and
with respect to the Consolidated Group is maintained by a member of
the Consolidated Group or to which a member of the Consolidated
Group contributes or has an obligation to contribute.
“ Percentage ”
means, with respect to each Lender, the percentage derived by
dividing that Lender’s Commitment by the aggregate Loan
Commitment, which shall initially be as set forth opposite the name
of that Lender on Schedule 1.1 , as such percentage may
be increased or decreased pursuant to a Commitments Assignment and
Acceptance executed in accordance with Section 11.8
.
“ Permitted Business
Activities ” means the acquisition, development,
renovation, ownership, leasing, sale and operation of Life Sciences
Buildings (including Projects and Unstabilized Projects that will
be used as Life Sciences Buildings following completion of
development) plus free-standing parking garages that serve such
Life Sciences Buildings, in the case of the 47 Erie Parking Garage
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the parking garage associated with the
HGS Borrowing Base Project and any such parking garage that may be
acquired as part of a future acquisition of Life Sciences
Buildings, so long as Borrower has obtained the prior written
approval of the Administrative Agent to the inclusion of such
garage, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned
or delayed.
“ Permitted Liens
” is defined in Section 6.14 .
“ Person ” means
any individual or entity, including a trustee, corporation,
limited liability company, general partnership, limited
partnership, joint stock company, trust, estate,
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unincorporated organization, business association, firm, joint
venture, Governmental Agency, or other entity.
“ Preferred
Distributions ” means, as of any date with respect to any
Person, the Distributions due and payable to the holders of
Preferred Equity in such Person for the most recent Fiscal Quarter
for which financial results have been reported.
“ Preferred Equity
” means, with respect to any Person, any form of preferred
stock (whether perpetual, convertible or otherwise) or other
ownership or beneficial interest in such Person that entitles the
holders thereof to preferential payment or distribution priority
with respect to dividends, assets or other payments over the
holders of any other stock or other ownership or beneficial
interest in such Person.
“ Prime Rate ”
means a rate per annum equal to the prime rate of interest publicly
announced from time to time by KeyBank or its parent as its prime
rate (which is not necessarily the lowest rate charged to any
customer), changing when and as said prime rate changes. In the
event that there is a successor to the Administrative Agent by
merger, or the Administrative Agent assigns its duties and
obligations to an Affiliate, then the term “Prime Rate”
as used in this Agreement shall mean the prime rate, base rate or
other analogous rate of the new Administrative Agent.
“ Pro Forma Subject
Properties Leverage Ratio ” is defined in
Section 2A.3 .
“ Project ” means
any parcel of real property located in the 48 states that comprise
the continental United States of America or in the District of
Columbia which is owned, leased or operated (in each case in whole
or in part) by Borrower, or any of its Subsidiaries or Investment
Affiliates and which is either (i) improved with completed
Life Sciences Buildings or (ii) held for the development of
Life Sciences Buildings, or (iii) a free-standing parking
garage serving such Life Sciences Buildings in the case of the 47
Erie Parking Garage in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the parking garage
associated with the HGS Borrowing Base Project and any other
parking garages acquired hereafter with the prior approval of the
Administrative Agent, as provided above.
“ Property ” means
any interest in any kind of property or asset, whether real,
personal or mixed, or tangible or intangible.
“ Qualified Subsidiary
Property ” means, as of any date, each Income-Producing
Project (i) which continues to meet all of the requirements
for qualification as a “Subject Property” pursuant to
the definition of such term and (ii) with respect to which all
applicable Subsidiary Guaranties, Acknowledgments and other
Security Documents have been executed and delivered and all
conditions set forth in Section 2A.2 that were
satisfied with respect to such Subject Property when added (or in
the case of the Initial Subsidiary Properties, were deemed to have
been satisfied as of the Agreement Effective Date) have been and
continue as of such date to be, satisfied.
“ Qualifying Trust Preferred
Obligation ” means any Indebtedness of the Consolidated
Group which (i) has an original maturity of not less than
thirty (30) years, (ii) is non-amortizing
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and
non-callable, (iii) provides for payment of interest only not
more often than quarterly, (iv) imposes no financial covenants
on the Consolidated Group, (v) provides for the subordination
of such Indebtedness to repayment of the Obligations on such terms
as are reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent; and
(vi) when aggregated with any other such Indebtedness then
outstanding does not exceed five percent (5%) of the then-current
Gross Asset Value.
“ Redevelopment Project
” means any Project with fifty percent (50%) or more of its
Net Rentable Area vacant and under renovation, reconstruction or
other redevelopment.
“ Regulation D
” means Regulation D, as at any time amended, of the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, or any other
regulation in substance substituted therefor.
“ Regulations T, U and X
” means Regulations T, U and X, as at any time amended, of
the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, or any other
regulations in substance substituted therefor.
“ Related Facility
” means the credit facility made available to Borrower under
the Unsecured Credit Agreement.
“ Related Facility
Guarantors ” means, collectively, those Wholly-Owned
Subsidiaries of Borrower which now or hereafter are a
“Guarantor” under the Related Facility.
“ Related Fund ”
means, with respect to any Lender that is an investment fund, any
other investment fund that invests in commercial loans and that is
managed or advised by the same investment advisor as such Lender or
by an Affiliate of such investment advisor.
“ Request for Loan
” means a written request for a Advance, either the initial
funding thereof or any conversion or continuation thereof,
substantially in the form of Exhibit E , signed by a
Senior Officer of Borrower, and properly completed to provide all
information required to be included therein.
“ Requirement of Law
” means, as to any Person, the articles or certificate of
incorporation and by-laws or other organizational or governing
documents of such Person, and any Law, or judgment, award, decree,
writ or determination of a Governmental Agency, in each case
applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its Property or
to which such Person or any of its Property is subject.
“ Requisite Lenders
” means, as of any date of determination, Lenders holding
Notes evidencing in the aggregate 66-2/3% or more of the
Outstanding Loan Amount.
“ Reserve Percentage
” means for any day with respect to a LIBOR Rate Loan, the
maximum rate (expressed as a decimal) at which any lender subject
thereto would be required to maintain reserves (including, without
limitation, all base, supplemental, marginal and other reserves)
under Regulation D against “Eurocurrency
Liabilities” (as that term is used in Regulation D), if
such liabilities were outstanding. The Reserve Percentage shall be
adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any
change in the Reserve Percentage.
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“ Responsible Official
” means (a) when used with reference to a Person other
than an individual, any corporate officer of such Person, general
partner or managing member of such Person, corporate officer of a
corporate general partner or managing member of such Person, or
corporate officer of a corporate general partner of a partnership
that is a general partner of such Person or corporate managing
member of a limited liability company that is a managing member of
such Person, or any other responsible official thereof duly acting
on behalf thereof, and (b) when used with reference to a
Person who is an individual, such Person. The Administrative Agent
and the Lenders shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon any
document or certificate that is signed or executed by a Responsible
Official of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries as having been
authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership and/or other
action on the part of Parent or such Subsidiary.
“ S&P ” means
Standard & Poor’s Rating Group or its successors.
“ Secured Indebtedness
” means any Indebtedness of a Person that is secured by a
Lien on a Project or on any ownership interests in any other Person
or on any other assets, provided that the portion of such
Indebtedness included in “Secured Indebtedness” shall
not exceed the aggregate value of the assets securing such
Indebtedness at the time such Indebtedness was incurred.
“ Security Documents
” means the Assignments of Interests (and each Assignment of
Interests subsequently delivered pursuant to this Agreement), the
Account Agreement and any further collateral assignments to the
Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders, including,
without limitation, any UCC-1 financing statements delivered or
authorized to be filed by the Administrative Agent in connection
therewith.
“ Senior Officer ”
means (a) the chief executive officer, (b) the chairman,
(c) the chief financial officer, (d) the executive vice
president or (e) vice president of finance, of any of the
members of the Consolidated Group or of any of their corporate
general partners or managing members, as applicable.
“ Special LIBOR
Circumstance ” means the application or adoption after
the Closing Date of any Law or interpretation, or any change
therein or thereof, or any change in the interpretation or
administration thereof by any Governmental Agency, central bank or
comparable authority charged with the interpretation or
administration thereof, or compliance by any Lender or its LIBOR
Lending Office with any request or directive (whether or not having
the force of Law) of any such Governmental Agency, central bank or
comparable authority.
“ Stabilization ”
means, as of any date with respect to any Project, either
(i) the entire Project, or in the case of a Redevelopment
Project, the redeveloped portion thereof, was substantially
completed one (1) year or more prior to such date or
(ii) the entire Project has, as of such date, tenants in
occupancy of eighty-five percent (85%) or more of the total Net
Rentable Area thereof, each of which is either paying rent or is
obligated to begin paying rent not later than ninety (90) days
after the commencement date of such tenant’s lease.
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“ Subject Properties
” means, collectively, as of any date, (a) those
Income-Producing Projects set forth on Schedule 1.3
hereto and (b) all other Projects that become a Subject
Property after the date hereof pursuant to Section 2A.2
.
“ Subject Property
Indebtedness ” means any Indebtedness in respect of
borrowed money secured by a Lien encumbering a Subject
Property.
“ Subject Properties
Leverage Ratio ” means, as of any date, (A) the sum
of (i) the then-current outstanding principal balance of all
Subject Property Indebtedness plus (ii) the then-current
Outstanding Loan Amount divided by (B) the Aggregate Subject
Properties Value, expressed as a percentage.
“ Subject Property Loan
Documents ” means the agreements, documents and
instruments evidencing, securing or otherwise relating to the
Subject Property Indebtedness to which the holder of such Subject
Property Indebtedness is a party or intended beneficiary.
“ Subject Property
Owners ” means, as of any day, the members of the
Consolidated Group that own fee simple title to Subject Properties
(including those Projects that become Subject Properties after the
Agreement Effective Date pursuant to Section 2A.2
).
“ Subject Property Sale
” means the sale, transfer or conveyance of all or any
portion of a Subject Property by a Subject Property Owner (or the
sale, transfer or conveyance of all or any portion of the direct or
indirect equity interests in such Subject Property Owner).
“ Subordinated Debt
” means Indebtedness, including Qualifying Trust Preferred
Obligations, which is or has been subordinated to the repayment of
the Obligations on such terms as are reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent.
“ Subsidiary ”
means, as of any date of determination and with respect to any
Person, (a) any corporation, limited liability company,
partnership or other Person (whether or not, in any case,
characterized as such or as a joint venture), whether now existing
or hereafter organized or acquired: (i) in the case of a
corporation, of which a majority of the securities having ordinary
voting power for the election of directors or other governing body
(other than securities having such power only by reason of the
happening of a contingency) are at the time beneficially owned by
such Person and/or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person, or
(ii) in the case of a partnership or limited liability
company, of which a majority of the partnership, membership or
other ownership interests are at the time beneficially owned by
such Person and/or one or more of its Subsidiaries; and
(b) any other Person the accounts of which are consolidated
with the accounts of the designated parent.
“ Subsidiary Guaranty
” means the guaranty to be executed and delivered by certain
Subsidiaries of Borrower, substantially in the form of
Exhibit C-2 , as the same may be amended, supplemented
or otherwise modified from time to time, including without
limitation by all Joinder Agreements executed by any additional
Subsidiary Guarantors.
“ Sun Campus Project
” means that certain Project located in Newark, California
consisting of ten (10) buildings comprising a total of
approximately 1,400,000 square feet of
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primarily office space, plus additional land which can support the
future development of another 400,000 square feet of space being
purchased by Borrower from Sun Microsystems, Inc. and leased back
by Sun Microsystems, Inc. under short-term leases. An agreed
allocation of Borrower’s aggregate acquisition costs among
such buildings is attached to this Agreement as
Exhibit H and made a part hereof.
“ Swap Agreement ”
means a written agreement between Borrower and one or more
financial institutions, including without limitation, KeyBank,
providing for “swap”, “cap”,
“collar” or other interest rate protection with respect
to any Indebtedness.
“ Target Subject Properties
Leverage Ratio ” means 75%.
“ to the best knowledge
of ” means, when modifying a representation, warranty or
other statement of any Person, that the fact or situation described
therein is known by the Person (or, in the case of a Person other
than a natural Person, known by a Responsible Official of that
Person) making the representation, warranty or other statement, or
with the exercise of reasonable due diligence under the
circumstances (in accordance with the standard of what a reasonable
Person in similar circumstances would have done) would have been
known by the Person (or, in the case of a Person other than a
natural Person, would have been known by a Responsible Official of
that Person).
“ type ”, when
used with respect to any Loan or Advance, means the designation of
whether such Loan or Advance is an Alternate Base Rate Loan or
Advance, or a LIBOR Rate Loan or Advance.
“ Unencumbered ”
means, with respect to any property, that such property (a) is
not subject to any Lien other than Permitted Liens which do not
secure Indebtedness, (b) is not subject to any Negative Pledge
and (c) is not held by a Person any of whose direct or
indirect equity interests are subject to a Lien or Negative
Pledge.
“ Unsecured Credit
Agreement ” means that certain Second Amended and
Restated Unsecured Credit Agreement of even date herewith by and
among the Borrower, KeyBank and certain other lenders identified
therein, as it may be amended or modified from time to time.
“ Unstabilized Project
” means, as of any date, either (i) a Redevelopment
Project or (ii) a Project that is currently under construction
or has been recently completed (as to its initial construction),
but which in either case (i) or (ii) above, has not yet
reached Stabilization. Once a Project has reached Stabilization,
whether by passage of time or leasing, it shall not thereafter
qualify as an Unstabilized Project unless it subsequently becomes a
Redevelopment Project.
“ Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary ” means, with respect to any Person, a
Subsidiary of such Person, 100% of the capital stock or other
equity interest of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by such
Person.
1.2 Use of Defined Terms . Any
defined term used in the plural shall refer to all members of the
relevant class, and any defined term used in the singular shall
refer to any one or more of the members of the relevant
class.
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1.3 Accounting Terms . All
accounting terms not specifically defined in this Agreement shall
be construed in conformity with, and all financial data required to
be submitted by this Agreement shall be prepared in conformity
with, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles applied on a
consistent basis, except as otherwise specifically prescribed
herein. In the event that Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
change during the term of this Agreement such that the covenants
contained in Sections 6.5 through 6.13 ,
inclusive, would then be calculated in a different manner or with
different components, (a) Borrower and the Lenders agree to
amend this Agreement in such respects as are necessary to conform
those covenants as criteria for evaluating Borrower’s
financial condition to substantially the same criteria as were
effective prior to such change in Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles and (b) Borrower shall be deemed to be in
compliance with the covenants contained in the aforesaid Sections
if and to the extent that Borrower would have been in compliance
therewith under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles as in
effect immediately prior to such change, but shall have the
obligation to deliver each of the materials described in
Article 7 to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders,
on the dates therein specified, with financial data presented in a
manner which conforms with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
as in effect immediately prior to such change.
1.4 Exhibits and Schedules .
All Exhibits and Schedules to this Agreement, either as originally
existing or as the same may from time to time be supplemented,
modified or amended, are incorporated herein by this reference. A
matter disclosed on any Schedule shall be deemed disclosed on all
Schedules.
1.5 Miscellaneous Terms . The
term “or” is disjunctive; the term “and” is
conjunctive. The term “shall” is mandatory; the term
“may” is permissive. Masculine terms also apply to
females; feminine terms also apply to males. The term
“including” is by way of example and not
limitation.
ARTICLE 2
LOANS
2.1 Loans General .
(a) Subject
to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, on the
Closing Date, the Lenders shall, pro rata according to each
Lender’s Percentage, make a Loan to Borrower in such amount
as Borrower may request that does not result in the aggregate
principal amount advanced under the Notes (after giving effect to
all amounts requested thereunder) being in excess of the Loan
Commitment, provided that in all events no Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing and all conditions to
Advances hereunder shall have been satisfied or waived. Borrower
may not reborrow any Advances once repaid.
(b) The
obligation of each Lender to make Advances in accordance with its
Commitment is several, and not joint and several; and no Lender
shall be obligated to advance more than its Commitment,
notwithstanding the default of any other Lender.
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(c) Each
Loan shall be made pursuant to a Request for Loan which shall
specify the requested (i) date of such Loan (which must be a
Banking Day), (ii) type of Loan, (iii) amount of such
Loan, (iv) wiring instructions for such Loan, and (v) in
the case of a LIBOR Rate Loan, the LIBOR Period for such
Loan.
(d) Promptly
following receipt of a Request for Loan, the Administrative Agent
shall (by the end of business on the same day that the request was
received) notify each Lender of the date and type of the Loan, the
applicable LIBOR Period, and that Lender’s Percentage of the
Loan. Not later than 1:00 p.m., Cleveland time, on the date
specified for any Loan (which must be a Banking Day), each Lender
shall make its Percentage of the Loan in immediately available
funds available to the Administrative Agent at the Administrative
Agent’s Office. Upon satisfaction or waiver of the applicable
conditions set forth in Article 8 , all Advances shall
be wire transferred on that date in immediately available funds to
the account or accounts designated in the wiring instructions
included in such Request for Loan.
(e) Unless
the Requisite Lenders otherwise consent, each Alternate Base Rate
Loan shall be not less than $1,000,000, each LIBOR Rate Loan shall
be not less than $1,000,000 and all Loans shall be in an integral
multiple of $250,000.
(f) The
Advances made by each Lender under the Loan Commitment shall be
evidenced by that Lender’s Note.
(g) If
no Request for Loan has been made within the requisite notice
periods set forth in Section 2.2 or 2.3 prior to
the end of the LIBOR Period for any LIBOR Rate Loan, then on the
last day of such LIBOR Period, such LIBOR Rate Loan shall be
automatically converted into an Alternate Base Rate Loan in the
same amount.
2.2 Alternate Base Rate Loans
. Each request by Borrower for an Alternate Base Rate Loan shall be
made pursuant to a Request for Loan received by the Administrative
Agent, at the Administrative Agent’s Office, not later than
1:00 p.m., Cleveland time, on the Banking Day immediately prior to
the date of the requested Alternate Base Rate Loan. All Loans shall
constitute Alternate Base Rate Loans unless properly designated as
a LIBOR Rate Loan pursuant to Section 2.3 .
2.3 LIBOR Rate Loans .
(a) Each
request by Borrower for a LIBOR Rate Loan shall be made pursuant to
a Request for Loan received by the Administrative Agent, at the
Administrative Agent’s Office, not later than 1:00 p.m.,
Cleveland time, at least three (3) Banking Days before the
first day of the applicable LIBOR Period.
(b) On
the date which is two (2) Banking Days before the first day of
the applicable LIBOR Period, the Administrative Agent shall confirm
its determination of the applicable LIBOR Rate (which determination
shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error) and promptly
shall give notice of the same to Borrower and the Lenders.
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(c) Unless
the Administrative Agent and the Requisite Lenders otherwise
consent, there shall be no more than six (6) LIBOR Periods in
effect at any one time.
(d) No
LIBOR Rate Loan may be requested or continued during the
continuation of a Default or Event of Default.
(e) Nothing
contained herein shall require any Lender to fund any LIBOR Rate
Advance in the London interbank market.
2.4 Administrative Agent’s
Right to Assume Funds Available for Loans . Unless the
Administrative Agent shall have been notified by any Lender no
later than 1:00 p.m., Cleveland time on the Banking Day of the
proposed funding by the Administrative Agent of any Loan that such
Lender does not intend to make available to the Administrative
Agent such Lender’s portion of the total amount of such Loan,
the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such
amount available to the Administrative Agent on the date of the
Loan and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such
assumption, make available to Borrower a corresponding amount. If
the Administrative Agent has made funds available to Borrower based
on such assumption and such corresponding amount is not in fact
made available to the Administrative Agent by such Lender, the
Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover such
corresponding amount on demand from such Lender plus an
administrative fee of $200. If such Lender does not pay such
corresponding amount forthwith upon the Administrative
Agent’s demand therefor, the Administrative Agent promptly
shall notify Borrower and Borrower shall pay such corresponding
amount (but not the administrative fee) to the Administrative
Agent. The Administrative Agent also shall be entitled to recover
from such Lender or Borrower interest on such corresponding amount
in respect of each day from the date such corresponding amount was
made available by the Administrative Agent to Borrower to the date
such corresponding amount is recovered by the Administrative Agent,
at a rate per annum equal to (i) from such Lender, the daily
Federal Funds Effective Rate or (ii) from Borrower, at the
applicable rate for such Loan. Nothing herein shall be deemed to
relieve any Lender from its obligation to fulfill its Commitment or
to prejudice any rights which the Administrative Agent or Borrower
may have against any Lender as a result of any default by such
Lender hereunder.
ARTICLE 2A
COLLATERAL; SUBJECT PROPERTIES.
2A.1 Collateral . The
obligations of Borrower under the Loan Documents shall be secured
by a perfected first priority security interest to be held by the
Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders in the
Collateral, including the initial Collateral with respect to the
Subject Properties set forth on Schedule 1.3 and such
additional Collateral with respect to additional Subject
Properties, as described below, as shall be evidenced from time to
time by the Security Documents.
2A.2 Addition of Subject
Properties . If Borrower desires to add an Income-Producing
Project as a new Subject Property to replace an existing Subject
Property or to maintain the Subject Properties Leverage Ratio at or
below the Target Subject Properties Leverage Ratio, Borrower shall
so notify the Administrative Agent of the proposed addition in
writing, shall certify in writing that
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such
Project meets all of the requirements hereunder for inclusion as a
Subject Property and shall provide the Subject Property Loan
Documents in respect thereof, along with all other documents and
information as are reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent
in respect of the Project. Borrower shall promptly thereafter
(i) cause the applicable Subsidiary owing such Project to
execute and deliver a Joinder Agreement with respect to the
Subsidiary Guaranty, to the extent permitted under the applicable
Subject Property Loan Documents, (ii) execute and deliver, and
shall cause applicable Subsidiary (and all intervening Subsidiaries
owning, directly or indirectly, Equity Interests in such applicable
Subsidiary) to execute and deliver, as applicable, to the
Administrative Agent all instruments, documents, or agreements,
including an Assignment of Interests in substantially the same form
as the Assignment of Interests delivered to the Administrative
Agent on the Agreement Effective Date, Acknowledgments in
substantially the same form as the Acknowledgments delivered to the
Administrative Agent on the Agreement Effective Date and UCC-1
financing statements and membership, partnership and stock
certificates and blank transfer powers, as the Administrative Agent
shall deem reasonably necessary or desirable to obtain and perfect
a first priority security interest in, or Lien on, the Equity
Interests in the applicable Subsidiary, and the other Collateral
with respect thereto as described in the Assignment of Interests
(such other Collateral to consist of similar Collateral as was
included in the Assignment of Interests delivered concurrently
herewith), in each case to the extent permitted by the applicable
Subject Property Loan Documents, and (iii) provide the
Administrative Agent a Certificate setting forth the projected
Subject Properties Leverage Ratio that gives effect to the
inclusion of the applicable Subject Property.
2A.3 Sale of a Subject
Property . Provided that the Lockout Period has expired and no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred hereunder or under
the other Loan Documents and be continuing (or would exist
immediately after giving effect to the transactions contemplated by
this Section 2A.3 ), a Subject Property Owner (or
Borrower or another applicable Subsidiary) may engage in a Subject
Property Sale upon the following terms and conditions:
(a) Borrower shall deliver to the
Administrative Agent written notice of the desire to consummate
such Subject Property Sale on or before the date that is five
(5) Banking Days prior to the date on which the Subject
Property Sale is to be effected;
(b) the amount then included in
Aggregate Subject Properties Value on account of the Subject
Property proposed to be sold does not exceed twenty percent (20%)
of the Aggregate Subject Properties Value as of the date of the
written notice of such Subject Property Sale, or, if such amount
does exceed twenty percent (20%) of such Aggregate Subject
Properties Value, the Requisite Lenders have approved of such
Subject Property Sale;
(c) On or before the date that is
five (5) Banking Days prior to the date of the Subject
Property Sale is to be effected, Borrower shall submit to the
Administrative Agent a Certificate, which shall be subject to the
Administrative Agent’s review and reasonable approval,
setting forth the Subject Properties Leverage Ratio on a pro forma
basis as of the date of the Subject Property Sale giving effect to
(in addition to other changes to the Subject Properties Leverage
Ratio during the intervening period (e.g., any reductions to the
outstanding principal
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balance of the
Subject Property Indebtedness)): (A) the Subject Property Sale
and (B) any other Projects that became or are becoming a
Subject Property prior to the date of the Subject Property Sale
(the “Pro Forma Subject Properties Leverage
Ratio”);
(d) If the Pro Forma Subject
Properties Leverage Ratio exceeds the Target Subject Properties
Leverage Ratio, Borrower shall, concurrently or before the closing
of the Subject Property Sale, pay to the Administrative Agent for
the account of the Lenders, which payment shall be applied to
reduce the Outstanding Loan Amount, the amount necessary to make
the Pro Forma Subject Properties Leverage Ratio no greater than the
Target Subject Properties Leverage Ratio; and
(e) Upon the occurrence of the
Subject Property Sale, the underlying Project shall no longer be a
Subject Property, and the Administrative Agent shall execute such
documents or instruments and take all other actions necessary or
advisable on behalf of the Lenders to release the related security
interests (including without limitation releases of any pledged
Equity Interests) evidenced by any Security Documents and to
release the related Subsidiary Guarantor(s), if applicable, from
any obligations under the Subsidiary Guaranty.
2A.4 Refinance of a Subject
Property . Provided that no Default or Event of Default shall
have occurred hereunder or under the other Loan Documents and be
continuing, Borrower or any Subject Property Owner may refinance
the Subject Property Indebtedness with respect to a Subject
Property upon the following terms and conditions:
(a) Borrower shall deliver to the
Administrative Agent written notice of the desire to consummate
such refinance on or before the date that is five (5) Banking
Days prior to the date on which such refinance is to be
effected;
(b) If the amount proposed to be
borrowed under the refinancing arrangement is equal to or less than
the outstanding principal balance of the Subject Property
Indebtedness being refinanced, plus customary closing costs and
fees, then such refinance shall be permitted and no payment of any
portion of the Outstanding Loan Amount shall be due; and
(c) If the amount proposed to be
borrowed under the refinancing arrangement exceeds the outstanding
principal balance of the Subject Property Indebtedness being
refinanced, plus customary closing costs and fees, then
(A) the portion of such excess amount that does not cause the
Subject Properties Leverage Ratio to exceed the Target Subject
Properties Leverage Ratio may be received by Borrower or the
Subject Property Owner without any obligation to repay any portion
of the Outstanding Loan Amount and (B) the remainder of such
excess amount, if any, shall be paid over to the Administrative
Agent for the account of the Lenders, which payment shall be
applied to reduce the Outstanding Loan Amount.
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ARTICLE 3
PAYMENTS AND FEES
3.1 Principal and Interest
.
(a) Interest
shall be payable on the outstanding daily unpaid principal amount
of each Advance from the date thereof until payment in full is made
and shall accrue and be payable at the rates set forth or provided
for herein before and after Default, before and after maturity,
before and after judgment, and before and after the commencement of
any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, with interest on
overdue interest at the Default Rate in each case to the fullest
extent permitted by applicable Laws. Interest on LIBOR Rate Loans
shall be computed on a 360 day year, and actual days elapsed.
Interest on Alternate Base Rate Loans shall be computed on a 365 or
366 day year, as applicable, and actual days elapsed.
(b) Interest
accrued on each Alternate Base Rate Loan shall be due and payable
on each Monthly Payment Date or at maturity, whether by
acceleration or otherwise. Except as otherwise provided in
Section 3.6 , the unpaid principal amount of any
Alternate Base Rate Loan shall bear interest at a fluctuating rate
per annum equal to the Alternate Base Rate. Each change in the
interest rate under this Section 3.1(b) due to a change
in the Alternate Base Rate shall take effect simultaneously with
the corresponding change in the Alternate Base Rate.
(c) Interest
accrued on each LIBOR Rate Loan shall be due and payable on each
Monthly Payment Date or at maturity, whether by acceleration or
otherwise. Except as otherwise provided in Section 3.6
, the unpaid principal amount of any LIBOR Rate Loan shall bear
interest at a rate per annum equal to the LIBOR Rate for the
applicable LIBOR Period.
(d) If
not sooner paid, the principal Indebtedness evidenced by the Notes
shall be payable on the Maturity Date.
(e) The
Notes may, at any time after expiration of the Lockout Period and
from time to time thereafter, voluntarily be paid or prepaid in
whole or in part without premium or penalty, except that with
respect to any voluntary prepayment under this Section,
(i) any partial prepayment shall be not less than $1,000,000,
(ii) the Administrative Agent shall have received written
notice of any prepayment by noon, Cleveland time on the date of
prepayment (which must be a Banking Day) in the case of an
Alternate Base Rate Loan, and, in the case of a LIBOR Rate Loan,
three (3) Banking Days before the date of prepayment, which
notice shall identify the date and amount of the prepayment and the
Loan(s) being prepaid, (iii) any payment or prepayment of all
or any part of any LIBOR Rate Loan on a day other than the last day
of the applicable LIBOR Period shall be subject to
Section 3.5(d) and (iv) upon any partial
prepayment of a LIBOR Rate Loan that reduces it below $1,000,000,
the remaining portion thereof shall automatically convert to an
Alternate Base Rate Loan.
(f) To
the extent that any sale of all or a portion of a Subject Property
(or a sale of all or a portion of any equity interest in a
Subsidiary owning any such Subject Property) or a refinancing of
the Subject Property Indebtedness on such Subject Property occurs
as permitted by Section 2A.3 or Section 2A.4 ,
the Borrower shall make any principal payment on the Notes required
thereunder.
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3.2 Other Fees . Borrower
shall pay to KeyBank each of the other fees specified in the Fee
Letter as and when due in accordance therewith.
3.3 [Intentionally Omitted]
.
3.4 Increased Commitment Costs
. If any Lender shall determine in good faith that the introduction
after the Closing Date of any applicable Law or guideline regarding
capital adequacy, or any change therein or any change in the
interpretation or administration thereof by any central bank or
other Governmental Agency charged with the interpretation or
administration thereof, or compliance by such Lender (or its LIBOR
Lending Office) or any corporation controlling such Lender, with
any request, guideline or directive regarding capital adequacy
(whether or not having the force of Law) of any such central bank
or other authority not imposed as a result of such Lender’s
or such corporation’s failure to comply with any other Laws,
affects or would affect the amount of capital required or expected
to be maintained by such Lender or any corporation controlling such
Lender and (taking into consideration such Lender’s or such
corporation’s policies with respect to capital adequacy and
such Lender’s desired return on capital) determines in good
faith that the amount of such capital is increased, or the rate of
return on capital is reduced, as a consequence of its obligations
under this Agreement, then, within ten (10) Banking Days after
demand of such Lender, Borrower shall pay to such Lender, from time
to time as specified in good faith by such Lender, additional
amounts sufficient to compensate such Lender in light of such
circumstances, to the extent reasonably allocable to such
obligations under this Agreement, provided that Borrower shall not
be obligated to pay any such amount which arose prior to the date
which is one hundred eighty (180) days preceding the date of
such demand or is attributable to periods prior to the date which
is one hundred eighty (180) days preceding the date of such
demand. Each Lender’s determination of such amounts shall be
conclusive in the absence of manifest error.
3.5 LIBOR Costs and Related
Matters .
(a) If,
after the date hereof, the existence or occurrence of any Special
LIBOR Circumstance:
(i) shall
subject any Lender or its LIBOR Lending Office to any tax, duty or
other charge or cost with respect to any LIBOR Rate Advance, any of
its Notes evidencing LIBOR Rate Loans or its obligation to make
LIBOR Rate Advances, or shall change the basis of taxation of
payments to any Lender attributable to the principal of or interest
on any LIBOR Rate Advance or any other amounts due under this
Agreement in respect of any LIBOR Rate Advance, any of its Notes
evidencing LIBOR Rate Loans or its obligation to make LIBOR Rate
Advances, excluding (i) taxes imposed on or measured in whole
or in part by its overall net income (including taxes on gross
income imposed in lieu of net income, minimum taxes or branch
profits taxes) by (A) any jurisdiction (or political
subdivision thereof) in which it is organized or maintains its
principal office or LIBOR Lending Office or (B) any
jurisdiction (or political subdivision thereof) in which it is
“doing business” and (ii) any withholding taxes or
other taxes based on gross income imposed by the United States of
America for any period with respect to which it has failed, for any
reason, to provide Borrower with the appropriate form or forms
required by Section 11.21 , to the extent such forms
are then required by applicable Laws to establish a complete
exemption;
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(ii) shall
impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve not applicable or
deemed applicable on the date hereof (including any reserve imposed
by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, special
deposit, capital or similar requirements against assets of,
deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended by, any
Lender or its LIBOR Lending Office); or
(iii) shall
impose on any Lender or its LIBOR Lending Office or the London
interbank market any other condition affecting any LIBOR Rate
Advance, any of its Notes evidencing LIBOR Rate Loans, its
obligation to make LIBOR Rate Advances or this Agreement, or shall
otherwise affect any of the same;
and the
result of any of the foregoing, as determined in good faith by such
Lender, increases the cost to such Lender or its LIBOR Lending
Office of making or maintaining any LIBOR Rate Advance or in
respect of any LIBOR Rate Advance, any of its Notes evidencing
LIBOR Rate Loans or its obligation to make LIBOR Rate Advances or
reduces the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender
or its LIBOR Lending Office with respect to any LIBOR Rate Advance,
any of its Notes evidencing LIBOR Rate Loans or its obligation to
make LIBOR Rate Advances, then, within five (5) Banking Days after
demand by such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent),
Borrower shall pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts
as will compensate such Lender for such increased cost or reduction
(determined as though such Lender’s LIBOR Lending Office had
funded 100% of its LIBOR Rate Advance in the London interbank
market), provided, that with respect to any additional amount
arising as a result of the occurrence of an event described in
clause (i) above, Borrower shall not be obligated to pay any
such amount which arose prior to the date which is ninety
(90) days preceding the date of such demand or is attributable
to periods prior to the date which is ninety (90) days
preceding the date of such demand. A statement of any Lender
claiming compensation under this subsection shall be conclusive in
the absence of manifest error.
(b) If,
after the date hereof, the existence or occurrence of any Special
LIBOR Circumstance shall, in the good faith opinion of any Lender,
make it unlawful or impossible for such Lender or its LIBOR Lending
Office to make, maintain or fund its portion of any LIBOR Rate
Loan, or materially restrict the authority of such Lender to
purchase or sell, or to take deposits of, Dollars in the London
interbank market, or to determine or charge interest rates based
upon the LIBOR Rate, and such Lender shall so notify the
Administrative Agent, then such Lender’s obligation to make
LIBOR Rate Advances shall be suspended for the duration of such
illegality or impossibility and the Administrative Agent forthwith
shall give notice thereof to the other Lenders and Borrower. Upon
receipt of such notice, the outstanding principal amount of such
Lender’s LIBOR Rate Advances, together with accrued interest
thereon, automatically shall be converted to Alternate Base Rate
Advances on either (1) the last day of the LIBOR Period(s)
applicable to such LIBOR Rate Advances if such Lender may lawfully
continue to maintain and fund such LIBOR Rate Advances to such
day(s) or (2) immediately if such Lender may not lawfully
continue to fund and maintain such LIBOR Rate Advances to such
day(s), provided that in such event the conversion shall not be
subject to payment of a prepayment fee under
Section 3.8(e) . Each Lender agrees to endeavor
promptly to notify Borrower of any event of which it has actual
knowledge, occurring after the Closing Date, which will cause that
Lender to notify the Administrative Agent under this Section, and
agrees to designate a different LIBOR Lending Office if such
designation will avoid the need for such notice and will not, in
the good faith judgment of such Lender, otherwise be materially
disadvantageous to
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such
Lender. In the event that any Lender is unable, for the reasons set
forth above (or those set forth in clause (d) below), to make,
maintain or fund its portion of any LIBOR Rate Loan, such Lender
shall fund such amount as an Alternate Base Rate Advance for the
same period of time, and such amount shall be treated in all
respects as an Alternate Base Rate Advance. Any Lender whose
obligation to make LIBOR Rate Advances has been suspended under
this Section shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent and
Borrower of the cessation of the Special LIBOR Circumstance which
gave rise to such suspension.
(c) If,
with respect to any proposed LIBOR Rate Loan:
(i) the
Administrative Agent reasonably determines that, by reason of
circumstances affecting the London interbank market generally that
are beyond the reasonable control of the Lenders, deposits in
Dollars (in the applicable amounts) are not being offered to any
Lender in the London interbank market for the applicable LIBOR
Period; or
(ii) the
Requisite Lenders advise the Administrative Agent that the LIBOR
Rate as determined by the Administrative Agent (i) does not
represent the effective pricing to such Lenders for deposits in
Dollars in the London interbank market in the relevant amount for
the applicable LIBOR Period, or (ii) will not adequately and
fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of making the applicable
LIBOR Rate Advances;
then the
Administrative Agent forthwith shall give notice thereof to
Borrower and the Lenders, whereupon until the Administrative Agent
notifies Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such
suspension no longer exist, the obligation of the Lenders to make
any future LIBOR Rate Advances shall be suspended.
(d) Except
for a failure caused by any Lender’s default, Borrower shall
indemnify the Lenders against any loss or expense that the Lenders
may sustain or incur (including, without limitation, any loss or
expense sustained or incurred in obtaining, liquidating or
employing deposits or other funds acquired to effect, fund or
maintain any LIBOR Rate Loans) as a consequence of (i) any
failure of Borrower to make any payment when due of any amount due
hereunder, (ii) any failure of Borrower to borrow, continue or
convert a LIBOR Rate Loan on a date specified therefor in a notice
thereof, (iii) any failure to fulfill on the scheduled
commencement date of any LIBOR Period hereunder the applicable
conditions set forth herein as prerequisites to an Advance that is
to be a LIBOR Rate Loan or to the election of a LIBOR Rate,
(iv) any failure to borrow hereunder after a request for a
LIBOR Rate Loan has been given, (v) any payment or prepayment
permitted or mandated hereunder of a LIBOR Rate Loan on a date
other than the last day of the relevant LIBOR Period, including
without limitation upon acceleration following an Event of Default,
or (vi) the occurrence of any Event of Default, including but
not limited to any loss or expense sustained or incurred or to be
sustained or incurred in liquidating or employing deposits from
third parties acquired to effect or maintain a LIBOR Rate Loan.
Without limiting the foregoing, such loss or expense shall
conclusively be deemed to include a “Breakage Fee” (as
defined below). The term “Breakage Fee” shall mean that
sum equal to the greater of $200 or the financial loss incurred by
the Lenders resulting from prepayment or failure to borrow,
calculated by the Administrative Agent as the difference between
the amount of interest the Lenders would have earned (from like
investments in the Money Markets (as hereinafter defined) as of the
first day of the applicable LIBOR Period) had prepayment or failure
to borrow not occurred and the interest the Lenders would actually
earn (from
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like
investments in the Money Markets as of the date of prepayment or
failure to borrow) as a result of the redeployment of funds from
the prepayment or failure to borrow. Borrower agrees that the
Breakage Fee shall not be discounted to its present value. Any
voluntary prepayment of a LIBOR Rate Loan shall be in an amount
equal to the remaining entire principal balance of such LIBOR Rate
Loan. The term “Money Markets” refers to one or more
wholesale funding markets available to Lenders, including
negotiable certificates of deposit, commercial paper, Eurodollar
deposits, bank notes, federal funds and others. The Administrative
Agent shall provide to Borrower a statement, signed by an officer
of the Administrative Agent, explaining any such loss or expense
and setting forth the computation of the Breakage Fee pursuant to
the preceding provisions which, in the absence of manifest error,
shall be conclusive and binding on Borrower.
(e) Each
Lender agrees to endeavor promptly to notify Borrower of any event
of which it has actual knowledge, occurring after the Closing Date,
which will entitle such Lender to compensation pursuant to this
Section 3.5 , and agrees to designate a different LIBOR
Lending Office if such designation will avoid the need for or
reduce the
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