Exhibit 10.62
SBA COMMUNICATIONS
CORPORATION
$300,000,000 0.375% Convertible
Senior Notes due 2010
Purchase Agreement
March 20, 2007
Lehman Brothers Inc.,
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.,
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
As Representatives of the several
Initial Purchasers listed
on
Schedule 1 hereto
c/o Lehman Brothers Inc.
745 Seventh Avenue
New York, New York 10019
Ladies and Gentlemen:
SBA Communications Corporation, a
Florida corporation (the “ Company ”), proposes
to issue and sell to the initial purchasers listed on Schedule 1
hereto (collectively, the “ Initial Purchasers
”) $300,000,000 principal amount of its 0.375% Convertible
Senior Notes due 2010 (the “ Firm Securities ”)
and, at the option of the Initial Purchasers, up to an additional
$50,000,000 principal amount of its 0.375% Convertible Senior Notes
due 2010 (the “ Additional Securities ” and,
together with the Firm Securities, the “ Securities
”). The Securities will be issued pursuant to the Indenture,
to be dated as of the Closing Date (as defined in
Section 2(c)) (as the same may be amended, supplemented,
waived or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with
the terms thereof, the “ Indenture ”), between
the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the
“ Trustee ”).
The Securities will be convertible
into fully paid, nonassessable shares of Class A common stock
of the Company, par value $0.01 per share (the “ Common
Stock ”), on the terms, and subject to the conditions,
set forth in the Indenture. As used herein, “ Conversion
Shares ” means the shares of Common Stock issuable upon
conversion of the Securities.
The Securities will be offered and
sold to the Initial Purchasers without being registered under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities
Act ”), in reliance upon an exemption therefrom. Holders
of the Securities (including the Initial Purchasers and their
direct and indirect transferees) will be entitled to the benefits
of a Registration Rights Agreement, to be dated as of the Closing
Date, between the Company and you, as representatives (the “
Representatives ”) of the Initial
Purchasers
(the “ Registration Rights
Agreement ”), pursuant to which the Company will agree to
file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “
Commission ”) a shelf registration statement pursuant
to Rule 415 under the Securities Act (the “ Registration
Statement ”), pursuant to which the Company will register
the resale of the Securities and the Conversion Shares under the
Securities Act, subject to the terms and conditions therein
specified.
The Company hereby confirms its
agreement with the Initial Purchasers concerning the purchase and
sale of the Securities, as follows:
1. Offering Memorandum . The
Company has prepared a preliminary offering memorandum, dated
March 20, 2007 (the “ Preliminary Offering
Memorandum ”), and will prepare an offering memorandum,
dated the date hereof (the “ Final Offering Memorandum
”), setting forth information concerning the Company, the
Securities and the Conversion Shares. Copies of the Preliminary
Offering Memorandum have been, and copies of the Final Offering
Memorandum will be, delivered by the Company to the Initial
Purchasers pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. The Company
hereby confirms that it has authorized the use of the Preliminary
Offering Memorandum, the other Time of Sale Information (as defined
below) and the Final Offering Memorandum in connection with the
offering and resale of the Securities and the Conversion Shares by
the Initial Purchasers in the manner contemplated by this
Agreement.
Capitalized terms used but not
defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the
Preliminary Offering Memorandum. References herein to the
Preliminary Offering Memorandum, the Time of Sale Information and
the Final Offering Memorandum shall be deemed to refer to and
include any document incorporated by reference therein.
At or prior to the time when sales
of the Securities were first made or confirmed by the Initial
Purchasers (the “ Time of Sale ”), the following
information shall have been prepared (collectively, the “
Time of Sale Information ”): the Preliminary Offering
Memorandum, as supplemented and amended by the written
communications listed on Annex A hereto.
2. Purchase and Resale of the
Securities by the Initial Purchasers . The Company agrees to
issue and sell the Firm Securities to the several Initial
Purchasers as provided in this Agreement, and each Initial
Purchaser, on the basis of the representations, warranties and
agreements set forth herein and subject to the conditions set forth
herein, agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the
Company the principal amount of Firm Securities set forth opposite
that Initial Purchaser’s name in Schedule 1 hereto, plus any
additional principal amount of Securities which such Initial
Purchaser may become obligated to purchase pursuant to the
provisions of Section 8, at a purchase price equal to 97.75%
of the principal amount thereof (the “ Purchase Price
”).
In addition, on the basis of the
representations and warranties contained in this Agreement, and
subject to its terms and conditions, the Company agrees to sell to
the
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Initial Purchasers the Additional Securities,
and each Initial Purchaser shall have the right, severally and not
jointly, to purchase the principal amount of Additional Securities
that bears the same proportion to the aggregate principal amount of
Additional Securities to be sold on the Additional Closing Date as
the principal amount of Firm Securities set forth in Schedule 1
hereto opposite the name of such Initial Purchaser bears to the
aggregate principal amount of Firm Securities, at the Purchase
Price plus accrued interest, if any, from the Closing Date (as
defined below) to the Additional Closing Date, solely to cover
over-allotments, if any. If you exercise such option, you shall so
notify the Company in writing not later than thirty
(30) calendar days after the date of this Agreement, which
notice shall specify the principal amount of Additional Securities
to be purchased by the Initial Purchasers and the date on which
such Additional Securities are to be purchased. Such date may be
the same as the Closing Date but not earlier than the Closing Date
and not later than ten (10) Business Days after the date of
such notice.
(a) The Company understands that the
Initial Purchasers intend to offer the Securities for resale
pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act (“ Rule
144A ”) on the terms set forth in the Time of Sale
Information and the Final Offering Memorandum. Each Initial
Purchaser severally represents, warrants and agrees with the
Company that:
(i) it is a qualified institutional
buyer within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act (a
“ QIB ”) and an accredited investor within the
meaning of Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act;
(ii) it is purchasing the Securities
pursuant to an exemption under the Securities Act;
(iii) it has not solicited offers
for, or offered or sold, and will not solicit offers for, or offer
or sell, the Securities by means of any form of general
solicitation or general advertising within the meaning of Rule
502(c) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (“
Regulation D ”) or in any manner involving a public
offering within the meaning of Section 4(2) of the Securities
Act; and
(iv) it has solicited offers and
will solicit offers for the Securities only from, and has offered,
sold and delivered and will offer, sell and deliver the Securities
only to persons whom it reasonably believes to be QIBs or if any
such person is buying for one or more institutional accounts for
which such person is acting as fiduciary or agent, only when such
person has represented to it that each such account is a QIB to
whom notice has been given that such sale is being made in reliance
on Rule 144A.
The Company acknowledges and agrees
that, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the
Initial Purchasers may offer and sell Securities to or through any
affiliates of the Initial Purchasers and that any such affiliate
may offer and sell Securities purchased by it to or through the
Initial Purchasers.
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(b) Payment for the
Firm Securities shall be made by wire transfer in immediately
available funds to the account specified by the Company to the
Initial Purchasers at the offices of Simpson Thacher &
Bartlett LLP, 425 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York at 10:00
a.m., New York City time, on March 26, 2007, or at such other
time or place on the same or such other date, not later than the
fifth (5 th
) Business Day
after March 26, 2007, as the Initial Purchasers and the
Company may agree upon in writing.
(c) Payment for any Additional
Securities shall be made on the date and at the time and place
specified by the Initial Purchasers in the written notice of the
Initial Purchasers’ election to purchase such Additional
Securities. The time and date of such payment for the Firm
Securities is referred to herein as the “ Closing Date
” and the time and date for such payment for the Additional
Securities, if other than the Closing Date, is herein referred to
as the “ Additional Closing Date .”
Certificates for the Firm Securities
and Additional Securities shall be in global form, registered in
such names and in such denominations as you shall request in
writing not later than one (1) full Business Day prior to the
Closing Date or the Additional Closing Date, as the case may be.
The certificates evidencing the Firm Securities and Additional
Securities shall be delivered to you on the Closing Date or the
Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, for the account of the
Initial Purchasers, with any documentary stamp taxes or other taxes
payable in connection with the issuance of the Securities to the
Initial Purchasers duly paid by the Company, against payment of the
Purchase Price therefor plus accrued interest, if any, to the
Additional Closing Date on the Additional Closing Date.
(d) The Company acknowledges and
agrees that each Initial Purchaser is acting solely in the capacity
of an arm’s length contractual counterparty to the Company
with respect to the offering of Securities and Conversion Shares
contemplated hereby (including in connection with determining the
terms of the offering) and not as a financial advisor or a
fiduciary to, or an agent of, the Company or any other person.
Additionally, the Initial Purchasers are not advising the Company
or any other person as to any legal, tax, investment, accounting or
regulatory matters in any jurisdiction. The Company shall consult
with its own advisors concerning such matters and shall be
responsible for making its own independent investigation and
appraisal of the transactions contemplated hereby, and the Initial
Purchasers shall have no responsibility or liability to the Company
with respect thereto. Any review by the Initial Purchasers of the
Company and the transactions contemplated hereby or other matters
relating to such transactions will be performed solely for the
benefit of the Initial Purchasers and shall not be on behalf of the
Company.
(e) Each Initial Purchaser agrees
that, prior to or simultaneously with the confirmation of sale by
the Initial Purchaser to any purchaser of any of the Securities
purchased by the Initial Purchaser from the Company pursuant
hereto, the Initial Purchaser shall furnish to that purchaser a
copy of the Final Offering Memorandum. In addition to the
foregoing, each Initial Purchaser acknowledges and agrees that the
Company, and for purposes of the opinions to be delivered to the
Initial Purchasers
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pursuant to Section 6(i) and (j), counsel
for the Company and for the Initial Purchasers, respectively, may
rely upon the accuracy of the representations and warranties of
each Initial Purchaser and its compliance with its agreements
contained in this Section 2, and each Initial Purchaser hereby
consents to such reliance.
3. Representations and Warranties
of the Company . The Company represents and warrants to, and
agrees with, the Initial Purchasers that:
(a) Preliminary Offering
Memorandum, Time of Sale Information and Final Offering
Memorandum. The Preliminary Offering Memorandum, as of its
date, did not, the Time of Sale Information, at the Time of Sale,
did not, and at the Closing Date and as of any Additional Closing
Date, as the case may be, will not, and the Final Offering
Memorandum, in the form first used by the Initial Purchasers to
confirm sales of the Securities and as of the Closing Date and as
of any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, will not,
contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a
material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in
the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading; provided that the Company makes no
representation or warranty with respect to any information
contained in or omitted from the Preliminary Offering Memorandum,
any Time of Sale Information or the Final Offering Memorandum in
reliance upon and in conformity with written information relating
to the Initial Purchasers furnished to the Company by the Initial
Purchasers expressly for use in the Preliminary Offering
Memorandum, the Time of Sale Information or the Final Offering
Memorandum (the “ Initial Purchasers’
Information ”), which information is identified in
Section 14.
(b) Additional Written
Communications . The Company (including its agents and
representatives, other than the Initial Purchasers in its capacity
as such) has not made, used, prepared, authorized, approved or
referred to and will not prepare, make, use, authorize, approve or
refer to any written communication that constitutes an offer to
sell or solicitation of an offer to buy the Securities except for
(i) the Preliminary Offering Memorandum and the Final Offering
Memorandum, (ii) the documents listed on Annex A hereto,
including a term sheet substantially in the form of Annex B hereto,
and (iii) other written communications used in accordance with
Section 4(c).
(c) Incorporated Documents.
The documents incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale
Information and the Final Offering Memorandum, when they were filed
with the Commission, conformed in all material respects to the
requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and
the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder
(the “ Exchange Act ”), and none of such
documents contained an untrue statement of a material fact or
omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading; and any further documents so filed and
incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Information and the
Final Offering Memorandum, when such documents are filed with the
Commission, will conform in all material respects to the
requirements of the Exchange Act, and will not contain an untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading.
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(d) Financial Statements. The
consolidated historical financial statements, together with the
related notes thereto, included or incorporated by reference in
each of the Time of Sale Information and the Final Offering
Memorandum fairly present the financial position of the Company at
the respective dates indicated and the results of operations and
cash flows for the respective periods indicated, in each case in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“
GAAP ”) consistently applied throughout such periods.
The other financial information and data included or incorporated
by reference in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Final
Offering Memorandum are, in all material respects, accurately
presented and prepared on a basis consistent with such financial
statements and the books and records of the Company.
(e) No Material Adverse
Change. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has
sustained, since the date of the latest audited financial
statements included or incorporated by reference in each of the
Time of Sale Information and the Final Offering Memorandum, any
material loss or interference with its business from fire,
explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by
insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental
action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth or
contemplated in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Final
Offering Memorandum; and, since such date, there has not been any
change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company on a
consolidated basis or any material adverse change, or any
development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or
affecting the general affairs, management, consolidated financial
position, stockholders’ equity, results of operations,
business or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as
a whole, in each case otherwise than as set forth or contemplated
in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Final Offering
Memorandum.
(f) Organization and Good
Standing. The Company is duly incorporated and validly existing
and in good standing under the laws of Florida with all requisite
corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its
properties and to conduct its business as described in each of the
Time of Sale Information and the Final Offering Memorandum, and is
duly registered and qualified to conduct its business and is in
good standing in each jurisdiction or place where the nature of its
properties or the conduct of its business requires such
registration or qualification, except to the extent that the
failure to be duly registered or qualified or in good standing,
would not, individually or in the aggregate, have caused a material
adverse effect on the general affairs, management, consolidated
financial position, stockholders’ equity, results of
operations, business or prospects of the Company and the
subsidiaries taken as a whole (a “ Material Adverse
Effect ”), and none of the subsidiaries of the Company
other than SBA CMBS-1 Holdings LLC, SBA CMBS-1 Guarantor LLC, SBA
Telecommunications, Inc., SBA Senior Finance Inc., SBA Senior
Finance II LLC, SBA Properties, Inc., SBA Network Services, Inc.,
SBA Towers, Inc., SBA Sites, Inc., SBA Structures, Inc. and SBA
CMBS-1 Depositor LLC(collectively, the “ Significant
Subsidiaries ”) is a “significant subsidiary”
as such term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities
Act.
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(g) Each of the subsidiaries of the
Company is duly organized and validly existing and in good standing
under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, with all
requisite power and authority to own, lease and operate its
properties and is duly registered and qualified to conduct its
business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction or place
where the nature of its properties or the conduct of its business
requires such registration or qualification, except where the
failure to be duly registered or qualified would not, individually
or in the aggregate, have caused a Material Adverse Effect. The
Company and the subsidiaries, as a whole, conduct their business as
described in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Final
Offering Memorandum.
(h) Capitalization of the
Company. The Company has an authorized capitalization as set
forth in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Final
Offering Memorandum, and all of the issued shares of capital stock
of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued,
are fully paid and non-assessable and conform in all material
respects to the description thereof contained in each of the Time
of Sale Information and the Final Offering Memorandum.
(i) Capitalization of the
Company’s Subsidiaries . All of the issued shares of
capital stock of each subsidiary of the Company have been duly
authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and
non-assessable, are owned directly or indirectly by the Company,
and (except as set forth in each of the Time of Sale Information
and the Final Offering Memorandum with respect to shares subject to
liens under or pursuant to the Second Loan and Security Agreement
Supplement and Amendment, dated as of November 6, 2006,
entered into among SBA Properties, Inc., SBA Towers, Inc., SBA
Puerto Rico, Inc., SBA Sites, Inc., SBA Towers USVI, Inc., and SBA
Structures, Inc., as borrowers, and Midland Loan Services, Inc., as
Servicer on behalf of LaSalle Bank National Association as Trustee,
as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time,
the “ Mortgage Loan ” and the Credit Agreement,
dated as of December 21, 2005, by and among SBA Senior Finance
II LLC and the lenders from time to time parties thereto, as
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time (the
“ Revolving Senior Credit Agreement ”) free and
clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities, claims or adverse
interests.
(j) Full Power. The Company
has full right, power and authority to execute and deliver this
Agreement, the Securities, the Indenture and the Registration
Rights Agreement (collectively, the “ Transaction
Documents ”), and the Company has full right, power and
authority to perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder; and,
as of the Closing Date, all corporate action required to be taken
for the due and proper authorization, execution, issuance and
delivery of each of the Transaction Documents and the consummation
of the transactions contemplated thereby has been or will have been
duly and validly taken. The Company has the full right, power and
authority to issue and deliver the Conversion Shares.
(k) The Indenture . The
Indenture has been duly authorized and, assuming the due
authorization, execution and delivery of the Indenture by the
Trustee, constitutes a valid and legally binding instrument,
enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject, as to
enforcement, to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and
similar
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laws relating to or affecting creditors’
rights and to general equity principles; on the Closing Date, the
Indenture will conform in all material respects to the requirements
of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “
Trust Indenture Act ”), and the rules and regulations
of the Commission applicable to and indenture that is qualified
thereunder; and the Indenture conforms in all material respects to
the descriptions thereof in each of the Time of Sale Information
and the Final Offering Memorandum.
(l) The Securities . The
Securities have been duly authorized and, when issued and delivered
by the Company and paid for by the Initial Purchasers pursuant to
this Agreement and duly authenticated by the Trustee will have been
duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered and will
constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company
entitled to the benefits provided by the Indenture, and will be
enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject, as to
enforcement, to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and similar
laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to
general equity principles; and the Securities conform in all
material respects to the descriptions thereof in each of the Time
of Sale Information and the Final Offering Memorandum. The
Securities will be convertible into Common Stock in accordance with
their terms and the terms of the Indenture.
(m) The Conversion Shares .
The Conversion Shares have been duly authorized by the Company and
reserved for issuance by the Company upon such conversion by all
necessary corporate action and such Conversion Shares, when issued
upon such conversion, will be duly issued, fully paid and
non-assessable, and the issuance of such Conversion Shares will not
be subject to preemptive or similar rights of any shareholder of
the Company arising by law, under the charter or by-laws of the
Company or under any agreement to which the Company or any of its
subsidiaries is a party. No holder of the Conversion Shares will be
subject to personal liability by reason of being such a
holder.
(n) Purchase Agreement. This
Agreement has been duly and validly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Company.
(o) Registration Rights
Agreement. The Registration Rights Agreement has been duly
authorized by the Company and, when duly executed and delivered on
the Closing Date in accordance with its terms by each of the
parties thereto, will constitute a valid and legally binding
agreement of the Company enforceable against the Company in
accordance with its terms, subject, as to enforcement, to
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and similar laws relating to
or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity
principles, and except that rights to indemnity and contribution
thereunder may be limited by applicable law and public policy
considerations.
(p) Descriptions of the
Transaction Documents. Each Transaction Document conforms in
all material respects to the description thereof contained in each
of the Time of Sale Information and the Final Offering Memorandum.
The statements set forth in each of the Time of Sale Information
and the Final Offering Memorandum under the caption
“Description of Notes” and “Registration
Rights,” insofar as they purport to constitute a summary of
the material terms of the Securities, under the captions
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“Material United Stated Federal Income and
Estate Tax Considerations” and “Plan of
Distribution,” insofar as they purport to describe the
provisions of the documents referred to therein, fairly summarize
in all material respects the matters referred to therein. The
statements set forth in each of the Time of Sale Information and
the Final Offering Memorandum under the captions “Description
of Capital Stock,” insofar as they purport to constitute a
summary of the material terms of the Common Stock fairly summarize
in all material respects the matters referred to
therein.
(q) No Violation or Default.
Neither the Company nor any of the Significant Subsidiaries
(i) is in violation of its charter or by-laws, (ii) is in
default, and no event has occurred which, with notice or lapse of
time or both, would constitute such a default, in the due
performance or observance of any term, covenant or condition
contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement
or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which
it is bound or to which any of its properties or assets is subject
or (iii) is in violation of any statute or any order, rule or
regulation of any court or governmental agency or body having
jurisdiction over the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of
their properties or assets, other than, a default or violation
described in clauses (ii) and (iii) which is not
reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(r) No Conflicts. The
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the
Company and the consummation of the transactions contemplated
hereby will not conflict with, or result in a breach or violation
of any of the terms or provisions of, or (including with the giving
of notice or the lapse of time or both) constitute a default under
(i) any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or
other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its
subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its
subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the properties or assets
of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject, (ii) the
provisions of the charter, by-laws or other organizational
documents of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, (iii) any
internal policy of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or
(iv) to the knowledge of the Company, any statute or any
order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or
body having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its
subsidiaries or any of their properties or assets, except in the
cases of clause (i) or (iv), such breaches, violations or
defaults that in the aggregate would not have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(s) No Consents Required. No
consent, approval, authorization or order of, or filing or
registration with, any court or governmental agency or body is
required for the execution, delivery and performance by the Company
of each of the Transaction Documents, the issuance, authentication,
sale and delivery of the Securities and the Conversion Shares in
accordance with the terms and conditions of the Indenture and
compliance by the Company with the terms thereof and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents, including the use of proceeds therewith as described in
the Time of Sale Information and the Final Offering Memorandum,
except for such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders,
filings and registrations which shall have been obtained or made
prior to the Closing Date or as may be required to be obtained or
made under the Trust Indenture Act, the Securities
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Act and applicable state securities laws as
contemplated in the Registration Rights Agreement.
(t) No Legal Impediment to
Issuance. No action has been taken and no statute, rule,
regulation or order has been enacted, adopted or issued by any
governmental agency or body which prevents the issuance of the
Securities or the issuance of the Conversion Shares in accordance
with the terms and conditions of the Indenture or suspends the sale
of the Securities in any jurisdiction; no injunction, restraining
order or order of any nature by any federal or state court of
competent jurisdiction has been issued with respect to the Company
or any of its subsidiaries which would prevent or suspend the
issuance, authentication, sale or delivery of the Securities or the
use of the Time of Sale Information or the Final Offering
Memorandum in any jurisdiction; no action, suit or proceeding is
pending against or, to the best knowledge of the Company,
threatened against or affecting the Company or any of its
subsidiaries before any court or arbitrator or any governmental
agency, body or official, domestic or foreign, which could
reasonably be expected to interfere with or adversely affect the
issuance of the Securities or in any manner reasonably draws into
question the validity or enforceability of any of the Transaction
Documents or any action taken or to be taken pursuant thereto; and
the Company has complied with any and all requests by any
securities authority in any jurisdiction for additional information
to be included in the Time of Sale Information and the Final
Offering Memorandum.
(u) Legal Proceedings. There
are no legal or governmental proceedings pending or, to the
knowledge of the Company or its subsidiaries, threatened against
the Company or any of its subsidiaries or to which any of their
respective properties is subject, that are not disclosed in the
Time of Sale Information and the Final Offering Memorandum and
which are reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect or to
materially affect the issuance of the Securities.
(v) Independent Accountants.
Ernst & Young LLP, who have certified certain financial
statements of the Company, whose report appears in the Form 10-K
incorporated by reference into the Time of Sale Information and the
Final Offering Memorandum and who have delivered the initial letter
referred to in Section 6(h), are independent public
accountants as required by the Securities Act and the applicable
rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder and were
independent accountants under the guidelines of the American
Institute of Certified Public Accountants as required by the
Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the
Commission thereunder during the periods covered by the financial
statements on which they reported incorporated by reference into
the Time of Sale Information and the Final Offering
Memorandum.
(w) Title to Real and Personal
Property. The Company and each of its subsidiaries have good
and marketable title in fee simple to or a leasehold interest in
all real property and good and valid title to all personal property
owned by them, in each case free and clear of all liens,
encumbrances, defects, equities or claims except for liens
contemplated by the Mortgage Loan, the Revolving Senior Credit
Agreement or as are otherwise described in each of the Time of Sale
Information and the Final Offering
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Memorandum or such as do not materially affect
the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the
use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company
and its subsidiaries; all assets held under lease by the Company
and its subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and
enforceable leases, with such exceptions as are not material and do
not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made
of such assets by the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a
whole; and the present and contemplated use of the assets owned or
leased by the Company or any of its subsidiaries for the operation
of towers is in compliance in all material respects with all
applicable zoning ordinances and regulations and other laws and
regulations where failure so to comply would result, or create
reasonable risk of resulting, in a Material Adverse
Effect.
(x) Title to Intellectual
Property. The Company and each of its subsidiaries own or
possess adequate rights to use all patents, patent applications,
trademarks, service marks, trade names, trademark registrations,
service mark registrations, copyrights, inventions, know-how
(including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable
proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures) and
licenses necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses
and have no reason to believe that the conduct of their respective
businesses will conflict with, and have not received any notice of
any claim of conflict with, any such rights of others, in each case
except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(y) No Undisclosed
Relationships. No material relationship, direct or indirect,
exists between or among the Company and the Significant
Subsidiaries on the one hand, and the directors, officers,
stockholders, affiliates, customers or suppliers of the Company and
the Significant Subsidiaries on the other hand, that would be
required by the Securities Act to be described in a registration
statement filed with the Commission and that is not so described in
each of the Time of Sale Information and the Final Offering
Memorandum.
(z) Investment Company Act.
Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is currently or
will be, upon the sale of the Securities in accordance herewith and
the application of the net proceeds therefrom as described in each
of the Time of Sale Information and the Final Offering Memorandum
under the caption “Use of Proceeds,” an
“investment company” within the meaning of and subject
to regulation under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended
(the “ Investment Company Act ”).
(aa) Taxes. Each of the
Company and its subsidiaries has filed all federal, state and local
income and franchise tax returns required to be filed through the
date hereof and has paid all taxes due thereon except where such
failure would not have a Material Adverse Effect, and no tax
deficiency has been determined adversely to the Company or any of
its subsidiaries nor does the Company or any of its subsidiaries
have any knowledge of any tax deficiency which, if determined
adversely to the Company, would have a Material Adverse
Effect.
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(bb) FCC and FAA Matters. The
Company and its subsidiaries (i) have duly and timely filed
all material reports, registrations and other material filings, if
any, which are required to be filed by it or any of its
subsidiaries under the Communications Act of 1934, any similar or
successor federal statute, and the rules of the Federal
Communications Commission (the “ FCC ”)
thereunder or any other applicable law, rule or regulation of any
governmental authority, including the FCC and the Federal Aviation
Authority (the “ FAA ”), other than such filings
for which the failure to file would not result, or would not be
reasonably likely to result, in a Material Adverse Effect and
(ii) are in compliance with all such laws, rules, regulations
and ordinances, including those promulgated by the FCC and the FAA,
other than such compliance for which the failure to comply would
not result, or would not be reasonably likely to result, in a
Material Adverse Effect. All information provided by or on behalf
of the Company or any affiliate in any material filing, if any,
with the FCC and the FAA relating to the business of the Company
and its subsidiaries was, to the knowledge of such person at the
time of filing, complete and correct in all material respects when
made, and the FCC and the FAA have been notified of any substantial
or significant changes in such information as may be required in
accordance with applicable requirements of law. The
industry-related, tower-related and customer-related data and
estimates included or incorporated by reference in each of the Time
of Sale Information and the Final Offering Memorandum are based on
or derived from sources which the Company believes to be reliable
and accurate. For each existing tower of the Company (or of its
subsidiaries) not yet registered with the FCC where registration
will be required, the FCC’s grant of an application for
registration of such tower will not have a significant
environmental effect as defined under Section 1.1307(a) of the
FCC’s rules.
(cc) No Labor Disputes.
Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is involved in any
strike or labor dispute with any group of employees, and, to the
knowledge of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, no such action
or dispute is threatened, which might be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.
(dd) Compliance With
Environmental Laws. There has been no storage, disposal,
generation, manufacture, refinement, transportation, handling or
treatment of toxic wastes, hazardous wastes or hazardous substances
by the Company or any of its subsidiaries (or, to the knowledge of
the Company, any of their predecessors in interest) at, upon or
from any of the property now or previously owned or leased by the
Company or any of its subsidiaries in violation of any applicable
law, ordinance, rule, regulation, order, judgment, decree or permit
or which would require remedial action under any applicable law,
ordinance, rule, regulation, order, judgment, decree or permit,
except for any violation or remedial action which would not have,
or could not be reasonably likely to have, singularly or in the
aggregate with all such violations and remedial actions, a Material
Adverse Effect; there has been no material spill, discharge, leak,
emission, injection, escape, dumping or release of any kind onto
such property or into the environment surrounding such property of
any toxic wastes, medical wastes, solid wastes, hazardous wastes or
hazardous substances due to or caused by the Company or any of its
subsidiaries or with respect to which the Company or any of its
subsidiaries has knowledge, except for any such spill, discharge,
leak, emission, injection, escape, dumping or release which would
not have or would not be reasonably likely to have,
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singularly or in the aggregate with all such
spills, discharges, leaks, emissions, injections, escapes, dumpings
and releases, a Material Adverse Effect; and the terms
“hazardous wastes,” “toxic wastes,”
“hazardous substances” and “medical wastes”
shall have the meanings specified in any applicable local, state,
federal and foreign laws or regulations with respect to
environmental protection.
(ee) Compliance With ERISA.
The Company is in compliance in all material respects with all
presently applicable provisions of the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974, as amended, including the regulations and
published interpretations thereunder (“ ERISA
”); no “reportable event” (as defined in ERISA)
has occurred with respect to any “pension plan” (as
defined in ERISA) for which the Company would have any liability;
the Company has not incurred nor expects to incur liability under
(i) Title IV of ERISA with respect to termination of, or
withdrawal from, any “pension plan” or (ii) except
where such liability would not have a Material Adverse Effect,
Sections 412 or 4971 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended, including the regulations and published interpretations
thereunder (the “ Code ”); and each
“pension plan” for which the Company would have any
liability that is intended to be qualified under
Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified in all material
respects and nothing has occurred, whether by action or by failure
to act, which would cause the loss of such
qualification.
(ff) Disclosure Controls .
The Company has established and maintains disclosure controls and
procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the
Exchange Act), which (i) are designed to ensure that material
information relating to the Company, including its consolidated
subsidiaries, is made known to the Company’s principal
executive officer and its principal financial officer or persons
performing similar functions by others within the Company,
particularly during the periods in which the periodic reports
required under the Exchange Act are being prepared; (ii) have
been evaluated for effectiveness as of December 31, 2006; and
(iii) are effective in all material respects to perform the
functions for which they were established. Based on the evaluation
of its disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31,
2006, the Company is not aware of (i) any significant
deficiency in the design or operation of internal controls which
could adversely affect the Company’s ability to record,
process, summarize and report financial data or any material
weaknesses in internal controls that has not been remedied, except
as described in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Final
Offering Memorandum or (ii) any fraud, whether or not
material, that involves management or other employees who have a
significant role in the Company’s internal controls. Since
the date of the most recent evaluation of such disclosure controls
and procedures, there have been no significant changes in internal
controls or in other factors that could significantly affect
internal controls, including any corrective actions with regard to
significant deficiencies and material weaknesses.
(gg) Accounting Controls. The
Company and its subsidiaries have a system of internal accounting
controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that
(i) transactions are executed in accordance with
management’s general or specific authorization;
(ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit
preparation of its consolidated financial statements in conformity
with GAAP and to maintain
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accountability for assets; (iii) access to
assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s
general or specific authorization; and (iv) the reported
accountability for assets is compared with existing assets at
reasonable intervals.
(hh) Insurance. The Company
and each of its subsidiaries carry, or are covered by, insurance in
such amounts and covering such risks as is adequate for the conduct
of their respective businesses and the value of their respective
properties and as is customary for companies engaged in similar
businesses in similar industries.
(ii) No Unlawful Payments.
Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, nor, to the
Company’s knowledge, any director, officer, agent, employee
or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company
or any of its subsidiaries, has used any corporate funds for any
unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful
expense relating to political activity; made any direct or indirect
unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or
employee from corporate funds; violated or is in violation of any
provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977; or made any
bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other
unlawful payment.
(jj) Solvency. On the Closing
Date and immediately after giving effect to the issuance of the
Securities and the consummation of the other transactions related
thereto as described in each of the Time of Sale Information and
the Final Offering Memorandum, the Company will be Solvent. As used
in this paragraph, the term “Solvent” means, with
respect to a particular date, that on such date (i) the
present fair market value (or present fair saleable value) of the
assets of the Company is not less than the total amount required to
pay the probable liabilities of the Company on its total existing
debts and other liabilities (including contingent liabilities,
computed at the amount that, in light of all of the facts and
circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can
reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability) as
they become absolute and matured; (ii) the Company is able to
realize upon its assets and pay its debts and other liabilities
(including such contingent liabilities) as they mature and become
due in the normal course of business; (iii) assuming
consummation of the issuance of the Securities as contemplated by
this Agreement, the Time of Sale Information and the Final Offering
Memorandum, the Company has not incurred, and does not propose to
incur, debts that would be beyond its ability to pay as such debts
and other liabilities mature; (iv) the Company is not engaged
in any business or transaction, and does not propose to engage in
any business or transaction, for which its property would
constitute unreasonably small capital after giving due
consideration to the prevailing practice in the industry in which
the Company is engaged; and (v) the Company is not a defendant
in any civil action that would result in a judgment that the
Company is or would become unable to satisfy.
(kk) No Material Adverse
Effect. Since the date of the latest audited consolidated
financial statements of the Company incorporated by reference in
each of the Time of Sale Information and the Final Offering
Memorandum, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has
incurred any liability or obligation, direct or contingent, or
entered into any transaction, in each case not in the ordinary
course of business, and that is material to the Company and its
subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and there has
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been no Material Adverse Effect, nor to the
Company’s knowledge, after due inquiry, any development or
event involving a prospective Material Adverse Effect and, except
as disclosed in or contemplated by each of the Time of Sale
Information and the Final Offering Memorandum, since the date of
the latest audited consolidated financial statements of the Company
incorporated by reference in each of the Time of Sale Information
and the Final Offering Memorandum, there has been no
(i) dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or
made by the Company on any class of its capital stock,
(ii) issuance of securities, other than the securities issued
pursuant to the the Company’s 1999 Equity Participation Plan,
the Company’s 2001 Equity Participation Plan, the
Company’s 1999 Employee Stock Purchase Plan and shares of
common stock of the Company issued pursuant to the registration
statements on Form S-4 (File Nos. 333-71460, 333-46730 and
333-139005) or (iii) material increase in short-term or
long-term debt of the Company on a consolidated basis.
(ll) No Restrictions on
Subsidiaries . Except as described in the Time of Sale
Information or the Final Offering Memorandum, no subsidiary of the
Company is currently prohibited, directly or indirectly, under any
agreement or other instrument to which it is a party or is subject,
from paying any dividends to the Company, from making any other
distribution on such subsidiary’s capital stock, from
repaying to the Company any loans or advances to such subsidiary
from the Company or from transferring any of such
subsidiary’s properties or assets to the Company or any other
subsidiary of the Company.
(mm) Rule 144A Eligibility.
On the Closing Date, the Securities will not be of the same class
as securities listed on a national securities exchange registered
under Section 6 of the Exchange Act or quoted in an automated
inter-dealer quotation system; and each of the Preliminary Offering
Memorandum and the Final Offering Memorandum, as of its respective
date, contains all the information that, if requested by a
prospective purchaser of the Securities, would be required to be
provided to such prospective purchaser pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4)
under the Securities Act.
(nn) No Integration. Neither
the Company nor any of its affiliates (as defined in Rule 501(b) of
Regulation D) has, directly or through any agent, sold, offered for
sale, solicited offers to buy or otherwise negotiated in respect
of, any security (as defined in the Securities Act), that is or
will be integrated with the sale of the Securities in a manner that
would require registration of the Securities under the Securities
Act.
(oo) No General Solicitation.
None of the Company or any of its affiliates or any other person
acting on its or their behalf (other than the Initial Purchasers,
as to which no representation is made) has solicited offers for, or
offered or sold, the Securities by means of any form of general
solicitation or general advertising within the meaning of Rule
502(c) of Regulation D.
(pp) Securities Law
Exemptions. Assuming the accuracy of the representations and
warranties of the Initial Purchasers contained in
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