AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
AMENDED AND RESTATED OWNERSHIP
LIMIT WAIVER AGREEMENT (VORNADO)
THIS AMENDMENT NO 1 TO AMENDED AND RESTATED
OWNERSHIP LIMIT WAIVER AGREEMENT (this “ Amendment
”), dated as of April 21, 2009, is between Lexington Realty
Trust, a Maryland real estate investment trust (the “
Company ”), and Vornado Realty L.P. (“
VRT ”), a Delaware limited partnership (together
Vornado Realty Trust and with any entity at least 99% of the voting
securities of which are owned by VRT or Vornado Realty Trust,
“Vornado”) and amends, as set forth below, that certain
Amended and Restated Ownership Limit Waiver Agreement (Vornado),
dated as of October 27, 2008, between the Company and VRT (the
“ Agreement ”). Capitalized terms
used, but not otherwise defined, in this Amendment shall have the
meanings given to them in the Agreement or in the
hereinafter-mentioned Declaration.
RECITALS
A. Article
IX of the Company’s Declaration of Trust (the “
Declaration ”) contains (1) a restriction prohibiting
any Person from Beneficially Owning or Constructively Owning
outstanding shares of beneficial interest in the Company which are
classified as Common Stock or Preferred Stock (the “
Equity Stock ”) in excess of 9.8% of the value of the
outstanding Equity Stock of the Company (the “ Ownership
Limit ”) and (2) a restriction setting forth that any
sale, transfer, gift, hypothecation, pledge, assignment, devise or
other disposition of Equity Stock of the Company that, if
effective, would result in any Person Beneficially Owning or
Constructively Owning Equity Stock in excess of the Ownership Limit
shall be void ab initio as to the Transfer of that number of shares
of Equity Stock which would be otherwise Beneficially or
Constructively Owned by such Person in excess of the Ownership
Limit; and the intended transferee shall acquire no rights in such
excess shares of Equity Stock.
B. The
Company and Vornado entered into the Agreement in connection with
the an increase in Vornado’s ownership of the Company on
October 27, 2008.
C. The
Company and Vornado wish to make certain clarifications to the
Agreement so that VRT Equity Stock includes any Equity Stock issued
in respect of Vornado’s ownership of the Company by reason of
or in connection with certain stock dividends declared.
D. Pursuant
to subparagraph (a)(9) of Article IX of the Declaration, the
Company’s Board of Trustees has adopted resolutions approving
this Amendment.
AGREEMENT
1. Section
1 of the Agreement is hereby amended by
deleting it in its entirety and
replacing it with the following:
1.1 The
Company exempts Vornado, effective as of the d