Outside Activities of the Limited Partners Subject to the provisions of Section 7.5, which shall continue to be applicable to the Persons referred to therein, regardless of whether such Persons shall also be Limited Partners, any Limited Partner shall be entitled to and may have business interests and engage in business activities in addition to those relating to the Partnership, including business interests and activities in direct competition with the Partnership Group. Neither the Partnership nor any of the other Partners shall have any rights by virtue of this Agreement in any business ventures of any Limited Partner.
COVENANTS OF THE ADVISOR, CMF AND THE PARTNERSHIP (a) The Advisor agrees as follows:
Covenants of the Company and the Operating Partnership The Company and the Operating Partnership, jointly and severally, covenant with each Underwriter as follows:
Representations and Warranties of the Company and the Operating Partnership The Company and the Operating Partnership, jointly and severally, represent and warrant to, and covenant with, each Underwriter as follows:
INDEMNIFICATION BY THE COMPANY AND THE OPERATING PARTNERSHIP The Company and the Operating Partnership shall indemnify and hold harmless the Advisor and its Affiliates, including their respective officers, directors, equity holders, partners and employees (the “Indemnitees,” and each an “Indemnitee”), from all liability, claims, damages or losses arising in the performance of their duties hereunder, and related expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, to the extent such liability, claims, damages or losses and related expenses are not fully reimbursed by insurance, and to the extent that such indemnification would not be inconsistent with the laws of the State of Maryland, the Articles of Incorporation or the provisions of Section II.G of the NASAA REIT Guidelines. Any indemnification of the Advisor may be made only out of the net assets of the Company and not from Stockholders. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company and the Operating Partnership shall not provide for indemnification of an Indemnitee for any loss or liability suffered by such Indemnitee, nor shall they provide that an Indemnitee be held harmless for any loss or liability suffered by the Company and the Operating Partnership, unless all of the following conditions are met:
PARTNERSHIP TENANT If Tenant, or a permitted assignee of this Lease pursuant to Article 16, is a partnership, or is comprised of two or more Persons, individually or as partners of a partnership (any such partnership and such Persons are referred to in this Article 29 as “Partnership Tenant”), the following shall apply: (i) the liability of each of the general partners (excluding Persons solely holding interests as limited partners), each of the partners in a limited liability partnership or Persons comprising Partnership Tenant (the “Partners”) shall be joint and several (subject to the inherent limitations of liability of such business organization); (ii) each of the Partners hereby consents in advance to, and agrees to be bound by, any written instrument which may hereafter be executed by Partnership Tenant or any of the Partners, which shall modify, extend or discharge this Lease, in whole or in part, or surrender all or any part of the Premises to Landlord; (iii) any bills, statements, notices, demands, requests or other communications given or rendered to Partnership Tenant; (iv) if Partnership Tenant shall admit new Partners, all new Partners shall, by their admission to Partnership Tenant, be deemed to have assumed joint and several liability for the performance of all of the terms, covenants and conditions of this Lease on Tenant’s part to be observed and performed (subject to the inherent limitations of liability in such business organization; (v) Partnership Tenant shall give prompt notice to Landlord of the admission of any new Partners, and upon demand of Landlord, shall cause each new Partner to execute and deliver to Landlord an agreement in form and substance satisfactory to Landlord, wherein each new Partner shall assume joint and several liability (subject to the inherent limitations of liability in such business organization) for the performance of all the terms, covenants and conditions of this Lease on Tenant’s part to be observed and performed (but neither Landlord’s failure to request any such agreement nor the failure of any new Partner to execute or deliver any such agreement to Landlord shall vitiate the provisions of this Section 29.1); and (vi) no change in the Partners of Partnership Tenant resulting from the admission of a new Partner, or the death, retirement or withdrawal of a Partner shall release Partnership Tenant or any Partner or former Partner from their obligations under this Lease.
Good Standing of the Company and the Operating Partnership (a) The Company is a corporation duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of Maryland, and is in good standing with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland, with full power and authority to conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and to enter into this Agreement and to perform the transactions contemplated hereby; this Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and is a legal, valid and binding agreement of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally, and by general equitable principles, and except to the extent that the enforceability of the indemnity provisions and the contribution provisions contained in Sections 7 and 8 of this Agreement, respectively, may be limited under applicable securities laws.
Representations and Warranties by the Company and the Operating Partnership Each of the Company and the Operating Partnership, jointly and severally, represents and warrants to each Underwriter as of the date hereof, the Applicable Time, the Closing Time (as defined below) and any Date of Delivery (as defined below), and agrees with each Underwriter, as follows:
Substituted Limited Partners A. No Limited Partner shall have the right to substitute a transferee as a Limited Partner in his or her place (including any transferee permitted by Section 11.3). The General Partner shall, however, have the right to consent to the admission of a transferee of the interest of a Limited Partner pursuant to this Section 11.4 as a Substituted Limited Partner, which consent may be given or withheld by the General Partner in its sole and absolute discretion. The General Partner’s failure or refusal to permit a transferee of any such interests to become a Substituted Limited Partner shall not give rise to any cause of action against the Partnership or any Partner.
Outside Activities of Limited Partners Subject to any agreements entered into by a Limited Partner or its Affiliates with the General Partner, Partnership or a Subsidiary, any Limited Partner and any officer, director, employee, agent, trustee, Affiliate or stockholder of any Limited Partner shall be entitled to and may have business interests and engage in business activities in addition to those relating to the Partnership, including business interests and activities in direct competition with the Partnership or that are enhanced by the activities of the Partnership. Neither the Partnership nor any Partners shall have any rights by virtue of this Agreement in any business ventures of any Limited Partner or Assignee. Subject to such agreements, none of the Limited Partners nor any other Person shall have any rights by virtue of this Agreement or the partnership relationship established hereby in any business ventures of any other Person, other than the Limited Partners benefiting from the business conducted by the General Partner, and such Person shall have no obligation pursuant to this Agreement to offer any interest in any such business ventures to the Partnership, any Limited Partner or any such other Person, even if such opportunity is of a character which, if presented to the Partnership, any Limited Partner or such other Person, could be taken by such Person.
